WILLIAM AHRENS & CO., manufacturers of soda and all kinds of mineral water, corner of Hickory & Wall streets. W. Ahrens and C. Herring, partners.

ROBERT AIKMAN, M. D., came to Kansas in October, 1865. His first location was at Leavenworth, but about one year later he removed to Olathe, which was his home most of the time until he came to Fort Scott in March, 1875. He is a native of Vermilion County, Ind., born April 15, 1844, and his home was there until he came to Kansas. He served two years in the Eighteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, during the late war. Dr. Aikman received his education at Bloomingdale Academy, at the University of Michigan, from the medical department of which he graduated in 1868, and at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, graduating from the latter institution in 1880. He commenced practice in Leavenworth, in company with another physician, and has been engaged in practice since coming to Fort Scott. He is a member of the State Medical Association, the S. E. Medical Society, the A., F. & A. M., and the K. of P. He was married in Leavenworth, May 25, 1870, to Josephine C. Coffin, a native of Parke County, Ind. They have two children--Hal M. and Paul.

J. M. ANTHONY, dealer in sewing machines, corner of Wall street and Scott avenue, is a native of Washington County, N. Y., born in 1834. He came to Kansas in 1856, arriving at Kansas City in the spring. He located a farm near Osawatomie of which he broke and fenced nine acres, and built a 9x12 house here. After a time he was obliged to protect himself against the border ruffians and Pro-slavery men. He barely at one time saved his Sharp's rifle from capture, and was with John Brown in some of his movements in 1856. While milking that evening, after the battle of Osawatomie, he was addressed by John Brown, who approached from the woods, and on learning that his comrades were killed, went to a neighbor's and rested, and then went on to Lawrence. In 1858, as Mr. Anthony relates, he had met with an accident and was obliged to go to town; so a neighbor yoked up the oxen and drove him to Osawatomie; when they drove up to the post office, a lady met him whom he at once recognized as Miss Luther, a young lady to whom he was engaged. He had the stage hitched up, and then proceeded at once to the parson's, and there they were married, returning to his little 9x12 residence, and the young couple's partaking the next morning of the very best meal they had ever eaten before or after, consisting of ham, hoe cake and coffee. In 1860, he went to Pike's Peak, and farmed in 1861, going down on to the Platte River, and settling 100 miles from Omaha. Enlisting in the Seventh Kansas Cavalry, Company A, in 1862, and after a varied experience returning in 1865 to Leavenworth, Kan., going into the insurance business where he lived until 1869, when he came to Fort Scott, opening a sewing machine depot, to which he intends giving his attention for the future. Mr. Anthony became identified with the temperance movement at the earliest period, and is now the President of the Committee on Prosecution, and although his life has been threatened and he has been attacked personally three different times, he stands undaunted. His family consists of his wife, himself and four children.

WILLIAM H. ALCORN, farmer, Section 10, is a native of Washington, R. I., born in 1841. His father, Henry Alcorn, who is a native of County Donegal, Ireland, came to Rhode Island in 1819, and in 1823 married Miss Hannah Fenne. They moved to Kansas in 1858, and located in the northeast quarter of Section 14, which William bought of a party for a yoke of steers. They remained on this till 1861, when they let Mr. Baker have it for a piece on Section 10, southwest quarter, and having bought since, they now live on the west half of of the southeast quarter of Section 10, having 260 acres which is farmed in stock and grain. The broad acres are covered with abundant crops of corn and hay. Mr. William Alcorn has been married, but lost his wife. She left him one child, a son. His father, Henry Alcorn, has always followed the trade of blacksmith since learning it in Rhode Island, now having a shop on the farm, and although seventy years of age, he can turn out as smooth a job as in days of yore. William's brother, John was in the Sixth Kansas Regiment, and served during the war.

P. J. ANSHUTZ, farmer, Section 10, is a native of Germany, born in 1809. He emigrated to America and located in Ohio. Here he entered the steamboating business on the Ohio River, where he was Pilot and Captain, following this life from 1833 to 1851, and being prominent among the steamboat men of the Ohio and the Lower Mississippi, as the builder of the Queen of the West and Swallow. In 1851, he took a trip to England, going over in the Baltic. His intention was to see the World's Fair at the Crystal Palace, which he succeeded in doing, then going from there to Paris, and on with his party to Lyons, where he tired and turned through Switzerland, and down the Rhine to his old home near Strasburg; he then returned to America, and in 1878 settled on his farm in Kansas. His family consists of himself, wife and daughter, Amanda, his three sons being away from home.

O. AUSTIN, grocer, native of New Hampshire. Before leaving his native State he had learned the carpenter trade, but on account of his health moved West, going to St. Louis, Mo., and then to Kansas, locating at Lawrence in 1874, but came to Fort Scott, and in 1876, he bought out what is known as the West End Meat Market, kept by Edward Marble. In 1881, he put in a stock of groceries, and now has for a partner Mr. Hobson. He is married and has six children.

JUDGE A. M. AYERS, attorney at law, is a native of Washington County, Penn. He lived several years in Ohio, and then located in Urbana, Ill. He had charge of the organization of the I., B. & W. R. R., and was attorney for that road for five years, remaining in practice at Urbana until he came to Fort Scott. He drew up the charter and articles of incorporation of the St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita Railroad, and filed them February 23, 1880. He was one of the original Board of Directors, and Vice President of the company, and was President until March 10, 1882, when he sold out his interest to L. M. Bates He is now interested in timber lands and town companies along the route of the St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita Railroad, and in the Gilfillan Flag Stone Company. This stone is used for sidewalks, window sills and copings, and was pronounced the best flag stone in the country by the Government Representative. They are now working thirty-two layers and are employing twenty-five men, and ship mostly to Atchison, Topeka and Emporia, Kansas, and Springfield, Nevada, Kansas City and St. Louis, Mo.

C. W. BAILER, Principal of the Plaza School, a native of Randolph County, Mo., was born in 1857. He graduated from the high school of Huntsville, Mo., and commenced teaching in Howard County. In 1878, he went to Lebanon, Mo., where he taught an ungraded school until 1880, when he came to Fort Scott, and entered the school as Principal. In 1880, he married Miss Fannie U. Payne, of Coldwater, Ohio. She is also a teacher, having taught in Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo., prior to her engagement here.

G. R. BALDWIN, M. D., has lived at Fort Scott since April, 1866; in active practice during the whole period. He is a native of Saugerties, Ulster County, N. Y.; born May, 1840. He received an academic education at Tescumseh, Minn., and began the study of medicine at Ann Arbor, Mich., completing it at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. He commenced practice in the army, being Surgeon of the Eighteenth Michigan Volunteer Infantry from 1862 until the close of the war. Dr. Baldwin was married at Fort Scott in 1867, to Annie E. Johnston, a daughter of Mrs. John S. Miller, who located here in 1860. They have two children--Robert R. and Frederick. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., and the G. A. R.

[Picture of T. Barnett, M.D.] THOMAS BARNETT, M. D., came to Kansas in 1870, with his family. He opened a farm in Barton County, and was in practice there about five years. Has been in Fort Scott and Findlay, Kan., the balance of the time. He is a member of the Southeastern Kansas District Medical Association; Alumni Society of Medical Association; A., F. & A. M.; Methodist Episcopal Church, and various temperance organizations, and is a regular ordained elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the District Conference, and was Chaplain of the Nineteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment nearly two years. He is also a member of the Board of Examining Surgeons for Pensions. Dr. Barnett was born in Washington, Fayette County, Ohio, July 17, 1833, and removed to Wayne, Ind., with his parents, when six years of age, making that State his home until 1870. He received his education at the Union Literary Institute, over two years in Randolph County, Ind., and at Whitewater College at Centerville, and was a member of the faculty of same last year (tutor of mathematics), Wayne County, Ind. remaining in the latter institute three years. He is also a graduate of the St. Louis Medical College. Dr. Barnett was married in Noble County, Ind., in March, 1856, to Christian R. Haggerty, a native of Sussex County, N. Y. They have two children--Molly May, now Mrs. John Trinder, of Fort Scott, and Annie Jane, now Mrs. J. R. Taylor, of Rockville, Mo.

HENRY BASEMANN, Sr., gunsmith, is a native of Sendersleben, Saxony, Germany, born
August 7, 1812. Leaving his fatherland, he arrived in New York City in 1842. While there he married, remaining four years; he then went to Canada, where for ten years he carried on a profitable cabinet shop, but was burned out, and in 1856 went to Chicago; while there he worked at the gunsmith business, leaving in 1857 for Kansas, being one of sixteen men sent out by the land association to select a site for a town; they selected and had platted the town of Eudora, which they named after the daughter of the Indian chief from whom they purchased the land; his name was Pastor Fish. In Eudora they lived and prospered with their families, Mr. Basemann holding offices of trust while there, such as Mayor, Councilman, etc. In 1873, he sold out and moved to Fort Scott, where he went into the hotel business but broke up and went to gunsmithing. At the age of fifty, he enlisted in our late war, and underwent all the hardships and privations of a soldier's life, being wounded in the leg at the battle of Jenkins' Ferry, and was honorably discharged in 1865. He returned home and soon afterward moved to Fort Scott, where he lost his daughter Carrie, who was burned to death by the explosion of a coal oil lamp, at the age of nineteen. This misfortune caused the death of his wife a year afterward in 1877. In 1879, he married again and lives happily with his family, having three children now living--Henry, William and Louisa; he has lost four. In position, he is a Democrat and belongs to the G. A. R.

HENRY BASEMANN, JR., proprietor of Basemann's Billiard Parlors, was born in 1845 in New York City, and lived at home until enlisting in 1862, returning to his home in 1865, an invalid. He moved to Fort Scott in 1873; in 1878, he was appointed to the police force of the city by John A. Bryant; he was also engaged in gunsmithing at this time, but in 1881 he dropped both and took up his present business. In 1873, he married Miss Endicott, of Drywood, Bourbon Co., Kan., daughter of Gabriel Endicott, one of the early settlers of this county. They have two children--Lillie and Lulu. Mr. Basemann is a member of the I. O. O. F. and also of the G. A. R.

WILLIAM BASEMANN, gunsmith, 312 west side of the square. When his father, Henry Basemann, Sr., moved to Eudora, he had his family sent out some seven weeks afterward and with them they brought Henry. He arrived in the state in 1857, remaining at home until he was sixteen or seventeen years of age, then starting on his travels to other parts. In 1875, he came to Fort Scott and opened the gun business, having for a partner his brother Henry; they dissolved the firm in 1882, April 17; he now conducts the business alone. He married Miss Wincell, of Bates, Mo., in 1880, and they have one boy named Henry, who was born January 24, 1881. Mr. Basemann is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Catholic Church.

S. D. BATES, teacher in Room 1, Third Ward Building, is now the teacher of longest standing in the Fort Scott Schools, having taught from 1869 to the present time in 1882. She was born in Vanderburgh County, Ind., her early education was acquired in the convent of Indianapolis, Ind., where she finished her course and intended attending the head school of that organization in Terre Haute, but after her course of study in the convent she returned home in 1857; about this time, a gentleman of her acquaintance proposed to her to go to Kansas and teach, and some months afterward was surprised to receive a call for a school in Fort Scott, which had been obtained by her friend, so she came in 1869, taking an ungraded school in East Scott, under the most discouraging circumstances; but with Spartan courage has persevered, and is now nicely established. When the school of East Scott was burned, she moved to Shield's Building, and with Prof. Frankenburger, Miss Caldwell and Miss Hoxie, taught till the new building was completed. In 1881, her enrollment was 136, and the average seventy-seven.

HON. WILLIAM J. BAWDEN, attorney at law, located at Fort Scott, March, 1866, and has since been engaged in the practice of law at that point. He has been a member of the Board of Education three terms, County Attorney seven years, Assistant United States Attorney three years, and served as District Judge a short time to fill a vacancy. He is a native of Baltimore, born August 31, 1833, and lived in Maryland and Delaware until 1853, then removing to Ohio. He taught school for a short time in Licking and Fairfield counties, and then entered the Ohio University at Athens, Ohio. He subsequently read law at that place and was admitted to the bar in 1863. After assisting in raising three different regiments, he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was detailed to headquarters and received the position of Quartermaster Sergeant, which he held until he left the service in the fall of 1864. After leaving the army, he spent one year in Indiana prospecting and looking for a permanent location before coming to Kansas. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., and I. O. O. F., and was Commander of the G. A. R. Post at Fort Scott in 1867. He was married at Crystal Lake, Ill., February 8, 1866, to Annie R. Walsh, a native of Athens, Ohio. They have five children--William Culver, Edna Estelle, Mable Clare, Annie Maud and Grace.

JOSEPH BECK, farmer, Section 22, P. O. Memphis, is a native of Center County, Penn., born in 1829, and at the age of twenty-six he was married in Center County, by Rev. Mr. Spotwood of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1858 he came West and first located on Buck Run; but this was supposed to be in the Cherokee reservation, so he abandoned it; at the same time rented land in Missouri, but did not leave Kansas, and in June, 1859, he took a claim in Section 22, consisting of 160 acres, it being very near to the timber he owned. At first he carried on grain-raising but afterward changed it to a stock farm in 1863. In 1866 he lost all of his cattle by a disease known as the Spanish fever. He then tried grain-raising again, and is now working into stock, having 400 acres in the farm of which 120 acres is in cultivation. He has improved his farm, fencing and putting up a fine residence and barn, having built a log house in 1859, that he is now using as a corn crib. In 1870 he built his house and in 1874 his barn. They had a family of three children--two daughters grown and married, and one son now at home who is intending to become a civil engineer. Mr. Beck has always been identified with the public school interests, having served on the board for years.

JOHN S. BELL, grocer, native of Fayette County, Penn., he was born the 25th of March, 1838, his boyhood was spent on the farm and after getting his education commenced teaching in the fall of 1858 and taught two terms. In 1864, he enlisted in Company H, but it was split up and he went into Company D, Thirty-eighth Infantry Volunteers; he was at Petersburg and the battles about Richmond. In 1865, he returned to his farm which he sold in 1867, and then emigrated to Kansas buying land near Godfrey, Bourbon County, but sold and located here January 7, 1868, and went into a planing mill which burned in 1876, August 11. In March, 1877, he opened a store where the mill stood before, on a piece of nine and a half acres that he had bought and laid off in lots in what is called Bell's Addition to the city of Fort Scott; he also opened a store on National avenue and conducts both with the help of his sons. In 1881, he took the National Hotel, but sold to C. L. Pate. In 1859 he married Miss N. L. Grooves, of Wisconsin; they have four children. He was in the City Council in 1878-79, belongs to the I. O. O. F.

GEN. CHARLES W. BLAIR, a citizen of Fort Scott since 1859, is a native of Georgetown, Brown Co., Ohio, where he was born February 5, 1829. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in his native county while a mere boy, and at the age of twenty-one was its Prosecuting Attorney. In 1851, he was elected Clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives, and during the same year as Captain of a Kentucky company raised for the purpose, he joined Gen. Lopez' expedition for the liberation of Cuba. On the 25th of December, 1858, he was married in Columbus, Ohio, to Katherine Medary, daughter of Hon. Samuel Medary, afterward Governor of Kansas. In June, 1859, he emigrated to Kansas, and in company with Hon. Andrew Ellison, his former law tutor, settled at Fort Scott, and entered upon the practice of his profession. He soon purchased property on the public square amounting to an entire block where he still resides. In politics, Gen. Blair is a Democrat, and during the war was a patriotic and efficient war Democrat. During the border troubles in Bourbon and Linn counties his influence was always on the side of order and justice, and at the breaking out of the rebellion he was one of the first to respond to the call for Kansas troops. His career as Lieutenant Colonel of the Second Kansas Infantry forms a part of the history of the regiment, one of which the State is proud. February 28, 1862, Col. Blair was made Major of the Second Kansas Cavalry; raised Blair's Battery, of which he remained in command about six months, and was then assigned to the command of the post of Fort Scott, and also of a subdistrict composed of all of Kansas south of the Kansas River and of the border counties of Missouri. September 26, 1863, he was made Lieutenant Colonel of the Fourteenth Kansas Cavalry; was soon afterward promoted to Colonel of the same regiment, and did gallant service through the Price campaign of October, 1864. He was mustered out of service August 21, 1865, having been breveted Brigadier General prior to that time. He has filled with honor to himself and satisfaction of his constituents numerous important political offices. Is an eloquent and accomplished orator, and is a most able and influential attorney. His family consists of his wife and four daughters--Kittie, Birdie, Lillie and Josephine.

CAPT. EDWARD A. BLAKELEY came to Kansas in April, 1868, and was employed by C. W. Goodlander as a carpenter for eighteen months succeeding his arrival. He then had charge of teams for Mr. Clough (who was Street Commissioner) until 1873, when he became engaged in the transfer business for himself, in which he has continued since. He was born in Syracuse, Onondaga Co., N. Y., December 24, 1840, and lived there until he came to Kansas with the exception of four years' service in the Union Army. He enlisted as a private May 16, 1861, in Company G, Eighty-first New York Volunteer Veteran Infantry, and served in the Second Corps of the Army of the Potomac until September 16, 1865, participating in all the battles of his command. He was fireman on the N. Y. C. R. R. five years and engineer two and a half years on the same road after the war until he came to Kansas. He is a merchant by trade; he was married at Syracuse, N. Y., October 4, 1872, to
Martha A. Mortimer, a native of Virginia. They have three children--Edward S., Arthur R. and Everett H. Capt. Blakely sic is a member of the A. O. U. W., I. O. O. F. and G. A. R., Grand Legion, and Captain of Company F, First Regiment of the Kansas National Guards.

AMOS HERBERT BOURNE was born in Wallingford, Rutland Co., Vt., May 4, 1840, and at the age of thirteen was apprenticed to a manufacturer and dealer in paints in Boston, Mass., with whom he remained three years. In 1865, went to Chicago, Ill. In the fall of 1857, he came to Kansas stopping at Leavenworth awhile. He joined a Government surveying party for New Mexico and Arizona, and for nearly a year was employed in making military roads, fighting Apaches, etc., in what was then called Gaelsem purchase, now the southern part of Arizona. In the summer of 1858, in company with a young man by the name of Joseph Reed, and taking two mules left Fort Buchanan, ninety miles south of Tucson, A. T., for California. They lost their way on the desert, and in hunting for water were attacked by a band of Apache Indians; his companion was carried away into captivity; he saved himself by hiding in a hole in the rocks, where he remained nearly two days; crawling out he wandered three days and nights on the desert, and when nearly exhausted was picked up by the Pincos Indians, near their villages on the Gila River, being four days without food or water. He remained with the Pincos and Maricopas, who treated him very kindly, until recruited up, then went on to California, and eventually arrived at Los Angelos. sic The next seven years of his life he spent in California, Washington Territory, Oregon and Nevada, engaged most of the time in prospecting and mining; was one of the pioneers of Nevada, being in Virginia City before there was a house built, and one of the original owners of one of the best mines on the Comstock lode. In the spring of 1865, he left San Francisco for Wilmington, N. C., to buy turpentine for the California trade, loading a schooner in the Cape Fear River with that product, and in attempting to get out of Hatter's inlet was wrecked, and his fortune mixed with the salt waters of the Atlantic. From Wilmington he went to Florida, and eventually back to his old home in Vermont, where he married Lucinda Earle, daughter of Judge Roswell Earle, of Mount Holly, July 12, 1866. Owing to his wife's health, having consumption, went to Winona, Minn., and from there to Fort Scott, where he arrived in November, 1866. Soon after he discovered material for making umber and other mineral paints, and in extending his experiments with paints, discovered that the city of Fort Scott, rested on a foundation of hydraulic cement rock. In 1868, he got the Fort Scott Paint and Cement works in operation, which he operated as Superintendent until 1873. On July 12, 1871, his wife died, leaving one son, Arthur H., who is now being educated in Vermont. On June 9, 1873, he married his present wife, Mrs. Bertha E. Martin, widow of Capt. Leander Martin, killed in action at Bridgeport, Ala. Mrs. Martin was the daughter of Franklin Blake, who died in Leavenworth City in 1857; she was born in Greensboro, Vt., on May 28, 1840, and has been a resident of Kansas since 1857. In 1873, he started the cement pipe works, under the name of the Southwestern Cement Pipe Company, with branch works at Dallas, Tex., which started the Canon City Iron, Paint & Cement Company, at Canon City, Colo., of which he is still Superintendent, and the Bourne Paint & Tile Company, which is operated under patents obtained by him, and is preparing to work on an extensive scale, and to which he proposes to devote his time and abilities the balance of his days, believing it to be the best of all his enterprises, and Kansas the best State in the Union to live in.

J. M. BRIGHT established in 1867, a general dry goods business, the only exclusively dry goods house in the city at that time, the firm being Bright Brothers. Mr. Bright is a native of Liberty, Clay Co., Mo. He came to Fort Scott in 1867. Since he has been here, he was burned out twice and now occupies a store building 25 feet front and 115 deep, 2 floors and basement extending from Main street to Market street, being one of the handsomest store rooms in the city or State, and stocked with a class of goods, and patronized by a trade, of which cities of a much larger growth might well be proud. He was married to Miss Mary Kearns, of Fort Scott. They have three children.

S. S. BRINKERHOFF, County Attorney, was born near Auburn, N. Y., April 15, 1838, and removed to Plymouth, Huron Co., Ohio, with his parents when an infant. He received his education at the Academy at Carlisle, and the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, and commenced the study of law at Painesville, with Bissell & Tinker. He was mustered into the State Militia
April 16, 1861, and into Company D, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, May 2, 1861. He served two and a half years on detached duty, and when he left the service in November, 1865, it was with the rank of Major. He came to Kansas in November, 1867, and settled at Osage Mission, but removed to Fort Scott the following spring and made that his permanent home. He has served as Police Judge three terms, and is now serving his second term as County Attorney, having first served from 1876 to 1878, and after an interval of two years renominated by acclamation in 1880. Mr. Brinkerhoff was married at Fort Scott February 20, 1871, to Dana E. Gordon, a native of Lake County, Ohio, deceased May 26, 1881. He has five children--Helen G., Henry, Gordon, Della, Lizzie and Blake. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., A. O. U. W. and G. A. R.

IRA D. BRONSON came to Kansas in March, 1857, and located at Paris, Linn County. He remained there and in that vicinity until 1866; with the exception of the period during which he was in the army, was engaged in the lumber business. In May, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company F, Second Kansas Volunteer Infantry. He was in all the engagements of his command, being present at the battles of Wilson's Creek, Prairie Grove, Old Fort Wayne and Cane Hill, and in many engagements in Missouri, Arkansas and the Indian Territory, and was mustered out of service in the fall of 1865, as Captain of Company I, Second Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, having also served as Captain of Company A, and commanding Fourth Arkansas Infantry Regiment. In March, 1866, he removed to Mound City, remaining there until August 1, 1870, when he came to Fort Scott, and accepted the position of Clerk of the District Court, a position he retained until January, 1881. He became connected with the St. Louis, Fort Scott, Wichita Railroad Company, February 23, 1880, in the capacity of Stockholder, Director, Secretary and Treasurer and Builder, a connection which continued until March 10, 1882. He has since been engaged in buying timber land in Oregon, Ozark, Douglas and Howell Counties, Mo., and in Fulton County Ark., and is also interested in the towns of Marmaton, Redfield, Bronson, Moran, La Harpe, Iola, Lilly and Toronto, Kan. Is a member of Gilfillan Flag Stone Company and St. Louis Flag Stone Company. He is a native of Warren, Herkimer Co., N. Y., born October 24, 1835. When nineteen years of age, he came to Illinois and taught school in Knox County, and near Antioch, Lake County. He was married in Antioch, Lake Co., Ill., June 11, 1867, to Miss Annie Webb, a native of that place. They have five children--Ira H., Lucy A., Charles W., Elizabeth and Anna J. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Knights Templar, the A. O. U. W. and the G. A. R.

HENRY BROWN, merchant tailor, came to Fort Scott in November, 1869, and was employed as a journeyman tailor for two years, since which he has been in business for himself. He employs six hands and does the leading merchant tailoring business in this locality. He was born in Yorkshire, near Hull, England, June 4, 1845, and came to America March 26, 1868. He resided in Cincinnati prior to his removal to Fort Scott. Mr. Brown was married near Lawrenceburgh, Dearborn Co., Ind., August 2, 1870, to Harriet E. Brumblay, a native of that county. He is a member of the I.O.O.F.

S. A. BURGE, farmer, Section 6. He is a native of Ashland Co., Ohio, and was born in 1847. As a foundation to start in life, he secured an education at Oberlin College in 1866, and at once entered commercial life as a clerk, but he was taken with the Western fever and came to Kansas in 1868, going to Baxter Springs, where his two comrades becoming discouraged went back East. He, in the meanwhile, was clerking for Robert Lytle, but was taken with the ague and gave up his position in the store; then engaging to drive mules he went to Fort Arbuckle in the Red River country; on coming back went into Mr. Lytle's store again. In 1869, he came to Fort Scott and went to work in Gardiner & Smith's dairy. He was so successful in this line, that in 1872 he rented the dairy and carried it on till 1875, in partnership; then taking the whole business in his own hands, he conducted it until he bought his farm on Sections 6 and 1 of 100 acres, keeping the dairy until 1882, when he sold out to L. D. Latham and now carries on a butter farm, having improved it. He has a fine building and five acres of orchard. In February, 1872, he married Miss Gardener, of Wisconsin. They have four children. 

A. H. CAMPBELL, horticulturist, Section 36, was born near Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1839. The family moved to Kansas in 1857, locating at Barnesville, and then came to Fort Scott, where his father, Col. William I. Campbell, was appointed Deputy United States Marshall, as early as 1858 and the history of whose life belongs to the history of Fort Scott. At the time the war broke out, A. H. being a member of the home guards, was mustered with the rest of his comrades into the Sixth Kansas Cavalry, then holding the commission of Second Lieutenant in Company H, participating in all the prominent engagements of the regiment. He commanded the advance guard which drove in the enemy's pickets at Newtonia, Mo., and had his horse killed under him in the cavalry charge at Cane Hill, Ark., at the time Lieut. Col. Jewell was killed. In this company he served until 1863, when he organized a company of his own and went into the field as Captain of Company G, Fourteenth Kansas Cavalry. For one year he was with his company and was then placed on Gen. Thayer's staff at Fort Smith, Ark., and acted as Assistant Inspector General of the frontier district. In the retreat of Steele's forces from Camden, Ark., to Little Rock, Ark., his company was the only one of cavalry detailed as rear guard, and at the battle of Jenkins' Ferry, or Saline River, his was the only cavalry in the fight. He was highly recommended in the report of Brig. Gen. Rice, of Iowa, under whose orders he was during the battle. He was mustered out March 6, 1866, and returned home. From 1874 to 1880, he was purchaser and Paymaster for the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad.

JOSEPH BAXTER CHAPMAN, editor of the Banner, was born in Nauvoo, Ill., in February, 1853. He spent the early part of his life on a farm in Tama County, Iowa. His education was obtained in the district school, in the high school of Tama City, and in the University of Iowa, spending three years in each of the latter institutions, leaving the University in 1875. In the latter year he assumed editorial charge of the Tama City Press, a Democratic paper. Disposing of his interests in the Press in 1877, he returned to the University, graduating from the Law Department, and being admitted to the bar in June, 1878. In September of that year he established the Western Democrat at Beloit, Kan. In May, 1880, he was chosen a delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, Ohio. In the fall of that year, he was nominated candidate for the State Senate, and although he ran 1,000 ahead of his ticket, he was defeated. In the fall of 1881, in connection with Hon. J. B. Fugate, he established the Topeka Daily Democrat, afterward changed to the State Press. In October, 1882, he was called to the editorship of the Banner.

NEWTON CHASE, farmer, Section 12, is a native of Illinois, born in 1844, near Quincy, and was raised and educated on a farm. He comes of Eastern parentage. His grandparents were from Massachusetts and his parents from Pennsylvania. In Illinois they were grain and stock farmers, and on coming to Kansas in 1869 he began grain farming on Section 12, taking 349 acres which he farmed as a grain farm. In 1875, he went into stock-raising. He now has a farm containing 1,177 acres, 424 of which he cultivates, the rest is grass and pasture for the stock. He has his farm fenced with hedge, stone and galvanized barb wire, and this year, 1882, the wonderful year of crops in Kansas, his oats of which he has had but few acres comparatively, averaged 60 bushels to the acre, corn about 45 bushels and a piece of 55 acres which was planted with rye last fall was turned under in June, and after the 16th was planted in corn, has turned out a wonderful crop. His farm is stocked with 1,000 head of sheep, 170 of hogs, 125 head of cattle. He has sold off a number of cattle at an average price of $48 apiece. He has two barns and is putting up another bank barn, 48x88. He has not neglected the fruit crop, as he has now 1,000 pear trees, 500 peach and 500 apple trees, and intends to set out 1,000 more trees in the spring. In 1879, he was married and has one Child living; has lost one. Mr. Chase is a Democrat.

HON. ORLANDO A. CHENEY, Probate Judge, was born in Brandon, Vt., June 28, 1848, and has educated and supported himself since he was thirteen years of age. He came to Fort Scott in March, 1872. Having read law in Windsor County, Vt., previously, he was admitted to the bar of Kansas the same year, and has since been engaged in practice. He was Justice of the Peace of the city of Fort Scott nearly six years, but resigned that position upon being elected to the office of Probate Judge; was also United States Commissioner, which office he resigned. September 6, 1878, he was married to Miss Ella A. Fassett; they visited the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, and returned to Fort Scott, where they lived happily together until August 4, 1880, when after a very brief illness, she died of peritonitis. Mr. Cheney is a member of the A., F. & A. M., and of the Congregational Church. He was re-elected to the office of Probate Judge in 1882, by an overwhelming majority.

LYMAN R. CHURCH was born in Ohio, 1834; went to Marion County, Ohio; 1868 came to Kansas, located at Fort Scott; in 1868 he located in Crawford County, Kan., on a farm near Girard; lived on the farm until March, 1882; he then moved to Fort Scott. Is engaged in the book business. He was married in Ohio in 1861, to Miss Susan Frazier, a native of Ohio. They have three children, William J., Ralph P. and John. He belongs to the Odd Fellows Lodge and the Christian Church. Enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteers; remained with this regiment four months. Was one of the early settlers of Crawford County, Kan.

THOMAS COCHRAN, farmer, Section 5, native of Scott County, Ind., and when thirty-five years of age, or in 1867, he moved to Iowa and went into farming, but sold out and prepared to move to Kansas, but remained till the fall of 1869. The last summer he was there he worked at the carpenter trade. October 28, 1869, he located on his present farm, which he bought of Mr. Stansbury, consisting of 240 acres, which he has converted into an improved stock and grain farm, handling about 100 to 150 head of cattle in a year, besides hogs. His orchards are wonderfully productive, having some 1,200 apple trees, which produced this year, 1882, 1,200 barrels. He also, on the rich soil of this farm, raises good crops of wheat and oats. Mr. Cochran has held township and school offices, reposed in him as indicative of the high estimation in which he is held by his friends, who in 1880 elected him to the State Legislature. He has been a member of the Masonic order since 1868, and on September 12, 1853, he married Miss Oard. They have four children. Mr. Cochran's experience has not been one of unmixed prosperity, for in 1872, he was burned out, and again in 1876, losing fences, hay, trees and all but the soil of the farm. He is a member of the Christian Church, and a Republican.

MRS. M. J. COLTON, proprietress of the Colton House, is a native of Worcester Co., Mass.; born in 1827, and was married to Mr. Colton in 1856. They lived in Australia nine years and five in New Zealand. They then came across the Pacific to Panama, across the Isthmus and sailed for New York, and in March, in 1866, landed and proceeded to Boston. They visited Mrs. Colton's old home, and then moved westward; lived in Rochester, N. Y., one year. While here Mr. Colton came West to Kansas, and purchased 480 acres of excellent land in Bourbon County for a stock farm, and the next year they moved onto it, remaining there until February, 21, 1870, then moved where Mr. Colton had begun building; however, his labors were closed in death, February 5, 1879. Mrs. Colton since her widowhood has lost a residence in Fort Scott, which was burned in 1881, so that now she and her daughter, Miss Clara, live in the fine large building known as the Colton House, which she still retains as she does 160 acres of the homestead farm located on Range 25, Township 25, Section 5, Bourbon County. Mr. Colton was a native of New York, and was born in 1821.

J. N. COLE, farmer, Section 3; native of West Virginia; born in 1842, and was raised on a farm, an orphan boy; he succeeded in getting a common school education, and when the war of the rebellion broke out enlisted in the Third West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Company A, and while scouting below Springfield of that State, was taken prisoner, and with seventy-eight others confined in Andersonville. This was in the spring of 1863, and November 28, 1863, he was exchanged at Savannah, Ga., and returned to Virginia where he went into the Sixth West Virginia Cavalry, Company F, serving as Sergeant till the close of the war. He was mustered out at Leavenworth, Kan. Liking the State, he returned to it from West Virginia, locating on Section 6, Scott Township, Bourbon County, in 1866, and in 1869 he bought his present stock and grain farm, consisting of 360 acres, all well fenced, having a fine orchard and 170 acres under the plow. In 1879 he married Miss Sharp, a niece of J. B. Trimblee. They had three children, but lost two. Their son is named Charlie N. Mr. Cole has held township offices of trust, having also been School Treasurer.

WILLIAM M. COLE, grocer. He is a native of Missouri, was born in 1846, and raised on a farm. Left home in 1869 and came to Kansas, locating first at Neosho County, and went to farming, but in 1872 came to Fort Scott, going to work for Val. McKinley in the liquor trade, going into the grocery when the Prohibition law closed the liquor trade here. In 1870, he married Miss Dempsey, of Michigan. They have a family of four children, three boys and one girl.

J. A. COMMERFORD, Superintendent of the Fort Scott National Cemetery, was born in Lowell, Mass., November 2, 1838. His early years were spent in attending the public schools at Lowell, graduating at the grammar to enter the High School at the age of fifteen. He studied at this school two years and then entered business with his father till 1862, when he enlisted in the Third Massachusetts Cavalry and upon his enlistment was made Second Lieutenant of his company; was promoted First Lieutenant in 1863, and in 1864 to Captain. At the close of the war he received a complimentary commission as Major of his regiment, from Gov. John A. Andrew. His career as a soldier and officer was meritorious and gallant. He commanded the Color Company of his regiment at the battles of Winchester, where he was wounded; Cedar Creek and Fisher's Hill, Va. Was with Sheridan on his famous ride; was at the siege of Port Hudson, and battle of Irish Bend, La.; was appointed Assistant Provost Marshal of the Second Division Nineteenth Army Corps, and had charge of the Confederate prisoners at Baton Rouge, La., in 1863. He served through the Red River expedition, and under special order, from Gen. Grover, was detached from his regiment to transfer men from the army to the navy. September 28, 1865, he was honorably discharged, the war being ended. During the service he received serious and permanent injury. After the close of the war he held several positions in the customs service at Mobile, Ala. At his own request he was made Superintendent National Cemetery at New Berne, N. C. In 1879 was transferred from this place to Fort Scott, Kan., National Cemetery, of which he became Superintendent April 15, 1881. Mr. Commerford was married in 1872 to Mrs. E. H. Stearns, a native of Illinois, and has two children, Pauline and Lionel.

[Picture of J. H. Couch, M.D.] JOHN H. COUCH, physician and surgeon, arrived in Fort Scott, then a village of about 100 inhabitants, in March, 1857. His family arrived about two months later; he has lived here ever since, engaged in practice. He was interested in the drug business for about five years, and has also been engaged in farming, owning several farms at the present time. Dr. Couch served as president of the school board for several years. He was born at Lexington, Ky., April 8, 1827, but removed to Indiana, when two and a half years old, and was reared and educated in that State, receiving both a collegiate and medical education. In 1852 he went to Monroe, Greene Co., Wis., and resided there until he came to Kansas, being married at that point April 9, 1854, to Lillis Andrick, a daughter of Judge Jacob Andrick, of Wisconsin, formerly of Indiana. They have five children living--Mada A., now Mrs. Chapman; Otto D., John H., Birdie M. and Wina Etta, and lost one son, William Andrick, aged three years and ten months.

D. C. COOPER, engineer, was born in 1845, in Pike County, Ill., and at the age of fifteen, he enlisted in Company I, Sixty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry (his father having previously enlisted in Company H, Fiftieth Illinois). The Sixty-second was in the Sixteenth Army Corps, and were subsequently transferred to the Seventh Army Corps. He was in a number of skirmishes prior that at Parker's Cross Roads when fighting Jerry Sullivan, surprised Forrest and recaptured from him three regiments of the Union army. In the fall of 1865 he was at Pine Bluff, and was shortly afterward with the regiment on frontier duty at Fort Gibson, being relieved by the Nineteenth Regulars, February 20, 1866, and mustered out at Little Rock, receiving final discharge at March 19, 1866, at Springfield, Ill. He remained in Illinois until 1868, when with his father's family, he removed to Kansas, finally locating at Fort Scott. For several years he was engaged in "freighting" on the Western plains, trading with the Indians and frontier posts and settlers. Since 1877, Mr. Cooper has been engaged on the Kansas Pacific, Fort Scott & Gulf and other railroads, as fireman and engineer, and is now in the employ of the St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita Railroad. August 2, 1868, he married Miss Elinor W. Keppler, of Hancock County, Ill., by whom he has six children living. Mr. Cooper is a member of Post 35, G. A. R., of Fort Scott.

W. A. CORMANY, insurance agent, is a native of Ohio. He was born in 1841, just before his parents reached Lithopolis, Ohio, to which place they were emigrating from Pennsylvania. He attended school in Lancaster, Ohio until he reached the age of ten years; he then went to work at telegraphy, but the employment being too confining he hired out to a carpenter; he worked at this for some little time until an accident occurred near ending his life. Then he gave up carpentering and tried printing, working three years in the Lancaster Gazette office; then went from Lancaster to Cincinnati, Ohio, and there engaged himself to the Cincinnati Commercial. He worked here six years, the last three having charge of the show bill department of that office. In 1861, he enlisted in the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was in thirty-three hard-fought battles, among which were Shiloh, Stone River, Fort Donelson, Chickamauga, etc. He was one of the men that tore the Confederate flag off of the State House at Nashville, Tenn. He was one of the firing squad at the burial of Gen. Nelson, at Louisville, Ky. He was captured by John Morgan and held as a hostage for one of Morgan's men. He was also captured at Stone River, and was confined in Libby Prison for several months. He was mustered out of the service in 1864 and went to Chicago where he became one of the publishers of the Voice of the Fair, a daily paper published under the management of S. P. Rounds during the Sanitary Fair held that year in Chicago. He then went to Mount Carroll, Ill., and published the Mount Carroll Mirror. In 1866 he left for Kansas with but $350. On his way and while in St. Joe, Mo., he was robbed. He arrived in Fort Scott with $50. He formed a partnership here with Oscar Edwards and resurrected the Fort Scott Monitor, the firm being Cormany & Edwards. In two years he sold his interest in the Monitor, and in 1869, went into partnership with J. S. Emmert in the real estate business. Shortly afterward they took into the firm W. A. Shannon. In 1870, Emmert & Kellar bought the interest of Cormany & Shannon. He then went into the insurance business, making the first year only $150. In 1881 he formed a partnership with A. Graff, the name of the firm being Cormany & Graff. He has been a member of the School Board, Secretary of the Board of Trade, and Secretary of the Second Ward Republican Committee for fourteen years. In 1864, he married Miss Emmert; they have six children. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and G. A. R. He is now special agent and adjuster of the North British & Mercantile Insurance Company of London and Edinburgh, and has charge of the company's business in Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and the Indian Territory.

JAY COREY, M. D., came to Fort Scott in March 1882. He was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., October 18, 1850, and went to Michigan with his parents when only three or four years of age. He lived in Michigan until 1878, most of the time in Ionia. He received his education at the Agricultural College of Michigan, at Lansing, and at Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, graduating from the latter institution in the spring of 1882. He was married at Ionia, Mich., December 17, 1876, to Dacie Vance, a native of Clinton, Mich. They have one child--Paris.

J. F. COTTRELL; book store; native of St. Clair, Mich. At an early age he entered a dry goods house in Detroit, as cash boy with a salary of $1 a week and board; beginning at the bottom of the ladder, he has continued rising since. After four years he went to Bay City, remaining here till 1866; then returning to Detroit, he entered the old firm at $1,200 a year. In 1869, he came to Fort Scott on account of his health, and opened a stationary stand in the Wilder House, buying out Charles Corbin, and afterward John C. Campbell, in 1877, and opened in the new Opera House building. In 1881, he moved to his present stand, occupying a room twenty-five foot front and 110 deep, carrying a stock from nine to fifteen thousand. William sic Cottrell was City Treasurer from 1878 to 1881, and was instrumental in effecting the city compromise in 1878. He is Treasurer of the Bourbon County Fair Association, and is a member of the Catholic Church.

M. CUMMINGS, farmer, Section 20, native of Jefferson County, Mo., was born in 1826. In 1830, he went to Pennsylvania with his parents, and in 1832, they moved to Ohio; while here he learned the trade of wagon maker, and worked at it until he came to Kansas in 1861. He took a claim on Section 7, Scott Township, in this county, but sold and moved to Fort Scott, where he worked at his trade. He had, during the war, served in the State militia when called on. In 1867, he bought and moved on his present place, which was entirely unimproved, but which is now in perfect working order as a grain and stock farm. He has been married twice, in 1847, and in 1863, having eight children.

S. M. CUTLER, teacher in the Normal School, Fort Scott, is a native of Spencer County, Ind., born December 1, 1855. In 1875 and '76, attended the National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio. Commenced teaching in 1874, alternating from school room to student's desk, earning money to educate himself, and graduated in 1879 from the Central Normal College of Danville, Ind. He came to Fort Scott the same year, and bought a part interest in the Normal School, with Prof. D. E. Sanders, and the school improved and enlarged under their supervision, having had 40 pupils; it now has 150. Mr. Cutler is now Superintendent of the city schools, Columbus, Kan. In 1879, he married Miss Ella Dickerson, of Danville, Ind. They have one son, named Frank Garfield, and one named Thomas H.

PETER DALRYMPLE, came to Fort Scott in 1871, and has since been connected with the Goodlander Mill. He has always devoted his entire attention to the management and development of the flouring mill interests with which he has been connected, and has been for the last two years one of the proprietors of the mill. Mr. Dalrymple is a native of Scotland, and came to this country in 1860. He was a resident of Chicago prior to coming to Fort Scott.

D. D. DAUGHERTY, East Wall street, was born in Warren County, Ohio, in 1827, and lived there until he was thirteen years of age, and moved to Delaware County, Ind., and his family settled right in the woods and commenced clearing a farm, at which they succeeded; he then cleared one of his own, afterward selling, and still another which he sold. In 1863 he was elected Sheriff of Delaware County, serving four years, and then engaged in the grain business, in which he lost about all he had, and then came west to Barton County, Mo. In 1869, he went to farming , but gave it up and went to Fort Scott in 1870, and opened a meat market on Wall street. He was burnt out of his first stand, and then moved into the present place, Cotton House. He has been married three times, in 1848, 1856 and 1878, and has two boys and two girls. In 1876, he was elected to the City Council, and again in 1881. He belongs to the I. O. O. F. and the K. of H.

J. W. DAVIS, of the firm of Davis & Co., grain and seed dealers was born in Bourbon County, Ky., from there going to Bourbon County, Kan. where he established business in 1872, representing the only exclusive grain and seed firm in the city, and the largest and oldest on the Texas Division of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. They have introduced into the trade what is known as the loan system, getting a loan of castor beans and flax seed from Eastern firms, and then paying the seed back. This business has grown of late years until it is becoming a most important trade. The crops of beans and flax are less afflicted by drought than the cereals, and are not so subject to the depredations of chinch bugs and grasshoppers. In addition to this, a price is made with the farmer for the crop, which saves them from the fluctuations of the market. Mr. Davis was a farmer before coming to Bourbon County, Kan.

MISS J. N. DAVIDSON, teacher in Room 9, Central School, is a native of Vinton County, Ohio. She attended the village school in childhood, afterward going to the high school at Wilkville. In 1871, they came to Kansas, and she attended the public school in Fort Scot and finally graduated in high school and Normal course under Prof. Dilworth, and after an examination in 1875, received a first class certificate, and commenced teaching in Room 5, Central School. In 1876, she went to Parsons, and taught in the grammar school. In the spring of 1878, taught a district school, and then returned to Fort Scott, teaching in Room 7, but in 1882 was promoted to Room 9, where she is now industriously engaged.

SILAS ADDISON DAY, publisher of the Herald and Record, was born at New Albany, Ind., November 4, 1842. His father was S. C. Day, a native of New Jersey, a wholesale dry goods merchant at New Albany, and is now a private banker of that place. His mother was a native of Kentucky, her maiden name being Harriet N. McClung. Silas A. Day received the rudiments of his education at the New Albany High School, and at Tonsley's Academy. He then attended successively Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; Hanover College, Indiana, where he graduated in 1863; attended medical lectures in Paris, France, during the winter of 1863-64; attended the Polytechnic Institute at Stuttgart, Germany, in the summer of 1864, and attended law lectures in Tubingen, Germany, during the following winter. Returning to New Albany, he was admitted to the bar in 1866, and practiced law there until March, 1869, when he moved to Fort Scott, and followed the practice of his profession until January, 1871; having the preceding fall been elected Probate Judge of Bourbon County, he at that time (January, 1871) entered upon the duties of that office, in which he was continued until January, 1877. In the fall of 1876, he was elected to the State Legislature in which he served one term as Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means. Returning to Fort Scott, he resumed, and continued the practice of law until February, 1882, when he purchased the Herald, a weekly newspaper. In June, 1882, he established the Evening Herald, and in September, he purchased the Record, combined that paper with the Herald, and now publishes the consolidated papers under the name of the Herald and Record, as a weekly paper, in addition to the publication of the Evening Herald as a daily. He was married in June, 1868, to Miss Mary E. McMillen, of Cincinnati, Ohio. They have had five children, all of whom have died.

CHARLES DE MOISEY, teacher in Room 4; native of East Tennessee; born in 1851. In his youth, although having school advantages, he took little interest in them, and at the age of fourteen he had made but little progress. At this time, his father lost his property, and he was awakened to the necessity of having an education, so he went to Cincinnati, and while there attended the Chickering Institute, and in 1869 got a position on the Government survey under Col. Averett. Here he developed his talent as a draftsman, and was alloted sic the best position on the corps. He was afterward employed on the Southern Pacific Railroad, by T. Scott. In 1875, he started to California, and went up the Gila River. On reaching San Antonia, he returned, and came to Bourbon Co.; went to farming and teaching. He taught in Marmaton for three years; then came to Fort Scott, and took charge of the east school in 1882. In 1881, he married Miss Gordon. They reside on their farm on Section 19, which is a convenient ride from his school.

FERD DE STWOLINSKI, mining engineer, was born in Germany, December 1, 1840, and educated at mining and engineering institutions in that country. He was for twelve years an officer in the French-Belgium Societe Anonyme des Mines et Fonderies de Zinc de la Vielle Montague. He came to America in 1869, and was in the employ of Matthiessen A. Hegelar Zinc Company. at La Salle, Ill., for six years and a half, erecting their concentrating works. He after removed to Missouri, and erected the machinery for Mine Las Motte Company, Desloge Lead Company and several other works of similar character in Southeastern Missouri. He was next employed in erecting the extensive concentrating works of the Granby Smelting & Mining Company in Joplin, and other works in that vicinity. He removed to Fort Scott in 1881, and has since been employed with the Fort Scott Foundry & Machine Shops, in the capacity of mining and mechanical engineer, and having entire charge of their mining department. The mining machinery built by the Fort Scott Foundry & Machine Works has the reputation of being the best in the country, and is all put up under the personal supervision of Mr. De Stwolinski, he giving his entire attention to this particular kind of work. He has put up machinery extensively in Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, New Mexico, Mexico, and the far western mining regions.

E. E. DIX, agent, native of Lawrence, Kansas,; born in 1860. He commenced November 12, 1878, as operator at Olathe for the K., C. & F. S. & G. R. R.; has had four stations since then, and has acted as last agent. In 1882, he was appointed agent at Fort Scott, the best station on the road.

ALBERT DOUD, dentist, came to Olathe, Kan., in September, 1868, and was engaged in the practice of his profession there until he came to Fort Scott December 25, 1879. He has been engaged in practice of dentistry about fifteen years. He was born near Peru, Ind., April 27, 1842, and received his education principally in that town. He served in Company K, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry in 1864, for about four months, his regiment doing service in Alabama and Tennessee most of the time. He is a member and Past President of the Kansas State Dental Society, a member of the A., F. & A. M., and belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Doud was married, at Olathe, September 15, 1870, to Manett Whitcomb, a native of Vermont. They have four children--Winnifred, Manetta, Alberta and Sarah Jane.

CHARLES F. DRAKE, President of Bank of Fort Scott, came to Fort Scott in June, 1858. At the time of his arrival, it was a village of about 200 inhabitants, Col. Hiero Wilson, merchant; Benjamin Riggens, later at Kansas City, and now in the West mining, and Drs. Hill and Little being the principal business men. He immediately engaged in the hardware and tinware trade, establishing the first hardware store in that region, and drawing his trade principally from Missouri. In 1862, he closed out his stock, and the troops occupied his building for some time, he afterward returning, and remaining in business there until 1876. He organized the First National Bank in Fort Scott, acting as Vice President until 1877, and then as cashier until 1880, and also the Fort Scott Bank, which is owned as a partnership by Charles F. Drake, President; Charles Nelson, Cashier, and Charles F. Martin, Assistant Cashier. They do a general banking business, and are largely interested in farming. Mr. Drake is a native of Mount Vernon, Knox County. He was born September 1, 1832, and resided there until he came to Kansas. He was elected a member of the Kansas State Legislature in 1863, there being but three votes against him. He secured the passage of the law, locating the county seat, by a vote of the people, and in 1864, organized the first school district in Fort Scott, and he, being Secretary of the School Board, transacted the burden of the business. He has since held various local offices, serving the city as Mayor, Councilman and City Treasurer, and in 1865 was a candidate for State Senator. He is the proprietor of the Fort Scott Cement Works, one of the most complete works of the kind in the country, employing from twenty to forty men, and having a capacity for crushing and grinding about one hundred barrels per day, and one-fifth owner of the Goodlander Flouring Mill & Elevator Company. Mr. Drake is a member of A., F. & A. M., and for thirty years belonged to the I. O. O. F.

JOHN EMMERT, real estate agent, is a native of Washington County, was born in 1813, near Hagerstown, where he was raised on the farm, and engaged in farming till 1872, when he came West, and located in Fort Scott. He married in Maryland, and has eight children. His son William is mining and storekeeping in Mexico; John H. is in the employ of the Gulf Railroad; Charles is in the West End Grocery with J. P. Robens; Miss Louisa is clerking in J. M. Bright's store; Miss Helen is a teacher in the central school building, and he has three married daughters in Maryland, wives of farmers.

END & HAFER, merchant tailors, established August 1, 1881. J. F. End was the founder of the business, and started it in 1881. He is a native of France, and was born March 22, 1853. His knowledge of the business was gained in France. He worked at it three years in Paris; from there he came to New York in 1871, moving thence to St. Louis, and worked for F. W. Luhre, clothing house, and then going to Mexico, Mo. He came from there to Fort Scott in 1873. He remained until 1877, and went back to St. Louis, coming back in 1880. He worked for H. Brown one year, and then bought F. O. Baker out. The firm was then End & Miller. He then, on the 1st of January, bought out Miller's interest, and in May took Mr. J. Hafer into the firm. Mr. End married Miss Karlleskint, of Fort Scott. They have one child. Mr. Hafer is a native of Franklin County, Penn.; born in 1836. He learned his trade in Mansfield, Ohio, and then traveled over the country looking for a location, and settled in Napoleon, Ohio, where he remained until the opening of the war, and then enlisted in the Thirty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company B; served as Commissary Sergeant, and was holding his commission as First Lieutenant; but resolved to not use it, so returned to Napoleon, Ohio, soon after going to Ligonier, Noble Co., Ind. In the fall of 1866, he went to work for Strauss Brothers. Leaving them in 1870, he came to Humboldt, Kansas, and opened a shop, where he stayed until February, 1882, when he went to Nevada, Mo., and opened there; but not liking it, he came to Fort Scott, and went into his present business. He married in Napoleon, Ohio. They have three children. 

FRANCIS FERREE, farmer, Section 23. He is a native of Clinton County, Penn., and there learned his trade, "plastering," at which he has worked in connection with farming ever since. In 1838, he moved to Quincy, Ill., where he went to farming and there met his wife in 1855, Miss Sarah A. Ogle, of St. Clair County, Ill. She comes of Kentucky blood, her grandfather moving from there to Illinois with a part of his slaves, set them free in Illinois; and in early times her father came near losing his life while on a load of hay on the road going to Belleville, the county seat, being shot at by the Indians. She is some relation to the Oglebys of that section. Her folks still live there. In 1860, he moved to Kansas, locating on Section 24, and remained till the war troubles drove him away. He went back to Quincy, Ill., in 1861, passing through many perils and returning after the war, he lived in Fort Scott from 1868 to 1876, when he returned to the farm. They have a family of five, one deceased. Two of these children were twins, John W. and Benjamin F. Mr. Ferree is a Republican in politics and has held some township offices. The twins weighed at their birth, respectively, two and a half and three pounds.

BENJAMIN FILES came to Kansas in March, 1859, and went to Colorado and Texas the same year, returning and locating permanently in Fort Scott, November 8, 1862. He has been engaged in the livery business in his present location since that time. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and was Alderman of the Second Ward, one term, also City Marshal one term. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, December 27, 1837, and lived in that State, Canada and Michigan until he came to Kansas. He was married in Fort Scott on November 12, 1868, to Mary Watson. She is a native of New York, and her parents were early settlers at Fort Scott, having come there in 1859. They have one child, Cora.

PROFESSOR H. FRANKENBURGER, County Superintendent of Public Instruction, came to Kansas in April, 1870, and located at Fort Scott, engaging in the business of contracting and building for about eighteen months. He then taught in the district schools of the county for one year, and was then, until 1880, Principal of the East Fort Scott School, holding during this time the office of Clerk of the Board of Education. In 1880, he was elected County Superintendent of Public Instruction. He was born in Leesburg, Mercer Co., Penn., June 7, 1839, and lived there until 1844, when he went to Lawrence County, Penn., making that his home until 1855, graduating in the meantime at the Mahoning Valley Academy. He then went to Wisconsin and located in Green County, near Monroe, residing there until he came to Kansas. He was married to Ann Groves August 21, 1857. They have six children--Clara Irene, Henry Grant, Lewis Smith, John Martin, Frank Rawlin and Mamie Tot. Mr. Frankenburger enlisted August 2, 1864, in Company D, Thirty-eighth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, as a private, and served until the close of the war. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and I. O. O. F. In the fall of 1882, he was re-elected to the office of County Superintendent and also Q. M. of W. H. Lytle Post, No. 32, Grand Army of the Republic.

THOMAS GALLAGHER, proprietor of the East Wall Street House, is a native of Lycoming County, Penn.; was born in 1806. In that pastoral State it was not astonishing that he should have been raised on a farm. The old State was new at that time, as Mr. G. can remember some things of the Revolutionary times; though loving the old place, he concluded to go West for his health; so, in 1860, he moved to Freeport, Ill., staying there till he came to Fort Scott, or more properly speaking, to his farm in Bourbon County, where he lived till 1878, where he opened his boarding house. He has been married twice, once in 1833, and last time to Miss Isabella F. Grier, of Pennsylvania, in 1858. Her father was a Presbyterian minister, and remained in one church fifty-three years. Mr. Thomas Gallagher has been a member of the same church for fifty years; his wife, for forty; by his last marriage he has but one child--Miss Lizzie Bell; by the first marriage, John C. William, who died in the army, Harry, Clay and Philip M., a civil engineer, now in Montana, besides two daughters married in Pennsylvania. William Gallagher, a nephew, came to Kansas in 1859; he is now living in Independence.

MRS. J. M. GALLOWAY, teacher in Room 7, Central School, is a native of Bridgeton, Cumberland Co., Penn. Her first school experience was the child school or kindergarten of an old lady that lived near, and when thirteen years of age was taken by the Rev. H. J. Vandyke, who prepared her for her profession. At the age of sixteen, she attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary at South Hadley, Mass. She graduated from here when twenty-one years of age, then, on going to Philadelphia, she took a full course of mathematics, and then went to St. Louis, where she graduated from the normal school and then taught as Principal in Stoddart's Addition. She had married Mr. John M. Galloway in 1869, and the next year came to Kansas and entered the professional field, teaching in the public school under Prof. McKinney, and afterward she opened a private school, where she taught her pupils the higher branches, fitting young men and ladies for the university. She numbers among her pupils many of the leading young business men of the city. She is now in Central School, Room No. 7. Mr. Galloway is a well-read first-class lawyer in every respect.

B. F. GARDINER, proprietor of the Fort Scott Cement Works, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 22, 1842. At the breaking-out of the civil war, he was in New Mexico, where, in April, 1861, he enlisted in the Seventh United States Infantry, was taken prisoner, parolled, and subsequently discharged. He re-enlisted in December, 1862, in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered out in September, 1865, with the rank of First Lieutenant, and in command of Company D of that regiment. He was with the army of the Cumberland during most of his service, and was in all the engagements of his command. At the close of the war he returned to Cincinnati and was engaged in the lumber business; three years after which he returned to Mount Vernon, Ohio, where he was connected with the John Cooper Engine Manufacturing Company until 1876, when he entered the United States Internal Revenue Department as gauger and storekeeper until 1878, when he went to Carthage, Mo. In January of the following year, he went to Fort Scott and engaged in the manufacture of cement. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., and the K. of P. and is at present a member of the School Board. He was married at Mount Vernon, Ohio, December 25, 1865, to Miss Ella M. Martin, a native of Mount Vernon. They have two children, Eda D. and Charles H.

E. N. GILFILLAN, of the Gilfillan Flag Stone Company, is a native of Mercer County, Penn.; was born in 1852, and received a mercantile education. Prior to this he lived on the farm, and here they opened up the quarry of flag stone that is now supplying vast quantities. He commenced his commercial experience with Bright Bros., staying some five years, and then going into Westervelt & Co.'s as clerk. In April, 1881, they formed a company and he gave his attention to the stone business. In 1872, he married Miss E. Lockwood, of Fort Scott. They have one babe and have lost one. Mr. Gilfillan belongs to the Knights of Honor.

JOHN GLUNZ, harness manufacturer and dealer in hides and leather, wholesale and retail, came to Kansas in 1862, and located at Leavenworth, where he was engaged in his present business until 1868, when he removed to Fort Scott. His business has increased from $7,000 to $80,000 per annum, and he employs thirteen hands. He has been Alderman of the First Ward several years, and is a member of the School Board; and is now serving his second year as Mayor of the city. He is Vice President of the First National Bank, one of the directors of the Fort Scott, Topeka & Lincoln Railroad, and member of the I. O. O. F., and of the Order of Red Men. Mr. Glunz was born in Prussia, October 7, 1842, and came to America in 1847 and located at Weston, Mo. That was his home until he went to St. Louis, eighteen months before coming to Kansas. He was married at Hermann, Mo., October 6, 1869, to Bertha Christel, a native of that place. They have six children--Julia, Hedwick, Bertha, John George, Leslie and Walter.

GEORGE W. GOODLANDER, architect and builder. He is a native of Northumberland County, Penn. Born February 24, 1840; arrived in Fort Scott December 13, 1864, and worked with C. W. Goodlander till 1870, at the carpenter trade, and married Miss Mead, of Fort Scott, in 1870. They have a family of two children. He then in partnership with A. McAllister worked at the trade till 1872, when he went into the business alone, having dissolved partnership; he has planned and built the following buildings since 1872: Built on the burnt district on Market Square, seven business houses, and the Rodecker & Co. Block; in 1873 the following in Oswego: a business block two stories high, and then built a business house for Raymond & Officer in Girard, Kan.; built residence for Charles Nelson in Fort Scott. George W. Goodlander constructed large brick barn for John Mead and business house on Main street for same party and A. A. Byington; architect for D. Prager's residence. Built Third Ward Schoolhouse; was architect for Drake's Block, also, for business house and residence for Col. Huntington; was architect and builder of the Odd Fellows Hall, built the Knox House and residence of John Gluntz; sic architect of J. Kirby's residence in the country, also, of Archy Thompson's. In the last year, has completed a mission school in Indian Territory for Creek Indians at a cost of $24,000, remodeled bank of Paul Thorton & Co., Nevada, Mo., business house for H. P. Hildebrand. In the meantime, he has had two shops burned, one in 1873 and one in 1874.

ELMER ELLSWORTH GOODLANDER was born in Fulton, Ill., July 24, 1861, and came to Kansas with his parents in 1863. He received his education in Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas, and at the Northwestern University of Evanston, Ill. He is a son of Samuel Goodlander.

SAMUEL OSBURN GOODLANDER established the first furniture in Southwestern Kansas at Fort Scott in 1863. He commenced business as a cabinet maker in a room 14x20 feet, doing all of his own work, making tables, coffins, etc., and doing a little painting, and in the fall of 1865 got a small stock on from Kansas City and Leavenworth. From this very small beginning his sales have increased to over $65,000 in 1881, and he now employs twenty-five men. They manufacture walnut beds, and tables of walnut and poplar. Mr. Goodlander is a member of the I. O. O. F., subordinate lodge and encampment, A. O. U. W., Board of Trade, and the Methodist Episcopal Church; was a member of the School Board for four years. He was born in Milton, Northumberland County, Penn., December 31, 1835. He learned his trade and lived in Pennsylvania until about 1856, when he went to Fulton, making that his home until he came to Kansas. He was married at Lewisburg, Penn., in September, 1859, to Sarah Catherine Price, a native of that city. They have three children--Ella Etta, Elmer Ellsworth and Charles Wesley.

JACOB GOTTLIEB, grocer, came to Kansas in 1870, and has been engaged in the live-stock business since that time, his business now amounting to from $10,000 to $15,000 per month. He has also been engaged in the grocery business since September, 1881, in partnership with Charles Love. Mr. Gottlieb was born in Prussia in June, 1841, and came to America in 1858, and located in Saline County, Mo., where he was engaged in the live-stock business and general merchandise at Brownsville until he came to Kansas. He was then in the merchandise business at Baxter Springs for one year, and at Pleasanton for the same length of time. He was married in Fort Scott in March, 1873, to Ida Thaus, a native of Wisconsin. They have five children--Herman, Jessie, Elm, Blanche and Fred. Mr. Gottlieb is a member of the "Briar Brith" of Sedalia.

AUGUSTUS GRAFF, insurance agent, came to Fort Scott September 1, 1866, and engaged in merchant tailoring until November 1, 1881, when he entered the insurance business. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and K. of H., and has been a member of the School Board for several years. He was born in Frankenhausen, Schwarzburg, Rudolstadt, Germany, September 24, 1830, and came to America in 1849, and located at Buffalo, N. Y. After stopping there nine months he went to Waukegan, and fifteen years later to Jacksonville, which was his home until he came to Fort Scott; he was married at Waukegan, Ill., in May, 1853, to Mary A. Zimmerman. She died in 1879, leaving four children--Emma M., Fannie M., Ida and Edwin F. He was married to his present wife, Hattie Harbin, November 11, 1881. She is a native of Missouri, but was reared in Kansas. Her father, John Harbin, first came to Kansas in 1855, and removed to Fort Scott in 1857. He was killed near Baxter Springs while serving in the Union army during the late war.

C. W. GRAEN, wholesale and retail druggist, commenced the drug business in Fort Scott in 1868, and was in partnership with Jacob Rush until 1874. The firm has since been C. W. Graen & Co., his present partner being E. Lowe. Mr. Graen is a native of Prussia, and came to America in 1856, residing two years subsequent to his arrival in Indiana, and then in Illinois. He enlisted at Bloomington, in April, 1861, in the Thirty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and after serving in that regiment fourteen months, joined the Third Kentucky Cavalry and served in that regiment until the close of the war. After leaving the army he was employed in the construction of the U. P. R. R. in Utah, until he came to Kansas; he is a member of the A., F. & A. M., A. O. U. W., Red Men and the G. A. R. Mr. Graen was married in Fort Scott July 1, 1872, to Ida, daughter of Hon. D. P. Lowe, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. They have two children--Hazel Maud and Percey Edon.

E. GRANT, superintendent for Keith & Perry, coal mines, Scammonville, Cherokee County, was born in Oxford County, Maine, August 6, 1836; was raised on a farm and received a common school education; learned the carpenter's trade and followed it ten years in Wisconsin; was in the army three years; came to Kansas in 1869; stopped at Fort Scott and began coal operations. Had charge of the old Fort Scott Mining Company, getting there before the railroad was built. Mr. Grant was married to Miss Bertha Nydick, of Wisconsin, in 1860. They have five children--Ivan, Fred, Lillie, Nellie and Perry.

REV. ELIHU GUNN, D. D., pastor of the first Baptist Church of Fort Scott, was born at Montague, Mass., January 3, 1818, and is a son of Elihu P. Gunn, a farmer and native of that place, his ancestors being among its earliest settlers. Samuel Gunn, earliest known ancestor, lived in Sunderland, Mass., one of the original forty proprietors of the town; date of death unknown. Nathaniel Gunn, son of the above, was born at Hatfield, Mass., August 1, 1693, died in Montague, November 29, 1779, aged eighty-six; married four wives, named respectively, Dickinson, Belden, Ballard and Wells. Nathaniel Gunn, son of above, born in Montague, Mass., February 4, 1726, died in Montague, April 22, 1807, aged eighty-one. Dorothy Marsh, his wife, died July 13, 1805. Elihu Gunn, son of above, born November 10, 1765; died April 27, 1851. Elihu P. Gunn, born December 18, 1792. Elihu Gunn, the subject of this sketch, was educated at Franklin Academy, Mass., and at Madison University, N. Y., graduating from the literary department of that institution in 1847, and afterward taking a full theological course from which he graduated in 1849. He was ordained in 1849, and stationed at Keokuk, Iowa, for eight years, and was afterward President of the Central University at Pella, Iowa, for five years; he was then pastor of the Baptist Church at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, for nine years, and came to Atchison in 1870. He was there pastor of Baptist Church for three years, and subsequently resided at Lawrence for four years before coming to Fort Scott, holding the office of General Superintendent of home missions for Kansas during that period. He was married at North Granville, Washington Co., N. Y., in August, 1849, to Amy Barrett, a native of Vermont. They have five children--Charles E., a merchant and Postmaster at Calhoun, Mo.; Amy A., now Mrs. G. S. Warn of Fort Scott; William C., Edward L., and Abbie F., now Mrs. W. H. Baker of Fort Scott. Mr. Gunn had the degree of D. D. bestowed upon him in 1880, by the institution of which he was formerly President in Iowa.

E. J. HALL, specialist in native wood works, shop on corner Main and Burch, came to Kansas in 1870, and located at Fort Scott where his first work was done in a foundry, but on the 4th of July he took his first job on Mr. Potter's house, and then a house for Mr. Sinzc, also the Centreville Church. Being a superior mechanic, he confines himself to the finer quality of work. He has done some very fine finishing and ornamental work for many parties in Fort Scott. In 1880, he moved his shop or place of business from Locust street to his present stand; he is now finishing two parlors in black walnut for C. H. Morley; Mrs. Dr. Hall is a graduate of the female medical college of Philadelphia, Penn., and has been practicing since 1871.

S. E. HALL, engineer on the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad, is a native of the State of Illinois, Putnam County; was raised in La Salle and Bureau Counties. They then moved to Iowa and from there S. E. went to work in the yard of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. For Charles H. Littleton he has been working since commencing in 1862, and going to Hannibal he ran an engine on the Hannibal & St. Joe Railroad, where he worked a number of years; then taking the Chicago & Kansas City Express, and for a while he ran an engine on Iron Mountain Railroad, Missouri, when he came to Fort Scott in 1879; and worked on the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad, running below Fort Scott most of the time. His father was a native of Virginia. G. B. Hall, his grandfather, was in the war of 1812, and his great-grandfather was in the Revolutionary War. The noted massacre by the Indians of the Hall family which took place in Illinois, near where Ottawa now stands, is a matter of history. From this terrible scene his father and uncle escaped. His experience in engineering is not unmixed with danger, as he has turned over with the engine three times, and jumped from the engine seven times; his right ankle joint being the only sound one about him. In 1861, he married Miss Shepard of Kentucky, and they have a family of three children--Minetta, Lena E., and Harry E., who has taken the premium as the finest baby at the Brookfield, Mo., fair; his brother Clinton Hall was killed while serving under Sherman; William J., Ezra M. and Leonard Hall are in California, while his sister, Mrs. Tucker, lives near the scene of the massacre in Illinois.

[Picture of A. A. Harris] A. A. HARRIS was born in Simpson County, Ky., January 16, 1838, of Scotch-Irish parentage. Was brought upon on a farm, receiving but a limited education; served in Morgan's Cavalry of the Confederate army, from 1861 to the surrender. Settled at Lebanon, Tenn., and commenced the practice of law in September, 1865. Married Miss Belle Evans, daughter of R. J. Evans, Esq., a prominent and highly respected citizen of Lebanon, May 29, 1866. Removed to Fort Scott, April, 1871, since which time he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession, having now a large and lucrative business. Mr. Harris stands very high as a lawyer, and is especially distinguished as an advocate. He mingles but little in politics, although he was an Elector-at-large, on the Democratic Presidential ticket in 1880.

S. D. HART, farmer, Section 12, P. O. Fort Scott, is a native of Allegheny County, Penn., born January 17, 1833. In 1852, with his parents, he moved to Washington County, Ohio, where he engaged in farming until 1857, when he went to Iowa, from there to Mississippi, locating in Southwestern Missouri, and went into the nursery business in Dade County. In 1860, he sold fruit trees all through this part of Kansas, but went into the pump business in Illinois in 1863, and returned to Kansas, and when they were burned out he and his brother brought the remnant of their nursery stock to Bourbon County in 1864, carried on business until 1867, when he sold, and has since carried on a stock and grain farm, having an improved place with fine orchard. Mr. Hart married Miss Kern in 1869. They have four boys and four girls. He has received from the hands of the people an office of high trust, being elected as Representative on the Greenback ticket in 1874. His fortune has been checkered, however, for in 1879 he lost most all he had by fire. Mr. Hart has always been an active worker in building up the public schools of the state, and is a member of the Christian Church.

BENJAMIN HARTLEY, rector of the Episcopal Church, was born in Scotland, September 9, 1837. In early life his tastes as an artist were developed, and he attended the Royal Scottish Art School of Edinburgh; while educating himself in this way he also became a printer, thus gaining the wherewith to pursue his chosen profession; after coming to America he concluded to enter the ministry, attending and graduating from Bexley Hall, the theological school of Kenyon College, the same seminary from which have graduated R. J. M. Kendrick, C. E. Butler and D. W. Coxe, all of these gentlemen having preceded Mr. Hartley in Fort Scott. In 1864, he left Gambler, Ohio, and went as a missionary to Liberia and the western coast of Africa. While here he met his wife, then Miss Griswold, of New York; on returning to the United States he preached in Brighton, Mass., then in Holliston, though suffering from African malaria; he also ministered to the souls' wants of congregations in Blossburg, Penn., then in Bridgeton, N. J., where he remained until 1879, when he was called to Fort Scott, Kan., succeeding Rev. Daniel W. Coxe in the charge. Mr. Hartley's parents were both of English birth; he has now a family of three children, two boys and one girl--Kenneth, Randolph S. and Carrie Griswold. Mrs. H. has written quite a number of books for the Sabbath school, and he continues his art and instructs in drawing and painting. He has quite a number of exquisite oil paintings in his studio.

M. D. HARTMAN, ice dealer, was born in Lycoming County, Penn., in 1840; his trade is that of the miller, having learned that in 1858; he worked in the mill till 1861, when he enlisted in the Eleventh Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company C, and served till 1865; was mustered out in Madison; he then went back to Pennsylvania, where he engaged in canal boat running, but lost money at that, and came West; he intended settling in Missouri, but came to Fort Scott, Kan., in 1867, and bought an interest in a mill on the Marmaton River, with A. J. Evans, but in 1870 went to Marshall, Texas, and went into the ice business, shipping from St. Louis. He came back to Fort Scott in 1877, and built ice houses, and in 1881 built a fine residence on land on Section 31, Scott Township, where he lives attending to fruit growing and his ice business. In 1868 he married Miss Tincher of Fort Scott.

LUCAS M. HAVENS, Assistant Postmaster, was born in what is now Columbus, Ohio, March 8, 1836, and received his education at the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio. He came to Kansas December 15, 1858, and located at Wyandotte, remaining there until October, 1861. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant of a company by Gov. Robinson in June, 1861, and was about to start for Kansas City to be sworn into the Second Kansas Regiment when he was disabled by the fall of a building in Wyandotte. Twenty-five of the company were injured in the same accident, most of them so severely as to be incapacitated for service. J. H. Harris was Captain of the company at the time. Lieut. Havens received injuries in his right wrist, and was badly crippled in his right leg, being still obliged to carry a cane in consequence of the accident. He returned to Columbus, Ohio, in October, 1861, and remained there until November 19, 1868. He then came to Fort Scott, and was employed in a banking house as book-keeper until January 1, 1869, and has since held his present position as Assistant Postmaster. He was married at Lafayette, Ind., February 3, 1857, to Ruth E. Van Fossen, a native of Homer, Mich. They have three children--Joseph D., Effie G. and John C.

CAPT. CHARLES H. HAYNES, merchant, came to Fort Scott April 1, 1857, and opened a lumber factory on Locust street, on the banks of "Buck Run," now the ravine between the Gulf Railroad and West Fort Scott. In 1858, he removed the mill to where Johnson's brick-yard is now situated, and continued in business there until April, 1861, when he entered the army. He enlisted in the Sixth Kansas Cavalry as Second Lieutenant, and in 1862 raised and was appointed Captain of Company B, Fourteenth Kansas Cavalry. In August, 1865, he was paid and discharged at Lawrence, and returned to Fort Scott, where he has since been engaged in mercantile pursuits. He is also considerably interested in farming, having farms both in Kansas and Missouri, and has represented the Second Ward in the Common Council. Capt. Haynes was born at Hoosack, N. Y., November 27, 1827. When eleven years of age, he removed with his parents to Fremont, Ohio, and that was his home until 1857. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Royal Arch Chapter, of the G. A. R., and of the Episcopal Church. He was married at Elyria, Lorain Co., Ohio, December 20, 1855, to Miss Jennie Hoyle, a native of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. They have two children living, Kate and Jennie, and lost three--a son and a daughter who died in infancy, and Blanche, who died when eighteen years of age.

J. J. HAZELTON, station baggage master for the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad, Fort Scott. A native of Licking County, Ohio. He was born in 1838. His early life was spent on a farm, there learning the carpenter's trade. He worked at that until 1862, when he enlisted in the Forty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Veteran, Company C, and was mustered out as a Second Lieutenant in 1865. Was wounded at the battle of Vicksburg and also at Jackson. He returned to Marshall Co., Ind., and work for T., P. W. R. R. and the I. B. W. R. R. at bridging work. Coming to Fort Scott in 1872, he went to work for the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad. Was on a switch engine awhile, then in the freight compartment and on the police force, and then in the baggage department. In 1880 he was appointed general baggage master. In 1860, he married Miss Lizzie Johnson, of Ohio. They have a family of four children, three boys and one girl. Two of his boys, U. G. and A. J. Hazelton, are working at the foundry. Mr. Hazelton belongs to the G. A. R.

MARTIN HEINE, SR., retired liquor dealer, was born in Baden, Germany, October 29, 1824. He learned shoemaking in the old country, and emigrated to America in 1847. When he arrived here he started on quite an extended tour from Wheeling, Va. He visited St. Louis, Mo., Burlington, Iowa, Memphis, Tenn., Hollow Springs, Miss., through Georgia to Charlestown, S. C., Richmond, Va., Washington, D. C., back to Wheeling, Va., where he in 1850 married Miss Magdalene Geist. In 1851, he moved to Wellsville, Ohio, then to Cleveland. He went back to Wheeling, but in 1854 we find him keeping a saloon and boarding house in Cleveland. He then moved to Canada, and at different places worked at his trade and saloon keeping and butchering. In 1857, he moved to Cleveland and then to Louisville, from there to Paducah, then on the Cumberland River to Cadiz, where he made in sixteen months $450. He then went to Elktown, Todd Co., Ky. This was in 1859. In 1863, he went to Henderson, on the Ohio River, to avoid the war trouble, but returned and stayed until 1869; he had visited Kansas in 1868, and selected Fort Scott as the finest location. Bought a lot on Scott avenue, 100x120 feet, and built in 1869 a residence that cost $2,800. He worked at his trade for a month, and then on the staff of the newspaper called the Post. He then went into the liquor business, until the prohibition law shut him up. He belongs to the I. O. O. F. and the Red Men, and to the Masonic fraternity in Kentucky. He has a daughter, Mary T., born in Fort Scott, September 6, 1869, and a son, Martin Heine, Jr., who keeps the new dining hall built by him in 1881. Martin, Jr., was born in 1851; has been a compositor and reporter in the Monitor News office. He was married in 1882. Mr. Heine is highly respected for the honesty and integrity which mark all his actions. He was born in Vorenbach, Baden, Germany, and came to Fort Scott in 1868. When he landed in New York, he had $320 in his pocket.

M. M. HELLMAN, wholesale and retail grocer, came to Fort Scott in December, 1866, and in February, 1867, opened a wholesale and retail grocery store, having for the first few years two partners in the business. Since 1872, he has carried on the business alone. In addition to his grocery business, he has a stock farm in Marmaton Township, which he gives his personal supervision. He was born in Bavaria, December 10, 1835, and came to America in 1852, and located in Peru, Ill., making that his home for two years. His home was then in California for twelve years, and subsequently at St. Louis, nearly a year before coming to Kansas. He was married in St. Louis in November, 1868, to Emily Lederman, a native of Baden, Germany. They have four children, Harry, Milton, Minnie and Rudolph. Mr. Hellman is Secretary and Treasurer of the Hebrew Relief Association.

WILLIAM R. HENRY, merchant, came to Fort Scott in February, 1871, but engaged in no active business for himself until 1874, when he entered upon the pursuit of agriculture. In the spring of 1876, he began to deal in agricultural implements, seeds, grain, wagons, buggies, etc., under the firm name of Henry & Boyce. This partnership continued for one year. He was then alone until 1880, when the present firm of William R. Henry & Co. was organized, composed of W. R. Henry and W. J. Robbins. They do almost exclusively a retail business; in January, 1882, D. M. McIntosh became a partner in the firm. Mr. Henry was born in Hartstown, Crawford Co., Penn., November 20, 1823, and lived there until about 1854, when he went to Rock Island, Ill. The following year he removed to Sioux City, where he remained until July, 1862. He then enlisted in Company E, Twenty-third Iowa Volunteer Infantry, as first Lieutenant, and in the fall of the same year became Captain of the company, having had practical command from the first. He remained in the service about three years, then, in May, 1865, went to Shreveport, La., where he was engaged in mercantile business until 1867. He was then engaged in the real estate business in New Orleans for two years, and then removed to Monmouth, where he remained two years before coming to Fort Scott. He was married to his present wife, Sidney S. Meason at Uniontown, Penn., September 16, 1863. She is a native of Fayette County, Penn. They have one child--Mary M. Mr. Henry is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the G. A. R. 

BENJAMIN F. HEPLER, M. D., was born in Pennsylvania; emigrated to Missouri in the winter of 1858, and established himself as physician and surgeon at Nevada, Mo., remaining there during the beginning of the war, the hostilities of which were the mitigating cause of his removing to Fort Scott, in 1863, and opening a drug store. In 1864, he became assistant surgeon of the Twenty-fourth Kansas State Militia, Col. Isaac Stadden commanding, which was called into active service during the Price raid. The Doctor, possessing a social, enthusiastic spirit and genial nature was soon acknowledged a necessary acquisition in business relations. He not only assumed his professional duties, but identified himself with most of the public enterprises of the city, often receiving the seat of honor. The first feature seemed to be an educational demand, as no feasible Free School system had as yet been established; and in 1864, he, with others, organized a School Board, and eventually succeeded in maintaining literary advantages, and to-day he lives to see the public schools of Fort Scott "living monuments of honor." He has been ever since 1865 prominently connected with the various railroad interests of the State, being one of the originators, and always one of the directory of the railroad chartered as the Tebo & Neosho Railroad Company in the state of Missouri. The Nevada Times of Nevada, Mo., in one of its issues of 1869, in speaking of him in connection with this enterprise, calls him the "Headlight of the Road." In 1867, he got up a charter, and selected the charter members for the Missouri, Fort Scott & Santa Fe Railroad Company, with a view of ultimately merging the two roads into one, and to further this enterprise, a treaty was conceived and arranged with the Big and Little Osage tribes of Indians, which treaty was held in May and June of 1868, at the mouth of Drum Creek, on the Verdigris River, where the town of Independence, Montgomery County, now is; he, and others connected with the directory of the two railroads, met the Secretary of the Interior with their commissioners appointed by the President of the United States, at the time and place appointed to treat with the aforesaid tribes for a body of land involving 13,000,000 acres, then known as the "Osage Indian Reservation," to secure a landed franchise to build the two roads. In October, 1869, the Tebo & Neosho directory sold their franchises to the Land Grant Railway & Trust Company of New York City, Levi G. Parsons, President, R. S. Stevens, General Manager, and through whose management the road was built under the name of Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad. He was also connected with the Memphis, Topeka & Fort Scott narrow gauge Railroad, organized in 1870, and the Laclede & Fort Scott, is still director in that road, also a member of the executive committee. He holds the position at the present time of assistant surgeon of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, and the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf division, also chief surgeon of the St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita Railroad Company. The Bourbon County Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechanical Society, was organized in 1865, and in 1871 he was elected President of the society, and at the same time was made President of the Kansas & Missouri District Fair Association, organized in 1871. At an early day he became identified as one of the proprietors of the Fort Scott Paint and Cement Works, in the manufacturing of hydraulic cement, and in July, 1872, became general Superintendent, and sold out his interest in 1876. In 1871, he, with others, organized a Town Stock Company in Crawford County, twenty miles southwest on the line of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway, of which he was elected President, and in honor of its President they named the town "Hepler." He was one of the instigators and assisted in organizing the District Medical Society known as the Southeast Kansas District Medical Society in 1879, with G. R. Baldwin, M. D., President; F. F. Dickman, Secretary, and in 1880 he himself was elected President of this society, and in 1881 he became one of the proprietors of the Kansas Medical Index, F. F. Dickman, M. D., editor. For a series of years he did very little in a professional way, and in 1876 resumed the practice of medicine, since which time he has been very actively devoted to the interests of his profession, still holding some landed and mining interests in the suburbs of the city and adjoining counties. Thus we see in point of labor he has been one of the happy mediums through which the populace of the great State of Kansas have been able to prove by united efforts to their posterity the magnitude of advancement and improvement.

GEORGE HERMERLING, proprietor of the Cottage House, native of Louisville, Ky., born in 1843. His parents moved to Indiana in 1850, where they farmed. In 1861, he enlisted in the Fifty-ninth Indiana Infantry, Company G, serving till 1865; he then went to work for a bridge company, and finally came to Fort Scott, where he went into the yard for the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad, and worked for the company till 1880. In 1879, he started a private boarding house, and in 1880, the Spencer House, but was burned out, so he built the Cottage House, at the cost of $1,200, having fourteen rooms. In 1871, he married Miss Johnson, of Drywood. They have two children. Mr. Hermerling was with Sherman when he went to the sea.

T. L. HERBERT, paints, oils, glass and wall-paper, is a native of Toronto, Can., born in 1845. He learned the trade of painting in Canada, and in 1861 came to Buffalo, N. Y., and worked at his trade, where he staid sic till November, 1864, then coming to Fort Scott, Kan., in December of the same year, but when he arrived was obliged to camp on the other side of the River Marmaton, on account of the high water. On arriving in Fort Scott, he went to work for the Government, but was taken sick, and was laid up from December to March 15. He tried to get to Fort Gibson, but was compelled to come back. In March, he went to work again, and when the troops were withdrawn he opened a shop for himself in the same location that he now occupies, at that time, being an old building, which was removed when the present block was built. His business is steadily increasing, being the largest in the city in this line. In 1873, he added to his stock of paints and paper by buying of J. B. Campbell his trade in plate glass. Trade is largely increasing and profitable, having put in the following fronts: the National Bank, Boston Store, Rodecker & Co., besides decorating several other large buildings. In 1870, he was married, and is a member of the Episcopal Church.

J. D. HILL, Superintendent of the St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita Railroad, was born in Clermont County, Ohio, in A. D. 1837. He graduated at the Cincinnati Law School in April, A. D. 1861. Returning home, he immediately enlisted, and served with credit and distinction during the war. On returning to civil life, he went to Decatur, Ill., and commenced the practice of law, and succeeded in building up a large and successful business. In 1873, he came to Fort Scott, and formed a copartnership with Gen. C. W. Blair, and continued in the practice of his profession with marked success; was County Attorney of Bourbon County for one term. Was one of the founders of the Kansas Normal School at Fort Scott, which has taken high rank among the educational institutions of the State. In 1880, he, in connection with Francis Tiernan, Judge A. M. Ayers and Ira D. Bronson, procured a charter for the building of the St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita Railroad, and has been engaged in the building, construction and management of this road since that time. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic.

Z. A. HORNADAY, farmer, Section 16, native of Washington County, Ind.; born near Old Salem in 1832, 2d March. He was engaged in farming there until his health compelled him to abandon it, then going into the mercantile line, he followed it until he opened in the hotel business, and in 1876 came West to the State of Kansas. While in Indiana, at the beginning of the war, he had organized a military company, but his mother's sickness "which was her last," called him to her side, so he gave up the company. On leaving the State of Indiana, he traded his land there for the farm he now occupies, taking just one section, or 640 acres, in Bourbon County, which is well known as the "Pleasant Valley Farm," which he farms and uses as a cattle ranch, handling 150 to 200 head of cattle yearly, and fine wheat and corn crops on the cultivated land, having also in reserve some eighty acres of fine timber. Mr. Hornaday, in 1865, married Miss Jones. They have a family of four children, two girls and two boys. He is President of the Bourbon County Fair Association, and has been a Mason since 1863, having the degree of Scottish Knights. In 1880, he was elected County Commissioner.

GEORGE W. HOWE, came to Fort Scott in June, 1866, and was engaged in mercantile business until his store and stock were destroyed by fire April 23, 1873. In November of the same year he again started in business, and continued until the spring of 1875, when he engaged in farming on Section 6, Scott Township, about two miles south of the city, and west of the fair grounds. In September, 1880, he became salesman, stock-keeper and shipping-clerk for Isaac Stadded (sic), but still carries on his farm, raising principally fruit. Mr. Howe was born in Pittsburgh, Penn., August 12, 1836, and lived there until the winter of 1856, when he went to St. Louis. He there became connected with the steamboat service, as freight clerk, and continued on the river as pilot, until 1859. He was sworn into the United States service June 13, 1861, having enlisted in Company C, Eighth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and served until July, 1864, participating in all the engagements of his command. He has always been actively identified with the Republican party, and was Chairman of the Fort Scott Republican Central Committee, when he went on to his farm. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the A., F. & A. M., Rising Sun Lodge, No. 8.

B. HUDSON, City Superintendent of Schools, native of Madison County, Ind. He was born in 1850. He was raised on a farm, and attended district schools; he then attended the Northwestern Christian University of Indianapolis, now called Butler University; leaving there he went to Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College; he then taught, and afterward going to the National Normal, at Lebanon, Ohio. Then going to Illinois, he taught school, being Principal in the high school of Ramsey, then to Vandalia teaching. In 1874, went to the Indiana University, and in 1875, taught high school in Brazil, Ind. He then turned his attention to the law, commenced reading, and graduated from the Indiana University and settled in Marshfield, Mo., where he practiced until 1877, when he came to Fort Scott. From the age of thirteen to fifteen, he was a soldier in the Second Indiana Cavalry, and was promoted to Sergeant. Mr. Hudson is not married.

WILLIAM HUGHES, farmer, Section 6, Fort Scott, native of Wales, Great Britain, born in 1841, was raised a farmer and stock breeder, and in 1871 came to America and right out to Kansas, locating in Miami County; he then came to Bourbon County, and rented land till 1881, when he bought a farm near Fort Scott for the benefit of the fine schools of the city. He is now engaged in grain, fruit and stock farming, making most of his money from cattle. His crops are fine this year; his corn will average forty bushels to the acre; oats thirty bushels, and fruit and hay good. In 1867, he married Miss Eliza Hopkins. They have a family of six children. Mr. Hughes is a Republican, and belongs to the Congregational Church.

J. S. JOHNSON, brick manufacturer, is a native of Norwich, Connecticut, born in 1840. While in Norwich he learned bricklaying. In 1861, he went into the army, and when he returned he went into the armory; when he quit there he went to his trade, and moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. From there coming west to Leavenworth, Kan., and in 1870 came to Fort Scott, to work on the Catholic Church, and started a brick yard, manufacturing 10,000 daily, now increased to 15,000. He is not married.

ENOCH S. JONES, proprietor of the Tremont House, came to Fort Scott in November, 1880, and in the spring of 1881, founded the Tremont restaurant, conducting it in connection with the oyster trade, which he carried on quite extensively, until he opened the Tremont House June 1, 1882. The Tremont firm is Jones & Co. He was born in Stafford County, England May 1, 1854, and came to this country and settled in Pennsylvania when eight years of age. He resided in that State until 1869; then moved to Chicago, and was General Manager of the Chicago branch department of Midway Coal Co., coal miners of Pittsburgh, until the fall of 1874. He was in Alabama two years, in Texas one year, and in the Indian Territory nine months, and then returned to Chicago, and remained there a few months. Mr. Jones was married at Tuscaloosa, Ala., April 10, 1879, to Jean Watson, a native of Belleville, Ill. They have two children--Hugh and Robert. Mrs. Jones is of Scotch descent; her father was Colonel of the Twenty-second Illinois volunteers.

R. W. JORDAN, proprietor of Gulf Dining Hall, a native of Straffordshire, England, born in 1851. In 1874, he emigrated to America; though he had learned printing, was unable to follow it on account of his eye-sight failing. On landing at Ottawa, he went into the hotel there, and in 1876, visited the Centennial at Philadelphia; going from there to New York City, and then to Rochester, where he was employed in that palace of hotels, the Osborn House. From there, in the course of his travels, he visited Texas in 1877, came to Fort Scott, going at once into the Wilder House; next, here he opened what was called the London Coffee House, where he cleared $1,000 in sixteen months. He sold out and went to Missouri in the cattle business, but did not succeed, and so came back in 1881, and opened his present stand, and is doing a good business. In Chambersville, Mo., he married Miss Agnes Skelton, of Coventry, England. They have one little daughter.

MOSES KAISER, cigar manufacturer, came to Kansas in 1869, and located at Leavenworth. The following year he removed to Emporia, which was his home until he came to Fort Scott in 1872. He was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, in May, 1845, and came to America in 1856. His home was then at New York for twelve years. He was married at Fort Scott in January, 1875, to Bertha Daus, a native of Indiana. Mr. Kaiser is a member of the A., F. & A. M.

SIGMUND KAUFMANN, grocer, while on a visit in 1879, being impressed with the wonderful natural advantages of the State, and splendid opportunity for business enterprise, was induced to establish himself here. Mr. Kaufmann is a native of Rhenish, Bavaria, Germany, was born in 1848. When eighteen years old, he came to America, landing in New York; he went to New Orleans, La., and by boat to Shreveport. This was in the fall of 1866. Going into the general merchandise business, he clerked for N. Hirsch. After a period of four years he entered a general merchandise business with his father; the firm was M. M. Kaufmann & Sons, Shreveport, La. They did a very extensive business at this time. Sigmund was the buyer. He decided to locate in Kansas City, but on visiting Kansas he was convinced of the future of the State, and set his stake in Fort Scott to grow up with the country. So on the 29th of March, 1880, he commenced business in Fort Scott, carrying a full stock of groceries and queensware, and commands a steadily increasing trade. In 1877, he married Miss Mary, daughter of Henry Mayer, who is now residing in Paola, Miami County. Mr. and Mrs. Kaufmann have a family of two girls and one boy. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. besides belonging to some other societies.

GUSTAVUS W. KATZUNG, harness manufacturer, came to Fort Scott, December 26, 1873, and has been engaged in the hide, leather and harness business since that time, and in partnership with John Glunz since 1879. He was born in Hesse Cassel, Germany, February 16, 1838, and came to America with his parents, November 6, 1849, locating at St. Louis, May 22, 1851, and remaining there until January 2, 1863. He then removed to Leavenworth, Kan., and made that his home until 1869. His next location was at Lawrence, and he removed from there to St. Louis, making that his home until he removed to Fort Scott. He was married in St. Louis, March 16, 1862, to Mary Wolf, a native of Wurtemburg, Germany. They have four children--Lena, now Mrs. Charles Wagner, of Fort Scott, Charles, Edward and Lawrence. Mr. Katzung is a member of the I. O. O. F. Turners' Society, and A. O. U. W., being Grand Receiver of the latter society, of the state of Kansas and was elected a member of the Board of Education, in the spring of 1882.

JOHN KEARNS, capitalist, is a native of Fayette County, Penn., 1816; he was a farmer in early life in Knox County. He met his wife, Miss Bran, of Knox County. He quit farming finally and went into the grocery business, and afterward tried the dry goods line. In 1861, he took the Hedekin Hotel in Fort Wayne, which he conducted till 1871, when he moved West and went on a farm, but he sold and moved into the house he now occupies. His son, Eli received a commercial education, and his daughters graduated at Fort Wayne. They have lost one. Miss Sarah is now Mrs. Ogden, and Miss Mary B. is now Mrs. Bright. Mrs. Kearns is now the owner of two farms in Bourbon County.

I. V. B. KENNEDY, farmer, P. O. Godfrey, is a native of New York, and has been a railroad man, giving twenty-five years of life to that business. He commenced as switchman, and was afterward brakeman and conductor on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. He worked there for some seventeen years, and took the position of General Roadmaster of the Laramie Division of the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1880, he bought a farm on Section 26, intending to make a stock farm of it. He commenced with 30 cows and 15 calves, now having about 136 cattle, finishing about 30 head this year. He has his place nicely arranged and perfectly fenced and shedded. He now has 554 acres which is used for grazing and grain. He has also about 200 tons of hay, feeding some fodder. In 1862, he married Miss Mary Smith. They have three children. Mr. K. is School Treasurer, and is a member of the Masonic Order.

GEORGE C. KENNEDY, Secretary of the York Nursery Company, came to Kansas in March, 1871, and located at Fort Scott. He was engaged in teaching in the schools of Bourbon County for two years, and then in farming and stock raising until August, 1880, when he entered the York Nursery Company as Secretary, a position which he has since held. He was born at New Orleans, La., January 29, 1850, and that was his home until 1856, when he moved to Vevay, Ind., on the Ohio River, remaining there engaged in mercantile business until he came to Kansas.

O. S. KEYSER, Cashier of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, is a native of Livingston County, Ill., born in 1856. When nine years old, he came to Atchison, Kan. In 1866, moved to Bourbon County, and the next year to Neosho County, then going to work as an operator at Osage Mission, in 1872, where he remained until 1874, when he went to Appleton City in the employ of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, which is now known as the Missouri Pacific Railroad. He was assistant station agent until 1877, when he went to Clinton, Mo., as night operator, remaining only two months. He went to Muskogee; from there to Vinita, as operator, and was then appointed relief agent, with headquarters at Appleton City, where he remained until 1880; while in this capacity he worked in every station between Muskogee and Sedalia, but Parsons. In 1880, he went to Oswego as night ticket agent, coming to Fort Scott in May, 1880, where he is now stationed.

R. KRAMER, of R. Kramer & Sons, house and sign painters, is a native of the Rhine Province, Germany; born in 1834. He learned his trade before leaving Germany, also serving in the army during the year of 1861, 1864 and 1866. He came to America in 1872, with about $5 dollars in his pocket; he went at once to Cincinnati, Ohio, where his brother William lived; in the succeeding eight years he made $16,000 at his trade. At one time he ran the Park Hall, and when that lease gave out he opened a large billiard parlor in Newport, Ky.; thinking to do better he went to Texas and started at farming and cattle-raising, and lost all his money but $800; he then came to Fort Scott and went to work at his trade, where he has prospered, building a large residence in 1881, a shop and a barn, besides buying and improving some town lots. In Germany he married Miss Mary Hohn. They have one son--William, a partner of his father's, in painting.

W. H. LEWIS, agent for the Missouri Pacific Railroad, is a native of London, England; born in 1836, and came to New York in 1848. He commenced railroading twenty-seven years ago in Pana, Ill.; worked for the Illinois Central Railroad, and then the Illinois & St. Louis Railroad. He was for thirteen years station agent at Mattoon, Ill.; Superintendent of the Chicago & Illinois Southern Railroad five years; he was located for five months in Schenectady, N. Y., for the Delaware & Hudson Canal Railroad. On coming West to take the Leavenworth station, September, 1881, he was taken sick, and afterward sent to Muskogee, Indian Nation, and then took the Fort Scott station in 1881.

HON. J. M. LIMBOCKER, attorney, came to Fort Scott January 3, 1871. He received his legal education at the State University of Iowa, at Iowa City, receiving there the degree of L. L. D. He has been engaged in the practice of law at Fort Scott since he retired from the office of Probate Judge.

M. LIEPMAN, merchant, a native of the Prussian Province of Posen, was born June 12, 1841. He was educated in the mercantile business, and in 1860, he emigrated to New York. There, with $14, he became a pack peddlar, sic going through New York and New Jersey. About 1863, he was found working for $6 per month; to better himself he moved to Sedalia, Mo., and clerked for Steinberg & Rosenbaum, merchants, being paid $40 at first, and running up to $125 per month. He then went to Warrensburg, Mo., and established a branch house for the firm, and another at Pleasant Hill, Mo., finally at Lawrence. While at Warrensburg, he joined the State Militia, and was in Capt. Grover's company during Gen. Blount's raid against Price. In 1866, he arrived in Lawrence, Kan., and in March, 1867, came to Fort Scott, Kan., opening a huckster and tobacco shop, but this was for a few months only, when he bought in his present place, buying out Weil Bros., and going in partnership with Mr. D. Lowen; this was in 1868; however, in 1869 the firm became M. Liepman & Bro. Their first store building was only 19x60, and now it is 39x90, two floors. Mr. Liepman has always been interested in public affairs, and desires the advancement of the welfare of the city. He was elected to the City Council in 1876, re-elected in 1878, and again in 1880, and was President of the honorable body for three years. He took a prominent part in the settlement of the city's indebtedness in 1879-80, and when the normal school movement was first inaugurated, was the Treasurer of the same, and also Board of Trustees of the Kansas Normal School at Fort Scott. In 1868, he was married to Miss Sarah Loewen, of St. Louis, Mo.; they have a family of four children. Mr. Liepman belongs to the Masonic Order and the I. O. O. F.

JOHN LOCKWOOD was born at Barrow, Lincolnshire, England, in 1827. He was married at Brigg, Lincolnshire, England, in 1853, and sailed for America four days after. He came to Princeton, Ill., and staid sic with his two brothers two weeks; then went to Davenport, Iowa, and went to work for Dalum & Heldreth, flour mill, where he remained until 1858, when he went over to Rock Island, and ran the engine in Warner's Mill for seven years, and went back to Davenport in 1865. He worked for D. H. Barrows one year; then went into business with Merideth & Thompson and built what was called the Farmers' Mill, in 1867. Sold out in 1870, and came to Fort Scott, Kan., built the Lockwood House; Mrs. Lockwood managed the house while Mr. Lockwood engaged to work for Gov. Crawford, and ran the mill until the mill was burned down. He then engaged with Shepard & Higby, and ran their engine until 1876, and then took charge of the hotel, where he now resides. He owns three fine residences on Eddy street and one on Judson street, the Lockwood House on National avenue. He has a family of four children, two are married and two single. Mr. Lockwood belongs to the I. O. O. F.

F. G. LOTTERER, hardware, is a native of La Grange County, Ind., born in 1854. He came to Fort Scott in 1870, and was employed by the Land Office here; soon afterward he went into the grocery business, and finally in 1872, learned the tinner's trade, going to work for Morely sic & Brother; where he remained until 1877, leaving their employ to establish his present business on the corner of Oak and National avenue. Mr. Lotterer in 1876 married Miss Blackett of Fort Scott; they have three children. He is a member of the Lodge of Red Men here. 

G. W. McBREED, contractor and builder, was born in Syracuse, Onandaga sic Co., N. Y., December 26, 1847. At the age of fifteen, he went to serve a four years' term as apprentice with E. C. Earl, carpenter and joiner, Syracuse, N. Y. At the age of twenty-one, started on his travels as carpenter, coming to Kansas in 1871; then went to Creston, Iowa, where he was employed four years by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, as bridge inspector. From there went to Davis Co., Mo., where he was in the employ of the Wabash Railroad Company, as lumber merchant. Thence to Rich Hill, where he followed contracting and building. From there he went to Bronson, Kan., and built all the houses there but three. Came here April 20, 1882, and located where he now resides. Since he came here he has built quite a number of houses, among them was one for Dick Richards, one for J. Hart, Martin Gillfillan, Thomas Mathews, L. C. Drake, C. H. Simmons and C. Conard, two in the country, one for Mrs. Bailey, one for J. C. Rousey. Mr. McBreed married Miss S. L. Runyan, a lady belonging to a family that were early settlers of this county; they have one child, a girl.

ABSALOM H. McCLINTOCK, real estate agent, came to Bourbon County, Kan., and located in Mill Creek Township in the spring of 1870, and was engaged in farming in that township for three years. He then came to Fort Scott, and since 1877 has been engaged in the real estate loan and insurance business, still, however, retaining his farm in Mill Creek Township. He was born in Harrison County, Ohio, November 25, 1836, and was raised in Carrol and Hancock counties, going to the later sic county when nine years of age, and remaining until he came to Kansas. He served in the army three years, from 1862 to 1865, first in the Ninety-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, then in the Veteran Reserve Corps and lastly as Captain of Company B, One Hundred and Sixteenth United States Colored Infantry. Mr. McClintock is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was married in Hancock County, Ohio, July 12, 1866, to Harriet Fisher, a native of that county. They have two children living: Willard Hall and Ella Jane, and have lost four, two died in infancy, Mary May died at the age of five years, and Luther Holmes at the age of three years.

F. S. McDERMOTT, attorney at law, came to Fort Scott in 1868, and has been engaged in practice here since that time. About two years ago his eye-sight failed him, and he has not been so actively employed since. He became interested in real estate here in 1870, and has acquired considerable city and farm property. He is a native of Allegheny City, N. Y., and received his education at St. John's College at Fordham, near New York City, commencing the practice of law in New York state. He made the original survey of the Buffalo & Washington Railroad, over the divide from Canoe Place, Pottery Co., Penn., to Emporium, Cameron Co., Penn., in 1866, and did a great deal of running land lines in the timbered country throughout the Alleghany Mountains.

B. P. McDONALD, capitalist, came to Fort Scott, August 1, 1857, and engaged in furnishing lumber to the saw-mill until 1859. In July of that year, in company with his brother, A. McDonald, he engaged in mercantile business. He has since been engaged in banking and railroad building, owning and operating the Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad for some time. He commenced building the road in the fall of 1874, and in 1879 when there were twelve miles in operation sold it to the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad Company. Mr. McDonald is a native of Queens Run, Clinton Co., Penn., and lived at Lock Haven and vicinity until he came to Kansas. He has been a member of the Legislature and several times Mayor of Fort Scott, besides holding minor offices, but has not been engaged in active business since July, 1880, when he resigned the presidency of the First National Bank.

MRS. E. McELROY, grocer, is a native of Ireland; was married to Mr. M. McElroy in 1861, and emigrated the same year to America. He was a tobacconist, and carried on his trade in Illinois and Missouri, before coming to Kansas, where they arrived in 1868, having come from Kansas City by wagons. In 1870, he built his store and was in the grocery business up to the time of his death, which occurred August 19, 1881. Mrs. McElroy was left with a family of eight children, and not only the management of the store, but a large estate also on her hands.

D. S. McKAY, proprietor of the Boston Shoe Store, came to Fort Scott and engaged in his present business in September, 1877. He was a partner for one year of J. E. Westeroelt and P. G. Noel, then purchased the shoe department, and has continued to manage it to the present time, doing both a wholesale and retail business. His business amounted to between $60,000 and $70,000 in 1881. He employs eight men and two traveling salesmen, and deals exclusively with the manufacturers. He was born at Bath, Steuben Co., N. Y., March 7, 1843, and resided in his native county until about seventeen years of age. He was educated in the common schools of Steuben County and at Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He then entered the retail store of A. T. Stewart in New York, and after remaining there two years went to Washington, D. C., and was in the Quartermaster's department for a few months in 1864. He then went to Addison, N. Y., and engaged in the boot and shoe business, and remained in business there until forced by sickness to go to California in 1865. After three years spent in California, he returned to the East, and was engaged as traveling salesman for J. F. Comstock & Co., of St. Louis, and Leonard, Lamb & Crosby, boot and shoe manufacturers, until he came to Fort Scott. He was married at Penn Yan, Yates Co., N. Y., December 22, 1874, to Miss Ruth A. Mallory, a native of Penn Yan, N. Y. They have one child, James Stuart. Mr. McKay is a member of the K. of P. He carries the largest stock of shoes in the State of Kansas.

J. P. McNAUGHTON, Express Agent Pacific Company, native of Nova Scotia, born in 1833. When but a babe, his parents moved to Erie County, N. Y. In 1855, he went to Milwaukee, Wis., and entered the employ of the American Express Company, for which he worked ten years, then going into the State Express Company, where he stayed until 1867, when he went to Kansas City, Mo., working for the Wells, Fargo & United States Express Companies till 1869. He arrived in Fort Scott this year, and represented the Wells, Fargo Express Company, till they ceased doing business here in 1876, when he went to farming his 161 acres, located near Hiatville, Bourbon County. In 1880, he was appointed Government Enumerator, and, in 1881, he became agent for the Pacific Express Company, located at Fort Scott. In Milwaukee, he was married to Miss Mugridge of Buffalo, N. Y. They have a family of four boys and five girls. His mother lived to the advanced age of eighty-six.

F. N. MANLOVE, land agent, is a native of Rushville, Schuyler Co., Ill.; was born in 1836; made his home there until 1861, when he came to Fort Scott, where he has made his home since. He had visited the State previous to this in 1859. He was employed in the post office department here during 1862-63, and then went into the book and stationary business, which he carried on until 1867, when he opened a land office here, and has continued in that business up to this time. He was married to Miss Everhart, of Philadelphia. They have one child--a girl. Mr. Manlove was elected a member of the City Council in 1877. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

C. F. MARTIN, Assistant Cashier of Bank of Fort Scott, was born in Mount Vernon, Knox Co., Ohio, October 12, 1856. While here, he attended the high school, and finished the business course, afterward going to Pittsburgh, where he graduated from the Commercial College of that place, giving some attention to banking, although on coming West he did not at once use this knowledge, for there was no fortuitous circumstance to at once place him in the calling which he most desired; but, instead, he went into Mr. Drake's hardware store on arriving in Fort Scott in 1874. Here he was called upon to take right hold of the heavy work customary in iron stores, and, beginning at the bottom of the ladder, gradually ascended; surmounting difficulty after difficulty, until he became book-keeper of the establishment; but, in 1876, the opportunity offering, he went into the First National Bank there. He succeeded, and was Assistant Cashier there when the bank of Fort Scott was organized in 1880, when he took his present position. He married Miss C. M. Messenger, of Mount Vernon, June 14, 1880. They have lost one child. In 1877, Mr. Martin was Treasurer of the schools here, and attends the Congregational Church.

W. MARGRAVE, Justice of the Peace, came to Kansas, and located at Fort Scott, November 7, 1854, engaging in the grocery trade the following spring, and continuing in the business for six years. He was appointed Justice of the Peace December 5, 1854, receiving his commission from Gov. Andrew H. Reeder, it being believed the first commission of that nature issued in the Territory. He has retained his office of Justice of the Peace since that date, and was also Clerk of the District Court, Probate Judge for seven years, and Police Judge for five years, holding all four of these offices together some of the time. He was born in Gasconade, now Osage County, Mo., February 17, 1818, and saw the first steamboat that ever went up the Missouri River. He lived in his native county until fifteen years of age, then in Jasper County, near Carthage, Mo., until he came to Kansas. He was married, in Osage County, in 1840, to Mahala Baker, a native of McMinn County, Tenn. They have two children--Jennie and Eva W. Mr. Margrave is a member of the A., F. & A. M.

E. D. MARR, real estate, loan and insurance agent of the firm of Gunn & Marr; was born at Mound City, Linn Co., Kan., May 28, 1859. The first eleven years of his life were spent in Mound City and vicinity. In the spring of 1870, he removed with his parents to Fort Scott, where he received a common school education. At the age or sic nineteen he left school, and on August 23, 1878, associated himself with Mr. W. C. Gunn in the establishment of a real estate and loan office. Commencing their business with a capital of $50, Gunn & Marr, have within four years, by square dealing and close attention to business, placed themselves among the leading real estate firms of the State. Mr. Marr was married at Fort Scott, September 27, 1881, to Fannie M. Warfield, a native of Maryland.

LEROY M. MATHEWS, dentist, came to Linn County, Kan., and located near Mound City, in November, 1865. In June, 1866, he returned to Cordova, Ill., and in 1868, went to Ohio for one year. He then returned to Linn County, Kan., and remained there; engaged in the practice of dentistry, at Mound City, and Pleasanton, until February, 1882. He has been engaged in the practice of dentistry for eleven years, nine of which he has had an office of his own in Kansas and Iowa. He was born in Princeton, Bureau Co., Ill., September 27, 1848, and when a youth removed with his parents to Scott County, Iowa. After remaining there a year or two he removed to Rock Island County, Ill. Dr. Mathews is a member of the A., F. & A. M., and of the Kansas State Dental Association. He was married in Vernon County, Mo., March 16, 1873, to Marilla Lane, a native of Knox County, Ill. They have one child, a daughter--Lou Taylor. He is a son of Zachariah M. Mathews, now a resident of Linn County, Kan., having located there about ten years ago.

H. MAYHEW & SON, proprietors of the castor oil factory. H. Mayhew, the father, is a native of Clinton County, Ill., and was born in 1823. In 1871, he established in Illinois for making castor oil, but the production of the bean was abandoned by the farmers and he moved to Fort Scott, Kan., in 1873, bringing with him a wife, two sons and two daughters. He at once built his factory, a heavy stone building 40x80 feet, two floors, and manufactures from 400 to 500 barrels a season. He raised on his own farm this year forty acres of castor beans, and markets the oil in most of the Western States. Besides running his factory, he and his sons work the farm, which consists of 220 acres. When eighteen years of age, he joined the church and was ordained a minister in 1862. His view of religion are of the most enlightened character, he keeping pace with the greatest thinkers of the day. He ignores the present theory of eternal punishment, and says that the only resurrection is that of the church through Christ.

H. M. MAYBERRY, farmer and proprietor of the Mayberry coal mines. He is a native of Hamilton County, Ill.; born in 1830, and raised on a farm. When twenty years of age he went into the coal mines of Illinois; and in 1851, he went through California with cattle, and again in 1852, 1853 and 1855, visiting Kansas each time. In 1859, he located on northeast quarter of Section 10, and opened the Mayberry Coal Mines and built a house. The mines are of unlimited quantity, and he has employed as many as seventy-five men and taken out 1,000 bushels per day. In 1861, he enlisted in the Sixth Kansas, and in 1864, was mustered out as Sergeant. In 1862, he had taken a run up home, and borrowing a land warrant located the land he is now on, the southeast quarter of Section 10; he had built a log house in 1859 on the northeast quarter. In 1868-69, he built his present large residence, 24x24, and wing 16x16, of stone, doing the work himself. Has been married twice, the first time in Springfield, Ill., to Miss E. Fairweather, of England, and then to his present wife, M. F. Kennedy. He has fifteen children altogether, of whom there are ten living. He has been Under Sheriff and United State detective for twenty-four years, and has served in school offices, always taking an active interest in the educational problems.

J. H. MEAD, meat market, native of Elkhart County, Ind., was born in 1848. He attended school and worked on the farm in youth, and in 1867, came to Fort Scott and went to work in his brother's meat market. His brother, J. D. Mead, had bought an interest in the firm of Sam Berner & J. F. Bair. In 1866, this market was established as the Government market, and was the first one in Fort Scott. The firm dissolved in 1867, Mr. Berner going away, it became Bair & Mead, and in 1871, J. H. Mead bought in; it was then Mead Bros., but in 1878, Mr. Mead became sole proprietor, and continues so. He married Miss E. Douthett, of Fort Scott, in 1873. They have a family of two children, boys.

C. H. MORLEY, was born at Brockport, N. Y., March 27, 1835, and removed to Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio, in 1837. He was engaged in the hardware business in Saginaw, Mich., for some time, and in the fall of 1870, he removed to Fort Scott, and there started a hardware store under the firm name of Morley Bros. & Co., two of his brothers and two nephews being his partners in the firm. He now has entire ownership and control of the business, which has fully doubled since its formation. He does a retail and to some extent a jobbing business, and gives employment in the various departments to about ten men. Mr. Morley is also owner of the Tremont House. He was married at Painesville, Ohio, in 1864, to Mary L. Perkins, a daughter of Hon. William L. Perkins, and a native of Painesville. They have two children--Julia P. and Maggie.

CHARLES NELSON, cashier of Bank of Fort Scott, is a native of Prince William County, Va., forty miles below Washington, D. C. He was born May 26, 1833, and when quite young removed to Kentucky, remaining in that State until the Spring of 1864, when he removed to Cincinnati and engaged in the hotel business. He came to Kansas and located in Fort Scott in the fall of 1869, and was engaged in the wholesale liquor business until 1880. Since January, 1881, he has been engaged in banking, and for several years past in farming and stock-raising. He deals in Short-horn cattle, Long Wool, Cotswold sheep, Berkshire hogs, etc., in which he has annual sales. He has a herd of forty Short-horns and the same number of fine wool sheep.

C. A. NELSON, grocer, was born in Virginia in 1834. He came to Kansas in 1870, and located in Fort Scott. He went into the pork packing business with Mr. A. Large, in Chetopa, Kan., in the winter of 1870-71. Then engaged with Charles Nelson in the wholesale liquor business until January 1, 1881, when he closed out and entered the general grocery known as Nold & Nelson. In 1882, the firm changed Mr. Nelson taking entire charge of the business which he now conducts. His home was between the lines of the two armies during the war near Manassas, while he was commissioned Captain of a company of sharpshooters in Gen. Lee's army, and was with Stonewall Jackson when that gentleman met his sudden death. Mr. Nelson married Miss Nelson in Virginia. They have a family of three children. His mother is now alive and well, at the advanced age of ninety-eight years, having been born in 1784.

D. C. NOONAN, hardware, native of Limerick, Ireland, born 1840, emigrated in 1857 to America; going to Briton, Conn., there he went to farming; in two years he had tired of that and went into the dairy business, finally gravitating to the machine shops of Staffordsville. In the year 1869 he started across the continent, going to Sacramento, Cal., working at machine business; not staying there he returned as far as Kansas, and pitched his tent at Hell's Bend, keeping supplies and making about $4,500. He then came to Fort Scott, and built the first business house in East Fort Scott and opened a resturant sic called the International. In 1870 he built a 24x50 and opened as a hotel; he kept this till 1874, when he went into the liquor business to 1881, and then opened a wholesale and retail tobacco store. In 1882, opened as a hardware merchant. He married Miss Margaret Desmond, of Connecticut, August 24, 1868. They have a family of four boys.

JOSEPH OAKLEY, retired farmer, is a native of Westchester County, N. Y., born in 1805. Here he spent his childhood, and when old enough served at glass cutting with a Mr. Baggot, but his father being a sea-faring man he was led into the same course, and after running on the river he converted his sloop into a schooner and went into the coast trade, this trade he remained in for ten years. It was while sailing along the coast that he got acquainted in Baltimore with his present wife, Miss Ellsworth, whom he married in 1833, and went to keeping house there. He was engaged awhile in the West India trade, but in 1843 he started up the Hudson River, went through the canal into the lakes, settling in Michigan three miles south of Dearbornville on a farm; here he remained till 1857, when he came to Bourbon County; he had visited the State in 1855 and located in Douglas County, having the hardihood to take a tree claim; while he was away in Michigan, Sheriff Jones with a posse of Pro-slavery men drove his boys off of the claim, and in 1857 he moved to Bourbon County, locating four and a half miles south of Fort Scott, owning 380 acres at one time, but having now sold it all, and last August, 1881, they moved to town onto property owned by them. Mr. Oakley has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 1830, and was in the military company known as the Kansas Stubbs. They have had eleven children--Benjamin F., died January 11, 1872; Joseph, died December 13, 1859; Edward, died October 13, 1866; Petrina, died October 2, 1852; John H., died May 16, 1862; William, now living in Montana; Joshua J. now farming in Iowa; Matilda, now Mrs. Wheeler; Margaret, now Mrs. Gardiner; Andrew J., with William; Alvira, now Mrs. Easley. Mr. Oakley has for years been a member of the School Board.

S. ODGERS of the firm of Odgers & Richardson, carpenters, architects and builders. In 1878 he commenced individually and put up a house for Mr. Russell, a barn and a house for Mr. Pearsoll, sic a barn on the Nelson farm in Godfrey, a house for S. T. Shankland, also one for J. Kennedy. In November of 1880, he formed a partnership with H. Richardson; together they have put up houses for Gov. McComas, one for Strode, remodeled one for William Meyers, one for T. Huston, and an addition to Mr. Nelson's residence, house for Taylor Barr, building and remodeling one for J. Perry, one for W. W. Lord, one for Tressller, remodeling one for Mr. Greenfield and one for Ogden. Mr. Odgers was born in Cornwall, England, in 1852, and came to America in 1871, and to Kansas in 1878; while here he married Miss Sattler, daughter of Jacob Sattler, old settler of Fort Scott. They have no children.

JAMES O'HARA, house and sign painter, native of Belfast, Ireland, born January 6, 1842. He emigrated to America in 1846, landing at New York. From there he went to Cambridgeport, Mass., where he learned his trade. He then started South, and while in Georgia he was mustered into the Sixth Georgia Regiment in 1861. He could not fight against the Union, so endeavored to get through the lines to the Federal army. At Antietam he was captured again, and until he got to Charleston, S.C., he remained in the rebel army, when he was taken by some of Gen. Terry's men and sent to Governor's Island, N. Y., and after taking the oath of allegiance, enlisted in the One Hundred and Third New York Volunteer Infantry, and served till 1865, when he was mustered out and then went to his trade, working for Holbrook & Ferry Co. He left Washington for the coal regions of Pennsylvania, and in 1868, came to Fort Scott. It was not till 1878, however, that he opened the shop now employing six or seven hands, doing a business of about six thousand a year. July 4, 1877, he married Miss Reynolds, of Woodson. They have four children. His wife belongs to the Presbyterian Church.

C. J. O'KEEFFE, manager of the Telephone Exchange at Fort Scott, was born in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1861. His parents died in 1876 at which time he appointed John A. Ryan his guardian, who placed him in the St. Joseph College for a period of four years, after which he went into the employ of the St. Joseph Telephone Exchange, from where he went into various exchanges, taking charge of the Fort Scott Exchange in September, 1881, which exchange is owned by the Merchants' Telephone & Telegraph Co., of Kansas City, Mo.

C. H. OSBUN, Cashier of First National Bank, came to Kansas in the spring of 1858, and located at Fort Scott. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits for three years, and has still some interest in that direction. In 1861, he was engaged as a salesman in the mercantile establishment of A. McDonald & Bro., and about two years later he became book-keeper in the banking department of their business, and has remained in the employ of that firm and their successors to the present time. He was born in the town of Washington, Washington County, Penn., September 7, 1840, and removed to West Virginia, in 1852, making that his home until he came to Kansas.

S. A. OULDS proprietor of Oulds' Livery, native of Cornwall, England, was born in May, 1816. He emigrated to America in 1842, having learned stone cutting and slating. He worked at it in Armstrong County, Penn., for the Western Iron Works; then going to Pittsburgh, in 1850, he kept what was called the Two-Mile Run House, a hotel; then, on selling out, went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and went into hotel and bus line, having twenty-four buses, running every ten minutes from Lower Market and Broadway to Oulds' headquarters, Fulton, Ohio. In 1852, sold out and took a trip to South Australia; here he went into the gold mines, where in nine months he made $150,000. He then went home to see his parents, whom he had not seen for ten years; he then returned to his family in Cincinnati, Ohio, and went to farming on the Ohio River, but tired of that, and sold out and traveled South and West through Missouri and Texas, looking for a location, and finally settled in Fort Scott; here he started a livery in 1862, in the building meant for the Government mill. In 1865, he built a stable out of smoke-house that belonged to Wilson, Gordon & Ray, and the Government carpenter shop. This was his second stable. He also had a hotel, and ran free bus to hotel; he then built his present stable, and converted his old one into a grocery and rented it. In 1881, he built his cottage residence. He was married in 1839, and has a family of five children, four daughters and one son. 

W. W. PADGETT, attorney, was born in Montgomery Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, November 16, 1856, and came to Kansas in March 1869, with his parents, James S. and Adeline Padgett, and settled in Marion Township, Bourbon County. He received his education in the schools of the county, and after studying law at home for three or four years, he was admitted to the bar in May, 1882. He has since been associated in practice with Judge Limbocker.

JAMES B. PALMER, farmer, Section 8, is a native of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Penn., born October 5, 1838. He was raised on a farm; he enlisted, in August, 1862, in the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Company C. November 21, 1862, he was commissioned Quartermaster of the regiment in the Fifth Army Corps, First Division. June 21, 1865, he was mustered out, retiring to Pittsburgh, where he went into the brick business, where he remained until 1875, when he sold out and moved to Crawford County, Penn. He went to farming; at this he continued until 1878, when he sold out and moved to Kansas, locating on his present farm, owning 160 acres, and getting fine crops. The corn this year will yield fifty bushels to the acre. In 1862, he married Miss Townley, of Pennsylvania. They have five children. Mr. Palmer while in Pittsburgh, was a member of the City Council, but has not been in public office since coming West. He is a member of the G.A.R., and also of the Presbyterian Church.

WILLIAM PALMER, Secretary and Treasurer of the Fort Scott Manufacturing Co., came to Kansas in 1881, and to Fort Scott in September of the same year, becoming connected with his present business at its establishment. He is a son of Sarah and the late Charles Palmer, and was born in Sutton, Northamptonshire, England, January 6, 1855. He managed his mother's farm until he came to America.

C. L. PATE, proprietor of the National Hotel, was born in Dearborn County, Ind., November 21, 1834. He moved to Putnam County, Ill., in 1852; to Steel County, Minn., in 1856; returned to Henderson County, in 1857; then moved to Warren County, in 1858, living there until 1878, when he emigrated to Bourbon County, Kan. Here he followed the occupation of farming, near Centerville, until February 14, 1882, when he became proprietor of the National Hotel, and moved into Fort Scott. He was married December 26, 1867, to Mrs. Eunice J. Preston, of Warren County, Ill., formerly Miss Buck, of Vermont. At the time of their marriage, Mrs. Preston had one child, a girl. Since their marriage they have had two children, both boys; all of them are still living.

COL. U. B. PEARSALL came to Kansas April 22, 1865, being stationed at Fort Scott, as Commander, relieving Col. Blair at that time. He had command of the subdistrict of South Kansas until September, 1865, and then went with his regiment to Fort Larned, with the Seventeenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and the Ninth Wisconsin Battery, and established headquarters at that point, having command of the troops on the Smoky Hill route, consisting of the line of posts from Fort Riley to Fort Lyon, Colorado. He was discharged at Leavenworth, February 1, 1866, and after spending a few weeks East, he settled in Drywood, Bourbon County, Kan., where he was engaged in milling until 1870. He was then engaged in the stock business until July, 1874, when he entered the office of County Treasurer as Deputy, continuing in that office until October, 1878, at which date he became County Treasurer. He held that position until October, 1880, and has since been actively connected with the York Nursery Company. Col. Pearsall was born in Owego, Tioga Co., N.Y., July 17, 1840, and in 1857 went to Oconto, Wis., where he was engaged in lumbering until the outbreak of the war. He enlisted as a private in Company H, Fourth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, May 14, 1861, but was made Sergeant of his company in about three months afterward, and Second Lieutenant July 1, 1862; he then went on the staff of Gen. T. W. Sherman as aid-de-camp, serving in that capacity until May 27, 1863, when he was transferred to the staff of Gen. Emery, with whom he served until July 15, 1863. He was then commissioned Lieutenant Colonel and raised a colored regiment known in military history as the Ninety-ninth Colored Infantry, but in fact the fifth regiment of colored troops raised in the country. He continued Lieutenant Colonel of that regiment until March, 1865, but on detached service a considerable portion of the time. In the Red River campaign of 1864, he had charge of the engineers' department and of the pontoon trains. The dam built across the Red River, the one redeeming feature of that unfortunate expedition, was due to his sagacity and military genius, and George D. Robinson, June 13, 1864, mentioned his unceasing toil and devotion, and says that the final success of the dam, was largely due to his engineering skill. He was appointed to a position in the engineers' department by Gen. Canby in the summer of 1864 and had charge of constructions and repairs of fortifications on the Lower Mississippi River. He was then ordered to Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Fla. and after remaining in command there several weeks, went to Cedar Keys, Fla. He was wounded at the battle of Natural Bridge, Fla., and was disabled for a short time and came to Fort Scott after his recovery. He was brevetted Brigadier General, March 13, 1865, for meritorious services during the war. Col. Pearsall was married at Clarksfield, Ohio, March 29, 1866, to Josephine M. Peck, a native of Clarksfield, Ohio. They have three children--Lottie M., Guy B. and Charles, and have lost two, Mark U., who died at the age of three and a half, Mary, who died at the age of two years. The Colonel is a member of Blue Lodge and Chapter, A., F. & A. M. and Knight Templars, and G.A.R., and was one of the youngest Colonels from Wisconsin. He is a son of William S. and Eliza Balcom Pearsall, and a nephew of Ransom Balcom, of Binghampton, N. Y., who was one of the leading judges of Supreme Court of the State for twenty-three years.

MAJ. E. J. PECK came to Kansas in July, 1865, and settled in Bourbon County, where he was engaged in the milling business and the manufacture of lumber on Drywood River, until 1867, when he removed his business to Vernon County, Mo., remaining there three years. He then returned to Bourbon County and was engaged in farming in Drywood Township until 1874. In the fall of 1873, he was elected County Treasurer, and two years later re-elected. He was Deputy Treasurer until 1880, when he went to New Mexico and engaged in mining operations there for six months, since which time he has been engaged in the lumber trade. He is also at present engaged in building the Government road to the National Cemetery which will cost, when completed, about $20,000, being a little less than two miles in length and eighty feet broad, and is macadamized for one half its breadth. Maj. Peck was born on Hartland Ridge, Huron Co., Ohio, June 15, 1833, and lived there until 1853, when he went to Oconto, Wis., and made that his home until the breaking-out of the war. In May, 1861, he raised a company and entered the army, First Lieutenant of Company H, Fourth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, a regiment which was afterward changed to the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry. He rose to the rank of Major, but in September, 1864, was obliged to resign on account of disability, and returned to his native place, making that his home again until he came to Kansas. Maj. Peck is a member of the I.O.O.F. and K. of H. He was married in Oconto, Wis., May 4, 1861, to Violet Tibbetts, a native of Maine. They have six children--Albert E., Frank, Wade, Daisy, Meda and Fred.

E. PEIRSON, farmer, Section 20, is a native of England, born in 1831. When he was eighteen years of age he came to New York and located. While there he farmed and was in the lumber business, running a saw and planing mill, and in 1870 came to Kansas taking his present location. He opened up a farm of 160 acres, raising fruit, grain and stock. When he first took the farm it was in its primitive state. Now the residence and other buildings are fine, the fencing good, and the railroad is almost at his door, and the city of Fort Scott less than a miles from the farm. Mr. Peirson married in New York in 1857, now has three children, who have attended the excellent schools of the city. Mr. Peirson in politics is a Republican.

A. C. PENNIMAN, hardware merchant, came to Fort Scott in June, 1869, and has been engaged in the hardware business here since that time. He was born at Mendon, Worcester Co., Mass., April 29, 1821, and in 1835 removed to Fayette County, Ohio. He remained there until June, 1857, and then removed to Sidney, Shelby Co., Ohio, and made that his home until he came to Kansas. He has been engaged in mercantile business most of the time since 1835. Mr. Penniman was married in Greene County, Ohio, in October, 1850, to Martha A. Ogden, a native of New Brunswick, N. J. They have five children--Andrew Ogden, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in East St. Louis; Edward Leigh, now associated with his father in business; Charles Wesley, Frank McCullough and Martha Belle. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

W. C. PERRY, attorney, came to Fort Scott in May, 1873, and read law with Gen. C. W. Blair, until admitted to the bar in September, 1875. Since May, 1876, he has been associated with Gen. Blair in partnership. In October, 1878, he took charge of the Monitor, and ran it until August, 1880, but did not discontinue his law practice during that time. Blair & Perry are attorneys for the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad and Adams Express Company, and are associate attorneys for other corporations. Mr. Perry is a native of the village of Kingham, Oxfordshire, England, born October 28, 1854, and received a collegiate education. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M. Lodge, Chapter and Commandery.

JOHN PETTY, President of the Foundry and Sickle Manufactory, came to Fort Scott in October, 1869, and opened a blacksmith shop. In 1880, he opened the Foundry and Sickle Manufactory, with one assistant. He now employs sixteen hands, and does a business fully seven times as extensive. Mr. Petty was born in Parke County, Ind., near Terre Haute, May 22, 1837, and lived there until seventeen years of age, when he removed to Marion County, Iowa. In June, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Eighth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and served until December, 1882. sic He then returned to Iowa but removed to Vermillion County, Ill., in 1865, and engaged in blacksmithing, a trade at which he had begun to work when a boy. He was married in Rossville, Vermillion Co., Ill., in September, 1867, to Almira McMains, a native of Montgomery County, Ind. They have three children--Ella, Robert Herbert and Pearlie May. Mr. Petty is a member of the K. of P. and of the "Red Men."

S. S. PETERMAN, of the firm of Peterman & Gardner, manufacturers of sash, doors, blinds, stairs and stair railings, is a native of Crawford County, Ohio, and was born in 1840. He came to Leavenworth in 1860, bought an outfit, and started for Pike's Peak. He stopped in Central City, and built the five stamp mill on Clear Creek, returning to Denver in December. Then he joined the Baker expedition, going to the San Juan mines in Arizona. In order to get to the mines, they had to promise the Navajo Indians that they would confine themselves to mining, and not build houses or cultivate the land. However, some of the party violated the treaty, and they were all given ten days to leave the mines and ten of their work cattle were confiscated by the Indians. On leaving Arizona, Mr. Peterman went to Fort Union, New Mexico; this was in 1862. Martial law then being in force, he was pressed into the Union service under Gen. Candy, and served three months in the army. When he received his discharge he returned to Denver, and from there went to Central City again. Finding his claim there had been jumped, he decided to return to his native State. On arriving at Atchison, and finding that martial law was yet in force in Missouri, he went back to Leavenworth, where he hired as Government teamster and was sent to Fort Scott, from there to Fort Smith, and thence to Nashville, Tenn. He came back to Fort Scott in 1864, where he was foreman of the Government carpenter shop. In December, 1865, he was discharged and went into the furniture business. In 1868, he sold out and opened a carpenter shop. In 1878, the firm of Peterman & Gardner was formed, and they put steam into the mill, first a four-horse power engine, then, that not being sufficient, one of twelve-horse power was put in. In 1881, they built their present mill on Wall street, where they are amply supplied with the machinery needed for all kinds of plain and ornamental wood work. Mr. Peterman was married in 1866. He has two boys. He belongs to the Masonic order.

CAPT. H. C. PHENICIE, farmer, Section 6, is a native of Bedford County, Penn., and was born in 1836; was raised in Franklin County, Penn. He was educated at Marshal College. Commenced teaching in 1853, and entered a store as clerk the same year, and worked for the same firm for three years, when he accepted a position in a store in Iowa City, Iowa, where he remained until the spring of 1859. He then returned to Pennsylvania, and on June 21, 1859, was married to Miss Cook of Chambersburg, Penn. He enlisted in the Federal army during the war, and at the close of the war was Captain of Company K, Twenty-first Pennsylvania Cavalry, having held that position for two years. He returned to Chambersburg, and having lost all his possessions when the confederates burned that town, he with his family emigrated to Kansas in December, 1865, and engaged in farming, first on rented land, afterward purchasing a farm on which he now resides. Mr. P. is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and has held the office of Justice of the Peace for a number of years.

J. W. PINKSTON, grocer, came to Fort Scott in November, 1871, and immediately accepted the position of superintendent of the gas works. Two years later, he became secretary and treasurer of that institution as well, and continued in that position until January, 1878, when he leased the works for five years. In January, 1882, he sold his lease, and in May of the same year purchased the grocery of W. R. Lond. He now does a business of about $30,000 per annum, and carries a stock of about $4,000. He is a native of Madison County, Ky., and was reared in Gallatin County, Ky. He lived there until 1867, when he came to Kansas City, which was his home until he came to Fort Scott. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Blue Lodge Chapter and Commandery, Eastern Star and Council.

GEORGE F. POND, general agent of the Howe Sewing Machine Company, for Northern Kansas and Southern Nebraska, P. O. Godfrey, first came to Kansas in March, 1862, as a member of Company C, Third Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry. His regiment served all through the war under Maj. Gen. Blunt in Kansas. After his discharge from the army in March, 1865, Mr. Pond returned to Kansas and located on Drywood Creek, near Fort Scott, where he resided one year, and was engaged in the milling business with his brother. From here he removed to Lamar, Barton Co., Mo., where he resided six years, and was engaged in farming. From Missouri he returned to near Godfrey, Bourbon County, where he has resided since. Mr. Pond and two of his brothers enlisted at Fairwater, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., October, 1861, in the same Company C of the Third Wisconsin Cavalry, and served until the close of the war. His eldest brother entered the service as Second Lieutenant, and was mustered out as Major of his regiment; his next eldest brother entered as a Sergeant and was mustered out as Second Lieutenant of his company. Mr. Pond himself preferred scouting duty to monotonous service of a soldier's life, which in a measure accounts for his non-promotion. He has frequently carried dispatches in company with one of his comrades from Fort Scott to Fort Gibson, without any rations or forage except what could be carried on their horses. The distance is 175 miles, and a trail went through the Indian Territory, and the journey was frequently made in three nights and two days. He participated in the battles of Montevallo, Honey Springs, Cain Hill, Lexington, Little and Big Blue, the massacre of Baxter Springs and numerous other minor engagements. Mr. Pond had the honor of capturing the notorious guerrilla, Captain Fa. Price, a nephew of the rebel Maj. Gen. Price. On the night of May 20, 1863, Mr. Pond in company with two of his comrades attacked Capt. Henry Taylor, a noted bushwhacker, who had sixty men under his command, and who was returning with nineteen Union prisoners captured by him in Kansas, to Missouri, and who had stopped on his way to rob and plunder the house of J. C. Ury, a famous Union scout. Mr. Ury and his father were taken prisoners by the rebel band. Mr. Pond and his comrades succeeded in stampeding the rebels, and in releasing all the prisoners taken by them except the father of Mr. Ury, who was slain in cold blood. For his daring deed Mr. Pond and his comrades, Elwin Weber, now a resident of Laramie, Wyoming Territory, and O. H. Carpenter, now a resident of Jasper, Mo., were publicly thanked in general orders issued by Gen. Charles W. Blair, then commanding the Union forces in Kansas. Mr. Pond first met Miss Ann Harrington, a native of Ohio, who subsequently became his wife, at Lamar, Mo. During the war in pursuit of bushwhackers, the rebels proving too strong for him and his comrades, they were forced to take to the woods where Miss Harrington found Mr. Pond, and supplied him with provisions while he lay concealed. He was married to her on December 24, 1865, at Drywood, Mo. They have six children living--Clarissa J., Junia L., Franklin W., Herbert G., Florence May and Eugene. Mr. Pond was in the State registering office in Barton Co., Mo., in 1866 and 1877, Justice of the Peace of Richland Township, Barton Co., Mo., for six years, or during the entire time he resided in the State, and was elected to this office when only twenty-one years old. He also was coroner of Barton Co., Mo., for four years. He is at present, and has been for the past five years, a member of the Board of School District, No. 80, Bourbon County, this State. He is a member of the W. H. Lytle Post, No. 32, G.A.R., of Fort Scott and Godfrey Lodge, No. 124, A., F. & A. M., and is at present W. M. of his lodge, and has held the same office for the past five years. He is also assistant lecturer of this fraternity for the State of Kansas. Mr. Pond was born in the court house in Libertyville, Lake Co., Ill., October 5, 1844. His parents removed when he was two years old to the Badger State, where he resided until he entered the United States army.

H. W. POND, State Agent for the Howe Sewing Machine, came to Kansas in June, 1862, with the army and was in the service until 1865. After the war, he put up the first sawmill in Drywood Township. Bourbon County, built in the winter of 1865-66, and after operating it until the spring of 1867 sold it to Pearsall & Peck. He then engaged in the implement business for two years, as manager for Charles F. Drake, and has since been engaged in his present business. He has the general agency for the Howe Sewing Machine in Kansas and Southwestern Missouri, and has forty-five agencies, averaging a sale of ten machines each month. He is also engaged in farming four miles south of the city, in Scott Township. He is a member of the I.O.O.F., K. of P., A.O.U.W., and Grand Army of the Republic, being Junior Vice Deputy Commander of the latter organization. Mr. Pond is a native of Hector, Tompkins Co., N.Y., born November 12, 1839. From there he removed with his parents to Wisconsin, and located in Alton Township, Fond du Lac County, which was his home until the outbreak of the war. In November, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Third Wisconsin Cavalry, and served until the close of the war, mostly in Kansas and Missouri. He entered the service as Sergeant, and was discharged as First Lieutenant. He was married at Fort Scott, in January, 1865, to Barbara E. Ury. She was born in Martinsville, Ind., and reared at Greenbush, Warren Co., Ill. Her father, Lewis L. Ury, came to Drywood, Bourbon Co., Kan., in 1858, and was killed by the Taylor Bushwhackers in the spring of 1864.

L. E. POTTER, Under Sheriff, Bourbon County, is a native of Killingly, Windham Co., Conn., born in 1853, and when three years of age his parents moved to Morgan Co., Ill., where they engaged in farming until 1870, and in the fall they moved West, stopping in Crawford County, Kan., where they stayed some five years; then moving to Bourbon County, Kan., they located on a farm near Hiattville, raising grain and stock. He was appointed and took his office January 10, 1882. He is a Democrat.

A. POPKESS, Auditor and Treasurer of the St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita Railroad, is a native of England and was born in 1847. When eight years of age, he emigrated to America with his father, who was connected with the locomotive works in England, and on coming to New York followed the same line, so that Mr. Popkess was educated to the business in his father's office. His first official position was Auditor of the J. B. & W. in Urbana, Champaign Co., Ill., where he remained from 1870 to 1880, when he was appointed director of the St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita Railroad. And in 1881 moved to Fort Scott, and took the position he now occupies on the last-mentioned railroad. He was connected at one time with the Treasurer's office of the P. P. & J. railroad.

REV. W. C. PORTER, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Fort Scott, is a descendant of the Rev. J. C. Porter, and a native of the isle of Jersey, Great Britain, born May 11, 1834. Was brought to this country by his parents, his father working as a missionary in Illinois. At the age of nineteen, W. C. commenced studying for the ministry, and after graduating at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1858, he studied theology at Lane Theological Seminary. Of his class there are living now but three. He took his first charge in 1859 at Plymouth, Marshall Co., Ind. In 1861, he joined the Twentieth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, and was mustered out July 25, 1865, and in November took charge of the First Presbyterian Church of Coldwater, Mich., where he remained until December, 1871, then, in January, 1872, he came to Fort Scott, and took this charge. The membership of his church is 150 and the congregation numbers 225. In November, 1866, he married Miss L. I. Cunningham, the daughter of Rev. J. W. Cunningham, of Naperville, Ill. They have four children.

JAMES POWELSON, baker, is a native of Lycoming County, Penn. He was born in 1819, some seven miles from Williamsport. He is of Holland and Scotch parentage. Having learned his trade in Pittsburgh, Penn., in 1841, found him in New York, working in a bakery. He then went to Philadelphia in 1842, where he remained until 1849, and the gold discoveries in California attracted his attention, so he went West to the Pacific coast, to try his fortunes; but he made more at his trade than he did at mining. From San Francisco he went to New Mexico, then to the Gulf, across to New Orleans, and then to St. Louis, and from there here, where he established his bakery in 1872. He commenced on nothing, and now owns the bakery, with a good trade. In 1873, he married Miss Sanford. They have two children. He belongs to the I.O.O.F., which he joined in 1848.

D. E. PRICHARD, druggist, of the firm of Prichard Bros., is a native of Columbus, Ohio. His brother James was one of the firm up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1875. He was also a soldier, having served during the war in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. On coming to Fort Scott, in 1867, they established what is now one of the oldest drug firms in the county, occupying a small building on Main and Market streets, where they were till the fire of 1873, when they were burned out, and then moved to their present stand, doing a good wholesale and retail trade, which is growing with the development of the surrounding country. 

G. J. RADELL, agent for the Adams Express Company, a native of Lewis County, N.Y., was born in 1846. He received his early education at home, and entered the commercial line as traveling agent, visiting different sections till 1880, when he came to Fort Scott to take charge of the office here. The Adams occupy all the roads running into Fort Scott.

MRS. J. M. REYNOLDS, widow of Mr. James M. Reynolds, was born in Maryland and met her husband in Mississippi, where he owned a plantation; they were married in 1859. He lost most of his property in the war. Coming to Fort Scott in 1870 on a visit, he finally moved here in 1872, buying property and building. In 1879, he died leaving his wife with a family of three children, and considerable property. Mrs. Reynolds is a member of the Episcopal Church.

JOHN HOLT RICE, editor of the Fort Scott Monitor, was born November 14, 1824, in Greene County, East Tennessee. His father, David Rice, was a Virginian, and the youngest brother of Dr. John H. Rice, founder of Andover Theological College, Virginia. David Rice was a respectable Tennessee farmer, and was elected at twenty-six successive biennial elections, surveyor of Green County, on the Federal and Whig tickets, notwithstanding Greene County on the general ticket was overwhelmingly Democratic. John Holt Rice was named after his uncle, Dr. John H. Rice. His mother's maiden name was Jane Doak. She was a daughter of Rev. Samuel Doak, founder of Washington College, Washington County, Tenn. Rev. Samuel Doak was a noted educator and Presbyterian divine. John H. Rice received his education at Tusculum College in his native county, which college at the time was under the Presidency of his uncle, Dr. Samuel W. Doak. He was a law student with Samuel M. Milligan, and was admitted to the bar in February, 1845. In May following he moved to Georgia, and located in Cassville, Cass County, practicing law until 1858. On the 1st of January, 1856, he was elected Major General of the Twelfth Division, Georgia State Militia, as the Union candidate by a majority of 1,772 over Col. E. M. Gault, ultra Southern rights candidate. In 1855, he became editor of the Cassville Standard, and conducted it as a staunch Union paper. In 1857, he removed to Rome, Ga., and soon afterward to Atlanta, where he established Franklin Printing House, which under his direction became an extensive book publishing establishment, but which was broken up at the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1861, he was attacked by paralysis, and was confined to his bed four years. In May, 1865, he was appointed purchasing agent for the Union cavalry forces, under command of Maj. Gen. Wilson, and afterward under Brig. Gen. Croxton, to whom the command of the cavalry forces was turned over by Gen. Wilson. Gen. Rice was thus engaged until about August 1, 1865, during which time he purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of forage and provisions, which he shipped to Macon, Ga., together with large quantities of corn and bacon that had belonged to the Confederate Government before it became defunct. In the fall of 1865, Gen. Rice, on account of his large family of boys, left the piney woods of Georgia, for the boundless, open prairies of the West. After remaining a few weeks in Westport, Mo., he moved to Cass County in November, and was here engaged in one of the warmest political contests ever waged, growing out of the enforcement of the "Drake Code." In 1867, he moved into Miami County, Kan., settling on a farm on Pony Creek. On the 22nd of June, 1872, he was again prostrated by paralysis, and was this time confined to his bed for two years. In the fall of 1874, finding himself permanently disabled, he moved to Paola, and on the 20th of March, 1875, purchased one-half interest in the Miami Republican, and in June, 1877, the other half. The paper was conducted by himself and his sons until July 26, 1880, when he sold it to Leslie J. Perry, its present proprietor. Gen. Rice purchased the Republican when it was at a very low ebb of prosperity, and built it up from almost nothing to a prosperous Republican paper with a circulation of over two thousand, and sold it at a very large advance over the purchase price. Upon selling the Miami Republican in 1880, he purchased the Fort Scott Monitor, which he has since conducted. In the management of this paper he has associated with him his three sons: William M. Rice who is managing editor; R. P. Rice, business manager of job printing and book-binding, and H. V. Rice, general traveling agent. Gen. Rice became a Mason in 1849. Politically, he was always a Democrat, until the breaking out of the rebellion, casting his last Democratic vote in 1860, for Stephen A. Douglas, for President. He was always opposed to secession, believing and teaching that that was the South's sure road to ruin. Gen. Rice has a strong and positive character, believing firmly what he believes, and defending his faith with all his strength; and is a tower of strength to the cause which he espouses. For several years during his residence in Kansas he has taken a leading part in politics, on the Republican side, and the contest just closed, terminating in the election of Hon. George W. Glick as Governor of the State, it is generally conceded that his efforts saved the Bourbon County ticket from defeat. Gen. Rice was married, December 1, 1847, to Miss Nancy Russell, a native of South Carolina. They have had ten children, six boys and four girls. Five of the boys and two of the girls are still living. His oldest child, William M. Rice, was born in December, 1848.

REV. J. A. RICHARDS, Evangelist Wesleyan Methodist minister, a native of Canada, was born in Compton in 1826. He commenced studying for the ministry in 1844, and took his first charge in 1849 as a member of the Wisconsin conference, where he labored six years, and then in 1861 returned to Canada, remaining until 1862, when he went to Washington and entered the Mount Pleasant hospital as assistant surgeon. In 1864, he entered into business, and in 187 he moved to Girard, Kansas, and became connected with the Kansas conference, his first charge being four miles from Fort Scott, and in March 7, 1877, he commenced holding service in J. Moreley's hall, and on the 12th day of July, 1879, they moved into the church they now occupy, costing $2,100, and paid for it in 1880. Mr. Richards was succeeded by Rev. L. S. Cooper, and in October, 1881, by Rev. G. L. Shepardson. The present pastor, Rev. K. M. Fisk, took the charge in October, 1882. While Mr. Richards was there there were 100 members in the church, and in 1877 they organized a Sabbath school, having to begin with 60 scholars, and increased to 165. it has been a complete success. He married Miss S. A. Olds, July 3, 1869, of Little Prairie, Walworth Co., Wis. They were married by Rev. T. G. Colton, pastor of the Congregational Church; they have one son. Mr. Richards wants to say that the Wesleyan Church was always opposed to slavery, as it was always in favor of the equal rights of all men before the law. Also, the church is opposed to all organized "secret societies;" is in favor of the Bible in our public schools; is in favor of temperance and "prohibition." That ours is a Christian Government, and that we should recognize God, as the author of all just law, and "Jesus Christ" as King of kings, and that all men should fear God, and live holy lives.

HENRY RICHARDSON, of the firm of Odgers & Richardson, carpenters, architects and builders, was born in Wigdon, Cumberland, England, April 16, 1848; he learned his trade at New Castle on the Tyne; he then came to America in 1872, and located in New York City, where he remained till 1879, when he went to St. Louis, and then came to Fort Scott, Kan., in 1880, and entered into partnership with S. Odgers, making a specialty of stair building.

M. RILEY, retired, was born in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1832. In 1850, he emigrated to America, landing in New Orleans; here he remained working on the steamers of the Lower Mississippi and Mississippi Rivers until the war broke out, when he was captured, but succeeded in getting away from his captors at Cairo, and went the St. Louis, from there going to the mountains of Montana and Wyoming, where he succeeded in making a little money, arriving in Fort Scott in 1869, and opened a private boarding house at the corner of Jones and Locust streets, the only place he could get. In 1870, he bought land of Col. H. T. Wilson, and built his residence, 22x45, wing 22x20, where he also built in 180-71 a tenement house 20x30, wing 20x20, then bought lots of Shears and built a 30x20 and raised sic the old one in 1873, built one 18x22, wing 18x20, and this season one on the corner of Oak and Barbie streets 22x30, wing 14x16, the improvements will amount to $8,000. Mr. Riley married Miss Welch of Iowa; they have one daughter and a boy, the son of his brother whom Mr. Riley brought from Ireland after his last visit to the old country.

WILLIAM ROBBINS, of the firm of W. H. Henry & Co., grain and agricultural implements, is a native of Illinois, born in 1859 in Waukegan. He attended school in Bloomington, but intending to be a druggist he commenced studying with A. O. Ingalls, in his pharmacy; he was with him in 1876-77, then going into the Merchants National Bank, Fort Scott, as assistant book-keeper, and finally entered the firm of W. H. Henry & Co., now doing a business of $100,000 per annum. William's father has collected some wealth in California, and married Miss Fraser, coming to Fort Scott in 1869; he has not engaged in any business since. He is well thought of. He is a member of the K. of T. organization.

J. P. ROBENS, proprietor of the West End Grocery and China Emporium, Fort Scott, Kan., he was a native of Northumberland, Saratoga Co., N.Y., born in February, 1840. In 1862 he enlisted in the Seventy-seventh "Bemis Heights" regiment New York Volunteers as a private, was transferred and promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant Company E, One Hundred and Seventy-sixth New York Volunteers, better known as the "Ironsides" regiment; was with Banks in the "Gulf Department," was captured at Brashear City in June, 1863, taken to Tyler, Texas, was exchanged July, 1864. Was married in 1866 Miss Labor of Lockport, N.Y., moved to Missouri in 1868, and to Fort Scott in 1870, embarking in the grocery business. By diligence and enterprise his business has grown into large proportions. He carries a stock of $10,000 to $12,000, and has a yearly trade of over $30,000. Mr. Robens has been in the city council for a number of years, and is at the present time Treasurer of the Board of Education for the city. It was largely through his efforts that the compromising of the city indebtedness was secured on a basis at once honorable to the city and to her creditors. In all matters relating to public enterprise he is liberal and enthusiastic.

G. B. ROBINSON, livery and sale stable, is a native of New York, and has always dealt in horses. During his stay in Montreal, Canada, he learned the profession of veterinary surgeon, getting his diploma in 1854; he then moved to Chicago, and afterwards to St. Louis; he then went up into Iowa and located at Council Bluffs, where he remained for twelve years handling the best of horses. In 1871 he sold the "King of the turf" to Judge Ford for $6,200. He came to Kansas in 1878 and brought with him twenty-eight head of horses, stopping at Fort Scott, where he first boarded his horses at Morely's stable. In 1880, put up the stable he now occupies, having fine brood mares in stock, and fast steppers of Bashaw, Hambletonian and Tom Hyar blood. Mr. Robinson has a family of ten children.

T. F. ROBLEY, Postmaster, came to Kansas in April, 1859; his first location was in Linn County, and he remained there until the outbreak of the war. In November, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company H, Fifth Kansas Cavalry, and served until December, 1864, being mustered out as Sergeant Major of the regiment. After leaving the army he spent a few months in Iowa, and in April, 1865, located at Fort Scott. He was engaged in the real estate business three years and then in the milling business for a somewhat longer period of time, and in March, 1875, was appointed to his present position of Postmaster. He was a member of the Legislature from 1873-74. Mr. Robley is a native of Greene County, Ill., born near Whitehall November 9, 1839. When nine years of age he moved to Appanoose, Iowa, and made that his home until he came to Kansas. He was married in Fort Scott, December 24, 1877, to Fannie W. Wilson, a native of that place.

J. RODECKER, of the firm of Rodecker & Cohn, clothing and gents' furnishing goods, north Main street, is a native of New York City, and was born in 1841. He commenced working for Levy Brothers & Company, New York, and came to Leavenworth, Kan., 1863, where he continued in their employ until coming to Fort Scott in 1866. He established a clothing house here in October of that year; the firm was Rodecker & Cohn; they occupied the Roach building from 1866 to 1873, then moving into the Blackett building, where they had not been long, he was burned out and he moved into the store called the Salamander, because the only two stores left after the fire of 1873, were burned, leaving his alone. He then bought the building he now occupies, of William Hack, and moved in in 1877. He has now 66 feet frontage and 80 feet deep. In 1872, he married Miss Loewen. They have three boys. Mr. Rodecker is a member of the School Board.

J. C. RODGERS, of the firm of Rodgers & Larrimer, proprietors of Knox Hotel, is a native of Adair County, Ky., born in 1822. He came to Kansas in 1871, and located on a farm three miles west of Marmaton,, where he was engaged in farming up to the time he came to Fort Scott and took the Knox House. In 1861, he enlisted in the Fiftieth Illinois Infantry, as private; was promoted to Orderly Sergeant, and then to Second Lieutenant; he then resigned. He enlisted in the Twelfth Illinois Cavalry, and in 1864 was promoted to Second Lieutenant. In 1865, promoted to First Lieutenant; May 15 he was mustered out at Houston, Tex., and went home to Illinois, where he engaged in farming in Hancock County. He is married, but has no children living. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, also belongs to the G. A. R.

A. F. ROTHFUSS, cigar manufacturer, came to Kansas in 1871, and has been engaged in his present business since that time. In business for himself the last nine years. When he commenced he and his brother were in partnership and did all the work themselves, but four years later his brother retired from the partnership, and Mr. Rothfuss has since been alone in the business. He now employs twenty hands, and is proprietor of the largest cigar factory in Kansas. He manufactures the famous La Creme brand of Havana cigars, as well as the Diamond R, Coral and Who's Been Here brands. In 1881, he manufactured 850,000 cigars. Mr. R. was born in Germany April 2, 1849, and came to this country with his parents in 1853, and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, making that his home for sixteen years. He has been employed in the manufacture of cigars since he was eleven years of age. He was married in Fort Scott, September 2, 1875, to Hulda Blasch, a native of Chicago. They have two children--Matilda and Albert. Mr. R. is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the K. of H.

H. E. RUSSELL, Section 6, is a native of Ellington, Conn., born in October, 1833. At the age of seventeen, he went into the employ of an Eastern railroad, and has continued in the business now for some thirty years, working in the machine department for fifteen years, and as conductor on the Chicago & Alton Railroad for fifteen years. In 1876, he purchased of K. W. Shedd the seventy-acre piece on which he now lives, which he has improved putting up a fine residence in 1879, and large stone barn, 44x28, with an addition. His farming consists of grain and fruits. In 1874 he married and now has two children.

JAMES H. SALLEE, attorney at law, came to Fort Scott, June 14, 1873. He was admitted to the bar at Dixon, Ill., prior to coming to Fort Scott, but commenced practice here. From February, 1876, to April, 1881, he was in partnership with J. D. Hill, but has been alone in his practice the rest of the time. Mr. Sallee was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives during the session of 1879, and has held the office of City Attorney for the last three years. He was born in Georgetown, Ohio, August 2, 1848, and lived there until October, 1861, when he came to Fulton, Ill. He prosecuted the study of law with Eustace Barge and Dixon, at Dixon, Ill., from 1870 to 1873. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Blue Lodge and Chapter. He was married at Pensaukee, Wis., June 10, 1874, to Harriet M. Neff, a native of Ligonier, Noble Co., Ind. They have three children--Helen D., Josephine N. and Harriet.

L. S. SANGER, M. D., is a native of Hampden, Penobscot Co., Maine, was born in 1828, December 2. His career may be said to have commenced when he attended the Hampden Academy and studied medicine with his father, Dr. I. S. Sanger. In 1848, he graduated from Bowdoin Medical College, then taking a trip to Indiana, he visited his cousin, Dr. William A. Sanger, of Lima, Lagrange Co. The death of his father recalled him home. He started from New England for a trip on the ocean, and while at the Sandwich Islands was in charge of the United States Hospital, and on his voyage to foreign lands he experienced many wonderful things. In 1858 he was traveling, being away seven years, he saw all the sights of the old world, and combined business with pleasure by taking every opportunity to enlarge his already large stock of medical lore. On returning, he visited his New England home, and then turned West, locating in Earlville, La Salle Co., Ill., where he remained till 1868, when he came to Fort Scott, and entered the profession here, where he has a fine practice. In 1862, July 22, he married Mrs. Jane Larkin, of La Salle County, Ill. They have no children. Mrs. Sanger by a former marriage had three, Edgar, Warren and Emma L. The last having married Mr. Lean, taught music and practiced photography; her mother learning the latter art of her, is at present engaged in the business. Dr. Sanger is a direct descendant from the old Puritan stock of New England; his grandfather, David Sanger, was one of the early settlers of New Hampshire, and his father, Increase Sumner, Sanger, was a celebrated physician. The doctor has a host of relatives in the East, and a number in Illinois, all of more or less note. The doctor has never taken any public office, but has always taken a stand in the Democratic ranks. He is liberal in his religious belief, saying that to do right because it is right, without fear of hell or hope of heaven, is his creed.

D. E. SAUNDERS, Principal of the Kansas Normal College, is a graduate of the National Normal University, of Lebanon, Ohio, graduating in the summer of 1876, and coming to Kansas in 1877. He has been employed in the Nebraska Normal Institute, and since 1879 in the college here, which, by his individual efforts, he has built up and made one of the most popular institutions of learning in the State.

CHARLES T. SAXE was born in Portage County, Ohio, November 21, 1849, and lived in Ohio until he graduated from Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, in 1873, being in the first graduating class of the college. He served in Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry for four months in 1864, and is a member of Crane Post, No. 77, G. A. R. In 1873, he went West, and was engaged in mining for three years in Nevada and three years in the pottery business in California. He then returned to Missouri, and located at Deerfield, where he was engaged in the stone ware manufacture with his brother, F. M. Saxe, for two years. They then came to Fort Scott, and opened the pottery and tile works, commencing in June, 1882. He was married at Nevada, Mo., April 27, 1881, to Pierre Elizabeth Harrison, a native of Carroll County, Mo. They have one child, an infant daughter. Mr. Saxe is a member of his college society, of the Miners' Union, and the Order of the American Union.

J. B. SAXE, minister, a native of Saratoga, N. Y., born in 1819. He is of German descent. His grandfather was a Hessian soldier, who left the English and fought for the Republic under Gen. Washington during the Revolution. In 1838, Mr. Saxe began studying for the ministry, and attended the Clinton Liberal Institute, of Oneida County, N. Y. He was ordained in 1843, in Jefferson County, N. Y. He moved to Vinton County, Iowa, where he labored in the ministry, and on coming to Kansas in 1869, came to fill the pulpit of the Universalist organization. At the same time he bought twenty acres of land in Section 7, and gave his attention to horticulture. He yet holds a pulpit in the county. He married, but lost his wife, and now has a family of three daughters, Mary C., Eva L., a teacher, and Nettie G. Mr. Saxe is having quite a success in fruit raising, preferring White Sap and Ben Davis for apples, Duchess and Bartlett for pears, and Concord for grapes.

CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZ, confectionery and bakery, born in Berlin, Germany, in 1831. He there learned the confectionery business, and came to America in 1865, landing in New York. He then went to Cincinnati and opened a bakery; he made money and went to visit his fatherland. He returned and located in Chicago, but was burned out and lost about $10,000. He then went to St. Louis and from there to Fort Scott in 1871. Here he worked for Miller for awhile, then started for himself. In 1874, he married Miss Coats, of Fort Scott. They have a family of three children. His son, Herman, a child by his first wife, after a thorough education, went into the Turkish army, and is now a General, being only twenty-five years of age. Mr. Schultz belongs to the Turnverein.

FREDERICK SCHULTZ, brewer. He is a native of Germany, was born in 1833, emigrating to America in 1851. He landed in New York and came at once to Milwaukee, where he remained until 1856, when he moved to Iowa, staying until 1869, when he came to Fort Scott and erected the brewery here, the firm being Schultz & Blasch. In 1875 or 1876, the present firm was established, Schultz & Hazelmeyer. They have not brewed any since the prohibition enactment. Besides the brewery, he has a fine residence. His family consists of himself, wife and two children--girls.

L. K. SCOFIELD, proprietor of the Fort Scott Gas Works, was born near Albany, N. Y. In 1849, he established the New Canaan Nurseries, at New Canaan, Conn. In 1854, he came to Elgin, Ill., entering extensively into the nursery business at that place. In 1867, he purchased the gas works at Freeport, Ill., and the following year, established the Commercial Nurseries there, supervising the business up to 1879. He was for several years President of the Northern Illinois Horticultural Society and Acting President of the State Horticultural Society, and for a number of years a member of the State Board of Horticulture, and one of the organizers of the National Association of Nurserymen. In September, 1880, he went into the stock raising business, opening a stock ranch in St. Clair County, Mo., where he owns and operates large farming and grazing interests. On the 1st of January, 1882, he purchased the lease of the Fort Scott gas works of J. W. Pinkston, and contracted for the purchase of the same from James M. Nelson, their owner.

MISS ADDIE SCOTHORN, teacher in Room 2, Central School, is a native of Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio. In 1870, moved to Fort Scott when only five years of age. She has acquired her education in the schools of Fort Scott, when they were not in session attending select schools. She has been especially associated with Miss Hoxie, attending her select school as pupil, and later as assistant teacher, also attending the select school of Prof. Hudson. She has from the first intended to be a teacher, and is now fairly embarked in her chosen profession, teaching at present in Room 2.

DAVID SEEVER, SR., farmer, is a native of Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Penn., born in 1810. His eldest brother, Abraham, was in the war of 1812. There were ten more in his father's family, of which he was the youngest. During his early manhood he learned milling and also the thorough system of farming used in Pennsylvania. In 1831, he married Miss Helen, of Chambersburg, and on account of his failing health they moved to Indiana onto a farm, where he remained till 1857, when he emigrated to Kansas, locating on Section 28, and took 320 acres, some of it laying in Section 27. Erecting a log house, they lived in it till it was destroyed by lightning. They then built the stone one now used. Of war reminiscences, Mr. Seever has seen a great deal, being here at the time John Little was killed by Montgomery's men, and in 1861, he was at home on his farm, when Gen. Price came along and captured him, taking him to Lexington, Mo., together with his son William and Mr. Chapman. He was set at liberty in some twenty-two days afterward, and made his way home again, having passed through these perilous times. He is now enjoying a time of peace and the promise of a most bountiful harvest for the year 1882. In 1878, he was elected Township Treasurer and has held it since, having been Township Clerk and school officer from time to time. His family numbered twelve, two of whom are deceased. His son John, who is now at home, was a member of the brave Sixth Kansas Regiment. They farm about 200 acres now.

MISS M. J. SERGENT, teacher in Room 1, Central School, is a native of Southern Michigan. She moved to Lake Station, Ind., where she lived till she was fourteen years of age. Up to this time, she was getting her education from private tutors. On returning to her old home in Dover, she taught her first school, but her experience was of such a discouraging nature that she quit, we find her a postal clerk in St. Johns, Mich., soon after. In 1871, she came to Fort Scott, Kan., and went into the Central School as teacher of the Second Primary, now being Principal, and assisted by her sister Ella, who is also an artist. Miss Sergent has perfected her system of teaching by studying the best school systems in the country.

MRS. LORINDA M. SHIELDS, proprietress of the Commercial House, is a native of Pennsylvania. She went to Illinois in 1836, and lived there till 1851. She was married to Mr. McLeod in Chicago. When he died she went to St. Louis, where she lived till 1875. She met Mr. Shields in Fort Scott, and was married in 1877, Christmas eve. Mr. M. Shields, son of Dr. Shields, a native of New York, was born 1830, and learned the machinist's trade when a young man. He then went West, and erected and run sic quartz mills. Making money, he returned and visited his old home. From Fort Madison, Iowa, where his parents were, he went to Kansas, in company with Henry and George Winters. Soon after arriving in Fort Scott, he built the hotel at a cost of $7,000, and became the leader of several organizations, belonging to the I. O. O. F. and Masons. He died in 1881. She now conducts the house as the Commercial House.

GROSVENOR A. SHINN was born Lacon, Marshall Co., Ill., June 28, 1848. He came to Kansas in 1867 and started a nursery about one mile north of Fort Scott, in company with his father and younger brother. From a very small beginning, their business has grown to quite considerable proportions, and now gives employment to from thirty to fifty hands. He was married in Springfield, Mo., in September, 1873, to Ida M. Underwood, a native of Pike County, Ill. They have three children--John B., Grove Leslie and Nellie. Mr. Shinn is a member of the A., F. & A. M. 

J. R. SMITH, Deputy County Clerk, is a native of St. Joe County, Ind., near South Bend, Ind. Was born in 1840. In early manhood he concluded to follow medicine, and in consequence he attended the Upper Iowa University, but the war breaking out and most of the students enlisting, he joined the Twelfth Iowa Infantry in 1861, but on account of disability he was discharged, and after spending most of a year in the Keokuk Hospital, he returned to Fayette County, Iowa, and soon afterward went to handling horses in Independence, Iowa. He then returned to his old home in Indiana. From there they came West in 1867, in a wagon train, himself, two brothers, sister and his mother. His father died in Iowa. He had five brothers in the army. Albert was in the Sixth Iowa, killed at Pittsburg Landing; Oliver in the fifth, who was confined in Andersonville and Libby Prisons twelve months and five days; Aaron was Captain of a colored regiment, and John was in the Ninth Iowa Infantry. One of his brothers is in Indiana, one in Clay County, Kan., one in La Cygne, Linn Co., Kan., and one in Colorado. Mr. Smith has also (in a useful career) been in the school room as an instructor, having taught in Missouri, Iowa and Kansas at least in eleven schools, and having also learned a trade, that of carpenter.

SMITH & NELSON, proprietors of livery stable. They established their business in 1881, and are doing a strictly livery business, keeping first-class horses and the finest of all kinds of carriages and buggies. Mr. Nelson, junior member of the firm, is a native of Virginia, born in 1860. He has been to his old home visiting only once since leaving there in 1870, with his parents. While in Arcadia he was Postmaster; this was in 1877; and in 1881 he went in with H. D. Smith in the livery business. Mr. Smith is an old and highly respected citizen of Fort Scott, who has traveled a great deal, and who then settled down on his farm south of the city. He was in the dairy business before going into the livery. They have about $6,000 invested now.

REV. R. H. SPARKS, Pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, is a native of Franklin County, Ind., born July 6, 1833. He was educated at Brookville College, and joined the Southeast Indiana Conference in October, 1854. In 1861, he became a member of the North Indiana Conference. The principal charges to which he has been appointed in Indiana were Cambridge City, Union City, Mishawaka, Anderson, Logansport, Richmond and Muncie. In 1863, Bishop Andrews appointed him to Iowa City, Iowa, where he served the church one pastoral term. By his own request, he was transferred back to Indiana in 1865. In 1879, Bishop Wiley transferred him to the South Kansas Conference, and stationed him at Paola. In March, 1880, he went to Wichita, and in 1881, to Fort Scott. Under his ministry the church has prospered, having a membership of 170 and a congregation of from 300 to 400. In 1865, he was married to Miss R. C. Compton, daughter of Rev. H. Compton. They have two sons--Harry B. and Frank L., and one daughter--Mattie May; their eldest, Anna B., died in 1865. Mr. Sparks was Chaplain in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Indiana Regiment, and at the close of the war returned to his pastorate in Union City, Ind.

WILLIAM H. SPENCER, SR., farmer, Section 3, is a native of Kentucky, and was born in 1807, April 1. He continued to reside there till he had married and raised a family, when his sons wishing to come West, he came with them, and in 1871, arrived in Fort Scott, where he went into the grain and cattle business, and as soon as he got possession of the land on which he now resides which was in 1874, he built and improved; but in 1879 he was burned out and lost everything; they then moved to town, where they remained till his present dwelling was finished, when they moved back to his land, on which the house is built, containing twenty-six acres; he has also, on Section 14, 160 acres used as a cattle ranch, not a present stocked. His son, Robert E., oversees the farm and his son William H., Jr., is practicing law in California. Mr. Spencer has a sister, Mrs. Norton, living in Kentucky, and a brother James, aged eighty-three. In 1848, he married Miss Brookin, of Kentucky. They have four girls and two boys. He belongs to the Christian Church.

COL. ISAAC STADDEN was born in Newark, Licking County, Ohio, March 28, 1834. His father, Richard Stadden, was one of the pioneers of Licking County, and served in both the House of Representatives and Senate of the General Assembly of Ohio. He was a Captain in the Mexican war, for which he raised two companies, being in the Second Ohio both before and after its re-organization into two regiments. He was in all the battles from Camargo to Monterey. In the battle of Camargo, where he especially distinguished himself, he was wounded. For his gallantry in this battle he was rewarded with a pension.

Col. Stadden's mother's maiden name was Rachel Martin. Miss Martin was born in Redford County, Penn., and removed at an early day with her parents to Ohio. She was a lady of intelligence and education. Richard and Rachel Martin Stadden were the parents of ten children, of whom Isaac was the fifth. William, a brother of Isaac, was an Adjutant in an Illinois regiment during the war of the rebellion. When Isaac was twelve years old, his father moved his family to Mexico, where they resided two years. Upon arriving in Mexico, young Isaac enlisted in the Mexican war as drummer boy, and was with Gen. Scott from Vera Cruz to Mexico, and was appointed by Gen. Erwin, Drum-Major of the Second Ohio regiment. At the close of the war, his father removed to Ottawa, Ill., where Isaac received a good business education and worked on his father's farm. In 1858, the family removed to Kansas, settling at Rockford, Bourbon County. Here they resided until 1864. Upon the outbreak of the civil war, Isaac enlisted as a private soldier in the home-guards. His company was afterward included in the Sixth Kansas Volunteers, of Company B., of which he was elected First Lieutenant. This regiment afterward became a cavalry regiment, under Col. William R. Judson, Lieut. Stadden being appointed Adjutant, in which capacity he served one year, when he was mustered out. At the time of the Price raid, he raised the Twenty-fourth Kansas Militia, of which he was commissioned Colonel by Gov. Carney. As Colonel of this regiment, he did efficient service against rebel bushwhackers and guerrillas.

After the war he located in Fort Scott, and established himself in the grocery business. For six or seven years he carried on a retail trade, at the close of which period he commenced the wholesale business. This has steadily increased, until now it has acquired immense proportions, having few if any equals in the State. He employs several commercial travelers, and is doing an annual business of nearly half a million dollars.

In 1864, Col. Stadden was elected Mayor of Fort Scott, and has been twice elected to the City Council. He and his family are regular attendants at the services of the Episcopal Church, and he is a liberal supporter of religious enterprises. Politically he has always been a Democrat, but gives mot of his attention to business.

He was married November 16, 1866, at Paola, Kan., to Miss Nellie D. Newcomb, a daughter of Bayse and Mrs. May A. Newcomb, who was born in Philadelphia, and who graduated at one of the principal female seminaries in that city. They have three children--two daughters and one son--Lillian M., Leo I. and Nellie Mc.

ROBERT STALKER, retail grocer, commenced business in Fort Scott in 1876, doing an exclusively retail business. He came to Kansas in October, 1859, and resided in Marion Township; engaged in farming until 1865, when he removed to Crawford County. During the war he served in the Twenty-second Kansas Regiment, being on frontier duty most of the time, and participating in the Price raid. Mr. Stalker was born in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, March 30, 1838, and came to America, July 16, 1852. His first location was at Rochester, N. Y., and he remained there and at Brockport, N. Y., until about 1856, when he went to Rockford, Ill., making that his home until he came to Kansas. He was married in Marion Township, in October, 1860, to Elizabeth Stadden, a native of Newark, Ohio. They have six children--Emma, Janet, John, Mary, Richard and Isaac. Mr. Stalker is a member of the A. O. U. W., and of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

JAMES M. STANLEY, Register of Deeds for Bourbon County, came to Kansas, and located in Marmaton Township, where he lived until elected Register of Deeds in the fall of 1879. He was engaged in farming prior to his election, and was Township Trustee three years. Mr. Stanley is a native of Delaware County, South Wooster Township, N. Y.; born October 14, 1839. He removed to Illinois with his parents in 1845, to Knox County, Ill., which was his home until he came to Kansas. He enlisted in Company K, Ninth Illinois Cavalry, September 19, 1861, and served until October 20, 1865, participating in all the engagements of his command, and returning to Illinois at the close of his service. He is a member of the G. A. R. Mr. Stanley was married in Linn Township, Knox County, Ill., February 22, 1866, to Tacie S. Morgan, a native of Indiana. They have three children--John S., Blanche A. and Anna M.

MRS. S. H. STEVENS, teacher in Room No. 3, is a native of Scranton, Penn. She received her education at the Wyoming Seminary, in Luzerne County, and commenced teaching in Pennsylvania. In 1870, she came to Kansas and commenced teaching in the East Fort Scott school in 1875, and when the building burned, she came to the Central School, but returned as soon as the school in East Fort Scott was built again. She has been a widow since 1870. Her mother, Mrs. Hodgson, and two of her brothers, live in the southern part of Scott Township on the farm. Her children are with her--a son and two daughters.

JOHN G. STUART, came to Kansas July 1, 1857, was at Lawrence a short time and then located at Fort Scott, and took up a claim where he now lives on Section 36, Town of Scott, a portion being in the city of Fort Scott. He built the first wagon shop in Fort Scott in 1858, and continued in the trade until 1862, his shop being built of walnut which he cut on his farm. During the war he was engaged in contracting for the Government in the Quartermaster's Department, his last contract being to furnish 25,000 bushels of corn to the troops at Fort Scott at $2.35 per bushel. He held the office of Deputy United States Marshal for one year, from 1858, having been appointed to fill the position of John Little, and was contractor for the construction of the national cemetery wall, and also street improvements made in 1870 in Fort Scott. He has also dealt extensively in lands, having entered up 2,000 acres in Bourbon County at one time, and built and owned the brick block where Stadden's wholesale grocery is now located. He represented the Second Ward in the Common Council for six years, and was Mayor from 1873 to 1874. Mr. Stuart was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, February 10, 1834, and went to Boston in 1851, remained there until 1856. He was married at Fort Scott in July, 1860, to Melissa Dillon, a native of Ohio. They have five children--Charles, John Elbert, Frank, Mary C. and Mabel C. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., having entered the first lodge at Fort Scott soon after its establishment.

JOHN J. STEWART, Deputy County Treasurer, came to Bourbon County January 13, 1856, and settled in what is now Mill Creek Township, engaging in farming and stock-raising, a business which he has continued up to the present time. He has represented his district in the Kansas Legislature three successive terms, from 1875-79. He served as Township Trustee for one year and has held the office of Deputy County Treasurer since October, 1880. He was born in Miller County, Mo., March 31, 1840, and lived in that State until he came to Kansas. July 27, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Sixth Kansas Cavalry, and served until March, 1863. He then served for a time on the border as Captain of Company C, Bourbon County Battalion, a company which he himself raised. He was married in Mill Creek Township, in February, 1860, to Elizabeth J. Harbin, a native of Indiana, who came to Kansas with her parents in 1857. She is a daughter of Calvin Harbin, Miami County, Ind. They have three children--Melissa J., Sophronia Grant, and Emma. Mr. Stewart is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of the A., F. & A. M.

WILLIAM STURM, sewing machines and organs, native of Peoria, Ill., born May 6, 1835. From here he went, in 1853, to Clayton County, Iowa, and went into Lewis Sturm's sawmill, where he remained till 1860, then going West to Denver, Colo., and on to Russell's Gulch, then to Lake Gulch,, where he kept store; returning to Clayton County, Iowa, in 1861, and built a grist mill in which he owned one-quarter, father, one-quarter, and W. D. G. Eastman one-half. Before it was finished his grandfather bought Eastman's interest, so the firm was Lewis, Nicholas & William Sturm; the mill and farm was called Sturm's mill and farm. They run this till 1866, and sold to John Carty. He then went to Colorado City and opened a store; sold this, making about $1,000; he returned to Clayton County; here he bought a water-power, built a sawmill and sold to his partner, H. C. Beman. This was in 1868; he then bought an interest in a grist mill and farm with W. B. Grant, and sold again, coming to Fort Scott in 1873, when he established his present business, acting as sub-agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Company, under S. E. Hatfield, but in 1874 he took a general agency till 1875; he then worked in connection with Mr. Anthony till 1879, when he enlarged his business, carrying the Whitney & Holmes, Estey and Camp and Haynes organs and list of pianos. Mr. Sturm is a man of strong convictions, being an earnest advocate of the temperance principles, and he was one of the Council when the compromise of indebtedness was effected. He married Miss Wolf, daughter of Thomas Wolf. They have three children--two sons and one daughter. Mr. Sturm is a member of the I. O. O. F., and of the Royal Templars of Temperance.

H. SWANK, proprietor of the Fort Scott Carriage Works, established by him in 1870. In 1874, the factory was bought by A. L. Gangwer, D. B. Burger and J. J. Henry. In March, 1882, C. W. Flickinger sic and J. A. Miller entered the firm. Mr. D. B. Burger is a native of Allentown, Lehigh Co., Penn., born in 1848; learned the trade of carriage painting, in the Neff Factory in 1857; went to work for Foltz & Ganze in Peoria, Ill., and in 1870 came to Fort Scott and worked for H. Swank, an uncle, and in 1874 took an interest in the business, when his uncle died. He is not married, belongs to the Knights of Honor and the Red Men. Mr. A. L. Gangwer is a native of the same county and State; was born in 1839; his parents going to Ohio in 1854, where he learned the trade of wood-worker with Wenner & Moore, of Tiffin, Ohio. In 1860, he went to Michigan, and has been in other States. At Napoleon, Ohio, he built a large factory. He came here to Fort Scott in 1874, and entered the firm in 1874. Mr. J. J. Henry is a native of New York; was born in 1846; learned his trade of ironworker of Shepard & Titus in 1865; then going to Toledo, Ohio, and then to Leavenworth in 1871. He then went South to Vicksburg and New Orleans, and then back to Kansas City, and here in 1872, and worked for Swank. He married Miss Brown. They have a family of two children. He belongs to the I. O. O. F. and Red Men. C. W. Flickenger sic is a native of Mahoning County, Ohio; was born in 1855; he learned his trade in Canfield, Ohio, with N. Swank, in 1873, going to Fostoria, Ohio, then to Indiana and here in 1874. He visited Colorado, and returned in 1880, entering the firm in March, 1882. Belongs to the Red Men. J. A. Miller is a native of Lehigh County, Penn., born in 1847; he learned the trade of woodworker with Snyder & Hendricks, and came to Fort Scott in 1876; worked for the company until March, 1882, when he became one of the firm. In 1874, he married Miss German. They have a family of three children. He is a member of the Red Men.

Picture of Van Rensselaer W. Sunderlin, M. D. VAN RENSSELAER W. SUNDERLIN, M. D., came to Fort Scott January 28, 1868, and has been engaged in practice here ever since his arrival, with the exception of part of the years 1873-74 spent in Lawrence, and one and a half years spent in Eureka Springs, Ark., in 1880-81. He was born in Dundee, Yates County, N. Y., September 28, 1826, and received a common school education in his native country. He received his medical education at the Union Homeopathic Medical College in New York, and commenced practice in 1850, in his native county. In 1855, he removed to Pewamo, Mich., and that was his home until 1867, with the exception of two years spent in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1861, he organized Company F, Thirteenth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and was commissioned Captain of the company. He served one year in Gen. Garfield's Brigade of Wood's Division, in the Army of the Cumberland, and was commissioned Major of the regiment, but his health failed him, so that he was obliged to resign before he was mustered in as Major. He then returned to Michigan, and remained there until 1867, going to Chicago in that year and engaging in practice for one year before going to Kansas. He was married to his present wife, Julia Banister, a native of Allegany County, N. Y., at St. John's, Michigan, January 31, 1867. He has two children by a former marriage--Eugene A., now cashier of the Lowell National Bank, Michigan, and Lorenzo D., a physician at Pewamo, Mich. Dr. Sunderlin is a member of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Kansas and was President of that organization in 1879.

T. W. TALLMAN, farmer, Section 29, was born in New Jersey in 1827. He was raised on a farm, and remained there until sixteen or seventeen years of age, then starting in life, he tried a variety of trades, but gave most of his attention to horses, handling them in Cincinnati, Peoria and then in Iowa. He came to Kansas in April, 1857, leaving Ohio when the frost was in the ground some inches. He was delighted, on arriving in Kansas, to find the grass growing, making good feed for stock, and though not intending to farm, he went on a claim of 160 acres, which he increased to 300, but has sold all but 115. Mr. Tallman has taken quite a prominent place in official life of the county, being one of the first Commissioners of the county. He was appointed in 1858, by the Governor, having held it since for a number of years, and was Chairman most of the time from 1870 to 1874. He was Sheriff of the county, and in 1878 he was elected to the State Legislature. Returning to his farm, he at once assumed agricultural pursuits which he has carried on since coming to the State, his family living on the farm since they first settled there. He has improved the farm and has many fine buildings on it, and a large and commodious residence, which he has just been improving. He has been a member of the I. O. O. F. for thirty-four years, and in politics a Democrat. They have five children, two daughters at home and one daughter married; two boys, one in Colorado and one in Kansas City.

MRS. J. M. TERRY, proprietress of the Terry Bus Company, is a native of Massachusetts. Married Mr. J. M. Terry in Putnam, Ohio, in 1855. He was born in Leroy, N. Y., October 9, 1828, and died in 1877. They have a family of six children. Mrs. Terry now carries on the bus line in Fort Scott, which is part of the enterprise established by Mr. Terry, who was one of the early stage men of Kansas with his brothers, William D. and Col. L. G. Terry, and was connected with them in the Kansas Stage Company and also in what was known as Southwestern Stage Company. His experiences on those frontier routes would fill a volume. The personal risks at times were perilous; his labors in Kansas as a pioneer of traffic, is of marked value. Mr. J. M. Terry was the first Mayor of Fort Scott who was elected on the temperance ticket. The bus line now consists of two buses and one hack under Mrs. Terry's management.

MISS VIRGIE THOMPSON, teacher in Room 3 Central School, is a native of Iola, Allen Co., Kansas; born and bred in the State; she also received her education here. When quite young she went to Missouri; while here her father died. In 1876 she returned to the State, and attended school under Mrs. Rhodes' instruction, and afterward with Mr. Mathews, finishing with the Normal course in the Fort Scott High School, graduating under Mr. Hudson in the class of 1880, the members being Belle Moulton, Ella Sargeant, Josie Walters, Kittie Wilson, Jennie Phenisie, Addie Gardiner, Anna B. Nellie and Fry and herself. In 1879, she received a certificate, and has taught since in the city, giving her attention to primary work. Miss Thompson, mother and brother Charlie are living in the city while she teaches; her brother is employed on the railroad, as is another brother, William.

A. THRONDSON, proprietor of the New York House, a native of Norway, born in 1848. While there, he learned the tanner's trade, and worked at it till coming to America in 1870. Having a brother in Chicago, he stopped there three months, then came to Fort Scott, Kan., in 1872, where he went into the saloon business in connection with a grocery, but closed out and opened the New York House, in 1877, having a hotel of twenty rooms, and doing a good business. In 1876, he married Miss C. Wilks, of Fort Scott. They had one child, now deceased. Mr. Throndson is by faith a Lutheran.

H. TRECHTER, manufacturer of soda water, sarsaparilla and ginger ale, Market street; native of Germany, was born in 1852. He came to America in 1864, at once coming to Kansas, where he arrived in 1865, and went into the beer brewery, working there till it closed up, then going into his present business in 1882. In 1873, he married Miss Ahrens, of Fort Scott. They have three children, and he belongs to the Knights of Pythias.

S. P. TRESSLAR, photographer, Nos. 108 and 110 Market street. Born in Johnson County, Ind., in 1843. Commenced the photographic business at Franklin, Ind., in 1864, located in Fort Scott in 1872. His gallery covers 3,000 square feet, and is the best arranged gallery in Kansas, and the only one west of St. Louis where life-sized portraits are made direct from the sitter.

JOHN C. UMSTED, farmer, Section 2, is the eldest son of L. H. Umsted, who is a native of Ohio, and who came with his family to Kansas in 1866. He is known to be one of the best farmers of this section, not having lost a crop since coming here, and during the bad seasons succeeded in reaping good harvests; in the dry year of 1874, he raised wheat that ran forty-three bushels and one peck to an acre, and this year will have a wonderful crop of corn that will average sixty bushels to the acre; his sons promise to be as good farmers. His family consists of eight children--John C., Etta, Mary, Albert, Louis, Owen, Lillie and Clifton. John C. is also a teacher, having taught school for the past five years, and having taken the scientific course in the Kansas Normal School at Fort Scott.

JOSIAH C. URY, railroad contractor, came to Kansas with his father, Lewis L. Ury, in July, 1858, and settled on "Buck Run," Dry Wood Township, on what was known as the "Neutral Strip." This was his home until he entered the army as a Government scout and spy. He served in that capacity in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Texas during almost the entire period of the war, under different generals, most of the time under Gens. Blunt, Curtis and Henning. During the Price raid he was for thirty days Major of the Fourteenth Kansas Militia. He had been through to Springfield, Mo., for prisoners in May, 1864, and on his return stopped overnight with his parents. While there he was attacked and captured by a band of bushwhackers, eighty-two strong, commanded by Taylor, but escaped through strategy the same night. He was born near Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Ohio, October 15, 1842, but when one year old removed with his parents to Morgan County, Ind., where he lived until he went to Warren Co., Ill., about twelve years prior to coming to Kansas. After the war, engaged in the lumbering business, running a saw mill until 1867, since which he has been engaged in railroad contracting, making a specialty of grading contracts. He was first married at Fort Scott in the fall of 1865, to Jennie Vincent, who died in the winter of 1872, leaving one child, Maudy. He was married to his present wife, Nettie Brough, a native of Kentucky, at Bowensburg, Hancock Co., Ill., in November, 1879. 

D. J. VAN FOSSEN, real estate, loan and insurance agent, came to Fort Scott in 1865, and was engaged in the grocery business for about nine months, in partnership with his brothers, John and Charles. In 1866, he established the Kansas Record, and has published it ever since that time. In 1866, he engaged in the real estate and loan and insurance and collecting business, putting out the first real state sign or bulletin board in Fort Scott, and since 1870 has been connected with his present partner, Henry Wilcox. Mr. Van Fossen was born in Livingston County, N. Y., February 4, 1833, and removed to Michigan when only two or three years of age, residing at Concord in that State until 1844, when he removed to La Fayette, Ind. In 1852, he went to California, driving ten yoke of oxen and passing through Fort Scott on the way, and he remained there until he came to Fort Scott. He was married at Kansas City in August, 1868, to Josephine, a native of New York State. They have two children--Kate and Fred. Mr. Van Fossen is a member of the A., F. & A. M.

VAN FOSSEN & WILCOX, real estate, loan and insurance agents; the firm is composed of D. J. Van Fossen & Henry Wilcox, and the business was originally established by Mr. Van Fossen, in 1866, Mr. Wilcox becoming a partner in 1871. They handle lands on commission, and buy and sell lands on their own account, and have very largely increased their business since its establishment. In 1875, they began to loan money for eastern capitalists, loaning the first year perhaps $25,000. Now their loans amount to at least $250,000 per annum, principally in the eastern counties of Kansas. They represent the local interest of some of the leading fire insurance companies of New York, Philadelphia and Connecticut as well as some foreign companies. They have sold over 100,000 acres of land since January 1, 1882, a period of less than six months.

G. W. WARD, farmer, Section 13. His father, Asa Ward, was a native of North Carolina, and his mother of Virginia. They moved to Illinois in 1847. George was born on the farm. They carried on grain farming there, and on coming to Kansas they settled on Section 13, his father having claimed 160 acres. Here George grew up, and in 1862, he had a friend enter eighty acres on Section 23, Scott Township. In 1862, he enlisted in the militia, and after some marching he returned to the farm. Beginning at the bottom he has worked his way up, in his boyhood passing through many thrilling scenes, such as were experienced by everyone who lived in Kansas during those stirring times. By hard work and good management, he has succeeded in acquiring some 400 acres of land; he has 130 acres of corn, besides cattle, horses and mules. In 1879, he married Miss S. Hadleston, of Vernon County, Mo. They have two boys--Elmer and William Harvey. Mr. Ward is a Republican, and a member of the I. O. O. F. Of the old family, his brother James is in Missouri; Asa is on the old farm; William H. is farming on Section 26; two sisters are living near Nevada, Mo., and one brother is in Fort Scott. Alexander is in California, and Amanda is in Philadelphia; a brother Meljar died some thirteen years ago on the old farm. In December, 1880, his father died, aged one hundred and three years.

EUGENE F. WARE, attorney, is a native of Hartford, Conn. He came to Fort Scott in September, 1867, and for some time worked at his trade, that of a harness maker. In 1871, he was admitted to the bar, and has since been engaged in practice. He at one time held the office of State Senator.

H. E. WARE, of the firm of Dulany & Ware, lumber dealers, representing a branch of the Empire Lumber Co. Mr. Ware is a native of Orange County, Vt.; he was born January 1, 1824. While at home he lived on the farm, but most of his life has been lumbering. In 1859, he worked in Chicago for Ferry & Sons, up to the time of his coming to Fort Scott, Kan., in 1869. He ran a yard himself till 1875, when he went to farming, having some 240 acres of grain and stock land. In 1879, he went into the lumber business with Dulaney (sic), now about the largest stock yard in the city, carrying about $12,000 worth of stock.

MISS M. M. WARFIELD, teacher in Room No. 7, Central School, is a native of Montgomery County, Md. She attended the Western High School of Baltimore, and then moving to Hartford County, she was examined and given a first-class certificate, then taking a school in Abington District, her first, then in Darlington District, where her agreeable experience decided her upon following the profession. In 1876, they moved to Fort Scott, and in 1877 she commenced teaching in Room No. 5, Central School. For five years she instructed her young pupils, and endeared herself to them, so that in changing to Room No. 7, some insisted on following. Miss Warfield's success in teaching is the result of her love of the vocation.

REV. F. J. WATTRON, priest of the Catholic Church "Mary, Queen of Angels," Fort Scott, is a native of France, where he was born in 1834, and emigrated to America in 1854, and in 1858 or 1859, located in Atchison, Kan., and in 1864 graduated from the Milwaukee Seminary of St. Francis De Sales. He was ordained by the Right Rev. Bishop J. B. Miege. Before coming to Fort Scott, he was at Paola, where his members consisted of twelve white families and Indians belonging to five tribes. He came to Fort Scott, December 9, 1874, where he has a membership of fifty families, and also took charge of St. Patrick's Church at Fulton, embracing forty families. The old church here in Fort Scott was built in 1860, now used as a residence and schoolhouse by Father Wattron. The present building was dedicated Rt. Rev. L. M. Fink, in 1872, June 16. The priests preceding him were Fathers Cunningham, Bononcini, Dougherty, Father Murphy, and then Father Wattron.

LEWIS B. WELCH, County Clerk, came to Kansas in May, 1859, and the following month located in what is now Allen County. He was engaged in farming until August, 1861, and then in Company G, Sixth Kansas Volunteer Infantry. In February, 1862, he was transferred to Company F, Eighth Kansas Regiment, and continued in that company and regiment until he left the service at Chattanooga, Tenn., September 19, 1864, being at that time First Sergeant of his company. He was in all the engagements of his command, and was wounded at Atlanta. In October, 1864, he located permanently in Pawnee Township. He held the office of Township Trustee of that township for six terms; has been Township Clerk, Township Treasurer and Clerk of School Board, and was elected County Clerk in November, 1881. He was born near Urichville, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, July 2, 1839, and when fifteen years of age removed to Illinois, where he remained until he came to Kansas. He was married in Pawnee Township, in June, 1865, to Mary J. Viers, who was born in West Virginia, near West Liberty. They have six children, Mary L., Alice, Nannie P., Jesse, Charles and Frank C. Mr. Welch is a member of the G. A. R. and of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

WEST & HUMPHREY, attorneys at law; firm established in 1882, February 22. J. S. West, as has his partner, J. M. Humphrey, educated himself, and finally, with commendable perseverance, established the firm. Mr. West is a native of Michigan; was born June 28, 1855. He came to Kansas in 1869, and in 1876 began reading law; in winter of 1877-78 taught school, and then went to the Lawrence University, and went to teaching again; was in school-book fight there, and went into Hill & Sallee's office to read law, and was admitted in 1881. He was Clerk of a Senate Committee in and belonging to the Baptist Church. He has become an expert in coal mining, which he carried on with his farm. J. M. Humphrey's career is similar. He is a native of Indiana; was born 1856, April 12, and came to Kansas in 1869, having farmed and taught till 1877. He went to the high school of Fort Scott, and next season to Girard, under Prof. Quick, preparing for college, and in 1878, prepared for and entered Freshman Class of State University, expecting to take the classical course, but went to teaching and reading law, and entered the law office of Col. J. R. Hallowell, and afterward studied under Judge C. O. French; was admitted to the bar in February 22, 1882, and entered into partnership with J. S. West same year.

S. S. WESTOVER, grocer, native of Massachusetts, born May 6, 1818. At the age of three, parents moved to New York, and when six years old he lost his father; his mother dying when he was ten years of age. He was then an orphan, without money or an education. In 1854, he went to Illinois, to Aurora, where he worked at the mason's trade, having learned it in 1838, remaining here till 1870, when he came to Fort Scott, Kan., and worked at his trade till 1874, when he bought out George Patterson, and established himself in a fine business, commencing with $10,000 a year, and now doing a business of $30,000 in groceries and produce. Mr. Westover married in 1843, and again in Aurora, Ill., to Mrs. Moffat. He has had a fumily (sic) of seven in all, three of whom are masons, and Fred an engineer on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.

C. S. WHEATON, farmer, Section 12, native of Aurelius Township, Cayuga County, N. Y., born January 9, 1810. He remained in his native State till 1832, when he took a timber farm and opened it to farming in Ohio. In 1842, he moved to Michigan, being a pioneer there, clearing and improving, but was taken with the ague, being so reduced in strength that when he went back to New York to recruit he could not walk alone, but recovering soon after reaching home, he went to canal boating, and in 1846 removed to Dodge County Wis., thence to Rock County, where he engaged in farming till 1859, when he came to Mound City, Linn County, Kan., arriving April 2. He was here engaged in farming and serving as Under Sheriff. In 1855, he moved to Fort Scott, and bought property, serving till 1868 as Deputy Sheriff under Harris & Knowles. That year he was elected Sheriff and served until 1870; he was jailor for six years in Fort Scott, and passed through many dangerous scenes; having bought his present farm in 1868, he moved onto it in 1874, where he has lived since with his wife and son John. He married Miss Thayer, of Essex County, N. Y., December, 1829. They have three children. Mr. Wheaton's farm is a stock and grain enterprise; he has now retired to this quiet life and enjoys a ripe old age. He has been a member of the Masonic order for thirty years, and is also a member of the I. O. O. F.

W. J. WHITTEKIND, carpenter, contractor and builder, two doors south of court house, on Nathaniel avenue. He was born in Adams County, Ill., February 15, 1847, where he remained till 1878, having learned his trade; he then went to Texas, and from there to Fort Scott, where he married in 1868. They have now a family of four children. Mr. Whittekind owns his own residence; he is a member of the Royal Templars of Temperance Society, also of the G. A. R., and belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Democrat.

HENRY WILCOX, real estate, loan and insurance agent, came to Fort Scott in June, 1870, and has been engaged in his present business, in company with Mr. Van Fossen, since that time. He is a member of the Congregational Church, and was for five years a member of the school board, its President during a portion of the time. He was born in Luzerne, Warren County, N. Y., and lived in his native county till six years of age, then in Saratoga County, N. Y., until he removed to Kansas. He received his education at College Hill Institute, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and at Union College, at Schenectady, N. Y., and was admitted to the bar at Schenectady, N. Y., April 7, 1869, before the Judges of the Supreme Court. He commenced practice at Saratoga Springs, and was Superintendent of the public schools of Saratoga County, N. Y., for six years previous to coming to Kansas. He was married in Kent, Portage County, Ohio. They have two children living--Mary H. and Lucy B., and have lost two, one an infant son, Harry, and the other a daughter, Anna, who died in 1876, aged four years.

J. F. WILLETT, general manager and secretary of the York Nursery Company, came to Kansas, September 27, 1867, and located in Franklin Township, Bourbon County, where he resided most of the time until 1874, engaged in farming. For the next four years he was engaged in teaching, and then entered the nursery business, in which he still continues. He was born near Fayetteville, Washington County, Ark., October 26, 1854, and resided there until 1861, when he went to Mercer County, Ill. He remained there until coming to Kansas, in the fall of 1867. He was married November 23, 1880, at the residence of M. M. York, in Scott Township, Bourbon County, Kan., to Augusta Margery York, a daughter of M. M. York.

C. A. WILLIAMS, first assistant teacher in the Plaza School. He commenced his school life at Union College, Ind., afterward attending Wilberforce College from 1857 to 1861. In 1864, coming to Galesburg, Ill., he taught moving on to Somerset, Monroe County, Mo.; also taught in Shelby County. In 1873, he was Principal of the colored school of Quincy, Ill. He then returned to Shelbina, Mo., where he stayed until coming to Fort Scott, in 1878. His wife is a teacher also in the Plaza School, in Room 1. Her education was chiefly acquired from private tutors. Her experience began in 1867, in a school in Missouri, on Otter Creek, succeeded by one on Crooked Creek. She then went to Somerset, and from there with her husband to Quincy, Ill.; then back to Shelbyville, where she taught, also in Shelbina, and on coming to Fort Scott she preceded her husband by some four months in entering the school room.

COL. HIERO T. WILSON was born at Russellville, Logan County, Ky., September 6, 1806, and lived there until 1834. He then went to Fort Gibson, in the Indian Territory, and became associated as clerk with his brother, Thomas E. Wilson, who was then sutler at Fort Gibson, and afterward died at Fort Smith. Col. Wilson removed to Fort Scott September 13, 1843, and was sutler at that point until 1853, when the troops were withdrawn, and there was no government reserve at Fort Scott, and consequently no government property except the buildings of the Fort. Col. Wilson purchased the building, at the general sale of the government buildings in 1855. Four officers' blocks, accommodating two families each, which cost $13,000 each, selling at that time for $300 to $500. In 1857, a town company was formed, of which George A. Crawford was President, and Col. Wilson Secretary and Treasurer, and the town of Fort Scott was laid off and platted. The young town prospered from the first, and its proprietors built houses to some extent, and sold houses and lots as the demand was created. Col. Wilson was engaged in mercantile pursuits for some time, and then entered the real estate and insurance business. He was Postmaster for several years, and served in several prominent positions in early times. He was married in Pettis County, Mo., 30 miles from Boonesville, September 28, 1847, to Elizabeth C., daughter of Gen. David Hogan, and a native of Harlan County, Ky. They have three children--Virginia, now Mrs. Robinson, residing in Durango, Col.; Elizabeth C., Mrs. Goodlander and Fanna (sic) Robley, both residing in Fort Scott.

T. L. WILSON was born in Knox County, Ohio, March 17, 1816, and lived in his native State until March, 1859, when he moved to Vernon County, Mo., and lived there two years; he moved to Kansas in June, 1861, and located in Osage Township, eight miles northeast of Fort Scott, in Bourbon County, where he has been engaged in farming and stock-raising; he has also been employed in building railroads in Kansas, and is now President of the Kansas & Nebraska Central Railroad. He organized the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad in Kansas and was the President of that road for four years; he also built the Parsons & Cherokee Railroad, and was the Vice President and General Manager of that road. He was married in Knox County, Ohio, in 1840, to Miss Mary McCoy, a native of Ohio; they have five children--Elysba, Charles N., Phoebe A., Marion and Myron. Mr. Wilson organized a company of home guards during the war, and was elected to the captaincy of the company. Mr. Wilson commenced building railroads in 1836, and built several roads in Ohio before coming to Kansas, and has been largely engaged in developing the resources of the State of Kansas.

WINSBY & GOUCHER, house, sign and carriage painters. J. R. Winsby was born in Nova Scotia in Queen's County. He learned the trade of painter in the ship yards of Boston, Mass. He left there and came to Avoca, Iowa, where he opened a shop, and visited Kansas in 1872, but going through via Wichita to Galveston, Tex., then to Omaha, with cattle, then to Boston and back. He came to Fort Scott in 1873, and married N. J. Glavebrook. They have a family of three children. The shop was first located on Main street, and then on Wall street. E. S. Goucher is a native of Ohio, born in 1843. He learned his trade in Canfield, Ohio, then traveled with Hoffman's menagerie, from 1862 to 1869, going through the States of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and others. He came to Fort Scott in 1869, and opened his shop. In 1870 he was in partnership with Mr. Lane. For a while during the fishing season, he gives his attention to that business. In 1876 and 1877, he worked for the M. K. & T. R. R., June 27, 1872, he married Miss Lane. They have two children.

Picture of A. M. York A. M. York came to Kansas in 1870, and located at Independence, where he was engaged in the practice of law until 1875. In 1872 he was elected a member of the State Senate. In 1875, he went to Shreveport, La., and remained there two years, engaged in mail contracts in that State and Texas. He then came to Fort Scott and became interested in the York nursery with his father and brother. He is a native of Byron, Ogle Co., Ill.; born July 7, 1838. That was his home until September, 1862, when he enlisted in Company I, Ninety-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant, and in 1863 was promoted to First Lieutenant. In 1864, he was again promoted Captain of Company G, Fifteenth Colored Infantry, and was the same year raised to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel of the Fifteenth Colored Infantry. He was finally mustered out of service in April, 1866, and went to Shelbina, Mo., where he was engaged in practice until he removed to Independence. He was married at Polo, Ogle Co., Ill., March 4, 1861, to Juliett Preston, a native of Oneida Co., N. Y. They had three children--Winnefred J., Ernest Preston and Frederick A. Mrs. York died April 9, 1875, and he was married to his present wife, Candace Tracey, a native of Payson, Ill., at Independence, Kan., March 26, 1877. They have one child--Roscoe Tracey. Col. York is a member of the A., F. & A. M.

Picture of Hon. M. M. York M. M. YORK was born at Towanda, Bradford Co., Penn., on the 15th day of July, 1809. He sprang from a strongly marked ancestry. His grandfather was a pioneer settler of the historic Valley of Wyoming, and fell a victim at the terrible massacre that depopulated that beautiful region. His father, then a babe, was saved by the heroism of its mother, who escaped under the cover of darkness of night, and with others descended the Susquehanna River. The child thus saved became one of the leading Presbyterian divines of Pennsylvania, and was distinguished for the power of his intellect and his power as a pulpit orator, and stood among the foremost in the councils of his church. His son, Miner M., was thoroughly instructed in the tenets of his father's faith, and through all the changes and vicissitudes of a long and active life has held firmly to the teachings of his reverend father. At the age of nineteen years he left the parental home to seek his fortune in the then far West. For several years he engaged in lead mining at Galena, Ill. In 1835, he removed to Rock River County, and made an entry of Government land, opposite to the present town of Byron, in Ogle Co., Ill. In 1837, he married Margery Irvine, eldest daughter of Reverend Alexander Irvine, one of the pioneers of Methodism in the new State of Illinois. They made their home on the same farm continuously until 1865, and raised a family of seven children, five sons and two daughters. In the year 1865, the entire family with the exception of one son, Irvin, then in California, removed to Shelbina, Shelby Co., Mo. Then M. M. York and his son, Julius H., engaged in the nursery business, and remained there until the year 1870, when they removed to Fort Scott, Bourbon Co., Kan., and then and there laid the foundation of the famous York Nursery Company, which has grown into the largest enterprise of the kind west of the Mississippi River. An account of their operations appearing elsewhere in these pages, renders it superfluous to notice at length in this connection. In politics M. M. York was an ardent Whig during the existence of that party, and since the party ceased to exist, he has never attached himself to any party, but has supported men and measures upon their individual merits. In politics, as in religion, he adheres to the views and principles adopted in early life. While he has always been active in business, he has yet been a great reader. His books have been his constant companions. The subjects to which he devoted the greatest attention were ancient history, and the history and growth of the Christian religion, and in a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of both these subjects he has few equals. He is a man of positive ideas, possessed of a keen and searching intellect, and intolerant of all social, religious or political strains. As a business man, he has at all times been a model of uprightness and probity, and in all the walks of life he has made an enviable and noble record of a well-spent and useful life. His greatest ambition and interest in life have centered in his family. He rightly regards the family as a unit of society; that there the bad or good impulses are received that make the child a good or bad citizen when grown to manhood. He is still the strong counselor and watchful father to his children, and, like one of the patriarchs of old, he is still the head of his family, deeply reverenced and beloved by them. He is now in his seventy-fourth year, still actively engaged in the nursery business, an energetic, vigorous old man, retaining full force of his mental powers and affording a marked example of the effects of an active, temperate, honest Christian life in the preservation of his mental and physical forces to a ripe old age.

JULIUS HAMLIN YORK, President of the York Nursery Company, came to Fort Scott April 1, 1870, and has since been engaged in the nursery business on ground which he purchased for the purpose. He had been previously engaged in the same business in Shelbina, Mo., having been in the business now seventeen years. He is a native of Byron, Ogle County, Ill., born January 5, 1845. In 1865, he removed from there to Shelbina, Mo., which was his home until he came to Kansas. He was married at Shelbina February 5, 1870, to Frances L. Brandt, a native of Canandaigua, N. Y. They have two children--Miner M. and Carroll T. Mr. York is a member of the Presbyterian Church. 

A. J. BROWN, M. D., farmer, is a native of Fremont, Sandusky Co., Ohio, born in 1847. Here he was raised and educated, attending the city high school, also the schools of Ann Arbor, Mich., Hudson, Ohio, and the University of Michigan, graduating in medicine in the Charity Hospital of Cleveland, Ohio, 1868. He commenced to practice in his old home at Fremont, Ohio. In 1866, his health failed, and he went to Salt Lake, and returned home only to come to Kansas in 1869, stopping in Fort Scott a few months, but buying a home on his present location. Here he attends to his practice and farm, dealing in stock and raising grain, now owning some 160 acres of improved land. In 1870, he married Miss White. They have three children, two girls and one boy, having lost two. Dr. Brown has held offices and joined the Masonic Order when he was in Fremont. He is a Democrat in politics.

O C. BENDER, M. D., is a native of Overton County, Tenn., born in 1836. His father, who was a leading physician and native of Maryland, moved to Dade County, Mo., in 1842, and here O. C. was educated and received his first lessons in medicine. He also attended the High School of Fidelity, Jasper County, and then took a course of lectures in McDowell's College in St. Louis, Mo. The war breaking out he continued his studies by entering the Sixth Missouri Cavalry in 1862, but was displaced on account of order from the War Department returning Brigade Surgeon to regiment. And in 1864 was surgeon in the Sixth Kansas Militia; after the war he took the final course of lectures and graduated in 1866 from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. The Doctor had moved to Kansas as early as the winter of 1855-56, locating on Mine Creek near Pleasanton. In 1863 he opened an office in Mound City, Linn County, and practiced until 1869, then moving to Fort Scott practiced until 1875, when he moved to his farm where he now lives, having a beautiful home and well improved farm, where he gives his attention to farming, horticulture and medicine. While in Mound City he married Miss Lowe; they have a family of four girls and one boy.

T. B. DARK, farmer, is a native of Schuyler County, Ill., born in 1842. His father died in 1852, and in 1857, the family moved to Kansas locating on what is known as the Nelson farm; there were five brothers and four sisters. When Mr. Dark was eighteen years of age he took a claim where the Crane farm now is, but abandoned it and took a timber claim in Marmaton Township, but when the war broke out he sold and went to Fort Smith, Ark., and went into the livery business. Returning to Kansas in 1868, and buying 160 acres where he now lives, he settled down in his farming enterprise. He handles about eighty head of cattle a year, and raises grain in abundance. In 1867 he married Miss Van Syckle; they have five children.

ALVAN DODGE, M. D., and farmer is a native of Buffalo, Erie Co., N. Y., born in 1840. In 1859 he commenced reading medicine with Dr. Campbell, of Mount Morris, Livingston County, attending the Michigan University in 1861, and graduated from the New York City College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1865. From there he entered the United States Navy as Acting Assistant Surgeon. He resigned his position there and next opened practice in Hannibal, Mo. He then returned to Erie County, N. Y., and went to practicing which he continued until 1880, when he came to Bourbon County, Kan., locating on his farm where is now located the village-site of Marmaton, taking forty acres from the quarter section. Besides his practice he is tending a fine farm, using the most progressive ideas and going into thoroughbred horses, and having improvements to the amount of $5,000 on the home farm. In 1877 he married, now living on one of the finest places in Marmaton Township.

FAHS & STOWER, merchants, Redfield, established in 1882, putting up their building in April, 20x40, and in August opening with a stock of $4,500 in general merchandise. In connection with the store they farm and buy, sell stock and deal in coal, grain and lumber, G. W. Fahs taking the Express Agency and the station for the Fort Scott & Wichita Railroad. Mr. Fahs is a native of Illinois, and raised on a farm, marrying in Quincy, Ill., Miss Harris. When the war broke out he enlisted in the Fiftieth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, but was transferred to the Forty-fourth United States Regulars, as Quartermaster. While Mr. Fahs was in Missouri, he was appointed Deputy United States Marshall. (sic) In 1876 he came to Kansas and went to farming, but his wife died in 1880 and he has been trading up to the time he entered his present business. His family consists of two boys. In 1882 he was elected Justice of Peace.

MRS. J. A. GRIFFIN, residence on Section 10, Township 26, Range 23, native of West Virginia, the widow of the late Senator W. R. Griffin, who was a native of Pennsylvania. With his family he came to Kansas in 1868, and bought the farm on which his widow and younger children now reside; was a consistant (sic) member of the Mount Orum Baptist Church, taking an active part in religious, social and political matters of the State. Engaged while in Kansas in stock raising and farming, during which time he held numerous minor offices, and in 1876 was elected to the State Senate for a term of four years as a Republican, which colors he always bore, serving one term, closing a life of noble deeds and usefulness August 14, 1879, leaving his wife and family, consisting of seven sons and two daughters, a competency as the result of his own efforts. The eldest son, Dr. U. M. Griffin, is now a practicing physician of note in Girard, Kan., while the second and third sons, D. B. and L. W., are now in college studying for the profession. The older daughter, Lizzie F., is known as one of Bourbon County's educators. The younger daughter and sons are with Mrs. Griffin on the farm, which consists of 300 acres well stocked and improved.

J. S. JUDD, farmer, Section 30, is a native of Grant County, Wis., born in 1837. He was raised on a farm, and after trying the agricultural line, he entered a mercantile establishment, soon buying an interest in the business. When the war broke out, he enlisted in the Ninty-fifth (sic) Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Company I, and served as First Lieutenant. In 1864, we find him in the Thirty-seventh Illinois, in command of Fort Montgomery, at Brownsville, Texas. He was mustered out in 1865. Returning to Illinois, he located at Whitehall, where he had gone in 1858, going into the mercantile line. He continued at this till 1875, when he went to work as excursion agent on the M. K. & T. R. R., and afterward over the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf R. R. In 1881, he located on his present home farm, where he has improved and developed the natural resources of the land, solving in most satisfactory manner the question of "tame grasses in Kansas." He has married twice, once in 1858, and the last time in 1870. His first wife was the daughter of William McColtish, the last the daughter of Dr. Culver. While in Whitehall he was Mayor of the city, and did good temperance work there. His family attend the M. E. Church. Mr. Judd in politics is a Republican.

J. R. McBAY, farmer, Postmaster of Redfield, is a native of Dauphin County, Penn., was born in 1819, and remained in Pennsylvania until 1856, when he went to Illinois, and came from Illinois to Kansas. In the year 1868, he was in Linn County a few days and then located in Bourbon County, Kansas. He bought a farm on Section 27, in December, 1868. Continues farming in the same place, and in May, 1882, took charge of the post office. This office was established in 1872; was first kept by Mr. Hopkins. Mr. McBay has been married twice; has four children living and three deceased.

I. N. MILLS, farmer, Section 5, is a native of Alaska County, Ky., born in 1830; his parents moved to Missouri in 1837; he was raised there, and in November 11, 1854, he came to Kansas in company with James Arnot and located where he now lives. He is one of the earliest settlers of this section, and passed through all the early troubles comparatively unmolested; belonging to the Free State party, he was with Montgomery and others noted in the early history of this part of the State, all this time giving his attention to his farm, leaving only for four days, when everyone was ordered away. Out of the 160 acres he has made 294, improving year by year until he is now the possessor of an excellent farm, that for the year 1882 is covered with abundant harvests. Mr. Mills' parents were married in 1826, living together till 1870 when his mother died, his father dying only three months afterward in 1871. Mr. Mills married in 1853; they have six boys and three daughters.

JOSEPH OLIVER, farmer, is a native of Carroll County, Ind., born 1832. The first move he made he went to Cass County, and then in 1857, he loaded his wife and one child into the ox wagon and started for Kansas. On arriving at Scott he went out to where he located his claim and soon had a cabin built. During the border troubles he was engaged in running a mill for E. M. Jones, and in this mill the Free State men held their first convention, at which he was present. When the war opened, on the 24th of July, 1861, he joined the Tenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, Company E, and under Capt. John F. Broadhead and Lieut. David Schoen, he went through the campaign in Arkansas, the heaviest engagements of which were Prairie Grove, December 7, 1862, and Van Buren, December 28, 1862; after this he was on duty at St. Louis, returning home in 1864. His farm is considered one of the best in the county; though only 160 acres, the large crops and fertile soil as well as his prolific apple orchard make it a valuable farm. In 1854 he married Miss Ramsey; they have one son and two daughters.

W. I. SMITH, farmer, is a native of Smith County, Va., born in 1833, and with his father and the rest of the family moved to Illinois, where he remained until he married. He then came to Kansas, together with B. R. Wood, in 1859, when he took a claim on Section 28, and Mr. Wood took claims on Section 21, and though Virginians by birth they were Free State men. Mr. Smith at once went to work improving and cultivating his farm, not being disturbed by the border troubles. When the war broke out, he served in the militia, and belonged to Capt. Smith's company. The first year he was on the farm, he broke twenty-three acres. About the beginning of the dry season 1860, the ground became very dry and the air very hot, so that they had to go to their houses and quit work. In the years that have followed he has prospered, and now has 320 acres, raising grain and handling stock to the amount of from 200 to 300 a year, and his corn for 1882 will average forty-five bushels to the acre. Mr. Smith has served his public friends in the Legislature of the State, being elected in 1878, and in school offices has been treasurer of his district for some thirteen years. In the Missionary Baptist Church he has been ordained Deacon. He has been married twice; by the first marriage, he had eight children, and by the second, one daughter.

JOHN W. STANLEY, farmer, Section 21, is a native of New York; he was raised on a farm, and the first move he made was to Knox County, Ill., and while there he married Miss Caldwell. In 1867 he came to Kansas, buying eighty acres, giving $12.50 an acre. The first season he raised 43 bushels of wheat to the acre, and the next season a crop of corn that netted him $3,700, and the year of 1882 his corn will average 50 bushels to the acre. He is a farmer purely, not raising stock, illustrating the fact that a grain farm is a paying enterprise in Kansas. He has a family of four boys and four girls, all industrious. His son William, a lad of twelve, plowed 100 acres of land this last year. Mr. Stanley has not been in public office, and in politics he is a Republican.

T. J. TOLER, farmer, Section 18, is a native of Logan County, Ky., born in 1827. He remained on the farm till he was sixteen years of age, then learning a trade, "that of carpenter," in 1855, he moved to Jasper County, Mo., where he worked at his trade, he then moved to Bourbon County and farmed with his brother, and worked at his trade also till 1864, when, with his sister and a crippled brother, he started for Kansas in a wagon, when he was waylaid and robbed by bushwhackers, but was finally helped by the Union forces, and arrived in the State and located in Bourbon County. He joined the militia in 1864, and was called out to defend the village of Marmaton, and saw the attack and also the shooting of his comrades by the enemy after they were taken prisoners. He located his farm of 160 acres, having enlarged and improved the claim until he now has 235 in cultivation, some ninety-five in a fine timber land and prairie. In 1858, he married, having five children living and two deceased. Mr. Toler has been treasurer of school district, and in faith he is a Christian Adventist. 

JACOB ANDERSON, farmer, Section 23, is a native of Owen County, Ind., born in 1838. He visited the State of Kansas in 1857, having an uncle, George W. Anderson, living on Turkey Creek, Bourbon County, but in 1858 he returned to Indiana. In September, 1859, he with his father and father's family came to Kansas and located on Section 23. His cousin, Mitchell Anderson, and an old friend, William Jones (now both deceased), emigrated to Kansas with him. When the war of the rebellion broke out he at once joined the army. He served in the State Militia, and later in the Union army, in the Tenth Kansas Veteran Volunteer Regiment, Company C, Sixteenth Army Corps, commanded by Gen. A. J. Smith, and served until the war closed. In 1863 he married Mrs. Lydia Fly, whom he had known since childhood, being a native of the same State and county, in fact they had attended the same school together; she had come to Kansas as early as 1855, having married Mr. Fly in 1856, and his wife passed through all the troubles of those times. In 1856, they were leaving the State when a man named Russell attacked their party, but the men fired and drove them off. They returned to 1857 to their claim in this county and were visited by Montgomery and his men, whom she told she would poison, so they insisted on her tasting all the dishes first. In 1862 Mr. Fly died. Mr. Anderson now has a farm of 200 acres, raising stock and grain, his corn in 1882, averaging forty bushels and flax seven bushels to the acre. Mr. Anderson was married before, but had no children; by this marriage they have seven. Their eldest daughter Laura is a teacher.

M. R. BOLINGER, farmer, Section 22, is a native of Huntingdon County, Penn., born in 1843. The family moved to Carroll County, Ill., where his father still lives. His mother died at their home there in 1860. In 1866, Mr. Bolinger married and moved to Kansas, locating on his present farm, December 20, 1866, paying $650 for his farm 160, then unimproved. He has cultivated it and fenced it, since planted a fine orchard of apple and peach trees. He has also a good residence and outbuildings and excellent fencing, having improved the farm to the cost of $3,000. System of farming is grain and dairy farming; his corn crop is excellent and the result of his work since coming to Kansas satisfactory. He has been married twice; by the first marriage he had three boys; he then married Mrs. Flower, who had two girls; they now have eight children. Mr. Bolinger has officiated as clerk of his school almost ever since its organization in 1874, and was elected Justice of the Peace in 1882.

J. B. BOLINGER, farmer, Section 2, is a native of Huntingdon County, Penn.; from there moved to Carroll County, Ill., and he came to Kansas in 1864, two years before his brother M. R. At one time all of the children of the old family were in the State of Kansas some eleven in number; he has four brothers here now. He located on Section 2, taking 160 acres, now having 248, highly improved, reporting forty bushels of corn to an acre; he is engaged in raising grain and stock. Mr. Bolinger married in 1853, and has a family of ten, two deceased, four girls and four boys living. He is a Republican in politics.

J. N. CROUCH, farmer, Section 29, is a native of Lincoln County, Mo., where his wife was also born, Miss McDowell, whom he married in 1854. In early life Mr. Crouch commenced teaching as well as farming, following these vocations while in Missouri; he was helped also by his wife, who was also a teacher. In the fall of 1857, they moved to Kansas, locating near Xenia, in Franklin Township. He, Mr. Crouch, owned two farms which he worked, retiring for awhile to the village, and at one time teaching a subscription school, but of late years he has giving sic up teaching, although he has not lost his interest, the educational problem, his wife now taking an active part in the school of their neighborhood being elected the last meeting to position of Secretary of the School Board. Mr. Crouch, being an early settler, was in the State Militia during the war of the rebellion, and in 1875 moved to his present farm on Section 29, containing 200 acres, for stock and grain. They have a family of seven children; their daughter is now Mrs. Wells; Henry is in Texas; William Edgar is in business in Missouri; James A. is a horticulturist in California, while Charles, Claude and Jesse are at home. They are members of the Christian Church, and Mr. Crouch is a Greenbacker.

J. M. EASTWOOD, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 1, is a native of Monroe County, Ill., born 1828, learned the blacksmith's trade in his youth, spent his life until the age of thirty-two in manufacturing and repair of machinery and agricultural implements. After spending one year roaming over Texas and other States, emigrated to Kansas and started and improved the farm known as the Walnut Hill farm, and there took his first lesson in farming, being his own instructor. The farm took its name from the accidental dropping of a walnut in the soil, when he was making garden, which grew and is now a fine tree bearing an abundance of fruit, and was the first tree on the farm; but now there are hundreds of the same kind on the place of his own planting. His first year was the starving year of 1860, but by the efforts of himself and family, they raised buckwheat enough to make bread for the family and some to spare. His first crop of wheat was raised from one half bushel of seed, obtained from Springfield, Mo., sowed in the year 1860 and harvested in 1861, with cradle and thrashed with a flail, from which he obtained sixteen bushels of good wheat. During the war he spent his time in farming, gardening, and attending to stock raising, and a part in the militia service, being frequently called to shoulder his musket to help defend his home, and so his time was spent during the war. In 1865, he lost most of his cattle with Spanish fever, which gave him a little set back, and in 1874 he was bondsman for a defaulting county Treasurer, which caused the loss of a great deal of time and money and gave him financial trouble. The year 1875 he spent in traveling to California, Oregon, Washington Territory and the Western Slope, but finding nothing to suit his desires in the way of a better country, he contented himself to remain in Kansas. The year 1880 he spent in the Rocky Mountains, in Montana, for the benefit of his health; having regained his health, with renewed vigor, he returned to his old home and business, and in company with his sons is now in the stock business. They now have on the farm and in pasture between four and five hundred head of stock, which are making good returns. In 1848, he was married to Miss Pegg, of Illinois, and to them have been born eight sons and two daughters; six sons and one daughter are now living. Mr. Eastwood has been a Republican since the organization of that party, and voted and labored with that party for some years after the war, but is now a staunch Greenbacker.

M. D. ELDER, physician and surgeon, is a native of Williamson County, Ill., born in 1848. In 1862, he came to Bourbon County and moved to Uniontown in 1881. Having taken a thorough course of reading, he attended the Keokuk Medical College, and graduated in 1877. The Doctor gets his share of the practice, which is divided up among three of them. He is a man of great ability and promising future; "not married." He joined the Masonic lodge in 1875.

G. P. EVES, merchant and fine stock breeder, is a native of Toronto, Canada, born in 1834. His father was a physician, and it was not till G. P. was twenty years old that he tried farming. While in Illinois, he carried on a grain farm, and in 1860 came to Kansas, locating on Sections 3, 26 and 22, having a farm of 620 acres, and went to raising blooded Durhams and high bred cattle, of which he now has fifty head. In 1861, he enlisted in the Seventh Kansas Volunteer Infantry, Company H. After eighteen months, he came home and organized a battalion for border service, and went in as a Lieutenant Colonel, serving till 1865, when he returned to his farm. He established his mercantile business in 1881, having Mr. Willey for a partner. In 1870, he was elected to the Legislature. Mr. Eves has been married twice, marrying the last time in 1864. They have no children.

C. J. FIELDER, farmer, Section 32, native of Claiborne County, Tenn., born in July, 1833. His father and family moved to Lawrence County, Ind., in 1850. He married Miss Painter in 1856, where he remained until 1859, when he came to Kansas and located on his present farm. Taking 160 acres, his claim was entered through mistake, by a man named Deitrick Foreman, so he entered Foreman's and then changed; and Mr. Fielder prepared to open his farm, but had to sell his oxen and wagon, and bought a milk cow and an old blind mare and lumber for a house, manufactured his own plow and made lines from grape vines. This was his experience of pioneer life in Kansas. The year they came there was a Missionary Baptist Church organized, and in 1868 he was ordained a Deacon. In 1864, he served in the State Militia, and was at the battle of Westport, and then returned to agricultural pursuits. He now has a farm of 320 acres, well improved, on which, by husbandry, he has been able to establish a beautiful home. They have a family of five girls and one deceased.

C. J. HALM, M. D., of the firm of Fulton & Halm, physicians and surgeons, is a native of Luzerne County, Penn., born in 1854. His father died in England, and he was adopted by Mr. Halm, who took him to Fort Scott, Kan., and we find him clerking for Prichard Bros., Druggists, in 1869. While here he met Dr. Fulton, of Union Town, who employed him to clerk in his drug store, where he went in 1871, at the same time reading medicine, which he continued till 1875, when he took a course of lectures in the Missouri Medical College of St. Louis, where he graduated in 1877. On coming back he entered into partnership with Dr. Fulton. They also carry on a stock farm of 220 acres on the edge of town. Dr. Halm married Miss Stelle, of Uniontown. They have one child, a boy. The Doctor is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

H. A. HILL, furniture and hardware, grain and agricultural implements, is a native of Rock Island, Ill. Was born in 1845 and raised on a farm, and in 1861 he moved to Missouri, where, in 1864, he enlisted in the Forty-seventh Missouri Volunteer Infantry, Company B. He served one year; then, peace returning, he returned to his former pursuits. In 1866, he came to Kansas and located a claim near Marmaton, on Section 22, remaining till 1873, when he moved to Uniontown and worked at the trade of wagon-maker in partnership, first, with T. L. Ledbrook, then with C. S. Steele, who bought Mr. Ledbrook's interest. In 1881, he sold to Mr. Steele and established his present business. In 1865, on Christmas, he married Miss Mahler. They have three children--two boys and a girl. Mr. Hill has always taken an interest in the schools, and has served on the local school board. He belongs to the Masonic lodge, and also the A. O. U. W.

JAMES F. HOLT, farmer, Section 2, native of East Tennessee, born April 15, 1819. He was raised in Indiana, and for ten consecutive years he held offices there, having to resign when he came away. In 1852, he went to Iowa, and from there to Missouri. Coming to Kansas in 1858, he bought a claim of his brother, William, and had a post office established and was appointed first Postmaster in 1858, continuing for four years and six months, or until the Turkey Creek Post Office was discontinued. In 1862, Mr. Holt was elected County Judge, and was Commissioner in 1865, and has always been a delegate and regular attendant at the Democratic conventions. During the early troubles the Judge occupied neutral grounds, but, notwithstanding, he was present and saw many of the lawless proceedings that took place, and was at times in a perilous position. He has a thorough knowledge of all parties and their motives, of all the early incidents of this section. From the claim he first bought he has made a farm of 360 acres, 200 now under cultivation, raising good crops of wheat and corn, having some of the finest cattle in the country, and keeping blooded horses and hogs. In 1840, he took his first wife, but losing her, he married again in 1860. By the first marriage he had eight children, and six by the second, having lost two. Mr. Holt was Township Treasurer for five years, and served on the School Board as Clerk, etc., since 1870. He has been Notary Public, and was one of only four Masons west of Fort Scott in 1858. He is a charter member of the lodge at Uniontown.

WILLIAM JACKMAN, farmer and Postmaster, Rockford, is a native of Pennsylvania. In early life he moved to Guernsey County, Ohio, coming from there to Kansas in 1858 and locating on the north side of the section where he now lives, and in 1859 he married Miss Mason. This was an early date for this section, and he was counted among the pioneers, enduring the privations which marked early life on the frontier of civilization. In 1861, he enlisted in the Twelfth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, Company K, and served until 1865, when he was mustered out and returned home. During the time he was away, his family lived with his wife's father, Benjamin Mason. In 1863, he lost all of his property by a prairie fire, and in 1877, he moved to the southeast quarter of Section 17, where he engaged in stock farming and conducting a store and post office. He started his store in 1879, and was appointed Postmaster in 1881. They have four children living and three dead. The family are members of the Protestant Methodist Church, organized there in 1877.

T. B. JULIAN, miller, native of Putnam County, Tenn., was born in 1843. His father, T. K. Julian, M. D., visited Fort Scott in 1854, but returned to Cassville, Barry Co., Mo. In 1855, June 5, he came to Fort Scott with his father, and they went West to Mapleton, Bourbon County, and settled there where his father still lives. In 1861, he commenced milling with Noel & Myrick, and the same year went into the army as a scout, and served during the war in various capacities, as messenger and wagon-master, also enlisted as private in Company B, Third Kansas Cavalry. In the milling business he has worked for Deland & Bacon, millers, Fort Scott, and for others. In 1877, he moved from Mapleton to Fort Scott, and while there was elected Alderman of the First Ward, 1880 to 1881; he had been Under Sheriff of Labette County, and Superintendent of the Poor there. In 1881, he moved to Uniontown and bought an interest in the Uniontown Steam Flouring Mills, which he is now managing; they have three run of stone and a capacity of 120 bushels of wheat and 200 bushels of corn. The property is worth about $6,000. Mr. Julian married in 1868, Miss Nelson. They have three children. He belongs to the Masonic Lodge and the A. O. U. W.

I. D. MARKS, station agent on the St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita Railroad, is a native of Butler County, Ohio, born in 1849, May 16. As soon as he was of suitable age he was educated in the mercantile business, but he went to Illinois in 1865, to Arcola. It was while here he married Miss Wright in 1877, and next year commenced his railroad experience on the Illinois Midland; his first station was Chesterville, Ill. In 1881, he came West, and on April 1, 1882, took the station at Uniontown, having also the Western Union Telegraph agency. His matrimonial venture was blessed with one daughter.

G. W. OLIVER, farmer and Superintendent of the Poor, Bourbon County. He is a native of Geneva, Ontario County, N. Y.; was born in 1832, February 28, at the foot of Seneca Lake. When eleven years of age, his father moved to La Grange, Ind., and from there they moved to St. Joe County, Mich. After four years' residence here, he went to live with his grandfather, James Goodwin, at Geneva, N. Y. In 1854 he returned to his father's farm, and then went into the machine shops at Sturgis' Ferry; from there he went to St. Joe, Ind., into an ax factory there; while in this place he married Miss Eller in 1858; next year going to Taweas, Iosco Co., Mich., where he farmed and worked at carpenter work. In 1864, he enlisted in the Marine Corps, at Portsmouth, N. H., serving in the barracks; was removed to the Brooklyn barracks, and soon joined the man-of-war vessel St. Mary's, and sailed in the coast service to Valparaiso, Chili; then to Panama, where he had the yellow fever; then to San Francisco. He was transferred to the Jamestown and went to Panama, then back, and on up the Pacific coast to Sitka, where he saw a curious land and a curious people. They touched at Vancouver's Island on their return trip to San Francisco where he was transferred to the barracks, and discharged September 16, 1868, and sailed for home, arriving October 24, 1868, returning to the pursuits of civil life. In 1871, he came to Kansas, locating in Uniontown, and in 1872 he took charge of the Poor Farm, giving it up in 1874, and farming A. Chaffin's farm; taking charge of the County Poor Farm again in 1877, retaining possession to present time, 1882. In 1880, he bought A. Chaffin's farm of 130 acres, in Section 27, which he also farms now, in blooded cattle, horses and grain. He has four children living; has buried two since living in Kansas. During his eventful life, he has been on a man-of-war forty-four months and was away from home four years.

JAMES PATTERSON, general merchandise, is a native of Missouri, born in February, 1817, and has since commencing business always been in the mercantile line with the exception of ten or twelve years; when he was in a foundry in Alton, Ill., to Kansas in 1870; he has the third oldest store in Uniontown. He built the building in which he does business at a cost of $4,500; 24x60, two stories high. He now carries a stock of $5,000, and does a steadily increasing business. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, but there being none of that denomination here, he helped to build the Protestant Methodist Church, which he attends. He married in Illinois, and has five boys and three girls, all of age--George and William in the business with him; James is agent for J. T. Stalker, general store; John is a blacksmith at La Harpe, Allen County, and Elmer is in Montana, on the railroad. Both sic of his daughters are married, and his household consists of nine members now.

D. T. RALSTON, farmer, Section 8, is a native of Lincoln County, Tenn., born in 1818, June 10, and was raised in Fayette County. When eighteen years of age, he went to Greene County, Mo., where he was employed at farming and working at the carpenter's trade in the neighborhood of Springfield. In the spring of 1840, he married Miss Guttry, and moved to Kansas in 1855, whither John and James Guttry had preceded them, being the first settlers in Marion Township. On the 12th of January, 1855, he arrived, and, as was his custom, he staked out his claim from hill to hill, taking in a choice piece of 320 acres, retaining the most of it now. During this time he had some trouble to keep the squatters from his claim, and in 1856, he relates, as they were taking the body of one of his children to the grave, they were met by a company of Pro-slavery men, who demanded his horse of him, and after following them to the place of burial, possessed themselves of the horse, promising to return it, which they did afterward. In 1855, he had but a few neighbors, being McCarty, Fly, Mitchell and Coyle. In 1857, he lost his wife. He remained a widower until 1859, when he married again to Miss Rhotom, of Bourbon County. He has improved his farm and now raises stock and grain on 300 acres. His family consisted of sixteen children, nine of whom are living. In 1856, Mr. Ralston was elected Justice of the Peace, but his commission was made out in another name, so he never served. He has belonged to the Masonic fraternity since 1864, and is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

C. S. STEELE, blacksmith and wagon maker, is a native of Port Byron, Cayuga Co., N. Y. Was born in 1834. Removing to Logansport, Ind., in 1843, and while in La Porte County, he learned his trade. His father's family live in Indiana yet. Tracing their ancestry back to the Patriarch John Steele, who was born in Essex County, England, and came to Cambridge, Mass., in 1631, the descent is as follows: the Patriarch John Steele had married a wife in England, who died in 1653; he then married Mercy Seymour; he died at Farmington, Conn., November 25, 1655; his son John, Jr., married Mercy Warner, and died in 1653 or 1654; his son Lieut. John, born November 5, 1647, married Ruth Judd, of Farmington; he died in 1737, August 26; his son, Lieut. John, was born March 7, 1685, married Mary Newell, and died April 2, 1751; his son Solomon, born November 18, 1728, married Mary Guernsey, and died 1786; his son, Job, married Olive Stoddart, and died 1813. This was Mr. Steele's grandfather, and his son, or Elisha, lived and died in Indiana. Six of the old family are in Kansas. C. S. Steele arrived in Kansas, May 15, 1860, in Fort Scott, June 16, and went to Rockford, July 12, in company with George Diamond. He then bought out Gilford & Hamlin, the pioneer blacksmiths of Rockford, and in company with M. L. Ford, worked at his trade and farmed. On the 22d of August, 1862, he enlisted in the Second Kansas Battery, serving there till September, when he was promoted to First Lieutenant of Company G, Fourteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry; then was commissioned Commissary, and finally received the commission of Captain in the same company. In 1865, he was mustered out and returned to his home in Rockford. In 1873, he removed to Uniontown, and established his business here as blacksmith, and took possession of the wagon shop in 1881. He still has 280 acres for farming purposes, besides owning other property. Mr. Steele has ever taken a determined stand in politics, and as a reward, the people elected him to the Legislature in 1871 for the Fifty-second Representative District, on the Republican ticket. From 1879 to the present year, 1882, he has been Justice of the Peace and also Notary Public. He has held other minor offices, always found ready to serve the public for the public good. He has four daughters and is one of the charter members of the A. O. U. W., and Recorder of the same.

D. C. STEVENS with J. W. Brown, is a native of Albany, N. Y., born in 1851. His father was in the gents' furnishing line, so he was educated to a mercantile life. Coming West to Missouri in 1867, went to work for Pierce & Cobb, in St. Louis; coming to Kansas in 1865, he entered the store of Mr. Foster, but soon after went onto a farm, and in 1879 he commenced with J. W. Brown, and is now manager of the business, which was bought of Mr. Foster by J. W. Brown in 1869, carrying a stock of $4,500. Mr. Brown is now conducting a branch store in Toronto, Woodson County, of about the same magnitude as this one.

JOAB TEAGUE, farmer, Section 14, is a native of North Carolina, born in 1812. When about fourteen years of age, he went to Indiana, and in 1837, to Missouri, and twenty years afterward came to Kansas and bought a claim of Mr. Etheridge, comprising 500 acres for $500. The land was then not surveyed. About this time they organized a commission regulating claims, of which he was a member. He stood on neutral ground in the Free-State and Pro-slavery fight; although his feelings were those of the Free-State men, he was unmolested by the two parties; though they had his name and a list of his property. When the Governor of the State appointed Boards to settle and arrange all troubles, he was one of the members. In 1859, he was County Treasurer; Justice from 1858 to 1862, and again elected. Since, he has taken great interest in the public welfare of the State. Mr. Teague was first married in 1835, and lost his wife in 1857. Marrying again in 1863, to Miss Wood. Mr. Teague had five boys and one girl by his first wife, and three boys by his second wife. Is a successful farmer and fruit grower, taking the premium on his apples all over the world, at the Centennial in 1876, and this year, 1882, has an apple weighing twenty-one ounces and measuring fifteen and a half inches in circumference.

J. W. WELLS, farmer, Section 27, is a native of Rutherford County, N. C., where he was born in 1828. Until he was eleven years of age they lived in his native State, and in 1839 moved to Greene County, Tenn.; here they engaged in stock farming, and in 1851 he married Miss Brown. Immediately starting West he located Cape Girardeau, Mo.; while there he was engaged in farming and here his brother Robert was married. In October 27, 1855, they came to Bourbon County and located in an almost wilderness, there being only the Guthreys and one or two other families in the section for miles. There was another family named Russel that attempted to wrest the claim from Robert Wells, coming to the unfinished cabin and entered, when the two brothers ordered them from the claim. A stone struck the eldest brother, John, when the war was opened. Neither party used arms or knives, which was fortunate, and the Wells brothers coming off victorious, the Russel party retreated. Such were the perils of pioneer life in Kansas in 1855. John Wells had at first located on Section 12, Town 25, Range 22, but in 1857 he moved to his present location, which he has improved, and now has a farm of 360 acres of fertile soil covered with heavy crops; himself and wife are the only couple of '55 now living in Marion Township; their daughter, Mary Holt, was the first child born in Marion; he belonged to the first town company.

W. F. WELLS, merchant, Uniontown, is a native of Missouri, born in 1852. His father, J. W., and his uncle Robert were pioneers in this township, coming West and settling in 1855, bringing W. F. with them. His youth was spent on a farm, and as he grew older he became quite an expert with the gun, spent his time hunting, and in the chicken season killing 120 dozen prairie chickens, and eighty dozen quail; his best season in 1877 he killed 1,500 chickens; his best day's record is thirty-seven birds without a miss, having to shoot one a second time, but his younger brother David has made the best record known, killing forty-four chickens, two jack-rabbits and one plover in forty-four shots, three shots each killing a brace of chickens; he followed shooting till 1881 when he built his store and stocked it with general merchandise, at the cost of $1,800, and is now doing a good business. He married a Miss Crouch, the daughter of J. M. Crouch, one of the pioneer families; their union has been blessed with one child.

G. C. WILLEY, merchant, Uniontown, of the firm of Eves & Willey, is a native of Sullivan County, N. H., born in 1838; he first learned the business of an engineer, and also clerked, but his health failed and he went West, locating in Iowa; he tried machine shops of Clinton. This was in 1867. Here he had an excellent offer, but his health failed again and he then cam to Kansas, locating in Erie, Neosho County, in 1868; from here he traveled for Parsons & Co., Kansas City; he was a commercial agent for some years, then commencing in Uniontown in 1871, with a stock of some sixty-odd dollars, by perseverance he established himself, and in 1875 was appointed Postmaster. He was so successful that in 1881, he built and stocked a store with general merchandise; he was appointed agent for the Adams Express in the same year, and in 1882 Mr. G. P. Eves went into partnership with him. In 1861 he enlisted; in 1865 he returned to his former occupation. He has been married twice, marrying the last time Miss Annie Rousche, daughter of James R. Rousche.

ELIAS WILLIAMS, farmer, P. O. Uniontown, is a native of New Jersey, born in April, 1815; when he was four years old he moved to Ohio with his parents, and remained there till he was twenty-four, when he went to LaSalle County, Ill., and began farming. While here he married Miss Lewis, of Ohio, one of the pioneer families of that section, and as for himself he was one of the pioneers of three States, Ohio, Illinois and Kansas. In 1859, he came to Kansas, locating in Johnson County, and in 1860, he came to Bourbon County, and settled on Section 14, going into stock and grain farming on a farm of 339 acres, cultivating about 150 acres. In 1840, he was married and now has six children--John, in the Chickasaw nation; Jerome, at home; Reese was in Gunnison County, Col., Fred is away, Charles is at home, and a daughter, now Mrs. Goff. Mr. Williams was Justice in 1861 and 1867 and also in Illinois; he has always taken an interest in school matters, and has held school office. 

J. BARKER, farmer, Section 6, is a native of Indiana, born in 1836; at an early age moved to Missouri and was raised there as a farmer, living in the southern part, near the line. In 1862, he moved to Kansas, and enlisted in the Fourteenth Kansas Cavalry, and was in Arkansas during most of the campaign, being mustered out in 1865. He returned home and having bought his present farm in 1863, he at once moved onto it, and commenced improving, and under his husbandry it has grown to be 270 acres of fertile land, on which we find broad stretches of corn field and numerous herds of stock. Mr. Barker has been married twice, one in 1857 to Miss King and the last time to Miss Nellie Britt; by the first marriage he had six children, and one by the last. In politics he is a Republican.

J. W. BOWLUS, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 28, is a native of Frederick County, Md. He was born March 28, 1837, and when eight years of age went to Fremont, Ohio, where he was raised and educated. In 1857 he graduated from Oberlin Commercial College, afterward farming and lumbering; then in partnership with Capt. Totten, a ship-carpenter, built a schooner for the grain trade between Chicago and Buffalo. But when the war broke out he enlisted in the three months' service, under Capt. Writter; then he was elected First Lieutenant of Company E, Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In 1861, he joined the army in West Virginia, and was stationed under Col. Milroy, at Cheat Mountain summit, which they fortified. Being surrounded by Gen. Lee's army, he describes a remarkable scout on which he was sent in order to open communication with Gen. Reynolds. With sixty picked men, in gray uniform, he proceeded to run the rebel camp, which he did by entering their camp as the picket-guard was forming, and in the dim light marched through and out by a bridle-path. When approaching a house on Becky Creek, at daylight, they were discovered by the rebels and fired at; Capt. Coon, of the Fourteenth Indiana, wanted to have an engagement; Lieut. Bowlus put his men in cover, while Capt. Coon went forward to reconnoiter. The rebels fired, shooting down the advance, consisting of a Sergeant and five men. Lieut. Bowlus advanced to the support of Capt. Coon, but the rebels advancing at the same time, the two commands were separated; Capt. Coon made for Cheat Mountain summit, while Lieut. Bowlus made for a canyon, where he kept the enemy at bay from 7 A. M. until 11 A. M. This was a remarkable engagement, for here was the lieutenant with a handful of brave men contending with the whole force of Col. John A. Washington's command, and when one of the Union Surgeons returned, who had been called by the wounded rebels who were left on the field, his escort reported eighty-three rebels killed and wounded; the dead were found buried in the canyon covered with logs and leaves. After the Lieutenant reported to Gen. Reynolds, at Huttonville, he returned to Cheat Mountain. He was shortly after sent on another successful scout after a band of guerrillas called the Dixey Boys, on Seneca Creek, where he remained until the entire band was broken up, and then joined Gen. Milroy at Monterey, and advanced with the army to McDowal. From here he was sent on a scout to Pocahontas County, Va., for the purpose of destroying a mill, the rendezvous and source of supplies of a band of guerrillas infesting that county. This expedition was successful and practically put an end to guerrilla warfare in that part of the State. It was while on this expedition that Gen. Joseph E. Johnson engaged and defeated the Union forces under Gen. Milroy, at McDowal, forcing Milroy to fall back in the direction of Franklin, leaving the country between Lieut. Bowlus and the Union forces in possession of the rebels. The rebel cavalry being informed by the natives of the Lieutenant's expedition, lost no time in finding his whereabouts. Then commenced a series of skirmishing and bushwhacking which lasted five days. By keeping the mountains and marching by bridle-paths and changing from one spur of the mountain to another, during the night, the Lieutenant finally joined the Union forces under Gen. Fremont, at Franklin, without the loss of a man. After the battle of Cross Keys he was promoted to Captain of Company C; was on the skirmish line that opened the second battle of Bull Run, and with the rear guard that covered the retreat from the field. Stationed at Fort Ellsworth, in front of Washington, that winter, laying at Stafford Court House. The spring campaign of 1863 opened with the battle of Chancellorsville. In this engagement his regiment lost out of a total of 700, nearly 500 men, and from being the seventh Captain in rank, he was left in command on the field of the handful of surviving soldiers of his regiment. Soon after he was commissioned Major, and in July following, he received his commission of Lieutenant Colonel. His health was so impaired that shortly after the battle of Gettysburg he was compelled to resign, leaving the army August 4, 1863. He then went north to the lakes; recovering somewhat his health, he returned to Fremont, Ohio, where he married Miss Annie B. Rice, and went into the mercantile line, but sold out and came to Kansas in 1866, and located on Section 28, taking 160 acres of raw prairie, from which he has produced a well-arranged farm. In 1876, he visited Nevada and California. Col. Bowlus has held offices of trust for the public and is an earnest worker and believer in the principles of the Republican party as enunciated and practiced by Abraham Lincoln. His orchards have produced fruit that can be equalled sic nowhere but in Kansas. They have but one child--Ella R.

H. B. BROWN, merchant, Pawnee Station, a native of Eaton, Madison Co., N. Y., born in 1831; he went to Indiana with his parents in 1837, and they removed to Illinois in 1841, where they remained until 1859, when he came to Kansas, locating on a farm in Section 31, Marion Township, living there until 1862. In 1865, he was called out to serve in the Home Guards and State Militia, holding the position of Commissary Sergeant. In 1871, he opened the first mercantile establishment in the village of Pawnee, commencing in a building 14x20 feet. He has in the intervening time, with characteristic perseverance, increased his business until 1882 we find him with a stock of merchandise amounting to $5,000; in a large building; also dealing in lumber, stock and baled hay, doing a business of about $30,000 a year. Mr. Brown has had the post office since 1871. He married and has one daughter.

J. G. CLAYFIELD, farmer, Section 5, native of Illinois. His father, J. G. Clayfield, Sr., was a native of Prussia, and followed the sea for some years, bringing a family to America and locating in Tennessee; from there he came to Illinois, and then to Kansas in 1866, locating on the farm they now possess. They have made an excellent home out of the raw, unimproved prairie, but in 1880, Mr. Clayfield died. Since then the boys have carried on the farm. In 1878, J. G. Calyfield, sic Jr. married and settled on part of the estate now consisting of 260 acres. They give their attention to raising stock and grain, of which corn is the staple. Mr. Clayfield has been in public office and is a Republican in politics.

L. GRIFFITH, hotel, Pawnee Station, a native of Genesee County, N. Y., was born in 1826; his parents were early settlers in that country, his father building the first bridge on Perry Creek. Mr. Griffith left New York in 1870 and went to Michigan; having lost his wife, he married in this State, and in Decatur he learned and worked at butchering. In 1877, he came to Kansas and went to farming, but sold, and took a hotel in Hepler, Crawford Co., Kan.; leaving there he came to Pawnee, and bought the Pawnee House of Mr. Botsford; after fitting it up he rented and went into hotel business in Cherokee; from there he went to Indian Springs in McDonald County, but has since moved back to Bourbon County, having bought a farm in Pawnee Township, and farmed the summer of 1882, moving into the hotel in October, 1882. He has one daughter by the first marriage. In 1870, he married Miss Raymond, who is a teacher, having followed the profession for twenty years, teaching in New York, Michigan, Kansas and Missouri. She was a native of the same county as her husband, and was born in 1842.

WILLIAM DUNN, farmer, Section 34, a native of Wexford County, Ireland, was born in 1844. He came with his mother to America in 1856; they located in Pennsylvania; from there they moved to Wisconsin. His father having died in Ireland in 1856, the boys supported the family, and William's experience has been varied. In 1867 we find him employed on the Burlington Railroad, and afterward on the Union Pacific. While working on this road he lived for eleven months in Utah, where his first child was born. Here he made money; then moved to Omaha. He then pre-empted a farm on the Big Blue, but abandoned it and returned to Omaha working there for Dick Whitney. He then went to Texas and contracted on the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad, making money there and then returned to Kansas, December 31, 1873, and located on his present farm, where he has 320 acres of improved land. Here he handles about 100 head of cattle, from 300 to 400 head of sheep and some fifty hogs a year; reporting for 1882 a yield of forty bushels of corn to the acre on his farm. In 1866, he married, but has lost all his children but one boy--George J. Mr. Dunn is a Democrat in politics, and is a member, as is his wife, of the Catholic Church.

THOMAS HARTNETT, Hiattville, employee of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, a native of Ireland, was born in 1842. His parents moved to Canada in 1844; from there to New York in 1846, and came West to the State of Missouri in 1852. Mr. Hartnett has been a railroad man for some sixteen years. He came to Kansas in 1865, and in 1878 he married Miss Jury. They are the second family that settled in Hiattville, where he owns property. They have a family of two children. Mr. Hartnett was engaged in freighting during the war for the Government.

W. F. HIATT, farmer, P. O. Hiattville, Sec. 36 is a native of Indiana. He was raised a farmer, and from his native place moved to Iowa in 1866, then to Kansas, arriving in 1868; he then located in Scott Township, Bourbon County, farming the land owned by Mr. Westervelt; moving in 1869 to his present home in Pawnee Township, where he bought 160 acres and opened a farm that has since developed into one of the finest farms in the section, and with the best of improvements, making it one of the most valuable places in the township; he handles nearly 100 head of cattle yearly; his corn for 1882 will average forty bushels to the acre; his stock is thoroughbred cattle, Durham, and his horses Norman. He has a thoroughbred called Bob Havier, that took the premium at the Bourbon County Fair for 1882. Mr. Hiatt has been an active partisan in the leading public issues, and has served at home in local offices. He has a family of four boys and one girl. In 1862, he enlisted in the Eighty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, serving three years. At the battle or siege of Nashville he had nine bullet holes in his clothing, and his knapsack shot away, yet escaped unharmed. He married in 1866.

R. J. MORRISON, farmer and mechanic, Section 15, is a native of Indiana, was born in 1831. While still young his parents moved to Illinois, and from there he went to Iowa, where he remained from 1862 to 1869, then came to Kansas, locating in Section 15, buying a farm of 160 acres, which he has increased to 280, farmed to stock and grain, his fertile acres turning out forty bushels of corn to the acre for 1882. Mr. Morrison married in 1859, and has five children. He is prominent in local politics, being Township Trustee. He attends, as does his family, the Methodist Episcopal Church.

E. B. RALL, merchant, Hiattville, was born at Macomb, McDonough Co., Ill., in 1838. He came to Kansas in 1859, located at Raysville, and engaged in farming. In 1861, he returned to Illinois, and enlisted in the Second Illinois Cavalry, and afterward in the Eighty-fourth Illinois Infantry, in a company of which he served as Sergeant. In 1863 he returned to Illinois, married and in 1866 again emigrated to Kansas, locating on Mill Creek. Here for a time he followed farming, but on account of failing health moved to Section 11, Pawnee Township, opened a trading post, kept the stage line then run by William Smalley, and the post office at Pawnee. Upon selling his farm on Section 11, he moved to Section 15, and in 1869, moved to Hiattville and opened the first mercantile establishment in that town. Originally his investment in business amounted to about $800, with a proportionate annual trade; at present his investment in the store is $6,000, with an annual business of $3,000. Mr. Rall also deals in stock, grain and hay. He has three hay presses and a large barn in which he stores his baled hay, of which he presses on an average twenty tons per day. The mother of Mr. Rall died in 1875. His father lives with him at Hiattville. Mr. Rall has been married twice. By the first marriage he had one child, a boy named Eddie; and by the second marriage six children. He has held several offices, and has taken an active interest in the success of the Republican party. He belongs to the G. A. R., and to the Temple of Honor.

G. W. ROMSPERT, merchant, Hiattville, established his business in August, 1882; buying the lots and building a large store room, he opened with a stock of some $8,000--the largest establishment in the village; he handles stock, grain and produce, doing a probable business of $25,000 a year. He is a native of Greene County, Ohio, born in 1857, and was raised and educated there, having read law with the noted firm of Sprigg & Vallandigham, of Dayton. He opened his law office in Xenia, Ohio, where he practiced until 1882, when he came West, having been through the wildest part of the Western life and wilds during the years 1877-78. He published a book entitled "Romspert's Travels Through the West" of which he sold a large number. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., of Xenia, Ohio.

J. H. WILLIAMS & SON, agricultural implements and lumber, Hiattville, established in March, 1882. Mr. J. H. Williams is a native of Kentucky, born in 1816, from there he moved to Ohio, then to Missouri, then coming to Kansas in 1874. While in Missouri he married Miss Stone; they had seven children. The youngest, R. Tillard Williams, is the junior partner of the firm; he is a native of Missouri, and was born in 1854. He was raised and educated in that State and married Miss Wilcox, of Miami County. When they first came to Kansas, they located in Miami County, Kan., in 1874, in 1877, Scott Township, Bourbon County, where they farmed and in 1882 sold out coming to Hiattville and establishing themselves. 

B. BAUGUESS, farmer, is a native of North Carolina, was born in 1824. The family first moved to Indiana and from there they came to Dade County, Mo. Coming to Kansas and locating on their present farm in August, 1855, being considered the earliest settler now in Drywood Township. His father-in-law, George Holliday, came with him but returned to Indiana in the fall of 1856. During the border warfare he was not molested, giving his attention to improving his farm. In 1862, he was captured by a party of about eighty men belonging to the Livingstons band, taken from his house, robbed of $90 or $100 in cash and was released finally to return home, though they killed his neighbors Southerd and H. Howard, wounding Charlie Howard. During the latter part of the rebellion, after his capture, he was in the State Militia. The same year he was called out to make a raid into Missouri with Capt. Bray's command. In the meantime, between his militia services and avoiding the bushwhackers, his farm did not develop; it was not till afterward that he had the fine place he has now. Mr. Bauguess married Miss Holliday, and they have five children living, four deceased. He was Justice of the Peace for twelve years, being elected in 1858. He was appointed Chairman of the Township Board by Gov. Denver, then elected by the people for a second term. He is Deacon in the Predestinarian Baptist Church, was ordained in 1876.

J. B. CALDWELL, farmer, Section 23, is a native of Washington County, Penn., was born in 1839. In 1854 the family moved to Ohio, but the location proved unhealthy so they started for Kansas in 1858. Arriving in Kansas City, they met Judge Fairwell, who directed them to Rockford Valley, Bourbon County, but they stopped in Fort Scott, and bought property there consisting of four lots, then reaching from the Gulf Railroad to the town limits, but now described by the lots owned by H. Collins. In taking the property, his father also took the mail contracts which was carried by himself and sons. He had three, John B., T. A. and A. B.; besides these there were two daughters. The town property was bought for $800 of Thomas Roberts, and was sold for much more in later years. They being early settlers of Fort Scott, were acquainted with all the history of this section belonging to those times, and J. B. served in the militia in the war of the rebellion. In 1868, the boys John B. and A. B. bought the farm where they live, of 320 acres and moved on it in 1869, where they carry on a first-class grain farm, being among the few that raise good wheat. Mr. Caldwell was married to Miss McKay. Both parents are deceased, his father died in 1876 and mother in 1879.

W. R. CLYBOURN, farmer, Section 36, is a native of La Porte County, Ind., born in 1835. He was raised on a farm, and he did not leave his native State till 1858, when he came to Kansas, locating on the Drywood for a while. In 1861, moving to his present location where he has a farm of 400 acres, owning 320 in Missouri. In 1875, the town company of the village of Memphis was organized, consisting of himself, D. N. Phelps and T. Woodard, each taking a one-third of the forty acres from their farms. It was his misfortune to be called out with Jennison in his raid into Missouri in 1862, and he also served in the militia in 1864 under H. Coffein, Captain. He is now giving his attention to his farm, raising large quantities of grain and handling some stock. In Indiana he married Miss Metcalf; they had two children, and this year, 1882, she died. Mr. Clybourn was the first Postmaster of Memphis; he is Township Trustee, and a member of the M. E. Church and Superintendent of the Sunday school; he is trustee of the church and on the building committee, putting up a building that will cost some $10,000 to $12,000.

W. C. CUSTARD, farmer, Section 14, is a native of Erie, Penn. In the old State there were quite a number; the family there were some twelve of them in the Presbyterian Church choir, well-known for their musical talent, singing there for some twenty years. In 1857, they left Pennsylvania and came to Jasper County, Mo., where they stopped till they located their claims, three brothers taking 160 acres apiece, locating on the same section on which they now live. William now has a farm of 240 acres, and is farming it successfully in stock and grain. The family in early days braved many perils, and on account of open and avowed Free-State principles ran many risks; his sisters making the first Union flag for the soldiers of this section. William married Miss Mary J. Coffein, in 1860; married by Parson Dr. Hogan. Mr. Custard has served on the School Board for eight years. They are members of the Presbyterian Church, and were members while in Pennsylvania.

F. M. DRUMMOND, farmer and merchant; farm in Vernon County, Mo.; native of Greene County, Ill. Born in 1844, he was raised on a farm, and in 1869, located in Missouri, where he now lives carrying on a farm there till 1881, when he bought out T. Woodard's business and stock of hardware and general merchandise, now carrying about $1,200 in stock, and doing a business of some $5,000 a year. He has 220 acres in his farm, well improved, and raising stock and grain. In 1871, he married Miss Anderson. They have four children.

JAMES S. DURBORAW, farmer, Section 26. Mr. Durboraw's ancestors were Scotch and Irish; his grandfather was Capt. Isaac Durboraw, of the Revolutionary Army, and his father Maj. John Durboraw, of the war of 1812. He claims Pennsylvania as his native State, and 1813 the year of his birth. In 1827, he started to learn printing as his trade, but ran away after serving two years, and went to Cincinnati, taking a trip on the steamer, Bonnets of Blue; there was one other boat on the river called the Rising Sun. After working in the printing office and finishing his trade he went back home; beginning about this time a series of wanderings that covered a space of about eighteen years. In 1837, he married Miss Nancy Smith, of Chambersburg, Penn. In following his trade they moved to Pittsburgh, when after remaining two years, he moved to St. Louis. He had previous to this made two trips to New Orleans, visiting important cities on the route; then the last trip was in 1839, when he was recalled by his brother-in-law to take charge of a foundry, but arriving too late he waited for his bride in Chambersburg, Penn.; then in company with several other families moved to Bartholomew County, Ind., where after a stay of eight years moved to Illinois in 1855, and in 1859, moved to Kansas where he entered 160 acres; he sold it in 1869 and moved to Section 26, where, from time to time, he has purchased land, having a farm of 280 acres, which he runs as a grain farm. In early years here, many of the farmers of this section stopped at his house before locating their farms. His family consists of five children, all grown and married but one--Fillmore S. James, who went to California in 1857, and has not been heard from since. Mr. Durboraw is a member of the I. O. O. F., and his son John was in the Sixth Kansas Regular Army, under Capt. Greenoe.

A. J. ENDICOTT, farmer, Section 21, is a native of Pike County, Ky., and was born November 22, 1836. Came to Kansas in 1859, locating on a claim now owned by William Ewing. In 1863, he enlisted in the Fourteenth Kansas Cavalry, and in a battle at Mons Mills, was taken prisoner and marched to Tyler, Texas, where for eight months he was exposed to untold suffering, having his clothes taken from him, and starved; he finally escaped in 1864, with a comrade named Kilbourn, but were so near exhausted that they were close to the bugle-call in the moving, but they succeeded, and in recruiting and getting clothes he was some time, not getting well until 1866, when he took a farm in Drywood, now owned by Dr. Hildreth, and in 1868 located on his present farm, buying 160 acres, which has since increased to 320. He is engaged in grain and stock-farming. In 1865, he married, and has one son alive and one deceased.

SAMUEL ENDICOTT, farmer, Section 20, native of West Virginia, was born in 1824. His parents moved to Jasper County, Mo., in 1834; there he was raised. In 1854, his father came to Kansas and located in Drywood Township, but he did not come to the State until 1855, when he selected his claim, and in 1856 moved onto it; at this time it was nothing but a wilderness, and the Indians were numerous, Osages, Pottawatomies and Kickapoos, often stopping at his cabin; the border-ruffians also stopped there, but he was in the bushes concealed; they robbed him and afterward took him prisoner while visiting a sick neighbor, but released him, taking away his horse and saddle. In 1864, he was called out in the militia, and was stationed at Fort Scott, afterward following Price into Missouri. He also had a chance to make a raid with Jennison into Missouri, but the style of warfare carried on by him was not to Mr. Endicott's liking, so he returned home. He has been married three times, but has only two children living. His present wife is Miss McDonald, of Tennessee. He is a grain farmer, and owns 200 acres.

AMOS HILDRETH, M. D., and farmer, Section 22, native of Lewis County, N. Y., was born in 1824. His parents moved to Illinois in 1836; here he read medicine, and in 1848 took his first course of lectures; then entering on his preliminary practice, he graduated in 1869, from the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute, and then came to Kansas and entered practice in Fort Scott, where he remained till 1873; then buying his present farm and retiring from active practice. He is now giving his attention to stock, dealing primarily in horses. In Illinois, he married Miss Hardcastle. They have now two children--a son and daughter. Dr. Hildreth has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1864.

J. T. HOLEMAN, M. D., is a native of Weston, Henderson Co., Ky., born in 1847. His early life was spent on the farm. In 1866 he commenced studying medicine with Dr. Whittledge, taking his first course of lectures in Missouri, Medical College of St. Louis in 1872. He in 1876 moved to Kansas and located at Memphis. In 1879-80, he graduated from the Eclectic School of Homeopathy in St. Louis, and in 1881, from School of Midwifery of American Medical College at St. Louis. He returned to his practice in Memphis, and is handling successfully a large practice; he was also interested in a mercantile venture here, but sold in October, 1882, to Mr. Huffine. He married Miss Phelps. The Doctor is also a member of the Masonic fraternity.

HUFFINE & ANDERSON, merchants and farmers. They established the business in October, 1882, buying out Dr. Holman & Co., now carrying a stock of $2,500, and doing a business of some $9,000 a year. Mr. Huffine is a native of Missouri, and now farms some 200 acres in grain and stock; his land is located in that State. Mr. Anderson is a native of Tennessee, and has a fine farm of 280 acres in this township, Bourbon County, raising fine crops of grain on its fertile tracts and grazing cattle on its pasture land.

L. S. HUMPHREYS, farmer, Section 17, P. O. Godfrey, native of Albemarle County, Ind., born in 1816. His father had emigrated to the Territory of Indiana in 1812 and lived in the blockhouse while he was clearing his land, having two men to guard him while he worked. From there they moved to Illinois, locating in Hancock County, and farming. In the wet year of 1859 they emigrated to Kansas. A man named Boydston then owned the place Mr. Humphreys now lives on, and asked $1,200 for it, but being a Pro-slavery man, he was warned to leave, and sold for much less. He just escaped, for a number of men, armed, were looking for him a few days afterward. One night a force of men came to the house and called him out, but as they could not give the pass-word of Free-state men, he fired into them and drove them away. Such was the state of affairs, and when the war broke out two of his sons, Cornelius and James, enlisted, so that he was almost alone, and to save his scalp, he joined the Second Battery, Blair's, where his boys were. He was stationed at Fort Scott during the war, and got home to the farm so as to attend and look after things, and on one of these visits was visited by bushwhackers. Mr. Humphreys now owns 240 acres of good land, farmed in grain and stock. He has eleven children alive--two born since coming to the State. He has been Justice of the Peace and Constable. His son, J. M., is School Treas., while Cornelius is Township Trustee. The family are all Republicans and are representative citizens. In 1839, December 26, he married Miss Juliette B. Lockett.

R. M. JONES, nursery, Section 6, native of McCoupin County, Ill., born in 1835. He was raised in the nursery business, his father carrying it on in Illinois. When he came to the State there was a train made up of some dozen wagons, and on arriving he located on his present place in 1866, buying 160 acres; he has been busy improving and propagating; he has fine buildings on the farm, some twenty-five acres of orchard, containing 1,600 bearing trees; his nursery stock is in fruit and ornamental trees, making a specialty of the Baker peach tree, which is an early bearer and of fine quality. His nursery business will amount to some $3,000 or $4,000 a year. In 1857 Mr. Jones married and has five children. He has been Township Treasurer and in some other offices of public trust. In 1872, he became a member of the Masonic Lodge.

D. N. PHELPS, farmer, Section 1, is a native of Birkshire sic County, Mass., born in 1824. When he was quite young his parents moved to New York, locating in Erie County. Was married to a Miss Sarah Woodard in 1844. Although raised on a farm Mr. Phelps sought other pursuits and moved to Wisconsin, opening the Kingston House at Kingston in Marquette County, sold out and moved to Packwaukie, twenty miles from Kingston, remaining four years, sold his claim, then returned to Kingston, engaged in the grocery business until 1858, when he was again found in the hotel business. During his period of stay in Wisconsin, he served eight years as Deputy Sheriff. In 1861, he enlisted in the Third Wisconsin Cavalry, Company C., under Col. Barstow. They were sent to Kansas where they established a post on the Drywood. He was mustered out in 1865. Selling his property in Wisconsin he brought his family to Kansas. His wife visited relatives in the East in 1868, returning in 1869. He rented his farm and moved to Fort Scott, where he remained four years, returning to his farm in 1874, where he remained ever since; has visited the East. He owns one-third of the village plat in part with the Town Company. Has five children--Ambrose, Frank, Barnett, Emma, now Mrs. Dr. Holeman; Clara, now Mrs. Irvin. Mr. Phelps has belonged to the Masonic fraternity and I. O. O. F. since 1852.

ROUSEY & MILLION, merchants; business was established by J. I. Million August 13, 1879, and in 1880 the firm became Rousey & Million. Besides general merchandise they deal in grain and coal, doing a business of $20,000 a year. Mr. Million is a native of Morgan County, Ill., born in 1851. He went to Missouri in 1876, where he farmed and taught school. He had attended in Illinois the Jacksonville College, and had married in Morgan County; he has four children. Mr. W. M. Rousey is a native of Morgan County, Ill., and was a playmate of Mr. Million's through youth. He came to Kansas with his father and family in 1879, where they engaged in farming, his father dealing in stock here. Mr. Rousey is not married. He has been a member of the I. O. O. F. since 1875.

WILLIAM SIMPSON, farmer, Section 24, is a native of Fulton County, Ill., born December 1, 1837. Fulton County was settled by his parents and relatives. In 1860 he came to Kansas and bought his farm of a man named Scaggs who settled it in 1858. When the war broke out Mr. Simpson enlisted in the Second Kansas Battery, "Blair's," and was sent to Arkansas; he was at the battle of Cane Hill; afterward detailed to escort Col. Jewell's body to Scott; from here his company were sic sent to Baxter Springs. While in their warfare with the bushwhackers and guerrillas he saw the hardest service of the war. They returned to Scott and he was put on detached service. Finally was mustered out and returned to his farm, which he has now in wonderful degree of development, farming 400 acres in grain and stock; he goes more largely into hogs, raising Poland-China blood and handling about 200 a year; his orchard is large and productive. In 1859 he married Miss Mathews, they have eight children. Mr. Simpson has held offices high in trust besides township; he was elected to the Lower House of the Kansas Legislature in 1868 and to the Upper House in 1872.

CAPT. E. R. STEVENS, farmer and merchant, Section 12, is a native of Erie County, N. Y., born in 1824. He lived on the old home farm till 1848, then going to Wisconsin, he located in Marquette County, opening a mercantile establishment in Kingston. He enlisted in 1861 in Third Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, Company C, under Col. Barstow. They were sent West and located in Kansas, Bourbon County, on the Drywood. He was Captain of the company. He was mustered out in 1865, and in 1866 he located his farm, opened a store and got the post office appointed as Appleton, then building up the village which at one time was larger than is Memphis now. A town company was formed of Capt. E. R. Stephens sic, Adam Hoffman and Eugene Goss, who laid out the plat in 1868. When Memphis was platted on the railroad, most of Appleton moved over and the Captain moved over in 1879, opening a store of general merchandise, which he sold to E. H. Weddle in 1882. He then opened a drug store and now carries it on in connection with farming. The Captain married in 1854 to Miss Goss; they have three children. He was United States Marshall sic in Wisconsin, and is a member of the Masonic and I. O. O. F., having joined about 1856.

E. H. WEDDLE, merchant, is a native of Vernon County, Mo., born in 1847. He was raised on the farm, coming to Kansas in 1881, he bought an interest in the merchandise establishment of Capt. E. R. Stevens, and in the all of 1881 bought his partner out, establishing the business in his own name, now carrying a stock of $700 or $800 and doing a business of some $1,500 a year. In 1878 Mr. Weddle married Miss Manzer; they have one daughter; his parents live in Texas.

T. WOODARD, merchant and farmer, Section 36, P. O. Memphis, native of Erie County, N. Y., born in 1832. He remained on the farm till 1848, when he learned millwrighting, and in 1861 he helped to raise a regiment in his native county, in which his brother Henry served till the time of his death, which occurred in 1862. His body was brought to their home for interment. He started West and for awhile worked at his trade in Sac and Cedar Counties in Missouri; then coming to Kansas, he was employed in the Goodlander mill. In 1868 he bought 140 acres of E. Dugan, in Sections 36 and 1, and in 1872 located there. In 1872, when the village of Memphis was platted out, being one of the Town Company, owning a third. He has established a large mercantile venture; has the Town Hall; has put up tenement houses and donated lots for public buildings; has held the post office here, and in fact made the village. Besides his store he deals in grain and coal, doing a business of $30,000 a year. Mr. Woodard has been married twice, having five children. He has been Justice of the Peace seven years, and is Notary Public now. He is a Mason and an I. O. O. F. since 1854. Took part in the Grange movement, and was a Greenbacker; now a Democrat. 

M. V. HAM, farmer, Section 32, is a native of Calloway County, Mo., born in 1840, he was raised on a farm and received his education there. In 1857 he moved to St. Clair County, Mo. In 1861, he enlisted and served till 1865; he then went to Illinois, where he engaged in farming. In 1867 he married Miss Hollis, of Pike County, Ill. In 1873 he came to Kansas and located on Section 5, starting in stock; he is now giving more attention to that line than to grain farming; at present owns 640 acres of land, of which 125 are cultivated; having good crops with the exception of that section injured by the hail-storm that passed here this spring. They have a family of nine children, two boys and seven girls. Mr. Ham joined the Masonic order in 1862; he has never been in public office, not having cared for it.

W. E. MASON, farmer, Section 20; he is a native of Greene County, Pa., born in 1828. In 1832 he went to Ohio, and then to Southwest Missouri, where he started in 1857 with D. Henton for Kansas, via Kansas City; he came into the county, past Mapleton. When he arrived in Rockford Valley they bought what was known as the Louisiana Groves for $300, consisting of about two sections of fertile soil. At first he settled on Section 20, but in 1875 he married Mr. D. Henton's widow, and moved to Section 28; they live on a farm of 600 acres; his family of four girls and four boys are on the old place, as is his mother; his father died in 1872. In 1862, he enlisted in the Twelfth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, Company K, serving till 1865. Mr. Mason has not sought office, but was Township Treasurer for twelve years, and is a member of the Cumberland Church, Presbyterian. He and his boys carry on a stock farm. 

THOMAS J. ARMSTRONG, farmer, Section 34, P. O. Fort Scott, is a native of Kalamazoo, Mich., born June 16, 1833. He was raised on a farm and acquired a common school education. In 1855, he married and moved to the State of Missouri. In November, 1859, Miss Eva was born, and in 1860 the family moved to Kansas, locating on Section 34, Osage Township, Bourbon County, where Mr. Armstrong has prospered till he now has 440 acres of farm land, carrying on mixed farming, stock and grain. He has a fine family of nine children, having lost three. The members of the home circle are himself and wife (formerly Miss S. A. Bowman, of Ohio), Alpheus D., Eva C., Willis P., Frank S., Emery B., Orville, Melvin and Marvin, twins; and Merrill H. They have lost Herman A., Emerson R. and John G. Miss Eva, the only daughter, is a school teacher, and loves her profession. She received her education from the public schools, graduating from the Kansas Normal, of Fort Scott. Her last school was taught in Missouri, in 1881. Her brother, Alpheus D., owns 160 acres in Crawford County.

E. J. CHAPIN, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Barnesville, is a native of New York, born September 6, 1841. When going to school, he had for a schoolmate H. L. King, and their fortunes through life seemed cast together. Mr. Chapin came West to Illinois, where he taught school in Whitehall from 1865 to 1868. His friend was with him here, but went to Pennsylvania. He was engaged in the commercial line, but in 1868 came West, met Mr. King, and made their plans to come to Kansas together, or rather for Jasper County, Mo., but changed their plans and went to Kansas, coming into Bourbon County, via Pleasant Hill, and Butler, footing it, having their money concealed on their persons, and stopping at Mr. Ely's house the first night spent in the State. Passing on, Mr. Chapin located on Section 29, but moved to his present home in 1873, where he has 160 acres, and reports good crops this year (1882). In 1873, he married Miss Davenport, a sister of Mr. McIntosh. They have three children--two boys and a girl. From 1877, up to the present time, he has been Assistant County Examiner of teachers, and has held other offices of minor importance.

A. E. CURRIER, M. D., and farmer, Section 30, P. O. Hammond, is a native of Bethany Center, Genesee Co., N. Y., born in 1832. Although born there, he was raised in Champaign County, and at the age of eighteen went to teaching, thus educating himself. In 1853, he commenced reading medicine under Dr. J. G. Miller, graduating from the American Medical College in 1856. At this time the political affairs of Kansas were being discussed, and he became much interested, which ultimately brought him to the State. After leaving college, he went to Illinois and practiced medicine. In 1862, he joined the famous One Hundred and Sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, but returned home in 1863 and resumed practice, till he resolved to quit the profession, and came West in 1867, bought a farm, and in November, 1868, moved into his present dwelling, and is now farming 640 acres in stock and grain. During the winter of 1881-82, he fed seventy head of cattle. His corn this season will average fifty bushels to an acre. In 1859, he married Miss Chase, of Illinois, daughter of John L. Chase. They have three children--one daughter and two sons.

T. M. GORDON, farmer, Section 32, P. O. Hammond, is a native of Syracuse, N. Y., and was born in 1814. When a young man he moved to Ohio, in the year that the cholera epidemic was devastating Eastern cities, and as he passed onward he found Buffalo and other places almost deserted. He settled in Lake County and went to farming, where he stayed until 1869, when he came to Kansas and bought his farm of Mr. Johnson. He has since improved and increased it, until now he has 320 acres, which is farmed in mixed farming, raising stock and grain. In 1839, he married Miss Ferguson; she died, and he married Miss Brown, of Ohio. They have had four boys and three girls--H. S. Gordon is a master mechanic at Dayton, Ohio; Alvin is an engineer on the railroad; Hiram B. is at home and Blake A. is a farmer; his eldest daughter, Mrs. Brinkerhoff is dead; his second daughter is now Mrs. DeMoisey, and the third, Belle, is at home. Mr. Gordon has held township and school offices, and has not had better crops than this year (1882). He also had a good crop in 1875.

MRS. EUNICE GUNSAULLAS, the relict of H. B. Gunsaullas, deceased, P. O. Barnesville. She is a native of New York, and was married to him May 20, 1847, in Indiana, her maiden name being Harris. Mr. Gunsaullas was born November 16, 1825, in Richland County, Ohio, and died in January, 1873. In boyhood, he was a nature that devoted himself to a variety of trades, having a genius for all, probably following shoemaking the longest, and after their marriage was employed in a saw mill, and came to Kansas in 1859, the family staying at Barnesville, until he could arrange for their convenience on the claim, locating in 1862, on Section 9, where he had 160 acres, until giving his son Levi eighty. During Mr. Gunsaullas' lifetime, he always took an active part in politics, representing several township offices, discharging the duties of such in a satisfactory manner. At his death, he left a family of five children--two sons, Frank, who runs the farm, and Levi, who is married; three daughters, Cornelia and Cordelia, who are teachers, having attended the Kansas Normal college, and Anna, who stays at home.

WILLIAM HINTON, farmer, Section 5, P. O. Fulton, is a native of Bullitt County, Ky., born in 1828. His father moved to Indiana in 1840. While here he was engaged in milling and river work at which he was employed until 1855, when he (William) came to Kansas, and located on Section 21, Freedom Township. This farm he entered in 1861. This was in accordance with the advice from his friend, S. Williams, who was in the United States Land Office in 1859. On this farm he remained until 1879, only leaving it to recruit his health, for which purpose he went to the mountains, returning vigorous and sound, but the symptoms of his old complaint returned, and his physician suggested a change of neighborhood, so he went to the farm where he is at present, in a beautiful situation. During the war, he, like his neighbors, was called out to defend their homes, acting as Commissary Sergeant. He has several narrow escapes from capture, staying in the fields or forest over night and visiting his family in the day time. But at the close of the war he returned to the ordinary manner of living. In 1859, he was Township Supervisor, and was Justice of the Peace for eight years. In 1868, was Representative, and has held minor offices since. He was married in 1853, but lost his first wife in 1856; he then married Mrs. Young, formerly Miss Smith, of Missouri. He has had seven children, two of whom are living. His crops for 1882 are good.

L. H. HODGES, farmer, Section 10, P. O. Barnesville, is a native of Sumner County, Tenn., born May 10, 1819. In his youth he was in his father's smithy, and as he grew older he gradually picked up the trade and worked at it. In 1847, they all moved to Kentucky, where they lived until 1850, when he went to Macon County, Mo. From there he came to Kansas in 1859, bringing two teams. Accompanying him was his brother Ephraim and Mr. Tom Clark and family. He camped on the banks of the Osage River until he got possession of his claim, which he bought of a man named Gunter, giving a team of horses and wagon for 160 acres, which has since increased to 320 acres. This is farmed in stock and grain. He keeps fifty head of cattle and some horses. His crops for 1882 were very fine, corn and oats turning out forty bushels to the acre. He has already entered into the new industry of raising Castor beans. During the war, he served in 1862 in the Home Guards, Sixth Kansas, and then was mustered out and joined the State Militia, and served until they were disbanded. He married Miss Lucinda Dixon, of Tennessee, who was born May 26, 1824, and they had the following children: Catherine; John, born in Tennessee; Mary E.; Benjamin, deceased; Robert R., deceased, born in Kentucky; Edmund P., James W., Thomas M. and Alex N., all deceased, born in Missouri; Louisa J., Sarah M., Alice A., deceased, and Frances J., Franklin J. and Asa, alive, were born in Kansas.

B. B. JORDAN, farmer, stock-grower and feeder, Section 15, P. O. Fort Scott, was born in Indiana in 1838. He was raised on a farm and received a collegiate education. Was engaged in the mercantile business in Indiana twelve years, then came to Fort Scott, Kan., in 1870. In the stock business, bought and shipped stock twelve years exclusively. In 1876, he bought 480 acres of land in Osage Township and began raising and feeding stock. He keeps on hand about 250 head of cattle and 400 hogs. He formerly kept about 2,000 sheep. Dropped sheep in 1881, because cattle and sheep could not be profitably raised together. His farm is composed mostly of raw land, which he is getting into blue grass and clover as fast as possible. He has about 180 acres in corn, the rest in clover and blue grass. The farm is divided up by hedge, wire and plank fences. He was married to Miss Mary J. Conway, of Indiana, in October, 1866. They have one son, Frank C., born in June, 1868, who is now at the Normal School of Fort Scott.

WILLIAM JORDAN, farmer, Section 12, P. O. Barnesville, is a native of Breckinridge County, Ky., born in 1820. His father had moved to this State in 1800, remaining until 1827, when he moved to Indiana. They lived in this State until 1866, and Mr. Jourdan (sic) grew to manhood, getting the rudiments of an education from the common schools of the neighborhood, and giving his attention to farming afterward. He was a member of the Home Guards during the rebellion, and when twenty-four years of age he married a Miss Mack, who lived to come to Kansas with him in 1866, and after the privations and labor of establishing her husband and family, quietly passed away in 1877. Mr. Jordan bought his farm of John McNeil, it being one of the first farms opened in this township, on which many scenes of border ruffianism was (sic) enacted. He built a good residence on the place in 1873, and otherwise improved it. He has five married daughters--Mrs. Johnson is keeping house for him, besides there are Mrs. Coffman, Mrs. Renshaw, Mrs. Cox and Mrs. Kessinger. Mr. Jordan has held offices of trust for the township.

H. L. KING, farmer, Section 23, P. O. Barnesville, is a native of New York, born September 4, 1841, making a difference of two days in the ages of himself and his friend, Mr. Chapin. Mr. King, after finishing his schooling, went into the schoolroom as a teacher, but afterward went into the commercial line, and when he went to Illinois entered a mercantile establishment in Whitehall, going from there to Pennsylvania. But in 1868 he came back to Illinois and married Miss Doud, and then came West, intending to go to Jasper County, Mo., but coming to Kansas they tramped through the State from the north, coming into Bourbon County, and Mr. King located on his present farm, where he has his life's friend with him on the adjoining farm. He has a farm of ninety acres, and reports the best crops this year. His corn will go fifty bushels to an acre. He was Township Trustee in 1876-77, and has held other offices. His family consists of one son and one daughter.

WILLIAM LOUNSBURY, farmer, Section 19, P. O. Fulton, is a native of Westmoreland County, N. B. and was born in 1818. His father took the family to Maine when he was about eight years of age. Here they remained while William was growing man's estate, surrounded by scenes which make up the experience of of the Maine lumberman. At the age of twenty-one, he removed to Albert County, N. B. While here he was engaged in lumbering and rafting. April 22, 1841, he married Miss Hopper, both of them from the same parish, Elgin. In 1852, they moved West to Green County, Wis., locating on Sugar River, coming to Kansas in 1859, and located on Section 19, taking 160 acres. His first crop was a failure, his cattle died with the Texas fever, but in 1861 he had a good crop. When the war broke out he was appointed Captain of Company I, Sixth Kansas Militia, and acted under orders from Mound City until 1864, when he moved with fifteen men to Barnesville and received supplies from Fort Scott. In 1864, after Price's raid, the militia returned to their homes. Mr. Lounsbury and wife had twelve children, nine of whom are alive--Nehemiah, Isaiah and William H., deceased; James, Michael, George, Benjamin F., Thomas G., Andrew J., Amanda, now Mrs. Blake, Grace, now Mrs. Hazlett, and Almira J.

J. A. McDONALD, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 31, P. O. Fort Scott, is a native of Ohio, born in 1839, and raised on a farm and cattle ranch. He came West to Kansas with the intention of going into the stock business and came to Bourbon County in 1880, buying a farm. He had about sixty acres fenced. He now has 1,840 acres, all in good fence. He has three pastures, in which his cattle graze at different times of the year, containing 1,040 acres. His pastures will graze 400 head of cattle well. He also raises corn, and cuts hay enough on his ranch to winter 400 cattle (half corn fed) and turn them off for beef each year in July and August. Mr. McDonald has taken but two years in doing all this, which any man can do in the same time in this State. In 1859, he married in Ohio and has a family of seven children.

JOHN McNEIL, farmer, Section 4, P. O. Fulton, is a native of Miami County, Ohio, born in February, 1812. His ancestors run back among the patriots of America. His father was one of Hull's army at the time of his unfortunate surrender to the British. Mr. McNeil remained at home on his father's farm until he was twenty-one years of age, then he married Miss Elizabeth Ried, in December, 1833, and moved to Champaign County where he made a farm. In 1837 we find him in Park County, Ind., clearing and improving. Having then made the place, he sold and moved to Vermillion County, Ind., then across the line to Vermillion County, Ill. Here he made another farm, then going to Mason County he started another farm. From there he intended going to Jasper County, Mo., and had his effects shipped to Jefferson City, but came on to Bourbon County, Kan., and put his tent on the banks of the Osage River. He then located on Section 12 until 1866. He then moved onto this farm, but rented this and went to Section 36, where after living five years he came back and is now engaged in mixed farming, stock and grain. During the war of 1861 to 1865, he was between the two armies, and for two years slept in the fields or timber. At one time he was captured by bushwhackers, and was taken out to be killed three different times, escaped. He had three sons in the service. His first wife died; was married the second time to Miss Maria A. Ross. He had in all seventeen children, thirteen now alive and living in this county. Mr. McNeil is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

MELVIN MANNING, farmer, Section 1, P. O. Barnesville, is a native of Edgar County, Ill., born November 17, 1836. He was raised on the farm, and in 1861 he enlisted in the Twenty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Company D, and served three years and three months. During that time he was wounded thrice, the first time at the battle of Pea Ridge; he had his leg broken; and at the battle of Mission Ridge he was wounded and confined to the hospital for sixteen weeks. Being mustered out he returned to the farm, and in 1866 came to Kansas and bought of Peter Orr a farm in Section 1, but not liking the society as it existed he went to Fort Scott and tried teaming, hauling goods for C. Morely from Pleasant Hill and Kansas City to Fort Scott. In the winter of 1866, he went back to Edgar County, Ill., and there he married Mrs. Price. He lived there until 1873, when he returned to his farm here, and has always been successful in raising good crops of corn, wheat and oats and some stock. They have but one daughter, Ida Belle, having lost a son, Mattison Brady. Watson, her son, is living with them.

JOHN W. MARTIN, farmer, Section 29, P. O. Fulton, is a native of Virginia, and was born in 1851. His father, Melker J. Martin, is one of the pioneers of the county, coming to Kansas in 1858, and, on account of the border warfare, moved back East again; but they all returned to Bourbon County in 1859, and located on Section 29, taking 160 acres. During the war, his father was in the State militia, as was a brother. John W. now carries on the farm. This year he reports heavy crops, experimenting in broom corn and flax, both of which have yielded well. In 1878, he married Miss Morehead, who is, or was, a member of a pioneer family of this township. They have one child. In 1864 their buildings were all burned, so they have rebuilt and placed fine improvements on the place.

FRANK MESSINGER, general merchant, Barnesville, is a native of Pennsylvania. His father, John, came from Illinois to Kansas in 1860. He was a native of Perry County, Penn., and was born in 1819. After coming to Bourbon County, he went to farming on Section 20. On the breaking out of the war his father entered the State militia, and was stationed at Barnesville, in Capt. Lousberry's (sic) company. In 1864, there were some twenty-seven bushwhackers attacked two men, William Nugent and William Beckford, in their cabin, but were put to flight by their determined resistance. This Mr. Nugent was afterward a partner in the store. In 1865, Mr. Messinger sold his farm and moved to Barnesville, and opened a store. The firm was then Nickerson & Messinger, having a stock of $800 or $900 worth, and the store room was only 20x16. In 1866, William Nugent bought into the firm, but in 1867 we find that the firm was simply John Messinger, and in 1871 he turned the business over to his son, the present proprietor, who is doing a business of some $30,000 per annum. In 1871, Frank married Miss Stevens. They have four children, three boys and a girl. The old family consists of Frank, J. J., Sarah, now Mrs. S. Morrill, and Emma, now Mrs. E. Morrill.

NATHANIEL OATES, farmer, Section 27, P. O. Barnesville, is a native of Virginia, born in the Shenandoah Valley in 1824. He spent twenty years of his boyhood on the farm, and two years later went to Hardy County, where he learned the trade of riflemaker, at which he worked until 1857. In the meantime he had married a Miss McQuade. On leaving Virginia he moved to Vernon County, Mo., where he went to farming. In this vocation, he changed his location to Bourbon County, Kan., taking the farm on Section 20, Osage Township, where he remained until after the war. During the years of the rebellion, he was First Lieutenant in Company I, Sixth Kansas State Militia and was called out at several times. In 1864, when Gen. Price raided into the State, his company and regiment were ordered out and marched to Hickman Mills, Mo. At this time the company was under his command. From there they went to Kansas City, and afterward participated in the battles of Westport. As the regiment marched down the State line the soldiers returned to their farms and citizen's life. In March, 1865, he moved to his farm on Section 27, taking 160 acres, which being on the New York Indian reservation, he bought the farm of the Government in 1875. The soil is rich and deep and well watered, returning bountiful crops this year of 1882. They have three children, a daughter, now Mrs. Roy, and two sons. Mr. Oates has held offices of trust in his township, and for four years was Justice of the Peace.

HENRY TODD, farmer, Section 35, P. O. Fort Scott, is a native of Durham, Cumberland Co., England, and was born January 12, 1833. He was raised to work in the coal mines, where the Queen's mandate found him. Being under ten years of age, he was compelled to quit, but went back and worked again as soon as old enough. In following mining he worked in North England and in the iron mines of Scotland. His father had preceded him to America, so he started in 1855, and on arriving went to work in Massillon County, Ohio, where he lost what money he had, and was then appointed Superintendent of the mines. In 1865, he came to Kansas, and located on Section 5, Scott Township, where he created quite a name as a potato raiser, but he finally moved to his present farm, where he farms in grain and stock. His corn this year (1882) averages sixty bushels to the acre. He has 320 acres now, and is satisfied that Kansas is equalled by no country in the world. His father died in 1868. Mr. Todd has been married twice. In 1857, he married Miss Emerson, of Guernsey County, Ohio, and the last time in 1874, to Miss McIntosh. They have a family of seven children, five boys and two girls. His oldest son is now in the general merchandise business in Colorado and is doing well. 

A. BEELER, druggist, principal of the firm of Beeler & Feenster, native of Coshocton County, Ohio, born in 1831, and in 1856 he entered the Methodist Episcopal Conference College at Greencastle, Ind., called the Alesbury University, and in 1862 entered the Central Illinois Conference, and preached for some seventeen years, but his health gave way, and he came to Kansas, giving up the ministry, and locating on Section 35, northwest quarter. He has some 320 acres on his two farms. In 1879, he also opened his drug store. He had for a while Mr. Johnson as a partner, but he took his share of the stock and set up in a separate business. Then Mr. Beeler conducted the business alone until 1882. He then took Dr. Feenster into partnership. Mr. Beeler belongs to both the I. O. O. F. and the Masonic orders.

REV. C. E. BRISTOL, northeast quarter, Section 2, P. O. Fulton, is a native of New York, and was born in 1828. He was reared and lived on the same farm till thirty years of age, when he went to Wisconsin, and began his ministerial career there. From thence to Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, in 1861. Entered the Junior year, and graduated in 1863. Thence to Quincy, Ill., in charge of First Baptist Church of that city. Was ordained that summer, 1863. Went into the Army as Chaplain of the Thirtieth United States, in April, 1864. Thence to Baltimore, and thence through the Wilderness campaign. During that campaign contracted a chronic disease, and resigned and came out of the army in November, 1864. Thence a while in the theological department at Shurtleff College, and went to Ohio in the spring of 1865, taking charge of a church at Milford, and has been preaching more or less ever since, though during the last thirteen years his army disease has forced him out of the study into outdoor work, more or less on a farm. His first wife dying in 1865, he again married in 1872 at Dayton, Ohio. He married one of his parishioners of Milford. He and his family moved to Kansas in the fall of 1876. In the spring of 1877, he went out on to the farm now occupied by him for general farm purposes, together with fruit and nursery. He has at this writing over 1,200 fruit trees in permanent orchards (1,000 apple). He has charge of two small churches at the present time. As samples of Kansas fruit, he weighed this year, 1882, one pear (Duchess variety), seventeen ounces; one apple (Bennett variety), twenty-three ounces; one peach (Foster variety), thirteen ounces. His family consists of wife and her five children, four boys and one daughter. Three of the boys are teachers. Mr. Bristol has also taught more or less during his life. In all over forty school terms. He began teaching in New York, when he was but seventeen years old.

ALFRED CLEAL, farmer, Section 8, P. O. Fulton, native of Middlesex County, England, born in 1838, coming to America in 1848. He located in Cook County, Ill., and, together with William L. Witt, came to Kansas in 1860, and located in Bourbon County, but this being the dry year, he went down to Missouri and worked in the lead mines; then returning to enlist in 1861, in the Third Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and in 1864 he re-enlisted in the United States Veteran Volunteers, "Hancock's," and remained in service till 1866, when he was mustered out at Indianapolis, and returned to Kansas. On arriving here, he entered in the commercial business. The firm was Cleal & Co., of Fort Lincoln. They moved to Fulton in 1867 or 1868, and there he sold to M. A. Stapleton, returning to his farm, where he now has 450 acres, renting some and farming some in stock and grain. He has made all his has since coming to the State, and still single.

P. DEVEREUX, farmer, Section 27, P. O. Fulton, native of County Tipperary, Ireland, born in 1837, and in 1849 they came to America, landing at New York. They went up to Waterford on the Hudson River, from there to Madison County, Ohio, and from Ohio to Kansas, coming into the State in 1857, and buying a quit-claim of Capt. Boyne, which they afterward made perfect. The four brothers lived on this claim, Michael, Patrick, Thomas and John. In the winter of 1857 the trouble began. They were declared Free-State men, and were called out at the Fort Boyne fight, and retired to Mound City for some time, then returning home, they were visited by some of Price's men, who carried off five head of horses, his brother and brother-in-law. Pat was at first in the Home Guards, and afterward in the State militia; was in the fight at Westport. He now has 320 acres of good land, for stock and grain. In 1869, he married Miss Cunningham, of Ireland. Mr. Devereux is a member of the Catholic Church.

CHARLES ELLIOTT, farmer, Section 34, P. O. Fulton, native of Knox County, Ohio, born in 1820. He was raised on the old farm till his father bought him a farm in Marion County, where he remained till 1851, when he went to McLean County, Ill., where he engaged in farming, but moved to Kansas in 1858, taking a claim of 160 acres, which he has increased to 240 acres, dealing in stock and grain. His new industry, raising flax, is promising to be profitable. His place is finely improved. In the early times he was exposed to the many perils of the pioneer life in this State, and was in the militia in 1864, and in 1862 he was County Treasurer of Bourbon County. He was married in 1844, in Ohio, and had seven children, of whom five are alive, three boys. The eldest is in Arizona; Charles S. is a teacher of this county, and Hemans? at home. One daughter is now married to Mr. Clay of Linn County, the other is at home. Charles S. has taught for seven years. He is a graduate of the Fort Scott Normal School.

W. E. FLYNN, teacher and farmer, Section 14, P. O. Glendale. He came with his father, John Flynn, to the State in 1868, when they located on their present farm. In 1877, he commenced a course of studies and reading, with the view of fitting himself for the bar. In 1879, he attended and graduated in the scientific course, from the Kansas Normal College. He then commenced teaching in the Marmaton District, but closed school on account of small-pox, and in 1882 he commenced reading in J. H. Sallee's office, leaving off to take his school in Fish Creek District, where he is engaged for the next nine months, still pursuing his course of law reading.

JOHN FRY, farmer, Section 15, P. O. Glendale, native of Holmes County, Ohio, born in 1833. The years of his youth were spent on the farm. In 1842, his parents moved to Iowa, where they were pioneers. His brother Jacob built the first house in Winterset, Iowa. Mr. Fry came to Kansas the first time in 1856, and located on the Big Blue River, near Marysville, but returned to Iowa in 1858, not coming back to Kansas till 1868, when he located in Brown County, moving to Bourbon County in 1873, where he rented first, and then bought his farm of 160 acres. During the war he was freighting on the plains, but returned to farming, at which he is quite successful. Mr. Fry's mother, brother and two sisters, live in Nebraska, one sister in Iowa, also two brothers living in Kansas. John Fry is a bachelor, and a straight Prohibitionist, and a Douglas Democrat.

PATRICK GORMAN, farmer, Section 12, P. O. Fulton, native of County Limerick, Ireland; born in the Parish of Cahirconlish, in 1837, lived the life of a farm boy, and came to America in 1856. He at once went to farming in Illinois, where he stayed till 1859, then moving to Kansas, where he and H. McLaughlin entered a claim of 320 acres--160 each, on Moore's Branch. In 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Sixth Kansas Infantry, and served till 1865. He had sold his 160 acres to Mr. McLaughlin, and in 1864, while he was a prisoner with Price, a friend purchased the farm where he now lives for him. When he was taken prisoner, he had but just been married some three weeks to Miss Devereaux. When he returned he worked in the Quartermaster's Department till 1865, then taking his farm in hand, which he has carried on with entire success, not having missed raising a good crop every season. His stock and grain farm covering 480 acres in this township and 480 in Osage Township, corn being his principal grain crop. Their family of children consists of five boys and two girls--Thomas, now attending the Mission School; John, Patrick, Michael, Edward, Mary E. and Margaret.

DANIEL GORMAN, farmer, Section 34, P. O. Fulton, native of County Limerick, Ireland; born in 1824. Emigrated to America in 1853, landing in New York. From there went to Massachusetts, where he worked in a cotton factory, but the business not suiting him he changed, finally going to Sangamon County, Ill., and engaged in farming, till he came to Kansas in 1865, bought 160 acres of the Widow Gilbert, which he has improved and increased, having a farm of 386 acres in all, raising stock and grain, his corn going 40 bushels to the acre, and flax twelve. In 1861, he married Miss Harris, of Illinois. They have five children, having lost two. Mr. Gorman has held offices of trust in the township, and is a member of the Catholic Church.

W. H. GREEN, lawyer, Fulton, native of Missouri, was born in 1838. Since his first experience he has been in the commercial line, and in 1863 came to Kansas. He had lost his father in 1849, and in 1860 he had married Miss Mary Sherman, of Wellsville, Ohio; from which marriage he has two girls. When he came West he located at Fort Lincoln and opened a store of general merchandise; the firm was Knowles & Green. While here he met with a great disaster, nearly losing his life. It was in 1864, a detachment of Price's army took the place and burned all the buildings but one; his store and property were destroyed, and as he and Mr. Stevens were about to ride away, Stevens was killed by his side, and he saved his life by running the gantlet (sic) of rifle-balls and plunging into the woods on the other side of the river. In 1868, he left there and went to Missouri, returning, came to Fulton in 1869 and opened as Wells & Co., in general merchandise, changing the firm to M. A. Stapleton & Co. in 1871. Mr. Green was the first Postmaster of Fulton, then called Osaga. In 1866-67, and in 1870-71, and 1871-72, he was Representative from this district, and in 1879 he was admitted to the bar. In 1868 he was County Assessor.

TIMOTHY HACKETT, notary public, real estate and collection agent, is a native of Lancashire, England. He was born in 1832, and after learning the wagon and blacksmith trade in Liverpool, he emigrated to America in 1850, and landed in New Orleans. He remained in Louisiana until the spring of 1852, when he removed to Jackson County, Mo., and afterward to Bates County, where he was married to Miss Lydia Starr in the winter of 1855-56. He then went to Calloway County, working at his trade until the fall of 1857, when he came to Kansas, and located on Section 32, in Freedom Township. His brother James had arrived in 1856, and they had farms adjoining. He was very poor, having lost all his household goods on account of a warehouse caving in in Kansas City, and after purchasing a chopping ax and a pair of boots his finances were exhausted. His ax broke in felling the first log and he had to borrow another one to build his first cabin. He lived on corn bread and pumpkin for six weeks; he split and sold rails for $2.50 a hundred and paid $8.50 a hundred for flour. In 1859 his house burned, and he moved to his brother's home, and in a short time this house burned also. He then took a horse (all the property he had in this world), and traded it for a kit of tools, and walked back forty miles and built a house for himself and one for his brother. These mishaps, together with the border warfare, made situation interesting, and early privation long to be remembered. In 1872, he moved to town, having lost his second wife. He was commissioned Notary Public, at which time he opened a law office and began the insurance and real estate business, which he still prosecutes. In 1875, he opened a wagon and blacksmith shop, which he still supervises. He has been married three times. His last wife was a widow whose maiden name was Johnston. She was raised in Delaware, Ohio. He has two living children, having lost six. He was County Assessor in 1867, and Township Trustee in 1879, and has been a member of the Masonic Order since 1863.

D. B. JACKMAN, lawyer, Fulton, native of Newburyport, Mass., born in 1824; he lived in Harvard, same State, for some time before coming West, which he did in 1856, going to Champlain, Minn., where he has two sisters now living. He then came to Anderson County, Kan., in 1857. He had a good education which he had acquired in the East, and on coming into a new country, he taught school, soon after establishing himself on the farm. He was present at and participated in all of the troubles that occurred in this neighborhood up to 1866, especially the fight at Fort Boyne. He came to Bourbon County in 1858, and has since been identified with her interests, owning two farms. He is busy in the town of Fulton, following his profession. In 1863, he was sent to the Legislature, and, in 1867, he was Docket Clerk at the House. He has been Notary Public for some years, and in 1880, he was elected Justice, and was admitted to the bar of Bourbon County in 1867. He is conversant with the events and men connected with the county history, and retains these things with a wonderful memory. He is a member of both the I. O. O. F. and Masonic orders, and is still a bachelor.

J. W. JEWELL, merchant, Fulton, is a native of DeKalb County, Ill., born in 1838. He was educated as a farmer. In 1857, his father, Judge E. G. Jewell, emigrated to Kansas and brought his family with him, locating at Fort Lincoln, Bourbon County, filling the office of Probate Judge in 1858 and 1859. When only nineteen years of age, he pre-empted 160 acres on the Osage, on Section 19, northwest quarter, where he lived when the war broke out. He was connected with the commissary department, and, on returning to Fort Lincoln, found that all the place had been burned but his house. He then opened a store, which he kept there till 1873, when he moved to Fulton and established himself in the drug business, and then went into general merchandise, selling out in the spring of 1882 to J. W. Reynolds. He is now preparing to go into business again this fall. Mr. Jewell has held offices of trust for his township, and, in 1862, he joined the Masonic fraternity, also belonging to the I. O. O. F. He is now one of the Trustees of the M. E. Church of Fulton, which has been but just erected. In 1861, he married Miss Blake, of St. Louis, Mo. He married again to Miss Smith. The family consists of wife's father and sister and four children.

JOHN KEATING, farmer, Section 33, Town 23, Range 24, P. O. Fulton, is a native of Tipperary, Ireland; was born in 1824; emigrated to America in 1848, landing in New York. They went up the river, living between Troy and Glen Falls, working in the saw mills of that section. In 1852, he married in Waterford and moved to Glen Falls, and, in 1854, moved to Ohio, locating in Madison County, then to Clinton County and engaged in farming. He then came West to get a farm of his own. Arrived in Kansas November 5, 1859. He claimed at first 160 acres, and bought of the Government at the same time his brothers-in-law did, John and Mike Devereaux. He has increased his farm to 640 acres, last season giving 160 acres to his son James. During the raid of 1864, he lost some property and nearly his life, but just escaping, and was in the militia, stationed at Fort Scott under Gen. Blair. During the dry year, 1860, and years of general want his family had enough. They have six children--James (was born in Marion County, N. Y.), John (Madison County, Ohio), Mary (in Clinton County, Ohio), the rest in Kansas; Maggie, in 1860, the dry year; Michael William (deceased) in 1862; Thomas F. in 1864 and Salome A. in 1867, May 31. Mr. Keating has held offices of trust in the township and belongs to the Catholic Church.

D. W. McGUIRE, famer and mason, Section 11, P. O. Glendale, native of Bangor Me., born in 1835. The same year they moved to New York City; it was here that he learned the trade of mason and plasterer. Before he had finished school he became infatuated with the sea and ran away from home; a nine months' voyage dispelled his fancied love of a sailor life, and he returned to his trade. In 1854, he went to Kane County, Ill., and worked at his trade. It was in this State that he met and married Miss Lacey in the year 1857. Her parents were pioneers in Illinois, coming from Massachusetts in 1843. In 1857, they left for Kansas. Mr. Lacy (sic) had found a location on Lost Creek, where he had all that a man could wish, water, wood, coal and stone, as well as fertile soil. In 1861, Mr. McGuire enlisted in the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, Company I, followed the fortunes of the Peninsular Campaign, was in the seven days' fight at Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, etc., at South Mountain and Fredericksburg; was hurt at Chancellorsville, and sent to the hospital, but left and went to the dismounting camp, where he held position as Assistant Forage Master, afterward Postmaster, and was mustered out in 1865. He at once came to Kansas where his wife had preceded him; he located in Linn County first, but in 1874 bought 160 acres of Mr. Lacy's (sic) farm on Section 11, and since his decease in 1876, Mr. McGuire has united the two farms. He is a member of the Grange and also G. A. R. Their family consists of four children, his wife's mother is now eighty-one years of age.

W. H. MILLER, hotel proprietor, Fulton, native of Perry County, Ohio, was born September 28, 1837; was raised on a farm, and till twenty-one years of age did nothing else. He then came West to Kansas, and engaged in farming. In 1877, he came to Fulton and entered the drug business with W. J. Stone, finally selling to his partner. He went to Arizona for his health, when he returned recovered, and in 1878, went to buying stock for Mr. Parker and then went to work for Taylor & Delano; here he worked till 1881, when he went to his old home in Ohio on a visit, finding the old farm the site of a modern city. He returned and traded his property to Mr. Hughes for the Fulton House, but it was burned on the 11th of June, 1882, and he lost all; but on the 22d of June he started to build, and now has a hotel 26x40, the main building, and an addition of 20x20, two stories high, with eleven sleeping rooms to be called the Miller House. In 1861, he enlisted in the Fifth Kansas, Company K, and for nine months was a prisoner in Tyler, Texas, and in 1864, during Price's raid, his father, who lived on the Osage, on the old farm, was killed. In 1865, he returned home, and in 1866, he married Miss Stone, of Fulton. He has belonged to the I. O. O. F. since 1881.

JOHN MORAN, farmer, Section 10, P. O. Glendale, native of County Tipperary, Ireland, and the Parish of Grange; born in 1827, and emigrated to America in 1848, landing in New Orleans, La. He proceeded to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained that summer, returning to New Orleans in the winter. He continued doing this until 1859, when he came West in company with his brother Lawrence. The two brothers lived together on Section 11. During the dry year they were subject to great privations, but were convinced that such a beautiful land had great resources, so they stayed. During the years of the war, he was called out several times with the State Militia; at one time, to Barnesville; then to Fort Scott and to Drywood where he found the noted Jennison. While he was away from home, the raid of Price came down and took everything of value, horses, clothing, etc. His little girl, Bridget, concealed an amount of money in the bosom of her dress and saved it. He has, since those troublous times, given his attention to farming and succeeded, being rewarded for his trust in the resources of the soil of Kansas. He has 322 acres in the farm, raising stock and corn. In 1852, he married Miss Kennedy, of Ohio; they have had ten children, six of whom are living, three boys and three girls.

LAWRENCE MORAN, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Fulton, is a native of Tipperary, Ireland, born in 1837. He emigrated to America in 1848, landing in New Orleans. He proceeded to Cincinnati, Ohio, and while there, worked in an eating house. Going from there to Warren County, he learned farming. In 1859, in company with his brother and John Keating, he came to Kansas and located on Section 14, taking a claim of 160 acres. He passed through all the troubles of the rebellion, being a member of the State militia, and driving team for the Government. During Price's raid, he lost all of his hay and horses, and was left almost destitute of food for three days, having nothing but potatoes. Mr. Moran now farms 280 acres, corn being his chief crop; he also handles a number of cattle. In 1863, he married Miss O'Donnell. they have a family of six children--two boys and four girls.

ISAAC RADER, physician and surgeon, Fulton, is a native of Owen County, Ind., born in 1828. He moved to Chariton, Lucas Co., Iowa, in 1852, having read medicine under Dr. Daniel Tivis and attended college in 1849 and 1850, and graduated from the Ohio Medical College in 1851 and next year went West. He then opened practice, also practicing in Pleasant Plains, Decatur County, also at the county seat. On coming to Kansas, he practiced in White Cloud, Doniphan County, then coming to Bourbon County in 1866, locating on a farm, where he traded in stock and carried on his practice till 1873, when he moved to Fulton. He bought a corner lot, improved, and sold for a farm, then opening an office for professional business exclusively, until persuaded to go into the drug business again in order to teach a friend. In 1880, he sold to this friend, and then bought his present stand of Mr. Johnson. In 1851, he married Miss Anna Randall, of Vandalia, Ind. They have two children, John and Kate, both married.

J. W. REYNOLDS, physician and surgeon, Fulton, is a native of Owen County, Ind., born in 1830. He remained until he was twenty-three years of age, then went to Guthrie County, Iowa, where he read medicine under Dr. Massy, and in 1872 he graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio. He practiced first in Guthrie County, and remained there till coming to Kansas, when he sold his office and instruments to Dr. Jones and in 1882 came to Fulton, where he purchased of Mr. Jewell his stock in trade, intending to give it to his sons, but they would not leave the railroad. In 1867, he joined the Masons and belongs to the Christian Church. In 1850, he married Miss Rader. They have two daughters and two sons.

E. T. SHAFFER, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 36, P. O. Fulton, is a native of Delaware County, Ohio, born in 1850. His parents were Pennsylvanians. His father died there in 1874, aged seventy-four years. His mother lives with him, still strong at the age of seventy-seven. They had moved to Illinois in 1852, but the family broke up and some of them moved to Iowa, and from there here in 1868, locating in the south part, where E. T. made some fine improvements, then rented the place and moved to his present location. In early life, he married, taught school and carried on the farm, commencing with $10. He now has a competence. In 1876, he went into general merchandising with Mr. Jewell, but dissolved and opened out on an extensive scale, and made a great deal of money. In 1881, he sold to M. Wilson, carrying then only agricultural implements. He is now giving his entire attention to farming, stock-raising and trading. He has a farm of 750 acres. His corn will average fifty bushels to the acre. He keeps some thirty-two brood mares. In 1869, he married Miss Sarah McNeil, of one of the pioneer families. They have had seven children, six of whom are living. Mr. Shaffer ran for Representative on the Greenback ticket, but though running ahead of his ticket he was beaten by a small majority.

W. SHIPMAN, general merchandise, Fulton, is a native of Monroe County, Ind., and was born in 1827. He was raised on a farm and has always given it his attention, although he was ordained a minister of the Church of God in 1860, following preaching until his health failed, when he came West, and having a brother in this section he located, bought 160 acres of land, which has since been increased to 240. He has given up preaching and has regained his health. His farm is located on Sections 22, 24, 25 and 26, Freedom Township, and this year (1882) reports most excellent crops. In order to give his children the advantages of the Fulton school, he moved to town in 1875, and at the same time opened a store, carrying a full stock of mixed goods and doing a fine business. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1875, and has been on the school board. He has been married three times, the last time to Miss Hackett. They have five children--two daughters at home, Martha E. and Rosa.

JOSEPH M. SNYDER, farmer, Section 6, P. O. Dayton, native of Monroe County, Penn., was born in 1837. He was raised in the mercantile line, and did not try farming till he came to Kansas in 1865, when he bought a farm of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary Smith, on Section 6, containing 160 acres. This has since been increased to 247, and Mr. Snyder is engaged in raising stock, handling about fifty head per annum and grows enough corn to feed with. His crop this year, 1882, will average forty bushels to an acre. His venture in flax was not an entire success. While in Pennsylvania he married Miss Malinda Young, and they have four children--three boys and one girl.

W. H. STEVENS, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Fulton; native of Fulton County, Penn. In 1873, he graduated at Kishacoquillas Seminary, in his native State. In 1875, he came to Kansas and located in Erie, Neosho County. In 1876 moved to Sherman, Cherokee County; in 1877, in March, to Pawnee, Bourbon County, and from 1879 to 1882, was preaching in Walnut, Crawford County. He came from there to Fulton in March, 1882, taking charge of a parish that numbers 168 members, and has a flourishing Sabbath school of 100 scholars. August 10, 1876, he married Miss Cummings, of Illinois. They have two children--Addie and Blanche. In 1877, he was ordained in Wichita, and again in 1879, at Hutchins. He has a brother a minister in Cherokee County.

E. L. TAYLOR, farmer and capitalist, Section 31, P. O. Fulton, native of Saratoga County, N. Y., born in 1810. In the war of 1812, he had an uncle a Major. In 1831, just after a spell of sickness he started West, his father and mother going as far as Buffalo with him. Then he took a schooner, and after a tedious voyage arrived in Detroit, Mich., locating some thirty-five miles northwest of that city and went to farming. In 1833, he returned to New York, and married Miss Jennings, of the same county. Returning to his farm they lived there till he sold it, and in 1873, he visited Bourbon County, Kan., and while here he bought 160 acres in Section 31, and in the spring of 1875 broke up some forty acres and raised a fine crop of wheat. He then returned to Michigan and went to Ohio. In 1876, he returned to Kansas; in the meantime the mill property in Fulton had reverted to him, and his son-in-law took management of the town business. In 1878, he built an elevator, and in 1881 put up an agricultural warehouse and established a lumber yard. In 1879, he moved to his present home, where he has some 200 acres. He has had a family of seven children--Caroline, now Mrs. Delano; his eldest son in Big Rapids, the second deceased, the third in New Jersey, a merchant; the fourth in Chicago, one daughter in New York and his eldest daughter was married, but she and her children are now dead.

DR. J. R. WASSON, farmer and horticulturist, Section 20, P. O. Fulton, native of McMinn County, Tenn., born in 1829, and studied medicine under Dr. Jones, of Missouri, and at times practiced, having become acquainted with the neighborhood. His brother was also a doctor, and in 1860, he took his practice. In 1855, he came to Kansas from Tennessee, stopping two days in Fort Scott, and then coming out and locating on the present site of the village of Fulton. He traded this claim for the one in Section 20, or his present farm. There was at this time and in the following year, 1856, a general exodus, and those that were left were a law unto themselves. In 1858 there was a party of men collected about the Doctor's cabin and helped themselves to a valuable pair of mules, and then commenced firing into the cabin, killing a man named Conrad Traverse, and wounding the Doctor in the arm and paralyzing his left side. They were conveyed over the line into Missouri, where he lay for three months, when his brother took him to Dade County, where he recovered. He then took his brother's practice, and in 1864, went to Illinois. In 1867, he commenced proceedings in the United States Courts for recovery of the farm, and in 1869 succeeded in effecting a compromise with the occupant, G. W. Burgess. In the mean time Mr. Burgess had roofed in a building put up by the Doctor before leaving Kansas in 1858, so he lived in it until completing his present fine residence, in 1880. In 1875, Mr. Wasson retired from the practice of medicine, and has since given his attention to farming, at least that part of it pertaining to horticulture, having converted the wild prairie into fruit-laden acres and a well-improved farm. His children have also prospered, notwithstanding the sad experience of their pioneer life. He married Miss Hardwick, and they have eight children. His eldest daughter, Mary, is now Mrs. Feemster; eldest son, William H., is Principal of the Mound City schools; George R. and James O. are teaching district schools, and his daughter Lory is also a teacher, but has taken their mother's place in their home, as they lost her in 1881. Robert M. and Jasper C., the two youngest, are at home. G. H., the second son, is Principal of the Valley Falls schools, in Jefferson County.

A. WILSON, of the of firm Wilson Bros., merchants, is a native of Ohio; the family moved to McLean County, Ill., and in 1858, he and his brother came to Kansas where he went into business in Mapleton, Timber Hill Township, which he continued until 1862, when he enlisted in the Second Kansas Battery Light Artillery, and was after some of the vicissitudes of war was mustered out in 1865, when he returned to Bourbon County, and bought a farm of 200 acres on Section 35, which is now highly improved and well known as the Bachelors' Ranch, or Stark Wilson's farm; giving his attention to stock almost entirely. In 1881, he came to Fulton and went into company with his brother, M. Wilson, in general merchandise. Mr. A. Wilson has been a member of the Masonic Lodge for years, he was a charter member of the Mapleton lodge, and helped organize the one in Uniontown.

M. WILSON, of the firm of Wilson Bros., merchants, Fulton, is a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, was born 1835; was taken with the rest of the family to McLean County, in 1839, where they lived on a farm. He entered the mercantile life at an early age and lost his health, so that on coming West with his brother he went to the Rocky Mountains; regaining his health he came back to Mapleton and bought, in 1861, Mr. Greenfield's interest in a general merchandise business, which he sold as soon as the war broke out and went to Illinois. In the spring of 1862, came back to Mapleton and ran a carding machine and sold to Mr. Hobson; he then went to Fort Scott and entered the employ of Wilson, Gardiner & Ray, where he remained till July 4, 1864; then going to Mapleton he became one of the firm of Higby & Co. In 1866, he went to farming on Section 26, running a grain farm of 160 acres, with forty acres of timber; he was engaged on this for some fifteen years, till opening here in Fulton, carrying a stock now of $7,000. In 1864 he was in Mound City, when Price made his raid into Kansas; this year his father was killed by lightning, while on his return home to Illinois, just about four miles east of Lawrence. Mr. Wilson has been a Mason since 1856, having joined the lodge in Pekin, Ill. He joined the chapter in 1858, and helped organize the lodge in Fort Scott. He married Miss Hobson in 1864; they have a family of four girls and one boy.

CHARLES WOGAHN, farmer, Section 3, P. O. Fulton; is a native of Prussia, Germany, was born in 1845, came to America in 1855 with his father Frederick Wogahn, who located on Section 12, Freedom Township, in 1859, having stopped in Wisconsin awhile. When only fourteen years of age, he served in Fort Scott in the State Militia, and in 1871 he bought this farm, at first of eighty acres, now having 406 acres, raising stock and grain, having this year (1882) an excellent crop of grain. In 1871, he married Miss Grunwold; they have four children--Heman, Ida, William and Eddie. Mr. Wogahn's father and mother are still alive, aged respectively sixty-five and sixty-eight, now living on the old place; they are Lutherans in belief.

FREDERICK WOGAHN, farmer, Section 12, P. O. Fulton, native of Prussia, Germany, born in 1817; he was raised a farmer in the old country, and his wife, formerly, Miss Mena Adams, was educated as a cloth weaver; they emigrated to America in 1855 and located in Wisconsin where they engaged in farming until the year 1859, when they moved to Kansas and took a farm on Section 12, 160 acres, which they farm successfully. In 1860, the dry year in Kansas they suffered greatly, and Mrs. Wogahn, her brother and son Charles, hauled a load of provisions from Wyandotte for the relief of the famishing; at another time her son, brother and another boy hauled provisions from Atchison; of all the aid brought from these places, they received but one half sack of flour, and during the Price raid, they lost their horses and other valuables. In 1840, Mr. Wogahn, and has had a family of four children, three of them now alive and one deceased.

A. J. WOOD, physician and surgeon, native of Paris, France, born 1844, he came to America with his parents in 1847 and located in Kentucky. Here in 1864, he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Ford, of Georgetown, Scott County. The winter of 1864-65 he attended the Ohio Medical College, and graduated from the Indiana Medical College, in 1872. He had excellent and valuable experience in the hospital at Lexington, Ky., in 1865, where he went from the Ohio Medical College. In 1869, he went to Fort Scott and practiced with Dr. Hogan, and in 1872, went to Fulton, where he has a good practice. In 1876, he married Miss Delia Randall. They have three children, two boys and one girl. The Doctor's parents were both of French parentage. 

WILLIAM BAKER, farmer, Section 24, P. O. Mapleton, native of Bourbon County, Ky., born in 1805, and when twenty-five years of age, or in 1830, he moved to Indiana; while there he was called to join a vigilance committee, and while a member, followed a horse-thief into what was the village of Chicago, shooting the thief there. In 1856, he came to Kansas and located on his farm. The first night on his landing, he was informed of the shooting of three men about claim troubles, and from that time to 1865, they were more or less disturbed. In 1859, they found it necessary to organize a vigilance committee, of which he was a member. In 1857, he had sold out and went to Kentucky, but returned to Kansas in a few months, and stood his ground through all of the perils that menaced person and property. In 1857 or 1868, he moved to his present home. He has 200 acres in his farm and reports good crops; he has gone into stock-raising, keeping the best of Durham blood and blooded horses. In 1830, he married Miss Inlow; they have two daughters--Phoebe E., who married Dr. C. R. Clark, and Mary J., who is the relict of M. E. Hudson; he died in 1882. Mr. Hudson was a pioneer, and stood the brunt of most of the troubles in early times. Being a man of more than average intelligence, he was prominent in this section up to the time of his death, having held the office of Grand Master of State Grange, and other offices of trust. He left three children.

M. BOWERS, farmer, Section 29, P. O. Berlin, native of Pike County, Ohio, born in 1835. When nine years of age, his father took them to Illinois, and in 1855 they moved to Missouri, finally coming to Kansas in 1857. His father, Henry Bowers, located on Section 28, Mill Creek Township, but moved onto Section 29 next year, 1858, Timber Hill Township, and in 1865 Mr. Bowers took 160 acres and started for himself, succeeding so well that he now has 885 acres in stock farm, having raised a good crop every year since starting. He handles about 350 cattle a year, buying, feeding, selling and raising enough corn to supply his stock. During the war he was Commissary Sergeant in the State militia. In 1861 he married Miss Edwards. They have eight children. His father died in 1867, but his stepmother is still alive, aged sixty-five. Mr. Bowers is a member of the Masonic Lodge.

J. B. BRITTON, physician and farmer, Section 27, P. O. Mapleton, is a native of Halifax County, Va., born in 1830. In 1850 he commenced the study of medicine and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1852. Located in Winston, N. C., in 1854, where he practiced his profession up to the spring of 1858, when he returned to Virginia. In the fall of that year he left Virginia for the West, and was on his way to Washington, D. C., when the troops were conveyed to Harper's Ferry to guard John Brown, of Kansas. He located in St. Joseph, Mo., where he remained until June, 1861, when he received the appointment of United States Physician for the Osage Indians from the Indian Commissioner, Dr. Robertson, whose headquarters were then in St. Joseph. He proceeded to the Osage territory, as in August a treaty was to be confirmed between the United States, and the Osage tribe, but owing to the unlooked for magnitude of the Southern rebellion and the fact that a number of Osages were implicated in it, the Government deferred making a treaty at that time. He then returned to Fort Scott, where he remained a short time, when he located at Fort Lincoln, a fort established by Gen. James H. Lane, fifteen miles north of Fort Scott, for the better protection of the border tier counties in Kansas. Dr. Britton remained in practice there until the fall of 1862, during which time he was instrumental in establishing a post office at Fort Lincoln, and was appointed first Postmaster, which he held until September, 1862, when he removed to Mapleton to take the practice of Dr. S. O. Himor, who had been commissioned as a surgeon in a Wisconsin regiment, the regiment having been raised in his native State and at his former home. Dr. Britton lived in the village until 1867, and then located on his present farm, which is located three-quarters of a mile east of Mapleton, and is beautifully improved, containing 220 acres, with an abundance of water. He farms in the most improved style and consequently successfully. In 1858, he lost his first wife in Virginia, which induced him to go West. Was married again in 1864, and has a family of four sons. The eldest, Walter, is at Lawrence, attending the University of Kansas, from which he will graduate in the classical course in 1884. The other sons are at home.

JOHN CROSS, merchant, Mapleton, is a native of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, born in 1837. He was raised in the mercantile business, and tried farming for the first time on going to Missouri in 1859, locating in Dane County; but the life not suiting him, he came to Kansas in 1861, and entered the employ of Dr. Lyon, of Mapleton. In 1862, he clerked for D. L. Campbell, and for Hudson, Campbell & Co. in 1866, and he was with E. P. Higby till 1869, when he opened a store for himself, having a partner for a while George Darling, and since 1873 has been alone, carrying a complete assortment and doing a fair business. During the war, he was with the State militia at the battle of Wilson's Creek. In 1859, he married Miss Blackmore. They have three children. Mr. Cross has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1868, and is now Secretary of the lodge, which was established October 17, 1860.

WILLIAM D. DEEDS, farmer, Section 10, P. O. Mapleton, is a native of Madison County, Ill., born 1819. While in the State of Illinois he was engaged in farming, and for a number of years was in the lead mines of Georgia. Coming from that State, he arrived in the State of Kansas in November, 1857, at once locating on Section 10, buying 160 acres of John Pitkin. This farm was unimproved, having only seven acres in corn, Mr. Deeds building his own cabin. At this time there was peace among the people of this part of the State, but it was not lasting, for in 1859 there was a party of men who came to his cabin one night intending to take his life, but, as it unfortunately happened, his son-in-law, Benjamin Bishop, was in the adjoining cabin, and, not suspecting danger, went to the door of the cabin and was shot by some of the marauders. He died six days afterward. Mr. Deeds went to Fort Scott that night, and after hunting the parties with help he obtained there he went to Missouri. This was in 1859. Soon afterward, his wife was induced by these same parties to abandon their home and follow her husband. It was while living in Missouri and trading back and forth that he was accused of carrying dispatches to the rebels, and was imprisoned in the guard house at Fort Scott. He sees in this act an attempt to deprive him of character as a loyal citizen of the United States, but it miscarried, for he found a strong friend in the Government scout, Jeff Denton, who at once cleared him of all suspicion, and related how Mr. Deeds, at a great risk to himself, had preserved, not only his (the scout's) life, but the Government dispatches also, at his home in Missouri. These scenes are still vivid in the mind of this pioneer case although the actors have all disappeared from the country. Mr. Deeds returned to his farm in 1864, and took part in the closing action of the war in this State, that of Westport; since then he has given his whole attention to farming, succeeding in accumulating a competence, and being blessed with plentiful harvests has prospered, and now has some 320 acres of well-improved land, raising stock and corn. He has been married five times, living with his last wife since 1857, formerly Miss Lawhorn. They have eleven children; there were four by the former marriages. Two of his sons were in the Union army.

E. P. HIGBY, merchant, native of Essex County, N. Y.; born in 1831; he grew to manhood, having the ordinary advantages of the farm boy, and at the age of twenty-one, changed his course of life by entering a mercantile house in Burlington, Vt., that dealt in hardware. Here he applied himself for four years, and, in 1857, came to Kansas in company with Sheaver, Byington, and others. He located on Section 21, in Timber Hill Township, Bourbon County, and the same year laid out the village of Mapleton, being one of the Town Commissioners. In 1858, he opened a general merchandise business in company with S. O. Himoe (sic); in 1861, his partner entered the service as Surgeon of the Fifteenth Wisconsin; his brother, J. E. Himoe, (sic) entered the firm in 1863. M. Wilson took his place. Mr. Higby, however, has conducted the business since 1865, himself carrying a stock of $3,000, and doing a business of $6,000 a year, also carrying on a farm. In 1863, he married Miss Baldwin, daughter of S. D. Baldwin, of Neosho, Newton County, Mo. They have three children.

GEORGE H. B. HOPKINS, farmer, Section 15, P. O. Prescott, is a native of Logan County, Ohio. He was born April 12, 1825. In the fall of 1829, his father moved to Carroll County, Ind., setting near the Tippecanoe River, two and a half miles west of Pittsburgh, where he followed farming until 1840. He then moved to Missouri, living for a time in Jasper County, and then in Taney County, where he bought a mill. In September, 1847, G. H. B. Hopkins, his brother Josiah and four others left Carthage, Mo., on a tour of exploration to Iowa. On the second night out they camped at Fort Scott, where were stationed two companies of United States troops, the only whites they saw in the Territory. Passing on through Bourbon, Linn and Miami Counties, they crossed the Missouri River at Kansas City, which then consisted of only a few log houses. They then passed through Platte City, Mo., and Council Bluffs, Iowa, and finally reached Des Moines at the time when the first frame house in that town was being erected. In 1849, Mr. Hopkins moved his family to Iowa, settling in Polk County, and learned the carpenter's trade. In 1851, he sold his farm and moved to Polk City, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1854, he sold his mercantile business and moved to Swede Point, where he was engaged in carpentering until the summer of 1857, when he sold this business, and in the fall, in company with his brother, moved to Bourbon County, Kan., settling on the Little Osage, September 19. In December, he bought the claim where he now lives, and moved on it in February, 1858. During the troubles that followed between the Pro-slavery and Free-State men, Mr. Hopkins was in active sympathy with the Free-State men. He lived neighbor to Hedrick at the time the latter was called from the bedside of his wife, who was supposed to be dying, to the door, and shot dead, as detailed in the county history. After the killing of Hedrick and Denton, on account of the threats of the Pro-slavery men that the Free-State men should raise no crops, nor stay upon their claims, Mr. Hopkins and his neighbor Denison, rode out among the citizens and suggested the organization of a protective society. Accordingly, a meeting was called to meet at Osage City. A large crowd collected and organized by the election of Squire Jewell, Chairman. Mr. Hopkins, Jewell and Denison were chosen a committee to draft resolutions and by-laws to govern the association. At a second meeting held three days later at the same place, James Montgomery was present, but declined to speak or to define his position until the citizens had defined theirs. The resolutions prepared by the committee were submitted to the meeting, only the third eliciting any discussion. It was as follows: "That we, the members of this organization, pledge ourselves to protect all good citizens in their rights of life and property, irrespective of politics." A long and heated discussion followed on this resolution, the question being on striking out the phrase, "irrespective of politics." When, at length the resolution was adopted as originally reported, Montgomery arose and said: "I am now with you, and will be to the end." Many similar organizations were formed throughout the country, the settlers took fresh courage and went to work with a sense of security they ad not felt for months. In 1861, Mr. Hopkins enlisted in Company C, Home Guards, and furnished horses to two comrades in the same company. He was afterward transferred to the Fourth Regiment under Col. Wier. He was mustered out March 12, 1862, and paid off together with the balance of his company. When on his way home from Wyandotte, near Paola, narrowly escaped being robbed by Quantrill's men. In the latter part of March, 1862, he moved to Fort Lincoln and engaged in mercantile business. He was soon appointed Postmaster. In the organization of the militia in the winter of 1863, Hopkins was elected and commissioned First Lieutenant of Company E, Sixth Regiment. He was afterward made Captain of the same company, and at the battle of the Big Blue was entrusted with the command of an important reconnoitering expedition, upon which he learned that Gen. Pleasanton had attacked Gen. Price. After the escape of Price from Gens. Pleasanton and Curtis, Capt. Hopkins returned to his home. He found everything destroyed, and his wife and family at Fort Lincoln. Price's forces had taken $450 from his wife, and destroyed property to the value of $2,100. In 1866, he moved onto his farm where he lived until May 18, 1875, when, on account of the grasshopper raids, he became discouraged, and, with his family and stock, moved to Swede Point, Boone County, Iowa. In the fall of 1876, he returned to his farm in Kansas, and has lived thereon ever since. Mr. Hopkins was the first Postmaster of Fort Lincoln in 1862, and was Justice of the Peace from 1862 to 1867. He was one of the distributing committee of 1860. He was married to Miss Martha Denison December 27, 1846. They have nine children living, nine others having died. Henry S. and Martha M. have taught school; the others are farmers.

R. M. D. FEEMSTER, farmer, Section 17, P. O. Fulton, native of Lowndes County, Miss., born in 1838. His father moved from South Carolina to Mississippi in 1836, bringing his family with him. He was a Congregational minister, being a graduate of Washington College, East Tennessee. In locating in Mississippi, he took the pulpit of the church in that neighborhood, and as early as 1842 introduced the slave question. He also built a schoolhouse on his land, at his own expense, and for twelve years taught in it, giving his sons and daughters an education fitting them for the Senior year in college. When the war broke out, Robert and some thirteen other men started for the North, their sympathies being there. They traveled at night and rested in the daytime for 100 miles. They reached Tuscumbia, and there took the railroad, going to Illinois, to relations at Decatur, in Macon County. Here he engaged in farming, and in the spring of 1864 attended Wheaton College, in Du Page County. Here he married, in 1864, Miss Ferguson, and in 1866 returned to his native State and county. He became then one of the leaders of Republican principles of that part of the State, and in 1871 was sent to the House of Representatives. He was re-elected in 1873 and in 1873 was on the ticket for Senator, but the organization of their Solid South leagues defeated him, in common with all Republicans, though they did not intimidate him. In 1875, he commenced preaching, and in 1878 he was ordained. He took his brother's place in the pulpit, and when he moved to Kansas part of the society came with him. So they organized here, and chose him pastor, and have regular weekly meetings in the Oxford schoolhouse, and a flourishing Sabbath school. He came to Kansas in 1879, and selected a location, and in 1880 moved his family to their present home, where he owns 176 acres well watered and fertile soil. He is prospering, having a fine family growing up around him, all of whom he is educating in the principles of his father before him.

R. T. FORBES, farmer, Section 1, P. O. Fulton, native of Jefferson County, Ill., born in 1833. He was raised on the farm, and in 1853 started for Kansas, but stopped one year in Missouri, near Sedalia. Coming to this State in 1854, together with his brother Dave, he at first took a claim on the forks of the Creek. This was given to Dave. He then took a claim of 1,000 acres, of which he has sold some five quarters. He finally located on the present farm. There were but few in this section of Kansas at that date, and as they came in and settled, Robert was looked on as an old settler, and looked up to. Although living here through the border troubles, he was not molested. He saw all the men that were shot or hung in this neighborhood, and being well versed in the geography of the country, was guide for both Montgomery and Jennison at times. He also belonged to the Home Guards during the war. In 1859, he and his brother Dave took a trip to Pike's Peak, but made nothing. Losing their summer's work, they returned to Missouri. In 1863, Robert married. His father and sister lived with him. His father died in 1864. His wife was a Miss Banks, of Missouri. They have six children alive, two dead. He now farms in stock and grain, reporting good crops for 1882.

J. R. MYRICK, farmer and miller, Section 31, P. O. Mapleton; native of Henry County, Tenn., born in 1843. He came to Kansas with his father in 1857, and located on Section 32. He has three brothers. His father died in 1863. In the troubles of this section they took no part, their father was too old and the boys too young, so they were unmolested. His father was away from the State in 1858 and again in 1861, but then settled down. Mr. Myrick farmed until 1878, when he bought the Mapleton Flour and Saw Mills, running them since in connection with his farming. He is doing well. This season he has completed a fine residence and improved the mill greatly. In 1865, he married, and now has six children.

WILLIAM M. NESBITT, farmer and hotel proprietor, is a native of Greensboro Township, Orleans Co., Vt., born in 1832. In 1858 he first came to Kansas and located a claim in the northern part of the State, but was taken sick and returned to Vermont, where he remained until 1861, when he enlisted in the Fourth Vermont Volunteer Infantry and served until May 12, 1864. He had his left arm shattered by a musket-ball in the battle of Spottsylvania Court House. He was conveyed to Fredericksburg, where his arm was amputated at the shoulder. On the 21st he was moved to Alexandria, and July 1, taken to Brattleboro Hospital, Vermont, from there he returned home and as soon as he recovered reported to the same place. From there he got transferred to Burlington. While there he attended Bryant & Stratton's College. In 1865 he came to Kansas again, where he located on a farm in Linn County just north of Mapleton. In 1866 he started back to Vermont, but stopped in Iowa and taught school for awhile. In 1867 he returned to Kansas and married Miss Tout; she was a native of Indiana. He farmed here until 1877, when he moved to Mapleton and repaired his hotel, still owning the farm. In 1871 he was elected Clerk of Linn County, and served one term. They have four children--Mary A., Leafy J., Lizzie G. and Vina E.

JOHN REESE, farmer, Section 17, P. O. Mapleton, native of Lebanon County, Penn., born March 28, 1816. In his migration westward he stopped first in Ohio and then in Northwest Missouri, but not being able to procure a farm to suit him he came to Kansas and located on his present farm, taking a claim of 160 acres in 1859. When he came to the State he was a Democrat, but did not want to take any side or part in the troubles of this section; after losing a steer and a valuable horse, he concluded to save the rest of his property by joining the ruling party, and after doing so, was not molested. He served in the State Militia, and has prospered so in his farming industry that his farm of 160 acres has increased to 600. Since the year 1860 he has not wanted, raising good crops since. In 1857, he married Miss Burkholder. They have four children--two sons and two daughters. His wife died in March, 1881. Mr. Reese has been a member of the I. O. O. F. since 1852.

A. H. TANNER, farmer, Section 7, P. O. Mapleton, is a native of Huron County, Ohio, born in 1837; was raised in Lorain County and educated at Oberlin College, leaving there in 1855; coming to Kansas in 1856, with a party of other men, they met a small party of Missourians, who ordered them back, until meeting a larger force near the Nebraska line, they were compelled to return to Iowa. In March, 1857, he got to Lawrence and from there went to Linn County, where he located on a farm and took an active part in Free-State proceedings, being nominated as one of the delegates to frame the Wyandotte Constitution. He was the recipient of one of the hundred Sharpe's rifles that were sent to John Brown and distributed at that time, and was with Montgomery on numerous raids. He was in Fort Scott under his command when Mr. Little was killed, and in 1861 joined Col. Jennison's Sharpe's rifle corps, imperiling his life in many instance under that daring leader. In 1860, he took a trip to Colorado, returning in the fall of the same year, he went back to Ohio, in 1862, but came to Kansas again in 1865, where he has been since. In 1860, he located his farm of 160 acres on Section 7, in Bourbon County. It was not until within the last few years that he was able to make farming pay, but since then he has made giant strides, perfecting his seed corn in a manner peculiar to himself; has succeeded in raising over one hundred bushels per acre, and raising and handling 100 cattle a year and about 150 hogs. His farm is now 250 acres. In 1859, he married Miss Wilson, of Kalamazoo, Mich. He has two children by his first wife, and a son by the second. His eldest son is attending school in Topeka. Mr. Tanner has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1870. His father was a member for fifty-six years, and died at Newburg, Ohio, in 1879.

D. VAN BUSKIRK, farmer, Section 36, P. O. Mapleton, native of Appanoose County, Iowa, born in December, 1849; he was raised in Davis County, and thinks there is no place like this section of Iowa, for in 1869 he came to Kansas, going to Wichita, from there to the State of Texas, then to Missouri and back to Iowa. This same year, however, he took a claim in Chautauqua County, Kan., where he farmed until 1872, when he returned to Iowa, seeming to be able to breathe freer; but Kansas offering better opportunities for stock raising, he came to his present location in December, 1877, buying eighty acres and opening up a farm, clearing and improving; his crops are good. In 1877, he married, and has one child--a girl. Mr. Van Buskirk is a Greenbacker.

HANSON WARD, farmer and teacher, Section 1, P. O. Fulton, native of Morgan County, Ohio, born in 1840. He was educated there and commenced teaching in 1859 or 1860. When the war broke out he enlisted in the First Ohio, Heavy Artillery, and did not leave the service until 1865, when he was mustered out at Louisville, Ky. He at once went back to his profession in 1867. He moved to Missouri, and taught school there until 1872, when he came to Morris County, Kan., and taught school in Parkerville. However, he returned to Missouri; thence to Ohio, where he remained until 1882, coming to Bourbon County, Kan., with his father Hiram Ward, who had never moved from his native place, until coming here. They located on their present farms 11th of March, owning 280 acres, farming, in stock and grain, and doing well.

REV. WILLIAM YOUNG, farmer, Section 1, P. O. Fort Scott, is a native of Orange County, N. Y., born in 1810, December 7. In 1827, he went to Pennsylvania, where he learned his trade, shoemaking. While in this State, he became acquainted with, and married Miss Setzer, who is a descendant of an old family who settled in Pennsylvania in 1632, locating in Northampton County, Hamilton Township. Mr. Young lived in Monroe County. In 1845, he was ordained Deacon by Bishop Wall, of Pennsylvania, and has since filled the pulpit, where he has lived, still continuing in the ministry in Kansas. He lost his eldest son in Kansas in 1855. In 1864, he moved to Kansas, bringing his family with him, and located on his present farm, where he owns 200 acres, besides eighty in Linn County. They have had eight children; his sons, W. C. and J. S., were both in the service during the war of the rebellion. W. C. is now in business in Rich Hill, Mo. J. W. is a Methodist minister in the Newark Conference. His daughter has been married three times, is now Mrs. H. S. Jennings, a prominent lawyer of Cincinnati, Ohio. His youngest son, Charles W. is farming in the neighborhood. Mr. Young has been living in Fort Scott, and on account of advancing age intends there to reside. 

GEORGE AMEY, farmer, Section 22, P. O. Glendale, is a native of Wayne County, Penn., born in 1835. During his early life he worked as brakeman on the railroad. This was his occupation till he was twenty-three years of age, when he went to farming. In 1858, he married Miss Saline Minor, of Pennsylvania, and then moved West to Iowa. In 1859, R. A. Williams and himself spliced teams and started for Osage City, which was supposed to be in Bourbon County, Kan., but on arriving found but one or two buildings making up the village. He then located on Section 23, taking a claim of 160 acres, on what was New York Indian land. In 1860, his wife not being able to endure the privations of the dry year, he went back to Pennsylvania. When the war broke out, he enlisted in the Home Guards, and in 1862 re-enlisted in the Sixth Kansas Cavalry, Company E. He was taken sick at Paola and sent back to Fort Scott where his wife nursed him. He then rejoined his regiment, and on the 27th of July, 1864, in the engagement on Mazzard's Prairie, thirty-four men of Company E were taken prisoners and marched to Camp Ford, where they were kept till May 27, 1865, when they were exchanged, and he was mustered out at Duvall's Bluff, Ark., returning home in July. He has since been engaged in farming. He moved from Section 23 to his present location. The last few seasons he has been dealing in hay extensively, but now gives his attention to stock and corn, of which he has a bountiful yield for 1882. They have had eight children, five living and three deceased. His son, George M., was shot through the head by a man named Wyatt who robbed him. George recovered. His daughter Katie is a teacher. The others are Asa, Judd and Clara.

WILEY BOLLINGER, farmer, Section 6, P. O. Mill Creek, is a native of Bollinger County, Mo., born in 1831. This county was named after his grandparents who settled there in 1800. When Wiley was nine years of age, his parents removed to Northwestern Missouri, on what was known as the Fat Purchase. It was here his father died in 1853. The family then removed to Greene County, in the same State, and in 1854 his brothers Joseph and Jake came to Kansas, and selected a location. So with two yoke of cattle and a wagon they moved out in 1855, staying in an unoccupied cabin till theirs was finished. They then moved on their claim. In 1856, they received notice to leave the State, as they were Free-State people. They then went to Missouri, and took refuge with a minister named Redfield, coming back the next month, however, and settling in their home. In 1861, he served as First Lieutenant of the Mill Creek Rifle Company, and in 1863 joined the State Militia going into Capt. J. J. Stewart's company. Here he was Color Bearer and Ensign. Notwithstanding the hardships and perils of the Kansas pioneer, the life in the old cabin was described as very pleasant. They at one period had post office, preaching, singing school, spelling school and literary society there. It was in 1861 that Mr. Bollinger married Miss Lee, of Jasper County, Ill. Since the war they have prospered. He now owns 220 acres of land, farming in grain and stock. He has always been a prominent man in his section, having been Justice of the Peace for fifteen years, Coroner from 1868 to 1872. In 1880, the people sent him to the State Legislature, and he is now giving his aid and support to the public schools, serving as Clerk in his school district. He has five boys and three girls, all of whom he intends shall have a good education. In the M. E. Church he is a Trustee and Steward, and Recording Steward for the circuit.

JACOB GROS, farmer, Section 5, P. O. Mill Creek, is a native of East Tennessee, born in 1830. About 1853, he started West to Arkansas, but stopped in Greene County, Mo. He then came to Kansas in 1854, looking for a location. Having selected it, he built part of a cabin and then returned to Greene County, bringing his family out in 1855, being accompanied by several other families. The only one now remaining is that of Wiley Bollinger. Settling in a wilderness, he has carved out a fine, well-improved farm, but it took almost a miraculous amount of work, and in those unsettled times a great amount of personal danger. In 1864, he was out under Capt. Dan Hall, but took no part in the disturbances, though he was compelled to hide in the timber. In 1853, he married Miss Tipton. They have five children--James, Henry, Tennessee, Charlie and Lila. Mr. Gros has been Township Treasurer for some six or eight years, and is an earnest supporter of the public schools.

D. F. HALL, farmer, Section 2, P. O. Mill Creek, is a native of Portage County, Ohio, born in 1834. He remained at home until he was twenty years of age and then went to work on the Cleveland & Cincinnati Railroad. Having learned the carpenter's trade, he then went to Illinois, where he went to farming in McDonough County, but with poor success, for he first lost his crops and then his farm. In this condition he emigrated to Kansas, locating on Section 2, his present home, stopping with his brother at first until he had built. He arrived February 10, 1859, with little or nothing, and since then has accumulated a little fortune in stock and land, now having some 1,361 acres, all fenced, stocked with about 200 head of cattle and 200 hogs and Norman graded horses. On the homestead piece of land he has put some $8,000 in a fine residence and improvements. He went through all the earlier troubles, losing some property, and serving in the State militia. In 1864, his wife and family were exposed to the guerrilla warfare which raged here at that time. In 1858 he married Miss Stinson. They have four boys and two girls. Being always an earnest supporter of education, he is giving his children the advantages of the State Normal College, located at Fort Scott--William, Clarence, Ellsworth, Effie, Leonard and Maud.

W. H. HARRIS, farmer, Section 1, P. O. Mill Creek, is a native of Lower Canada, born in 1838. His parents were of English descent, and settled there at an early period. In the same year that he was born they moved to Ohio, remaining there until 1843, going thence to Illinois, where they lived until 1860. They then came to Kansas in 1860, the party consisting of his parents (both since deceased), his brothers George, John and William, also one sister, now married and living in Dakota. W. H. located in Mill Creek Township on his present farm, and has succeeded in making a beautiful home for himself and family, farming in stock and grain. In 1860, he married Miss Vineyard. sic They have one daughter. Mr. Harris has held many of the gifts in the power of the people, such as Township Trustee, School Treasurer, etc. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, having joined in 1865.

H. HIXON, farmer, Section 23, P. O. Dayton, is a native of Highland County, Ohio, born in 1828. Most of his youth and years were spent in Illinois, but in 1858 he came to Kansas in search of milder climate and a larger range for stock. At first he settled on Section 10, in the timber, but in 1859 he moved to his present home. He is well known as the pioneer mail contractor, having three different mail routes, and during the years of the rebellion carrying the mail was attended with great danger, especially the route from Dayton to Pawnee, where he only escaped several ambushes by changing his route each time. He carried the mail up to the year 1866, giving his attention to farming. In 1850, he married Miss Wade. They have four children, two boys and two girls. He is a member of the M. E. Church. His farm has increased in acreage, amounting now to 400 acres.

E. KEPLEY, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 27, P. O. Berlin, is a native of Davidson, N. C., born in 1825. In 1835, he moved to Greene County, Mo., and in 1854 came to Kansas. He first located in the southeast quarter of Section 10, Timber Hill Township. They were unmolested here for a while. Mr. Kepley and Tom Whitlock explored all this country before locating, and E. Kepley built the first cabin on the Osage River, claiming all the land they wanted, as there was no one to dispute. In 1856, the family moved to Drywood Township, where they stayed some four or five weeks, and then returned to the farm. In the fall of 1857, a party of eighteen armed men visited the place. Four of them came into the cabin and engaged in conversation, while the others ran off his horses. As soon as he found out his loss, being a man of decision and iron nerve, he at once went to the nearest village, Mapleton, and rallied a force for the purpose of following the robbers. He then proceeded to Fort Bayne, where Col. Montgomery was in command. There Mr. Kepley found two of the men, whom he recognized, but was referred to Gen. Lane, who, when he heard the particulars, said he would help no Democrat. The horses were returned. In 1859, not having any horses, as he could not keep them, his steers were taken. About this time a vigilance committee was organized. Mr. Kepley and a friend, J. B. Dejarnett, at once traced the steers to Osawatomie, but found they were not able to procure the arrest of the thieves, who were supposed to be Pat Devlin and Steele. The cattle were returned to Mr. Kepley's wife, and he gave the man the reward offered, $75. In 1860, the family moved to the State of Missouri, Mr. Kepley being about ruined. But the troubles ceasing, he returned in 1861, and served during the war in the State militia. Mr. Kepley's misfortunes did not cease with the coming of peace in 1865, but in 1866 his house was invaded by two desperadoes, who compelled them to deliver $670 to them at the muzzle of a pistol, but, singular as it may appear, he has continued to prosper, and since his last reverse, has steadily gained, until to-day we find him the owner of 1,200 acres, located in the richest and most fertile portion of Bourbon County, stocked with the finest Durham cattle, premium Poland-China and McGee hogs, which he thinks excel all others. His herd of Short-horns numbers 60, while he handles about 200 head of stock cattle a year, with from 200 to 500 hogs. His corn will average sixty bushels to the acre, and in every respect he is the leading farmer of the county. In 1849, he married Miss Pipkin, of Tennessee. They have nine children living and five deceased. Mr. Kepley belongs to the Masonic lodge.

B. WILTSE, merchant and Postmaster, P. O. Mill Creek, is a native of Erie County, N. Y., born in 1832. He read law with Mr. Thayer, since Governor of Oregon, and finished his law studies at the Genesee Western Seminary, afterward practicing at Bowling Green, Ind., Chippewa Falls, Wis., and on coming to Kansas was admitted to the bar of the State. He located in Mill Creek in March, 1881, and opened a store, and at the same time taking the post office. He has about forty acres of land also, which he farms. He has been married, and now has a son and a daughter. Mr. Wiltse is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a Democrat. 

J. R. ANDERSON, farmer, Section 4, P. O. Xenia, is a native of Virginia. His father, Charles Anderson, moved to Missouri in 1853, then came to Kansas in 1856; located on Section 4, southwest quarter, where they took 160 acres. The family took no part in the early troubles, but when R. Forbes and Dye robbed Scott's store, of Xenia, he was among the number that traced the parties, and afterward when the citizens surrounded Rube Forbes, one of the robbers of the party, he and his two friends, Lieut. Ford and Mr. Vansyckle went into the thicket where the desperado was concealed, and before they came out both his friends had been shot. He had the satisfaction of seeing Forbes brought out dead soon afterward. Mr. Anderson first enlisted in the Third Kansas, but was transferred to the Sixth. He was mustered out in 1862. In 1863 his father died, and in July he enlisted in the Fourteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, Company I, and served until 1865. In 1863, he had homesteaded 160 acres on Sections 4 and 5, and in 1866, he married Miss Williams. They have seven boys and two girls. His farm now consists of 200 acres. He handles about 100 head of cattle a year and 200 hogs. His crop of corn will average forty bushels to the acre, and he has some seventy or eighty tons of millet. Mr. A. has held most of the township offices, and is now County Commissioner; is an A. F. & A. M., having been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1870.

MARK BOULWARE, farmer, Section 29, P. O. Xenia, native of Parkersburg, W. Va., born in 1830. While at home he learned the carpenter trade and then took a tramp across Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to Iowa, where for his work he took a yoke of oxen and wagon and went to a place on the boundary line between Saline and Lafayette Counties, Mo. In 1851, his cousin, William Chapman, and himself, came to Kansas, but were not suited with the looks of the country, so went back, but came in 1858 and located on Section 24, where he opened up a farm and then sold to M. and A. Wilson, moving to his present farm during the years 1858 and 1859, and during the war, although he was out several times on military duty, he engaged in only one battle, that of Westport, or the Big Blue. In 1862, he married Miss Brockman, and they have one boy and three girls. His farm consists of 312 acres, growing stock, fruit and grain; he has twenty-eight acres in apples of seventy-five varieties, also peaches and pears, having 500 pear grafts on apple trees; he handles fifty head of cattle a year, and reports forty bushels of corn to an acre. His cousin, William Chapman, returned to Kansas and died here in 1868; he had served during the war under Jackson and Early, and finally came to his friend and cousin's home and died. Mr. Boulware has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1861.

J. M. DAVIS, farmer and stock-dealer, Section 24, P. O. Xenia, native of Pennsylvania, born in 1837. He comes of English and Scotch ancestors, the Davis line are English and the Bartletts are Scotch. The family moved to Ohio in 1853, where he was educated, and in 1857 he went to the north shore of Lake Superior for his health, and went to teaching school among the Manx, a curious people from the Isle of Man. In Lake County, Minn., he bought a one-quarter section of land, and in 1858, took a tramp of five days, and arrived at St. Paul, looking for work, and after getting it, found he could not get paid, so went to teaching again; taught near Northfield and also near Hastings, Minn., going to Illinois in 1859, where he taught and then went to farming. In 1861, he married Miss Holeman, and in 1866, he came to Kansas, having sold his land in Illinois. He bought on Section 23, and opened up a small farm that has grown to such grand proportions since in 1868 he had a poor crop, and in 1875 had lost money on cattle; but notwithstanding these back-sets sic he now has 2,000 acres in his farm, handling some 150 head of cattle, between 400 and 500 hogs; he has some forty horses and mules, his horses of Norman blood. Around 1,600 acres he has five miles of hedge fence, and seven miles of barb wire fence, as well as stone and rail fences. His residence was erected at the cost of $3,500; he has also a fine orchard of 600 apple trees. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have seven boys and one girl. The daughter is away at school. Mr. Davis is a Mason, and is now Township Trustee, having held numerous other township offices. He is a Democrat.

J. H. DECKER, manufacturer and dealer in furniture and coffins, Xenia, is a native of Germany, and was born in 1847. He emigrated to America in 1868, and came to Kansas in 1869, where he was employed in the Government works at Leavenworth; then coming to Xenia he bought property, and since has put up store buildings and improvements to the amount of $1,500. He is now doing a business of $5,000 a year. He married in 1876, Miss Johnston. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1874. He is Secretary now of the Xenia organization.

L. E. COLLINS, merchant, Xenia, native of Michigan, born in 1848. He came to Kansas in 1869 and located with his brother on Mill Creek Township, on a farm where he remained until 1875, when he sold his farm to his brother and removed to Xenia; there he married Miss Love, taking his father-in-law's farm until 1879, when he bought out Mr. W. F. B. Griggby, who was doing business as M. E. Griggby. Mr. Collins now carries about $4,000 in stock and does from $11,000 to $12,000 per year. Mr. and Mrs. Collins have two children--a boy and a girl.

HILLEARY & JONES, general merchants, Xenia, established in 1880. They carry about $2,000 in stock and do a business of $6,000 a year, expecting to improve their place and double their sales the coming year. Mr. Hilleary is a native of Vermillion County, Ill., born in 1848. He came to this State in 1867, and settled on a farm adjoining the village, with his father; then they opened the store. Mr. Hilleary took charge and Mr. Jones conducts the farm, handling stock and raising grain.

A. M. KIRKPATRICK, M. D., Xenia, native of Holmes County, Ohio, born in 1838. He was raised on a farm and commenced the study of medicine in 1859 with Dr. Wagner, then with the firm of Drs. Lerome & Rose, of Effingham. In 1861, he enlisted in the Ninety-Eighth Illinois Volunteer Mounted Infantry, Company K. He was First Lieutenant of this company, but on account of the absence of the Captain was acting as Captain and received that officer's pay. He resigned this post for one in the hospital at Murfreesboro, in company with a Dr. Groves. This gave him an opportunity in practical surgery. After leaving there he attended Rush Medical College in 1864-65. He the commenced practice in Effingham County, Ill., going to London City and from there to Kansas in 1869 and locating in Xenia. His first case, a difficult one, was treated successfully, and he has built up an excellent practice over a circuit of ten miles. In 1867, he married Miss Alvira Kelly. They have two boys and two girls. The Doctor keeps on hand an excellent stud of roadsters, of Morgan blood.

T. J. LOVE, merchant, Xenia, native of Morgan County, Ohio; born in 1848. His father's family moved to Missouri in 1854, and, in 1860, they came to Kansas, locating on Section 3. In 1862, his father made a venture in the mercantile line, but went back to the farm again. Mr. Love also tried farming, but sold his farm on Section 6, and bought J. W. Neil out, now carrying on a general merchandise business, with a stock of $3,000, and doing about $6,000 per annum in business. In 1870, he married, now having four children. Mr. Love has been a member of the Masonic Lodge since March, 1882.

S. O. MARKHAM, farmer, Section 21, P. O. Xenia, native of Cattaraugus County, N. Y., born in 1842. In 1851, his family moved to Illinois, where he remained until 1860, when he came to Kansas, locating on his present farm. During the dry year of 1860, he took the opportunity to go out on the plains and shoot buffalo, providing the family with plenty of meat. He also helped bring relief from Atchison that year. He was a Free-State man from the first, and joined the Wide Awake association. He took part in the capture of the desperado Rube Forbes, and served in the regular volunteer service, afterward in the militia at Westport. In 1860, he started his farm by homesteading 160 acres, and now has a large stock and grain farm, handling from 100 to 200 head of cattle a year. His corn crop is good, going forty bushels to the acre. In 1868, he married Miss Gragg. They have two girls. Mr. Markham has been always active in the Republican committee here, and has been a Mason since 1873.

EDWARD MURPHY, farmer, Section 11, P. O. Xenia, native of Limerick, Ireland; born in 1832. He came to America in 1846, landing in New York. He went to Maine, where, as he grew up, he worked in the pineries and learned the trade of bellows-making; afterward the trade of cracker baker. In 1851, he enlisted in the regular United States Army, but left that and went to Arkansas, going to farming there, and in 1861, he enlisted in the First Arkansas Battery. When they organized the Home Guards, he went into that as a Major, but this was in 1865, and they broke up, he coming to Kansas and locating on his present farm. It was wholly unimproved at this time. He put up his cabin and broke up the rich bottom lands that have since yielded him such abundant harvests, not differing ten bushels of corn to the acre one year with another since 1865, the average being sixty bushels. His method of farming is similar to others of this section--stock and corn. He married in Arkansas, having a family of nine children. He lost his wife in 1881. Mr. Murphy is a Greenbacker and a Catholic.

CHARLES MURROW, farmer, Section 24, P. O., Xenia, native of Clark County, Ind.; and while he was still very young the family moved to Iowa, living in Polk County till 1859. When he was twenty years of age, his father offered him $100 a year, and then for the next year he got $12 a month. He and his brother started with a calf. He traded his for a colt, and on coming to Kansas in 1859, he traded a sack of flour, a gun and the colt for his claim of 160 acres. He has since so prospered that he has 800 acres on his farm, and handles 200 head of cattle a year, with 200 hogs. This year he reports forty bushels of corn to an acre. In 1865, he married, and has a family of six children, two girls and four boys.

L. G. PORTER, merchant, Xenia, native of Franklin County, Ohio, born in 1840, attended the common school in Columbus, Ohio, but did not receive much benefit until he attended the High School at Springfield, Ill. From school, after some experience with his father, who was a merchant, he went to buying cattle for a Springfield firm in Missouri, and bringing them to Illinois. he was at this business four years, and then tried agricultural implements for a year; he then entered the mercantile business, and in 1868 opened a store in a little place in Kansas called Mount Florence; selling out there he came to Xenia, and bought Mr. Etna Ecart's sic mercantile establishment, carried on in a building, room 20x30, and a stock of $1,800. In 1874, he carried all that his shoulders would hold, the farmers raising no crops that year; he now carries a stock of $4,000, and does a business of $10,000 a year. In 1870 he moved into his present stand, which has made quite extensive, and in 1869 he married, having now four children. Mr. Porter has been Township Treasurer, and has held school offices, but the people have this year asked him to represent this district in the State Legislature. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1871.

FRANK M. SMITH, farmer and hotel proprietor, Xenia, is a native of Tennessee, and was born in 1827; he was raised in Illinois, and came to Kansas in 1858 from that State. He located on the Osage River on Section 27, Franklin Township, which farm he still has. In the early troubles he endeavored to take no part, but finally found himself working in the Free-State party, though taking no part in the wild and thrilling adventures of Jayhawkers. He was conversant with the facts, and when the war broke out he went into the fourteen days of service under T. S. Brockman, and afterward into Capt. O. P. Boynes' company, being in the Westport battles. He is now living in the village of Xenia, in the hotel business. In 1855 he married Miss Stover. Mr. Smith has two brothers living in Kansas. His wife's father died in 1881, aged seventy-five years.

J. S. W. STEVENSON, farmer, Section 33, P. O. Xenia, native of Illinois, born in 1840. His father, Samuel, moved to Kansas in 1857, July 4, and located on Section 33. The next year John Van Syckle and his father laid out the village plat of Xenia. When they first arrived on their claim, there seemed to be no party line, but a family trouble arising between two families, Stone's Free-State, and Southwood's, Pro-slavery, the settlers at once organized and the Stevensons were on the Free-State side, and John afterward joined the Wide Awakes, a Free-State organization, and from this time to the end they were actively employed in maintaining their own against aggressors. His father died in 1862, and John was then in the field, present at most of the raids and excursions undertaken by the citizens or settlers of this section. In June, 1861, John enlisted in Jennison's company. They disbanded and his father recruited them into Company I. John joined Company L, under Capt. Van Syckle. They were attached to the Third Kansas, but in 1862 transferred to Sixth Kansas, and then disbanded on account of illegal enlistment, and in 1863 John veteranized, and served to the end of the war. The family of three boys--John, S. A. and W. C., and some of the girls and their mother, now sixty-eight years of age, are engaged in farming and handling stock. Only one of the brothers is married, S. A., to Miss Abbey. Mr. Samuel Stevenson was Captain of Company I when he died, and had been through some hard fighting on Paint Creek, being also at Scott, where Little was shot. John was foremost in tracing and capturing Rube Forbes in 1862.

J. A. WILLETT, farmer, Section 21, P. O. Xenia, native of McNary County, Tenn., born in 1832. When he was three years of age, the family moved to Texas, remaining till 1842, then going to Arkansas, where he staid sic till 1851, then to Illinois, and from there, in 1854, to Arkansas, and in 1857 he went to Texas, where he staid sic till 1859, when the questions or issues arising that led to the war of the rebellion, they moved to Arkansas, but here it was as dangerous, for they were notified to leave the State, and he was attended part of the way by the vigilance committee. On arriving in Kansas in 1860, he bought a claim of Mr. Cassell, and afterward pre-empted a piece, now having about 320 acres, which is farmed in stock and grain. He handles 100 head of cattle a year, and his corn crop of 1882 will average forty bushels to an acre. In 1854, he married Miss Parsons. They have one daughter, Eldora, whom they have given a finished education, and who will graduate this year from the Lawrence University, in the department of music. Mr. Willett was the first Master of the Xenia Masonic organization, and charter member.