JOHN W. ALFORD, M. D., was born in Indiana February 5, 1842; he was raised on a farm, and received a common school education. AT the age of nineteen he entered the army and remained in service three years. He then returned to Indiana and began the study of medicine, which he continued for eighteen months, afterward practicing and teaching school until 1868. He then came to Kansas, and located on Big Creek, Allen County, and farmed for two years on 160 acres of land, which he improved and operated as a grain farm. About that time, the settlers pressed him into the practice of medicine, which he continued one year, when he sold his farm under the belief that he needed a better education; took his wife and a little girl, five years of age, whom he had taken to raise, and went on a visit to Indiana, where he left his wife and child with friends, and went to Cincinnati and took a course of lectures, graduating May 11, 1875; then came to Kansas and settled on Big Creek, where he remained one year, and thence went to Neosho County, where he practiced until May 5, 1880, at which time he came to Girard, Kan., where he has continued to practice since that time. He has been a member of the Christian Church since sixteen years of age, and is also a Free Mason, Odd Fellow, Knight of Honor and Good Templar. He was married to Miss Malissa Chandler, of Indiana, February 1, 1866. He lost his wife, May 5, 1880, and he was married to Miss Mary Carrothers, of Illinois, in 1881. They have one child - Wayne

C. A. ALLEN, of the firm of Allen Bros., dealers in hay, grain and general merchandising. The hay and grain business was established by the brothers in 1874, upon a trade of about $5,000 per annum. They have carried it on very successfully since, adding merchandising to their already extensive interests in 1881, and now do a business of about $80,000 a year. They give employment to about forty workmen and twenty-five teams, and run four perpetual presses, in the pressing of hay. Their trade in this article already extends through this State, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and Colorado. A. Allen was born in Davis County Iowa, in 1849; received his education in the public schools of his nativity; in 1869, he located here and engaged actively in the farming and stock-raising industry, which he carried on successfully till investing in his present industry. He married in 1874, Miss Ella Underhill, who was born and reared in Carroll County, Ind. They have a family of two sons and one daughter - Stanley Clare, Guy and Jessie. He is a member of the Board of City Aldermen for the city; has worked actively in the growth of the public, social and industrial life of this place since coming here. From 1872 to 1878, he was prominently identified with surveying through this locality.

THEODORE W. ATKINS, druggist, was born in New York State December 24, 1855. He lived on a farm and attended the district school until he arrived at the age of fourteen, when he entered as clerk in a general merchandise store, where he continued two years, and then went to college; when through with his education, he taught school one year, then went to New York City and kept books for a large grocery house; there he remained until the fall of 1877, at which time he came to Kansas and located at Girard, and engaged in the drug business, which he still continues. He owns his business house and his residence, with some other town property. He belongs to the Order of A. O. U W., of which he is a Select Knight. He was married to Miss Mary F. Hull, of New York, December 11, 1877, and has one child, Lina H., born August 14, 1881. Mrs. Atkins received an academic education, and is an active member of the Methodist Church and President of the Ladies' Aid Society.

J. Q. BELL, of the firm of Bell & Crawford, dealers in lumber, lath, shingles, sash, doors and blinds, was born in Mercer County, Penn., in 1846, and was identified in native State as a mechanic, contracting and building for several years. In 1874, he located in Girard, and has carried on his present industry successfully since. In 1876, he married Miss Jennetta Crawford, who was born in Coles County, Ill., in 1855. They have two daughters - Lillie and Annie. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M. society here.

WILSON BOYLE, merchant tailor, was born in Ohio, 1828; learned his trade in Cincinnati, and worked at the business in Ohio fifteen years; went to Kentucky in 1859; remained eighteen months, at the end of which time, enlisted in the army; was mustered out in 1863; returned to Illinois; remained three years; came to Missouri in 1870; thence to Coffeyville, then Fort Scott, and to Girard, 1877, and opened his present business, which he has since actively prosecuted.

WILLIAM H. BRADEN, livery, and bridge-builder, was born in Richland County, Ohio, August 21, 1846. He received a business education while living on the farm. Joined the army at the age of nineteen, and was in the service three and a half years. he was then on a farm in Illinois two years. he came to Kansas in 1869, and located on a farm in Crawford County, and farmed seven years. He was raising grain and stock. He was elected Sheriff in 1877, and came to Girard and built a barn in 1878, and began the livery business. He was Sheriff two years, since which time he has been running a livery and building bridges. He was Trustee of Crawford Township four years, and is now President of the Agricultural Society of Crawford County, and is also a member of the A. O. U. W. He was married to Miss Wealthy E. Lott, of Illinois, in November, 1876. They have two sons - Samuel B. and William O.

J. D. BRALEY, farmer, sheep and hog grower, Section 2 P. O. Girard, was born in New York in 1834, and raised on a farm; received a business education; continued on the farm with his parents until the age of thirty; at which time went to Iowa; remained one winter; came to Kansas in 1867. Located on his present farm of 480 acres, which he improved, and has since raised grain and stock. Has 280 acres under cultivation, and eighty acres in tame grass. Handled cattle, sheep and hogs until 1881. Since then, principally carrying 600 head of sheep, and 150 head of hogs, raising the Poland-China hogs, and a fine grade of sheep. His wool clip is annually 3,500 pounds. The farm has five miles of hedge fence, and one mile of wire; 800 apple trees, a fine assortment of pears, peaches and berries of all kinds. Mr. Braley has eighty acres of land in Lincoln Township, and two-thirds of 160 acres in Crawford Township.

CHARLES N. BROWN, Agent of the "Frisco" Railroad, was born in Schoharie County, N. Y., in 1844, and removed with his people, who settled at Chicago, Ill., in 1845. At the age of ten he engaged as a messenger boy in connection with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, but soon after learned telegraphy and took charge of a station in his present capacity, in which he remained with the railroad for several years. After this, he filled engagements with the Union Pacific, Texas, Pacific & Western, Hannibal & St. Joseph, and Northern Pacific; accepting his present position with the "Frisco" in 1877, and located here in September, 1879. In 1871, he married Miss Frances Nebergall of Illinois. They have one little girl - Nancy Ada. He is an active member of the A., F. & A. M. society, and of the Chapter Royal Arch Masons.

H. W. BROWN, farmer, Section 12, P. O. Girard, was born in Illinois in 1837. Received a business education. At the age of eighteen, went to learn the carpenter's trade, and continued at that business until 1861, at which time he joined the army four years and four days. Went in as a private and came out as First Lieutenant. Returned to Illinois in 1865, where he remained on a farm three years. Came to Kansas in 1868, and located on his present home of 160 acres, which he has since run as a grain and stock farm in connection with the carpentering business. has over 100 acres in cultivation; has hedge fence, good water and fruits of all kinds. Belongs to the order of Free Masons. Was married to Miss Annie Fuler, of Pennsylvania, in 1866. Have seven children - Lillie M., John C., Arthur N., Sarah A., James H., Hitter, Maud M.

LORAN BROWN, dealer in lumber and all kinds of building material; was born in Whitby, Ontario County, Can., in 1829, and was identified there with farming and stockraising till 1864, when he engaged at merchandising, which he carried on actively there for several years. In 1869, he came to Kansas and engaged at his present industry here, which he has operated very successfully since. He married, in 1851, Miss Martha Playter, a native of York County, Can., who departed this life in 1878, and is buried in Girard Cemetery, aged forty-nine years. In 1879, May 4, he married Miss Emma Low, a native of De Kalb County, Ill. They have a family of two little girls - Myra and Cora. Mr. Brown has worked actively in the development of the social and industrial life of this city since coming here. Is an active member of the A., F. & A. M., I. O. O. F. and I. O. G. T. societies, and an active supporter of the Presbyterian Church.

D. W. BURNET, farmer, Section 18, P. O. Girard, was born in Ohio in 1824. He was raised on a farm. He went to Iowa in 1854, and carried on a farm until 1860. In 1861, he entered the army and remained in the service four and a half years, and then came to Kansas, and, in 1868, located at Girard on his present farm of 160 acres, which he opened and improved, and on which he now raises stock and grain. He has about thirty acres in orchard, and also owns two lots in town partly improved.

A. G. BUSH, dealer in real estate, was born in Montgomery County, Mo., in 1835; was raised on a farm, and continued farming until 1858; then taught school in Missouri nine years. He was then in the mill business in Missouri six years; came to Kansas in 1871, and located in Neosho County, on a farm, where he remained two years; then to Girard in the sewing machine and music business five years, at the end of which time he went into his present business. He owns fourteen town lots in Girard, and a good farm in Crawford County. He owns two nice residences in Girard. He is a member of the Good Templars. He was married to Miss Carrie M. Whiteside in 1868. They have four children living - Olline S., Zella M., Fannie F., Walton G., and Willie, deceased. He lost his wife June 28, 1880. Mrs. Bush was a graduate of Danville Female Academy, and taught school six years. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was a Sunday school teacher.

T. P. BYRN, farmer, P. O. Girard, was born in Pennsylvania in 1833; raised to the agricultural pursuit; was taken by his parents in infancy to Ohio; to Illinois in 1851, where he remained on a farm until 1866, in the grain and stock business, at the end of which time he came to Kansas, located on a farm of 160 acres in Crawford County, which he improved and run (sic) for seven years; then went one and a half miles west, on a farm of eighty acres, which he improved. Has a fine line of fruits of all kinds, wells and cisterns. April 2, 1880, Mr. Byrn met with a great loss, a destructive cyclone taking his house and every article of furniture, never having heard of the same, also killing two horses, one cow, and carried away eight fat hogs, from which he never heard. Was Constable two years, and is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Was married to Miss Mary A. Stevens, of Maine, in 1856. Have ten children - George W., Martin F., Harriet A., Mary O., John S., Ennis L., Sylvester J., James R., Jefferson A., Cora. Mrs. Byrn is a member of the Baptist Church.

C. CADWELL, dealer in hardware, groceries and agricultural implements, was born in New York March 1, 1825. He was early engaged in hardware business, and received a business education. He was in business in Chicago over twenty-seven years, in Leavenworth, Kan., a short time, and was afterward in Denver two years in quartz mill and mining business. He came back, in 1862, to Leavenworth, and was in tin and stove business four years, going to Girard in 1871, where he opened his present business. In 1882, he made a large amount of brick, and has also bought and sold cattle and hogs. He is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows. He was married to Miss Marion J. Greenfield, of Connecticut, in 1850. They have three children - George T., Lottie and Emma. Miss Lottie Cadwell received a collegiate education, and has been teaching school nine years, and is now teaching in Girard High School. Mr. George Cadwell received a collegiate education at Leavenworth, Kan.

ROBERT E. CARLTON, Clerk of the District Court, was born in Kentucky in 1844. He was raised on a farm, received a business education, and at the age of twenty-one commenced business for himself in his native State. He continued in general merchandise trade for two years, and then removed to Illinois, and worked on a farm four years, coming thence to Kansas in 1872. He located in Crawford County, where he bought and improved a farm on which he resided until December 14, 1876, when he was elected to his present office, having held by re-election three terms. Mr. Carlton owns three improved farms in Crawford County, and his city residence. He is a member of the Church of Christ, and also of K. of H., and A. O. U. W. He was married in 1870, to Amanda G. Taylor, of Indiana, and has three children - Minnie, Louella and Cassius E. Two of their children, Nellie and Ola, deceased.

H. W. CAUBLE, real estate agent, is a native of Indiana, born in 1862. He lived on a farm in his native State until he came to Kansas, receiving a literary and business education in the same State. On coming to Kansas, he remained a short time at Baxter Springs, and came thence to Girard in 1882, where he became associated in the real estate business with Mr. J. A. Dawson, November 3, 1882. Mr. Cauble taught school in Indiana in 1879-80-81 and 1881.

R. S. COOK, farmer and stock-dealer, P. O. Girard, was born in Chicago, Ill., in 1852; was reared in the railroad business, received a business education, was check-boy for J. B. Shay, in Chicago, for one year; was then in the woolen mills in Massachusetts seven years; went to Missouri in 1871, remained until 1876, at the end of which time he came to Kansas and located in his present home. Owns residence, with three acres of land, in town. Owns eighty acres of land in Baker Township, which he improved. has good wells, ponds, running water. Runs his farm as a grain, stock and hay farm; carries from thirty to fifty head of stock. Belongs to the Order of Odd Fellows. Was married to Miss Amanda Best, of Illinois, in 1875.

GEORGE W. CRAWFORD, of the firm of Bell & Crawford, was born in Champaign County, Ill., in 1852. In 1868, he located in this county, and in 1876 joined the present partnership in the lumber industry, with which he has been connected since. He also caries on an active business in the lumber industry at Walnut. He married, in 1876, Miss Imogene Folliard, a native of Minnesota. They have a family of two daughters and one son - Nina, Georgie and Loyal. Mr. Crawford is a member of the A. O. U. F. and I. O. O. F. societies here.

W. B. CRAWFORD, real estate, loan and insurance, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1834, and came to America with his people in 1840, who settled in Randolph County, Ill., where he was identified with farming and stock industry till 1870, when he came here and followed mercantile business until 1877. In 1876, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and has been elected to that position for each consecutive term since. In 1856, he married Miss Agnes T. Stevenson, who was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1836. They have a family of five sons and three daughters - Harry G., associated with his father in business; Michael P., farmer; Robert J., telegraph operator, William J., Jennette C., Jane B., Benjamin A. and Agnes M. From 1864 until the end of the war, Mr. Crawford did active service in Company F, Twenty-eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was honorably discharged. Mr. Crawford is a member of the I. O. O. F. and I. O. G. T. societies here. Himself and family are members of the Presbyterian Church.

J. H. CUSHENBERRY, M. D. and dealer in drugs, was born in 1843, in Simpson County Ky. He received an academic education and began the study of medicine at the age of twenty-one with Dr. Bryant, of Kentucky. He attended two courses of lectures in Louisville, Ky., and graduated in St. Louis in 1872, and came to Kansas in the same year and located in Girard, where he practiced medicine until 1876. He then went to Nashville, Tenn., and attended one course of lectures. He returned to Kansas and Girard and continued business at the same place. In 1878, he opened a drug store in connection with his general practice. Dr. Cushenberry is a member of the K. of H., also a member of the State Medical Society, Southeast Medical Society and County Medical Society. He was married to Miss Cora A. Wickware, of Tennessee, March 16, 1869, she was born June 19, 1850. They have one child, Lennie H., born May 4, 1870. 

COL. PERCY DANIELS, P. O. Girard, owner of the "Narragansett Farm," son of the Hon. David Daniels, of the Rhode Island bench, and grandson of Dexter Ballon, one of the pioneers of the woolen manufacturing industries of the New England States. He was born in Woonsocket, Providence Co., R. I., in 1840. He received his rudimentary education in the public schools of Woonsocket, and his literary education at the Westminster Seminary, Vermont, and the University Grammar School of Providence, R. I. At eighteen, he commenced the study of civil engineering, under the preceptorship of S. B. Cushing, Sr. In poor health at the breaking out of the war, and anxious to go, he "roughed it" in the Michigan pineries during the winter of 1861-62, and then returning to Woonsocket raised Company E, of the Seventh Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant July, 1862, First Lieutenant when the regiment left the State, September, 1862, promoted to Captain after the battle of Fredericksburg, to Lieutenant-Colonel on the opening of the siege of Petersburg, was brevetted Colonel for gallant service at the "Mine fight," when inviting the men of a strange brigade to follow him; a line of works were carried from which they had before been repulsed; and assigned to duty on his brevet commission for meritorious conduct at the battle of Pegram farm (September 30, 1864). During the latter months of the siege his regiment formed part of the garrison of the famous Fort Sedgwick (or Hell, as commonly called), and apart of this time he was in command of the fort, and in the fall of Richmond and Petersburg took part with the Ninth Corps in the pursuit and capture of Lee's army. He returned to Providence in June, 1865, with the 350 men that remained of the original 1,000. After the war, intending to locate in the South, he accepted a position in the Engineer Corps of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, but after two winters in Tennessee came West, traveled through Eastern Nebraska and Kansas, and concluding to locate here, went East and married Miss Eliza A. Eddy, of Leicester, Mass., a graduate of the Westfield State Normal School, and teacher in the Worcester schools. Returning at once, he engaged in merchandising at Crawfordsville, the then county seat, till 1869. In 1868, he bought the present farm sited and was engaged in its improvements and cultivation till 1873, when he rented the farm, went back East and accepted a position in the City Corps of Engineers of Worcester, Mass., and subsequently became Chief, staying till 1878. From there he went to Providence, R. I., and was interested in professional duties and the settlement of the estate of a brother, Judge Francis A. Daniels, till 1881, when he returned to his farm, where he has been actively at work since. He has been connected with the Masonic Order since 1865, and he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church. "Narragansett Farm" contains 380 acres and is beautifully located on Section 10, Crawford Township, three and a half miles northwest of Girard, the county seat; 125 acres of it is used for grain tillage, 160 acres devoted to pasture, and the balance is wild grass, which yields an abundance of hay. The land is first quality; handsome dwelling and substantial barn and stables; an orchard of eight acres, a small grove of chestnuts, several groves of other forest trees, and a large fish pond, are located on the farm. Col. Daniels pays considerable attention to the breeding of good cattle and hogs.

J. A. DAWSON, real estate and loan agent, was born in Indiana June 12, 1846. He was raised on a farm; received a business education, joined the army in 1862, at the age of eighteen. He was in thirty-three engagements (among others, Stone River, Chickamauga and Mission Ridge), and was mustered out June 5, 1865. He returned home and worked on the farm two years and was then in Missouri three years in the brick business, and afterward two years in the grocery business in the same State. He went then to Osage Mission and carried on the grocery business two years, then to Hutchinson County, Kan., and was three months in mercantile trade, then sold out and went to Osage City, Kan., where he remained six years, and was then prospecting one year. He then worked for a St. Louis mercantile company three years, then in real estate business with Howard & Ward six months, and then began real estate business for himself in Girard, forming a copartnership with Mr. Cauble in November, 1882. He owns a 160 acre farm, improved and run as a grain and stock farm. He was married to Miss C. W. Unroe, of Illinois, in 1868. They have three children - John, Eva and Grace. Mrs. Dawson was educated at the Normal School in Illinois.

W. A. DENTON, farmer, P. O. Girard, was born in Kentucky in 1839, and was raised to agricultural pursuits. Received a common education and went to Missouri in 1856, where he remained on a farm one year. Came to Kansas in 1857 and located in Bourbon County on a farm, where he remained until 1866, devoting his attention to the raising of grain and stock. He came to Crawford County in 1866 and opened and improved a farm of 160 acres, which he improved and has since run as a grain farm. He is a member of the Baptist Church. In the mean time has been preaching in Kansas about ten years. He has been School Clerk, Director or Trustee for thirteen years past. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Coyle of Kansas, in 1859. They have one child, Mary A. Mrs. Denton is also a member of the Baptist Church.

A. D. DILLON, dealer in pianos, organs, steam threshers and sewing machines. He was born in Illinois in 1840, and received a business education. At the age of twenty-one, he began farming in Illinois, and continued that occupation until 1868, at which time he came to Barton County, Mo., and was for three years on a farm; then moved to Illinois and lived on a farm four years, then to Kansas in 1878, and settled on a farm in Crawford County. Here he remained two years and then came to Girard and opened his present business. He owns 156 acres of land in Crawford County. Mr. Dillon is a member of the A. O. U. W. Served in the Union army in the Seventh Regiment, Company E, Illinois Infantry. He was married in 1867, to Miss Sarah R. Corrothers, of Ohio, a native of that State, who was born in 1843. They have two children - Frank P. and Willie C.

C. P. O. DRUM, undertaker, was born in Cape Girardeau County, Mo., in 1826, and was reared in Macoupin County, Ill. He was actively identified with the mechanical business in that State till 1872, when he located here and established his present business in 1874, and has very successfully carried it on since. In connection with his business, he has two elegantly equipped hearses. Mr. Drum has been an active worker in connection with the United Baptists' State Line Association since 1874. He is their present Moderator, which incumbency he has held for the last four years.

J. C. DUNKLE, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 32, P. O. Girard, was born in Fayette County, Ohio, in 1816, and was raised and educated there. AT the age of twenty-three, he located in Lawrence County, Mo., where he was extensively connected with his present industry till 1874, when he came here and located upon his present place, where he has been actively connected with his present industry since. He was married in Ohio in 1839 to Miss Sarah J. Flesher, of his native county. They have a family of two sons and seven daughters living - Mary E., now Mrs. Philip T. Faust; Melinda, now Mrs. Henry Hendricks; Caroline, now Mrs. William Morrison, all engaged at farming in Lawrence County, Mo.; Sarah J., now Mrs William Morrison (sic), blacksmith, of Arkansas; Melcena, now Mrs. P. J. Harper, farmer, of this county; Adeline, married to R. A. Smallen (deceased); Nancy, married to Martin Stitch, of this county; L. J. and Perry C. In 1875, Mrs. Dunkle departed this life, and is buried in the family cemetery in Lawrence County, Mo. Mr. Dunkle married for his second wife Miss Elizabeth Hawley, a native of North Carolina. They have no children. He did service in the Home Guards of Missouri during the war. His family are members of the Baptist Church. His farm contains 160 acres of improved land, well fenced and watered and stocked, dwellings and stables, and an orchard of 200 trees of a well selected variety of fruits.

J. G. EASTWOOD, saddle and harness maker, was born in Illinois December 2, 1832. He was raised on a farm, received a common school education, and went to learn a trade at the age of eighteen, beginning business for himself in Illinois at the age of twenty, in which he continued twelve years. In 1861, he enlisted in the army and served until 1863. He came to Kansas in 1865, and was employed on a farm two years, coming to Girard in 1869, where he remained until 1877. He was then on a farm two years, and then came back to Girard and engaged in the saddler's business, in which he has since continued. He owns a farm of 120 acres, and runs it as a grain, stock and fruit farm. The farm has a fine grove of timber and running water on it. He also owns a residence in Girard. He was Police Judge for three years, and is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows. he was married to Miss Margaret J. Mourning, of Kentucky, in 1858. They have three children - Susan E., Eva R., Franklin M. and George Wesley (deceased); Miss Susan Eastwood was married to Mr. E. Mills in 1876, and has had two children - George L. (deceased) and Harry.

J. W. EDWARDS, general merchant, was born in Ohio December 12, 1844. He was raised on a farm, received a business education, and at the age of twenty began farming in Ohio for himself, remaining in his native State until 1876. He was next in a hardware store as clerk for two and one-half years, and then began for himself in the grocery business, which he carried on for two years. In 1881, he came to Girard, Kan., bought out a grocery stock, and added to it a general line of merchandise. Mr. Edwards carries a stock of about $5,000, and does a business of about $35,000 per year. He is a member of the M. E. Church and is Steward of same. Is a member of the Knights of Honor. He was married to Miss Sallie A. Moore, of Ohio, in 1881, and has one child.

S. W. EMERY, farmer, stock grower and dealer in fine stock, Sections 16 and 21, P. O. Girard, was born in Ohio in 1833. He was raised on a farm, received a business education, and went to Illinois in 1854. He remained on a farm until 1875, at the end of which time he came to Kansas and located in Girard for a short time. He then moved to his present home of 400 acres, where he has since been engaged in the raising of stock, carrying from 60 to 100 head of cattle and from 75 to 125 head of hogs. He has about 220 acres of land under cultivation, has 120 acres in blue grass, clover and timothy. The farm is under hedge fence, with plenty of good running water. He raises the Poland-China hogs and high grade of Short-horn cattle. Is a member of the Order of Freemasons and has been school Treasurer for nine years. He was married to Miss Sarah E. Meeks, of Illinois, in 1859. They have eleven children - Hattie E., Carie E., Susie E., Henry G., John K., Thomas A., Minnie, Sallie F., Maggie, Tena V., Jay and Mary (deceased).

G. ENDICOTT, proprietor of foundry and machine shop, was born in Kentucky in 1833. He was raised on a farm and in the shop and received a business education. He began the blacksmith business at the age of fourteen in Missouri, and continued in that State until 1854, at which time he came to Kansas and located at Fort Scott, where he remained until 1878. He then went to Osage Mission and remained a short time, and then came to Girard and opened his present business. Mr. Endicott is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows. He was married to Miss Cyntha (sic) Nail, of Tennessee, in 1872. They have three children - John A., Jennettie and Sonora.

E. FANGER, grain and hay dealer, was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1832, and came to America in 1853, and followed merchandising till 1858, when he went to California, where he was principally identified with mining operations till 1867; he then engaged in merchandising along the line of the Union Pacific Railway, and carried it on actively till 1869, when he located here and operated successfully in merchandising till 1881. In the meantime he established his present business in hay and grain dealing, which he has successfully carried on since. In 1870 he married Miss Mary Tipton, who was born in Indiana and reared in Iowa; they have a family of three children - Edna, Hattie and Louisa. Mr. Fanger has worked actively in the development of the public, social and industrial life of this place since coming here. He is at present member of the Board of Alderman (sic) for his city, which incumbency he has held for several years. He is an active member of the I. O. O. F. and A., F. & A. M. societies; his connection with the first named dating from 1855, and with the second from 1872. During the late civil war, he did active service in the Second California Volunteers of Cavalry for the last four years of the war, from which he was honorably discharged.

F. E. FANGER, general merchandise, was born in Germany April 8, 1849. He came to the United States at the age of five with his parents, and was raised on a farm in Ohio, receiving a business education. At the age of seventeen he went to the Rocky Mountains, and was in the grocery business in Cheyenne, Laramie City and Wasatch eighteen months, including many small towns. He was then in Sioux City, Iowa, one summer in general store; he came to Kansas in 1869, settled in Girard and engaged in same line of business in partnership with his brother Edward until July, 1881, at which time he bought his brother's interest and continued the business until November, 1881, when his store was burned and he was out of business until September, 1882, at which time he opened his present house. Mr. Fanger owns a farm of 160 acres in Crawford County, all coal land; it is improved and run as a grain farm. He also owns his residence and business properties in town; is a member of the order of Freemasons.

J. K. FAULK, wagon and carriage manufacturer and repairer, was born in Ohio, March 7, 1850. After receiving a business education, he began farming for himself at the age of eighteen, remaining one year in Illinois. He then went to Iowa, and carried on the carpenter business seven years, removing to Kansas in 1876. He located in Crawford County, remaining on a farm one year, and then came to Girard, and opened a carpenter shop, and ran it three months. He then carried on the butcher's business six months, and then formed a partnership in wagon business and blacksmith shop and ran them until January, 1882, at which time he bought out his partner's interest in the wagon and blacksmith shop, and has continued to run them alone since that time. He owns residence and business property in Girard. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; is a Freemason and member of A. O. U. W. He was married to Miss Nancy Montgomery, of Pennsylvania, in 1875, and has one child - Maudie E.

IRA J. FRISBIE, general merchant, was born in Hew York State, 1838, was raised and educated in Michigan. At the age of nineteen he went to California where he remained in the mines for nine years; in the meantime he went on an exploring expedition to Alaska for seven months, and then returned to California, where he remained seven years in charge of the mining interest of an English company, at the end of which time he returned to Michigan, where he was in the mercantile business eighteen months. Came to Kansas in 1870, and located in Crawford on a farm of 160 acres, which he improved and ran seven years as a grain farm, broke 145 acres, and has a good assortment of fruits of all kinds. In 1877 was appointed by the Governor to the position of Chief Mechanic of a portion of the Indian Territory for five years, at the end of which time he came to Girard, and after making a tour of Michigan and the lake regions and the East, opened his present business in Girard in connection with Mr. A. R. Satterthwaite, 1883. Was School Director of District No. 80, for one year. Belongs to the Order of Freemasons, and is Master of Girard Lodge, No. 93. Was married to Miss Lydia P. Hollibaugh, of Ohio, in 1872; they have three children - John L., Clara E. and Alice G.

WILLIAM A. FRITTS, head engineer Girard Flouring Mills, was born in Louisville, Ky., in 1848, and located in Kansas City in 1868, where he learned his profession, and was actively connected with it there till 1874. He then spent a short time in travel in connection with his business, principally in Iowa and latterly in St. Louis, coming from there to this place in 1875, and accepting his present position with which he has been reputably connected since. In 1876 he married Miss Ida May Hunt, who was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa; they have a family of two sons and one daughter - Orrin Guy, Ora Noy and James. Mr. Fritts is an active member of the I. O. O. F., A. O. U. W. and I. O. G. T. societies. During the late civil war he did active service in Company D, Second Arkansas Cavalry, during latter two years of the war, from which he was honorably discharged.

I. B. GARRISON, contractor and builder, was born in Pennsylvania in 1826, was raised to agricultural pursuits; was in the mill business four years; was next in the carpenter business four years; then in the lumber and farming until 1857, at which time he went to Illinois, where he remained on a farm until 1870, when he came to Kansas, and farmed two years in connection with the carpenter business, then farmed exclusively until 1881, moved to town, since which time he has devoted his entire time to the carpenter business. Is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows, Grange and Good Templars. Owns two town lots and ten acres adjoining town. Was married to Miss Susanna Ross, of Pennsylvania, in 1847; they have four children - John R., George L., James L. and Anna B. Mr. and Mrs. Garrison are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

A. P. GILMORE, railroad contractor, was born in Philadelphia, 1837; was raised in the milling business. Received a business education, went to Iowa in 1853, engaged in the milling business there until 1861, at which time he entered the army, was discharged 1865, returned to Iowa and engaged in railroad contracting, where he spent one year, at the end of which time he came to Kansas, located in Anderson County on a farm of 100 acres which he improved and ran as a grain farm three years; then moved to Garnett, Kan., in railroad contracting in which he has continued until the present time; came to Girard 1878. Is a member of the Methodist episcopal Church; was married to Miss Cornelia Baker, of Iowa, 1862; have four children - Mina A., Amy C., Esther C. and Annette. Mrs. Gilmore is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is President of the Women's Temperance Missionary Society, and is teacher in the Sunday school.

DAVID L. GRACE, editor and proprietor of the only Democratic newspaper in Crawford County, Kan., is the son of David Grace, a noted iron manufacturer in East Tennessee, and grandson of Col. Grace from Kilkenny, Ireland, who was killed at the battle of King's Mountain, while fighting for the freedom of the colonies in the Revolution. He was born September 1, 1826, on the Virginia and Tennessee State line, and claims a large connection among the Dorans, Donnellys, Smiths, Lowrys and Keyes in that section of country. For the purpose of studying the Cherokee language, when a boy of ten years, he attended Potter's Mission in Alabama, and when the Indians were removed to their reservation, he acted as interpreter for the soldiers in charge of the rebellious Cherokees under the leadership of Ridge, John Ross being the leader of the peaceable Cherokees. He tells many an entertaining reminiscence of his life at the Mission, and his journey westward illustrative of that people in those, to them, trying times. Upon his return he was placed in the Seminary at Marysville, Blount Co., Tenn., in the theological department of which Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was a student, that reflected great credit upon it as an institution of learning. In 1846, he married Elizabeth, third daughter of Maj. John Ward, and in 1850, moved westward to Edgar County, Ill. Not satisfied with his choice of location, and with his eye still turned westward, he visited the lands now within the State of Kansas, but was deterred from establishing his home more on account of the troubles existing among contending parties than because of the then uninviting features of the millions of acres of grass-matted prairies that lay before hem. He selected Jasper county, Mo., and two years afterward was appointed sub-agent for the Indians that were returned on the incompetent list, as persons incapable of properly transacting business for themselves in the organization of the Territory of Kansas. These Indians were scattered all along the Missouri and Kansas Line, but the bulk of them were at Wyandotte on the Kaw River. Many and interesting scenes and situations are depicted by him when "i' th' vein," of the stirring times spent among this people. At one time when in command of a company guarding the United States train to Santa Fe, Capt. Grace relates in a graphic and highly sensational manner, an attack upon them by Kiowas and Comanches, at Pawnee Rock, who had become emboldened by their success in killing Mr. Mason in charge of a Government ranch at Pawnee Fork. Being of an observant disposition, he ably describes the country through which he passed, and dwells upon the evidences all along his route of the ancient inhabitants of the western part of this continent. His position as sub-agent continued under the Lincoln administration. But his Union sentiments becoming offensive to neighbors in McDonald County, Mo., led to a duel between himself and Maj. Russell, Assistant United States Marshal, near Pineville, Mo., in which his friend, Capt. John Carroll, Mayor of Eureka Springs, Ark., participated, and they came off with flying colors. Finally, in consequence of this prejudice against his Democratic Union bias, he found it safer to remove his family to Cape Girardeau, Mo. In 1875, D. L. Grace was appointed School Superintendent in Crawford County, Mo., to fill out the unexpired term of the deceased school officer. Having spent a greater portion of his life in the schoolroom in the management of seminaries and central schools, Prof. Grace made such beneficial use of his opportunity to do a good work for the public schools, that he was elected two successive terms. The wife of his youth being in the grave, his children grown and moved to the great and growing West, he in 1879, led to the altar, Miss Nellie, eldest daughter of Thomas H. Roberts, editor and proprietor of the Crawford Mirror, and shortly afterward resigned his commission in order to take his wife southward for her health. A short stay at Eureka Springs, Ark., restored Mrs. Grace to the best of health, and he then entered upon the publication of the Erueka Springs Daily Herald; a financial crisis in business circles of that marvelously built city, caused him to invest in a Democratic journal in Girard, Kan., where he expects to end his days. Mr. Grace has living four children, now in Oregon; Thomas, a farmer, and a widowed sister, near Oregon City; George, managing a stock ranch, and William, a druggist. As will be seen, although born in the eastern part of the South, the subject of our sketch is pre-eminently a western man, and his life identified with the growth of the West. To-day he is occupying a home won from the great American Desert, over which he had traveled twenty-eight years before, in search of a home.

J. B. GRANTHAM, of Grantham Bros., grocers, was born in Illinois January 26, 1851, where he lived on a farm and received a business education. AT the age of eighteen he began farming for himself, continuing the business until 1880, handling cattle and hogs in connection with farming. He came to Kansas in 1880, and settled in McCune, Crawford County, being in the grocery business one year. He then went to Girard, engaging in same line of business. He owns a residence in Girard. He was married to Miss Hattie Hamlin, of Illinois, in 1872, and has four children - Alice C., William A., Oscar and James Walter.

WILLIAM GRANTHAM, of the firm of Wagner & Grantham, abstract, loan and real estate agents, was born in Illinois May 25, 1853. He received a commercial education, and at the age of twenty-one commenced farming for himself. He came to Kansas in the spring of 1879, and remained in the State prospecting about six months. He taught penmanship during the winter of 1879, and subsequently remained in the office of T. T. Perry, as clerk, for two years, at the end of that time engaging in his present business. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and was married to Julia A. Ashcraft, of Indiana, September 1, 1881. They have one child, May, born May 28, 1882. 

A. A. HARRIS, dealer in toys, Yankee notions and glass-ware, was born in Michigan, 1855; raised on a farm; received a business education; farmed in Michigan until twenty-four years of age; at the end of which time, came to Kansas in 1879; stopped in Anderson County a short time; traveled over the State in the auction business until 1882, at which time located in Girard, commencing his present business; is an Odd Fellow, a member of the Catholic Church. Was married to Miss Jennie A. Hayden, of Kansas, 1883. Mrs. Harris is also a member of the Catholic Church.

CHARLES AUGUSTUS HASKIN, L. L. B., attorney-at-law, was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, November 22, 1855; came to Douglas County, Kan., in 1857, where he remained on a farm until September, 1874, when he married Miss Martha N. Fishbaugh, of Ohio, and removed to Michigan, where he engaged in the lumbering business for eighteen months, and then returned to Kansas. His wife died in 1879, leaving two daughters - Martha, (sic) Nellie and Helen Luella. He entered the law office of D. S. Alfred and R. J. Bughothaus, in Lawrence, Kan., as a student, in June, 1880; and also entered the law department of the University of Kansas. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1882, and graduated in June of the same year. He located in Girard in November, 1882, and opened a law office. He united with the Methodist Church in 1873.

J. M. HIGGIE, farmer and stock-raiser and proprietor and owner of the Crawford County Creamery, Sections 7 and 18, P. O. Girard. Mr. Higgie was born in Kenosha, Wis., in 1851, and was reared and educated in Chicago, Ill.; at the age of fourteen years he engaged in the lake marine, and as he developed into manhood, he took charge of vessels as master, and was very reputably connected in that capacity for many years, principally in connection with the Higgies, who were prominent vessel owners then. In 1881, he sold his interest in that enterprise and retired from the profession, and located here, and engaged at his present industry, with which he has been prominently identified here since. He was married in 1875, to Miss Isabella Keith, who was born in the Orkney Isled, Scotland, in 1854, and was reared in Racine County, Wis. They have a family of one son and two daughters - Lina, John and Ethel. Mr. Higgie has worked actively in the development of the social and industrial life of this locality since coming here. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M. Society. His farm contains 320 acres of land well fenced and watered and stocked, good dwellings and barns and stables, etc.; about 1,500 trees of a nicely selected variety of fruits. The creamery is a story-and-a-half stone structure, 27 x 27 feet; is run by steam-power, with a capacity of manufacturing about 400 pounds of butter a day, the machinery and improvements being all new and of the most approved plans. In connection with the creamery is an ice-house, with a capacity for storing all of the ice necessary to be used during the manufacturing season.

LYMAN N. HITCHCOCK, retired, was born in Greene County, N. Y., June 21, 1825, and was reared and educated in Peoria County, Ill., where he was actively engaged in connection with farming for several years. He afterward located in Marshall County, Ill.; engaged in the same business until 1867, when he located at Henry, Ill., and carried on hardware merchandise until 1871. He then came to Kansas and located at Fort Scott, where he carried on the hardware business until 1873; retiring from the business that year, he engaged in farming and stock-raising and breeding, with which he was reputably connected in Bourbon County until 1883, when he engaged in the livery business from which he has since retired. He married January 1, 1849, in Peoria County, Ill., Miss Roxana J. Dickinson, who was born in Indiana, and reared in Peoria County, Ill. they have a son and five daughters living - Alfred A., Mary, now Mrs. George F. Paskal, hotel and livery business; Maria, now Mrs. Edward Krenz, hotel business; Alice, now Mrs. William Millington, book-keeper; Grace, now Mrs. Dr. U. M. Griffin; Hettie, at home. Mr. Hitchcock has worked actively in the development of the social and industrial life of his locality. He has served as Justice of the Peace for several years. He has been an active member of the A., F. & A. M. Society since 1867.C. HITZ, proprietor and owner of the Girard Flouring Mills, was born in Canton Graubunden, Switzerland, in 1844, and came to America in 1855, and settled in Madison County, Ill. In 1858 he came to Kansas and followed farming until the breaking out of the war of the rebellion, in which he did service in the Twelfth Wisconsin Battery, until 1865, when he was honorably discharges. He then engaged in merchandising in Madison, Wis., and followed it there until 1868, when he returned to Kansas, and settled in Miami County, where he was engaged in milling until 1870, when he located here and engaged in his present industry which he has successfully operated since. In 1868, he was married to Miss Mary Flint, who departed this life in February, 1879, and is buried in the Girard Cemetery, leaving two daughters - Minnie and Fay. In 1880, he married Miss Ellen Wells; they have one son, Christian Arthur. Mr. Hitz' mill is a four-story brick, stone and basement structure, run by steam, with a forty-five horse-power capacity; manufactures upon both stone and roller combined process; turns out about 100 barrels per day. His special brands are the "City Belle," "Snow-Flake" and "White Chief;" manufactures for the merchant trade exclusively. In connection with his mill is an extensive elevator run by steam-power, which he utilizes for both elevating and storehouse purposes.

GEORGE E. HOWARD, commission merchant and real estate, loan and insurance business, was born in Boston, Mass., October 19, 1846, and was identified with the mercantile business there in the wholesale trade for several years. In 1869 he located here and carried on retail merchandising for several years; in the meantime, he established his present grain and commission business. In 1876 he established his real estate, loan and insurance business, which he has operated since. He married in 1876, Miss Phoebe W. Player, who was born in New Market, Canada, in 1849; they have one little girl - Blanche. Mr. Howard has been an active member of the Board of Aldermen; is present Chief of the Fire Department, which organization he worked actively in establishing. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. society, Encampment and A. O. U. W., and has passed all the chairs in each. Is also a member of the Select Knights. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church.

C. R. HUNT, head miller Girard Flouring Mills, was born in Licking County, Ohio, in 1834, and moved with his father to Iowa in 1845. When at the age of eighteen, he engaged in his present business, with which he has been actively identified since. In 1871 he came to Kansas and located here in 1874, and accepted his present position, where he has been employed ever since. In 1855 he married, Miss Catherine Davison, who was born in Clark County, Ohio; they have a family of two sons and seven daughters - Emma B., now Mrs. S. D. Ashmore, a grain merchant; Ida May, now Mrs. William A. Fritts, head engineer of Girard Mills; Clarence E., second miller, Girard Mills; Flora L., Lillie G., Charlie D., Mary M., Tacy M. and Pearl D. Mr. Hunt is an active member of A. O. U. W. society. His family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Hunt has lately bought a mill at Walnut, this county, and took possession in April, 1883.

A. F. HUNTOON, M. D., was born in Illinois April 20, 1852, raised a farmer, subsequently receiving a medical education and graduating at Rush Medical College, and medical college of St. Louis, Mo. He practiced in Illinois until 1876, at which time he came to Girard, Kan., and continued the practice of his profession in that city. Dr. Huntoon owns a residence in Girard and ten acres of land adjoining the town. He is United States Examiner of Pensions for Crawford County, and Coroner of Crawford County. He is a member of A. O. U. W. and Select Knight of same order. He was married to Miss Emma E. Richards, of Pennsylvania, in 1879, and has one child - Harry A. Mrs. Dr. Huntoon taught school six years and received the highest compliments of the School Directors and of the County Superintendent.

A. S. JOHNSON, County Clerk, was born in Wyoming County, N. Y., in 1846, and was reared in Licking County, Ohio, where he was identified with mercantile industry. In 1865 he went to Missouri and followed merchandising until 1869, when he located here and was identified with farming and merchandising until 1877, when he was elected to his present incumbency, to which he has been elected each consecutive term since. He married in 1868, Miss Julia Preston, a native of Licking County, Ohio; they have a family of two sons and four daughters - George, Fred, Dora, Cora, Julia and Ina. Mr. Johnson did active service during the late Civil War, in Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, from which he was honorably discharged at the end of the war. he is at present a member of the Board of Aldermen for his city, which incumbency he has held for the last two years. he is an active member of the A., F. & A. F. and A. O. U. W. societies. His family are members of the Presbyterian Church.

CHARLES JONES, farmer, Section 33, P. O. Girard, was born in Indiana in 1849, raised on a farm, received a business education; came to Kansas July, 1871; located in Crawford County, Crawford Township, on a farm of 120 acres, where he remained four years; then to Girard in restaurant and bakery business; then on the farm two years; then to his present home of 180 acres in 1881. Was married to Miss Annie Davis, of England, 1872; they have two children - Charles C. and Louis L. Mrs. Jones is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

W. S. JONES, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 9, P. O. Girard, was born in Vermillion County, Ind., in 1852, and was reared and educated there; at the age of twenty he located in Vernon County, Mo., and carried on his present industry actively until 1875, when he came here and has very successfully carried it on here since. In 1880 he married Miss Lydia Lukins, who was born and reared near Lafayette, Ind. They have one little girl - Helen. His family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; his farm contains eighty acres of improved land, well fenced and watered and stocked, his specialty being hogs; good dwellings, barns, stables and a nice orchard of assorted fruits.

C. J. KEYES, merchant, was born in Michigan June 13, 1836; received a high school education, and began mercantile business in Michigan at the age of eighteen, which he carried on until December, 1881, at which time he came to Kansas and opened his present business in Girard. Mr. Keyes carries a stock of $20,000, and does a yearly business of about $60,000. He dealt largely in real estate of all kinds in Michigan, and also in cattle and hogs, saw and grist mills and all kinds of property, still owning a fine residence and business property in Michigan. is a member of the Order of Freemasons and Odd Fellows. Mr. Keyes was married to Miss Sallie Ann Field, of Michigan, in July, 1857; they have two children - Ella L. and Gertrude I. Miss Ella L. Keyes was married to Dr. T. F. Brown, of Pennsylvania, in 1875, and Miss Gertie I Keyes was married to Mr. C. J. Noyes, of Michigan, in 1879. Mrs. Dr. Brown has one child - Agnes Gertrude, born 1876.

GEORGE A. KEYES, dentist, was born in Cambridge, Vt., November 26, 1842. He was raised on a farm and received a high school education, and joined the army in 1862, and was mustered out in 1865. Received a shell wound in the right hand, at the battle of Winchester, September 19, 1864. After the close of the war, he went to Savannah, Ga., in the employ of the Southern Express Company, where he remained one year. He then returned North, to New York City, and clerked in a hotel for two years. He then began the study of dentistry, making his home in New York till 1878. He came to Kansas in 1879, and after remaining at Paola a short time, he came to Girard and located. He spent the winters of 1873-74-75-76 and 1877 in Texas and Florida on account of ill health. Dr. Keyes is a member of the A., F. & A. M. and Chief of Records of the Improved Order of Red Men, Quartermaster of Gen. Bailey Post of the G. A. R., and a member of the A. O. U. W., Vice President of the Southwestern Dental Association, and Librarian of the Girard Library Association. He was married to Miss Carrie I. Winch, of New York City, March 13, 1873, and has one child, Fannie C. Mrs. Dr. Keyes is a graduate of the New York Normal College.

E. KILLOUGH, manufacturer and dealer in saddles, harness, collars, bridles, etc. W. T. Killough was born in Monroe County, Ind., in 1833, and settled in Burlington, Iowa, with his people in 1846, where he learned his present trade, at the age of sixteen, and was identified with it for many years. In 1867, he came to Fort Scott and remained there until 1870, when he located here, and has been actively connected with his present business since. In 1869, he married Mrs. Eliza Hall nee Whitton, a native of Toledo, Ohio. They have a family of two sons and one daughter - Lulu, Willie and Arthur Garfield. During the war, Mr. Killough did active service in the Second Iowa Volunteer Infantry from 1861 until 1862, when he was honorably discharged on account of disability. He is an active member of the I. O. O. F. Society and Encampment. The family are members of the Christian Church.

GEORGE D. KINCAID, general merchant, was born in Pennsylvania May 10, 1848. He received a collegiate education and began clerking in Pennsylvania, remaining in that position six years. He came to Girard in 1874 and clerked for H. P. Grund three years, then opened business with J. T. Leonard in the mercantile line, in which he continued four years when he was burned out in the fire of 1881. After that time he run business on his own account, having sold out to Mr. Leonard ten days before the fire. He bought what remained of Mr. Leonard's goods and put in a new stock, and now carries from $12,000 to $15,000 stock. He owns a residence in Girard. Is a Freemason and K. of P. He was married to Miss V. Bubb, of Pennsylvania, in 1879, and has one son, Max, born June 30, 1881.

A. KNICELY, farmer, Section 20, P. O. Girard, was born in Virginia in 1830, and was raised on a farm. Received a business education. AT the age of twenty-two he began farming for himself in Virginia, and continued to farm till 1864. Was in Ohio at the stonemason business twelve years. Came to Kansas in 1874 and located on his present home of eighty acres, which he has since run as a grain and stock farm, and in the mean time made brick two years. Owns a home and one acre of ground in Girard. Is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Was married to Miss Annie Ruddy, of Virginia, in 1852. Have two children living - Charlotta and James D. Mrs. Knicely is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

DANIEL A. KRUM, farmer, Sections 3 and 4, P. O. Girard, was born in Indiana in 1861. Raised in the city and on a farm, and received a business education. Came to Kansas in 1880 and located on his present home of 240 acres; since which time he has been engaged in the grain and stock business. Mr. Krum has his farm well under hedge and wire fence. Has on his farm a good line of all kinds of fruits and berries. Was married to Miss Sarah C. Schoonmaker, of Kansas, October 12, 1882. Mrs. Krum received a collegiate education, and taught one term of school in Kansas.

OLIVER LANGLEY, farmer, Section 1, P. O. Girard, was born in Wales, in 1834. Came to the United States in 1850 and went to Ohio, where he remained until 1857, on a farm, then to Indiana, on a farm nine years, next to Illinois, on a farm four years, then to Missouri seven years, then to Kansas in 1877, and located in Crawford County, Osage Township, on a farm two years, then to his present home of 240 acres, which he improved and has since run, in the grain, hay and stock business, carrying from 125 to 150 head of stock. is a member of the Christian Church. Was married to Miss Emily Snoddy, of Indiana. Have seven children - Martha, Edwin, Elizabeth, Josie, Loyde, Laura and Frank. Mrs. Langley is also a member of the Christian Church.

WILLIAM H. LARIMORE, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 4, P. O. Girard, was born in Morgan County, Ill., in 1842, and was reared there to his present industry. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and First Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and did active service till the end of the war, when he was honorably discharged. After the war he returned to his native county and carried on farming, with which he is still extensively identified there. In 1870, he came here and located upon his present place. he married in 1868, Miss Salinda Brey Stirman, a native of Kentucky, who departed this live in 1874, and is buried in Battle Grove Cemetery, Kentucky. Their three children are buried in Morgan County, Ill. In 1876, he married Miss Anna Coughenour, a native of Ohio, who departed this life October 26, 1882, and is buried in Diamond Grove Cemetery, Morgan County, Ill., leaving one little girl living, Leuella May. His family and himself were raised in connection with the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His farm here contains 320 acres of improved land, well fenced and watered and stocked, good buildings, an orchard of well-selected variety of fruit trees, and has a nice grove of forest trees.

WILLIAM A. LEEDON, one of the proprietors of the City Hotel, was born in Ohio in 1842, and was raised on a farm. He received a clerical education and began teaching school at the age of sixteen. He taught five years in Ohio, then in Illinois two years, then in Indiana in the same capacity three years. He came to Kansas in 1876 and located in Girard and opened a hotel, in which business he has continued since, having made a success of the hotel business, by good management and strict attention to business.

D. A. LEHR, farmer, P. O. Girard, was born in Pennsylvania, 1856; raised in the city. Received a business education; came to Kansas in 1867; located in Riley County, where he remained on a farm one year; then to Linn County one year on a farm, at the end of which time came to Crawford County. Located on a farm, where he has since been actively engaged in raising stock and grain. Married to Miss Susan Gabriel, of Kansas, in 1882.

JOHN LEHR, farmer and stock-raiser, Sections 4 and 5, P. O. Girard, was born in Pennsylvania in 1818; went to work for himself at nineteen, taking contracts for clearing land, in which he continued four years; he then bought and worked on a farm in Pennsylvania five years; then sold the farm and moved to Limestone, and locating two years there, furnished rock for building purposes for two years. Then to Altoona, working on the railroad as fireman and engineer four years; then in the grain and grocery trade nine years. Then to Ohio one year in the milling business in Columbiana County; then to Manhattan, Kan., in 1867, one year; then to Miami County, Kan., worked on the railroad one year; settled in Crawford County in 1870, on a farm of 160 acres which he improved, but through adversity he lost; then went to where he now lives on a purchase of 280 acres, and went into the grain and stock business; has ninety acres improved, the balance in pasture all under fence. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was married to Miss Martha Glasco, of Ireland, in 1848; they had nine children - Rosilla J., Doman A., Charles L., William A., Kate B., Martha E.; three dead. He lost his wife by death on the 22nd of December, 1864, and was again married one year after to Miss Annie Knox, who was from Lathrop, Penn. They have six children - John S., Jacob E., George F., Franklin L., Mary V. and Peter.

P. J. LEITZELL, County superintendent of Schools, was born in Penn Hall, Center County, Penn., in 1849, and received his rudimentary education in the public and subscription schools of his nativity, and his literary education at the academy of his native State. At the age of eighteen he began his profession as a teacher, and was reputably connected with it in his native State until 1877, when he located in this county and has been actively identified with it since. In 1882, he was elected to his present incumbency, which he ably represents. He married in 1872 Miss Lizzie C. Miller, of Spring Mills, Center County, Penn. They have two sons - Albert M. and William P. Since coming here he has worked actively in the growth and development of this locality. He is an active member of the I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W. Societies. The family are members of the Lutheran Church.

J. T. LEONARD, cashier of "Citizens' Bank," was born in Beardstown, Cass Co., Ill., in 1854; received his education in the public schools of his nativity. In 1872, he located here, engaged at merchandising, which he carried on actively till February, 1882, when he joined the present business as stockholder, and accepted his present incumbency. In 1878, he married Miss Anna Carpenter, a native of Whitby, Canada. They have one son - Howard. Mr. Leonard has been an active worker in the public, social and industrial life of this place since locating here. he is present member of the Board of Aldermen for his city, and has been active in other civil official positions. He is an active member of the A., F. & A. M. Society, and of the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons.

E. LOOMIS, farmer, stock-raiser, buyer, seller and shipper, Section 30, P. O. Girard. He was born in Ohio, in 1834; raised in the stock business and received a business education; continued in farming and the stock business in Ohio until 1869. In the meantime was in the war one year; came to Kansas in 1869 and located on his present home of 500 acres, which he improved; has now 275 acres under cultivation, and thirty acres of timber, good running water and wells, and a fine wind-mill. He has 100 acres in blue grass, timothy and clover. Carries about 200 head of cattle, and from 100 to 150 hogs; ships from 150 to 200 care loads of stock annually. He has been school director, clerk and treasurer for several years. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. and the A. O. U. W. He was married to Miss Harriet C. Case, of Ohio, in 1863. They have five children - Charles, Mira, George, John and Mabel. Mrs. Loomis is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, takes great interest in benevolent, charitable and missionary work.

WILLIAM LYONS, of the firm of William Lyons & company, harness and saddles, horse furnishing goods, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1836; lived on a farm until 1852, when he went to learn his present trade in Allegheny City, Penn., and in the spring of 1858 he married Mrs. Eliza Jane Hallihang, in Martinsburg, Knox Co., Ohio; worked at his present trade in Ohio, and in the year of 1863 moved to Iowa, and lived in that State actively engaged at his present profession, and in the winter of 1872 he came to Crawford County, Kan., and toiled on a farm until the fall of 1876, when he moved to Girard and engaged in the saddlery business, where he has been very successful in his profession. Mrs. Eliza Jane Lyons, his wife, was born in Washington County, Penn., in 1826, when she came to Knox County, Ohio, when very young. They have one daughter - Ida B., now the wife of G. A. Dunham, one of the firm. Mr. Lyons is an active member of the Knights of Pythias, and of I. O. G. T. Societies here, and a good, upright, moral business man. G. A. Dunham of the firm was born in Delaware County, Ohio, in 1857, and located in Kansas in 1874, and in 1878 he married Ida B. Lyons, and after a short time became one of the firm, and has been very successful ever since. Miss Ida B. Lyons was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, in the town of Newcastle in April, 1861. They have one daughter and one son - Lulu May and Lloyd Lyons Dunham. Mr. Dunham is an active member of the order of A. O. U. W. and Select Knights at Girard. 

W. Y. MASON, marble works, was born in Kentucky in 1850; he was raised on a farm and received a business education. He began business for himself at the age of twenty-two, carrying on a farm in Kentucky until 1869, at which time he came to Kansas and located in Crawford County. He remained on a farm in that county until 1877, and was then in Missouri; and on a farm in the stock business two years, and then came back to Kansas and lived on his farm until July, 1881. He then spent one winter in Texas, and then returned to Kansas and located in Girard, and engaged in the stock business two years, going into the marble business in July, 1882. He was married to Miss Cordelia Hatfield, of Kansas, in 1877. They have one child - Arthur W. Mrs. Mason died July 7, 1880; Mr. Mason was married again in July, 1881. They have one child - Myrtle I.

HON. WILLIAM H. MERRIWEATHER, register of deeds, was born in Clark County, Ohio, in 1838, and removed with his people in 1839 to Springfield, Ill., where he was reared and educated. He was identified there with farming and stock-raising until 1872, when he located here, and has carried on that industry successfully since coming here. In 1860, he married Miss Sarah J. Bateman, a native of Springfield, Ill. They have a family of five sons and two daughters - Elmer E., Sherman, Maria, Fred, Kate, Edward and Leonard. At the breaking out of the late civil war, Mr. Merriweather enlisted his services in defense of the Union, in Company G, One Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and did active service until 1864, when he was honorably discharged. In 1875, he represented this district in the Legislative Assembly of the State, and has served in minor official positions. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. Society, and Select Knights, the K. of P. and the G. A. R. Himself and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His farm contains 160 acres of improved land in Section 32, Crawford Township. He has a fine orchard of 400 fruit trees of a nicely assorted variety, a good dwelling and stables.

W. D. MESECHER, farmer, Section 12, P. O. Girard, Kan., was born in West Virginia in 1834; was raised on a farm and received a medium education; went to Ohio at the age of nine, and then to Illinois in 1856, where he resided four years on a farm. He came to Kansas in 1860, and located in Franklin County for a short time, then to Crawford County before the survey was made, and located on 160 acres, where he remained for a short time, then returned to Illinois. In 1861, enlisted in Company C, Seventy-eighth Illinois Infantry. Served to the close of the war, and returned to Kansas in 1866, and located in Lyon County, where he remained eighteen months. He came to Crawford County in 1868, stopped in the valley of Cox's Creek for a short time, then settled on his home of eighty acres, which he has improved and runs as a grain farm; has sixty acres under cultivation, and raises a variety of fruits, etc. He is a member of the Baptist Church and is a Trustee of the same. He was married to Miss Margaret Martin, of Kansas, June 13, 1861; They have three children living - Francis M., Charles W., Hartwell E.

MRS. M. MICINHAMMER, milliner and dress-maker, was born in Kentucky, august 13, 1842. She received a liberal education, and at the age of sixteen was married to Mr. Mitto Micinhammer, of North Carolina, and resided in Missouri four years, and for a short time in Indiana. Having lost her husband, she returned to her home in Kentucky, and remained two years, going from there to Evansville, Indiana, where she staid three years, and then located, in 1871, in Girard, Kan., and commenced business. By her energy and industry she has bought a house and lot, besides taking care of her invalid mother for the past eleven years. Mrs. Micinhammer is a member of the Order of Good Templers.

A. R. MOORE, grocer, was born in Ohio April 3, 1845; was raised on a farm in Illinois, received a business education, and began farming for himself at the age of eighteen years, continuing that occupation five years. He came to Kansas in 1869, and located on a farm of 160 acres, which he improved and run as a grain, stock and fruit farm. The farm is nicely fenced with hedge, and has two good wells of water. Mr. Moore continued on farm five years, and then went to Osage Mission, and carried on grocery business six years, and in 1879 came to Girard and built his store and residence, and opened present business. Mr. Moore is Select Knight, and member of A. O. U. W. He was married to Miss Frances Stinnett, of Illinois, March 8, 1874. They have two children - Nettie May and Walter. Mrs. Moore was educated at a high school, and taught school in Kansas.

ANDREW MURDOCK, farmer and stock-raiser, Sections 9 and 16, P. O. Girard, was born in Noble County, Ohio, June 21, 1838, and was identified with farming there till the breaking out of the war, when he enlisted in Company F, Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and did active service till he was disabled by sunstroke from active duty. He then remained in detail service till August, 1863, when he was honorably discharged. He then returned home but soon after located in Perry County, Indiana, where he remained til 1865, when he came to Kansas, and located here, and has been actively identified with the farming and stock business since. In 1863, he married Miss Louisa Craig, of Noble County, Ohio. They have one son and five daughters - John William, Hattie L., Lillie J., Ella May, Mary Ida and Louisa Verne. Mr. Murdock has worked actively in the growth of the public and social life of his locality since coming here. He has been a member of the A., F. * A. M. society for the last sixteen years. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His farm contains 120 acres of improved land, well fenced and watered and stocked; a nice orchard of three acres of nicely assorted variety of fruits; dwellings and barn and stables.

GREENBERY MURDOCK, farmer and stock-raiser, Sections 9 and 16, P. O. Girard, was born in Frederick County, Va., in 1833, and was reared in Ohio, his people having moved there in 1839. He learned the trade of carpenter, and followed it in Ohio till the war, when he did two years' service in it, enlisting in Company H, One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was honorably discharged from the Sixty-seventh, December, 1865. He then returned to Ohio, and remained there till 1867, when he came to Kansas and located upon the present homestead, where he has been actively identified with his present industry since, meantime carrying on carpentering for several years. He married, in 1855, Miss Henrietta Craig, of Ohio, by whom he has nine children, five sons and four daughters. They are - William and Washington, farmers in Colorado; Alice, Leonard, Laura, Cornelius, Irenius, Florence and Loretta, at home. He has always taken an active interest in the development of his locality since coming here, and has filled, for several years, important municipal and school offices. the family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The farm contains 120 acres of improved land, containing a nice orchard of five acres of assorted fruits; good dwellings and barns and stables.

JACOB NUTT, farmer, Section 21, P. O. Girard, was born in Indiana in 1829, raised on a farm, received a business education, farmed in connection with carpentering in 1857, at the end of which time he came to Kansas, located in Johnson County, on a farm of 160 acres, and which he improved and run as a grain and stock farm until 1863. Then went to Indiana, where he remained until 1867; then to Missouri, at the carpenter's business three years; then to Kansas on his present home of 160 acres, which he improved, and has since run as a grain and stock farm. Has 115 acres under cultivation, good line of fruits, and carries from seventy-five to 100 head of stock, which he raises, buys, feeds and sells; is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; was married to Miss Emily Campbell. They have ten children - Mary E., John C., Daniel, James, William L., Margaret A., Dora E., Freddie, Bertha, Eva.

THOMAS PAINTON, butcher, was born in England February 16, 1840. He received a business education, and came to the United States in 1857. He remained in Minnesota on a farm six months, and was afterward in Iowa on a farm four years. He then served three years in the army, and was then at school one year. He came to Kansas in 1868, and located at Girard, where there were but five houses and ten persons in the place. He began butchering in 1868, and has continued it to date. He built a business house in 1870, and a dwelling in 1872. In 1874, he built a stone and brick house, and in 1879, a brick block, containing two stores, lower story 23x80 feet, and a hall above 47x80 feet. He owns twenty acres of pasture and a slaughter-house near Girard. He is a Freemason, and helped to organize the lodge at Girard, of which he is a charter member. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was Deputy Sheriff in 1869. He was married to Miss Philena Elliott, of Pennsylvania, in 1872. They have four children - Elizabeth F., Mark J., Asa and Ralph.

COLUMBUS C. PARKER, M. D., was born in New York City in 1842; a lineal descendant of Admiral Theodore Parker. He received his literary education in Central College, N. Y., after a thorough course of four years, in which he graduated ably by his own unaided exercises financially. He then began the study of his profession, in which he succeeded in graduating, and began the practice of it in New York City, where he was successfully connected with it for many years. In 1878, he located here, and has been active in the practice of his profession since. In September, 1875, he married Miss Kate Latshaw, of Victory, Vernon County, Wis. She was a grand-daughter maternally of Harvey Sterling; paternally of Admiral Porter, both of Kentucky pioneer celebrity. They have a family of one son and two daughters - Earl C., Clare and Ethel. Dr. Parker has worked actively in the development of the social, public and industrial life of his locality since coming here. During the civil war he did active and honorable service in Company I, Eighteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, from 1862 until the end of the war. He has worked actively in connection with the Eclectic Medical Association of Kansas, of which he is an honored member. Religiously, he is a Deist. He has invented five useful inventions, on all of which he has been granted letters patent. He is an original thinker, and dares to advocate his views socially, politically and religiously. As a phrenologist, he has no equal west of New York.

C. D. PATTERSON, proprietor and owner of the Crawford County Mills, was born in Willsborough, Essex County, N. Y., In 1826, and was identified in his native state with the profession of millwright and mill-building for several years. In 1859, he located in Wisconsin, and was principally employed in milling and farming until 1869, when he came to Kansas, and has been identified with the milling industry here since. June 7, 1852, he married Miss Sarah E. Scott, who departed this life August 29, 1874, and is buried in the Girard Cemetery, leaving a family of two sons living - Fred D. and Frank W., associated with their father in his business. In June, 1876, he married Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Miller nee Fernett. They have one son - Charles K.

THEODORE T. PERRY, real estate, loan and insurance agent and farmer, was born in Pennsylvania October 10, 1841. He was raised on a farm, and began teaching school in Pennsylvania in 1862, being engaged in attending and teaching school until 1867. In 1868-69, he studied law in Illinois, and was admitted to the bar in July, 1869, and came to Girard in 1869. He was Clerk of the District Court one year, then practiced law two years. In 1875, he was selected by the Gulf Railroad Company to dispose of the railroad lands, and traveled East, and ran excursion trains for the company. In 1876, he became a local agent for the railroad land department, and has continued in the same position since that time. In the meantime, has done a large amount of real estated business for private parties and for himself. Mr. Perry has laid out three additions to the town of Girard and built many residences and business houses and improved a large number of farms, having had as many as 200 farms, and among them some of the finest farms in Crawford County. He is also the largest real estate holder in the county; owns from 250 to 300 town lots. He was married to Miss Mary A. Chapin, of Galesburg, Ill., in 1870. She graduated in the class of 1870 at Lombard University. They have four children.

AUGUST A. PHILLIPS, druggist, was born in Ohio in 1857. In 1870, he came to Kansas, and was employed as clerk in a drug store until 1876, at which time he bought the business of Mr. Scott, and continued it about eighteen months. He then sold out, built a new store 20x64 feet, bought a new stock of goods, and commenced business in the store which he now owns and occupies. Mr. Phillips also owns an interest in a boot and shoe stock at Pittsburgh. He was married, in 1878, to Miss Louella Turner, of Iowa, and has one child - Maude M.

CAPT. THOMAS PING, law and real estate business, was born in Somerset, Pulaski County, Ky., July 30, 1815, and received his education in the old-time subscription schools of his nativity. In 1831, his father's family settled in Bartholomew County, Ind., where they carried on a farm until 1839. His father died here in 1833. In 1839, he and his mother and a brother settled in Burlington, Iowa, where they carried on farming and stock-raising until 1843, when he settled in Ashland, Wapello County, Iowa, and in connection with farming he added to his business the practice of law and banking and merchandising. It was from his bank, "Farmers' and Merchants'," that the first paper money of the State was issued. He carried on his business actively until February, 1862, when he organized and took command of Company E, Seventeenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and did active service until the end of the war, when he was honorably discharged, retaining his rank. During his war service he participated in all the principal battles of his campaign. At the siege of Fort Hill, near Vicksburg, he was wounded in the side and lost his hearing in his left ear and impaired that of the right; at the battle of Tilton, Ga., he was wounded and captured, remaining in rebel prisons for six months, returning after Lee's surrender. After the war he returned to Ashland, and continued the practice of law there until April, 1870, when he located here and established his present business, which he has successfully carried on since. He married, in 1841, in Burlington, Iowa, Miss Sarah A. Wright, a native of Brown County, Ohio. They have a family of two sons and two daughters - Peru I. B. (attorney), Kate, Frances and John E. W. (telegraph operator). Capt. Ping has been actively engaged in the development of the public, social and industrial life of this place since coming here. In 1872-73, he served his city in its council. In 1874, he served as Mayor, retiring from that office in the fall to accept the Probate Judgeship, which he held for two years. He has been an active member of the I. O. O. F. Society for over thirty-five years. The family are members of the Episcopal Church. The great grandfather of Capt. Ping was John Ping, who came to America from India in 1740, where he had done a thirty years' service in the East Indies. After coming here he took an active part in the colonial and Indian wars, and served under Braddock, and afterward Dunbar, and later on in the Revolutionary war; eventually settled in Northumberland County, Va., on the shores of Chesapeake Bay and followed farming. Capt. Ping's grandfather, John Ping, also did service in the Revolutionary war, and was an active and representative farmer of Virginia. Capt. Ping's father, William Ping, was born in Virginia; was captain in the war of 1812 under Gen. Jackson at New Orleans, but eventually settled in Pulaski County, Ky.

J. C. PRICE, manager for William Lyons & co., dealers in saddles and harness; was born in Illinois in 1857; was raised on a farm; received a business education; he went to work for himself in 1871 on a farm and continued two years, then came to Cherokee County, Kan., and was on a farm two years, then farmed in Missouri two years, then back to Missouri, and returned to Cherokee County and farmed until 1879, at which time he began work at the harness business at Girard, and continued until June, 1882, at which time he took charge of the above business. He was married to Miss Mattie F. Price, of Illinois, in 1879. They have one child - Bessie.

GEORGE PRIESTLY, butcher, was born in England in 1846, and came to the United States in 1867. He farmed in Illinois until 1877, at which time he came to Kansas, settled in Girard and opened his present business. He bought a business house and residence and owns twenty acres of land near Girard used as pasture. He is a Select Knight, and belongs to the Order of Red Men and Ancient Order of United Workmen. He was married to Miss Caroline Peterson, of Illinois, in 18873, and has one daughter - Ada, born in 1874.

MORGAN A. RANSOM, marble works, was born in Michigan, 1849, February 10; received common education; was in Indiana until 1869; was then in Iowa three months; then came to Kansas; located in Crawford County, and remained eight years; then began marble business, 1878; is a member of the Methodist Church; belongs to Order of Odd Fellows. Was married to Miss Louisa Smith, of Illinois, 1874, March 28. Has on child living, - Annie E. Phebe, deceased. Mr. Ransom owns house and lot in Girard.

PHILANDER A. REED, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Girard, was born in Harrison County, West Virginia, September 28, 1838, and was identified then with farming business till December, 1864, when he located in Kosciusko County, Ind., where he was engaged in farming business till September, 1870, when he came to Kansas and located in this county, and has been actively identified with his present industry here since. He married in October 12, 1859, Miss Lucinda Eurit of his native county. They have a family of four sons and two daughters - Emory L., farmer; Llewellyn D., merchant; Mary V., Alice C., Ed. T. and Jerome W. The family are members of the Methodist Church. He is an active member of the A. O. U. W., the Grange and G. T. societies. His farm contains eighty acres of land, good buildings and a nice young orchard. Besides this, he owns considerable town property in Girard, the county seat.

A. P. RIDDLE, one of the editors of the Girard Press, and Senator for the Thirteenth Senatorial District, was born in Pennsylvania August 16, 1846. He lost his mother in infancy, and his early life was spent in a country town, where he received such an education as the common schools of the vicinity could afford. His father joined the army in 1861, and he was thrown upon his own resources, and left to struggle with the world as best he might, when he was a lad of fifteen years. A year later he went into a printing office as apprentice, where he remained until 1866, when he visited Kansas on a prospecting tour. He was sufficiently pleased with the country to determine to make it his home, and carried his resolution into execution two years later, returning to the State in 1868, to become a permanent resident. His first year spent in Kansas was in the office of the Mirror, at Olathe, and from that place he removed to Girard just as it was made the county seat of Crawford County. Mr. Riddle moved to Girard, intending to start a paper, but found that some other person had anticipated him in his purpose, and therefore, after working for the new paper a short time, he returned to Pennsylvania and soon came back to Girard, and bought Dr. Warner's interest in the paper in June, 1873, since which time it has been published by himself and Mr. Wasser. Mr. Riddle was Journal clerk of the State Senate from 1877 to 1881, and was elected Senator from the Thirteenth Senatorial District in 1880. He is now Secretary of the Crawford County Agricultural Society. He was married to Ada Fuller, of Springfield, Ill., in 1878, and has two children - Estelle and Mary. Mr. R. is a member of the I. O. O. F., K. of P. and Red Men.

JOHN W. ROSS, blacksmith, was born in Tennessee, in 1838. He commenced blacksmithing in his native State and continued until 1862, when he moved to Kentucky and worked at his trade in that State ten years. In 1872, he came to Kansas and located in Girard, where he started the same business in connection with a repair shop, and has also manufactured wagons and buggies, and where he now owns both business and residence property. Mr. Ross is a member of the Baptist Church. He was married in 1864, to Miss Elizabeth Crook, of Kentucky. They have six children - William H., Thomas A., Sallie A., Willard E., Green E., and Charles H.

JOHN RUSHTON, farmer, Section 1, P. O. Girard, was born in North Carolina, 1821; raised on a farm; received common education; went to Indiana in infancy; remained there until 1879, in the grain and stock business, at the end of which time he came to Kansas; located on his present home of eighty acres; is a member of the Campbellite Church. Was married to Miss Alice Horn, of Ohio, in 1843. Have ten children - Emma, Mary, Joseph, Kate, Frank, Renia, George and John (twins) Charles and William. Mrs. Rushton is a member of the Christian Church. 

P. A. SAMS, buggy manufacturer and blacksmith, was born in Germany, and came to the United States in infancy, and was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He went to Indiana in 1854, where he received a high school education, and resided in Pennsylvania from 1860 to 1870. He came to Kansas in 1870; located in Girard and opened a general blacksmithing and buggy manufacturing establishment. He owns residence and business property in Girard. He has been a member of the City Council. He is an Odd Fellow and a member of the A. O. U. W., being Select Knight of the latter order. He was married to Miss Mary Lehr, of Pennsylvania, in 1860, and they have one child - Willie, born in 1861, who is now clerking for J. W. Edwards, and keeping books. Willie graduated from Spaulding's Commercial College in 1881, receiving a diploma.

HON. CHARLES DANA SAYRS, County Attorney, was born in Alexandria, Va., May 15, 1839. His father, John J. Sayrs, was a prominent Virginia physician, who died during the infancy of his son. His grandfather, John J. Sayrs, was a distinguished Episcopal minister, and the first rector of St. John's Church at Georgetown, District of Columbia, and in buried under the chancel of that church, with the following inscription upon his monument, by Francis F. (sic) Key, author of the Star Spangled Banner, who was one of the communican (sic) "Here lies he now - yet grieve not thou for him, Reader, he trusted in that love where none Have ever vainly trusted. Rather let his marble speak to thee, And shouldn't thou feel the rising of a new and solemn thought, Waked by this place, and memorial, Oh, listen to its impulse - 'tis divine, And shall guide thee to a life of joy, A death of hope and endless joy hereafter." Mr. Sayrs was educated at Hollowell's Institute, Alexandria; upon leaving school he emigrated to Kansas, and located at White Cloud, Doniphan County, August 20, 1857, where he was actively identified with merchandising until 1862, when he went to Salmon River, Oregon, in search of gold, remaining there until 1866. While there, the Territory of Idaho was organized, and he was appointed to the clerkship of the court of his judicial district. In 1865, he was elected from Boise county, as member of the House of Representatives, and was admitted that year to the bar. During this incumbency, he was an active and efficient member in the House. In 1866, he returned to his native place, and in the following year he came to Kansas and located at Hays City, where he remained until 1868, when he came here and enlisted his interest in behalf of the settlers in their controversy with the railway company in regard to the Joy purchase of lands, comprising Crawford and Cherokee County land, and worked actively in the general development of this locality. In 1871, he was elected Register of Deeds for this county. In 1874, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and held the position for three years. In 1876, he was appointed City Clerk and Attorney of Girard, which incumbency he held until 1880, when he was elected to his present position, which he has reputably held for each consecutive term since, usually carrying his majority, as Democratic nominee in each instance, equal to the regular Republican majority of this county. He is and has been an active worker in the A., F. & A. M. society, for many years. In 1860, by dispensation, and when on a visit to his native town, he was initiated in the first three degrees of masonry, in Washington, Alexandria Lodge, No. 22, D. C., the same lodge of which President Washington was a member and its first master. In 1872 he received his demit from this lodge and became a member of Girard Lodge, No. 93, A., F. & A. M., of which he has held the secretaryship for the last eight years, and has worked in the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons since 1876, and is a Knight Templar. March, 1883, became a member of Hugh De Payne Commandery, of Fort Scott. December 7, 1870, he married Miss Elizabeth P. Coffin, who was born and reared in Waupaca, Wis. They have two little girls living - Mary and Henrietta. Himself and family are members of the Episcopal Church.

GEORGE W. SCHOLL, M. D., was born in Perry, Pike County, Ill., July 24, 1835. His youth was spent on a farm and in a mill, and he began the study of medicine at the age of seventeen, graduating in 1858, at Missouri Medical College of St. Louis, Mo. He then went to Adams County, Ill., and practiced until 1865, and afterward in Cass County, Mo., until 1869, at which time he came to Kansas and settled in Crawford County, moving to Girard in 1874, where he continued to practice, and has also opened and improved a farm of 160 acres, and ran it as a stock, grain and fruit farm. Dr. Scholl improved a farm of 160 acres, and has in addition a farm of twenty acres adjoining the town of Girard, well improved. He has taught school four terms. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and occupies a pulpit in Crawford County. He was married to Miss Jane Penny, of England, February 22, 1859. Dr. and Mrs. Scholl have eight children - Grayson B., Edward B., Susan M., Joseph A., John R., Eugenie K., Robert A., Rachel E., Nellie, deceased; George W., deceased; W. H. deceased. Grayson G. is now attending the Kansas City University, having attended Keokuk Medical College in 1881 and 1882. Graduated March 13, 1883, in K. C. U., Medical Department.

R. W. SCHOONMAKER, farmer and dealer in hay and grain shipping, Section 11, Township 29, Range 23, P. O. Girard, was born in New York in 1833; was raised on a farm and received an academical education. At the age of twenty-one he commenced farming for himself in Albany County, west side of the Hudson River, near Cedar Hill, continuing ten years; then moved to Lewis County, N. Y., in the hotel and livery business in connection with the farm five years. He came to Kansas in April, 1873, and located in Fort Scott for a short time, then moved to Crawford County, and located on his present home of 160 acres, which he opened and improved, and on which he raises principally grain and broom corn; has a full line of fruits of all kinds. His farm is under good cultivation, fenced with hedge and wire. Mr. Schoonmaker ships from 1,000 to 1,500 tons of hay per annum. He married Miss Annie A. Adams, of New York, in 1859; they have two children - Sarah C. and Arthur w. Their pleasant home is one mile northwest of Girard, the county seat.

DR. D. W. SCOTT was born at Locust Grove, Brooke Co., West Va. Locust Grove was a charming place of residence, embowered in shade and fruit trees, and for more than a quarter of a century was the scene of attraction and interest to a wide and influential circle of friends. Robert Scott, father of D. W. Scott, built the mansion in 1825. He was for years recognized as a leader in all moral, educational and religious enterprises. He was an extensive stock raiser, and his large farm was a model of order and skill. Seven sons and as many daughters cherish recollections of this place as their happy childhood home. All of these children but one received an academic education, after graduating at the old schoolhouse "down the lane." D. W. Scott was educated at Allegheny College and the Wesleyan University. In 1856, he removed to Iowa, purchased a farm adjoining Mount Pleasant, and engaged in mercantile pursuits in that city. He was a sufferer in the disastrous financial crisis of 1857, and hence decided to lead a professional life. After attending a course of lectures at Lind University, Chicago, he began the practice of medicine at Shawnee, then the county seat of Johnson County, Kan. Here, for three years, he enjoyed a large and lucrative practice, but, upon again entering commercial life, he suffered another reverse. During the perilous times of early days, he became widely known as a fearless Free-State man. His home and storehouse were burned down by the notorious Quantrill, and his life was threatened more than once. For his alleged proceedings against his Pro-slavery neighbors, he was one of the "spotted men," and the rope was even purchased for his execution. When the war broke out and the waves of loyalty and disloyalty met along the border, ti became more perilous than ever, and many of the people were obliged to flee from their homes for safety. The Doctor's health not being sufficient to endure army life, he returned to Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Here he successfully followed the practice of his profession, and was placed in charge of the camp hospital of the Twenty-fifth Iowa Regiment. Of the large number of soldiers treated by him, all recovered, and were either sent to their homes, or were forwarded to their respective regiments in the field. In the winter of 1862, Dr. Scott removed to Eddyville, Iowa, and engaged in the drug business. Unremitting attention to business for two years and a half made another change necessary, and in the spring of 1864, he sold out and made the overland trip to Denver. He returned to Iowa in the fall greatly improved in health. Within sixty days from his return, himself and family, with an outfit of two teams, and wagons well stocked with provisions, reached Colorado, with the view of making that their future home. While living in Iowa, he had been licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church, and had been ordained by Bishop Ames. On going to Colorado it was his purpose to enter the ministry, and did acceptably supply the pulpit at Golden City one year. Besides this he built up two other prosperous societies, but as there were only a few opportunities within the entire Conference to earn a living for his family, he removed to the city of Cheyenne. This city was one of the wonders of its day in its magical enterprise and growth. Thousands of people came rushing together from all parts of the word, and in the brief space of one year, Cheyenne was built up and had assumed the spectacle of a busy mart, with every trade, institution and facility of a first-class city. The Doctor was now in his element. He immediately opened an office in Beckwith's pioneer store, and erected a store room in the heart of the city. He wrote editorials for the Tri-Weekly Leader, and, after organizing the First Methodist Episcopal Church, supplied it with hymn-books, and with one of Smith's firs-class American organs. He was afterward re-imbursed by the Society for these outlays, besides being publicly presented by the citizens of Cheyenne with a purse of $350. This is undoubtedly, to him, one of the most pleasant reminiscenses (sic) connected with the early history of that city, which is so full of tragic scenes of terror and wickedness. The schoolhouse furnished a chapel for the church of which he was pastor, and when it became too small to seat the congregation he was permitted to put in folding doors between adjoining rooms, thus acquiring ample room to accommodate both Sunday school and church. After about a year Bishop Simpson visited Cheyenne, and at the request of Dr. Scott, sent a minister from Wilmington, Del., to take charge of this important work. Upon his arrival this minister was delighted to find a well-organized society and a flourishing Sunday school already in existence. From Cheyenne Dr. Scott removed to Lincoln, Neb., where he resumed the practice of medicine and the drug business. Here he built and owned the Commercial Hotel, and numerous other buildings. For three years he was connected with the State Board of Building Commissioners. He was also President of the Board of Trustees for the State Insane Hospital, and was a short time Superintendent of the Hospital. He took an active interest in the cause of education, of temperance, morality and religion. He was President of the State Temperance Association, and published a campaign paper in its interest during his residence in Lincoln. Becoming embarrassed in 1873, through the failure of others, he reluctantly left the beautiful city of Lincoln and returned to Kansas, settling in Girard. Here for nearly eight years he industriously prosecuted the drug business, and also followed the practice of medicine, and has been frequently called to the advocacy, on the platform, of education, temperance and religion. He has recently been appointed a delegate to the National Medical Convention, which meets in Topeka in June, 1883, and is one of the Trustees of the new Medical College located at the same place. Dr. Scott was married in 1856, to Miss E. J. Martin. Mrs. Scott has always been an active co-laborer with her husband, especially in the temperance work. She is several years younger than her husband, who has just passed his fiftieth year. Of their eight living children, Miss May V., the eldest daughter, holds a position in the United States Treasury Department; Charles F., the eldest son, is in the employ of Meyer Bros. & Co., wholesale druggists; their second daughter is married to H. O. Sitter, of Bloomington, Neb., and the five younger children are attending school in Girard.

ARTHUR SHARP, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Girard, was born near Lamberton, N. J., in 1822. He emigrated with his parents to Ohio in 1830, locating near Springboro, Warren county. In the year 1835, when our subject was thirteen, he moved with his parents to Preble County, Ohio, and was identified in that State until 1858, when he located in Lenawee County, Mich., and was identified with his present industry in that State until 1869, when he came to Kansas and located upon his present place, which he has improved from a raw prairie to its present condition. His farm contains 160 acres of improved land, well fenced, watered and stocked, handsome dwellings, barns and stables, and a nice orchard of assorted fruits. He married in 1850, Mrs. Mary Flitcraft - formerly Atkinson of his native State. They have a family of one son living - P. R. Flitcraft, attorney at law, at St. Louis, Mo. since locating here, our subject has worked actively in the development of the social and industrial life of his locality. He has served his county as Treasurer and Commissioner here, and was altogether a very active man in public life in Michigan. He and wife are avowed disciples of Spiritualism.

JOHN G. SHIFFLER, farmer, Section 6, P. O. Girard, was born in Pennsylvania June 13, 1837, and was raised on a farm. He began farming in Illinois at the age of nineteen and farmed five years; then went to Livingston County and opened a farm of 160 acres; he sold out and went to Dwight, Ill. He engaged in the coal and brick business two years; then shelled corn for a company seven years; he was then on the railroad two years. In 1876 he came to Kansas and settled in Crawford County, on his present farm of 160 acre, which he bought and improved, and he ran it as a grain and stock farm, and fed cattle and hogs. He keeps about thirty-five head of cattle and 100 head of hogs, and has all kinds of fruits. He has three miles of hedge and wire fence. He is an Odd Fellow. He was married to Miss Sarah Netzly, of Pennsylvania, in 1859; they have eight children - Milton, Emma, Mary, John (deceased), Samuel (deceased), Jennie, Hattie, Mathias, Loulie (sic) and Sada (sic).

NELSON SINNET, general merchant, was born in Granville, Licking Co., Ohio, October 21, 1835, where he received a business education, and went into a store at the age of eighteen as a clerk, remaining three years; he then went to Columbus, Ohio, as a clerk for two years; went on a prospecting trip to St. Louis, Kansas City, Sedalia, Leavenworth, Fort Scott, Olathe and the then called neutral lands of Kansas. After returning home he came to St. Louis, and was next in Kansas on a prospecting tour of several months. He then bought a herd of cattle and kept them one year, sold out and returned to Sedalia and remained six months, and then came to Crawford County, Kan., prospecting. In June, 1868, he went to Baxter Springs, then returned to Girard and made permanent location, building the second store in Girard, in which he opened his present business. He run the business init four years, and then built the present house. He was the first Treasurer of the town, holding the office three terms; was Postmaster in Girard in 1869, at $100 per month, also City and School Treasurer, and was appointed County Treasurer. He is an Odd Fellow and is Trustee of the same, and has attained to the rank of Deputy Grand Master of the State, and past Chief Patriarch of the State, and a past Sachem of Panionkee Tribe, No. 2, Improved Order of Red Men.

HUSTON B. SMITH, livery, was born in Illinois, June 20, 1847. Farmed in Illinois five years, and came to Kansas and settled in Crawford County, and improved a farm of 160 acres, and continued for nine years to raise stock and grain. Came to Girard in 1879 and opened his present business. Mr. Smith owns an interest in livery, stock and property. He was married to Miss Mary E. Ashcraft, of Indiana, in 1875. They have one child - Axie (sic) Ethel A. Mr. Smith belongs to the Order of Odd Fellows.

W. R. SMITH, barber and hair dresser, and dealer in cigars and tobacco, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1837, and was raised and educated in Van Buren County, Iowa. In September, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Third Iowa Cavalry, and did active (sic) until 1863, when he was honorably discharged on account of disability; after the war he practiced photographing for a few years in Iowa, and afterward engaged in merchandising, with which he was connected there until 1870, when he located here and engaged at his present profession, with which he has been very successfully connected since. He married in 1864, Miss Caroline R. Clark, of his native county, who departed this life February 7, 1874, and is buried in Girard Cemetery, leaving two daughters living - Mary R. and Sarah K. In 1874, he married Miss Elizabeth J. Trisler, of Decatur County, Ind. They have two daughters - Delilah E. and May Bell. He is an active member of the A., F. & A. M. society.

A. SPARKS, bakery and restaurant, was born in Indiana in 1839, was raised on a farm, received a common school education, and at the age of nineteen began business for himself in Indiana, which he continued two years; he then went to Illinois and worked on a farm until 1869, thence to Crawford County, Kan., where he opened and improved a farm of eighty acres; after four years he sold this and bought and improved another farm of 160 acres, he again sold out, and bought a farm of 160 acres, which he improved and worked on four years; he then sold out and came to Girard, and opened his present business, and now owns thirteen lots and two residences. He is a member of the Baptist Church, organised a Sunday school in Crawford County, and was Superintendent of same eight years. He was married to Miss Mary E. Boyd, of Illinois, in 1869. They have three children - Maude O., Roy H. and Earnest.

G. W. SPENCER, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 6, P. O. Girard, was born in Illinois April 12, 1821, and was reared in Scott County, Ky., to the farming industry. He, however, followed the wool carding business there for many years. In 1878, he came to Kansas, and located here, and has very actively prosecuted his present industry here since. In 1850, he married Miss Jane Walters, of Kentucky. They have a family of three daughters living - Sarah P. (now Mrs. S. H. Arnold, of Sheridan Township), Elvira J. (now Mrs. David South, of Topeka, Kan.), Walberga (at home). The family are members of the Christian Church. During the war, Mr. Spencer did active service in Company K, One Hundred and Seventeenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, from 1862 till the end of the war, when he was honorably discharged. His farm contains 160 acres of improved land, well fenced and watered and stocked, good dwellings and stables and an orchard of nicely assorted variety of fruits.

J. W. STEVENS, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 29, P. O. Girard, was born in Washington County, Penn., in 1839, and was reared in Madison County, Ill., to the farming industry, with which he was identified in that State till 1865, when he located here, and has been actively identified with the farming and stock industry of this locality since. In October, 1861, he married Miss Lavina Sutton, who was born ad reared in Madison County, Ill. They have one son living - John W., and have buried their only daughter, Mary Catherine, in Saline Cemetery, Madison County, Ill. Mr. Stevens has worked actively as school official of his district for several years. The family are members of the Baptist Church. His farm contains 160 acres of improved land, well fenced and watered and stocked, good dwelling and barns and stables, and an orchard of five acres of nicely assorted fruits.

J. C. SUNDERLAND, photographic artist, was born and reared in Brookville, Iowa, and engaged at his profession in 1875, at the age of twenty-two, in Allerton, Wayne County, Iowa. In 1876, he located here, and has been very successfully connected with his business here since. In 1879, he married Miss Nannie A. Brooks, who was born and reared in Knoxville, Ill. They have a family of one son and daughter - Ivy Iona and William Ray. Mr. Sunderland is an active member of the I. O. O. F. Society here. The family are members of the M. E. Church. 

DANIEL BORDEN VAN SYCKEL, attorney at law, was born in Naples, Scott Co., Ill., in the year 1842, and resided there until the year 1855, when his parents removed to the town then known as Morgan City, Morgan Co., Ill., where he remained until the year 1861, when his parents removed to, and settled near Sparta, Randolph Co., Ill. Mr. Van Syckel received his rudimentary education in the common schools, principally at Eden, a little town near his father's farm, and pursued his literary studies in the academy at Sparta. He has always been a student, and single handed, without teachers, he mastered some of the sciences. In the early part of the late Civil War, a younger brother, George, when but a lad of sixteen years, left home and against his parents' wishes enlisted in the army in Company I, Forty-ninth Illinois Infantry, and becoming sic, Mr. Van Syckel left his professional studies, went into the army, took his brother's place, answered to his name and did his duty for a part of two years, after which his brother returned to the army and continued till the close of the war, and Mr. Van Syckel returned to his professional studies and graduated from the University of Michigan, receiving the degree of LL. B. in 1866. He then returned to his native State and engaged in teaching in connection with his professional work until 1872, when he located at Girard, Kan., and has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession ever since. January 1, 1868, he married Miss Margaret C. Crawford, who was born and reared in Randolph County, Ill. They have a family living of two daughters - Viola May and Flora Jane. He has served his township as Justice of the Peace, his county as Superintendent of Schools. He is an active member of the A. O. U. W., I. O. G. T. and I. O. O. F. societies. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian Church. In connection with his professional and official duties he takes an important interest in small fruit, horticulture and gardening, of which his handsome little "farm" of ten acres adjoining the city of Girard fully verifies.

W. R. VAN FRANK, County Surveyor, was born in Cortlandville, Cortland Co., N. Y., in 1830. In 1835, his people removed to Elkhart County, Ind., where he was reared and educated. At the age of twenty-two, he began his professional duties in connection with railway industry, with which he was connected in Indiana, and latterly in Illinois till 1862, when he engaged at insurance business, which he carried on in Illinois for several years. In 1872, he located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was identified there till 1876, when he located here and in connection with surveying he engaged at farming and stock-raising, which he has successfully carried on since. In 1879 he was elected to his present incumbency, and has held it for each consecutive term since. He has been an active member of the A., F. & A. F. society since 1863, and has passed all the degrees to the thirty-second. Is a member of the York and Scotch rites. He holds to the ancestral religion of his great grand ancestors, Presbyterianism. He has one son living - W. A., Civil Engineer of Boston, Mass., in connection with the New York & New England Railway.

G. M. THOMPSON, farmer, Section 15, P. O. Girard, was born in Indiana in 1840; raised on a farm; taught school fourteen winters and farmed to 1881, at which time he came to Kansas and located on a farm of 160 acres, which he improved. Is a member of the Christian Church, and belongs to the order of Freemasons. Was married to Miss Melinda Small, of Indiana, in 1865. Have five children - Orville M., Hattie E., Ludovice, Elbert E., Abraham R. B. Mrs. Thompson is a member of the Christian Church.

JOHN TONTZ, County Treasurer, is a native of Switzerland; was born in Canton Grisons, in 1834 came to America with his people in 1845, who settled in Madison County, Ill., where he was reared to farming and stock-raising, with which he was identified there until 1857, when he came to Kansas and carried on farming and stock-raising until 1861. He then engaged in milling, and was very successfully connected with it till his retirement from it the present year, 1882. He married, August 26, 1852, Miss Jane Ann Montgomery, a native of Hardin County, Ky., who departed this life November 10, 1856, and is buried in Madison County, Ill., leaving one son, Christian, who died January 19, 1873, aged thirteen years and ten months, and is buried in the Girard Cemetery. April 6, 1858, he married Miss Elizabeth Taylor, who was born in England December 27, 1835, and who departed this live April 3, 1860, and is buried in the cemetery in Johnson county, Kan. March 19, 1861, he married Miss Margaret Jane Herman, who was born in Huntingdon County, Penn., December 2, 1839. He has a family of two sons and three daughters living - Barbara Jane (daughter of his second wife, now Mrs. George Middleton, farmer and stock raiser), William Jones, Florence, Annie, Frederick James and Maggie Garfield by his present wife. Mr. Tontz has always worked actively for the development of the public, social and industrial life of his locality since coming to the State. Has held the offices of County commissioner and County Treasurer and many minor positions, and is the present incumbent of the Mayoralty of his city. Himself and family are active members of the Christian Church.

L. T. TRISLER, farmer, Section 33, P. O. Girard, was born in Indiana in 1858, raised on a farm, received a business education; farmed in Indiana until 1875, at the end of which time he came to Kansas, located in Washington Township, Crawford County, where remained two years; then to his present home of forty acres, which he improved and run as a grain farm; was married to Miss Maggie Ward, of Illinois, in 1870. Mrs. Trisler is a member of the United Baptist Church.

STEPHEN R. TUTTLE, Deputy County Treasurer, was born in Adams, Jefferson Co., N. Y., in 1848. In 1849, his parents removed to De Peyster, St. Lawrence County, same State. At the age of nineteen, he came West, and located in Sand Spring, Iowa, and carried on mercantile business until 1874. He then came to Kansas, and accepted the agency for the K. C., Ft. S. & G. Railroad at Beulah, which, after a few years, he retired from, and engaged, with H. P. Grund, in mercantile business, where he remained until accepting his present position in 1880. In 1871, he married Miss Lou H. Karst, a native of Jeffersonville, N. Y., but for a number of years resident of Sand Spring, Iowa. They have two daughters - Blanch Inez and Edith Adell. Mr. Tuttle is an active member of the A. O. U. W. society, is present incumbent of the Master Workman's chair, and is a member of the Select Knights. Mr. Tuttle and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

GEORGE H. WAGNER, of the firm of Wagner & Grantham, abstracts, loans and real estate, was born in the State of New York in 1841. He received a liberal education, and began farming for himself at the age of twenty-one, and continued until 1862. He was then in the army three years, and subsequently farmed until 1868. He came to Kansas in 1869 and located on a farm in Crawford County, where he lived until 1878, having opened and improved 160 acres, which he now runs as a grain farm, also raising fruits and berries of all kinds. he came to the city of Girard in 1878, at which time he was elected Register of Deeds for four years. He established his present business in 1882. Mr. Wagner was Trustee of Sherman Township three years. He is a member and Steward of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and also is a member of the order of A., F. & A. M. Besides his fine farm of 480 acres, he owns town lots and residence property in Girard. Messr. Wagner & Grantham have the only complete set of abstract books in Crawford County. Mr. Wagner was married to Miss Carrie E. Jeynes, of Indiana, in 1864. They have two children - Fredrick L. and Clayton W.

P. M. WALESLAGLE, dealer in groceries and queensware, was born in Pennsylvania September 15, 1825, received liberal education, and at the age of twenty-one began milling for himself in Pennsylvania, continuing the business until 1862, at which time he joined the army, and was in service three years. he then returned to Pennsylvania and resumed milling, which he followed until 1871, and then engaged in lumber business in Pennsylvania until 1878, at which time he came to Kansas and opened his present business in Girard, where he now owns residence property. he was married to Miss Patience Starnes, of Pennsylvania, in 1847, who died March 28, 1880, leaving six children - Perry J., William J., Mary Ann, Josiah M., Sallie J., Philip E. He was married to Miss Lizzie C. Blank of Iowa, in October, 1881.

J. N. WARD, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Girard, was born in Virginia in 1846, and was reared in Sangamon County, Ill., where he followed farming till 1870, when he located in Butler County, Neb., and carried on farming there till 1874, when he came here, and has been actively identified with his present industry here since. He married in 1873, Miss Martha Riggs, who was born and reared in Warren County, ILL. They have a son and daughter - Freddie and Jessie. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His farm contains eighty acres of improved land, well fenced and watered and stocked, good buildings and an orchard of 200 trees of a nicely assorted variety of fruits.

E. A. WASSER, one of the editors of the Girard Press, was born in Pennsylvania in 1848. He lived on a farm until the age of thirteen, and received a common school education, and entered a printing office in Pennsylvania in 1861, in which he continued for three years. he was then at school and in a printing office until 1868, at which time he came to Crawford County, but subsequently went to Fort Scott and remained until 1869, at which time he became a partner with Warner & Winter in the publication of the paper under the firm name of Warner, Winter & Wasser. In 1869, Warner and Wasser purchased the interest of Winter and moved the establishment to Girard, giving it the name of the Girard Press. It is the pioneer paper of Girard, it being the first in the county, and has been published since that time continuously, with the exception of three weeks in 1871, when the office was destroyed by a mob. The paper took the position that the railroads had title to the lands, and the demagogues excited the people to mob violence. The office was burned and everything lost. In June, 1873, Mr. Riddle bought out Mr. Warner, and the paper has since been published by Wasser & Riddle. Mr. Wasser is an Odd Fellow and Good Templar, and belongs to the Lutheran Church. He was married to Miss Olive Poole, of Iowa, in 1874. They have four children - Albert Monroe, Ida May, Claude Poole and Louisa. He was appointed Postmaster at Girard February 5, 1883, by President Arthur.

H. J. WELLS, agent of the Adams Express Company, was born in Osceola, Iowa, in 1858, and located in Kansas in 1870. Mr. Wells received his rudimentary education in the public schools of his nativity, and his literary education in Mount Pleasant University at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. In 1880, he joined with G. W. B. Hoffman (now deceased), and bought and conducted the Girard Herald, with which he was reputably connected till August, 12882, when he retired from it and accepted his present position. he was married in 1880, to Miss Harriet Allen, of his native State. Mr. Wells is an active member of the A., F. & A. M., K. of P. and A. O. U. W. societies here, and a member of the Select Knights.

THOMAS W. WELLS, attorney at law, was born in Bloomington, Ind., in 1834, and received his rudimentary and literary education in the schools of his nativity. In 1852, he located in Marion, Linn Co., Iowa, and carried on his professional studies until 1856, when he located at Osceola, Iowa, and was identified with his profession there until 18709. He then located here and has been connected with the practice of his profession since. He married in 1854, Miss Martha J. Coombes, who was born in Indiana, and reared in Linn County, Iowa. they have a family of three sons and two daughters - Henry J., agent of the Adams Express Company, here; Lucy M., now Mrs. J. H. McClure, abstract office; William R., in mercantile business; Emma and Edwin E. Mr. Wells is a member of Board of Aldermen for his city. He has been an active member of the I. O. O. F. society since 1872. He and family are members of the Christian Church.

ELIJAH P. WILEY, farmer, Section 19, P. O. Girard, was born in Indiana in 1836. He went to Missouri at the age of fourteen, where he remained seventeen years on a farm. He came to Kansas in 1867 and located on a farm in Crawford County, which he improved and ran as a grain and stock farm for six years. He was then in the Mission in the machine business three years, then came to his present home of 160 acres in 1876. Here he has 1,200 apple trees and a fine assortment of fruits and berries of all kinds. he has about 100 acres under cultivation. He owns the Farmers' Hotel in Girard, which runs in connection with the farm. He was Justice of the Peace of Osage Township for six years. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. he was married to Miss Amy J. Shahan, of Virginia, in 1856. They have seven children - Maggie J., John E., Louis A., Westley E., Perry E., Willie and Wilford M., deceased. Mrs. Wiley is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

F. S. WOLF, agent of the K. C., Ft. S. & G. Railroad, is a native of Pennsylvania. In 1871, he located in Kansas. In 1873, at the age of twenty, he engaged in his present industry in connection with this railroad, and in 1875 he accepted his present position, with which he has been connected since. In 1880, he married Miss Emma Adamson, of his native State. he is an active member of the I. O. O. F. society and the Encampment, the Improved Order of Red Men, the K. of H. and I. O. G. T. Mr. Wolf and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. 

JOHN H. ANDERSON, grocer and proprietor of hotel and mill, was born in Scotland in 1843. He was raised in mercantile business, and educated for the ministry, graduating at Edinburgh College in 1868. He came to the United States in 1869, and located in Maryland, where he remained eight years in the ministry and coal business. He came to Kansas in 1877, and located in Pittsburg, where he preached and carried on the coal business, dealing in coal until 1880. He is a Baptist missionary and an Odd Fellow. He was married to Miss Agnes Sneddar, of Scotland, in 1862. They have six children living--Rachel, Robert, Agnes, John, Henry, and William. They have buried four--James, Elizabeth, Arminta and Henry.

SAMUEL BARRATT, book-keeper, was born in England, February 3, 1838, came to United States in 1869, located in Missouri, and worked in saw-mill two years; then worked two years in store; then clerked in railroad office until 1879; was then in railroad office two years in Carthage, and one year as general agent; then came to New Pittsburg, and has since been keeping books.

W. C. BECK, retired, was born in Illinois in 1827, where he was raised on a farm, and received a business education. He began farming at the age of twenty-one in his native State, and continued until 1871, at which time he went to Missouri, settled on a farm and remained there until 1879. He then came to Pittsburg, Kansas, and run a grocery business a short time, also building a number of residences and business houses, which he now rents. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was married to Miss Jane C. Lynn, of Kentucky, in 1868.

JOHN W. BREWER, of the firm of Brown & Brewer, dealers in groceries, was born in Wisconsin, October 28, 1849; was raised on a farm, and received a business education. At the age of twenty-two, he started a cheese and butter factory in McHenry County, Ill., which he run two years. He came to Kansas in 1875, and located in Crawford County, on a farm of 240 acres, which he improved, and run as stock and grain farm five years. He opened present business in 1881. He is a Freemason, and belongs to K. of P. He was married to Miss Ida Holden, of Illinois, September 10, 1873. They had one child--Edmond D. (deceased).

J. B. BROWN, proprietor of blacksmith and wagon shop, was born in New York, June 22, 1849. He was bred a farmer, and at the age of twenty-two commenced that occupation for himself and continued until 1877. He came to Kansas and located in Crawford County, beginning his present business in 1877, which he has actively prosecuted since. Mr. Brown owns a residence and other real estate in the town of Pittsburg. He was married to Miss Alma L. Hamblin, of Lee County, Ill., in 1872. The have two children--Eli B. and Gertie N.

H. C. BRUNNER, of the firm of Brunner & Rorer, proprietors of the Pittsburg Flouring Mills, was born in Bucks County, Penn., in 1845, and was reared to his present industry, his father having been prominently identified with that industry in his native State. After carrying on his business in Indiana for four years, he located in Kansas in 1870, and has been actively identified with his present industry in the State since. In 1871, he married Mis May Gilmore, of Indiana. They have a family of two sons and one daughter--Eva, Burroughs and Justin. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church. During the war, Mr. Brunner did service in Company F, Thirty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, from which he was honorably discharged. Since locating here he has worked actively for the development of the social and industrial life of his locality. The mill is a two-story and basement structure, run by steam power, with a capacity of turning out fifty barrels of flour a day. Their business in confined to merchants and custom trade. Process stone.

WILLIAM BURGER, of the firm of L. Burger & Co., grocers and confectioners, was born in Pennsylvania in 1862, and learned his present business when a boy. He came to Missouri at the age of six years, was there three years and then came to Fort Scott, Kan., where he lived ten years. He was then in Parsons, Kan., two years, at Eureka Springs eight months, again at Parsons six months, coming from there to Pittsburg, where he started his present business.

ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, of the firm of Campbell Bros., livery, feed and sale stables, and of the firm of Campbell Bros. & Heatwole, furniture dealers, was born in Ontario, Canada, September 13, 1853, and removed to Illinois with his people, who subsequently located in Neosho County, Kan., in 1867. He engaged at farming in Neosho County, and carried on coal mining operations there for seven years, locating in Bourbon County, Kan., afterwards. He spent two years there in farming. In 1879, he came to this county and engaged at farming and coal mining, which he very successfully carried on till 1882, when he joined his brother Kenneth, and engaged in the livery business, which they have successfully carried on since, the brothers joining Mr. Heatwole in the furniture business the present year. Alexander Campbell was married to Miss Mary E. Jones in Neosho County, Kan., in 1873. She was born and reared in Logan County, Ill. They have one son and three daughters--John L., Velma Maud, Sarah Phoebe and Viola Kate. The brothers have always worked actively in all measures tending toward the development of the industries of this city. Alexander is a member of the Board of Alderman of Pittsburg, Daniel Campbell, father of the above, was born in Nova Scotia, in 1822, his people having but recently located there from Scotland. He came to Illinois from Canada, in 1859, having spent six years in that country in the hotel and livery business. He identified himself with farming in Illinois. After locating in Kansas, he married Miss Ann Findleson, of Nova Scotia, her people came over from Scotland with his people. On February 7, 1872, he departed this life, and in March of the following year, his wife followed him to the grave. They are buried in Walnut Cemetery, Neosho County, together with one son, Murdock, and a daughter, Georgie Ann. The family living are, Alexander, Kenneth, Isabel, now Mrs. Gus Cummings, merchant of Walnut, Kan., and Mary Jane, now Mrs. Franklin Inman, farmer of Walnut Township, this county.

WILLIAM A. CHAPMAN. City Marshal, was born in West Virginia March 23, 1849. He moved to Iowa at the age of five years, and remained in that State ten years, then resided in Missouri until 1870, at which time he went into the mercantile business with his father, remaining in that position until July, 1873, having been employed as a clerk six months of this time in different places. He went to Parsons, Kan., in the fall of 1873, and was in the stock business one year, then clerked in a hotel in Missouri eight months, then in a hotel in Iowa a short time, and then was agent for a nursery until 1876. He then was employed as clerk in a hotel in Lincoln, Neb., was then in the same employment at Topeka, Kan.; was next in Missouri with a patent right, then in Joplin in the lead mines a short time, then in Carbon, Kan., in the mines, then clerk in a store a short time, and then in Stetson, employed as clerk nine months. He came to Pittsburg in 1880 and worked in the coal mines until 1882, at which time he was appointed Marshal of Pittsburg. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., A. O. U., W. and K. of L. He owns two houses and lots in Pittsburg. He was married to Miss Mary M. Tangye, of Maryland, in 1878, and has one child living, Minnie. Laura, deceased.

C. S. CLANTON, general merchant, was born in Missouri in 1853. He was raised in town and received a business education. He was in Arkansas seven years, and in Texas, engaged in the stock business five years. He came to Kansas in 1876 and started in his present business. Mr. Clanton is a member of the Christian Church and is a Good Templar. He owns a residence and business property in New Pittsburg.

E. P. DYER, contractor and builder, was born in Missouri in 1836. He was bred to his present business, and at the age of twenty-one engaged in saw mill business in Kansas, to which State he moved in 1849. He was engaged in sawmill two years; was then in wagon shop one year, then in mill business five years, and moved from Marshall County to Council Grove, Morris County, in 1871, following the carpenter's business until 1881, when he came to Pittsburg, Crawford County, and opened his present business. Mr. Dyer has built more than two hundred houses in this town and county, owning both residence and business property in the city. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, also, A., F. & A. M. and Knights of Pythias. He was married to Miss Margaret Hanna, of Virginia, in 1860. They have five children living--Charles W., James A., Robert F., George E. and Della.

E. W. EAKIN, Superintendent of No. 2 Furnace in R. Lanyon & Co.'s Zinc Factory, was born at Greenville, Bond Co., Ill., July 29, A. D. 1855; went to Cairo in 1864, here he was in the employ of J. R. Kittenburg's Tobacco Manufacturing Co.; the first week's work he did for the company he received $1, the first he ever earned. He told the boss $1 was not enough; he gave him a job in the finishing room at $3 a week. He remained in their employ till the spring of 1867, when he went to Murphysborough, the county seat of Jackson County, was in the employ of Dobshuttz, Aubend & Co. Bankers and Coal Dealers of Belleville, prospecting for coal on Big Muddy coal lands; was next employed by engineers that laid out the Cairo & St. Louis Narrow Gauge Railroad, and afterward took contract that lasted one year. Left Murphysborough September 4, 1873; was in the employ of Dr. Ross, of Mascoutah, St. Clair County, it was his intention to go to a German school at this place, but not finding things as represented to him, only remained till the 25th of September; came to Kansas November 18, 1873; went to school at Baxter Springs that winter; in the spring he found employment in the first zinc factory built in Kansas; this was a Chicago company, superintended by J. A. C. Thompson; worked on No. 1 Furnace on 14th day of February, 1874; that day the first zinc flame was made in Kansas; was in their employ for three years; the zinc company failed to pay and then shut down in May, 1876; went to Joplin June 21, 1876, where he was in the employ of Granby & Co., for a short time. He prospected for lead, but was not successful. During his stay in Joplin, he was member of the first Presbyterian Church, also one of Trustees; superintended Sabbath school in Second Ward of Joplin. Failing to get sufficient mineral to pay, he was obliged to leave, intending to go to Arizona, but finding how times were in Arizona he changed his mind, and after going as far as Medicine Lodge, Kan., turned back and stopped at Wichita, Sedgwick County; was in the employ of the Wichita Elevator Company, also in the employ of J. B. Carey Lumber Co. Left Wichita, and came back to Weir City January 1, 1878; was again employed by the Consolidated Zinc Mining & Smelting Company. This company failing to pay their men in June, he brought suit against them, also against J. A. C. Thompson for $147. The suit lasted three years, during which time he was in the employ of R. Lanyon & Co. He came to Pittsburg July 21, 1878, and has been in the employ of R. L. & Co. for five years. He was married to Rose A. Fundenberger, of Weir City, Cherokee County, on February 2, 1879. Their first child--Jacob Walter, born October 23, died March 9, 1880; they have one living child--Lou Jennie, born February 10, 1881. Mr. Eakin owns four houses and lots, and controls considerable other city property in Pittsburg. He was elected City Councilman in the spring of 1882. He is also a member and stockholder of the Building and Loan Association of this place; member of A. O. U. W., and stockholder in Pittsburg Water Works.

A. C. FOWLER, dealer in furniture, and undertaker, was born in Pennsylvania, 1846, was raised on a farm and received academic education; enlisted in the army July 15, 1861, and came out December 19, 1865. then went to Ohio in wool business nine months, then was engaged in building until 1870; worked for the National Iron Company at carpenter's work until 1874, was next at asylum, at carpenter's work, until 1876, at which time came to Kansas and located in Girard, at carpenter's trade, three years. In the meantime was operating at Short Creek in lead and zinc mines. Came to New Pittsburg, 1879, as contractor and builder, and was engaged in that line eighteen months, and opened present business in August, 1881. Mr. Fowler took active part in securing a right-of-way for Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad. He is a member of Freemasons, Blue Lodge and Chapter and Commandery; is a member of Knights of Pythias, and belongs to Grand Army of Republic and Knights of Labor. Mr. Fowler was married to Miss Sarah Koons, of Pennsylvania, in 1879. They have two children--John J. and Olive.

JUDGE J. M. HAMLIN, was born in 1835; raised on a farm; received an academic education and began teaching school in Indiana at the age of sixteen, continuing that occupation two and a half years. He then learned the carpenter's trade at which he worked until 1862, at that time enlisting in the Ninety-ninth Indiana as Second Lieutenant Company B. On being mustered out in 1865, he went to Missouri, and remained until 1878; was then in Nebraska two years, and then came to Crawford County, Kan., and engaged in business as contractor and builder. He was appointed Justice of the Peace and Notary Public by Gov. St. John in 1882. He is a member of the United Church and of the Knights of Labor. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Smith, of Ohio, in 1855. They have six children--Ida, Carlin, Minnie, Lovel, Garfield and Elmer.

DR. E. E. HILLIS, of the firm of Hillis, Stryker & Fisher, dealers in drugs, etc., etc., and practicing physician, was born in Knoxville, Marion Co., Iowa, October 23, 1851, and received his rudimentary education in the public schools of his nativity, and his literary education in the high schools of Knoxville, and afterward at the high school of Ann Arbor, Mich., his father, Jefferson D. Hillis, having been a regular practicing physician. Dr. E. E. Hillis was reared to his present profession, although he had learned the printer's trade which he utilized in the intervals of his collegiate course. He began the study of his profession in his father's office at the age of sixteen, and continued the study until he began his practice in 1874. In the meantime he had taken lectures in the Bennett Medical College of Chicago, and later in the medical department of the University of Michigan. In 1874, he located in practice at Elk Falls, Kan., having come to this State six years previous, and continued in practice for two years, when he abandoned it on account of the grasshoppers and returned to Independence, where he continued in practice until 1879, when he went to Leadville and carried on his practice for one year, in the meantime operating in mining. While in Leadville he lost his oldest child, a bright little girl, with whose body he returned to Independence, where he buried it in Mount Hope Cemetery. He then located here, and has been connected with the practice of his profession since. He had upon his return been appointed on the State Board of Medical Examiners for Colorado by Gov. Prikin, but declined to act as he did not return there. He married July 15, 1874, Miss Eva Clark, in Ann Arbor, Mich., a lady of fine literary attainments and a graduate of one of the leading schools of Ann Arbor. They have one son and a daughter living--Arthur B. and Ottie M. He is an active member of the Knights of Pythias Society.

J. M. HOLLIBAUGH, saddle and harness maker, was born in Ohio, in 1855; was raised in saddle and harness business; received business education; came to Kansas in 1874; located in Girard in harness business, and worked until 1881, at which time he came to New Pittsburg and opened his present business. He is a member of Knights of Pythias. He was married to Miss Emma Freed, of Kansas, in 1872. Mrs. Hollibaugh was educated in Illinois and taught school six years in Kansas. 

JOHN W. JENNINGS, attorney at law and dealer in real estate and loan and insurance business, was born in Oswego County, N. Y., in 1847, and received a common school education in his native place. His literacy and professional education was received after he had arrived at the age of twenty-two, at which time he had located here. Arriving here in the infancy of this locality, he turned his attention to farming and stock-raising, and dealt also in real estate, retiring from the former industry in 1876, he accepted a position with the then Joplin & Girard Railway, which he remained in reputable connection for two and a half years. After this he entered into public life and filled the office of Justice of the Peace honorably till 1882, in which year he graduate in law since which time he has continued his real estate business and practiced law. In 1869, he married in Central Square, N. Y., Miss Julia E. Wright of Palermo, N. Y., who departed this life in 1874, and is buried in the Black Jack Cemetery, Missouri, leaving two sons, Ernest and Vorval. In 1875, he married Miss Delia L. Holden, who was born in Hebron, Ill. They have one son--Albert Frederick. He has been an active member of the Masonic Society since 1868, and has sat in the east. Since locating here he has worked actively in the development of the industrial life of this place. He assisted in the organization of this city and filled the incumbences of City Attorney and Clerk to the present; was the first express agent here.

ALLEN C. JENNIS, M. D. was born in Williamsburg, Iowa, January 21, 1857, his father being an active minister in connection with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a prominent pioneer of that (Iowa) County. He received his rudimentary education in the public and high schools of Marengo, Iowa. At the age of fifteen, he entered the Wilton Collegiate Institute at Wilton Junction, in a literary course, and after two years' study, there he entered the Wesleyan University, at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and graduated from there he in a full classical course at the age of nineteen. He then engaged in teaching and accepted the chair of natural sciences in the high school of Marengo, but retired from it after one year's experience, and took up the study of his profession under the tuition of Dr. W. C. Schultze, of Marengo, and took a thorough course of lectures in the Medical Department of the State University, of Iowa, and graduated from there in 1880. He then located in the practice of his profession in Marengo, and after one year he came here, and after spending six months in Litchfield, he located here, where he has been actively identified with the practice of his profession here since. He married in 1880, in Marengo, Iowa, Miss May Sherman, who was born and reared in Iowa County, Iowa.

JAMES T. JOHNSON, proprietor of the Johnson Amphitheatre, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1832, and engaged in his profession as manager. At the age of seventeen he carried on an amphitheatre and circus combined, in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1848-49, being only sixteen years old when he organized his first circus. After a successful experience in this enterprise, he located one at Buffalo, N. Y., and carried it on for several years, meantime traveling though the summer season and giving exhibitions, as he has made it a practice since. He next located one at Macomb, Ill., and his next location was at Burlington, Iowa, and subsequently at Albia, Iowa; afterward, at Rich Hill, Mo., and latterly here; still holding his amphitheatre at Rich Hill. His enterprise here consists of an immense structure of 100 feet frontage and 150 feet rearage; containing amphitheatre, theatrical stages and dressing-rooms, private living rooms, hotel and stables. The company contains twenty-five male and female performers, and about twenty-two head of trick and performing horses and ponies, and a nicely assorted variety of trained wild animals in the museum, making the tout ensemblea first-class moral show.

JOHN LANNING, railroad agent and telegraph operator, was born in Illinois, in 1854. He received a business education, and came to Kansas in 1863, with his parents. In 1873, he took a business course in Eastman's Commercial College in New York. Returned to Kansas, and was employed by the Gulf Railroad Company one year, as local telegraph operator, and then as extra man, two months. He was then at Stilson two years, and then came to Pittsburg, and engaged in present business. He was interested in cattle business in Linn County, Kan., four years. Was married to Miss S. E. Shinkle, of Illinois, in 1874, and has one child--Howard H.

J. J. LEACH, blacksmith, was born in Ohio in 1835, where he was raised on a farm and received a business education. At the age of eighteen, he went to Iowa to learn the blacksmith trade, and remained in that State three years; afterward working in Iowa and Ohio five years. He was in the army three years; afterward working in Iowa and Ohio five years. He was in the army three years and three months, and on leaving the service, worked in Iowa four years. He came to Kansas in 1868, and located at Osage Mission, remaining there eighteen months, and moving from there to Crawford County, where he was on a farm seven years. He then lived in Beulah three years, and came to Pittsburg in 1881, and opened his present business. Was married to Miss L. Homes, of Virginia, in 1864, They have four children living--Edgar, Jessie, Claudius, Maudie and Nettie, deceased.

JOHN R. LINDBURG, drugs, book and stationery, was born in Wimmerby, Sweden, in 1849; he received a thorough course of commercial instruction in Motala Business College, from which he graduated in 1865. In 1868, he came to America, and engaged in merchandising in Illinois, with which he was identified principally in that State until 1877, when he came here and embarked in his present enterprise, with which he has been successfully connected since. In 1874, he married in Cambridge, Ill. Miss Emma Vaughan, a native of Vermont. They have a family of one son and a daughter--Rolla and Lotta. Mr. Lindburg has worked actively in the development of the social, public and industrial life of the city since locating here. He served in the first Council of the city and is the present incumbent of one of its Aldermanic chairs. He has also worked actively upon the School Board. He is an active member of the I. O. O. F. and the A., F. & A. M. societies, and is in the latter a Knight Templar.

JARVIS MARTIN, merchant and stock man, was born in Indiana October 11, 1843. He was raised on a farm and received a business education in his native State, and at the age of twenty-seven, began farming for himself, and continued the occupation until 1873, at which time he came to Kansas and located in Labette County, on a farm of 160 acres, which he opened and improved, and run as a grain and stock farm nine years. He came to Pittsburg in 1881 and opened his present business. He is a member of the Christian Church, and was married to Miss Maggie Phebus, of Indiana, in 1868. He owns residence and business property in Girard

T. D. MILLER, M. D., was born in Evansville, Ind., in 1854, and removed to Illinois with his people in 1855, who settled in Harrisburg, where he was reared and educated in the public schools of that place. At the age of sixteen, he engaged in the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. E. L. Herriot, President of the Illinois State Medical Association, and continued in active study with him for two years. He then came West in 1872 and eventually located in Franklin County, Kan., having spent one year previously in Tecumseh, Neb. He continued actively in the practice of his profession there till 1879, meantime taking two courses of lectures in the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati in 1874-75. In 1879, he came here and engaged in the practice of his profession, with which he has been reputably connected since. In October, 1882, he took up a graduating course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of St. Louis, graduating from that institution on February 28, 1883. He married in 1881, Miss Ida M. Showalter, who was born and reared in Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the K. of H. society. Since locating here, he has served as the City Health Officer.

T. C. MOLLOY, merchant, was born in Lexington, Mo., August 29, 1862, and was reared there to merchandising, his father having been prominently identified with boot and shoe business there. At the age of twelve years, he located, with his people, in Joplin, Mo., and the following year he took a clerical position in the "Joplin Savings Bank." This enterprise dissolved the following year, and he then accepted a position as Assistant Cashier of the "Bank of Joplin," with which he remained till August, 1879, when that bank dissolved, and he then filled the position of paying teller and credit man of the firm of Moffet & Sargent, in connection with the Lone Elta, Mining and Smelting Company, this firm having been that of the "Bank of Joplin." He continued in that capacity till the December following, when he went in the interests of the same firm to Girard as cashier of the "Bank of Girard." He had in the meantime, operated successfully in mining operations during his location at Joplin, and amassed a considerable competence. He continued in reputable connection with the "Bank of Girard" till March, 1882, when he retired from it and subsequently came here and engaged in his present industry, which he has successfully connected since. In the meantime, operating successfully in real estate transactions, Mr. Molloy has always worked actively in the development of the social and industrial life of his locality. He filled the incumbency of Treasurer of the city of Joplin during 1878, and 1879. He is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, and of the Knights of Pythias.

G. E. PHILLIPS, manager of boot and shoe store for C. H. Phillips & Bro., was born in Ohio, 1858; received a business education, and came to Kansas in 1870, and located in Girard in Crawford County, and opened restaurant and bakery, where he remained six years and then came to New Pittsburg in 1882.

WILLIAM C. RACKERBY, of the firm Rackerby Bros., was born in Princeton, Ky., May 24, 1839. His father being a prominent man, and extensively engaged in the mercantile industry there, he was reared to that business. In 1859, he came West and passed through this State and located in the mountains, where he was identified for a few years in stock mining operations, returning to Missouri in 1862, and enlisted in Company A, First Missouri Light Artillery, and did active service till the end of the war, when he was honorably discharged. After the war he returned to the mountains, and engaged in mining and live stock business for four years, doing business in this time from the head-waters of the Missouri to the Gulf of California, on both sides of the Rocky Mountains. After this he returned to Missouri, and became identified with the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad as contractor for four years. During this time he married Miss Sarah Louisa DePalos, who was born and reared in New Orleans. After his connection with this railroad, he went to Texas, and became identified with the Huston & Texas Railroad, in the transportation department, but after two years' connection with it he was compelled to leave it on account of ill health, and invested in wheat growing in Western Kansas, where he was engaged for four years. After this he again engaged with the "Frisco" Railroad, and was identified with it for three years; retiring from it and engaging at his present enterprise, which he ably represents. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M. society since 1875; is also a member of the G. A. R. here.

DAVID RAMSEY, Superintendent Rogers Coal Company, was born in 1832. Was raised a machinist. At the age of twenty began steamboating on Ohio River, and continued two years, then operated in machine shop four years; was next in California two and a half years in the mines, then returned to Ohio and farmed one year; was next in machine shop in Portsmouth, Ohio, twelve years; then engaged with the Ashland Coal & Iron Railroad Company, in Kentucky, twelve years. Came to Kansas in 1881, and located in Labette County, on farm of 160 acres, which he run as grain, stock and fruit farm. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Is a Freemason and Good Templar. He was married to Miss Christena Gebhardt, of Ohio. They had seven children--Lenora, Fred H., Robert L., Julia, Emma V., Fannie, Christena.

M. N. RANDALL, civil engineer and dealer in coal, was born in Vermont in 1829, and lived in that State until he was twenty-four years old. He received a collegiate and scientific education, and went to Wisconsin, where he was engaged in civil engineering until 1873. At that time he came to Missouri, and was engaged in the same business four years in that State, and in 1877, came to Pittsburg, Kan., where he still continues his profession, working mainly for the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company. Mr. Randall located the Wichita extension, and the Fredonia & Wichita Railroad, and was engaged on the Arkansas division from Plymouth to Fayetteville. He is now leasing lands, mining and shipping coal. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a Freemason, He was married to Miss Martha D. Allen, of Ohio, in 1864, and has two children living--Mattie A. and Lillian. Frank E. and Gracie A., deceased.

I. J. ROCHUSSEN, agent of the Pittsburg Town Company. He was born in the Netherlands in 1839, but raised in Vermont. He returned to Europe, in order there to receive a collegiate education, and graduated at Utrecht in law and literature. He came back to Vermont, and there, during ten years, practiced law. He also was during two years immigration agent of the State of Minnesota, for Vermont and Canada. In May, 1873, he went to Minnesota, prospecting in the interest of Eastern parties. In January, 1876, he went to Nebraska, and spent there six months examining the lands of the Union Pacific and the Burlington & Missouri, with a view on Mennonite immigration. In June of that same year he went to Kansas, and established a newspaper, called the Halstead Record, at Halstead, Harvey County. In March, 1877, he founded a Mennonite colony in Woodson County, on Missouri, Kansas & Pacific lands, and became agent of the Missouri, Kansas and Pacific for Mennonite immigration. In 1878, he settled in Labette County, and made frequent trips to Eastern States, for selling their Kansas lands. In 1880, he opened a real estate office at Oswego, Kan. In July, 1882, he went to Pittsburg, Crawford County, Kan., as agent of a company which owns the town site and a large tract of surrounding land. While in Minnesota the Somersetshire, England, Miss Katharine Anne Drake.

EDWARD L. SANDS, druggist, was born in New York City in 1848, and in early youth removed to Delaware County, where he resided till 1856. He then came West. Has lived in various Western States, and during the past eleven years he has been engaged in the drug business. He spent some years in Missouri, and came from that State to Kansas in March, 1880. At that time he located at Osawatomie and engaged in the drug and stationery business. Mr. Sands has a well stocked store, and is in enjoyment of a very satisfactory trade. He has the happy faculty of serving his customers with the most nauseous dose of medicine with a smile so genial and kindly that they almost feel it a pleasure to take the stuff. May his shadow never be less.

J. E. SAUER, general merchant, was born in Germany, 1821. Came to United States at age of ten years. Located in Missouri. Was in furniture business in Missouri from 1842 to 1852, at which time opened mercantile stock in Missouri and continued twenty-two years, and then took charge of Lo Motte Company's store in Madison County, Missouri, and continued nine years. Came to Kansas in 1882, and located in New Pittsburg in present business. Was Postmaster in Missouri twenty years. Was also School Trustee and Treasurer in Missouri. Is a Freemason, and a member of the I. O. O. F. Was married to Miss Mary Ponde, of Germany, 1842. Their living children are--Joseph F., John A., Raymond, Lawrence, Charles, Lizzie, Louisa, Annie. Lost wife 1873. Was married to Miss Annie J. Helfrenk, of Illinois, 1875. They have two children--Henry C. and Clara.

P. H. SAWYER, dealer in grain and coal, was born in Ohio in 1840, in which State he was raised in mercantile business, receiving a business education. He began mercantile business for himself at Cleveland, at the age of twenty-one, which he continued eighteen months, when he went to Colorado, and was in mining business until September, 1863. He then joined the army, and served until July 3, 1866. He was next engaged at Nebraska City in mill and lumber business until November, 1868, then farmed two years, and was then in mill business six months, when he went to Colorado on account of sickness in his family. He subsequently engaged in coal business at Fort Scott, Kan., one year, and was then in Litchfield, Crawford County, in coal and mercantile three and one-half years. He was next engaged in butcher business in Pittsburg, eighteen months, at the end of which time he commenced his present business. He was Police Judge of Pittsburg two years, and Justice of the Peace a short time. He is a member of the order of Freemasons. He was married to Miss Alice V. Rooman, of St. Louis, in 1866. They have three children--Edwin E., Henry P., Charlotte. Owns brick residence and business house in New Pittsburg.

FROMAN SHOUT, (retired), was born in Ohio July 24, 1824. At the age of twenty began teaching school. After following that employment for two years, was engaged in trade one year. He went to California in 1849, and worked in the mines four years, when he returned to Ohio for a short time, and went again to California in 1853, where he was on a farm four years. He then lived in Ohio, and engaged in farming and the mercantile business until 1870, at which time he came to Kansas and located in Crawford County, on a farm of 160 acres, where he remained seven years, and was in Opolis seven months, in the mercantile business a short time. He then came to Pittsburg and built a hotel, which he run until January, 1882. He has built six houses in Pittsburg. He was married to Miss Cordelia Loring, of Ohio, in 1858. They have five children--Emery F., Alice N., Ambrose B., Lenona G., Earnest C., Idella, and Emma, deceased.

C. B. SMELKER, of the firm of Smelker & Co., butchers, was born in Pennsylvania 1838; was raised on farm. At age of fifteen began carpenter's trade, and continued four years, then opened butcher business in Pennsylvania. Was in Texas five years; lived in Girard short time, and came to New Pittsburg in 1880. Mr. Smelker is a member of order of Freemasons, Odd Fellows, and A. O. U. W. Owns business house and ten acres, and slaughter house adjoining town. He was married to Miss Annie Aults of Pennsylvania, in 1869. They have three children--Benjamin C., Thomas T., Charles M.

H. R. THURSTON, attorney at law, was born in Belfast, Me., March 4, 1857. He received a collegiate education, graduating at Union College, N. Y., in 1876. He was admitted to the bar in 1879, and then took a prospecting trip to Texas, Old and New Mexico, California, and Colorado, and back to Kansas, locating in New Pittsburg in September, 1880. Mr. Thurston is a member of the M. E. Church, and also belongs to the A. O. U. W. He was married to Miss Julia A. Jones, of Missouri, October 14, 1882.

ROBERT VOETH, dealer in drugs, medicines, etc., was born in Germany in 1820, and was raised in mercantile business and book-keeping. Received a collegiate education and came to the United States. He was in Pennsylvania two years prospecting, then clerked in Quincy, Ill., eighteen months, then went into the business in Liberty, Ill., in groceries and dry goods six months, then to Quincy in the same line one year; was next Justice of the Peace four years. Was elected for two terms Engrossing Clerk in the House of Representatives of Adams County, Ill.; was then in the drug business five years, was burned out and went to Missouri, locating on a farm one year; was next in Liberty two years in the drug business, then kept books at Quincy nine and a half years, and held the office of Notary Public in Adams County, Ill., for over twenty-five years. Came to Kansas in 1878, and settled in Crawford County on a farm three years, then to Pittsburg, and opened a grocery business, which he run for six months, and then opened his present business. He owns a farm of 120 acres in Chetopa. Owns a business and residence houses in Pittsburg. Owns a half interest in a combined corn planter and cultivator. Is a Freemason. He was married in 1847 to Nancy M. Langford, and has nine children living--Frederick, Robert C., Emma, Albert G., William H., Bertha, Paul, Ada and Charles; deceased, Pauline M., Franklin and Wiley.

GEORGE WALKER WILLIAMS, M. D., was born in Henry County, Tenn., January 1, 1850; received his rudimentary education in the public schools of his nativity. At the age of sixteen, he began business for himself in merchandising, and after one year's experience in this industry he concluded to take up the study of medicine, and began under the tuition of Dr. A. M. Wilson, of Paris, Tenn., and continued the study until the age of twenty, when he took a collegiate course in the medical department of the University of Louisville, Ky. After a thorough course of one year he located in Marshfield, Mo., and carried on the practice of his profession till 1882. Meantime, he took up a graduating course in the Louisville University and graduated in 1878. In 1882, he located here, and has been identified with the practice of his profession since. He married, in 1873, in Lebanon, Mo., Miss Helena Hudson of that place. They have a family of one son and two daughters--Clara Lenora, Lunsford M. and Flora Belle. He is an active member of the A., F. & A. M. Society.

W. C. WALKER, Township Treasurer of Baker Township, was born in Smith County, Tenn., April 18, 1851, and was reared there to the merchandising industry. At the age of fourteen, he began life for himself in merchandising, and soon after began the study of telegraphy at Paducah, Ky., which he soon completed, and took charge of an office in that State. In 1872, he came to St. Louis and got an appointment as chief operator on the Missouri Pacific Railway at Jefferson City; he resigned subsequently and went to Fulton, Mo., as operator for the Chicago & Alton Railway, where he remained several years. During this time he was elected to the State Legislature, but was disqualified on a technicality. Gov. Hardin, however, appointed him an honorary member of the State Board of Managers at the Centennial Exposition, where he did active service. His next professional work was with the Kansas Pacific Railway for a short time, then with the Kansas City & St. Joe Railway for a year, then he went on the Union Pacific Railway, and was connected with that road for two years. Returning to St. Louis, he accepted a position with the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway, and came to Kansas and was soon after appointed as agent here, with which he remained till a short time since, when he retired from railway work, and engaged, February 3, 1883, in journalism, and established the Pittsburg Times, and on the 6th of that month he was elected to his present incumbency. In 1876, he married Miss Lillian I. Walker, of Mexico, Mo., a lady of fine literary attainments. They have a family of two daughters--Daisy Lee and Ada Gertrude. He is an active member of the A., F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., A. O. U. W., K. of P., K. of L. Societies. 

WM. V. BERRY, of the firm of Dennis & Berry, dealers in hardware, was born in Morgan County, Ohio, September 28, 1834; went to Schuyler County, Ill., in 1839, lived there twenty years. He was raised a farmer and received a liberal education. He went to Colorado in 1859 and was in the mines there three years; then enlisted in the First Colorado Cavalry and soldiered three years and two months, and during that time traveled over a large portion of Colorado, Utah and New Mexico, a part of the time with the noted Scout Kit Carson. Was in several fights with the Indians; was wounded twice, and is still carrying some of their lead in one of his ankles. He returned to Illinois in 1866, and in 1872 came to Kansas and located at Cherokee, Crawford County, engaging in his present business. He owns a residence and business property, and also in connection with Mr. Dennis owns an addition to Cherokee.

MRS. M. A. CASTERLINE, millinery and fancy goods, was born in Illinois December 13, 1841, and was raised in the millinery business. She received a high school education and began business in Iowa at the age of twenty-two, and continued fifteen years. She came to Cherokee in 1876 and opened her present business. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was married to Mr. M. J. Casterline, of Iowa, in 1856. They have three children--T. H., Annie and Charles.

A. N. CHADSEY, general merchant, grain and stock dealer, was born in Illinois January 8, 1838, and received a business education, graduating at Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College. He enlisted in the army in 1862 in the One Hundred and Nineteenth Illinois Infantry, Company C; was mustered in at Quincy; was in the Army of the Mississippi, Sixteenth Army Corps, under A. J. Smith; was in the fight around Vicksburg; was on the Red River expedition; followed Price through Missouri; fought Hood at Nashville; was in the siege at Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely, and was mustered out at Mobile, September, 1865. Then after taking a course at Bryant & Stratton's College, came to Kansas in 1866 and located at Monmouth in a general store three years, and then to Cherokee, and was in business with Jo Lucus three years; sold out and built the house and started the firm of Chadsey & Bro., and ran it three years, at which time his brother died, since which he has managed it alone. Opened a branch store at Monmouth i 1879. He owns two improved farms of 160 acres each; owns a brick store 25x140 feet, two stories and basement; owns a residence with six lots. He is Mayor of the city and Clerk of his School District. He is a Freemason and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is commander. He was a member of the first county organization. He was married to Miss S. E. Adam, of Kansas, in 1868. They have five children living--Ida, Florence, Fred N., Robbie (deceased), Mildred and Frank L. Mr. Chadsey owns a store and elevator, the capacity of which is 12,000 bushels. He buys and sells grain and stock of all kinds.

WILLIAM H. CLARK, druggist, was born in Ohio July 11, 1839. He received a common school education and was raised in the mercantile business. At the age of sixteen he began clerking for his father in Oshkosh, Wis., and continued twelve years. He came to Kansas in 1858, prospecting, and returned to Wisconsin in the winter of 1859 and 1860. He remained a short time and them went to North Missouri with his father, meeting the drouth[sic] of 1860; returned to Southern Iowa to winter. In the spring of 1861, he started to Kansas; went as far as St. Joseph, Mo., and joined the army for three years, in the Thirty-fifth Missouri Regiment, Company B. He went in as a private, and came out as Regimental Quartermaster, July, 1865. He returned to St. Joseph, Mo., and clerked one winter; then went to Kansas and settled in Cherokee County on a farm of 160 acres, which he improved and ran eleven years as a stock and grain farm. He has a good line of all kinds of fruits and berries, hedge and wire fence, fine stock, water, and sixty acres of timber on a creek which runs through the farm. Mr. Clark owns in connection with his father, 570 acres of fine farm lands--150 acres of timber, 300 acres in cultivation and 140 acres in pasture. He owns residence and business house in Cherokee. He was married to Miss Augusta Wygant, of New York, March, 1866. They have three children--Mary A., Ida I. and Jennie. Mrs. Clark is a graduate of the Alford Center University, N. Y. Miss Mary A. Clark is Secretary of the Union Sunday school and is organist at the Presbyterian Church.

MISS JOSIE CULPEPPER, dealer in groceries and queensware, was born in Missouri February 10, 1859. She was educated in the high school and taught school in Missouri five years. She came to Kansas in 1882, locating in Cherokee and opened the above business in May of that year. Miss Culpepper owns an interest in two farms in Missouri and one in Arkansas.

J. M. DENNIS, of the firm of Dennis & Berry, dealers in hardware, was born in Illinois March 19, 1837, and was educated in the high school at Galesburg, Ill. He began teaching school at the age of twenty-one, in Illinois, and continued twelve years. He was then in merchandise three years. He came to Kansas in 1872 and settled in Cherokee and opened his present business. He bought and improved 160 acres of land, owns residence and business property, which he built. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was on the building committee of the Presbyterian Church. He was on the School Board several years; was the first Mayor of the city and has been Mayor twice since, and was Councilman twice. He carries a stock of from $7,000 to $8,000 and sells yearly from $30,000 to $35,000 worth. He was married to Mrs. T. D. Jones, of Illinois, in 1868. Mrs. Dennis is a member of the Presbyterian Church and takes an active part in churches and schools, and is a strong advocate of the temperance cause.

THOMAS L. DONNELLY, of the firm of Donnelly & Jackson, furniture dealers, was born in New York July 12, 1836. He began farming at the age of eighteen years in New Jersey, and farmed two years, then moved to Illinois settling on a farm until 1861, at which time he joined the army and was mustered out in 1865. He then farmed for two years in Illinois; was then in the drug business for two years in Illinois. He came to Kansas in 1875 and located on a farm of 160 acres, which he improved and ran two years, then came to Cherokee and engaged in the ice business with W. F. Hainer four years, then bought out a furniture and undertaking house and ran in for two years, then took Mr. Jackson as a partner, and has since continued it as the above named firm. He is a Freemason and a member of the A. O. U. W., Select Knights and belongs to the Chapter of Knights. He was married to Miss Mary C. Brewer, of Illinois, in 1864. They have three children--Jennie B., Ada and Orin W.

J. H. FOSTER, butcher and dealer in hides, was born in Canada June 20, 1858. At the age of sixteen he began trading in stock of all kinds, and continued in Canada until 1877. He then moved to Chicago, then to Quincy, Ill., then to Cherokee, and bought a farm of eighty acres in Cherokee County, which he improved. He opened a butcher shop in Cherokee in 1880. Sold out in 1881, and went to Western Kansas and dealt in stock a short time. He then went to Red Cloud, Hastings, and Omaha, Neb.; then to Cheyenne, Wy.; then to Salt Lake City; then to Denver, Leadville, Montana, Pike's Peak, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, New Mexico; then to Cherokee, Kan., a short time; then to Springfield, Mo.; was then in Arkansas trading in cattle. Returned to Cherokee, Crawford County, and opened a butcher shop; opened also butcher shops in Weir City and Scammonville, which he still runs.

WILLIAM F. HAINER, dealer in drugs and jewelry, was born in Pennsylvania April 22, 1850. Was raised on a farm and received a liberal education. He came to Kansas in 1868, and located at Baxter Springs as clerk in a drug store; then came to Cherokee in 1873 and opened a drug store for himself. Was Councilman and Mayor of Cherokee and City Treasurer. Is a member of A. O. U. W. Owns residence and business property in Cherokee, and also an eighty-acre stock and grain farm in Crawford County. It has a hedge and stone fence and a good line of fruits. The eighty acres is coal land, the coal of which he takes out and ships. Mr. Hainer built a brick block, 50x80, in 1882, and will occupy one part of the block with his own business in February, 1883. He also owns five tenement houses, which he built. He was married to Miss D. Keifer, of Ohio, in 1876. They have one child living--Frank C., Harry F., deceased.

G. F. HANCOCK, tonsorial artist, farming and stock dealing, was born in Lee County, Iowa, in 1854, and engaged in his profession in his native State, which he carried on actively for a few years. In 1878, he located here, and has carried on his business here since very successfully. In 1878, he married Miss E. S. Bellows, a native of Ohio. They have buried their two little boys--Alfred Homer and Aubrey Neil--in the Cherokee Cemetery. Mr. Hancock is a member of the I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W. societies. His wife is a member of the Christian Church. His farm consists of eighty acres of improved land, in Section 24, Cherokee Township, Cherokee County, together with an orchard of fifty apple trees, a good dwelling house and stable.

J. L. JACKSON, of the firm of Donnelly & Jackson, furniture dealers, was born in Missouri in 1838. He was raised in the milling business. At the age of twenty-one, he began business for himself in Missouri, and continued there fifteen years. He came to Kansas in 1878, and settled at Monmouth, engaged in the mill business, and continued there two years, and then went into the furniture business at Cherokee in 1881. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. and Select Knights. Mr. Jackson was married to Miss Phoebe J. Norman, of Missouri, in 1867. They have two children--James H. and William E.

R. N. KEMP, dealer in grain and coal, was born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1845, and settled with his people in Muscatine County, Iowa, in 1853, where he was reared and educated. He received his literary education in the State University, and also at Greenwood Academy, Muscatine. After completing his studies, he engaged in farming and stock-raising, and followed it actively in Iowa till 1875, when he came here and engaged in his present industry, which he has carried on actively since. He married Miss Sarah F. Lucas in 1871, who departed this life in 1876, and is buried in the Cherokee Cemetery, leaving one daughter--Clara Eda. In 1879, he married Miss Jennie Murray, a native of Michigan. They have one daughter--Hattie. Mr. Kemp has worked actively in the development of the social and industrial life of this place since coming here. He is an active member of the A. O. U. W. Society and the Select Knights. The family are members of the M. E. Church. In connection with the above industry, he also has 160 acres of well-improved land, just outside of the city limits, containing a nice orchard of 100 fruit trees of a nicely assorted variety, good dwelling and stables. He is also interested in coal lands, from which he derives an important revenue.

W. A. LAIDLAW, dealer in hay and hay presses, was born in Lincoln County, Ontario Canada, in 1848, and was reared in Elgin County. In 1869, he located in Kansas, and engaged in merchandising in Pawnee, and carried it on actively for four years, after which he located here, and has been identified with his present industry here since. In 1873, he married Miss Kate C. Vestal, who was born and reared in Poweshiek County, Iowa. They have a family of one son and a daughter--W. Stanley and Juanita. Mr. Laidlaw has worked actively in the development of the public, social and industrial life of this locality since coming here. Himself and wife are members of the M. E. Church. Mr. Laidlaw began his business here upon a merely nominal capital, and has by dint of steady and persistent industry extended his trade to all of the important cities of the West, and does an annual business of $30,000.

JERRY LAGO, wagon and carriage maker and general blacksmithing, was born near Paris, France, in 1840, and learned his trade there. In 1864, he came to America, and followed his trade in the Canadas for three years, after which he followed it through Michigan and Illinois for several years, locating here in 1873, where he has very successfully carried on his present industry since. He was married in Springfield, Ill., October 2, 1868, to Miss Emma E. Crays, who was born and reared in Illinois. They have had seven children born unto them--three are dead and four survive, three sons and one daughter, to wit: Adolphus, Elizabeth Cordelia, Joseph Carl and Harry W. He is an active member of the I. O. O. F. Society. The family are members of the Methodist Church. In connection with the above industry, he owns and carries on a farm of ninety-six acres, just outside of the city limits, containing a nice orchard of 400 fruit trees of a nice assorted variety, and a good dwelling, barns and stable, etc.

S. E. LEIGH, proprietor and owner of the Anchor Mills, was born in Chautauqua County, N. Y., in 1836, and learned the profession of practical engineer in Illinois at an early age, followed it in that State for several years, and afterward in Missouri. In 1873, he located in Kansas, and was actively identified with his profession in the State till 1879, when he bought his present business and has carried it on actively since. He was married in Illinois to Miss Mary J. Poindexter, whom he buried in La Mars Cemetery, Barton County, Mo. They had one daughter--Georgie. Mr. Leigh has been an active member of the I. O. G. T. Society since 1854, of the I. O. O. F. since 1857, and of the A., F. & A. M. Society since 1878. The mill is a two-story and basement structure, situated on the line of the K. C., Ft. S. & G. Railroad in Cherokee, is run by steam, and carried on upon the "stone" process. It has a capacity of manufacturing 200 bushels of wheat a day. His trade is both custom and merchant trade. His special brand of flour is the "5A."

CAPT. GEORGE W. H. LUCAS, real estate and loans, was born in Ohio in 1835. He received a collegiate education. At the age of twenty he began farming in Iowa, and continued until 1874, at which time he came to Kansas and located at Cherokee, and opened the mercantile business in connection with the grain and stock trade. He joined the army in 1861, and was mustered out in 1865 as Brevet Major. He continued in the mercantile business until 1878, at which time he sold out and engaged in his present business. He is a member of the M. E. Church and Trustee of the same. He was married to Miss Mary F. Hitchcock, of Indiana, in 1856. They have three children--Charles M., Lillie B. and Frank E. Charles M. Lucas was educated at the State University of Kansas, graduating in June, 1881. Starting in printing The Sentinel on the Border in 1879, at the age of seventeen, and continued at it for two years. He was then at school a short time, and then returned to printing, and published The Sentinel on the Border in Cherokee, and has continued and had it published while he was at college.

JOSEPH LUCAS, of the firm of Joseph Lucas & Co., dealers in gents' furnishing goods and clothing, boots and shoes, hats and caps, was born in Iowa, May 25, 1843. He was raised on a farm and educated at the high school and took a commercial course in Bryant & Stratton's College at Davenport, Iowa. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the army, Sixteenth Iowa Infantry, Company C, for three years and seven months, went with Sherman to the sea, was at the battle of Vicksburg and all general engagements with Grant and Sherman; went in as a private and came out as First Lieutenant in June, 1865, having been a prisoner in Andersonville for some time; came to Kansas in 1866, and located on a farm in Cherokee County and farmed two years, and then years, and then ran a saw mill at Monmouth, Crawford County, two years; then came to Cherokee in 1870, and opened a general store and continued six years, then went to Colorado in mines two and one-half years; then to Kansas City and built a natatorium and remained six months; then to Cherokee in coal business one year; then opened his present business. Owns two farms of sixty and eighty acres each, raises grain and stocks, owns an interest in 160 acres of coal land, with a vein of coal four feet and two inches thick; owns bank building in Cherokee and residence; has been Mayor of the city, has been Councilman several times; is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is Trustee of the same; is a member of the I. O. O. F., was a delegate to the Grand Lodge at Topeka. He was married to Miss Sarah J. Van Bebber, of Illinois, in 1872. They have one son--Walter S., born May 15, 1874. Mrs. Lucas is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Lucas carries a stock of from $8,000 to $9,000, and sells from $20,000 to $25,000 yearly.

C. H. MERRIAM, saddle and harness maker, Cherokee, was born in Canada in 1844, parents from Vermont. Was raised in his business and received a common school education. Began business for himself in Illinois at the age of twenty-five, and continued for one year. He came to Kansas in 1866 and farmed until 1872, at which time he came to Cherokee and opened his present business. Handled agricultural implements for two years in the mean time. Owns a residence and business property in Cherokee; was Councilman for one year, belongs to the Order of Freemasons. Mr. Merriman was married to Miss Lucinda Lisenbee, of Tennessee, in 1868. They have four children--George H., Nellie, Ethel and Mabel; carries stock from $2,000 to $2,500 worth.

A. MORLEY, of the firm of Morley & Moore, proprietors of the Cherokee Flouring Mills, was born in Leicestershire, England, in 1837, and was reared to his present business, his father having been prominently identified with the industry. In 1856 he came to America and spent a few years in travel through the country. During the Civil War he did active service for eighteen months in the First New Jersey Cavalry, from which he has honorably discharged as Chief Bugler. He then spent a few years in search of gold in the Territories. In 1865 he settled in Illinois, and carried on milling till 1873, when he located here, and has been actively identified with his industry here since. He married in Adams County, Ill., Miss Emily Browning, who was born in Pike County, and reared in Adams County, Ill. They have one daughter--Ethel. He is an active member of the A. O. U. W. society here; his business embraces both the custom and merchant trade; his brands are "Morley's Best" and XXXX.

A. T. PAUL, of the firm of P. M. Paul & Co., merchants, was born in Ohio October 11, 1845, was raised merchant, received high school education. At the age of eighteen began mercantile business for himself in Ohio, and continued six years; then farmed six years, and was next on a farm in Iowa eighteen months; then Cherokee in present business in 1881. Mr. Paul is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows. He was married to Miss Mary E. Farney, of Ohio, in 1871. They have three children--Evert L., Ettie May and Harriette. Mrs. Paul received a high school education.

E. A. PERRY, attorney, loans and real estate, was born in Illinois December 8, 1847. Joining the army in 1862, was discharged in 1866; returned to Illinois and farmed one year; then went to Western College, Iowa; then taught school three years; attended law school at Iowa City one year; then to Abilene, Kan., and graduated in law in the spring of 1870; practiced at Abilene until the spring of 1871; came to Cherokee in 1871, and has since continued to practice law. He owns an interest in a farm of 160 acres, also owns an interest in nine acres adjoining town, residence and business property in town. He was City Attorney of Cherokee four terms, and was one of the organizers of the town. Mr. Perry was married to Miss Sarah Jameson, of Ohio, February 22, 1872.

CAPT. J. S. PRICE, proprietor "Lindell House," was born in Vermillion County, Ill., in 1831. He was identified with merchandising there till 1862, when he assisted actively in organizing Company A, Seventy-ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and entered the ranks as a private, but almost immediately after was promoted to the First Lieutenancy, and subsequently to the Captaincy, in which capacity he did active service till the end of the war, when he was honorably discharged. After the war he returned to merchandising, and carried it on in his native State till 1869, when he removed to Richmond, Ind., and was identified with it there till 1878. He then came here and engaged at his present industry, which he ably represents. In 1854 he married Miss Margaret J. Stigleman, of Richmond, Ind. They have a family of three sons and one daughter--Eva, now Mrs. William L. Morgan, stock-dealer of Richmond, Ind.; Wallace, Williamson and Frank. Capt. Price has been an active worker in the A., F. & A. M. society since 1864, he is also a member of Shiloh Post, No. 56, G. A. R. His hotel is well kept and neatly finished, and is the "home" for the traveling trade in Cherokee.

GRANT PRICE, of the firm of Grant Price & Co., butchers, was born in Illinois February 18, 1862, he received a business education; went to Carthage, Missouri, in 1870, and stopped a short time, and then to Cherokee, Kan., in 1871; was at school until 1874, then in railroad depot nine months; post office two years; butcher business until June, 1882, at which time he bought out J. F. Fry's interest in his father's butcher shop, and has since continued with his father in the butcher business. He owns an interest in seven acres of land near Cherokee, owns three lots in town. Mr. Price is a member of the I. O. O. F. and Good Templars, and was Grand Worthy Secretary of same.

GEORGE W. PYE, of the firm of George W. Pye & Co., bankers, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 22, 1838, was educated in high school. Farmed four years with his father; entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1859, and continued two years; joined the army in 1861, in the Thirty-seventh Indiana Regiment, Company H, as Second Lieutenant; was in the battle of Stone River, commanded the company and was the last one on the field. Resigned commission and was commissioned Chaplain of the Sixth Indiana at the request of the men. Returned to the ministry in 1864, and was at Belleville, Ind., two years, at Liberty, Ind., two years, Fairfield two years, Laurel eighteen months. Came to New Chicago, Kan., in 1872, and entered the ministry, and built a new church in one year; was at Chetopa two years in charge of the church: Paola one year; Ottawa one year and nine months; Wichita District one year; Emporia two years; Peabody two years; Parsons one year; then on account of failure of his wife's health came to Cherokee, and opened a bank in 1881. He owns a farm of 120 acres, and a residence in town, is a Freemason and a member of the I. O. O. F., also a member of the Knights of Emporia. Is insured in Masons and Knights of Honor for $3,800; is a member of Good Templars. He was married to Miss Julia A. Cole, of Indiana, in 1838. They have three children--Willie, Clara and Fannie C.

PATRICK RILEY, proprietor livery, feed and sale stables, was born in Hendricks County, Ind., in 1838, and was reared in Boone County, Ind. In 1867, he settled in Cherokee County, Kan., and carried on farming and stock-raising actively till 1872, when he engaged in his present industry, and has been successfully identified with it in this part of the State since. Meantime he has been connected with the farming industry. He married, in 1861, Miss Mary E. Lewis, of Parke County, Ind., who departed this life in 1872, and is buried in the cemetery at Columbus, Kan., leaving a family of two sons and two daughters--Sarah E., Lina, Elmer and William. In 1873, he married Miss Maggie Benn, of Missouri. They have one son--Tilden. Mr. Riley had been an active member of the A., F. & A. M. society since 1874. His stables are well equipped with first-class rigs; his terms are moderate. His motto is, "Close attention to business, and reasonable charges."

HENRY SCHIFFBAUER, boot and shoe manufacturer, was born in Germany August 26, 1826; came to the United States October 19, 1854; located in Illinois on a farm fifteen years; was then in Missouri a short time, and then came to Kansas, worked one year on railroad; was next at Baxter Springs a short time, then came to Cherokee and started boot and shoe business. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and is Warden of the same. He was married to Miss Liddie Cook, of Illinois, in 1864.

H. S. SHAWGO, general blacksmithing, was born in Franklin County, Ohio, in 1848; was reared in Illinois to the farming and stock industry. In 1872, he engaged at his present business in Adams County, Ill., and followed it actively there till 1877, when he located here, and had been actively connected with his business here since. He married, in 1873, Miss Mattie Stokes, of Illinois. They have one son--Edwin. Mr. Shawgo is an active member of the A. O. U. W. society. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

A. D. STATES, was born in Ohio in 1860; was educated at the high school in West Cairo, Ohio, and graduated in 1879; was trading and prospecting until 1881, at which time he bought out a stationery store and run it until August, 1882, when he sold out and has since been trading. Mr. States opened a furniture store in Cherokee, February 1, 1883, in connection with his father, under the firm name of A. D. States & Co. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been steward of the same.

F. A. VESTAL, hay dealing and pressing, was born in Yadkin County, N. C., in 1835. In 1857, he located in Poweshiek County, Iowa, and was actively identified with farming there for several years. In 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Fortieth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and remained in active service till the end of the war, when he was honorably discharged. In 1866, he located in Knox County, Ill., and was identified with coal mining operations there for a few years, locating in Bourbon County, Kan., in 1869, and carrying on coal mining operations there for a few years, after which he located here, and has been principally identified with his present industry since. In 1856, he married Miss M. A. Rasley, who was born in Pennsylvania, and moved to Illinois. They have one daughter, Kate C., now Mrs. W. A. Laidlaw, whose sketch appears. Mr. Vestal is an active member of the A. O. U. W. society, and Select Knight, as also of Shiloh Post, No. 56, Grand Army of the Republic. Himself and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

FRANK L. WEBSTER, machinery, repairing and plough works, and general blacksmithing, was born in Fillmore County, Minn., in 1856, and settled in Bourbon County, Kan., in 1871, where he learned his present trade. In 1874, he located here and established his present business, which he has successfully carried on since. He married, in 1880, Miss Mary Vaughn, who was born in Illinois and reared in Door County, Wis. They have a family of two sons--Charles and Fred. Mr. Webster is an active member of the A. O. U. W. society, and is a member of Select Knights.

WILSON & CO., dealers in agricultural implements, needs, etc. S. H. Wilson and Charles Wilson, brothers, constitute the firm. The brothers are natives of Pennsylvania, and settled in Columbus, Kan., in 1870, when quite young, with their people, where they were reared and educated, Charles entering the mercantile business in 1878, at the age of eighteen, and has been actively connected with it since, engaging as principal in it here in February, 1881, but had been connected with this industry in Columbus as principal for a year previous. S. H. Wilson, a few years the elder of the brothers, began merchandising in 1878, having previously operated in mining operations. In 1880, he accepted the superintendency of the lumber interests of the firm of R. A. Long & Co. here, and has reputably held the incumbency since. In February, 1881, he joined his brother in the present enterprise. The brothers are active workers in their industry, and do an annual business of $10,000. 

WILLIAM ANDREW, farmer, Section 12, P.O. Girard, was born in Scotland, January 12, 1838; came to the United States in 1855, and located on a farm in Illinois, where he remained until 1872, at the end of which time he came to Kansas, and located on his present home of 400 acres, which he improved, and has since been raising grain and stock. Mr. Andrew has his farm handsomely fenced with wire and hedge. Has five wells, and good running water on his farm. Carries from 300 to 400 head of stock, and raises, feeds, buys and ships stock. His farm contains a splendid line of all kinds of fruit. Is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is Deacon in the same. Was married to Miss Elizabeth B. Keyes, of Philadelphia, February 23, 1860. Have three children--Adam H., James H. and Alfred.

L.P. ALLEN, of the firm of J. Allen & Galyers, millers was born in Missouri in 1844. He was raised on a farm and received a common school education. He joined the army in 1862, and was mustered out in 1865. Returned to Missouri, and was farming and in the saw mill business fourteen years, then to Cherokee County, Kan., 1879. He was on a farm three years, during which time he was engaged in raising grain and stock. He came to McCune, built the mill in 1882; in the meantime run a threshing machine in Kansas three years. He belongs to the Order of Odd Fellows. He was married to Miss Rebecca Young, of Missouri, in 1866. They have two children--Sarah E. and Mary E. He lost his wife in 1876, and he was married again to Miss D. Perry of Missouri, 1878.

WILLIAM BUSBY, manager for C. E. Benedict & Co., Osage Mission, dealer in grain, was born in New Jersey in 1854; came to Kansas in 1868, and located in Labette County on a farm; remained with his father nine years, at the end of which time he took control of his father's farm and ran it two years; then went into the grain business at Mathewson one year, and then in the same line at McCune, as manager for C. E. Benedict & Co. He owns residence, business and other property in McCune. He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He was married to Miss Sarah L. Bell, of Kentucky, in 1877. They have two children- L. M., E. M. Mrs. B. is also a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

M. CASEY, of the firm of Kennedy & Casey, land loan and insurance agents, was born in Iowa in 1851; at the age of twenty-one, began farming for himself and continued for one year; then was in Montana Territory, in the freight business eighteen months. Came to Kansas in 1875, locating in Crawford County, on a farm, where he remained four years. He came to McCune in 1879, and taught school two terms; was then in merchandise one year, then in his present business in 1881. He is a Clerk of the School Board and City Clerk. He is a member of the Christian Church, and belongs to the A. O. U. W. He owns residence and other city property in the town of McCune. In 1879, he married Miss Minnie L. Fleming. They have one child--Myrtle. Mrs. Casey is a member of the Christian Church.

E. P. DAVIS. M.D., general store and durggist, was born in Indiana in 1840, raised in the drug business; received a collegiate education, graduating from Rush College; in the meantime, had practiced with his father while reading medicine; joined the army, May 22, 1861, as Hospital Stewart for a short time, was then transferred to the Tenth Iowa, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon September, 1862, where remained until February 4, 1865, at which time returned to Des Moines, Iowa, and engaged in general practice for a short time, was next at Adell, Iowa, for one year; then to Dennison, Iowa, in practice and drug store one year; then at Perry, Iowa, eight months, at the end of which time, came to Bourbon County, Kansas, 1868, and settled in Marmaton, and practiced medicine in connection with a drug store for a short time; was then in Missouri for a short time in drugs and medicine; then to Marmaton three years; then on a farm in connection with the practice six years; then came to McCune in 1878, and opened his present business; was elected to the Legislature from Bourbon County, in 1875; was School Director in Bourbon County, and is now School Director; is a member of the A. O. U. W., and is examining physician for same order; is a member of the Freemasons; belongs to the G. A. R. Was married to Miss Nellie Miller, of Pennsylvania, in 1866. Lost his wife in 1868; was married to Miss Carolina Schoen, of South Carolina, in 1870. Have three children--Henry S., Richard T., Catherine S.

GEORGE W. ELERICK, farmer, Section 10, P. O. McCune, was born in Ohio in 1831; was raised a mechanic; went to Iowa, where he remained until 1878, engaged in the carpenter and joiner's trade, at the end of which time he came to Kansas and located of his present home of 400 acres, which he improved and ran as a grain and stock farm; has about 205 acres under cultivation. His farm is under wire and hedge fence. Buys, raises, feeds and ships stock. Also owns 240 acres in Neosho County, 80 acres in Coffey County, and 140 acres in Iowa. He belongs to the Order of Good Templars. He was married to Miss M. J. Vanansdeln, of Ohio, in 1856. They have six children--Minnie B., Marian A., Nettie L., Leon, Victor and George.

W. W. GIBSON, of the firm of W. W. Gibson & Co., general merchants and dealers in grain and coal, was born in Pennsylvania in 1851; was raised in the mercantile business; received a business education. Came to Kansas in 1873, and located in Columbus, Cherokee County, where he clerked a short time, then to Cherokee, Crawford County, as clerk eight months; was then on a farm in Star Valley eight years in the stock business. Came to McCune in 1880, and opened the present business; was Postmaster at Star Valley; was railroad agent a McCune a short time. Is a member of the M.E. Church. Was married to Miss Mollie Graves in 1879; have two children--Dora and Rachel. Mrs. Gibson is a member of the M.E. Church.

ALBERT GADDIS, farmer, Section 10, P. O. McCune, was born in Indiana in 1843; raised on a farm. Enlisted in the war, after which he returned to Indiana and farmed until 1868, at which time he came to Kansas and located on a farm of 160 acres in Crawford County, which he improved and has since cultivated, raising grain and stock and a fine line of all kinds of fruits. Now owns two farms of 160 acres each. Was School Treasurer of Crawford County one year. Was School Clerk of District No. 58 two terms. Was married to Miss T. Rose, of Indiana, in 1870; have six children--Ira, Bruce, Frank, Josephine, Bertha, Hugh. Is a member of the Freemasons. Belongs to the G. A. R. Is also a member of the M.E. Church. Mrs. Gaddis is a member of the same church.

JOHN B. GRAHAM, of the firm of Graham & West, saddle and harness-makers, was born in Washington County, Penn., in the year 1834. His father was a blacksmith, lived and carried on his trade at Burgettstown, Penn, until 1841, when he with his family removed to Guernsey County, Ohio. There he lived on a farm. John B. helped his father on the farm; received a business education, and at the age of seventeen he went to Washington, Penn., learned the harness trade, and worked at it six years. He then returned to Ohio to his father's and attended school nearly a year. In 1867, moved to Monmouth, Ill., and as a journeyman worked at his trade two years. Moved again to Mercer County, Ill., bought and improved a farm of eighty acres. In 1862, was married to Miss Mary L. Marshall, of Illinois, in 1866; sold his farm and moved to Labette County, Kan.; entered and improved 160 acres of land and lived on the farm fifteen years; became involved in debt, lost his farm under a mortgage, and about the same time lost his wife in 1880, and, in 1881, with the fragments of a broken fortune, Mr. Graham, in September of said year, moved to McCune, Kan., built a residence and business house, and forming a partnership with Mr. West, are now carrying on the saddle and harness trade, doing a good business. He has four children living--William, John, Frank and George. In November, 1882, was married to Mrs. Mary E. Hudson, of Kansas, and has four step- children--Mattie, Annie, John and Harry. He was one of the first Justices of the Peace in Labette County after its organization as a county. He is strictly temperate in all of his habits, and is a member of and a regularly ordained Elder and preacher in the Church of re-organized Latter-Day Saints, but an open and avowed enemy of polygamy and the Salt Lake Mormons. He is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry and of the Good Tempiars, a lover of liberty and republican institutions, "not in name but in fact," is an advocate of temperance, good morals, and a firm believer in and an advocate of the doctrines of Jesus Christ and His apostles.

H. GRANDLE, farmer, Section 1, P. O. Monmouth, was born in Ohio in 1836; was raised on a farm and went to Iowa in 1856, where he remained on a farm twelve years engaged in the grain and stock business. He came to Kansas in 1868, and located on his present farm of 240 acres, on which he has since remained, raising grain and stock. He has eighty acres of timber and running water on his farm. He has a fine assortment of apples, peaches and small fruits. He is School Director, a member of the Presbyterian Church and Trustee of the same. Is a member of the A. O. U. W., and is Receiver of the same. He was married to Miss Marie Shields, of Iowa, in 1864. They have seven living children--Harvey M., Hattie E., Charlie E., George L., Frank P., J. Milton, Harry and Ida F. (deceased). Mrs. Grandle is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

AARON GREENFIELD, of the firm of Greefield & Vawter, dealers in hardware, queensware, farm implements, etc., was born in Ohio in 1844. Received a common school education; went to Iowa at the age of twelve; remained on a farm. Came to Kansas in 1867; located in Crawford County on a farm on 160 acres, which he improved and run as a grain and stock farm twelve years. Also a full line of fruits of all kinds. The farm has 900 rods of hedge, two wells and a pond. Came to McCune in 1880. Built a residence, and was in the real estate business till August, 1881, at which time he engaged in his present business. Built a store of stone and brick 24x70. Is a member of the Council. Was Township Treasurer of Osage Township. Is a member of the A. O. U. W. Married to Miss Elizabeth Ferrel, of Iowa, in 1866. They have three children--Hattie E., Della M., Katie P. Mr. and Mrs. Greenfield are members of the M. E. Church.

J. M. KING, farmer, Section 31, P.O. Monmouth, was born in Kentucky in 1835, raised to agricultural pursuits; received a business education; farmed in Indiana fifteen years. Came to Kansas in 1867 and located in Crawford County, on his present farm of 200 acres, which he improved and ran as a grain and stock farm. He has his farm under hedge and wire fence; also has a full line of fruits and berries of all kinds. He was in the mercantile business eight months in Pittsburgh. He owns business and residence property in the town of Monmouth. He was Township Clerk one year and Township Trustee six years. He belongs to the order of Freemasons and A. O. U. W. He was married to Miss Rebecca Coffman, of Indiana, in 1854. Their children are Elizabeth Y, Mary S., Nancy A., Sylvester M., Louis J., William W. and Frances M.

WILLIAM LUCAS, farmer, Section 12, P.O. Monmouth, was born in Muscatine, Iowa, in 1839. He was raised to agricultural pursuits and received a common school education. He farmed in Iowa until 1866; in the meantime was in the army two years. He went to Montana in 1866, and remained one season. He came to Kansas in the winter of 1866, and located on his present, which he has run as a grain and stock farm to the present time. He built a mill in 1867, which he operated for five years. He owns three farms--one of 160 acres, another of 90 acres, and one of 160 acres. He owns 60 acres of coal land on Brush Creek, Cherokee County; owns 160 acres of land in Woodson County, and town property in Cherokee and Columbus. He was County commissioner three years, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church; an Elder. He belongs to the A. O. U. W., G. A. R. and Good Templars. He was married to Miss Abbie M. Dickinson, of Ohio, in 1865. They have six children living--Laura E., Arthur S., Samuel O., Abbie F., Emma V. and Nancy G.; deceased--George A., and Charles. Mrs. Lucas is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Lucas has interests in gold, silver and lead mines in Colorado. 

G. T. McCASLIN, of the firm of McCaslin and Gregg, furniture dealers and undertakers, was born in Illinois in 1849. He learned the blacksmith trade. At the age of eighteen he began work for himself, and worked in Illinois two years. He then came to Kansas, locating in Jacksonville, Neosho County, from 1869 until 1881, at which time he came to McCune and opened his present business, continuing ten months. He then took as partner James Moore, and run ten months, at the end of which time (January 17, 1883,) Mr. Gregg bought Mr. Moore's interest in the firm. Mr. McCaslin was married to Miss Sarah J. Jett, of Illinois, in 1871. They have five children - Clara A., Sylvia E., Phebe E., Millie F. and Ida P. Mr. and Mrs. McCaslin are members of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints.

ISAAC McCUNE, real estate and loan agent, was born in Ohio in 1822. At the age of eighteen years he began farming for himself, and continued in that occupation in his native State twenty years. He then removed to Illinois, where he remained on a farm until 1866. He then came to Kansas, and located near Fort Scott, in Bourbon County, on a farm where he remained until 1869, when he came to Crawford County and improved a farm of 240 acres, including the town site of McCune, containing sixty acres. He laid out the town of McCune in 1878, of which he now owns ten acres, and also a farm of 160 acres adjoining the town. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, of which he is also Deacon, Trustee and Treasurer, and was one of the organizers. He was married to Miss Margaret Law, of Ireland, in 1846, who died in August, 1880. He has six children - Eliza J., James F., Alice A., Samuel A., Margaret L. and Harriet L. His present wife was Miss Dell White, of Kansas.

JAMES F. McCUNE, Postmaster, express agent and stationer, was born in Illinois in 1850. Learned the carpenter's trade. He came to Missouri in 1865, remaining three years. He came to Kansas in 1871, located in Parsons, where he remained two years at the carpenter's bench. Then to Short Creek five months. Then on the railroad as bridge builder five years. Then came to McCune in 1878. In the mean time he was at home two or three years. He was appointed Postmaster i 1878. Opened a general merchandise store and run post office, railroad agency and express agency. He owns business and residence property in McCune. Is a member of the City council, and belongs to A. O. U. W., and is Master of the lodge. He was married to Miss Lotta Phillips, of Illinois, in 1880. They have one child - Ivenetta.

E. C. OHLWINE, M. D., was born in Ohio in 1852. He was raised on a farm and received a business education. He read medicine in Indiana in 1873-74 and 1875, graduating in 1879 at Cincinnati. In the meantime he practiced medicine in 1876-77 and 1878 and until 1882, at which time he came to Kansas and located at McCune. Dr. Ohlwine is a member of the State Medical Society of Indiana. He was married to Miss Letitia Cook, of Indiana, in 1876. They have two children - Maud and Charles.

JOHN OVERLEY, farmer, Section 1, P.O. Monmouth, was born in Indiana in 1843. He was raised as an agriculturist and received a common school education. He went to Illinois in 1852, where he remained on a farm until 1873, at the end of which time he came to Kansas. He located in Crawford County on a farm, where he remained five years in the grain and stock business. He then sold out, bought his present home, which he improved and is now cultivating. He belongs to the order of A. O. U. W. He was married to Miss Sarah Edgebomb, of Ohio, in 1865. They have six children - Lizzie M., Minnie C., Cora E., Sarah E., Willis C. and Emma I.

J. A. ROCKWOOK, druggist, was born in Illinois, 1833. Was raised at the carriage trimming business. Received a business education. Worked at his trade in Illinois until 1861, at which time joined the army, mustered out in 1865; returned to Illinois and engaged in the mercantile business three years. Came to Kansas in 1871, located in Wilson County, in the furniture and undertaking business two years. Was then in the railroad department until 1882, since which time he has been in the drug business. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Odd Fellows; belongs to the K. P's., and is a member of A. O. U. W. He was married to Miss Rachel Shinn, of Illinois, in 1852. They have six children - Acy, E. M., Flora B., Anna A., Mary, Eddie, Albert, deceased, Ida, deceased, William, deceased.

MARTIN SAYERS, wagon manufacturer, was born in Indiana in 1848, and was raised at his trade. He common school education, and came to Kansas in 1866; located in Cherokee County, where he remained on a farm of 160 acres seven years, which he improved. Was then at Oswego Mission in a mill eighteen months. He was next in the wagon business in Arkansas, five years. He came to McCune in May, 1880, opening his present business. He owns a residence and business property in McCune. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a member of the A. O. U. W. He was married to Miss Marenda Martin, of Iowa, in 1869. Their children living are - Eva, William and Ollie. Mrs. Sayers is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of the Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society.

A. G. SINGISER, manager for C. W. Goodlander, lumber dealer, was born in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Penn., in 1848, and was raised in the mercantile and milling business. He received an academic and common school education, and engaged in the millng business at the age of nineteen. Continued for five years. He went to Missouri in 1870, and was in Missouri two years; came to Kansas one year later. Went to Colorado prospecting, and returned again to Kansas City, Mo. After a stay at Kansas City one year, went to Fort Scott, Kan., manager for C. M. Davis & Co., at Rockville, Mo. Came to McCune, Kan., June 21, 1880, in the lumber and grain business for L. C. Goodlander, where he continued for three years. January 1, 1883, he took charge of same business for C. W. Goodlander. Mr. Singiser married Miss Nannie M. Bell, of Fleming County, Ky, October 4, 1882, at Mound Valley, Labette County, Kan, Mr. and Mrs. Singiser are members of the Presbyterian Church.

J. F. SPRUILL, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 25, P.O. Monmouth, was born in Pickens County, Ala., in 1850, and was raised on a farm. In 1865, he came to Kansas, and located in Labette County, where he was actively engaged in farming and stock business. In 1875, he located upon the present place, where he has been actively identified since. In 1875, he married Miss Louisa Etler, who was born in Philadelphia and reared in Illinois. They have a family of one son and two daughters - James A. B., Emma Lorene and Anna Elizabeth. He has worked actively in the growth of the social life of this locality since coming here. The family are members of the Baptist Church. His farm contains 240 acres of improved land, well fenced and watered and stocked, and good buildings.

THOMAS WILLSDON STUTTERD, general merchant, was born in Rochester, N. Y., in 1841. He received a common school education and learned the printer's trade, and remained in the printer's business for ten years. Subsequently he was engaged in farming and the fruit in Illinois, until 1866. He was then in Cincinnati in the printing business, also in Little Rock, Ark., and was variously employed in various places in the West until June, 1870, at which time he came to Kansas prospecting. He then returned to Illinois, and again came to Kansas in April, 1871, and located in Cherokee County, and was in the mercantile business in Sherman City until 1878, at which time he came to McCune and opened his present business. He is a member of the order of A., F. & A. M., and A. O. U. W.

D. T. TABB, farmer, P. O. Mt. Carmel, was born in Kentucky, 1843. Went to Illinois in 1857, and located on a farm where he remained until 1873, at which time he came to Kansas and located in Cherokee County, on a farm of 160 acres, where he continued to farm until the present time. Moved to his present home March, 1881. Is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows. Was married to Miss Laura L. Atherton, of Vermont, 1867. Have six children - Charles A., Lizzie B., Minnie L., Ada Z., Claude C. and Lyle D.

J. L. VANAUSDELN, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 11, P. O. Girard, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, March 1, 1843, and removed to Iowa with his people in 1845, who settled in Van Buren County, where he was reared and educated, and was identified with his present industry there till 1868, when he came here and located, and has been prominently identified with it here since. He married in Van Buren County, Iowa, in 1866, Miss L. A. Herriman, who was born in Washington County, and reared in Van Buren County, Iowa. They have a family of two sons and two daughters - Howard C., Zoe D., Nada A. and Oliver P. During the war he did active service in Company D, Thirtieth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He enlisted in August, 1862, and served till the 10th of August, 1863, when he was taken prisoner near Vicksburg, and remained in Libby prison till April, 1864, when he was paroled. He then returned to his regiment and continued in active service till end of the war, when he was honorably discharged. Since locating here he has worked actively in the growth and development of the social and industrial life of his locality. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His farm contains 240 acres of improved land, well fenced and watered and stocked, good buildings and an orchard of 300 trees, of a well-assorted variety of fruits.

JOSIAH L. WARD, general merchant and dealer in grain, was born in the State of New York, in 1833. He received an academic education, and at the age of seventeen went to learn carpenter's trade, and continued in that business until twenty-five years of age. In 1857, he went to Illinois, and was on a farm until 1860, at which time he came to Kansas and located in Bourbon County, where he improved a farm of 480 acres, which he conducted as a grain and stock farm until 1865. He then moved to Crawford County, and lived on a farm until December, 1881, at which time he bought out McCune & Co., in town of McCune, and has since carried on a general store in connection with the grain business. He owns one farm of 480 acres, and one of 160 acres, both of which he improved, and also owns a residence and business property in town of McCune. He was elected Mayor of the town of McCune in April, 1882. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Pool, of Ohio, in 1855. They have had three children - Victor, Emma and Ida, all deceased.

J. S. WEST, of the firm of West & Potterson, liverymen, was born in Ohio, 1843; was raised in the stock business; joined the army at the age of twenty; was in three years, mustered out 1865, returned to Illinois and clerked in a grocery and farmed one year; then to Kansas in 1867, located in Fort Scott, four years on a farm; then to Cherokee County on a farm seven years; then to McCune, in the livery business 1878; built barn 1879, and has since run the livery in connection with farm; in the meantime to Missouri and Arkansas, visited the principal watering places of each, for the benefit of his wife's health. Is a member of the G. A. R. Was clerk of the School District three years. Was married to Miss E. McCune, 1867; have five children - Elmer P., Louis H., Frank, Fred, Zulla.

A. M. WHITE (known as Doc White), farmer and stock dealer, Section 29, P. O. McCune, was born in North Carolina 1844; raised on a farm and received a common school education. Went to Illinois with parents at the age of eleven; was on a farm two years; lost his parents at the age of thirteen years, then worked by the month seven years. Joined the army 1864, mustered out 1866; returned to Illinois and worked one year. Came to Kansas 1867, located in Linn County on a farm of 220 acres, where he remained one year. Then to his present home of 320 acres, which he improved and has since run as a grain and stock farm, which is surrounded by four miles of hedge fence, and also one mile and half of wire. Has good wells and pond, residence and stock barns. Carries from 100 to 150 head of stock. Mr. White hauled the lumber to build the first house in Girard, 1868. Was married to Miss Jennie Beck, of Iowa, 1870. Had two children - Louis R., Nellie F. Lost wife in Colorado, 1876. Was married to Miss Sadie Beal, of Iowa, 1878. Have one child - Georgie E. Mrs. White is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

CHARLES W. WILSON, dealer in grain, was born in Niagara County, N. Y., in 1832 and removed to Illinois with his people in 1843, who settled in Kendall County, where he was reared and educated, and was identified in that State for several years with the farming industry. In 1870, he went to Indiana and engaged in business of various kinds, principally grain and coal trade, returning to Illinois, afterward coming to this State in 1879, and located in Osage Township, this county, where he carried on farming till 1882, when he engaged at his present business, which he ably represents. In 1857, he married Miss Silvany Close, who was born and reared in Crawford County, Penn. They have a family of two sons and three daughters - Ella M., William A., Charles W., Jr., Mary E. and Mable S. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is an active member of A., F. & A. M. and I. O. O. F. Societies, and of the Encampment. His farm contains 160 acres of improved land, well fenced and watered, and good buildings, and a nice orchard of assorted fruit.

SEVIER WILSON, of the firm of S. Wilson & Son, merchants was born in Indiana in 1832. He was raised in the mercantile business. Began merchandising for himself at the age of twenty-two, in Indiana, at Taylorsville, where he remained three years, then in Jackson County three years, then to Deputy until 1879. In the meantime had carried on a farm in connection with his other business; then farmed exclusively for three years. In the meantime packed pork for nine years. He then came to Kansas and located in McCune and engaged in his present business. He owns two farms in Indiana in a high state of cultivation; owns a residence and lot in McCune. He was Township Treasurer in the State of Indiana two years; was Postmaster in Indiana fifteen years. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Odd Fellows. He was married to Miss Margaret L. Laird, of Indiana, in 1856. They have six children - Frank D., Charles M., Cora B., Fred S., Carolina E., Lulie M. and Julia M., deceased. Mrs. W. is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Frank D. and Charles M. Wilson received a collegiate education. Charles M. is the business partner of the firm of S. Wilson & Son.

ABRAHAM WINTERS, farmer, Section 20, P. O. McCune, was born in Pennsylvania, 1832. Went to Illinois in infancy, and remained in the blacksmith business until 1861, at which time joined the army and was mustered out 1865. Then went to Missouri, where he remained in the blacksmith business eight years. Came to Kansas 1873, located on his present home of 160 acres, 100 acres under cultivation; devotes his time to grain and stock. Was married to Miss Carolina Sprague, of New York 1863. Have seven children - Susan, Mary, Samuel D., Philander, Maud E., John William, Flora. Lost wife 1882. 

WILLIAM, B. ASH, M. D., physician and surgeon, second son of W. F. and S. A. Ash, was born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1850. At the age of fourteen he removed to Kentucky, where he received a high school education, and read medicine. He attended the University of Louisville in 1873 and 1874, graduating in the latter year. He then practiced eighteen months in Kentucky, and at the end of that time came to Crawford County, Kan., and located in Walnut, and began the practice of his profession. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W., being Medical Examiner for the latter. He was married to Emma S. Dawson, third daughter of the late John Dawson, M. D. M. R. C. S., of Rangoon, British Burmah, India and has one child, named Iva Maude Eveline Ash. Mrs. Ash was born in Rangoon, British Burmah, India, went to Scotland and was educated, and came to the United States in 1876.

H. B. BELL, hardware and agricultural implements, was born in Indiana June 13, 1851. He moved to Illinois with his parents at the age of four, where he was raised on a farm and received a business education. In 1869, he came to Missouri and was on a farm in Knox County seven years in the stock business. He came to Kansas in 1876, and located in Crawford County on a farm, where he remained three years. He was then on the trail from Wichita to Fort Reno one year, and then in Elk County in the hardware and implement business two years. He then came to Walnut and opened his present business. He built a residence and owns business property in the town, He is a member of the orders of A., F. & A. M. and I. O. O. F. He was married to Miss Eliza B. Poor, of Missouri, in 1870, and has three children living--Joseph E., Emanuel and John T. Henrietta (deceased).

IRA BOYLE, Postmaster, was born in Ohio in 1840. He was raised in the agricultural business, and at the age of twenty-one he began farming for himself, and carried on that business one year. He joined the army in 1861, remaining until 1862, when he returned to Ohio, went onto a farm and remained until 1867. He then came to Missouri and farmed three years; at the end of which time he came to Kansas and located in Crawford County on a farm of 160 acres, on which he raised grain and stock. He came to Walnut in 1873 and opened a hardware business in connection with groceries, and was appointed Postmaster in 1875. Mr. Boyle is a member of the Presbyterian Church and also of the A. O. U. W. He was married to Miss Angeline Bricker, of Ohio, in 1865. They have two children--Addie A. and Burton.

JAMES COLLINS, dealer in groceries, was born in Indiana in 1844. He was raised on a farm, received a fair education, and came to Kansas in 1867 and located in Neosho County, on a farm of 160 acres. He improved this farm and remained on it six years, raising grain and stock, in the meantime running a saw mill three years. He came to Walnut in 1878, and built three houses which he now owns; he is a member of the Christian Church, and was Married to Miss Marinda Holeman, of Iowa, in 1870. They have four children--Orie, Maggie, Alma and Gussie.

EDWARD FITZGERALD, farmer and liveryman, was born in Canada in 1834. He was a farmer and teamster in Canada until 1870, at which time came to Kansas and located in Crawford County on a farm of 160 acres, which he improved and ran as grain and stock farm until October, 1882. He then bought the livery stable of Brand Bros., in Walnut, Kan., of which he is now owner. He was married to Mrs. Eliza J. Fitzgerald, of Canada, July 4, 1880, and has two step-children--Ada and James M.

WILLIS A. GAYLORD, of the firm of Bubb & Gaylord, dealers in groceries, queensware, etc., etc., was born in the State of New York in 1849. He was raised on a farm, received a business education, and in 1869 removed to Illinois, where he located on a farm and remained five years. He was in the confectionery business four years prior to coming to Kansas. After locating in Girard he was four years in the stock business, and in 1882 came to Walnut and opened his present business. He is a member of A. O. U. W., and Trustee of same. He was married to Miss Jennie C. Hutchinson, of Illinois, in 1869. They have one child--Sylvia May.

J. M. GOFF, Mayor of Walnut, and real estate and lumber dealer, was born in the State of New York December 24, 1840. He went to Wisconsin at the age of two years and was raised in that State in mercantile business, in which he engaged for himself at the age of twenty-one. He continued mercantile business until 1861, when he entered the army, remaining in the service until 1864. On leaving the army he was in business in Tennessee two years, when he returned to Wisconsin and engaged in grain business, which he carried on until 1875. He then came to Kansas and located in Walnut, Crawford County, where he engaged in real estate and lumber business, handling only his own property. In connection with Mr. T. T. Perry, of Girard, he bought the town site of Walnut (consisting of eighty acres) in 1876, and which he laid out and platted. Then in connection with Mr. Robbins he laid out an addition of thirty acres to town of Walnut in 1882. He has been School Director four years, and is member of order of Freemasons. He was married to Miss Mary F. Thomas, of Wisconsin, in 1876. They have two children--Hellen E. and George. Mrs. Goff is a graduate of the Delavan High School, Wisconsin.

P. W. HINSEN, dealer in grain and coal, was born in Missouri in 1847. He received a business education, and was in Government employ four years during the war. He then taught school in Missouri and Kansas several years; he was surveying four years and began the grain business in Sumner County, Kan., in 1874. In August, 1882, he added the coal trade to his business, and is now interested in the mercantile business in Harper and Osage Mission, Kan. He is a member of the Advent Christian Church and of the Order of Odd Fellows. He was married to Miss Minnie Van Laningham, of Indiana, in December, 1869, who died May 20, 1880, leaving Maude, Blanch and Guy. He was married to Miss Mattie Van Laningham, of Indiana, in 1881. They have one child--May.

E. B. KRENZ, owner and proprietor of commercial hotel, was born in Germany, June 2, 1849. He came to the United States with his parents at the age of five years, who located in Illinois. He began clerking at the age of fourteen, and continued it nine years, when he carried on business for himself two years, and was then employed as clerk one year. He then came to Bourbon County, Kan., and took a claim of eighty acres, upon which he lived four and a half years, raising grain and stock, and came from there in June, 1881, to Walnut, where he bought and improved the Commercial Hotel. He owns nine lots in connection with hotel. Mr. Krenz has proved to be a success in hotel business; he is a member of the City Council, and has been City Treasurer in Illinois; he is a member of Catholic Church. He was married to Miss Marie Hitchcock, of Illinois, in 1873. They have three children--Stella M., Lyman A., Chester J.

CHARLES McCULLOUGH, proprietor of the Walnut Mills Railroad, agent and telegraph operator, was born in Ohio in 1840. At the age of thirteen he went to Iowa where he received a collegeate[sic] education. In 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, April 6, 1862, and suffered all the horrors of the Southern prison pens under the command of the notorious Wing, for six months and eleven days, and was then sent home on parole until exchanged. In the spring of 1863 re-enlisted as a veteran with the rank of Sergeant, and was promoted to First Lieutenant of Company C, Seventy-first United States Volunteers. He resigned in the fall of 1864, and returned to Iowa and engaged in the lumber business, remaining in that State until 1874, when he went into a telegraph office in Decatur, Ill., and remained seven months. In the fall of 1875, he came to Kansas, where he received an appointment as railroad agent on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, with headquarters at Hepler, Kan., holding the position until April, 1882; he then bought the vacated mill of H. C. Bruner, Walnut, and in connection with Mr. Hollister fitted it up with new machinery, including three run of French buhrs, and now does a large and flourishing business, shipping large quantities of flour and meal to various points in Texas as well as supplying the home demand. Mr. McCullough also owns McCullough's Addition to Hepler, comprising twenty acres platted and laid out; a farm near the town, and a fine residence in the city of Walnut. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was married in 1865 to Miss Elizabeth Parrish, of Michigan, who also received a collegiate education in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough have four children--Willie F., Sadie E., John O. and Nannie E.

DANIEL PALMER, dealer in jewelry and clocks, was born in Canada in 1837. He removed to Illinois at the age of twenty-five, where he was engaged in lumber business two years. In 1862, he joined Company E, Eighty-eighth Illinois (known as Board of Trade Regiment), and served three years. Returned to Illinois and was engaged in merchandise and traveling six years. He came to Kansas in 1872, located in Allen County, and was there engaged in building business five years. In 1877, he was ordained Baptist preacher, and was engaged in the work three years, opening his present business in 1880. Is now School Treasurer of District No. 66. Belongs to Order of Freemasons. He was married to Miss Mary Smith, of Canada, in 1857. Mrs. Palmer is also member of the Baptist Church.

J. W. PELSUE, druggist, was born in Vermont in 1844, where he was raised on a farm and received a business education. He came to Iowa at the age of seven, where he remained seven years, and was then in Missouri seven years. In 1866, he came to Crawford County, Kan., and located on farm of 160 acres, which he improved and ran as a grain and ? farm five years, coming to Walnut in 1872, where he built a store and opened present business. He has also built two residence houses; he has been Township Clerk. He was married to Miss Bell J. Horsley, of Illinois, in 1867, and has two children--Owen E. and Deck. Mr. Pelsue owns a 160-acre farm in Kansas, and also owns farm of 160 acres in Missouri, both well improved.

HENRY E. RAKESTRAW, M. D., was born in Ohio, November 20, 1850; he came to Kansas in 1871, and located at Erie, Neosho County, where he read medicine until 1873, at which time he went to St. Louis, Mo., and graduated from the Homeopathic Medical College in the spring of 1872. He then returned to Kansas and located at Walnut, Crawford County, where he is now engaged in the practice of medicine and drug business, where he has built three residences and an office. He was married to Miss Alice Dutton, of Indiana, in the fall of 1875, and has one child--Mable A.

J. A. WOOD, druggist, was born in Missouri where he was educated in the drug business and began the business for himself at the age of nineteen, which he continued in that State until he came to Kansas in 1878, and located in Walnut, Crawford County, where he bought a lot upon which he built a residence, and also bought a store, and opened his present business. He formed a copartnership with Dr. Rakestraw, August 1, 1882. He was married to Miss Callie Pollard, of Missouri, in 1876, by whom he had one child--LeRoy. Mrs. Wood died in 1878, and he was married to Miss Mollie Ash, of Osage Mission, Kan. in 1881. 

EDMUND M. ALEXANDER, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Walnut, was born in Patrick County, Va., in 1826. At the age of fourteen he located with his people in Polk County, Mo., where he was actively identified with the farming till 1860, when he came to Kansas and located in Wyandotte County, and carried on farming there until 1870, when he came and located upon his present place, where he has been successfully connected with his present industry since. He married in 1852, Miss Martha Criswell, who was born and reared in Franklin County, Mo. They have two sons and two daughters--Catharine, now Mrs. Henry Hess; James, Letta and Albert. During the war he did active service in Company E, Fifteenth Kansas Cavalry, from 1863 till end of war; was honorably discharged. His farm contains eighty acres of well improved land, good buildings and an orchard of over 200 fruit trees.

L. F. BAUGH, of the firm of Baugh & Lewis, dealer in drugs, paints, oils, etc., etc., Hepler, was born in Tippecanoe County, Ind., in 1860, and removed with his people in 1866 to Benton County, Mo., where he was reared and educated. In 1879, he came here, and engaged at merchandising as clerk until 1882, when he formed the present partnership with Dr. O. F. Lewis, which he ably represents. He is an active worker in its growth and development of the social and industrial life of the place.

W. R. BOWYER, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Walnut, was born in Tippecanoe County, Ind., in 1858, and removed with his parents to Iowa in 1859, where they remained until 1870, when they came here and settled. He has been actively identified with his present industry since. He married in 1880, Miss Martha A. Cunningham, who was born in Lawrence County, Ill. They have one little boy--John Henry. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

JOHN CAMBLINE, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Walnut, was born in Wayne County, Ind., in 1828, and was reared and educated in Tippecanoe County, where he was identified actively with the farming industry till 1868, when he located in Livingston County, Ill., and carried on farming there till 1876, when he came here, and has been successfully connected with his present industry since. He married in 1853, Miss Angeline Hays, who was born and reared in Tippecanoe County, Ind. They have a family of two sons and four daughters--Wallace F., Arthur M., Harriet A., Margaret E., now Mrs. Henry Poor; Annie and Jessie. The family are members of the Advent Church. His farm contains ninety-seven acres of improved land, well fenced, and watered and stocked; good buildings and a nice orchard.

ALBERT CHADWICK, farmer and stock-raiser, Sections 14 and 15, P. O. Hepler, was born in Licking County, Ohio, in 1839, and was connected with farming there until 1872, when he came here and located upon his present place the following year, and has been very successfully connected with his present industry since. He was married in Bates County, Mo., in 1876, to Miss Mary A. Thompson, a native of Story County, Iowa. They have a family of two daughters--Edna and Florence. During the war he did active service in the Twenty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He enlisted in the Thirteen Missouri, which was afterward changed to the Twenty-second Ohio, and did service from September, 1861, until November, 1864, when he was honorably discharged from Company D, Twenty-second Ohio. Since locating here, he has worked actively in the development of the social and industrial life of his locality, and has filled the different municipal and school offices for several years. He has been a member of the A., F. & A. M. society since 1866. He is a member of the Chapter and Council of that order. He is also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic of Hepler, of Hepler Post, No. 143. His farm contains 480 acres of improved land, well fenced, watered and stocked; good buildings, and an orchard of 200 trees. He makes a specialty of stock-raising and breeding, in cattle, horses and hogs.

ALFRED J. COVER, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 17, P. O. Walnut, was born in Adams County, Penn., October 8, 1844, and removed with his people to Illinois, who settled in Knox County in 1858, where he was identified with farming until 1868, when he came here and located upon his present place, and has been successfully connected with his present industry since. He married, in 1872, Miss Frances L. Dunlap, who was born in Pennsylvania and reared in Jefferson County, Iowa. They have a family of one son and three daughters--Clarence, Della May, Mattie, Irene and Ivy Belle. The family are reared in the Protestant religion. His farm contains 80 acres of improved land, well watered, stocked and fenced, with good buildings and stables, and an orchard of well-assorted fruits.

CHARLES H. DARLING, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 9, P. O. Hepler, was born in Mills County, Iowa, in 1856, and was reared and educated there. In 1876, he came here and located upon his present place, and has been actively connected with his present industry here since. He married, in 1882, Miss Rachael Poling, who was born in Illinois and reared in Missouri. He and his wife hold to the religion of the Baptist Church. His farm contains 160 acres of improved land, well fenced, and watered and stocked; dwellings and barns and stables, and an orchard of 1,000 trees, of well-assorted fruits.

LEVI C. DUNLAP, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 17 P. O. Walnut, was born in Bedford County, Penn., in 1833. At the age of sixteen, he removed with his people who settled in Jefferson County, Iowa, where he was identified with farming till 1870, when he came here and located, and has carried on his present industry actively since. He married in 1854, in Fulton County, Penn., Miss Sarah Stallman, who was born in Adams and reared in Fulton County, Penn. They have a family of two sons and six daughters living--Frances L., now Mrs. Alfred J. Cover; Demeras J., now Mrs. Millard Payton; Mary B., now Mrs. William Marada; Alice J., Ruhama Anice, Oren Sherman, William H. and Lucy, and have buried their eighth child, Clarence Alfred, in the Horsler Cemetery, Walnut Township. During the late civil war, he did service in the Home Guards of Iowa. Family are reared in the Protestant Church. His farm contains 160 acres of improved land good dwellings and stables, and an orchard of 250 trees, of a well-assorted variety of fruits.

JAMES W. FREEMAN, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Walnut, was born in Warren County, Ind., in 1838, removed to Illinois with his people when quite young, who settled in Livingston County, where he was reared and educated. He was actively identified with farming there until 1875, when he came here and located, and has been identified with his present industry since. He married, in 1868, Miss Hannah Elizabeth Shireman, who was born in Pennsylvania and reared in Scott County, Ill. They have a family of three sons and three daughters--Arthur B., Daniel S., Alta E., Catharine A., James W., Jr., and Hannah Elizabeth (twins). During the war, Mr. Freeman did active service in Company G, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, from August, 1862, until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged. Since locating here he has worked actively in the development of the social and industrial life of his locality. His farm contains 240 acres of improved land, well fenced, watered and stocked; good dwellings, barn and stable, and a nice orchard of well assorted fruits.

JOSEPH T. GARRISON, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Walnut, was born in New Jersey in 1830, and removed with his people, in 1839, to Indiana, who was settled in Bartholomew County, where he was reared and educated. At the age of twenty-two, he located in Marion County, Iowa, where he was actively identified with farming till 1867, when he came here and settled upon his present place, where he has been successfully connected with his present industry since. He married, in 1852, Miss Nancy Barnhill, who was born and reared in Bartholomew County, Ind. They have a family of three sons and four daughters--Franklin Pierce, Martha Lovina, now Mrs. Julius Forester; Sarah Margaret, Benjamin, Luella, William and George Albert. The family belong to the United Baptist Church. His farm contains 160 acres of improved land, well fenced and watered and stocked; good buildings, and a small orchard of nicely assorted fruits.

D. T. GRAHAM, of the firm of Viets & Graham, proprietors of Hepler Livery, Feed and Sale Stables. Mr. Graham was born and reared in Andrew County, Mo., and lcoated in Bourbon County, Kan., in 1868, with his people, when he was of the age of fourteen. he was actively engaged in farming and stock-raising in that county till February, 1883, when he sold his interest, pays his entire attention to his present business, in which he had formed a partnership in July 1881.

A. K. HAAG, general blacksmithing and dealer in agricultural implements, Hepler, was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, in 1855, and was reared and educated there; at the age of fourteen he engaged at the business of blacksmithing, and followed it in his native country till he was nineteen years old, when he came to America and followed his trade in Illinois till 1876. He then came here and has been successfully connected with his present business here since. He married in 1876, Miss Matilda Adler, who was born and reared in Bloomington, Ill. They have a family of one son and daughter--Albert and Sadie. His family are members of the Methodist Church. Besides his business, he has a nicely improved farm of 120 acres in Sherman Township, this county.

WILLIAM T. HARRIS, butcher and stock-dealer, Hepler, born in Cornwall County, England, in 1841, and came to America with his people, who settled in Wentworth County, Can., where he was reared and educated. At the age of twenty-two he engaged at his present business in Hamilton, Wentworth County, Can., and was actively identified with it there, till 1881, when he came here, and located and established his present business, which he has successfully carried on since. He was married in 1863, to Miss Mary Heard Wickett, who was born in Devonshire, England, and reared in Haldinand County, Can. They have a family of two sons and two daughters--Ann, William N., John B. and Ida. His family are members of the Methodist Church. He is an active member of the A. O. U. W., Hepler Lodge, No. 115.

GEORGE B. HOBART, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 34, P. O. Hepler, was born in Licking County, Ohio, in 1847, and was reared and educated there; at the age of twenty-one, he located in Cass County, Mo., and followed farming and stock-raising there until 1880, when he came to Kansas and located here in 1881, and has been actively identified with his present industry since. He married in Fort Scott, in 1880, Miss Mattie James, who was born and reared in Randolph County, Ill. They have one son--Hosea A. He and his wife hold to the religion of the Methodist Church. His farm residence contains 160 acres of improved land, well fenced, watered, and stocked, good buildings, and an orchard of well assorted fruit. He also owns eighty acres in Section 28 of this Township, which is well improved.

HENRY HOUDASHELT, farmer, Sections 11 and 21, P. O. Walnut, was born in Kentucky in 1817. He was engaged in farming in Illinois, Indiana and Missouri ten years, remaining in Illinois, on a farm, until the summer of 1878. He then came to Kansas and located on his present farm of 320 acres in Crawford County, which he bought and improved. He remained on the farm two years, and then bought an improved farm in Walnut. Mr. H. owns a fine farm of 442 acres in Illinois, which is one of the best grain and stock farms in Illinois. He was married to Miss Parmelia Franklin, of Illinois, in 1839, by whom he had three children--John, Franklin and Parmelia. His wife died in March, 1845, and he was married to Mrs. Montgomery, of Indiana, in 1847. They have three children--Henry M., Mary J. and Asberry.

HARMON H. HURST, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Walnut, was born in Elkhart County, Ind., in 1835. At the age of five years, he located with his people in Sullivan County, Mo., where he was reared and educated, and where he was identified with the farming industry until 1860, when he went to Warren County, Iowa, and carried on farming until 1861, when he enlisted in the army and served until 1865; removed here in 1866, and has been identified with his present industry here since. He married August 27, 1854, Miss Martha W. Norman, of Indiana, who departed this life in 1856, and is buried in the cemetery of Sullivan County, leaving one daughter--Julia F. In Dedember, 1856, he married Miss Ruth S. Huntley, of Illinois, who departed this life in 1874, and is buried in the family cemetery, leaving two sons and a daughter--Virgil H., Minnie B. and Ralph E. He was married in 1876, to Mrs. Mary F. Morrow nee Andrews, a native of Missouri. They have one son--Claude J. During the war, he did active service in Company B., Tenth Iowa, from August, 1861, until September, 1865, and was honorably discharged as a veteran of the same company and regiment. His farm contains 200 acres of improved land, well fenced and stocked, with good dwellings, barns, stables, and an orchard of 600 trees of a nicely assorted variety of fruits.

JOHN INMAN (deceased), was born in Ohio in 1830, and was reared in Indiana. At the age of twenty-one, he located in Iowa, where he carried on farming actively till the war, when he enlisted in 1862, in Company A, Thirty-third Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and did active service till the end of the war; during this time, he contracted small-pox, which left him an invalid. He died January 2, 1872, and is buried in the cemetery of this township, having moved here three years previously. His wife and three sons survive him--Louisa Jane Inman nee Chambers, was born in Ohio, and reared in Indiana; was married to the deceased in 1866. The sons are--Philander Franklin, William Henry and George Washington. The farm contains 160 acres of land, well fenced and stocked, good buildings, and a nice orchard.

HON. DAVID JOHNSON, proprietor of the National Hotel, Hepler, was born in Fayette County, Penn., in 1818, and was reared and educated in Green County, Penn. At the age of twenty, he left his native State and located in Guernsey County, Ohio, and was identified there prominently with the farming industry for fifteen years. He then went to Iowa and located in Taylor County in 1855, and carried on farming actively there till 1870, when he came to Kansas and located in Bourbon County, and carried on farming and stock-raising for twelve years, retiring from it then and engaging at his present business, which he ably represents. He married in 1839, Miss Lovina Gay, who was born and reared in Guernsey County, Ohio, and who departed this life in 1863, and is buried in Taylor County, Iowa, leaving a family of four sons and six daughters--Adeline, deceased, formerly Mrs. David Griffin, E. G.; Melissa, Mrs. J. Maroa; Jasper, Isaac Newton, Kossuth, Edith, Mrs. George Litler; Simon, Reuben, Alice, and William Rosecrans. In 1864, he married Mrs. Maudania Lester nee Jones, of Missouri. They have a family of three daughters--Mary, Minerva and Montivideo. Mrs. Johnson's family are two sons and two daughters--William Thomas, Martha Jane, now Mrs. Isaac Newton Johnson; Carrie C., now Mrs. Calvin Hancock, and George W. The family are reared in the faith of the Methodist Church. Mr. Johnson has always worked actively in the development of the public, social and industrial life of his locality since coming here. He served the 36th District of the State for Bourbon County in the Legislative Assembly of 1874; has filled the office of Justice of the Peace for many years, and has been active in many minor municipal and school offices during his residence in this locality.

WILLIAM KYSER, Principal of Hepler School, was born in Livingston County, Ill., in 1856, and removed to Kansas, with his people, who settled in this county, where he was reared and educated; received his education in the public schools of this county, attending the normals as opportunities offered. At the age of twenty, he engaged at his present profession, and has been very reputably connected with it in the county since. He married in 1875, Miss Ella M. Vorheis, who was born in Jefferson County, Iowa, and reared in this county, her people having settled here in 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Kyser have a family of two sons--George and Frank. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is an active member of the A. O. U. W. society, and Hepler Lodge, No. 115. He owns eighty acres of nice land in Section 35, Walnut Township, undergoing general improvement. 

RICHARD WINFIELD DeLAMBERT, dealer in hardware and agricultural implements, Hepler, was born in Liverpool, England, in 1855, and was reared and educated there. He graduated in a regular course of commercial study, at the Liverpool Commercial Institute, and engaged at the profession of book-keeping, with which he was identified there for a few years. In 1873, he came to America and located here and engaged at farming and stock-raising, with which he was actively connected till 1880, when he engaged at his present industry, with which he has been reputably connected since. He married, in 1875, Miss Elizabeth Jane Heard, who was born in Devonshire, England, in 1856, and was reared and educated there, and who came to Bourbon County, Kan., in 1872. They have a family of three daughters--Ethel, Beatrice Winfield and Evelyn. He is an active member of the A. O. U. W. Society here. His family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Since locating here he has worked actively in the growth and development of the social and industrial life of this place. He has served as Justice of the Peace for several years, and has been active in school official positions.

JAMES LEDLIE, farmer, Section 33, P. O. Walnut. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1815. Raised a mechanic, and received a common school education. He was in Pennsylvania until 1852, then to Ohio, where he remained in the hotel and mail contracting business until 1869, at which time he came to Kansas, and located in Crawford County, on a farm of 160 acres; remained there two years; then to his present home of 160 acres, which he has since run as a grain and stock farm. He has a fine line of fruits of all kinds. Is an Odd Fellow, and a charter member of the Presbyterian Church. He was Township Trustee eight years, and is at present. He was married to Miss Mary Fessier, of Pennsylvania, in 1840. They have six children--Joshua, Elizabeth, John, Letitia, Charles and Harry.

O. F. LEWIS, M. D., Hepler, was born in Monroe County, Mich., in 1854, and received his rudimentary education in the public schools of his native city. His literary education was obtained in the University of Michigan, in which, after a thorough course of study of three years, he took up the study of his profession in the same university, graduating from there in 1880, after a thorough study of three years. After graduating, he entered into the practice of his profession in company with Prof. I. E. Brown, of the Chair of Physiology in the Medical College of Detroit, and after one year's active practice with him, he came here, and located and established the present business of drugs and medicines, etc., and has been reputably connected with the practice of his profession here since. He has worked actively in the development of the social life of this locality. He is an active member of the A. O. U. W., and the examining surgeon for that society here.

ENOCH M. LYNESS, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Walnut, was born in Dearborn County, Ind., in 1836, and was reared and educated there. He was actively identified with his present industry there until 1878, when he removed to Western Texas, but returned here and located the following year, and has since been engaged in his present business. He married, in 1859, Miss Melinda E. Kuhn, who was born in Alabama and reared in Dearborn County, Ind. They have a family of five sons and two daughters living--George W., John J., Rosella J., Henry R., Mary Josephine, Frank M. and Walter G., and have buried their sixth child, Albert K., in Dearborn County cemetery. During the war he did active service in Company H, Eighty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry, from August, 1862, till the end of the war; was honorably discharged. His family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has been an active member of the A., F. & A. M. Society since 1877. His farm contains 160 acres of improved land, well fenced and watered and stocked, good buildings, and an orchard of over 400 trees.

JOHN A. MARSHALL, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Walnut, was born in Platte County, Mo., in 1840, and was reared to his present industry, which he carried on there till 1870, when he came here and located on his present place, where he has been since. He married, in 1868, Miss Nancy J. Rule, of his native county. They have a family of six sons and two daughters--James T., Garret L., John H., Annie B., Charles L., Byron, George and Lillie. The family are members of the Christian Church. His farm contains 193 acres of improved land, well fenced and watered and stocked; good buildings, and a nice young orchard.

PERRY A. MORRISON, general merchandising, Hepler, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1844, and was reared to the farming industry. At the age of fourteen he learned the business of tobacconist, and was actively connected with it until the breaking-out of the war, when he enlisted in Company F, Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, June 17, 1861, and did service in the field for three years, when he was honorably discharged. After the war he located in Kennonsburgh, Ohio, in the mercantile business, and carried it on until 1873, when he came to Kansas and located in Bourbon County, where he engaged in farming and stock-raising, which he carried on until 1881, when he came here and established his present business the following year. He married in 1866, Miss Hannah Finley, who was born and reared in Noble County, Ohio. They have a family of one son and four daughters--Minnie, Howard, Melissa, Margaret and Nettie. His family are identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of Hepler Post, No. 143, G. A. R.

CHARLES E. SHAFER, manufacturer and dealer in harness, saddles, etc., Hepler, was born in Henry County, Mo., in 1858, and was reared and educated there. At the age of twenty he went to Colorado and located at Fort Collins, where he learned his trade. In December, 1882, he came here and established his present business, which he has very successfully carried on since. He is a member of the Christian Church.

DANIEL SPRING SHIREMAN, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Hepler, was born in Cumberland County, Penn., in 1837, and removed to Illinois with his people in 1844, who settled in Scott County, where he was reared and educated, was identified with farming in that and Livingston County, till 1874, when he came here and has been connected with his present industry since. He married in 1861, Miss Rachel A. Mudd, who was born and reared in Scott County, Ill., and who departed this life in 1868, and is buried in the Cemetery, Scott County, leaving two daughters--Hannah and Annie. In 1871, he married Miss Maria J. Brown, who was born in Indiana and reared in Chillicothe, Ill. They have a family of two sons and one daughter--Daniel, Lewis and Elva. The family are members of the Baptist Church. His farm contains 400 acres of improved land, well fenced and watered and stocked, good buildings and an orchard of five acres.

HENRY SIGLER, stone mason, Hepler, was born in McConnelsville, Morgan Co., Ohio June 8, 1844, and was reared there to his present business through his father, who was prominently identified with that industry there. Mr. Sigler was actively identified with his present industry in his native State till 1874, when he came to Kansas and after spending two years in travel through this Western country in connection with his trade, he returned to his native State, and was connected with his trade there till 1880, when he sold his interests there and came here and established his present business, which he has successfully carried on since.

LEONARD SIGLER, farmer and stock-raiser. Section 16, P. O. Hepler, was born in Morgan County, Ohio, October 15, 1842, and was reared and educated there. As he grew to manhood he identified himself with his present industry, and during the latter several years of his life in that State was prominently identified with dealing in live stock. In 1871, he came to Kansas and located in Crawford County, and has been successfully identified with his present industry since, paying particular attention to the rearing and breeding of fine stock, of which his short-horn Durhams contain some of the choicest animals of the county. He was married March 16, 1870, to Miss Eliza J. Strahl, of his native county and State. They have no children. During the war, he entered into the spirit of the cause of the North and volunteered his services twice, first to the three months service in the seventeenth Ohio, and second in the three years' service Twenty-fifth Ohio. He was exempted upon each occasion. Since locating here he has worked actively in the development of the social and industrial life of this locality. He is an active member of the A. O. U. W. Society, Hepler Lodge, No. 115. His farm contains 160 acres of improved land, well fenced, watered and stocked, good buildings and an orchard of 250 trees of a nicely assorted variety of fruits.

JOSEPH M. ST. CLAIR, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Hepler, was born in Marshall County, Ill., in 1851, was reared in Sangamon county. In 1869, he came here with his people and located and has been actively connected with his present industry since. He married in 1878, Miss Emma Etta Holmes, who was born in Adams County, Ill., and reared in this county. They have one little girl, Josie May. His family are members of the Roman Catholic Church. His farm contains 160 acres of land, good buildings and an orchard of a good assortment of fruit trees.

SQUIRE ISAAC STEVENS, farmer and stock-raiser and dealer in real estate and Notary Public, P. O. Hepler, was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1825, and was reared in, Wyandot County, Ohio, where he was actively identified with the farming industry until 1869, when he came to Kansas and located in Bourbon County at Fort Scott. In 1872, he came here and has been actively identified with his present industry since. He received his appointment as Notary Public in 1880. He married in 1851, Miss Flora Forest in Defiance County, Ohio. She was born and reared in Coshocton County, Ohio. They have a family of four sons and five daughters--Frederick Forest, Alonzo, Lillie, now Mrs. J. J. Williams, minister of the Christian Church in Sumner County, Kan.; Kate, now Mrs. A. L. Burlingame, carpenter and builder; Lincoln, Maggie Belle, Willie, Jennie and Daisy. Since locating here, he has worked actively in the development of the social and industrial life of this locality. He assisted in the organization of the Board of Education, of which he was an active official until 1880. He has served his present incumbency of Justice of the Peace for four years. His farm contains 120 acres of improved land, well fenced, watered and stocked, good buildings and orchard.

JOEL N. STRAWN, stock-raiser and dealer, P. O. Hepler, was born in LaSalle County, Ill., in 1842, and was reared and educated there. He was identified with the mercantile industry there till 1869, when he came to Kansas and located in Fort Scott, and subsequently located here and established the first store, with which he was connected till 1882. In the meantime, he carried on his present business. He married in 1870, at Ottawa, Ill., Miss Mary E. Stumph, who was born in Fayette County, Penn., and reared in Ottawa, Ill. They have a family of two sons and one daughter--Daisy, Frank and Milton. During the war he did active service in Company E, Thirteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, for eighteen months during latter part of the war; was honorably discharged as Sergeant Major of regiment. Since locating here he has worked very actively in the development of the social and industrial life of this locality. The family holds to the religion of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Strawn filled the incumbency of Postmaster and Express Agent for the first four years of the establishment of those interests here. His residence property consists of thirty acres and he has 240 acres in Section 22, Walnut Township, Bourbon County, which is under general improvement.

FREDERICK A. THOMPSON, proprietor of Hepler Flouring Mills, was born in Washington, D. C., in 1851, and was reared to the farming industry there. In 1881, he came here and located and engaged at the trade of carpentering till January, 1883, when he bought and established the present mills. In 1876, he married Miss Mary D. Hall, of his nativity. They have a family of three sons--Charles F., Lawrence H. and baby. Himself and wife are members of the Episcopal Church. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. and Grange societies. The mill is a two story frame structure 30 X 32, run by steam power with a capacity of twenty-five horse power. Manufactures for both custom and merchant trade.

A. H. VARBEL, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 28, P. O. Hepler, was born in Henry County, Ky., in 1828, and was reared in Greene County, Ill., to the farming industry, with which he was connected there till 1880, when he came here, located and has been successfully connected with it here since. He married in 1849, Miss Jane Matner, who was born and reared in Ohio. They have a family of two sons and three daughters--Jacob, George, Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Emma, and one granddaughter, Lizzie. The family belong to the United Baptist Church. His farm contains 160 acres of improved land, good buildings and orchard.

JOHN VIETS, Postmaster, Hepler, dealer in general merchandise, grain and hay, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1843. In 1857, he came to America with his people, who settled in Benton County, Mo., where he worked at the farming industry till the breaking out of the war, when he enlisted his services in the Missouri Home Guards and did service in it till September of the same year, when he enlisted in Company B, Fifth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and did active service till March, 1862, when he was honorably discharged He then did service in the Missouri State Militia Fifth Cavalry till 1864, and in March of that year he veteranized in Company, C, Missouri Veterans of Cavalry, and was in active service till January, 1866, when he was honorably discharged as Lieutenant of Company D. In September of that year, he came here, appointment of Postmaster in 1873.

GALEN E. WAMPLER, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Walnut, was born in Pulaski County, Ky., in 1830. In 1862, he left his native State, and after spending about eighteen months in Indiana, he located in Monroe County, Iowa, and carried on farming actively there until 1870, when he came here, and has been successfully connected with his present industry since. He married in 1853, Miss Bethany Hainey, of his native State and county. They have a family of four sons and one daughter living--George W., Joseph, Martha Belle (now Mrs. Charles Loomis, farmer and nurseryman), Erasmus C. and Edward Bruce. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His farm contains 240 acres of improved land, well fenced, watered and stocked, with good dwelling, barns and stables, and an orchard of nicely assorted fruits. Elias Wampler, father of the above, was born in Wythe County, Va., and was reared in Pulaski County, Ky., where he married in 1827, Miss Phidellia Neikirk, who was born in Virginia and reared in Kentucky, and by whom he raised a family of three sons and four daughters--Galen E, Augustus H., George A., Sarah Jane, Mary E., Susan Ellen and Rachael A. The life of Elias Wampler has been more or less identified with that of Galen E. since he left his native place.

GEORGE A. WAMPLER, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 29, P. O. Hepler, was born in Pulaski County, Ky., in 1846. At the age of fifteen he left his native State, and after spending two years in Indiana and seven years in Iowa, he located in this county and has been actively identified with his present industry here since. He married in 1877, Miss Jennie Thomas, who was born and reared in Iowa. They have a family of one son and a daughter living--Ethel and baby--and have buried a son and daughter--Charles and Lena--in the cemetery at Walnut Township. They belong to the Methodist Church. His farm contains 120 acres of improved land well fenced and watered and stocked, good buildings and an orchard of about 200 trees of a nicely assorted variety of fruits.

JOHN L. WEBSTER, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 4, P. O. Hepler, was born in Fayette County, Ohio, in 1835, and removed with his people to Iowa, who settled in Louisa County in 1840, where he was reared and educated. He was connected with farming there until 1878, when he came here and located, and has been actively connected with his present industry since. He married in 1858, Miss Sarah Pierce, a native of Indiana, who departed this life in 1872, and is buried in the Methodist Cemetery, Muscatine Island, Muscatine Co., Iowa, leaving two sons and two daughters living--David Wesley, Mary E., Lillie E. and William S. In 1873, he married Mrs. Sarah Heritage nee Brown, a native of Pennsylvania. They have a family of one daughter, Arabel. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His farm contains now but forty acres, with good buildings and a fine orchard. 

I. H. ADDINGTON, M. D., Farlington, was born in Randolph County, Ind., in 1843, and was reared in Piqua, Miami Co., Ohio, where he was educated to the teaching profession by his own unaided exertions. He carried it on until the age of twenty-one when he engaged in the study of medicine, with which he was connected for nearly four years after which he began the practice of it in Ohio and carried it on successfully there until 1873, when he came here and located, and has been very reputably connected with the practice of his profession since. He married, in 1866, Miss Jennie S. Bryan, who was born in Newport, Maine, and reared in Bangor. She received her literary education in Lowell, Mass., and taught near Boston. They have a family of one son and a daughter - Willie B. And Bertha May. Dr. Addington has worked actively in the development of the social and industrial life of this locality since locating here. He is an active member of the A., F. & A. M. and A. O. U. W. societies. The family hold to the religion of the Christian Church.

ABIJAH C. BEVER, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 20, P. O. Girard, was born in Fountain County, Ind., in 1829, and was identified there with his present industry till 1878, when he came here and located and has been successfully connected with his farming and stock-raising since. He married October 20, 1851, Miss Mary H. Williams, who was born in Kentucky and reared in Fountain County, Ind. They have one son and three daughters living - Laura O., Georgiana (now Mrs. William L. MacDougal, carpenter and builder), Ida, Rosetta and John J., and have buried one son and three daughters. The family are members of the United Brethren Church. His farm contains eighty-two and one-half acres of improved land, well fenced and watered and stocked, good buildings, and an orchard of a nicely assorted variety of fruits.

J. W. BRALEY, of the firm of Braley & Wickham, farmer and grower of and dealer in stock, P. O. Girard, was born in New York State in 1826. He was raised in the wool manufacturing business, and went to Michigan in 1853 and remained till 1865. At the end of which time he went to Iowa and spent the winter, then came to Kansas and brought with him 1,600 head of sheep, locating in Crawford County, Sherman Township, on Section 35, on his present home of 1,300 acres, and has since been engaged in the raising of sheep and cattle, adding the cattle business in 1868, handling from 250 to 500 head of cattle per year. He has 400 acres of his splendid farm under cultivation, feeding all the produce raised on his farm. He has hedge fenced eighty, forty, sixty and two twenty acre lots; tenement house; has one pasture of 720 acres another of 120; fourteen miles of hedge fence. He is putting down a large amount of timothy and clover.

E. T. CAMPBELL, farmer and stock-raiser. Section 2, P. O. Farlington, was born in Russell County, Va., in 1853, and was reared and educated there. In 1870 he located here with his mother and sister (whom he supports), and has been very successfully connected with his present industry here since. He has always taken an active part in the furtherance of all measures tending toward the development of his locality. He has served his township as Trustee, and has been active in other official positions. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M. and A. O. U. W. societies. The family are members of the Baptist Church. His farm contains 520 acres of valuable land, an orchard of 200 trees of a nicely assorted variety of fruits, good dwelling, barn and stables.

FRANK R. CORNELIOUS, of the firm of Deets & Cornelius, merchants, Farlington was born in Yadkin County, N. C., in 1847, and was reared there on a farm, where he remained until 1868. He then located in Lincoln County, Mo., and carried on farm and stock-raising there for several years. In 1876, he located in Wright city, Warren County, Mo., and carried on hotel and livery business, and also engaged in the manufacture of brick and farming successfully for several years. In December, 1881, he came here and engaged in his present business, in the meantime doing the hotel business of the place. He married in September, 1869, Miss Helen K. Turner, of Lincoln County, Mo., who departed this life July 30, 1873, and is buried in the family cemetery, near Troy, Mo. She left one son, Walter T. December 3, 1874, he married Miss Maggie I. Deets, who was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, and reared in Missouri. They have one son and daughter - Mollie F. and Charles D. During the war Mr. Cornelius did active service in the Confederate army, in Hoke's Division of Armsted's brigade, First North Carolina Battalion, Junior Reserves, for the last eleven months of the war. He was honorably discharged. He is an active member of the A., F. & A. M., and I. O. O. F. Societies. His wife is a member of the Baptist Church.

JOHN T. DEETS, of the firm of Deets & Cornelius, dealers in dry goods, groceries, coal, hardware, grain, and all kinds of agricultural implements, Farlington. Mr. Deets was born in Guerusey County, Ohio, in 1852. In 1865, he removed with his people to Warren County, Mo., where at the age of eighteen he learned the trade of blacksmith, with which he was identified in Lincoln County, Mo., until 1879, when he came here and carried on his former business for a year. He then engaged in his present business, which he has successfully carried on since. He married, in 1873, in Lincoln County, Mo., Miss Martha E. Colbert, of that county. They have a family of two daughters - Birdie and Bessie. He has always taken an active interest in the growth and development of the public, social, and industrial life of his locality since coming here. He is an active member of the A. O. U. W. Society. His wife is a member of the Christian Church. He also carries on with his brother, S. A. Deets, a nice livery business here. Jonathan Deets, father of the above, was born and reared in Pennsylvania, and spent his life in farming pursuits. He moved to Ohio, where he spent several years; he moved to Missouri, in 1865, where he remained for several years, eventually coming here, where he at present resides. His family are John T., Charles Alva, of the firm of Deets Bros., livery, who married, in 1877, Miss Maggie E. Colbert, of Lincoln County, Mo., and who has one son, John William; Maggie I., Now Mrs. Frank R. Cornelius, of the firm of Deets & Cornelius, whose biography appears in this work.

R. DORMAN, farmer and dealer in cattle, horses, sheep, hay and grain, Section 31, P. O. Girard, was born in Connecticut, 1836. Raised a mechanic, receiving a business education, and started in life for himself at the age of eleven years; was on the farm until eighteen, at which time went to learn the mechanic's trade, at which he spent three years in Connecticut, after which came to Illinois, and followed his trade six years, then traveled for a Life Insurance Company five years. Came to Kansas City in 1867; was in the life insurance business there for eight years; in the meantime was in the livery business three years; then to Kansas, in 1875, on his present home of 160 acres, which he improved and has since run, as a grain and stock farm, raising, buying, feeding and shipping stock. Shipped in 1878, $50,000 worth of stock; 1879, shipped $75,000; in 1880, shipped and sold $120,000 worth; 1881, $145,000 worth; 1882, $150,000 worth. Shipping to Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago and Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Dorman is a member of the Odd Fellows, Freemasons and Knights of Pythias. Was married to Miss Sarah NewLee. Have five children - Frederick C., Fannie E., George W., Walter P., Ida.

JOHN DOUGHERTY, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Farlington, was born in Franklin County, Ohio, in 1837, and was raised and educated there. At the age of twenty-one, he located in Fulton County, Ill., and then engaged in the blacksmith business, with which he was identified there for several years. Afterward engaged in farming operations, which he carried on until 1878, when he came here and has been actively identified with farming and stock-raising since. He married, in 1861, Miss Elmira McCoy, a native of Delaware. They have a family of three daughters, Clare L., Cassie and Kate. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His farm contains eighty acres of improved land, well fenced, watered and stocked, good buildings and a nice orchard of assorted fruits.

ARTHUR R. FROGUE, of the firm of Frogue & Harris, dealers in hardware, groceries, clothing, boots and shoes, crockery, queensware and farm machinery, Farlington. Mr. F. was born in Tippecanoe County, Ind., in 1838, and removed to Illinois with his people in 1844, who settled in Macoupin County, where he was reared and educated, and followed the farming industry successfully until 1866, when he came here and has carried on farming and stock-raising actively for several years. In 1873, he engaged in merchandising, and has successfully carried it on here since. In 1858, he married in Greene County, Illinois, Miss Mary M. Reeve, who was born and reared in Morgan County, Illinois. They have one daughter, Harriet Louisa, now Mrs. George Conover, agent of the Gulf Railroad, Farlington, and they have reared an adopted son and daughter - Charles Pierce and Lulu Reeve. Mr. F. has been an active worker in the social and industrial development of his locality since coming here. He has served as Justice of the Peace, and filled other local official positions. The family are members of the Protestant Methodist Church. He is an active member of the A., F. & A. M. Society.

HUGH FRY, farmer, stock-feeder and raiser, Section 23, P. O. Farlington, was born in England. Came to the United States in infancy; was in New York eleven years; was in Michigan nine years. Learned the boot and shoe business. Went to Illinois in 1860, remained on a farm fourteen years, at the end of which time came to Montgomery County, Kan., where he remained eighteen months, then to Illinois for four years, then back to Kansas. Was on a farm two years. Then, in 1880, bought his present home of 160 acres, which he has since run as a grain and stock farm. Has seventy acres under cultivation. Carries from seventy-five to 225 head of cattle. Is raiser, buyer, feeder and shipper. Was married to Miss Clarinda Wright, of Illinois, in 1868. Have five children - Abberta, Andrew W., Estella, Alma, Dela O. Mrs. Fry is a member of the Christion Church.

JOHN W. GARDNER, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Girard, was born in Cumberland County, Ill., in 1850, and was reared in McLean County. In 1874, he located in Tazewell County, Ill., and carried on farming there till 1881, when he came here and located upon present place, which he has improved from a raw prairie to a splendid farm, containing handsome building and a nice young orchard of assorted fruits. His farm contains 240 acres, is well fenced and watered and stocked. He married, in 1874, Miss Emma J. Kampf, who was born and reared in Tazewell County, Ill. They have a family of one son and a daughter, Ollie and Lloyd. The family are members of the Christian Church.

GEORGE W. GOSHERT, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Girard, was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, April 24, 1842, and was reared and educated in Kosciusko County, Ind. In 1870, he came to Kansas and located upon the present place, and has been actively identified with the farming industry here since. He married in 1870 and Miss Martha Jane Bowen, who was born in born in Kosciusko County, Ind., December 27, 1852, and was reared and educated there. They have a family of three sons living - Frank E., Eddie B. and Alfred E. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; his farm contains eighty acres of improved land, well watered and stocked, good buildings and an orchard of 250 trees of assorted fruits.

C. M. HARRIS, of the firm of Frogue & Harris, merchants, and farmer and stock-raiser, Section 25, P. O. Farlington. Mr. Harris was born in Knox County, Tenn., in 1842, and removed to Lawrence County, Mo., in 1850, with his people, where he was reared and educated. In 1868, he came here and located, and has been successfully engaged in farming and stock business since. October 10, 1882, he joined the present partnership in merchandising. He married in 1876 Miss L. E. Frogue, who was born in Macoupin County, Ill., and reared in Kansas. They have a family of one son and a daughter - Ora Overton and Sarah Elizabeth. During the war he did active service in the confederate army for three years, after which he was taken prisoner, paroled, and honorably discharged; since locating here he has worked actively in the development of the public, social and industrial life of his locality. He is an active member of the A., F. & A. M. society; his farm contains eighty acres of improved land, well fenced, watered and stocked, good buildings and an orchard of 180 trees, of a well assorted variety of fruits.

L. D. HERLOCKER, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 19, P. O. Farlington, was born in Franklin County, Ohio, in April 23, 1845, and was reared there to his present industry; at the age of twenty, he engaged in merchandising in the wholesale notion trade as salesman, in which capacity he was reputably connected for four years. He then located in Jones County, Iowa, and carried on his present industry there till 1871, when he came here and located, and has been successfully identified with his present industry here since. He married in 1868, Miss Elizabeth Kramer, of his native county. They have a family of three sons and one daughter - Elmer J., John J., Edward C. and Ida May. He has worked actively in the growth of the social and industrial life of this locality since coming here; has served as Township Trustee for two terms; is at present incumbent of County Commissionership of the First District of this county. He has been active in school offices for several years; is a member of the A., F. & A. M. and A. O. U. W. societies. The family hold to the religion of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His farm contains 200 acres of improved land, well fenced, and watered and stocked, good buildings, an orchard of 300 trees of nicely assorted fruits.

WILLIAM LAWLER, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 23, P. O. Farlington, was born in Madison, Jefferson Co., Ind., in 1832, and was reared and educated there. At the age of twenty-one he located in Vermillion County, Ill., and was actively identified with farming and milling industries alternately for several years; in 1873, he located here and engaged at his present industry, with which he has been very successfully connected since. In 1852, he married Miss Amanda Hall, of Dearborn County, Ind. They have a family of two sons and two daughters - James N., merchandising; John, Mary A. and Sarah B. at home. Since locating here Mr. Lawler has worked actively in the development of the social and industrial life of his locality. He has served his township as Treasurer, and has filled other municipal offices; during the war he did service in Company C, Fifty-fourth Missouri Volunteer Infantry. He has been an active Mason since 1867. The family are members of the Baptist Church; the farm residence contains 240 acres of valuable land, an orchard of over 1,000 fruit trees of a nicely assorted variety, good dwellings, barns and stables, and besides this he has 640 acres, divided into two farms of 320 acres each, in Sections 35 and 36, each farm under good improvement, and having nice orchards and good buildings, and well fenced and watered.

WILLIAM L. McDOUGALL, carpenter and builder, Section 20, P. O. Girard, was born in Bruce County, Canada, July 24, 1855, and from a backwoods life was reared to the sailing business. About the age of seventeen he became an able bodied seaman, and prosecuted that business upon the lakes in the United States and Canada for about five years. (During the winter season of that time, was actively connected with his present trade at Chicago and other parts of the United States). He then entered upon a sea life and subsequently was promoted to the position of ship-carpenter and second mate, chief mate and finally ship-master, with which he continued in an honorable position until 1878, when he was taken ill with a severe fever, contracted while at Tangier, Africa, and somewhat injuring his memory causing him to retire from a salt sea life. He then located at Chicago and was reputably identified with his profession until 1880, when he came here and has been actively connected with his present profession since; he married in 1881, Miss Georgiana Bener, who was born and reared in Fountain County, Ind. They have one little girl - Pearl Flora. His wife is a member of the United Brethren Church.

JOHN MEYER, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Girard, was born in Benton County, Mo., in 1846; at the age of twenty-two he came to Kansas, and located in this county, and has been actively identified with his present industry since. He married in 1866, Miss Paulina Fischer, who was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1845, and came to America with her people, who settled in Benton County, Mo., where she was reared and educated. They have a family of three sons and five daughters - Fred, Katie, Johanna, Louisa, Willie, Henry and Amelia. The family are members of the Lutheran Church; his farm contains 160 acres of improved land, well fenced, watered and stocked, good buildings and an orchard of nicely assorted fruits.

FRED PETERSON, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 18, P. O. Farlington, was born in Norway in 1843, and came to America in 1869, and settled in Bourbon County, Kan., the same year; he engaged at the coal business, which he carried on for several years; he then engaged at his present business, with which he has been successfully connected since. In 1873, he married Miss Caroline Peterson, who was born in Sweden in 1853. They have a family of two sons and two daughters - Alma, Matilda, Charlie and John August. Mr. Peterson has served as Treasurer of his School District, and has been active in other local official positions; the family are members of the Lutheran Church; his farm contains 240 acres of land, a nice orchard of 500 fruit trees of a nicely assorted variety, good dwelling, barn and stables; besides his farm he has a nice house and lot in Farlington.

B. C. REDLON, farmer, Sections 33, 34 and 35, P. O. Farlington, was born in Cumberland County, Me., was raised in the State of New York; received a business education, learning the trade of blacksmith; was next in California for twenty-three months; then went back to New York a short time; then in Wisconsin for sixteen years, trading in land, stock and lumber. He came to Kansas in 1866, and located in Fort Scott, where he remained four years, trading in cattle and hogs, and at the same time ran a wagon and blacksmith shop, at the end of which time he came to Crawford County and settled on his present home of 1,720 acres, which he opened up and improved, and has since run as a grain and stock farm; he raises, buys and sells stock of all kinds, carrying about 700 head of cattle, and from 200 to 500 hogs; he handles about 2,000 head of cattle a year, raises from 200 to 500 head; he has two fine Short-horn bulls, from the Gillett Herd of Illinois, brought here by F. Playton. He has four thoroughbred cows and a number of grade cows; owns the fine thoroughbred mare Pet; has three fine thoroughbred colts and will now raise the finest stock that can be had; he owns two sections of land in Kingman County with some Government land, on which he has nine miles of wire fence. His home farm of 1,720 acres is all under fence, well improved with good residence, good barn and stock corrals, and all improvements for handling stock; has a fine orchard with an abundance of fruits and berries of all kinds. Holds a large mortgage on coal land, mill, residence and business property; has a mortgage of $15,000 on stock; mortgage of $3,500 on mining property at Carbon. In the meantime ran a mill at Girard four years. Ran the Merchant's & Farmer's Bank of Girard eighteen months; a hardware store three years, and the miner's supply store in Carbon three years in connection with Patmore. He is now a School Director of his district, and has been Treasurer for many years; the foregoing shows plainly the energy, skill and judgment of Mr. Redlon, who at the age of nineteen bought his time from his father, at which time he had only 50 cents, and on leaving home the next morning before day his mother gave him 75 cents, making the grand total of $1.25, which has increased with the assistance of Mr. Redlon to over $50,000 in money, lands and stock.

T. ROOT, farmer, P. O. Girard, was born in Vermont, 1846, raised in the city, and received a business education. Learned the broom-maker's trade, in which he continued eleven years in Maine and Massachusetts; came to Iowa in 1870, where he remained a few months then in St. Louis four months; next in Illinois two and a half years. Came to Kansas 1873, settled on a farm of forty acres in Crawford County; in 1880, bought an additional 160 acres, which he has since run as a grain and stock farm; carries about 240 head of cattle. Is a member of the A. O. U. W. Was married to Miss Lizzie Ridgley, of Illinois, 1873. Have three children - Alice, Mattie, Edward.

DR. I. E. SANDERSON, dealer in drugs, groceries, etc., Farlington, was born in Parke County, Ind., January 8, 1853, and was reared and educated there. At the age of twenty-three he began the study of medicine and located in Vigo County, and engaged in practice in 1877, but abandoned it in October of the same year, on account of ill-health, and came here and was identified with the practice of his profession until 1832, when he retired from it. February 24, 1879, he established his present business, which he has carried on since. He married in June, 1877, in Vigo County, Ind., Miss Catharine Grubb, who was born in Whitley County, Ky., and reared in Parke County, Ind. They are members of the Baptist Church. The Doctor has worked actively in the development of the social life of his locality since coming here. In 1882, he was appointed agent of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Hiawatha, Kan., which he ably represents.

S. J. SHIPMAN, dealer in dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, hardware, etc., Farlington, was born in Monroe County, Ind., in 1852, and was reared and educated in Lawrence County, Ind. He was identified there for several years as a book-keeper. In 1878, he came to this county and has been identified principally with the mercantile industry here since. In 1880, he established the present business, which he has carried on successfully since. He married in 1881, Miss Hannah Giles, who was born and reared in Dade County, Mo. They have a family of one son - Dennis. His family are members of the Christian Church. He is an active member of the A., F. & A. M. Society.

WILLIAM H. SWAN, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 7, P. O. Farlington, was born in Licking County, Ohio, in 1839, and removed with his people to Illinois in 1841, who settled in Morgan County, where he was reared and educated. In 1859, he came to Kansas and located here, and has been actively connected with his present industry here since. He married in 1864, Miss Parmelia Corker, who was born in West Virginia, and reared in Vernon County, Mo., and who departed this life in 1874, and is buried in the family cemetery, Lincoln Township, leaving two sons and one daughter, Emma, Samuel and Willie. In 1876, he married Miss Clarissa Welsh, of Ohio. They have a family of two sons living - Harry and Frank. Mr. Swan has worked actively in the growth of the social and industrial life of his locality. He has served his township as Treasurer and has filled other local official positions. The family holds to the religion of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is an active member of the A. O. U. W. Society. His farm contains 107 acres of improved land, well watered and stocked, dwelling, stables and a nice orchard of 300 trees, a nicely assorted variety of fruits. During the war he did active service in Company D, Sixth Kansas Cavalry, for nine months, 1861-62, from which he was honorably discharged.

ANDREW THRONDSON, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 7, P. O. Farlington, was born in Norway in 1845, and came to America in 1865, and settled in Kansas, in Bourbon County, in 1870, where he followed butchering and boarding house business for a few years. After this he engaged at farming and stock-raising, and has carried it on very successfully since. In 1871, he married Miss Maria Louise Emmanuelson, who was born in Sweden in 1848. They have a family of three sons and two daughters - Axal, Hjalmar, Oscar, Julius, Alma and Signe. Mr. Throndson is present Treasurer of his township, and has filled other municipal official positions since locating here. The family are members of the Lutheran Church. His farm contains 520 acres of valuable land, an orchard of 400 trees of a nicely assorted variety of fruits, good dwelling and barn and stables.