E. T. AHREN; merchant, established his business in Paola in 1870. He was born in Prussia, Germany, and came to America in 1864, and located in Columbia Co., Wis. He served as merchant's clerk in Portage City for a time. He went to Dakota and spent three years, and in 1870 came to Paola, Kan., and in company with John Warnke opened a dry goods and clothing store under the firm name of Ahrens & Warnke. March 1, 1882, Mr. Ahrens bought out Mr. Warnke, and now conducts the business alone. He has a large well stocked store of dry goods, ready made clothing, boot, shoes, hats and caps and carpets. His stock averages about $35,000.

JAMES N BAKER, farmer, Section 12, P. O. Paola, was born in Chautauqua County, N. Y., March 10, 1821. He was brought up on a farm and emigrated to Tazewell County, Ill., in 1843, landing at Pekin the 20th of May. He was married in Tazewell County, Ill., September 24, 1843, to Miss Elizabeth Bowers, who was formerly of the same county and State. He spent one year in Tazewell County, two years in Logan County. In June, 1846, he moved to La Salle County, Ill. He was engaged in farming and stock growing in that county fifteen years. In 1876, he purchased his present fine farm of 360 acres, situated in the town of Paola, to which he moved his family in January, 1877, having sold a farm of 200 acres in Lee County, Ill.

SAMUEL P. BOON, farmer, Section 15, P. O. Paola, was born in Kentucky in 1830. Learned the carpenter's trade in Knoxville, Tenn. Moved to Bloomington, Ill., in 1849, and from there to Missouri in 1851, and to Paola, Kan., in 1855. He worked at his trade in that city. When the land sales of 1857 occurred he purchased his present farm but did not move onto it till 1868, since which time it has been his home. He has 420 acres, beautifully situated and under fine cultivation. Mr. Boon took an active part in defense of Kansas from invasion during the war of the Rebellion, holding several commissions in the Militia Service of Kansas; during a greater part of time he ranked as Second Lieutenant. He has always taken warm interest in local affairs, and has been three times chosen a member of the Board of County Commissioners and at this writing is serving his third term. It is no idle flattery to state the fact, so generally known, that Mr. Boon is one of Miami County's most influential and respected citizens.

CAPT. GEORGE W. BREEN, farmer, Section 12, P. O. Paola, has a farm of 160 acres, it being the northwest quarter of Section 12. Capt. Breen was born in New Jersey, in 1842; received a liberal education and was employed as a teacher and accountant until April, 1861, when on the breaking out of the late war, he enlisted in the Third Regiment, Company B., New Jersey three months men. His regiment was incorporated in the First Organized Brigade at Washington in the late war. At the expiration of his term of enlistment, he re-enlisted in Company B, Sixth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, was commissioned First Lieutenant, and at the expiration of his three years term he was commissioned Adjutant of the Fortieth, served until the close of the war when he was mustered out as Captain. He was wounded through the body by a gun shot wound at the battle of Chancellorsville, and in the left arm at Spottslyvania. He was married in Morgan County, Ill., in August, 1871, to Mrs. Laura M. Sibert, widowed, daughter of H. H. Massey. That same year they moved to Kansas and located on the present farm. They have three children, one son and two daughters. During the political campaign of 1874 and until January 1, 1875, Capt. Breen edited the Miami Republican of Paola. He is a gentleman of fine literary attainments and one of Miami County's most respected citizens.

W. H. BROWNE, attorney at law, was born in Paris, Ky.; studied law with Messrs. Williams & Prall, of that city. He moved to Parsons, Kan., in 1871, and from there to Colorado in 1872. The following year (1873) he came to Paola, resumed the study of law, and was admitted to practice in June, 1875, and has continued in business at this place to date. He has served two terms as City Attorney of Paola.

W. B. BRAYMAN, attorney at law and editor and proprietor of the Paola Times, was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, in 1837; studied law at the State University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and graduated in 1869. He came directly to Paola, Kas., and has been engaged in the successful practice of his profession to this date. He was elected County Attorney in 1876, and served two years. In the spring of 1882, he started the Paola Times an eight column weekly paper, all home print. The Paper has proven a success and although only six months old has a circulation of 1,250 copies. Mr. Brayman is the present Mayor of Paola.

P. A. BROKAW, station agent of the M. P. R. R., telegraph operator and agent of the Pacific Express Company, was born in Somerset County, N. J. March 16, 1859; resided in his native county until 1870. He then came to Kansas and located at Somerset, Miami County, at the age of eleven years. In 1875 he became an employee of the M. P. R. R. Co., and has continued in the service of the company from that time to this date (February, 1883), without a loss of a week's time. He was station agent at Somerset, and subsequently assigned to Paola as assistant agent. He next served one year as agent at Freeman, Mo. In 1881 he was transferred to Louisburg and at the same time assumed the duties of operator and agent of the Pacific Express Company. In March, 1883, he was promoted to ticket and freight agent, Paola, Kansas, Missouri Pacific Co. Mr. Brokaw has proved himself faithful and competent in the discharge of his varied duties, and is justly popular with the companies he represents and with the people. 

HUGH S. CAMPBELL, dealer in real estate business, established in 1867. Mr. Campbell is a native of Scotland. In 1849, when twenty years of age, he emigrated to America, and made his home at Buffalo, N. Y. From there he moved to Erie, PA. He enlisted in August, 1861, as a private; was soon after commissioned Captain. He was wounded at the battle of Malvern Hill; and promoted to Colonel of the Eighty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, At the second battle of Bull Run, August 30, 1862, he was wounded again, but continued in the service til May, 1863, when he was discharged for disability from wounds received in battle. He was appointed Provost Marshal of the Nineteenth District of Pennsylvania and served til the close of the war. In 1867 he came to Paola, Kas., and engaged in real estate business. He invested largely in village lots and is now owner of an extensive property.

C. W. CARR, dealer in farming implements, is a pioneer of Kansas. He is a son of John Carr, one of the earliest settlers near Osawatomie, Kan., of 1854. C. W. was born at Perry, Wyoming Co., N. Y. in 1837, and immigrated to Kansas with his parents in 1854. The family located near what is now Osawatomie one year prior to John Brown's advent. He recollects seeing the Browns move on their land. Although a lad at the time, he participated in the turbulent scenes of the times and was one of the small party that came down on the body of Fred Brown the morning he was shot. They were prevented from bringing off the body by the appearance of a large force of mounted and armed Missourians, under Capt. Reed. George Farris was dispatched to Osawatomie to carry the news to Brown. His father, who was confined to his bed by sickness, was persuaded to dress and secrete himself in the brush, which precaution undoubtedly saved his life as the house was soon after visited by a gang of Reed's men, who were violent and who would no doubt have taken his life if they had found him. As it was, they came near discovering him in the place of his concealment while hunting down Mr. Garrison, whom they overtook and shot to death within a few yards of Mr. Carr. After his father's death, Mr. Carr returned to the East and remained until 1860. He entered the Quartermaster's department at the close of the war. Was chief Abstract Clerk of the post Quartermaster Department at Nashville, Tenn. After the close of the war, he entered into partnership with Maj. Williams at Osawatomie, in the hardware business, which connection was continued until 1869, when he came to Paola and commenced his present business. He is one of the oldest established houses in this line in the State.

CAPT. THOMAS M. CARROLL, attorney at law was born in Green County, Pa. He enlisted in the late war in 1861, while in his seventeenth year, as a private in Company B, First Regiment Virginia Cavalry. He was wounded at the battle of Port Republic in 1862, and again at Gettysburg in 1863. He was promoted from the ranks to a First Lieutenancy and placed in command of his company. Just before the battle of Gettsyburg he was promoted to Captain, and after serving nearly three years, received an honorable discharge on account of wounds received in battle. On returning from the war, he became a student of Waynesburg College, Pa., from which he graduated in 1868. He came to Paola, Kan., in 1869, studied law with Judge W. R. Wagstaff and was admitted to practice in 1873. He was married, in 1876 to Miss Mary Childress, of Paola.

JONATHAN F. CHANDLER, real estate, loan and collecting agent, was born in Stewartstown, Coos Co. N. H., April 27, 1833. Moved with his parents to Knox County, Ohio, when he was four years of age; removed to Missouri in 1844, and to Miami County Kan., in 1856. He was engaged in farming for twelve years. He then moved to Paola and accepted the position of deputy-register of Deeds and served two years. He then started his present business. In addition to real estate, loan and collecting business he also makes abstracts of title. Mr Chandler has built up the most extensive business in his line in the county and is reckoned one of the most reliable and substantial business men of Paola.

G. A. COLTON, was born in Woodstock, Windsor Co., VT, October 20, 1828; was brought up on a farm with very limited means of education. Naturally studious, and ambitious to acquire knowledge, he virtually educated himself. In 1854 he emigrated to Kansas, and located at Stanton, Lykins Co., (now Miami). He was employed in various pursuits til the spring of 1860, when he purchased the Southern Kansas Herald, then published at Osawatomie, and removed it to Paola, and conducted it nearly eight years as a Republican paper. In the summer of 1857 he was chosen as a delegate to the Grasshopper Falls Free-state Convention, and took decided grounds in favor of a vigorous campaign. In November, 1858, he was elected Assistant Secretary of the Territorial Council, at its extra session, and reelected at its regular session of 1858. In the spring of 1858, he was elected and served as a delegate to the Territorial Constitution Convention. At a meeting of the Council in 1859, he was again chosen Assistant Secretary. He was a member of the Republican State Convention to nominate the first State candidates under the present constitution, and in the fall of the same year was elected a member of the Territorial House, and elected Speaker. He was also elected a member of the in-coming State Legislature. In the spring of 1860 he moved to Paola, and was elected Probate Judge of Lykins County (now Miami) which office he resigned in April, 1861, to attend the State Legislature. In the spring of 1861, he was appointed agent of the Confederated band of Peoria, Plankeshaw, Kaskaskla, Wea, and Miami Indians, located in the eastern border of Kansas, which position he held for eight years, except for a period of a few months, when he reigned to accept a position in the State Senate. He assisted in 1862 in organizing the Miami County Militia; was elected Colonel, and served in that capacity during the war, under the United States military authorities. He was with Gen. Lane in pursuit of Quantrill, and helped drive Price out of Missouri, at the time of his raid. He was elected to the State Senate in 1864. He has always been a Republican since the organization of that party, and has been known as an influential and consistent member.

CONDON, CARREL & CO., firm composed of S. D. Condon, H. T. Carrell, and H. R. Jordan, successors to Massey & Carrel, who were successors to J. M. George & Co. This is one of the oldest established hardware houses in Miami County. The senior partner, Mr. S. D. Condon, was for many years a member of the firm of J. M. George & Co. They carry a full assortment of goods in their line, hardware, stoves, tinware, etc., having a large and well stocked store. They command a liberal share of the trade of this region, are enterprising and liberal dealers and deservedly popular with the general public.

MAJOR CARLOS C. COX, farmer, Section 11, Township 17, Range 23, P. O. Paola, was born in Northumberland County, Va., August 16, 1840; moved to Alton, Ill., with his parents in 1849. He received an academic education, and engaged in the mercantile business. Soon after the breaking out of the late war he enlisted, May 25, 1861, in Company D., Fourteenth Illinois Infantry. He was regularly promoted to Orderly Sergent, Second, and First Lieutenant, Captain, and Major of the same regiment and served until the close of the war. He was attached to the seventeenth army corps and served under Sherman. He received a gunshot wound at the battle of Hatchie River, October 5, 1863. He was wounded again at Nashville and at the battle of Kingston, N. C. by a shell, and subsequently near Greensboro. He was captured and severely injured by Wheeler's Confederate Cavalry. He was rejoining his regiment, accompanied only by his orderly, when he was pursued by a party of Confederate Cavalry. After shooting one each of the foremost, they left the main highway and followed by a path through the woods; after making a lengthy detour, they once more entered the highway, only to find themselves directly in the path of another and larger body of Texas Cavalry. Major Cox's horse became unmanageable and carried him into the midst of his foes, where he was soon knocked senseless from his horse and trampled under foot. The enemy supposing him dead stripped his person of all valuables and his clothing. But discovering signs of life were about to settle his case by what they termed parole, which the cocked revolvers presented to his head would seem to mean simply murder, but by the timely intervention of a few more humane than the others, his life was spared. Some cast-off clothes were put on him and he was taken prisoner. Three weeks later he was released. After the war he returned to Illinois, married Miss Lydia M Massey, at Jacksonville, and moved to his farm of 160 acres, on Section 11, Township 17, Range 23, where he has continued to reside to this date in the peaceful enjoyment of a farm life. The wife of his youth and soldier bride died April 25, 1880.

WILLIAM C. EATON, carpenter and builder, and Justice of the Peace, was born in Montgomery County, Va., in 1831; removed to Indiana, with his parents, in 1833; learned the carpenter and joiner's trade in Porter County. He enlisted in the late war, in August, 1862, as a private of Company I, Seventy-third regiment, Indiana Volunteers, was promoted to First Lieutenant in September, 1862, and to Captain of the same company in 1863. He served in the department of the Cumberland, and was mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., July 4, 1865. He came to Paola the following spring (1866) and worked at his trade of carpenter and builder until 1874; he then went to California where he spent two years, and returned to Paola. Mr. Eaton has served as Deputy Sheriff, of Miami County, four years. He was appointed Justice of the Peace, served one year and was elected to the same office in the spring of 1881.

EDMINSTON & SHERMAN, proprietors of livery, sale and boarding stable. This firm was organized in October, 1879. The senior partner, Mr. M. B. Edminston is the pioneer livery man of Paola, having established himself in this business at this place in 1868, and with the exception of one and a half years he has been in business continuously since. He was born in Ohio, and moved to Illinois in 1855. He enlisted in February, 1862, as a private of Company H, Thirty-ninth regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served two years. In 1865 he moved to Kansas, and in 1868 engaged in the livery business at Paola. This firm keep a fine stock of horses, averaging about twenty, and a good outfit of rigs. They also keep one or more good stock horses, by and sell, and a general livery business.

J. A. ELDRED, deceased, was born in Maine in 1829, and went to sea in his youth. Made a cruise to California via Cape Horn, during the gold excitement, and spent seven years in that State. Then he returned to New England and was married at Falmouth, Mass., in 1859 to Miss Sophronia, daughter of B. G. Nye. Mr. and Mrs. Eldred emigrated to Kansas immediately after their marriage and settled in Miami County. Mr. E. was engaged in the manufacture of lumber for five years, then devoted his attention to farming and stock growing. He was a man of upright character, enterprising and energetic in business, and commanded the respect and esteem of all who knew him. He died on Christmas day, 1881, leaving a wife and five children, two sons and three daughters, to mourn his loss. The family reside on the old homestead of 140 acres, situated on Section 22, near the city of Paola.

JAMES SANDERSON FERGUSON, farmer, P. O. Paola, was born in Lycoming County, Pa., in 1821. Was brought up a farmer and removed to Kentucky when twenty-two years of age. Spent one year in Louisville and then removed to Indiana. He resided in the latter State about eighteen years, when he removed to Kentucky. In 1868 he came to Kansas and settled in Miami County, near Spring Hill, on the southwest quarter of Section 30, Township 15, Range 24, where he engaged in farming until 1880, when he moved to a farm of 240 acres, which he had purchased, on Section 3, Township 17, Range 23, of Paola, still retaining ownership of his farm of 160 acres, near Spring Hill. In 1882 he sold all but the south eighty acres of his farm in Paola, but has not yet given possession. Mr. F. was married in Pennsylvania in 1845 to Miss Maria H. Snyder., who died in 1859, leaving five children. He was married again January 1,1861, in Gallatin County, Ky., to Miss Juliett L., daughter of Johnston Frank. Mrs. F. was born in Kentucky. There are three children living born of this marriage. Mr. F. still resides near Paola City.

E. FREEMAN, watchmaker and jeweler, was born in New Jersey, March 10, 1844. Removed to Iowa in 1864. Learned the watchmaker and jeweler's trade and engaged in business in the State. He continued in business eleven years and in 1880 came to Paola and opened his present establishment in June of that year. Mr. Freeman carries a general stock of clocks, watches, jewelry, and silverware, and does all kinds of work in his line.

PHILLIP P. FOWLER, was born in Hillsborough County, N. H., June 30, 1812; was educated in his native state, and became a minister of the Universalist Church. He immigrated to Kansas in 1854, was an ardent Free-state man, and was a correspondent of the Herald of Freedom while he made a tour of the State. He was a candidate for Representative at the first election and was declared elected by Gov. Reeder, but was refused his seat by his political opponents. He wrote a history of early time, under the title of "Jayhawkers" which was read with interest. He was an intimate associate of old John Brown, and concealed and defended that notorious champion of freedom, on several occasions. He has resided at Paola since 1861, and for many years has held the office of Police Judge. In religion, he is a Universalist; in politics, Republican.

WILLIAM GANO, proprietor of City Meat Market, was born in New Jersey, in 1830; removed to Springfield, Ill., and from there to Paola, Kas., in 1870. In 1872, he opened a meat market and has been in business continuously since, and is now the oldest established dealer in his line in the city. He buys the best stock to be had, and has always on hand a good supply of fresh, salt and smoked meats.

J. M. GEORGE, retired merchant, was born in Indiana, in 1837; received a business education and entered upon a mercantile life as a dealer in general merchandise. In 1868, he emigrated to Kansas and, in company with Mr. S. D. Condon, opened a hardware store at Paola under the firm name of J. M. George & Co. Starting in a small way, by strict attention to business, and fair dealing, they built up a prosperous trade. This firm continued business until October, 1882, when they sold out to Messrs. Condon, Carrel & Co. The last year, their sales aggregated $70,000. Mr. George has been obliged to retire from business to recruit his health. He has made his record one of the leading merchants of the county, in his line, and he retires possessing the utmost confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens.

HENRY H. GRIMSHAW, proprietor of the Commercial House, was born in England in 1832. When two years of age, he came to America and was brought up in the city of Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1867, he moved to Ohio, where he resided three years, and came to Paola, Kas., arriving here in 1870. He was engaged in the grocery business for several years, and in 1874, began keeping hotel. For eight years he kept a small wooden building and in spite of all the disadvantages made it the most popular hotel in Paola. In 1882, he built the brick structure which he now occupies, which is situated just east of the Miami County Bank. The Commercial House is 40 by 70 feet, three stories high, built of brick, with metal roof. It contains twenty-six rooms. The rooms are high and large and are lighted by large modern windows of two lights each. The house is finished throughout in the best style, and under the able management of Mr. and Mrs. Grimshaw it is rated as one of the most popular hotels in the State.

CHARLES S. GOULD, proprietor of Paola omnibus and transfer line, also agent of Adams Express Company, was born in Vermont and came to Paola from Massachusetts, in the fall of 1872. In 1872, established his omnibus and transfer line, in which he employs six teams and a many men. He was appointed agent of the Adams Express Company in 1875. Prompt and energetic in the discharge of his business, Mr. G. commands the confidence and esteem of the general public.

GEORGE W. HALDEMAN, M. D. physician and surgeon, was born in Perry County, Pa, in 1830; removed to Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, in his youth, where he received an academic education. He began the study of medicine under the late Dr. Ira Day, of that place, and subsequently attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia and received his degree in March, 1854. He began practice at Newville, Pa.; he was a member of the Cumberland County, Pa., Medical Society, and afterwards a member of the State Medical Society, of which he was vice-president in 1867. He was also a member of the Newville Board of Education. During the late war he was Chairman of the Local Sanitary Committee. In 1870, he moved to Paola, Kas., and established an extensive practice. He has been successful in both medicine and surgery, and in the practice of the latter, has performed some very difficult operations with marked success. Dr. Haldeman is a member of the Paola Board of Education. President of the State Medical Society, and United States Pension Examining Surgeon of this district. He was married in November, 1855, to Annie, daughter of Jacob Wogan, Esq., of York County, Pa.

G. L. HANKINS, carpenter and builder, and Justice of the Peace, was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1840; removed to Illinois in 1851, and while only a lad, joined a party of United States Surveyors, engaged in surveying the State line between Iowa and Missouri; was connected with that party for three years; then returned to Bloomington, Ill., and learned the harness making trade. He subsequently learned the carpenter and joiner trade, at which he worked until the attack on Fort Sumter. On the second day of the bombardment, he enlisted at the call for three months' men. He was number ten on the roll of Illinois troops. He was assigned to the Eighth Infantry, served three months, and re-enlisted in Company I, Third Illinois Cavalry, and served til September 25, 1865; was regularly promoted to Captain. The latter commission he did not accept as he was serving as Corps Wagon Master, which position he held one year and eight months. On receiving his discharge he returned to Illinois and in the spring of 1868, he moved to Paola, Kas. March 4th of that year, he opened a grocery at this place. He was appointed agent of the United States Express Company, in June, 1869, and served til September 1, 1875. Since which time he has been building and serving as Justice of the Peace; was elected in 1878 and is now serving his third term.

ROBERT S. HARRIS, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Paola (son of Joseph Harris) was born in Van Buren County, Iowa, in 1848; moved to Missouri in early youth, with his parents. On the breaking out of the late war, his father, a Douglas Democrat, was threatened with violence if he did not leave Missouri. Early in 1861, finding things too warm, and after losing heavily he moved to Kansas, being one of the first of the refugees. The family settled in Miami County, town of Paola. Robert, then a lad of thirteen years of age, witnessed many of the violent scenes of the times; later in the war, being considered large enough to shoulder a gun, he was enrolled a member of Company E, Fifth Kansas Militia, and served til the close of the war. He is now living on his farm of eighty acres, near Paola, in the quiet employment of the good government for which he did good serve in his youth.

JEREMIAH T. HAUGHEY, of the firm of Haughey & Fisher, fire insurance agents, was born in Ohio. Moved to Illinois, where he was a pioneer of Logan County in 11849. In 1857 he moved to Kansas and located at Miami Mission. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, Twelfth Kansas Infantry as a private and served three years. On his return from the army he was elected Treasurer of the Miami County and in January, 1866, moved to Paola in the discharge of his duties. At the end of the term, by a change in the law regulating the tenure of the office, there was an interregnum of six months between the close of one term and the beginning of the next. He was appointed to fill such vacancy and re-elected the following term. In 1872 he established his insurance agency, and January, 1881, took in Mr. Burr Fisher as a partner.

ZACCHEUS HAYES, farmer, Section 9, P. O. Paola, was born in Connecticut in 1835, where he was brought up on a farm til twenty-one years of age, he then, in 1856, immigrated to Illinois and located in Kane County. He was married in that county in October, 1861, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Horace Willis. They have two daughters-Amy A. and Alma M. Mr. Hayes came to Kansas in 1866 and purchased a farm of 190 acres in the town of Wea, Miami County; and in the fall of the following year moved his family to their new home. He was extensively engaged in growing and feeding stock, having an average herd of sixty steers and 200 hogs. In the fall of 1881, having purchased a farm of 110 acres lying adjacent to the village of Paola, on Section 9, he removed to this place, still retaining the ownership of the old farm in Wea. Mr. Hayes was soldier of the late war. He enlisted in September, 1861, as a private of Company I, Eighth Illinois Cavalry. Was promoted to the position of Orderly Sergeant of his company and served three years. Was attached to the army of the Potomac. He has held various positions of public honor and trust, the duties of which he has discharged with ability and fidelity. He was elected County Commissioner of Miami County in 1877 for one year; served that term, and was re-elected for the term of three years, serving in all four years.

A. W. HEATON, grocer, was born in Illinois and brought up in that State. He enlisted in 1862, in the Ninety-first Regiment Illinois Infantry and served until the close of the war. He was subsequently engaged in the mercantile business in Illinois. In 1881 he came to Paola and engaged in the grocery trade. He carries a complete stock of general groceries, queensware and provisions, of an average value of $4,000.

J. T. HIGHLEY, junior partner of the firm of Sheridan & Highley, publishers and proprietors of the Western Spirit, a weekly Democratic paper. Mr. Highley is a practical printer. He was born in Cass County, Mo., March 4, 1856, Came to Paola, Kan., with his parents in childhood, in 1858. He was educated in the Paola City schools and the State Normal School of Paola. When fifteen years of age he began learning the printer's trade in the office of the Paola Democrat; spent nine months in that office and then engaged in the office of the Western Spirit He then spent a year and a half as a journeyman printer on various Kansas City papers. Returning to Paola in 1878, he purchased an interest in the Spirit office June 14. The paper was then published under the firm name of Carroll, Clark & Highley. Subsequently Mr. B. J. Sheridan bought in, Messrs. Carroll and Clark retiring, since which time the paper has been published by Sheridan & Highley. Mr. Highley is a member of the present City Council, having been elected as Alderman from the First Ward at the municipal election 1882.

J. P. HINER, grocer, was born in New Jersey, came to Illinois in 1848, located in Stark County, and removed to Kansas in 1857. He made his home in Anderson County, and September, 1861, enlisted in the Second Kansas Cavalry; was attached to the Seventh Army Corps and served until May, 1865. On his return from the army he came to Paola, where he has continued to reside. In 1881, he began the grocery business with Mr. T. M. Dixon, under the firm name of Dixon & Hiner. Mr. Hiner bought out his partner's interest in September, 1882. He carries a full line of groceries, provisions, crockery and queensware, and is doing a very satisfactory business.

J. B. Hobson, real estate agent. Mr. Hobson is a pioneer of Miami County of 1857, and participated in the stormy scenes of the early times in this county. He was born in Indiana in 1831, lived in his native State till 1857, when he came to Kansas. He opened the first real estate office at Paola, and has been in business ever since. He was appointed the first Clerk of the District Court in 1858, under Buchanan's administration. The first term of court was held in the spring of 1859, Judge Williams presiding. He served till the admission of the State to the Union in 1861, was then out a short time, when he was re-appointed by Judge Thatcher, the first elected Judge of the district. During the war he did duty as a member of the Home Guards. Although a Democrat in politics he has been twice elected Mayor of the city.

WOODSON D. HOOVER, physician and surgeon. Is the pioneer practioner (sic)in his profession in this region; having come to Lykins County, now Miami, Kansas Territory in April, 1856, as assistant physician and surgeon to the Confederated School of Wea, Peorias' and other Indian tribes under Dr. David Lykins, then physician in charge of the missions at Paola. He was identified with the Pro-slavery party in the early troubles on the Kansas border and served as a member of the Lykins County Militia under Capt. Arbuckle. He was Post Surgeon at Paola during the late war. Dr. Hoover was born in Jessamine County, Ky., in 1834. He was educated at Lexington College, Ky. Began practice in Kentucky, and in 1856, came to Kansas. He has been one of the leading physicians and surgeons of this region for many years and has an extensive and lucrative practice. He has been prominently identified with the educational interests of Paola City and has been a member of the School Board eight years. He was elected Mayor of the city at the municipal election of 1883 on the Temperance ticket.

W. S. HOWARD, photo-artist, rooms north side of park, successor to C. W. Mangrum who established the business in 1868. Mr. Howard bought the gallery in March, 1880. He was born in Chautauqua County, N. Y., learned the photo business in New York in 1870; removed to Pennsylvania in 1873 and pursued the same business until 1880, when he came to Paola, and in March of that same year, bought out Mr. Mangrum, and has since carried on the business at this place. Mr. Howard is a thorough master of his business and does none but first class work. Does copying and enlarging and makes pictures in any style required.

W. HUMPHREY, druggist, was born in Iowa and brought up in his native State, learned the drug business and was engaged in trade in that line at Lenox, Iowa. In 1879 he came to Paola and established his present business. His stock in trade embraces a complete assortment of drugs, medicines, books, stationery and toilet articles. Mr. Humphrey is a member of the City Council.

REV. DANIEL J. HURLEY, resident priest of the Church of Holy Trinity, Paola. The subject of this sketch was born in Boston, Mass, July 5, 1854. He was educated at St. Vincent Seminary, Westmoreland County, Pa., under the management of the order of the Benedictine Fathers. He was ordained June 29, 1877, and assigned to the charge of the Church of the Holy Trinity at Paola. He proceeded to this place and entered upon the duties of his holy calling, August 15, 1877 succeeding Father J. Abel. The congregation of this church numbers about 300 souls. They have lately erected a fine brick church which is almost completed.

ROBERT M. HUSTON, farmer, Section 19, P. O. Paola, was born in Fayette County, Ind., in 1845, and was brought up a farmer. Came to Kansas in 1869 and purchased the fine farm of 320 acres he now occupies. He also has ten acres of timber adjoining town and another farm of 160 acres in Marshall County of this State. He was married in 1870 to Miss Nellie Mason. Returned to Indiana in 1873, without disposing of his Kansas property, and remained till the winter of 1880, when he returned to Kansas and located on his farm in Paola. 

ERNEST H. JACKSON, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Miami County, was born in Louisville, Ky., January 3, 1858. He came to Kansas with his parents in June, 1859. He was brought up on his father's farm in the town of Miami, Miami County. He received his primary education in the common schools; then took a course at the State University, and subsequently attended the Normal school at Paola, from which he graduated in 1881. He began teaching school in October, 1877, and with the exception of the winter of 1879, while he was attending the Normal school, he has taught continuously, winters, until this date. He was elected on the Democratic ticket in the fall of 1882 to the responsible position of Superintendent of Schools. Mr. Jackson is a gentleman of fine ability and culture, and has just entered upon the discharge of the duties of his office, being the first Democrat to hold that position in this county.

ANDREW JOYCE, farmer, section 23, P. O. Paola, was born in Ohio in 1829; moved to Mahaska County, Iowa in the fall of 1855; remained there until the spring of 1863, then returned to Jackson County, Ohio and in 1870 came to Miami County, Kansas, and engaged in farming. He has a fine farm of 510 acres one and a half miles southeast of the city of Paola.

LOUIS KNOCHE, farmer, Section 7, P. O. Paola, was born in Prussia, Germany, in 1829; was a farmer by occupation. Emigrated to America in 1854; made his home at Kansas City, Mo., til 1861. He then came to Paola and purchased his present farm of 160 acres of the Indian chief Baptiste Peoria. Mr. Knoche has served six years as Treasurer of the School Board of his district. During the late war he was enrolled as a member of the State Militia and served as a guard to protect the State from invasion by the Confederates.

JESSE LIGHT, farmer, Section 8, P. O. Paola. Mr. Light is one of the pioneers of Kansas of 1857; was born in Pennsylvania in October, 1820; went to Livingston County, N. Y. with his parents in childhood; was brought up as a farmer; followed that occupation til 1857. He then came to Kansas and purchased a quarter section of land in the town of Paola. The following year he brought his family to their new home. In 1859 he purchased his present farm of 46 acres of the Indian chief Baptists Peoria, and has since made this his home. During the late war he did military duty as a member of the Kansas militia.

AMOS W. LONG, Sheriff of Miami County, is a native of Pickaway County, Ohio, and was born in 1831. He was brought up in Ohio. He came to Kansas in 1859 and settled in Linn County. He served in the late war as a private of the Eighty-eighth Ohio Infantry, and served in Kansas during the border war, holding a commission of Captain of Company C, Sixth Kansas Militia, from 1863 to 1865. His father, Samuel Long, who was also a resident of Kansas, was killed during a raid by Price's men, October 26, 1864. Capt. Long was appointed Deputy United States Marshall and served four years., In 1866 he came to Paola and was elected Sheriff of Miami County in the fall of 1879; he was re-elected and is serving his second term.

H. N. MCLACHLIN, senior partner of McLachlin Bros., millers, was born in Washington County, N. Y. In 1839 went to St. Louis in boyhood and came to Kansas in March 1857, and located at Paola, then only an Indian trading post. He was engaged in the mercantile business several years. In 1865, he bought the old Government Barracks and started a furniture factory. The business not proving a success, he resumed business as a merchant, dealing in dry goods and groceries and subsequently in drugs and stationery. He continued in the latter until the spring of 1881 when he sold out and bought the mill property. Among his other ventures, Mr. McLachlin started a cheese factory, which he owned and operated about three years. He is one of the live business men of Paola.

MCLACHLIN BROS. proprietors of Paola Mills and dealers in grain. This firm was organized October 30, 1882. The property was purchased by H. M. McLaughlin in March 1881 and operated by himself until October 30, 1882, when his brother, T. S. bought in and the firm of McLaughlin Bros. was organized. The Paola Mills are fitted with four run of stone and two sets of rolls and the best modern machinery and have a capacity of 100 barrels of flour per day. They do a general custom business. An elevator for handling grain is attached to the mill. Their facilities for handling corn are extensive and complete. They have a large corn sheller capable of shelling 400 bushels per hour. At this date, November, 1882, they handle 3,000 bushels daily. A side track to the Missouri Pacific Railroad extends to their doors.

T. H. MCWILLIAMS, farmer and Superintendent of the Miami County Poor Farm or Infirmary, P. O. Paola. Received his first appointment in March, 1874; served four years; was re-appointed in March, 1881, and again in March, 1882 for two years. The poor farm is situated on the southeast quarter of Section 1, Township 17 north, Range 22 east, and contains 160 acres. There are sixty-five acres under cultivation, the balance being timber. The buildings are of brick and wood, and furnish accomodations for twenty-five inmates. The average number cared for is ten, at a cost of $1.75 each per week in addition to the farm products. The farm was established in 1866. Mr. McWilliams was born in Belmont County, Ohio in 1836, removed to Bureau County, Ill., in 1851 and in 1855, to Logan County. In 1866, he came to Miami County, Kan., and located in the town of Osawatomie, was engaged in farming there til he was appointed to his present position in 1874.

MALLORY ABBOTT & CO, hardware merchants. This firm is composed of C. H. Mallory, G. E. and W. C. Abbott. Mr. Mallory the senior partner, purchased the stock and began business in the spring of 1881, and in December, of the same year, sold an interest to G. E. and W. C. Abbott, and these gentlemen organized the firm of Mallory, Abbott & Co. They have a two story capacious brick store with a large wareroom in the rear. They carry a complete stock of hardware, stoves, tinware, iron, steel, fence, wire and wooden work and sewing machine. Their stock averages about $12,000 in value, and is one of the most extensive and complete in the county.

BENEDICK MILLER, carriage manufacturer, was born near Offenburg, Baden, Germany, March 21, 1836; emigrated with his parents to America in 1846, and when thirteen years of age began to fight the battles of life himself. He served a regular apprenticeship of five years at the carriage making trade-three years at Tiffin and two years at Cincinnati, Ohio, and became proficient in the business. In 1854 he engaged in the brewing business near Cincinnati, Ohio, and continued in that line a year and a half. He next worked in various places as journeyman carriage maker until 1860, when he engaged in carriage making at Kansas City, Mo.; not being in sympathy with the succession element of that city, he closed out his business the next spring and moved to Stanton, Miami Co., Kas., and established himself in business in the same line. In August, 1862, he enlisted in the Twelfth Kansas Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He then settled in Paola, and in July, 1865, organized a company for the purpose of doing a general wagon and carriage making business. The company was composed of B. Miller, Max. Miller, Isaac Rowcraft and E. C. Canfield, under the firm name of B. Miller, Bro., & Co. Mr. Canfield retired from the same on account of failing health. Mr. Rowcraft died in September, 1866, which left the firm B. Miller & Bro. Early in 1868 the firm erected the substantial brick buildings now in use by Mr. B. Miller. In the spring of 1869 the firm was operating in the new works with eighteen men. Their reputation for good work has brought them more work than they could handle. And here we want to say that Mr. Miller claims the honor of making the first wagon and the first buggy made south of the Kansas River, for which he chopped down the trees on his own land and spliced out the axles, tongue, bolster, and every piece pertaining to the wagon; hauled the logs to the sawmill with an ox team for the plank for the bed and felloes; built his own forge, dug and hauled his own coal, made the woodwork, ironed and painted the wagon, complete with his own hands- and as good a job as was ever completed and put on the road, in four months after cutting the trees. The wagon was sold to Dan. Shipman, and the buggy to ex-Sheriff W. P. Dutton, of Miami County; this work was done near Stanton. In 1861, the firm of B. Miller & Bro., also put the first carload of wagons across the Red River bridge into Texas on the M. K. & T. R. R. Mr. Max Miller retired from the business and devoted his attention to the manufacture of carriages, his business prospered, and in the spring of the long-to-be-remembered 1875, he erected five brick business rooms in one block of Paola that have many millions of the sprightly grasshoppers embalmed in the mortar used in construction. The buildings were completed, and proved a business success in spite of the threatened disaster. He has since enlarged his works, and now has the largest exclusive carriage factory west of St. Louis, Mo. Has a repository in Kansas City, a traveler on the road, and some thirty hands employed in his works and upwards of 300 carriages in his shop and warerooms, either finished or in the process of construction. He is prepared to supply any reasonable demand in his line. Mr. Miller has long been recognized as one of the foremost men in Paola. He has held various public positions, served as Mayor in 1876-77-78. He aided in founding the First National Bank of Paola, and was president of the Citizen's Building and Saving Association. Aided in founding the Bank of Paola, in which he is now a Director. He is also a charter member of the Commercial Mutual Insurance Company of Paola, and its vice-president. Mr. B. Miller is widely known throughout Kansas as one of the pluckiest, energetic and most honest business men of the State and enjoys as pleasant a home as there is in the State, surrounded by a large and healthy family, and his future ought to be bright.

HENRY A. MILLER, County Treasurer, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, March 26, 1849. He enlisted in the late war as a private of Company F, One Hundred and Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry., in July, 1862. He was promoted to First Sergeant and served three years. On his return from the army he came to Kansas and located at Spring Hill, Johnson County, where he was engaged in school teaching and farming, In 1868 he moved to Marysville, Miami County and pursued the occupation of a farmer. In 1879 he was elected Treasurer of Miami County. He was re-elected in 1881 and is now serving his second term.

GEORGE W. MITCHLER, merchant, senior partner of G. W. Mitchler & Sons, a wholesale and retail dealers in dry goods. Mr. Mitchler is one of the pioneer merchants of Kansas, and the house of which he is the head is the oldest and largest in Miami County. He began business in a small way in Kansas, at Leavenworth, in March, 1855, when that place consisted of only half a dozen shanties, and when he had to cover his stock with a tarpaulin to protect from the weather until he built a store. His was the second mercantile establishment at that point, Mr. Mitchler was born in Butler County, Ohio. When fifteen years of age he accompanied his father to Iowa. His father, being a merchant, brought him up to a thorough knowledge of the business. In March, 1855, he established himself in business at Leavenworth, Kas. Two years later he moved to a claim; sold out after one and a half years' residence and moved to Westport, Mo.; spent two years at that place and then came to Paola, Kas., in 1859 and established a general store and has carried on business continuously at this point to date-1883. He gradually enlarged his business as his circumstances would permit, and by always adopting conservative policy has weathered the several commercial storms that have wrecked so many Western merchants. In 1866 he changed the plan of his trade from a general store to strictly dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes, hats and caps. In 1878 he admitted his four sons into the business-Frank, Alvin, Edwin, and Charles-and formed the firm of G. W. Mitchler & Sons. This firm has a large double store and carries an average stock of $40,000.

DR. J. B. NEVIUS, dental surgeon, established his practice at Paola in the spring of 1866. He was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1835; moved to Indiana in 1840, and to Illinois in 1855. He studied dentistry at South Bend, Ind., in 1864 and '65 and in the spring of 1866 came to Paola, Kas., and opened an office. Dr. Nevius is the pioneer dentist of the city, he having opened the first dental rooms in the place and has been in practice here continuously since.

ISAIAH NICHOLSON, farmer and dealer in live stock, Section 16, P. O. Paola, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1830; was brought up a farmer, and when twenty-one years of age went to California (1851) where he was engaged in gold mining about five years. He returned to Ohio in 1857, and in the winter of 1858 and '59 came to Kansas and located in Johnson County, there he engaged in milling, operated both a grist and saw mill. In 1863 he moved to Stanton, Miami County, and engaged in farming and stock business, where he still owns a fine farm of 50 acres, adjoining the southeastern limits of the city. Mr. Nicholson devotes his attention to the feeding and dealing in cattle and hogs, and the management of his two fine farms.

W. G. OAKMAN, of the firm of Oakman & Clover, dealers in real estate. The present firm was organized in 1878. The junior partner, Mr. S. S. Clover, has been in business at Paola in the same line since 1864. Mr. Oakman is a native of Canada, and was born March 30, 1837. He came to the United States in 1850 and made his home at Lockport, N. Y. about two years, then removed to Detroit, Mich., where he remained nine years. He next moved to Western Michigan and in 1868 came to Kansas. He was back and forth between Michigan and Kansas for several years and in 1875 engaged in farming in Miami County. In 1878 he formed a partnership with Mr. Clover in his present business.

LESLIE J. PERRY, Postmaster of Paola, and editor and senior partner of the firm of Perry & Greason, publishers of the Miami Republican. Captain Perry was born in Cass County, Mich., July 15, 1843, son of Dr. Joseph W. Perry; removed to Wisconsin in boyhood, received a common school education and learned the printer's trade, going into the printing office as an apprentice at the early age of eleven years. When not quite eighteen years of age, he enlisted as a private soldier at Oshkosh, Wis., in Captain Bouck's Company E, Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, which afterwards was a portion of the famous "Iron Brigade" in the Army of the Potomac. At the disastrous battle of Bull Run, on the 21st of July, 1861, he was taken prisoner with about sixty others of his regiment, and remained a prisoner in the hands of the rebels for eleven months in the Richmond tobacco factories at Tuscaloosa, Ala. and Salisbury, N. C. After being paroled and finally exchanged, he rejoined his regiment shortly after Chancellorsville, and participated in the battle of Gettysburg, where he was slightly wounded in the knee. He also participated in General Meade's Mine Run campaign in November, 1863. In the winter of 1864 he re-enlisted as a veteran volunteer in Company D, Second Regiment Wisconsin Infantry, and was with his regiment at the battle of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, and in the first battles around Petersburg. With a small detachment of his brigade sent out in June, 1864, under Lieutenant Brooks, of the Sixth Wisconsin Infantry to burn the railroad bridge over the Stanton River, he was again made prisoner and held for nearly nine months in the terrible pens of Andersonville, Ga., and at Charleston and Florence, S. C. On being released early in the Spring of 1865, he rejoined his command, the remnants of which meanwhile had been consolidated with the Sixth Wisconsin, and took part in the brilliant victories at Five Forks, Sailors' Creek, Farmville, and Lee's surrender at Appamattox Court House. His regiment took part in the grand review of the armies at Washington in May, 1865, after the close of the war, and Captain Perry was mustered out of the service on the 6th day of July, 1865, having served four years and three months, having taken part in the first and last battles of the war in the Army of the Potomac. He was complimented by Governor Lucius Fairchild with a brevet as Captain for "distinguished gallantry at the battles of the Wilderness and again at Spotsylvania" On his return to his home in New London, Wis., not quite twenty-two years of age, he was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court of Waupaca County in the fall of 1865, he was re-elected in 1867, and served four years. In 1866 he, with a partner, began the publication of the Waupaca Criterion, A Republican newspaper, which they conducted until 1869. He then sold out and removed to Kansas, worked for short time as a compositor for John Speer, in the office of the Lawrence Daily Tribune In May, 1870, he purchased the Garnett Plaindealer, a Republican paper he conducted until December of that year. While in Garnett, he with A. A. Putnam, short time. In 1871, having disposed of his other interests, he purchased one-half of the Ottawa Journal but soon withdrew from that paper. About this time he also, in company of his brother, S. L. Perry, published the Thayer Criterion in April, 1871, he formed a partnership with Hon. Milton W. Reynolds and began the publication of the Sun newspaper in the then new town of Parsons, Kan. At the same time, as a silent partner with Stephen L. Perry and Charles M. Bright, he bought material and established the Western Spirit in Paola. The first number of the Spirit was issued June 8, 1871, from the basement of the Rainey Block. Personally he remained at Parsons until some time in August of that year, when, liking Paola and the outlook better in Miami County than Southern Kansas, he sold out his interest in the Parsons Sun to Hon. Angell Matthewson. He then came to Paola, purchased the interest of his partners in the Spirit and assumed personal control of the paper, which he continued to own and manage until May, 1878, when he sold out to Messrs. Carroll, Clarke, & Highley, and went into the patent outside publishing business in Kansas City. Through lack of sufficient means, Captain Perry failed in his Kansas City enterprises, losing all his capital and in 1879, he returned to Paola to begin life all over again. He purchased of Colonel Colton the Republican Citizen, a paper which had been started in his absence at Kansas City and continued to run it until the spring of 1880, when he purchased the Miami Republican of J. H. Rice & Sons, and consolidated the two papers, taking as a partner R. P. Rice, of which paper he is still half owner and editor. In 1882, W. D. Greason bought out Rice, and the Republican firm is now Perry & Greason. Captain Perry has always been a Republican and prominently identified with politics since coming to Kansas. In 1870 was chosen delegate to the Republican State Convention from Anderson County and was one of the Secretaries of that body. April, 1872, he was appointed Postmaster of Paola on the recommendation of Congressman David P. Lowe and Senator Pomeroy. He was re-appointed in 1876 through the influence of Senator Ingalls. After holding the office for six years, he resigned to go to Kansas City. In 1876 he was elected a delegate to the Republican State Convention from Miami County, and unanimously chosen Secretary of the Convention. Again, in 1880 he was elected a delegate to the Republican State Convention to choose delegates to the Republican National Convention and in 1882, he was a delegate to the Republican State Congressional Convention to nominate four candidates for Congressmen-at-large, and was also elected a delegate to the regular State Convention to nominate State officials later in the same year. In 1882, he was re-appointed Post master of Paola by President Arthur on the recommendation of Congressman D. C. Haskell and endorsed by both Senators Plumb and Ingalls. He took charge of the office July 1, 1882. Captain Perry was married in May, 1868, to Sarah L. Roberts, of Waupaca, Wis., the youngest daughter of R. R. Roberts, a wealthy merchant of that place.

WILLIAM T. POTTS grocer, began business in Paola, April 1, 1866, and has been in business continuously at that place ever since. Eleven years of this time, dating from the commencement, he was in partnership with G. S. Anderson. In 1877, they dissolved partnership, since which time Mr. Potts has conducted the business alone. He was born in England in 1839. Came to America in childhood, and lived in Missouri till 1861, when he removed to Illinois. He enlisted in the late war as a private of Company E, Seventy-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, August, 1862, and served till June, 1865. After the close of the war he returned to Illinois, where he remained till the following spring, when he came to Paola, Kansas, and entered upon his present business. Mr. Potts has a well stocked store of groceries, provisions, crockery and queensware, and is doing a prosperous business.

H. L. POULSON, M. D., homoepathic physician and surgeon, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, April 26, 1838. Emigrated to America in 1866; studied medicine with his brother at Council Bluffs, Iowa, took a regular course at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Missouri, and took his degree in 1878. He began practice at Council Bluffs, and remained at that point until 1881, when he removed to Onaga, Kansas, where he pursued his practice until the fall of 1882, when he removed to Paola. Dr. P. is the only physician of his school at this point.

BARNEY REED, proprietor of livery, sale and boarding stable, which business he established in the fall of 1877. He is also proprietor of Reed's Hotel. He keeps a good stock of horses and carriages and has a first-class stable. Mr. Reed is a native of Indiana, and has lived in Illinois and Iowa. He moved from the latter State to Paola, Kansas in 1866. He took possession of his hotel at the close of 1882 on the expiration of the lease of the former occupant, refitted and refurnished it and opened the same for business January 1, 1883. Mr. Reed keeps a first class house and is doing a good business.

ALBERT REICHARD, M. D., eclectic physician and surgeon, son of Dr. Valentine Reichard, was born in Washington County, Md., August 30, 1851. He attended the common schools of his native county, and completed his education at the Millersville (Pa.) Normal School. He then learned the carpenter trade and became a contractor and builder. He was employed also in teaching school during the winter season. In 1874 he came to Kansas and engaged in teaching in Miami County and also worked at this trade as a house builder, and contractor. In 1875 he returned to Maryland and studied medicine with his father a well known physician of Washington County. Returning to Miami County, Kansas he engaged in teaching during the winter season, and during the summer in contracting and building. In 1879 he went East and took a regular course at the Electic Medical Institute of Cincinnati. After three years attendance he graduated in June, 1881, taking the highest honors in a class of 113. His record shows 100 on every head he was examined and he was awarded a gold medal as a compliment to his high scholarship. Immediately after receiving a diploma, he returned to Kansas and established himself in practice at Paola. Dr. Reichard was married, October 10, 1882, at Paola. Having completed and taken possession of a tasty and commodious residence and being the owner of a fine farm in Miami County, Dr. Reichard may safely be set down as one who has come to stay. Of his high career as a physician, he may well be pleased with the splendid practice acquired in so short a time. His brilliant success is no more than a just tribute to his superior ability and skill in his profession.

JOHN MILLEN ROBERTS, farmer, Section 7, P. O. Paola. Mr. Roberts is one of the pioneer settlers of 1858. He was born in Sparta, Livingston Co, N. Y. in 1826, was brought up a farmer and immigrated to Lykins County (now Miami), Kas., in 1859. He purchased his present farm of the Indian chief Baptiste Peoria. His title was disputed by the wife and sons of the chief, and after a tedious litigation lasting six years his title was confirmed in the United States Courts, the Indian chief being his best witness. Mr. Roberts participated in the defense of Kansas from invasion during the late war, being a member of a company of the State troops during the years of 1862, 1862 and 1864. He has served as County Commissioner. He has a fine farm of 305 acres situated just west of the village of Paola.

EZRA W. ROBINSON, Probate Judge of Miami County, was born in Erie County, N. Y. May 15, 1830. He moved to Illinois with his parents in 1840; was educated in the common schools and at the Mount Morris Seminary. He learned the carpenter trade and worked at that occupation in various cities in the South and West. In 1852 he returned to his home in Sycamore, Ill., was appointed Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court, a position which he held two and a half years, reading law at the same time in the office of Hon. John L. Beveridge. He was subsequently employed in various pursuits til March, 1857, when he removed to Lykins County (now Miami), Kas. He was an enthusiastic Free-state man. Was in attendance at the Grasshopper Falls Free State Convention and took an active part in securing to Kansas a Free-state constitution. He was elected Register of Deeds of Lykins County in 1857 and served two years; was appointed Clerk of the District Court in 1858, holding both offices. In 1859 he was elected Clerk of the District Court, which office he held til 1862, when he resigned to enter the army. He was appointed Adjutant of the Cherokee Regiment by President Lincoln and continues in the service about two years. After the close of the war he engaged in farming near Paola. In 1872 he was elected Probate Judge of Miami County and has been re-elected each term since to this date (1883). Judge Robinson was an original Free-state man, voted for Fremont in 1856 and has ever since been a Republican.

N. J. ROSCOE, one of the pioneers of Kansas in 1855, now deputy Treasurer of Miami County. He was born in Essex County, N. Y. December 3, 1820. He received a liberal education and fitted himself for the profession a surveyor and civil engineer. He came to Kansas in the spring of 1855 in company with J. M. Winchell, located at what is now Burlingame, where he surveyed and platted the village which was then called Council City. In the fall of the same year he came to Miami County, just then organized and located at Osawatomie, where he identified himself with the Free-state men and participated with John Brown in the struggle to keep Kansas a free Territory. He engaged in land surveying and for eight years was County Surveyor of Miami County. During the war he was Chief Clerk of the Quartermaster's Department at Fort Scott, with the rank of First Lieutenant. In 1876 he moved to Paola and accepted the position of Deputy County Treasurer, which position he has held continuously to this date.

ADOLPH ROTH, proprietor of Paola bakery and restaurant, dealer in confectionery, toys and notions. Mr. Roth established his business in July, 1873 and is the oldest establishment of the kind in the city. He is a practical baker and confectioner, having large tasty apartments. He can entertain fifty guests at a time. Mr. Roth was born in Germany, where he served a regular apprenticeship to the baker's and confectioner's trade. In 1870 he immigrated to America, and came direct to Kansas City and from there to Paola, Kan., in June, 1871. He worked as a journeyman until 1873, and then started in his present business. 

CYRUS SHAW, was born in Hamilton, Ohio, March 8, 1829. He was educated in the common schools of Indiana and brought up on a farm until eighteen years of age. He then entered a store as a merchant's clerk and was soon in business for himself. In 1854, he came to Kansas, located at Paola where he served for some time as clerk in the store of the noted Indian chief Baptiste Peoria. He was subsequently engaged in mercantile business for himself about two years. He was elected the first Treasurer of Lykins County, now Miami. In 1858 he received a contract for carrying the mail between Kansas City and Fort Scott. He ran the first four horse stage over that route and continued that business four years. He was subsequently engaged in milling at Paola. He was elected County Commissioner in 1867. Was re-elected and held the position until 1871. He has been connected with the Miami County Bank since February, 1879, in the capacity of bookkeeper.

AUGUST SHERMAN, junior partner of Edmiston & Sherman, liverymen was born in Prussia, in 1848, and came to America in 1855. He made his home at first in Warren County, Mo., and moved to Paola, Kan., in 1868, and has been a resident of this place since. He formed a partnership in the livery business with Mr. M. B. Edmiston in October, 1879.

G. H. SHERMAN, watchmaker and jeweler, established his business in Paola in 1868. He was born in the State of New York. When ten years of age moved to Rock County, Wis., learned the watchmaker's trade, at Beloit, then removed to Rockford, Ill., where he worked at his trade. He subsequently returned to Wisconsin and engaged in business in his line at Ripon. In 1868, he came to Paola and entered into business. With the exception of about three years, when he was in poor health, he has been in business here continuously. Mr. Sherman carries a general stock of watches, jewelry and silverware and does all work in his line.

B. J. SHERIDAN, editor of the The Western Spirit is of Irish descent; was born in Armstrong County, Pa., August 27, 1852; located with his parents in Miami County, Kan., in 1859, where, with the exception of eight years, he has ever since resided. His educational training was wholly in the common schools. At the age of sixteen he commenced teaching and continued for several years. In November, 1875, he married Ella Wise. Twice the Democratic candidate for County Clerk; he was elected, and declining renomination, closed his official term in January, 1882. Since 1880 he has had an interest in The Western Spirit and at present is half owner and editor.

JOHN C. SHERIDAN, County Attorney, was born in Pennsylvania, June 22, 1854, and came to Kansas with his parents in 1858, and located near Paola; in the fall of 1860 moved to Missouri and from there to Wisconsin during the first year of the war. Subsequently to Ohio and returned to Paola, Kan., in 1868. Mr. Sheridan was educated at the State University of Michigan and graduated from the law department in 1879; he was admitted to practice in the courts of Michigan, and returned to Paola to practice his profession. He was elected and served as City Attorney of this place for 1881-82; at the fall election of the latter year, he was elected County Attorney of Miami County.

HON. BENJAMIN F. SIMPSON, United States Marshall for the District of Kansas, was born in Belmont County, Ohio in 1836. Received an academic education and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He came to Kansas in the spring of that year and located at Paola, where he has since resided. He was elected County Attorney of Miami County in 1858. In 1859 he was chosen a delegate to the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention and in 1860 was elected to the Territorial Legislature. Upon the admission of Kansas to the Union he was chosen Attorney General, which position he resigned in July, 1861 to enter the army, where he served a a Captain and Major of cavalry, and was mustered out with his regiment in October, 1865. Within a month after his return from the war he was elected to the State Senate. He was chosen a delegate to the National Republican Convention which met at Chicago in 1868 and served upon the committee on resolutions in that body. In 1870 he was elected to the House of Representatives and was Speaker of the House during the session of 1871-72. He was elected delegate to the National Republican Convention at Philadelphia and was chairman of the Kansas delegation. In the fall of 1876 he was elected to the State Senate as a Republican and was chairman of the committee on judiciary of that body. April 9, 1877 he was appointed by the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of the Commission to revive the statues of the State. He was appointed United States Marshall for the District of Kansas in 1878 and at this writing, 1882, is still holding that position. Mr. Simpson's record shows that he has been successful in the practice of his profession. That as a soldier he won a honorable promotion, while in the political field he has been equally successful, having held important public trust, and repeatedly represented his party in State and National Conventions.

SAMUEL R. SMITH, president of the Bank of Paola, was born in Tioga County, Pa., came to Kansas in 1863 and located at Osawatomie, Miami County. He was elected County Treasurer in 1875, and came to Paola in discharge of his duties. He was re-elected and served two terms. In June, 1881, he was instrumental in organizing the Bank of Paola and was elected its president, a position he still holds. The Bank of Paola was organized under the general laws of Kansas, in June, 1881, with a capital of $50,000 which at this writing is all paid up. Mr. Samuel R. Smith was elected president and George P. Graham cashier. Mr. Graham resigned his position and was succeeded July 1, 1882, by Mr. J. A. Gilmore, the present efficient cashier. The bank, although young, is classed among the solid financial institutions of the State and has built up a successful business.

R. G. STEWART, farmer, Section 28, P. O. Paola, was born in Warren County, Ohio, in July, 1814. He was brought up a farmer and emigrated to Kansas in the spring of 1869. He settled on the beautiful farm he now occupies, which lies adjacent to the village of Paola. Being situated on an elevated tract his residence commands a fine view of the village and surrounding country. The farm proper and lands adjacent belonging to his sons embrace 788 acres. He also owns 160 acres four miles north of La Cygne, in Miami County. He has four sons, Flavins A. who was a soldier of the late war, Cassius N., John C., and Ivy V., all residents of Miami County.

JUSTICE C. TAYLOR, County Clerk, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, in July, 1844. When in his seventeenth year, April, 1861, he enlisted on the first call for troops in the late war, as a private of Company A., Third Ohio Infantry (three months' men). At the expiration of his term of enlistment, he re-enlisted in August, 1861 as a private of Company B. First Ohio Cavalry for three years and served in all three years and seven months. On his return to Ohio he studied dentistry and practiced that profession in his native State until December, 1865, when he emigrated to Kansas, and established himself in practice at Paola. One year later he engaged in the marble business. He was subsequently employed as clerk in the Miami County Bank, about three years, and also held the office of City Clerk several years. In the fall of 1881 he was elected to his present position, Clerk of Miami County.

JOHN L. VICKERS, deceased, Section 23, P. O. Paola, has a well-cultivated farm of 140 acres. Mr. Vickers was born in Dorchester County, Md., in 1827. He was brought up a farmer and moved to Illinois in 1854, and from there to Kansas in 1857. He reached Paola April 16th of that year. He spent two years in Paola village, two years near Spring Hill of this county and then purchased and moved onto his present farm, During the late war he was enrolled a member of Captain Wagstaff's Company of Kansas Militia and did guard duty in protecting the State from raids of the enemy. He died in 1883.

J. E. WALLACE, druggist and dealer in musical instruments, established his business in 1876, and carries an average stock of $7,000. He was born in Delaware, and came to Paola in 1870. He served five years as clerk with Mr. George Mitcheler; was elected Clerk of the District Court in 1875 and resigned in 1876, to go into the drug business with Mr. McLachlin, under the firm name of McLachlin & Wallace. In 1881 he bought out Mr. McLaughlin and has since operated alone. He has a well stocked store of drugs, patent medicines, stationary and musical instruments.

JUDGE WILLIAM R. WAGSTAFF, Judge of the tenth Judicial District of Kansas. The subject of this sketch was born in Allegheny County, Pa., July 18, 1823, son of James and Eva (Ross) Wagstaff. His forefathers were soldiers of the Revolutionary War and of the War of 1812. He went with his parents to Southeastern Ohio, received his primary education in the common schools and subsequently took a four-years course in the Muskingum College, New Concord, Pa. He studied law at Cambridge, Ohio, in the office of Rennon & White, and was admitted to practice in 1849 at Wooster, Wayne County, at a session of the supreme court of Ohio. He at once entered upon the practice of his profession as a full partner of his former preceptor, Mr. J. M. White. He continued this connection one year, when he purchased the Guernsey Jeffersonian a Democratic paper, which he conducted with marked success, two years. He then sold out and re-sumed the practice of his profession in company with Mr. Mathew Gaston at Cambridge. He continued this connection until 1857, when he sold out and immigrated to Kansas, then a sparsely settled territory whole people were agitated and turbulent over the question of the extension or non-extension of slavery into the Territories. He arrived here in January, 1857, and spent the first year in travel throughout the Territory. He located near Paola in the spring of 1858, where he started a saw-mill and purchased considerable property. He opened a law office in Paola and entered upon the practice of his profession. He was appointed General Agent for the town site of Paola. He formed a law partnership with Mr. B. F. Simpson, which continued until 1861, and was then dissolved by Mr. Simpson entering the army. He was elected, on the Democratic ticket in 1859, a member of the Territorial Legislature, representing the counties of Linn and Miami, defeating the celebrated James Montgomery for that office., although the balance of the Democratic tickets was defeated by about 880 votes. He served on important committees, and took a prominent part in the business of the session. He was re-elected in 1861, without opposition, to represent Linn, Miami and Bourbon counties. He was one of the Board of Managers on the impeachment of State officers, and made the opening argument on the final trial of the Secretary of State. In 1862, he was a candidate for Governor on the anti-Lane ticket, but was defeated by Thomas Carney, the Republican nominee. He has been chosen, at different times, the Democratic candidate for Associate Judge, and for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. During the war, he was Aid-de-Camp on the staff of Gov. Robinson, and under his authority organized a force in defense of Kansas, and served from the beginning til the winter of 1864. He was one of the original corporators of the Mo. R., Ft. S. & G. R. R. and for five years was a prominent director of its management; during the two years its regular attorney. In 1881, he was elected Judge of the Tenth Judicial District, defeating Judge Stevens, the regular Republican nominee and is the first Democrat elected a Judge of the District Courts of Kansas. Garfield's majority in the district was 7,000. Judge Wagstaff carried it by 112, having a name endorsement in Miami County of 700. He is a Mason of forty years standing. Has been master of Paola Lodge No. 37 ten years and is a R. A. M.

JOHN WHERRELL, Principal and General Superintendent of the Normal and City schools. Mr. W. is a native of Wiltshire, England and was born in 1843. He emigrated to America in 1854, and located in Canada, where he remained for nine years. In 1863 he moved to Buffalo, N. Y. and completed his education in the high schools of that city, and in the Buffalo University. He began his career as a teacher in one of the graded schools of Buffalo in 1867. He taught there two years and came to Kansas in 1869. He taught the natural sciences in the Leavenworth High School until 1871, when on the completion of the State Normal School of that city, he was appointed to the same position in that institution. During the last three years of the existence of that school, he served as its President. In 1876 he was elected Superintendent of the city schools of Leavenworth; held the position for two years, and was elected for the third term and resigned to come to Paola, and accepted his present position. Mr. W. has virtually assumed the responsibility of making the schools of this town a success, under the peculiar terms of his contract with the city. He has a lease of the building for ten years, five of which are now past, and under his management the arrangement has proven an entire success (see sketch of city and Normal school).

L. D. WHITE, of the firm of White & Roscoe, druggists, was born in Tennessee. Came to Kansas in 1857 while only a child, and has resided in this State continuously since. He formed a partnership with Dr. Gossett, in the drug business, under the firm name of White & Gossett. In 1882, Dr. Gossett retired from the business and Mr. Roscoe was taken as a partner in his stead, and the firm became White & Roscoe. The junior partner, Mr. Roscoe, was born in Osawatomie, Kan., in 1859, and has been a resident of Paola about five years.

JAMES C. WOODROW, Agent of the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf R. R. was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1848. When ten years of age he removed to Illinois, and from there to Indiana. He enlisted in August, 1862, in Company F, Seventy-third Indiana, as a private. Was promoted to First Lieutenant and served three years, or until the close of the war. He was captured near Rome, Ga., May 3, 1863; was held at Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. one year. Was then removed to Macon, Ga., thence to Charleston, S. C. where he, in company with a number of other Union officers, was placed under fire during the bombardment of that city by the United States forces. He was next removed to Columbia, S. C. from whence he escaped and after three weeks was re-captured and was next taken to Charlotte and repeated his experience of Columbia; and being re-captured, he was next removed to Goldsborough and paroled in May, 1865. Soon after the war closed he located at Coldwater, Mich., he came to Ottawa, Kas., in 1867, remaining two years, then going to Independence, Kas., living there until 1877, being one of its oldest settlers. He then went to Kansas City, Mo., and entered the service of the K. C. F. S. & G. R. R. and continued in the Kansas City office until June 12, 1882, when he was assigned to his present position in Paola. 

REV. SAMUEL L. ADAIR, minister of the Congregational Church, Section 9, Township 18, Range 22, Osawatomie. Mr. Adair is one of Osawatomie's very earliest settlers, and one of her most honored and respected citizens. He was born in Ross County, Ohio, April 22, 1811. His early life was passed on a farm. At the age of seventeen years he was apprenticed to a wholesale wagon and blacksmithing shop, served his apprenticeship and continued in the establishment five years. He then attended the Western Reserve College and completed his studies at Oberline College and graduated in 1838. He also took a regular course at the Congregational Theological College, graduated and was ordained a minister of the denomination in 1841. He began preaching at Sandyville, also at Bolivar, Ohio. Next went to Dundee, Mich., where he had a charge some two and a half years. In 1845, he went to Maumee City, where he spent nearly five years, during two of which he was Principal of the city schools. He next went to Lafayette, Ohio, where he preached four years. In the fall of 1854, came to Osawatomie where he purchased a claim, pre-empted the northeast quarter of Section 9, Township 18, Range 22. He organized the Congregational Church in Osawatomie in 1856, and has been except three years, the resident pastor of the congregation continuously since. During the late war he was chaplain of the general Hospital of Kansas two years by appointment of the Government. He also spent one year with the Christian Commission of Kansas. He was trustee for the Asylum for the Insane six years, from 1867 to 1873. In 1876, he was appointed Chaplain of the asylum and has served in that capacity continuously since. Mr. Adair was married at Hudson, Ohio, November 24, 1841, to Miss Florella Brown, daughter of Owen Brown, and half sister of John Brown, the great champion of freedom. Mrs. Adair was born in Ohio. Seven children were born to them, two sons and five daughters, of whom only three are living. the eldest Charles, S., married and lives in Osawatomie Township; Henry M., died, aged three and a half years; Emma F., is the wife of J. B. Remington, of Osawatomie Township, two of their daughters died in infancy; Addie E. teaches under the New West Educational Society at Las Vegas, N. M.; the youngest child, a daughter, died in childhood. Mrs. Adair died in Leavensworth, in February, 1865, while Mr. Adair was in that city on business, in connection with the Christian Commission. Mr. Adair resides in the old house, which he built in pioneer days and which is rich to him in memories of the turbulent times when his brother-in-law, John Brown, often enjoyed his hospitality and protection, and where he enjoyed the companionship of wife and children.

CALVIN BARNARD, farmer, Section 28, Township 18, Range 22, P. O. Osawatomie, is one of the very earliest settlers of this region, and one of the most respected citizens of Miami County. He was born in Guilford County, N. C., October 10, 1819. Although born in the South, he was of New England parentage, his father having immigrated to North Carolina from Massachusetts. Mr. Barnard was brought up a farmer, and in 1830, moved to Wayne County, Ind., thence to rush County of the same State, in 1836, and to Kansas in 1856, by team, arriving in Osawatomie Township June 4th. Being a member of the Society of Friends, he took no part in the troubles of the early days nor later in the war between the States. He has held various civil offices. He was Township Trustee in 1868 and 69, and was elected County Commissioner in 1869, served two years and was defeated on the railroad issue in the succeeding election. He was married in Indiana, October 31, 1844, to Miss Lucinda F. Macy, daughter of Thomas Macy, of Nantucket Island. Mrs. Barnard was born in North Carolina. Their family consists of three sons. Thomas E., is married and lives in Cherokee County, Kan.,; Addison L. is married and lives in Osawatomie Township: the youngest, Horace G. is married and lives in this township. Mr. Barnard has 350 acres of land and resides at the place where he built his first cabin.

CHARLES BIRCHARD, of the firm of Harden & Birchard, proprietors of livery, sale and boarding stable, was born in Linn County, Kan., in December 14, 1859. When three years of age moved to Osawatomie with his parents and has made this his home ever since. He began the battle of life working out by the month when only eight years of age, and has hoed his own row from that time out. Messrs. Harden & Birchard established their business at Osawatomie in 1877. They have a roomy, commodious stable, about twenty good horses, and a suitable lot of carriages. A tasty hearse is one important feature in the outfit.

DANIEL BRENEMAN, book-keeper of the Kansas State Asylum for the Insane, was born in Dauphine County, Pa., December 18, 1847. received a common school and business education and engaged in book-keeping in a banking house. He came to Kansas in 1872 and located at Leavenworth, where he was employed as a book-keeper for four years. He held that position in the First National Bank of Leavenworth. He was appointed to his present position July 1, 1879. Mr. B., like the other officers and employees of the asylum is capable and efficient in his department.

REV. DAVID H. BUNDY, farmer and Methodist minister, Section 1, Township 18, Range 22, P. O. Osawatomie, was one of the pioneers of Miami County (then Lykins) of 1855. He was born in Randolph County, Ind., March 19, 1834. Was brought up in his native state and in the spring of 1855 came to Kansas with his parents. Spent the summer at Lawrence, and in the fall of that year came to Miami County, and located in the south part of the township of Stanton, on the banks of the Marais des Cygnes River, at what is still known as Bundy's Ford. Mr. Bundy soon became acquainted with John Brown and being an earnest Free-state man he joined Brown in some of his expeditions against the Pro-slavery men. When Reed marched on Osawatomie on the memorable 29th of August, 1856, Mr. Bundy witnessed the advance and return of the Pro-slavery forces but was unable to participate in the fight. He was an explorer and mission preacher for the Methodist mission, and while serving in that capacity traveled extensively in Kansas and Nebraska. At one time while he was holding service in the log cabin near Lane, know as John Brown's cabin, his congregation was composed principally of Proslavery men armed with revolvers and guns. While they listened with respectful attention and departed in peace, John Brown lay secreted in the loft, separated from his enemies by only a few loose boards. Mr. Bundy was married April 7, 1859, at Osawatomie to Miss Mary A, Littlejohn, a daughter of John Littlejohn, a Free-state pioneer of Kansas of 1855. They have five children, four sons and a daughter, Emma B., wife of Dr. S. A. Day of Osawatomie, William A., Henry D., Wesley L. and Ralph. Mr. Bundy moved to his present farm in 1869, returned to Stanton again, and came back to this place in 1879. He has served as Justice of the Peace in this county fourteen years.

JOHN C. CHESTNUTT, senior partner of John C. Chestnut & Bro., merchants, was born in Scotland, in 1840. Came to America with his parents in 1842, resided in Connecticut til 1854. The family then immigrated to Miami County, Kas., his father Wm. Chestnut, located on the southwest quarter of Section 11, Township 18, Range 22, a portion of which is now embraced in the town platt of Osawatomie. A large portion of the father's original claim is now property of the son, John C. John C. enlisted in the late war as a private of the Third Kansas Infantry, afterward consolidated into the Tenth. On his return from the army he engaged as merchant's clerk and in 1874 in company with his brother, William established their present extensive business. This firm carry a $15,000 stock of general merchandise at the old stand, and have recently purchased the extensive general store of Mr. H. B. Smith adjacent, which carried on under the firm name of Wm. Chestnut & Co.

WILLIAM CHESTNUTT, SR., one of the early pioneers of Miami County, now resident of California, was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1816. He was a weaver by trade, and followed that business until 1842, when he immigrated with his family to America. On arriving in this country he made his home in Connecticut, where he worked at his trade til 1854. He then immigrated to Kansas Territory and located on the southwest quarter of Section 11, Township 18, Range 22 east; a portion of which tract was platted and is now a part of the village of Osawatomie, Miami County, and built the first frame house in that town. The greater part of the original claim is now property of his son, John C. Mr. Chestnut although an earnest believer in the principles of the State's rights men did not take a conspicuous part in the struggles of his first years in Kansas. He was a lover of peace and was not in sympathy with the many violent scenes occurring about him. At the first election he was the only Free-state man on the Board of elections. As a great number of fraudulent votes were polled he refused to sign the returns. He was a member of the Free-state Military Company and twice elected a member of lower House of the Kansas Legislature. His principle business was farming but believing that the manufacture of salt could be profitably conducted here He engaged extensively in that business, being the first to undertake such an enterprise in this section of the state. The venture proved unprofitable and the business was abandoned after a trial of three years. In 1874 he moved to Chicago and from there to California in 1880.

WILLIAM CHESTNUTT, JR, of the firm of Wm. Chestnut & Co. and of J. C. Chestnut & Bro., general merchants, was born in Ulster County, N. Y. in 1844. His parents were from Scotland and had immigrated to America in 1842. In 1854 he in company with his family came to Kansas and located at Osawatomie. He witnessed the turbulent scenes of 1856 but was too young to participate in them. April, 1862, he enlisted as a private of Company K, Second Kansas Cavalry, and served three years and two months in the late war. He spent some years in the wilds of the Western territories. Returning to Osawatomie he engaged in mercantile business with his brother, J. C. in 1874, under the firm name of J. C. Chestnut & Bro. They have a large well stocked general store, carrying an average stock of $15,000. In October, 1882, they purchased the stock of general merchandise of Mr. H. B. Smith and organized the firm of Wm. Chestnut & Co. The latter business is conducted at the old Smith stand under the management of Wm. Chestnut. Their average stock in this store is about $10,000.

S. A. DAY, M. D., physician and surgeon, was born in Indiana, came to Kansas with his parents in the fall of 1866, and located in Miami County. He studied medicine at the medical college at Kansas City, from which he graduated in 1879. He at once established himself in practice at Osawatomie and is gradually building up a satisfactory business.

HENRY M. DOWNS, M. D., Second-Assistant Physician to the Kansas State Asylum for the Insane at Osawatomie. Dr. Downs was born in Wyandotte County, Kan., in 1858. Was educated at Ann Arbor, Mich., at the Michigan State University. He took his degree at the medical department of the University in 1880 and began practice at Kansas City, Mo. He was appointed physician and surgeon of the Missouri Pacific Railway and held that position one year, or until he was appointed to his present position in August, 1881. Dr. Downs is a promising young physician, whose career is only well begun. He is now serving his second year at the asylum, where his ability in his profession and general courteous bearing have won him many friends.

JOHN R. EVERETT, farmer, Section 22, Township 18, Range 22, P. O. Osawatomie, a pioneer of Kansas of 1854, was born in Wales; immigrated to America in childhood, made his home in Oneida County, N. Y. til 1854, when he came to Kansas, arriving in Osawatomie in June of that year. He made a claim on Section 22, and has resided in this township ever since. He now has a fine stock farm of 285 acres, situated in the bottoms. He was married in New York, in 1852, to Miss Sarah M. Colgrove, of Pennsylvania. He has one son living, John E., born in Kansas in 1863. Mrs. Everett died in 1864. Mr. Everett was elected the first Clerk of School District No. 57, and held that office til the fall of 1881.

W. D. GEAR, Supervisor of the Kansas State Asylum for the Insane, was born in Pennsylvania in 1851, was brought up in that State and engaged in teaching school. In 1870, he came to Kansas and located at Garnett. He pursued the occupation of teacher til July, 1874, when he was appointed Supervisor at the asylum. Mr. Gear has proven himself an efficient officer, the fact that he is now serving his ninth year as supervisor is conclusive evidence that he has discharged the duties of his position in a satisfactory manner.

COL. G. H. HUME, farmer and inventor, Section 19, Township 18, Range 22, P. O. Osawatomie, is a pioneer of Kansas of 1857. He was born of Scotch parentage, July 16, 1826. Removed to Buffalo while a child and was brought up in that city. He received a liberal education and engaged as salesman in a mercantile house. After following that vocation several years he emigrated to Davenport, Iowa, and engaged in steamboating on the Mississippi River. Spent four years in that business and during this time was master of the steamer Enterprise and of the Osceola. In 1857, he came to Kansas. he spent some time at Paola and then purchased a farm of 380 acres in Miami Township, where he made his home. On the breaking out of the late war he enlisted May 8, 1861. Organized Company E, of the Missouri Home Guards, and was mustered into the Kansas Volunteer service September 15 of the same year. He helped organize the Ninth Kansas Cavalry and was commissioned First Lieutenant commanding company. The company was disbanded March 1862. Lieutenant Hume was then commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the Kansas State Troops, still retaining his First Lieutenant commission in the United States service. He continued in active service until the close of the war. Col. Hume was an efficient officer, cool and determined. He won the respect and regard of his command during the war. As is well-known, the Kansas and Missouri border was the scene of many battles and outrages. Vicious men took advantage of the situation to plunder and to do violence, regardless of the politics of their victims. In dealing with this class Col. Hume exercised his authority to the utmost in behalf of decency and honorable warfare. In politics, always a Democrat, he was one of the few officers who while doing their duty as soldiers claimed the right to vote according to their conviction. Col. Hume was married in Kansas, December, 1858, to Miss Rebecca daughter of Tilden Shipley. Mrs. Hume was born in Illinois. They have seven children, four sons and three daughters-Alexander H., Franklin G., Edgar G., John S., Rose, Viola and Emma. After the close of the war, Col. Hume devoted his attention to farming until the spring of 1872. He then moved to Pennsylvania and engaged in the hardware business. In 1875 he sold out and purchased his present farm of 320 acres in Osawatomie Township and has continued to make that his home. He has devoted considerable attention to mechanical inventions and is the inventor and patentee of the celebrated Hume's Fire Escape.

L. W. JACOBS, M. D., physician and surgeon, was born in Virginia in 1844. He took a regular course at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, from which he graduated in the spring of 1868. He began practice in Baltimore, Md., but removed to Paola til 1870; he then came to Osawatomie and has since practiced in this place and vicinity. He served a term as Superintendent of the State Asylum for the Insane at Osawatomie. Dr. Jacobs has a large and increasing practice and is one of the popular physicians of Miami County.

DR. A. H. KNAPP, Superintendent of the Kansas State Asylum for the Insane. Dr. Knapp was born in Scholarie County, N. Y. in 1829. While quite young he moved with his parents to Ulster County. He took a regular course at Rush Medical College, Chicago, and graduated in 1852. He practiced his profession in the State of New York, seventeen years and then moved to Ottawa, Kan.(1870) He practiced in that city until 1873, when he was appointed to the responsible position he now holds. In 1876, he resigned his position, but in the fall of 1878, he was re-elected and has continued to serve as Superintendent to this date. Dr. Knapp is peculiarly well qualified for the position he holds, thoroughly skilled in his profession, he has made a specific study of diseases of the brain. Cheerful and kind-hearted in his intercourse with everyone, systematic and through in everything, it is only necessary to visit the asylum and inspect its workings to be satisfied that he is the right man in the right place, and that he is supported by a corps of competent assistants.

JOHN A. LESSENDEN, farmer, Section 27, Township 18, Range 22, P. O. OSAWATOMIE, was born in England in 1834; immigrated to America in 1848; spent two years in New York, and moved to Illinois in 1850; then to Iowa in 1859; and from Iowa to Kansas in 1876. He came direct to Osawatomie township and purchased the old Richard Mendenhall place on Section 27.This farm is historic, having been one of the earliest places settled in the township and during John Brown's time was one of the stations of the Underground Railway. Mr. Lessenden now has a fine farm of 287 acres. He was elected Trustee of this township in 1882, and re-elected in 1883. He was married in Iowa, September 30, 1858, to Miss Olive Hanson, daughter of John E. Hanson. Mrs. Lessenden was born in Maine. They have four children, two sons and two daughters-Orin E., Ella J., Arthur and Olive A.

A. F. MEEK, druggist, was born and brought up in Indiana; came to Kansas in 1874; was engaged in teaching school for several years, making his home near Louisburg, Miami County. In October, 1879, he started in his present business at Osawatomie. He carries a general stock of drugs, medicines, books and stationery. He is the only dealer in Osawatomie who keeps a full line of school books.

HENRY PARKER, first engineer and master mechanic of Kansas Asylum for the Insane, was born in England in 1834; learned the trade of practical engineer in his native country; immigrated to America in 1868. He located in Illinois and served four years as engineer at the Soldiers' Orphan Home at Normal. He then bought a farm in Kansas and devoted his attention to agriculture until 1873, when he accepted the position he now holds. Mr. Parker is a thorough mechanic, and discharges the duties of his responsible position with ability and fidelity. He is now serving his tenth year at the asylum.

HENRY B. SMITH, dealer in stock and grain, senior member of the firm of H. B. Smith & Co. Mr. Smith was born in Tioga County, Pa., in 1832, where he was brought up. About 1855, he went to Iowa, where he spent some two or three years. Went from there to Illinois, and soon after came to Kansas reaching the State in 1858. Soon after reaching this place (Osawatomie) he engaged in mercantile business. He opened the first hardware store in Miami County, which he located at Osawatomie. He also furnished the stock for the first hardware store in Paola. Mr. Smith has been in business continuously at Osawatomie since 1858 to this date. October, 1882, he sold out his stock of general merchandise to J. C. and William Chestnut, and is now engaged in the stock and grain trade. Mr. Smith was a member of the Kansas State Militia and served during the Price raid. He has served two terms in the Lower House of the Kansas Legislature, 1866 and 1871.

CAPT. REUBEN SMITH, Steward of the Kansas State Asylum for the Insane, at Osawatomie. Capt. Smith was born in England; immigrated to America in 1853, and made his home in Iowa until 1857. he then came to OSAWATOMIE, Kas. and engaged in farming. On the breaking out of the late war he enlisted in 1861, and was promoted to Captain in the Second Missouri Cavalry, and served until the close of the war. He was detailed at one time to capture the noted rebel Gen. J. W. Reed, who was in command of the party of Pro-slavery men who sacked Osawatomie in August, 1856, and was captured by another party and placed in the keeping of Capt. Smith, who had charge of him for some time. It was a singular turn in the course of events that Reed should be held captive by a citizen of the town he had burned. In politics Capt. Smith is a Republican and represented the Osawatomie district in the Legislature in 1870, 1871 and in 1873. In the same year he was commissioned by Gov. Osborne as a member of the Board of Trustees of the State Insane Asylum, and was chosen Secretary of the Board. After serving a few months he resigned and was elected Steward of the Insane Asylum and has held the position for ten years. He is not a member of any church, but he practices those Christian virtues which tend to make man happy in this world and fit them for the next. He is a Royal Arch Mason.

JESSE B. WELLS, farmer, Section 23, Township 18, Range 22, P. O. Lane, Franklin County, is one of the early pioneers of this township. He was born in Monroe County, Ind., December 6, 1828; was brought up in that State, and emigrated to Iowa in 1848. resided in Lucas County til May, 1856; he then came to Kansas and located a claim on Section 24, Township 18, Range 21. The following year he moved to his present place of residence, on Section 23, still retaining the old place. He now has 160 acres, a large portion of which is rich bottom timber lands. Mr. Wells was a Free-state man and was associated with John Brown in the time of the early strife, between Freedom and Slavery. At the time of the attack on Osawatomie, in August, 1856, he rode to Garnett and notified a company of Free-state men at that point and accompanied them to the scene of the fight, but too late to participate in it. During the late war he enlisted in Company C, Twelfth Kansas Infantry and served three years, or til the close of the war. He was married in Indiana, February 24, 1848, to Miss Elizabeth A., daughter of Wesley Whitson. Mrs. Wells was born in Monroe County, Ind., They had ten children of whom seven are living-Solon T., David T., died aged twenty-three years; Mary L., died in childhood; Mamie E., Numa W., John P., Jessie B., Minnie, Elmer, Freddie, who died in childhood.

HON. HENRY H. WILLIAMS. The subject of this sketch was one of the ablest, most courageous, and useful of the Free-state men in Kansas' early days. He was born in Hudson, Columbia Co., N. Y., September 26, 1828. His father, James Williams, was a native of Rhode Island, and his mother, whose maiden name was Esther Tracy, was born in Connecticut. She was a sister of Lieut.-Gov. John Tracy, of New York. James Williams was of Welsh extraction; Esther (Tracy) Williams was descended from English parentage. Henry H., though born in Columbia County, spent most of his youthful days in Chautauqua County. His early education was obtained at the common school, but being of an inquiring mind, and being a patient student, he has acquired a large fund of useful information, which qualifies him to occupy and acceptably fill any office within the gift of the people of the State. After leaving school, he served four years' apprenticeship as a journeyman in Brooklyn, Peekskill and Hastings, N. Y., In the spring of 1855, against the advice of his father, he moved to Kansas. His fathers advice was based upon the expectation that Kansas was the ground upon which the preliminary battle between slavery and freedom was fought, which was the very reason why Henry H. determined to go. Upon arriving in the Territory, he at first located on Pottawatomie Creek, in Anderson County, being the third settler in the county. Previously to his arrival, the Pro- slavery men in the vicinity had formed an organization and adopted a "squatter-law" under which each man was entitled to two quarter sections of land. Soon after his arrival at a meeting held by them, the Free-state men assembled, took possession of the meeting, organized it by electing John Brown, Jr., president, and H. H. Williams, secretary, and promptly repealed this and other laws obnoxious to themselves. In September, following, he was elected delegate to the Big Springs Convention, which met September 5, 1855. In November, hearing that Lawrence was besieged by twelve hundred Missourians, he, with four others, started for that place to assist in its defense. This little party overtook John Brown, his three sons and son-in-law, just after passing Blanton's bridge. All then proceeded to Lawrence, reaching there that night and being assigned quarters in the Free-State Hotel. That night the Pottawatomie Rifle Company was organized, with John Brown, Captain, John Brown, Jr. First Lieutenant, and H. H. Williams, Second Lieutenant. John Brown proposed that the company make a night attack upon the enemy, four miles distant, without permitting Gen. Robinson, Gen. Lane, or any other parties outside of the company to know of the movement, but Lieut. Williams opposed the movement as impolitic, impracticable, and insubordinate. After a treaty had been effected, and the enemy had retired to Missouri, the company was disbanded, and the men returned to their homes. In December, he was elected a delegate to the Free-state Convention, held at Lawrence, for the purpose of nominating State officers, under the Topeka Constitution. in January, 1856, he and John Brown, Jr., were elected from the Pottawatomie precinct, to the House of Representatives, under the Topeka Constitution. He walked to Topeka to take his seat in that body, a distance of sixty-five miles. Upon the reorganization of the Pottawatomie Rifle Company in May, 1856, John Brown, Jr. was elected Captain, and Mr. Williams declined to serve in any official capacity, preferring to act as a private and perform duty as a scout. Shortly after the reorganization of the company, news of the threatened attack upon Lawrence, which was made May 21, reached the Pottawatomie settlement, and John Brown, Jr.'s company immediately set out to assist in its defense, accompanied a part of the way by John Brown, Sr., his other sons and son- in-law Henry Thompson. Mr. Williams followed the company on its way and on the morning of the 21st, the same day that Lawrence was sacked, saw Mr. Morse-who kept a store on Pottawatomie Creek, and who furnished ammunition to the Free-state men-frightened and pale from the threats made to him and against him by border ruffians the day before. After advising Mr. Morse what to do, Mr. William rode on, overtook the company and to some of the members composing it, including Judge James Hanway, and old John Brown, communicated the information with reference to the proposed programme of the border ruffians he had obtained from Mr. Morse. This news so stirred the soul of old John Brown, that he promptly organized his little family party and returned to Pottawatomie, with the terrible results now known to the world as the Pottawatomie Massacre, a detailed account of which is embodied in the history of Franklin County. Mr. Williams, as did likewise Judge Hanway, received, but declined, an invitation to accompany the little party on its then mysterious mission. About the first of June, 1856, Mr. Williams, with about fifteen others, was arrested by a party of about two hundred Pro-slavery men, and taken to Paola, where the Pro-slavery Grand Jury was in session. In a day or two, eight were discharged, and the remainder taken to OSAWATOMIE and placed in charge of United States soldiers, in command of Capt. Wood. Here they were kept a week, with their hands firmly tied behind them until chains could be obtained, when they were chained together by the ankles, two and two and marched to Prairie City. When about half the distance had been accomplished, Mr. Williams' companion was taken sick and was released. Mr. Williams walking the rest of way with one end of the chain in his hand, and the other still around his ankle. After being detained a few days at Prairie City, they were taken to Lecompton and turned over to Marshal Donaldson. they were next taken to Tecumsah, examined by Commissioner Hoagland, and all set at liberty except John Brown, Jr., and Mr. Williams, who were held on a charge of high treason, as Commissioner Hoagland said, to prevent them from being murdered as he believed they would be if released. These two were taken to the camp of the United States troops, near Lecompton, and held as prisoners with Charles Robinson, G. W. Smith, G. W. Deitzler, Gaius Jenkins and G. W. Brown. It was during his imprisonment in this camp that the Topeka Legislature was to meet and which Col. Sumner had been ordered to disperse in case it should convene. Mr. Williams fearing that some of the members elect of that Legislature would lack the nerve to meet with their fellow-members and feeling the importance of as full an attendance as practicable, proposed to his fellow-prisoners that he should escape from the guards and take his seat in the Legislature. All consented to this proposition except G. W. Brown who fearing that the safety of the prisoners remaining in camp would be thereby jeopardized, threatened to inform upon him if he should make the attempt and so Mr. Williams was constrained to remain in camp. Mr. Williams was elected Sheriff of Miami County in 1857 and re-elected in 1859. In June, 1861, he entered the Third Kansas Volunteers and was elected Major of that regiment. This regiment was afterward consolidated with the Fourth Regiment and called the Tenth. Major Williams served in this capacity until the regiment was mustered out, commanding the regiment in the battles of Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, VanBuren and Fort Wayne. He participated in the battle of Pilot Knob on the staff of Gen. Ewing. As Provost-Marshall of the District of St. Louis, he had charge of the military prisoners for several months. Being honorably mustered out of service in February, 1865, he returned to Kansas City, where his family had resided since 1863, and was elected sheriff of Jackson County, Mo., serving eighteen months. In April, 1867, he returned to Osawatomie, and engaged in business as a hardware merchant, in which business he is still engaged. In 1867, he was elected to the House of Representatives, and in 1868, to the State Senate. Major Williams is a member of the Congregational Church. He joined the Republican party at a time of its organization by Horace Greeley at Osawatomie, in 1858 and has ever since been a strong and ardent supporter of Republican principles. Major Williams was married February 28, 1858 at Osawatomie to Miss Mary A. Carr, daughter of John Carr, who moved to Kansas in 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have had six children, of whom four are living- Minnie, Walter, Charles and Fannie. John, their eldest son, died at the age of eighteen and George, another son was killed by the kick of a horse. 

JOHN BARKER, farmer, Section 26, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Louisburg, has 170 acres of land, including 10 acres of timber in Middle Creek Township, Section 3. Mr. Barker was born in Monroe County, N. Y. in 1829; moved to Ohio with his parents when two years of age. In 1851 he moved to Illinois where he was engaged in farming til 1869; he then removed to Kansas, settled in Wea, Miami County on his present farm. He was married in Ohio, in 1851 to Miss Curline, daughter of Horace Watson. Mrs. Barker was born in the State of New York. They have five children-Lanson H., living in the township of Middle Creek; Gertrude, widow of Mr. Maybury; Clarence N., Cora and Charles E. Mr. Barker has a well improved farm in one of the richest sections of Miami County.

RANDOLPH BOYD, civil engineer and farmer, Section 20, Township 16, Range 25, has 120 acres, P. O. Louisburg. He was born in Fayette County, Pa., in 1824. Received a free school and academic education; studied the theory and practice of civil engineering while in the engineer service of the B. & O. Ry. Co. Was employed as sub-assistant engineer in various capacities-on location and construction between Cumberland, Md., and Wheeling, Va., for about four years. Appointed leveler on location of C. & M. Ry., in Ohio; transitman or surveyor on location of Pittsburgh branch of B. & O. Ry; in charge of construction of nine miles from Connellsville west, and upon the resignation of C. P. B. Jeffries, was made engineer in charge of construction of Sand Patch Tunnel and approaches through the dividing ridge of the Alleghany Mountain in Somerset Co, Pa. Was superintendent of Central Basin Oil Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., during the winter of 1864, and in the spring of 1865. Came to Kansas in the spring of 1866 and purchased a quarter section of land in the Indian Reservation known as the Ten Sections, then just offered for sale, the titles for which were made by the United States Government in pursuance of treaty stipulations previously made with these Indians. About a year later Mr. Boyd sold out and bought his present farm on Section 20. In 1867 he surveyed and plaited the village of St. Louis since called Louisburg and now a city. He was employed for a short time as civil engineer by the M. K. & T. Ry at Harrisonville, Mo. and for five consecutive years as station agent at Louisburg, commencing with the opening of that road in this vicinity.

LEVI T. BROWN, retired farmer, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, April 3, 1826. He was brought up on a farm and moved to Indiana in 1854; settled in Kosciusko County, where he was engaged in farming. He came to Kansas in 1871, and purchased a farm of 160 acres, being the southeast quarter of Section 20, Township 15, Range 25, Wea, and March 1, 1872, moved his family to their new home. He devoted considerable attention to the breeding of blooded stock. In 1877 he removed to Louisburg and in 1882 sold his farm. He was married in Ohio in 1853, to Miss P. J. Heddington. They had four children- Elmer H., of Paola Township; Mary E., wife of James T. Lee; Annie J., wife of S. V. Lee, of Anderson County ; John L., of Colorado. Mrs. Brown died October 6, 1869. Mr. Brown was married again June 9, 1870, to Miss Martha, daughter of John Snyder. Mrs. Brown was born in New Jersey. They have one child-Florence M. Mr. Brown was a soldier of the late war. He enlisted in July, 1862, in Company C, Seventy-seventh Indiana Volunteers of Fourth Cavalry and served till the close of the war. The last two years of his service he was a member of the Veteran Reserve Corps. Since living in Kansas he has served four years as Justice of the Peace.

J. D. BRYAN, M. D., physician and surgeon, was born in St. Charles County, Mo., in 1843, moved with his parents to Warren County, Mo., in early youth, and was educated in the common schools. he took three years' course of study at the St. Louis Medical College, and took his M. D. degree in 1870. He began practice in Franklin County, Mo, nearly a year previous to completing his course of studies at St. Louis. In 1870, he went to Jonesville, Cass Co.,. Mo., and spent a few months in practice, and then came to Little St. Louis, now Louisburg, Kan., and has practiced his profession at this place about twelve years. Dr. Bryan is a physician of knowledge, ability and skill, in his profession and ranks among the leading physicians of the county, as his extensive and lucrative practice goes to show. Dr. Bryan traces his ancestry to the historic family of Henry Bryan, the Bryans who founded Bryan's Station. In the early history of Kentucky, and with Daniel Boone, a brother-in-law, disputed with the Indians, the right to the "bloody grounds". 

CADWALLADER BROS., Edgar F. and Robert H., proprietors of the Miami Nurseries, Louisburg, this business was established by the senior brother, Edgar F., near the city of Paola, in this county, and moved by him to his present location, on Section 31, adjoining the city of Louisburg, in 1875. In April, 1882, his brother Robert H., who had been managing salesman in the business for several years was admitted to partnership. This firm has 320 acres under stock, having one of the largest nurseries in the State. They do a strictly wholesale business except in their immediate neighborhood. Their stock consists of everything to be found in a well regulated Western Nursery, ornamental trees, shrubs and plants, fruit trees, osage plants, apple seedlings and root grafts; their trade extends through Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, and has reached mammoth proportions.

GEORGE CASEBEER, merchant dealer in general merchandise, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in 1849. Moved to Buchanan County, Iowa with his parents in 1859. He was educated at the upper Iowa University and took regular business course at the Eastmen Business College of Chicago. He was employed two years as merchant clerk in Iowa. Next spent three years in Kansas City, and in 1875, came to Louisburg, Kan., where he engaged in mercantile business under the firm name of Crowe & Casebeer. In 1880, he bought Mr. Crowe's interest and has since conducted the business alone. Mr. Casebeer has a fine brick double store stock of an average of $18,000, making one of the most complete general stores in the county. While only a lad, Mr. Casebeer served as a member of the Twenty-seventh Iowa Volunteers 100 days. Served in the late war.

JOHN W. CHAUDOINS, the earliest pioneer of this locality, now Louisburg. Farmer, dealer in and feeder of live stock. Has farm of 320 acres on Section 3, Township of Middle Creek. resides in the city of Louisburg. Mr. Chaudoins was born in Simpson County, Ky., of French parentage, December 18, 1832. He was brought up on a farm, and moved to Missouri in 1853, and soon after came to Kansas. He spent a few years in an unsettled manner between Missouri and Kansas and in 1857, purchased land in Wea, near what is now Louisburg; at that time there was not even a wagon road laid out in this region. He was engaged in farming and stock growing at this place several years and then moved to Middle Creek Township same county, where he now has a fine farm of 320 acres. During the late war he held a Second Lieutenant's commission in the Kansas Militia, and did good service. He has held the position of Township Trustee of Wea two terms. Mr. Chaudoins was married in 1857, in Cass County, Mo., to Miss E. L. Boren, daughter of Richard Boren. Mr. Chaudoins was the first white man to settle on the site of Louisburg, where he built the first house in the town.

JAMES W. CHILES, farmer Section 4, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Spring Hill, is a native of Kentucky and was born in Todd County, February 22, 1843. He passed his early youth in his native county and became a student of Bethel College, Logan County, Ky., At the age of seventeen years at the breaking out of the late war, he left the University to enter the Confederate service in which he served four years. He was married November 15, 1865, to Miss Clemie, daughter of James McElwain. Mrs. Chiles was born in Kentucky. They have five children living, John, Sallie, Deanie, William and James P. Mr. Chiles has a fine farm of 240 acres and is devoting considerable attention to the breeding of blooded horses and mules. His stock embraces some of the finest Kentucky stock.

JACOB COMBS, farmer, P. O. Louisburg, Section 8, Township 16, Range 24, has eighty acres of land, was born in Ross county, Ohio, in 1819, moved to Crawford County while quite young, was brought up on a farm; moved to Buchanan County, Mo., in 1839, spent seven years in that locality and then moved to Iowa. In 1862, he with his family immigrated by wagon to Oregon, spending six months without sleeping in a house. He spent two years in Oregon and Washington Territory but being dissatisfied with the climate, he brought his family back to Iowa by team, spending four months on the return trip. During their travels over the then unsettled regions of the West they were exposed to attacks from numerous bands of hostile Indians then ranging over that region. In 1869 Mr. Combs moved from Iowa to Kansas and located on his present farm in Wea Township.

J. E. COOPER, farmer, Section 7, Township 16, Range 25, P. O. Louisburg, was born in Hampshire County, Va., in 1833. His father being proprietor of a large tannery, he learned the trade of tanner and currier. He then spent several years in travel in various States. In the fall of 1865 he moved to Ohio and from there to Kansas in the spring of 1868. He located in Miami County, in Township 16, Range 24, Wea, where he was engaged in farming. In 1876 he purchased the east half of Section 7, Township 16, Range 24, 320 acres. The following year he removed to this tract then in its natural and unimproved condition. Mr. Cooper, at this writing, 1883, has, by industry and good management, made it one of the best improved farms in the county. The never-failing springs and brooks on the southern portion of the farm are of immense advantage in stock growing.

LORENZO D. CROTCHETT, farmer, Section 5, Township 16, Range 25, P. O. Louisburg was born in Pope County, Ill., February 20, 1821. His parents were among the very earliest pioneers of that region. He was brought up on a farm and resided in Illinois till the fall of 1866, when he removed to Jackson County, Mo.; remained in that county till March, 1869, when he came to Kansas and settled on his present farm, Section 5, Wea. Mr. Crotchett has a finely improved farm of 87 i/2 acres. He was married in Pope County, Ill., in 1845, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Tanner. Mrs. Crotchett was born in Kentucky. They have ten children, eight of whom are living. The eldest Amanda J., died aged seventeen years. William H. and John W. are extensively engaged in farming in Wea Township, Thomas J., Lorenzo D, Margaret E. (now Mrs. Jacob Combs, of McPherson Co., Kan.) Charles P., Charity E. (died aged ten years) Luzan and Mary J.

JAMES C. CUSEY, farmer, Section 32, Township 16, Range 25, P. O. Louisburg. The subject of this sketch is a native of Ashland County, Ohio and was born May 1, 1831. He received a common school education and began the business of life as a farmer and stock grower. In 1856, he moved to Iowa and located in Humbolt County where he was engaged in his former line of business. He took an active interest in and became prominently identified with the improvement and development of that region. He was chiefly instrumental in securing the establishment of the State Agricultural College at Ames, Story County, and for four years served as a member of the Board of Trustees of that institution. By his energetic and untiring efforts contributed largely to its well-known success. he was elected Sheriff of Humbolt County, was re--elected and served four years, discharging the duties of the office with ability and fidelity. In 1870 he removed to Kansas and purchased a large farm on Section 1, Township of Paola, Miami County. Although a Republican in politics, his love of good government and an honest administration of public affairs caused him to affiliate with the reform movement in opposition to his party, or what he believed to be a corrupting ring controlling its operations. He was elected in 1873, on the reform ticket as a member of the Lower House of the Kansas Legislature; was re-elected in 1874, and served two terms. he took a leading part in the business of the House and served on several important committees. In 1875, much against his inclination, he was nominated by the Reform party as their candidate for Governor, and although defeated with the rest of the ticket, he had the satisfaction of receiving the very flattering home endorsement of 1, 218 votes in Miami County against 855 for his opponent Mr. Osborn. The majority against him in the State was about 7,000 as shown by the official count. But had the illegal votes cast in unorganized western counties been rejected, the result would have been reversed. Mr. Cusey has taken an active part in favor of an honest and economical administration of county affairs in opposition to all sorts of jobbing and corruption, and under the influence of the reform movement has had the satisfaction of seeing the expenses of the county government reduced nearly half. He was married in Licking County, Ohio, December 28, 1854 to Miss Mary, daughter of Samuel Musselman, they have a family of six children, two sons and four daughters. In the fall of 1878, Mr. Cusey sold out in Paola Township and purchased his present well-cultivated farm of 340 acres, on Section 32, Wea, adjacent to the city of Louisburg.

D. FRANK DAYTON, farmer, Section 21, Township 16, range 24, P. O. Somerset. The subject of this sketch is one of the earliest pioneers of Miami County. Having settled on the northeast quarter of Section 23, Township 15, Range 23, now Marysville Township, in June, 1857. In 1867, he moved to his present farm. his farm consists of 644 1/2 acres of fine land, 100 acres of which is timber land. Mr. Dayton was born in Rutland County, Vt., December 1, 1819. He was brought up a farmer, and moved to Branch County, Mich., in 1855. Two years later he came to Kansas, June, 1857. During the late war he served in the Kansas Militia, in defense of the state. He was married in Vermont, July 3, 1842, to Miss Maria Brown. Two children were born of this marriage- Mary B., and Mary, the eldest died in childhood. Mrs. Dayton died May 26, 1851. Mr. Dayton was married again June 17, 1853, at Gilead, Branch Co., Mich., to Mrs. Jane Maxson, widow of Dr. William Maxson, and daughter of Job Williams. Mrs. Dayton was born in Onondaga County, N. Y. Three children were born of this marriage-Alfred A., Fred A. and Frank E. The two elder died in childhood, the youngest Frank E. is residing with his parents. Mr. Dayton now in the evening of his days, is in enjoyment of all the advantages of a thrifty, well improved and well-ordered farm. His buildings are tasty and commodious and the stranger is always sure of a hearty welcome at the fireside of the genial-hearted pioneer.

REUBEN FELLOWS, farmer, Section 27, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Louisburg, was born in Tompkins County, N. Y. in 1831. Moved to Pine Valley, Pa., when quite young, and from there to Palmer, N. Y. When seventeen years of age he began learning the carpenter's trade, became master of calling, and worked at that trade many years. Shortly before the war he moved to Kane County, Ill. In the fall of 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Eighth Illinois Cavalry; was appointed First Sergeant, and served three years. He came to Kansas in 1866 and located on his present farm of 160 acres. Mr. Fellows worked at his trade in Louisburg several years after he had located on his farm; has one of the best improved farms of this rich neighborhood. In addition to his quarter section in Wea, he has a ten acre timber tract in Middle Creek Township He was married in New York in 1853 to Miss Mary Jane Colburn, who died within two years after her marriage (1855) Mr. Fellows was married again at Aurora, Ill., October 27, 1859 to Miss Mary A., daughter of Lewis Pipher. Mrs. Fellows was born in Jefferson Co., N. Y. They have four children-Leon, died aged twelve years. the others are living-Lula M., Jessie M. and Harry M.

M. A. FESSENDEN, merchant, dealer in dry goods, groceries, boots, shoes, and queensware, was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y. in 1829. Was brought up a farmer and removed to Cass County, Mich., in 1848. Was engaged in farming in that county till 1865, when he removed to Nemaha County, Kansas, and two years later moved to the site of Little St. Louis, now Louisburg, Miami County. Helped build the first house in the place; was a carpenter by trade and in pursuance of that calling built many of the early houses of this place. About 18670 he engaged in mercantile business with Mr. M. Reed, under the firm name of Reed & Fessenden, and subsequently was interested in the same line with Mr. William Wright. Since 1880 has been alone in business. He now carries a full stock in his line of $5,000 value. He was one of the proprietors of Reed & Fessenden's addition to Louisburg. He is at present the owner of a fine farm of 320 acres, situated in Coffey County. Mr. Fessenden has served two terms as Township Treasurer of Wea and is now serving as a member of the first City Council of Louisburg. He was married in 1840, in Oakland County, Mich., to Miss Polly Thompson, who died in 1847, leaving one child, a son, Willard, now of Coffey County, Kansas. Mr. Fessenden was subsequently married in Van Buren County, to Miss Polly, daughter of R. Bell. There are three children of this marriage- Edgar, Owen and Frank.

JACOB FLANDERS, farmer, Section 33, Township 15, Range 24, P. O. Spring Hill was born in Washington County, Ohio, May 9, 1832. Was brought up a farmer and emigrated to Kansas in October, 1867. He located on his present farm of 120 acres on Section 33, Wea. Mr. Flanders was married in Ohio, April 27, 1857, to M. Eunice Palmer, daughter of Joseph Palmer. Mrs. Flanders was born in Ohio. They have two sons-Charles D. and Truman E.

NEHEMIAH FLANDERS, farmer, Section 20, Township 15, Range 24, P. O. Spring Hill, was born in Washington County, Ohio, March 16, 1834. Served his time to the trade of carpenter and joiner, and followed that vocation till 1864, in his native State. He then came to Kansas, where he worked a carpenter and builder till the fall of 1869. He then settled on his present farm in Wea. He was married in Ohio September 23, 1858, to Miss Jane M. Steward, daughter of John A. Steward. Mrs. Flanders was born in Noble County, Ohio. They have five children-John W., Florence E., Judson R., William O., and Edwin W.

O. L. GARDNER, farmer, Section 32, Township 16, Range 25, P. O. Louisburg, was born in Otsego County, N. Y., in July, 1838; when eight years of age he moved with his parents to Massachusetts, resided in the old Bay State until seventeen years of age when he moved to Illinois. In the fall of 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Eighth Illinois Cavalry and served three years, in the late war. In April 1867, he came to Miami County, Kan., and purchased his present farm adjacent to the city of Louisburg. He was married in the fall of 1865, in Illinois to Miss Alice, daughter of Asa Ellithorp. They have three children-Oscar, Ida and Lester.

JAMES M. GASSAWAY, farmer, Section 31, Township 15, Range 24, P. O. Spring Hill, was born in Jefferson County, Ind., March 2, 1835. He learned the carpenter's trade, immigrated to Kansas in March, 1857, located at Wyandotte, then only an Indian town composed of log huts. He remained but a short time at Wyandotte and then established himself at Quindaro, of Wyandotte County. In April, 1858, he moved to Wea, Miami County, and took up a homestead on Sections 31 and 32, Township 15, Range 24. He was afterwards pre-empted the same lands and paid the Government of $1.25 per acre, and has made his home on this land to the present time. During the late war he served in the Kansas Militia. He was married December 18, 1859, in Bates County, Mo., to Miss Agnes Munkres; five children were born to them, four of whom are living-Mary A., Laura D., John M. and Nathaniel D. Mrs. Gassaway died January 27, 1870. Mr. Gassaway was married in Miami County, Kan., June 6, 1871 to Olive Lavett, daughter of John Lavett. Mrs. Gassaway was born in Hampshire County, Va. They have six children-Bertha L., Leefy, Harvey B., Albert W., Nora O. and one daughter unnamed.

PETER W. GOEBEL, dealer in drugs, books, stationery, insurance agent, notary and conveyancer, was born in Germany in 1858, came to America, in January 1873, located in west part of the Township of Wea, Miami Co, Kansas. In 1875, he came to Louisburg and clerked for S. W. Moore, druggist til April, 1979, when he started his present business. he has a well stocked store in his line and carries an average stock of $3,500. Mr. Goebel, has been Treasurer of Wea Township three years, and District School Clerk; at the first city election of Louisburg, in 1882, he was chosen City Treasurer.

JOSEPH N. GRIMES, farmer, Section 30, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Somerset, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, December 25, 1846. He moved to Illinois with his parents in 1857, where he was brought up on a farm. In 1872, he came to Kansas and settled in Wea, Miami County. He was married in Kansas, April 3, 1878, to Miss Nora Markley, daughter of H. A. Markley. they have two sons-William and Howard. Immediately after his marriage, Mr. Grimes located on his present farm of 150 acres on Section 30.

GEORGE W. HAND, farmer and live stock dealer resides in Louisburg; has a farm of 110 acres on Sections 17 and 20, Wea. Mr. Hand was born in McLean County, Ill., in 1827, was brought up a farmer and stock grower. He moved to Iowa in 1855 settled in Humbolt County, where he had a tract of 1, 500 acres and was largely interested in stock growing. He was a pioneer of that region, his family being the second to settle in that county. He was elected a member of the Lower House of the Iowa Legislature in 1864, and re-elected in 1865. He was also County School Fund Commissioner for Kossuth County, Iowa. In 1869, he moved to Kansas, and bought a half section of land (320 acres), in Wea, Miami County, and subsequently bought his present farm in the same town. He has been engaged in growing and dealing in live stock continuously since; he has kept from 50 to 100 head of cattle and about 200 head of hogs. He sold his half section of land to his son John W. and in the fall of 18709 moved to the village of Louisburg.

JOHN W. HAND, farmer, P. O. Louisburg, grower of and dealer in live stock, resides on Section 32, adjacent to the city of Louisburg, where he ha eighty acres of land. He also has 160 acres in Section 29, same town, and eighty acres in Middle Creek, making in all 320 acres. He also has several city lots. Mr. Hand was born in McLean County, Ill, in October, 1848; moved with his parents to Humboldt County, Iowa, in 1855, where on attaining his majority he became a partner of his father, G., W. Hand in a large stock farm of 1, 500 acres. In 1869, he moved to Wea still in company with his father and purchased a half section of land (320 acres) where they continued the stock business. J. W. subsequently bought his father's interest and is now operating alone. in 1878 he moved to his present residence near the city of Louisburg.

D. WILSON HAYS, physician and surgeon, was born in Fulton County, Ill. in 1858. He was educated in the Canton High School and took a regular business course at the Jacksonville Business College. He entered upon the study of medicine in the medical department of the University of Louisville, Ky., received the degree of M. D. in March, 1882. He located in Louisburg, Kan and entered upon the practice of his profession., Dr. Hays is a promising young physician and has already acquired a flattering reputation as a surgeon.

JACOB HEDRICK, farmer, P. O. Louisburg, Section 19, Township 16, Range 25, has eighty acres in his farm and a tract of eight acres adjoining the city of Louisburg. Mr. Hedrick was born in Fleming County, Ky., in 1824. Was brought up a farmer and removed to McClean County, Ill. in 1850. He was engaged in farming in that county till the summer of 1868, when he emigrated to Kansas, arriving in Wea, Miami County July 10. He had previously purchased his present farm, which he has under a high state of cultivation. Mr. Hedrick is now serving his fourth term as trustee of the Township of Wea. Under the laws of Kansas this is the most important township office, the Trustee being the executive officer of the town. The duties of Assessor, Overseer of the Poor, Road Commissioner, Fence Viewer, and Prairie Fire Warden, etc. all devolve on the Trustee. Wea Township is the largest and the wealthiest in Miami County, having an area of ninety-four square miles, making the office of Trustee one of considerable responsibility.

DAVID H. HEFFLEBOWER, farmer, Section 32, Township 15, Range 24, P. O. Spring Hill, was one of the earliest pioneers of the township of Wea and the largest landed proprietor; having at this date a number of fine farms aggregating 2, 120 acres. If lying in a body this property would form a tract one mile wide by a little more than three and a quarter miles long; This land is all first-class, every farm is improved and all occupied by tenants except his homestead. Mr. Hefflebower was born in Jefferson County, Va., January 1, 1836; removed to Hampshire County with his parents when six years of age; when twenty-one he started West (1857); spent the summer of that year in Missouri, and in the fall came to Kansas and located on the quarter section where he now resides. His success in acquiring an almost princely estate is due to the possession of superior business qualifications, a sagacious knowledge of men and values, and an energy and pluck that never weakened, earnest and ambitious of success in business, at home a genial, kind-hearted gentleman. He was married in Miami County, Kan., December 12, 11860, to Miss Lucy A. Holden, daughter of William and Mary Holden. Mrs. Hefflebower was born in Ohio. They have six children, the eldest, Edmonia, is the wife of Lambert Newton, of Spring Hill, Kan. Frances G., is the wife of Charles Stacy, of Wea. The younger members, W. Dexter, Ollie, Mary and Ethie are at home.

EZROM HEFFLEBOWER, farmer, Section 22, Township 15, Range 24, P. O. Spring Hill,. Mr. Hefflebower is one of the few remaining pioneers of 1858. He stuck his stakes in the Township of Wea, in the spring of that year. By preserving industry and good management, he has acquired a large property. His several farms aggregate 1,500 acres and are classed among the best of this fertile region. He was born in Jefferson County, Va., in 1829, moved to Hampshire County in his youth and from there to Missouri in 1857. The following spring he came to Kansas and located on his present farm. During the late war he served in the Kansas Militia. He was married February 2, 1860 to Miss Mary McKee, daughter of Joseph McKee. They have four children living-Luther, Virginia, Charles and Clarence. Mrs. Hefflebower died in August, 1872. Mr. Hefflebower was married again in February 3, 1875 to Miss Belle Brown, who died December 23, 1880, leaving one child, a son, David C.

EMANUEL F. HEISLER, editor of the Louisburg Herald was born in Ashland, Ohio, October 25, 1838. At the age of fifteen he moved to Indiana, where he followed teaching a a profession. Just prior to the beginning of the civil war, he moved to Platte County, Mo., where he engaged in teaching. On the Fourth of July, 1861, he organized and conducted a celebration, at which he raised the only Union flag that was shown on that day in that county. Soon thereafter he received a pressing invitation to leave the state, which invitation, without discussing the questions involved, he promptly accepted and located in Wyandotte County, Kan. In August, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Fourth Kansas Infantry, and was transferred to the Sixth Cavalry, and in this regiment was promoted to Second Lieutenant. On the 2nd of September, he was wounded at the battle of Drywood, Mo., in a contest with the Rebel Gen. Price. He served in the army over three years and after the close of his term of service he returned to Wyandotte County, and re-engaged in teaching., He was elected County Superintendent of Schools, and served, by re-election six years. In 1870 he published a war map of Wyandotte County and in 1874 an Historical Atlas of Johnson County, In the spring of 1876 he came to Louisburg and on July 4 started the Louisburg and Miami Herald.

THOMAS HODGES, of the firm of Hodges& Wright, druggists, was born in Scott County, Ill., April 22, 1853. He came to Kansas in August, 1872, and made his home in Somerset, Miami County. He went to Osawatomie in 1879, and engaged in the drug business. He sold out, and engaged as salesman for Chestnut Brothers, merchants, until February 15, 1883, when he came to Louisburg and formed a partnership with William M. Wright & Sons, R. A. under the firm name of Hodges & Wright, successors to Peter Goebel. This firm carries an average stock of $3,000, keeping a full assortment of drugs and medicines, books and stationery and toilet articles.

THOMAS HOLDEN, farmer, Section 27, Township 15, Range 24, P. O. Spring Hill, is one of the few remaining pioneers of 1858. Mr. Holden was born in Western Virginia, in 1816; moved to Washington County, Ohio, with his parents, when three years of age, in 1819. He was thus from childhood a pioneer., he was married in Ohio, in 1841, to Miss Hannah Flanders. They had five children-four daughters and one son. The eldest, Mary C., is Mrs. John E. Hollinsworth, of Ohio; Jane is Mrs. Charles Giller, of Missouri; Sarah A., is Mrs. John Smith; Hannah M. is Mrs. M. Dougherty, of Coffey County, Kan.; the son George is married, and lives in Wea. Mr. Holden emigrated to Miami County, Kan in the spring of 1858, and settled in Wea. Mrs. Holden died in 1868 and Mr. Holden married again in 1878, Mrs. M. A Purdom, widow of John Purdom and daughter of Daniel Cathcaart. She had one child by her former marriage-Eva. O. Mrs. Holden was married prior to her marriage with Mr., Purdom to Frederick Ford, by whom she had one son-Frank. There are two children by the present marriage-Thomas W. and Francis E. Holden.

A. A. KNIGHT, farmer, Section 36, Township 15, range 24, P. O. Louisburg, was born in Susquehanna County, Pa., March 26, 1827. He was brought up a farmer; when seventeen years of age he moved to LaSalle County, Ill., where he resided till February, 1879, when he came to Kansas and settled in the township of Wea. He was married in Illinois, February 20, 1856, to Miss Eliza, daughter of Daniel Post. Mrs. Knight was born in the State of New York. They have four children, the eldest, Arthur, died aged three years; Orson A., Edward L. and Cora, the latter died aged seven years. Mr. Knight has a well watered and fertile farm of 320 acres. 

WILLIAM LANTZ, farmer, Section 28, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Somerset, was born at Harper's Ferry, Va., October 15, 1823. Moved to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in childhood, learned the carpenter trade at which he worked eighteen years. In 1857 he moved to Illinois and made his home in Christian County til 1869, when he came to Kansas and located on his present farm of 160 acres. He was married in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in April, 1843, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Conrad Lawes. Mrs. Lantz was born in Pennsylvania. They have seven children living-Sarah A. is the wife of Monroe Walcher, of Louisburg; Saloama was Mrs. Wm Dorsey, died May 9, 1881, leaving three children; Elizabeth is Mrs. Geo. McQueen, of Middle Creek; Hiram, Mary and William. Mr. Lantz has a pleasantly situated farm, well watered and timbered and particularly suitable for stock purposes.

P. F. LATIMER, farmer, Section 2, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Louisburg. Mr. Latimer was born and brought up in the city of St. Louis, Mo., the date of his birth being September 10, 1830. He learned the trade of wagon and carriage maker and engaged in that business in St. Louis. In 1851 he removed to Westport, Mo., where he was engaged in the same business until 1864, when he came to Kansas and settled on his present farm. Mr. Latimer has various local offices, having served three years (1870, 1871 and 1872) as Trustee of the township of Wea and County Commissioner for the years 1874, 1875, 1876 and 1877. He has a well improved farm of 704 acres, nearly in a body in Wea. He was married in Missouri, May, 1852, to Miss Mary J. Dresser, who died April 8, 1868. Mr. Latimer was married again, April 11, 1871, in Wea, to Miss Laguenue Wickline, daughter of Governor Wickline. Mrs. Latimer was born in Virginia. They have four children-Anne, Laura, Robert L. Inez L. ad Zula H.

JAMES T. LEE, farmer Section 21, Township 15, Range 25, P. O. Wea, was born in Wyandot County, Ohio, in June 9, 1846, and was brought up a farmer. He was married September 14, 1869, in his native county to Miss Laura A. Van Gundy, daughter of William Van Gundy. Immediately after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Lee moved to Kansas and settled in Wea, Miami County, arriving here October 13, 1869. One child, a daughter named Laura, was born to them. Mrs. Lee survived the birth of her child but a short time, dying September 21, 1870. Mr. Lee was married again December 25, 1877 at Olathe Kas., to Miss Mary E., daughter of L. T. Brown. Two children were born of this marriage-Floyd M and Earle V. Mr. Lee has a well improved farm of 160 acres situated on Section 21.

LAFAYETTE LEE, farmer, Section 20, Township 16, Range 25, P. O. Louisburg, was born in Putnam County, Ohio, November 22, 1841; moved to Wyandot County, Ohio in early youth and was brought up on a farm. Enlisted in the late war, August, 1862, in Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served till the close of the war. Was captured at the battle of Winchester, in June, 1863, was held a prisoner one month and then paroled. He was twice wounded at the battle of Winchester; September 16, 1864; on recovering his health rejoined his regiment. Served under Grant, and was present at Lee's surrender at Appomatox. In October, 1869, he moved to Kansas and located in the township of Wea, on Section 28, Township 15, Range 25, where he resided till March, 1882, when, having sold out and purchased his present farm of 160 acres on Section 20, he moved to this place. Mr. Lee has one of the finest farms in this county, situated within a mile of the city of Louisburg. He was married in Seneca County, Ohio, September 2, 1868, to Miss M. J., daughter of David S. Jackson. Mrs. Lee was born in Crawford County, Ohio. They have four children-Ezra V., Charles H., Artie M and Hugh.

THOMAS P. LEWIS, farmer, Section 25, Township 15, Range 24, P. O. Louisburg, was born in Warren County, Ill., August 12, 1843. Was brought up a farmer, and immigrated to Kansas in February, 1869; he purchased his present farm, which was then only partially improved. He now has 7221/2 acres of land, 400 of which are under cultivation. His buildings are large and convenient, his barn being one of the largest and best appointed in the county. Mr. Lewis has served two terms as Treasurer of Wea Township. He was married in 1867, to Miss Zilpah, daughter of Benjamin Morford. Mrs. Lewis was born in Pennsylvania. They have six children-Arthur B., George E., Oscar T., H. Mills, Frank M. and Cora A. Mr. Lewis is largely interested in the growing of livestock.

J. C. LOVETT, farmer, Section 34, Township 15, Range 24, P. O. Spring Hill, was born in Frederick County, Va., March 6, 1843. Emigrated to Kansas, arriving in Wea, November 25, 1865. Purchased his present farm on Section 34. He has lately made the substantial improvement of a fine residence. Mr. Lovett was married in Virginia, in 1864, October 18, to Miss Edmonia Hefflebower, daughter of David Hefflebower. Mrs. Lovett was born in Virginia. They have five children living, having lost one. Their names in order are: Virginia, Sally V., John K., (Clifford M. died aged two years) Lillie M. and Wade W.

P. H. MCGUIRK, harness maker and dealer in harness, saddles, and everything belonging to his line. Mr. McGuirk established his present business in December, 1882; carries a stock of $1,500 value. He was born in Ireland in 1849; emigrated to America with his parents when only two years of age (1851). The family located in Jackson County, Mo., near the Kansas border. During the slavery troubles of 1856 they were right in the track of both parties and were visited by both jayhawkers and border ruffians. In 1863 he went to Kansas City, where he learned the harness making business. In 1866 he moved to Middle Creek, Miami Co., Kas., where he was engaged in farming till December, 1882, when he located at Louisburg and engaged in his present business. When he settled in Middle Creek he was not far distant from the site of Louisburg, but at that time there was nothing here but the prairie grass, Mr. Chaudoins being the only settler.

S. E. MCKEE, farmer, Section 5, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Spring Hill, Mr. McKee was born in Frederick County, Va., in 1843; was brought up a farmer, and in 1866 emigrated to the West. He spent several years in traveling and in 1869 bought his present farm in Wea. At the breaking out of the late war, when at the age of eighteen years, he entered the Confederate army and served four years. He was married in Virginia in the fall of 1865, to Miss Martha Emmart, daughter of Abram Emmart. They have seven children-Robert Lee, Mary G., Lucy, Emma, Rettie (Ettie died, aged three years) and Samuel E. Mr. McKee has a fine farm of 245 acres situated on Section 5, Wea.

JOHN MCNELLEY, Police Judge, was born in Fayette County, Pa., June 26, 1812. He was brought up a farmer and moved to Madison County, Ohio, in 1834, thence to Illinois, in 1837, and to Kansas, in 1857. He was one of the early pioneers of this State. He purchased a section of land in Middle Creek Township, at the Government sales of 1857, making his home on Section 36. He subsequently bought more land, and after giving 160 acres each to his two children, he has 370 acres left. He continued to conduct his farm and to grow stock quite extensively until February, 1882., having passed twenty-five years on his land, he then retired to the city of Louisburg. He was elected the first Police Judge of this place on its organization as a city, in the fall of 1882. He has held the position of County Commissioner of Miami County, two terms, and Justice of the Peace, fourteen years, and Township Treasurer four years. He was married in Pennsylvania, in 1832, to Miss Isabella Edgar, by whom he had three children; two, only lived to maturity, a son and a daughter. Mrs. McNelley died in 1878. Mr. McNelley was married again, November 28, 1881, to Mrs. Mary Cowperthwaite, widow of Constance C. Cowperthwaite. Mrs. McNelly had five children by her former marriage, all of whom are living.

W. W. MAGRUDER, farmer, Section 15, Township 16, Range 25, P. O. Louisburg, was born in Frederick County, Va., February 7, 1822, and moved to Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1836, where he was engaged in farming. In the spring of 1869 he moved to Kansas and located on his present farm. he has now a well-cultivated farm of 160 acres, and his son-in-law, Mr. W. H. Foster, has 240 acres adjacent, which was formerly a part of Mr. Magruder's tract. Mr. Magruder was married in Ohio in 1843, to Miss Catherine, daughter of William Lacey. Mrs. Magruder was born in Ohio, in 1824. They have four children (daughters) The eldest, Caroline is the wife of Henry Smith, of Ohio; the second, Sarah, is Mrs. T. L. Wiseman, of Missouri; the third, Louisa V., is the wife of Charles Berry, of Ohio; the youngest, Ida M., is Mrs. W. H. Foster, of Wea, Kas.

WILLIAM MARTIN, farmer, Section 4, Township 16, Range 25, P. O. Louisburg was born in Fayette County, Va., June 24, 1818, and resided in Virginia til 1850, and then moved to Cass County, Mo. In 1860 he removed to the township of Middle Creek, Miami Co., Kas. Three years later, he purchased a farm adjoining the village of Louisburg, where he resided til 1872, when he sold out and purchased 320 acres on Section 4, same township. He has since conveyed all but eighty-three acres to his children. Mr. Martin married in Fayette County, Va., January 20, 1841, to Miss Helen, daughter of Edward Sims. They had a family of eleven children, eight of whom are living: Edna is the wife of A, Watson; Mary is Mrs. John Q. White; Mildred is Mrs. Benj. Wingrove; William H. died, aged eleven years; Charles E. lives in Wea; Rebeca A. is the wife of L. Martin; Joseph C; Eunice died, aged twenty-five years; John; Sarah E. died in childhood; Peter is married and living at the old homestead. They have also an adopted son-Charles Sims, a nephew of Mrs. Martin. Charles E., the eldest living son, enlisted in the late war when only sixteen years of age in a Kansas regiment, and served on the frontier. He was one of a detachment that fell into an Indian ambush, where he and one other, only, escaped death., Their comrades were horribly mutilated. Young Martin was saved by being well mounted.

ADAM MILLER, farmer, Section 29, Township 15, Range 25, P. O. Wea, was born in Germany, August 1, 1829, immigrated to America in 1856, and located in Seneca County, N. Y. Spent one year in that county and then moved to Kendall County, Ill., where he was engaged in farming, until 1869. he then moved to Wea, Miami Co., Kas., and purchased his present farm. He now has a well cultivated farm of 400 acres. Previous to coming to America, he served six years as a soldier in the German Army. He was married in Kendall County, Ill., to Miss Caroline Finch, daughter of Darius Finch. Mrs. Miller was born in Illinois. They have a family of nine children, four sons and five daughters. Mr. Miller is esteemed as one of the leading farmers, as well as one of the most respected citizens of Miami County.

JOSEPH MOORE, farmer, Section 33, Township 15, Range 25, P. O. Louisburg. He was born in Ross County, Ohio, February 22, 1809. He was brought up a farmer. In 1837 he moved to Warren County, Ind., where he was a pioneer. He resided in Indiana until 1866, when he moved to Kansas, arriving in Miami County October 13th of that year, and settled on his present farm of 180 acres, situated on Section 33, Township 16, Range 25, Wea. Mr. Moore was married in Ohio, in 1837, to Miss Rhoda, daughter of William and Mary Lawrence. Mrs. Moore was born and married in Pickaway County, Ohio. Both Mr. and Mrs. Moore are tall of stature and have a family of seven sons, all living, smallest of whom is six feet one inch and the tallest six feet seven inches in height. The eldest son, Lindley M., resides at Danville, Ill. The second Samuel W. is the present postmaster of Louisville, Kan. The third, Richard H., of McPherson County, Kan., Joseph L. of Wea, Joshua W. of McPherson, County, Kan. The youngest, Kansas F., lives at the old homestead in Wea.

SAMUEL W. MOORE, dealer in drugs and medicines, books and stationery; Postmaster and first Mayor of Louisburg. Mr. Moore is a native of Warren County, Ind., and was born in 1843. He received his primary education in the common schools of that county and attended one year at the Evans Union College. In 1866 he moved to Kansas and located at Paola, where he was engaged in teaching until 1870. He then came to Louisburg and formed a partnership in the drug business with Dr. Odell under the firm name of Odell & Moore. Dr. Odell subsequently sold out to Dr. J. D. Bryan, who sold his interest to Mr. Moore in 1875, since which time Mr. Moore has conducted the business alone. He was appointed Postmaster of Louisburg in 1871 and has held the office continuously to this date. He was elected the first Mayor of Louisburg in 1882. Mr. Moore enlisted in the late war as a private of Company K, One Hundred and Fifth Indiana Volunteers in 1864 and served til the close of the war.

N. A. MORFORD, farmer, Section 27, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Louisburg, was born in Mercer county, Pa., in 1850. In 1851 he moved with his parents to Warren County, Ill. He resided in that county till 1876, when he came to Kansas and made his home in the Township of Wea, Miami County. He purchased his present farm of eighty acres in 1879; he also has ten acres of timber in Middle Creek township. He moved to his farm in March, 1880. He was married in Warren county, Ill., March 2, 1875, to Miss Flora, daughter of Thomas Bell. Mrs. Morford was born in Fulton County Ill. They have two children, daughters, Nina B. and Hattie.

SIMON MYERS, farmer, resides in the city, has 265 acres of land situated on Section 34 and on 14 and 15 of Middle Creek. Mr. Myers was born in Cumberland County, Pa, in 1834. He removed to Ohio with his parents when three years of age He was brought up a farmer, and immigrated to Kansas in 1857 and located in the Township of Middle Creek, Miami County, where he was engaged in farming and stock growing until the fall of 1882, when he removed to the city of Louisburg still retaining the ownership of his land. During the late war, Mr. Myers did duty as a member of the Kansas State Militia.

JOSEPH E. NOEL, farmer, Section 11, Town 16, Range 25, P. O. West Line, Cass Co., Mo. He was born in Jackson County, Mo. in 1840. He was brought up a farmer. On the breaking out of the late war he cast his lot with the Confederates and served four years as a member of Shelby's Cavalry, in which he held a commission of First Lieutenant. In 1877 he moved to Miami County, Kan, Section 11, Wea. He has a well cultivated farm of 160 acres, one half of which lies in Missouri and the other in Kansas, divided only by the highway. Mr. Noel has been a resident of the Township of Wea about six years, and is widely known a one of its most respected citizens.

HIRAM L. PHILLIPS, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Wayne, Ky., September 20, 1827, came to Tazewell County, Ill., with his parents in 1830. Their home was then the most westerly limit of civilization in this latitude. He received his primary education in the common school, but subsequently attended the Louisville, University of Kentucky, where he took the degree of bachelor of laws in 1854. The degree was conferred by James Speed, afterward Attorney General of the United States. Mr. Phillips spent some years in the practice of his profession and in teaching school. He moved to Putnam Co., Mo., where he established a good law practice. He was elected District Attorney and served four years; was also School Superintendent two years, during which time he organized and put in operation a good system of schools. In 1871 he returned to Illinois, and farmed until 1877, when he came to Louisburg, Kansas, and engaged in the lumber business, which he continues about three years. Mr. Phillips has always been a great reader and thinker and entertains advanced ideas in regard to the theories and practice of government under our system. His conclusions arrayed him against the dominant party and for fourteen years he has labored by voice and pen in the interest of good government and in opposition to monopolies and rings. In 1878 he was chosen the candidate of the anti==-monopolists for State Senator for the twenty-first District of Kansas. His defeat was a foregone conclusion from the relative strength of the parties, but he made a creditable run, receiving about 600 votes. In 1880 he was Greenback candidate for Lieutenant Governor and received more votes than any one on the ticket. During the election of 1882 he was nominated by the same party for Congressman at large. Mr. Phillips was married February 18, 1879, at Paola, Kansas to Mrs. Sue Wallace, daughter of Wm. A. Heiskell, the first Indian agent located at Paola. Mrs. Phillips is a grand-niece of Dr. Lykins, after whom this county was first named; she was the first white child born at Paola. Her birth occurred May 31, 1857. Mrs. Phillips is the mother of two children by her present marriage, both daughters, and has a son by her former marriage.

DR. J. B. PLETCHER, physician and dealer in drugs, medicine and groceries, does an office and consultation practice. Dr. Pletcher was born in Center County, Pa., in 1842; moved to Kendall County, Ill, in 1854; received his literary education at Fowler Institute, Kendall County. He enlisted in 1862 and served in the late war as a member of the Sixty-ninth Illinois Hundred Day Volunteers. He came to Kansas in 1869, and to Louisburg in 1872. In 1871 he began the study of medicine and in 1874 attended the Eclectic Medical College of Chicago, and took his M. D. degree in 1875. he began practice at Plattville, Ill., but soon removed to Big Rock, Kane County and in April, 1877 returned to Kansas and entered upon the practice of his profession at Louisburg. In August, 1877, he opened a drug store and has continued the business to this date, September, 1882, he added a stock of general groceries, his average stock ranging about $3,000.

REV. JOHN REDEKER, resident pastor of the Holy Rosary Church (Catholic) situated on Section 29, Township 15, Range 25. Father Redeker was born in Westphalia, Germany June 22, 1854. He received his literary education in Germany, studied Theology at Belgium, and was ordained at Mechlin, May 22, 1880. he immigrated to America the same year, arriving in this country, October 29. he came direct to Kansas, and was assigned to the position of assistant priest of the Catholic Church of Independence, Kansas. He was appointed to his present charge, October 23, 1881, and immediately entered upon the discharge of his duties.

E. W. RILEY, physician and surgeon, was born in Porter County, Ind, in 1850; was brought up on a farm, received his primary education in the common schools and at the age of thirteen, attended St. Paul's Academy, where he spent two years. He came to Kansas in 1867, and located near Paola, on a farm. In 1871 he entered the Paola High School and taught till the fall of 1875. he then entered the State Normal School at Leavenworth, from which he graduated in June, 1876. He then began the study of medicine and at the same time was engaged in teaching. In the fall of 1878 he entered the Medical College of Philadelphia, took a regular course and received his degree of M. D. in 1880. He began practice with Dr. Jacobs, of Osawatomie. In September, 1881, he came to Louisburg, where he now has a very flattering practice.

SAMUEL RING, farmer, Section 26, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Louisburg, was born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1820. learned the blacksmith's trade; moved to Indiana in 1851, and the following year to McLean County, Ill., where he was engaged in farming in Illinois till 1865, when he removed to north Missouri and to Wea, Kan., in 1867. He located on his present farm, where has has 460 acres well improved, and has, besides, 400 acres in Anderson County. Mr. Ring was married in Ohio in 1844, to Miss Susan Seneff. Mrs. Ring died November 19, 1869. Four children born of this marriage lived to maturity. Mr. Ring was married again August 16, 187090, to Mrs. Matilda Cunningham, widow of Adam Cunningham and daughter of Andrew Wilson. Mrs. Ring had two children by her former marriage, and three by the latter.

WILLIAM G. RINGER, farmer, Section 31, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Paola, was born in Somerset County, Pa., January 29, 1837. He was brought up on a farm, and when twenty years of age went to Illinois and worked out til August, 1862. He then enlisted as a private of Company C, Eighty-fourth Regiment Illinois Infantry. He was with his command and regiment in all actions participated in by them, until he received a gunshot wound at the battle of Peach Tree Creek, in front of Atlanta, July 20, 1864, by which he lost his right arm above the elbow. He received an honorable discharge in the winter of 1864-'65, for physical disability caused by wounds received in action. The following summer he went to the mountains of his native place to recuperate his health, which was seriously impaired. He returned to Illinois in 1866; was engaged in collecting til 1868. He was married March 3rd of that year and at once emigrated to Kansas, and settled on his present farm in the Township of Wea. Mr. Ringer started with limited means as a pioneer of this region. He now has 400 acres of valuable improved land, 240 of which lies in Wea and 160 in Paola. His wife, Martha, is the daughter of Samuel Patrick and was born in Kentucky. They have two children (sons), Frank and William H. Mr. Ringer is a republican in politics and has always taken an active interest in the success of his party.

GEORGE H. ROBINSON, farmer, Section 31, Township 15, Range 24, P. O. Spring Hill, was born in Greene County, Ill., August 29, 1839; was brought up a farmer. He enlisted in August, 1862, in Company K, Ninety-first Illinois Infantry, and served three years. He was captured December 27, 1862, at Elizabethtown, Ky., by General Morgan, but was released on parole, after a few days detention. He was promoted to Orderly Sergeant of his company, and served til March 27, 1865. He immigrated from Illinois to Kansas in the spring of 1866, and purchased his present farm. He was married in Greene County, Ill., December 20, 1865, to Miss Rebecca T. Secor, daughter of E. J. Secor. Mrs. Robinson was born in Greene County, They have a family of five children-Julia E., Maude E., Clyde C., Nettie G., and Ota R. Mr. Robinson has a well improved farm of 320 acres.

A. ROHRER, farmer, Section 8, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Hillsdale. Mr. Rohrer was born in Holmes County, Ohio, November 3, 1840; was brought up a farmer. he enlisted, in July, 1862, as a private of Company A., One Hundred and Second Ohio Volunteers and served three years, or til the close of the war. In 1866, he moved to Illinois, and located in McLean County, where he resided till the latter part of 1868. He then came to Kansas, arriving here in February, and March 7 of that year he located on his present farm in Wea. Mr. Rohrer's farm embraces 160 acres of well improved land. He was married in Ohio, in September 2, 1868, to Miss Annie Downs, daughter of Henry Downs. Mrs. Rohrer was born in Ohio.

REUBEN ROWLAND, deceased, was one of the earliest settlers of the Township if Wea. He was born in Pope County, Ill., October 8, 1838. He was brought up a farmer and was married, November 24, 1859, to Miss Amanda, daughter of Thomas Tanner. They moved to Township 16, Range 25, Wea, where he had a fine farm of eighty acres, now the property of his home and widow and children. He followed the occupation of a farmer until his death, which occurred March 24, 1879. Mr. Rowland was a man much respected as a good citizen and neighbor, devoted to his family and home. He left a widow and seven children to mourn the loss of husband and father, cut off in his prime. The family consists of four sons and three daughters, named respectively-Thomas L., Mason A., Ada V., Lewis N., William H., Rillaett and Alma R. 

ROBERT W. SANDERS, blacksmith, is one of the pioneers of Louisburg. He erected the first building on the main business street in the spring of 1871, which he used for a blacksmith shop, and has been in business here continuously since. He was born in North Easter, Ky., December 21, 1843. received a common school education, and served a regular apprenticeship to the blacksmith's trade. Having completed his time at this trade, he enlisted on the first call for troops in the late war in the spring of 1861; was one of the 75,000 accepted on the three months' call, being a member of the Tenth Kentucky Cavalry. At the expiration of the three months' term, he returned home and helped to raise Company C of the Tenth Calvary, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant. He was subsequently promoted to First Lieutenant and served with his company and regiment till September, 1865. On his return from the war, he resumed work at his trade, which he followed in Missouri, Texas and Kentucky. In 1870, he came to Little St. Louis, Miami Co., Kan., where he worked till the spring of 1871, when he built his shop in Louisburg. Mr. Sanders is served two years as Clerk of Wea Township, also as Clerk of the School District and at the first city election (Louisburg) was elected Marshall.

JACOB SCHWARTZ, farmer, Section 19, Township 15, Range 25, P. O. Wea, was born in Oberselters, Nassau, in 1832, October 21. He immigrated to America in 1860 and came direct to Kansas and purchased his present farm. He now has a tract of 480 acres, which is divided into three farms, each of them well improved. On the farm he lives on, he has a large and tasty farmhouse and good farm buildings. Mr. Schwartz was married in the fall of 1862, at Kansas City, Mo., to Miss Annie, daughter of Peter Shilo. Mrs. S. was born in Germany. She died in October, 1870, and left two children-Elizabeth and Dora. Elizabeth died in November, 1873. Mr. Schwartz was married again, in 1872, to Miss Frances, daughter of Anthony Bauer. She was born in the same town in Germany. They have three children-Jacob, Frances and William. Mr. S. has served four years as Treasurer of the School District. During the late war he did duty as a member of the Kansas State Militia.

WILLIAM SCHWARTZ, farmer and stock grower, Section 30, Township 15, Range 25, P. O. Wea, was born in Prussia, May 4, 1837. He learned the millwright's trade and immigrated to America in 1856; spent one year in Pennsylvania, and then worked out in Missouri until 1859, when he came to Kansas and purchased 40 acres of land in the town of Wea, on Section 30, Township 15, Range 25, on which he paid $15, all his available capital. The following year, 1860, he built a small house and began to improve his land. He also erected a small saw and wind mill on his land where he cut lumber for the settlers for many miles about. He also worked at his trade as opportunity offered and soon acquired means to purchase more land until at this date, 1883, he has several fine farms aggregating 1,500 acres. He began stock growing at an early day and by judicious management has been very successful in that branch of the business. He also buys and feeds stock for market, having an average of herd of eighty head of cattle, 200 hogs and a large number of horses and mules. He feeds an average 12,000 bushels of corn annually, the most of which is grown upon his own lands. Mr. Schwartz was among the first settlers of Township 15, Range 25, and although commencing with very little he has acquired a large and very valuable property, and justly ranks among the leading and influential citizens of Miami County. In fact, there is probably no man in the county whose judgment in his line of business more respected or one who has made so thoroughly a study of farming and stock growing in this section, and demonstrates the correctness of his judgment by his success. Mr. S was married in Kansas City, Mo, in 1864, to Miss Anna Dougherty, daughter of Thomas Dougherty. They have four children-Jacob A., Dora A., William A., and Thomas E. S. Mr. S has never been an office seeker, but has accepted the office of Justice of the Peace, and also Township Treasurer, each of which he held two terms. During the late war he served three seasons as a member of the Kansas Militia.

ADAM SECK, farmer, Section 29, Township 15, Range 25, P. O. Wea, was born in Nassau, Prussia, June 7, 1837. Served three years in the Prussian Army. He was married in 1861, to Miss Helen, daughter of Jacob Schwartz. They have five children-the eldest Mary, is the wife of John Stahl, of Wea; Jacob, Lizzie, Lena and Katie. They have lost two sons-Adam, aged thirteen years, and Peter, aged three years., In the spring of 1866 Mr. Seck and family immigrated to America. He came directly to Kansas and purchased his present farm on Section 29, Wea. Mr. Seck has a well improved farm of 400 acres, with good buildings, etc. and is one of the prosperous farmers of Wea.

JACOB SECK, farmer, Section 20, Township 15, Range 25, P. O. Wea, was born in Nassau, now Prussia, in 1841. He was married in 1865, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Schwartz. They have a family of six children-Jacob, Elizabeth, William, Bernhard W., Anthony J., and Albert. All but the eldest were born in America. Mr. Seck emigrated to this country in 1866; came direct to Kansas and located on his present farm. He now has 580 acres of land, a large portion of which is under a fine state of cultivation. His buildings are large and convenient and in fact, in the language of the West, he is well fixed.

J. A. SHELHAMMER, manufacturer of wagons and carriages, was born in Marion County, Ind., in 1845. He learned the wagon and carriage making trade in that State, and moved to Kansas in 1868, locating at Olathe, where he started a small wagon shop. His building was about 10 x 12 feet in size and was without a floor, while his working capital was forty cents. In 1871 he moved to Louisburg and opened business in his line in a very modest way and with limited means; by energy and industry he has built up a fine business. He now has large and commodious buildings appropriately fitted up for the manufacture of wagons and carriages. He does a large amount of job work and repairing of which he makes a specialty. He employs ten men and turns out about eighty lumber wagons and from thirty to forty buggies annually. Mr. Shelhammer's work gives the best satisfaction and his orders are always equal to the capacity of his work.

SPAWR & HEDRICK, proprietors of livery, sale and boarding stable; business established in 1880 (April). This firm keep a fine lot of horses and carriages, and are attentive to the wants of their patrons. The senior partner, Mr. V. M. Spawr, was born in McLean County, Ill in 1845; was brought up a farmer, and came to Kansas in 1870. He located near Louisburg, Miami County where he was engaged in farming two years. He then moved to Allen County and farmed there until 1880, when he sold out and went into his present business. The junior partner, Elijah Hedrick, was born in McLean County, Ill, in 1857; came to Kansas in 1870 and was engaged in farming in Miami County till 1880; when he engaged in his present business.

N. H. STARRY, farmer, Section 26, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Louisburg was born in Warren County, Ind., November 6, 1842. He enlisted in August, 1862, in Company E, Eighty-sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. After eight months service he was transferred to the signal corps and served in that department until the close of the war. On returning from the war he engaged in farming in Indiana and continued to reside in that State until 1871, when he came to Kansas and purchased his present farm in Wea Township. Mr. Starry has a well improved farm of 400 acres, situated near the city of Louisburg. His tasty residence is one of the largest and finest dwellings in the county. He was married in Iroquois County, Ill, in September, 1866, to Sarah J., daughter of Levi Bonebrake. Mrs. Starry was born in Preble County, Ohio. They have six children-Maud, Leona, Clark, Beverly, Alta and Effie. The three younger were born in Kansas.

GEORGE STARRY, farmer, Section 34, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Louisburg, has a finely improved farm of 440 acres. Mr. Starry was born in Berkley County, Va., September, 1823. In 1829 he moved with his parents to Indiana where he was brought up a farmer. In 1863 he removed to Iroquois County, Ill and was engaged in farming there til 1868, when he came to Miami County, Kansas and purchased his present farm. He was married in Indiana in 1846, to Miss Hannah Kaiser. They have six children-Nicholas C., Elizabeth, Daniel, George, Mary J., and Margaret. All of the children are married but the youngest and all residents of Kansas but one.

JACOB STEM, farmer, Section 3, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Spring Hill. Mr. Stem is a native of Mercer County, Pa., and was born March 25, 1827. He was brought up farmer. In 1850, he removed to Warren County, Ill., where he was engaged in farming until 1869. In the fall of that year, he removed to Kansas and settled on his present farm in the township of Wea. He was married in Pennsylvania, January 15, 1851, to Miss Phebe Sutton., Mrs. Stem was born in Crawford County, Pa. They have two children _ Alice L., now Mrs. Reuben Z. Ferguson, of Wea and Frederick B. The son is a graduate of Oberlin College, Writing Department, Ohio. He is married to Miss Ada Kevan, a lady of English birth and is now a farmer of Wea.

MYRON TINKHAM, farmer, Section 29, Township 16, Range 25, P. O. Louisburg. He was born in Bennington County, Vt., in 1840. he was bought up a farmer and received a liberal education and engaged in bookkeeping. He followed that occupation five or six years and in the spring of 1868 moved to Miami County, Kan. He purchased the northeast quarter of Section 29, which was in a wild or unimproved state. He has resided on his land since coming here and now has one of the best improved and most valuable farms of its size in the county. Mr. Tinkham, although not an active politician, was chosen a member of the House of Kansas Legislature for the term of 1873-74, to represent District No. 32, comprised of Northern Miami County.

HON E. H. TOPPING, farmer, Section 28, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Somerset, was born in Athens County, Ohio in 1830. When ten years of age he removed with his parents to Perry County, Ill.; was brought up on a farm and in September, 1862, enlisted in the Volunteer service in the late war, and was commissioned Captain of Company D, One Hundred and Tenth Illinois Infantry; was promoted in November of the same year, to Lieutenant Colonel, commanding the regiment. During the latter part of the war his regiment was in Sherman's command. He was wounded by the falling of his horse while on duty causing a fracture of the left arm. He served with the regiment in all engagements and battles in which it participated till June, 1865, at the close of the war. He returned to his home in Springfield, Ill, and in November of that year ( 1865) he came to Kansas and located at Paola, Miami County and engaged in the live stock business, He was elected to the Lower House of the Kansas Legislature for 1870-71. He was then elected to the Senate, served two years; was reelected and served til 1875. He was married November 29, 1863 to Miss Elizza A., daughter of Jacob Watkins. Mrs. Topping was born in Antrim, Guernsey Co., Ohio. They had one child-Charles J., who died in childhood aged four years. Mr. Topping moved to his present farm in 1868, and has continued to make this his place of residence to this date (1883).

F. M. TUMBLESON, merchant, dealer in dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes. Having the only straight dry goods store in the city. Mr. Tumbleson was born in Preble County, Ohio in 1831. went to Indiana in 1849; located in Huntington County, and began business in 1853, as a dealer in and manufacturer of boots and shoes. He subsequently studied medicine and became a practicing physician. In June, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Seventy-fifth Indiana Volunteers. He was made Hospital Steward and Assistant Surgeon of the regiment and served till the close of the war. He then went to La Salle County, Ill, where he practiced medicine and did a merchandising business til 1869. He then moved to Bates County, Mo, where he started the town of Rundett and opened the first store. He also dealt in livestock. he next spent four years on his farm in Cass County; was in mercantile business from the fall of 1878 till the summer of 1879, when he came to Louisburg and engaged in his present business., Mr, Tumbleson occupies the corner store of Cadwallader's Block and carries an average stock of $15,000.

ANTHONY VOHS, P. O. Wea, one of the earliest pioneers of Township 15, Range 25. In fact, the second settler in this township, settled on Section 30 in the spring of 1859. Was born in Nassau, Germany (now Prussia) August 8, 1829. He emigrated to America in 1856, landed at Waterloo, N. Y. The following April, 1857, he moved to Illinois, located about sixty miles south of Chicago, where he spent two years. In 1858, he came to Kansas, and in the spring of 1859, bought his land in Wea; has now 215 acres. The following spring he moved his family to their new home. He was married in Illinois, in 1858, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Becker. Mrs. Vohs was born in Nassau Germany. they have six children-Helena, wife of Anthony Bauer, of Wea; George, Anthony, Jasper, Joseph and Frank. Mr. Vohs was a member of Kansas One Hundred Day Men during the late war, and also did militia duty. The week before the burning of Lawrence, he was robbed of all his personal property by a detachment of Quantrill's men.

EUGENE VOHS, farmer, Section 30, Township 15, range 25, P. O. Wea, was born in Prussia in 1836, immigrated to America in 1854, spent two years in Monroe County, Pa. Then removed to Illinois, where he was engaged in farming two years, moving still westward he located in Kansas City, Mo. In April, 1863, he moved to Wea township, Miami Co. Kan., and purchased a farm on Section 30. He has since added to his acreage till he now has 680 acres of as fine land as there is in Eastern Kansas. Mr. Vohs has his farm under a good state of cultivation. His residence and farm buildings are of the best. While the large herds of fine cattle, and droves of fat swine and other stock, all speak of the successful farmer. Mr. Vohs was married in Kendall County, Ill, to Rosa Hirt, daughter of John Hirt. Mrs. Vohs was born in Germany. They have nine children living.

CAPT. WILLIAM WATERHOUSE, farmer, section 26, Township 15, Range 24, P. O. Spring Hill, is a native of England, and was born May 30, 1828. He immigrated to America in 1848 and made his home in Rhode Island, until 1851. He then went to California and spent five years in the gold diggings. In 1857, he returned to the States and located in Illinois, where he resided until 1858, when he came to Kansas. He spent some months in Johnson County and in the fall of that year located on his present farm. Soon after the breaking out of the late war he entered the Secret Service of the United States, and served four years and eight months, principally west of the Mississippi river. During the service he passed through many trying scenes; he was wounded several times and is reported to have done efficient work in that hazardous branch of the service. He was married in Rhode Island, November 2, 1851, to Miss Elizabeth Eli, daughter of Thomas Eli, They have seven children living-Anna Mary, Frances E., William, John J., Amanda E., Elizabeth A., died aged eight years and a half, Lucy, Susan and Robert. The latter died aged four and a half years. Capt Waterhouse has a well improved farm of 400 acres, one quarter section of which he is about conveying to one of his sons.

PHIL J. WEAVER, manager of the lumber yard of S. A. Brown & Co. This company established their yards at Louisburg in June, 1881, being successors to H. L. Phillips. They handle about $20,000 worth of lumber annually. Mr., Weaver was born in Cumberland County, Pa. in 1843. he was brought up a farmer. He enlisted in June, 1863, in the First Pennsylvania Infantry and was assigned to the Signal Corps and served until August, 1865. In March, 1868, he came to Kansas.

LESLIE C. WEST, farmer, Section 29, Township 15, range 24, P. O. Spring Hill, was born in Washington County, Ohio, August 26, 1847. He was bought up a farmer. He enlisted May 2, 1864, in Company b, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Ohio Volunteers, and served until September 5, the same year. He was married in Meigs County, Ohio, February 27, 1873, to Miss Arvilla Middleswart, daughter of Franklin Middleswart. They have three children-Edgar L., Carl M., and Mary C. Mr. West moved to Wea Township in March 5, 1878, and settled on his present fine farm of 160 acres, which Mrs., West inherited from her father's estate.

GEORGE A. WHITAKER, farmer, Section 27, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Louisburg. Has 1,900 acres of land, 840 of which is in a body, where he resides. He was born in Bradford County, Pa., October 16, 1836, moved to Illinois in 1853. Was employed as a traveling salesman, making his headquarters in Kane County. He enlisted in August, 1862, in the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, Company E., in which he was a non-commissioned officer. He was wounded October 8, 1863 on the Rapidan, receiving three gun-shot wounds in the right leg. He continued in the service to the end of his term of enlistment, serving three years. In the summer of 1866, he came to Kansas and located on his present farm. He was married in Rensselaer County, NY in August, 1865, to Miss Frances D., daughter of Iram Manchester. Mrs. Whitaker was born in Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. They have two children (sons)-Maurince I., and Albert E. Mr. Whitaker is largely interested in the growing of short-horn cattle of which he has a herd of seventy cows and heifers. His entire stock of cattle numbers about 200 while his stock of swine reaches 300.

GEORGE WICKLINS, deceased, was one of the earliest pioneers of Wea Township, he having settled here in July, 1858. He made his claim on the north west quarter of Section 30, Township 15, Range 25, and subsequently purchased the southwest quarter of the same Section, having in all 320 acres. Mr. Wicklins was born in Monroe County, Va., October 1, 1819. he was brought up a farmer and removed to Missouri in 1844; made his home in Holt and Atchison counties a couple of years when on account of continued poor health of himself and his family he returned to Virginia. In 1857, he emigrated, intending to settle in Kansas. he stopped one year in Missouri on the way, and arrived in Miami County, In July 1858. He was one of the first to make improvements in the northeastern section of the county, where by persevering industry he developed a well improved farm. During the war he was in the track of the raiders from both sides and served as a member in the Kansas Militia during those turbulent times. Mr. Wicklins continued to reside at the home of his selection until his death, which occurred August 11, 1872.He was married in Virginia, January 20, 1842, to Miss Julia Summer, daughter of Andrew Summer. Mrs. Wicklins was born in Monroe County, Va. There were eight children born to them, of whom five are living a of this date-Andrew M., is living in Missouri; Laginue, is the wife of P. F. Latimer, of Wea; Giles A. is a resident of Texas; Lloyd, also of Texas; Austin G., died, aged twenty years; Margaretta, resides with her mother at the old homestead; two children were lost in childhood. Mr. Wicklins was a Democrat in politics, served one term as Justice of the Peace. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1848 and continued a zealous member of that Society until his death.

C. F. WILLIAR, farmer, Section 3, Township 16, Range 24, P. O. Spring Hill, Johnson County, was born in Frederick County, MD, in 1830; was brought up a farmer; moved to Ohio, where he resided about eighteen months; He then removed to Indiana, where he was engaged in farming about two and a half years. In July, 1868, he immigrated to Kansas, and settled on his present farm of 160 acres, on which he is now building a fine new residence. He has been called on to fill several local offices and during the year 1881, served as Township Trustee. He was married in Maryland, November 87, 1959, to Miss Theodosia Shultz, daughter of Joseph C. Shultz. Mrs. Williar was born in Maryland. They have four sons and one daughter-Charles R., Joseph E., Minnie A., R. S. and Freddie.

HENRY A. WILLIAMS, dealer in hardware, stove and tinware, established his business in Louisburg in 1873, carries an average stock of about $4,000. He was born in St. Joseph County, Ind., in 1846. He received a common school education and began learning the tinner's trade at La Porte, Ind., went to Chicago, Ill in 1869 and perfected himself at his trade. In August, 1871, he joined another young man in jobbing business in his line with shop on East Madison Street. The great fire of October of that year closed out their business effectually. The following March, 1872, he came to Kansas and located at Paola. In March, 1872, he came to Louisburg and opened his present business.

WRIGHT & SON (William M. and Robert A.) dealers in groceries, provisions and queensware. This firm was established in the fall of 1882, being successors to Goebel & Wright, which firm was comprised of Peter Goebel and Robert A. Wright, and carried on business in the same stand from October 1, 1881, till the fall of 1882. The present firm have a well-stocked store, situated in the Cadwallader brick block and carry an average stock of $3,500. The senior partner, Mr. William M. Wright, was born in Kentucky, December 27, 1829, was brought up in that State and was engaged in mercantile business and in farming. In the fall of 1868 he removed to Kansas and located in Aubrey, Johnson County, where he was engaged in farming til 1875, when he moved to Louisburg and engaged in the hardware trade with Mr. E. P. Short. He sold out of that business, and in the fall of 1882 formed the present connection with his son Robert A. 

JOHN W. BEATY, farmer, Section 20, Township 17, Range 22, P. O. Paola, was born in Champaign County, Ohio, December 26, 1826. When eleven years of age he removed with his parents to Illinois, where he was brought up and engaged in farming. He enlisted in the late war and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Company F, Ninety-fourth Illinois Volunteers, August 20, 1862. He was promoted to First Lieutenant and served til December 2, 1864, when he was compelled to resign on account of physical disability. He came to Kansas in 1865 and purchased his present farm of 200 acres on Sections 17 and 20, Stanton. he was elected Trustee of Stanton Township in 1870 and re-elected in 1871. In the fall of 1873 he was elected to the House of Representatives of Kansas from the Thirty-first District. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1873, and re-elected nearly every term since. Mr. Beaty was married in Illinois, in October, 1846, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Archie Martin. Mrs. Beaty was born in Champaign County, Ohio. They have four children-one son and three daughters. Archie M. is married and lives in Stanton; Mary J., the wife of A. J. Manned of Wilson County, Kansas; Sarah E., Martha E., wife of J. H. Alexander, of Wilson County, Kansas.

ADOLPHUS T. BENNING, farmer; farm located in Sedgwick County; present residence at the old homestead, Section 35, Township 17, Range 21, P. O. Stanton. Was born in Pike County, Missouri, in 1844. Was brought to Kansas by his parents in 11854. Located first in Middle Creek Township, Lykins County, October 2. The following March came to Stanton and located on Section 35, Township 17, Range 21. Went to school to William Quantrill, subsequently notorious as a guerrilla chieftain. He enlisted, November 1, 1863, in the First Colorado Cavalry. Afterwards veteranized in Company E, same regiment. Was detailed on scout duty in the Indian country and participated in some sharp encounters with the savages. Served til September 1865. He was married in Stanton, Kansas in 1875 to Miss Mary J. DeVooe. They have two girls-Effie May and Orah Phina. Mrs. Benning died November 2, 1882.

ALBROW T. BENNING, farmer, Section 35, Township 17, Range 21, P. O. Stanton, was born in Pike County, Mo., November 7, 1848. Went to Texas with his parents in 1852, and came with them to Kansas in 1854. Lived one year in Middle Creek Township, Miami County, and in 1855 located on the land now occupied by him. His father made a claim of this tract of 160 acres, Section 35, and it has remained the property of the family continually since. Mr. Benning was married, in Sedgwick County, Kansas, March 1, 1880, to Miss M. O. Martin. They have one child, a daughter named Mabel E.

DANIEL CHILDS, farmer, Section 21, Township 17, Range 21, P. O. Paola, was born in Massachusetts, June 20, 1814. When four years of age moved with his parents to Steuben County (now Schuyler), N. Y. From there he removed to Indiana in 1837. He resided in Jennings County til 1860, when he came to Kansas and settled on his present farm. He has a well improved farm of 280 acres on Section 17. During the late war he was enrolled a member of the Kansas Militia and was on duty during the Price raid. He was elected County Clerk of Miami County in the fall of 1861, was re-elected three times and served eight years. He was married in Indiana, March 14, 1841, to Miss Sallie C., daughter of William McKinney. Mrs. Childs was born in North Carolina. They had three sons, and four girls. Minerva was the wife of John J. Ball and died in 1865; Samuel, married lives in California; John, Mary, wife of Robert Derr, of Fontana, Kansas; William, Daniel married and lives in Stanton; Allie Maud is the wife of James Williams, of Stanton. Mrs. Childs died in 1867. Mr. Childs was married in July 1868 in the State of New York, to Miss Sarah B, daughter of Alex. Young. Mrs. Childs was born in New York.

FRANCIS COOPER, farmer, Section 16, Township 17, range 22, P. O. Paola. Mr. Cooper was born in the North of Ireland in 1834. Immigrated to America in 1850. Made his home in Ohio til 1856, when he removed to Illinois, and was engaged in farming in that State til 1865. He then came to Kansas and purchased his present farm in the township of Stanton., He was married in Illinois in 1863 to Miss Mary E. Davis, daughter of Dorsey Davis. Mrs. Cooper was born in Pennsylvania. They have four children, two sons and two daughters-George E., Josephine, Jessie and Charles F.

WILLIAM COOPER, farmer, Section 19, Township 17, Range 22, P. O. Stanton, was born in the North of Ireland, September 18, 1839. Went to England in his youth; spent six years in Liverpool, and came to America in 1860 and made his home in Illinois. He enlisted December 3, 1861 as a private of Company K, Twenty-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteers. Was wounded at Mission Ridge, slightly, and again in front of Atlanta, by a gunshot in the hip, seriously. Was promoted to Sergeant and continued in the service til July 1865. Soon after his discharge from the army he emigrated to Kansas and settled in Stanton Township, where he now resides. He has a fine tract of 350 acres of land and is largely interested in growing and feeding stock, He was married in Kansas, May 20, 1866, to Miss Melisa S. Nickelborough. Mrs. Cooper was born in Missouri.

JUDGE THOMAS ROBERTS, farmer, Section 4, Township 18, Range 22, P. O. Osawatomie, is one of the few remaining pioneers of Lykins County (now Miami) of 1855. He was born in Wales, March 23, 1816. Emigrated to the United States in 1835, and made his home in New York at first; subsequently moved to Ohio and from there to Wisconsin Territory (then a wilderness) in 1841. In July, 1855, he came to Kansas and made a claim on Section 8, Township 18, Range 22, now Osawatomie. He was a pronounced Free-state man and participated in the turbulent times of 1855 '56'and '57. At one time his house was raided by a party of Pro-slavery men while he was on his sick bed. They took him out telling him they had come to kill him. He disdained to make any plea for his life, but simply remarked,"Well, kill me then" For some reason they decided that they had made a mistake, concluding he was not a regular Yankee, left him in peace. In 1859 he was elected Probate Judge of Lykins County (Miami) in the first territorial election and served two years. He was elected to the State Senate in 1861, to fill a vacancy, and served as a member of the Court of Impeachment of State officers, in 1862. In 1864 he was elected Clerk of the District Court and served two years. In 1866 he was elected County Attorney, and served one term,. During the late war he held a Captain's Commission in the Fifth Kansas Militia. His son Thomas, was a member of the Tenth Kansas Volunteers and served three years. Judge Roberts was married in Kirtland, Ohio, December 10, 1838, to Miss Clarinda, daughter of Abel Farr, Mrs. Roberts was born in Elyria City, Lorain Co., Ohio ad was the first white child born in that county. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts had six children, five of whom are living, Sarah A., wife of C. M. Stevens, of Montgomery County, Kas.; Thomas F., married and living in Stanton Township, Miami County; Abelliza, wife of William West, of Montgomery County, Kas; Flora, wife of James Mullens, of Osage Township, Miami County; Belle, wife of Robert Mullens, of Stanton, Kas. Judge Roberts has 480 acres of land in Miami County and settled in his present home in 1857.

REV. ROBERT SHERAR, a Minister of the Presbyterian Church, is the possessor of a fine a farm of 182 acres, where he resides, on Section 18, Township 17, Range 22, P. O. Stanton. He was born in Franklin County, New York, September 21, 1847. He moved with his parents to Dwight County, Ill, in childhood and emigrated to Kansas with his father, Caleb Scherer in 1855, arriving in Lykins County, April 19th of that year. May 18, 1855, He attached himself to John Brown and was with him off and on, some six months, he participated in the battle of Osawatomie and was one of the party who escaped fording the Marais des Cygnes. He was urged by Brown to join his expedition to Harper's Ferry, and one day, after tiring of following the team in harrowing wheat land, he determined to accept Brown's proposal. While making his preparations to go, he was persuaded out of it by his more sensible mother. On the breaking out of the late war, he was commissioned First Lieutenant of an independent company of State troops, under command of Colonel Cotton., He enlisted in the United States service as a private, in Company I, Sixteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, in March, 1864, and served til July 24, 1865. Soon after the war, Mr. Sherar became a student of theology and preached as a licentiate of the Presbyterian Church for several years in various churches of Kansas, he was regularly ordained a minister of that church in 1877. He is the present pastor of the Stanton Church; also of the Peoria, Richland Franklin and Valley Congregation., He was married in Kansas, April 25, 1859, to Miss Maggie Dawman, daughter of Job Dawman, a pioneer of 1855. They had six children, four sons and two daughters-Lillie, Minnie, Elmer, Harry, Miles (died aged six years) and R. Maxey.

WILLIAM WHITEHEAD, farmer, Section 11, Township 17, Range 21, P. O. Paola, is one of the pioneers of Kansas of 1855. He was born in Shelby County, Ill, January 17, 1836. Immigrated to Franklin County, Kas, in 1855 with his father, He made his home at the old Peoria Mission, near the west line of Miami County., He was an earnest Free-state man and took an active part in the turbulent scenes of 1856 and 1857, and was a member of John Brown's company. His wife was a daughter of the notorious Rev. Martin White, who shot Fred Brown at Osawatomie the morning of the battle of August 29, 1856. The old man induced his daughter to separate from her husband on account of his Free-state principles. She died while her husband was in the Union service during the late war. Mr. Whitehead purchased his farm on Section 11, Stanton, in 1858. He has a fine tract of 234 acres. 

JOHN BEETS, farmer, Section 4, Township 16, Range 23, P. O. Hillsdale. Mr. Beets is one of the few surviving pioneers of Miami County of 1854, he having made his claim on the then Indian land in the fall of that year. He moved his family the following April, 1855, to their new home. He purchased his land at the land sales in the spring of 1857, and continues to reside here to this date. Mr. Beets was born in east Tennessee, August 29, 1826. When sixteen years of age he went to Missouri and from there to Mexico in 1848. returning to Missouri he went to Mexico again in 1849, and across the plains to California in 1850. He spent two years in the gold diggings and in 1852 returned to Missouri. In the fall of 1854 he came to Miami County, Kan and made a claim on Section 4, Township 16, Range 23, his present home. returning to Missouri, he was married October 4, 1854, and in April, 1855 returned to Kansas with his wife and took possession of his claim. They have eleven children, three sons and eight daughters. Dora A. is the wife of Jerry Mobley, of Marysville Township; Flora J. is the wife of William Hittle, of Sugar Creek Township, Kan; William K is married and lives in Sugar Creek; Thomas J is married and living in Osage County, Kan; Mollie is the wife of John B. Rees, of Johnson County, Kan; John A., Mattie, Belle, Bettie, Bessis. Mr. Beets has a well improved farm of 260 acres.

JOSEPH BEETS, farmer, Section 32, Township 15, Range 23, P. O. Hillsdale, was one of the early pioneers of Miami County, he having made his home here since April, 1856. He was born in northeastern Tennessee, Hawkins County, May 16, 1818; was brought up a farmer and moved to Van Buren County, Mo, in 1843. He bought a claim of a squatter named John Hicks on Section 32, Township 16, Range 23, of 160 acres. He now has well cultivated farm of 398 acres. During the late war he did service in the State Militia; was under Gen Blount in Missouri. He was married in Cass County, Mo., March 31, 1848, to Mrs. Louisa D. Patten, widow of Andrew J. Patten, and a daughter of William Lyon. Mrs. Beets was born in Patrick County, Va. They have eight children, five of whom are living; Eliza J., wife of Aaron Harbison, of Stanton, Kan.; Peter L, Mary, died in childhood, Henry P, Nancy A., died at the age of six years; John C. died in infancy, Fanny, twin sister of John L, Ida, wife of William Richardson, teacher at Hillsdale. Mrs. Beets had two children by her former marriage. James J died in manhood, leaving a wife and two children; William A, was a soldier in the late war and served four years as a member of Company I, Fourteenth Kansas cavalry.

JAMES T. BRATTON, farmer, Section 25, Township 15, Range 23, P. O. Spring Hill Johnson Co, Kan was one of the pioneers of Miami County in 1857. He was born in Montgomery County, Va., November 12, 1830; went to Missouri with his parents in 1833 and from there to Iowa in 1848. In July, 1857, he came to Miami County, Kan and located a homestead on his present farm, the northeast quarter of section 25, Township 15, Range 23 and has made his home from that time to the present. He was married in Mount Vernon, Iowa, April 11, 1861, to Miss Martha, daughter of John Buckman, of LeClair, Iowa. Mrs. Bratton was born at Alton, Ill. They have eight children, six girls and two boys: Eva F. is the wife of Franklin Hogue, of Marysville; Luemma, Franklin, Harriet, May, Bessie, William and Mattie E. Mrs. Bratton died January 18, 1881. Mr. Bratton served in the Kansas Miltia during the late war and bore his share of the hardships and trials incident to pioneer life in Kansas. He now has a valuable farm of 160 acres, situated within two miles of Spring Hill.

PRESTON CHRISTMAN, farmer, Section 23, Township 15, Range 23, P. O. Spring Hill, Johnson County, was born in Jackson County, Mo., February 16, 1839; was brought up in Missouri till twenty years of age. He then came to Kansas; settled in Johnson County. In 1869 he removed to Marysville Township, Miami County where he has a fine farm of 243 acres, He was married in Kansas, February 20, 1864, to Miss Mary J., daughter of John B. Jones. Mrs. Christman was born in Arkansas. They have three children-Peter, Amanda, and Minnie M.

B. M. DAYTON, farmer, Section 23, Township 15, Range 23, P. O. Spring Hill, was born in Middleton, Rutland Co, VT., September 16, 1822. Moved to Jefferson County, N. Y. in 1843, and spent two years there in clerking in dry goods store and then moved to DeKalb County, Ill, where he spent twelve years in mercantile business. In 1859 he immigrated to Colorado with his family. Remained seven years in the Territory and then came to Kansas and purchased his present farm, and has made it his home since. Mr. Dayton was married at Sycamore, Ill., October 14, 1848, to Miss Clarinda, daughter of Mr. G. B. Smith. They had three children-Emiline F., wife of John Dienst, of Middle Creek Township, Kan.; Mary H. and Edgar L. Mrs. Dayton died October 12, 1871. Mr. Dayton was married again August 30, 1874, to Mrs. Margaret Lewis, widow of Thomas Lewis and daughter of Thomas Jenkinson of Ohio, formerly of England. Mrs. Dayton was born in England. She had four sons by her former marriage; the eldest, Edward W. Lewis now has a farm of 160 acres in OSAWATOMIE Township, Kan. where he now resides; Walter H., station agent at Scottsville, Mitchell Co, Kan.; Irving R., station agent at Spring Hill, Johnson Co., Kan., and Thomas J., at home on the farm with his mother who immigrated to Kansas from Cleveland, Ohio with her four sons in 1872, where she has since resided. Mr. Dayton has served four years as Justice of the Peace of this township. He has a well improved farm of 120 acres.

LEANDER M. DAVIS, farmer, Section 8, Township 16, Range 23, P. O. Hillsdale. Mr. Davis was born in Logan County, Ill. in 1858. He was brought up a farmer and came to Ottawa, Kan., in 1869, where he engaged in farming. He sold out in the winter of 1880-81 and purchased his present farm of ninety acres on Section 8., Marysville. He was married in Kansas, in February, 1881, to Alida, daughter of John Young. They have one child, a daughter, named Ada.

ROBERT DUNN, farmer, Section 20, Township 15, Range 23, P. O. Spring Hill, Johnson County, is one of the pioneers of 1857; of Miami County. He is a native of Ireland, and was born January 2, 1828. When twenty-one years of age (1849) he immigrated to America and made his home in Mifflin County, Pa, where he resided till January, 1857. He then removed to Kansas., Traveling by team, he made a circuit and reached the State through Iowa and Nebraska. He made a claim in the township of Stanton, Miami County, and purchased his land at the land sales of 1857. Lived in Stanton one year and then removed to Spring Hill, Johnson County. In 1861, he returned to Pennsylvania and enlisted in 1863, in the Third Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery; was transferred to regular United States Battery and served a year and eight months as an unassigned recruit. After the close of the war he returned to Kansas(the fall of 1865) and purchased his present farm of 320 acres. He was married in Pennsylvania, January 1, 1863, to Miss Gertrude, daughter of Peter Sharp. Mrs. Dunn was born in Pennsylvania. They have eight children, four sons and four daughters-Elizabeth, David, Jennie, Gertrude, Thomas, Noah, Fannie and Robert. Mr. Dunn has served one term as Trustee of Marysville Township and held other minor offices. During the early years of his residence he earnestly endeavored to encourage immigration into the State, and without indulging in empty compliments it may be said that it is by the influence of whole-souled, intelligent, enterprising men like Mr. Dunn, that the settlement of a new country by a good class of citizens is secured.

P. C. EATON, merchant and Postmaster, dealer in general merchandise, established at this point in 1871. He was born in Massachusetts, March 22, 1837. When three years of age he removed with his parents to Rensselaer County, NY where he resided until 1853. He then removed to Illinois and engaged in farming. He enlisted July 27, 1861 as a private of Company D, Ninth Regiment Missouri Volunteers and was transferred with his company to the Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry. He was promoted to First Sergeant and served four years and six months and was discharged in January, 1866.He came to Kansas in the spring of 1868 and located at Tontzville, Marysville Township. In 1871 he bought out A. C. Smith, a general merchant of Hillsdale and was appointed Postmaster in June, 1871. He was married in Kansas, to Mrs. Louisa Thorp. Mrs. Eaton was born in Ohio. Her widowed mother and family were among the pioneers of Kansas of 1855. Mr. and Mrs. Eaton have one child living-Lottie. Mr. Eaton has a farm of 80 acres, situated in Marysville Township; also 11 acres adjoining town of which 5 acres are kept for a park.

JACOB KEISER, farmer and proprietor of Hillsdale Elevator, P. O. and residence Hillsdale. He has 160 acres of land situated on Section 14, Marysville Township 16, Range 23 and 240 acres in Section 20, Wea, Township 16, Range 24, making about 400 acres in all. Mr. Keiser was born in Augusta County, Va., January 11, 1818. About 1867 he removed to Missouri and in 1869 came to Kansas and located in the township of Wea, Section 20, Township 16, Range 24, where he engaged in farming until the fall of 1880, when he moved to Hillsdale, still retaining his farm. He is now the proprietor of the only elevator at Hillsdale station, on the Kansas, City, Fort Scott & Gulf R. R. and also owns other real estate in the village.

WILLIAM S. KEISER, farmer, school teacher, and Township Trustee, Hillsdale station P. O. Hillsdale, was born in Virginia, October 12, 1861. Is a son of Jacob Keiser and came to Kansas with his parents in 1869. Was educated at Paola and at Lawrence, Kan and engaged in farming and teaching school. He was elected Township Trustee of Marysville in February, 1883, when not quite twenty-two years of age.

R. W. LESLIE, farmer, Section 30, Township 15, Range 23, P. O. Spring Hill, was born in Iredell County, N. C., August 22, 1835. Was brought up in that locality. At the time of the breaking out of the late war he was holding the position of Postmaster at Enola, and during the first years of the troubles was exempted from military service, but was obliged to serve the last two years in the Confederate Army. He emigrated to Kansas in February, 1869; purchased his present farm of 175 acres, March 1, of that year. He was married in North Carolina, May 6, 1851 to Miss N. H. Harkey, daughter of D. Harkey. They have four children, two sons and two daughters- Ella J., wife of William Dunn, of Marysville; Lee and Lucy D., twins and Robert.

H. L. LYON, deceased, was one of Miami County's earliest pioneers, and most respected citizens. He was born in Patrick County, V., March 24, 1826, moved to Van Buren County (now Cass Co, Mo.) in 1831, with his parents who were among the pioneers of that region. He was married in Missouri, September 2, 1845, to Miss Mary A. Tuggle. They had three children, two of whom are living, Albert, the eldest died in childhood; Paulina, the wife of J. B. Rowland, of Richland; James M., resides in Miami County., Mr. Lyon emigrated to Kansas in February, 1856, and located on Section 9, Township 16, Range 23; where then, in company with Mr. James Beets, surveyed and platted the township of Marysville, which was named Marysville after Mr. Lyon's wife (Mary) This lady only lived a few months after her removal to Kansas; her death occurred May 3, 1856. Hers was the first known death of a white person in this township. Mr. Lyons engaged in mercantile business with Mr. Jonathan Miller, at Marysville in the fall of 1857. This connection continued til 1863, when Mr. Miller sold out to Mr. Lyon and joined the army. Mr. Lyon was appointed the first Postmaster at Marysville and was appointed Justice of the Peace and held that position many years. He entered the army at an early stage of the war; was commissioned First Lieutenant and served during the war. Mr. Lyon had devoted some attention to the study of medicine and for many years was physician to people of his neighborhood. In 1866 he sold out his stock of goods to Mr. T. H. Hollenback who moved the stock to Hillsdale. Mr. Lyon was married December 17, 1856, to Miss Margaret A. Williams. They had three children, all of whom died in childhood. Mrs. Lyons died May 23, 1865. Mr. Lyon was married again April 8, 1866 to Miss Sarah A. Wagoner, daughter of Jacob Wagoner., Mrs. Lyon was born in Virginia; she lost her father in Ohio, in 1848 and emigrated to Kansas, with her mother in 1855. They have one child, a daughter, Laura M. Mr. Lyon was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. This church was the first organized in Miami County, and was a flourishing and prosperous church prior to the war. Mr. Lyon served many years as church steward; he was also a prominent Mason of many years standing. His death occurred January 3, 1883, leaving wife and daughter and a large circle of friend to mourn his loss. Mr. Lyon was widely and favorable known throughout the State, and universally honored and respected. Immediately after his marriage to Miss Wagoner, he moved his fine farm of 259 acres on Section 5, Marysville, where his widow and daughter still reside.

JAMES V. LYON, farmer, Section 26, Township 15, Range 23, P. O. Spring Hill, was born in Mason County, Ky., May 27, 1821. When twenty-one years of age he moved to LaFayette County, Mo., where he resided til the spring of 1858; when he removed to his present farm in Kansas, which he had purchased the year before. Mr. Lyon came to Kansas, first in 1855, but owing to the turbulent condition of things here at that time he did not deem it advisable to bring his family here at that time, and so waited til the spring of 1858. He has a well improved farm of 160 acres, which he purchased of the Government. The land being a part of the Shawnee Reservation. Mr. Lyon has served ten years as Justice of the Peace, and served as a member of the town board, under the town system. During the late war he served in the State Militia and held a Second Lieutenant's commission. He was married in Missouri, November 4, 1847, to Miss Frances A. Payne, daughter of Thomas Payne. Mrs. Lyon was born in Woodford County, Ky. They have ten children, six sons and four daughters. Mary, is the wife of Chandler Fletcher, of Elk County, Kan.; Lycurgus, Charles T., John T., Eli B., George B., William P., Nettie, Altie and Ollie.

JESSIE G. MCDANIEL, farmer, Section 26, Township 15, Range 23, P. O. Hillsdale. Mr. McDaniel came to this township in 1854, with the first party of white settlers and was the fourth man to move his family into the township, in the spring of 1855. He made his claim of 160 acres on Section 4, Township 16, Range 23, in October, 1854. Mr. McDaniel was born in North Carolina, November 7, 1823. He moved with his parents to East Tennessee when eleven years of age and from there to Van Buren County, Mo., in 1844 and to Kansas in the spring of 1855. He was married in Tennessee, January 19, 1842, to Miss Annie Beets, daughter of Joseph Beets. Mrs. McDaniels was born in Tennessee. They have five children, three daughters and two sons, all residents of Miami County.

D. M. MALONE, M. D., physician and surgeon. Was born in Gibson County, Tenn., November 5, 1834. He commenced the study of medicine in 1853. Took a regular course at McDowell's Medical College, of St. Louis, Mo. and graduated in 1856. He began the practice of his profession at Chesapeake, Lawrence Co, Mo. and continued in practice there six years. He then removed to Delta, McLean Co Ill, two years later removed to Farmers City, Ill. In 1878 he came to Kansas and located at Hillsdale, where he has been in practice to this date. He was married in Missouri in 1856 to Miss Mary, daughter of Mathew Knowles. Mrs. Malone was born in Warren County, Ky. They have six children, Samuel, a practicing physician of Paola, Elizabeth, Nannie, William and Jesse. Doctor Malone has served one term as Trustee of Marysville Township and held other minor offices.

G. J. MASTERS, farmer, Section 23, Township 16, Range 23, P. O. Hillsdale. Mr. Masters is the son of John and Elizabeth Masters and was born in Jessamine County, KY., Aug. 17, 1848. He went to Illinois with his parents and from there to Kansas in 1867. He was brought up a farmer, and was married in September, 1873, to Amanda E. Peery, daughter of Henry Peery. Mrs. Masters was born in Indiana. They have two children, Claude and Earl. Mr. Masters has served one tern as Township Clerk of Marysville. He has long been a member of the Christian Church of Hillsdale, of which he is a most zealous supporter.

JAMES MASTERS, farmer, Section 23, P. O. Hillsdale, son of Elizabeth and John Masters, was born in Jefferson County, Ky., November 30, 1844. Came to Kansas in 1867, and engaged in farming., He was married in Kansas October 20, 1869, to Miss Susan Shultz, daughter of Absolom Shultz. Mrs. Masters was born in Iowa. She died in May, 1873, leaving a daughter Minnie. Mr. Masters was married again, October 20, 1875, to Miss Mary, daughter of John Rutledge. They have one daughter, Susan. Mr. Masters has a fine farm of 160 acres, on Section 23, Township 16, Range 23, where he intends to reside. He is at present conducting the farm at the old homestead, on Section 27.

JOHN MASTERS, deceased, was born in Richmond, Ky., in 1812. He was a wagonmaker by trade and followed that business in Kentucky until 1853, when he moved to Blooming Grove, Ill, and soon after to Bloomington in the same county. He continued working at his trade and farming til 1867, when he came to Kansas and settled on Section 27, Township 16, Range 23, Marysville, Miami County. He came to Kansas in hopes to secure cheap lands for his sons. He purchased 320 acres of prairie and thirty acres of timber, erected good buildings and improved his farm till it was one of the best in this region. Mr. Masters was widely and favorably known as an upright honorable man, commanded the respect and esteem of his neighbors and fellow citizens. He was a member of the Christian Church the greater part of his life and was energetic and liberal in its support. His death occurred at his home. He was married in Kentucky in 1841, to Elizabeth, daughter of John Hendrick. Mrs. Masters was born in Glasgow, Cumberland Gap, Va. They have six sons and two daughters living- William H. of Miami County; Joseph T., of Newton, Kan., James S., G. J., Mary, now Mrs. Lyons, Woodson N., and Hendrick. The five younger are all married and residing in Marysville. Lizzie, the youngest, died, aged three years. All the children but two are members of the Christian Church of Hillsdale. Mrs. Masters survives her husband and lives at the old homestead.

JASPER MORRIS, farmer, Section 5, Township 16, Range 23, P. O. Hillsdale. Was born in Platte County, Mo., July 4, 1846. he came to Kansas with relatives in the spring of 1858, made his home on what was known as the Neutral Lands, now Crawford County; moved to Miami County in 1865, and settled on his present farm in the spring of 1871. He was married July 25, 1868, to Miss Annie, daughter of James H. Williams, of Marysville. Mrs. Morris was born in Illinois. They have five children, Mary E., Charlotte, Luella, Edna M., and Franklin. Mr. Morris has a well improved farm of 127 1/2 acres.

DR. P. J. MORRISON, merchant and physician, dealer in general merchandise and grain. Dr. Morrison was born in Western Canada, June 22, 1844. He began the study of medicine in 1866, at Victoria College, Toronto. After attending one term in that institution he went to Ann Arbor, Mich., and completed his studies in the State University where he attended two years and graduated in 1869. He then came direct to Miami County, Kan., and established himself in practice at Columbia, now Hillsdale, where he has continued to this date, 1883. In 1875, he purchased the general store of Mr. Thomas Hollenback at this point, which he still carries on, having an average stock of $4,500 value, and making annual sales of from $18,000 to $20,000. His shipments of grain amount to from 100 to 120 car loads per season. His shipments of flaxseed amount to $20,000 a season. He also does an extensive business in live stock. He was married at Gardner, Kan., in the spring of 1870 to Mrs. Sarah E. Hollenback, daughter of Thomas Hollenback. Mrs. Morrison was born in California. They have four children, three sons and one daughter- James P., Alexander D., Sarah E. and John.

JAMES OFFICER, deceased, was born in Overton County, Tenn., December 20, 1817; was married March 5, 1840, to Cyntha, daughter of Wesley Henderson. Mrs. Officer was born in Overton County, Tenn. Mr. Officer moved to Macoupin County, Ill., in 1830 and from there to Kansas in 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Officer had a family of fourteen children, all of whom grew to maturity and all but one are alive at this writing. The oldest, William P. is married and lives in Marysville Township; Sarah E., wife of James Jennings, of Butler County; Thos. W., is married and lives in Marysville; James F., is married, lives in Marysville; Margaret, wife of S. H. Sanders, of Hillsdale; Mary F., wife of L. L. Whelan, Kansas City; Robert M., died, aged twenty-seven years; Horatio H. is married, lives in Marysville; Julius L. is married, lives in Marysville; Laura S., wife of Jacob Landis, of Osage County; Preston E. and Blanche A., of Hillsdale. Mr. Officer located on Section 22, Marysville, Miami Co., Kas., where he had 200 acres of land. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church; and Republican in politics. He was engaged in farming until the time of his death, which occurred May 18, 1878. He was highly esteemed by his neighbors, as an upright man and a good citizen. His wife survives him and lives at Hillsdale, Kas.

JULIUS L. OFFICER, Farmer, Section 22, Township 16, Range 22, P. O. Hillsdale. Mr. Officer was born in Macoupin County, Ill., May 6, 1854. He came to Kansas with his parents in 1864 and made his home in Marysville Township, Miami County, on the farm he now occupies. He was married March 3, 1880 to Miss Josie, daughter of John Young. Mrs. Officer was born in Kansas.

WILLIAM P. OFFICER, farmer, Section 22, Township 16, Range 23, P. O. Hillsdale, was born in Morgan County, Ill., August 7, 1841; was brought up a farmer and enlisted May 11, 1861, as a private in Company D, Fourteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged August 15, 1861 for physical disability. Re-enlisted February 11, 1864, in Company B, Tenth Illinois Infantry and served til the close of the war. He came to Kansas in July, 1865, and engaged in farming, in Marysville Township, Miami County. He was married in this county July 7, 1867, to Miss Rebecca M. Whelan, daughter of P. M. Whelan. Mrs. Officer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. They have had five children, of whom four are living- Ollie L, Ulysses S., Nellie A., Thomas L. (died in childhood) and Estella L. Mr. Officer has a well improved farm.

SARDINE S. OLNEY, farmer, Section 24, Township 15, Range 23, P. O. Spring Hill, was born in Washington County, Ohio, September 17, 1827. Was brought up a farmer and continued to reside in Ohio until March, 1878, when he removed to Kansas and located on his present farm. He was married in Ohio, December 31, 1855, to Miss Martha, daughter of Eli Bingham. Mrs. Olney was born in Guernsey County, Ohio. They have seven children, four sons and three daughters-George S., married and living in Marysville; Dudley W., married and living in Johnson County, Kas.; Frank H., Martha, Sardine S., Mary and Jennie. Mr. Olney has a well improved farm of two hundred acres, 160 of which lies on the west line of Wea Township and adjoining the forty acres on which he lives. 

HENRY O. PEERY, farmer, Section 23, Township 16, Range 23, P. O. Hillsdale, was one of the pioneers of Miami County of 1857. He was born in Bourbon County, Ky., March 17, 1814, and when fourteen years of age moved to Indiana, where he learned the carpenter and blacksmith trades. He came to Kansas in 1857 ad made a claim on Section 23, Marysville, where he now resides. He returned to Indiana and moved his family to Kansas in the spring of 1860. He was one of the few outspoken Union men who held their ground during the turbulent scenes of the late war. Mr. Peery though never backward to avow his sentiments was respected and left unmolested. During the Price raids he served in the Kansas Militia. He has continued to reside on the place of his first choice, now twenty-three years. He was married, December 12, 1844, to Miss Lavina E., daughter of John G. Kendall, of Decatur, Ind. They have seven children, five of whom are living. Mr. Peery has held various official positions having been County Commissioner of Miami County, Trustee of Marysville Township, and Treasurer of his school district fifteen years.

W. C. RICHARDSON, principal of the Hillsdale School, was born in Hendrick County, Ind., February 6, 1854. He received his primary education in the common schools and took a regular course which, however, he did not finish, in the Asbury University at Green Castle, Ind. He began teaching in his native State in 1872, and has made that his business ever since. He came to Kansas in 1879 and located at Marysville, Miami County, and taught the District School at that place two years. In 1881 he came to Hillsdale and accepted the position of principal of this school and is now engaged for the third year. He was married in June 15, 1882, to Miss Ida Beets, daughter of Joseph beets. Mrs. Richardson was born in Marysville Township, Kas; her people being among the very earliest pioneers of this region.

THOMAS B. ROBINSON, farmer, Section 36, Township 15, Range 23, P. O. Spring Hill, Johnson Co., Kas., was born in Greene County, Ill., November 15, 1840. He was brought up in that county. He enlisted in the spring of 1864 in Company G, One Hundred and Thirty-third Illinois Infantry and served til the close of the war. During his term of service he held the position of First Duty Sergeant. Immediately after the close of the war, in 1865, he moved to Kansas and purchased 160 acres of land in Wea Township, Miami County. In 1866 he purchased and took possession of his present farm. He now has a well improved farm of 300 acres. He was married in Illinois, November, 1864, to Miss Mary Mason, daughter of Dr. Geo. B. Mason, of Illinois. Mrs. Robinson was born in Kentucky. They have had four sons and one daughter-Arthur died aged fourteen years, Ernest died aged one year; Edgar, died one year old, Minnie, the youngest and the son John being the only ones living. Mr. Robinson has served three years as Township Clerk and was elected County Commissioner in 1881 for three years.

DAVID T. ROWLAND, farmer, Section 11, Township 16, Range 23, P. O. Hillsdale, was born in Davis County, Mo., April 1, 1849, and is a son of F. E. Rowland. He came to Kansas with his parents in 1857. He lived in Miami County until the fall of 1876, when he went to Harper County, Kas., where he was engaged in farming until the fall of 1882, when he returned to Miami County. He was married in Kansas, May 22, 1872, to Miss Mattie, daughter of Joseph Stice. Mrs. Rowland was born in Illinois. They have three children- Annie B., David F. and Gracie.

F. E. ROWLAND, deceased, was one of the pioneers of Miami County of 1857. He was born in Boone County, Mo. in 1821, was brought up a farmer, and moved to Kansas in February, 1857. He located on the northwest quarter of Section 10, Township 16, Range 23, Marysville, Miami County. He subsequently moved to Section 11, of same township and was engaged in farming until his death, which occurred March 11, 1873. He was married in Missouri, in 1842, to Miss Z. A. Shock, daughter of David Shock. Mrs. Rowland was born in Boone County, Mo. There were eight children born to them, four sons and four daughters; Mary P. is the wife of T. W. Tuggle, of Hillsdale; Martha E. is the wife of James McDaniels of Marysville; David T. married and living in Marysville Township; Sarah, wife of Dr. Alexander, of Osage County, Kas., William S. of Hillsdale, James H, Annie, and John E. Mrs. Rowland and the younger children are living at the old homestead, having a farm of 160 acres.

CHARLES B. SPALDING, farmer, Section 8, Township 16, Range 23, P. O. Hillsdale. Mr. Spalding was born in Middlesex County, Mass., October 21, 1832. He immigrated to Ohio in 1854, thence to Missouri in 1857, and to Kansas in 1859. On coming to this State, he made his home at Spring Hill, Johnson County, until 1862, when he removed to his present farm of 106 acres, on Section 8, Marysville Township. He was married in the fall of 1855, in Ohio, to Miss Minerva Walker. Mrs. Spalding was born in Ohio. They have four children- Flora B., Ella J., Lydia A. and Etha A. Mr. Spalding was the first Trustee of Spring Hill, after the passage of the law creating the office. He has also served two terms in the office in Marysville Township-1863 and 1864.

HARMON C. STILES, farmer, Section 26, Township 15, Range 23, P. O., Spring Hill, was born in Rutland County, Vt., June 9, 1846; moved to Iowa with his parents, in childhood and from there to Marysville, Miami County., Kas, in the spring of 1857. He enlisted, September 27, 1863, in Company K, Fifteenth Kansas Cavalry. He was wounded at the battle of "The Little Blue", Missouri and taken prisoner. Was held one day and paroled. He was exchanged and served til the close of the war. Mr. Stiles was married, January 14, 1866, to Lucinda Chilton, daughter of William Chilton. Mrs. Stiles was born in Cass County, Mo. They have seven children, five sons and two daughters; Edwin W., Charles A., Ella M. Bertha and Bertie, twins, Rossman and Osman, also twins. Mr. Stiles as the record shows was one of the early pioneers of this region of 1857, and has made this his home since. He has served two terms as Justice of the Peace, and has held other minor offices. He has an undivided third interest in 160 acres of land, comprising the old homestead.

THOMAS W. TUGGLE, blacksmith, of the firm of Wilson & Tuggle, blacksmiths, is one of the pioneers of Kansas, having been a school boy at the Shawnee Mission in 1843-44, while his father was stationed there as Government blacksmith. This was prior to the organization of the Territory of Kansas. Mr. Tuggle was born in Missouri, October 3, 1837. He accompanied his father to the Shawnee Mission in 1843. Returned to Missouri in 1845, and in 1858, came to Miami County, Kas. and settled in the Township of Marysville. He learned the blacksmith's trade at Pleasant Hill, Mo and opened the first shop at Marysville, Kan. He subsequently bought a farm in this township. During the war, he was foreman of the Government blacksmith shops at Paola a year and two months. He went to Colorado in the spring of 1882 and returned in the fall of that year. On his return, he formed a partnership with Mr. G. W. Wilson, at Hillsdale, together they carry on an extensive blacksmith and wagon shop. He was married in Kansas, July 4, 1860 to Miss Mary, daughter of F. E. Rowland. Mrs. Tuggle was born in Missouri. They have five children-James S., Mattie V., Fannie P., John A., and T. Ewing. Mr. Tuggle was the Township Clerk, of Marysville, in 1859, and has held other minor offices.

JOHN A., TUGGLE, father of Thomas Tuggle, farmer, Section 31, Township 15, Range 23, Marysville, was a pioneer of this county of 1858. He was born in Patrick County, Va. in 1814; moved to Missouri in 1833 and thence to Kansas in 1858. He made a claim on Section 31, Township 15, Range 23, where he still resides. He was the first Justice of the Peace, of Marysville Township. Was first appointed by the Territorial Governor and subsequently elected by the people. He was first in what is now Kansas, in 1843, while it was Indian Territory, and served two years as Government blacksmith at the Shawnee Mission.

CHARLES G. UPTON, farmer and teacher, residence and P. O. Hillsdale, was born in DeWitt County, Ill., February 29, 1852. Came to Kansas with his parents in 1868. He took five years course at the State University at Lawrence and graduated in 1881. He began teaching in 1873, and has made this his business since, except while attending the university. During the taking of the late census of 1880, he was Census Enumerator for the Township of Marysville. Mr. Upton has spent his time in Kansas since coming here, except for a few months spent in Texas and in traveling in the Atlantic states. He has a farm of eighty acres on Section 21, Township 16, Range 23.

JOHN UPTON, retired farmer, Hillsdale, was born in Mercer County, Ky., in 1819. Moved with his mother to Illinois in his youth. he lived in Morgan, Macoupin and DeWitt counties until 1853, when he moved to Clark County, Mo., thence to St. Clair County in 1855 and from there to Kansas in 1868. He settled on Section 21, Township 16, Range 23, where he had a farm of 120 acres. He sold out in the fall of 1882 and took up his residence in Hillsdale. Mr. Upton was married in Macoupin County, Ill, in 1839 to Miss Louisa, daughter of Nicholas Howser. They have five children, four sons and one daughter- Thomas J (married and living in Texas), Charles G. (teacher) John N. (married), Josiah T. (married) and Louisa J. (wife of John Ward) The three latter are all of Marysville Township.

MARTIN S. WEAVER, farmer, Section 13, Township 16, Range 23, P. O. Hillsdale, was born in Holmes County, Ohio, April 13, 1841. Was brought up a farmer, and moved to Kansas in 1871, and located on his present farm of 160 acres, in Marysville. He was married, in Ohio, March 12, 1874, to Miss Isabel, daughter of Abner Maxwell. Mrs. Weaver was born in Ohio. They have four children- Atla W., Abner M, Clavin D., and Ora F.

JAMES H. WILLIAMS, farmer, Section 5, Township 16, Range 23, P. O. Hillsdale. Mr. Williams was born in Nashville, Tenn, in 1828. Removed to St. Clair County with his parents in childhood, where he was brought up on a farm. He enlisted in the late war as a private of Company D, Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry. Was promoted to Orderly Sergeant, and served three years. He moved to Kansas in 1865, and engaged in mercantile business with Mr. Tontz, at Tontzville, Miami County. In 1867 he bought out Mr. Tontz and continued the business alone til the spring of 1873, since which time he has devoted his attention to his farm of 124 acres. Mr. Williams has served six years as Justice of the Peace, and one term as a member of the County Board, of Miami County. He was married, in Illinois, August 14, 1849, to Miss Mary E., daughter of Tyre Shelton. Mrs. Williams was born in Illinois. They have six children- Annie (wife of Jasper Morris, of Marysville), Julia (wife of John Pedley, of Greenwood County, Kan.) John F. (of Illinois), Nannie, Arthur T. and Minnie.

GEORGE W. WILSON, senior partner of the firm of Wilson & Tuggle, blacksmiths. This firm does general blacksmithing, horse-shoeing, and repairing of all kinds of farm machinery. Mr. Wilson was born in Ross County, Ohio, August 19, 1830. He was brought up in that State, and served a regular apprenticeship to the blacksmith trade. He moved to Illinois in 1852, and worked at his trade. He enlisted in August, 1861, as a private of Company C, Thirty-eighth Illinois Infantry, and served a little more than three years. He was twice wounded; once at Buzzard's roost, and again at Resaca. In 1866 he emigrated to Kansas, and established a blacksmith shop at Humbolt, Allen County. He subsequently operated in various towns in Kansas and in February, 1875, came to Hillsdale and opened a blacksmith shop, which he has carried on to this date. Since the fall of 1882, he has had Mr. F. W. Tuggle for a partner. He was twice married, in Illinois. Lost his wives and was married again in Kansas, to Miss Dora A. Shultz. He had four children by his second marriage and four by the present marriage. 

DAVID ANDERSON, farmer, Section 16, Township 16, Range 22, P. O. Wade, was born in Dubois county, Ind., June 24, 1824. Was brought up on a farm. In May, 1857, he emigrated to Kansas, and made a claim on the Indian Reservation, known as the lands of the Peorias, Wea and Plankeshaws, which came into market in the spring of that year. He purchased at a Government sale the northwest quarter of Section 16, Township 16, Range 22, Miami County, being 160 acres. He has continued to reside on the land from that time of making his claim until the present time, 1883, except a temporary residence in Paola, while serving a Sheriff. He enlisted August, 1862, as a private of Company C, Twelfth Kansas Infantry. In 1863 he was promoted to Captain and assigned to Company G, Fifth Indiana, stationed at Fort Gibson, and served til April, 1864. Mr. Anderson was elected to the State Senate in 1867, to fill a vacancy. In 1869 he was elected Sheriff of Miami County. Was re-elected in 1871, serving four years in all. He was married in Dubois County, Ind., in 1846, to Miss Elizabeth McCausland. They had four children, of whom two are living, a son and a daughter-Cyrus and Mary. The son is a resident of Rawlins County, Kan. The daughter is the wife of A. M. Ganthrop, of Coffey County. Mrs. Anderson died in January, 1877. Mr. Anderson was married again in December, 1877, to Mary A., daughter of William H. Dorsett. Mrs. Anderson was born in Missouri. Her people were residents of Texas, during the war and in attempting to reach the North lost all they had and narrowly escaped with their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have one child, a son- David Woodson. Mr. Anderson was the pioneer Republican of Richland. For some years he only had one companion in politics in the township. After the close of the war Richland settled up rapidly and the position of the political parties became reversed. Mr. Anderson has long been reckoned one of the most respected and influential citizens of Miami County. He is one whose friendship once secured, may always be relied upon as a true, warm, and generous friend.

JOHN H. AYRES, farmer, Section 9, Township 16, Range 22, P. O. Wade, is one of the pioneers of Richland, of 1858. He started here poor in purse but rich in hope and energy. By hard work and prudent management, and in spite of early disasters, of drouths and grasshoppers, he has secured a valuable well stocked farm of 200 acres and a tract of ten acres of timber in an adjacent township. Mr. Ayres was born in Cumberland County, N. J. June 21, 1828. he moved with his parents to Indiana in childhood and to Iowa in 1856. Two years later taking his family by teams, he emigrated to Kansas, arriving in Richland in December, 1858. During the late war he did duty in the State Militia. he was married in Indiana, January 16, 1851, to Miss Hannah E., daughter of William Smalley. Mrs. Ayres was born in Indiana. They have eleven children, of whom eight are living. Mary, wife of Lee Bucklew, of St. Louis; William H., married and living in Richland; Harriet, wife of R. C. Totten, of Coffey County; Jennie, was the wife of Thos. Elrod, died January 6, 1882; Eliza J., wife of Adam Clark, of Osage County; George W., John, Emiline and Minnie E.

ISRAEL D. BROCKWAY, farmer, grower and dealer in livestock, Section 1, Township 16, Range 21, P. O. Wellsville, Franklin County, was born in New London County, Conn., June 30, 1839, was brought up in that county. In 1865 he immigrated to Kansas and located in Douglas County at Black Jack,. He was married in Iowa, July 26, 1877, to Miss Harriet, daughter of Francis Griffin. Mrs. Brockway was born at East Haddam, Conn. They have two children, a girl and a boy-Fannie G. and Ebenezer D. Mr. Brockway has a fine farm of 320 acres, well stocked and furnished with superior buildings.

J. W. BRYAN, farmer, Section 10, Township 16, Range 22, P. O. Wade, was born in Adams County, Ohio, March 10, 1843. Was brought up on a farm and enlisted in the late war as a private of Company D, Twenty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteers. Was a non-commissioned officer. He was in active service continuously for three years with the Twenty-fourth and at the expiration of his term of enlistment, re-enlisted in Company D, Eighteenth Ohio Volunteers, and served til the close of the war. He was Quarter-master Sergeant in the Eighteenth and except, while on detached service at the time of the battle of Nashville, was with his command in all engagements participated by them. He returned to Ohio and in 1869 came to Kansas and settled on Section 4, Richland, where he resided until March, 1883, when having sold out his old place and purchased his present farm on Section 10, moved to this place, He was married in Ohio, March 8, 1866 to Miss Julia A., daughter of Matthew McColm. Mrs. Bryan was born in Adams County, Ohio. They have three children two girls and a boy-Ira N., Mary E. and Essie V.

JOHN C. COLLINS, farmer, Section 13, Township 16, Range 22, P. O. Paola, was born in Lewis County, Ky., December 15, 1837, moved to Ohio with his people in youth and was brought up in that State. He enlisted April 14, 1861, and on the 19th of that month was mustered into Company D, Twenty-second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under first call for troops in the late war. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant, September 8, 1861, re-enlisted for three years in Company B, Twenty-second Regiment Ohio Volunteers. A short time after he received a recruiting commission and returned to his old home in Kentucky and recruited Company G, Fourteenth Kentucky Volunteers and was commissioned Captain, commanding that company and served til January 31, 1865. He was married March 26, 1863, in Ironton, Ohio, to Miss Mary J., daughter of Peter Simonon. Mrs. Collins was born at Dover, Ky. and brought up in Ohio. They have nine children, five sons and four daughters-William E., Jessie B., Charles W., Frank H., Nellie G., Sherman W., John M., Ida G. and Mary E. Mr. Collins moved to Kansas in March, 1865 and settled in the township of Richland, where he has a well improved farm of 220 acres. He has served four years as Trustee of Richland, 1873, '74, '75 and '76. In 1880 was census enumerator of this township.

THOMAS B. CONE, farmer, Section 14, Township 16, Range 21, P. O. Wellsville, was born in Delaware county, Ohio, April 27, 1839; was brought up on a farm, and immigrated to Kansas in 1872. Mr. Cone was married in December, 1864, to Miss Mary, daughter of John Detwiller. Mrs. Cone was born in Ohio. They have one child, a daughter, named Lizzie B. Mr. Cone, although not an old settler, has one of the best improved farms in the county. The farm contains 480 acres. His residence is large, new, tasty while his barns and other buildings are much superior to the average Kansas "outfit". Mr. Cone is interested quite largely in stock, both as a dealer, feeder and grower.

THOMAS COUGHLIN, farmer, Section 30, Township 15, Range 22, P. O. Edgerton, Johnson County, was born in County West Meath, Ireland, July 26, 1828. Immigrated to America in 1849; made his home for awhile in New Jersey, and then removed to Indiana, and from there to Kansas in March 1857 and settled in Richland Township, Miami County, where he has continued to reside until this date. He was married in Indiana, in 1862, to Miss Elizabeth C. McLaughlin. One child was born to them-Edward H., who died at the age of fifteen years. Mrs. Coughlin died September 2, 1868. Mr. Coughlin married Miss Bridget McLaughlin, daughter of Thomas McLaughlin, April 22, 1869. Mrs. Coughlin was born in County Meath, Ireland. They have six children, five boys and one girls-Elizabeth, Thomas J., Martin J., Charles f., Edward H and Roiber E. Mr. Coughlin has a well improved farm of 320 acres.

JOHN EVERETT, farmer, Section 27, Township 15, Range 22, P. O. Gardner, Johnson County, was born in Wayne County, Mich., in February 1832, was brought up in that locality. In 1855 he moved to Mchenry County, Ill and from there to Kansas, in 1857, arriving in the Township of Richland, in May, of that year. He purchased the farm he now occupies and has since added to his possessions til now he owns 545 acres, the most of which is under a good state of cultivation, He enlisted in September, 1863, in the late war in Company A, Fifteenth Kansas Cavalry. Was commissioned Second Lieutenant and served til November 1865. He was married in Washtenaw County, Mich., March 7, 1847, to Miss Sarah A., daughter of Eldad Spencer. Mrs. Everett was born in Michigan, her parents being pioneers of that State. Mr. and Mrs. Everett have six children, one son and five daughters-Addie, wife of Henry Fruit, of Johnson County, John P., married and living in Richland, Lillie W., Julia H., Annie L. and Maud G.

JOHN FORGEY, farmer, Section 11, Township 16, Range 21, P. O. Wellsville, was born in Montgomery County, Ind., February 8, 1849; was brought up in his native county, Immigrated to Kansas in 1870 and settled on his present farm. He was married in Franklin County, Kan., November 20, 1874, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel Akers. Mrs. Forgey was born in Franklin County, Va. They have two children-Freddie E. and Earl R. Mr, Forgey has seventy acres of improved land.

J. W. GAMES, farmer, Section 24, Township 16, Range 22, P. O. Paola was born in Brown County, Ohio, in 1843. When nineteen years of age he enlisted (September 2, 1862) in Company E., Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. Was promoted to First Sergeant and served til July 4, 1865. He was married in La Fayette, Ind., February 26, 1866, to Miss Cerelda, daughter of Moses Porter. Mrs. Games was born in Ohio. Mr. Games moved to Jackson County, Mo and from there to Richland, Miami Co., Kan., in January, 1869, where he has a fine farm of 160 acres. In 1879 he was elected a member of the Kansas Legislature and re-elected in 1880; politics, Republican. Mr. and Mrs. Games have five children, three sons and two daughters-Minniew J., John J., William, Venie and Frankie.

JOSEPH HEISSER, farmer, Section 10, Township 16, Range 22, P. O. Wade, was born at Pittsburgh, Pa., March 15, 1835. When ten years of age he went with his parents to Ohio; from there to Illinois, Iowa and Missouri and from the latter State to Kansas, in 1871. At the opening of the late war, he enlisted in April, 1861 as a private of Company B, Seventeenth Iowa Infantry served three years, re-enlisted at Tilton, Ga., in 1864, and was held a prisoner six months. During this time he was an inmate of Caghowke, Andersonville, Lawton and Salisbury prisons. He was married at Paola, Kas., May 22, 1873, to Miss Kate E. Powelson, daughter of Robert A. Powelson. Mrs. Heisser was born in Washington Co, Pa. They have three children-Monseir E., Charles W. and Birdie D. Mr. Heisser has a well improved farm of 200 acres, his residence being one of the best farm buildings in the county.

SAMUEL HENNINGER, farmer, Section 13, Township 16, Range 22, P. O. Paola. Mr. Henninger was born in Pennsylvania, December 19, 1826. He learned the gunsmith's trade and followed that business six years. In 1867 he moved to Illinois and in 1870 to Kansas. He located in Wea Township, Miami County, where he was engaged in farming until 1876, when he removed to his present farm in Richland. Mr. Henninger has 200 acres of his own and 240 that he is working under lease. During the late war he enlisted in February, 1865, in Company G, One Hundred and Ninety-second Pennsylvania, and served til the close of the war. He was married in Clinton County, Pa in 1852, to Miss Elmira, daughter of George Quiggie. Mrs. Henninger was born in Pennsylvania. They have nine children living- Ada, is the wife of N. H. Howard, of Anderson County, Kas.; Joseph B., Albertes J., Robert C., James W., Mabel. Clarence E., Ethelda J. and Charles T.

JAMES HOLMAN, farmer, Section 25, Township 15, Range 22, P. O. Edgerton, Johnson County, one of the Kansas pioneers of 1855, was born in Laurel County, Ky., June 1, 1821. He was brought up in Kentucky and in early manhood removed to Indiana and from there to Illinois; from there to Missouri where he resided until 1855, when he came to Kansas, arriving in Leavenworth County. He made a claim and made his home here until 1857. In May of that year he moved to Section 31, Township 15, Range 22, Richland. He subsequently took up the northeast quarter of Section 25, in the same township, under the Homestead Law, where he now resides and also purchased ten acres of timber. He now has an improved farm of 170 acres. He participated in the troubles of 1855 and 1856, being a partisan of the Free-state party and during the late war he served in the Kansas State Militia in defense of the State. He was married December 27, 1842, in Kentucky, to Miss Martha A., daughter of John Owen. Mrs. Holman was born in Knox County, Ky. They had fourteen children, seven sons and seven daughters-Lenena J., is the wife of H. R. Wooley; Mary E., wife of Samuel Boise; John M, died when sixteen years old; John M was a Union soldier of the late war; and Joseph G., died, aged twenty-six years; Risden O., William R., James H. D, Hulda, is the wife of C. B. Scott; Samuel K., Sarah M. is the wife of C. L. Shuman; Martha A., wife of E. D. Land; Susie A., Buena Vista and Wayland H. who died in childhood.

CICERO C. JORDAN, M. D., physician and surgeon, drug store and office situated at the northwest corner of Section 10, Township 16, Range 22, near Wade postoffice. Dr. Jordan was born in Pulaski, Tenn., May 5, 1848. He received an academic education, and entered the Union Army as a member of the Twelfth Tennessee Cavalry, under Gen. Rousseau. Had an arm broken in action and served three months. Early in 1864 he enlisted as a private of Company I, Fourth Tennessee Mounted Infantry, Was with his command in all engagements participated in by them and served til the close of the war. In 1877 Mr. Jordan entered the University of Tennessee and Nashville Medical College; took a regular course of two terms and graduated with the degree of M. D. February 22, 1881. he began the practice of medicine at Lelliard's Mills, Marshall Co, Tenn and extended his practice into Murray County. In the fall of 1882 he came to Miami County, Kas., and established himself in his present practice. Dr. Jordan erected a building near Wade postoffice, in which he carries on a general drug business.

BELA LATHAM, farmer, Section 23, Township 16, Range 22, P. O. Paola. Mr. Latham was born in Lafayette County, Ohio, April 1, 1837, where he was brought up on a farm. He enlisted in 1864, in the one Hundred and Sixty-eighth Ohio, One Hundred day service and served the term of his enlistment. He emigrated to Kansas in 1868 and purchased his present well improved farm of 320 acres in the Township of Richland. He also has thirteen and one-third acres of timber land in Marysville Township. He was married in Ohio, February 28, 1867, to Miss Eliza E., daughter of William Merchant. Mrs. Latham was born in Ohio. They have six children-Charles, Clara, who died in childhood, Ettie, Edward, Fred and Ella.