NEWTON AINSWORTH, breeder of thoroughbred stock. Three miles south and a little west of Olathe, is a farm, now under a high state of cultivation, which is of some past note from an occasional mention in history. Its noteworthy feature was a lone elm tree, the stump of which is yet standing. This fact and that of its being the first farm opened in that part of the county, gave it the name of Lone Elm farm. Its proprietor, Mr. N. Ainsworth, is one of the early pioneers of Kansas. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, March 23, 1835, and reared on a farm in Miami County. Removing West in 1856 he located at Quindaro, Wyandotte Co., Kansas, and during the rise of that place speculated in lots and town stock. The means thus gained secured him his present comfortable homestead upon which he located in the spring of 1857. During the border troubles and the war following, Mr. Ainsworth was much of the time in government employ, mostly freighting across the plains to the military posts. He is the owner of 320 acres of land in this county, and is largely engaged in breeding thoroughbred Short-horn cattle and Cotswold sheep. His exhibit in cattle carried off first premiums at the Kansas City Exposition of 1873 and 1874. Mr. Ainsworth is a charter member of the Lone Elm Grange organized in 1873. He was married at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the fall of 1869, to Rosa Hamill of that place; they have five children: David, Ralph, Harry, George and Homer.

JOSEPH P. ANDERTON, of Sylvester & Anderton, stone quarry and stone saw mill, was born in Beaver Co., Penn, June 23, 1859. Here he learned the trade of stone-cutter, serving two years as an apprentice, after which he worked at it there as a journeyman for a year. In June, 1878, he came to Kansas and resided in Olathe and during the first six months worked at his trade in Kansas City; after which he settled and for some months worked a rented quarry: then bought one and has conducted it since. In March, 1881, he joined C. O. Sylvester and they built a saw mill for the purpose of cutting the stone for building purposes, etc.

ABRAHAM ARTMAN, farmer, P. O. Olathe was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., February 11, 1839. At the age of nineteen years he went to Augusta, Ind., and learned the trade of wagon maker, and followed it for twelve years. In June, 1869, he came to Kansas and located in Olathe, opening a wagon shop, which business he ceased in the following March, moving onto his present farm at that time, consisting of 160 acres. He is quite extensively engaged in breeding cattle and horses. Has a fine orchard of about five acres, and a quarry from which is obtained a fine grade of building stone. He was married in Augusta, Ind., March 3, 1859, to Mary E. Shellhammer. They have four children: May, Byron P., John E. and Daisy.

W. C. BARRETT & CO., dealers in grain, flax-seed, coal, etc. W. C. Barrett, the senior partner of this firm, has for over twenty-five years been engaged in the grain business. His first experience was in shipping in flat boats on the Wabash River and its tributaries, and was for fifteen years engaged in the business at Champaign, Ill. He was also, during the winters of 1862-'63 and 1863-'64, engaged in pork business in Chicago, Ill., in the firm of D. Gardner & Co. He came to Olathe in August, 1877, and at once established this business. In 1880 he admitted to partnership J. M. Miller, and his son B. F. Barrett, since which time they have opened branches at Ocheltree and Edgarton, this county, business at the latter place being under the style of Barrett, Judson & Co. In 1880 the firm handled 65,000 bushels of flax, 150,000 bushels of grain. In 1881, 80,000 of flax and 150,000 of grain. They also do an extensive business in coal and considerable in castor beans.

ALBERT D. BEACH, physician and surgeon, was born in New Berne, N. Y., September 3, 1839. He began the study of medicine in 1854, serving an apprenticeship in drug business in Cincinnati, Ohio, for three years, for which he received a pharmacist's certificate, after which he followed the business as a clerk until he came to Kansas, September 3, 1858, at which time he resumed his medical studies with his brother, Dr. E. E. Beach, at Wyandotte. In the fall of 1861 he went to Cincinnati, and attended the Eclectic College for two terms. Returning to Kansas in September, 1862, he located in Olathe, and at once began the practice of medicine. For three years during the war the doctor had charge of the military hospital at this place, with the rank of acting Assistant-Surgeon, U. S. A., and during the years 1876, '77, '79, and a portion of 1881, held the office of County Physician. Dr. Beach was married in Olathe, June 19, 1863, to Frances R. Josselyn. They have one son--Leon Edgar.

GEORGE H. BEACH, hardware and implement dealer, was born in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio, September 3, 1847. He came to Kansas with his father, Rev. I. C. Beach, in the fall of 1857, and lived with his parents in Wyandotte City until the spring of 1858, when his father removed to Olathe, Kas., and built one of the first residences in Olathe. George lived with his father until the spring of 1864, when he went to Colorado and secured a position as clerk in a sutler store at Fort Garland, which he filled for thirteen months. Returning to Olathe, he was appointed Deputy County Clerk, filling that position for over one year; was then Deputy Postmaster for eighteen months. In 1868, he purchased one-half interest in the Olathe Mirror, and conducted it for one year, in company with Sam. E. McKee. Mr. Beach was then Assessor of Olathe City and Deputy Clerk of District Court, three years. In 1874, he purchased his present business. His stock then amounted to $2,000, which he has increased to $20,000. His store-room he has increased from 65 feet to 143 feet, two stories high with large ware-room adjoining. He is also interested in mining in Colorado, and own half-interest in a large stock ranch in western Kansas. He was married at Olathe, Kas., in January 1880, to Eva Hull, a native of Illinois. They have one daughter, Lora.

JAMES BELL, physician and surgeon, was born in Washington County, Pa., and was reared in Muskingum County, Ohio, on a farm. He attended the New Concord College for several years graduating in the scientific department in 1848; then attended the Cleveland Medical College, graduating there in 1850, after which he practiced at New Concord for thirteen years. The doctor, seeking for higher honors, attended Jefferson College, Philadelphia, graduating in 1863, after which he returned again to his practice in New Concord. The doctor was for many years a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Zanesville, Ohio, and in 1859 received a diploma from the same. In July, 1869, he came to Olathe, and at once began to practice. Three years later he was joined by his brother Douglass, who remained in partnership with him until some time in 1879. Two months later Dr. Bell admitted to a partnership his student, Dr. H. E. Mastings. The subject of our sketch was for five years County Physician of Johnson County. Has been a member of the Kansas State Medical Society for ten years. Is a permanent member of the American Medical Association, and is chairman of the Board of State Medicine.

WILLIAM A. BOLES, principal of Olathe public schools, was born in Milton, Saratoga Co., N. Y., July 7, 1831, and reared in Trumbull County, Ohio, on a farm, until he reached the age of fourteen years, when he learned the trade of harness-maker, serving as an apprentice some three years. He then followed it as a journeyman for two years, during which period he studied and improved his early education. He then turned his attention to teaching school, following it in the State of Ohio for two years, then in district schools in Kentucky for two years, in the public schools of New Albany, Ind., for six months, and again in the district schools of Kentucky for two terms, after which he taught in the public schools of Louisville for two years, and was principal of public schools of Lexington, Ky., for five years, and again in Louisville for three years as principal of public schools. In 1868 he went to Shelbyville, Ind., and was superintendent of public schools there until the latter part of 1867, when he came to Kansas, locating in Lawrence. He took charge of the public schools of that place, remaining there until he came to Olathe, August 1, 1880, at which time he entered upon his present duties. Mr. Boles has been engaged in conducting schools for the past thirty years, twenty-five of which he has been either principal or superintendent.

HARRY BRICKELL, was born at Niles, Berrien Co., Mich., August 18, 1855 and reared on a farm, and followed farming as an occupation until he came to Olathe, Kan., March 28, 1878; for a year he was engaged in various capacities. In July, 1879, he entered the employ of Geo. B. Lord, and has since been in charge of the Olathe Elevator and Mill. Mr. Lord handles large quantities of grain, and also has a large coal trade in the winter. He resides in St. Louis, Mo., and Mr. Brickell has the management of his affairs at this place.

WILLIAM BRONAUGH, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Olathe, was born in Kentucky in 1832. Here he assisted his father in conducting a hotel for two years, and was for the same length of time employed as a clerk in mercantile business. In 1854 he removed to Jackson County, Mo., where he engaged in farming. In August, 1856, he came to Kansas, and the following February located on his present farm. He owns 160 acres of land, all well improved, on which there is a fine orchard of his own planting, of about three acres. He is Treasurer of the District School Board. Mr. Bronaugh was married in Kentucky in 1859, to Nancy Hunt. They have four children--Lila, John, George and Lena.

A. A. BROWN, of Brown & Thompson, hardware merchants. Was born in Otsego County, N. Y., in 1840, and reared in Kalamazoo, Mich., where he studied the profession of dentistry. In May, 1861, he enlisted in the Second Michigan Infantry, serving three months; and on the 12th of August following re-enlisted in Company I, Second Michigan Cavalry; was almost immediately promoted to Quartermaster's Sergeant, and during the last year of the war acted as Quartermaster at Franklin Post, Tenn., and was mustered out of the service in September, 1865. He came to Kansas in January, 1866, locating at Topeka. Was for a year employed as baggagemaster on the K. P.R. R., after which he was employed as a clerk in hardware for some eight years, and during that period he learned the trade of gas and steam fitter. He was also for eight years a member of the Topeka Cornet Band, and for two years had charge of the fire department building at Topeka. Was then for three years engineer at the State Insane Asylum, and for three years engineer at the State Deaf and Dumb Asylum. He came to Olathe January 1, 1882, and in company with O. D. Dickey purchased the hardware stock of W. B. Walker. They conducted the business together until April 13, 1882, when Mr. Dickey sold out his interest to G. S. Thompson. Mr. Brown was married at Topeka, Kan., in 1875, to Lila Little. They have one son--Clarence W.

S. R. BURCH, postmaster, was born in Dresden, Ohio, March 1, 1842, and was reared on a farm. In the spring of 1857 he removed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he followed farming and school-teaching. On September 11, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Twelfth Iowa Infantry, and served four and one-half years as a soldier, passing through various grades in the army, and for the last nine months of his service was Adjutant General on the staff of Major General Chetlain. After the war he gave his attention to farming, near Cedar Rapids, until he came to Olathe, in November, 1868. June 1, 1869, he opened the American House in company with Peter Cochran, who retired ten years later, he continuing in the business, with Henry Cochran as a partner, until in February, 1882, when he was joined by H. S. Miller, his present partner in this business. Mr. B. was for six years a member of the City School Board, and during four years of that time filled the office of president of the same. He represented the Second Ward in the City Council two terms, and was elected Mayor of Olathe in 1878, and re-elected in 1879, resigning to accept the Postmastership in February, 1880. He was married in Fairfax, Iowa, July 4, 1868, to Maria Cochran, a native of Ohio. They have three children--Mirtle, Jessie, and Sylvester R. Jr.

HENDERSON L. BURGESS, attorney at law, was born at Hubbard, Trumball Co., Ohio, July 13, 1849. His father, Nelson Burgess, was a Methodist minister. Henderson resided with him in some thirteen different States. Finally settled in Olathe, Kas., in 1866. He enlisted in the summer of 1867, in Company D, Eighteenth Kansas Cavalry, which was assigned to the command of Gen. George A. Custer, and served about six months. Returning here, was for two or three years employed on various farms in the county, and in 1870 began business life as a clerk in the store of J. C. Morgan & Co., Olathe, and a year later was admitted to a partnership. Mr. M. sold out his interest in about a year to E. Roedel, and Mr. Burgess continued in the business with him until sometime in 1873, when he sold out and began the study of law in the office with Gov. John P. St. John. After four years close study he was admitted to the bar June 20, 1878, before Tenth Judicial District, since which time he has practiced law at this place. He is a member of the Sloans Legal Union. He was married in Olathe, December 30, 1874, to Sadie M. Shreve, a native of Illinois. By this union they are blessed with two children--Lucy E., born March 10, 1877, and Goldie Lillian, born February 15, 1879.

JOHN TAYLOR BURRIS was born in Butler County, Ohio, December 22, 1828. His grandfather, Jeremiah Burris, was a soldier in the Revolution, and was at the battle of Yorktown. His maternal grandfather, Edward Taylor, held the office of Sergeant-Major under Gen. Anthony Wayne, and participated in the Indian warfare of his time, in Ohio. The parents of the subject of this sketch were John Burris and Eunice (Taylor) Burris. He was bred on a farm and acquired early only the limited education which the common schools afforded. At the age of eleven years, he removed with his parents, to Kentucky, where he lived until eighteen years of age. He supplemented his poor educational advantages with hard study at home, while assisting his father in farm work, and thus fitted himself as a teacher. In 1847, he went to Iowa; soon after his removal to that Territory, the war with Mexico having broken out, he enlisted for the war, as a member of the Mounted Rifles, afterward know as the Third United States Cavalry. He served until the close of the war, and then returned to Iowa, where, receiving his soldier's land warrant, he located it, and cultivated the land until 1852, at which time he sold his farm, opened a hotel, and established a ferry on the Iowa River, at Fredonia. In the fall of 1852, he sold out his business, and commenced the study of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1853, and commenced the practice of his profession at Washington, Iowa. In 1855, he was elected Judge of the County Court. On the expiration of his term, he entered into partnership with a brother, who had located a town on the Mississippi, called by the family name of "Burris," and moved to that place. The venture proved disastrous in a business point of view, and resulted in nearly a total loss of the accumulations of the previous years. In 1858, he came to Kansas, and settled at Olathe, and renewed the practice of the law. He was, in 1859, elected a member of the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention, and was thus one of the framers of the Constitution of the State. He was in Washington in the spring of 1861, and during the threatening days of early treason, served as Sergeant in the company known as the Frontier Guards, of which Senator James H. Lane was Captain. He returned to Kansas, having received the appointment from President Lincoln of District Attorney for the new State, and entered upon the duties of his office. In August, 1861, he enlisted, and became Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourth Kansas Infantry. He continued in the service in the Fourth until its consolidation with the Third into the Tenth Kansas, and in the latter until the close of the war. He bore himself as a brave soldier should, throughout the numerous skirmishes and battles in which his regiment was engaged. For the various battles in which he was engaged, the reader is referred to the history of the regiments in which he held command. At the close of the war he returned to Olathe and resumed the practice of his profession. In 1865, he was elected a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, of which body he was elected the Speaker. In 1866, he was elected Attorney of Johnson County, and in 1869, was appointed Judge of the Tenth Judicial District. During this year he was again elected as State Representative. He has ever taken an active part in the politics of the State, being identified with the Republicans up to 1878, since which time he has voted with the opposition. Outside of politics he has been identified with many enterprises for the advancement and welfare of his State. He was one of the projectors and organizers of the Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf R. R., serving as one of the directors of the road for three years. He has been a staunch and unswerving friend of the State Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, at Olathe, he having introduced the bill into the Legislature whereby it was located at that place. He was married, October 4, 1849, to Miss Martha Ann McGannon, daughter of Reuben McGannon, of Louisa County, Iowa. They have one son, Rev. Alfred T. Burris, and two daughters--Jennie and Eunice.

H. W. BUSHONG, contractor and builder, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, October 11, 1831. He learned the blacksmith's trade there, serving as an apprentice some sixteen months; then working as a journeyman, and carrying on the business for eight years. After which he learned the trade of carpenter and builder in Richland County, Ohio, following it there until he came to Kansas, in March, 1866, since which time he has been engaged in his present business as a contractor and builder. Among the prominent buildings he has erected here are the Methodist Episcopal Church, Baptist Church, Harris & Co.'s Bank building, J. E. Clark & Son and Walker Bros.' business houses, Olathe Central School building, costing $13,100, and many others. Mr. Bushong was elected Representative of the Second Ward in the City Council in the spring of 1878, and again in 1881. He was married in Richland County, Ohio, September 22, 1853, to Nancy Saviers. They have four children living--Keturah Ann, Ida Loretta, Elmer Ellsworth, and Melvin Saviers; and two dead--William Charles and Linie Pearl.

E. L. CARESS, of E. L. Caress & Son, grocers, was born in Bedford, Ind., March 22, 1837. Here he learned the trade of blacksmith, following it for four years as a journeyman, after which he carried on a shop. He came to Kansas in the fall of 1865, locating in Shawnee Township, Johnson County, and for several years conducted a blacksmith shop, after which he was for two years in the employ of the K. C., Ft. S. & G. R. R. Co., as ticket agent. He then gave his attention again for some time to his blacksmith shop. In 1874 was elected a Trustee of the Township, and again in 1875, which position he resigned in the fall of that year, having been elected Recorder of the county, which position he held for three consecutive terms, of two years each. Since he entered upon the duties of County Recorder, Mr. Caress has resided in Olathe. In January, 1882, he engaged in his present business, with his son, C. E. Caress.

AUSTIN G. CARPENTER, Treasurer of Johnson County, was born in Indiana County, Pa., December 16, 1832. Here he studied civil engineering, and was employed in the capacity of engineer for some years on railroads in the State of Ohio, and afterwards superintended the grading of railroad work in the State of Iowa, for some months, then in the same capacity in Stephenson County, Ill., for a short time; after which he was employed in the Engineer Corps of the Madison & Portage City Railroad at Portage City, Wis. He came to Kansas in April, 1857, located in Allen County, where he was engaged in farming and surveying, and for two years held the office of County Surveyor. On October 16, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Ninth Kansas Cavalry, which was partially formed from the Iola Battalion, originally organized by James Lane. Mr. Carpenter served as Battalion and Regimental Quartermaster, until January, 1863, when he resigned and joined his company as First Lieutenant; in August following, was appointed Post Quartermaster at Pleasant Hill and Harrisonville, Mo. In April, 1864, he again joined his company as Lieutenant, and went south with his regiment to Fort Smith, Ark., and served until December 20, 1864, after which he returned to Allen County and farmed. In December, 1865, he came to Johnson County, and engaged in farming, in Shawnee Township, where he still has a finely improved farm of 300 acres. Mr. Carpenter was appointed Surveyor of Johnson County in January, 1877, and elected to the office in the fall of that year for a term of two years. He was elected Treasurer of the county in the fall of 1879, and again in 1881. The subject of our sketch was married in Andrew County, Mo., in March, 1865, to Maggie Duncan. She died in December, 1871, leaving one son, John C. Mr. C. was married again at Olathe, in 1872, to Mary A. Freeman. They have one daughter--Margaret M.

FRED W. CASE, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Monroe County, N. Y., March 19, 1826, and reared in Washtenaw County, Mich., his occupation being that of a farmer. In 1850, he emigrated to California, where he remained for six years engaged in placer gold mining. Returning East, he came to Kansas in May, 1858, and purchased his present farm; resided in the city of Olathe for four years, and in 1862 moved on to his farm, where he has since resided. He is an extensive farmer; owns 480 acres, 370 of which are under cultivation, the balance being used for stock-raising purposes. He is a member of Olathe Grange, No. 118. Mr. Case was married in Johnson County, in the fall of 1861, to Ruth E. Gregg, a native of Ohio. They have four children--Hattie, Harry, Sheldon and Lena.

REV. MICHAEL J. CASEY, Pastor St. Paul's Catholic Church, was born in Ireland in March, 1851, and educated at All Hallow's College, graduating from there June 24, 1875, and was ordained by Bishop James McDevitt. In September of that year, he came to Kansas and shortly afterwards entered upon his present duties.

DR. GEORGE C. CASTLEMAN, was born in Canada West, December 28, 1830; was reared on a farm; worked for some years in a woodenware factory. Here he began the study of medicine, which he continued in Jefferson County, N. Y., till 1853, when he began its practice. In this he continued there and in Canada till 1855, when he went to Iowa, practicing in various counties in that State till 1865, when he went to Quincy, Adams Co., Ill., and three years later to Missouri. He came to Olathe, Johnson County, Kan., in March, 1878, where he now resides. The doctor is a healing medium, known as "The (so-called) Faith Doctor"; uses no medicine in his general practice, effecting his cures through the use of his hands; has practiced in this way for over thirty years. Thousands of letters of inquiry reach him every year, but owing to the cost in time and money, he now answers no letter (professionally) unless it contains at least $1. He is a member of several liberal societies in the State and in the United States; is a member of the Executive Boards of the Kansas Liberal Union, and of the National Spiritual Association.

ANDREW J. CLEMMANS, hardware merchant, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, November 28, 1833, and learned the trade of blacksmith at Bridgeport, that county, serving an apprenticeship of four years. He followed his trade as a journeyman in Illinois for a short time, and came to Olathe, Kan., in the spring of 1858 and opened a blacksmith shop, which he conducted for about ten years. In 1868, he engaged in hardware business in company with F. Gilbert, and in the winter of 1878, became sole proprietor of the same. The stock carried at the opening of the business was about $800, which has since been increased to $20,000, to supply the demands of his trade. Mr. Clemmans was elected Sheriff of Johnson County in the fall of 1869; re-elected in 1871, 1875 and 1877, serving, in all, eight years.

WELCOME CURTIS, farmer and trader in live stock, P. O. Olathe; was born in Noble County, Ohio, December 22, 1837, and in company with his father, Hiram Curtis, carried on a large stock farm, and was also for eight years engaged in mercantile business at Carlisle that county. He came to Kansas in the spring of 1869, locating in Johnson County; was for several engaged in company with his father in speculating and dealing farm lands. In 1870 he removed onto his present farm, consisting of 200 acres and all well improved. He owns some 320 acres of land and is largely engaged in breeding blooded cattle, and also dealing in live stock. On his land are several stone quarries, valuable for building purposes. Mr. Curtis is one of the leading men in this neighborhood. He is a member of the Grainview Grange. The subject of our sketch was married in Noble County, Ohio, in 1857 to Sarah A. Oshell. They have seven children--Etna, Orin, Mina, Forest, Idella, Nahum and Daisy.

EDWIN E. DAVIS, farmer, P. O. Olathe; was born in Piqua, Miami Co., Ohio, in 1851, and reared on a farm. At sixteen years of age he engaged in railroading, first as a brakeman and then as a conductor of freight trains. Following that business in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois on various railroads, until he came to Kansas in January, 1879, at which time he purchased forty acres in the township of Olathe, and has since given his attention to farming. He now owns eighty acres of land, all well improved. Mr. Davis is a member of Lone Elm Grange, No. 152, and is now serving his second term as master of that body. He was married at Indianapolis, Ind. April 26, 1878, to Carrie F. Griggs, a native of Memphis, Tenn. They have one daughter, Georgia L., born here.

JOHN W. DENNIS, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Ross County, Ohio, July 6, 1836, and was reared on a farm. In 1852 he moved to Knox County, Ill., where he followed farming and stock breeding. He was a member of Company A, Ninth Missouri Infantry, afterward changed to the Fifty-ninth Illinois. In 1867 he removed to Cass County, Mo., and in 1871 came to Olathe and located on his present farm overlooking the city of Olathe. Mr. Dennis has 175 acres of land, all finely improved by himself in the past twelve years. He has on his place a fine residence and barn and is largely engaged in breeding fine cattle and hogs. On his place is a splendid orchard of four acres. Mr. Dennis was married in Knox County, Ill., in 1863, to Louise J. Barnett. They have three children: William F., Edwin Lee and Carl.

E. P. DIEHL, fruit grower, was born in Adams County, Pa., August 20, 1832. At the age of twenty-two years he removed to Kentucky, where he was engaged in the manufacture of chairs at Paducah for two years, after which he went to Charleston, Mississippi County, and was for a time employed in the construction of railroads, and served for four years as Deputy Sheriff of that county. He enlisted in November, 1861, in First Illinois Cavalry, Company I; served eleven months. He then organized Company A, Fiftieth Illinois Infantry and was appointed Second Lieutenant August 9, 1864; promoted to First Lieutenant in September, and to Captain in November, serving until August 5, 1865. Some time after the war he settled at Osborn, Ohio and for three years was engaged in conducting a nursery. He came to Olathe September 13, 1868, and has resided on his present place since. He owns forty acres, all of which he has set out in fruit trees, berries, grapes, etc. For about twelve years he also carried on a nursery, but now gives his attention to the culture of fruit almost entirely. Lake Chanute adjoins his place and Mr. Diehl supplies the surrounding country with ice during the summer. He was married in Canton, Ohio, August 19, 1862, to Emma Brownwell. They have four children: Alice A., Ella E., Eva J. and Emily P.

J. H. DOW, merchant, born in Erie County, N. Y., October 22, 1835. He began business life in Washington Territory, where for four years he was engaged in merchandising, freighting, mining, etc., and afterward in the mercantile business in Sycamore, Ill., for two years. In February, 1864, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-second Illinois Infantry, served six months, and re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-seventh, serving until January 20, 1866. Shortly after this he came to Olathe, Kan., and at once engaged in this business, in company with J. G. Flinn, and a year later became sole proprietor. The business was begun with a stock of about $5,000, which has since been increased until a stock of about $60,000 is now carried to supply the demands of the trade. Mr. Dow was elected Mayor of Olathe in 1874, and re-elected in 1875. 

 JOHN Q. EGELSTON, physician and surgeon, was born in Dearborn County, Ind., November 6, 1827, and was reared on a farm. At the age of twenty-one he began the study of medicine, attending the medical college at Evansville, Ind., for two courses. He then practiced medicine in Lee County, Iowa, for about seven years, after which he attended a course of lectures at the medical department of the State University of Iowa, graduating March 1, 1858. In the fall of that year he located in Linn County, Mo., where he practiced until the breaking out of the war, when he engaged in the performance of contract service for the United States army. In the summer of 1862 he was appointed Assistant-Surgeon, Twenty-fifth Missouri Infantry, and in 1864, Surgeon of the Forty-third Missouri Infantry, in which positions, in connection of that of Medical Director of the Central District of Missouri, he served until the close of the war. He then removed to Independence, Mo., where he engaged for five years in the practice of his profession, and for a time in the drug trade. He came to Olathe in September, 1870, and has followed his profession at this place ever since. The doctor has the reputation of a fine physician, based on an experience in his profession of over thirty years' active practice.

OLIVER H. EYLAR, farmer, was born in Adams County, Ohio, August 28, 1834. His father was a tanner and saddler, and the subject of this sketch was employed with him for some years, after which, for seven years, he carried on mercantile business at Winchester, and was also engaged in manufacturing saddles, etc. On August 7, 1862, he enlisted in the Seventh Ohio Cavalry; was appointed Second Lieutenant, a year later First Lieutenant, and in a year more was promoted to Captain, serving until July 4, 1865, after which he resided for two years in Jackson County, Mo. In March, 1868, he came to Johnson County, located in Oxford Township, and has since followed agricultural pursuits. He has 160 acres of land in Section 8, Township 14, Range 25, all improved, and raises considerable stock. He has quite recently changed his place of residence to Olathe, where he intends to reside, although is about to purchase more land and farm on an extensive scale. Mr. Eylar was married in Adams County, Ohio, November 24, 1857, to Elma S. Bunn, they have seven living children.

A. E. FARNHAM, farmer and stock dealer, was born in Steuben County, Ind., in 1832, and reared on a farm; at the age of twenty-three years he removed to Galesburg, Ill., where he was engaged in teaming and working on railroad for a year; in 1862, he returned to Indiana, and in March, 1863, came to Kansas, took up a claim in Gardner Township, Johnson County, residing on the same until 1875, when he removed to the city of Olathe. He owns about 290 acres of land; is largely engaged in farming, and since 1875, also engaged in dealing in live stock. Mr. Farnham owns considerable property in this city, and has a fine orchard of three acres on his old homestead in Gardner.

FRANK P. GAINES, dentist, was born in Richmond, Mo., August 27, 1841, and began business life at the age of eighteen years as a clerk in the dry goods business where at Roachport, Mo., following it for one year; he then farmed with his father in Howard County, Mo., for five years, after which he went to Jacksonville, Ill., where for four years he was employed in dry goods business. In 1872, he began to study and practice his profession in Carrolton, Mo., and a few months later removed to Richmond, where he continued to practice until early 1878, when he had all his property destroyed by a cyclone, and in July, 1878, he came to Olathe and opened an office for the practice of his profession, and is now the leading dentist of this place, having succeeded in building up a large practice.

WILLIAM M. GELLETT, dealer in boots and shoes, was born in Albany, N. Y., November 12, 1834. he began business life in St. Louis, Mo., in 1850, being employed for about a year as a clerk in mercantile business; then in Ottawa, Ill., for a few months, and in Peoria until 1859. In June of that year he came to Olathe, and was employed as a clerk until the summer of 1861, he joined the "Shriver Olathe Scouts," serving six months; on his return here he purchased a stock of general merchandise, and carried on business until cleaned out in the Quantrill raid. In August, 1862, he assisted in organizing Company H, Twelfth Kansas Infantry, and was appointed Second Lieutenant of the same, promoted to First Lieutenant in 1864 and served until August, 1865. In 1866, he was appointed Deputy Treasurer of Johnson County, and filled that office two and a half years, was then for some ten years engaged in general mercantile business in company with J. E. Sutton, and on October 14, 1879, opened in his present business. Mr. Gellett was elected Mayor of Olathe in 1870, and served one term. He was married in Olathe, May 3, 1869, to Jessie Sutton; they have one son--James S.

JOHN M. GIFFEN, attorney at law, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, February 10, 1830, and reared on a farm, and also for some years studied law and medicine, and was admitted to the bar November 10, 1856. He returned to Kansas in the spring of 1857, and pre-empted 160 acres in Shawnee County. In December of that year he entered the office of Gov. Denver as clerk, remaining in his employ until March, 1858; he then settled in Olathe and practiced law; was appointed attorney of Johnson County shortly after his arrival here, being the first to hold that office, and same up to 1861. In 1859, he established the Olathe Herald, and conducted it up to September 6, 1862. Mr. Giffen has devoted his time off and on to practicing law, farming and improving real estate for the past twenty-four years. In 1880 he received the Democratic nomination for Secretary of State.

FREDERICK GILBERT, hardware and agricultural implements; was born in Boston, England, July 20, 1833, and emigrated to Canada, at the age of nineteen years, he learned the trade of wagon-maker, at New Castle, Ontario, serving as an apprentice three years; removing to Michigan, and followed his trade as a journeyman in Pontiac for two years, and one year at Albion, after which he went to Spring Port, that State, and carried on a wagon and repair shop for nine years, and then worked at his trade in Indiana and Illinois, for a year. In August, 1865, he came to Olathe and at once opened a wagon making and repair shop, conducting it for two years; he then joined A. J. Clemmens and, and opened an implement establishment. A few months later they added a stock of hardware, and continued to conduct business together until 1878, when Mr. Gilbert sold out; a year later he moved to Bonita, this County, where he engaged in general merchandise, also dealing in coal and grain. Remained there only two years, but is still interested in building property there, besides which he owns some 400 acres of farm land. In November, 1881, he returned to Olathe; in February, 1882, engaged in the implement business; in the summer of that year he built a brick building, and a few months later he engaged in the hardware business, with a stock of about $15,000, and is now conducting two separate establishments. Mr. Gilbert was elected Treasurer of the city of Olathe, in the spring of 1879, for a term of one year. He was married in Olathe in 1874, to Mahalia Jane Keefer, of Indiana. They have two children--Berty and Lulu.

JOHN M. GRIM, farmer, P. O. Olathe; was born in Perry County, Ohio, in 1843, and was generally employed for some years in farming and blacksmith work. In March, 1860, moved to Hillsborough, Henry Co., Iowa. In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company K, Sixth Iowa Infantry, and served three years. In 1865, he engaged in stock business in Wapello County, Iowa, and two years later removed to Platte County, Mo., where he remained until he came to Kansas, March 1877. He has one of the finest improved farms in Olathe Township; on his place is a fine orchard and residence. Mr. G. is largely engaged in breeding blooded horses and raising graded cattle.

HON. JOHN M. HADLEY, proprietor of Johnson County Mills; was born in North Carolina, January 25, 1835, and reared on a farm in Morgan County, Ind. He came to Kansas in March, 1855, and located at Shawnee Mission, Johnson County, and farmed for two seasons; during the winter of 1856-57, he returned and taught school, in Morgan County, Ind., and in the spring of the latter year, settled near Emporia, Kan., and farmed there for a year, then in Monticello Township, Johnson County, for three years, where he was engaged in farming and teaching school; here he was elected Justice of the Peace, and held the office for three years. In October, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, Eighth Kansas Infantry, and some months later was promoted to Second Lieutenant, serving in that capacity for fifteen months, during six months of which period he was Part Adjutant, at Fort Leavenworth. He was promoted to First Lieutenant in the Ninth Kansas Cavalry, and served eight months on the staff of General Thomas Ewing, as Acting Assistant Adjutant; was then promoted to Captain and returned to his regiment; in May, 1865, was promoted to Major of the regiment, and mustered out in the latter part of that year--he then located at Olathe, Kan.; was elected Sheriff of Johnson County, in the fall of 1865, and re-elected in 1867, and 1869. In 1870 he was elected clerk of the District Court, and re-elected in 1872 and '74. In the spring of 1877 he opened a law office in company with George W. Wilson, continuing with him for a year, after which he engaged in the mercantile business, at Gardner, this county, but remained there only a short time. He purchased his mill property at De Soto, Johnson County, in June, 1880, and added large improvements to the same. These mills are valued at $5,000, and have a capacity of 5,000 pounds of flour per day. He owns some 600 acres of land in this county, and is engaged in farming and raising stock. Mr. Hadley was elected in the fall of 1876, to the State Senate, from this county and served two years. He was married at Olathe, December 20, 1866, to Harriet Beach; she died February 18, 1875, leaving two children--Estelle and Herbert. Mr. Hadley's mills are at De Soto, and he gives them his personal attention, but the residence of himself and family is at Olathe.

J. W. HALL, real estate and insurance agent, was born in Goshen, N. H., August 11, 1819. At four years of age he went with his parents to Bennington County, Vt., where he lived till seventeen years old. Then went to Windsor County, Vt., to school. In six years returned to Bennington County, and there worked in a woolen factory with the exception of three years. Worked at farming until 1847, and then moved to Winnebago County, Wis., and for fifteen years was engaged in farming and mercantile business. Moved to Mendotta, Ill., living there six years, most of the time engaged in grain business. In 1868 came to Olathe, Kas., and for a year or so was engaged in the mercantile business, and since then has devoted himself to real estate and insurance business. He is the oldest insurance agent in the place; also makes a specialty of collections. Mr. Hall represented the First Ward in the City Council for two terms and was elected a member of the School Board in 1880, and President of that body in 1882.

THOMAS HAMILL, physician and surgeon, was born in Lawrence County, Pa., in 1830, and educated in the schools of that county. He then attended the Eclectic College of Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating in the spring of 1855, after which he practiced in New Middletown, Ohio, for six months, and in Keokuk, Iowa, until he came to Kansas in April, 1857, where he was for a few months engaged with his brother in the stock business. In February, 1858, he removed to Johnson County, and for a short time resided on a farm in Olathe Township, moving into the town in the following May, and began the practice of his profession at this place. In 1862 he went to Leavenworth and remained a year, and during that period held the office of coroner. Removing to Colorado was appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon First Colorado Cavalry, serving until the fall of 1865, after which he attended the St. Louis Medical College for a term, then the Humbolt Medical College, at St. Louis, Mo., graduating in April, 1867. Returning to Olathe has since devoted himself to his profession. The doctor was married in Springfield, Ill., October 21, 1869, to Bettie W. Short, a native of Ohio. They have two children, Ava and Lloyd.

JAMES M. HAWORTH was born in Clinton County, Ohio, November 19, 1831. Is a member by birthright of the Society of Friends (Quakers). Previous to the war, was engaged in farming and merchandising. Was for many years connected with the Clinton County Agricultural Society, filling the position of president in 1861. Was elected County Treasurer in 1856, and re-elected in 1858, holding the office four years and three months, his term closing in September, 1861, when he recruited a company, of which he was elected Captain, and going to Camp Chase, was assigned to the Fortieth Ohio Infantry, which regiment was ordered to Eastern Kentucky, and became a part of a brigade under command of Gen. James A. Garfield, on whose staff he served as A. A. A. A. General, until the General was ordered to another part of the country. In 1865, he removed to Cincinnati and engaged in the wholesale drygoods business, until 1870, when broken health, requiring a change of climate, he removed to Olathe, Kas., from where, in the fall of 1872, he was appointed United States Indian Agent, and placed in charge of the Kiowa and Comanche Indians, near Fort Sill, Indian Territory, remaining there until April, 1878. He was one of a commission for locating the Sioux, in the summer of 1878, soon after which he was appointed a special Indian Agent at large, and on February, 1879, was appointed a United States Indian Inspector, which position he held until July, 1882, when he was appointed Inspector of Indian Schools, an office created by the session of Congress which had just closed, the duties being of a supervising care of all the Indian schools, in the United States, excepting the five nations in the Indian Territory.

COL. JOSIAH E. HAYES (deceased). The subject of this brief sketch was born in New Hampshire, in July, 1817. He was educated principally at the common schools. In 1834 he went to Putnam County, Ill., and in 1851 to Bureau County. In 1857 he moved to Olathe, Johnson County, Kan., which town he made his home the remainder of his life. The home of his adoption is largely indebted to his energy and business ability for her prosperity. He erected numerous buildings in the town, among them the stone building belonging to the Kansas Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, the American Hotel, and the Jail, and was himself interested at different times in various kinds of business. In 1861, at the breaking out of the war, in common with many other patriotic men of the county, he entered the army, and became Captain of Company A, Fourth Kansas Infantry, In 1862 he was promoted to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the Twelfth Kansas Infantry, which position he held until the close of the war. In the fall of 1863, his regiment was ordered to Arkansas. It formed a part of Gen. Steele's command, which was attempting to form a junction with Gen. N. P. Banks at Shreveport, La., when on the 30th of April, 1864, an engagement occurred between Gen. Steele's command and a large force of rebels at Jenken's Ferry, Ark., ending in the defeat of the Union forces. Early in the engagement, Col. Hayes was struck just below the knee by a minie ball. The ball was split by striking against the bone, one part passing out of the leg, the other part passing around and above the knee joint, and up back of the thigh bone, nearly to the hip joint. The Union forces upon their retreat left the wounded upon the field, and all, Col. Hayes among them, became prisoners in the enemy's hands. His leg was amputated on the field, by Dr. Redfield of Fort Scott. He was at first taken to Camden, where he remained four months, suffering great pain and inconvenience from his wound. He was then removed to Shreveport, La., where he remained until exchanged in February, 1864, when he proceeded homeward, reaching Olathe March 11, 1864. Sometime subsequently an operation was found necessary, in order to remove the portion of the ball that had passed up the thigh. This was successful, and led to the rumor that a second amputation had been performed, which was not true. Mrs. Hayes, upon learning that her husband was wounded and a prisoner, immediately determined upon going to him. Neither could she be turned aside from her purpose by the earnest entreaties, persuasions and tears of her friends. After a hasty preparation, she started at once for Little Rock, and proceeding thence under flag of truce to the rebel lines, she was permitted to go to Camden, where the Colonel lay, traveling the whole distance, forty miles, through the enemy's country with a rebel soldier for a driver. She remained with her husband until he was exchanged, and in all human probability, through her constant watchfulness and care, saved his life, and brought him home with her to their children and friends. In the fall of 1865 he was elected County Treasurer. In 1869 he commenced the business of banking in Olathe, as detailed under the head of the Johnson County Bank. In 1870 he was elected State Treasurer, and in 1872 re-elected by a majority of 30,000. April 30, 1874, he resigned his office, and was succeeded by John Francis, of Iola, Allen County, who was appointed the next day. On account of the danger of traveling at that time with money on the person, County treasurers very generally refused to settle with the State Treasurer in anything but drafts on New York. These drafts were collected through two Topeka banks. When the financial crisis of 1873 came upon the country, the New York bank having in charge these collections for the Topeka banks suspended. This led to the suspension of the Topeka banks, and this to the embarrassment of the State Treasurer, who had at that time about $75,000 in the process of collection. The State was reimbursed over the counter of the Hayes bank in Olathe, Col. Hayes being made good in part by the receipt of other property, some of it western land. While Col. Hayes was guilty of a technical violation of the State law, which required State taxes to be paid in lawful money, and while his political enemies eagerly seized upon this technical violation of the law as a convenient weapon with which to defeat his aspirations toward further political promotion, yet the State lost not one dollar through the dereliction, and not a shadow of suspicion rested or rests upon the integrity or character of Col. Hayes. Preceding State Treasurers had received County taxes in the same way. It was Col. Hayes' misfortune to be in office when the crisis came, and he who had heard his country's call, who had gone to the fore front of the battle and left a limb, almost his life upon her altar, was here destined to suffer injustice through a wide spread combination of circumstances for which he was no more to blame than is the man who is caught and destroyed by the fierce cyclone. On account of his failing health occasioned by the constant trouble with his wound, he started February 23, 1881, to Eureka Springs, Ark., reaching there on the 26th of the month. Nothing could avail. He died on March 8th, and was brought home to be buried. He had twice been married--the first time to Louisa Fanning, of Illinois, in 1838, and the second time to Miss Nancy A. Potter, on March 28, 1850. Mrs. Hayes is a woman of extraordinary intelligence, firmness and devotion, a bright example of that fortitude which crowned so many American women during the years of trial while the Rebellion lasted. Besides Mrs. Hayes, four children survive--Charles L., Emma J., Arthur L., and Holly E. Hayes.

JOHN HARRIS, banker, was born in Madison County, Ohio, May 10, 1839, and reared in Appanoose County, Iowa, receiving a college education at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. In 1858 he came to Kansas, locating in what is now known as Miami County, where he followed farming until the breaking out of the war, when he returned to Appanoose County and in August, 1861, enlisted in Company M, Seventh Missouri Cavalry, and served until February 3, 1863. He then assisted in raising Company H, Eighth Iowa Cavalry, and at its organization in June, 1863, was elected Sergeant, and a year later was promoted to Second Lieutenant, in which capacity he served until September, 1865. He then farmed in Jefferson County, Iowa for about six years. In 1881 he returned to Kansas and settled in Marion County, homesteading 160 acres, and for six years was exclusively engaged as an itinerant preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Harris has been a member of the South Kansas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church since its organization in 1872. In April, 1877, he was elected President of the Bank of Marion Centre and filled that position until October. In July of the same year he became connected with G. M. Knox, and engaged in the banking business with him in Newton, Kas. In April, 1878, he became sole proprietor of this bank, and conducted it alone until June, 1879, when he sold out and shortly afterward came to Olathe, at which time he purchased the People's Savings Bank, conducting it alone up to January, 1881, when he was joined by W. H. Smith, and the firm became John Harris & Co. This connection lasted until September 1, 1883, when Mr. Harris bought out Mr. Smith and thus became sole proprietor. Mr. Harris was married in Appanoose County, Iowa, in 1859, to Irene Hallock. She died July 29, 1880, leaving five children, Mary E., John A., Elmer E., Edith and Justin K.

JOHN E. HEATON, Marshal of the City of Olathe, was born in Delaware County, Ind., October 22, 1845, and was reared on a farm. He enlisted in December, 1861, at Lafayette, Ind., in Company D, Fortieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Was in the following battles: Shiloh, Tenn, Perrysville, Ky., Stone River, Tenn., Nashville and Franklin, Tenn., Mission Ridge, Tenn., Knoxville, Tenn., and on the Atlanta Campaign, embracing all the battles from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Atlanta, Ga. Served three years in the department of the Cumberland in the Fourth and Twenty-first Army Corps. Was mustered out of service in 1865 at Huntsville, Ala., his term of service having expired. He returned home to White County, Ind., in 1866; moved to Illinois, Iroquois County, near Gilman, and followed farming. In 1868 he moved to Olathe, followed the business of stone-mason until 1878, when he was appointed to the office of City Marshal. Was re-appointed in 1879 and 1880 and 1881. He took a very active part in the temperance cause in Kansas. In politics he is a Republican. He married in 1869 at Olathe, Kansas, Miss Estell Newburry. They have two children living--C. E. and J. E., and one, F. E., deceased.

W. P. K. HEDRICK. proprietor Olathe Marble Works, was born at Greenbrier, Va., January 18, 1846, and at seven years of age removed with his parents to Oskaloosa, Iowa. Here he learned the trade of stone-cutter when but seventeen years of age. In October, 1865, he enlisted in the Twenty-ninth Iowa Infantry, and served until the war closed; after which he worked at his trade in Oskaloosa. In the fall of 1869 he came to Olathe, and for a time was engaged in farming. In 1872 he opened the Olathe Marble Works, this being the only business of this kind in this place. Mr. Hedrick is a fine workman as his work shows, and began the business on a small scale, which has increased until he now gives employment to four men, and is compelled by the demands of trade to keep on hand a large and handsome stock of monuments, mantel-pieces, etc. He is also the owner of the Crystal Limestone Quarries, situated two and a half miles northwest of Olathe, on the Pleasant Hill branch of the A. T. & S. F. R. R. Here he has some eighty acres of the finest kind of limestone, and to the development of which he is now giving considerable attention, as it is in large demand all through the State. Mr. Hedrick was married in Olathe in 1872, to Minnie Russell. They have two children--Clyde and Eva.

REV. EDWARD F. HILL, Pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Clermont County, Ohio, in 1836; entered the Iowa Conference in 1857; traveled one year, and then located to attend the Iowa Wesleyan University, at Mount Pleasant. He also attended Peak's Academy, Ohio. In 1861 he entered the Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and had charge of various churches in Ohio until he came to Kansas, April 1, 1873, locating at Burlingame. He had charge of the Methodist Episcopal Church there for a year; then at Salem four years; and at Clay Center three years. In March, 1881, he came to Olathe and entered upon his present duties. He was ordained a deacon of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Cincinnati, Ohio, in September, 1862, and ordained elder at Greenfield, Ohio, September, 1864. He labored in the church some twenty-three years and has been the means of bringing into the church over 2,000 persons. He was married at Cincinnati, July 8, 1863, to Sarah L. Green, They have five children--Charles M., Edward F., James F., Sarah L., and Mary.

SAMUEL H. HILL, farmer, was born in North Carolina in 1836; removing with parents in 1847 to Kentucky; was reared on a farm; in 1856 he removed to Macoupin County, Ill., where he carried on a large stock farm. He came to Olathe in 1869, and located on his present farm. Mr. Hill is one of the leading farmers of this county; he owns 400 acres of land, and is also largely engaged in breeding Poland China hogs; his place is well improved, and on it he has a fine residence, and an orchard, consisting of some three or four acres. He is a member of the Lone Elm Grange. Mr. H. was married in Macoupin County, Ill., in 1860, to Eliza Kent; they have nine children--Martha, John W., George, Annie, Mary, Addie, Charles, Samuel and Elmer.

SOL. HISEY of Hammond & Hisey, undertakers and dealers in furniture, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, January 12, 1831. Here he learned the trade of carpenter and builder, serving as an apprentice some three years, after which he followed it in Columbiana and Union counties as a journeyman. On August 12, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Infantry; in June, 1863, he was promoted to Sergeant and wounded at the battle of Chickamauga in the following September, by a musket shot in the right thigh, and taken prisoner by the Confederates; but he was paroled eleven days later, and exchanged in May following; he served until his discharge June 19, 1865, after which he returned to Ohio and followed his trade. In the fall of 1868, he came to Olathe, and was engaged in business as a carpenter and builder until March, 1881, when he joined J. A. Hammond in the furniture business. Mr. Hisey was married in Union County, Ohio, November 28, 1852, to Maria L. Garwood, of Ohio; she died July 27, 1875, leaving one daughter--Jennie E. He was married again at Olathe, September 21, 1879, to Mary H. Peck. They have one child--Eva Maud.

D. P. HOAGLAND, farmer, was born May 8, 1833, at Barlow, Washington Co., Ohio; at the age of fifteen he removed to Virginia; went to school at Marshal Academy in the winter, and was for three years employed on flat boats in the summer, running on the Ohio River; then in the State of Iowa for several years, employed as a clerk and also as a carpenter; then in Springfield, Ill., working as a carpenter. He came to Kansas in 1857, and bought a claim two miles west of Oxford, Johnson County, but lost it, it being claimed to be a military reservation. He resided in Kansas City for a short time engaged in contracting and building, and has also conducted a hotel for a few months. He moved to Cass County, Mo. In 1858, built a saw and shingle mill which he conducted for two years. He voted for Lincoln in 1860 and nearly lost his life in consequence; he was fired at several times and ordered to leave the country. In 1861 he came to Olathe and turned his attention to farming. In February, 1862, he enlisted in the Missouri State Militia and served two years; he has resided on his present farm since 1864, and is largely engaged in breeding Short-horned cattle, etc. He has a fine orchard on his place and owns in all some 400 acres. He is secretary of the Olathe Grange, and County Commissioner. Mr. Hoagland was married in Cass County, Mo., in 1859, to Sarah J. Farmer; she died in June, 1878, leaving three children--Fred, Roddy Proctor and Clarence Farmer.

MYRON C. HOLCOMB, manufacturer and dealer in furniture, was born in Monroe County, N. Y., May 23, 1827, and nine years later accompanied his parents to Hillsdale County, Mich., where he assisted his father in clearing two timber farms and also worked for some years at the trade of painter. Residing with his parents until about twenty-six years of age, after which he worked at painting in De Kalb County, Ill., for some five years, and in other parts of that State and Michigan, until he came to Kansas in June, 1860, at which time he pre-empted 160 acres in Lyon County, and returned home to Michigan. During his absence his claim was jumped, and on returning to the State in the spring of 1862 he settled on 160 acres in Gardner Township, Johnson County, and this he farmed for five years. In 1867 he came to Olathe, and was employed as a painter for a short time, then established a teaming and transfer business which he carried on for ten years. In 1878 he purchased his present business, and in the past four years has increased the stock from $600 to $5,000. Mr. Holcomb had little or no means on his arrival here, and suffered many hardships while residing on his farm. He was a member of the militia during the war, and was molested on several occasions by guerrillas, but notwithstanding all drawbacks, he stuck to his homestead and encouraged and assisted by his wife, and is now in more than comfortable circumstances. He was married at Fremont, Ind., March 1, 1859 to Susan Phenicie, a native of Maryland. 

 DAVID HUBBARD, of Hubbard & Jones, proprietors of the Pearl Mills, was born in Charleston, N. H., in 1833, and reared on a farm until twenty-one years of age, when he moved to Carrollton, Ill., where for four years he was engaged in teaching school. He came to Kansas in 1857, locating in Douglas County, where he farmed for four years. In 1861 he was appointed County Surveyor, and filled it for a term, having obtained a knowledge of surveying in his early education. After this was for two years employed as a clerk in the United States Commissariat Department, and in 1865 was appointed Assistant-Assessor United States Internal Revenue, for Wyandotte, Johnson, and other counties in Kansas; this position he filled until 1870. He came to Olathe to reside in 1869, and for a time was engaged in farming pursuits. In 1873 was elected to the office of County Surveyor, and the following year engaged in milling business in company with A. Buch, conducting the Ott Mill for three years, after which they conducted a mill at Cherryvale, Kan., for three years. In April, 1881, Mr. H. joined E. C. Jones in present mills. In 1863, while residing on his farm in Douglas County, Mr. Hubbard was called out from his home by Dick Yaegar, one of Quantrill's band, and shot through the left lung, an injury from which he has never thoroughly recovered.

W. J. HULL, Superintendent of Public Instruction for Johnson County, was born in Warren County, Ill., June 2, 1854, and came to Kansas with his mother, November 27, 1865, residing on various farms in Johnson County until the spring of 1869, when he came to Olathe, and for three years attended school at this place, after which he went to Delavan, Ill., and attended the high school there for a year. Returning to this county in the fall of 1873, he was employed in teaching district schools until the fall of 1880, at which time he was elected to his present office, and entered upon the duties of the same January 1, 1881.

M. W. & C. W. HUTCHISON, editors & proprietors of the Olathe Mirror, are the sons of Rev. S. M. and Emily P. Hutchison, of Washington, Guernsey County, Ohio, and both graduates of Muskingum College, located at New Concord, Muskingum County, Ohio. The senior member of the firm was for four years a teacher in Muskingum County, Ohio, conducting normal schools during the summer. In 1879 he went to Peoria, Ill., and engaged in teaching graded school near that city. Afterwards he turned his attention to journalism, establishing the New Concord Enterprise, being connected with several Ohio newspapers as correspondent. In September, 1880, he purchased the Cambridge (Ohio) Herald, conducting it as a Republican newspaper until March 1, 1882, when he sold out, came to Kansas, purchased the Olathe Mirror and News Letter, and at once began such improvements in the office as has made it the leading newspaper in Johnson County, and one of the best on the eastern border. C. W. Hutchison, the junior member of the firm, came to Kansas July 4, 1882, having, like his brother, some experience as a journalist, a well-developed business knowledge, and a fine education. They received the endorsement of many leading Ohio newspapers. M. W. Hutchison was born at Zanesville, Ohio, September 24, 1854. S. W. Hutchison was born at Mount Vernon, Ohio, May 13, 1861. Besides the brothers in the newspaper business, the remaining members of the family, including the mother, are residents of Johnson County: L. M. Hutchison, M. D., a graduate of Kentucky School of Medicine, who practices his profession in Olathe; Miss Luin A. Hutchison, an elocutionist of more than ordinary ability, and Miss Leora E. Hutchison, the youngest of the family who is largely endowed with musical gifts. All are popular in the community, in which they reside.

PETER JULIEN, physician and surgeon, was born in Warren County, Ohio, April 15, 1811; moved to Shelby County in 1813; there lived and studied medicine with Dr. L. Houston, and practiced for fifteen years, after which he attended for three terms at the Physio-Medical College, Cincinnati, graduating in the class of 1848-'49, then continued his practice in Shelby County until 1851, afterwards in Logansport, Ind. He came to Kansas in 1857; traveled all over Kansas and South Missouri, and settled in Wyanet City in 1858, and practiced medicine five years; then moved again to Logansport, Ind., for two years. Returning to Kansas, he settled in Olathe in September, 1865. He resumed his practice at this place, and, since August, 1881, in company with Dr. R. A. Williams. Since 1871 the doctor has also been engaged in conducting an establishment for medical baths. He was married in Shelby County, Ohio, January 8, 1833, to Catherine Castle. She died in 1848, leaving four children--Findley, William, Melvina, Nelson. The doctor was married a second time at Vienna, Ohio, in the fall of 1859, to Margaret Stewart. They have one son--Edward.

JULIEN & MAHAFFIE, livery and feed stables; this business was established by this firm in 1867, and is the oldest of the kind in the city; they began in a small way at first but have increased their business, until now they have some twenty fine horses and ten full livery outfits. William Julien, of this firm was born in Shelby County, Ohio, April 9, 1841; nine years later removed with his father to Logansport, Ind., and was educated in the Seminary there. He came to Kansas, in August, 1857, and was for a short time engaged in prospecting, finally settling on a claim in Linn County, in the spring of 1858, on which he resided for a short time, then to Wyandotte, about two years in the employ of the Kansas Stage Company. In the fall of 1862 he went to Kansas City and engaged in the livery business in company with B. L. Riggins; he also in that year enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirteenth Missouri Mounted Infantry, and was appointed Second Lieutenant of Company E, and served two years. In the fall of 1864, he sold out his interest in the livery business in Kansas City and came to Johnson County, Kansas. He was, until October, 1868, engaged in farming in Olathe Township, when he sold his farm and came to this city and engaged in his livery business in company with his brother Nelson Julien. Sold out in 1871, to I. N. Phillips and in company with Harry McBride bought grounds and built Elm Park track stables, sold the same in 1873 and engaged with W. A. Mahaffie, in 1874, in the present business. He represented the Second Ward in the City Council four years and held the office of City Treasurer four years and served as Deputy Sheriff during 1871, '72, '73 and '74. He was elected Sheriff of Johnson County in November, 1879, and re-elected in 1881, for two years. Mr. Julien was married in Olathe, December 22, 1864, to Isabel Mahaffie; they have two children--James A,, and Effie M.

JULIUS A. KEELER, house mover, builder, etc.; was born in Norwalk, Ohio, April 28, 1832, there he learned the trade of carpenter and followed that occupation for a livelihood. He came to Kansas, April 20, 1856, and located in Lawrence and was engaged in emigration interests and also worked some at his trade. In January, 1857, he removed to Linn County and engaged in agricultural pursuits. In May, 1861, he enlisted in the Second Kansas Infantry, and served six months, but was forced to retire on account of severe injuries received from being kicked by a horse. He was then engaged in recruiting and for a time in 1862 was in charge of Camp Instruction, near Leavenworth City. In the fall of 1862, he organized the first regiment of colored soldiers that was mustered into the United States service, and drilled them for three months, but was too lame to go into the service. On January 1, 1863, he came to Olathe and worked at his trade for a few months. In May of that year, he was commissioned by Governor Carney, First Lieutenant of the Sheriff of Johnson County's Posse. In the fall of the same year he was commissioned to organize the Johnson County Militia and was elected Colonel in which capacity he served until the organization was disbanded in the spring of 1865. Since the war, he has followed his present business, and has also for several years engaged in agricultural pursuits. Mr. Keeler has a field roller of his own invention which took a diploma at the Kansas Exhibition of 1872, and which he patented July 20, 1875. He is engaged in manufacturing the same, and does considerable business.

WILLIAM KELLY, farmer, was born in Ireland, June 17, 1826, and followed farming as an occupation. In 1851 he emigrated to Boone County, Ill., and for six years worked as a brick mason and plasterer, also farmed to some extent. He came to Kansas in the spring of 1859, and worked a rented farm in Johnson County for two years, and in 1861 moved on his present farm; he now owns 400 acres in this county and is quite extensively engaged in raising stock. During the late unpleasantness Mr. K. served in the State Militia. He was married in Canada, in 1855 to Annie J. Lundy. They have nine children--Mary A., Isabel, Alexander, William J., Sarah J., Kitty, Samuel J., Thomas H. and David C.

JAMES LAMASNEY, dealer in horses and mules, P. O. Olathe, was born in Ogdensburg, N. Y., in 1842. In April, 1860, he came to Kansas and located in Olathe, and assisted his father, John Lamasney on his farm for five years, after which he embarked in that business for himself, following it for about five years. In 1870 he engaged in livery business at the city of Olathe, carrying it on for about eight years, and then commenced his present business. He is a large dealer, and buys principally for the Kansas City markets. He moved to his present residence, known as "Elm Park", in December, 1881, on which he has a fine brick stable and a race-course, know as the Elm Park Track, which he uses for training his horses. In this place he has some eighty acres, and is, in connection with other business pursuits, engaged in farming. He was married in Leavenworth, Kan., in 1865, to Alice H. Hale. They have five children--Catherine Maria, James H., Lena L., Benjamine and Ivory Legate.

IVORY H. LEGATE, druggist, was born in Edinburg, Ind., August 21, 1855, and educated in the schools and college at Hanover and Indianapolis. He came to Olathe in the early part of 1876, and in company with J. R. Brown purchased the drug store of J. H. Blake. They carried on this business until some time in 1877, when they purchased a grocery, bakery and meat market; the entire business being carried on under the style of Brown, Legate & Tilford, until August, 1878, when Mr. Legate withdrew from the firm, taking the drug stock, fixtures, etc., as his interest, and has since carried on that branch of the business alone. He has a fine store, the stock and fixtures of which are worth $5,000; building, $6,000 or more. Mr. Legate is manager of the Hayes Opera House, and also of the Olathe Rifle Band.

ALVA LEWIS, stock farm, was born near Dayton, Ohio, in 1817, and a few years after emigrated to Clinton County, Ill., with his parents, where he was engaged in farming and dealing in stock until he came to Olathe in 1865. He has a fine stock farm on Cedar Creek, and is largely engaged in breeding cattle, hogs, etc. Mr. Lewis owns in this county over 500 acres of land, and is considered one of the leading farmers in this part of the country. He was married in Clinton County, Ill., in 1841, to Augusta Jane Stevens. She died in 1849, leaving two children--John W. and Augusta Jane. In 1851 he married Mahalia Rhoten. They have eight children--Eugene, Oliver, Frank, Walter, Annie, Fannie, Maud and Kate.

JOHN T. LITTLE, attorney at law, was born in Circleville, Ohio, in November, 1844, and was reared in Champaign County, in that State. He enlisted in May, 1864, in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio Infantry, serving three months. In September, 1865, he began to read law at Urbana, with Gen. John H. Young, remaining with him until admitted to the bar in March, 1868, at the Supreme Court of Ohio. He came to Olathe in August, 1868, and at once engaged in the practice of law, and in 1877, became associated with the Hon. John T. Burris, his present partner. He was elected City Attorney for Olathe in April, 1882. Mr. Little was married in Olathe in 1875, to Mary Bundy, a native of Iowa. They have two children - Chancy B. and John T., Jr. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Johnson County, Kan., at the November election, 1882.

HARVEY C. LIVERMORE, general manager of the Johnson County Co-operative Association, was born in Deansville, Oneida Co., N. Y., in 1850. Here he was reared to general mercantile business, and at the age of eighteen began business for himself, continuing it until he came to Kansas in 1871, locating in Douglas County. Was for one year engaged in farming, after which he moved to Lawrence, where he became associated with the Douglas County Co-operative Association as a salesman, remaining in that employ until July 1878, when he came to Olathe, and at once entered upon his present duties. Mr. Livermore was elected to represent the Second Ward in the City Council in the spring of 1882.

ALEXANDER H. LOTT, Clerk of Tenth Judicial District Court, was born in Seneca County, Ohio, September 27, 1846. Here he followed farming until he enlisted in the fall of 1863, in Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served for two years, principally under Generals Sigel, Crook and Sheridan, and participated in the famous battles of Winchester, Cedar Creek, Fisher's Hill and Opequan Crossing, and was at the capture of Petersburg and Richmond. At the capture of the former he received a shell wound, on the 31st of March, 1865, in the right arm, which necessitated amputation. After the war he attended Baldwin University and Republic Academy Ohio. In the spring of 1868, he came to Kansas, located in Monticello Township on a farm, and was for five years principally engaged in teaching school. He was elected Register of Deeds in 1873, and at that time moved to Olathe. Was elected to present office in 1876, again in 1878, and again in 1880. Mr. Lott was married in Olathe, in May, 1879, to Rose B. Thomas. They have one son--Frank B.

R. M. LOVELL, druggist, is a native of Marion County, Ill. He enlisted in August, 1862, in the One Hundred and Eleventh Illinois Infantry, and having assisted in raising Company H of that regiment, was appointed Second Lieutenant of the same, and promoted to First Lieutenant in the summer of 1864, serving until June 1865. He served principally in the Fifteenth Army Corps, and participated in the engagements of Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw, siege of Atlanta, and many others. He was with Sherman in all his movements after the fall of Atlanta, his regiment being one of those which stormed and took Fort McAllister, thus opening up communication with the outside world. He came to Kansas April 3, 1868, locating in Olathe, at which place he purchased an interest in the drug store of B. E. Martin, and in March, 1869, became sole proprietor of the same. Mr. Lovell has a nice stock, worth about $2,500, and is doing an increasing business.

HARRY McBRIDE, fruit grower, was born in Orange County, N. Y., in 1840, and reared in New York city, where he learned the drug business, and was employed in that business at South Bend, Ind., for four years. In 1860 he came to Kansas, locating in Macamish, Johnson County, and for several years was engaged in the mercantile business in the village of Lanesfield. In 1862 he was appointed United States Assessor, and held the office some three years. In 1864 he came to Olathe, and for a short time engaged in the mercantile business. About 1866 was appointed United States Internal Revenue Collector, and filled that position two or three years, after which he embarked in the speculation of Indian lands, and has been interested in the same since. He has resided at his present location since 1870; has some forty acres, all laid out in fruit trees, grapes, etc. Mr. McBride was elected to the State Legislature in 1864, and served one term. He was married at South Bend, Ind., in 1860, to Mary L. Brown. They have four children--Charles A., Eugene B., Fred and Carrie A.

J. F. McKAIG, farmer, was born at Carlisle, Ohio, April 24, 1833, and reared on a farm; also learned trade of brick-maker, and was for a year employed in that capacity in Danville, Ill., and two years in Logansport, Ind. He came to Olathe March 14, 1857, and located on his present farm, consisting of 160 acres. In September, 1862, he enlisted in the Tenth Kansas Infantry, serving until July, 1865. Mr. McK. now owns 360 acres of land, and is largely engaged in breeding blooded cattle and hogs, and has five acres of his place laid out in fruit trees. He is a charter member of the Lone Elm Grange. Mr. McKaig was married at Olathe, December 25, 1860, to Elizabeth F. Danki. They have eight children--Mary E., Sarah E., Robert H., Flora, John C., Cora G., Nellie R. and Arthur E.

JOSEPH McNULTY, farmer and stock raiser, P.O. Olathe, was born in the city of New York December 19, 1828, and reared in Columbiana County, Ohio. At twenty-one years of age removed to Butler County where he followed farming for some years, and for a year in La Fayette County, Mo. He came to Kansas April 24, 1860, and located on his present farm. He owns 160 acres in Olathe Township, all well improved. He is a large farmer and works considerable rented land. During the late "unpleasantness" he served in the State militia. Mr. McNulty was married in Butler County, Ohio, January 18, 1858, to Bridget Giblin. They have six living children, William H., Annie J., Mary E., Francis, Catherine and Harry.

S. E. MACKEY, dealer in lumber, etc., was born at Frankfort, Ohio, January 31, 1842, and reared in Chillicothe. Was for a number of years in the employ of the Miami & Cincinnati Railroad Company, and for three years engaged in mercantile business. In August, 1872, he came to Kansas, locating in Lawrence, and was for two years engaged in conducting a grocery business. In September, 1874, he came to Olathe, and was for several years in the employ of the St. L. L. & W. R. R. Co., as agent at this place, also at the same time engaged in dealing grain, coal, etc. In the latter part of 1875 he purchased his present business, which was but a small one at that time, but has increased until a stock of $7,000 or so is carried to supply the demands of his trade. He is the proprietor of the oldest lumber yard in Johnson County, and lately purchased the lumber yard, etc., of J. C. Rogers & Co., at Spring Hill, this county, where he also carries on a grain business.

WILLIAM MAHAFFIE, partner of the firm of Julien & Mahaffie, was born in Jasper County, Ind., in December, 1846, and came to Kansas with his father and resided on a farm with him until 1868, when he joined Col. Chapman's engineer corps on the Fort Scott & Gulf R. R. He ran the first line to the Indian Territory that was made for the Fort Scott road. In 1869 he settled on a claim in Labette County, Kas., and remained there until the spring of 1871. He joined Mr. Julien in the livery business in 1873. He was married in Olathe November 25, 1875, to Clara R. Cox, a native of Fayette County, Ohio. They have four children, Miles, Mamie, Nellie and Homer.

DAVID MARQUIS, farmer, P.O. Olathe, was born in Washington County, Pa., in 1828, and fourteen years later removed to Bellefontaine, Ohio, and for several years followed farm work, after which he farmed rented land for two years. Selling out he removed to Dayton and attended school maintaining himself by teaching vocal music. In 1850 he engaged in book business in the firm of Ells, Marquis & Co. This firm continued for some twelve years. In May, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Ninety-eighth Illinois Infantry, and was almost immediately elected Captain. Two years later was promoted to Major of the regiment, and a year later to Lieutenant Colonel. After the war he settled in Richland County, Ill. Was elected Treasurer of that county in 1866 and held the office two years. Afterwards was for a time engaged in mercantile, stock and grain business, under the style of Byers & Marquis. Mr. Marquis came to Kansas October 31, 1871, and located on his present farm, near the city of Olathe. He has 120 acres of well improved land and an orchard of over 1,000 trees. He is a member of Johnson County Pomona Grange and Olathe Grange No. 118. He was married in Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1859, to Agnes Byers. They have four children.

JOHN B. MARSHALL, insurance and real estate, was born in Porter County, Ind., July 23, 1843. He served about one year in the late war, first as Sergeant of Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-eight Indiana Infantry, afterwards as Second Lieutenant in Company B, One Hundred and Fifty-first Indiana Infantry. After the war he entered into the dry goods business at Valparaiso, Ind., remaining there until the spring of 1868, when he came to Olathe, and engaged in drug business, carrying it on until 1875, when he engaged in his present business; also makes a specialty of collections. In 1870 he received the Democratic nomination for State Senator, that party being largely in the minority, he was not elected. In 1871 he was elected a Commissioner of Johnson County, serving two years. Mr. Marshall was married in Valparaiso, Ind., in June 1869, to Mary Bartholomew. She died in November, 1871, and Mr. Marshall was married a second time, in Olathe, to Mrs. Laura Nelbert (widow). They have four children--Clara, Wade D., John B., Jr., and Maynard G.

MANUEL G. MILLER, dealer in groceries, etc., was born in Branch County, Mich., in 1843. Resided with his parents for some time in Boone County, Iowa, then again in Branch County, following farming. In August, 1864, he enlisted in Company G, Seventh Michigan Light Artillery, serving eleven months. He came to Kansas November 29, 1865, locating at Fort Leavenworth, employed by the United States Government in various capacities until March, 1866, when he went to Lawrence, Kan., and for some months was employed in the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad. In July, 1866, he was given charge of a Section, which position he held until March, 1869, when he came to Olathe. In the following month he opened in his business with a stock of $1,400, which has since been increased to $5,000. In August, 1877, he sold out, and joined C. M. Ott in milling business, but in the fall of that year again started in the grocery business, still retaining his interest in the mill. Mr. Ott is also his partner in the store. Mr. Miller was married in branch County, Michigan, in March, 1867, to Mary E. Phenicie. They have two children--Jessie and Louisa.

BRANSON MILLIKAN, farmer, was born in Monroe County, Ind., November 23, 1824. Emigrated with his parents to Parke County in 1829, and followed farming as an occupation. He came to Kansas in March, 1858; located in Olathe, moving on to his present farm in September, 1857. He is an extensive farmer, has 160 acres in this place and eighty acres in Miami County, and is also engaged in raising stock. Mr. M. served in the militia during the war. He was Treasurer of the School District for thirteen years, and is a charter member of the Lone Elm Grange, organized in 1873. Mr. Millikan is universally esteemed by his neighbors for his honorable dealings and strict integrity. He was married in Parke County, Ind., in 1847, to Harriet Shup. They have nine children--Isabella, Mary C., James B., Amanda, Hannah J., Sarah, Hattie, Allen and Maud.

JONATHAN MILLIKAN, farmer, was born in Monroe County, Ind., in January, 1827, and three years later removed with his parents to Parke County. In 1851 he made a trip to New Orleans on a flat boat, went twice to Iowa, taught school in Indiana, and in 1853, made two more trips to Iowa; not suiting himself, he went to Nebraska, and in May, 1857, he came to Olathe and took up a claim of 160 acres, and on this he still resides. In 1857 he built the first substantial dwelling house erected in the town of Olathe. He is largely engaged in farming; owns nearly 200 acres of land and also rents considerable. Mr. M. was the first Assessor elected in the Township. He was married in Olathe, November 25, 1858, to Emily L. Whittier, of New Hampshire. They have four children--Minnie E., Mardie B., Orion Whittier and Ella L. Mrs. Millikan was the first white lady to locate in Olathe. She is a cousin of Commodore Nutt and second cousin to the poet John G. Whittier.

M. A. MORROW, merchant and farmer, P.O. Bonita, was born in Allegheny County, Pa., in 1855. His parents removed to Mercer County, Ill., four years later. He came to Kansas in October, 1869, residing at Ocheltree; he attended school and also assisted his uncle in his store. He was for a year employed in the mercantile business at Olathe, and in November, 1879, purchased the stock and business of F. Gilbert at Bonita. In November, 1881, he admitted Thomas Stevenson as a partner, and the business is now conducted under the style of M. A. Monroe & Co. Mr. M. was appointed Postmaster at Bonita in November, 1879, and is the agent for the K. C., F. S. & G. R. R. and Adams Express Company. He owns eighty acres of land in partnership with his brother, J. N. Morrow; and is, in connection with his other business pursuits, engaged in farming.

J. W. NORVELL, of Mariner & Norvell, general merchants, was born in Shelby County, Ind., August 2, 1847, and was reared on a farm until he reached the age of nineteen years when he went to Independence, Mo., and was for five years employed as a salesman in the mercantile business with J. May & Son. He came to Kansas in 1872 and located at Olathe and at once established the business in company with E. J. Mariner, with a stock of about $7,000 worth of goods, which has since been increased to $20,000, to supply the demands of their increasing trade. Mr. Norvell was married in Independence, Mo., February 7, 1871, to Eva Mariner, a native of Tennessee. They have four children--Edna May, Mary B. P., Jessie I., and Grace Aileene.

FRANK R. OGG, attorney at law, was born in Lawrence County, Ind., September 15, 1845. He began business life in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, there remaining with him as an assistant about four years, and during that period also read the law with Putnam & Freidley; after which he attended the Indiana State University, graduating in the Law Department January 31, 1868. In February, 1869, he came to Olathe, Kas., and at once began to practice law in company with Gen. W. H. M. Fishback, remaining in partnership with him for a year, since then alone. He makes a specialty of trial cases. In the fall of 1870 he was elected County Attorney; re-elected in 1872; and from October, 1874, to February, 1879, also held the office of Postmaster of that place. He is local attorney for the A., T. & S. F. R. R. Co. Mr. Ogg was married at Bedford, Ind., November 14, 1869, to Mary E. Daggy. They have two children living--William F. and Josephine M.

CHRISTIAN M. OTT, proprietor of the Olathe Roller Flour Mills, was born in Germany, October 31, 1835; came to America in 1849, and resided in Alton, Ill., where he learned the trade of baker and confectioner serving an apprenticeship of four years. He then worked at his trade in New Orleans until the spring of 1857, when he came to Kansas, and was for a short time engaged in the bakery business in Independence, Mo. He then opened a bakery and grocery store in Olathe, conducting it for twelve years. In 1868 he built his present mills and has run them, except for three years, since. He has just added rollers, which are machinery for making new process flour. The engine has the capacity of fifty-horse power, and the mill consumes 500 bushels of wheat daily. In 1873 Mr. Ott also opened a furniture factory and store at Ottawa, Kas., in company with A. Gottschalk. His interest in this is managed by his son Henry. Mr. O. was married in Olathe, in September, 1860, to Justina Schieve. They have four children--Henry, Albert, Charles and Emma. 

 MARTIN V. B. PARKER, attorney at law, was born in Coles County, Ill., in November, 1840, and was reared on a farm. At the age of fourteen years he went to Jacksonville, Ill., and for six years off and on attended the Illinois College, graduating in 1864. In the early part of the war he enlisted and served sixteen months. After graduating at Jacksonville he attended the law school at Albany, N. Y., graduating in May, 1866, and shortly afterward opened a law and real estate business at Lee Summit, Mo. In the spring of 1868 he came to Olathe and engaged in the practice of law in company with John P. St. John. Eight years later they dissolved and Mr. Parker conducted his law and real estate business alone until quite recently when he became associated with A. J. Smith. Mr. Parker is largely interested in farming. He owns some 700 acres of land in this county, all under cultivation. He was married in Jacksonville, Ill., in the fall of 1866 to Emma Woodward. They have five children, May L., Effie E., Luella, Zulu and Zella.

JAMES W. PARMETAR, of Parmetar & Divelbiss, architects and builders, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1832. Here he learned the trade of carpenter and builder, serving as an apprentice some four years, after which he followed it as a journeyman for about five years, then in the same capacity in Bureau County, Ill., for seven years, and for some time in Niles, Mich., where he studied architecture, etc. He came to Olathe in March, 1858, pre-empted 160 acres in Oxford Township, this county, and resided on the same "off and on" for a short time. Since his arrival in this place he has devoted his time to his present business, and since the spring of 1862 has been in partnership with L. W. Divelbiss. In April, 1861, Mr. P. enlisted in the Second Kansas Infantry, and having assisted in raising Company C, was elected First Lieutenant of the same and served six months. He then assisted in organizing Company H, Twelfth Kansas Infantry, and was appointed Captain of it in August, 1862, by Gen. James Lane, and in that capacity served some three years, two years of which he was in charge of Fort Larned, Kas. Captain Parmetar was taken prisoner during Quantrell's raid, in Olathe, but shortly after paroled. The subject of our sketch was married in McCamish Township, Johnson County, October 13, 1859, to Ellen J. Gray, a native of Ohio. They have one son--Charles W.

WILBUR C. PAUL, editor of the Johnson County Democrat, a new Jeffersonian journal, which was introduced to the public in May, 1882. Mr. Paul was born in New Lisbon Ohio, June 3, 1853; then lived in Alliance from the time he was nine until he became thirteen years of age, there attending school and working in the printing offices during his vacation. When he was fourteen years of age his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and there he--from choice rather than necessity--carried routes and sold papers on the streets, always employing the spare moments in acquiring a knowledge of printing. In 1872 he came to Kansas, settling in Ottawa, from which place he has roamed about for four years of the ten that have elapsed since his sojourn there, finally finding his Mecca in Olathe, where he is endeavoring to exert an influence for good.

S. C. PETTEGREW, formerly of the firm of Hubbard & Pettegrew, dealer in lumber, coal and grain; was born in Dearborn County, Ind., September 30, 1849; came to Kansas in August, 1866, locating in Olathe. Engaged in the lumber business in company with his father, under the style of W. G. Pettegrew & Son, which firm lasted about two years. He then managed the lumber yard of Lotshaw, Quade & Co. for two years, and the yard of J. A. McCartney for three years. He became associated with David Hubbard October 23, 1874, and engaged in the business with him at that time with a stock of about $1,500, which they after- ward increased to about $4,000. August 1, 1882, Mr. Pettegrew bought out Mr. David Hubbard's interest in the firm, and now the style of the firm is S. C. Pettegrew. The firm has a capital of $6,000. In connection with the business Mr. Pettegrew also does a limited amount of building, etc. He is a member of the Olathe Lodge No. 59, I. O. O. F., and is at present treasurer of that body.

ISAAC O. PICKERING, attorney at law, was born in Freeport, Harrison Co., Ohio, February 18, 1842, and was reared in Fulton County, Ill. He came to Kansas June 1, 1859 and farmed for a short time in Johnson County, and then in Woodson County. During the winter of 1860-61 he taught school at Winterset, Iowa. In November, 1861, he enlisted in the Ninth Kansas Cavalry, Company F. In 1862 was promoted to Staff Sergeant, and in 1864 to First Lieutenant and although he held a regimental office was principally employed on the staff of Gen. Reynolds, serving in all four years. After the war he engaged in the mercantile business at Leavenworth, and at the same time carried on a livery business at Olathe, continuing both only a short time; he then engaged in the hotel business at Olathe in company with J. T. Weaver, following that until 1869, when he sold out and purchased 320 acres of land in Labette County and engaged in farming, losing in four years all he had accumulated heretofore. During 1867-68 and '69 Mr. P., in connection with his business pursuits also read law, and was admitted to the bar in Labette County at the District Court in February, 1872. In 1873 he returned to Olathe and was variously engaged until the session of the Legislature of 1875, when he was elected Assistant Chief Clerk of the House. At the expiration of his official term, he returned to Olathe and entered the law office of Gov. John P. St. John, with whom he is still associated. He is also engaged in farming, and is interested in mining enterprises in Colorado. He was elected attorney of the city of Olathe in the spring of 1878-79-80, and Mayor of the city in 1881 for a term of two years. Mr. Pickering is a member of the Executive Committee of the State Temperance Union.

J. R. F. PILCHER, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1832; was educated at Dennison University, Granville, Ohio. Taught school in Ohio and at New Madrid, Mo., nearly two years. Graduated at Cincinnati Law School in 1860. He served in the Confederate army. After the war, he taught in Indiana, and came to Kansas in 1868 and engaged in mercantile business in Olathe. He is at present engaged in lumber and real estate.

FRED E. PRATT, manager for the G. B. Shaw & Co. lumber yard. This yard is a branch of the Kansas City yard of G. B. Shaw & Co., and was established January 25, 1882. The firm has some twenty-five lumber yards in the State of Kansas. They carry a stock here of about $10,000. Mr. Pratt, who is manager of this yard, was born in Groton, Tompkins Co., N. Y., in 1855, and reared in Anoka County, Minn., where he learned the profession of land surveyor, and was employed at it for some time. He came to Kansas in 1875, and was for three years employed in the lumber business in Sterling, after which he returned to Anoka, and was for a few months employed in the State Bank at that place. He then returned to Kansas, and was employed by the Western Lumber Company in various parts of the State. He then went to Kansas City, Mo., and entered the employ of G. B. Shaw & Co., remaining there until appointed to the management of this yard in January 1882.

W. H. SMITH, of John Harris & Co., bankers, was born in Bloomington, Ind., May 13, 1841. At thirteen years of age he removed to Louisville, Ky., where he was employed in banking and mercantile business as bookkeeper for about seven years. Returning to Indiana, he enlisted in May, 1862, in Company A, Fifty-fourth Indiana Infantry, and was discharged in 1863, on account of ill health; after which he was employed as a bookkeeper at Louisville until 1869, when he entered the wholesale notion house of H. S. Buckner & Co., as a partner, remaining in that business two years. In 1871 he went to Clear Creek, Ind., and for two years was engaged in mercantile business under style of Martin & Smith; and again in Louisville as bookkeeper for three and one-half years. Returning again to Clear Creek, was variously engaged until he came to Kansas, in March, 1879, at which time he located in Newton, and was for six months employed as a bookkeeper in a grocery business. He then came to Olathe, entered the employ of John Harris, banker, as cashier, and in January, 1881, purchased a one-half interest in the concern. Mr. S. was married at Louisville, Ky., to Annie E. Mitchell, a native of that place. They have five children--Marian, Hunter, Emma, Blanche, and Mabel.

DAVID P. SNELLING, dealer in coal, etc., was born in the city of Columbus, Ohio in June, 1839, and in 1851 moved to Chippewa Falls, Wis, where he was employed in saw-mills as a sawyer, etc., for some years. In October, 1859, he enlisted in the Thirteenth United States Infantry, Company G, and served five years, and when mustered out he held the rank of First Sergeant. He participated in some eight or nine regular engagements, and was wounded at Black River, Miss., and at the battle of Chancellorsville. After the war Mr. Snelling gave his attention to farming in Jersey County, Ill. He came to Olathe, August 20, 1866, and for two years was engaged in selling merchandise through the country, after which he engaged in the coal business, being the first to open in that line in Olathe. In 1878 he established a telephone exchange at this place. In May, 1881, the same was merged into the Olathe Telephone Exchange, of which he is a stockholder, and is agent for the same. Mr. S. is interested in the sand trade at De Soto and Lawrence, Kan., from which he ships sand all through the State. He was married in Jersey County, Ill., in the fall of 1865, to Harriet H. Ford. They have five children--Austin, Herbert, Grace, Gertrude, and Dumont.

JAMES STEVENSON, farmer, was born in Nova Scotia, Ca., May 1, 1844. His parents removed to Allegany County, Md., seven years later, and thence to Gallatin County, where they remained three years, and removed to Perry County, Ill., where he learned the trade of blacksmith, and followed it as a journeyman there for some years. On April 20, 1861, he enlisted in Company G, Twelfth Kansas Infantry, serving three months, and re-enlisted August 16, 1862, in First Illinois Light Artillery, and served three years. His brother George also served in the same battery. Mr. Stevenson came to Kansas, June 23, 1867, and purchased eighty acres of land, on which he still resides. His brother George has also eighty acres, and the brothers farm together. Both farms are finely improved--with orchards, groves and hedges. They are extensive farmers, and also raise considerable stock. Both are members of the Lone Elm Grange, No. 152. Mr. Stevenson was married in Olathe, November 7, 1872, to Sarah J. Byers, who died August 14, 1873.

HON. ROBERT E. STEVENSON, Recorder of Johnson County, was born in Morgan County, Ill., in December, 1839. Was educated at Illinois College, Jacksonville, Ill., and graduated in medicine at Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1862. He enlisted April 15, 1861, in Company B, Tenth Illinois Infantry, and after his graduation at Rush College, was appointed Assistant-Surgeon, Seventy-third Illinois Infantry, serving until February, 1864. He then went to Jacksonville, Ill., and practiced; also carried on a drug business. Mr. Stevenson came to Kansas in 1867, and located in Olathe, and for about seven years followed farming and dealing in stock. His farm consisted of 160 acres adjoining the city, and eighty acres of it has since been turned into a town addition. In 1874 he engaged in grain business, following it for five years, after which he entered the employ of the United States Mail Service as route agent on the Santa Fe R. R. This he resigned to accept his present position, having been elected to the same in November, 1881. Mr. Stevenson was elected to represent the Olathe district in the State Legislature in 1868, and again in 1874. He was appointed chairman of the Indian Raid Commission in 1879, and a delegate to the Republican National Convention held in 1872 at Philadelphia. The subject of our sketch was married at Jacksonville, Ill., in April, 1864, to Celesta A. McCartney, a native of Belmont County, Ohio. They have four children--Charles McC., M. Kate, Jay and Margaret J.

ISAAC STUCK, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in London County, Va., September 29, 1829. Studied civil engineering and surveying in Washington, D. C., and in 1874 commenced as assistant on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, and continued on that work until its completion to Cumberland, Md., in 1851. In June of that year he accepted a position as assistant engineer on the North River Canal in Virginia. In 1852-53 was assistant engineer on the extension of the Morris & Essex Railroad, from Dover to Hackettstown in New Jersey, and in 1854 was assistant on the Iron Mountain Railroad in Missouri, and in April, 1855, came to Kansas, and from that time until 1861 was engaged surveying lands for the Government in Kansas and Nebraska. When not engaged in surveying he was examiner and draughtsman in the Surveyor General's office, and in February and March, 1856, while the office was at Wyandotte, he drew from the plats of actual surveys, the first sectional map of Kansas. In 1857, when the office was at Lecompton, he made a map of Douglas County, showing upon its face the names of settlers at that time upon each quarter section of land. This map was engraved at St. Louis, Mo. In 1861 commenced farming, and in 1862 was elected Captain of Company C, Thirteenth Regiment, Kansas State Militia, and served till the close of the war. In 1865, he sold his farm and went to New Mexico, where he again engaged in Government surveying. In 1868 returned to Johnson County, Kan., and located upon the farm where he now resides. Mr. S. was elected three of four times Surveyor of Johnson County, filling that office in all six or eight years. He is not only a thorough surveyor, but one of the finest draughtsmen in the State. Mr. S. was married in 1862, and lost his wife in 1876, and in 1880 married a second time, and now has a family of five boys and one girl.

CYRUS O. SYLVESTER, proprietor of the Olathe Foundry and Machine Shops, was born at Port Clinton, Ottawa Co., Ohio, April 24, 1835. In 1847 his father, William B. Sylvester, moved to Manhattan, Lucas County, Ohio; in 1849 moved to Attica, Fountain County, Ind. At eighteen years of age young Sylvester went to Milwaukee, Wis., where he served three years as an apprentice to the machinist trade, in the Reliance Works, with Decker & Seville. He was then made foreman of the machine shop under A. G. Waid, general manager. In 1861 he moved to Attica, Ind., and in 1862 enlisted in Company C, Eighty-sixth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers for three years. During his service he was wounded three times. Was at the battle of Murfreesboro, was all through the Atlanta Campaign; was promoted to First Lieutenant at Powers Ferry, Ga., July 16, 1864. After the Atlanta Campaign he was taken prisoner at Huntsville, Ala., January 18, 1864, and was taken to Galesburg, Ala., whence he escaped and made his way back, a distance of 150 miles on Lookout and Sand Mountains, to within about eight miles of Bridgeport, Ala. Here he was captured by a band of bushwhackers, and then he thought it was all up with him; but he had forged a parole, and this saved him. They detained him to find out whether the parole was genuine, and that night he escaped with a double-barreled shotgun. He was then on Sand Mountain--the mountain was covered with snow, and he had no shoes on his feet; by slow travel, however, he got down to the Tennessee River, where he found a slab on the bank. he tied the locks of his gun close under his arms, and crossed the river on the slab. His limbs were utterly benumbed with the cold water, but he had the gun, and now made his way back to the Union lines. In July, 1865, he was mustered out, and then went to Janesville, Wis. There he had charge of the round house of the C. & N. W. R. R. for two years. He then moved to Williamsport, Ind., and opened a foundry. Three years later he was burned out and removed to Attica, Ind., and there conducted a foundry until March, 1880, when he came to Olathe, Johnson Co., Kan., and established his present business. He does a large trade in repairing farm machinery and making farm rollers, and since March, 1882, has been running a saw mill in connection with his present business.

HENRY A. TAYLOR, Deputy County Treasurer, was born in Fairfield, Iowa, in November, 1847, and reared in Keokuk. Here for a time he studied law, but finally gave his attention to bookkeeping, etc., following it there until he came to Olathe, in May, 1870. Shortly after his arrival here, he was appointed Deputy Clerk of the County, and filled that position for three and a half years. In November, 1873, he was appointed Deputy Treasurer of the County, and served something over two years. In the fall of 1875, he was elected Treasurer of Johnson County for a two year term, and re-elected in 1877, without opposition. Mr. Taylor has occupied his present office since October, 1880. In January, 1881, he was also appointed Financial Agent for the County, and compromised and settled indebtedness for the same, which had been in litigation for some ten years, this employing the principal part of his time for over a year. The subject of our sketch was married in Olathe, in June, 1872, to Harriet H. Taylor, a native of Sycamore, Ill. They have one living daughter--Kate O., and one deceased--Mary.

G. ADAM THEIS, farmer, was born in Germany, January 8, 1830, and reared on a farm. In 1852, he emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was employed as a night-watchman in a hotel. He came to Kansas in 1857, located in Johnson County, and followed farming and stock-raising in Olathe Township. Mr. Thies's sic farm was located in Section 21, Township 13, Range 24, consisting of 160 acres, all well improved; this he traded about three years ago, for 240 acres of land in Anderson County, where he is interested in farming, etc., but still retains his residence in this county. He was married in Johnson County, Kan., in 1863, to Elizabeth N. Gammon. They have three children--William, Mary H. and George H.

S. G. THOMAS, farmer, was born in Fayette County, Ind., in 1833, and was reared on a farm. He learned the trade of carpenter, and was employed at it there and in Madison County some twelve years. In 1861, he turned his attention to farming, and followed it in that county some six years, after which for one year he resided in Rush County and a year in Jackson County, Mo. He came to Olathe in December, 1868, and located on his present farm, which consists of 160 acres, all well improved. He has a nice orchard and grove on his premises. Mr. Thomas married in 1861, in Madison County, Ind., to Susan M. Busby; she died two years later, leaving one daughter--Jessie. He was married a second time in Rush County, Ind., in December, 1866, to Margaret Ball. They have two children--Zoe O. and Olon C.

GEORGE L. THOMPSON, of Brown & Thompson, hardware merchant, was born in Kickapoo, Leavenworth Co., Kan., December 15, 1855. He began business life at the age of about fourteen years, entering the employ of the K. C. Ft. S & G. R. R. Co. He worked for a short time in the general offices at Atchison, then as baggageman for three years, afterward as station agent at various places in Kansas, remaining in that employ in all about eleven years. Was then employed in the offices of M. P. R. R. Co. at Atchison for a year in the capacity of clerk, assistant train master, and chief operator, after which he went to Colorado, where for two months he was employed in mercantile business, then for four months in Florida, engaged in railroading. Returning to Kansas in March, 1882, he settled in Olathe, and in April joined A. A. Brown in this business. Mr. Thompson was married in Olathe, in 1878, to Miss M. J. Dobbs. They have one infant daughter.

D. H. WALLICK, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Holmes County, Ohio, in 1832, and was reared on a farm. After reaching manhood, followed farming as an occupation. He enlisted August 9, 1862, in the One Hundred and Second Ohio Infantry, Company G, and served three years. He came to Kansas in April, 1869; was for two years engaged in farming in the neighborhood of Olathe City, and then moved on to his present farm, five and one-half miles south west of Olathe City, consisting of 160 acres, in March, 1871. His place is splendidly improved, and he has on it a fine orchard of three and one-half acres. He is a charter member of the Lone Elm Grange. Mr. W. was married in Holmes County, Ohio, in April, 1862, to Sarah Moore. They have three children--Elzora, Delbert L. and Franklin.

J. D. WALKER, farmer, was born in Tioga County, Penn., in 1826, and reared in Peoria County, Ill., where he followed farming for many years. In 1869, he came to Olathe, and located on his present farm, consisting of 160 acres, all improved by him in the past twelve years. He is also engaged in raising hogs of the Poland-China and Berkshire breeds. Mr. Walker is assisted in conducting his farm by his three sons--William, Percy and Ray.

GEORGE WHITE, farmer and dealer in stock, was born at Alden, Erie Co. N. Y., in 1828; removed to Princeton, Bureau Co., Ill.,., in 1844, and a year later engaged in the mercantile business as a clerk. In 1848, he went to St. Louis, Mo., and was employed in the same capacity for a year; then clerked on steamboats on the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. In 1830, he crossed the plains to California and followed mining for a short time, and for a few months was employed as a clerk in a hotel in Sacramento; returning home early in 1852, he engaged in the grocery business in Bureau County, remaining there some three years, after which he again took to boating on the Mississippi River for a short time. In August, 1855, he came to Kansas and followed mercantile business at Leavenworth. In January, 1857, he came to Olathe and located on his present farm, which consists of 165 acres. His place is well improved with fine buildings and an orchard. Mr. White is considered one of the largest raisers of hogs in the county. In September, 1862, he was appointed Under-Sheriff, and re-appointed in 1864, serving, in all, about forty months. Mr. White was married in St. Louis, Mo., October 16, 1855, to Laura V. Strode. They have nine living children--H. B., Minnie M., Eddie C., Charles, Schuyler C., Ida E., Laura, John and Hattie M.; one deceased--Frank S. who died May 30, 1882.

ALFRED WILEY, farmer and stock-raiser, P.O. Olathe, was born near Zanesville, Ohio, in 1837, and reared in Fulton County, Ill., where he began business life as a clerk in mercantile business, following that occupation for several years. He came to Kansas in 1859, locating in the city of Olathe, and was for some five years engaged in the provision business in company with his brother. His father came to this State in 1864, and the boys engaged in farming with him; and three years later the subject of this sketch took a farm on his own account. In 1875, he moved on to his present farm in the township of Olathe. Mr. Wiley is one of the progressive farmers of this county. He owns 400 acres of land, five acres of which he has laid out in a fine orchard; and is largely engaged in raising live stock, making a specialty of graded cattle and blooded hogs. He is a member of the Grand View Grange, No. 433; was elected master at its organization, and is the present incumbent of that office, having been elected yearly. In the fall of 1861, he enlisted--for three years--in Company C, Second Kansas Infantry. Mr. Wiley was married in Anderson County, Kansas, in 1866, to Sarah J. Bull. They have six children--Charles, Lina, Louisa, Eli, Viola and Edward.

W. F. WILEY, farmer, Section 15, P.O. Olathe, was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1815, and when very young his parents emigrated to Jefferson County, Ohio. He learned the carpenter trade with his father, and followed that occupation in Morgan County, Ohio, until 1840, when he moved to Vermont, Fulton County, Ill. There he was engaged in building, mercantile, grain and pork business. In 1856, he moved to Henry County, Iowa, and embarked in mercantile business at Salem. Two years later, he moved to Kansas City, Mo., and there he again followed contracting and building. He was forced to leave there on account of his Republican sentiments; and in June, 1861, he located at Olathe, Kan., where, in connection with others, he conducted a flour mill for about two years. He then gave his attention to agricultural pursuits, and in 1875, moved on to his present farm. He has 160 acres, all improved, and a very fine orchard. He was married in Morgan County, Ohio, in June, 1836, to Rebecca Todd. They have seven children. 

 JAMES D. ALLEN, Shawnee, was born in Greensburg, Ky., in 1812. He began business life when very young; was for ten years in the office of Clerk of that county and Circuit Court. In 1833 he moved to Sangamon County, Ill. and for ten years was engaged in mercantile business at Athens, then returned to Greensburg where he followed the same business until he came to Kansas in August, 1857, at which time he located at Shawnee and engaged in mercantile business, carrying it on for several years, since which time he has devoted himself to farming and gardening. He was appointed Justice of the Peace in November, 1857, and has been elected every second year since, with the exception of two years during the war, when he was driven off by guerrillas. He has for the past twenty years been Notary Public, and was a member of the first Constitutional Convention, held in March, 1858, at Minneola. Mr. Allen was married in Sangamon County, Ill., in 1835, to Adeline Constant; they have two children: Martha E. and Emily F.

THOMAS ARCHER, merchant, Shawnee, was born in England, March 24, 1825, and reared on a farm. Emigrated to America in 1854, and resided in Schenectady and Scotia, N. Y., where for two years he followed farming, then in Kane County, Ill., where he was employed in teaming. In March, 1859, he came to Kansas and located in Shawnee and engaged in farming. In 1861 he returned east, residing for a short time in Kane County, Ill., then in Porter County, Ind., for two and a half years employed teaming in the lumber business. In April 1864, he returned to Shawnee and engaged in general merchandise business, and is now the oldest merchant residing in this place. He also owns 160 aces of land which he farms. Mr. Archer was married in Kane County, Ill., July 9, 1858, to Elizabeth Earnshaw. They have four children: Lydia A., Sarah, George W. and Thomas H.

HON. G. M. BOWER was born in Mesopotamia, Trumball Co., Ohio, August 17, 1831. He is a graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, N. Y. In 1854 he emigrated to Kendall County, Ill., and began the practice of his profession in 1856. In 1866 he came to Kansas City and located in Shawnee, Kansas, in 1867, and in Lenexa in 1869. He engaged in the drug business at that time in connection with the practice of medicine, and soon after purchased the town site. Was elected to the State Senate in 1871. In 1876 his health failing he sold out his business; traveled in Ohio and subsequently in Colorado. In 1878 located with his family at Larned, Kansas, and carried on general merchandise at Livingston, also practicing medicine. Returning to Lenexa in June, 1880, he again engaged in business, dealing in general merchandise, grain and agricultural implements, also largely in sheep husbandry. The doctor was married in Plattville, Ill., January 5, 1865, to Miss E. B. Brickley. They have three children living: Kittie May, Willis B. and Mary E.

HON. LEWIS W. BREYFOGLE, farmer, P. O. Lenexa, and dealer in live stock, was born in Delaware, Ohio, September 17, 1836. He learned the trade of carpenter and joiner and followed that vocation for a livelihood. In 1862 he turned his attention to farming, following it for a year in Morrow County, then in Delaware. In 1865 he engaged in the grain business. The subject of this sketch came to Johnson County, Kansas, in 1866; for a year he was employed in freighting across the plains to New Mexico for the United States government and in 1867 settled on his present farm. He owns about 600 acres, all improved, and is largely engaged in breeding Short-horn cattle and blooded hogs and dealing in live stock. He has fifteen acres of orchard on his place and his farm is considered one of the finest in the county. He was elected in 1879 to the State Legislature and in 1881 to the State Senate. Mr. Breyfogle was married in Morrow County, Ohio, March 25, 1860, to Lizzie M. Shaw, who died August 19, 1865, leaving two children: Frank L. and Jessie F. He was married again in Shawnee, November 20, 1867, to Laura A. Pennock. They have four children: Lizzie E., Grace, Warren and Charles C.

HON. D. G. CAMPBELL, farmer and fruit grower, P. O. Merriam, was born February 13, 1821, in Williamson County, Tenn. His parents moved to West Tennessee, near Paris, Henry County, when he was quite young, where he lived until 1849, when he emigrated to Ouachita County, Ark., near Camden. In 1856 he came to Kansas, but on account of the political troubles prevailing at that time he turned his course and settled in Andrew County, Mo. In 1859 he came to Kansas, locating in Wyandotte County. He came to this, Johnson County, in the spring of 1860 and located in Shawnee Township. In 1865 he moved on to his present farm, which now adjoins the town site of Campbellton. He has turned his attention principally to fruit growing and has one of the best orchards of fine fruit in the county. His original farm consisted of eighty acres; eight acres of this he laid out in lots in the town of Campbellton. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1862, 1863, 1864 and 1867, on the Democratic ticket, and in 1874 and 1875 as an Independent. In 1875 he joined the National Greenback party and supported Peter Cooper for President. Mr. Campbell was married in 1847 in Tennessee to Miss A. V. Cooley. They have five children, Hannibal, Alice, James, Edward and Frederick.

CALVIN A. CORNATZER. farmer, P. O. Lenexa, was born in North Carolina in 1827. In 1850 he came to Indian Territory, and engaged as a laborer on the Methodist mission farm, then at the Quaker mission, and contrary to the customs of the times, he in 1855 married Miss Emily Smith, a Quaker, and in 1857 located on his present farm, which consists of eighty acres. He confines himself principally to grain farming and gardening. In 1856 he was arrested by the Sheriff of this county, Isaac Parish, and confined in Lecompton jail for one day, for aiding and abetting the Free-state cause. He early espoused the cause and was known to have voted for Jim Lane. He is a man of strict integrity, a close observer of nature's works, has an excellent memory, remarkable faculty for telling a story well, and is surrounded by a pleasant family of six children, viz.: Alice, George, Minnie, Hattie, William and Juliette.

PERRY G. CROSS, farmer, P. O. Merriam, is a son of Washington Cross who was born in Virginia in 1809, and who came to Kansas in the fall of 1857 and located near the Shawnee Mission. He died in September, 1867, leaving a family of seven children. Benjamin F., James, Perry G., George W., and three daughters, Harriet, Sarah C., and Angemima. The brothers farm and own 540 acres of land in joint partnership. Perry G., the subject of this sketch, farms near the Shawnee Mission. He was born in Virginia, in 1841, and came to this State with his father. He is also extensively engaged in dealing in stock and breeding blooded cattle. During the war he served three years as Lieutenant of Company D, Thirteenth Kansas Militia. Mr. Cross was married in Jackson County, Mo., in 1867, to Hettie McMinn. They have five children, James, Ada, Musette, Ernest and Stella.

JOHN DYCHE, farmer, P. O. Hector, was born in East Tennessee, December 4, 1825, and reared on a farm. At the age of twenty-three years emigrated to Webster County, Mo., where he carried on farming and stock raising. In 1854 he came to Kansas, staked out his present farm in Shawnee Township, and returned to Missouri. Three years later he built a small house on the place and in 1861 moved his family here. He owns 120 acres, all improved, and has a nice orchard. He is engaged in grain and stock farming. During the war he served in the State Militia. Mr. Dyche has since 1876 also had charge of Hector postoffice. He was married in Clay County, Mo., January 10, 1861, to Louana Chaney, a native of that county.

BENJAMIN EARNSHAW, farmer and stock-raiser, Shawnee, was born in England, Feb. 25, 1836. Here he learned the trade of machinist, serving as an apprentice some six years. He immigrated to America in 1854, and was for several years employed as a machinist in Batavia, Kane Co., Ill. In February 1857, he came to Kansas, and purchased from the Shawnee Indians 160 acres of land, in Shawnee Township, Johnson County, since which time he has been engaged in farming and raising stock. He owns 212 acres of land, all under cultivation. Mr. Earnshaw was for six years School Director of this District. He was married at Batavia, November 7, 1856, to Bridget Cochran. They have six children--Joseph, James, Benjamin, Jr., George, Effie and Alice.

JOHN EARNSHAW, proprietor Fountain Head Mills, Lenexa, was born in England, November 10, 1830. Immigrated to America in 1854, and resided in Kane County, Ill., where he was employed in various mills in that locality. He came to Kansas in the spring of 1858, and located in the town of Shawnee. Was employed for a short time in digging wells and excavating for building purposes, after which he gave his attention to farming exclusively for some sixteen years or more. In 1878 he built his mill and opened the same in March, 1879. The mill has a capacity of twenty barrels per day, and Mr. E. is doing a large business, being very popular with the farming community. Mr. E. is still engaged in farming; he owns eighty acres, all well improved. He was married in Kane County, Ill., January 3, 1858, to Jane Miller, a native of England. They have five children--Nathaniel, Julia, Rose B., John and Harriet.

J. C. FERGUSON, farmer, P. O. Shawnee, was born in County Derry, Ireland, August 31, 1828. Immigrated to America at the age of sixteen years, located in Emmetsburg, Md., and learned the trade of saddler, then resided for a short time at Charlestown, Va. In 1846 he enlisted in Company B, Sixth United States Infantry, and served through the Mexican war. In the spring of 1849 his regiment was quartered at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He served, in all, five years, one year of which was in Company B, First United States Light Dragoons. In 1851 he entered the employ of the United States Government as scout and guide. In 1859 he located in Shawnee Township, and has since given his attention to farming, moving on to his present farm in 1863. He has 200 acres, 120 of which are under cultivation. For some years he was engaged in breeding stock, but of late years has confined himself principally to grain farming. Mr. F. had no means on his arrival here, and has by industry and economy accumulated a fine property. He is a charter member of Greenwood Grange, No. 1,087, and has been master for the past four years. He was married in Shawnee in October, 1859, to Harriet Cross. They have four children.

HENRY W. G. FINCH, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Shawnee, was born in Virginia, in 1809, and reared on a farm. In 1829 he removed to Tennessee, and two years later to Charlton County, Mo., where he farmed for a year, then went to Lafayette County. He came to Kansas in March, 1859, located in Shawnee Township, and has since given his attention to farming. In March, 1861, he moved on to his present farm. Mr. Finch owns 160 acres of land, all well improved; has a fine orchard of about six acres, and is also engaged in breeding Short-horn cattle. He was for four years Director of the School Board. Mr. Fitch sic was married in La Fayette County, Mo., in 1843, to Harriet Bratton, who died in 1859, leaving four children--David, Robert, William and Miriam. He was married a second time in Johnson County, in December, 1861, to Octavia A. Porter, of Kentucky. They have two children--Mary Ida and James Griffin.

JOHN R. FOSTER, farmer, P. O. Merriam, was born in La Porte County, Ind., in December, 1840. His parents moved to St. Joseph County, and he was reared on a farm. He studied law at Ann Arbor University, Michigan, graduating in March, 1866, after which he practiced law at South Bend, Ind., for thirteen years. In April, 1880, he came to Shawnee, Johnson Co., Kan., and located on this farm, having purchased the same form Henry Coppock, who settled in an early day. Mr. Foster has one of the finest improved farms in the county; it consists of 276 acres, which are in a high state of cultivation; his magnificent residence adjoins that of his father-in-law, Mr. George Milburn.

B. F. HOLLENBACK, merchant, Shawnee, was born in Kendall County, Ill., in 1836; his father was a merchant, and he resided with him there until twenty years of age, when he accompanied him to Case County, Mo., and assisted him in farming and raising stock. The subject of our sketch came to Kansas in August, 1861, located in Olathe Township, Johnson County, and was for a year engaged in farming. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Twelfth Kansas Infantry, serving until July, 1865; after the war he settled in Shawnee and engaged in the mercantile business in company with Thomas Archer; a year later they dissolved and Mr. Hollenback engaged in this business alone; he is also engaged in farming, owning in all some 680 acres of land. In 1866, he was appointed Postmaster at this place, and still holds that office, and was a Commissioner of Johnson County, for two years, and Treasurer of the Township for several years. Mr. H. was married in Kendall County, Ill., in 1854, to Catherine E. Brown. They have seven children--Frank P., Nannie E., Phoebe B., Charles R., William P., Benjamin T. and Stella M.

JOSEPH D. JESSUP, farmer and fruit grower, P. O. Rosedale, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, August 5, 1838, and reared on a farm in Hamilton County. In March, 1867, he came to Kansas and located on his present farm, which consists of eighty acres, all in a high state of cultivation; his land is a portion of the old Baptist Mission. Mr. Jessup is quite extensively engaged in the cultivation of fruit. He has a fine orchard of some ten acres, two acres of raspberries and an acre of grapes; he is also engaged in raising cattle of the Devonshire breed. Mr. J. was married in Johnson County, November 2, 1876, to Asenath E. Johnson; they have one son--Ralph W.

GEORGE KNAUBER, shoemaker, Shawnee, was born in Germany, July 10, 1828; here he learned the trade of shoemaker, serving as an apprentice about five years, and also served eight months as a soldier in the Bavarian army. He immigrated to America in 1851, and was employed at his trade in New Orleans, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Westport, Mo., for some seven years. He came to Shawnee, Kan., in April, 1858, and engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes; on June the 6th, 1862, he was burned out by the guerrillas, and went to Wyandotte, where he remained for a short time, and from thence to Kansas City. Returning to Shawnee in 1864, he again resumed business. Mr. K. is also engaged in farming. He owns eighty acres of land, forty of which he cultivates. He has for the past three years been Clerk of the Township. He was married in St. Louis, Mo., in 1855, to Margaret Schwartz; they have five children--Adam, George, Robert, Mary and Theodore.

THOMAS A LEWIS, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Red Clover, was born in Warren County, Ky., April 15, 1824, and for many years followed farming and stock raising in that locality. He came to Kansas, October 17, 1858, and located on his farm in Shawnee Township. He owns eighty acres, all well improved, and has quite a nice orchard of various kinds of fruits. He is also engaged in raising stock, principally cattle of the Durham breed. During the war he served in the Kansas State Militia. He was married in Butler County, Ky., about 1854, to Elizabeth Porter, a native of that place. They have three living children: William T., Annie M. and Margaret, and one deceased, Carrie.

GEORGE MILBURN, farmer, P. O. Merriam, was born in England in 1820, and immigrated to America in 1834. He began business life at Mishawaka, Ind., and for fourteen years followed mercantile business at that place. In 1857 he began the manufacture of wagons, being a member of the firm George Milburn & Co. In 1869 the business was organized into a joint stock company, styled the Milburn Wagon Co., of which he was president until he resigned in February, 1880. Mr. Milburn was for many years President of the Wagon Maker's Association of the United States, and also for some time President of the South Bend Iron Works. During his residence at Mishawaka was also engaged in several milling enterprises. He came to Kansas in April, 1880, and located in Shawnee Township, Johnson County. He is a very large land owner, having 645 acres of well-improved land in this county, and 5,440 acres in Bourbon and Crawford counties. The latter property has on it forty miles of fencing and is used for stock raising purposes.

OLIVER W. MILLER, merchant, was born at Batavia, Kane County, Ill., March 20, 1855, and came with his parents to Kansas in the spring of 1858. He was reared on a farm in Shawnee Township. In September, 1874, went to Greene County, Iowa, where he farmed and attended and taught school. In May, 1878, he returned to Kansas and assisted in building Fountain Head Mills, and in August, 1879, engaged in general merchandise business at this place. He carries a nice stock of about $2,500. Mr. Miller is also postmaster at this place, having been appointed in November, 1879. He was married at Lenexa, January 7, 1880, to Mary O. Brown, a native of Kansas. They have one son, Clyde W.

JOHN NALL, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Red Clover, was born in North Carolina in 1832. Emigrated with parents, six years later, to Tennessee and five years after to Texas County, Mo., where he was reared on a farm. In the spring of 1866 he came to Kansas and for some two years farmed in Bourbon County. In the spring of 1869 he came to Johnson County and located on his present farm. He owns 240 acres all well improved but forty acres which is timber land. On his place there is a fine orchard of about seven acres. He is quite an extensive breeder of Short-horn cattle, mules, horses and hogs, and is also engaged in bee culture. During the war he served for three years in the Thirteenth Kansas State Militia. He is a member of Corinth Grange. Mr. Nall was married in Bates County, Mo. in 1857, to Nancy J. Sells, who died in 1870, leaving three children: Tilman Howard, Benjamin Franklin and Tabitha Josephine. He was married again in Johnson County in January, 1872, to Susan Emma Mooney, of Virginia. They have five children: Robert Lee, Minnie L., Margaret C., Susan Asenatha and Mathew Emery.

JAMES D. TENISON, farmer, P. O. Hector, was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., in 1823, emigrating with his parents when quite young to Shelby County, Ills., where he farmed and taught school. In 1847 he removed to Dane County, Wis., where he followed farming, mining and teaching school. He came to Johnson County, Kan., in 1855, and located on his present farm in Shawnee in 1857. He owns 130 acres of land all well improved; has a fine stone residence on his place and a good orchard. During the war he served in the militia and for several years was Justice of the Peace. Mr. Tenison was married in Fayette County, Ills., in 1846, to Lucy Wilder. They have ten children--William H., Levi L., George A., Elizabeth A., Mary J., Sarah J., Lathe E., Charles A., Howard E. and Clarence E.

JOHN WIEDENMAN, farmer, P. O. Westport, Mo., was born in Germany in 1830: here he learned the carpenter trade and followed it for a livelihood. In 1854 he emigrated to America, came West and in 1855 located in Shawnee, Johnson County, Kan., where he followed his trade for two years. He then went to Pike's Peak, Col., and a year later to Iowa, then to Westport, Mo., where he remained until 1866 when he removed to his present farm. He owns 160 acres all well improved; has an orchard of some four acres, and one acre of vineyard. In 1879 he built a beautiful residence on his place at a cost of some $15,000. Mr. W. was married in Westport, Mo., in 1859, to Kate Bart--she died in 1860; and he was married again in 1861 to Margaret Bart, who died in April, 1879, leaving three children--Mary, Christian and John. Mr. W. was married again in Johnson County in August 1879, to Charlotte Didloffson. They have one daughter--Julia.

REV. FATHER ALBERT M. WEIKMANN, pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Shawnee Kan., was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, February 10, 1850. He studied for six years at the College of Gmuend, Wurtemberg, Germany. In 1867 he emigrated to America, continued his studies at St. Francis Seminary, Milwaukee, Wis., and was ordained a priest by Bishop Fink at Leavenworth, Kan., August 27, 1872, and in December of that year was sent to Frankfort, Marshall Co., Kan., where for two years he had charge of St. Joseph's Church and other missions; then in 1874 in charge of St. John's Church at Hanover, Washington County. He came to Shawnee in July, 1876, and entered upon his present duties.

PETER WERTZ, grocer, Shawnee, was born in Prussia in 1834 and reared on a farm. He emigrated to America in 1855 and was some three years employed as a farm hand near Milwaukee, Wis. In April, 1858 he came to Shawnee and made his home here, but worked in Westport, Mo., in a grist mill for nearly two years; was then in Colorado, engaged in mining for two years. He enlisted October 28, 1861, in the First Colorado Cavalry, Company I, and was shortly afterward promoted to Commissary Sergeant, serving in all three years. After the war he returned to Shawnee and has followed farming since. In 1870 he also engaged in the mercantile business. Mr. Wertz held the office of Clerk of the Township for two years, and was elected Treasurer of the same in the spring of 1882. He was married in Kansas City in 1867 to Theresa Waller, who was born in Wurtemberg in 1843 and emigrated to America in 1847 with her parents and located in Weston, Mo., and in 1858 they moved to Wyandotte, Kan. They have eight children--John, Peter, Sebastian Theodore, Mary, Rose, Henry, Joseph and Gertrude. 

 E. H. AINSWORTH, farmer and fruit grower, P. O. Ocheltree, was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, August 1, 1832, and was reared in Miami County. At thirteen years of age he turned his attention to house painting, following it for six years in Shelby County, and during two years of that period also studied dentistry, after which he practiced that profession for eleven years. He came to Kansas in October, 1862, but remained only a short time, returning to his home in Ohio. In 1866 he came again to Kansas. For a year he farmed in Wyandotte County, then moved to Johnson County and located on his present farm. He has 160 acres of land all well improved, twenty-five of which are laid out in a fine orchard. Mr. Ainsworth is also engaged in breeding grade cattle and Poland-China hogs. He was married in Warren County, Ohio, March 16, 1858, to Jane G. Anderson. They have three children, James B., D. Ewing and Charles. Mr. A. is a charter member of the Ocheltree Grange, and was for five years master of the same.

W. G. ANDERSON, breeder of Short-Horn cattle, P. O. Ocheltree, was born in Warren County, Ohio, in May, 1839, and reared on a farm there, and after reaching the age of manhood carried on a stock farm until he sold out and came to Kansas in August, 1868, at which time he located on his present farm. He owns 240 acres all well improved for stock farming. He has for the past seven years given special attention to the breeding of Short-horn cattle. His stock is principally from the famous bull Oakland Favorite, which he used in his herd for several years; has now the noted bull "Constance Henry Second," bred by Ware & Berry, of Kentucky. Mr. A. has none but fine stock on his farm, imported from Ohio and Kentucky. He is also largely engaged in breeding Mambrino blooded horses and Poland-China hogs. He has one of the finest stock farms of this nature in the county, and several of his cattle have taken premiums at the fairs of Paola, Kas., and Kansas City, Mo.

JOHN M. CADDY, hardware merchant, was born in Waltham, Mass., in 1850, removing when very young to Greene County, Ohio; he learned the trade of tinner there, serving as an apprentice some four years; he came to Kansas in 1871, locating in Spring Hill. Was for a year employed as a clerk in the hardware business, after which he purchased the stock, etc., and conducted the business until the spring of 1873, when he sold out and moved to Boston, Mass., where for a year he worked at his trade. He then removed to Greene County, Ohio, and worked at it there until 1877, when he returned to Spring Hill and engaged in this business. He has a nice business and carries a stock of $3,500. He was a member of the city council in 1879, and also during that period filled the office of City Clerk. He was elected Mayor of Spring Hill in the spring of 1881 and re-elected in 1882. Was married in 1872, at Spring Hill, to Rebecca Berkshire; they have one son, Edward A.

L. CHAMBERLIN, proprietor of the Spring Hill Mills, was born in Warren County, Ohio in 1845 and reared on a farm, and followed farming as an occupation. He enlisted in 1864 in the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Ohio Infantry and served a few months, after which he again returned to his farm. He came to Spring Hill, Kansas, in the spring of 1869, and has been engaged in farming ever since. He has some 200 acres of land, all under cultivation; he is also engaged in grain and live stock business since 1872, and in April, 1882, he purchased the Standard Mills at this place and now conducts them as the Spring Hill Mills and elevator. They are run by steam and have a capacity of 100 barrels of flour per day. Mr. C. was married in Spring Hill, January, 1872, to Fannie Coons, daughter of Dr. I. A. Coons, of this place. They have two children, Gale and June.

ISRAEL A. COONS, M. D. Spring Hill, was born July 10, 1827, in Fairfield County, Ohio. He studied medicine at the Ohio Medical College and the Starling Medical College, graduating at the latter in 1852. He practiced medicine at Dayton, Ohio, and vicinity, until the spring of 1861, when he entered the army as surgeon of the Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the three months' service. On his return, he was commissioned surgeon of the Thirty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served, in all, about two and one-half years - a large part of the time as Brigade Surgeon, and for a short time Medical Director of a division. He had charge of a hospital on the battlefield of Stone River. The doctor was formerly a member of the State Medical Society of Ohio, and one of its Vice Presidents in 1854. In 1869, he removed from Middletown, Ohio - where he had been practicing after returning from the army - Spring Hill, Kansas, where he has been engaged in active practice. He is a member of the American Medical Association, of the Kansas State Medical Society and the Miami County Medical Society, of which he has been President for two years.

JOHN M. DAVIS, M. D., Spring Hill, was born in Warren County, Mo., June 15, 1831, and was reared on a farm. He began the study of medicine in September, 1852, with Dr. Worthington, of Danville, Mo., remaining with him some two years, after which he attended the Missouri University at St. Louis, graduating there in the spring of 1856. The doctor practiced in Highland County, Mo. He went to St. Louis and attended the St. Louis Medical College, graduating from the same in March, 1865, after which he practiced in Franklin County, Mo., and in 1876, entered the employ of the M. P. R. R. Co., as surgeon in the company's hospital. He came to Kansas in May, 1879; located at Louisburg, Miami County; and in the spring of 1882, he removed to Spring Hill.

DOCTRESS C. A. DAYTON is a daughter of Samuel Herbert, of Herkimer County, N. Y., where she was born. She began the study of medicine with Dr. John E. Todd, of Baldwinsville, N. Y.; also took a partial course at Casseltow University, Rutland, Vt., being unable to complete the same on account of the antipathy towards her sex in the study of medicine. She began the practice of medicine in 1849 at Baldwinsville, Onondaga Co., N. Y.; from there went to Butler, Branch Co., Mich., and practiced there nearly five years; thence to Casselton, Rutland Co., Vt., then to St. Albans, and in January, 1859, she came to Spring Hill, Kan., and has had considerable success in the practice of medicine at this place. In 1831, she was married to Amon A. Dayton, now deceased, and had one son - Dr. Hiram E. Dayton, who was killed at Blue Springs, Mo., while acting as a scout for Capt. Oliver's command, January 27, 1862, by Quantrill's men.

JOHN S. GASAWAY, Postmaster and bookseller, Spring Hill, etc., was born in Jefferson County, Ind., January 15, 1838, and reared on a farm. He enlisted August 22, 1861 in Company E, Third Indiana Cavalry, and when mustered out three years later, he held the rank of Commissary Sergeant; after this he returned to Jefferson County and taught school for some years. In 1871 he came to Kansas and located in Spring Hill; opened a photograph gallery and conducted it for six years. He was appointed Postmaster and entered upon the duties of his office March 8, 1877, and at that time opened business with a stock of stationery, books, etc. He was elected a member of the City Council in the spring of 1880 for a term, and is at present Director of the School Board. Mr. Gasaway was married in Spring Hill July 16, 1873, to Wilda Smith. They have one son - Carl W., born in Spring Hill.

J. A. HIBBARD, farmer, P. O. Spring Hill, was born in Orleans County, N. Y., in 1818; here he learned the trade of carpenter and followed it as an occupation. In 1840 he removed to Fulton County, Ill., and remained for some years engaged at his trade, then removed to McDonough County, where he followed farming. Mr. Hibbard came to Kansas in 1865 and located on his present farm. He owns 160 acres of land all of which he has improved, and five acres of which he has laid out in a fine orchard. He is also engaged to some extent in raising stock. He was married in 1846 at Milwaukee, Wis., to Jeanette Webster; she died in 1847, leaving one son - Hiram H. Mr. Hibbard married a second time in Fulton County, Ill., in 1849, to Elizabeth Randall, who died in 1875, leaving seven children - Edmund H., Lawrence A., Bruce L., Priam H., William R., George A. and J. Morris. Mr. H. is a charter member of the Morning Grange, No. 227, and was master of the same for two terms. Was County Commissioner of Johnson County, Kan., two terms.

S. R. HOGUE, hardware merchant, was born in Monmouth, Ill., in 1837, and reared on a farm. He came to Kansas in 1858, locating in Miami County, Kan., where he pre-empted 160 acres of land and engaged in farming. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company I, Twelfth Kansas Infantry. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Saline river in Arkansas, on April 30, 1864; was held a prisoner at Princeton, Ark., for forty-four days, when he made his escape, and after two nights and one day's travel, reached Little Rock, Ark. He served three years, and when mustered out held the rank of Sergeant. After the war he returned to his farm in Miami County, where he remained until 1875. In 1875 he took a trip to California - spending one year to recruit his health; then returned to his farm, where he remained until 1878, when he removed to Spring Hill and took the management of the Spring Hill Co-operative Association, in which position he remained about three and one-half years. In May, 1882, he purchased the hardware stock and business of A. F. Wiley & Co., at this place, and now devotes his time to the management of the same. Mr. Hogue was married at Westport, Mo., in November, 1860, to Emily Hogan. They have one daughter - Edith May, now Mrs. Sibley.

JESSE H. JACKSON, merchant and Postmaster, Ocheltree, was born in 1817, in St. Clair County, Ill. He was married to Amelia Taylor, daughter of Rev. Stephen L. Taylor, in 1841, and emigrated to Jackson County, Iowa, in 1847; remained there till 1858. He was the means of having the Otter Creek postoffice established, and was Postmaster for about five years, most of the time holding the office of Justice of the Peace. In 1858 he came to Johnson County, near Spring Hill, and located on his present farm, which consists of eighty-five acres, situated on Section 11, Township 15, Range 23. This place he has well improved with hedges, groves and orchard. He was appointed Postmaster at Spring Hill in 1861 or 1862 and held the office for some two or three years. Was elected County Clerk in 1863 and moved to Olathe. At the expiration of his term as County Clerk received the appointment of Postmaster at that place which office he filled for two years. He then moved back to his farm near Spring Hill, and in 1875 or 1876 received the appointment of Postmaster at Ocheltree, which office he still holds. He has filled the office of Justice of the Peace for six years in Spring Hill Township; has also been Notary Public. Mr. Jackson is now sixty-five years of age, enjoys reasonable health, and is still able to attend to his regular routine of business. He has four children living, the oldest upwards of forty years old. His wife is two years younger than himself, and enjoys good health.

URIAH F. LUELLEN (deceased), was born in Washington County, Penn., in October, 1815, and two years later his parents emigrated to Ohio. On October 10, 1837, he was married to Miss Nancy Waddle, a native of Virginia. They have raised a family of five children; Margaret, Sarah J., John, Mary and Nellie. Mr. Luellen came to Kansas in 1869 and located on a farm adjoining the city of Spring Hill in 1870, and followed farming and the breeding of draft horses of the Norman stock. In 1873 he was awarded a premium for the best yearling colt at the Kansas city exposition. Mr. Luellen died here, November 25, 1877, much regretted by his many friends and acquaintances. His widow still resides on the farm with her daughter Nellie, who is married to Mr. Andrews.

JAMES V. McCABE, farmer, P. O. Bonita, was born in Perry County, Ohio, 1839, and followed farming as an occupation. He came to Kansas in 1867, locating in Anderson County. He rented some land and farmed for a short time; in the following spring he came to Johnson County and purchased 160 acres in the township of Olathe. About five years ago he purchased another 160 acres in Spring Hill Township, and moved onto the same in the fall of 1881. He now owns 320 acres of land, all well improved, and is quite an extensive farmer. His residence farm is very beautiful; on this farm he lately erected a fine house which is worth some $3,000, and the place is tastefully laid out with orchards, groves, and hedges; all this is the result of his industry and thrift. Mr. McCabe was married in Perry County, Ohio in 1862 to Margaret Minough. They have eight children: Mary, Rose, Edward, John, Phillip, Raphael, Joseph and Alice.

HIRAM MITCHELL, dealer in grain, Spring Hill, was born near Logansport, Ind., in 1827, and when very young removed to Henderson County, Ill., and seven years later to Knox County, where he followed farming and stock raising until 1849, when he crossed the plains to California and for about two years carried on an extensive business in Sacramento. Returning East in 1852, to Warren County, Ill., he again devoted his attention to farming, etc. He came to Kansas June 18, 1858, located in Spring Hill Township, Johnson County, on 160 acres of land, and farmed for about twenty-two years. In 1861 he engaged in livestock business and has since carried it on in an extensive manner. Is also engaged in grain business. In 1880 he moved into the city of Spring Hill, and in May, 1882, erected a large, commodious barn, and in company with his two sons, Lewis and John, engaged in livery business. Mr. Mitchell was married in Warren County, Ill., to Ocena Sprague. They have six living children, Louis, John W., Eva, Clara, George and William.

HENRY PERLEY, deceased, was born in Winchenden, Worcester Co., Mass, October 3, 1820, and was for some years employed in the wooden ware factories of that locality, and while thus employed gave himself a common school and academic education. At the age of seventeen years he began to earn his living as school teacher and followed that vocation off and on until he reached the age of thirty-three years, when he removed to McDonough County, Ill., and improved a prairie farm of 240 acres, and followed farming until twelve years later, when he engaged in the nursery business. While there he was Trustee of the Prairie City Academy for over five years. He came to Kansas in the spring of 1869 and located here, where he lived until his death. He had 160 acres overlooking the city of Spring Hill. His land is all well improved. He for six years also carried on a nursery at this place. Mr. P. had one of the finest orchards in the county, having on his place over 4,000 fruit trees of all varieties. He also rented eighty acres of land which he devoted to farming purposes. Mr. Perley was elected to the State Legislature in the fall of 1876 and served one term. The subject of our sketch was married October 26, 1854, to Eveline Smith, and they had two children. Mr. Perley died September 11, 1882.

WILLIAM A. PERRY, farmer and stock dealer, P. O. Gardner, was born in Jersey County, Ill., in April, 1845, and was reared on a farm after which he conducted a farm of his own, consisting of 120 acres. In the fall of 1871 he came to Kansas and located on his present farm. He owns 160 acres, all well improved. He is also engaged in raising cattle in Barber County, this State, in company with J. W. Dennis, and is one of the leading farmers of the neighbourhood. He is a member of the Lone Elm Grange. He was married in Alton, Ill., in the summer of 1872 to Mary A. Bergin.

REV. A. M. REYNOLDS, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, was born in Richmond County, Va., February 19, 1844, and reared on a farm in Pickaway County, Ohio. He enlisted June 1, 1863, in the Sixth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and was mustered out in August, 1865. Immediately after the war he turned his attention to the ministry, and studied for the same at Blackburn's University, Ill., until the spring of 1873, after which he attended the Lane Seminary at Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated there in January, 1875; was ordained at Blue Ball, Ohio, in November of that year, and had charge of the Presbyterian Church of that place for four years. He came to Spring Hill, Kan., in August, 1879, and at once entered upon his present duties.

JAMES W. ROBINSON, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Spring Hill, was born in Greene County, Ill., in 1842. He has always followed farming as an occupation. In 1869 he came to Kansas and located on his present farm. He has one of the best improved places in the county. He owns 240 acres of land, and has on his premises a beautiful home and a fine barn and orchard. Mr. Robinson is largely engaged in stock-raising, in connection with his farming pursuits, and is one of the leading men in the township. He is a member of the Morning Grange, and holds the office of overseer of that body. He was married in Macon County, Ill., in December, 1869, to Margaret Rieves. They have two children - Ina and Essle.

PETER STAHL, farmer, P. O. Spring Hill, was born in Schuylkill County, Pa., January 19, 1826, and reared on a farm in Union County. There he carried on two farms, one of 106 acres and another of 76, for many years. He came to Kansas October 31, 1878, having purchased his present farm some time previous to his arrival. He has 160 acres in this farm, which is one of the best in the county. It is all splendidly improved, with groves, hedges and orchards. His residence is equal to any in the county, and is beautifully situated, commanding a fine view of the surrounding country and the city of Spring Hill. He is a member of the Ocheltree Grange. Mt. Stahl was married in Union County, Pa., in 1854, to Isabella Mathers, a native of that county. This union has been blessed with eight children.

THOMAS STEVENSON, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Spring Hill, was born in Lancaster County, Pa., in 1835, and was reared on a farm near the city of Pittsburgh. In 1855 he moved to Marion County, Ind., where he was employed as a carpenter for about three years. He came to Kansas and located on his present farm January 16, 1858. He owns 240 acres of land, all well improved, and has one of the finest places in the surrounding country. He is largely engaged in raising stock. October 1, 1861, he enlisted in the Fifth Kansas Cavalry, Company I; was promoted to Second Lieutenant January 1, 1863, and was mustered out July 8, 1865. Mr. S. is a member of the Ocheltree Grange, and at one time filled the office of secretary of that body. He was married in Marion County, Ind., in 1860, to Martha J. Negley. They have a family of four children - Nellie, Lizzie, George and Birdie. 

 HENRY S. BELL, farmer, P. O. Olathe, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1820, and reared in Indiana, where he followed farming, draying, etc., for some years. In April, 1868, he came to Kansas and located on his present farm. Mr. Bell is a progressive farmer, and has one of the handsomest homesteads in the township. His house is nearly surrounded by a fine orchard. Besides his farming pursuits he is largely engaged in raising stock. He is a member of the Grand View Grange. Mr. Bell has four sons - Thomas, Harry, Clark and Robert. The latter assists him in conducting the farm. The family own in all about 240 acres, all in a high state of cultivation.

JOHN BRADY, farmer, Section 28, P. O. Monticello, was born in Indiana County, Pa., July 10, 1816, and there for some twenty years he carried on a large stock farm, and was also engaged in dealing in live stock, etc. He came to Kansas in April, 1865, and located in Johnson County on his present farm. He had at first 160 acres, but disposed of eighty acres a few years ago. His land is all improved, and he has a good fruit orchard and grapery. Mr. Brady also owns forty acres in Section 19, Township 12, Range 23, and a farm of 160 acres in Dickinson County, this State. He was elected a member of the Johnson Board of County Commissioners in 1866, and re-elected in 1868, and during the last term of membership was Chairman of the Board. He was elected Trustee of Monticello Township in the spring of 1878, and served one year. He was married in Centre County, Pa., in 1844, to Catherine S. Lee, and they have nine children.

WM. C. BROWN, farmer, P. O. Cedar Junction, was born in Lee County, Iowa, March 4, 1855, and came to Kansas with his father, Oliver D. Brown, and assisted him in farming until his death, February 22, 1880, since which time the subject of our sketch has farmed the place on his own account. He has 100 acres of land, ninety of which are under cultivation, and in connection with farming pursuits raises considerable cattle and hogs.

JOHN W. BURCH, farmer, P. O. Cedar Junction, was born in Dresden, Muskingum Co., Ohio, October 4, 1839. At eighteen years of age he removed to Linn County, Iowa, and followed farming. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in Company D, Twelfth Iowa Infantry, and was promoted to Sergeant, and served four and a half years. In the spring of 1867 he came to Kansas and located on his present farm. He has a beautiful place, consisting of about 200 acres, and is engaged in connection with farming pursuits, in breeding cattle. Mr. B. was Treasurer of this Township for two years. He was married in March, 1866, to Martha Cochran. They have four children living - Georgia, Carrie, Hattie and Nellie.

JOHN C. COLLINS, farmer and stock-raiser, near Cedar Junction, Johnson Co., Kas., was born near Keene, in Jessamine Co., Ky. He was the eighth child of Lewis Collins, a well-to-do farmer. His mother was the daughter of George Cleveland, a wealthy farmer and stock-dealer. Both branches were natives of Virginia, coming to Kentucky in an early day. Mr. Collins never knew much of a mother's love and care, she having died when he was three years old, and his father never married again. At the age of thirteen years, having the advantage of a country school education, he went to Mortonsville, a village in Woodford County, Ky., and lived with his brother-in-law, who was a merchant, and entered his store as a clerk. He remained in Mortonsville several years, and during his stay had considerable experience in the postal service and hotel business, giving a part of his time to study. At the age of nineteen years he began the mercantile business on his own account, his father favoring him with the use of his name in the business. Two years later, his father, who had been a companion, dies. In June, 1852, he was married to Miss Eliza C. Dishmon, of that place, and moved out to the old homestead, giving his attention to the farm until 1855, when he, with his then small family, accompanied by his brother, George L. Collins, moved to Clay County, Mo., where he followed farming and breeding of blooded stock. In March, 1860 he came to Kansas, bringing some of his best horses and cattle, Jacks and Jennies with him, and located on Cedar Creek, in a neighbourhood of Shawnee Indians, who were then thickly settled along the creek. Succeeding in the purchase of some of their timber lands, he, together with his brother, built and operated a steam saw and grist mill, and remained there during the Rebellion. He furnished a considerable amount of lumber to the Government; and also furnished lumber and built houses for the Indians, thus securing some of their lands. In 1865 he commenced the improvement of his present farm, moved on it the following year, and continued to improve and farm until 1871. Leaving the farm in the hands of his brother, he went to Topeka to take the position of Chief Clerk of the State Treasury, conducting that office nearly four years. He removed to Olathe in 1875, and engaged in the grain business. Remained there until the fall of 1877, since which time he has resided on his farm, now well improved, with 200 acres enclosed, 50 acres planted in black walnuts, pines and other forest trees; orchards, vineyards, small fruits, etc. Pastures well set in blue and other tame grasses. Well stocked, including high-grade and thoroughbred Durham cattle. He has a family of eight children, boys and girls, the eldest daughter being married.

PETER D. COOK, farmer, Section 4, P. O. Wilder, was born in Cardington, Morrow Co., Ohio, June 19, 1838, and reared in the city of Columbus. In 1852 he went to the coal regions of Pennsylvania, and was employed as surveyor and engineer in the coal fields of Huntingdon and Redford counties until 1856, when he returned to Ohio and engaged in mercantile business in Franklin County. In the fall of that year he moved his stock to Galena, Ohio, and in 1857 closed out and went West through Illinois and Indiana, and taught school for some two years. He came to Kansas in 1859; returned to Decatur, Ill., a few months later and again taught school, and was also for a time engaged in grain commission business. On June 10, 1862, he enlisted in the Seventieth Illinois Infantry; was mustered out in October following, and shortly afterwards came West to Johnson County, Kan. Mr. Cook took up a claim, but abandoned it in the spring, and going farther west, engaged in mining and mercantile pursuits in Idaho. In the spring of 1865, he returned to Illinois, and engaged in in sic business at Springfield. This he sold out in the summer of 1866; came West again, and located in Topeka, where he engaged in the grocery business, in company with his brother, L. S. Cook. In 1874 they disposed of their grocery store, but continued in partnership in real estate and general speculation until November, 1879. The subject of our sketch was elected Treasurer of the city of Topeka in 1870, '71, '72, '73 and '74. In 1874 he purchased his present property in Monticello Township, Johnson County, and four years later removed here. He has 466 acres of fine land, and in June, 1881, had surveyed and laid out on his land the town of Wilder. He is also largely engaged in raising live stock. Mr. Cook was one of the first directors of the K. C. T. & W. R. R. built in 1875. He is a prominent Mason; has held various high offices in Chapter, Commandery, etc., at Topeka, and still retains his connection with the same.

EDWIN S. CORLESS, farmer, P. O. Cedar Junction, was born in Rock County, Wis., June 15, 1842, and came to Kansas in 1857 with his father, J. E. Corless, who settled in Monticello, and who carried on farming in an extensive manner. He died in June, 1877, leaving three children - Edwin, William and Mary. The subject of our sketch has about 200 acres of land, all under cultivation, and is also engaged in raising stock. During the war he served three years in the Sixteenth Kansas Infantry. He was married in Johnson County, Kan., in 1870, to Alice Brown. She died in the spring of 1879, leaving three children - Frank, Lloyd and Harry.

DAVID J. FRAME, farmer, P. O. Wilder, was born in Loudoun County, Va., in 1836 and reared on a farm. After reaching the age of manhood he removed to Greene County, Ohio, and for eight years was employed on a farm; removing to Platte County, Mo., he farmed on his own account for six years. He came to Kansas in March, 1871, and located on his present farm which consists of 120 acres, all highly improved. Mr. Frame is largely engaged in stock raising in this and Reno County. He was married in Platte County, Mo., in 1868, to Miss Anna Smith. They have five children: Alice, Eliza, Herbert, Laura and James.

SAMUEL GARRETT, farmer, Section 3, P. O. Wilder, was born in Devonshire, England, March 24, 1831. There he learned the trade of stone cutter and followed that occupation for a livelihood. In the spring of 1849 he immigrated to Anderson County, Texas, but being deceived in the purchase of some lands he remained only a few months, and on the 20th of July, 1849, he came to Johnson County, Kansas; resided a year with the Shawnee Indians. In 1850 he moved to Council Grove, this State, and for three years traded with the Kaw Indians. In the early part of 1854 he returned to Johnson County, and located on his present farm. On November 10, 1853, he was married to Betsey Captain, a member of the Shawnee tribe, and continued to reside here with that nation until about 1870, when they moved to the Indian Territory. Mr. Garrett accompanied them, and resided there some six years. He owns there 1,100 acres of land. In December, 1876, he returned to his residence in this county, and devotes himself to the management of his farms. He has here some 900 acres besides large quantities of live stock. Mr. Garrett's first wife died, leaving him with a family of six children, and he was married again in the Indian Territory, about 1874, to Miss Sidnie Smith.

JOHN GLYNN, farmer, Section 33, P. O. Wilder, was born in Ireland, August 31, 1826, and reared on a farm. In 1850 he emigrated to West Hoboken, N. J., and was for several years employed in a watch case manufactory in that city. In 1850 he came West to Kansas City and engaged in contracting for three years. July 13, 1863, he enlisted in Company B, Eleventh Kansas Calvary, and was discharged August 14, 1865. He then carried on the Gilliam House and saloon in Missouri City for three years. In July, 1868, he came to Johnson County and located on his present farm. Mr. Glynn has 175 acres of rich bottom land and raises considerable live stock. He was married in West Hoboken, N. J., in November, 1854, to Miss Ellen Maguire. They have a family of nine living children.

W. P. HAIGLER, Farmer, P. O. Monticello, was born in Randolph County, Va., May 9, 1824, and reared on a farm. In 1855 he emigrated to Henry County, Iowa, and followed farming as an occupation; was also for several years engaged in mercantile business at Winfield, in that county. He came to Kansas in the spring of 1861, locating on his present farm, which consists of eighty acres, all well improved, on which there is a fine orchard of four acres. He also has twenty acres of timber land. Mr. H. was married in Pendleton County, Va., to Mary Hinkle. They have five living children, Anna, Emma, Lucy, Christina, Elbert, and three deceased, Mattie, Virginia and Mary Alice.

WILLIAM HARPER, farmer, Section 33, P. O. Monticello, was born in Pendleton County, West Va., February 28, 1832, and reared on a farm. In 1857 he moved to Henry County, Iowa, farmed there two years, then to Randolph County, Mo. He came to Kansas in the fall of 1861, and located in Johnson County on his present farm. He has eighty acres, all highly improved, on which there is a fine orchard and grapery. During the rebellion Mr. H. served in the Johnson County Home Guards. He was married in Pendleton County, Va., July 19, 1855, to Ellen Hinkle; they have one son, Charles P.

J. D. HAZLETT, farmer, Section 28, P. O. Monticello, was born in Indiana County, Pa., January 8th, 1835, and reared on a farm. He learned the trade of carpenter there and followed that occupation for a livelihood. In the spring of 1865 he came to Kansas and located on his present farm. He owns 181 acres of land, 123 acres of which are under cultivation, and also has a good orchard. Mr. Hazlett devotes his time principally to contracting and building. He is a brother to Absalom Hazlett, who was a follower of John Brown and was hung for his anti-slavery principles in Virginia. Mr. H. was married in Johnson County, Kansas, April 31, sic 1866, to Malona R. Stephenson. They have two living children, Archie and Addison, and four deceased.

WILLIAM HUNDLEY, farmer, Section 4, P. O. Olathe, was born in Henry County, Ky., April 12, 1832, and removed with parents to Platte County, Mo., in 1840, where he was reared on a farm. He came to Kansas in the spring of 1855; located in Leavenworth County, where he followed agricultural pursuits and lime burning. In 1857 he came to Johnson County, but only remained a few months. Returning to Leavenworth he again followed lime burning, carrying on that business in connection with agricultural pursuits. In 1870 he returned to Johnson County, and has since given his attention to farming and raising stock. He owns 240 acres, all well improved, and has on his place a fine orchard. He is a charter member of Grand View Grange. Mr. H. took an active part with the Free-state party in the troubles of 1856, and also served in the Kansas State Militia during the late war. He was married July 17, 1856, to Mary Roberts. They have a family of seven living children.

HON. DAVID B. JOHNSON, was born in Mayfield, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, July 1, 1840. In 1842, his father and family emigrated to Lake County, Ill., and in 1853, moved to DeKalb County, Ill. In 1859, the family came West, and settled in Shawnee Township, Johnson County, Kan. In 1861, the subject of this sketch joined the Union Army for the suppression of the rebellion; served as First Orderly Sergeant, Recruiting Commissioner, Sergeant Major and Assistant Quartermaster until December, 1865, when he was discharged at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., with his regiment. During his nearly five years' service he enjoyed perfect health and never failed to discharge his duty as a fearless and consistent soldier; morally, Mr. Johnson was an exemplary soldier, and being a teetotaler as to the use of spirits, tobacco, cards, etc., his record as a soldier stands without a blemish. After his discharge from the army, he remained at home on his farm, near Shawnee, until the following fall, when he entered the State University at Lawrence, where he completed a thorough business education. In 1869, he was elected to represent his district in the State Legislature, and although among its youngest members, secured the passage of a bill by which the State assumed the payment of a war claim of $500,000. This famous measure had been before the three preceding sessions of the Legislature and as often failed to become a law. But it remained for our young legislator to announce to his constituents, who were largely interested in the claim, the payment in full. In 1870, he was re-elected by a vote of three to one, notwithstanding the district had given a majority vote the previous year for the opposite party. During this session there were two questions before the Legislature that thoroughly tried the honor, grit and judgment of Mr. Johnson. The first was the memorable senatorial election that sent Alexander Colwell to the United States Senate. Immediately before casting his vote, Mr. Johnson rose in his place, and with uplifted hand, swore that he would not vote or support any man that he had reason to believe would use money to secure his election, and his votes corresponded to his oath. The second was the scheme to divide the important county of Johnson. In this contest Mr. Johnson showed a degree of determination and judgment that might have been accorded older and more experienced heads; after two years hard contest, he returned to his county with the scheme defeated, his enemies vanquished, and a law on the statues to prevent its re-occurrence sic; and everywhere went the happy greeting, "Well done, faithful servant." In 1874, Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Alice C. Pearson, formerly of Elkhart, Ind. They have one child, a bright boy - Jesse, three years of age. In 1877, Mr. Johnson leased his farm near Shawnee, and purchased a store building and stock of goods from Walters & Holsinger, at Wilder. He is now doing a general merchandise business, carries a large stock of goods, and does a large and profitable business. Besides merchandising, Mr. Johnson is engaged in shipping stock, grain, sand, etc., and largely engaged in farming. In Politics, he is an active, sound and consistent Republican, and a leading, enterprising citizen of his county, and enjoys the confidence and friendship of a large acquaintance.

BOYD KAY, farmer, Section 33, P. O. Olathe, was born in Bedford County, Pa., April 4, 1856, and came to Kansas with his father, Thomas Kay, in February, 1866. He assisted his father in farming in Monticello Township, Johnson County, until in the spring of 1876, when he began to farm on his own account. He moved on to his present farm in March, 1881. Has 220 acres, all improved, 210 of which are in cultivation. Also raises considerable live stock. Mr. Kay is a member of the "Union Horse League." He was married at DeSoto, this county, July 1, 1877, to Emma Jackson.

THOMAS J. KAY, farmer and dealer in live stock, Section 14, P. O. Wilder, was born in Bedford County, Pa., March 3, 1833; reared on a farm, and after reaching the age of manhood carried on a farm, and also raised considerable stock for some years. In November, 1865, he came to Kansas and located in Monticello Township, Johnson County. In October, 1881, he moved on to his present farm. He has 120 acres of land, all improved and a nice orchard. Mr. Kay is also engaged in dealing in grain and live stock. He was for two years Trustee of the township. He was married in Bedford County, Pa., December 22, 1853, to Mary E. Smith and they have a family of six children.

LESTER D. KENTON, farmer, Section 9, P. O. Wilder, was born in Champaign County, Ohio, September 30, 1814, and reared on a farm. In 1839 he removed to Jasper County, Ind., where he conducted an extensive stock farm. In November, 1864, he came to Johnson County, Kas., and located in Monticello Township. Mr. Kenton owns 280 acres of land, of which 150 are in cultivation. On his place is a good orchard, and he also raises considerable stock.

F. L. KUCKER, P. O. Monticello, was born in Germany in 1836, and in 1844 emigrated to Randolph County, Ill., where he was reared and followed farming as an occupation. In the spring of 1874 he came to Kansas and located on his present farm. He is one of the progressive farmers of the county, owns 280 acres of land, 240 of which are under cultivation. He has a beautiful residence which he built in 1880. Mr. K. was married in Randolph County, Ill., in 1862, to Mary C. Reitz. They have five children - George, Charles, Mary, Emma, and William.

WM. J. MANN, farmer, Section 5, P. O. Wilder, was born in Muskingum, Ohio, January 3, 1837, and about 1850 his parents moved to Putnamville, Ind., where he learned the carpenter trade, which occupation he followed in various portions of that State until June, 1857, when he came West and located in Johnson County, at a small place called Princeton, where he carried on a small grocery business in company with his brother Aaron. A year later he returned to Indiana. In 1859 he again came to Johnson County, located in Olathe and followed contracting and building for a year or so, when he returned to Indiana and was employed in a pork packing establishment at Terre Haute. Early in 1865 he enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Forty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served four months, after which he again emigrated West and farmed for a year at Westport, Mo. He then came to Monticello Township, and in 1868 located on his present farm. He has 190 acres, all improved, and raises considerable live stock. Mr. Mann was married at Olathe, Kan., in October, 1859, to Priscilla Logan. They have a family of two children - Charles and James.

NICHOLAS REITZ, farmer, P. O. Monticello, was born in Monroe County, Ill., February 4, 1839, and reared on a farm. He enlisted August 1, 1862, in Company H, One Hundred and Seventeenth Illinois Infantry, serving until August 5, 1865. He came to Kansas in March, 1868, and located on his present farm. He owns some 200 acres, 185 of which are under cultivation. Mr. R. was one of the Trustees of this township for several years, and elected Sheriff of the county in 1873, serving a term of two years. He was married in Monroe County, Ill., July 24, 1860, to Magdaline Huth. They have five children, Martin, Mary, Julius, Milton and Amelia.

DR. W. A. H. SPRATT, Section 12, P. O. Monticello, was born in Withe County, West Virginia, March 19, 1808. After reaching the age of manhood he became connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was for eight years engaged as an itinerant preacher. In the year 1832 he preached to the Delaware and Shawnee Indians in Kansas. He studied medicine at Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky., and graduated there in the class of 1840 and 1841. He then practiced medicine in various parts of the State of Missouri until March, 1869, when he came to Kansas. For eighteen months he practiced his profession in Wyandotte County. Then came to Johnson County, and has since resided on his farm, practicing but very little. He has 120 acres of land, all well improved.

HON. THOMAS G. STEPHENSON, farmer, P. O. Cedar Junction, was born in Hampshire County, Va., February 15, 1823, and removed with his parents to Athens County, Ohio, in October, 1824. In July, 1841, he removed to Lee County, Iowa, where he followed farming and stock-raising. He was for two years County Commissioner of that County, and in the fall of 1861 was elected Representative to the State Legislature, and served two terms. He came to Kansas in 1866 and located on his present farm. Has 240 acres of land, eighty-five of which is in cultivation. Has an orchard of about four acres, apple, peach and cherry. In 1869 he was elected Justice of the Peace and served about four years, and in the fall of 1871 was elected representative to the State Legislature for a term of two years. In 1877 was elected County Commissioner of Johnson County for a term of two years, and re-elected in the fall of 1879 for a term of three years. Was Chairman of the Board continuously for four years, and with the assistance of his associates effected a compromise of all the railroad bonded indebtedness of Johnson County, reducing the same from the sum of $41,800 to $28,800. Mr. Stephenson was married in Denmark, Lee Co., Iowa, September 6, 1849, to Miss Sarah D. Brown, daughter of Wm. T. Brown, Esq., of Denmark. They have six children - Lucie, Marie, George, Susie, Frankie and Wm. T. 

 JAMES BURNETT ABBOT, was born in Hampton, Windham County, Conn., December 3, 1818. His paternal ancestors were English. They trace their genealogy back to George Abbott, who tradition says emigrated from Yorkshire, England, about 1640, and settled in Andover, Mass, in 1643. He lived and died on the farm owned in 1847 by John Abbott a descendant of George, of the seventh generation. Asa Abbott, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, on account of being a cripple, took no personal part in the war of the American Revolution. His patriotism was however as intense as that of any of the Revolutionary fathers, for although not subject to military duty himself, he employed a substitute, and paid him ten dollars per month, throughout the seven years of that eventful struggle. Asa Abbott married Mrs. Sarah Fuller, whose first husband, Stephen Fuller, had been killed by the Indians, in the Wyoming Massacre, July 3, 1778. In a book compiled in 1847, by Rev. Abiol Abbott, D. D., and Rev. Ephraim Abbott, entitled, "General Register of the Descendants of George Abbott, of Andover," page 55, is found the following sketch; "Stephen Fuller married Sarah Bidlock. He, with others taken by the Indians, in the Wyoming battle, July 3, 1778, was led to a wheat field where the Indians piled around them sheaves of wheat, and burned them to death. The Fort was surrounded and taken, the men cut to pieces, and the women and children perished in the flames of the Barracks. A few escaped by flight. Mrs. Fuller with some others, went in boats down to the Susquehanna to Northumberland and in about fourteen days she returned to the battlefield to seek the body of her husband. She found the heads of the men scalped, and their bodies so cut, bruised and torn, and altered by the summer heat, that she could not recognize an individual. From this distressing scene she went to her house, hoping to obtain some clothing and provisions; but the Indians and Tories had been there. The feathers of her bed were emptied on the floor, and her bedding, clothes, furniture and provisions all taken away. About the evening twilight, she went to the river and called to the boatmen to take her across, but they, fearing there might be Indians or Tories lying in wait to kill them, would not go for her. She therefore passed alone the anxious, fearful night. Soon after she returned to Hampton, Conn., on horseback, accompanied only by her daughter, two or three years old, who afterwards married Judge Ebenezer Griffin, of Hampton, Conn. Mrs. Fuller afterwards married Asa Abbott." James Abbott, son of Asa and Mrs. Sarah Fuller Abbott, was a Captain in the war of 1812. He was a man of good education, a teacher by profession, a lover of music and a skilled musician. He was a man of superior moral character, and of great liberality in his religious views. He married Asenath Burnett, daughter of James Burnett, a soldier of the American Revolution, who served during the entire period of that long conflict under General Putnam. Mrs. Abbott was a woman of great energy of character, a strict, kind-hearted Puritan, and most devoted wife and mother. She was born in 1791, and died in 1873. The Burnett family is supposed to be of Scotch descent, James Burnett Abbott, was the son of James and Asenath Abbott. His education was obtained primarily in the Connecticut common schools, but was finished at the Academies of Pottsdam and Gouverneur in the State of New York. After leaving the academy he taught school two winters. When eighteen years old he broke his leg, which misfortune rendered farm labor impracticable for him. He accordingly learned the shoemakers' trade, and afterward worked in a tin-shop until he became again able to resume his labors on the farm. Upon the attainment of his majority he married Amanda Atwood, of Gouverneur, N. Y., returned to Connecticut and entered mechanical business. From 1840 to 1854, he was engaged in various industries, making pencil-cases, forks, spoons, and spectacles, electro-plating, and electro-typing; manufacturing boots and shoes in Connecticut, gold pens in Cincinnati, and acting as inspector for Rogers Bros.' mammoth plated-ware establishment at Hartford. He was one of the first successful electro-platers in the United States. In 1851 his wife died, and in 1852 he was married to Elizabeth Watrous, a Hartford lady. In 1854, in company with the third party of New England immigrants, he came to Kansas. He arrived at Lawrence, October 10, and fixed his residence at that place, but located his claim near the Wakarusa, from which fact he was known in those early days as "Abbott of the Wakarusa Country." Across that river he built Blanton's bridge, which was indicted by the border ruffians as a nuisance, for the, to them, sufficient reason that it accommodated more Free-state than Pro-slavery men. He was appointed by Governor Reeder, one of the judges of the election of March 30, 1855. Upon the decision of a majority of the board of which he was a member, in favor of the right of the Missourians to vote, he withdrew from the board. During the following summer he joined a militia company, which was raised for the defense of the Free-state men and their interests. Of this company, Henry Saunders was elected Captain, and Mr. Abbott Lieutenant. Lieutenant Abbott was sent to Boston to procure arms for the company. He returned to Kansas with one hundred and seventeen Sharpe's rifles and a twelve pound howitzer. From St. Louis to Kansas he was watched at every turn and movement, suspected of being James B. Abbott, by certain parties who had learned what his errand East had been, and on that account followed him with the intention of putting him out of the war. Mr. Abbott, however, who was traveling under the name of J. Burnett, was not for a moment off his guard. He sang songs and played cards frequently with the very men who were set as spies upon his trail. During a game of cards, one of these spies attempted to throw him off his guard by saying suddenly to him, "Abbott, it's your turn to deal, isn't it?" Abbott looked around as if to learn who had been addressed, and replied, "You must be mistaken, it is my turn." Such was Mr. Abbott's continuous calm presence of mind, that every attempt to make him reveal his identity was equally futile. Subsequently one of these spies was a deputy under Sheriff Jones, and at the attempt to arrest S. W. Wood, recognized Abbott as the man who had outwitted him on the boat. The Sharpe's rifles and howitzer had been shipped on a different boat from that on which Abbott returned; the former having been take apart, packed in as short boxes and casks as possible, and consigned as hardware to Harlow Hutchinson & Co., merchants at Lawrence; the latter was shipped from New York in boxes but did not arrive until November. On November 21, 1855, occurred the murder of Charles W. Dow, by Franklin N. Coleman. This murder caused the most intense excitement. A meeting of the Free-state men was held next day, at the place of the murder, for the purpose of investigating its cause and deciding what action if any should be taken, with reference thereto. On arriving home from the meeting, Lieutenant Abbott was informed that Sheriff Jones had passed his house about six o'clock in the evening, with a posse of fifteen armed men, on his way to arrest an old man named Jacob Branson, who was a personal friend of Dow, and the principal witness of his murder. Some half dozen men who had attended the meeting had stopped at Abbott's house on their way home. With them a consultation was held and it was decided that Abbott and S. W. Wood should immediately ride over to Branson's, and ascertain what had been done by the posse, and return to Mr. Estabrook's house, about halfway between Branson's and Abbott's, where it was agreed the Free-state settlers should assemble for consultation. On the arrival of Abbott and Wood at Branson's, they learned that Branson had been captured and carried away by force of arms without being given any authority therefor; his captors leaving his wife in doubt as to what his destiny was to be, leaving the impression on her mind, however, that he was in some manner to be killed. An attempt was made to follow the trail of the posse, but they soon scattered in different directions over the prairie and it was impossible to learn what direction they had taken, but it was expected they would make their way to Franklin, then a small border ruffian village about three miles east of Lawrence. So the posse hunters returned to Estabrook's and directed the men assembled there to report at once at Abbott's house, which they had to do on foot. Abbott and Wood rode back on a double quick, and upon arriving there found some half dozen men and one boy named Howard Dix. Some were armed with sporting rifles and some with Sharpe's rifles, while the boy was armed with a gun without a lock, and one man with nothing but a pocket full of rocks. While this little party were consulting as to what course to pursue, the posse was discovered coming from the south in the road passing on the west side of and very near to the house; Lieutenant Abbott immediately called for every man to form on the north side of the house and waited till the posse came within about ten paces, when with their pieces to a ready, the Lieutenant led his men across the road in front of the Sheriff's posse, which halted without orders from Jones. A tolerably full account of the rescue of Branson from this point is given on pages 116 and 117. One incident omitted there, is given here. Branson having ridden over to his friends, found himself unable to alight from his mule. He was over sixty-five years old, and weighed nearly two hundred pounds, and having ridden for over two hours a miserable, old, sharped-back mule, with neither saddle nor blanket, was so exhausted and chafed as to be helpless. Mrs. Abbott, therefore, who was standing at the left of the little square, ran and helped him to dismount and to walk into the house. In accordance with the advice of the Free-state leaders, at Lawrence, the rescuers of Branson dispersed and secreted themselves for the time being. During the troubles of the spring of 1856, Lieutenant Abbott was in command of a company, and participated in the first fight at Franklin. He afterwards commanded the Third Regiment of Free-state Infantry and acted as officer of the day at Lawrence, when 2,700 Missourians laid siege to the town. He was a member of the first House of Representatives and afterwards elected Senator under the Topeka Constitution. He was a member of the House of Representatives of the first State Legislature, and was State Senator during the years 1867 and 1868. In 1859 he led the party which rescued Dr. Doy from the St. Joseph jail, a full account of which daring exploit will be found in the history of Douglas County. From June, 1861, to the fall of 1866, Major Abbott acted as agent of the Shawnee Indians. During all the time he was their agent he took a paternal interest in their welfare, and managed their affairs with strict integrity, good judgment and capacity. He has always been their friend and the able champion of their rights, as against the politicians who would feign ride into power by aid of the votes of the settlers upon their reservations. When the rebel General Price, threatened to overrun Kansas in the fall of 1864, he organized a company of Shawnees, consisting of every adult male member of the tribe, except one, on the reservation, and those who were already in the volunteer service, and led them on a number of dangerous and successful scouting expeditions. In the winter of of sic 1880-81, he initiated a movement for the organization of a State Asylum and school for feeble-minded children. He successfully urged the Governor to recommend an appropriation for that purpose in his annual message; he then carefully prepared bills providing for the organization and had them early introduced into both branches of the Legislature, and by devoting his entire time and energies during the whole session to enlisting the sympathies of every kind hearted member of both houses, he succeeded in the very last hour of the session in getting his bill passed, and the school is now in successful operation, and one of the permanent institutions of the State. It can be truly said that no act of his eventful life affords him more gratification or satisfaction than this. He still resides at De Soto, and by his neighbors is esteemed for his personal worth and generosity. He is as kind hearted and charitable as he has always been modest, chivalrous and brave.

JOHN S. BEECROFT, Postmaster, De Soto, was born in Mercer County, N. J., in 1836, and reared on a farm, after which he resided for some time in Fulton county, Ill. He passed through Kansas in 1857, and located in Butler County, Neb., where he was engaged ranching for four years. Returning to Kansas in 1861, he settled at Leavenworth, and was for several years engaged in furniture business, and employed in various capacities in that neighbourhood, in all some nine years, after which he went to Butler County, Neb., and took up a homestead, residing on it for a year, then went to Kansas City, where he engaged in furniture business. In the spring of 1879, he came to De Soto, and at once engaged in general merchandise business, in which he has since continued. He was appointed Postmaster in September, 1880, and is Treasurer of District School Board. Mr. B. was married in Butler County, Neb., in the spring of 1861, to Elizabeth Wakefield. They have four children - Laura, George, Charles, and May.

JNO. M. BURTON, agent Johnston County Co-operative Association, De Soto. Was born in Douglas County, Kan., October 23, 1860. In 1876, he moved to Olathe and was employed as a clerk in the store of this co-operative association until August, 1881, when he was appointed agent at Stanley, this county, and removed to this place February 17, 1882. The association carry a stock here of some $4,000, and Mr. Burton is a popular manager.

SAMUEL COOK, farmer, P. O. De Soto, was born in Knox County, Ohio, in August, 1830, and reared on a farm. He was for many years largely engaged in dealing live stock in Knox and Morrow counties, and for two years in grain business. In September, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Sixty-fifth Ohio Infantry, and served three years. In October, 1864, he turned his attention to railroading; was for a short time employed as baggage master on the P., Ft. W. & C. R. R., at Crestline, Ohio, and for three months worked as a carpenter in Illinois. In June, 1865, he came to Kansas, and has since given his attention to farming. He has 160 acres in Lexington Township, all improved. His principal occupations are raising corn and dealing in live stock. Mr. Cook was married in Mansfield, Ohio, October, 1854, to Miss B. N. Cook. They have nine children - Alice, Edwin W., Mary B., Eva P., Harry L., Edith G., Samuel H., Arthur R. and Madge L.

JAMES HENRY KIRBY, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Olathe was born in Albemarle County, W. V., January 23, 1834, and six years later his parents emigrated to Indiana, thence to Saline County, Mo., where he was reared on a farm. At twenty-one years of age he learned the trade of carpenter, and followed that occupation for a livelihood until he came to Kansas, in August, 1861, locating in Miami County, and turned his attention to farming. In the spring of 1863, he came to Johnson County, resided for two years in Gardner Township, then moved on to his present farm. He has eighty acres all improved. Has quite a fine orchard and raises considerable live stock. During the rebellion he served in the Kansas State Militia. Mr. Kirby was married in Platte County, Mo., in 1856, to Mary T. Victor. They have six children.

ALEX LEAMER, farmer, P. O. Prairie Centre, was born in Haldersburg, Blair Co., Penn., November 29, 1842. In 1856 he came to Kansas, locating with his uncle, William Leamer, at Lecompton, Douglas County, and was employed in mercantile business. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted in the Ninth Kansas Cavalry, serving three years. In 1865 he came to Lexington, Johnson County, purchased at that time forty acres; has now 160 acres all well improved and is largely engaged in breeding blooded hogs. Mr. L. has been Trustee of the township since 1878. He was married at Prairie Centre in 1866 to Mary Ochel; they have four children - Anna A., Sarah L., Harry and Jessie.

JAMES M. MARTIN, farmer, Section 11, P. O. De Soto, was born in Clark County, Ind., February 1, 1833, and fifteen years later moved with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, where for five years he was employed as a clerk in mercantile business. He then moved to Illinois and followed agricultural pursuits in Sangamon and Macon counties. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company E, Fifteenth Illinois Infantry and served until the war closed. Mr. Martin came to Kansas in the spring of 1868 and located in Lexington Township, Johnson County. He has a farm of 160 acres, all highly improved, and raises considerable live stock. He was married in this county in November, 1869, to Mary A. Wear. They have four children - James, Jennie, Myrtle and George E.

THOMAS W. OSHEL, farmer, P. O. Prairie Centre, was born in Monroe County, Ohio, February 17, 1841, and reared on a farm. He enlisted September 1, 1864, in Company I, One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Ohio Infantry, serving until June 22, 1865. He came to Kansas in February, 1866, locating on his present farm. Has 140 acres of improved land and raises considerable cattle and hogs. He was Justice of the Peace for six years and Numerator for the census of 1880. He is a charter member and secretary of Spoon Creek Grange No. 311. Mr. Oshel was married in Johnson County, Kans., December 5, 1867, to Jennie Leamer. They have four children - Kate, Norah, Sarah and Genevra.

CHARLES B. PELLET, farmer, P. O. Prairie Centre, was born in North Brookfield, Mass., in October, 1827, and reared on a farm. In 1849 he went to California and followed mining for about eight years. He came to Kansas in August, 1857, locating in Lexington Township, has since followed farming and stock-raising. He owns some 680 acres of land and is one of the leading farmers of the county. On his place is a fine orchard of about twelve acres, and seven miles of Osage orange hedging. Mr. Pellet was married in November, 1862, to Kate Leamer. They have one son - Henry.

SOLON ROGERS, farmer, P. O. Prairie Centre, was born in Hendrick's County, Ind., June, 1843, and reared on a farm. In December, 1863, he enlisted in Company A, Fourth Indiana Calvary, serving until the war closed. In March, 1867, he came to Kansas and located in Lexington Township, moving on to his present farm in 1869. He has 453 acres of land; is quite an extensive farmer, besides which he handles considerable live stock. Mr. R. was married in Hendricks County, Ind., April, 1866, to Sophie E. Hadley. They have two children - Eva E. and Herbert K.

DANIEL ROLF, farmer and hotel keeper, De Soto, came to Kansas in July, 1857, and located at De Soto, Kan., in Johnson County, and has lived there since. Mr. Rolf was born in Hillsboro, N. H., March 2, 1807, and lived in his native State eighteen years, and went to Hartford, Conn., and remained one year and moved to Massachusetts, and remained there twenty-three years, and removed from there to Ohio in 1847, and located in Marietta, where he built the first bucket and tub factory west of the Allegheny Mountains. He remained there until he came to Kansas. He was married in Massachusetts in 1829, to Miss Hannah Norcross, a native of Massachusetts. He has three children living, by his first wife - Sarah M., Anna and Lydia C. He was again married, in 1845, to Miss Adeline Stone of Massachusetts. They have two children living - Clara E. and Elenorett. Mr. Rolf has been Postmaster of De Soto for eight years, and Justice of the Peace for the same time. He is one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of this town and county.

CAPT. THEODORE SCHERMERBORN, farmer, Section 24, P. O. Olathe, was born August 20, 1834, at Bath, Steuben Co., N. Y. When quite young he emigrated to East Smithfield, Pa., with his parents, and from 1848 to 1850 was employed at cabinet trade. Then went west, through Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, and in the spring of 1853 went with Capt. Ruggles' party to California, overland, wintering in Salt Lake City, and working at his trade. He witnessed the encounter between United States troops and Mormon citizens. He was for three years engaged in mining pursuits and then until 1859 worked at wagon makers' trade. Returning to Illinois, via Panama, he enlisted August 15, 1861, at Freeport in Company B, Twenty-sixth Illinois Infantry. He passed up and down the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers and with Sherman to the Sea, participating in eighteen engagements, and marching 9,800 miles. Was promoted to Second Lieutenant March 5, 1864, to First Lieutenant the May following, and to Captain June 6, 1865, and was mustered out July 7 of that year. He came to Kansas in the fall of 1865, and located in Lexington Township, Johnson County, since which time he has followed agricultural pursuits. He owns 200 acres of finely improved land, and is quite a prominent member of the Pioneer Grange, No. 69. The Captain was married in this county, to Miss Sallie Williams, widow, January 20, 1866. She died march 11, 1882, leaving six children.

DAVID VESTAL, merchant, Prairie Centre, was born in North Carolina, in 1831, and reared in Hendricks County, Ind. Here he was employed in the mercantile business, and also taught school. He came to Kansas in the spring of 1861, locating at Spring Dale, Leavenworth County. Was for five years engaged in the mercantile business. In 1866 he came to Johnson County, and located in Shawnee, where he followed the boot and shoe business. Several years later removed to Hesper, Douglas County, and continued the business there. In 1871 he came to Prairie Centre; has since been Postmaster and also carries on mercantile business, and farms on a limited scale. He is Treasurer of the School District. Mr. Vestal was married in Lyon County, Kan., in 1864, to Miss M. A. Moon, who died in 1875, leaving three children - Charles, Levina, and Eli J. Mr. V. was married a second time at Tonganoxie, Leavenworth Co., Kan., in May, 1878, to Catherine Pearson. 

 J. B. ARMSTRONG, M. D., was born in Lee County, Iowa, in 1843, and reared in Appanoose County on a farm. He enlisted in April, 1861, at eighteen years of age, and July 17 of that year was mustered into Company D, Iowa Infantry. At battle of Shiloh wounded in left hip; June 27, 1864, at Kenesaw Mountain he was wounded twice, once in the left knee and again in the left lung. He served in all about four years, being in all the battles of Sherman's army. After the war he began the study of medicine at Cincinnati with Dr. J. M. Sturdivant and attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, graduating in the class of 1867 and 1868. In the fall of 1868 the doctor came to Gardner and at once began the practice of his profession. Since 1873 has off and on carried on a drug store, principally for the accommodation of his patients. He is also interested in farming, owning in all some 320 acres of land in this county. Mr. Armstrong holds the office of Examining Surgeon for the United States government pensions since 1871.

V. R. ELLIS, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Gardner, was born in Virginia, July 2, 1833, and was reared on a farm in Rush County, Ind. He came to Kansas in October, 1857, and located on his present farm in Gardner Township, Johnson County, which he has improved to a high state of agriculture. He owns some 200 acres, seven of which are laid out in a fine orchard. He is also engaged in the breeding of blooded stock. During the late war Mr. Ellis served in the State Militia. He was elected a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Johnson County in 1873 for a term of two years, and was for sixteen years a member of the District School Board. He is a charter member of the Gardner Grange No. 68, organized in 1873, and was the first master of that body, and is the present incumbent. Mr. Ellis is one of the leading farmers of the Township. Was elected a member of the State Legislature in 1882, without opposition.

A. B. FRITZ, farmer, was born in Montgomery County, Pa., January 26, 1828. At the age of sixteen years he learned the trade of carpenter and followed it in that neighbourhood for about three years, and for some time in Philadelphia as a contractor. He came to Kansas in the fall of 1857, and was for a few months employed as a carpenter in Leavenworth and moved on to his present farm in Gardner March 24, 1858, consisting of 160 acres, of which four or five is an orchard. He served in the militia during the war. Mr. Fritz is one of our go-ahead farmers and has his premises well improved. He was elected a Commissioner of Johnson County in the fall of 1880, for a term of three years.

J. HOBART HUNTING, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Gardner, was born on Mount Desert Island, Me., July 3, 1821. He was in his younger years employed on a farm; also he learned the carpenter's trade. In 1846 he moved to Lake County, Ohio, living there and in Ashtabula County fourteen years. He first came to Kansas in 1858, and purchased the south-east quarter Section 35, Township 14, Range 22 east. He moved his family there in the spring of 1860 and has since resided on the same. Mr. Hunting was married in Guilford, Me., in 1846 to Miss Sarah G. Robbins, daughter of Deacon Chandler Robbins of that place. They have had five children, three of whom are living, namely George Hobart, Charles David and Frank Edward, and engaged in stock raising in Russell County. Born of Puritan stock in both parents, his father a Baptist minister, he has given credit to his ancestry by being a radical in his opposition to slavery, rum, tobacco, secret societies and church gambling, and his children have not degenerated from the old stock.

WILLIAM E. KELLY, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Gardner, was born in Ireland December 4, 1837, and immigrated to Butler County, Ohio, in 1845, with his mother. Here he was for some years employed at general farm work. In 1857 he removed to Peoria County, Ill., where about for thirteen years he carried on a large farm and was largely engaged in raising stock. He came to Kansas February 27, 1870, and located on his present farm in Gardner Township, Johnson County. This place he has finely improved in the past twelve years. He has a fine orchard of about five acres, and a splendid residence which was built in 1880. His farm is divided up with beautiful Osage hedges. Mr. Kelly now owns about 327 acres of land, and is considered one of the most substantial farmers in the county. He is a member of the Lone Elm Grange. The subject of our sketch was married in Butler County, Ohio, March 11, 1857, to Catherine Dowd. They have a family of fourteen children.

WILLIAM J. McCLINTOCK, farmer, P. O. Gardner, was born in Allegheny County, Pa., March 8, 1838. At the age of sixteen years he removed to Bureau County, Ill., and followed farming as an occupation. He enlisted September 10, 1861, in Company B, Thirty-third Illinois Infantry, and in 1863 was transferred into the United States Army Hospital Department, and served in all five years, after which he was engaged in mercantile business in McDonough County, Ill., until he sold out and came to Kansas in March, 1868. He farmed for about one year at Lanesfield, Johnson County, then moved on to his present farm. Mr. McC. has a well improved farm of 120 acres, and a nice orchard of about four acres. He is a member of Gardner Grange, No. 68. The subject of our sketch was married in Bureau County, Ill., in October, 1866, to Mary A. Bell, a native of England. They have six children - Eliza, Georgia, Austin, William, Ralph and Agnes.

JOHN MEAD, farmer, P. O. Gardner, was born in Ireland in 1831, and at the age of nine years he emigrated with his parents to Lake County, Ill., where he learned the trade of blacksmith, serving an apprenticeship of three years. He then worked at his trade as a journeyman in the States of Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan. In 1866 he came to Kansas, located in the city of Olathe, and for about sixteen years conducted a plow and blacksmith shop, six years of which he was in company with A. E. Moll. In the spring of 1882 he moved on to his present farm, consisting of 100 acres in Gardner Township, all well improved. He also owns considerable property in the city of Olathe. Mr. Mead was married in Winnebago County, Ill., in 1858, to Mary T. Godfrey. This union has been blessed with five children - Thomas, John B., Mary T., Kate A. and Ella A.

REV. WILLIAM J. OSBORN, pastor of First Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, December 20, 1838 and reared in a farm. He followed school teaching several years in Pennsylvania and Indiana, and was for three years engaged in mercantile business in Stark County, Ohio. He began the study of the law in that county in 1868, and two years later commenced studying for the ministry. In 1874 he began as a local preacher. Mr. O. came to Kansas in 1877, had charge of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Linden for three years, after which he had a church at Auburn, Kas. until the spring of 1882, when he came to Gardner and entered upon his present duties. He was ordained a Deacon of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Salina, Kas., in March, 1878, by Bishop Elder, and Elder in March, 1882, at Abilene by Bishop Warren.

WILLIAM J. OTT, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Gardner, was born in Maryland, October 17, 1827, and reared on a farm in Virginia. He followed farming in that State until 1855, when he removed to Marshall County, Iowa, where for about two years he was employed as a carpenter. In April, 1857, he came to Kansas, pre-empted 160 acres in Gardner, Johnson County, and has since given his attention principally to cultivating his farm and raising stock, making a specialty of breeding horses and mules. Has also, off and on, done considerable work as a carpenter and builder, since his arrival in the State. He owns at present 150 acres of land. Mr. Ott was married in Gardner, Johnson Co., Kas., in 1859, to Amy D. Davis. They have nine children - George A., Lily V., Elsie A., Charles W., Thomas R., Mabel D., Ralph, Harry, and Louisa.

THOMAS E. PEARCE, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Edgerton, was born in Boone County, Ind., August 6, 1831, and during his early youth assisted his father on the farm and in the saw and flour mill. At eighteen years of age he moved to McDonough County, Ill., and was for some years engaged in farming and raising stock. He came to Kansas in March, 1866, and located on his present farm, in Section 3, Township 15, Range 22. He has some 337 acres, 320 of which are improved. On his place he has a very fine residence, which he erected in 1870 at a cost of $2,500. He cultivates 270 acres of his land, and is largely engaged in breeding Short-horn cattle and blooded hogs. Mr. Pearce was elected a Commissioner of Johnson County in the fall of 1877, and held the office three years. He was married in McDonough County, Ill., December 27, 1865, to Sarah Belle Fleming. They have six children - Mina B., John, Edward, Vinnia, Albert, and Allen. Mr. Pearce is a member of Edgerton Grange, No. 435.

DANIEL J. RAMEY, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Spring Hill, was born in North Carolina in 1837, and reared on a farm in Surrey County. In 1860 he came to Kansas, and located in Gardner Township, Johnson County, purchasing at that time 160 acres of land. He is one of the largest farmers in this township; owns 360 acres of land, 225 of which are under cultivation; besides which he is largely engaged in breeding Durham cattle and thoroughbred hogs. Since the spring of 1881, he has been residing on the southeast quarter of Section 8, Township 15, Range 23. In August, 1862 he enlisted in Company I, Twelfth Kansas Infantry, and served three years, principally on detached service. Mr. Ramey is a member of Morning Grange No. 227; has held the offices of master and secretary, and is at present Overseer of that body. He was married in Surrey County, N. C., in 1858, to Matilda Thompson, who died in November, 1878, leaving seven children - Dora, Newton, Charles, David, George, Schuyler, and Mattie. He was married again at Paola, Kas., in December, 1881, to Caroline Reeves.

JAMES SCOTT, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Gardner, was born in Pirthshire, Scotland, March 20, 1830, and educated in the city of Edinburgh. In 1854 he emigrated to America, and for some years resided in Fond du Lac County, Wis., where he followed farming. He came to Kansas in September, 1857, and located on this farm, which is the southwest quarter of Section 13, Township 14, Range 22, and has since given his attention to farming and raising stock. On October 10th, 1863, he enlisted in Company K, Fifteenth Kansas Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal, Sergeant, Second Lieutenant, and when mustered out, in November, 1865, held the rank of First Lieutenant. Mr. Scott is a charter member of Gardner Grange, No. 68. He was married in Fond du Lac, Wis., November 14, 1859, to Ellen O'Hara, a native of Greene County, N. Y. They have eight living children - Mary A., Mahalia M., William J., Isabel, Catherine, Charles, Fred, and Jessie; and two deceased.

W. M. SHEAN, physician and surgeon, was born in Somerset County, Me., September 24, 1818, and reared on a farm, was also for several years employed as a clerk in mercantile business, after which he turned his attention to teaching and followed that occupation about twelve years. At the age of twenty-four years and during a portion of the time he was engaged in teaching; he also studied medicine. In the spring of 1857, he came to Kansas, located in Gardner, Johnson County. For the first five years he farmed and practiced, since then has devoted himself entirely to his profession. The doctor was elected in the fall of 1861, to the State Legislature, and served one term. He is a member of the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In 1870, he went to St. Louis Medical College, and graduated in the spring of 1872. The subject of our sketch was married in Somerset County, Me., in November, 1840, to Anstres Dudley. They have three children - Myra D., Chandler M. D. and Edward F., engaged in the drug business at this place.

CLARENCE R. SHEDDEN, farmer, P. O. Gardner, was born in Northumberland County, Penn., in 1854, and reared on a farm, and was for two years engaged in farming in Cass County, Mich. He came to Kansas June 22, 1875, and located in Shawnee Township, Johnson County, where he farmed 160 acres. Early in 1882 he purchased his present farm, consisting of 160 acres, and moved onto the same in April, that year. He has one of the finest and best improved farms in the county. He is a member of Gardner Grange, No. 68. Mr. Shedden was married in Northumberland County, Penn., May 17, 1877, to Jennie M. Tweed. They have two children, William Dean and Tweed R.

RUFUS THORN, farmer, P. O. Gardner, was born at Sanbornton, N. H., in 1813, and at the age of fourteen years he was apprenticed to the trade of cabinet-maker, and was employed at it there and in Boston for several years. In 1834 he removed to Warren County, Ill., where he resided for about twenty-three years and engaged in farming; was also for some years in the furniture and general merchandise business at Berwick that county, and held the office of Justice of the Peace for several years. He came to Kansas in the spring of 1857, locating on his present farm. He owns 160 acres of land, and is engaged in breeding Durham and Jersey cattle and Poland-China hogs. Mr. Thorn was Justice of the Peace for several years, also a member of the District School Board, and is at present clerk of that body. He was married at Portsmouth, N. H., to Abby A. Bowen, who died early in 1855, leaving two children, George A. and Rufus F. Mr. T. was married a second time in Henderson County, Ill., in the fall of 1855, to Ruth L. Cross; she died October 11, 1869, leaving five children - Laura R., Charles A., Mary E., Emma and Ruth O. He was married again June 25, 1870, at Olathe, to Elenora A. Anderson.

ISRAEL R. UHL, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Gardner, was born in Somerset, County, Pa., September 8, 1834, and was reared on a farm in Holmes County, Ohio; here he was employed in farm and carpenter work until 1863, when he moved to St. Joe County, Ind., and was employed in a like manner. In March, 1866, he came to Kansas and purchased his present farm in Gardner Township, moving to the same in the following November. In the spring of 1869 he moved to Olathe, where he followed the trade of carpenter until the spring of 1873, when he returned to his farm. He owns 240 acres of land all well improved, has a fine orchard of some four acres and a beautiful residence. Mr. Uhl was married in Holmes County, Ohio, in 1858, to Margaret Moore, who died in 1869, leaving two children, William A. and Emery S. He was married again in Holmes County, in 1872, to Margaret Gieselman, a native of Wayne County, Ohio. They have three children - Frank E., Harvey L. V. and Elsie. Mr. Uhl is a member of the Gardner Grange, No. 68, and is the present secretary of that body.

R. W. VICTOR, farmer, P. O. Gardner, was born in Green County, Ky., in 1844. In 1848 he removed with his parents to Platte County, Mo., and March 3, 1857, accompanied them to Gardner Township, Johnson County, Kan. His father Jacob Victor, located on the southeast corner of Section 18, Town 14, Range 23, and there died, June 7, 1858, since which time Robert has conducted the homestead, except for a few years while absent from the county. February 28, 1879, Clara Victor, his mother, died, and, according to previous arrangement, the homestead was divided between himself and his two brothers. He, having bought the interests of one brother, gave him ninety acres. November 18, 1881, he disposed of his share, and purchased eighty acres three miles northwest of where he is now living, and at this time is farming the remaining seventy acres belonging to his brother. During the late war he served, for a few days only, in the State militia. Mr. Victor was married in 1864, to Louisa E. Wilson, of Gardner Township. In August, 1874, his wife died, leaving five children - Lizzie, Walter, William, Clara, and Nellie. September, 1876, he was married again; has one child by this marriage, Earl. Mr. Victor, for seven years, has been a member of Gardner Lodge, No. 23, I. O. O. F.

COL. G. M. WAUGH was born in Oswego, N. Y., September 12, 1822. His parents emigrated to Lorain County, Ohio, in 1832. He remained on the farm until eighteen years of age, and then for three years attended the Oberlin College, after which he read law with Messrs. Tiffany & Wakefield, at Elgin, Ohio. In 1844 he removed to Ozankee, Wis., and was, in the fall of that year, admitted to the bar. Then practiced there until 1852, when he took his family across the plains and settled in Placerville, Cal. A year later, removed to San Francisco, where for four years he was engaged in the practice of law. In 1857 he came to Kansas, locating in Gardner, on the southwest quarter of Section 6, Town 15, Range 23, where he still resides. In 1858 he was elected a commissioner of Johnson County, and in 1859, County Attorney, filling the former office one year, and the latter two years. In 1861 he enlisted in Company G, Second Kansas Cavalry, and was subsequently promoted to Second Lieutenant of his company, and for a year served as Judge Advocate of the army of the frontier, and for eight months as Judge Advocate of the district of Southwestern Missouri. In 1863 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second Arkansas Infantry, and was in command of that regiment until the close of the war. In 1870 he engaged in the grain business at Gardner, following it for some four years. The subject of our sketch was married in 1844, to Harriet L. Sherman, of Wakeman, Ohio. They have three children - Sarah E., Alida M. and Hattie M.

W. J. WILSON, wagon and blacksmith shop, was born in Washington County, Ohio, September 12, 1843, and some years later removed with his parents to Iowa, and thence to Missouri. In March, 1859, he came to Gardner, Kan., and was employed in farming. In January, 1862, he enlisted in the First Kansas Battery, Independent Light Artillery, and served over three years. When mustered out he held the rank of Sergeant. Returning to Gardner, he again for some time gave his attention to farming. Then served two years as an apprentice to the blacksmith trade. In March, 1871, he purchased his present shop and business, and now has the leading trade and oldest shop in this place. Mr. W. was married at Olathe, Kan., in January, 1872, to Elizabeth R. Jack. They have four children - Carrie J., Elinore E., Joseph D. and Jessie L.

CLARK WYRICK, of Ward & Wyrick, dealers in grain, etc., was born in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1852, and came with his father, H. Wyrick, to Kansas, in 1860. The family settled on a farm in Gardner, Johnson County, and the subject of our sketch followed farming as an occupation until the winter of 1878, when he engaged in the grain business in company with J. B. Ward. This firm does a large business, handling during the season of 1880 over 100,000 bushels of grain. Mr. Wyrick is a member of I. O. O. F. Lodge No. 23, at this place and at present is Vice Grand. 

 HON. REZIN ADDY, physician and surgeon, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1828. He read medicine with Dr. J. G. T. Holsten, at New Concord, Ohio, and also attended Cincinnati Medical College, from which he graduated in 1849. He then practiced at Lancaster Landing, Ill., for some years, and in Guernsey County, Ohio. The doctor came to Kansas in June, 1858, located at McCamish, Johnson County, where he practiced his profession for some thirteen years, after which he removed to Edgerton, and has continued to practice at this point with good success. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1880 for a term of two years.

DR. C. W. BALCH, Edgerton, was born in Logan County, Ky., April 25, 1811. His grandfather was the Rev. James Balch, who graduated at Princeton College. His father was Maj. Amos P. Balch, who served in the war of 1812. His father immigrated with him in 1814 to Indiana, Parke County. There he went to a district school till he was nineteen, thence to Hanover, and then studied medicine under Dr. Brooks, a graduate of New York, and practiced with him several years in Greenville, Ill. Was called to Memphis, Tenn., early after the Rebellion broke out to attend a hospital of sick soldiers in 1863, and moved to Kansas in the spring of 1864, with an invalid son sent home from the army sick. He, his son died August 28, 1864. He also had a son killed at the siege of Vicksburg, May 22, 1864. In the fall of 1864 he joined the State Militia, and served three months as Company Surgeon, and at the time of the great battle of Westport, or the Price raid, he had sixty-five men, women and children posted at his house for three days. He attended many sick and wounded in Olathe; had a large practice in Olathe for several years. Has a very large family of nine children, five boys and four girls; all married but two boys and one girl, and all settled in Kansas. He is seventy-two in April next, and weighs 237 pounds.

JOHN M. BURNS, farmer, P. O. Edgerton, was born in Kentucky May 6, 1816. Twenty years later he removed to Boone County, Ind., where he was educated as a surveyor, and followed that profession sixteen years, and during thirteen years of that period held the office of surveyor of that county. He then turned his attention to agriculture. In March, 1859, he came to Kansas, located in the Township of McCamish, and has since been largely engaged in farming and raising stock. He owns some 700 acres of land, and is considered one of the largest farmers in this county. Mr. Burns is a member of Edgerton Grange, and at present holds the office of treasurer of that organization, and has for many years been a member of the district school board; is also treasurer of that body. He was married in Boone County, Ind., December 22, 1841, to Spicy A. Wiley, who died in 1851 leaving two children - Joseph A. and Eliza J. He was married again in Kentucky in October, 1854, to Mary Stephenson. They have four children - Henry C., Mary A., Luin Q., and Betty.

CHARLES M. DICKSON, farmer, P. O. Edgerton, was born in Crawford County, Ohio, June 17, 1833, and reared on a farm, in what is known as the Dickson resettlement. He came to Kansas in September, 1860. Was for six months engaged in sheep raising in Linn County, and in April, 1861, removed to Miami County, where he farmed until the fall of 1867, when he went to Ottawa, and for two years was engaged in real estate and mercantile business, returning to his farm in Miami County in 1869. In the spring of 1876 he moved on to his present farm in this township. Mr. Dickson owns 560 acres of improved land, 380 of which are in a high state of cultivation. On his place there is a fine orchard of six acres, and his residence is known for its beauty throughout the surrounding country. He is also engaged in breeding Short-horn cattle. While residing in Miami County he served one term as County Commissioner. He was elected master of Edgerton Grange, No. 435, at its organization in 1873, and is the present master, having held the office since with the exception of one term. Mr. Dickson was married in Crawford County, Ohio, in February, 1853, to Sarah Handley. They have four children.

HON. CLARK L. DILLE, farmer, P. O. Edgerton, was born in the State of Ohio, September 18, 1816, and reared on a farm. In 1853 he went to the Cumberland Mountains in Tennessee, and was engaged for several years in raising sheep and hogs. In 1856 he started for Kansas, but on account of the troubles he wintered in Iowa and came to Kansas in April, 1857, and located in this (Johnson) County. Mrs. Dille being the first white woman to settle in the township. Mr. D. has a nice farm of 120 acres on Section 32, Township 14, Range 22. He is carrying on quite a dairy business, and is also engaged in breeding Durham cattle and Blanco horses. When the county was first organized Mr. Dille was Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners. He was again elected in 1865. In 1864 he was elected to represent his district in the State Legislature. He was married near Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 3, 1840, to Margaret H. Anderson. They have four children, Alfred B., Levantia, Ida B., and Clark L., Jr.

D. C. DWYER, merchant, Edgerton, was born in Ireland May 15, 1845. Here he learned the blacksmith trade, and in 1862 emigrated to America, and was for five years employed as a blacksmith in the States of Massachusetts and New York. In 1867 he came to Kansas, located in McCamish, Johnson County, and for over two years conducted a blacksmith shop. In August, 1870, he came to Edgerton and opened a shop at this place, and has conducted the same, on and off, ever since. He opened a hardware store at this place two years later, and is now doing a large business in that line. He also has an establishment where he carries a stock of general merchandise. This he opened in 1876. Mr. D. has been very successful and has now three distinct establishments. He is the oldest merchant in the place, and built the first substantial building in the town.

WILLIAM FISHER, JR., farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Edgerton, was born in Boone County, Ky., December 28, 1831. While attending Bartlett's Commercial College at Cincinnati, Ohio, he was employed by the American Fur Company as book-keeper, and immediately removed to Westport, Mo., in 1851, and for three years acted as book-keeper; then until 1857 he was engaged by the company inspecting and buying furs, attending to Indian payments, etc., and when Kansas was thrown open for settlement he took a claim in Johnson County, which was subsequently know as the Fair Grounds, southwest of Olathe. He has been residing on his present farm in McCamish Township since about 1867. He has a nice place consisting of 160 acres, all well improved. Mr. F. was one of the charter members of the Olathe Town Company; the first Probate Judge of the county. During the war he freighted Government stores from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Union, New Mexico. January 1, 1864, he was married, in Johnson County, to Levantia Dille, of McCamish Township. They have one daughter, Miss Corgie.

LARRICK BROS., proprietors Edgerton Mills. This firm is composed of A. S. and J. L. Larrick, both practical men in this business. They built these mills and opened them for business March 4, 1880. The capacity of the mills is thirty barrels of flour per day, and about 10,000 pounds of meal, feed, etc. A. S. Larrick, the senior in this firm, was born in Noble County, Ohio, November 30, 1843, and reared on a farm. He came to Edgerton, Kansas, in October, 1860, and was for some four years employed by his father, Joseph Larrick, in the Bull Creek Mills, then gave his attention to farming until he engaged in this business. He was married in Douglas County, Kansas, May 24, 1866, to Elizabeth McKaughan. They have seven children, Corey E., Ottie L., Earl T., Paul F., John O., Samuel S. and William F. J. L. Larrick, the other member of the firm, was born in Noble County, Ohio, July 9, 1851. He came to Edgerton, Kansas, with his father, in August, 1860, and was for some nine or ten years employed in the Bull Creek Mills. In 1875 he turned his attention to farming, following that in this neighborhood until he engaged in milling with his brother. He is at present holding the office of Treasurer of the school district. Mr. L. was married in Cass County, Mo., in 1869, to Margaret Reese. They have five children, Charles R., James H., Jennie, Dola E. and Minnie M.

DR. OVID LAWS, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Edgerton, was born in East Tennessee, April 6, 1827. He studied medicine with Dr. R. Bard, of Woodford County, Ill., and attended Franklin College, Tenn., graduating there in the fall of 1851. The doctor then taught school for some time, after which he attended the Eclectic Medical College, and graduated in the spring of 1854. He then practiced for three years in Kentucky. He came to Kansas in November, 1856, and in May, 1857, located in McCamish Township and practiced his profession. In the spring of 1859 he moved to his present farm, on Section 32, Township 14, Range 22. He owns 240 acres, and is principally engaged in fruit growing and raising stock. Has a fine orchard of ten acres; also practices medicine to a limited extent. He was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction of Johnson County in 1862 and '64. The doctor, in company with his brother, N. M. Laws, wrote a history of Kansas in the winter of 1857-58, but owing to some misunderstanding with the publishers, the work was not issued. He is fond of the fine arts, and has painted hundreds of portraits and landscapes in oil, besides innumerable sketches and drawings. Dr. Laws married in Cincinnati, Ohio, in March, 1853, to Susan W. Jones. They have six children - Olive M., Paul J., Cora E., Stella C., Ovid S. Jr., and Junius.

THOMAS C. MARSHALL, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Gardner, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, November 15, 1826. In 1832 his parents moved to Fulton County, Ill., where he was reared on a farm. At the age of eighteen he went to Lafayette County, Wis., and from thence to Grant County, Wis., his occupation being that of farmer. In 1850 he crossed to plains to California, remaining there for three years, and returned home, and crossed in 1854; again crossed the plains to the Pacific slope. In 1856 returned to Fulton County. In May, 1858, he came to Johnson County, Kan., and located on northeast quarter of Section 28, Township 14, Range 22, where he resided until the spring of 1880, when he removed on to the section adjoining. Mr. Marshall is one of the largest farmers and stock-raisers. He owns 425 acres of land, 355 of which are under cultivation, and is extensively engaged in breeding high grades of Durham, Short-horns, and Clydesdale horses, and Poland-China hogs. He enlisted in March, 1862, in Company I, Fifth Kansas Cavalry, serving until May, 1863, and discharged on account of disability. He is a member of Belleflower Grange, No. 621. Mr. Marshall was married in Fulton County, Ill., July 15, 1857, to Patience Musgrove. They have three children, Thomas F., James A. and Charles W., who still live with him. He has buried three sons and one daughter. September 17, 1874, he lost his wife, and in 1876 was married to Jane A. Seabourn, of Knox County, Ill.

WILLIAM D. SIPES, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Edgerton, was born in Harrison County, Ind., January 24, 1818, and reared on a farm. At the age of twenty-five years he removed to Wapello County, Iowa, and followed farming there for some years. He came to Kansas in June, 1857, and located on the northwest quarter of Section 33, Township 14, Range 22, on which he now resides. He has now eighty acres, all well improved, on which there is a good orchard and a splendid residence, which he built in 1881. Mr. Sipes is also engaged to some extent in raising native cattle and horses. He was married in Harrison County, Ind., to Mary Gibbs. They have four living children, Maria, Wilford, Catherine and Lily, and two deceased, Sarah and William.

JAMES A. WALKER, Postmaster, Merriam, was born in Kentucky, Dec. 7, 1831, and reared on a farm; also was for several years employed in a country store; afterwards in New Hope, Lincoln County, Mo. where he was employed in farming and clerking. In 1854 he went St. Louis, Mo., and for six months attended commercial college, after which he was employed as a clerk for a year, in Platte County, Mo., and for three years in Kansas City. He came to Kansas in 1858, located at Shawnee, and at once engaged in mercantile business, carrying it on until October 17, 1862, when he was driven out by Quantrell's men. He then went to Kansas City, and served in the Missouri State Militia. He participated in the "Price Raid Fight" at Westport, Mo., which lasted three days, and served in all two and one-half years, during which time he was also engaged in business at Kansas City. In July, 1868, he returned to Shawnee, and again carried on mercantile business, and in October, 1872, removed his stock, etc., to Merriam. He carries a nice stock of goods and has a large trade, being very popular in this locality. Mr. Walker was appointed Postmaster of this place in July, 1874, and appointed Notary Public April 15, 1881. 

 ROSWELL ADAMS, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Lenexa, was born in Orleans County, N. Y., July 24, 1824; emigrated to Clinton County, Ill., in 1840. In May, 1847, he enlisted and went to Mexico, under Col. Alton R. Easton; after seventeen months of service he was discharged at Independence, Mo., and returned to Clinton County, Ill., where he turned his attention to farming; in 1861 he went to Colorado and engaged in mining with Quartz Mill until 1864, when he went to Montana and engaged in gulch digging; returned home in 1865, and in the spring of the year following came to Kansas and located on his present farm; he owns 560 acres of land, all well improved and is largely engaged in raising graded cattle and Berkshire hogs. Mr. Allen was married in Clinton County, Ill., November 28, 1846, to Clarissa Bradshaw, a native of England. They have six living children - Henry, Ross, George, Nellie, Julia and Lottie, and three deceased, Annie, Clifton and Rhinalo.

JOHN W. CROOKS, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Morse Station, was born in Carroll County, Ohio, December 25, 1832. He learned the trade of carpenter and for several years followed that occupation. He took an academic course at Richmond, Ohio, after which he gave his attention to teaching school. In 1857 he came to Kansas, but remained only two seasons, during which time he followed his trade; returning home he taught school and worked as a carpenter. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry; was appointed Second Lieutenant and promoted to First Lieutenant in 1863, and to Captain in 1864, serving, in all, some three years. After the war he resided in Akron, Ohio, and was for two years engaged in the boot and shoe business. He returned to Kansas in May, 1868, and located on his present farm, which is the northwest quarter of Section 2, Township 14, Range 24. His farm he has improved yearly until now it is under a high state of cultivation. On his place he has a good orchard of about six acres, and a splendid residence, which cost some $3,500. Mr. Crooks was married in Carroll County, Ohio, in 1859, to Charlotte Amos, who dies December 23, 1860, leaving one daughter, Charlotte. He was married again in Akron, Ohio, in 1865, to Mary C. Harper; she died December 23, 1876. They had four children - James, Edgar, Helen and John.

CHARLES HENRY EWING, farmer, P. O. Olathe, was born in the city of New York, November 3, 1836, and reared in Randolph County, Ill., where he followed farming. In the spring of 1865, he came to Kansas and located on his present farm in Oxford Township in the following fall. He has 160 acres of land, nearly all of which is under cultivation. On his place is a fine orchard, and his farm is tastefully laid off with Osage orange hedges. He is quite extensively engaged in raising hogs. Mr. Ewing was for fifteen years a member of the District School Board, and has had many other local offices. He was married in Randolph County, Ill., November 3, 1859, to Jane Bickett, a native of Scotland. They have seven children - Mary E., Thomas S., William R., Charles H., Henry E., Minnie A., and Lydia Jane.

JOHN EWING, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Olathe, was born in Ireland, in January, 1827, emigrating to America ten years later. He resided for four years in Kentucky, then removed to Randolph County, Ill., where he learned the trade of blacksmith, and for many years carried on a general blacksmith business in connection with which he also farmed. In April, 1866, he came to Kansas, resided for a short time in Franklin County, and in the following August located on his present farm. He owns over 400 acres of land. His residence farm is splendidly improved, being laid out in fields of forty acres; on this place he has some seven or eight miles of beautiful hedge and one of the prettiest residences in the county. Mr. Ewing is quite extensively engaged in raising cattle and blooded hogs. He was married in Randolph County, Ill., in 1851, to Elizabeth J. Ewing, of New York. This union has been blessed with twelve children, five of whom are living - Thomas J., Mary A., Charles S., Fannie M., and Eva J.

HON. THOMAS N. HANCOCK, farmer, P. O. Stanley, was born in Wyandotte County, Ohio, in December, 1839. At the age of eight years his parents moved to Marshall County, Ill., where he was reared on a farm. In September, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Seventeenth Illinois Infantry, and served three years. He came to Kansas in the fall of 1866 and located on his present farm. He has 240 acres and is quite extensively engaged in raising stock. In 1873 he was elected to the State Legislature and served one term. Mr. H. was married in 1868, at Yates County, Ill., to Elizabeth Corbin. They have three children, Evalenah M., Lyman E., and Inez S.

JAMES HUTCHESON, farmer, P. O. Olathe, was born in the County of Armagh, Ireland, on January 1, 1829, and emigrated to America when very young, and was reared in Guernsey County, Ohio. In 1845 he removed to Pittsburgh, Penn., where he learned the carpenter trade, remaining there until 1852, after which he returned to Guernsey County and took a farm. In October, 1858, he removed to Page County, Iowa, where he followed farming. He came to Kansas April 8, 1865 and located on his present farm in Oxford Township. He has 200 acres, 180 or which are highly improved, and three acres of which are an orchard. His principal business is grain farming. Mr. Hutcheson was married in Lawrence County, Penn, in 1852, to Sarah Martin, who died in March, 1862, leaving four children, Robert J., Sarah A., Jemima M. J. and Isabella M. He was married again in Page County, Iowa, October 22, 1864, to Sarah S. Taggart, a native of Indiana.

JEFFERSON KENNEDY, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Meadow Brook, was born in Peru, Indiana, in 1843; emigrated with his parents in 1851, to Jackson County, Mo., and was reared on a farm. In August, 1862, he enlisted, at Kansas City, in Company B, Sixth Kansas Cavalry, and served three years; he came to Johnson County, Kansas, and assisted his father in conducting a farm in Oxford. In the spring of 1870 he moved on to his present farm in Oxford Township. He has eighty acres all under a high state of cultivation and is quite extensively engaged in raising and dealing in live stock. Mr. Kennedy was married in Johnson County, in December, 1869, to Elizabeth Franklin. They have five children, Cora, Walter, Gertrude, Franklin and Sidney.

H. L. MARDIS, merchant, Stanley, was born in Laurel County, Ky., in January, 1845, and reared on a farm. He came to Kansas in October, 1866, located with his father in Oxford Township, Johnson County, and assisted him in farming until 1868, when he was appointed Postmaster at Stanley, which office he still holds. He has, since 1867, been engaged in mercantile business, for the past seven years in company with his father, John Mardis, under style of Mardis & Son. He is also engaged in grain business and farms to some extent. Mr. M. was married in Oxford Township, in June, 1873, to Medora Wallis. They have three children, Walter, Mabel and Myrtle G.

JOSEPH M. MARVIN, breeder of blooded stock, P. O. Olathe, was born in the city of New York, March 25, 1833, and reared in Randolph County, Ill., where he was for some years engaged in farming. He came to Kansas in October, 1860, remaining only a short time, returning to his home in Randolph County. In 1864 he finally settled in Oxford Township, moving on to his present farm in the spring of 1866. He owns 160 acres of land, all well improved. His principal business is breeding Jersey cattle and Normandy and Hambletonian horses, also mules. Mr. Marvin also has a fine orchard of twelve acres of various kinds of fruits. During the war he took an active part here and in Randolph County, Ill. Mr. Marvin was married in Randolph County, Ill., in February, 1855, to Agnes Redpath. They have five children, Jane. R., James H., Mary E., Margaret A. and Fannie R.

DR. J. S. STOUGH, farmer, P. O. Lenexa, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio,, February 28, 1827. He studied medicine at Kenyon College, Knox County, Ohio, and attended Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill., graduating from the latter in 1852. The doctor began the practice of medicine in 1850 in DeKalb County, Ind., where he continued for about twenty-nine years. He came to Kansas in February, 1879, practiced at Longton. Elk County, until October, 1881, when he came to Johnson County, and located on his present farm near the station of Lenexa. He has some eighty acres of land - forty for farming purposes and forty of timber. The doctor has quite an extensive practice, not withstanding his short residence, being quite popular in the farming community.

JOHN TOWNER, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Olathe, was born at Crown Point, N. Y., and reared on a farm, and also learned the carpenter trade, which he followed there and in Livingston County, Ills., for some years. He spent ten years in traveling through various Western states. In May, 1864, he came to Kansas and located on his present farm in Oxford Township. He has here 320 acres, 240 of which are under cultivation and four acres orchard. He is engaged to some extent in raising stock. Mr. Towner was married in Livingston County, Ills., in 1855 to Caroline Williams. They have eleven children - Ephraim, Rhoda, John, Warren, Henry, William, Norah, Lorena, Benjamin and Matthew.

HENRY WEDD, farmer and stock-dealer, P. O. Lenexa, is a native of England and immigrated to America at the age of thirteen years, locating in Kalamazoo County, Mich., for five years; he followed farming; then near Rochester, N. Y., engaged in same capacity. In 1858 he came to Kansas, and in 1859 to Johnson County, locating in Oxford; he was engaged in farming and stock-raising, in company with J. C. McCoy; when the war broke out he was compelled to leave, and resided for a short time in the city of Olathe. In 1862 he moved on to his present farm in Oxford Township. He had little or no means when he arrived here; has now 740 acres of land nearly all improved, and is largely engaged in dealing in Short-horn cattle, Norman horses, and Berkshire hogs. On his place he has a fine residence and a good orchard of four acres. Mr. W. was married in Monroe County, N. Y., July 3, 1846, to Lucy J. Converse. They have seven children - Henry, Charles, George, Mary, Willard, Albert and Elizabeth. 

 MALRY CAVE, farmer, P. O. Aubry, was born in Boone County, Ky., November 27, 1819, and reared in Clay County, Mo.; here he farmed, and also learned the trade of harnessmaker, and was for one year engaged in traveling in the fur trade through the various Territories. In 1858 he came to Kansas, located in Aubry and engaged in farming, but only remained a short time, returning to Clay County, Mo. He gave his attention to the harness business for several years, after which he located on his present farm, which consists of 160 acres of land, all well improved. Mr. Cave was one of the organizers of the township of Aubry. He was married in Clay County, Mo., February 8, 1848 to Charlotte A. Tillery. They have seven children - David T., Wm. S., Uriel, Thomas A., Leonidas, Malry, Jr., and Mary.

CHAS. G. CASE, farmer, P. O. Aubry, was born in Montgomery County, Ky., September 11, 1835, where he was reared on a farm. In 1857 he removed to Cass County, Mo., and in May, 1858, came to Kansas and located on his present farm in the year following. He has 240 acres of land, all improved, and is quite extensively engaged in cattle raising; also has a small but fine orchard. Mr. Case held the office of Justice of the Peace at this place for about ten years. He was married in Bath County, Ky., in February, 1857, to Annie Spencer. They have nine children - Eutopia, Eveline, Harriet B., Marcus L., Maggie, Mary, Annie, Ida and Sarah.

PHILIP CONBOY, farmer, P. O. Aubry, was born in Ireland in 1833, emigrated to America in the spring of 1851, and was generally employed for three years in the city of New York; then for four years engaged in teaming in Dixon, Lee County, Ill. In 1857 he removed to Westport, Mo., where he followed farming. He came to Kansas in 1866, and located on his present farm. He is now the largest land owner in the county; has in all 1,120 acres of land, and is largely engaged in breeding blooded cattle and hogs. Mr. Conboy was married in New York in February, 1854, to Sarah McCargle. They have nine children - Andrew, Mary J., Arthur, Maggie, Thomas, Sadie, Kate, Ellen and Philip.

TILLMAN EVERETT, farmer, P. O. Morse Station, was born in Kentucky in 1817, and reared in Clay County, Mo. Was for some years employed in teaching school, and for five years engaged in mercantile business in Missouri. He came to Kansas in the spring of 1869 and located on his present farm, which consists of 160 acres, in a high state of cultivation. Mr. Everett was married in Davis County, Mo., in 1842, to Mary Spencer. They have a family of eight children.

JAMES LISLE, farmer, P. O. Spring Hill, was born in Holmes County, Ohio. March, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Second Ohio Infantry, and served five months. He re-enlisted May 4, 1864, in Company A, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Ohio Infantry, serving 132 days. In the fall of 1865 he came to Kansas, and for two and one-half years followed farming and carpenter work in Spring Hill, then farmed in Miami County for about nine years. In March 1877, he located on his present farm in Aubry. He has 160 acres, all well improved, also considerable property at Spring Hill. Mr. L. has for the past four years been Clerk of the District School Board. He was married in Olathe, December 15, 1868, to Sarah M. Meek. The have six children - Minnie Pearl, Luna M. Ettie, Annie S., Matilda M. and Bertha A. His oldest daughter, Minnie Pearl, is an accomplished plager sic on the organ. She is thirteen years old.

HON. JOHN H. LUSHER, farmer, P. O. Aubry, was born in Switzerland in September, 1825, and reared on a farm. Emigrated to America in 1845. Resided in the city of New York one year, then in Orleans County, where he learned the cooper trade, and followed it for six years. Engaged in farming in Iowa and Illinois. In 1858 he settled in Cass County, Mo., and gave his attention to farming. In 1861 he came to Kansas and located on his present farm. He has now 400 acres of land, and is extensively engaged in breeding cattle and hogs. His place is one of the best improved in the county, has fine hedges and orchards. Mr. L. was for eight years Notary Public, and six years Justice of the Peace. In 1871 he was elected to the State Legislature and served one term. He was married in Orleans County, N. Y. January, 1849, to Miss E. C. Torry. They have four children - Rudolph O., Wallace D., Lewis W., and John R.

WILLIAM MARKS MOON, farmer, P. O. Aubry, was born in Medina county, Ohio, January 30, 1849. In 1855 his parents emigrated to Grundy County, Ill., where the subject of our sketch was reared on a farm. In 1868 he came to Johnson County, Kan., located in Aubry, and has since given his attention to farming and raising stock. His farm consists of 215 acres, 165 of which are under cultivation. Mr. Moon was married in Aubry in June, 1871, to Ella Turner, a native of Ohio. They have three children - Florence E., Roland, and Lena M.

DANIEL H. RYAN, farmer, P. O. Aubry, was born in Canada, January 6th, 1832. When seven years old his parents immigrated to Monroe County, N. Y. In the spring of 1858 he enlisted in Company I, Fifth United States Infantry, from which he was discharged in 1863. He then crossed the plains from Atchison, Mo., to Denver, Col., and farmed in that neighborhood. In 1866 he came to Kansas and located on his present farm. He owns 220 acres, the greater part of which are under cultivation, fifty-five being in pasture and two acres in orchard.

THOMAS S. SLAUGHTER, farmer, P. O. Aubry, was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, April 1st, 1832. He learned the printing business and carried on the Lancaster Gazette for three years. In June, 1855 he went to St. Paul, Minn., where he engaged in the real estate business, and laid out the towns of Cambridge and Anoka, and in 1860, in company with Gov. Marshall, of Minnesota, established the St. Paul Press. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company I, Sixth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and having assisted in raising the same, was elected captain, and served three years. In June, 1867, he came to Kansas, and located on his present farm, which consists of 240 acres of land, 130 of which are under cultivation. His principal business is stock-raising. Mr. Slaughter was married at Lancaster, Ohio, June 10, 1855, to Maria Louisa McAboy. They have five children - Robert F., Thomas S. Jr., Flora, Minnie, and Chase D.

SAMUEL SLUSHER, farmer, P. O. Aubry, was born in Putnam County, Ind., December 1, 1838, and reared in Floyd County, Va. On October 1, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Fifty-fourth Virginia Infantry and when mustered out three years later, held the rank of First Lieutenant. After the war he gave his attention to farming in Hendricks County, Ind. In the fall of 1867, he came to Kansas and located on his present farm. He has 180 acres of land, and is quite extensively engaged in breeding live stock, making a specialty of hogs. Mr. Slusher was married August 21, 1873, in Butler County, Kan., to Susan Van Huss. They have a family of three children - John H., Dellie M., and Anna E.

ENOCH F. THOMPSON, dealer in live stock, Aubry, was born in Adams County, Ill., in 1836, and reared on a farm. He came to Kansas, April 5, 1858, and located on his present farm, and pre-empting 160 acres; he has now 720 acres and is one of the most extensive farmers in the county. He is also largely engaged in raising blooded cattle and hogs. His land is all well improved, and on his place he has a fine artificial forest, and large orchards of various fruits. Mr. T. was a member of the board of organizers of Aubry Township. Has held various local offices, and during the war he served in Company I, Second Kansas State Militia. He was married in Aubry, May 15, 1864, to Monimia Watts; they have four children - Howard F., Elijah D., Laura M., and Florelia A.

JOSIAH WATTS, farmer, P. O. Aubry, was born in St. Charles County, Mo., January 18, 1824. He is a son of Anthony B. Watts, and a descendant of Daniel Boone. He was reared on a farm, and for some five years also taught school. In 1849, he crossed the plains to California, where he remained two years; returning east he engaged at New Santa Fe, Jackson County, Mo. Mr. Watts came to Kansas, May 9, 1858, and pre-empted 160 acres of land, on which he now resides. He has now 480 acres of land, of which 400 are under cultivation. He was married at New Santa Fe, Mo., June 8, 1854, to Sarah J. Mann; they have six children - Banaugh, Samuel, Bolivar, Adah Loo and Dillard.

A. M. YOUNG, merchant, Aubry, was born in Kentucky, April 24, 1824. In 1835 he emigrated to Lewis County, Mo., and was employed in farming until 1850, when he crossed the plains to California, where he remained for five years engaged in mining. In 1857, he came to Kansas; locating at Paola, he engaged in mercantile business. In the following spring he came to Johnson County, and followed the general merchandise business, at Spring Hill, until 1865, after which he came to Aubrey sic, and has since been engaged in mercantile business at this place. Since 1865, he has held the Postmastership of the place, and has been Treasurer of the Township for some fifteen years. He was married in Lewis County, Mo., in 1857, to Elizabeth Hamilton; they have six children - Lizzie, Eliza, Maurice, Minnie. Mattie, and Lulu.