REV. H. WINSLOW ABBETT, Methodist Episcopal clergyman, was born in Marion County, Ky., in 1839, son of William McDowell and Margaret Winslow Abbett. He married in 1864, Miss Lizzie West. They have three children - Minnie, Harry and Stewart. His wife is the daughter of Elijah and Maria (Smoot) West. He was educated at Dickinson College, Carlisie, Pa.; graduating in the Class of 1860, commenced the ministry in 1861. United with the Kentucky Conference Church South and remained in that connection until 1878. He was for four years in pastoral work, was then elected Professor of Languages at the High School at Carrolton, Ky., and remained one year, was then elected to the Professorship of Ancient Languages at Wesleyan College, at Millersburg, Ky.; remained in that position for five years, after which spent five years in pastoral work, then took the Presidency of the Carroll High School, and held the position two years; after spending two more years in pastoral work, accepted the Presidency of the Female College at Millersburg, Ky., remained for three years. In 1877, he removed to Kansas, located in Wichita, took the Presidency of the Southern Kansas Institute, held that position for two years and for the last four years has devoted himself to pastoral labor. Is the author of the first sermon in the book entitled "Pulpit of the Kentucky Conference," from the text, "Give me neither Poverty nor Riches."

C. L. ADAMS, proprietor marble works, was born in West Virginia, in 1856, father J. M. Adams, mother, Anna McClintock. He married in 1880, Miss Mamie Burson. They have one child, Gracie E. Adams. His wife's parentage, Harvey Burson and Elizabeth Martin. He came to Kansas in 1876, and located at Wichita, started the first marble works in the Arkansas Valley, north of the Indian Territory line and west of Topeka. He is a member of the firm of Kimmerie & Adams. They own the building in which business is located, No. 60 Main street, and also owns marble works at Newton. Business in 1877 amounted to $4,000; in 1882, $12,000.

B. W. ALDRICH, druggist firm of Aldrich & Brown, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., 1846, son of B. W. Aldrich and Mary (Weed) Aldrich. He married in 1874, to Miss Anna E. Stone, of Wichita. Came to Kansas in 1870, located at Wichita. Commenced the drug business the same year under firm name of Aldrich & Simons, continued until 1882, when it was changed to Aldrich & Brown. Enlisted in 1864 in the Thirtieth Regiment, Michigan Volunteers; was rejected on account of disability. Was appointed Deputy Postmaster at Wichita, in 1870. Is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Warwick Lodge, No. 44, also a member of the Knights of Honor, No. 528. A member of City Council from 1876 to 1878.

ALDRICH & BROWN, druggists, located No. 36 Main street, Wichita. Own the building in which business is located. Business increased 500 per cent since its establishment.

BENNETT D. ALLEN, salesman, was born in Kentucky and raised in Missouri, son of Noah and Abigail DeWitt Allen. He was married in 1867, to Miss C. A. Howard, daughter of Osgood and Sarah A. Howard. He came to Kansas in 1868, and located in Allen County, engaged in farming for five years, then removed to Iola and engaged in the grocery business. In 1875, was proprietor of the Leland House in Iola. He came to Wichita, in 1876, engaged in the stock business. In 1877 accepted a position as salesman and collector for Smith & Keating, farm implement house; continued with them for five years, when they sold their business to C. F. Derby & Co., and has been in the employ of that firm since that time. He was in the War of the Rebellion, and enlisted in 1861, in the State Militia of Missouri. Received a commission as First Lieutenant, in 1862, and held that commission during the State Service. In 1863, he enlisted in the United States Service in the Eleventh Regiment, Missouri Volunteers, Company M. Received a commission as Second Lieutenant in 1864. Received a commission as First Lieutenant in 1865. He was in all the battles of his command, and was mustered out at the close of the war, in 1865. He then engaged as agent for the State Insurance Company until coming to Kansas in 1868. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and owns a farm of 160 acres in Afton Township in Sedgwick County.

C. H. ALLEN, harnessmaker and saddler, came to Kansas in 1858, located at Leavenworth, was born in Somerset, Pa. Is the son of Hugh and Martha (Wood) Allen. Was married at Leavenworth in 1862, to Miss Anna Glassbrook. Is a member of the I. O. O. F., Wichita Lodge, No. 93, also Treasurer of Wichita Encampment No. 29, I. O. O. F. Business located No. 127 Douglas Avenue; amount of business in 1874, $7,000; has increased to $10,000 in 1882. In 1860 was conductor of U. S. Mail service from Independence, Mo. to Santa Fe, N. M. Is a member of Old Settlers Association.

[Image of E. B. Allen] EDWIN B. ALLEN, M. D., first Mayor of Wichita, is a native of Ohio, he was born near Oberlin, Lorain County, March 7, 1836, and lived in Ohio and Indiana until he was 16 years of age, when he located near Newton, Jasper County, Iowa, and remained until 1861, he then removed to Butler County, Iowa, where he engaged in the practice of medicine until 1865 at which time he emigrated to Kansas. His first location in this State was in Wabaunsee County, whence he came to Wichita, August 7, 1869 and filed a claim on west of Section 28, Town 27, Range 1 east. He commenced practice immediately and removed his family in March, 1870. The following month he was elected Coroner and served two terms. He also served two terms in succession as Mayor of Wichita, being the first Mayor of the city. In the fall of 1872, he was elected a member of the State Legislature, re-elected in 1874, and again to the Legislature in 1882. He has for the past seven or eight years taken partial charge of his farm near the city. He is now serving his second term as treasurer of South Kansas Medical Society and is a member of the A., F. & A. M., and American, Legion of Honor. He was married near Greencastle, Jasper Co., Iowa, May 25, 1857, to Eliza Sewell, a native of Indiana, who, died March 30, 1858, leaving one child, Eliza D., now Mrs. Luther Becktell, of Harlan, Iowa. On May 23, 1861, Dr. Allen married at Greencastle, Iowa, Mary J. Garrison, a native of Indiana. They have three children living - Charles C., Edith E., and Edgar P., one of their children died in infancy.

J. M. ALLEN, grocer, of the firm of Allen & Tucker, was born in Union County, Ind., in 1840, son of John Allen and Martha (Elliot) Allen. He was married in 1876 to Miss Martha Lybrook, daughter of William and Elizabeth Lybrook, of Preble County, Ohio. They have three children - Jessie, Roland and Cecil. He came to Kansas in 1870 and located at Wichita in 1871; he engaged in the flour and feed business. In the fall of 1871, he formed a partnership with W. R. Tucker, and engaged in the grocery business. After one year Mr. Tucker retired from the firm, the business was then carried on under the firm name of Allen & McKillip for one year. In 1873 he commenced business and continued until 1875, when he again formed a partnership with W. R. Tucker, and built a store now occupied by the firm, No. 96 New York block, on Douglas avenue. Business has increased 200 per cent, since 1875. Was in the war of the Rebellion and enlisted in 1863 in the Ninth Indiana Cavalry, Company D.; was in the hospital one year, and was mustered out in 1865. He is a member of Wichita Lodge No. 93, I. O. O. F., and of Warwick Lodge K. of P. No. 54. He is a member of the Wichita City Council and has served in that capacity four years.

JOSEPH P. ALLEN, druggist, was born in Elkhart County, Ind., in 1838; son of William M. Allen and Sophronia (Meeker) Allen, natives of New York. He married in 1869, Miss Mary E. Tatman. They have two children - Roy E., and Bessie L. He came to Kansas in 1861, and located at Leavenworth. He engaged in selling drugs, and removed to Wichita in 1870, established the drug business, and has continued the same since that time. Business located at No. 92 Douglas avenue. The increase of business since its establishment has been 250 per cent. The business house of J. P. Allen is the oldest one now in the city. He enlisted in the War of the rebellion in 1861, in the Eighth Iowa Volunteers, Company K. Was in the service three years, and was mustered out in 1864. He is a member of Wichita Lodge, No. 99, A., F. & A. M., and of Wichita Chapter, No. 33, and of the Mount Olivet Commandery, No. 12. He is a member of the Garfield Post, G. A. R. No. 25. Is a member of the City Council of Wichita. The first child born in Wichita was Frank H. Allen, born July 3, 1870, and son of J. P. And Mary E. Allen.

JESSE A. ASK, upholsterer and cabinet maker, came to Kansas from Ohio, March, 1877, and located at Wichita. He was born in Cazenovla, Madison Co., N. Y., in 1844. He is the son of Justus and Susan Albertson Ask. He was married in 1872 to Rebecca Perdue. Has three children by his first wife - George, Dolly and Gerald. He was married a second time to Miss Kate Stice, in 1882. Served in the War of the Rebellion, enlisting August, 10,1862, in Company H, One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was engaged in the Morgan and Hood raids, and other important services. Was mustered out at close of war in 1865. During the Morgan raid he was detached from his company and sent to Gen. Burnside's Headquarters, at Cincinnati, as Mounted Orderly, afterwards to Headquarters Department of Ohio, where he served in the same capacity for six months. He is Adjutant of the Second Regiment Kansas State Militia; was commissioned February, 1880. He is also one of the charter members of Garfield Post, No. 25, G. A. R.

JACOB M. BALDERSTON was born in Colerain, Belmont Co., Ohio, January 16, 1842. In 1855 he removed to Magnolia, Putnam Co , Ill., from whence he entered the army July 3, 1861, enlisting in Company A, First Illinois Cavalry, in which regiment he served until July 14, 1862. September 8, 1862, he re-enlisted in Company C, Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry, and was mustered out July 31, 1865, as Captain of his company. He then returned to Magnolia, Ill., and attended the Seminary at Winona, that State, and the Wesleyan University. at Bloomington; afterward teaching school in Illinois. He read law with Weldon & McNulta, at Bloomington, and was admitted to the bar December 10, 1869, remaining in the law office of the firm, with whom he read until nearly a year later. He came to Kansas in 1870, and located at Wichita April, 1872, and has been engaged in the practice of law in that city since his location. Mr. B was taken prisoner at Lexington, Mo., September 20, 1861, and paroled soon after; again taken prisoner near Nashville, Tenn., December 17, 1864, escaping four and a half days later. He was wounded in Georgia, August 2, 1864, receiving pistol shots in leg and wrist.

MILZAR P. BARNES, druggist, of the firm of M. P. Barnes & Sons, was born in 1824, in Camden, N. Y. Is the son of Tillotson Barnes and Clarissa Byington Barnes. He married, in 1849, Miss Susan D. Whitman. They have three children - Ada F., Oscar D. and Nettie I. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Wichita Lodge, No. 99, A., F. & A. M., and of Chapter No. 33. He came to Kansas in 1878. O. D. Barnes, of the firm of M. P. Barnes & Son, commenced in the drug business in Wichita in 1879. Business located at No. 100 Douglas avenue. It has increased 50 per cent. since its establishment; they own the building where business is located. He is a member of Wichita Lodge No. 99, A., F. & A. M., Chapter No. 33. and Mount Olivet Commandery No. 12, K. T.

A. BASLEY, firm of Basley & Leverage, livery and sale stable, was born in England, in 1842, Son of James and Mary Basley, Married, in 1875, to Miss Julia Ralph. They have two children - Charles and Lottie. His wife died in 1881. Came to Kansas in 1867; located at Manhattan and engaged in blacksmithing; remained until 1870, then located at Wichita in 1871; engaged in livery and feed business. In 1880 formed a partnership with J. M. Leverage. Is a member of Masonic fraternity, Wichita Lodge No. 99, and of Chapter No. 33.

BENJAMIN L. BEAR, was born in Plainfield, Cumberland Co., Pa., July 3, 1853. and reared from the age of one year in Decatur, Ill., to which place his parents removed, He commenced the drug business at Decatur and continued it for two years before he removed to Wichita, September 13, 1872, where he has since resided. After locating at Wichita, Mr. Bear carried on farming until October 21, 1874, when he became a resident of the city and engaged in the drug business, being associated with J. P. Allen from April, 1875, to September, 1878. L. N. Woodcock then became his partner, and so continued until the spring of 1880, when they sold the drug store, and Mr. Bear entered the store of J. P. Allen as prescription clerk, remaining in that position until February 1881, and from the latter date until January 1, 1882, being in the law office of Judge Little. Since January 10, 1882, he has been Deputy Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas. He was married at Bainbridge, Putnam Co., Ind , December 25, 1877, to Mary Etta Fraker, a native of that place, by whom he has one child - Ethel Gracie. Mr. Bear is now engaged in poultry breeding, and shipping Mahogany Partidge Cochins exclusively.

JOHN W. BEAR, civil engineer and surveyor, was born in Cumberland County, Penn., in 1830. Son of Israel Bear and Eliza Stoy Bear. Married, in 1851, to Miss Mary Longnecker; has four children - Benj. L., Elizabeth, G. W. and Grace. Came to Kansas in 1872, located at Wichita, engaged in real estate and insurance and continued it two years. He was appointed engineer and surveyor of Wichita and served in that capacity three years. Has been engaged in the business of engineer and surveyor, since. Was in the War of the Rebellion. He enlisted in 1862 in the Sixty-eighth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Company I; was elected Captain of his company, receiving commission in June, 1862. Regiment ordered to Washington, paroled at Alexandria during the second Bull Run, and was mustered out in September, 1862. He was elected Sheriff of Macon County, Ill., held the office for two years; appointed a Deputy in 1864, and recruited a company for the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment Illinois Volunteers; was elected Major of his regiment, receiving commission in June, 1864. He was sent from Camp Butler to Missouri to watch the movements of Gen. Price; was mustered out in October, 1864. He was appointed Deputy United States Marshal for the Southern District of Illinois and served in that office two years. In 1866 was appointed Internal Revenue Collector for the counties of Macon, Fayette and Moultrie; was also Marshal for the city of Decatur, Ill., in 1866; was Alderman of the city of Decatur in 1860 and Tax Collector from 1862 to 1865. Is a member of the Knights of Honor, Wichita Lodge No. 528. Is a member of the Garfield Post of the G. A. R., No. 25.

C. F. BENFORD, tailor, was born in Somerset County, Penn., in 1826, and is the son of John and Elizabeth (Lynk) Benford. Our subject learned the tailor's trade in 1840 to 1844, which trade he steadily followed up to 1861, when he enlisted in the army, where he remained until 1865, when he resigned and came home. Commenced merchant tailoring in 1870. He came to Wichita, Kan., in 1882, and is engaged in the tailoring business on Douglas avenue. His army record is as follows: He belonged to the army of the Cumberland Thirtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Company B, and was in all the principal engagements of that command from 1861 to 1865. He was wounded at Shiloh on the 7th of April, 1862, also at Resaca, Ga., May 15, 1864, and again near Atlanta, Ga., the morning of August 20, 1864. He never was reprimanded on or off duty by his superior officers for neglect of duty; never was absent from his command at the stacking of arms on the march or otherwise, except when wounded or sick. Mr. Benford has been married three times and has four living children, one child by his first wife and three by his second.

R. J. BIGGS, of Biggs & Renshaw, millers, was born in Ohio in 1842, and is the son of Robert P. and Mary Smith Biggs. Was married, in 1873, to Miss Ellen Calaway, daughter of Geo. and Elizabeth Calaway; he has one child, Harry P. Mr. Biggs came to Kansas in 1879, located at Wichita and engaged as engineer for one year, then in hay pressing and thrashing. In 1882 he started feed mill at No. 34 Douglas avenue, in the firm of Stencer, Biggs & Hodson, January, 1883, Stencer and Hodson sold their interest to A. U. Renshaw, the business is now conducted by Biggs & Renshaw. Their mill is steam power, with a capacity of 300 to 400 bushels per day; also a hominy mill with a capacity of 1,000 to 1,500 pounds per day, the only hominy mill in Southern Kansas. He was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisting, in 1862, in the Seventy-seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Company I; was at the siege of Vicksburg, on the Texas expedition and at the siege and capture of Fort Morgan; was brevetted Captain of his company in June, 1864, and served in that capacity until the close of the war; was mustered out in July, 1865. Is a member of the Garfield Post, No. 25, G. A. R.

JACOB BISSANTZ, hardware merchant, was born in Germany in 1846; son of Adolph Bissantz, and Elizabeth Herold Bissantz. He married in 1869 Miss Albertin Kamerer, and has four children - Emily, Lena, Albertin and Robert Bissantz. He came to Kansas in 1872, and located at Wichita, and engaged in the restaurant business for three years. In 1875 he commenced in the hardware business. He was in partnership with H. R. Butler for five years. In 1880 he divided the stock and has since been alone in the business. He owns the building where his business is now located, No. 107 Douglas avenue. 'Business has increased 100 per cent since its establishment. He is a member of the K. of H. Wichita Lodge, No. 582, and of Warwick Lodge, No. 54, K. of P., and of the Wichita Turn Verein. He owns five lots and a residence on the corner of Second and Market streets.

HORACE G. BLOOM, farmer, P. O. Wichita, born in Ohio, Preble County, in 1853, son of Guy Bloom, and Frances Jameson Bloom. He married in 1867 Miss Ella Kreider. He came to Kansas in 1882, purchased farm of 160 acres in Wichita Township, in Section 22, two miles east of Wichita. He is engaged in general farming and a dealer in thoroughbred Poland-China hogs.

J. T. BLOOMER, member of the firm of W. J. Bloomer & Bro., grocers; was born in Tennessee in 1849, son of W. J. Bloomer and Margaret Merritt Bloomer. He came to Kansas in 1878, and located at Wichita. He is a member of the Knights of Honor, Lodge No. 528.

W. J. BLOOMER, member of the firm of W. J. Bloomer & Bro., grocers. Was born in Tennessee in 1856; son of W. J. Bloomer and Margaret Merritt Bloomer. He came to Kansas in 1878 and located at Wichita. In 1878 he commenced business under the firm name of W. J. Bloomer & Bro., in the grocery and provision business, located at No. 80 Main street. Business increased 500 per cent since its establishment. They own the building in which their business is located.

A. C. BROKAW, lumber dealer, of the Arkansas River Lumber Company. Born in Ohio in 1847. Son of John Brokaw and Margaret Morris Brokaw. He married in 1874 Miss Juliette Kennedy, and has one child, Mamie A. He came to Kansas in 1878, and located at Anthony. Harper County, and engaged in stock dealing. In 1880 he located at Wichita, and from that time has been engaged in the lumber business under the firm name of Yark, Brokaw & Tucker, now the Arkansas River Lumber Company. The company own three mills in Washington and Crawford counties, Ark. Started the lumber business in Wichita in 1882. Located on Douglas avenue, south side, near iron bridge; own five lots, occupied as lumber yard. The business of the firm at Wichita is under the management of A. C. Brokaw. He is a member of the Belton Lodge, No. 450.

THOMAS J. BROOK, salesman for M. A. Sayles, farm implements. He was born in Canada West in 1822; son of Samuel and Anna Ray Brook. He married in 1849 Miss Caroline Thacher, daughter of Simeon and Elizabeth Thacher, and four children. Mr. Brook came to Kansas in 1879 an located at Wichita and has been engaged as a salesman for agricultural implements. He was formerly a contractor and builder.

B. K. BROWN, auction and commission merchant, came to Kansas in 1872; located at Wichita. Was born in Fond du Lac, Wis., in 1845. Is the son of F. S. and Chloe (Eldred) Brown. Was married in 1874, in Wichita, to Miss Kate C. McCormick. They have two children - Nettie E. and Chloe. Is a member of the Knights of Honor, commenced business in Wichita in 1872; business located at 123 and 125 Douglas avenue; owns building in which business is conducted. Business increased four fold from 1872 to 1882.

J. H. BROWN, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Wichita, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1830; son of Michael Brown and Mary (Folmer) Brown. He married in 1853 Miss Mary A. Hilbish, daughter of Col. Jacob and Hannah Hilbish, of Pennsylvania. They have four children - Adda L., Edward H., Emma J. and Annie M. He came to Kansas in 1877, and located on a farm two and a half miles east of Wichita, on Section 26, in Wichita Township, and owns the northeast quarter. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1863 in the Twenty-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company F; was in the engagements of Oyster Point, Carlysle and Hagerstown. Was mustered out in 1863. Enlisted in 1864 in the Two Hundred and Second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company I. Received a commission as First Lieutenant. In September, 1864, was promoted to Acting Adjutant of his Regiment. Was mustered out in 1865. Is Justice of the Peace in Wichita Township; has held that position for two years. Was re-elected for two years more by a unanimous vote. Is a member of the Episcopal Church, of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M., of the I. O. O. F. and the G. A. R.

W. J. BROWN, druggist, firm of Aldrich & Brown, was born in Oxford, Ohio, in 1852, son of James Brown and Margaret (Colwell) Brown. Came to Kansas in 1882. Located at Wichita, and commenced business with B. W. Aldrich.

Z. S. BROWN, grocer and hardware merchant, was born in Mecklenburg County, N. C., in 1833; son of Josiah Brown and Sarah E. (Smith) Brown. He was married in 1878 to Miss May H. Matthews, daughter of E. T. and L. B. Matthews, and has two children - Harry and Maud. He came to Kansas in 1869 and located at Topeka and remained two years, engaged as book-keeper. In 1872 he located at Wichita and engaged in the grocery business on Maine street, and in October, 1872, moved to the corner of Douglas and Fifth avenues, where his business is now located. He owns the building, 22 x 80 feet. In 1877 he added hardware to his stock, and has since carried a line of groceries and hardware. He owns a residence on the corner of Fourth avenue and Second street.

A. T. BUCKERIDGE, of the firm of McGriff & Buckeridge. He was born in Canada West, in 1848; was raised in Michigan; son of William Buckeridge and Margaret M. (Clark) Buckeridge. He married, in 1874, Miss Rosa A. Lambe. They have three children - Florence R., Louise M., and William F. He came to Kansas in 1877 and located in Sedgwick County, on a farm. In 1881 he moved to Wichita and engaged in blacksmithing; formed a partnership with J. H. McGriff. Business is located on Douglas avenue, lot 5, English addition. The property where business is located is owned by the firm. He owns a residence, Nos. 64 and 66 Lawrence avenue. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Wichita Lodge No. 99, A., F. & A. M., and R. A. M., Chapter No. 33, A., F. & A. M.

L. B. BUNNELL, of the firm of Bunnell & Roys, located in Wichita in October, 1877, since which time he has been engaged in law and loan business, the former being almost exclusively devoted to the transaction of their own extensive loan and insurance business. The firm are agents for the A., T. & S. F. R. R. lands, and they have a complete set of abstracts of Sedgwick County. Their loans are made for Eastern capitalists on first mortgage real estate security, the business extending into other counties, where they have agents to attend to their interests Mr. Bunnell was born near Lebanon, Ohio, May 23, 1849. He moved to Indiana when a boy, and was educated in the schools of that State, and in the literary and law department of Indiana State University at Bloomington. He was married at Wichita, June 28, 1880, to Arabella E. West, a native of Illinois. They have one child, Luther Marc. Mr. Bunnell is connected with the Presbyterian Church at Wichita, and is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Wichita Lodge, No. 93.

A. G. BURR, farmer, Section 26, P. O. Wichita, was born in Hampshire County, Mass., in 1834, son of Ames Burr and Relief (Eager) Burr. He was married in 1856, to Miss Lucy H. Bisbee, and has three children - Jennie, Nell, and Lucy. His wife died in 1866. He married again, in 1868, Miss Julia E. Allen, and has two children by the last marriage, Anna and Ames. He came to Kansas in 1870, and located at Topeka, remaining one year, and then located on a farm in Rockford, Sedgwick County. In 1882 he moved to Wichita Township. He was in the war of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1861, in the Twenty-eighth Illinois Volunteers, Company D; was elected First Lieutenant at the organization of his regiment, and received his commission in August, 1861. In April, 1862, was commissioned as Regiment Quartermaster. In 1862 commissioned Captain A. Q. R., and in 1865 was commissioned as Major; was in the battle of Shiloh; was wounded in 1863, near Holly Springs, Miss.; was on duty with Gens. Blair, McPherson and Howard, until the surrender, and afterward with Gen. C. B. Fisk, until December, 1865, when he was mustered out.

H. R. BUTLER, hardware merchant, was born in New York, in 1838, son of S. C. Butler and E. J. Toote Butler. He married in 1861, Miss Lois Oliver, daughter of Andrew and Amanda Oliver, and has three children - Elizabeth, Alice and Minnie. He came to Kansas in 1871, and located at Wichita, and engaged for three years as a tinsmith. In 1875 he formed a partnership with Jacob Bissantz in the hardware business, continued until 1880, when they divided the stock and he commenced business alone, at No. 23, Main street. After one year he removed to No. 94, Douglas avenue, where he is now located. His business has increased 100 per cent since 1875. He was Justice of the Peace for two years in Missouri. Is a member of the Board of Education; has served in that capacity for three years. He is a member of Wichita Lodge, No. 93, I. O. O. F., and of Encampment No. 29. 

 WILLIAM P. CAMPBELL, attorney-at-law, was born in Lincoln County, Ky., in February, 1845. He was educated in the common schools in the vicinity of his home, and at Stanford Seminary; read law at Somerset, Ky, and was admitted to the bar in 1866. July 4, 1869, arrived in Kansas, and in the following fall he located in Eldorado, Kan., where he commenced and continued the practice of his profession until he removed to Wichita in the spring of 1873. He was appointed Judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District, and twice elected to the same office, holding it nine years, since which time he has been actively engaged in practice. Judge Campbell was married January 18, 1869, to Kate Barnes, a native of Estill County, Ky., and seven children have been born to them - Josephus, Lizzie, Nannie, Susie, Kate, Sidney, and Mary Willie.

JOHN B. CAREY, lumber merchant, has been engaged in that branch of business in Wichita, since the fall of 1875, his settlement in the place dating from September 1874, at which time he invested in land, and now owns five farms in the vicinity. He is a native of Ireland, and on first coming to America, in 1847, located at Cleveland, Ohio, where he remained until 1856. He then moved to Maroa, Ill., which remained his home until he came to Kansas in 1874, he being while there member of the Common Council and Justice of the Peace. He was married in Bloomington, Ill., in October, 1858, to Sarah Bennett, a native of Ohio, who died in 1863, leaving three children, of whom one only now survives - William P. In May, 1866, Mr. Carey was married at El Paso, Ill., to Mary A. Myers, of Ohio. They have five children - Charles W., Lula, Edward, Joseph and Mary E. Mr. C. is a member of K. of P., and I. O. O. F., subordinate Lodge and Encampment.

W. H. CASTATOR, boot and shoemaker, was born in Indiana, in 1840, son of Elijah Castator and Amelia Dill Castator. Married in 1868, to Miss Sarah J. Hobson. They have three children - Frank, Elma and Bert. Came to Kansas in 1877, located at Kingman, remained there for three years, removed to Wichita, in 1880, engaged in farming for one year, then commenced at the boot and shoe business. Is a member of the Christian Church. Is an ancient member of the I. O. O. F. Is a member of the Garfield Post, G. A. R.; was in the war of the Rebellion, enlisted in 1861, Nineteenth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, Company B.; was in the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, second Bull Run, South Mountain, eleven days fight on the Rappahanock, and several other important engagements; was mustered out in 1864.

J. B. CLARK, farmer, P. O. Wichita, was born in California in 1855. Married in 1882 to Mrs. Sarah Sturns, who was born in 1849, and is a daughter of Joseph Wise. She was married to J. H. Sturns in 1869, and has one child - J. H. Sturns. Came to Kansas in 1867. In 1875, located in Wichita Township on the southwest quarter of Section 26. Her husband, J. H. Sturns, died in 1881. She was married in September, 1882, to J. B. Clark. Sold the farm in October, 1882, with the intention of going to Pomona, Los Angeles County, Cal.

REV. JACOB SHERRIL CHAMBERLAIN, Episcopal clergyman, son of Sylvester and Hannah Miller Chamberlain, was born in 1820, at Buffalo, N. Y. In 1847, he married Mary Chase, of Robin's Nest, Peoria Co., Ill. From this marriage there are six children, viz.; Sherril, Philander Chase, Ernest, Ruth, Grace and Mary. His wife is the only daughter of Rt. Rev. Philander Chase, First Bishop (Protestant Episcopal) of Illinois. He graduated at Jubilee College, in class of 1847, was ordained the same year by Bishop Chase and immediately entered upon pastoral work. He was missionary in Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties until 1852, when he become Missionary Rector of "St. Anthony Falls Church Mission." Minnesota, in which position he remained eleven years. In 1865, he returned to Peoria County, Ill., and became Itinerant Missionary of "Robin's Nest Church Mission," continuing to carry on that mission until 1882, when he became Rector of St. John's Church, Wichita, Kan., in which position he is now. During his ministry he has built seven churches in Illinois, and thirteen in Minnesota, and is now engaged in the building of another in Midlothian, Kan. He also founded St. Mary's School for Girls, at Knoxville, Ill.

D. J. CHATFIELD, hardware merchant was born in Lenawee County, Mich., in 1843. son of Lyman Chatfield and Elizabeth Hoag Chatfield. Married in 1866, to Miss Elizabeth Meeker. They have six children - Mary O., George A., Luetta J., Hannah, Ellen and Josiah. Came to Kansas in 1872, located at Oskaloosa; was engaged in painting for two years, then moved to Winchester and engaged as salesman for one year, and one year in the grocery business. In 1876, moved to Wichita, engaged as salesman for two years. In 1878, commenced in the hardware business, located at No. 60 Douglas avenue. Owns residence on Fourth avenue between First and Second streets. Business increased 100 per cent. since its establishment. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1861, in the first Regiment Michigan Volunteers Company K. Was in the battle of the first Bull Run: was present at the taking down of the rebel flag by Ellsworth's Zouaves on the Marshall House in Alexandria, Va. Was mustered out in 1861. November, 1861, he enlisted in the First United States Lancers; that regiment was disbanded in April, 1862. Enlisted in the Third Cavalry in the field, Company C. Was in the battles of Corinth, Iuka, Rienza, and other engagements of his command. Was in the Siege of Mobile at the close of the war. His regiment was Gen. Canby's body guard, and received Gen. Dick Taylor's surrender twelve miles from Mobile. The Third Cavalry Regiment was brigaded and connected with the Seventh Kansas Cavalry for two years, and was with them in a number of battles and skirmishes. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

HUBERT CHILD, upholsterer and furniture dealer, came to Kansas in 1870, locating at Hillsdale, Miami County; lived there for three years, and was agent of the Ft. Scott & Gulf R. R. In 1873 he removed to Wichita, and was bookkeeper and collecting agent for several years. In 1881 he commenced his present business. He was born in Hereford, Herefordshire, England, in 1835. His father's name was Matthew Child; his mother's maiden name, Isabella Munro, daughter of John Munro, Laird of Dulness, Inverness, Scotland. Was married in 1876, to Miss Nellie Stice, and has two children, Ada B. and Hubert M. He was in the United States Telegraph Department during the latter years of the war, was repairer under C. O. Rowe, Superintendent of the Telegraph Department for West Virginia. His father, Matthew Child, was for many years Collector of Customs at Port Stanley, Canada West, and died in 1860.

J. L. COOPER, proprietor Oriental livery stable, was born in South Bend, Ind., in 1847; son of John Cooper and Charlotte Heckman Cooper. He married, in 1879, Miss Lizzie Blood, came to Kansas in 1870 and located near Wichita, on a farm, and engaged in farming for three years; then engaged in the stock business from 1873 to 1878. He was elected Constable of Wichita in 1879, and re-elected in 1880 and 1881, and in 1882 purchased the Oriental livery business, which was established in 1875, located north side of Douglas Avenue. He is a member of Wichita Lodge, No. 93, I. O. O. F.; also of Encampment No. 29; built the first house in Sumner County in which a floor was laid and dug the first well in Minneha Township.

W. U. COX, dealer in hides, pelts and wool, born in Scioto, Ohio, in 1824, son of Henry Cox and Luvica Utt Cox. Married, in 1852, Miss Sophena A. Hull. They have three children, Lillie B., Rosa M., and Willie H. He came to Kansas in 1869, and located at Topeka; in 1872 removed to Wichita and engaged in farming and gardening until 1878, when he engaged in dealing in hides, pelts and wool business located at No. 73 Douglas avenue. During the War of the Rebellion he was engaged for two years buying horses for the Government.

A. J. COOK, farmer, P. O. Wichita, was born in Berkshire County, Mass., in 1819; son of James Cook and Lucy Tolman Cook. He married, in 1846, Miss Ann E. Stephens, and has six children, Helen, Robert S., Emma, William S., Nathan C. and Samuel. He came to Kansas in 1869 and located in Wichita Township, in 1870, on southwest quarter of Section 14, two miles from Wichita; has resided on his farm since and has been engaged in farming; implement business and stock raising. He enlisted in the militia service in New York State, in 1836, during the Patriot War was under Gen. Scott, and was mustered out of the service the same year. He enlisted in the Home Guards, in Missouri, in 1863, and was mustered out in 1864; is patentee of a dredging machine, a channel boat for dredging the Western rivers (patent issued in 1880); has other important inventions in process, among others, one for connecting and moving railroad trains with telegraph; also invented and patented in 1845-46, the first automatic self-rake reaper; in 1852 invented the first harvester ever put into the field, and the same year invented the steel-plated guard, which has been in use from that time to the present on all mowing machines. Mrs. Cook was the daughter of Robert E. Stephens and Rhoda W. Cory, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio.

ROBERT S. COOK, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Wichita, was born in Ohio in 1849; son of A. J. Cook and Ann E. (Stephens) Cook. Married in 1875, Miss Carrie Copeland, and has two children - Charles E. and Blanch. Mr. Cook came to Kansas in 1869, located on a farm in Wichita Township, in 1870; owns the southeast quarter of Section 14, where he now resides; farm under a high state of cultivation, fine stock of cattle, three miles east of Wichita.

RUFUS CONE, grocer, member of the firm of Ratliff & Cone, was born in Illinois in 1853, son of Lucius Cone and Amanda (Woolsey) Cone. He married in 1878, Miss Ella Center, and has two children - Edwin and Otis. He came to Kansas in 1878, and located at Wichita. Was engaged as a salesman for three years. In 1881, he formed a partnership with J. A. Ratliff, and commenced the grocery business, and located at 113 Douglas avenue; business has increased seventy per cent., since its establishment. He owns a residence on South Main street. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. Lodge, No. 22.

HARRY CROSKEY, M. D., physician and surgeon, was born in Philadelphia, in 1848, son of Henry and Ann (Donahue) Croskey. Was married in 1867, to Miss Jennie Quigley, daughter of Cline and Agnes (Thompson) Quigley. Has four children - Henry, Agnes, Ann and Charles. Dr. Croskey was educated in the Lewisburgh University, in 1866. In 1867, commenced the study of medicine, graduated at the Hahnemann Medical College in 1878; commenced the practice of medicine in 1869, in Philadelphia. Came to Kansas in 1878, located at Wichita, and engaged in practice. Office at his residence, No. 81 North Topeka avenue. Is a member of the Baptist Church, and of the K. of H., Wichita Lodge. No. 528; is examining surgeon for the order.

FRANK CROLL, carriagemaker, was born in Pennsylvania in 1841, son of John Croll and Maria (Bain) Croll. He married in 1875, Miss Mary DeLukey; came to Kansas in 1874, and located at Wichita; commenced in the business of carriagemaking, and has been engaged in the same until the present; he was in the War of the Rebellion, and was in the Seventy-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company B; was in all the engagements of his command, and was mustered out in 1864. He is a member of the G. A. R. Post, No. 139.

L. W. CROUCH was born in Warsaw, Ind., April 9, 1848, and resided there until he came to Kansas. He attended the Methodist College at Fort Wayne, Ind., and read law with his uncle, Harrison McNeil, at Indianola, Iowa, where he was admitted to the bar, August 25, 1871. He was then engaged in the practice of law at Warsaw, until he came to Wichita, October 26, 1878. Since coming to Kansas, he has been engaged in the real estate and loan business, besides practicing his profession. Mr. Crouch is a member of the A. F. & A. M. and the K. of P. He was married at Wichita, July 24, 1881, to Annie B. Elliot, a native of St. Joseph, Mo. They had one child - Eva, who died December 20, 1882.

FRANK DALE, attorney-at-law, was born in Somonauk, DeKalb Co., Ill., November 26, 1849, and resided in his native town until 1871, when he came to Kansas, where he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1880. His first location after coming to Kansas was in Greeley Township, Wichita County, where he was engaged in farming for seven years before coming to Wichita. He was the first Town Clerk in Greeley Township, and held that office during the entire period of his residence in that township. Mr. Dale is a member of the K. of P., and has been engaged in practice here since 1880.

JOHN DAVIDSON, lumber merchant, was born in Scotland, November 30, 1869. He came to America, July 29, 1868, and remained for a short time at Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked on the State Asylum until he left for Leavenworth, Kan., in September, 1868. He resided at Leavenworth through the winter, and in the spring of 1869 moved to Topeka, and remained in that city until he came to Wichita in January, 1870, being foreman of the carpenter work on the State House while in Topeka. He opened a lumber yard in Wichita, in May, 1870, but continued his business as contractor and builder until 1875. Mr. D. was married in Sumner County, September, 1874, to Ellen Paton, also a native of Scotland. Their two children are John Paton and Agnes Wilson.

JOSEPH DAVIDSON, firm of Bloss & Davidson, carriagemakers and blacksmiths, was born in Canada, in 1860; son of Alexander Davidson and Elizabeth (Tage) Davidson. Came to Kansas in 1878, located at Wichita. Is a member of Wichita Lodge, No. 93, I. O. O. D. George Bloss, firm of Bloss & Davidson, was born in Canada, in 1850; son of Frederick Bloss and Etta (Clenson) Bloss. Married, in 1877, to Miss Emma Bath, and came to Kansas in 1878. Business of the firm of Bloss & Davidson was established in 1878, located on the corner of Douglas avenue and Water street. Business increased 200 per cent since its establishment.

S. L. DAVIDSON was born in Ackworth, Cheshire Co., N. H., in 1814. In 1821 he moved to Allegany County, N. Y., and remained in that county until he came to Kansas, being engaged in farming and mercantile business during those years. He came to Wichita in March, 1872, removed his family to the place in the following October, and commenced money loaning business the same year. The present firm composed of S. L. & J. O. Davidson was organized in 1877. The business being especially in real estate loans in Kansas. Mr. D. was married in Ackworth, N. H., in 1839, to Sarah Lancaster, who died in 1844, leaving two children, Mary Jane and Sarah Ann, now Mrs. Levi A. Rogers, residing on the old farm in New York. Mr. D. married again in Cuba, N. Y., in 1846, Susan R. Hampton. The children by this union being James O., Alice, Charles L. and Jennie B.

J. O. DAVIDSON, president of the Citizens Bank, came to Wichita in April, 1872, and soon afterward engaged in mercantile business, which he continued two years, and subsequently became connected with his father in the loan business. He is a native of Cuba, Allegany Co., N. Y., and afterward lived both in Black Creek and Cuba, coming from the latter place to Kansas.

J. C. DEAN, president and manager of Zephyr Mills, was born in Boston, Mass., October 27, 1833. He engaged in wool commission business in that city, in which he was engaged until he moved to Chicago, in 1857. He remained in Peoria three years, and in 1861, went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended the Cincinnati Dental College, returning to Chicago after finishing his studies, where he practiced dentistry fourteen years, being at the same time engaged in steam engineering, for a year and a half, as superintendent of steam department of Crane Bros.' immense establishment. He was also interested in the foundry and machine shops of Preble, Dean & Co., continuing in the business until 1873. He came to Kansas in April, 1876, located at Wichita, and purchased a farm in Kechi Township, practicing dentistry the first year of his residence in Wichita, and moving on to his farm northwest of Section 15, Township 26, Range 1 east, where he remained until the fall of 1882. Mr. Dean had a grist mill on his farm, where he did custom work, and was also engaged in selling agricultural implements. He now has charge of Zephyr Mills, Wichita. He was married at Hudson, Ohio, March, 1863, to Elizabeth Adams, a native of Massachusetts. Their three children are William G., Bessie, and Margie.

C. F. DERBY, dealer in farm implements, was born in Minersville, Pa., in 1842, son of John and Antoinette Blanch Derby. He married in 1873, Miss Kate Dietrick, daughter of George H. and Mary Evens Dietrick. They have two children - George and Frank Derby. He came to Kansas in 1871 and located on a farm in Delano Township, Sedgwick County. In 1872 he returned to Pennsylvania and took the superintendency of the Susquehanna Coal Works of the Pa. R. R Co. Remained in that position for six years, and in 1878 returned to Kansas, located on his farm, and remained two years, then removed to Wichita and engaged in bookkeeping for J. A. Wallace's implement house, and remained two years. In 1882 he purchased the agricultural implement business of Smith & Keating, located at Nos. 130 and 132 Douglas avenue, and is now engaged in that business under the firm name of C. F. Derby & Co. He was in the War of the Rebellion, and enlisted in 1861 in the Fifty-second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers as musician: was at the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, and other engagements of his command. He was mustered out in 1862, and assisted in recruiting. Recruited a company in 1864 for the Pennsylvania State Militia Thirtieth Regiment at the time of Gen. Lee's invasion of the State. He is a member of the Knights Templar Lodge, No. 45: is a member of Garfield Post. No. 25, G. A. R.; is vice-commander of the post. Owns a farm of 240 acres in Delano Township, and a residence on Topeka avenue.

J. F. DONALD, dry goods, born in Cohoes, N. Y., in 1857, son of James Donald and Susan (Ferguson) Donald. Came to Kansas in 1877, located at Atchison; came to Wichita in 1881, located business at No. 31 Main street. Dry goods business increased 400 per cent since its establishment. Is a member of the firm of Donald Bros. at Atchison, wholesale and retail dry goods house. Has an extensive business at that place.

EDGAR A. DORSEY, was born near Harmony, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., April 3, 1851. He lived in his native town three years, and then with his parents removed to Vermont, who, after remaining two years in that State, again removed to Page County, Iowa. April 6, 1866, Edgar A. removed to Jersey Co., Ill., and in the fall of 1869 to Montgomery County, where he resided until he came to Kansas in June, 1872, reaching Wichita on the 10th. During June he pre-empted and settled on northeast of Section 32, Township 26, Range 2, west, Osage Indian Lands, and remained on this farm until December 1, 1875, when he moved onto southeast of Section 20, Township 26, Range 2 west, where he lived until he removed to Wichita, January, 1878, having been elected County Clerk in November, 1877. While a resident of Union Township he was Town Trustee one term, and member of School Board. He is a member of K. of P., No. 440, and of I. O. O. F., Wichita Lodge, No. 93. He was married in Wichita, February 17, 1874, to Helen A. Avery, a native of Geneseo, N. Y. They have three children - Eleanor Loy, Margaret and Katie.

Dr. W. L. DOYLE, dentist, settled in Wichita in October, 1872, and has practiced dentistry continuously since, being the only member of the profession within a radius of forty miles of Wichita, for the space of five years. He was born in Clinton, La., August 17, 1837. He commenced the practice of dentistry in Greenville, Miss., in 1869, removed from there to Glasgow, Mo., the same year, where he remained till 1872, when he came to Wichita, Kas. He was married at Petersburg, Va., in 1864, to Miss Mattie R. Heath of Sussex County. The doctor is a member of I. O. O. F. Lodge and Encampment.

H. C. DRAVES, restaurant, oyster and ice cream parlors, was born in Germany, in 1848, and is a son of Wm. Draves and Minnie Jaunow. He was married in 1873, at Ripon, Wis., to Miss Elizabeth Keller. They have three children - Alice, Lizzie and Charles. Came to Kansas in 1878, and located at Wichita, commenced business the same year. He located at No. 28 Douglas avenue, and his business has increased 300 per cent since its establishment. He owns the building in which business is located. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Lodge No. 22.

C. S. EICHHOLTZ, farmer and breeder of Short-horn cattle and Poland-China hogs, P. O. Wichita, was born in Pennsylvania in 1837, son of Henry Eichholtz and Angeline (Christman) Eichholtz. He married, in 1864, Miss Jennie Updegraff, daughter of Isaac and Mary Updegraff, natives of Pennsylvania. They have four children - Harry S., Levi B., Wilber and Idelette Pearl. He came to Kansas in 1870, to Wichita Township, and in 1878 located on the northeast quarter of Section 34, three miles southeast of Wichita. Was in the war of the rebellion, enlisted in 1861 in the Ninety-second Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, Company D. Was in the battle of Franklin, Tenn., Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Resaca, Dayton, Ringgold, Rome, Atlanta, Altoona Pass, Brownsville, Marietta, Macon, Havana, Aiken, Goldsboro, and other engagements of his command. Was mustered out in 1864. He has been Councilman of the city of Polo, Ill., for two years. Is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was president of the Arkansas Valley Agricultural Society in 1880-81, and is now secretary of the same. He makes a specialty of Short-horn cattle and Poland-China thoroughbred hogs.

Rev. WARREN J. ELLIOTT, clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Owensboro, Ky., in 1847. He is the son of David and Philisany Elliott, who were natives of Kentucky. He was married in 1868, to Miss Miranda E. Pinkston. His wife died in January, 1870, and in 1874 he was again married to Miss Caroline E. Green, daughter of J. C. Green, of Mayfield, Ky. Has one child living - James Ulysses Elliott, and one, Jessie D. Elliott, dead. He was educated in Owensboro, Ky. Commenced the ministry in 1872 and remained five years in the Kentucky Conference, and was then transferred by Bishop Bowman to the South Kansas Conference in 1876; and stationed in Chanute, Kas. He has since served Harrisonville charge three years, Rolling Green one year, and his present charge, East Wichita, two years. Has been instrumental in building three churches. He enlisted in the War of Rebellion in 1861, in the Twenty-fifth Regiment Kentucky Volunteers; was consolidated with the Seventeenth Regiment Kentucky Volunteers in 1862. He was discharged on account of disability in 1862. Re-enlisted in Company D, Thirty-fifth Kentucky in 1863. He was in all the engagements of the command. The heaviest battles were those of Fort Donelson and Pittsburg Landing. While in the Thirty-fifth Kentucky, his regiment was detached, in 1864, to fight bushwhackers in Kentucky; and Company D was detached for special services in Southwestern Kentucky. During that campaign, for forty-four days and nights with the exception of one night, all the sleep the men got was in the saddle, and in line of march. At one time during that period they were three days and nights without food; and there was scarcely a day during the whole time that they did not have a skirmish with the rebels.

JOHN EXTON, grain elevator and hay baler, was born in New Castle County, Del., in 1837, and is the son of John Exton and Julia M. (Smith) Exton. Married, in 1872, Miss Anna Harrington. They have two children - Florence L. and Joseph. Came to Kansas in 1869, was manager of a contract on the Missouri, Kansas & Topeka Railroad. In 1870 located at Wichita and engaged as dealer in coal, building material and grain; has continued in the same from that time. Built the Exton Elevator in 1876. In 1880 commenced hay baling in connection with other business. Increase of business since its establishment has been fifty per cent. The capacity of hay press is sixty tons per week. Hay shipped West. Business located on side track east of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Freight Depot and west of Fort Scott & Wichita Freight Depot. Mr. Exton was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisted, in 1861, in the Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, Company H., and was in the battles of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor and in front of Washington. He was commissioned in 1863 Second Lieutenant and in 1864, Captain. Re-commissioned Lieutenant in the Invalid Corps in 1864 and commissioned Captain in the United States Veteran Corps in the spring of 1865. Was mustered out of service in May, 1866. He was wounded three times in front of Petersburgh. In 1874-75 had charge of, received and forwarded all supplies for the Military and Indian Departments in the Indian nation. Is a member of the Episcopal Church. 

 ANDREW H. FABRIQUE, M. D., was born in Hinesburg, Vt., September 9, 1835. When he was one year of age his parents removed to New Albany, Ind., which was the home of A. H. until the close of the war. April 28, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Fifty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry and was elected First Lieutenant of his company on its organization. He served until July 21, 1865, having been promoted during service to Lieutenant Colonel of his regiment. He was taken prisoner at Memphis in May, 1862, but escaped about an hour later. He received a gunshot wound through his left arm at the Battle of Shiloh, which disabled him for nearly a year, and afterward less serious ones at Vicksburg, Mission Ridge and Atlanta. After the close of the war he was appointed Lieutenant in the regular army; which position he resigned in 1868. Prior to coming to Kansas in September, 1869, his home had been for a time in Aurora, Ill. Dr. Fabrique received his literary and medical education at Center College, Danville, Ky., and at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, N. Y. He is a member of the United States Medical Association, South Kansas Medical Association and A., F. & A. M. He was married at Memphis, Tenn., September 26, 1866, to Sarah Philler, a native of New Albany, Ind., by whom he has one child - Mattie L. Dr. F. served on Gen. McPherson's Staff from July 12, 1863, to July 4, 1864, and on Gen. Blair's Staff from July 6, 1864, to July 21, 1865.

BENJAMIN H. FISHER, attorney-at-law, is a native of Dover, Windham Co., Vt. where he was born, March 10, 1816. He was reared near Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, his parents removing to that place when he was six months of age. When he was twenty-one he engaged in canal engineering, department of Wabash & Erie Canal, remaining in the same department five years. He then returned to Cuyahoga County, where he lived about eight years, reading law while residing there, and removing thence to Williams County, where he remained fourteen years before coming to Kansas. He located in Wichita in March, 1872, having visited the place and purchased property in December, 1871. He was engaged in active practice in Wichita until about 1880, serving one term as City Attorney. He was also engaged in cattle business about five years. He was married in Hudson, now Summit County, Ohio, February 21, 1841, to Harriet Letcher, a cousin of Gen. Garfield, her mother and Gen. Garfield's father being brother and sister. Mrs. Fisher was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y. The children of Mr. and Mrs. F. are Jonathan, Caroline, Frank and Lane. Mr. F. is a member of the First Spiritualist Society of Wichita. He entered Company C, Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, April, 1861, as Captain of the company for three months' service. At expiration of term, he re-enlisted in Company I, Thirty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being Captain of this company also, but was detailed for first eight months as clerk in medical director's office at Louisville. He then served in the regiment until a few months after the battle of Chickamauga, when he was detailed as Chief Commissary of First Cavalry Division of Army of Cumberland, and served in that position about one year, when he resigned on account of his father's illness.

ELIJAH P. FORD located in Illinois Township, Sedgwick Co., Kan., November 13, 1876, his farm being on the southeast quarter of Section 36, Township 27, Range 1 west. He resided there until August 3, 1881, when he removed to Wichita, and since the 15th of the same month has held the position of Deputy County Clerk. Was born in Chester, Delaware County, Pa., September 27, 1831, where he resided, till October 20, 1846, when with his parents he removed to Macoupin County, Ill., and came from thence to Kansas. He was married, May 15, 1857, at Chesterfield, Macoupin Co., Ill., to Sarah E. Lee, a native of Greene County, Ill. Their children now living are - Frederick L., Frank J., Mary C., Georgianna and Susie S. Mr. F. is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of the A., F. & A. M., and G. A. R. Was a member of Company H, Eighty-eighth Illinois Volunteers. Enlisted August 12, 1862.

ROBERT FORRESTER has been a resident of Kansas since September 12, 1870, at which time he located in Grant Township, Sedgwick County, and engaged in farming and carpenter work. Since removing to Wichita, August 13, 1879, he has devoted himself to his trade. Mr. Forrester was born in Indiana, but reared, from the age of six months, in Columbus, Ohio, from which place he removed to Mercer County, Ill., in April, 1857, remaining in Mercer until August 16, 1861. He then enlisted in Company A, Thirtieth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served until March 30, 1863, when he was discharged, and re-enlisted in Company I, Mississippi Marine Brigade, being mustered in the day of his discharge from the former regiment. He was finally mustered out, January 18, 1865, and returned to Illinois, where he remained until he removed to Kansas. He was married, in Millersburg, Mercer County, Ill., December 6, 1865, to Hattie Middleton born near Cincinnati, Ohio, and a resident of that city until she moved, when nine years of age, with her parents to Mercer County, Ill. The four children of Mr. & Mrs. F. are - Maud S., Frank L., Harry E. and Pet. Mr. F. is a member of G. A. R. and I. O. O. F.

GEORGE S. FREEMAN, proprietor of Freeman's Dining Rooms, was born in Rockford, Ill., in 1857. Is the son of K. M. Freeman and E. C. (Sheldon) Freeman. Married in 1878 Miss Cora P. Hart and has two children, Jennie E. and an infant. Came to Kansas in 1877 and located at Wichita. Engaged in farming for three years. In 1881 engaged in the loan business and continued in it for two years. In 1882 opened his dining rooms. Has the largest establishment of the kind in Sedgwick County. Has forty boarders and fifty sleeping apartments in connection with transient trade.

JACOB FULLER, farmer, Section 1, P. O. Wichita, was born in Pennsylvania in 1833. Son of John Fuller and Margaret (Engle) Fuller. He married in 1861 Miss Hannah Mitchel, daughter of Andrew and Hannah Mitchel, and has four children, Trueman T., Emma J., Cora E. and Charles M. Came to Kansas in 1878 and located in Wichita Township, where he has since resided. Is engaged in farming five miles northeast of Wichita. Is steward of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

JAMES FULMER, blacksmith, was born in Bucks County, Pa., in 1859. Son of Tobias Fulmer, and Lydis (Mitman) Fulmer. Came to Kansas in 1882 and located at Wichita. Commenced in blacksmith business on the corner of Douglas avenue and Wichita street. Owns the property where his business is located. Business increasing. Is a member of the German Reformed Church.

CHARLES C. FURLEY, the subject of this sketch, was born in Hudson County, N. J., March 28, 1838, and spent his early youth between his native village and the city of New York, which is about five miles distant. About the age of twelve he emigrated to California in company with his family, his father having preceded them to the land of gold, where the subject of our sketch lived, was educated, and studying medicine, graduated in 1860 from the medical department of the University of the Pacific, now called Cooper Medical College. When the late war fired the hearts of the old and the young, Dr. Furley, who had only lately graduated in his profession, was commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the Second California Cavalry, in which capacity he served until 1863, when he resigned to accept the position of Surgeon in the service of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and after serving something over a year resigned to return to the army as Assistant Surgeon, in which capacity he served in the Army of the Potomac, Departments of Virginia and of the Gulf until a year after the close of the war. He spent one year in Wyoming Territory prior to his coming to Kansas, which he did in 1869, settling in Abilene, where he practiced his profession for two years and then removed to Wichita. He has continuously practiced his profession since. Dr. Furley is a member of the American Medical Association and the Kansas State Medical Society, having been the president of the latter association two terms - the only man having had that honor conferred upon him twice. He is also a member of the South Kansas Medical Society and was its first president. Capable, kind hearted, and benevolent, possessed of a liberal spirit, Dr. Furley has a distinctive eminence not only in his profession, but in the walks of every day life. As an Odd Fellow he is recognized as one of the first, being at the present time Grand Patriarch - the chief officer of the upper branch of Odd Fellowship in Kansas.

A. M. GARRISON, saddler, and harnessmaker, came to Kansas in 1858, locating at Auburn; lived there for twenty-four years, engaged in farming. Removed to Wichita in 1882 and engaged in his present business. He was born in Rockville, Parke Co., Ind., in 1847. He was married at Topeka, Kansas, in 1874, to Miss Mary Moffitt. Has two children - Numan H. and Charles C. He is the son of Samuel Y., and Margaret B. (McNutt) Garrison, and has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for twelve years.

CHARLES M. GARRISON, harnessmaker and saddler, came to Kansas in 1858, and located at Auburn; engaged in farming and mail contracting. Had the first mail contract to Salina, connecting with the Lawrence and Leavenworth mail. Remained at Auburn ten years. In 1870, he carried the first regular U. S. mail that ever came to Wichita. He located at Wichita the same year, and commenced the harness and saddlery business. He was the first man to engage in that business in Wichita. He was born in Rockville, Parke Co., Ind., in 1836, and is the son of Samuel Y. and Margaret B. (McNutt) Garrison. He was married in Wichita, to Sarah M. Grantham, in July, 1871. Has five children - William L., Etna E., Mary, Walter and Gertrude. Was in Kansas State Militia, Second Regiment. Company G, during the War of the Rebellion, and was called to the United States service in Missouri, and was engaged with Shelby's cavalry. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for eight years, is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Wichita Lodge No. 99; was a member of the Board of Education for two years; member of the City Council of the city of Wichita for four years; is a member of the Board of Trade and the Old settlers' Association. His wife is the daughter of J. W. and Emily E. Huckeybee Grantham, the former born in Georgia in 1823, and the latter in North Carolina in 1824.

ROBERT M. GARDNER, proprietor of livery, sale and feed stable, was born in Westmoreland County, Pa., in 1848; son of John S. Gardner and Mary Mickey Gardner. He married, in 1872, Miss Susannah Pearson, and has two children - Mary Pearson and John F. Gardner. He came to Kansas in 1878, and located at Clearwater, engaged in farming and stock raising, and still owns his farm and carries on the business in connection with his business in town. Business in Wichita is located at No. 39 Douglas avenue. He has served two years as Township Trustee.

MARTIN L. GARVER, was born near Chambersburg, Pa., May 16, 1844. He served until the fall of 1863 in Company A, Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and in 1874 removed from his native place to Mansfield, Ohio, where he lived until he emigrated to Kansas. His first location in Kansas was at Columbus, in April, 1879, whence he removed to Wichita the following month and engaged in the loan and real estate business, which he continued to the present time. He is agent for H. C. Wilson & Co., of St. Louis, Loan Agents of that place, representing Sedgwick, Sumner, Harper, Kingman and Reno counties, and partially Butler County. Mr. Garver was married at Mansfield, Ohio, April 12, 1871, to Kate B. Emminger, a native of that place. They have four children - Mary L., George J., James L. and Charles L. Mr. G. is a member of the A., F. & A. M., and a graduate of Wittenburg College, Springfield, Ohio, June, 1866.

C. A. GATES, collector and salesman for M. A. Sayles, farm implements. Was born in Ohio in 1836; son of Caleb and Sarah Tucker Gates. He married in 1875 Miss A. E. White, daughter of Stephen T. and P. White. They have three children - Arzemia, Arthur, and Merrill. Mr. Gates was educated in Ohio and studied theology from 1859 to 1862. From that time until 1873 he was engaged as a locomotive engineer. In 1873 he joined the Des Moines Conference and commenced pastoral work. He was ordained deacon in 1875. In 1875 he was obliged to give up his pastoral labor on account of failing health. He came to Kansas that year and located on a farm in Sedgwick County. In 1876 he accepted an appointment on the West Wichita Circuit in place of J. F. Nessley, resigned. He filled that appointment until the close of the Conference year. In 1879 he was appointed on the Cartwright Circuit, and remained on that circuit one year. In 1880 he removed to Wichita and accepted a position as engineer. In 1882 he engaged with M. A. Sayles. He owns a residence on the corner of Fifth avenue and Oak Street. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M., Wichita Lodge, No. 99, ancient member of the I. O. O. F.

PETER GETTO, manufacturer of mineral and soda water. He was born in Germany, 1841, son of Michael Getto and Sophia Eckert Getto. He married in 1872 Miss Theressia Zimmerman, and has three children - Sophia, Josephine and Theressia. He came to Kansas in 1871 and located at Wichita. He engaged in the grocery business in the firm of Hess & Getto and continued in that business for six years, then engaged in the business of manufacturing mineral and soda water. His factory is located on the corner of Main and Second streets. He owns the building and also residence on Second street and a farm in Section 10. Is a member of the K. of H., Wichita Lodge, No. 528, and of the K. of P., Warwick Lodge, No. 54, and of the Turn Verein of Wichita. Is a member of the Wichita City Council, and has served in that capacity for four years.

J. F. GLAZBROOK, blacksmith, was born in Tennessee in 1836; son of John R. Glazbrook and Nancy Harrol Glazbrook. He married in 1855 Miss Elizabeth Johnson, and has eight children - Nancy, Margaret, Alice, John W., Leonora Belle, Dora, Annie and Willie. He came to Kansas and located at Chetopa, remaining one year. In 1871 he located at Fort Scott and engaged in blacksmithing and remained for nine years. In 1880 he removed to Wichita and engaged in the blacksmithing business, located on the east side of Market street, near Douglas avenue. He was in the War of the Rebellion, and enlisted in 1862 in the First Arkansas Cavalry, Company B, and was in the Elkhorn, Prairie Grove and other engagements of his command. He was wounded near Bentonville, and at one time was three days without food and surrounded by the enemy. His father was killed at the battle of Prairie Grove. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M., and the I. O. O. F.

A. H. GOSSARD, banker, located in Wichita in June, 1870. He was connected with the Wichita Bank, the first banking institution at Wichita, as bookkeeper, afterwards becoming cashier of the First National Bank of Wichita, which position he resigned in January, 1874, since which time he has been connected with other banks. In June, 1880 he, with others, organized the banking house of Gossard Bros. & Donahue, bankers, Belle Plaine, Kan., until October, 1882, when he sold his interest. He is at present the senior member of the firm of A. H. Gossard & Co., bankers, Wichita, Kan., one of the oldest and most successful firms of the place. Mr. Gossard was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, January 14, 1852, and resided in Ohio until he came to Kansas. He was married in Wichita, May 14, 1874, to Alice Davidson, a native of Black Creek, Allegany Co., N. Y. They have two children - Fred and Rodney Merle.

C. W. GRAHAM, dealer in agricultural implements, came to Kansas in March, 1872, and engaged in farming in Illinois Township, northeast of Section 31. In the spring of 1873 he moved to Wichita, and after carrying on the grocery business for two years, engaged in agricultural implements, which he still continues. He was born in Claysville, Washington Co., Pa., December 7, 1837, where he lived until he was three years of age, when his parents moved to Mercer County, Ill., and Ohio Grove Township. Illinois was his home until 1860, at which time he moved to Aledo, same country, and remained until the spring of 1865, when he went to Monmouth, Ill., and remained until December, 1871, when he started for Kansas. He was married in Wichita, April 11, 1877, to Catherine White, a native of Oswego, N. Y. They have two children - Katie L. and Calvin W., Jr. Mr. G. is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and of the I. O. O. F.

G. GRIBI, contractor and builder, was born in Switzerland, in 1844; son of Fred and Anna Gribi. Was married in 1867, to Miss Anna Althous; has four children - Emma, Anna, Lena and John. Mr. Gribi came to Kansas in 1867; located at Topeka; engaged in carpentering; remained two years. In 1869 located at Wichita, and engaged in contracting and building; was the first contractor and builder in Wichita; has continued the business from that time; shop located on the northwest corner of First and Water streets. Owns residence on the southeast corner of First and Water streets. Is a member of Wichita Lodge, No. 93, I. O. O. F., and of the Wichita Turn Verein Society.

REV. R. E. GUTHRIE, Methodist Episcopal clergyman, was born in Ohio, in 1819; is the son of Robert Guthrie and Catherine Spawr, who were natives of Pennsylvania. He married in 1845, Miss Lucy Kelsall, daughter of George Kelsall and Elizabeth Rundell Kelsall, natives of England. They have nine children - Kate, Robert E., Edwin R., Sarah F., Lucy M., Mary B., Fred L., Ada and Maggie. He was educated at Bloomington, Ill., commenced the ministry in 1841, and united with the Illinois Conference in that year, and still remains connected with it; but in 1867 took a superannuated position. During his ministry was for seven years presiding elder, one year financial agent of the Illinois Female College, at Jacksonville, and one year Chaplain in the army, the remainder of the time doing pastoral labor until 1867. He was in the war, enlisting in the Ninety-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was assigned to duty in Southwestern Missouri, and Northwestern Arkansas; was in the battle of Prairie Grove; was in the Siege of Vicksburg, under Gen. McPherson. Was discharged in 1863, on account of sickness. He was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court, in McLean County, Ill., in 1868, and held the position until 1872, then was engaged in farming until 1882, when he removed to Wichita, Kansas. 

 B. D. HAMMOND, was born in Smithfield, Jefferson County, Ohio, August 28, 1841. He graduated from McNeely Normal College, Hopedale, Harrison Co., Ohio, in 1860, read law with Judge J. C. Hance, at New Philadelphia, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1863. He then returned to his native country, and worked on a farm until 1867, when he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and was engaged in the manufacturing business, and in the practice of his profession, in that city, until 1878, when he moved to Kansas. He located in Wichita, in April, 1878, and engaged in teaching in the City Schools, as Assistant Principal, since which time he has taught in all the County Normal Institutes, except in 1882, and also private classes. He was elected County Superintendent of Schools, in November, 1882. For the last three years, Mr. H. has devoted some attention to wool growing and sheep-raising, and is President of the Arkansas Valley Wool Growers and Sheep Breeders' Association. He was married at Macedonia, Summit Co., Ohio, September 12, 1866, to Amelia M. Foster, a native of that place, and has five children living - Foster E., Myrtle H., Daniel L., Lyman H., and W. Thorne.

REV. W. F. HARPER, Baptist clergyman, came to Kansas in 1882, was born in Danville, Ind. Is the son of Henry C. and Sarah J. (Kelly) Harper, was married in 1874 to Miss Margaret Tincher of Amo, Ind., daughter of Samuel F. and Parthenia J. (Rumley) Tincher. Has three children - Edith, Herbert and Mabel. Was educated at National Normal University, Lebanon, O., graduated in 1873, was licensed by Baptist Church of Amo, Ind. in 1874: was elected to the Chair of Mathamatics in the National Normal University, Lebanon, O., held that position for two years; was then elected Principal of the Central Normal School at Danville, Ind., remained in that position for three years, was then elected President of the Normal Institute at Mitchell southern Ind., remained in that position for two years; was ordained by the Baptist Church of Wichita in 1882. During the years spent in teaching, was accustomed to supply Baptist churches that were without pastors. Has a school roll of names of 5,000 students that have been under his tutelage.

RODOLPH HATFIELD, a native of London, Madison Co., Ohio, and was born October 6, 1854, and in 1859, removed with his parents to Logan County, Ill., which was his home except a year spent in Colorado, until he came to Kansas, in the fall of 1879, and located at Wichita. He has resided in that city since that time, engaged in the practice of law and since 1880 in loaning money, being one of the proprietors of the Bank of Commerce. Mr. H. was educated at Lincoln University in Illinois, from which he graduated in 1876. He read law at Lincoln and at Bloomington and attended the law department of the Wesleyan University. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1876, and commenced the practice at Trinidad, Col., in the fall of 1878, remaining there until he came to Wichita. He was married at Lincoln, Ill., June 17, 1878 to Hattie E. Harts, a native of Reading, Pa., by whom he has two children - Rodolph H. and Merle Ethelbert.

P. V. HEALY, located in Wichita in March 1876, and the following July engaged in real estate business with H. O. Meigs, who remained his partner until April, 1878, when Mr. Neiderlander bought Mr. Meigs' interest in the business. Messrs. Healy & Neiderlander added insurance to their business in 1879, and still remain partners. Mr. Healy was born in Scott County, Ky., two and a half miles from Georgetown, February 14, 1848. His parents moved to Brown County, Ill., when he was about seven years of age, which place remained his home until 1869. He then engaged in farming in Ford County, Ill., until he came to Kansas in 1876, since when his time has been divided between his real estate business and farming and stock raising. Mr. H. is a member of K. of H.

H. D. HEISERMAN, was born in Lancaster, Pa., November 28, 1847. September 7, 1861, when a mere boy, he enlisted as a private in Company D, Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged March, 1865, on account of the loss of his right leg at the siege of Atlanta, August 5, 1864. He had been wounded and taken prisoner previously at Chickamauga, November, 1863, escaping after three weeks' captivity. After leaving the army he returned to Lancaster, Pa., where he remained until 1870, when he came to Sedgwick County, Kan., arriving March 21. He located a soldiers' homestead on Section 34, Township 25, Range 2, West Union Township, which he sold in 1874, and purchased a farm of southwest Section 14, Township 25, Range 3, west, Greeley Township. He lived on this farm until fall of 1881, serving as Trustee of Greeley Township four years. In November, 1881, he was elected Register of Deeds, and entered upon the duties of his office January 10, 1882. Mr. H. is a member of the I. O. O. F., Wichita Lodge, No. 93, and of G. A. R. Garfield Post, No. 25. He was married in Wichita, October 14, 1874, to Mary E. Tracy, a native of Grant County, Wis.

WILHELM HELLER, meat market. born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1842; son of Fredrick Heller. He married in 1875, Miss Caroline Boger. Came to Kansas in 1865, located in Davis County, and moved to Wichita in 1872; commenced business in meat market in the same year; business located on Main street, Nos. 72 and 74; owns the building where business is located, and also residence lots Nos. 21 and 23 First street. Is a member of the Knights of Honor Lodge, No. 528.

CASSIUS HENDERSON, business manager of dry goods house, was born in Wyoming County, N. Y., in 1845; son of William Henderson and Cecelia (Evans) Henderson. His parents died when he was three years old, and he was raised by his uncle, H. M. Henderson, of Flint, Mich. He married in 1876, Miss L. Markham. Came to Kansas in 1873, and commenced selling goods for the firm of M. Kohn & Co., and is now general business manager for the merchandise department of the extensive business of M. Kohn & Co., located on the corner of Douglas avenue and Main street. The amount of business for 1873, was about $35,000; for 1882, $80,000. He was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisting in 1862, in the Twenty-third Regiment Michigan Volunteers, Company K, and was in the engagement of Henry Station. He was mustered out in 1863. Is an ancient member of the I. O. O. F. Is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Warwick Lodge, No. 44.

A. HESS, grocer, was born in Germany in 1848; son of Ezekiel Hess and Lottie (Degginger) Hess. Married in 1879, to Miss Rosa Wohlman, and has two children - Walter and Edgar. Came to Kansas in 1868, located at Topeka. Was salesman for two years. In 1870, located at Wichita, commenced in the grocery business on Main street; remained there until 1876, then moved his stock to No. 111 Douglas avenue, where business is now located. Business increased 500 per cent, since its establishment. He has been a member of Wichita City Council one year. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Wichita Lodge, No. 99, and of Chapter No. 33.

H. L. HILL, auction and sale stable, was born in West Virginia, son of R. M. Hill and Nancy Mulrine Hill. He married, in 1874, Miss Emma A. Ransom, daughter of Judge Ransom, of Missouri. They have three children - Harry, Claud D., and Clara. He came to Kansas in 1879, and located on a farm in Pratt County, in 1880; located at Wichita, and commenced business in auction and stable, business located on the corner of Douglas avenue and Water street. The business has increased 100 per cent., since its establishment.

WILLIAM G. HOBBS, real estate, loan and insurance agent, was born in Nelson County, Ky., near Bardstown, October 6, 1828, and lived in his native town until he came to Kansas and located in Wichita, in November, 1871. He engaged in mercantile business and pursued it continuously until he was burned out in December, 1876. In April, 1877, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and re-elected in 1879, and at the expiration of his second term, in the spring of 1881, he engaged in real estate and loan business, which he still continues. He was married at Taylorsville, Spencer Co., Ky., April 12, 1854, to Fannie M. Brown, of that place. Their children now living are Smith M., William D., and James H. Mr. Hobbs is a member of the Baptist Church, and the Order of A., F. & A. M., Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery.

J. T. HOLMES, funeral director, was born in Georgia in 1840, son of Jesse M. Holmes and Melissa (Hudson) Holmes. He married, in 1876, Miss Sarah A. Figg, daughter of Edward M. Figg and Elizabeth (Dooley) Figg. Came to Kansas in 1856; located in Miami County, near Osawatomie. In 1858 located at Leavenworth; engaged with the Stage and Express Company; remained in their employ three years. In 1861 entered the United States service, as Assistant Wagon Master; resigned the position in the fall of 1861, and re-entered the Stage and Express service; remained until 1865, then located at Topeka; remained there until 1870, when he removed to Wichita. Was appointed Postmaster at Wichita in 1871; held that office for two years. Commenced the undertaking business in 1877, and is still engaged in the same; owns the building in which business is located, No. 1 South Main street. Business increased 200 per cent. since commencement; is a member of the Baptist Church; is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Wichita Lodge, No. 22; was a charter member, and the first master workman of the lodge. Is a member of the Old Settlers' Association of Wichita.

J. D. HOUSTON, is a native of Bourbon County, Ky., born near North Middletown, February 17, 1858. He was educated at the Kentucky University, and the Cincinnati Law School, graduating from the literary department of the university in 1877, and from the law school in 1879. He came to Winfield, Kan., in February, 1879, and resided there two years, engaged in the practice of his profession, in association with C. R. Mitchell. He removed from Winfield to Wichita, and formed a partnership with W. P. Campbell, where he has since resided.

J. F. HUMPHREY, machinist for F. G. Smyth & Son, was born in Hillsdale County, Mich., in 1848, son of Chancy G. and Harriet Whitman Humphrey. Was married in 1871, to Miss Martha E. Stout, daughter of Benjamin and Delilah Bowman Stout; has five children - Chancy, Birty, Edda, Luverna and Viola. Mr. Humphrey came to Kansas in 1870, located on a farm in Sedgwick County, remained on the farm until 1871. In 1872 and 1873, engaged in carpenter work; was elected Constable in 1873, held that office for three years, and was Deputy Sheriff during the time. In 1876 and 1877, was engaged as salesman in the hardware business; from 1878 to the present has been salesman and expert in the farm implement business. Was with Smith & Keating for three years, now employed by F. G. Smyth & Son. Is a member of the Wichita Lodge, No. 93, I. O. O. F. Is a member of the Old Settlers' Association.

E. A. HUSE, of the firm of Huse & Charlton, crockery dealers, was born in Farmington, Maine, in 1846. He is the son of Abel W. Huse and Mary Russel Huse. He married in 1874, Miss Lottie S. Smith. They have one child - Florence Huse. He came to Kansas in 1877, and located at Wichita. George Charlton, of the firm of Huse & Charlton crockery dealers; was born in Manchester, England, in 1851, son of George Charlton and Hannah Crowther Charlton. He married in 1875, Miss Abbie L. Huse. They have two children - Vester A. and Lottie A. Charlton. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Masonic fraternity A., F. & A. M. He came to Kansas in 1877. Huse & Charlton, commenced business as dealers in crockery and queensware in 1877; located at No. 24 Maine street. Business has increased 300 per cent, since establishment.

ROBERT JACKS, of the firm of R. Jacks & Co., born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1851, son of Samuel Jacks and Phoebe Cohen Jacks. Married in 1882, Miss Julia Lewisson. He came to Kansas, in 1871, and located at Olathe, remained for six months and removed to Wichita, in March, 1872, and established the clothing house of R. Jacks & Co., carrying a full stock of clothing, hats, caps and furnishing goods and Indian goods. Business located at No. 16, Maine street. The firm is composed of Robert Jacks and Samuel Jacks, of St. Louis, who has been in the business for forty-five years. M. Jacks, salesman for R. Jacks & Co., was born in St. Louis, in 1850, son of Samuel Jacks and Phoebe Jacks. Came to Kansas, in 1876, and located at Wichita. He is an expert accountant and has made several examinations of county books.

N. P. JACKSON, proprietor exchange livery stables, born in Ohio, in 1859, son of Jacob Jackson and Rebecca Amrine Jackson. Married in 1877, Miss Ida Allen; came to Kansas, 1870, located at Emporia, in 1871, removed to Wichita, engaged in farming for three years, then started a feed and sale stable at West Wichita; in 1876 commenced the livery business, in 1879, moved the business to Wichita proper, located on Douglas avenue, Nos. 17 and 19. In March, 1882, was burned out, losing his building and stock of hay and grain; rebuilt in summer of 1882, with brick, and now owns a large and commodious building for his business. Was in the war of the Rebellion, enlisted in 1863, in the Signal Service; was in the battles of Mobile, Rodney, Miss., Grand Gulf and engagement near Jackson, Miss., and on the Yazoo River; was three months in the Marine Brigade, was mustered out of service in 1865.

D. W. JONES, dealer in musical instruments, born in Indiana, in 1836, is the son of John Jones, and Catharine (Kammerrer) Jones. Married in 1856, in Hancock County, Ind., to Miss Mary C. Smith; has two children - S. Alice and Ida May. Is a member of the Kentland Lodge of I. O. O. F., No. 398. Came to Kansas, in 1879. Is a dealer in musical instruments. Is a member of the firm of Jones & Moseley; business located at No. 28 Main street.

S. T. JONES, contractor and builder, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1827; son of Joseph and Anna Jones. He married, in 1882, Mrs. Elizabeth Oldfield, and has one child, an infant. He came to Kansas in 1876, and located in Wichita, and engaged in the lumber business. In 1877, he engaged in contracting and building, and has been engaged in the business since that time. He employs eighteen men; shop located at 86 Main street; and he has also erected a sash, door and blind factory at No. 135 Main street. He was in the Mexican War, and enlisted in February, 1847, in the Sixth Regular United States Infantry, Company D; was in the battles of Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Amazuka, Chapultepec and taking the City of Mexico. At the last named engagement he was wounded by a gun shot in the head. He was laid up seven months, and was mustered out in July, 1848, at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Was in the War of the Rebellion, and enlisted in May, 1861, in the Seventeenth Regular Indiana Volunteer; was elected Adjutant and received his commission as Captain of Company E, in September. Was in the engagements of Cheat Mountain, Bowling Green, Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, Perryville and Stone River. At the last named, was wounded by a sabre cut in the head. He was laid up five months, and resigned his commission on account of his wound, in 1863. In 1864, he accepted a position as Gunner on the United States Gun Boat, Fawn, and remained in that position until the close of the war, and was mustered out in June, 1865. He commenced reading law in 1854, and was admitted to practice in 1857, and followed the practice until 1876, excepting the time he was in the army. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

M. B. KELLOGG, salesman, born in Wayne County, N. Y., in 1843, - son of Rodney Kellogg and Hariet (Bailey) Kellogg - married in 1867, and has one child, Marjone. Came to Kansas in 1865, and located at Leavenworth, engaged as a salesman for two years. In 1867 he went to the Indian Nation, and remained one year. In 1868 was employed by E. H. Durfee, at his Trading Post, where the city of Wichita now is; was appointed Postmaster that year, being the first Postmaster at Wichita. Was employed as salesman until 1873, when he was elected Register of Deeds, and held that office for four years. In the spring of 1878, he engaged in the grocery business with S. E. Joslin; continued in the firm of Joslin & Kellogg until 1881, when Mr. Joslin retired from the firm, Mr. Kellogg continuing the business until 1882, when he closed it out, and engaged as salesman for A. Hess's grocery house. Was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisted in 1861, Seventeenth Regiment New York Volunteers, Company I. Was in the battles of Fredricksburg, Mine Run, Melvin Hill, Chancellorsville, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburgh, Williamsport, and the Battle of the Wilderness, and others of his command. In the spring of 1863, he was transferred to the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Regular New York Volunteers, and in 1864 was veteraned. Was taken prisoner in May, 1864, at the Battle of the Wilderness; was held at Linchburgh, Danville, Va., Andersonville, Ga., Florence, S. C., and at Goldsboro, N. C. Was paroled in February, 1865, at Wilmington, N. C., and was mustered out of the service July, 1865. Is a member of Wichita Lodge No. 99, A., F. & A. M., and of Chapter No. 33. Is a member of the Knights of Honor. Is a member of Garfield Post No. 25, G. A. R.

JOHN T. KELLY was born in 1842, in Platte County, Mo.; son of John and Jane Kelly. Was married in 1869, to Miss Victoria Smith, daughter of Richard and Martha Smith. They have two children - Mary and John C. Mr. Kelly came to Kansas in the year 1855 and located in Leavenworth County, and engaged in farming. Was among the first settlers in the county and remained until 1875, when he removed to Wichita. Is a member of the K. of H., Wichita Lodge, No. 528.

ALBERT D. KENDALL, carpenter, located in Wichita, April 5, 1872, and has been engaged in his present business continuously since his location. He was born in Brattleboro, Vt., October 27, 1842, and lived in that town until March 12, 1865, when he removed to Carthage, Hancock Co., Ill., from whence he came to Kansas. He enlisted in Company C, Second Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into the United States service, June 20, 1861, remaining until June 29, 1864. He was in the first battle of Bull Run, in the Peninsula campaign, at South Mountain, Antietam, and Fredricksburg, and afterwards served in the commissary department until he left the service. He is a member of the G. A. R. Garfield Post, No. 25.

H. W. KENDLE, undertaker and sewing machine business. Born in Brown County, Ohio, in 1841; son of Leroy J. Kendle and Mary J. (Carnahar) Kendle. He married in 1863, Miss Sarah E. Francis. They have one child - Jessie B. He came to Kansas in 1872; located on a farm near Wichita; spent the three first years in farming and dairy business; one season in painting. In 1875, commenced in undertaking and sewing machine business. In 1877 he was elected City Assessor; held the office one term, from 1877 to 1880. Was a member of the firm of Kendle & Holmes; business was burned out in 1880, losing the entire stock. From that time commenced business alone; business located at No. 99 Douglas avenue, and from 1880 to 1882, 200 per cent. increase. Is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Is a member of Wichita Lodge, No. 93, I. O. O. F.; of Encampment No. 29. Is a member of the Garfield Post, G. A. R., No. 25. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1862 in the Fourth Ohio Independent Cavalry; was General McPherson's body guard at the time of his death. Was discharged in 1863. Re-enlisted in 1864 in the One Hundred and Sixty-second Ohio National Guards; was mustered out in same year. Re-enlisted in 1865 in the One Hundred and Ninety-third Ohio Volunteers, Company H. Was mustered out at close of the war.

C. KIMMERLE, marble and stone cutter, was born in Wurttemburg, Germany, October 4, 1845. In 1865 he came to America, and resided in Newark, N. J., until he came to Kansas in the spring of 1867. His first location in this State was in Topeka, where he married and remained until the spring of 1870. While in that city he was employed on the stone work of the State House. He engaged in his present business in 1875, starting a marble yard at Wichita, Mr. C. L. Adams having been associated with him as a partner since 1877. They have a yard at Newton also. Mr. Kimmerle has served four years as City Treasurer of Wichita, and is a member of the various societies there, among which are the I. O. O. F. Lodge, and Encampment No. 29, Lodge No. 93, of which he is treasurer, and the Turner Society. He is also manager of Turner's Opera House. He was married in Topeka, February 22, 1870, to Paulina Gardner, a native of Wurttemburg, Germany.

REV. C. A. KING, Methodist Episcopal clergyman, came to Kansas in 1874, native of Portland, Me., born in 1836; is the son of George W. King and Mary (Hawks) King. He married in 1854, Miss Frances E. Perkins. They have six children - Angie, George, Mabel, Fannie, Ida, and Edna. His wife is the daughter of Jabez and Nancy Pray Perkins. Was educated at Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College. In 1858 united with the Maine Conference; remained in that conference for twelve years, devoting his time to pastoral work. In 1870 was transferred to the Nebraska Conference, and removed to Omaha, remained until 1874, when he removed to Kansas, and in the spring of 1875 was transferred to the South Kansas Conference. First labor in Kansas was on the Beulah and Sherman Circuit. In 1877 took the station at Parsons; remained at that station three years. In the spring of 1880 was appointed presiding elder of Wichita District, which position he still retains. During his pastoral work in Kansas built two churches, and six more in process of construction. Has dedicated eight churches. Has been instrumental in building seven parsonages. Was connected with the Christian Commission in 1855.

O. D. KIRK, attorney, has been a resident of Wichita, engaged in the practice of law, since August 23, 1877. He was born in Monticello, White Co., Ind., March 29, 1849; was educated at Battle Ground Collegiate Institute in Indiana; read law in Lafayette, Ind., with John R. Coffroth, and was admitted to the bar, April 26, 1875, and commenced practice in the same place, where he remained until August 20, 1877, when he left for Kansas. Mr. Kirk was married in Schuylerville, N. Y., August 13, 1878, to Mary E. Viele, a native of Saratoga County. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and the K. of P.

J. F. LAUCK, attorney, came to Kansas in 1868, and settled near Augusta, Butler County, where he resided until he came to Wichita, in May, 1872, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of law in that city. Mr. Lauck was born in Brook County, Va., October 10, 1830, and was educated in the schools and colleges of that county, graduating from Bethany College in July, 1851. He then taught school for about five years, reading law in the mean time. He finished his law studies and was admitted to the bar in 1857, and commenced practice at Franklin, Ky., in 1861. From 1862 until 1864, he was commanding officer, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, of the Thirty-third Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, which regiment he raised. While in the army he was elected to the Legislature of Kentucky, and served two years. In 1865 he removed from Kentucky to Gallatin, Tenn., and resided there three years; engaged in the mercantile business, and serving during the session of 1866 and '67 as Engrossing Clerk of the Tennessee House of Representatives. In 1867 he was elected Chancellor of the Seventh District in Tennessee, and in 1868 he came to Kansas. In addition to the duties of his profession, Mr. Lauck is engaged in farming to a considerable extent having a fine farm of 20 acres in a fine state of cultivation, where he has built an elegant home, near the city. He was married at Franklin, Ky., April 16, 1857, to Mary E., daughter of Hensley G. Harris, one of the prominent men and old settlers of Kentucky. They have six children - Robert E., a portrait artist at Eldorado; Edward E., Lucy M. J., Alfred H., William J., and Gertrude H.

HENRY LENTZ, baker, was born in Brunswick, Germany, in 1853; is a son of Henry Lentz and Lena (Sebers) Lentz; came to Kansas in 1878, and located at Wichita. Commenced the bakery business, located on Douglas avenue. From 1878 to 1882, business increased 100 per cent. Was married in 1881 to Miss Mary Anderson, daughter of D. H. and Elizabeth Anderson. Is a member of the Lutheran Church. Is a member of the Second Regiment Kansas Infantry, Company A.

J. M. LEVERAGE, born in Missouri in 1845. Son of R. S. Leverage and Rebecca (Munroe) Leverage. Married, in 1881, to Miss Kate Hanley. Came to Kansas in 1873. Located at Wichita and engaged as salesman for three years. In 1880 formed partnership with A. Basley and commenced livery and feed business. Basley & Leverage livery stable located on South Market street, Nos. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12. Own the property where business is located.

M. W. LEVY, cashier and manager of the Wichita National Bank, is a native of France. He immigrated to America at an early age, and was a resident of California until 1870, and subsequently of Colorado, removing from the latter State to Kansas in December, 1872. He located in Wichita, and engaged in the real estate, insurance and loan business, becoming connected with the Wichita Savings Bank and with Wichita Bank in 1874. Mr. Levy was married in Leavenworth, Kan., October 18, 1874, to Sarah Kohn, a native of St. Louis, Mo. They have three children - Solomon Herbert, Clarence Sedgwick, and Guy Wallace. He has been for the last five years President of the Board of Education, and has also been a member of the Republican State Central Committee, and Chairman for several years of the County Central Committee, also President of the West Wichita Town Company. He is Treasurer of Wichita Lodge No. 93, A. F. & A. M.; P. C. P. of Eng. No. 28; I. O. O. F., and P. G. of Wichita Lodge No. 99, I. O. O. F.

CASPER LORMANN, farmer, P. O. Wichita, was born in Germany, in 1820, is a son of Matt Lormann and Amelia Lormann. He married in 1841, Miss Mary Aecholds, and has four children - Lizzie, Mary, Annie and Henry. He came to Kansas in 1854, and located in Donaldson County, engaged in farming, and remained there twenty-three years. He came to Wichita in 1877, and located on a farm, in Wichita Township. Owns the northeast quarter of section 24, three and a half miles east Wichita. Has a fine orchard of 150 trees, apples, peaches and pears. He is a member of the Catholic Church.

A. O. LOWELL, real estate dealer, was born in Portland, Me., in 1845; is a son of A. D. Lowell and Caroline Tukey. He married in 1866. Miss J. E. Patchell, daughter of John Patchell and Anna Davenport Patchell. They have two children - Adah Belle and Carrie Bertha. He was in the War of the Rebellion. Enlisted in 1861, in the Fifth Regiment Maine Volunteers, Company A. Was in twenty-three engagements, wounded twice, and once taken prisoner. Mustered out July, 1864, from Fifth Maine; returned home with about thirty-five out of 1,700 that were enlisted and recruited. 

 THOMAS McCAMPBELL, farmer, P. O. Wichita, was born in Miami County, Ohio, in 1818; is a son of William McCampbell and Elizabeth Orbison McCampbell. He married in 1844, Miss Eunice Willard, daughter of Enos and Abigail Willard, and has five children - Martha, Emma, George, Anna and William. He came to Kansas in 1883, located in Wichita Township, on Section 27 north, half of northwest quarter, one mile east of Wichita, and has remained since that time, and also owns the northeast quarter of Section 32, in Minneha Township. In sinking a shaft for coal on this property struck salt leaf; sunk the shaft 450 feet 6x10 feet. It now has 200 feet of salt water, which, by evaporation produces a fourth part of pure salt. He is a Spiritualist from investigation.

REV. T. J. McCAULL, Catholic clergyman, was born in Strausee, Weaktenshire, Scotland, in the year 1848, son of John McCaull and Margaret Roberts McCaull; was educated at Wheeling, W. Va., St. Vincent College; graduated in class 1875, was raised to the degree of priesthood in the same year at Leavenworth, Kan. His first pastorate was at Newman, Jefferson Co., Kan.; remained with that charge four years; was transferred to Wichita in 1879; has been in pastoral charge of the St. Aloysius Church from that time to the present; also has charge of the St. Henry's Church at Augusta and missions at Eldorado and Mulvane; built a church at Big Springs; was founder of the St. Aloysius School, at Wichita.

JAMES C. McCOMB, harnessmaker and saddler, came to Kansas in 1868, located at Wichita in 1870; was born in Allegheny, Pa., 1847; is the son of Thomas and Martha (De Arman) McComb; was married in 1875, to Miss Ida F. Neaves; has two children, Harry and Raymond; was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1861, in Company G, Fifty-Third Indiana Volunteers, was in all the engagements of the command; was mustered out in 1865; is senior member of the firm of McComb Bros., harness and saddlery business, No. 105 Douglas avenue.

JOHN McCOMB, harness and saddlemaker, came to Wichita in 1872; was born in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1853. He is the son of Thomas and Martha (De Arman) McComb; commenced business in 1871, under the firm name of Smith & McComb Bros.; was succeeded in 1872 by McComb Bros. The firm has remained the same to the present time. The amount of business in 1872 was $22,000; in 1882 it had increased to $50,000. They own the building in which the business is conducted, No. 105 Douglas avenue.

W. H. McDANIEL, carriage manufacturing (firm, McDaniel & Perrin), born in Shelby County, Ill., in 1848; son of William McDaniel and Mary (Price) McDaniel. He married, in 1873, Miss Lizzie Tipton, and has two children, Bertie and Mabel; came to Kansas in 1882, located at Wichita; commenced in the carriage manufacturing business, increased 100 per cent., to 1883. Business located on the corner of Douglas avenue and Water street; employs twenty men in the business. In January, 1883, formed partnership with M. Perrin. The firm own Wood's patent buggy spring.

ROBERT McFARLAND, of the firm of McFarland & Son, proprietors of foundry and machine shop, Wichita, Kan., was born in New York City, in 1824. He is a son of Robert and Mrs. Elizabeth (Joulter) McFarland. In 1851 he was married in Cincinnati to Miss Olive Edwards. They have three sons - Robert, John G., and William. When the war of the Rebellion broke out he was living in Lexington, Mo., was a trusted volunteer under Col. Mulligan, whose command was recruited mainly in Chicago, and although incapacitated by ill health for regular military service, yet served as a volunteer until the end of the war, and, except four months, without pay. He was the foundryman who made shot for Mulligan's command, and assisted to use them on the Rebela. He was with Blunt, Deitzler, Harding, Pleasanton and other commands. After the war closed, in defiance of rebel sentiment and threats, Mrs. McFarland in the basement of her house in Lexington, opened and taught a negro school, Mr. McFarland defending her and her school with his guns for many months and until the rebel intention of preventing negro education was abandoned. The school was then turned over to its present management. In 1871 Mr. McFarland moved to Kansas and settled on a farm in Allen County. Here remained three and a half years, when he removed to Iola, Allen Co. In 1877, he located at Wichita, without capital, except an indomitable will. He is now the owner of a good foundry and machine shop, located on Wichita street, and is doing an extensive business. It is the only business of the kind in Wichita.

J. G. McFARLAND, of McFarland & Son, is a son of Robert and Olive McFarland, and was born in 1858. He came to Kansas in 1872, and is engaged in the Foundry and Machine Shop, with Robert McFarland, entering the firm in January 1883. He is a member of the Second Kansas Infantry. He was married in 1880, to Miss Cora B. Roush.

J. H. McGRIFF, firm of McGriff & Buckeridge, blacksmiths, was born in Ohio in 1833, son of Wm. McGriff and Elizabeth (Hale) McGriff. He married in 1856, Miss Frances Wilson, and has five children - Mary, Ida L., J. Homer, F. Loren and Allie; came to Kansas in 1875, located at Afton, Kan., on a farm in 1877, removed to Wichita, engaged in blacksmithing; in 1881 formed partnership with A. F. Buckeridge. Business located on Douglas avenue lot five Englisher addition. Property where business is located is owned by the firm - owns a residence No. 71 Lawrence avenue; in 1863-4 and 5 was employed by the United States in blacksmithing at Camp Nelson, Kentucky. Has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for ten years, is a member of the Masonic Fraternity A., F. & A. M.

ANDREW H. McKEE, of the firm McKee & Stewart, loan, real estate and insurance agent, came to Wichita in August, 1876, being also interested in farming and sheep raising. He was born in Hopewell Township, Washington Co., Pa., July 8, 1833, removing from Washington County to Bloomington, Ill., in 1867, and thence to Kansas in 1876. He was married in Ohio County, West Va., October 24, 1865, to Amanda McDonald.

WILLIAM MATHEWSON, farmer, born in Broome County, N. Y., in 1830, is the son of Joseph Mathewson and Eliza Stickney Mathewson. He came to what is now Kansas, in 1850, in the employ of the Northwestern Fur Company. In 1852 he engaged with William Bent and St. Varine at trading post on the Upper Arkansas Valley, trading with the Indians, and remaining in their employ until 1857, during a portion of the time he was engaged in trapping and hunting. In 1857 he located on the Little Arkansas at a point known as the Crossing, and built a trading post and remained one year. In 1858 built a trading post on Big Cow Creek. In 1860 built a trading post at Great Bend, and remained three years. In 1864 he returned to his Post at Big Cow Creek. The reason of this move was the threatened outbreak of the Indians. All the traders in that vicinity stored their goods at the Big Cow Creek Post, and went with their teams to the Missouri River, leaving William Mathewson with four men at the Post. One of them he sent to notify the stage stations, and settlers, leaving him with three men. They made a fortification of 200 sacks of corn on the top of the building. The attack was made with about 500 or 600 Indians, being well supplied with ammunition, they fought the Indians for three days, killing two chiefs and large number of warriors, and succeeded in holding this Post and saving his property, and then went to the assistance of a large train that was camped a few miles from his post, and surrounded by Indians. He rode into the camp under fire of the Indians and rallied the men and succeeded in routing the Indians and saving the train. In 1860, during the famine, incident to the drouth of that year, he commenced hunting buffalo for the starving settlers. He continued the hunt until February of 1861, with marked success, sending loads of meat far and near, wherever the destitute were found, earning for himself the title of "Buffalo Bill" of the plains, by which he was known in the early days of Kansas. He married in 1864, Miss Elizabeth Innman, of Fort Larned, daughter of Joseph Innman and Charlotte Crosbey Innman, and has one child, Lucy. He was employed by the United States Government as scout, and by the Interior Department in making treaties with the Indians at different times during his pioneer life. He was an Indian trader for twenty years, and in 1869 located at Wichita, on a farm, but spent most of his time, until 1875, in trading with the Indians. Since that time has been engaged in farming, has a fine farm one mile from the city of Wichita. Mrs. Mathewson is supposed to be the first white woman on the ground where Wichita now stands.

W. B. MEAD, dealer in musical instruments, came to Kansas in 1870. He is a native of Greenwich, Conn., was born in 1824, and is the son of Alvan and Eliza (Peck) Mead. He married, in 1856, Miss Sarah J. Sears. They have three children - Alvan E., Edgar S. and Mary P. On coming to Kansas, located at Augusta. Was in United States Land Office in charge of Contest Department. In February, 1872, the land office was moved to Wichita, at which time he removed to Wichita. In the summer of 1873 was appointed Deputy Postmaster, which position he held until 1875; then he engaged in merchandising. In the spring of 1877 commenced dealing in musical instruments. Business increased in 1882 thirty per cent. Business location, No. 23, Main street. Is a member of the "Wichita Council of the American Legion of Honor," No. 384; was a charter member.

C. R. MILLER, real estate and loan agent, located in Wichita in April, 1876, and engaged in wheat raising, breaking 3,000 acres of land the first ninety days he was in Kansas. Besides his real estate and loan business, in which he has been engaged since his settlement in the town, he is engaged in cattle breeding - Short-horn, and Norman horses. Mr. Miller is a native of Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co., Pa. He was bred in La Salle County, Ill., and prior to his removal to Kansas was a resident of Forrest, Livingston Co., Ill., for ten years.

D. G. MILLISON, was born in Finley, Mercer Co., Pa., June 21, 1836, and lived in his native place until he immigrated to Kansas and located at Council Grove, in September, 1857. He engaged in the daguerreotype and ambrotype business at Council Grove, being the first artist that settled west of Lawrence, and remained there until 1860, when he returned to Pennsylvania; and in November, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, being discharged after serving fifteen months on account of disability caused by sickness contracted in the army. In 1864 he returned to Kansas and again located at Council Grove, where he printed the Council Grove Democrat about one year, for S. N. Wood, and then went to Topeka and was employed in the office of the State Record, and also in job printing, in company with S. D. Macdonald and T. P. Baker, during 1866-67. He remained in Topeka until 1872 and then established the Daily Beacon at Wichita one month as a daily and one year as a weekly, when he took the job department of the Beacon office and carried that on until 1877. He was then engaged in job printing in Leavenworth for two years, and in 1879 returned to Wichita and resumed charge of the old department of the Beacon. In December, 1881, he commenced job printing under the firm name of D. G. Millison & Co. which he still continues. He was married in Mercer, Mercer Co., Pa., March 21, 1861, to Alice M. Drury, a native of Brookfield, Ohio. They have five children - Ralph Lee, Marion, Wilbert, Mabel Clair and Flora. While Mr. Millison was in the service he participated in the battles of Peach Orchard, Yorktown, Va., front of Richmond, Second Bull Run and Chantilly. Messrs. Millison & Heil published the first Topeka City Directory in 1866.

J. C. MOSSMAN, farmer, P. O. Wichita, born in 1831 in Ohio; son of John S. Mossman and Rachel (Cheney) Mossman. He married, in 1867, Miss Mary M. Smith, daughter of Joshua and Mary Smith. They have five children - Alice R., Abbie E., Rufus S., Ralph C. and Clarence W. Came to Kansas in 1854; located on farm in Riley County and remained until 1871, when he removed to Wichita Township, Sedgwick County, two miles east of Wichita, on Section 15. Owns the west half of the southeast quarter. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1862 in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteers, Company B. Was in the battles of Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Resaca, New Hope Church, Peach Tree Creek, Jonesboro, Franklin, Nashville, and other engagements of his command. Was mustered out of service in 1865. Was never absent from his command during his term of service.

M. R. MOSER, farmer and fruit raiser, P. O. Wichita; born in Pennsylvania in 1834; son of Henry R. Moser and Sarah (Ruble) Moser. Married, in 1858, to Miss Sarah E. Scott, and has two children - Winona and George C. His wife died in 1876; was married again in 1877, to Miss Lucinda Massey. Came to Kansas in 1870; spent one year at Emporia and one year at Peabody. Came to Wichita in 1872; engaged for two years in carriage and blacksmith work. In 1874 located on the farm where he now resides, in Section 23, east half, two miles east of Wichita. Makes a specialty of fruit raising; has thirty-three acres in fruit, 1,500 apple trees, 1,800 peach trees, 300 cherry trees and 200 pear trees, all grafted fruit. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1862, in the One Hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company H. Was commissioned Second Lieutenant in April, 1864. Received Commission as First Lieutenant in June, 1864; Brevet-Captain, in command of the company, from June, 1864, to June, 1865, when he was mustered out of service. Was in the battles of Pollock Mills, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Laurel Hills, Spottsylvania, North Ann, Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor, Petersburgh and others of his command, nineteen in all, and was wounded four times. Was director of the Kansas State Fair in 1882. Is a member of the Garfield Post, No. 25, G. A. R.

WILLIAM MOUNTZ, carriagemaker, was born in Wheeling, Va., in 1837; son of Jacob Mountz and Elizabeth (Shuff) Mountz. He married in 1860, Miss Kate Malloy, and has six children - Harry E., Vivian K., Elizabeth B., Fenton J., Lester and Blanch. He came to Kansas in 1878, and located in Wichita, and commenced business in carriagemaking; business located on the corner of Douglas and Lawrence avenues. He was in the War of the Rebellion, and enlisted in 1862, in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company D; was in the battles of Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, Fredricksburg and other engagements of his command, and was mustered out in 1863. From 1863 to 1865, he was in the Quartermaster's Department. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and owns a residence on lot No. 8, corner First street and Mead avenue.

C. MYERS, carpenter, has been a resident of Kansas since January, 1881, living in Stafford County six months prior to locating in Wichita. He was born in Oxford, Adams Co., Penn., August 12, 1855. In 1870, he removed to Franklin Grove, Ill., and after a residence of two months in that place, to Marshalltown, Iowa, remaining there until he came to Kansas in 1881.

N. F. NIEDERLANDER was born in Buffalo, N. Y., October 2, 1843, which was home until 1876. He raised Company I, Ninety-eighth New York National Guards, for three months' service in 1864, and served four months and twelve days before being mustered out. He then returned to Buffalo, where he lived until April 1876, when he went to Ohio, and remained in that State about eight months, coming from there to Sedgwick County, Kan., in January, 1877. He located in Erie Township (which was so named by Mr. N., from his native county in Pennsylvania), and engaged in farming on east half of Section 5, until April 1, 1878, when he removed to Wichita, and purchased half interest in the business of Meigs and Healy. Mr. Meigs retiring from the firm. He was married at Sandusky, Ohio, to Blanche H. Huson, a native of Springport, Cayuga Co., N. Y. His children - Marlon H., Ralph J., Ethel E., Stacie B. and June P. Mr. N. is a member of K. of P., and K. of H.

A. W. OLIVER, of the firm of Shellabarger, Imboden & Oliver, came to Kansas in September, 1869, located at Topeka, and engaged in the lumber business, remaining in Topeka until March, 1871. Located at Wichita in April, 1872, since which time he has been continuously engaged in the lumber business in that city. Mr. Oliver is now president of the Wichita Board of Trade. He was born in Waterford, Pa., February, 1847. In 1866 he removed to Illinois, in which State he resided until he came to Kansas.

J. G. OLIVER, blacksmith, mill picks a specialty, was born in Seneca County, N. Y., in 1836. Son of John Oliver and Anna (Goodwin) Oliver. Married in 1861 to Miss Ada R. Collins, and has one child, Nannie Oliver. Came to Kansas in 1867 and located in Union Township, Bourbon County. Remained eleven years engaged in blacksmithing, then removed to Oxford. In 1881 located in Cherryvale, and in 1882 located at Wichita. His business is situated on First street, between Main and Water streets. He owns the property where the business is located. Was in the War of the Rebellion. Enlisted in 1861 in the Ninth Indiana Volunteers, Company J. Was in the battle of Buffalo Mountain, Shiloh, and other engagements of his command, and was wounded and taken prisoner. Was held at Libby and Andersonville prisons for nineteen months. Was paroled in 1865. Was broken down in health and for one year after his release was unable to walk without assistance. Is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Wichita Lodge, No. 99.

[Image of H. Owens] HENRY OWENS, M. D., physician and surgeon, was born in Ohio, in 1823, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Clark) Owens. He was married in 1845 to Miss Ella Gregory, daughter of Patrick Gregory. He was educated at Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio, graduating in the class of 1844; commencing the study of medicine in 1845 at Wheeling, Va. Commenced the practice of medicine in 1857; graduated at the Eclectic Medical College of Ohio, in 1873. Moved from Ohio to Iowa in 1856; practiced medicine in Polk County, Iowa, from 1856 until 1870, when he came to Kansas. In the spring of 1871 he opened an office in Wichita and commenced practice, and continued from that time. He owns a farm of 160 acres in Waco Township. Was in the War of the Rebellion and enlisted in 1862 in the Twenty-third Iowa Volunteers, Company C. Was in the battles of Black River, Champion Hill, Jackson, Vicksburg, Milliken's Bend, Fort Esperanza, Mobile and other engagements of his command. He was wounded at Black River and was detailed as Hospital Steward and Surgeon; served in that capacity until the close of the war and was mustered out in 1865. He was a member of the Wichita City Council for two terms. He was the first Coroner of Sedgwick County, and held the office four years. Was president of the State Eclectic Medical Association in 1880, and a member of the Medical Examining Board from 1879 to 1881.

A. T. OWEN came to Kansas in May, 1854, and is therefore one of the oldest settlers in the State. His first location was at Fort Leavenworth, where he was in the grocery business one year. He remained in the vicinity of Leavenworth and at Lawrence, being in the latter place six months, until the spring of 1857, when he went to Junction City, where he was Deputy Sheriff two years, and while there helped to build the pontoon bridge across the Smoky Hill River. He enlisted October 4, 1861, in Company F, Sixth Kansas Cavalry, entering the service as a private and served in that regiment until August 22, 1865, having been promoted to Sergeant Major two years prior to leaving the army. Mr. Owen participated in all the battles of his command and was also several times on detached duty. On leaving the service he went to Vermont and visited a few months, and then returned to Junction City and took charge of the steam mill, eight miles about the city on the Smoky Hill. In the fall of 1866 he was elected Clerk of the District Court and served in that position six years. In November, 1873, he came to Wichita and the first summer engaged in shipping cattle for a Chicago commission house, and for the last five years has been connected with law offices, three years with H. G. Ruggles. Mr. Owen is a native of St. Johnsbury, Vt., where he was born April 9, 1838. He received an academic education in his native State, and when he was about seventeen years of age he left home and went to Waverly, Bremer Co., Iowa, where he remained until he emigrated to Kansas. Mr. Owen is a member of the G. A. R. No. 25.

S. D. PALLETT, lumber dealer, of the firm of Fraker & Pallett, was born in Cass County, Mo., in 1843, son of W. M. Pallett and Elizabeth Campbell. He married, in 1871, Miss Carrie E. Cartwright, and has three children - Eddie, Mabel L. and Newtie. Came to Kansas in 1872; located on a farm near Wichita; was engaged in farming for six years. In 1878 commenced manufacturing at Venice, Kansas. Located at Wichita, in 1880. In 1881 commenced the manufacture of lumber, lath and shingles at Eureka Springs, Ark., under the firm of Fraker & Pallett. In 1882 the firm started a lumber yard at Wichita. The business of the firm at this place is under the management of S. D. Pallett. Business located on Douglas avenue, North Side, near the bridge. Was appointed Postmaster at Venice in 1879; held the appointment for two years. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a member of Wichita Lodge, No. 99, A., F. & A. M.

HON. D. L. PAYNE, born in Grant County, Ind., in December, 1836, is a son of William and Celia Lewis Payne; single. Came to Kansas in 1858; located in Dolphin County. Pre-empted a body of land and erected a saw mill. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1861; served three years. In the fall of 1864 was elected to the Kansas Legislature. Served in 1864 and 1865. At the close of that service volunteered as a substitute for a man that was drafted who had a family and was in indigent circumstances. Refused a commission offered him at that time. His first service in 1861 was in the Tenth Regiment of Kansas Volunteers, Company F; second, in 1865, in the Eighth Regiment Kansas Volunteers, Company G; third, as Captain of the Eighteenth Kansas Cavalry, Company D; fourth, as Captain of the Nineteenth Kansas Cavalry. Was Postmaster at Leavenworth. Was for two terms Sergeant-at-Arms in the Kansas Legislature.

W. W. PEARCE, firm of Pollock & Pearce, grocers, was born in Trowbridge, Eng., in 1843, son of James Pearce and Theresa (Mead) Pearce. Married, in 1868, Miss Mary E. Thomas, and has two children - Ira T. and Emma G. Came to Kansas in 1869, located in Butler County on a farm. Was engaged in farming for four years. In 1874 located at Wichita and engaged in grocery business. In 1877 formed a partnership with J. M. Pollock and established the grocery business under the firm name of Pollock & Pearce. business located at No. 40 Douglas avenue. The firm also deals in stock, and now owns 450 sheep of high grade. Mr. Pearce still owns his farm in Butler County, and a residence in Wichita, corner of Topeka avenue and William street.

J. M. POLLOCK, of the firm of Pollock & Pearce, grocery, was born in Ohio, in 1847: son of Alexander Pollock and Elizabeth Mitchell Pollock. He married, in 1870, Miss Eliza Shaw, and has two children - May and Harry. Mr. P. came to Kansas in 1870, and located on a farm south west of Wichita. In 1872, he located in Wichita, and engaged in the carpenter business for three years. In 1875, he commenced in the grocery and provision business on Main street. In 1877, he formed a partnership with W. W. Pearce, and established business at No. 44 Douglas avenue. Business has increased 300 per cent since it was established. He owns a farm in Waco Township and a residence in Wichita, on Emporia street, between Second and Third streets. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

REV. ANSEL H. POST, Baptist clergyman, came to Kansas in 1868; born in Indiana in 1851; was educated at Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, Ill.; graduated in 1874; was ordained by the Baptist Church, Edgington, Ill., in 1875; is the son of John C. and Adeline Whitehead Post; was married, in 1875, to Miss Henrietta Kenworthy, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Maria Eby Kenworthy; have two children - Ada M. and Judson. Gracie E. died in 1879. First pastor at Edgington, Ill.; remained one year there; accepted pastorate of church in Iowa; then located at Burton, Kan,; was pastor of church for five years in Reno County; organized the church at Nickerson.

REV. JOHN C. POST, Baptist clergyman, came to Kansas in 1868. He was born in Montpelier, Vt., in 1814. Is the son of John and Phoebe Clark Post. He was married, in 1840, to Miss Adaline Whitehead. They have four children - Lucinda, John M., Sidney L. and Ansel H. His wife is the daughter of Gad and Thankful (Pearce) Whitehead. He was educated at the Henrietta Academy, New York. Studied theology under Hon. Jesse L. Holman, at Aurora, Ind., during the years 1838-39. Licensed to preach by the Aurora Baptist Church, remained in Indiana as pastor for two years; removed to Michigan, where he was pastor for five years; then removed to Texas, and remained two years; returned to Indiana, and became pastor of Franklin Church and college agent; remained there for five years; then removed to Northwestern Indiana, where he was pastor for nine years, at which time his health failed him, and he then spent two years in organizing churches in Illinois. In 1868, located at Fort Scott, Kan.; was pastor of the Baptist Church at that place for four years; during that time built the church building that now stands there. In 1873, he removed to Wichita, and became pastor of the First Baptist Church of that place; remained pastor for two years, during which time he built the present church building. In 1875, he became pastor of the Baptist Church at Hutchison; remained pastor four years, during which time he built the present church building. In 1879, he became a missionary for Southwestern Kansas, which position he occupies at the present time. He has, during his ministry, raised $75,000 for denominational purposes. Has built eight church buildings in the past twenty years, and has organized twenty-five Baptist churches.

T. E. PRESTON, commission merchant and dealer in hides and wool, was born in Bridgeton, N. J., in 1849; son of J. W. Preston and Anna M. (Moore) Preston. Married in 1876 and has three children - William R., Charles A. and Pluma B. Came to Kansas in 1867, located at Le Roy, Coffey County, and engaged in farming. In 1869 he came to Wichita, and located on a farm; engaged on a farm until 1880. In 1880 he buried his wife. In 1882, was married to Miss Mary Dillon. Was engaged as traveling salesman from 1880 to 1882. In 1882 he commenced business in hides, wool and commission. Is a member of the "Old Settlers' Association." 

 WILLIAM RAINEY, farmer, P. O. Wichita, was born in Ireland in 1827, son of John Rainey and Susannah (Orr) Rainey. Married, in 1851, Miss Mary J. Ferguson, daughter of Hugh and Rachael Ferguson, natives of Pennsylvania, and has six children - John, Martha, Anna, James, Emma and Ella. Came to Kansas in 1878; located on a farm in Wichita Township, Section 29, northwest quarter, four miles east of Wichita; has been engaged in farming and stock-raising from that time. Is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Has been Supervisor and School Director in Ohio and Illinois.

J. W. RANSOME, firm of Ransome & Bond, grocers, was born in St. Louis, in 1852; son of G. M. Ransome and Clara (Holmes) Ransome. He married in 1876, Miss Margaret M. Brogan, and has one child - Joseph S. Came to Kansas in 1880; located at Wichita; was engaged in stock and livery business until 1882, when he commenced in the grocery, in the firm of Ransome & Bond. W. M. Bond, of the firm of Ransome & Bond, was born in Maryland in 1848, son of Thomas Bond and Annie (Morris) Bond. Married, in 1873, to Miss Annie Evans and has four children - Thomas E., T. J., William M. and Annie M. Came to Kansas in 1877; located on a farm near Wichita; engaged in farming for three years; two years in selling goods. In 1882, he formed a partnership with J. W. Ransome and purchased the grocery business of J. B. Turner. Business located at No. 44 Douglas avenue; style of the firm, Ransome & Bond.

JOHN A. RATLIFF, grocer, of the firm of Ratliff & Cone, was born in Illinois in 1852; son of G. W. Ratliff and Elizabeth (Parlier) Ratliff. He married, in 1878, Miss Martha E. Eakins, and has two children - Frank L. and Myrtle E. He came to Kansas in 1878 and engaged as a salesman for three years. In 1881 he formed a partnership with Rufus Cone and commenced the grocery business, located at No. 113 Douglas avenue. Business has increased seventy per cent since its establishment. He owns a residence on Market street., between First and Second streets. He is a member of the A. O. U. W., Wichita Lodge, No. 22.

J. C. REDFIELD, commission merchant, was born in Summit County, Ohio, in 1832; son of S. G. Redfield and Esther (Clark) Redfield. Married, in 1859, Miss Hannah A. Nichols. They have five children - Flora G., Frank, Kate, Belle and Pearl. He came to Kansas in 1857; located at Geneva, Allen County; remained till 1861; removed to Humboldt. From 1860 to 1865, was Sheriff of Allen County. In 1869 and 1870 he was a member of the Kansas Legislature. Was appointed Receiver of the United States Land Office in 1865, at Humbolt; held that appointment for three years. In 1870 he was appointed Receiver of the United States land office at Wichita; located at Wichita at that time; held that appointment for four years. In 1875 he engaged in merchandising; continued until 1881, then commenced a general commission business; located on Maine street near First. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Wichita Lodge, No. 99, A., F. & A. M., and also of Wichita Chapter No. 43.

A. W. RENSHAW, firm of Biggs & Renshaw, millers, was born in Macon County, Ill., in 1853; son of Charles and Elizabeth (Morris) Renshaw. Was married, in 1876, to Miss Laura Platte, daughter of Lewis Platte. Has one child, Charles L. Wife died in 1878. Came to Kansas in 1880, located in Harper County on a farm, engaged in farming for two years; went to Colorado and remained until the fall of 1882, then located at Wichita in January, 1883, bought the interest of Stancer & Hudson, in the milling business at No. 34 Douglas Avenue, and now engaged in feed and merchant milling in the above firm.

E. B. RENTZ, M. D., physician and surgeon, was born in Lycoming County, Pa., in 1849; son of S. P. and Lydia Rentz. He was married, in 1874, to Miss Flora E. Lloyd, daughter of William Lloyd. They have two children, Rau W. and Maud E. His wife died in March, 1882. He was educated at the Gettysburg College, graduated at the Medical University of Pennsylvania in 1870. He commenced the practice of medicine in 1870, at Muncy, Pa. In 1875, came to Kansas on account of failing health; spent one year traveling through the State, then located at Wichita and engaged in the practice of his profession, which he has since continued. Office on Douglas avenue.

JOSIAH RIESER, farmer, Section 34, P. O. Wichita, was born in Bucks County, Penn., in 1836; son of William Rieser and Magdaline (Stailer) Rieser. Married, in 1856, to Miss Lydia Jacobs. They have three children - William, Maria A. and James W. His wife died in 1859. Married, in 1880, to Miss Catharine A. Hastings. They have one child by last marriage, Marday Rieser. Came to Kansas in 1879, located on the farm where he now resides, two and a half miles southeast of Wichita. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M., Indiana Lodge, No. 5.

MARTIN S. ROCHELLE, salesman, was born in Ohio, in 1842; son of John Rochelle and Lucinda (Search) Rochelle. Married, in 1860, Miss Margaret J. Hanson, and has two children, Homer L. & Charles C. Came to Kansas in 1870, located at Fort Scott; spent two years in Fort Scott, Independence and Oxford. In 1872, he came to Wichita, located on a far, remained until 1882, then came to the city and engaged as salesman for Hess' Grocery House. When he located on his farm he was the fartherest west of any settlement in southwestern Kansas. Was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisted, in 1861, in Forty-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, Company C, was in twenty-six battles of his command, which are recorded in his discharge by order of his Colonel; was wounded at Savannah, Ga., in the right shoulder; was mustered out of service in 1865. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; is a member of the Garfield Post, No. 25, G. A. R.

JOHN G. RODE, shoemaker, was born in Germany in 1834, at Hesse Cassel; son of Justus Rode and Elizabeth (Koneg) Rode. Came to the United States in 1851. He married at Washington, Pa., in 1859, Miss Catharine Ditmar. They have three children - August W., Enes M. and Marta F. Mr. Rode commenced the manufacturing of boots and shoes in early life. Came to Kansas in 1873; commenced business at Wichita the same year. Business located on Douglas avenue between Market and Lawrence streets. Was in the War of the Rebellion. Enlisted in 1862, in the Sixth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company A. Was on guard duty against invasions; was mustered out in the fall of the same year. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church; is a member of the Wichita Lodge and Chapter A., F. & A. M., and of Commandery No. 12.

C. E. ROGERS, transfer business, was born in Kenosha, Wis., in 1852; son of A. W. Rogers and Martha (Myers) Rogers. He married in 1873, Miss Georgia Grantham. Their children are - Eniz E., Burrett A., Rillie H. and Emma L. Came to Kansas in 1869, located at Topeka and engaged in freighting and farming. Came to Wichita in 1872, and in 1876 commenced the transfer business with one team, now has four teams engaged in the business. Owns residence and barn on the corner of Water and Second streets. His wife died in the spring of 1882. He was married in September 1882, to Miss Lillie Grantham, daughter of I. W. and Emily Grantham. I. W. Grantham was born in Rabun County, Ga., in 1823. Was married in 1843, to Miss Emily E. Hucabee. They have eight children - Susan, William R., Sallie G., M. M., C. C., I. L., Lillie and Virginia. Came to Kansas in 1876, and now resides with C. E. Rogers.

W. S. ROGERS, photographer, was born in Wisconsin in 1853; son of Jacob and Almirie Santee Rogers. Was married in 1878, to Miss Susie Coggeshall, daughter of Peter and Jane Coggeshall. has two children - Pearl and Albert Rogers. Came to Kansas in 1872; located in Cowley County, on a farm, remained two years, then engaged in teaching pearl and cameo oil painting for four years, and then engaged in merchandising and salesman until 1881, when he opened his photograph gallery at No. 94 Douglas avenue, where he is now engaged in the business; in connection with photographing does work in India ink, pastile and water colors. He owns a residence on the corner of Mosley avenue and Third street.

S. ROOT, of Root Brothers Wichita Transfer Company, was born in Washington County, Wis., in 1847; son of Elisha Root and Amandah (Butler) Root. Married in 1870, to Miss Elvira E. harper, and has two children - Frank R. and Eva Root. Came to Kansas in 1870, located on a farm in Butler County; in 1872, removed to Wichita and engaged in butter and produce business. In 1873, commenced light express business, continued until 1875; then formed partnership with R. E. Root under firm name of Root brothers; then engaged in heavy transfer and freight line. In 1878, purchased the 'bus line of the Southwestern Stage Company, and from that time have run a general transfer and 'bus line. In 1882 the firm name was changed to the Wichita Transfer Company. Owns residence on Market street. R. E. Root, of the firm of Root Brothers, was born in Schroon, N. Y., in 1852. Father's name, Elisha Root; mother's name, Amanda butler. Married in 1875, to Miss Cordelia S. Root. They have one child - Lloyd B. Root. Came to Kansas in 1875. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Wichita Lodge, No. 99. Entered the firm of Root Brothers in 1875. Owns residence and four lots on Market street. Root Brothers own lots 16, 18, 20, 22 and 24 on Market street, with building 30 x 80, with L 24 x 50. Has carried mail to and from depots for five years.

N. A. ROWLEY, dealer in live stock, was born in Sullivan County, N. Y., in 1847. Son of William Rowley and Elizabeth Riesdorph Rowley. Was married in 1870 to Miss Aurilla Rectom, and has three children - William, Clarence and Alvin. He came to Kansas in 1867, located at Topeka, and engaged in the coal trade for three years. He then removed to Wichita and commenced in the live stock business the same year. Business increased, from 1870 to 1882, 100 per cent. He is located on the corner of Douglas avenue and Water street. He owns 320 acres of land, 240 acres of which is under cultivation; he also owns a residence in Wichita.

REUBEN H. ROYS, of the firm of Bunnell & Roys, located in Wichita, in June, 1876, and the following year went to Topeka, and was connected with the National Loan and Trust Company until July, 1878, when he made a trip to the East, remaining a few months and returning a few months and returning to Wichita. Since his return he has been engaged in the loan business, associated with L. B. Bunnell for the last two years. Mr. Roys was born in Morris, Grundy Co., Ill., July 28, 1853, and from the age of six years was reared in Olivet, Easton Co., Mich., graduating from Olivet College, in the class of 1873, after which he attended the law college at Ann Arbor, Mich., and read law both at Ann Arbor and Lansing, removing from the latter place to Kansas. Mr. B. is a member of the Masonic Order.

H. G. RUGGLES, attorney-at-law, was born in Canfield, Mahoning co., Ohio, December 31st, 1835. His education was principally acquired through his own efforts, aided by the instruction of his mother, his school advantages being limited. While working in his father's iron manufactory and store he found time to read law, which study he subsequently continued with Samuel Gilson, an attorney in his native place, and was admitted to the bar May 1, 1861. August 11 of the same year he enlisted as a private in Company H, One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out of service on account of disability, October 25, 1863. He then returned to Ohio, and remained in that State until October 13, 1874, when he removed to Kansas, locating in Wichita October 20, 1874, where he has been since that time engaged in the practice of law. He was married in Ravenna, Ohio, December 24, 1864, to Amanda Z. Hoyle a native of Berlin Township, Mahoning Co., Ohio. Their two children are Rollin Peter and Charles A.

JOSIAH RYNEARSON, baker, born in Darke County, Ohio, in 1843; son of Barnett Rynearson and Anna V. Drake Rynearson. He married in 1875 Miss Malannie Chartrand, daughter of Annaclat and Margaret Chartrand. They have two children - Arthur and Allie. He came to Kansas in 1871, and locating at Newton remained until 1878, when he removed to Larned and remained one year. He then moved to Peabody, Kan., in 1881 and came to Wichita, and commenced the bakery business, located at No. 74 Main street. He was in the War of the Rebellion and enlisted in 1861, Sixty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, Company D. He was in the engagement at Resaca, Peach Creek, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, and others. He was mustered out at the close of the war, after four years' and three months' service. He is an ancient member of the I. O. O. F. and encampment; of the G. A. R. of Peabody, Kan., and was a member of the City Council at Newton. 

 J. M. SANDERS, carpenter, born in Monroe County, Ind., in 1843, son of John Sanders and Elizabeth (Con) Sanders. He married in 1878, Miss Vulgamon, and has two children - Scott and Harry. Came to Kansas in 1869, located at Ottawa, engaged in the carpenter business. In 1872 located on a farm southwest of Wichita, engaged in farming for four years, then located in Wichita, and since that time has been engaged in the carpenter business. Was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisted in 1864, in Indiana, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment Volunteers, Company I. Was mustered out in the same year. Was one year engaged under Col. Woolcott division engineer of the Texas Pacific R. R., New Mexico Division.

JOHN K. SAWYER, contractor and bridge builder, was born in Somerset County, Me. December 2, 1832. In 1851 he emigrated from his native State and went to California where he remained until 1857, engaged in mining operations and carpenter work. He then returned to Maine, and in the spring of 1858, again turned his steps toward the West, this time locating in Peru, Ill., where he resided until April, 1864; he next removed to Montana and remained in that Territory until the fall of 1868, then was at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory until 1869, when he came to Kansas. His first location in this State was Lawrence, removing from that place after a residence of five months to Marysville, Marshall County, where he lived until December, 1870, when he located in Wichita. After locating in this city, he was engaged in contracting and building until April 1881, commencing his bridge building in 1876. He was associated with Wm. A. Reese until the fall of 1882, but is now without a partner. Among the buildings built by Mr. S. may be mentioned the Eagle Block, W. C. Woodman's store building, Field building, Turner's Opera House, M. M. Murdock's dwelling house, Smith & Keeting and Houch Bros. warehouses. Mr. S. was married at Brooklyn, Hancock Co., Me., December 5, 1857, to Emma B. Herrick, a native of that place and has two children - Fannie L. and Charles H., he is a member of the Baptist Church and of the K. of H. and A. F. & A. M.

M. A. SAYLES, dealer in agricultural implements, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1840; son of Asa and Amy Sayles. He was married in 1874 to Miss Helen E. Cook, daughter of Andrew J. and Ann Cook. They have two children - Asa A. and Mary B. Mr. Sayles came to Kansas from Illinois in 1866, located at Cottonwood Falls, Chase Co., and remained two years engaged in farming. In 1868 he removed to Wichita, and engaged in farming and stockraising in Sedgwick and Reno counties until 1875, when he engaged as a salesman in farm implements. In 1876 he became a partner in the firm of A. J. Cook & Co. In 1880 purchased the entire business. His business has increased 150 per cent since. He was chairman of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Amy Sayles, mother of M. A. and Olive Sayles, was born in Canada in 1819, daughter of Bradford and Mary (Nelson) Ames, was married in 1835 to Asa B. Sayles; her husband died in 1844. In 1866 she came to Kansas with her children; after two years spent at Cottonwood Falls she came to Wichita and was the tenth family located in that city.

FRED SCHATTNER came to Kansas in the spring of 1864. His first location was at Leavenworth, where he was employed in mercantile houses as a clerk for two years. He went from Leavenworth to St. Louis, remaining in the latter city four years, then returned to Leavenworth, and from there came to Wichita, July 28, 1870. After locating in Wichita he engaged in sign painting, which he continued until he was appointed County Clerk, in the latter part of the same year, serving in that position in 1871 to 1873, and to the spring of 1874, since which time he has served as City Clerk. Mr. S. is an artist and musician. He organized the first band in the Southwest, of which he has been the leader from the start, and was also the leader of the first orchestra. He was born in Strasburg (then a province of France), January 25, 1844, and immigrated to America with his parents in 1851, locating at Lexington, Ky., which remained his home until 1858. His father then moved with his family to Kansas City where Fred remained until he went to Leavenworth. He was married in Wichita, July 30, 1873, to Mary Ann (Green) Jackson, of Louisville, Ky. They have an adopted daughter, Mona Lisa.

L. G. SCHEETZ, was born in Bedminster Township, Bucks Co., Pa., July 24, 1844, and lived in his native county until 1867, then went to Philadelphia, clerked one year in a wholesale and retail grocery store; then went to Applebachsville, a small village in Bucks County, clerked there until April 1, 1869. He then immigrated to the West, not knowing where he would locate. Stopped at Chicago a few days, then went to Sterling, Ill., not liking it there he left for Hannibal, Mo.; stopped there and clerked until June, 1870. Then immigrated to Kansas, located at Emporia and engaged in mercantile business at that place for one year; he then removed to El Dorado, Kan., where he engaged in the wholesale liquor, flour and feed business at that place until 1874, when he formed a co-partnership with E. L. Wheeler and built the water-mill on Chisholm Creek, Wichita, Sedgwick Co., Kan., and after running it a year engaged in the grocery business, which he continued until 1881. He has now retired from active business and resides in Wichita, where he is engaged in looking after his property interests. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, K. of H., and the order of American Mechanics.

JOHN SCHOTT, machinist by occupation, was born in Germany in 1822, and is a son of John Schott and Anna Catherine Roden Scott. Came to the United States in 1845 and located at Baltimore, Md. He married, in 1844, Miss Anna Descher, who was born in 1821, and has four children - John Frederick, Louis Emanuel, Henry and John William. From 1847 to 1852 he was employed in the United States Gun Factory. At Baltimore was engaged in the manufacture of arms for Mexican service. During the Mexican War from 1852 to 1857 he was engaged in the locomotive works in Baltimore. In 1857 he came to Kansas, located at Lawrence and engaged in freighting for six years and then commenced the restaurant business. Remained at Lawrence until 1879, then removed to Wichita and commenced the fruit and confectionery business located on the south side of Douglas avenue, between Main and Water streets. Is a member of Lawrence Lodge, No. 4, I. O. O. F., also of Encampment, No. 4, A. F. P. W.

HENRY SCHWEITER, farmer, Sections 27 and 28, P. O. Wichita, born in Switzerland, in 1844, - son of John Schweiter and Elizabeth Raumen - married in 1873, Miss Caroline Gardner, and has four children - Henry, John, Willie and Otto. Came to Topeka, Kansas, in 1868; remained two years. In 1870 moved to Wichita, and for six years engaged with Mr. Davidson in contracting and lumber business. In 1874 engaged in the ice business which business he still continues, a partner of the Wichita Ice Company. The company own a building which stores 3,500 tons of ice. In 1876, moved on his farm, two miles southeast of Wichita, in Sections 27 and 28, where he now resides. Owns 400 acres of land. Is a member of the School Board and Clerk of District No. 7. Is a member of Wichita Lodge No. 93, I. O. O. F.

F. M. SCOTT, baker, born in Kentucky, in 1862, son of Minor Scott and Mary (Luchardt) Scott, came to Kansas in 1872, located at Wichita, in 1878; commenced an apprenticeship in the bakery business in the same year; bought an established business in 1882; business is located at No. 40 Main street; the firm of Scott & Pentington.

WILLIAM P. SHIELDS, book-keeper, was born in Highland County, Ohio, in 1848, son of William and Mary (McNary) Shields. He was married, in 1876, to Ella Glenn Ross, daughter of A. A. and Lavina Glenn. They have one child, Florence Shields. Mr. S, came to Kansas in 1878, and located at Wichita and engaged in book-keeping for Smith & Keating, for two years, and with the Rogers Coal Company, in 1882. Engaged in merchandising in 1881. In December, 1882, he engaged with F. G. Smyth & Son's farm implement house. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Wichita Lodge No. 99.

L. D. SKINNER, was born near Martinsburg, Keokuk County, Iowa, March 12, 1856. When he was but fourteen years of age, he went to Creston, and in the spring of 1873, entered the bank of S. H. Mallory & Co., remaining with them until January 1, 1876. From 1876 until December 1, 1880, he was in the Bank of Creston, serving also, during a part of this time as Deputy Treasurer, of Union County. He came to Wichita, from Creston, on leaving the bank. He was married in Denver, Col., April 25, 1881, to Maggie Butler, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio.

WILLIAM SKINNER, harness maker, born in New Hampshire in 1842, is the son of Stephen and Louisa (Dodge) Skinner. He married in 1864, Miss Ada Shope; has one child, Stephen Skinner. Came to Kansas in 1876, and located at Wichita, engaged in farming for the first three years. Still owns his farm, which he rents; but commenced work at his trade of harness making, in 1879, and has been engaged at it from that time to the present. Is a member of the Wichita Lodge, No. 93, I. O. O. F.

H. C. SMELTZER was born near Gallipolis, Ohio, September 25, 1847, and resided in his native town until 1866, when he removed to Tippecanoe County, Ind. In 1880 he removed from the latter place to Kansas, settling in Wichita in October of that year, where he was connected with the City Mills as second miller. In February, 1882, he purchased an interest in the Diamond Mills, taking charge of the establishment the following month. He now owns a one-third interest in the mill. Mr. S. was married at Lafayette, Ind., July, 1879, to Rebecca Mitchell, a native of Colfax, Ind.

ABRAM SMITH, contractor and builder, is a native of Binghamton, Broome County, N. Y., where he was born July 12, 1842, and resided until he was about three years of age. His parents then removed to Castleton, N. Y., where he lived until 1866, then in Syracuse until May, 1869, and in Quincy, Ill., from that time until February, 1870, when he started for Kansas, February 14, 1870. He located on a homestead in Butler County, working at his trade in Humboldt, Allen County, for six months. In March, 1872, he moved to Wichita, and after contracting for the construction of the house next north of the Presbyterian church, he worked as a journeyman carpenter until the fall of 1874, and has since that time been a contractor and builder. Mr. Smith enlisted in Company I, Ninety-first New York Volunteer Infantry, September 15, 1861, serving in that regiment until April 2, 1864, when he was discharged on account of disability caused by sickness contracted in the army. He re-enlisted in August, 1864, in Company D, Tenth New York Volunteer Infantry, Third Brigade, Second Division, Second Army Corps, and was finally mustered out June 8, 1865. He was married November 16, 1866, at Schenectady, N. Y., to Cornelia P. Fairchild, a native of Hornelisville, N. Y. They have three children - Frank H., Clarence A., and an infant daughter, Hazel C. Mr. S. is a member of the G. A. R., of Garfield Post, No. 25, and scribe in Wichita Encampment, No. 29. The buildings which he has constructed in Wichita are too numerous to mention in detail, but they comprise nearly all the schoolhouses, the store buildings and residences of R. E. Guthrie, Sr. and Jr., residences for Messrs. Mann, Bassant, Sluss, Innes, Dyer, Wall, Woodman (W. T. and W. C.), Allen, Brown, Pollock, Billings, Woodcock, VanNess, Druley, Tucker, Murdock, Roe, and many other residences and store additions.

CHARLES WESLEY SMITH, son of Charles H. and Dorothy (VanBuren) Smith, came to Wichita in September, 1876, and has been engaged in carpenter work in the city, and on the railroad, since that time. He was born in Ghent, Columbia Co., N. Y., April 24, 1845, and lived in his native State until he came to Kansas, having served in Company I, Ninety-first New York Volunteer Infantry, from September, 1864, until June, 1865, when he received his discharge and returned to New York, in which State he was married, May, 1866, at Schodack, to Susie Curtis, a native of that place. They have three children - Stephen D., Claude E., and James Henry.

D. W. SMITH, dentist, was born in New York, in 1833, son of Chester and Amanda (Howe) Smith. He was married in 1859, to Miss Emily Shawe, daughter of Peter Shawe. They have two children, Artie M. Smith and Ralph W. Smith. He was educated in dentistry in Ohio, in 1862. Commenced practice in 1864, and has been engaged in his profession since that time. He came to Kansas in 1878, and located at Wichita. He opened an office on Douglas avenue, in the Eagle Building. Was in the War of the Rebellion, and enlisted in 1863, in the One Hundred and First Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, Company A; was in the battle of Perrysville, Ky. He was mustered out in 1864. Is a member of the Baptist Church, and the A. O. U. W.

HENRY SMITH, farmer, Section 15, P. O. Wichita, was born in Leicestershire, England, in 1837. Son of Joshua Smith and Elizabeth (Chambers) Smith. Married in 1871 Miss Hattie A. Royal. They had one child, Arthur R. Smith. His wife died in 1874, and he married again in 1875 Miss Sarah E. Sherman. Has three children by the last marriage, Hattie M., Grace L. and John H. Smith. Came to Kansas in 1854 and located at Lawrence. Engaged in freighting for two years, then moved to Wabaunsee County and engaged in farming. In 1869 moved to Sedgwick County. Was a member of a volunteer company at Lawrence in 1855-56, organized to protect the city during the John Brown troubles.

JOSHUA and F. T. SMITH, farmers, P. O. Wichita. Joshua Smith was born in England in 1806. Son of John Smith and Mary (Wright) Smith. Married in 1880 Miss Elizabeth Chambers, and has three children, Rebecca, John and Henry. His wife died in 1841 and he married again in 1843 Miss Mary Cook, and they have four children, William, May M., Emma and Frederick T. Came to Kansas in 1854 and located at Lawrence. Remained two years and then went to Wabaunsee County. Engaged in farming for eight years. In 1864 he came to Wichita, Sedgwick County and in 1867 located on Section 22, southeast quarter, one and one-half miles southeast of Wichita, which property he now owns and is engaged in farming and gardening. Frederick T. Smith was born in Lawrence, Kas., in 1854, son of Joshua and Mary Smith, was the second child born in Lawrence. Married in 1880 Elizabeth Royal and has one child, Jesse S. Came to Kansas in 1871 and engaged in farming. Owns the west half of southeast quarter of Section 22, one and one-half miles southeast of Wichita.

F. G. SMYTH & SONS, dealers in agricultural implements. F. G. Smyth was born on the sea in 1827. Son of James and Abigail Deorsay Smyth. He was married in 1850 to Miss Rebecca Box, daughter of William R. and Rebecca Meredith Box. They have five children, William R. B., James F., Frederick G., Charles H. and Robert A. Mr. Smyth came to Kansas in 1876, located at Wichita, and engaged in agricultural implement business, locating on lots A and B, Douglas and Lawrence avenues. The brick building occupied by the firm is 50 x 120 feet, and thirty-five feet high. Business increased from its establishment from $15,000 the first year to $120,000 in 1882. He was master of a vessel on salt water for four years, and for eight years followed the lakes. He was mate during that time. Came from Madison, Wis., to Kansas. He is a member of Wichita City Council.

F. G. SMYTH, JR., was born in Columbia County, Wis., in 1856. Son of F. G. and Rebecca Smyth. Came to Kansas in 1876 and located at Wichita, and engaged in the firm of F. G. Smyth & Sons. Charles H. Smyth was born in Columbia County, Wis., in 1858. Son of F. G. and Rebecca Smyth. He came to Kansas in 1876 and engaged with the firm of F. G. Smyth & Sons. In 1881-82 he was Captain of Company A, Second Regiment Kansas National Guards. Is a member of the Wichita Gun Club and now carries the medal awarded by that club to the best shot. 

 FREDERICK SOMMER, jeweler, born in Mannheim, Germany, in 1818, came to the United States in 1850; son of H. F. Sommer and Jacobine Aab Sommer, descendants of the French Huguenots. He married in 1855, at Winterset, Iowa, to Miss Matilda Ellwanger, born in Stuttgart, Germany. They have four children, Matilda, Agnes, Julia and Carl. He came to Kansas in 1876 and located at Wichita. He commenced the jewelry business at No. 24 Main street in 1879; was burned out, losing his entire stock. Business is now located at No. 32 Main street. Miss Agnes Sommer, daughter of Frederick and Matilda Sommer, also engaged in the jewelry business at No. 100 Douglas avenue. Fred Sommer was educated as a civil engineer in the Pyrotechnic School, in Germany, in 1840, practiced engineering until 1849, participated in the revolutionary movement of that year, and, in consequence, emigrated to the United States in 1850; was in the War of the Rebellion, and enlisted in August, 1862, in the Twenty-ninth Regiment Iowa Volunteers, Company H, as a private, and was promoted to First Lieutenant in March, 1863; was promoted to Captain, Aid-de-Camp, Maj. Gen. Steel's staff, June 7, 1864. During this term of service he was engaged in engineer duty, fortified Helena, Duval's Bluff, on White River, Little Rock and Fort Smith. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., and R. A. M. & G. C, also of Wichita Lodge, No. 93, I. O. O. F. He is also a member of Garfield Post, G. A. R., No. 25.

FRED. A. SOWERS, dealer in real estate. Was born in Canton, Ohio, in 1839; is a son of the late Eli Sowers, for thirteen years Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and Mary (Dunbar) Sowers. He married at Leavenworth, in 1866, Miss Mary L. Schattner. His wife died in 1879, leaving three children, Percy F., Frederick D. and Charles A. Mr. Sowers was educated at Canton, Ohio, graduated in the class of 1856, and came to Kansas in 1863, locating at Leavenworth, where he became connected with Col. J. C. Vaughn, of the Daily Times, remained in that connection for seven years, removed to Wichita in 1870, started the first newspaper ever published in the Arkansas Valley, from its source to the Indian Territorial line, the Vidette. After the publication of that paper for two years, it was removed to Belle Plaine. In 1872 he became associate editor of the Eagle. After one year, started the Daily Beacon, the first daily paper ever published in the Arkansas Valley. That was in the days of the early cattle drive. After running the daily for six months it was the Beacon and was associated with the Eagle for one year. From 1876 to 1878 he was merchandising. In 1878 he went to Leavenworth and accepted the management of the Daily Press, resigned that position in 1879 and returned to Wichita. He went to Arizona in 1880 and spent one year in traveling and prospecting, returned in 1881 and purchased the editorial interest of the Daily Republican, now the Daily Times. In 1882 he commenced the real estate business, located on Douglas avenue, first block east of Main street. He was County Clerk for the term and made the first tax roll for Sedgwick County; was elected Register of Deeds on the first organization of the School Board. In connection with his pioneer newspaper work had an eventful life in the early days of Kansas, having taken the position of right and order against the disorderly element. He was often exposed to personal danger and violence.

GEORGE E. SPALTON, was born in Derby, England, April 3, 1848. He emigrated in 1870, locating on his arrival in America, in Virginia, where he remained a few months, and then resided in Union and Taylor counties, in Iowa, for ten years. From 1871 to 1875, he was engaged in farming and subsequently in the mortgage and loan department of the Bank of Creston, until he came to Wichita, December 5, 1880. Since that time he has been connected with the Lombard Mortgage Company and with the Kansas State Bank. He was married at Ottawa, La Salle Co., Ill., December 5, 1879, to Lillian C. Clark, of South Ottawa. They have one child, William A.

F. STACKMAN, merchant tailor, came to Kansas in 1869, located at Topeka, and moved to Wichita in 1872. Was born in Marso, Prussia, in 1843. Is the son of Carl and Anna (Hatka) Stackman. Commenced business at Wichita in 1872. Owns building in which business is carried on, No. 54 Main street. His business has steadily increased from the commencement.

JAMES F. STAFFORD, dealer in groceries and guns and ammunition, born in Cayuga County, N. Y., in 1845, son of Michael Stafford and Mary (Dunlavey) Stafford. He married in 1867, to Miss Ellen Donley. They have three children - Mary Ann, Josephine and George. Mrs. Stafford died in 1873, at Auburn, N. Y. He came to Kansas in 1876, located at Wichita, and commenced the grocery business the same year. In 1878 added the sale of guns and pistols to his trade, and carries a full line of ammunition and all appurtenances to the gun trade. Business located at No. 49 Main street, and owns the building in which business is located. Is a member of the Catholic Church.

WILLIAM E. STANLEY, located at Perryville, Jefferson Co., Kas., in April, 1870. In the fall of the same year he removed to Oskaloosa, where he remained until September, 1872, when he settled in Wichita, resigning the office of County Attorney, which he held two years when he left Jefferson County. After locating at Wichita he was elected County Attorney, in 1874-76-78; and in 1880, was elected Representative of the State Legislature. Mr. Stanley was born in Danville, Knox Co., Ohio, December 28, 1844. He was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, and read law with Judge Bain at Kenton, Ohio, and with Conover and Craighead at Dayton, Ohio, being admitted to the bar before removing to Kansas. He was married at Wichita, May 30, 1876, to Emma L. Hills, a native of Indiana. They have one child - Henry W., born August 25, 1880.

J. A. STEDMAN, insurance agent, was born in St. Lawrence County, N., Y., where he lived until 1872. He became connected with the hardware house of Hibbard & Spencer, of Chicago, and removed to that city. He remained with that house until he came to Kansas in June, 1876, and located at Sedgwick City, from whence he moved to Wichita in 1878. Mr. S. represents fourteen fire insurance companies, his fire and life insurance extending to many points in the Arkansas Valley. Mr. Stedman represents the following companies - Fire: Sun Fire of London; Phoenix, London; North British and Mercantile, London; Commercial Union, London; Lancashire of Manchester, England; Queen of London, England; Continental, New York; Franklin, Philadelphia; Pennsylvania Fire, Philadelphia; Springfield Fire and Marine, Massachusetts; British America of Toronto, Canada; Glenn Falls New York; Life and Accident: Mutual Life, New York; Travelers Life and Accident, Hartford.

J. M. STEELE, real estate, insurance and loan agent, came to Wichita in 1869. Took a claim on Section 4, Township 27, Range 1 east, and engaged in farming until the spring of 1870, when, after doing carpenter work for two months he commenced the business in which he is now engaged. Mr. Steele was born in Westfield, Tioga Co., Pa., July 31, 1844. He resided in his native town until 1866, when he located in Troy, Doniphan Co., Kansas, and remained in that place until he came to Wichita. While living in Tioga County he enlisted, in June, 1861, in Company A, First Pennsylvania Rifles (old Bucktail Regiment) in which he served until discharged after the battle of Appomattox. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Gaine's Mills and kept at Libby and Belle Isle forty-two days before he was discharged. He re-enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Ninetieth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry of which he was made First Lieutenant.

GEORGE W. STEENROD, was born in Friendship, Allegany Co., N. Y., July 7, 1845, his native State and town remaining his home until he started for Kansas in the spring of 1872. He enlisted in Company C, Eighty-fifth New York Volunteer Infantry October 16, 1861, and served until July 15, 1865. He was taken prisoner at Plymouth, N. C., April 20, 1864, and confined at Andersonville until the following August afterwards at Charleston about a month: then at Florence, S. C., until December 14, 1864, at which time he was paroled, and exchanged about a month later. At the time his capture nineteen of his comrades from Nile and Friendship, N. Y., were also taken prisoners, of whom sixteen died in the rebel prisons. Of the 443 members of the regiment that were captured, only thirty-five ever rejoined it, the others dying in prison or becoming disabled by starvation and exposure from performing active service. After leaving the army Mr. Steenrod returned to Allegany County and remained until the spring of 1872, when he came to Kansas and located in Union Township, Sedgwick County, on the northeast quarter of Section 20, Township 25, Range 2 west, his experience confirming him in the opinion that the country of that region is well adapted to farming having had but one failure of crops, in 1874, since he located. He has served two terms as Justice of the Peace and twice as County Commissioner. He was married in Friendship, N. Y., April 2, 1865, to Louisa Axtell, a native of that place. They have four children - Charles C., May, Floyd L. and Le Roy. Mr. S. is a member of the G. A. R.

R. STEPHENS, proprietor of stock and sale stable, born in Butler County, Ohio, son of William Stephens and Margaret (Charlton) Stephens. Married, in 1879, Miss Nannie Stephens, M. D. Mrs. Stephens was born in 1854, educated at the Women's Medical College in Chicago; graduated in the class of 1878. Commenced practice of medicine in 1879. In the winter of 1878 and 1879 attended medical lectures in Philadelphia. Came to Kansas in 1879. Mr. Stephens came to Kansas in 1873; located at Wichita, engaged in the grocery business. Continued in that business until the fall of 1876. In 1877 commenced the stock and feed business, located on Douglas avenue, between Main and Water streets. Owns the building and a residence, also a farm from which he realized this year, from the crops, enough to pay for the farm and $100 in excess, after hiring all the work done. Was in the United States service in Ohio, in 1862, in resisting Morgan's raid.

W. P. STEIN, contractor and builder, was born in Ohio, in 1844, son of John and Sarah Armstrong Stein. Was married in 1876 to Miss Dora George, daughter of Hudson George. Has two children - Albert and Edna. Came to Kansas in 1867; located at Topeka; engaged in contracting and building; remained until 1870. In 1871 located at Wichita, where he established his business and continued the same from that time. Shop located on South Main street. Employs ten men. Has been secretary of Sedgwick County Agricultural Society for five years, from 1875 to 1880. Is a member of the Wichita Lodge, No. 93, I. O. O. F., and of Encampment No. 29.

WILLIAM H. STERNBERG, contractor and builder, was born in Root, Montgomery Co., N. Y., February 17, 1831. When he was five years of age, he removed with his parents to Chenango County, which remained his home until 1877, when he emigrated to Kansas. Mr. S. resided in Norwich, Chenango County, for twenty-five years, prior to his removal to Kansas, and was married in Plymouth, in the same county, July 25, 1852, to Catherine Havens, a native of Otselic, same county, by whom he has two children - Oscar E. and Wm. Olin. Mr. S. located in Wichita, in February, 1877, and engaged in carpenter work one season, since which time he has been contracting and building. Among the buildings which he has erected, are the Hydraulic Mills, Temple Block, Roys Block, Second Ward Schoolhouse, F. Ross' Furniture Store, and the residences of Peter Gettos, C. R. Miller, C. N. Lewis, Aaron Katz, Wm. H. Whiteman, two for Kos Harris, J. R. Van Zandt, Dr. J. Russell, his own residence, and many other buildings, including Eads Block, Smyth & Sons' Block, Elliott's store, Gettoes' store, H. Imboden's residence, A. W. Oliver's residence.

M. STEWART, proprietor packing house, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1843. He is a son of Andrew Stewart and Susan (Ankeny) Stewart. He married in 1875, Miss Emma R. Newcomer, and has one child - Charles F. Stewart. He came to Kansas in 1867, and located at Junction City, and remained for five years, engaged in the grocery business. In 1872, located at Wichita, and engaged in the grocery business; continued for two years. In 1874 he engaged in the packing business, located on Douglas avenue, near the iron bridge. He was burned out in 1880, and the same year built the building now occupied by the business. Business has increased 500 per cent since its establishment. He is also engaged as a breeder of Poland-China thoroughbred hogs. Is the only one engaged in the business, and has the largest herd of thoroughbred Poland-China stock in Sedgwick County. He was in the War of the Rebellion, and enlisted in 1861, in the Fourth Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Company K. Enlisted as a private, and in 1862 was commissioned as Captain in the Thirteenth Regiment. In 1864 was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the same regiment. He was wounded at the battle of Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864. Served on the staff of Major Gen. George Crook, Inspector General Department of West Virginia, in 1864-65. He was mustered out in 1865, and was commissioned Captain of the Nineteenth Kansas Cavalry, in 1868. Was in the service for six months and on the resignation of Col. Crawford was promoted to Major. Was mustered out in 1869. Is now post commander of Garfield Post, No. 25, G. A. R. Has been three times elected to that position. He was President of the Board of Trade for the City of Wichita for 1882. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

S. H. STEWART, contractor and builder, located at Wichita March 1, 1877, and has been engaged in contracting and building since that time, with the exception of the first year, when he was employed as a carpenter. He was born in McKeesport, Allegheny Co., Pa., May 9, 1829, and resided mainly in his native county until he came to Kansas. He was married at McKeesport, December 1858, to Maria E. Sill, a native of that place. Mrs. S. died in July, 1867, leaving two children - Harry W. and Emma S. He again married at McKeesport, in June 1870, Mary I. Bair, a native of New Athens, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have three children living - Morton H., Gilbert H., and Bessie E. They have lost two children - Nannie B., aged over three years, and Rettie B., an infant daughter. Mr. Stewart is one of the proprietors of the Zephyr Flouring Mills, and a member of the Presbyterian Church.

J. F. and W. F. STITES, farmers, P. O. Wichita, twin brothers, born in St. Clair County, Ill., in 1844. Sons of John Stites and Catherine (Mace) Stites. Were married in 1873, to twin sisters, Alice R. and Carrie E. Worth. They came to Kansas in 1872, located in Wichita Township, Section 16, one mile east of Wichita, own 146 acres; have been engaged in farming and stock raising from that time. Are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of the Masonic fraternity, A., F. & A. M.

O. B. STOCKER, contractor, came to Kansas in October, 1878, and located permanently at Wichita. His business is exclusively contracting and furnishing material for plastering and finishing buildings. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, and has held the position of warder of the commandery for the last three years. He is a native of Northampton County, Penn., where he was born June 8, 1852, and was reared and educated in Lucerne County, Penn., which was his home until he came to Kansas.

MARTIN LUTHER STONER, carpenter, immigrated to Kansas in December, 1873. He located in Illinois Township, Sedgwick County, where he remained, engaged in farming, until the spring of 1881, when he removed to Wichita, and has been working at his trade in that city since the fall of the same year. He was born in Eaton, Preble Co., Ohio, April 7, 1849, and when a child, removed with his parents to Jersey County, Ill. In 1871, he again moved to Macoupin County, Ill., and from that place to Kansas. He was married at Madora, Macoupin County, Ill., June, 1877, to Louisa M. Wagoner, a native of Madison County, Ill.

J. W. & J. P. STURNS, farmers and nurserymen, P. O. Wichita. J. W. Sturns was born in Switzerland County, Ind., in 1822; son of John W. Sturns and Naomi (McCuin) Sterns. Married in 1841, Miss Synthia Renan, and has four children - J. H., Edward, Washington and James P. Came to Kansas in 1866, located at Ottawa, in nursery business, remained nine years, came to Wichita in 1875, engaged in nursery business, and has been engaged in the same. Has a stock of 800 apple trees, 300 evergreen and a variety of ornamental trees and shrubbery. Was married the second time in 1881, to Mrs. Sedenia J. Kellogg. Had two children - Armal A. and Eda M. Kellogg. J. P. Sturns, son of J. W. and Naomi Sturns, born in 1856. Married in 1881, Miss Rettie Burton. Came to Kansas in 1866, located at Wichita Township, and engaged in the nursery business with G. Sturns, in 1882, located on five acres of land in southeast quarter of Section 21, one mile east of Wichita. Has a stock of 14,000 fruit trees, and a variety of ornamental stock and shrubbery. 

 B. M. TABLER, grocer, born in 1825, son of Jacob Tabler and Nancy (McMichen) Tabler. He married in 1848, Mariah Harrison, and has six children - Amanda, Alexander, Andrew N., Millard T., Lawrence B. and Lewis W. Came to Kansas, in 1877, located in West Wichita, engaged in farming until 1882, commenced grocery business. Was in the Mexican War, enlisted in the First Regiment Mounted Riflemen, Company G, Captain, J. S. Simonson. Was in the battles of his command; was wounded at the battle of Belen Gate, September 19, 1847; was discharged for disability, in December of same year. Enlisted in the war of the Rebellion, in 1861, Thirty-fifth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Company A; was commissioned Captain in same year, was in the engagement of Wilson Creek, Pea Ridge, Nashville and other battles of his command; mustered out in 1864.

J. P. THOMAS, contractor and builder, was born in Canada East, in 1829; son of William Thomas. He married in 1849, Miss Eliza M. Orne. They have nine children - Edwin F., Alice M., Jessie J., Emma J., Julia M., William G., Phoebe M., Nellie E. and Gracie M. Mr. Thomas came to Kansas, in 1879, located at Wichita, and engaged in carpenter work and building. In 1882, he located business at No. 53 Main street. He also does millwright work in connection with his business. In the spring of 1883, he commenced milling at 51 Main street, where he has a feed and merchant mill, run by steam power. He was in the War of the Rebellion, and enlisted in 1864, in the First Minnesota Heavy Artillery, Company F; was stationed at Chattanooga, was mustered out in 1865. Himself and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

WILLIAM M. THOMAS, carpenter, was born in St. Louis, September 7, 1840. From the age of nine until fifteen years, he attended school in Boston, Mass., returning then to St. Louis, and remaining in that city a year. His home from that time until he came to Kansas, and located at Wichita, in 1878, was at Sedalia and St. Louis,, Mo. August 10, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, Thirty-third Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and after participating in all the engagements of his command, and being wounded at Tupalo, Miss., August 16, 1864, was mustered out August 10, 1865. He was married at Sedalia, Mo., June 1, 1872, to Lillie M. Stoddard, a native of Wate town, Jefferson Co., N. Y. Their children are Lillian L., and Pansey Pearl. Mr. Thomas has been engaged in working at his trade since his residence in Wichita, and is a member of G. A. R., Garfield Post, No. 5.

FRANK M. TODD, bookkeeper, was born in Peru, Ind., in 1852; son of James H. and Mary C. Todd; was married in 1877, to Miss J. L. Packer, daughter of Isaac Packer; has two children - J. Harry and Rebekah Todd; came to Kansas in 1868; located at Topeka: remained until 1871, then came to Wichita. In 1874 was appointed Assistant Postmaster and clerk of the money order department. Held that position for five years. In the fall of 1868 engaged with Todd & Harrison as bookkeeper, and has remained with them from that time. Is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Wichita Lodge, No. 99, of Chapter No. 33, and of Mount Olivet Commandery, No. 12.

JAMES H. TODD, grain dealer, was born in Indiana in 1827; son of David and Sarah Todd. Was married, in 1849, to Miss Mary C. McCabe; has three children - Frank, Ida and Martha. Mr. Todd came to Kansas in 1868; located at Topeka; engaged in merchandising remained for three years, then removed to Wichita. Engaged in merchandising for two years, and in 1874 engaged in buying grain under the firm of Todd & Harrelson, and has continued in the business from that time. Their shipments of grain, in 1882, amounted to 450,000 bushels. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1861 in the Fifty-first Regiment Indiana Volunteers. Was elected First Lieutenant, and received his commission in December, 1861. Was also Acting Adjutant of the regiment. Was mustered out in 1862. Is a member the Presbyterian Church, and of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M.

WHITNEY R. TUCKER, of the firm of Allen & Tucker was born in 1844, son of Stephen Tucker and Christiana (Freeman) Tucker. He married in 1877 Miss Anna Pope, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Pope. They have two children - Gilbert and Joel. He came to Kansas and in 1871 engaged in the flour and feed business; in 1873-74 was salesman for J. M. Allen. He owns a farm on Section 33, Wichita Township; in 1875 formed a partnership with J. M. Allen in grocery business, firm of Allen & Tucker, No. 96 Douglas avenue. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity A., F. & A. M. Wichita Lodge No. 99.

CHARLES A. VANNESS, Clerk of the District Court, located in Lincoln Township, Sedgwick County, in December, 1870, his homestead being on northwest quarter section, Township 25, Range 2 east. He was the first Trustee of this township, and held the position three terms. In 1873 he became Deputy County Treasurer, and remained in the Treasurer's office nearly all the time until January, 1877, when, having been elected Clerk of District Court in November, 1876, he assumed the duties of the office. He has been re-elected to the same position until the present time, entering upon its duties for the fourth term January, 1883. Mr. VanNess is a member Board of Education of Wichita; of I. O. O. F. No. 93, Encampment 29; K. of P., No. 44, Uniform Div. No. 2, and G. A. R. Mr. VanNess was born in Watertown, Jefferson Co., N. Y., May 25, 1838. In the spring of 1856 he moved to Minnesota; lived there one year, then one year in Illinois, ten years in Ohio and one year in Iowa before coming to Kansas. He served in Company I, One Hundred and Forty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry (one hundred days' service) doing garrison duty, and prior to that was in the Provost Marshal's office, Gen. Rosecranz' Army. He was married at Macomb, Ill., November 12, 1858, to Marion J. Phillips. They have three children - Minnie M., now Mrs. P. S. Smith, of Wichita; Fred W. and Louis C.

C. A. WALKER was born in Cherokee County, N. C., November 1, 1845. In 1865 he removed from his native State and located in St. Louis, where he remained until 1868, when he emigrated to Kansas. His first location in this State was Leavenworth, in which city he remained one year and returned to St. Louis, where he remained until 1870. He then came again to Kansas and settled at Humboldt, and came thence to Wichita in July, 1872. Until 1876 he was employed as chief clerk in Receiver's office, U. S. Land Office, when he became connected with Wichita Bank, remaining with that institution and its successors until the present time. Since his residence in Wichita, Mr. Walker has served as Alderman of the city, and for several years as Clerk of the Board of Education. He is a member of A., F. & A. M., Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery. He was married in Leavenworth, March, 1868, to Arla Odell, a native of Cleveland, Ohio. They have one child Elvie.

R. L. WALKER, located in Montgomery County, Kan., in December, 1868, before the Osage Indians had left the region. In July, 1869, he removed to Ottawa, Kan., and after living there a few months went to Arkansas City, Cowley County, and lived there and at other localities in the same county until April 28, 1879. In the fall of 1873, he was elected Sheriff of the county and was re-elected in 1875, and in 1876 was elected Mayor of Winfield. In March, 1879, he was appointed Register of the United States Land Office of Wichita Land District. Mr. Walker was born in Jacksonville, Center Co., Pa., June 30, 1842, and reared in Ohio from two years of age; residing there until he came to Kansas. In April, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three months' service; re-enlisted in August 1861. Six months later he became Captain of his company. December, 1864, he was appointed Assistant Inspector General on Gen. Samuel Beatty's Staff and served until mustered out of service, in December, 1865. He was married at Winfield, Kan., January 4, 1876, to Sadie A. Webb, a native of Wis. They have two children - Edward William and Rebecca. Mr. W. is a member of the G. A. R.

W. F. WALKER, attorney, was born in North Carolina, August 8, 1833. In the spring of 1837, his parents removed to Henry County, Ind., where he was reared and educated, attending Franklin College, Johnson County, Ind., in addition to the public schools and academies of his neighborhood. He taught school six terms and also read law in Henry County, afterwards attending Cincinnati Law College, from which he graduated in April, 1861. He was admitted to the bar of Hamilton County, Ohio, and the following month was admitted to practice in Indiana; commencing his practice in New Castle, Ind., of which city he was Mayor in 1863. In 1866, he was elected District Attorney of Common Pleas Court and served two terms in that position. In 1870, he was appointed Deputy United States Internal Revenue Assessor; and in 1874, was elected Prosecuting Attorney of the Circuit Court, holding the position two years. From May 1, 1864, to September 29, 1864, he served in Company B, One Hundred and Thirty- ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. In November, 1877, he came to Kansas, and after spending about a year in prospecting, located and removed his family to Wichita in the fall of 1878, and has been engaged in the practice of law there, since the spring of 1879, and in April, 1881, was elected City Attorney of Wichita. Mr. Walker was married at Lewisville, Henry Co., Ind., April 26, 1855, to Sarah E. Carr, a native of that county. They have four children living - Frank B., Mattie A., James A., and Carl J. Mr. W. is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, being M. E. H. P. of his Chapter, also Dictator of the K. of H., Lodge No. 528, and a member of the G. A. R., Garfield Post, No. 25.

T. B. WALL, attorney, was born in Cottonwood Township, Cumberland Co., Ill., January 1, 1857. He was educated at Lee's Academy, Coles County, Ill., graduating from that institution and also from the Law Department of McKendrie College, Ill. He passed an examination before the Supreme Court, at Mt. Vernon, Ill., and was admitted to the bar in June, 1877, commencing his practice in St. Clair County, and removed from there to Wichita, July 6, 1878. Since August 15, 1878, he has been associated with W. E. Stanley in the practice of law. He was married in Wichita, August 15, 1880, to Kate M. Alexander, a native of St. Clair County, Ill. They have one child - Alexander B.

J. A. WALLACE, agricultural implement dealer, was born in Cooper County, Mo., in 1840; son of Robert and Margaret (Steel) Wallace. Was married in 1879 to Miss Pamelia Hutchinson, daughter of Thomas and Polly (Finley) Hutchinson. Came to Kansas in 1878; located at Wichita. For six years previous to his locating in Kansas, he had traveled in the State, as agent for W. A. Wood's Mower and Reaper Manufacturing Company. On locating at Wichita he established business in the farm implement business, and in 1879, purchased the implement business of Hauck Bros., and the large stone building where the business was located on Douglas avenue. Business has increased from sales of $10,000 per year in 1878 to $125,000 in 1882. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M., Royal Arch and Commandery, and of the I. O. O. F. and Encampment.

HUGH R. WALT, Sheriff, was born in Mifflin County, Pa., July 18, 1852. In the spring of 1864 he removed to Center County, Pa., where he resided until the spring of 1869, locating at that time near Norwood, Mercer Co., Ill. In June, 1872, he came to Sedgwick County, Kas., and in the following fall returned to Pennsylvania, remaining about a year and a half in the East. In February, 1874 he located in Ninnescah Township, Sedgwick County, on southeast Section 9, Township 29, Range 2, west, and lived there until January, 1880, when he removed to Wichita, having been elected Sheriff November, 1879, to which office he was re-elected November, 1881. Mr. W. still owns the farm on which he first settled in Sedgwick County, and is engaged in stock and grain raising. He was married in Wichita December 16, 1875, to Belle Bebster, a native of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, by whom he has one child, Howard Vance. Mr. Walt is a member of K. of H., and Kansas Benevolent Association.

DANIEL WEBSTER, Deputy Sheriff, was born in Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, February 25, 1852. When he was a few years of age his parents removed to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, which was his home until 1874, when he removed to Oskaloosa, Mahaska Co., Iowa. He remained in that place until he came to Kansas and located at Atchison in 1878, from whence, after a residence of about six months he came to Wichita. He was engaged in prospecting for about one year, and then engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes, which he still continues. He was appointed Deputy Sheriff March 1, 1882.

A. D. WHEELER, grocery, born in Cayuga County, N. Y., in 1849. Son of V. M. Wheeler and Eunice Reed Wheeler. He married in 1869, Miss Helen A. Reed. Came to Kansas in 1871 and located at Topeka, and in the fall of the same year came to Wichita. In 1882 he commenced the produce business, and located at No. 22 Main street. He started the first delivery wagon at Wichita. In 1873 he commenced the grocery business and has continued in the same since that time. The business is located on the corner of Douglas and Lawrence avenues, Roy's Block. He was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisting in 1864, in the Third New York Light Artillery, Company A. He was in the battle of Kingston, 9th and 10th of March, 1865, and other engagements of his command, and was wounded at Kingston 10th of March, 1865. Was mustered out at the close of the war. He is a member of Wichita Lodge No. 98, and of Encampment No. 29, I. O. O. F. He is a member of Garfield Post No. 25, G. A. R.

S. S. WILBUR, M. D., was born in Waterville, Lamoille Co., Vt., November 10, 1828, and lived in his native State until July, 1877, when he located at Belleville, St. Clair Co., Ill., and practiced medicine in that place until he came to Kansas, in March, 1880. Dr. Wilbur graduated from the Medical Department of Burlington University, Vt., and was engaged in practice at Montgomery, Franklin Co., Vt., seventeen years before removing to Illinois. He located at Wichita in March, 1880, and has been engaged in practice in that city since that time. He was married in Johnson, Vt., March, 1850, to Miss Sarah Ann Payne, a native of Topsham, Vt., who died in 1854. In March, 1880, he was married at Belleville, Ill., to Lucetta Stookey, a native of Franklin County, Vt.

FERDINAND WILKE, proprietor of the Wichita Cracker Manufactory, born in Greiffenberg in Pommern, Germany, July 19, 1850, son of Fred Wilke and Sophia (Dahike) Wilke, natives of Germany. He married May 10, 1877, Miss Frances Schunmacher, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 2, 1854, daughter of John Schunmacher and Catherine Hilgeford, who came to this country from Oldenburg, Germany, in 1847. There is one child of this union, George Wilke, born May 24, 1878. Mr. Wilke came to Kansas in 1875, and located at Wichita, commenced in the bakery business in the same year. Business located at No. 42 Douglas avenue. Business has increased 100 per cent, since its establishment, and he has recently bought machinery for the manufacture of all kinds of crackers, snaps, jumbles, etc. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, also member of Wichita Lodge No. 93, I. O. O. F.

Image of F. W. WHITLOCK FREDERICK W. WHITLOCK, M. D., homeopathist, of Wichita, was born in Pyrmont, Germany, November 8, 1825. He came to the United States in July, 1837; and went direct to Van Buren County, Iowa, and practiced his profession there from 1858 to 1880, when he moved to Wichita, where he has ever since engaged in the practice of medicine. He graduated at the homeopathic college of Missouri in 1868. Dr. Whitlock has had a very peculiar experience as a physician. Physics came natural to him and he practiced medicine ten years before he graduated, being urgently requested to do so by his neighbors. The doctor was one of the first settlers of Van Buren County, Iowa, and still owns considerable property in Farmington, of that county. He married Miss Catharine Reckmeyer in St. Louis, in 1848. She was born in 1830, and died April 13, 1861, leaving three children, now living, Edward A., aged thirty; Albert, aged twenty-seven, and Caroline E., aged twenty-four. Edward and Albert are graduates of the Pulte Medical College, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Albert is still practicing medicine in Farmington, Iowa, and Edward is connected with his father in Wichita, Kas. Dr. Whitlock married again Miss Christiana Behme, July 6, 1862. He is a member of the German Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Republican.

JOHN M. WILSON, wholesale merchant, was born in Fayette County, Ill., in December, 1848; son of John and Elizabeth (Harris) Wilson. Was married in 1876, to Miss Nellie A. Rankin, daughter of David and Maria L. Rankin. They have one child - Edith May. Came to Kansas in 1879, and located in Douglas, Butler County; engaged in merchandising for three years. In the fall of 1882, he located at Wichita and engaged in the wholesale notion business, at 32 Main Street. He was in the War of the Rebellion, and enlisted in 1864, in the One Hundred and Forty-third Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, Company C. He was mustered out in the fall of the same year. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M., of the I. O. O. F., and the Independent Order of United Aid Society.

ELIAS U. WINDERS, farmer, Section 12, P. O. Wichita, was born in Maryland, in 1832; son of Jacob Winders and Sarah (Landis) Winders. He married in 1853, Miss Elizabeth Eyerly, and has four children - Elva K., Harry, Mary A. and George E. He came to Kansas in 1876, and located on the farm where he now resides. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Harry Winders, farmer, Section 12, was born in Ohio, in 1857; son of Elias U. and Elizabeth Winders. He married in 1881, Miss Matilda Long. He came to Kansas with his parents, in 1876, and has been engaged in farming since that time.

JOHN A. WINDSOR, first came to Wichita in December, 1875, and finally located there in July, 1876. He has since been engaged in the business of loaning money with the exception of a short time in the spring of 1881, when he was engaged in the cattle business in company with his brother, Charles A. Windsor. Mr. Windsor is a native of Pike, Wyoming Co., N. Y. born April 12, 1836. In 1840, he moved to Angelica, Allegany Co., N. Y., and ten years later to Belfast in the same county, residing there and in Cuba of the same county, until 1868. He then removed to Springfield, Ill., and remained there engaged in the nursery business, until he came to Wichita, in 1875. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M. Mr. Windsor was engaged in speculating in the South during the war.

J. W. WINGARD, was born near Delphi, Carroll Co., Ind., September 25, 1843. He lived in his native county until the fall of 1870, when he came to Kansas and on the 14th of October, 1870, located at Mount Florence, Jefferson County, where he remained until he came to Wichita, November 24, 1871. During his first two years of his residence in Wichita he was engaged in carpenter work and since that time has been engaged in contracting and building, having erected many of the prominent business buildings, among others those of Corbett, Black & Zimmerly. Mr. W. has been a member of the Board of Education and was elected Coroner in November, 1879, holding the office by re-election, in 1881. He has been Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, since January, 1879, and is a member of the Old Settlers Society, and of the K. of H. He was married in Carroll County, Ind., November 27, 1862, to Emeline Idsking, a native of New Philadelphia, Ohio. Mrs. Wingard died August 21, 1866, leaving two children - Orra Anna, nor Mrs. Frank Kennedy, of Carroll, County, Ind., and Charles Elmer. He was married again April 7, 1872, in Wichita, to Rachel S. Grandstaff, a native of Carroll County, Ind., by whom he has one child - Mary Emma.

AMBROS WOENCH, gunsmith and safe lock expert, was born in Germany in 1832; son of Joseph and Caroline (Schlee) Woench; was married, in 1866, to Miss Amelia Stemphler, and has one child - Clara. His wife died in 1872. Married, in 1875, to Miss Tillie Lickfield; has four children - Emma, Augusta, Willie and Ambros. Mr. Woench came to Kansas in 1878; located at Topeka; remained three years; engaged at his trade. In 1881, located in Wichita, on Douglas avenue, where he now carries on the business. Was conscripted into the Confederate army, in 1861, at Galveston, Tex., where he then resided. Served until 1863, when he left the South and located in Philadelphia, and remained there until coming to Kansas, in 1878. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

ALLEN A. WOOD, commission merchant, member of the firm of Redfield & Wood; born in Swanton, Vt, in 1858; son of Benjamin D. Wood and Sophia E. (Pratt) Wood; natives of Vermont; married, in 1877, to Miss Flora G. Redfield; daughter of J. C. and Hannah Redfield. They have one child - Carrie E. He came to Kansas in 1875; engaged as dry goods salesman; continued until 1879; then removed to Parsons, Kan.; engaged in business with G. Y. Smith & Co.; remained member of that firm for one year; returned to Wichita, and in 1881, went to Wellington, and in 1882, returned to Wichita, and in same year commenced business in firm of Redfield & Allen, west side of Main street, near First. Is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Wichita Lodge, No. 99, A., F. & A. M.

L. N. WOODCOCK, County Treasurer, is a native of Marion, Marion Co., Ohio. He moved from his native county to McLean County, the latter remaining his home until he came to Kansas in October, 1870. In June, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company G, Ninety-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving until August 25, 1865, when he was mustered out as First Lieutenant. After coming to Kansas, Mr. W. spent several months prospecting, locating in January, 1871, in Lincoln Township, on Section 8, Township 25, Range 2 east, where he remained until July, 1874, engaged in farming and in 1872 and 1873 serving as Justice of the Peace. At that time he assumed the duties of County Treasurer, having been elected to the office in November, 1873, since which time he has been twice re-elected, in 1875 and in 1881. He removed to Wichita in 1874, and in the fall of 1878, engaged in drug business, which he continued until the spring of 1880, when he started his present book business. Mr. W. is a member of the I. O. O. F., Wichita Lodge, No. 93; K. of P., No. 44; and G. A. R., Garfield Post, No. 25.

W. C. WOODMAN was born in Philadelphia, and prior to his removal to Kansas, resided in Jacksonville, Ill. After locating in Wichita, he engaged in the mercantile business, which he continued for five years. In September, 1870, he commenced selling exchange, and in the spring of 1871, in banking and farm loaning business, having now in his bank, as assistants, two sons and a nephew. His son, W. S. Woodman, is cashier of the bank. Besides his business in the city, Mr. Woodman devotes much of his attention to stock raising, having a large sheep ranch nine miles south of Wichita, containing 800 acres, and 1,000 head of Merino and other valuable sheep, and well provided with all the accessories necessary for having them well cared for. This ranch is in charge of his son Thomas. Mr. Woodman has six sons and three daughters.

CHARLES ZEININGER, baker, born in Wurtemburg, Germany, in 1839, son of Christopher Zeininger and Eva R. (Spieth) Zeininger. He came to the United States in 1866 and located at Des Moines, Iowa. He married in 1871, Miss Caroline Baumann, daughter of John Baumann and Anna B. (Clouse) Baumann. They have four children - Anna R., Daisie, Lillie and Carl. He came to Kansas in 1873, and located at Wichita and engaged in farming for seven years. Commenced in the bakery business in 1880. His business increased 500 per cent. from 1880 to 1882. He is located on Douglas avenue, No. 22. Is an ancient member of the I. O. O. F.; is a member of the Knights of Pythias. 

 WILLIAM N. AYRES, M. D., physician and surgeon and farmer, P. O. Valley Center, was born in Ohio, in 1811; son of William and Elizabeth Ayres. Was married in 1836, to Miss Evaline H. Hanger, daughter of Martin and Elizabeth Hanger. Has two children - William W. and Augusta Ayres, now Mrs. Rose. He has buried eight children. At the age of sixteen he left Ohio for Louisville, Ky., and soon after commenced to read medicine. Attended lectures at the Louisville Medical University, where he graduated in the class of 1844. His first practice of medicine was in 1834, and has made it his life work. After thirteen years removed to Illinois, where he practiced for thirty-four years. Came to Kansas in 1882. After a short time spent at the residence of his son, on his farm in Park Township, he located at Valley Center and engaged in the practice of his profession. In April of this year established the drug business in company with his grandson, Wm. P. Ralph, under the firm name of Ayres & Ralph. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and the Masonic Fraternity. He is past master of A., F. & A. M., having occupied the position of worshipful master two terms. Has been Justice of the Peace and Sheriff of Hardin County, Ill. Was Representative from Hardin and Gallatin counties to the Illinois Legislature in 1871-72.

W. W. AYRES, Section 26, Park Township, P. O. Valley Center, son of Dr. William N. Ayres, was born in Indiana in 1838. Was married in 1861, to Miss Catharine Drum, daughter of Mary and Jacob Drum; has two children - George and William. His wife died in 1870. Was married in 1871 to Miss Mariah Baldwin, daughter of John and Manerva H. Baldwin; has four children - Evaline, Laura M., Manerva and John. Came to Kansas in 1880; located in Park Township, on the farm where he now resides; owns eighty acres; engaged in farming. Is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church also of the Masonic fraternity, A., F. & A. M. and the I. O. O. F., Sedgwick Lodge No. 177. Has been a teacher for twenty-seven years before coming to Kansas; commenced at the age of sixteen. Was County Superintendent of Public Instruction of Harden County, Ill., for eight years, and Deputy Sheriff of that county for the same length of time, and Sheriff for two years.

C. P. BAKER, farmer, Section 34, P. O. Sunnydale, was born in Washington County, N. Y., in 1821; son of Ezekiel and Sally Baker. Was married in 1845, to Miss Mary A. Kenyan; has six children - Charles D., Madelia H., Daniel A., Joseph E., Frank H. and Erwin. Wife died in 1858. Was married in 1873, to Mrs. Clara Beach nee Dewine; she has one child by her former husband - Hattie Beach, and one by her last marriage - Cassini Baker. Mr. B. came to Kansas in 1870; located on the farm on which he now resides, containing eighty acres, of which sixty-eight are under cultivation. He was in the army during the late war; enlisted in 1861, in the Thirty-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Company A; was in the battles of Pea Ridge, Perryville, Stone River, Kenesaw Mountain, Franklin and Nashville; was slightly wounded at Pea Ridge; had seven ball holes through his clothing; was taken prisoner, but succeeded in making his escape and joined his command; was mustered out in 1864. Is a member of the Garfield Post No. 25, G. A. R., and of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County. Settled in the township before its organization. Mr. and Mrs. Baker were the first couple married in Grant Township. Mr. Baker is a descendant of the Bakers and Pattens of Rhode Island, and of English and Irish extraction.

J. C. BAXTER, farmer, Section 2, P. O. Sunnydale, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1834, son of John and Lucinda Baxter. He was married in 1854, to Miss Rosina Zelliner, daughter of Jacob and Susannah Zelliner. Has seven children - Arabell, Loffness C., Alanda, Emerillis, Emma E., Alfrieda A., and Davis J. He came to Kansas in 1871, located on the farm on which he now resides, containing 160 acres, 100 of which are in cultivation, which yields him a good average of wheat, oats and corn. He has a good orchard of 500 fruit trees now in bearing and a fine grove of about two acres of forest trees. Mr. Baxter enlisted in Company K, Eighty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, in 1863. Was detailed on entering the service as prison steward, served in that capacity until the close of the war. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and Trustee. Settled in the Township before its organization. He has served on the School Board of his district for six years.

DWIGHT BEACH, carpenter and builder, was born in Orleans County, Vt., in 1850, son of Solomon and Harriet Beach; was married, in 1869 to Miss Pyra Spinks, daughter of Richard and Jane Spinks; has one child - Pearl Beach. Came to Kansas in 1870, located in Kechi Township, engaged in farming, remained for two years, then moved to Harvey County, where he remained for five years, then returned to Kechi Township, this county, and remained two years, then moved to Valley Center, Grant Township, where he still resides. He has been engaged in the mercantile business for the last three years. In 1883 he sold his business and is now engaged at his trade, which is that of a carpenter. He has been successful in his farming and other pursuits. Owns a farm of eighty acres, sixty acres of which are under cultivation, and a house and two lots in Valley Center.

S. H. BRITAIN, farmer, Section 28, P. O. Sunnydale, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1827, is a son of James and Relief Britain. Was married in 1859 to Miss Mary A. McIntosh, daughter of Alexander and Rachel McIntosh. Has three children - Frank L., Albert P. and Loree L. Britain. Came to Kansas in the fall of 1868, remained one year and a half in Topeka, and then removed to Burlingame, and in December, 1870, located on his present farm of 160 acres, 100 of which are in cultivation, and twelve in forest trees, eight acres devoted to an orchard of assorted fruits and one acre in blackberries. His residence is surrounded by fine shade trees, rendering it very attractive. His average grain yield is: corn, 35; wheat, 12, and oats, 40 bushels per acre. Mr. Britain enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was mustered out after ten months' service. Was educated for a physician, and after leaving the army practiced several years at Hayfield, Crawford Co., Penn., but private reasons induced him to abandon the profession and move West. Was one of the organizers of Grant Township. Has been three years Director of the School Board of his district, and was elected Township Trustee in February, 1882.

H. C. BOYLE, farmer, Section 31, P. O. Valley Center, was born in Putnam County, Ill., in 1846, son of David and Lavina Boyle. Was married, in 1869, to Miss Lydia T. Morris, daughter of Edward and Hannah Morris. Has two children - Orvil A. and Myron D. Boyle. Came to Kansas, in 1876, from Illinois, purchased the farm on which he now resides, consisting of 240 acres, 160 of which are under cultivation; corn and wheat are his principal crops, which have invariably yielded well. He keeps about forty head of cattle of high grade Short-horn, and fifty hogs of Poland-China breed. Mr. B. is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is church and district steward. Is a member of the Arkansas Valley Agricultural Association of Sedgwick County, was Director, and in 1882, was Assistant Superintendent of the Society. His farm joins the town site of Valley Center. Has a good orchard now in bearing, and a variety of small fruit. Has a grove of forest trees of about two acres surrounding his residence.

E. C. CARNAHAN, merchant and farmer, Section 27, was born in Logan County, Ill., in 1860, son of M. C. and Lodema Carnahan; single. Came to Kansas in 1876 with his parents; located in Grant Township, engaged in farming, remained six years; then associated with L. C. Waller, and established the hardware business, under the firm name of Carnahan & Waller, and is now carrying a full line of hardware and all kinds of farming implements; owns the building in which he business is located, 20 x 40 feet, and an agricultural warehouse, 20 x 40 feet; the business has increased about 50 per cent since its establishment; owns a farm of eighty acres, on which he keeps stock. Is a member of the Christian Church. L. C. Waller, of the firm of Carnahan & Waller, was born in Wayne County, Ind., in 1848; is a son of Frederick and Christina Waller. Was married in 1877, to Miss Sarah B. Westfall, daughter of John and Sarah Westfall; has one child - Myrtle E. Waller. Came to Kansas in 1882, located at Valley Center; owns a farm of eighty acres, engaged in stock raising; has recently established the hardware business in connection with E. C. Carnahan; the firm has a very fine trade, surrounded as they are by as fine a farming community as there is in the county. Is a member of the Christian Church. Was Supervisor of Platt County, Ill., held the office two years.

J. T. CARPENTER, farmer, Section 36, and dealer in coal, lumber, etc., P. O. Valley Center, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1823. Is a son of Asa and Catharine Carpenter, who were natives of Pennsylvania, and moved to Du Page County, Ill., when the subject of this sketch was twelve years of age. At the age of twenty, he was married to Miss Eliza Emerson. In 1850, with his wife and child, went to California, going by the overland route, to try his fortunes among the vicissitudes of the land of gold, where he remained for five years, during which time he was successful and succeeded in accumulating $10,000, but was overwhelmed with grief at the death of his wife and child. In 1855, he returned to Illinois, where he was engaged in farming until he came to Kansas in 1870. In 1855, he was married to Miss Sarah Hudson, daughter of the Rev. James and Rebecca Hudson. He has three children by the last marriage - Horace, Clara and Arthur Carpenter. On coming to Kansas he located on a farm on the Little Arkansas River, in Park Township, this county, but subsequently removed to Wichita, where he was engaged in the grain business for four years. He then removed to his farm, on which he has since resided, consisting of 500 acres, located in Grant and adjoining townships, 350 acres of which are under cultivation. In 1878, he laid out the town site of Valley Center, from a portion of his farm. Since moving to this farm he has devoted his time to the interests of his farm, and has also been engaged in the coal and lumber business and buying grain. Has been successful in all his business ventures, and has acquired a competency which he is now enjoying in his declining years as the result of his energy and business ability. He was elected County Commissioner in 1873, serving one term of two years, and re-elected in 1875, and served another term, during which time he assisted in organizing over one half of the townships of Sedgwick County. Has never been an aspirant for office, studiously avoiding all, excepting the one mentioned, but has ever been a zealous worker for the public interest's of the communities in which he has lived. He is a director and stockholder of the Citizens Bank of Wichita. Is a Free-will Baptist. Was deacon of the church for twenty years before coming to Kansas. Is a member of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County. He is an earnest temperance man, never having used tobacco or stimulants in his lifetime, not even to the extent of drinking a glass of beer. His son, Arthur, who is associated with him in business, was born in Illinois in 1861. Was married in 18881, to Miss Della Sherman. Has one child - Ray Carpenter. Was appointed R. R. agent at Valley Center, in 1879, for the A., T. & S. F. Co., and in 1882 for the St. Louis & San Francisco R. R., which office he held until 1883, when he resigned on account of other business. He was appointed Postmaster of Valley Center in 1881, which office he now holds. Mr. Carpenter's son-in-law, A. C. Race, station agent at Valley Center, was born in Wisconsin, in 1856. Is a son of Calvin and Annis Race. Was married in 1880, to Miss Clara Carpenter, daughter of the subject of this sketch. He located in Grant Township, in 1879, engaged in the grocery business for two years. Received the appointment of agent for the R. R. Co., in February of the present year.

STEPHEN P. DAVISON, farmer, section 2, P. O. Sunnydale owns 160 acres, 95 acres under cultivation, with small orchard and good frame dwelling. Has two horses, four cows and 12 hogs. He came to Kansas in 1877 and located here. Was born in Illinois, January 19, 1841, and came from his native State to Kansas. Enlisted in May, 1861, in the Sturgis Rifles, of Chicago, an independent organization, and served as a body-guard to Gen. McClellan; was relieved from command of the army and was discharged. Re-enlisted, February 9, 1865, in Company D, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteers, and was with his command in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, doing provost duty and assisting U. S. Marshals, etc., and was discharged February 8, 1866. He married, in 1863, Miss Emma McLaughlin. They have two children - Georgia A. and Lucy E. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

ALONZO J. FINCH, blacksmith, was born in Rensselaer County, N. Y., in 1840. Is a son of Lewis and Mary Finch. Was married, in 1866, to Miss Maggie French. His wife died in 1867. He was married, in 1871, to Miss Annie E. Brooks, daughter of Joseph H. and Emily Brooks. Has two children - Willie E. and Laura E. Finch; buried two infants. Came to Kansas in 1872; located at Hutchinson, Reno County; remained three years, engaged in farming and blacksmithing, then returned to New York, and there remained until 1879, engaged at his trade, then removed to Illinois and remained for three years, when he returned to Kansas and located at Valley Centre, establishing himself in business. Is successor to A. Clark. He owns his shop with two lots, a good residence with three lots, and six business lots. His business has increased about 150 per cent since his location at Valley Centre. He was in the late war. Enlisted in 1862 in the Forty-third Regiment N. Y. Volunteer Infantry, Company G, Second Battalion, Second Division, Sixth Army Corps attached to the Army of the Potomac. Was in the battle of Fredericksburg, and other engagements of his command. Was wounded at Fredericksburg by a shell, on the 13th day of December, 1662[sic]. Was disabled from further service, and was discharged by Surgeon's certificate of disability in May, 1863. Is a member of the Second Advent Church, Masonic Fraternity, Knights of Pythias and the National Union. 

 W. Y. GOODRICK, Justice of the Peace and farmer, Section 2, P. O. Valley Centre, was born in Ohio in 1834; son of W. W. and Charity Goodrick. Was married, in 1855, to Miss Mary E. Figgins, daughter of Elijah and Elizabeth Figgins. Has three children - William A., Elizabeth J. and John E.; buried one child. His wife died in 1874; was married in 1878, to Miss S. A. Graham. Came to Kansas in 1867; located in Davis County; remained three years, engaged in farming, then removed to Sedgwick County; located in Kechi Township; remained for five years, then removed to Grant Township, where he now resides. Has been engaged in farming; has in a crop of forty-two acres of corn; has usually been successful in his farming pursuits. Was in the War of the Rebellion. Enlisted in 1861, in the Fortieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company B. Was in the battles of Chickamauga, and other engagements of his command, nine in all. Was wounded in the engagement of Chickamauga, September 19, 1863, by gun-shot in the left eye, the ball still remaining in his head. Was transferred to the Invalid Corps. Was unable to do service after receiving the wound; his general health was impaired, from which he has never fully recovered. Was mustered out in 1864. Held the office of Justice of the Peace for four years in Kechi Township, and is now holding the same office for the fourth term in Grant Township. Is a member of the Garfield Post No. 25, G. A. R.

WILLIAM J. HENNESSY, M. D., physician and surgeon, was born in Rochester, N. Y., in 1856; son of John and Mary Hennessy; is single; was educated in the Rochester and Macedon Academy; took collegiate course at the Syracuse University, medical department; graduated in the class of 1881. His first practice of his profession was in Palmyra, N. Y., where he remained until 1883, when he removed to Kansas, locating at Valley Center, Grant Township, where he purchased the drug business of H. R. Dean, in company with Mr. Davis, under the firm name of Hennessy & Davis, Mr. D. devoting his time to the drug business and Mr. H. to his practice, which has already become quite extensive in the townships of Grant, Eagle, Kechi, Lincoln and Park. He is a physician of the regular school.

THOMAS O. HOSS, farmer, Section 28, P. O. Valley Center, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1832; son of James and Susan Hass[sic]. Was married in 1855, to Miss Mary J. McNeal, daughter of Joseph and Martha McNeal. Their children are Frank J., Fred J., Edward F., Kate O., William W., John and Helen M. His wife died in 1874. He was married again in 1875, and buried his second wife in 1877. Was married again in 1882, to Miss Laura B. Summers, daughter of Rev. W. C. and Mary L. Summers. Came to Kansas in 1870, and located in Lynn County; after one year removed to Grant Township, this county, and located on the farm on which he now resides, consisting of 160 acres, 120 of which are under cultivation; engaged in farming and stock raising; feeds his surplus corn; fats about fifty hogs and thirty head of cattle. Mr. H. was in the late war, enlisted in the Fifty-ninth Illinois Volunteers, Company D. Was in the battles of Pittsburgh Landing, Corinth, Shiloh; was wounded in the last named engagement, and was unfit for service until the fall of the same year. Served as Orderly Sergeant. In the spring of 1863, was detailed to recruit a company of colored troops. In August was transferred to the Sixty-first United States Colored Infantry, and was appointed Captain; received his commission in the fall of the same year, and held the same until the close of the war. He is a member of the United Presbyterian Church, the Garfield Post, No. 25, G. A. R., and of the Old Settlers' Association, of Sedgwick County. Was elected Justice of the Peace at the first election held in the township, and has held that office from that time. He married the first couple in the township. Is treasurer of the Maple Grove Cemetery Association of Grant Township. He had but twenty-five cents on reaching Kansas. He lived in a sod house. In 1871, hauled lumber from Newton and built him a house, which at the time of its completion was burned by a prairie fire, together with all his hay. His oxen died with the Texas cattle fever, leaving him destitute and in debt; but undaunted at the misfortunes that would have discouraged a less resolute man, he set to work to rebuild his house, and by labor and perseverance, succeeded in getting a house, and procuring another team; but misfortune still awaited him - in 1874, his crops were all destroyed; but with the same spirit that had previously characterized him in misfortune, he has been able to surmount all discouragements, and is now reaping the reward of his energy, being surrounded by all the comforts of life on as good a farm as there is in his community.

O. G. JACOBS, farmer, Section 24, P. O. Valley Center, was born in Tioga County, N. Y., in 1844; is a son of Joseph C. and Margaret Jacobs. Was married in 1870, to Miss Cora Tusler, daughter of William and Survina Tusler. They buried one child at the age of one year. Came to Kansas in the spring of 1870, and located on the farm on which he now resides, consisting of 240 acres, all of which are under improvement, 155 under the plow. He has been very successful in his farming, getting good yields of wheat, corn, oats and potatoes. Has a good orchard in bearing; has a fine residence 30 x 26 feet, two stories high, erected at the cost of $2,000, one mile and a half from Valley Center. Mr. Jacobs had but $400 when he came to Kansas, and by energy and perseverance, notwithstanding the discouragements of pioneer life, has now one of the finest farms and pleasantest homes in the township as the reward of his labors. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M., of the Old Settlers' Association, of Sedgwick County, and of the Arkansas Valley Agricultural Association, of Sedgwick County. Has been a Trustee of Grant Township two terms. Was County Commissioner of Sedgwick County one term, and has served on the School Board several terms.

WILLIAM McCRACKEN, farmer and fruit grower, Section 22, P. O. Sunnydale, is the son of Robert and Catharine McCracken. Was born in 1826, in Allegheny County, Pa., and in 1853, married Miss Mary Lindsey. Mr. McCracken removed to Illinois where he resided for many years, and came to Kansas in the fall of 1872 and located the following spring. Of his 270 acres the greater part has been improved, and while devoting considerable attention to agriculture he has made a specialty of fruit raising. His orchard contains 25,000 peach, 3,500 apple, 3,000 cherry, 1,000 pear and about 500 plum trees, while ten acres are devoted to raising choice varieties of berries and other small fruits. Flora, too, has been remembered, there being in addition to other flowers at least forty varieties of the rose, while throughout the entire farm evergreens and other ornamental shrubs are tastefully interspersed so as to blend in one harmonious whole, while at a short distance from his residence he has a fish- pond well stocked with German carp. His residence, which was erected in 1879, at a cost of $4,000, is one of the finest in the county. Although now possessing one of the finest fruit farms in the State, Mr. McCracken had from the first to contend with many difficulties; having naturally a taste for horticulture, he determined from his first location here to establish such a farm as he now has. At great labor and expense he had in 1874 made considerable progress when the grasshoppers destroyed all his trees, thus entailing upon him a loss of $4,000; but nothing daunted, he determined to succeed in his undertaking and replanting the following spring, his industry was rewarded three years later by selling $2,200 worth of fruit in the short space of three months. In 1879 he sold $5,000 worth of fruit. He has never since had a failure of his crop, thus showing what may be attained by industry, perseverance and patience, assisted by the fertile soil and genial climate of Kansas. Mr. McCracken is a member of the Horticultural Society, which meets monthly at his house. He is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a liberal-minded, public-spirited and enterprising citizen. He has contributed towards building five different churches. The money which he extends in charity amounts to hundreds of dollars annually, while he has ever evinced a warm and active interest in all that pertains to the welfare of the community.

W. J. McKEY, merchant, was born in Knox County, Ohio, in 1848. He is a son of Andrew and Anna B. McKey. Was married in 1870, to Miss Jennie Wilcox, daughter of Harvey and Rosa M. Wilcox. They have two children, William A. and George R. They buried one child, Rosa Belle, at the age of four years. He came to Kansas in 1877, and located in Elk County and remained five years, engaged in farming and stock raising, then moved to Valley Center, Grant Township, this county, and engaged in the mercantile business, successor to Beach Bros. In March of this year formed a partnership with Messrs. Beckmyer and Shreve, under the firm name of McKey & Co., and now carries a full line of groceries and dry goods. He owns a farm of 240 acres which he rents. The firm are doing an extensive business, which is rapidly increasing. Mr. McKey owns a residence, 24x26 feet one and a half stories.

L. C. NOBLE, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Sunnydale, was born in Pennsylvania in 1833. Is a son of Noble and Rebecca Noble, was married, in 1865, to Miss Nancy J. Clark, daughter of Alexander and Mary J. Clark, has four children - U. S. G. Noble, Anna M., William S. and Ida L. Mr. Noble came to Fort Scott, Kan., in 1869. After one year removed to his present home which contains 160 acres, eighty acres of which are in cultivation. His principal crops are corn, wheat and oats, with an average yield of corn, forty-five bushels to the acre, wheat, sixteen bushels per acre, and oats thirty bushels per acre. Mr. Noble enlisted in Company E, Thirtieth, Regiment Ohio Volunteers, was in the engagements of second Bull Run, South Mountain Antietam, Vicksburg, Mission Ridge, Atlanta, and other engagements of his command. Veteraned in 1864, and was mustered out in 1865.

SAMUEL I. PERIN, farmer, Section 30, P. O. Valley Center, was born in Ohio in 1836. Is a son of Ira Perin; was married in 1868 to Miss Catherine Lear; has two children - William H. and Myrtel Perin. He came to Kansas with his family in 1870, located on the farm on which he now resides which consists of 320 acres, 140 of which are under cultivation. The principal crops are corn and wheat which yield a good average. He is also engaged in raising stock. He has a fine orchard in bearing, containing apple, peach, cherry, and plum trees, and a variety of small fruits. Has a grove of forest trees surrounding his residence. He has been Treasurer of Grant Township for two terms, has served for five years on the School Board.

C. PINGEL, farmer, Section 18, P. O. Valley Center, was born in Germany in 1841, son of David and Dora Pingel. He came to Kansas in 1870, located on the farm which he now owns containing 160 acres, of which 140 are under cultivation; wheat, corn and oats are his principal crops, which have always yielded a fair average; has an orchard of apple and peach trees in bearing, and a nice grove of forest trees, his farm is under a good state of cultivation, is surrounded with a hedge, and other improvements which do credit to its owner's industry.

JOHN D. PINGEL, farmer, Section 18, P. O. Sedgwick City, was born in Germany in 1835, is a son of David and Dora Pingel; was married in 1858, to Miss Axana Welch, came to Kansas in 1870, located on the farm on which he now resides; owns 200 acres of land of which 171 are under cultivation, and is engaged in farming and stock raising; has a good orchard in bearing and a fine grove of forest trees; was in the army during the late war; enlisted in 1861, in the Thirty-sixth Illinois Volunteers, Company B, Cavalry, was transferred in the fall of 1862, to the Fifteenth Cavalry, Company K.; was in the battles of Bentonville, Pea Ridge, Corinth, Crab Orchard, Stone River, Chickamauga and in the engagements of the Atlanta Campaign; was mustered out in 1864, was in the township one year before its organization; is a member of the School Board.

ERASTUS A. POLLARD, farmer and stock feeder, Section 5, P. O. Sedgwick, owns 160 acres, 115 acres under cultivation and the rest is pasture, all enclosed with hedge and wire fence; a good frame dwelling 16x26 with an ell 12x18, one and a half stories; has just sold a quantity of stock, but has at present four horses, six cows and forty-two hogs. He was born in Vermont, June 18, 1818, and moved to Illinois in 1846 and came from there to Kansas in March, 1873, locating on his present farm. He was married in 1840 to Miss Rhoda A. Willmarth, They have five children - Elliot E., Luman A., Laura L., Clark and Grant. Mr. P. while in Illinois was quite a prominent citizen of his locality, serving as Justice of the Peace, Commissioner of Highways, Collector and Assessor, Postmaster and for a short time freight and expressagent on the Chicago & Northwestern R. R. In Kansas has been Township Treasurer and on the School Board for years. He is a member of the Baptist Church.

S. L. RAYMOND, proprietor of the Cottage House and insurance agent, was born in Danbury, Conn., in 1834, son of Charles and Harriet Raymond. Was married in 1876, to Miss Catherine Ash, daughter of James E. And Catherine Ash. Has three children - Maud E., Mabel P., and Edward E. He came to Kansas in 1873 from Illinois, located in Grant Township, engaged in farming for nine years, then moved to Valley Center, opened the Cottage House, and engaged in the insurance business. Was in the late war, enlisted in 1861, in Seventh Illinois Volunteers, Company D. Second Battalion, Fourth Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, attached to the Army of the Mississippi. Was in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Bentonville, and other engagements of his command. Entered the service as private; promoted to Orderly Sergeant. In 1862 received commission as Second Lieutenant, six months later the commission was First Lieutenant, and in July, 1864, received the commission of Captain, which he held until the close of the war.

REV. JOSEPH M. ROMINE, Methodist Episcopal clergyman, was born in De Witt County, Ill., in 1853; is a son of Samuel F. and Sarah Romine. Was married in 1877, to Miss D. Ella Jones, daughter of James and Arthuema Jones. Has one child - Merrill W. Mr. R. was educated at the public schools of Montgomery County. Studied theology under Rev. T. H. Herdman, of the Southern Illinois Conference, and Rev. B. F. Rhodes, of the Illinois Conference. He was admitted to the Illinois Conference, at Bloomington, in 1873. Was ordained deacon in 1875, and elder in 1880. Remained with the Illinois Conference one year, when he was transferred to the Southern Illinois Conference, where he remained for three years, then was transferred to the South Kansas Conference, where he still remains. His first charge in Kansas was the South Haven Church, Sumner County; the second, Oxford, in the same county, and his third was Valley Center, where he has been for the last three years. He built a parsonage at South Haven, and organized a church at Palestine; organized the Park Church at Sunnydale, and has erected three church buildings, one at Sunnydale, Grant Township, at a cost of $2,000, and one at Valley Center, at $2,000, and one at Eldridge, Union Township, at a cost of $1,500. Has received forty members in the church since coming to Valley Center. Owns a farm of 160 acres.

J. M. V. SHREVE, merchant, P. O. Leon, Butler County, was born in Indiana in 1839; is a son of William and Susan Shreve. Was married in 1871, to Miss Eva Mann, daughter of M. B. Mann. His wife died in 1873. He has since remained single. Came to Kansas in 1880, located at El Dorado, Butler County, where he engaged in dealing in stock. In 1882, established his business at Leon, Butler County; associated with Mr. Beckmyer, under the firm name of Beckmyer & Shreve, where they have been doing an extensive business in general merchandising. In March, of this year, the firm associated themselves with Mr. McKey, of Valley Center, under the firm name of McKey & Co. Mr. Shreve expects soon to return to Leon, where the business demands his attention, leaving the management of the Valley Center store with Mr. McKey. He is a member of the Christian Church.

REV. W. C. SOMERS, farmer, Section 23, and Presbyterian clergyman, P. O. Sunnydale, was born in Vermont, in 1820; is a son of William and Margaret Somers. He was married in 1856, to Miss Mary L. Trimble, daughter of John and Mary Trimble. He has three children living - Fanny, Laura B., and George Somers; and William L. Somers, who died at the age of nineteen years. Mr. Somers was educated at the Newburg Theological Seminary; graduated in the class of 1851. Was ordained to the ministry in Livivngston County, N. Y., in 1853, and has made it his life work. Has held the pastorate of Eastern churches for thirty years. In 1877 he came to Kansas from Ohio, located on his farm on which he now resides, which contains 160 acres, 120 of which are in cultivation. Wheat, corn, and oats are his principal crops. His son, George Somers, is living with him, and takes the management of the farm. At the time Mr. Somers came to Kansas there was neither church organization nor church building in the township, of his denomination. He succeeded in organizing a church, which now numbers fifty-one communicants, and has erected a commodious church building, at a cost of $2,000 - the Sunnydale United Presbyterian Church.

W. S. SPAULDING, farmer, Section 22, P. O. Sunnydale, was born in Lewistown, Pa., in 1834; son of Dustin and Rachael R. Spaulding. Was married in 1862 to Miss Caroline Taylor, daughter of Lyman Taylor. He has buried his three children, and in 1869 Mrs. Spaulding's death occurred. He came to Kansas in 1870, and after a short stay at Burlington, located in the fall of the same year upon the farm of 160 acres upon which he now resides; 122 acres are in cultivation, principally in wheat and oats. In 1864 Mr. Spaulding enlisted in Company C, Twenty-first Pennsylvania Cavalry, and participated in the engagement s of Cold Harbor, Burden's Plank Road, Poplar Grove Church, Warren's Raid, Dunwiddie Courthouse, Five Forks. Was on the picket line when Lee surrendered, and was mustered out in July, 1865. 

 E. S. ALDRICH, farmer, Section 13, P. O. Wichita, was born in Michigan, in 1852; son of Bennajah and Mary Weed Aldrich. Was married in 1875 to Miss Alida Smith, daughter of Jacob and Rosannah Smith. Has five children - Claud, Willard, Bennajah, Elijah and Garfield Aldrich. Came to Kansas in 1871; located on the farm where he now resides; owns 320 acres of land; engaged in farming and stock raising. Was the second settler in the township. Is a member of the School Board, a member of the Baptist Church, and of the Old Settlers' Association, of Sedgwick County. Is superintendent of the Harmony Union Sunday school; has been its superintendent for eight years; was the organizer of the school, in 1874; it now numbers forty-five scholars; has always been a Sabbath school worker, and an earnest temperance man. Was president of the Delano Temperance Society.

THOMAS BRAZILL, farmer, Section 25, P. O. Wichita, was born in Ohio in 1850. Son of Thomas and Mary Condarn Brazill. Was married in 1875 to Miss Mary Fullum. Has four children - Nellie, Walter, Willie and Albert Brazill. Came to Kansas in 1870; located at Wichita; remained five years, engaged in meat work in hotels. In 1875 located on his farm in Attica Township, where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land; engaged in farming and stock raising.

P. BRIGGS, farmer, Section 15, P. O. Blendon, was born in Wyoming County, N. Y., in 1841; son of W. A. and Fanny Barber, Briggs. Was married in 1869 to Miss Augusta Watkins, daughter of John and Evaline Smith Watkins. Have two children - Willis H. and Robert Briggs. Came to Kansas in 1871; located on the farm where he now resides; owns eighty acres of land; engaged in farming. Is the oldest settler in the township. Mr. Briggs was the first woman in the township west of the Cowskin Creek. He was in the township two years before its organization; was elected constable at the first election; has been member of the School Board. Was in the war of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1861 in the Third Regiment Michigan Volunteers, Company E; re-enlisted in the regular United States Service. Was in the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, and other engagements of his command; was wounded at Green River Bridge; was in the hospital nine months; was prostrated with the typhoid fever before recovering from his wound. After leaving the hospital returned to Michigan. After one month, re-enlisted in the Third Michigan Cavalry, Company F; was quartered in the Western Department, engaged in scouting; was mustered out in Texas, in 1866.

FOSTER COLEMAN, farmer, Section 32, P. O. Blendon, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1814; is a son of James and Amy (Foster) Coleman. Was married in 1834, to Miss Jane Peoples. Has two children - Joseph R. and Mary M. Coleman. His wife died in 1840. Was married in 1842, to Miss Nancy Sullivan, daughter of David and Christiana Sullivan. Has four children - John H., Andrew S., William W. and Francis M. Coleman. Came to Kansas in 1872, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land, and engaged in farming and stock raising. Was among the first settlers in the part of the township where he now resides. Was one of the organizers of the township; was Treasurer from 1878 until 1882. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, holds the office of steward and class leader. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M.

EDWIN H. CROSS, farmer, Section 26, P. O. Wichita. Was born in Clinton County, Mich., in 1846. Is a son of Thomas and Louisa (Matthews) Cross, single. Came to Kansas in 1873, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 240 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Has been member of the School Board.

J. F. CURTIS, farmer, Section 39, P. O. Wichita, was born in Illinois, in 1845; son of Israel and Olive (Flint) Curtis, single. Came to Kansas in 1872, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 640 acres of land; engaged in wheat raising. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in March, 1863, in the Second Nebraska Cavalry, Company M. Was in the battles with the I dians (sic) on the Upper Missouri River, at the mouth of the Yellowstone and at Stoney Lake, near Devil's Lake, and in other engagements of his command. Enlisted for nine months' service. Was mustered out in December, 1863. Was one of the organizers of Attica Township. Was its first Clerk, held the office for four years. Has been Trustee for two years. Was one of the organizers of the School District. At the first meeting there were four persons present voted to build a schoolhouse. The first school tax paid by him was $21.70. The only taxable property owned by him at that time, was two yoke of steers, and a plow.

NOAH FINK, farmer, Section 8, P. O. St. Mark, was born in Rockingham County, Va., in 1842. Is a son of Isaac and Mary (Mayers) Fink. Was married in 1869, to Miss Clara Sieber, daughter of Soloman and Elizabeth Sieber. Has two children - Emory L. and Calvin S. Fink. Came to Kansas in 1872, and located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Was conscripted in the Confederate service, in Virginia, in 1861, served three years. Is the oldest settler in the northern part of Attica Township. Was there before the organization of the township. Has been a member of the School Board for six years.

JOHN KELLY, farmer, Section 16, P. O. Blendon, was born in Washington County, Penn., in 1831; son of Abraham and Mary (Durbin) Kelly. Was married in 1854 to Miss Kate N. Wylie, daughter of David and Mary Edie Wylie. Came to Kansas in 1873, from McLean County, Ill., and located in Attica Township. Owns 320 acres of land; engaged in farming and stock raising. Was one of the organizers of the township. Was the organizer of the Grange movement in Sedgwick County, and was master of the town and county Grange. To encourage the movement, he and E. P. Thompson built the Grange Elevator, at Wichita. Was elected Director of the State Board of Agriculture, in 1874; was President of the Board in 1875 and 76, remained member of the Board until 1882. Was elected Representative of Sedgwick County, in the Legislature of 1875. In 1876 was elected State Senator from the Thirty-eighth District. Served in the session of 1877; resigned his position the following summer. Was appointed member of the Centennial Board to represent the State at the Centennial at Philadelphia, in 1876. Is President of the West Side Library Association of Attica Township, chartered in 1880; 150 volumes in the library. Crossed the plains in 1850, to California; remained one year, engaged in mining.

J. S. KNOBLAUCH, farmer, Section 6, P. O. St. Mark, was born in Germany in 1854. Is a son of John B. and Josephine Knoblauch. Was married, in 1880, to Miss Bichsel, daughter of George and Elsie Bichsel. Came to Kansas in 1876 from Minnesota and located on the farm where he now resides. He owns 200 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Was elected Treasurer of Attica Township in 1882 and re-elected in 1883. Is a member of the School Board and of the St. Mark Catholic Church.

JOHN LEIENDECKER, farmer, Sections 7 and 11, P. O. St. Mark, was born in Prussia in 1845, and is a son of Matt and Anna M. Schafer-Leiendecker. He was married, in 1868, to Miss Mary Wilkins, daughter of August and Magdaline Wilkins. Has seven children - John, August, Mary, Peter, Lizzie, Anton and Anna. Mr. Leiendecker came to Kansas from Minnesota in 1875 and located on Section 11. Owns 800 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. He has 700 acres of land under cultivation. He has been a member of the School Board for three years. Is a member of St. Mark Catholic Church.

MARKUS LIES, farmer, Sections 9 and 10, P. O. St. Mark, was born in Luxemburgh in 1829, and is a son of Henry and Susie Tomerill Lies. He was married, in 1856, to Miss Catharine Gorgan, daughter of Nicholas and Anna Gorgan. He has nine children - Susie, Nicholas, Anna, Barney, Kate, Peter, Lizzie, Abbie and Mary. His wife died in 1881; single. He came to Kansas in 1878 and located on the farm where he now resides. He owns 480 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. He has 440 acres under cultivation. He came from Minnesota to Kansas. Is a member of St. Mark Catholic Church.

A. H. MCCONAHIE, farmer, Section 25, P. O. Blendon, was born in Ireland, County Antrim, September 4, 1847, and with his parents, in 1849, immigrated to America, and located in Randolph County, Ill. He is a son of David and Violet Hunter McConahie. Was married, November 27, 1878, to Miss Ruthe E. Wikoff, daughter of H. B. and Mary Wikoff. He has three children - Willie A., Mary V. and Jennie A. Mr. McConahie came to Kansas on the 27th of November, 1866, located in Johnson County and engaged in farming. In August, 1872, he moved to Sedgwick County, and on the 19th of August bought from Mr. Nicholas Clous for $500 the farm he now lives on; and then located on the southeast quarter of Section 25, Garden Plain Township, Sedgwick County. He was the first settler in that township and built the first house. In 1876 he located on the farm where he now resides. He owns 160 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. He was in the War of the Rebellion. Enlisted, April 21, 1864, in the Fifth Illinois Cavalry, Company K, and was in the engagements of his command; he was mustered out at Memphis, Tenn., May 28, 1865. He has been Trustee of Attica Township two years.

CHARLES M. MILES, farmer, Section 33, P. O. Blendon, was born in Connecticut in 1835, and is the son of William and Harriet Collins Miles. Was married, in 1864, to Miss Mary A. Lyman, daughter of William and Mary A. Ives Lyman. He has six children - Nelson L., Charles W., Edgar M., Helen C., Lucy S. and infant. He came to Kansas in 1872 and located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 480 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. He was one of the organizers of the township and was the first Trustee of the township; has been Treasurer. He is a member of the School Board and has been Treasurer of the district for nine years.

L. B. MILLER, farmer and blacksmith, farmer, Grand River Township, Section 5 and 6, P. O. Blendon, was born in Harding County, Ky., in 1838, son of Thomas and Frances (Culley) Miller; was married in 1869, to Miss Candace Harris, daughter of Anderson and Elizabeth (Daniels) Harris; has five children - Mary M., Elizabeth S., Willie E., Jesse P. and Lucien E. Miller. Came to Kansas in 1872, located in Coffey County, and engaged in blacksmithing, remaining four years, then moved to Wichita and remained two years. In 1878 he located on his farm in Grand River Township, and engaged in farming and blacksmithing, remaining three years; then moved to Blendon, Attica Township, where he now resides, working at his trade and farming. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F & A. M., and of the I. O. O. F. His farm consists of 166 acres; owns a house and lot where he resides, and farms 100 acres of land.

J. P. PARKHURST, farmer, Section 34, P. O. Blendon, was born in Hampshire County, Mass., in 1840, is a son of Jacob and Melinda (Thayer) Parkhurst, was married in 1868, to Miss Martha M. McAdam, daughter of Robert and Hannah McAdam. Has five children - Susie, Nellie, Mattie, Flora and Ada Parkhurst. Came to Kansas in 1875; located at Wichita, and engaged in teaching and farming. In 1877, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 620 acres of land, and is engaged in general farming. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in August, 1862, in the Eighty-sixth Regular Illinois Volunteer Company D, and was appointed First Sergeant at the organization of the company; was in the battles of Perryville, Missionary Ridge, Reseca, Rome, Ga., Kenesaw Mountain, and in other engagements of his command. Was wounded at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, a ball passing through both arms, causing the amputation of the right arm, above the elbow. He was taken prisoner at the time, and was held from the 27th of June until the 12th of August, at the hospital, at Atlanta, Ga. The amputation of his arm was made on the 4th of July. He made his escape from the hospital on the 12, and reached the Union lines on the 31st of August. Was treated with kindness while held as prisoner. Was in the hospital until he received his discharge, in March, 1865. Was able to give information to Generals Williams and Slocum, in regard to the strength and power of the enemy at Atlanta, which resulted in the capture of that city, the next day.

WILLIAM J. PITTENGER, farmer, Section 28, P. O. Blendon, was born in Ohio, in 1838; is a son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Gladfelter) Pittenger. Was married in 1867, to Miss Ella Shafer, daughter of William P., and Harriet Shafer. Has five children - Oliver M., Charles E., Flora E., William A. and Clara E. Pittenger. Came to Kansas in 1879, from Illinois, and located on the farm where he now resides, engaged in farming. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1862, in the Ninety-third Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Company D, and was detailed in the Signal Corps Service, in 1863. Was in the siege of Vicksburgh and the battles of Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, July 22 and 28, 1864, Reseca. Was with Sherman in his march to the sea, and other engagements of his command. Joined his regiment in April, 1865, and was mustered out in June of the same year. Is a member of the ancient order of I. O. O. F. Is a member of the School Board, and has served three years. Was elected Township Trustee in 1882, and re-elected in 1883.

MARCUS SCHAFER, farmer, Section 9, P. O. St. Marks, was born in Prussia, in 1815, son of Anton and Catharine Schafer; was married in 1855, to Miss Catharine Topin. Wife died in 1872. Was married in 1872, to Johanna Traxaius; has two children, Anton and Mattie Schafer. Came from Minnesota to Kansas, in 1874, and located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 880 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Has 400 acres under cultivation. Is a member of the St. Mark Catholic Church.

C. P. SHAFER, farmer, Section 21, P. O. Blendon, was born in Delaware County, Ind., in 1842, son of William and Harriet (Polling) Shafer, natives of Pennsylvania; was married in 1864, to Miss Sophronie Ford, daughter of Thomas and Maria Ford, has three children - Hattie, Nellie and Howard Shafer. Came to Kansas in 1875, and located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 240 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising. Is Justice of the Peace, has held that office for seven years; is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and trustee of the church. Is a member of the School Board, has served for six years.

AARON SIEVER, farmer, Section 12, P. O. Wichita, was born in Virginia, in 1836; son of Solomon and Elizabeth (Caplinger) Siever. Was married in 1858, to Miss Sarah Morgan, daughter of James and Mary Morgan. Has ten children - Jasper, Noah, Charles, Matilda, James, Lucinda, Andrew, William and Blanche Siever. Came to Kansas in 1872, from Illinois, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 530 acres of land; engaged in farming and stock raising; fattens a large number of cattle each year, has now fifty-eight ready for market. Is a member of the Baptist Church. Was Postmaster of Jamesburgh for three years. Has been Constable of the township.

S. M. SPEER, farmer, Section 25, P. O. Wichita, was born in Franklin County, Ind., in 1842. Is a son of Joseph and Anna (Masters) Speer. Was married in 1873, to Miss Maggie Stout. Has one child - Russell P. Speer. Came to Kansas in 1872, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 400 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisted in 1862, in the Eighteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, Company F; was in the battles of Magnolia Hills, Champion Hills, Black River, Bridge, Vicksburg, siege and charge, second battle of Jackson, Fort Esperanza, Berryville, Winchester, Cedar Creek, Fisher's Hill and other engagements of his command. Was taken prisoner at Cedar Creek, on the 19th of October. Was held at Libby and Salisbury prisons for eight months, during which time he suffered great hardships; was postrated by sickness for two months after his release. Was mustered out June 27, 1865.

H. B. WIKOFF, farmer, Section 29, P. O. Blendon, was born in Butler County, Ohio, in 1829; son of Samuel S. And Ann (Henderson) Wikoff. Was married in 1852, to Miss Mary A. Mallory, daughter of William and Mary (Reed) Mallory. Has seven children - William M., Caroline F., Ruth E., Elizabeth A., Mary A., Anzo Nettie and Lula Alta Wikoff. Came to Kansas in 1872, located in Miami County, remained one year. In 1873, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land. Is a member of the United Presbyterian Church, and elder of the church. Was master of the Grange in 1875.

JOHN ZENNER, M. D., physician and surgeon, P. O. St. Mark, was born in Prussia in 1844. Is a son of Joseph and Barbara (Thiel) Zenner. Was married in 1867, to Miss Christine Englert. Has four children - John, Edward, Frank and Rosa Zenner. Came to Kansas in 1870, from Pittsburg, Penn., located in Wabaunsee County, remained six years, engaged in the practice of medicine. In 1876, located at Wichita, and engaged in his practice there for three years. In 1879, located at St. Mark, Attica Township, where he now resides, and has a large practice. Was educated in Prussia, in the medical and military college, graduated in 1865. Came to the United States in 1867; has been engaged in the practice of medicine from that time. In 1879, established a drug store at St. Mark. The business has increased 100 per cent since its establishment. Is a member of the St. Mark Catholic Church. Is a Justice of the Peace. 

 WILLIAM BLACK, farmer, Section 13, P. O. Germania, is a native of Orleans County, N. Y., and was born in 1834. In 1859 he was married to Miss Sarah McElroy, who has borne him three children, viz.: William, Sarah and Emma. In the spring of 1878 Mr. Black sold his farm in New York State and removing to Kansas, located upon his present farm of 160 acres, 120 of which are now under cultivation, with an average grain yield of wheat 20, corn 40 and oats 35 bushels per acre, on what is called "second" bottom land. Mr. Black is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

WILLIAM H. BALL, farmer, Sections 8, P. O. Marshall, and one of the pioneer settlers of the township, was born in 1829 in Parke County, Ind., his father, Abel Ball, being a native of Redstone, Pa., and is of German and English descent. Born upon a farm he continued to pursue the vocation of his father with the exception of twelve years spent in running a saw mill, until November 16, 1861, when he enlisted in Company K, Forty-third Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the siege of New Madrid, and the engagements at Tiptonville, Riddles Point, Fort Pillow, Randolph and Memphis; from thence to Helena and up the White River to the Yazoo Pass; thence to Bearskin Lake and Little Rock, where he was mustered out January, 1863, and at once re-enlisted in the same Company and Regiment; participated in the fight at Camden and returning to Mart's Mills had a brush with the enemy in which his Regiment was captured, with the exception of himself and twenty-seven others, who cut their way through and escaped. Proceeding to Little Rock he obtained a thirty-days' furlough, upon the expiration of which he returned to duty and remained in Indianapolis as prison guard until mustered out May 12, 1865, with the rank of Corporal. Mr. Ball was married January 16, 1848, to Miss Lydia A. Adams, of Parke County. They have had ten children, six of whom survive, viz. - Sally Ann, born in 1848 and now Mrs. C. Ellswick, of this county; George, 1850, and who is also married and residing in Indiana; Zopher, 1854, married and living in Illinois Township, this county; Charles, 1857; John, 1867, and Rosella, 1868. Mrs. Ball died in 1869, and July 9, 1873, he married Miss Melissa Rouse, of Iowa, by whom he has had five children, four of whom are living - Howard, born in 1874; Ella, 1876, and Henry C. and Alice (twins), July 5, 1878. Mr. Ball came to Kansas in May, 1874, locating here; 100 of his 160 acres are under cultivation, with an average yield of wheat fifteen and corn forty bushels per acre. He has a very fine orchard of 1,100 peach trees, 800 of which are bearing, and he has also several hundred forest trees. He is now the senior settler of the township. Has been a member of the Mount Olivet Baptist Church since its organization. Is a member of Garfield Post, G. A. R., and in 1876 was elected Justice of the Peace.

N. B. BRYAN, Justice of the Peace and farmer, Section 35, P. O. Lamont, was born in Hancock County, Ind., in 1830, his father, Hampton Bryan, having removed there from Campbell County, Ky., where the family had been represented since 1730. His parents returned to their native State in 1833, and in 1852 the subject of this sketch went to California where he worked at wood cutting, mining, etc., and in 1874 located in Kansas, where he now has 160 acres, of which 115 acres are under cultivation, with a good average yield of wheat and corn. April 12, 1864, he was married to Miss Annie Taylor, of Kentucky, who has borne him five children, viz. - Ada, born in 1865; Taylor, 1866; May, 1867; Hampton, 1877, and Esther in 1878. Mr. Bryan is a member of the Baptist Church, and in February, 1882, was elected Justice of the Peace, which position he still worthily fills.

A. BUDWEISER, farmer, Section 28, P. O. Lamont, was born in the Province of Saarbruck, in Germany, in 1832, and is a blacksmith by trade. In 1871 he took part in the Franco-Prussian war, and the following year came to this country, wither some of his relatives had preceded him. He located first in Pettis County, Mo., where he worked at his trade until four years ago, when he came to Kansas, locating upon his present farm of 160 acres. So far Mr. B. has given his attention to agriculture only, and has had good crops of wheat and corn. He was married in Germany in 1872, for the second time, and has three children by the first marriage, who are all married and residing in this State. Henry, aged seven years, is the only issue of the second marriage. Mr. B. belongs to the Reformed Lutheran Church.

L. A. CADDICK, farmer, Section 15, P. O. Germania, is a native of Bristol, England, and when a child came to this country with his parents, who settled in Shelby county, Ohio, in 1844. August 19, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Thirty-second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the engagements at Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill, Harper's Ferry, and Fort McDowell, and was mustered out in September, 1865. Upon leaving the army he returned to Ohio, and August 3, 1867, was married to Miss Etta Shaver, of Auglaize County, Ohio. In 1871 Mr. C. removed to Hancock County, Ind., where he engaged in business, but sold out in 1874 and came to Kansas, locating upon a farm in Coffey County, where he remained until the fall of 1878, when he removed to his present location. Of his 160 acres, 125 are under cultivation; his corn and wheat yield being fully up to the average. Mr. Caddick has five children living, viz.; Lambert, Maggie, Sarah, John C. and Eva. He is a member of the Odd-Fellow and Masonic orders and of the G. A. R.

SIMEON CLARK, farmer, Section 27, P. O. Garden Plain, was born in Kentucky in 1826, and when a boy removed to Missouri, from whence he soon after went to Greene County, Ill., where he remained two years and then located in Pike County, same State, where he pre-empted a farm, which he cultivated for three years, when, leaving the farm in charge of his mother, he went to Quincy, where, for a period of twenty-two years, he was in the employ of Van Dorn & Co., occupying the position of foreman in their large saw mills, when he left to come to Kansas. Mr. Clark was married in 1850 to Miss Susan Wilson, who died in 1855, leaving one child - James W., now residing in Galesburg, Ill. January 18, 1877, he married his present consort, Miss Mary M. Reed, of Mobile, Ala., who has borne him three children, the only one now surviving being William A. J. Clark, who was born in Quincy, Ill., October 3, 1857, and who now resides with his parents upon the farm. Mr. Clark came to Kansas in September, 1873, and after a residence of eighteen months in Wichita, located upon his present homestead, containing 160 acres, 100 of which are under cultivation, with a good average grain yield. In early life he learned the trade of a carpenter, at which he still continues to work, being assisted in the management of the farm by his youngest son. March 22, 1865, Mr. C. enlisted at Grand Rapids, Mich., and was soon afterwards transferred to Company F, Thirty-eighth Virginia Volunteers, and after a year's active service was discharged at Brazos, Santiago, Texas, his term of service having expired, and received honorable mention from his commanding officer for his excellent soldierly qualities. February 9, 1883, Mrs. Clark was appointed Postmistress, of Garden Plain Office. Mr. Clark and family are among the pioneer settlers of this township, there being but two other families here upon their arrival and only one of whom now resides in the Township. Mr. Clark is a member of the A., F. & A. M., and of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

GEORGE H. GILSON, farmer, Section 25, P. O. Blendon, was born in 1831 in Livingston County, N. Y., and in 1837, with his parents, removed to Ohio, and in 1846 to Campbell County, Ky., where he was engaged in farming, and where he on May 15, 1851, married Miss Sarah F. Harrison. Mr. Gilson has five children living - Lucy E., born June 29, 1853, George W., August 28, 1859, Thomas J., September 29, 1862, John L., born March 25, 1869, Visa, July 25, 1872, and two - Nancy J. and Harvey L. - deceased. Mr. Gilson enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 22, 1865, in Company F, One Hundred and Ninety-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in the Shenandoah Valley until mustered out at Winchester, Va., September 7., 1865. He removed to Kansas in 1876, and located upon his present farm of 160 acres of which 120 are under cultivation, with an average wheat yield of fifteen and corn of thirty bushels to the acre. He has a fine orchard of 500 assorted fruit trees. Mr. and Mrs. Gilson are members of the Olive Baptist church, of which he is the Clerk, and for the past five years has been Clerk of the School Board of district No. 37. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1878, and was in that office for a period of four years and three months, and is now one of the early settlers of Garden Plain Township.

JOHN W. GOSNEY, farmer, Section 35, P. O. Lamont, was born in the State of Kentucky in 1844, where he remained engaged in farming until 1871, when he went to Texas and in 1875 located in Kansas upon his present farm of 240 acres, 185 of which are under plow, with an average grain yield of wheat fifteen and corn thirty-five bushels per acre. He has also found his oat crop yield well. He was married in 1869 to Miss S. L. Griffin, of Kenton County, Ky. Their children are Honora, born in 1871, Charles M., 1873, Carrie Bell, 1877, Maggie M., 1879, and Zuella, born in 1881. As a farmer, Mr. G. has been very successful, and although he has studiously avoided taking any public office, he has always been considered one of the representative men of this township. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity and also of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church.

CAPTAIN WALTER B. HAMILTON, farmer, Section 8, P. O. Marshall, was born in Perry County, Ill., November 25, 1837. His father, who died when the subject of this sketch was ten years old, being a native of Kentucky; when the war broke out he was in Texas, and at once hastened East, responsive to the call of his country. Arriving in North Missouri early in 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Fourth Regiment Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, and participated in the engagements at Cassville, Springfield, Jefferson City, Booneville, etc. In an engagement with guerrillas he was shot in the hip and in falling from his horse fell on his head, which eventually caused total deafness, and in the engagemen (sic) at Byron's Ford on the Big Blue his left arm was shattered, necessitating amputation. He received a commission as Captain for bravery and merit, having enlisted as a private. September 22, 1867 he married Miss Catharine McIlvaine, the issue of this marriage being Ora, born April 15, 1869, Donald A., April 27, 1873, and Andrew, January 27, 1878. Upon leaving the army he returned to Missouri, where he held a commission as Notary Public from Governor McClurg. He was registering officer of Worth County. He was appointed Assistant United States Marshal for taking the ninth census. He was Postmaster of Allendale from 1867 to 1870, and Sergeant-at-Arms of the twenty-fifth General Assembly of Missouri. Captain H. came to Kansas December 3, 1874, and located upon his present farm of 160 acres, 120 of which are under cultivation, sixty-five acres this year - 1883 - being wheat. Since his residence here, although he has always taken a warm interest in everything pertaining to the welfare of the community, the Captain has studiously avoided taking any public office.

WILLIAM H. HARRISON, farmer, Section 35, P. O. Lamont, as born in Kentucky in 1841, and in July, 1863, enlisted at Covington, Ky., in Company H, Thirty-seventh Regiment Kentucky Infantry, and served under Gen. Burbridge until mustered out at Louisville December 29, 1864. Re-enlisting in February, 1865, in Company F, One Hundred and Ninety-second Ohio, and serving until September, 1865, when he was again and permanently discharged. Mr. Harrison was married in 1870 to Miss B. M. Gosney, of Kentucky. They have three Children, Charles W., born in 1871, Flora B., in 1873, and B. C. Harrison, born in 1875. His first location was in Attica Township, in which place he owns a farm of 160 acres. He also owns and resides upon 160 acres in this township, seventy acres of which are under cultivation, his grain yield being exceptionally good. He has held the office of Road Overseer and Treasurer of the School Board of his district, and is a member of the Olivet Baptist church.

WILLIAM HEISEL, farmer, Section 9, P. O. Germania, is a native of Wurtemburg, Germany, and came to the United States in 1854. In 1857 he was married to Miss Susan Rathbone, of Livingston County, N. Y., and removing to St. Joe County, Mich., resided there for upwards of twenty-five years; engaged in farming, with the exception of five years spent in Kalamazoo as foreman in the gas works. Mr. Heisel has seven children, the eldest, William being married and residing in this township, Carrie is now engaged in teaching in Attica Township, John, Edward, Charles, Alfred and Nellie. Mr. H. came to Kansas in 1879, locating here, where he now has 160 acres of good land, 120 acres of which are in cultivation, wheat and corn, which yield a fair average, being his principal crops. His farm also contains a good orchard of assorted trees, and substantial outbuildings. He is one of the Directors of the School Board of his district.

G. HAUNDTHAUSEN, farmer, Section 10, P. O. Germania, was born in the Province of Wurtemburg, Germany, in 1838, and is a cabinetmaker by trade. He immigrated to this country in 1866, and landing at New York worked at his trade in that city and Brooklyn until 1876, when he went to Philadelphia, Pa., where in August, 1877, he married Miss M. Feuerstein, who has borne him two children, viz.: Charles W., born September 13, 1878, and Gertrude, born February 26th, 1881. Mr. H. came to Kansas in the fall of 1880, and after a short stay in Fort Scott moved on to his present farm of 160 acres. His average grain yield is wheat twelve, and corn thirty bushels per acres. Mr. H. is a member of the Roman Catholic Church and Democratic in politics.

THOMAS JENKINSON, farmer, Section 36, P. O. Lamont, was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1846, and while yet a boy was employed in the large rolling mills and other iron manufactories, his education being gained at night schools at a cost of three pence per week. Upon reaching man's estate he learned the trade of a roller and in 1870 came to the United States and worked at his trade in the States of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. May 16, 1879, he married Miss Josephine Rogers of Troy, N. Y., and in 1880 located upon his present farm of 160 acres, eighty of which are under cultivation, and during the past two years have yielded a fair average grain return. Mr. J. has no children. He intends going into the business of cattle breeding in addition to agriculture. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity.

HARRISON KEITH, farmer, Section 1, P. O. Germania, was born in Jennings County, Ind., in 1834. Son of M. P. and Nancy Lewis Keith. Was married in 1862 to Miss Nancy J. Cromwell, daughter of Vincent and Deborah Cromwell. Has two children, Ida B. and Ada M. Keith. Came to Kansas in 1873 and located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land, engaged in general farming. Was one of the first settlers in Garden Plain Township, and one of the organizers of the township. Was its first Treasurer, appointed by the County commissioners, and was elected to the same office at the first election held in the township. Was elected Trustee in 1875 and again in 1879. In 1872 was elected Clerk and still holds the office. Was appointed Postmaster in 1877 and still holds the office. The two first years after he settled on his farm buffalo were quite plenty. He killed two on his farm. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F & A. M., Wichita Lodge No. 99.

RILEY OSBORN, farmer, Sections 5 and 6, P. O. Marshall, was born in 1824, in Casey County, Ky., his father, Elijah Osborn, having been a native of Virginia, and his mother of the former State. Mr. O. was engaged in farming in his native State, and in 1861, removed to and located in Gentry County, Mo., and upon the breaking out of the late war, entered the State Militia, in which he remained engaged upon active duty for aperiod (sic) of six months, and was subsequently called out at intervals until October, 1864, when he enlisted in Company I, Eighteenth Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and after several months' active service, was taken ill, and remained in hospital at Buford, S. C., until March, 1865, when he rejoined his regiment, remaining with it until mustered out in July, 1865, and ordered to St. Louis, Mo., for final discharge. He returned to Missouri, where he continued to reside; engaged in farming until his removal to this State. In 1845, Mr. Osborn married Miss S. J. Muse, of Kentucky. Their children are - Mary E. (who is married, and a resident of Missouri), James W. (married, and residing in this township), Sarah Jane, John M. (who is married, and a resident of Morton Township), Harriet Julie, (also married, and residing in Sherman Township, where also resides her married sister Martha Kansas), Stella May (married, and residing in Union township), and Casswell R. and Dora Bell (who reside at home). Mr. Osborn is one of the first settlers of Garden Plain Township. His farm consists of 320 acres in this township, ninety acres of which are under cultivation, while he has also 160 acres in Erie Township, of which ninety-five acres are being cultivated, each farm yielding an average of corn forty-five and wheat twenty-bushels per acre while his millet yield has been exceptionally large. His orchard contains 600 peach and 100 apple trees, and the entire farm bears evidence to the industry and prosperity of its owner. Mr. Osborn has been Director of the School Board of his district, and isa (sic) member of Garfield Post, No. 25, G. A. R., located in Wichita.

THEO. OSSWEILER, farmer, Section 10, P. O. Germania, and Trustee of the township. Was born in Fliessen, Reg. Bez. Trier, Prussia, in 1847, and immigrated to this country in 1867; remained several years in Chicago, where he was employed as a clerk in a grocery store, etc.; parents reside in Kenosha, Wis. Mr. O. was married in 1874, to Miss Frances Ruehl, a native of Weisbaden, Germany. They have had five children, only two of whom survive - John (born November 22, 1874) and Mary (born July 3, 1881). Mr. O. came to Kansas in 1878, locating upon his present homestead of 240 acres, 170 of which are under cultivation, with an average grain yield of wheat fifteen and oats and corn thirty bushels per acre. Mr. O. is a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and an independent Democrat in politics. He is a member of the School Board, and was Treasurer of his township in 1881, and elected Trustee in February, 1882, and returned in February, 1883.

J. S. PIPKIN, farmer, Section 28, P. O. Garden Plain, was born in Madison County, West Tenn., in 1841, his father, Lewis C. Pipkin, and his mother, Mary E. Pipkin, being natives of that State. Mr. Pipkin is descended from a race of farmers, and from his youth has followed the ancestral vocation. In 1846, he moved to Graves County, Ky., where he continued to reside until his removal to Kansas in 1876, this being his first location, purchasing his farm, which had then been slightly improved, and built his residence the same year, which was destroyed by fire the following year; but, undismayed, he at once rebuilt upon a larger scale, and now has a fine frame residence. In October, 1850, he married Miss Susan C. Dockins, of Tennessee, who has borne him five children, four of whom are now living, viz.: Henry N. (born September 3, 1852), Jonas R. (born January 7, 1855), Mary L. (December 21, 1860), Alice (January 17, 1864). In 1863, the Confederates endeavored to make him join their ranks, which he absolutely refused to do; and although being a strong Union man, was averse to becoming engaged in warfare against his friends and neighbors, and so remained neutral. His farm of 160 acres contains eighty acres under cultivation, with an average yield of wheat sixteen and corn thirty bushels per acre. He has a fine orchard of his own planting, containing 500 peach, 100 apple and a variety of other fruits. He has also 1,500 forest trees, chiefly cottonwood, box elder and mulberry. He has held the office of Treasurer of the township, having been elected in 1881; and has also been a Director of the School Board of his district; and is a member of the A., F & A. M. His farm, which is one of the best cultivated in the township, is situated upon the south side of the Medicine Lodge road, is called Fancy Farm, and by it s appearance of neatness, industry and prosperity at once strikes the eye of the traveler.

WILLIAM L. SHIVELY, farmer, Section 9, P. O. Germania, was born in 1833, in Orange County, Ind., his father, Henry B. Shively, who was a farmer and millwright, being a native of Kentucky. In early life he learned the trade of a carpenter, and 6th September, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Twenty-seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and with his company participated in the battles of Antietam, Winchester, Chancellorsville, Cedar Mountain, Gettysburg and Peach Tree Creek, and was mustered out at Atlanta, in September, 1864, when he returned to Indiana. In 1854, William Shively married Miss L. Jones, of Indiana, who bore him two children, viz., Sarah, now Mrs. L. Boler, of Missouri, and Emma Zillie, now Mrs. Emory, of Indiana. Mrs. Shively died in December, 1856, and in November, 1865, Mr. Shively married Miss Mary Humphries, his present consort who is also a native of Indiana. The issue of this marriage are, Carrie, born in 1866; Henery, 1868; Susie, 1881; and one daughter, Melissa, deceased. In 1874, Mr. Shively came to Kansas, locating upon his present homestead, where he has upwards of sixty acres under cultivation, principally in corn and wheat, a good frame residence, etc. Mr. Shively is a member of the G. A. R.

ISAAC D. STOVER, farmer, Section 36, P. O. Lamont, was born in Montgomery County, Pa., January 16, 1839, his paternal grandfather having removed there from Virginia, and is of German descent, the name having been originally written Stauffer. Mr. Stover learned the trade of a carpenter, and in June, 1863, enlisted in Company D, Thirty-first Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, for three months' service, and was mustered out at Philadelphia, sometime after the term of service had expired. December 5, 1863, he was married to Miss Elmina Kindig, daughter of Mr. Joseph Kindig, of Montgomery County, Pa. They have five children living, viz., Henry, born February 27, 1865; Joseph, October 9, 1867; William, April 12, 1873; Clara November 19, 1875, and Charles, June 16, 1881. Mr. Stover came to Kansas in 1870, locating first in Leavenworth, where he remained two years, when he removed to Attica Township, this county; and after a residence there of four years, located upon his present farm of 560 acres, 375 of which are under cultivation, 265 acres being this year in wheat, the balance in corn. He has a good frame residence and barn, and in March, 1880, erected a windmill power for the purpose of drawing water. His farm is one of the best in the township, he having successfully surmounted many obstacles and met with the usual hardships incident of the life of the pioneer settler. He has been Road Overseer and member of the School Board, in both Attica and Garden Plain Township, in the latter of which he was Clerk of the Board, whilst his family was the first which settled in what is now Attica Township.

W. H. TAYLOR, JR., farmer, Section 20, P. O. Marshall, was born in 1845, in Washington County, Ohio, to which State his father, Mr. W. H. Taylor, Sr., removed from Virginia, his native State, when a young man, and in 1857, to Henry County, Ia., where the subject of this sketch was educated, and where he, in the spring of 1864, enlisted in Company A, Forty-fifth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, for the one-hundred-days term, but eventually served five months, being mustered out at Keokuk, in September, 1864. He has a certificate of thanks, dated Washington, December 15, 1864, and signed by Ed. M. Stanton and the late President Lincoln. Upon leaving the army, Mr. Taylor returned to Iowa, where he engaged for a time in farming, subsequently engaging in the manufacture of trunks, opening a factory in Mount Pleasant, for that purpose, and at the expiration of three years disposed of his business interests, and, coming to Kansas, located upon his present farm in 1877. His farm of 160 acres, of which eighty are under cultivation, is situated upon Section 21, and is rented, while he is cultivating 280 out of 320 upon Sections 20 and 29, upon the former of which (Section 20) he has resided ever since his removal to the State, his average corn yield being thirty, with wheat eighteen bushels per acre, and millet about three tons. The farm contains an excellent peach orchard, substantial residence, barns, etc. Mr. Taylor was married in 1866, to Miss Emma J. Potter, of Ohio, who died October 11, 1880, leaving three children - Edward M., born February 20, 1867; William A., November 23, 1868, and George H., January 16, 1871. In addition to his farm in this county, Mr. Taylor has one of 240 acres in Kingman County, which is partly improved. He has been Constable of Garden Plain township, and Clerk of the School Board of his district, and is a member of the Mount Olivet Baptist Church. 

 J. A. ANDERSON, miller. The Marshall Flour Mill, located upon the east bank of the North Ninnescah River, was built in 1879, by Harp, Fager & Co., and then contained but two run of stone. In 1881 Mr. Fager sold his interest in the mill to Mr. J. A. Anderson, who put in a third "run" of stone, a purifier, and made general and requisite improvements. The motive power is supplied by two large turbine wheels, and the capacity of the mill is forty barrels of flour and 300 bushels of meal per day. Building and machinery are valued at $4,000. Mr. Anderson is a native of the District of Columbia, and was in 1829, and for upwards of thirty years was engaged in railroad contracting and building, and prior to his removal to this State, had resided for fifteen years in the northern, peninsula of Michigan. He located upon a farm of 160 acres, on Section 28, this township, in May, 1877. Mr. Anderson has a family of seven children, his eldest son, John R., who is also Constable of the township, being associated with him in the milling business, the firm being known as Harp, Anderson & Co. Mr. Anderson held the office of Trustee of this township in 1880, and has also been a member of the School Board. He was Justice of the Peace for two years, and was re-elected, but not desiring to continue longer in the office, declined to qualify. The Marshall Flour Mill does a large and increasing business, as the next nearest mill is at Wichita, twenty-four miles distant.

D. ASENDORF, farmer, Section 35, P. O. Marshall, was born in the Province of Hanover, Germany, in 1854, and, until his removal to this country, in 1876, was engaged upon his father's farm. This is his first location in the State. He now has 200 acres of improved land, ninety acres being in corn and wheat, and for newly broken land has hitherto yielded well, his wheat in 1882 turning out twenty-two bushels per acre. He has a good frame barn and residence, the latter a neat two-story, being built in 1882, at a cost of $500, and, with their contents, are insured. March 2, 1882, Mr. Asendorf was married to Miss Doretta Semsrott, also a Hanoverian, in which province her father, Henry Semsrott, still resides, engaged in farming. Mr. and Mrs. A. have one child, Annie, born February 2, 1883. They are members of the Lutheran Church.

A. A. BARLOW, farmer, Section 29, P. O. Marshall, was born in Catskill, Greene Co., N. Y., in 1834, and his father's death occurring in 1838, he was brought up and educated by his grandfather, in Herkimer County. Upon attaining his majority, he went to Madison, Wis., where he, for a time, found employment at house painting, and in 1859 removed to Brookfield, Mo., where he was engaged, first as brakeman, and subsequently as conductor, on the Hannibal & St. Joe Railroad. Upon the breaking out of the war, he responded to the call for ninety days' men, and was in Company E, of what was called the Railroad Brigade, and was on detached service as part of the army escort for the recruits who were being constantly forwarded to St. Louis. Sickness intervening, he was laid up for three months, and upon recovery returned to his duties on the railroad until 1867, when he came to Kansas, his first location being in Doniphan County, where he engaged in the business of burning lime by patent process, shipping to St. Joe, Mo. In the spring of 1871 he removed to Sedgwick County, and after a residence of five years in Wichita, removed to his present farm of 160 acres, and on which he has an average grain yield, of corn 35 to 40, and wheat 25 bushels per acre. Mr. B. Was married in 1857, to Miss Lydia Hills, a native of New York State, who died in 1879, leaving five children - William E., born in 1859; Frank C.. 1863; Lydia May, 1868; Effie, 1870; and Adelbert A., in 1876. July 21, 1881, he married his present consort, Miss Frances P. Franklin, a native of Putnam County, Mo., but then a resident of this county. Della M., born August 5, 1882, is the only issue of this marriage. Mr. Barlow is one of the pioneer settlers of this region, and has always taken a deep interest in the welfare of his adopted county and State. He has been Clerk of this township from the second year of its organization until February, 1883, when he was elected to the Trusteeship, and is also one of the Directors of the School Board of his district.

S. S. CASAD, farmer, Section 5, P. O. Birch, was born in 1825, in St. Clair County, Ill., his father, Dr. A. Casad, having settled there in 1881, from Ohio, but was originally from New Jersey. Mr. Casad's early life was spent in farming, and prior to the breaking out of the late war he, with his brother Thomas, was engaged in operating a flour mill in Summerfield, Ill. July 8, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Second Illinois Cavalry, and participated in the engagements at Vicksburg, under Gen. Grant, and afterwards his regiment was attached to the Department of the Gulf, under command of Gen. Banks. He participated in the Red River expedition, and was constantly on active service until mustered out at Baton Rouge, August 12, 1864, with the rank of Sergeant. He returned to Illinois and removed from there to Kansas, March 7, 1865, locating upon a farm in Johnson County, where he remained ten years, when he sold his farm and removed to Lawrence, where he remained until the spring of 1876, when he located upon his present farm in this township. Mr. Casad was married in 1847, to Miss S. C. Dew, also a native of St. Clair County, and daughter of the Rev. John Dew, of Botetourt County, Va. They have had eight children, six of whom now survive, viz.; Preble, born in 1850; Mrs. Mary Colton, of Butler County, born 1853; Mrs. Lucy Wishart, of Humboldt, born 1856; Samuel S., born 1861; Ada, born 1865; and Harry Lincoln, born in 1869. Mr. C.'s farm consists of 800 acres, 200 of which are under cultivation, with an average grain yield of thirty bushels of corn and eighteen of wheat per acre. His stock interest are represented by about sixty to seventy-five head of high grade native cattle, and it is his intention to increase their number, with hogs and other stock in proportion. His residence ( a substantial two-story frame) and his commodious barns are insured, with their contents. Mr. Casad is one of the pioneer settlers of this region. He was one of the Judges of the first election held in the township, was the first Trustee elected in the township, and returned to the same office in the succeeding year. He is a member of the township, and returned to the same office in the succeeding year. He is a member of Garfield Post, No. 25, G. A. R., and of the A., F. & A. M., and is one of the representative men of Grand River Township.

R. H. CHAMBERLIN, farmer, Section 31, P. O. Marshall, was born in Union County, Pa., in 1834. His early life was spent upon his father's farm, and at the age of twenty-one he went into business as general merchant, in Louisburg, Pa., continuing therein until the spring of 1865, when he sold out and entered the employ of Messrs. Waterman and Beaver, proprietors of the Pennsylvania Iron Works, at Danville, Pa., as receiving clerk in their general supply department. In May, 1867, he went to Montana as superintendent of a mining company, and upon the failure of the company returned to Pennsylvania, and in 1868 bought a farm in Virginia, upon which he settled for a time, when he sold it to advantage and, returning to his native State, continued farming there until his departure for Kansas in the spring of 1878. His first location was upon the farm he at present owns, which contains 170 acres, eighty of which are under cultivation, with an average corn yield of forty, wheat, twenty bushels, and millet, two and a half tons per acre. His residence, which is a neat frame one, and his barns, which are large and substantial, are insured. Mr. Chamberlin was married in 1874, to Miss Harriet R. Van Valzah, of Union County, Pa. They have but one child, John, who was born May 2, 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlin, who were among the early settlers of this region, assisted in organizing the Methodist Episcopal Church Society here in the spring of 1879, and although the original membership has greatly decreased, services are still held semi-monthly in the Morton Center and Marshall schoolhouses, by the clergyman, who is stationed at Waterloo. Mr. Chamberlin is one of the prominent men of the township and has been Treasurer of the School Board of his district, and is now Treasurer of Grand River Township.

J. W. FOLLETT, Justice of the Peace, farmer, Section 3, and Postmaster, Birch, was born in Lake County, Ohio, in 1824, and when twenty-one years of age, removed to Steuben County, Ind., and locating in the town of Fremont, engaged in business, as general merchant, in which he continued until his departure for Kansas in 1878. Mr. Follett was married in 1845, to Miss Angeline Trask, of Madison, Ohio. They have four children, viz.: Ethe, who is now Mrs. Bricker; Alma, now Mrs. Melendy; Nellie, now Mrs. Greenemyer, and all of whom are now residing in Indiana, and Ralph W., who is now residing with his parents. Upon coming to Kansas, Mr. F. resided for a short time in Wichita, prior to his removal to his present home. His farm, in this county, consists of eighty acres, which is all under cultivation and surrounded by trees of his own planting; a fine orchard of 600 peach and 100 other fruits; a good frame residence, barn, etc. In addition to which he possesses a well-improved farm of 160 acres in Reno County. Mr. Follett was appointed Postmaster of Birch office in 1879, and was elected Justice of the Peace in February, 1882. He is a member of A., F. & A. M., and, although not as large as many others, his farm is one of the finest and best improved in this part of the county.

JOHN N. GADER, farmer, Section 27, P. O. Marshall, was born in Belgium in 1839, and came to this country in 1871, and located in Wyoming County, N. Y., removing in the following year to Defiance, Ohio, where he remained four years, and then spent two years in Paulding County, same State, moving thence to Kansas in 1878, locating first in Afton, and the following year removed to his present farm, of 160 acres, seventy of which are under cultivation, corn being his present crop, much of which is fed to stock. He was married July 17, 1882, to Miss Mary Scerener, a native of Bavaria, and who was then a resident of Wichita. In addition to his farm property, he is the owner of two dwelling-houses and building lots in the town of Marshall, where his brother Frank, who was born in 1856, and came to the United Stated in 1873, built the first house in the town. Frank, who is married, is now in Colorado. The Messrs. Gader are members of the Catholic Church.

HICKSON BROS, farmers, Section 29, P. O. Marshall, are natives of Boone County, Ind. and are named respectively William O., Joseph H., John R., and Robert A., and have always been engaged in farming, and came to Kansas in November, 1881, accompanied by their sisters Miss Sarah and Miss Maggie, and located upon a farm of 160 acres, eighty of which are under cultivation. There is also an orchard of 800 peach and 100 other trees. Residence and outbuildings insured. Miss Maggie Hickson was one of the organizers of the Baptist Church Society.

E. W. JOSLYN, Postmaster, was born in 1852, in Herkimer County, N. Y. His father Mr. Daniel W. Joslyn, who was Lockmaster at Frankfort, dying when the subject of this sketch was but four years of age, and his mother's decease occurring about eight years afterward, he was brought up and educated at Oneida, Madison Co. N. Y. by a maternal aunt. In 1870, he went to Wisconsin and located in Waupaca County, engaged in farming for two years, when he went to Iowa, where he remained for eighteen months and returning to Wisconsin, remained there until December, 1877, when he came to Kansas, and January 1, 1878, opened a grocery store in the village of Marshall which he conducted for a year when he associated with him a partner, Mr. L. F. Jones, and continued business under the firm name of Jones & Joslyn until May, 1881, when he disposed of his interest to his partner with whom he continued to remain in a clerical capacity until November, 1882, when he opened a drug store which he still conducts with an assorted stock value at $1,200 to $1,500. Building and stock are insured. He is the owner of a farm of 160 acres, partly improved, located in Kingman County. November 10, 1880, Mr. Joslyn was married to Miss Della King, of Waupaca County, Wis., he returning there for that purpose. On January 22, 1878, he was appointed Postmaster of Marshall, he is at present Clerk of the township and also of the School Board of his District and is secretary and treasurer of the Marshall Cemetery Association.

ROBERT A. SAUNDERS, farmer, Section 29, P. O. Marshall, was born in Richmond, Va. in 1823 and is of Scotch and English descent, although both his parents were natives of Virginia. In early life he learned the trade of a plasterer; and while yet a young man went into business as a merchant in his native State, and in three years sold out and removed to Buchanan County, Mo., where he engaged in stock raising, making a specialty of horses and mules for several years, when he removed to Gentry County, where he again turned his attention to mercantile pursuits, continuing therein until his departure for this State in February, 1876. His farm of 160 acres, situated upon the north side of Medicine Lodge Road, has eighty acres under cultivation, his corn yielding forty and wheat twenty-five bushels per acre. He was married in 1855 to Miss Laura White, of Whitesville, Andrew Co., Mo. and has had ten children, only six of whom survive, viz: - Mary E. born in 1860, and now Mrs. W. T. Rouse of Medicine Lodge; Edmond, born 1861, John I., 1862, Ella, 1864, Clara, 1869, and Odie in 1876. While in Missouri Mr. Saunders served in the State Militia from the beginning to the close of the war. He is one of the pioneer settlers of this township if not the pioneer owing to the removal of others, and is a member of the Christian Church, of the A., F. & A. M. and was the first Justice of the Peace elected in the Township, serving two terms in succession.

T. H. SHANNON, M. D., is a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he was born in 1835. His parents were natives of that State, and his father, Mr. Enos Shannon, one of the representative farmers of the county. In 1860, his parents removed to Fulton County, Ill., in the select school of which county the Doctor received his elementary education. He subsequently studied medicine under Drs. Steele and Towler, of Astoria, Ill., and in 1856 entered the Iowa University of Medicine at Keokuk, from which he graduated in 1859, with the degree of M. D., and at once commenced the practice of his profession in Astoria, Ill., continuing therein (with the exception of a year spent in Adams County, and the time spent in the army) until his removal to Kansas in 1866. Dr. Shannon entered the army as a private in Company F, Thirty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in September, 1864, and participated in the engagements at Franklin and Nashville, in addition to several skirmishes, and was mustered out at Nashville in June, 1865. The doctor was married, in 1857, to Miss Sarah M. Gallagher, of Illinois, and has three children, viz.: Leonidas and Velpean and one daughter, Gertrude, who is now being educated in Burlington, Coffey County. Dr. Shannon's first location in this State was in Le Roy, Coffey County, where he continued to practice until 1876, a period of ten years, when he removed to Wichita, and after a residence of one year there removed to a claim which he had purchased in this township, but finding that his rapidly increasing practice required his whole attention, he, in September, 1882, removed to the village of Marshall. His farm which contains 160 acres, 120 of which are under cultivation, and situated in Sections 8 and 17, this township, is well watered by the North Ninnescah River and Rock Creek, and contains two dwelling houses, barns, etc., and since his removal therefrom has been in charge of his two sons. The doctor is a member of the A., F. & A. M., and in 1878 was appointed a Justice of the Peace by Gov. Anthony. He was the first physician practicing in Grand River Township, and has a very large and increasing practice, there being but two other physicians within a radius of eighteen or twenty miles.

S. SPIGER, farmer, Section 32, P. O. Marshall, was born September 16, 1821, in Alleghany County, Md. His parents who were of German descent having been born in Virginia. He removed to Meigs County, Ohio when twenty-three years of age, and resided there, engaged in farming, for a period of twenty years, when he removed to Licking County, Ohio, and in the summer of 1877, came to Kansas, locating upon his present farm of 160 acres, thirty of which are under cultivation, corn and wheat being his principal crops. Mr. Spiger was married, in 1847, to Miss Nancy Ann Topping. They have had twelve children, eight of whom, seven sons and one daughter, survive, four being married and residing in Ohio, the younger members residing at home. Mr. S. enlisted, in 1863, in the Ohio Independent Battery of artillery, and after a service of six months was taken sick and ordered home, where he was laid up with a severe illness, which ultimately incapacitated him for further service in the field. Mr. Spiger's farm is situated upon the south side of the Medicine Lodge highway, and his residence is one of the best in the township.

JOHN E. WILLIAMS, farmer, Section 20, P. O. Marshall, was born in Wayne County, Ohio in 1822, and by his father's family, is of Dutch, and by his mother's of Scotch descent. His early life was spent upon a farm and in 1852, he removed to Indiana, where he remained a short time, and then went to Iowa, where he sojourned three years; here located in Gentry County, Mo., in 1857, and where he in the summer of 1861, joined the State Militia in which he remained, often upon active service, until the expiration of the war. Mr. Williams was married December 30, 1847, to Miss Margaret Howard, a native of Ohio, and daughter of John and Abilgail Howard. Mr. and Mrs. Williams, have had seven children, only three of whom now survive - Howard R., born December 18, 1850; Jane, born June 1, 1855, and now the wife of Mr. William H. Rose, of this county, and Samuel H., born March 19, 1858. Both his sons are married and reside upon farms in this county. Mr. W. came to Kansas in the fall of 1876, and remained in Wichita, until the spring, when he removed on to his present farm of 160 acres, 125 of which are under cultivation, corn and wheat being the principal crops, and yielding an average, the former of forty and the latter twenty bushels to the acre. His farm is in an advance state of cultivation and contains a fine orchard of assorted fruit trees, and a grove of over 3,000 walnuts, planted by himself, the seeds having been brought by Mrs. Williams from Medicine Lodge, seventy-five miles distant. While in Missouri, from 1875, until his departure for Kansas, Mr. Williams dealt extensively in stock raising, but since his residence here has directed his attention principally to agricultural pursuits. When he first located here, there were but two other families in the township, and they have since removed to other States, thus leaving Mr. Williams and family the oldest settlers in the township. In 1877, he drew up a petition for the organization of the Grand River Township, it then being included in the township of Garden Plain, and securing the requisite number of signatures, upon its being laid before the Board of County Commissioners, at Wichita, Grand River Township was forthwith organized and Mr. W. was appointed to the office of Treasurer in the first year of its existence, but has since declined to assume the cares of public office, although he has always been one of the officers of the election in his district. Mr. Williams is a member of the A., F. & A. M.

HIRAM WITTEN, merchant, Marshall, is a native of Tazewell County, Va., where he was born in 1836, and is a son of Hiram and Jane Witten, who, also were natives of that State. His boyhood days, until the age of fifteen years, were spent upon a farm, when he entered the employ of Mr. J. B. Hundley, of Gentry County, Mo., to which State he, with his mother and the other surviving members of the family had removed in 1845; Mr. W. remained behind the counter but a year, when he proceeded to learn the trade of a cabinet-maker, at which he continued to work until twenty-two years of age, when he was married to Miss Hannah Hunt (daughter of Mr. Jabez Hunt, of Gentry County,) May 6, 1858, who has borne him seven children, but six of whom now survive - Louisa Imogine, who was born October, 9, 1860; Ella Eudora, October 18, 1862; Marinda Jane, May 5, 1864; Lizzie W., July 5, 1866; Anna L., January 1, 1871, and Gracie G., October 16, 1878. Shortly after his marriage, Mr. Witten located upon a farm in Gentry County, Mo., where he resided until 1869, when he engaged in business as general merchant, in Union Grove, in the above named county. During the War of the Rebellion, Mr. W. was a member of the State Militia of Missouri and was often out upon active service. In 1877, he disposed of his business interests, real estate and other property, and retaining only his stock in trade and household goods, removed to Gentryville, same State, where he continued in business until his removal to this State, in September, 1878. His first location being two miles west of the present town of Marshall, and upon the Medicine Lodge road, in which he continued until the spring of 1880, when finding the tide of settlement bearing towards the east, he removed his store and residence to their present location, upon Bridge street, Marshall, and has since continued in business there. His well assorted stock of general merchandise is valued at upwards of $5,000, whilst store and residence, valued at $1,000, are with contents, insured for about one third. His was the first dry goods store opened in the town, June 20, 1878. In addition to his business interest, he owns six building lots in Marshall, a farm of sixty acres, in Section 32, this township, thirty-five acres being under cultivation, and also contains 200 peach trees. Since his residence in this township, he has been Clerk of the School Board of his district, and is a member of the order of A., F. & A. M.

JOHN D. WOLF, Justice of the Peace, was born in 1855; his parents were natives of Union County, Pa., where he was educated, and afterward learned the trade of blacksmith. In 1878, he went to Kansas, and in 1882, returned and brought his parents, brothers and sisters. His father, Mr. Samuel Wolf, located in Morton township, where he engaged in farming. Mr. J. D. had built a shop in Marshall, Kan. In the fall of 1882, he disposed of his shop, tools, etc., and entered the employ of L. F. Jones, merchant, as clerk. In 1879, Mr. Wolf married Miss Ellie Brown, daughter of Mr. William Brown, of this township. They have two children - Samuel Williams, born in 1880, and Frederick Cecil, born in 1882. Mr. Wolf has held the office of Constable of the township, and has been Clerk of the School Board of his district. He owns a farm of eighty acres in Morton Township, and five lots and two houses in Marshall. He is a member of the German Reformed Church, and in February, 1883, was elected Justice of the Peace. 

 ALFRED N. BLACKMAN, farmer, Section 35, P. O. Clearwater, was born in Kentucky in 1842; is a son of L. V. and Sophia Allen Blackman. Was married in 1881, to Mrs. Alice E. Hammers, daughter of Harvey and Laura Carrington. Came to Kansas in 1877, and located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 320 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisting in 1862, in the Seventy-seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Company C. He participated in the siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Miss., and was on the Red River expedition, Sabine Cross Roads, Mobile, Spanish Fort, Blakely and other engagements, seventeen in all. Was wounded at Vicksburg. He was injured in a transfer boat going from New Orleans to the mouth of Mobile Bay, by falling through a hatchway, and was disabled from this injury for four months. Was mustered out in July, 1865.

J. M. BOYD, farmer, Section 31, P. O. Beverly, was born in North Carolina, in 1836; is a son of Thomas and Margaret (Smith) Boyd. Was married in 1882, to Miss Christiana Beaton, daughter of Peter and Mary Beaton. Came to Kansas in 1872, and located on the farm where he now lives. Owns 160 acres of land, and is engaged in farming. Was elected Constable in 1874. Was Postmaster at Little River, N. C. He moved from North Carolina to Missouri; came from Missouri to Kansas. Is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

J. E. BUNCE, farmer and blacksmith, P. O. Clearwater was born in Scotland in 1833; is a son of Richard and Annis (Low) Bunce. Was married in 1856, to Miss Elizabeth McCaughey. Has four children - Laura, Huldah, Emma and Stanley W. Bunce. His wife died in 1868. Was married in 1870, to Miss Adaline Little. Has four children - Charles, Addie, Arthur and Cecil Bunce. Came to Kansas in 1877, and located at Augusta, Butler County, and engaged in blacksmithing; remained two years, then moved to Wichita, and engaged in millwrighting. In 1882, moved to Clearwater, Ninnescah Township, and engaged in blacksmithing and farming. Owns 160 acres of land. He was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisting in 1861, in the Thirty-ninth Regiment Iowa Volunteers, Company B. Was in the battle of Parker's Cross Roads, and was wounded in that engagement, and was in Jackson Hospital for fifteen months. He was then appointed Regimental Blacksmith; served in that capacity until 1864, when he was discharged from the service on, account of his wounds. He was Deputy Sheriff in Warren County, Iowa, for two years before coming to Kansas.

JOSEPH H. BURSON, farmer, Sections 28 and 29, P. O. Clearwater, was born in Marshall County, Ill., in 1852, son of Edward and Sarah Elliott Burson. Was married in 1876, to Miss Ella Moore, daughter of Andrew D and Susan Kaler Moore. Has one child - Arthur E. Burson. Came to Kansas in 1876, located on the farm where he now resides, engaged in farming and stock raising. Was elected Justice of the Peace in 1880. Is a member of the Baptist Church and superintendent of the Sunday school, has held that position for four years. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity A., F. & A. M.

WORTH CHAMBERS, farmer, Section 10, P. O. Clearwater, was born in Jefferson County, Ind., in 1848, son of Ahimaaz and Jane Patton Chambers; single; came to Kansas, in November 1872, located at Leavenworth, in 1873, located on the farm where he now resides; owns 160 acres of land; engaged in farming; has served as Constable for Ninnescah Township for three years. Is a member of the School Board and has been Treasurer for two years. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M., Pawnee Lodge, Ill., No. 675.

JOSEPH T. HAMMERS, farmer, Section 36, P. O. Clearwater, was born in Greene County, Pa., in 1814, is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth Hanna Hammers. Was married in 1836 to Miss Phoebe T. Evans, daughter of George and Lydia Evans. Has four children - George E., Joseph B., Phoebe and Benjamin Hammers. Came to Kansas in 1874, purchased the farm he now owns and located his family on the farm in 1875. Came from Illinois to Kansas. Owns 1,180 acres of land, in company with his sons; has been a cattle drover and shipper for fifty years. At the age of sixty-eight years drove a herd of cattle from Texas, through the Indian Territory to Kansas. Was colonel of a regiment of Pennsylvania Militia for seven years. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & M., and a Royal Arch Mason. Is a member of the Baptist Church; has held the office of deacon on the church for twenty years. At the time of his coming to Kansas there was no Baptist Church south of the Arkansas River in Sedgwick or Harper counties; now there is an association of twenty churches.

THOMAS K. KIMEL, farmer, Section 8, P. O. Clearwater, was born in Ohio, in 1831, son of Henry and Ann M. Hurst Kimel. Was married, in 1859, to Miss Rebecca Mounts, daughter of William and Martha Mounts. Has nine children - William E., Martha G., Jonathan M., Harvey O., Thos. K., Mary R, Abbie M., Samuel and Temperance Kimel. Came to Kansas in 1873, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 480 acres of land; engaged in farming and stock raising; moved from Ohio to Illinois, in 1840; remained there until coming to Kansas.

W. G. McGOVNEY, farmer, Section 2, P. O. Ruby, was born in Ohio, in 1847, is a son of James and Eliza Holmes McGovney. Was married, in 1873, to Miss Rebecca J. Parker, daughter of John Parker. Has one child - Clara F. McGovney. Came to Kansas in 1872, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Is a member of the United Presbyterian Church.

LEVI McLAUGHLIN, farmer, Section 18, P. O. Clearwater, was born in Mercer County, Penn., in 1821, and is a son of Henry and Jane Latta McLaughlin. Was married, in 1856, to Miss Mary M. Moore, daughter of George and Margaret Ewing Moore, natives of Pennsylvania. He has eleven children - Florence A., Amelia J., Thaddeus G., Elizabeth, Margaret M., Josiah B., Thorwaldson, William, Minnie, Laura and James. He came to Kansas in 1874 and located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M., Wichita Lodge, No. 99. He is Justice of the Peace and has held that office for three years. He was Justice of the Peace in Illinois, also Constable and Deputy Sheriff for eight years in Illinois.

THOS. J. MACREDIE, farmer, Sections 26. 27 and 23, P. O. Clearwater, was born in Scotland in 1843, and is a son of Samuel and Janet Jaap Macredie. Was married, in 1872, to Miss Janet Jamieson, daughter of James and Tudhope Jamieson. He has three children - Samuel T., James J. and Agnes R. Came to Kansas in August, 1870, and located on the farm where he now resides. He owns 240 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. He was one of the organizers of the township, and was elected Trustee at the first election held in the township in the fall of 1870; has held that office for four terms since that time and holds the office of Treasurer at this time; has held that office for three years. He is a member of the School Board and has served in that capacity for nine years. Is a member of the Presbyterian Church, being deacon and clerk of the same.

WILLIS P. MANION, farmer, Section 25, P. O. Clearwater, was born in Hart County, Ky., in 1847, and is a son of Geo. W. and Mary Pratt Manion; single. He came to Kansas in 1879, located on Section 9, remained one year, then located on the farm where he now resides. He owns eighty acres of land, and is engaged in farming. In July, 1882, he took a contract for carrying the mail from Clearwater, Ohio Center, Waco, Haysville to Wichita; making three trips per week; contract remaining until July, 1886. He was elected Constable of Ninnescah Township in 1882 and re-elected in 1883. He enlisted in the regular United States Army in September, 1866, and was discharged same year for disability. Is a member of the Baptist Church. He left Kentucky at the age of seven years for New Albany, Ind., and remained there fourteen years; he then went to Greene County, Ind., remained there two years, then went to Martin County, Ind.; he remained there eight years, then moved to Illinois, remained two years and then came to Kansas.

S. R. MOORE, farmer, Section 5, P. O. Clearwater, was born in New Castle, Pa., in 1819, and is a son of John and Nancy Burk Moore. Was married, in 1845, to Miss Elizabeth McKinley, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth McKinley. He has four children - Joseph M., Fidelia M., John P. Hale and Rose. His wife died in 1855. He was married, in 1856, to Mrs. Margaret A. McLaughlin Morford, daughter of Henry and Jane Lotta McLaughlin. He has five children, viz.: Jessie A., Lizzie B., Louie, Albert T. and A. Lincoln. He came to Kansas in 1874 and located on the farm where he now lives. Owns 250 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the War of the Rebellion. He enlisted, in 1862, in the One Hundred and Second Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Company E, and was in the battles and engagements of his command. Was discharged in January, 1863, for disability. He was Justice of the Peace in Illinois for fourteen years, and is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M.

J. P. MORRISON, farmer, Section 1, P. O. Clearwater, was born in Pennsylvania in 1841, and is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth Parshall Morrison. He was married, in 1867, to Miss Louisa McLaughlin, daughter of Henry and Louisa McLaughlin. He has three children - Harry, Ira and Charlie. Came to Kansas in 1872 and located on the farm where he now resides. He owns 160 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the War of the Rebellion. He enlisted, in 1862, in the One Hundred and Second Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Company E, and was in the battle of Resaca, Ga. He was wounded in that engagement on the 14th day of May, 1864, and was in the hospital until August, 1865, when he was mustered out with his regiment; was then unable to walk without the aid of crutches. Is a pensioner and still experiences much trouble with his wound.

GEORGE L. MUNN, hardware dealer and farmer, P. O. Clearwater, was born in Medina County, Ohio, in 1854, and is a son of E. D. and Sarah J. Meede Munn. Was married in 1877, to Miss Viola F. Churchill, daughter of O. S. and Sarah Van Auken Churchill. Came to Kansas in 1879, located at Wichita Township on a farm, remained two years and then moved to Wichita, and engaged as tinner for G. N. Byers; remained there one and a half years then located in Ninnescah Township, where he now resides. Owns a farm of seventy acres, and a store 20x40 feet, two stories, and keeps a general assortment of hardware and queensware; the business has increased 100 per cent since it s establishment; is a member of the Baptist Church.

MOSES PARKER, farmer, Section 31, and clergyman, P. O. Beverly, was born in Ireland, in 1826. Is a son of John and Margaret McBridge Parker. Was married in 1858, to Miss Mary Shuck, daughter of William and Elizabeth Sappenfield Shuck. Has eight children - Anna C., Margaret E., John W., Robert L., Elmer E., Ira E., Elmira M., and Charles L. Parker. Came to Kansas in 1876, located on a farm, where he now resides. Owns 480 acres of land. Is engaged in farming and stock raising. Commenced the work of the ministry in 1858; was ordained as pastor of the Huron Baptist Church, in Iowa. Remained pastor for seven years, then went to Carlisle to assist in erecting a church building. Was pastor of the church until the completion of the building. Was appointed missionary for the American Baptist Publication Society, supported by the Burlington and Keokuk Associations. Was engaged in that work for two years, then took the pastorate of two churches in Woodford County, Ill. Remained five years, then removed to Des Moines County, Iowa, remained four years, then moved to Kansas. Since coming to Kansas, has been instrumental in organizing five Baptist Churches. Is Postmaster of Beverly P. O. Has held the office for two years.

C. C. PHILLIPS, farmer, Section 9, P. O. Clearwater, was born near Rutland, Vt., in 1829; is a son of Joseph M. and Lydia Davis Phillips. Was married in 1853, to Miss Elizabeth Lutton, daughter of Jacob and Ruth Hazen Lutton. Has had nine children - Relief, Joseph Odley, William, Bessie, Mary, Charles, George and Every Phillips; came to Kansas in 1869, located in Riley County; remained one year, then returned to Illinois. In 1874, came from Illinois to Kansas, and located on the farm where he now resides; owns 240 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Was Democratic candidate for the Kansas Legislature in 1876.

WILLIAM ROSS, farmer, Section 28, P. O. Clearwater, was born in Scotland, in 1830. Is a son of Andrew and Elizabeth McGregor Ross. Was married in 1855, to Miss Janet Macredie, daughter of Samuel and Janet Jaap Macredie. Has six children - Andrew, Janet, Elizabeth J., Agnes B., Sarah M., and Maggie M. Ross. Came to Kansas in August, 1870, locating on the farm where he now resides. Owns 320 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. His family was the first settled in what is now Ninnescah Township, was one of the organizers of the town. Has been Justice of the Peace for four years. Was elected Representative of the Ninety-third District to the Kansas Legislature in 1876. Represented his District in the Legislature in 1877 and 1878. Is Justice of the Peace at the present time (third time) for two years more.

W. H. STAFFORD, farmer, Section 34, P. O. Clearwater, was born in Fountain County, Ind., in 1842; is a son of James and Fanny Savage Stafford. Was married in 1882, to Miss Emma A. Boyd, daughter of Thomas and Martha Smith Boyd. Came to Kansas in 1870, located on the farm where he now lives. Owns 490 acres of land, and is engaged in farming. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1862, in the Seventy-second Regiment Indiana Volunteers, Company H. Was in the engagements of his command; was discharged in February, 1863, for disability; re-enlisted in August, 1863, in the One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, Company C; enlisted for six months' service; his Regiment was in pursuit of Gen. Morgan. After eight months service, was mustered out in March, 1864. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M. Moved from Indiana to Gila, Illinois, and remained two years, engaged in shipping grain. Came from Illinois to Kansas.

C. SUMMERS, farmer, Sections 4 and 27, P. O. Clearwater, was born in Virginia, in 1819. Is a son of Samuel and Anna Hall Summers. Was married in 1847 to Miss Agnes J. Tinsley, by whom he had five children - James F., Nancie E., Sallie, Elisha B. and Lucy J. who died in 1880, aged twenty-nine. His wife died in 1861. He was again married in 1861 to Miss Mary J. Bacon, daughter of Samuel and Mary E. Edoys Bacon. They have one child, Ida M. Summers. Came to Kansas in 1868, locating at Atchison. Remained for two years, engaged in railroading. In 1870 located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Came from Virginia to Kansas in 1868; was Justice of the Peace six years in Virginia. Was one of the organizers of Ninnescah Township. Was elected Trustee in the spring of 1873. Made the first assessment after the organization of the town. Is a member of the Baptist Church and trustee of the same. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M., Wichita Lodge, No. 99.

JAMES M. TRACY, farmer and merchant, Section 26, P. O. Clearwater, was born in Sacket's Harbor, N. Y., in 1846. Is a son of James H. and Elmina (Wheat) Tracy. Was married in 1875 to Miss Laura E. Davis, daughter of John and Margaret (Adams) Davis. Has two children - Clifton H. and John Tracy. Came to Kansas in 1871; located on the farm where he now resides. Engaged in farming one year, and then engaged as salesman for A. G. Dunscomb, who located a store on the Chisholm cattle trail, at the crossing of the Ninnescah. Remained until 1874, when Mr. Dunscomb moved his store to West Wichita. After one year he moved to Wichita, continuing as salesman until 1878, when he returned to his farm in Ninnescah, and commenced improvements and engaged in farming and cattle raising, and also commenced merchandising. In 1882 formed a partnership with G. N. Byers, firm name Tracy & Byers. Owns 320 acres of land and also carries on a general merchandising business. Business increased from $6,000 the first year, to $60,000 in 1882. Enlisted in 1867 in the New York Militia. Was Regimental Quartermaster. Served in that capacity until he came West. Was appointed Postmaster at Clearwater in 1878. Has held the office since that time.

GEORGE N. BYERS was born in Hagerstown, Md., in 1851; is a son of John and Ann M. (Weys) Byers. Was married in 1873 to Miss S. M. Gorin, daughter of Gladdin and Mary C. (Webber) Gorin. Has two children - Gladdin G. and Mary W. Byers. Came to Kansas in 1878. Located at Wichita. Engaged in the hardware business, located at No. 95 Douglas avenue. Continued the business until 1882, when he sold to George G. Matthews. In the same year located in Ninnescah Township and formed a partnership with James M. Tracy, firm of Tracy & Byers; engaged in farming and merchandising. Is a member of the Warwick Lodge, No. 44, K. of P., and of the Wichita Lodge of the Knights of Honor.

ALBERT H. WOOD, harnessmaker, P. O. Clearwater, was born in Ohio, in 1848; son of Thomas and Evaline (Hardy) Wood. Was married in 1881 to Miss Margaret I. Pigg, daughter of Joshua C. and Eliza (McAdams) Pigg. Came to Kansas in 1881; located at Wichita. Engaged in harness making. Remained fifteen months, then moved to Clearwater, Ninnescah Township, where he is now engaged in the harness business. Enlisted in 1878 in the Illinois State Militia, Hilliard Rifles, Company G. Served two years. Came from Illinois to Kansas.

CHARLES W. WOOD, farmer, Section 23, P. O. Clearwater, was born in Highland County, Ohio, in 1840; is a son of Thomas and Evaline (Hardy) Wood. Was married in 1871 to Miss Virginia A. Armstrong, daughter of Wesley and Martha (Sawrey) Armstrong. Has four children - Ralph E. Pearl, Effie and Carl Wood. Came to Kansas in 1873. Located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 158 acres of land; engaged in farming. Was in the War of the Rebellion. Enlisted in 1861 in the Twenty-second Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Company D. Was in the battles of Belmont, Mo., Corinth, Stone River, Chickamauga, Kennesaw Mountain. Was with Gen. Sherman's command in his march to Atlanta, and at the taking of Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville, and other engagements of his command. In November, 1862, was discharged by reason of re-enlisting in the regular army in the Fourth Cavalry, Company K. Was wounded in the charge at Middleton, Tenn; was in hospital one month. Was mustered out in November, 1865. Has been Trustee of Ninnescah Township for three years, and Town Clerk. Has been member of the School Board for nine years. Is Justice of the Peace; has held that office for three years. Is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and elder of the church. Is member of the Garfield Post, No. 25, G. A. R. 

 S. W. BAILEY, farmer, Section 1, P. O. Wichita, was born in Lorain County, Ohio, in 1843, and is a son of Hiram and Zephra Bennett Bailey. Was married in 1867, to Miss Caroline Brinley, daughter of J. B. and Aurelia Gilborson Brinley. Has five children - Flora, George, Isaac E., Ella, and Willie. Buried one child. Came to Kansas in 1871, located on the farm where he now lives. Owns 320 acres of land, and engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisted in 1862, in One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment Ohio Volunteers, Company H. Was in the battles of Knoxville, Buzzards Roost, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Pulaski, Duck River, Franklin, Nashville, Fort Fisher, Fort Anderson, Wilmington, and in other engagements of his command - twenty-two in all. Was mustered out in 1865. Is a member of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County. Is a member of the School Board; has served four years.

J. B. BRINLEY, farmer, Section 12, P. O. Wichita, was born in Exeter, Eng., in 1832; is a son of Joseph and Caroline Brinley. Was married in 1851, to Miss Amelia Gilborson, daughter of James and Caroline Gilborson. Has three children - Caroline, married to Mr. Bailey; Maria, married to Mr. Williams; and George BRINLEY. Came to Kansas in 1871, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 600 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M., and of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County. Came to the United States in 1852, located in Jersey City, N. J., and remained two years, then moved to South Bend, Ind., and remained there eight years, and then moved to Michigan, and from Michigan to Kansas.

C. B. CAMPBELL, farmer, Section 29, P. O. Wichita, was born in Pennsylvania in 1846; is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth Fair Campbell. Was married in 1871, to Miss Margaret Ellis, daughter of John and Mary Ellis. Has two children - Maud and Gaila Campbell. Came to Kansas from Illinois in 1875, located on the farm on which he now resides. Owns 320 acres of land, engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisted in 1863, in the Second Illinois Light Artillery, Company A. Was in the engagements of Mobile, the bombardment of Fort Morgan, and other engagements of his command. Was mustered out at the close of the war, in 1865. Has been a member of the School Board for three years. A. F. Campbell, brother of C. B. Campbell, was killed in the Lawrence massacre, near Lawrence, with ten others.

FRED S. DENNIS, farmer, Section 23, P. O. Wichita, was born in Orange County, N. Y., in 1858, and is a son of Byram and Gertrude Smith Dennis. Single. Came to Kansas with his parents in 1871, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land, and is engaged in general farming. Is a member of the Presbyterian Church and of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County. Is a member of the Arkansas Valley Agricultural Association of Sedgwick County. Byram Dennis, father of Fred S. Dennis, was born in Ancram, N. Y., in 1821; is a son of Jacob and Nellie Dennis. Was married in 1845, to Miss Gertrude Smith, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Smith. Had two children - Fred S. and Henrietta Dennis. Came to Kansas in 1871, located on the farm his son now owns. Was one of the organizers of Delano Township; was elected Township Trustee in 1880; was a member of the School board; helped to organize the district, and built the first school house. Died in July, 1880. Mrs. Dennis is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

A. E. DODGE, farmer, Section 19, P. O. Wichita, was born in Will County, Ill., in 1846; son of Enoch and Susan Adams Dodge. Was married, in 1871, to Miss Harriet E. Gaines, daughter of Samuel W. and Elmira Lung Gaines; had one child, Elmira Dodge. Came to Kansas in 1870; located on the farm where he now resides; owns 200 acres of land, one mile from the city of Wichita; engaged in farming and stock raising; has a fine herd of cattle. Was elected Justice of the Peace in 1871 at the Wichita election before the organization of Delano Township. Was the first Justice west of the Arkansas River. Was Trustee of Delano in 1878; held the office for two terms. Is a member of the School Board; has served for seven years. Is a member of the Arkansas Valley Association, and of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County. Was the third settler in Delano Township.

ENOCH DODGE, farmer, Section 19, P. O. Wichita, was born in Will County, Ill, in 1843; son of Enoch and Susan Adams Dodge. Was married, in 1877, to Miss Lizzie Hughes, daughter of Young S. and Ann Jones Hughes; has two children - Arthur and Lee Dodge. Came to Kansas in 1870, and located on the farm where he now resides; owns 136 acres of land; engaged in farming and stock raising, one mile from the city of Wichita. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1862 in the One Hundredth Regiment Illinois Volunteers Company G. Was in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Franklin, Nashville, and in the battles of the Atlantic Campaign, and other engagements of his command. Was never absent from his command during his three years' service. Was mustered out in 1865. Has been Treasurer of Delano Township. Settled in the township with his brother, A. E. Dodge, there being only three settlers before him.

ALEX. FARDY, farmer, Section 30, P. O. Wichita, was born in Waukesha County, Wis., in 1846; is a son of Michael and Ann Lyons Fardy; single; came to Kansas in 1866; located at Leavenworth; engaged in carriage making; remained five years, then located at Wichita; engaged in bridge building. Located on the farm where he now resides in 1872; owns 160 acres of land; engaged in farming and stock raising.

JOHN FARMER, farmer, Section 28, P. O. Wichita, was born in Canada West in 1849; son of Richard and Ann Ham Farmer; was married, in 1874, to Miss Jessie A. Chapman, daughter of Jesse B. and Elizabeth J. West Chapman. Has four children - Harry J., Ella B., George A. and Pearl Farmer. Came to Kansas in 1870; located in Delano Township, near the Arkansas River; in 1872, located on the farm where he now resides; owns 110 acres of land; engaged in farming and stock raising. Is a member of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County; was in the township one year before its organization, and was one of its organizers. His house was the fourth one built in the township.

A. B. JOHNSON, farmer, Sections 7 and 18, P. O. Wichita, was born in Highland County, Ohio, in 1827; son of Samuel and Margaret McFarland Johnson; was married, in 1852, to Miss Susannah Johnson; has two children - Mary E. and Joanna L. Johnson. His wife died in 1868; he was married, in 1871, to Mrs. Rachel Tate Jay, daughter of James and Elizabeth Tate; have three children - Dora D. Jay; Cora B. and Maggie V. Johnson. Came to Kansas in 1872; located on the farm where he now resides; owns 460 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Has a peach orchard of 2,000 trees; the fourth year from the seed he had 300 bushels of peaches; has a walnut grove raised from the seed planted in 1873; trees now from two to four inches in diameter. Was elected Justice of the Peace in 1875; held the office four years. Has been a member of the School Board; served three terms. Is a member of the Congregational Church.

J. W. KEITH, farmer, Section 20, P. O. Wichita, was born in Greene county, N. Y. In 1826, son of Luke and Hannah Wolcott Keith, was married in 1851 to Miss Harriet Blaklee, daughter of Asahel W. and Elizabeth Carey Blaklee, has five children, Edith, Ellis A., Harvy J., Libbie and Grant Keith. Came to Kansas in 1874, located on the farm where he now resides, owns 160 acres of land, engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisted in 1864 in the Thirteenth Regiment Michigan Volunteers; Company A., was in the battle of Savannah, Averysboro, Bentonville, the Georgia Campaign and other engagements of his command. Was mustered out in June, 1865, was elected Justice of the Peace in 1878, held the office for two years. Is a member of the School Board, has served eight years.

G. E. KIRKPATRICK, farmer, Section 24, P. O. Wichita, was born in Brown County, O., in 1834; is a son of Alexander and Lavina Evans Kirkpatrick; was married in 1857 to Miss Carolina M. Henry, daughter of Samuel and Phoebe Moore; Henry (sic) has seven children, Effie, Julia, Phoebe, Henry, Willie, Charles and Percy Kirkpatrick. Came to Kansas in 1871, located on the farm where he now resides; owns 154 Ť acres of land, engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisted in 1861 in the Twenty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, Company C., had been in the service six weeks when he was taken with typhoid fever, was confined one year; re-enlisted in 1864 in the One Hundred and Sixty-second Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, Company K., was mustered out in the fall of 1864 at the close of his term of enlistment. Is a member of the Old Settler's Association of Sedgwick. His wife died in February, 1883.

WILLIAM H. KING, farmer, Section 80, P. O. Wichita, was born in Washington County, N. Y., in 1816, is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth McClelllan King. Was married in 1843 to Miss Sophia Mills, daughter of Timothy and Hannah Burr Mills. Has six children, George T., Frances A., Emma J., Willis A., Chester E. and Leslie L. Came to Kansas in 1871 and located on the farm where now resides. Is a member of the Old Settler's Association of Sedgwick County. Built the first bridge across the Cow Skin Creek. Mrs. King has been a member of the School Board, served three years, was Treasurer of the district at the time of building the first schoolhouse. She came to Kansas and located their claim and held the claim and with the assistance of her son, a lad of ten years, made the necessary improvements and held the claim until her husband came in the fall of the same year. Chester E. King was born in Michigan in 1854; is a son of W. H. And Sophia King; was married in 1882 to Miss Joanna F. L. Johnson, daughter of A. B. and Susannah Johnson; has one child, Clarence A. King. Came to Kansas with his parents in 1871; was educated for a teacher at Galesburg, Michigan, commenced teaching in 1874 and followed it until 1881. He is now engaged in farming, owns 154 acres; is a member of the Second Regiment Kansas Militia. A member of the Presbyterian Church and elder of the same, and a member of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick Co. Was Clerk and Lecturer of the Grange of Delano Township in 1877. Is a temperance man, was treasurer of the temperance society of Delano Township; was candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction for Sedgwick County. Leslie, son of William H. and Sophia King, was born in Michigan in 1861; was married in 1880 to Miss Ruth A. Stout, daughter of William D. and Zerelda Stout. Came to Kansas with his parents in 1871. Owns 160 acres of land in Kingman County. Is a member of the Second Regiment Kansas Militia, and of the Old settlers' Association of Sedgwick County.

JOHN KRUCKENBERG, farmer, Section 32, P. O. Wichita, was born in Germany in 1846. Son of Henry and Catherine Kruckenberg. Was married in 1880, to Miss Augusta Schlei. Has one child - Arthur. Mr. Kruckenberg came to Kansas in 1870, from Missouri. In 1871, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land; engaged in farming and stock raising. Is a member of the Lutheran Church. Came from Germany to the United States, in 1865.

HENRY W. LAWRENCE, Section 29, P. O. Wichita, was born in Litchfield County, Conn., in 1819; son of Putnam and Ruth (Williams) Lawrence. He married in 1845, Miss Abigail Doolittle, daughter of Henry and Mary (Richards) Doolittle. They have five children - James B., Robert E., Charles, Reuben and Mary. He came to Kansas in 1872, and located on the farm where he now resides. He has been Justice of the Peace six years in Delano Township. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and elder ten years.

ROBERT E. LAWRENCE, proprietor Maplewood Farm and breeder of Holstein and Polled Angus cattle, Section 30, P. O. Wichita, was born in Litchfield County, Conn., in 1847; son of Henry W. and Abigail (Doolittle) Lawrence. He married, in 1873, Miss Laura L. Smith, daughter of Frederick and Aurilia Smith, natives of Massachusetts. He came to Kansas in 1870, and located on the farm where he now resides. He owns 580 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. He is Trustee of Delano Township, and has been Clerk and Treasurer. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and has been elder in the church for thirteen years. He is a member of the Arkansas Valley Agricultural Society, and has been director for two years. Is also a member of the Old Settlers' Association.

N. McCORMICK, farmer, Section 26, P. O. Wichita, was born in Indiana in 1839. Is a son of John and Sarah (Bush) McCormick. Was married, in 1859, to Miss Rachael N. Way, daughter of Henry and Lucinda (Hines) Way. Has four children - Wilber, Lillian, Gertrude and Herbert McCormick. Came to Kansas in 1871, located on a farm in Waco, remained five years. In 1876, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 320 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and dairying; milks thirty-five cows. Was a member of the School board, and Clerk of School district in Waco Township.

JOHN McCORMICK, farmer, Section 30, P. O. Wichita, was born in Henry County, Iowa, in 1842, son of John and Sarah (Bush) McCormick. Was married in 1866, to Miss Mary Elder, daughter of Perry and Eliza Elder. Has five children - Effie E., Lula P., Nellie, Myrtie M. and Arthur E. Came to Kansas in 1869, located in the spring of 1870, on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1861, in the First Regiment, Iowa Cavalry, Company E; was in the battle of Prairie Grove and other engagements of his command. At the close of his three years' enlistment, re-enlisted in the same regiment and company; was mustered out in 1866, at Davenport, Iowa. Is a member of the Old Settlers' Association.

S. W. RICHMOND, farmer, Section 2, P. O. Wichita, was born in Switzerland County, Ind., in 1825. Son of George and Catharine Richmond. He was married, in 1850, to Miss Ameilia J. Leatherbury, daughter of Charles and Ann Leatherbury. They have four children - Irving, Gustavus, Corydon and Grant. Mr. Richmond was educated in Oberlin College; graduated in the class of 1859. In 1866, in connection with D. R. Hughs and George I. Yager, organized the Western Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, at Chicago; D. R. Hughs, president, S. W. Richmond, vice-president George I. Yager, secretary. He came to Kansas in 1870, and located on a farm in Section 31, Delano Township, where he remained until 1883, when he sold his farm and moved to Waco Township. Owns 152 acres. He has been Justice of the Peace in Delano for years. Is a member of the Spiritualist organization of Wichita.

C. W. TALLMAN, farmer, Section 30, P. O. Wichita, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1844. Son of Charles and Isabelle Brown Tallman. He was married, in 1875 to Miss Nellie A. Swartz, daughter of David and Mary C. Swartz. They have three children - Flora B., Annie L. and Samuel P. He came to Kansas in 1868, and located at Leavenworth County, and remained five years, engaged in farming and gardening. In 1873 he located in Delano Township, Sedgwick County. He owns 160 acres of land in Ninnescah Township, Section 17. In the spring of 1879 he located on his farm in Ninnescah Township, and remained until 1881, when he removed to Delano Township, where he now resides. He was in the War of the Rebellion, and enlisted in August, 1864, in the Forty-eighth Regiment Missouri Volunteers, Company E. He was mustered out in 1865, at the close of the war. He has been Clerk of Delano township, and member of the School Board of Ninnescah Township. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Tallman was born in Leavenworth County, Kan., in 1856.

JOHN WILKINS, farmer, Section 13, P. O. Wichita. Was born in Livingston County, N. Y., in 1852. Son of Perry and Mary Dibble Wilkins. Was married, in 1876, to Miss Mary Benton, daughter of George W. and Susan Simpson Benton. Has one child, Fred B. Wilkins. Came to Kansas with his parents in 1870. Located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 120 acres of land, about two and a half miles from Wichita. Engaged in farming and stock raising. Is a member of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County. Was elected Trustee of Delano Township, in 1874; held the office for 1874-75. In 1879 made the assessment of the Township as Deputy Trustee. In 1880 was appointed Trustee to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Dennis, who was elected to that office. Was one of the Directors of the Delano Township Aid Society during 1874; for the purpose of aiding the sufferers from the ravages of the grasshoppers; was secretary of the society. Perry and Mary Wilkins, parents of the subject of the above sketch, were natives of New York. Came to Kansas, in 1870, with their two children, John and Frank H. Wilkins. Located on a claim two miles from the city of Wichita, and immediately commenced improvements and laying the foundation for their future home. Being destitute of means, save energy and determination, Mr. Wilkins, and his two boys, spent the three first summers in freighting and at work on the A. T. & S. R. R., which at the time was built as far as Topeka, and was being built West. In the winter seasons of these years were engaged in hunting buffalo. Succeeded in killing about 1,000; the hides average about $2.50 each, and the meat three cents per pound fresh, and eleven cents dried. By this means were enabled to open and improve their farm, and with their characteristic energy have secured one of the most valuable and pleasant homes in the township; with a fine house, surrounded by large forest trees, which are of their own planting, which are now from eighteen to twenty inches in diameter, they are now reaping the reward of their industry. 

 F. M. ANDERSON, farmer, Section 18, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Illinois in 1841, son of John and Anna Breckinridge Anderson. Was married in 1862 to Miss Lenora Moore, daughter of John and Margaret Moore. Has six children - Rosalia A., Mary A., Geneva E., Julian, Eleanor J., and Ora A. Came to Kansas in 1871, located on the farm on which he now resides; owns 160 acres of land; engaged in farming and stock raising; was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisted in 1861 in the Thirty-ninth Illinois, Company C. Was in the battle of Winchester and other engagements of his command; was discharged in 1862 for disability, is a member and steward of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of the Garfield Post, No. 25, G. A. R. Was elected Constable in 1874; has served on the School Board for seven years.

L. W. BAIRD, farmer, Section 34, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Brown County, Ohio in 1840. Is a son of James and Martha Bower Baird. Was married, in 1868, to Miss Margaret Kirkpatrick, daughter of Finney and Nancy Bratton Kirkpatrick. Has five children - Arthur L., Robert K., Frederick C., Martha R. and James M. Baird. Came to Kansas in 1871, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 240 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted, in 1861, in the Seventieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, Company A. Was in the battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Atlanta, Fort McAllister and other engagements of his command. Was wounded at Shiloh, and was laid up from April until September. Was mustered out in 1865. Veteraned in January, 1864. Is a member of the Congregational Church and Trustee of the same, and a member of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County. Was elected Treasurer in 1869, re-elected in 1881. Has served on the School Board ten years.

JOHN S. BECKWITH, farmer, Section 2, P. O. Fayette, was born in Canada in 1850. Is a son of Arunah and Sarah E. Beckwith, whose maiden name was S. E. Sills. Mr. Beckwith was married to Mrs. Sue E. Flower, daughter of Frank and Maria (Webster) Dale, who has one daughter by her first marriage - Florence M. Flower. Mr. Beckwith came to Kansas in 1871, locating on the farm where he now resides. He owns 160 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisting in 1861 in the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, Company K. Was in the battles of Antietam, Second Bull Run, Wilderness, and other engagements. Was one of the first settlers in Greeley Township.

JOHN C. BROWN, farmer, Section 30, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Ohio, in 1840, son of G. W. and Eleanor Bayne Brown. Was married in 1882, to Miss Rosa Kuikweid; came to Kansas in 1870, located on the farm on which he now resides in 1871; owns 160 acres of land, engaged in farming; was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1862, in the Seventh Ohio Cavalry, Company E; was in the engagements of Knoxville, Atlanta, Nashville and other engagements of his command; was mustered out in 1865.

WILLIAM C. BROWN, farmer, Section 30, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Ohio, in 1844; is a son of G. W. and Eleanor Bayne Brown; was married in 1867, to Miss Melissa Kirkpatrick, daughter of Finney and Nancy Bratton Kirkpatrick; has three children, Mabel C., Lola E. and George F. He came to Kansas in 1871, located on the farm where he now resides; owns 160 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising; has a very find farm under a high state of cultivation and good outbuildings; has taken much pains in setting out trees and shrubbery; has a very fine cedar hedge about his yard, giving it a beautiful and attractive appearance. His farm is known as Cedar Farm. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1864, in the One Hundred and Sixty-second Regiment Ohio Volunteers, Company K; was mustered out in 1864, re-enlisted in January, 1865, in One Hundred and Ninety-third Regiment Ohio Volunteers, Company G; was mustered out in August 1865; is a member of the Christian Church and is a deacon; is a Director of the School Board.

WILLIAM J. COLLIER, farmer, Section 22, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Chautauqua County, N. Y., in 1841; is a son of George and Susan Haskell Collier. He was married in 1863, to Miss Mary A. Austin, who died, and he was again married in 1875, to Lucretia L. Pierce, daughter of John L. and Sarah A. Lansing Pierce. They have three children, G. N., F. H. and Elizabeth Collier. Came to Kansas in 1866 and located in Emporia; remained five years, then moved to Sedgwick County and located on the farm where he now resides; owns 160 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. He was among the first settlers of the township, and was its second Trustee, and was again appointed to the same office in 1882; is a member of the School Board and has served for six years; is a member of the Congregational Church and deacon and clerk. The Congregational Church was the first one organized in the township. Rev. Samuel Dilley preached the first sermon in 1874. The first Sunday school was organized the same year. Much hardship was experienced by the subject of this sketch in the early settlement of the township, living for a time principally upon buffalo meat; had to go forty miles to mill and pay fifteen cents for grinding. In the fall of 1874 had to pay $1 per bushel for seed wheat and pay 100 per cent interest for money to make the purchase.

WILLIAM A. DAILY, farmer, Section 20, and real estate dealer, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Indiana, in 1846, is a son of Samuel G. and Julia Morgan Daily. Was married in 1865, to Miss Maria E. Craig; has five children, Sidney, Oliver W., Jesse, Alva and Carrie M.; has buried two children. Came to Kansas in 1871, located on the farm on which he now resides; owns 720 acres of land, rents the cultivated land; is engaged in the real estate business at Mount Hope and Burrton, Harvey County, in partnership with J. E. Howard; is local agent for the A. T. & S. F. R. R.; is Notary Public and Justice of the Peace; was elected in 1872 and has held that office from that time; was one of the early settlers of Greeley Township; is a member of the Christian Church; was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1862, in the Seventy-seventh Missouri Militia, served for eleven months. From the Seventy-seventh Regiment ten men from each company were detailed for special service, known as the 107, as they were organized by General Order No. 107. Served four months, then enlisted in the Forty-third Missouri, Company B; was in the engagements of his command; was mustered out in 1865.

A. M. DURAND, farmer, Section 2, P. O. Mount Hope was born in Belmont County, Ohio in 1823, is a son of Merit K. and Julia A. Mix Durand, was married in 1847 to Miss Harriet C. Elliott, she died in 1856; was married in 1857 to Miss Amanda M. Moreland daughter of Moses and Mary M. Jordan, has three children - Ornah L., Charlie G. and Maggie E. His wife died in May 1874; came to Kansas in 1871; located on the farm where he now resides engaged in farming and stock raising; is a member of the Masonic Fraternity A., F. & A. M. and a Royal Arch; was in the rebellion, enlisted in 1861 in the Fiftieth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, Company A, enlisted as a private, was mustered as Hospital Steward, promoted to Assistant Surgeon, served in the capacity until the close of the war, was mustered out in 1865. Resumed the practice of medicine after the close of the war and continued until 1871, when he came to Kansas, continued his practice in this State for eight years. Has since then devoted his time to farming.

WILLIAM H. DWIGHT, M. D., physician and farmer, Section 16, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Michigan, in 1852. Is a son of Harrison and Harriet (Corydon) Dwight, was married to Miss Frances A. Graves, daughter of Webster and Betsy Marah Graves, has one child - Lottie B. Dwight, came to Kansas in 1879, located on the farm where he now resides, owns eighty acres of land; was educated at Syracuse, N. Y., graduated from the Medical College at that city in 1876; commenced the practice of his profession the same year in Eaton, Madison Co. N. Y., continued his practice until coming to Kansas. Now has an extensive practice in Greeley and adjoining townships, is a descendant of the Dwights of Yale College, is a member of the Masonic Fraternity A., F. & A. M.

GILES HARDEN, farmer, Section 34, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Richland County, Ohio, in 1830. Is a son of Hosea and Sarah (Kellog) Harden, was married to Miss Danah W. McGoogan Brink, daughter of Cornelius and Hannah Dodley Brink; has six children - George, Hannah, Sarah, Elizabeth, Charles and Frederick. Came to Kansas in 1871, located near Wichita, remaining two years, in 1873, he located on the farm where he now resides; owns 160 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising; is a member of the Congregational Church and of the Masonic Fraternity A., F. & A. M.; was Postmaster of Fayette, for seven years.

JAMES W. HINSDALE, farmer, Section 24, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Monroe County, Mich. in 1843, son of Willis and Hannah Dutton Hinsdale; was married in 1867 to Miss Lucretia Lumbart, Jabez and Eliza Olmsead Lumbart, has four children - Nellie, George, Mary and Henry; came to Kansas in 1870, located on the farm where he now resides; owns 120 acres of land, engaged in farming; was in the war of the Rebellion, enlisted in 1861 in the Fourth Regiment, Michigan Volunteers, Company A., was in the battle of first Bull Run, Malvern Hill, second Bull Run, Gaines Hill, Antietam, Fredricksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and other engagements of his command; was wounded in the engagement of Malvern Hill, was in the hospital six weeks, was wounded at old Grover Church, was laid up three weeks; at Mine received three gun shot wounds, was wounded the 25th of March, was unable to leave his bed until the 17th day of July; was mustered out in 1865.

W. O. HUSS, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Ohio, in 1846. Son of John and Margaret Hampshire Huss. Was married in 1867, to Miss Flora Irwin, daughter of John and Amanda Calkins Irwin. Has two children, Aldo M. and Ivy O. Came to Kansas in 1871, and located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land on the bank of the Arkansas River. Engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1864 in the Twenty-second Regiment Iowa Volunteers, Company G. Was in the Berryville, Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, and other engagements of his command. Was mustered out in 1865. Was the third settler of the township. Ivy O. Huss, daughter of the subject of this sketch, was the first child born in Greeley Township. Mr. Huss brought the first native cows into Greeley, from Iowa, there being none but Texas cattle in the country in those days.

JAMES D. McATEE, physician and surgeon, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Logan County, Ky., in 1844. Son of Charie W. and Mary E. Breshere McAtee. Was married to Miss Nellie Frayna, daughter of Richard and Anna I. Iven Frayna. Has one child, Frank F. Came to Kansas in the spring of 1874, and located in Burrton (sic), Harvey County, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession six years, during which time he visited Europe; spent some time in travel upon the Continent. Removed from Harvey to Sedgwick County; located at Mount Hope, where he is now engaged in practice. Is a graduate of the Louisville Medical College. Is a member of the Christian Church, and of the Masonic Fraternity A., F. & A. M.

SAMUEL MAXWELL, farmer, Section 20, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Ohio in 1833. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Vanderman Maxwell. Was married October 30, 1861, to Miss Emma C. McFarland, daughter of George and Mary A. Cornelus McFarland. Has five children, George A., James H., W. G., Mary B. and Clarence P. Maxwell. Came to Kansas in 1872, and located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land, and is engaged in farming. Was in the War of the Rebellion. Owns 160 acres of land, and is engaged in farming. Was in the War of the Rebellion. Enlisted in 1863 in the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, Company G. Was detailed in Hospital service, where he remained until the expiration of his term of service. Was mustered out in 1864. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Was the first Director of School District No. 44, and served six years. Was one of the organizers of the township.

A. J. MORELAND, farmer, Section 22, Township 25, Range 3 west, P. O. Mount Hope. Was born in Washington County, Pa., in 1831. Is a son of Moses and Mary M. Moreland. Was married in 1862 to Miss Missouri A. Ross, daughter of John and Martha Ross. Has five children, M. W., Mary O., Howard R., Ivy D. and Ada B. Subject came to Kansas in 1869, from Brownstown, Ind. Located in Douglas County, and remained two years, engaged in carpenter work, then moved to Sedgwick County, and located on his present farm. Owns 80 acres of land, and is engaged in farming. Was in the United States service, engaged in the Construction Corps. Was discharged for disability in June, 1864. Has been Township Clerk, is a member of the School Board. The first year he had to go sixty-five miles to mill, and give one-third of the grist for grinding.

W. B. OGDEN, farmer, Section 34, P. O. Fayette, was born in Jefferson County, Iowa, in 1847; is a son of Nathaniel and Mahala (Cassida) Ogden. Was married in 1878, to Miss Barbara J. Eckard, daughter of Conrad and Henrietta (Weaver) Eckard. Has three children - Mary W., Ina K. and J. Nettie. He came to Kansas in 1871, and located on the farm where he now resides, engaging in farming and horticulture. Has a fine orchard of peaches, pears and apple trees and a variety of small fruit. He was one of the organizers of Greeley Township.

WALTER S. PRATT, farmer, Section 2, P. O. Fayette, was born in Illinois in 1848; is a son of Enoch and Amandah (Magaw) Pratt. Was married in 1868, to Miss Olive E. Lockwood, daughter of John and Mary M. (Finch) Lockwood. Has five children - Loren E., Carrie A., Ella M., Edith A. and Frank C. Pratt. Came to Kansas in 1871, and located on the farm where he now resides. He owns 300 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisting in the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Company G, and served six months. Was mustered out the fall of the same year. He was the seventh settler of the township; was clerk of the first election in the township. In the fall of 1872, was elected Constable at that election. He has been Township Clerk for four terms. Is a member of the School Board; has served five years. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M.

THOMAS H. RANDALL, merchant and farmer, Section 20, P. O. Mt. Hope, was born in Ohio, in 1840; is a son of Daniel H. and Julia A. (Fink) Randall. Was married in 1865, to Miss Mattie J. Porter, daughter of Benjamin and Eliza A. (Martin) Porter. They have five children - Levi C., Pearl M., Leornah B., Clara E. and Annie. Came to Kansas in 1871, and located in Osage County. After one year moved to Greeley Township, Sedgwick County, and located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 490 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising, and is also engaged in merchandising. He carries a full line of hardware and farming implements. Is Postmaster of Mt. Hope postoffice, and has held that appointment for nine years. The mails were first carried by voluntary service, the neighbors taking turns in carrying it. A flour sack was used for a mail bag. He was in the war of 1861, in the Forty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteers Company F. Was transferred to the Eighth Ohio Cavalry, Company F. Was in the battles of Lewisburg, Charleston, Knoxville, Lynchburg, and Beverly; was wounded at the last named engagement, and was laid up for four months. He was mustered out in August, 1865. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of the I. O. O. F., and of Garfield Post, No. 25, G. A. R.

HARRY ROBERTS, farmer, Section 8, P. O. Mt. Hope, was born in Wheeling, W. Va., in 1843; son of Joseph and Martha (Hughes) Roberts. Was married in March, 1868, to Miss Louise Marlow, daughter of John and Sarah (Armstrong) Marlow. Has one child - Miflin D. Came to Kansas in 1876, and located at Olathe, and subsequently removed to Sedgwick County, and located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 107 acres of bottom land on the Arkansas River. He rents his farm and is engaged in educational interest, and has been a teacher for a number of years, and also engaged in the book business. He was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisting in 1864, in the One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio Volunteer Company G. He was in the battles of his command, and was mustered out in 1865. Is a member of the Friends. Is Trustee of Greeley Township; was elected in 1882. He was educated at the McNeeley Normal School at Hopesdale, Ohio, graduating in mathematics in class of 1867. Commenced teaching in 1868.

JOHN C. SEVY, Christian clergyman and farmer, Section 30, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Genesee County, N. Y., in 1828. He is a son of Joseph and Sallie (Drake) Sevy. Was married, in 1850, to Mrs. Mary E. Swallow, daughter of Henry and Eliza Robey. Has three children - Marshall, Alice and Mattie. Came to Kansas in 1876. Located in Stafford County, where he remained for five years, engaged in farming and work of the ministry; subsequently moved to Sedgwick County, and purchased the farm where he now resides; owns eighty acres, which he rents; was educated in Illinois; commenced the ministry in 1856. His first pastorate was in Appanoose County, Iowa; was ordained and called to the pastorate of the Walnut City Christian Church; held the pastoral relations with that church for eighteen years; during that time was pastor of sixteen other churches; on coming to Kansas, was engaged in missionary work for seven months; was in the Saline District on the K. P. R. R., embracing nine counties; took the pastorate of Mount Hope Church in June, 1881; is the pastor of six churches, the appointments of two coming in the middle of the week; during his ministry, for four years, averaged 300 miles travel per month; has organized fourteen churches; been instrumental in building eleven churches; has baptized 1,650 converts, of whom 160 have been in Kansas. Mount Hope Church was organized in 1876, with twenty members. In 1881, the number was increased to forty, and now numbers eighty; has a Sunday school of an average attendance of sixty-five. The school was organized in 1879; is called Evergreen School; has been well supplied with Sunday school literature, and use the national series of lesson leaves. The subject of this sketch was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted, in 1864, in Thirteenth Regiment Iowa Volunteers Company F; was in the engagements of his command; was mustered out in 1865; is a member of the G. A. R.

C. C. SWEETLAND, farmer, Section 32, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Fulton County, Ohio, in 1850; son of Rial and Harriet S. (Aldrich) Sweetland; was married, in 1873, to Miss Sarah E. Ellis, daughter of John and Cordelia (Harden Ellis; has one child - Lillian; came to Kansas in 1873; located on the farm where he now resides; owns 160 acres of land; engaged in farming and stock raising; was Trustee of Greeley township one term.

C. C. THOMAS, merchant and farmer, Section 17, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Virginia in 1849; son of Garland and Emma (Kirby) Thomas; was married, in 1872, to Miss Susan Porter, daughter of Benjamin and Eliza (Martin) Porter; has two children - Clauda C. and Maud; came to Kansas in 1878; located on the farm where he now resides; established a store of general merchandise the same year; business has increased about 700 per cent from its establishment; owns 160 acres of land which he rents; store located on the farm, which is at Mount Hope. Is a member of the School Board and Treasurer of the district. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M., Friendship Lodge, No. 222.

N. L. WATSON, farmer, Section 34, P. O. Fayette, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1817, son of Joseph and Jane (McCormick) Watson, was married in 1859, to Miss Mary E. Dale, daughter of Frank and Maria (Webster) Dale, has four children - Katie E., Charles S., Robert D. and Ella M. Mr. Watson buried one child, Frank J., in 1870. He came to Kansas in 1871, and located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 240 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M., and of the I. O. O. F. Settled in Greeley Township one year before its organization. Was one of the organizers of the township. Was elected Justice of the Peace at the first election, and held the office for two years. Re-elected in 1879, and served two years, and was again elected in 1882. Has been a member of the School Board for four years.

JAMES W. WHITBECK, farmer, Section 31, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Monroe County, N. Y., in 1839, son of W. A. and Maria (Fosmire) Whitbeck, single, came to Kansas in 1871, and located on Section 32, Greeley Township, and remained on that farm until 1882, engaged in farming and stock raising, when he sold his farm for $3,000. Was Treasurer of Greeley Township for two terms. Was one of the earliest settlers of the township.

JAMES H. WHITBECK, farmer, Section 31, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Monroe County, N. Y., in 1846, is a son of John P. and Adeline (Clark) Whitbeck, was married, in 1877, to Miss Mary Shafer, daughter of Casper and Gertrude (Brown) Shafer. Has one child, Marion. Came to Kansas in 1872, and located in Reno County, and remained one year; then spent five years in Michigan and New York State; then returned to Kansas, and located on the farm where he now resides, engaged in farming and stock raising. Has been Clerk and Treasurer of the School Board. Is a member of the Masonic fraternity, A., F. & A. M. 

 FRANK J. CANTON, occupation, farmer; residence, Section 2, Township 26, Range south of 1 west, P. O. Valley Center, was born January 8, 1849, in New Orleans, La., is a son of Frank J. and Josephine Canton; was married, in 1874, to Miss Maggie J. Canton, daughter of T. H. and Charlotte Dunlap. Has five children - Aggie, Gracie, Ulysses, Josie and Lulu. Came to Kansas, and located in Sedgwick County, April 8, 1870. Was a private in Company D. Fourteenth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers. Mustered out at the close of the war, in 1865. Has held the office of Constable and Township Trustee. Was one of the oldest settlers of the township.

C. L. DUNCAN, farmer, Section 13, P. O. Wichita, was born in Wisconsin, in 1847. Is a son of Robert and Rachael (Gard) Duncan. Was married in 1870, to Miss Kate Ackerman, daughter of E. B. and Annie Ackerman. Has five children - Estella M., Emma, Laura, Clara and Charles. Came to Kansas in 1867. Located in Pottawatomie County. After two years removed to Wabaunsee County. Subsequently removed to Sedgwick County, and located on the farm on which he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land; has 80 acres under cultivation, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. His farm is finely located on bottom land, between the Big and Little Arkansas rivers. The soil is of a rich sandy loan. Principal crop is corn, with an average yield of forty bushels per acre. Was in the War of the Rebellion. Enlisted in 1863, in the Independent Battalion, Minnesota Cavalry, Company D. Assigned to the department of the Northwest. Principal service in Dakota and Minnesota. Was mustered out in 1865. Is a member of the Universalist Church, and of the Masonic Fraternity, A. F. & A. M., Wichita Lodge, No. 99, and of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County. Is Trustee of Park Township. Was first elected in 1878 and 1879, and re-elected in 1882 and 1883. Has been Clerk and Treasurer of the township, and member of the School Board.

S. A. V. HARTWELL, farmer, Section 2 and 11, P. O. Valley Center, was born in Ohio in 1844. He is a son of David and Harriet N. Hartwell. Was married in 1876, to Miss Lulu McClellan. Came to Kansas in 1870, with his father, and located on Section 2, his father locating on Section 11. His mother died in 1869, his father in 1878. He owns one of the finest farms in Park Township, consisting of 480 acres, all of which is under cultivation. He works 150 acres, and rents the remainder. He makes a specialty of horticulture. Has an orchard second to none in the county, containing 5, 549 trees of different varieties of fruit, mostly grated and budded fruit, occupying thirty acres of ground. His apple trees are the largest in the county, measuring from twelve to fourteen inches in diameter; the growth of twelve years. He has about 2,000 plum trees of native varieties, the fruit of which, by cultivation, has become very choice and sells readily from $2 to $3 per bushel, average yield about 200 bushels. Has a fine grove of forest trees of different varieties, and shrubbery of various kinds, and a variety of small fruit, making his home one of the most attractive in the county. They have four children - Hattie E., Florence R., Fanny M. and Arthur N. Mr. Hartwell is a member of the Masonic Fraternity A., F. & A. M., Wichita Lodge No. 99. He is also the inventor and patentee of "Hartwell's Improved Car Coupler."

ROBERT L. HOUSTON, farmer, Section 24, P. O. Wichita, was born in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1840. Is a son of George B. and Lamanda O. (Mondy) Houston. Was married, in 1873, to Miss Sarah E. Morris, daughter of William and Mary J. Morris. Has two children - L. L and L. B. Came to Kansas in 1859. Located in Chase County, and engaged in farming. In 1868 removed to Sedgwick County. Located on the farm on which he has since resided. Owns 235 acres of land. Has ninety-five acres under cultivation. His farm is pleasantly located on the east bank of the Arkansas River, eight miles from the city of Wichita. Soil is of a rich sandy loam. Was in the War of the Rebellion. Enlisted, in 1862, in Second Kansas Cavalry, Company K. Was in the battles of Prairie Grove, Poison Spring, Saline, and other engagements of his command.. Was mustered out in 1865. Was among the first settlers in Park Township. Is a member of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County.

A. H. JEWETT, farmer, Section 4, P. O. Valley Center, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1849, son of W. T. and Hettie Jewett. Was married in 1877, to Miss Bessie Ferguson; has two children, Edward and Howard Jewett. Came to Kansas in 1870, from Illinois, with his parents, locating upon the land which is now the "Jewett farm," one of the finest in Park Township, consisting of 496 acres of bottom land on the north bank of the Arkansas River, fifteen miles from the city of Wichita. Here Mr. W. T. Jewett settled in the spring of 1871, and laid the foundation for his future home, and subsequently built a fine residence, and in little more than ten years, by his industry and perseverance, aided by the rich and productive soil of Kansas, succeeded in amassing a competence, and has retired from active farm life, and now resides in Wichita, enjoying in rest and quiet, in his advanced years, the reward of his industry. The subject of this sketch, after securing his 160 acres of land from Government, spent some years in the stock business at Medicine Lodge, under a contract from Quinlan, Montgomery & Co., Kansas City, but is now devoting his time to the management of the farm; has 400 acres under cultivation. His principal crop is corn. He feeds about 200 hogs, and 20 head of cattle. Is a member of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County; has a fine orchard of 400 apple and 50 peach trees, now in bearing.

O. C. RAMLOW, farmer, Sections 26 and 23, P. O. Sedgwick City, was born near Berlin, Prussia, in 1846; is a son of Charles and Charlotte Ramlow. Came to Kansas in 1868; located on his present farm. Being entirely destitute of means, he worked at whatever he could find to do, and succeeded in earning enough to hire fifteen acres broke on his place, and planted corn, from which he realized enough to buy him a team. From that start he now has a fine farm, under a high state of cultivation, lying on either side of the Little Arkansas River, 100 acres under the plow, his corn averaging forty bushels per acre and wheat twenty-one; has a fine orchard, consisting of a variety of fruit trees, now in bearing. His farm is one of the many desirable farms in Park Township, adding another proof to the rich reward that Kansas soil yields to the industrious husbandman. In 1882 Mr. Ramlow married Miss Fanny E. Stone, daughter of William and Mary Stone. He attends the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his wife is a member. At the time of his coming to Kansas there were but five settlers in the township, and only one house.

T. J. SMITH, farmer, Section 35, P. O. Sedgwick City, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1837; is a son of David and Mary Smith. Was married in 1861, to Miss Minerva Linn, daughter of James and Mary Linn; has three children - Benjamin C., Mary A., and Martha P. Came to Kansas in 1869; located on the farm on which he now resides; owns 401 acres of land, situated near the Arkansas River, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising; has 120 acres under cultivation; makes a specialty of stock; has a fine herd of cattle. His farm is under a high state of cultivation. His residence is surrounded by forest trees, which render it attractive and beautiful. Has a fine orchard, consisting of all varieties of fruit trees. Was one of the organizers of Wakuela township, which comprised Eagle and Park townships. Has been Trustee of Park Township two terms, and Treasurer one term. Is a member of the School Board; has served four years; and is one of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County.

W. W. TURNER, farmer, Section 13, P. O. Valley Center, was born in Indiana in 1832, son of John T. and Catharine Turner. Was married, in 1857, to Miss Hannah Sawyer, daughter of James and Elizabeth Sawyer. Has three children - O. J., R. L. & W. S. Came to Kansas in 1866, located at Baxter Springs, after two years removed to Jackson, Mo. In 1871, came to Sedgwick County, located on the farm on which he now resides; owns 160 acres of bottom land, located near the east bank of the Arkansas River; soil rich sandy loam, underlaid with sand and gravel, which furnishes a sub-irrigation from the Arkansas River. Engaged in farming and stock raising. His principal crop is corn; his stock is principally hogs, of which he has a fine lot of thoroughbred Poland-China. Has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for thirty-five years. Settled in the township before its organization. Has an orchard of 200 apple, 300 peach, together with pear and cherry trees and a variety of small fruit.

O. L. WINTERS, farmer, Section 26, P. O. Sedgwick City, was born in Ohio in 1848. Is a son of William F. and Leutitia Winters. Was married, in 1877, to Miss Jennie Richardson, daughter of William M. and Ruth Richardson. Has two children, Earl J. and Arthur L. Came to Kansas in 1869, located on the farm on which he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land, eighty acres where he resides and eighty acres in Reno County, and is engaged in farming. His farm is situated between the Big and Little Arkansas rivers. The soil is rich sandy loam. Corn is the principal crop, averages forty bushels per acre. Has 105 acres under cultivation. Has a good orchard now in bearing, consisting of apple, peach, cherry and plum trees. Has been a member of the School Board for four years.

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C. B. ATWOOD, farmer, Section 12, P. O. Wichita, was born in Vermont. Is a son of Buel and Phoebe Clark Atwood, was married, in 1869, to Miss Rhodo Jordan, daughter of William and Arvilla Moore Jordan. Came to Kansas in 1871, located on the farm on which he now resides, containing 160 acres, of which eighty acres are under cultivation. Is engaged in farming. His principal crops are corn and wheat. Has an orchard containing 200 peach, fifty apple trees and a variety of other fruit. Was in the late war. Enlisted, in 1862, in the Eighty-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer, Company F, Third Brigade, Second Division, Fourteenth Army Corps. Attached to the Army of the Cumberland. Was in the battles of Perryville, Chickamauga, Rome, Mission Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Buzzard Roost, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Kenesaw Mountain and other engagements of his command; was mustered out in 1865. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Has been Treasurer of School District No. 45, for six years. Was in the township one year before its organization. Has two children, Edward and Phoebe Atwood; has buried one.

M. H. BAKER, farmer, Section 15, P. O. Wichita, was born in Virginia, in 1835; is a son of George and Anna Baker. Was married, in 1857, to Miss L. C. Johnson, daughter of Lewis and Francis Johnson. Has ten children, eight of whom are living, as follows: T. N., H. R., Anna M., Mary E., Ella H., Earnest M., George W. and Daisy G. Mr. Baker came to Kansas in January, 1875, located in Wichita, where he remained two years. In 1877, located on the farm on which he now lives. Owns 640 acres of very choice land, 350 of which is under cultivation. Principal crops are corn, wheat, oats, sugar cane and millet. Average of corn per acres is about 40 bushels, wheat 15, oats 25, sugar cane 75 gallon per acre, and millet 3 tons per acres. Has about 40 head of cattle, keeps about 100 head of hogs. Has a fine orchard of fruits of most all kinds. Has one of the nicest locations and one of the best farms in the township. Is assisted in his farming operations by his sons. Mr. Baker came from Adams County, Ill., where his parents located at an early day. His father was one of the leading and prosperous farmers in that county.

H. L. DEWING, farmer, Section 8, P. O. Wichita, was born in Chautauqua County, N. Y., in 1848; son of Elihu and Orpha Dewing. Was married in 1868, to Miss Edna Beach, daughter of Solomon and Harriet Beach. Has three children - Harry L., Derword D. and Iva M. Came to Kansas in 1870; located on the farm on which he now resides, which consists of 160 acres; engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the township two years before the organization; was one of its organizers. Has been Township Clerk, and served on the School Board four years. Mrs. Orpha B. Dewing, the mother of the subject of the above sketch, is living with her son at the advance ages of seventy-two years. She came to Kansas with her children in 1870; she came in a wagon from Illinois.

W. D. GOODRICH, farmer, Section 6, P. O. Valley Center, was born in Tioga County, N. Y., in 1844; son of Hiram B. and Rachael D. Goodrich. Was married in 1865, to Miss Sophia Kirkham, daughter of Hiram and Polly Kirkham. Has six children - Thaddeus; Wallace, Myrtle, Eugene, Clarence and Willard. Came to Kansas in 1869, from Wisconsin; located in Neosho County; after one year removed to Sedgwick County, and located on the farm on which he now resides, which consists of 160 acres of fine bottom land. His principal crop is corn, which averages about forty bushels per acre; has never had a failure of crops; 110 acres are under the plow. He was in the army during the late war; enlisted in 1862, in the First Wisconsin Cavalry, Company C, Second Brigade, First Division Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cumberland; was in the engagements of the Atlantic campaign; was mustered out at the close of the war in 1865. Is a member of the Garfield Post No. 25, G. A. R.; was elected Constable at the first election held in Kechi Township; re-elected the two succeeding years; was one of the organizers of Kechi Township; has been Treasurer for three years, and member of the School Board for three years; was among the earliest settlers of the township, and has always taken an active part in all its interest.

GEORGE H. GREGG, farmer, Section 6, P. O. Valley Center, was born in Burlington, Vt., in 1848; is a son of James and Susan Gregg. Was married in 1873, to Mrs. Louise Armour Lambert, daughter of Robert H. and Sallie Armour. Has two children - Addie and Minnie Gregg. Came to Kansas in 1871; located on his farm, which consists of 240 acres, lying on the east bank of the Little Arkansas River. Is engaged in farming and stock raising; has 160 acres under cultivation; average yield of corn about forty bushels per acre. Mr. Gregg was one of the earliest settlers of the township, and now has one of the best farms in his neighborhood, situated nine miles from Wichita and one and a half miles from Valley Center. Has been identified with the interest of Kechi Township from its organization. Has been Constable, and served on the School Board for three years.

JOHN GUEST, farmer, Section 12, P. O. Wichita, was born in Nottinghamshire, England, in 1836, and is a son of Richard and Hannah Guest. Was married, in 1858, to Miss R. L. Dewing, daughter of Elisha and Orpha Dewing. He has eight children - Norman, Arthur, Nora, Richard, Elizabeth, Lula, John and William. He has buried seven children. Came to Kansas in 1871 from Ohio and located on the farm on which he now resides. Owns 240 acres of land, of which 115 acres are under cultivation, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Keeps about forty head of cattle and sixty hogs; feeds his crops. Was in the late war; enlisted, in 1862, in the Twenty-eighth Wisconsin Volunteers, Company I, and was in the battles of Helena, siege of Fort Spanish, and other engagements of his command; was mustered out in 1865. Is a member of Garfield Post, No. 25, G. A. R., and of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County. Settled in the township before its organization and has been Road Overseer for four years. Is a member of the School Board. When he arrived in Kansas he had $300, which he invested in oxen and one cow; they all died the same year of the Texas cattle fever, leaving him without means, save his undaunted spirit, which has enabled him to surmount all discouragements, and as the results of his energy and perseverance is now the possessor of a fine farm surrounded with all that can add to his comfort and pleasure in life, as the result of his industry.

RICHARD JACKSON, farmer, Section 24, P. O. Wichita, was born in Brown County, Ohio, in 1839, and is a son of Richard and Isabel Jackson, natives of Ohio. He was married, in 1861, to Miss Almira Harness, daughter of Frederick and Rosana Harness. He has six children - John H., Rosana, Orlando, Frederick H., Clarence A. and George W. Came to Kansas, in 1871, from Iowa and located on the farm on which he now resides, containing 246 acres, of which 120 are under cultivation. He is engaged in farming and stock raising. His principal crop is corn, which averages about thirty-five bushels per acre. Keeps about forty head of cattle and thirty head of hogs; feeds his surplus crop. He was in the army during the late war, enlisted, in 1862, in the Thirty-sixth Regiment Iowa Volunteers, Company E, and was in the battles of Helena, Marks Mills and other engagements of his command; was taken prisoner on April 5, 1864, and held at Tyler, Tex., until February, 1865, during which time he suffered great hardship. He was afflicted with scurvy and his general health greatly impaired. He was unfitted for service for two years after his release and has never recovered entirely from the effects of his prison life. Was mustered out at the close of the war in 1865. Is a member of the Garfield Post, No. 25., G. A. R., and of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County. Is a member of the School Board and has served for six years.

ALBERT E. JOHNSTON, farmer, Section 5, P. O. Valley Center, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1838, and is a son of John H. and Jane Johnston. Was married, in 1857, to Miss Elizabeth Ittner, who died in April, 1879, leaving four children - Jane, Frances, Julius and Albert. Mr. Johnston was married, in 1880, to Mrs. Lucinda Pawling nee Norton. He came to Kansas in 1872 and located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 400 acres, 320 of which are under cultivation. He is engaged in farming and stock raising. His principal crop is corn, which has averaged forty-five bushels per acre; his last year's crop amounted to 7,000 bushels. He feeds about 100 hogs of the Poland-China breed and has twenty head of cattle. Intends to increase the number and make a specialty of cattle raising. He has one of the finest residence locations in the township, it being upon an elevation, from which there is a view of his whole farm; surrounded with forest trees, consisting of box elder, cottonwood and soft maple, which afford a protection from the winds, and making it one of the most desirable and beautiful locations in the community. He has a fine orchard of 100 apple and 600 peach trees, also a large number of cherry, plum and a variety of small fruits all in bearing. The improvements on his farm were made in 1876. He was in the army during the late war. Enlisted, in 1862, in the One Hundred and Sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, Company C, and was in the siege of Vicksburg, Stone River, Little Rock, Pine Bluff and other engagements of his command; he was mustered out in 1865. Is a member of the Masonic fraternity, A., F. & A. M., Wichita Lodge, No. 99, and Justice of the Peace; a member of the School Board and a director of the Arkansas Valley Agricultural Society of Sedgwick County.

WILLIAM JORDAN, farmer, Section 2, P. O. Valley Center, was born in Ohio in 1881; son of Nathaniel and Nancy Jordan. Was married, in 1845, to Miss Arvilla Moore, daughter of William and Lydia Moore; has five children - Obid, Alden, Rhoda, Albert and Eva M. Came to Kansas in 1871, locating on the farm on which he now resides, which consists of eighty acres; engaged in farming. Has a fine farm, soil of rich, sandy loam, underlaid with sand and gravel, which affords a sub-irrigation. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; also of I. O. O. F. Was one of the organizers of the township. Has been member of the School Board for three years. Mrs. Jordan's mother died in March, 1883, at the advanced age of ninety-three years; was in good health to within three days of her death. Albert M. Jordan, who resides with his father and carries on the farm, was born in 1854, in Ohio. Was married, in 1882, to Miss Sarah A. Mathers, daughter of Benjamin F. and Amanda Mathers. Is a member of the Christian Church.

J. B. LEMMON, farmer, Section, 12, P. O. Wichita, was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1842; son of Alexander and Harriet Lemmon. Was married, in 1873, to Miss Anna M. Brichler, daughter of Joseph and Margaret Brichler; has five children - Otho W., Hattie M., John A., Lewis A. and Alma V. Came to Kansas in 1870, and located on the farm where he now resides, which contains 160 acres of land. Engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the army during the late war. Enlisted, in 1864, in the Sixty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, Company B., and was in the battles of Buzzard Roost, Resaca, and in other engagements of his command. Was discharged in the fall of 1864, for disability; has never fully recovered from the effect of the service. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

THOMAS RAINES, farmer, Section 1, P. O. Valley Center, was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England, in 1819. Is a son of John and Mary Raines, natives of England. Was married in 1845, to Miss Esther Williams, daughter of Solomon and Phoebe Williams, natives of Connecticut; has two children - Mary Rigel and Anne Raines. Had one son, Thomas H., deceased at the age of thirty-one, in 1880. He had been engaged in mining at Leadville, Colo; started to make a visit to make a visit (sic) to his parents, and died on the cars when he was within sixty miles of home. Mr. Raines came to Kansas in 1870; located on the farm on which he now resides, which contains 160 acres of land. Is engaged in general farming. He has a very beautifully located farm on the east bank of the Little Arkansas River, within three-quarters of a mile from Valley Center. It is all second bottom land, of a rich, dark, sandy loam. Mr. Raines has always been a representative man of Kechi township, alive to all its interests. Is Treasurer of the township; was elected in 1882 and re-elected in 1883. Has been a member of the School Board for five years. Mr. Raines is a member of the Episcopal Church.

P. G. RICKARD, farmer, Section 4, P. O. Valley Center, was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., in 1848; son of Lorenzo and Lucy Rickard. Was married, in 1875, to Miss Carrie L. Rhodes, daughter of Charles and Nancy Rhodes; has two children - Ralph L. and Charles W. Rickard. Came to Kansas in 1869 from Wisconsin; located in Neosho County; after one year removed to Sedgwick County and located on the farm on which he now resides, which consists of 160 acres of land; engaged in farming and stock raising; has eighty acres under cultivation. Was in the army during the late war. Enlisted in 1864 in the Thirty-ninth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, Company K; was in the engagements of the of his command. Was discharged at the close of his term of service. Re-enlisted in February, 1865, in Fifty-first Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, Company H; was mustered out at the close of the war, in 1865. Has been Township Clerk for nine years; was elected at the first election held in the township, and re-elected for the eight next succeeding years. Is member of the School Board; has served for seven years; was one of the organizers of the township.

J. W. ROCKEY, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Wichita, was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1838. Is a son of Jacob and Matilda Rockey. Was married in 1861 to Miss Angelica Massy, daughter of Ezekiel C. and Mary A. Massy. Has one child, Arthur E. Buried one at the age of two years. Came to Kansas in 1870. Located on Section 26, and remained for nine years, when he sold that farm and purchased the one on which he now resides, which consists of eighty acres. Was in the War of the Rebellion. Enlisted in 1862 in the One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, Company C. Was in the Army of the Gulf. Was in the battles of Thompson's Hill, Chickasaw Bluffs, and other engagements of his command. Was wounded in the first attack of Vicksburg. Served three years. Was mustered out in 1865. Is a member of Garfield Post No. 25, G. A. R., and of the Old Settler's Association of Sedgwick County. Has been Constable in the Township of Kechi. Attends the Baptist Church, of which his wife has been an honored member for twenty-four years.

M. M. SMITH, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Valley Center, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1839. Is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth Smith, natives of Pennsylvania, but moved to Ohio at an early day. Mr. Smith was married in 1864, to Miss Susannah A. Whitford, daughter of Nathaniel and Rebecca Whitford, natives of New York. Has seven children, George W., Eva E., Benona A., Edith E., Francis M., Emerett A., and J. Morris. Came to Kansas in 1873 and located on the farm on which he now resides. He owns 160 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Has been very successful in farming and has never met with a failure of crops. His soil is a rich, sandy loam, underlaid with red clay. Our subject was in the army during the late war, enlisting in 1862, in the Third Michigan Cavalry, Company A, attached to the trans-Mississippi army. Was in the battles of Corinth, Iuka, and other engagements of his command. Was mustered out in 1865. Is a member of the Baptist Church and deacon and clerk of the church, and a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M., and of the U. B. Wichita Lodge. Is a trustee of Kechi cemetery. Is a carpenter and builder by trade, at which he works a portion of his time.

SAMUEL VANDERGRAFT, farmer, Section 9, P. O. Wichita, was born in Virginia in 1833. Son of Leonard and Mary Vandergraft. Was married in 1858 to Miss Mary Crookston, daughter of John and Malinda Crookston. Has ten children, E. C., Rosa, Laura, Ida, Minnie, Albert, Ellsworth, Herman, Ira and William. Came to Kansas in 1859 and located in Pottawatomie County. Remained for ten years excepting the time he was in the army. In 1869 removed to Sedgwick County, on a farm near Wichita. After two years removed to the farm on which he now resides. Owns 560 acres of land. Is engaged in farming and stock raising. Has 225 acres under cultivation. Has eighty head of cattle and 125 hogs. Was in the War of the Rebellion. Enlisted in 1862 in the Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, Company G. Was in the battles of Prairie Grove, Cane Hill, Van Buren, Mine Run, and other engagements of his command. Mustered out in May, 1865. Was in the township before its organization, and was one of its organizers. Is a member of the School Board and has served for the last three years. Was a delegate to the presidential county convention.

G. M. WIGHT, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Wichita, was born in Wayne county, Mich., in 1839. Is a son of William W. and Henrietta Wight. Was married, in 1861, to Miss Marion O. Crosby, daughter of Ami and Hannah Crosby. Has five children - Wallace W., Grant A., Arietta A., Avray B. and Clara M. Came to Kansas in 1871; located on the farm where he now resides, which consists of 160 acres of fine land which is now under a high state of cultivation, Mr. Wight being one of the most successful farmers in the township. His corn average is forty-one bushels per acre. He keeps a dairy of from twenty to thirty cows. In 1881, from twenty cows, made 100 cheese, which weighed twenty-five pounds each and 1,000 pounds of butter. In 1879, from fourteen cows, made sixty cheese of fifteen pounds each, and 700 pounds of butter from ten cows, as he only kept ten cows after finishing cheese making. This year he proposes to patronize the creamery, which has just been completed at Wichita. He keeps about 100 hogs and has some fine horses, three-fourths bred. Was in the township before its organization and was one of its organizers. Was elected Justice of the Peace, but declined to serve on account of the pressure of other business. Has a fine orchard, with a variety of fruit trees and a fine grove of forest trees, consisting of twelve acres containing walnut, box elder, coffee bean, cottonwood and elm, which adds much in beauty and attractiveness to his home. 

 DAVID BEVERLY, farmer, Section 10, P. O. Marshall, was born in May, 1848, in Cattaraugus County, N. Y. His early life was spent upon a farm, and he continued to reside in his native State until his removal to Kansas in September, 1876, when he located upon his present farm of 160 acres, situated upon the west bank of the North Ninnescah River. He has eighty acres under cultivation, with an average corn yield of thirty-five bushels per acre, that being his principal crop. On March 8, 1877, he was married to Miss Julia T. Preston, a native of Peoria, Ill., and daughter of J. H. and Anna M. Preston, who were natives of New Jersey. Mr. Preston is now a resident of Sumner County, this State. Mr. B. has had three children, two of whom survive, viz.: Alice, born December 24, 1877, and Clarence L., born January 19, 1881. Mr. Beverly is one of the pioneer settlers of Morton Township, there being but two other families in it when he located here. Not caring for any public office, he has devoted his time and attention solely to the improvements of his farm.

WILLIAM CALLIHAN, farmer, Section 9, P. O. Marshall, was born in Pennsylvania in 1822, and is by trade a stonemason. He has been thrice married, his present consort being Miss Margaret Allen, nee Brownlee, a native of Washington county, Pa., and daughter of James and Eleanor Brownlee. He removed in 1850, to Carthage, Hancock Co., Ill., from whence he removed to Kansas in 1879, locating first in Newton, and removing to his present location in July, 1880, purchasing a partly improved farm of 160 acres, 120 of which are under cultivation. He has a large two-story frame house, good barns, etc. In February, 1883, he was elected Treasurer of the township.

JOHN COFFEY, Justice of the Peace and farmer, Section 6, P. O. Marshall, and one of the pioneer settlers of this region, was born in Russell County, N. Y., May 22, 1827. He was married in 1850, to Miss Nancy A. Godby, a native of Casey County, Ky., where she was born April 2, 1835. They have had ten children, nine of whom now survive. In 1860 Mr. Coffey removed from Russell County, Ky., (sic) where he had been engaged in commercial pursuits, to Christian County, Ill., where he resided for four years, then removed to Bloomington, and in 1876 came to Kansas. His farm of 320 acres is half under cultivation. Since his residence here he has been a member of the School Board of his district, and in February, 1880, was elected Justice of the Peace.

JOHN P. DAWSON, farmer, Section 25, P. O. Marshall, was born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1823, and in 1836 removed to Warren County, Ind., where he remained until 1864, when he removed to McLean County, Ill., from whence he moved to Kansas in the spring of 1876. May 20, 1850, he was married to Miss Mary Jane Crawford, who has borne him seven children, five of whom now survive - Celina A., born January 13, 1852; Sarah E., January 18, 1853; Louisa E., January 25, 1857; John L., March 5, 1860; Agnes O., December 3, 1866. Mr. Dawson came to Kansas in the spring of 1876, and located on his present farm of 480 acres, 360 of which are in cultivation, with an average yield, of corn, 40; wheat 17 bushels; and millet, 2 tons per acre; and has also made a specialty of stock, carrying from 50 to 200 head. He is one of the few surviving members who cast the first vote in the township. Has been Treasurer of the School Board and Justice of the Peace.

E. C. GOBIN, Justice of the Peace and farmer, Section 5, P. O. Marshall. Was born in 1842, in Northumberland County, Pa., and was educated in Mission College, Selina, Pa., where he graduated in 1861, and in 1863 was admitted to practice at the bar of his native State. During the War of the Rebellion he was clerk in the Provost Marshal's office at Harrisburg, and was superintendent of the Enrolling Department, and also acted as special correspondent for several Pennsylvania papers. At the close of the war he removed to Booneville, Mo., where he practiced law for four years, when he returned to his native State, and edited and conducted the Sunbury Daily, and subsequently was interested in the Morning Express, and the Daily American, both published in Sunbury. Mr. Gobin was married in 1865, to Miss Kate E. Brown, of Louisburg (sic), Pa., who has borne his six children - William, Annie, John P. S., Jennie, Abbie, and Samuel. Mr. G. came to Kansas in 1878, locating here, where he has a farm of 160 acres, 50 of which are in cultivation, corn and wheat having hitherto been his principal crops, and yielding a fair average return: (sic) Mr. Gobin has been clerk of the School Board of his district, and during his term of office was instrumental in causing the construction of the Morton schoolhouse; and also Clerk of the township for two years. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1881, to fill an unexpired term, and re-elected the following year. In addition to the management of his farm, in the cultivation of which he is assisted by his sons, he still continues the practice of his profession.

D. F. HATHAWAY, farmer, Section 36, P. O. Venice. Was born in Ohio in August, 1843, and, in 1852, removed with his parents to Stark County, Ill., where he remained until 1864, when he went to DeKalb County, Mo., where he continued to reside until the spring of 1876, when he removed to Kansas. August 25, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Twenty-fifth Regiment Indiana Infantry, and upon the expiration of his term of service, enlisted in the Twelfth Cavalry, January, 1863, and was mustered out in the spring of 1865. Three years afterward he married Miss Margaret Butt, of Noble County, Ind. Their children are Goldie L., born March 13th, 1869, and Frank H., March 27th, 1871. Upon coming to Kansas Mr. Hathaway located upon his present farm of 160 acres, 135 of these being under cultivation. In addition to this he has gone into hog raising, usually carrying 200 head. He has a beautiful orchard of over 3,000 peach, plum and other fruits, while the farm buildings are large and substantial. In July, 1881, he was appointed Postmaster of Venice, now the only office in the township.

WILLIAM H. HILL, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Marshall. Was born in Clinton County, N. Y., in 1839, and is one of the pioneer settlers of this region, having located here October 21, 1872, from Illinois, to which State his father, Mr. Solomon Hill, had removed at an early date. August 8th, 1862, he enlisted in Company F (Capt. John Chicken), Eighty-eighth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which had been partly raised in Chicago. He participated in the engagements at Perryville, first Stone River (where he was taken prisoner, and after a month's sojourn in Libby Prison, he, with others, was paroled and subsequently exchanged, rejoining his company and regiment in August, 1863). Subsequently participating in the fights at Mission Ridge, Atlanta, Adairville, Kenesaw Mountain and Spring Hill, the regiment, after the fight at Franklin, and after assisting in defeating Hood, marched toward Richmond via Alabama and Tennessee, and was at Blue Springs, East Tenn., when they heard of Lee's surrender, and was mustered out at Nashville and ordered to Chicago for final discharge, in June, 1865. Remaining in Illinois engaged in farming in the counties of Bond, Fulton and Hancock, until his removal to this State, his first location being in what is now Greeley Township. Mr. Hill was married, in 1860, to Miss Violet Reeves, a native of Ohio. They have had six children, of whom only three survive, viz: - Samuel, born December 4th, 1868, William, January 4th, 1871, and Charles, June 4th, 1872. In 1877 Mr. Hill located in this township, and in 1882 sold his improved farm of 160 acres in adjoining section, and purchased eighty acres here. Erected his present residence. He has upwards of fifty acres under cultivation, principally in corn. He has directed his attention chiefly to agriculture. He has been elected as one of the Justices of the Peace, but he declined to qualify, and resigned, having no inclination to assume any manner of cares of office.

JOHN McCOMAS, farmer, Section 6, P. O. Marshall, was born in 1849, in Cabell County, W. Va., and is the eldest son of Thomas and Elizabeth McComas. He has always been accumstomed (sic) to farming, and in 1875 removed to Missouri, locating in Shelby County, from whence he removed to Kansas in the fall of 1876, this being his first location. His farm contains upwards of eighty acres in cultivation, corn and wheat being his principal crops. He is at present the Constable of the township, having been elected in February, 1883. He was married in 1874, to Miss Isadore Willgas, of Brown County, Ill., who has borne him three children - Gertrude, born in 1875; Wirt, 1876, and Walter, 1878. Mr. McComas' mother who resides with him, is one of the original members of the Baptist Church Society of this township.

THOMAS McPHERSON, farmer, Section 23, P. O. Marshall, and son of Leonard and Mary McPherson, was born in Ohio, in 1854, and in 1856, his parents removed to, and located in Fulton County, Ill., where his father engaged in farming, and subsequently removed to Hancock County, from whence the family came to Kansas, in 1873 locating in this county, and removing to the present farm in the spring of 1875, and are one of the very few now remaining of the original early settlers of this township. Of the eighty acres comprising his farm, Mr. McP. has fifty acres under cultivation, with an average corn yield of forty-five bushels per acre. His neat frame residence and good barns are sheltered from the full force of the Kansas winds, by a fine grove of forest trees, chiefly cottonwood. Mr. McPherson is unmarried; his father and sister residing with him. He is now Road Overseer and also Clerk of the School Board of his district. His father was one of the thirty-nine voters at the first election held in the township, in 1876.

OLIVER T. SHEARON, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Marshall, was born in Richmond, Wayne Co., Ind., in 1856. He is one of a race of farmers, and has always followed the ancestral occupation. He was married November 23, 1875, to Miss Alice A. Culbertson, also a native of Indiana, and a daughter of Mr. William Culbertson. They have but one child - Rachel L., who was born April 21, 1878. Mr. Shearon came to Kansas, in March, 1879, locating upon a farm, on which he now resides, and which contains 140 acres, in addition to which he has twenty acres rented. There are seventy acres under cultivation, principally in corn and wheat, the former yielding thirty-five to forty, and the latter eighteen bushels per acre. There is also an orchard containing over 300 assorted fruit trees, and he has also good substantial frame barn and residence. Mr. Shearon has been Road Overseer, and in February, 1883, was elected to the office of Township Trustee.

WILLIAM WADSWORTH, farmer, Section 18, P. O. Brighton, was born in England, in 1843, and was brought up in Nottingham, where his father was one of the leading merchants. Mr. W. went to Africa, during the diamond mine excitement, and continued there until the Afghan and Zulu war, being engaged in freighting. Returning to England, until the fall of 1881, when he came to the United States, and located upon his present farm, where he has been engaged in sheep farming, having about 600 of the American Merino. He is unmarried; has always been a member of the Episcopal Church, and is also an A., F. & A. M.

GEORGE W. WALTERS, farmer, Section 21, P. O. Marshall, who is one of the Commissioners of this county, was born in Pike County, Pa., in 1843, from whence his father, Jacob Walters, removed with his family to Dane County, Wis., in 1849, and died there in 1859. The subject of this sketch enlisted January 1, 1862, in Company M, Second Wisconsin Cavalry, which was attached to the First Brigade, Second Division and Sixteenth Army Corps, subsequently being in the Seventeenth Corps, and participated in the engagements at Vicksburg, Jackson, Black River, etc., before and after which his regiment was in pursuit of Forrest, and he was also present at the surrender of Forrest, when his men were paroled, at Grinnell, Miss., soon after which Mr. Walters was under the commands of General Custer, with whom he went to Texas, and was upon frontier service until mustered out, in November 15, 1865, with the rank of First Lieutenant. He then located in and near San Antonio, Texas, where he resided for nine years, and where he, May 26, 1869, married Miss Mollie M. Byrd, daughter of Thomas and Amanda Byrd, of that State. Mr. W. has three children - George W., born May 12, 1870; Byrd, June 29, 1878, and Grace, April 2, 1881. While in Texas, Mr. Walters was engaged in business as a general merchant, in the town of Pleasanton, situated thirty miles south of San Antonio. He disposed of his business there in 1872, and removing to Kansas, located upon the site of his present home, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits, his customers being principally men engaged in cattle business; there then being large herds of cattle brought from Texas, and grazing for weeks here, upon the then untenanted prairie, prior to their shipment from Wichita, to the eastern markets. In 1874, he retired from business, and directed his attention solely to farming, until 1880, when he added stock raising to agriculture. His farm of 320 acres contains 140 under cultivation, with an average yield of corn thirty, wheat sixteen bushels, and millet two tons per acre. He has held the office of Township Trustee for three successive terms; he being the first trustee upon the organization of the township, and in 1876, was appointed Postmaster of Finley, continuing therein until 1880, when he resigned, and the office has since been abolished. He has always been a Director of the School Board of his district, in which office he still continues, and in 1880, was elected County Commissoner (sic). He is a member of Garfield Post, No. 25, G. A. R., and also of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Walters is the oldest settler in Morton Township, and was one of its organizers in 1876, and one of the judges in the first election held therein, in the fall of that year, at which thirty-nine votes were cast, and one of the representative men of Sedgwick County.

THOMAS H. CORNWALL, farmer and physician, Section 26, P. O. Mount Hope - was born in England in 1850. Is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth A. U. Cornwall. Was married, in 1880, to Miss Phebe E. McGoogan, daughter of Robert and Dinah W. B. McGoogan. Has two children - Ollie B. and Martin L. Cornwall. Came to Kansas in 1878, locating on the the (sic) farm on which he now resides; owns 400 acres, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Graduated at Rush Medical College, Chicago, in the class of 1874-75. The same year commenced the practice of his profession in Byron, Ogle County, Ill., where he remained until his removal to Kansas. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; also the South Kansas Medical Society.

W. A. FRAZEE, farmer, Section 8, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Ohio in 1841; is a son of Jehiel and Nancy Grymes Frazee. Was married, in 1868, to Miss Lydia Wood, daughter of Levi and Rebecca Reeves Wood; has five children - Rosa L., Charles, Edward, Lewis and Birt. Came to Kansas in 1869; located in Doniphan County; remained two years; in 1871, located on the farm on which he now resides. Owns 320 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1861, in the Second Colorado Regiment Volunteers, Company B. Was mustered out in 1862. Was one of the earliest settlers in Sherman Township.

NICHOLAS GENSMAN, farmer, Section 29, P. O. Ost, was born in Germany in 1848; son of Phillip and Elizabeth Gensman. Was married, in 1877, to Miss Kansas Osborn, daughter of Riley and Jane Osborn; has three children - Oren M., Edgar L. and Nicholas F. Came to Kansas in 1875; located on the farm on which he now resides; owns 240 acres of land; engaged in farming and blacksmithing. Has 130 acres under cultivation; has been very successful in his farming operations, and has also built up an extensive trade in blacksmithing. Has been member of the School Board for four years; Treasurer and Clerk of the township for two years each. Is a member of the I. O. O. F.

CAPT. DANIEL GUNSAULLUS, P. O. Mount Hope, was born in Richland County, Ohio, July 16, 1830; is a son of Daniel and Nancy Gunsaullus; was married to Miss Emma A., daughter of John and Eleanor Mallory. Has six children - William W., Wilson B., Mary E., John, Edmund and Ruby F. Came to Kansas in May, 1871; located on the northwest quarter Section 10, Township 26, Range 3 west, in Sedgwick County, Kansas. Occupation, farmer; owns 160 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. He was in the late war. Enlisted at Defiance, Ohio, August, 1861, in Company F, Forty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Was in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, Arkansas Post, Mansfield, and other engagements with his command, and was wounded at Vicksburg, Miss.; was laid up three months; was taken prisoner at Mansfield, La., and held for eight months at Camp Ford, Texas. During his imprisonment suffered great hardships. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity.

ROBERT R. HATCHER, farmer, Section 22, P. O. Germania. Was born in New York in 1849, son of Robert and Jane Cornwell Hatcher. Was married in 1877, to Miss Susan Monroe, daughter of Milton S. and Elizabeth Fer?el Monroe. Has three children - Rufus, Cora and Jennie. Came to Kansas in 1868. Located in Linn County; after five years removed to Sedgwick County, and located on the farm on which he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land. Engaged in farming and stock raising. Eighty acres under cultivation. Was in the township one year before its organization. Was the second Clerk of the township.

ELISHA J. HULBURT, farmer, Section 20, P. O. Mount Hope. Was born in Erie County, N. Y., in 1838, son of Alonzo and Kadulga H. Hulburt. Was married in 1864 to Miss Sarah Curneilus, daughter of John and Rachel Curneilus. Has two children - Ivan and Inez. Came to Kansas in 1873, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres. Is engaged in farming and stock raising. Has a fine orchard of peach trees and a variety of other fruits now in bearing. Was in the War of the Rebellion. Enlisted in 1861 in the Eleventh Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Company A, three months' service, at the expiration of which re-enlisted in the same regiment and company for three years. Was in the battles of Fort Donelson, Pittsburgh Landing, Shiloh, siege of Vicksburg, and other engagements of his command. Was wounded at the siege of Vicksburg in the left arm. Was in the hospital nine months. Has but partial use of his hand. Was commissioned Second Lieutenant. Was mustered out in 1865. Has been a member of the School Board three years.

GEORGE JOHNSON, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Germania, was born in Michigan in 1845, son of John and Ann Johnson. Was married in 1874 to Miss Emma B. Peck, daughter of Alexander and Sarah Peck. Has four children - George C., Warren D., Frank and Mabel C. Came to Kansas in 1870, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land, engaged in farming and stock raising. Is Constable of Sherman Township and member of the School Board.

THOMAS NORTHROP, farmer, Section 33, P. O. Magnolia, was born in Pennsylvania in 1836. He is a son of Harry and Nancy Cox Northrop. Was married in 1864, to Miss Rachel E. Harvy, daughter of Wolcott and Margaret Harvy. Has one child, - Harry W. Northrop. Came to Kansas in 1870, the spring after located in Union Township and was one of the organizers. In 1874, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land, 108 acres under cultivation. Was the organizer of Sherman Township in 1877; was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisted in 1861 in the Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve, Company I. Was in the battles of Dranesville, Harrison Landing, Antietam, Fredericksburg, South Mountain, Second Bull Run, Chantillia and in other engagements of his command, forty-four days in all under fire. Was wounded four times; first time at Dranesville, second time at Fredericksburg, third and fourth times at second battle of Bull Run. Was taken prisoner twice, but in each instance succeeded in making his escape. Was mustered out in August, 1864. In the winter of 1874, during the failure of the crops from grasshoppers, he supported his family by gathering buffalo bones on the plains, hauling them about seventy miles. He gather thirty tons at six dollars per ton.

J. M. POST, farmer, Section 18, P. O. Woodberry, was born in 1844 in Michigan; son of J. C. and Adaline Whitehead Post. Was married in 1872 to Miss Alice J. Parker, daughter of Joseph and Francina Campbell Parker. Has two children, Howard O. And Earnest L. Came to Kansas in 1868, located in Bourbon County. After six years removed to Sedgwick County, located in Sherman Township, owns 300 acres of land, 220 acres under cultivation, engaged in farming and stock-raising. Was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisted in 1862 in the Eighty-seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteers, Company A. Was in the battles of Perryville, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Jonesboro and other engagements of his command. Veteraned in 1864. Was mustered out at the close of the war in 1865. Is a member of the School Board, has served for four years.

GEORGE G. SIDLES, farmer, Section 18, P. O. Woodberry, was born in Clinton County, Ohio, in 1835, son of Israel and Nancy Morrison Sidles. Was married in 1857 to Miss Nancy E. Shields, daughter of William and Sarah Houston Shields. Has four children - Julia M., Raleigh O., Nellie R. and Orpha L. Came to Kansas in the spring of 1872, located on the farm where he now resides, owns 310 acres of land, engaged in farming and stock raising. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of the Masonic fraternity, A., F. & A. M. Has taken much interest in educational matters, has been engaged in teaching for four years, and has been Director on the School Board. Is Township Clerk.

JAMES C. WINTERS, farmer, Section 20, P. O. Magnolia, was born in Stark County, Ohio, in 1853, son of William and Letitia Winters. Was married in 1880 to Miss Julia Sidles, daughter of George and Nancy Sidles. Has two children - Roy R. and Effie E. Came to Kansas in 1871, located in Park Township, Sedgwick Co. After four years removed to his present location. Owns 160 acres of land, engaged in farming and stock raising, has 120 acres under cultivation, has a fine grove of forest trees and a fruit orchard. 

 JAMES P. BARNETT, farmer, Section 8, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1838. He is a son of Isaac and Lucetta Meeker Barnett. He was married in 1865 to Miss Sarah E. Swift; has one child - Ernest S. Barnett; came to Kansas in 1871, located on the farm where he now resides, owns 160 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. He was in the township one year before its organization. He is a member of the School Board and has served nine years. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1862 in the One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Company G. And was in the battles of Arkansas Post and the siege of Vicksburg, and all of the engagements of General Sherman's march to Atlanta, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, July 22 and 28, Jonesboro, Fort McAllister, Bentonville and other engagements of his command. He was mustered out in 1865, entered the service as Orderly. He served two years, then received commission as First Lieutenant, and held that commission until the close of the war. He was acting adjutant for one year. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M.

WILLIAM BECKER, farmer, Section 27, P. O. Wichita, was born in Northumberland County, Pa., in 1813, is a son of John and Elizabeth Dinrick Becker; was married in 1842 to Miss Rebecca Peters daughter of John and Margaret Garton Peters; and has three children - Sarah E., John J. and C. P. Becker. He came to Kansas in 1871, located in Anderson County and remained one year. In 1872 he located on the farm where he now resides. He and sons own 320 acres of land and are engaged in farming and stock raising; settled in the township before its organization and was one of the organizers of the school district. He and son J. J. built the first schoolhouse, and Sarah E. Burris, nee Becker, taught the first school in the district, using part of her home for a school room, and using the same room for the first Sunday school, which was organized in 1872. Has been a member of the School Board for three years, and also is a member of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County.

R. S. BELL, farmer, Section 8, Township 26 south, Range 2 west, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Tippecanoe County, Ind., in 1836. Is a son of Peter F. and Sara Bowman Bell. Was married in 1865 to Miss Sue R. Dychus, daughter of B. F. and Rosanna Dychus; has three children - Frankie G., Carl S. and Sarah E. Bell. He came to Kansas in 1871 and located in Park City, remained one season, then located on the farm where he now resides. He owns 160 acres of land and is engaged in farming, was Town Clerk one term, has been a member of the School Board for eight years, was in the war of the Rebellion, enlisted in 1861 in the Forty-first Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Company A, was in the battle of Shiloh, Fort Donelson, Corinth, Siege of Vicksburg, Hatchie River, Jackson, General Bank's campaign up the Red River, under General Smith, and other engagements of his command. He was wounded at Jackson and at White River, Miss., was in the hospital three months, was mustered out in August, 1864, entered the service as private, promoted to Second Lieutenant in 1862 and received commission as First Lieutenant in 1863, held that commission, commanding his company until mustered out. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A. F. & A. M., Wichita Lodge No. 88, and also of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County.

ELLEROY BOONE, farmer, Section 11, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Cortland County, N. Y., in 1817. He is a son of James and Patience Terry Boone. Was married in 1835, to Miss Betsy Ann Greenman. They have two children, Martin and Matilda Boone. His wife died in March, 1842; married again in the fall of 1842, to Miss Catherine Elizabeth DeLong. They have seven children, Ella Maryett, Daniel, Embury, Elizabeth, Margaret, James and Alice Boone. He came to Kansas in 1872, located on the farm where he now resides. He owns 320 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising; was one of the organizers of Union Township; has been a member of the School Board, served two terms.

S. R. BOWMAN, farmer, Section 31, P. O. Wichita, was born in Rensselaer County, N. Y., in 1826. He is a son of Elisha and Eunice Condon Bowman. Was married in 1851, to Miss Sarah E. Price, daughter of Joseph and Mary Price; has four children, Charles R., John A., Mary E. and Milton S. Bowman. He came to Kansas in 1871, located on the farm where he now resides. He owns 154 acres of land and is engaged in farming; has been a member of the School Board for two years; was in the Mexican War; mustered in, in 1846, at St. Louis, Mo., as teamster; was mustered out in the fall of 1848, in Texas.

JAMES R. BROWN, farmer, Section 28, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Ireland, in 1842. He is a son of William and Nancy Brown. Was married in 1874, to Miss Ada M. Winters, daughter of William and Letitla Winters; has four children, Carrie, Willie, Elta and Mollie Brown. He came to Kansas in the spring of 1870 and located on the farm where he now resides. He owns 160 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Mr. Brown, in company with six others, all disabled from the late war, made the first settlement in the township, in March, 1870. The company were known as the Soldier Boys. He was one of the organizers of the township; was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1861, in the Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company D. He was in the battles of second Bull Run, Gettysburgh (sic), Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Hatcher's Run, Five Forks and other engagements of his command. He was wounded in the second Bull Run; was in the hospital two months, then joined his regiment; was wounded at Petersburgh by a gunshot in the right fore arm, which resulted in its amputat on (sic) above the elbow. He was in the hospital six months, then joined his regiment. He entered the service as private, was promoted to First Sergeant and received commission as Second Lieutenant soon after joining his regiment, after losing his arm. Was promoted to First Lieutenant in December, 1864; held that commission until the close of the war. He veteraned in 1863; was mustered out of service in July, 1865.

J. O. CROCKER, farmer, Section 15, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Orange County, Vt., in 1820; son of James D. and Achsah Ladd Crocker. Was married in 1847, to Miss Sarah N. Mason, daughter of Leonard and Sallie B. Morse Mason; has seven children, Ellen M, W. H., J. H., H. L., C. O., N. M. and J. D. Crocker. He came to Kansas in 1877 and located on the farm where he now resides. He owns 240 acres of land; engaged in farming and stock raising; was elected Trustee of Union Township in 1877, and has been re-elected every year from that time. He was in the Vermont State Militia form 1841 to 1844.

WILLIAM H. CROCKER, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Eldridge, was born in La Salle County, Ill., in 1850, son of J. O. and S. M. Mason Crocker. He was married in 1881, to Miss Katie Tapp, daughter of Elijah and Rachel Dennis Tapp; has two children, Otis R. and Mabel Crocker. He came to Kansas in 1871 and located on the farm where he now lives. He owns 160 acres of land; engaged in farming and stock raising. He was in the township one year before its organization and was one of the organizers of the township.

F. M. DOFFLEMYRE, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Wichita, was born in Van Buren County, Iowa, in 1843, is a son of Noah and Lucinda Peters Dofflemyre; was married in 1872 to Miss Nancy J. Stodghill, daughter of Christopher and Rachael Swope Stodghill; has three children - Bertie, Charles and Ida Dofflemyre. Came to Kansas in 1874, located in Union Township, Sedgwick County in 1876, located on the farm where he now resides, owns 159 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising, was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisted in 1862 in the Thirty-sixth Regiment, Iowa Volnnteer (sic), Company D., was in the battles of Helena, Little Rock, Little Missouri River, Marks Hill, and other engagements of his command; was taken prisoner, held at Tyler, Texas, for ten months, was promoted to third Sergeant; held that position until the close of the war; was mustered out in September, 1865, was elected Representative from the Ninetieth District in 1880, served in the Legislature in the session of 1881; is a member of the Garfield, Post, No. 25, G. A. R.

S. A. GILBREATH, farmer, Section 6, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Washington County, Ind., in 1837, is a son of John and Mary Hoke Gilbreath, was married in 1873, to Miss Addie Henson, daughter of Gillum and Lucinda Henson; has one child - Carl C. Gilbreath. Came to Kansas in 1870, located on the farm where he now resides owns 154 acres of land. Was in the war of the rebellion, enlisted in 1862, in the Sixty-Fifth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Company B.; was in the battles of Franklin, Nashville and the Georgia Campaign, and other engagements of his command; was mustered out in June, 1865.

JOSEPH HILGER, farmer, Section 31, P. O. Germania, was born in Germany in 1849, is a son of Matthias and Agnes Hilger; was married in 1878 to Miss Dora Bunk, daughter of John and Hannah Bunk; has three children - Matthias, John and Theodore Hilger. Came to Kansas in 1870, located in Atchison County, remained two years; then located on the farm where he now resides; owns 192 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising; is a member of the St. Mark Catholic Church; was one of the first settlers in the southern part of the township; is a member of the School Board, has served in the capacity nine years; was one of the organizers of School District No. 82.

HENRY C. HOKE, farmer, Section 1, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Washington County, Ind., in 1830, is a son of James and Mary Ann McClure Hoke; was married in 1874 to Miss Mattie Henson, daughter of Gillum and Lucinda Henson; has two children - Mabel and Artie Hoke. Came to Kansas in 1870, located on the farm where he now resides, owns 161 acres of land; was in the War of the Rebellion, enlisted in 1861 in the Twenty-eighth Regiment, First Indiana Cavalry, Company A., was in the battles of Fredericktown, Helena, Little Rock, Pine Bluff and other engagements of his command; was mustered out in September, 1864; ;is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

R. W. HURT, farmer and Baptist clergyman, Section 29, P. O. Wichita, was born in Wayne County, Ky., in 1841; is a son of Thomas and Martha Deering Hurt; was married in 1863, to Miss E. B. Agee, daughter of William and Maria Madden Agee; has five children - Ida V., Mary L., Martha L., Otto F. and H. Moody. Mr. Hurt came to Kansas in 1878, located on the farm where he now resides, owns 140 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising; commenced the work of the ministry in 1882 - his first pastorate the Liberty Baptist Church in Waco Township, which position he still retains. Was instrumental in organizing the Fidelity Baptist Church in Union Township. Was in the war of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1861, in the First Kentucky Cavalry, Company C; was in the engagements of his command; was discharged in 1862, for disability. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M., and of the I. O. O. F.; is an earnest temperance man and worker.

C. F. HYDE, farmer, Section 4, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Lake County, Ohio, in 1837; is a son of Charles and Fanny Fletcher Hyde; was married in 1872, to Miss Altera Stephens, daughter of Charles and Cynth Stephens; has three children - Cora, Arthur and Charles H. Hyde. Came to Kansas in 1871. Located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 685 acres of land, 270 of which are under cultivation, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising; was appointed Postmaster of Eldridge, at the establishment of that office, May, 1872; still holds the appointment. Established a grocery store in 1872. Has been engaged in merchandising, from that time, in connection with farming. Now carries a general stock of merchandising. Postoffice and store located northwest corner of the northeast quarter of Section 4; was in the war of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1862, in the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Company I; was in the battles of Arkansas Post, Vicksburg - first and second charge, and in other engagements of his command; was in the hospital four months; was mustered out in 1865. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

W. B. LINGO, farmer, Section 29, P. O. Wichita, was born in Rockingham County, N. C., in 1832; is a son of Reeves and Dolly Lingo; was married in 1871, to Miss Mary Noble, daughter of Peter and Martha Noble; has five children - Ida, Sarah, William, James and Katie Lingo. Came to Kansas in 1872; located on the farm where he now resides; owns 160 acres of land; engaged in farming; was in the war of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1862, in the First Arkansas Cavalry, Company D; was in the battles of Prairie Grove, Van Buren, Fayetteville, Keetsville, Cane Hill, and other engagements of this command, sixteen in all. Was mustered out in 1865; was wounded at Prairie Grove by a blow on the head; was taken prisoner - held for forty days, and then exchanged. Is a member of the Baptist Church and of the Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M.

HENRY H. LOUDENSLAGER, farmer, Sections 17 and 18, P. O. Wichita, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1841. Is a son of Samuel and Hettie Row Loudenslager. Was married in (sic), Emma B., Ada M., Cora E., Hettie C. and Cline S. Loudenslager. Came to Kansas in 1871; (sic) 1863, to Miss Susan B. Smith, of Jacob F. and Catharine Smith. Has five children - (sic) located on the farm where he now resides; owns 210 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising. Was in the war of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1863, in the Thirty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company K; served three months, and was mustered out in the fall of 1863. Is a member of the Congregational Church and Deacon of the Church. Is a member of the School Board, and has served nine years.

JOSEPH LOUDENSLAGER, farmer, Section 18, P. O. Wichita, was born in Pennsylvania in 1844; is a son of Samuel and Hettie Row Loudenslager. Was married in 1883, to Miss Sarah Packard, daughter of Henry and Catharine Packard. Came to Kansas in 1870; located in Doniphan County; remained one year, and in 1871 located on the farm where he now resides; owns 160 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Is a member of the Congregational Church; treasurer of the same. Is a member of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County.

WASHINGTON LUMBART, farmer, Section 32, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Ohio in 1846; son of Jabez and Eliza Olmsted Lumbart. Was married in 1868, to Miss Louisa Augest, daughter of John and Lucinda Augest. Has five children - Ella, Willie, Alice, Laura and Ida Lumbart. Came to Kansas in 1870; located on Section 30, Union Township; engaged in farming and blacksmithing; in 1878 located on the farm where he now resides; owns eighty acres of very choice land, and what stock his farm will accommodate. What time he can spare from his farm duties engages in blacksmithing. Was one of the first settlers in what is now Greeley Township; his cabin was the second one built in that township. His father, Jabez Lumbart, was the first settler in Greeley; was a native of New York; has a family of eight children. Came to Kansas in 1870, and with a true pioneer spirit pushed beyond the borders of settlement, and elected his claim for his future home on a beautiful piece of bottom land near the banks of the Arkansas River, where he still resides.

S. MAINE, farmer, Section 1, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Ohio in 1835; is a son of Dantel and Susan Bales Maine. Was married in 1868, to Miss Nancy Atkinson, daughter of John W. and Maria Kayser Atkinson. Has four children - Charles W., Lettie B., Bertie and Eva. Lettie was born on March 11, 1871; the first child born in the township.

THOMAS MARTIN, farmer, Section 26, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Ireland in 1843; is a son of Edward and Nancy Martin. Was married in 1877, to Miss Ruth Van Volkinburg, daughter of Henry and Margaret Van Volkinburg. Came to Kansas in 1870; located on Section 28; remained for six years, and then removed to the farm where he now resides; owns 220 acres of land; was one of the seven soldier boys who made the first settlement in the township. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1861 in the Fifth United States Cavalry, Company G; was in the siege of Yorktown, battles of Williamsburgh, Hanover Court House, Seven Days' Fight on the Peninsula, Antietam, Fredericksburgh, Chancellorsville, Mine Run, Kelly's Ford, Wilderness, Spottsylvania and other engagements of his command; was taken prisoner at Stony Creek, Va.; was held at Andersonville for six months; was afflicted with the scurvy and nearly starved; was unable to walk for three months after his release; was taken from prison to Annapolis; remained until his term of service expired; was unable to leave the hospital for six months; was mustered out in March, 1865. Enlisted in April, 1865, in the Seventh Regiment United States Veteran Volunteers, Company A, Hancock's Corps; served one year; was mustered out in 1866.

JAMES MANAMEE, farmer, Section 32, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1845; son of William and Catherine Manamee. Was married in 1872, to Miss Belle Bunton, daughter of Joel and Elizabeth Bunton. Came to Kansas in 1870, from Maine; was one of the seven that made the first settlement in the township known as the "Soldier Boys." Has been Constable two years. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1861, in the Ninety-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company K. Was in the battles of Bermuda Hundred, Fort Wagoner, Petersburgh, Coal Harbor, Bombardment of Fort Sumter and Port Royal, and other engagements of his command; was wounded at Petersburgh on the 18th of July, 1864, from a gun shot in the right elbow, the ball passing through the elbow into his side, which resulted in the amputation of the right arm near the shoulder; was in hospital one year; was mustered out at the close of the war, in June, 1865; veteraned in February, 1863; was mustered out at Central Park, New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Manamee were married on the 27th day of December, 1871, the first marriage in the township. Joe Bunton, father of Mrs. Manamee, died on the 6th day of June, 1871, the first death in Greeley Township.

C. H. MILLER, farmer, Section 18, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Syracuse, N. Y., in 1847. Is a son of John and Helen (Manchester) Miller. Was married in 1876, to Miss Lizzie Boone, daughter of Elroy and Elizabeth (DeLong) Boone. Has two children - Bertie L. and James H. Miller. Came to Kansas in 1871, from Illinois, and located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 240 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Was one of the first settlers in the township, settled here one year before its organization. Was elected Constable at the first election. Is a member of the School Board; has served two years. Is a member of the Old Settlers' Association, of Sedgwick County.

HENRY PACKARD, farmer, Section 10, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Ohio, in 1820; is a son of Henry and Anna Packard. Was married in 1848, to Miss Sarah Conwan. His wife died in 1852, and he was married in 1853, to Miss Margaret Ferrel. Has one child - Charlotte Packard. His wife died in 1856, and he was married in 1857, to Miss Catharine Jones, daughter of John and Margaret (Watkins) Jones. Came to Kansas in 1871, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 480 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Has been a member of the School Board for six years. Was in the township one year before its organization.

JOSEPH REGAN, farmer, Section 22, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Ireland, in 1833; is a son of William and Anna (Miles) Regan. Was married in 1853, to Miss Catharine Cormen. Has three children - John, Thomas and Mary Regan. His wife died in 1869. Was married in 1874, to Miss Ellen Jones, daughter of John and Margaret Jones. Has four children - William, Isaac, Catharine and Bartholomew Regan. Came to Kansas in 1870. Was one of the seven soldier boys who made the first settlement. Located on Section 32 remained six years, then moved to the farm where he now resides. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1864, in the Sixty-fifth Regiment New York Volunteers, Company B. Was in the battles of Bolvar Heights, Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, and other engagements of his command. Was wounded in the right hand, the ball passing through the wrist, which resulted in the loss of a portion of his hand. Was in the hospital until the close of the war, was then taken to the Soldier's Home, where he remained for five years; his hand not healing, he was unable to work. John Jones, father of Mrs. Regan, was born in Virginia, in 1804; was a son of Thomas and Mary Jones. Was married in 1825, to Miss Margaret Watkins. Has seven children - Levi, Catharine, Thomas, Eliza, Elmer, Ellen and Caroline. Came to Kansas in 1871, located on the farm he now owns. His wife died in 1853. His son, Isaac, was killed in the war.

W. H. REYNOLDS, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Ohio, in 1841. Is a son of John and Lucinda Wilson Reynolds. Was married in 1869, to Miss Ellen M. Crocker, daughter of J. O. and S. M. Crocker. Has four children - Charles F., Ellen M., Ethel L. and James L. Reynolds. Has buried two children. Came to Kansas in 1871. Located on the farm where he now resides; owns 160 acres of land. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in February, 1865, in the One Hundred and Fifty-third Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Company E. Was in the engagements of his command; was mustered out in the fall of 1865. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of the School Board; has served six years. Was one of the organizers of Union Township.

LEWIS RHODES, farmer, Section 18, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Illinois, in 1849. Is a son of Hugh and Julia Rhodes. Was married in 1874, to Miss Frances Imbler, daughter of Samuel and Christena Imbler. Has four children - Julia E., Gail V., Royl H. (sic) and Roby C. Rhodes. Came to Kansas in 1870, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 254 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Was one of the first settlers in the township; settled there about two years before its organization. Is a member of the Congregational Church, and Deacon and Trustee of the same. He, in connection with his brother, H. F. Rhodes, organized the first Sunday school in the township, March, 1871. The first place of meeting was at H. F. Rhodes' house. The June following Mr. H. P. Pate furnished poles and brush to build a shed for a place of meeting, the neighbors joining in and building it. In that shed was preached the first sermon by Rev. Mr. Adams. The Sunday school has been maintained from that time, Mr. Rhodes having been identified with is interest from the start. He was one of the organizers of the first Methodist Episcopal Class, and remained connected with it until the establishment of the Congregational Church.

SMITH RILEY, farmer, Section 22, P. O. Wichita, was born in Columbia County, Pa., in 1819. Is a son of John and Jane Watson Riley. Was married in 1849 to Miss Orpha Cook. Has four children - Joseph P., Morris E., Charles W. and Leroy Riley. Wife died in 1865, and he was married in 1866, to Mrs Lydia Burres. Has two children - Ella and John Riley. Came to Kansas in 1871; located on the farm he now owns; has 160 acres of land; engaged in farming. Was one of the organizers of the township. The first election was held at his house. Was elected Justice of the Peace in 1873; held the office about three years. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1816, in the Eighty-second Ohio Volunteer, Company B. Was in the battles of McDowell, Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, Nashville, and other engagements of his command. Was discharged in 1863, for disability. Re-enlisted in the fall of the same year, in the Nineteenth Ohio Independent Battery Light Artillery. Was mustered out in June, 1865. Is a member of the Congregational Church, of the Garfield Post, No. 25, G. A. R., and of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County. Organized School District No. 13; was member of the Board for eight years.

JOHN RUSSELL, farmer, Section 23, P. O. Wichita, was born in Scotland, in 1818, son of William and Ann (Dunlap) Russell, came to the United States in 1838. Was married in 1841, to Miss Jane Allen, daughter of Walter and Jenet Allen. Has nine children - James E., Anna D., Mary, Andrew J., Samuel T., John W., Sheridan, William H. and Eliza Russell. Came to Kansas in 1863, and located in Osage County and remained six years, engaged in farming; then located in Wilson County, remaining four years. In 1873, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 320 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted in 1861, in the Forty-fourth Regular Illinois Volunteer, Company C., and was mustered as Captain. Held that commission until July, 1862. Was in the battles of Pea Ridge, Perryville, Stone River, Mission Ridge, and all the engagements of the Atlanta campaign, Franklin, Nashville and others, twenty-two in all. Was wounded at Chickamauga, on the 20th of September, 1863. Was in the hospital sixty days, then joined his regiment. His right arm is partly paralyzed from the effect of his wound. Was mustered out in 1865. Was elected Representative of the State Legislature, from the Ninetieth District, in 1882. Served in the session of 1883. Is a member of the Masonic fraternity, A., F. & A. M., and of the Garfield Post, No. 25, G. A. R. Presbyterian in sentiment.

BURGESS RUTLEDGE, farmer, Section 34, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Tennessee, in 1835, son of David and Ann (Harris) Rutledge; was married in 1858, to Miss Mary E. Grimes. Has two children - Missouri Ann and Maria J. Rutledge. Was married, in 1863, to Miss Maria Simmons, daughter of William and Sarah (Sanders) Simmons. Has two children - Jessie and Maggie. Mr. Rutledge came to Kansas in 1870, and located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Was in the township one year before its organization. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

SILAS RUTLEDGE, farmer, Section 34, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Charlotte, Dickson Co., Tenn., in 1837; is a son of David and Ann (Harris) Rutledge; was married, in 1861, to Miss Maria Huffman. His wife died in 1864. Married in 1866, to Mrs. Martha L. Brannen. His second wife died in 1867, and he was married, in 1868, to Miss Olive P. Smith, daughter of Bowen and Lucinda (Wing) Smith; came to Kansas in 1870, and located on the farm where he now resides; owns 400 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising; has 163 acres under cultivation; was in the War of the Rebellion; enlisted, in 1862, in the One Hundred and Fifteenth Regular Illinois Volunteers, Company E; was in the battles of Chickamauga, Resaca, Nashville, and other engagements of his command; was wounded at Resaca in May, 1864; was in the hospital five months; was mustered out in 1865; has been Treasurer of Union Township for four years; member of the School Board three years; is a member of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County.

REV. B. SCHMIEHAUSEN, Catholic priest, P. O. St. Mark's, was born in Freckenhorst, Westphalia, Germany, in 1856; son of Herman and Lucia (Hauveldap) Schmiehausen; was educated in classical studies in the Prussian Gymnasium of Warrensdorf; studied philosophy and theology at the Academy of Munster, and studied theology in the American College of Louvain, Belgium; was ordained priest at Roermond, Holland, in 1881; came to the United States in the fall of the same year, and located at St. Marks. His first pastorate was St. Mark's Church. St. Mark's Catholic Church was built in 1875, 16x26 feet; since enlarged in form of a cross to 16x66 feet; has a seating capacity of 250. St. Mark's Catholic School has an attendance of about sixty scholars. His charge includes Kingman County, St. Joseph's Church in Reno County, and St. John's Church in Sedgwick County. He is building a Catholic Church at Waterloo, Kingman County.

JOSIAH SCOTT, farmer, Section 16, P. O. Wichita, was born in Greene Co., Pa., in 1821, and is a son of Abraham and Mary Ann Keisinger Scott. Was married in 1842 to Miss Rebecca Morris. His wife died in 1846. Was married in 1846 to Miss Alice Hedges. Has one child. His second wife died in 1855. Was married in 1858 to Miss Catharine Dodson. Has four children - Leroy W., Morris B., Eliza E. and Sarah J. Scott. His wife died in 1870. Came to Kansas in the fall of 1870, and in April 1871, located on Section 21, on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Is a member of the Congregational Church. Was one of the organizers of Pleasant View School District. Was a member of the Building Committee that built the first school house in the district. Is a member of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County.

W. F. STEVENS, farmer, Section 1, P. O. Eldridge; was born in Ohio Co., Ky., in 1834. Is a son of Charles W. and Polly Wallace Stevens. Was married in 1854 to Miss Sarah E. Ward. Has three children - Priscillia A., Martha L., and Samuel M. Stevens. His wife died in 1871, and he was married in 1872, to Miss Dorcas A. Imbler. By this union there was one child - Guy V. Stevens. His second wife died in 1877, and he was married in 1880, to Miss Amanda M. Tyler, daughter of Thomas J. and Nancy R. Roy Tyler. Has one child - Henry A. Stevens. Came to Kansas in 1870, and located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 336 acres of land, and is engaged in farming. Has 160 acres under cultivation. Was in the township one and a half years before its organization. He was the first man married in the township, and in his family occurred the first death. Has been a member of the School Board for five years. Was in the War of the Rebellion. Enlisted in 1862 in the Sixty-fifth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, Company B. Was in the battles of Bluntsville, Walker's Ford, Bean's Station, Dandridge, Delton, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Siege of Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville and Town Creek. Was color bearer through the Georgia Campaign, and Sergeant, in which capacity he served until the close of the war. Was mustered out in July, 1865. Is a member of the Baptist Church, Masonic Fraternity, A., F. & A. M., Wichita Lodge, No. 99, and of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County.

JAMES V. SMITH, Section 2, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Maine, in 1838. Is a son of Bowen and Lucinda Wing Smith. Was married in 1867, to Miss Hannah Swift, daughter of Stephen A. and Sarah Scott Swift. Has three children - Walter, Alvina and Louise Smith. Came to Kansas in 1870, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 400 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Has 1,100 sheep; built the first frame house in the township; raised the first peaches and the first sweet potatoes; has been a member of the School Board; belongs to a religious sect called Positivists.

ROYAL H. TUCKER, farmer, Section 1, Union Township, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Erie County, Ohio, in 1841. Is a son of Newton T. and Martha C. Tucker. Came to Kansas in 1869, and located at Winfield, where he spent several years at carpentering and wagon making. He was married in 1877, to Mrs. Maryetta E. Brown, daughter of Elleroy and Elizabeth Boone. Mrs. Tucker was born in New York, in 1849. Was married in Illinois, in 1866, to John Brown. Has two children - Mary L., and Charles L. Brown. Mr. Brown came with his family to Kansas, in 1870, and located on the farm where Mr. Tucker now resides. Mr. Brown was in the War of the Rebellion, and received injuries from which he never recovered, but died from their effects in 1875. After Mr. Tucker's marriage, he moved to Kingman County, and located on a farm there, where he remained for three years, then removed to Sedgwick County, and located on his farm, which consists of 160 acres of land. He has made a success of farming here, his crops being uniformly good. He has two children - Olive A. and Ella E. Tucker. Has a pleasant home, surrounded by all that makes farm life enjoyable. He was in the army during the late war; enlisted in 1862, in the One Hundred and First Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company B. Third Brigade, Third Division, Fourth Army Corps, attached to the Army of the Cumberland. Was in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, and many other engagements; was wounded in front of Stone River, by a gun shot through the left foot; was in the hospital three months. Is a member of the Congregational Church.

CHARLES E. TUPPER, farmer, Section 32, P. O. Eldridge, was born in Iowa County, Mich., in 1842, son of Myron and Milissa Maine Tupper. Was married in 1860, to Miss Orange Lumbert, daughter of Jabez and Eliza Lumbert. Has five children - Calvin, Cora, Dora, Violet and Rosetta Tupper. Came to Kansas in 1871, located on the farm where he now resides. Owns 160 acres of land. Located in the township one year before its organization. Is a member of the School Board; has served three years. Was in the war of the Rebellion. Enlisted in 1864 in the Ninth Regiment Michigan Volunteers, Company H. Was mustered out at the close of the war, in 1865.

W. B. WILLIAMS, farmer, Sections 35 and 36, P. O. Wichita, was born in Gallatin, Sumner Co., Tenn., in 1827; is a son of Lemuel and Harriet E. (Ogburn) Williams. Was married in 1849 to Miss Elizabeth Duncan, daughter of Charles and Charity (Gard) Duncan. Has five children - John B., James C., Loretta, Emma and W. H. Williams. Came to Kansas in 1867 and located in Pottawatomie County. Remained three years, then located on Section 26, Kechi Township, Sedgwick County. Remained seven years, then sold his farm and located in Park Township. Remained until 1882, when he sold his farm and located in Union Township. Owns 288 acres of land and is engaged in farming and stock raising. Is a member of the Masonic fraternity, A., F. & A. M., Wichita Lodge, No. 99, and of the Knights of Honor, No. 527. Is a member of the Old Settlers' Association of Sedgwick County. Settled in Kechi Township at the time of its organization. Was Justice of the Peace in that township for two years, and Director on the School Board. Was Justice of the Peace in Park Township for four years. Was one of the organizers of the first agricultural association of the county. Was one of the directors that located the fair grounds of the Sedgwick County Agricultural and Mechanical and Stock Growers Association. Has served nine years. Is one of the commissioners of appraisal of the St. Louis, Ft. Scott & Wichita R. R., appointed to secure the right of way for that company. Was a member of the jury in Judge Campbell's court, in which seven cattle and horse thieves were convicted and sent to the State prison, it being the first criminal conviction in the county in 1871.