Cass County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1917 (part 10 of 15)

James W. Ewing is one of Cass County's most successful and sub¬ stantial citizens and a dominant factor in the development of Sherman township. He and Mrs. Ewing are very highly esteemed in their com¬ munity, where they stand for the best morally and socially.

Warren S. Walker, the well-known and respected farmer and stockman of Sherman township, was bom April 26, 1875, on the farm where he now resides. His parents, Sanford P. and Maria N. (Cottingham) Walker were natives of Coles County, Illinois. Sanford P. Walker was born February 1, 1837. Maria N. Cottingham was born August 5, 1837, daughter of George F. and Susan Cottingham. Mr. and Mrs. Cottingham have three daughters living: Mrs. Elizabeth Parker, Creighton, Mis¬ souri; Mrs. Amanda Hill, who lives in Oklahoma; and Mrs. Maria N. Walker, mother of the subject of this review. December 26, 1861, San¬ ford P. Walker and Maria N. Cottingham were united in marriage, and this union was blessed with four children: Mrs. Lillian Rose Morlan, who resides in Sherman township; Mrs. Bessie B. McCoy, deceased ; Marion 0., who resides in Sherman township, and Warren S., subject of this review.

In 1870, Sanford P. Walker brought his family to Cass County, Mis¬ souri, and settled upon section thirty-five in Sherman township. The ensuing spring he located permanently upon the northwest quarter where he purchased eighty acres from Nathan Gregg. He paid twenty-five dol¬ lars per acre for this land. Sanford P. Walker was a prominent cattleman and successful farmer and owner of three hundred fifty acres of valuable land at the time of his death, July 7, 1899. Mr. Walker was affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, joining at Wadesburg. He is interred in Grant cemetery. Mrs. Walker, widow of Sanford P. Walker, makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Lillian Morlan, in Sherman town¬ ship.

Warren S. Walker attended school in Sherman township and upon reaching maturity attended the Clinton Business College. Until the death of his father in 1899 he remained at the home place. With the exception of the two years following the death of Sanford P. Walker, Warren S. has always lived where he now resides.

May 11, 1898, Warren S. Walker and Minnie Brumley, daughter of James and Eliza (Palmer) Brumley, of Creighton, were united in mar¬ riage. James Brumley was born in Camden County, December 10, 1852, and died in Camden County, Missouri, May 29, 1883, and his widow, who is now Mrs. Brooks, resides in Kansas City, Missouri. Mrs. Walker has one brother and one sister living, namely: Luther, who lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and Mrs. Tanie Parker, whose home is in Richmond, Mis¬ souri. To Warren S. and Minnie (Brumley) Walker has been born one child, a daughter, Elsie.

Mr. Walker owns sixty-four acres of good farm land and has charge of his mother's place. He is engaged in general farming and stock rais¬ ing. There are two stock and hay bams upon the farm, 38x40 and 24x40 feet in dimensions, respectively. Mr. Walker is affiliated with the Inde¬ pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and a valued member of the lodge in Creighton, and is one of Cass County's best citizens.

S. R. Yoder, of Camp Branch township, was born October 17, 1858, in Logan County, Ohio. His parents, Solomon and Sarah (King) Yoder, were natives of Wayne County, Ohio. Solomon Yoder, son of Peter Yoder, was born January 6, 1823. Sarah (King) Yoder was born May 27, 1823, the daughter of Christian and Elizabeth King, of Wayne County, Ohio. To Solomon and Sarah (King) Yoder were bom the following children: Nancy, who died in Harrisonville, Missouri, at the age of twelve years and is interred in East Cemetery; Mrs. Barbara E. Blank, Garden City, Missouri ; T. L., of Glenne, Alcona County, Michigan ; S. R., the subject of this review, and J. B., Garden City, Missouri.

Solomon Yoder brought the family to Cass County, Missouri, a short time prior to the Civil war and located in Grand River township, near Harrisonville, north of East Cemetery. He answered his country's call and enlisted in the Union army. He served faithfully one year and then was honorably discharged, whereupon he returned to the old home in Logan County, where he remained until the bitter struggle had ended. After the war when Solomon Yoder came back to Cass County, Missouri, he found that all the buildings upon his place had been destroyed. He accordingly settled upon eighty acres in Camp Branch township and sold his farm near Harrisonville. The farm upon which Solomon Yoder located is now owned by Alfred Kohler. In 1896 he moved to Gunn City and there his death occurred July 23, 1903. Seven years later, May 14, 1910, his widow followed him in death at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. H. Blank. Both parents are interred in Clearfork Cemetery.

school in Cass County. Until he was twenty-one years of age he remained with his parents. For three years he worked out by the month, after which period of service he rented land. In 1900 Mr. Yoder purchased his pres¬ ent home of forty acres from David Miller.

February 7, 1896, S. R. Yoder and Ella Kenagy, daughter of Joshua and Martha (Yoder) Kenagy of Noble County, Indiana, were united in marriage. Joshua Kenagy was a native of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. He died at the age of sixty-three years in Noble County, Indiana. Martha (Yoder) Kenagy was bom in Huntington County, Pennsylvania. She died at the age of fifty-three years in Noble County, Indiana. Both parents are interred in Buttermilk Cemetery in Noble County. Mrs. S. R. Yoder has three brothers and one sister living, namely: Simon C., Topeka, Indiana; Franklin D., Claypool, Indiana; Rudolph H., Topeka, Indiana; and Mary, wife of J. B. Yoder of Garden City, Missouri. To S. R. and Ella (Kenagy) Yoder have been born three children: Elba J., who married Erma Miller and resides in Index township, near Latour, Mis¬ souri; Nona, who lives at home with her parents; and Ralph, who lives at home with his parents. Elba J. and Erma (Miller) Yoder are the parents of three children : Chester V., Wilmer H., and Mildred Loreen.

Since coming to his place Mr. Yoder has remodeled the residence, a structure of one and a half stories and seven rooms, and in 1908 built the barn, which is 20x32 feet in dimensions. There are two sheds adjoin¬ ing the barn, the wagon shed on the west fourteen feet square and the shed on the east with a corn crib attached, twelve feet square. Mr. Yoder also has a good granary, which is 12x16 feet in dimensions. The farm is well watered by wells and three excellent cisterns. The Yoder place is well located, four miles south and west of East Lynne.

F. H. Kinney, the prominent and highly respected farmer and stockman of Camp Branch township, was born April 17, 1871, in Cedar County, Iowa, son of Joel and Martha (Kemp) Kinney, natives of Ohio. Joel Kinney was born in Belmont County, Ohio. In the early days he drove through in an emigrant wagon from Ohio to Cedar County, Iowa. Joel and Martha (Kemp) Kinney were the parents of ten children, namely: Sadie, deceased; Henry, deceased; Mrs. Ruth Ann Kensinger, Council Bluffs, Iowa; Cordelia, deceased; John D., deceased; F. H., sub¬ ject of this review; Mrs. Josephine Robins, Dayton, New Mexico; Cooper,

F. H. Kinney received his education in the schools of Iowa. At the age of twenty-one he journeyed to the Pacific coast where he remained three months. He returned to Iowa and in 1902 came to Cass County, Missouri, locating upon one hundred eighty acres of land in Camp Branch township.

August 30, 1898 F. H. Kinney and Lena Winter, daughter of Adolph C. and Henrietta (Schultz) Winter of Dennison, Iowa, were united in marriage. Adolph C. and Henrietta (Schultz) Winter were the parents of the following children: Mrs. F. H. Kinney, wife of the subject of this review; Mrs. Anna Vetters, Westside, Iowa; Mrs. Emma Stoffers, Arcadia, Iowa; Mary, Westside, Iowa; Augusta, deceased; Walter, Westside, Iowa; Charlie, Westside, Iowa; Adolph, Westside, Iowa; and Jennie, Westside, Iowa. Adolph C. Winter, the father, died May 20, 1906, and his widow resides in Westside, Iowa. To F. H. and Lena (Winter) Kin¬ ney have been born four children : Oscar, who died in 1913. Orvil, Virgil and Cleo.

The Kinney farm of one hundred sixty acres is located in section seventeen in Camp Branch township. The land is almost perfectly level and the well-kept, nicely painted buildings with the neat surroundings immediately attract the attention of the passerby. Thirty acres are in blue grass and forty acres in timothy and clover. Mr. Kinney came to this farm in 1902, and in the past fifteen years he has literally recon¬ structed the entire place. In 1912 he remodeled the residence which is now a handsome, two-story structure of nine large, well ventilated rooms and modern in every particular, furnished with bath, furnace and acety¬ lene lights. In 1914 he built the silo 12x30 feet in dimensions, of Oregon fir. The commodious, well constructed barn was erected in 1915 and is 50x36 feet in dimensions with a shed 16x50 feet. The corn crib, granary, implement shed, shop, wood-house and chicken house are all in keeping with the improvements previously mentioned. The wash-house is equipped with a power washer. Mr. Kinney raises Shorthorn cattle eligible to be registered, keeping a registered male, and Poland China and Red Duroc hogs, crossed. Mrs. Kinney has complete charge of the poultry, raising Buff Rock and Plymouth Rock chickens. She always keeps from one to two hundred, and one year her flock numbered seven hundred. Mr. Kin¬ ney also feeds some horses and mules. He is one of the county's most substantial citizens and he and Mrs. Kinney are held in highest esteem in the community where they have made their home for the past fifteen years. Mr. Kinney is vice-president of the Commercial State Bank of East Lynne, Missouri.

John B. Yoder, of Camp Branch township, was born September 5, 1864, in Logan County, Ohio, son of Solomon Yoder and Sarah (King) Yoder. Solomon Yoder was born January 6, 1823. Sarah (King) Yoder was born May 27, 1823. To Solomon and Sarah (King) Yoder were born the following children: Nancy, who died in August, 1862, at the age of twelve years in Harrisonville, Missouri, and was buried at East Cemetery. The grave was marked, but the family being away a few years it could not be identified on their return; Mrs. Barbara E. Blank, Garden City, Missouri; Thornton L., Glennie, Michigan; S. R., the wellknown farmer and stockman near Harrisonville, Missouri, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume ; and J. B., subject of this review.

John B. Yoder received his education in Camp Branch township, attending Lone Elm school, which was formerly known as Mudacre school. The schools are not exactly identical for the building of the Mudacre school was situated one mile south of the present location upon land now owned by Ed Jester. Mr. Yoder remained with his parents until he was thirty-five years of age, when he purchased his present home from David Sharp.

December 31, 1899, John B. Yodder and Mary E. Kenagy, daughter of Joshua and Martha (Yoder) Kenagy, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony. Joshua Kenagy was born in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. Martha (Yoder) Kenagy was born in 1837 in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. Joshua and Martha (Yoder) Kenagy were the parents of the following children: Simon C. Topeka, Indiana; Franklin D., Claypool, Indiana; Rudolph H., Topeka, Indiana; Ella, wife of S. R. Yoder, a prominent stockman near Harrisonville, Missouri; and Mrs. John B. Yoder, wife of the subject of this review. Martha (Yoder) Kenagy, mother of Mrs. John B. Yoder, was the daughter of Jacob Yoder. His wife's maiden name was Detweiler. Jacob Yoder was the son of Dick Christian Yoder, a native of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. In 1840 Jacob Yoder moved his family to Fairfield. He and his wife died near Lancaster, Pennsyl¬ vania. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Yoder were the parents of ten children, namely: Christian, born May 21, 1819; Eli, born August 24, 1820; Bar-

Martha, twins, born June 1, 1837 ; and Solomon, born February 13, 1842. Martha (Yoder) Kenagy, Mrs. Yoder's mother, died at the age of fifty-three years, and her father, Joshua Kenagy, at the age of sixtythree years in Noble County, Indiana. Both parents are interred in Buttermilk Cemetery in Noble County. To John B. and Mary E. (Ken¬ agy) Yoder have been born the following children: Forest G., Frances E., Lela F., and Walter L., all of whom live at home with their parents.

John B. Yoder's farm is located on section twenty on the main road from Harrisonville to Garden City and comprises eighty acres of the best farm land in the county. The place is well improved and neatly kept. The residence is a two-story structure of seven rooms. Among the many well-kept buildings is a fine barn 32x48 feet, for stock and hay, a silo 10x24 feet and an implement building 22x30 feet. Mr. Yoder is engaged in general farming and stockraising. He has also six head of dairy cows. His preference in hog stock is the Duroc- Jersey.

Mr. Yoder's brother, S. R. Yoder of Camp Branch township, is president of the Clearfork Cemetery Association, a history of the organi¬ zation of which appears in connection with the sketch of David J. Miller in this volume. John B. Yoder recalls that the first burial in the Clear¬ fork Cemetery was made in February 1869. Mrs. Lydia Yoder, wife of Christian P. Yoder died February 8, 1869, and was the first person in¬ terred in the cemetery. Her son, Peter, was the second person interred. His death occurred February 22, 1869. The first Amish Mennonite Church of this community was built on the site of the present cemetery in 1870.

John B. Yoder is a member of the Mennonite church and a worthy Christian gentleman. His family has long been known and respected in Cass County and much of the progress along agricultural lines in this community has been largely due to the industry and efficiency of the Yoders.

Solomon Yoder, father of John B., moved to Cass County May 1, 1860. He enlisted in the Missouri State Militia in 1862, serving one year. John B. Yoder's grandfather was Peter Yoder, born in Miffiin County, Pennsylvania, and went to Ohio when ten years old. His wife was Ger- trude Kauffman. John B. Yoder's grandparents on his mother's side were Christian King and Elizabeth Detweiler, natives of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, and moved to Fairfield, Ohio.

Milo V. King, of Camp Branch township, was born July 29, 1867, in Marshall County, Indiana. His father, John C. King, was born in Huntington County, Pennsylvania, October 22, 1829. His mother, Anna E. (Yoder) King, was bom in Wayne County, Ohio, May 27, 1836, daugh¬ ter of Joseph and Mariah (Fordenwalt) Yoder. At the age of eighteen years John C. King learned the harness trade, which he followed for six years in Huntington County, Pennsylvania. When he was twenty-four years of age he moved to Marshall County, Indiana, and for six years was employed in saw-milling there. Milo V. King was but a child of three years, but vividly recalls his father's old saw-mill. In 1873 the Kings immigrated to Missouri and for two years resided in Vernon County. In 1875 John C. King purchased two hundred twenty acres in Cass County and moved his family to the place upon which his son, Elmer, now lives. John C. and Anna E. (Yoder) King were the parents of five children, namely: Menno S., deceased; Milo V., subject of this review; Mrs. Rebecca E. Hartzler, Pryor, Oklahoma; Elmer M., Garden City, Missouri; and Chauncey H., Pryor, Oklahoma. John C. King departed this life April 23, 1908, and his wife followed him in death seven years later, March 28, 1915. Both father and mother are at rest in Clearfork Cemetery.

Milo V. King and Emma K. Yoder, daughter of John R. and Fannie (Kauffman) Yoder, were married December 25, 1894, at the home of S. H. Detweiler. John Yoder was a son of John D. Yoder, a pioneer of Logan County, Ohio. He immigrated to Ohio many years before the rail¬ roads came there. He died March 16, 1895, in Logan County, Ohio, at about 80 years of age. John R. Yoder was born in Mifflin County, Penn¬ sylvania. Fannie (Kauffman) Yoder was born in Logan County, Ohio, January 30, 1846, daughter of Christian and Mary Kauffman, who were the first Amish Mennonites to locate in Logan County, Ohio. John R. and Fannie (Kauffman) Yoder were the parents of seven children, namely: Emma K., wife of Milo V. King, subject of this review; Mary E., who died at the age of seventeen years ; Mrs. Amanda A. Zook, Reece, Kansas; Mrs. Edith M. Harshbarger, West Liberty, Ohio; Alfred F., West Liberty, Ohio; Eva B., West Liberty, Ohio; and Emmet W., Cable,

Ohio, and a son who died in infancy. The mother of this fine family, Fannie (Kauffman) Yoder, died February 7, 1917. Mr. Yoder's home is in West Liberty, Ohio. Milo V. and Emma K. (Yoder) King have been blessed with six fine, intelligent children: Melvin A., who was born May 20, 1896, and died in infancy July 25, 1897 ; Emmett D., who was born May 10, 1898; Elbert G., who was born February 17, 1900; Myrtle M., who was born November 18, 1901 ; Mabel V., who was bom October 16, 1905; and Oliver H., who was born April 27, 1914, and died in infancy, May 1, 1914.

In 1902 Milo V. King purchased his present home in Camp Branch township from William Campbell and three years later moved to it. His farm comprises eighty acres located four and a half miles north of Gar¬ den City. All the improvements upon the place Mr. King has placed there since his coming in 1905. The residence, a structure 28x28 feet in dimen¬ sions and consisting of eight, large, well lighted rooms, was completed in 1916. The barn, 44x36 feet in dimension, was erected in 1905. All the buildings upon Mr. King's place are well constructed and neatly kept. The farm is well watered for Clearfork runs through it, and splendidly adapted for stockraising in which vocation Mr. King is chiefly engaged, raising horses, cattle and hogs. He handles Holstein dairy cattle. Mrs. King raises pure bred Partridge Wyandotte chickens and has been very successful.

Mr. and Mrs. M. V. King are worthy members of the Bethel Mennonite Church. The church building was erected in 1886. Mr. King is a worker, honest, alert and persevering. By his efficiency and square deal¬ ings he has won the confidence of all in his community, where he and Mrs. King are highly respected for their many Christian virtues.

John Oesch, a progressive farmer and stockman of Camp Branch township, is a native of Canada. He was born May 14, 1846, and is a son of Christian and Catherine (Zehr) Oesch. Christian Oesch went to Canada with his parents when he was four years old. From Canada he went to Iowa and in September, 1865, came to Missouri, locating in Hickory County. He remained there until 1877, when he came to Cass County and settled in Camp Branch township where he died. His remains are buried in the Clearfork cemetery. His wife died while the family lived in Hickory County, Missouri. They were the parents of the fol¬ lowing children: Mrs. Catherine Helmuth, Harrisonville ; John, the sub- ject of this sketch; Daniel, deceased; Joseph, deceased; Mrs. Barbara Moore, Humansville; David, Harrisonville; Mrs. Anna Cape, Spokane, Washington; and Moses, deceased. After the death of the mother of these children the father was again married and the following children were born to this union : Menno and Christian, both residing at Sedalia, Missouri.

John Oesch received his education in the public schools of Hickory County, Missouri, and came to Cass County, in January, 1884, locating near Lone Tree. Here he rented a farm for several years. In November, 1894, he bought his present place in Camp Branch township, the place having been formerly owned by D. Y. Hooley, and was at one time the Agnew farm. It contains one hundred acres, is well improved and a very valuable and productive farm. The old farm residence, 20x36 feet, which was built prior to the war still stands on the place, and is an interesting old relic of the handiwork of the early pioneers. The sills are rough-hewn and the lath hand-rived and the old house is still in a fair condition, although it is not used for residence purposes. Mr. Oesch built a fine residence of eight rooms in 1905, which is modern and equipped with acetylene lighting plant. The Oesch farm is well improved with suit able barns, one of which, 36 x 48 feet, was built in 1900, and the other one, 32 x 44 feet, was built in 1916.

In addition to being a successful general farmer, Mr. Oesch is recog¬ nized as one of the leading Percheron horse breeders in Cass County. He owns a very valuable stallion, Governor Hanley, weight eighteen hun¬ dred pounds. He also owns a valuable registered jack, Commerce, and King Harger, a valuable jack eligible to registration, and Fred Wilks, a roadster stallion, also eligible to registration. Mr. Oesch keeps a high grade of Guernsey cows. From several standpoints he is one of the most successful breeders of Cass County.

On February 15, 1871, Mr. Oesch was united in marriage with Miss Mary Amanda Smith, in Hickory County, Missouri. She was born in Butler County, Ohio, January 20, 1855. She is a daughter of Jacob P. and Frances (Ramsyer) Smith, both of whom are now deceased. The father died in Hickory County, in 1873, and the mother, who was a native of France, born March 14, 1818, died in Butler County, Ohio, in 1865. To Mr. and Mrs. Oesch have been born ten children as follows : John W., Bynum, Montana; Joseph C., Kent, Ohio; Mrs. Mary Amanda, Kenagy, Garden City, Missouri; Samuel S., Portland, Oregon; J. D., Nevada, Mis-

David D. Kropf, a successful farmer and stockman of Index town¬ ship, was born in Ontario, Canada, October 12, 1857. He is a son of David and Magdalena (Oesch) Kropf. The father was born March 24, 1824, and died December 18, 1909. The mother was born February 9, 1827, and died July 18, 1887. They were the parents of the following children : Mrs. Barbara Reese, Appleton City, Missouri ; Katherine

Kropf, Garden City; John, deceased; Jacob, Shelbyville, Illinois; Lena, deceased; Leah, deceased; Mrs. Rachel Schrock, Garden City; David D., the subject of this sketch ; Mrs. Fena Yoder, Hubbard, Oregon ; Daniel, Harrisburg, Oregon; Christian, Garden City; Mrs. Mary Harshberger, Garden City; and Mrs. Nancy Hostettler, Garden City.

David D. Kropf, Sr., father of the subject of this sketch, came to Missouri from Canada in 1865, and settled on a farm in Hickory County, where he remained for ten years. In 1876 he came to Cass County and located on the Hedge farm, which is now owned by Amos Martin. After remaining here about a year he settled on a farm near Gunn City. Later Mr. Kropf bought a farm near East Lynne. He sold this place, when he bought a farm in Index township, where his wife, and the mother of the subject of this review, died in 1887. The father spent the remainder of his days with his children.

David D. Kropf, the subject of this sketch, received the principal part of his education in the public schools of Hickory County, Missouri. He remained at home with his parents until he was twenty-one years old. He then began life as a farm laborer, working by the month. Later he rented land and began farming on his own account. He first purchased eighty acres of land which he later sold, and bought a hundred twenty acres in Index township. He sold this in 1910, and bought his present place from Conrad Wall. This place was formerly owned by Emery White. Prior to that time it was the Halcomb farm. It is a valuable farm of two hundred acres and is located one-half mile east and one and one-half miles north of Garden City. The Kropf farm is well improved, with a good substantial farm residence, and two barns, 36 x 54, and 40 x 50 feet, and a number of other buildings especially designed for the stock business. Mr. Kropf is a practical farmer. He raises Percheron horses and Shorthorn cattle quite extensively.

On March 5, 1889, Mr. Kropf was united in marriage with Miss Katie Mayers by Rev. Jacob Kenagy, at East Lynne, Missouri. Mrs. Kropf is a daughter of Ludwig and Catherine (Ethert) Mayers, of Camp Branch township. The father was a native of Wurtemberg, Germany. He was born May 16, 1833 and died February 3, 1889. His wife was born Feb¬ ruary 12, 1835 and, died December 15, 1908. Their remains are buried in the Clearfork Cemetery. To Mr. and Mrs. Kropf have been born eight children, as follows: Nellie, born December 8, 1889, and died January 19, 1892; George Edward, born June 4, 1891, resides at Garden City, Missouri; Ida, born January 19, 1893, at home; Elsie, born October 31, 1894 ; Orvie D., born March 6, 1897 ; Mary, born January 31, 1899; Mar¬ vin D., born November 15, 1901 ; and Anna, born July 30, 1904, all of whom reside at home with their parents. The Kropf family are well known in the vicinity of Garden City, and stand high in the community.

W. B. Scruggs, secretary and manager of the Cass County Telephone Company, was born in Hickory County, Missouri, January 14, 1868. His father was W. H. Scruggs, a native of Virginia, born in 1827. He came to Westport, now a part of Kansas City, Missouri, in 1839. He made his home there until after the Civil War. At the age of twenty-one, he was appointed government blacksmith for the Shawnee Indians, and was stationed at the Old Shawnee Mission in Johnson County, Kansas. He held this position for four years. This Indian school was one of the most important in the United States at that time, having about four hundred pupils. It was one of the first schools in the country to teach manual training and was discontinued after the war. In the early fifties Mr. Scruggs followed freighting over the Santa Fe Trail from Westport to Santa Fe, New Mexico. He located in Hickory County in 1867, and during his residence there made six trips to Colorado and other western points, to again view the scenes of his earlier experiences. He died in Hickory County, in 1906.

W. H. Scruggs married Alice Evans, a native of Kentucky. They were parents of five children, four of whom are living: W. B., the sub¬ ject of this sketch; C. H., J. O., and J. E., all living at Cross Timbers, Missouri. A daughter died at Independence, Missouri, at the age of five years.

1889 he opened a general merchandise store at the southeast corner of the square. Later he moved the stock to the building now occupied by the Hub Clothing Company, and took in T. W. Clemments as a partner. This firm later moved to the rooms occupied at the present by the A. C. Mercantile Company, and then to the Deacon Building. In 1901 Mr. Scruggs sold his interest in the store to his partner.

Although engrossed with business affairs, Mr. Scruggs was always willing to lend a hand for the good of the city of Harrisonville, and for nine years, from 1895 to 1904, was an active member of the city council. Mr. Scruggs was cashier of the Bank of Harrisonville, from August, 1907, to August, 1913, and for ten years was vice-president of the Allen Bank¬ ing Company.

During the early years of his active business career, Mr. Scruggs had been watching carefully the development of the telephone business and believed that the progressive people of his city and county would if given an opportunity patronize a company that would guarantee good service. With this conviction in mind, he as secretary and manager and with H. B. Moody as president, organized the Cass County Tele¬ phone Company, June 1, 1898, starting with only thirty-eight phones, all in Harrisonville.

The wisdom of this venture is shown by the remarkable growth this company has made. An extension of the system was made to Peculiar, Missouri, in 1903, and the following year to Freeman, Drexel and Garden City. The line at present practically covers all of Cass County, and has branches extending into Bates County, Missouri, and Miami County, Kan¬ sas. The company has recently taken over the Bell Exchange Company at Pleasant Hill, Missouri, and now has over one thousand nine hundred telephones in operation. The Cass County Telephone Company was incor¬ porated December 28, 1900, for two thousand dollars, increased to fifty thousand dollars February 28, 1904, and to seventy-five thousand dollars February 19, 1917. The company owns its exchange buildings at both Harrisonville, and Peculiar.

Mr. Scruggs is proprietor of the "Rock Hill Farm" of two hundred and forty acres, situated two miles southeast of Harrisonville. The farm lies at the intersection of the Osage Valley and Jefferson Highway, and is one of the most beautiful and attractive farms in the County. Two fine stock barns and a modern residence have been constructed by Mr. Scruggs since he purchased it. A water system furnishes, not only the residence, but the barns and feed lots as well. Mr. Scruggs was married April 9, 1890, to Dora Clemments, a daughter of Mrs. S. M. Clemments of Harrisonville, Missouri. They are parents of two children, Kathleen and Wilma, both graduates of the Harrisonville, High School, and also of Stevens College at Columbia, Missouri.

Fletcher Smart, a former sheriff of Cass County, and prominent farmer and stockman of Peculiar township is a native of Indiana. He was born in Hendricks County, November 12, 1852 and is a son of Isaac and Hannah (Deffenbaugh) Smart, natives of Fairfield County, Ohio. They removed to Indiana in 1849 and settled in Hendricks County where they remained until 1865. During that year they came to Missouri and three weeks after arriving in Cass County the father bought a farm in Peculiar township which is now the home of Fletcher Smart. The Smart family came to Kansas City from St. Louis on the first regularly scheduled passenger train which went through the entire distance between those points. One of the sons had been here prior to the Civil War. He drove the entire distance from Hendricks County, Indiana, to Cass County.

Isaac Smart was a farmer and stockman and was very successful in his endeavors along that line. Both he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives in Cass County after coming here. He died in August, 1896, aged eighty-seven, and his wife passed away in June, 1915, aged eightynine. They were the parents of six children as follows: Mrs. Elizabeth Stimpson, Valparaiso, Indiana; Fletcher, whose name introduces this sketch; Mrs. Ella Bailey, Shawnee County, Kansas; Mrs. Rilla Abbott, Nickerson, Kansas; 0. B., Kansas City, Missouri, and Grant, resides in California.

Fletcher Smart was reared on the farm and received a common school education. He remained with his father until he was about twenty-two years of age when he engaged in farming for himself. Some years later when his father became old and infirm, Fletcher sold his place and returned to the home farm which he operated in connection with his father. The place contains two hundred and sixty-three acres, is well watered and especially adapted to the stock business. Mr. Smart has met with very satisfactory results in raising high grade cattle and Poland China hogs, although he makes no special effort to keep registered stock. Much of his place is devoted to blue grass and he feeds a great many cattle for the market which he has found to be very profitable.

Fletcher Smart

Mr. Smart was united in marriage February 26, 1874, with Miss Cynthia A. Smith, a native of Illinois, born near Carlinville, Montgomery County. She is a daughter of John E. Smith who is now deceased. The Smith family settled in Cass County in 1868. To Mr. and Mrs. Smart have been born six children as follows : Effie May, married 0. C. Atterbury, Harrisonville ; Ray S., farmer, Peculiar township; Bessie Lee, married Charles H. Pearson, Wichita, Kansas; Herbert I., Wichita, Kansas; Hat¬ tie, married Arthur Austin, Waterloo, Iowa, and Albert H., better known as "Ted", a student in the Harrisonville High School and a member of the Class 1918.

Mr. Smart is a Republican and takes a reasonably active interest in politics. In 1904 he was elected sheriff of Cass County on the Republican ticket, and notwithstanding the normally great Democratic majority of this County, he was elected by a majority of three hundred. His election to this important office under such circumstances was a great tribute to Mr. Smart. It goes to show the confidence and esteem in which he was held by his neighbors and fellow citizens regardless of political creed. During Governor Hadley's administration, Mr. Smart was appointed one of the county judges to fill out an unexpired term of thirteen months. In what¬ ever trust has been imposed in him he has filled it with entire satisfaction to the people. He has always given public affairs the same conscientious and careful attention characteristic of his conduct in private affairs.

Mr. Smart is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Woodman of the World, and Central Protective Association. He is president of the subordinate organization of the Cen¬ tral Protective Association, and was one of its local organizers some thir¬ ty years ago. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

In addition to his regular agricultural pursuits, Mr. Smart has dealt extensively in live stock and other farm products, as did his father before him, and he probably has bought and sold more cattle, hogs and corn than any other man in Peculiar township. He is one of Cass County's most substantial citizens, to which his many friends will testify.

T. Dade Terrett was born in old Virginia, across from the city of Washington, D. C., on January 1, 1854. Terrett's father was a Confeder¬ ate soldier and was killed early in the war. Thus was Mr. Terrett born and reared in these troublous times. His mother was born in Wash¬ ington, D. C., and reared in Fairfax County. She moved to Cass County, Missouri, arriving here in April, 1871, her son, T. Dade Terrett, having preceded her to this county in December, 1870. Wm. Terrett was edu¬ cated in the schools of old Virginia and the public schools of Cass County and for years after his arrival in this county taught school here. He spent one year at the State School at Rolla, Missouri. In 1886 Mr. Ter¬ rett was stricken with paralysis, from which he has never entirely recov¬ ered. In 1894 he was elected recorder of deeds for Cass County, Mis¬ souri. On retiring from office he again returned to his home in Garden City. Cass County has never had a more painstaking, accommodating and satisfactory official.

John H. Terrett, a brother of T. Dade Terrett, makes his home at Grand Forks, North Dakota. A sister, Julia E. Terrett, married Henry L. Ferrell, a native Missourian, in 1876. T. Dade Terrett never married.

George W. Wade, a pioneer settler of Sherman township, was born in Warren County, Kentucky, October 8, 1840. He located at Wadesburg as early as 1857, and saving his absence during the War of the Rebellion, resided there continuously to the date of his death. He died February 10, 1917.

Mr. Wade was twice married and left a large family of children. He was a reliable democrat in politics, while most of his kinfolks were of other political persuasions. He was a union soldier and a good one. In early life he united with the Baptist church and to his death was a faithful adherent to his church. He was never half hearted; whatever he espoused, that he was.

Berton L. McFarrin and Rev. Samuel G. Porter were each early set¬ tlers of Van Buren (Cass) County. The lives of these two worthy pioneers and early associations were so closely interwoven that we consider them together. These men with their wives came from Rutherford County, Tennessee, settling in what is now Cass County as early as 1832. They were both of Scotch-Irish ancestors, coming to America in 1750. They first settled in New York state and were foremost in the early wars for the liberation of the colonies from European domination. After the struggle of 1776, the ancestors of these subjects moved to Old Virginia, thence to Tennessee.

These men were not dependent on cheap homes and frontier life, for in their veins ran the blood of the Scotch aristocracy and they were men of means and force of character from whence they came. They preferred to build new homes in the then western plains of American country and there to impress their personalities upon the formation of this new and growing empire. Berton L. McFarrin brought with him the name of Judge, and was referred to by his neighbors as "Judge" Berton L. McFar¬ rin. In 1832 he entered and bought lands well up on Sugar Creek, in the present township of Dayton. Here he made his homestead until the date of his death in 1862. Nearby settlers today refer to this tract of land as the Judge McFarrin homestead. On this farm he reared his family, all of whom became useful members of society and good citizens ' of the country.

Judge Berton L. McFarrin from his earliest settlement here held high place in the council of his pioneer country men. His judgment was valuable. His experience wTas extensive. On the establishment of Bates County, the Missouri General Assembly by resolution designated Berton L. McFarrin as one of the commissioners to locate the seat of justice for Bates County.

Samuel G. Porter was a Methodist minister and coming to the county about the same time with McFarrin and from the same neighborhood in Tennessee, settled close to the McFarrin homestead, about four miles northwest of McFarrin's on the head waters of what is now known as Eight Mile Creek. In early settlements people thought it was not best to settle so close to one another, so as not to cramp or congest the settle¬ ment. For this reason these old neighbors put four miles between their homesteads. The Porter homestead was south and a little east of the present railroad town of Daugherty. What is now called the Reed ceme¬ tery is located on part of the old Porter homestead and contains the remains of Porter, McFarrin and several of their children and their descendants. Two of the Porter boys took McFarrin's daughters to wife and one of the McFarrin boys married Porter's daughter. Some of the descendants of these two families of steady pioneers now reside in the county.

All of these people were intensely religious. The elders were Meth¬ odist, belonging to what is now called M. E. South church. The elder Samuel G. Porter was a minister of the church. The duties of a pioneer minister were countless and varied. There were no church buildings in the country. Preaching was done altogether at private homes of some brother or sister, a class organized and set to work with a leader. These classs assembled sometimes twice a week at different homes sometimes widely separated. The class leader would serve the purpose of preacher in exhorting at these meetings. People were intensely religious and strong adherents to their several denominations. This man Porter did his hardest and most arduous work before the advent of the circuit rider. From these McFarrin and Porter families have sprung some of the strong¬ est preachers and most useful Christian workers. Rev. Samuel G. Porter, after ten years of arduous work among these people died in 1843.

These people, coming from the south, naturally sympathized with the Southern cause and suffered much for their bold stand as marauder bands passed through the country. Jackson B. McFarrin was murdered. Their homes were burned and their families were driven into exile. The circuit rider always received a hearty welcome and hospitable entertain¬ ment at their homes and when they departed took not only the blessings of the entire families, but a financial contribution for the cause of the Master. These pioneer laymen were ever ready to assist their ministers to bear the burden of their works. The useful work of these people in the cause of Christ had an enduring effect upon succeeding generations and is felt in our county to the present date.

Jackson Benton McFarrin, son of Berton L. McFarrin, and his wife, Elizabeth Jane Porter McFarrin, daughter of Rev. Samuel G. Porter, have been dead many years. Samuel Benton McFarrin, son of Jackson Benton McFarrin and Elizabeth Jane Porter McFarrin, and grandson of both Berton L. McFarrin and Rev. Samuel G. Porter, now reside in Butler, Missouri, and to him we are largely indebted for this sketch. In him is focused the blood of these two pioneers. Samuel B. McFarrin and John B. McFarrin are the sole surviving children of Jackson B. McFarrin. Samuel B. McFarrin and John B. McFarrin, and James A. J. McFarrin, son of John Orr McFarrin, son of Berton L. McFarrin, deceased, is the only other grandchild of Berton L. McFarrin not represented by the living ancestors. James A. J. McFarrin, Samuel B. McFarrin and John B. McFarrin are the sole surviving grandchildren of Samuel G. Porter. Jackson B. McFarrin was the father of Samuel B. McFarrin. Nancy Jane Summers, now deceased ; Sarah Ellen Slaughter, now deceased ; and Victoria J. McDonnell, late wife of Judge James McDonnell, are brothers and sis¬ ters of Samuel B. McFarrin, and children of Jackson B. McFarrin.

Words fail to properly portray the rugged honesty, sincere piety of these old time Methodist families. Such generous hospitality and Christlike spirit are fast fading from among us. It is too sadly true, the late rescuing of the memory of such pioneer characters from oblivion is shamefully neglected. Samuel Benton McFarrin, now past seventy-four years of age has been a warm friend of the writer of this book for more than half a century. Both are descendants of the very earliest settlers.

John W. Adams, a native of Virginia, settled in Henry County, Mis¬ souri, prior to 1844, and removed to Cass County, Missouri, in 1847. Mr. Adams entered 160 acres of land on the upper Clear Fork, one mile east of present site of Clear Fork church. When he came to that locality there were but three settlers anywhere near. These were, Colonel Harrison, Henry Black and a man named Bills.

These men did not live in mansions, ride in auto, nor use telephones. Instead, their homes were cabins, built of logs, hewn out with their own hands. Their mode of travel was a matter of choice between walking or driving oxen. There was an Indian grave on the old Adams home¬ stead. At this place both Mr. and Mrs. Adams were buried and are, as far as known, the only bodies there.

Mrs. T. A. Reamer, was a daughter of John W. Adams, and was born in Henry County, Missouri, in 1844. Her mother's maiden name was Mary Cartwright. Mrs. Beamer is the only one of the Adams children now living. She married Mark Beamer in 1860. With the exception of the time she was banished under Order No. 11, when she went to Lafayette County, she resided on the old Adams homestead for sixtyeight years. In 1878 their old homestead dwelling was burned, but she rebuilt at once. After Mr. Beamer's death, Mrs. Beamer moved to Gar¬ den City, Missouri, where she now resides.

Mr. and Mrs. Beamer were the parents of eleven children, viz : Mary Galbraith, wife of J. K. Galbraith of Garden City; John A. Beamer of Lafayette County; Flora Smith, wife of John Smith, a merchant at Gar¬ den City; Jasper Beamer now deceased; Oscar Beamer of Kansas City, Kansas; George Beamer, a farmer near Garden City; Mark Beamer, a farmer near Gunn City; Ada Beaber, a milliner, at Garden City; Carrol Beamer, a merchant in Kansas City, Missouri; Ethel Smith, wife of

Thus we see the early settlers women were progressive as well as the men. The Beamers, like the rest of the old settlers, will do to tie to. It is hoped the generations will sustain the reputation of their ances¬ tors.

Isaac J. Hartzler was born in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, on June 10, 1825; died February 11, 1896, in Cass County, Missouri. Magdalene Gerig was born in Germany, December 12, 1829. She came to America at the age of ten years with her parents and died in Cass County, Mis¬ souri, on November 4, 1884.

Mr. Hartzler was married to Mattie M. Blough, who was born January 20, 1858, at Elkhart County, Indiana, and died on February 17, 1893. One son and two daughters were born to this union who are now living. September 2, 1894, Mr. Hartzler married Mattie M. Hartzler, who was born September 23, 1857, in Elkhart County, Indiana. One son and one daughter have been born to them.

In March, 1885, Mr. Hartzler moved from Elkhart County, Indiana, to Cass County, Missouri, locating on a farm one and one-half miles south¬ west of East Lynne and is still living on a part of this farm. Mr. Hartz¬ ler has been a member of the Mennonite church for over forty years. He is one of the substantial citizens of Cass County and has contributed his part to the development of this section of the state.

Charles S. West, one of the present members of the board of county judges and a well known farmer and stockman of Union township, is a native of Cass County. He was born in Harrisonville, in August, 1865, and is a son of Lysander and Ruth S. (Logan) West. The West family came from Kentucky to Missouri in 1856 and settled in Cass County. Lysander West was a carpenter in early life, but after coming to Cass County was engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was a man of broad acquaintance and of well known honesty and integrity. He was a licensed Baptist preacher and occasionally occupied pulpits in this county.

He died in 1888 and his wife now resides at Liberty, Missouri. They were the parents of nine children, seven of whom are living, as follows: Will¬ iam L., Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. Mary A. Jones, Belton, Missouri; L. B., Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. America Halcomb, Liberty, Missouri; Charles S., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Lutie B. Van Hoy, Garden City, Missouri; and John K., Kansas City, Missouri.

Charles S. West was reared to manhood in Cass County, receiving his early educational discipline in the public schools. He later attended the State Normal School at Warrensburg. In early life he taught school for twelve years in Cass and Johnson Counties and was regarded as one of the successful teachers of this section of the state. At intervals between teaching, he was also engaged in farming and stock raising and thus in early life he became familiar with the practical side of agriculture.

In 1894 Mr. West engaged in the mercantile business at Latour, Mis¬ souri, in partnership with J. J. Wright. After three and one-half years of successful business, he traded his interest in that state to J. W. Wright for another stock of goods at Peculiar, Missouri. In 1900, he traded the business thus acquired to F. M. Johnson for two hundred forty acres of land in Union township. Later he purchased two hundred forty acres more and now owns four hundred eighty acres wrhich are known as the "Grand River Stock Farm". This is one of the fine appearing farms in Cass County and Mr. West has brought it up to a very high state of culti¬ vation. It is abundantly supplied with good water, well improved with good farm buildings. Judge West specializes in raising pure bred Here¬ ford cattle of the "Anxiety" strain. He is also a successful hog raiser. During the year 1916, he marketed over four thousand dollars worth of hogs. At present he has about one hundred head on hand. Over two hundred acres of his farm are devoted to bluegrass.

Judge West has always taken an active part in politics and since his boyhood has been identified with the Democratic party. He has served as township clerk for a number of terms and in 1914 was elected presiding judge of the county court. He is serving in that capacity at the present time. In the administration of the duties of that office, Judge West has proven himself to be a capable business man and a conscientious public officer and entitled to the confidence of the tax payers of Cass County. He practices the same careful business methods in the affairs of the public as he does in his own private business.

daughter of M. B. Underwood, of Garden City. Six children have been born to this union, four of whom are living, as follows: Mrs. Lenora Webb, Peculiar, Missouri; Moses L., Belton, Missouri; Reva and Edith, Belton, Missouri. Mrs. West died in 1906. In 1907 Judge West was mar¬ ried to Mrs. Clara Birge, a daughter of F. P. Rust, of Peculiar. One child has been born to this union, Mary Eleanor.

Jefferson Waller Britt. - The hundred years just closing have been the most eventful and phenomenal in history. Particularly is this true as to the United States and her Louisiana Purchase, west of the Missis¬ sippi river. During this period we have seen the ox wagon displaced by the automobile and the railway ; we have seen the telephone and telegraph bringing close together the whole world. Old ocean is not only traversed by steam and electric ships for commerce and battleships, but the air is now navigated and war vessels and ships of trade pass beneath the waters of the deep. All these things and many more now seem of little conse¬ quence. Until recently such matters were considered delusions of a deranged brain. During this period the maps of the world's countries marked his. We have seen the greatest and most cruel wars of time. Our own country witnessed a cruel and destructive Civil War. One whose life has spanned the greater part of this time, has lived more than at any other period of the world's history. A man who was privileged to live during this period and used well his opportunities to make the world bet¬ ter, is the one who left behind an influence for good to those who might follow.

Jefferson Waller Britt was born in Logan County, Kentucky, April 2, 1824, and lived within a few months of the ripe age of ninety-three years. Mr. Britt was a man who thought out his problems of life and endeavored to live them out. He was of positive character. The con¬ clusions he studied out before hand were right, as far as he was con¬ cerned. He followed them whether criticized or approved. This was his character in early life and remained with him to his death. He possessed that quality of fair mindedness which always recognized the right of others to differ with him in opinion. By his thoughtful study he made himself an able and efficient public servant, always having the confidence and respect of his neighbors. Early in 1893 serious matters were rife in the affairs of Cass County. The people in looking about to secure a suit¬ able man for county judge chose Judge Britt. To this office he was chosen by the vote of the people at the November election, 1892. To this office he brought that sober thought that "a public office is a public trust". His honesty, ability, impartiality and efficiency brought to the county bench that quality of character which bode well for the whole people. His services as such public officer are a great legacy, well to be remem¬ bered and cherished by the generations to follow.

Judge Britt spent the early part of his life at his old home in Ken¬ tucky. On arriving at the age of twenty-five years, he took leave of the old home to go into the wTorld outside of his native state. He went as far west as the present state of Utah. The trip was made overland with Russell & Waddell by ox teams. It was no pleasure trip; people did not travel in automobiles nor railways as they do now ; his was that tiresome hard way of pioneer travel, six months on the road with a train of wagons, drawn by ox teams. He endured this pioneer adventure as became the man he was. This far west trip at this early history of our land was filled with thrilling experiences. The prairies of western Missouri, the present Kansas and Colorado as well as the mountains was the home of the wild Indians and the buffalo. Perils beset the traveler on all sides. On Judge Britt's return from this trip, in 1850, he stopped at Lexington, Missouri. After viewing western Missouri land around Lexington, he made a trip overland to the vicinity of Harrisonville. After a short stay he retraced his way to his native state. In 1855 he closed his business there and returned to Missouri, where he made his home. Necessity, however, com¬ pelled him to make trips while retaining his home here. He first pur¬ chased a farm near Harrisonville in about 1855. A few months later he bought and removed to a farm near Austin in this county.

Here he made a home for himself and family until the War of the Rebellion. When that awful gloom of war spread over our land, Judge Britt thought out his duty and in due time cast his influence on the side of the Confederacy. He served first in Capt. Bob Adams' company of Missouri Volunteers. In 1863 he was in Texas getting cattle for General Price's army, located at Little Rock, Arkansas. At the close of the war he sold his farm near Austin, all improvements having been destroyed in the fortunes of war. For four years he farmed in Saline County, near Marshall, then returned to Cass County and purchased and improved the farm in Coldwater township, which is still owned by his children. Here he practically raised his family. After thirty years' residence on this farm he removed to Harrisonville, Missouri, in 1899. From this date to the date of his death, February 9, 1917, he was a citizen of Harrisonville. Judge Britt was slow to talk about his own affairs in public, yet it was interesting to hear him talk of his experiences and the many changes in the manner of doing things and happenings which took place during his life time. He was a man who read much, kept in touch with the move¬ ment of affairs. To hear what he knew of changing events within his memory, not alone in our own country but in the wide world, was of extreme interest to the thoughtful. What a loss to the present and future generation that such men have passed without leaving in writing their experiences and information by them gathered. Herein and by such neglect we are given errors by our best historians. The real and true facts of local and even general history are lost.

Judge Britt was a Baptist in faith and a Democrat in politics. He lived his religion in a practical straightforward manner. There was no guile nor false pretense in his makeup. He was a faithful church man. For long years he was the keeper of the record of his church. In the years of his strength and prosperity, he contributed much of his time, energy, influence and money to the Master's cause. Judge Britt was not a Democrat, simply because his ancestors were, nor because some great leader was, but he reasoned out party problems, formed his own conclu¬ sions and acted upon them.

Are we to be benefitted by the lives lived by Judge Britt and his com¬ patriots who have occupied before us? We think so. His striking traits of character, his studious methodical manner, his remarkable degree of fairness in activity, his promptitude in meeting engagements, his per¬ formance of duty, ought to make better all who knew him. He lived during a period of much evil doings and very much that tended to make one worse rather than better, yet amidst this "he knew in whom he put his trust" and did honor to the Master's cause. He always held himself aloof from all such contaminating influences. Notwithstanding the wars at home and the world wars with all the degrading influences which fol¬ low such, he rejoiced to see the expanse of Christian benefactions from a few thousand dollars annually in the United States to that of many millions.

Harn, daughter of Richard Harn, of Cass County. She was born, reared and educated in Logan County, Kentucky, and moved to Missouri with her father in 1853. Mr. Harn established his home on a large tract of land three miles northeast of Harrisonville. It was here his daughter, Mar¬ garet, was married to Jefferson W. Britt. To this union there were born five children, all of whom are living. Of this number four were sons, viz: Judge Eugene W. Britt, a lawyer of Los Angeles, California, a former judge of the California Supreme Court; Rev. William M. Britt, at present of Wyanet, Illinois; Richard H. Britt, of Springfield, Massa¬ chusetts; and Haller S. Britt, of Portland, Oregon. The one daughter is Miss Leila R. Britt, of Harrisonville, Missouri. It is truthfully said they are worthy descendants of noble ancestry.

Much might be said of Judge Britt's ancestry, whose courage and valor made possible this free country. This sketch, however, is to show the generations to come, that it is worth while to live the life and emulate the character of Judge Jefferson Waller Britt.

Judge Allen Glenn. - Were it not for the fact that Judge Glenn is the editor of this work and this article must necessarily be subjected to the cruelty of his blue pencil, the writer would endeavor to give a fair and impartial view of his conception of this veteran lawyer and his worth as a citizen ; his capabilities as a lawyer and his many estimable qualities as a Christian gentleman. Therefore, I will confine myself to a brief review of his career and his family, in order that future generations may know who Allen Glenn was when we of this age join the great host of silent witnesses.

Allen Glenn is a son of Hugh G. Glenn, more extensive mention of whom is made elsewhere in this work, and was born in Cass County, about one and one-half miles southwest of Harrisonville, March 30, 1852. Judge Glenn has spent all of his life in Cass County. He was reared amid pioneer surroundings, attended the public schools, and later entered the Missouri University at Columbia, Missouri, where he was graduated in the class of 1871 with the degree of Master of Science. He read law in the office of Hall & Givan, at Harrisonville, Missouri, and was admitted to the bar in 1874. Since that time Judge Glenn has devoted himself to the practice of his profession with the exception of the period during which he served the people of Cass County in the capacity of Judge of the

On October 9, 1879, Allen Glenn was united in marriage with Miss Mary B. Keller and to this union ten children were born, eight of whom reached maturity, as follows: Hugh G. Glenn, cashier of the Citizens National Bank, Harrisonville, Missouri ; Price K. Glenn, who owns and operates the Rexall Drug Store at Harrisonville, Missouri ; Allen B. Glenn, a lawyer, associated with his father in the practice of law at Harrison¬ ville ; Robert Charles Glenn conducts a drug store at Powersville, Missouri ; Ewing Suggett Glenn, a rancher located in Colorado. Two girls, Helen Brown Glenn and Margaret Glenn, died in infancy. Mary Elizabeth mar¬ ried Robert Cannon and is now deceased; Winifred Sloan married Sam C. Irvine and resides in Saline County, Missouri, and Katherine Letitia Glenn is unmarried and resides at home. Judge Glenn has two grandchildren living, Mary Ann Irvine and George Allen Glenn.

Judge Glenn is a member of the Baptist church and belongs to all the Masonic bodies in Cass County and also is a member of Aarat Temple, of Kansas City, Missouri. He is a Democrat and for four years was a member of the Democratic State Central Committee and for twelve years he served as a member of the State Board of Regents of the State Normal School at Warrensburg, Missouri.

Judge Glenn has ever been a student of general literature, as well as of the law. His law office is equipped with a very complete law library and in addition to this his private library at his home is one of the best and most complete in western Missouri. - M. J. F.

Zenas Leonard, of Pleasant Hill, *has had an unusual and successful business career, although he is best known to the outside world as the man whose genius and enterprise made Pleasant Hill one of the ideal beauty spots and pleasure resorts of the state. Lake Leonard, a beautiful body of water covering twenty-seven acres adjoining the city of Pleasant Hill, was planned and constructed by Mr. Leonard. He purchased one hundred and twenty-four acres of land adjoining Pleasant Hill and pro¬ ceeded to construct the artificial lake according to his own design. This place is now and has for years been one of the popular resorts of this section of the state and has developed into a source of considerable income to its owner. By the assistance of Mr. Leonard the Angler's Club, of Kansas City, Missouri, built a splendid club house on the south bank of the lake which gives to that organization an ideal outing resort. Before the work of building the lake was commenced, Mr. Leonard made a con¬ tract with the Missouri, Pacific Railroad for furnishing water to that com¬ pany which is a very profitable source of income. He also has a number of boats on the lake which he rents to pleasure seekers and altogether, Mr. Leonard's artificial lake not only adds to the beauty of the landscape but is a source of a substantial income.

Zenas Leonard is a native of Missouri. He was born at Sibley in 1846 and is a son of Zenas and Isabel (Harrelson) Leonard. They were the parents of three children, Zenas, the subject of this sketch; and Eliza¬ beth and Martha, both deceased. Zenas Leonard, the father, had an unusual and interesting career. He was a man of adventurous nature and unlike many of the pioneers of his time, he possessed a good educa¬ tion and was considerably above the average in ability and mental attain¬ ment. He was born in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, and when a boy ran away from home and came to Missouri, and for a number of years his people thought he was dead. He did not confine himself to the wilds of Missouri in those early days, but he was one of the first adventurous white men to cross the Rocky Mountains to the Pacifice coast, his party consisting of four other men. one of whom was Green Crisp, father of John T. Crisp. Mr. Leonard and his party were trapping in the Rocky Mountains when they became snow-bound for three months. They found a cave and sought shelter in it at that time and their supplies became so depleted that they were compelled to live on the flesh of their pack mules and during their latter days of storm imprisonment they subsisted on raw hide rope. After the storm was over and they were ready to proceed they could not agree upon the proper direction. However they finally decided upon a course not knowing where they were going and they finally reached the shore of the Pacific ocean where they sighted a French sailing vessel. The crew saw them and after some parleying, four of the sailors came ashore and after an understanding invited the party on board the vessel where they were given a splendid reception. Later the hunting party entertained the French sailors on shore. One of the members of the French crew gave them a small compass after which the party had less difficulty in following the proper direction.

After becoming quite wealthy, Zenas Leonard, the father of the sub¬ ject of this sketch returned to his old home in Pennsylvania for a brief or seen anything of him since his sudden departure years before. When he came to Missouri, this section was in a wild and primitive state and he followed trapping and trading with the Indians for a number of years. He was the first to establish a store on the present site of Sibley, Mis¬ souri, then known as Ft. Osage. He also operated a boat between St. Louis and Cogswell Landing and from the latter place invaded the wild and unbroken surrounding country with pack mules and traded trinkets and merchandise with the Indians for furs and upon his return trip to St. Louis, his boat was always loaded with a cargo of furs. He was a man of more than ordinary literary ability and during his early years in Missouri, kept a complete diary which is a thrilling story of his experi¬ ences and observations. His writing covers the period of Missouri history of which obtainable data is very meager and Mr. Leonard, the subject of this sketch, has in his possession the original manuscript which the State Historical Society has made every effort to purchase but as yet Mr. Leonard has refused to fix a price on it.

Zenas Leonard, whose name introduces this sketch was about twelve years old when his father died and after that time he lived with an uncle, Nathan E. Harrelson, who at that time lived on the headwaters of Grand river near the present site of Raymore. He was a large slave owner and met with heavy losses during the devastating period of the Civil War, Federal troops destroying over seventy-five thousand dollars worth of his property. After the war broke out he took his slaves and went to Texas as did many other slave holders of that time and in 1864 he was engaged in freighting in Colorado and New Mexico and Mr. Leonard of this sketch accompanied him in this enterprise. While his loss of property was great during the Civil War, he was still a wealthy man at the time of his death. He owned large tracts of land in Cass, Bates and Johnson Counties, Mis¬ souri, and Miami County, Kansas, most of which he had purchased prior to the war. His home was on the headwaters of Grand river in Raymore township, Missouri, at the time of his death.

Zenas Leonard received his education in private schools and began his business career as a cattle dealer and also fed cattle very extensively for a number of years. He conducted a large cattle ranch at Roswell, New Mexico. His son, J. L. Leonard now resides at Roswell and attends to Mr. Leonard's business in that section. He also did an extensive busi¬ ness in Cass County, Missouri. Mr. Leonard, owing to a failure of his health retired from the stock business and later removed to Pleasant Hill where he has since made his home. He occupies one of the finest resi¬ dences of the city which he built after coming here. It is a two story pressed brick structure, modern throughout and in its various appoint¬ ments is not excelled by any other in the state. Mr. Leonard is now living practically in retirement and enjoying the friendship of a host of acquaintances.

In 1872 Mr. Leonard was united with Miss Elizabeth Duncan, a daugh¬ ter of James Duncan of Pleasant Hill. She died in 1902, leaving three children as follows: J. L., a stockman, Roswell, New Mexico; W. D., Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. Lou Bell Smith, a widow who resides with her father. Mr. Leonard married Miss Mollie E. Stephens in 1904.

Mr. Leonard is a keen observer and a close student of men and affairs. He has seen many changes and noted many events during the last fifty years and has a store of valuable and interesting information and he possesses the faculty of relating them in an entertaining manner.

Thomas A. McArthur, who is engaged in job printing and also the manufacturing of all kinds of rubber stamps, in Pleasant Hill, is one of the progressive business men of that thriving town. He was born near Huntingdon, Tennessee, in 1861. He is a son of W. A. McArthur of Pleasant Hill, a sketch of whom appears in this volume.

Thomas A. McArthur came to Cass County with his parents, w?ho settled at Pleasant Hill when he was fifteen years old. He received a public school education and in early life worked at various pursuits until 1890, when he began work at the printer's trade, his first experience being in the office of the Pleasant Hill "Review". For a number of years he has conducted a job printing establishment at Pleasant Hill and has built up an extensive business. Mr. McArthur is unmarried and resides with his parents.

W. A. McArthur, a Union veteran and early settler of Pleasant Hill township, was born in Carroll County, Tennessee, in 1834. He is a son of Alexander and Sarah Benton McArthur, natives of North Carolina. They were the parents of eight children, all of whom are deceased except W. A., the subject of this sketch. The deceased members of the family are as follows: Gaskin, Margaret, John, Daniel, Polly Ann, James, who died at LaGrange, Tennessee, in 1863, while serving in the Union army, and Henry.

W. A. McArthur was reared and educated at Huntingdon, Tennessee. August 4, 1862, he enlisted in Company D, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry (Union). He participated in the battles of Lexington, Trenton and Park¬ er's Cross Roads and was with his regiment on campaigns in Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky. Like most cavalry troops, they were in a great many skirmishes, battles, campaigns and expeditions. Mr. McArthur was taken prisoner and for three months was confined in Libby prison and four months at Danville. IJe was captured October 7, 1863, at Como, Tennessee. He was mustered out of service October 8, 1866'.

After his discharge from the army he was engaged in shoemaking at Clarksburg, Tennessee. In 1878 he came to Cass County with his wife and children and opened a shoe shop at Pleasant Hill. His capital con¬ sisted of fifty cents in cash when he reached Pleasant Hill and he says those were the "bluest days" of his life, the months that he spent in Con¬ federate prisons not excepted, but his philosophy has always been, "Where there's a will, there's a way". He brought the "will" to Cass County with him and found the "way".

Mr. McArthur was married May 1, 1856 to Miss Nettie Epsey Butler, of Huntingdon, Tennessee. It will be noted that their marriage took place more than sixty years ago and the sixtieth anniversary of their wedding was celebrated May 1, 1916. The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. McArthur: Belzora G., Pleasant Hill; Thomas A., a sketch of whom precedes this article; James M., Pleasant Hill; William S., Pleasant Hill; Mrs. Mary Ann Gray, Pleasant Hill; John C., Kansas City; Sallie Lee Dorey, who resides with her parents; Mrs. Ella Vincent, deceased; and Minnie, who died in infancy.

C. C. Painter, one of the best known farmers and stockmen of West Peculiar township is a Pennsylvanian, and was born in Westmorland County in 1850. He is a son of George and Margaret Painter, natives of that State. His father was a prominent farmer and stockman, and his grandfather, Jacob Painter, was an eminent Pennsylvania lawyer and for a number of years was judge in that State.

reside in Pennsylvania. Mr. Painter was reared to manhood in his native state and received a good common school education, and in 1872 was mar¬ ried to Miss Catherine Kuhns, a daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Am¬ brose) Kuhns, natives of Pennsylvania and of German descent. Mrs. Painter has one brother, J. H. Kuhns whose home is in Pennsylvania. To Mr. and Mrs. Painter have been born seven children as follows: Dr. George D., Kansas City, Missouri; Harry T., Alberta, Canada; Howard M., Alberta, Canada; Mrs. Cora Dalton, Cleveland, Missouri; Mrs. Eliza¬ beth M. Hartzler, Peculiar, Missouri; Mrs. Beatrice Graves, Alberta, Can¬ ada; and Mrs. Kittie K. Laffoon, who lives in Pennsylvania.

Mr. and Mrs. Painter came to Cass County in 1883 and settled in Raymore township, where they bought eighty acres of land. Mr. Painter gave special attention to the stock business, both as a breeder and dealer, handling horses, mules and Shorthorn cattle, and his enterprising meth¬ ods as an advanced stockman have been an inspiration to many others in the community. He has added to his original purchase of eighty acres, from time to time, until he now owns four hundred and thirty acres of valuable and well improved land, one hundred acres of which are devoted to blue grass. He is also a successful alfalfa grower and at present has about thirty acres under that crop. He is a strong advocate of alfalfa growing and considers it one of the most profitable crops that can be grown in this section.

Mr. Painter recently bought a half block in the town of Peculiar, where he now resides in a comfortable modern residence and supervises the operation of his farm, making the trip out to the place nearly every day. He is especially interested in his Shorthorn cattle and is regarded as authority on that breed. Mr. Painter is a public spirited citizen whose co-operation is extended to every worthy enterprise, the object of which is for the betterment of the home or the community. He and Mrs. Pain¬ ter are members of the Presbyterian church.

George M. Neff, a Civil War veteran who served in the Union army, is one of the well known citizens of Pleasant Hill. He was born in Mer¬ cer County, Kentucky, in 1842, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Ludwick) Neff, natives of Kentucky. John Neff was a son of Adam Neff, a Pennsylvanian. John Neff and his wife, Elizabeth, were the parents of eleven children, as follows: Adam, died at Paducah, Kentucky; Louis, (42) died at the age of nineteen; Susan, deceased; William, deceased; Eliza¬ beth, deceased; Sarah, deceased; George M., the subject of this sketch; Matilda, deceased; John, lives in Mercer County, Kentucky; James, deceased; and Robert, Harrisburg, Kentucky.

George M. Neff was educated in the public schools of his native state. When he was a little past nineteen he enlisted, November 15, 1861, in the Union army at Harrisburg, Kentucky. He took part in a great many engagements, including Arkansas Post, Fort Gibson, and Vicksburg. He was with his regiment at New Orleans and later on the Red River expedi¬ tion. He was mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky, January 29, 1865.

At the close of the war, Mr. Neff returned to Mercer County, Ken¬ tucky, and followed farming there until 1879, when he came to Missouri and settled at Pleasant Hill. Six years after coming here he bought forty acres of land in Pleasant Hill township, which he still owns and which are operated by his son. Mr. Neff left the farm and removed to Pleasant Hill in 1912 and since that time has been living practically retired.

Mr. Neff was married March 1, 1866, to Miss Mary Turney, of Mercer County, Kentucky. To this union have been born twelve children, as fol¬ lows: J. W., Kansas City, Missouri; C. T., Fruitland Park, Mississippi; Mrs. Ida Johnson, Pleasant Hill, Missouri; Mrs. Elizabeth Lembke, Kan¬ sas City, Missouri ; Mrs. Maggie Asher, St. Louis, Missouri ; Leroy, Pleas¬ ant Hill; James Oliver, on the home farm in Pleasant Hill township; George, Pleasant Hill; Benjamin F., Des Moines, Iowa; Mrs. Alice Stewart, DeSoto, Kansas; Mrs. Susie Lumis, Akron, Colorado; and Mrs. Opal May Young, Pleasant Hill. There are eighteen grandchildren in the Neff family.

Mr. Neff was one of the charter members of the G. A. R. Post, Gen¬ eral Burnside Post No. 566, Pleasant Hill. The decrease in the member¬ ship of this Post is a striking example of how the boys who wore the blue are answering to the last roll call. At one time there were fifty members of the Post and the number has now dwindled to nine.

Theodore F. Phillips, a prominent resident of Pleasant Hill, has spent fifty years of his life in Missouri. He was born near Bloomington, Illinois, in 1849, and is a son of Buford and Lucy Phillips, natives of Ken- tucky, who removed to Illinois in 1849. In 1867 the Phillips family came to Missouri and shortly afterwards the father bought a farm six miles north of Pleasant Hill, known as the Overton place, for which he paid thirty dollars per acre. At that time he could have bought prairie land near Lees Summit for fifteen dollars per acre, but like all Kentuckians, he had been reared in a timbered country and thought prairie land was worthless, for some unknown reason. This was a common mistake of the average early pioneer of the west. Buford Phillips remained in Mis¬ souri until 1876 when he returned to Illinois, where he died the follow¬ ing year. His wife died in 1901. They were the parents of nine chil¬ dren, as follows: Milton, served in a Confederate regiment from Ken¬ tucky during the Civil War and died at Greenwood, Missouri, in 1903; Mrs. Sarah Whitlock, died in Washington; George, was a member of the First Iowa Cavalry and was killed while in the service at Galveston, Texas, in 1863; Mrs. Lorena Myers, resides at Springfield, Illinois; Mrs. Mary Hower, Gibson City, Illinois; Mrs. Martha Vannostin, Gibson City, Illi¬ nois; Harrison, located in Jackson County in 1867 and died at Pleasant Hill in 1909; Joseph, died at Danville, Illinois, in 1908; and Theodore F., the subject of this sketch.

Theodore F. Phillips was reared in Illinois. He was educated in the public schools and attended the High School at Eureka, Illinois. When eighteen years of age he came to Missouri with his parents and for a time after coming here remained at home. Later he bought a farm of one hun¬ dred acres, a part of the Amos estate, and followed farming until 1910, when he removed to Pleasant Hill and bought a home there, where he has since resided.

Mr. Phillips was married in November, 1871, at Pleasant Hill, Mis¬ souri, to Miss Gertrude, daughter of Thomas G. and Eusebia (Moore) Williams. The Williams family settled near Lonejack, Jackson County, in 1868, where the father spent the remainder of his life. His wife died before the family came to this state. They were the parents of the fol¬ lowing children : Mrs. Charles Rheem, Olathe, Kansas ; Mrs. May Moore, Pleasant Hill, Missouri; Mrs. Bertha Hunt, Pleasant Hill, Missouri; and Gertrude, the wife of Theodore F. Phillips, the subject of this sketch. To Mr. and Mrs. Phillips were born two children, both of whom are now deceased: Bertha, died in infancy; and Stella, died at the age of twentythree years.

retired life. He and his wife are well known and highly respected. He is a careful, conscientious man and has a reputation for thinking more than he talks.

John Logan Trundle, a well-known farmer and dairyman of Big Creek township, is a native of Kentucky. He was born December 18, 1857, a son of Nicholas and Sarah (Logan) Trundle, both natives of Ken¬ tucky. The father was married three times, his first wife being Cynthia Jackson. His second wife was Sarah Logan, and John Logan Trundle, the subject of this sketch, was the only child born to this marriage. His mother died in 1858 and the father married Sarah McClintock, who died in 1911. Three children were born to this marriage: F. M. Trundle, Lees Summit; Mrs. Ben Yankee, Lonejack, and Ed Trundle, Lonejack. Nich¬ olas Trundle, the father, settled near Lonejack in 1866 and spent the balance of his life there. He died in 1896.

John L. Trundle was reared and educated at Lonejack, Missouri. Shortly after leaving school he came to Cass County and engaged in farm¬ ing near Drexel. In 1894 he bought his present place of ninety-six acres in Big Creek township. He took possession the following year and since that time has been successfully engaged in farming and stock raising and in recent years has been quite extensively interested in the dairy business. He has a well improved farm with a good residence and other farm build¬ ings. His place is well watered and one of the best natural stock farms in Big Creek township.

Mr. Trundle was married in 1880 to Miss Bettie Hunt, a daughter of Noah and Nancy (Cave) Hunt. Noah Hunt was a Jackson County pio¬ neer, settling in that county with his parents near Lonejack in 1842. He was bom February 20, 1881, and was one of a family of fourteen children. In 1849 his father bought a power grist mill near Lonejack and Noah was placed in charge of the mill and soon saved two hundred dollars out of his earnings, which gave him his start in life. He had a successful busi¬ ness career and died November 22, 1908. His wife died in 1879. They \ were the parents of the following children: Marion, Robert and Benja¬ min, all engaged in the milling business at Pleasant Hill, Missouri ; Buford was a farmer, Lonejack, Missouri, and owned the old homestead at Lone¬ jack, including the old mill and carding machinery, and died February 26, 1917; William, Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. Lutie Rowland, Liberty, Missouri; Mrs. John Blackwell, Lonejack; and Mrs. John L. Trundle.

U. G. McCulloh, a prosperous and enterprising farmer and stockman of Dayton township, was bom in 1868, son of W. G. and Matilda (Souders) McCulloh. W. G. McCulloh was born in 1828 in Franklin County, Penn¬ sylvania. Matilda Souders was born in Fulton County, Pennsylvania. W. G. and Matilda (Souders) McCulloh were the parents of the following children : A. S., deceased ; J. H., Garden City, Missouri ; Mary E., deceased; Sarah E., deceased; George S., Garden City, Missouri; Clara B., deceased ; Mrs. Laura J. Morlan, Garden City, Missouri ; U. G., sub¬ ject of this review; and 0. B., Garden City, Missouri.

W. G. McCulloh, father of the subject of this review, migrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1851, locating temporarily in Cincinnati, where he aided in the erection of a tabernacle in which the world renowned Jenny Lind was to sing. When the tabernacle was completed, W. G. McCulloh immigrated to Illinois, where he lived, in Henry and Carroll Counties, until 1858. At that time he left Illinois for Johnson County, Kansas. Later he went to Miami County, Kansas, and thence to Cass County, Missouri, in May, 1866, where he settled permanently in Dayton township. W. G. McCulloh was in Kansas when the Civil War broke out and he enlisted in Company B, Third Kansas Infantry, which was after¬ wards changed to the Eighth Kansas Infantry. He was mustered out as second lieutenant and in 1864 re-enlisted in Company C, Fifteenth Kan¬ sas infantry and was mustered out as first lieutenant. Mr. McCulloh was in the battle of Little Blue and the battle at Westport, Missouri. After the war he came to Cass County and tried to forget the struggle, which had cost the nation so much in tears knd blood, in the peaceful pursuit of farming. In Dayton township he and his noble wife reared their family. From 1871 until 1875 W. G. McCulloh was Registrar of Deeds for Cass County, and he gave the same conscientious attention to the manifold duties of this office that was characteristic of all his activities, public or private. At the time of his death, September 8, 1914, Mr. McCulloh was owner of five hundred sixty acres of land. His wife had preceded him in death seven years before. Mrs. McCulloh died August 22, 1907. Both parents of U. G. McCulloh are buried in the Dayton cemetery.

U. G. McCulloh, like many farmers' sons of his day and locality, divided his boyhood days between work on the home farm and attendance in the public schools of Cass County. He remained on the home place, assisting his father, until he was forty-two years of age. At that time he purchased one hundred four acres of land which formerly belonged to A. S. McCulloh, Sr., who had located upon it in the seventies. This place is located one and a half miles southeast of Dayton, Missouri, and here Mr. McCulloh is engaged in general farming, raising grain, hay, horses, hogs and cattle.

Although U. G. McCulloh is a young man, he has lived long enough in Dayton township to have witnessed the many changes incidental to growth and development. He recalls vividly the grasshopper year of 1874. He was then just a child of six years, but a keen-eyed, impression¬ able boy. He remembers the building of his father's large stock barn that same year, for the elder McCulloh was a prominent stockman of his day. Mr. McCulloh also witnessed the building of the two churches of Dayton township in 1879, the Methodist and the Union. The cyclone of June 15, 1912, swept away all the buildings on his father's farm except the old horse barn, including the residence, two implement sheds, one hay barn, one hog barn, and one stock and hay barn. U. G. McCulloh lost many valuables which were in the residence, including books and maps and precious arti¬ cles which can never be replaced. A family by the name of Welker were living upon the place at that time, but none was injured, all having taken refuge in the cellar.

Mr. McCulloh has been an active factor in the upbuilding of his county and will long be remembered as one of her most valuable citizens. Not a man in Dayton township has a wider circle of friends than he, and that is perhaps one of the best measures of a man's success in life.

Dr. C. N. James, a prominent veterinary surgeon of Belton, Missouri, is a native of Jackson County. He was bom in 1882 and is a son of W. H. and Lillian James, who reside on their home place in Jackson County. The mother is a native of Iowa. The father came from Illinois in 1867 and is a distant relative of the celebrated "James boys." Elizabeth Noble, the paternal grandmother of Doctor James, was a native of Ireland and when four years of age her parents immigrated to Canada. She was brought from Canada to Ohio by an uncle who journeyed on foot and carried her on his back most of the way.

The James family dates back to colonial times in Virginia and were extensive slave-owners, at one time owning over four hundred negroes. On his mother's side, Doctor James traces his lineage to Ohio. They removed to Iowa at an early day. An uncle of his was a member of an Iowa regiment who was killed at the battle of Vicksburg.

Doctor James is one of a family of six children born to his parents. The others are as follows : Dr. P. M., Hickman Mills, Missouri ; Montova, Joplin, Missouri; Mrs. Inez Deweese, Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. Nellie McKinney, Oakland, California, and Thelma, Jackson County, Missouri.

Doctor James received a good preparatory education in the public schools and then entered the Kansas City Veterinary College, where he was graduated with the Class of 1910. He located at Belton, Missouri, where he has since been engaged in his professional work. He has a large practice, and is a very skillful veterinary surgeon. He likes the practice of his profession and gives each case that comes within the scope of his practice the best that is in him.

In 1904, Doctor James was united in marriage with Miss Bernice Delroney, a daughter of H. C. and Nellie Delroney, of Jackson County, Missouri, and to this union have been born three children as follows: Marion, Virginia, and C. Noble.

In addition to his professional duties, Doctor James takes a com¬ mendable interest in local affairs and has served as township assessor and clerk of the township board. He is a young man of pleasant manners and kindly disposition, and by his straightforward methods has won the con¬ fidence of the public.

Thomas C. Bundy, owner and proprietor of the Drexel elevator at Drexel, Missouri, is one of the extensive grain dealers of Cass County. He is a native son of Cass County, born in Coldwater township, in 1884, a son of Henry C. and Lucy (Hainline) Bundy. Henry C. Bundy was a native of Virginia, bom in 1844. He was reared to manhood in his native state, and when nineteen years old, enlisted in the Confederate army, and fought in the ranks of the soldiers of the lost cause, until the close of the war. In 1870, he came to Missouri, and first settled in Buchanan County, where he remained two years, and in 1872, came to Cass County, locating on the old Parks farm in Coldwater township, where he remained two years. He then bought a farm in Coldwater town¬ ship consisting of 80 acres, and as his finances would permit he added to this until he had acquired an estate of 1,500 acres, which he divided equally between his children previous to his death. Here he was success¬ fully engaged in farming and stock raising until 1909, when he bought a home in Drexel, and spent the remainder of his life there. He was a man of strict integrity, and a Cass County pioneer, who did his part in laying the foundation of this county deep and broad, upon which future genera¬ tions may build. Mrs. Henry C. Bundy, who was a native of DeKalb, Missouri, born in 1848, now resides at Drexel. To Henry C. Bundy and wife were born the following children: C. C., Harrisonville, Missouri; Mrs. Ella Gartin, Smithville, Missouri; Arthur, Freeman, Missouri; Mrs. Rebecca Beck, Freeman, Missouri; Lee, died at the age of twenty-eight; F. E., livestock commission merchant, Kansas City, Missouri; John S., Drexel, Missouri; Thomas C., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Geneva Keetch, Liberty, Missouri; H. T., Drexel, Missouri; and Mrs. Abbie R. Hamlin, Lisle, Missouri.

Thomas C. Bundy was reared in Cass County, and educated in the public schools of Drexel, and Central Business College, Sedalia, Missouri. He was engaged in farming and stock raising in Coldwater township, until 1915. He then purchased the Drexel Elevator from the estate of Harvey Reed, and since that time has been devoting himself to the grain business. He also handles seeds, coal and building material, including sand and brick. In addition to conducting the above mentioned business in Drexel, Mr. Bundy owns and operates a portion of the old home farm, which consists of two hundred and forty-five acres. Here he carries on general farming and stock raising, and keeps a good grade of Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs.

Mr. Bundy was married June 15, 1910, to Miss Mary Lucille Dale, a daughter of Sydnor and Laura (Clark) Dale, of Freeman, Missouri. The Clark and Dale families were very early settlers in Cass County. To Mr. and Mrs. Bundy have been born three daughters, all of whom were born in Coldwater township, as follows: Mildred Aleen, Dorothy Lavoon and Lois Marie.

J. M. Shouse, president of the Citizens Bank of Belton, is one of the largest land owners in Cass County and a man of extensive interests. Mr. Shouse is a native of Missouri, born in Platte County, and a son of

Benjamin and Margaret Shouse of Woodford County, Kentucky. Accord¬ ing to the best authority, the family formerly lived in Pennsylvania, the father being of German and the mother of French lineage. Benjamin and Margaret Shouse came to Missouri in 1844, settling in Platte County, where the father engaged in farming. They were the parents of twelve children, seven boys and five girls, eight of whom are now living, as follows: John S., Platte County, Missouri; J. M., the subject of this sketch; Z. T., Caldwell County, Missouri; Mrs. Laura Widmer, Caldwell County, Missouri; Mrs. Sarah Herndon, Caldwell County, Missouri; Mrs. Emma Widmer, Caldwell County, Missouri ; D. P., Platte County, Mis¬ souri; and Edward T., Abeline, Kansas.

J. M. Shouse began life for himself with a capital of seventy-five dollars. His first work on his own accord was clearing some new ground for his father for which he was to be paid with the use of the land for a time. With the proceeds of the first crop, he bought a team. In 1871 he purchased ninety-six acres of land in Johnson County, Kansas. Mr. Shouse bought this land on borrowed money and the first year was unable to pay the interest. Later on fortune favored him and he finally paid out and since that time he has met with success generally and accumu¬ lated considerable property. He now owns six hundred ninety-five acres of land, most of which is very valuable. In 1903 he moved to Belton, where he has a nice, substantial residence, which he remodeled in 1914, modernizing it in every particular. His career has been a successful one. Mr. Shouse says that for whatever success has come to him his wife is entitled to as much credit as he.

Mr. Shouse was married November 5, 1868, to Miss Harriet Lamar, daughter of John and Frances Lamar, natives of Tennessee. The Lamar family consisted of the following children: Betty, Belton, Missouri; Har¬ riet, wife of J. M. Shouse, subject of this sketch; William, Kansas City, Missouri ; Charles, Belton. Missouri ; John, Harrisonville, Missouri ; and Henry, Belton, Missouri. To Mr. and Mrs. Shouse have been born the following children: J. L., principal of Westport High School, Kansas City, Missouri ; Benjamin P., deceased ; Mrs. Elizabeth Idol, Pleasant Hill, Mis¬ souri; one child died in infancy; Herbert, merchant, Muskogee, Okla¬ homa ; Mrs. Nellie Rosier, Belton, Missouri ; N. B., merchant, Muskogee, Oklahoma; Harriet, teacher in White school, Kansas City, Missouri; Edward and Franklin, who died in childhood.