Cass County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1917 (part 8 of 15)

Alonzo Myers was the only child born to his parents. He was reared in his native state. In the early part of the Civil War, he enlisted in the First Kentucky regiment, which was an organization of Confederate troops and known as the Home Guards. Later however he entered the federal service, enlisting in the Tenth Kentucky cavalry, and served in the Union army from 1862 until after the close of the war. He was mustered out of service at Maysville, Kentucky. During his term of service his command operated in Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky. He was severely wounded in a skirmish near Owensville; however he recovered and rejoined his regiment. He was in a number of engagements including Perrysville and Richmond, Kentucky, and at the latter place took part in three different engagements over the same ground. He was captured twice but succeeded in escaping both times.

At the close of the war Mr. Myers went to Illinois for a short time, when he returned to Kentucky. Here he was engaged in lumbering and building mills for a time. In 1877 he came to Cass County, Missouri. He first settled near Latour, and from there moved to Archie, where he remained until 1895. He then went to Lees Summit and shortly after¬ wards settled in Camp Branch township on his present place of three hundred twenty acres which he purchased from the heirs of C. P. Yoder. Mr. Myers has successfully carried on general farming and stock raising and raises quite a number of horses and hogs. During recent years he rents his farm and has practically retired from active participation in farm work. The Myers' residence is an old Cass County landmark. It was erected in 1874 by C. P. Yoder and is a twenty-one room brick structure, located three and three-fourths miles northwest of Garden City.

Mr. Myers was united in marriage in 1874 with Miss Mary E. Hayden of Moores Ferry, Kentucky. She is a daughter of Captain B. T. Hayden and Emily Filson, both now deceased. Captain Hayden was a Civil war veteran and served for over four years in Company A, Seventh Kentucky cavalry.

To Alonzo Myers and wife were born the following children: Emma Wynona, who married Dr. G. F. Hauser, LaCrosse, Wisconsin; William Leonard, farmer, Camp Branch township; and Beulah Wave, who resides at home with her parents.

William Kanzler, a successful farmer and stockman of Camp Branch township, is a native of Pennsylvania. He was bom in Allegheny County, September 8, 1848. His parents were Peter and Susan (Reinhard) Kanz¬ ler, natives of Baden, Germany. They were the parents of four children, as follows: Mrs. Catherine Lazro, Wooster, Ohio; William, the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Susan Zinsmaster, Emsworth, Pennsylvania; and Adam, Grove City, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Kknzler received his education in the public schools of Pitts¬ burgh, Pennsylvania. When fourteen years old he started to make his own way in the world and went to work for a neighbor. Two years later his father was injured while operating a strip coal mine and young Kanzler returned home to assist in the operation of the mine, while his father was recovering from the injury. At the age of nineteen he went to Wooster, Ohio, and entered the employ of Ephram Quinby, remaining with him for fourteen years. In 1880, Mr. Kanzler came to Cass County settling in Camp Branch township and in January, 1881, purchased eighty acres of land of C. A. Brous, which he still owns. The place was partially improved and there was a house 14 x 16 on it which is still standing and now used for a work-shop. Mr. Kanzler paid twenty dollars per acre for his farm and it now would be conservatively estimated at probably one hundred twenty-five dollars per acre. The place is one of the best im¬ proved farms in Cass County, with a splendid nine-room modern house, built in 1896, with all modern improvements, including a hot water system, bath and other conveniences. The barn and other farm buildings are in thorough keeping with the residence. Mr. Kanzler raises stock quite extensively and is inclined to keep only the best grade of horses, cattle and hogs. He raises Percheron horses, Shorthorn cattle and pure blood Poland China hogs. In short he is a twentieth century farmer and stockman.

Mr. Kanzler was united in marriage in 1870 at Wooster, Ohio, with Miss Amelia Hirschy, a native of Fredericksburg, Ohio. She is a daugh¬ ter of Henry and Mary (Hurst) Hirschy. The former was born October 30, 1815, in Switzerland, and lived to the advanced age of ninety years. The mother was born in 1828 and died in 1892. They were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Charles A. Ahrens, Kitchner, Ontario; Mrs. Horace Carr, Kansas City, Missouri ; and Amelia, the wife of William Kanzler, the subject of this sketch. Mrs. Kanzler's father was a skilled mechanic. A turning lathe which he made in 1838 is now in Mr. Kanzler's work-shop.

To Mr. and Mrs. Kanzler have been born two sons: William P., a graduate of the Harrisonville High School, class of 1892, who later learned the carpenter's trade and built the present Kanzler home, and is now deputy postmaster of Chanute, Kansas; and Walter H., who graduated from the Harrisonville High School in the class of 1909, and the Missouri University in the class of 1914, is an electrical engineer in the employ of Fairbanks and Morse, Kansas City, Missouri. He has the supervision of the erecting of engines for that company.

Mr. and Mrs. Kanzler are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pleasant Valley. Mrs. Kanzler has been a Sunday School teacher for the past fourteen years.

Ira Hartzler, a well-known, successful auctioneer of Camp Branch township, is a native of Cass County. He was bom in Index township, in 1881, and is a son of J. J. and Magdalena (Mast) Hartzler, natives of Pennsylvania. J. J. Hartzler came to Cass County in 1880, and settled three and one-half miles northeast of the present town of Garden City. Here he purchased a farm where he remained and was successfully en-

Ira Hartzler is one of a family of eight children born to his parents, as follows: Samuel M., who died at the age of twenty-five; Sarah, resides at home; Chauncey A., Bureau County, Illinois; Mary, now the widow of M. S. King, Camp Branch township; Ira, the subject of this sketch; Anna, married William Eigsta, Bureau County, Illinois; Joseph

Mr. Hartzler wras reared on the home farm in Cass County, and received his education in the Clearfork school, Camp Branch township. In 1912 he took a course in the Missouri Auction School of Kansas City, Missouri, where he was graduated in October, 1912. Since that time he has been engaged in auctioneering. His first sale was the Mattie Troyer sale held in Index township. Mr. Hartzler is recognized as a very capable auctioneer, and is past master in the art of public salesmanship. His business has gradually developed, as his ability has been recognized by with sales for which he has been engaged for several weeks ahead. He is a close student of the art of public salesmanship and possesses unusual natural talent in that direction. His work covers a large scope of terri¬ tory including Cass and adjoining counties.

Mr. Hartzler was married in Camp Branch township, January 1, 1905, to Miss Martha M. Yoder, daughter of C. D. and Elizabeth (Garber) Yoder, of Camp Branch township. C. D. Yoder is a son of Reuben and Martha Yoder, pioneers of Camp Branch township. To Mr. and Mrs. Hartzler have been born two children: Bernice and Iona Ruth.

S. W. Boydston, a successful farmer and stockman of Camp Branch township, is a native of Missouri, and belongs to a pioneer family of this state. He was born in Platt County, in 1867, and is a son of Nathaniel Boydston and Margaret (Forbian) Broadhurst. The father was a native of Tennessee, born in 1811, and was a soldier in the Black Hawk Indian wTar. Nathaniel Boydston was a son of Thomas Boydston. The Boydstons came to Missouri in 1831 locating in Clay County. In 1838 Thomas Boydston removed to Buchanan County, where he died in 1862. Nathaniel Boydston, father of S. W., lived near Platt City until 1844, then removed to Buchanan County. In 1850 he went to California, remaining there about one year, when he returned by way of Nicaraugua route, and while enroute to New York, the vessel foundered off Cape Hatteras. However he succeeded in reaching New York and from there returned to his Missouri home. He remained in Buchanan County until 1856, when he removed to Jackson County, Kansas, remaining there until 1863.

Nathaniel Boydston was twice married. His first wife's name w*as Dina Forbian, to whom he was married July 22, 1836. Ten children were born to this union. The mother died January 16, 1861. April 27, 1862, Nathaniel Boydston was married to Margaret Forbian Broadhurst, widow of Reverend Jacob Broadhurst and sister of Mr. Boydston's first wife, and the following children were bom to this union: William L., East Lynne, Missouri ; Mrs. Birdie Sweeney, East Lynne, Missouri ; and S. W., the subject of this sketch.

S. W. Boydston was educated in the public schools of Platt County. In 1887 he came to Cass County with his parents, locating at East Lynne, and remaining with his parents until death had called them away. Mr. Boydston has made farming and stock raising the principal occupation of his life, and has met with very satisfactory success in that line of endeavor. He owns one hundred twenty acres in Polk township, one hundred eighteen acres in Camp Branch township, and one hundred sixty acres in Pleasant Hill township. In 1914 he built a fine modern residence in East Lynne. His place is well improved with a large bam which he built in 1898 and other farm buildings and conveniences in proportion. Mr. Boydston is unmarried. He is one of Cass County's progressive and most substantial citizens.

John L. Kohler, owner and proprietor of Lone Elm Valley Stock Farm, is a native son of Cass County. He wras born in Grand River township, September 10, 1868, and is a son of John and Margaret N. (Watkins) Kohler, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Pennsylvania. John Kohler came to America with his parents when he was about ten years old, and grew to manhood in Ohio. In 1866 he came to Missouri and located in Cass County. He was married in Logan County, Ohio, before coming here, and he and his wife came to this state in company with Jacob Kircher. They drove the entire distance with lumber wagons. After coming here John Kohler bought sixty acres of land in Grand River township where he made his home until 1902, when he moved to Harrisonville, where he is now living retired. He has added to his original acreage from time to time and is now a large landowner and one of Cass County's well-to-do citizens. To John Kohler and wife were born the following children: John L., the subject of this sketch; 1). II., Colfeeville, Kansas; Mrs. Maggie Wolfe, Creighton, Missouri; E. I)., Olathe, Kansas; A. W., Harrisonville, Missouri; I. M., on the home farm ; and a daughter, Sallie, died in infancy.

John L. Kohler received his education in the public schools of Harri¬ sonville. He remained on the home farm until he was twenty-one years old. He then worked for J. W. Kirk of Camp Branch township for one year, when he rented the Peter Keller farm and began farming for him¬ self. In 1901 he bought the Joel Warren farm of one hundred twenty-five acres at twenty dollars per acre. This place was practically unimproved and Mr. Kohler proceeded to make necessary improvements and has built four barns, 28 x 40, 50 x 54, 40 x 52, and 42 x 60 feet in dimensions respectively, and a good farm residence. He has his place under an excellent state of cultivation. Mr. Kohler is a good farmer and especially a good stockman. He raises Polled Durham and Shorthorn cattle, grade hogs and Shropshire sheep. His place is well stocked. He now has about one hundred head of cattle, and the same number of hogs.

Mr. Kohler was married January 6, 1892, to Miss Lulu Benight, daughter of Samuel D. and Dorothy (Peyton) Benight, of Harrisonville. Mrs. Kohler was born in Harrisonville. Her father came here from Buchanan County in 1868. He was a native of Virginia. For a number of years he practiced law in Harrisonville and served two terms as probate judge of Cass County. He died January 10, 1879, aged forty-seven years. His wife died June 20, 1912, at the age of seventy-five years. They were the parents of the following children besides Mrs. Kohler: Mrs. Juan Cherry, who resides near Ogden, Utah; and Mrs. Etta Wherry, Kansas City, Missouri; and Thaddeus and Sarah Elizabeth, deceased.

To Mr. and Mrs. Kohler have been born two children: Catherine and Harold. Mr. and Mrs. Kohler are well known in the community and rank among Cass County's representative people.

Colbert N. Hayes, owner and proprietor of Walnut Valley Stock Farm, and a successful farmer and stockman of Camp Branch township, was born in Hancock County, Tennessee, in 1846. He is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Ogan) Hayes, natives of Tennessee. Both parents are now deceased. They came to Cass County in 1870 and spent about thirty-two years of their lives in this county. The father moved to Woodward County, Oklahoma, where he spent the remainder of his life. He died there at the age of ninety-one years. His wife also passed away in Oklahoma, at the age of eighty-nine. Thomas Hayes was a son of Thomas Hayes and his grandfather also was named Thomas and was a native of North Carolina.

Colbert N. Hayes is one of a family of thriteen children born to his parents, twelve of whom grew to maturity and ten are still living. They are as follows: William C., Woodward County, Oklahoma; Hester A., Pleasant Hill; Colbert N., the subject of this sketch; Zachary T., Mont¬ gomery County, Missouri; John H., Paradise Valley, Nevada; Colby C., died in infancy; Thomas W., Woodward County, Oklahoma; Sarah C., Woodward County, Oklahoma; James M., Woodward County, Oklahoma; Hannah A., Houston, Texas; Luther C., Kansas City, Missouri; George B., was killed in a mine accident at Bisbee, Arizona; and Peter 0., died in Woodward County, Oklahoma.

Mr. Hayes received his education in the schools of eastern Tennessee and South Carolina. When he was twenty-one years old he left home in Kentucky and came to Cass County, Missouri. This was in 1868. He began life in this county by working by the month. In 1874 he bought twenty acres of land near Coleman which he traded for twenty acres of land in Camp Branch township in 1877. He still owns that place and has added to it and now owns in all three hundred ninety-five acres which constitutes the Walnut Valley Stock Farm. Mr. Hayes has a well im¬ proved place with a good residence and three substantial barns well arranged for conveniently handling stock. His barns Nos. 1, 2, and 3 are 40 x 72, 38 x 50, and 30 x 40 feet respectively. He carries on general farming and stock raising giving especial attention to this stock raising. He raises registered Shorthorn cattle, high grade hogs, and White Leg¬ horn chickens. For ten years he has successfully raised alfalfa and now has about five acres in that crop.

Mr. Hayes was united in marriage February 25, 1875, to Miss Lydia Elliott, daughter of Joel Elliott of Peculiar township. Mrs. Hayes' father was a pioneer of Peculiar township, having settled there in 1852. He and his wife are now both deceased and their remains are buried in the Pitts Chapel Cemetery. To Mr. and Mrs. Hayes have been born seven children as follows: Thomas J., Leader, Colorado; David M., resides on the farm ; Rolla L.f Oregon County, Missouri ; James W., Ripley County, Missouri; Alma and Ira, twins, the former residing near Warrensburg, Missouri, and the latter at Pleasant Hill; and Luther C., Ripley County, Missouri.

Mr. and Mrs. Hayes have seen many changes since settling in Cass County in 1876. They have fully succeeded in keeping pace with the rapid development of the country and have measured fully up to the standards of their expectations. They are representative of the thrifty and successful citizens of Cass County, who have contributed their share towards placing Cass County in the front rank of the political subdivisions of the great state of Missouri.

A. J. Patterson, familiarly known as "Pete", is one of the leading farmers and stockmen of Cass County. He was born in Big Creek town¬ ship, on the place which he now owns, in 1868 and is a son of John and Agnes (Jeffrey) Patterson, the former a native of Scotland and the latter of Ashland, Ohio.

John Patterson, the father, emigrated from Scotland to America with his parents when he was about fourteen years old. He was a ship carpenter, learning his trade at Milan, Ohio, and worked at it in New York during the war and until they came west. They settled in Ohio about 1840, and in 1868 came to Missouri, settling in Cass County, four and a half miles southwest of Pleasant Hill. Here they bought one hundred and twenty-three acres of land at a cost of thirty dollars per acre. The father died in 1874 and his remains are buried in the Pleasant Hill ceme¬ tery.

A. J. Patterson, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the public schools of Big Creek township and has been active in the world of affairs since he was thirteen years old. He began his career as a farmer and when a boy began dealing in horses and hogs and since that time has been extensively interested in hogs. He has also raised a great many sheep but at present is not interested in the sheep business. He has on hand about five hundred head of red hogs, of which he makes a specialty. He raises a very high grade although none are registered stock. In fact he is the leading hog breeder of Cass County.

The Patterson farm is one of the well kept places of Cass County. The residence is modem in every particular, having been built in 1914. Mr. Patterson has his own lighting system and has also installed a water system. The barn and other buildings about the place are spacious and well adapted to stock raising. Mr. Patterson also has a residence on his place which is occupied by a tenant. He was one of the original alfalfa raisers of Cass County and for sixteen years has been interested in that crop.

Mr. Patterson was married in 1906 to Miss Maud Rebecca Moore, a daughter of John Moore, who settled in Peculiar, Missouri, about 1885. He died in 1910 and his wife passed away in 1896 and their remains are buried in the Peculiar cemetery. To Mr. and Mrs. Patterson have been born two children as follows: Robert Jeffry and Anna Christine.

John A. Dunn, a representative farmer and stockman of Camp Branch township, is a native of Kentucky. He was bom in 1854. He is a son of Absalom and Nancy (Powell) Dunn, natives of Kentucky. Absa¬ lom Dunn came to Cass County in 1856 and located in Pleasant Hill town¬ ship. Here he bought one hundred forty-six acres of land where he was following the peaceful pursuits of farming when the Civil war came on. Later when Order No. 11, that drastic military measure, was issued, he abandoned his home and went to Illinois. Three years later he returned to his farm in Pleasant Hill township. His wife died in 1869 and he sold his farm in Pleasant Hill township the same year and removed to Gunn City, where he bought a farm and remained there about fifteen years. He spent the latter part of his life with his children and for a few years prior to his death he had made his home with John A., the subject of this sketch. He died in 1902.

To Absalom and Nancy (Powell) Dunn were bom the following children: Mary, deceased; James L., Higgins, Texas; John A., the sub¬ ject of this sketch; Mrs. Nannie McDonald, Lipscomb, Texas; and George, Harrisonville. John A. Dunn was educated in the public schools of Cass County. After having reached the age of twenty-one he began life for himself as a farmer and stock raiser. He bought his present place of one hundred sixty-seven acres in Camp Branch township in 1899. When he purchased the place it was practically unimproved and he proceeded to make improvements, one after another, as rapidly as circumstances would permit, until he now has one of the best improved farms in Cass County.

He has a good farm residence of the modern convenient and substantial type, which was built in 1900 and improved and remodeled in 1913, and a large well-built bairn, 50 x 52 feet, especially adapted for hay and stock, built in 1906. Mr. Dunn is quite extensively engaged in stock raising and has met with uniform success in that line of endeavor. He raises high grade Hereford cattle and Poland China hogs, and is considered one of the successful stockmen of his section of the county.

Mr. Dunn was married in 1881 to Miss Virginia Burris, a daughter of F. M. and America (Shomake) Burris, of Camp Branch township. Both parents of Mrs. Dunn are now deceased and their remains are buried in the Pitts Chapel Cemetery. The Shomake family were early pioneer settlers of Camp Branch township. To Mr. and Mrs. Dunn have been born six children, as follows: Carvey, died in infancy; Marion, Nome, Alaska; Mrs. Dora McGee, died at the age of thirty-two; Clarence, re¬ sides in Warm Springs, Montana; Oscar, Kansas City, Missouri; and Virginia, resides at home.

Whatever success has come to Mr. Dunn is the result of industry coupled with capable management and it should also be added here that his success is in no small measure due to the co-operation and assistance of his wife, who at all times has been his advisor and business partner in all his undertakings.

Jacob F. Kircher, one of the Judges of the county court of Cass County, is a well-known and successful farmer and stockman of Camp Branch township. Mr. Kircher is a native son of Cass County, and was born in Grand River township. His parents were Jacob and Magdeline (Keller) Kircher. The father was born in Germany in 1837 and immi¬ grated to America when he was seventeen years old, settling in Logan County, Ohio. In 1866 he came to Cass County and settled three miles east of Harrisonville in Grand River township where he was successfully engaged in farming and stock raising until 1909. He owned a valuable farm of two hundred twenty acres which he sold and removed to Nampa, Idaho, where he now resides. His wife, Magdeline Keller, was born in Alsace, France, in 1840, and came to America with her parents in 1855, locating in Logan County, Ohio, where she and Mr. Kircher were married in 1860. She died December 31, 1905, and her remains are buried in the Clearfork Cemetery.

Jacob and Magdeline (Keller) Kircher were the parents of nine children, as follows: Catherine, married Will Kirk, and is now deceased; Mrs. Rosa Moore, Harrisonville, Missouri; Mrs. Lizzie Ullery, Nampa, Idaho; Charles, unmarried, and resides in Camp Branch township; Samuel, died at the age of three years; Jacob F., the subject of this sketch; Peter D., Camp Branch township; Mrs. Anna Donaldson, Nampa, Idaho; and Mrs. Ada Potter, Nampa, Idaho.

Jacob F. Kircher received a good common school education and afters wards entered McPherson College, McPherson, Kansas, where he was graduated in the class of 1891. He remained on the home farm with his parents until he was twenty-two years old when he engaged in farming on his own account, on a part of his present place which he bought in 1893. At first he bought forty acres of land for forty dollars per acre. Later he bought more land at a considerable advance in price and now owns two hundred twenty acres, one of the best improved and most pro¬ ductive farms in Cass County. When Mr. Kircher bought this land the improvements were meager. In 1906 he built a large modern ten-room residence. His stock and grain barn is a convenient structure 30 x 96 feet and he has another barn which is used for implements, grain, and stock and is a still larger structure, its dimensions being 50 x 120 feet. Mr. Kircher is a progressive stockman and raises registered Poland China hogs and high grade Shorthorn cattle. He feeds cattle quite extensively and usually ships about a car load each year and two car loads of hogs.

Mr. Kircher was marired August 1, 1893, to Miss Henrietta Plank, a daughter of D. H. and Leah (King) Plank, of Camp Branch township. The Plank family came to Cass County from McLean County, Illinois, in 1883, and settled about five miles south of East Lynne, and now resides about five miles southwest of East Lynne. To Mr. and Mrs. Kircher have been born eleven children as follows, all of whom are at home with their parents: Dora, Raymond, Leah, Fred, Henrietta, Katherine, Mildred, Leonard, Robert Theodore, Woodrow, and Dorothy.

Mr. Kircher is a life-long democrat and since his boyhood has taken a keen interest in politics. He was elected trustee of Camp Branch town¬ ship in 1903, and at the expiration of his term was re-elected to that office. In November, 1916, he was elected county judge for the south district of Cass County, and is now serving in that capacity. He is a man of good judgment, a careful business man, and well qualified in every particular for the important trust which the people have reposed in him.

He has served as president of the school board for a number of years. In addition to his other interests he is a stockholder in the Bank of Harrisonville and is now vice-president of that institution.

Thomas J. George, owner and proprietor of the Maple Hill Stock Farm, near Gunn City, is one of the successful stockmen of Cass County. Mr. George was born in Cooper County, Missouri, in 1852, and is a son of W. J. and Mary A. (Douglas) George, both natives of Missouri. The father was born in Cooper County, in 1828, and died February 4, 1915, and the mother was born in Franklin, Howard County, in 1829, and died December 25, 1916. The George family settled in Index township in 1866, where the father was a successful farmer and stockman for a num¬ ber of years, but spent the latter part of his life in retirement.

Thomas J. George was one of a family of four children born to his parents as follows: J. T., New Hope, Arkansas; Mrs. Mollie J. Akin, Fredonia, New York; Henry, deceased; and Thomas J., the subject of this sketch. Mr. George was educated in the public schools, Missouri University, Columbia; and Spaldings Business College, Kansas City. In 1872 he began farming and stock raising with his father near Gunn City, and shortly afterwards bought one hundred twenty acres west of his present place which he sold a short time afterwards and bought two hundred acres to which he has added from time to time. He now owns seven hundred seventy acres in Index township, besides seven hundred fifty acres in Bourbon County Kansas, and one hundred sixty acres in Morton County, Kansas. Mr. George is essentially a stockman and has fed cattle on a large scale for years, averaging about two hundred head a year. About eleven years ago he began raising pure bred Herefords and now has about two hundred head of registered Herefords which includes about one hundred cows. In his herd are to be found some of the best registered Hereford cows in the country. He owns "Dorothy Perkins," a full sister of "Scottish Lassie," for two years the champion Hereford cow of the United States, taking the first premiums at both the International and Royal Stock Shows. "Maple Hill Stock Farm" has all modern equipments for conveniently carrying on the stock raising on an extensive scale. The place is well watered and an ideal stock farm.

Mr. George was first married in 1876 to Miss Belle Hester, who died in 1877. In 1881 he was married to Miss Maggie Taliaferro of Moniteau County, Missouri, and to this union were bom the following children:

Mrs. Jessie C. Sallee, Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. Beth Bohon, Newton, Kansas; Ralph, mechanical engineer, Kansas City, Missouri; Ray, on the home place with his father; Ned, on a cattle ranch near Daniel, Wyoming; and Eugene, a student in the Harrisonville High School. The wife and mother of these children died in 1901. June 20, 1905, Mr. George was married to Miss Elizabeth Hammons, a daughter of Samuel Hammons, a pioneer settler of Polk township. Samuel Hammons died in 1874, in Polk township. Mrs. George was a teacher for seventeen years prior to her marriage, having been successfully engaged in that profes¬ sion at Carthage, Missouri, and Ft. Smith, Arkansas.

The George family, like many others, met with considerable property loss during the Civil war. The father, W. J. George, entered the Con¬ federate service during the early part of the war and served under General Shelby until the close of the war. He died at the age of eightyseven years. He was a friend of all the children as well as the older people and was universally respected and admired.

Thomas J. George is of the progressive type who looks on the sunny side of life. He is an optimist and believes that the opportunities for success in most any field of endeavor are greater today than ever before, and he ought to know what he is talking about for success in a business way is not a theory with him. He has had a successful career which is the best exemplification of his view.

Taylor Perry, of Gunn City, is a native of Ohio, and saw much of the west over fifty years ago. He was born in Adams County in 1849, and is a son of Needham and Elizabeth (McGavney) Perry, both natives of Adams County, Ohio. They were the parents of six children of whom Taylor Perry, the subject of this sketch, is the only surviving member.

Taylor Perry made his own way in the world from the time he was thirteen years old. He received such education as the country schools in those days afford and in early life began working for farmers by the month and at first received thirteen dollars a month for his services. In 1869, when he was about twenty years of age, he came west and located near Ft. Scott, Kansas. After remaining there about a year he came to Cass County, remaining in the vicinity of Harrisonville for a little over a year, when he went to Lafayette County, Missouri. In 1881 he went from there to Vernon County where he remained until 1883, when he returned to Cass County and bought a farm in Index township. In 1912

Mr. Perry was married April 4, 1877, to Miss Addie McCullough of Lafayette County, Missouri. She is a daughter of Spottswood and Mar¬ garet (George) McCullough, and a niece of Colonel Robert McCullough. To Mr. and Mrs. Perry have been born the following children: Mrs. Margaret Deatley, Latour, Missouri ; Mrs. Estella Lenck, Sheridan, Wyoming; Mrs. Edna Schriver, Sheridan, Wyoming; Mrs. Edith Barnes, Windsor, Missouri ; and Marie, who is now teaching her first term of school. All of the Perry children have been given good educational ad¬ vantages and attended the State Normal School at Warrensburg. All except Estella were teachers. In addition to rearing their own family of five children, Mr. and Mrs. Perry reared and educated two orphan children of her sister. They are Henry 0. Smith and Ada Smith. The former is now a railway mail clerk with headquarters at St. Louis, Missouri, and the latter is a stenographer for Judge Bradley at Warrensburg, Missouri. The Perry family are well known and have many friends in the com¬ munity.

Jesse E. Richardson, a progressive merchant of Gunn City, is also postmaster at that place, is a native son of Cass County. He was born two and a half miles north of Gunn City in 1882, a son of David and Amanda (Smith) Richardson, both natives of Ohio. The father was born in 1831 and died in Gunn City, January 7, 1906. The mother was born in 1840, and now resides with her son Jesse E. Richardson, the subject of this sketch, in Gunn City.

Jesse E. Richardson was the only child born to David and Amanda (Smith) Richardson. By a former marriage of David Richardson the following children were born: Edward, deceased; J. T., Collinsville, Oklahoma; A. J., Big Cabin, Oklahoma; L. H., La Harpe, Kansas; Mrs. Lizzie Sides, Sayer, Oklahoma.

Jesse E. Richardson was educated in the public schools of Gunn City and in 1906 when his father died, he succeeded to his father's mercantile business in Gunn City, buying out the interests of the other heirs of the estate. David Richardson the father came to Cass County about 1867, and settled on a farm north of Gunn City, in Index township. Here he bought a hundred sixty acres of land and was successfully engaged in farming and stock raising for a number of years. In 1892 the father engaged in the general mercantile business at Gunn City, and successfully conducted that business until the time of his death when he was succeeded by his son Jesse E. Richardson. Mr. Richardson carries a large stock of goods and he has an extensive trade, covering a large territory. He is a wide-awake business man and has won the confidence of the public by honest business methods.

Mr. Richardson was married December 17, 1915, to Miss Nellie Mickelson, daughter of M. Mickelson. Her mother died when Mrs. Richardson was about four years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson have one child, a son, Jesse Nelson. Mr. Richardson has an extensive acquaint¬ ance in the business world and is properly entitled to classification among the successful merchants of Cass County.

Henry Ross Wagner and Sargent Willis Wagner, known through¬ out Cass County as the "Wagner brothers," reside on the home place in Dayton township. They are sons of Henry Willis and Lucy Marilla (Rog¬ ers) Wagner. Henry Willis Wagner was born April 2, 1843, in Steuben County, New York, son of Henry James Wagner, who was born in 1816. Lucy Marilla Rogers was born March 12, 1849, in New Hampton, New Hampshire, daughter of Francis and Esther Ann (George) Rogers, the former a native of Vermont and the latter of New Hampshire. Lucy Marilla Rogers was a direct descendant of Hughie Rogers, one of the one hundred two Pilgrims who set sail from Plymouth, England in the May¬ flower, September 6, 1620. Francis Rogers, father of Lucy Marilla, migrated to Missouri in 1867 and located in Dayton township. He was born in Vermont in 1804 and died in Iowa in 1877. His last resting place is in Fort Atkinson, Winneshiek County, Iowa. To Henry Willis and Lucy Marilla (Rogers) Wagner were born eight children: Elizabeth Shaw, who died in infancy; Mrs. Clara Smith, bom February 11, 1877, residing in Cleburne, Texas; Mrs. Amy Dodd, born August 24, 1879, Dayton, Mis¬ souri; George Willis, bom December 30, 1882, deceased; Charles Dana, born January 20, 1884, deceased; Lucy Mabel, an attractive, intelligent young lady and splendid housekeeper, who is the home-maker for her brothers, born February 5, 1888 ; Sergeant Willis, bom April 4, 1891 ; and Henry Ross, born October 17, 1873. All the children were born in Dayton township, Missouri. The mother, one of the best-known women in this locality, a lady of culture whose kindness of heart gained many warm friendships, died October 17, 1915.

Henry Willis Wagner, father of the "Wagner brothers," was a federal soldier, enlisting in New York in Company I, Eighty-sixth New York Infantry and served as captain the year prior to the closing of the war. He was twice wounded in battle, at the battle of Chancellorsville in May, 1863, and at Spottsylvania Court House in May, 1864. At Chancellors¬ ville, where General Jackson met his untimely death at the hands of one of his own awe-stricken sentinels, Henry Wagner was shot through the right lung. It was at Spottsylvania, where Mr. Wagner was wounded in the right arm, that General Grant, facing a loss of thirty-four thousand men, wrote the immortal dispatch : "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer."

In 1870 Henry Willis Wagner came to Cass County, Missouri, and located in Dayton township. His father, Henry James Wagner, had pre¬ ceded him west three years before, coming to Dayton, Missouri, in 1867. Henry James Wagner built the Dayton hotel, the town having been liter¬ ally burned during the war. At that time Dayton was on the stage route from Butler to Pleasant Hill and passengers stopped in Dayton for dinner. During the war Henry James Wagner was a drum major in Company I, Eighty-sixth New York Infantry. He was a son of Joseph A. and Cath¬ erine (Digert) Wagner. Joseph A. Wagner, a native of New York, was a soldier of the war of 1812. Catherine Digert was a daughter of Sylvanus Digert, a Revolutionary soldier. Sylvanus Digert and General Herkimer married sisters by the name of Sweet. In addition to operating the Dayton hotel, Henry James Wagner was postmaster for eight years.

For a number of years after the death of his father, Henry Willis Wagner conducted the hotel. In 1888 he moved to his farm, now man¬ aged by the Wagner brothers, where he died October 9, 1893. He farmed on an extensive scale and was interested in keeping high-grade stock, having many registered Norman Percheron horses. Henry Willis Wagner was one of the first men in this part of the state to become interested in the bettering of stock.

The Wagner brothers have added many improvements to the fine old home place, among which are a silo, sixty-one feet from the ground and fourteen feet in diameter, built in 1913, and a splendid stock barn 40x60 feet. They have also remodeled the house, making a comfortable, modern residence of it. In 1897 a large pond was constructed near the barn, which has always held water. It is fed by springs.

have been engaged since then in sawing many trees which grew on the bottom land that is now being cleared for farming. The Grand River drainage ditch passes through the farm and will drain two hundred thirtyfive acres of the place.

able business men and their success has been largely due to strict atten¬ tion to the details of their vocation and an inherent ability which has come down to them from a long line of soldier ancestors, fighters who recognized no obstacles. These young men are doing their part to build up Cass County, and in the years to come, living in quiet retirement, they will be able to look back over useful, well-spent lives, content in the knowledge that their efforts have not been in vain and that no stain or blemish mars an honorable record of accomplishment.

William A. Stevens, proprietor of "Valley View Farm," Dayton township, was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, January 30, 1856. He is the son of Alfred and Amelia C. (Smith) Stevens. Mr. Stevens is of old Colonial stock, and is directly descended from William Stevens who, with his brother John and their widowed mother, came over from Oxfordshire on the ship "Confidence" in 1638, and settled at Newbury, Massachusetts. William Stevens had a son John, born in 1650. John's son was Otho Stevens, born in 1702, Otho's son was Jesse Stevens, born in 1757, Jesse's son was Asa Stevens, born in New Hampshire in 1794, and Asa's son was Alfred Stevens, born in New Hampshire, December 30, 1825. Alfred's son is the subject of this sketch.

The Stevens family moved from New Hampshire to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1833. There Alfred Stevens lived for thirty-nine years, and was engaged in farming. During the Civil war he served in Company H, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio infantry, and enlisted and was mustered out, at Cleveland, Ohio. He came to Cass County, Missouri in 1872, and bought one hundred and forty acres in Dayton township from Jacob F. Rogers, who left for Kansas. At present the farm contains two hundred and forty acres. A cabin was on the place when it was pur¬ chased. This cabin is still standing, but is now weather boarded, and finished on the inside and forms part of a newer and larger house of substantial construction.

subject of this sketch; Albert M., now a merchant of Clinton, Missouri; and Charles S., a banker at Garden City, Missouri. Those deceased are: Flora A., died at nine years; Alice A., died aged seven years; Emma A., died at two years. Mrs. Amelia Stevens died in 1912, aged eighty-two, and was buried at Garden City cemetery.

Alfred Stevens was master of the Mound Valley grange, organized at Austin in 1873. He was later secretary of the grange, at which time it did considerable co-operative work. He also distributed supplies for the destitute there, after the ravages of the grasshoppers in 1874 and 1875. He was secretary and director of the grange store, organized at East Lynne, was justice of the peace for four years, and president of the Farmers' Bank at Garden City, when it was first organized.

The original Stevens farm increased from one hundred acres to seven hundred acres, when it was divided among the three sons. William Stev¬ ens has the home place. On it are two large stock and hay barns. One is 38x70 feet with a basement. The other is 40x80 feet and also has a basement. Mr. Stevens' principal business is dairying and sheep raising. He also raises full blood Poland China hogs. He milks from fifteen to twenty cows, and raises yearly, from seventy-five to one hundred Shrop¬ shire sheep, and from forty to fifty hogs. He was one of the first men in this vicinity to handle sheep, and formerly kept from four hundred to six hundred head. For many years his dairy produced much cheese and butter, most of the latter being shipped to Kansas City, Missouri. He also ran a sorghum mill for over thirty years. Mr. Stevens now makes his home with William A., and is in good health at the age of ninety-one years, but lost his eyesight five years ago.

William Stevens was married November 25, 1879, to Emma C. Sliffe of Austin, Missouri. She is the daughter of Henry J. and Sarah (Walter) Sliffe. Her parents came to Cass county from Tuscarawas county, Ohio, in 1869, and settled near Austin. Mrs. Stevens has five brothers and four sisters living. They are: Mrs. Susan Yoder, of Pando, Colorado; Frank Sliffe, of Mill City, Oregon ; Mrs. Ida Tipton, of Cement, Oklahoma ; Jacob G., John Day, Oregon; Mrs. Hattie Kenagy, Rupert, Idaho; Robert N., Rupert, Idaho; Mrs. Dessa Hurt, Ashland, Oregon; William, farmer at Austin, Missouri, on the home farm ; and George, Kansas City, Missouri.

Andrew Gordon Deacon, a Civil War veteran, and pioneer business man of Harrisonville, now deceased, was born September 21, 1841, in Brighton, Canada. His wife, Jennie Madora Davis, was born August 10, 1857, in Knoxville, Tennessee. She died April 16, 1893, at Harrisonville, Missouri. In April, 1876, Andrew Gordon Deacon and Jennie Madora Davis, daughter of a prominent physician of Tennessee, were united in marriage, and to this union were born six children : Robert R., Mary Belle, William C., Elizabeth Sayre, Mrs. George B. Spivey, nee Helen Davis Deacon; and Andrew Gordon, Jr.

Andrew Gordon Deacon had an unusually fine army record. He enlisted May 10, 1861, in Captain E. S. Bragg's company, which was later Company E, Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. In the fights leading up to the battle of Antietam, sixty-five per cent, of the men in Captain Bragg's company were killed or wounded, but because of their unyielding pertinacity and invincible bravery they were known as the "Iron Brigade." Andrew Gordon Deacon lost his right arm in the battle of Antietam, fought September 17, 1862, the bloodiest single day in the war. The Union sol¬ diers fought splendidly and justified the confidence of their commander. This battle re-established the prestige of the Union army and while the nation was receiving the news with joy, Andrew Gordon Deacon, wounded and ill with intermittent fever, was being cared for in a private home in Keedysville, Maryland. Later he was taken to the Armory Square Hos¬ pital in Washington, D. C., where he was confined for four months. He had never been off duty a day up to the time of losing his arm. For "soldierly conduct in action" Andrew Gordon Deacon was promoted to second lieutenant by President Lincoln. When Lieutenant Deacon had recovered from the effects of the wound he secured a transfer to the Vet¬ eran Reserve Corps, in which he remained two and a half years, guarding Confederate prisoners at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana.

After the surrender of General Lee, April 9, 1865, Lieutenant Deacon was assigned to duty with the Freedmen's Bureau under General 0. 0. Howard, with headquarters in Richmond, Virginia. The Freedmen's Bureau was created by Congress in the war department March 3, 1865. It was to assume a relation of guardianship over the freedmen, direct his first steps in self-support and protection. Mr. Deacon's work consisted mainly of ratifying contracts and adjusting differences between the two races. For two and a half years he was with the bureau.

going into business with his brothers, John B. R. and E. C. Deacon. The firm sold implements and hardware. In 1888 the two elder brothers retired and Andrew Gordon Deacon became sole owner. The business was then incorporated under the name of the Deacon Hardware Com¬ pany, taking in as associates A. G. Deacon and his two sons, Robert R. and Wm. C. Deacon. Under this name the firm continued until August, 1907, when the stock and business were purchased by the Burch brothers.

Mention has already been made of two brothers of Andrew Gordon Deacon. He had three: Robert R., who located in Butler, Missouri, and was engaged in the hardware business there; E. C., who came to Cass County in 1868, a merchant and banker, one of the original Lincoln Re¬ publicans who helped organize that party in Illinois, died January 27, 1913; and John B. R., who was in business in Harrisonville with E. C. and Andrew Gordon. Andrew Gordon Deacon died April 1, 1914. His career was marked by constant industry and integrity, earnest effort and determination directed along well-defined channels. Honest and rugged, he was distinctly a gentleman of the fine old school.

Robert R. Deacon, son of Andrew Gordon Deacon, enlisted as private in Company E, Fifth Missouri Volunteer Infantry at Harrisonville, Mis¬ souri, for the Spanish war, April 27, 1898. May 4, 1898, he was appointed second sergeant and May 18 was sent from Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri, where he was mustered in, to Chickamauga Park, Georgia. In the summer of 1898 he returned to Missouri to assist in recruiting the regiment to full complement. He was mustered out and honorably dis¬ charged November 9, 1898.

Jonathan Famuliner, a prominent citizen of Garden City and one of Cass County's extensive landowners, is a native of Ohio. He was born in Ross County, in 1854, a son of Charles S. and Sallie Ann (Piper) Fam¬ uliner, natives of Ohio. Both parents are now deceased. They were the parents of the following children: Catherine, deceased; Elizabeth, Piatt County, Illinois; John, Piatt County, Illinois; Hepbsy, deceased; Eliza, deceased; William, deceased; George, deceased; Charles, Camp Branch township; Marion, Butler, Missouri, and Jonathan, the subject of this sketch.

Jonathan Famuliner received a good common school education in Ohio and Illinois. The Famuliner family removed from Ohio to Illinois in 1863, when Jonathan was about eight years old. In 1874 they came to

Missouri and settled in Cass County, four miles northwest of where Gar¬ den City now stands. This was the grasshopper year, and many of the settlers were leaving at that time after the country had been devastated by these destructive pests of the plains, which seemed to take possession of the entire country and devoured every green vestige of vegetation. Grasshoppers or no grasshoppers, the Famuliner family had come to Cass County to stay and make good, and they did. Jonathan and his brothers had purchased seven hundred acres of land four miles north of Garden City in 1870. After coming here in 1874 Jonathan Fumuliner engaged in farming and stockraising, and also bought and fed cattle and hogs exten¬ sively, and prospered. He bought additional land whenever opportunity and circumstances presented themselves until his broad fields now aggre¬ gate fourteen hundred acres of productive and well improved farm land. While Mr. Famuliner has already obtained a very satisfactory degree of success, he is still alert and active in the business world. As he expresses it himself, he is "still hustling." In addition to his other extensive land holdings, he has ten acres of land adjoining Garden City, where he resides.

Mr. Famuliner was united in marriage in February, 1876, with Miss Elizabeth McCance, a daughter of James and Margaret McCance, of Camp Branch township. The McCance family settled in Dayton township, Cass County, in 1870, and the parents are now deceased. They were the parents of the following children : Mary Stofer, died at Cazad, Nebraska ; Eliza¬ beth, wife of Jonathan Famuliner, subject of this sketch; J. D., lives in Cozad, Nebraska; Charles, lives in Cozad, Nebraska; Thomas McCance, lives in Cozad, Nebraska; Reverend Robert, a Christian minister, who resides in Iowa; Hester, lives in Florida; Mrs. Anna Williams, Nebraska, and Mrs. Belle Woodruff, Cozad, Nebraska.

To Jonathan Famuliner and wife have been born the following chil¬ dren: Reverend J. W., pastor of the Christian church, Wichita, Kansas; Charles, a successful farmer and stockman, of Camp Branch township; Emma, married William Patton, Index township; Florence, married Ezra Harrison, Dayton township; Effie, married A. A. Allen, Camp Branch township; Thomas, resides in Camp Branch township.

The Famuliner family all belong to that progressive and thrifty type that lives up to the highest requirements of citizenship. Jonathan Famu¬ liner is a progressive and public-spirited man, who always stands ready to co-operate with any commendable enterprise that has for its object the betterment of the community. Mr. Famuliner was school director on the school board in Camp Branch township during almost the entire time of his residence there. He and his wife are members of the Christian church at Garden City, and are highly respected in the community.

Joseph Shelton West, the efficient trustee of Dayton township, is a worthy son of a fine old pioneer family. He was born in 1874 in Bates County, Missouri, son of J. T. and Elizabeth C. (Kimberlin) West. J. T. West was born in Worth County, Missouri in 1842 and Elizabeth (Kimber¬ lin) West is a native of Arkansas. J. T. and Elizabeth (Kimberlin) West were the parents of four children : Mrs. Hattie B. Helms, Warrensburg, Missouri; Joseph S., subject of this review; Grace V. Coe, Creighton, Mis¬ souri, and Bessie, deceased.

J. T. West, father of the subject of this review, moved from Bates County to Sherman township when Joseph Shelton was five years of age. He located five miles southwest of Creighton where he purchased one hun¬ dred twenty acres of land. Mr. West has from time to time increased his holdings until he now owns more than eight hundred acres of fine farm land in Sherman and Dayton townships. J. T. West began life in Platte County, Missouri, cutting cordwood by the day. From the days of his boyhood Mr. West has been marked for his economy, integrity and con¬ stant industry and his present prosperous condition has come as the re¬ sult of earnest effort and determination, of no little enterprise and energy. J. T. West is pre-eminently a self-made man and the story of his life should be the source of great inspiration to the youth of today. When his children became of age he gave each five hundred dollars and urged them to make good use of the money. That all have done so is proof enough that the father's teaching and example were not fruitless.

Joseph Shelton West spent his boyhood days as the average lad on the farm, attending school in Sherman township and assisting his father with his work. There is always much which a boy on the farm can do and Joseph was the only son. He was ever a willing worker and these early experiences laid the foundation for much of his later success in life. It was the father's greatest desire that his children should have advantages denied him and all received the benefits of a good education. Joseph Shel¬ ton attended school in Chillicothe one year and Garden City one year. Until he was twenty-three years of age he remained at home. He bought his first farm when he was twenty-six years of age. This place consisted of one hundred twenty acres near Dayton, Missouri.

In 1900 Joseph Shelton West and Lois J. Morgan, daughter of Lind¬ say R. and Hannah J. (McKissen) Morgan, were united in marriage. Lindsay R. Morgan is deceased and is buried in Bufford cemetery. Hannah J. (McKissen) Morgan is at present residing in Harrisonville, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. West remained upon the farm near Dayton until 1910, when they sold the place and purchased their present home, formerly the Thomas Hutton farm. This place consists of one hundred sixty acres, nicely located one-half mile south of Garden City.

The West farm is a splendid stock farm. Mr. West handles a fine grade of stock, hogs and cattle. He ships each year one car of hogs and keeps from twenty to twenty-five head of cattle and fifteen head of horses. The buildings on the place are all in excellent repair. He has two good barns and two granaries. Mr. West erected one barn since coming to the place and remodeled all the other buildings. His comfortable residence consists of one story and a half and is a home that is a model of house¬ wifely neatness.

For five years Joseph S. West was the capable director of the Cass County Mutual Insurance Company. Two years he served with much credit to himself and great satisfaction to all concerned as member of the township board. Mr. West has been the trustee of Dayton towmship for the past two years and at present is clerk of the school board. To every trust reposed in him Joseph S. West has been true. He has served and is now serving his country faithfully and well and he has made for himself a name which is the synonym for strict integrity and unimpeachable honor.

F. E. Coe, the faithful cashier of the Bank of Creighton, wTas born in Galesburg, Illinois, July 29, 1877, son of Moses E. and Jennie M. (Par¬ sons) Coe. Moses E. Coe was a native of Illinois, born in 1845. Jennie M. (Parsons) Coe was also a native of Illinois. Both parents died in Illinois, the father in 1880 and the mother in 1914.

F. E. Coe came to Cass County in 1885, from the home of his grand¬ mother in Illinois, to live with his uncle, D. P. Coe. D. P. Coe came to Sherman township in 1866. F. E. Coe w>as just a child of eight years wdien he came to his uncle's home. The year following his coming, 1886, D. P. Coe died. He is buried in Byler Cemetery. R. S. Coe, son of D. P. Coe, resides in Sherman township.

souri. When he attained manhood he followed the pursuits of agriculture in Sherman township until 1904, when he was elected cashier of the Bank of Creighton, which position he has since filled with much honor and credit to himself and great satisfaction to the bank officials and its patrons.

In 1898 F. E. Coe and Dola V. West, daughter of J. T. and Catherine (Kimberlin) West, of Sherman township, were united in marriage. Mrs. West is deceased and Mr. West is residing in Creighton.

The Bank of Creighton was organized June 6, 1902, with a capital stock of ten thousand dollars. At the time of organization the officers were as follows: Wm. M. Poynter, president; W. L. Poynter, cashier; Wm. M. Poynter, E. M. Morlan, Geo. C. Carter, G. W. O'Bannon and W. A. Wade, directors. The present officers are: J. T. West, president; F. E. Coe, cashier; W. B. Benn, vice-president; J. T. West, E. M. Morlan, W. H. Waymire, George C. Carter, W. L. Poynter, W. B. Benn and F. E. Coe, directors. The present capital stock of the Bank of Creighton is ten thousand dollars with a surplus of five thousand and deposits amounting to one hundred thousand dollars. The bank owns its own building, a sub¬ stantial brick structure, 25x50 feet in dimensions. The bank was moved to its present location September 1, 1904. January 14, 1914, the Bank of Creighton bought out the Farmers' State Bank of Creighton and absorbed it, cancelling its stock, paying off the deposits and assuming the loans. In November, 1905, this bank was blown up and four thousand dollars stolen. The loss was fully covered, however, by insurance.

F. E. Coe deserves much commendation for the capable way in which he has through skillful management brought the Bank of Creighton un¬ usual and deserved success. He has risen to this position of honor and trust because of his personality and merits, and he is fully justifying the confidence reposed in him. Mr. and Mrs. Coe are valued members of Creighton society.

Tandy W. Hunt, owner and proprietor of the "Maple Hill Farm" in Index township, is a former county judge and a Cass County pioneer. He was born in Johnson County, Missouri, five miles south of Holden, August 8, 1848, and is a son of John B. and Nancy L. (Campbell) Hunt. John B. Hunt was a native of Kentucky, born April 4, 1817. When a lad about ten years old he came to Lafayette County, Missouri, and settled in Johnson County, near Holden, in the early forties. November 2, 1855, he came to Cass County, and settled on a place adjoining the farm where

Mr. And Mrs. Tandy W. Hunt And Family

Tandy W. Hunt now lives, in Index township. He owned two hundred acres here at the time of his death. His wife, Nancy L. Campbell, was a native of Virginia, born January 11, 1824, and died January 2, 1896, her husband having preceded her in death a number of years. He died June 22, 1862. They were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Mary A. Wollard, deceased; Mrs. Matilda C. Wall, Blair, Missouri; Tandy W., the subject of this sketch; Samuel Wilson, deceased; Mrs. Louisa J. Coke, Creighton, Missouri ; John L., died in infancy ; and John W., died in infancy.

the country was sparsely settled and there were but three houses between the Hunt home and Harrisonville. One could drive from their place to Austin without even passing a house. Ox teams were more common then than horses. Among some of the old settlers whom Mr. Hunt recalls who lived there in the early days are Uncle Jimmy Bullock, Billie Adams, Lott Watts, Lilborn Nalor, Samuel P. Thistle and Jack Adams. Mr. Hunt says that his father had the first photograph of himself made that was ever taken in Austin township, the work being done by a traveling pho¬ tographer.

Tandy W. Hunt received his education in the schools such as were afforded in those pioneer times, but he has added considerable to the schooling which he received in childhood by the experiences of a life time. He has always been a close student of men and affairs and kept himself well posted on current events. His father died in the early part of the war. When Order No. 11 was issued the mother and children went to Johnson County, where they remained until the close of the war, and upon returning in 1865 they found their home devastated and everything destroyed, but they proceeded with brave hearts and willing hands to begin the struggle of life over and finally succeeded. Mr. Hunt, the sub¬ ject of this sketch, remained with his mother until 1877 when he began life for himself, on a place adjoining the home farm, where he has since been engaged in farming and stock-raising and has met with well merited success. The place is known as Maple Hill Farm and is one of the valu¬ able farms of Index township.

Mr. Hunt was married August 17, 1876, to Miss Sarah Katherine Parker, of Index township, a daughter of James and Bettie Ann (Alkire) Parker. The Parker family came from Virginia. They were pioneer settlers of Lafayette County, Missouri, where Mrs. Hunt was born. To Mr. and Mrs. Hunt have been born the following children: Mrs. Ina L. Hinchman, Index township; Mrs. Edna Mable McNeal, Meridian, Idaho; Mrs. Ada Pearl Prigmore, Alva, Oklahoma; Mrs. Jimmie Farnsworth, Blair, Missouri; Mrs. Frankie C. Harrison, Index township; Louise, at home; Willie and George Edward, died in infancy.

Mr. Hunt has been a life-long democrat and has always taken an active interest in political affairs. In 1906 he was elected county judge of the south district of Cass County and re-elected to succeed himself in 1908 and again in 1910, serving three terms, which is unusual in Cass County. A candidate is rarely elected to that office for more than two terms; however, Mr. Hunt received a larger majority the third time that he was a candidate than he did on preceding occasions. During his term of office his aim was to give public affairs the same careful and conscien¬ tious consideration which he gives to his own private affairs, and the result was that he gave the county three successful and economical admin¬ istrations. During the time that Mr. Hunt was one of the county judges the new County Home was built, the fradulent railroad bonds were com¬ promised, settled and finally disposed of, local option was declared legal after a severe contest and the county has been dry ever since. In 1904 Mr. Hunt was elected trustee of Index township, resigning that office when he was elected county judge.

Mr. Hunt is one of Cass County's successful and honored citizens. During his career, both public and private, he has formed many acquaint¬ ances whose confidence and esteem he holds.

W. H. Wade, the genial proprietor of the "Elm Valley Stock Farm" in Sherman township, was bom near Galesburg, Illinois, in 1866, a son of G. W. and Isabel (McGrew) Wade. G. W. Wade, a native of Kentucky, came to Missouri in 1868. He settled near Wadesburg, which was named for W. A. Wade, a brother of G. W. Wade, who operated a blacksmith's shop there before the war, when horseshoe nails were made of rod iron. Isabel (McGrew) Wade was a native of Illinois. She was born near Galesburg. To G. W. and Isabel (McGrew) Wade were born three chil¬ dren: Mrs. Mary Frances O'Bannon, Creighton, Missouri; W. H., sub¬ ject of this review; and J. 0., who resides in California.

followed the pursuit of farming in this vicinity. In 1874 Isabel (McGrew) Wade, mother of the subject of this review, died. She is buried at Wadesburg, Missouri. Mr. Wade married his second wife, Phoebe Jane WTilson, in Wadesburg. To G. W. and Phoebe Jane (Wilson) Wade were born two children: C. B. Creighton, Missouri, and Mrs. Edith Ross, residing near Greatfalls, Montana. Mr. Ross, husband of Mrs. Edith Ross, is in the wheat business, and in 1916 raised seven thousand bushels of wheat. Mr. Wade was living in Wadesburg when Order No. 11 was issued. He was with the federal service at Harrisonville when an epidemic of measles broke out and all were quarantined in one house.

In February, 1917, G. W. Wade died on the farm near Creighton. He was seventy-six years and six months of age at the time of his death, a noble member of the brave clan of pioneers whose labors have done so much toward bringing Cass County up to its present prosperous condi¬ tion. We can not be too grateful to those men and women who, like G. W. Wade, endured all the countless hardships of primitive conditions while spending their lives clearing, cultivating, improving the land and better¬ ing conditions that their sons and daughters might have life in a fuller measure. Unselfishly they blazed the trail and forged ahead that those who came after them might find the path easier to tread and perchance have time to gather some of the blossoms which grow by the wayside. Mrs. Wade, widow of G. W. Wade, is at present residing in Creighton, Missouri.

W. H. Wade came to Missouri with his parents in the fall of 1868, and lived the life of the average boy on the farm, attending the common schools and assisting his father. At the age of eighteen he began life for himself. He had been reared on the farm and quite naturally chose farm¬ ing as his vocation. For several years he was engaged in farming in Cass County, near Wadesburg, later near Garden City, where he remained ten years.

In 1889 W. H. Wade and Mary Etta Gregg, daughter of John W. and Elizabeth Gregg, of Sherman township, were united in marriage. John W. Gregg came to Cass County before the Civil War, locating near Creigh¬ ton. One night, during those troubulous times, the bushwhackers came for him. It was widely known that he was a Union man. Mrs. Gregg discovered the bushwhackers just in time to waken her husband and for him to fly to the woods. The men searched the place and not finding him took his team. The next morning by sunrise John W. Gregg was back in

Harrisonville, under the protecting wings of the federal service, and neither did he walk all the way there. To W. H. and Mary Etta (Gregg) Wade have been born five children, all born in Sherman township: Louis Alvis, Shindo, California; Mrs. Lura Bell Tomberlin, Shindo, California; George W. Bryan, at home; Pearl and Charles William Henry, twins, at home.

W. H. Wade bought his present home, which is located five miles east of Garden City, in 1901, from P. M. Willis. It was formerly owned by Mr. Gross and another man, who originally entered the place. The farm is known as the "Elm Valley Stock Farm" and comprises one hundred twenty-five acres and thirty-four acres, which though separated are in the same township. The place is well watered by a branch which flows into Walnut Creek. Mr. Wade has improved the place himself, erecting the residence, a two-story structure of six rooms and basement, a barn, 36x40 feet in dimensions, a feeder, 34x32 feet, and a silo, 12x24 feet. The silo was built four years ago of two-inch Oregon fir. Mr. Wade ships from fifteen to twenty cars of stock annually, two and three of which are of his own raising.

W. H. Wade is one of the county's best stockmen, a man of much vim and energy. He and Mrs. Wade are widely known and highly esteemed and are numbered among Cass County's most valuable citizens. No man is doing more than he to advance the best interests of his township and county.

Daniel B. O'Bannon, proprietor of the "O'Bannon Walnut Grove Farm," a prominent stockman of Sherman township and a representative of one of Cass County's best pioneer families, was born January 16, 1863, in Sherman township, Cass County. He is one of four sons bom to Elijah and America (Hazlewood) O'Bannon. Elijah O'Bannon, a native of Ken¬ tucky, was born in 1824. When a lad he migrated from Kentucky to Pettis County, Missouri, and thence to Cass County in 1856. He located upon a farm adjoining on the east the farm of Daniel B. O'Bannon. He purchased this tract of land at ten dollars per acre, and from time to time entered more land until he became owner of three hundred forty acres in Missouri and eighty acres in Oklahoma. America Hazlewood was also a native of Kentucky. She was born April 15, 1821. To Elijah and America (Hazlewood) O'annon were born six children: J. W., deceased; Mrs. Elizabeth Tabor, deceased ; Mrs. Katie Elliot, Aline, Oklahoma ; Jacob,

Aline, Oklahoma; Daniel B., subject of this review, and G. W., Lake Arthur, New Mexico. Elijah O'Bannon moved to Henry County, Missouri, when Order No. 11 was issued, but he soon brought his family back home for he was a Union man. Mr. O'Bannon was with the home guards at Harrisonville and remained there most of the time while conditions were in an agitated state. Mrs. O'Bannon died October 12, 1898, and eleven years later was followed in death by her husband, who died November 26, 1909. Elijah O'Bannon is buried in the Pemberton Cemetery in Johnson County, beside his wife.

Daniel B. O'Bannon received his education in the schools of Cass County. He has lived in the vicinity of his present home all his life. He was reared on a farm and has always followed the vocation of farming, becoming a good, thorough, practical agriculturalist.

In 1888 Daniel B. O'Bannon and Mary Wade, daughter of G. W. and Isabel (McGrew) Wade, pioneers of Sherman township, were united in marriage. G. W. Wade and wife settled in Cass County, near Wadesburg, Missouri. Mrs. Wade died in 1874, and Mr. Wade in February, 1917. Both are buried in the Wadesburg Cemetery. To Daniel B. and Mary (Wade) O'Bannon have been born the following children : Eva, at home with her parents; Frank, married Jessie Kackley and resides near Gunn City, Mis¬ souri ; Floyd, married Emma Chisler, of Creighton, Missouri ; Glenn, Lake Arthur, New Mexico; Lee, Hazel, Dell, Everett and Estel, all residing at home.

In 1890, Daniel B. O'Bannon purchased the farm, comprising one hundred eighty acres, formerly known as the David Tabor farm. Mr. O'Bannon has gradually increased his holdings until he is now owner of three hundred fifty acres, one hundred seventy of which comprised the old home place. This farm is an ideal stock farm six and a half miles east of Garden City, and here Mr. O'Bannon follows general stock-raising. The place is well stocked with cattle and hogs.

All the fine improvements upon his place, Daniel B. O'Bannon, him¬ self, has placed there. In 1899 the beautiful residence, a two-story struc¬ ture of seven rooms, was built. A splendid, commodious bam, 36x38 feet in dimensions, was built in 1907. Many other buildings, including a gran¬ ary and chicken house have been added and all are kept in the best repair. Stately forest trees surround the residence, adding the last touch to a per¬ fect picture of a lovely, woodland home.

than in any other vocation in the United States. It is the path to prom¬ inence and position which is perhaps more frequently traveled than any other, and it is therefore not unusual to find the leading citizens of a com¬ munity occupied with the peaceful work of the farm. Mr. O'Bannon is one of Cass County's most desirable citizens.

N. S. Clark, one of the best and most prominent farmers and stockmen of Cass County, is a resident of Sherman township. He is the son of Gerry and Salana (Holcomb) Clark, natives of Hartford, Connecticut, and pioneers of Marion County, Ohio, where N. S. Clark was born Janu¬ ary 12, 1852. Gerry Clark died in Marion County, Ohio, in 1856, when his youngest son, N. S. Clark, was but a child of four years. To Gerry and Salana (Holcomb) Clark were born ten children: J. N., deceased; A. B., Knoxville, Iowa ; L. L., a prominent land owner, who died in 1915 at Mar¬ shalltown, Iowa; Mrs. Emma Boughton, who died in 1915 at Marshall¬ town, Iowa; F. A., Enterprise, Kansas, a veteran of the Eighty-eighth Ohio Infantry, in service three years; Winfield Scott, Columbus, Kansas; H. C., who died at the age of thirty years; Mrs. Elvira Green, who died in Ohio about 1910; J. H., who was a well-known merchant of Ottawa, Kansas, where he died and is interred at Peabody, Kansas; and N. S., subject of this review. It will be noted that only four of this unusually fine family are left : A. B., of Knoxville, Iowa ; F. A., of Enterprise, Kan¬ sas; Winfield Scott, of Columbus, Kansas, and N. S., subject of this sketch.

N. S. Clark received his education in the schools of Marion County, Ohio. At the age of twenty-two years he entered the hardware and imple¬ ment business in Caledonia, Marion County, Ohio. In 1879 Mr. Clark migrated from Ohio to Vernon County, Missouri, and for five years was in partnership with W. P. Saylor, operating a ranch owned by Noah See, near Schell City. This firm fed from two hundred to four hundred head of cattle. They were very successful in operating the ranch, but N. S. Clark soon left Missouri and located in Labette County, Kansas, where he had purchased a farm of one hundred sixty acres. Here he made his home for fifteen years.

In 1876, N. S. Clark and Libbie N. Waddell, daughter of John Wad¬ dell, of Morrow County, Ohio, were united in marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Waddell were natives of Ohio. Mrs. Clark has three brothers and one sister: Henry, of Morrow County, Ohio; Isaac, Sidney, Ohio; A. J., a contractor and builder, Wichita, Kansas, and Allie Waddell, Marion, Ohio.

To N. S. and Libbie N. (Waddell) Clark have been born three children: Brittie, at home; Bertie, wife of Ed. M. Hines, Harwood, Missouri; and Claude, merchant in Archie, Kansas.

N. S. Clark took a prominent part in civic affairs in Labette County, Kansas. For six years he was trustee of Fairview township in Labette County. He was twice delegate to the Democrat-Populist State Conven¬ tions at Wichita, Kansas, when Governor Lewelling was nominated, and at Abilene, Kansas, when Governor Leedy was nominated. For years Mr. Clark took an active and influential part in all reform movements in Kansas. He is an able man, thoroughly posted on political affairs. He was candidate for representative in Labette County, Kansas, when a suc¬ cessful move was made which resulted in the fusion of the populists and Democrats there, and Mr. Clark withdrew from the race and threw his influence on the side of the Democratic candidate, who was elected. The fight in Kansas against the railroad and other corporate interests, which were intrenched in the Republican party from 1890 to 1896, was won by such men as N. S. Clark and those early reforms are now written into the laws of that state and have been taken up by other States and the nation.

Mr. Clark returned to Vernon County, Missouri, and purchased a farm of one hundred sixty acres, three and a fourth miles southeast of Harwood, where he lived until 1908. Nine years ago he purchased one hundred twenty acres from Jacob Smith and moved to this place in Sher¬ man township. He has since sold forty acres. The remaining eighty acres comprise his place which is delightfully located three and one-fourth miles east of Garden City. Since coming to this place Mr. Clark has remodeled the home, a house of seven rooms, and built a barn 30x52 feet, a double corncrib, and a chicken house, which is 12x24 feet in dimensions. Everything about the place shows care and bespeaks the hand of an expert. There is no better, more neatly kept place in Cass County.

Mr. and Mrs. Clark have already formed many warm attachments since their coming to this county, and their circle of friends is ever widen¬ ing. Cass County is especially fortunate to have enrolled among her citi¬ zens a man like N. S. Clark.

Robert H. Chandler, proprietor of "Fair Mead Stock Farm," one of Sherman township's most highly esteemed citizens, is a big man in all that the term implies. He was born April 11, 1862, in Medina County, Ohio, son of Isaac H. and Emily (Hilliard) Chandler. Isaac H. Chandler was a native of Medina County, Ohio, born in 1834. Isaac H. and Emily (Hil¬ liard) Chandler were the parents of the following children: Robert H., subject of this review; Lura N., residing on the home place near Creigh¬ ton, Missouri; Jennie, residing on the home place; and Roy A., residing on the home place.

Isaac Chandler, father of Robert H., came from Ohio to Sherman township, Cass County, in 1869. He purchased at this time the John Hardin farm of four hundred acres, in partnership with Mr. Crane. Mr. Hardin kept two hundred forty acres of the original ranch. Here Isaac Chandler engaged in stock raising. For several years he had free range for his stock, but three or four farms being fenced between his place and Harrisonville. Holden was his trading point. Upon this place he and his wife spent their lives. Isaac Chandler died May 3, 1915, his wife having preceded him in death the year before. Both are interred in the Dayton Cemetery. Mr. Chandler was a prominent man of his day. He was one of the committee of safety, a committee composed of seventy persons, selected to investigate the fraudulent bonds issued by county judges. He, George G. Crane and Cornelius C. Quick represented Sherman township.

Robert H. Chandler received his education in the schools of Cass County. His boyhood days were spent as most boys on the farm spend them. Until he was twenty-nine years of age he remained on the home place. In 1891 Robert H. purchased two hundred acres of land from his father and began life for himself.

In 1892 Robert H. Chandler and Lucy Staley, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth Staley, of Bates County, Missouri, were united in marriage. Stephen and Elizabeth Staley were living in Bates County at the time of the Civil War. Stephen Staley enlisted under "Fighting Joe Shelby" and served throughout the war. Mrs. Staley managed the farm while her husband was in service and she experienced all the trials and hardships of pioneer life in addition to the perils of border war. Mrs. Staley is a highly esteemed old lady, and now makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Chandler. She recalls in her own delightful way some very interest¬ ing incidents of the early days in Cass County. To Robert H. and Lucy (Staley) Chandler have been born three daughters: Mrs. Alma Ruckel, residing in Sherman township, near Creighton, Missouri; May, at home; and Emma, at home.

is located four miles northwest of Creighton. This farm is ideally located and well watered by a stream which touches the southwest corner. Mr. Chandler handles registered cattle and hogs, Shorthorn-Durhams and Poland Chinas. Since 1894, he has been raising stock for exclusive mar¬ kets and usually keeps about seventy-five head of cattle and one hundred head of hogs.

Mr. Chandler has improved his place himself and no finer improve¬ ments better arranged will be found in the state. In 1892 the residence, a two-story structure of seven rooms, was erected. Besides a garage, and many other buildings, he has erected a feed and stock bam, 36x45 feet, a hay and stock barn, 48x60 feet, a stock barn 40x42 feet and a silo, 14x30 feet, making a capacity of one hundred tons. The silo was erected in 1914. In 1915 Mr. Chandler drilled a five hundred ninety foot well to which he has attached a pump driven by a gasoline engine and from the well water is piped into the feed yards.

Robert H. Chandler has by hard labor and constant application to business, made his way in the world. He is one of the progressive type of sons of pioneers who have pushed Cass County to the front. The Chandler name is known throughout the state and universally honored and respected.

M. A. Creighton, proprietor of "Crestland Farm" and a worthy mem¬ ber of one of the best families that ever came to Missouri, is of Scotch descent. He was born in Adams County, Illinois, in 1847, son of J. B. and Ann (Ferree) Creighton. J. B. Creighton was born in Scotland. Ann (Ferree) Creighton was born October 29, 1821, near Lockhaven, Clinton County, Pennsylvania. To J. B. and Ann (Ferree) Creighton were born the following children : Mrs. Helena Payne, Dover, Oklahoma ; M. A. Creighton, subject of this review ; Mrs. Mary McDonald, Chanute, Kansas ; J. H. Creighton, Creighton, Missouri ; and Mrs. Emma C. Wallis, Wichita, Kansas.

J. B. Creighton immigrated to America when he was sixteen years of age and located near Nauvoo, Illinois. He came with his father, John Creighton, Sr., who remained in Illinois the remainder of his life. J. B. Creighton, Jr., migrated to Cass County in 1869 and located one mile north of the present site of Creighton, in Sherman township. The city of Creighton was named in honor of J. B. Creighton when it was laid out in 1885. Mr. Creighton was one of the pioneer merchants of the town. His death occurred August 13, 1913, in Wichita, Kansas, when he was visiting his daughter, Mrs. Emma C. Wallis. Ann (Ferree) Creighton, wife of J. B. Creighton, was of French Huguenot descent. Her grandfather was beheaded when a bitter religious war broke out in France between the Catholics and Huguenots, and his widow, the great-grandmother of Ann (Ferree) Creighton, came to America, joining William Penn's colony which Penn established in 1682. She was given title to two thousand acres in Pennsylvania by the renowned Quaker. Mrs. Creighton died August 17, 1908, and by the side of her husband is at rest in Grant Cemetery.

M. A. Creighton received his education in the schools of Illinois and Missouri. Even as a lad he was a hustler. He began life for himself when but a boy. Mr. Creighton has always been interested in agriculture and the stock business. In 1869 he entered the mercantile business with Woodson A. Wade and Wm. Kiler at Wadesburg, but he remained with the firm but one year. The call of the free, open country could not be resisted and in 1873 he purchased ninety acres, forty acres of which are part of the town site of Creighton.

June 26, 1873, M. A. Creighton and Mary Adella Wallis, daughter of Jacob C. and Mary (Dimm) Wallis, of Johnson County, were united in marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Wallis came to Missouri in 1868 and located near Rose Hill in Johnson County. Both are now deceased and buried in Grant Cemetery. Mrs. Creighton has two brothers and one sister living: I. D. Wallis, Wichita, Kansas; D. B. Wallis, Kansas City, Missouri, who is engaged in the real estate business; and Mrs. Margaret Blayney, wife of Rev C. P. Blaney, a Presbyterian minister of Marshall, Missouri. To M. A. and Adella (Wallis) Creighton have been bom the following children: Mrs. J. H. Arnold, Bluemound, Kansas ; Mrs. Jennie Lankford, Plattsburg, Missouri ; Ralph, who is mayor of Creighton, Missouri, and has been superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday School since he was fifteen years of age and elder in the church for many years ; and John Wallis, who is a Presbyterian missionary and has been for the past ten years in Can¬ ton, China.

M. A. Creighton owns three hundred forty acres of fine farm land adjoining the city of Creighton on three sides. This beautiful country place is known as "Crestland Farm" and overlooks the Black Oak Valley on the east and Creighton on the west. For forty-four years Mr. Creigh¬ ton has lived at "Crestland Farm" and has witnessed many changes which have occurred incidental to the growth and development of the country and Creighton. He recalls vividly a picture of the primitive conditions in the county when telephones, railroads, and even fences were unknown. Mr. and Mrs. Creighton have done their part nobly and well in the up¬ building of the state and county, and we are especially fortunate in having such a fine family in our midst.

Robert H. Ross, a prominent attorney of Creighton, Missouri, was born in Cooper County, Missouri, in 1868, son of Wm. J. and Anna H. (Thomas) Ross. Wm. J. Ross, a native of Green County, Missouri, was born in 1833. Anna H. (Thomas) Ross, a native of North Carolina, was born in 1832. She came with her parents to Pettis County when she was six years of age, in 1838. In 1870 Wm. J. Ross and wife came to Cass County and located in Sherman township where they purchased one hun¬ dred twenty-five acres of land, ninety-five acres of which now belong to R. H. Ross, subject of this review. Five years later, in 1875, Wm. J. Ross died. His widow remained on the home place until the children were reared to maturity and then in 1894 moved to Creighton. She died in 1907 and is interred in Wadesburg Cemetery, where Wm. J. Ross had been taken to his last resting place. Robert H. Ross is one of six children born to Wm. J. and Anna H. (Thomas) Ross, who were as follows: Annie E., Foster, Missouri ; James D., Creighton, Missouri ; Wm. R., deceased ; Mrs. Ida Helms, Foster, Missouri ; Robert H., subject of this review, and John

Robert H. Ross received his elementary education in the public schools of Cass County and in 1894 graduated from the law department of the State University of Missouri. After graduation, having read law with attorney-general B. G. Boone, of Clinton, Missouri, Mr. Ross opened a law office in Creighton, Missouri, and here he has been engaged in the prac¬ tice of his profession for twenty-two years. He possesses a fine law library, which is much larger than the average.

B. F. and M. A. (Earhart) Gregory, of Mingo township, Bates County, were united in marriage. B. F. Gregory is a native of Illinois and Mrs. Gregory, of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory reside on their farm, which is one of the best in Bates County, six miles south of Creighton. Mr. Gregory is a large land-owner and deals extensively in high-grade stock.

attention to the practice of law. He has never aspired to public office, but has been content to devote himself faithfully and conscientiously to the interests of his numerous clientage. Thoroughly honest and upright, he is a valued member of the bar. Perhaps the law has been the main high¬ way by which more men of intellectual strength have reached position and distinction in our country than any other, and we therefore expect to find among the leading citizens of a community members of the legal fra¬ ternity. The legists of the first decade in Cass County have passed away. Those who came to the bar in the early days have long since laid down their briefs. Those who come in the future will have in the record of Robert H. Ross an example of clean, honest, faithful devotion to his chosen profession well worth emulating.

Andrew G. Forsyth, a well-known and popular farmer near Creigh¬ ton, Missouri, is of noble pioneer stock and Irish lineage. He was born in Stark County, Ohio, December 26, 1840, son of John F. and Anna (Thornburg) Forsyth. John F. Forsyth was born in 1780 in Tyrone County, Ireland. He immigrated to America when a youth and located in Ohio. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. Anna (Thornburg) Forsyth was a native of Ohio. To John F. and Anna (Thornburg) Forsyth were born six children : Wm. T., who died in Illinois ; James S., who was cap¬ tain of Company H., One Hundred Fifth Illinois Infantry in the Civil War; R. W., who came to Cass County in 1867, died January 7, 1917, on the same day that the death of his second wife occurred, and both are buried at Grant Cemetery; Mrs. M. A. Clark, Los Angeles, California; Andrew G., subject of this review, and Mrs. Mary Ellen Gilchrist, deceased. John T. Forsyth died in 1864 at the age of eighty-four years.

Andrew G. Forsyth received his education in the public schools of Ohio. At the age of twenty-one he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred Fifth Illinois Infantry at Sandwich, Dekalb County, Illinois, when Lin¬ coln's call for volunteers came in 1861. His regiment saw active service in many battles and was especially prominent in the campaign against Atlanta in 1864. Mr. Forsyth was in the battle of Resaca and of Kenesaw Mountain, where Sherman made an impetuous attempt, by delivering a powerful assault, to break through Johnston's line and came off with a loss of three thousand men, and was advised by General Thomas in the future not to butt "against breastworks twelve feet thick and strongly abatised." July 17 General J. B. Hood, a man who would fight, replaced

Johnston and within eleven days he fought and lost three battles, Peach Tree Creek, July 20; Atlanta, July 22; and Ezra Church, July 28, with a loss of more than ten thousand men, and Sherman by a masterly stroke succeeded in capturing Atlanta, September 3, 1864. In all these battles Andrew G. Forsyth nobly did his duty, and in many more, including Dallas, Cassville and Golgotha Church. It was a year of hard fighting and heavy sacrifice. He was in the march with Sherman to the sea. He was mus¬ tered out June 17, 1865, at Washington, D. C., having faithfully served three years.

After the war had ended, Mr. Forsyth migrated from Ohio to Illinois and thence to Cass County, Missouri. He was in Illinois but three years, coming to Missouri in 1868, well prepared by his baptism of fire to cope with the primitive conditions then existing in Missouri. He located in Sherman township where he rented land for several years. When Mr. Forsyth had accumulated sufficient savings he purchased forty acres near old Wadesburg and upon this place lived for twenty years. In 1902 he purchased seven acres adjoining Creighton, where he now resides.

November 28, 1870, Andrew G. Forsyth and Nellie Foreman, daughter of James and Rachel (Trimble) Foreman, of Sherman township, were united in marriage. The Foreman family came to Missouri in 1865, locat¬ ing in Sherman township, Cass County, where they purchased one hundred sixty acres. Mr. Foreman died July 4, 1888, in Sherman township and his wife died a few years later in Denver, Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. Fore¬ man were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Sarah J. Wolfe, Creighton, Missouri ; Mrs. Kate Roberts, deceased ; Mrs. Bell Holmes, who died in Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Rachel Foreman, mother of Mrs. Forsyth, wife of the subject of this review; Mrs. Maggie Cox, who died in Denver, Colorado; Mrs. Mary Stewart, who died in Denver, Colorado; James B. McComb, Oklahoma, and Addie, Denver, Colorado. Sarah J. Wolfe, the eldest of the children, was born near Vincennes, Indiana, and is now eighty-five years of age. She is very active and possesses a bright, keen mind, whose faculties are still undimmed. She lived in Sullivan, Indiana, until the death of her husband, Benjamin S. Wolfe, in 1889. Since, she has traveled widely in Texas, Colorado and Mexico. She attend¬ ed the World's Fair in Chicago, and enjoyed it immensely. Although Mrs. Wolfe spends much of her time visiting with her children, her home is really in Creighton. Andrew G. and Nellie (Foreman) Forsyth have been

Mr. Forsyth recalls the cyclone, the destroyer of June 15, 1912, which caused so much destruction to property and great loss of life in this vicin¬ ity. Shade trees and fruit trees around the Forsyth home were uprooted and the home demolished. It was in this cyclone Mrs. Lee Parker was killed, her husband's limb broken, and a child of Cleveland Stevens killed. The Forsyths were fortunately spared by the kind hand of Providence, who works in "a mysterious way His wonders to perform."

Mr. and Mrs. Forsyth have bravely toiled together in Cass County for nearly a half century and they have nobly done their part in bettering conditions. A large amount of credit, praise which cannot be expressed in words, and high honor are due men and women like Mr. and Mrs. Forsyth, without whom Cass County could never have been what it is today.

A. W. Kohler, owner and proprietor of the Harrisonville Transfer Line and East Side Garage, is a native of Cass County. He was born April 4, 1874, and is a son of John Kohler, a sketch of whom appears in this volume.

Mr. Kohler was reared on his father's farm and educated in the pub¬ lic schools, including a course in the Harrisonville High School. He fol¬ lowed farming and stock raising in Grand River township until February 1, 1914, when he purchased his present business and removed to Harrison¬ ville. He still owns his farm in Grand River township, which is well improved and is a valuable piece of land. Mr. Kohler is the only transfer man in Harrisonville, and has a large business in this line of work. He uses both horses and automobiles in his transfer work and also does an extensive auto livery business. He was the agency of the Studebaker automobile, and during the past season has sold a number of these cars in Harrisonville and vicinity.

Mr. Kohler was married in 1897 to Miss Myrtle E. Karg, a native of Ohio and a daughter of Henry Karg, who resides in Cass County four miles east of Pleasant Hill. To Mr. and Mrs. Kohler have been born five children, as follows: Berneta Bertha, Alfred Earl, Henrietta May, Mary Marie and Okena Beatrice.

member of the Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America, Mystic Workers of the World, Central Protective Association, and belongs to the Christian Church. He is an enterprising and progressive business man whose genial manner and liberal ideas have made many friends.

John Kohler, of Harrisonville, one of the large land-owners of Cass County, was an early settler here and for a number of years a successful farmer and stock raiser. He is now living retired.