Harrison County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1921 (part 3 of 15)

J. W. Goble was a native of Indiana, bom near Shelbyville, but moved with his parents to Iowa, finally locating in Gentry County, Missouri, where they purchased land. Mrs. Goble was born and reared in Gentry County. She and her husband had the following children: Harvey, who married Florence Thrasher and who died in Oklahoma at the age of forty years; Roy Bert, who married Nellie Heath and who, together with two children Herbert and Clifford, all died with the flue within four days of one another in October, 1918; a third child. Bertha Ellen, is being reared by Mr, and Mrs. J. E. Goble; J. E. Goble, the subject of this sketch; Belva Ann, the wife of Charles Pettit, of Butler Township ; Walter C, who died with the flu in South Dakota, October 17, 1918. His widow and three children, Curtis, Olin and Azalee, live in Butler Township; and Homer, of Butler Township, who married Esta Salmon and who have two children, Vonetha and Vivera.

J. E. Goble spent his boyhood days in Oklahoma and in this county, attending school in both places. He entered the mercantile business in Oklahoma when a young man and remained there for one year, then deciding to accept the position as manager for the Thomas store at Matkins, holding this place for eight years, when he became manager for Scott and Morgan, which position he now very acceptably fills. This is a genera) store, carrying dry goods, groceries, hardware and shoes, and they also purchase country produce of all kinds. Mr. Goble possesses the excellent qualifications which enable him to be a first class manager of this store and the success of the business is largely due to his faithful efforts and initiative ability.

Mr. Goble was married February 7, 1909 to Leona Shaughnessy, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Brown) Shaughnessy. Her father is deceased and her mother is now living in California. Mrs. Goble has a twin sister, Leora, the wife of George McDaniels, and also has four brothers: Fred, Morris, Matt and Clifford Shaughnessy; and two sisters: Mrs. Judea Jackson, deceased; and Mrs. Carrie Konomos, or Dubuque, Iowa.

Mr. and Mrs. Goble have three children: Edna, Alvin and Goldie. Mr. Goble is a member of the Woodmen of the World. Mr. Goble is interested in all affairs pertaining to the community welfare.

A few years before the Civil War, a Presbyterian Church with Masonic hall above, was built at Matkins, but this building was burned during the war, and the next church that was built was the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which was erected in 1875, and which was also destroyed by fire in 1895, and an attempt was made at the same time to destroy the Thomas store. The church, which is the only church in Matkins, was rebuilt in 1895.

William W. Adams, the proprietor of Center Valley Farm, is one of the successful farmers and stockmen of Butler Township, and a descendant of a leading pioneer family of Gentry County. He was born May 11,

1863, the son of William and Delila (Wood) Adams, both natives of Illinois, where they were married. They came to Missouri about 1855 via ox team and settled in the northeast part of Gentry County, where Mr. Adams entered forty acres of land, which he eventually sold and purchased 100 acres. He served in the State Militia during the Civil War and died about 1893, and his wife died in 1908 ; both are buried in Lone Star Cemetery. They were the parents of the following children: Mra. Mary Hunter or Dallas Township; Mrs. Matilda Spillman of Worth County; John, who died in 1917; Willis, who lives near the home place in Gentry County ; William W., of this sketch ; Mrs. Lizzie Groom of Gentry County ; and Mrs. Lorella Shofner, of Union Star, Missouri; and Charles F. ana Delia, both on the home place in Gentry County.

William W. Adams attended the Gentry County schools during his boyhood days, and grew to manhood on his father's farm, leaving at the age of twenty-four years, when he rented land in Gentry, Worth and Harrison counties, and, after five years, he bought a small farm of fifty acres southwest of Bethany, which he sold five years later and bought 174 acres, now a part of the home place of 254 acres, which is located one-half mile from Matkins and six miles south of New Hampton. This place has been improved by Mr. Adams, he having a good residence. He built three barns, cement silo, 14x32 feet, and, at the present time, the farm is one of the best improved in the community. The water, which is excellent, is piped to the feed lots and pumped by a windmill. Mr. Adams does geneial farming and raises Shropshire sheep, cattle and hogs. He began life with the proper energetic spirit and his good farm and home, and the respect with which he is held is the result of his own efforts applied in the right manner.

Mr. Adams was married August 14, 1887, to Mary A. Dotson, a daughter of Noah and Serelda (Smith) Dotson, both of whom are deceased. Her father was a native of Iowa and died in Butler Township, Harrison County, and her mother, who was born in Harrison County, died near Bethany, where she is buried.

Mr. and Mrs. Dotson were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Adams ; Lafayette, of Tulsa, Oklahoma ; Alice, of Gentry County ; Sarah Susan Roush, of Enid, Oklahoma; Charlie, of Arizona; J. E., of southern Missouri ; Willie, of Denver, Colorado ; and Ona, deceased.

of twenty-two years ; Laura A., the wife of Ross Arthur, of Buffalo, Kansas ; Nora D., the wife of Preston Watson, of Butler Township ; Cora, the wife of Walter Parks, of Butler Township; Stella, at home; and Cecil Clifton, also at home and who has just finished two years in the high school at New Hampton.

The grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Adams are: Thelma, Pauline and Wilbur Adams; Clevtis, Keith and Evanelle Watson; Kenneth Parks and B. E. Arthurs.

Mr. Adams has also found time, aside from his personal duties, to assist in the affairs of the township, having been justice of the peace for four years, a member of the township board and clerk of the school board. He is also a member of the New Hope Baptist Church and the Woodmen of the World.

Marvin L. Thomas, a leading citizen of Butler Township, and who, until September, 1919, had been engaged in the mercantile business, is a native of this township and descended from one of the pioneer families of this section, whose members took a prominent part in the development and opening up of this locality. He is the only child born to D. S. and Sallie E. Thomas, the former a native of North Carolina, born October 16, 1841, but his father, D. M. Thomas, moved two years later to Butler Township and entered land three miles south of Matkins. He died May, 1862, and is buried near the Big Spring, southwest of Matkins.

D. S. Thomas was married in Maryland, September 25, 1866, to Sallie E. Elliott, daughter of Vachel A. and Elizabeth A. Elliott, of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate Army September 1, 1861, having the distinction of bemg the first one to volunteer from Butler Township. Two others enlisted, but neither of them ever returned. Mr. Thomas enlisted with Company G, First Missouri Cavalry, under Colonel Elijah Gates, and was in the battles of Blue Mill Landing, Siege of Lexington, Pea Ridge, Edwards Station and Champion Hills. He was captured May 17, 1863, at Big Black, Mississippi, and was in prison at Fort Delaware until August, 1863, when he was transferred to Point Lookout, Maryland, and was paroled in the spring of 1864, where he remained until August, 1870. He then came to Butler Township and lived on a farm formerly owned by his father until March, 1878. His wife died September 1, 1911, and is buried at Matkins Cemetery. D. S. Thomas was a strong member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, uniting in 1859. He was superintendent of a Sunday school in Maryland for four years and served in this capacity in Missouri from 1871 to 1903, when he resigned on account of poor health, but performed this office again from 1906 to 1912.

Marvin L. Thomas is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and is a member of the official board of the Methodist Church at Matkins, Missouri.

Mr. Thomas is a Democrat and has been active in political affairs, thereby gaining many warm friends throughout the county. With the exception of two years, he has been county committeeman of the Democratic party since 1898. He was alternate to the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore when Woodrow Wilson was nominated and also attended the national conventions at St. Louis in 1916 and at San Francisco in 1920, and was a delegate to the State Judicial Convention at St. Joseph in 1904, and at Excelsior Springs in 1906. Mr. Thomas received his education in the district schools and also attended Northwest Missouri College, now known as Palmer College, at Albany, Missouri. The matf^rnal great-grandfather of M. L. Thomas was a Revolutionary soldier and was at Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered, and was also a veteran of the War of 1812. His maternal grandmother, Elizabeth A. Lee, was related to General Robert E. Lee, the famous Confederate general.

Mr. Thomas is a man of excellent literary attainments, a keen observer and reader of events, and is well posted in the history of his township, recalling vividly the older settlers. The first store in the town of Matkins was started in 1878 by Joseph Tague, and in 1879 D. S. Thomas formed a partnership with Mr. Tague under the name of Tague and Thomas, which partnership continued for one year, when Mr. Thomas and S. D. Whitely organized a store here, erecting a new building. They were in business together until 1886, when Mr. Thomas bought Mr. Whitely's interest and continued in business by himself until 1893, when M. L. Thomas became partner. D. S. Thomas died March 5, 1917, and the business was continued by his son, Marvin L. Thomas, until September 15, 1919, when he sold the stock and rented the store building and fixtures.

The first doctor to locate in Matkins was Doctor Mohler, who lived here only a short time, and in 1886 Dr. J. W. Cavanaugh began practicing in this vicinity and continued until 1892, when Dr. E. D. Rathburn came here and lived until 1896. Other doctors who practiced here were Dr. H. P. Yeater, from 1893 to 1895 ; Dr. G. T. Walker, from 1896 to 1898 ; Doctor Forbes, Doctor Funk and Doctor Wilson, the last named leaving in May, 1912, and since that time there has been no doctor here.

D. S. Thomas was the first and only postmaster at Matkins, this office having been discontinued on June 29, 1907. D. S. Thomas was justice of the peace and member of the Township Board from 1881 to 1891. He served as school director and district clerk from 1882 to 1891.

John T. Green, successful farmer and stockman and proprietor of Green's Hereford Farm, in White Oak Township, was born on the farm adjoining the farm where he now lives, August 4, 1871, the son of Marcus L. and Frances (Johnson) Green.

Marcus Green was born in Clay County, Missouri, June 15, 1838, and died on his home place in White Oak Township, April 11, 1913, and is buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery. His wife was born in this county and died in 1872 and is buried in White Oak Cemetery. They were the parents of the following children: Martha E. Thomas of Omaha, Nebraska; Nancy, who lives on the home place and John T., the subject of this sketch. Marcus L. Green was married a second time to Nancy E. Dotson, who lives on the home place. To the second marriage, were born three children: Mary Arthur of White Oak Township; Charlie and Joseph Green of White Oak Township.

Marcus Green was a veteran of the Civil War of Company B, 23rd Missouri Cavalry, and was wounded at the time of Price's raid, having been shot through the left breast and left for dead. He recovered and lived to be seventy-five years of age.

John T. Green was educted in the county schools and attended the Stanberry Normal School for two terms, and, after finishing his education, he engaged in farming and stock raising which he has followed ever since. He bought eight-nine acres of his present farm in 1899, for $22.50 per acre and two years later bought sixty acres for $20.00 per acre, and in 1917, purchased sixty additional acres for $100.00 per acre, and in 1921 he acquired 160 acres more, making a total of 369 acres in his present farm, which is situated on the Jefferson Highway, three miles east of New Hampton.

Mr. Green has remodeled his recidence, built a silo and barn and made other improvements. He also has two tenant houses on the place, and the farm is well watered. Mr. Green has been raising Hereford cattle for about nineteen years, and has one of the best males in this part of the country. He also raises 0. I. C. hogs, draft horses and mules, and is considered as one of the most practical and successful farmers in this county.

Mr. Green also takes an active part in the affairs of the county and has served as collector and constable three different times; the first time he served as collector, he was only twenty-one years old, and served four years, and was elected the second time, but afterward refused to run again.

Mr. Green was married the first time in 1895 to Delia May Dotson. She died in 1898, leaving a daughter, Delia May, who is at home with her father. He married the second time to Rebecca Brooks, June 13, 1901, and she died May 5, 1921. Mr. and Mrs. Green reared an orphan boy, Paul Kinder, who lives with Mr. Green on the home place.

Stacy G. Youngman, one of the successful farmers and stock raisers of Butler Township, who has made his home on his present farm ever since he was seven years of age, with the exception of two years spent in Colorado, was born in Worth County, Missouri, October 26, 1869, tne son of Jacob and Rachel (Cart) Youngman. His father was a native of Kentucky, but moved to Iowa early in life, where he lived until 1865, v/hen he came to Worth County, Missouri, and followed farming there, owning a farm of 100 acres near Denver, Missouri. He came to Butler Township in 1876, purchasing 260 acres of land, 160 acres of which he owned at the lime of his death, in 1903, at the age of seventy-eight years. His wife was a native of Virginia and they were married in Iowa. She died at the age of sixty-nine years, in 1912, and both she and her husband are buried at Matkins, Missouri. Jacob Youngman was quite a Whig politician, but affiliated wth the Republican party at its organization. He was a member of the Methodist Church.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Youngman were the parents of the following children: Nellie, who died at the age of twenty years; Harry L., who died when twenty-seven years old; Stacy G., the subject of this sketch; C. F., a farmer in Butler Township; Jacob 0., a farmer of White Oak Township: Edward E., a railroad inan of Enid, Oklahoma; Irvin U., who died when twenty-two years of age; William A., a farmer in Gentry County; Katie Pearl, the wife of William E. Gray, of Butler Township. They are the parents of one daughter, Lois Margery. William Gray served in the late World War, enlisting at Bethany, Missouri. He was sent to Camp Dodge, May 24, 1918, thence to New York and went overseas August 16, 1918, with the Eighty-eighth Division. He arrived in England August 27, 1918, and went immediately. to France, and, in September, was sent to the front with Company C of the 351st Infantry. He was near Metz at the time the armistice was signed. While in France he was in a hospital at Gcndecourt with influenza and was returned with a casualty list May 25, 1919 and was mustered out at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, June 13, 1919.

By a former marriage of Jacob Youngman, he had the following children: Mrs. Elizabeth Ainslie, of Oklahoma; Mrs. Alice Mock, of California; Lewis Youngman, of Kansas City, Kansas; Mrs. Mary Tull, of Butler Township, and Miss Carrie Youngman, the address of whom is unknown.

Stacy G. Youngman was educated in Butler Township, and has followed farming and stock raising all of his life. He lives on the home farm of 160 acres which he and his sister, Mrs. Gray own. This place is one mile west of Matkins and is a well improved farm. Most of the farm is in pasture.

Mr. Youngman takes a keen interest in the various movements which tend to upbuild and better the community and has filled the office of clerk and assessor, holding these positions for eleven years and was trustee for two years. He performed the duties of office very faithfully and has many friends who hold him in high esteem.

Charles A. Miller, the capable and well known prosecuting attorney of Harrison County, Missouri, was born December 26, 1889, the son of Judson D. and Myrtle D. Miller, a further sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume.

Charles Miller received his education in the public schools of the county and was graduated from the Maryville State Teachers College in 1911. He then entered the Kansas City School of Law and was graduated in the class of 1913 and was admitted to the bar. While attending school, Mr. Miller taught school for six years, teaching three years in Harrison County, Missouri. He was principal of the schools at Missouri City for two years and superintendent of the schools at North Kansas City, Missouri for three years. In 1913, he began the practice of his profession in North Kansas City, but located in Bethany in 1919, and made the race for county attorney in 1920. He was elected and is now serving his first term.

April 21, 1911, Mr. Miller was married to Virdie A. Webb, a daughter of James B. Webb and wife of Clay County, Missouri. She was educated at Maryville State Teachers College. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have a son, Leroy, and daughter, Laverne.

C. A. Rowland, proprietor of the Rowland Mercantile Company, of Bethany, and well known in this section as a prosperous business man, was born in Daviess County, Missouri, November 28, 1879, the son of S. C. and Helen (Smith) Rowland ; the former now is living in St. Joseph, Missouri, and is connected with the Rock Island Railway Company, and the latter died in Daviess County August 11, 1883 at the age of thirty years, and is buried in Black Cemetery. C. A. Rowland is the only one living of three children born to his parents, the other two being Nellie, who was born in 1876 and died in 1881, and Bamett, who was bom in 1875 and died in 1880. By a later marriage of S. C. Rowland to Elizabeth McSparren, two children were born: Frank, who is manager of the hat department of McGee Brothers, of Lincoln, Nebraska, and Elizabeth, who attends school in Kansas City, Missouri.

The grandfather of C. A. Rowland, who was born January 8, 1797 and died January 12, 1877, was prominently identified in the early history of Daviess County, Missouri, he having been one of the earliest settlers of this county, and lived near Old Victoria. He took an active part in political issues of pioneer days and was a Democrat. His wife, Nancy Rowland, was born in 1813 and died May 12, 1877. Anderson Smith, the maternal grandfather of C. A. Rowland was born January 19, 1813 and died April 19, 1876 in Daviess County and his wife, Mahalla Smith, was born December 11, 1817 and died November 16, 1888. All of the above are buried in Black Cemetery near Winston in Daviess County, Missouri.

C. A. Rowland received his education in the public schools of Gallatin, Missouri, and, after finishing his education, he engaged in the grocery business in this town, and afterward was with a general store at the same place in which work he continued until he began operating a general store at New Hampton with M. A. Higgins. He was also associated with H. B. Henton in the mercantile business at New Hampton for a few years. During his seventeen years in New Hampton, Mr. Rowland was very successful, but, in July, 1920, he saw broader fields in Bethany where he decided to locate and consequently bought out the D. T. Deal stock, and since he has established his business in this city he has continued to meet with success and his store is the center of trade for groceries, ladies' readyto-wear, dry goods and gent's ready-to-wear, and, in each line, a complete stock is carried. The store, which presents a very attractive appearance, has a frontage of sixty feet on Main street and 100 feet depth, one of the best location in the city.

Mr. Rowland married Stella Virden, a daughter of J. H. Virden, of New Hampton, a sketch of whom appears in this volume. Mrs. Rowland was born in White Oak Township, received her preliminary education in the public schools of the county and later attended Liberty Ladies College at Liberty, Missouri.

Although Mr. and Mrs. Rowland have been in Bethany only a short time, they have won the esteem of the residents of the city, as well as those of surrounding territory and stand high in the community.

S. L. Maize, a well known and successful farmer of Bethany Township, and member of a pioneer family of this county, was born in Cypress Township, three miles from where he now lives, on the J. R. Maize farm. J. R. Maize, who died on October 9, 1921, at the age of ninety-nine years, two months and four days, entered this farm in 1840. He came to Missouri from Illinois when he was seventeen years old and was accompanied by his cousin, Asaph Butler and wife.

Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Maize were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Catherine Van Meter, deceased; George, of Coffey, Missouri; Robert

J., who died in St. Johns, Kansas; S. L., the subject of this sketch; W. R., who died on the home place; Martha Ann, widow of S. P. Daniel of Harrison County, Missouri; H. T., of Cypress Township; and Jesse, who died in infancy.

S. L. Maize was educated in the pubUc schools of Cypress Township and remained at home until twenty-four years of age, when he went to Butler Township, where he lived for eight years. He then sold his farm there and moved to his present home about 1890, buying at that time 110 acres, but later adding forty additional acres, making a total of 150 acres in the home place. Mr. Maize has made all of the improvements on the farm, consisting of good residence, two barns, fences, etc. About thirty-five acres is bottom land, and 125 acres is under cultivation. Mr. Maize does general farming and stock raising and is very successful.

November 16, 1882, Mr. Maize was married to Effie J. Slaughter, a daughter of M. B. and Martha Ann (Hawk) Slaughter, who live in Bethany Township and pioneer settlers of this county, locating here prior to the Civil War.

Mr. and Mrs. Maize are the parents of six children: Milton, of Bethany Township, who married Josie Atterbury; Fi'ank, who lives with his grandfather Slaughter, married Essie Clark; Martha Oval, the wife of C. B. Baker, of Center, Colorado; S. Irlin, who married Hazel Clark of Bethany Township ; Lois, who lives at home and is in her second year at Bethany High School.

Mr. Maize has always taken an active part in the affairs of his township and has many friends. He is at present a member of the township board of Bethany Township. He has been on the school board at different times for eleven years and has also served as justice of the peace. Mr. Maize and family are highly respected citizens.

John R. Maize, now deceased, was a prominent citizen of Cypress Township, and rightfully called "The Pioneer" of Harrison County, was born in Jackson County, Alabama, August 5, 1822, the son of David and Catherine (Acree) Maize and died in Cypress Township October 9, 1921, at the advanced age of ninety-nine years, two months and four days.

and made this his home to the time of his death. Mr. Maize had an excellent memory and could relate many interesting incidents relative to pioneer days up to within a short time before his death. The following people lived here when he first came: John Field, Levi Field, William Robinson and Mr. Taylor. Mr. Taylor lived near the present site of Bethany Mills on the north side of the creek, and he was the only man living between the Maize home and Bethany. Edward Hunt, Joe Hunt and Hudson Lowe lived south of Mr. Maize. Mr. Maize built a 16 x 18 foot hewed log house near the site of the present bam. He owned 120 acres of land at time of his death but did own more, which has been distributed among his children. He entered this land from the government and it never had a mortgage on it.

Mr. Maize located here before there were any mills and they pounded out their corn with a log mortar set on end, and chopped or burned out, then put in a pint of corn and pounded it out with an iron wedge. The corn was then sifted, the coarsest used for hominy and the finest for meal. He drove oxen up until he was twenty-two years of age, making trips to Liberty, Missouri. The first sawmill built in Daviess County was by a Mr. Watson and later the Hunts built a sawmill near Bridgport, and also put in a gristmill. The wheat was tramped out by horses, which were ridden by boys, and ofttimes as many as six horses were used at one time. Mr. Maize was left an orphan at the age of fourteen years and he began working for Asaph Butler and received $100.00 for four years' work, and he put this money in land he had entered. All of the clothing that Mr. Maize wore at that time was home spun and home made. He received his mail at Gallatin, Missouri, when he first came here and paid "two bits" for the privilege, as the charges for delivery on postage was twenty-five cents, payable by the recipient. A twin brother, Robert Maize, lived in Schuyler County received a letter at one time and didn't have the "two bits", so the postmaster being kindly disposed, let him have the letter on his promise to pay soon and two weeks afterward, Robert Maize walked thirteen miles to pay the quarter.

The brothers and sisters of John R. Maize are all deceased; they are as follows: Sarah, the wife of George Bridwell; William, Abraham, Ephraim, Robert, David G., Betsey, Henry and Martha.

Francis Marion Clark, a capable farmer of Butler Township, was born at Matkins, Missouri, August 3, 1857, the son of Benjamin F. and Sallie Druitt Halloway Clark, both natives of Kentucky who located in Butler Township, Harrison County in 1857, where Benjamin Clark owned 200 acres of land and did general farming. Benjamin Clark died in 1873 and his wife died about 1903, both are buried in Gentry County in Fallas Cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Clark were the parents of the following children : William, deceased ; Ben P., deceased ; Mrs. Lucinda Glover of Saloam, Iowa; Mrs. Sarah Bush, deceased; Joseph and James, twins, the former now lives at Montevista, Colorado and the latter on the home place; Charles of Colorado; and Francis Marion, of this sketch. By his first marriage, Benjamin Clark had one child, Eliza Powers, deceased, and by his second marriage, he had three children : John, who died at New Hampton ; Jennie was married to Gip Taylor, deceased £ind Mi's. Catherine Clark, deceased.

Francis Marion Clark was educated in the public schools here, his first teacher being Tazewell Morris, and he has lived in Butler Township all of his life. He moved to his present farm in 1877, at which time, he owned but forty acres, but he now owns 247 acres all in one piece, located one mile north of Matkins. The improvements were put on by him, and they include residence, three barns, tenant houses, etc. He and his sons do general farming and stock raising.

Francis Marion 'Clark was married November 14, 1877 to Elizabeth Wright, a daughter of James and Nancy (Mothersead) Wright, both deceased. James Wright died in 1896 in Gentry County, and his wife died about 1865. Both were natives of Kentucky and came to Gentry County in the 50's.

Mr. and Mrs. Wright were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Melvina Harmon, deceased; Mrs. Mildred Bush, deceased; Dallas, deceased ; Mrs. Lucy Crosswhite ; Mrs. Rebecca Sampson ; Mrs. Katie Vance ; Mrs. Fannie Crosswhite and Nannie, all deceased; Nathaniel of Canada; Willis of Nebraska and Mrs. Clark.

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Clark are the parents of the following children : Verdo Luella, the wife of Robert Van Meter of near Bridgeport; Delia Pearl Green, of White Oak Township; Mary Waneta Nickerson of New Hampton ; Susan Pearl Vance of Butler Township ; Cleo Cecil, who lives at home ; Beatrice, deceased ; Homer Nathaniel, who lives at home and Desda Delavan, deceased.

James M. Kinkade was married October 24, 1894, to Naomi J. Virden, a daughter of John W. and Caroline Delight (Black) Virden. John Virden was the first settler of White Oak Township, coming hei'e in 1839 and settled on the farm where Mr. and Mrs. Kinkade now live, he having homesteaded this place. John Virden was a strong supporter of the Presbyterian Church, his home being the headquarters for the ministers in the early days. He was one of the largest contributors to the building of the Foster church. He was a member at New Hampton, where he was an elder. He was one of the first elders of the church at New Hampton. When he came here he went seven miles to get fire, there being no matches. He was a strong Union man. He served as school commissioner of Harrison County at an early day.

James M. Kinkade taught school in the county for twelve years, his first school being at old Mitchelville, which he taught in 1875. While teaching school, he cared for the family of orphan children at home, the youngest of whom was his sister, Ruth.

Mr. Kinkade is an extensive land owner, owning 560 acres of land, 117 acres in Bethany Township and the remainder in White Oak Township. He only farms 200 acres, his home place, and rents out the other acreage. The present residence was built in the early '40s, but has been remodeled, although the old original fireplace is still intact.

Mr. Kinkade was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for many years. He and a few others held the lodge together for many years and eventually this became one of the best lodges in northwest Missouri.

Mr. Kinkade is connected with the Farmers Bank of New Hampton. He has always been a Republican and served two terms as county clerk of Harrison County. He also served as collector two terms, and lived in Bethany when county clerk. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church.

Mr. and Mrs. Kinkade had two children: Virden V., a senior at the Synodical College at Fulton, Missouri, taking a special course in elocution ; and Ruth Alma, a teacher in the public schools at Kansas City, Missouri. She is a graduate of high school at New Hampton, Lindenwood College and Boulder, Colorado, in University of Colorado.

J. M. Scott, an enterprising and well known farmer of Cypress Township, and member of a pioneer family of Harrison County, was born in this township, July 16, 1875, the son of James R. and Rosanna (Maloney) Scott.

James R. Scott was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, March 27, 1836, and died May 23, 1921 at the age of eighty-five years, one month and twenty-six days. He came to Harrison County, Missouri, in 1856, with his parents and during the Civil War served three years and eight months in Company I, 1st Missouri Cavalry under Capt. Milton Burris. Mr. Scott was married at Peoria, Illinois, in August, 1865, to Rosanna Maloney, who died April 29, 1918. Mr. and Mrs. James Scott were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Fannie Burris of Harrison County; Mrs. Sadie Cox, of Butler, Missouri; Mrs. Mary Read, of Harrison County; Mrs. Dove Annis Joyce, of Hairison County; Mrs. Addie Conway, of Daviess County ; J. M. Scott, the subject of this sketch ; William, deceased ;and Effie Tilley, deceased. James R. Scott was a man of high standing in his neighborhood. He possessed a cheerful disposition and spoke a good word for his neighbors and friends and was loved by all with whom he came in contact.

J. M. Scott was educated in the public schools of this county and has lived here all of his life. For the past twelve years he has farmed the home place, which consists of 200 acres of upland and second bottom. Mr. Scott does general farming and stock raising and is very successful.

J. M. Scott was married February 11, 1909 to Nora Phillips, daughter of G. L. and Ida (Munson) Phillips, both deceased. Thomas Munson, grandfather of Mrs. Scott, was born June 22, 1819, in Nicholas County, Kentucky, and died at the age of eighty-eight years. His wife, who was a native of Bourbon County, Kentucky, died in Bethany, in 1912, and both she and her husband are buried in Munson Cemetery. Thomas Munson came to Missouri in early life, and lived in Carroll County for a short time, and then returned to Kentucky. He moved to Harrison County in 1851 and bought 500 acres of land near Bethany, the present site of the fair grounds and the sanitarium. He sold this land in 1892 to the Bethany Improvement Company and then lived in Bethany until his death, which occurred in 1907.

G. L. Phillips, the father of Mrs. Scott, was born in Dumsville, Essex County, Virginia, September 15, 1853, and died July 27, 1912. His wife died November 19, 1918, and they are both buried in Munson

Cemetery. G. L. Phillips was a hardware merchant, and came to Bethany, August 9, 1873. He worked in the dry goods store of Blackman and Newman for awhile, and in 1875, he, with Frank Woodruff and J. P. Hamilton, as silent partners, started a hardware store. Mr. Phillips bought out Woodruff's interest in 1877 and the firm became known as J. P. Hamilton and Company. Mr. Phillips was appointed postmaster of Bethany under Grover Cleveland in 1884 and then sold out his interest in the store to Mr. Hamilton. In 1890, he and Mr. Storm bought out the M. A. Ford and Company Hardware, and later bought the stock of Hamilton and Stubbs, and then Mr. Phillips bought his partner's interest, and in 1893, foi-med the Bethany Hardware Company. Mr. Phillips was elected president and manager, in which capacity he served until his death. He was a wide-awake business man and prominently identified with the schools of the city and the Christian Church.

Mr. and Mrs. Phillips were the parents of the following children: Nora Scott; Eulalie, deceased; Robert C, with the Bethany Hardware Company; Catherine, the wife of Max Broadhurst of Bethany; Munson Phillips, who died in France in 1918 ; Willard E., with the Hamilton Hardware Company of Bethany; Ruth, a bookkeeper in a bank at Clayton, New Mexico.

Munsan Phillips was with the 3rd Division and left Bethany, September 7, 1917. He was sent to Camp Funston and then to Camp Stewart, Virginia, February 27, 1918, and went overseas in April, 1918, with Company L. of the 4th Infantry, 3rd Division. He was killed October 5, 1918 at Argonne Forest, and is buried in France.

Robert C. Phillips was also with the United States Army overseas, in the Army Motor Transport Company for ten months. He returned to the United States, in September, 1919.

William 0. Dunham, a well known retired farmer, who now lives in Bethany, Missouri, was born in Pike County, Ohio in 1852, the son of Dr. W. H. and Henrietta C. (Odell) Dunham. Dr. W. H. Dunham died in Bentonville, Arkansas at the age of seventy-six years, and his wife, who is eighty-six years of age, is now living in Bentonville. Dr. Dunham was captain of Company D. 36th Ohio Regiment for one year during the Civil War. He came to Missouri in 1865 and remained for a short time in Carroll County near Brunswick, and came to Chillicothe about December 1, 1865, and to Harrison County in February, 1866, and bought a farm in Butler Township, (now Cypress Township), of 200 acres, where he made his home until 1885. He bought other land, and when he sold out, he had accumulated five hundred and forty acres. While living in this county, he also practiced medicine.

When the Dunhams settled in Cypress Township, they lived in a double cabin of logs for three winters and then they built a new house. The frame house was built from lumber hauled from St. Joseph, Missouri, sixty-five miles away, with a mule team. Dr. Dunham was one among the first to introduce Shorthorn cattle in this county.

Dr. and Mrs. Dunham were the parents of the following children: William 0., of this sketch; Dr. J. D., of Pattonsburg; Franklin of Benton County, Arkansas; George of Portland, Oregon; and Mary, the widow of William Plummer of Bentonville., Arkansas.

William 0. Dunham attended the district schools of this county and has lived here since 1866. He was married in January, 1872 to Nancy C. Burton, a daughter of Abraham and Jane (McFall) Burton of Butler Township. Abraham Burton owned about 1300 acres of land in Daviess, Gentry and Harrison counties, which he divided among his family. Mc- Fall, Missouri, was named after John McFall, on whose farm the town was laid out. Abraham Burton came to Butler Township about 1848. He was born in Kentucky and died in Gentry County at McFall. His wife died on the home farm and both are buried in Liberty Cemetery in Daviess County, Missouri. Mr. Burton was an influential Republican of this county.

Mr. and Mrs. Burton were the parents of the following children : Mrs. Lettie Christie of McFall ; Sarah Christie, deceased ; Mrs. Eliza Neal of McFall, Missouri; Adaline Christie, now deceased; Mrs. Martha Christie, deceased; Mrs. Mary M. Graves, deceased; Laura F. Hawk, of Pattonsburg; Allen, who died in the Soldiers' Home at Leavenworth, Kansas; John, of McFall ; Missouri ; and Mrs. Dunham.

William 0. Dunham improved and owned 320 acres of land on which he and his family lived from August, 1876 until 1919, when he moved to Bethany. His son, William A. Dunham now owns the home place. This farm lies one mile west and one-half mile north of Bridgeport on the Jefferson Highway.

ship; Bertha, the wife of George Joyce of Bethany Township; Mattie, the wife of G. W. Grabler of Portland, Oregon; and Sophia, the wife of W. F. Twohy of Olympia, Washington.

Their grandchildren are: Fritts Chipp. who died from diptheria at Minneola,, New York, April 22, 1918, the day before his company started overseas. He enlisted at Bethany with Company G. under Captain Randall Wilson, and served eleven onths on the Mexican Border, and then returned home and was operated on for appendicitis, and as soon as he recovered, he reenlisted at Lawton, Oklahoma. Marie, the wife of Porter Wiley, Helen Joyce, deceased ; Dot Joyce, Loren Joyce ; Virginia Grabler and Georgiana Grabler.

Mr. Dunham took an active interest in the school in Cypress Township, and also assisted in the organization of Union Church in Cypress Township, at Bridgeport, and was on the building committee of this church. Mr. Dunham is widely and favorably known in Harrison County.

Charles Franklin Youngman, an enterprising and progressive farmer of Butler Township, and proprietor of Clover Ridge Stock Farm, was born in Worth County, Missouri, April 16, 1872, the son of Jacob and Rachel (Cart) Youngman. Jacob Youngman was a native of Kentucky, born in 1825. His father moved to Indiana and entered land, and later moved to Central Missouri where he died. Jacob Youngman located in Iowa in 1827 and then came to Worth County, Missouri, later locating in Harrison County in 1877. where he died in 1901 and is bui'ied in Matkins Cemetery. His wife, who was born in Virginia, June 10, 1844, died in Butler Township in 1912.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Youngman were the parents of the following children: Nellie, who died when twenty-one years of age; Harry, who died when twenty-two years of age ; Stacy G., who lives on the home farm; Charles F., the subject of this sketch; Jacob Oliver, a farmer in Butler Township; Edward E., a railroad engineer of Enid, Oklahoma; Irvin, who was a school teacher died when twenty-two years old; William A., a farmer of Gentry County; and Katy P., the wife of William Gray of

Butler Township. By a former marriage of Jacob Youngman, he was the father of the following children: Lewis, of Kansas City, Missouri; Mi-s. Elizabeth Ainslie of Oklahoma City; Mrs. Alice E. Mock of California; Mrs. Mary Tull, of Butler Township; and Carrie, whose address is unknown.

Charles Franklin Youngman was educated in the schools of Butler Township, and after finishing school, lived in Colorado one and one-half years, and in Oklahoma for seven years, where he bought a relinquishment on 160 acres of land near Hallett in Pawnee County. He returned from Oklahoma in 1907 and has made his home in this county ever since. He bought eighty acres of his present farm from B. P. Clark and 120 acres from Sanford Tilley, making a total of 200 acres in his home place and he also owns about six acres of timber land in Cypress Township. Mr. Youngman built his present home in the fall of 1917. He has a nice two story residence, with basement, one barn and other buildhogs, and has a registered Shorthorn bull, and raises the Barred plymouth Rock chickens. Mr. Youngman has twenty-five cows on his farm and, at the present tim.e, milks twenty-one cows.

Charles F. Youngman was married January 1, 1893 to Dora May Tilley, a daughter of Sanford M. and Lydia Ruanna (Salmon) Tilley, both deceased. Sanford Tilley was born in North Carolina and moved to Indiana with his parents, and then moved to Platte County, Missouri, eventually locating in Harrison County. His father, Reuben D. Tilley, entered land in Cypress and Butler Townships and died in this county. Sanford Tilley was a veteran of the Me.xican War. He died in March, 1913 and is buried on the home place. His wife, who was a native of Daviess County, Missouri, died in 1884. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Charles Youngman, Captain Salmon, was a verteran of the Mexican War ,and was killed at Taos, New Mexico and is buried there, with a son who was also killed.

Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Tilley were the parents of the following children: Luther, who died when three years of age; Oscar, of South Dakota; Mrs. Martha Gilson of Colorado ; Henry M., deceased ; Ruanna Loomis, deceased; Oliver P., of Cypress Township; Clara, who died when twelve years of age; Leroy Tilley, of Dallas County, Missouri, who married Jessie B. Evans, of Cypress Township; and Dora M., who was bom in Butler Township and educated here.

Mr. and Mrs. Youngman are the parents of fourteen children, all living: Louise, a graduate of the Maryville State Teachers College, and who now teaches in Hallett, Oklahoma; Daphne, at home; Stacy, a gradu-"- ate of Bethany High School, who is now a teacher in Oklahoma ; Herbert, at home ; Luther, of Oklahoma ; Max G., at home ; Dorothy, a student in Bethany High School ; Marguerita also a student in Bethany High School ; Kermit, Kenneth, Roberta Alice, Karl Merton and Charles Jr., all at home. Harry Youngman was in the World War, having entered the army July 17, 1918 and was sent to Camp McArthur, Texas, for training. During his stay there, he contracted the influenza and did not get to go overseas on this account, and was discharged in March, 1919; Stacy Youngman also served during the war at the Great Lakes Training Camp and also at Norfolk, Virginia, and made three trips overseas in convoy service. He is still in the reserve corps.

Charles Franklin Youngman is a member of the Woodmen of the World at Matkins, Missouri, and is also a member of the Farm Bureau. He and his family are well known and stand high among the citizens of the township and surrrounding country.

Thomas C. Miles, a prosperous farmer and stockman of Grant Township, is a native of Harrison County. He was born in Sherman Township, November 23, 1875, a son of John and Sophronia (Williams) Miles, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Missouri. John Miles came to Harrison County when a boy and spent his life in this section. He died on July 30, 1918 and his widow now resides in Fox Creek Township.

Thomas C. Miles was one of a family of eight children born to his parents, seven of whom grew to maturity. He was reared in Fox Creek Township and attended the public schools. He began working out by the month at an early age and for five years he was employed by J. C. Ray, for fifteen dollars per month. At the end of five years he had saved seven hundred dollars and owned a horse and buggy. He then engaged in farming for himself on the C. W. Wetherd place in Trail Creek Township. In 19CS, he bought eighty acres of land in Trail Creek Township and in 1915 he bought 120 acres in Grant Township, which is now his home place and his wife owns forty acres which makes in all 240 acres, all of which is free of incumbrances. Mr. Miles carries on general farming and stock rais-

On January 11, 1903, Mr. Miles was married to Miss Mary Wetherd, a daughter of C. W. Wetherd, an early settler and prominent faimer of Trail Creek Township, who is now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Miles have been born one child, Albert Forrest.

Mr. Miles is a Republican and while a resident of Trail Creek Township served as a member of the township board. He is an industrious and enterprising citizen and by constant application to his business and good management he has accumulated a competence while still practically a, young man.

C. B. Hunsicker, a prominent landowner and breeder of high grade stock in Hamilton Township, has lived in Harrison County since his early boyhood when he came here with his parents early settlers of this part of the state. Mr. Hunsicker was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, November 9, 1848, the son of Joseph L. and Margaret (Hedges) Hunsicker.

Joseph L. Hunsicker was born in Perry, Ohio, May 9, 1821. He went with his parents to Pickaway County, Ohio, and later married Margai-et Hedges, born at Circleville in Pickaway County, Ohio, June 7, 1820. They moved to Clark County, Illinois, where they lived until 1857. On September 24th of that year they moved to Harrison County and located in Marion Township, where they remained for three years and then moved to Hamilton Township. Mr. Hunsicker retired from active farm life and moved to Eagleville. He died at Pawnee, October 24, 1903, and his wife died June 23, 1901. Their remains are buried in the Masonic Cemetery at Eagleville. To their union six children were bom: Margaret, widow of Bassett T. Mallett, now living at Pawnee; C. B., the subject of the present review; James H. and Martha E., twins, now deceased; Jacob, a resident of Indianola, Iowa; and Nemona, married to W. H. Payne of Mulhull, Oklahoma.

C. B. Hunsicker was a lad of ten years when his parents came to Missouri. He has always known farm life. He bought his first land, a tract of eighty acres, in 1873. This piece of land formed the nucleus of his present large holdings. He added to the original farm as he could and now owns 1,000 acres of land in Hamilton Township and 325 acres in Hale County, Texas, and also owns 1,000 acres of land in Old Mexico. He

Mr. Hunsicker's main interest, however, has been in the breeding of stock in w^hich he has achieved marked success. He handles Shorthorn cattle, Percheron horses, Poland-China hogs, and Mammoth jacks and jennies. He started this line of business when he was a young man. At that time he began to buy hve stock all over Harrison County; he often drove horses and mules to Omaha, and mules to St. Joseph. Mr. Hunsicker keeps a horse saddled at all hours and has probably sat in the saddle as much as any man in the county. He has owned at various times several good saddle horses, the last one, a bay, named Dan Patch, has been in Mr. Hunsicker's possesion for five year.

C. B. Hunsicker was married on December 24th, 1875, to Jemima Loy, born in Iowa, and to this union three children were born: George L., living in Hamilton Township; Gracia M., married to Oliver Ballew, a sketch of whose life appears in this volume ; and Eva Belle, wife of A. R. Brill of Hamilton Township. Mrs. Hunsicker died in May, 1911, and Mr. Hunsicker was married the second time on November 15, 1917, to Mrs. Mary Pierson, an estimable lady and a member of a prominent pioneer family of Harrison County.

Mr. Hunsicker is a Republican in his political views and is a member of the Methodist Church, although he is liberal with all the churches. He is a man of marked business acumen and this added to his innate fondness for his work with live stock has made him prominent among the stock raisers of Harrison County. He is interested also in business ventures that are calculated to benefit the community. He helped to organize the Citizens Bank at Eagleville and is a stockholder and a director of that institution. He is also a shareholder in the Harrison County Fair Association. Mr. Hunsicker is a substantial and reliable citizen of his community, one who merits the high esteem in which he is held.

Bethany Steam Laundry, of which Frank A. Everett is proprietor, is one of the up-to-date laundries of northern Missouri and an important factor among the industries of Bethany and Harrison County. The plant is located on North Fifteenth street, one-half block from the public square and occupies two floors of a large building. It is equipped with all kinds of mc'dern laundry machinery and does an extensive general laundry business, including flat work, rough dry, as well as the regular laundry work.

This extensive laundry business made its humble beginning in 1917 when Frank A. and his brother D. E. Everett were induced to come here and engage in the laundry business at the solicitation of the Bethany Commercial Club which has since been reorganized and is now known as the Chamber of Commerce. The Everett brothers started with a small laundry, occupying a portion of the present building. In April, 1918, Frank A. Everett bought his brothers interest who has since been associated with the Bethany Clipper. Mr. Everett has gone on extending and enlarging his business, adding new machinery from time to time and establishing agencies in other towns until he has increased the volume of business of the Bethany Laundry to about six times its original capacity. He now has on his pay roll about twelve people.

In addition to the regular laundry business, dyeing, dry cleaning and pressing is also carried on here. Mr. Everett had conducted a department embracing this sphere for several years and in 1921 the Reliable Dry Cleaning Company was merged with the Bethany Steam Laundry and they have a large patronage and give universal satisfaction in this branch of industry. Thej' also have a department devoted to reblocking hats.

Frank A. Everett has had many years experience in the laundry business and, in fact, that has been the chief occupation of his life. He was bor ! in Clinton County, Missouri, of pioneer parents. He received his education in the public schools and has worked in the laundry business since he was sixteen years old and was engaged in that line of work in St. Joseph, Missouri, prior to coming to Bethany to engage in business. He is a progressive and enterprising business man and one of the substantial citizens of Bethany.

Noah S. Cox. one of the leading farmers and breeders of Butler Township, and proprietor of Evergreen Stock Farm, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1870, the son of Andrew and Sarah (Yoders) Cox, both natives of Pennsylvania. Andrew Cox is living in Harrison County, Missouri, and his wife died October 11. 1905 and is buried in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Cox were the parents of the following children : William, a farmer of Cypress Township; Samuel, deceased; Elizabeth, the wife of William Bell of Pender, Nebraska; Jennie, the wife of Jack Cox of Palco, Kansas ; Jacob of Williamsburg, Iowa ; Dora, the wife of Albert

Knight of Cedar Rapids, Iowa ; Andrew deceased ; Noah Sherman, the subject of this sketch; Albert, deceased; Emma, the wife of Perry Welch of Butler Township ; Harry of Idaho ; and Mattie, the wife of Marshall Hall of Bethany, Missouri.

Noah S. Cox was educated in the public schools of Iowa and attended Bethany High school. He has lived in Cypress and Butler Townships since 1883, and moved to his present farm in 1894. This place has excellent improvements, all put on by himself, including; residence, four barns, granary, garage, crib, smoke house and one of the best cellars in the county. Mr. Cox raises only registered and pure bred stock, and specializes in the breeding of Percheron horses. Shorthorn cattle. Mammoth Jacks and Jennets, and Spotted Poland China hogs. He has an imported Percheron stallion, one of the best breeders of the state, his colts always taking the blue ribbon. "Harley," the head of the jacks was bred by Mr. Cox and is of Kentucky stock. "Types Favorite," the Shorthorn bull, has taken premiums at the Pattonsburg and Bethany fairs, and a special premium that the Chicago Shorthorn Association hung up. He is two years old and weighs 1700 pounds. "O. K. Prince," one of Faulkner's breeding, was one year old in March, 1920, and is a fine animal. Mr. Cox raises the standard bred Barred Plymouth Rock chickens.

Noah S. Cox was married December 5, 1895 to Lucy D. Smith, a daughter of John A and Martha (Davis) Smith, both deceased, who were early settlers of this township. Mrs. Cox was born, reared and educated in Butler Township.

Mr. and Mrs. Cox are the parents of the following children: Winnie, the wife of Leland Minor, the later a graduate of the Gem City Business College, and lives in Santa Rosa, Missouri; Fern, who died when nearly two years of age ; Grant, married Ruth Jarrett, a daughter of Sam Jarrett of Daviess County, Missouri, and they now live in Daviess County; Brookie, Lawrence, Crystal and Lucille, all at home.

Mr. Cox is a member of the Yeoman lodge and of the Methodist Church. He was on the district school board of Butler Township for twelve years. Mr. Cox is a progressive citizen, as well as an energetic farmer and stock breeder. He is an asset to the citizenship of Harrison County.

Cecil E. Van Meter, an energetic and prosperour farmer of Butler Township, and member of a pioneer family of this section, was born Bebruary 5, 1884, the son of James and Catherine (Maize) Van Meter. James

Van Meter was born in this township one-half mile north of the home of Cecil E. Van Meter, January 11, 1843, and died November 6, 1894. His wife, who was born in Cypress Township, April 5, 1850, died in February, 1906 in Butler Township. James Van Meter owned 2414^ acres in Butler Township at the time of his death. During the Civil War, he was with the 23rd Missouri Infantry under Colonel Robinson and was in the Battle of Shiloh, where he was taken prisoner. He sei-ved until the war closed.

Mr. and Mrs. James Van Meter were the parents ot the following children: Mrs. Mary E. Green of Hamlet, Nebraska; John L., Mrs. Rachel Haight, Martha A., George H. and Lora J., all decased ; Robert N. of Butler Township; Charles A., deceased; Elisie N. Attebery of Colorado; Cecil E., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Orpha A. McCray of Merriman, Nebraska ; Florence C, deceased ; Vesta V., and an infant son who died February 6, 1888.

Cecil E. Van Meter was educated in the public schools and has followed farming since finishing his education. He bought 100 acres of the home place, heired sixty-one and one-half acres and bought an additional fifty eight and one-half acres adjoining on the south. He does general farming and stock raising and is quite successful. His farm is well improved with residence, bam and other buildings, which are well kept, and the place is located eight miles notheast of McFall, Missouri and four miles southeast of Matkins. Mr. Van Meter raises the pure bred brown Leghorn poultry and has recently built a poultry house 30x30 feet, which is up-todate and modern.

In December, 1905, Mr. Van Meter was married to Lesta Attebery, a daughter of James and Emaline (Buis) Attebery. James Attebery lives in Sulphur Springs, Arkansas. He was bom in Harrison County, Missouri, and his wife was a native of Ohio. She died in 1918 and is buried in Colorado.

Mr. and Mrs. Attebery were the parents of the following children; The Rev. Benton of Pawnee, Oklahoma, a minister of the Baptist Church ; Rosa Nickerson of Colorado; Lewis of Colorado; Mrs. Van Meter; Mrs. Josie Maize of Bethany, Missouri; Walter of Butler Township; Ernest of Colorado; Robert, Akron, Colorado; a son and daughter who died in infancy; Gladys, who died in girlhood; Worth, who died when a young man; and a twin sister of Rosa Nickerson, who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Van Meter are rearing two other children : Nathlie and Rudolph Van Meter.

Joseph Lewis, a successful farmer, and member of a pioneer family of Harrison County, was born on the farm now owned by George Justice in Bethany township, December 3, 1862, the son of John and Letitia J. (Justice) Lewis, early settlers of this township. Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis were born in Indiana, where they were married, but came west in the 50's. John Lewis served in the Union Army in the Civil War, and was killed by bushwhackers at New Lexington, Missouri, 1865, while guarding an army supply train. He enlisted from Harrison County, Missouri, and is buried in the Munson Cemetery. His wife lives in Bethany Township, and is eighty-four years of age.

Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis were the parents of the following children: Mary C. York of Manchester, Oklahoma; Mrs. Martha A. Whittaker of Bethany Township; Mrs. Serilda A. Luellen of Harrisburg, Colorado; Mrs. Sarah J. Bryant of Cypress Township; and Joseph, the subject or this sketch.

Joseph Lewis was educated in the Brady school district and has earned his own living since boyhood, working by the month at first. He bought his first land in 1889 in partnership with his mother, and went in debt for his share of ninety-seven acres, which was 50 acres, and his mother later purchased it from him, later he bought another place which he sold. He then went to Oklahoma and made a race for a claim in Oklahoma, which he failed to get. He bought a town lot there, and, with his cousin Claude Lewis, went in the cattle business, taking a claim in a valley in Gloss Mountains and engaged in this business there for five years. He received an injury which unfitted him for this line of work, and he then returned to Harrison County in 1897 and bought the heirs interest of Lewis Williams of a 290 acre fann, which Mrs. Lewis now owns. They also own the Clay Burris farm of 118 acres in Bethany Township, and Mr. Lewis also owns a farm of 167^ acres near Bridgeport. He makes his home on the Lewis Williams place, and does general farming and stock raising, operating more than 450 acres of land. He also owns 120 acres near Albany Oregan. He raises the registered Poland China hogs and is very successful, both in farming and stock raising.

Joseph Lewis was married December 24, 1891 to Mary E. Williams, a daughter of Lewis and Sarah Williams, both deceased. Lewis Williams entered a part of the farm now owned by Joseph Lewis, and he and his wife both died here, and are buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lewis are the parents of the following children: Mabel, the wife of Walter Watson of Cypress Township ; Arthur of Bethany Township; Everett, at home; Ethel, who died when fourteen months of age; Merritt, at home; Harvey of Cypress Township; Bessie, Samuel and Garland, at home; and Ernest, who was born in Polk County, Oregon, also at home. Everett Lewis was in the United States Navy during the World War, and was in service for eighteen months on the Battleship Oregon.

Thomas C. Vandevort, now deceased, during his life was prominently identified with the agricultural interests of this county. He was born in Athens County, Ohio in 1833 and came to Harrison County before the Civil War. During the war, he was with Company I, 1st regiment, Missouri infantry, and was in the cavalry later, and served for three years. At the end of the war, he engaged in farming. He died in 1872, and is buried in Hatton Cemetery.

Mr. Vandevort was married in 1862 to Mary E. Youngs, a daughter of William H. and Love (Salmon) Youngs. Mrs. Vandevort was born in Hardin County, Ohio and came to Missouri with her parents in 1847. W. H. Youngs had a blacksmith shop at Happy Valley, and made wagons, ox yokes and log chains for people going to California in 1849 and 1850.

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Youngs were the parents of the following children; Mrs. William Youngs, deceased; Mrs. Vandevort; John L. Young of Clpress Township; Mrs. Pauline Rice, deceased; George L. Young, deceased; Mrs. Sarah Jane Ray of Cypress Township; B. L. Youngs of Cypress Township. And, by a fromer marriage of W. H. Youngs, he had a son, Thomas Samuel Youngs, and daughter Johanna Hatton, both deceased.

Mr. and Mrs. Vandevort were the parents of two children : Alice, the wife of U. F. Criger of Mt. Mariah this county, and William, who lives on the home place. Mr. and Mrs. Criger have seven children: Perlie May McKee, Orlie, deceased; Clifford, Mi's. Ethel Woodward, Clay, Mrs. Lola Hobbs, Harvey and Logan.

William Vandevort, who lives with his mother on the home place, was born in Cypress Township, October 12, 1864, and was educated in the public schools. He is a member of the Masonic, Modern Woodmen of America and Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodges.

Mrs. Vandevort and her son have made their home on their present farm for the past thirty years. They have sixty aci-es, which is a part of the homestead of Thomas C. Vandevort.

Mrs. Vandevort is a wonian of intelligence, and in spite of an accident, which partly incapacitates her, does considerable work, and finds time to read and gets enjoyment out of life among her books and papers. She and her son have a comfortable home.

George T. Montgomery, a leading farmer of Cypress Township, and proprietor of Spring Branch Farm, was born in Otoe County, Nebraska, September 18, 1869, the son of George W. and Anna (Wilson) Montgomery, both of whom are deceased.

George Montgomery was born on the ocean while his parents were on the way to America from Scotland. He was reared in New York but later returned to Scotland and was educated there, and, upon his return to the United States, located in Nebraska in 1847, and made this his home until his death in April, 1900, his wife having died in 1871.

Mr. and Mrs. George Montgomery were the parents of the following children: Mrs. John Lowrey of Otoe County, Nebraska; Mrs. D. J. Gushing, deceased, whose husband lives in Del Rosa, California; Mrs. James Welch of Nebraska City; William of Nebraska City; and George T., the subject of this sketch.

George T. Montgomery was educated in the public schools and at Nebraska City College in Nebraska, taking three years of work at this school. After finishing his education, he engaged in farming and stock raising in Nebraska, and came to Harrison County, Missouri in January, 1901, and bought 320 acres of land, his present home, later buying an additional 120 acres, his entire acreage totaling 440 acres. This is an excellent farm, the main feature which first attracted Mr. Montgomery being the abundance of water from natural springs. Mr. Montgomery raises Angus cattle, Poland China and Hampshire hogs, crossed, and White Leghorn poultry, and is one of the most successful farmers in the county. He has a good residence, and fine barn, and other buildings well equipped for the raising of stock. He has electric lights and water works, making

Mr. Montgomery was married December 25, 1895, to Laura Lowrey, a daughter of Greene and Ruth (Williams) Lowrey, both deceased. Mrs. Montgomery was born in Daviess County, Missouri, near Pattonsburg, where she was reared and educated.

Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery have three children: Winne, a teacher in the high school, at Tuscon, Arizona, and who was graduated from the Wolcott College at Denver in 1918, and from the University or Arizona in 1921 ; George W., a graduate of the Pattonsburg, Missouri, High School, and who attended the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1920 and who has been specializing in agriculture at Tuscon, Arizona for the past year; and Opal, who was graduated from the county schools this year and is now a student at Florence, Arizona; and Ina, who died in infancy.

Mr. Montgomery. is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Bethany, and has filled the offices on the township board. He is one of the county's most substantial citizens and the Montgomery family is representative of the best citizenship. Mrs. and Mr. Montgomery are members of the Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Ernest Logan Wood, a well known osteopath of Bethany, Missouri, and proprietor of Wood Hospital, 330 North Twenty-second Street, was bom near Lyons, Kansas, July 17, 1886, the son of Rev. Eli T. and Ora (Bartlett) Wood. Rev. Wood was a Methodist minister and class leader for seventeen years in the church of the county. He was born November 12, 1860, and died June 12, 1913. The Wood family came to Harrison County about the year 1892. John N. Wood, father of Rev. Eli T. Wood, was a veteran of the Civil War and was wounded while in service, being shot through the lung. He was a resident of this county for many years and late in life moved to Kansas, where he died.

Dr. Ernest Logan Wood was educated in the public schools, Bethany High School, and spent four years at the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, graduating in June, 1921. Both Dr. Wood and wife took special hospital work while there in addition to the regular course.

Eva Electa Foster Wood, the wife of Dr. Ernest Logan Wood, was born in Sherman Township, a daughter of John L. and Victoria A. (Dale) Foster. The latter lives in Ridgeway, Missouri, and the former died July

3, 1921, and is buried at Dale Cemetery. Thomas Foster, grandfather of Mrs. Wood, was a pioneer of Sherman Township, setthng here in 1853. Eva Electra Wood was edeucated in the common schools and Ridgeway High School. She attended a teachers' normal at Bethany and taught school in this countp for six years, after which she attended the American School of Osteopathy, and was graduated in June, 1921, with the degree of Doctor of Osteopathy.

Wood Hospital of Bethany, Missouri, was opened for business August 1, 1921. The building is of brick and consists of twenty-four rooms, and was formerly owned by Davis Johnson of Bethany, Missouri. Doctors Wood and Wood purchased the building in September, 1920, and remodeled it in June, 1921. The building is three stories high and fronts the beautiful Allen Park. The spacious yard, interspersed with native trees is a delight to the eye, as seen from the veranda on the front.

Wood Hospital is up to date in every respect and modern throughout. There is a special room for obstetrical cases, major and minor operations, and a room is being fitted for all kinds of cast work. This hospital is a long felt need for the people of this county, and Doctors Wood and Wood are thorough in every detail of its management, and well qualified and fitted for their position. Dr. George Laughlin of Kirksville, Missouri, a son-in-law of the founder of osteopathy, will do major operations for Wood Hospital at any time. He is considered the leading surgeon of the West, and out of 900 cases in 1921, he lost but three. i

James B. Slemmons, an enterprising member of the firin of Slemmons and Walker, of Bethany, Missouri, was born in Plattsburg, Clinton County, Missouri, August 3, 1869, the son of Beverly T. and Nancy J. (Burr) Slemmons, both of whom died in King City, Missouri, and are buried there. Mr. Slemmons received his education in the public schools and entered the mercantile business September 1, 1890 and has been engaged in this line of work continuously since that time.

Mr. Slemmons was married September 1, 1892 to Mollie J. Walker and they have a daughter Lucille, now a teacher in Bloomfield, Iowa. She was educated at Lake Forest, Chicago, Illinois and at Grinnell College, in Iowa, specializing in English which she teaches.

John H. Flint, an extensive and successful fanner and stock raiser of CjTJress Township, was born in Bethany Township, December 18, 1867, the son of Joseph Flint and wife. Joseph Flint died in Bethany Township and is buried at Antioch. He was a member of the Home Guards during the Civil War. His wife died in 1879 and is also buried at Antioch. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Flint were the parents of the following children : Mary, the wife of William Linthacum of Sherman TowTiship; Thomas and J. H., of Cypress Township. By a second marriage of Joseph Flint to Martha Hilton, he had six children, as follows: Anna, the wife of Charles Huff of Coffey, Missouri; Mrs. Katie Boyles, deceased; George, of Oklahoma; Charles, of St. Joseph ; Alice, the wife of Legrand Burris, and Effie Shaw, deceased.

J. H. Flint was educated in the public school, and after finishing his education, he rented land, prior to buying his home about 1901, from Newton Rucker. He now owns 280 acres of well improved land in Cypress Township, and does general farming and feeds hogs extensively.

Mr. Flint was married March 1, 1893, to Ellen Foster, a daughter of Samuel and Mary A. (Smith) Foster. Samuel Foster was a veteran of the Civil War, enlisting from Arkansas in the Union Army, and he served three years in the Second Arkansas Infantry. He died November 13, 1910, and is buried at Antioch Church, and his wife is now living at the age of ninety years, near Antioch Church in Sherman Township.

Mr. and Mrs. Foster were the parents of the following children : Sarah Harvey, of Bethany Towaiship; Thomas, of St. Joseph, Missouri; George, of Daviess County ; Mrs. Flint ; and Samuel, on the home place in Sherman Township. Mrs. Flint was bom in Sherman Township and educated there.

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Flint are the parents of six sons : Joseph H., a World War veteran, who enlisted December 1, 1917, at St. Louis, Missouri, in the aviation corps and was sent to Champaign, Illinois, where he was in training three months, and then to Rantoul, Illinois, field, and for nine months he was commissioned second lieutenant and kept there as an intructor until the war closed. He returned home December 17, 1918, and is now a teacher of vocational agriculture at Maysville, Missouri. He was married December 27, 1920, to Mabel Thurston.

Walker Flint enlisted in the United States Army for the World War, October 3, 1917, at Camp Funston, and was then sent to Newport News, Virginia, where he was with the veterinary corps, and saw sixteen months' service before returning home, Februaiy 1, 1919. He married Mabel Utterback, April 16, 1920.

Mr. J. H. Flint has served on the school board here for more than fifteen years. He and his family are highly respected citizens and stand high in Harrison County.

Oliver P. Tilley, a leading and prosperous farmer of Cypress Township, and president of the Harrison County Farm Bureau, and of the Federal Farm Loan Association, and also of the Harrison County Dairy Association, is a member of a pioneer family of this county, and was born in Butler Township, August 18, 1862, the son of Sanford M. and Lydia Salmon Tilley, both deceased, and a sketch of whom appears in this volume.

Oliver P. Tilley was educated in the public schools of the county and has made his own way in life since thirteen years of age. He now owns the Hard Scrabble Dairy Farm, seven miles southwest of Bethany, which consists of 360 acres, and which is one of the finest farms of the county. He bought his first 100 acres about the year 1885, when twenty-one years of age. Prior to this, he owned a farm in Dakota, which he sold when he came here. The Hard Scrabble Farm is well improved with modern house, equipped with gas, both lights and furnace; large barn for horses and a cow barn, and poultry houses, and a second set of improvements on the farm, consisting of good residence, bam and poultry houses, are used by Ray J. Tilley.

Oliver Tilley raises registered pure bi-ed Jersey cattle, registered Duroc Jersey hogs, certified white Leghorn poultry and breeds the Reid's yellow dent corn. He sells cream through the Dairy Association, and this farm is the only one doing official testing for official merit test. Oliver Tilley assisted in organizing the Harrison County Dairy Association and has been its president since 1910. He also assisted in organizing the Harrison County Farm Bureau in 1918, and the county has had a county agent since 1919. The Federal Farm Loan Association is the largest in the state of Missouri and Mr. Tilley is its president, and was the prime organizer of this association here. Mr. Tilley also helped organize the Harrison County Fair and has been on the board ever since. Besides his numerous other duties, Mr. Tilley made the race for county judge on the Bull Moose ticket in 1912 and has been prominent in the Republican party.

of W. M. Davis and wife. Mrs. Tilley died in 1887, leaving five children : Daisy, the wife of Lloyd Atwood, of Darlington, Missouri ; Fred, of Bethany, Missouri; Jj Ross, of Idaho; Arthur, who died at the age of twelve years; and Goldie, who died in infancy. Mr. Tilley married a second time January 1, 1890, to Bertha M. Brown, a daughter of James T. and Mary Brown, both deceased. Mr. Brown was a fanner in Bethany Township, and was a prominent horseman of this county.

By his second marriage, Mr. Tilley has the following children: Ray J., who is engaged in farming and stock raising in Cypress Township; Hoyt G., a professor of vocational agriculture at Mound City, Missouri, and a graduate of the Missouri University in class of 1920, and who received his degree in the same class with General John J. Pershing and General Crowder, the latter receiving degrees on account of their distinction, married Pauline Abbott of Columbia; Ruby Coral, a graduate of Bethany High School, and who spent one year at school in Valparaiso, Indiana; Doris Olive, a sophomore at the Missouri University, and who is a graduate of Bethany High School ; Geraldine, a junior in the Bethany High School ; and Oliver Pierce, a freshman in the Bethany High School.

Hoyt G. served seven months on the Mexican Border, having been called out with the National Guards August 5, 1917, and was at Ft. Sill. Oklahoma, until January, 1918, and then went east for special training in aerial photography. He spent three months at New York City in Columbia University, three months at Sacketts Harbor, three months with the Eastman Kodak people ; three months at Cornell University and was mustered out in Texas, February 5, 1919. The picture in the book of the Harrison County Fair was taken by Hoyt G. Tilley.

S. A. Dale, a progressive and well known farmer of Gi'ant Township, was born in Bethany Township, May 7, 1858, the son of T. J. and Lecta (Fuller) Dale.

T. J. Dale was the son of Alfred Dale, a native of Virginia, who came with his family to Harrison County in the early forties and settled near Bethany, where he followed the vocation of farming and where he died. His son, T. J. Dale, was a soldier in the Union Army in the Civil War, and died at the age of twenty-four in Lexington, Missouri, from typhoid fever. Lecta (Fuller) Dale was bom near Cleveland, Ohio, and died in 1917 at the age of eighty. After the death of her first husband, she

The children of T. J. and Lecta (Fuller) Dale were: S. A., the subject of this review; Victoria, married John L. Foster of Ridgeway, Missouri; and Ella E., married B. 0. Coleman and died in Oklahoma.

S. A. Dale was reared in Sherman Township, Harrison County, and received his education in the Hickory School in Sherman Township and the Harmony School in Bethany Township. He began to farm when a young man, first renting land, and then buying 120 acres in Grant Township for which he paid $480, paying eighty dollars at the time of the purchase and the remainder with in a few years. He later sold this land and bought another farm and now owns 250 acres. He has a ten room, attractive residence with modern equipment. He also has a good barn and other good farm building. Mr. Dale does general farming and raises Durham cattle and Poland China hogs. He is accounted one of the successful farmers in the county.

S. A. Dale was married to Lucy A. McGee, October 9, 1885. Mrs. Dale was a native of Kentucky, a daughter of T. J. McGee, now deceased. Mrs. Dale came to Missouri with her parents when she was fourteen, and lived here the remainder of her life. She died in 1900. To S. A. and Lucy A. (McGee) Dale the following children were born: V. E., now a farmer and stockman in Sherman Township ; Orrie, married Oscar Coleman and lives in Pratt County, Kansas; Iva, married Dock Cotrell, and lives in Daviess County, near Oilman City ; June, now living at home and keeping house for her father; and Ruth, a graduate of the Bethany High School, later a teacher, and now a student in the State Teachers College in Kirksville, Missouri.

Ray J. Tilley, son of Oliver P. Tilley, is a successful farmer and stockman of Cypress Township. He is a graduate of the Grand Island Business College at Grand Island, Nebraska. He took a short course in agriculture at the Missouri University, and also took the long course for one year. For six years he worked at stenography, and worked his way through the University at Columbia.

Ray J. Tilley made a special study at the University of Missouri, in the line of judging all grains and won the highest medal in grain judging. He also won the dairy judging prize at Sedalia State Fair in 1919, first for dairy cattle and second prize on mules.

Ray J. Tilley married Miss Iva Dell Grigsby of Fayette, Missouri. She is a daughter of Thomas J. and Eliza Grigsby. To Mr. and Mrs. Tilley have been born one daughter, Margaret Ethalyn.

E. M. Hill and Son, B. H. Hill, well known and successful proprietors of a general merchandise and grocery store at Blue Ridge have been in business here since 1897, although E. M. Hill has been retired for the past four years and his son is the active manager.

E. M. Hill was married in 1888 in West Virginia to Lou Rayburn, who was bom and reared in Mason County, Virginia, and who was a daughter of Griffin and Mary (Morehead) Rayburn. Griffin Rayburn was a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted in the Union Army from Mason County, Virginia. He and his wife both died in that county and are buried there. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have four children: May, the wife of S. J. Gutshall of Adams Township; B. H. of Adams Township; Bell, the wife of G. L. Taggart of Sherman Township; and Wilbur D., who died in infancy.

During the Civil War, E. M. Hill enlisted in Company H. 53rd O. V. V., on November 25, 1861, and, before he was sixteen years of age, was In the battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, and, in this battle, he was wounded in the right leg. He was mustered out August 25, 1865, after three years and nine months of service, and, while in the war, participated in sixty seven engagements. Out of the entire regiment to which Mr. Hill belonged, there were but thirteen living when the last reunion was held in Columbus, Ohio.

E. M. Hill, came to Harrison County, Missouri, in 1872 and engaged in farming, and returned to Virginia in 1888 where he married, having known his wife from childhood.

Mr. Hill has also found time, aside from his business affairs, to take an interest in the affairs of his township and has very capably filled the office of township assessor of Sugar Creek Township. He was formerly a member of the G. A. R. at Bethany, Missouri. Mr. Hill is now living a retired life practically, although he has fifteen acres of land at Blue Ridge which he looks after.

B. H. Hill, manager of the store at Blue Ridge, was born in Sugar Creek Township, January 4, 1892, and was educated in the county schools, and prior to entering the mercantile business, he engaged in farming, and also hauled freight from Bethany to Blue Ridge for about ten years. He manages the store in a very efficient manner, and the business has grown materially in the last few years.

B. H. Hill was married March 28, 1915 to Edith Lee Baldwin of Gilman City. She was born in Gentry County, Missouri, a daughter of W. A. and Emma Baldwin, both of whom live at Bethany, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have two sons : Max Marvin and Roe Allen.

B. H. Hill is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Bethan}-. He has filled the office of tax collector for six years, and has been constable for about that length of time.

Vincle Abner Cummings, a successful and energetic citizen at Blue Ridge, Missouri, was born in White Oak Township November 10, 1889, the son of Henry and Melissa (Justice) Cummings, who now live at Avondale, Missouri.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cummings were born in Harrison County, Missouri, and are the parents of the following children : John, who died at the age of fourteen years; Vincle A., the subject of this sketch; Victor of Gilman, Missouri ; Mella of Gilman, Missouri ; Mary, the wife of Sanders Stewart of North Kansas City, Missouri; Ed of Gilman, Missouri; Cora of Kansas City, Missouri ; and Ceba of Avondale, Missouri.

Vincle A. Cummings was educated in the public schools of Burton and Brady districts, and in early manhood engaged in the saw mill business. Mr. Cummings located in Blue Ridge in 1912 and opened up a general repair shop in November, 1920. In addition to auto work and blacksmithing, he grinds feed and chop and also has an electric dynamo of 3000 watt capacity. Mr. Cummings has had a nice business since coming here, which continues to grow. He has the confidence of the people and has made many friends in this community.

H. M. Tilley, deceased, a prominent and leading pioneer of Butler Township, was bom August 28, 1860, the son of Sanford M. and Liddia (Salmon) Tilley. Sanford Tilley was bom in North Carolina, January 24, 1827, and died April 19, 1916. When one year old, he moved to Cumberland Gap, Virginia, and three months later, he moved to Monroe County, Indiana, with his parents, who remained there for eight years, when they moved to Illinois, and the next spring went to St. Louis, Missouri, and came up the Missouri River to Westport landing, finally locating in Platte County, Missouri, where they lived for eight years, at the end of which time, in 1845, they settled in Harrison County. In 1846, Sanford Tilley volunteered in the Mexican War, and served under Captain Salmon, grandfather of H. M. Tilley, deceased. He was in service for eighteen months, and upon his return from the army, was employed by the Government and drove a six-mule team to Fort Hall, Oregon. The next spring, he joined a company of men going to the gold fields of California, and, while there, he took sick and returned via Panama, walking across the present site of the canal, and took a ship for New Orleans. He walked home from St. Louis, arriving March 26, 1851.

Sanford Tilley married Liddia Salmon, a daughter of Captain Salmon, who was wounded in a battle with the Indians near Taos, New Mexico, and died as a result of his injuries.

Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Tilley were the parents of the following children: Martha Gibson, of Idaho; Oscar Tilley of Spencer, South Dakota; Anna Loomis, who died in Alberta, Canada, in 1920 ; 0. P. Tilley of Cypress Township ; Roy Tilley of Buffalo, Missouri ; Mrs. Dora Youngman of Butler Township; H. M., deceased, the subject of this sketch; and Loraine, Luther and Clara, all of whom died in infancy. In addition to the ten children, Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Tilley had fifty-eight grandchildren and thirty-two great-grandchildren, eighty-nine of whom were living at the time of his death in 1916. Sanford Tilley's grandfather, David Tilley, was in the Revolutionary War, and his father was in the War of 1812. Sanford Tilley was in the Missouri State Militia as well as in the Mexican War.

H. M. Tilley was educated in the public schools of the county, and at the age of fourteen years, went west and was gone for about eight years, during which time he was a cowboy and Government freighter. He returned to Harrison County at the age of twenty-three years, and was married September 21, 1884, to Emma F. Brown, a daughter of James T. and Mary (Sackman) Brown. James Brown died September 12, 1915, and his wife died in January, 1908, and they are buried in Burris Cemetery. James Brown and wife were married in Schuyler County, Illinois, and located in Harrison County, Missouri, in 1865, in Bethany Township. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were the parents of the following children : Mrs. Tilley ; Mrs. 0. P. Tilley of Cypress Township; Mrs. Cora Allen of Gentryville, Missouri; George L. Brown of St. Joseph, Missouri ; Julius and John Brown, deceased.

Mr. and Mrs. Tilley were the parents of four children: William Sanford, who was bom July 1, 1885, and who has been operating the home farm for six years, and for three years previous was in the Western States, and while at Grand Junction, Colorado, lost an arm in a railroad wreck, while working for the D. R. G. Railroad; May G., born December 7, 1887, the wife of Walter Atterberry of Butler Township; George Merton, born April 8, 1889, of Welch, Okla., who married Clara Goldsberry; Frances Herbert, born January 28, 1891, and died August 28, 1892; and Argil, born September 25, 1893, and who married Artie Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Tilley also reared Myra Brown, now the wife of Clifford Burris of Bethany Township.

Emma F. (Bi-own) Tilley, wife of H. M. Tilley, was educated in subscription and public schools of this county. H. M. Tilley and wife moved to her present home November, 1892. Mr. Tilley owned 174 acres of finely improved land, which was thoroughly adapted to dairying. He raised the registered Holstein cattle and Duroc Jersey hogs, and also fed stock extensively. He was a member of the Woodmen of the World, and the Yeoman lodges, and also a member of the Bethany Commercial Club. Mr. Tilley was a man of progressive attributes and a leader for things of public merit.

Paul Tilley, a nephew of H. M. Tilley, was reared by H. M. Tilley and wife, and he won the silver cup and two gold medals for the best five acres of com grown in the state in 1921, the corn being grown on the Tilley farm in Butler Township.

William S. and Argil Tilley are specializing in corn breeding in Reed's yellow dent corn. Mrs. Tilley raises the English sngle comb White Leg-

Argil Tilley owns and operates a farm of 120 acres in Butler Township, formerly the home of his great grandfather, who entered the land in 1846. He was educated in the public schools and has been engaged in farming and stock raising all of his life. He moved to his present fann in 1916, and has lived here ever since. Prior to coming here, in July, 1914, he enlisted in the National Guards and was with Company G on their trip to the Mexican border, and was in service for two and one-half years, and was mustered out October 12, 1916.

Argil Tilley married Artie B. Clark, a daughter of William M. and .Minnie (Schofield) Clark of Bethany, December 26, 1914. Mrs. Tilley was born in Harrison County, Missouri, and was educated in the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Tilley have two children: Wilda and Eva Elizabeth. Mr. Tilley and his brother, William, have won prizes the past two years on Reed's yellow dent com, as follows : Gentry County Com Show at Albany, Missouri, on ten ears, in 1919 ; first premium at King City, in 1919, on ten ears ; champion and grand champion at King City, Missouri, on ten ears in 1919; third premium on single ear at King City, in 1919; fourth premium on five acres of com at Harrison County Com Show in 1919 ; seventh premium at Missouri State Corn Show in 1919. In 1920, they won the following premiums: First premium; on ten ears at Albany, .Missouri, Gentry County Corn Show; first premium at Harrison County, five acre yield contest, with yield of 115.8 bushels per acre; second premium at King City Corn Show on ten ears ; fourth premium at King City Corn Show on ten ears; fifth premium on single ear at King City Corn Show; first premium at Missouri State Corn Show, on ten ears; second premium at Missouri State Corn Show on five-acre yield contest; fourth premium at Missouri State Corn Show on single ear ; and fifth premium at same show, also. The premiums have amounted to more than $300.00, and these brothers have the record of growing the largest yield of any one on a five-acre plat.

William H. Richter, a successful and enterprising farmer of Adams Township, was born in Fulton County, Indiana, September 9, 1848, the son of James and Eleanor (Gorden) Richter. Mrs. Richter was of the Gordon family of Scotland. She died in 1852, in Indiana, and James Richter died about the year 1891 and is buried in the Independent Order of Odd

Fellows Cemetery at Bethany, Missouri. James Richter came to Missouri in 1855 and settled near Bethany, where he entered 800 acres of land. He had the only house on the prairie between Bethany and Bancroft. Mr. and Mrs. James Richter were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Marie Pettit of Denver, Colorado, William H., the subject of this sketch; and eight children, who are deceased.

William H. Richter attended a subscription school in his boyhood days, which was conducted by Mrs. Henry Boyce at her home, about five miles east of Bethany. This was before public schools were organized, and the subscription schools charged $1.00 per month for each pupil.