Harrison County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1921 (part 4 of 15)

June 1, 1871, Mr. Richter was married to Eliza J. Elwell, the widow of Capt. George W. Elwell, and after their marriage they moved to the farm where they now live. At that time the residence was a cabin, and all the land was raw prairie. Mr. Richter now has three sets of buildings, six barns, and there are now forty-two buildings on the farm of different kinds, all put up by Mr. Richter. At one time he had one of the finest fish ponds on his place to be found anywhere. The pond covered one and one-half acres and had twelve feet of water in its deepest places. It was stocked with bass, crappie, channel cat fish, and there are still a few fish in the pond. The farm comprises 370 acres, and is located four miles northwest of Oilman. The original cabin into which Mr. Richter moved had a puncheon floor, with cracks wide enough for the knives, forks and spoons to drop through. He borrowed $10.00 to get married and gave the preacher, the Reverend Cave, father of Alfred Cave, of Bethany, half of that amount, and during their early married life Mr. and Mrs. Richter lived on yellow corn bread rather than go in debt for flour. Mr. Richter taught school in the winters fon seven years and farmed during the summer, and went barefooted in the summer until thirty years of age. In the early days the food consisted of corn bread, wild hog and venison. Mr. Richter's first team was an old blind horse and a crippled one. His place now shows the signs of a thrifty farmer and successful business man. He has always been identified with the Republican party and takes an active part in the affairs of the township. For the past twenty-two years Mr. Richter has been breeding Shorthorn cattle and has one of the finest herds in the county. "Hallwood Count 3rd," the head of his herd, weighs 2,500 pounds and is one of the largest animals of this kind to be found in this section of the State, and his herd of seventy-five cattle is among the best in the State. Mr. Richter recently shipped a car of these cattle to Washington, and he ships stock all over the countiy- Seventy acres of the farm is in alfalfa, which product Mr. Richter has specialized in to the extent that he makes lectures on the raising of alfalfa. His oldest piece of alfalfa is ten years old and has been cut thirty-seven times, and, in 1920, yielded seven tons per acre.

Mr. and Mrs. Richter are the parents of the following children : Frank, born June 8, 1872, who married Harriett Carr, of Michigan, and who live on the home place ; James G., born August 3, 1884, married Ruth Vosburg. They live in Daviess County, Missouri.

Mr. Richter has never belonged to a secret society and has never had his life insured. He is one of the most respected and best known men in the county.

0. H. Nally, a progressive and successful farmer of Adams Township, was born in Jackson County, Ohio, March 20, 1852, the son of William and Patsy (Gillespie) Nally, both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. William Nally came to Missouri in 1865 and settled first in Livingston County for three years, then moved to Harrison County in Adams Township in 1868 and bought 7371/2 acres of land from William Hillman, formerly the Westfield farm. William Nally and family made this their home here until his death, December 31, 1888. His wife died in January, 1888, and both are buried in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. William Nally were the parents of the following children: Lucinda Bai-low, widow of James Barlow, deceased; Susie, the widow of Edward Poore, who lives in Jackson County, Ohio ; Sarah J., the wife of Livingston Gibbons, of Chillicothe, Missouri j W. Jasper, deceased; Winfield S., of Morton County, Kansas; Moses, who died in 1878; 0. H., the subject of this sketch; Harvey Nally, of Cainsville, Missouri; and Frank, deceased.

0. H. Nally received his education in the public schools of Ohio and Missouri, and for the past forty-four years has lived on his present fai-m of 340 acres of land, which is located six and one-half miles northwest of Oilman. This is a well improved place with good residpuce, bam, cribs, granary, etc. The farm is well watered and is one of the best stock farms in this section. Since Mr. Nally moved here, a Cottonwood tree grew on the farm, which was cut down recently and made 248 feet of lumber.

Mr. and Mrs. Nally are the parents of the following- children: Mrs. Cornelia May Cope, deceased; Charles, a ranchman of Colorado, who married Pearl Mitchell; Moses Earl, of Nodaway County, Missouri, who married Willa Knowles; Alvin, a fanner of Harrison County, Missouri; Walden E., of Adams Township, who married Laura Beals; Frank, of Colorado, who married a Miss Jersey, of Nodaway County, Missouri; Gladys E. Meek, who died in 1920; George, of Blue Ridge, who married Leta Haselden ; and Hai-vey, of Colorado. The last named tried to get in the army during the World War, but was rejected. Frank Nally enlisted in the army from Harrison County, August, 1918, and was sent to training camp near Waco, Texas, where he was discharged at the close of the war.

Mr. Nally has found time besides his agricultural pursuits to take part in the affairs of his township, and has sei'ved on the township board for many years and also on the school board. He and his family are well respected citizens and have many friends throughout the county.

The grandfather of 0. H. Nally, Moses Nally, was a native of Albermarle County, Virginia, but left there in 1817 and located in Jackson County, Ohio. He was a farmer and brought with him to Ohio white seed com, this seed from this corn being known as the Nally corn. When O. H. Nally went to Ohio in January, 1901, a cousin of his still had com from the original seed, and Mr. Nally brought some of it home and planted on his farm in Harrison County.

Thomas J. Higgins, a well knowii farmer and stockman of Adams Township, was born in Rush County, Indiana, May 31, 1834, the son of Talbert and Matilda (Jones) Higgins. Mr. and Mrs. Talbert Higgins came to Missouri in 1839 and settled in Daviess County, near Coffey, before the land was surveyed. Mr. Higgins was killed by a falling tree in February, 1840, and he was the first one buried in the cemetery at Coffey, Missouri. His widow died in Adams Township in January, 1901, and is buried at Coffey, Missouri.

Mr. and Mrs. Talbert Higgins were the parents of the following children: Thomas J., of this sketch; Mrs. Louisa Thomas, deceased; A. D., a veteran of the Civil War, died October 14, 1921, and is buried at Coffey, Missouri; and Talbert, who also sei-ved in the Civil War. By a second marriage of Mrs. Talbert Higgins to John Bums she had a son ana daughter: Henry Clay Burns and Mrs. Margaret Beckeit, both of whom are deceased.

Thomas J. Higgins came to Harrison County when six years of age, and has lived on his present farm since 1860. Mr. Higgins was in the Civil War, enlisting in 1863 with the Missouri State Militia, Company F. Third Regiment, and was in this company for ninety days, during which time he was stationed in Platte County, near Old Weston.

Thomas J. Higgins was married August 16, 1855, to Christina Myers, a daughter of Abraham and Mary (Bryant) Myers, both deceased. Mrs. Higgins died May 23, 1915, and is buried at Coif ey, Missouri.

Mr. and Mrs. Higgins are the parents of the following children: Emma and Eobert Y., both deceased; Elizabeth, the wife of William P. Hutcherson, of Coffey, Missouri ; Lillian, the wife of Columbia Hiatt, and who is deceased ; Louisa Jane, the wife of John Galbreath, of Bethany, Missouri ; Abraham, of Gilnian, Missouri, who married Cora Gillilan ; and Joseph T., of Adams Township.

Joseph T. Higgins owns eighty acres of land four and one-half miles northwest of Oilman. December 26, 1897, he mamed Lura H. Young, a daughter of W. B. and Elizabeth Williams Young ,of Blue Ridge, Missouri. Mrs. Young was a daughter of David N. Williams, an early settler of Adams Township, who located here in 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Higgins have two sons: Hugh and Thomas B. Hugh Higgins was married June 1, 1921, to Gertrude Hayes, of Amnston, Alabama.

Joseph T. Higgins is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Oilman, and of the Scottish Rite at St. Joseph. Missouri. He has served as collector for fourteen years and constable for ten years, and is well and favorably known throughout the county.

When Thomas J. Higgins came to this county there were no mills nearer than Richmond, Ray County, more than 100 miles away. The neighbors would assemble their grist and one wagon would take the lot and get it gi-ound. At that time oxen and horses were used for mode of travel and in the field. The country was open prairie from Cypress to Sugar Creek, and the flies were so bad that teams could hardly be driven across the prairie in the summer. Mr. Higgins broke a great deal of prairie land with a yoke of oxen. When he was a boy he used to supply the harvest hands with whiskey and water, the men in the fields having

Hugh Higgins, a son of Joseph T. Higgins, enlisted October 9, 1919, with the Nineteenth Company in the General Service Infantry, detached service, under command of the adjutant general at Washington and served until October, 1920. George T. Higgins, a son of Abraham Higgins, enlisted in the Twelfth Engineer Corps, and went overseas with the Rainbow Division, and served all during the war, but was murdered March, 1919, in France, for his money. He was a dispatch bearer, attached to the General Staff, and was found eight miles from camp with his motorcycle and guns gone, and he had been shot in the back of his head. His body has been returaed and is buried at Gilman City, Missouri.

Lester C. Eberhardt, a progressive and well known young dentist of Gilman City, Missouri, was born in Downs, Illinois, April 9, 1891, the son of Charles A. and Mattie (Mitchell) Eberhart.

Charles A. Eberhart was born in Point Marion, Pennsylvania, and his wife was bom in Downs, Illinois. They came from Illinois to Gilman City in 1902, where they still live. Mr. Eberhart is a farmer and stockbuyer of prominence in the county. To Charles A. and Mattie (Mitchell) Eberhart the following children were born: Floyd E., now a farmer in Daviess County, Missouri, and Elma Irene, twin sister of Floyd E., now Mrs. Allen R. Clinton, of Kansas City, Missouri; and Lester C, the subject of this sketch.

Lester C. Eberhart was educated in the public schools of Illinois and the Gilman City High School. He graduated from the Gem City Business College in Quincy, Illinois, and then entered Kansas City Dental College, from which he graduated in 1918. He enlisted for service in the World War and was sent to Camp Pike, in Arkansas, where he served in the Dental Corps, Dental Infirmary No. 1. He stayed here for the five m.onths until the close of the war, when he returned to Gilman City. He has been practicing dentistry here since February, 1919.

Doctor Eberhart is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons in Gilman City. He is one of Harrison County's best Icnown and promising young men and is deservedly popular with his large clientage.

Franklin P. Burris, deceased, a well known pioneer of Harrison County, was born in Jackson County, Ohio, in 1852, and in 1854 came with his parents to Han-ison County, Missouri, and settled on a farm now owned by the Burris estate, where Mrs. Franklin Burris now lives.

George and Elizabeth (Henry) Burris, parents of Franklin Burris, moved to Bethany in 1881 and lived here until their deaths; he died in 1893 and his wife in 1904 and both are buried in Burris Cemetery on the home place. Mr. and Mrs. George Burris were the parents of the following children: Franklin P., the subject of this sketch; Weltha E. Mitchean, of Los Angeles, California; Sarah Cornelia, the wife of John M. Howell, of Davis City, Iowa; Lydia, the wife of Lawrence Hughes, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ; Mollie, deceased, the wife of Mart Daily ; Cora B., the wife of William Weller, the latter is deceased and the former lives in Oklahoma; Susie, the wife of W. N. Rucker, of Norman, Oklahoma; and Warren, who was accidentally killed when five years of age, and the other died in infancy.

Frankhn P. Burris died December 27, 1911. Prior to his death, he owned the home place, which consists of more than 500 acres, eighty acres of which is in Bethany Township and the remainder in Cypress Township.

Mr. Burris was president of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Harrison County for twenty years and was one of its organizers. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World, Yeoman, Modern Woodmen of America and the Bankers Life.

October 4, 1877, Mr. Burris was married to Emma C. Barlow, a daughter of James and Lucinda (Nally) Barlow, who came from Ohio in 1865 and settled near Chillicothe where they remained until 1869 when they came to Harrison County. They were both natives of Ohio. Mrs. Burris was born in Jackson County, Ohio, and educated in the schools there and taught school two years prior to her marriage. She was one

Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Burris were the parents of the following children: George R., of Mt. Moriah, Missouri, who married Etta Clinkenbeard ; J. Harvey, of Denver, Colorado, who married Gertrude Roleke ; W. Clay, of Bethany, who married Abbie England; F. Ed, who died at the age of twenty-nine years, and who was a teacher in the high school in Helena, Montana, prior to his fatal illness; K. Clifford, of Bethany Township, who married Myra Brown; Don Cabot, who died in infancy; L. Ruth, the wife of Raymond Carter, of White Oak Township; Joe, of Bethany Township, who married Zola Myers; Mary E., who lives at home and teaches school in this county; Grace, at home, who is a student in Bethany High School ; John J., of St. Joseph, Missouri ; and Robert Bruce at home.

The home farm was named Maplewood Farm because of the maple grove just east of the residence. The Burris home is a pretty one, the residence setting back from the road, a row of cedar trees on either side of the spacious yard. The cedars v/ere put out in 1880 and forest trees also decorate the lawn, and a large elm tree just north of the residence adds to the beauty of the place.

The Burris family are well known and highly respected throughout the county. Mrs. Burris is a member of the Methodist Church and her husband was also a Methodist.

Charles Platz. a prosperous and leading farmer of Adams Township, was bom in St. Joseph County, Indiana, April 14, 1859, the son of Christopher and Amanda (Hazeldon) Platz. Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Platz came to Harrison County, Missouri, in October, 1865, and settled on the farm where Charles now lives, where they lived until 1898, when they moved to Lincoln County, Oklahoma. At the time Christopher Platz located here, the place was very much run down, the residence being a log hut without a floor, the floor having been stolen during the war; also the fences were gone. The farm, which consisted of eighty acres, and which Mr. Platz purchased for $750.00, was formerly owned by a Mr. Spheres, one of the early settlers here. (23)

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Platz were the parents of the followingchildren : William L., who was killed in a runaway accident in 1885 ; Charles, the subject of this sketch ; Clara F (Rice) Evans, of Marshall, Oklahoma ; and Ida M. Thomas, of Welston, Oklahoma. Clara Evans has three sons: Jesse and Ross Rice, of Idaho, and Christopher Rice, of Hennessey, Oklahoma. Ida Thomas has two children: Verla and Ivan.

Charles Platz was married December 24, 1885, to Melissa Wright, a daughter of Ambrose Wright and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Platz lived in Sherman Township for four years, and eight years in Adams Township, prior to moving to their present farm, of 320 acres, located one-half mile west of Blue Ridge. This farm has two sets of improvements, two residences, two barns, and other buildings. The residence which Mr. and Mrs. Platz occupy was built in 1918, and is a two story, neatly furnished home. Mr. Platz has an excellent orchard, consisting of 100 bearing peach trees, apple, plum, English walnut and persimmon trees, and he also raise? berries. Mr. Platz has six registered Duroc Jersey hogs, six grade Holstein heifers and a registered Holstein bull, and raises the pure bred Plymouth Rock and Rhode Island Red chickens.

Mr. and Mrs. Platz reared Gladys Nally, who married Edgar Meek. She died January 9, 1920, leaving three children: Dale, bom March 17, 1907; Viola, born April 19, 1909; and Helen, bom November 26, 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Platz also gave Stella Reed a home for one year, and at the present time Mildred and Gladys Nally are making their home with them.

Mrs. Platz was born in Noble County, Indiana, and educated in Iowa. Washington, Indiana and Missouri public schools. She has taught music all of her life and has published three pieces of music which have had a very good sale. She also won a scholarship in Bush Temple Conservatory at Chicago, Illinois, on a piece of four score work, and has written poems for many years, "Old Glory" and "The Star Ahead" being among the best known. Mrs. Platz was state superintendent of the purity department for ten years and county president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1912 to 1920, and has been connected with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union since 1896. Mrs. Platz has very capably assisted in the prohibition work of the State, doing work in various counties. She is well known as a public speaker and has composed several songs, both humorous and pathetic.

Wright located in Noble, Indiana, in 1836, and lived there until their death. Ambrose Wright located in Ringgold County, Iowa, at the age of twenty-three years and entered land there. He lived in Iowa for nine years and returned to Indiana, coming to Harrison County, Missouri, in 1882 and settled in Adams Township, where he has lived ever since, with the exception of a short time which he spent in Oklahoma and Arkansas.

Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Wright were the parents of the following children: Ambrose; Jonathan, deceased; William, deceased; Charity Cramer, deceased; Dr. Reuben Wright, deceased; Mrs. Jane Broughton, deceased; and Oliver, a drum major in the Civil War.

Ambrose Wright was married first in 1857 to Ruth Goodell, deceased, and they were the parents of the following children: Jonathan, Charity, J. A. and Lora. All of the children are deceased with the exception of Jonathan Wright. Ambrose Wright married a second time to Adaline Roth, and they were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Melissa Platz; Mrs. Marie Dale; Sherman E., a railway mail clerk out of Kansas City, Missouri ; Mrs. Fannie Johnson ; Mrs. Enoch McClure ; and Luther, of Oklahoma.

Harry C. Shroyer, one of the live, progressive men of Bethany, and manager of the Shroyer Music Company, is a son of John W. Shroyer, who died March 20, 1916.

John W. Shroyer was born in Anderson, Indiana, in 1842, and was educated there, but moved to Iowa when a young man and was married at Waterloo, Iowa, to Mary A. Krautz, of that place. Mrs. Shroyer is living and spends her time at Waterloo, Iowa, in the v/inter and in the summer stays with her son, Harry C. Shroyer. From Iowa, Mr. Shroyer went to Kansas, where he stayed for eighteen months, at the end of which time he came to Bethany and located here permanently in 1886. His first business venture here was in the broom manufacturing business when he established a plant just northwest of the square on Centra! Street. He organized the music company in 1893, but continued the broom making plant for several years afterward. John Shroyer was a member of the Knights of Pythias and an active G. A. R. man. During the Civil War he served in Company G, Eighty-fourth Indiana Volunteers.

Harry C. Shroyer began with his father when but fourteen years of age. In the year 1893 he quit school on account of ill health and went on the wagon, driving through the county selling organs. He made his first organ sale in 1895 to Joe Pontus, who lived north of Ridgeway, Mr. Pontus paying therefor $140.00. Mr. Shroyer still does a great deal of outside work and the business has increased until Mr. Shroyer not only sells organs, but handles pianos, talking machines, player pianos and everything in the musical line. He recently sold the band of New Hampton a full set of musical instruments. This company also has a branch at Albany, Missouri, with Norman Morgan as manager, and has four trucks on the road selling and delivering instruments.

The Shroyer Music Company has an extensive business in Harrison, Gentry, Worth and adjoining counties and are also doing a nice business in Iowa. Mr. Shroyer is a hustler, working early and late, and Is the fourth largest dealer in Edison phonographs in the Des Moines-Sioux City district, selling more than $60,000.00 worth of Edisons in 1920. Mr. Shroyer was on the program for a talk June 21, 1921, on salesmanship, his subject being: "Get Out and Get It."

Mr. Shroyer is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Bethany, joining when eighteen years of age, having a special permit on account of being a musician. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias at Bethany, and a member of the National Association of Musical Merchants, since its organization in 1914.

N. B. Williams, an enterprising citizen of Oilman City, and efficient cashier of the Oilman Bank, was bom near Blue Ridge, December 7, 1871, the son of D. N. and Ruth (Newell) Williams. D. N. Williams was a native of New York, but reared in Ohio, and came to Missouri just after the Civil War and owned a farm in Adams Township, where he died in 1895. He is buried at Fairview Cemetery. His wife was bom in Ohio and died in 1900.

Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Williams were the parents of the following children : B. F., of Oilman ; Mrs. Elizabeth Young, deceased ; Mrs. Viola Fair, Chandler, Oklahoma; T. L., of Daviess County; Luella Welden, deceased; Mrs. Nettie Wagoner, widow of John Wagoner, of Bethany; and N. B., the subject of this sketch.

his graduation, he engaged in farming for a while, and then operated a hotel at Oilman, and under Roosevelt's administration was postmaster for five years. He was then with W. T. Dunn and Company in a general store at Oilman, and has been connected with the Oilman Bank since November, 1910, and since that time the bank has shown excellent growth.

The Oilman Bank was organized in 1897 with a capital stock of $10,000.00, with Frank Vincil as cashier. Later J. B. Markey was president and H. C. Honan cashier, and following them were W. J. Wilden, president, and Charlie Burrell, cashier. These officers were succeeded by the present officers, who are as follows: F. B. Ray, president; C. A. Spruger, vice-president; N. B. Williams, cashier; J. H. Cutshall, assistant cashier; and Helen Doherty, assistant cashier. The present capital stock is $25,000.00, with surplus of $15,000.00, and $17,000 of undivided profits. The bank owns its building, a brick structure 25x100 feet.

Mr. Williams was married December 25, 1900, to L. Etta Bogue, a daughter of Jonah and Nancy Bogue, of Oilman, Missouri. Mrs. Williams is a native of this county and a prominent teacher here at the time of her marriage.

T. A. Doherty, a well known and enterprising druggist of Oilman City, Missouri, was born in Olasgow, Scotland, in 1864, and came to America in 1870 with his parents, T. A. and Helen Margaret (Orant) Doherty, who settled first in Chicago, where Mr. Doherty engaged in blacksmithing for a few years. He then moved to Elkhart, Indiana, where T. A. Doherty attended school. He learned the drug business at Belleville, Kansas, with his brother, and was there for about fifteen years prior to locating here. He bought his present store in 1913, and has one of the fine businesses of this county. He carries a full line of drugs, paints, wall paper, druggist sundries ,toilet articles, etc., and has done a vei'y successful business.

Mr. Doherty was married in 1890 to Maiy A. Horan, of Jackson, Michigan. She died in 1899 at Trenton, Missouri, leaving a son and daughter: Helen M., with the Oilman Bank, a graduate of the Belleville, Kansas, High School; and Charles G., a graduate of the Oilman High School, and who is in business with his father. He enlisted at St. Joseph, Missouri, May 1, 1917, for service in the World War, and was sent first to Fort Riley, Kansas, in June, 1917, and to Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, later, where he remained until he sailed for France in May, 1918, with the Thirty-fifth Division. He was in the battles of Alsace Front, Geradenner, France, at St. Mihiel, Argonne, Verdun, and was on the Metz front when the armistice was signed. He was discharged at Camp Funston in May, 1919, with more than two years' service to his credit. He says that his finest job at Camp Funston was when guarding the lumber piles before the building was done. Charles Doherty attended the Kansas University for one year. He passed the Missouri Board of Pharmacy November 5, 1919, he having learned the drug business in Belleville, Kansas, with his father. Besides Charles Doherty, the following boys from Gilman were with the Thirty-fifth Division: Mark Reilly; Jesse D. Lowe, who was wounded; Floyd Smith; James Ivan Ray, who was wounded, and Carl George.

Dr. W. T. Doherty, brother of T. A. Doherty, who is city physician at Wichita, Kansas, was overseas with the Eighty-ninth Division. While in France he was gassed. He now has charge of the Public Health Service at Dallas, with rank of major, and is still in the Medical Corps.

Edmund J. Dorney, a nephew of T. A. Doherty, of Gilman, was with the Third Division in France, also trained at Camp Funston, and was gassed while in service. He was in the battles of Argonne and Chateau Thierry.

Hugh F. Reilly, a prominent business man of Harrison County, Missouri, was born in Warren County, Ohio, March 22, 1860, the son of Thomas and Mary (Reilly) Reilly.

Thomas and Mary (Reilly) Reilly were both born in County Meath, Ireland, and were married there. They came to the United States about 1848 and settled first in Ohio, coming to Harrison County, Missouri, in 1866. They settled first in Adams Township for one year, then moved near Edinburgh, and finally to Blue Ridge. Mr. Reilly died at Blue Ridge in 1901 at the age of ninety-three ; his wife still lives in Gilman City and is now ninety-seven years old. The children of Thomas and Mary (Reilly) Reilly were : Patrick, who died in 1882 ; James, now living In Saline County, Missouri; Ella, deceased in 1874; Anna, married to Hugh Markey, of Gilman City; Hugh F., the subject of this sketch; Michael, now living in Gilman City; and Lizzie, the widow of Robert Thomas, Springfield, Missouri.

Hugh F. Reilly was educated in the schools of Harrison County. He entered the mercantile business in Bancroft, Missouri, later moving to Jamesport, Missouri, and then returning to Bancroft, remaining in business there for ten years. For five of the years he lived m Bancroft, Mr. Reilly was the postmaster there. When the town of Oilman City was started, Mr. Reilly moved his stock of goods there and remained in business for four years, at the end of which he sold his stock to Higgins and Cavanaugh. Mr. Reilly remained in Oilman City until 1911, when he moved to Columbia, Missouri, to send his children to school. In 1916 he came to his present home, a ten room stucco house, modern in every way, with a concrete basement, cement cellar house and a cave. Mr. Reilly owns 260 acres of land adjoining the town of Oilman City, the original townsite having come off the southwest corner of this land. Mr. Reilly helped organize the Oilman City Bank in 1897 and was its efficient president for six years.

Hugh F. Reilly was manied to Mary A. Jourdan, of Chillicothe, Missouri, June 11, 1889. Mrs. Reilly is a native of Kentucky and a daughter of Owen and Catherine Jourdan. Mr. Jourdan died in Plattsburgh, Missouri. His wife died in 1905 at Chillicothe, Missouri.

To Hugh F. and Mary A. (Jourdan) Reilly the following children were born: Mary Catherine, died at the age of four years; Hugh F., a brief sketch of whom appears later; Nina C, graduated from the Columbia, Missouri, High School, graduated from the University of Missouri in 1916, attended Columbia University, New York City, in the summer of 1916, taught in Missouri University for one year, taught in the University of West Virginia for three years, and is now teaching in the Home Economics Department at the University of Missouri ; Mark B., a brief sketch of whom appears later ; Ruth R., graduated from the Columbia, Missouri, High School, graduated from the University of Missouri class of 1921, now a teacher of Vocational Home Economics in Jameson, Missouri ; and Esther, graduated from the Oilman City High School in 1921 and is now a student in St. Teresa Junior College at Kansas City, Missouri.

Hugh F. Reilly, Jr., the oldest living child of Hugh F. and Mary A. (Jourdan) Reilly, attended the Oilman City High School. He then went to Chillicothe to school and later to St. Louis University and to Missouri University at Columbia, from which latter university he graduated in the Law Department. He was practicing law in St. Louis when the United States entered the World War. He enlisted at St. Louis, Missouri, March,

1918. Sent to Camp Funston, served as a corporal, then made sergeant in Thirtieth Machine Gun Battahon, was detached from Tenth Division and made second lieutenant in Insurance Department, Washington, District of Columbia. Was discharged in January, 1919, and is still a member of officers reserve. Since that time has been an attorney in Kansas City, Missouri.

Mark B. Reilly is a gi-aduate of the Columbia, Missouri, High School, and a member of the class of 1922 of the University of Missouri. He enlisted for service in the World War in Columbia, Missouri, in April, 1917, and was sent first to Nevada, Missouri, then to Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, later to Camp Mills, New York, and overseas April 22, 1918. He was with the Thirty-fifth Division and was with brigade headquarters of the One Hundred Thirty-ninth and One Hundred Fortieth Infantry. He was in St. Mihiel, Argonne, Meuse and the Vosges Mountains, and was gassed while in the Argonne Forest. Mr. Reilly came back home in August,

1919. While in London, England, he attended Kings College for three months and is now a student in the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.

The Reilly family has been prominent in Harrison County for years, where the name stands for integrity, for uprightness and for patriotic service.

Andrew J. Flint, a successful farmer of Bethany Township, and member of a pioneer family of this county, was bom in Sherman Township, two miles from his present home, November 5, 1860, the son of George W. and Sarah (Noah) Flint, both deceased.

George W. Flint came to Harrison County, Missouri, in 1839, when he was eight years of age and Mrs. Sarah Flint came here in 1838, when six years of age. George W. Flint died in 1900 and his wife died in 1889 and both are buried in Antioch Cemetery. Thomas Flint, the grandfather of Andrew J. Flint, was one of the first settlers in Bethany Township and held one of the first offices in pioneer days. George W. Flint held the office of justice of the peace when he lived at Cainsville, Missouri, and was a merchant there for many years. His first mercantile venture was in Bethany and later moved to Coffey, Missouri. From there he located in Mt. Moriah and later at Cainsville, eventually moving to Lorraine, Missouri, and he was prominent in a movement to move the county seat to Lorraine, but the effort failed.

Owen Paul Flint

Mr. and Mrs. George W. Flint were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Frances Terry, of Daviess County, Missouri; Mrs. Alice Nichols, of Bethany; Andrew J., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Addie Gale, of Bethany, Missouri; Mrs. Josie Bartlett, of Clinton, Missouri; Charles, of Los Angeles, California; and three deceased: Minnie, George and Robert. Mr. Flint was married a second time to Mrs. Ruth Stretch, of Daviess County, Missouri.

Andrew J. Flint was educated in the pubhc schools of this county and has lived on his present farm for twenty-two years. He owns sixty acres, all improvements put on by him. He bought forty acres from E. H. Frisby and twenty acres from Charlie Fordyce, and thirty-five acres of the farm is bottom land. Mr. Flint has raised watermelons very successfully for the past seven years and finds a ready market at Bethany, Missouri. He also does general farming and stock raising, raising the Jersey cattle, 0. I. C. hogs, White and Brown Leghorn and Rhode Island Red chickens.

February 8, 1888, Mr. Flint was married to Ruth A. Stretch, a daughter of William and Tamsy (Cline) Stretch, both deceased. Mr. Stretch was a native of England and his wife a native of Daviess County, Missouri. Mrs. Flint was born and reared in Daviess County.

Mr. and Mrs. Flint are the parents of the following children: Maude Alma, the wife of E. A. Stout, of Ft. Laramie, Wyoming; George W., a barber, of Macon, Missouri, who m.arried Ethel Bishop, of Clarence, Missouri; Owen Paul, who was born October 18, 1892 and died April 16, 1919, further mention of whom is made below; Hugh M., of Ft. Laramie, Wyoming, who married Gladys Parker, of Scotts Bluff, Nebraska; Alice R., who lives at home; and Clayton J., who lives at home and assists in operating the home farm.

Owen Paul Flint enlisted in Company G, of the 4th Missouri Infantry, June 18, 1916 and went to the Mexican border, where he remained several months, returning from the border at the beginning of the World War, when he was promoted to sergeant and going overseas with the 35th Division. He was in the battles of Grand Balleu sector, June 19, 1918; Wessenburg sector, July 16, 1918; St. Mihiel, September 13, 1918; Argonne, September 26th to October 2, 1918. He died at Brest, France, at the St. Nazaire hospital from pneumonia, April 16, 1919, and his remains have been returned home and are buried in Antioch Cemetery. He was on scout duty while in France and was one of the best men that his colonel had according to the colonel's report. He could have evaded the war on account of agricultural pursuits, but he said: "No, dad, if my country needs me, I want to serve it."

Russell Gale, a cousin of Owen Paul Flint, was also in Company G of the 35th Division and was captured in the Argonne Forest on September 28, 1918, and was kept prisoner until the armistice was signed. He now lives at Gillett, Wyoming, on a government claim.

Andrew J. Flint has been prominent in the affairs of his township and county. He is a Republican and has filled the office of constable for the past ten years; he has also served as deputy sheriff under Sheriff A. H. Flint. He is a member of the Yeoman lodge.

Mr. Flint, in 1904, was awarded a silver medal and diploma on corn, having shown 100 ears of what is known as the mortgage lifter corn. He has experimented in producing seed corn since 1903 and is one of the best posted men in this section concerning this interesting and important branch of agriculture. He is a member of the Church of Christ.

G«orge A. Richardson, the present capable and popular manager of the Miner Frees Lumber Yard in Gilman City, Missouri, was born in Monroe, Wisconsin, May 28, 1852, the son of Asa and Phoebe A. (Watson) Richardson.

Asa and Phoebe A. (Watson) Richardson both died in LawTence, Kansas, where they had moved in 1870. Their children were: Sarah A., deceased; Flora E., now Mrs. Coleman, of Pasadena, California; George A., the subject of this sketch; May E., deceased; Nora Alma, now Mrs. Wallace, of Durango, Colorado; D. A., now living in Nevada; Fred 0., of Lawrence, Kansas; Hennan 0., of Abilene, Kansas; Mabel E., now Mrs. Pontius, of Lawrence, Kansas; Ernest Arthur, of Lawrence, Kansas; and 011a G., later Mrs. Bigsby, and now deceased.

George A. Richardson was educated in the public schools of Monroe, Wisconsin, and later attended the Wisconsin State University and the State University of Kansas. In 1890 he came to Missouri and was engaged in farming in Harrison County until 1900, when he accepted a position with the Miner Frees Lumber Company. He held this position for about two years, and then was made manager of the Gilman City Yard, which place he has filled most successfully for nineteen years. The Miner Frees Lumber Yard in Gilman City covers five city lots, and carries a full line of building materials.

Mr. Richardson was married to Frances M. Miner, of New Hampton, Missouri, October 19, 1883. She is a daughter of S. E. Miner and a sister of E. S. and W. A. Miner. She was born and educated in Wisconsin, and was a teacher in Monroe, Wisconsin, for several years prior to her marriage.

To George A. and Frances M. (Miner) Richardson the following children were born: Asa Verne, deceased at the age of thirtp-six in 1921. married to Beatrice Proper, and was a merchant in Grand Junction, Colorado, where his widow and son, George A., are living ; Etta May, now Mrs. W. L. Browning, of Broadwater, Nebraska ; Fannie Mina, married to Haver Bruner, and have six children, Marjorie, Miner, Fannie Olive, Charline and Haver Lyall ; Flora, living at home, is assistant cashier of the Citizens Bank, Oilman City, Missouri; Edwyl E., holding the position of assistant at the Miner Frees Lumber Yard, married to Gussie Lee Lovingier, and having two children, Neva May and Shirley Lee.

Mr. Richardson is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and the Order of Eastern Star. He has an excellent standing in the town and is liighly esteemed.

F. M. Williams, well known retired fanner and mei chant living in Oilman City, Missouri, was born January 1, 1852, near Coffey, Daviess County, Missouri, the son of W. and Matllikla (Williams) Williams.

W. Williams was born in Kentucky in 1818. He located in Indiana, then left that state and came by water to Lexington, Missouri, later settling in Daviess County. He served in the Civil War as a member of the Missouri State Militia. He died in Harrison County, near Oilman City, in 1898. His wife, Matilda (Williams) Williams, was born in Kentucky in 1820, and died in 1895. To W. and Matilda (Williams) Williams the following children were born : George, who died at the age of twelve in Daviess County ; Mary, deceased ; John, deceased ; Martha, deceased ; Emmaline, the wife of Joseph Mullen; W. H., deceased; F. M., the subject of this sketch ; and Lafayette, who was serving as the mayor of Oilman City at the time of his death, on March 25, 1921.

F. M. Williams was educated in the public schools of the county, and has made his own way in the world since early boyhood. He followed farming in Harrison County until twenty-one years ago, when he moved to Oilman City, Missouri. He entered the coal business and remained in that work for some time, but is now retired. He is a stockholder in the Citizens Bank of Oilman City. He was on the building committee of this bank and was a director for one year.

Mr. Williams has been married twice; the first time to Luella Howard, December" 28, 1876. Mrs. Williams was a daughter of S. L. and Adaline (Ellis) Howard. Mrs. Williams died in 1905 and is buried in Coffey, Missouri. F. M. and Luella (Howard) Williams had one daughter, Daisy, who married S. F. Gannon, and who died at the age of twenty-eight. Mr. Williams was married the second time to Georgiann Land, of Gilman City. She is a native of Illinois and was educated in Iowa.

Mr. Williams is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons at Gilman City, and is a member of the Christian Church. He is a substantial and reliable citizen of his community.

Edgar A. Aten, one of the retired farmers of Cypress Township, Harrison County, Missouri, was bom in Jackson County, Ohio, January 2, 1854, the son of Aaron and Margaret (Vandevert) Aten.

Aaron Aten was born in Pennsylvania, and later moved to Minnesota, where he died in 1856. His wife, Margaret (Vandevert) Aten, was born in Pennsylvania, and died in Jackson County, Ohio. Aaron and Margaret (Vandevert) Aten had two children: Melissa, now the widow of John R. Wilson, of Jackson County, Ohio; and Edgar A., the subject of this sketch. By a later marriage of Mrs. Aten she had one son, Oscar Bennett, now living in Jackson County, Ohio.

Edgar A. Aten was educated in the public schools of Ohio. He came to Harrison County, Missouri, to visit his uncle, William Vendevert, in 1871; and in 1877 he located ten miles south of Bethany, Missouri, on Big Creek in Cypress Tov/nship. In 1879 he bought a farm of 167 acres, which he later sold. He remained on his farm in Cypress Township for over forty years, doing general farming, stockraising, and some shipping. At present he owns 100 acres of land in Daviess County, Missouri, and is living on a five acre place at the west edge of Gilman City. He bought his present home from G. A. Richardson in August, 1919. Mr. Aten has a good two story, modem house, neatly kept yard, a small orchard in which he has a variety of fruits. Here he is enjoying a well earned retirement from business.

was born in Jackson County, Ohio, and came with her parents, John and Synthia (Burris) Hawk, to Missouri when she was seven years old. Mr. and Mrs. Hawk were among the early settlers of Cypress Township, Harrison County, where they both died.

To Edgar A. and Jane (Hawk) Aten one daughter was born: Lillie M., now Mrs. M. S. Jarrett, of Coffey, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Jarrett have four children, as follows: Erman E., married to Rada Musick and now living in Spencer, South Dakota; Romaine Frances, now Mrs. P. R. Tibbs, of Daviess County; Avie Jane, at home; and Willard Aten, now nine years old. Mr. and Mrs. Aten have also two great-gi^andchildren : Fontel Musick Jarrett, and Margaret Elizabeth Tibbs.

Mr. and Mrs. Aten are members of the Christian Church at Bridgeport, Missouri. They are estimable people and have the esteem of their entire community.

W. E. Puis, a highly esteemed farmer living in Adams Township on Route No. 3 from Oilman City, was born in Scotland County, Missouri, February 2, 1878, the son of J. A. and Margaret Puis.

J. A. Puis was too young to enlist for service in the army during the Civil War, but he went anyway and, while not on the roll, he is really a veteran of the war. He lives in Harrison County. His wife died in Scotland County, Missouri. To J. A. and Margaret Puis the following children were born : Dosie, now Mrs. Mattick, of Scotland County ; P. E., living in Eagleville, Missouri; Rena, now Mrs. Cunningham, of Scotland County, Missouri; P. F., living in Lewiston, Idaho; Mada, the wife of C. M. Wagner, of Bethany, Missouri ; W. E., the subject of this sketch ; P. C, living in Bethany, Missouri; and Cora, now the wife of John Nighthart, of Pattonsburg, Missouri.

W. E. Puis received his education in Scotland County. He was in Oklahoma on a farm for four years, and came to Harrison County twentytwo years ago. He owned 160 acres of land in Bethany Township which he sold in 1918. He then bought his present farm of 200 acres in the northeast corner of Adams Township, four and one-half miles north of Oilman City. He keeps a part of his farm in pasture, ninety acres in corn and the remainder in other grains. He has a good residence, a barn 56x60 feet, other farm buildings, good water for his stock and a good well and spring.

Mr. Puis was married to Leah Montgomery in 1897. Mrs. Puis is a daughter of John and Lydia Montgomery, of Scotland County, both now deceased. Mrs. Puis was bom and reared in Scotland County.

To W. E. and Leah (Montgomery) Puis two children have been born: Bernice, married Laura Black and lives in Sherman Township; and Lois, married William Richter, of Cypress Township.

Mr. Puis is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge in Bethany, Missouri. He is a man who is well and favorably known for his integrity and for his community interest.

Hugh Markey, a well known farmer of Adams Townghip, near Gilman City, Missouri, was born in Caibon County, Pennsylvania, October 30, 1837, the son of Philip and Rose (McEnroe) Markey.

Philip Markey died in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1869, and is buried there. His wife died in Daviess County, Missouri, in 1882 and is buried in St. Johns Cemetery in Gilman City. The children of Philip and Rose (McEnroe) Markey were : Catherine, now Mrs. Farren, of Hancock County, Illinois; Mary, deceased, who was Mrs. Honan; Hugh, the subject of this sketch ; Bernard, deceased ; John B.. now in Kansas City, Missouri ; and Rose, now Mrs. McManus, of Kansas City, Missouri.

Hugh Markey was educated in the public schools of Pennsylvania and Adams County, Illinois, and graduated in penmanship from Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. He has several ink drawings which are his work and which show unusual ability.,

Mr. Markey came to Missouri in 1859 and settled in Daviess County, where he improved a farm just west of Bancroft. He moved to Adams Township, Harrison County, where he had bought a farm two years previously, in 1880. He now owns 543 acres of land in Adams Township known as the "St. John's Fann." The old St. John's Church originally stood on this place. Mr. Markey has a good house, a good barn, and several stock buildings. The lawn at the front of his house is set with Scotch pines, which make a striking entrance to the house. Mr. Markey had, at one time, one of the best Shorthorn herds in the county, and was an extensive stock feeder.

graduated from the Wichita, Kansas, High School and the Sisters' School of that place. The children are : Rose E., a teacher in the business college at Wichita, Kansas; Leo T., now with the Home Deposit Trust Company at Independence, Missouri; Bessie Elizabeth, married to A. F. Adams, an architect of unusual ability, working with a Chicago, Illinois, firm; Hugh F., a student for two years some time since in Kansas University, and now with the Exchange State Bank at Burns, Kansas, married Gladys Brady, of Independence, Kansas ; Mary E., now Mrs. A. C. Gillespie, of Wichita, Kansas; John P., connected with the Exchange State Bank at Wichita, Kansas, married Regina Reilly, of Wichita, Kansas; and Irene, a graduate in domestic science from the Wichita College, and now doing laboratory work in Wichita.

Hugh F. Markey enlisted for service in the World War, but was rejected because of his eyesight. After special effort he was accepted and, because of his excellent book work while in the army, was given a commission of second lieutenant.

Mr. Markey has a home in Wichita, Kansas, where he spends the winters. He is justly esteemed both in his Kansas place of residence and in his Missouri home. He is one of the influential and reliable citizens of his community.

Benjamin S. Hagerty, proprietor of White Elm Stock Farm and prom;- nent farmer of Sugar Creek Township, was born in Sangamon County, Illinois, February 18, 1851, the son of H. L. and Elizabeth (Jordan) Hagerty.

H. L. Hagerty came to Missouri in 1855, driving overland to Harrison County, where he entered 320 acres of land and improved it. The Gilman City Cemetery is located on this land. Mr. Hagerty died on his farm in 1862 and is buried in Mitchell Cemetery. His wife, who died in 1891, is buried in the same cemetery.

To H. L. and Elizabeth (Jordan) Hagerty the following children were born: Martha, who married Thomas Elwood and died in Arkansas; Jonathan, who died in Vicksburg, Mississippi, while serving in the United States Army ; J. A., who died on the home place ; James, who died on the home place at the age of forty-seven ; Nancy, who married William Taylor and died in Fremont, Nebraska ; Benjamin S., the subject of this sketch ;

Susan, who died on the home place ; Otis, a railroad man, who died in St. Joseph; Charles, who died in Red Oak, Missouri; and Alice, who married J. T. Endicott and died in Fremont, Nebraska.

Benjamin S. Hagerty was educated in the public schools of Harrison County and has lived here all of his life. He bought the eighty acres of land one-half mile east of Oilman City where he now lives, and by inheritance received forty acres more. He has improved his land himself, building his house in a millet patch. He has two barns and a large stock shed and other well kept farm buildings. He does general farming and stockraising, in which vocations he has been very successful.

Mr. Hagerty was married to Ellen Knight, July 3, 1874. Mrs. Hagerty died in 1886, leaving two children : Maude, now the wife of Joe McGaffey, of Gordon, Nebraska ; and Charles Otis, who lives on the home place. Mr. Hagerty was married the second time to Mrs. Sarah Campbell, whose maiden name was Harper. She is a native of Kentucky. Mrs. Sarah H. (Campbell) Hagerty has three children: Joseph, who lives in Kansas City, Missouri; Fred, now living in Scott's Bluff, Nebraska; and Clare, the wife of Artie Speedleburg, of Tacoma, Washington.

James H. Joyce, a leading and well known farmer of Cypress Township and member of a pioneer family of Harrison County, was born on the farm where he now lives, October 2, 1870, the son of W. W. and Sarah (McKibbon) Joyce. W. W. Joyce came to Missouri from Ohio in 1856, but i-eturned to Ohio and lived there until 1865, when he again came to Harrison County and settled in Cypress Township, where Mr. Joyce did general farming and dealt extensively in stock and at the time of his death in 1894, owned 500 acres of land. Mrs. Joyce died in 1891 and both she and her husband are buried in Burris Cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. W. VV. Joyce were the parents of the following children: Cornelia J. Barlow, of Springfield, Colorado; R. J., of Bridgeport, Missouri; James H., the subject of this sketch; George K., of Bethany, Missouri ; and Mary Maude Abbott, of Kansas.

James H. Joyce received his education in the district school of Cypress Township and attended the Pattonsburg High School two terms and has made his home in Cypress Township all of his life. He has owned the home farm of 120 acres since 1896, but has added land to his farm until he now owns 280 acres where he lives and he also owns forty-five acres east of Bridgeport and a farm near Coffey, Missouri, making a total of 361 acres in his possession. Mr. Joyce does general farming and raises cattle and hogs. He has a registered Shorthorn bull and keeps Poland China hogs. The farm is well improved with a good two-story, six room residence, two barns for stock and other buildings.

Mr. Joyce was married December 15, 1920 to Stella Skinner, a daughter of W. H. and Sarah Skinner. Mrs. Skinner lives in Bethany, but her husband died in 1914 and is buried in Bethany.

Willis 0. Black, a prominent farmer of Sugar Creek Township, Harrison County, was born in this township, February 9, 1869, the son of Albert R. and Cornelia (McCammon) Black.

Albert R. Black was born in Kentucky, but came to Missouri in the early days. He was a teamster in the Union Army during the Civil War, but was not listed. He died October 12, 1912, and is buried in Coon Creek Cemetery. His wife, Cornelia (McCammon) Black, died in October, 1869, and is also buried in Coon Creek Cemetery. Their only child was Willis 0. Black, the subject of this sketch. Albert R. Black was married the second time to Elizabeth Turner, of Bethany, Missouri, and they had the following children: Lockey, Zula, Robert, Glen wood and Fines.

Cornelia (McCammon) Black was the daughter of the Rev. William McCammon, a pioneer Baptist preacher in northwest Missouri. He was iiorn in Clay County, Kentucky, January 4, 1811, and came to Missouri in 1837, settling in Grundy County, then Livingston County, where he continued to live until his death, August 13, 1893. He entered the land upon which his gi'andson, the subject of this sketch, now lives, and at the time of his death owned land in Grundy, Daviess and Harrison Counties. He organized the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Harrison County, helped organize the West Fork Association and was one of the moderators of the association for nine consecutive years. He was called upon often to preach the annual sermon, and throughout his life was one of the prominent men of the county both in religious and in civic affairs.

his first teacher being Mrs. Melvin Buren at Hagerty School District. He has made his home on his present farm since 1897. He owns 28OI/2 acres of land a mile east of Oilman City in Sugar Creek Township. He does general farming and stock raising. For the past three years he has done his plowing and run his binder with a Fordson tractor. His farm is well kept and shows the effect of his progressive methods.

Willis 0. Black was married to Nettie L. Payne, a daughter of James and Laura (Devorss) Payne, October 25, 1896. Mrs. Black's father, James Payne, was born in Kokomo, Indiana, and now lives in Oilman City. Her mother, Laura (Devorss) Payne, was bom in Daviess County and died at the age of thirty. She is buried in Antioch Cemetery, Daviess County. To James and Laura (Devorss) Payne the following children were born: Anna Alberta, deceased in infancy; Orville, deceased in infancy; Nettie L., wife of the subject of this sketch; and Lura L., the wife of John Kern, of Oilman City.

To Willis 0. and Nettie L. (Payne) Black the following children were born: Cliva, now on the home place with her husband, Roy Norris, who was in the United States Army from July, 1918, to February, 1919, stationed at Camp Funston and at Baltimore, Maryland, with the Tenth Division, Ambulance Company No. 237 ; Laura, now Mrs. Bernice Puis, of Sherman Township; Lucille, a teacher in the public schools at Oilman, Missouri; Virgil, a student in the Oilman City High School; Vincen, died at the age of nine months ; and Maxine.

Mr. Black is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is one of the substantial citizens of Harrison County, standing high in the esteem of his community.

Otho Powell Nisbeth, reliable young proprietor of the Nisbeth Motor Company in Oilman City, Missouri, was born in Bevier, Missouri, April 30, 1899, the son of J. W. and Ora (Powell) Nisbeth.

Both J. W. Nisbeth and his wife were born and reared in Bevier. Mr. Nisbeth is at present in the real estate business, with which he has been connected for several years. Before he took up his present work he was an extensive dealer in hardware, conducting stores at Bevier, Stanberry, Callao, Brunswick and Noving, Missouri. In May, 1920, he and his son established the Nisbeth Motor Company in Oilman City. The company has a building 50x100 feet, which affords space for the excellent business.

Otho Powell Nisbeth received his education in Bevier, graduating from the Bevier High School in 1918. After his graduation he conducted a garage in Bevier, and received the training for his present position. He came to Oilman City and bought out the interest which his father held in the Nisbeth Motor Company in January, 1921.

Otho Powell Nisbeth is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons in Oilman City. He is a promising young man whose business success is fully established.

Dr. M. J. Quinlan, an able and prominent dentist of Oilman, Missouri, was born in Nodaway County, Missouri, October 3, 1881, the son of John and Margaret Quinlan. Mrs. Margaret Quinlan lives in Maryville, Missouri, and her husband is dead.

Dr. M. J. Quinlan was educated in the University of Illinois, and was graduated in 1905 in dentistry, and opened an office in Oilman, Missouri, the same year, where he has since practiced.

During the World War Doctor Quinlan enlisted July 30, 1917, and was in the Dental Corps, stationed at Oglethorpe, Oeorgia. He was mustered out at that place January 5, 1920, and returned to Oilman. He was promoted to captain in March, 1920, and is now in the Dental Reserve Corps.

Doctor Quinlan was married in 1906 to Myrtle Clayton, who has been in the War Risk Department service since March, 1920, and who will not be released until in July, 1921. She is stationed at Washington, District of Columbia. Doctor and Mrs. Quinlan have a daughter, Margaret.

Doctor Quinlan is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is a progressive type of man and has an excellent practice. He has always taken a commendable interest in the affairs of Oilman and has many friends here.

W. D. Haines, a progressive and well known merchant of Oilman, Missouri, who is in the furniture and undertaking business, was born in Sugar Creek Township, January 25, 1877, the son of Walker P. and Nancy Haines. Mrs. Nancy Haines died in 1878 and her husband is living at Oilman, Missouri, at the age of seventy-five years. He was bom in In- diana and came to Missouri when twelve years of age, and during the Civil War was in the Missouri State Militia. He owned and impi'oved a farm near Oilman, Missouri.

Mr. and Mrs. Walker P. Haines were the parents of the following children: Minerva, the wife of B. F. Dewitt, of Oilman; Moses E., of Winnipeg, Canada ; Thomas, deceased ; Hattie, the wife of W. G. Davisson, of Oilman; W. D., the subject of this sketch.

By a later marriage of Mr. Haines he had the following children: Osa, the wife of Allen Bowen, of California ; Carrie, deceased ; Joseph W.. of Colorado; and James W., of Salt Lake City, Utah.

W. D. Haines was educated in the public schools and for the past twenty years has been in business in Oilman, Missouri. He was in the drug business for five years, and for fifteen years has conducted his present establishment, having purchased same from Haghson and Carter. He owns a comer building, 33x100 feet, and carries an extensive line of merchandise. He has a fine stock, well displayed and has a splendid trade. Mr. and Mrs. Haines are both licensed embalmers.

Mr. Haines was married September 2, 1912, to Minta B. Morris, a daughter of James F. and Irene Morris. Mr. Morris died in 1918 and Mrs. Morris is now living in Oilman. Mrs. Haines was born in Daviess County, Missouri, and received her education in the public schools there.

Mr. Haines is a member of the Masonic Lodge, also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias lodges, and both Mr. and Mrs. Haines are members of the Order Eastern Star.

James L. Slatten, an excellent citizen and successful farmer of Sherman Township, was born in this township, March 24, 1860, the son of Tyre and Julia (Coy) Slatten, both deceased. Tyre Slatten was a native of Kentucky, but located in Illinois for a few years and came hei'e in 1856. He moved to Arkansas twenty years prior to his death in 1914. His wife died in Sherman Township in 1919 and both are buried in Miriam Cemetery, Bethany, Missouri. Lewis Coy, the grandfather of James L. Slatten, came to Harrison County from Indiana in the fifties and settled in Sherman Township, but later moved to Bethany Township, where he died.

Mr. and Mrs. Tyre Slatten were parents of the following children: Mrs. Anna Hilliard, deceased; James L., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Lizzie Low, of Texas; Charles, whose address is unknown; Mrs. Ruth Stout, of Colorado; and Amon, of Maryville, Missouri.

James L. Slatten was educated at Hickory School and his first teacher was Alice Goodell. He moved to his present farm, which he bought from his father, in 1887, and he also owns 180 acres of the home place. Mr. Slatten's farm is well improved with one and one-half story residence, good barn, silo, garage, poultry houses, and other buildings. When Mr. Slatten moved here, the farm was in hazel and buck brush, and hickory and oak trees and without fence, except the east eighty, which had been plowed. Mr. Slatten does general farming and stock raising and keeps a good grade of stock, which consists of registered males Hereford cattle and Duroc Jersey sows with Poland China male.

Mr. Slatten was married in February, 1883, to Rosetta Bartlett, a daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth Bartlett, of Ridgeway, Missouri, and died October, 1918, at the age of fifty-six years, and is buried at Bethany, Missouri. Mrs. Slatten was born near Bethany, Missouri. To Mr. and Mrs. Slatten were born seven children: Lizzie, the wife of Bert Guyman, of Bethany, Missouri ; Nathan, of Cypress Township ; Essie, the wife of Cliff Selby, of Bethany ; Edith, the wife of Forest White, who lives in Kansas; Harlan, of Sherman Township; and Amon and Elva, who live at home. The following are the grandchildren : Deloris, Victor, Roscoe and Bedonna Guyman; Albert and William Slatten; Ellen and Gerald White, and Don Selby.

Welcome E. Osborn, a successful farmer of Sherman Township, and proprietor of Shady Home Farm, was born in Decatur County, Indiana, May 3, 1857, the son of Joseph C. and Harriett (Hazen) Osborn. The latter was a cousin of Judge Hazen, of Topeka, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Osborn located in Daviess County, near Bancroft, in 1870, where they both died, and are buried at Pilot Grove Baptist Church. Joseph Osborn died at the age of eighty-seven years and his wife when seventy years of age.

dren : Mrs. Caroline Henderson, of Gilman, Missouri ; Corra, of Oilman. Missouri ; J. W., of Redding, Iowa ; Mrs. Tamson T. Hendricks, of Billings, Oklahoma; Welcome E., the subject of this sketch; Cyrus, of Texas; Mrs. Eoletta Patterson, of Gilman, Missouri ; Mrs. Mary Barngrcve, of Oilman, Missouri; John, of St. Joseph, Missouri; Mrs. Lizzie Ouinn, of Oilman; Charles, of Gilman. Ira Osborn, the oldest child, died wh-en thirteen years of age, and Rosetta, a twin of Mrs. Patterson, died when three years old.

Welcome E. Osborn was educated in the schools of Daviess County and lived there until 1882, when he bought eighty acres in Sherman Township, where his residence is now located. He later added 180 acres, and recently sold forty acres to his son, Paul V. Osborn. The residence is six miles east of Bethany, and is modern throughout. All of the improvements were put on the farm, by Mr. Osborn, which cinsists of two barns and other good buildings, and the water is piped from a pond to the west pasture and there are five wills, including two on his son's place.

Welcome Osborn was married December 19, 1880, to Sylvia A. Moulin, a daughter of Peter and Isabell (Gulp) Moulin, both early residents of Daviess County, Missouri. Mr. Mouhn was in the Missouri State Militia during the Civil War. He died at the age of sixty-six years, his wife died when eighty-four years old, and both are buried at Hill Cemetery in Daviess County.

Mr. and Mrs. Moulin were the parents of the following children: Anderson, lives in Daviess County ; Louis, of Gilman, Missouri ; Mrs. Mary L. Dawson, deceased ; Mrs. Martha J. Lierley, deceased ; Mrs. Osborn ; Mrs. Lura A. Meek, of Blue Ridge, Missouri ; John F. ; Sylvester P. ; Charlie A., and Emera L., the last four named live in Daviess Count, and their postoffice is Gilman.

Mr. and Mrs. Osborn had two children: Lura Roletta, who was born November 12, 1881, and died February 27, 1911 ; and Paul V., born November 7, 1892, and lives on the home farm. He married Alma J. Foster, a daughter of Green Foster, of Bethany Township, and they have a daughter, Beula Lurola. Lura Loretta Osborn married George D. Gates, and they were the parents of a son, Daniel G., who lives with his father in Daviess County, Missouri.

Welcome E. Osborn is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Woodmen of the World lodges. Mr. and Mrs. Osborn are menibers of the Missionary Baptist Church at Gilman, Missouri, also his son, Paul v., and wife, as was his daughter, Lura Loretta. The Osborn family

Mr. Osborn has turned the active management of the place over to his son, Paul V., who carries on general farming and stock raising. He raises registered Durham cattle.

Vincent B. Brandom, a prominent farmer and breeder of Adams Township and proprietor of Clover Crest Stock Farm, was born in Albany, Colorado, September 24, 1887, the son of S. W. and Etta Lura (Boyce) Brandom. Mrs. S. W. Brandom, who was a daughter of Daniel D. Boyce, died in Gallatin in Maj% 1918. Daniel D. Boyce was a pioneer of Sherman Township and entered land there, and at the time of his death, which occurred when he was sixty-four years of age, he owned 600 acres of land in Sherman and Adams townships. S. W. Bandom is now living at Gallatin, Missouri. He and his wife were the parents of the following children: Vincent B., Ralph W., of Jamesport, Missouri; Charles D., of Gallatin, Missouri; and Lena, of Gallatin, Missouri.

Vincent Brandom was educated at Grand River College at Gallatin, Missouri, and for the past twelve years has been engaged in farming. He owns eighty acres and operates 320 additional acres in Sherman Township. He is a breeder of Duroc Jersey hogs, and the head of the herd, "Walt's Orion Colonel," came from Ira Jackson's herd in Ohio. He also has a sow by "Pathmaster" bred in Algona, Iowa.. Mr. Brandom has 200 head of registered hogs on his farm and twenty-four brood sows. He is one of the most successful breeders! in the county, and conducts a yearly sale.

Mr. Brandom was married June 11, 1909, to Loie E. Jamison, a daughter of J. T. and Emma L. (Palmer) Jamison, of St. Joseph, Missouri. J. T. Jamison is a retired farmer and well known in Buchanan County. Mrs. Brandom was born at Gower, Missouri, and educated at Hardin College at Mexico, Missouri, and finished a course of music and expression at Curry School in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Brandom have two sons: V. Boyce, Jr., and Allen J.

Mr. Brandom is a member of the Knights of Pythias at Bethany, Missouri, and is secretary of the Harrison Farm Bureau, having held this office since its organization in 1918.

For the past three years Mr. Brandon has operated his farm with a Moline Universal tractor, plowing, planting and cultivating and harvesting with this tractor, which takes the place of six horses. Mr. Brandom is progressive and enterprising, and one of the substantial citizens of Harrison County.

John L. Youngs, of Cypress Township, one of the well known and dependable farmers of this section, was born in Hardin County, Ohio, July 7, 1845, the son of William H. and Love (Salmon) Youngs. William Youngs came to Harison County, Missouri, in 1847 and settled in Cypress Township on a farm which is now owned by J. W. Joyce. He died at the age of ninety-four years and is buried in Hatton Cemetery. His wife died when ninety-three years old.

Mr. and Mrs. William Youngs were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Hannah Hatton, deceased; Thomas, who died in California; William, deceased; John L., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Susan Carter, deceased ; Mary E. Vandevort, of Cypress Township ; Mrs. Pauline Rice, deceased ; Mrs. Sarah Ray and Ben L., of Cypress Township.

John L. Youngs was educated in Cypress Township in Young's district and the school house was built by his father. Mr. Youngs enlisted at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1862, in Company E of the 23rd Missouri Infantry and served two years and eight months in the Civil War. He was only seventeen years old when he enlisted and ran away from home. He was shot in the right hand, three fingers being broken, in the battle of Atlanta, Georgia, and he was with Sherman on his March to the Sea. He saw service in many battles and skirmishes, and in fact was in all the battles of the 3rd Division of the 14th Army Corps. He was mustered out at St. Louis, Missouri, July 18, 1865 and returned home. In 1873, Mr. Youngs was married to Sarah Hatton, a native of Cypress Township and daughter of John J. and Mary (Hunt) Hatton. Mrs. Youngs died in 1907 and is buried in Hatton Cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Youngs were the parents of the following children: George Edwards Hatton, on the home place, who married Dora Henry, of Cypress Township, and who has a son, John L. Youngs, Jr.; Mack Hatton, deceased, who married Anna Plymel, and who left two children, Vetrus and De Young; May, who died at the age of thirteen years;

John L. Youngs

Mr. Youngs is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic at Coffey, Missouri, and is the only surviving Civil War veteran of Cypress Township.

Mr. Youngs owns 150 acres, where he has made his home for the past forty-seven years and his present residence has been built for thirty years. Mr. Youngs is one of the substantial citizens of this county and has a host of friends.

Robinson H. Gale, now deceased, was a prominent and prosperous farmer of Sherman Township and was born in Lake County, Illinois, August 21, 1857, the son of E. W. and Olive Relief (Harrison) Gale. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Gale came to Missouri in 1869 from Illinois and settled on the farm which was owned by Robinson H. Gale. The farm consists of 320 acres, and is located five miles east and one mile south of Bethany, Missouri. E. W. Gale died here in June, 1897, and his wife died March 16, 1911. Mr. Gale was postmaster at Thomas, a postofRce which was on his farm and which was established through his efforts.

Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Gale were the parents of the following children: Warren, who was killed at the battle of Whitewater Bridge in the Civil War, he having enlisted in the Union Army in Wisconsin under Captain Shepman with Company E, First Wisconsin Cavalry Volunteers ; Serianious was a soldier of the Civil War, he died in 1883 on the home place ; Ida May, who died when nineteen years of age in Illinois ; Robinson H., the subject of this sketch, who died October 10, 1921 ; and Ada May, who died when five years of age.

Robinson H. Gale was educated in Sherman Center School of this township, and had been engaged in farming practically al! of his life. He carried on general farming and was very successful, enterprising and progressive.

Mr. Gale was married February 15, 1878, to Rosetta Robinson, of Fox Creek Township, a daughter of Henry Robinson. Mrs. Gale was bom in Fox Creek Township and died November 28, 1888, at the age of twentyeight years. Mr. and Mrs. Gale were the parents of the following children: Ada Adelma, the wife of C. H. McElhiney, who now lives on the home place; Ida Velma, a twin of the Ada Adelma, who died in infancy;

Mr. Gale married the second time in 1891 Addie M. Flint, a daughter of George and Sarah Flint, of this county. They were the parents of three children: Russell K. ; Beulah, the wife of James Aginer; and Lucille, the wife of Bruce Mallory.

The grandchildren of Robinson H. and Rosetta Gale are as follows: James A., Naomi R., Lola L., Mabel M. McElhiney, and Olive, Opal, Alice L., Charles J. Stretch. To Robinson H. and Addie M. (Flint) Gale the following grandchildren were bom: Mary L. Aginer, and Bruce G. Malloi-y, Jr.

Russell K. Gale, who now lives on a claim at Gillette, Wyoming, enlisted from Harrison County, Missouri, with Company G, and was sent to the Mexican border. When he returned from the border he was discharged and then ve-enlisted for the World War, and went overseas with the Thirty-fifth Division. He was promoted to second lieutenant and was in the battle of Argonne and St. Mihiel and was captured at Argonne Forest. He was kept prisoner for several months, but returned home safely.

Louden Samuel Brown, a wide awake and progressive farmer of Fox Creek Township, and pioneer of Harrison County, was born in a cabin which still stands on the farm he now owns, January 28, 1865, the son of William Louden and Ann M. (McBude) Brown, both deceased.

William Louden Brown was born in Kentucky and came to Missouri in the fifties and entered eighty acres of land in Sherman Township, and 120 acres in Fox Creek Township. The Bondurant and Chariton families preceded the Brown family here by a few years. William. Louden Brown was accidentally killed while unloading a sawlog at a Grand River sawmill. His wife died April 16, 1914, and is buried in Fairview Cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. William Brown were the parents of the following children: Sarah E., widow of Marshal Linthacum ; Etta, the wife of Frank McGowan, of Sherman Township ; Mary Alice, the widow of Oliver Clinkenbeard, of Bethany, Missouri; and L. S., the subject of this sketch.

trict. the first school he attended being in a log building. Mr. Brown bought out the heirs of the home place, and has an excellent farm, well improved, with good residence, two large barns, grain barn, etc., and the farm is well watered with ponds and wells. The residence is situated on the Ben Hur trail, seven miles north of Oilman and ten m.iies southeast of Bethany, Missouri.

Mr. Brown raises Whiteface cattle, with registered males, grade hogs, and feeds cattle and hogs each year. Mr. Brown also does his house work and hires help to do his farming. He is a very successful, wide-awake farmer and besides his numerous duties, finds time to do a great deal of reading, thus keeping abreast with the news of the day, and with the latest developments along agricultural lines.

Oscar J. Clinkinbeard, an interesting and prominent pioneer of Harrison County, was born in Mercer County, Missouri, May 14, 1849, the son of George W. and Susan C. (Rhea) Clinkinbeard. George Clinkinbeard was a native of Bourbon County, Kentucky, born in 1817. He went to Arkansas with his parents, Jonathan Clinkinbeard and wife, and his father died there, and he and his mother returned to Kentucky. After a short time, they came to Missouri and lived for a while in Buchanan County, then moved to Mercer County, and eventually locating in Fox Creek Township, where George Clinkinbeard entered 320 acres of land in 1855. He lived there until 1883 and then moved to Bethany, Missouri, where he died in 1888 and is buried in Goshen Cemetery in Mercer County, Missouri. His wife died at Mt. Moriah several years later, and his mother, who came here with him, died here and is buried at Nebraska City, Nebraska.

In pioneer days, the nearest neighbor of George Clinkinbeard on the north was John Prater, who lived near the present site of Mt. Moriah. His nearest neighbor on the east was H. C. Hamilton, three and one-half miles away, and on the south a man by the name of Pilcher, who lived three and one-fourth miles from Mr. Clinkinbeard, and on the west, Johnson Queen, who lived one and one-half miles distant. Mr. Clinkinbeard built a log house on his place in which he lived for a few years and then built a frame house which was blown down. His third residence is nowstanding. Besides engaging in farming, Mr. Clinkinbeard was also collector of his township. He married Lizzie Foreman, who died and is buried in Buchanan County, Missouri, fifteen miles southwest of St.

Joseph. His second wife was Susan C. Rhea and they were the parents of the following children: Sebeit M., deceased; Oscar J., the subject of this sketch; Otwa L., of Genoa, Colorado; Oliver B., who died in Bethany; Spartan R., of Bethany; 0. H., deceased; and Lennie, who died in infancy.

Oscar J. Clinkinbeard was reared in Fox Creek Township and attended the Brown school, now the New Hope school. His first teacher was Cyrus Tiffany, who belonged to a pioneer family of this county.

Oscar J. Clinkinbeard has followed farming here all of his life. He owns 240 acres of land in section four, eleven miles east of Bethany, and all of the improvements were put on by him. Mr. Clinkinbeard does general farming and stock raising and has been very successful. He also has filed membership on the township board, and has many friends in this community.

March 12, 1871, Oscar J. Clinkinbeard was married to Sarah A. Hamilton, a daughter of H. C. and Catherine (Hickman) Hamilton. H. C. Hamilton ran a ferry boat across the Grand River in pioneer days. He died in 1890 and his wife died a few years later and they are buried in Hamilton Cemetery in Mercer County, Missouri.

Mr. and Mrs. Clinkinbeard are the parents of two children: Oren L., born December 22, 1871 ; and Bertie Leola, deceased. She was born m 1873 and was the wife of Bert Leggitt.

Oren L. Clinkinbeard died December 14, 1910. His wife, who was Mary Ellen Cruzan, is now living in Bethany, Missouri, and has two children: Avonalle Florence, who married Eugene Sutherland; and Olive Orlean. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Leggitt were the parents of four children: Edith Irene, the wife of L. T. Hamilton, of Mercer County, Missouri ; Coyle B., the wife of James Dewitt of Oilman, Missouri ; Chester .A, of Fremont, Nebraska; and Bruce A., of Denver, Colorado.

The great grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar J. Clinkinbeard are: Harley Hamilton, Gretchen and Eva Hamilton, Dorothy Doris, Oscar DeEtta and Virginia Dewitt, and Thomas Leggitt.

Charles W. Hunt, a leading farmer of Fox Creek To^\^lship, and member of a pioneer family of Harrison County, was born near Ridgeway, Missouri, March 21, 1869, the son of Joseph Hunt and Sarah E. (Rakestraw) Hunt. Mrs. Hunt was later married to John Wilev and now lives with her son, Charles W. Hunt ; she is seventy-four years of age. Joseph Hunt, a veteran of the Civil War, is in the Soldiers' Home at Leavenworth, Kansas.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hunt were the parents of the following children : Mrs. Bell Williamson; Mrs. Cora Isenbarger; Charles W., the subject of this sketch ; Mrs. Stella Wiley ; and Jesse, of South Dakota. By a second marriage of Mrs. Hunt to Mr. Wiley, she has two children; Arthur, of South Dakota; and Carwin, of Waterloo, Iowa.

Charles W. Hunt was educated in the public schools and has lived in this county all of his life, with the exception of two years he spent in Kansas. He bought 169 acres of his present home in 1909 from a Mr. Makelin, and he now owns 209 acres in Fox Creek Township. Mr. Hunt has remodeled his house and barn and has put two sets of improvements on the farm. In 1921, he built a new crib and other buildings suitable for farm and stock use. Mr. Hunt has an orchard and he does general farming and stock raising, and has one of the best farms in this vicinity.

In January, 1890, Mr. Hunt was married to Columbia Stotts, a daughter of W. M. and Ellen Stotts. The father is now deceased and the mother lives in Fox Creek Township.

Mr. and Mrs. Hunt have four children: Sarah, the wife of Amer Sallee, of Fox Creek Township; Alice, the wife of Riley Burton; William, who lives at home; and Mary, the wife of Ernest Sails, of Columbia, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt have a granddaughter, Violet Columbia.

Jacob M. Bender, a well known and excellent citizen of Sherman Township, of pioneer parentage, was born in White Oak Township, May 11, 1867, the son of John W. and Margaret E. (Funk) Bender. Mrs. Bender was a daughter of Martin and Elizabeth Funk, both deceased. She lives in New Hampton, Missouri, and is seventy-four years of age. John W. Bender was born in Ohio, but came to Missouri about the year 1854, and settled in White Oak Township, one and three-fourths miles northeast of New Hampton, where he died in October, 1919. He is buried in Foster Cemetery. He was a soldier of the Civil War, having enlisted at Bethany, Missouri.

John W. Bender and wife were the parents of the following children : William, of Chetopa. Kansas; Jacob M., the subject of this sketch; R. F., of Mound Ridge, Kansas; Etta, the wife of Bert Dillon of Carmen, Oklahoma ; John and Rose, who were twins, the former lives near New Hampton and the latter is deceased ; Viola, deceased, was the wife of Ed Howery of Fairview, Oklahoma; Warren, of Canton, Oklahoma; Hattie, the wife of John E. Smith, of White Oak Township; Walter, of New Hampton, Missouri; Maggie, the wife of Edgar Claytor, of Bethany Township; and Stella, who lives at home.

Jacob M. Bender was educated in the common schools and after finishing his education, he engaged in carpenter work at New Hampton for nearly thirty years and also farmed at the same time. He moved to his present farm, known as the Uri Hallock place, in 1905. This farm consists of 250 acres and is situated three miles east of Bethany. Since moving here, Mr. Bender has built a modern, eight room residence, two barns, well equipped and there is also another residence on the farm. Mr. Bender does general farming and stock raising and is very successful.

November 29, 1905, Mr. Bender was married to Ora Hallack, a daughter of Uri and Electa (Fuller) Hallack. Uri Hallack was born in Ohio in 1840 and died in 1917, and his wife was bom in Ohio in 1837 and died in September, 1916. They had lived in Harrison County fortynine years prior to their death, locating here in 1867.

Mr. and Mrs. Hallack were the parents of the following children: Hymen and Barton, of Grant Township; John, of Bethany Township and Mrs. Bender. Mr. Hallack was a thresherman here for many years and was a blacksmith by trade. He also was a breeder of Englishire horses and later in life moved to Bethany and engaged in the implement business. Mr. Hallack was a veteran of the Civil War. He enlisted at Centerville, Iowa. He was shot through the arm in battle during the war.

Mr. and Mrs. Bender have four children: Electa, Hallack, Paul and Worth. Mr. Bender is public spirited and patriotic and one of Harrison County's foremost citizens.

Dr. Jerome A. Kintner, a noted hydropathist and electrician and superintendent of the Heilbron Sanitorium of Bethany, Missouri, was born at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1855, the son of Rudolph and Sallie (Gronner) Kintner, the latter a native of Holland, and the former a native of Bavaria, Gennany. Rudolph Kintner was reared in Berlin and his father was a noted physician of Berlin. Both Rudolph and Sallie Kintner died in Pennsylvania, he in 1881 and she in 1911, and they are buried at Stroudsburg.

Dr. Jerome A. Eantner took his first training in Germany under Doctor Sailor of Berlin, and has followed his present vocation since a young man. He has worked at different watering places in the United States and Europe, and the sanitorium of which he is at present superintendent, is located one mile west of Bethany, Missouri. The building is four stories and also has a basement; it is furnished elegantly throughout and is completely modem. Doctor Kintner has accommodations for one hundred guests. The elevation of the building is one hundred and thirty feet above the surrounding country. Doctor Kintner is a very capable man and has never ceased to be a student.

Dr. J. A. Kintner was married the first time at Bismark, Dakota, September, 1879, to Flora Weister, of St. Paul, Minnesota. She died in 1887 at Kansas City, Missouri, leaving the following children : Nina, who was born in Helena, Montana, and died December 7, 1919, at the age of forty years, in St. Paul, Minnesota; Rudolph, who is on the Orpheum Circuit, with headquarters at New York City, who was born in 1883, and is a noted comedian ; Beatrice, born in Bismark, Dakota, in 1886, and who died with the influenza in October, 1918, was the wife of Charles W. Allen, of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Doctor Kintner married Laura Jones, of Albany, Missouri, a daughter of P. W. and Betsey (Little) Jones, at Siloam Springs, Gentry County, Missouri, April 7, 1894. Mrs. Kintner was born, reared and educated in Gentry County. Doctor and Mrs. Kintner have five children: Doris Corinne, a music teacher in St. Joseph, Missouri ; Gretchen Theodosia, the wife of Dr. G. E. Ford, of St. Joseph, Missouri; Wilhelmina, who attends school in St. Joseph ; Winifred Bettie May, who also attends school in St. Joseph; and Jerome, Jr.

S. C. Spence, a well known farmer and stock raiser of Grant Township, is a native of Harrison County. He was bom in Jeflferson Township about five miles north of Bethany, January 29, 1875, and is a son of Arch and Charlotte (Maniwaring) Spence, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Harrison County.

When Arch Spence came to Harrison County he first settled in White Oak Township and later removed to Jefferson Township where he is now engaged in farming. To Arch and Charlotte (Maniwaring) Spence, were

S. C. Spence was reared in Jefferson Township and educated in the district school. He began farming for himself in Grant Township on a farm of 120 acres which he bought in 1903. He added sixty acres to that and sold his farm of 180 acres in 1919. Later he bought 139 acres which is his present home. This place is situated one and three-fourths of a mile east of Ridgeway on the Mount Moriah road. This is a valuable farm and is well improved. Mr. Spence carries on general farming and stock raising and takes more than an ordinary interest in the livestock business. He is shipper for the Ridgeway Livestock Association.

November 2, 1899, Mr. Spence was married to Miss Efiie Buzzard, a native of Grant Township and a daughter of Henry Buzzard, who is now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Spence have been born five children as follows: Gertie, married George Arkle and they live near Lorraine, Harrison County ; Irene, Hubert, Alva and Marvin.

Mr. Spence is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, American Brotherhood of Yoeman and the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a dependable citizen and widely and favorably known in Harrison County.

Elisha Allen Scott, deceased, was an early settler in Harrison County and had many friends in this part of the state. He was bom in Beaver Count.v, Pennsylvania, in 1843, but moved with his parents to Jackson County, Ohio, in 1845, and, in 1856, his parents located on a farm near Pleasant Ridge Church, Cypress Township, Harrison County. Isaac Scott, the father of Elisha Allen Scott, was a native of Scotland and his wife, Sarah Anna Vezie, was born in Ireland.

Elisha Allen Scott enlisted in Harrison County, Missouri, with Company I of the 1st Missouri State Militia under Captain Burris and served for three years and six months in the Civil War. He was wounded in the leg while in service and was taken prisoner, but was paroled a few days afterward. Mr. Scott died in 1909 and is buried in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery.

He was married February, 1872, to Emily J. Carter, a native of Daviess County, Missouri, and daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Woodard) Carter. Thomas Carter was married a second time in Daviess County, Missouri. He died in 1873 and his wife died in 1874. By his first marriage, Mr. Carter had the following children : Franklin, deceased ; John, deceased, and McKinney, who lives in Pattonsburg, Missouri. By his second marriage, Mr. Carter had the following children: D. W., of Coffey, Missouri ; T. C, deceased and Mrs. Emily J. Scott.

Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Allen Scott were the parents of nine children: James F., of Los Angeles, California ; W. C, who lives on the home place ; Adolph, deceased; Charles, deceased; Bessie, deceased; Nellie E., deceased; Ben, of Oakland, California; Rex, deceased; and OUie, the wife of Allen Woods, of Los Angeles, California.

For the past seven years Mrs. Scott made her home in California, but is now living on her farm in Cypress Township. She owns 176 2/3 acres of land which she and her husband purchased about thirty-two years ago.

Mr. Scott was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic post at Bethany at the time of his death. He was highly respected and was one of the substantial citizens of Harrison County.

George Arney, a well known retired farmer of Bethany, Missouri, was born in Tennessee, November 9, 1854, the son of John W. and Mary Elizabeth (Wilber) Arney. John W. Arney was bom in North Carolina, but went to Tennessee in boyhood and later came to Missouri and settled in Daviess County with David Arney, a brother. In the gold excitement of 1849, he crossed the plains with ox teams to California and was there several years. He then returned to Tennessee for awhile, finally coming to Harrison County, where he bought forty acres in Fox Creek Township, and later bought 100 additional acres where he lived until his death. During the Civil War he was with Company E, 23rd Missouri Infantry for two years. He and his wife are buried in Springer Cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Arney were the parents of the following children: George, the subject of this sketch; Sarah, the wife of George Arney, deceased, who lives in Grundy County, Missouri ; Mrs., May Plicher, Mrs. Vina Bairley, Clarinda Campbell, John W. and Emma, all deceased.

George Arney was educated in the public schools in Wooderson district, and, with the exception of two years, which he spent in Panhandle, Texas, he has lived in Fox Creek Township, until seven years ago, when he moved to Bethany, Missouri. He owned 240 acres which he improved and operated successfully, selling this farm in 1919 to his son James. Mr. (25)

George Arney was married in 1878 to Hannah Hughes of Sugar Creek Township, a daughter of James Hughes and wife, pioneers of that township. Mrs. Arney died July 29, 1917. She and her husband were the parents of the following children : James, on the home farm ; Thomas, of Bethany, Missouri; J. D., of California; Lummie, wife of Homer Hogan, of Fox Creek Township; Floyd Arney, of Fox Creek Township; Orson, of Fox Creek Township; Laura is the wife of Bert L. Neff, of Sherman Township; Rie, the wife of Boyce Dickover, near Marshalltown, Iowa; and Rue, the wife of A. E. Butcher, of St. Joseph, Missouri.

George Arney was married the second time June 5, 1919, to Mrs. Olive Musser Mickael, a daughter of Henry H. and Barbara E. (Dayton) Musser. Henry Musser was htorn in Pennsylvania in 1830 and died December 29, 1906, and his wife, who was born in Ohio in 1843, died March 7, 1917. Mr. Musser is buried in the National Cemetery at Leavenworth, Kansas, and his wife is buried in Lone Rock Cemetery, Hamilton Township, Harrison County. They were married in Caldwell County, Missouri, and settled in Lincoln Township, Harrison County, in 1865, where Mr. Musser preempted 160 acres of land, afterward selling eighty acres. The farm was four miles northeast of Hatfield. Mr. Musser was a Civil War veteran. Mr. and Mrs. Musser were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Arney, born July 19, 1866; Hester E., the wife of Thomas Moore, who died February 3, 1907 ; Clarence, who was born in 1873, and died in infancy; LeRoy S., who was in Ajo, Arizona, the last time he was heard from.