Holt County, Missouri - Chapter 26, 1917 (part 2 of 5)

Irvin S. D Ankers

Irwin S. Dankers, pioneer merchant and one of the early settlers of Corning, was born near Hemme's Landing, Lincoln, Township, January 20, 1867. He lived with his father on a farm until he was 18 years old, when he and his brother, Andrew O. Dankers and Paul Schultz formed a partnership under the name of Schultz & Dankers Brothers, and began dealing in general merchandise and drugs, Schultz being a druggist. In 1888 Mr. Schultz sold his interest and the business was continued by Dankers Brothers until 1905 when Irwin sold his interest to his brother. In 1911 he bought out Andrew and has since conducted the business alone. He carries a large stock and enjoyed a good patronage. The store has always been on the same corner. His father built the present two-story business house in 1900.

who was born in Hanover, Germany, and came to the United States in 1841. He located near Hemme's Landing and later moved to the farm where he now lives. He preempted the land from the government and it has ever since been in his name. He is now 81 years old. His wife was Elizabeth Kunkel, also a native of Germany. 'She died in 1887.

Irvin S. Dankers was married June 5, 1895, to Miss Bertha Christian, born in Holt County, and the daughter of Peter Christian. They have five children: Floyd A., Harry I., Evan, Katherine and Ina. He is a member of the German Lutheran Church. He has served as mayor of Corning one term and several years as member of the town and school boards. Politically Mr. Dankers is a Republican.

William Debord

William DeBord, one of the old timers in Maitland, has been a resident of Holt County since 1871. He is the owner of the Maitland coal yard and half owner of the grain elevator, which he manages. In the early days he was a farmer, but for the past twenty years jhas been following mercantile pursuits in Mound City and Maitland.

Mr. DeBord was born in Peoria County, Illinois, April 27, 1845, where he grew tot manhood. He enlisted in E Company, 139th Illinois Infantry, at Princeton, 111. At the close of the war he returned to his native county and engaged in farming until the fall of 1869, when he came to Missouri, locating first in Andrew County. He lived there eighteen months, when he came to Holt County and bought eighty acres in section 31, in Clay Township. This he sold later and bought a quarter section, in the eastern part of the same section. It was raw prairie and by dint of hard work Mr. DeBord converted it into ,a highly improved farm on which he lived for a number of years. He now owns a farm of 200 acres near Maitland.

He engaged in stock shipping in Mound City for three years. Then he returned to his farm for a period of five years and then moved to Maitland, where he has since resided. He first engaged in the lumber business for eleven or twelve years, and has since been in the coal and grain business. In the summer of 1915, in partnership with J. F. Cook of Maryville he built the Maitland elevator of which he is now the manager.

The subject of this sketch is the son of Reuben R. and Julia (Hall) DeBord. He was married at Princeton, 111., February 13, 1868, to Miss Cordelia A. Bates, a native of Peoria County, Illinois, and a daughter of Oren and Elizabeth Bates. They have eight children: Blanche, now Mrs. Fred Collison, of Maitland;

Watie, now Mrs. B. C. Hitchcock, of Holton, Kans. ; Anna, who died at the age of 19 years; LeRoy, of Nodaway County; Ralph, who lives on the home place in Clay Township; Maud, who died at the age of 19 years; Clara, now Mrs. Carl Elliott of Nodaway County and Mark, also of Nodaway County.

Mr. DeBord served two years as mayor of Maitland. He is a member of the Grand Army Post and the Christian Church. Politically he is a Democrat.

Dr. Thomas O. Davis

Dr. Thomas O. Davis, one of the leading physicians of Maitland, came to Holt County with his parents in 1866 and settled near New Point in Hickory Township. His father, John W. Davis was one of the progressive and successful farmers of his day. Dr. Davis attended the high school in Oregon, in 1881-82, after which he followed the pursuit of teaching until 1887. Then he took up the study of medicine with Dr. J. R. Kearney in New Point. He attended the Kansas City Medical College, graduating March 11, 1889. He was head nurse in the Kansas City hospital in 1888 and 1889, and also was druggist in the same institution. This was through the kindness of Dr. H. S. Douglas, house surgeon, who wished to help the young men get an education, as he was without means. Dr. Davis walked from his lodging to the hospital, a distance of two miles to save car fare.

In May, 1889, the subject of this sketch located in Bigelow, where he practiced his profession until 1903, when he located in Maitland, buying the office and residence of Dr. H. E. Hall.

Dr. Davis was born in Salem, Washington County, Indiana, August 29, 1860. He is the son of John W. and Deborah G. (Denny) Davis. He was married at the Fairview Church, October 30, 1889, to Marilla J. Trueblood, who was born in Washington County, Indiana, and was the daughter of Jesse and Chlorinda L. Trueblood. They have three children : Roy B., born at Bigelow August 25, 1890; Elsie Vivian, born March 21, 1892 at Bigelow and Edith May, born December 29, 1894, at Bigelow. The doctor has been a member of the Woodmen of the World since 1894; the Fraternal Aid Union since 1900; Blue Lodge of Masons since 1902 and the Brotherhood of American Yeomen since 1902. He was one of the charter members of the Holt County Medical Association and assisted materially in the organization of this society. He is a member of the Missouri State Medical Association and the American Medical Association.

Tom Curry

has been publishing the news, carrying local advertising, and doing an excellent service in boosting for the welfare of that county for nearly half a century.

A descendant of Revolutionary stock, Tom Curry was born in Plymouth County, Iowa, October 27, 1856, and has the distinction of being the first white child born in that county. His parents were James Barnes and Mary (Philbrick) Curry. James B. Curry was a grandson of Dr. Thomas Curry of Crawfordsville, Ind., who in turn was a son of Hiram Mirick Curry, who was with General Washington at Valley Forge and a number of years later served also as a soldier in the War of 1812. Tom Curry, through his mother is of Danish lineage, being descended from Providenze Montz, who emigrated to this country and settled in Beesontown, Virginia, during the Indian wars.

Tom Curry was brought to Holt County, Missouri, in July, 1857, and, with the exception of a brief absence for experience on a metropolitan newspaper, that county has been his home ever since. When seventeen years old he began learning the printers trade as an apprentice on the Missouri Valley Times, when Hasness & Kaucher were its editors and publishers. He was also employed on the old Holt County Press. In 1883 Mr. Curry became a partner of D. P. Dobyns on the Holt County Sentinel, the firm name being changed to Dobyns & Curry the same year, and that title has now existed for more than thirty years. For ten years, from 1897 to 1907, Mr. Curry served as postmaster of Oregon.

On February 18, 1885, Mr. Curry and Wilhelmina Fiegenbaum were united in marriage, and they have become the parents of two children: Will R. and Anna Helen, the latter now the wife of Johnson J. Rayhill of Oregon, Missouri. Mrs. Curry is a daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Henry Fiegenbaum of St. Joseph, Mo., her father having been a pioneer minister of the German M. E. Church.

David Pollock Dobyns

The press of Northwest Missouri has its oldest and one of its most honored figures in David Pollock Dobyns, editor of the Oregon Sentinel. His long and varied career began with service as a soldier in the army during the Civil war; as a practical printer and for nearly forty years he has been identified with the management and editor, of the Sentinel at Oregon.

American ancestor was Edward Dobyns, who was born in England in 1747, emigrated and settled in Culpeper County, Vir< ginia, and during the Revolution was a soldier in the American army under Lieutenant Apollos Cooper, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781. After independence was won by the colonies he located in Mason County, Kentucky, as one of the pioneers, and died there in 1794.

Through James Dobyns, who was born in 1772 and a son of Edward Dobyns, the record goes through his son, James Reed Dobyns, father of the Oregon editor. James Reed Dobyns was born in Mason County, Kentucky, March 11, 1815, and died in 1887. He was a carpenter and contractor, had the common school education of his time ; also served in the railway mail service, and was a Methodist and a member of the Republican party. He married Sarah ; Glascock Craft, whose parents came from Kentucky and located in Calloway County, Missouri. She died in 1849 in St. Louis during the cholera epidemic.

David Pollock Dobyns spent his early boyhood and youth in St. Louis and his education came from the common schools. He was about fifteen years of age when the war broke out, and he took part as a Union soldier in the First and Fortieth Missouri Infantry regiments. He was a participant in the capture of Camp Jackson, and later the Missouri battles of Boonville and Wilson Creek, and subsequently in a number of the sanguinary struggles in the Mississippi valley, including Nashville, Tenn.

As a practical printer and newspaper man Mr. Dobyns has had forty-nine years of continuous service. He began work in March, 1868, on the Argus, at Macon, Mo., and in the spring of 1876 went to the St. Joseph Herald. In the fall of 1876 he became identified with the Holt County Sentinel at Oregon, and has been with that journal for forty-one years, and is now its senior editor. The Sentinel is now in its fifty-third year of continuous publication and one of the oldest and most influential papers published in Northwest Missouri. Mr. Dobyns is regarded as the nestor of the Northwest Missouri Press Association. His best service has been done as editor, and he is one of the efficient kind of newspaper men, modest and retiring in personal disposition, with no desire to mix in public affairs, and makes but sparing use of the personal pronoun. In general affairs he is conservative, but has always exerted his individual influence and power as an editor for helping enterprises tending to advance the interests of his town and county. Politically he has been identified with the Republican party and has served as a member of the state committee. For forty years he has been a member of the Christian Church, and for forty-four years has been affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in

Mr. Dobyns was married at Macon, Mo., in April, 1870, to Emma, a daughter of Dr. William A. and Mary (Mason) Greer, her father from Virginia and her mother of Shelby County, Missouri. Mr. Dobyns has three children and eight grandchildren. Lula Dobyns, born at Macon, Mo., December 11, 1871, married Charles G. Markel and lives in Denver, Colo. ; they have one daughter. Edwin B. Bobyns, born at Macon, July 4, 1874, is a railroad dispatcher for the Santa Fe Railway Company, now residing at Marceline, Mo., and by his marriage to Viola Mercer in 1897 has four children, three daughters and one son, two of the daughters being twins. Leigh B. Dobyns, born at Oregon, Mo., November 30, 1878, is a Western Union operator on the Tribune at Lewiston, Idaho; in 1902 he married Anna Clark of Beloit, Kan., and has two daughters and one son. All the children were liberally educated.

George W. Hinkle

George W. Hinkle is one of the influential farmers of Bigelow Township and has resided in Holt County all his life. He was born on his father's homestead, which was settled in 1885. and is located one and one-half miles south of the John C. Hinkle farm, January 30, 1866. When a boy he attended the old White school on his father's farm. Later he went to the Idlewilde school. He finished his education in the Central College at Fayette and the Kansas Agricultural College at Manhattan.

During the two years following the completion of his education he was engaged in the mines at Silverton and Red 'Mountain, Colo., his father having property near the former place. Then he returned to Holt County and went to work on his father's farm. Later he engaged in farming for himself on land his father had given him. He remained on the old homestead until the spring of 1915, when he moved to the farm he now occupies, which he had bought four years before of Henry Alkire, and formerly the property of John Q. Shepherd.

He is the son of John C. Hinkle, one of the best known and highly esteemed farmers in the county, who came here in 1855, from Franklin County, Missouri. He is now living on a farm in the same neighborhood in which he first settled.

George W. Hinkle is an industrious, ambitious and progressive farmer, who is fast improving his land. Last year he built one of the largest hay barns in the county. He owns 180 ac»es in his home farm and all told has 850 acres of land. He has for years operated a threshing machine.

Glen H. Thieman

Glen H. Thieman, proprietor of the Crystal Cafe at Corning, is a native of Atchison County, being born just across the line February 7, 1893. He is the son of Henry L. Thieman, a native of Holt County, whose parents came here from Germany in the early '40's. Henry L. Thieman is living in Corning and is engaged in the grain business and farming. He also operates a saw mill and threshing machine. His wife was Miss Jenne Williams, a daughter of James Williams. They have two children : Glen H., the subject of this sketch and Garnett, a student at the Weslyan University.

Glen H. Thieman came with his family to Holt County in 1900, and has lived here practically ever since. He was educated in the schools of Corning and later attended the Nebraska City high school and the business college in that town. Later he attended the Central Business College at Sedalia, Mo. In 1910 he began playing professional baseball and was a pitcher. He was with the Columbus, Nebr., team in the Nebraska State League and the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, team in the Central Association.

On December 11, 1914, he bought the Crystal Cafe, and has been the proprietor since that date. He conducts an excellent place and has everything in the best of condition. He handles soft drinks, confectionery, cigars and tobacco. He is a member of the Woodmen of the World order and is banker of the Corning lodge. Mr. Thieman is single and lives with his father in Corning.

Peter A. Christian

Peter A. Christian is proprietor of the lumber yard and a dealer in furniture in Corning. He was born there December 9, 1879, and has always lived in Holt County. He is the son of Peter Christian, one of the old timers of the county, a man well and favorably known; a man who was prominent in the affairs of Corning during its early growth.

The senior Christian was born in Switzerland, October 25, 1841. He received a good education and learned the trade of cabinet maker in his native country and made that occupation his life work. He came to this country in 1865, coming direct to St. Joseph, where he was employed by the Louis Hax Furniture Company for three years. Then he went to Omaha for a year and in 1869 located in Corning. He soon engaged in the furni- ture and lumber business and also ran an undertaking department, making the caskets himself. He was a fine workman and there is yet in Corning many evidences of his skill with tools. He came to this country without means, but prospered and at the time of his death, April 19, 1915, owned considerable property, including several farms.

Peter A. Christian, after a preliminary education obtained in Corning, attended the Chillicothes Norman School. He then worked for his father in the furniture anl lumber business, managing the business for several years prior to the death of his father. He is now the owner of the business.

Mr. Christian was married in Corning to Miss Anna M. Massock, who was born in Atchison County, December 14, 1879, and is the daughter of Joseph Massock. They have two children: Harold Dean and Wesley Wayne. Mr. Christian is a member of the Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen and Woodmen of the World lodges. Politically he is a Democrat.

Aaron Johnson

Aaron Johnson, proprietor of a blacksmith shop in Corning has been a resident of that town since 1898. He owns an excellent residence in Corning. He was born in Worburg, Sweden, in February 15, 1857. He learned the trade with his father, who operated a blacksmith shop in his native country. He also owned a small farm there.

Mr. Johnson came to America in 1880 and landed at Castle Garden, N. Y., July 5. He first located in Sheffield, Pa., where he worked a short time and then went to Hoopston, 111., where he worked for his brothers eight months. He next went to Rankin, 111., where he started a shop of his own, running it four years. He next farmed for a year, but soon drifted back to mechanical pursuits. After being located in various places he came to Corning in 1898. He rented a shop from W. F. Walters which he ran for five years, when he built his present shop. He has been one of the live, enterprising citizens of Corning and has done his part in making the town one of the best in the county.

Mr. Johnson was married in 1886 in Chicago to Hanna Christina Johnson who was born in Sweden. They have two children living: Blanch Elizabeth and Emma Louisa, who is a nurse in Shenandoah, la. One son, Arthur, died in 1914 at the age of 27 years. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Swedish Lutheran Church.

Alonzo E. Brinson

Alonzo E. Brinson is the proprietor of the Atlantic Hotel at Forest City, and is the right man in the right place, and will make that hostelry one of the popular inns of Holt County.

Mr. Brinson is yet a young man and has had a varied and interesting career, having visited many of the principal seaports and towns of the world while a soldier in the ranks of the regular army. He was born in Lyons, Indiana, and when a child nine months of age his parents moved to Holt County and took up their residence on a farm in Forest Township, where young Alonzo lived until eight years of age. Then the family removed to Forbes Township and three years later returned to Forest Township. He then went to Nebraska and took up his residence in Dunbar, where he lived until 17 years old. At that time he wished to become a soldier, and likewise enlisted in Company F, First Infantry, serving three years. During this period he was stationed at Columbus, Ohio, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Canton, Ohio. At the latter place he was one of a detatchment of fifty from his company who did guard over the receiving vault which contained the remains of the late President McKinley, prior to placing them in the family vault. On the 25th of January, 1906, the company was taken to New York, where it embarked on the transports Kirkpatrick and McClelland and proceeded to Manila, P. I., via the Suez Canal, landing at Manila in April, next. There the company was stationed at Camps McKinley and Stotsenburg, Luzon Island, for six months, and was then transferred to Fort Connell, on the Island of Symra, making that camp headquarters until July, 1908. In that month the company was sent back to the United States and was stationed at the barracks at Portland, Oregon, until discharged in the latter part of 1908. Mr. Brinson remained on the west coast until 1911, when he returned to Forest City, where he has since resided and is now the proprietor of the Atlantic Hotel.

Alonzo E. Brinson is the son of Silas M. Brinson and Minnie Brinson, natives of Indiana, to whom five children were born - Alonzo E., Emery G., Roy, Amy and Frank, all residing at Dunbar, Neb., except the subject of this sketch and his mother, who died September 6, 1906.

Alonzo E. Brinson was married May 1, 1915, to Miss Bertha Margaret Jamison, who was born in Lewis Township, Holt County, and is the daughter of A. J. Jamison, a highly respected citizen and an early settler of the county.

Carl Owens

Carl Owens, who owns and lives on a farm of ninety acres in Benton Township was born on the farm on which his father located many years ago and on which he (Carl) still lives. The date of his birth was July 2, 1891.

senior Owens was a Welshman, being born in Wales. Mrs. Owens was born in this county and was the daughter of Daniel Baldwin, who came to Holt County in 1844. Both are now dead.

Carl Owens was married November 16, 1915, to Miss lone Guthrie, who was born in Benton Township and is the daughter of Albert and Lottie (Cooper) Guthrie. Mr. Owens is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge at Mound City. He is one of the enterprising, progressive farmers in his section, the type of man that develops the latent resources of the community in which he lives and makes the world a better place in which to live.

Senator George W. Glick

Senator George W. Glick, farmer and representative from this district in the Missouri State Senate is one of Holt County's best and most popular men. He served the county as representative in the lower house of the state legislature in 1907-8 and in the senate 1914-1918. He was first elected to the senate to fill the unexpired term of Francis Wilson, who had been appointed United States District Attorney, at a special election called at the general election in 1914, this being in the middle of the senatorial term. He was nominated to succeed himself at the primary election in August, 1916. His popularity with the people was fully demonstrated in the race he made for representative in 1906. Running on the Democratic ticket, against Ivan Blair, Republican in a county that is strongly Republican, he was elected by an overwhelming majority.

In his home district he has served as school director and for the past nine years has been president of the Holt County Mutual Fire & Lighting Insurance Company.

Senator Glick was born on the farm now owned by William Kinney, in sections 30 and 31 in South Benton Township. This farm was bought by Senator Glick's grandfather, Joseph Glick, in 1852, which later passed to the possession of young Glick's father, Samuel Glick. He died there several years ago and the farm then became the property of Senator Glick, who was born there March 14, 1875. He remained on the old homestead until 1903, when he moved to the farm in the northeast quarter of section 20, in Benton Township. He bought the place of the Blair heirs, then consisting of 240 acres. This place was settled by James Blair's father in the early '40's. When Glick became the owner the old "hand made" house, built in the '50's, was still standing. Mr. Glick built one of the most modern houses in the county, and otherwise improved the property. He sold it after living there six years and bought 255 acres in section 18, same township, of William Weightman, Jr., and where he now lives. The senator has been a large and successful feeder of cattle and hogs and a big corn raiser.

He is the son of Samuel Glick, who was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, March 19, 1875. He came to Holt County in the early '50's and died in the fall of 1896.

Senator Glick was married August 30, 1891, to Grace B. Henning, daughter of M. F. Henning of Madison County, Virginia, who came to Holt County in 1883. Mr. Henning was in the Confederate army and served throughout the war. Mr. and Mrs. Glick have five children: Edna May, wife of Grover Andes; Samuel, Edgar L., Russell C. and Mildred M. Mr. Glick has memberships in the Masons, Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen, Woodmen of the World, Eastern Star and Royal Neighbor lodges. The family are members of the church and the senator has been superintendent of the Blair Sunday School for the past eight years.

John L. Anno

John L. Anno, farmer, who resides on his well improved homeplace of forty acres in section 28, Forest Township, is one of the highly esteemed citizens of that part of the county. He also owns 107 acres in another tract in the same section. He came to Holt County in 1868, when only one year of age and has since resided in the same section in which his father bought land in 1868.

Mr. Anno was born in Andrew County, Missouri, January 16, 1867, and is the son of James and Susan (Wilhoit) Anno. The senior Anno came to Holt County in the early '50's when Forest City was a steamboat landing. He later moved to Andrew County, where he married, and in 1868 returned to Holt County and began farming. At first they rented land from George Hartman, later buying a portion of the tract, which was converted into the productive farm on which John L. Anno now lives.

John L. Anno worked with his parents at the arduous labor of clearing the farm land of timber and otherwise improving the place. When 22 years old he had saved money and with his father bought an additional 80 acres, and this he farmed also. He has never left the home place. When the estate was settled after his father's death he bought the interest of the other heirs. Later, as above mentioned, he bought 107 acres in the southern part of section 28. He farms all of his land and is meeting with deserved success.

Mr. Anno was married at the bride's home in Minton Township, March 2, 1893, to Leona Carrie Lunsford, who was born in Forest Township and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lunsford. They are the parents of five children : Gerald W., James R., Leona R., Wilma B. and John W. Byron who died when 8 months old.

John Noland

John Noland is a native of Holt County and was born on his father's homestead in the Kimsey school district in Forest Township November 18, 1866. He now lives on his 160-acre farm in Minton Township, in the Idlewilde school district, where he has lived the past ten years. He lived on his father's place in Forest Township until he was 21 years old, then they moved to Minton Township and bought the farm on which Oliver J. Noland now lives. There the subject of this sketch lived two years when he was married and began farming for himself, on the old home place where he remained six years. Then he rented land from J. P. Davis and farmed two years, when he formed a partnership \vith Mr. Davis and engaged in the stock business. He moved to the Davis homestead and lived there three years. In March, 1906, he bought his present farm from Elijah Hopper, which consisted of sixty acres. He has since bought 100 acres from George Cotton.

He is the son of Joshua and Delilah (Briggs) Noland, natives of New Hampshire and Howard County, Missouri, respectively. They moved to Holt County in 1852. Mr. Noland died on his farm in Walnut Grove district in August, 1889. Mrs. Noland, the mother of the subject of this sketch is still living with her children at the age of 81 years.

John Noland was married July 1, 1888, to Miss Cora Sinclair, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Sinclair, who was born in Minton Township. They have four children living: Oral, of Minton Township; Ephal, wife of C. W. Hoover, living at Forest City ; Leverett, of Minton Township ; Everett, twin of Leverett, is dead ; and Ray, who lives at home.

Henry R. Stuart

Henry R. Stuart, justice of the peace at Fortescue, has been a resident of Minton Township for many years. He was a justice before Minton Township was formed from a part of the territory of Bigelow Township. He was engaged in farming for a number of years before moving to Fortescue six years ago.

1844, on his father's farm where he received a common school education. In April, 1866, at the age of 22, he took up his residence at St. Stevens, Richardson County, Nebr. The trip from St. Louis to St. Stevens was made by steamboat, as there were no railroads here in those days. He drove three teams of oxen to Denver for his uncle, who was in the freighting business.

Stuart came to Holt County in April, 1867, and lived with his uncle, John Q. Shepard. Later he lived with another uncle, A. B. Welton, one of the first settlers in Bigelow Township. In 1873 he engaged in farming on his own account. After renting land for five years he bought 80 acres in section 28, Bigelow Township. This land' he improved and occupied until six years ago, when he bought property in Fortescue where he has since lived. With his son, W. B. Stuart, he now ships apples in season.

The father of Henry Stuart was Samuel Stuart, a native of Kentucky, who came to Missouri in the early days. Henry Stuart was married August 23, 1873, to Martha T. Duke, a native of Kansas. They have three children: William B. and Charles S. of Fortescue and Edith May of St. Joseph.

Mr. Stuart has been a Mason since 1868, having been raised to a Master Mason at Mound City. He and his wife are long time members of the M. E .Church, South.

Sylvester M. Howard

Sylvester M. Howard, merchant of Fortescue, has been a resident of Holt County since 1875. He was born in Iowa, and when three weeks old the family moved to St. Joseph, his father buying 160 acres at the northeast end of Lake Contrary, most of which has since been taken by the Missouri River. On the remaining few acres are located the summer resorts for which the lake is famous. After a residence of three years there Mr. Howard's parents died within one day of one another. Sylvester, with five sisters and one brother were left orphans. Their brother-in-law, Judge A. W. Van Camp was made administrator of the estate and later disposed of the property.

With Judge Van Camp the family moved to St. Joseph and lived there until 1875, when they moved to Holt County and settled on the Jacob Book mill property in Minton Township, north of Fortescue. A few years later they moved to the farm where the Van Camps have lived many years.

Howard remained with the Van Camp family until he moved to Fortescue in 1900. Two years later Judge Van Camp also moved to Fortescue and lives with the Howard family, his wife having died in the meantime. When he went to Fortescue Mr. Howard bought a half interest in the merchandise store of John R. Minton, and did business there for a year under the firm name of Minton & Howard, when they sold to Charles Craig. Mr. Howard then bought the Wesley Coots farm in South Benton Township. A year later he sold out and returned to Fortescue. He clerked in stores for a couple of years and then built a business house on Main street, in which he conducted a restaurant there for about five years, selling out to C. W. Craig. He was manager of the John H. Lynds Mill & Elevator Company's business for four years, then became manager of the Fortescue Mercantile Company's business for two years. After clerking in Langdon and Fortescue for several years he again engaged in business on his own account. In October, 1914, he bought the building and stock of the Fortescue Mercantile Company, and has since been engaged in the general merchandise business.

His parents were Samuel and Oma Howard and he is one of a family of seven children. Mr. Howard was born in Iowa May 19, 1865, and was married at the Christian church in Minton Township, March 1, 1896, to Miss Ida E. Brown, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Brown. They have one daughter, Etta Marie. Mr. Howard is a member of the Masonic and Woodmen nf the World lodges.

Charles C. Lawrence owns and lives on the 511-acre farm in Benton Township known as the Dave Batman place, of which he came into possession in April, 1915. He was born in Nodaway County, May 2, 1870, and is the son of Hosea B. Lawrence, one of the influential and substantial farmers of Holt County, who was born in Pike County, Ohio, January 19, 1847, and who came to Holt County with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Lawrence in 1855. They first occupied one of the old May farms northwest of Mound City, where they lived two years. They then moved to Nodaway County, where H. B. lived until 1871, when he moved back to Holt County and bought the land on -which he is now living, in section 30, Union Township. He now owns 1,100 acres in Holt and Atchison Counties. He married Miss Mary S. Curry, born in Gollier County, Ohio.

Mr. Lawrence is an Odd Fellow. He is one of the big feeders of hogs and cattle in Holt County and an extensive farmer. He owns property and a feed mill in Craig.

Charles C. Lawrence remained on the home place with his father until 1902, the father and sons buying land and farming it together. In 1902 he moved to Nodaway County, buying 240 acres north of Graham. He lived there until 1915 when he bought and moved to his present farm. He was married March 8, 1905, to Miss Cora Ryan, who was born in Adams County, Ohio, and a daughter of Charles and Sarah Ryan. They have three children: Ruth, Thomas and Robert. Like his father he is an Odd Fellow, all the Lawrence boys and their father being members of the Craig lodge.

William H. Patterson

William H. Patterson, proprietor of the feed and feeding barn in Mound City, is one of the well known farmers and honored citizens of Holt County, where he has lived since 1850. For years Mr. Patterson Was one of the big Clay Township farmers, and a breeder of fine stock. At one time he was the heaviest cattle tax payer in Holt County. He still owns the farm in Clay Township which he settled in January, 1871. He was one of the movers in the work of levying the Nodaway river to protect the bottom lands from overflow. Before the Villisca branch of the Burlington was built he had to haul his products to Bigelow for shipment.

Mr. Patterson went into the breeding of fine stock in 1881, when he brought the first fine jack to Holt County. He was afterwards a breeder of Poland-China and Duroc-Jersey hogs. He is a member of the National Association of Duroc-Jersey Red Hog Breeders.

He retired from active farm work March 1, 1910, and moved to Mound City where he devotes his time to the business he has there. He bought the C. S. Armstrong property, one of the nice suburban residences in Mound City, where he is spending the evening of his life after a successful career in the country.

Mr. Patterson is a staunch Democrat. He cast the first and only vote in Clay Township in the early '70's at the time Judge Henry S. Kelley was first elected, over Thomas Collins, Democrat. Mr, Patterson ran for county judge at large in the early '80's on the Democratic ticket and lacked only forty votes of being elected, his opponent being T. W. McCoy. He served ninety days in Governor Jackson's militia at the outbreak of the Civil war.

Mr. Patterson was married in Andrew County, Missouri, March 1, 1866, to Eliza J. Cobb, the daughter of G. W. Cobb. Of this union there have been born nine children: Louis N., of Andrew County; Ed. H., of Andrew County; Hallie, wife of Louis Wampler, of Andrew County; William L., of Holt County; George H., of Andrew County; Maude L., wife of Dr. C. L. Rees, of Rosendale, Mo.; Edith M., wife of Dr. J. J. Harman, of Valley Falls, Kan.J Mora O., who runs the home place six miles east of

Mr. Patterson was chairman of the Union Labor party in the '80's. He has served as school director in Clay Township and as road supervisor, opening many of the first roads in the vicinity in which he lived.

T. W. Burke

T. W. Burke, a well known citizen of Mound City and a former merchant who was in the furniture business for twentythree years, has been a resident of that town for a quarter of a century. He was forced to quit business a few years ago because of poor health, which he has partially regained since his retirement.

Mr. Burke was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, March 20, 1843. When he was ten years old the family moved to New Corydon, Jay County, Indiana. He lived on a farm there for twenty years. In 1872 he moved to Clarinda, la., where he was manager of a general merchandise store for six years. He then engaged in farming for a number of years. In 1863 he enlisted in B Company, 126th Regiment Indiana volunteers and was commissioned commissary sergeant of the company. He served until the close of the war. In November, 1891, he came to Mound City and was in the furniture business until March, 1914, when the condition of his health forced him to sell out.

He is the son of Levi and Eliza (Williams) Burke, natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. Burke was married at New Corydon, Ind., November 17, 1867, to Mary E. Johnson, who was born near Piuray, Ohio, January 27, 1846. Mr. and Mrs. Burke have one daughter, Lulu Leota, who resides with her parents. Mr. Burke is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge which he joined at Clarinda, la., in 1888. He also holds membership in the Odd Fellows lodge in Mound City and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, his parents being members of that organization.

Mr. Burke is proud of his ancestry, his father being of Irish descent, and his grandfather, Patrick Burke, being born in Ireland. Patrick Burke's wife was of German descent. They were married after coming to the United States and from this union the American branch of the Burke family started.

Lewis I. Moore

Lewis I. Moore was born in Oregon, Mo., March 30, 1862. His father, Lewis Moore, came from Londonderry, Ireland, in 1829 and was one of the early merchants in Oregon, and mar-

Lewis I. Moore was married to Emma Spoerle, August 21, 1884. They have three children: Milton S., now with Meinrath Brokerage Company of Kansas City; Will L., in the grocery business in Oregon and Mary E. Moore, head of music studios in Chicago and Evanston, 111.

The subject of this sketch was elected city marshall of Oregon, April 2, 1883,. and held the offices of alderman, treasurer, 'city clerk and mayor of his home town for about twenty years. He was county treasurer four years, from 1896 to 1900. He served as chairman of .the Republican County Committee four years. He was elected member of the school board in 1896 and was made its treasurer, which offices he still holds.

Mr. Moore started in the grocery business in 1886 and continued in that business until 1915. In 1899 he bought the Oregon Canning Company's factory and has continued the business until the present time. He was one of the prime movers in starting the building of a railroad to Oregon. When the road was started he was made secretary-treasurer and general manager, which offices he still holds. With his son Will he is one of the largest buyers and shippers of apples in Holt County.

In 1911 Mr. Moore purchased stock in the Zook & Roecker Banking Company of Oregon and is active vice-president of this bank. As side lines Mr. Moore writes insurance, is president of the Oregon Commercial Club, takes an active interest in all publib affairs and runs a 105-acre farm which he owns one mile west of Oregon.

William F. Vance

William F. Vance, investment broker and farmer of Mound City has been a resident of that town since 1900. For two years he was foreman of the McKee-Zook ranch near Mound City and two years later bought 644 acres of that ranch land, which was the beginning of his property holdings in Holt County, which include real estate to the value of about $25,000. He did this by hard work and business ability. He is an influential citizen and has investments in Oklahoma, Montana and other states.

When the big Squaw Creek drainage ditch was built through the valley land southwest of Mound City in 1906, Mr. Vance was appointed drainage commissioner by the board of supervisors. He owns valuable property in Mound City and has served several terms as chairman of the Commercial Club.

sent from his old home about three years while ranching and railroading in the southwest. In September, 1894, he moved to Ringgold County, Iowa, where he leased 760 acres of land which he stocked and farmed until 1898. For the next two years he was livestock solicitor and loan man for the McKee-Zook-Whitford Commission Company of Kansas City and St. Joseph. He then moved to Mound City.

Mr. Vance was married November 29, 1894, to Miss Maude E. Wright of Harpster, 111. They have one daughter, Vona May, who graduated from the Mound City high school in the class of 1914 and from Hardin college in the class of 1916.

He is the son of William S. Vance of Kaiser, West Virginia. Fraternally Mr. Vance is a member of the Masons, Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen and Woodmen of the World. As a Mason he has taken the thirty-second degree and is a member of Moila Temple, St. Joseph.

Henry C. Cook

Henry C. Cook is proprietor of the Oregon Monument Works and senior member of the firm of Cook & Foster, proprietors of one of the leading garages in Oregon. This firm handles the Dodge, Hudson, Mitchell and Chevrolet cars and in addition does a general repair business. Mr. Cook also owns a farm of nearly 200 acres south of Oregon which he cultivates. He is also the proprietor of monument shops in St. Joseph and Mound City. He is one of the well known granite and marble men in northwest Missouri.

Mr. Cook was born in Oregon, November 20, 1856, and it has always been his boast that he never spent thirty consecutive days outside of his native county. He is the son of William Cook, a native of West Virginia, being born March 4, 1817. The senior Cook came to Missouri in 1842 and located in Henry County, where he remained a year. Then he came to Oregon and lived here until his death in 1887. He opened one of the first blacksmtih shops in the town and did work for patrons all over the county. He married Dorinda Jackson, a native of Kentucky, whose parents were also Holt County pioneers.

Henry C. Cook was married in 1883 to Miss Mary E. Pierce, a native of Holt County and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Silas Pierce. They have one son, Fred P. Cook, born June 9, 1888.

Mr. Cook has always been active in the affairs of the Democratic party in Holt County and is the second Democrat to be elected sheriff in this Republican stronghold. He was elected to that office in 1892 and served one term of two years. He has served as a member of the city council of Oregon and was one of the active pushers who built the railroad connecting Oregon with the Burlington main line at Forest City. Fraternally Mr. Cook has membership in the Woodmen of the World lodge.

Hugh G. Harsha

Hugh G. Harsha, postmaster at Oregon, is a native Holt County citizen, being born September 12, 1878, in Forbes township. He has resided in the county continuously since the date of his birth. He has been a hard working man all his life. His father died when he was but three years old and as soon as he had attained sufficient size he assisted in the support of his mother. He began working for himself when 14 years old and farmed until 1903, when he was made a rural mail carrier. For twelve years he carried the mail out of Oregon on several rural routes.

Mr. Harsha has always been a party worker in the Democratic ranks, but never received any of the emoluments of the game of politics until he was appointed postmaster at Oregon November 9, 1915. He took charge of the office November 15, 1915, and is making a careful, painstaking and obliging public servant.

Mr. Harsha was married September 14, 1904, to Miss Pearl Keown, a native of Harrison County, Missouri. Mrs. Harsha died July 30, 1914, at the age of 29 years. One child has been born of this union, Frances, who was born July 22, 1914.

He is the son of George W. and Mary E. (Smith) Harsha. His father was born in New York state in 1838 and his mother near Bedford, Ind., in 1839. The senior Harsha died in 1881 and his wife makes her home with her son Hugh, in Oregon. She has two other children by a former marriage, James and Frank Colhour. Mr. Harsha is a Mason and a member of the Christian church.

John H. Keeves

John H. Keeves, a prosperous business man of Oregon, is a native son of the countyseat town. He was born February 23, 1879. After being educated in the local schools he attended the Welch Academy at Columbia and the Gem City Business College, Quincy, 111. When he had finished school, in company with Edwin A. Welty, he made a tour of Europe.

Returning to the United States he engaged in the lumber business with his father, R. S. Keeves, in 1903, in the same building on the east side in which he is now in the automobile busi- ness with W. F. Bragg. When autos became popular as a means of conveyance about 1906, he secured the agency for the Ford car. In the spring of 1912, they sold out the lumber business to Ruley & Kunkel. Since that date he has been in the automobile and garage business exclusively, first with his father, later with H. C. Cook, and at present with William F. Bragg. They handle the Ford and Reo cars, besides doing a general repair business.

The subject of these paragraphs is the son of R. Stewart and Catherine R. (Farris) Reeves. They were early settlers in Oregon and for many years were prominent in the business affairs of the town.

John Reeves was married June 10, 1903, to Miss Pearl Hill, daughter of Thomas Hill and wife Louise (George) Hill of Forest City. They have one child, Catherine Louise. Mr. Reeve's lodge affiliations are with the Odd Fellows.

Herby J. McDonald, proprietor of the Oregon Plumbing & Heating Company was born near New Point, December 31, 1873, and has ever since lived in Holt County. For the past six years he has been in business in Oregon and is meeting with success in his chosen field of endeavor.

When about five years of age his parents moved to the hamlet of New Point, where he grew up and where he received his education. He worked on farms in his early youth and in 1892 moved with his parents to Oregon, occupying a small farm about a mile east of town. For a few years he farmed on his own account and then began work for Schulte Brothers, where he learned the tinner's trade. Later he was employed by the late T. L. Price. He was with the firm of Bragg & Munn for several years. When that firm sold out he and W. F. Bragg engaged in the plumbing and heating business. August 20, 1914, he bought the interest of his partner and is now conducting the business alone.

He is the son of Ezra S. and Martha (Ruhl) McDonald, who came to Holt County in the days when steamboats landed a few hundred yards west of where the railroad station in Forest City is now located. Both are still living in Oregon.

H. J. McDonald was married September 12, 1899, to Miss Jennie Baker of Oregon. To them on August 11, 1900, was born one child, Grace Lucille. Mr. McDonald and his family are members of the Presbyterian church. He is a member of Fraternal Aid. lodge. Politically he is a Republican.

Charles B. Griffith

Charles B. Griffith, 2708 Mitchell avenue, St. Joseph, Mo., a real estate dealer of that city, is a native son of Virginia and a resident of Holt County from 1871 to 1910, when he moved to St. Joseph. He was born in Page County, Virginia, November 1, 1861. When ten years old he moved to Holt County and settled on the farm of his brother James in Liberty Township. There the family lived for six years, when they bought a farm in section 34, and which is now the property of the subject of this sketch.

During the first two'years of Mr. Griffith's residence in Holt County he herded cattle for Thomas Secrest and Christian Shultz, and later for Thomas Ward and Henry Cransler, for $50.00 per month. He corraled the cattle on the land which he afterward bought in 1882. After several years of hard work and economy he had 160 acres of fine Holt County land free from debt.

He was the son of Samuel Griffith who died in 1875, four years after coming to Holt County. Charles then took up the work of his father and managed the farm for his mother until her death in 1885. After several years of farm life he moved to Mound City where he engaged in building, painting and paper hanging. He moved to Chillicothe in 1907, to which place he moved to secure school advantages for his children, and where he followed the occupation of painting and paperhanging. He moved to St. Joseph in 1910.

Mr. Griffith was married in Kosahoska County, Indiana, November 1, 1891, to Eva Maxwell, who was born in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Griffith are the parents of three children: Hazel F., married to Richard Adams, of St. Joseph and Oneta and Maxine, living at home. Politically Mr. Griffith is a Democrat.

Samuel G. Alkire

Samuel G. Alkire is a farmer of Minton Township, who resides on. his forty-acre farm in section 20, in the extreme southwest corner of the township. His farm is the original home of his father, Henry L. Alkire, who settled the place February 14, 1863. The farm was then in cottonwood timber and was bought from John R. Baldwin. Mr. Alkire cleared away the timber and by 1865 had made of it a fertile farm on which his son now lives. He was an active man in the affairs of the county, a prosperous farmer and accumulated several hundred acres of fine Holt County land. He lived on this farm until 1885, when he divided his real estate holdings, consisting of 320 acres among his five children. He then bought the Brady farm east of Oregon, and later the Noland farm north of Oregon, living on these two places for about ten years. He then bought the John Q. Shepherd farm in Bigelow Township, where he lived several years. After living a year in Mound City he bought a farm north of that town and resided there until his death January 1, 1911, at the age of 82.

Samuel Alkire was born in Platte County, Missouri, February 11, 1856, and came to Holt County in 1863, and has since resided on the farms owned by his father. He was educated in the State Normal school at Kirksville, Mo.

Mr. Alkire was married to Lou Emma Penny, January 25, 1883. She was born in Beatrice, Nebr., August 18, 1865. One child has been born to them, Clyde, who died in infancy. They have raised one child, Howard, son of George Carter, who took the name of his foster parents and calls himself Howard Alkire. He is now 16 years old and has lived with Mr. and Mrs. Alkire since he was 2 years of age.

Judge Jacob Wehrli

Jacob Wehrli, former judge of the County Court, a prominent farmer of Liberty Township, and one of the enterprising citizens of the northern part of Holt County, was born in Cook County, Illinois, April 9, 1854. Through his own efforts, backed by good judgment and the application of business principles to his chosen vocation, he has reached the plane where he may be considered one of the exceptionally successful farmers of the county.

The subject of this sketch is the son of Peter Wehrli, who was one of the pioneers who made history in Holt County in the early days. He came here in 1866 and settled at Oregon. The family moved to the Ross Grove neighborhood in Liberty Township in 1869. Here Peter Wehrli took up farming and his son grew to manhood, receiving his education in the schools of the community in which he lived.

Judge Wehrli began farming on his own account in 1875. He began operation on his father's farm and has since come into possession of part of the original Wehrli homestead. Judge Wehrli is still living on the place where he first set out for himself.

The judge has been married twice. The first time was to Francis P. Ross in March, 1877. She was a resident of the Ross Grove neighborhood and died August 22, 1903. To this union was born seven children: Rosa Belle, now Mrs. Ott Markt, Pleasanton, Kans. ; Mollie Jane, now Mrs. Abe Loyd, Selling,

Okla. ; Jonas Wesley, of Maitland, Mo.; Edward Garfield, of Firth, Nebr. ; Ivy Lucinda, now Mrs. John Sachtleben, of Firth, Nebr. ; John Franklin, of Cortland, Nebr.; Lillian Pearl, of Lincoln, Nebr. His second marriage was to Miss Jennie McDonald, of Oregon, which occurred December 20, 1905. Three children have been born of this marriage : Esther Louise, Ruby Dale and Russell Norman.

Judge Wehrli has always taken a live interest in public affairs. He has been constable of Liberty Township, road overseer and for about twenty years served on the local school board. In 1902 he was elected judge of the county court and served a four-year term. He has also served his country in the regular army. He enlisted in Buffalo, New York, in 1871, and served three years in western territory, principally in the Black Hills country in the Dakotas. His regiment explored much of that country and assisted in bringing it to the attention of settlers. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the World lodges. Religiously he is a Methodist and politically a Republican.

Joseph H. Bohart

Joseph H. Bohart is proprietor of the coal, feed, flour and implement business in Maitland. He runs a mill in connection with his store and makes his own feed. He has been a farmer and merchant in Maitland and Graham for a number of years. He started in Maitland in 1882, with his brother, Peter L. Bohart, the style of the firm being Bohart Brothers.

Joseph H. Bohart was born in Clark County, Ind., February 18, 1854, and when ten years old the family moved to Graham, in Nodaway County. The elder Bohart engaged in business here and remained until his death in 1879. Young Bohart grew up in Graham and attended the schools there, the meanwhile clerking in his father's store. A year after his marriage in 1875 he was taken into partnership with his father, the firm being R. C. Bohart & Son. He remained in Graham until 1887, although he engaged in business in Maitland in 1882. After a year he sold his portion of the business of Bohart Brothers to P. L. Bohart, the other member of the firm. After he quit business in Graham Mr. Bohart formed a partnership with his cousin, Peter Maurer, and bought a half section of land in Nodaway County. For several years they engaged in feeding and shipping live stock on a large scale. He disposed of his farming interest to J. C. Bohart and in 1900 moved to the farm owned by his brother, P. L. Bohart, four miles south of Maitland. Four years later he moved to Maitland, and has since been in business there.

have five children living: Stella, now Mrs. Jareome C. Kieffer, of Maitland, Mo.; Mabel Bohart, of Omaha; Clarence R. and John Q., of Maitland and Edgar A., of Chicago. Mr. Bohart is a member of the Modern Woodmen and Woodmen of the World lodges and the Presbyterian church.

James Lester Browning

James Lester Browning, one of the successful farmers of Liberty Township, was born on his father's farm in Benton Township, February 17, 1875. He grew up on the farm and attended school at Pleasant Hill district. He married at the age of 20 years and moved to the farm he now occupies in Liberty Township, which consists of 400 acres, part of which lies in Benton Township. He has lived here since 1895 with the exception of four years when he lived in Mound City - from 1898 to 1903 - when he was engaged in the harness business. Then he returned to the farm, but in 1911 he moved back to Mound City and built a beautiful residence there, at a cost of $6,000. He also erected the brick business block which he afterwards sold to the Farmers Mutual Insurance Company.

In the spring of 1916 Mr. Browning sold his town interests and moved back to his farm. He is the son of James Browning, who came from Kentucky to Holt County when a child. James L. Browning was married in Mound City, April 10, 1895, to Miss Florida Shultz, who was born December 14, 1871, on her father's farm in Benton Township, and is the daughter of Granville Shultz, one of the early settlers. Her father came to Holt County and settled in Benton Township at the same time the Brownings did, being among the first settlers in that part of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Browning have nine children: Goldie L., Frost A., Mildred, James Granville, George O. and Grace L. (twins), Helen M., Paul H. and Hazel.

Reuben L. Cason

Reuben L. Cason, a prosperous and influential farmer, has been a resident of Holt County since 1882. He lives on one of his farms in the northeast quarter of section 27, Benton Township. He also owns 120 acres in section 28, Benton Township, 75 acres in section 21, Benton Township. Mr. Cason has been unusually successful in his farming and feeding operations. He began his career without money and is now one of the most substantial men of Benton Township. He is a large stock feeder.

Mr. Cason was born seven miles south of Glasgow, in Howard County, Missouri, September 2, 1863. He came to Holt County when about 18 years of age, with his mother and brothers and sisters. They lived a short time in Hickory Township and then moved to the Milt Herron property near Mound City, where they resided a little more than a year and sold the place to Thomas Ballard. In 1884 the family moved to Forest Township where they bought a farm of 100 acres from William Wood. On this farm the mother of this sketch lived until her death in 1892. Reuben remained on the farm until his marriage in 1889. He rented land at first and was a frugal, hard working lad. In consequence he soon began acquiring land of his own. In 1895 he bought 144 acres, for which he paid $30 per acre. Later he bought sixteen acres to fill out the quarter section. By subsequent purchases he now owns 225 acres of fine land. In the spring of 1916 he turned the active management of the place over to his sons Fred and Dale Cason.

He is the son of James Cason, a native of Virginia, who served as a captain in the Union army during the Civil war. Mr. Cason was married in Holt County, October 16, 1889, to Miss Minnie F. Hutton, the only child of Wash. Hutton, one of the pioneers and a very influential citizen. Mr. and Mrs. Cason are the parents of seven children : Daphene, wife of Earl Rock, of Benton Township ; Mildred, wife of Gus Kuhn, of Hickory Township; Ruby, Fred, Dale Marjorie and John Cason, all living at home. Mr. Cason is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of Holt lodge No. 341, I. O. O. F. He is an ardent Democrat and a warm supporter of the principles of politics laid down by the immortal Jefferson.

Jacob Cloos

Jacob Cloos, building contractor, has been in Mound City since 1895. He is one of the best mechanics in the county, as is evidenced by his work and the buildings he has erected. He was born in Hessen Nassau, Germany, December 12, 1871. He was eduacted there and later learned the cabinet maker and carpenter trade, in which vocation his father and grandfather were engaged for many years.

When 22 years old he came to the United States and for two years worked at his trade in various cities. He came to Mound City in 1895 and worked as a ourneyman until fourteen years ago when he engaged in business for himself. He has made a pronounced success of the contracting business and has prospered financially. He owns half a block on Savannah street, on which are three buildings, one of which, an eight-room modern residence, was built from plans which he himself drew. This place was sold as soon as the house was begun, to Fred Burks. He is building another fine seven-room residence on Savannah street. He has an up-to-the-minute shop which he built on his property in the spring of 1915. He also owns a farm six miles northwest of Mound City. Inasmuch as he came to Mound City

Mr. Cloos is the son of William and Margaret Cloos, both of whom died in the old country. They have two children : Jacob and Christian who is in the Germany Army. Mr. Cloos is a member of the Woodmen of the World lodge and the German Lutheran church.

Ira E. Casteel

Ira E. Casteel, proprietor of the Peoples' Meat Market in Mound City, located in that town in September, 1914, and bought out the William Field Market, and ran it in the Spitler building until May, 1916, when he moved to his present quarters in the Midland block. He was born in Nodaway County, Missouri, August 28, 1884, and is the son of John Casteel and one of a family of seven children.

Ira E. Casteel left Nodaway County at the age of four years, when the family moved to Buchanan County, where he grew to manhood. He learned the leather trade at the Endebrock Trunk Factory in St. Joseph, which he followed for seventeen years - six years in St. Joseph, two years in Kansas City and several years in Wichita, Kans., where he was manager and superintendent of the Wichita Trunk Co. Later he was with the Rose Trunk Co., of Atchison for three years. In September, 1914, he moved to Mound City.

Mr. Casteel was married November 19. 1903, at Kansas City, Kans., to Miss Edna Tatum, of Kansas City, Mo. They have one child, Ira F. He is a member of the M. B. A. order. He has built up an excellent business by strictly honest methods and by keeping his place at all times in a sanitary condition.

John Peters

John Peters is marshal and street commissioner of Mound City and constable of Benton Township. He was born in Andrew County, Missouri, September 22, 1857. In 1864 he moved to Nebraska City, Nebr., where the family lived one year, the father dying there in January, 1865. That spring the remainder of the family returned to Missouri and took up their residence in Oregon, and Mr. Peters has since resided in the county. He grew up in Oregon, married there and remained there until 1893 when he moved to Mound City. For a number of years he engaged in the restaurant and butcher business. In 1909 he was elected marshal and street commissioner and has filled these offices to the satisfaction of the people down to the present day. He also has been constable of Benton Township for a number of years.

He is the son of David and Jane (Cotton) Peters, both natives of Indiana. Mrs. Peters, the mother of the subject of this sketch, died in Oregon in the spring of 1897. John Peters has been married twice. The first time was in Oregon, Mo., to Miss Mattie Cook, daughter of William Cook, one of the early settlers of Oregon. She died September 16, 1896. Four children were born of this marriage : Bird, Dora and Don, all living in Kansas City, and Ray, who died at the age of eighteen months. Mr. Peters was married the second time to his first wife's sister, Miss Nettie Cook, August, 1900. There have been no children by this union.

Fred E. Carpenter

Fred E. Carpenter is proprietor of the Maitland Grocery Store and also engaged in the rural mail service, being carrier on Route No. 3, out of Maitland. He was born in Clay County, Indiana, January 29, 1877. He was educated in the schools of his native county and when his education was finished engaged in farming and coal mining. He came to Holt County in 1899 and worked one year on a farm for William Hodgins. He then went to farming for himself. In 1909 he moved to Maitland and has since been mail carrier on rural route No. 3. He also engaged in handling sand for several years. He was also in the cement block business about a year.

Two years ago Mr. Carpenter built the large garage immediately north of the Groves Hotel, out of cement blocks from his own factory. In this structure he established a blacksmith shop. He traded this garage and business for a stock of groceries, which he still owns. In this enterprise he is assisted by his brother Clifford Carpenter.

Mr. Carpenter is the son of Joseph H. and Sarah Carpenter, natives of Indiana. He was married July 6, 1897, at Brazil, Ind., to Carrie Mattox. Four children have been born of this union, three of whom are living: Ellis, Carlton and Margie. Francis died eleven years ago, aged about two years. Mr. Carpenter is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge.

Dr. James C. Tracy

Dr. James C. Tracy, one of the leading practicing physicians of Holt County, has lived in Mound City for the past fortyfive years. He enjoys a fine business and is one of the most successful practitioners in this section of the state.

Dr. Tracy was born in Tecumseh, Nebr., and when a babe came to Mound City with his parents, and has since lived here. He is the son of Dr. John M. and Fannie (Binkley) Tracy. He was educated in the Mound City schools and the old Normal school in Oregon. Later he attended the medical department of the University of Kentucky at Louisville, from which institution he was graduated in 1890. He was at once appointed to the interne staff of the hospital of that school. Afterward he took a hospital course in the St. Louis Medical college and similar work in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York. His medical education completed he located in Mound City and is still practicing there.

He has always taken an active interest in matters political and has held several positions of trust and responsibility. He was appointed by President Grover Cleveland secretary of the United States Pension Examining Board for this dictrict. He also held the office of coal oil inspector for Holt County. For two years he was a member of the board of regents for the Maryville Normal School. The doctor is examiner for several life insurance companies. He was one of the charter members of Holt Camp No. 2508, Modern Woodmen of America and has been active in the conduct of the affairs of the camp since it organization. Largely through his efforts this organization has grown to be the largest lodge in the county. He has been an assistant district deputy for ten years and clerk of the local camp for thirteen years. He is also a member of the Knights and Ladies of Security.

Besides his lodge and professional activities Dr. Tracy finds time for out door sport and is the champion croquet player in the state. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and registrar of vital statistics for Mound City and Liberty and Benton Townships.

Ernest F. Weller

Ernest F. Weller, president of the Farmers' State Bank of Maitland ,and a man who has been identified with the progress and development of the town from the day the first lots were sold, has been a resident of Holt County since 1865. He was born in Wurtenberg, Germany, July 27, 1845. In October, 1853, he landed, with his parents in Philadelphia. From there the family moved to Louisville, Ky., where they lived two years and where the elder Weller was the first German Baptist preacher. In the spring of 1855 they moved to Clark County, Ind., and in 1865 Ernest F. went to Clinton County, Iowa, from which place he came to Holt County in December, the same year.

Mr. Weller worked a time for Moses Laslie on what is now known as the Elliot place. In the spring of 1866 he began work for J. I. Brink, on what is known as the Groves place, and in the fall of that year he formed part of J. L. Gomel's threshing crew.

Mr. Gomel built Mr. Weller a house on Highly creek, where he lived until February, 1870, when he bought 60 acres of prairie land where Lem A. Meadows now lives. He moved the house to the land he had bought and lived there until 1874. He began his business career that year by putting in a small stock of goods in Whig Valley. In 1876 a town was laid out there and Mr. Weller was the storekeeper and David Kennedy the village blacksmith. Mr. Weller, also was postmaster at Whig Valley, the mail being carried from Bigelow to Graham, and Whig Valley was a way station.

Maitland was laid out in 1880 and soon became a rival of Whig Valley. Mr. Weller bought the first three lots in the new town and moved his store building and postoffice to the new town, selling goods and delivering mail enroute - it took two weeks to move the building. He located the building on the site now occupied by the Kelley hardware and furniture store.

In 1881 he sold the stock to Brady & Ewing of St. Joseph. Then, in company with Charles T. Donovan, of St. Joseph, he started the Farmers' bank at the same location in which that institution is still doing business. The bank opened for business December 1, 1881, and was the first banking house in the town of Maitland. Mr. Weller has continued in active charge of the business until the present day. The first building erected in 1881 was remodeled and modernized in 1907.

Mr. Weller is the son of Jacob and Katherine M. (Dingier) Weller, both natives of Wertenberg, Germany. They came to the United States in 1865 and were pioneers in the development of Clay Township. They lived on a farm and prospered as was their due. Mr. Weller, the senior, died on his 70th birthday in 1888.

E. F. Weller was married on the old Perkins farm, near Oregon, January 6, 1867, to Ruth Jenkins, who was born in Fairland, Shelby County, Indiana, November 16, 1846, and is the daughter of Henry and Rachael (Horton) Jenkins. Mr. and Mrs. Weller have had eight children: Ernest C. died November 11, 1888, and Ruth, who died May 30, 1887, when about three years old; Jacob H., a commission merchant of St. Joseph; John L, of Maitland; J. E., cashier of the Farmers' Bank; Robert T., bookkeeper in the Farmers' Bank; Mrs. Minnie DeBord, of Clay Township; Charles D., a real estate dealer in Maitland. Fraternally Mr. Weller is a member of the Masonic, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Woodmen of the World and United Workmen lodges. Politically he is a Democrat.

James Morgan Wilson

James Morgan Wilson, a farmer born in Holt County fiftyfour years ago, resides on his farm in Benton Township and is one of the prominent citizens of his part of the county.

Morgan, as he is known to his friends, was born in the old log cabin in Clay Township, situated in King Grove, on the old Abraham Moore farm, three miles northwest of Maitland, January 5, 1863, and has lived in the county all his life. Soon after the birth of Morgan his father bought a farm in Liberty Township north of Mound City. On that farm Morgan lived until 26 years old, when he married and moved to his own farm in the same neighborhood. Five years later he moved to Mound City where he lived two years. Then he moved to a farm owrned by his father-in-law, William F. Caton, in Benton Township. There he resided for six or seven years. After two other moves he bought the farm he now occupies August, 1914. It consists of 230 acres and is one of the best farms in Benton Township.

He is the son of James E. Wilson, a native of Hardy County, West Virginia, who came to Holt County in the early days. He took an active interest in politics and was twice elected on the Democratic ticket to membership on the county bench. He died in August, 1907, at the age of 77 years.

James M. Wilson was married August 30, 1888, to Miss Maud M. Caton, who was born in Benton Township and is the daughter of William F. Caton, one of Holt County's old and respected citizens. They have seven children: David R., George H., Russell M., Edward F., Julian D., Glen E. and Maude L. Mr. Wilson has been a member of the Odd Fellows lodge in Mound City since 1889. Mr. Wilson is an enthusiastic outdoor sportsman and one of the best fishermen in the county.

Alfred R. McNulty, of Mound City, is a native of Holt County, is an ex-sheriff and constable and a well known citizen of Holt County. He is now engaged in farming, being the owner of an acre tract south of Mound City, but makes his home in the city at the old McNulty homestead. He was born in Benton Township September 23, 1866, and was a twin brother of Wiley A. McNulty, who died in March, 1901.

A. R. McNulty was born on his father's farm in section 9, Benton Township and there grew to manhood. He attended the Bagby and Mound City schools. In 1891 he moved to Mound City where he has since lived with the exception of six years residence in Oregon during the time he was sheriff. On moving to Mound City in 1891 he engaged in the livery business and ran a hack and mail line to Bigelow for fifteen years.

Mr. McNulty has always been an active Democrat and has been honored several times for his fidelity to the party. He was the first rural carrier appointed in the county, was deputy assessor under William H. Weightman, was elected constable in

1904 and served two years. In 1906 he was elected sheriff and after serving a two-year term was re-elected by a majority of 1,061, the largest majority ever received by any candidate for office in Holt County. By a change in the law he served a fouryear term after this election. Since retiring from the sheriff's office he has been engaged in looking after his real estate.

He is the son of Asa S. McNulty, who came from Ohio to Holt County at an early day. He was married January 2, 1889, to Miss Minnie M. Blair, whose father James Blair came to Holt County with an ox team in 1839. Mr. and Mrs. McNulty are the parents of three children : Eiby R., a member of L. Company of the National Guard, aged 23 years; Floyd F., of Mound City and Ruth, at home. Mr. McNulty is a member of the Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen lodges.

Harry Bowness

Harry Bowness, shoe dealer and shoe repairer, in Mound City, is one of the substantial business men of that city. He was born in County Westmooreland, England, May 26, 1862. After receiving a common school education he went to work in his father's shoe shop and learned the shoemaker's trade. After his apprenticeship he worked as a journeyman in England until 1893 when he came to the United States, settling first in Atchison County. He worked for a time on the farm of his brother, William Bowness.

Harry then came to Mound City where he has since been located. For several years he ran a repair shop in the Midland building. His trade grew and he prospered to the extent that he felt justified in putting in a stock of shoes. He was located in the Bennett building for several years. He moved to his present quarters in the Glenn block in 1916. He does an extensive shoe repair business. One thing that can be said of Harry Bowness, is that when he has done a piece of work it is done right, as he learned his trade in the days when boys had to serve a thorough apprenticeship, that made them masters of their trade or profession.

Mr. Bowness is the son of Edward and Agnes Bowness. They died in England. They have three children in the United States: William, an extensive farmer and stock raiser in Atchison County, Robert who lives with William and Harry, the subject of this sketch* real estate. He was born in Hancock County, 111., two miles west of Carthage, November 3, 1863. When six years old his mother died and he then made his home with his uncle, Thomas Graham, of Hancock County, who settled there in 1837. He lived with his uncle until 17 years old when, with his father he moved to Mound City where he has since lived. He has been engaged in various business enterprises, clerking, buying and selling hay, dealing in real estate, etc., but during the last three years he has devoted his time principally to the management of his farm in Benton Township. He owns the property in Mound City in which he lives, together with his farm land holdings.

Mr. Roseberry is of Scotch and English descent. His father, Loring T., was born in Adams County, Illinois, June 20, 1835, and died at Marysville, Kans., June 2, 1916. The subect of this sketch was married November 19, 1894, to Miss Elizabeth Hagan, a native of Tennessee, the daughter of Richard Hagan. They have two children: Ilah, wife of John Thompson of Holt County and Harry, of Yellowstone Park, Mont.

William C. Andes

William C. Andes, of Mound City, is one of the early settlers of Holt County, and a prominent farmer and business man of the northern part of Holt County. He was born in Augusta 'County, Virginia, June 4, 1845. He came to Holt County and located on section 9, Benton Township. He learned the carpenter trade in Delaware County, Indiana, where he lived from 1853 to 1869. He worked at his trade in Indiana and after his father bought the farm in Benton Township he built the house, barn and other buildings on the place. As an evidence of his skill as a carpenter the house is yet in a good state of preservation and the same roof is yet on the building. He did carpenter work and lived with his sister, Mrs. Fred Nichols until 1871, when his parents came to this county and he lived with them a year, when he was married and moved to his father-in-law's place.

In the spring of 1874 he moved to his own farm in section 10, Benton Township, which he had previously bought. He prospered and bought 400 acres of land in that neighborhood. He lived on his farm in section 10 until 1889 when he bought his father's farm and moved to it, where he engaged in farming and stock feeding on a large scale. While yet living on the farm he engaged in the canning business in Mound City, giving that his personal attention during the canning season, until 1912. In 1885-86 he was in the hardware business in Mound City with James Criswell, under the firm name of Criswell & Andes. In the spring of 1916 he converted the canning factory into a fine double tenement house.

Mound City to occupy the Grossbeck place, one of the old landmarks of the county. The house was built in 1856 and was known as Jackson's Point, where the first postoffice was located. Mr. Andes rebuilt the place in 1872. The property is now owned by his wife who traded a piece of land her father had given her for it.

Mr. Andes was married in Holt County, in Forest Township, February 15, 1871, to Miss Emma Schaefer, daughter of John Schaefer. Mr. and Mrs. Andes have five children living : Laura, wife of John Nixon, who now owns and lives on the old Andes farm; Eliza, wife of William H. Weightman, of Mound City; Bea, wife of William. W. Murray, of Holt County; Grover, who lives on his farm south of Mound City and1 who married Edna Glick, daughter of Senator Glick; Nettie, wife of Roy Kuhn, of Holt County.

Mr. Andes is next to the oldest Mason of the Mound City lodge. He was first made a Mason in Mt. Moriah Lodge No. 77, at Anderson, Ind., in 1868. James Thompson was master of the lodge and gave Mr. Andes the degree work. Mr. Andes visited in Anderson in 1913 and Mr. Thompson was living at the age of 82 and vouched for Mr. Andes and took him into the old lodge as a visitor.

Fred M. Burks

Fred M. Burks, pharmacist and manager of the Harmon Drug Company in Mound City, while yet a young man, is making good in the business world in Mound City. He is the junior member of the firm with which he is connected. He was born in Nebraska, November 6, 1887. He decided to take up the drug business and entered the Harmon drug store as a clerk in 1903, and has since been with that firm. In 1912 he bought an interest in the store. This store is one of the oldest in Mound City under the same firm name, Frank Harmon starting the business twentyeight years ago.

Mr. Burks was married in Mound City October 18, 1910, to Miss Lucile Bagby, a native of Holt County and the daughter of John C. Bagby, one of the pioneers of the county. They have one son, Dean Bagby, born June 15, 1916. He owns one of the modern houses in the city on Fifth street.

Mr. Burks has served in the city council as alderman from the First Ward. He is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge. He is the son of Sarah Burks of Mound City.

Charles Sare

est and best known hostelries in northwest Missouri, and one of the landmarks of Mound City, has been one of the active business men in that town for a good many years. Mr. Sare was born at Falls City, Nebr., June 8, 1874, where he lived until 1900, when he came to Holt County.

He was first engaged in farming in Benton Township, on a place he bought, known as the Alkire farm. He lived there until 1911 when he moved to Mound City and bought the Hiatt Hotel of U. G. Keaster. He conducted the hotel for about a year, which he sold out and clerked in the Shellenberger and Carter stores for about three years. He then engaged again in the hotel business.

The subject of this sketch is the son of Thomas M. and Sarah E. (Powell) Sare, born in Baltimore, Md., and Griggsville, 111., respectively. His mother had the distinction of being a near relative of Daniel Boone, a famous character in the early days of Kentucky and other states.

Mr. Sare was married at Panonia, Colo., June 22, 1907, to Miss Hermine B. Dalchow, who was born in Lake City, Colo., June 2, 1882, a daughter of Albert and Theresa (Kolhne) Dalchow, native of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Sare have two children, Gertrude Pearl and Thomas Edwin. Mr. Sare is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge and Mrs. Sare is a member of the Royal Neighbors.

John D. Dodson

John D. Dodson owns and lives on his fine farm of 165 acres in the northern part of Bigelow Township, where he has lived the past eleven years. He was born in Clinton County, Mo., October 27, 1867. He lived there until 1899, and was educated in the public schools of Clinton. He learned the potter's trade when a boy and worked in Clinton until 17 years old. Seventeen years ago he came to Holt County with the intention of starting a pottery, but not being able to find the right kind of clay changed his plans.

He rented land from John Minton and Frank Bridgemon and farmed three years. Then he went to Schuyler County, Iowa, and lived there three years. In 1905 he returned to Holt County and moved to the farm on which he now lives, it being part of the Welton tract between Mound City and Bigelow. He is the son of William C. and Amanda M. Dawson, natives of Kentucky, but now residents of Bigelow Township.

Mr. Dodson was married in the old Tarkio Chapel, near Fortescue, October 14, 1890, to Effie Hinkle, who was born on her father's farm in Minton Township. She is the daughter of

William A. Hinkle, one of the early settlers in the county. They have five children: Harry E., Eugenie H., Joseph iW., Howard R. and Mildred, all living at home except Harry, who lives in St. Joseph. Mr. Dodson is a member of the Woodmen of the World lodge.

Abe Griffith

Abe Griffith, a resident of Mound City, where he has lived the past six years, has been a resident of the county since 1871, and is one of the family of Griffiths who came here from Virginia and became prosperous farmers and good citizens. There were eight of the Griffith boys who emigrated here when young men. They have since made homes, married and reared their families in the county.

Mr. Griffith now owns 320 acres of the best farming land in the world. These two farms are in Liberty Township and are run by his sons, Ernest K. and Lester L. Griffith. Mr. Grifftih turned the farms over to the; boys when he retired from active farming six years ago and moved to Mound City. He is now serving the city as alderman from the Third Ward.

Mr. Griffith was born in Page County, Virginia, October 2, 1854. There he grew to young manhood and in the spring of 1871 came to Holt County and settled in Liberty Township, buying the old Chapin place. He was exceptionally successful as a farmer and raised a fine family. He continued to reside in Liberty Township until 1909.

He is the son of Samuel and Rebecca (Housden) Griffith, both natives of Virginia. He was married at Brownsville, Nebr., April 12, 1881, to Miss Emma Jane Kite, also a native of Page County, Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Griffith are the parents of three children: Ernest K., and Lester L., living near Mound City, and Arthur, who died when a babe. Mr. Griffith has been a member of the Odd Fellows lodge for twenty-five years. He is also a member of the Presbyterian church and helped build the church of that denomination at Pleasant View in Liberty Township.

Ulysses G. Keaster

Ulysses G. Keaster is proprietor of the Gladstone Hotel, the leading house of the kind in Mound City. Mr. Keaster was born in Lewis Township, one mile north of Oregon, August 30, 1866, and has lived in Holt County all his life. When a babe he moved with his parents to Oregon where he lived until six years old, when they bought a farm in Hickory Township. There he grew to manhood, and was educated in the common schools and the Oregon high school.

He was married at the age of 22, but continued to live at home while he operated another farm in the same neighborhood, for five years. His wife died and he quit farming for several years. In 1900 he moved to Mound City and bought the Hiatt House and ran it for five years. He then sold that hotel and bought the Gladstone in 1911.

He is the son of John and Sarah Jane (Brown) Keaster. They came to Holt County from Pennsylvania at an early day and are yet living in Mound City. The senior Keaster was a contracting plasterer and worked all over Holt County. He also did several large jobs in St. Joseph.

Ulysses Keaster has been twice married. The first time to Miss Viola Ramsey, a native of Holt County, who died in November, 1905. One son was born of this marriage, Roy Ramsey Keaster. Mr. Keaster's second marriage was with Mrs. Eva L. Arnold. She has three children by a former marriage : Floyd, Thatcher and Albert Arnold. Mr. Keaster is now serving as a member of the city council in Mound City. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen, Knights and Ladies of Security and Yeomen lodges.

Edwin Franklin Burge

Edwin Franklin Burge, proprietor of the Mound City Electric Laundry is a native of Holt County. He was born on his father's farm in Bigelow Township, June 23, 1873. He lived there until 17 years old when the family moved to Liberty Township, near the Summit church north of Mound City, buying the old William Buth farm. Here the family lived until 1905 and Ed ran the farm, it falling to him on his father's death.

Then he farmed the Schultz and Fleming places one year each. He then bought the old John S. Smith farm of 150 acres, which he sold a year later and moved to Monte Vista, Colo., where he farmed one year. He then returned to Holt County and farmed the T. S. Hines place west of Bigelow five years. While on this place he broke the Holt County wheat growing record. He had in 100 acres of wheat which averaged a little more than 43 bushels per acre. He sold out in 1914 and in the spring of 1915 moved to Mound City and established an electric laundry, which he is still operating and of which he has made an exceptional success.

He is the son of James and Sarah (Ricker) Burge, natives of Indiana and Tennessee, respectively. Mr. Burge has been married twice, the first time to Miss Lissa May Butler, in Feruary, 1892. She died sixteen years ago. There are three children : Lester, Glen and Raymond Burge. His second marriage was at Oregon, April, 1905, to Miss Hattie Bower of Valley County, Nebraska. Of this union has been born three sons: Edwin Franklin, Stanford Marion and James Robert. He is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge at Craig, Mo.

Thomas Clark

Thomas Clark, assistant manager and moving picture operator of the Delpheus theater in Mound City, is a native of Holt County. He was born in Mound City in the old Hiatt House, conducted by his grandfather, W. T. Hiatt, April 13, 1886. He has lived in Mound City continuously with the exception of eight months in 1909-1910, when he had charge of the night run in the electric light plant at Burlington Junction, Mo.

Mr. Clark was educated in the schools of Mound City. When 13 years old he began work on his own account, being an industrious boy, never idle, and was the agent for the Weems Laundry for two years. Then he worked on a brick yard one summer, did odd jobs for a while, was on the section one summer and when 18 years old entered the employ of the Mound City Electric Light company and learned the electrical business. He remained with that company until 1907.

After returning from Burlington Junction he clerked in his uncle's hotel, the Hiatt House. In the fall of 1909 he opened a shining parlor and restaurant on his own account. In September, 1910, he went to work for his uncle, W. S. Hiatt, in the Bon Ton Theater, learning the moving picture business. In 1913 he went to the Delpheus theater, where he has since been operator and assistant manager.

He is the son of James M. and Louisa (Hiatt) Clark, natives of Indiana and Iowa, respectively. They came to Holt County in 1866 and settled near Oregon. Thomas Clark was married in St. Joseph, Mo., August 4, 1913, to Miss Sylvia F. Elder of Mound City. They have one son, James Marion, born June 21, 1914. Thomas Clark is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge.

Joseph G. Wilson, Jr

Joseph G. Wilson, Jr., is a native of Holt County and was born on his father's farm in Liberty Township, April 30, 1869. His entire life has been spent in the county. He resided on the old homestead until 40 years old, when the farm was sold to J. W. Hester. Joseph ran the farm several years after the death of his father. He then bought forty acres on Squaw Creek from his uncle, Joseph Wilson. He sold that farm and bought one known as the Spurlock farm in Liberty Township. Later he