Holt County, Missouri - Chapter 26, 1917 (part 4 of 5)

William H. Calvert was married June 6, 1908, to Miss Millie E. Sharp, of Highland, Kans. They have four children: Floyd O., James L. and John M. (twins) and Harold E. He is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge.

Howard W. Mills

One of the leading newspapers in northwest Missouri is the Mound City News- Jeffersonian, which has been under the management and editorial control of Howard W. Mills for the past five years. Mr. Mills is a thorough newspaper man, has been in the business since leaving college, and has the training, the inclination and the natural ability which are required for successful work in this field.

Howard W. Mills was born on a farm near Isadora, in Worth County, Missouri, August 22, 1878. He has the interesting genealogy connecting him with an old American family, whose members were identified as soldiers with the early Indian wars, and later in the War of 1812 and the Civil war.

David Mills, father of Howard W. was born in Warren County, Ohio, September 27, 1829, and on January 1, 1852, married Margaret Wells. She was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1832, a daughter of Jonathan R. Wells, who was of Welsh descent and a harness maker by trade. For nearly twenty years David Mills and wife lived in Jay County, Indiana, and then, with wagon and team made the journey to Worth County, Missouri, in 1871, and lived on a farm in that county until the death of David Mills in May, 1898. His widow

Howard W. Mills had his first schooling in the Pleasant Hill District school near his home farm in Worth County, and afterwards attended and graduated from the Grant City High School, and in 1901 finished his course in the Maryville Seminary. In his early experience should be included one year of teaching the home school, and a fact of interest is that his father and five of the sons taught in that school house at different times in their lives. Howard Mills taught the grandchildren of some of those who had attended the school when it was taught by his father.

In 1901 Mr. Mills became local editor of the Grant City Star, and since that time there has been no important interruption in his newspaper career. In 1902 he bought a small newspaper, The Advance, at Sheridan, Mo., and owned it for almost six years. For three years of that time he served as postmaster at Sheridan. In the spring of 1908 he sold The Advance, and in August of the same year resigned his postmastership. Then followed a brief experience as an employee of the Iowa Homestead at Des Moines, Iowa, but he was soon lead back into active newspaper work in Missouri, resigned his position with the Des Moines Company and bought the plant and business of the Mound City News at Mound City, in Holt County, on August 1, 1909. Since then he has succeeded in building up one of the best equipped and most influential papers in northwest Missouri. In February, 1914, he bought the Mound City Jeffersonian, his competitor at Mound City, and the consolidation gave the present title, Mound City News-Jeffersonian. This paper enjoys a circulation over every district of Holt County, and in adjoining counties, and is issued with from eight to twelve pages, all home print. The office has a very complete equipment throughout, including a standard linotype typesetting machine.

Mr. Mills has always been a Republican in politics. In the educational matters of his community he has always taken a lively interest, and for five years served on the board of education of Mound City schools. He is a member of the official board of the Methodist church of Mound City, and holds membership in the Masonic and Knights of Pythias lodges of that city.

At Sheridan in Worth County, August 20, 1906, Mr. Mills married Miss Laura LaMar. She is a daughter of Conrad R. and Cynthia A. (Wright) Lamar. Her father was a prosperous business man, for several years was a farmer and later in the lumber business at Sheridan, and retired from activity before his death in 1905.

Edwin G. Cox

Edwin G. Cox, proprietor of a drug store in Craig and secretary of the State Board of Pharmacy has been a resident of Craig since 1894. He was born in Weston, Platte County, Mo., May 11, 1866. At the age of 13 years he began his collegiate education, working during the summer months and attending school during the winter. He first attended Gaylord Institute at Platte City, Mo., then to the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Lexington, Ky., then the LaGrange, Mo., college. He then went to the Boston University, taking a classical course. He next went to the Chicago Medical College, taking chemistry principally.

When a young man he clerked in a drug store in Kansas City and for three and one-half years he was in St. Joseph where he clerked for a time and later engaged in business with Robert and Benjamin Frazer, having charge of the store. In 1894 the stock was moved to Craig and Mr. Cox accompanied it and after a time purchased the interests of his partners.

He was appointed by Governor Major to membership on the State Board of Pharmacy, for a term of four years. The following year he was elected secretary of the board.

Mr. Cox is the son of W. G. and Sarah A. (Stone) Cox, natives of Kentucky and members of one of the most prominent families in that commonwealth. They moved to Platte County before the Civil war.

E. G. Cox was married at Liberty, Mo., October, 1892, to Miss Janie Black, daughter of Samuel Black, and born at Cameron, Mo. He is a K. of P. and an Elk. Religiously he is a Presbyterian and politically is a staunch Democrat.

Oliver M. Cole

Oliver M. Cole, until April, 1916, was engineer of the Oregon municipal light and water plant at Forest City. He is now the constructing engineer of the St. Joseph Transmission Company, a company organized at Oregon by M. R. Martin, D. M. Martin, Emil Martin, W. H. Richards, George Lehmer and Jonas Whitmer of Oregon, and W. E. Richardson, D. C. Stallard and H. L. Alkire of Forest City, to transmit electric current from St. Joseph to the several towns in Northwest Missouri.

moved to St. Joseph, where he learned the trade of harness maker. He worked four years at his trade in Forest City and then moved to Oregon and engaged in the telephone business with the Oregon & Forest City Telephone Company. After twelve years of service there he moved to Forest City April 1, 1912, to take charge of the mechanical plant which supplies Oregon and Forest City with electric light and water. He is a self-made man and as he expressed it has hammered out his career himself.

Mr. Cole was married in Oregon February 12, 1899, to Daisy L. Vogan, a native of that town. They have eight children: Alvin, Jesse, Walker, William, Leveta and Lorene, Alice and Averil. Mr. Cole is a stockholder in the St. Joseph Transmission Company of which he is constructing engineer and superintendent of maintenance.

Rudolph F. Buck

Rudolph F. Buck, cashier of the Bank of Corning, has been a resident of Holt County all his life. He was born in Union Township November 4, 1879, on his father's farm in section 29. There he grew to manhood. His early education was in the public schools and he later was graduated from the Central Business College at Sedalia, Mo.

He remained on his father's farm until married, at which time he began farming for himself until 1905, when he moved to Corning and entered the Peoples' Bank. He remained with that institution eighteen months. Then, in connection with a number of other business men, organized the Bank of Corning, and has since been its cashier. He is also vice-president of the Fairfax Telephone Company in which company he is a stockholder.

The father of the subject of this sketch was John A. Buck, a native of Hanover, Germany, who came to America in 1865, who spent the first few years of his residence in this country in the vicinity of Hemme's Landing. Later he bought a farm near Corning where he has since lived.

Rudolph Buck was married June 27, 1904, to Miss Rose Bowers, who was born in Atchison County and is the daughter of Benjamin Bowers. Mr. and Mrs. Buck have one daughter, Colean, born March 22, 1906. He is a member of the German Lutheran church.

Fred W. Beavers

Fred W. Beavers was born in Coles County, Illinois, November 15, 1877, and received his education from the Areola, 111., high school, and learned the printer's trade on the St. Joseph,

111., Record. He came to Missouri in January, 1903, taking charge of the Mendon, Mo., Citizen and continued that publication until July, 1914, when he sold out.

On June 15, 1904, he was married to Miss Bertha Williams, of Bethany, Mo., who was employed at the time as type setter on The Citizen. He has been connected with several papers in Northwest Missouri, and has been for the past seven years editor and publisher of the Forest City News, at Forest City, Mo.

Chris J. Fuhrman

Chris J. Fuhrman, for several years superintendent of the County Farm, near Oregon, has been a resident of Holt County forty-eight years. He was born in Adams County, Indiana, May 14, 1859. The family moved to Holt County when he was 11 years old, and settled four miles northeast of Oregon. There Chris grew up and when he had reached the proper age bought a farm in Liberty Township, where he lived seventeen years. Then he moved to Oregon and was in the wagon, buggy and harness business for about twelve years. He was appointed superintendent of the County Farm in 1913 and served until January, 1917. He owns a farm in Benton Township and 240 acres in Sherman County, Kansas, besides a business house and residence in Oregon.

He is the son of Christian Fuhrman, a native of Wiltenberg, Germany, who came to America when a lad and settled in Indiana, where his parents bought land and lived and died. Christian Fuhrman, the elder, came to Holt County in 1868.

Chis J. Fuhrman was married in Oregon, November 19, 1885, to Anna Gernhart, who was born in Ohio, and the daughter of Martin and Elizabeth Gernhart, natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Fuhrman are the parents of one child, Myrtle, who married Coleman Hamm of St. Joseph. They have an adopted son, Otto, who is living in Wyoming. The family are members of the Evangelical Association.

Myrtle, wife of Coleman Hamm, died October 9, 1916, leaving two children, both girls: Mary Elizabeth, aged 18 months and Doris Colen, who was 16 days old at the time of the death of their mother. Both children make their home with Mr. and Mrs. Fuhrman.

Dr. O. W. Nauman of Craig is a graduate of the Northwestern Medical College of Chicago, being a member of the class of 1903. Then for a year he was interne at Wesley Hospital. He was engaged in the general practice of his profession five years before coming to Craig in 1909. He is the son of J. R.

Nauman, of Virginia, who came to Holt County a poor man in 1878 and settled in the New Liberty neighborhood where his initial investment in Holt County land was made. He made numerous additions to his real estate holdings and at the time of his death in November, 1911, owned about one thousand acres. A few years before his death he built a fine home in Union Township, near Craig.

After receiving an early education in the Lonesome school district the subject of this sketch attended the Missouri Valley College at Marshall, Mo., graduating in 1909. Then he decided to become a doctor and matriculated in the Northwestern Medical College in Chicago. He graduated in 1903 and during his junior year was assistant house physician in The Congress Hotel, Chicago.

The doctor was married June 20, 1911, at Pittsburg, Pa., to Fannie Warner. She was born and reared in Chicago and is the daughter of Henry and Ellen I. (Stark) Warner. Mr. Warner was one of the earliest packers of Chicago.

Dr. and Mrs. Nauman have one son, Russell Warner, born January 17, 1913. The doctor is a member of the Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen lodges and of the Holt County, Missouri State and American Medical associations.

William W. Rayburn

William W. Rayburn, for twenty years a resident of Holt County, is one of the men who have made farming a decided success. Six years ago he bought and moved to the old Harvest Home property adjoining Mound City on the southeast. He is still engaged in farming, but on a smaller scale than formerly, he having retired from active work when he sold his farm and moved to his present home.

Mr. Rayburn was born in Mason County, West Virginia, January 18, 1866. He remained in that county until 30 years old, making his father's farm his home. He attended the county schools and attended West Columbia college one term. When 15 years old he began handling stock horses, a business he continued while in West Virginia. When 30 years old he was married and moved to Holt County, taking up his residence on 120 acres in Hickory Township, five miles southeast of Mound City. It was virgin land when he took possession of it but in five years he had so improved the place that it was considered one of the best farms in that vicinity.

They were the parents of seven children, five who are still living in West Virginia: William W. and Charles, being prosperous farmers of Hickory Township, Holt County.

William W. Rayburn was married in Holt County December 10, 1895, to Emma Meyer, born in the county and a daughter of Andrew Meyer, one of the pioneers. William W. Rayburn is still a breeder of the Duroc Jersey hog.

Sterling Perkins

Sterling Perkins is the son of James D. Perkins, a native of Virginia who came to Holt County in the early '60's and located on a farm two and one-half miles north of Oregon, paying $1.25 an acre for his land. He prospered and at one time owned 2,600 acres of farm land in Holt County, and was considered one of the richest men in the county.

He went to the Black Hills in the '70's and lived there seventeen years. When he returned he located with his brothers, Thomas and Charles Perkins. When he went to the Black Hills the senior Perkins took twenty-seven mule teams and wagons of provisions to sell to the Indians. He also took a railroad contract. On the two propositions he lost much of his wealth. He married Lutitia Susan Henning, who had previously been married to J. W. Cannon. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins had two children: Sterling P. and Maggie, wife of Rev. Clyde Darsie, of Mt. Sterling, Ky.

Sterling P. Perkins was born two miles north of Oregon July 8, 1871. When a boy of 13 years he started out for himself and earned his own way in the world. Twelve years ago he started farming and a year ago sold considerable real estate which he had accumulated and moved to McAllen, Texas, where he has a fine ranch. In his younger days he wa sin the hotel, livery, grocery and butcher business at different times. He also operated a freight and dray line in Oregon. He started the first ice business in the town and was the first to make regular deliveries of ice to the retail trade there.

Mr. Perkins was married in Oregon, January 20, 1899, to Miss Belle Hester Fimple, who was born six miles south of Oregon. They have five children : Cecil, who married Ada Fields of Forbes; Armoline, Phyon, Glenn and Lennie.

Herbert L. Everson

Herbert L. Everson is manager, stockholder and director of the Forest City Milling and Elevator company's plant. This plant is one of the largest of the kind in northwest Missouri. The original mill and elevator building was erected in 18. .. The

Mr. Everson was born in Forest City, November 27, 1871, and has since made that town his home. When a young man he engaged in the manufacture of excelsior, in which business he was engaged for five years. Then he served four years as postmaster, during the McKinley administration. At the expiration of his term he became a stockholder and director in the Forest City Milling and Elevator company, having charge of the shipping and was second miller for two years. He then went into the Bank of Forest City as cashier, which position he held for nine years. In 1913 he returned to the mill and has since been manager of that institution.

He is the son of Nathaniel P. and Phoebe E. Everson, natives of Ohio. The elder Everson came to Forest City in 1866, returned to Ohio after two years, married, and soon after again made Forest City his home. Mr. Everson was a railroad man and followed that line of work until fifteen years ago when he retired. He and his wife are still living in Forest City, there ages being 74 and 69 years, respectively.

Herbert L. Everson was married in Forest City June 9, 1897, to Miss Nellie Wylie, a native of the same town and the daughter of Charles and Ellen Wylie, natives of New York. They came to Missouri before the Civil war, traveling by steamboat to Iowa Point and completing the journey from there in a row boat. Mr. and Mrs. Everson have one son, Clayton Wylie, a high school student.

Mr. Everson is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner. He also operates two farms, one of 159 and the other of 142 acres. He owns a nice home in Forest City and other town property.

Frank C. Cook

Frank C. Cook, proprietor of the auto livery at Forest City, has lived in Holt County practically all his life. He was born in Lewis Township December 29, 1886, and is the son of N. H. Cook, postmaster at Forest City.

Frank C. Cook moved with his parents to Forest City when he was about one year old, and after a residence of a few months here moved to Fullersburg, 111., where the family lived for two years. They then returned to Forest City which has since been Mr. Cook's home, with the exception of a few months spent in California on account of his health.

his father who ran the dray and transfer line in the town until 1911 when he bought out his father and ran the business for about a year and a half. When he returned from California he was night engineer at the ice plant for a year. In 1914 he bought a farm in Forest Township which he sold at the end of a year and engaged in the auto livery business in Forest City.

Mr. Cook was married in Forest City September 22, 1909, to Miss Louisa Holtgreve, a native of Oregon, the daughter of G. H. Moltgreve. They are the parents of five children : Leona L., Grace L., Wilda B., Laura L. and Nelson H. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen of America lodges. He is the youngest member in the county who has been through all of the chairs in Odd Fellowship and is Past Noble Grand of that order. He joined the order in 1909 and has made wonderful progress in its work. Mr. Cook is living in a comfortable residence he built in 1916 at the north end of Main street.

Anson B. Cass

Anson B. Cass, dealer in real estate and insurance and loan agent, is one of the early settlers of Forest City. He was born there August 16, 1871, and has lived in Holt County ever since. He was educated in the schools of Forest City and in the Stanberry Normal School where he took a commercial course.

When a young man Mr. Cass began working in his father's machine shop in Forest City and later learned the trade of blacksmith, which vocation he followed for about twelve years. Then he farmed for eleven years in Lewis Township. He then located again in Forest City and has since been in the real estate business.

He is the son of Martin Van Buren Cass, a native of Branch County, Michigan, who was born March 13, 1837, and came to Forest City in July, 1868, at the time when the town was in its flower. He established himself in the blacksmith trade and conducted a successful business for many years. He retired several years ago. He is still living in Forest City.

Anson B. Cass was married October 9, 1895, to Miss Druie Miller, of Lewis Township, daughter of Thomas and Amelia Miller, who were married in Canada and came to Holt County in 1857. Mr. Miller was one of the noted school teachers of the county during the Civil war. During his school days he drilled a company of soldiers before the Duke of Wellington, being well versed in military tactics.

Mr. and Mrs. Cass have seven children: Lillian, wife of Samuel Schaeffer, born March 29, 1897 ; Ethel, born October 18, 1900; Charles, born December 18, 1904; Nelson, born March 25,

1907; Clyde, born January 16, 1909; Roy, born September 7, 1911; Francis, born July 8, 1915. A year ago Mr. Cass bought a small farm a half mile east of Forest City where he now resides.

Dr. J. C. Ottman has been a practicing physician in Craig for five years. He was born in Fairfax, Mo., March 11, 1886, where he grew up and received his early education. After graduating from the Fairfax high school he began the study of medicine in the Kansas City Medical College and graduated in 1910. He practiced in Kansas City one year before locating in Craig. His office is in the second floor of the Cox building.

Dr. Ottman was married October 16, 1910, to Miss Margaret Brooks of Holt, Clay County, Missouri. They have two children: Vernon Brooks and J. C., Jr. The doctor is a member of the Odd Fellows, Masonic and Modern Woodmen lodges. He is examining physician in Craig for the Woodmen, K. & L. of S. and R. N. of A. He also is a member of the Holt County and Missouri State Medical Societies, and the city board of health.

He is the son of E. R. and Mary (Kemerling) Ottman, natives of Illinois and Michigan, respectively. The senior Ottman died in 1903; his wife is living in Fairfax.

James A. Foster

James A. Foster, owner of what is known as the James Brown farm of thirty-seven acres, in Lewis Township, north of Oregon, has been a resident of this township for thirty years, except six years from 1909 to July, 1915, when he lived in St. Joseph. Before going to St. Joseph he lived on a farm of 140 acres near Curzon, south of Forest City, which he still owns. When he returned from St. Joseph he bought the farm on which he now lives, paying $250 per acre, considered the highest price ever paid for farm land in the county. But it is an ideal little farm and is considered worth the money.

Mr. Foster was born in Crawford County, Illinois, November 8, 1872, and when a boy moved with his parents to Great Bend, Kans., where he lived eight years, when he returned to Holt County, and, when grown, bought the farm near Curzon. During the time he lived in St. Joseph he ran a dairy for three years.

B. Elder, August 11, 1899. Mrs. Foster was born near Curzon in Lewis Township. They have two children: Fay and Max D. The family are members of the Christian church.

William F. Bragg

William F. Bragg is the junior member of the firm of Keeves & Bragg, proprietors of an automobile garage and repair shop in Oregon. They are also automobile dealers and handle the Ford, Reo and Grant cars. Storage and auto livery is another feature of their business. The firm is the successor of J. H. Keeves & Co., Mr. Bragg entering the business in September, 1914.

Mr. Bragg was born in Holt County on a farm in Hickory Township six miles northeast of Oregon, October 5, 1877, and attended the country schools until old enough to enter college at Tarkio, from which school he was graduated in 1896. He lived on a farm until 1906, when he moved to Oregon and engaged in the hardware business with C. E. Munn, under the firm name of Bragg & Munn. He next engaged in the automobile business as before stated.

He is the son of William T. and Emma (Walker) Bragg. William T. Bragg was born in Kentucky and came to Holt County in 1844, when but a few months old. His father, Thomas S. Bragg, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was one of the men who did valiant work in the development of the country in the vicinity of New Point, where he established himself on one of the best farms in Holt County. William T. Bragg died in 1891, at the age of 47.

William F. Bragg was married April 15, 1901, to Miss Flora Watson, who was born in Holt County and is the daughter of George and Nanie (Mahon) Watson. They have one son, Paul W. Mr. Bragg is a member of the Masonic blue lodge and Scottish Rite lodge, the Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen.

Dr. Jonas C. Whitmer

Dr. Jonas C. Whitmer, dentist, of Oregon, was born in his home town March 26, 1878, and has always lived here, with the exception of the time he spent in school elsewhere. He graduated from the Oregon high school in the class of 1896 and from the Western Dental College of Kansas City, Mo., in 1899. In October of that year he opened an office in Oregon and has built up a very satisfactory practice.

in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1832, and moved to Ohio, when a young man. There he was married and began his life work. He was imbued with the popular idea in those days that there were greater opportunities further west. So he came to Oregon in 1865 and resided here until his death in February, 1904. For many years he operated the sorghum factory in the northern part of the town, which is mentioned in the historical portion of this volume. His wife was Maria Searer, who was born in Juniata County, Pennsylvania in 1833. She is still living in Oregon. To this union was born one son, the subject of this sketch. Mr. Whitmer had four childre by a former marriage : Dr. A. H. Whitmer, a dentist who died in El Paso, Texas, and E. H. Whitmer of Portland, Ore., and two daughters who died in infancy.

Dr. J. C. Whitmer was married June 20, 1913, to Miss Helen E. Frodsham of Savannah, Mo., the daughter of Charles and Agnes (Lehmer) Frodsham. Dr. Whitmer is a member of the M. E. church and the Odd Fellows and Masonic lodges.

Sebourn Carson

Sebourn Carson, County Treasurer, is a native of Holt County, having been born on a farm six miles east of Oregon, in Nodaway Township, January 5, 1868. He is the son of Abner J. and Margaret (Deffenbaugh) Carson, natives of North Carolina and Indiana, respectively. They are the parents of four children : William, of Fairfax, Mo.; Ida, wife of George Prussman, of Pawnee City, Nebr. ; Mattie, wife of Mortimer Housman, of near Oregon ; and Sebourn Carson.

The subject of this sketch has lived in the county continuously since his birth. He was educated in the country schools and finished at Park College. He farmed until 1903, when he was made superintendent of the County Farm, a position he held until the fall of 1912, when he was elected to the office of County Treasurer, which office he still holds. He resides on a fine little fruit farm one mile northwest of Oregon, on which he recently built a modern home.

Mr. Carson was married June 6, 1898, to Miss Esther Ann Marriner, a native of Sullivan County, Illinois. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and Masonic lodges in which he takes a live interest.

Charles Patterson

Charles Patterson is a native of Holt County, being born Novemebr 13, 1873, on the farm which his father homesteaded in 1843, in Lewis Township, where he resided with his parents until 21 years of age. At that age he began farming for himself on land that he owned near Forbes. In 1907 he bought the 130- acre farm on which he now lives in Lewis Township, adjoining the town of Oregon.

He is the son of Robert Patterson, a native of Dennygall, Ireland. He came to the United States when about 16 years old and farmed in California prior to moving to Holt County in 1843. He was a prominent farmer and citizen and was the owner of about 1,600 acres of Holt County land. He died April 27, 1906, at the age of 76 years. His wife was Tabitha Jane (Kinder) Patterson, who was born in Louisville, Ky., January 9, 1835 and died December 28, 1907, at the age of 72 years. They were the parents of ten children: Kittie, who died in infancy and Alice, wife of Louis* Poynter, also dead. Those living are : James, of Holt County; Bailey, of Andrew County; Robert, of Port Arthur, Tex. ; John and George, of Holt County; Anna, wife of Charles Meyer of Holt County and William and Charles, of Oregon.

The subject of this sketch was married November 12, 1894, to Miss Stella Huiatt, a native of Holt County and the daughter of Judge Daniel and Martha (Ashworth) Huiatt. They have three children: Jaunita, born September 29, 1896; William Perry Henry, born September 28, 1901 ; and Alberta, born November 7, 1910.

Dr. Elmer F. Kearney

Dr. Elmer F. Kearney, practicing physician of Oregon, is a native of Holt County, his birthplace being New Point and the date April 22, 1880. He is the son of Dr. John R. Kearnev who was considered in his day one of the strongest men in his profession in Holt County, locating at New Point, where he practiced his profession for about fifteen years, when he moved to Oregon, where he was located until his death in 1902. The mother of the subject of this sketch was, before her marriage to Dr. Kearney, Miss Lida Bloomer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen T. Bloomer of Hickory Township, Holt County.

Dr. Elmer F. Kearney grew to manhood at and near New Point. His mother died when he was quite young and he went to live with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Bloomer. He was educated in the public schools of the county. His professional education was received in Barnes Medical College of St. Louis, Mo., where he was graduated in 1906. After serving an interneship in the Centenary hospital in St. Louis, he returned to his home in New Point and practiced his profession there until 1913. In the fall of that year he located in St. Joseph, where he practiced until July, 1915. Being desirous of again locating in his native county he moved to Oregon, where he has a model office and enjoys a remunerative practice.

Dr. Kearney was married January 16, 1908, to Miss Mabel Moore, of St. Louis. Fraternally he is both a Mason and an Odd Fellow. He is a member of the Holt County Medical Society, the Missouri State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Medical Society of the Missouri Valley.

Thomas E. Wilson

Thomas E. Wilson of Oregon, is a native of Holt County. He was born near Bigelow March 7, 1889, and is the son of J. H. Wilson, now a resident of Forest City, where he has been justice of the peace for a number of years.

The senior Mr. Wilson was born in Holt County in 1857 and is the son of Daniel Wilson who came to the county during the early days when none but pioneers lived here. He married Ada Miller, also a native of Holt County. To them have been born four children : Mrs. Lulu Black, of Great Falls, Mont. ; Mrs. Jesse Cain, of Holt County, and John H., Jr., and Thomas E. Wilson., of Oregon.

The subject of this sketch was educated in the Oakland district school. He went to work when a lad in the blacksmith shop of Van Buren Cass of Forest City. Then he spent two years in the west and in 1908 moved to Oregon. For two years he was engaged in blacksmithing, being the sole proprietor of the shop. Then he formed a partnership with his brother under the name of Wilson Brothers and built the shop in which they are now doing business.

Mr. Wilson was married April 6, 1910, to Miss Jessie Michael, who was born in Holt County and is the daughter of Casper and Caroline (Shoerling) Michael, who came to this country from Indiana. They have two children: Coye M., age 5 years and Cleo, age 1 year.

John H. Wilson was married April 15, 1915, to Miss Winnie Brodbeck. They have one child: George H., born April 17, 1915. Mr. Wilson is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge.

Daniel M. Martin

Daniel M. Martin, for many years identified with the business life of Oregon, was born in Muncie, Ind., September 15, 1852. In 1857 the family moved to Iowa, where his father preempted a farm five miles west of Clarinda, where he lived until 1865. In that year he came with his parents to Holt County and settled on a farm in Lewis Township.

In 1871 Mr. Martin came to Oregon and worked in a drug store for two years. In 1873 he engaged in business for himself, opening a harness shop on the north side of the square. In 1881 he bought the building in which he is now doing business. He has been at this location ever since, with the exception of ten years, 1903 to 1913, when he retired from business. He sold the first buggies used in Holt County.

He is the son of Joseph Martin who was born in Halifax, Novia Scotia, and came to the United States when a young man and settled in Ohio. There he was engaged in the grain and drug business. He died in Oregon in his 83rd year. His wife, before her marriage, was Clarinda Northway. She was a descendant of an old Scotch family named Rice of Devonshire, England, whose geneology dating back to 1614 is in the possession of Mr. Martin. She died in 1878 at the age of 68 years.

D. M. Martin was married in Jonesboro, Ind., February 14, 1876, to Emily J. Wilson, a native of Elizabethtown, Ind., a town named for her grandfather. She was an orphan and came to Holt County with her grandparents, but returned to Indiana a short time before her marriage. They have two sons: Morton R., and Emil W. One daughter, Odessie, died in infancy.

Mr. Martin has held many city offices and positions of trust. He has helped in the promotion of many public enterprises and has been one of the town's best boosters. He was City Treasurer at the time Oregon voted bonds in the sum of $35,000 for water works.

When Mr. Martin went into business in Oregon in 1873 he borrowed $65 and, as he says, "paid every cent of it back." He is one of the wealthy men of the town and has done much in the way of improving his property and making Oregon a model city. He built the first telephone line between Oregon and Forest City that was used for commercial purposes. This was at a time when telephones were a luxury and when the Bell people owned all the patents on telephone instruments. Mr. Martin leased two instruments from the company for $70 a year and was thereby enabled to put this initial telephone plant into operation. His son, M. R. Martin, is taking over many of his business affairs.

Frank Morgan

Frank Morgan is the senior partner in the Auto Sales Company of Oregon. The company was organized in June, 1914, by Mr. Morgan and Mercer T. Hinde and besides selling several well known makes of automobiles, does a general repair and garage business.

Mr. Morgan was born on Squaw Creek, near the Squaw Creek school house, December 25, 1877. When a child he moved with his parents to Kansas and lived there two years. Then they came back to Holt County and settled in Nodaway Town- ship, where they lived until 1899, when they moved to Lewis Township, where they bought a farm and lived until 1911, when they moved to Oregon.

Mr. Morgan was married February 14, 1900, to Emma Young, a native of Nodaway Township and the daughter of H. B. and Margaret Young, early Nodaway Township settlers. The subject of this sketch is the son of B. F. Morgan, a native of Arkansas who came to Holt County at an early day and for several years was a druggist in Oregon. Later he engaged in farming. He is now living a life of retirement in Oregon. His wife was before her marriage, Mary Helen Russell. They are the parents of seven sons, five of whom are living: Richard D., of Garden City, Mo.; Frank, subject of these paragraphs; Fred, of Oregon ; Roy D., a veterinary surgeon of Skidmore, Mo., and Samuel S., a veterinarian at Richmond, Mo.

B. F. Morgan served in the Union army during the Civil war. He first enlisted in Company G., 16th Indiana Infantry and served about nine months, when he was wounded January 11, 1863 at Arkansas Post. After his recovery he was transferred to Company D, 5th Indiana Regulars and was stationed at Indianapolis, Inch, to guard and transfer prisoners.

Gideon Kunkel

Mr. Kunkel is the son of John E. Kunkel, one of the pioneer settlers who came from Ohio with his parents and settled in Lewis Township in 1847. He bought a farm near the old Kunkel Mills on Mill Creek, established by his father, and operated by him for a number of years. John E. Kunkel moved to Oregon twenty-three years ago and for several years continued to assist in the operation of the flour mill on Mill Creek, later operated by his brother Gideon Kunkel. He retired from active work several years ago and died in 1913, at the age of 72 years. His wife, Mary Ann Hanner, who was a native of Baden, Germanv, came to the United States when 15 years old, and located with her parents in Oregon. She died in 1910, aged 71 years.

Gideon Kunkel was married June 21, 1909, to Miss Della Tolbert, a native of Nodaway County. They have three children: Maurice, Wesley and Emil. Mr. Kunkel is a member of the Odd Fellows and Woodmen of the World lodges.

He has always lived in the county and was educated in the schools of Oregon. He first worked in his grandfather's woolen mill and later in the flour mill. In 1905 he accepted a position in the grocery store of George F. Seaman. Later he worked for Moore & Kreek. In 1910 he formed a partnership

Thomas M. Hinde

Thomas M. Hinde is the junior member of the Auto Sales Company of Oregon, dealers in automobiles. Mr. Hinde, in company with Frank Morgan, built the garage, they now occupy, in June, 1914. They have also a repair shop and do an auto livery business.

The subject of this sketch is the son of Thomas S. Hinde, who was born in Carmi, 111. He came to Oregon about 1873 and was engaged in the drug business until the time of his death March 2, 1912, at the age of 65 years. His wife was Flora Ann Thompson, also of Carmi, 111. She is living in Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Hinde are the parents of seven children : Grace, wife of Dennis Boham, of Santiago, Calif.; William B.. Thomas M., and James B., of Oregon; Edith, wife of Carey E. Bunker, of Oregon; Ouida, of Kansas City and Clarence, of Chicago.

Thomas M. Hinde was married November 27, 1912, to Hanna McIntyre, a native of Mound City, and the daughter of Ara and Cora (Pennell) McIntyre. Mr. Hinde comes from a family that has been active in the business affairs of Oregon for many years. He is public spirited, enterprising and energetic and is meeting with well deserved success.

William A. Hopper

William A. Hopper, who with his brother George F., farms the old homestead in section 16, Minton Township, is the son of William R. Hopper ,who was born in Claiborne County, Tennessee, June 19, 1843. He was married in that county to Parmelia Goin in November, 1861. She was born in that county October 17, 1843. They moved to Kentucky soon afterward and then to Indiana. From there the family moved to Atchison County, Missouri, where they lived a year and moved to Kansas where they homesteaded a claim near Concordia, in the Republican Valley. They lived there two years and came to Holt County and bought the farm on which the family now lives. It was covered with timber at the time of purchase, but this has been cleared away and the land converted into a productive tract the equal of any in the township.

Later Mr. Hopper bought 160 acres which corners the home place on the southeast and at another time bought eighty acres adjoining it on the south. At a subsequent date he purchased 1331/2 acres which corners the home place on the southwest and again twenty-seven acres one-fourth of a mile southeast of his original purchase. Then he bought a half section in Palmer

County, Texas, in the Panhandle country. He still owns all of this land except the twenty-seven acre tract and ninety-three acres he sold to his son George, who lives on that tract. Mr. Hopper gave up active farming ten years ago and turned the place over to the boys. His wife died April 23, 1913.

William A. Hopper was married July 26, 1903, to Cordie Cotton, who was born in Holt County, and is the daughter of Jeff and Mary Cotton. They have two children: Jerry Harold and Kenneth. One child, the second born, Ethel Lucile, died August 23, 1911. Mr. Hopper is a member of the Masonic lodge in Forest City.

William A. Nies

William A. Nies, proprietor of the tin shop in Craig, has been a resident of Holt County since 1865. He was born in Canton, Ohio, September 8, 1849. When 16 years of age his parents moved to Oregon, where he resided twenty-nine years. He entered the tin shop of his father in 1865 and learned the trade thoroughly. He followed his trade in Oregon until 1891, when he moved to Craig, where he has since resided and where he owns his business and a home.

He was married in Atchison County, Missouri, February 22, 1894, to Miss Nora Waits, a native of that county and the daughter of Richard Waits. They have six children: Frank, with the Long-Bell Lumber Co.; Leona, Gertrude, Lucile, Hildred and William A. Mr. Nies is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge.

He is the son of John and Eliza Nies, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio. They moved from Oregon, Holt County, to Port Townsend, Ore. ,in 1889, where they died.

Frank Foster

Frank Foster is proprietor of the west side harness shop in Oregon. He carries a nice line of buggies, wagons and harness there, and is also the junior member of the firm of Cook & Fos« ter, dealers in automobiles and proprietors of one of the leading garages in Oregon.

Mr. Foster was born in Oregon, March 17, 1870, and has made his home here since that time. He was educated in the schools of his native town. After leaving school he began his business career as a clerk for D. M. Martin in his harness shop, then located the first door south of the Zook & Roecker Bank. He worked there seventeen years and then bought out his employer. He has since been in this line of business and deserves all of the success he has earned, for it has come by hard work, close attention to business and honesty. When he first engaged in business for himself he was in partnership with D. B. Simmons, which partnership continued for six years. With its dissolution Mr. Foster became the sole proprietor.

He is the son of Jehu Foster, a native of Indiana, who came to Oregon in the early days and was one of the town's first harness men. He married Ellen Markland, also a native of Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Jehu Foster are dead. They had two children: Emma, wife of Frank H. Graham and the subject of this sketch.

Frank Foster was married February 11, 1905, to Miss Anna Thuma, who was born in Mound City, Mo., June 6, 1872, and is the daughter of Daniel W. Thuma. Mr. Foster is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge in Oregon.

Lewis P. Watson

Lewis P. Watson is superintendent of the Forest City Canning Company and part owner of the property. This factory was built in 1898 by Allen Brothers of Omaha, wholesale grocers. This firm owned the plant until May, 1915, when John Speer bought it and he and Mr, Watson have since been the owners.

Mr. Watson was born in Webster County, Missouri, June 1, 1868. When three years old the family moved to Springfield, 111., and lived there until he reached the age of 12 years. Then they moved to Springdale, Washington County, Arkansas, where they lived one year. It was here that Mr. Watson had his first experience in the canning business. His next move was to Fort Smith where he was engaged with a canning company eight months, when he went to Blair, Nebr., where he had charge of the Blair Canning Company's plant for four years. He was manager of a similar plant at Falls City, Nebr., four years and at York, Nebr., one year. Then for a few years he was out of the canning business. In 1895 he returned to Blair, Nebr., and remained a year. He was processor in the canning factory at Oregon, Mo., 1896-97. Then he came to Forest City and built the factory here for Allen Brothers and has since been its superintendent.

Mr. Watson was married November 20, 1895, at Blair, Nebr., to Rhoda M. Parrish, who was born in Janesville, Wis., in 1872. They have three children: Verna M., now Mrs. J. H. Lord, of Salem, Nebr.; Gerrald F., of Salem, Nebr., and Edgar Allen Austin, living at home. Mr. Watson is an Odd Fellow and has served as city councilman and member of the school board. He is also engaged in the insurance business, being agent for some of the best companies in the country. He is the son of William Watson of Sangamore County, Illinois, who died there in 1913 at the age of 74 years.

Dr. John M. Davis

Dr. John M. Davis has been a practicing physician in Craig for twenty-one years. He was born in Greenville, Tenn., September 29, 1862. In 1865 his parents moved to Iowa Point, Kans., and the following year to Phelps, Atchison County, Missouri. In 1867 they bought a farm in Union Township and lived there until 1871, when they returned to Atchison County where the doctor lived until 1885. After receiving a rural school education he attended the Missouri State University two years and in 1885 graduated from the medical school at the university. In 1886 he began practicing at Grinnell, Kan., and in 1890 moved to Gove City, the county seat of Gove County, Kansas, where he remained a year. He located in Tarkio, Mo., in 1891, and in the spring of 1895 moved to Craig, where he has built up an excellent and lucrative practice.

He is the son of John H. Davis, of Greenville, Tenn., who is now living with a daughter in Drexel, Mo. His wife, the mother of Dr. Davis, died in 1890.

The doctor was married July 20, 1890, at Grinnell, Kan., to Mrs. Mary B. Mitchell. They have one son: John M. Davis, Jr., a high school student and a step-son, A. L. Mitchell, of Oklahoma City.

The doctor is a member of the Masonic lodge at Craig and the Scottish Rite Masons of St. Joseph. He is also a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge at Craig and is the examining physician. He is local surgeon for the Burlington railroad and a member of the Holt County and Missouri State Medical associations. He has been a member of the town council and of the school board.

Frank M. Ward

Frank M. Ward, manager of the Farmers' Elevator Company, at Craig, was born August 13, 1888, on his father's farm north of Craig, in Union Township. He is the youngest son of H. L. Ward, who came from Kentucky about 1874. He owned several farms and in addition to managing them engaged in buying live stock in the early days. He died in 1909, at the age of 69 years, while in Jefferson City serving as a representative in the legislature, to which office he was elected in the fall of 1908. He was married to Frances E. Sharp, daughter of Abraham Sharp, one of the very early settlers in Holt County. She now resides in Craig with her son Frank M.

Frank M. Ward is a graduate of the Craig high school, class of 1907. He attended the Tarkio College three years, after which he managed the home farm for three years. When the

Farmers' Elevator Company was organized in Craig in 1912 Mr. Ward was made manager, a position he still holds in addition to being one of the stockholders of the company.

Mr. Ward is a member of the Masonic lodge in Craig. He is also a member of the city council having been elected in the spring of 1915 for a two-year term.

James T. Carlton

James T. Carlton, proprietor of "Tom's" restaurant at Craig, was born in that town June 10, 1881, and has ever since lived there. He was* educated in the local schools and when a mere lad began clerking in a general merchandise store. He has been in the restaurant business for seventeen years. He bought his present business place June 20, 1908.

He is the son of John M. and Fannie (Martin) Carlton, natives of Kentucky and Illinois, respectively. They came to Holt County in 1879. Mr. Carlton, the elder, died August 25, 1915, at the age of 77 years; Mrs. Carlton is living in Craig.

James T. Carlton was married in St. Joseph January 3, 1912, to Miss Ethel Virginia Waters, who was born in Brookfield, Mo., and is the daughter of Joseph and Anna E. Waters. They have two children: Lola May and Helen. Mr. Carlton is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge. He owns his place of business and residence property, which was built in 1913.

Norton B. Scott

Norton B. Scott located in Craig in 1906. He is proprietor of a blacksmith shop there and also handles farm machinery of all kinds. The first few months he was in the town he worked for Charles Siple, and then engaged in business on his own account. In 1912 he added a line of farm machinery.

He was born in New Lenox, 111., May 4, 1879. The family moved to Westmoreland, Kan., and he grew up there. He learned the trade of blacksmith and in 1904 operated a shop in Soldier, Kan. Two years later he located in Craig.

Albert B. Stokes

Albert B. Stokes, Burlington agent at Craig, has been a resident of Holt County since his boyhood, and has been in the employ of the Burlington since 1882. He was born in Maredosia, 111., January 5, 1867. His parents moved to Craig when he was one year old and he has since made that town his home. He was educated in the Craig schools and at the age of 15 years began railroading as a helper to A. M. Hunter, the veteran agent there. Mr. Stokes gained several promotions and twelve years ago was placed in charge of the station. He is the son of John W. Stokes, for many years a practicing attorney of Craig.

Albert B. Stokes was married March 4, 1891, to Martha Spink, a native of Cooperville, Mich., who was born October 9, 1866, and is the daughter of W. G. and Mary (Watson) Spink, natives of New York State. They have no children.

Charles W. Anibal

Charles W. Anibal, proprietor of a general store in Craig, was born in Minton Township, one mile south of Fortescue, August 23, 1869, in a log cabin on a farm now owned by John C. Hinkle. He is the son of Edmund Ainbal, a native of Fulton County, New York, who came to Holt County in 1866. His wife, the mother of the subject of this sketch, was Phoebe J. Hinkle, a native of Franklin County, Missouri, and a sister of John C. Hinkle.

Charles W. Anibal was married in May, 1892, to Miss Ethel Guilliams, who was born in Union Township and is the daughter of Rufus M. and Emma Guilliams, old residents of Craig. They have three children: Fred G., Francis and Josephine. Mr. Anibal is a member of the Masonic, Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen lodges. He was, mayor of Craig one term, county assessor two terms and member of the school board two terms. He has served five terms as Venerable Consul of Craig Camp No. 5140 M. W. A., and represented the Holt County camps of that order in the state convention in Sedalia in 1913. He is a member of the M. E. Church, South.

Mr. Anibal received his education in the elementary schools of Holt County and at Central College, located at Fayette, Howard County, Missouri, an institution of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, renowned in the educational world for its thorough methods and superior cirriculae.

John Maurice Stokes

of four years," has lived there all of his life. He graduated from the Craig high school in 1903. He is a registered pharmacist, taking the examination at Jefferson City January 9, 1911. When out of school he entered the Cox drug store at Craig and worked six years. In 1909 he bought the D. D. Perkins stock and has since been in business.

A feature of Mr. Stokes store worthy of mention is what he terms "The Log Cabin Inn." It is a unique room fitted up for special parties who wish to be served with ice cream and other refreshments.

The subject of these paragraphs is the son of John W. Stokes, one of the county's first and most prominent attorneys, who came to Craig in 1868, the year the Burlington railroad was built to Council Bluffs. He died September 17, 1913, at the age of 77 years.

John Maurice Stokes was married April 3, 1906, to Ida L. "Willard, a native of Illinois and daughter of James and Sarah Willard. They have one daughter, Roena, born April 7, 1910. Mr. Stokes is a Mason and Modern Woodman, and has held all the chairs in both lodges in Craig.

John H. Hunt

John H. Hunt, manager of the H. B. Lawrence feed mill, at Craig, was one of the early settlers of Union Township. He came to Holt County in February, 1855, and has since resided in the county, with the exception of five years spent in Kansas. He was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, November 16, 1849. His father was Joshua Hunt, a native of Green County, Pennsylvania. He was a miller by trade and bought the old Dr. Mann saw and grist mill on the Big Tarkio river after coming to Holt County. He died in October, 1898. His wife, mother of the subject of this sketch, was born in August, 1823, and died April 26, 1891.

John H. Hunt followed the occupation of farmer until 1902, when he moved to Craig and took up carpentering and wagon work. June 1, 1914, he became the manager of the H. B. Lawrence feed mill.

Mr. Hunt was married January 4, 1874, to Diann Thompson, who was born in Pike County, Ohio, September 7, 1844, and a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Thompson. They have no children.

Mr. Hunt is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge at Craig. He is a past grand master and has also been treasurer of the lodge for the past nine years. He was county judge of the north district for two terms, being elected on the Republican ticket in the fall of 1908. He served as mayor of Craig 1914-1915 and has also served as member of the school board. He owns two residence properties in Craig.

Gus O. Berls

Gus O. Berls, proprietor of the City Bakery at Craig, has been a resident of the town for three years. He has been there long enough to establish an excellent reputation for fair dealing, honesty and integrity and as a consequence enjoys the esteem and confidence of his townsmen.

Mr. Berls was born in New York City, July 28, 1884, where he lived until 14 years old when he began traveling over the country gaining experience and wisdom. He returned to New York at the age of 19 and learned the baker's trade. For several years he was with Fred Harvey, famous for his chain of restaurants and eating houses throughout the west and southwest, as pastry chef. Then he was chef-stewart at the Basin Park Hotel, at Eureka Springs, Ark. Coming to Craig in 1912 he bought out a bakery and has been successful in building up a profitable business. He owns a modern bake shop and everything about the place is first class.

Mr. Berls was married at Kinsley, Kan., July 17, 1911, to Constance Petit Clere. To this union has been born one child, Marie C., who died at the age of 5 months. He is a member of the Odd Fellows, Masonic and Elks lodges.

Ernest Randall

Ernest Randall, proprietor of the Craig pool hall, was born on his father's farm, five miles south of Craig. He is the son of Z. T. Randall, a native of Kentucky and an early settler in Holt County. The later years of his life he spent in Craig, where he was in the insurance business. He died in 1913, at the age of 63 years. His wife is still living in Craig.

Ernest was married December 18, 1907, to Alcanie Overly, who was born at Bigelow and is the daughter of Henry Overlv. They have three children : Katherine, Francis and Lavena. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge.

George E. Gelvin

George E. Gelvin, former sheriff of Holt County, was born in the farm in Nodaway Township which his father homesteaded in 1869. There George grew to manhood and received his education. He remained in his father's farm until 1894, when he was married and began farming on his own account. The second year he rented the old Carroll place and the following year he bought the east eighty acres of his father's farm and moved there at once. In the autumn of the same year he increased his real estate holdings by buying 160 acres adjoining the old Carroll place on the east. He ran this farm of 240 acres until 1903, when he moved to Oregon, where he has since lived. He was in the livery business three years and ran a butcher shoo for about a year. In January, 1906, he was appointed deputy sheriff and held that office for six years. In the fall of 1912 he was elected to the office of sheriff.

He is the son of 'Mathew and Mary E. (Tritt) Gelvin, natives of Pennsylvania. They came to Holt County in 1868 and settled in Nodaway Township, where they lived until 1905, when they moved to Oregon, where Mrs. Gelvin still lives. Mr. Gelvin died August 4, 1910, at the age of 72 years.

George Gelvin is known as one of the live wires of Oregon and takes great interest in the public affairs of the town. He was succeeded as sheriff in January, 1917, by Benjamin Crouser. He is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges.

Jonathan E. Rundle

Jonathan E. Rundle, dealer in fruit and produce, has been a resident of Craig for eleven years. He was born near Phelps, Atchison County, Missouri, April 16, 1868, and when two years old the family moved to Holt County and for two years lived in Craig. Then they moved to the community five miles south of Craig, where Mr. Rundle grew up. At the age of 18 years he began farming for himself and bought and sold apples in season.

In 1904 the subject of this sketch moved to Craig and has since been in the fruit and produce business there. Pie is one of the heaviest apple shippers in the county and has sent Holt County fruit to nearly all countries on the globe. His first foreign shipment was to Liverpool, England, and consisted of 160 barrels of Ben Davis apples. In 1913 his son Elmer accompanied a shipment of 365 barrels to London. Mr. Rundle is considered one of the best men in the state in the grading and packing of fruit. In normal years he ships from fifty to eighty-five cars.

He is the son of Nirum C. Rundle, who was born in Marion County, Ohio. His mother was Sarah Leighton, a native of the same county. N. C. Rundle came to Holt County in 1843.

Jonathan Rundle was married in Craig, March 22, 1892, to Eva E. Wells, who was born in Belleville, Kan., March 22, 1874, and is the daughter of James Wells. To this union has been born nine children: James L., George E., Vivian E., Maude B.,

Claud Clark

Claud Clark has been a resident of Mound City since 1877, and is proprietor of Clark's Cafe, one of the popular places in Mound City where ice cream, soda fountain drinks and like refreshments are sold. He also operates a first-class bakery and restaurant.

Mr. Clark was born in Keithburg, 111., October 18, 1871. When 2 years old the family moved to California for the benefit of the health of Mr. Clark's father. Upon the death of the senior Clark after four years' residence in California the family moved to Mound City. There Claud grew up and attended the public schools of the town. He has lived there continuously with the exception of eighteen months in Chicago during the world's fair there, and nine months in Wyoming, when he was a lad about 11 years old. At that time he went with Henry Ashbrook as a herder, Ashbrook taking to Wyoming about 1,600 head of cattle for the range.

Claud has always been a worker. He was first employed when a youth by the Mound City flour mill. Then he spent several years on a farm following that with a year and a half in Chicago as before stated. He then traveled for the Baker Medicine Company for nine years. He ran the Hiatt House two years; then bought the John Peters restaurant and ran it two years. He next bought a restaurant on the east side of the main street and sold it after four and a half years, but bought it again. Later he sold out and bought the two-story brick building two doors south of the Gladstone Hotel, which he remodeled and in which he is conducting one of the best places of the kind in Northwest Missouri.

He is the son of David and Alice (Hiatt) Clark, both of whom were born in Illinois. Mrs. David Clark was the daughter of W. T. Hiatt, a Holt County pioneer. She died in 1912 and her husband in 1877.

Claud Clark was married at Craig, Mo., to Emma Caton. daughter of John and Nancy (Taylor) Caton. Mr. Caton died several years ago and Mrs. Caton is living in Mound City. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have one daughter, Helen.

Dr. Charles L. Gomel

Dr. Charles L. Gomel is a practicing veterinary surgeon of Craig and is one of the most successful men in his profession in this part of the country. He graduated from the Kansas City Veterinary College in the spring of 1908. Since then he has been practicing in Craig.

Dr. Gomel was born in Mound City, August 2, 1889, and when three years old the family moved to Craig, where they have since resided. After his young school days he put in his time on his father's farm until he began the study of veterinary surgery. He entered the Kansas City college in 1905.

He is the son of John L. Gomel, a native of Ohio. His mother was Sarah C. Ungles of Kentucky. The elder Gomel died in March, 1915; Mrs. oGmel is living in Craig.

Dr. Gomel was married March 3, 1909, to Miss Stella Se crest, who was born in Holt County and is the daughter of George Secrest. They have no children.

Dr. Daniel W. Guilliams

Dr. Daniel W. Guilliams, veterinarian and proprietor of ?, feed barn in Craig, was born in Union Township, July 12, 1855, and has lived all of his life in Holt County. He is one of the live business men of that town and stands high in the community in which he lives.

He is the son of Calvin M. Guilliams, who came to Holt County in 1879. Dr. Guilliams was married July 23, 1874, to Martha Frances Seabourn, who was born near Bethany, Harrison County, Missouri, February 10, 1858. They have two children, Emmett D., and Minnie, wife of Charles E. Cies, of Craig.

Dr. Guilliams owns two farms in Union Township and a feed barn in Craig, which he conducts in connection with his professional practice. He has been a veterinarian for twenty years. He grew up on his father's farm in Union Township and resided there until his marriage in 1874. He moved to Craig in 1892 and ran the livery barn which he later bought, until 1898. Then he devoted his time to professional practice and ran one of his farms, until 1915, when he again returned to town. He owns four properties in Craig.

Daniel and Lydia S. (Woodward) McDonald, the former a native of Tennessee and the latter of Ohio. The subject of these paragraphs remained on his father's farm until he was 16 years old when he began his apprenticeship as a carpenter. In 1862 he went to Detroit, Mich., where he worked for one year, after which he returned to Ohio. He subsequently worked on some of the larger buildings constructed in that day in Indianapolis.

Mr. McDonald came to Holt County in 1868 and settled on a farm near New Point. Besides operating the farm he worked at his trade and for many years was a prominent building contractor in Hickory and adjoining townships. In 1880 he bought the wagonmaking business of Clark F. Barnes in New Point and continued in this enterprise for several years. In 1892 he moved to Oregon and has made his home here since. He has filled the office of justice of the peace both in New Point and Oregon and a few years ago served one term as city collector of Oregon. He retired from the activities of business a few years ago because of his age and is now spending the evening of his life at his home in Oregon.

He was married February 6, 1868, in Richland County, Ohio, to Miss Martha Ruhl, who was born January 12, 1850, in Ohio. She is the daughter of William and Mary Ruhl, who came to Holt County from Ohio in 1868. To this union has been born four children: Elwood L., living in St. Joseph; Jennie L., wife of Jacob Wehrli, of Mound City; Herby J.. of Oregon: Mattie Ora, who died in Oregon April 7, 1899. Mr. McDonald is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge and the Presbyterian church. Politically he is a Republican.

John B. Coffin

John B. Coffin, retired business man, of New Point, has been identified with the activities of that town for nearly half a century and has done his full share in promoting the development of the community in which he made his home. Public spirited and broad minded, he has been an inspiration and guide to the younger men who are now called into active business and industrial life.

Mr. Coffin was born in Wayne County, Indiana, November 3, 1849, and lived there until 25 years of age, and where he received his education. He learned the trade of blacksmith in Washington, Ind., and when he came to New Point, June 7, 1875, he at once opened a shop and began business. Being a thorough mechanic and a straightforward business man he inspired a confidence in his patrons that inevitably resulted in a pronounced success in his chosen field of endeavor. He retired a few years ago happy in the thought that he had done his full share during

Mr. Coffin was married November 12, 1876, to Miss Rachael Cable of New Point. To this union has been born two daughters : Grace, now Mrs. C. A. Wright, and Bessie, at home. Politically Mr. Coffin is a Republican. He has served as school director ten or twelve years and was a member of the board when the first school house was built in New Point.

Edwin Heaton

Edwin Heaton is cashier of the Heaton Bank at Craig which was established in 1877, by his father William H. Heaton, but of which Edwin has had entire charge since 1887. For the past fifteen years this bank has led all others in the county in the matter of deposits, the statement of March 5, 1917, showing $387,117.98.

Mr. Heaton is one of the leading bankers of Northwest Missouri. He has made banking his hobby and his study since he was a boy. Through his efforts the Heaton Bank ranks among the leading financial institutions of this part of the state. It has been under one management longer than any other bank in the county. William H. Heaton has remained president since its organization and Edwin Heaton has been cashier since 1882. The bank has been in its present quarters since 1881. Edwin Heaton is engaged in no other business except banking.

Mr. Heaton was born in Bushnell, 111., September 27, 1866. In 1874 his family came to Quitman, Mo., where his father was for several years associated with John S. Bilby in the mercantile business. The family moved to Craig in 1877, when the Heaton Bank was established. In 1887 the senior Heaton removed to Bushnell, 111., where he and his son Ed established the Citizens Bank. He lived there until 1912 when he returned to Craig.

Edwin Heaton was married February 8, 1894, to Miss Emma Kaltenbach, daughter of John Kaltenbach, who came to Holt County in the early '60's and located near Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Heaton have one son, George E., assistant cashier in his father's bank. Mr. Heaton is a member of the Masonic lodge.

Edwin Heaton is the son of William H. and Catherine (Eakle) Heaton, natives of Illinois and Ohio, respectively. Mrs. Heaton died December 12, 1912.

William S. Thompson

William S. Thompson was married April 9, 1890, at Bigelow and also owner of the Wickiser opera house has been a resident of Craig since 1892. He was born in Morgan County, Missouri,

Mr. Thompson came to Holt County in 1886 and for six years clerked in a general merchandise store in Bigelow, owned by B. F. Fleming. In 1892 he bought the hardware stock of C. B. Holdridge in Craig and the following year moved it to more commodious quarters. The business has grown from practicallv nothing to the point where the annual sales amount to $60,000. He carries the largest stock in his line in Northwest Missouri. When he bought the old stock it invoiced $900 ; now the inventory is around $12,000. He owns the southwest corner of the block in which his store is located ; a fine home in the town and a farm near Craig.

He is the son of George and Segius (Shackleford) Thompson, natives of Virginia and Kentucky, respectively. The senior Thompson is living in Council Bluffs; his wife died in 1872.

Willia mS. Thompson was married April 9, 1890, at Bigelow to Carrie Hoffman, daughter of Joseph Hoffman, an early settler in Holt County. To them have been born five children : Georsre F., James E., Mary Segius, Carrie S., and Bertha Ann. Mr. Thompson is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge. He is president of the Craig school board and has served as a member of the board for fourteen years. He is a member of the Christian church and with the exception of two years has been superintendent of the Sunday school for eighteen years.

Ernest Cook

Ernest Cook is the junior member of the Cook Monumental Works of Mound City. He has made Mound City his home for a number of years and is known as one of the best granite and monumental men in the county. He was born in Oregon, Mo.. April 27, 1876. He attended the schools there and at Mound City to which place he moved and made his home with his uncle. John Cook, until 18 years of age, his father dying when he was eleven years old and he was thrown on his own resources.

At the age of 18 he began learning the blacksmith trade and worked at it 7 years. Before learning his trade of blacksmith Mr. Cook spent several years traveling over the Middle West selling novelties. He then entered the employ of Henry Cook his brother, of Oregon, in the sale of monuments, and remained in this connection for five years. In 1908 he engaged in the monument business in Mound City for himself and was there until 1914. He then went to St. Joseph and was engaged in the same business there two years. He then returned to Mound Citv and foremd partnership with his brother, Henry Cook, under the firm name of The Cook Monumental Works, with office and plant at Mound City. This firm has one of the best plants in Northwest Missouri and carries the largest and best stock of marble and granite goods in the county.

Ernest Cook was married Feb. 2, 1902, to Miss Olive Huiatt, who was born in Holt County four or five miles southeast of Oregon, and is the daughter of George and Elizabeth Huiatt. They have one daughter, Maudine Elizabeth Cook, born in 1903. Mr. Cook is a member of the W. O. W. lodge.

James C. Meyer

James C. Meyer, son of one of the earliest settlers of Holt County, resides on his farm of 110 acres in Lewis Township, where he has lived for thirty-five years. This farm was entered in the early '50's by Jack Beeler, later owned by R. H. Russell, from whom it was purchased by the present owner.

Andrew Meyer, grandfather of James C. Meyer, was the head of the Meyer family, one of the best known in Holt County. He came from Germany in 1834, and patented a farm in Lewis Township, one mile west of James C. Meyer's farm. He lived there until his death in the '60's and the farm has never passed out of the Meyer family.

James C. Meyer of this sketch was born on his father's farm adjoining that of his grandfather on the south, July 14, 1858. He lived on the farm until 1880, when he was married and a year later bought the place where he has since lived with the exception of eighteen months. He also owns 172 acres seven and onehalf miles northwest of his present farm, on which his son, Dwight L. Meyer lives.

James C. is the son of Jacob Meyer, who was born in Germany in 1834, and when one month old, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Meyer came to America. Jacob Meyer died in 1873 and his wife is still living in Forest City at the age of 73 years.

James C. Meyer was married in Oregon, September 8, 1880, to Elizabeth D. Lukens, who was born in Caddus, O., January 7, 1860, and is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. S. B. Lukens, who came to Holt County from Ohio in 1874. To Mr. and Mrs. Meyer have been born twelve children: Two twins died in infancy; Edna L., who married Samuel Chesney, died in 1906 ; the eldest son, Charles S., died at the age of 18 years; Elmer died when 9 years old. Those living are : James R., farming north of Forest City; Dwight L., also a farmer; Jennie, who married Midway Hoover and lives in Forest City; Bessie D., Russell and Willie at home. Harry Chesney, age 11, son of Edna, lives with his grandparents.

Benjamin F. Mumm

Benjamin F. Mumm, son of Jacob Mumm, was for many years one of the active business men of Mound City. Jacob Mumm was born in Schleswig, Holstein, Germany, November 8, 1834. He was married in St. Joseph, August 6, 1863, to Mary Elizabeth Jessen, who had come to this country from Schleswig a few years before. Mr. Mumm was engaged with Mr. Pinger in the packing business until 1880 when he moved to Mound City and engaged in the lumber business, the firm being Mumm, Moss & Co. He bought out his partners in 1885 and continued the business alone until 1894 when he sold to the Green Bay Lumber Co., and engaged in the buggy and implement business. He died February 27, 1896. He served in the Union army during the Civil war, was an active Odd Fellow and took a prominent part in the civic and commercial life of his home city. He took much interest in the affairs of the Methodist church of which he was a member. Mrs. Mumm is still living in Mound

Benjamin Mumm was born in Mound City July 31, 1881. There he grew to manhood and graduated from the Mound Citv high school in 1898. He was with Meyer & Fuller as a clerk several years and in 1904 when that enterprise was incorporated and reorganized he was taken in as a partner, and name changed to the Meyer-Fuller Mercantile Co. Mr. Mumm moved to St. Joseph in 1909 and has since lived there. He is a member of Holt Lodge No. 341, Odd Fellows, of Mound City and Elks Lodge No. 40, St. Joseph.

John A. Lentz

John A. Lentz, proprietor of the auto repair shop at New Point, is one of the successful business men of that village and a man who by persistence, industry and honesty has laid the foundation for the success which is now crowning his efforts. He was born in Albion, Noble County, Indiana, November 6, 1866, and came with his parents to Missouri in 1879. They stopped in Holt County for a short time and moved on to Larned. Pawnee County, Kansas, but came back to Missouri in the fall of 1880. Mr. Lentz has lived in and near New Point ever since.

He was educated in the public schools of New Point and early developed an aptitude for mechanics. While living with his father on a farm a short distance east of New Point he operated a saw mill and for several years owned a threshing outfit in which enterprise he gave general satisfaction to his patrons. By treating his customers fairly and making his pledged word as good as a government bond, he built up a profitable business and he now numbers his friends by hundreds. About fifteen years ago he engaged in the repair business in New Point and as the automobile industry developed he kept pace with it and now has an exceptionally well equipped plant for handling all classes of work in this line.

Mr. Lentz was married February 4, 1909, to Miss Lena Kramer, of New Point. They have one child, Hazel. He is a member of the Presbyterian church while his wife worships at the German Methodist church in Richville. Fraternally Mr. Lentz is an Odd Fellow and a Woodman. Politically he is a Democrat.

Harry S. Browning

Harry S. Browning, custodian of the Commercial Block in St. Joseph, was born in Holt County, October 3, 1873, on his father's farm in Union Township. He lived there until 22 years old when, for three years he farmed for himself. He then moved to St. Joseph, where he has since lived. He was first foreman of the ice plant for the Hammond Packing Company for three years, then with the Bell Telephone Company, as lineman for a like period. He then took the position of doorkeeper at the old Palace Theatre; then he returned to the Bell Telephone Company and in 1910 accepted the position of custodian of the Commercial Block.

He is the son of Elias W. Browning, a native of Kentucky,, a brother of James and Napoleon Browning, now of Mound City. The three brothers came to Holt County in 1884 and engaged in farming. Elias Browning died in May, 1910, at the age of 82: years.

Harry Browning was married twice, and by his first wife has a daughter, Mabel, who married Lester Davis and lives in Holt County. He was married again in St. Joseph April 21, 1914, to Anna Young who was born near Plattsmouth, Nebr., and has lived in St. Joseph since a child. He is an Odd Fellow and an Eagle and a member of the Loyal Protective Association. He owns a pretty residence at 3304 Penn Street, St. Joseph.

Winfield Scott Gifford

Winfield Scott Gifford, farmer, lives in Lewis Township, where he owns 730 acres of fine land. He also owns two farms comprising 300 acres in Forbes Township. In addition he owns an irrigated farm on the Platte River, in Colorado, near the Platte Canyon ; five quarter sections in Rawlings County, Kansas; one quarter section in Greeley County, Kansas; one quarter section in Grant County, Kansas; three quarter sections in Haskell County, Kansas; residence property on South Twelfth Street, St. Joseph.

uary 14, 1847, where he was educated. At the age of 18 years he came west in March, 1865. He stopped in Warren County, Illinois, where a relative was making up an overland outfit of five wagons to go to Denver, Colo. Gifford went to St. Joseph by train and there joined the caravan. The outfit was loaded with merchandise from the McCord wholesale house. The start from St. Joseph was made June 3, 1865, and the party landed in Denver the night of July 4. Mr. Gifford continued in the overland freight business three years.

He then traded his stock for a farm near Stewartsville, Mo., and farmed there one year. Then he went to Troy, Kansas, and bought and hauled hay to the St. Joseph market one year. The next three years he hauled freight from the northern part of Buchanan County to St. Joseph. Then he traveled three years for Gernandt & Knight of St. Joseph, after which he took charge of the company's store in St. Joseph. He bought his present home farm from Davis Carpenter in 1881 and moved there in 1884.

He is the son of Gurnee Gifford, a native of Oswego County, New York. The ancestors of the family were Welsh, coming to the United States in 1700.

W. S. Gifford has been married twice. The first time in St. Joseph in 1877 to Caroline Doll, who died in 1878. To them was born one child, Caroline Lottie, now Mrs. Harry Jamison of Denver, Colo. He was married again in Holt County to Julia Schlotzhauer. To this union has been born seven sons and two daughters: Christopher Gurnee, John Courtland, Ruhamah, now Mrs. John Peret of Oregon, Ben Frank, Winfield Scott. Jr., Herman E., Dorothy, Donald R. and Keith G. Mr. Gifford is a member of the Masonic lodge at Oregon. Politically he is a Republican.

Phillip Schlotzhauer

Phillip Schlotzhauer, farmer, president of the Home Bank at Forest City, president of the Farmers Elevator Co., of Forest City and clerk of Bluff City School District No. 61, has been a resident of Holt County since 1864, and has made his home on the farm of 190 acres on which he is living and which his father bought in the early days.

Mr. Schlotzhauer was born in Atchison County, Missouri, March 30, 1856, and when eight years old moved with his parents to the farm in Lewis Township, which has never yet passed out of the family. He was educated in the district school. The building was a log cabin affair on the site now occupied by Peter Sipe's residence. It was first known as the Pollock school, but at the time young Schlotzhauer attended was called the Snyder school.

In 1892-93 Mr. Schlotzhauer was in Lincoln, Nebr., in the freight department of the Burlington railroad. He then returned to Holt County and took charge of his father's farm and saw mill. His father at that time moved to Oregon, where he died in 1895. Two years later the subject of this sketch bought the home farm. In 1910 he was one of the organizers of the Home Bank of Forest City. He was vice-president the first year and has since been president. He was judge of the County Court from the southern district two terms from 1908 to 1912.

He is the son of Christopher Schlotzhauer, whose wife was Dorothy Snyder. Both came to the United States from Germany when children. They were married in Cooper County, Missouri, near Pilot Grove. Mrs. Schlotzhauer is still living with her son Phillip.

The subject of these paragraphs was married first in 1880 to Fannie Hunter, who died a year later. To them was born one child, Ivy, who died at the age of three years. Mr. Schlotzhauer in 1900 married Harriett E. Marriner, whose home was near Burlington Junction, in Nodaway County. One child blessed this union : Katheleine, who died at the age of 2 years. Mr. Schlotzhauer is a member of the Masonic blue lodge, Shrine, Odd Fellows, Eastern Star, Rebekah and Modern Woodmen lodges. He is a Republican and has always taken an active interest in politics. He has attended county and state conventions on many^ occasions. Religiously he is a Methodist.

Charles N. Dobyns

Charles N. Dobyns, editor of the Corning Mirror, came to Holt County in 1880. He first lived at Oregon and later moved to Craig, where he published the Leader for seventeen years. In 1904 he went to Corning and established the Mirror, and has since made Corning his home. When he first came to Holt County he taught school in several country districts, including Corning.

Mr. Dobyns was born in Keokuk, Iowa, April 3, 1856. His early education was received in the public schools there and he later attended the Iowa University at Iowa City.

He is the son of Lewis C. and Mary R. Dobyns, natives of Kentucky and Virginia, respectively. They were of German parentage and both are dead.

Mr. Dobyns was married in 1890 to Miss Clara B. McNabb, a native of Ohio. She died in 1907. Of this union six children are living: Louis C., Richard T., Mrs. Mildred Curry, Morton, Clement and Neva. Politically Mr. Dobyns is a Republican.

Dr. J. T. Thatcher

Dr. John Thomas Thatcher, one of the best known and the oldest practicing physician in the county, in point of service, with the exception of Dr. J. M. Tracy of Mound City, has been prominently identified with the business and civic life of Oregon for the past thirty-six years. His name is a household word throughout Holt County and there are a very few people in the county who are not personally acquainted with him and who can attest to his many redeeming qualifications, his efficient services and high character.

The doctor is a native son of Missouri, having first seen the light of day in Schuyler County on August 22, 1850. After obtaining the rudiments of an education in the county of his birth he decided to take up the practice of medicine as his life work. To this end he attended the Detroit School of Homoeopathy, from which he graduated in 1874. He then moved to Atchison, Kans., where he practiced for four years; then to St. Joseph where he formed a partnership with Dr. Wm. G. Hall. From that city he returned to Atchison and in 1878 he removed to Oregon, his present home.

Dr. Thatcher is a member of the Missouri Institute of Homoeopathy, Missouri Medical Society and the Holt County Medical Society. He served several years as county physician and eight years on the State Board of Health, four years under Governor Dockery and four years under Governor Folk. The doctor is a life-long Democrat and has done valiant work for his party, and for a number of years was secretary of the Holt County Democratic Central Committee. He is a member of the Blue Lodge of Masons at Oregon and of the Shriners of St. Joseph. Also is an Odd Fellow, joining at Atchison, Kan., in 1874.

Dr. Thatcher has been twice married. His first wife was Julia E. Gearhart, a native of New Cannon, Conn., whom he married in 1881. She died about eighteen months later, and on December 22, 1883, the doctor married Kate Evans, who is r, native of Oregon and the daughter of A. J. and Elizabeth A. (Hasness) Evans. To this union six children were born, four boys and two girls. They are: Edgar Shelton, Lloyd Evans, Helen Elizabeth, Frank Myron, John Robert and Florence, the latter dying at the age of seven years.

The doctor has served the county and city in many official w?*ys during his long term of residence. Was appointed on the U. S. Pension Examining Board of Holt County under Cleveland and with exception of four years has since held that office. Has been a member and secretary of the Oregon school board since 1893, resigning the membership in 1915 but is still secretary. Served the city as alderman several years and held the office of city clerk.

Frank Petree

Frank Petree is one of the prominent attorneys of Oregon, and it has been through his personal efforts and highly efficient business principles that the firm of Petree Brothers, attorneys at law and abstractors, has become so well known throughout Holt County and all Northwest Missouri. It was 1897 that he and his brother, W. A. Petree, established themselves in the county seat town as counselors at law. Three years later they bought a set of abstracts and the office is now one of the busy corners of the city. Frank Petree is the senior member of the firm and conducts the business with an able corps of office assistants, his brother being in the employ of the Bartlett Brothers Land and Loan Company of St, Joseph.

Frank Petree was born in Andrew County, Missouri, September 9, 1861. There he grew to young manhood and received his early education. In the year 1883 he took up his residence in Kansas and resided in that state until 1897 when he removed to Oregon, his present home.

Mr. Petree is the son of Benjamin Petree, who was a native of Indiana and who settled in Andrew County, Missouri, in 1841, and where, with the exception of eight years spent in California, he made his home until his death which occurred in 1897. His wife was Lucy A. Earls, who was born in Clay County, Missouri, in 1837.

The subject of this sketch was married in Lincoln, Kan.. November 4, 1891, to Estella Harris to whom five children have been born, namely: Lou Estella, Leo Webb, Harris Earls, Jay Ralph and Charles Benjamin. The three first named children are graduates of the Oregon high school.

William Lipps

William Lipps has owned the farm on which he is living since 1864. He was born in Clay County, Kentucky, October 30, 1825, and is the son of Jesse and Hannah (Pierce) Lipps, natives of Tennessee. They resided in the county in which they were born for sixty years and died there. They were the parents of ten children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the only one living. William Lipps has long been prominent in the affairs of Union Township.

William Lipps grew to manhood on his father's farm and attended the public schools of the community. When he became of age he bought a farm in his native county and operated it until 1855, when he moved to Pettis County, Missouri. He lived there until 1864 when he came to Holt County and bought the place where he now lives. He made many improvements and in 1902 built a handsome residence.

Mr. Lipps was married in October, 1846, in Clay County, Kentucky, to Miss Margaret Samples, daughter of John and Elizabeth Samples. They are the parents of sixteen children, seven of whom are living: Mrs. Mary Asher, of Hiawatha, Kan.; Daniel, of Craig, Mo.; Mrs. Margaret Quimby, of Craig; Mrs. Rosa Nash, of Chillicothe, Mo.; Mrs. Hannah Hardin, of Craig; Mrs. Margaret McLaughlin, of Sioux City, Iowa; Mrs. Elizabeth Quimby, of Atchison County, Missouri. Mr. Lipps is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and politically he is a Republican.

James H. Meador

James H. Meador has owned the farm on which he resides in Union Township since 1880. He was born in Independence, Mo., March 14, 1847, and is the son of James D. and Nancy J. (Holloway) Meador, natives of Tennessee and Jackson County, Missouri. They lived in Jackson County for nearly fifty years and were the parents of four children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the only one living.

James Meador grew to manhood in Independence and was educated there. He moved to Atchison County in 1874 and lived there four years before coming to Holt County and occupying the fine farm on which he now makes his home. He has greatly improved the place since buying it and in 1901 built a fine residence.

He was married to Miss Mary E. Guilliams October 25, 1877, in Holt Cpunty on the Hunt farm. She is a native of Holt County and the daughter of Calvin M. and Mary A. Guilliams, old settlers in the county. They have four children: Henry J., Letha M., Rufus E. and Ernest. Mr. Meador is a member of the Christian church. Like his ancestors he is a consistent Republican in politics.

Alexander Van Buskirk

Alexander Van Buskirk, attorney at law in Oregon, has been in Holt County since 1852. He was born in Andrew County, Missouri, November 17, 1849, and came to Holt County with his parents when 3 years old. His education was reecived in the district and select schools supplemented by a commercial course under Thomas J. Bryant.

property and land near the town and was one of the prime movers in the organization and building of the Oregon Interurban Railroad. He was married October 12, 1871, to Charlotte V. Cummins, of DeKalb, Ohio, daughter of George and Charlotte Cummins. They have two daughters, Mrs. Caroline Lehmer, mother of one son, Lawrence; and Mrs. Rebecca Allen, mother of three children, Paul, Ruth and Charlotte.