Johnson County, Missouri - - Biographical, 1918 (part 19 of 19)

Early in life, when he was scarcely more than a child, John Colster was placed upon his own resources and obliged to work at any sort of labor he was able to do and to secure. He often was employed in hard work, for which he recei\'ed from eight to ten dollars a month in remuneration. At the age of sixteen years, he obtained work hauling hay to the market in St. Louis, Missouri, for which he was paid twenty-five dollars a month and the "month" meant both day and night time.

Even in childhood, Mr. Colster betrayed propensities for thrift and from the beginning of his active career in life he has practiced constant industry and economy. In due time, he began to prosper and to accumulate a competence. In 1880, Mr. Colster came to Johnson county and located in Centerview township, where he purchased a farm of one hundred sixty acres of land in 1901, to which he has added during the past sixteen years, and now owns a tract comprising two hundred forty acres, as above mentioned. This place is nicely improved with numerous large farm buildings and a comfortable residence and the land is supplied with an abundance of water. Mr. Colster is pursuing all the best and most progressive methods of soil improvement known to wellinformed agriculturists. He harvested fifty tons of hay, one thousand five hundred seventy bushels of wheat, five hundred thirty bushels of oats, and had one hundred twenty-five acres of the farm in corn land, in 1917, and planted ninety acres of his place in wheat. At the present time, Mr. Colster has one hundred head of hogs and fifty head of cattle. He buys and feeds cattle extensively each year. There are several horses and mules on the farm and from four to six mule-colts are raised annually.

In 1873, John Colster and Mary Cavanaugh were united in marriage. Mrs. Colster died within a few months after their marriage. In 1877, Mr. Colster was again married, his second wife being Margaretta Bellman. To this union have been born sixteen children, twelve of whom are now living: Mrs. Elizabeth Brisco, Holden, Missouri; John,

Jr., Holden, Missouri; Al, Columbus, Missouri; Mrs. Dora Lohe, Centerview, Missouri; Robert, Centerview, Missouri; Mrs. Emma Crew, Holden, Missouri; Mrs. Maggie Penson, Holden, Missouri; Fred, Henry, Ida, Nicholas, and Charles, all of Centerview, Missouri. Of this remarkable family, six of the children composed three different pairs of twins. Mr. and Mrs. Colster deserve much praise and honor for the splendid manner in which they have reared their large family, each member fitted to assume a responsible and respectable station in life. The Colsters are consistent members of the Catholic church. Mr. Colster is keenly interested in civic and political matters and an active Democrat.

T. J. Bradbury, a successful farmer and stockman of Jackson township, is one of the citizens of Johnson county whose career proves that energy and industry are the paths to true prosperity and that wealth is undesirable unless obtained by honorable, legitimate methods. Mr. Bradbury was born in Pennsylvania in 1859, a son of Daniel Bradbury, who was a member of a prominent and patriotic colonial family: Daniel Bradbury was a son of Thomas J. Bradbury, whose entire life was spent in New York. He was a son of A. Bradbury, a veteran of the Revolutionary War. The history of the Bradburys in America has been traced back to two brothers of the Bradbury family in England, who immigrated to America in the sixteenth century and from whom the American branch of the family has descended. The mother of T. J. Bradbury, the subject of this review, was a daughter of Jared Phelps, who was also a son of a veteran of the Revolution of 1776.

The educational training received by T. J. Bradbury was such as is embraced in the studies taught in the public schools of Pennsylvania and in a private academy of that state. Mr. Bradbury left his native state and located in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1881. He was employed by the Kansas City Smelting & Refining Company until 1898 and one year later he came to Johnson county and settled on a farm of eighty acres of land in Jackson township and for the past eighteen years has been engaged in farming and stock raising. Mr. Bradbury is devoting more attention each year to the dairy business and, at the time of this writing, in 1917, he has a large herd of fine Jersevs. He is raising Poland China hogs and has thirty-five acres of the farm in corn and fourteen acres in wheat. Mr. Bradbury is an intelligent, progressive agriculturist and by studying the soil and its adaptability to different crops never fails to make his well-cultivated acres yield large returns . He is an enthusiastic advocate of crop rotation, clover growing, and of the utilization of all the barnyard manure.

In 1883, T. J. Bradbury was united in marriage with Clara Paul, daughter of George Paul, of Kansas City. To this union have been born four sons: Daniel B., Robert, Guy. and Thomas J., Jr., all of whom are at home with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Bradbury are doing all in their power to rear their boys properly that they may take honorable and responsible stations in life and kept the Bradbury name the symbol it has always been of honor, honesty, industry, and morality. Mr. Bradbury takes a pardonable pride in the untarnished record of his family, in the fact that not one blot has ever been on the family escutcheon. His own life, which has been singularly free from mistakes and faults, might well be emulated by his boys. The agricultural interests of Jackson township are represented in this volume by no more enterprising man than the highly respected citizen, the subject of this sketch.

R. E. Martin, a member of a well-known and influential pioneer family of Johnson county, Missouri, is one of the prosperous and progressive farmer-s and stockmen of Jackson township. He was born in 1863 at the Martin homestead in Johnson county, a son of Joseph M. and Eliza (Hunter) Martin. R. E. Martin's paternal grandfather came to Missouri in a very early day and entered one hundred sixty acres of land from the government, a tract which was located in Johnson county. Joseph M. Martin came later and just in time to enter a tract of land from the government. He and Mrs. Martin came West immediately after their marriage and they with all their earthly possessions had plenty of room in the one-horse cart in which they came to Johnson county. Mr. Martin was poor, very poor - he had not one dollar capital - and during the first hard years while he was trying to get a start in the new Western home he had to work as a hired laborer by the day in order to obtain food for his ten little ones. He built a small log cabin on the farm and there all their children were born. Joseph M. and Eliza Martin were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Jane Star, of Kansas: J. P., of Oklahoma: Isaac, Liberty. Missouri: R. E.. the subject of this review: and Reverend IMonroe. a prominent pastor residing in Pittsville, Missouri. Death has broken the fam- ily circle and five of the family of ten children are now deceased. The mother, Eliza (Hunter) Martin, was a daughter of David Hunter, an honored pioneer of Johnson county. In this most modest and humble way, the Martins began life in this county. In after years, when 2\Ir. Martin had accumulated a comfortable competence, was the owner of two hundred acres of the choicest land and a pleasant country home, his financial rating in the business world assured, Mr. and Mrs. Martin were want to look back in retrospection to the days spent within the four walls of their primitive dwelling as among their happiest experiences - for then the family circle was unbroken. The record of Joseph M. Martin is that of a man of energy and ambition who began life in the West under the embarrassing conditions which poverty entails and by his own unaided eft'orts struggled upward from a lowly position to one of high standing in the community, a citizen honored and respected by all who knew him.

During his boyhood, R. E. Martin attended the school held at Pleasant Grove school house and there obtained a good, practical education. He recalls his first instructor, ]\Ir. X'anAusdol, and one of the pioneer preachers, whom he frequently heard in his youth. Reverend Smith, an olden-time Baptist minister. Mr. JMartin's first investment was in a few calves, which did well and were sold at a reasonably good profit. From his father's estate. R. E. Martin inherited forty acres of land and to this he has added and is now the owner of one hundred acres. He resides at the old homestead of the Alartins. Mr. Martin has never lost his youthful interest in livestock and now has on his farm highgrade Shorthorns and ninety head of Poland Chinas. He owns a brood sow which in three and a half years has produced eighty-nine pigs - a record hard to equal. Mr. Martin has had excellent success in general farming and in the autumn of 1917, harvested sixteen hundred bushels of oats, thirty tons of hay. and in addition had seventy acres of the farm in corn.

R. E. Martin and Alice Hedge were united in marriage. I\Irs. Martin is a daughter of Joshua Hedge, a prominent citizen of Johnson county. To Mr. and Mrs. Martin have been born four children, three sons and one daughter: Fred: Lena, who is now married: Manard ; and Ivan, all of whom reside near Pitts\ille, ^Missouri. Mr. [Martin has been successful in all his undertakings far a1)ove the average and he and Mrs.

Martin are planning and looking forward to the time when they shall retire from active farm work and quietly and contentedly pass their declining years in the society of their children and friends.

All things considered, farming is the only reliable source of a nation's true prosperity and the only known calling that assures a certain return for the necessary expenditure of time, muscles, and brain. There are no strikes, bread riots, or trade unions in agricultural sections. No farmer or stockman receives orders from a delegate to "walkout" and as age comes on the yeoman who has always done his best, as has Mr. Martin, can retire to a comfortable home surrounded with all the necessaries of life and in a village, town, or city near his farm spend the eventide of life in complacent peace and happiness. Mr. and Mrs. Martin have well merited all the success which has come to them and they are numbered among the county's most highly valued citizens.

R. H. Rowland, one of the progressive and prosperous farmers and stockmen of Jackson township, is a member of a sterling pioneer family of Cass county, Missouri. Mr. Rowland was born in Cass county in 1869, a son of Med and America (Parker) Rowland, to whom were born seven children, four now living: Mrs. Ella Burgin, Lonejack. Missouri; ^^'. J., Otis, Colorado; R. H., the subject of this review; and O. K., Pleasant Hill, Missouri. In 1893, R. H. Rowland left the homestead in Cass county and moved to Johnson county, locating on the farm in Jackson township where he has since resided.

In 1890, R. H. Rowland and Minnie Wood, daughter of John R. and Sarah A. Wood, well-known and highly respected early settlers of Missouri, were united in marriage. John R. Wood was a son of James F. Wood, a pioneer of 1837. To Mr. and Mrs. Wood were born three children: Mrs. Mattie Date, Odessa, Missouri; James, Muskogee. Oklahoma; and Mrs. R. H. Rowland, the wife of the subject of this review. R. H. and Minnie (Wood) Rowland are the parents of nine children, eight of whom are now living: Mrs. Anna Tu-rnbow, Pittsville, Missouri ; Mrs. Jessie McKey, Pittsville, Missouri ; J. B., E. H., Pearl, Nina, Robert, and Geneva, all at home with their parents.

The Rowland farm in Jackson township comprises two hundred well-improved productive acres of land. In the autumn of 1917. Mr. Rowland had twenty-two acres of the place in corn and planted twentyseven acres in wheat. He harvested one thousand bushels of oats, tliree Inindred ninetv liushels of wheat, and twentv-five tons of hav. At the

Those who know R. H. Rowland personally have the most implicit confidence in him as a neighbor, citizen, and friend. They state that he is a gentleman, a man of a high sense of honor and unassailable integrity. He has endeavored to live an upright, clean, moral life that he might be of benefit to his fellowmen and his life be worthy of imitation. Mr. Rowland fully realizes the grave responsibilities devolved upon him by the presence of the young people in his home. He is exceedingly fond and proud of his boys and girls and is endeavoring to rear them properly. He and Mrs. Rowland are giving the maximum of time and attention to the education and home training of their children in the hope tliat the\' may become useful members of society. Should misfortune befall the parents and their present goodly store of this world's goods be taken from them, the children of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Rowland will still ha\'e the most precious inheritance of all - a good name.

W. M. Wolfenbarger, a late prominent resident of Jackson township whose life was devoted to the pursuits of agriculture, was one of the successful and enterprising men of Johnson county, a citizen worthy of especial mention in a work of this character. Mr. Wolfenbarger was a native of West Virginia. His ancestors were early settlers in that state and wealthy planters. ^^'. M. \\'olfenbarger was a son of John Wolfenbarger. who was engaged in farming in V\'est Virginia until just before the outbreak of the Civil ^^'ar, when he moved with his family to Missouri and settled on a farm near Odessa. He was a man of great industry and with the assistance of his sons cleared and improved and developed his tract of land until in due time he was the owner of one of the most valuable farms in his township. He was not only one of the leading citizens of his community but also one of the most forceful factors in all that concerned the material improvement of the county. At the homestead of the ^^'olfenbargers near Odessa, W. M. ^^'olfenbarger spent his boyhood days. Reared on the farm, his early life was much like the life of the average youth in the country, each day spent in assisting his father and attending to the duties which fall to the lot of the boy on the farm.

the day the battle of Lonejack was fought, he enlisted with the Confederates and from that day served faithfully and well until the close of the conflict under "Fighting Joe" Shelby in General Price's division. W. M. Wolfenbarger saw four years of active service in the Confederate army and came out without one scratch. He returned to his father's farm after the war had ended and remained on the home place until the time of his marriage in 1868.

In 1868, the marriage of W. M. Wolfenbarger and Margaret Rhea, daughter of Archibald Rhea, a well-known and prosperous pioneer of Fayette county, was solemnized. To this union were born eight children, all of whom were reared to maturity and are now living: John ^^'., Mrs. Mary J. Cobb, Archibald, Mrs. Cordelia Hoover, Frederick, Harley, J. C, and Mrs. Bertha McEwen, of Odessa, Missouri. With the exception of the youngest child, Bertha, all the children aVe residing near Pittsville, Missouri.

A small cabin home was built by Mr. Wolfenbarger on his farm of one hundred five acres in Jackson township in 1881 and there all the children were born. He had little assistance in the way of capital when he began farming for himself, but by industry, economy, and welldirected efforts he became in time prosperous and under his management his country place developed into one of the finest farms in the township. Genial and companionable, Mr. Wolfenbarger possessed the faculty of making and binding to him warm personal friends. The high standing he had attained in the social and industrial circles of Johnson county was indicative of a still greater and more influential career, when death came in 1915.

John Wolfenbarger, the eldest son of W. M. Wolfenbarger, now has charge of the farm. He is an intelligent agriculturist and has had excellent success with stock and grain raising since assuming the management of the home place. In the autumn of 1917, he harvested three hundred fifty bushels of wheat, four hundred bushels of oats, and ten tons of hay. He has planted forty acres of the farm in wheat. In addition to general farming, Mr. Wolfenbarger is engaged in stock raising to a certain extent and has a large number of Red Polled cattle and Poland China hogs.

W. M. Wolfenbarger belonged to that large and honorable class of yeomen, who, 1)y deeds rather than words, did so much to develop the resources of Johnson county. He was long a man of influence in his community and by a life exceptionally free from faults wielded an influence for good upon all with whom he came in contact. Time in its flight will soon leave the history of Missouri's pioneer days to the memory of the children of the brave, noble men and women who rescued the prairie and forests from the domination of the Indians and Nature and transformed the inhospitable region into flourishing cities, towns, villages, and fertile farms. The story would be incomplete had the reader not access to the biography of W. M. Wolfenbarger.

J. C. Wilkinson, a successful and prosperous farmer and stockman of Jackson township, is a worthy representative of one of Johnson county's best pioneer families. Mr. Wilkinson is a native of Johnson county. He was born in 1871, a son of Alec and Elizabeth (Wolfenbarger) Wilkinson. Alec Wilkinson was a son of James S. Wilkinson, who was a member of a prominent colonial family of Virginia. The Wilkinsons were well-to-do people in the South and the parents of James S. Wilkinson spent their lives on the large plantation in the state of Virginia. There the son, James S., was born and reared. On his father's plantation, he received his first lessons in practical husbandry and by the time he had attained manhood he was a capable and intelligent agriculturist. He came to Missouri in 1856, the first of this particular branch of the \\'ilkinson family to settle in Johnson county.

Alec AX'ilkinson. father of J. C. Wilkinson spent his childhood and youth on the Wilkinson home place in Johnson county. The public schools afforded him the advantages of an elementary education and he conscientiously pursued his studies with the object in view of preparing himself for teaching. For several years, he was engaged in educational work in Johnson county. As a teacher, he displayed abilities of a high order, but not being pleased or satisfied with the financial prospects the educational fields presented an ambitious, young man, he wisely decided to direct his abilities into the other channels and for many years was engaged in blacksmithing and in later life in farming and stock raising. Mr. Wilkinson was the owner of six hundred acres of land at one time, one hundred sixty acres of which were located in Lafayette county. In 1880, he moved to his farm in Lafayette county and there his death occurred a few years afterward. Mr. and Mrs. Alec Wilkinson were the parents of ten children, eight of whom are now^ living: J. C. Bates City, Missouri; Mrs. Anna Patterson, Odessa, Missouri: Joe M., James M., Ivan A., ]\Irs. Maggie Dean, Eva M., and

Wesley M., all of Bates City, Missouri. While he primarily attended strictly to his farm duties, Alec Wilkinson was not unmindful of the claims a community has upon its citizens. Public-spirited, he took an active and deep interest in the affairs of his township and county and in social circles his standing as a high-minded, courteous gentleman of the old school was fully assured. Throughout life, Mr. Wilkinson gave his aid and influence to further all enterprises which tended to the social and moral advancement of his fellowmen. Elizabeth (Wolfenbarger) Wilkinson, daughter of John Wolfenbarger, one of the first settlers of Johnson county, has been making her home since the death of her husband with an unmarried daughter in Lafayette county.

J. C. Wilkinson attended the city schools of Odessa, Missouri, and later was a student at the Warrensburg State Normal School. He completed a business course at Spalding's Business College, Kansas City, Missouri, and then began life for himself engaged in farming and stock raising. Mr. Wilkinson now owns four hundred fifty-one acres of excellent farm land in Johnson county and one hundred ninety-six acres elsewhere. Two hundred forty acres of his place are in bluegrass and Mr. Wilkinson is devoting much time and attention to stock raising. He handles high-class jacks and keeps a registered trotting stallion. He is constantly buying and selling stock and, at the time of this writing, he now has thirty-five head of mules, ninety head of cattle among which are twenty-five head of purebred Herefords and a registered Hereford male, and about fifty head of Duroc Jersey and Poland China hogs. The Wilkinson farm is well watered and fenced and is admirably adapted to stock raising and grain producing and this autumn, of 1917, Mr. Wilkinson harvested fifty tons of hay, fifteen hundred bushels of wheat, twelve hundred biishels of oats, and he had one hundred twenty-five acres in corn and has planted one hundred twenty acres of his farm in wheat. Mr. Wilkinson is an up-to-date, highly intelligent agriculturist and an enthusiastic advocate of crop rotation, clover growing, and of the constant use of the manure spreader.

Mr. Wilkinson is a stanch supporter of the principles of the Democratic party. He is, as his father was before him, a public-spirited, enterprising citizen, one who possesses the unbounded confidence of all who know him. His success in life is not altogether the result of selfdenial, but rather the outcome of intelligent financiering, industry, and

H. B. Buente, a capable and industrious grocer of Warrensburg, Missouri, is a native of Gasconade county, Missouri, and of German lineage. He was born in Owensville, ^Missouri, son of Henry and Louise (Distelkamp) Buente.

Henry Buente was born in Germany and in early manhood emigrated from his native land to America and in 1871 located in Owensville, Missouri. He later moved from Gasconade county to IMoniteatt county. In January, 1891, Henry Buente came to Warrensburg, ]\Iissouri, wdiere he opened a grocery store on the corner of McGuire and Jackson streets. Louise ( Distelkamp) Buente was a native of Missouri.

To Henry and Louise Buente were born the following children: Mrs. James O. Cull who is the wife of John B. Cull's son, James O. Ctill, who was born and reared in Johnson county, Missouri, wdiere his father was an honored and highly respected pioneer, and they now reside in North Yakima, Washington; H. B., the subject of this review; Mrs. W. A. Crockett, the wife of W. A. Crockett, wdio is a relative of David Crockett, the famous pioneer scout, and they reside in St. Louis, Missouri ; E. H., who is engaged in the real estate business in Los Angeles, California; and ]\Irs. Robert ^Millard, Kansas City. ]Missouri. Lousie (Distelkamp) Buente died in ]\Ioniteau county. ^Missouri. Later Henry Buente was married to Mrs. Minnie Borgman, of Kansas City. Missouri, and to them was born one child, a daughter, Mrs. Robert Willard. The death of Henry Buente occurred June 18. 1916, and burial was made in the cemetery at Warrensburg, Missouri.

H. B. Buente attended the public schools in Warrensburg, Missouri, and the Warrensburg High School. When he was but a child of six vears he assisted his father in the grocery store and he has literally grown up in the business. For twenty-six years he has been engaged in the grocery business in Warrensburg. His first business venture in 1889 was a success. The little store in the resident district received a hearty welcome and was exceedingly well patronized by the families in the vicinitv. In 1909. H. B. Buente purchased his father's store and continued the business until March, 1916. He sold the stock at that time and for a year was out of the business. In the spring of 1917, Mr. Buente erected a brick building, 30 x 60 feet in dimensions, at 523 South McGuire street and May 1, 1917, opened a grocery store in the newbuilding. The store is a model of its kind and has had a large patronage from the day of opening. Low prices and goods of a reliable and uniformly high quality, are said to be the two chief fundamental reasons for the success of Mr. Buente and of his father.

In 1903, H. B. Buente was united in marriage with Emma L. Whitman, daughter of George A. and Ellen Whitman, of Warrensburg, Missouri. George A. Whitman was engaged in the hardware business in Warrensburg in the early days. He is now deceased and Mrs. Whitman resides in \\'arrensburg. To H. B. and Emma L. (Whitman) Buente have been horn three children: Leonard, Ellen Louise, and George Henry.

C. R. Collins, local manager of the Warrensburg Electric Heat & Power Company, is one of Johnson county's most promising young men. He was born in 1884 in Warrensburg, son of Allen B. and Josephine (Hewitt) Collins. 'Allen B. Collins is the night engineer employed at the building on the corner of Pine and Warren streets in Warrensburg Missouri.

C. R. Collins attended the public schools of Warrensburg and later studied electrical engineering through correspondence and practical experience. He was employed at various places before commncing work with the Warrensburg Electric Heat & Power Company and he began working as fireman for this company in 1901, filling since that time every place connected with the work. He has acted in the capacity of fireman, engineer, lineman, and wired buildings, understanding every phase of the work.

Since 1912, Mr. Collins has been superintendent of the company, whose office is located on the corner of Holden and Grover streets, to which location they moved June 1. 1917, from East Pine street. The Warrensburg Electric Heat & Power Company are successors of the Warrensburg Light & Power Company, who were successors of the Magnolia Light Heat & Power Company. Prior to the time of the Magnolia Light Heat & Power Company, a light plant was established at Pertle Springs. This plant burned and the Magnolia company built a new plant in Warrensburg to which they moved a part of the old plant.

than nine hundred patrons in Warrensburg and in addition furnishes current for Concordia, Knob Noster, and Lamonte. The lines were extended to these places in 1916.

July 12, 1916, C. R. Collins was united in marriage with Mattie Rosenthal, the daughter of Henry and Helen Rosenthal, of Warrensburg, Missouri. At the time of this writing Mr. and Mrs. Collins are residing in the Christopher Flats in Warrensburg. Mr. Collins has pushed to the front through his own unaided efforts and through diligence, conscientious attention to duty, industry, and perseverance, he is making a splendid success of life and a name for himself of which he may justly be proud.

Reverend Frank S. McCardle, A. B., pastor of the Sacred Heart Parish of Warrensburg, Missouri, was born June 7, 1886, son of John and Ann (Rafferty) McCardle, in Linwood, Ontario. John McCardle was born in Canada, son of Patrick McCardle, who lived to be more than one hundred years of age and was the oldest man in Canada at the time of his death. Ann (Rafferty) McCardle was born at Carrickmacross, Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. McCardle are now residing at Waterloo, Ontario.

Reverend Frank S. McCardle entered St. Jerome College, Berlin, Ontario, now located at Kitchener, Ontario, in 1902. He graduated from this institution June 16, 1908, with the degree of A. B. ^^'hile at St. Jerome, he was editor of the college paper, "The Schoolman," for three years and was president of the Literary and Dramatic Club, which presented the play, "If I \\'ere a King." Reverend IMcCardle took part in all the amateur theatricals given at the college, playing any part from leading lady to the villain. He received the highest honors in scholarship at St. Jerome. In the fall of the year 1908, he entered Grand Seminary at Montreal, which is perhaps the oldest collegiate institution in America. Reverend McCardle was in attendance at Grand Seminary one year, when on account of ill health he was obliged to leave college. Later, he entered St. Bonaventure's Seminary at Allegheny, New York, where he pursued a course in theology and graduated in June, 1911. Reverend McCardle was ordained priest at St. Joseph's Cathedral in BufTalo, New York, June 27, 1911.

Father ]\lcCardle arrived in Kansas City, Missouri, July 7, 1911, and after a few weeks at the Cathedral was made first resident chaplain at St. ]\Iary's Hospital, where he spent one year. For two years and four months he was pastor at Our Lady of Good Counsel. While there, Father McCardle established the Cardinal Club, a literary and social organization for young men at old Westport. This organization is now city-wide. August 4, 1914, he was appointed Catholic chaplain of the Missouri State Reform School for Boys at Boonville, Missouri, and was there one and a half years. During all this time Father McCardle did hospital work.

January 14, 1916. Reverend Frank S. McCardle was appointed pastor of the Sacred Heart Parish of Warrensburg, Missouri. Since he has been in Warrensburg, he has taken an active part in humanitarian affairs. Besides his work in this city. Father McCardle has missions at Knob Noster and Lamonte. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and for them has been a state lecturer at social banquets, in order to further the cause of Christianity. Reverend Frank S. McCardle is a brilliant young man of \'ision and invincible spirit and he has done and is doing an immense amount of good in the world.

Father McCardle has taken out his first naturalization papers and will soon take out the final papers, making him a citizen under "Old Glory."

W. F. Burns, one of Jonhson county's best and most valued citizens, was l)orn in 1S47 in County \\''icklow, Ireland. He is the son of John and Sarah (O'Neal) Burns, who emigrated from Ireland to America in 1849 and located in Port Huron, Michigan, when their son, W. F.. was a child two years of age. In 1860, the Burns family moved from Michigan to ^Missouri and settled on a farm of four hundred acres of land, located near Montserrat. This land was purchased for fifteen dollars an acre within a }'ear or two after coming to Missouri. Sarah (O'Neal) Burns was a native of Ireland, but she never heard of the Irish language until she came to America, for English was exclusively spoken in her district. To John and Sarah Burns were born the following children: James, Kansas City, Missouri ; Elizabeth, who was the wife of Thomas Farrell and they lived on the farm adjoining the home place near ?tIontserrat and she is now deceased: Margaret, who was the wife of Micliael Farrell, whose death occurred near Montserrat in l^^bruary, 1916: John, who is in tlie employ of the Metropolitan Railway Ccnnpanv, K.ansas City, Alissouri : A\'. F., the subject of this rex'iew : and Lawrence, who died in 1906 at St. Joseph, Missouri. John Burns first located on the Jehu Robinson place bet«-een Montserrat and Ktiob Noster. upon com- ing to Missouri. When ^Mr. and Mrs. Burns moved to their home, which they had built on the farm in ]\lontserrat township, the neighbors gave them a surprise party to welcome them and the weatherman gave the neighbors a surprise. A blizzard arose that night and thirtytwo of the party were obliged to remain at the Burns home until the next evening. Both mother and father died on the farm in Moritserrat township, with only one day intervening between their deaths. They departed this life together in 1886, Mrs. Burns preceding her husband in death only a few hours. They were interred in the same grave in the Warrensburg cemetery.

\\'illiam F. Burns, the subject of this review, received his education in the puljlic schools of Port Huron. ]\Iichigan. He came with his parents to Missouri in 1860 and until six years ago resided on the farm in Montserrat township. In 1911, Mr. Burns moved from the farm to A\'arrensburg and entered the coal business in partnership with J. J. Culp. Two years ago he opened an office in the Christopher building in Warrensburg. Mr. Burns has an enviable reputation among the business men of Johnson county. He is honest and square in all his dealings, a man whose word is as good as gold. The firm has enjoyed a splendid patronage from the start and is now doing an extensive business. William F. Burns is a genial, warm-hearted Irishman, whose quiet, unobtrusive, good humor has made for him friends by the score.

Mav 20, 1879, \\^illiam F. Burns was united in marriage with Mary Ann Rogers, daughter of E. B. and Sarah (Burges) Rogers. E. B. Rogers was l)orn in 1828 in New York and when sixteen years of age left New York and went to Illinois. His death occurred when he was seventy-seven years of age and his widow, who was born in Knetucky, is now residing at Montserrat. Mrs. Rogers is eighty-nine years of age and still enjoying good health. To William F. and Mary Ann (Rogers) Burns have been born nine children: Mrs. E. M. Foster, Warrensburg, Missouri: John, who is owner and manager of a garage at Knob Noster, Missouri : Sarah E., who was engaged in teaching and died at the age of twentv-nine vears Margaret, Avho is engaged in the millinery business in "\\'arrensburg: William, Jr., Smithton. Missouri: Frances, who died at the age of three years: Anna, who is engaged in teaching at Odessa, [Missouri : i\Irs. Aubrey Tockett, Blanca, Colorado : and Vincent, who lives at home with his parents.

father from New York to Illinois and while on the way the senior Mr. Rogers fell from the boat on which they were coming, and was drowned in the Mississippi river. E. B. and Sarah (Burges) Rogers were the parents of the following children: M. S., Lamonte, Missouri; Fletcher, who died from illness caused by disease contracted in the Spanish American War; James, Kansas City, Missouri; Dewitt, who resides in California; Oscar, who resides at Montserrat, Missouri; and Mrs. William F. Burns, the wife of the subject of this review. E. B. Rogers was a veteran of the Civil War. He enlisted in the Union army in 1861 in Peoria county, Illinois and served three years. He took part in the famous battle of Gettyslnirg, which lasted three days, from July 1 to July 4, 1863 and resulted in the loss of more than twentythree thousand men on the Union side. Mr. Rogers was mustered out and honorably discharged in 1864.

William F. Burns has been a resident of Johnson county for nearly sixty years and he has in that time seen many changes incidental to the growth and improvement of the county. He recalls many of the men and women who nobly spent their lives aiding in the upbuilding of both the county and state. Those who devoted their lives to the cause of Christianity in the Catholic church, in the early davs. whom Mr. Burns remembers, were: Father Caloner, Father i\Iurrv, Father McKin, Father Everheart, and Father Phelan. The Catholic church was established in Warrensburg, Missouri in 1866 by Father Caloner, of Sedalia, Missouri. The house of worship was erected soon after and was constructed of brick at a cost of three thousand dollars. Father McCardle, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume, is the present pastor.

Mr. Burns bears the unique distinction of having been a classmate of Thomas A. Edison, America's greatest wizard, when they were boys in Port Huron, Michigan.

J. W. Heuerman, the capable and genteel proprietor of the Fourth Ward Grocery of Warrensburg, Missouri, is a native of Pettis county, Missouri. He was born September 27, 1874, son of Fred C. and Carrie (Seibe) Heuerman. Fred C. Heuerman was born in 1838 in. Germany and when a youth, fourteen years of age, emigrated from his native land to America in 1852. He located in St. Louis, Missouri and from that city moved to Sedalia at a time long before the railroad had been built to that point. For a few years, he lived at Colecamp, Missouri and from there returned to Sedalia. Later, he went to Los Angeles, Cahfornia, where he remained a short time and then came back to Missouri and is now residing in St. Louis. Fred C. Heuerman learned bookkeeping in Germany and he has followed his profession in this country. He enlisted in the Civil War and served in the Union army three years. Mr. Heuerman joined the service at Sedalia, Missouri. Carrie (Seibe) Heuerman is the daughter of a respected pioneer of Sedalia, who was associated in business with John W'. Houx, owning a hardware store in Sedalia. To Fred C. and Carrie (Seibe) Heuerman have been born the following children : John A\'., the subject of this review; Fred C, Jr., St. Louis, Missouri: Leo, St. I^ouis, Missouri; Edward, deceased; Harry, Los Angeles, California; A. M., Indianapolis, Indiana; and Carrie, who resides in Los Angeles, California.

J. W. Heuerman recei\'ed his education in the common schools of Sedalia. He has made his way in the world since he was thirteen years of age, working as a lad as messenger boy for the telegraph company in Sedalia and later as clerk in McCarty's shoe store and in the employ of the Kelk's Carriage Works. At the age of twenty-three years, Mr. Heuerman went to Joplin, Missouri, where he conducted a cafe for the Anheuser Busch people for one year. He then returned to Sedalia and worked in the employ of the telegraph department of the Union Pacific Railway Company. For many years, Mr. Heuerman was employed by the "Katy" Railway Company and by the Queen City Telephone Company. He was manager of the Bell Telephone Company at Warrensburg for ten years, when he resigned his position to engage in the grocery business. In March, 1916, he purchased the Fourth Ward Grocery from H. J. Lyon and he now conducts this store in \\'arrensburg, having a nice, steady, profitable trade, to which he gives his most careful, personal attention. Mr. Heuerman carries a fine, clean stock of groceries, sufficient for the needs of his patronage.

In 1898, J. W. Heuerman and Cora Young, of Sedalia, Missouri, were united in marriage. Cora (Young) Heuerman is a daughter of T. B. Young, who is now living in Sedalia, Missouri. Mrs. Young is deceased. To J. W. and Cora Heuerman have been born two children: Dorothy and John W.. Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Heuerman reside at 407 McGoodwin street in A\'arrensburg. They are highly esteemed and respected in this community, where Mr. Heuerman has established an excellent reputation, in his quiet, unassuming way, being well known

E. B. Stockton, of the firms Stockton & Lampkin and Stockton & Lowe, is one of Johnson county's most " successful and enterprising business men. Air, Stockton was born in Hazel Hill township on his father's farm five miles north of Warrensburg, Missouri, in March, 1869, a son of A. J. and Rebecca E. (Crutcher) Stockton. A. J. Stockton was born in Johnson county, Missouri, a son of William Stockton, who was also a native of Johnson county. William Stockton came to Hazel Hill township in the early part of the nineteenth century, about 1832, and spent his first winter with Pleasant Rice, the first settler of Johnson county. The senior Stockton later entered two hundred forty acres of choice land in Hazel Hill township and years afterward at the Stockton homestead his death occurred. His son A. J., became the owner of a tract of land five miles north of Warrensburg, on which the Walters school house was located, and where his son, E. B., was born, a farm which he sold in 1875 and then purchased land adjoining the William Stockton homeplace. A. J. Stockton sold his country place in 1889 and moved to Warrensburg, Missouri, wdiere he was living in ([uiet retirement at the time of his death on May 28, 1913. Three years later he was joined in death l)y his w'ife, who died July 28, 1916. William Stockton, father of A. J. Stockton, had departed this life in 1880 and his remains were interred in the cemetery at Mount Moriah church. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Stockton were laid to rest in the cemetery at \\^arrensburg. A. J. Stockton was a prominent and influential citizen of Johnson county and his death has been deeply felt in this community, where both he and his wife numbered their friends by the score. A. J. and Rebecca E. (Crutcher) Stockton were the parents of five children, two of whom are now living: E. B., the subject of this review; and Mattie, w-ho is the wife of Charles Bridges, the well-known clerk in the Warrensburg postoffice. Three children died in infancy. A more comprehensive sketch of the family of Mrs. A. J. Stockton will be found in the biography of her father, James Crutcher, .given elsewhere in this volume.

Until 1889, E. B. Stockton resided in the rural districts of Johnson county, assisting his father with the work on the farm, when the elder Stockton disposed of his land and moved to the city of Warrens- burg and with him came his son, who entered the grocery business at this place. In 1895, E. B. Stockton opened the Warrensburg Feed Mill, conducting both store and mill until December 6, 1898, at which time the mill was destroyed by tire. He sold his grocery and devoted his entire attention and time to rebuilding the mill, erecting the one now controlled by Stockton & Lampkin, personally attending to all the work of building, quarrying the rock, cutting the logs, hauling the logs to the mill on Blackwater to be made into lumber for the different mill buildings, the main one 40 x 40 feet, a second 20 x 40 feet, the office and ware room 15 x 60 feet, and sheds 25 x 60 feet in dimensions, wdiich involved no small amount of difficult labor. The mill was opened for business in the autumn of 1899 and for eight years was conducted exclusively by Mr. Stockton, an experienced miller, having been employed as engineer at the Magnolia Mill for some time when he first came to W'arrenslnirg. In 1907, Mr. Stockton and ;\Ir. Lampkin formed a partnership in the milling business and the firm Stockton & Lampkin has since been operating the mill at Warrensburg.

In June, 1898. E. B. Stockton was united in marriage with Mary E. Davenport, daughter of James M. and Martha Davenport. When Mrs. Stockton was but a child, her mother died. To E. B. and IMary E. (Davenport) Stockton has been born one child, a daughter, Ruth, who is completing her sophomore year in the Warrensburg High School at the time of this writing in 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Stockton reside at 411 Miller street in Warrensburg.

In public and political affairs, Mr. Stockton has always taken a most commendable interest and for four years he served as a member of the city council of Warrensliurg. Fraternally, Mr. Stockton is affiliated with the ]\Iodern Woodmen of America, the Modern Brotherhood, and the National Annuity of America. He and i\Irs. Stockton are respected and valued members of the Presbyterian church. The Stockton family is and has long been considered one of the best, most substantial, most highly regarded families in this section of Missouri.

William L. Hyer, engineer of the "Roseland Farm & Manufacturing Company" of Warrensburg. Missouri, was born May 10. 1862 in Ross county. Ohio. He is the son of Levi and Sidney (Welscheimer) Hyer, both of whom were natives of Ross county, Ohio. They were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Jane H. Collins, who resides in Warrensburg: Mrs. Mary C. Keating, who resides in Montezuma, Iowa; Anna, who resides in Warrensburg; Phihp Lawson, who was engaged in teaching school for several years in Johnson county and was in his senior year at Columbia University and would have completed the course in the medical department within a few weeks when his death occurred at the university; Mrs. Mahalia Norris, whose death occurred at Belleville, Kansas; and William L., the subject of this review.

AVhen William L. Hyer was a child four years of age. his father moved with his family from Ohio to Missouri and located on the Theodore Hyatt place, which is the present site of the Johnson County Home, purchasing the farm in October, 1866 from the well-known pioneer, the father of the clerk of Johnson county, the present incumbent in 1917. On this farm the Hyer family resided until 1871, when they moved from the farm to A\'arrensburg and for several years Levi Hyer lived retired from active business. When William L. had attained maturity, he and his father were associated in the ownership of the Eureka Mills in \\'arrensburg. The father's death occurred in 1892 and two years later he was joined in death by his wife. Both parents were laid to rest in the cemetery at Warrensburg.

William L. Hyer spent his first night in Warrensburg on the iloor of the old Robert's Hotel. The house was too crowded in those days for all patrons to have beds. He recalls that in his boyhood days an ordinary rain would form a really large creek on the site of the present depot, the water extending to the location of Blazell's Bookstore and the boys had great sport sailing rafts up and down the street. \\'arrensburg has been an American Venice in its time. South of the present railroad tracks there were practically no houses then.

In the city schools of Warrensburg, William L. Hyer received his early education. He later attended the Warrensburg State Normal School and he is a graduate of that institution in the class of 1888. After completing school. Mr. Hyer served as apprentice with the jeweler, AA'alter Sams, for one year, finishing the period of apprenticeship with L. D. Everhalt, who is now located in Hillsboro, Texas. On account of the condition of his health. William L. Hyer abandoned the jewelry business, which is very confining, and associated with his father acquired the ownership of Eureka Mills in Warrensburg in 1884, which they operated until the death of the father in 1892. William L. Hyer and his brother-in-law, Ahnont Collins, were then associated in operating the mill for many years. It was recently sold to the Roseland Farm & Manufacturing Company, a history of which appears elsewhere in this volume. Mr. Hyer has from the beginning of the company in the new place of business at the Eureka Mills building owned an interest in the factory and had been chief engineer of the company, a position, which he still holds.

February 3, 1913. William L. Hyer and Nellie Stone were united in marriage. Nellie (Stone) Hyer is the daughter of John W. Stone, the pioneer liveryman of Warrensburg, Missouri and Civil War veteran. Mr. Stone came to Warrensburg in the early sixties and is still actively engaged in business. He is one of the few brave and honored ones left of those who entered in l)usiness in Warrensburg just after the Civil War. Mr. and Mrs. Hyer reside in W^arrensburg, Missouri in their home at 402 South Holden street, a home that was built in the late sixties. The Hyers purchased the residence in 1874. It was originally a brick structure, but in late years a frame addition has been built, changing greatly the former appearance of the home. The location of the Hyer's home is ideal.

G. W. V. Smith, proprietor of "The Clarified Milk Dairy," of Warrensburg, was born in 1865 in Nodaway county, Missouri, son of Gus P. and Mary Ann (Riley) Smith, the former, a native of Kansas, having the distinction of being one of the first children born in that state, and the latter, one of Warrensburg's most highly esteemed women, that city being her present home. To Gus P. and Mary Ann (Riley) Smith were born six children: Jefferson, who resides in Kansas City, Missouri: Lemuel M., who resides in Kansas City. Missouri: Robert, of Long Beach, California: Mrs. E. R. Wallbridge, who resides in Warrensburg, Missouri: Mrs. Lucretia Josephine Ramsay, who resides in Metz, Missouri : and G. W. V.. the subject of this review. The father died in Stockton. California in 1907 and the widowed mother has made her home in Warrensburg since that time.

In the public schools of Nodaway county. Missouri. G. W. V. Smith received his education. At the age of nineteen years, he began life for himself, employed in the dairy business, working for Joe Christopher in Warrensburg. That was more than thirty years ago and Mr. Smith is still in the dairy business in Warrensburg. He is the present proprietor of "The Clarified Milk Dairy," located on East Broad street in Warrensburg. G. W. V. Smith is the pioneer dairyman of this city. He started with a wagon fifteen years past and from a two-gallon can dealt out milk to his customers, using for measuring purposes a quart cup, which had a ring encircling it about the center to designate a pint. The dairy was then located at his present place of business on East Broad street. Mr. Smith sold his first dairy and for five years resided on a farm in Johnson county, where he was engaged in truck gardening. He then returned to Warrensburg and resided for two years, at the close of which time he returned to the farm. In March, 1917, Mr. Smith again returned to Warrensburg to engage in the dairy business at his former location.

In 1887, G. W. V. Smith was united in marriage with Mattie Brummel, of Bates county, Missouri. Mattie (Brummel) Smith is a daughter of John H. and Martha Brummel. Mr. Brummel died in February, 1917 at the age of eighty-two years and Mrs. Brummel, who is now eighty-three years of age, is making her home with her daughter, Mrs. G. W. V. Smith. The father was laid to rest in the cemetery at Warrensburg. No children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith, but they have taken into their home two little ones, a boy, Archie, and a girl, Florence Frances. No children in this county are receiving better home training or more excellent care and both Mr. and Mrs. Smith regard their adopted son and daughter with the same affection that they would bestow had they been born to them. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are highly regarded among the county's best citizens. G. W. V. Smith is a member of the Knights of Pythias, of the Maccabees, and of the Modern Woodmen of America, all of Warrensburg.

A large dairy barn, 30 x 50 feet in dimensions, with stanchions for twenty cows, concrete floor, and all the latest improved devices is, at the time of this writing in 1917, in the process of erection. One large room in the dairy is planned for the cooling-room, which room the engine-room adjoins. A three-single-units milking machine will be installed within a short time. Mr. Smith has thirty-eight cows and at the present time is milking thirty-two of them. Twenty head of these are Holsteins, which were shipped from Wisconsin in March, 1916. The rest are Jersey and part Jersey cattle. A purebred registered Holstein male heads the herd. Mr. Smith is raising nineteen head of fine heifer calves for use in the dairy, all of them promising to be splendid milch cows. Besides fourteen acres of land south of the city, Mr. Smith has leased one hundred eighty acres from Mr. Cheatham. The tract of fourteen acres he owns. One hundred fifty-five acres of the Cheatham place is in pasture and the remaining twenty-five acres in corn. There is a silo on the farm and another large one will be erected this season, of 1917.

The clarifying of milk is done by a DeLaval Milk Clarifier. This machine removes all impurities from the milk and allows the milk and cream to come from the same spout, thus eliminating separating the milk and cream. The whole milk is bottled, immediately after clarifying, in sanitary bottles and deliveries are made in the city twice daily. "The Clarified Milk Dairy" is kept spotlessly clean and pure. ]\Iuch time, labor, water, and lime are used in keeping the place perfectly sanitary and G. W. V. Smith is doing everything in his power to make and keep his dairy first class. Two men are employed at this dairy all the time.

H. B. Stratton, owner and manager of the \\'arrensburg Bottling Works, was born in Hancock county, Ohio in 1877. He came to Johnson county, Missouri with his parents, Isaac and Sarah Jane (George) Stratton, in 1882 and they located on a farm in Warrensburg township, the place located three and a half miles east of the city of Warrensburg. Five children were born to Isaac and Sarah Jane (George) Stratton, of whom three sons are now living: W. E. and H. B., of AA'arrensburg. Missouri : and E. C, of Ray, North Dakota. Two years after coming to Johnson county, the mother died, in 1884. Mr. Stratton was remarried, his second wife being Lydia Jane Crawford, who now resides in \\^arrensburg. In 1898, the Stratton family moved from the farm in A\^arrensburg township to their city residence at 348 East Market street, where Isaac Stratton died August 15, 1908. Burial was made in the cemetery at Warrensburg.

On the farm in Warrensburg township, H. B. Stratton was reared to' maturity. He attended the public schools of Johnson county in which he obtained a good cominon school education. He is the present owner and manager of the \\'arrensburg Bottling A\"orks. which plant is located at 126 A\'est Pine street in \\'arrensburg. It was purchased by Mr. Stratton in December. 1916 and put in operation in July, 1917. This factory is engaged in bottling soda water for the city trade and for retail trade in other places. A large quantity of the product is shipped to Strasburg, Sedalia, and many other points along the Missouri Pacific railway and much is also hauled overland to nearby towns. The capacity of the plant is one hundred cases a day. Seventeen different flavors are made, all of excellent quality. Mr. Stratton, himself, works in the factory and in addition employs three assistants.

January 1, 1901, H. B. Stratton was united in marriage with Virginia L. Coats, the daughter of Squire W. Coats, of Warrensburg. To H. B. and Virginia (Coats) Stratton were born two children, Gladys and Archie. The mother of these children died March 19, 1905. Mr. Stratton was remarried, his second wife being Dessa E. Standley, the daughter of A. J. Standley, whose death occurred March 21, 1908 in California. H. B. and Dessa E. (Standley) Stratton are the parents of three children: Pauline, Henrietta, and Mary Frances. Mr. and Mrs. Stratton reside in Warrensburg at 502 Normal avenue. They are highly esteemed among the young people of their community and are numbered among the valued citizens of Johnson county.

L. L. Gregg, a well-known and prosperous farmer and stockman of Jackson township, is a member of a prominent pioneer family of Johnson county and a descendant of an old, historic family of Ireland. Mr. Gregg was born in Jackson county, Missouri in 1851, a son of Dr. John L. and Martha F. Gregg. The founder of the Gregg family in America was William Gregg, who emigrated from northeastern Ireland in 1682. The history of the Gregg family in Ireland recalls the unhappy event which occurred during the reign of James I. of England. The last great triumph in Elizabeth's reign had been the putting down of the great rebellion in Ulster in northeastern Ireland, a rebellion led by Hugh O'Neill. When James I. succeeded Elizabeth, he took a step fraught with disaster. He confiscated the northeastern districts of Ireland, constituting the province of Ulster, and in 1610 crowded the Irish out with no more said than that they must find subsistence elsewhere. Since that act an implacable hatred has existed between the oppressors and the oppressed. The ancestors of L. L. Gregg sought refuge in Scotland and then in Pennsylvania. Some time in their past history, the Greggs had embraced the Quaker faith and William Gregg was among the earliest arrivals of the sect of Friends to settle in William

Penn's colony. William Gregg, the follower of Penn, was the father of John, who became father of William Gregg, Jr. and to him was born a son, Jacob, who became the father of three sons: Harmon, William, and David. Harmon Gregg was united in marriage with Susanna Smelser in Pennsylvania and to this union was born a son, Jacob, afterward the father of John L., the father of L. L., the subject of this review. In 1809, the three brothers, Harmon, William, and David Gregg, moved from Pennsylvania with a train of emigrants to Illinois and three years later to the territory of Missouri. The Gregg brothers were inmates of Cooper's Fort at the time of trouble between the settlers and the Sac and Fox Indians in what is now Howard county, Missouri and William Gregg was killed by the savages while on a hunting expedition in Saline county.

Dr. John L. Gregg came to Johnson county, Missouri in 1857 and began the practice of his profession in this county. He and Mrs. Gregg were the parents of two children, of whom L. L. is the sole survivor. ^^'hen L. L. Gregg was a child two years of age, his parents and he made a trip across the plains in an ox-wagon to California. The journey was too much for the strength of the delicate mother and she died shortly after they had reached California. Father and son returned to Missouri in 1854 and located hrst in Jackson county coming thence to Johnson count}' in 1857. Dr. Gregg continued to practice medicine all his life. He won recognition solely on his own merits as a physiciam Dr. Gregg possessed the power to inspire confidence and in manv ways was an ideal family physician besides a highly respected citizen. He died in 1896.

In 1878, L. L. Gregg and Anna E. Hill were united in marriage. Mrs. Gregg is a daughter of AX'illiam Hill, an early settler of Johnson county, Missouri. The Hills came originally from Tennessee. To L. L. and Anna E. (Hill) Gregg have been born six children: John and ]\Irs. Daisy E. Kreeger, of Lonejack, Missouri ; Homer V., Nashville, Tennessee: Mrs. Mamie King, Oakgro\'e, IMissouri : Luther L., Jr., and Mrs. Lydia E. Pemberton, of Lonejack, Missouri. Luther L., Jr., is associated in farming and stock raising with his father on the Gregg home place in Jackson township. The son attends to the general farming and the father to the stock on the place.

Johnson county. In the autumn, of 1917, the Greggs harvested seventyfive tons of hay and had fifty-five acres of the farm in corn land. Mr. Gregg is specializing in breeding and raising Shorthorn cattle and he has had uniform success with his stock. At the time of this writing, there were seven acres of the Gregg farm in navy beans which promised a splendid yield.

A kindly man and good citizen, L. L. Gregg occupies a large place in the affection and respect of his acquaintances. Candor and probity have always marked his dealings with his fellowmen and his even temper and congenial qualities have made his company much sought. Those who know him personally have said. "He enjoys a good joke and a hearty laugh and has a host of warm personal friends."

W. Clark McDougal, late prosperous farmer and stockman of Chilhowee township, was a member of a fine pioneer family of Johnson county. He was born on July 3, 1854, in Ohio, a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Johnson) McDougal, both of whom were born in Ohio, the father of New York and the mother, of Virginia colonial stock, When Morgan's raiders passed through Ohio during the Civil War, Joseph McDougal met death at their hands. For a few years the widowed mother tried to maintain herself and her little ones on the farm in Ohio, and in 1872, they came to Missouri and settled on a farm in Chilhowee township, Johnson county.

When the McDougals came to Johnson county, forty-five years ago, the greater portion of the county was unfenced and the land was as yet but thinly settled and hardly recovered from the ravages of the Civil War period, when the armies of both the North and the South swept over the country. As a lad in Ohio, Mr. McDougal was delighted to obtain work at splitting logs at a wage of seventy-five cents per day. After the family moved to Missouri all the boys worked hard and saved carefully of their earnings, in fact, all that was not needed to purchase the veriest necessities, and they purchased a farm of eighty acres, where they engaged in farming and stock raising for many years, making a home for the brave woman who had done her best to make one for them years before. The mother died in 1900.

In 1890, W. C. McDougal and Alice Little were united in marriage. To this marriage have been born three children: J. Hammond; Margaret A. ; and George C.

this volume. She was born in Jefferson county, Virginia, January 2, 1855. Mr. McDougal departed this life October 2i, 1917, after a period of industry and right living which left an indelible imprint upon the community in which he resided.

Three hundred and sixty acres of splendid farm land comprise the McDougal estate, one hundred and sixty acres of which are in pasture land and grass. Mr. McDougal was a successful breeder of Poland China and Duroc Jersey hogs besides raising large herds of cattle and horses. The farm is nicely improved and the residence is a very attractive one.

Politically, Mr. McDougal was a Republican. He was one of the most highly valued and respected citizens of the county and his loss has been keenly felt by his many friends and acquaintances who valued him for his honesty and industry. He was a kind husband and a good father to his family - one who is sadly missed and whose memory will ever be enshrined in their hearts and memories.

Wallace Crossley, of Warrensburg, Lieutenant-Governor of ^lissouri, was born at Bellair, Cooper county, Missouri, October 8, 1874. He is a son of S. \\'. Crossley, a one-armed veteran of Stonewall Jackson's brigade, who moved from \"irginia to ^^lissouri after the war and engaged in teaching in Boone and Cooper counties until his death in 1884, after which his widow, who was Miss Elberta Givens, a native of Kentucky, reared in Boone county, Missouri, moved with her son to Mexico, Missouri.

Wallace Crossley received his schooling in Mexico High School. William Jewell College and the State University. He taught at Mexico, spent a year in charge of Pilot Grove Academy and for three years was instructor in the English department of the Warrensburg State Normal after which he embarked in the newspaper business as editor and proprietor of the "Johnson County Star," He is still connected financially with the "Warrensburg Star-Journal," one of Missouri's largest country newspapers.

In 1904, he was sent to the Legislature from Johnson county, and served three terms. In 1912, he was elected State Senator without opposition from the district composed of Cass, Johnson and Lafayette counties. During his legislative career he took particular interest in measures affecting the state highway system, the public schools and prison reform, being a member of the senate committee whose report

Mr. Crossley was married December 30, 1902, to Miss Erma Cheatham of Warrensburg. They have no children. Both Mr. and Mrs. Crossley are members of the Baptist church, and he belongs to several leading fraternal organizations.

Charles August Reichle was born May 9, 1864 in Ross county, Ohio, on the farm of his father, a place located near Chillicothe. He is a son of John Jacob and Anna Barbara (Reichle) Reichle, both of whom were natives of Germany. John Jacob Reichle was born March 16, 1820 in Guttenburg and Anna Barbara was born March 21, 1825 in Wurtemburg. They were united in marriage in Germany in 1849 and two children were born to them in the old country: Margaret and Christopher. In 1854, the father emigrated from his native land and came to America, where he located temporarily in Pennsylvania and then in Ohio. In the latter state, he engaged in general farming and when he had accumulated sufficient savings, John Jacob Reichle sent for his wife and children, who had remained in the old country on account of the hard times, and the mother came to America in 1856, bringing the two children with her to Ohio. In Ross county, Ohio, three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Reichle: Mary Elizabeth, Clara Christina, and Charles August. The Reichle family moved from Ohio to Missouri in 1865 and located on the farm, known as the Robertson place, in Johnson county. In 1867, they settled on the farm now owned by Charles August Reichle, the land formerly belonging to Daniel Adams. This place comprised ninety acres and here the father was engaged in farming and stock raising for many years. He died in August, 1906 and in the same month of the year, seven years later the mother joined him in death, August 29, 1913. Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Reichle were valued members of the German Lutheran church.

December 27, 1888, Charles August Reichle and Elizabeth Mack, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Mack, of Johnson county, were united in marriage. To them were born the following children: Gertrude Elsie, born August 4, 1890 and died October 27, 1907; Ora Ethel, born July 10, 1892; and Charles August. Jr., born December 19. 1901. The mother died September 18, 1907. She was one of Johnson county's bravest and noblest women.

For seven years after his marriage, Mr. Reichle was engaged in farming on rented farms. At the close of that period of time, he moved back home with his parents and has resided on the home place ever since. He now owns the one hundred thirty acres comprising the home farm and one-third interest in a tract of land of one hundred sixty acres adjoining the homestead. Mr. Reichlie is an earnest Christian gentleman, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. It is a delight and pleasure to talk with a man such as Charles August Reichle, who always looks on the bright side and turns all "clouds inside out to find the silver lining." He is of the opinion that the present times are not so bad or so hard. Mr. Reichle has experienced all the hardships of pioneer life and war and he knows the meaning of really "hard times," when people considered themselves well off if they had plenty of corn bread and hominy. Yeast bread was a luxury, indulged in about once a month, and deemed so fine that it was called "cake." Prices for food and clothing are high now, but the wages of the working man of any intelligence are also high and conditions are not to be compared with those when he was a young man trying to get a start in life, working for a dollar a day and flour ten dollars a barrel, hogs twelve dollars a hundred weight, and even calico one dollar a yard.

J. G. Gillilan, a competent and industrious farmer and stockman of Columbus township, is a son of an honored pioneer of Johnson county, a member of one of the first families of Columbus township. Mr. Gillilan was born in Columbus township in 1871, son of John M. and Rachel Ruth (Kelly) Gillilan, the father, a native of West Virginia and the mother, a daughter of an early pioneer of Johnson county, John Kelly. John ]M. Gillilan was born in Greenbrier county, West Virginia and when a mere lad, sixteen years of age, came West and located temporarily in Lafayette county and then settled on a farm in Columbus township, where he has since resided continuously, with the exception of four years when he was in the Confederate service during the Civil War. Mr. Gillilan was born in 1837 and in October, 1853 purchased the farm which is now his home. To John M. and Rachel Ruth Gillilan have been born twelve children : Mrs. Martha Grinstead, Kingsville, Missouri; William Price, who died at the age of twenty-five years ; Mrs. Anna Van Meter, Odessa, Missouri ; Mrs. Lydia Violet, Hazel Hill township; J. G., Columbus township, the subject of this review; R. R., Odessa, Missouri; Bertie, at home; ]\Irs. Ger- trude Anderson, Odessa, Missouri; Charles, the well-known cashier of the American Trust Company of Warrensburg; Ethel, at home with her parents; Clarence, at home; and one child, deceased. Both parents are still living. The father is now eighty years of age, but nearly as active as his sons, and as bright and alert mentally as most men of fifty years. A more comprehensive sketch of the Gillilans appears in connection with the biography of John M. Gillilan, which will be found elsewhere in this volume.

J. G. Gillilan attended school at McCoy school house in Columbus township. He remained with his parents until he was twenty-four years of age and then rented land for three years and, in 1897, purchased his present home from J. W. Campbell, a place formerly known as the Grover farm, which is located three miles northwest of Columbus. Mr. Gillilan has added all the improvements on the place, including the buildings, fencing, and the resideace. The residence was built in 1897 and a barn has been built in recent years, in 1906. The farm is well equipped for general farming and stock raising and is abundantly watered. The J. G. Gillilan home is one of the pleasant and attractive homes of Johnson county.

In 1895, J. G. Gillilan and Essie Boone, daughter of Manlius and Mattie Boone, pioneers of Lafayette county, Missouri, were united in marriage and to them have been born four children: Russell. Manlius, Ruth, and Jay George, all at home with their parents. Manlius Boone came from his native state of Kentucky in 1854 and settled in Lafayette county, Missouri. He was a distant relative of the famous Daniel Boone, the pioneer huntsman of Kentucky. Mrs. Boone died in 1883 and her remains were laid to rest in Mount Tabor cemetery. Mr. Boone died in July, 1909 in Columbus township, Johnson county and he, too, was buried in Mount Tabor cemetery. Manlius Boone was a son of Samuel Boone and both father and son served with "Fighting Joe" Shelby during the Civil War. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gillilan are descendants of brave Confederate veterans and honored pioneers and they are numbered among the best families of this part of Missouri.

F. Allen Roberts, farmer and stockman, is a native-born son of Missouri. Mr. Roberts was born in Madison township, Johnson county in 1884. He is a son of Thomas Jackson ("Jack" Roberts, as he was familiarly known) and Catharine (Hayes) Roberts.

Thomas Jackson Roberts was born in Tennessee in 1843, son of George K. and Mary Elizabeth (Rhodes) Roberts, the former, born in 1812 and died in 1898 and the latter, the mother, departed this life in 1886. Both parents of Thomas J. Roberts were born in Kentucky. They immigrated to Missouri in 1845 and settled in Madison township about three miles north of Holden. Mr. Roberts was educated here at Round Grove school house and grew to sturdy manhood on his father's farm. When war broke out between the the North and South, Mr. Roberts enlisted shortly after the battle of Lonejack was fought. He served under General Price and took part in a number of battles and served until the close of the war. He was discharged from service at Baton Rouge. Not long after, taking up the peaceful pursuits of farming, he married Catharine Hayes, in 1865. For forty-nine years, he resided on his farm in Madison township. Mrs. Roberts was born in Cass county, a daughter of Montgomery and Mary (Cockrell) Hayes, her mother being a sister of Senator Cockrell. Montgomery Hayes, the father, was a native of Kentucky. He was reared in Saline county, Missouri. He made the long trip overland to the gold fields of California in 1849 and died there. Thomas J. Roberts died at his old home in 1915. Mrs. Roberts died on August 11. 1885.

Thomas J. and Catharine Roberts were the parents of seven children, as follow: Anna, wnfe of George Brock, living near Strasburg, Missouri in Johnson county; Bettie, deceased; Mrs. John F. Baker, Holden, Missouri; Minnie, wife of P. A. Harvey; Margaret, wife of John C. Mayes, of Montserrat; Birle, wife of Finis E. Mayes of Montserrat ; and F. Allen, the subject of this review, who is now owner of the home place in Madison township. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. Mr. Roberts was a life-long Democrat.

F. Allen Roberts was reared on the home place and received his education in the district schools and the Holden High School. He is farming on the home place, a farm of three hundred forty-eight acres, and is making a fine success cultivating his land. Mr. Roberts keeps a large herd of white face Hereford cattle, with a registered male as herd leader, being a firm believer in the fact conceded by the most successful Missouri farmers that this section of the state is best adapted to stock raising. He likewise believes that it pays to keep the best breeds of stock.

Mr. Roberts was married in 1911 to Miss Howard, daughter of Mack Howard, of Kingsville township, one of the old settlers of Johnson county. Mr. and Mrs. F. Allen Roberts have two children: Mary Frances and Edith. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts are members of the Christian church. Mr. Roberts is a Democrat, politically, and is fraternally affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America.

Richard Henry Tatlow was born on a farm near Palmyra, Missouri on July 29, 1841. His parents, Thomas H. Tatlow and Eliza Jane Tatlow, his wife, whose maiden name was Barr, came to Missouri from Delaware in 1840 and settled on a farm near Palmyra in Marion county.

Young Tatlow was educated in the schools of Palmyra. In 1859, he went to Hannibal and was engaged in merchandising until 1864, when he returned to Palmyra and was engaged in operating a flour mill until 1874. April 18, 1866, he was married to Miss Fannie E. Anderson, daughter of Colonel Thomas L. and Mrs. F. M. Anderson. Mr. Anderson was a native of Kentucky and his wife, of Massachusetts. To this union five children were born, four of whom survived, a daughter. Lillian, dying in infancy. In 1874, he retired to a farm east of Palmyra and farmed until 1879. Then he moved to Holden and re-entered mercantile life and was thus engaged until 1886. when he bought a half interest in the "Holden Enterprise," a Democratic journal, and he and John D. Crisp conducted this paper until 1890. He then bought out Mr. Crisp and continued the publication alone until 1917, covering a period of thirty-one years. In 1896, Governor W. J. Stone appointed him a member of the Johnson county court to fill a vacancy. In the fall of 1896, he was elected to the position for two years. He retired in 1899.

R. H. Tatlow, Jr., the only son, with his wife, started from Denver, Colorado on October 15, 1917, in his auto to visit his parents at Holden and when seventy-five miles east of Denver, near Lymon, Colorado, the car skidded and turned over, killing him instantly and seriously injuring his wife. Fortunately, the children, R. H. Tatlow, III, aged twelve years, and the little daughter. Laurine, aged ten years, were left at home at school.

Stock Farm," a son of Captain Lewis, Sr., and Elizabeth (Upton) Burris, who were the parents of four children: CorneHa M., Warrensburg, Missouri; Charles T.. the subject of this review: H. J., Kansas City, Missouri : and Lewis L., a prominent farmer of Columbus township, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. The father was a native of Lafayette county and the mother of Randolph, Missouri. Captain Burris died in 1911 and the widowed mother is now residing in Warrensburg. The history of the Burris family is given in more complete detail in connection with the biography of the son, Lewis Burris. Jr., which will be found elsewhere in this volume.

Captain Lewis Burris, Sr., came to Columbus township, Johnson county within a few years after his return home from the Civil war, in which he served as captain of the confederate regiment from Nodaway county. He purchased sixty acres of land at that time, a tract of timber land, which he cleared and improved and added to, until at the time of his death six years ago he was the owner of one of the most valual)le farms in the county, a place comprising more than seven hundred acres of land. Mr. Burris divided his place among his children a short time prior to his death. Charles T. Burris now owns the home farm and residence. He has given much time and attention to improving the soil of the old home farm and by rotating his crops and pasturing stock has met with splendid success and "The Elms Stock Farm" is now considered one of the fine farms of Columbus township. The fencing of the farm has been improved and the residence rebuilt and all the farm buildings nicely painted. All the place practically is under cultivation and in grass and pasture land. "The Elms Stock Farm" comprises one hundred acres of land located five and a half miles northeast of Columbus in the northeastern corner of the township. The name of the farm is registered.

Charles T. Burris attended the city schools at Warrensburg and later was a student at the Warrenslnirg State Normal School from which institution he graduated with the class of 1894. He then returned to the farm and associated with his father and his brother, Lewis, Jr., in cattle raising for fifteen years. The elder Burris retired from active farm work in 1910 and about two years later his death occurred in Warrensburg. Since that time, the two brothers have kept separate herds of Aberdeen Angus cattle. Charles T. Burris has now. in 1917, thirty head of these on his farm. He sells at the home market and has a

April 1, 1897, Charles T. Burris and Lillie Ramsey were united in marriage and to this union was born one child, a daughter, Erma Lee, who is now teaching school in district Number 83. Mrs. Burris died and October 14, 1909 Mr. Burris again married, his second wife being Gertrude Brockman, of Columbus, Missouri, daughter of J. E. Brockman. Mr. and Mrs. Burris reside at "The Elms," but with the new Ford car their home is but a ride of fifteen minutes from Warrensburg. Mr. Burris recalls vividly the days when it required the entire day to make the round trip. The Burris family have long been prominent in Johnson county and Charles T. is well known as a progressive and successful farmer and stockman in this part of the state. Both he and Mrs. Burris are highly regarded in their community and they are enrolled among the valued and public spirited citizens of Columbus township.