Nodaway County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1910 (part 2 of 6)

Thomas Nathaniel Garten

Sarah Jane Garten, living in Union township, Nodaway county, is the widow of Thomas Nathaniel Garten, who was born in Virginia in 1828 and whose death occurred on April 19, 1884, at the age of fifty-six years, three months and twelve days. In Daviess county, Indiana, he married Sarah Jane Simonson when she was twenty-four years of age and he was ten years older. They began their married life on a rented farm in Indiana, later com¬ ing to Nodaway county. Missouri, locating on the farm where Mrs. Garten now resides; on the land was a small log house and only a small "patch" of ground was in cultivation. The place consisted of one hundred acres, for which Mr. Garten paid four hundred dollars; he had a pair of mules, a wagon and harness, which he drove from Indiana. He later had to pay off an old claim of two hundred dollars. He was a hard worker and at once began clearing the land and placed it in cultivation, and he was soon very comfort¬ ably established. He built the present cozy home the spring before he died, - in fact, it was left unfinished and it took Mrs. Garten several years to pay for it. He had purchased twenty acres, making in all a farm of one hundred and thirty-four acres, which he had placed under good improvements; he himself placed over forty acres in cultivation. He was never afraid of hard work and in his early life he worked out in order to get a start. He arrived in Nodaway county in the month of June, too late to put out a regular crop, and he worked out for two years ; the second year he rented bottom land, but high water ruined his crop and he got nothing, but after that he was more success¬ ful. Mrs. Garten has managed the place well and has built a new barn and made many good improvements. Mr. Garten was never a rugged man and his death by pneumonia was sudden, having been ill but a few days.

Mr. Garten was a Republican in politics and at one time he very ably served as tax collector. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church all his mature life. He was a good neighbor, a kind husband and indulgent father.

Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Garten, named as follows: Winfield Scott died when thirty years of age; Charles Cornelius Sigel has remained on the farm and is single ; Edward Seward remained at home until his death, at the age of twenty-six years; Cora Effie married Ben Bousch, of Independence township ; Alta Emma married Luther Pistole, of Polk township; Cordelia married Rafe Heirfford, a physician living in Kansas.

The Garten home is a pleasant one, the house standing on an eminence about one hundred feet above the bottoms of the One Hundred and Two river and of the Mowry creek, and a splendid view may be had from it. About eighty acres of the one hundred and thirty-eight lie in the creek bottoms.

Mrs. Garten and son Charles have also purchased a very valuable farm of Ira Moore in Jackson township. It consists of one hundred and sixty acres, which they rent. Their bottom land is very rich and is not subject to overflow. General farming is carried on and mules, hogs and other livestock are handled very successfully.

Henry R. Pierpoint

Among the enterprising and successful business men of the prosperous city of Maryville stands Henry R. Pierpoint, who is engaged in the livery business. Devoting himself assiduously to his business, he has commanded a large share of the public patronage and enjoys to a marked degree the confidence and esteem of the entire community.

Henry R. Pierpoint was born near Wheeling, West Virginia, on July 31, 1866, and is a son of Thomas and Leona Pierpoint. Thomas Pierpoint was a native of Virginia, horn on March 6, 1827, and on attaining to ma¬ ture years he applied himself to the vocation of farming, at which he con¬ tinued until 1867, when he came to Missouri. Locating in Nodaway county, he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in Jackson township. He applied himself closely to the development and improvement of this land, which he brought up to a high standard of cultivation, and where he made his home until 1899, when he sold the farm to his children and moved to Ravenwood, intending to spend his remaining years in ease. However, he could not stand the idleness this entailed, and in 1901 he bought forty acres of land adjoining his old homestead and again took up farming. His death occurred on October 10, 1904. In politics he was a Democrat and his relig¬ ious belief was that of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a man of splendid personal character and he commanded the unbounded confidence of the entire community.

Henry R. Pierpoint was reared under the parental roof and received his education in the common schools. On attaining mature years he worked for about a year at farm work, and then for another year he operated rented land on his own account. He was prosperous and then bought forty acres of land, in the operation of which he was so successful that he was enabled to buy other land until his holdings amounted to one hundred and sixty acres. In 1906 Mr. Pierpoint went to Nebraska and opened a feed yard at Beatrice, that state, in which he was engaged for about ten months. During the following two and a half years he was engaged in the implement business at Hebron. Nebraska, meeting with fair success. In December, 1909, Mr. Pierpoint came to Maryville and bought the Star livery stable, one of the old and well known establishments of its kind here. He remodeled the stable, making a number of valuable improvements, and here he is operating a livery and feed stable with pronounced success. In his stable are to be found a full line of such vehicles as are in demand by the local custom, his live stock being kept in excellent condition, while the general appointments of the stable are first-class in every respect. He is a good judge of horseflesh and his word as to the qualities of a horse can be absolutely relied upon. He enjoys a good reputation in the community and, as before stated, is enjoying his full share of the public patronage.

On February 24, T896, Mr. Pierpoint was united in marriage to Minerva Gillam, a daughter of Hackaliah and Parmelia (Herzog) Gillam, her birth having occurred in McDonough county, Illinois, on January 17, 1877. They are the parents of two children, Leona and Glenn, both of whom are in school. Mr. and Mrs. Gillam are representatives of old and well established families. The father moved from Illinois to Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1880, and settled on eighty acres of land in Jefferson township. He im¬ proved this place and after a residence on it of three years, sold it and re¬ moved to Polk township, this county, where he purchased eighty acres. There for a period of ten years he farmed successfully, selling out in 1906 and he and his wife moved into Maryville, locating in a comfortable home at the corner of Market and Seventh streets, where they now reside.

Politically, Mr. Pierpoint is a stanch supporter of the Democratic party, while religiously, he is a member of and gives an earnest support to the Christian church. He is a man of excellent personal qualities who, because of his sterling integrity and upright life, has won and today enjoys the con¬ fidence and regard of all who know him.

Frederick Hastings

Wherever we find the English-born citizen in the United States we find one of our very best citizens, always law-abiding, quiet, reliable and a man who is not afraid of work, however arduous, but who brushes aside all obstacles until he has a home and a competency. Such a man is Frederick Hastings, now living in retirement in Maryville. He was born in London, England, seventy years ago, and when a child came to New Brunswick, New Jersey, and there he grew to maturity. When twenty-one years old he ac¬ companied his parents to Chicago ; later he came on to Muscatine. Iowa, where he worked at watch repairing, his parents finally joining him there. Young Hastings proved his loyalty to his adopted country in 1861 when he enlisted in Campanv H, Eleventh Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, from Muscatine, at the first call for three-months troops. He was in the great battle of Shiloh and he was soon detailed as a telegraph operator, the art of telegraphy having been taught him at Muscatine, where he ''picked it up," the office there having been located in the store with which he was connected. He served as operator for a year, in the ordnance department. In 1864 he entered the service of the Third United States Artillery and was first lieu¬ tenant of Battery K. As such he served in the fight at Memphis, Tennessee.

his battery defending that city. He was for a time on detached service as a staff officer at Memphis under General Kapner, remaining in that city until August, 1866. He was in charge of an ordnance store, receiving and dis¬ tributing ammunition, etc. He had charge of a large detail of men for this purpose, Memphis being the base of supplies for the Western army. He was discharged as first lieutenant. He entered the government employ in the scout service with headquarters at Memphis, during the reconstruction period. His duties were largely to prevent smuggling, especially smuggling and sell¬ ing whisky, and he remained in that service for a period of three years.

Air. Hastings came to Alaryville, Missouri, in 1869. He had two friends at St. Joseph, .Albert Pike and Joseph Durfee, also Captain Kappner, all old army friends. He went in partnership in business with H. F. Crane, under the firm name of Crane & Hastings, in the jewelry, book and stationery business, which was successfully continued until 1900, over thirty years. After thus being actively engaged, Mr. Hastings retired some ten years ago. The business grew from a small beginning to large proportions. They also conducted a store at Bedford, Iowa, of which a nephew of Mr. Hastings was in charge, William Hastings, who came there from New York, first working in the Maryville store, but later was sent to Bedford. After closing the business there young Hastings returned to Brooklyn, New \rork. Mr. Crane is still in business here.

Mr. Hastings is the owner of seventy-five acres of very valuable land, all within the city limits and in pasture. He has never been an aspirant for office, is a Republican, but in local matters votes independently - for the man, rather than the party. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and is in the Union AYteran League.

Mr. Hastings was married at Memphis, Tennessee, in 1865, to Jane Bywater, who was born in Illinois, the daughter of a Baptist minister. Three children have been born to this union, named as follows: Gay married Fred Leeper, of Alaryville: Frederica married Joseph Brown, of Kansas City; Harry is living in Muscatine, Iowa.

William B. Hanna

As a farmer William B. Hanna, of Polk township, is rated among the leaders in this line, and his life record is unclouded by wrong or suspicion of evil. He has always clung to whatever is of good repute and his name is a synonym for all that is honorable and straightforward.

Mr. Hanna is a "home boy," having been born in Polk township, Noda¬ way county, October 12, 1857. His father was Henry Hanna and his mother was known in her maidenhood as Jane Neal. The former was a native of county Down, Ireland, and the latter was born in Ohio, and it was from that state that they came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1854, and settled in Polk township, seven miles northeast of Maryville, where he entered a tract of government land, one hundred and sixty acres, which he improved and placed on it good buildings and there he continued to work and live until his death, January 13, 1887, having established a very comfortable home. He was born in 1818. Mrs. Hanna survives, having reached an advanced age. Their family consisted of ten children, named as follows : Charles O., living in North Dakota; John H. is farming in Polk township; Belle died in childhood; William B., of this review; Ella L. is the wife of George P. Bainum, of Maryville; James F. is a farmer in Union township; George N. lives at Anaconda, Montana; Amanda J. was the wife of Samuel McClurg, and she died at her home in Polk township; Effie E. is living at home; Albert S. lives in Polk township.

William B. Hanna lived on the home place until about the spring of 1881, when he purchased eighty acres of land where he now lives. He re¬ ceived a good education and began life by teaching school in his home county, at which he was very successful, following this line for four or five years. Aside from that, farming and stock raising has been his sole occupation. He has added to his place until he now owns an excellent farm of one hundred and twenty acres, on which he has made good improvements and where he has a very comfortable home.

Mr. Hanna was married in Maryville on December 25, 1884, to Eva A. Baker, who was born in Wisconsin, April 2, 1866. She is the daughtev of Edward J. and Mary (Pope) Baker. For a full history of her parents see the sketch of Edward J. Baker in this volume. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Baker: Elmer lives in Polk township; Edna is the wife of Floyd Westfall, of Barnard, this county; Eva A., wife of William B. Hanna, of this review; Adelia is the wife of Wayland Wood and lives in Montana. Mr. and Mrs. Hanna are the parents of eight children, a daughter dying in infancy; the others are Esther M., who is a school teacher, gradu¬ ated from the Northwestern Normal School: Guy B. is in Knowlton, Mon¬ tana; Byron M., Henry Edward, Elmer B. ; Roy W. died in infancy; Roine F.

four years and at the same time was justice of the peace. He has long been active in local party affairs and is always ready to further the interests of the Democratic party. He and Mrs. Hanna are members and faithful sup¬ porters of the Methodist Episcopal church.

William Harvey Booth

Another one of Green township's steadv-going and successful farmers, who hails from the state of Indiana and who has benefited both himself and the community by migrating to Nodaway county, is William Harvey Booth. He was born in Jackson county, Indiana, in 1858, and is the son of James and Anna (Shepard) Booth, the father a native of Kentucky and the mother of Indiana. They emigrated from Indiana to Nodaway county, Missouri, when their son, William H., was about ten years old, locating about ten miles northwest of Maryville, buying a farm and making the family home there. There were eight children, three sons and five daughters, namely : Adeline is the wife of James Wiseman and lives in the eastern part of Green township; Elizabeth is the wife of James Shelton, now of Kansas Citv ; Sarah married Alex. Osborne, and her death occurred in November, 1908; Mary married Richard Brown, and she died early in 1877; John W. lives in Kansas City; Charity is the wife of Dan Knight and lives at Centralia, Kansas; George lives in Arkansas; William H. of this review.

Mr. Booth was reared on the home place northwest of Maryville and when twenty-two years old began farming for himself near Home and he has lived practically ever since in that locality, or where he now lives, four miles farther south in the northeast part of the township. He was about twenty-three years old when he bought his first piece of land, forty acres west of the old home. Two or three years later he made three or four differ¬ ent trades and lived a short time on each farm. He bought the place whert he now lives about 1890. It contains one hundred and twenty acres of ex¬ cellent farming land and is located in the northeast one-fourth of section 18, m the eastern part of Green township. He has added modern improve¬ ments on it from year to year.

Mr. Booth was married September 2, 1877, to Nancy Jane Hardestv daughter of Christopher Ray and Sarah (Martin) Hardesty. Mrs. Booth was born in 1 86 1 at Ouitman, this countv. and was reared in the same neighborhood as was Mr. Booth, ten miles southwest of Maryville. Nine children have been born to this union, two of whom are deceased; they are: James Harvey, at home with his parents; Edward Carson, who died October 2, 1905, when twenty-four years old, had married Josie Pifer, and he is also survived by one daughter, Learlie Lucile; Maud Elizabeth Booth married Frank Kelly and lives in St. Joseph. Missouri, and they have one son, Ernest; Jennie died when seven months old; Bertha Ethel married Arch Wilhoyt and lives on his farm in the southeastern part of Green township, and they have one daughter, Bertha Marie; Earl Ray, Nora Blanche, Grace Armedia and Lester Everett are all at home with their parents.

Mr. Booth is a quiet, approachable, hospitable and friendly gentleman who stands high in the estimation of all who know him. He likes to tell of the days when the Booth family first came to Nodaway county, having made the trip from Indiana in wagons, several families coming at the same time ; the trip required three weeks, during which time they camped out at nights. After settling here they were compelled for some time to drive across open prairie to Maryville. Land was still obtainable at one dollars and twenty-five cents per acre, but prairie land was not wanted.

E. C. Phares Lumber Company

Throughout northwestern Missouri and in adjoining states is known the E. C. Phares Lumber Company, located at Maryville, Nodaway county, of which W. F. Phares is manager, this being one of the old and substantial business concerns in this locality, the prestige of which is still gradually in¬ creasing owing to the enterprise, the straightforward methods and the ju¬ dicious judgment employed in its management.

E. C. Phares purchased the yard of Frank Rowley in March, 1904, and he continued the same until his death, in 1906. He lived many years in Sedalia, Missouri, where he conducted an extensive yard which he owned. He was manager of the Badger Lumber Company of St. Joseph from 1890 to 1891. He was one of the best known lumber men of the northern part of the state, and, a good mixer, he was popular with the trade. In 1905 the local shed burned with a loss of nine thousand dollars, and it was replaced with a larger shed, fifty-six by eighty feet, the main building being sixty-six by one hundred and thirty-two feet, the yard now covering sixtv-six by one hundred and thirty-two and one hundred and thirty-two by one hundred and thirty- two feet, and a well selected and extensive stock, amounting to about twenty thousand dollars, is carried, the annual sales amounting to about forty thou¬ sand dollars, A full line of building material is carried. This firm furnished the material for the construction of the county poor house in 1908, and in 1909 the material for the new high school building. Three men are con¬ stantly employed about the yards and this is a very busy place during the building season.

W. F. Phares, a practical and energetic young business man, has been in charge of the office and yard for the past five years and he has pushed the business until it has assumed large proportions and is rapidly growing.

This yard was first started about thirty-five years ago by William How¬ ell, who sold out to Frank Rowley. It is the oldest firm in Maryville and one of the best known in this section of the state.

Joseph A. H. Sobbing

In the death of the honored subject of this sketch, which occurred at his home in Hopkins township, Nodaway county, Missouri, on November 4, 1905, the community lost one of its most estimable and high-minded men and the county of Nodaway a public-spirited citizen whose place it will be difficult to fill. A devoted husband and loving and indulgent father, a keen and saga¬ cious man of affairs, he acted well his part in life, wielded a strong influence for good, and in his removal there passed from earth one who, in a large measure, had dignified his manhood and honored the race.

Joseph August Herman Sobbing was born in the province of Westphalen Prussia, on February 17, 1848. and was the son of John Heinrich and Eliza¬ beth (Holker) Sobbing. These parents were farming folk, wrell known and highly respected in their native province and they both passed from earthly scenes before their son. the subject, came to America. Joseph Sobbing was reared by his parents and secured a good practical education in the schools of his native land. In 1877 he followed the example of thousands of his countrymen who had sought homes in the New World and came direct to Nodaway county, Missouri, locating in Hopkins township, where for a year he made his home with Henry Holker. He then bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in Hopkins township, the west eighty acres of which had never been touched by a plow until he commenced farming it. He after- wards sold one acre for a school house. With the exception of a year spent in Maryville. Mr. Sobbing spent the remainder of his days on this farm, which he greatly improved, erecting a full set of substantial and well arranged buildings, and maintaining the place at the highest standard of excellence. He was thoroughly practical in his ideas and progressive in his methods and was numbered among the leading farmers and enterprising citizens of the locality where he lived. He was eminently public spirited in his attitude to¬ wards local affairs and for twenty years he rendered efficient service as a school director, having a deep interest in educational affairs.

Politically, he was a stanch supporter of the Republican party, though he was not a seeker after public office, his service as a member of the school, board being rendered solely from a sense of his duty. to the community and be¬ cause of his deep personal interest. Plis religious belief was that of the Roman Catholic church, in which he was reared and to which he was ever faithful. When he settled in Nodaway county Catholics were very few and far between and for years he rode horseback fifteen miles to attend his church and later, when he had a family, his wife and the older members of the family attended with him.

On February 9, 1881, Mr. Sobbing was united in marriage to Josephine Dowling, the daughter of Michael and Frances (Malev) Dowling. Michael Dowling was born in county Kilkenny, Ireland, March 17, 1810, and was a son of Patrick Nicholas and Alice Dowling. He came to the United States in 1840 and settled on a farm in Rock county, Wisconsin. In 1852 he re¬ moved to Crawford county, that state, where he acquired a farm of two hun¬ dred acres. On January 24, 1865, he enlisted in the Forty-seventh Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, under General Dudley, the command being assigned mainly to guard duty in Tennessee. Mr. Dowling was honorably discharged the same year and in 1866 he moved to Green county, Wisconsin, where he lived until his death, which occurred on December 11, 1880. Frances Maley was born on August 20, 1841, the daughter of John and Eliza¬ beth (Churchill) Maley, natives of Ireland, who emigrated to Canada, later locating in Rock county, Wisconsin. She was married to Michael Dowling in February, 1856, and they became the parents of seven children, five of whom are living, namely: Alice, the wife of Chris Brunner, of Waukeshau, Wisconsin; Elizabeth, the wife of A. S. Douglas, an attorney at Monroe, Wisconsin; Josephine, the wife of Mr. Sobbing, of this sketch; W. H., of Hopkins; N. J., of Monroe, Wisconsin. To Mr. and Mrs. Sobbing have been born three children, who are living, namely: Joseph H., a farmer in

Hopkins township, this county; Frances E., the wife of Prof. R. F. Hanna, cashier of a bank at Worth, Missouri ; Elizabeth Mary, now a student in the public schools. Herman W. died at the age of six weeks ; Charles E. died in infancy; William died at two years eight and one-half months.

Joseph A. H. Sobbing was a man of strong character and sterling in¬ tegrity and in the circles in which he moved he was universally held in the highest esteem. Genial in disposition, accommodating in manner and clean in his daily life, he justly merited the approbation of the public which was generously accorded him.

Samuel E. Fisher

The old Buckeye state has long been noted for its sterling citizenship, for its illustrious men in all walks of life, for enterprising sons, thousands of whom have poured over her borders during the past century to assist in the upbuilding of other localities in our constellation of states and wherever they have located they have taken the initiative, cleared the land, built good homes and played well their parts in the general development of the new country. Of this vast horde the name of Samuel Fisher should not be over¬ looked, for he was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, October 10, 1857, and has been spending the best years of his life in improving a valuable landed estate in Polk township, Nodaway county, Missouri. He is the son of John and Lucinda (Hoshor) Fisher. They were both natives of Fairfield county, Ohio, and there they spent their lives on a farm, both being now deceased. Six children were born to them, of which number Samuel E., of this review, was the fifth in order of birth. He was reared on the home farm and received a common school education in his home community, where he continued to reside until 1881 when he came to Nodaway county, Missouri.

After coming here Mr. Fisher worked as a farm laborer for four years, w'orking by the month. He soon had enough money saved to buy eighty acres of land where he now lives, having made his home here since that time. He afterwards bought forty acres, making him now an excellent farm of one hundred and twenty acres, all well improved and on which he carries on gen¬ eral farming very successfully.

Mr. Fisher was married in Polk township, this county, on April 4, 1887, to Mary A. Glaze, wrho was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, Februarv 20, 1868. She is the daughter of William and Nancy (Warfield) Glaze. The father was a native of Ripley comity, Indiana, and the mother was born in Jefferson county, that state. They became the parents of six children, of which number Mrs. Fisher was the fourth in order of birth. She came with her parents to Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1882. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, named as follows : Omer P. ; Grace M., the latter a teacher in the public schools of this county; Harry A., Nellie M., Roy W. and Mary B.

Mr. Fisher takes a lively interest in local political affairs and lie has been a member of the town board. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in fraternal matters he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World.

Joseph S. Carden

One of Green township's most progressive native sons is Joseph S. Car¬ den, who was born two and one-half miles southeast of Quitman, Nodaway county. He is the son of John Warner and Rebecca Ann (Holt) Carden. The father and his younger brother, Joseph Carden, were born in Orange county, North Carolina. Their parents died when they were young chil¬ dren, consequently they were thrown out on the world. When Joseph was a small boy and his elder brother was only fourteen, they decided to come to northwestern Missouri. The old-timers there advised strongly against it, say¬ ing that Missouri was a howling wilderness that would not even sprout beans, and to come here would be folly. Seeing that the boys were determined to go, the old men told them to travel as cheaply as possible, and provided them with a supply of bacon and corn bread and a little money and advised them not to put up at hotels and taverns, but eat their bacon and corn bread. After two days' walking the boys discarded their supplies and began stopping at taverns; they then made their way to the home of an aunt on the Ohio river in Kentucky, where they found their kinsfolk grubbing trees and haul¬ ing off logs. They prevailed upon the boys to stay awhile and work with them, "until work picked up." They found that grubbing trees and hauling logs was hard enough and if work was to "pick up" it would be still harder, so John W. came on to Clinton county, Missouri, and Joseph remained in Kentucky three years, when John W. returned for him and brought him to Clinton countv, where both remained several years. Here thev were mar- ried, the wife of John \V. Carden being Rebecca Ann Holt, as stated above; she was the daughter of William and Martha (Dickson) Holt, and half-sister of William R. Holt, one of the pioneers of Green township, this county, a sketch of whom appears herein. About 1853 he and his wife came on to Nodaway county and entered government land adjoining that taken by Joseph Carden. Two of their children died in infancy; the others were, Mrs. Mollie Busby, Millard F., Jefferson, John, Joseph, Mrs. Martha Morris and Mrs. Sallie Lewis.

Rebecca Ann Holt was born July 3, 1829, and died November 6, 1904. She was the daughter of William and Martha Holt and one of twelve children. She was born in North Carolina and came with her parents to Clay county, Missouri, in 1830, and she married John W. Carden on July 14, 1853, and to this union nine children were born, two of whom died in infancy, un¬ named. Those who survived are: Mollie, wife of J. C. Busby, living near Quitman; Millard, of Stanfcerry, Missouri; Jefferson resides in Kansas; John lives at Meriden, Kansas; Mattie was the wife of Joseph T. Morris and she died on December 20, 1894; Joseph S., of this review; Sallie is the wife of Morris Lewis, living at Flora, Illinois. The mother of these chil¬ dren united with the Christian church about 1879 and lived a consistent Christian life until her death. John W. Carden, father of these children, who was a North Carolinean by birth, reached the advanced age of eightvtwo years, dying on June 21, 1908.

Joseph S. Carden, of this review, grew up on the farm southeast of Quitman. After attending the common schools he took a course in the State University at Columbia and then returned home, taking up farming. He was married on November 4, 1896, to Lidia Ware, daughter of Hanson H. and Millie (Needles) Ware, whose records appear in another part of this work. She was born in Atchison county, near Rockport, and while she was yet an infant the family moved to Nodaway county, locating about a mile east of Ouitman where she grew to maturity and lived until her marriage. She received a good education and was for about eight years a teacher in the public schools of this county. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Carden continued farming on the home place, where he still resides, two and one-half miles southeast of Quitman. When twenty years of age Mr. Carden began making preparations to buy a farm of his own. Selling some live stock which he owned, he made with the proceeds the first payment on a tract of about one hundred and twenty acres of unimproved land that he bought from his father. He was the only son at home at that time. He assisted his father and improved his own land at the same time, cleared the timber and tiled the swampy portions, making it a very valuable place. He had been told when he started in to buy that he would never be able to pay it out. but, although only a boy, he worked diligently and succeeded in paying it out, after which he bought another tract adjoining and with what he earned off the first purchase he assisted in the payment on the second. He continued to buy land as he prospered until now he is the owner of four hun¬ dred acres of as good land as Green township can boast. It all lies in one planted many splendid shade trees when he was only twenty-one years old, having in view the building of this home. No more attractive place or better improved is to be seen in this part of the county, all due to the persistency of the owner, who is truly a self-made man, having had little assistance in his career. The mile of road that lies along his farm, and which he keeps improved, is a model dirt road. He is well provided with the modern con¬ veniences of a farm, such as wagon scales for weighing livestock and grain, wind pump, dipping tank, excellently arranged for small stock. He raises a great number of hogs. He has a well built hog house where he keeps his young pigs, and he also has well arranged stock pens.

Mr. and Mrs. Carden have no children of their own, but they have reared Harry Morris, son of Mrs. Martha Morris, deceased sister of Mr. Carden.

Air. Carden is an active Democrat and is influential in local politics. He has been assessor two terms, trustee one term and is chairman of the town¬ ship central committee at this writing. He is a member of the Masonic lodge at Quitman, also the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen, being popular in these as well as all other circles in which he moves, owing to his public spirit, his genial address and his honesty in his relations with his fellow-men.

Oliver Wilson Swinford

One of the honored citizens of Maryville, now living retired after a very active life, is Oliver Wilson Swinford, who has been very successful as a business man and who bears an unsullied reputation, he and his family moving in the best circles in Nodaway county. He is a native of the Hoosier state.

having been born in Miami county, Indiana, March n, 1854. When a lad. in 1857, he was brought to Nodaway county, Missouri, and here he has spent the major part of his life. He is the son of Wilson F. and Sarah J. (Lee) Swinford, the father born in Kentucky and the mother in Maryland. They each accompanied their parents to Indiana when young and were mar¬ ried in Putnam county, that state, soon afterwards moving to Miami county, from which place they came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1857, when the county was just on the eve of a great development, but which was then an improved prairie, for the most part. An older brother. William, had settled here previously, possibly two years earlier, locating eleven miles southeast of the county seat. Soon other families came, including the Thbmpsons and the Woodwards, the two latter settling near William Swinford. Wilson F. Swinford settled five miles northeast of Maryville in Polk town¬ ship, buying partly improved land. He set to work with a will and prospered, becoming the owner of about one thousand acres of land ; he farmed on an extensive scale, but after many years of successful farming he retired to the village of Pickering, owning land in that vicinity which he continued to look after until his death, June 11, 1906; his widow survived him until Janu¬ ary 1 2, 1909. each having reached the advanced age of eighty-eight years. They were a grand old couple who had hosts of friends. Mr. Swinford was a Democrat, but no public man, and he and his wife were members of the Christian church at Pickering. Their family consisted of ten children, all reaching maturity, namely: Nancy married Hiram Lott and spent her life in Indiana; John died when past sixty years of age; he served through the Civil war and lived in Nodaway county; William Thomas, who also served through the Civil war, was drowned when a young man ; Alice J. married Samuel Thompson and lives near Denver, Colorado: James M. lives in Maryville; Lucinda married John Hood (deceased) and she is living in Nod¬ away county; Charles G. is a farmer near Pickering; Oliver Wilson of this review; Mary married Newt Kelley and lives near Pickering: Sarah E. mar¬ ried James Scowden. a farmer near Parnell City.

Oliver W. Swinford lived at home, assisting with the work about the place and attending the common schools during the winter months until he reached maturity, being a member of the family circle until he was twentyfour years old. He married, on November 13, 1878, Ella Saunders, daughter of William and Sarah E. (Sims) Saunders, of Maryville, where Mrs. Swinford was reared and educated. Her father, a farmer, had come to this countv from Kentuckv and became well established here.

Oliver W. Swinford farmed on his father's land two years, then moved to a farm of his own in the northeast corner of Polk township, Nodaway county. He bought and sold several places, owning five or six farms, and he was very fortunate both as a farmer and as a trader. He came to Mary¬ ville in 1906, after having lived fifteen years on a farm seven miles north¬ west of Maryville, but all in Polk township. He still owns the place and is still interested in farming, having a well improved and well cultivated place, for general agricultural pursuits are his delight.

The following children constitute the Swinford family: Ollie E., who married James Carter, of Polk township: Sallie married Claude Shell, of Polk township, and is the mother of one child, Ella Marjorie. Paul Swin¬ ford, who is farming in Polk township, is unmarried.

William M. Taylor

One of Green township's steady workers is William M. Taylor, who has a good farm on which he adds some valuable improvements from time to time. He is one of those persistent workers, rather than one who tries to do everything in a brief space of time or accomplish great undertakings by "starts and jerks." His method of procedure would seem to the rational mind to be the best.

Mr. Taylor was born in Huntington county, Indiana, October 14, 1866. and is the son of John and Phoebe (Jinks) Taylor, both natives of Indiana and of good, honorable families. John Taylor is deceased, but Mrs. Phoebe Taylor is living in Franklin county, Indiana.

William M. Taylor grew to manhood in his native county on the home farm where he assisted with the work until eighteen years old when he sought his fortune in the West, coming to Kansas City, Missouri, where he lived about a year, then came to Nodaway county and worked on a farm near Skidmore. About 1893 he began farming for himself, having gotten a start by being economical and keeping at work. On April 22, 1896, he was mar¬ ried to Mattie A. Cottril, daughter of Andrew Cottril and wife, a record of whom appears in this work. After his marriage, Mr. Taylor continued farming near Skidmore until about 1901, when he bought a farm of rich soil in the southern edge of Green township where he now resides, his place consisting of one hundred and nine acres, which he tills successfully, steadily improving it and making a very comfortable living for himself and family, and laying something aside for "rainy days" ahead.

Mr. Taylor is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge. He is a lover of home and family, takes a great delight in his farm, is a man of good habits and reliable, therefore well thought of in his community.

Each calling or business, if honorable, has its place in human existence, constituting a part of the plan whereby life's methods are pursued and man reaches his ultimate destiny. Emerson said that "All are needed by each one.'' And that is as true in one avenue of life's activities as in another. However, the importance of a business or profession is in a very large mea¬ sure determined by its beneficence or usefulness. So dependent is man upon his fellow-men that the worth of each individual is largely reckoned by what he has done for humanity. There is no class to whom greater gratitude is due from the world at large than to those self-sacrificing, sympathetic, nobleminded men whose life work has been the alleviation of suffering that rests upon humanity, thus lengthening the span of human existence. There is no known standard by which their beneficent influence can be measured; their helpfulness is as broad as the universe and their power goes hand in hand with the wonderful laws of nature that come from the very source of life itself. Some one has aptly said. "He serves God best who serves humanity most." The skillful physician, then, by the exercise of his native talents and his acquired abilities, is not only performing a service for humanity, but is following in the footsteps of the divine teacher himself, who said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Pre-eminent among the members of the medical profession in Xodawav county stands Dr. Thomas Lafayette, of Hopkins, who for the span of an ordinary lifetime has been engaged in the practice of the healing art and who, though nearing the century milepost on his life's pathway, still retains his full mental faculties and to a remarkable degree his physical, and still ministers to the wants of many of his old patrons, many of whom look upon him, not only as their physical adviser, but as a friend as well. His long years of residence here has gained for him the unbounded confidence of the entire community and a history of Nodaway county would not be com¬ plete without specific mention of him.

Thomas Lafayette was born on September 17, 1819, at Leon, France, and he is a son of Francis and Julia Lafayette. The father, who was the owner of a vineyard, died eight days before the birth of the subject, and he was con¬ sequently reared by his grandparents. His paternal grandfather and the Marquis de LaFavette, who rendered such signal assistance to the American colonies during the war of the Revolution, were cousins, and the subject of this sketch retains a vivid recollection of many visits of the Marquis to the home of his grandfather. Thomas Lafayette received his preliminary edu¬ cation in the parish schools at Leon, and, having decided to make the practice of medicine his life work, he entered the Paris Academy of Medicine, where he spent seven years in earnest study. The following ten years were spent in practice in the various hospitals of Paris and other cities, where he gained valued experience through observation and practice.

In 1850 Doctor Lafayette came to the United States with the intention of making this his future home, though he subsequently made several visits to his native land. His first location here was at Reid's Landing, Minnesota, an Indian mission, where he spent several years, acquiring a good reputa¬ tion because of his success in the practice. The outbreak of the Southern rebellion aroused in Doctor Lafayette's breast the same patriotic sentiments that, years before, had animated that distinguished member of his family, the Marquis, and he enlisted in a Minnesota infantry regiment, with which he served faithfully throughout that terrible struggle. He served as assistant regimental surgeon, with the rank of captain, and took part in a number of the most hotly contested battles of the Civil war, including the sanguinary engagement at Pittsburg Landing. He was honorably discharged from the service in 1866, after which he resumed his professional practice, locating now at Faribault and Morristown. Minnesota, where he remained for several years. He then located in St. Louis for awhile, and was also located at what is now known as Oronogo, near Joplin, Missouri, in the mining country. While engaged in the practice at the latter place, a terrible tornado passed over that section, the buildings destroyed including a hotel, sixteen dwellings, a ten-thousand-dollar library and the Doctor's office, including his library and equipment. Doctor Lafayette then came to Hopkins, where he has since re- mained, and, despite the fact that he is in extremely advanced age, he is still in the enjoyment of a large office practice, having practically re¬ linquished all outdoor work, owing to his advanced age. The Doctor has at all times retained the intense love for his profession which impelled him in his earlier years of practice and he has kept closely in touch with the most advanced ideas and theories relative to the practice of medicine. Personally he is of pleasing address and courteous of manner and he enjoys a welldeserved popularity in the community where he lives.

Politically, the Doctor has rendered a stanch allegiance to the Repub¬ lican party. His religious creed is embraced in that broad and comprehen¬ sive thought expressed in the Golden Rule. He has ever maintained his high standing, never descending beneath the dignity of his profession nor com¬ promising his usefulness by countenancing any but noble and legitimate prac¬ tice. Among his professional brethren he is held in the highest esteem and he is frequently consulted in cases of unusual difficulty.

John William Smith

Coming to us from the remote pioneer days, so unlike in every respect those of the present, John William Smith, one of Green township's honored residents, should be given conspicuous mention in the history of Nodaway county for diverse reasons, partly because of his long record of unassailable relations with his fellow men and partly owing to the prominent part he has played in the development of local conditions. He was born in what was Green township, now part of Monroe township, this county, in 1849. His parents were William Vinson and Jane Lockhart (Holt) Smith, the former born in Tennessee, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, and the latter born in North Carolina. She was a sister of William R. Holt, whose sketch, which contains her ancestry and her early history, appears elsewhere in this work. John W. Smith was one of nine brothers and two sisters; two of the sons died in infancy; the others were: Elmer died when four years old; Redmond died when about three years old: Michael Holt married Betsy Nichols, and his death occurred on December 9, 1887, at the age of fortyseven years, leaving one daughter ; Lewis Bowan died unmarried on April 1 2, 1904, when sixty-one years old; Willard Payton, who married Eva Nash, who has borne him five children, lives at Delta, Colorado; Sterling

Price lives at Broken Bow, Nebraska, is married to Maggie Young and has two sons, Floyd and Francis; John William, of this review; Elizabeth Ellen married John D. McDonald, a near neighbor of Mr. Smith; she is now de¬ ceased; Sarah Catherine Smith married John D. Hess, lives at Loveland, Colorado, has five children, three sons and two daughters, Emma, Carrie, Jesse, Willard and Charley; Mr. Hess died April 2, 1908.

The father of John W. Smith, of this review, came to Missouri about 1835 and located in Andrew county, where he lived until about 1846, then moved into what is now Monroe township, Nodaway county. He bought some land from another early settler there, but got most of his farm from the government. He was a Mason. His death occurred in Skidmore on January 24, 1892; his wife died March 25. 1892, and both are buried in the Masonic cemetery at Skidmore.

John W. Smith grew to maturity in Monroe township and lived there un¬ til he was twenty-three years old. He was married in 1872 to Barbara Jane Bowman, a native of this county, born and reared north of Quitman ; she was the daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca Bowman and was a sister of Henry Bowman, whose sketch appears herein. In 1871 John W. Smith purchased the farm where he still lives, five miles southeast of Quitman, where he now has one hundred and eighty acres of excellent and well-kept land. He has lived here ever since 1872.

Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith; Roy died when two years old; William Vincent married Clara Rebecca Owens and lives onehalf mile west of the home place, has had two children, Ferris, who died in infancy, and Helen Barbara; Mary May married William Watson and lives in South Dakota ; Rebecca J. L. married Riley Long and lives five miles west of the home place, has one son, Leslie Alvin : Lucretia (usually called Lulu) married Sam Clark McGinnis and lives two miles west of Skidmore, and has two children, Hazel Barbara and Edna May.

The mother of these children was called to her rest on September 22. 1896, and on February 28, 1907, Mr. Smith married Mrs. Rose (Abbey) Barker, widow of A. C. Barker. She was born in Black Hawk county, Iowa, and is the daughter of William Henry and Charlotte Abbey. Her father died in 1881, her mother having preceded him to the grave in 1880. William Henry Abbey was born in England in 1820, and when eight years old came to America with his parents. William Wallace Abbey and wife. Mrs. Smith's mother, Charlotte (Orton) Abbey, was reared near Painesville, Lake county, Ohio, in which state her parents settled upon coming from the state of New York, when young, and there, near Painesville, were married and lived several years, later coming to Page county, Iowa, where they lived until 1868. Subsequently, they came to Nodaway county, Missouri, the father, Silvil Orton, dying on May 8, 1881, and the mother on April 29, 1880.

Mrs. Smith is one of a family of six girls and one boy, namely: Sarah Jane, who married Franklin Carver, of this county, he being now deceased, leaving one daughter, Alwilda; Mary Minnie married C. W. Dwight, after whose death she married William Sanders, and they live in this county; Charles F. married Luella Veach, and after her death he married Etta Yates and has one son and one daughter, he being her second husband, and they are living on the parents' old home place in this county; Emma Ann, who lives in Elmo, is married to J. J. Snodderlev, has two sons living and one daughter deceased; Rose A., now Mrs. Smith, first married A. C. Barker, August 15, 1889, and to them were born two sons, Ray Edgar and Howard Lewis, both at home with their mother, their father having died December 16, 1903; Lillie M. married Victor Cain and lives near her father's old home in this county, and they are the parents of four daughters and two sons ; Carrie Belle died when three months old.

Charles A. Hawkins

The most elaborate history is perforce a merciless abridgment, the his¬ torian being obliged to select his facts and materials from manifold details and to marshal them in concise and logical order. This applies to specific as well as generic history, and in the former category is included the interesting and important department of biography. So in giving the interesting life record of Charles A. Hawkins, the popular superintendent of city schools of Maryville, only a brief resume can be set forth, the details of such a life being too myriad to marshal in a compendium of the one at hand, however interesting or salient.

Mr. Hawkins was born in Hancock county, Illinois, near Carthage, July 24. i860, the son of Edward W. and Lucinda M. (Elden) Hawkins, both natives of Kentucky where they grew to maturity, were educated and mar¬ ried. Thev devoted their lives to farming and in 1869 came to Marvville. Missouri, locating on a farm two miles north of the city, where the father died a few years later. He was a pioneer in breeding Poland-China hogs and became widely known as such. He exhibited his fine stock at fairs and carried away many prizes. His widow' survived thirty years, dying about eight years ago in Maryville. She wras left to rear a family of five children; but tw'O of the sons were soon able to carry on the farm and the family was kept together, and all lived in Nodaway county until ten years ago, and three still live here. A. W. Hawkins is engaged in the mercantile business in Mary¬ ville, and a sister, Mrs. O. R. Sanders, also lives in Maryville.

Charles A. Hawkins remained on the home farm until he was seventeen years of age, having been eleven years old at the time of his father's death He attended the public schools in Maryville, the Academy and the Normal at Stanberry, also Drake University at Des Moines. He was an ambitious lad and studied hard, making a splendid record for scholarship. Fitting him¬ self for a teacher, he began his life work at the age of twenty-one, and at¬ tended school the next three years. He taught country schools continuously in Nodaway county for four years ; he taught eight years in Hopkins and fourteen years in Maryville, his services being in great demand, popular alike with patron and pupil, for he had thoroughly prepared himself for his chosen vocation and is known as both an able instructor and an entertainer in the class room, a good organizer and disciplinarian, and no better cri¬ terion could be found than his long continued service in the local schools. In 1895 he came to Maryville as principal of the high school. In the mean¬ time he very successfully discharged the duties of the office of county school commissioner for a period of three years, while principal of the Hopkins schools, and he completed his four-years term after leaving Hopkins. He was principal of the high school at Maryville for seven and one-half years, and he is now superintendent of the Maryville schools. He has long taught in the summer normals, and he is known as a loyal and influential worker in the state and national teachers' associations.

Professor Hawkins married, on June 9, 1891, Eva L. Andrews, a teacher of Maryville, a lady of culture and refinement. She was born in Minnesota and educated in the Maryville schools. Two interesting children have graced this union, Winfield W., now in the University of Missouri at Columbia; John Ruskin, attending school at Columbia.

Professor Hawkins is a member of the Christian church, and the Masonic fraternity at Hopkins ; he also belongs to the Modern Woodmen. He is an advocate of athletics and encourages physical culture among his pupils.

As a teacher, Professor Hawkins has met with merited success and in his capacity as principal or superintendent his record presents a series of successes and advancements such as few attain. He pursues his chosen call¬ ing with all the earnestness of an enthusiast, is thoroughly in harmony with the spirit of the work and has a proper conception of the dignity of the pro¬ fession to which his life and energies are so unselfishly devoted. A finished scholar, a polished gentleman and possessing the traits of character neces¬ sary to insure success, the services thus far rendered and the laurels gained bespeak for him a wider and more distinguished career of usefulness in years to come, should he see fit to continue the noble calling which he has heretofore followed with such signal and happy results.

Henry N. Moore

The qualities which have made Henry N. Moore, of Polk township, Nodaway county, one of the successful agriculturists of this locality have also brought him the good will and esteem of his fellow-citizens, for his career from the beginning has been one of well directed energy, strong de¬ termination and honorable methods. He was born in Fremont, Dodge county, Nebraska, May 20, 1875, ^e son of William and Mary (Jensen) Moore. The father was a native of Norway and the mother of Denmark. In those northland countries they grew to maturity and were educated, com¬ ing to America when young. Penetrating to the interior, they finally located in Nodaway county, Missouri, locating at Maryville, where Mrs. Moore died. The father is now deceased also. They were people of many sterling qual¬ ities, and their family consisted of seven children, five of whom grew to maturity, namely: Nettie M.. deceased: Henry N., of this review; Josephine, deceased; Addie L., deceased; Charles A. is living in Maryville.

Henry N. Moore was but five years old when his parents came to Maryville; they had lived in Nebraska some time prior to this. He was reared to manhood in this county, and for a period of twelve years after com¬ ing here he made his home with an uncle. Andrew Jensen. He then worked out as a farm hand until the spring of 1898. He had been economical and had saved his money. Although he had rather limited opportunity to attend school, he made proper use of his time and has a good education.

Mr. Moore was quick to manifest his patriotism when the United States found it necessary to expell the Spaniard from our shores, and in order to add his little mite of influence in this humanitarian work, Mr. Moore en- listed in Company E, Fourth Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, in the spring of 1898, and served ten months in the Spanish-American war. He was commissioned sergeant and served as such from the date of his enlist¬ ment. He performed his duties as a soldier in a very creditable manner, and after receiving an honorable discharge he returned to Nodaway county and has since pursued the peaceful life of the husbandman. Farming and stock raising has received his undivided attention ever since. He first bought eighty acres in Polk township, which he later sold, and purchased one hundred and sixty acres, all well improved and well kept. He has a very neat little home and is very comfortably situated in every respect.

Mr. Moore was married near Clearmont, this county, October 30, 1901, to Louisa Amrine, who was born in the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Terri¬ tory, August 16, 1877. She is the daughter of Mahlon and Charlotte (Hart) Amrine, both natives of Illinois. They lived for some time on a small farm in Nodaway county and then moved to Saline county, Missouri, where they now reside. To Mr. and Mrs. Moore three children have been born, namely : Nettie L., Emerson E. and Oakley H.

Alfred E. Cockayne

To Alfred E. Cockayne, a well established farmer of Polk township, Nodaway county, the reward that is always vouched to honest and persistent industry is a sufficient recompense, and this is his, as is shown in his present comfortable circumstances in life. He is a native of the Hawkeye state, having been born in Des Moines county, Iowa, February 26, 1872. His father was John E. Cockayne and his mother was Catherine Riffel before her marriage. The former was born in Virginia and the latter in Ohio. The elder Cockayne devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and is at pres¬ ent residing in Crawford county, Kansas, where he has a very good farm and a comfortable home. To Mr. and Mrs. John E. Cockayne eight chil¬ dren were born, of which number Alfred E., of this review, was the third in order of birth. He grew to maturity in his native community, remaining at home until he was twenty years of age. He received a good education in the common schools.

Mr. Cockayne left Iowa in 1892 and after casting about for a location of future promise, his parents, who also left Des Moines county then, selected

Nodaway county, Missouri, as their place of abode, and here young Cockayne remained with his father, assisting with the general work on the farm, for a period of six years. He thus learned the art of agriculture first handed, and after leaving his parental rooftree worked out as a farm hand until the spring of 1904, when he rented the farm where lie now lives, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres. He has always followed farming and is re¬ garded as an adept at this line of endeavor.

Mr. Cockayne was married in St. Joseph, Missouri, on April 2, 1902, to Mrs. Barbara Wilson, who was born in Woodford county, Illinois, Novem¬ ber 13, 1873. She was the daughter of A. J. and Rachael Craig and the widow of Hiram Wilson, by whom she became the mother of three chil¬ dren, Vida May, Walter J. and Arthur J.

Chester Selah Martin

In the death of the honored subject of this memoir, January 6, 1909. at his home in Hopkins, Missouri, there passed away another member of that group of distinctively representative business men who were the leaders in industrial and commercial interests in this county. His name is familiar, not alone to the residents of the city to whose development he contributed so conspicuously, but tc all who have been informed in regard to the history of this particular section. He was identified with the growth of Nodaway county for nearly forty years and contributed to its material progress and prosperity to an extent equaled by few of his contemporaries. He early had the sagacity and prescience to discern the eminence which the future had in store for this great and growing section of the commonwealth, and, acting in accordance with the dictates of faith and judgment, he reaped, in the fullness of time, the generous benefits which are the just recompense of indomitable industry, spot¬ less integrity and marvelous enterprise. Prominently connected with the business history of Hopkins and Nodaway county, the career of Chester S. Martin is one eminently worthy of permanent record. Larger fortunes have been accumulated by others, but few lives furnish so striking an example of the wise application of sound business principles and safe conservatism as does his. The story of his success is not long nor does it contain many ex- citing chapters, but in it lies one of the most valuable secrets of the prosperity which it records; his business and private life are replete with interest and incentive, no matter how lacking in dramatic action - the record of a noble life, consistent with its highest ideals.

Chester Selah Martin was born at Troy. Wisconsin, on the 5th day of September, 1846, and was a son of Lathan and Dolly (Bliss) Martin. These parents were natives of the state of New York and the father was a wagonmaker and farmer, enjoying the respect and esteem of the entire community where he lived. He died at Palmyra, Wisconsin, in 1897, being survived a number of years by his widow, whose death occurred in 1904.

Chester Martin was reared under the parental roof and received the major part of his education in Troy, completing the same in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when twenty years old. After leaving school he learned the carpenter trade, at which he was employed until 1870, when, in company with John A. Stewart, he came to Hopkins, Missouri, the trip being made overland by team. On their arrival here, being impressed with the future prospects of this section of the state, Messrs. Martin and Stewart embarked in the grocery and bakery business, besides which they established a broom factory. In 1878 they sold the business and Mr. Martin erected a substan¬ tial frame building and went into the hardware and furniture business. The enterprise met with marked success and in 1881 Mr. Martin built the present well arranged and attractive brick store building, adding a large line of implements, buggies, etc. He also carried on undertaking, being the only person here engaged in that line of work. During these years he was associated in business with the following gentlemen: Sidney Frame, three years; Mr. Jeffers, three years; J. Speidle, six years, and L. J. Smith, ten years. In 1903 the business was sold to Seeley & Evans, and the same year Mr. Martin bought six hundred and forty-five acres of fine land in Iowa. He was at one time interested in the lumber business now controlled by Dalby & Company. In 1900 Mr. Martin and S. Stewart organized the Farmers and Merchants Bank, Mr. Martin owning two-thircls of the stock. They erected a bank building and the enterprise met with splendid success from its inception. Mr. Martin disposed of his interest in the bank in 1906. Mr. Martin was also the instigator of the establishment of the brickyard at Hopkins, the main industry of the place, and where the most of the brick was made which have been used in buildings in this city. He maintained an active interest in commercial affairs, exerting a potent and widely-recog¬ nized influence, until about 1907, when, because of failing health, he re¬ linquished active participation in business affairs and devoted his atten- tion to an effort to regain his health. However, the ablest medical treat¬ ment and the most loving attention were alike futile, and it was with feel¬ ings of genuine sorrow that the community heard of his death, which oc¬ curred at Excelsior Springs, where he had gone in the hope of obtaining relief. In estimating his life and character, one who knew him intimately said : "I never heard any one question his judgment, integrity, or ability, and a man must possess rare qualities indeed to hold such a position among the people of a community. He was to us all a friend, and to many, a friend such as we cannot often know. In his home he was always cheer¬ ful and happy ; in business, always respectful, kind and just."

On September 26, 1872, Mr. Martin was united in marriage with Mary E. Stewart, who was born December 19, 1849, 'n Walworth county, Wiscon¬ sin, the daughter of James and Margaret (Gutherie) Stewart. These parents were natives of New York state, the father being a successful farmer, and they are both deceased, the father dying in 1887 and the mother the preceding year. Mr. and Mrs. Martin became the parents of one son. Archie, of Hopkins.

Politically, Mr. Martin was a Republican and took a live interest in local public affairs, having served for a number of years as a member of the town council, in which position be rendered efficient service to the community. Fraternally he was a member of Hopkins Lodge, No. 333, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.. Religiously, he was originally a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, but some time after coming to Hopkins he transferred his membership to the Presbyterian church, to which he gave an earnest and generous support. Though unosten¬ tatious in his religious life, he was sincere and conscientious and his daily life was a potent influence for good. He was trusted and esteemed through¬ out the community with which he had been identified for so many years and his uniform kindness and ready helpfulness were matters of common knowl¬ edge. His record as a husband, father, citizen and business man was without the shadow of wrong or the suspicion of evil and his memory is held sacred by those who knew him.

An admirable Southern gentleman of the old school who wins friends easily and retains them without effort is James Montgomery McDonald, who was born in Mason county, Kentucky, February 22, 1847. He is the son of Hugh Douglass and Mary (Wheeler) McDonald, his father having been born on June 24, 1806, in Pennsylvania, but he was reared in Ross county, Ohio. He is of Scotch descent. His grandfather, Hugh Douglass McDon¬ ald, who was the great-grandfather of the subject, was born on the ocean while his parents were voyaging to America from Scotland. Mary (Wheeler) McDonald was of Dutch descent ; she was born December 19, 1810, and reared in Kentucky. Hugh Douglass McDonald, Sr., was born June 18, 1775, he being the son of the one born at sea mentioned above. The death of Hugh D. McDonald, Sr., occurred in Mason county, Kentucky, April 7, 1841. Hugh D. McDonald, Jr., died October 4, 1878, in Green township, Nodaway county, Missouri, in the house now the home of James M. McDon¬ ald. The death of Mary (Wheeler) McDonald occurred September 5, 1870.

James M. McDonald, of this review, is one of a family of ten children, of whom five are living, Thomas, John, Mrs. Sibyl Montgomery, Nancy Mc¬ Donald and James M. In 1853 the McDonald family came to Clay county, Missouri, and in 1855 came to Nodaway county. They bought land at Bun- Oak Grove, west of Skidmore, which they sold to the Hayes family. For about four years they lived at different places from Graham to Quitman, then moved northeast of Skidmore, buying a farm about three miles from that town. During the Civil war James' two older brothers, William Allen and John D., were in the Southern army. During that time the father was old and almost helpless and things were in a rather turbulent condition ; their horses and cattle were stolen and they were left almost destitute, the younger boys having a very difficult time to get along and support the family. About 1869 Thomas and James came to the locality where they now live and bought forty acres each, the eighty acres consisting of five dollars an acre. They later bought more land, two hundred and forty acres, in partnership. About 1872 the father and three of the children moved to the place now occupied by Tames M. of this review, which is located two miles south and two and onehalf miles east of Ouitman, and the father spent the remainder of his days here.

On February 20, 1873. James M. McDonald was married to Nancy Ann Simmons, who was born April 29, 1855, in Page county, Iowa. She was the daughter of Colby and Lorena (Norris) Simmons. Her father was born in Indiana and came to Buchanan county, Missouri, before his mar¬ riage. Her mother was born in North Carolina and she and Mr. Simmons were married in Buchanan county, Missouri, later moving to Page county, Iowa, and followed farming. From there they moved to Nodaway county about the close of the war, locating two or three miles north of Quitman where they lived many years. The death of Mr. Simmons occurred at Ne¬ maha, Nebraska, August 29, 1881, his widow surviving until September 16, 1886.

For about seven years prior to his marriage, James M. McDonald and his brother "batched" at the place where Thomas now lives. Mr. and Mrs. James M. McDonald continued to live in the same place until 1881, Thomas making his home with them. In the spring of 1881 they moved to their present home where the father had lived since about 1874, and here James M. has lived continuously to the present time. He has greatly improved the place, set out an orchard, added to the dwelling and erected other buildings.

Eight children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. McDonald, namely : Mary, born May 24, 1874, married George Smith and lives three and onehalf miles southeast of Skidmore, and they have two children, Clyde Mc¬ Donald Smith and Atwoil Burns Smith; Hugh D. McDonald, born August 30, 1880, is represented elsewhere in this work; Charles Thomas was born April 1, 1883; James Joseph was born April 25, 1885; Nellie Ann was born October 3, 1 888 ; Clarence Earl, born August 18, 1891 ; Effie, born August 7, 1894, died January 31, 1898; Alma, born October 15, 1897. Most of these children are at home with their parents.

James M. McDonald is a member of the Masonic order, Quitman Lodge No. 196, having been a Mason for about thirty-five years. He is one of the best known men of the county, is a man of the old-fashioned type such as is a great pleasure to meet nowadays. He is a loyal Democrat, and some¬ times calls himself an un-reconstructed rebel, but no man is more loyal to his country nor has more friends among all parties and classes than he.

Lavencour Michau

No man of the past generation in Nodaway county was better known or more highly esteemed than the late Lavencour Michau, and certainly none held a more conspicuous position in the business and social world, and his memory will long be cherished by all classes, for he ever aimed to be progres¬ sive in all he did, was always in sympathy with the enterprises having for their object the common good, and his influence was invariably exerted on the right side of every moral issue. Like all men of positive character and inde¬ pendence of mind, he was outspoken in defense of what he considered right, and his convictions were such that his neighbors and fellow-citizens knew well his position on all questions of a political, moral and religious nature. His private life was exemplary and his amiable traits of character and many -virtues made him widely popular.

The history of Lavencour Michau is the history quite largely of the growth and progress of Maryville from its very beginning, having come here in 1856 and remained until his death. October 26, 1901, and all during that long period he was ever vigilant of the general interests of the community. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, December 14, 1825, and had therefore reached the "mellow twilight of his years'1' when he was called to a higher sphere of action. He was the son of St. Amant and Margaret (Minnea) Michau, his parents being among the early settlers of St. Louis and were very wealthy, the father having long been prominent in business circles of the old Mound City.

Lavencour Michau was the youngest of a family of nine children. He grew to maturity in his home city and received a good education in the schools there. When twenty years old his father lost the major part of his fortune through going security for some friends, and in his closing days en¬ joyed but a small portion of the fortune his hard work and good management had built up. It is said that this circumstance had a lasting impression on the mind of the son, and when he and his brother, Alfred, who now lives at St. Joseph, Missouri, went into business in Maryville, away back in the fifties, there was an agreement between them that neither should become se¬ curity for anybody. This was in 1856 and from that year on they continued to build up a very satisfactory and well patronized business, until about 1872, when Lavencour purchased the interest of his brother, Alfred, the lattei going to St. Joseph where he died in 1910 at the advanced age of eightynine. John Lieber became interested with the Michau brothers and after Al¬ fred went to St. Joseph became a partner with Lavencour Michau, which relation continued until they closed out their business in 1881.

Mr. Michau's investments in Marywille property in an early dayr greatly increased in value. He was very successful in business and, from both sources, became wealthy toward the latter part of his life. In 1890 he built the family home on West Second street, one of the finest and most attractive homes in Maryville. This he named Terrace Place, after the St. Louis home of his parents. A year or two later he built the substantial Michau block. "Terrace Place." the old Pennsylvania avenue home of the Michaus in St. Louis, is a stone structure, built by the father of Lavencour. It is now con¬ verted into a business property, being in the down-town district, and is still owned by the Michau family.

Mr. Michau was the architect of his own fortune, a man of keen busi¬ ness discernment and made few mistakes in his calculations as to the future outcome of transactions. In his dealings with men he was straightforward and fair, making his word absolutely good - better, in fact, than the bond of many. His early habit was that of promptness, but he did not "crowd" men who were using his money, and in receiving his interest was liberal in throw¬ ing off odd amounts. He was loyal to his friends and would never put any obstacle in the way of those whose ways he might not like and whose views did not accord with those of his own.

Mr. Michau was married in 1863 to Amanda J. Wheeler, a lady of amiable attributes who has hosts of friends in Maryville or wherever she is known. She was born in Gosport, Indiana, and when a child was brought to DesMoines, Iowa, and in 1859 came to Maryville with her father, John Benjamin Wheeler. Mrs. Michau is a consistent member of the Christian church. Four daughters graced the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lavencour Michau, named as follows: Ida married Edward Lincoln Townsend and formerly lived in Denver, Colorado, but is now living with her mother in Maryville; her son. Ferdinand Michau Townsend, is proprietor of The Townsend Company in the Michau block in this city. Dolly B. Michau mar¬ ried Dr. E. H. Williams, of New York City. Bessie Michau married L. E. Forsythe and is living in Maryville. Mr. Forsythe's life history is to be found on another page of this work. Gertrude Michau married F. G. Shoe¬ maker and is living in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. One son, Ferdinand Kennett Michau, died when he was six years of age.

Martin H. And John Borrusch

Those men who boldly face the responsibilities of life and by determined and untiring energy carve out for themselves an honorable success exert a powerful influence upon the lives of others, especially the youth of their acquaintance. Such men constitute the foundation of our republican insti¬ tutions and are the pride of our civilization. Martin H. and John Borrusch are such individuals, for we find that they started in life under none too favorable environment and that by their own unaided efforts they are today among the substantial and progressive citizens of Nodaway county, one of the leading sections of the great Empire state of the West, and that their fame as building contractors has far transcended this and adjoining counties, their office in Maryville always being a busy place.

They are natives of Villisca, Iowa, and while mere boys they each decided to devote their lives to carpentering and architecture and they began contracting while young, having followed this line of endeavor several years before coming to Maryville, in 1904. They were brought here for the pur¬ pose of constructing the new Carnegie library building, for which they were successful bidders, the structure costing the sum of nine thousand dollars, and, liking the outlook so well, they decided to remain here after completing that magnificent piece of work. Since that time they have erected many of the first-class residences of the town, but have specialized in the erection of public buildings, school houses, churches, etc. They erected the Nodaway County Farm House at a cost of twenty-four thousand and five hundred dol¬ lars ; the Maryville high school at a cost of seventy-five thousand and nine hundred dollars, and they have recently completed a new high school at Breckenridge, Missouri, at a cost of twenty thousand dollars. All of their work shows modern methods and is quickly and concisely done, the designs being up-to-date and attractive and all work is honestly and conscientiously performed, consequently their services are in great demand. They are the youngest contractors in Maryville, but by the exercise of rare qualities of business and persistency in their application they have won a wide reputa¬ tion and their work now covers a vast territory, doing an annual business in excess of one hundred thousand dollars. They constantly employ from eight to twenty men, all highly skilled in their special lines. They take an entire contract for a building, from the excavation to the finished product, ready for occupancy. Their faith in Maryville and its future possibilities is proven by their investment of twenty thousand dollars in a double two-story and basement brick block at the corner of Third and Buchanan streets, forty-four by one hundred and thirty-two feet, the third story being fitted in two apart¬ ment flats occupied by the owners. This is one of the modern and up-to-date buildings of the city.

Since coming to Maryville these gentlemen have taken an abiding inter¬ est in the general welfare of the place and have shown a willingness to do their full share in the promotion of all enterprises looking to the progress of the city and Nodaway county.

Martin H. Borrusch married Addie May Coleman, of Villisca, Iowa, on February 29, 1900. and they are the parents of two children. Virgil and Paul.

John Borrusch married Edna Coleman, sister of his brother's wife, in February, 1904. This union has been without issue. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Professional success results from merit. Frequently in commercial life one may come into possession of a lucrative business through inheritance or gift, but in what are known as the learned professions advancement is gained only through painstaking and long continued effort Prestige in the healing art is the outcome of strong mentality, close application, thorough mastery of its great underlying principles and the ability to apply theory to practice in the treatment of diseases. Good intellectual training, thorough professional knowledge and the possession and utilization of the qualities and attributes essential to success, have made Dr. George Allen Nash, the well-known sur¬ geon of Maryville, Missouri, eminent in his chosen calling, and he stands to¬ day among the scholarly and enterprising physicians in a county noted for the high order of its medical talent.

Doctor Nash was born February i, 1849, 011 a farm in Hendricks county, Indiana, the scion of an excellent old family of the Hoosier state, being the son of George B. and Elizabeth (McDaniel) Nash. The former was the son of Thomas and Hannah (Brown) Nash, and was born on a farm in Madison county. Kentucky, May 27, 1809. Thomas and Hannah Nash were married in 1808 and were natives of Virginia, in which state they grew to maturity and were educated in the early schools of that period, having moved to Kentucky after their marriage, locating in Madison county. There they established a good home and spent the rest of their lives, Thomas Nash being survived several years by his widow, whose death occurred December 13, 1865. When a small boy their son, George B. Nash, moved to Clermont county, Ohio, and then to Hendricks county, Indiana. Pie devoted his life to farming and, like his father, was a man of strong characteristics, never allow¬ ing obstacles to swerve him from his course. He was patriotic and served as a soldier in the Black Hawk war. His death occurred at Prairie City, Illinois, March 3, 1864, honored by all who knew him. Elizabeth McDaniel, who married George B. Nash on February 3. 1833, was born in Randolph county, North Carolina, and her death occurred on November 1, 1887, at St. Joseph. Missouri. To- Mr. and Mrs. Nash eight children were born, six of whom are living at this writing.

Dr. George Allen Nash received his academic education at Prairie City, Illinois, graduating in 1867. In the fall of that year he moved with his mother to DeKalb county, Missouri. After spending one year on a farm, he went to St. Joseph. For two years he worked in a store in Gentry county, then went to Mt. Pleasant, Missouri, and conducted a drug store for some time. In the meantime he began the study of medicine and in 1877 he entered a medical college in St. Joseph, where he made a very commendable record and from which institution he was graduated on February 28, 1879. On April 1st, following, he came to Maryville and engaged in general practice until 1884. That year he took a post-graduate course in the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia. Then, being fully equipped for his profession, he returned to Maryville. Having a natural talent for surgery and having devoted special attention to the study and practice of this branch of the science, Doctor Nash gradually gave up his general practice, which was an extensive one, and for the past ten years he has practiced surgery exclusively, in which he has won a reputation that far transcends the limits of Nodaway county, standing high among the medical men of the state and Middle West in this line. He has been surgeon of St. Francis Hospital for the past twenty years, and he is also local surgeon of the Wabash and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroads. He is very busy attending to his numerous professional duties and has built up a practice second to none in northern Missouri.

Doctor Nash was married on November 13, 1870, to Mary C. Houston, daughter of Silas and Rilla Houston. Two children have been born to this union, one dying in infancy; Alma M. is a talented musician and is now en¬ gaged in teaching music.

Charles C. Graves

Charles C. Graves, proprietor of "Elm Ridge Farm," one of the "show ' places of Polk township, Nodaway county, is classed as one of the most enterprising and successful agriculturists of this section of the county, and, although yet a young man, he has been abundantly rewarded for his pains and energy, and in every walk of life he is widely respected as a courteous, kind-hearted, generous man of perfect integrity and pure moral worth. This far he has acted well his part in life and the future doubtless awaits him with more abundant rewards.

Mr. Graves was born in Saline county, Missouri, October 3, 1876. His father was Otis Graves and his mother was known in her maidenhood as Bettie Gilliam. The father was a native of Kentucky and the mother of

Virginia. They came to Nodaway county. Missouri, in the spring of 1877 and settled in Maryville, where Mr. Graves died, March 2, 1895; his widow still survives. They were the parents of two children. Charles C., of this review, and Dolly, who became the wife of Dr. R. M. Bradbury. She died in Maryville, January 15, 1906.

Charles C. Graves was reared in Maryville and here received a good education in the public schools, and for one year he attended the Military Academy at Mexico, Missouri. After leaving school he began life as a clerk in a shoe store in Maryville where he worked three years. He then engaged in the buggy and harness business for one year. But not finding the life of a merchant entirely to his liking, he turned his attention to the freer life of the agriculturist, which he worked at, although living in Mary¬ ville, 'where he continued to reside until he purchased a farm, the place where he now resides, in March, 1907. He has an excellent place and now turns his attention principally to the breeding of fine stock, having a well ecjuipped, modern, clean and neat place for this purpose and he keeps the best grade of milk cows. He has built up a very satisfactory patronage with the sur¬ rounding country and his business is rapidly growing. He makes a specialty of registered Jersey cattle, also Berkshire hogs. He milks a herd of about forty head of fine Jersey cows. He keeps about fifty head of hogs about the place. His fine farm consists of one hundred acres and he has many substantial and modern buildings on the place.

Mr. Graves was married in Maryville, on October 11, 1900, to Nell Black, a native of Liberty, Clay county, Missouri, the daughter of Rev. G. L. Black, a Baptist clergyman well known in this part of the state. Mrs. Graves was well educated and is of an excellent family.

Mr. and Mrs. Graves are members of the Baptist church at Maryville and faithful in their church duties. Mr. Graves is a member of the Benevo¬ lent and Protective Order of Elks.

A native son of Green township, Nodaway county, and the representa¬ tive of an old and highly honored family is Hugh Douglass McDonald, whose birth occurred here August 30, 1880. He is the son of James M. and Nancy A. (Simmons) McDonald, and he was reared on the home farm in Green township, attended the public schools and the high school at Quitman and

Skidmore, obtaining a good education. He married Sallie Hester Ramsey, daughter of David R. and Mary Elizabeth (Holt) Ramsey. She was born in Atchison county, Missouri, near Blanchard, Iowa, on July 25. 1883. Her mother died when she was about four years old and she was then reared by her grandmother. Mrs. William R. Holt, whose sketch appears herein. Mrs. McDonald attended the Liberty Ladies College, at Liberty, Missouri, during her girlhood, and she and Mr. McDonald were married on October 9, 1901, locating soon afterwards on the farm where they now reside, owning an excel¬ lent place of one hundred and eight acres, about three miles south of Quitman. All but seventeen acres were covered with timber. When Mr. Mc¬ Donald purchased it there were no fences or other improvements on it, but he has from year to year added good improvements, the place now ranking with the best in the community. He cleared ground and built a dwelling, which is a very neat and pleasant one. Thus he went through true pioneer exper¬ iences. He now has about seventy acres cleared and raises good general crops.

Mr. McDonald has always been a Democrat, as were his antecedents. He is a member of Quitman Lodge, No. 196, Ancient Lree and Accepted Masons. Mrs. McDonald is a member of the Christian church.

Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. McDonald, namely: Mary Ann, born Lebruarv 20, 1904: Hugh Douglass, Jr.. January 4, 1906: James William, born December 16, 1908.

Owing to the prominence of Mrs. McDonald's father, David R. Ram¬ sey, it is deemed advisable before closing this sketch to enter brief record concerning his career. He was born January 1, 1843, ar>d was the son of Riley and Hester Ann (Burris)) Ramsey, who lived near Graham during the youth of David R., but later his parents moved to near Blanchard. Iowa, where members of the family own a number of good farms. Mary Eliza¬ beth (Holt) Ramsey was born September 21, 1843, Andrew county. Missouri, and she was the daughter of William R. and Sarah S. Holt, old pioneers of this county, who came to Green township about 1849. 8he and Mr. Ramsey were married December 24, 1871, and afterwards lived in the northern edge of Atchison county, where he owned a good farm of about one hundred and sixty acres, three miles south of Blanchard, Iowa. There were five children in this family, four boys and one girl, the sons all dying in infancy, the daughter being Mrs. McDonald. Her mother died January 18.1888, Mr. Ramsey surviving until December 12, 1892, having been killed while on a hunting trip with a party of hunters near the Kansas and Okla¬ homa line. He had been a soldier in the Southern army in the Civil war. and was a man well liked and highly respected wherever he was known.

Aaron Columbus Linville

A popular representative of one of Nodaway county's old and well estab¬ lished families that is deserving of first rank in our citizenship is Aaron Columbus Linville, who was born near Graham, this county, March 25, 1853, in a rude clap-board-roofed log cabin. He is the son of William Isom and Bethena (Hedgepeth) Linville. The father was born in Missouri, probably Jackson county, the son of James Linville and wife, his father being a native of eastern Tennessee, and was a brother to Thomas Linville. He came to Jackson county, Missouri, about 1831 or 1832 with two of his brothers, Thomas and Abraham, the last named settling in Nodaway county, near Gra¬ ham, in a very early day; James also came here about that time, probably 1841, all locating near Graham. Bethena Hedgepeth was born in Kentucky and came overland from that state with her parents, who drove horses and oxen to their old-time wagons; they located in Jackson county, Missouri, where she married William Isom Linville. They came to Nodaway county in 1841 and located one and one-fourth miles northeast of Graham, where Isom Lin¬ ville pre-empted a homestead and lived in that neighborhood the rest of his life. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church South, very ac¬ tive in its affairs, and a deacon in the local congregation for many years. Tie was well known over all northwestern Missouri in church work and was as well known and influential in Nodaway county as any man in the county. Like most of the Linvilles, he was a Democrat. Two daughters and four sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Isom Linville, who lived to maturity, also two daughters who died in infancy. Those living are: James H., who lives five miles northwest of Graham, where he owns a good farm, married Elvira Jones and they have three children living; Joel Spencer, who lives about two miles southwest of Skidmore, married Rosa Dyson, and one child of this marriage died when sixteen years old ; after the death of his first wife, he married Rosa Hedgepeth, which union has resulted in the birth of four children; Aaron Columbus, of this review: Maggie married George W. Clark and lives in Oregon and they are the parents of eleven children; Henry C.- married Sarah Brown and lives in the Cherokee "strip," Oklahoma, and they have nine children; Sarah married Robert Notley, lives in Oklahoma and has three sons and one daughter.

Isom Linville, as already intimated, was a very devout Christian, and was known for his old-time hospitality. At Methodist campmeetings he was a great worker, during which times he would put up a boarding tent at which everybody was welcome, often making such announcement publicly. Ministers made his home their headquarters. Sometimes during revival meetings as many as twenty guests would stay over night with him. They found him always cheerful and an interesting story teller. The death of this highly esteemed and most worthy citizen occurred in March, 1903. ai an advanced age. His wife died prior to his death.