Nodaway County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1910 (part 3 of 6)

A. Columbus Linville, of this review, lived on the home farm, south¬ east of Graham, during his early boyhood and when fifteen years of age the family moved northeast of Graham and there he grew to manhood. He mar¬ ried Lizzie Clark on October 8, 1871. She was born in Scioto county, Ohio, in 1852, and came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1871 with her parents. Miles H. and Mary (Edgington) Clark, who located near Graham. Miles H. Clark was born and reared in New York. His wife was the daughter of George and Bettie Edgington ; she. too, was horn in Ohio, in or near Scioto county. Mr. and Mrs. Miles Id. Clark lived in the neighborhood of Gra¬ ham over twenty years, then moved to the southern part of Missouri, remain¬ ing there about six years, then returned to Nodaway county and lived in Quitman the rest of their lives, Mr. Clark dying in 1902 at the age of seventyeight years, and Airs. Clark dying in 1909, when eighty-six years old.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Linville lived at intervals for twenty years near Graham, and about 1899 moved to the southeastern part of Green township and lived there about six years, then moved into Monroe town¬ ship, remaining there four years, south of Albright school house, and they now live one mile west of that school house in the southern edge of Green township, where he is very comfortably situated. Politically, he is a Dem¬ ocrat.

Nine children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Linville, of whom seven are living, namely: Sarah Jenetta, born August 23, 1872, married James Melton and lives in Quitman, being the mother of seven children, Alfred, Dessie, Charley, Elsie, Everett, Dorothy and Ralph, Ada Marie dying in infancy: Lucy Ellen, born December 10. 1873, married James Marcus, living north of Graham, and they have four children, Ray, Clare, Marvin and a baby boy: Della Pearl, born September 2, 1875, married Julia Dilkes, lives in Kansas on a farm, and has two children, Columbus and Lucy; Alviry M., born April 18. 1877, married Thomas Russell and lives near Graham, and is the mother of one child, Sylvia: Maggie D., born February 16, 1879, died August 15, 1880; Anna B., born February 5, 1882, married Alfred DeWitt and lives near Skidmore on a farm, having four children, Margie

Helen, Ross, Harlan and Robert Lee; Effie L., born January 24, 1884, mar¬ ried Earl McLaughlin and lives in Quitman, and is the mother of four chil¬ dren, Orville, Leonard, Chloe and Stella May; Jesse Valdo, born March 30, 1889, is living at home; Derwerd Earl, born August 7, 1892, died February 9, 1893.

Noble C. Covey

The career of Noble C. Covey, veil known ex-county treasurer of Nod¬ away county, has been characterized by well-directed industry, good manage¬ ment and a progressive spirit, ever fostering a broad-minded policy which has resulted in much good to this locality. He was born near Warrensburg, Johnson county, Missouri, July 11, 1869, and he is the son of George S. and Bettie (Goode) Covey, both having come to Missouri from Kentucky, the father, however, being a native of Virginia. After living in Lincoln county, Kentucky, one year he came to Missouri about 1868. He saw some hard and exciting service during the war between the states, having served four years in the Fourth Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, during which time he was a prisoner in Andersonville. He once sold to an officer for fifty cents an article which he had cut from bone after weeks of hard work. A guard offered to bring him a peck of sweet potatoes for the fifty cents. He let down a rope and paid the fifty cents. Upon drawing up the sack with the supposed potatoes he found it contained only pine knots. He proved to be a very faithful soldier and after his trying career in the army he returned home and took up farming again. In 1882 he came to Washington town¬ ship, Nodaway county, Missouri, locating in the southeast corner of the county, where he and his wife are still living, owning a good place and a comfortable home, in the village of Guilford. He has always devoted his attention exclusively to farming, and not sought public office, but has al¬ ways been loyal to the Republican party.

Noble C. Covey was thirteen years old when he came to Nodaway county. He assisted his father with the' general work about the place until of legal age. attending the common schools during the winter months ; it being necessarv for him to work out after he was fifteen years old. his schooling was interrupted ; he turned part of his wages to his parents. He continued to work out as a farm hand until his marriage at the age of twenty-six years.

family of that locality. They began their married life in Washington town¬ ship, Nodaway county, where Mr. Covey rented land for five years. He then spent two years engaged as painter for the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company. He managed a branch store at Guilford, for a company that operated stores at Savannah. While on the farm he was .elected township collector for two terms of four years in all, and rendered very efficient ser¬ vice in this capacity. He was delegate to various conventions in the Re¬ publican party, having long been an active worker in its ranks. He was the nominee of that party in 1904 for county treasurer and in November of that year was triumphantly elected, and on April 1, 1905, entered the office for two years, and he made such a splendid and praiseworthy record that he was re-elected to this office in 1906. This proved his popularity with all classes, for Nodaway was at that time declared to be Democratic. The campaign was a close one the last time, but in 1904 Mr. Covey received a majority of thirty-nine votes. The last time he was elected the contest was a very close one. In all townships but two, the votes were tied. He conceded one to his opponent by twenty-five, but on its coming in it was found to be a tie. Hopkins township was the last one to be heard from, which came in with a majority of sixty-seven. This was after a very spirited campaign.

Mr. Covey retired from office April 1, 1909, having made a record that was praised by all concerned, because he gave the office his close personal attention and treated everybody on the square.

Since retiring from office he has resided in Maryville. He is one of the local men who are influential in the active work of the Republican party. He was a delegate to the judicial and state conventions.

Mrs. Covey died February 2, 1906, leaving four children, Charley, Deney, Jamie and Dale. On September 26, 1908, Mr. Covey was again mar¬ ried, his second wife being Anna May Worst, who had served as deputy to Mr. Covey during his last term of office. This union is without issue.

Ephraim Everist

One of the progressive farmers and highly respected citizens of Polk township, Nodaway county, is Ephraim Everist, who has ever taken high rank. Possessing energy and determination, he has been very successful in making everything he undertakes result to his advantage, and his success in his chosen calling is attested by the fact of his having started in an humble manner and is now the owner of valuable real estate, having accumulated the same by his own efforts.

Mr. Everist was born in the Buckeye state, like many of the residents of Nodaway county, he having first seen the light of day in Clinton county, Ohio, January 21, 1840. His father was Amos Everist and his mother was known in her maidenhood as Dinah Kibby. The former was a native of Maryland and the latter of Ohio. They met and married in that state and from there came to Mason county, Illinois, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Eight children were born to them, of which number Ephraim, of this review, was the second in order of birth. He was reared on the home farm in Clinton county. Ohio, where he was early placed in the fields during the crop seasons and there attended the district schools in the winter-time. He remained in his native community until about i860, when he moved to Mason county, Illinois. He there took up farming, which line of endeavor his father had always followed, and there he remained until 1885, when he was attracted by the stories of the rich land in Nodaway county, Missouri, and came here at that time and settled on the farm where he now lives in Polk township, having resided here ever since. He took a comparatively raw piece of land and has developed it into one of the best farms in the com¬ munity, his place consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, all under a high state of improvement and cultivation, with good buildings, fences and, in fact, everything that makes a country place attractive. He has always de¬ voted his attention exclusively to farming and stock raising, keeping, from year to year, some excellent varieties of live stock.

Mr. Everist was married in Mason county, Illinois, to Mary Elizabeth Hole, who was born in that county, on July 15, 1847. She is the daughter of Joseph E. and Clotilda (Green) Hole, her parents having been natives of Indiana. To Mr. and Mrs. Everist six children have been born, named as follows : Zilla, Ralph, Louis, Cecil, Harry and Ethel. They were all educated in the local schools and given every chance for successful and use¬ ful careers. Harry is in Seattle, Washington; Ethel is a stenographer.

The popular and efficient dentist. Dr. D. J. Thomas, of Maryville, Mis¬ souri, has attained an influential position in the professional circles of Nod¬ away county while yet young in years, and it is a pleasure to the biographer

Doctor Thomas was born April 4, 1881, at Whitesville. Andrew county, Missouri. His father is D. J. Thomas, a native of Kentucky and now a resi¬ dent of Tarkio, Missouri, having come to this state about forty years ago. spending the past twenty-eight years in northwestern Missouri, where he is widely known, being engaged as a commercial traveler.

D. J. Thomas. Sr., has been a traveling salesman for twenty-eight years, beginning with the Turner-Frazer Mercantile Company of St. Joseph, Mis¬ souri ; he is now with the Nave-McCord Mercantile Company, of that city. He educated his five boys in the best colleges. When fifteen or sixteen years old he entered the army during one of the late Indian wars, as a cook, which accomplishment he still retains. After three years in the army he returned to his "old Kentucky home" and worked his way through night school, and re¬ ceived a good education, taking the degree of Master of Arts. He then came to Missouri, settling in Whitesville, where he taught school for a few years, then he operated a mercantile business which he continued until he went on the road over half a century ago. He is one of the best known traveling men in the state.

The Thomas family is of Welsh descent. Grandfather Thomas was a native of Kentucky and in the early days he ivas in great demand as a stonemason. This family is related to General Thomas of Civil war fame, and its representatives through each generation in America have been noted for their willingness and ability to do things.

The Doctor's mother was known in her maidenhood as Phoebe Kesterson, a native of Indiana, in which state her people were highly respected. She has hosts of friends about her home in Tarkio. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Thomas, Sr., named as follows: Ralph V. is auditor with the Harper Brothers Publishing Company of New York City: Dr. William A. is practicing dentistry at Omaha, Nebraska; Dr. Eugene L. is practicing dentistry at Fullerton, Nebraska; Lloyd E. is a traveling salesman out of St. Joseph, Missouri ; Dr. D. J., Jr., of this review.

Doctor Thomas spent the first seventeen years of his life at Whites¬ ville and there received his primary education in the public schools. Later he entered Tarkio College at Tarkio, Missouri, where he made an excellent record and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1899. Being musically inclined and having devoted considerable attention to the study of music, he began teaching this, one of the highest of the esthetic arts, and con¬ tinued successfully at St. Joseph, Missouri, until 1901, then spent one year at Fullerton, Nebraska, in the dental office of his brother. Then, in 1902, he entered the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, taking a three-years course in dentistry, graduating in 1905. He began practice in Philadelphia and remained there two years, while there he was a member of the faculty as demonstrator of operative dentistry in the University of Pennsylvania, being the youngest member of the faculty. This is evidence of his thorough mas¬ tery of the science of dentistry and of his high standing with the instructors of that institution. In May, 1907, he located in Maryville, Missouri, and has been in the practice here ever since, building up an extensive patronage in the city and surrounding country. He has a neat and well-equipped office, which is always a busy place, and his practice is steadily growing. While in the university he took a course at the Philadelphia Hospital of Surgery and re¬ ceived a diploma from the same.

Doctor Thomas was married on June 6, 1906, to Margaret A. Shaaber, the representative of afi excellent family of Reading, Pennsylvania, in which city she was born and reared. She is the daughter of Andrew and Sarah (Roland) Shaaber. This union is without issue.

Doctor Thomas is a life member of the Dental Alumni Society of the University of Pennsylvania, and also of the General Alumni Society of the University of Pennsylvania, the Delta Sigma Delta fraternity, the Darby Dental Society of Pennsylvania, the State Dental Society and Academy of Stomatology. In all these he takes much interest and has an excellent stand¬ ing among his professional brethren.

The Doctor is organist at the Christian church at Maryville. While in the university he was an officer in the Greek fraternity two years, was secre¬ tary of the Darby Dental Society, was conductor of the university band for two years, was editor-in-chief of the Class Record Book, and pianist in the university orchestra.

Mrs. Thomas is prominently associated with musical affairs in Maryville, being a musician of no mean ability, having studied under a special instructor in Philadelphia, and is an accomplished vocalist, singing in local churches.

Joseph Thomas Linville

An enterprising farmer of Green township, Nodaway county, is Joseph Thomas Linville, who was born south of Graham, in this county, in 1852, the son of Aaron and Martha E. (Patton) Linville. For a further history of these parents the reader is referred to the sketch of W. R. Linville, appear¬ ing elsewhere in this work.

When Joseph T. was a small boy the family moved to near Skidmore, where he grew to manhood, his father having died while in the army, when Joseph T. was eight years old, after which the boys were compelled to make their own way very largely. Much of the responsibility of rearing the fam¬ ily fell on the subject, who worked both at home and as a hired hand for others, turning his earnings to the household. When nineteen years old, on September 19, 1872, he married Elizabeth J. Sharp, daughter of Daniel and Melinda Sharp, a sister of William Sharp, whose record appears in this work. She was born in Clinton county, Missouri. Her father, George Sharp, was born in Orange county, North Carolina, March 23, 1848, and he was the son of Daniel and Melinda (Koch) Sharp. The family came to this state in a one-horse wagon all the way from North Carolina when George Sharp was one month old, he being sick all the way. They camped out all night and during part of the trip slept on the snow, which was two feet deep. Daniel Sharp's father, who attempted the trip, died on the way and was buried in Clinton county, where the family settled, and remained in that county two years, then came to Nodaway county, the parents spending the rest of their days here. The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Sharp: Isaac; George, father of Mrs. Linville; Monroe, Wil¬ liam, Henry Powell (usually called Paul) ; Eliza Missouri, wife of Clark Harris; Evan, wife'of C. F. Smith, and Betty, wife of J. T. Linville.

After his marriage Joseph T. Linville, of this review, rented a farm and worked for himself, continuing to live in the east part of Monroe town¬ ship or near there. He saved his money and in 1874 was able to buy forty acres in the northeastern part of Monroe township; two years later he sold out and rented for a time, then bought in another tract, in the southeast part of Monroe township, the same number of acres he first owned and he lived there about four years, then sold out and lived in Skidmore four months. The next spring he rented in the southeastern part of Green township one year, then moved into the northern part of Monroe township and lived there one year. The next year (1884) he bought forty acres in that locality and lived there ten years, then bought one hundred and twenty acres where he now lives in the southern edge of Green township, about two miles east of Nodaway river, where he has a good farm which he has greatly improved and there has a very comfortable home. Mr. Linville has been a Democrat all his life and he is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.

Eleven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Linville, eight of whom are living, namely: Ollie Ann, born July 29, 1873, married George William Devers, February 19, 1895, and lives in Skidmore, and they are the parents of five daughters, Fannie, Neva, Blanche. Iona and Aleta; Melinda Emeline, born June 3, 1875, died March 4, 1890, when fifteen years old; William Edward, born August 21, 1877, lives in Skidmore where he owns a meat shop, being a trader and dealer in various lines, especially stock and farm products; Fredward Clinton, born January 14, 1880, married Josephine Emma Schrader, June 10, 1903, and he lives on a farm in Nebraska; they are the parents of two living children, Grace and Troy Lester, and Flazel, de¬ ceased; Louisa, who was born on January 15, 1882, died on July 15, 1883; Aaron Monroe, born March 1, 1884, is living at home; Nannie Lena, born June 29, 1886, died June 5, 1888; Ralva Lester, born May 4, 1888, married Etta Shrewsbury, December 22, 1909, and lives in the northern part of Mon¬ roe township; Maggie Elizabeth, born March 31, 1891, married Francis O'Riley, April 5, 1910; Mary Vernon, born July 28, 1893, and Ora Alice, born September 1, 1896, are both at home w ith their parents.

Eugene H. Davis

A man who has always been interested in every enterprise for the gen¬ eral welfare of the community and who liberally supports every movement calculated to benefit his fellow-men both materially and along the line of moral reform is Eugene H. Davis, the well known and efficient superintendent of the well-managed county home of Nodaway county, Missouri. Courteous and kind to all, broad-minded in his views of men and affairs, and firm in his convictions, it is a compliment worthily bestowed to speak of him as one of the worthiest young men of this locality, and, judging from his past hon¬ orable record and his habits of industry and frugality, the future must neces¬ sarily have much of good in store for him.

Mr. Davis was born at Grant City, Missouri, December 16, 1873. He is the son of John A. and Anna E. (Hilsabeck) Davis, the father a native of Pennsylvania and the mother of Illinois. They came to Worth county, Missouri, when they were young, accompanying their parents, there met and married and settled in Grant City. From there they moved to St. Joseph, in 1877, and from there they moved to Maryville, where they lived about five years, then moved to Bedison, this county. They lived there five years, then moved to Parnell, Nodaway county, where they resided for a period of ten years. They afterwards lived in different places, and since 1902 they have made their home with their son, Eugene H., of this review.

Eugene H. Davis made his home with his parents until he was about twenty-six years of age. He received a common school education, and fol¬ lowed different occupations with varying success. For nine years he engaged in farming near Burlington Junction and he managed the place in a manner that indicated his mastery of the art of husbandry.

When the local authorities were casting about for a suitable man to take charge of the county home, their attention was directed to Mr. Davis as being the most suitable for this important and responsible position, owing to his ability as an organizer, his success as a farmer and his exemplary hab¬ its, and in February, 1910, he was chosen for this place, and on March 1, 1910, he assumed control of the same and at once inaugurated a splendid system of management, thus far demonstrating the wisdom of his selection for the place. The county house was built in 1908. It is a commodious, modern, well arranged and substantial building, built of brick and will ac¬ commodate fifty or sixty people. It is surrounded by beautiful grounds and good land.

Mr. Davis was married in Platte county, Missouri, on July 26, 1900, to Fillian Webb, who was born in that county, August 31, 1876, and the daughter of David and Mary (Fankford) Webb, a well established family there. Mr. and Mrs. Davis are the parents of three children, Estol E., Bettie L., Orville O. The first named died when two years two months and fifteen days old.

Mr. Davis is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 405, at Burlington Junction; also the Modern Woodmen of America, Camp No. 2075. Mrs. Davis is a member of the Christian church.

William Everhart

One of the enterprising and well known citizens of Maryville is William Everhart, a man of energy and determination in business affairs. Indolence and idleness are entirely foreign to his nature, and his continued activity in the management and development of his particular line of endeavor has stamped him as the possessor of commercial talents of no mean order. He deals in coal and feed, manages a cold storage plant and manufactures double distilled and filtered ice, and he holds a high rank among the sub¬ stantial men of affairs of Nodaway county.

and wood business and six years later dealt in coal and ice, dealing- in the latter for two years until in 1909, when an ice-making plant was established with fifteen tons ice capacity, with five thousand barrels of cold storage. He buys apples and also does a cold storage business for other dealers, and alto¬ gether is kept very busy at all time. Mr. Everhart also recently purchased the natural ice plant of Maryville, which gives him exclusive control of the local ice business. He has been very successful since coming here and is de¬ serving of the large rewards that have attended his efforts. He invested but five hundred dollars in 1894, renting the site of the old Methodist church building where he began in a modest way a wood and feed business. He did his own delivery with a pair of ponies. He soon built up a very satisfactory business and on January 14, 1906, he lost his entire stock by fire, sustaining a loss of ten thousand dollars, He had purchased a fourth of a block, this with over four hundred cords of wood and stock of coal was lost. The insurance rate had become so high that he discontinued his policy a few months prior to the fire. But nothing daunted, he at once resumed business and erected his present substantial cement block building. He had to buy new equipment, for three of his new wagons, just from the shops, were burned, also his scales. On the night of the fire, a delegation of Maryville bankers sent him word to draw on them in case he found it necessary to con¬ tinue his business. This gave him new courage. His dwelling, standing on the next lot, was saved only by the hardest kind of work. His new building covers almost one-fourth of a block and was built at a cost of twenty thous¬ and dollars, including the ice plant ; his coal sheds are at the depot and he can carry one thousand tons of coal. He sells annually from five to six thousand tons of coal, besides large quantities of ice, wood, feed. etc., his gross annual sales now amounting to about seventy-five thousand dollars. This is criterion enough of his splendid business acumen, his rare foresight and his honesty which has inspired the confidence of those with whom he has had dealings. From eight to fifteen men are constantly in his employ. He owns twelve head of horses which are used in carrying on his large business. He has thus built up an immense business in a short time, after being seriously handicapped by fire and having started in an humble manner. But he has the necessary enthusiasm, the push and the sagacity to succeed in the face of all obstacles. He has an excellent plant, modern, well equipped and where a splendid system is carried out in all departments.

Mr. Everhart was born in White Cloud township, this county, June 5, 1869, the son of Jacob and Christina (Norricks) Everhart, the father a native of Pennsylvania. He came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1867 from Ohio. He devoted his life to farming and upon coming to this county he secured prairie land which he developed into a good farm, and remained on the same until he moved to Maryville in 1905 and he died in this city in 1907 at the age of seventy-six years. His wife followed him to the silent land in 1910, having reached the age of seventy-two years. They had hosts of friends wherever they lived. The latter's brother, Jacob Norricks, was killed on his farm m Polk township, Nodaway county, about 1875.

Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Everhart, seven of whom are still living in this county. William, of this review, began working on the home farm when but a mere boy, and he received a common school education in the neighboring schools. He did not take kindly to the idea of spending his life on the farm and left the farm for the purpose of engag¬ ing in business. He was well fitted for a business career both by nature and education. He is a graduate of Maryville Commercial College.

Mr. Everhart married Anna L. Jones, on May 31. 1896, the daughter of A. T. and Mary L. Jones, of White Cloud, who lived but three miles from the Everhart home, where the family was long well established. To Mr. and Mrs. Everhart three children have been born, namely: Hazel, a high school student ; Albert Dean and Dale.

Mr. Everhart is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Modern Woodmen. He carries ten thousand dollars life insurance and five thousand dollars accident insurance. Personally he is a pleasant man to know, hos¬ pitable in his home, straightforward and courteous in his business and a man in whom all repose the utmost confidence who have occasion to know him well.

Andrew J. Jenson

It is a fact patent to all that the United States can boast of no better citi¬ zenship than the emigrants from Denmark or Norway and Sweden - the Scan¬ dinavian Peninsula. Although not so great a number of them have found homes within the borders of our Union as from several other foreign coun¬ tries, yet wherever the}- are found they have established good homes and quickly assimilated with our citizenship. Though holding dear and sacred the beloved northland from whence they came, they are none the less devoted to the fair country of their adoption, and should necessity require it, would be willing to go forth to battle for the maintenance of its institutions. Among this highly respected class is Andrew J. Jenson, one of the leading farmers of

Polk township, Nodaway county. He was born in Denmark, December 25, 1852, the son of Soren and Johanna (Larson) Jenson, both also natives of Denmark. They spent their early lives there, and were educated and married in their native land, coming to America in 1863, when their son, Andrew J., was eleven years old. They made their way to the interior and located near Fremont, Nebraska, afterward moving to Pottawattamie county, Iowa, where they lived until the fall of 1868, when the came to Nodaway county, Mis¬ souri, and settled near Guilford. "They later settled in Polk township, where their deaths occurred. They succeeded fairly well in this country, and lived very comfortably.

Andrew J. Jenson received most of his education in this country. He remained with his parents, accompanying them from place to place, and assist¬ ing with the work about the home. In 1880 the family settled on the farm now owned by Andrew J., in Polk township, and here he has since resided: He has always followed farming and has proved to be very adept in all its diversified phases. Added to this, he has raised various kinds of livestock, no small part of his income having been derived from that source. He is the owner of one of the choice farms of this township, consisting of four hundred and fifty acres, most of which is well improved and under a good state of cultivation. Mr. Jenson has erected comfortable and substantial buildings on the place, and is well fixed from a material standpoint.

Mr. Jenson was married in this township on September 6, 1888, to Bena Mickelson, who was born in the state of LTah, February 19, 1867, the daugh¬ ter of Lars and Mary Mickelson, natives of Denmark. The mother died in Polk township, this county. To Mr. and Mrs. Jenson six children have been born, named as follows : Emma M., Josephine, Nettie L.. Sarenus, Violet and Luther.

Mr. and Mrs. Jenson are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and they take an active interest in the religious and other movements that make for the betterment of their community.

John B. Nunnelley

John B. Nunnelley, farmer, of Polk township, Nodaway county, comes of a family the members of which are popular among their acquaintances, and the gentleman to whom these paragraphs are dedicated has budded wisely and well as the architect of his own fortunes, and the success that crowns his efiforts is richlv merited.

Mr. Nunnelley was born in Clay county, Missouri, November 29, 1855, the son of Washington and Sarah (Scearce) Nunnelley, both natives of Ken¬ tucky, from which state they came to Clay county, Missouri, and settled on a farm where they remained for several years, and then removed to Platte county, this state, where they both died. Eight children constituted their family, of whom John B., of this review, was the sixth in order of birth. He was quite young when his parents moved to Platte county, in which he grew to maturity and where he was educated in the public schools. He remained at home until he was twenty-one years of age when he began life m his home neighborhood on a farm belonging to his father, where he remained for two years, and then came to Nodaway county, Missouri. After farming here for one year he returned to Platte county and launched in the mercantile business at Linkville, which he continued for three years, during which time he had a fairly satisfactory trade with the community. Selling out, he moved to Avalon, Livingston county, Missouri, and here engaged as a merchant for a year and a half. His next move was to Liberty, this state, where he remained one year, when he retired from the mercantile business and then came to Nodaway county, in Lebruary, 1892, and has since remained here.

Mr. Nunnelley purchased a farm near Skidmore where he lived until the spring of 1901, when he settled on the farm where he now lives in Polk town¬ ship, and where he has since been a resident. He has prospered by good management and close application to whatever he has had in hand, attending strictly to his own affairs at all times. He is the owner of four hundred and sixty-five acres in Nodaway county and one hundred and sixty acres in Okla¬ homa. His land is, for the most part, well improved and valuable from every point of view. He has a beautiful home and excellent outbuildings, and everything about his place shows thrift and prosperity and that a gentleman of good taste and good management has its affairs in hand. For eight years, in connection with farming, Mr. Nunnelley has been engaged in buying and shipping livestock from Maryville and for several years he has been engaged in the mercantile business at Wilcox, this county, and in all his diversified lines of business he has been very successful, being a man who observes things as they are and exercises such a keen discernment that he makes few mis¬ takes in his transactions.

Mr. Nunnelley was married at St. Joseph, Missouri, September 10, 1885, to Flora B. Tarpley, who was born in Green township, Nodaway county, February 15, 1864. her family being well known and influential in that com¬ munity. She is the daughter of William and Sarah Anthony Tarpley. both natives of North Carolina ; they were among the early settlers of Green town¬ ship, the father dying at Skidmore, March 18, 1908, at seventy -nine years of age; his widow is still living. They were the parents of seven children, of whom Mrs. Nnnnelley was the third in order of birth. She was reared and educated in this county.

To Mr. and Mrs. Nnnnelley one child, Byron W., has been born. They are the foster parents of Nellie Conditt, a native of Clay county. Missouri, and she was reared and educated by them ; for some time she has been a teacher in Nodaway county.

Mr. Nnnnelley is a man whose word is regarded as good as a bond, his dealings with his fellow-men being always straightforward, and his con¬ duct has always been that of a man whose aim has been correct and whose integrity has never been questioned.

Eli W. Bailey

When the Bailey family first came to Atchison county. Missouri, there were no roads or bridges, and their nearest neighbors, who were ten miles distant, were the brother and brother-in-law of Eli W. Bailey. There was only one store in the county, the one at Fugate's Mill, a mile above Rockport. and in order to reach that store and mill the Baileys were compelled to go ten miles across an unbroken prairie, customers being compelled sometimes to stay over night waiting their turn. Such conditions prevailed here when Eli W. Bailey, the immediate subject of this review, was a boy. He was born in Ray county, Missouri, August 21, 1834, and is the son of James and Nancy (Wilson) Bailey, who came to Missouri about 1830 from Nashville, Tennessee, and bought forty acres of land, which was later added to. On April 14, 1845, ^e family arrived in Atchison county, locating near Tarkio. Indians were still here, who kept the game killed off, but after they left, the country being sparsely settled, game again became plentiful. Mr. Bailey has seen large droves of wild deer, and kill d many himself. His parents bought a claim for government land from a stranger, and after it was surveyed by the government, went to Plattsburg to the land office and bought it from the government at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, entering one hun¬ dred and sixty acres at first, then eighty acres more, taking timbered land, believing that the prairie land would never be settled; indeed, this remained the case until the railroads came through the county.

Eli W. Bailey grew to maturity on the farm, and on January 6, i860, he married Mary McCollister, daughter of Andrew and Maria (Kirkpatrick) McCollister. Mrs. Bailey was born at Chillicothe, Ohio, in which locality her mother was also born, but her father was a native of Maryland. The Kirkpatricks, Mrs. Bailey's maternal grandparents, came from Ireland. Mrs. Bailey came to Missouri in 1858 with her parents, who located about three miles northwest of Tarkio, where she lived until her marriage. Eli W. Bailey's paternal grandparents were Ezekiel and Elizabeth (Turner) Bailey, and his maternal grandparents were Eli and Sarah Wilson, Sarah Wilson having come from Halifax, Nova Scotia.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Bailey went to farming on his farm adjoining that of his father, also joining that of her father. They lived there until about 1885. then moved to Tarkio for the purpose of placing their children in college. Their children are : Edith, who married Hamlin C. Bailey, cashier of the Farmers Bank at Quitman, whose sketch appears else¬ where in this work, and Anna, who married A. A. Watts and lives in St. Joseph, Missouri, where Mr. Watts is employed as train dispatcher for the Grand Island railway.

The Bailey family lived at Tarkio until 1900, when they moved to Quitman, where their daughter, Edith, lived, and they have resided here ever since. Mr. Bailey sold his farm and is now living in retirement enjoying the fruits of his former years of industry. About a year after moving to Tarkio he went into the mercantile business in which he remained a greater part of the time for seven years, and enjoyed a very liberal patronage from the town and surrounding country.

Mr. Bailey is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church South and Mrs. Bailey is a Presbyterian. He is a man who is well thought of bv all who know him, owing to his past life of honor and usefulness, his kindness and courtesy.

Jacob E. Melvin

To such men as Jacob E. Melvin, long one of the substantial farmers of Nodaway county, who is now living retired in his pleasant home in Mary¬ ville, life is so real that they find no time to plot either mischief or vice. Their lives are bound up in their duties, they feel the weight of their citizen¬ ship, and take pleasure in sowing the seeds of uprightness.

Mr. Melvin was born in McDonough county, Illinois, November 16, 1856, the son of Thomas and Jemima Melvin, the father a native of White county, Tennessee, and the mother of Kentucky. They came to Illinois when young and there met and married. Mr. Melvin came to Illinois as early as 1836 and spent his life on a farm, being a hardworking, honest pioneer whom his neighbors highly respected.

Jacob E. lived at home and assisted in developing the farm, attending the neighboring schools in the winter time until he became of legal age. In 1878 he started for the West, visiting his cousins, Henry and Jack Anderson, who had come to Nodaway county, Missouri, and located in Hughes town¬ ship. Mr. Melvin liked the country and he purchased land twelve miles southwest of Maryville in Hughes township, buying forty acres at twentyfive dollars per acre, later purchasing eighty acres more at eighteen dollars per acre. He sold his first purchase and built on his eighty-acre tract and remained on the same for a period of twenty-five years. This he added to as he prospered until he owned four hundred acres in one farm, paying fifty dollars per acre for the last he bought, but paid thirty-five and forty-two dol¬ lars and fifty cents per acre for most of it, the last he bought being improved. He has one of the model farms of the county, well improved and well culti¬ vated. He built an attractive residence in 1895. After selling one hundred and sixty acres of the homestead, he came to Maryville in 1902, and in 1908 bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres two miles south of Maryville, paying one hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents per acre for the land, which is a very desirable property. It was long considered one of the best farms in Nodaway county, and is now jvorth one hundred and seventy-five to two hundred dollars per acre. He finally sold all his original land for sixty and eighty-five dollars per acre. He continued to operate the place south of Maryville with hired help, grows and feeds cattle and hogs, keeping a fine herd on hand from time to time. He has also bought and sold large numbers of horses.

Upon coming to Nodaway county Mr. Melvin had but about five hundred dollars, but, being a man of natural business endowments of a high order and persistent in his efforts, he has accumulated a handsome competency, and is one of the county's substantial and progressive citizens. In 1902 he built his present fine home in Maryville, located in the south part of the city, which is one of the most attractive and desirable homes in this county. He is a stock¬ holder in the Arkoe Bank, at Arkoe, this county, of which his son-in-law, J. T. Goff, is cashier. He has never aspired to offices of political trust, but has always been a Democrat and interested in the progress of his county.

Mr. Melvin was married on Valentine day. February 14, 1878. while living in McDonough county, Illinois, to Elizabeth Dirks, who was born in that county, the daughter of an influential family there. To this union two children were born : Ora, who married J. T. Goff, a banker at Arkoe, this county ; they have no children. Ruby is living at home ; both she and her sister are highly educated, and taught very successfully in the Nodaway county schools.

Mr. Melvin is a member of the Modern Woodmen of the World, a Ma¬ son, belonging to the blue lodge and chapter, and one would judge from his daily life that he believes in carrying its sublime precepts into his business and social affairs, for he is known to be exemplary in his habits, honest, gen¬ erous, kind and at all times a genteel gentleman. Members of this family are loyal in their support of the Christian church, in which they hold member¬ ships.

John Edward Costeleo

One of the best known and most enterprising of the younger agricul¬ turists of Nodaway county is John Edward Costello, now in the very prime of life and usefulness, and his influence as an honorable, upright citizen is productive of much good upon all with whom he comes in contact. His past success gives assurance of something yet to come, and he is evidently destined to continue a potent factor for substantial good for many years to come. He is the owner of fine farming lands in Nodaway county, which he conducts in a manner that stamps him as fully abreast of the times. He is the worthy son of a worthy sire. His father, John G. Costello, of whom a full sketch appears elsewhere in the work, was long one of the leading citizens of this county. He comes of an excellent Irish family on both sides of the house, his parents having been born in the Emerald Isle, from which country they came to America when young. His mother, who was known in her maidenhood as Mary Corliss, now a woman advanced in years, is living at Maryville, where she enjoys the friendship of a wide circle of acquaintances, the father having passed to his reward on November 16, 1900.

J. E. Costello was born on February 7, 1870. on the old homestead in this county ; there he grew to maturity and worked on the farm when he be¬ came of proper age, and he received his education in this county, remaining at home until the death of his father, the latter insisting that he remain the head of the family and placing all responsibility upon the shoulders of his son, J. E. This was good experience for him, and he was well drilled in the line which he has essayed to follow.

The lands left by. the father have since been mutually divided and the widow retains the old home farm. The son has added to his share, so that he now owns a very choice place, consisting of five hundred acres, two hun¬ dred and eighty acres in one body, one hundred acres in another body, one mile away; the rest of the land lies in the bottoms. It is all well improved, well cultivated and neatly kept ; he oversees it all, operating the same with hired help, and he is very successful as a general farmer and stock raiser.

On July 6, 1898, the home place was struck by lightning and destroyed, during the heaviest fall of rain ever known here, thirteen inches having fallen in the course of twelve hours. Disaster followed disaster, by the fire-fiend, and in the course of three years four other fires occurred, two houses and two barns being burned.

On February 17, 1896, Mr. Costello married Mamie Roney, daughter of Henry and Julia (Byrnes) Roney, who came to Nodaway county in 1882, Mrs. Costello being reared and educated in this county. Two sons have been born to this union, Byron Edward and John Henlv.

Cornelius L. Phipps

A venerable and highly respected citizen of Nodaway county whose life record has much in it to be admired is Cornelius L. Phipps, who was born in Washington county, Indiana, February 19, 1831. He is the son of Jesse and Rhoda (Crotts) Phipps, the former born in Floyd county, Indiana, and the mother in Tennessee. The paternal grandfather of Cornelius L. Phipps was killed in the battle of Tippecanoe, having fought against the Indians in the fall of 1811. The Crotts family is of German origin.

When the gentleman of whom this biographv is written was ten years old his parents moved to Abbott county, Illinois, and there he grew to man¬ hood on a farm. On December 22, 1854, he married Cecilia Cecil, daughter of Wilford and Mary ( Martin) Cecil. Mrs. Phipps was born in Kentucky, near the old home of Henry Clay in the blue grass region of that state. She was about five years old when her parents came to Illinois and there she grew to maturity and married Mr. Phipps. The latter went to farming for himself in Hancock county, Illinois, and lived there until the fall of 1869. He had a farm of eighty acres in that county. Before the year 1869 he had sold part of it, and in that year disposed of the remainder and bought a farm in the southeast part of Monroe township. Nodaway county, Missouri, where he still resides, having lived here ever since, with the exception of about six years when he rented out his farm and went to live on a larger one near Clyde. He has ninety acres of well improved land here.

Ten children have been horn to Mr. and Mrs. Phipps, of whom five are deceased; the five living are: Laurence married Mary Todd, of Lorraine, Illinois; they now live at Caldwell, Kansas; they have no children, hut are rearing an adopted child, Stella. Margaret Phipps married James M. Mann, lives in Holt county, west of Maitland, Missouri, and has four children, Elmer G. and Everett S. (twins) and Alta and Russell. Winfield Phipps is unmar¬ ried and lives at home with his father. Owen married Ella Hughes and lives two miles west of his father, has three children, Cecil Glen, Lynn Elwood and Claude Owen. Millie C. Phipps is at home with her father. The mother of these children died on July 2, 1908. She was a member of the Christian church at Palestine, Hughes township.

Mrs. Cecilia (Cecil) Phipps was born near Frankfort, Kentucky, on January 6. 1829. and when six years old her parents moved to Knox county, Illinois. She was one of a family of fourteen children, all but two of whom lived to maturity and reared families. Her five children who died in infancy were Helen, Laura, Edgar, Lewis and Jessie. She was reared a Catholic, hut when a young woman she left that church and united with the Congrega¬ tional church at Bowen, Illinois. In 1894 she was induced to change her creed in regard to baptism and became a believer in the doctrines of the Christian church. She had been a sufferer from an annoying physical ailment for twenty years, and the last three weeks of her life were weeks of agony, but she was very patient and praised those who waited on her for being so kind to her. She said she was not afraid to die as she had always tried to live right and was ready and willing to go when the Master called. She always defended the right and denounced the wrong. She was a loving wife, an indulgent mother and a good, kind neighbor. She was never better pleased than when her children and grandchildren and neighbors were gathered at her home.

Miss Millie Phipps was educated both in the public schools and in the Maryville Seminary. Cornelius L. Phipps attended the old pioneer schools, and only one term of his schooling was made comfortable by having backs to the seats, having used slab benches for seats. Miss Millie has taught school in Nodaway county nine years, having begun in the fall of 1891. She has been a correspondent for various newspapers for about twenty-two years and is a very able and versatile writer.

Jonathan Sprague

Many of the most enterprising citizens of Nodaway county are natives of the old Buckeye state, and they have, almost without exception, prospered since coming to this new prairie country, establishing excellent homes and taking a leading part in the affairs of the county, doing whatever devolved upon them as citizens to further the general welfare of the locality. Among this number is Jonathan Sprague, who has a good farm in Polk township. He was born in Summit county, Ohio, April 1, 1840, the son of Ira and Emma (Salter) Sprague. The father was a farmer, a native of Summit county, dying on the same farm on which he was born, his death occurring in 1855. Mrs. Emma Sprague came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in the spring ot 1870 and died in Polk township in 1888. They were the parents of four children, all of whom lived to maturity, Jonathan, of this review, being the second in order of birth.

Jonathan Sprague grew to maturity on the home farm in Summit coun¬ ty, Ohio, where he was put to work in the field when very young; he worked during the crop seasons and attended the common schools in the winter time. He remained there until the spring of 1870, when he turned his face toward the West and sought a new home in Nodaway county, Missouri. He began life here by buying the farm where he now lives. He soon got a foothold and bought an additional eighty acres, mostly unimproved. His son, Charles E., also owns eighty acres. Being a hard worker and anxious to succeed, he has been very successful as a general farmer. He not only placed his farm under a high state of cultivation, but also erected good buildings on the same and has a very comfortable home. He has added to his original purchase until he now owns one hundred and seventy acres.

Mr. Sprague was married in Summit county, Ohio, December 25. 1867. to Jane A. Ewart, who was born in Springfield township. Summit county, Ohio, December 25, 1843. She was the daughter of Robert L. and Martha (Lemmon) Ewart. Both her parents spent their lives in that vicinity and died there.

Jonathan Sprague And Family

of Polk township. Three of their children are deceased. Ada was the wife of Dr. J. J. Monahan and she died in Chicago. Two of Mr. Sprague's chil¬ dren died in childhood.

Mr. Sprague has never taken a very active part in political matters, but has always been a Republican. During the Civil war he saw some service, but only for a short time. Most of his duty was in the defense of Washington City, as a member of Company D, One Hundred and Sixty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

Hamlin C. Bailey

The record of Hamlin C. Bailey, the well-known cashier of the Farmers' Bank at Quitman, Nodaway county, is that of a man who, by practically unaided efforts, has worked his way from a comparatively modest beginning to a position of influence and comparative affluence in his community. His life has been one of unceasing industry and perseverance, and the systematic and honorable methods he has ever followed have won him the unbounded confidence of his fellow-citizens, having at all times, while advancing his own interests, labored to promote those of his county.

Mr. Bailey was born in Morgan county, Ohio, July 12, i860, and is the son of John P. and Mary J. (Barr) Bailey, an old and highly esteemed family, who came to Grundy county, Missouri, when Hamlin C. was eight years old. They lived there about four years, then went to Henry county, Iowa, where they lived until their son was of legal age. He received a good common school education. His first start in life for himself was in a store in Wayland, Iowa, but in 1882 he went to Kansas City and spent five years in a furniture store, then was engaged as bookkeeper and salesman for Emmert & Neal at Tarkio for five years, then was with other firms for about eight years. In February, 1900, he came to Quitman and became cashier of the Farmers' Bank of this place, and he has filled this position with ability and credit.

Mr. Bailey was married in 1887 to Edith M. Bailey, daughter of Eli and Mary (McCollister) Bailey, a full sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin C. Bailey, namely: Allison D., who is bookkeeper for a firm in St. Joseph; Halbert L., Harry A., Mary E. and John W., all at home with their parents.

Politically Mr. Bailey is a Republican, is influential in local party affairs, and for years he has been a member of the Republican county central com¬ mittee and is treasurer of the same. Personally, he is a persistent worker, industrious, obliging and public spirited. He has always looked very care¬ fully to details, has the foresight and discernment of the modern business man of affairs and exercises sound judgment in all his transactions and rela¬ tions with the world.

The Farmers' Bank of Quitman, mentioned above, is controlled by John S., J. Edward and Russell 1. Bilby, bankers, and was organized in 1885 as a private bank, and it was maintained as such until 1897, when it was sold out to Dr. Rufus H. Smith, who ran it two years, and then sold it to the present owners, the Bilbvs. It has a capital stock of ten thousand dollars, with a surplus of two thousand and five hundred, and is regarded as a sound and safe institution. The following official statement, in part, issued January 31, 1910, is sufficient to show its solid condition: Loans and discounts, $22,521.71; loans, real estate, $1,150.00; overdrafts, $999.62; real estate (banking house), $1,500.00; furniture and fixtures, $750.00; due from other banks and bankers, subject to check, $22,178.76; cash items, $6.50; currency, $1,667.00; specie, $630.84; total, $51,727.67. Liabilities: Capital stock paid in, $10,000.00; surplus fund, $2,500.00: undivided profits, net, $2,573.00; deposits, $36,654.67; total, $51,727.67.

John G. Costello

The backbone of this country is made up of families which have made their own homes, who are alive to the best interests of the community in which they reside, who are so honest that there is no trouble for their neighbors to know it, who attend to their own business and are too busy to attend to that of others, who w7ork steadily on from day to day, taking the sunshine with the storm, and w ho rear a fine family to an honest name and a comfortable home. Such people are always welcome in any community. The late John G. Cos-, tello, long one of Nodaway county's highly honored citizens, who has passed to another sphere of action, was such a man, having come to our shores from a foreign port, and here became well established. He was born in Ireland in 1834, and there spent his early youth and received his first business discipline, and when seventeen years old he boarded an old-fashioned sailing vessel, which brought him into New York harbor on March 17. 1851. He sought employment in a lumber camp in Pennsylvania, and there saved his earnings and sent to the old country for his sister and her husband and his half-brother. He took out naturalization papers at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, in October, 1856, just before the election of that year, in w hich he cast his vote for James Buchanan. He finally came to Nodaway county, Missouri, and lived to an advanced age. dying at Quitman. November 16, 1900. One week before he died he cast his last vote, having been carried in an arm chair upstairs to the voting booth. While he took a great deal of interest in public affairs, he never sought office.

John G. Costello first bought one hundred and sixty acres of land of his employer at W ilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, for which he paid one dollar and sixty cents per acre without seeing it. The land wras located in Nodaway county, Missouri, west of Quitman, in Green township. Pie paid for it in labor. Probably in the fall of 1856 he came here. He met Samuel Kennedy in Maryville, who located his land for him. He found a fine spring on the land, which proved a source of much satisfaction to him. The country was all a wilderness, no one lived near there, and his land was then of practically no value, and he went to St. Joseph and took a job to drive an ox team to Pike's Peak. On the way he met a man returning from there who was half starved, and this caused him to give up the trip and start to California, riding one horse and leading others. Ide fell asleep and became separated from the rest of the band, and, meeting Indians, he was frightened, but they did not molest him, merely saluting, "How1, how!" Then, observing smoke in the distance, which came from the camp, he made his way back in safety. After reaching the gold fields in California, he took to prospecting, and discovered a man "salting" a mine by shooting gold-dust from a musket into a hillside, intending to sell it. This disgusted Mr. Costello, and he secured work at the stage station in the mountains, and remained there for a considerable length of time, saving his money, for there wTas little opportunity to spend it. He had but one pair of trousers and a "jumper." Those he washed on Sun¬ day and lay in the shade while they were drying. He kept his money, which was in gold, hid. His employer induced him to invest in w'heat in a store¬ house. at ninety cents per hundred. While he was absent in the mountains, vessels were loaded, and all the wheat available was taken except what he owned in one storehouse. The cargo in one of the vessels was locked, and its owner hunted up Mr. Costello, fifty miles distant in the mountains, with the result that it was sold at a profit. He went back to work in the stage barn. Later his employer, who was in the city, sent for him, and Mr. Costello went, expecting to be discharged, but was given a six-horse team to drive on the stage, and there he remained until 1866, when he returned to Missouri. By that time others had begun to locate here, and Mr. Costello began improv¬ ing his land. He did a great deal of teaming, hauling goods from St. Joseph and Savannah, the latter town sixty miles distant, and brought material from those places for his building. From this time on he engaged in farming and cattle feeding, and he bought and sold land, disposing of his holdings as soon as he could realize a profit. His name appears frequently on the records of lands in the vicinity where he lived. He prospered, and at his death was the owner of fifteen hundred acres of good land. He built a large, fine residence on his place in 1893 and 1894, costing five thousand dollars. This was struck by lightning and burned in 1898, after which he moved to Quitman. Besides general farming and trading on a large scale, he was a cattle feeder and horse dealer, and he loaned money on farm property. He was a very able business man, and was successful at whatever he turned his attention to, a man of rare business acumen, keen foresight and soundness of judgment; he left an estate valued at about one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. He was purely a self-made man, his education being very limited in point of actual text-book training, having attended school but two weeks, but he was a close observer, and kept well posted on current topics. He did more for the upbuilding of his community than any other man has done, and for years was known as one of the most substantial and influential men in the county. He was an excellent judge of stock and land values; in fact, his judgment was seldom at fault on any business proposition.

Mr. Costello was married at Middletown, Ohio, on January 14, 1869, at the residence of his sister. He selected as a life companion Mary Corliss, who was also born in Ireland, from which country she came to America when sixteen years old. the trip requiring nine weeks, the vessel on which she sailed being given up for lost. She came to her uncle, Nicholas Mullen, whose wife was the sister of John Costello, and the one to whom Mr. Costello had sent money with which he paid her passage to America. Mr. Costello first met his wife upon his return from California. She survives, and makes her home in Maryville. She is a member of the Catholic church, of which her husband was also a member; they were reared in this faith in Ireland and never de¬ parted from it. Mr. Costello was a man whom everybody trusted and re¬ spected. He hated a hypocrite, and all his business transactions were fair and straightforward. Thus he won the high esteem of all who knew him.

follows: John Edward, whose sketch appears on another page of this work; Katie is the wife of Dr. F. M. Ryan, of Quitman; Mamie is the wife of R. G. Sanders, of the Bee Hive store at Maryville.

The name of Dr. Joseph B. Morrison needs no introduction to the people of Nodaway county where he has long labored in behalf of suffering humanity in one of the most trying of professions and where his name has long been a household word, consequently any laudation of his attributes on the part of the biographer would be incongruous at this time. He is now living in honorable retirement in Maryville. He was born at Coleraine, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, January 18. 1835. Pie spent his boyhood on the home farm, remaining there until he was twenty-one years old. He received a good common school education, also went to Newark Academy, Newark, Delaware, PTiionville Academy, ETiionville, Pennsylvania, and at Coatsville Academy, Coatsville, Pennsylvania, teaching awhile in the latter institution. When twenty -three years old, in 1858, he took up the study of medicine in his native county. He took a course in the Jefferson Medical College at Phil¬ adelphia, from which he was graduated on March 9, 1861, and he began practice in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He entered the army through the medical board at Philadelphia, consisting of Samuel D. Gross, S. Weir Mitchell, D Hayes Agnew, John Neil and Henry Hartshorn, and he was ap¬ pointed as acting assistant surgeon in the United States army and sent to Washington City where he spent fifteen months in the general hospital. In January, 1863, he went before the board there and was examined for assist¬ ant surgeon in the volunteer army and received a commission as assistant surgeon with the rank of first lieutenant, and in June, 1863, he was appointed full surgeon but remained on duty in the hospital until August, when he was sent to Charleston, South Carolina, where he remained with the Union army about the forts there until the following April, being surgeon for a division until April. 1864, when he was sent to Florida and was at the battle of Olustee. On April 23. 1864, he came back to Virginia with the Tenth Corps and was stationed at Gloucester Point, and on May 5th he went with the army up the James river to meet Beauregard. The latter part of May he was at Cold Harbor and went with the Eighteenth Army Corps to join

Grant, his division suffering heavily in that battle, he being division surgeon and having charge of the surgeons in the hospital. He was at Petersburg, Virginia, all that summer and winter, being at the battle of Fort Harrison on September 29th, where heavy losses were again sustained by his division. On February 10, 1865, he was made medical director, with the rank of lieutenantcolonel, of the Twenty-fourth Army Corps, commanded by General John Gib¬ bon. This corps was left at Appomattox to carry out the details of surrender. Doctor Morrison having charge of the Rebel medical stores that were turned over to the Union army. In March, 1865, he was sent with his corps to take die place of the Second Corps, which saw almost continuous fighting and fol¬ lowed Lee to his surrender, the Doctor being present at that time and during all the last fighting. The corps then camped at Richmond and was disbanded Inly 31st, and Doctor Morrison was put in charge of the district of South¬ west Virginia at Lynchburg, where he remained until February, 1866, his district including twenty-six counties. Doctor Morrison being surgeon-in-chief of that district. He was discharged in February, 1866, after a most faithful and commendable record.

Doctor Morrison then went to New York city and opened an office, and remained there until 1873, when he selected Maryville, Missouri, as his field of practice, and in October of that year he opened an office here, there being only one man in practice at the county seat now who was here then. Doctor Dean. Doctor Morrison had an excellent practice from the first, one of his first cases being that of old Dr. B. G. Ford, whose fingers had been bitten by a parrot. Doctor Morrison amputating the finger and saving his life. This gave him a standing here as a surgeon. In October, 1874, he had an opera¬ tion for strangulated umbilical hernia, he being called in as consulting surgeon with Doctor Mailing of Quitman, and he operated and saved the patient's life, and he performed many similar operations, some of them truly marvel¬ ous for that day and age, which gave him a high standing with medical men. His army experience stood him well in hand and he had many cases of surgery in his general practice, all of which further heightened his reputation as an unusually well informed and adroit surgeon. The local medical society was organized in 1872. Doctor Morrison was its secretary several years or until it was discontinued. He continued in active and successful practice up to the latter part of 1909, doing office practice during the past several years He frequently lectured among students on the eye and ear. his lectures liefore classes in the old seminary being highly spoken of. Of recent years he lias been an honorary member of the local medical society. He has also been a member of the State Medical Societv for several vears. and he was a member of the pension board, serving as local pension board examiner since Garfield became president, being at present secretary of the board, and he was president of the same under Garfield. He has confined himself almost ex¬ clusively to his practice, having contributed, from time to time, valuable articles to medical journals. His report of the Appomattox campaign is published in the "Medical and Surgical History of the War," medical volume, page 222, appendix.

The Doctor takes an active part in politics, and he was chairman of the Republican county committee in 1900-1902. He w^s made a Mason in New York City, in 1867, and assisted in organizing the local chapter of the Royal Arch Masons. He belonged to St. Joseph Commandery and helped organize the local commandery at Maryville, he being the first eminent commander and he has since served again in this capacity. He has been a member of the Presbyterian church since 1854, joining the same when in school at Newark, Delaware. He was elder in the church for several years. His father was an elder of the church for forty years. Doctor Morrison is a charter member of the local Sedgwick Post. Grand Army of the Republic. He was president of the Maryville school board several years.

The Morrison family is of Scotch-Irish descent, the Doctor's father's great-grandfather, Gabriel Morrison, having come to America in 1735, locat¬ ing in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.

Doctor Morrison was married on July 25, 1876, at Maryville, to Belle Pankey, daughter of Col. Thomas A. Pankev, of Howard county. Missouri, and to this union three children were born : Grace L. is a graduate of Colum¬ bia University, of New York and is now a teacher in Miss Porter's school at Farmington, Connecticut; Paul lives at Prmrieburg, Iowa; Mildred is soprano soloist at the First Methodist Episcopal church South in Little Rock. Arxansas.

Humphrey Lyle

One of the best and most progressive farmers of Hughes township. Nodaway county, is Humphrey Lyle, who has utilized every convenience and utensil known to the modern agriculturist and is thereby one of the thriving and up-to-date husbandmen of this locality, for he has made the newest labor-saving devices add both to his wealth and his comfort.

Mr. Lyle, like a great number of the enterprising citizens of this county, came from the Prairie state, having been born in Adams county, Illinois.

January 19, 1853. He is the son of Hugh and Nancy (Hutchinson) Lyle, both natives of Ireland, who came to America when young, finally locating in Hughes township, this county, where they died. Ten children were born to them, of whom Humphrey, of this review, was the fourth in order of birth. He was about sixteen years old when he came with his parents to Nodaway county, making the trip from Illinois in September, 1869, and he has been a resident of the county since that date. Farming, on a general plan, and stock raising and trading has always been his business, and he has been very successful in his operations here, now owning one of the best farms in the county, containing four hundred and eighty acres, all under excellent improvements and neatly kept. He has a large, comfortable dwelling and good barns and other buildings, an orchard, garden and everything that makes a rural home a pleasant place to reside in.

Mr. Lyle was married in Hughes township, January 27, 1883, 1° Clara Cryder, a daughter of Jonathan Cryder, one of the earliest settlers of Hughes township who lived here until his death, becoming well established. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle are the parents of four children, named as follows : Cecil (deceased), Otis, Lon and Chester.

Mr. Lyle, while always busy with his large farm and its varied interests, finds time to lend a helping hand in all movements looking to the general advancement of his community and county. He is a Republican in politics and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Charles J. Eckert

That person is fortunate who has an able and clean father and a mother whose nature is pervaded with a beautiful Christian spirit, and many whose parents have been such have not fully appreciated this fact, but the destinies of most are determined by the training of parents and their example. Charles J. Eckert, one of the young farmers of Polk township, who is succeeding admirably at his vocation, was taught from the start the duties of life - not ordinary instruction, but the higher duties which all owe to each other and to society in general, and his record would indicate that he has lived up to his training.

Mr. Eckert was born in Polk township, this county, on January 20, 1877, the son of Henry and Dora (Conard) Eckert, the former a native of Penn¬ sylvania and the latter of Maryland. They came to Missouri when young and married in Nodaway county, after which they located in Polk township, where they established a comfortable home. They were the parents of three children, two of whom died in early life, Charles J., of this review, being the only surviving child. He was reared in Polk township and educated in the Maryville schools and later took a course in a business college here. Having been reared to agricultural pursuits, he has made this his life work, in connec¬ tion with which he has engaged, rather extensively, in stock raising and feeding. He has been very successful in whatever he has undertaken and is now the owner of a very desirable and nicely kept farm of two hundred and forty acres, and he operates five hundred and sixty acres, three hundred and twenty acres of which is owned hv his father. He understands well all the diversified phases of farming and, having accomplished much so early in life, the future must necessarily have far greater rewards in store for him. He has a neat and well furnished home and plenty of good outbuildings.

Mr. Eckert was married in this township on October 3, 1900, selecting as a life partner Anna Chamberlain, who was born in Hughes township, this county, June 20, 1881. She is the daughter of Thomas W. and Eliza J. (Hall) Chamberlain, a well-known family of the southern part of the county. Mrs. Eckert was reared in Hughes township and at Maryville, and she re¬ ceived a very good common school education here. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Eckert, named as follows: Mildred D., Pauline A., Thomas H. and Forest C.

Mr. Eckert has always taken a great deal of interest in the affairs of his county, especially in assisting to place the right men in the offices of Polk town¬ ship. He is loyal to the Republican principles. He and his wife are regular attendants of the Christian church, of which Mrs. Eckert is an active member. Mr. Eckert belongs to the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fel¬ lows. They are both popular in all circles of their community.

William W. Andrews

From a sterling Pennsylvania ancestry that goes back to the early days when our country and history alike were new, comes William W. Andrews, a Polk township farmer, who has tried to live up to the high standard of ex¬ cellency set by his progenitors, and as a result he is known to be a man of correct modes of living and has the friendship of all who know him. He was born on a farm in Chester county, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1855.

and he has made farming his principal life work. He is the son of David and Esther (Wilson) Andrews, both natives of Pennsylvania, where they grew to maturity, receiving such education as the times afforded in the common schools, and there they were married. They became the parents of eight children, of whom William W., of this review, was the second in order ol birth, and was the oldest son. He was reared in his native state, and received his educational training there. He worked at various occupations until he came West in the spring of 1877, locating in Nodaway county. Here he rented a farm and worked the same until 1880, getting a good start. In that year he came to the place where he still resides. He leased the place until

1892, when he purchased it. The farm which he now owns and successfully conducts consists of one hundred and twenty acres. He has, among his vari¬ ous extensive improvements, erected excellent buildings. Mr. Andrews is a breeder of line Aberdeen-Angus stock, of which he has made a specialty since

Mr. Andrews was married the first time, September 24, 1884, to Laura M. Russell, who was born in Marion county, Ohio, and they had one child, Fleet W., a son, born December 18, 1887. Mrs. Andrews died December 6, 1891, and Mr. Andrews was married at Pickering, Missouri, February 21,

1894, to Nellie M. Wilkinson, who was born in Nebraska, January 24, 1877 She is the daughter of Nathaniel F. and Lydia A. (Phelps) Wilkinson. The father was a native of Platte county, Missouri, and the mother a native ol Illinois. They finally settled in Nodaway county, in 1891, and Mr. Wilkin¬ son died near Maryville, in 1901. His widow survives. Two children were born to them, of whom Mrs. Andrews was the oldest.

Five daughters have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, named as follows: Mabel N., Frances L., Mary G., Eunice C. and Mildred L. A son. Harry G., died in infancy.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrews takes a great deal of interest in religious affairs, he belonging to the Presbyterian church and she to the Methodist Episcopal.

Edward R. Goodpasture

One of the enterprising farmers of Hughes township whose labors have resulted in the establishment of a comfortable home and the improvement of a good farm is Edward R. Goodpasture, who, like many of the residents of Nodaway county, is a native of the Prairie state, his birth having occurred in

Menard county, Illinois, on July 26, 1869, and he comes of one of the best known and influential families of that county. He is the son of Judge J. Dillard and Frances (O'Bannon) Goodpasture, the father a Tennessean by birth and the mother a native of Morgan county, Illinois. In the fall of 1869 they came to Missouri and settled in Holt county, settling on a farm where Judge Goodpasture lived for about twenty-five years, becoming a leader of public affairs in his community; he finally moved to Maitland, Missouri, where his death occurred on January 27, 1904, when nearly sixty years of age. He was a successful farmer and highly respected by all who knew him, being a man who loved an honest life and took a deep interest in public affairs. He and his wife were the parents of seven children, of whom Edward W. of this review was the oldest. He grew to maturity in Holt county, where he attended the public schools and worked on the home place, remaining there until February, 1902, when he came to Nodaway county and settled on the farm where he now lives in Hughes township, where he owns an excellent place of one hundred and sixty acres, all improved, and which he is manag¬ ing in such a manner as to reap bounteous harvests.

Mr. Goodpasture was married near Maitland. Holt county, Missouri, September 20, 1893, to Cora B. Shields, who was born in that county, January 17. 1870. She is the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Goodson) Shields, who were natives of Indiana, from which state they came, in i860, to Holt county, Missouri, having lived on a farm in Washington county, in the for¬ mer state. Mrs. Shields died in Holt county, November 30, 1907. at the age of sixty-six years. They were the parents of ten children, of whom Mrs. Goodpasture was the fifth in order of birth. She is a sister to Mrs. Homer S. Medsker, mentioned on another page of this work. Mrs. Goodpasture was reared in Holt county and educated in the common schools. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Goodpasture, named Clyde M., Eois E. and Charles E.

Mr. Goodpasture is a member of the township board of Hughes town¬ ship, and he has long manifested considerable interest in all matters pertain¬ ing to his community. Mrs. Goodpasture is a member of the Methodist Epis¬ copal church.

Benjamin A. Willhoyte

Although his life chapter has been closed by the hand of death, the late Benjamin A. Willhovte will long be remembered by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in Polk township, Nodaway county, where the latter part of his exemplary life was spent; for he was a man of high standing, to whom was not denied a fair measure of success, having been long recognized as a factor of importance in connection with the agricultural interests of his com¬ munity.

Mr. Willhoyte was born in Bartholomew county, Indiana, in 1842, and he was quite young when his grandparents brought him to Platte county, Missouri, his mother having died in Indiana when he was quite young, and he was reared by his grandparents, growing to manhood in Platte county, Missouri, from which place he came to Nodaway county when a single man. He received his education in the common schools of Platte county.

On October 29, 1866. Mr. Willhoyte married, in Polk township, Noda¬ way county. Mary J. Kennedy, who was born in this township, on June 8. 1851. She is the daughter of Samuel J. and Lucretia (Smith) Kennedy, the father a native of Indiana and the mother of Missouri. They settled in the west part of Polk township, being among the early pioneers of Nodaway county. They developed a good farm from the rough country they found, and became very comfortably located. Leaving the farm about 1897, they moved to Maryville, where Mr. Kennedy died, September 4, 1909, when nearly seventy-nine years of age. They were the parents of ten children, namely: Mary J., John W.. Henry N., Alice, Dora, Henrietta, Belle, and three who died in infancy.

Mrs. B. A. Willhoyte is the mother of ten children. Three died in in¬ fancy. The living are named as follows; Cora, who married Charles W. Carr; Emma is the wife of Elmer Walker, of Polk township; Orville J. is a farmer in Green township; Maud L. ; Arch K. is a farmer in Green township; Ernest is living at home; Bertha.

Mr. Willhoyte was very successful as a farmer and stock raiser, always kept his place in a neat appearing condition, understanding thoroughly all the phases of agricultural work, and he became the owner of over three hundred acres of land, which he left his family at his death. He provided them an excellent home, and was in every way a good husband, neighbor and friend, and was liked and respected by all who knew him. He was kind, generous, and took a delight in assisting others to carry out their plans. His death occurred on March 7, 1901.

Mrs. Willhoyte is the owner of a valuable farm of eighty-seven and onehalf acres. She is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a woman who enjoys the friendship of a large acquaintance and well known in her communitv.

George Basil Baker

Although a young man, George Basil Baker has attained pronounced prestige by reason of native and acquired ability, and because of his promi¬ nence in business circles and in the domain of private citizenship he deserves to be ranked as one of the representative men of Nodaway county, having been for some years past prominently identified with the industrial life of Maryville and the agricultural interests of various parts of the county. He manifests a deep and abiding concern in everything pertaining to the material advancement of the town and county, and every enterprise intended to pro¬ mote the general good is sure to receive his hearty support.

Mr. Baker is the scion of one of the old and honored families of this locality, his birth having occurred in Maryville on February 19, 1871 ; he is the son of George Saunders and Margaret Ellen (Prather) Baker. The father was born in Madison county, Kentucky, June 19, 1836, the son of Charles and Fanny (Saunders) Baker. Charles Baker, who is remembered as a very genteel representative of the Blue Grass state in the old days, was born in Madison county, Kentucky, about 1800, and there lie spent the major portion of his life, coming to Nodaway county, Missouri, in March, 1851, and settled near what is known as the Conklin bridge, about six miles north of Maryville on the One Hundred and Two river, and there he im¬ proved a good farm and spent the rest of his life, dying in August, 1853. He was a Democrat and a member of the Christian church. He and Fanny Saunders were married in Kentucky, and four children were born to them. The mother's birth occurred in Virginia; she reached the age of eighty, dying in Kansas City, Missouri, in January, 1880.

George S. Baker, long a prominent citizen here, came to Nodaway county with his parents in 1851. and here grew to maturity, working on the home farm and attending the local schools in the winter-time. He began the struggle of life at the age of fifteen against such odds as would have crushed many of a less courageous spirit, but, being of a family of sterling mettle that knew no bending, he pushed forward and, in due course of time, won over all obstacles. He tried, in turn, farming, buying and selling live stock, and operating a country store, in all of which he won a fair measure of success. His sympathies being with the South during the war between the states, he enlisted in the Confederate service in August, 1861, under General Price and became quartermaster of the regiment, with the rank of captain, and he performed his duties in a very faithful and creditable manner and received an honorable discharge.

After the war Mr. Baker resumed farming and stock trading. In De¬ cember, 1868, he turned his attention to banking, and organized the first bank in the county, the firm being George S. Baker & Company, Bankers, now the Nodaway Valley Bank, and he was successful in this venture from the first. On October 26, 1874, he organized another bank, known as Baker, Saunders & Company, now the Maryville National Bank. On September 7, 1896, he organized the Real Estate Bank, located on East Fourth street, which enjoys the distinction of being the only bank of that name in the United States. He is a director in this bank, and his judicious counsel has been very largely responsible for its great success, as was the case with the other institutions with which he has been connected. He is still in harness, his years weighing lightly upon him. He is a master of details, with keen discernment and good judgment, making few mistakes in his calculations and transactions, and he has a natural genius for organization and promotion and he has managed his affairs in a manner that has not only brought success to himself and family but to those associated with him and to the general good of the community, being recognized today as one of the greatest bene¬ factors of Nodaway county, always liberal in the support of worthy move¬ ments looking to the general uplift of the locality in a material, civic or moral way, and he is eminently deserving of the high esteem which is accorded him by all classes and of the wide friendship which he enjoys. He is well known in Masonic circles and is a member of the Episcopalian church.

On April 14, 1863, George S. Baker married Margaret Ellen Prather, daughter of Col. Isaac N. and Maria (Prater) Prather. Colonel Prather was born in 1803, near Harrisburg, Kentucky. He came to Nodaway county in the early forties and entered three thousand acres of land in White Cloud township. He was a large slave owner, and one of his former slaves is now living- in Maryville. He farmed on an extensive scale, and became one of the well-to-do men of the county in those days. He was a great lover of good horses and he probably brought the first racing horses to Missouri, having some fine runners in his collection. He was a man of strong charac¬ teristics, and he served in one of our principal Indian wars, becoming colonel of a regiment. He married Martha Prater in 1833; she was a native of Kentucky, and her death occurred on January 9, 1883, having survived her husband twenty-three years, the Colonel having died in September, i860. He was a Democrat and a Presbyterian. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, two of whom are living, Mrs. Cynthia Ann Mulholland and Mrs. Mary Vance McMillan, both of Maryville.

plantation in White Cloud township, and her death occurred in Maryville on September 4, 1878. She was the mother of five children, three of whom died in infancy, and two are living at this writing, Maud E., the wife of M. G. Tate, a well-known attorney and ex-probate judge, of Maryville; and George Basil, of this review.

George B. Baker grew to maturity in Maryville and received his educa¬ tion in the public schools here. Early in his youth he turned his attention to banking, deciding upon this line of endeavor as a life work, and the success he has attained in the same shows that he was wise in coming to such a conclusion. He began as bookkeeper in the Maryville National Bank, where he remained until 1896, familiarizing himself with general banking business. In that year he became cashier of the Real Estate Bank, and has very worthily discharged the duties of this position ever since. He is the owner of nine hundred acres of valuable land in various parts of Nodaway and Jackson counties.

Mr. Baker is a Democrat in his political relations, and he belongs to the Methodist church ; he is a Mason, having attained the fourteenth degree, and is treasurer of the blue lodge ; he also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

On October 12, 1892, Mr. Baker married Sarah Scott Campbell, daugh¬ ter of Dr. Smith Vawter and Caroline S. (Davis) Campbell, natives of Indiana, who came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1878. Doctor Camp¬ bell, who became a man of influence here, died on July 2, 1896. Mrs. Baker was born November 25, 1872, in Adell, Iowa; she received a good educa¬ tion and is popular with a large circle of friends in Maryville, as are all the members of the Baker household.

Mr. Baker is rated as one of the progressive citizens of the community in which he lives, and the high respect in which he is held by all classes of people is a deserving compliment of an intelligent, broad-minded and most worthy man.

Moses Earl Nally

W hile yet young in years, Moses Earl Nallv, of near Sheridan, Inde¬ pendence township, Nodaway county, has proven his ability to cope with the problems of agriculture successfully and has a good start in life. He was born in Harrison county, Missouri, December 20, 1881, and is the son of O. H. and Samantha Jane (Burris) Nally, both natives of Jackson county, Ohio. The former came to Harrison county, Missouri, in an early day, accompanied by his parents, and he is still living there. His wife died on December 6, 1896. They were the parents of nine children, seven of whom are living. O. H. Nally is an extensive farmer, owning three hundred and forty acres of valuable land. Politically he is a Republican, and has been justice of the peace. He is a member of the Woodmen of the World. His wife belonged to the Christian church. The maternal grandparents of Moses E. Nally were early settlers of Harrison county, Missouri.

Mr. Nally, of this review, was reared on the home farm and there learned the many phases of general agricultural work. He attended the common schools, and when only fifteen years of age began life for himself, working out by the month, later rented land, and in 1906 he came to Inde¬ pendence township, Nodaway county, Missouri, and bought two hundred acres of land, and has since devoted his attention to general farming and stock raising. He is a very progressive fanner, and his place shows good management. He has a comfortable home and good outbuildings.

Mr. Nally was married in 1904 to Willa F. Knowles, a native of Atchi¬ son county, Missouri, and the daughter of Francis M. and Fannie E. (Sutton) Knowles, who came to Atchison county from Illinois in 1885, and here they still reside, Mr. Knowles being a farmer. They have four daughters, all living. To Mr. and Mrs. Moses E. Nally one child, Ethel V., has been born. Politically, Mr. Nally is a Republican.

Perry Chappell

Although young in years. Perry Chappell is one of Nodaway county's well-known and popular citizens, one of the most promising auctioneers of this section of the state, having already frequently demonstrated his unmis¬ takable ability in this line of endeavor. He is the possessor of keen perceptive faculties, sound judgment and quick to grasp and utilize a situation, and he is upright in his dealings with his fellow-men. He is a native of Missouri, having been born fifteen miles west of Maryville, on a farm in Atchison county, October 18, 1891, and he is the son of George Feelding and Sarah (Stephenson) Chappell, the father having been born in Grundy county, this state, on a farm, February 27, 1859, and he was the son of John D. and Mary Chappell. John D. owned a flourishing plantation in Virginia in the palmy days of the Old Dominion, and from that state he came to Missouri in the early fifties. He bought a large tract of land in Grundy county and there he farmed until his death, in 1902, his wife dying a year before. He was a well-to-do farmer and highly respected by his neighbors, and the excellent example of citizenship he set has been carefully followed by succeeding generations.