Saline County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1910 (part 3 of 17)

The sul)joct of this sketch was reared l)y his parents at l.exington, Missouri, and was given the ad\antag"e of a good common school echication. thus being- enal)led to start in life with good practical knowledge. On the completion of his education he entered a grocery store at Lexington in the capacity of clerk, continuing there for four years, at the end of which time he entered the flouring mill in that city with the purpose of learning the milling business. He remained there until 1895 and during' the interim he gave to the milling business the most careful and painstaking attention, so that he became thoroughb' proficient in his knowledgx- of the business in all its details. In the vear mentioned Mr. Hays came to Sweet Springs. Saline county, and, in partnership with T. J. Johns, bought the flouring mill at this place, and have continued its operation to the present time, under the name of the Sweet Springs Milling Company.

The mill at Sweet Springs was established in 1882 by the firm of Land & Swaggard, who commenced business in a modest way, but the enterprise from the beginning enjoyed a good patronage and made steady and substantial growth, employing se\'eral men constantly. Since Messrs. Hays and Johns ac(|uired ownership, the property has been thoroughly overhauled and the best up-to-date mill machinery has been installed so that today it is generalh- recognized as one of the l)est mills in the West. It was the first roller mill in this section of the country and the prestige it gained at that time has grown with the years until now the Sweet Springs Milling Company is sending its products over a wide range of country, embracing several neighboring states. Idle mill is run night and day and has made the remarkable record of having lost but seventy-five minutes time since January i, 1909. l\ventynine men are steadily employed and the mill has an annual output of one hundred and fifty thousand barrels of flour, besides other products and doing all kinds of mill grinding. The stockholders of the companv are Messrs. R. Samuel Hays and T. J. Johns, the firm being capitalized at one hundred thousand dollars, and besides the mill at Sweet Springs they also own another large mill at Charleston, Alississippi county, which is under the direct management of Mr. Johns. Mr. Hays managing the firm's interests at Sweet Springs. This is considered one of the leading business enterprises in this section of Saline county and the men who comprise the firm are numbered among the leading citizens of this ])art of the state. They are men of acknowledged business ability and of the strictest integrity and honesty of purpose, which (|ualities have given them a standing among their fellow citizens which mere business success can not bring.

name of Madura Carson, was a native of this state, and their marriage occurred in 1898. She died leaving one child, Rohert S. For his second wife Mr. Hays married Mrs. Sarah B. Prigmore. Politically Mr. Hays is a Democrat and he has taken a deep and active interest in local public affairs, having several times sen-ed as a delegate to the state conventions of his party. He is not, however, a seeker after ofifice for himself, confining his efforts to the advancement of the interests of the party generally. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order, in which he has taken the degrees up to and including that of Knight Templar. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias. His religious membership is with the Methodist Episcopal church South, to which and other benevolent objects he is a generous giver. Honorable and upright in all the relations of life, with due regard for the ties of friendship and the duties of citizenship, Mr. Hays has commanded uniform confidence and respect, and the success which he is now enjoying- is well merited, coming as the reward of earnest and untiring effort and correct methods.

The record of Mr. Dillon is that of a man who by his own unaided efforts has worked his way from a modest beginning to a place of comparative independence in the business world. His life has been of unceasing industry and perseverance and the honorable methods which he has followed have won him the confidence of his fellow citizens.

Albert W. Dillon was born in Guilford county. North Carolina, Mav 28, 1829. and is a son of John and Sarah (McPeak) Dillon. These parents were natives of Virginia, in which state they were reared, and in their vouth they emigrated to North Carolina, where they were married. They were there engaged in farming until 1859. when they emigrated to Missouri. The trip was made by wagon, a camp being established each night, and many dangers and hardships were endured on the long and wearisome journe}-. On reaching Missouri they first bought land in Pettis county, but remained there but a short time, removing to Saline county, where they located on a farm, which was their home during their remaining years, the mother dving in 1863 and the father six years later. In religion both were members of the Reformed Methodist church, and in politics John Dillon was an ardent Whig. They Avere the parents of eight children, namely: Eri, Lizzie, John Calvin. William Cameron, Mary, Alson and Albert W., the subject of tliis review. The

Albert W. Dillon was reared to the life of a farmer, which in that early day meant hard work and plenty of it. He attended the pioneer schools of the neighborhood and received a fair education. He has always devoted himself to the pursuit of agriculture and is now the owner of a fine little farm of twenty-five acres, situated about one and a half miles west of the town of Sweet Springs. He is practical and progressive in his methods and is enabled to realize a nice income from the farm. Mr. Dillon makes a specialty of melons, of which he raises large crops every year and the quality of which cannot be excelled in this part of the country, they finding a ready market in season.

Mr. Dillon has twice been married. His first wife, who bore the maiden name of Laura Armfield, was a native of North Carolina, and her death occurred in Saline county in 1862. To this union were born two children, namelv : Leroy, who lives in Enid, Oklahoma, married Ella Brown and they have six children. Pearl, Charles, Carrie, Victor, Ada and ]\Iamie ; Elizabeth, now deceased, was the wife of Azil Vickry, and they had eight children, Albert, Louisa, William, Francis, Ezra, Tina, Daisy and Lottie. For his second wife the subject married Mrs. Melvina (Manker) Long. She was born in Brown county, Ohio, in 1837, and was a daughter of John and Sarah (Wright) Manker, natives respectively of Ohio and Virginia, though their entire married life was spent in Brown county, Ohio. John Manker was a farmer by vocation and was also a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. He and his wife were the parents of the following children : William \\'., deceased; Hannah; the third and fourth in order of birth died in infancy unnamed; Samuel; John; Melvina, wife of the subject; Cary and Louisa. Before her union with the subject, Mrs. Dillon had been the wife of William Long, who was a native of Ohio and a farmer by vocation. During the Civil war he was a member of the Fiftieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantiy, and lost his health during the army service, his death occurring soon after his return home. He was the father of four children, Sarah, the deceased wife of Joseph Whicker, by whom she had two children, Delmar and Maud; Mary, deceased; Ella is the wife of E. D. Webb, of Boulder, Colorado, and they have three children, Mabel, Bessie and Helen ; Cary, of Oklahoma, married Minnie Stevens and they have one child, Delmar. To the subject's present union have been born the following children: Manker, who lives in Oklahoma, is married and is the father of four children, Adelle, Lavere, Albert and Arthur; Tamson, deceased, was the wife of M. D. Jackson and had two children. Noreen and Louise; Daisy is the wife of William Hibbs. of Webb City, Missouri, and they have three children, Nadine. Dorothy and Isabelle; Lena is the wife of John Ratliff, of Oklahoma, and they have two children. Alberta and John; Dodo is the wife of O. H. Lawrence and lives in Amsterdam, Missouri. The subject gave each of his children a good education and all of the daughters were school teachers before they became wives. Mr. and Mrs. Dillon are members of the Methodist Episcopal church South at Sweet Springs and give to their society an earnest and generous support. In politics he is a stanch Republican, and takes a deep interest in the success of the ticket. During the Civil war he was a member of the state militia and was chosen captain of his company. He and his wife are pleasant and hospitable people and their pleasant home is the scene of many pleasant gatlierings of their friends.

James A. Fisher

The Fishers were an old Virginia family, settled in Fauquier county for many generations, and identified extensively with the agricultural interests of that section of the Old Dominion. Among the older representatives was Samuel Fisher, who was born and lived and died in this famous old Virginia county. His son Thomas followed his father's footsteps bv becoming a farmer and he spent his entire life in that occupation in his native county. He died in April, 1854. when seventy-seven years old. He married Martha Ball, whose parents came from Westmoreland county and took up their abode in Fauquier, where their daughter was born. She passed away in 1878. when eighty-six years old, after becoming the mother of four children.

James A. Fisher, the only survivor of this family, was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, October 6, 1829. At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted in the Seventeenth Regiment Virginia Infantry and served in the Confederate army throughout the entire four years of hostilities. The Seventeenth became part of Picket's division, which immortalized itself bv the celebrated charge at Gettysburg. It saw much hard campaigning and fighting, took part in innumerable engagements and ranked as one of the crack regiments of the Southern army. ]Mr. Fisher was wounded in the hip in a fight which occurred at Drury's Bluff, south of Richmond, on May i6, 1864. After the war he farmed awhile in his native state, but wisely decided that tlic West offered niucli heller i ipixirUinilies in liis line than a stale whieli had been devastated and impoverished l)y four years of marching armies. So in [cS/f) Mr. Fisher turned his face toward the corn 1^elt. crossed the Mis- .sissippi into Missouri, and picked out a farm in the rich county of Sahne and lias ever since been closely identified with its development. Jn 1880 he removed to Marshall, where he was elected city collector, then mayor, and then city collector again. Since 1882 he has served as school clerk, and altogether has been highl}- and continuousl}- honored by the i)e(^ple, though ne\er active in seeking office.

In 1861 Mr. Fisher married Helen Kelly, who was born in Xew Orleans, but reared in Baltimore. She died over twent}- years ago after becoming the mother of seven children: James 1\, member of the real estate firm of VanDyke & Company, at Marshall; Mary \\\, a teacher in the Marshall high school; Thomas H., a leading druggist and one of the progressive and i^opular young business men of Marshall ; Wilson, manager for the Pierce Oil Company, in Yucatan; Elizabeth J., wife of Louis L. Snoddy, of Bonnot's Mill, Missouri ; Helen F., wife of Allen B. Snoddy, of Fort W^orth, Texas, and Emma, who married New^ton Parsons, of Shelbina, Missouri.

Mitchell D. Kerr

This prominent citizen of Cambridge township and in point of continuous residence the oldest business man in the town of Gilliam, is a native of Saline county, Missouri, and one of four children whose parents were John and Frances Kerr, both bc^rn and reared in Pocahontas county. \\\^st Virginia. John Kerr remained in his native state until reaching the years of maturity, when he came to Saline county, Missouri, and engaged in the manufacture of lumber. Soon after his arrival, he married Frances Gault, wdiose parents moved to this part of the state in an' early day and located near Miami. Mr. Kerr continued in the lumber business in connection with farming until the breaking out of the late Civil war. when he mo\ed back to \\' est Virginia, where they remained until the close of the struggle. Returning to Missouri at the time indicated, he secured an interest in a large sawmill, to the operation of which he devoted his attention for a number (^f years with success and financial profit. After a long and useful career he rested from his labors, him.self and wife both dying at their home in the above township, leaving to their descendants the memorv of well spent lives, which the latter prize as a grateful legacy and priceless heritage. Of the four children l)orn to this estimable couple, two sons survive: Frank G. Kerr, who for the past fifteen years has been engaged in the drug business at Van Buren, Arkansas, i)rior to which time he was connected with the same line of business in Marshall, Missouri, and Mitchell T). of this review, the second in order of birth. James K., the third, departed his life in \^an Buren, Arkansas, about the year 1899, and the youngest of the family, a daughter, died in infancy.

Mitchell D. Kerr was born August 30, ]86i. spent his boyhood in Cambridge and was about twelve years old when his parents died. Prior to the death of his mother he had spent several summers on a farm belonging to Thomas Duggins, Jr., and on being left an orphan and obliged to rely entirely upon his own resources f(^r a livelihood he entered the hardware store of Mr. Xawerth at Cambridge anrl for about one year applied himself very closely to the business. Leaving the employ of that gentleman at the expiration of the period indicated, he accepted a clerkship in the grocery house of S. M. Cheatham and a little later took an interest in the establishment, the firm thus constituted remaining at Cambridge until 1880, when they moved their stock to Slater. After six months in the latter place Mr. Kerr disposed of his interest in the store and in 1881 engaged in tlie same line of business at Gilliam, where he has continued ever since, being, as already stated, the oldest merchant in the' town as well as one of the most enterprising and successful. In connection with a full line of groceries, he carries a large stock of hardware, implements, etc.. and his business, which from the beginning has been Cjuite extensive, is steadily growing in magnitude and importance and the establishment of which he is the head is now one of the largest and best known of the kind in the county.

Mr. Kerr is a careful and methodical business man, whose relations with the public have ever been of the most pleasant and agreeable nature, and by studying the demands of the trade and sparing no pains to please his customers he has built up a large and lucrative patronage and placed himself in independent circumstances. He is a -Democrat in politics and has served on the township central committee, this being the only public position he has e\'er held. Fraternally he is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America, and religiously belongs to the Methodist F.piscopal church of Gilliam, in which for a period of ten years he has been honored with the oftice of steward, besides serving four years as superintendent of the Sunday school.

1die domestic life of Mr. Kerr dates from May 18, 1889, at which time he was united in marriage with Mamie 1'hompson ,of Arrow Rock, daughter of T- C. and Susan Thompson, who i)rior to movino- to Saline county Hved for a number of vears in California. Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Kerr have one child, Golden F., who was born on the 6th day of June, 1900. Few men in Gilliam are as well known as Mr. Kerr, and none are held in higher esteem by the general public. He is interested in everything that makes for the improvement of his town and county, stands for law and order and a higher standard of citizenship and as a courteous Christian gentleman uses his influence for the right as he sees and understands the right.

John Peter Stolberg

The history of John Peter Stolberg has for many years been entwined with that of Elmwood township. Saline county, in which he lives, where he has ahvays been regarded as a valuable and influential citizen and one who possesses all the higher qualities of the successful farmer. He was born in St. Clair county, Illinois, February 12, 1859, the son of John Michael and Elizabeth (Kramer) Stolberg, both natives of Germany, where they were educated, grew to maturity and from whence they came to America in 1844. The former was the son of John Martin Stolberg, who also came to this country in 1844, settling in St. Clair county, Illinois, where he lived until his death. He was a member of the Evangelical church and a man of high principles. Elizabeth Kramer was born ^lay 27, 1828. She was single when she came to this country, having married John Michael Stolberg in St. Clair county, Illinois, in 185 1. The former was first a cooper by trade, but he devoted the last years of his life to farming. Both were members of the Evangelical church and were honest and industrious. John Michael Stolberg was first a Republican, later a Democrat; he is still living in Belleville. Illinois, with his son, having reached an advanced age. He and his wife became the parents of ten children, namely: Martin, Lena, Henry; Lizzie, decased ; John Peter, of this review; Andrew, living in Belleville. Illinois; George, also living in Illinois; Edward, deceased; Dorothea and Michael, the two youngest also being deceased.

John P. Stolberg was reared on a farm and educated in the German and public schools, assisting with the farm work during the summer from early boyhood until he reached maturity and began life for himself. On Juiy I, 1886, he married Louisa Mary Trautmann, a native of St. Clair county, Illin.ois, the daughter of Fred and Dorothv (Deck) Trautmann, both natives of Germany, but who came to America when young and settled in St. Clair county, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Trautmann married there in 1850; they are both now deceased. Eight children were born to them, namely: Fred \\'.. deceased: Emma E. ; Louisa M., wife of John P. Stolberg of this review ; Philip ; William died in infancy, as did also Edward ; Caroline E., William E. This entire family belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran church.

After his marriage John P. Stolberg came to Saline county, Missouri, in 1886, and rented a farm for a short time, later buying his present fine farm of two hundred acres in Elmwood township, five miles south of Mt. Leonard, which he has greatly improved and placed in a high state of cultivation. He has remodeled the house that was on the place when he took possession and made it modern and comfortable. He also has a substantial barn and other buildings and he keeps everything in first class condition about the place, being a man of good taste and sound judgment. His attractive dwelling is located in the midst of beautiful surroundings. He carries on general farming and also handles some good stock.

Mr. Stolberg and family are members of the Evangelical Lutheran church, Mr. Stolberg being independent politically, always voting for whom he considers the best man for the position sought.

Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Stolberg, named as follows : ^^"alter Frederick is living at home and assists in running the farm ; he married Katherine Mackler. Ella Elizabeth also lives with her parents. Edna Dorothea died March 13, 1895. This family is known for its hospitality, honesty and genial dispositions.

Samuel V. Daniel

Honesty and fair dealing have been the watchwords of Samuel V. Daniel, one of the best known and most successful agriculturists of Cambridge township, Saline county, and these twin virtues have been personified in his active life, winning for him not only material success but also the universal confidence and esteem of those whom he has occasion to meet, but this fact is not at all strange when we learn that he is a scion of a fine old Southern family and he himself a Virginian, born near Lynchburg, in Campbell county, Virginia, January 5, 1848. He was educated in the common schools, both in his native state and in Saline county, Missouri, and he attended high school at Cambridge, this countv. He is the son of Eli T- and Susan R.

( Turpin ) Daniel, botli liorn in l\()ckl)ri(lg"c count}'. Viro-inia. the fatlier Ijorn in icSji and the mother in 1828. They ^rew to maturity, were educated and married in tlieir native county. Imt in their youth this couple moved to Campl)en countv. Virginia, and in 1858 to Sahne county. Missouri, locating in Canihridge township where Mr. Daniel bought about four hundred acres of land near Cambridge in sections 2 and 3. township 51. His ])rincipal crops were tobacco, corn and wheat, in the growing of which he has been very successful. He was a Democrat and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for many years, taking an active interest in the affairs of the church at Cambridge. He was a successful and honorable man whom everybody liked. His death occurred Xoveml)er 13. i86g. He was survived by a widow and se\'en children, one of which, J. \\\. was for four years judge of the Saline county court ; he is now deceased ; Mrs. S. E. Hill resides in Cambridge township, she being the oldest child; Samuel V.. of this review, w^s the tliird child in order of birth; M. L. lives in Cambridge township; Mrs. Mary E. Lesley lives in Salisbury. Missouri; Mrs. Jennie Lucas lives in California; J. R. lives near Gilliam, this county.

Samuel V. Daniel lived on the home farm until after the death of his father. In March, 1874. he moved to Carroll county. Missouri, where he remained until in ALirch. 1879. when he returned to Saline county and since then he has lived continuously on his part of the old home place which he inherited, in section 3. township 51, owning altogether at present three hundred and twenty acres in Cambridge townshij). wliich he has greath- improved and wliich ranks with the model farms of the county, for he is a skillful farmer and stock raiser, and he has been very successful at both. He also owns some good land in Alberta. Canada. He has an elegant and substantial dwelling large and con^'enient outbuildings and everything- about the place shows thrift and good management. He is a director and stockholder of the Gilliam Exchange Bank, of Gilliam. Saline county, which is one of the safe and popular banking institutions of northern Missouri. Mr. Daniel is a man of keen discernment, seeming" to ]K)Ssess the al)ility to foresee with clearness the outcome of a present transaction.

Politically ]\Ir. Daniel is a Democrat, and he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd h^lk^ws at Slater and holds membershi]) in the Methodist Episcopal church South at Gilliam.

Mr. Daniel was married, on |anuar\' 23, 1874. to Leona Mc Kinney, a native of Saline county, Missouri, the accomplished daughter of J. E. and Jennie (Haney) McKinney. of Saline county. .^^rs. Daniel was called to her rest on Jul\- 10, 1884. leaxing four children, nameh' ; America G.

married T<»li" Kai)pel1er, of Xorman, Oklahoma: C. Roland lives at Lethbridge. Alberta, Canada; Birdie is the wife of J. Robert Moore, of Salisbury, Missouri; Elizabeth is the widow of Carrol Percy, and she Hves with her father, who married again on September 14. 1887, his last wife being- Julia T. Dow, who was born in Cambridge, Saline county, Missouri, July 10, 1862, the daughter of 11iomas M. and Mary (Duggins) Dow\ an influential family of Cambridge. Mrs. Thomas Dow was the daughter of John Duggins, Sr., living in Saline county. Two children have been born of this second union. Miss Vincent Daniel, born September ly, 1888, and Dixie D. Daniel, born June 10, 1890, both living at home. Mrs. Eli J. Daniel, mother of Samuel V., of this review, is making her home with her children; she is a woman of beautiful Christian character and she makes life as pleasant as possible for those whom she meets.

All of Mr. Daniel's children received a college education and they are well equipped for life's varied duties. C. Roland graduated from Central College at Fayette, Missouri, in 1899, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Miss Vincent graduated in 1907 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the Central Female College at Lexington, Missouri. Miss Dixie will graduate with the degree of Master of Arts from the same institution in 1910. The other children did not graduate, but they are not inferior in text-book training to the other members of the family.

No more representative or progressive farmer than ^Nlr. Daniel is to be found in Saline county, and personally he is gentlemanly, agreeable, honorable and public-spirited.

The Deis family has been a well known one in what geographers are pleased to call "North Missouri" for many generations, one of the best known members being Henry C. Deis, Senior, living at Gilliam, Saline county. He was born in Palmyra, Marion county, this state, August 31, 1846, the son of John M. and Barbara (Smith) Deis, both born in German}-, in which country they grew to maturity and married. They came to America about 1839 and located in I'almyra, }*Iissouri. Mr. Deis was a stone-mason by trade, following this for a number of years. Later he bought eighty acres of land near Palmyra where he lived until his death, in 1863, at the age of sixty-three years. His wife died in 1874, when sixty-five years of age. They were the parents of six children, the two oldest of whom were biirn in Ger-

Henry C. Deis was educated in the pubHc schools of Pahnyra and when sixteen years of age he went to work on the farm and two years later began work in the pottery business, learning the trade, at which he worked the major part of the time until 1882. when he moved to Gilliam, Saline county, where he built a pottery kiln, working at the trade here about a year, haying' built the kiln for another man. He then took charge of the Gilliam Hotel, which he conducted successfully for nine years. In 1893 he went to work in the Gilliam Flour Mill, where he worked until about 1899. since which time he has retired from active work.

]\rr. Deis was married in 1868 to Mary Elizabeth Goetze, who w-as born in Palmyra, Missouri, in 1849. the daughter of Henry C. and Annie D. (Fulrath) (loetze, both natives of Germany. They came to America about 1840 and located at Palmyra, this state, wdiere they lived the remaining years of their lives. Mr. Goetze died March 8, 1888. his widow surviving until December 3. 1893. They ^vere the parents of fourteen children, of wdiich number Mrs. Henry C. Deis was the sixth in order of birth.

To Mr. and Mrs. Deis ten children have been born, all living at this writing, namely: Catherine H.. who married a Mr. Eichstadt. of Gilliam, was torn March 29. 1869: Albert E., of Marshall, this county, was born April 9. 1871 ; Andrew ^^^. of Gilliam, was born April 23. 1873: Henry C.. Jr., was born May 7, 1875 ; Annie O.. who married a Mr. Crumbaugh. li\-ing in Cambridg'e township. Saline county, was born November 4. 1877; Edward J., born August 30. 1883; William F.. born December 22, 1885; Robert S., born November 4. 1888; Charles E.. born December 16, 1890; Clarence M.. born October 19. 1894. All these children live in Gilliam but two.

This farmer and representative citizen of Cambridge township is a native of Saline county, Missouri, the son of Thomas and Mahala ( Wilson) Chandler, the father born in Howard county, this state, in 1819. the mother about the year 1833 in the county of Saline. Thomas Chandler came to Salin.e county when a young man and jnirchased a farm in the northeasten part of Arrow Rock township, to wdiich he soon afterwards brought his bride and began the pursuit of agriculture upon his own responsibility. In the fall of 1859 he sold this place and moved to Howard county, purchasing eig-hty acres about eight miles south of Glasgow, where he lived until 1865, when he disposed of his real estate and rented a farm, on which his death occurred two years later. The two older children of Thomas and Mahala Chandler died in infancy, those living at the time of the father's death in 1867 being William J., of this review, Thomas M.. who departed this life in 1884, and Mrs. Lena Elder, of Nelson, Missouri. Mrs. Chandler, in 1874, married G. H. Burton, with whom she is still living in Clay township. Saline county, where both husband and wife are widely known and highly esteemed.

William J. Chandler, the subject of this sketch, w-as born March 2, 1859, in Arrow Rock township, and the same year was taken to Howard county by his parents where he spent his childhood and youth and received his educational training. He was about eight years old when his father died and from that time until his mother's second marriage he remained with her and contributed to her interests. Upon the advent of a step-father, however, he left home and at the age of fifteen began the struggle of life for rented land and entered upon his career as a successful tiller of the soil, himself as a farm-hand, in which capacity he continued until 1888, when he From 1 88 1 until 1884 he was overseer of the farm, which he rented the latter year, and he resided on that place until 1902, when he purchased one hundred and thirty-two acres in sections 26 and ij, Cambridge township. Saline county, where he has since lived and prospered, being at this time one of the leading agriculturists in his part of the county and a citizen who enjoys to a marked degree the confidence and esteem of the community.

]\'Ir. Chandler is essentially a self-made man and as such his example is worthy of imitation by the youth whose career is yet to be achieved. He began life with no assistance, save that of willing hands and a determination to WMU, and by well directed industry and thrift has succeeded in accumulating a sufficiency of this world's goods to place him in independent circumstances. In addition to this home farm he purchased in the year 1900 ninety-five acres of fine land in section 3, Cambridge township, wdiich he sold two years later at a handsome profit, thus adding materially to his means and enabling him to make a number of necessary improvements. In his political views he is a Democrat and an earnest worker for his party, and in religion he subscribes to the Methodist Episcopal faith, with which church his wife and daughter also affiliate. Fraternally he holds membership with the ]\Iasonic brotherhood, belonging to the lodg'e at Slater, where he has been honored at various times with positions of responsibility and trust.

ole \vh«) \\a^ l)()rii in Howard countv, Missouri, ()clol)er 16. icSOo. beino- the daugiiter of Heiirv and Ann 'riiggle, Ijoth representatives of old and well known families of that part of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler have one child. Alice K., whose birth occurred on May 31. 1<S86. and who is now the wife of Henrv Deis, of Gilliam, Missouri.

Joseph Lineberry

One of the progressive and wide-awake farmers and stock raisers of Cambridge township who has w^m success in life because he has worked for it along legitimate lines rather than been the favored child of fortune, is Joseph Lineberry, who, like many of his neighbors, is a Virginian, having been born in Carroll county, October 3, 1865. However, the major part of his life has been spent in Macon and Saline counties, Missouri, wdiere he received his education in the public schools. He is the son of Joseph and Arena (Harmon) Lineberry, both natives of Carroll county, Virginia, the mother born about 1844. The father died in Virginia, wdien Joseph, of this review, was quite young. He was a lumber and sawmill man, did an extensive business and he was a man of honest principles. His wife was the daughter of James and Elizabeth ( Burnett) Harmon, both natives of Carroll county, Virginia, wdiere they resided on a farm, and they were the parents of ten children, of which number Mrs. Lineberry w^as the oldest. Li 1870 they left their native country and came to Missouri, locating on the county line between Linn and Macon counties wdiere Air. Harmon bought a farm, which he successfully managed until his death in 1881. Several years later Mrs. Harmon sold the farm and moved to Howard county, Missouri, buying a farm near Glasgow where she still lives. The mother of Joseph Lineberry, of this review, and Mrs. Victoria Bradley now reside in Kansas City. They came to Missouri with Mr. Harmon and family and made their home wnth them until Mrs. Lineberry married again. This was about 1872 or 1873, her second husband being Martin Colson, wdio was born in West Virginia about 1834. He was renting a farm of his father at the time of this marriage and he continued to rent land for some time afterwards, but about 1899 they moved to Kansas City where they still live.

Joseph Lineberry, of this review, remained with his mother until he was about fifteen years of age wdien he left home and worked out as a farm hand. At the age of sixteen he came to Saline countv, Aliss(nuM, and began working as a farm hand for J. R. Lucas, near Ayres, Canil)ri(lge township. When nineteen years of ag"e he bougiit forty acres of land in section i, to\vnshi[) 53, range 20, and lie rented a house and went to "batching." He improved his place and made money and about 1886 he bought fifty acres near his first purchase and moved to it, making his home there until about 1891. At various times he bought more land and in 1891 he owned two hundred and forty acres of excellent land. Idie following- year he sold out and bought one hundred and twent}' acres in section 26, township 52. range 20. Cambridge township, where he moxed in October, 1892. He has greatly improved the place, built an addition onto the house, erected large barns and outbuildings and now has one of the choice farms of the township. In 1900 he bought eig'hty acres in section 2t,, and later added eig'hty acres to this. About 1903 he bought eighty acres more, forty lying in section 26 and the remainder in section 27. In 1909 he bought the first forty he owned in the north part of the township. He is now the owner of four hundred acres of as fine land as Saline county can boast, being well improved and highly productive. He also owns some valuable property in Slater, Missouri. He carries on g'eneral farming and feeds cattle extensively for the market, and he is regarded as one of the leading agriculturists and stock men of the county, and, considering his humble start in life, he is deserving of great credit for what he has accomplished.

Politically Mr. Lineberry is a Democrat and he is a member of the ]\Iethodist Episcopal clnuxh, in which he is a pillar, a liberal supporter, a steward and a trustee in the Slater church.

On March 20, 1888, Mr. Lineberry married Elizabeth Rieder. a native of New Erankfort, Cambridge township. Saline county, where she was born August 10, 1868, the daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Wolford) Rieder, natives of Germany who came to Milwaukee, \\'isconsin, when children, later moving to New Erankfort, Saline county, Missouri, where Mr. and ]\Irs. Rieder married after the close of the Civil war. Mrs. Lineberry was the second child in order of birth in their family. She recei\e(l a good common school education and has pro^-en a faithful and worthy helpmeet to her industrious husliand.

Mr. and ^Irs. Lineberry are the parents of the following children, eight ha\ ing been l)orn to them, all but one now living: Rosa AU'erda, born July 26, 1889; Wilbur J. and William V. (twins), born October i, 189 1 : Joseph J., born A])ril 21, 1894; Leander Pumroy. born December 16. 1897; Rogers Earl, born Eebruary 8, 1900; Arena E., born November 12, 1903, died January 28, 1904; Ruth G., born August 11, 1907. No family in this part of Saline ccHinty is more i)rominent than this.

John Charles Patterson

I. C. Patterson, deceased, who was president and luisiness manager of the Democrat-News Printing Company at the time of his death, which occurred October 21, 1909, was the founder of the Daily and IVcckly Democrat-News and had been connected with the paper for more than thirty years. He was not only the moving spirit in the management of the paper and its large business, but was closely identified with the newspaper interests of the state and with everything that tended to the welfare of Marshall and Saline countv. Mr. Patterson \vas descended from a family of printers and newspaper men. His paternal grandfather, Charles Patterson, for whom he was named, after serving an apprenticeship in Washington, D. C, in the last century, learning the printing trade, came west in 1838 and started a paper at Lexington, Missouri, giving it the name of Harry of the JJ^est. It was among the first established west of the Mississippi, and was later merged into the Lexington Express, and is now the Lexington Intelligencer, He continued the ])ublication of the Express until about 185^^, when he sold it to Smallwood & Julian. His next and last newspaper \enture was the IVaverly Visitor, established at Waverly, Missouri, a few years before the civil strife, which he continued to publish until the disturbed condition of the count rv interfered with the success of country newspapers. This veteran printer and newspaj)er man died at his home in Waverly at the age of sixt}-one years.

J. M. Patterson, the father of the subject, who is seventy-two years old and still retains a position on the Democrat-News, with which he has been connected since its establishment by his son, learned the printing trade with his father in the office of the old Lexington Express. He was afterwards connected w'ith papers at Warrensburg and Sedalia, until 1876, \vhen he, with his family, moved to Marshall. He was foreman of the Saline County Democrat until the establishment of the Democrat-Nezi's, when he entered upon the position he now holds.

J. C. Patterson was born in Warrensburg, Missouri, in 1858. His mother was Sarah F. Rogers, the daughter of John L. Rogers and the granddaughter of Jesse Roundtree, both of whom were pioneer citizens of Warrensburg, having moved from Kentucky, where they were large slave owners, in 1848. During the Civil war the father of the subject and his family moved to Sedalia, which was then only a military post. A fewyears later, following the bent of his father and grandfather, when only a small boy, J. C. Patterson entered upon his career as a newspaper man, as a newsboy on the old Scdalia Times, of which his father was the foreman for a nnml^er of years, and also the Srdalia Bazoo. His work as newsboy was pursued while he attended the Sedalia public schools, and later he took a course at the Warrensburg Normal. While still in his teens, deciding that the newspaper business was to be his life work, he entered one of the Sedalia offices to learn the trade, knowing that a practical knowledge of the Imsiness was necessary to success. He had not finished his trade when the family moved to Marshall in 1876. He, however, completed his apprenticeship in the office of the Saline County Progress, under the direction of its present editor and proprietor, R. M. Sandidge. In 1878, when only twenty years old, J. C. Patterson founded the Daily N'ezvs, and for thirtyone years the paper has never missed an issue only on holidays.

Almost without capital, it seemed a hopeless enterprise starting a daily newspaper in a town of little less than three thousand inhabitants. Young as he was, however, he brought to his aid the most unflagging energy, perseverance and self-assertion and succeeded.

As the original owner and senior member, Mr. Patterson had been for a number of years the president and business manager of the Democrat- News Printing Company. Through his indomitable energy and indefatigable industry the paper and printing company has gained more than a statewide reputation, especially in the matter of printing for high-grade-stock growers. As a solicitor Mr. Patterson had few equals and no superior, and, as has been said by a contemporary :

'Tn this business, which is a memento of his life work, there is not a stone of any strength that he did not put there, and the large business of the paper is the product, singly, of his business genius." /Xnother has said of him, "As the moving spirit of an influential paper, he left an impress upon the business and social life of the community in which he lived, and was an influential factor in local and state politics. It has been truly said of him, as an editor he was fearless in the expression of opinion, intensely practical, to think was to act, and he spared not the use of his paper or himself to foster the best interests of Marshall and Saline county. No enterprise that he thought would build up the city and county failed to receive his loyal support. His nobility of character, warm, generous nature, enthusiasm and zeal, rendered him not only a public spirited and valuable man, but a devoted and helpful member of the church to which he belonged, the

Mr. Patterson was married to Elizabeth King, daughter of Mrs. Mary E. and the late Will R. King, of Saline county. October 13, 1886. who, with two interesting daughters, Elorence and Katherine. survive. The wife, who is a superior woman, was a true helpmeet in tlie fullest sense, and was an inspiration always in the business, social and religious life of the husband. whose crowning virtues were loyalty, fidelity and unselfish devotion to his home and family. Mr. Patterson was a member of several fraternal organizations, including the Knights of the Maccabees, Ijene\()lent and Protective Order of Elks and Modern Woodmen of America.

A man who has won success as an agriculturist because he has worked for it along legitimate lines and has managed well is deserving of much credit ; but he Avho inherits a vast estate and does nothing to enhance its value should not come in for any share of the plaudits of his fellow men. A type of the former class of Saline county citizens is Cromwell C. Kitchen, of Cambridge township, who was born in Eranklin county, Missouri. January 14, 1865. and there he was reared and received his education. He is the son of James M. and Ellsinore (Barnes) Kitchen, both natives of Berkeley county, Virginia, the father born in 1819. They grew to maturity and were married in their native state, and moved to Franklin county, Missouri, about 1855 and rented land. Airs. James M. Kitchen died about 1870. aged about forty years. Mr. Kitchen continued to live in Eranklin county until 1888, when he moved to Saline countv, this state, and made his home with his son. C. C. Kitchen, until his death, which occurred on December 11, 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Kitchen were the parents of eleven children, one dying in infancy. Cromwell C. of this review, being the youngest of the number. He lived with his father until eleven years of age. when he went to make his home with an older brother. with whom he remained until he was nineteen years old. He then worked out as a farm hand. In 1885 he came to Saline county, Missouri, and continued to work as a farm hand until 1888, when he rented land and farmed on his own account. He saved his money and in 1891 he was enabled to buy a good farm of one hundred and sixtv acres, in ])artnership with his brother, Lee Kitchen, the farm l\ing in section 33. townshi]) 33, range 20. Cambridge township. About 1893 he bought his brother's interest and has since made this farm his home. He has greatly improved it and he reaps abundant harvest from his fields year by year, being well versed in all the details of agriculture. He handles some good stock of varions kinds and he has a veiy comfortable dwelling and good outbuildings.

Politically Mr. Kitchen is a Democrat and a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. He was married on October 3, 1894, to Ida Smith, who was born in Miami township, Saline county, Missouri, August 26, 1875, the daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Sullivan) Smith, both natives of Missouri. Mr. Smith died in January, 1879. ^"^^ i" December. 1881, Mrs. Smith followed her husband to the silent land.

Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Kitchen, named as follows : Ruby C, born September 24, 1895; Rufus C, born February 2. 1897; Susie W.. born October 19, 1898; Katherine B., born October 20, 1900: Wallace H.. born December 8, 1902; Robert McClellen, born August 29, 1909.

The Kitchen family has long been well and most favorably knowai in this section of Saline county, being people of honorable standing and industrious.

Louis K. Wood

Manv of the most progressive citizens of Saline county are natives of the old Blue Grass state or their ancestors were Kentuckians, and, useless to add here, that no better, more energetic or loyal people are to be found than they and it is to the credit of this locality that such a large number of this splendid type of the old South have cast their lot here. Of this praiseworthy class the name of Louis K. Wood, a w^ell known farmer of Cambridge township, should not be omitted from the history of this county. He was born in Barren county, Kentucky, December 7, 1852, the son of Joseph and Eliza (Tisdell) ^^'ood, the former a native of Virginia. They came to Saline county, Missouri, about 1856 and located at Arrow Rock. About 1868 they bought one hundred and sixty acres three miles east of Gilliam in Cambridge township and there they made their home until 1866, when they moved to the northwest part of Cambridge towmship, where they bought one hundred and sixty acres on the river and there they spent the remainder of their lives. ^Ir. Wood died in 1879, at the age of sixty-five, his widow surviving until 1889. dying at the age of sixty-three. They were successful fanners and highly respected people owing to their honorable lives. To them fourteen children were bom, two of whom died in infancy ; the others grew up and were married; they are: AIoss, wife of Wright Norvell, resides in Slater, Missouri; John W. Hvcs in Cambridge township; Samuel D. also lives in Cambridge township, as does also Airs. Joe Walker McAmers; Louis K., of this review; Mrs. Margaret Norvell, of Slater; Clifford lives in Cambridge township; Mrs. Fannie Mc- Amers, now deceased, lived in Cambridge township; Watson lives at Ayers, Cambridge township; Mrs. Nannie Woolridge lives in Sheridan county, Missouri ; Henrv lives in Bozeman, Montana, and Robert, of Cambridge township.

Louis K. Wood, of this review, made his home with his mother until her death, after which he rented the home farm for a year or two, then he bought the interests of the other heirs and he still occupies the old homestead, to which he has added one hundred and seventy-eight acres, having been very successful through his close application to his individual affairs and his good management, now owning in all a splendid and valuable farm of three hundred and forty-eight acres. He carries on general farming and cattle raising in a manner that stamps him well abreast of the times in both. He has an attractively located and cozy home and substantial outbuildings. Politically he is a Democrat, but is too busy with his business affairs to do much work in the party or to run for office himself.

Mr. W'ood was married on December 6, 1883, to Susie Frances Worrell, who was bom in Madison county, Kentucky, October 3, 1861, daughter of Jefferson and Jane (Baker) Worrell, natives of Kentucky. About 1863 they came to Pike county, Missouri, later moved to Vernon county, and finally, in 1874, to Saline county, locating near Cambridge. In 1878 they moved north of Ayers, in the same tow^nship, where they bought about seventy acres on which Mrs. Worrell still makes her home, Mr. Worrell having died in May, 1904, at the age of seventy- four years. They were the parents of eight children, five of whom are still living; Mrs. Wood was the second child in order of birth.

To Mr. and Mrs. Louis K. Wood eight children have been born, seven of whom are living at this writing, namely ; Beulah is the wife of Ernest Brumitt : they live on Mr. Wood's farm; she was born February 4, 1885, and she has two daughters, Jewell and Velma V. George Wood, who was born March 26, 1887, lives on Mrs. Worrell's farm; Claude Wood, born March 20, 1889; Fannie and he are twins, the latter dying April 7, 1894; Russell W^ood was born September 11, 1892; Estell L. Wood was born May 27, 1894; Carl, born June 9, 1896; Garnett, born April 23, 1898. The last five children above enumerated are living at home. The mother of these children is a member of the New Prospect Baptist church.

Edmond J. Dunlap

A progressive and representative business man of the eastern part of Saline county is Edmond J. Dunlap, who has a neat and modern drug store at Gilham. He is a native of Miami, this county, where his birth occurred on January 28, 1854, and there be grew to maturity and received his primary education in the common schools. He is the son of Dr. John N. and Sarah M. (Brown) Dunlap. The former, long one of the prominent physicians of the northern part of Saline county, was born in Staunton county, Virginia, July 29, 1822, and he was the son of John and Isabella A. Dunlap. Doctor Dunlap was educated in the public schools and then Staunton Academy, and he graduated in medicine from the University of Virginia. He commenced the practice of his profession in 1843 in Greenbrier county, Virginia, but, joining the tide of emigration then setting in strongly to the west, in October, 1844, he came to Saline county, Missouri, and located in the village of Miami where he spent the major portion of his life and built up a very lucrative practice ; he also conducted a drug store in Miami for a number of years. He did much toward the general development of that vicinity, being a public-spirited man and well advised on current events. He showed his patriotism when the Mexican war began in 1846 by enlisting in Company K, Second Regiment, Missouri Volunteers, and he served with distinction through many trying campaigns and hotly contested engagements. In 1847 he was appointed assistant surgeon of his regiment and he was honorably discharged in October of that year.

In May, 1850, Doctor Dunlap married Sarah M. Brown, who was called to her rest in June, 1857, leaving three children, Sarah J., Edmond J., of this review, and John A., all living in 1909. The father of the children married a second time and to this last union seven children were born. The Doctor was a profound student and recognized authority on geology, botany and archaeology, and he built up an excellent library on these and other subjects, and he was a verv interesting and brilliant conversationalist. Saline county has seen few characters worthier or stronger than he. This excellent man was called to close his earthly accounts after reaching his eighty-fourth year, dying in Miami in August, 1907.

Edmond J. Dunlap followed in the footsteps of his father and learned pharmacy, having when a boy began clerking in his father's drug store in Miami, remaining there until he was twenty-one years of age. In 1875 he opened a drug store in Cambridge, Saline county, and he has been in the drugbusiness continuously since that time, being one of the best known druggists in this part of the county and during his long years in this line he has built lip quite an extensive patronage, for owing to his honest and courteous treatment his customers usually become his friends and life-long patrons. In 1883 he moved his business to Gilliam, where he is at present located, carrying a large stock of drugs and sundries, paints, glass, oils, cigars, tobaccos, jewelry, books and toilet articles. He is a careful business man and has been very successful. He was president of the Gilliam Exchange Bank for a period of nearly six years, being succeeded by W. T. Swinney. He at present holds the office of vice-president and director of the bank, which is one of the safest and most popular financial institutions in this part of the county.

Politically Mr. Dunlap is a Democrat, and fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order at Slater, Missouri. In November, 1882, he was married to America A. Land, who was born in Cambridge township, Saline county, Missouri, October i, 1864, the daughter of William H. Land, an influential merchant of Cambridge, later of Gilliam. Mrs. Dunlap was a woman of culture and a great church worker, especially in the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions. She was called to her rest on February 13, 1908. No children were born to this union.

James Granville Kemper

Many of the most enterprising and public-spirited citizens of Saline county are direct from the Old Dominion or can claim Virginia ancestry, and, useless to add, no better citizenship is to be found throughout our great republic or in any other land and the commonwealth of Missouri should be proud of such families who have settled in large numbers within her borders. Of this class James G. Kemper is a typical representative, for while he has spent much of his active life on his fine farm in Cambridge township, Saline county, he was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, December 26, 1845. He is the son of John and Adeline (Cole) Kemper, both natives of Fauquier county, Virginia, the father having been a farmer by occupation and a successful and highly respected citizen. He died in 1857 and his widow survived him a half century, dying in 1907, having reached the advanced age of ninety years. She was a woman of gracious personality and a favorite with a large circle of friends and relatives. She and her husband were the parents of seven children, of whom James G., of this review, was the oldest in order of birth. He was the only member of the family who came to Missouri. He made his home with his parents until 186 1, when, true to his environment and family traditions, he enlisted in the Confederate army, in Capt. James H. Jamison's company.

Eleventh Virginia Infantry, General Longstreet's corps. Pickett's division. General Kemper's brigade. Thus he was in the flower of the great Southern army. He went out as a private, but for meritorious conduct lie gradually rose, step by step, to first sergeant of the company. He was engaged in the following battles : Bull Run. Yorktown. being badly wounded in the latter fight by a minie-ball passing through the thigh ; he was taken prisoner, held six months and was exchanged. He was in the second battle of Manassas, Gettysburg, Drury's Bluff, being wounded in the head in the last named fight : he also fought at Fredericksburg, the Wilderness and many others in which his command was engaged, serving until the surrender, after which he returned home.

In December. 1865, Mr. Kemper came to Saline county. Missouri, and located in Cambridge township, living as a farm hand with \\\ W. Field, with whom he remained for a period of ten years. He saved his earnings and in 1875 he bought eighty acres in section 23, township 52, range 20, later added thirty acres and in 1900 bought eighty acres more, making one hundred and ninety acres. His farm is excellently adapted to the general farming which he successfully conducts. He deals in high grade^ cattle and is making a success of both his farming- and stock raising. He has a very attractive and cozy home and has done remarkably well since coming here, considering his humble beginning.

Politically Mr. Kemper is a Democrat and he has long taken more or less interest in local political afTairs. He was school director in Cambridge township for a period of thirty-six years and road commissioner for thirteen years, very faithfully discharging the duties of each.

On December i, 1865. Mr. Kemper married Diadama Jones, a native of Fauquier county. Virginia, where she was reared, educated and married. She was called to the unseen world while living in Saline county. Missouri, on November i, 1879, at the age of forty-three years, leaving four children: James L.. living in Miami township; John G.. of Slater, this county; Myra W., living with her father; Stella, the wife of James E. Norvell. of Cambridge township,

James G. Kemper married a second time, his last wife being Anna L. Helm, whom he espoused on December 28. 1882. She was born in Cambridge township, this county, July 27, i860, and is the daughter of Lina C. and Lucy F. (Gauldin) Helm, natives of Buckingham county, Virginia, the former born in 1825 and the latter in 1839. They came to Saline county, Missouri, about 1853. Mr. Helm makes his home with James G. Kemper, his wife having died on March 19, 1886.

Three children have been born of Mr. Kemper's second marriage : Robert L., born November 8, 1883; Anna Mabel, born December 20, 1887; Thomas R.. born April 25. 1890.

William Thomas Svvinney

William T. Swinney, president of the Gilliam Exchange Bank and one of the representative business men of Saline county, is a native of Missouri, born near Glasgow, in Howard county, October 13, 1853. He springs from a long line of Virginia ancestry, and since 1836 the paternal branch of the family has figured prominently in various parts of Missouri, his father, James E. Swinney, coming to this state in that year and locating in the county of Howard. James Swinney, son of Thomas Swinney, was born in May, 18 18, in Campbell county, Virginia, and at the age of eighteen severed home ties to seek his fortune in the West. With two hundred dollars in money and a horse, saddle and bridle, he rode from Virginia through to Kansas, but the prairie country of Illinois and Missouri not appealing to him (having been raised among the hills of his native state), he went southwest as far as Benton county, Missouri, wdiere he entered a quarter section of rocky and uneven land, which was sold many years after his death Avithout attempting to improve it. He finally located in Howard county, where he engaged as overseer of a large tobacco plantation owned by his cousin, W. D. Swinney, which position he held during the eighteen years ensuing, when, about 1857, he purchased one thousand acres of land in Cambridge township. Saline county, to wdiich he removed the year following and engaged in raising tobacco upon quite an extensive scale. In addition to growing large crops of tobacco, he also bought, packed and shipped many thousand pounds every year and in due time became one of the largest tobacco dealers in the central part of the state. Cultivating his land by slave labor and being a judicious buyer, he realized handsome profits from the business and it w^as not long until he w^as the possessor of a fortune which made him one of the wealthy men of the county of Saline. In 1863, owing to the disturbed condition of the country resulting from the Civil war, he sold the larger part of his farm and took up his residence in Howard county, subsequently trading the balance of his land in Cambridge township for land in that county.

James Swinney, although a Democrat in politics and a large slave holder, opposed secession, but took no active part in the war. Notwithstanding his neutral attitude, he suffered considerable loss from the armies of both sections and during- the larger part of the troublous period attempted little in the way of business. He was conservative in public and political matters, a great lover of home and held the interests of his family above all worldly titles and honors. At an early age he united with the Methodist Episcopal church and throughout a long and useful career demonstrated by his daily life the beauty and worth of an earnest and sincere Christian faith. In May, 1850, he married Mary A. Jones, who was born in the year 1832, being the daughter of William B. and Mary (Stith) Jones, who at the time of her birth were residing near the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. Both parents were natives of Virginia and early pioneers of Kentucky, moving thence in a later day to Nodaway county, Missouri, where they spent the remainder of their lives.

James and Mary A. Swinney were the parents of eight children, \\'illiam T.. the subject of this sketch, being the second in the family, and one of the two now living, his sister, Mrs. B. H. Cheatham, residing at Colton, California. James E. Swinney died in 1868, after an illness of six months' duration. Subsequently, 1882, his widow married Fayette H. Gilliam, of Cambridge township, who now survives, being at this time in his ninety-seventh year and making his home in Marshall, Saline county. His wife died in January, 1905.

W^illiam Thomas Swinney was educated in a private school at Glasgow and Pritchett College of the same place, and after finishing his studies took charge of his mother's farm in Howard county, which he managed for some years, looking after the interests of his mother and four younger children in the meantime. He continued on this place until the first of January, 1881, when he came to Gilliam to take charge of the leaf tobacco business of W. T. Gilliam, in connection with which position he also managed that gentleman's plantation during the summer months, his duties in the winter season consisting very largely of packing and shipping. ]\Ir. Swinney remained in the tobacco business until 1884, when, owing to the advanced age of Mr. Gilliam, he took charge of all the latter's interests in addition to the above, including the elevator and flouring mill in Gilliam, all of which he conducted with gratifying success during the eleven years ensuing. On reaching the age of eightysix years, Mr. Gilliam, in 1896, deeded all of his property to Mr. Swinney, making him his trustee with instructions to close up his estate to the best interests of his family and the town. This the subject at once proceeded to do and in 1900. after accomplishing the task, he became manager of the mill and elevator for \\'illiam Pollock, who purchased both enterprises in the meantime, and continued in that capacity until November. 1906. when he was chosen cashier of the Gilliam Exchange Bank, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John I\. Kirk. Accepting the position, he at once entered upon the duties of the same, but at the end of one year he was further honored by being made president of the institution, which responsible office he still holds and in which he has demonstrated executive ability of a high order and a familiarity with financial matters remarkable in one of his limited experience in banking.

Mr. Swinney is distinctively a business man and as such has attained to a high standing among his contemporaries. He possesses well balanced judgment, sound practical intelligence and the ability and tact not only to take advantage of opportunities but to create opportunities when and where they do not exist. Personally he is a gentleman of kindly manners and pleasing address, popular among his friends and fellow citizens, and those who know him best speak in high praise of his many amiable qualities and sturdy characteristics.

In politics he has always been an unswerving supporter of the Democratic party, though not a partisan nor seeker after the honors and emoluments of office, and in religion is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church South.

In the month of January, 1883, occurred the marriage of Air. Swinney and Anna K. Hawkins, daughter of William and Adaline (Gwinn) Hawkins, natives of Saline county. Missouri, Mrs. Swinney having been born in Cambridge township in the year 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Swinney have had four children, three of whom are living, the oldest dying in infancy. Elizabeth, the second of the number, was born August 18, 1885, Agnes September 12, 1895, and William T. in July, 1898.

William N. Hawkins, the father of Mrs. Swinney, was born in Saline county, Missouri, April 18, 1829, and was the son of Nixon and Frances (Mason) Hawkins. These parents were natives of Virginia, where they were reared and married. Soon after the latter event they came to Saline county, being numbered among the pioneers of Cambridge tov^^nship. They located land and located a farm west of New Frankfort, and there Nixon Hawkins spent the remainder of his days, his death occurring in about 1850. His wnfe survived him many years, dying in Camljridge township, in 1895. over ninety years of age. Nixon Hawkins was a Democrat in politics and his wife was a member of the Missionary Baptist church. They were the parents of eleven chiklrcn. of which William N. was among the younger.

William N. Haw^kins was reared on the home farm and received his education in the common schools. On reaching mature years he engaged in farming, eventually owning one hundred and sixty acres of land. About 1877 he engaged in merchandising at New Frankfort, but his death occurred two years later, January 3, 1879. On September 23, i860, he married Adaline Gwinn, who was born in Cambridge township, this county, in 1838, the daughter ()f Abner and Dianna ( McMahan) Gwinn. These parents w^ere natives of Virginia, who in an early day came from Kentucky to Saline county, where they became pioneer farmers. During the troublous days with the Indians, they were at Cooper's Fort, in Howard county. They were slave owners and became successful farmers, spending the remainder of their lives in Cambridge township, where they both died. Abner Gwinn was a minister of the Baptist church and helped to establish an early church of that denomination, preaching on Sundays, for which he received no salary. He was a Democrat in politics. He died about 1855 and his wife about 1880. She had remained on the old homestead after her husband's death ; she also was a Baptist. They were the parents of ten children, Mrs. Gwinn being the sixth in the order of birth. A\'illiam N. Hawkins and wife became the parents of six children, namely: Anna K., Frances M., Marion A., William L., Robert H. and Maud B., all of whom are living. Mr. Hawkins was a Democrat politically and his wife was a member of the Missionary Baptist church at Good Hope. She died May 22, 1878. During the Civil war Mr. HaW'kins sympathized with the South and made an effort to join (jeneral Price's command, but was taken prisoner near the Blackwater and w^as confined in IMcDowell's College. St. Louis, being later transferred to the prison at Alton, Illinois. Because of sickness, resulting from confinement, he w^as finally sent to a hospital at St. Louis, where he recovered and was afterwards sent home.

The readers of this history who delight in hearing of the early davs in Saline county, of the strange conditions that existed here when the prairies were wild and numerous steamboats rounded the bends in the "big muddy water." and of the later developments of the locality through its various stages to the opulent present, could not find any one more interesting to talk to than William McMahan, a venerable and highly respected citizen of Gilliam. Saline county, for he was born in Miami township, near the town of Miami, May 30, 1838, and his useful life has been spent within the borders of Saline county. He has been an obsei-ving man and his reminiscences of the days of his childhood are indeed interesting and instructive. He is the son of Jesse and Emily (Cunningham) McMahan, the former supposed lo liave been born in Miami township, this county, about 1807, he being the third son of Wilham McMahan and wife, who were among the earhest pioneers of tliis county, and from them the subject got many interestingfacts regarding the hfe liere at the beginning of the last century when the red man and wild beasts still roamed at will. William McMahan, as the name implies, was born in Ireland, and on a forgotten day in the long ago he crossed the great Atlantic in a slow sailing vessel and finally found his way to Missouri. It is known that he came to Howard county first, where he remained for some time in Co(^per's fort on the Missouri river, and while there he fought in the Indian wars. After peace had been assured this hardy ])ioneer moved to the Miami bottoms and became the owner of a large farm which he operated with ten or twelve slaves, and at his death he was one of the wealthiest men in the county. He was twice married ; the place of his first marriage is not known, but eight children were born to the union. His second marriage took place after he moved to !\Iianii bottoms, his second wife being a Mrs. Wheeler and this marriage was without issue. His second wife preceded him to the grave by a number of years, his death occurring about 1853, at the advanced age of eighty-five years. All of his children lived to be grown. Jesse, the third son, married when f|uite a young man, choosing as a life partner a Miss Cunningham, a native of North Carolina, and to this union a daughter w^as born, Susan, wdio married William Kellev, of Saline county. Jesse AIcMahan's wife died within two years after their marriage, and some time afterw-ards he married Emily Cunningham, a cousin of his first wife, and who also was a native of North Carolina. This union resulted in the birth of two children, Mary A., who married lohn F. Kinnev, of Cambridge township, this county, and William, of this review. The father of these children was a man of tine personal traits, a hard worker and he succeeded in establishing a good home. His death occurred about 1840. his widow joining him in the unseen land about 1845. I heir son William was taken to the home of Stephen \Mieeler. of Mi;;mi tfnvnship. who was the son of the subject's step-grandmother.

William McIMahan made his home with Mr. Wheeler until he was fifteen years of age, when he went to the \illage of Alianii and entered a blacksmith shop to learn the trade, remaining there for two years when, on account of failing health, he returned to the farm and worked as a laborer until the l)reaking out of the Civil war. He showed his patriotism by enlisting in the Missouri State (iuards and afterwards in the Confederate army and served gallantly through many campaigns and battles until the close of the war, after which he returned home and went to work again as a farm hand. He saved his money and about 1867 ^'^^ bought his first land, fortv acres located in section 10, township 50, range 19, abcnit two miles south of Gilliam. This he sold in time and iDought forty acres in Clay township, which he later sold, and in 1883 bought one hundred and twenty acres in section 10, township 51, range 19. He' sold this and in 1904 retired from active work and bought a pleasant and attractive home in (iilliam where he now resides, surrounded by the comforts of life as a result of his former years of able management and close application to his work. He is certainly deserving of great credit for what he has accomplished owing to his early environment, which was none too favorable. Politically he is a Democrat, but no ofiice seeker. He is a member of the Baptist church.

In December, 1873, Mr. McMahan married ^Nlrs. Annie B. Griffin, who was born in Miami, Saline county, the daughter of an excellent old family. This union resulted in the birth of five children, two of whom are living : Jesse P., born September, 1875, living in Kansas City, and Mary N., born June 29, 1877, the wife of Joseph B. Hufif. They reside on the home farm. The mother of these children passed to her reward on December 30. 1880, and Mr. McMahan married again on March 8, 1883, his last wife l^eing Minnie Netherton, who was born in Davis county, Missouri, March 13, 1845, where she was reared and educated and where her family is well known and has been influential for several g^enerations. No children ha\e been born to this last union.

Mr. McMahan is a man who has won the respect and confidence of all who know him for his life record is without a blemish, for. while laboring for his own advancement, he has not been neglectful of his dutiesi to his felhnv men.

Conspicuous among the successful medical men of Saline countv is Dr. James H. Osborne, who, since 1884, has practiced his profession at Gilliam and for six years prior to that date was actively engaged in the noble work of alleviating suffering humanity in his native state of Indiana. He is one of eleven children whose parents, Hardin and Priscilla ( Tencher) Osborne, were natives of Kentucky, but who in an earlv day went to Hendricks county, Indiana, where they married and reared their family, the Doctor being the ninth in order of birth. By occupation Hardin Osborne was a farmer. He stood high as a citizen, took an active interest in the improvement of his adopted county and the development of its resources, and departed this life on the 8th day of March. 1864. at the ag-e of fifty-eight years. Mrs. Osborne survived lier husband until 1888, on May 2d of which year she closed her eyes to earthly scenes at the ripe age of eighty-two years. Eight sons and three daughters were born to this worthy couple, five of the former serving in the United States army at the same time : James H., the subject of this review; Silas, who was killed near Rome, Georgia; Thomas J., who died of typhoid fever while in the service, the other three escaping with their lives, although Nicholas received a gunshot wound in the arm, which made him a permanent cripple. The members of the family now living are Mrs. jMalinda Reitzel, of Waldo, Kansas, who was born in 1833; ^^'i]liam B., a retired farmer of Pittsboro, Indiana, whose birth occurred in 1842; Dr. John A., also of Pittsboro, born in 1840; James H., of this review, who first saw the light of day on December i, 1844; George W'., of Pittsboro, Indiana, who w'as born in 1846, and Mrs. Sudie Harrison, of Springfield, Illinois, whose birth occurred in the year 1850.

The early life of Dr. James H. Osborne was spent on the home farm in Hendricks county, Indiana, and he received a good education in the public schools. He was reared to farm labor and in 1862 enlisted in the Seventieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under Col. Benjamin Harrison, afterwards President of the United States, and was with his command throughout its varied experience of campaign and battle until the close of the Civil war. His regiment marched with Sherman to the sea and at the surrender of the Confederacy he was detailed to care for some of the sick in his company, being sent from North Carolina to Ft. Schuyler, New York, by lx)at, thence to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he arrived two days in advance of his regiment. The Doctor experienced his full share of the vicissitudes of war, participated in a number of bloody battles and minor engagements, and at the expiration oi his term of service retired from the army with a record of which any soldier might well feel proud.

Returning home at the close of the war the subject entered a shop to learn l)lacksniithing and after becoming proficient at the trade set up an establishment of his own. which he conducted for a period of thirteen years. ^^'hile thus engaged he yielded to a desire of long standing by taking up the study of medicine, which he prosecuted in the evenings and during his leisure hours and in 1878 took a course of lectures in the Aledical College of Indiana. Being sufficiently equipped to begin practicing in 1881 he located at Portland ]\Iills. where he remained until 1884, building up a lucrative professional business in the meantime and forging rapidly to the front among the successful medical men of that part of the state. Actuated by a laudable ambition to increase his professional knowledge, Doctor Osborne, in 1888. again entered the Medical College of Indiana at Indianapolis, from which he was graduated on March 4, 1889. In October, 1884, after spending one year in (ireencastle, he located at Ciilliam. Missouri, where he has since been acti\-elv engaged in the duties of his calling.

Doctor Osborne is a close and critical student and spares no pains to keep in touch with the trend of medical thought. His practice, which takes a wide range, has been as successful iinancially as professionally and he is now not only one of the representative men of his calling in central Missouri, but also occupies a prominent position among the substantial citizens of the county in which he lives. Politically he is a Republican, but, with the exception of serving several terms as alderman, he has held no elective office nor sought any kind of public honors. He is an active and influential worker in the Masonic fraternity and with his w-ife holds to the doctrines as taught by the Seventh Day Adventists, belonging to the church of that denomination in Kansas City.

Doctor Osborne was married at Battle Creek, Michigan, to Mrs. Inez (Purinton) Stone, widow of the late Prof. C. A\'. Stone, of that city, and a native of Franklin county, Vermont, where her birth occurred February 27, 1848. Doctor and Mrs. Osborne have no children of their own l;)ut bv a previous marriage Doctor Osborne has a son who was born in Indiana in 1870.

Oliver G. Osborne was educated at the Adventist College, Battle Creek, Michigan, and for a number of years acted as pri\-ate secretary to the auditor of the Union Pacific railroad, with headquarters at Omaha. Nebraska. For fifteen years he was connected with the Nebraska National Guard, joining the organization as a private and resigning January 11. 1909, as lieutenant-colonel of the Second Regiment. He was with the Guard in Cuba during the Spanish-American war, where he rendered efficient service, and he now holds a medal as the best drilled man in the state of Nebraska and a silver cup for being the best marksman in the regiment to which he belonged.

On his return from Cuba Mr. Osborne was united in marriage with Mrs. ]\Iae (Beresford) Lyons, a relative of Lord Beresford of England, the union being terminated by the death of Mrs. Osborne in 1902. Sulisecjuently, May, 1905, he contracted a matrimonial alliance with ]\Iiss Retta Holmes, of Fremont. Nebraska, a trained nurse and registered pharmacist, the marriage being without issue. Mr. Osborne has had quite an eventful military career and his record is alx)\e the suspicion of reproach. He is a i^-entleman of intelHgence. fine address and varied experience and with his accomplished wife moves in the best social circles in the city in which they reside.

Thomas Shepard

A and highly respected citizen of Cambridge township who has been a picturesque character, - a product of the pioneer days, - and who has wrested success from a resisting nature by the force of his personality, thereby enjoving the blessings and comforts in the evening of his life as the fruits of a well directed career, is Thomas Shepard, a descendant of a sterling family of the Blue Grass state, he himself having been born in Kentucky, in Lexington. Fayette county, on July 9, 1828, the son of ^^'illiam and Sarah ( Erskine) Shepard. These parents were both natives of Kentucky, where they grew to maturity and from which state, in 1840, they came to western Missouri, making the journey in covered wagons and arriving in Audrain county in the fall of the year. There William Shepard entered forty acres of land, about fifteen miles from Mexico, Missouri, where, in true first settler style, he began clearing the ground and establishing a home. Misfortune visited him the follow^ing spring, 1841, his wife dying at the age of thirty-three years, leaving three children. Thomas, of this review ; William, Jr., born in October, 183 1, who lives in Clay township. Saline county, Missouri ; Nancy, wdio married James \\'arson, of Saline county, and is now deceased. The father of these children remained in Audrain county for a number of years, marrying thrice, and all of his wives dying prior to his death. About 1854 he and his third w'ife and one child moved to Saline county, Missouri, locating in Cambridge township, opposite Glasgow. Aliout 1856 he bought eighty acres of bottom land and lived on the same for about four years, and after leaving there he traveled from place to place until 1882, wdien his third wife died and he made his home with his children until his death, in February, 1883, at the advanced age of eightysix years. He was a rugged character, honest and a man who balked at no obstacles.

Thomas Shepard, of this review^, made his home with his father until he was twenty-one years of age, assisting with the work on the place and gaining a meager education in the old-fashioned district schools. At the time indicated above he went to work as a farm hand for twelve dollars per month for about a year, then he took a trip to the South, going as far as New Orleans, but not finding conditions entirely tO' his fancy, he returned to SaHne county after two years. Having" saved about four hundred dohars, he rented a farm in Clay township where he lived for two years, then leased a farm there on which he spent four years, then in 1864, after losing almost everything as a result of the foraging of soldiers, he sold out and moved to Daviess county, and remained there about a year, then returned to Saline county and rented a farm of Taylor Gilliam in Cambridge township for one year. After that he worked as overseer for Joe Smith one year, then leased a farm owned by Smith, on which he lived four years. In 1872 he moved to a farm of eighty acres in section 10, township 51, Cambridge township, which he had bought about a year previous. He has been prosperous and to this purchase he has added one hundred and twenty acres, and he now owns one hundred and ninety acres, having sold ten acres to his son. He raised tobacco principally for manv years and is \'ery successful in all his farming, being a careful manager and a good w'orker. He is now very comfortably situated and has a well improved farm, a cozy and substantial home and excellent outbuildings.

Politically Mr. Shepard is a Republican. He proved his loyalty to the Union by enlisting in 1864 in the Federal army and served until the following year wdien he secured a substitute. He is a member of the Baptist church of Gilliam, in which he has taken much interest and been a liberal supporter.

Mr. Shepard was married on June 24, 1856, to Rebecca A. Warson, who was born in the Glasgow bottoms, in Clay township. Saline county, Missouri, November 14, 1841, the daughter of Joseph and Rachael (Stanley) Warson, the father a native of Kentucky and the mother of Tennessee. \Mien nine years of age, Joseph Warson was brought to Missouri by his parents, the family locating in Howard county. Rachael Stanley was seventeen years old when she came to Missouri with her parents, who also located in Howard county, where she married Mr. Warson, soon afterwards moving to Clay township. Saline county, where they lived until Mr. Warson's death, about 1853, at the age of forty-four years. Mrs. Warson died in California about 1872, at the age of seventy-seven years; she had gone there on a visit. They were the parents of twelve children, an equal number of sons and daughters. Mrs. Thomas Shepard being the seventh child in order of birth : besides herself only two other children are living, Mrs. Naomi Hubbard, of Slater, Missouri, and Mrs. Susan Hayes, of Cambridge township, this county.

Nine children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Shepard, eight of whom are living at this writing, namely : Sarah L. Bailey, of Clay township, was born September 20, 1858; William F., whose farm adjoins that of his father, was born February 16, 1861 ; Joseph W., living in Cambridge township, was l)t)rn July 8, 1863; Clayborn P.. of Slater, was born February 2, 1866; Mrs. ]'1orence M. Goodman, of Clay township, was born August 8, 1868 ; James T.. living in Clav township, was born June 26, 1871 ; Lavinna V. Dilly, who lived in Clav township, was born December 8, T874, and died l*'el:>rnary 11, 1901; Nevada F. Croslan, li\'ing in Clay township, was liorn June 26. 1877; Walter W'.. living in Slater, was born September 28, 1883.

Madisox C. Cheatham

Prominent among the sturd}- pioneers who ga\e character and stability to the early settlement of Cambridge township was the late Madison C. Cheatham, whose lamented death, on March 14, 1899. removed from Saline county one of its most enterprising men and public spirited citizens. Mr. Cheatham was born in Xaslnille. Tennessee, November 23, 182 1, and came to Saline county from Kentuck}- at (|uite an early date, locating in the village of Cambridge where he worked for some years at the plasterer's trade. On November i, 1848, he married Martha Judith F. Ayres, who was born May 8, 1828. in Buckingham county, Virginia, the daughter of Matthias and Nancy (Howell) Ayres, both natixes of the count}' of Buckingham, but from 1836 until their respective deaths residents of Saline county, Missouri. On moving to this county Mr. A}-res purchased a tract of land near Cambridge, which he developed and improved and to which he added from time to time, until he finally became the owner of four hundred acres, nearly if not quite all of which he cultivated by slave labor and amassed a handsome fortune. Of the thirteen children born to Mr. and Mrs. Ayres, two only are living, these being Mrs. Cheatham, \\idow of the subject of this review, and Mrs. Frank Fand, both of whom have reached ripe old age. though still retaining possession of most of their physical and mental i30wers. The death of Mr. Ayres occurred in 1851, at the age of seventy years, his wife following him to the gra\-e in 1884. when eighty-seven ^'ears old.

l-'rom the time of their marriage until 1853 Mr. and Mrs. Cheatham made their home with Mrs. Cheatham's parents. In the latter year they moved to a farm of one hundred and eighty acres on the south edge of the present town of Gilliam, which Mr. Cheatham purchased and improved and on which the familv still reside. Li connection with ao-riculture ^Ir. Cheatham worked at his trade for a number of years and, being a man of great industry and frugal habits, he succeeded well at the two occupations and in due time acquired a comfortable competency. He took an active interest in all matters pertaining to the development of the country, became a leader of the Democratic party in his part of the county and also an influential factor in introducing schools and other means of improving the young people in the neighborhood. In the latter part of his life he united with the IMethodist Episcopal church and continued a faithful and consistent member of the same to the end of his days, besides assisting to the extent of his ability various charitable and humanitarian enterprises and using his influence at all times for the moral advancement of his fellow men.

Mr. and Mrs. Cheatham were the parents of eleven children. All but one daughter, who died at the age of thirteen, grew to maturity and reared children of their own. George, the oldest of the family, wdio was born September 30, 1849, resides in the village of Gilliam, as does also Mrs. Josephine Swinney, whose birth occurred in the year 1853; Samuel Mathias, born August 14, 1854, departed this life December 17, 1899; Fayette was born on the 26th of October, 1856; Joseph W., born September 30, 1858; Mary B., born November 14, i860, is unmarried and lives with her mother on the family homestead; Benjamin H. was born March i, 1863, and for some years has been a resident of California; William Edward, whose birth occurred on the 2ist of February, 1865, lives at the old home and manages the farm; Mrs. Judith C. Connahan was born j\Iay 4, 1867, and makes her home in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Lily was born August 27, 1869, and died July 25, 1882, and Mrs. Lucy J. McFarland. of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, the youngest of the family, was born on the 7th day of October, 1872. Those whose places of residence are not given above live at or near Gilliam, \\'illiam E. being the only son unmarried. The family is an old one and greatly esteemed and the high reputation which its several members enjoy bear evidence of the unsullied luster of an honored name.

Airs. Cheatham, although past her eighty-second year, is remarkably well preserved for one of her age, and retains unimpaired nearly all of her bodily powers, while her mind is as clear and memory as retentive almost as in the days of her prime. She en j 03^5 fairly good health and lives with her youngest son, who spares no pains in looking after her interests and ministering to her comfort. Her life has been long and useful, a blessing to her family and friends and all who enjoy the privilege of her acquaintance speak in high praise of her beautiful character and many sterling qualities of mind and heart.

Claybourn Hill

Altlioug'h the life record of Claybourn Hill has been closed by the hand of dcaih. his influence still pervades the lives of those who knew him best, for lie was a man of exemplary character and led a model life in every respect, and few men were better known or held in higher esteem by the people of Cambridge township, Saline county, Missouri, than he. His birth occurred in Prince Edward county, Virginia, March 7. 1801. He grew tO' maturity in his native state and attended school there. On February i, 1831, he was married to Martha Brightwell, who was born in the same county of Virginia as that in which her husband first saw the light, her birth occurring on March 10, 1808. She was the daughter of William and Nancy Brightwell. Mr. and I\Jrs. Hill came to Saline county, Missouri, in September, 1837, making the long, arduous trip overland in a covered wagon, drawn by two horses, bringing two small children. They located in the Good Hope neighborhood in Cambridge township. Saline county, Missouri, Mr. Hill entering land in sections 19 and 20, township 52, range 19, and he lived there until his death. Politically he was a Whig, later a Democrat. He owned several slaves and raised large quantities of tobacco. He took no part in the Civil war, but he was visited by a number of soldiers who shot him in the leg, necessitating its amputation. The soldiers came to his smoke-house one night for the purpose of stealing his meat and he was shot when he attempted to drive them away. He was a member of the Baptist church.