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GAUDREAU BROTHERS.
The illustrated interior gives an idea of the well
appointed meat market of the enterprising Gaudreau Brothers, successors to J.C.
Paradis. The firm is comprised of Henry and F.F. Gaudreau, who were born in
Kankakee, Illinois, but who were practically reared in Cloud county. Their
father, the late Nelson Gaudreau, died a few years following his removal to
Buffalo township in 1887. The elder member of the firm is a man of family. The
junior member, F.F. Gaudreau, was in the employ of J.C. Paradis for about five
years, therefore when they assumed control of the business in September, 1902,
were well experienced in catering to the trade. Their line of fresh and salt
meats supply many of Concordia's best homes. They are young men of sterling
worth and have established a first-class business, with prospects of excellent success.
REVEREND HEMINGWAY J. GAYLORD.
The late Reverend
H.J. Gaylord was one of the most successful and one of the most beloved divines
Clyde has ever known. He was born in Oticea, New York, February 17, 1813. He
fitted for college at Homer Academy, New York, and graduated from Amherst
College in 1837, completing his theological course at Auburn Seminary in 1840.
His first supply was at the old brick church in Rochester, New York, in 1842. He
accepted a call to Union, that state, where he was ordained May 26 of the same
year. He afterward filled several supplies in Massachusetts and Delaware. Doctor
Hill, synodical missionary, knew Reverend Gaylord in the east and through his
efforts he was persuaded to come to Kansas in 1878, and located in Clyde as the
stated supply of the church there. His labors had been very successful in the
east, especially at Port Penn, Delaware, where he built a church with a
congregation of twelve hundred people. He was also very successful at Delaware
City and at Odessa, where he built a beautiful church. Reverend Gaylord served
in the ministry over fifty years. He died at his home in West Clyde March 23,
1901, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. Doctor Baker, who preached his
funeral sermon, said in his discourse: "Reverend Gaylord had two prominent
traits which impressed him. His great spirituality and the broadness of his
great Christian faith." While loyal to his own faith he loved all Christian
denominations, and at his funeral the ministers of the various churches were
present and assisted, as Mrs. Gaylord knew it would be carrying out his feelings
and sentiments. He had been instrumental in the conversion of many prominent
men. When Doctor Hill met Mr. Gaylord he said at once he was the man they needed
in Kansas. In Clyde, where there were church dissensions, he was instrumental in
bringing about harmony. While in charge of the church here he supplied at
different times the pulpits at Clifton, Rose church, Palmer and others in that
vicinity. His last active work in the ministry following the cessation of his
pastorate in 1885, was a supply of the church at Chanute, Kansas, in the winter
of the same year.
Reverend Gaylord was married in 1841 to Cordelia, a
daughter of Deacon Ranson Dickerson, of Sunduland, Massachusetts, who died in
1847, leaving two sons, Edward and William. Edward laid down his life for his
country at the battle of Petersburg, and William early entered the ministry, By
the second marriage, to Mary H., daughter of H.M. Mack, of Plainfield,
Massachusetts, November 22, 1854, six children were born, three of whom are
living. Mrs. Gaylord survives her husband and resides in Clyde. She organized
the first Home Missionary Society, and the ladies responded generously. The
elder members have passed out but an earnest force of younger women have
succeeded them. Reverend Gaylord was a man of warm personal sympathies. His best
monument is in the hearts of those who loved him.
A. W. GERHARDT.
A.W. Gerhardt, one of Clyde's leading merchants and most highly respected
citizens, is a self-made man. He has had less than one year of schooling, but
acquired an education in a practical way, has not been out of a position two
weeks since ten years of age, and never asked for a job but once. Mr. Gerhardt
was born on a farm near Evansville, Indiana, in 1857. At the age of ten years he
came with his father's family to Junction City, Kansas, when that town was the
freighting center to various points north, south and west. His father, William
Gerhardt, died within three months after locating there, leaving Mrs. Gerhardt
with four daughters and a son, and less than one dollar in money. There were
many avenues at that time through which a boy could earn money, and although but
ten years of age Mr. Gerhardt became the support of the family. His first
employer was T.A. Reynolds, and later the Rockwells, who are still in business
in Junction City, and from there he accepted a position on the road as traveling
salesman for W.A. Schmertz & Company, a wholesale boot and shoe house. Mr.
Gerhardt was young and youthful in appearance, often wishing for a mustache to
suggest that he was old enough and capable of doing business. In 1888 he located
in Mankato, Kansas, opening a store of general merchandise. He was burned out in
1893. The stock was insured for about half its value. After paying his creditors
he had something like a loss of fifty-six hundred dollars. He then opened a
store in Belle Plaine, Iowa, which he sold at the expiration of eighteen months
and established his present business in Clyde in 1896. Mr. Gerhardt's mother
died in 1893. Of his four sisters, three are in the vicinity of Junction City,
the other in the southern part of the state.
Mr. Gerhardt was married in
1890 to May E. Thompson, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They have one child, a son,
Leslie Robert, aged ten years. The Thompsons were of Newburg, New York, and
emigrated to Iowa in a very early day, where Mrs. Gerhardt was born. Mr.
Gerhardt's parents were from Germany. They came to America in their early
married life, where all of their children were born except the eldest. Mr.
Gerhardt is an elder in the Presbyterian church and superintendent of the
Sabbath school. He is a Member of the Woodmen and Workmen orders.
JOSEPH GILLETT.
Among the many old residents and well-to-do farmers
of Elk township is Joseph Gillett, who came to Kansas in 1871. Mr. Gillett had
just attained his majority when he resolved to begin the battles of life in a
new country and therefore turned his attention to the west, and settled in
Republic county. He was the right kind of a young man, full of determination to
succeed and applied his energies toward making a home. In 1877 he removed to
Cloud county and bought his present well improved farm, which is situated three
miles north of Clyde. About this time Mr. Gillett began to realize the
importance of taking unto himself a wife to share in his struggles and
responsibilities as well as enjoy his successes, and the following year was
married to Miss Ella Steiner. One child came to gladden their home, Sadie May,
but the angel of death deprived them of their little daughter, at the
interesting age of five and one-half years. Mr. Gillett was born in the state of
Illinois, in 1857. His father was of New York birth but emigrated to Illinois
early in life and when our subject came to Kansas his father accompanied him and
established a continuous residence. Mr. Gillett's mother died in 1879. There was
a large family of children, six sons and six daughters and all are living.
Politically Mr. Gillett is and has always been a Democrat. Fraternally he is
identified with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Neighbors. A modern
residence, a comfortable country home and broad fields of cultivated land are
keynotes to the people themselves and their lives. Men of this class to which
Mr. Gillett belongs are invariably good citizens.
GIROUX & LAVALLE.
The enterprising firm, Giroux & Lavalle, dealers in hardware,
tinware, pumps, pump fixtures and tanks, is composed of Joseph Giroux and Amedie
Lavalle. Mr. Giroux is one of the hundreds of French Canadians who have settled
in and around the vicinity of Clyde and like many of them he has prospered and
become prominent in business circles. He is a native of the province of Quebec,
born in 1865. When a small boy his parents located in Kankakee, Illinois, where
he received a business education. In 1879 he came with his father's family to
Kansas. His father is Francis Giroux, a retired farmer and hotel keeper now
residing in Clyde. He owns two good farms in Cloud county but has never lived on
them. One of them is situated one mile south and one mile east of Clyde, the
other five miles south and one mile west. He at one time owned the Iowa Hotel,
which he sold in 1892. Mr. Giroux's mother was Petrilone Larreaux of French
Canadian birth. His grandparents from both sides of the house were of France and
among the early settlers in the province of Quebec. His mother died in the
summer of 1902. Mr. Giroux is the only son of six children. His sisters are Mrs.
Itzweire, of Arizona, Mrs. Mathews, of Los Angeles, California, Mrs. Girard, of
Lincoln, Nebraska, and Mrs. Juneau, of Clyde. By a previous marriage he has a
half brother, Francis Giroux, Jr., of Dalls, Texas.
Mr. Giroux was
married in 1896, to Irene Longton, a daughter of Naphile Longton, who has been a
citizen of Clyde for many years. Mr. Giroux has been engaged, in various
enterprises; clerking and was in the restaurant business in Washington, Kansas,
two years. They are members of the Catholic church.
Amedie Lavalle, the
junior member of the firm is a young man of public spirit and progressive ideas.
He is a native of Kankakee, Illinois, born in 1868. He came with his parents to
Kansas in 1879, and settled in Concordia, where he received his education in the
high school of that city. Before taking up his residence in Clyde in 1899, he
was engaged in business in Beatrice and Riverton, Nebraska. In 1902 he became
associated with Mr. Giroux in the hardware store. He was married in 1898 to
Jennie Longton, a sister of Mrs. Giroux. Mr. Lavalle is interested in a half
section of land with his father-in-law, two miles east of St. Joseph, Kansas,
which is mostly pasture land. They have a herd of one hundred head of native
cattle. They are members of the Catholic church. Mr. Lavalle is member of the
order of Catholic Foresters and Triple Tie.
The firm of Giroux & Lavalle
have one of the most handsomely appointed hardware establishments in the county.
They make a specialty of the Dempster and Fairbanks windmills and pumps and have
a large patronage in that line. They have an established trade in the Garland,
Majestic, Quick Meal and Acorn ranges and are gratified with the record they
have made in that line. Their stock is composed of clean, well selected goods,
both shelf and heavy hardware. They are enterprising young business men and are
on the road to success. Individually are held in high esteem as good citizens.
CHARLES IRVING GOULD.
C.I. Gould is one of the fathers and
founders of the city of Jamestown. His lineage traces back to Abraham Gould of
the same line as Jay Gould, the late railroad magnate, whose gifted daughter,
Miss Helen, is known the world over for her many charities and as an angel of
mercy to the suffering poor. Abraham Gould, who signed the charter for the state
of Connecticut, was Mr. Gould's great-great-grandfather. His mother was also of
distinguished ancestry tracing a direct line to General Nathaniel Greene, of
Revolutionary fame.
Orrin P. Gould, father of our subject, was born in
the state of Connecticut. His ancestry was of English birth. His brother was
captain of a company in the war of 1812, and was one of the Americans who were
defending Buffalo, New York, when they painted logs black to give the enemy the
impression they had numerous and heavy cannon. After serving during the entire
war he returned to his home and entered land in the Holland Purchase Reserve
near Batavia, New York. Mr. Gould's father when a small boy, came with his
parents to western New York, where he lived until the subject of this sketch was
three years of age, when they removed to Michigan. Here his mother's health
failed and he returned to New York, remaining until she fully recovered. In
1869, they emigrated to Kansas and homesteaded land near Blue Rapids and in 1878
removed to Cloud county, where they were both deceased; his mother in 1885 and
his father in 1893.
Mr. Gould was born in Batavia, New York, in 1851. He
received his education in the Rural Seminary, East Pembrook, New York, and later
came west with his parents. In June, 1870, in company with three other young men
he came to Cloud county on an ox cart and homesteaded the farm on which he now
lives on the 19th day of November, a portion of which is the present site of
Jamestown. He gave the railroad company one-half interest in sixty acres of land
to build the depot and plat the town. His residence, a comfortable dwelling, is
within the city limits. He little thought when he filed on this claim that the
future would build up a prosperous town and as for a railroad, it was looked
for, but no one knew the course it would take. Only a few houses were in sight;
government troops were encamped in their barracks at Fort Sibley and Concordia
was unknown. Mr. Gould did some splendid soliciting for the railroad company in
the different townships in Jewell county. For calling elections to vote bonds
for the extension of Jewell Branch, Major Downs, general manager of the Central
Branch of the Union Pacific railroad, complimented him for his success in a
substantial manner.
Mr. Gould has always been a tiller of the soil,
finding many resources in its depths. He owned and operated a thresher for six
seasons before the use of traction engines. His present machine cost him the
neat little price of $2,800, purchased in 1901. Mr. Gould is one of five
children, all boys and all living. Two brothers reside in Jamestown; Edwin A. is
a farmer near Jamestown; Baird T., manages the P.V. elevator at Hollis, his
family residing in Jamestown; David G., of Concordia, manager of the P.V.
elevator; Myron H., a farmer in Iowa, removed from Kansas six years ago.
Mr. Gould was married in 1875, to Lucy Webster of Southfield, Massachusetts, who
in company with her parents came to Blue Rapids where she met Mr. Gould and
became his wife. Her father was a soldier and enlisted in the 49th
Massachusetts. His company was sent south into the swamps of Louisiana, where he
contracted a serious illness from climatic changes which was the direct cause of
his death; like many thousands of other brave boys, he left a beautiful and
happy home never to return to its enjoyments, but answered his "last roll call"
and sleeps beneath the canopy of the little green tent which nature provides for
every soldier.
To Mr. and Mrs. Gould eight children have been born, seven
of whom are living. Olive D., wife of C.W. Nelson, a farmer living two miles
north and two miles west of Ames. Webster O., an expert traction engineer and a
young man highly respected throughout the community. Arthur C., by profession a
school teacher on his second term. He taught last year northwest of Clyde in
District No. 15. He is employed this year in District No. 64. He is a graduate
of the Jamestown high school. Irving H., a young man who has not quite reached
his majority is living at home, a valuable assistant to his father in the duties
of the farm, and in exemplary young man. Florence L., her father's housekeeper,
who was deprived of a mother's training and good counsels when a child, having
just passed her seventh birthday, has developed into a matronly young woman
assuming the responsibilities of the household affairs with credit for one of
her years. Benjamin and Jay, the two youngest children, are school boys.
Mr. Gould is a member, trustee and steward of the Methodist Episcopal church. He
has been superintendent of the Sunday school for two years. In 1901, was elected
president of the International County Sunday School Association. In the
convention notes of the Miltonvale Record, where the society convened, the
following mention is made: "The retiring (but untiring) president, C.I. Gould,
was surely the right man in the right place." To his devotion, energy and
personal efforts as a church worker is due much of the success of the church and
the Sunday school which is one of the best in the county. His heart is in his
work and he feels he has faithfully done his duty for the best interests of the
congregation.
Mr. Gould is a member in good standing of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, joining the order two years ago, also a member of the Sons
and Daughters of Justice, the Pyramids and the Threshers' National Protective
Association, a comparatively new order whose object is to elevate and better the
conditions of dealers and operators. He is a good, fair and square Republican,
and served as deputy sheriff with Morrisette, the last year of his term in
office. He has ben a member of the council for two years, also served a term
several years ago. Mr. Gould has been an indefatigable church and Sunday school
worker and is a highly respected citizen. His sons are intelligent young men of
excellent repute.
EDWIN ADELBERT GOULD.
The subject of
this article, Edwin Adelbert Gould, is commonly known to his friends and
associates as "Del," and would scarcely be recognized by any other cognomen. He
was born in Michigan in 1853, but was reared in the state of New York. He came
to Kansas with his brother, March 15, 1870, and bought one hundred and twenty
acres of school land paying four dollars per acre and borrowed the money to make
the first payment. Being entirely without capital he railroaded several years
instead of improving his farm. He worked in various capacities, principally as
brakeman on the train doing construction work and hauling material for the
Scandia branch.
Mr. Gould was married on Thanksgiving day, 1885, to Lida
F. Rogers, who was reared on the farm where she first saw the light of day in
Washington county, Ohio. Her mother died when Mrs. Gould was a child and her
father was deceased in 1886, and as fast as the children reached maturity they
came westward. Miss Rebecca Rogers, an older sister came to teach school and was
married in Kansas. The brothers are Alvin, Joshua, Isaac, John and Fremont,
residents, successful ranchmen and land owners of Comanche county, Kansas, where
the older brother owns twenty-seven quarter sections of land. The Rogers family
are of Scotch origin. The mother was Mary Ann Teeples of English ancestry.
To Mr. and Mrs. Gould four children have been born, viz: Eva, the eldest
daughter, a young lady of seventeen years, is taking the second year's course in
the Concordia high school; she is a hard student, a bright young woman and has
considerable musical talent. Walter is a student of the home school, "Prairie
Gem," District No. 34. This locality affords one of the best school buildings in
the county, a modern structure which affords a tower with a bell and many
improvements not usually found in country districts. The second daughter, Della
R., is fourteen years of age, and Merril, the youngest son, aged ten years,
Mr. Gould never received any legacies but thrift and enterprise, and is
entirely self made. He has made rapid strides along the road of progress and has
builded for himself and family an exceedingly desirable and pleasant home three
miles northwest of Jamestown. He has added to his farm until it now consists of
a half section of land and he would now refuse an offer of ten thousand dollars
for the ground that was raw, uncultivated prairie but a comparatively few years
ago. He paid twenty-five dollars per acre for forty acres of the newly acquired
land. Their first dwelling consisted of but one room, 14 by 16 feet In
dimensions, one story high. In 1899 a commodious farm house of ten rooms was
erected and its modern appointments bespeak the refinement of its matron. In
1890 a substantial barn was built. A young orchard is beginning to bring its
returns. The principal product of his farm is wheat, along with stock raising,
cattle, horses and mules.
Mr. and Mrs. Gould enjoy and are worthy the
highest esteem of the entire community, where they have lent their support and
influence to every worthy cause that has been promoted for the elevation of
mankind or to advance the educational interests of the community. They have an
interesting family of children and intend giving them every advantage possible
in the way of education and advancement.
Mr. Gould has affiliated with
the Populists, but is now seeking a new party. He has held township offices for
several years and has been an efficient member of the school board. He is one of
the solid, prosperous men of his township and his friends include the whole list
of his acquaintances.
HENRY GRAY.
The late Henry Gray and
his family were among the early settlers of Grant township. They came in the
spring of 1872 when there were but few settlers and not many remain at the
present time who were there then. The Gray homestead was first settled by a man
who when he had broke out a few furrows of ground received word of an accident
that had befallen his wife in the east, and left without filing on the land.
Mr. Gray was born in Germany, but when four years of age came with his
parents to the United States and settled in Pennsylvania. He was a soldier of
the Civil war in the Third Battalion, Company G, Eighteenth Regiment of United
States Regulars. He experienced the horrors of a southern prison for six months
ere he was paroled. He was a valiant soldier and under General Sherman and
General Rosecrans participated in many battles. Mr. Gray died in 1899 at the age
of fifty-seven years. By his death the community lost one of the best men in the
township - an industrious, honorable citizen. He accumulated land until with his
children he owned five hundred and thirty acres, which has since been divided
between his wife, daughter and son who survive him.
Mrs. Gray was born in
Montreal, Canada, but reared in Pennsylvania, having removed there with her
parents when but one year of age. Through the glowing description as depicted by
the two brothers who preceded him, Mr. Gray became enthused over the prospect of
gaining a home in the west, and with their capital of about one thousand dollars
came on a boat down the Monongahela into the Ohio river, and thence up the
Mississippi and Missouri to Atchison. From this point they traveled overland to
their destination in a spring wagon. Upon their arrival improvements began. Mr.
Gray erected a stone house about Sox16 feet in dimensions, covered with boards
for a roof. For several years they experienced all the hardships of the early
settlers, brought about by grasshopper raids, drouths, etc. It was three or four
years before they raised a crop but managed to keep out of debt. Mr. Gray was a
hard working man and gained his estate by hard labor.
To Mr. and Mrs.
Gray three children have been born, namely: Ophellia, the eldest child, is the
wife of Frank Spear, who has been a resident of Grant township almost a dozen
years and is a prosperous farmer. He owns two hundred and forty acres of land.
They are the parents of two little sons, Vernon Theodore and Hubert Paul.
Theodore Charles, their second child, and first son, died at the age of
twenty-one years.
The second son, Frank Gray, is one of the successful
farmers and stockmen of that vicinity. He owns two hundred acres of fine bottom
land that raises more corn perhaps than any other farm of the same magnitude in
the community. He has a fine orchard that yielded about one hundred bushels of
apples the past season (1902). He has been twice married. His first wife was
Miss Julia Eichinger, who died six years after their marriage, leaving three
children, Nellie, Frank Earl and Earnest Wilbur. His second wife was Miss Nettie
Williams. Her parents were old settlers of Jewell county, where she was born and
reared. To their union one child has been born, a little daughter, Alice, aged
seventeen months.
Frank Gray is a public-spirited citizen and one of the
leading men of the community. Socially he is a member of the Order of Woodmen
and of the independent Order of Odd Fellows. Politically he is a Republican.
With his mother he keeps a herd of about sixty head of well graded cattle and
also raises hogs quite extensively.
LEWIS GRAY.
The farm
of Lewis Gray, one of the old settlers of Grant township, is situated about
three miles northwest of Jamestown. Mr. Gray came to Kansas in January, 1872,
without capital and located the farm where he now lives. He crossed the salt
marsh the first Sunday in January and after homesteading his land had one
hundred dollars in cash. He built a little dugout on the banks of Buffalo creek,
where he was drowned out after "baching" one year. He then removed his dwelling
place about forty rods back and was again drowned out, the ground being covered
with three feet of water. He had a stone crib 12 by 40 feet in the clear and six
feet in height filled with corn, much of which was spoiled by the flood,
involving a great loss. In 1892 he erected a stone house 30 by 17 feet in
dimenisions, one and one-half stories high. In 1900 added a frame part 25 by 18
feet, making a commodious and comfortable home.
His farm, with its
freshly painted residence, latticed porches. good out buildings, including a new
and modern poultry house, is an ideal one. His land is beautifully situated on
both sides of Buffalo creek which gives him plenty of water and sometimes too
much. Timber for fuel in the early days being quite an item prompted Mr. Gray to
locate on Buffalo creek. His land is best adapted to wheat and alfalfa, his
chief products. He gives considerable attention to poultry, raising from three
to five hundred chickens annually.
Mr. Gray was born in the western part
of Pennsylvania, in 1842, where the earlier part of his life was spent in the on
region of Venango and Allegheny counties. He had never farmed until coming to
Kansas but worked in the oil fields of his native state. His parents were
William and Elizabeth Gray, natives of Prussia. His father died when our subject
was eleven years of age and his mother about a quarter of a century ago. Mr.
Gray was thrown upon his own resources by the death of his father and
contributed to the support of his mother who lived and died in his home. It was
not easy for a man to obtain a start by his own labors in the state where he was
reared and this prompted Mr. Gray to come west. He is the only living member of
a family of five children, four brothers and one sister, the latter dying when
an infant. William, the eldest brother died several years ago. He had lived in
Kansas but left during the grasshopper year; like many others, he could not see
his way out and lost faith in the future of Kansas. Henry was a resident of
Grant township and died in 1899, leaving a widow and two children, a son and a
daughter, who reside on the farm. John, died at the age of twenty years from
injuries received in an accident.
Mr. Gray was married in 1880 to Maggie
Grayburn, of Pennsylvania, a sister of Mrs. Henry Gray. She came to Kansas with
her mother and brother (now deceased) in 1878. To and Mrs. Gray four children
have been born. The eldest died at three and a half years. Those living are,
Clarence, aged twenty, Guy and Willie, aged sixteen and twelve years
respectively. They are promising boys: the eldest practically operates the farm.
Politically Mr. Gray is a Prohibitionist. The family are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church, of Jamestown congregation.
GEORGE LEROY GREGG.
G.L. Gregg, "the old reliable" butcher and auctioneer,
located in Clyde in 1879. After doing various things he engaged in the grocery
business and in 1887, opened a meat market, which is one of the most complete
establishments in the city. He purchased the Taggart building formerly owned and
built by the Turners, which he fitted up for a market with a refrigerator and
cold-storage department, having a capacity for nine beeves.
Mr. Gregg is
one of the best known auctioneers of Cloud county. He cried his first sale in
the autumn of 1882, for Mr. Culver, the father of George Culver, the county
attorney, and has followed that occupation continuously ever since, in
connection with his market, In the winter of 1901-02 he had an extended list of
stock sales which covered a territory reaching over Cloud and adjoining
counties. He is exceptionally well posted as to what stock is worth and
invariably makes them bring the highest market price, Beginning with the twelfth
of February, 1902, Mr. Gregg had a sale for every day up to March sixth. However
from September until February he had numerous auctions - an average of two or
three per week. His reputation in this line is increasing and his territory in
this field is widening.
Mr. Gregg is of Irish origin, and was born in
Steuben county, New York, in 1850. His father, Robert Gregg, was born in County
Sligo, Ireland, but of Scotch parentage. His father's people removed to Ireland
during the religious movements in Scotland and emigrated to New York when their
son, Robert, was thirteen years of age. Mr. Gregg's mother was Sarah Harper. He
is one of a family of eight sons and two daughters, eight of whom are living.
When four and one-half years of age he removed with his parents to Rock
Island, Illinois, where he lived on a farm until coming to Kansas. He came
without capital, but has forged to the front, accumulating a competency, and
owns some good property; among which is a residence just completed that is one
of the most commodious and best furnished homes in the city and is in one of the
most desirable locations.
Mr. Gregg was married in 1879, to Sarah Emma
Brown, of Rock Island county, Illinois. Their family consists of two sons;
George Raymond who has just maintained his majority is one of Clyde's brightest
young men and will enter college the coming autumn (1902.) The other son is
Whitney, aged three.
Mr. Gregg has always supported the principals of the
Democratic party. He is progressive in his views and is one of the substantial
and prosperous business men of Clyde. Socially, he is a member of the order of
Woodmen and the Triple Tie.
Addenda: - G.L. Gregg has recently leased his
meat market that he might give his entire time and attention to real estate and
auctioneering. He has opened a neat and well appointed office in the building
formerly occupied by Doctor Gillespie, the dentist. Mr. Gregg is not only a
"rustler," but a man to he depended upon as bringing the best possible results
to any business transaction entrusted to him.
W. D. GROFF.
The Groffs are among the old settlers of Cloud county. V.H. Groff, a brother
of the subject of this sketch came to Kansas in 1866, and took up a homestead on
Upton creek, near the present town of Hollis, where he lived several years and
was a comrade of such old hunters and trappers as Jack Billings and Root Foster.
His wife died in December, 1900, his children were all married and living in
homes of their own and in the autumn of 1901 he entered the Soldiers' Home at
Leavenworth. His children offered him a home but he preferred that institution.
He contracted rheumatism from exposure while on hunting expeditions and is
practically disabled. He is sixty-six years of age. The Groffs are Pennsylvania
Dutch, having settled in Chester county in the pioneer days, but subsequently
located near Harrisburg.
W.D. Groff came to Clyde in 1885, having
previously lived in Illinois two years, and established a jewelry store in
Clyde. With the exception of three years when his eyes would not permit of his
working, he has been a jeweler forty-three years. During the interim mentioned
he worked at carpentering until the death of Jeff Nye, with whom he was
associated, and after various changes and vicissitudes he established a jewelry
store, and by degrees has built up a successful business.
Mr. and Mrs.
Groff are the parents of nine children, six of whom are living, viz: William, a
station agent at Dennison, Texas, Francis G. was water commissioner of Clyde for
several years, but is now an employe of the Clyde creamery. Lizzie A., unmarried
and living at home. Jennie, wife of Charles Garwood, a farmer of Elk township.
Sarah M., wife of G.M. Wheat, station agent on the Nelson branch at Gladstone,
Nebraska. Samuel, a young man of seventeen, is on his second year in the high
school.
Mr. Groff served in the Civil war in Company A, Twenty-sixth
Pennsylvania Volunteers. Out of his regiment one hundred and twenty-seven,
including himself, were captured at the battle of Gettysburg. He was paroled but
not exchanged, consequently re-enlisted in Company A, two hundred and tenth
Pennsylvania in September, 1864, served until the close of the war and was
mustered out at Arlington Heights. Mr. Groff saw active service, was in both
battles of Gravelly Run, Five Forks, Boydton Plank Road, Appomattox and
Gettysburg, where the bullets rained like hail. His brother, V.H. Groff, was in
the eighty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
Mr. Groff and his
family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is treasurer.
He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Modern Woodmen of
America. Politically Mr. Groff is a Republican. Mrs. Groff is an industrious
woman and has been her husband's helpmate in the truest sense of the word. She
is a dressmaker, carries on an establishment and is an artist in this line. As a
jeweler Mr. Groff receives his share of patronage and carries a full line of
goods such as are usually found in a first class jewelry store, consisting of
silver and a full line of ornamental ware. As a citizen he is among the most
highly esteemed in his town and a man who is interested in all educational and
religious enterprises and works faithfully for the interest of any cause
pertaining to the welfare of his town or community.
FRED GUIPRE.
Fred Guipre is a stockman and farmer of Summit township. He is a native
Kansan, born on the original Guipre homestead in 1871. He is a son of Andrew and
Gabriella (DeMauer) Guipre. His father was a native of France, born near the
cities of Genoa and Lyon, which are situated near the Switzerland line. He was
born in the year 1824.
His parents having died when he was an infant, he
was placed in an orphan asylum and later found a home with a family of farmers
in that country. When twenty-six years of age he came to America, crossing the
continent of South America and the Isthmus of Panama. He spent two years in
Tennessee and assisted as a laborer in building the capitol in the city of
Nashville. He spent five years in California, returning to France, married
Gabriella DeMauer and with his wife came back to America and settled on a farm
in Ohio near Cincinnati. Mrs. Guipre was also in an orphan asylum.
After
having lived in Ohio four years they emigrated to Nebraska and settled in Nemaha
county, near Nebraska City. In the spring of 1871 he came with his family to
Cloud county, and located the homestead where he now lives with his son, Fred,
the subject of this sketch.
Fred Guipre is the youngest of five children,
viz: Joseph, Lewis and John, all farmers of Summit township. The Guipres located
in Kansas with very limited capital, but have acquired a large tract of land and
made desirable homes. Fred lives on the homestead that his father located when
there was not a house between his claim and Concordia. They have a bomb shell
they found on the old government trail and among other relics an Indian tomahawk
and spear.
Mr. Guipre was married in 1896 to Emily A. Rushton, one of the
accomplished daughters of Enos Rushton (see sketch). They are the parents of one
child, a little son, Fred Rexford, aged nineteen months. In 1875, Mr. Gulpre's
father erected a small stone residence and later enlarged and made it a
comfortable home, situated in a beautiful and shady retreat on the banks of Lost
creek.
This is a desirable farm in a high state of cultivation, with a
large apple and peach orchard, which yields abundantly. The farm is well stocked
with hogs, horses and a fine herd of Shorthorn cattle. Mr. Guipre and sons own a
total of nineteen hundred and twenty acres of land which is all located in
Summit township except one hundred and sixty acres, in Solomon township. On this
ranch they keep from one hundred and fifty to two hundred head of cattle.
JOSEPH GUIPRE.
Joseph Guipre, one of the enterprising sons of
Andrew Guipre, is recognized as one of the most successful farmers and stockmen
in Summit township. In 1881, he purchased the Mrs. Andrew Collins homestead
which he has improved, built a handsome residence and commodious basement barn.
His land is a producer of large yields of corn. In 1889, he had a total of 6,600
bushels from a field of one hundred acres. He has some fine graded stock among
his herd which ranges from forty to fifty head of cattle. The Guipres, like most
of the Kansas farmers, have acquired their money raising cattle and hogs.
Mrs. Guipre, a lady of culture and refinement, was Olive, one of the
estimable daughters of the late Enos Rushton, who was known to almost every
Cloud county citizen. One little son gladdens their home; Enos, the namesake of
his grandfather, aged eleven years. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Guipre are members of
the Catholic church and all of their sons have been baptized in that faith.
Politically they are Republicans. As citizens, they rank among the best families
of the community.
HONORABLE JAMES MANNY HAGAMAN.
The name
of J.M. Hagaman occurs frequently upon these pages and he is known to every
household of Cloud county, yet many may not know of his career prior to taking
up his abode on the frontier of Kansas on July 8, 1860, when he, with his family
and a small company of friends, settled on Elm creek. From that date down to the
present he has been an active promoter of the best interests of Cloud county,
and more especially of his own town, Concordia.
Mr. Hagaman is a native
of Wayne county, New York, born on the bleak shores of Lake Ontario in July,
1830. He is a son of Joseph Nicholas and Elizabeth (0'Neil) Hagaman. His father
was a farmer and carpenter by occupation and a soldier in the war of 1812. He
was murdered in 1868 in Cloud county, where he had emigrated in 1866. The
Hagaman ancestors were from Holland and pioneer settlers of Montgomery county,
New York. Mr. Hagaman's father was a daring and courageous soldier; was
lieutenant of his company and taken prisoner with General Scott at the battle of
Queenston, Canada. It was a great-uncle of Mr. Hagaman who built the Hagaman
mills, manufacturers of cloth, in Montgomery county, New York. His maternal
ancestors were from Holland and Ireland. His Irish ancestors, for taking sides
with the colonies in the Revolutionary war, were exiled from Ireland by the
British Crown.
Mr. Hagaman is the only surviving member of a family of
seven children. He received a limited education at Hagaman's Mills and at the
age of sixteen years had acquired what was taught at that time in the public
schools. Though he did not take a collegiate course, many miles of travel would
not produce a man of so wide a practical knowledge and experience of things
generally. He considers that, while his life has not been a brilliant success,
it by no means has been a failure; full success in some, and in all others
partial success has resulted from his many undertakings and adventures. He has
been self-supporting since nine years old.
Mr. Hagaman was married in
1855 to Mary Louisa Webster, who was born in the state of New York. Her parents
were natives of Massachusetts and emigrated from New York to Wisconsin in 1850.
Mr. and Mrs. Hagaman emigrated to Kansas with their one child in 1860. They came
overland with two yoke of cattle. His financial possessions were one hundred and
twenty-five dollars in gold, eight head of cattle and farm implements; four
years later he gave his personal tax in as eighteen hundred dollars. He invested
his surplus funds in calves and dealt in stock quite extensively.
Mr. and
Mrs. Hagaman are the parents of seven children, six of whom are living: Alice
C., wife of N.P. Buesenbark, now a resident of Kansas City, but formerly a
merchant of Concordia. Mary Almina, who has been an invalid the greater part of
her life. Adelina H., deceased wife of L.M. Richardson, an employe of the
Chicago Lumber Company and a merchant of Richburg, Mississippi. James F., now of
Kansas City, formerly associated with his father in newspaper work. Nicholas
Alvin, a locomotive engineer in the employ of the B.&M.; Railroad. Phenie, wife
of James Lupton, express agent on the B.&M.; Railroad, with residence at
Lincoln, Nebraska. Fannie O., the first child born in Concordia.
Mr.
Hagaman has represented his county in the legislature, founded the thriving and
populous city of Concordia and has been its mayor two terms. For thirty-two
years he has been an attorney at law and was the first to be admitted to
practice in the district court of his county. Besides those mentioned he has
held many other civil offices, and also a military commission, and now, although
past seventy-two years of age, his step is quick and his appearance is more like
that of a man in the prime of life than one of his advanced years.
IVER B. HALDERSON.
The subject of this sketch, I.B. Halderson, one of
the representative citizens and partially retired farmers of Lyon township, is a
native of Norway, born in 1850, and went to Wisconsin with his parents when he
was four years old. His father, Bjorn Halderson, was one of a race of farmers
and the only member of his father's family who emigrated to America. I.B.
Halderson's mother was Inger (Anderson) Halderson, of Norway. He is one of eight
children, seven of whom are living. Two brothers, H.B. and Andrew, are
well-to-do farmers of Solomon township. A.R. was a nominee for county
commissioner from his district (No. 3) by the Populist party against Mr. Daly,
in 1901. He is a prominent man of Solomon township. He has been treasurer of his
township for several terms and clerk of School District No. 42 for more than
twenty years. His nomination for commissioner was not of his seeking, but had he
been elected would have served the county well. A sister, Sarah Anderson, widow
of Christian Anderson, who died leaving his wife and a family of two children,
lives on a farm in Lyon township, Ida and Cora are her two daughters. The
former, the widow of Ernest Converse, was a Cloud county teacher and a student
of the State Normal School at Emporia. Amelia, wife of Everett Dickerson, a
resident of Ness county, Kansas; they have a family of three children, - Beulah
Mildred, Clifford Everett and Fern Agnes. Lena, wife of Hosea Stout, a farmer of
Smith county, Kansas; their family consists of two sons, Ira, aged thirteen and
Arley, aged ten years. Anna, wife of John Pitner, a farmer of Lyon township.
Mr. Halderson was educated in Wisconsin. The Haldersons first settled in
Ottawa county, in 1870, coming a few months later to Lyon township, Cloud
county, where they located government land. They came without capital, lived in
a dugout and underwent the same experiences and trials that most of the early
settlers did, and lived as people lived in Kansas at that time.
I.B.
Halderson owns the original homestead. He had lived at home until the death of
his father in 1894, and the home place succeeded to him. This is an excellent
farm, wheat and corn land. In many good years his ground has yielded
seventy-five bushels of corn and forty bushels of wheat per acre. The Haldersons
are Republicans politically; strayed away for a while but are falling back in
line again. They are members of the Lutheran church of the Glasco congregation.
They all have comfortable homes and are numbered among the representative
citizens.
JAMES HANSON.
James Hanson, the subject of this
sketch, is one of the very first settlers of Starr township. Mr. Hanson does not
boast of a line of distinguished ancestry, nor coat of arms on the panel of his
door, but lives in the original dugout, which is a home in the truest sense of
the word. The hopes of his life were frustrated in the loss of his wife, who
died in 1873, leaving Mr. Hanson with six children that he has raised with much
credit. The quaintly primitive dugout, where he will likely spend his declining
years, is a model of neatness and comfort. Picturesquely shadowed by a giant
cottonwood planted by his own hand and under whose clustering branches, after
the dally task set free, he enjoys life in undisturbed repose.
Mr. Hanson
came to Cloud county in 1870 and homesteaded the land where he now lives, one
and three-quarter miles southeast of Miltonvale. He is a native son of Ireland,
born in 1825. When forty-five years of age he came to America, accompanied by
his wife and five children. After stopping brief intervals in Indiana and
Illinois he came to Cloud county, Kansas, leaving his family in Lawrence, and
after taking up his claim returned, bringing them back with him, feeling as if
he had the whole world to himself. He has always been a farmer and is well
contented that he came to Kansas. He owns two hundred and sixty acres of land,
but is practically retired, his son managing his affairs. Mr. Hanson says the
chief lesson of prosperity to a farmer in Kansas was, if he raised a crop to
save enough for the next year in the event of a drouth or other disaster. His
crops have failed but twice in the thirty-two years of his sojourn in Kansas -
one by grasshoppers and the other by chinch bugs. His chief industry is raising
corn, hogs, horses and cattle, the latter of the native and Hereford breeds.
Mr. Hanson's parents were Edward and Mary (McClean) Hanson, both natives of
Ireland, and died there. Mr. Hanson was married to Elizabeth Edmons, who was
also a native of Ireland, and to this union six children were born, all of whom
are living and Mr. Hanson says, "They are all doing well, and never voted the
Populist ticket." The eldest daughter, Jane, is the wife of David Furgeson, a
farmer of Cloud county; Mary, wife of Benjamin Harrison, a farmer of Nebraska;
William, who owns a farm adjoining his father's; John lives with his father and
operates the farm; his family consists of a wife and little daughter. Stinson,
who lives in Miltonvale, and owns some good property there, including the
Burdick Hotel; Edward, a farmer and successful stockman of Oklahoma.
Mr.
Hanson was reared in the Episcopal church, under the High Church discipline. He
is a man of integrity and unquestioned honor, whose word could be taken
unreservedly. He is proud of his children, loyal to his friends, and has many
admirable characteristics scarcely known outside of the family circle. He is
eccentric, but entertaining and humorous, possessing to the fullest degree the
famous "mother wit" of his county.
HONORABLE JOHN O. HANSON.
J.O. Hanson is the present postmaster of Jamestown, and one of the most
efficient that city ever had. He is one of the old landmarks, having located a
homestead two and one-half miles northeast of Jamestown, when that part of the
country was almost unpopulated. The township was, at that time Buffalo, but he
is now located in the part included in Grant, and was one of the organizers of
that township; the others were, John McCracken, Mr. Woodford and W.T.F. Ansdell,
in 1873.
Mr. Hanson was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1842. He
emigrated to America when a young man, and after a brief stay in the city of New
York, removed to Chicago, and in 1871 came to Cloud county, and still retains
and lives on the homestead be located at that time. With the organization of
Jamestown he opened a furniture and undertaking business and was one of the
first to erect a building in the town. He was prosperous until the hard years
came, and having given credit to so many of his patrons, when the panic came he
was forced to retire and was succeeded by Pence & White, of Jewell City, who
were succeeded by various others, who likewise nearly failed, until Mr. Ratliff
embarked under more favorable auspices. Mr. Hanson farmed one year after going
out of business and in 1896 traveled for an undertaking house until receiving
the appointment of postmaster.
Mr. Hanson was married in 1870 to Caroline
Hanson, a young woman from his own country, whom he met in Chicago. They were
both members of the same Baptist church in that city, and in this way formed an
acquaintance, which resulted in their marriage. They are the parents of three
sons and one daughter, and have five children deceased, three of whom died with
diptheria within a week, in Concordia, where they lived two years. Anna, the
eldest daughter, is the wife of Reverend H.P. Anderson, a Baptist minister, of
Newell, Iowa. William F., is a jeweler and optician. He graduated from the Omaha
Optical Institute in March, 1901, and has a stock of optical goods and jewelry
in the postoffice building. Elmer is assistant postmaster at Jamestown. Eddie is
the youngest son, aged sixteen. Mr. Hanson is a Republican in politics and has
served several terms as mayor of his town. He had been a Mason for many years
and has held the chair of Master of Jamestown lodge, but has withdrawn his
membership.
Mr. Hanson occupies a comfortable home at the present
writing, but in the primitive days of Kansas, lived like most of the pioneers.
He broke prairie and utilized some of the sod in building a place of habitation,
which sheltered them until building a crude house of stone with dirt roof. While
speaking of his career Mr. Hanson remarked in substance. He would not be brave
enough to again undergo the hardships entailed upon him and his family to secure
a homestead and recited a few of their many experiences:
Wife shaking
with ague, no well of pure water, neighbors few and far between, no team but
oxen, but better off than some of the settlers who drove an ox and a cow yoked
together. He had ten acres of promising corn, and during the noontime hour,
while resting and partaking of the frugal meal, he heard a great roaring,
whirring noise, and upon looking for the cause found the "hoppers" had arrived
in droves of millions, filling the earth, skies and every available space, and
by two o'clock not a single vestige of vegetation nor a blade of his field of
corn was left, not even leaving a small garden of thriving tobacco plants.
In his early life Mr. Hanson learned the carpenter's trade and upon the
occasion of the following incident he was building a house for a neighbor, Mr.
Iverson, who lived near the Republican river. He returned home one night after
having walked from his place of labor, several miles distant, footsore and
weary, to find his family for some unknown cause had deserted their home. The
Indians had committed many murderous deeds, and from the appearance of things,
the empty beds that had been slept in, the disorder generally prevailing, showed
a hasty flight or exit had been made.
Mr. Hanson at once repaired to a
neighbors and found the same condition existing there, beds vacated, clothes
scattered about, etc. He then went to the camp of a brother-in-law, who had
homesteaded one mile north, but were still living in their wagons. His kinsmen
were new in the country, consequently greatly alarmed concerning the Indians,
and had been told that when the savages made a murderous attack they dressed up
in fantastic style and made a great noise. As they retired for the night they
were serenaded in the distance by a pack of hungry, howling coyotes; imagined
they were Indians and in their fright and excitement routed and gathered all
their neighbors together for protection against the prospective attack. When Mr.
Hanson arrived at the Christensons he found the fugitives congregated together
and the men with their guns had established an arsenal. Although chagrined, Mr.
Hanson was amused at their predicament. Another brother-in-law, James Nelson,
however, saved his own life and the lives of his family perhaps, at the same
time Miss White was captured, by pointing a rusty revolver at the savages.
Mr. Hanson has experienced many of the quicksands and vicissitudes of life,
but is now on a solid foundation and lives in a comfortable home which he built
in 1880, and made more commodious by an addition in 1886. He also owns the
postoffice building and a stock of books and stationery, which nets him a
considerable income. His sons are prepossessing and manly young men, who will
evidently make a success in life, and like their father, good citizens and
honorable men.
WILLIAM MARION HARDESTY.
One of the old
residents of 1871, and one of the most worthy citizens of Meredith township, is
W.M. Hardesty. He is a native of Iowa, born in 1844. His father was James
Hardesty, and settled in Iowa in 1840, in the territorial days of that state.
The Hardestys were of English origin. His father was a native of Ohio and moved
to Indiana, and from that state to Iowa, where he died when his son, the subject
of this sketch, was a small boy. Mr. Hardesty's mother was Mary Ann Tuttle, of
Ohio. Her ancestors were German people, and settled in Maryland. She died in
1869. Mr. Hardesty is one of thirteen children, six of whom are living; three of
this number were triplets. The eldest brother, Joseph, is a farmer and stockman
of Barber county, Kansas. Two brothers, John and James, of Omaha, Nebraska, and
two sisters, in Louisa county, Iowa. By a second marriage there was one child,
D.W. Tucker, of Iowa.
Mr. Hardesty was educated in the subscription
schools of their neighborhood. His father's means were meagre, as is usually the
case with settlers in a new country, and his educational advantages very
limited. At the age of eighteen years Mr. Hardesty enlisted in the United States
army and served his country two and one-half years. He was a member of Company
A, Ninth Iowa Cavalry, with Captain John C. Reed and with General Steele through
Missouri and Arkansas, who was superseded by General Reynolds. Their brigadier
generals were Trumbull and Geiger. They were engaged in arduous and dangerous
guerrilla warfare a greater part of the time and many of their men were killed,
wounded and taken prisoners. His brother Joe was captured, but paroled eleven
days later.
After the war Mr. Hardesty returned to Iowa and resumed the
farming he had undertaken before entering the service, continuing in that
capacity until coming to Kansas in 1871. He came overland and homesteaded the
farm where he now lives, erected a shanty 11x14, with roof sloping one way, but
shingled, which was rare among the dwellings of that time, and there was one
small window. In addition to this he built a dugout.
June 7, 1872. he was
married to Bella J. McNamer, whom he had known in Iowa. Mrs. Hardesty was born
and reared in Louisa county and educated in the high school of Muscatine, Iowa,
and finished a teacher's course in Otterbine College of Linn county, Iowa, and
was a successful teacher four years. In the pioneer days of Iowa, Mrs. Hardesty
attended school in a primitive building erected for that purpose with puncheon
floor and slabs converted into seats by inserting pegs for legs. Here she
learned to read, write and spell, and add "1 and 1 is 2," etc. She was twelve
years of age when she could claim the ownership of a slate and fifteen years old
when she became the possessor of a lead pencil.
Her father was Nicholas
A. McNamer. He was born in 1803, and died in his fifty-third year. He came to
Iowa in 1844, and settled in Louisa county, where his brother Phillip had
preceded him four years. Her mother was Margaret Earnest, born in 1812, and died
at the age of eighty-six years, in Davenport, Iowa. The parents were married in
Pickaway county, Ohio. Her father emigrated in wagons to Iowa and purchased five
hundred acres of land in Louisa county, which he put under a fine state of
improvement and dealt in cattle and fine bred horses. He became a wealthy and
influential farmer and stock breeder.
Mrs. Hardesty's paternal
grandfather was Philip McNamer. He with his family, consisting of a wife and
three children, moved on foot, drove the cows and carried their clothing in
bedticks, over the Alleghany mountains, a distance of three days' travel. Her
father was one of sixteen children. Mrs. Hardesty's maternal grandmother lived
to be one hundred and eight years old. She with her family settled in Michigan
in 1863, and at the age of ninety-five visited her daughter in Iowa. She was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church one hundred years. The Earnests were a
religious and God-fearing people. Mrs. Hardesty's maternal great-grandfather
Breece was a colonel in the Revolutionary war, and was killed in battle at Old
Reading, Pennsylvania. Her youngest brother, Nicholas, was killed at Atlanta,
while serving in the United States army, and another brother, Nehemiah B.
Philip, was wounded the same day. Her eldest brother and a comrade walked and
carried their satchels from Iowa to St. Louis during the winter of 1849, where
they found the river open and took passage for California via the Isthmus of
Panama. He worked in the mines there during the gold excitement of that period
until 1865, when he was injured by a stone falling on him, and died several
years later from the effect.
Mr. and Mrs. Hardesty are the parents of
eight children, one son and seven daughters: Florence, the eldest daughter, is a
stenographer employed in the Cloud County Bank of Concordia. She was a teacher
for several years, a graduate of the Delphos high school and in 1899 graduated
from the Salina (Kansas) Wesleyan Business College. She has held her present
position three years. Frances E. is a graduate in the common branches from
District No. 3 and of the Delphos high school. She has taught school
successfully and held the position of deputy clerk in the county clerk's office.
She is now interested with her two sisters, Florence and Carolyn, in the
millinery business at Clyde. Otis E., their only son, graduated from the Delphos
high school and in 1898 graduated from the Wesleyan Business College of Salina.
In 1899 he was employed at the head of the commercial department of the Kansas
Normal College at Fort Scott. He was married in 1901 to Sybyl Crawford, a
daughter of C.H. Crawford, of Ottawa county. He takes an active part in
politics, is a staunch Republican and is one of the rising young politicians of
the county. Carolyn, now of Clyde, is a graduate of the Delphos high school and
was a teacher in Cloud county for two years. The younger daughters are Marion,
Dorothy, Josephine and Mildred. Mr. Hardesty was a Democrat until seventeen
years of age. He then departed from that faith and has since affiliated with the
Republican party. The family are attendants of the Methodist Episcopal church,
Bethel congregation. Mr. Hardesty is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic
Post of Delphos.
Mr. Hardesty has given considerable attention to
horticulture and his orchard produces especially fine peaches and cherries. His
farm consists of three hundred and sixty acres. He raises wheat principally and
keeps a herd of about fifty head of cattle, which are chiefly milch cows. In
corn years he raises from one to two hundred head of hogs. Mr. Hardesty and his
family are people of admirable qualities. Their home is a pleasant one and his
wife and daughters are intelligent, refined and useful women, possessed of good
business qualifications that go far toward making life a success.
JOHN W. HARE.
J.W. Hare is a native of Indiana, born in 1852 (for
ancestry, see sketch of Mark Hare). When a boy Mr. Hare's parents emigrated to
Iowa and subsequently to Missouri, where Mr. Hare received a common school
education. He began his career on a farm at the age of fourteen years. In 1871,
he came to Kansas and took up the homestead where he now lives in Lyon township,
about four miles from Glasco. The family took up four hundred and eighty acres
of land in a body, or three homesteads. Mr. Hare raises wheat extensively and at
the present time has two hundred and forty acres. In 1898-9 his ground yielded
on an average forty bushels of wheat to the acre. He has made wheat growing a
specialty.
Mr. Hare was married, in 1870, to Mamie Kunkel of Holt county,
Missouri, a daughter of Jacob Kunkel. Their family consists of three sons, Mark,
Edward, and Arthur, all of whom have reached their majority. Mark, the eldest
son, married May Prince, daughter of Ferd Prince of Glasco. Edward is married to
Myrtle Childs.
Politically, Mr. Hare is a Republican. He is a member of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Glasco. Mr. Hare has one of the best
homes in his township. In 1884 he built a comfortable frame residence. He is a
frugal and successful farmer. Mrs. Hare is an estimable woman and their home is
a pleasant one.
MARCUS L. HARE.
M.L. Hare, of the
successful and enterprising drug firm of Brierley & Hare, is a thoroughly
competent pharmacist and prescriptionist. He is not only one of the most
reliable druggists in the country, but one of the best posted men on the topics
of the day and perhaps the best general authority in his town. Their stock of
drugs, medicines and druggists' sundries have been selected with the greatest
care and they have one of the neatest and best appointed business houses in the
city of Glasco.
Mr. Hare is a native of Iowa, born in 1854. His parents
are D.L. and Rebecca (Burk) Hare. His father was a farmer. Mr. Hare's mother
died in 1891, and his father married again in 1900 and resides in Glasco. The
Hares are of English origin and the Burks of German. Mr. Hare is the third child
of a family of eight children, all of whom are living. Two brothers and one
sister are residents of Cloud county; the others have found homes in various
states. Mr. Hare is a self-made and self-educated man. He was reared on a farm
and followed that pursuit until thirty years of age. During the period he should
have been in school they lived in Missouri, where everything was devastated as a
result of the Civil war. He gained his knowledge of book lore after he had
passed the age of twenty years. He realized more and more the need of an
education and by his personal efforts he succeeded in obtaining one. He was
seven years old when his parents left Iowa and settled in Andrew county,
Missouri. In March, 1871, he emigrated to Cloud county and settled on a farm in
the Solomon valley. In 1883 he came into Glasco and engaged in the hardware
business; five years later he erected the large stone business block now
occupied by R.G. Bracken's furniture store, where he remained until receiving
the appointment of postmaster in 1889, during the latter part of Cleveland's
administration, to succeed Noah Welch, resigned, and though a Democrat he
recommended Mr. Hare, who was appointed and served four and one-half years. When
Mr. Cleveland was elected to his second term Mr. Hare resigned and was succeeded
by Owen Day. In the meantime Mr. Hare had become associated with C.M. White in
the drug store located in the postoffice building. In 1892 he bought Mr. White's
interest in the firm and conducted the business until 1896, when he entered into
partnership with Dr. Brierley in their present business. They also own jointly
two very fine farms. One, the Captain Potts farm, is situated on the river, one
mile west and the other three and one-half miles west of Glasco. These farms are
both under high cultivation and improvement and are valuable estates.
Mr.
Hare was married in 1879 to Miss Margaret Hillhouse, a daughter of John
Hillhouse. Their family consists of three children, viz: Jeanette, a talented
and accomplished young woman, is a graduate from the Glasco high school and on
the fourth year of a collegiate course at Lindsborg. Charles is a trusted and
valuable employe of the Glasco State Bank. He has evidently pleased his
employers, as the length of time he has been with them (two years) signifies. He
is a graduate of the Glasco high school and one of the most popular young men in
the community. May, the youngest daughter, is a graduate of the Glasco high
school.
Mr. Hare is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and Knights of Pythias. He has attained his
good record through constant application and is an excellent business manager.
Mr. Hare took a correspondence course through the Chicago Institute of Pharmacy
and passed an examination before a board of examiners. He worked hard to
accomplish this end, often burning midnight oil, but was rewarded by a
satisfactory test of his qualifications. Mr. Hare is an agreeable, pleasant
gentleman, and with his esteemed family occupy one of the handsome homes of
Glasco and are among the most highly respected citizens of their town.
HARRISON, NELSON & COMPANY.
The Harrison, Nelson Grocery Company
is one of the leading business houses and one of the most up-to-date enterprises
in the city of Concordia and one that would do credit, both in magnitude and
character, to a much larger city. Their store contains everything that is good
to eat, and their manner of exhibiting goods appeals to the appetite of the
customer. The firm is composed of J.M. Harrison, William Harrison (a son) and
Walter Nelson, all of whom are exceptionally well qualified to cater to the
needs of the inner man, by furnishing all the delicacies of the seasons - staple
and fancy. The senior member, J.M. Harrison, has been a resident of Cloud county
since 1880, when he bought unimproved land four miles south of Concordia, paying
eight hundred dollars for it. He sold this land, which he had improved, six
years later and opened a general merchandise store in the little town of Rice,
and was also postmaster there. Mr. Harrison was very successful, having made two
farms from the proceeds of his business. He sold the rice store, came into
Concordia and in the year 1900 engaged in their present business, which was
formerly the McCrary stock of groceries. They removed the store to their present
stand in the Iron block. Their investment of seven hundred dollars each was
wisely expended; their annual sales now reaching forty thousand dollars, often
taking in from four to five hundred dollars in one day. The members of the firm
have each drawn out two thousand dollars. The room they occupy is twenty-six and
one-half feet in the clear by one hundred feet and is filled to the ceiling with
everything imaginable that is good to eat, and the most epicurean appetite could
be satisfied here. They employ four men steadily, with a larger force on busy
days.
J. M. Harrison is a native of the Hoosier state, born in 1849.
Concerning Mr. Harrison's war record there is a bit of interesting history which
gives expression to the patriotism he evinced in early life. He was ambitious
and sought for admission into the service of Uncle Sam twice ere he was
acccepted, owing to his extreme youth, but there were other things to be
considered in the estimation of Colonel Straight, one of the men who dug out of
Libby prison, for he remarked with considerable emphasis, "I would rather have
one little man than two drafted big men," and Mr. Harrison was taken into the
ranks of Company C, Fifty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, October 24, 1864, at
the age of fifteen years, and is the youngest veteran living in Cloud County.
Mr. Harrison's parents were William Henry and Mary A. (Hanna) Harrison. The
paternal ancestry are of the same lineage as the late ex-President Harrison. Our
subject's parents still live where they settled - when there were but a few
cabins where the beautiful city of Indianapolis now stands - in Noblesville,
Indiana. Mr. Harrison is the eldest of five sons, four of who are living,
himself being the only member of his family who emigrated westward. Mrs.
Harrison, before her marriage, was Miss Isabel Cochran. To their union ten
children have been born, only four of whom are living. Their eldest daughter,
Olive, the deceased wife of Arthur Carter, died, leaving a little son, now
fifteen years of age; he is with his father in Neosho county, Kansas. The second
daughter, Lutitia, is the deceased wife of Owen Davis, the station agent at
Rice; she left a little daughter, Estella, who is about eight years of age.
Hattie is the wife of Elmer Shanks and resides in Marshall, Oklahoma. William
Harrison is a member of the firm, bookkeeper and accountant. The son did not
need to start at the foot of the ladder as his father before him had to do, but
has grown up with the mercantile career, and being well adapted for the
business, all the chances for success are on his side. However, he took his
position in the firm without a dollar, but prospered with them. He was happily
married to Flossie, one of the estimable daughters of A.B. Pennock, in January,
1903, and owns his home, a handsomely furnished cottage. Gertrude is a member of
the Harrison & Messall millinery parlors, one of Concordia's recognized
headquarters for fashionable and attractive millinery. The youngest child is
Mabel, aged fifteen years. She is developing special musical talent and performs
well upon the piano. The family are members and attendants of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
Mr. Harrison is a Republican politically. He takes, an
interest in matters pertaining to the general welfare of the community and
especially in educational affairs.
Walter Nelson, the junior member of
the firm, enjoys the distinction of having been born and bred in Cloud county
and having been reared in the city of Concordia. His father, Andrew Nelson, was
associated with Mr. Benson, under the firm name of Benson & Nelson, and
established a blacksmith shop in Concordia soon after the founding of the town.
His parents, Andrew and Mary (Roswell) Nelson, are still residents of Concordia,
comfortably enjoying the returns of well-spent lives, having earned a
competency. Our subject was born December 12, 1878. He received a high school
education, graduating in 1897. He began his career as a clerk in the Concordia
grocery and later in the grocery department of H.N. Hanson's general
merchandising store. Young Harrison was employed in the former at the same time;
they were close friends and realized their fitness for business association, and
from this suggestion their present quarters developed and has proved
advantageous to all concerned. Mr. Nelson is a young man of fine ability and a
pleasing address that wins friends for him from people in every station of life,
and these traits, coupled with the trinity of energy. industry and spirit, will
make life a success. Mr. Nelson's parents are of Swedish birth. His mother's
family located in the settlement known as "Gottland."
Our subject is one
of three children, all sons: Albert is a mail clerk on the Burlington & Missouri
Railway, running between Kansas City and Omaha. The youngest, George Nelson, is
aged eight. Politically Mr. Nelson is a Republican. He is a member of the
Woodmen and Maccabee Orders.
GEORGE M. HARTWELL, M. D.
Dr.
Hartwell cast his lot with the destiny of Jamestown in the second year of its
birth, July 16, 1879, which was practically his first field in the medical
profession.
Dr. Hartwell is a native of Hancock county, Illinois, born in
1854 at the little station of Bowen, where he met with an accident (thrown from
a horse), which caused him the loss of a leg when about twelve years of age. He
received his earlier education at the village school of Bowen. In 1874, he with
several of his young companions, began reading medicine in the office of Dr.
Kelley, of Bowen, without any serious intentions of continuing. The others all
dropped out, but Dr. Hartwell proceeded to pursue the study of physics, and in
1876 entered the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he graduated March
27, 1878.
Within four months after arriving in Jamestown, he opened a
drug store, the town being illy supplied in that line. He has the only drug
store in the city at the present time.
The Hartwells are of Welch origin.
Dr. Hartwell's father was a native of New York, but in his early manhood moved
to Ohio and thence to Illinois, where he lived until 1876, when the family came
to Marshall county, Kansas. He died in Jamestown in 1897, Dr. Hartwell's mother
died when he was about four years of age. He is one of eight children, two of
the older brothers died of diseases in the army, brought on by exposure and
hardships.
Mrs. Hartwell was Miss Amelia Resing, of Pottawatomie county,
Kansas. Their family consists of two children, Eva, aged eleven and George, aged
nine. They lost a little son, Clarence, aged sixteen by accident in the winter
of 1900. He was hunting and was shot through the foot by the accidental
discharge of his gun. Lockjaw ensued and he died a week later.
Dr.
Hartwell is extensively interested in farming and stock raising. He has a farm
of one hundred and ninety acres near Jamestown, the Kiggan homestead, one of the
old farms of the county and one hundred and twenty acres one and one-half miles
west of Jamestown, in the Buffalo creek valley. Both of these farms are bottom
land. He has a pasture farm one mile south of Jamestown, where he keeps a herd
of about fifty head of native cattle; Shorthorn and Galloway breeds.
FRANCES HAY.
There are many avenues of business and employment open
to women, but the flour, feed and coal establishment conducted by Miss Frances
Hay, of Clyde, is rather out of the ordinary, but this intelligent young
business woman has demonstrated that good management is more to be desired and
more essential than the muscular strength of the opposite sex.
Miss Hay
embarked in this enterprise August 13, 1901, and has built up a lucrative trade.
She is a daughter of G.W. Hay, who was among the very early homestead settlers
of the Sibley neighborhood. During the Indian uprisings the family removed to
Iowa. Returning a year later Mr. Hay bought a pre-emption claim of a man named
Simon, one mile east of Clyde, where his family of five daughters grew to
womanhood. Their mother died while these children were young and their father
married again. By the second marriage there was one daughter and two sons. Their
father, G.W. Hay, died in 1887.
Clara, the eldest daughter, was one of
the early Cloud county teachers. She taught two years in the Clyde schools. She
is now Mrs. Miller, of Clifton. The other daughters are Eva, wife of W.L.
Brandon (see sketch). Ella, wife of L.B. Haynes, a harnessmaker of Salina,
Kansas, and Inez, wife of T.M. Brown, of Walsenburg, Colorado. Mrs. Brown has
clerked in several of the different stores in Clyde and for several years was
engaged in the millinery business in Hebron, Nebraska, and Ellsworth, Kansas.
She was married in June, 1902.
Miss Frances Hay's early educational
advantages were good and she held a position as assistant in the county clerk's
office during Charles Proctor's reign and in the district clerk's office with
Mr. Hostetler. She taught school successively for several years, beginning when
very young. She was one of the first corps of instructors in the Miltonvale
school building. In 1901 she did kindergarten work in Lincoln, Nebraska.
EDWARD R. HAYNES.
One of the old residents of Glasco, the first
operator and station agent, and proprietor of the first hotel in the town, is
E.R. Haynes, who located in Glasco in 1879. Mr. Haynes rode on the first train
that came through from Solomon. He was appointed station agent November 1, 1879,
and has held the position continuously until the present time. He had formerly
been in the employ of the railroad as agent at Medina, Jefferson county, Kansas.
Mr. Haynes is a native of Lorain county, Ohio, which borders on Lake Erie.
His father, Elijah Haynes, a blacksmith, was a native of Vermont. His paternal
grandfather, too old to become a soldier of the Revolutionary war, shouldered a
musket at the battle of Bennington, was wounded, and died as a result. The
Haynes were of English origin. In 1600 three brothers came to America; one
settled in Massachusetts, another in Virginia and the third one in Illinois. Mr.
Haynes' mother was Martha Stanton, born and reared in Penn Yan, New York. She
was an own cousin of Secretary Stanton, President Lincoln's secretary of war.
Her ancestors were of English extraction and settled in the state of New York in
an early day. Mr. Haynes was educated in the common schools of Ohio.
Soon
after attaining his majority Mr. Haynes enlisted in Battery B (which was later
merged with Battery K), Ohio First Regiment Artillery, serving two and one-half
years or until his services were no longer required. He participated in the
battle of Nashville. He did garrison work on the railroad from Nashville to
Sherman's Front, guarding the work and was in numerous skirmishes. While at
Chattanooga in 1864 Battery B was transferred to Battery K.
After the
close of the war Mr. Haynes took a year's course in the Commercial College of
Oberlin, Ohio. In September, 1868, he accepted the principalship of the North
Lawrence schools, and a year later became principal of the Medina schools. In
1871 he engaged in the mercantile business in Medina and subsequently performed
the duties of station agent in the same town. In November, 1879, he located in
Glasco, where, as before stated, he became agent, his duties consisting of
operator, express and station agent. He also opened the Haynes House, a stone
structure, the first hostelry in Glasco, and did a thriving business, trains at
that time stopping for meals.
Mr. Haynes was married to Miss Eliza Love,
of Bowling Green, Ohio, In 1870. She died November 18, 1895. To this union have
been born four children, viz: Mattie, wife of J.W. Mahoney, of Grand Island,
Nebraska, state agent for the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Portland,
Maine. They are the parents of three children, Wilber, Lewis and Susan. Mrs.
Mahoney was a popular Cloud county teacher before her marriage. Seymour R., mail
clerk on the Rock Island Railroad from Kansas City to Phillipsburg, Kansas.
Grace L., who assists her father in the office, was a student of Oberlin College
two years and took a course of music at Bethany College, Topeka. Lawrence, a
young man of sixteen years, is a student pursuing a classical course at Oberlin
College, Ohio.
Mr. Haynes is a Republican in politics and a prominent
member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Glasco. He is also an active
member in the Grand Army of the Republic post of Glasco.
JAMES W. HEAD.
The subject of this narrative is J.W. Head, of Glasco, a
retired farmer, lumberman and an old veteran of the Civil war. Although a born
southerner and his father once a slave owner, true to his convictions, Mr. Head
took up arms against the south. Some of his father's slaves are now living in
Kansas City, and in Nicodemus, Kansas.
Mr. Head was born in Scott county,
Kentucky, in 1849. His parents were James G. and Martha Ann (Sebree) Head. His
grandparents' place of nativity was the historical county of Culpeper, near the
Culpeper court house, where the Heads settled among the colonists of Virginia.
His grandfather emigrated to Kentucky when that state was in its infancy, and
where his son, J.G. Head, was born May 4, 1807. He was reared and married in
Scott county and here his family of eight boys and two girls were born, five of
whom are living, all in eastern Kansas, except the subject of this sketch.
Mr. Head's mother passed away when her children were yet young, but his
father kept them together and never married again. He died May 23, 1884, in the
seventy-seventh year of his age in Miami county, Kansas, where he emigrated as
early as 1858. He was a farmer by occupation.
Mr. Head received his early
education in the state of Kentucky. It was limited to a few terms in an old Iog
school house. They came to Kansas in the state's pioneer days, and when the war
broke out he enlisted in Company I, Fifth Kansas Cavalry, under Colonel Johnson,
who was killed at Morristown. After his death they were transferred to General
Powell Clayton's command, who was promoted to brigadier general for his bravery.
Mr. Head stood in the foremost rank of his regiment as a marksman and being a
good rider was made an orderly. He was held a prisoner at Little Rock three
months. He made his escape with others by digging out. They formed an
organization and planned an outlet. When named at roll call one morning it was
found they had disappeared. They were three weeks accomplishing this feat of
digging a twenty-seven foot tunnel, four feet in depth with an old door lunge.
Of the seventy who escaped, all went in the direction of Fort Scott and got
through in safety with the exception of Mr. Head and a comrade, who took another
route in the direction of Mississippi and were run down by blood hounds,
captured and returned to prison, after being out eleven days. They were only
kept a few days, however, until they were paroled. Mr. Head's regiment
participated in the battles of Helena and Pine Bluff. At the latter place
General Clayton and his forces of six hundred men held the fort against four
thousand confederates. The town was riddled with shot, shell and all sorts of
missiles. The brick court house was pierced with three hundred and twenty-five
balls. The building was afterward photographed. General Clayton seemed to have
led a charmed life, as on his spirited horse he galloped around, above and
before the breastworks, constantly exposed to the enemy's fire. The Fifth and
Seventh Kansas regiments pushed South and were in the midst of dangerous
warfare. in the battle of Helena, out of one hundred and seventy men only
sixteen evaded the enemy; twenty-three were taken prisoners, and the rest left
on the battlefield.
After the war Mr. Head resumed farming in Miami
county until 1881 when he came to Glasco and became associated with Charlie
Hatcher in the lumber yard, which they subsequently sold to the Chicago Lumber
Comparty. Since then Mr. Head and his sons have farmed together. In 1899 he
bought the handsome Parks residence property, one of the most imposing homes in
Glasco.
Mr. Head was married in 1869 to Sarah E. Hull, a member of one of
the old Kentucky families of Lexington. Mr. and Mrs. Head's family consists of
three children, two sons and a daughter. James R., the eldest son, is married to
Nellie, daughter of Ferd Prince, of Glasco. They are the parents of a little
daughter, the first grandchild in the Head family. The other children are Ivan
F. and Sarah F. In political principles Mr. Head is a Democrat. In bearing he is
a true Southerner, possessing that chivalrous and courteous manner that years in
the western country could not efface.
DAVID HELLER.
No man
is more justly entitled to space in these records of Cloud county than David
Heller. Sparsely as the country was settled it made a contribution of men to
Uncle Sam and among that number was Mr. Heller. He enlisted April 3, 1862, and
was mustered out March 5, 1865, serving three years. He was in four different
engagements, the most prominent of which were Cane Hill, and Prairie Grove. He
was the second treasurer of Cluod[sic] county and held that office two terms.
Was appointed captain of the militia by Governor Harvey, and was one of the
three commissioners under an act of the legislature making it their duty to
estimate the damages done by depredations of the Indians. It will be observed
that these elections and appointments were of a high order and were not
misplaced. He was always ready and willing to serve at the post of danger.
Whenever there was an excursion to be made on account of Indians David Heller
was sure to be among the number. His record is a proud one and worthy to be
handed down to posterity.
MOSES HELLER.
"Uncle Heller" as
he was known, was looked upon as the father of Clyde and surrounding country,
having been one of the first to erect his log cabin in the Republican valley. He
was among the first and ranked with the most prominent of the first settlers.
Coming west in so early a day and at an advanced age, proves him to have been a
man of great pluck and energy. He was a man of exceptional integrity and justly
enjoyed the confidence and respect of the whole community. He settled in Elk
township in the year 1800, when but few men had traversed this section, and
located where the beautiful little city of Clyde now stands. He enjoyed the
honor of being the first postmaster in Cloud county, a position he held until
the latter part of the 'seventies, receiving the appointment from Montgomery
Blair in 1864. Old age was the cause of his resignation. Prior to the
establishment of the postoffice at Clifton, he used to carry the mail from Clay
Center to Clyde in his hat, and distributed it among the settlers.
The
nearest postoffice was Manhattan, but Mr. Huntress, who was living in Clay
Center was interested with a business firm at Manhattan which took him there
every week; on his return he would bring all the mail for the settlers as far as
his house. Uncle Heller would go there after it, performing the trip most of the
time on foot, a distance of twenty-five miles. He deposited the mail in his hat
placed it on his head and started homeward, where the settlers were anxiously
awaiting his arrival. Considering these were war times his coming must have been
watched for with great eagerness. When asked if he received any compensation for
his trouble he remarked in the negative, adding, he was glad to go for nothing.
This service he performed for over two years. Having a son in the army from whom
he was always anxious to hear no doubt made the task much lighter.
Mr.
Heller was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1800; emigrated
to the state of Kansas in 1856, and to Cloud county in August, 1860. He was
among the three who were appointed county commissioners by the governor at the
organization of the county and was elected to the same office by the people of
the county at the next general election, and was made chairman of the first
board of county commissioners. Although not a member of the church he had a high
appreciation of Christain religion. His house was the first in the county thrown
open for public worship and also the first in which a Sabbath school was
established; in fact his house seemed to be the radiating center for everything
and everybody. Mr. Heller's house was a sort of gateway to all the old settlers
west of him and many a new comer has partaken of his hospitality. No one
entertained more strangers or fed more of the hungry than he. He was also a man
of great courage, which at one time was put to a severe test.
A company
of soldiers coming through on horse back planned to frighten him. They took
their places in single file, rushed toward the house on a run giving vent to a
war whoop. Mr. Heller thought of course they were Indians, seized his two six
shooters which he constantly kept ready for use, placed himself at the window
ready to pick off the redskins one by one, as they made their appearance over
the rise at the Elk creek bridge. When the first one put in an appearance Uncle
Heller saw his mistake and was so overjoyed that he met them with both weapons
cocked, forgetting to lay them down. The soldiers laughed and made merry, but
concluded that such indulgences might terminate seriously when dealing with such
characters as Uncle Heller. Mr. Heller is destined to live long in the memory of
all old settlers. His frank and genial countenance left an impression that time
can not easily efface.
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