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At the age of twenty-two years Mr. Doggett was united in mar- riage in Douglass township to Miss Ellen Rebecca Ullem, who has in- deed been to him a faithful companion and helpmate on the journey of life. She is a lady who possesses many excellent characteristics and is highly esteemed for her good qualities of heart and mind. She was born in Monroe county, but was reared and educated in Appanoose
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county, and is a daughter of John Ullem, whose birth occurred in Indi- ana, March 13, 1826. He was one of the four children of Jacob Ullem, a native of Germany, and the latter had a brother Josiah, who served in the Mexican war. Jacob Ullem was united in marriage to Jerusha A. Stewart, and their son John was reared after his thirteenth year by Harley Greenwood, a prominent man. In 1848 John Ullem came to Iowa and two years later made the overland trip to California with ox teams, being upon the road for five months, during which time he met the usual experiences incident to traveling across the plains in those days. At length he reached his destination in safety, and after two years spent in the mines of California he returned to Iowa by way of the Isthmus, bringing with him a good sum of money which he had secured in the far west. In 1850 he came to Monroe, later moving to Appanoose county. In Van Buren county he had married Phebe M. Cook, a native of Indiana, and a daughter of Jacob Cook. She died at the age of forty years. At her death Mrs. Ullem left the following chil- dren : Mrs. Lydia C. Morrison, now deceased ; Mrs. Doggett ; Hannah Jane White, living in Centerville; Jerusha Ann; Phebe Darthuley. the wife of Gilmore Doggett; Oliver Cook: Mary Gertrude; Lewis Harley; and Leila Addie, all of the last six being deceased; John Josiah, of Appanoose county; Frances Matilda, who has also passed away; and Benjamin Richard. For his second wife the father of these children chose Susan Hockett, and by this marriage there was one son, James N. His third wife bore the maiden name of Harriet Vought, and they had no children. The father was a successful man and good manager and became the possessor of a fine farm and excellent property. His life was ever upright and honorable, and he therefore won the con- fidence and unqualified esteem of those with whom he came in contact.
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To Mr. and Mrs. Doggett were born seven children: Charles Edward; James Harley; Leonard Ullem; Nellie Jane, the wife of F. W. Hollingsworth, of Putnam county, Missouri; Darthuley May ; Daisy Ellen; and Farrie Myrtle. The children have all been provided with good educational privileges, fitting them for life's practical duties.
Mr. Doggett's landed possessions now aggregate four hundred and sixty-five acres, and his place is one of the finest farms of the county. In boring a well on Mr. Doggett's farm five veins of coal were passed through, one six-foot vein, one five-foot and two three-foot and one of twelve inches, all at a depth of less than two hundred feet. The large and well built residence is tastefully furnished, and in the rear stands a big barn and other substantial outbuildings. In the orchard are annually gathered fine varieties of apples and other fruits and the meadows and pasture lands furnish feed for the stock through the months of summer and through the winter season. There is also a wood lot upon the farm and rich fields of grain, from which Mr. Dog- gett annually harvests good crops. He started out in life on his own account with a cash capital of but thirty dollars, and to-day is num- bered among the substantial residents of his community, owing to his unfaltering energy and the capable assistance of his estimable wife. In politics he is a stanch Democrat, and both Mr. and Mrs. Doggett are loyal members of the Christian church.
DANIEL GLICK.
For more than a quarter of a century Daniel Glick has resided in Appanoose county and his home is now located in Douglass township, where he has a good farm. He was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, on
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the 2Ist of August, 1843, and is a son of Isaac Glick, whose birth oc- curred in Pennsylvania. The grandfather, Daniel Glick, was of Penn- sylvania Dutch parentage, coming of a family noted for reliability in business and honor in all life's relations. He served his country as a soldier in the war of 1812. Isaac Glick, after arriving at years of ma- turity, was united in marriage to Luvina Boyer, who was born in the Keystone state of Pennsylvania parentage. Three children graced this marriage: John W., who is now deceased; Daniel; and Louis, who was a soldier of the One Hundred and Twentieth Indiana Infantry during the Civil war and is now living in Missouri. The mother died in Indiana when her son Daniel was but six years of age, and later the father married again and had three children by that union: Isaac M., Malissa and Emma. Mr. Glick passed away in Carroll county, Mis- souri, when sixty-eight years of age. He had devoted his entire life to agricultural pursuits, had given his political support first to the De- mocracy and later to the Republican party, and had held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, to which he contributed generously.
Daniel Glick, whose name introduces this review, obtained his edu- cation in the schools of Indiana. He was quite young at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war, but in response to the call of President Lincoln for six hundred thousand men he joined the Twelfth Indiana Infantry, enlisting at Columbus, under Colonel William Link, who re- ceived his mortal wound at the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, at which time Colonel Williams took command of the regiment. The captain of Mr. Glick's company was George Trotter, a brave and gallant officer. Our subject served for two years and eleven months, performing every duty without question, knowing that the first obligation which rests upon a soldier is to obey orders. He participated in many battles and
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skirmishes, including the engagements at Richmond, at Missionary Ridge and at Chickamauga. The regiment was first with General John A. Logan's corps, and later Mr. Glick went upon the celebrated march from Atlanta to the sea under General Sherman. He took part in the battles of Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain and Ezra Church. At Jackson, Mississippi, he suffered a sunstroke, and later, on account of other ail- ments, he had to go to the hospital at Rome, Georgia, where he re- mained from June until September. He then joined his regiment at Atlanta and afterward marched with his command to Savannah. Later he was in the battles of Beaufort, North Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, and Bentonville, and marched on to Petersburg, Virginia, and to Richmond, proceeding thence to Washington, D. C., where he took part in the grand review, the gallant Twelfth Indiana leading the parade on that memorable occasion. Mr. Glick was honorably discharged at the close of the war and returned to his home with his regiment, which had gone out thirteen hundred strong and came back with only three hundred, the graves of the others having been made in the soil of Ten- nessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia. They had marched six thousand miles and participated in twenty battles and many skirmishes.
In 1865 Mr. Glick removed from Indiana to Missouri and was married on the 29th of December, 1869, in Carroll county, Missouri, to Martha J. Henamen, who was a successful teacher of that county and a lady of culture and refinement. She was born in Belmont county, Ohio, a daughter of John and Martha (Good) Henamen. Her father was born near Hamburg, Pennsylvania, and died at the age of eighty- four years, but her mother is living in Centerville, Iowa, at the age of eighty-five years. The Henamen family came to Appanoose county,
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Iowa, in 1851, and after living here for nineteen years removed to Car- roll county, Missouri. Our subject and his wife have had three sons and seven daughters, namely: Harry E., Mrs. Stella McDonald, Mrs. Nannie B. Wells, Mary Edna, Frank R., Fannie B., Erma H., Eva Fern, Mina Lucile and John W., but the last named died at the age of eight years.
In 1876 Mr. Glick came to Appanoose county from Missouri, and he has here a good farm of forty-one acres in Douglass township. This is well fenced and he has erected a new house and upon the place is a substantial barn. The land is rich bottom land, bordering on Snyder creek. Everything about the place is indicative of the progressive and practical spirit of the owner. In political views Mr. Glick is a Repub- lican, and he has served on the school board in this locality. He belongs to the Free Methodist church, in which he has served as class leader and steward, and he is a friend of temperance, morality and education.
HUGH E. WILKINSON.
Not far from Cincinnati, Iowa, on mail route No. 3, is a cozy and attractive farm, consisting of one hundred and twenty acres of highly improved and fertile land. Everything on and about this farm indicates thrift and good management. All the modern improvements in the way of machinery and appropriate agricultural architecture assure the visitor that a progressive and up-to-date farmer has the management of things on that place. Closer inspection will show that the dwelling house is equipped with a telephone, which places the manager in quick touch with the county seat and surrounding towns, while Uncle Sam's mail carrier stops at the door every day to deliver newspapers and letters. Such is
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one of the prettiest places to be seen in a state famous for its fine farms and ideal homes. Inquiry elicits the information that the happy owner of this "little farm well tilled" is Hugh E. Wilkinson, and it is the object of this biography to tell the reader something about him. He is descended from a combination of English and Irish joined in matri- monial alliance. Dr. Thomas Wilkinson, who was born and bred in England, in early life met and married in Ohio an Irish lady by the name of Ann Murphy, and this union of natives of two countries so hostile produced no evil results, as "they lived happily ever after." They made their home in Dayton, Ohio, where Dr. Wilkinson prac- ticed medicine a few years, but in 1856 he removed to Appanoose county, Iowa, secured a farm in Franklin township and there spent all the remainder of his days. The Doctor was a Presbyterian in religion, while his wife adhered to the doctrines promulgated by the Baptist church. He lived to the rather advanced age of ninety-one years and died in 1901, just a year after his wife, who passed away in 1900 when eighty-five years old. Their only children were William M. and Hugh E., the former of whom is now living in the old home place in Franklin township.
Hugh E. Wilkinson, the second son, was born at Dayton, Ohio, June 5. 1853, and was just three years old when his parents trans- ferred the scene of their operations to Iowa. He grew up in Appa- noose county and received good educational advantages at the common schools in Franklin township, the high school at Centerville and the academy at College Springs, Iowa. As soon as he laid aside his books he engaged in farming, and this has ever since been the regular occu- pation of his life. His Iowa residence, however, was interrupted by a western sojourn of ten or twelve years beyond the Missouri river.
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While at Newton, Kansas, where he lived several years, he met and married Phœbe J., daughter of John and Sarah Phillips, residents of that place. He went from Kansas to Colorado, where he remained until 1897, and then returned to his old home in Iowa, from which he has never since departed. How comfortable he is now fixed, and how well he has been doing, is sufficiently emphasized in the opening paragraph of this biographical sketch. Of Mr. Wilkinson's four children, two. Anna and Thomas P., are living, and the other two, Harry E. and Fred WV .. have joined the great majority. In politics he is a Republican, in religion a Methodist, and fraternally a member of the Masons, and he and his wife and their eldest daughter are members of the Order of the Eastern Star.
W. F. CALHOUN.
WV. F. Calhoun, the well known proprietor of the Lone Elmi stock farm and one of the most successful agriculturalists of Chariton town- ship. his home being on section 17, came to Appanoose county in 1874. and has since been prominently identified with its upbuilding and devel- opment. He was born near Salem in Columbiana county, Ohio, on the 17th of April, 1852, and comes of a good family, noted for intelligence, industry and honesty. His father. David Bell Calhoun, was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, in 1819, and was a son of James Alex- ander Calhoun, who was of Scotch-Irish descent. Our subject's an- cestors were devout members of the Presybterian church and were early settlers of western Pennsylvania. From that state his grandfather re- moved to Indiana, where his last days were passed. He was a soldier of the war of 1812.
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David B. Calhoun grew to manhood in his native state and re- ceived a good education during boyhood. On reaching man's estate he married Miss Margaret B. Fife, who was also a native of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, but was reared in Washington county, that state. Her people came originally from the highlands of Scotland, though her father, William Fife, spent his entire life in the Keystone state, dying in Washington county. In early life David B. Calhoun taught school and also engaged in clerking in a store. For a time he made his home in Wheeling, West Virginia, and on coming west in 1874 located in the northern part of Appanoose county, and in 1892 moved to Avery, Monroe county, Iowa, where he died October 25, 1894, honored and re- spected by all who knew him. In religious faith he was a Covenanter and in politics was a Jacksonian Democrat, holding office during his residence in Ohio. His widow, who was to him a faithful companion and helpmeet, still survives her husband and now makes her home in Franklin township, Monroe county, near Iconium. In the family of this worthy couple were seven children, of whom W. F. Calhoun is the eldest. The others are J. A., a resident of Monroe county, Iowa; John B., of Decatur county, this state; Mrs. Mary J. Kingery, of Brighton, Iowa; C. C., of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Matthew, deceased; and Lee, who died in childhood.
W. F. Calhoun spent the first thirteen years of his life in his native state and then accompanied his parents on their removal to northern Indiana. Later his home was near Joliet, Will county, Illinois, and from there he removed to Putnam county, Indiana, settling near Green- castle. His education was obtained in the schools of Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, where he was fitted for the teacher's profession. In 1874 he came to Appanoose county, Iowa, where he commenced teaching two
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years later, being thus employed through eight winter terms with good success. Since then he has given his attention exclusively to his farm- ing and stock-raising interests. He is now the owner of a valuable farm of four hundred and fifty-five acres, known as the Lone Elm stock farm, which is divided into fields of convenient size by well kept fences, and improved with a good residence, barn and other outbuildings for the shelter of grain and stock. He raises a high grade of cattle, which he finds quite profitable.
On the 6th of November, 1877, Mr. Calhoun married Miss Hen- rietta Elizabeth Free, who was born, reared and educated in this county. Her father, John Free, a prominent stockman of Chariton township, is one of the pioneers of this county and one of its largest land owners. He was born in North Carolina in 1830, a son of William and Sarah (Alfred) Free, who were natives of South Carolina and died in Indiana. From that state John Free came to Iowa at an early day and here he has steadily prospered until he is now the owner of about sixteen hundred acres of land, mostly valley land, on which are good and substantial farm buildings, though his first home in this state was a log cabin, six- teen by sixteen feet. He raises a large number of cattle and horses and has been remarkably successful in all his undertakings. In 1854 he married Harriet Sheeks, a native of Indiana, and to them were born eleven children, seven of whom are still living, and they also have four- teen grandchildren. During the Civil war Mr. Free enlisted, in Aug- ust, 1862, in Company F. Thirty-sixth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, under the command of Captain Vermillion, and was in the service for three years, being a prisoner at Camp Ford, Tyler, Texas, for nine months of that time. When hostilities ceased he was honorably discharged and returned home. He is a supporter of the Republican party and a man
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of prominence in the community where he resides. Mr. and Mrs. Cal- houn have five children : Harley Z., a mechanic and farmer, married Miss Laura Jennison, November 5, 1902; Lori Garfield, one of the popular teachers of this county; Lillie May, also a popular and success- ful teacher ; Ina Osa and Sylvia Emily.
Our subject, his wife and oldest daughter are members of the Christian church, and no family of Chariton township stands higher in public esteem. By his ballot Mr. Calhoun supports the men and measures of the Republican party, and for thirteen years most efficiently and satisfactorily served as a member of the school board in his town- ship. He is a well informed man and is hospitable and jovial in dispo- sition.
BLAIR STEVENSON.
The family to which the above named belongs was contributed to Iowa in its formative period by the old Keystone state, which sent forth such swarms of younger citizens to the western part of our country. Henry Stevenson, who was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, March 20, 1802, was the son of poor parents, and as he grew up had to work hard for a livelihood. In his earlier years his occupation was that of a woodchopper, but later he abandoned this rather exacting pur- suit for that of farming. He married Sarah Blair, a daughter of one of his neighbors, whose birth occurred in October, 1797, and after this event lived some years in his native state, but in 1845 moved with his family to Darke county, Ohio, where he rented and cultivated a farm for six years. In 1851 they went to Wapello county, Iowa, where an- other place was rented until 1856, and then a final move was made to Appanoose county to the farm at present occupied by their son, where
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they lived until their deaths, which occurred respectively in 1885 and 1880.
Blair Stevenson was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, Janu- ary 17, 1834, and he was next to the youngest in a family of eight children, four of whom are living. He was eleven years old when his parents moved west, and the frequent changes of residence which sub- sequently took place were not conducive to regular education such as is obtained in schools. In fact, his training consisted principally of the hard work he had to do on the various farms rented or owned by his father, but all this came in good play when he himself assumed the burden of managing a farm. On March 24, 1864. he was married in Wapello county to Louise White, a native of Gallia county, Ohio, who came to Iowa with her parents when two years old. Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson have seven children: Sarah Jane, wife of E. H. Streepy; Laura Belle; Mrs. Emma Barlett; Mrs. Minnie Hutchison; Walter; Mrs. Myrtle Fox; and Ella. Though he still resides on the home farm, Mr. Stevenson sold the place to his son-in-law, Mr. Streepy.
JONAS SUTTON.
In the earlier years of the nineteenth century there lived in the isolated mountain section of western Virginia a young man named Cornelius Sutton. He was born in Pendleton county, of poor parents, and was himself of the class who are compelled to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brows. When still a mere lad, so great were the necessities of the family, that he was compelled to become a "bound boy," and spent many weary years of drudgery learning the tanner's trade. He mastered it, however, and when he became a journeyman
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went into the business regularly and followed it many years as a means of livelihood. In the course of time he felt able to take a wife, as, for- tunately, poverty is no bar to matrimony, and his choice of a life com- panion fell upon one of the neighborhood girls named Ellen Johnson. Shortly after his marriage Cornelius decided to move to the nearby county of Harrison, where he changed from tanning to farming, and from that on to the end was engaged in agricultural pursuits. The exact date of his death is not given, but it is known that his good wife did not long survive him, and the two sleep side by side in a lonely cemetery of West Virginia. This worthy couple became the parents of eleven children, most of whom have long since passed away, there being at present only three survivors of this once large family. One of these is the well known farmer and citizen who now lives in retirement near Moulton, Iowa.
Jonas Sutton, one of the older children of his father Cornelius, was born in Highland county, West Virginia, January 1, 1832, and was reared to manhood on the farm to which the family removed in his infancy. Schools were few and far between in West Virginia in those days, and farmers' boys had little opportunity for what they called "book learning." Young Sutton, like the rest of them, got his educa- tion by the hard licks necessary to make rough land produce, and he learned early the stern but useful lesson that there is no success without labor. Jonas Sutton had reached his twenty-ninth year before he felt able to marry, but in 1860 was united in the holy bonds with Sarah Jane Robinson, one of the industrious and deserving young women of Harrison county. They remained in their native state during the whole period of the Civil war, though the Virginias at that time were not very desirable places of abode, and after the conflict was over, with its waste
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and ruin, Mr. and Mrs. Sutton wisely concluded that they could better their fortunes by moving far towards the setting sun. It was in 1865 that this journey was entered upon, and it did not conclude until Mr. Sutton and his wife "drew rein" in Appanoose county, Iowa. There they located on a tract of land which later became widely known as the old Sutton homestead, situated in the most desirable section of the county, in the southwest part of Moulton. The land was rich, Mr. Sutton was industrious and an excellent manager, Mrs. Sutton was a good housekeeper, and with these elements present the statement almost naturally follows that success and comfort and finally wealth waited upon the immigrants from Virginia. Between his fine crops and fine stock, both of which he raised in abundance, Mr. Sutton found himself in easier circumstances almost every year, and when finally he felt like retiring he had an elegant home in which to spend the evening of his days. He cultivated his farm from the time of his arrival until the fall of 1902, a period of thirty-seven years, and at the end of that time was the owner in fee simple, without mortgage or obligation of any kind, of three hundred and seventy-five acres of the finest land in Appanoose county. After the death of his good wife, however, which occurred in April, 1902, the old place looked lonely to Mr. Sutton, and the next fall he took up residence with his daughter, Mrs. Florence Peterson, at her hospitable home, two and one-quarter miles west of Moulton. Here he takes life easy, avoids worry of all sorts, and has a kind greeting for all friends, who are quite numerous, as Jonas Sutton is one of the popular as well as one of the substantial men of Appanoose county. Besides the daughter with whom he resides, his other children are G. W. Sutton, who lives five miles west of Moulton, and Mrs. Letta Swartz, whose residence is in the same neighborhood. Mr. Sutton has
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long been connected with the Methodist Episcopal church, and it is needless to add that his social and religious life is guided by the same moral bearing and regard for the well-being of others that have always characterized his conduct in business affairs.
HERMAN L. AND WILLIAM KIRCHMAN.
Herman L. Kirchman comes of one of those old German families which seem fast rooted in the soil and have derived their elemental strength from the rugged land of their birth. In the very first century of modern history, when the world was just awaking from the sleep of the middle ages, we find members of the house engaged in the great work of the universities; for since 1535 some representative of the family has been a professor in one of the universities, as was the father of our subject. Herman was the third of his father's twelve children and was born in the kingdom of Prussia on March 28, 1839. He re- ceived his education in the university in which his father was professor and in the great technical school at Kiel, Germany, learned the trade of machinist. He became an engineer on one of the ocean steamers and was thus employed for three years. During one of his trips to the United States the Civil war broke out, and at the first call for volun- teers he enlisted in a New York company of volunteers, all of whom, however, deserted, with the exception of himself and a few others, who were transferred to Company K, Eleventh New York Infantry; after serving for one year he was honorably discharged.
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