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J. H. Chrisman spent the greater part of his youth in Laporte went to Missouri. Two years later he arrived in Marion county, county, Indiana, and was a young man of twenty years when the family
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where he has since remained and he has ever been numbered among the worthy and respected citizens of his part of the state. On the 22d of April, 1869, he was united in marriage to Miss Eliza A. Hodges, of Knoxville, Iowa, and they removed to a farm six miles east of the town, on the Pella road. Mr. Chrisman bent his energies to the development and improvement of that place and followed that occupation until nine years ago, when he removed to Knoxville and put aside the active cares of business life. He had brought his farm to a high state of cultivation, had added to it many modern acces- sories and conveniences, and as the result of his careful management had acquired a substantial competence as the years went by. To him and his wife were born four children : W. T., who is now living at Long Beach, California; Ora G., now the wife of M. R. Voorhees, of Kansas City, Missouri; Gertrude, at home; and James G. B., who is living on a farm in Knoxville township.
An important chapter in the life history of J. H. Chrisman is that which covers his service as a soldier of the Civil war. He enlisted as a member of Company A, Thirty-third Iowa Infantry, under Major C. B. Boydston, and was with that command on every campaign save the one to Little Rock. His military history is that of the Thirty-third Iowa and with his command he participated in many hotly contested engagements. Today there is scarcely a member of the old company remaining, four or five living in Knoxville or vicinity. His family have every reason to be proud of his war record, for he was among those who won for Iowa her splendid reputation in connection with the defense of the Union. Mr. Chrisman has adhered to the religious faith of the family. His moral standards are high and he has lived up to them. One who knows him well said : "His word is as good as his bond ; he is the soul of honor and the better one knows him the greater the respect and the warmer the friendship. His home life has been beautiful and satisfying and in it he has found his chief enjoyment."
J. B. CHRISMAN.
J. B. Chrisman is a well known farmer and stockman of Marion county, operating the old home farm that belonged to his father. He also owns and cultivates one hundred and ninety-seven acres adjoin- ing, in the east part of Knoxville township and also across the border in Clay township. Thus he operates altogether about five hundred
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acres of land, which he devotes to general agricultural pursuits and to stock-raising, making a specialty of Polled Angus cattle and Poland China hogs. He is a very energetic, enterprising young man, per- sistent, determined and capable, and in his business affairs displays splendid ability. He was born in Clay township, this county, on the 26th of January, 1880, and is a son of J. H. Chrisman, mention of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. He attended the public schools through the period of his youth and in vacations worked in the fields. The greater part of his life has been devoted to farming and success has attended his efforts. His methods have always been practical and he has ever kept abreast with the progress of the times, which is manifest as strongly in connection with agricultural inter- ests as in other phases of business activity.
On the 6th of April, 1904, Mr. Chrisman was united in mar- riage to Miss Mamie Blanche Gee, who was born in Knoxville township, February 7, 1881, a daughter of the late Amos and Saman- tha (Scott) Gee. Her father came to the middle west from Tomp- kins, New York. When a young man he removed to Mason county, Illinois, and there he enlisted in response to the country's call for troops, joining Company M, Second Illinois Cavalry, with which he served on active duty until he became ill. He was afterward in a hospital for some time and was then honorably discharged. In the spring of 1868 he came to Marion county, Iowa, taking up his abode in Knoxville township, where he carried on general farming to the time of his death. He passed away on the old homestead December 11, 1906, at the age of sixty-seven years, and there were many friends who deeply regretted his demise because of the sterling traits of character which he displayed and which endeared him to those with whom he was associated. He was twice married. In Illinois he wedded Miss Mary I. Knight, who died in Nebraska, March 15, 1866, leaving a daughter, Lucy, who has now passed away. On the 21st of March, 1869, Mr. Gee wedded Samantha Scott, who is now living on East Main street in Knoxville. They became the parents of nine children, of whom seven survive, as fol- lows: Mrs. J. B. Chrisman; James N., who is a resident of Texas; Mrs. Dora V. Noftsger, living in Knoxville township, this county; Mrs. Bessie I. Amsberry, also a resident of Knoxville township; George W., who makes his home in Raton, New Mexico; Ralph, of Knoxville township, this county; and Benjamin H., who lives at home with his widowed mother. Mr. and Mrs. Chrisman have two children, James Francis and Robert Amos, who are eight and four years of age respectively.
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Politically Mr. Chrisman is a stalwart republican, supporting the party which was the defense of the Union during the dark days of the Civil war and has always been the party of reform and ad- vancement. He and his wife are members of the Methodist church and their lives accord with its teachings. In all business affairs he is thoroughly trustworthy and at the same time is progressive and determined, so that he carries forward to .successful completion whatever he undertakes. He is today extensively engaged in farm- ing and stock-raising, about five hundred acres paying tribute to the care and cultivation which he bestows upon his fields. He'also has a large herd of Polled Angus cattle and many hogs of the Poland China breed and he has done much to improve and raise the stand- ard of stock handled in this county. His success is the merited reward of his labors and the good name which he bears is the legiti- mate result of a well spent and honorable life.
WATSON H. VANDERPLOEG.
Watson H. Vanderploeg is a native of this county and one of the most prominent younger business men in Pella. He is cashier of the Farmers & Merchants Bank and is also an attorney. He was born on the 24th of December, 1888, a son of R. and Pietje (Terpetra) Vanderploeg, natives of Holland and New York, respectively. The paternal grandfather was Dirk Vanderploeg, who brought his family to the United States, arriving at Pella, Iowa, on the 4th of July, 1857. He was a farmer by occupation and located upon land in Lake Prairie township but later removed to Summit township. His son, the father of the subject of this review, is president of the Farmers & Merchants Bank, which was organized in 1905, and is an important figure in the financial life of the city. His wife is a daughter of Watson Terpetra, a native of Holland, who in early manhood went to New York. Subsequently he came west with his family and arrived at Pella about 1857. He was a farmer by occupation. To Mr. and Mrs. R. Vander- ploeg have been born eight children: Mary C., the wife of Arie Vander Waal, a resident of Des Moines, Iowa; Delia, who became the wife of Simon De Haan; Anna, at home; Charles, a farmer living near Monroe, Iowa; Linnie, the wife of James Cochrane, a resident of Monroe; Margaret, at home; W. G., living in Knoxville; and Watson H., of this review.
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The last named completed the course in the public schools of Pella and then entered the Central University of Iowa, located there, and was graduated from that institution. He subsequently read law with a brother and in 1912 was admitted to the bar and has since practiced his profession here. However, part of his time has been taken up by other duties, as he is cashier of the Farmers & Merchants Bank of this place. He has already accomplished much and his keen intellect and splendid training presage yet greater achievement.
Mr. Vanderploeg is a member of the Baptist church and is an active worker in those movements which seek the betterment of his community. Politically he is a republican and fraternally he belongs to Pella Lodge, No. 55, F. & A. M .; and to the Knights of Pythias. Among his marked characteristics are initiative, sound judgment and energy that constantly impels to action and achievement, and these traits, together with a high sense of right and justice, have gained him the respect which is accorded him in business circles of Pella. His personal friends are many and hold him in the warmest regard.
JOHN A. WELCH.
John A. Welch was born in Paris, Edgar county, Illinois, No- vember 24, 1834, and was the fourth son and fourth child of a family of seven children. His father, John R. Welch, was born May 24, 1805, in Bath county, Kentucky, and died on the 18th of May, 1891, in Salem, Oregon. He was of English parentage. The mother of our subject, Matilda Lowry Welch, was of Irish and German de- scent. She was born on the 27th of November, 1807, and died in Butler, Missouri, November 28, 1880. The father moved with the family to Iowa in the year 1843, making the journey with ox teams. They located temporarily in Jefferson county but after a residence there of ten or eleven months moved on further west in May, 1844, and located in an unorganized part of the country, which was later organized and given the name of Marion county.
Here John A. Welch grew to manhood. During the summer of 1854 he with his brothers, James and Isaiah, drove cattle overland to California and was four months lacking a few days in making the trip. He worked in the gold mines most of the time in the central and northern part of the state for three years. In the spring of 1857 he with his brother Isaiah returned to Iowa by way of Panama and New York. James had previously returned by the same route. After
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reaching home he attended school and taught school alternately until the commencement of the Civil war in 1861.
On account of a war scare along the southern border of the state he with nearly one hundred other men from Marion county volun- teered their services to aid others from different parts of the state to repel the invaders. On arrival at the war threatened district the ex- pected invaders had returned south. After a reconnoissance lasting four weeks through northwestern Missouri without a conflict, all parties returned to Iowa and were disbanded without the loss of a man. Soon after returning home from this expedition Mr. Welch enlisted and was regularly mustered into the United States service in G, Company Fifteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. After nine months' service he was discharged at Corinth, Mississippi, on account of disability.
About one year after returning home from the army he engaged in the mercantile business in Attica in the southeast part of the coun- ty, with J. M. Cathcart as a partner, under the firm name of Cath- cart & Welch. A few years later, in 1872, a change of location was made to Knoxville, the county seat, where a mercantile partnership was formed with D. T. Welch, and they did business under the firm name of Welch & Welch. From this time on he was in business in one way and another in Knoxville for ten years. In 1882 he moved to Burrton, Harvey county, Kansas, where he resided for twenty- six years, during which time he was engaged in mercantile, banking or lumber business, at the end of which time he retired and removed to Hutchinson, Kansas, where he now resides at 620 North Main street.
A few days after Mr. Welch had volunteered his services to the United States, he was married to Mary E. Haines, October 22, 1861. She was of Welsh and Scotch lineage and of Quaker parentage, born in New Jersey, January 27, 1840. Both are now living and have passed their fifty-third wedding anniversary.
INDEX
Amos, C. II.
18
Cooper, Sampson 237
Amos, C. J.
358
Core, Reuben, Sr. 123
Amos, G. H.
265
Craig, Thompson 116
Amos, J. M.
228
Crew, W. F. 255
Anderson, Allen 251
35
Culbertson, Cambridge 192
Andrews. W. F.
148
Cummings, E. Il. 256
Avery. J. W
274
Cunningham, J. D. 15
Ayer-, J. A. 365
Curtis, M.
363
Bane, Walter 246
Daniels, W. H. 173
Banks, W. A.
161
Davis, A. A. 338
Batten, L. D.
303
Davis, E. J. S. 377
Beach, B. R .. 249
Davis, F. (). 172
Beaver, A. M. 343
De Kock. Stephanus 389
Debout, J. N. 94
Dennis, Eugene 373
Beem, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. 126
Derry, G. W.
105
Bellamy, J. S. 283
Doughman, N. Il
258
Douglass. J. B 49
Durham, J. P 90
Eliott, D. B. 288
Elliott, F. D.
390
Braam, John, Jr.
16
Bradey, I. W.
59
Brennan, C. M. 266
Bridgen, Joseph 99 Bridgman, H. L. 177
Fee, J. F.
61
Fergus. Clinton 178
Finarty, J. W 234
Fisk, H. M. 157
223
Flanagan, W. P
86
Fowler, W. II.
224
Free. J. W.
58
French, J. T
320
Fry. M. D. 103
Fultz. T. G. 254
Gates, D. C. 395
Gesman, N. J 362
Gilson, T. G. 276
Goldizen, Verna Mae. 372
Grant, F. P. 137
Gregory, T. R.
120
Clark, A. M. 100
Clark, Frank 260
366
Guaranty Bank
156
Clark, J. L.
353
Cline. J. R. 248
218
Gustin, G. L. 183
Cole, C. N. 279
134
Hammond, Jaeob 144
Hammond. . I. A. 150
Hanna, W. R. 108
Conrey, H. H.
231 Hardman, C. L 238
425
Griffith, S. R. 54
Grubb, Clarenee 189
Gullion, Thomas 162
Gullion, William 286
Cole, T. R., Sr.
Collins, A. W. 313
Collins, S. L. 356
346
Bybee. L. L. 293
Bye, E. P
7
Camp, .I. H. 382
Carpenter, F. F 166
Carruthers, Frank 216
Casey, W. J. 13
Chambers, J. 1. 80
Chambers, Zephanial 312
Chesunt. Henry 57
Chrisman, J. B. 419
Chrisman. J. II. 417
Citizens National Bank. 348
Elliott, W. V. 330
Fee, G. W. 270
Brobst, A. B .. 212
Buffington, J. F 17
Butcher, Osa
65
Butterfield, G. L.
Fitzgerald, J. H
Bittenbender, J. W 210
Bos, C. N .. 232
Bousquet, L. F 191
Bingaman, G. H. 402
Boyd, J. W. . 341
Elliott, J. B. 76
Clark, G. D.
Cloe, Frank
Crouch, C. N. 125
Andrews, Hiram
426
INDEX
Harkin, Myles
394
Mitten, J. C .. 152
Harrington, C. M.
370
Molesworth, Alfred
Harsin, J. D 400
Monroe, F. A. 306
Hart, (. K. 186
Moon. W. H
80
Hartley, J. A. 295
Morgan, J. L
20
Morris, A. J.
41
Mullen, T. I
272
Harvey. H. W.
331
Hendricks, Udell 2215
Murr, A. S.
275
Ilestwood, Samuel 317
407
Hodgson, Laban
Neal, S. S.
196
Hogate, E. C ..
245
Hollingshead, G. S
154
Horsman, Harrison
350
Hunt, Daniel 380
Hunt, Emerson
384
Hunt, J. W.
398
Hunt, Leroy 387
Hyer, W. E.
297
James, C. E.
72
Parsons, B. L.
180
Pascoe. 1. . ] 185
166
Pella Overall Co.
153
Jolinson, II. F. 195
149
Jones, Price
291
Jordan, A. D.
198
Jordan, E. R. 111
Jordan, Frederiek 340
Reaver, F. V. 349
Reynolds, A. D.
268
Reynolds, J. M.
78
Richards, John
281
Richards, Joshua
263
Richards, J. A.
305
Richards, William
32
King, G. L ..
369
Kinkead, Lemuel
326
Kirk, J. W. 44
Roberts, J. J.
290
Roberts, W. L.
280
Robek, J. T
26
Rogers, J. D.
392
Roorda, E. R
269
Rose, G. H.
87
Rose. T. E.
1]
Rouze. A. F.
67
Rouze, Homer
170
Loynachan, Edward
355
Lyman, J. B. 142
Lyon, W. H
84
McClain, J. W., Jr. 203
Savage, W. B ..
81
Schlotterback, J. D 414
Schmidt, G. W 139
Scott, C. J. 342
Sharon, C. C. 230
404
Simmons, Jesse
187
Spiker, W. A
250
Marsh, A. B.
121
Marsh, Daniel
336
Marsh, J. P.
83
Marsh, S. J.
112
Mathews, B. A
28
May, J. M ...
352
Mentzer, JJ. F 396
Metz, John
95
Thomassen, G. J 184
Mickle, J. M
267
Miller, N. F. 51
van der Ploeg. John 311
Vander Ploeg, W. G. 22~
97
Porter, R. I.
325
Keables, H. F 300
Kelly, J. W. 214
176
Kelly, W. A. 347
Kendall, C. C. 413
Rietveld, John
316
Rinehart, JJ. O.
14
Rinehart, W. E.
188
Knoxville Express 141
Knoxville National Bank 151
Kuyper, A. J. 324
Kuyper, Arnoldus 386
Kuyper, P. 11. 393
Leiby. S. L. 253
Lowman, W. Il.
Rouze, II. N.
34
Konze. J. F. 361
Ruckman, E. B 167
Sandiland. W. A 204
McClain, J. W., Sr. 344
McCoy, Edmund 130
McMillan, John 233
McMillan, T. T. 242
McTaggart, D. A
220
MeVay, E. W
190
Maddy, F'. A ..
209
Manhardt, J. W
308
Stapp, Il. T
31
Steele, G. A. 302
132
Stiernemann, Jacob
Stilwell, J. G.
75
Stout, G. A. 298
Strond, W. H. 217
Teter, Samuel 287
Mitchell, J. E. 102
Osborn, E. M. 296
Overton, A. S.
158
Overton. Tyler 309
Owen. B. W
416
Park, L. ES .. 335
Jenkins, Joshua 24
Jenkins, Stephen 138
Johnson, E. A. 159
Pella's Weekblad
136
Jones, F. G.
Phelps, Burr
316
Porter, C. A.
Hodgson, I. R.
Neal. I. A. 412
135
Neiswanger, T. J 379
Norris, J. W. 226
Ilarvey, A. L. 208
llarvey, Edward
118
Munsell. A. L 27
Sherwood, F. ]]
Klein, A. T. 89
Kelly, R. P.
Pauls Lumber Co.
INDEX
427
Vanderploeg, W. H.
421
Welch, T. E.
315
Van Gorp, P'. Il.
403
Welsher, Ashlie
114
Van Hemert, JJohn
334
Whitlatch, Charles
115
Van Houweling, A. B. .
50
Whitlatch, George
174
Van Spanckeren, B. H.
122
Whitlateh, W. J.
244
Varenkamp, E. C.
275
Williams, J. F
107
Verros, Mathys
243
Wilson, W. J
374
Vriezelaar, J. B
42
Wren, M. M ..
406
Wright, J. R.
241
Wagner. Daniel
332
Wright, J. W.
5
Walker, J. J.
205
Wright, O. L.
63
Walker, J. U.
53
Wright, O. P.
47
Ward, H. W.
98
Young, J. H.
68
Way, C. O.
36
Young, W. A.
10
Way, Seth
409
Welch, John A
422
Zin, George
261
DEC 12 1947
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