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Having thus assumed the responsibilities of a home Mr. Barr imme- diately removed with his bride to Page county, Iowa, where he has lived
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to the present time. He purchased his farm of one hundred and seventy- five acres, one hundred and twenty acres of which is located on section 35, Nodaway township, while the balance is located on section 3, Harlan township, within two miles of Clarinda. When Mr. Barr took possession of this property there were but forty acres fit for cultivation, the remainder being covered with timber. He cleared the land, made all of the improve- ments, including a good country residence, barn and other outbuildings, and the place is now known as the Hillsdale Stock Farm. In addition to carrying on general farming and dairying Mr. Barr also raises thorough- bred shorthorn cattle and Percheron and French draft horses, having twenty- two head at the present time. He also raises and feeds cattle on quite an extensive scale and in all departments of his business is meeting with suc- cess. In addition to his home farm he also has one hundred and sixty acres of pine and oak timber in Polk county, Arkansas. All that he now owns has been acquired through his economy and careful management, for he started in the business world like most young men, without capital.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Barr has been blessed with three sons and one daughter. Henry E., Frank E., Louis E. and Lillian P., all still under the parental roof. Mr. Barr is a republican in politics but finds little time for active participation in public affairs. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Clarinda, while his fraternal rela- tions connect him with the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a man of influence in the community in which he has so long made his home and today occupies a notable position among the farmers and stock raisers of southwestern Iowa.
CHARLES BEAUCHAMP.
Charles Beauchamp, a well known farmer and stock-raiser of Amity township, is the owner of an excellent farm of one hundred and twenty acres on section 14. He was born in Davis county, Iowa, on the 16th of June, 1864, his parents being Nathan and Mary Alvira ( Mallory ) Beauchamp, the former of German lineage and the latter of Yankee stock. In the late '50s they removed from the vicinity of Terre Haute, Indiana, to Davis county, Iowa, where the father purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty acres. The year 1876 witnessed their arrival in Page county, Iowa, the family home being established on a farm two and a half miles east of Clarinda. On taking up his abode in this county Nathan Beauchamp purchased a tract of land comprising forty-nine acres and later bought forty acres more adjoining. It was all covered with timber and he had to clear a site on which to erect his dwelling. A man of determined spirit and un- faltering energy, he resolutely set to work and as the years passed by brought the fields under a high state of cultivation and improvement, con- tinning to make his home on this farm until called to his final rest. He became well known as a most enterprising and progressive citizen of the
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community and his demise, which occurred on the 25th of December, 1899. was the occasion of deep and widespread regret. At the time of his death he had attained the age of sixty-eight years, five months and four days. His widow still survives and at the present time makes her home in Clar- inda, Page county.
Charles Beauchamp spent his youthful days on the home farm, in the cultivation of which he ably assisted his father when not busy with his text- books. He first attended the district schools and when seventeen years of age spent one year in the Clarinda high school. Subsequently he worked by the month as a farm hand until the time of his marriage, after which he was successfully engaged in the operation of rented land for a number of years. In 1906 he purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty acres on section 14, Amity township, Page county, on which he has since continued to reside and in the cultivation of which he has won a commendable and well merited degree of prosperity. In addition to raising the various cereals best adapted to soil and climate he also feeds good graded cattle, hogs and sheep and both branches of his business return to him a gratifying annual income. His farm is all rolling land, well watered and drained, and in its neat and thrifty appearance indicates the supervision of a practical and progressive owner.
In 1887 Mr. Beauchamp was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Patton, a daughter of Thomas and Rose (Glasglow) Patton, who at that time were living two and a half miles east of Clarinda, Page county. Mr. Patton passed away in 1903 but is still survived by his widow, who now resides in Tarkio, Missouri. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Beauchamp have been born four chil- dren, namely : Wilbur, a young man of twenty years; Orvil, eighteen years of age; Harry, who is seventeen years old; and Vesta, five years of age. All are still under the parental roof.
Mr. Beauchamp gives unfaltering allegiance to the men and measures of the republican party and is a stanch advocate of its principles. Both he and his wife are consistent and devoted members of the United Presbyterian church at College Springs, Iowa, while his fraternal relations are with the Modern Woodmen camp at Braddyville, Iowa. They have an exten- sive circle of friends throughout the county in which they have now long resided and the hospitality of the best homes is cordially extended to them.
E. J. ANDREWS.
E. J. Andrews, merchant and proprietor of the largest department store in Shenandoah, was born in Albert Lee, Minnesota, August 15, 1868, the son of Clark and Louise Ann ( Pitcher) Andrews. The father was a native of Ohio and the mother of New York state, but both went to Min- nesota with their respective parents and there grew to maturity, were married and resided until 1870, when they removed to Maryville, Missouri. There they have since made their home. Mr. Andrews, Sr .. during his
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active life was engaged in the real estate business, but of recent years has put aside all such cares, for he has reached his seventy-fifth mile-stone on life's journey and is now living retired. His wife is four years his junior. He is a republican in politics and is a member of the Baptist church of Maryville, of which he was one of the organizers.
To the influences that surrounded his early years at home and in the little town of Maryville, E. J. Andrews owes the foundation of the success which he has won in the years of his maturity. He passed through the grammar and high schools of his home town, graduating from the latter with the class of 1883. In 1886 he entered, as a clerk, a dry-goods store in Maryville, where he acquired the experience and knowledge that paved the way for his future mercantile operations. For some six or seven years he worked there intermittently and then went into the wholesale fruit business, to which he devoted his energies for perhaps four years. In 1897 he came to Shenandoah and opened a dry-goods store in the Bogart block. Three years later his business had outgrown his quarters and he moved into a building put up for him by E. Read. the store now occupied by S. Goldberg & Son, but in two years this also had become too small for his constantly increasing trade, and he removed into the building vacated by the Blackaller Company, which concern had failed after an existence of barely two years with a loss of about twenty-five thousand dollars. Since his occupation of these premises in 1902 Mr. Andrews has built up a much more extensive business and is now the leading merchant of the city. He has added to the store a large shoe department, an important carpet depart- ment, and a ladies' ready-to-wear department : carries a stock of some seventy-five thousand dollars value and in regular seasons employs twenty persons. In short, Mr. Andrews' is the largest department store in south- ern Iowa.
Mr. Andrews is a member of the Commercial Club and finds time in the midst of his business cares to attend the meetings of the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America, to the local lodges of which he belongs. In politics he votes with the republican party but has shown no desire to accept any public office, and yet he is a public-spirited man, considering the best interests of the city as his interests. His success while phenomenal is due to his own efforts, and Shenandoah is the more prosperous for his enterprise.
On the 19th of September, 1897. Mr. Andrews was united in wedlock to Miss Emily Oliver, a niece of the ex-governor of Missouri.
H. W. SCALES, M. D.
Dr. II. W. Scales, who for more than a quarter of a century has been successfully engaged in the practice of medicine, was born in Taylorsville, Indiana, December 22, 1853. a son of Wilson and Martha ( Spladley) Scales, natives of Indiana, where their entire lives were spent. The father was a
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grocer and farmer by occupation and passed away at the age of seventy- three years in Booneville. His wife, who still survives, makes her home in that city. In their family were three sons: H. W., of this review ; Travis D., a farmer and coal operator of Booneville, Indiana; and William E., who died when eight years of age.
Reared in Indiana, Dr. H. W. Scales was but four years of age when he removed with his parents to Pike county, that state, where he acquired his preliminary education in the district schools, remaining upon the home farm until nineteen years of age. His father, realizing how much of suc- cess in business depends upon a good education, then took his two sons to Booneville, Indiana, where they might receive better educational privileges than those offered at home. In the course of time Dr. H. W. Scales was graduated from the high school of that place and then, in 1873, took up the study of medicine in the office of and under the direction of Drs. Scales and Tyner, of Booneville. After three years devoted to the study of the fundamental principles of medicine, he entered, in 1876, the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, where, on the 28th of February, 1879, he received his M. D. degree. Immediately upon his graduation from that institution he opened an office in Springfield, Indiana, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession for three years.
At the expiration of that period he came to Yorktown, Page county, Iowa. At the time of his arrival the district was still wild prairie land, upon which stood little more than the railroad station. Undaunted, how- ever, by the unfavorable outlook, Dr. Scales opened an office for the general practice of medicine and continued to make this his place of residence until 1890. Throughout that period he was the only physician in his locality, and as the years passed and the little town progressed his practice ex- panded in proportion until at the time of his removal he was enjoying a large and constantly growing patronage. In 1890, however, he returned to Booneville, Indiana, where he engaged in general practice for fourteen years. May 17, 1904, witnessed his second arrival in Yorktown, which, during the years of his absence, had grown from a small village to a flour- ishing and progressive town. His long connection with the profession has given him a wide, practical experience, while he has constantly sought to extend his knowledge by further reading and research. He keeps abreast of the improvements being instituted in the professional world through his membership in the Page County Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the State Medical Association, and whatever tends to fur- nish a key to the mystery which we call life is of deep interest to him.
On the 19th of March, 1877, Dr. Scales was united in marriage to Miss Lizzie Gast, a daughter of Wendall and Lana Gast, natives of Germany. She was born in Booneville. Indiana, on the 8th of June, 1858, and by her marriage to Dr. Scales has become the mother of one son, Welby Earl, born March 18, 1886, in Yorktown, Iowa. He is now married and is suc- cessfully engaged in the lumber business in Booneville, Indiana.
Fraternally Dr. Scales is connected with the Woodmen of the World and also with the Court of Honor, holding his membership in Booneville, In-
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diana. Ile gives his political support to the democratic party, but neither seeks nor desires office, the duties of his profession occupying his entire time and attention. He is conscientious and faithful in the discharge of his professional services, fully realizing and appreciating the responsibili- ties that devolve upon him in this connection, while at all times he adheres to a high standard of professional ethics, enjoying in large measure the confidence and good will of all with whom he has come in contact.
BURTON VORSE COLE.
Burton Vorse Cole is one of the substantial and progressive young busi- ness men of Shenandoah, where he is secretary and treasurer of the Shen- andoah Hosiery mills. His birth occurred in Van Buren county, Michigan, October 25, 1880. His father, Harrison Vorse, was accidentally killed in the Michigan pineries when his son was but six months old and he was adopted by J. L. Cole, of Fremont county, Iowa, who had reared his mother to womanhood. Mr. Cole came to Iowa from Michigan in 1866 and located upon a farm in Fremont county, where he resided until 1880, when he took up his abode in the city of Shenandoah, making it his place of residence until his death in 1894.
Burt Cole, for so he is known throughout the city and county where he has always resided, was educated in the public schools of Shenandoah and in the Lincoln Business College, of Lincoln, Nebraska, being there graduated with the class of 1901. After the completion of his commercial course he secured a position as bookkeeper with the Barnet Lumber Com- pany, of McCook, Nebraska, there remaining for a year. In the spring of 1902, however, he returned home and went to work upon the farm be- longing to his adopted father, continuing its cultivation for five years. In 1907 he came to Shenandoah and entered the drug store of Webster & Com- pany, in which he had owned an interest since 1898. For two years he gave his time to the management of the drug business, having a well ap- pointed establishment to which was accorded a gratifying trade. On the ist of June, 1909, Mr. Cole sold his drug business and became connected with the Shenandoah Hosiery Mills as above stated.
On the 4th of November, 1902, Mr. Cole was united in marriage to Miss Vena Clarke, a daughter of Christopher Columbus and Martha (Lea) Clarke. ller paternal grandparents were David and Eliza (Russell) Clarke, natives of Washington and Green counties, Kentucky, respectively. The former was born in 1799 and was a son and grandson of Revolution- ary soldiers, his grandfather being Captain John Clarke of the Virginia line. In the pioneer times of southern Illinois David Clarke removed with his family to McDonough county, that state, his first home being a little log cabin. He continued to reside there throughout his remaining days and after the death of his wife, in 1875, made his home with his children until he passed away in November, 1883, at the age of eighty-four years.
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He was known throughout that section of the state as "Uncle David" Clarke, and was an unique and interesting figure on the streets of Macomb, continuing to his last days to wear a silk hat and a heavy gray blanket shawl, as was the custom of his earlier years. He was for many years justice of the peace in the town. Unto him and his wife were born a large family of children, but only four are now living: Mrs. Margaret Marietta Chapman, of Los Angeles, California ; C. C. Clarke, of Springdale, Arkan- sas; S. J. Clarke, of Chicago ; and Mrs. Anna Eliza Chapman, also of Los Angeles, California. C. C. Clarke, the father of Mrs. Cole, was born in Macomb in 1839 and is now seventy-eight years of age. He lived for many years in his native town and afterward removed to Bentonville, Arkansas, where for some time he conducted a grocery store. He is now carrying on a fruit farm near Springdale, Arkansas. He married Martha 1.ea and they had eight children: Damon, who is married and resides in Little Rock, Arkansas; Gertie, who died in early womanhood; Carrie, at home; Edith Marie, the wife of Dr. Charles Forrest Perkins, of Spring- dale, Arkansas ; W. Lea, who is with the S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, of Chicago; Jessie May, the wife of Harry Risteen, who is living in Okla- homa City, Oklahoma; Charles, who is married and resides in Spring- dale ; and Vena, now Mrs. Cole, the youngest of the family. It was while on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Perkins, then living in Shenandoah, Iowa, that she met and married Mr. Cole. Unto them have been born four children, of whom three are living: Richard V., Ross C. and Catherine. The family occupies a pleasant home at No. 120 East Grand avenue. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cole are well known in Shenandoah and their interest in and talent along musical lines has made them popular in homes where a love of music is a characteristic feature.
JOHN WAGENER.
Among the retired citizens of Yorktown who in former years were identified with the farming interests of Page county may be numbered John Wagener. Born in Holstein, Germany, July 12, 1836, his parents were John and Lucy Marie ( Neehlsen) Wagener, who spent their entire lives in their native land. They reared a family of three sons: Hans, a retired farmer living in Yorktown; Nicholas, who passed away in Council Bluffs, Iowa; and John, of this review. There is also one son of a former mar- riage of the father, Jurgen Wagener, who still lives in Germany.
John Wagener of this review was reared and educated in his native land and was there married in 1864, to Miss Margaret Plohn, who was likewise born in Holstein, her natal year being 1838. Foreseeing no future in Germany and having heard and read about the freedom and opportunity for advancement in the new world, Mr. Wagener had, prior to his marriage, made arrangements for emigrating to the United States and immediately thereafter he and his bride crossed the Atlantic. They made a location in
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Joliet, Illinois, where Mr. Wagener spent nine years working at the painter's trade, having learned the same before coming to America. Be- lieving that the west offered better opportunities, he then made his way to Red Oak, in Montgomery county, Iowa, and settled on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which he purchased. He eventually disposed of that land and bought two hundred and forty acres in Tarkio township. Page county, which he farmed about six years, when he sold his property and removed to Yorktown, where he has since lived retired, enjoying the fruits of his former toil.
It was while Mr. and Mrs. Wagener were residing in Joliet that three children were born to them, these being George John, a resident of Oregon ; Olga, the wife of John Bruce, of Omaha, Nebraska; and Martha, the wife of Robert Docker, of Red Oak, lowa. The mother of this family passed away in Joliet, and in 1878 Mr. Wagener was again married, his second union being with Barbara Schok, a native of Germany, while his present wife bore the maiden name of Anna Spangenberg. Her birth occurred in Joliet, Illinois, February 18, 1856, and she still survives.
Independent in politics, Mr. Wagener votes for the men whom he deems lest qualified for public office, regardless of party ties. He has served as a member of the village council for the past nine years. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the German Lutheran church, in which he is acting as a deacon. In former years Mr. Wagener spent a busy, nseful and active life, and now he and his estimable wife are enjoying in retirement the accumulations of profitable, successful and honor- able careers, being numbered among the best citizens of Yorktown and Page county.
WILLIAM A. HENDERSON.
William A. Henderson was for twenty years successfully engaged in the drug trade in Clarinda but since 1904 has devoted his attention to the pur- chase and sale of lands in Kansas, Colorado, Idaho and Canada. His birth occurred in Louisa county, Iowa, on the Ist of March. 1861, his parents being William J. and Martha J. Henderson, the former a farmer by occu- pation. After completing the high school course at Columbus Junction, Mr. Henderson of this review served a three years' clerkship in a drug store and in 1882 started out as a pharmacist on his own account, opening a drug store at West Branch, Iowa. In 1884 he established himself in business as a druggist of Clarinda, conducting his store there for twenty years or until 1004, when he sold out. having accumulated a handsome competence. Since retiring from the drug trade he has devoted his time and energies to the purchase and sale of lands in Kansas, Colorado, Idaho and Canada, laid out an addition of fourteen blocks of Akron, Colorado, and has met with a gratifying and well merited measure of prosperity in his under- takings.
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On the 23d of February, 1882, Mr. Henderson was united in marriage to Miss Anna E. Limbocker, of Columbus Junction, Iowa, a daughter of J. Simeon Limbocker, who was a farmer by occupation. They have one daughter, Gertrude Oveda, who is a high school graduate and also pur- sued a course of study in Knox College at Galesburg, Illinois. She is now at home.
Politically Mr. Henderson gives unfaltering allegiance to the men and measures of the republican party. He labored effectively to advance the cause of education during his nine years' term of service as a member of the school board, acting as president of the board for two years of that time. He was likewise one of the organizers and on the first board of the Clarinda Chautauqua Assembly and his efforts have ever been an important factor in the upbuilding and development of the community along many lines. IIis fraternal relations are with the Masons, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Knights of Pythias and he was trustec of the state or- ganization of the last-named order for three years. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Presbyterian church, in the work of which he is deeply and helpfully interested. For a quarter of a century he has now been numbered among the leading and representative citizens of Page county, being highly esteemed for his sterling worth and as a promoter of all that tends to advance the general welfare.
CHARLES M. FLEMING.
Charles M. Fleming, carrying on general farming on section 10, Harlan township, is a native of Missouri, his birth having occurred in Platt county, that state, on the 22d of September, 1853. He was the eldest in a family of four children born unto Thomas and Jane (McFarland) Fleming, who were natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio respectively. They were married, however, in Missouri and unto them were born three sons and a daughter : Charles M .; Delia, the wife of R. B. Flowers, of Watertown, Illinois ; Frank, who is living in Taylor county, Iowa; and Edmund, who resides near his brother Charles. The father passed away September 6, 1893, at the age of sixty-seven years and the mother died August 14, 1909, in Clar- inda, at the age of seventy-five years.
Charles M. Fleming was not a year old when his parents left Missouri and came to Page county in 1854, where he has lived during the greater part of his life. The family home was first established at the edge of Taylor county near the Page county line and he continued under the parental roof until his marriage, when he started out in life for himself. He had acquired a good common-school education and had received ample training in the work of the farm, for from early boyhood he had assisted in the labors of the field. After he began farming on his own account he cultivated rented land for a number of years and then purchased his pres- ent farm in March, 1902. The place comprises one hundred and seventy-
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two acres of land on section 10, Harlan township, and the soil, naturally rich and productive, responds readily to the care and labor which he be- stows upon it. At one time he was engaged in the livery business in Clarinda, conducting the enterprise from 1883 until 1893, but, with the ex- ception of that period, has always given his attention to general agricultural pursuits.
On the 10th of October, 1889, Mr. Fleming completed his arrangements for having a home of his own by his marriage to Miss Maggie McCunn, who was born in Page county, Iowa, April 3, 1868, and died April 6, 1907, her death being deeply mourned by many friends as well as her immediate family. She was a daughter of John and Harrict ( Elder) McCunn, who were natives of Pennsylvania and were pioneer settlers of this county. The father died in 1882, but the mother now resides three miles west of Clarinda. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Fleming were born four children, but one daughter, Margaret, died at the age of seven and a half months. Those still living are Gladys, Warren and Elizabeth.
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