Memorial and biographical record of Iowa, Part 133

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Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
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In his social relations the Doctor is a prom- inent Freemason, holding his membership in Davenport Lodge, No. 37, F. & A. M .; also in the chapter and consistory. In his religious views he is a Unitarian, being a member of a church of that denomination in Des Moines.

The home life of Dr. Hazen is very pleas- ant. He married Sarah Feeman, of Lancas- ter, Ohio, and they have four sons and a daughter: Edward, Roy, Arthur, Benjamin and Laura.

a ILLIAM MORAN, who is now liv- ing retired in one of the finest homes of central Iowa, well de- serves representation among the leading citizens of Dallas county. He is one of the honored sons of Erin, having been born on the 12th of July, 1861, in county Mayo,

Ireland, which was also the birthplace of his parents, William and Mary (Moran) Moran. In May, 1867, the family bade adieu to the Emerald Isle and sailed for the United States, coming direct to Dallas county, Iowa, and locating on the farin which is now the home of our subject. The father purchased 160 acres of wild land, which he at once began to clear and improve, making it a valuable property. His death occurred when past the age of eighty years, and his wife is still living, at the age of seventy. In their family were five children, three of whom survive, namely: William and Mary, who reside on the old homestead; and Mrs. Bridget Tiernan, a widow, living in Des Moines.

Our subject and his sister Mary, together with their aged mother, live on the old home- stead, which was left to the children. The paternal grandparents, John and Mary (Doyle) Moran, were both natives of county Mayo, Ireland, and there spent their entire lives. The maternal grandparents, William and Cath- erine (Donahue) Moran, were also natives of that locality, and, though bearing the same name as the paternal grandparents, were no relation. William Moran died in his native land, after which his widow came to America and passed away in Dallas county, Iowa, at the age of eighty-five.

The gentleman whose name heads this re- view was only six years of age when the family arrived in the United States. In the usual manner of farmer lads he spent the days of his boyhood, and in the district schools of the neighborhood acquired his education. The old homestead comprises 1,200 acres of rich and arable land, being one of the most valu- able properties in this section of the State. Mr. Moran has always been identified with agricultural pursuits, but does not engage in the active cultivation of his land, devoting his ener- gies only to its superintendence. In 1895 he and his sister Mary had erected on the old homestead probably the finest farm house in central Iowa. It is a commodious modern structure and in style of architecture is a

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combination of the Queen Anne and French villa style. It was designed by Mr. Moran and would do credit to any professional archi- tect. This handsome structure is beautifully and tastefully furnished throughout, the par- lor furniture being of solid mahogany, inlaid with mother of pearl. It is supplied with all the comforts and conveniences that go to make life worth the living, and is the abode of one of the most prominent families of Dallas county.

Mr. Moran and his sister are devout and honored members of the Catholic Church, and in politics he is a Democrat.

ICHARD BANDY .- The career of this gentleman illustrates most forci- bly that success is the outcome of in- defatigable energy, ambition, stead- fastness of purpose and integrity. These qualities have enabled him to work his way upward unaided by others, and to-day he is recognized as one of the foremost agricultur- ists in Dallas county. His home is pleasantly located four miles northeast of Redfield, and comprises 240 acres. It is a very fine farm, under a high state of cultivation, and improved with good buildings and all the accessories and conveniences found upon a model farm of the nineteenth century.

Mr. Bandy is a Western man by birth, training and interest, and his life typifies the progressive spirit of the age. He was born in Tazewell county, Illinois, on the 14th of March, 1833, and is a son of Reuben and Sibby (Adkisson) Bandy. His father was born in Virginia, in December, 1785, and descended from German ancestry. In the year 1810, in his native State, he married Miss Adkisson, who was born in the Old Dominion in Septem- ber, 1788. In the year of their marriage they removed to Kentucky, where they resided for twelve years, going to Indiana in 1822. Ten years later they left the Hoosier State for Tazewell county, Illinois, where they resided from 1832 until 1835, when they became resi-

dents of Knox county, that State, there spend- ing their remaining days. They were people of the highest respectability, esteemed by many friends. The father passed away in Galesburg, in January, 1861, and on the 6th of April, 1876, his wife died in the same city.

Mr. Bandy of this review accompanied his parents on their removal to Knox county, and was there reared to manhood, working on his father's farm and attending the public schools, where he acquired a good practical English education. As a companion and helpmeet on life's journey he chose Miss Lucinda Nelson, a native of Indiana, born in Jackson county, on the Ist of May, 1834. The wedding was celebrated in Henry county, Illinois, but they began their domestic life in Knox county, where they resided for twenty-four years, com- ing thence to Dallas county, Iowa, in 1881. Four children were born of their union: George Nelson, born March 9, 1859; Mrs. Emma Hodges, born December 1, 1861; Mrs. Nettie Simcoke, born February 20, 1864; and Frank Richard, born July 6, 1869.

During his entire life Mr. Bandy has car- ried on agricultural pursuits as a means of livelihood, and his well directed efforts, per- severance and diligence have brought to him a handsome competence. To him is due the credit of making the Dallas county fairs the grand success which they have undoubtedly been for several years past. For the past decade he has been an earnest worker for this much desired result, and such fairs are cer- tainly important factors in promoting the agri- cultural and stock-raising interests of his local- ity, awakening a desire to secure the best products and finest stock. All this stimulates progress. For ten years Mr. Bandy has been president of the Dallas County Agricultural Society. He has served as Township Trustee, and has held other offices, although he has never sought political preferment. His public duties are ever faithfully performed, and he is a recognized leader in the councils of the Republican party. No man is more widely known in all Dallas county than Mr. Bandy.

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He possesses a genial, pleasant manner, is courteous in his treatment of all, and has the high regard of young and old, rich and poor. His life has not been filled with exciting ad- venture, but has been quietly and unostenta- tiously devoted to duty, public and private. He is a man of much force of character, of steadfast purpose, and inany a worthy cause has found in him a worthy champion.

a LI SMITH, classed among the re- spected farmers and worthy citizens of Dallas county, Iowa, resides on section 14, Union township; his post- office address, Redfield.

A native of the Buckeye State, he was born on a farm in Highland county, August 25, 1837; fourth in the family of eight children of George W. and Mary Ann (Bonsell) Smith, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Virginia. Mr. Smith's father moved to Iowa in 1843 and entered a claim in Mahaska county, which he sold a few years later, and in 1856 he inoved to Wiscotta, a small village located a mile south of Redfield, Iowa. Here George W. Smith started a sawmill, and subsequently, in in partnership with a Mr. Horner, bought a gristmill. Some time in 1880 he moved to Earlham, Iowa, and in 1881 the gristmill was washed away, this being a heavy loss and almost breaking him up. His first wife, the mother of our subject, died in 1860, and he has since married again, and is now living on a farm in Dallas county, having attained the ripe old age of eighty-five years.

Eli Smith had charge of the sawmill above referred to until his father sold it, after which he was employed as clerk in the general store of P. J. Peters in Redfield, remaining with him two years. Then he purchased eighty acres of wild land, upon which he has since lived, devoting his energies to its improvement and cultivation. He now has good buildings and other improvements, has the land all under cultivation, and has recently refused $40 an

acre for his farm. Its purchase price was $9 per acre.

Mr. Smith has been twice married. De- cember 17, 1862, he wedded Miss Sallie Maria Nichols, a native of Michigan, and they had six children, record of whom is as follows: Mary, born February 4, 1863, died April 6, 1863; George, born April 7, 1864, died August 24, 1864; Eveline, born September 24, 1865, died March 5, 1866; Richmond, born October 30, 1869, died September 21, 1870; William O., born February 14, 1867; and Amy E., born September 1, 1875. The mother of these children departed this life June 4, 1882, and in 1883 Mr. Smith married Mrs. Mahala Coulter, who died in 1889.

Mr. Smith has always taken a commenda- ble interest in local affairs and has frequently been honored with official preferment. For thirty years he served acceptably as Township Assessor, was Secretary of the Township School Board for nine years, and has also served as School Trustee, Road Supervisor and in other local offices. His political affilia- tions have always been with the Republican party. Religiously, he is by birth and early associations a Friend (Quaker), and is still a leading and active meniber in this church.

W. CLAYTON, one of the repre- sentative men of his county, being a prominent farmer, stock-raiser, grain dealer and politician, was born in Dallas county, Iowa, August 20, 1853, one of nine children of Simeon and Anna (White) Clayton. In 1851 the parents moved from In- diana to Iowa, but in 1854 returned to that State, remaining there twelve years. They then purchased and located on the land our subject now owns, in Dallas county. In 1876 the latter rented his father's farm and farmed the same. In 1888 he purchased 240 acres of the home place, where he has made stock-rais- ing a specialty, raising grain for feed only. From 1881 to 1885 Mr. Clayton was engaged in the liardware business in Van Meter, in com-

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pany with Lee Thornton, but in 1882 our sub- ject's brother, John D. Clayton, bought Mr. Thornton's interest, and the firm was then known as Clayton Brothers. In 1885 they sold the store, after which Mr. Clayton gave his attention principally to his farm until 1891, when he purchased the elevator of L. Mott, one of the largest grain elevators in the county. Mr. Clayton is. now one of the most extensive grain dealers in this section.

In his political relations, he is prominently identified with the Republican party. In 1889 he was elected to the office of County Super- visor, to fill the uncompleted term of his pred- ecessor, and for a full term in 1893 was re- elected to that position, -in both elections run- ning far ahead of his ticket. Socially, Mr. Clayton is a member of Corn Valley Lodge, No. 257, I. O. O. F .; a charter member of Van Meter Lodge, No. 18, Knights of Pythias, and a member of Fortitude Lodge, No. 256, Freemasons. He is also a member of the chap- ter at Adel, of Templar Commandery, No. 4, at Des Moines, of Des Moines Consistory, No. 3, Scottish Rite and of the El-Kahir Shrine, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He takes great in- terest in these societies, rarely missing a meet- ing, and takes a prominent part in all their proceedings. Religiously, he was raised a Quaker, but, there being no church of that faith in or near Van Meter, he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Clayton was married July 2, 1876, to Martha A. Patten, a native of Wisconsin. When she was ten years of age her parents lo- cated in Dallas county, Iowa. Our subject and wife have four children, namely: Walter L., born April 21, 1877; Leona Mabel, March 18, 1879; Eldora, January 28, 1881; and Ruth Ann, May 26, 1883.

J OHN BURNSIDE is the proprietor of a plumbing, gas and steam fitting estab- lishment at No. 605 Locust street, Des Moines, and a wide-awake, enterprising citizen. He is a native of the city of Edin-

burg. Scotland, born July 19, 1840. His parents were Robert and Christina (Clarkson) Burnside, the former a skilled mechanic and an expert worker with edged tools. He spent his entire life in Scotland, where his death oc- curred about 1893. The grandfather was Alexander Burnside, descended from an hon- ored old Scotch family.

The early boyhood days of our subject were passed in his native city, where he was afforded good educational privileges, and later he also attended school in Glasgow, Scotland. From an early age, however, he has earned his own livelihood, continuing his studies by attendance at night schools. When a lad of ten summers he began working at any task that he could secure, and from that time he has been dependent upon his own efforts, so that he may well be called a self-made man. He has through his own exertions attained an honorable position and marked prestige among the representative men of his adopted city, and with signal consistency it may be said that he is the architect of his own fortunes. No untried methods has he followed to reach this position, but has continued on in the paths of industry and perseverance. When fifteen years of age he was apprenticed to learn the trade of gas-fitting in Glasgow, where he con- tinued four years, thus securing a good knowl- edge of all branches of the business. On com- pleting the trade he began working as a jour- neyman and traveled through different cities of Scotland, where he followed his chosen oc- cupation, gaining. proficiency with experience.

At length Mr. Burnside decided to try his fortune in America, and at the end of June, 1869, sailed for the port of New York, whence he came immediately to Des Moines, having since been a resident of the city. During the first year after his arrival he was in the em- ploy of Loughran & Hill, machinists, and then entered the service of Robinson & Tom- linson, plumbers and gas and steam îtters, the relation continuing for ten years, his faithful service winning him the highest regard of his employers.

David J. White.

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He then determined to engage in business for himself and entered into partnership with Joseph Kehoe, under the firm style of Burn- side & Kehoe. They were together for ten years and built up an extensive and lucrative trade. Since that time Mr. Burnside has had no partner. He is now doing the most exten- sive business in his line in the State, having a large local trade and a large patronage from the surrounding country. He has done the plumbing and gas-fitting work in some of the most important buildings in this city, and his work always gives the greatest satisfaction, as he always lives up to the very letter and spirit of his contracts and employs only skilled arti- sans. There are continually in his service from twenty to twenty-five workmen. He always keeps on hand a large stock of goods and in connection with his other work takes sewer contracts. For two years he served as president of the Master Plumbers' Association of the State of Iowa, and at this writing is the vice president of the National Master Plumbers' Association for the State of Iowa. He was a delegate to the National Association of Plumbers which met at Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, on the 11th of June, 1894.

Mr. Burnside has a pleasant home in Des Moines and an interesting family. He mar- ried Miss Eliza McFarland, a native of Dum- bartonshire, Scotland, and a daughter of Archi- bald McFarland. They have five children, namely: Alexander, Robert, Archibald, Lillian and John C., who is acting as bookkeeper in his father's office.

0 AVID FRANKLIN WHITE, late of White Breast township, Lucas county, Iowa, was for a number of years one of the leading citizens of this place, and as such a memoir of his life should be ac- corded a place in this work.

David F. White was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, October 12, 1836, son of Bloomfield and Mary (Tellus) White, natives of New Jersey and Hamilton county, Ohio, 53

respectively. Soon after the birth of David F. the White family removed to Hendricks county, Indiana, and located on a farın near Danville, where he grew up and received a public-school education. In their family were nine children, three of whom died in infancy. Of the others we make record as follows: David F .; Williamn Thomas, a Union soldier, died during the war; Francis Marion, a vet- eran of the war, lives near Danville, Indiana; Sarah E., wife of W. A. Clark, Woodburn, Iowa; Mary L., deceased, wife of E. Strong, Danville, Indiana; Margaret, widow of George Eastes. The father of this large family passed away in February, 1895, at the advanced age of eighty-one. His life was that of a suc- cessful farmer and stock dealer, and at the time of his death he was the owner of much valuable property. In politics, he was a Re- publican, and in religion a Methodist, for over forty years being a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a liberal supporter of the same. His widow, now seventy-eight years of age, is still a resident of Danville, Indiana.

Coming to the immediate subject of this article, David F. White, we record that in 1856 he came overland from Indiana to Iowa, making the journey by team, and settling in Lucas county, on a farm, the one on which his son George now lives, a tract of 500 acres. At that time this part of the country was nearly all wild land, deer were plenty, and about the only path of travel was the old Mor- mon trail. Here he set about the work of de- veloping a farm, and was quietly engaged in agricultural pursuits when the war came on. The second year of the war, when Lincoln made a call for more troops, he enlisted in the First Iowa Cavalry, under Colonel Fitz Henry Warren, and was in the service nearly four years, all this time following the fortunes of his regiment. He was'in the battle of Prairie Grove, was at the Big Blue when General Marmaduke was captured, and was with Gen- eral Steele on the Red River expedition, and on this raid was in the saddle for forty-nine

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consecutive days. Subsequently he was sta- tioned at Austin, Texas, for several months. His arıny service was one of great hardship and exposure. He contracted rheumatism and Bright's disease, and returned home much shattered in health, so much so that he never fully recovered. He continued on the farm up to the time of his death, which event occurred September 13, 1882.

Mr. White was married August 28, 1856, to Amanda Reynolds, a woman of more than ordinary intelligence and ability, who shared the joys and sorrows of life with him until his death, and who since then has taken charge of the property and shown excellent ability in the management of the same. She was born in Madison county, Kentucky, August 11, 1839. Her father, James Reynolds, also a native of Madison county, Kentucky, was a son of Fran- cis Marion and Sarah Reynolds, natives of Vir- ginia and pioneers of Kentucky. James Rey- nolds was married in Hendricks county, In- diana, to Permelia Thompson, a native of Garrard county, Kentucky, and a daughter of Jesse and Nancy (Randall) Thompson, of Ken- tucky. From 1843 until 1856 James Reynolds made his home in Hendricks county, Indiana, and in the last named year he removed to Lucas county, Iowa, coming here by team and settling where his daughter, Mrs. White, now lives. He died in Chariton, June 15, 1879, at the age of sixty-six years. His wife lived to the age of seventy-fiye, and died of measles. They were the parents of two children-Mrs. Amanda White and Francis Marion; the latter was a soldier in the late war, serving as a member of Company E, Thirty-fourth Iowa Infantry. Mrs. White is the only survivor of this family. She is the mother of the follow- ing children: George W., above alluded to as residing on the old homestead, married Amanda McFarland, and has three children: Harry B., Ethel May, and Edna Ina; Mary J., wife of Charles Carson, of Lincoln township, this county, has three children: Stella Mabel, Bessie May and Daisy Marie; and Nellie Blaine, in her sixteenth year, is residing with

her mother. Mrs. White has a beautiful country home and is surrounded with all that is conducive to comfort and happiness.

Of Mr. White we further record that po- litically he was a Republican and fraternally an Odd Fellow, at the time of his death being a member of Lodge No. 64, I. O. O. F. He was a man of high moral character, was honorable and upright in all the walks of life, and had the esteem and respect of all who knew him. At his death the community lost a valued citizen.

OLOMON G. BARTON .- Some time before the Revolutionary war three brothers of this name came over from England, one settling in Rhode Is- land, one in Vermont and one in Dutchess county, New York. Colonel Barton, of Rhode Island, assisted in the capture of a British gen- eral on Long Island. He was taken from his bed at night, carried over to the main land and delivered over to the Rebel authorities.

Caleb Barton, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was a resident of Dutchess coun- ty, New York, and was a miller and manu- facturer of paper. He married Damaris Hull, of that county, reared a family of eight chil- dren, viz. : Solomon C., Hull, Stephen, Caleb, Phebe, Sarah, John H. and Henry. Solomon C., the eldest son grew up to manhood and married Amy Greene, of Greene county, New York, and a daughter of Zopher Greene, who was a lineal descendant of General Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary fame, -all members of the Society of Friends. Soon after his mar- riage Solomon engaged in milling at Valatie, Columbia county, New York. In 1832 he re- moved to Claverack, same county, and pur- chased the mills and lands which became his permanent residence until his death, in 1862, at the age of seventy-one years. His widow survived his death two years, dying in 1863, at the age of seventy-three years. They were the parents of Edwin C., Phebe G., Elizabeth, Ann, Stephen K., Owen, Thomas J., Frances

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W. and Solomon G .. Of these all are living except Owen, and all are married except Thomas J.

Solomon C. Barton was a man of very marked characteristics, an unflinching friend of the downtrodden and oppressed, and a fear- less advocate of right against might. Many anecdotes and storics are related of his sacri- fices and trials in the cause of temperance and the abolition of slavery. At one timc, for his outspoken efforts in behalf of temperance, he was burned in effigy by an excited mob of citizens; but it must be remembered that this was before the days of Washingtonians, Good Templars and Red Ribbon societies. In the old days of slavery many a poor runaway from the South found a refuge and protection in Solomon Barton, who would spare no sacrifice or risk to assist the fugitive on to liberty.

Solomon G. Barton, the subject of this sketch, was born October 30, 1834, and grew up to manhood on the homestead at Claverack, attending the common schools and working in mills and on the farm. He was married in 1870 to Tammisin R. Johns, also a native of Columbia county, New York, where also her parents, Peter and Laura Ette (Stowe) Johns, were born. Her paternal grandparents were Silas and Mary (Morehouse) Johns, the former a native of Massachusetts, the latter of New York. They both died in Columbia county, New York. The grandmother was a daugh- ter of Joseph and Ellen (Bigsby) Morehouse, natives of Connecticut, from which State they removed to New York directly after their mar-

riagc. Mrs. Barton's mother was a daughter of Homer and Lucy (Bennet) Stowe, natives of the Empire State, where the former died, at the age of thirty years. Mr. Stowe died at the age of seventy-six years. Mrs. Barton's peo- plc were quite prominent in professional, mer- cantile and agricultural circles of the Empire State, and among their number was one very noted judge. By her marriage she has become the mother of four children, -Amy L., Henry J., Albert L. and Owen S.

In 1874 Mr. Barton left the East, coming

to Iowa and locating on the beautiful farm on which he now resides. In politics he has al- ways been a stalwart Republican since casting his first vote for Fremont, and has by his busi- ness integrity and honorable character won the esteem and confidence of all his acquaintances, and well sustains the characteristic traits of the Friends or Quakers, under whose teaching he grew up to manhood and whose ancestors for several generations belonged to that society.

B. SHAW is numbered among the early settlers of Floyd county, Iowa, and is now residing in Nora Springs, a prominent and influential citizen of the community. He has watched much of the growth and development of this region, and has been an important factor in its progress. His birth occurred in the Buckeye State on the 19th of September, 1838, being a native of Licking county. His father, Samuel D. Shaw, was a native of Rutland county, Vermont, and in his early life emigrated to Licking county, Ohio, where he followed the trade of shoemaking for a number of years. He was numbered among the early settlers of that locality and also be- came a pioneer of Iowa, casting his lot with the residents of Black Hawk county, in the year 1852. Now retired from active business he is living in Cedar Falls. His father, the pater- nal grandfather of our subject, Augustus M. Shaw, was born near Providence, Rhode Isl- and, and was of Scotch descent. He served in the war of 1812, and in the same regiment was the maternal grandfather of our subject. Mrs. Shaw, who bore the maiden name of Naomi Nichols, was also born in the Green Mountain State, and during her early girlhood accom- panied her parents on their removal to Ohio. She died a number of years ago.

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Memorial and biographical record of Iowa, Part 133

Author: Publication date: 1896 Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1360

Author:
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1360