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JOHN C. KARTCHNER.
The life record of John C. Kartchner, a venerable farmer and honored pioneer of Poweshiek township, Jasper county, demonstrates that the road to positions of influence among men, whatever the relation of life may be, is open to all who may possess the courage to tread its pathway, besides serving as an incentive to the young of the present generation, teaching by incon- trovertible facts that true excellence in any worthy undertaking is ambition's legitimate answer. His long and useful life was crowned with much good to himself, his family and his neighbors and the community at large, for he was industrious, honest, broad-minded and kind-hearted, and in the golden even- ing of his years he could look backward over a well spent career and forward with no apprehension.
Mr. Kartchner was born November 14, 1816, in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, the son of Christopher and Prudence (Wilcox) Kartchner, and there he grew to maturity and attended the old-time schools in the brief win- ter months, assisting his father during the balance of the year, remaining under his parental roof-tree until he was nine years of age. In 1835 he came to Perry county, Illinois, when that country was new, and there he engaged in farming, also worked in a carriage shop, making springs and became a very proficient workman.
Mr. Kartchner was married in 1846 to Nancy Ash, daughter of Hiram and Susan (Clingman) Ash, who moved from Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, to Illinois in pioneer days, when the subject's wife was fourteen years of age.
Mr. Kartchner came to Jasper county, Iowa, in 1846 and began life in typical pioneer fashion, undergoing the usual hardships and privations, but, nothing daunted, he remained and took part in the work of transformation of the wild prairies to fertile farms. He and his wife lived continuously on
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the same farm from 1846 until their deaths. He died on the 20th of June, 19II, and his wife died October 1, 1911. Their residence here thus covered a period of sixty-five years, a remarkable fact. During this time they became well known throughout this part of the county. They had worked hard and in their declining years they had plenty and, what is more to be desired, the good will and friendship of all who knew them, for their lives had been exem- plary in every respect and they had been of great service to the community.
The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Kartchner : , Susannah married Joseph Scott and they are both deceased : Diadama married John Collins and they live in Poweshiek township; William Henry died when fifteen years of age; Elizabeth Prudence is at home on the old homestead ; Frank Marion died in 1900, when forty-one years of age; he was never mar- ried; Christopher Columbus, who is yet single, is living in Poweshiek town- ship; Nathan Oliver is single and living on the old homestead, having bought the same. John Wesley married Leaty Woodbury and is living on a farm near Colfax.
John C. Kartchner and his wife were both invalids, but their children took a delight in administering to their every want and they spent their last years serenely, he being in his ninety-fifth year at time of death and she was eighty-seven years old on September 24, 19II.
AUGUST KRAMPE.
As the name would indicate, August Krampe, one of the progressive and thrifty agriculturists and stock raisers of the northern part of Jasper county, is of German ancestry, in fact he is the son of German parents, the family having, however, been residents of our republic for over a half century, and since casting their lot with us have benefited alike themselves and the com- munities in which they have located in a material way.
August Krampe was born in Johnsonville, Wisconsin, October 20, 1859, but most of his life has been spent in Jasper county. Iowa, he having moved with his parents in March, 1867, to the farm he now occupies in Malaka township. He is the son of Hans Heinrich Krampe and Louisa (Suelwold) Krampe, both born in the village of Hohenhausen, Germany, the father on September 21, 1824, and the mother on March 17th, the same year; they grew up and were married in the fatherland, emigrating to America later in (73)
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life and locating at Johnsonville, Wisconsin, when that country was new. The father's death occurred on October 28, 1905, the mother having passed away on June 19, 1897. The paternal grandparents and Fredericka Krampe, were born in Hohenhausen, Lippe-Detmold, Germany, the former on November 19, 1798, and the latter on April 9, 1800; his death occurred on .April 27, 1886, and she passed away on March 29, 1872.
The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hans H. Krampe : Henry, who lives in Independence township, Jasper county ; Frederick W., born in Johnsonville, Wisconsin, September 24. 1856, died May 25, 1903; Simon lives in Baxter, this county; August, of this review; Minnie; Louisa Klemme, born April 1, 1865, died October 1, 1897. Those deceased are buried in the cemetery of the Bethany German Reformed church in Inde- pendence township.
August Krampe grew up at home and attended the common schools. On September 25, 1895, he was united in marriage with Louisa Kanne, who was born in Malaka township, this county, December 27, 1872. Her parents. Henry and Louisa (Paul) Kanne, who were among the early settlers of Jasper county, were born in Germany. The father died in 1910; the mother's birth occurred in Germany and she died October 17, 1911, in Malaka town- ship. Their family consisted of nine children, namely: David, deceased ; Minnie Alleman lives in Polk county, Iowa: Levi lives in Malaka township; Fred also lives in this township; Louisa, wife of Mr. Krampe, of this sketch ; Louis, Sophia Saak and Lydia Tinnemier all live in Malaka township; Martha Saak lives in Marshall county. All these children but the eldest were born in Jasper county.
To Mr. and Mrs. Krampe have been born three children, named as fol- lows: Esther R., who was born March 15, 1897, was graduated from the German school in 1911 and is living at home: Albert Leroy, born May 27, 1899: David H., born July 9, 1901 ; the two latter are attending the public schools near their home. They were all born on the homestead in Malaka township.
Politically, Mr. Krampe is a Republican and he and his family belong to the Bethany German Reformed church of Independence township.
Mr. Krampe has been very successful in his life work and now owns a finely improved and very productive farm of two hundred acres in Malaka township. As a general farmer and stock raiser he has been unusually suc- cessful. having accumulated a competency by his own efforts. He is also the owner of ten acres of timber land in Clear Creek township. The home where the family now lives was built by his father forty-five years ago; it is a good,
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comfortable and attractive old home, having been re-shingled but once during that time, the care exercised leaving the main part of the building in an ex- cellent state of preservation.
Mr. Krampe is regarded as one of the most enterprising and public- spirited citizens of this township.
RUSSELL R. HAMPTON.
One of the industrious young farmers of Independence township is Rus- sell R. Hampton, a native son of Jasper county, who has been content to spend the major part of his life here at home. He is known to be the possessor of excellent characteristics and has worthily upheld the dignity of an honored old family name. He was born in Clear Creek township, this county, Novem- ber 30, 1870, the son of William R. and Sarah Ann (Deeter) Hampton, the father born in Kentucky and died in Gering, Nebraska. on December 5, 1904, at the age of seventy-five years ; the mother was born in Pennsylvania and died in Nebraska on December 4, 1903. Their family was large, consisting of twelve children : A son and daughter died in infancy; four sons and six daughters grew to maturity. They are : Theodore lives in Juniata, Nebraska ; Mrs. Cornelia Kimberly, born in Clear Creek township, is living in Gering. Nebraska; Mrs. Caroline Hidy lives in Mapleton, Kansas; Dora Adeline died about fifteen years ago; Mrs. Ida Signs lives in Clear Creek township; Mrs. Hulda Porter lives in Towanda, Kansas ; Mrs. Jennie Hughes lives at Maple- ton, Kansas; Commodore lives at Gering, Nebraska, where William also resides ; Russell R., of this review ; and Albert, of Gering, Nebraska. These children were all born in Clear Creek township, Jasper county, Iowa, their parents having been among the earliest settlers here, and, being hard work- ers, established a very comfortable home and became well known in this part of the county.
Russell R. Hampton spent his boyhood in Clear Creek township, and in 1887 he moved with the family to western Nebraska where he grew to man- hood and remained until 1909, in the spring of which year he returned to Jasper county and purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land in Inde- pendence township where he at once took up farming and here he is meeting with excellent success as a general farmer and stock raiser. He has made many modern improvements on the place. including convenient and substantial buildings.
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Mr. Hampton was married on March 10, 1897, to Odessa Veach, who was born in Newton township, this county, on February 23, 1878, and here she grew to womanhood and attended the local schools. She is the daughter of James and Martha (Callison) Veach, the father born in Indiana and the mother in Jasper county, Iowa, and here they both still reside. Their family consists of four children, Mrs. Hampton being the only daughter; the sons are, Shelby, born June 26, 1876, is living in Nebraska ; James, born November 30, 1880, died May 23, 1906; Charles, born October 5, 1882, is living in western Nebraska. These children were all born in Newton township, Jasper county, where their parents were pioneers. They have two photographs, groups, which are of historic note, of four living generations of Mrs. Hampton's paternal and material contemporaries.
One child, Leora Fern, has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hampton, her birth occurring at Gering, Nebraska, July 25. 1903.
Politically, Mr. Hampton is independent, preferring to vote for the man whom he deems best qualified to discharge the duties of the office sought rather than for the party. He always takes a deep interest in local affairs, but has never aspired to leadership.
Mrs. Hampton is a member of the Reorganized Church of the Latter- Day Saints.
W. J. CRAWFORD.
It is by no means an easy task to describe within the limits of this review a man who has led an active and eminently useful life and by his own exer- tions reached a position of honor and trust in the line of industries with which his interests are allied. But biography finds justification, nevertheless, in tracing and recording of such a life history, as the public claims a certain prop- erty interest in the carcer of every individual and the time invariably arrives when it becomes advisable to give the right publicity. It is, then, with a cer- tain degree of satisfaction that the chronicler essays the task of touching briefly upon such a record as has been that of W. J. Crawford, long a well- known and influential citizen of Jasper county, who, after a useful and strenu- ous career, is living retired from the active affairs of life, surrounded by every comfort in his pleasant home in the attractive village of Ira. His course has been that of a broad-minded, honorable'and progressive gentleman and he justly merits the high esteem in which he is universally held.
Mr. Crawford, like many of the leading citizens of central Iowa, hails
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from the old Buckeye state, his birth having occurred in Knox county, Ohio, November 2, 1836. He is the son of Lloyd and Eliza (Culbertson) Craw- ford, natives of Ohio, the father born in Belleville and he died in Toulon, Illinois, in 1905, and his wife died about forty years ago. They were the parents of two children, W. J. of this review, and Mrs. Martha J. Lawrence, who died in 1871.
The subject of this review was ten years of age when he was taken to Illinois, the family later moving to Indiana, and in 1884 they all came to Jasper county, Iowa, locating at Ira, where the father engaged in the general mercantile business until 1899, becoming widely known over the county and building up an extensive patronage. He established a good home here and accumulated a competency, so he retired from active life in 1899. He was a man of fine business ability, and while living at Leesburg, Indiana, he con- ducted one of the best flouring mills in the state, which he owned, being a miller of a superior order of ability. He was also an auctioneer of unusual ability. He was a man of industry and integrity.
W. J. Crawford spent his youth at home and assisted his father in his business, and, like him, became a man of large affairs. On June 7, 1871, he was united in marriage with Mary Armsworth, who was born in Leesburg, Indiana, December 23, 1854, the daughter of Willis and Ann (Clifton) Arms- worth, the father born in Illinois and his death occurred in 1865 at the age of fifty-four years; the mother was born in Ohio and her death occurred at Ira, Iowa, at the advanced age of eighty-one years, in 1898. Mrs. Crawford was one of a family of three daughters, the other two being Mrs. Martha Boggess and Mrs. Ann Rippey, both deceased. This was a highly honored old family and its members were well known in their respective communities.
Three daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Crawford as follows: Mrs. Mary Hager, born February 18, 1872, is living in Baxter. this county ; Clara, born January 17, 1873, married J. H. Crawford, a resident of Independence township; and Mrs. Anna Bossout, born January II, 1875, is living at Fraser, Iowa. These children were born in Indiana, but reared in Jasper county. Iowa.
Mr. Crawford learned various lines of business under his father and his business history has been a diversified one; however, the lumber business claimed his special attention for a number of years, and he was adequately rewarded in whatever he turned his attention to. He has invested his savings in bank stock and other good securities, and, having withdrawn from actual business life, is enjoying a well earned respite. He owns an attractive, mod- ernly equipped and tastily kept home in Ira.
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In political matters Mr. Crawford votes independently, as is the custom of so many of our present-day broad-minded Americans, who have become disgusted with the appalling large number of grafters and crooks that obtain public office through all the leading parties. He has long manifested a lively interest in local affairs, and he ably performed the duties of postmaster of Ira for a number of years, giving satisfaction to the department and to the local patrons of the office.
Mr. Crawford in his fraternal relations belongs to the Improved Order of Red Men, and Unit Lodge No. 519, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Baxter, having filled all the chairs of the same. Mrs. Crawford belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church.
FREDERICK ORION PRICE, D. D. S.
One of the best known and most successful dentists in Jasper county is Dr. Frederick Orion Price, of Baxter, a man who has left no stone unturned whereby he could perfect himself in his chosen line of endeavor, and, being a conscientious and genteel gentleman, he has won the confidence and esteem of a wide circle of patrons and friends.
Mr. Price was born in State Center township, Marshall county, Iowa, , June 3, 1872. He is the son of William Owens Price and Martha (Tramel) Price. the father born in Pennsylvania, August 15, 1832, and he died in Jasper county, Iowa, July 7, 1890; the mother was born in St. Joseph county, Indiana, January 28, 1833, and is living in Ira, this county. Her father, W. A. B. Tramel, was one of the earliest settlers in this county. A history of the Tramel family will be found in the sketch of William Alexander Tramel in this work. There were five children in the Price family, named as follows : Walter, born July 19, 1860, is residing near Sunnyside, Washington; Mrs. Caroline D. Jackson, born October 2, 1862, is living in Ware county, Georgia ; William, born November 9, 1866. is cashier of the Farmers Savings Bank at. Ira, Jowa : Herman K., born March 25, 1869, is living near Broken Arrow, Oklahoma: Frederick Orion, of this sketch. All these children were born in Marshall county with the exception of Caroline, whose birth occurred in Jas- per county.
William Owens Price, father of the subject, was a soldier in the Union army, having enlisted for service in August, 1862, from Marshalltown, in Company K. Twenty-third Iowa Volunteer Infantry, in which he served until
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near the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged on account of physical disability.
In 1875 the Price family moved to Riverside, California, and remained there until the spring of 1880 when they returned to the central part of Iowa, locating on a farm near Ira, where most of the early life of Dr. Frederick O. was spent. He attended the country schools, later taking a commercial course in Highland Park College, at Des Moines. He then entered North- western University at Chicago, completing the course in the dental depart- ment, graduating with the class of 1902, having made an excellent record. Thus well equipped for his life work, he located at Storm Lake, Iowa, where he remained until the fall of 1906, enjoying an excellent practice, then he moved to Colo, Iowa, where he remained until the spring of 1909. Leaving this place, he traveled in the West, but finding no place so attractive as central Iowa he returned to Jasper county, locating at Baxter, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice, which is constantly growing. He has a neat office, equipped with every modern appliance to insure rapid and modern work.
Doctor Price was married on February II, 1903, to Margaret Buck, who was born in State Center township, Marshall county, Iowa, April 22, 1876. She was a graduate of the State Center high school and she studied music at Grinnell College and at Lincoln, Nebraska. For many years she was one of the most successful music teachers in this part of the state, having large classes at State Center, Colo, Rhodes, Melbourne and Collins. She was talented in this direction and was very popular with her pupils and a wide circle of friends. She was the daughter of Marcus Aurelius and Lucia (Wilkins) Buck, the father born in Vermont, as was also the mother. Mr. Buck and his family came to State Center, Iowa, in an early day and there he died and there Mr. Buck still resides. They were the parents of the following children : Carroll lives at Iowa Falls; George is deceased; Everett lives in Washington township, Marshall county ; Mrs. Mary Wensel, of State Center ; Ralph A., also of State Center ; Mrs. Myra Havenhill, of Lawrence, Kansas ; Margaret, who married Doctor Price, of this sketch ; Harry, of St. Anthony, Iowa ; Nellie lives with her mother in State Center.
To Doctor Price and wife, one daughter, Nellie Maurine, was born, her birth occurring at Storm Lake, Iowa, December 21, 1903. She lives with her aunt and grandmother at State Center.
Mrs. Dr. Price was called to her rest on September 10, 1906. She was a . member of the Presbyterian church at State Center, Jowa.
Politically, the Doctor is a Republican, and he belongs to Columbia Lodge No. 298, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Colo, Iowa. Personally, he is a genial and companionable gentleman.
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HARRISON W. PERRY.
There can be no impropriety in scanning the acts of any man as they affect his public, social and business relations, so in this biographical work will be found mention of worthy citizens of all vocations, and at this juncture we are permitted to offer a resume of the career of one of the substantial and highly esteemed representatives of the agricultural interests of Independence township, Jasper county, where he has maintained his home for the past quarter of a century and where he has not only attained a high degree of success in his chosen field of labor and enterprise, but also established an im- perishable reputation for uprightness in all the relations of life.
Mr. Perry was born in Belmont county, Ohio, February 27, 1849, but most of his life has been spent in Iowa, he having come to Marshall county with the family in an early day. He is the son of James and Elizabeth (Wilson ) Perry, the father born in Belmont county. Ohio, January 1, 1818, and there the birth of the mother occurred on March 19th of the same year. There they grew up and were married, subsequently moving to Bureau county, Illinois, and there lived some time, and it was there that the mother's death occurred on May 27. 1864. Later the father came to Washington township, Marshall county, Iowa, where his death occurred September 12, 1873. They were the parents of thirteen children, seven of whom died in infancy, namely : Mary Evelyn Ogan, born September 9, 1842, is living in Marshalltown, Iowa; she and her husband celebrated their golden wedding on January 1. 19II; Mrs. Sarah Lutica Thorne, born April 1, 1845, died at Rhodes, Iowa, February 25, 1905 ; Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Pyle, born October 17. 1846, lives at Melbourne, this county; Harrison Wilson, subject of this sketch; John Hamilton, born May 8, 1857, lives at Melbourne: William Clinton also lives at Melbourne, Marshall county, Iowa, his birth having occurred on March 22. 1856.
Harrison W. Perry, of this review, moved with his family from Marshall county to Independence township, Jasper county, in 1886, and they have been successful in transforming what was then considered a wilderness into a farm of one hundred and forty-five acres. of as valuable and productive land as this portion of the county offers, and here they still reside, having a large, pleasant home and many good outbuildings, and here general farming and stock raising are successfully carried on, the family having become well established.
Mr. Perry was married in 1874 to Minerva Barbee, who was born in . Jasper county, Iowa. on December 25, 1853. Her parents, John and Olive (Newton) Barbee, being among the earliest settlers of the county, having
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taken up their residence in the vicinity of Newton when there were but a few houses there, and here they spent the balance of their lives, having become well known, the father's death occurring here when about seventy-four years of age and the mother was seventy years old when she died. There were eleven children in the Barbee family, six of whom are living, namely: Jane Perin, of Independence township; Wesley, of Independence, Missouri; Chris- topher lives at Ira, this county ; Minerva, wife of Mr. Perry, of this review ; Mrs. Thurston, of Minneapolis; Harrison lives in Clear Creek township. These children were reared in this county.
Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Harrison W. Perry, named as follows: Mary died when five years of age; Mrs. Mattie Gipson, born January 21, 1877, lives in Independence township; Marshall, born in Laurel, Iowa, in May, 1878, is living at home; Mrs. Edith Jones, born August 4, 1883, is living in Clear Creek township; Oscar, born in May, 1886, is living in Independence township; Odessa was born May 14, 1894, and is living at home. The older children were born in Marshall county and the younger ones in Jasper county.
Politically, Mr. Perry is a Democrat and while he has never aspired to be a leader of his party or the beneficiary of the emoluments of public office, he has always stood ready to assist in any movement having for its object the general upbuilding of the community whose interests he has at heart. He and his wife are worthy members of the Reorganized Church of the Latter- Day Saints.
ISAAC M. DAWSON.
Agriculture has been the true source of man's dominion on earth ever since the primal existence of labor and has been the pivotal industry that has controlled for the most part all the fields of action to which his intelligence and energy have been devoted. In a civilized community no calling is so certain of yielding a compensatory return as that which is culled from a kindly soil, albeit the husbandman at times is sorely taxed in coaxing from mother earth all that he desires or even expects ; yet she is a kind mother and seldom chastens with disappointment the child whose diligence and frugality she deems it but just should be rewarded. The Dawson family, of which Isaac M. and his son, Francis M., now living in Independence township, Jasper county, are most creditable representatives, have been, it would seem, specially favored by Ceres, supposed to be, according to the ancient mythologies, the
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