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work in the vernacular and editing the religious journal, The Star of India. He was also agent for the Methodist Publishing House at Lucknow, 1893-5, 1905-6, 1907-8 and 1911. In 1900-02 he was the treasurer of the Mission's India Famine Relief Fund ; secretary of the India Epworth League, 1900-4; secretary of the Bishop Thoburn special fund, 1906-7. 1908-12; editor of Kaubab-i-Hind, 1896- 1898-99. 1902-4, 1905-12; superintendent of the Oudh district, 1900-12; delegate to the general conference. 1904, 1908, 1912. At the general conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in May. 1912, he was elected missionary bishop for southern Asia, the nominating speech for him being made by Dr. Adna B. Leonard. The nomination was seconded by M. K. Muskerjee, of the North India conference, in the following address, which well indicates the regard in which Bishop Robinson is held by the people of India, who know him :
"I want to take the floor this afternoon to second the motion of Doctor Leonard. I want to second the name of John Wesley Robinson, district superintendent of one of the largest districts in Indian Methodism. I want to speak concerning the work he has done in India. When he went from America to India he was made the pastor of one of our largest English-speak- ing churches in India-Lucknow. The membership had diminished very greatly and Doctor Robinson was put in that position in that difficult place and he built up the church wonderfully. It was so filled that at the time of the second hymn you could not get a seat. He remained pastor eight years, was made a district superintendent, and has done that work very satisfactorily. He was the agent of one of our biggest plants in India, the publishing house in Lucknow. He has been for more than twenty years, if I am not mistaken, the editor of our church publishing interests, and you must bear in mind that he knows the vernacular very well indeed. He is truly a fluent speaker, and may I say that I voice the feelings of the ministerial and lay members of the North India and Northwest India conferences when I stand here and say that almost all the lay and clerical members wish that John Wesley Robinson be returned to India as a missionary bishop. And I wish to emphasize that point. I do not wish to make any comparisons, but I know how the men feel in India, and understand that if you send out a man he wants our con- fidence and love in every sense of the word. And I wish to make this further statement that John Wesley Robinson in India is looked upon not as an American, but as an Indian. (Laughter and much applause.) We are asking of you for a bishop who is to us as good as an Indian. (Laughter continued.) And I beseech you in the name of the North India and North- west India conference to give us John Wesley Robinson." (Applause.)
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The total number of votes cast was seven hundred and thirty-nine, of which John Wesley Robinson received six hundred and eighty-six.
The territory over which Doctor Robinson has jurisdiction as a mission- ary bishop includes a large section of India, including the large city of Bom- bay, the city of Calcutta, the city of Lucknow, and the city of Rangoon. It also includes the Malay peninsula, the islands of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, the Philippines, the Celebes and other islands.
J. G. MYERLY.
At one time J. G. Myerly was a resident of Harlan, where he practiced law. He has, however, resided for many years in the city of Des Moines, where he served for several years as postmaster of that city, and was a candi- date before the last primary for the Republican nomination for Congress.
MISS ELIZABETH WYLAND,
It is no small honor for Shelby county to have two of her young people engaged as instructors in what is probably the finest high school building in Iowa, the East Des Moines high school. Elsewhere, the author of this his- tory has referred to the work of Allan Peterson. Another department of the high school is now and has been for some time in the charge of Miss Eliza- beth Wyland, a graduate of the Harlan high school and of Grinnell College. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Wyland.
LIEUT. RICHARD BOOTH.
Lieut. Richard Booth is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Booth, and grand- son of N. Booth. Lieutenant Booth, after graduation from the Harlan high school, was appointed to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and passed his examinations successfully for admission to this institution. He made a splendid record for himself as a student in the academy and is now an officer in the United States navy.
ESTELLA WYLAND.
Estella Wyland, the daughter of Hon. and Mrs. C. J. Wyland, attended the public schools of Harlan, and then spent one year in Wellesley College. Subsequently she taught in the Harlan high school very successfully. Some
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years later she was married to Mr. Chatterton, who subsequently became governor of Wyoming.
H. P. NIELSEN.
H. P. Nielsen attended the public schools of Shelby county and subse- quently entered the University of Nebraska, from which he was graduated. He for several years held the principalship of the high school at Hastings, Nebraska, and was president of one of the large teachers' associations of Nebraska. Subsequently he was city superintendent of the schools of Harlan and is now superintendent of the schools of Glenwood. Iowa.
DOUGLAS ROGERS.
Douglas Rogers, the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Rogers of Cuppy's Grove, and grandson of Dr. W. J. Johnston of Cuppy's Grove, attended the public schools of Monroe township and the Harlan high school, later entering the law department of the State University of Iowa, and was graduated. He began the practice of law at Manning, Iowa, and is now the Democratic candidate for the House at Des Moines, and will undoubtedly be elected.
J. D. CAUGHRAN.
J. D. Caughran, who was born in Iowa, and came to the town of Shelby in 1872. was for many years a prominent citizen of the county and leader in the Republican party. Later he moved to the city of Tacoma, Washington, where he achieved much distinction. He became a member of the city coun- cil of Tacoma and handled the first wheat shipped abroad from that point. consisting of one million bushels. He went into partnership with D. B. Sheller, a former resident of Harlan, in the abstract business. He was a member of the Washington Legislature during the years of 1891-2. Mr. Canghran went to Tacoma in 1885. He previously to that time had been in the grain, lumber and banking business at Shelby for thirteen years. He had served as lieutenant in the Civil War.
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For the following splendid record of the young people of Shelby town- ship the author is indebted to Miss May Brown, herself a graduate of the Shelby high school and of the lowa State College at Ames, and for several years a successful principal of the Harlan high school. The achievements
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of these young people certainly reflect great credit on the community and on the schools of Shelby.
Albert Stevens was a member of the first graduating class of the Shelby high school. This was in 1886. After this he spent several years teaching school. He then pursued a course in the Philadelphia Medical School, com- pleting it in 1892. He located at Hancock. Iowa, and has been one of Pottawattamie county's successful physicians.
Frank Allen, after finishing the course of the Shelby high school ( 1893), went to lowa City and took a course in medicine at the State University of Iowa. He has practiced medicine in several different places with success. He is now located at Jordan, lowa.
William Bullock, another alumnus of the Shelby high school ( 1894), completed a course in medicine at the Iowa State University and is a practic- ing physician at Lake View, Iowa.
. Adelaide Dutcher-Curtis attended school in Shelby. Before entirely completing the course, she entered the State University of Wisconsin at Madison and was graduated as a Bachelor of Science in 1897. She then took a four-year medical course at the Johns Hopkins Medical School of Baltimore, Maryland. After completing her hospital training she located in Syracuse, New York and is one of the successful physicians of Syracuse.
Hugh Linn was a member of the class of 1898 from Shelby high school. He worked his way through Simpson College, then went to Chicago and worked his way through the medical school of Northwestern University. After a year's hospital work, he sailed as a medical missionary to Bidar. India, where he is doing a wonderful work among the natives.
Fred Buckley, of the Shelby high school, class of 1899, studied several years in the Iowa State University, completing his medical course at the Northwestern University of Chicago. He practiced several years at Broken Bow, Nebraska, then made his permanent location at Beatrice, Nebraska, where he has a large and growing practice.
Julius C. Peters went to Colorado and entered the State University at Boulder. He made a special study of irrigation projects from a legal stand- point. After his graduation from the law department he located at Great Falls, Montana.
William Pomeroy finished the Shelby high school in 1896. He took a course in law at the State University of Iowa, receiving his diploma in 1903. He is located at Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Ralph Pryor, after graduation from Shelby high school entered the State
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University of Nebraska and he was graduated from the law department in 1904. He is now one of Shelby county's successful farmers.
Ed Wunder is also an alumnus of the law department of Nebraska State University. He is practicing at Fairbury, Nebraska.
William Baer. of the class of 1904. completed a course in veterinary science and surgery at Kansas City Veterinary College in 1912 and is prac- ticing his profession at Malvern, Iowa.
Roy Buckley. of Shelby high school, class of 1901. took a complete course of dentistry at Northwestern University. He is also located at Beatrice, Nebraska.
Ray Morton completed a course in dentistry at the lowa State University in 1901. He is a practicing dentist at Mason City, Iowa. He was a famous football player.
Loren Pomeroy, of the class of 1898 Shelby high school, took his work in the Chicago Dental School. He is a practicing dentist at Avoca, Iowa.
Henry Wunder finished the Shelby high school in 1904. He studied in Iowa State University, Nebraska State University and University of Wis- consin. He is now county recorder of Shelby county.
Elmer MeCausland went from his father's farm near Shelby to school . at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon. After graduation here, he went to Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, where he took further work. For several years he was an instructor in the engineering department in this same school. He afterwards went to Seattle, Washington, as instructor in the State Uni- versity there. Several years ago he accepted a life deanship of the Engineer- ing College in the University of Missouri, at Columbia.
Watson Keeney finished the Shelby high school in 1894 and entered one of the state normal schools at Oneida, New York. After completing his normal training he began teaching in one of the many suburbs of New York City. He continued his special training in New York University, from which he was given the degree of Doctor of Pedagogy. He holds a life position in the New York city schools.
Bessie Benham, after completing the work of the Shelby high school. taught several terms in the rural schools of Shelby county. She spent three years taking work in the College of Liberal Arts at Iowa State University. She then took special kindergarten and primary work at the Armour Institute in Chicago. For nearly ten years she has been a successful teacher in the schools of Seattle, Washington.
Irene Savage completed practically all the work of the Shelby high school, but lacked a few weeks of graduation. She then went to Penn Col-
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lege at Oskaloosa where she continued her education about two years. After teaching awhile, she went to Cedar Falls and completed the primary training course there. After this she was elected to a position in the schools of Den- ver, Colorado. She has been a very successful teacher there for the past fourteen years and practically has a life position.
Minnie Krukenberg finished the Shelby high school in 1903 and that fall entered the University of Nebraska. She was graduated here from the College of Liberal Arts and from the Teachers' College. Since then she has taught successfully in several high schools of Nebraska. The past two years she has had charge of the normal training department in the Council Bluffs. Iowa, high school.
Alice Frum after completing the work of the Shelby high school, studied two years in the State University of Iowa, then went to Nebraska State Uni- versity from which she was graduated ( in 1910), as Bachelor of Arts. She also completed the work in the Teachers' College. She won Phi Beta Kappa honors, and carried off a scholarship in American history. After teaching one year she spent several months in Europe. She is now teaching in the Shelby high school.
Sadie Barrett was graduated from the Shelby high school in 1904. She then went to Cedar Falls where she completed a course in special primary work. After several years of successful teaching she was elected to the posi- tion of primary teacher in the Council Bluffs. fowa, city schools. She is now doing her sixth year's work there.
Marie Luers-Craven, of the class of 1893 of the Shelby high school, entered Simpson College. Before completing her work she went to Cali- fornia where she entered Leland Stanford University, graduating therefrom in 1903. She is now teaching in the high school of Canon City, Colorado.
Mae Sutton-Walker, of the high school class of 1893, completed a course in Battle Creek Sanitarium in 1905. She continued working in the hospital for several years. She is now located at Denver, Colorado.
Esther Jones, of the class of 1911. has just finished her nurse's training course in the Methodist Episcopal hospital in Omaha.
Grace Buckley, of the high school class of 1901, studied four years in Iowa State University, being graduated therefrom in 1907. After teaching several years, she entered the Presbyterian hospital at Chicago for special nurse's training course. She received her diploma in March, 1914.
M. E. Clapp. of the high school class of 1897. completed a course in the Liberal Arts College at Iowa State University in 1901. He then became
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a partner in his father's bank at Shelby. He is now president of the Shelby County Savings Bank of Shelby, lowa.
A. C. Clapp finished his high school course in 1898. He also pursued a course in Liberal Arts at lowa State University, being graduated therefrom. He is now president of the Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank, Harlan, Jowa.
Hattie Plum-Williams was graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1902 as a Bachelor of Arts. She took her master's degree in 1909. For several years she has been working on a thesis on the "Historical and Social Study of the Russian German." The first part relates to this whole group of immigrants in the United States. The social part is based on a study of the Lincoln settlements. She will take her Doctor of Philosophy degree in June, 1915.
Arthur Buckley was graduated in 1904 from the electrical engineering department of Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa. He is a successful farmer or rancher on a large ranch near Colorado Springs.
John F. Brown, of the high school class of 1898, finished his course in civil engineering at lowa State College in 1903. Ile is now chief civil engineer of the South works of the Illinois Steel Company, Chicago, Illinois.
Frank L. Brown completed a course in civil engineering at lowa State -College in 1904. He became constructing engineer for the Des Moines Bridge and Iron Works. He is now chief draftsman in iron works at Mil- waukee, Wisconsin.
Lewis Cutchall. after finishing the course of the Shelby high school. entered Nebraska State University and studied four years in the electrical engineering department. After receiving his diploma he went South and located at Dallas, Texas.
John Dutcher was granted a diploma in civil engineering from Wis- consin State University in 1897. He is a civil engineer in Chicago.
Murray Hadley, of the high school class of 1905. completed his course in mining engineering at Iowa State College in 1912. He is a mining engineer at Ravensdale, Washington.
Vern Plum, another Shelby high school alumnus, completed his work in the electrical engineering department of Iowa State University in 1909. He is located at Gilman. Montana.
Archie Scott finished his high school work in 1898. He later took up the work of mining engineering at Iowa State College, completing this work in 1905. He is now superintendent and partner in the manufacturing plant of brick and tile at Boone, Iowa.
Clifford Scott, after his high school work, spent one year in the Nebraska
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State University. He then went to Ames, where he received a diploma several years later in mining engineering. He is at present in the employ of the Laclede Iron and Steel Works at St. Louis, Missouri.
Ralph Fagan was graduated from Shelby high school in 1899. He took some work in the Liberal Arts College at Iowa State University. He soon after entered the ministry and is now pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Springfield, Nebraska.
Charles Mayne, an alumnus of Shelby high school, spent several years in Cornell College, Mt. Vernon. From there he went to Garrett Biblical Institute. Before his entrance to Cornell he had planned to enter the min- istry. Through his collegiate course he usually served a small congregation. After completing his work at Garrett, he became a regular minister of the Des Moines conference. He is now pastor at Griswold. Iowa.
Mary Scott, after completing her high school, turned her attention to the study of music. She studied in the Chicago Music School and has a large class of piano pupils in Pottawattamie county.
Emma Brown also became a music student. She completed a four-year course of piano at Simpson. The Normal music work was taken at the same place.
Clyde Williams, an alumnus of the Shelby high school, graduated from the dental department of the State University of Iowa. He became captain of one of the most famous football teams of the university, a team that de- feated the Universities of Chicago and Michigan. Williams was given credit for being the best field captain of the Mississippi valley and of the entire West. He is now athletic director of the Iowa State College of Ames, Iowa.
Mary Tate completed the high school course at Shelby in 1893. She then entered Grinnell College. from which she was later graduated. She has taught in the Shelby high school for about ten years.
Hon. William F. Cleveland, of Harlan, one of the leading Democrats of Iowa, has been highly honored by his party. He served in the State Sen- ate, representing Shelby and Cass counties. In the last presidential cam- paign his name appeared on the ballot at the head of the Democratic column as candidate for presidential elector-at-large. He was elected together with the other Democratic electors and had the honor of carrying the vote of Iowa to Washington. Mr. Cleveland, by the way, is a distant relative of Grover Cleveland.
Editor W. C. Campbell, of the Harlan Tribune, has been the nominee of his party for Congress from the ninth district of Iowa.
N. Nielsen has served as president of the Jewelers' Association of Iowa
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and is the ninth district chairman of the Progressive party, and was its nominee for state senator at th elast election.
Rush C. Benedict, for many terms in the Iowa House, was chief clerk. It is safe to say that no man in Iowa, during his time, was so familiar with the rules of procedure of the House at Des Moines as Mr. Benedict, and no officer more popular than he.
Miss Ada Bomberger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Bomberger, of Harlan, has studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. She was for some time employed in a Chicago engraving house, where part of her work was to hand-paint and embellish the pages of a de huixe edition of work describ- ing a New York millionaire's farm.
Among the young people of Shelby county who have shown particular talent in art is Miss Helen Kolb, formerly a resident of Clay township, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kolb. She is now engaged in commercial art. For some time she was a student at the Chicago Art Institute. For the last six or seven years she has been employed by the Osborn Company of Chicago.
Miss Freda Noble, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Noble, now a resident of Chicago, is also engaged in doing various kinds of art work. She has done some work by way of illustrating magazine articles, designing fancy postal cards, etc.
Chesley Rogers, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Rogers, of Harlan, has achieved success in commercial art. He lives in the city of Des Moines and has as his patrons many of the prominent business men of that city and of other business men over the country who desire fine advertising devices.
Dr. Fred Brazie has been assistant state veterinarian. Dr. A. D. Kuhl has also been honored with a similar appointment.
W. F. McNaughton is a son of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. McNaughton, early settlers in Grove township. While a student in the University of Nebraska he distinguished himself in debate and represented the university in a contest with the University of Colorado. Mr. McNaughton is a brother of Sheriff- elect C. W. McNaughton, of Harlan, and is practicing law at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
A number of Shelby county young men have taken up the work of automobile manufacturing, and are employed in some of the great factories of the country. Among these young men are Robert Campbell, Frank Mc- Farland and Lynden Bagley. 1
Lawrence Nelson. who after graduation from the Harlan high school attended the Iowa State College of Agriculture at Ames, has a fine position on a great farm in Michigan, as manager in the employment of the wealthy owner of the farm.
CHAPTER XXX
SOME UNUSUAL MATTERS AND EVENTS.
FEUD BETWEEN THE JOHNSTON AND CUPPY FAMILIES.
The two earliest pioneer families of Cuppy's Grove, that of Dr. W. J. Johnston and that of Adam Cuppy, who lived only a few hundred yards apart, seemed to have had trouble almost from the start of their settlement there. This disagreement between the members of these respective families sems to have reached a culmination whn John Johnston was shot and killed in July, 1860.
On July 21, 1860, an information was filed with county judge William Wyland, charging William B. Cuppy with the alleged murder of John Johns- ton and charging Adam Cuppy with being accessory to the said crime. The two defendants were placed under arrest by Milton Stanton, sheriff, and brought before Judge Wyland, who fixed July 26, 1860, for examination.
In the meantime on July 24. 1860, W. J. Johnston, Mary Ann Johnston and Brafford Johnston were arrested and brought before Judge Wyland charged with having committed an assault with intent to kill William B. Cuppy. Judge Wyland fixed the 27th day of July, 1860. for their prelim- inary hearing.
On July 26, accordingly, the case of William B. Cuppy and Adam Cuppy came on for hearing with the result that Judge Wyland required them to give bonds in the sum of three thousand dollars for their appearance at the next term of the district court of Shelby county to answer to any charge that the grand jury might prefer against them, which bonds were duly given. On the 27th of July, 1860, Judge Wyland dismissed the defendants, W. J. Johns- ton, Mary Ann Johnston and Brafford Johnston. W. B. Cuppy and Adam Cuppy were eventually released, or acquitted. as I find no further record of the case.
THE KILLING OF ADAM CUPPY. 1 .
[D. S. Irwin, of Irwin, Iowa, in 1870, in the course of a series of articles recounting the history of Shelby county, wrote the following review of the
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death of Adam Cuppy, of Cuppy's Grove, and the circumstances leading up to it. This event was probably the most exciting episode that had oc- curred in Shelby county up to that date. Many of the most prominent citizens of Shelby county were interested or in some manner implicated. The editor of this history does not undertake to do more in connection with this matter than to quote the following narrative written by Mr. Irwin but five years after the occurrence which ought to make it fairly reliable. ]
"On the 23d day of October, 1865, occurred the murder of Adam Cuppy. But little of the evidence given during the trial of those who were indicted for the murder has been preserved, so that the particulars of the case can only be ascertained from those who lived in the county at the time, and the accounts given by them are so conflicting that we will publish but few of them. But from the best authority that we can find. the causes which led to the murder are as follows :
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