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Their children are as follows: Andrew J., of Neosho county ; John M .: Granville Sherman: Joseph, who died at the age of thirty-one, leaving four daughters; and James W .. who died at the age of twenty- five. Mr. Scott and his wife are members of the Christian church, and he is affiliated with the G. A. R. post.
WILLIAM LANYON, JR.
William Lanyon. Jr .. a director of the National Bank of Pittsburg and prominent in other directions in Pittsburg and southeastern Kansas, is a member of the well known Lanyon family which figures so con- spicuously on these pages both from a personal point of view and be- cause of the immense impetus which their industries and financial enter- prises have given to Crawford county as well as to other centers of the middle west. Zinc smelting was for many years the great industry of the Pittsburg district and still retains an important place here, and the various members of the last two adult generations of the Lanyons were responsible for its establishment and successful prosecution in these parts. Mr. William Lanyon, Jr., has himself maintained the high repu- tation of his house in his career as a financier and industrial magnate,
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and is recognized as one of the powers that move the business machin- ery of Pittsburg.
Mr. Lanyon was born at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, in 1862. being a son of William and Maria ( Thomas) Lanyon. William. Sr., was born in England. where all the family had their origin, and when a child was brought to American shores by his parents, who settled at Mineral Point about the same time the other Lanyons located there. Mineral Point is the place where the Lanyon zinc industry, which after- ward aggregated millions of dollars in property, had its humble begin- ning. The senior Mr. Lanyon came to Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1882 in the interest of the smelter plant established at that time, and has since spent much of his time in southeastern Kansas, but he and his wife still retain their home at Mineral Point. He is now president of the State Bank of Jola, Kansas, at which city he spends much of his time. Like most of the other members of the family, he has disposed of a large part of his smelter interests and is devoting his attention mainly to banking.
Mr. William Lanyon, Jr., came to Pittsburg with his father in 1882, and became connected with the then recently established Lanyon smelter. A few years later the discovery of natural gas in the vicinity of Iola caused a removal of the smelter plants to that place in order that they might benefit by the cheap fuel, and Mr. Lanyon moved to that city temporarily. and was later connected with the Lanyon zinc works at Neodesha. All the time, however, he has retained his home in Pitts- burg. his residence on North Joplin street occupying the entire half block between Nineteenth and Twentieth, being one of the most com- modious and comfortable homes of the city. In September. 1903. he disposed of most of his interests at Neodesha and purchased an interest in the Lanyon bank at Pittsburg. the National Bank of Pittsburg, and as one of the directors he gives largely of his time and energies to the management of this important financial institution, whose history is
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given on other pages of this work. He is one of the largest stockholders in this bank.
Mr. Lanyon is a member of the Pittsburg board of education, and is interested in all matters affecting the public welfare. He has attained to the thirty-second degree in Masonry, and is a member of the com- mandery and of the Mystic Shrine. He was married in 1883 to Miss Amelia ( Spratler ) Lanyon, and they have four children, Roy, Linnett, Wilma and Helen.
JESSE C. HIETT.
A most noticeable fact in the business world is that young men are controlling the avenues and arteries of trade, are conducting impor- tant industrial and commercial interests and are rapidly working their way to the front in the professions. Take any western community and therein it will be found that the real leaders in business are men who perhaps have not yet attained the prime of life, but who, possessing the enterprising and progressive spirit which dominates the west, have made for themselves a name and place as representatives of financial interests. To this class Jesse C. Hiett belongs. He is engaged in the real estate business in Girard, Kansas, and although but a young man has secured a good clientage in his chosen field of labor.
He was born in Crawford county, Kansas, March 26. 1876, and is a son of James M. and Sarah L. (Brown) Hiett, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Illinois. James M. Hiett. after leaving the Old Dominion, became a resident of Illinois, and the year 1874 witnessed his arrival in Crawford county, Kansas, where he secured a tract of land and began agricultural pursuits. He was thus actively engaged until about three years ago, when he put aside the arduous duties of the farm and retired to private life, establishing his home in Girard, where he is now enjoying a well merited rest and the fruits of his former toil. In the family were five children, namely: Arthur E.,
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who is now a resident of Pittsburg. Kansas: Julius S., who makes his home in San Francisco, California; Jesse C .. of this review; Hattie May, the wife of Hugh Gregg, of Girard; and Earl C., who is at home with his parents.
In taking up the history of Jesse C. Hiett, a native son of Craw- ford county, we present to our readers the life record of one who is widely and favorably known here. He is indebted to the public school system for the early educational privileges which he enjoyed, and when he had completed the work of the common schools he entered the high schools at Cherokee, Kansas. He has always made his home under the parental roof. In March, 1901, he became a member of the firm of David & Hiett, real estate agents of Girard, but this connection was maintained for only four months, at the end of which time Mr. Hiett purchased his partner's interest and has since conducted business alone as a real estate, fire insurance and loan agent. He has thoroughly in- formed himself concerning the realty values in this part of the country, and he also does considerable business in the other departments of the undertaking, to which he directs his energies. He makes a specialty of Kansas and Missouri farm lands, is also emigrant agent for the Frisco Railroad. Mr. Hiett belongs to Girard Lodge No. 55. I. O. O. F .. of Girard, and he gives his political support to the Democracy. He is also a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles of Girard, as a charter member of Eyrie No. 869. He served as township clerk tor three years, but otherwise has never sought or desired public office, pre- ferring to give his attention to his business affairs, wherein he is meet- ing with creditable success.
WILLIAM L. RINGO.
William L. Ringo, representing the business interests of Girard as a real estate agent-the junior member of the firm of Radley & Ringo,-was born in Carroll county, Kentucky, April 29, 1866, and
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is a son of Germany M. and Sarah (King) Ringo, both of whom are natives of the same state. The father was a farmer by occupation, and after following that pursuit in Kentucky for a number of years he came to Kansas, establishing his home in Crawford county in the year 1882. Here he resumed agricultural pursuits, in which he continued until his life's labors were ended by death, although owing to ill health in later years he had largely left the active work of the farm to others. He passed away .August 23. 1901, at the age of seventy-one years. His widow, who still survives, is now living at Mulberry. Crawford county.
William L. Ringo spent his boyhood days in his parents' home, and when a youth of sixteen accompanied them on their removal to Kansas. His education was acquired in the public schools of his native state, and he worked upon the home farm from early boyhood, assisting in the labors of the field as soon as old enough to handle the plow. Owing to his father's invalid condition he took charge of the home farm in Kansas when nineteen years of age and conducted it until his removal to Pittsburg. In the spring of 1901 he went to that city, where he entered the employ of the Taylor & Wheeler Loan Company, con- tinuing in that position for eight months. He next joined Mr. Radley in the real estate and insurance business, and the firm of Radley & Ringo at Girard has already secured a good clientage and made for itself an excellent reputation for honorable and progressive business methods.
On the 2d of June, 1892, occurred the marriage of Mr. Ringo and Miss Emma S. White, a daughter of William S. and Elizabeth M. ( Rouch) White, of Kentucky. This marriage has been blessed with one son, William L., now an interesting lad of ten years. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ringo hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, and he exercises his right of franchise in support of the Democracy. He gives his aid and co-operation to many movements for the general good. and during his residence in Girard he has won the favorable regard of many with whom he has come in contact through both busi- ness and social relations.
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JOSEPH D. SHEFFIELD.
Joseph D. Sheffield, a prominent citizen of Arcadia, is a native son of Crawford county, and his family name has been a familiar one in this part of the country for over forty years. He belongs to the young and progressive element of citizenship, and has already shown himself possessed of the spirit and energy of his worthy sire and grandsires, and is giving a good account of himself in the varied relations of his busy years.
Mr. Sheffield was born in Lincoln township, Crawford county. August 17. 1877, a son of Alphes J. and Mary ( Collins ) Sheffield. His mother's parents. Daniel and Ellen Collins, were natives of Ire- land. and the former came to America in young manhood, and during the days of gold went out to Pike's Peak and mined. He returned to Lecompton, Kansas, and in 1862 enlisted in the Union army, and gave three years and three months to the government, as a patriotic defender of his adopted land. He died in 1900 at the age of seventy- seven, and his wife had passed away in 1869.
Mr. Sheffield's paternal grandparents were Joseph and Ellen Shef- field, who were born near Rochester, New York. In 1847 Joseph came out to DeKalb county, Illinois, and was engaged in farming there until July. 1860, when he sold his place and came to Lincoln township. Crawford county, where he bought one hundred and sixty acres of government land. His son. Alphes J. Sheffield, also took one hundred and sixty acres in Lincoln township, and improved it and engaged in stock-raising. He loaned money to the poor settlers, and when the Joy land troubles came up he decided that Joy was in the right. which brought a storm of abuse upon him from the settlers, who even refused him his claim. At the first term of court ever held in Craw- ford county he had twenty-five cases, and won every one of them. He was a prominent man in the various affairs of the county. In 1878. while the old Fort Scott and Memphis road was being constructed
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through his farm, the horse he was riding ran in front of a construc- tion train, and he was killed. His wife died in 1882.
Mr. Joseph D. Sheffield was deprived of his mother's care when five years old, and he then made his home with his grandfather Col- lins, who sent him to the parochial school at Scammon for three years and a half, and after that he attended the high school at Arcadia and for two years was at Osage Mission. He lived with his grandfather Collins till the latter's death, and in 1900 he moved to Arcadia. He has a fine farm a mile and a half north of town, and operates this in a business-like way that gains results. He was elected assessor of his township for a two years' term, and still holds this office.
Mr. Sheffield is a Democrat in politics. He affiliates with Lodge No. 159, of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and also with the Knights of Columbus, and his church membership is with the Catholic church at Arcadia. Mr. Sheffield married, February 3. 1897, Miss Mary Crites, a daughter of Jolin Crites, whose interesting personal history is given on other pages of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Sheffield have one child. Joseph Daniel, Jr., born December 5, 1899.
JOHN J. CAMPBELL.
John J. Campbell, present incumbent of the office of city attorney of Pittsburg, Kansas, and otherwise prominent in the public and pro- fessional life of the city and county, joined the ranks of the legal fra- ternity a decade ago and has had a most successful career. He gained his start on the road to success by his great energy and inherited talent for participation in public affairs and legal matters, and he has for several years been recognized among the leading representatives at the bar in one of the foremost counties of the state.
Mr. Campbell has the distinction of being a native of the Sun- flower state, so that his life from birth has been identified with its institutions and activities. He was born in Neosho county, September
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10, 1869, a son of Daniel and Mary ( McRae ) Campbell, both of staunch Scotch stock and lineage. His father was born in Nova Scotia. and followed farming. He migrated to Kansas in 1867, locating in Neosho county, where he was one of the pioneers and took up a prairie claim. He was a highly successful farmer there until his death, which occurred in 1871. Mrs. Mary Campbell was also a native of Nova Scotia, and now makes her home in Erie. Kansas, being an old lady. endeared by her many graces of character to all who know her.
Mr. Campbell spent his youth in Neosho county on the home farm. He received his early education in the district schools of his com munity, and later entered Baker University, at Baldwin, Kansas, where he was a student for two years. At the age of nineteen he came to Pittsburg and took up the study of law in the office of his brother. Phillip P. Campbell, whose career receives cursory mention below. He was admitted to the bar in December. 1893, and six months later was appointed city attorney of Pittsburg. In 1900 he was elected county attorney of Crawford county, and after serving two years was offered the nomination again, but declined, owing to the fact that his brother was in that year a candidate for Congress. In the spring of 1903 he was again appointed city attorney, and is still serving in that office.
Mr. Campbell is unmarried. He is highly esteemed in social and business circles, and is especially prominent in local politics. He has gained quite a reputation as an orator, and is often called upon to make speeches during the campaigns and on other occasions. He is a past exalted ruler and very prominent in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a high-degree Mason, having all the consistory degrees including the thirty-second and being a Shriner.
HON. P. P. CAMPBELL.
Hon. P. P. Campbell. the brother of John J. Campbell, and present congressman from the third Kansas district, is a lawyer and profes-
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sional man of whom the state has greatest reason to be proud. He was born in Nova Scotia in 1862, and grew up on his father's claim in Neosho county, working hard at farm duties during his youth. He received a district school education, and afterward entered Baker Uni- versity, where he helped pay his expenses by the vigorous use of a bucksaw. Such energy, combined with his native talent, was a cer- tificate in advance for good results, and after hard work he graduated six years later. He studied law while on the farm and in the office of Coggswell and Kinney, at Osage Mission, Kansas, and was admit- ted to the bar at Fredonia, Wilson county, Kansas, in 1889.
He began practice at Pittsburg immediately after his admission, and his ability and enterprising resourcefulness soon won him a place among the leading members of the bar in Crawford county. He made his first political speech at Chanute, Kansas, in 1884. and ever since that time has been in great demand as a campaign orator, and has delivered effective speeches in sixty-five different counties of Kansas. One of his notable addresses was delivered before the Marquette Club at Chi- cago, at the Lincoln Day banquet. February 12. 1902, and was entitled "Responsive Powers of the Republic."
On June 12. 1902, the Republican convention of the third Kansas district. in session at Winfield, Kansas, nominated him for Congress, with the unanimous endorsement of his county, and in the following November he was elected by an overwhelming majority, and is now one of the intelligent representatives of his state in the lower house of the national legislature.
JOHN R. LINDBURG.
John R. Lindburg, president of the First National Bank of Pitts- burg, Kansas, has been connected with the commercial and financial affairs of this city almost since its inception. In fact, when he came here. twenty-seven years ago. the population numbered forty-two per-
RESIDENCE OF JOHN R. LINDBURG, PITTSBURG, KANSAS
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sons. Pittsburg has assumed very important proportions since that time, and is now one of the leading industrial centers of the state. Mr. Lindburg, by his willing co-operation in this remarkable growth and upbuilding, has made himself an influential personality in the community, and is recognized as a foremost citizen in financial, social and purely civic matters.
Mr. Lindburg was born in the town of Wimmerby, Sweden, in 1849, and was reared to manhood there, receiving his college education in the old institution known as Wimmerby College. He was nineteen years old when he came to the United States in 1868, and his first loca- tion was in Chicago, where he worked in a sawmill for six months. From that city he went to Peoria, Illinois, but soon returned to Chicago and obtained a position in a store, and later was in the mercantile busi- ness for himself in that city. From Chicago he went to Red Oak, Iowa. where he clerked in a store for a time. He took up what has proved his permanent residence in Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1877. He had a store in those early days, and his own enterprises and success have increased with the progress of the city, which, a few years after his settlement there, entered upon a solid and substantial boom, and grew from a mere hamlet to a flourishing and wealthy city in the course of a decade of time.
The First National Bank, of which Mr. Lindburg is president, was established in 1886, T. J. Hale being its first president. In the following year Mr. Lindburg was made its vice president, and in 1888 was elected president. On assuming the responsibilities of this important position he disposed of his commercial interests, and has since devoted all his energies to making the bank a power and factor in the business activity of the city and county, which laudable ambition he can be said to have attained in a high degree. He has been an active working president since the day of his election, always on duty, and his genial temperament and wholesouled and happy manner of treating all his associates and customers have been important elements in the institution's success.
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The First National has had a somewhat remarkable growth and progress. and its permanence and financial integrity and conservatism of manage- ment are made much of by all its patrons. The prosperous history and present condition of the First National is shown at a glance in the fol- lowing tables, one showing a comparison of assets from 1886 to 1905, and the other the statement of resources and liabilities as existing in February of 1905:
ASSETS.
1886.
$ 98,855.83
1896 $161.499.82
1887.
108,217.63
1897.
195.761.14
1888.
123,677.30
1808. 255,185.53
1889.
151,825.91
1809. 374,805.85
1890.
139,843-37
1900.
420.305.54
I8QI
138,760.66
IGOI.
545.989.21
1892
167,202.18
1902.
666,138.25
1893
158,174.34
1903.
897.456.87
1894.
172,496.10
1905.
916,232.96
1895.
163,509.66
RESOURCES.
LIABILITIES
Loans and Discounts.
.$558.279.59
Capital Stock
$ 50,000.00
Furniture and Fixtures.
6,000.00
Surplus and Net Profits.
40,385.70
Banking House.
21,000.00
Circulation
50,000.00
Other Real Estate ..
4,231.65
U. S. Govt. Deposit.$36,000.00
U. S. Bonds. $105,000.00
Other Deposits .$736,871.15
Cash & due fm. Banks 218,745.61
Total Deposits.
772,871.15
Total.
323,745.61
$913.256.85
$913,256.85
Mr. Lindburg is considered one of the most public-spirited men of Pittsburg. Seldom has a movement for the upbuilding or betterment of the city been without his active co-operation and assistance, often has been undertaken with his leadership and always with his entire sym- pathy. He is especially commended for his efficient administration of the affairs of the Pittsburg Building and Loan Association, of which he has been president for twenty years, and which during that time has never lost a dollar. He has built about ten brick business buildings in the city, and, with his associates, has put up about two hundred dwellings which have been sold to the laboring people on installments.
For a number of years Mr. Lindburg was president of the Com- mercial Club, of which he was the founder. He was a member of the
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first city council, and is now a member of the city school board, and in these places has done much for civic improvement and educational ad- vancement. He is prominent in Free Masonry, being past eminent com- mander of the Knights Templar, and has held several other positions in the fraternity.
Mr. Lindburg was married at Cambridge, Illinois, in 1874. to Miss Emma Vaughn, a native of Vermont. They have three children : Lotta is the wife of Captain William J. Watson, an attorney at law and the present postmaster of Pittsburg : the two other children are Rolla R. and John R., Jr.
JAMES CAREY.
James Carey, who is filling the position of police judge at Girard find was formerly identified with agricultural interests in Crawford county, is a native son of New England, his birth having occurred in Connecticut on the 5th of November, 1838. He is a son of Robert and Ellen (Gordon) Carey, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Scotland. In the year 1836 the father came to the United States and took up his abode at Newburgh. New York. In 1850 he went to New Jersey, where he lived neighbor to General George B. Mcclellan. In the year 1864, however, he left the Atlantic coast and made his way to the Mississippi valley, taking up his abode in Iroquois county, Illinois. There he engaged in stock-raising and farming, making his home in that locality until his death, which occurred in 1867. when he was fifty- three years of age. His wife survived him for about eight years and died in 1875 at the age of fifty-eight years. One of their sons. Rev. Dr. Joseph Carey, has been pastor of the Episcopal church at Saratoga. New York, for thirty years. Another son, Thomas Carey, was a prominent attorney of New Jersey and a partner of Reuben Van Pelt, of New York. but is now deceased.
James Carey, whose name forms the caption of this review, pur-
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sued his education in the public schools of Connecticut and of New York, and at the age of twenty years he entered upon his business career as an express messenger in the employ of the Wescott & Dodd Express Company, of New York, and Savannah, Georgia, on board the Star of the South. He was thus engaged for two years, when the vessel was compelled to leave the south on account of the troublous times incident to the Civil war. Mr. Carey afterward secured a clerical position with George W. Veasy, who was proprietor of the Pulaski Hotel. Later going to New York, he took charge of the Twelfth Street House for one year and on the expiration of that period turned his attention to agricultural pursuits at Warwick, New York, his time being thus occu- pied for two years. He next went to Ramapo valley and assisted in organizing a company for service in the Civil war in connection with Colonel Frank Price, a son of ex-Governor Price, of New Jersey. Mr. Carey, however, did not go to the front because he was taken ill. He lay sick for fifteen months and was still in an invalid condition when he went with his parents to Iroquois county, Illinois. in 1864. There he engaged in farming. He and his father purchased sixteen hundred acres of land from W. W. Leland, and continued the operation of that property until 1875, when he went to California for his health. After a year he returned and was again engaged in farming until 1883, when once more his health failed him and he removed to Florida. In that part of the country he engaged in the raising of fruit and in the real estate business until 1888. In 1891 he sold his farm in Illinois on account of his health and came to Kansas. Here he purchased three hundred and sixty acres of land in Grant township, Crawford county. and began farming, operating his property until December, 1902, when he rented his land and took up his abode in Girard.
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