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Mr. Carey is now living retired from agricultural pursuits, but de- rives a good income from his farming interests. In April. 1903, he was elected police judge of Girard and is now acceptably filling that posi- tion. His first presidential vote was cast for Stephen A. Douglas, and
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he afterward voted for Abraham Lincoln and has since been a staunch Republican. While living in Illinois he was appointed justice of the peace hy Governor Oglesby, and upon his return from the south he was elected to that office, which he held until his removal to Kansas. He has been a prominent and influential factor in political circles in ev- ery community in which he has resided. He attended the Republican national convention held at Chicago when Benjamin Harrison was nom- inated, and he has also been a delegate to the state conventions of Kansas.
In December. 1860, Judge Carey was united in marriage to Miss Adeline Van Wert, a daughter of Stephen Van Wert, and they now have two children : Ella E., the wife of J. H. Slusher, of Paxton, Illinois : and James, who died at the age of ten years. Both children were born in Brooklyn. New York. Mrs. Carey is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, while Judge Carey is a communicant of the Episcopal church. Fraternally he is connected with the blue lodge of Masons and also with the chapter. Although handicapped by health, he has in an active and useful business career won a very creditable measure of suc- cess, and is now the possessor of a comfortable competence which is represented by his property interests in Kansas.
ENOCH FREED.
Enoch Freed, who resides on section 24, Osage township, came to Crawford county in 1880, and has since been numbered among the pro- gressive and prosperous farming element, being a man of unquestioned worth and standing in his community. Born in Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, in March, 1841. he has spent the years of his life in usefully directed effort, and by providing well for self and family enjoys con- tentment and ease at the approach of his declining years.
His parents were William and Mary ( Grote) Freed. both native Pennsylvanians and of German descent. Both died in Pennsylvania, the
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father at the age of eighty-six and the mother at eighty-five. His father was a farmer and politically a Democrat. and both were members of the Reformed church. There were thirteen children in their family. nine of whom grew up, but Enoch is the only resident of Kansas. His brothers and sisters are Aaron, Henry, Mary Ann, Catherine, William and Amanda.
Mr. Freed was reared on the old farm in his native state, receiving his education in the public schools. At the age of twenty-two he came west to Knox county, Illinois, from which county he went to the war. He enlisted at Victoria, that county, in April, 1864, in Company B. One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Illinois Infantry, under Captain Hunt and Colonel Goodman; from camp at Quincy, they were ordered to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where they were stationed six months, thence went to Springfield, Illinois, and later to Little Rock, Arkansas, and at the close of the war were returned to Illinois and honorably discharged.
After the war Mr. Freed returned to Knox county, and on Novem- her 10, 1866. was married there to Eliza Jane Glaze, who has been his wife and partner of joys and sorrows for nearly forty years. 'She was born in Clinton county, Ohio, February 16, 1848, a daughter of James and Phoebe ( Duncan) Glaze. natives, respectively, of Brown county and Adams county, Ohio, whence they moved to near Muncie, Delaware county. Indiana, and later to Knox county, Illinois. The mother died in Monmouth, Kansas, at the age of eighty-seven, but the father, who was a soldier, now lives as one of the honored and respected residents of Monmouth, this county. Mrs. Freed has a brother, William Perry, who was a soldier of the Ninth Indiana Cavalry and now lives at Muncie. Indiana, and four sisters : Sarah A. Northam, Mary E. Johnson, Harriet E. Windsor, and Martha F. Price. Daniel H., a brother, died at the age of fifty.
Since coming to Crawford county in 1880 Mr. Freed has been a prosperous agriculturist, and at the present time he owns one of the model farms of his locality. The homestead comprises eighty acres of
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choice land, with a pleasant and comfortable country residence, and well improved with barn, orchard and other up-to-date equipments of a twentieth century country home.
Mr. and Mrs. Freed have four children : Mary, a resident of Pitts- burg; Martha, the wife of Louis Gray, who lives on the homestead of Mr. Freed; Ed G., formerly a successful teacher in Pittsburg, who is in the wall-paper business in Kansas City, and Charles, in the furniture busi- ness at Pittsburg. Martha also followed the profession of a teacher in this county. Mr. Freed is affiliated with Osage Post No. 156. G. . A. R., at McCune, and he and his wife and three of the children are members of the Methodist church.
CHARLES F. MORRIS.
Charles F. Morris, mayor and postmaster of the town of Bruce in the south part of the county, is an old-time resident of Crawford county, having come here in 1873, and during the past thirty odd years he has made a most capable and successful record as a business man and participant in the general affairs of his community.
Born at Cincinnati, Ohio, February 22, 1844, he was brought up in that part of Ohio, and when eighteen years old became a soldier in the Civil war, in which he served for three years and four days as a cavalry- man. He enlisted at Seneca, Hamilton county, Ohio, in August, 1862. in Company C. Fifth Ohio Cavalry, under Captain Owen and Colonel Taylor ; was soon sent to Washington, and served first under the com- mand of General Kilpatrick and then under General Wilson: was at the battles of White House Landing and Gettysburg, and in innumerable skirmishes and forays and scouting expeditions, and was also sent against Morgan when that rehel leader made his raid north of the Ohio. After a long and faithful service he received his honorable discharge.
Mr. Morris was a son of Christ and Christine ( Ower ) Morris. His father was born in Scotland, was reared there to the age of fifteen,
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when he came to the United States, and for many years successfully followed the butcher's trade. He died in Indiana, while his wife, who was born in Germany, died in Ohio. They were the parents of four children.
Mr. Morris was reared and educated in Ohio, and early learned the butcher trade under the supervision of his father, and his subsequent life occupation has alternated between this trade and farming. He came to Crawford county in 1873 and settled on a farm near Bruce, where he continued for some years and then moved into Cherokee. Later he returned to the town of Bruce and went into the butcher busi- ness. He erected an excellent store of brick, twenty-five by fifty feet, and has also put up several other buildings in the town, with whose inter- ests he has been identified for many years, and in such a public-spirited manner that its best welfare has been conserved. He has been mayor of the town for a number of years, and has also been its efficient postmaster for some time. He is a stanch Republican in politics, and fraternally belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights and Ladies of Security.
Mr. Morris's wife was Miss Anna McColm, who was for some years engaged in the millinery business in Cherokee and was a capable business woman and very popular socially, as well as an able director of household affairs, so that her death in August. 1897, was a bereavement to the entire community. She left three children : Bertha B., who is married and living in Stone City, this state; Jessie and Roy C., both of Kansas City.
GEORGE W. BROWN.
George W. Brown, who has long been numbered among the promi- nent citizens of Crawford county and especially in Cherokee, being one of the leading Democrats of this part of the state and a man of influence in every relation of his life. was born at Rushville, Schuyler county.
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Illinois, in 1841. His parents, John and Jane ( Becket) Brown, were early settlers of Illinois.
He was reared and educated in Schuyler county, and lived there until he came to Crawford county in 1871, where he has passed the subsequent thirty-four years of his life. He was a leading business man of the town for twelve years. President Cleveland appointed him to the office of postmaster in 1885, and he gave his fellow citizens an excellent administration for four years. He was for some time the local repre- sentative of the McCormick harvesting machines. He spent one term in the state legislature, being elected in 1875, and in numerous other ways has performed a worthy part in public affairs. In 1896 he was manager of the Cherokee waterworks plant. He has been a member of the school board, and has always supported zealously the educational system of his state and county. A prominent Odd Fellow, he has served as a past grand master of the grand lodge. He is a member and an elder in the Christian church.
Mr. Brown was married in Cherokee, October 1, 1872, to Miss Anna Butler and they have four children. Dora E., Daisy D., Harry H. and Cecil. Dora and Harry are graduates of the Cherokee high school.
DR. L. M. KALLENBACH.
Dr. L. M. Kallenbach, who takes a leading position among the dent- ists of Crawford county, has been established in practice at Walnut for several years, and has found high favor among the citizens because of his reliability and skill as a dental surgeon. He belongs to the present day and generation of the dental profession, and this means that he is thor- oughly equipped in theory and practice, and able to perform work with a sureness and deftness of execution that would have baffled many a dentist of the old school. He prepared himself generously both in dental surgery and in general medicine, and he deserves and is steadily ac- quiring a large and representative patronage in Walnut and the sur- rounding country.
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Dr. Kallenbach was born in Macon county. Illinois, January I. 1875. a son of Morris and Louisa ( Eckhardt ) Kallenbach. His father engaged in the tubular well and windmill business in Illinois until 1900, in which year he came to Crawford county and bought a farm in Walnut township. where he and his wife reside at the present time.
Dr. Kallenbach received his early educational advantages in the Decatur, Illinois, schools, and began his professional training in the Marion Sims Medical College at St. Louis. After a year there he went to Louisville, Kentucky, and completed one year's course in the Louis- ville Dental College. He also spent one year in study at the Louisville Medical College, and following that went to Kansas City, where he practiced for two years. He graduated from the Kansas City Dental College in 1901, and with this splendid preparation came to Walnut and entered upon his life work. His practice is being constantly extend- ed. and he has a clientage that relies on him and seeks him whenever work is needed.
Dr. Kallenbach is a member of the blue lodge No. 229, and chapter No. 90, of the Masons, and also affiliated at one time with the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a member of the Kansas State Dental Association. He and his wife are members of the Cumberland Presby- terian church, and they reside in their own pleasant home. Dr. Kallen- bach was married. December 10, 1901, to Miss Barnita Quick, of Kansas City, Missouri. They have one son, Travis Earl, who is one year old.
DR. ALONZO O. BLAIR.
Dr. Alonzo O. Blair, physician and surgeon at Pittsburg, Kansas, has enjoyed a satisfactory and increasing patronage since coming to this county over twenty years ago, and has long since been recognized as among the leading men in his profession in Crawford county. He has been zealously devoted to the science of medicine not only as a means of gaining a livelihood but for its own sake and for the good he
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can accomplish in the worki by its judicious practice. He has also taken much interest in public affairs and in other matters of concern in the community in which he has resided.
Dr. Blair was born at Cutler, Perry county, Illinois, in 1852, a son of William R. and Martha ( McQuiston ) Blair. His parents were both of Scotch ancestry, and belonged to the somewhat numerous group of families of strong Presbyterian proclivities who settled in Perry and ' Randolph counties, Illinois, in the early part of the nineteenth century. resulting in the building up of towns such as Cutler, Coulterville and Sparta, communities where religious observances were very much ad- hered to, and which are today well known for having turned out more Presbyterian ministers and missionaries than any other section of like population. William Blair, who is still living in Cutler, where he is a prosperous farmer, was born in Tennessee, and came to Perry county with his father, James Blair, about 1830, being then ten years old. The ' Blairs have always been a prominent family in the western part of Perry county. Mrs. Martha Blair was born in South Carolina.
Dr. Blair received his education in the Coulterville Academy, from which he graduated in 1873. He later attended the St. Louis Medical College, where he was graduated in 1877. He then practiced about a year and a half at Coulterville, Illinois, and in 1878 came to Kansas, locating at Bavaria, Saline county, where he practiced medicine until 1882, which was the year of his coming to Crawford county. He prac- ticed in Beulah. Crawford county, for about eight years, and in 1800 went to New York city and spent a year studying in the New York Polyclinic. He then returned, better equipped than ever for the continu- ance of a most successful practice, and located at Pittsburg, where he has had his office ever since.
Dr. Blair is at present city health officer, and for one term repre- sented his ward, the second, in the city council. He is a stanch Republi- can in politics. He is one of the three owners, with Drs. George Williams and William Williams, of the Pittsburg City Hospital, which
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they founded in 1894, and which is a monument to their skill and energy, and an institution of which they are justly proud. Dr. Blair has con- siderable staff work to perform in the hospital, and in addition has a large private practice. He is secretary of the Crawford Medical Society and a member of the Kansas State Medical Society.
While engaged in practice in Coulterville, Illinois, Dr. Blair was married, in 1878, to Miss Elizabeth Hughes, of that city. They have three children : Florence, the wife of Robert Nesch, Jr. ; and Olive and John.
JOHN M. WAYDE.
John M. Wayde, who now fills the office of county attorney of Crawford county and is one of the leading lawyers of Pittsburg, has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Pittsburg since 1890, almost since the beginning of his legal career. He came here with a good equipment and with talents worthy of bringing him into repute, and his subsequent career has fully justified his expectations and his plans.
Mr. Wayde was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1862, a son of John and Mariah (Conley) Wayde. His father was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, April 25, 1829, and still lives there on his farm, having engaged in agricultural pursuits throughout his active career. His mother is deceased, having died September 7. 1881.
Mr. Wayde, like many other successful men in business and the professions, was reared on a farm, but while he thus became acquainted with the arduous duties of that life he also had the advantages of a good education. He was a student in the Pennsylvania State Normal, at Lockhaven, where he was graduated in 1886. He took up the study of law while still a resident of Pennsylvania, and continued it in the law department of the Northern Indiana Normal College, at Valparaiso, and later in the law department of the State University of Kansas, at Lawrence, where he was graduated in 1889. His first practice was in
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Leroy, Coffey county, Kansas, but after a year he came to Pittsburg, in the spring of 1890, and has enjoyed an increasing patronage ever since. Attorney Wayde lias been engaged, as the records will show, in some of the most intricate and difficult cases in the history of Crawford county. He was elected county attorney of Crawford county in 1902, on the Re- publican ticket, was re-elected to the same office in 1904, and has given a most excellent administration of the affairs of that office.
Mr. Wayde was married in Everett, Pennsylvania, on September 5. 1894, to Miss Margaret Pettigrew, and they have one son. Donald Wayde.
DAVID A. VINCENT.
David A. Vincent, one of the old and highly esteemed citizens of Girard, Kansas, has been an inhabitant of Crawford county for over thirty years, and is at present and has been for a number of years engaged in the conduct of a meat market and in stock-buying in Girard. He belongs to the progressive and public-spirited class of citizens who have been mainly responsible for the great growth and development of Crawford county since its pioneer times of hardly a third of a century ago, and his diligence and business push have brought himself a fair amount of worldly prosperity. He is a man of character and high personal worth, and is so regarded among his many business asso- ciates.
Mr. Vincent was born in McDonough county, Illinois, September 20, 1838, being a son of Michael and Harriet (Tinsley) Vincent, na- tives of Virginia and Kentucky, respectively. His parents came to Illinois about 1835, where his father was a farmer, and where he lived until his death at the age of eighty-five years, in June, 1871. His wife survived him until 1880.
Mr. David A. Vincent was educated and reared in MeDonough county, Illinois, and remained on the home farm until Angust, 1862.
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He then enlisted in Company I. Seventy-eighth Illinois Infantry, and was in the service till the end of the war. He was in the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, and at the battle of Chickamauga was taken pris- oner. He was conveyed to Richmond, and thence to the prison pen at Andersonville, and underwent the horrible experience of southern prison life for nineteen months and seven days, until the close of the war. He was released in Jacksonville, Florida, and from there went north to Maryland, and then home to Illinois, with a most creditable war record in the cause of his country. He was engaged in farming in Illinois for a few years, and on February 1. 1871, arrived in Crawford county, Kansas. He bought a farm on Hickory creek, twelve miles west of Girard, and for the next eleven years was an active and suc- cessful farmer and stock-raiser. He then moved to Girard and began buying stock, and in 1886 went into the meat market business. He still continues the buying and shipping of cattle. His son John M. became his partner in the market in February. 1903.
February 18, 1868, Mr. Vincent married Miss Jennie A. Jackson, a daughter of Jerry J. and Catherine Jackson, of Virginia. They have five children : Michael and Jerry were twins, and the former is now sheriff of Crawford county, and the latter is in the wood. coal and feed business in Kansas City : Cassie is the wife of Dana Barker, of Girard ; Allie is the wife of Charles McCune. of Chanute, Kansas; John M. is married. and is his father's partner. The family are Methodists in re- ligion. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent are members of the Sons and Daughters of America and of the Fraternal Aid. He is a staunch Republican in politics.
E. M. BOOR.
E. M. Boor is an old and respected resident of Osage township, where he is accounted as one of the most successful farmers. He came to the county in 1882, and for more than twenty years has been actively
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engaged in carrying on his extensive agricultural enterprise- His fine farm of three hundred and fifty-nine acres is located midway between McCune and Monmouth, and was formerly known as the "Old Cap place." He owns a commodious and delightfully homelike country residence, and the barn and other outbuildings and all their surround- ings show the capable farmer and business man which Mr. Boor is. .
Mr. Boor is a native of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, where he was born January 15. 1836, being of one of the old and substantia! families of that state, whose dominant characteristics have always been industry and absolute integrity in all the relations of life. Mr. Boor was a son of John, also a native of Pennsylvania, and a son of Michael, whose parents came to this country from Germany, founding the family seat in Pennsylvania. John Boor married Sarah Miller, also born in Pennsylvania, and her father was a soldier in the Revolution. In 1836. when the son E. M. was but a few months old, the family moved west to Indiana, locating in Clay county. John Boor, who successfully fol- lowed farming throughout his active life, died at the age of forty- eight. In politics he was a Whig and a Democrat, and he and his wife were members of the Church of Christ, in which faith they reared their children. The mother lived to be seventy-five years of age, and was a woman of much goodness of heart and mind and has always been an inspiration to her children. There were seven children, four sons and three daughters, in the family, one of whom, Job, was a soldier in the Civil war.
Mr. Boor was reared on a farm, where he learned among other things principally the value of hard work, and his educational advan- tages were received in a typical old-time schoolhouse, fitted up with slab seats, a fire place, and other pioneer equipments which have long since given place to furnishings of greater comfort and of more valne from an educational standpoint. At the age of twenty-five he was married to Miss Sarah E. Rector, and they have since worked together for their success in affairs and have enjoyed over forty years of happy married
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life. She was born and reared in Indiana, being a daughter of Price and Ann (Van Cleve) Rector, now both deceased. There were four children in the Rector family. Mr. and Mrs. Boor have eleven chil- dren, as follows: Aletha, the wife of T. M. Morgan, of this county; Emma, Charles, Ida, Annie, Carrie, John, Grace. Abe, Walter, Otis. the two latter being unmarried and living at home. Mr. Boor is a Republican of long standing, and he and his wife are members of the Christian church, in which he has been an elder for years.
BENJAMIN J. GUNN.
Benjamin J. Gunn, editor and publisher of the Arcadia Times. has played a prominent part in the journalistic work of Crawford county, and his career throughout has been filled with many points of interest. He has been identified with the affairs of this county for a number of years, and during the earlier period of his life was a suc- cessful and prominent teacher in this section of the state. He has main- tained the Times at a high standard of newspaper excellence, and gives his numerous readers throughout the county something worth reading. and, while making his organ a weathervane of public thought and opinion and chronicler of events, has not neglected to wield his influ- ence and power as editor for the welfare and general progress of his city and community.
Mr. Gunn, the youngest son of Jesse C. and Hannah I. (Reaugh) Gunn, was born on Greasy Prairie, Morgan county, Illinois, February 14. 1865. His father was born in Dickson county, Tennessee, in 1825. moved thence to Illinois in 1830, and resided on one farm there for forty-nine years, and died in Coalvale, Kansas, in 1890. He had been a Union soldier during one year of the war. His wife was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, in 1824, and moved to Illinois in 1831, and died at Mulberry, Kansas, in 1894.
Mr. Gunn's early life was spent on the farm, in not materially
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different manner from that of other farm boys. In 1882 he entered the Illinois State Normal University at Normal, and remained there for two terms. He then went to Coalvale. Kansas, whither the family had moved in 1883, but in the next year returned to the school at Nor- mal and spent another term in work. He began teaching in 1885, and followed that occupation for several years in Crawford county. In 1892 he was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for the office of county superintendent of public instruction. He was an active Repub- lican for ten years after coming of age, but at the beginning of the presidential campaign of 1896 he turned to the Democracy, and has since been identified with that party.
Mr. Gunn married, October 4, 1891. Miss Louisa Jane Gunn, at her home in Choctaw county, Alabama. Her father, John Gunn, was born in that county in 1822. and died in 1899 on the farm on which he had resided for seventy-three years. He was a Confederate soldier. His wife, Agnes Shoemaker, was born in the same county in 1827. and died there in 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Gunn have three sons: John W., born August 6, 1893: J. Wayne. October 5. 1895: and Harold S .. November 7, 1898.
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