Annals of Brown County, Kansas : from the earliest records to January 1, 1900, Part 49

Author: Harrington, Grant W., 1865-
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Hiawatha, Kan. : Kansas Democrat
Number of Pages: 704


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ROBERT I. REA.


four years as County Attorney. there he came to Hiawatha. In Hia- Again he moved westward, this time watha he engaged in business and going to Logan county, Kansas. was pushing the Hiawatha House Here political honors were again to a successful career when the Re- given him and his county sent him publican party chose him as their


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candidate for probate judge, suc- the bar in the year 1892. In 1893 ceeding Judge Hobbs to that office Acting Mayor Sam'l Davis, recogniz- in 1898. Judge Rea was married to ing the young man's ability as a Miss Belle McRoberts on the 16th law student and counsellor appoint- day of October, 1866 in Graham, ed him City Attorney Dec. 1st to fill Nodaway county, Mo., and they have a vacancy then existing. So well three children, Ed A., born in 1873, did he fill the office and conduct the and now a practicing lawyer in Ellis legal affairs of the city, that he was county, Maud E., born in 1880, a continued in the office by the ehang- teacher in the Hiawatha public ing city administrations until the schools and Fred I., born in 1884 spring of 1900 when he voluntarily His party paper pays him the fol- resigned because of other more im. lowing compliment on the conduct of the affairs at his office at the be- ginning of the second year of his first term in the probate judge's office: "Judge Rea being a good lawyer and a painstaking man, quick in the dispatch of business, is well suited to the office he has been elected to for the first term by the Republicans of the county. Moreover his dispo- sition to be clever to everybody and treat all alike in the office, has won for him the admiration of all. The right man in the right place."


William F. Shale.


W. F. Shale comes from that good old state which has furnished so many well known men in the pro- fessions and public life-Ohio. He was born at Burgoon in that state on June 28, 1866. He attended the common schools of his county until he had mastered their courses and then sought higher learning, going WILLIAM F. SHALE. to the Fostoria Academy of that portant as well as more lucrative same state where he graduated in legal business occupying his time. 1888. In February of the next year, In 1895 Mr. Shale was elected justice 1889, he came west and stopped in of the peace for Hiawatha and as an Doniphan county where he taught illustration of his popularity among school for a year. At the end of this his fellow citizens he was nominated time he came to Brown county by both parties, running on two where he taught another term of tickets. April 3rd, 1895, Mr. Shale school. Having a natural talent for was married to Miss Lillian Kingery, law, Mr. Shale began reading in the of his native state Ohio. One child law office of Robert T. Herrick, of is born to them. Mr. Shale is not Hiawatha and he was admitted to much of a "jiner" although he be-


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long to and is at the time of this years Judge Hobbs was married to sketch Senior Warden Hiawatha Anna Mote of Steele City, Nebraska. Lodge, No. 35, Masons. He is a mem- They lived together for eleven years ber of the Modern Woodman of when Mrs. Hobbs died at their home America and was three times elected in Hiawatha during 1895. No child- cierk of the camp to which he be- ren were born to this marriage. In longed, it being a position of trust September, 1897, Judge Hobbs and and responsibility. He is secretary Miss Lulu A. Arie were married in of the lodge of Modern Brotherhood Hiawatha. Arthur G. Hobbs is a


of American, being one of its charter result of this marriage. Judge Hobbs members and is chairman of the first moved to Horton in 1886-soon Law Committee of the Life & Annui- after the town started. He lives vy Association of Kansas. Religi- ously, Mr. Shale and his family are. Presbyterians.


A. G. Hobbs.


Judge A. G. Hobbs, who is not on- ly a member of the Brown county bar but has served the county as probate judge, came to the west from far away Maryland. He was born near Baltimore the 4th day of Sep. tember, 1837. At the age of one year he came with his people to Iowa. In 1844 he again removed, this time to Dephi, Iowa, where he studied law in an office until some time in the 60's when he was admitted to the bar. Judge Hobbs is a self edu- cated man. He carved out his law career for himself while earning a living and reading law betimes until sufficiently able to successfully pass the required examination. In 1857 Judge Hobbs and Miss Emma F. A. G. HOBBS. Conner of Delphi, Iowa, were united there now and has a pleasant suite in marriage. To this union there of rooms on the main street where were eight children born, six of them he practices his profession. Relig- living, Frank W., David S. and Mol- iously all of Judge Hobbs family lie A. are all living at Spokane, Wash- were raised Methodists, the parents ington; Mrs. Neliie A. Miles lives at belonging to that denomination and Mason City, Iowa; Mrs. Addie Rog- teaching it to the children until they ers lives at Union, Iowa, and Charles became men and women grown. He L is employed in the offices of the is an old time Mason, having joined Rock Island railway at Horton. a lodge in Iowa in the early days. Mrs. Hobbs died in 1880 in Washing- Politically he never sought office, nor ton County, Kansas. After several held one until elected probate judge


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of Brown county for the terms 1895 took the lecture course and examina- to 1898 inclusive, which office be filled with much credit.


Arthur B. Crockett.


Arthur B. Crockett, who has been a member of the Brown county bar for the past twelve years, lives in Horton and is well known among the members of the bar and esteemed by all who know him. He has Ohio


tions at Ann Arbor and was after- wards admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Ohio. For one year Mr. Crockett lived in Toledo, Ohio, and read law in the office of the circuit judge. It was in Toledo, too, Mr. Crockett was married on the 25th day of September, 1890, to Miss Myra Almond of that city. They have one child, Emilie Irene Crockett. Mr. Crockett's family are all Presbyterians, members of the church at Horton. Mr. Crockett has been content with one lodge, belong- ing to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He has never been before the public in a political way, al- though always a republican, but he is at this time a candidate before the Republican County primaries for county attorney.


Robert F. Buckles.


R. F. Buckles, who has been a mem- ber of the Brown county bar since 1883, came to this county from Mt. Pul- aski, Illinois, in which state he com- menced the practice of his profession in 1881. He was born on the 16th day of June, 1850, in Logan county, Illin- ois, and attended the district school ARTHUR B CROCKETT. and working on his father's farm as has done so many young men who to call his home, having been born at have obtained prominence in the pro- Green Springs, Seneca county, Ohio, fessional and commercial life. He August 24, 1864. He came to Brown afterwards attended Eureka college county on March 4, 1889, and has in Illinois, then took a special course been engaged in the practice of his at Franklin college, New Athens, profession since that time. Mr. Crock- Ohio. For three years he taught ett began his professional career in school and then started to the Iowa Ohio, receiving the educational train- State University, from the law de- ing necessary to become a good law- partment of which institution he yer in that state. He read law for graduated in 1880. Soon after vom- the three years Ohlo compels her ing to this county the leaders of his propective attorneys to do in a law political party, Republican, recog- office at Clyde, Ohio, and, although nized the worth and ability of the qualified to be admitted to the bar man and in 1884 he was nominated at the end of the prescribed time, he with scarce any opposition for coun-


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ty attorney and at the following oil to study law while he worked election was successful, serving the the farm in the day time. Mr Arch- county very ably that term. He was er was born near Macomb, Ill., also elected by the people as mayor July 20, 1868. In 1885 he first came of the city of Hiawatha for the term to Kansas, going to Ft. Scott where 1895-97. On the 3rd day of April, 1885, the family then lived. In 1886 they Mr. Buckles and Miss Adeline Roth- came to Brown county where he rock were married. They have two worked on the farm and during the


ROBERT F. BUCKLES.


children, Mary and Robert F. Mr. winters attended the Kansas Nor- Buckles is not a great lodge man but mal College at Ft. Scott where he is a valued member of the lodge of graduated with the class of '94. He his choice, the Knights of Pythias. read law in the office of Means & William E. Archer. Smith at Horton and was admitted to the bar in 1897. In the fall of '98


W. E. Archer is one of the younger the Republicans nominated him for members of the Brown county bar, district clerk which was the first one who has burned the midnight time he was ever a candidate for po-


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litical favor. He was elected by a man he belongs only to the Independ handsome majority and is now ent Order of Odd Fellows and the serving that term. Mr. Archer was Modern Woodmen of America. Mr.


WILLIAM E. ARCHER


married to M's: Leda Zimmerman, Archer is a candidate for the Repub- December 28th, 18)7, to them Etbel lican nomination for clerk of the D. Archer has been born. As a lodge court again this year and so satis-


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Edmund h. Monice


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actory has been his conduct of the consecutive terms, state senator office for the last two years that he from Nemeha and Pottawatomie has no opposition and he will be counties and judge of the 22nd Ju- unanimously nominated again at the. dicial district for one term, 1895 to primaries to be held next month.


Rufus M. Emery.


Rufus M. Emery was born April 23rd, 1854 and raised on a farm near. Loveland In Clermont, county, Ohio. When he was seventeen years old he taught a six months term of school


1898. Mr. Emery is an active Ma- son belonging to the lodge, chapter, commandery and the shrine. He is also a prominent member of the A. O. U. W. and was elected grand master of the order for Kansas in 1890. Judge Emery was one of the delegates to the Philadelphia con- vention this year which renominated President Mckinley. Judge Emery was married Sept. 19th. 1877 to Miss M. Lou Thompson of Waynesville, Ohio and they have an interesting family of six children, three boys and three girls.


Chas. W. Johnson.


Chas. W. John- son was born Sept. 19th, 1834 in Hickman county Tenn. He is a son of Hugh and Lu- cinda Johnson. His father dying when Chas. W. was only six months old his mother after- C. W. JOHNSON. wards married RUFUS M. EMERY. Benjamin Johnson, a brother of the after which he studied telegraphy deceased. After their marriage they and held a position as operator for moved to Bond county, Illinois where three years. In 1875 he came to Kan -. Chas. W. was reared and educated sas and commenced to read law in under the tuition of his uncle, thelate the office of Simon Con well at Seneca. J. P. Johnson, of Highland. In 1854 · He was admitted to bar in 1877 and Mr. Johnson came to Kansas with opened an office at Seneca where he his uncle and helped survey the soon rose to the head of the profes- boundary line between Kansas and sion. Mr. Emery has been police Nebraska. He returned to Illinois judge, city attorney, president of the and in 1858 entered McKendree Col- city council and president of the lege at Lebanon, where he was a stu- school board in Seneca, county at- dent for two years after which he torney of Nemeha county for three commenced reading law. Aug. 4th


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1862, he enlisted in the 130th Illinois married on March 25th 1868 to Miss Infantry. In February 1863 he was Annie E. Ogden, of Oswego. New promoted to second lieutenant and York and their family consists of served in that capacity to the end of two sons and three daughters. the war. His regiment participated in the seige of Vicksburg and various prominent battles and was after- D. E. Reber. wards transferred to the department of the gulf and took part in the first


D. E. Reber was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, February 13, and second Red River expeditions. 1859. He commenced teaching when He was captured at the battle of he was sixteen years old and in all Mansfield April 8th, 1864 and detained taught six terms in Pennsylvania, two in Ohio and three in Washington county, Kansas. In 1879 he gradua- ted from the Pennsylvania State Normal. In 1881 he came to Doni- phan county, Kansas, where he re- sided for two years and then moved to Washington, Kansas. Here he read law in the office of Hon. Chas. Smith and was admitted to the bar. In 1889 he moved to Dayton in the state of Washington and opened an office He was appointed city at- torney of Dayton and held this office for four years. During this time he compiled the city ordinances of Day- ton, which compilation is a model of its kind. In 1893 he came to Hiawa- tha and began the practice here. In 1895 he was appointed assistant at- torney general for Brown county by Governor Morrill and made a vigor- ous prosecution of the violators of the prohibitory law in the county. Last January he was elected secre- D. E. REBER. tary of the Brown County Farmers' a prisoner at Camp Ford at Taylor, Mutual Fire Insurance Company and Texas, until the close of the war. moved to Morrill where he now re- Returning to his home in Illinois he sides. Mr. Reber was married in 1882 entered the law office of Wm. H. to Miss Elia Decker, daughter of Mr. Herndon, a former law partner of David Pecker of Leona. They have three sons and one daughter.


President Lincoln, and in April 1867 was admitted to the bar. In 1869 he moved to Hiawatha, Kansas and opened a law office. From 1874 to James Falloon. 1879 he lived in Atchison but returned James Falloon is a Canadian by to Hlawatha and in 1880 was elected birth having been born near Quebec county attorney. Mr. Johnson was on the 1st day of July 1846 His boy


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hood days were spent in Ohio how- ever. When the war broke out Mr. Falloon was anxious to enlist but he was small for his age and the mus- tering officers would not pass him. He determined to go anyway and se- cured employment as a teamster and for three years and a half belonged to the army of the Cumberland in this capacity. When the war was over he returned to Ohio, ran a pro- duce business in Cincinnati, railroad- ed it and read law until 1868 when he went to Corsicana, Texas where he was admitted to the practice. In the fall of 1872 he came to St. Joseph, and staid there six months and then moved to Hiawatha and opened an office. He soon secured a good prac- tice and during the past twenty- eight years he has been connected with most of the big litigation in the county. His success in the Bradley, Gold and Bartley murder cases has given him the reputation of being a first class criminal lawyer. Mr. Fal- loon was married in Hiawatha on November 15th 1874 to Miss Mary I. Jones and they have a family of three boys Arthur L., Waldo W., and Frank G. Four years ago Mr. Fal- loon was the candidate of the fusion forces for state senator and carried Brown County notwith- standing its Republican majority. He was the fusion nominee for dis- trict judge two years ago and al- though the district gave over two thousand Republican majority Mr. Fallon was beaten by less than three hundred votes. At the Silver Republican Convention in Ft. Scott July 25th 1900 Mr. Falloon was nominated as a presidential elector on the Bryan and Stevenson tic- ket and this nomination was rati- fied by the Populists and Demo- crats in their conventions.


Samuel A. Kingman.


Among the settlers who came to Brown county in 1857 was Samuel A. Kingman who settled on a farm in the south eastern part of the county. He only tried farming SAMUEL A. KINGMAN. one year and then moved into Hiawatha and opened a law office. He was born in Worthington, Massachusetts on June 26th, 1818 but for eighteen years before coming to Kansas had lived In Kentucky where he taught school, practiced law, served as county clerk and county attorney and as a mem- ber of the legislature. Politically he was a Whig until the death of that party when he allied himself with the Republican party. Helat once became a power in Brown county politics and in 1859 he was elected a member of the constitutional convention which framed the Wyandotte consti- tution. At the first election under that constitution he was elected as- sociate justice of the Supreme court and took his seat upon the bench when Kansas came into the Union in 1861. He was re-elected in 1862 but defeated for a renomination in 1864. In 1866 he was nominated and elected chief justice and re-elected in 1872. He resigned on account of ill health in 1877 and moved onto a farm near Topeka. Some years lat- er he moved into Topeka where he now resides.


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David Martin: til March 1864 in Company C, 129 David Martin was born Oct. 16th, Ohio Infantry in Kentucky, Tennes-, 1837 in Catawaba, Clark county, see and Virginia. He was admitted. Ohio. His father was born in Lon. to the bar in the Supreme Court of don, England; his mother near Bel- Ohlo in 1866 and began to practice


CARLTON & ACSE, K.C.


JUDGE DAVID MARTIN.


fast, Ireland. He studied law for at Marysville in Miami County, but several years before his admission to in the spring of 1867 removed to the bar, part of the time In the office Kansas settled at Atchison where of J. Warren Keifer, In Springfield, he has since resided. ~ He was city Ohio. He served from June, 1863 un- attorney of Atchison for three years


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from 1872 to 1875. In 1880 he was office. Although born in Missouri, elected district judge of the 2nd Ju- Mr. Means has always been a Repub- dicial district and was re-elected in lican. In the fall of 1890, Judge 1880. When the district was divid- Means was nominated by his party ed and Doniphan, Brown and Neme- for county attorney and was elected. ha counties became the Twenty-sec- He moved to Hiawatha and held ond district, Judge Martin stayed this office for four years, very ac- with the old Second than restricted ceptably. On June 18, 1890, W. F. to Atchison. In April 1895 he was Means and Miss Mary Harris, of appointed chief justice and elected Horton, Kansas, were married at that fall to fill out the remainder of the term by a majority of more than 80,000. He was a candidate for the Republican nomination in 1896 but the railroad interests of the state de- manded and secured his defeat. In addition to the practice of law, · Judge Martin is one of the lecturers of the Law School of the State University and every year delivers a course of twenty-five lectures on "Equity Jurisprudence." At the Pop- ulist convention held at Ft. Scott July, 25 1900 Judge Martin was unan- imously nominated for Associate , Justice and this nomination was,en- dorsed by the Democrats and Silver Republicans.


William F. Means.


Judge William F. Means came to the bar of Brown county from Mis- souri. having been born in DeKalb


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WILLIAM F. MEANS.


that place and Miss Mary Harris county that state August 1st 1861. Means is a child of that marriage. After graduating from the Missouri Mrs. Means did not live long how- State University, he came to Brown ever, death claiming her June 8, 1891. county in 1887 first settling in the On the 6th day of March, 1895, Mr. busy city of Horton to follow his Means was again united in mar- He was well riage, this time to Miss Fannie In- gels at her home in Hiawatha, Kan- sas. Miss Lucile Ingels Means was


chosen profession. thought of by his fellow towns-pec- pie who soon accorded him a first place in the law business of the city. the name given the little girl that A Democratic mayor recognizing his was born to them. Mr. Means' fam- worth and ability appointed him po- ily are members of the Christian lice judge of the city although he was church at Hiawatha. He is a lodge Republican-the mayor was looking man only in a measure-belonging for ability in the legal sense and so only to the Knights of Pythlas and would not let party lines be drawn the Independent Order of Odd Fel- and appointed Mr. Means to the lows.


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Aaron R. May.


Aaron R. May was born in York, Penn. Feb. 28, 1840. He received an Academic course of education and afterwards read law in the office of H. W. Spangler. In 1867 he was ad- mitted to the bar before the Hon. H. J. Fisher, and at once commenced to practice. In 1868 he opened a law office in St. Joseph, Mo., where he practiced until March, 1870, when he located in Hiawatha and formed a co-partnership with Hon. B. F. Kil-


ticket and in 1892 was the candidate of his party for Judge of the 9th Ju- dicial District. He returned to Hia- watha in 1896 locating on his farm adjoining town. Mr. May is a mem- ber of Hiawatha Lodge No. 35 A. F. & A. M; a charter member of Mt. Horeb Chapter No. 43 R. A. M. and also a charter member of Hiawatha Commandry No. 13, K. T. He was married in 1873 in Hiawatha to Flora Killey, daughter of Hon. B. F. Killey. They have two children, Leslie R. and Bulah May.


Sample F. Newlon.


Sample F. Newlon, attorney at law, with an office in the First National Bank block, has served Brown coun- ty three terms in the office of county attorney. He is now completing the third term. Mr. Newlon was admit- ted to the bar in this county, coming here from his home in Pennsylvania in the fall of 1882, and after reading law for a time in the office of James Falloon in 1883 he was properly ad- mitted to practice his profession in the several courts of the state. Mr. Newion is a Pennsylvanian by birth, having been born not far from Pitts- burg in that state. After receiving the education of the district schools of his county he went to college in Alliance, Ohio, where he was taught A. R. MAY. the higher branches. From there he ley. This partnership continued un- was advanced to the Pennsylvania til July 1880 when it was disolved State Normal School at Millersburg and he formed a partnership with the where he took a thorough law course Hon. Ira J. Lacock. Mr. May was and after graduating there came to County Attorney for Brown Co. dur- Brown county as above stated. In ing the 71 and 72 and was city attor- 1886 the Republican party gave him ney of Hiawatha from 1875 to 1880 the nomination for county attorney Inclusive. In 1878 he was elected and he was elected to that office in mayor of Hiawatha. In 1886 he re- the general election in November. moved to Washington, Co. Kansas In 1896 he was again nominated by and opened a law office. In 1890 he the Republicans and elected, being was elected County Attorney of reelected in 1898. Sample F. Newlon Washington County on the Populist and Miss Elizabeth Norman were


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married at her home in Alliance, demy In New York and in 1855 entered Ohio, and to them a baby girl was the University of Michigan where he born. She only living to the age of remained two years. He was ad- fourteen months. Mrs. Newlon died mitted to the bar in 1859 and the next at their home in Hiawatha in No- year came west and located at Atch- vember, 1892. As a "jiner" Mr. New- 1son. He was appointed city attor- lon has contented himself with being ney for Atchison in 1860 and elected a Knights of Pythias, valuable to to that position in 1861. In 1861 he the lodge and esteemed among his was appointed district judge for the brothers. He is a member of Dia- Second judicial district and was mond Lodge, No.236, K. of P. of this twice elected to this position which city. Religiously hecomes from that he resigned to resume his practice. sturdy old stock of Pennsylvania In 1868 he was a presidential elector Methodism, having been born and and was selected as messenger to raised in that denomination.


carry the Kansas vote to Washing- ton. In 1869 he was appointed United States district attorney and resigned this position in 1873. That fal' he was elected to the legislature and in 1876 was elected state senator. In January. 1877, he was appointed chief justice to succeed Samuel A. Kingman, who had resigned. He was elected that fall and reelected in 1878, 1884 and 1890. In 1895 he re- signed as chief justice to enter the law firm of Waggner, Horton & Orr.


Ira J. Lacock.


No member of the Brown County bar has been more intimately con- nected with the growth and pros- perity of Brown County than was Capt. Ira J. Lacock. When the first regular term of court was opened in PER the county on April 16th, 1860. Mr. Albert H. Horton. Lacock, then a young man fresh from On October 31st, 1861, Gov. Robin- college, was presentand was enrolled son appointed Albert H. Horton, of as a member of the bar and for more Atchison, judge of the Second judi- than forty years he was identified cial district. Judge Horton opened with every public enterprise in the court in Hiawatha on November 4th county. Mr. Lacock was a Pennsyl- and held one term a year here until vanian by birth and education-a 1866 when he resigned the judgeship graduate of Washington college in to accept the city attorneyship of that state, He came to Hiawatha a the city of Atchison. Judge Horton Democrat but affiliated with the Re- was born near Brookfield, New York, publican party during the war and March 12, 1837. He attended the pub- remained a member of that organi- llc schools and the Farmers Hall Aca- zation until his death. He waselected




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