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RESIDENCE OF OWEN JONES
nature has responded year after year years Mr. Jones was an ardent Re- with bounteous harvests. His sur_ publican and to use his own expres- plus earnings have been invested sion used to sit at the feet of Horace from time to time in other lands un- Greeley of whom he was an ardent til now the Jones homestead con- admirer. Thoroughly honest and sists of 1280 acres and is known as independent he tied himself to no the Walnut Grove Farm. In ad- political party or secterian creed. dition to this Mr. Jones is a stock In 1896 feeling that the free coinage holder and President of the bank of of silver would add to the prosperity Everest and is interested in many of the country he gave a hearty sup- other enterprises. Mr. Jones was a port to Mr. Bryan
stalwart Free State man and took
Eight children have been born to an active part in the trying scenes of Mr. and Mrs. Jones. William O., the Territorial days. His neighbors was born in Oneida, New York, July were, many of them, radical pro- 14, 1853, and now resides in Quenemo, slavery people and Mr. Jones carries Franklin County. He is married to to this day a scar inflicted upon
Miss Rebecca Meisenheimer and has him in a bout with the first pro- a family of twosons and two daugh- slavery sheriff of the County. Dur- ters. Catherine A., the only daugh- ing the war Mr. Jones served in ter, was born in June 1855. She is Capt. W. C. Willis's Company of the the wife of W H. Ryherd a resident State Militia, during the Price Raid, of Atchison County, Kansas, and is enlisting at Kennekuk in 1864. For the mother of six children, two sons
CARRIE SCHENKELBERGER CHARLES SCHENKELBERGER
MR. AND MRS. J. M. SCHENKELBERGER JULIA SCHENKELBERGER
CLARA SCHENKELBERGER WILLIAM SCHENKELBERGER
The Schenkelberger Family
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THA ENG.OOK C.
CHARLES L. CARROLL.
and four daughters. Richard C. was ter of the Lodge of Gove City. In born Feb. 16, 1860 in Brown County. 1895 he returned to Brown County He read law in Hiawatha, and was and started the State Bank of Ever- admitted to the bar in 1882, being est of which he is the cashier and the first child born in Brown county principal stock holder. He was mar- to achieve that distinction. For three ried in 1884 in Hiawatha to Desmond years he served as ('ity Attorney for D. Wright; they have two sons, Hiawatha and Deputy County At- Owen C. and Richard Harold. Lin- torney. In 1885 he moved to Gove coln A. was born March 25, 1862, and County Kansas where he resided for is now a resident of Atchison Coun- ten years, during which time he ty. He was married March 8, 1890 practiced his profession and was to Miss Hogan of Missouri. They twice County Attorney of that coun- have a family of four daughters and ty Here he also joined the Masonic one son. Owen, Jr , was born April raternity and was Worshipful Mas- 14, 1865 and is a prosperous Brown
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JAMES P. FREELAND.
county farmer. Greeley was born ship was born in Richmond, Chitren- June 30, 1868. He now resides in den County, Vermont December 3, Gove County, Kansas where he is in- 1827 and came from there in May terested in the banking business and 1858 to Sumner in Atchison County. where he has extensive cattle inter- Here he resided for ten months and ests. He was married in 1891 to Miss then moved to Robinson in Brown Roger and has a family of two County where he has since made his daughters and one son. George was home. He took a prominent part in born Aug. 30, 1871 and is a resident the early territorial affairs and coun- ty politica. He has always been a of Brown County. He was married in 1898 to Miss Graham of Missouri. stalwart Republican and has sat in They have one son.
Chas. L. Carroll.
most of the conventions held by that party in this county. He has served as Constable, Clerk and Treas -
Chas. L. Carroll of Robinson Town urer of Robinson Township. In 1873
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W. R. Honnell.
Henry W. Honnell.
Mrs. S. R. Farmer. U. G. Honnell. Mrs. Henry. W. Honnell
Mrs. E. H. Keller. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Honnell and Family.
he was the nominee of the party for rolled in Capt. Swazey's Company County Commissioner but was de- of the 19th Regiment of the Kansas feated in the land slide to the Farm- Militia.
er's Ticket of that year. Two years Mr. Carroll was married in Wash- later he was given the nomination Ington county, Vermont to Miss and elected by a handsome majority. Lucy Scribner. Three children have During the Price Raid he was en- been born to them; Ellen, who died
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J. d. Tyler
in infancy; Chas. E., who died in 1890 Mr. Carroll has been a successful and Alice who is the wife of Jas. E. farmer and his fine half section farm Curtis, a resident of Robinson is justly considered one of the best Township. Mr. Carroll has been a in Robinson Township.
member of the Methodist church for a good many years. He was one of the incorporators of the Hiawatha M.
John S. Tyler.
John S. Tyler, the successful far- E. church in the spring of 1866, the mer, stock raiser and public spirited first chartered church in the county. citizen of Walnut Township, also en- That fall he helped to Incorporate joys the distinction of being one of the Mount Carmel M E. church of the earliest settlers in the County, Claytonville Township. In 1875 he having marked his claim on Dela- was one of the incorporators of the
ware Creek April 7th, 1856. Mr. Ty- Robinson M. E. church to which he ler was born in Griswold, New Lon- now belongs. He was one of the or- don. Connecticut, Nov. 16th, 1825, ganizers of the Fair Association in and is the son of Henry C. and Brown County, served as one of its Harriette ( Hyde) Tyler and a grand- Vice Presidents and later was a son of Henry Tyler of Revolutionary member of its Board of Directors. War fame. He was educated in the
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both of which he has been most suc- cessful. He raises and handles much stock and is an extensive feeder. His home farm contains 800 acres. It is all enclosed by substantial fences and is all in cultivation. It is well sup- plied with waterby means of springs and wells and the Delaware River, which runs through the center of it. He has a large thrifty orchard on the premises and a small vineyard. The property is well timbered, having 80 acres of oak, elm and walnut trees. The improvements are all good. In addition to his home farm Mr. Tyler has lands in other counties, which brings his holdings up to 1700 acres.
Wir. Tyler has always taken an ac- tive part in the public affairs of the County. He was formerly a Whig. but joined the Republican party at MRS. J. S. TYLER. its organization. In 1859 he was ap- The first school ma'am in Brown pointed assessor of the County, County. From photo taken in 1860. making the second assessment ever made in the County. In 1869 he was common schools of Connecticut and elected County Commissioner, and taught one winter before reaching served two years. He was again his majority. When he was twenty- elected Commissioner in 1877, but did one he removed to Dubuque, Iowa, not qualify. He was appointed where he spent two years in lead however to fill the vacancy and serv- mining. He then went to New . Or- ed until the next general election. leans for his health and resided there During the Rebellion he was a one winter. Then he moved to Hard- member of Capt. Coleman's Com- ing, Illinois where for six years he pany of the 22nd Regiment of Kansas was engaged in the lumber business Volunteer Militia, and helped to re- and in farming.
pel the Price Raid. In 1864 he was
In 1856 he joined the tide of imi- appointed Postmaster at Tyler's and grants to Kansas and came to held that position until the office Brown County, Drummond's place, was discontinued more than ten near Hiawatha, was at that time years later Mr. Tyler is a zealous the only house west of Highland. worker in the Baptist church, hold- Mr. Tyler crossed the county into ing his membership with the church Nemaha on a prospecting tour, but at Fairview, where he has been Dea- reaching the conclusion that he had con for a good many years. He is passed by the bestland, returned and also an earnest Sunday School work- located on Delaware Creek, where he er, and holds a life membership in the has since resided. Here he entered Baptist Missionary Society. into stock raising and farming in In June 1866 Mr. Tyler was married
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to Miss Harriett Chase, who was an ardent free state man and with born in Maine, Oct. 18th, 1840. She his brother helped very materially was a daughter of Jas. and Abigal to make the sentiment in his locality. Chase, who came to Brown County He helped organize the Republican in 1859. Mrs. Tyler taught the first party in the county and has sat in public school in Brown County. many of its county conventions. In The contract was made July 4th, 1873 when the Grange movement 1860 and was for a three month's was making history in Kansas he term in Old Carson, District No. 1. was nominated on the Farmer's tick- The school house was not entirely et for Coroner and elected. He has completed and there was three days' also filled the position of Justice of delay after the teacher reported for the Peace but these honors were not duty. There were about 20 scholars sought by him as he did not care for enrolled during the term. Mrs. Tyler political preferment. He has been afterwards taught at Padonia, Pow- successful as a farmer and stock hattan and in a large public school ralser and now owns a fine farm of composed of colored pupils in South 320 acres equipped with all the mod- Leavenworth, before her marriage to ern Improvements. Mr. Tyler. Four children have been Mr. Honnell served on the first born to Mr. and Mrs. Tyler. Augus- jury that was ever drawn in Brown tus H. who died at the age of twen- County and has always been identi- ty. Jas. C. born July 1871, a fied with every movement for the graduate of Ottawa University and busluess, social and moral improve- also of the John Hopkins University, ment of the county. His nearly half a century residence in the county has been filled with his good works and he is esteemed and respected by all who know him.
and now a resident of Great Bend, Kansas. Lois, born in 1873, now the wife of G. W. Haflich of Fairview. John H. born January 1, 1881 now a student of the Ottawa University.
Henry W. Honnell.
Mr. Honnell was married Febru- ary 1857 to Miss Miranda J. Moore, daughter of Jeremiah Moore another
One of the first settlers of Mission pioneer who came to Brown County Township was Henry W. Honnell, from Kentucky in 1856. Six children now a resident of Horton. In 1856 have been born to them of whom when the Presbyterian Board of Mis- four have grown to mauhood and alons was organized it assigned the womanhood and reside near their Rev. Wm. Honnell to the Indian Mis- parents with families of their own. slon in Brown County, Kansas, f'er- Mary Ellen the eldest daughter was ritory. His younger brother Henry born October 4. 1858 and was the came with him to his new charge first white child born in Mission and took a claim near the town of Township. She is the wife of E. H. Lodiana. Mr. Honnell was born in Keller of Horton. William R. was Green County, Penn, April 12, 1833 born November 26, 1860. He is the and was the seventh son of Willlain President of the Bank of Horton, And Ellen Honnell. He grew to has served the county in the State manhood in Ohio where the faintly Legislature and is now the Govern- moved and was educated in the com- ment Agent for the various Indian mon schools of that State. He was Tribes in Kansas Ulysses G. Was
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, born April 13, 1864. He was the pro- where he was born Here he engag. prietor of the Horton Telephone Ex- ed extensively in farming and stock change, but he sold this some time raising and improved his farm with ago and is now the superintendent of a comfortable home, extensive and a gold mine in Liberal, Colorado convenient barns and sheds, good Lizzie was born December 24, 1866 orchards and fences. He added to and is the wife of S. R. Framer a his holdings until at the time of his prosperous Mission Township farm- death which occured Feb. 20th, 1898, er. Both Mr. and Mrs. Honnell are he was the owner of more than 1800 members of the Presbyterian church acres of land and his estate exceeded at Horton axd Mr. Honnell has been $100.000 in value, He was a devout an elder of the church for many years.
Peter Berney.
Catholic all his life. In religion or politics or any other belief entertain- ed by him he believed in advocating them and when any man entered in- to an argument with him on religi-
A history of the early settlers of Brown County would be incomplete ous subjects he had to be well posted without a sketch of that successful or he would suffer defeat. He could farmer and business man, Peter Ber- quote Scripture and was well posted ney of Mission Township. He was on the interpretation of it both from born in County Carlow, Ireland, Dec. a Catholic and Protestant stand- 25, 1817 and lived in his native country point. He was public spirited and until the Spring of 1845 when he imi- philanthropic and gave liberally to grated to America locating in New all public purposes He built the York State where he resided for four Catholic church at Everest and later years. He then removed to New Or- when a church was needed at Horton leans where he resided one winter. he furnished the money that erected
He thence removed to St Louis the building and he continued to be where he resided three years and was its most liberal contributor until the engaged in the extensive saddI ry firm day of his death In politics he was of T. Grimsley & Co. From St. Louis a Democrat thoroughly posted in, the Mr. Berney removed to N. Y State positions held by that party and where he was foreman for his ever ready to contribute to its suc- brother Thos. Berney an extensive cess.
contractor engaged at that time up- He was married in the Cathedral on improvements in the city In 1856 at St. Louis Nov. 26th, 1851 to Miss he removed to Des Moines, Iowa Ann Purcill, who was born in Coun- where he spent the winter and in ty Wicklow, Ireland March 13th, 1827 May 1857 he came to Kansas preemp-
and who came to America in 1849. ting a quarter section of land five Four children were born to them: miles west of Syracuse, Doniphan Nicholas born in Doniphan County, County. He came to Kansas with a May 30th, 1859, married to Miss Eliza land warrant of 120 acres and $40 in Garety of Atchison .County; Joseph cash. In 1866 he sold his Doniphan born in Deniphan County Aug. 5th, County quarter for $3600 and purch- 1861, married to Anna Whalen of ased a farm in Mission Township, Doniphan County; Bridget Ann now which he called the Myshall Hill deceased; and Peter born in Doniphan Farm after the parish in Ireland County March 30th, 1867 married to
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Anna Sullivan of Macolm, Illinois lics and strong Democrats. Mrs; The three sons stid live on the lands Berney died Apr. 15th, 1900 and is left them by their father and are all buried beside her husband in St. successful farmers and stock raisers Leo's Catholic Cemetery. and like their father devout Catho-
MR. AND MRS. FRED ISELY
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OUR LEADING CITIZENS.
Henry J. Aten.
Henry J. Aten was born near As- toria, Fulton county, Ill., October 12th 1841 His parents were Richard Aten and Ann Peterson. Both were of Holland Dutch descent. The Atens came to Long Island about the year 1651 and the Petersons about the same time. The great grandfathers of Mr. Aten both pater- nal and maternal served in the Revo- lutionary war and his grandfather on his mother's side of the house was
HENRY J. ATEN
out of the war when he enlisted on August 8th 1861 in Company H of the 28th Illinois Infantry. He was with Grant in the Belmont expedi- tion but later in the campaign was taken down with pneumonia and was discharged after a ten months' service. Recovering from this he re- enlisted on August 12th 1862, in Com. pany G of the 85th Infantry and served to the close of the war, taking part in the battles of Perryville, Murfreesburo, Chickamaugua, Chat- tanooga and the battles of the At- lanta campalgo. He marched with Sherman to the sea, saw Joe John- son surrender and inarched in the Grand Review up Pennsylvania Ave- nue.
In October 1866 he entered the Chicago Business College and gradu- ated in February of the next year. He then taught in the Bryant and Stratton business college at Quincy until 1870 when he came west land- ing at Hiawatha on the 1st day of March. Upon the organization of the town of Hiawatha he was ap- pointed city clerk and served in that capacity for two years. In 1870 he was elected clerk of the court and served one term. His successor Hen- ry Anderson died in office and Mr. Aten was appointed to fill out his term. In 1874 he was elected Mayor of Hiawatha as the temperance can- didate and reelected in 1875. It was during this administration that the Hiawatha Club defied the city and was driven out of business. In 1889
a soldier in the war of 1812. Mr. Aten's father and mother were both born in West Virginia. There they Mr. Aten was appointed one of the were married and removed to Illl- three commissioners to negotiate ncis in the spring of 1840. Mr. Aten with the Kickapoo and Pottowato- worked on a farm and attended mnie Indians for taking their lands school winters until the breaking in severalty and later was ap-
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pointed special alloting agent for one of the most complete regimental both tribes. Mr. Aten joined the histories ever published.
Odd Fellows in 1868 in Quincy, IIl. Mr. Aten was married September 3 He has been an active and enthusi- 15th 1870 at Quincy, Ill., to Maria L. astic member of the order ever since Burbidge and their family consists and has risen high in its councils. of two daughters-Edna B., a suc- He was Grand Patriarch of the cessful Brown county teacher, and Grand Encampment of Kansas in Stella W., who will graduate from 1894-95; Representative of the state the State University at Lawrence In the Supreme (fraud Lodge in 1895- next June. 96; and is now serving as Grand Treasurer of the Grand Encampment. He is also a member of the Grand Elias Moser. Army and has been twice elected About once a decade things shape up so that the Democrats of Brown Post Commander of Hiawatha Post 130. Ten years ago when ('el. John county have an opportunity to elect A. Martin died Mr. Aten was elected vice president of the Army of the Cumberland to succeed him and has been annualy reelected ever since.
Mr. Aten's business is that of a land, loan and insurance agent. He has a substantial stone office on the south east corner of the public square and in the thirty years that he has been a resident of Hiawatha he has loaned thousands of dollars for eastern parties and disposed of many an acre of Brown county land to new settlers.
For the past two years he has spent his leisure time compiling 'a history of his regiment, the 85th Illi- nois, for publication. The book is now in press and is a volumn of more than four hundred pages. It gives a straight narrative of the regiment from its organization to the time it was mustered out and then follows it up with a biography of each member of the regiment. The members of the regiment are ELIAS MOSER. scattered now into all parts of the a county officer. Then they nomi- Union and it has taken an immense nate Ellas Moser and with "Get amount of labor and the writing of there Eli," as there battle cry carry more than a thousand letters to se- him through in triumph. This has cure the necessary information but happened three times in Brown conu- the work has been a labor of love ty; first in 1867 when Mr. Moser was and the book comes from the press elected sheriff; again in 1885 when he
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was elected sheriff over Geo. T. ing that any worthy citizen who is Woodmansee, the regular Republi- in need of a friend can always find can nominee and the third time in one in Elias Moser.
1889 when Mr. Moser was elected county treasurer over J. B. Mitchell, the regular Rep blican nominee.
Mr. Moser was born in Ragers- ville, Ohio June 15th 1841. He was raised in Missouri, however where his parents, removed when he was a boy. Here he enlisted as a soldier in the Fourth Missouri Volunteer Cavalry of the State Militla raised in 1861 and afterwards with the Fifth Regiment of the State troops. He came to Brown county in the spring of 1865 and purchased a quarter sec- tion of land east of Hiawatha. In 1881 he entered into partnership with Peter McGilvary in the imple- ment business in Hiawatha ' under the firm name of Moser & McGil- vary. Two years later this firm was succeeded by Moser and Meyer Brothers. Mr. Moser retired from this firm in 1895 since which time he has devoted his time to real estate transactions and the care of his numerous properties.
Harry M. Kenderdine.
Harry M. Kenderdine was born in Philadelphia, Penn., Sept. 16th 1844. His parents were members of Friends Meeting which made him a birth- right member of that society and he is still a member of Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia. The family moved to Iowa in 1852 and settled in Henry county where his father en-
Mr. Moser was one of the origina- tors of the First National Bank and has been a director in that ins.itu- tion ever since its foundation. He is one of the promoters of the Brown County Fair Association and has served on the board continuously since its organization and for the last three years has been its Superin- HARRY M KENDERDINE. tendent of Grounds. Mr. Moser is a gaged in farming and merchandis- whole souled, good natured man ing. He received his education in whom everybody looks to as a the Public Schools and the Iowa friend and it is said that an examin- Wesleyan University. At the com- ation of the records in the court mencement of the Civil war heenlisted house would show that in the last in the Ist Iowa Cavalry being at the twenty years he has signed more time not 16 years old. After remaining bonds for his friends 'and neighbors in camp six weeks on muster in than any half dozen men in the coun- of the Regiment, he was refused on ac- ty. It seems to be the understand- count of age. With a number of oth-
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ers he went to Keokuk, Iowa and suc- ceeded in getting into the 17th Iowa Infantry. He served as a private eleven months and was then promo- ted to Second Lieutenant, then First Lieutenant and Captain of his Com- pany, A, and later was commissioned Major of the Regiment, being the youngest officer from Iowa to re- ceive a Field Commission. His Regi- ment went from St. Louis to Shiloh Tenn., through the campaigns about Corinth and Iuka, Miss., at the siege of Vicksburg, where the Regiment lost two thirds of its number, in the battles about Chattanooga, down through Georgia with Sherman to the sea, up through the Carolinas and marched in the grand review at Washington, D. C. in 1865. The Regiment had from first to last thirteen Field officers of whom our townsman is the only one alive.
In 1873 he married Miss Carrie E. Tobie at Keokuk, Iowa and came to Hiawatha settling west of town and engaged in farming. For two years the grass-hoppers eat up all the crops and coming to the conclusion that feeding hoppers was not profit- able he went to St. Louis and en- gaged in railroad work. Afrer rail- roading in Missouri, Illinois, Ind- ana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas he returned to Hiawatha in 1895 and was employed by the Grand Island and Missouri Pacific Rail- ways. He is a Knight Templar, Past
Willard W. Nye.
These Annals record the fact that in October 1877. the North Kansan announced that Dr. W. W. Nye had permanently located in Hiawatha. He has been with us ever since and has succeeded in building up an ex- tensive practice not only in Brown county but he is repeatedly called in consultation to all points in north- eastern Kansas. He is a thorough student and keeps in advance with
WILLARD W. NYE.
Commander in the G. A. R and Past his profession and he numbers his Master in the A. O. U. W. His wife is patients and friends by the score.
an officer and efficient worker in the W. R. C. The children are George L. an operator on the Grand Island
Dr. Nye was born in Bangor, Maine and educated in Knox Acad- emy at Galesburg, Ill. He left school railway at Elwood, Kans., Elizabeth to enter the army and took part Assistant Postmistress Kansas State with his regiment in the battle of Senate at Topeka, Julya V. clerk in Lexington where he was taken a the Interior Department at Wash- prisoner when not yet fifteen years ington D. C. and Karl a student in old. He was paroled in Sep ember the Hiawatha High School.
of that year and re-enlisted in the
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