Annals of Brown County, Kansas : from the earliest records to January 1, 1900, Part 58

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


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Eighth Kansas under Col. John A. Martin and participated in the hard and gallant services of that regl- ment. He was discharged on ac- count of ill health and returned to Illinois where he later re-enlisted in the 139th Illinois regiment. At the close of the war he returned to Gales- burg and resumed his studies in the Knox Academy. In 1870 he began the study of medicine and in 1871 and 1872 attended a course of lectures at Jefferson Medical College in Phila- delphia. He then practiced his pro- fession in Colorado until the winter of 1876 when he returned to the med- ical college, completed its course and graduated in the spring of 1877.


Dr. Nye was married in Illinois Nov. 10th 1873 to Miss Margaret J. McChesney. Their family consists of three daughters, Grace, Ella and Margaret Grace, now deceased. was the wife of Ewing Herbert, pro- prietor of the Brown County World, Dr. Nye is a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Grand Army.


DR. S. A. MOOR.


tha and commenced practicing. He has been very successful as a physi- cian and his practice has grown steadily until it is one of the best in Dr. S. A. Moor. Hiawatha. A year ago Dr. Moor was elected a member of the board Dr. S. A. Moor was born August of education for the city of Hiawa- 11, 1864 in Montreal Canada. His tha. Dr. Moor was married in 1891 parents died when he was quite to Miss Lillie N. Selby of Hastings, young and he went to New York City Nebr. They have two children Mar- to live with a brother. He was ed- garet, aged six, and Wendel, aged ucated in the New York City schools four. Dr. Moor is a member of the graduating from the High school Episcopal church and of Hiawatha with the class of 1883. He then came lodge No. 35 A. and A. M.


to Hamburg, Iowa where he served for two years as assistant postmas- ter. The postmaster dying he was appointed to fill the vacancy and ser ved in this capacity for two years more. From Hamburg he went to Hastings. Nebr., where he worked in a wholesale house. In 1891 he en- tered the St. Louis Medical College graduating with the class of 1895. Aiter graduating he came to Hiawa-


Prof. William Redmond.


Hiawatha feels justly proud of her splendid school system and of the able educator who is at the head of it. Prof. William Redmond 1s a Hoosier by birth. He was born at Ridgeville, Ind., May 4th 1869. His parents emigrated from Ireland to the Hoosier state in 1854. Three of Mr. Redmond's relatives were par-


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ticipants in the celebrated battle of 1896. After that he did post gradu- Vinegar Hill where the Irish people ate work in History and Political made a, determined stand against Science in The Chicago University. the English in the year 1798. One As a student says Prof. Fellows of member of the family now occupies a Chicago University, "he was accurate seat in the English Parlament and and tireless. Some of the subjects that another is a prominent official in the he worked out are read before classes government of Au-tralia. in ti universities that he attended."


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PROF. . WILLIAM REDMOND.


Young Redmond was educated in While in Chicago University he was the country schools of Indiana and elected a member of the Historical Ridgeville College. He then taught Society of which he is still a member. school and worked on his father's In the fall of 1897 he came to Hiawa- farm for six years and secured the tha as Principle of the High School. means for a more extended course. This place he held for two years He entered Indiana University in when he was .unanimously elected 1892 and graduated with the class of to succeed Prof. Leatherwood as


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J. FRANK. MEISENHEIMER.


Superintendent of the city schools. treasurer of Brown county, has the Under his management the schools distinction of being the first native have prospered and he has demon- Brown county boy to be elected to a strated that he is an educator of Brown county office. He is the son ability and power. of Jacob Meisenheimer, one of the pioneers of Brown. county and a J. . Frank Meisenheimer. wealthy farmer of Hiawatha town- ship. He was born May 1st, 1863 J. Frank Meisenheimer, who has and received a good common school just completed his second term as education. He was raised on the


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DR. WILLIAM MUSE CAMPBELL.


farm and then came to Hiawatha Dr. William Muse Campbell. where he followed the mercantile business for some years. When his On the 17th day of March 1873, there was born in Robinson to Rev. William G. and Elizabeth Muse Campbell, a son, William Muse Campbell. The boy grew and devel- oped into that sturdy boyhood and Uncle Eli Moser was elected county treasurer he appointed Frank as his deputy. This position he filled so acceptably that he was retained by Mr. Moser's successor, S. W. Moore, through his four years' incumbency youth that lays the foundation for of the office. Mr. Meisenheimer was successful men. His education was elected as Mr. Moore's successor in in no sense neglected for he took de- 1895 and reelected as his own success- light in his studies and kept in the front of bis classes and educational or in 1897 and Brown county has never had a more thorough, capable pursuits. His common school educa- and painstaking official. After leav- tion was received at. Robinson where ing the treasurer's office Mr. Meisen- his father was pastor of the Metho- helmer entered the Frst National dist Episcopal Church and a member of the Kansas Conference. The fath-


Bank where he is now employed.


I. F. MARTINDALE


MRS. I. F. MARTINDALE


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er died while William was still in tend. In his early life he received the school days and at the age of 15, every encouragement and sympathy leaving a widow and family of from his mother, a woman well young children to fight the battles of known in Brown County to the older life as best t ey could. The young settlers especially, for her energy and man did not allow discouragements lofty ambitions, for nobility of pur- to beset hini but set about facing the pose and strength of character and difficulties that confronted him. At it is with natural pride he sees in his the age of 17 he chose the medical increasing successes the fruitlon of


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profession and began to study in real earnest, having only the highest degree of medicine and surgery as his life's ambition. He graduated from the North western Medical College of


her prophecies and his fond hopes.


Dr. Lee Roy Yates.


Lee Roy Yates was born in Lincoln St. Joseph in 1893 and soon after en- county, Kentucky, on May 4th, gaged in practice in Fairview, Brown 1837 and died at Hiawatha February County. Here for two years he 21st 1897. At an early age he removed healed the sick and alleviated suffer- with his parents to Stanford, the. îng, obtaining for himself a large county seat of his native county. circle of friends and a practice that Here, at Stanford he grew to man- hood and was educated at Stanford Seminary. He read medicine in the would be a credit to older practi- tioners. Feeling the desire to be known in medicine and surgery he office of A. G. and Wm. Huffman, went from Fairvlew to thecelebrated graduated from the medical depart- Jefferson Medical College in Philadel- ment of the University of Louisville phia. It was while here he was In 1857 Returning to Stanford he at "Jected to the Chair of Physiology in once began the practice of medicine, the Central Medical College in St. continuing in the practice of the pro- fession of his choice until May 1862. Joseph and much to the regret of his Fairview friends he located in St. The opening of the war in 1861, found him, like many of his age, a Joseph and formed a partnership with his uncle Dr. O B. Campbell. citizen with no knowledge of or ex- In 1897 Dr. William M. Campbell left perienc. in military affairs He had St. Joseph on account of poor health,


also hoped with the loyalists of resulting from too close confinement Kentucky, that the Union might be to his chosen studies but in a few preserved without his being com- years returned to St. Joseph and pelled to take up arms against his took up his practice again locating neighbors and kinsmen. But the seeming success of the Confederate in a handsome suite of rooms in the Ballinger building, Seventh and Ed- armies in 1862 demanded fresh sacri- üces on the part of all lovers of the


mond streets. His fame, both as a, physician and surgeon is widespread Union. And the call for additional and he is often called upon in con- sultation and to perform difficult


troops at this time, was responded to by multitudes of men who had operations. He is a member of the hoped to see the end of the war Masonic orders, an Odd Fellow and without being compelled to take Medical examiner in as many frater. a personal share in its hardships. nal orders as he can find time to at-


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thoughts of peaceful business to de- ment of fast riders and hard hitters vote themselves to the restoration of and exposure, hardship and priva- their country, was Mr. Yates. On tions of his army life developed a May 7th, 1862, heenlisted as a private disease from which he never fully re- in Company E, Rock-Castle and covered, and failing health compelled Lincoln county, Kentucky, Home him to dispose of his business and guards and the patriotic service of return to his former home in Octo-' this company of Home Guards was ber of that year. He engaged in the recognized by the Nation when it practice of medicine at Stanford, un- was mustered in and out of service til September 1869 when he was ap- of the United States with sixty days pointed Assisant Assesor of Internal pay in accordance with a resolution Revenue and continued in the United of Congress approved Feb. 8th 1867. States Revenue service until May On August 1862 he enlisted as a 1877. December 1st. 1877 be removed private in the Sixth Regiment Ken- to Hiawatha, Kansas, where he en- tucky Volunteer Cavalry, and was gaged in the drug and book business assigned to duty as commissary until the day of his death. sergeant. He was commissioned


He was elected mayor of Hiawa- First Lieutenant and Commissary tha to fill an unexpired term in No- vember 1886, and was re-elected for a


of the Regiment on September 15th 1862. He participated in several full term of two years in the spring skirmishes and in the various minor of 1887. During his term the splendid engagements near Brentwood system of water works, now in suc-


Franklin, Springhill, Christiana, cessful operation was established. Wartrace and Cowan Station in Since 1890 he had been an efficient 'Tennessee. He was also in the bat- member of the Board of Trustees of tles of Chickamauga and Nashville. the Hiawatha Academy, and a lead- Taking part in all the battles, ac. ing member of the Methodist Church. tions, raids and skirmishes in which He was a member of Hiawatha his regiment was engaged until Lodge No. 32, A F and A. M. a March 2nd 1864 when he resigned to Past High Priest of Mt. Horeb accept a commission as acting As- Chapter R A. M. and a member of sistant Surgeon U. S. A. He was


Hiawatha Post 130 Grand Army of assigned to duty in charge of the the Republic, serving as Post Com- hospital train bearing the sick and mander for the yearending December wounded from Chattanooga to 31st, 1896. He represented the De- Louisville Kentucky, and continued partment of Kansas in the National in this arduous service until June 1st 1864, when he was assigned to duty in Ward 4, General Hospital Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at the Pittsburg En- campment and was Aid on the staff No. 14, Nashville, Tennessee, remain- of the Commander-in-chief during the ing in that position until the end of following year. the war, when he tendered his resig- nation which was accepted May 1st, 1865. Mr. Yates and Udora Belle Brown were married at Gallatin, Tennessee September, 25, 1867. They have four Early in the summer of 1865, he children living, Brent K., Jesse O., Nellie and Carrie all residents of Hia-


opened a drug store in Huntsville, Alabama, but his had been a regi watha.


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RESIDENCE OF L. C. CLARK, Hiawatha Township.


Leyi C. Clark.


Levi C. Clark was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, Feb. Ist, 1849, and was educated in the schools of that state. In 1867 he came west and located at St. Joe, where he lived until 1875, when he came to Kansas and located in dis- triet Forty-Four in Powhattan township. Here he was engaged in farming and stock raising until three Years ago, when he moved to Hia watha township and located one mile west of the city of Hiawatha, where he has a fruit farm and nursery. Here he has an acre of raspberries, one and one-half acres of blackberries, an acre of grapes and a fine orchard of plums, cherries and peaches. He still owns his Powhattan farm, which is rented.


chool board practically all the time he lived in Powhattan. In 1889 when the Harmony Alliance wasorganized at District Forty-Four, it being the first one in Brown county, Mr. Clark was elected its president an on- tin ued an active member of the Alli- ance a long as the organization was in exis ence. The next year when the first People's Party con- vention was held in the county, Mr. Clark was chosen as its chairman. He was a delegate to the state con- vention which organized the party in the state and also to the congres- sional convention which met in Hol- ton later in the year. At the Holton convention Mr. Clark was unani- mously nominated for congress and made the race as the Peoples' Party candidate for that office, making a thorough canvass of the district. In


For six years Mr. Clark was a 1894 he was the Peoples' Party justice of the peace of Powhattan nominee for the legislature and was township and a member of the endorsed by the Democrats. In


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sists of four children; Harvey E. Clark, of Bakersfield, Cal., Mrs. Della M. Randall, of Wetmore, Asa E. and Fred S., both pupils in the Hiawatha schools.


L C. CLARK.


1897 when the Silver forces met in joint convention to nominate a conncy ticket, Mr. Clark was made the nominee for register of deeds All of these nominations were given to him without solicitation on his part and over his protest, and they


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John M. Clark.


John M. Clark the present county treasurer of Brown county was born . serve to show the appreciation in July 12th, 1861 in Bolivar, Pennsyl- which he is held by his fellow citizens. vania. When eight years old his Before the advent of the Peoples' parents moved to Ohio and five Party Mr. Clark was a Republican years later came to Brown county. and last fall, believing that the ex- Mr. Clark attended the district pansion theories of that party were schools in Brown county and then correct, he returned to his first took a course in the Bryant and political love and supported Presi- Stratton Business College in St. dent Mckinley for re-election.


Louis, graduating from there in the


Mr. Clark is a member of the Ma- spring of ISS1. He farined two sonic fraternity, but belongs to no years in Washington county and other order. He was madea Mason at then came to Horton where he Wetmore, Kansas, but since moving opened a cigar factory and continued to Hiawatha has transfered his in this business until 1899 when he membership here. He was married was nominated by the Republicans in 1873 to Miss Sophia Smith, of and elected county treasurer. While Savannah, Mo., and their family con- a resident of Horton be served as a


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LELAND E. TUPPER.


member of the city council and then tain State. He was prepared for as mayor of the city, which position college in Barre Academy under the he held at the time of his election as noted Dr. Shedd Spaulding and then county treasurer. Mr. Clark was entered the University of Vermont married May 5th, 1892 to Miss Emma from which institution he was grad- Hilburnl of Frankfort, Kansas They uated with the class of 1880. Upon have three children, Howard, aged his graduation he was elected prin- eight, Bessie, aged six aud Paul, cipal of the Craftsbury Academy at aged three.


Craftsbury, Vermont. He held this position for four years and then be- Leland E. Tupper. came president of the Essex Classical Institute. This position he held for Leland E. Tupper, the principal of two years and then accepted the the Hiawatha Academy, was born pastorate of the . Congregational in Bakersfield, Vermont, March 2, Church at Post Mills, Vermont, In 1856 and is the son of Jackson Tup- 1887 he returned to the work as a per and Caroline Parkhurst Tupper, teacher and went to Williamsburg, both natives of Vermont. . he Tup- Kentucky under the direction of the per family is of English descent, the American Missionary Association. founder of the family in America For five years he worked under the leaving England for the New World direction of this Association, preach- in 1660. The subject of this sketch ing and teaching until 1892 when he grew to manhood in the Green Moun- was elected to the principalship of


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ISAAC MORGAN.


the Hiawatha Academy and moved to this city. He has now served his eighth year as the head of the Acad-


Isaac Morgan.


Although not born here, Brown emy. Under hils management the County claims Isaac Morgan as one standard of the school has been of the boys she has adopted because greatly raised and its graduates are of his real worth. Prof. Morgan was enabled to enter any of the more ad- born in Wales on the 19th of April, vanced colleges of the United States. 1862. He came here with his parents In 1882 Mr. Tupper was united in about thirty years ago and it has marriage to Miss Alice Crane, a since been his home. Here he re- daughter of George and Sara Denny ceived his common school education Crane, of Northfield, Vermont. They and later was a student at the Uni- have one daughter, Lelia Evelyn


versity of Kansas. For the last


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fourteen years he has been superin- tendent of the Sabetha schools, an institution that employs eleven teachers and has almost six hundred scholars. As an educational man Prof. Morgan is well known among his fellows. He has conducted twen- ty-two Normal Institutes in Brown and Nemeha Counties and has been a member of the board of examiners of both counties. At one time the people of Nemeha county demanded that he should be their county su- perintendent but politics not being to his liking he refused the nomina- tion, perferring to give his entire at- tention to his chosen profession of educating the young. He is held in high esteem by all the members of the State Teachers Association and has done his share towards building up this laudable org nization. Sev- eral times he has been honored with important offices in this Association and he is at present a member of the board of examiners of North-eastern


Jacob G. Schilling.


Jacob G. Schilling is one of the Kansas Teachers Association. Re- prosperous farmers of Mission town- ligiously Prof. Morgan is a devoted ship who has made money out of Baptist and is president of the the Brown county soil and who now Baptist Young People's Union of owns 240 acres of rich land and a North-eastern Kansas. His church fine residence and good improve- and his life profession receives his ments. He is the second son of


conscientious endeavors and when Capt. John Schilling and was born Prof. Morgan starts out to do a in Hiawatha, May 5, 1862. He was thing his friends know that it is the first graduate of the Hiawatha done with ability and with a con- High Nebool being the one lone mem- scientious regard for being right. ber of the class of 1881. In 1883 Con- His success in teaching and in super- gressman Morrill appointed him to intending schools is an inspiration a cadetship at West Point and he to many a young teacher and has spent one year in that institution. been the means of right living to At the end of that time he returned many a young scholar who has been to Brown County and has been a favored by being under his instruc- successful farmer ever since. Two tion. Mr. Morgan is a Mason, be- years ago he asked for the Republi- longing to the lodge, the chapter can nomination for County Treasur- and the commandry. He is also a er. The primary system was used member of the Knights of Pythias. for the first time that year and in


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GEO. M. DAVIS.


the triangular fight which followed Moore. She is the daughter of Mr. for the office of treasurer, Mr. Schill- and Mrs. Alexander Moore, of Hia- ing received a plurality of the popu- watha lar vote and carried a majority of John and Harold.


They have two children, the voting precincts but the solid vote that Horton sent up for its candidate, Mr. Clark, increased his


George M. Davis.


George M. Davis, the present Reg. percentage so that he . secured the ister of Derds of Brown county, is a nomination. The campaign over, Vermonter by birth. He was born Mr. Schilling went back to the farm in Windsor county, Vermont, March and last year raised 1500 bushels of 11, 1865 and is a son of Milton F. and wheat and $1000 worth of corn Lucy Davis now of Mission town- which leaves him in better shape fi- ship. His father and mother came nancially than he would be if he had to Kansas in 1868 and settled near secured the office sought. Mrs. the county line between Jackson and Schilling's maiden name was Lettie Brown counties. Young Davis was


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MR. AND MRS. A. F. MOORE.


Educated in the common schools of Brown county, the Lawrence Busi- ness College and the Campbell Uni- versity at Holton where he graduated in 1886. After leaving college he re- turned to Brown county and farmed until 1897 when he received the Re- publican nomination for Register of Deeds and was elected at the ensuing election. Two years later he was re- nominated by acclamation and re- elected. Previous to his election as Register of Deeds he served three terms as township clerk of Mission township. Mr. Davis was married May 15, 1889 to Miss Maggie Spence daughter of John Spence of Mission Township. Mr. Davis belongs to the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythlas and the United Workmen. He is at the present time Noble Grand of the Hiawatha lodge of Odd Fellowe.


A. F. Moore.


Ohlo has contributed many wor- thy sons who have helped to bring Brown County up to her present high state of developement and among them is A. F. Moore, the well known and highly respected farmer and fine stock raiser of Mission Township. Mr. Moore was born in Carrol County in the Buckeye state on February 13, 1839, of good Scotch- Irish stock. In 1850 he went to Ful- ton County, Illinois with his parents and settled on a farm near Ellisville. Here he lived until 1867 with the ex- ception of three years when he was a traveling salesman for a hardware firm.


In the spring of 1867 he started west with a covered wagon contain- ing his household goods and in June


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located on the farm where he now with pneumonia and died after an resides in Mission Township, two illness of only three days. She was miles east of Horton. Here he has a lady of culture and refinement, a prospered. The farm today com- good mother and a model wife, and prises 480 acres. It is under a high she is sincerely mourned by her state of cultivation with plenty of friends, her neighbors and her fam- barns and shed room and feed lots ily. for the fine stock that is kept on the Three children were born to Mr. place. Short horn cattle, Poland and Mrs. Moore-Frank, wife of China hogs and fine horses are Mr. Philip Olzman of Straight Creek, Moore's specialties and he owns Jackson County, Brick a resident some of the best blood in all these of Wyoming and Maud who lives lines that can be found in the county. with ber ather.


Mr. Moore is also a director and the vice president of the Bank of Horton, a position he has held since 1891.


Mr. Moore cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln for president and for many years he was an active mem- ber of the Republican party. In 1894 he was nominated by that party for County Commissioner and was elect- ed by a majority of more than 300 votes. Hebroke with his party on the silver question in 1896 and sup- ported Mr. Bryan for president on that issue. In 1897 he was nomi- nated for Commissioner again at the silver convention held in Hor- ton and although he ran ahead of his ticket he was beaten by a few votes. In 1900 he was again nomi- nated for this same office and once more lead his ticket by a handsome vote but he could not overcome the large Republican majority in the district. As a County Commission- er Mr. Moore left a record of good service of which he may well feel proud.


Samuel Detwiler.


Samuel Detwiler, the well known farmer and fine stock raiser of Hi: - watha township, is of Quaker orl- glu. His ancestors came to Penn- sylvania with William Penn, one of them being private secretary to that great philanthropist. Mr: Detwiler was born in Franklin, county, Pa., April 17, 1837, but was reared and educated in Ohio where his parents moved when he was still a small boy. He came to Kansas in the spring of 1875 and that fall purchased the farm where he now resides north of Hiawatha. He has 320 acres all improved and in fine condition, sur- rounded by a hedgefence and crossed by dividing fences into convenient, fields for handling stock. Mr. Det- wiler makes a specialty of raising Aberdeen Angus black cattle and keeps an excellent herd of them. This class of cattle leads in all stock shows and commands the highest market price and Mr. Detwiler is en- , thusiastic in regard to their merits.




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