Biographical history of Cloud County, Kansas: biographies of representative citizens. Illustrated with portraits of prominent people, cuts of homes, stock, etc, Part 28

Author: Hollibaugh, E. F
Publication date: 1903]
Publisher: [n.p.
Number of Pages: 938

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During Mr. Judy's trip from Iowa to Kansas he met with rather an amusing experience. He was overtaken by an Englishman and they trav- eled together to Marysville and on to St. Joseph, thence to Atchison, Topeka and Manhattan, and after leaving the last named town they met an old fellow who told them of the Republican valley, and in company with two other Englishmen they came to Clyde, and the following day repaired to a point two and one-half miles north of Concordia. where they each located a claim and built a dugout on the land to be filed on by Mr. Judy. The two Englishmen went to Sibley, leaving Mr. Judy to hold the claims from the numerous "jumpers" of government land. He sat up on the outside of the dugout until twelve o'clock, imagining all sorts of horrors. He could not endure the awful silence and when midnight arrived he grasped his gun and started for Sibley to join his companions. Fearful that the Indians were on liis trail he did not venture to even look backward, lest his scalp should soon be dangling from the belt of some brave. After getting lost and wandering aimlessly about, at three o'clock in the morning, footsore and weary, he finally reached their place of rendezvous, a Sibley dugout.

ALBERT BURTON CARNEY.

The subject of this sketch is Albert Burton Carney, the efficient super- intendent of the Concordia city schools. Mr. Carney is a product of the Sunflower state, born at Manhattan, Kansas, in 1869. He is a son of Joseph and Mary ( Wagner) Carney.

Joseph Carney is a native of Steuben county, New York, born about sixty miles from the city of Buffalo. He is a farmer by occupation and settled in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1859, which was then a mere village on the frontier. Mrs. Carney was also born in New York in the beautiful and historic Mohawk valley. She came to Illinois, and after teaching school

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for a short period, came to Kansas in 1863 via Leavenworth and thence to Manhattan by stage. The journey through Missouri was a perilous one to make during the turbulent times of the Civil war, when every man under sixty and every boy over fourteen years of age were pressed into active service.

Mrs. Carney organized the first graded school in Manhattan, then a village of four or five hundred inhabitants. She first taught a miscellaneous school and was given one assistant. After the expiration of two years she was married to Joseph Carney, which ended her school work except in their immediate family, where mnch credit is due her for laying the founda- tion upon which most of them have builded successful educational careers. Mrs. Carney comes from Dutch colonial stock and from the same lineage as the inventor of the Wag- ner Palace Car.

Joseph Carney spent the early part of his life in New York on a farm, but after emigrating to Manhattan, engaged in the milling business until 1870, when with sey- eral other families he moved to Mitchell county, where he has since lived and built a beautiful country home. He has been a resident of Kansas forty-two years, and has seen the country grow to its present state of civilization.

ALBERT B. CARNEY.

To this union eleven children have been born, seven boys and four girl, all of whom lived to maturity. The eldest child, Lewis, was a grad- uate of the Beloit High school and entered upon a career of teaching, but (lied at the age of thirty years. Scott Winfield. until a year ago was inter- ested with his brother Lewis, of Downs, in the mercantile business and where he was also postmaster. He is now mining in the Cripple Creek dis- trict of Colorado. G. D. Carney has been engaged in educational work all his life. He is a graduate of the Beloit High school, was two years at the State Normal school and lacked ten weeks of graduating. He is now super- intendent of instruction of public schools in Mitchell county. This is his fourth year: was first appointed. then elected and re-elected. E. M. Car- ney. a resident of Emporia, Kansas, occupies a chair in the State Normal school. He is a graduate in two courses from that institution, was a student of the Kansas Normal twelve months, and one year in Harvard. Helen A .. a graduate and salutatorian of her class in the Beloit High school. is now teaching in the schools of Billings. Montana, and is. also a musician of some local note. Winifred. a resident of Cawker City, where she is engaged in the millinery business, is also a graduate of the Beloit

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High school, and for several years a successful teacher. D. L. Carney entered upon the career of school teacher, but is now a student in the Kan- sas City Dental College. Nandora, associated with her sister Winifred at Cawker City, is the business woman of the family. Ella is a student of the Beloit High school. She has considerable musical talent. Walter, aged thirteen years. received a common school diploma and has finished one year in the Beloit High school.

A. B. Carney, with his elder brothers, was reared on a farm and began their career by herding cattle, over what is now the town site of Beloit, and the ordinary work on the farm, attending school in winter. When fif- teen years of age he worked for his board and attended school in Beloit. About this time his ambitions began to soar beyond the corn fields which surrounded the home of his boyhood.

At the age of eighteen years he began teaching in a country school near Beloit, and one year later became principal of the Asherville graded schools, where he held forth two years, the proceeds of which enabled him to take a two years' course in the State Normal, where he graduated in 1892. He then became principal of the Jamestown schools for one year. in 1893 accepted the position of principal of the Concordia High school and two years later was made superintendent of the city schools and is now on his eighth year.

Mr. Carney's natural ability, coupled with his industry and ambition have caused him to be promoted to the head of the school system in Con- cordia. He is an indefatigable worker for the cause of education, a man of keen intellect and executive ability. It was chiefly through his efforts that the High school was secured in 1900, and also the public library of public schools and many other improvements which are his especial and par- donable pride. Ile instructs one-half day in the High school and lectures the other half. Ilis specialty is history, both ancient and modern.

Mr. Carney is a very successful institute worker and in connection with this and regular school work has labored twenty-five consecutive months. He has given much time to lecturing before educational societies, has worked in twenty or more institutes, either as instructor or conductor. averaging two institutes a season. In 1901 he was appointed by the gov- ernor as a member of the board of Kansas state text books, and has been twice honored with the appointment of chairman of the state board of education.

Mr. Carney was married in 1899 to Miss Myrtle Latta, of Clay Center, Kansas. Mrs. Carney is a native of Ohio. She came to Kansas with her parents when a child and located in Clay Center, where she grew to woman- hood. She is a graduate of the Clay Center High school. Mrs. Carney is a talented musician and possesses a well cultivated mezzo soprano voice. She has studied in Topeka and Kansas City. She was a member of the Clay Center High School Ladies' Quartette, known as the "Cecilian Quar- tette." They toured various parts of the state, singing for educational associations and concerts. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Carney was employed as special teacher of music in the Concordia schools.

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Politically A. B. Carney is a Democrat. He is a member of the Ancient. Free and Accepted Masons, Knights of Pythias and Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan. Mrs. Carney is a member of the Eastern Star and is presi- dent of the "Anatheum Club" of Concordia. Mr. and Mrs. Carney have a very comfortable and cozy home on Eighth, between Washington and State streets.

F. J. ATWOOD.

F. J. Atwood began his career in the First National Bank of Brandon. Vermont, of which Governor N. F. Sprague was president. Mr. AAtwood came to Concordia and assumed the position of cashier in the Cloud County Bank until he promoted the organization of the First National Bank in 1883. He is one of the very best financiers and bankers known throughout the country, is proficient in all the various branches of the great banking system of both continents and where profound calculations are required he is able to cope with and surmount all difficulties. Socially and personally he is a man of superior ability, possessing the confidence of his friends and colleagues. He is a man of marked literary talent and likewise a close stu- dent, but his retiring nature has retarded the prominence he is entitled to in the literary world.

Mr. Atwood's first wife before her marriage was Miss Jessie Hawkins. of Vermont. She was a woman cultured in the gifts of nature, music and literature and endowed with an intellect which enabled her to keep pace with her talented husband. This young wife and her infant child were separated by death but a few hours. His present wife was Miss Kate Tyner, who is a woman of refined instincts and possessed of many personal charms. Music is her special accomplishment. She has a well trained, high soprano voice. Mr and Mrs. Atwood are members of high standing in the Presbyterian church. Mr. Atwood is the faithful president and active worker of the Christian Endeavor Society. He is one of the most philanthropic men of Concordia. contributing liberally to the support of all public enterprises of a worthy nature designed for the promotion or benefit of his fellow men. The Atwoods reside in a beautifully appointed home, situated on the corner of Eleventh and Republican streets.

WALTER W. BOWMAN.

Walter W. Bowman, as cashier of the First National Bank of Concor- ciia, is closely connected with its interests and much of its success is due to his business understanding of the duties and responsibilities attending his important position. Gentry county, Missouri, is the place of Mr. Bow- man's nativity, but he came to Kansas when only one year of age, therefore he is practically a Kansan, and no one refers with greater pride to the rise and note the state has achieved at home and abroad.

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The rudiments of his education were received in the Concordia schools and one year in the Concordia State Normal, but he is a self-made man and pursued knowledge that was most practical and that which would bring the best returns. He began his career early in life. When but eleven years old he was employed as clerk in the postoffice of Concordia. Having signed a registered letter, his signature attracted the attention of Mr. Linney, Con- cordia's first postmaster, who asked for an interview with the young boy's mother, consequently arrangements were promptly made and he was given a clerkship, attending school intermittently, taking every advantage that offered to educate himself. About seven years subsequently he was appointed to a clerkship in the United States land office, then located in Concordia. where he gained much useful knowledge. From this occupation he entered the First National Bank and has been prominently identified with this institution from its start.

Mr. Bowman was married in August. 1883, to Clara K. Polhemus, who removed to Kansas with her parents in 1880. Mrs. Bowman is a woman of intellectual attainments and an accomplished musician. Three promising and interesting sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bowman, viz: Alfred N., Walter, Jr., and Horace Bushnell. After the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Bowman his mother was united in matrimony to Mr. Polhemus, the father of Mrs. Bowman. They are residents of Concordia and own a pleasant home opposite their children on Seventh street.

Mr. Bowman is a man honored alike in the counsels of the community at large and in the circle of his personal acquaintances and friends, the direct result of his straightforward principles and purpose of will. He has made use of the excellent talents with which nature endowed him and no citizen of Concordia possesses a more honorable record. He is a man of untiring energy in his devotion to business, the smallest detail receiving the attention it deserves, which in a great measure is the keynote to his popularity and success.

From the life of Mr. Bowman the following lesson can be learned : Any boy who is studious and determined to be successful can attain his object though handicapped by poverty, lack of educational opportunity and even delicate health. The Bowmans occupy a desirable cottage home on the cor- ner of Washington and Seventh streets, where they expect to build a modern and more commodious house in the near future. A wide lawn is one of the pleasing features of this property. Fraternally Mr. Bowman is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his family are prom- inent members and active workers of the Presbyterian church.

HONORABLE ARCHIBALD ARGYLE CARNAHAN.

The late A. A. Carnahan, a retired attorney, statesman. politician and an old landmark of Cloud county, was born in Loudonville. Ashland coun- ty. Ohio. December 2. 1837. He was a son of William Karnahan (the

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original mode of spelling the name), an anti-slavery man, one of the little band who organized the Liberty Party in Ohio in 1842, and a station agent on the underground railway. He was a strict Covenanter for many years and an elder in the church. His paternal ancestors were of Scotch-Irish origin. His mother was a Miss Mary Speer, of Holland extraction. She was an intelligent woman and a devout member of the Covenanters' church. William Karanhan died in 1845, and his wife married James Robinson, a very worthy member of the same church.

A. A. Carnahan was one of six children, only one of whom is living : William R., with residence in Findlay, Ohio. A. A. Carnahan was educated in Northwood, Logan county, Ohio, at the Miami University. Upon finish- ing a course there he began the study of law in the town of Bucyrus, Ohio, and after pursuing his studies for two years he emigrated to Olathe, John- son county, Kansas, in the year 1860, and in June of the same year he was admitted to the bar by Judge John Pettit at his court in Wyandotte, to prac- tice law in the various courts in Kansas.

For a brief time he practiced law in Olathe. At the breaking out of the Civil war he enlisted in Company C, Kansas Volunteer Infantry, and served until his regiment was mustered out by general order. He then re-enlisted in the First Kansas Cavalry, afterward known as the Seventh Kan- sas, original "Jayhawkers," and served until February, 1863, when on account of wounds received at Blue Springs, Jackson county, Missouri, by the Quantrill band, which confined him at the hospital at Kansas City, he was honorably discharged.

In 1865 he was employed in the construction of the Kansas Pacific Railroad between Lawrence and Abilene. In 1867 he located at Lake Sib- ley. Cloud county, In 1868, he was elected to the senate and served two sessions. The seventh judicial district was then composed of Marshall, Riley. Washington. Republic, Cloud and all the district of unorganized counties to the westward. He was one of the senators who voted for and secured the ratification of the fifteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, guaranteeing universal suffrage.

His services in the senate occurred during the time when a vast portion of western Kansas was devastated by grasshoppers and drouth, and when his own district was invaded by. Indians. He was one of the most active and efficient workers for the relief of sufferers, and it was largely through his ability and influence that the passage of bills for relief by state contribu- tion to the famine stricken people, of seed wheat, corn and appropriations for sustenance of the militia in defense of the frontier was due. Also in securing the passage of a concurrent resolution memoralizing congress to establish the Republican land district. He was a volunteer and soldier in defense of the people during the Indian troubles. Was judge of the twelfth judicial district of Kansas by appointment in 1884, and was one of the early probate judges of Cloud county.

In 1886, under Cleveland's administration. he was appointed receiver

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and disburser of public monies. He took an active part in the organization of the People's party. In 1898 lie connected himself with the Socialist Labor party and was chairman of the first Socialist convention held in Kan- sas at Fort Scott, and the party candidate for chief justice of the supreme court of Kansas. In 1900 he attended the Socialist convention in Topeka, and was party candidate for associate justice of the supreme court, and was one of the state committee at that time trying to organize the Socialist party in Kanasas.

A. A. Carnahan was married in Topeka April 22, 1872, to Ollie E. Sheldon, a daughter of Doctor Sheldon, of Stowe, Vermont. Mrs. Carna- han was visiting her two sisters in Topeka, and had in the meantime estab- lished herself as a music teacher. She is an educated, refined lady and especially distinguished in musical circles. Two sons have been born to this union : William Edwin, born in Concordia, Kansas, in 1874, is a trusted employe in the capacity of cashier in a bank at Randall; Harry T., born in Concordia in 1879, has for several years held a clerkship in the Bon Marche, one of the leading dry-goods houses in Concordia. These boys were both educated in the high school of Concordia. William has a cultivated bari- tone voice of considerable range.

Mr. Carnahan was a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and was buried by the rites of this order. He was past master of St John's Lodge No. 113, and past high priest of Concordia Chapter. No. 5. He was a member of Hiram Council, Royal Select Masters No. 10, and was most illustrious past master of the state of Kansas, a member of Concordia Commandery No. 42, and of Isis Temple,, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine. He was a member of of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and of the Modern Woodmen. In 1857 lie became a member of the original Alpha Chapter of the Phi Mi Chi fraternity.

In the early settlement of Cloud county Judge Carnahan was a valued citizen. He was a man of genial and sunny nature and was probably as well known throughout the state as any man in the country.

ARCHIE C. LITTLE.

. Archie C. Little, a stockman of Concordia, is well known and highly respected, upright in all his business transactions, believing perfect honesty the only basis upon which to found a business and prosper. "Truth is mighty and will prevail," is his motto and governed by that principle his word is as sound as his note and his note is as good as the bank. Mr. Little buys, sells and ships horses and mules exclusively. He began in the stock business when quite young, reaping good returns from his judicious investments. During the Boer war in Africa he handled large shipments of horses and mules, purchasing in various parts of Kansas and Oklahoma, hold- ing and feeding the stock until car loads could be sent as one shipment on the Kansas City markets, from which point they were sold to England.

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Mr. Little has been a resident of Cloud county about four years. The first two years he was engaged in the livery business, having purchased the C. D. Byrum stock of livery and a half interest in the building. C. E. Sweet owning the other half. Mr. Little sold his livery business to the former, still retaining his half interest in the building. While operating the livery barn he was very successful, but was compelled to absent himself too much while purchasing for the market to personally attend to the inside work, which was the sole cause of his selling out. After this sale he went to Lawton, Okla- homa. making the then new city his headquarters. The coming season he expects to purchase a number of high bred trotters. The spring and carly winter is the buying season for trotters, and draft horses in the autumn and late winter.

Mr. Little is a native of Marshall county, Illinois, where he was born in the year 1869. but when a mere lad came with his parents to Republic county, where they settled on a farm and he grew to manhood. The origin of the name Little is Scotch-Irish. Both parents were born in the north of fre- land. His father emigrated to America when a boy with his parents and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he grew to manhood and fol- lowed the occupation of machinist. Mr. Little's mother also came to Phila- delphia during her infancy and after growing to womanhood met and married Archie B. Little. The young couple emigrated to Illinois and settled on a farm. later coming to the far famed "Sunflower" state "to make a new start in life's run." Mr. Little makes his home with his youngest daughter, owing to the death of his wife in 1885. Archie C. Little is the second youngest of the six children, four girls and two boys, viz . Lizzie, Hannah, Nancy, Katie and John, all of whom are married. Mr. Little in conversation laughingly remarked. "I am unmarried and unhappy." but he lives in hopes of adding a partner to his home and business before the "winter of discontent" over- takes him. He was educated in the country schools, making the most of his opportunities.

Every man seems to possess one fad, and happy is he that can enjoy the real comfort in that one. Mr. Little owns to his weakness, the admiration and love of a thoroughbred span of trotters. An automobile, with its electric up-to-date pace. may suit the tastes of many, but to Mr. Little, with the lack of a pair of high steppers, the charm is gone, and he has been heard to say "No matter how large a city may be, let the 'auto' and a neat car- riage drawn by a spirited span of horses well handled pass down the same street side by side, the attention of the majority of people, men or women, will be attracted to the noblest of all animals. the horse; the more mettle the more it is admired." He treats his horses with tact and trusts them as he would people, according to their merit, disposition and understanding. In politics Mr. Little is a Republican, but is so much engrossed with business in his line that he devotes only time to vote for the men on his chosen ticket. He is a man of honor and integrity, always in favor of progression

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and willing to further any improvements toward the making of a live town.

Mr. Little has purchased the Byrum lease and opened up a new and fresh stock of livery.

E. D. DUNNING.

The jewelry store of E. D. Dunning, established in 1899. is especially worthy of mention in the Concordia department of this volume. His stock of jewelry is very complete, both with reference to quality and quantity, and has been se- lected with a view of catering to the fashionable trade. In matters pertaining to jewels and precious stones, Mr. Dunning is a recognized au- thority and his judgement is trustworthy.

Mr. Dunning has grown INTERIOR OF E. D. DUNNING'S JEWELRY STORE. to manhood in the city of Concordia, having lived there since he was five years of age. His father, E. T. Dunning, was one of the early merchants, and although retired from business cares, makes Concordia his home.

HARRISON, NELSON & COMPANY.

The Harrison, Nelson Grocery Company is one of the leading business houses and one of the most up-to-date enterprises in the city of Concordia and one that would do credit, both in magnitude and character, to a much larger city. Their store contains everything that is good to eat, and their manner of exhibiting goods appeals to the appetite of the customer. The firm is composed of J. M. Harrison, William Harrison (a son) and Walter Nelson. all of whom are exceptionally well qualified to cater to the needs of the inner man, by furnishing all the delicacies of the seasons-staple and fancy. The senior member, J. M. Harrison, has been a resident of Cloud county since 1880, when he bought unimproved land four miles south of Concordia, paying eight hundred dollars for it. Ile sold this land, which he had improved, six years later and opened a general merchandise store in the little town of Rice, and was also postmaster there. Mr. Harrison was very successful, having made two farms from the proceeds of his business. He sold the Rice store, came into Concordia and in the year 1900 engaged in their present business, which was formerly the Mccrary stock of gro- ceries. They removed the store to their present stand in the Iron block.

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Biographical history of Cloud County, Kansas: biographies of representative citizens. Illustrated with portraits of prominent people, cuts of homes, stock, etc, Part 28

Author: Hollibaugh, E. F Publication date: 1903] Publisher: [n.p. Number of Pages: 938

Author: Hollibaugh, E. F
Publication date: 1903]
Publisher: [n.p.
Number of Pages: 938