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Mr. and Mrs. Jordan are the parents of three bright and interesting little daughters: Fern. Mamie and Gladys, aged respectively eight, six and four years. The political views of the Jordan house are divided, Mr. Jor- dan being a Populist and his wife a Republican. Mr. Jordan is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Glasco. He is a man of cordial manner, a thrifty, industrious and practical farmer. There is an atmos- phere of true hospitality pervading their home and Mr. and Mrs. Jordan are most excellent people.
JOHN W. HARE.
J. W. Hare is a native of Indiana, born in 1852 (for ancestry. see sketch of Mark Hare). When a boy Mr. Hare's parents emigrated to Iowa and subsequently to Missouri, where Mr. Hare received a common school
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education. He began his career on a farmi at the age of fourteen years. In 1871 he came to Kansas and took up the homestead where he now lives in Lyon township, about four miles from Glasco. The family took up four hundred and eighty acres of land in a body, or three homesteads. Mr. Hare raises wheat extensively and at the present time has two hundred and forty acres. In 1898-9 his ground yielded on an average forty bushels of wheat to the acre. He has made wheat growing a specialty.
Mr. Hare was married. in 1870, to Mamie Kunkel of Holt county. Missouri, a daughter of Jacob Kunkel. Their family consists of three sons. Mark, Edward, and Arthur, all of whom have reached their majority. Mark. the ekdlest son, married May Prince, daughter of Ferd Prince of Glasco. Edward is married to Myrtle Childs.
Politically, Mr. Hare is a Republican. He is a member of the Indepen- dent Order of Odd Fellows of Glasco. Mr. Hare has one of the best homes in his township. In 1884 he built a comfortable frame residence. He is a frugal and successful farmer. Mrs. Hare is an estimable woman and their home is a pleasant one.
JOSEPH1 A. LAROCQUE.
The LaRocque country home is one of the most artistic and desirable in the vicinity of Glasco. The residence is a frame building of generous dimen- sions. The barn, sheds and out buildings also bear the unmistakable stamp of prosperity. Mr. LaRocque is known all over Cloud county and commands the esteem of all. By putting into effect his progressive ideas, he has contrib- uted in a large measure to the prosperity of Cloud county-in an earlier day to Concordia, and in more recent years to Glasco and vicinity.
One often hears the "bonanza mine" spoken of in the western parlance of the mining districts : Mr. LaRocque owns what might be termed a bon- anza farın. In 1885 he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land and shortly afterward added one hundred and tweny acres of state land, all of which is excellent corn ground and rarely ever fails to produce a crop. Some years it lias yielded seventy-five bushels per acre. Mr. LaRocque is a prac- tical farmer, advocates deep planting and not leaving the ground too loose. His farm is intersected by First creek. He keeps a herd of about one hun- dred head of native cattle and feeds and raises extensively the Poland China breed of hogs.
EDMUND H. LOUTHAN.
One of the most esteemed citizens of Solomon township is E. H. Louthan, a successful farmer and stockman. He is a product of the great commonwealth of Ohio, born in Colombiana county, in 1829. His father was an industrious blacksmith of Scotch. Irish and Dutch origin, born in Penn- sylvania, near the Ohio line. He came to Kansas with his son, our subject.
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and was one of the earliest smiths on the Solomon. His maternal ancestors were from England.
Mr. Lonthan, like his father, became a blacksmith and from him learned the trade which kept him employed for several years. At the age of twenty- four he took up a residence in Indiana where he lived nineteen years. In January, 1872. emigrated to Kansas and filed on a homestead located on the south side of the Solomon river, in Solomon township. Through the discouragements brought about by the hard times Mr. Louthan traded his homestead for land in Missouri and with his family left Kansas to take up their abode in that state, but when better days dawned for Kansas his family wanted to return and did so after an absence of five years. Not being able to secure their original homestead they did the next best thing, bought one on Fisher creek, and has since added other lands until he now owns four hun- dred and eighty acres of as fine land as can be found on the continent; it produces chiefly wheat and corn. To look over this valuable estate one could not imagine the hardships the owner with his family experienced. During their first sojourn in Kansas they lived in a dugout for three years. They then traded a gun for a house getting the worst of the bargain: the roof was of cottonwood that warped and poured the rain down upon their heads im- stintingly, but later they shingled the roof and were quit comfortable.
Mr. Louthan was married, in 1858, to Jane Thackery, who died in 1869, leaving three children, one of whom is living, Catherine, wife of Alex Jack- son of Lincoln county, Kansas, The others died in infancy. Mr. Louthan's second marriage was to Mary J. MeNew, of Indiana, in 1872. To their union three promising sons have been born, viz: Elza Riley and Walter, the eldest and youngest sons, respectively, are the "main stays" of the family and tillers of the soil: and to their industry much is dne for the development of this fine farmi. James Qumton, the second son, was a student three years in the State Normal at Emporia, Kansas and while in this institution was unani- mously chosen speaker of their senate. by both Democrats and Republicans. lle is now a student in the Law Department of the State University at Law- rence, Kansas.
Mr. Lonthan is a gentleman of the old school; courtly, kind and gene- rous and his residence is one of those hospitable homes the Solomon valley is famous for. When twenty-three years of age he cast his first ballot in the presidential campaign for President Pierce, and has been a solid Democrat ever since. taking an interest in all political affairs, not for the sake of office but because he believes it to be the duty of every citizen.
GILBERT L. FULLER.
Among the many prosperous farmers and stockmen of Lyon township is G. L. Fuller. He is an old settler, coming to Cloud county February 15. 1871, and homesteaded land five miles southwest of Glasco, section 21. Solomon township. It was high prairie land as he was not in the county
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early enough to secure bottom land. There was not a sod turned. but within a few years he put this land in a high state of improvement and lived there until one year ago ( 1900) when he bought the old Mitchell homestead which had been in the hands of the Fuller family a quarter of a century.
A brother. Joseph R .. first bought the farm which he sold to his father who died soon afterward. Mr. Fuller sold his homestead in 1900, and bought out the heirs of his father's estate. He has added general improve- ments to the good foundation already laid until he has made a very desir- able and pleasant home. His residence stands on the banks of Chris creek. which runs through his land. The creek is skirted with timber which makes a charming back-ground for the red roofed cottage. sheds, etc. Nature could not have provided a prettier setting for a home. The trees are of good size and in autumn when nature has touched them with her paint brush they are gorgeous in their colorings. The residence, an eight-room house, was built in 1883.
Nir. Fuller has one of the largest basement barns in the township. 30 by 40 feet in dimensions. 35 feet from basement to top, with shed 16 feet in width. the length of the barn. He has also a fine apple, peach and plum or- chard. He has some of the best high graded cattle which he has been breeding for several years.
Mr. Fuller is a native of Green county, Illinois, born in 1849. He is a son of Gilbert F. and Lydia F. ( Ross) Fuller. His father was a New Yorker and. after several removals settled in Illinois. where he married Deliah De- neen. To this marriage two children were born. a daughter who died in in- fancy and a son. Josiah Buell, now living in Aspen, Colorado. By the sec- ond marriage there were twelve children, ten of whom are living. eight sons and two daughters. A brother, S. P., a farmer near Caldwell, Idaho: Jos- eph, a plumber in Chicago: Elmer Elsworth, of Aurora. Kansas; Denman, of Kansas City. A brother, J. B., served four years in the United States service with the First Missouri Cavalry of United States Volunteers. The mother lives near Wichita. Kansas, with her daughter and two sons and where they own a half seetion of land.
Gilbert F. Fuller died from a fall. He was carrying some tools into the barn one dark night, stumbled and fell down an opening left for a stairway. He lived until sunset the next evening, but did not regain consciousness in the meantime. He was seventy years of age: was a stone mason. plasterer and carpenter. He was a highly respected citizen.
G. L. Fuller was married December 13. 1876. to Alice Newell. a daugh- ter of A. Newell. one of the old timers of the Solomon valley. ( See sketch). To this worthy couple have been born eight children, six of whom are living. four sons and two daughters. One child died in infancy and a son, Gilbert. died at the age of thirteen years: Walter Ross, is twenty-four years of age. an industrious young man who assists his father on the farm; Clark Ray- mond, sixteen years of age, and Mabel. Ralph Cook. Bertha and Wesley. aged respectively thirteen, nine, six and four years.
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JAMES M. TEASLEY.
J. M. Teasley, the subject of this sketch, is a son of the late .A. D. Teasley (see sketch of W. W. Teasley), and like all the Teasleys he is a good citizen. When eight years of age he left his southern home and emigrated with his parents to the western wilds of Kansas, and settled in Cloud county, where he has been reared and educated in district No. 58. and in the Glasco schools. He was born on a plantation near Dalton, Geor- gia. in 1858.
J. M. Teasley is a chip off the old block, and like his honest father and brothers, if he owes a dollar can not rest until he pays it. Mr. Teasley started in life from the foundation and has accumulated his lands and com- fortable home, by his own efforts and good management. He had no legacy left as a beginning. but rented land and when he reached his major- ity had saved enough of his income to buy forty acres of ground, which is a part of his present fine farm. In 1883 he purchased eighty acres of the Bert Doyle homestead. In 1897 he bought out the heirs of his father's estate; the old homestead, where linger the memories of many pioneer inci- dents : the old cabins that still stand as monuments to those exciting Indian raids. were converted into temporary hospitals and the bed clothes stained with blood from the wounds of his victims. A. D. Teasley bought ammmmi- tion by the keg, and in these same rude huts the whole settlement con- gregated for protection, for Mr. Teasley and his sons with their unerring rifles were good shots and this was the recognized stronghold of the com- mimity. In 1901 Mr. Teasley bought the north Doyle eighty and now owns a total of three hundred and sixty acres of land second to none in the Solo- mon valley for its fertility of soil and producing qualities. Their residence is a handsome six room frame erected in 1885. situated on a prominence of ground, from which one of the rarest panoramic views of the valley is presented. Mr. Teasley has recently completed one of the finest caves in the country: 10x14 feet in the clear, with walls and floor of cement. Ile is one of the progressive farmers who is continually making improvements. lle has now under course of construction a rock shed for his cattle 20x80 feet. 18 feet in height with a mow for hay. Fisher creek runs through his land, and furnishes an abundance of wood and water. There is also a spring that affords water at all seasons of the year.
Mr. Teasley was married February 28, 1894. to Miss Martha Mirget, a daughter of Silas and Anise ( Brammer ) Mirget, who came to Kansas from southern Illinois in 1884. They now live in Delphos, Ottawa county, Kansas. Mr. Mirget is a retired farmer. Mrs. Teasley is one of four chil- dren. viz: Mary. wife of Samuel Siders. a blacksmith of Delphos: Sarah. wife of Wells King, a farmer of Ottawa county; and Amanda, wife of Harvey Knight. a farmer of Cloud county. Mr. and Mrs. Teasley are the parents of three interesting little sons : Earl and Loyd, aged six and four years, and an infant of six months.
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JAMES HURLEY.
One of the progressive farmers and stockmen of Lyontownship is the subject of this sketch. James Hurley, who came to Kansas in 1870. from the northern part of lowa. Mitchell county. Mr. Hurley is a native of south- west Ireland, born in County Kerry in 1839. He was educated in the parochial schools of Ireland and when about nineteen years of age emi- grated to America. Mr. Hurley was in the employ of the government five years with the First Army Corps along the Potomac; was in the supply car service.
He afterward returned to Pennsylvania and thence to Maryland, where he was married in 1868 to Nora Collins, also of Irish birth. Her father emigrated to America and settled in Washington, District of Columbia, where he died in 1875. Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hurley located in lowa and shortly afterward emigrated with teams to Fort Scott, Kansas. Not being pleased with that country they came to Junction City. There were a number of families who came together and traveled about hunting a location. In the party were the Dillons, Pierce Butler. Thomas Butler, Keith and Downey.
They made a stop at Asherville. Micthell county, where they met an old soldier who told them the Indians were coming. Instead of going further west they turned backward and located in Cloud county, took up homesteads, built log houses and proceeded to build homes. Mr. Hurley's possessions were less than four hundred dollars. It was a dry year and the prospect was a gloomy one. They had to travel to Salina to mill, for their groceries and seed wheat : they took their revolvers to guard against the Indians, but they had been driven further west.
Mr. Hurley was able to sustain his family after the first year by hard work and economy. By degrees he has prospered until he now owns one of the best homes in Lyon township . He was more fortunate than most of his neighbors and kept out of debt, and never mortgaged his land only to buy more. He has a herd of native cattle; is grading them with Herefords and Shorthorns. He owns six hundred acres of land in Lyon township, good bottom corn land, and wheat land. In 1890 he had sixty acres of ground that yielded thirty-seven acres of wheat per acre. In 1898 Mr. Hurley erected a handsome nine room, two-story, frame house. His place is well improved. good barn, out buildings, an enclosed shed 80x20 feet in dimensions, which accommodates eighty head of cattle.
Mr. and Mrs. Hurley are the parents of eight children, viz: Mary, wife of Edmond Colton, of Kansas City, an engineer on the Rock Island Railroad : Timothy assists his father on the farm; Anna, wife of John Butler, a farmer of Lyon township: Margaret. William, Eliza, Helen and Frank Mr. Hurley is thoroughly Americanized and loyal to his adopted country, where he has spent the better part of his days, built a comfortable home and prospered.
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WILLIAM WASHINGTON TEASLEY.
W. W. Teasley, one of the early settlers, also one of the many prosper- ous farmers and foremost stockmen of Summit township, was a native of Dalton. Whitfield county, Georgia, born in the year 1846. His parents were David Allan and Rhoda Milligan ( Boatwright) Feasley, both natives of Georgia. Mr. Tensley's father owned and successfully managed a cotton plantation. His paternal grandparents settled in Georgia at an early day. The Teasleys left their southern home to test the possibilities of the much discussed new country of Kansas. His father. Allan Teasley, and his fam- ily were among the first settlers on Fisher creek. in the year 1866, where he endured the hardships of pioneer life with dauntless courage, bearing priva- tions, that his family might in later years reip the reward of his efforts. He died on February 18. 1875 at the age of fifty-one years. He was cutting wood in the timber, left his home early in the morning and not returning at the moon hour, his wife instituted a search and found him with life extinct- supposedly from heart failure brought on by over exertion-leaving his little band to struggle on alone in the battle of life. Mr. Teasley's mother was of Scotch origin and died June 8. 1886, at the advanced age of seventy- four years.
"To come to Kansas in the early times without a dollar." was so fre- quent an occurance that it was cited with pride rather than an event of some- thing to be held back from the neighbors lest they look down upon them as penniless adventurers. All lived alike in houses of sod or logs. The dug- outs was counted as the warmest in winter and coolest in summer. To be the owner of a wagon and a span of horses decorated with a rope harness was quite a rise in the world from the yoke of oxen and home-made sled.
Our subject's home was a one-room house built of stone, where six of his children opened their eyes to the "great round world." Childhood knows nothing but brightness and joy, and this little house brought them all the comforts and pleasures of a palace. Appetites savored the buffalo meat and bread made of corn meal. Buffalo were numerous and formed a staple article of food, and from the skin robes for warm carpet- and coverings for the beds were made.
During the Indian raids of 1868. W. W. Teasley with his family moved to Franklin county, but returned to their homestead in 1870. Upon his arrival he was well pleased to meet his old employer. "Uncle Tommy" Pinkerton, who was a contractor, and after the usual salutations of "How are you getting along?" etc .. Mr. Teasley remarked with all the soberness of a judge. "Physically well, but financially busted." and ventured to ask for a loan of fifteen dollars. Such an amount in those days was seldom near at hand, but credit was its equivalent and the amount in goods from a general merchandise store was soon put in shape to be taken home and pre- pared into wholesome meals. When he finished his marketing he had a wagon load of purchases and felt rich.
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Mrs. Teasley's father in the year 1872, was the owner of two cows only one of which gave milk, the other having "gone dry" for lack of proper care. His son-in-law thinking he saw an opportunity to make a little stake asked for the cow. The owner, little thinking anything could be done to bring her milk back, consented to the deal. In the first attempt the son-in- law secured about a spoonful of the lacteal fluid, the next time two, and after repeated trials was well rewarded by getting a Howing pail full of milk, which made nice rolls of butter, illustrating that even in so small a venture, industry brings its reward.
Mr. Teasley's home was seven miles from Ottawa, while living in Frank- lin county, and upon the occasion of a show coming to town all wanted to go. but "the price" could not be obtained. Mrs. Teasley's father gave her the wherewithal for admittance and while enroute to the city Mr. Teasley overtook a man with a balky horse, accepted the proffered two dollars to heip him out of his predicament took the man into town, and to his wife's great surprise when she entered the big tent, found him quietly "seeing the elephant" and all the wonderful sights under the convas.
Mr. Teasley homesteaded his present farm March 15. 1872, and added to his land from time to time until he was the possessor of one thousand acres. He has, however, sold to his sons portions of this land, retaining for himself three hundred and sixty acres. About eleven years ago Mr. Teasley suffered from a stroke of paralysis, which disabled him for manual labor. His career has been a financial success and even after losing the use of his limbs, Mr. Teasley made in 1897, while seated in his conveyance. a profit of seven hundred dollars on the sales of cattle. beside other financial bargains.
Mr. Teasley was married in December. 1869. to Mary Jane, a daughter of Henry Stackhouse, a brother of the Reverend Stackhouse, who held serv- ice- and preached one of the first sermons in the Glasco community, and all the early settlers remember how, like music, the first words of the gospel fell on their listing ears: the words of comfort and good cheer were at that time "pearls without price." Her father is still living and resides in Mitch- el! county. Mrs. Teasley is the eldest of eight children, and, with the excep- tion of one brother living in Texas, all reside in Kansas.
Mlr. and Mrs. Teasley are the parents of eight children, seven of whom have been spared to them, viz: Rhoda E., wife of W. G. Wells, of Con- cordia : David Henry, a farmer of Cloud county; George Monroe and Thomas Wesley are both farmers and own land in Summit township: Min- nie Jane. wife of Isaac Moore, a farmer living seven miles south of Concor- dia: Charles Calvin is associated with his father on the farm, and Cora Adell. a prepossessing and industrious young woman, living at home.
Mr. Teasley has practically retired from financial transactions, having a sufficiency of this world's goods. Hs is a Democrat politically, but has voted the populist ticket since the organization of that party. He is a mem- ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
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IVER B. HALDERSON.
The subject of this sketch. I. B. Halderson, one of the representative citizens and partially retired farmers of Lyon township, is a native of Nor- way. born in 1850, and went to Wisconsin with his parents when he was four years old. Ilis father. Bjørn Hakderson, was one of a race of farmers and the only member of his father's family who emigrated to America. I. B. Halderson's mother was Inger ( Anderson ) Halderson, of Norway. He is one of eight children, seven of whom are living. Two brothers. H. B. and Andrew, are well-to-do farmers of Solomon township. A. K. was a nominee for county commissioner from his district (No. 3) by the Populist party against Mr. Daly, in 1901. He is a prominent man of Sol- omon township. He has been treasurer of his township for several terms and clerk of School District No. 42 for more than twenty years. His nom- ination for commissioner was not of his seeking, but had he been elected would have served the county well. A sister. Sarah Anderson, widow of Christian Anderson, who died, leaving his wife and a family of two children, lives o a farm in Lyon township. Ida and Cora are her two daughters. The former, the widow of Ernest Converse, was a Cloud county teacher and a student of the State Normal School at Emporia. Amelia, wife of Everett Dickerson, a resident of Ness county, Kansas; they have a family of three children .- Beulah Mildred. Clifford Everett and Fern Agnes. Lena, wife of llosea Stout, a farmer of Smith county, Kansas; their family consists of two sons, Ira, aged thirteen and Arley, aged ten years. Anna, wife of John Pitner, a farmer of Lyon township.
Mr. Halderson was educated in Wisconsin. The Haldersons first set- tled in Ottawa county, in 1870, coming a few months later to Lyon township. Cloud county, where they located government land. They came without capital, lived in a dugout and underwent the same experiences and trials that most of the early settlers did, and lived as people lived in Kansas at that time.
I. B. Ilalderson owns the original homestead. He had lived at home until the death of his father in 1894, and the home place succeeded to him. This is an excellent farm, wheat and corn land. In many good years his ground has yielded seventy-five bushels of corn and forty bushels of wheat per acre. The Haldersons are Republicans politically; strayed away for a while but are falling back in line again. They are members of the Lutheran church of the Glasco congregation. They all have comfortable homes and are numbered among the representative citizens.
ROBERT W. SMITH.
The subject of this sketch is R. W. Smith, the resident and owner . "Clover Valley Stock Farm," one of the most beautiful and valuable estates in the country, situated in the southwestern corner of Cloud county. Mr. Smith is a grandson of the Reverend Joseph Smith, who had charge of the
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Cross Creek and Buffalo churches in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1790, and from that time onward until his death in 1800. His salary was small: too small to support himself and family, so he bought a farm on credit, expecting to meet the consideration to be paid with a salary promised by the people of his parish. Time rolled on until three years' income was due. The people wanted to remunerate their minister, but how could they : Wheat was abundant but there was no market: it would not bring over a dime per bushel: even salt had to be brought across the mountains on pack horses and in exchange for one bushel of that commodity twenty-one bushels of wheat was given. At last the day dawned when the minister's salary must be forthcoming or lose his farm, for the mortgage was overdue. Meet- ings were called to consider the matter but nothing tangible materialized until one day. Mr. Moore, who had the only mill in the settlement, agreed that if the people would furnish a boat, barrels and wheat he would give them a boat load of flour, providing they conkl get it transported to New Orleans, adding that the proceeds would pay off the debt. The offer was received with favor : coopers and boat builders went to work with a will and farmers subscribed wheat lavishly. Many of the brethren donated fifty bushels and others more. Within a month the boat was loaded and ready for market. but in the meantime a new difficulty arose. No one volunteered to take the transaction in hand or seemed willing to go on a venture fraught with so many dangers and hardships. Finally Eller Smiley, an old man, and. a granduncle of our subject, offered his services, while two men were induced to accompany him. Starting on this journey was an event which called forth not only the Pennsylvania settlement but the neighboring colony in Virginia to attend the Elder in his journey to the landing, fifteen miles distant. Men, women and children congregated together to bid-as many thought-the ok gentleman and his assistants a final adieu, an everlasting farewell, and as they gathered at the river many tearful good-byes were exchanged.
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