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Mr. Chapman is a member of the 1. O. O. F., Glasco Lodge, No. 188. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Chapman's par- ents still reside on the old homestead. Of his father's family, a sister, Mrs. William Merritt, lives in Idaho, his three brothers, Walter J., Frederick and James, are all farmers of Cloud county. Mr. Chapman has a pleasant and comfortable home presided over by Mrs. Chapman who is an amiable and estimable woman.
JAMES H. LINDLEY.
J. H. Lindley, one of the successful farmers and stockmen of Lyon town- ship, is a native of Wayne county, Indiana, born in 1866. He is of honorable birth and highly connected. His parents were Osmond and Achsah ( Wilson ) Lindley, of North Carolina birth. Both his paternal and maternal ancestors were slave holders, but being of Quaker proclivities they released their slaves, gave them their freedom. emigrated to the north and settled in Indiana. The Lindley's trace their ancestory back to "Lindley Hall." a historical and valuable estate in England.
James H. Lindley is one of twelve children, nine of whom are living, viz. : Sylvia, is the wife of Barclay Johnson, president of Southland College. a Quaker institution in the state of Arkansas; Alfred, a retired farmer and stockman of Neoga, Illinois: Frank, an attorney and loan broker of Danville, Illinois. He eschews politics and devotes himself to legal practice and finance. Guerney, a farmer of Fairmount. Indiana. John was deceased in 1800. followed by Horace and Charlie within eight months. The former and
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latter were both men of families. Horace was correspondent for the St. Joseph IJerald. Fletcher is general superintendent of the Marquette Mining and Manufacturing Company, of Chicago. Illinois. Prior to entering their employ he was superintendent of a clothing manufacturing company. Erasmus, a young attorney of Chicago, is a graduate of Ann Arbor College and Law School, and a member of the firm of Walker & Payne, attorneys and counsellors, 184 LaSalle street. Maggie, wife of Edward Overman, both she and her husband are teachers in Fairmount, Indiana. Mary, the youngest member of the family, is assistant principal of Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana.
Mr. Lindley came to Kansas with his mother, two sisters and a brother, at the age of twelve years; his father having died when he was ten years old. His educational advantages were limited to a training at home, but being of a studious and inquiring mind, he obtained a store of practical knowledge that is often of more value through life than a college diploma. On their arrival in Kansas they purchased eighty acres of the McCoy homestead, lived in a dugout with dirt roof and floor during the first winter and endured the hardships incident to pioneer life. In 1890, Mr. Lindley bought the farm and his mother returned to Indiana. In 1893 he purchased the other eighty acres of the homestead, where he now lives. His principal industry is wheat and corn, feeding and raising cattle and hogs.
Politically he is a Republican, and in 1898, received the nomination from his party for treasurer of Cloud county. His opponent. Edwin Coates, was elected by forty-five majority. Mr. Lindley is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, of Glasco. He is a self-made man, having been thrown upon his own resources early in life through the death of his father, and worked for three years at a salary of eight dollars per month, during their early residence in Kansas. His farm is ranked among the most desirable in that vicinity. Personally he is held high in public estimation and is one of the solid men of Lyon township.
DR. JAMES COLLINS.
Dr. Collins has proven himself to be a man especially adapted to his profession. He is a native of North Carolina, born in Jonesville, Yadkin county, a division of Surrey county, in 1836. His father was William Collins, of Scotch and English parentage, who settled in Maryland, and subsequently in North Carolina, where he was born in 1789. William Collins was a veteran of the war of 1812. Ile endured many hardships, and at various times Was on the verge of starvation. The soldiers of that day did not fare so well as the gallant "boys in blue" under the present government. He participated in the thickest of the fight in the battle of New Orleans. His company was mustered out at Mobile after two years service. He with seven of his comrades were left there sick and penniless. all suffering more or less from illness. They started on the return trip bound for their respective homes carry-
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ing the weaker ones on stretchers. William Collins was one of the three who survived and reached their homes.
Dr. Collins has a relic, a pair of steelyards. in his possession which he values highly, not only for their intrinsic worth, but as the only article he re- tains of his father's personal property. They were presented to William Col- lins from the hands of that illustrious soldier and statesman, Andrew Jackson. He gave them to him as a means of defense to slug the darkies with who came up to interfere, and to weigh articles of food-they weighed everything used in the commissary department. William Collins was a farmer by occupation. Ile died in 1852, at the age of sixty-three years. His father was a Revolution- ary soldier. His mother lived to be one hundred and four years old. Dr. Collins mother was born in Stokes county, North Carolina, in 1797, and died in East Tennessee in 1856.
Dr. Collins is one of a family of eight children, only two of whom are living. himself and a sister. Sarah-widow of Hezekiah Jackson, who died in the hospital at Atchison, in 1901, leaving a wife and ten children. He was a farmer living in the vicinity of Simpson. A brother, Dr. Lewis Collins, was one of the most noted and successful practitioners in the country-a better practitioner than financier. Ilis death resulted from being thrown from a spirited horse. He was hurled over an embankment and his neck broken. lle died in Logan township, Mitchell county, Kansas, in 1883, leaving a wife and five children. Dr. Lewis Collins brought in a herd of fine Shorthorn cattle in 1875, which was one of, if not the first. herd of Shorthorns in the country.
Dr. Richard Collins, a dentist, who lived on a farm near Simpson and practiced his profession there and in Glasco, died unmarried in April, 1895. The eldest brother, Anderson Collins, was one of the first settlers to locate a claim on Lost creek. He was a prosperous farmer and stockman. He died in 1880. leaving a wife and large family of children. He had gone to Nebraska City on business, and died while there. Mary K., wife of Jesse L. Knight, died in Beloit in 1895, leaving one son and a daughter ; Dr. Knight, the dentist of Glasco, is the son.
Dr. James Collins began the study of dentistry carly in life, and when they used practice as well as theory. At the age of seventeen years he went to his mother's family in Ray county, Tennessee, where he followed his profession for ten years in Knoxville, Kingston and various other places. From Ten- nessee he went to Somerset. Kentucky, where he practiced two years, in the meantime serving the Twenty-second regiment-which was stationed at Somerset -- with dentistry. In 1864, he emigrated to Nebraska and settled on a farm in Nemaha county, where he lived until coming to Kansas.
He visited the beautiful Solomon valley while on a buffalo hunting expe- dition. and while looking over the ground with a view to locating, he inquired if his present farm was for sale, and instructed them to notify him if at any time it should become so. Henry Ashley, the original owner, decided to sell and per agreement, notified Dr. Collins, who bought the land through an agent.
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There were, practically speaking, no improvements; three acres of breaking and a log cabin, whose low timbers would not admit of an ordinary sized man standing erect. He now owns with his children two hundred and eighty acres of land. In 1881 Dr. Collins bought six Jersey cattle and has raised from them a herd that excels any Jersey stock in the country. He soll seventeen milch cows in one day during the year 1900. He keeps on an average from thirty-five to forty head and has a regular Jersey stock farm.
Dr. Collins is still active in his profession, has a portable office and an ex- tended practice. When the law was passed in Kansas requiring the dentists to undergo a thorough examination he submitted papers which were pronounced as good as any in the state. He holds a first grade diploma, given by the State Dental Board of Examiners of Kansas. Dr. Collins took an active part in the populist movement until their ardor simmered down and left him neutral. He was one of the organizers of school district No. 39. and has been almost continuously a member of the school board. He was married in 1861. to Minerva Nail, a daughter of Thomas and Mary ( Rankin ) Nail.
Thomas Nail was born and reared in Georgia, whose parents were an old family of southern proclivities. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was mustered out at Mobile. Mrs. Collins' paternal grandfather and four of his brothers, served through the seven years of the Revolutionary war, and all lived to relate the thrilling tales of experience. Mrs. Collins' mother was born in Green county, Tennessee. Her maternal grandfather was from England : her maternal grandmother was Scotch. Mrs. Collins was born in Bledsoe county, Tennessee, where her father emigrated from Georgia. She was one of three living children ; a brother, James Nail, a retired miner of Josephine. Oregon is eighty-four years old. Until the summer of tooo she had not seen him since she was three years old. She has a sister. Elizabeth Tollett, who lives in East Tennessee.
Mrs. Collins is the "Good Samaritan," or mother of the community. She has ministered to the needy and done more to alleviate suffering than any one individual in the vicinity of her home. She is kind, a benevolent woman and every worthy person receives recognition from her gentle and bountiful hand. The Collins family consists of six children, who are all useful members of society.
Thomas, a farmer of Lincoln county, whose wife was Susie Rushton. a daughter of Enos Rushton. They are the parents of five children, viz. : Flora. Nellie. Joseph, Enos and Susie. May began teaching, but prefers assisting her mother with the household duties. Jane, who graduated from the South eastern Business College, of Wichita, Kansas, in 18944, has just entered upen her eighteenth term. She is employed the present year at Fairview. William. stationary engineer at Randall, Jewell county. Kansas, studied and practiced dentistry, but prefers engineering. Lola, who has been a teacher for si years, is a student at the Salina Normal University. Like her sisters she is a successful teacher. James, associated with his father on the farm, is a good- natured, energetic boy, and has a kind word for everyone.
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HENRY ROGERS.
The subject of this sketch, Henry Rogers, like thousands of his country- men, has been adopted by "Uncle Sam," and like the majority of English people. he attained success, and is one of the progressive farmers of Lyon township. He was born in the city of Hertford, England, in 1850. He re- ceived a common school education in the Hertford city schools, and at the age of nineteen years emigrated to Monticello, lowa, where an uncle, George George, his mother's brother, resided and who emigrated to Illinois in 1840, and settled in Iowa as early as 1844).
Mr. Roger's parents were William and Sarah (George) Rogers. His father followed the occupation of baker. lle died in England in 1874. Mr. Roger's paternal grandfather was a native of Wales. His mother's ancestry were English people. She died in 1870. He was one of seven children, three of whom are living. A brother and sister died in England ; John a railroad man and Jane, wife of Harry 11. Mansbridge, a merchant in the city of London.
Mr. Rogers learned the cabinetmakers trade in England, but discarded that occupation and engaged in farming in Iowa, where he remained six years and emigrated overland to Kansas in 1876. When he reached Cloud county, his destination, he bought the relinquishment of Tom Bennett to his present homestead. Prior to this, however, it was the original homestead of the Yockeys, who figured so prominently in the Indian raids. Mr. Rogers has erected most of the buildings and furnished the principal improvements to the farm.
His land consists of one hundred and sixty acres, about one half of which is wheat land. and is situated seven miles northeast of Glasco. He keeps about forty head of fine Hereford cattle. Mr. Rogers, with his father-in-law, drove five hundred head of sheep through from fowa. Mr. Rogers has acquired all his possessions since leaving England. He landed in Iowa with fifty cents, and in Kansas with barely enough to secure his land. His first team was a voke of oxen. In those days they exchanged work for commodities and Mr. Rogers incidentally remarked. Frank Wilson helped him as he did many other of the new settlers and added, "He was one of the best men the new country ever knew. he had money and he circulated it for the benefit of his neighbors." Mr. Rogers, like all of the early settlers, saw many discouragements, but their wants were not so numerous as now, and he soon found himself with a few acres of land under cultivation, raising enough on which to subsist.
He was married in 1876. to Mary Cool. a daughter of the Honorable Joseph Cool ( see sketch of Mrs. Bates, who is a sister of Mrs. Rogers.) To Mr. and Mrs. Rogers have been born five children : Alfred, a farmer living in Lyon township. married to Hester Williams. They have one child, an in- teresting little daughter, Katherine. Rachel received a common school diploma from district No. 68. and graduated from the Concordia high school in 1896. She studied music in Lindsborg, has a cultivated voice and is an accomplished pianist. She has been employed continuously since her graduation as teacher
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in district No. 68. Rolla Raymond. received a common school diploma from district No. 68, and is now on his second year at the Agricultural College at Manhattan, Kansas. Ad Failing, a graduate of the common school studies in district No. 68. and on his second year in the Glasco high school. Enla Vine, a little daughter of eleven years.
In politics Mr. Rogers is a Populist, has served several terms as treasurer of his township and has been an efficient member of the school board for several years. Mrs. Rogers is a cultured woman of fine instincts and a member of the Universalist church of Delphos. Mr. Rogers is a member of the Modern Woodmen, Glasco lodge. The Rogers home is an exceedingly pleasant one, and they are among the representative families of Lyon township.
FRANK S. BISHOP.
One of the most successful men of Lyon township is F. S. Bishop. He is self made and began his career by working on a farm ; his first employer was Clarence Ballou. Mr. Bishop is also self educated. When a boy he met with an accident which crippled him physically and prevented him from attending school until he was twelve years of age. Four years later he came to Kansas, where he was a pupil in the district school for one term, and a student of the Concordia high school for one year.
He rented a farm of Charles King for one year, the proceeds of which enabled him to take a year's course in the Manhattan Agricultural College. In Concordia Mr. Bishop worked his way through school by driving a milk wagon for J. S. Herrick. This was in the winter of 1880, one of the worst winters Kansas has ever known ; the river was frozen solid until March. Prior to this he worked in a broom factory, assorting corn and sewing brooms. While in Manhattan he defrayed part of his expenses by working. Times were hard but he was determined to have an education. He was a hard student and while at the latter institution almost finished a two years course in one year. After returning from Manhattan he worked for Charles King on the farm one year, and bought the place he now owns from his father. Since then he has added other lands until now he owns six hundred acres.
In 1900 he built a commodious frame house of eight rooms, two stories in height and modern. They have considerable fruit, apples, peaches, pears and cherries. He began with a small herd of cattle which has increased from year to year, until he now owns a herd of one hundred and fifty head of fine graded Herefords. Ilis land is principally pasture. The chief products of the ground under cultivation is corn, kaffir corn and alfalfa. Mr. Bishop does not deny that his wife did her full share toward helping him up the ladder. She is one of those excellent Cool women, who make typical farmer's wives.
Mr. Bishop was born near Mannassa, Wisconsin in 1859. He is a son of E. S. Bishop, who was born in Vermont in 1833. Ile was raised on a f: rm and followed carpentering the greater portion of his life. In 1853, he emi- grated to Wisconsin where he farmed and worked at his trade for about three
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years, and returned to Massachusetts, taking his family. After remaining two years, he returned again to Wisconsin. In 1868, he removed to Tennessee and settled in Sparta, White county, where he worked at his trade and was also associated in a grist mill. F. S. Bishop's mother died there. In 1872 the family returned to Adams, western Massachusetts, and four years later emi- grated to Cloud county, Kansas, locating on the farm where F. S. Bishop now lives. It was a timber claim.
F. S. Bishop's paternal grandfather was a native of the Green mountains, Bennington county, Vermont. The Bishops originally came from England. Three brothers came to America and settled in the New England states, in the early days of that country. Mr. Bishop's mother was Cornelia Phelps. who was also of Vermont, and a daughter of Frank Phelps, an old Vermont farmer, whose estate has since been abandoned and allowed to grow up in timber. Most of the farmers in that vicinity deserted their farms; their owners and tenants working in the forests. His paternal grandmother was a neice of Dr. Hosea Ballou, the founder of the Universalist faith. She was also a cousin of president Garfield's mother.
F. S. Bishop and a sister are the only children by his father's first marriage. The sister is Inez M. wife of S. C. Gardner, a farmer of Lyon township. E. S. Bishop was married the second time to Eva Young, and they are the parents of three children : S. E., a clerk for the firm of Henry Bowen & Company, of Fairview, Oklahoma. Ralph, who farms with his father, and Nellie, a Cloud county teacher, now employed at the Lyon Center school house, district No. twenty-two.
F. S. Bishop was married AApril 18, 1886 to Miss Hattie M. Cool, a daughter of the Honorable Joseph Cool, an old settler of Cloud county. (see sketch of Mrs. Bates. ) She taught two years in the schools of Cloud county, prior to her marriage. To Mr. and Mrs. Bishop three children have been born, viz. : Bessie. Alma and Elson, aged thirteen, eight and two years respectively.
Mr. Bishop is a Democrat and takes an interest in all legislative affairs, but is not a politician ; strictly speaking he is a thorough farmer and stockman. He has been one of the school board of his district for a term of nine years. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen, of Glasco.
LEROY BISHOP.
Leroy Bishop, a successful farmer and stockman, of Lyon township, came to Kansas in 1872, and settled one mile east of Delphos, where his father had homesteaded. Mr. Bishop is a native of Vermont, born near Reedsboro, in 1853. He is a son of Joy and Rohanna (Stearns) Bishop.
His father was Joy Bishop. Jr .. and his place of nativity was also Reeds- boro. Vermont. He was born February 12, 1815. He was a Universalist minister for more than fifty years. He began his ministerial career in 1840, and was pastor for several societies in the states of Vermont and Massachusetts. In 1856 he moved to Iowa, where he organized societies at Valley Farm, Straw-
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berry Point, Greely and other places. In 1871 he emigrated to Kansas, where he did excellent work as an evangelist in Delphos and other towns. He was also a great temperance worker and organized many societies for this cause. No man was more universally loved and respected in this part of the state than Reverend Bishop. Through his labors the society was organized at Delphos. and he was chiefly instrumental in building the first Universalist church in that town, which blew down in the cyclone of 1879,and replacing it with another church edifice. He was a prominent Odd Fellow and received a medal of honor-a veteran jewel-for twenty-five years of active service, a gift from the Odd Fellows grand lodge, which he esteemed very highly.
Leroy Bishop is a grandson of Joy 'Bishop, Sr., who was born in North Haven, Connecticut, about 1725 and served through the Revolutionary War under General Washington. He married AAbigal Blakely. They were married young, moved to Vermont in 1790, where they purchased one hundred acres of timber : cleared the land, built a small log house and reared their family of fourteen children. In this humble home, where the mother spun the flax they raised and converted it into clothing, Joy Bishop, Jr., was born.
Leroy Bishop's great grandfather, with his two brothers, came to America from England in 1650, and settled at North Haven, Connecticut. Leroy Bishop began his career by farming. His intentions were to go to Chicago and become a machinist, but he came to Kansas and in the spring of 1874, was induced by circumstances to buy the homestead of Horace Wilson. Although he experienced some drawbacks with grasshoppers, prairie fires, drouths and various other things, he does not regret having established himself in Cloud county.
One year he had all his hay and much of his corn destroyed by prairie fire. He began existence in Kansas in a oxtt dugout, and this was large enough after being furnished with a bed, organ and other necessary furniture, to accommodate another family. The next season he hanled lumber from Clay Center and erected a small frame house, where they almost froze to death. It was not nearly so warm as the dugout. It was built of green cotton- wood. which shrunk and left great cracks for the Kansas zephyrs to swirl through.
Mr. Bishop has made most of his money in raising corn and feeding cattle and hogs. His cattle are of the Hereford breed and he has at present ( 1901) about ninety head. His farm consists of four hundred acres. A handsome two-story residence and a barn 28x50 feet. a good apple orchard of about two hundred trees, a large peach orchard with about twenty different varieties of budded fruit : plums, cherries, raspberries, etc.
The magnificent growth of trees that surround and shadow their stately home from the blistering summer sun, were set out by Mr. and Mrs. Bishop in 1876, and have made a wonderful growth. In the spring of the Centennial year. to commemorate that event. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop each planted a cotton- wood slip, which have made an enormous growth, one of them measuring twelve and one-half feet and the other eleven and one-half feet in circumfer-
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ence and are about sixty fect in height. Many squirrels play through their branches and it is nothing unusual to see the sportive fox and gray squirrel gamboling over the roofs of the out buildings.
Mr. Bishop was married in 1873. 10 Ida E. Ostrander, a daughter of John E. Ostrander, who came to Kansas in 1872, and settled about four miles northeast of Delphos. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop's family consists of a son and daughter. Leon Clare, is a graduate of the Delphos high school, class of 1897. Ile is in the employ of a publishing company. Ida Rowena is taking a course in music in Washburn College. Topeka. She is on her second year and is pursuing both voice culture and instrumental. Her voice is high soprano. The family are members of the Universalist church at Delphos. Mr. Bishop votes the Populist ticket. lle is a member of the J. O. O. F., of Delphos.
MACYVILLE.
The once prosperous and busy little hamlet of Macyville, is situated on the summit of the divide of a low range of hills. From this point water rins each way. The place was once known as Ten Mile, because of it being midway between the Republican and Solomon rivers. A postoffice was established there October 1, 1871, with George W. Macy as postmaster. In 1879 the name was changed to Macyville, taking its origin from its founder and first post- master. Mr. Macy conducted a store and continued postmaster there until about four years ago, a period of twenty-two years and six months.
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