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thrown in Libby prison. He weighed one hundred and sixty-eight pounds when he entered and less than one hundred when released. Mr. Crum was in the battle of Rumley, February 22. 1862: Perthouse Bridge, August, 1862, and Winchester. June. 1862, where thirty-seven hundred and twenty of the Union boys were thrown in the trenches and the first defeat "Stone- wall" Jackson ever suffered. He was in the battle of Berkley Springs, Bath, Virginia, and a great many raids and skirmishes. Most of the winter of 1864 they were after Mosby and the guerrillas. In one of these raids MIr. Crum's horse received five bullets.
After the war Mr. Crum returned to Illinois where he operated a thresher, header and corn sheller. In 1870. he moved to Lyons, Iowa, where he filled the position of night watch for two years: later returned to Illinois and in 1878, emigrated to Kansas. He was married February 23, 1870, to Melissa Bardon, a daughter of James Bardon, of Canada. Mrs. Crum was born in Augusta, Canada, and came with her parents to Ogle county, Ill- inois when a young woman about sixteen years of age.
Mr. and Mrs. Crum's family consists of four children, three daughters and one son. Effie, wife of Charles Hogue, a farmer of Arion township; they are the parents of two children. Mabel and Lewis, aged seven and five years. Hattie, wife of George Hogue, a farmer of Madison county, Iowa, near the city of Peru; he is a brother of Charles Hogne. Their children are Floyd Albert, aged three, and Velma Melissa. aged two. William, who works with his father on the farm, is unmarried. Lusina, aged sixteen, is a graduate of Fairview school, District No. 67. Mr. Crum is a Republican and takes an interest in legislative affairs. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Relief Corps.
Mr. Crum had a hard struggle his first few years in Kansas; at one time every plow, drag or other implement, including his land and stock, was under mortgage. He now owns two hundred acres of land, has a fine herd of native cattle and a commodious stone residence which is a comfortable fortune. His chief industry for a number of years has been cattle. Mr. Crum is an honest, industrious man: a genial, whole souled neighbor, and one of the best citizens of his township.
FRED GUIPRE.
Fred Guipre is a stockman and farmer of Summit township. He is a native Kansan, born on the original Guipre homestead in 1871. He is a son of Andrew and Gabriella (DeManter) Guipre. His father was a native of France, born near the cities of Genoa and Lyon, which are situated near the Switzerland line. He was born in the year 1824.
His parents having died when he was an infant. he was placed in an orphan asylum and later found a home with a family of farmers in that country. When twenty-six years of age he came to America, crossing the continent of South America and the Isthmus of Panama. He spent two
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years in Tennessee and assisted as a laborer in building the capitol in the city of Nashville. He spent five years in California, returning to France, married Gabriella DeMauer and with his wife came back to America and set- tled on a farm in Ohio near Cincinnati. Mrs. Guipre was also in an orphan asylum.
After having lived in Ohio four years they emigrated to Nebraska and settled in Nemaha county, near Nebraska City. In the spring of 1871 he came with his family to Cloud county, and located the homestead where he now lives with his son. Fred, the subject of this sketeh.
Fred Guipre is the youngest of five children, viz: Joseph, Lewis and John, all farmers of Summit township. The Gnipres located in Kansas with very limited capital, but have acquired a large tract of land and made .lesirable homes. Fred lives on the homestead that his father located when there was not a house between his claim and Concordia. They have a bomb shell they found on the old government trail and among other relics an Indian tomahawk and spear.
Mr. Guipre was married in 1896 to Emily .A. Rushton, one of the ac- complished daughters of Enos Rushton isee sketch ). They are the parents of one child, a little son. Fred Rextord. aged nineteen months. In 1875. Mr. Guipre's father erected a small stone residence and later enlarged and made it a comfortable home, situated in a beautiful and shady retreat on the banks ot Lost ereck.
This is a desirable farm in a high state of cultivation, with a large ap- ple and peach orchard, which yields abundantly. The farm is well stocked with hogs, horses and a fine herd of Shorthorn cattle. Mr. Guipre and sons own a total of nineteen hundred and twenty acres of land which is all located in Summit township except one hundred and sixty acres, in Solomon town- ship. On this ranch they keep from one hundred and fifty to two hundred liead of cattle.
ELIAS NATHANIEL BURGESON.
One can imagine such a type as Mr. Burgeson suggesting the theme Longfellow immortalized in his poem entitled "The Village Blacksmith." His shop in the little village of Maceyville is one of the best equipped in the country. furnished with all of the latest improved tools and machinery for blacksmithing and wagon repairing.
This enterprising and industrious young man grew to manhood on his father's farm in Arion township, adjacent to the village to Macyville, where Mr. Burgeson was born in 1873. and received his education in District No. 51. He is a son of Ole Burgeson, a native of Norway, born in 1843.
Ole Burgeson served an apprenticeship as painter for three years in his native country. In 1866, he came to America and worked at his trade in the city of New York, where he met and married Maria Ockerblad. a native of Sweden. In 1870. while enroute to California they heard of the
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Solomon valley, stopped off, looked over the situation and took up a home- stead where he lived until 1900, when he moved into Glasco. Mrs. Burge- son is a weaver of carpets, having learned this trade in Sweden, where she was also a weaver of linen cloth.
E. N. Burgeson is one of six children : Josephine Christine was a teacher before her marriage to James Shepard, a farmer of Oklahoma: Julia Eliza- beth, unmarried; Levi Benjamin, a farmer; Emma Amelia, wife of Robert E. Cole, and Alice May.
Mr. Burgeson learned his trade by practical experience, having always been interested in mechanical work. He began operating on a cash capital of three dollars when nineteen years of age. He established a shop on the farin where he experimented and gradually developed a knowledge of the different kinds of work incident to blacksmithing, except horse shoeing. His shop now contains a four-horse-power gasoline engine: sharpens plows and all edged farm tools with trip hammer. A wood boring machine for tenoning wheels is run by this engine, which is superior to the old way with a brace. This machine. of his own invention. is a folding device that serves two purposes-a common boring machine and also a tenoning machine. He also has a device for blowing the bellows by means of a crank wheel, from which extends a rod down to the bellows handle where it is attached by means of a screw clutch, thereby making it tight or loose, which gives him perfect control over his fire. This ingenious device is also run by the engine. Mr. Burgeson is a progressive young man and one who will undoubtedly keep up with the times. Ile owns his shop. a building 24 by 36 feet in di- mensions.
A. H. MONTGOMERY.
A. H. Montgomery, one of the most highly respected citizens of the Macyville community. first saw the light of day in the great common calth of Ohio, Adams county. in 1826. It was no fault of Mr. Montgomery that he did not win laurels on the battle field for he offered his services and was rejected upon the grounds of disability. Early in life he learned the tan- ner's trade, following that occupation several years and later became asso- ciated with Jesse Grant, the father of President Grant. This combination existed under the most pleasant and successful operation for a dozen years. The latter part of this period Mr. Grant's son Orville, succeeded lus father interests. The establishment consisted of one hundred and sixty vats and an extended beam house where they finished and unhaired the hides. This it portant enterprise was run by steam and furnished labor to ten men, an l was subsequently sold to New York parties who operated it for a eric of years, when it was burned to the ground and never rebuilt.
The Montgomerys and Grants were on friendly social terms. Mr. Mont- gomery relates an amusing incident which is perhaps hitherto imwritten history. In speaking of General U. S. Grant he says: "Fred Grant (his son )
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secured the services of a little darkey to tie his horse. act as body servant, and wait on him in true southern style. Soon after General Grant returned home one evening, Fred. with his valet following closely upon the heels of his master. put in an appearance. General Grant inquired somewhat sternly, 'Fred. what have you been doing with a "nigger" running around after you all afternoon?' The next moment he summoned the dusky lad to stand up before him and said. 'Cuffie, did Fred hire you?' 'Yes, sir.' was the prompt response. 'What did he say he would pay you?' '\ quarter,' was the re- ply. Ulysses paid it and delivered the following order. 'Fred, get your horse. When he had complied, General Grant turning to the darkey, said, 'Cuffie. take that horse,' and to Fred. 'Take that "nigger" home and bring the horse back.'"
In the year 1861, Mr. Montgomery emigrated to Jefferson county, Iowa where he lived until 1879,-ten years too long he says. In the spring of 1879 he came to Kansas and settled near Macyville on the farm where he now lives. Mr. Montgomery's parents were Adam and Jane ( Hayes) Montgomery.
Mr. Montgomery was married, in 1847, to Rebecca .A. Wright of Ohio. She is a daughter of Isaac Wright, a farmer of Adams county, Ohio. To this worthy couple. three sons and three daughters have been born, viz: Mary Alice, widow of Jacob Hutten, of Omaha, Nebraska; Ida, wife of R. T. Wilson, a farmer of Summit township: John Harvey, who was a railroad man until two years ago, when he located in St. Louis, where he has charge of a stationary engine; Andrew, of Jamestown (see sketch) ; Cora, wife of C. W. Amspacher, a former merchant of Simpson, Kansas. James 31., a farmer whose wife died three years after their marriage and he has since lived at home with his parents.
Politically Mr. Montgomery is non-partisan and votes for the man. Mr. Montgomery and his wife, who is a kind, motherly woman of refined instincts, are members of the Macyville Methodist Episcopal church.
MARTIN ALEXANDER STOCKTON.
M. A. Stockton, the subject of this sketch, was one of the old residents of Summit township until his removal to Oklahoma in the spring of 1902. Cloud county can illy afford to lose such valuable citizens as M. A. Stock- ton and his estimable family. He was one of the hardy and persevering pion- eers who helped in a tangible way to develop this country.
The Stocktons were sanguine, full of hope that a farm in Kansas would some day honor their drafts. Mr. Stockton came with his father's family to Cloud county, in 1871. Their house was a half way place between Con- cordia and Beloit, and the first frame house in the vicinity. This old land- mark still stands. Mr. Stockton's parents were Hiram and Lucretia (Bar- ber) Stockton.
Hiram Stockton was a native of Kentucky, of German origin. His
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grandfather emigrated from Germany to America and settled in Kentucky in an early day. Mr. Stockton was a blacksmith and wagon maker and fol- lowed that trade in his earlier life, but coming west filed on government land for himself and his boys. There were ten children in the family. eight of whom are living-a daughter died in infancy-nine boys lived to man- hood.
Mr. Stockton and five of his sons homesteaded land in Summit town- ship; of these A. J. Stockton of Summit township is the only one remaining. They were in limited circumstances and came overland from Kentucky with ox teams. Their first house was of logs with dirt roof and the first above ground between Glasco and Jamestown. This domicile housed a family of eleven. The buffalo and antelope supplied them with meat. Hiram Stock- ton died in 1882 at the age of sixty-three years.
Lucretia Barber was of English origin. She was born in Raleigh. North Carolina, in 1826. and came with her parents to Clinton county, Kentucky where she married H. C. Stockton in 1864. She died at the residence of her son D. M. Stockton in 1893.
M. A. Stockton's brothers are Andrew Jackson, a farmer of Summit township. William Riley was killed in a well in 1871. They had dis- carded work on the well for a few days. He was let down by ropes and was overcome with damps, falling about forty feet and was kille 1 in- stantly. M. A. Stockton descended, thinking it might have been the fall that killed him. He, too, was at once overcome. and was pulled up, barely escaping with his life. They then removed the damps by drawing sheets up and down and recovered the body.
Daniel Marion Stockton is a cattle man of Oklahoma. Levi Madison, a farmer of Saline county, Kansas. James Carroll. a farmer and stockman of Oklahoma. George Washington, John Wolford and Lewis Sherman. all farmers in Oklahoma near the city of Stillwater. The Stocktons are all prosperous farmers and stockmen. They are self made, enterprising and good managers.
M. A. Stockton lived on his original homestead and owned a half section of land, feeding and shipping Shorthorn cattle, and hogs until his removal to Oklahoma. He was married in November 1877 to Miss Olive Ethalina Web- ster of Saline county. She is a Kansan, born in Neosho county near Council Grove. Her father is Theodore Webster. an early settler and one of the most prominent cattle men in the state. He is a New Yorker by birth. Came with his parents to Illinois and located near Galesburg. Later they came to Kansas with an ox team. A sad accident occurred during this overk nd trip. The oxen ran away with a heavily loaded wagon, throwing out tuo little girls, the wagon running over and killing one of them. They were early settlers near Council Grove; so primitive that one of the settlers was compelled to take the partition out of his house to improvise a coffin
This was in the early 'fifties. They became discouraged and left Kan- sas for a period of five years but returned and took up a residence in Saline 43
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county, where her mother died in 1872. Her father now lives in Illinois. Mrs. Stockton is one of four children. Josephine Marie, wife of B. G. Schriven, elevator man, land owner, and stockman; also engaged in the im- plement business with residence in Lucas, Lincoln county, Kansas. Jenme, wife of R. W. Jay, a Saline county farmer, and Jessie, wife of William Kyle, an elevator man in the state of Washington.
To Mr. and Mrs. Stockton four children have been born. David Web- ster, associated with his father in farming and stock raising. Hiram Franklin. Jessie Lucretia, aged thirteen and John Martin.
ENOS RUSHTON.
"Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leav- ing their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well spent life."
ENOS RUSHTON.
The above quotation from Dickens ap- plies to the rare personality of the late Enos Rushton, one of the most highly respected, and most prominent men and politicians of Cloud county. He was one of the first com- missioners and sat in almost every conven- tion for more than twenty years; was one of the best posted men in the county on parliamentary rules and was usually chair- man of the convention. Was chairman of the fifth congressional district at the time of his death, which occurred at Weatherford, Oklahoma, January 14. 1901.
Mr. Rushton was a native of Lafayette. Tippecanoe county, Indiana, born October 22, 1839. His paternal ancestors were of Scottish descent. and his maternal ancestry were of German origin. Mr. Rushton served with distinction as sergeant of Company B. nineteenth lowa regiment three years. Was captured at Morganza, Louisiana, taken to Tyler, Texas, where he was retained as a prisoner for six months. They were captured on the twenty-ninth day of September. 1864. and after a brief time were marched to Shreveport, where they remained all winter. suffering for want of clothing and blankets, having been robbed of all their possessions. They were taken to Greenwood and from there made an escape on the twenty-
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sixth of April. 1865. The rebels became alarmed at the near approach of Steele's cavalry, and ordered that all the Union prisoners be hurried off to Tyler, Texas. To attempt to escape in such a country so far from Union lines required a good deal of courage. They adopted the following plan to escape: Dug a hole large enough for two on the level ground. cover- ing it over with brush, dirt and ashes. This last act was performed by a comrade who did not feel strong enough to escape with them; there they remained until the "Butternuts" had left the place when they came out from their hiding and made for Alexandria, where they supposed they would find the Union army, but met the advance. They encountered many nar- row escapes from falling into the hands of the rebels again, but in these instances, as in many others, fortune favored the brave. They were then as- signed to the duty of provost guards in the third division of the thirteenth corps.
A daughter. Mrs. Joseph Guipre, has in her possession a daily paper which was published at Natchitoches. Louisiana, bearing the date of April 4, 1864. On the margin of the sheet is a message written by Mr. Rushton, which reads as follows: "I am feeling all right again since getting into the Union." She also has a copy of the paper, "The Daily Citizen." pub- lished in Vicksburg. July 2, 1863. Mr. Rushton was present when the original copies were printed on the historical wall paper edition. There were not enough for each soldier and a second edition was gotten out. a copy of which was received by Mr. Rushton at the old soldiers reunion held at Fairfield. Iowa. It is a reproduction as found by the Union soldiers when Grant captured the city.
Mr. Rushton was married to Jane Taylor. September 6, 1860. in Wa- peilo county, Iowa, and in 1873 emigrated to Kansas and located on their farm in Summit township, where Mrs. Rushton died June 20, 1898. Their five daughters survive them and all but one are residents of Cloud county : Laura, wife of AAlfred N. Macy; Susan, wife of T. N. Collins: Olive, wife of Joseph Guipre; Emily, wife of Fred Guipre, and Nellie, a nurse in the homeopathic hospital of Denver, Colorado. The Rushton daughters are all accomplished and educated women.
Mr. Rushton was a life long politician. He was county superintendent of Wayne county, Iowa, for four years, and at one time received the nomi- nation by the Republican party for probate judge of Cloud county. He helped to organize District No. 64, known as "Highland," which was changed after his death to "Rushton," in honor of his memory. At the Cloud county convention, which convened in Concordia, March 18, 1902. to elect dele- gates to the congressional convention, they offered the following resolution : "Since our last representative gathering, deatl: has called to his embrace one who for many years has been the most familiar figure in a Cloud county representative convention, our congressional committeeman, Enos Rush- ton. We recognize in his death the loss of a citizen of the highest sense of honor, a man of sterling integrity and a friend of every worthy cause.
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ALFRED AMOS MANN.
One of the old settlers and representative farmers of Summit township is A. A. Mann. He is a native of Monroe county, Ohio, born in 18441. He was raised on a farin, receiving a common school education, and at the age of twenty-one enlisted in the service of the United States army. Company C. 116th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in August, 1862. His regiment oper- ated principally in the Shenandoah valley and wound up at Appomattox. Mr. Mann was mustered in as a corporal and was detached to drum corps.
Ile was in the battles of Winchester, Virginia, June 14. 1863. Piedmont, Virginia. June 5. 1864. Lynchburg. June IS, 1864, battle of Winchester, September 19, 1864. Fisher Hill, September 22, 1804. Cedar Creek, Octo- ber 19, 1804. Ft. Gregg. April 2. 1865, Appomattox, April 9, 1865. Of the fifty-two men in their company, thirty were killed and wounded in the battle of Piedmont. They were under the command of General Wildes, who often expressed himself in no measured tones as to the bravery and efficiency of this regiment and said it was an honor for any man to be able to say. "I belong to the 116th."
After the war, Mr. Mann returned to Ohio, his native state where he remained until coming to Kansas in 1872. Mr. Mann was married in April, 1862, to Nancy O. Coen, who was also a native of Monroe county, Ohio. They came as far as Solomon City in 1872, and from there to Cloud county with an ox team and settled on the farm where they now live, his original homesteaded, and where they have experienced all the hardships of the carly settler.
They first built a log house with a dirt roof where they lived several years. Mr. Mann relates how at one time they were without anything to eat except flour and about one "batch" of that, not even salt, nor grease. Forced to resort to something Mr. Mann started for an unknown destination in quest of something to eat and met his sister, who handed him five dollars that had been sent from their home in Ohio. The providential sending of this money bridged them over. The first July in Kansas he had no money nor land broke out : a prairie fire came doing much damage which added to their hard- ships.
Mr. Mann is of German origin, his ancestry were among the early set- tlers of Pennsylvania. His great-grandfather was sold to a sea captain to pay his passage to America and to pay the debt fought in the Revolutionary war. He was wounded in the thigh. They were a race of farmers who settled in Pennsylvania and later moved to Ohio where they took up wooded land.
Mr. Mann's father was born in Ohio and was rocked in a cradle made of a hollow log. His mother was Phæbe Strahl. also of Ohio. Mr. Mann is one of nine children, six of whom are living. A brother, Thomas David, is a promi- nent farmer of Mitchell county; Lydia. widow of L. D. Carleton, is a resi- dent of Manhattan ; Hannah E., wife of A. W. Burdur. a farmer of Summit township; Barnett G., a farmer and Esther Josephine Finch.
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To Mr. and Mrs. Mann eight children have been born, all of whom are living. George W., a farmer near Superior, Nebraska. Hiram T., a miner of Sumpter, Oregon. E. A., a farmer near Vermillion, Kansas. Phoebe E., wife of E. E. Gildersleeve, a farmer of Summit township. C. J., a far- mer near Bloomfield, Oklahoma. Mary J., wife of H. H. Swaney, a farmer of Summit township, Lydia and Anson.
Politically Mr. Mann is a Republican; attended to the duties of trustee of Summit township for two terms. He is a member of the Ancient Free & Accepted Masons and the Grand Army of the Republic, No. 173. at Scottsville. The family are members of the Christian church at West Asher, Mitchell county. The Mann family are talented singers and an acquisition in that capacity to church work and musical circles. Mr. Mann has one hun- dred and eighty acres of land which is principally adapted to wheat growing, and he has five acres in apple orchard and other small fruits.
GRAVES POSTOFFICE.
The postoffice of Graves was established in 1883. in the store of Thomas Graves, for whom the postoffice was named. It was located on a state sec- tion of land then owned by Matt Wilcox. He sold the building to J. B. Wilcox and the goods to Sherman Dodson, who was appointed postmaster. Shortly afterward the building and most of its contents were destroyed by fire. For a time the office was discontinued.
The postoffice inspector endeavored to persuade Mr. Dodson to erect a building and continue the office but he would not assent. In June, 1900, Isaiah D. Crittin was appointed postmaster and the office continued under the name of Graves. Last December ( 1901) the contract was let for a rural delivery route between Concordia, Graves and Macyville, but the postoffice will be continued in the store opened by Mr. Crittin in the same year ( 1901).
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