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The Montgomerys have a pleasant home, the Owens residence property, which they purchased in 1901. Mr. Montgomery is a Republican first, last and all the time. Is public spirited, has been mayor of his town, a member of the council for several years and an efficient member of the school board. He has been associated with the Masonic order for fourteen years, the lude- pendent Order of Odd Fellows for nine years, is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and Eastern Star.
GEORGE M. HARTWELL. M. D).
Dr. Hartwell cast his lot with the destiny of Jamestown in the second year of its birth. July 16, 1879. which was practically his first field in the medical profession.
Dr. Hartwell is a native of Hancock county, Illinois, born in 1854 at the little station of Bowen, where he met with an accident tthrown from a horse), which caused him the loss of a leg when about twelve years of age. He received his earlier education at the village school of Bowen. In 1874, he
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with several of his young companions, began reading medicine in the office of Dr. Kelley, of Bowen, without any serious intentions of continuing. The others all dropped out, but Dr. Hartwell proceeded to pursue the study of physics, and in 1876 entered the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. where he graduated March 27, 1878.
Within four months after arriving in Jamestown, he opened a drug store, the town being illy supplied in that line. He has the only drug store in the city at the present time.
The Hartwells are of Welch origin. Dr. Hartwell's father was a native of New York, but in his early manhood moved to Ohio and thence to Ilinois, where he lived until 1876, when the family came to Marshall county, Kansas. lle died in Jamestown in 1807. Dr. Hartwell's mother died when he was about four years of age. He is one of eight children, two of the older brothers died of diseases in the army, brought on by exposure and hardships.
Mrs. Hartwell was Miss Amelia Resing. of Pottawatomie county, Kansas. Their family consists of two children. Eva, aged eleven and George, aged nine. They lost a little son, Clarence, aged sixteen by accident in the winter of 1900. He was hunting and was shot through the foot by the acci- dental discharge of his gun. Lockjaw ensued and he died a week later.
Dr. Hartwell is extensively interested in farming and stock raising. He has a farm of one hundred and ninety acres near Jamestown, the Kiggan homestead, one of the old farms of the county and one hundred and twenty acres one and one-half miles west of Jamestown, in the Buffalo creek valley. Both of these farms are bottom land. He has a pasture farm one mile south of Jamestown, where he keeps a herd of about fifty head of native cattle, Shorthorn and Galloway breeds.
ELMER E. KIEFER.
Elmer E. Kiefer, the subject of this sketch, is a native of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, born near Neshanock, in 1867. When eleven years of age he came overland with his parents to Kansas and settled in Jewell county. He was reared on a farm, in the meantime receiving a common school education. and when he attained the age of twenty years, entered the State University at Lawrence, Kansas, and graduated from that school in 1889. He then engaged in teaching in the Jewell county schools and after several years of successful work he completed a teacher's course in the Salina Normal. In 1897 he became associated with Mr. Carroll. of the present firm of Carpenter & Carroll, and established a general mercandise business. In the summer of 1902 he sold his interest to Reverend Carpenter and has since been engaged in clerking.
Mr. Kiefer is a son of George W. Kiefer, an old veteran of the army of the Potomac. He served in Company C, Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, over three years. He received a gunshot wound in the left side, from which he is still a sufferer. He participated in many battles and was
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an inmate of Libby Prison a short time. He was discharged in 1864. just prior to the battle of Cedar creek. George W. Kiefer was a resident of Jewell county for many years. He is now retired and lives in Lawrence, Kansas. Our subject's mother was Salina Lienberger; her grandfather was a German emigrant and settled in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, in an early day, and lived to be almost a centenarian. Mr. Kiefer's brother, W. L., is also a successful teacher and a former principal of the Jamestown schools. The other members of the family are, Daisy. Mrs. Widrig, of Jewell county; Norman and Cecil Darline.
Mr. Kiefer was married in 1898, to Miss Helen Krom, of Beloit, Kansas. Mrs. Kiefer was also a teacher, having been associated with the Mitchell county schools for several years and also taught at Harwood, North Dakota. Her father. Peter Krom, was a soldier in the Civil war. He served with a Wisconsin regiment. Mr. Krom emigrated to Kansas in an early day and lives on the land he homesteaded, near Beloit. Politically, Mr. Kiefer is a Democrat. He is a member of the Jamestown board of education and one of the councilmen. Socially he is a Mason and a member of the order of Woodmen of America. Himself and wife were members and active workers of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Kiefer is assistant superin- tendent of the Sabbath school and is trustee and steward in the church. The Keifer's occupy a pleasant cottage home and are ranked among James- town's most esteemed citizens.
CARL E. AXELSSON.
C. E. Axelsson is a son of Axtel Peterson, taking the Christian name of his father for his surname, as is the custom in their country. Axtel Peterson died a half century ago in Sweden, never having left his native land.
C. E. Axelsson was born in Kalmer. Sweden, in 1840. In 1800 he came to America and settled in Brooklyn, New York, where he lived ten years. April 25, 1879, he emigrated to Kansas and after a stay of three months in Mitchell county, came to Jamestown, when there were but few houses, and at the beginning of the building of the railroad. He bought lots near where the Central Hotel is located. returned for his family and has since made Jamestown his home.
Mr. Axelsson is a shoemaker by trade. In 1887 he opened an exclusive shoe store, buying the building he now occupies in 1889. He had learned the trade in Sweden, where he served as apprentice about six and one half years, in the meantime learning every branch of the trade, cutting, fitting etc. Before coming to America he had worked at Stockholm, Hamburg, Germany and Hull, England. While in Brooklyn he became one of a corporation in a boot and shoe manufacturing establishment. where he remained six years.
Mr. Axelsson is a linguist, reading and speaking several different languages : Swedish, German, English. Danish and Norwegian. In 1874 he was married to Christine Smith, a native of Schleswig. Danish America.
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Their family consists of seven children. Mary Christine has occupied the position of book-keeper in a candy store in Chicago for six years. She is one of the leading employes of this large concern, practically at the head of the business, owing to the continned illness of her employer. John A., was for three years a brakeman on the Central Branch railroad, but is now located in Illinois, near Chicago. Caroline is taking a course in telegraphy in the city of Chicago. Alma is also in the same school. Otto, Carl, and Esther, aged thirteen, eleven and eight years respectively.
In politics Mr. Axelsson is a Republican, and was a member of the first city council in Jamestown. The family are members of St. Luke's Lutheran church.
JOHN KELLY
John Kelly, of Jamestown, the cashier and one of the principal stock- holders of the Jamestown Bank, has been associated with the people of Cloud county and vicinity since March. 1879. For several years he was a promi- nent educator and accounted one of the most successful. Mr. Kelly's place of nativity is Lackawanna county, Pennsylvania, where he was born on a farm near Scranton, and received the rudiments of his educa- tion there. When he came to Cloud county in 1879. he began his career as teacher in district No. 50. After teaching one term he entered the State University, took a special course for one year and resumed his school work : taught one year in Re- public county and three years in dis- trict No. 8. During this period he was chosen one of the board of ex- aminers, discharging the duties of this office for four years and in- structed in the Cloud county Insti- JOHN KELLY. tute for three sessions. From 1885 until 1890. Mr. Kelly was principal of the Jewell city schools, of Jewell county, Kansas.
He next assumed control of the farm loan department of the firm of Caldwell & Peterson, of Concordia, until 1893. when he was elected cashier of the Citizens' National Bank. His services were evidently satisfactory, for he received successive promotion. The world is crowded with men ready and willing to embrace every opportunity for money making, hence to obtain and hold a position of merit is a real compliment to a man. Three years
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later, December 1896, Mr. Kelly was elected president of the Bank of Beloit, which consolidated with the First National Bank of that city in March, 1898. He resigned his position with this banking house to establish the State Bank of Jamestown.
Mr. Kelly was married in 1890, to Mary E. Pratt, who was one of his corps of teachers in the Jewell city schools. Mr. Kelly is a son of Bernard Kelly, a native of Ireland. He died in 1892. His mother was Ellen Scarry, also of Irish birth, but for years a resident of Scranton, Pennsylvania, until her death, December 3, 1902. Mr. Kelly is one of six children, who are all living in Scranton. Mr. Kelly and a brother, who died in Texas, are the only members of the family who came west.
Mr. Kelly takes an active part in politics, votes the Republican ticket, but in local elections supports the best men-men of honor and integrity. He is serving on his third year as treasurer of the school board of Jamestown, and is a valuable and conservative officer. Mr. Kelly began life in Cloud county with small capital and has developed into one of the leading business men of the county. Personally he is congenial and very popular among his friends.
J. AUSTIN MARSHALL.
The subject of this sketch, J. Austin Marshall, a son of Edward Marshall (see sketch), is a Kansas product, having been born in Cloud county, August Ist, 1873. He enjoys the distinction of having first seen the glimmer of day in a dugout on his father's homestead in Oakland township. when there was no lumber to be had unless hauled from Junction City, or other places equally distant.
Mr. Marshall remained on the farm until he had attained his twentieth year. Aspiring to newspaper work he entered the printing office of his brother, John Marshall, then owner and publisher of the Concordia Daylight. Possessing a somewhat restless spirit, coupled with a desire for adventure and excitement, the mysteries of hypnotism had an attraction for our subject, and after serving one year of apprenticeship in his brother's office, he pene- trated the mysterious workings of hypnotism, became an adept in the science. and toured the states of Kansas and Arkansas in this vocation. His enter- tainments called forth many interesting newspaper comments and his fame as a hypnotist spread far and wide. After three years of traveling he re- turned to Concordia, and again entered the printing office of his brother. Possessing considerable journalistic talent, he interested some of Concordia's politicians and prominent citizens, who backed him in a political scheme and through their influence he purchased the Daylight of Marshall & Jones. which he ran very successfully, but subsequently consolidated with the Empire. He later sold his interest to T. A. Sawhill and established the Concordia Press. Mr. Marshall employed good talent and for several months the Press was one of the county's leading papers.
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Early in 1902 he became interested in the Jamestown Optimist, relieving the editor. A. B. Collins, a political aspirant. that he might canvass the county in the interest of the office which he sought. He continues with the Optimist, which has a large subscription list and good advertising patronage from the Jamestown merchants.
In 1900 Mr. Marshall's name was presented to the Republican county convention for the office of clerk of the court, but was defeated by four votes. He did not make a canvass of the county; nor was it announced that he was a candidate until a few days prior to the holding of the convention. Though not permitted to become a candidate again in 1902. he took an active part in the campaign, and did all he could in a personal way, and through the columns of his paper to promote the success of his party by electing its candidates.
Mr. Marshall was married in 1800 to Mabel, a daughter of S. B. Glidden. one of Concordia's old citizens.
Editor Marshall has recently sold his paper, the Jamestown Optimist, to Mr. Kimmal. a local photographer of Jamestown.
HONORABLE O. W. F. WILCON.
O. W. F. Wilcox came to Kansas in 1879, and farmed rented land south of Concordia. Three years later he bought the Chris Mosburg homestead, six miles south of Jamestown on Whites creek, where he lived two years, sold and located in Jamestown, following the occupation of clerk. In 1896, he bought the 11. 11. Harris stock of stationery, added other lines and converted it into a racket store, including canned goods, tobacco, candies, fruits and summer drinks.
Mr. Wilcox is a native of Branch county, Michigan, born in 1840. When fourteen years of age he moved with his parents to Hardin county, Iowa, and when he arrived to manhood enlisted in Company B, Eleventh lowa Infantry, the first year of the war. He served two enlistments, remain- ing until the close. He was slightly wounded twice, was in St. Louis hospital two months as the result of a wound he received in the battle of Shiloh. Ile saw active service and was in the battle of Corinth, Vicksburg, Atlanta, with Sherman on his march to the sea, and in all the battles with the western department.
After the war he returned to lowa and was married in 1866, to Lavina Burghdei. In his earlier life Mr. Wilcox had learned the shoe maker's trade which he followed until coming to Kansas. To Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox have been born eleven children. all of whom but one are living, and all but one living in or near Jamestown.
The oldest son is William, who is foreman in the shops of the American Windmill Manufacturing Company, and has been in their employ about three years. Otto F., is proprietor of one of the neatest little barber shops in the county. The shop is small in dimensions. but elegant in point of fixtures
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and equipment. He is married to Ethel Andrews, of Jamestown. They are the parents of one child, Lucile.
Rosa, wife of William Jenkins, a carpenter of Jamestown. They are the parents of five children : Carl, Ray, Nelle, George and Willie. The second daughter. Nellie, is a milliner by trade. Centennial, is the wife of Bert Schell, a farmer near Jamestown. They are the parents of two little daughters, Esther and Lila.
Kate, wife of John Oyler, a carpenter of Jamestown. They have one child, a little son, Max. Roy, in the shop with his brother Otto. Fred, a boy of sixteen and the two younger children, Mary and Charlie.
Mr. Wilcox votes the Republican ticket and takes an active interest in the local affairs of his town. He served as mayor one term, police judge several times, and for several years was a member of the council. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has been post commander at various times. He is a member of the Sons and Daughters of Justice. The maternal ancestors of Mr. Wilcox were early New England settlers. His mother was a close relative of Lorenzo and Neal Dow. His paternal ancestors were of Irish and Dutch origin, and among the early New England settlers. Mr. Wilcox owns a comfortable residence and the building he occupies as a store.
HONORABLE JOHN E. LUNDBLADE.
The subject of this sketch, John E. Lundblade, of Jamestown, Kansas, is a prominent citizen and leading merchant of that little city. and a man who has had a remarkably successful career. Mr. Lundblade began at the bottom of the ladder. but by good management and close application has built up a business that does credit to himself, the town, and the sur- rounding country.
Mr. Lundblade began his career as a clerk in the widely known Fair, one of the best retail stores in Chicago. After one year he came to Cloud county and considered it a fortunate move, when in 1878, he cast his lot with the enterprising people of Jamestown. He acepted a position with S. Taylor and later with William Taugman, as dry goods salesman, the latter firm being in the building Mr. Lundblade now occupies.
In 1891, with a capital stock of one thousand dollars. Mr. Lundblade opened a general merchandise store. In igot the volume of business in- creased to the extent of demanding more room, and he removed to the Elniff building. In 1896, this in turn became too crowded and he occupied , in connection the adjoining building, cutting two archway between, making a room 48x70 feet in dimensions-with a basement-which is filled with one of the best selected stocks of goods in the county, consisting of dry goods. clothing, boots, shoes, groceries and queensware, invoicing fully one thousand seven hundred dollars. This stock is turned more than twice annually.
Mr. Lundblade is a native of Sweden, born in the city of Jenshopin. in 1862. When seven years of age he came with his parents to America.
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and located in Bucklin, Missouri, where they resided about eleven years and where he received a common school education. In 1878, his father, Charles Lundblade, moved to Republic county, Kansas, where he is a prosperous farmer, living near Kackley. Mr. Lundblade's mother died in Missouri in 1870. leaving three sons, all of whom are living. Al. a farmer near James-
THE HANDSOME COTTAGE HOME OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN E. LUNDBLADE.
town, and Robert, a farmer of Republic county. By a second marriage there were three children, two of whom are living, viz. : Ellen, wife of Leonard Nelson, of Republic county, and the youngest son, Joe, lives at home.
Mr. Lundblade owns a well improved farm two miles south of James- town, which he bought about three years ago. He also owns some good real estate in Jamestown, and one of the most desirable homes in the county. A windmill furnishe- irrigation for a fine lawn, which is Mr. Lundblade's especial pride. His home is a modern cottage elegantly furnished and pre- sided over by Mrs. Lundblade, who was Miss Georgia Mercer, whom he married in 1886. Mrs. Lundblade is a lady of elegant tastes and a helpmate in the truest sense of the word.
Politically, Mr. Lundblade is a Democrat, has served two terms as mayor of Jamestown, and is a member of the present city council; was postmaster four years under Cleveland's second administration. He is a prominent Mason, a member of the I. O. O. F. and of the K. of P. He has been one of the directors of the Jamestown bank since its organization. The magni- tude of business done by Mr. Lundblade evidences his excellent ability as a manager and financier. He is still a young man and bids fair to become one- of the foremost merchants in the county.
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CHARLES IRVING GOULD.
C. I. Gould is one of the father's and founders of the city of James- town. His lineage traces back to Abraham Gould of the same line as Jay Gould, the late railroad magnate, whose gifted daughter, Miss Helen, is known the world over for her many charities and as an angel of mercy to the suffering poor. Abraham Gould, who signed the charter for the state of Con- necticut, was Mr. Gould's great-great-grandfather. His mother was also of distinguished ancestry tracing a direct line to General Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary fame.
Orrin P. Goukl, father of our subject, was born in the state of Connec- ticut. His ancestry was of English birth. His brother was captain of a com- pany in the war of 1812, and was one of the Americans who were defending Buffalo, New York, when they painted logs black to give the enemy the im pression they had numerous and heavy cannon. After serving during the entire war he returned to his home and entered land in the Holland Purchase Reserve near Batavia, New York. Mr. Gould's father when a small boy, came with his parents to western New York, where he lived until the subject of this sketch was three years of age, when they removed to Michigan. Here his mother's health failed and he returned to New York, remaining until she fully recovered. In 1869, they emigrated to Kansas and homesteaded land near Blue Rapids and in 1878 removed to Cloud county, where they were bothi deceased : his mother in 1885 and his father in 1893.
Mr. Gould was born in Batavia, New York, in 1851. He received his education in the Rural Seminary, East Pembrook, New York, and later came west with his parents. In June, 1870, in company with three other young men he came to Cloud county on an ox cart and homesteaded the farm on which he now lives on the 19th day of November, a portion of which is the present site of Jamestown. He gave the railroad company one half interest in sixty acres of land to build the depot and plat the town. His residence, a comfortable dwelling, is within the city limits. He httle thought when he filed on this claim that the future wouldl build up a prosperous town and as for a railroad, it was looked for, but no one knew the course it would take. Only a few houses were in sight ; government troops were encamped in their barracks at Fort Sibley and Concordia was unknown. Mr. Gould did some splendid soliciting for the railroad company in the different townships in Jewell county. For calling elections to vote bouts for the es tension of Jewell Branch, Major Downs, general manager of the Central Branch of the Union Pacific railroad, complimented him for his success in a substantial manner.
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Mr. Gould has always been a tiller of the soil, finding many resources in its depths. Ile owned and operated a thresher for siv seasons before the use of traction engines. Ilis present machine cost him the neat httle price of $2.800, purchased in 1901. Mr. Gould is one of five children, all boys and all living. Two brothers reside in Jamestown : Edwin A. is a far
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mer near Jamestown; Baird T., manages the P. V. elevator at Hollis, his family residing in Jamestown : David G., of Concordia, manager of the P. V. elevator : Myron 11., a farmer in Iowa, removed from Kansas six years ago. Mr. Gould was married in 1875. to Lucy Webster of Southfield. Massa- chusetts, who in company with her parents came to Blue Rapids where she inet Mr. Gould and became his wife. Her father was a soldier and enlisted in the 40th Massachusetts. His company was sent south into the swamps of Louisiana, where he contracted a serious illness from climatic changes which was the direct cause of his death; hke many thousands of other brave boys, he left a beautiful and happy home never to return to its en- joyments, but answered his "last roll call" and sleeps beneath the canopy of the little green tent which nature provides for every soldier.
To Mr. and Mrs. Gould eight children have been born, seven of whom are living. Olive D., wife of C. W. Nelson, a farmer living two miles north and two miles west of Ames. Webster ()., an expert traction engineer and a young man highly respected throughout the community. Arthur C., by profession a school teacher on his second term. He taught last year north- west of Clyde in District No. 15. He is employed this year in District No. 64. lle is a graduate of the Jamestown high school. Irving 11 .. a young man who has not quite reached bis majority is living at home, a valuable assist- ant to his father in the duties of the farm, and an exemplary young man. Florence 1 .. her father's housekeeper, who was deprived of a mother's train- ing and good counsels when a child, having just passed her seventh birth- day, has developed into a matronly young woman assuming the responsilili- ties of the household affairs with credit for one of her years. Benjamin and Jay. the two youngest children, are school boys.
Mr. Gould is a member, trustee and steward of the Methodist Episcopal church. lle has been superintendent of the Sunday school for two years. In 1901. was elected president of the International County Sun- day School Association. In the convention notes of the Miltonvale Record, where the society convened, the following mention is made: "The retir- ing (but untiring) president, C. I. Gould, was surely the right man in the right place." To his devotion, energy and personal efforts as a church worker is due much of the success of the church and the Sunday school which is one of the best in the county. His heart is in his work and he feels he has faithfully done his duty for the best interests of the congregation.
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