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Colonel Woodward has ever been prominent in public affairs. Imme- cliately after his return from the war in 1865 he became a recognized leader in political cireles in Pennsylvania and served in the house of representa- tives through the session of 1865-6. In the latter year he was re-elected for a second term and did much towards shaping the legislature of his state in the epoch which followed the Civil war. In April, 1868. he arrived in Kansas and Woodson county gained thereby a valned citizen. He pur- chared a farm and continued its cultivation until 1871, when he removed
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to Neo. ho Falls and embarked in the hardware business, continuing in that enterprise for twelve years. He has been very successful in his business transactions and today owns five hundred aeres of valuable land in Wood- son county, all improved and bringing to him a handsome income. He had not been long in Kansas when his ability for leadership gained him promi- nence in the republican ranks of this state. and in 1888, he was elected to the senate where he served for four years, representing Woodson and Allen countics. He has ever been a stalwart republican and his services in office have won for him the highest commendation and have demonstrated beyond doubt his fidelity to the best interests of his constituents.
Mr. Woodward holds membership in the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Neosho Falls lodge, and also in the G. A. R. He has a very pleasant home presided over by Miss Anna Woodward and celebrated for its gracious hospitality which is enjoyed by a very extensive eirele of friends. The colonel's career illustrates the possibilities that are open in this country to earnest and persevering young men who have the courage of their convic- tions and are determined to be the architects of their own fortunes. When judged by what he has accomplished, his right to a first place among the representative citizens of Neosho Falls cannot be questioned. He has ever been true and loyal to principle and in the legislative halls of two states, as well as upon the battle fields of the south, he has manifested his love for the old flag and the canse which it represents.
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ALBERT B. MANN.
ALBERT B. MANN of Toronto has for thirty years been a resident of Woodson county. He was born in Sidney. Shelby county. Ohio. Oetober 10. 1839. His father. Albert Mann, was a native of New Hampshire, born on the 1st of May, 1813, and was a son of Alexander Mann, who came to New Hampshire from Ireland while a boy. He was a highly educated gentleman who hecame a leading and influential citizen of New Hampshire, where he spent his remaining days. His wife was a daughter of Captain Joseph Parker, who commanded the company that drew the first fire at the battle of Lexington. Albert Mann, the father of our subject. was married in Boston. Massachusetts. to Miss Mary Harvey. He died in Wichita. Kansas. December 11, 1874. and his wife passed away in Chicago, on the 20th of August, 1877. He had been educated in the common schools and in an academy. and afterward pursued a course of medieine, practicing his profession in Lexington. Delaware county, Ohio, and later in Knoxville, Illinois. In 1873 he came to Kansas, and in the Sunflower state spent his remaining days. In politics he was first a whig, afterward an advocate of the freesoil party and later. when the republican party sprang into exist- enee. he joined its ranks. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Mann were as follows : A. B., of this review, is the eldest ; Harvey of Springfield, Illinois,
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was a member of the Twenty-sixth Volunteer Infantry. During the Civil war he served as hospital steward until April, 1864, when he was made assistant surgeon and in March, 1865, was appointed surgeon. On the expiration of his term of enlistment he joined the United States regular army as assistant surgeon and was stationed in the department of the Platte until May, 1867, when he was ordered to Vicksburg, Mississippi. He ·erved in Arkansas and in Mississippi until 1869 when he came to Toronto, Kansas, and here practiced his profession while waiting for an assignment. He was next ordered to Fort Stephenson, Dakota, and afterward to Collins- ville, South Carolina. He accompanied General Cnster's command to the Yellowstone and Black Hills country and was severely wounded in an engagement with the Indians at the Grand river agency in Dakota. In 1876 he located in Chicago, turning his attention to the practice of medicine. Afterward he came to Toronto where he resided until 1896. During the Spanish-Cuban war was surgeon of an immune regiment and in charge of general hospital at Key West, and since that time has been a resident of Springfield, Illinois. Mary. A., the third member of the family, is the wife of Captain Samuel West, a resident of Boulder, Colorado. George is a practicing dentist at Waco, Texas. Hiram is living in Phoenix, Arizona. Mrs. Laura Barker, the youngest member of the family, makes her home 11i Toronto.
Albert Buchanan Mann, whose name introduces this review, pursued Ins education in the public schools and when eighteen years of age began teaching. He followed that business for three years and during two years of the time was employed in the graded schools of Knoxsville, Illinois. He had resided for ten years in Richland county, Ohio, before leaving the Buckeye state for Illinois, at the age of nineteen. On abandoning teaching he joined the army, becoming a member of Company E. of the One Hnn- d:ed and Thirty-eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in the spring of 1864. He was at the front five months when his health failed and he was there- fore discharged. Returning to Illinois he engaged in merchandising at TEnoxville, carrying on a dry goods establishment throughont a period of six years. In April, 1870, he came to Toronto, bringing with him a stock (^ goods which he disposed of to the residents of Woodson county, and the following year he located upon his farm.
On the 19th of December, 1867, in Knoxville, Illinois, Mr. Mann was united in marriage to Miss Martha H. Arms, whose father, Henry Arms, was one of the pioneer settlers of Knox county, Illinois, removing to that place from Massachusetts. Unto our subject and his wife have been born three children: George Albert. born September 11, 1868; Harry, born October 5, 1870; and William H., who was born January 9, 1872, and married Miss Lena Dearland.
No one has reason to question Mr. Mann's political position for it is well known that he is a stalwart republican, having supported that party since casting his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and
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his last vote was cast for President Mckinley in 1900. In 1874 he was elected to the Kansas legislature and served in that body the following vear. He has twiee been trustee of Toronto township and is a member of the Toronto school board. He has attended republican conventions and does all in his power to promote the growth and insure the success of his party, realizing fully the responsibilities and obligations of citizenship. He holds membership in the Presbyterian church in which he has served as elder, and all worthy movements for the benefit of his fellow men and sub- stantial development of his county receive his support.
JACOB N. STOUT.
JACOB N. STOUT, postmaster of Neosho Falls, editor and proprietor of the Neosho Falls Post, was born in Adams county, Illinois, June 11, 1853. His father was Samuel G. Stout, a native of North Carolina, and his mother was Lucinda Julian, also born in North Carolina. The parents moved up into Indiana and later on into Illinois, where they resided till 1868, when they came on to Kansas. They settled in Bourbon county, where they resided three years. In 1871 they made their final change of location, going into Woodson county, where the father died in 1882 at the age of seventy years. His widow survives him and is a resident of Yates Center, Kansas.
Jacob N. Stout was one of a family of eight children. He was fifteen years of age when he accompanied his parents to Kansas. He was brought up on the farm and was a pupil of the district school. In 1880 he entered the State University of Kansas and spent one year there. The next year Le entered the State Normal School of Kansas and finished a course there, with graduation, in 1882. He engaged in teaching at once, as principal of the Howard city schools. He remained there a year and entered the schools at Neosho Falls in a like capacity and remained two years. The fall of 1886 he took charge of the schools at Kinsley, Kansas, and closed his career as an educator with that year's work. He purchased the Neosho Falls Post in 1885 and he went from the school room to the editorial chair. He has remained in control of the Post since it first came into his hands and has devoted all his energies to its proper editing and publication. The Post · is a newspaper with strong republican proclivities and an advocate of the interests of Neosho Falls and Woodson county. Its publisher has performed whatever duties. in his town, that devolved upon him as a citizen and official, and was appointed by Governor Humphrey a member of the Board of Regents of the Kansas State Normal School, where he served two years. April 23, 1898, Mr. Stout was appointed postmaster of his town for a term of four years. He is clerk of the city board of education and is one of the "school men" of the county.
Mr. Stout was married in 1878 to Miss Emma Higginbotham, who died within a few months afterward. In 1886 he was again married to Miss
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Annetta Michner, which marriage was fruitful. and productive of two daughters, Grace and Marie. Mrs. Stout died in 1893 and for his third wife Mr. Stout married Mrs. Carrie (Lockard) Shears of Lincoln, Neb., a daughter of M. B. Lockard of Fort Scott.
Being interested in fraternities, Mr. Stout has become a member of some of the prominent ones. He is a Mason, a Red Man, a Woodman, and one of the Knights and Ladies of Security.
HENRY SCHLICHTING.
That Henry Schlichting is one of the most popular and representative citizens of Yates Center is indicated by the fact that in 1900 he was re- .elected to the office of mayor of the city without opposition, and certainly the choice was wisely made for he is a practical business man, deeply inter- ested in the welfare of his adopted town and his devotion to the public good is above question.
A native of Hanover, Germany, Mr. Sehliehting was born on the 18th ct September, 1856, and when only two years old was brought to America world and took up his abode in Calhoun county, Illinois. There he engaged in farming until his death, which occurred in 1865, when he was forty years of age. His wife bore the maiden name of Isabel Heinsom. She is now Mrs. Wintien and resides in Crawford county, Kansas. The children of her first marriage were: Henry: Gasha, wife of John Fredrick, of Craw- ford county. Kansas: John. and Harman C .. also of the same county.
Henry Schlichting spent his youth and early manhood on the home farm and entered upon his business career as a clerk in Hamburg. Calhoun county. Illinois, where he remained for a year. In 1880 he came to Hepler, Crawford county. Kansas, and engaged in clerking for John. Viets, remain- ing in his employ for about ten years, after which he embarked in business mn his father. Clause Schlichting, who with his family emigrated to the new 'on his own aeeount, as a partner of his former employer, Mr. Viets. This association was continued until 1893. when it was dissolved, Mr. Sehlichting going to Weir City, Kansas, where he accepted a clerkship in a store belong- ing to a coal mining company. In 1895 he entered the employ of Davis & Company, hay and grain dealers at Fort Scott, and the same year was sent by them to Yates Center to manage their business here. He also carries on business for himself as a dealer in coal. flour and mill feed and enjoys a good trade in that line, his patronage steadily inereasing as time passes.
On the 7th of December, 1884. in Crawford county, Kansas. Mr. Schlichting was united in marriage to Miss Rebecea Alice Johnson, a dangh- ier of David Johnson, who came from Pennsylvania to the west. Mrs. Schlichting was born in Iowa. December 7. 1861. and by her marriage has become the mother of four children : Melissa. Edith. David C., Florence A. and Henry G. The hospitality of the best homes is extended to the family
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and their many friends may always be sure of a cordial and friendly greet- ing in the Schlichting residence. In his political views Mr. Schlichting. ha. been a stalwart republican since casting his first vote for James A. Garfield, and since coming to Yates Center he has been honored with various- public offices of trust. In 1897 he was elected a member of the city council, was re-elected in 1898, and in 1899 was chosen by popular vote mayor of the city. He filled the office so capably that in 1900 he was re-elected-a fitting recognition of his ability and fidelity and an unmistakable evidence of his personal popularity and worth for he had no opponent. He has secured many needed improvements and reforms and has promoted the welfare of the city along various lines. In Masonry he has attained the Royal Arch degrees, and has filled most of the offices in lodge and chapter.
J. H. FRY.
Marked progress has been made in business methods along the various Ines in which men find opportunity to exercise their talents, and agriculture has kept pace with the general advancement. Among the progressive, prac- tical farmers and stock-raisers of Woodson county who have won success is J. H. Fry, who was born in Warsaw, Illinois, on the 19th of December, 1849. His father, Solomon Fry, was a native of Pennsylvania and during his boyhood accompanied his parents on their removal to the Prairie state where he learned the mason's trade which he followed for some time. He was married to Miss Sarah E. House, a native of Connecticut, and resided in Hancock county. Illinois, until after the sectional differences between the north and south involved the country in Civil war. He then joined the great army which was formed for the preservation of the Union, enlisting as a private with Company D, Seventy-eighth Illinois Infantry, with which hr s. rved for three years, participating in all the battles in which his regi- meni engaged. He was very fortunate in that he was never woundco 401 captured and was never absent from duty for a single day. After his ret arn from the army he removed to Kansas in 1869, locating on a farm in Linn county, where he made his home until 1886 when he became a resident of Carthage, Missouri, where he still resides. His wife died many years ago.
J. H. Fry was the eldest of their four children and was reared in Hancock county. Illinois ,spending his youth upon the homestead farm. Ile acquired an academic education and afterward prepared for the prac- tical duties of business life by learning the mason's trade with his father. When the war broke out he was left to care for the three younger children mid supported them by his work. He has ever been a man of marked in- dustry and his diligence and perseverance formed an example well worthy of emulation. On the 23d of January, 1873, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah E. Buckley, a native of New Jersey, who had removed to Illinois
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with her parents, Joel T. and Salinda ( Wilson) Buckley. Her father was an attorney at law and at one time a nominee for governor of Illinois on the prohibition ticket.
After his marriage, Mr. Fry rented a farm in La Salle county and began dealing in stock. Success attended his efforts. and in seven years' time he was able to buy a good farm, owning two hundred and eighty acres of well improved land on which he raised cattle. shipping them to the city market. He lived upon his farm until 1897 and then sold the property for seventy-five dollars per acre, after which he came to Kansas and pur- chased two hundred and eighty-eight acres in Allen county, three and one- half miles southwest of Neosho Falls. Here he has engaged in general farming and stock-raising and has at the present time about two hundred head of cattle, and feeding about one hundred head each winter. In 1900 he received nineteen hundred dollars for hogs of his own raising. In the fall of 1899. in accordance with the advice of his physician, he removed to Neosho Falls and to some extent has laid aside business cares, but drives back and forth to the farm in order to superintend its management.
Unto our.subject and his wife have been born three children: R. Thurston, now twenty-five years of age; Ora L .. an estimable young lady at home. and Adisa V., the wife of Jesse Everett, now of Streator, Illinois. Mr. Fry is a member of the Masonic fraternity. belonging to the lodge at Neosho Falls and to the Royal Arch chapter at Yates Center. He also be- longs to Neosho Falls camp No. 3383. M. W. A .. and to the order of the Red Men and Elks at Tola. He has been an active worker in the ranks of the republican party since attaining his majority and is unfaltering in his support of its principles. In the spring of 1900 he was elected mayor of Neosho Falls and has filled minor offiees in the county in which he lived in Illinois. He is now discharging his duties in a manner highly commenda- tory. his administration being business-like and progressive. He exercises his official prerogatives in support of the public good and has secured a number of needed reforms and improvements. He is a popular citizen. esteemed for his fidelity to duty as well as for his social qualities and for bis business success. He is a man of forceful character, strong individuality ard genuine worth, and as one of the leading men of Woodson county he is numbered.
WILLIAM STOCKEBRAND.
WA. STOCKEBRAND is numbered among the prominent and influen- tial citizens of Woodson county. and has a wide acquaintance among leading men of the state for he represented his county in the legislature and served on a number of important committees. Called to office by popular vote his election was an indication of the trust reposed in him by his fellow towns- men and well did he discharge the duties that devolved upon him. Forty-
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three years have passed since he came to Woodson county, the date of his arrival being 1857.
Mr. Stockebrand was born in Lippe Detmold, Germany, August: 11, 1833, and was a son of Adolph Stockebrand, a farmer of that country. He spent the first twenty-two years of his life in the fatherland and then crossed the Atlantic, coming to Kansas in company with his brother. wi h August Lauber and August Toedman. They traveled west- ward by rail to Jefferson City, Missouri, and by boat to Kansas City, where they hired a team to haul them to Lawrence, Kansas. At the last named place they purchased an ox team and with that continued their journey to Woodson county. There were practically no roads south of Toy creek in Franklin county, and they made their way across the prairies with little to guide them on their journey. They were all young men looking for homes and they found in Kansas the opportunity they sought. An acquaint- ance, Ernest Linder, had preceded them and was living on Owl creek. They made their way to his home and there started out to seek locations for themselves in the timber belt. Mr. Stockebrand of this review secured the southwest quarter of Section 1. Township 25, Range 15. and has resided on this tract for forty-three years, devoting his time to farming and stoek raising. His success enabled him to increase his landed possessions until he was the owner of twelve hundred acres, of which he has since given four hundred acres to his children.
At the time of the Civil war Mr. Stockebrand enlisted in the fall of 1861. as a member of Company F. Ninth Kansas Cavalry, and after one year he was discharged on account of disability. His service was given chiefly in fighting bushwhackers in Missouri and the Indian Territory. He had become a republican on the organization of the party and has always given to it his stalwart support, taking an active interest in county politics and doing all in his power to promote the growth and insure the snecess of the party. When the populist movement began to spread Wood: on county became a strong populistie center and the republican majority was reduced from several hundred to almost zero, but when Mr. Stockebrand became the republican candidate for the state legislature in his district in 1895. he received the very flattering majority of one hundred and eighty- nine-this vote indicating in an unmistakable manner his popularity as a citizen and the trust reposed in him by his fellow townsmen. While serving in the house he was a member of the committees on the re-apportionment of judicial district, on forestry, labor and woman's rights. He was interested in a measure whereby it was proposed to force all railroad companies to build and maintain fences along farm lots and pastures, through which hogs could not make their wav, but the hill failed to pass. He also endeav- ored to secure the passage of a bill to protect prosecuting witnesses from intimidation or fear of harm from a guilty party, but this also failed. He gave an earnest support to every measure which he believed would prove of publie good, and the record of his official service is one without blemish.
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On the 31st of January. 1863, in Coffey county, Kansas, Mr. Stocke- brand married Minnie Steffen, a daughter of Mrs. Louisa (Pribernow) Steffen. They have reven children : William. of Woodson eounty ; Matilda, wife of Fred Weide of the same county; George and Frank. both of Woodson county : Louisa, wife of William Fuhlhagen ; Emma and Rudolph. The parents hold membership in the German Evangelieal church. 'Mr. Stockebrand is numbered among the honored pioneers of Woodson county. During the first fall of his residence in the county, while out hunting ca'tle he was shot through the elbow and left arm by an Indian who sud- denly appeared upon his path fifteen fcet from him and fired upon him. Great changes have occurred since that day and through all Mr. Stoeke- brand has aided in the work of development and progress, bearing his part in every movement for the publie good.
CHARLES D. YOUNG.
There is every degree of satisfaction and profit in seanning the life history of one who has attained a high degree of success as the diametrical result of his own efforts. who has had the mentality to direct his endeavors toward the desired ends and the singleness and steadfastness of purpose which have given due value to cach consecutive detail of effort. As a dis- tinetive type of the self-made man we ean refer with signal propriety to the gentleman whose name forme the caption of this paragraph. He is one of the native sons of Woodson county and is yet a young man. but has already attained prosperity and the firm of Keek & Young, of which he is the . junior member. is operating extensively in hay at Yates Center and at many other points.
('barles Dee Young was born in Liberty township, Woodson county, on the 7th of October. 1871. and is a son of John Young. who came to the county about 1870. A native of Germany, he was born in Hanover, in 1836, and when twenty-one years of age sailed for the United States. For a time he was engaged in the sawmill business in the state of New York, following that pursuit until the Civil war broke out when he rented his property and joined the army. He sacrificed his business interests to his conntry, as so many others did. for while at the front he lost the sawmill. As a member of Company H. Fifty-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry, he joined the army and for four years and three months fought for the supremaey of the Union. When the war was over he received an honorable discharge and with a most ereditable military record returned to the north.
John Young afterward spent some time in New Jersey and later re- · moved to Iowa, going thenee to Kansas City, Missouri, which was his place of residence just prior to his removal to Kansas. He drove into Woodson county with a team and seenred a claim in Liberty township, immediately
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beginning the work of improvement. In 1880 he purchased a large traet of land which is now the Young homestead-one of the fine-t farms in this seetion of the state. Mrs. Young, the mother of our subject, bore the maiden name of Lney Miller. The parents were married in Davenport, Iowa, and unto them have been born four children: Charles D .. Albert, who 'is living in Colorado: Will, who is engaged in teaching in that state, and Elmer.
Mr. Young of this review spent the first twenty-one years of his life upon the home farm. Hle supplemen'ed his early educational priv- ileges by study in the State Agricultural College and in Bethel College, in Newton. Kansas. For three years le engaged in teaching in the com- mon schools of the state and then turned his at'ention to farming which oeenpation he diligently purred until January, 1899, when he left the farm and located in Yates Center, where he joined S. G. Keek, in the hay business. thus establishing the present well known firm of Keek & Young. They have warchonses at Ya'es Center, Bate ville and Toronto, Kansas, and makes shipments from six or more stations. Their business is cons- tantly growing in volume and has already reached extensive proportions. As this is an excellent agricultural distriet and the verdant meadows yield fine erops of hay. the business of the firm affords a good market to the farmers and the material prosperity of the community, as well as of the firm, is thereby increased.
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