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FREDERICK SCHAEDE.
FREDERICK SCHAEDE. who is engaged in farming on section six, Eminence township, Woodson county, took up his abode here in 1873, and has resided continuously since upon the farm which is yet his home. He was born in Brandenburg. Germany, in the village of Friedeburg, Jan. uary 28, 1842, and is a son of Henry and Wilhelmina ( Weichman) Schaede, who were also natives of Brandenburg, the former a farmer by occupation. Iu the year 1873 the parents and their children crossed the Atlantic to the New World and making their way westward to Kansas took up their ahode upon the homestead now owned and occupied by our subject. There were five children : Frederick : Amelia. now the widow of John Yeager, of Woodson county : Ferdinand, of Owl Creek township, Woodson county, and Frank and Gottlieb, who are residents of Everett township, this county.
In the fatherland Frederick Schaede was reared, and in accordance with its laws he acquired his education. The reports received concerning America and its opportunities and privileges decided the family to cross the ocean, and with the family Mr. Schaede came to southeastern Kan- sas Ile first located on the northeast quarter of section six, township U. S. G., also of that county, and John of Washington county, Pennsyl- vania.
Mrs. Cox was born December 7, 1856, and by her marriage she has become the mother of six children, of whom three are living: Stephen L., George W. and Kenneth K. The family have a pleasant home in Eminence township and Mr. and Mrs. Cox are prominent citizens of their com- munity. He is a stanch Republican in politics. The members of the Cox family were originally Whigs, and when the Republican party was formed joined its ranks. Our subject has therefore followed in the political foot- steps of his ancestors and has been quite prominent in the work of his party in the township. He has served as township treasurer and in 1896 he was nominated as the candidate to fill out an unexpired term as county commissioner, to which position he was elected. In 1898 he was re-elected tor the full term of three years, so that his incumbency will cover five years, and at the present time he is serving as chairman of the board. His course reflects credit upon his constituents and indicates his patriotic interest in his county, its welfare and its progress. He is a man who, without false ostentation or display. by his sterling worth commands the confidence, good will and respect of his fellow men, being in every way
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twenty-six, range sixteen, in Woodson county, and has continuously de- voted his energies to the cultivation of the farm. He has added many improvements in the shape of large. commodious and substantial build- ings, including the erection of a comfortable residence and good barns, and all modern equipments have been secured, making the place one of the most desirable country seats in this portion of the county. He has also added to his landed possessions, purchasing a tract on section five, Eminence township. so that his property interests now include four hundred aeres. In addition to the cultivation of the fields he is also engaged in raising cattle and sheep. fine grades of both being found in his pastures. He bas found both branches of his business profitable and is now accounted one of the substantial agrieulturists and stock raisers of the community.
Fre leaving the fatherland Mr. Sebaede was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Kendt, the wedding being celebrated on the 14th. of April. 1871 The lady is a daughter of Frederick and Charlotte (Gulicke) Kendt, whose children were as follows: Florence, wife of William Moritz: Carl: Wil- liam : Henrietta, wife of William Kanshke: Augusta. wife of John Guse : Hulda, wife of Herman Guse, deceased, and Mrs. Schaede. The marriage (" our subject and his wife has been blessed with seven children, namely . Fritz. who married Anna Schultz: Anna, wife of William Stange, of Woodson county : Hulda : Amelia. who is engaged in teaching in Woodson county : Flora : Herbert, and Lillie. The family is one well known in the county where the parents have resided for twenty-eight years, and the members of the household occupy enviable positions in the social circles in which they move. Mr. Schaede gives his political support to the Republi- can party. having been one of its stalwart advocates since he east his first presidential vote for Rutherford B. Hayes.
GEORGE STOLL.
Thirty-one years covers the period of Mr. Stoll's residence in Kansas. the date of his arrival in the state being 1870. While the republic of Switzerland bas furnished a comparatively small number of citizens to the New World they have been men of worth, diligent. enterprising and trustworthy. Among the number is Mr. Stoll, who was born in the land of the Alps, his birth having occurred in Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland. January 3, 1848. His father. Daniel Stoll, was a farmer of that country and there married Elizabeth Werner. In the year 1853 they came to the United States. located in Clark county, Indiana, where they spent their remaining days. They were the parents of five children, namely : John. now deceased: Magdalena, deceased wife of Conrad Bollinger : Daniel, of Clark county, Indiana ; Barbara, wife of William Dietrich, also of the same county, and George, of this review.
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The last named was a little lad of five years when brought by his parents to the United States and in Clark county he was reared and edu- cated. enjoying the advantages afforded by the common schools. He left home at the age of twenty-one years and at Louisville, Kentucky, en- listed in the regular army as a member of the Second United States In- fantry, with which he served for a few months, when he was discharged by order of the war department.
Mr. Stoll came from Clark county, Indiana, to Kansas, locating first in Humboldt, where he resided for two years, being employed by the month Un his arrival in Woodson eounty in 1872 he purchased a new and unim- proved farm near Buffalo creek and was engaged in its cultivation for two years, moving thence to the northwest quarter of section twenty-six, town- slip twenty-six. range sixteen, upon which he has resided the greater part of the time since. His labors have wrought great changes in the ap- pearance of the place, transforming the raw tract into fields of grain, giving indication of coming bounteous harvests; buildings of commodious size and substantial structure adorn the farmi and everything indicates the careful supervision of a thrifty owner. Twice he has made trips to Colo- rado, looking over the country, but each time has returned well satisfied with his Kansas home. He had but limited financial resources at the time of his arrival here but has found that fortune vouchsafes a sure and good return for honorable and continuous labor, when directed by sound business judgment.
Mr .Stoll was married in Humboldt in 1871, to Charlotte N. Thomas, a daughter of George Thomas, originally from Indiana. Twelve children graced their union, but they lost the first born, Georgie, who died at the age of seventeen years. The others are: John, of Wilson county, Kansas; Albert, Clyde, Guy, Daisy, Leo, Carl, Ray, Emil, Glenn and Beryl all yet under the parental roof. The family have a pleasant home upon the farm, which comprises two hundred and forty acres of rich land and yields to parents and children an income supplying them with all the neces- sities and many of the luxuries of life. In his political views Mr. Stoll is a Republican, being in hearty sympathy with the policy and platform of the party.
CHARLES F. M'GILL.
Throughout the years of his business career Charles Frank McGill has been a resident of Woodson county, having located within its borders in 1876. He makes his home in Perry township, where he follows agricul- tural pursuits, finding therein a profitable source of income. He was born March 6, 1856, in Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Thomas Mc- Gill, who became a well known farmer and stock-raiser of Marshall county,
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Illinois, where he died in October, 1899. He was born in Virginia in 1817, but in early life went to Pennsylvania and was married in Pittsburg, that state, to Martha Craig, who departed this life in Woodson county in 1899, at the advanced age of four score years. The original American an- vestors of the McGill family were of Irish birth and came to this country at an early epoch in its development. In the years which followed his arrival at man's estate, the father of our subject was a boatman on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, running between Pittsburg, St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans. He was thus engaged for thirty-five years, being made a pilot at the age of eighteen. At one time he was on a transport on the lower Mississippi when General Marmaduke's soldiers fired upon the boat. He was twice wounded and his injuries forced him to give up piloting.
Upon leaving the water Mr. McGill turned his attention to farming and was connected with agricultural interests in La Salle and Vermillion counties, Illinois, finding this a profitable labor. He thus carried on busi- ness until the infirmities of age forced him to retire to private life. His children were as follows: John, of Woodson county; Annie, wife of Charles Griffin, of Winona, Illinois; George W., of Woodson county, and C. Frank, of this review.
In taking up the personal history of our subject, we note that he spent the greater part of his youth in Illinois and is indebted to the public school system of that state for the educational privileges which he enjoyed. He became familiar with the labors of field and meadow upon his father's farm and remained in Vermillion county, Illinois, until 1876, when he came to Kansas, making the journey by rail to Humboldt. He then located upon scetion eleven, township twenty-six, range sixteen, and for many years he has now been classed among the leading agriculturists of Perry township. His diligence and perseverance are numbered among his salient character- isties and have been the leading elements in his success. His political sup- port is given the Democracy, in harmony with the political belief of the McGill family.
BAXTER P. BAKER.
BAXTER P. BAKER is a well known business man of Yates Center, where he is engaged in dealing in lumber. He is also an extensive land owner and belongs to that class of representative citizens who owe their prosperity, not to a succession of advantageous' circumstances, but to earnest, honest labor. He came to Woodson county in 1866 and has since been actively identified with its interests.
Mr. Baker was born in Gentry county, Missouri, in the year 1845. Little is known concerning the ancestral history of the family save that its representatives were residents in eastern Kentucky and western Ten-
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nessee and in the latter locality the parents of our subject were born. The father died in early life and the children were therefore bound out, our subject among the others. When fourteen years of age his parents by adoption, being dead. he left his native county and went to Iowa where he remained for a year. He managed to make his way to Illinois where his parents has resided previous to their removal to Missouri. About this time the country became involved in Civil war and with patriotic spirit Mr. Baker offered his services to the government, enlisting in Company B, One Hundred and Nineteenth Illinois Infantry, under the command of Colonel Kenny, the regiment serving with the western department of the army. He participated in the Banks campaign up the Red river and sub- sequently turned north to Missouri to aid in the defeat of Price's army. With his regiment he then went south again and took part in the move- ments around Nashville which resulted in the destruction of Hood's army. From that point he went with his command to Mobile, Alabama. and participated in the charge on Fort Blakely which led to its ultimate cap- ture. He remained in that state until mustered out of service in August, 1865, his company being disbanded at Springfield, Illinois. After the war Mr. Baker spent six months near Springfield on a farm, and then deter- mined to try his fortune in Kansas. In 1866 he started for this great prairie section of our country, making his way to Iola, Allen county, from Ottawa and thence turning westward to Belmont township, Woodson county. There he made arrangements with a settler for his claim, improved the property and has since made it his home. He turned his attention to farming and stock-raising. He prospered in the undertaking and his finan- cial resources increasing, he added to his property until he now has nine hundred and sixty acres of valuable land, constituting one of the most desirable farms in this portion of the state. He came to Woodson county with a cash capital of one hundred and forty-three dollars and ten cents, a second hand wagon and a good team, and here he has resolutely worked his way upward, the difficulties that he has encountered seeming but to serve as an impetus for renewed effort. Som years ago he took up his residence in Yates Center and there he erected his home. He has since spent his time upon the farm and in his city residence, but since embarking in the lumber business in 1889, he has resided during the greater part of the time in the county-seat. He is a prominent lumber merchant, carrying on an extensive business, while at the same time his income is materially in- ereased by the profits of his land and stock-raising interests.
Mr. Baker was married in Woodson county, on the 1st of September. 1867, to Miss Sarah Brock, a daughter of Abram Brock, who became a resident of Kansas in 1866. She died in 1874, and Mr. Baker afterward married Amanda I. Brock. The one child of the first marriage is Mrs. S. G. Keck, of Yates Center. By the second marriage there are three chil- dren: Sadie I., now the wife of D. W. Fisher; Viola. the wife of C. D. Young, of Yates Center, and Russell, a student in the Agricultural College
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of Kansas.
Many years ago Mr. Baker was a very active worker in the ranks of the Republican party but he is now a staunch Prohibitionist. He labored earnestly toward securing the location of the county-seat at Yates Center, it having been formerly at Kalida and afterwards at Defiance. He is a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church and as a citizen he withholds his support from no measure or movement calculated to prove of general good.
ALBERT COE.
ALBERT COE, who is extensively and successfully engaged in farm- ing in Liberty township, Woodson county, was born in Geauga county, Ohio, May 5, 1846, a son of John T. and Nancy ( Wilkins) Coe, the former was born Feb. 20, 1811, a native of Ohio and the latter, Nancy W., of Ver- mont, was born Aug. 18, 1813. The father spent his entire life in the Buckeye state and followed the occupation of farming. When the dis- loyalty at the south was followed by an attempt at secession, he offered his services to the government in 1862, and with patriotic ardor joined the Eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but his death occurred at Camp Chase, about eight months later, when he was fifty-one years of age. His wife survived him until 1874, passing away at the age of sixty-one years. They were the parents of five children, namely: Daniel T., born Feb. 10, 1839, who is now in lowa: Clara E., born Oct. 4, 1840, wife of A. V. Whitney, of Illinois; Lucy E .. boru Feb. 5, 1842, wife of J. W. Mills, of Illinois ; Albert, and Amy, wife of W. T. Clark, born April 3, 1851, also of the Prairie state. They also lost one son, Arthur B., who was born in 1847, July 18, and died at the age of.three years.
Albert Coe, the fourth child and second son, remained with his mother until her death, and with her removed to Livingston county, Illinois, in 1864. He had been educated in the common schools and was reared to farm life, thus gaining that broad, practical experience which now enables him to successfully carry on agricultural pursuits on his own account. After arriving at years of maturity he won as a helpmate and companion upon the journey of life Miss Farsina Clark, their marriage taking place on Christmas day of 1870. The lady was born in Livingston county, Illinois, October 12. 1851, and is a daughter of E. S. Clark, who was born in Ohio, February 27, 1819, and married Mildred A. Jones, born Nov. 6, 1822, of Kentucky. They removed from Indiana to Burcau, Illinois in 1845, settling in: Livingston county about 1850. Seven children were born unto them : Willam T., born March 4, 1848 ; Farsina, now Mrs Coe; Aunice, wife of W. B. Boatman, born March 3, 1854; Frank born January 8, 1856; Lycurgus, who was born December 22, 1857, and died Jan. 17. 1859 ; John E. who was born October 28, 1859, and died September 18. 1871, and Winfield S., who
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was born October 17, 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Clark are yet living at their old home in Illinois, and have attained an advanced age. Six children have graced the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Coe: W. A., born December 28, 1871 ; 1. D., born May 6. 1873; Nettie, who was born December 17, 1874, and died March 17, 1875; Il. M., born March 22, 1876; Maud M., born Decem- ber 24, 1877. and Clara A., born November 24, 1885. All are yet living with their parents or in the same locality in Liberty township, and all were born in Illinois, save the youngest daughter.
Mr. Coe came with his family to Kansas in 1881, locating in Woodson county upon the farm which he now occupies. He purchased three hundred and twenty acres of land, placed the fields under a high state of cultivation, erected a niee residence on an elevated portion of the grounds and sur- rounded his home with beautiful forest trees, which cast a grateful shade over the house and lawn in the summer season. He also built one of the largest barns in Liberty township. He follows general farming and stock- raising and in company with his sons is extensively engaged in the raising and sale of hay, having two barns in which this product of the meadows is stored. In 1900 they put up and shipped seven hundred tons of hay. He has his farm well fenced and divided into fields, pastures and meadows of convenient size, and one hundred and 80 acres of his land is under cultivation, being planted to corn and small grain. He also has wha' amount of stock his farm will support, feeding his products to his hogs and cattle. Mr. Coe is a man of resolute will and determined purpose and carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. Thus in the business world he has advanced step by step to a foremost position among the leading agrienlturist. His farm is the visible evidence of his labor. the proof of his prosperity and it represents years of honorable toil.
STEPHEN E. PORTER.
"The Gods give naught to sloth," said the sage Epicharmus many centuries ago, and the truth of this admonition has been verified through all the ages down to the present time. Certain laws of business are as immutable as are the principles of nature. Never can success be attained without continuous and earnest effort on the part of some one, and the only success of which man has reason to be proud is that which he himself gains. In this regard Mr. Porter has an enviable record. Starting out in life on his own account he has put his dependence upon the substantial qualities of enterprise, unflagging perseverance and indefatigable industry, and as a result he is now numbered among the prosperous and prominent farmers of Woodson county, where he has made his home since 1867.
A native of the Empire state, Mr. Porter was born in Monroe county, near Rochester, April 24, 1847. His father, Augustus Porter, was born in New York in 1815, and his brother, Gilbert Porter, is still living in that
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:state. The former married Cynthia Hindman, and unto them were born three children : Harriet, wife of Theodore Brown, of Morton county. Kan- sas; Henry, deceased, and Stephen. The father was a stalwart Republican -and was serving as trustee of Eminence township, Woodson county, at the time of his death, which occurred in December, 1873. His wife, long surviving him passed away in 1890, at the venerable age of eighty years. They had gradually moved westward, living in several states before taking up their abode in, Kansas, where they were soon recognized as people of sterling worth and of the highest respectability.
In leaving the state of his nativity. Stephen E. Porter accompanied his parents on their removal to La Grange county, Indiana. and was after- ward a resident of Bureau county, Illinois, for five years. He then went to Iowa with the family and from Wappello county, that state came to Kansas. He had attended school in the various communities in which he bad resided and had been trained to the practical work of the farm. On reaching Woodson county in 1867. he first located on section twenty-two. township twenty-six. range sixteen, from which place he came to his present home-the north half of the northeast quarter of section eighteen. This was a tract of land elaimed by the railroad company, whose title he con- tested and won his case, but he afterward lost in an appeal to the general land office. In early life he began dealing in stock and has considerable prominence as a stock dealer. his business in that line being quite exten- sive.
In Douglas county, Kansas, November 6, 1858. Mr. Porter was united ir marriage to Miss Alna Fearer, a daughter of David and Sarah (Coff- man) Fearer, the former born in Maryland. in 1829, while the latter was born near Hagerstown, in Washington county, that state, in 1831. Their marriage occurred in Ogle county, Illinois, and their children were : Alma, who was born January 12. 1851; John, who died in childhood : Mary, who is living in Oklahoma, and is the widow of Tillman Elam and Martha, wife of Frank Van Trice, of Douglas county, Kansas. The father was killed by bushwackers at Independence, Missouri, in 1862, and the mother afterward became the wife of F. H. Baker, who did in Sumner county. Kansas, in 1892. Their children were: Charles. of Blackwell, Oklahoma : Erastus, of Wellington, Kansas, and James, who died at the age of twenty-one.
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Porter has been blessed with three children : Bertha. wife of Arthur Evans, a resident of Victor, Colorado ; Ollie, wife of James Clark, of Tulare, California, and Niel, who married Ora Smith and is living in Rose. Mr. and Mrs. Porter have spent their entire married life in Woodson county and through the passing years the circle of their friends has been constantly enlarged. In his political views Mr. Porter is a Republican manifesting a deep and active interest in the success of the party. He has served as delegate to county and other con- ventions and aided in nominating the successful ticket of 1900. He has
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served his township as treasurer, and to those who are acquainted witle his upright career it is needless to say that his duties were most faithfully discharged.
JAMES DUTRO.
Among the setlers of Woodson county whose residence spans a period of thirty years within her borders is the gentleman whose name introduces this personal sketch. April 1, 1871, he entered the county and the same spring took a claim in Liberty township. Of this he made a farm and upon it he resided till his removal to the county seat to enter upon the discharge of his duties as a county official.
February 3, 1842, Judge Dutro was born in Muskingum county, Ohio. His antecedents were of the first settlers of that county, his paternal grandfather having gone there at seven years of age. The latter, George Dutro, was born in the state of Pennsylvania in 1793, grew up on the Muskingum river and passed his life a farmer. His family of seven sons were: David, George, Samuel, John, Elmer, Martin and James ; the second in the list being the father of our subject.
George Dutro, who passed many of the active years of his upright life in Woodson county and was therefore well known, was born in the year 1820, and died February 28, 1899. In 1845 he left his native heath and emigrated to Bureau county, Illinois. He had been reared to the pur- suits of agriculture and to those he devoted himself in the new western state. When the Civil war came on he enlisted in September 1862 in com- pany C. Sixty-six Illinois volunteers. His regiment formed a part of the Sixteenth corps, army of the Tennessee. His service covered the period from his enlistment to the end of hostilities when he was mustered out and returned to civil pursuits. In 1869 he left Bureau county, Illinois, came to Warrensburg, Missouri, and remained there till early in 1871 when he transferred his interests to Woodson county and to a farm in Liberty township.
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