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fine, wife of Martin Kern, of Allen County.
Throughout the period of his minority Ernest Linder remained in the fatherland and there learned the stone mason's trade. Deciding to cmigrate to America in 1852, he sailed from Havre, France, landing in New York after forty-eight days spent upon the bosom of the Atlantic. He made the journey with the other members of the family, and after reaching the shores of the new world they continued their westward journey across the country to Wisconsin and later went to Stephenson County, Illinois, where our subject remained until 1857, working at his- trade. He then came to Kansas, his trip resulting from accounts which he read in a paper published at Osawatomie and which advocated the principles and plans of John Brown, the celebrated abolitionist.
In company with his brother August, Mr. Linder went by rail to St. Louis, Mo., thence by boat to Kansas City and from that place by "tage to Lawrence, Kas., where they stopped for a short reconnaissance. On learning something about the country and its opportunities, they started on foot for the southeastern corner of the state, spending the first night in Ohio City. near where the city of Ottawa is now located. The second night was passed in the home of an old bachelor west of the site of Garnett, and the next day they proceeded along the Indian trail to Leroy, which was then a small village. On the fourth morning they crossed the Neosho river, continuing on their way to Cherry creek, and in that locality for some months they made their home with John Cole- man. The brothers at once began searching for good elaims and Mr. Linder of this review entered the northeast quarter of section thirty- three, township twenty-five, range seventeen. He then began the erec- tion of a rude cabin. followed by the work of clearing and improving his land, upon which he has resided continuously since, transforming the wild traet into a richly cultivated farm, where well tilled fields give promise of bonnteous harvests, and buildings and fenees, all in good repair. indicate the careful supervision of a painstaking owner.
Since coming to the county Mr. Linder has followed farming with the exception of the time of his service in the Union army. In 1862 he enlisted in Company F. Ninth Kansas Cavalry. The regiment spent its time largely in Kansas and Missouri during the first two years and the last year in Arkansas, being finally mustered out at Duvalls Bluff, that state. The only battle in which Mr. Linder participated was that of Newtonia in 1862, for the regiment was largely engaged in checking the operation of the bushwackers.
On the 20th of April, 1865, in Stephenson County, Illinois, Mr. Linder was united in marriage to Miss Julia Boyer, who was born in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, August 1. 1843, a daughter of John Boyer, who died in Owl Creek township, in 1890, at the age of seventy- eight years. His wife bore the maiden name of Sarah Fenstermacher, and they were the parents of ten children. as follows: John; Owen;
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Caroline, widow of Henry Boardner: Lizzie, deceased wife of John Guen- ther : Franees, who married Lou Knights; Emma, wife of Charles Walton Aaron and Sylvester, in Stephenson County, Illinois. and Mrs. Linder. With the exception of thore otherwise designated all of the members of this family have been or are residents of Iowa. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Linder has been blessed with five children: Alice, wife of August Stockebrand, of Woodson County; Frank Edward, who married Katie Strauss and also resides in Woodson County: Laura, at home: Louisa. wife of Nicholas Bennett, of the same county, and Sarah, who completes the family. Mr. Linder and his family have long been connected with the Evangelical church and are worthy people of the community, win- ning friends by their true worth. Mr. Linder has been an important factor in the progress and development of the county, and his name is enrolled high on the record of its honored pioneers
WILLIAM HARTWIG.
A brilliant example of a self-made American citizen. his record ex- emplifying the progress that an ambitious foreigner can make in this country of unbounded opportunities. is shown in the case of William Hartwig, one of the leading German-American citizens of Kansas. His singular success is due to his own energy and the high ideal which his laudable ambition placed before him. Suecess in any walk of life is an indication of earnest endeavor and persevering effort-characteristics which our subject possesses in an eminent degree.
Mr. Hartwig is numbered among the honored pioneers of Woodson County where he located in 1858. taking up his abode in Owl Creek township in 1863. He was born in the village of Pummean, Prussia. October 9. 1840. and was eighteen years of age when he came to Kansas with his father, Gottlieb Hartwig. His active business life has all been passed in this county. When the country became involved in war over the attempt at secession made by some of the Southern states, he enlisted under the starry banner of the Union, on the 1st of January, 1862, join- ing Company F. Ninth Kansas Infantry, at Iola, under Captain B. F. Gos !. He served all the time in Missouri, Kas., and Arkansas, taking part in few engagements, the most important being at Prairie Grove, Arkansas. He remained in the army. however, for three years, and was then honorably discharged, without having been wounded or taken prisoner.
Upon his return to Woodson County. Mr. Hartwig resumed farm- ing. He was married here on the 9th of December, 1869, to Bertha Shultz, a daughter of Christian Shultz. a German by birth, then residing in Woodson County. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hartwig have been born the fol- lowing children: Henry A., of Rochester, New York, who is with the
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Rochester, Buffalo & Pittsburg railroad; Matilda, wife of Luke Beckett, of Woodsou County ; Amelia, wife of Edward Smith, of the same county ; Mary, Minnie, Charles. Nellie, Elsie, Freddie and Lillie, all yet at home. The family residence is a very comfortable one situated in the midst of an extensive farm on section twenty-nine, Owl Creek township. Mr. Hartwig now owns six hundred acres of valuable land, of which five hun- dred and eighty acres is comprised within the home farm and is a rich and arable tract. None of the modern accessories and improvements are. lacking upon this desirable place, good buildings. well kept fences, mod- ern machinery and well tilled fields all indicating to the passer-by the thrift and enterprise of the owner, whose progressive spirit and inde- fatigable labors have won him a creditable position among the leading and representative farmers of the township. In politics he is a Republi- can and has served as township trustee and township clerk, capably dis- charging the duties of both positions. He represents the best class of our German-American citizens, reliable in business, steadfast of purpose, faithful in friendship and loyal to our Republican institutions, thus in- dicating his strong love for the land of his adoption.
PROTAS BLUME.
Under circumstances which would have utterly discouraged and dis- heartened a man of less resolute spirit and earnest purpose rrotas Blume has worked his way upward to success. At times fate has seemed to be adverse and obstacles and difficulties have barred his path, but perse- verance and energy have conquered all, and to-day Mr. Blume is living in honorable retirement in a pleasant residence in Yates Center, his toil in former years having brought to him a competence which now supplies him with all the necessities and many of the luxuries of life. If more young men followed his example. the word "failure" would appear less frequently in connection with biographical history.
Mr. Blume was born in Strasburg, Germany, May 6, 1832, and there spent the first ten years of his life, after which he came to America with his father, Joseph Blue. in 1842. They landed in New York City and then went to Cincinnati, O., where the father died of cholera at the age of fifty-eight years. His wife had died in Germany prior to his emigration to the new world. Our subject, then a young boy, engaged as an apprentice to learn the tailor's trade and was em- ployed in Cincinnati for five years, after which he removed to Moorfield, Indiana, where he seenred a situation as a farm hand, working by the month.
As a companion and helpmate on the journey of life he chose Miss Christiana McKinzie, who was born in Switzerland County, Indiana. in 1823, and was of Scotch lineage. Their marriage was celebrated on the
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19th of January, 1858, and Mr. Blume continued farming in the Hoosier state until 1862, when feeling that his country needed his services he enlisted as a member of Company B, Fortieth Indiana Infantry and par- ticipa'ed in the battles of Nashville and Franklin. In the latter he was severely wounded in the back of the head and for a long time lay ill in the hospital, after which he was discharged on accouet of his injury, after serving for nineteen months.
Mr. Blume then returned to Indiana and as soon as he was able he and his wife removed to Madison County, that state, where he used the money which he had saved in the army to make partial payment upon a farm. To make the purchase he incurred an indebtedness of five hun- dred and sixty-three dollars. He labored hard and at length acquired the money with which to make full payment. On the 2d of December, 1867, therefore. he started for the recorder's office with the money, but the man to whom he owed it failed to meet him. He then started to return and while crossing a bridge he was attacked by highwaymen, knocked : enseless and the money taken from him. the robbers making their escape. This was such a discouragement that Mr. Blume resolved to lose what he had already paid on the farm and go to Kansas where he could obtain land from the government. Accordingly, in the spring of 1868, he ar- rived in Humboldt, Kas., with only a dollar and sixty-five cents in his pocket. The next day he began work for William Lassman at hauling sand. After three months he filed a claim to one hundred and sixty acres of land in Eminence township, Woodson County.
Since that time Mr. Blume has devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits, and has made one of the finest farms in the county. He has since taken one hundred and sixty acres of land each for two of his sons, and his home farm comprises two hundred and forty acres-a valuable traet on which is a fine residence and three large barns together with many other improvements. The cattle barn will accommodate sixty-five head of cattle, and he has two barns for the horses, together with cow pens and other buildings, somewhat resembling a little village. On the place is a fine grove of maples, containing ten hundred and twenty-eight trees in rows four feet apart in one direction, six feet in the other. At the well there are also nineteen trees. which were planted by his wife, who pulled up the switches and carried them home, planting them in their present location. They are now two feet thick and one hundred feet in height and stand as monuments to Mrs. Blume. As the years have passed Mr. Blume has met with a high degree of success in his farm- ing and stock raising operations, and with a handsome competence suf- ficient to supply his wants throughout the evening of life he has retired to Yates Center where he is happily and quietly living with the wife who through more than forty years has been his faithful and devoted com- panion on life's journey. They took up their abode in the city No- vember 15. 1897-the only removal they have made since coming to Woodson County.
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The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Blume was blessed with five children : Joseph D., who resides upon the home farm; Andrew J., who is living on one of his father's farms near Buffalo: Jarvis Amos, who is now a prac- tieing attorney of Chicago, where he has made his home for eight years : Anna. wife of D. M. Corley, and John H. The daughter was born in 1862 and died February 18, 1895, leaving a daughter in Basin. Mon- tana, while the youngest son, born August 28, 1865, died June 6, 1877. Snch in brief is the history of Protas Blume-a man whose industrious and upright life has ever commanded the respect and confidence of his fellow men. A resolute spirit has been the dominating element in his success and has brought him prosperity which is indeed enviable and equally as well deserved.
WILLIAM E. HOGUELAND.
Few, if any residents of Yates Center are more widely, and cer- tainly none are more honorably known than William E. Hogueland, the present postmaster, whose worth as a man, as a citizen and as a public official have gained for him the confidence and good will of all with whom he has been brought in contact. His reputation in the line of his profession-the law-is not of restricted order and he has won many notable forensie combats at the bar where his opponents have been men of acknowledged skill and ability.
It is therefore a matter of gratification to the biographer to touch upon the more salient features in the life history of Mr. Hogueland, who was born in Nashville, Indiana, on the 3d of October, 1859. He is a grandson of John Hogueland. whose ancestors came from Holland to America and settled in the old Dutch colony of New York. William B. Hogueland, the father of our subjeet, was born in Philadelphia on the site of the present campus of Girard college, in the year 1823 and after arriving at years of maturity he married Cordelia Barnes, who was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1832. They are still living and their children are: Samuel H .: Mary, who is the widow of W. A. Atchison and is in the Indian school servicee at Flandru, South Dakota; Flora. wife of M. C. Bidwell, of Norborne, Missouri, and William Edward, of this review.
When a lad of ten years William E. Hogueland accompanied his parents on their removal to Kansas, the family locating in Neosho Falls. where he continued his education, being graduated in the high school. When only sixteen years of age he began reading law. and at the age of nineteen he was admitted to the bar before Judge Talcott. Throughout the years of his practice he has resided in Woodson County. In January, 1888, be formed a law partnership with the Hon. G. R. Stephenson at Vates Center, Kansas, which relationship was maintained until January.
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1897. The connection was then dissolved by mutual consent and Mr. Hogueland entered into partnership with Hon. G. H. Lamb. Since his admission to the bar he has been actively engaged in practice. and has been retained either as counsel for the plaintiff or defendant in every important case tried in the courts of the county. His practice extends throughout Southeastern Kansas and is of a distinctively representa- tive character . He has especially prepared himself as a counselor and has the reputation of being one of the best informed and safest counselors i: the district. . He has much natural ability but is withal a hard student and is never contented until he has mastered every detail of his cases. He believes in the maxim "there is no excellence without labor," and follows it closely. He is never surprised by some unexpected discovery by an opposing lawyer, for in his mind he weighs every point and forti- fies himself as well for the defense as for the attack. He is not an orator to the extent of swaying juries by his eloquence, and for this reason he has been accorded more fame as a counselor than as an advo- cate. and yet there are few lawyers who win a larger percentage of their cases before either judge or jury than does Mr. Hogueland.
On the 22d of July, 1887, Mr. Hogueland was united in marriage to Miss Mattie R. Foster, of Slater, Missouri, and unto them two children have been born, Frank F., and Alice B. Her father was a native of Eng- land and became an early harness and trunk manufacturer of Racine; Wisconsin.
When only twenty-one years of age Mr. Hogueland was elected clerk of the district court of Woodson County, in the year 1880, and served in that capacity for eight years, which was the only political office he had filled up to the time of the election of President Mckinley, when he asked and received the appointment of postmaster of Yates Center, Kansas, in which capacity he is now acceptably serving. He has always been an advocate of Republican principles, devoting his time and money for the snecess of the party in whose principles he so firmly believes. He has served for a number of years on the various county committees aud is new chairman of the fourteenth senatorial district committee. Mr. Hogueland's life has certainly been a successful one and for this he de- serves great credit. By determined purpose. and in the face of grave difficulties he has worked his way steadily upward to a position of prom- inence and honor among his fellow townsmen and enjoys the well-earned distinction of being what the public calls "a self-made man."
ABNER YATES.
To have attained to the extreme fullness of years and to have had Que's ken broadened to a comprehension of all that has been accomp- lished within the flight of many days, is of itself sufficient to render con-
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sonant a detailed consideration of such a life in a work of this order, but in the career of Mr. Yates there are more pertinent, more distinguishing elements. His name is inseparably associated with the history of Kansas as the founder of Yates Center, and as long as the city endures it will be a monument to his progressive spirit. No shadows darken any period of his long, honorable and eventful life, and now at the age of eighty- two years he receive: the veneration and respect ever accorded to one who has walked upright before his fellow men, commanding respect not only by reason of a successful and prosperous career but also by his unfalter- ing devotion to duty in every relation of life. Such is the history of Abner Yates.
A native of Gallatin County, Kentucky, he was born August 4, 1819, and is a son of Henry Yates, a native of Caroline County, Virginia, and a grandson of Abner Yates, Sr. The former was married in the Old Dominion to Miss Millicent Yates, his cousin, and in an early day they emigrated to Kentucky, where the father became prominent in the work of early development. He laid out the town of Warsaw and there carried on merchandising until his removal to Illinois in the year 1831. For a time he resided in Springfield, the capital city, and then founded the town of Berlin, in Sangamon County, Illinois, where he conducted a general mercantile establishment. His enterprise resulted greatly to the benefit of the place, and he was recognized as a leading factor in the progress and advancemnt of the town until his death. He had a large family, one of whom was Governor Richard Yates, Sr., of Illinois who was the youngest member of the thirty-second congress of the United States, was afterward elected to the same office and in 1860 was elected chief executive of Illinois, and is known in history as the "war governor" of that commonwealth. He was a most active supporter of the Union, and the day following the attack on Fort Sumter took military possession of Cairo, Illinois, which he garrisoned with troops. It is his son and the nephew of our subjeet, Richard Yates, Jr., who is the present chief exeeu- tive of Illinois.
Abner Yates was reared in his parent's home and through the period of his youth became familiar with business methods and measures through practical experience in his father's store. After attaining his majority he was admitted to a partnership in the business and his en- terprise, sound judgment and the progressive spirit of youth added largely to the sueecss of the enterprise. In 1851 he removed to Morgan County. Illinois, where he continued to reside until 1883. In the mean- time he was engaged in mercantile pursuits, and his elose application to business, keen discriminating mind and unflagging industry enable him to acquire a handsome competence. He judiously invested some of his capital in realty and became the owner of section eleven, Center town- ship. Woodson County, Kansas. In 1875 he was induced to plat a town site, having been given assurance that if he would do so the new town
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should become the county seat. He therefore platted one hundred and -sixty acres-the southwest quarter of the section-and it was decided that the newly established town should be made the seat of justice for the .county. Frank Butler insisted that the place should be called Yates Center and therefore in honor of the founder the city was named. Its growth has been pleasing and continuous, aided largely by the efforts of Mr. Yates who donated many lots to persons desiring to improve them. The first house in the town was owned by G. W. Wille who moved the building to the town site from Kalida. Mr. Yates also moved a small building from Kalida and leeated it upon the northwest corner of the square where Frank Butler's pharmacy now stands, and this served as the first court house. In 1883 Mr. Yates permanently took up his abode in the city which bears his name and has contributed to all measures for its upbuilding and eo-operated in many movements for the general wel- fare.
The home life of Mr. Yates has been very pleasant. and his family is one which does honor to an untarnished name. On the 7th of August. 1851, in Jacksonville. Illinois, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Geers, a daughter of William and Mary Geers, natives of Virginia, who removed to Kentucky and from Lexington, that state. to Illinois. Two children were born unto Mr. and Mrs. Yates: Mary M., the wife of John B. Dobins. of Yates C'enter. and William H .. who has charge of the annual report department in the office of the secretary of state, at Springfield, Illinois. Mr. Yates cast his first presidential vote in 1840, when he supported William Henry Harrison for the presideney. On the dissolution of the Whig party he became a Republican. and voted for the first candidate of the party in 1856. He has since never wavered in his allegiance to its principles. although he has never sought or desired the honors or emoluments of publie office. In three states the name of Yates is recorded in history as that of the founder of a town, and the prosperons and thriving city of Yates Center, which owes its origin and much of its later advancement to our subject, is a fitting monument to the life and labors of one who in the busy walks of commerce has ever horne himself with signal honor and dignity, awakening uniform regard hy his upright career.
CHARLES H. WEIDE.
One of the wealthiest residents of North township and the largest dealer in sheep and cattle is Charles H. Weide. The native born Ameri- ean citizen who wins success in life unaided is certainly deserving of commendation, but the man of foreign birth accomplishes a still greater work as he has to overcome greater disadvantages, being handicapped by a lack of knowledge concerning the language and the customs of the peo-
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ple among whom he casts his lot. Mr. Weide, as his name indicates is of (erman birth. but in America he has found the opportunities which he. sought for a successful business eareer. He was born in the fatherland,. Angust 4. 1847, his parents being Godfrey and Lottie (Mockerott) Weide, who were natives of Germany and were there reared and married. In 1854 they erossed the Atlantic to the new world and located in Cook County, Illinois, where the father engaged in farming, but not being sat- isfied with that portion of the country and wishing to make his home in a locality where he could secure more land and a larger range for stoek, he came to Kansas in 1858. After a year spent in Coffey County he- came to Woodson County in 1859, setttling on Turkey Creek, twelve. miles northwest of Yates Center, where he engaged in raising both sheep and eattle. He was also the owner of a very large tract of land at the time of his death, which oeeurred in 1899, when he had attained the age of seventy-nine years and six months. His wife had passed away about 1875. They were the parents of four children : Charles H .; Minnie, Fritz and William.
Charles H. Weide, the eldest, was a lad of seven summers when the parents came to the new world. and when a youth of twelve he became a- resident of Kansas. He has resided in Woodson County for more than forty-two years and has always been connected with its farming and stock raising interests. He remained with his father until his marriage, when he began dealing in stoek, and since that time he has devoted much of his time to the raising of cattle and sheep until his efforts in this line have become more extensive than those of any other one man in the township. He thoroughly understands the business, having received practical training under the direction of his father in his youth. He has always made a close study of the needs of farm animals, and his opinions on this subject are accepted as authority in the community. As his financial resources have increased he has made judicious investments of his eapital in real estate, and he now owns twelve hundred acres of land. He keeps on hand an average of one hundred and fifty head of cattle and about five hundred sheep. These he shelters in a large barn built for the purpose, with room for feed above and for the sheep below. He also bas water troughs through the barn and the yard, and he has the barn so arranged that he ean separate from the rest of the flock any sheep which need special attention. In both branches of his stoek raising busi- ness he has met with a high degree of success. In January, 1901, his cattle sales amounted to eighteen hundred dollars, his sheep brought him nine hundred dollars, and his hogs five hundred dollars. He sells to some extent in almost every month in the year when the prices suit him. Ilis farm is one of the best located in Woodson County. In addition to the large barns and cattle sheds, which are surrounded with a fine grove of timber on Turkey ereek he has a commodious residenee, comfortably
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