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J. F. FLYNN.
J. F. Flynn, farmer, resides on the old Flynn homestead in Mt. Pleasant township, Atchison county, of which he is the owner and upon which his father settled in March, 1855. Mr. Flynn was born on this farm, October 8. 1855, and has lived all of his sixty years of life on the place. During this time he has simply grown up with Atchison county, and his earliest recollections were of the vast stretches of prairie in Atchison county, which were awaiting the homesteaders and settlers who have since transformed the unpeopled wil- derness into a land of homes and plenty. His father was Jeremiah Flynn, who
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was born in County Cork, Ireland, and left his native land when a young man and immigrated to America, locating after a time in Kentucky, where he met Julia Sullivan, who was born in his own native county in Ireland. The ac- quaintance ripened into love and culminated in their marriage at Frankfort, Ky., September 24. 1854. In March, 1855, they came to Kansas and set- tled on a tract of part prairie and part timber in Mt. Pleasant township where both lived and died.
J. F. Flynn was the first born of ten children of Jeremiah and Julia Flynn. He received a common school education, supplemented with a course in bookkeeping at St. Patrick's common school, district No. 14, after which he settled down to farming the home place, coming into possession of the homestead by inheritance and purchase after his father's demise. For sev- eral years he was a successful fruit grower, but of late has devoted all of his time and activities to general farming.
Mr. Flynn was married March 31, 1880, to Mary Desmond, of Missouri, and to this union have been born five children : Kathrine, wife of John Beg- ley, of Kansas City, Kan .: John E., at home, assisting his father in the farm work; Joseph J., in Kansas City, Mo .; Julia and Mary, at home with their parents.
Mr. Flynn is a Democrat in national politics, but is inclined to be an in- dependent voter who votes for the best man who seems qualified for the office regardless of his political affiliations. He and all of his family are members of the Catholic church, which was the faith of his parents.
ERNEST C. HAZEL.
Industry and effort are generally rewarded. The successful man is us- ually found filling the nitch for which he was designed. It affords some satis- faction to chronicle the facts in the life of a self-made man who has won an enviable place in the commercial and manufacturing life in his home city. Ernest C. Hazel, vice-president and general manager of the Lockwood-Hazel Printing and Stationery Company, of Atchison, has achieved his position by industrious application of talents which have enabled him to rise above the mediocre and general station of the average man. Considerable credit is due him for having been a potent factor in building up the extensive business which his firm enjoys.
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The Lockwood-Hazel Printing and Stationery Company was established in 1912. It originated as the Trade Printing Company in 1903. This was a small concern but grew constantly until the business reached its present pro- portions. The business is housed in the handsome new Masonic Temple on Fifth and Kansas avenues, and occupies the first floor and basement of the building. The arrangements and equipment are the most modern which can be obtained and are especially adapted for a high grade quality of printing which this firm turns out. The greatest progress of the firm has been made since its organization as the Lockwood-Hazel Co., in 1912. The firm is composed of C. A. Lockwood, president and treasurer, and E. C. Hazel, sec- retary and general manager. The firm manufactures blank books and does general printing of the highest grade. The line of printing ineludes county and bank supplies, loose leaf systems, and embossed stationery. They supply leading banks with their outfits and deal extensively in wood and steel office furniture and equipments, and also vault accessories. C. A. Rowe is manager of the sales department which employs three traveling salesmen and the firm conducts a large mail order business in eight states. So excellent is the product turned out and so fair is the treatment accorded a patron that a first order supplied by this enterprising establishment leads to constant repetitions from the purchaser when in need of supplies of the character furnished.
Ernest C. Hazel was born March 30, 1875 in Newman, Ill. His parents were Thomas and Lydia (Kinney) Hazel, natives of Virginia and Ohio, respectively. Thomas Hazel was born in Page county, Virginia, a son of Richard and Elizabeth Hazel. He was a veteran of the Union army. and served his country faithfully during the Civil war in Company E, of the Twelfth regiment, Illinois infantry. He served for two years under General Grant and was under General Sherman's command for two years and six months. His first engagements were at Ft. Henry and Ft. Donelson. He fought in the battles of the Wilderness, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Siege of Vicksburg, and was with Sherman on his victorious march from At- lanta to the sea. He enlisted at Springfield, Ill., at the first call for volun- teers and served until the end of the war. To the end of his days he was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. A brother, John, also fought in the Union army and like many other southern families it was a house divided against itself and three brothers, Richard, Benjamin and William. fought on the side of the confederacy. Lydia Hazel was born in Muskingum county. Ohio, and was the daughter of Thomas C. and Levina Kinney.
In 1876 the family emigrated from Newman, Ill., and settled on a farm near Pawnee Roek, Kan., which the father had homesteaded. After spend-
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ing some years in developing the farm Thomas Hazel removed to Missouri. from where he came to Atchison in the year 1888. Here he lived a retired life, dying November 19. 1904. at the age of sixty-seven years. Mrs. Lydia Hazel resides with her daughter in Leavenworth, Kan. The Hazels are descendants from a fine old Virginian family and their ancestry traces back to the colonial days.
To Lydia and Thomas Hazel were born six children, as follows: Mrs. Elnora Allen, of Atchison ; Mrs. Ida Stucker, of Leavenworth ; Marion Hazel, of Leavenworth ; Ernest C. Hazel, of Atchison. Two children died in infancy.
Ernest C. Hazel was educated in the public schools of Atchison and learned the trade of bookbinding with Mr. Caldwell, beginning at the age of fourteen years. After serving an apprenticeship of three years, he was em- ployed by the Haskell Show Printing Company. This concern was succeeded by the Home Printing Company, and he was employed by them until 1901. For a period of two years he was a traveling salesman for the Western Paper Company. In 1903 he entered the employ of the Trade Printing Company. which was succeeded by the present firm in 1912. He purchased an interest in the firm in 1908
The married life of Mr. Hazel has been a happy one, and has been in keeping with his success in the business world. He was married March 30, 1897. to Mary Elizabeth Semple, of Atchison, a daughter of Andrew and Jen- nie Semple, both of whom were natives of Glasgow, Scotland. Andrew Semple was one of the pioneer contractors of Atchison. His last contract was the Atchison county court house. Mr. Semple is deceased and his widow still resides in Atchison.
To Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hazel have been born five children, namely : Ernest C., Jr., seventeen years of age, and a student of Midland College ; Rob- ert R., fourteen years of age, and also a student at Midland College ; Con- stance Marie, who died in infancy ; Kenneth C., nine years of age, a pupil in the public schools, and Neola Christine, aged five years.
Mr. Hazel finds time in the midst of his busy life to give considerable at- tention to civil and social affairs and is an active member of the Christian church of Atchison, in which thriving religious institution he and his wife are warmly appreciated for their good qualities. He is a Republican in poli- tics, and is fraternally affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and the Fraternal Aid Union, and also the United Commercial Travelers. Pronounced ability, combined with an engaging personality, have won him this high place in his home city.
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ALEXANDER H. CALVERT.
Alexander H. Calvert, lumber and grain dealer. Mistotah, Kan., was born on his father's farm in Platte county. Missouri. Les a son of Warren Calvert, a native of Kentucky, whose ancestors were among the cir- liest settlers in America. It is a matter of tradition that he was a descendant of the original Lord Baltimore, or Cecil Calvert, who founded the State of Maryland, in the seventeenth century. The father of Warren Calvert was a pioneer settler in Kentucky and was the owner of a large plantation. War- ren Calvert was born in 1815 and died in 1875. With his wife, Lucy Calvert, he migrated from Kentucky, accompanied by his retinue of slaves, to form a part of the Kentucky colony which settled Platte county, Missouri, in 1835. He was one of the original settlers in Platte county, and operated a large tract of land. He and his wife, Lucy, reared a family of nine children, namely : Presley Hawkins, a retired farmer of Muscotah ; James Harvey, de- ceased banker of Muscotah, who was a soldier in the Confederate army : Mrs. Anne May Buford, deceased; John Hawkins, who died on his farm near Ar- rington in 1910; Ambrose Owens, living in California, near Los Angeles ; Mrs. Ella (Burt) Jackson, died in 1903.
A. H. Calvert came to Kansas in the spring of 1878 and settled on a farm south of Muscotah in Atchison county. Three brothers came at this time, Presley H., James H. and himself. For a number of years Mr. Calvert rented land in Kapioma township and then purchased the farm of 220 acres. which he owns. He rented land for over fifteen years and then began to buy land. His first farm of 135 acres was purchased in 1903, and he has continued to invest heavily in farm lands in the vicinity of Muscotah until he is now the owner of 700 acres, besides a small tract in Leavenworth county, Kansas.
Mr. Calvert resided on his farm until 1897 and then removed to Musco- tah where he engaged in the lumber business under the firm name of Calvert & Sharp. This partnership continued until 1902 when he purchased his partner's interest in the business, which he has since operated. In November of 1905 he formed a partnership with M. E. Bevin, of Muscotah, and they purchased the grain elevator and engaged in the buying and shipping of grain. This firm also does an extensive live stock business, buying and ship- ping several carloads of live stock during each year. In addition to his exten- sive business affairs, Mr. Calvert is a stockholder in the Muscotah State Bank.
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His first marriage was with Miss Nora Rice in 1881. Two children (twins) were born of this union, namely : Ella, wife of Will Warren, of Mus- cotah, who served for seventeen years as assistant cashier of the Muscotah State Bank; Alma, a highly educated lady who studied in the Camden Point Young Ladies' Seminary, the Emporia Normal College, and received her degree of Bachelor of Arts from Washburn College, at Topeka, now a teacher of mathematics in the Atchison city high school. The mother of these children was a daughter of D. Rice, a native of Illinois, and a pioneer settler of Atchison county. She died in 1883, at the age of twenty-six years. In 1889 Mr. Calvert was united in marriage with Miss Hattie Burt, of Platte county, Missouri, a daughter of John Burt, who came from Indiana to Platte county. Three children have been born to this marriage: George, conduct- ing a garage at Effingham, Kan; Marguerite, aged twenty-one years, a teacher, at present studying in Washburn College; Charles Cecil, aged fif- teen years, a student in the Atchison County High School.
Mr. Calvert is an old-line Democrat and takes considerable interest in local and county political matters. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen and the Knights and Ladies of Security. A man of good education and at- tainments, he has succeeded in making his own way in the world and has risen from comparative poverty to become one of the substantial and best known citizens of the county.
JOHN STODDARD.
John Stoddard, a late resident of Muscotah, was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, in 1833, and departed this life February 18, 1901. He was the son of Robert and Margaret (Jordan) Stoddard. On the Stoddard side of the family the lineage is Scotch-Irish. John Stoddard grew to young manhood on the Pennsylvania farm, and received a good common school edu- cation in his youth. When twenty years of age, fired by the stories of the riches being obtained in the gold fields of California, he boarded a vessel in New York harbor. It carried him to Aspenwall, on the east coast of the Isthmus, which he crossed on mule back. He then boarded the vessel, "Golden Rule," which carried him to San Francisco, Cal., from which city he journeyed to Sacramento, where he equipped himself with a prospecting outfit, and for ten years followed the trail of the elusive metal. He spent this time in various mining campaigns and prospecting for gold. He returned home by re-tracing the same route which he had traveled on his way to Cali-
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fornia, and arrived in Pennsylvania, not rich, but with considerable gold in his possession, and the remembrances of a wonderful experience.
Soon after his return to his Pennsylvania home he removed to Iowa and purchased a farm, and was married there in 1869, after which he lived five years on his first farm in Iowa, and then moved to another farm, on which he resided for seven years. In 1881 he came to Muscotah, Kan., and invested in 320 acres of land near that city. Mr. Stoddard looked after his farming interests and lived a retired life while in Muscotah, and died there in 1901. Mr. Stoddard was married October 26, 1869, to Miss Martha Piggott, a native of Harrison county. Ohio, and a daughter of Israel and Liddie (Good- win) Piggott, the former a native of Belmont county. Ohio, and the latter a native of Westchester. Pa. The Piggott family originally came from Virginia, where the founder of the family in America settled in early colonial days. Israel P. was an early settler in Iowa. To Mr. and Mrs. Stoddard were born four children : Grace, the wife of Dr. J. O. Ward, Hor- ton, Kan .: Guy, a railway mail clerk, Los Angeles, Cal .; Alice V., the wife of J. C. Thurman, Los Angeles, Cal. ; Eva, wife of Carl Young. of Kansas City. Guy Stoddard, the son, who is located at Los Angeles, Cal., is a bright young man of more than ordinary ability. After completing the course of study in the public schools of Muscotah, he graduated from the Atchison County High School at Effingham. Later, he attended college for a while. After completing his education he became the owner and editor of the Mus- cotah Record. The newspaper gained a wide prestige and was prosperous. .After his marriage to Miss Pearl Knox, of Muscotah, he and his wife re- moved to Los Angeles, where he became a member of the reportorial staff of the Los Angeles Times. He later entered the United States railway mail service at Los Angeles. John Stoddard, the subject of this review, was a Democrat during the latter years of his life, and served two terms as mayor of Muscotah. Mrs. Stoddard is a member of the Congregational church of Muscotah, and spends a portion of her time each year in California.
AARON B. EVANS.
Aaron B. Evans, pioneer auctioneer and livery proprietor, of Muscotah, Atchison county, was born April 16, 1857, in Union county, Tennessee. He was a son of George W. and Orlena (Wolfenbarger) Evans. His mother was a native of Granger county, Tennessee, and was of German extraction.
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George W. Evans, the father, was the owner of a large farm on the south side of Clinch river, in Union county, Tennessee, just opposite the old home of the Vansell family. A. B. Evans and M. C. Vansell, of Grasshopper town- ship, were boys and play-mates together in Tennessee, and are first cousins. Like most boys living in the South, during that period, and in the time of the Civil war, their early education was sadly neglected. In fact, during the war the school system of Tennessee was entirely destroyed. When Aaron B. Evans was twenty years of age he left home and came direct to Kansas. He had no means wherewith to pay his transportation, and borrowed sufficient money from a neighbor to pay his railroad fare to Atchison. When he arrived at Atchison he had no money with which to pay for a meal or hotel accommodation. He and M. C. Vansell, who accompanied him on the trip, walked from Atchison to Kennekuk, where they stopped at the home of their uncle, M. C. Willis, for a few days.
Mr. Evans' first employment in Kansas was on the farm of Dave Moore, located three and one-half miles northeast of Kennekuk, in Atchison county. He worked for various farmers in the county until he saved sufficient money to buy his first farm. For two years previous to his marriage, in 1881, he was in the employ of George Storch, who at that time was engaged in the general mercantile business at Muscotah, Kan. In 1881 Mr. Evans moved to a farm three miles northeast of Kennekuk, where he resided for three years, and was very successful in his farming operations. He then bought ninety-six acres of land near Kennekuk, which he cultivated for two years, when he sold it at a good profit. After selling his first farm he moved to a rented farm west of Muscotah, which he operated for one year, and in- vested in partnership with M. C. Vansell, and divided the land in a quarter section .of raw prairie land, three miles northwest of Muscotah. He erected improvements on this farm and resided upon it for eighteen years. He sold his farm in 1901, and in May of the same year invested in a livery barn, and also entered upon his career of auctioneer, which he has followed since that time with considerable success. Mr. Evans also maintains a breeding stable. for the equipment of which he went to Lexington, Ky., in 1906 and pur- chased the best jack to be had in the Lexington market, and shipped him to Muscotah. This animal is the first high class jack ever brought to this sec- tion of Kansas. During this same year Mr. Evans also bought a pure bred black Percheron stallion, which he lost during the first year of his owner- ship. At the present time the Evans barn stands two high class jacks and one pure bred grey Percheron stallion.
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On January 27, 1881, Mr. Evans was united in marriage With Recy Tannyhill, who was born in Marion county, Ohio, a daughter of William and Nancy Tannyhill, both of whom were natives of the Buckeye State, and emi- grated to Kansas when Mrs. Evans was but eight years of age, and set- tled on a farm in Grasshopper township, Atchison county. Mr. and Mrs. Evans are the parents of seven children : Elizabeth, the wife of J. L. Morgan, St. Joseph, Mo .; William George, a farmer, Grasshopper township; Fred, who is associated with his father in the livery business; Orlena, the wife of Bert Annis, Chicago, Ill .; Nannie, living in Des Moines, Iowa; Nora. St. Joseph, Mo., and Frank, at home.
Mr. and Mrs. Evans are members of the Christian Advent church of Muscotah. He is a stanch and true Republican of the uncompromising variety, and has been one of the political leaders of his section of Atchison county for many years, serving as delegate several times to the Republican county conventions. He has always been an advocate of educational advance- ment, and has offered his children every opportunity to acquire a good com- mon school education. He was one of the pioneers in the auctioneering pro- fession in Atchison county, and was the second man to enter the business of crying sales.
RALPH A. ALLISON.
Ralph A. Allison, the capable, efficient and obliging cashier of the Muscotah State Bank, was born and reared in the town where he resides. He was born July 1, 1889, at Muscotah, Kan., a son of Webster C. and Irene ( Alexander) Allison, the former a native of Illinois, and the latter of Wisconsin. Webster C. Allison was born in 1861 on his father's farm in Illinois, and was the son of John Allison, who was born and reared in Penn- sylvania, and immigrated to Illinois in the pioneer days of that State. Webster C. Allison attended the district schools of his native State, and assisted his father on the home farm until he was eighteen years of age. He then came to Kansas, where his first employment was on a farm west of Muscotah, owned and operated by A. B. Harvey. He worked for Mr. Harvey for one year, and then went to Jackson county, Kan., where he broke up and de- veloped a tract of prairie land which he purchased. He improved his farm and cultivated it with profit until 1888, when he came to Muscotah and established a hardware store which he conducted successfully for twenty-
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five years. In 1913 Mr. Allison disposed of his interests in Muscotah, and removed to Horton, Kan., where he is now conducting a hardware and im- plement business.
To Webster C. and Irene Allison were born the following children : Lola, wife of Luther Cortelyou, assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Parsons, Kan .; Minnie, wife of Charles Hail, an oil operator, LeRoy, Kan .: Jennie, wife of William McClennon, Owasa, Iowa: Ralph A., with whom this review is directly concerned. Ralph A. received his primary edu- cation in the public schools of Muscotal, after which he completed a course in the Atchison County High School at Effingham, from which institution he graduated in 1907. For one year following his graduation he served as stenographer for a wholesale fruit company, and then entered his father's hardware store in Muscotah, where he remained until the stock was sold in 1913. In 1914 he became manager of the Farmers Elevator Company of Muscotah. He became cashier of the Muscotah State Bank July 1, 1914, and is filling this responsible position to the satisfaction of the bank patrons, and in a manner which reflects credit upon himself and the bank's officials and stockholders. Mr. Allison was married in April, 1912, to Miss Ella Ellson, who was born in Muscotah, a daughter of Charles Ellson, proprietor of the local meat market. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Allison are the parents of one daughter, Priscilla, born April 17, 1913.
Mr. Allison is a Republican in politics, and is a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal church. He is affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and the Modern Woodmen of America.
FRED SUTTER.
Fred Sutter, president of the Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Effingham, is a native son of Atchison county and prominently identified with the affairs of his county. Mr. Sutter is rightly considered as one of the real leaders of the county, and it can be said of him that he has met with unusual success in anything which he has undertaken. To him and his in- fluence, more than any other individual, the farmers of the county are in- debted for the inauguration of a skilled county farm expert. Kindred things of this character in behalf of the welfare of the county have been Mr. Sutter's hobby for several years past.
mrs. Stred Sutter.
Fred Sulter
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Fred Sutter was born July 20, 1869, on a pioneer farm in Walnut township, and is a son of Fred Sutter, who was born in Bath, Germany, in 1827, and immigrated to America about 1844, and died in Atchison county in September of 1887. Fred Sutter, Sr., landed at New York City and made his way from there to St. Louis, Mo., where he married Fredericka Miller, who was born at Bath, Germany, September 23, 1837. She died in Atchison county September 10, 1914. The elder Sutter had learned the trade of car- penter in his youth and he plied his trade in St. Louis until 1857, when he came up the Missouri river by steamer to old Sumner, then in the heyday of its brief glory and prosperity. He found plenty to occupy his talents at Sum- ner and helped to build a great many of the first houses there. It might be well to add here, however, that the first home of the family in Kansas was at old Port William, where one or two of the children were born. From Port
Fred Sutter's Residence.
William the family removed to Sumner, and in the course of time Fred Sutter. Sr., made his home on a farm in the northwestern part of Walnut township. near the Mt. Pleasant and Walnut line. The family lived there until the spring of 188c, during which time he worked at his trade. In 188- he moved to Benton township, and for the first seven years of his residence there he rented the A. G. Otis farm, about two miles west of Effingham and then purchased the farm. The next investment was made by his sons in the Os- born tract of 480 acres of school land. Two years after buying this an addi- tional quarter section was added, making 640 acres in all, which was owned by this enterprising family. During all these years in which he was accumu- 48
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