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was admitted to the bar. He began the prac- tice of his profession at Columbus, being asso- ciated with C. A. McNeill for about two years, and was then put forward as the Populist candi- date for county attorney. His opponent was Mr. McNeill, and their partnership was dis- solved when they were nominated. Mr. Mc- Neill was elected to the office. From 1896 to 1898 Mr. Dunbar was in partnership with W. J. Moore. After practicing alone with much success for two years, he again became a candi- date for county attorney. He was elected in 1900 on the Fusion ticket, and after serving through 1901 and 1902, refused a nomination for further, honors. He has well located offices in the Opera House Block. His reputation is that of an able advocate and wise counsellor.
On April 23. 1893. Mr. Dunbar was mar- ried. in the Indian Territory, to Dradie Mc- Phail, originally from Tennessee, and they have three children,-Noel, Clara E. and J. Owen.
Politically, Mr. Dunbar is in sympathy with the Populist party, and is one of its influential leaders. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias of Columbus, and the A. H. T. A. In religions views he is liberal, but was reared in the Adventist Church. His wife is a Methodist.
J WILBUR LOGAN, of the Logan Ab- stract & Loan Company, a leading loan, real estate, abstract and insur- ance institution of Columbus, was born in Washington County, Illinois, in 1863, and is a son of the late A. A. and Lucinda (Brakebill) Logan.
The parents of Mr. Logan removed in 1866 to Labette County, Kansas, where the father bought a farm in the vicinity of Oswego, and there both parents died in 1873, aged 45 and 41 years, respectively. They had six children, of whom but the subject of this sketch and two
sisters, who reside at Wichita, Kansas, are the only survivors.
Mr. Logan attended the public schools, and spent three years in the Fort Scott Normal School, having borrowed funds in order to com- plete his education. When about 19 years of age he served an apprenticeship in a grocery store at Fort Scott, and later engaged in the grocery business at Wichita, where he located in 1887. In 1890 he came to Columbus and en- gaged in the abstract, loan and real estate busi- ness, in which he has met with the greatest suc- cess, his profits enabling him first to clear off a previous indebtedness of $1,000, and then to invest in land which has proven rich in gas and oil. In 1903 the Logan Abstract & Loan Com- pany was formed, the partners being J. Wilbur Logan and Commodore F. Cool. In 1900 Mr. Logan built the structure in which this business is now located,-a commodious building front- ing on Maple avenue. It is partly occupied by a grocery store and the remainder is given up to offices. all of which have been fitted up in modern style. Mr. Logan has prospered greatly since establishing himself at Columbus, and must be reckoned with the substantial men of Cherokee County.
Mr. Logan owns 160 acres near Chanute, in the celebrated oil and gas region, and is presi- dent of the Inter-State Mineral. Oil & Gas Company, of Columbus and Chanute, Kansas. The stock of this company is owned mainly by Columbus men. The company was organized February 14, 1904, and was incorporated under the laws of Arizona, with a capital of $500,000. divided into 500,000 shares, at a par value of $I cach.
The officers of the Inter-State Mineral, Oil & Gas Company are: J. Wilbur Logan, presi- dent ; George W. Rains. a mine operator at Galena, vice-president; J. M. McNay, of Co- lumbus, secretary and general manager ; W. M. Barbee, of Chanute, Kansas, treasurer; A. A.
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Goddard, ex-attorney general of Kansas and a prominent banker of Topeka, attorney; and J. WV. Clayton, of Wichita, director. The land which this company controls, under lease from Mr. Logan, the owner, is situated in the heart of what is known as the "west field," near Cha- nute. Every indication points to the immediate success of this enterprise, the field being rich and the capital and brains of its promoters being plentiful.
Mr. Logan married May Nichols, who was born in Illinois and accompanied her parents to Labette County, Kansas, in the early "sev- enties." They have five children, namely : John, born in Wichita, a graduate of the city schools; Combs; Carmin; Carl; and a baby girl. All were born at Columbus. The family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Politically, Mr. Logan is a Republican. He has served six years as a member of the Board of Education and has taken a public spirited interest in civic affairs. Fraternally, he belongs to the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America, Anti-Horse Thief Asso- ciation and the Sons and Daughters of Justice.
OHN T. FUDGE, senior member of the milling firm of Fudge & Thomas, of Columbus, Kansas, whose portrait is shown on the opposite page, may justly claim to be one of the pioneer settlers of this region, having first located here in 1870. Mr. Fudge was born March 30, 1837, near Abingdon, Virginia, and is a son of Jacob and Jane (See) Fudge.
Jacob Fudge and his wife were born in Washington County, Virginia. The father lived there until he reached the age of 40 years, when he moved to Iowa. He was engaged in farming throughout his active life, and died in Nebraska, aged 87 years. His wife died in
Iowa, aged 57 years. Of their five children, John T. is the eldest, the others being James, of Iowa; Elizabeth, deceased; Mrs. Eliza Stinson, of Montana; and Mrs. Ella Markey, of Iowa.
John T. Fudge was 10 years old when his parents moved to Jasper County, Iowa, and he first gazed on the beautiful rolling prairies of the West. He continued to assist on the home farm until he was 20 years of age, and then decided to learn the milling business. He re- mained four years with Miller Dix, and then determined to locate in Kansas. He conveyed his family and household possessions with a single team, a journey which probably none of the family will ever forget. He secured work with Macon, Krell & Crowell, at Columbus, where there were half a dozen houses, and con- tinued as miller in that mill, under several managements, until 1875. He then purchased a sawmill three miles above Oswego. This he operated for two years, when he sold it and went to Carthage, Missouri, where he was en- gaged in milling for a year. After about four years, during which he worked for different parties, he went to Smithfield, Missouri, where conducted a inill two years for a Mr. Smith. and then removed to Columbus. After being in the employ of W. B. Eddy for a short time, he purchased a mill and operated it alone until he admitted his son-in-law, W. H. Thomas, into partnership; the firm name now is Fudge & Thomas. This firm now owns the largest and best equipped mill in the county, and the largest elevator. Its members lave a fine out- look, and have been in the business so long that they have the full confidence of the public in the excellent quality of their output.
In 1857 Mr. Fudge was married, in Iowa, to Mary K. Henderson, who was born June 30, 1842, and is a daughter of William and Martha (Patterson) Henderson, who were born in Ohio. The only daughter of this mar-
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riage, Martha Jane, married W. H. Thomas, and they have three children,-Esther, Eugene and Robert. Mr. Fudge is a Presbyterian, and one of the trustees of the church at Columbus. Politically, he is an active member of the Dem- ocratic party, and still holds his position on the Democratic County Central Committee, as he has done for the past 10 years.
Mr. Fudge is a self-made man, and his suc- cess is but another example of the value of industry, sobriety and sterling honesty. His ample fortune has been made legitimately, but not easily, and it is very probable that the bit of advice he would give a seeker after his secret would be, "find out what you are best fitted for, and then keep right at it."
E LMORE ROBERT PATTYSON, register of deeds for Cherokee County, and one of the valued resi- dents of Columbus, was born June 13, 1850, in Cattaraugus County, New York, and is a son of Philonas and Orilla ( Markham) Pattyson.
Philonas Pattyson died at Columbus, Kan- sas, March 21, 1904, aged SI years, two months and 15 days. His wife passed away in 1887, aged 62 years. Both were natives of Allegany County, New York. During his earlier years Philonas Pattyson had been a teacher, and through his entire life he was more or less interested in educational matters, serv- ing in the office of the superintendent of pub- lic instruction in New York, and during 1869 and 1870 he was a member of the board of examiners for teachers in Cherokee County. For some years he was successfully engaged in the oil business in Pennsylvania. In October, 1867, he came to Kansas to establish a perma- nent home. He bought a "treaty-right" farm in Pleasant View township, and resided upon it
until within a year of his death. His family consisted of three sons: Elmore Robert; El- bridge W., who died in 1859, aged 15 months ; and Maynard I., born April 26, 1846, who died November 15, 1864.
The subject of this sketch was 17 years old when he accompanied his parents to Cherokee County, Kansas, and followed farming and school teaching after completing his education. He has since been a continuous resident of the county, and during the past 20 years has been in the abstract business, and much of the time connected with the office of register of deeds. For four years he was a resident of Scammon. employed as bookkeeper, and interested in the coal mines there. In November, 1902, he was elected register of deeds by the Republican party, of which he has been a very active member for years. His long connection with this office as deputy made him so intimately acquainted with the demands of the situation that scarcely any one could be found better qualified.
On June 20, 1868, Mr. Pattyson married Addie M. Scott, of Pleasant View township. Cherokee County, Kansas, formerly of New York. They have four children, namely : May. Maynard A., Arthur E., and Roscoe H. May, born May 27, 1869, is the wife of George H. Hurst; she has two children,-Robert and Addie,-and resides at Scammon, where Mr. Hurst is interested in the mines. Maynard A., born November 15, 1871, resides at Scammon, where he is interested in mining and is also proprietor of the "Racket" store; he married Agnes Gore and has a daughter, Irene, aged three years. Arthur E., deputy register of deeds in his father's office, was born September 23, 1879, and resides at home. Roscoe H., born June 27, 1886, is a student in the Colum- bus schools.
Mr. Pattyson's fraternal associations in- clude Masonry in its higher branches,-the Blue Lodge and Royal Arch Chapters at
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Columbus; Galena Commandery, No. 46, Knights Templar, and 32d degree Scottish Rite, Fort Scott Consistory, Wichita Council, and Shrine at Leavenworth. He is also a men- ber of the Odd Fellows Lodge and Encamp- ment at Columbus ; the Knights of Pythias, of Columbus; and the Sons and Daughters of Justice, also of Columbus. Mr. Pattyson is now president of the Old Settlers' Association of Cherokee County, after serving some years as its secretary. In religious life he is a Baptist.
A RCENITH F. WALKER, one of the prominent retired farmers of Neosho township, Cherokee County, who owns a well improved farm of 80 acres in section 12, township 34, range 22, was born in Madison County, Illinois, January 11. 1845, and is a son of Elijalı and Charity (Dove) Walker.
The father of our subject was a farmer in Illinois for, a number of years. During the gold excitement in California, in 1850, he made the overland trip to the mining regions, but never returned, his death taking place there when our subject was six years old. The mother of Arcenith F. Walker was born in Virginia, went then to Tennessee and from there to Illinois, and her death took place at Colum- bus, Kansas, when in her 74th year. The children of Elijah and Charity (Dove) Walker were: Mrs. Mary Morrisey, of Illinois; Cleo- patra, of California; John, of Wichita, Kan- sas; Arcenith F., of this sketch; Mrs. Lucetta Burke, of Columbus; and Mrs. Zanetta Ells- worth, of Columbus.
Mr. Walker remained on the home farm in Illinois until he was 16 years of age and then enlisted for service in the Civil War, one of the youngest soldiers to offer his loyal services to his country at that unhappy time. He entered
Company K, roth Reg., Illinois Vol. Inf., under Col. James D. Morgan, served three years and received an honorable discharge on August 24, 1864. He participated in many severe battles and served in the Atlanta cam- paign and in the Army of the Cumberland un- der General Thomas.
After his return from the army, Mr. Walker resumed farming in Madison County. Illinois, and after a short residence in Mis- souri and Michigan, came in 1867 to Chero- kee County, Kansas, driving the whole dis- tance. Here he secured 160 acres of wild land on which he erected a box house 12 by 14 feet in dimensions and lived there until he had broken 50 acres, when he sold the property to advantage and removed to his present farm in Neosho township. As there was no house here, the family camped out until one was built. Mr. Walker worked very hard on this place, which shows the results in its good improvements. fine cultivation and general air of comfort and thrift. With his own hands he set out the beautiful walnut grove and made all the other improvements which converted it into a com- fortable home. This property he now rents, having retired from active farming operations.
On November 15, 1864, Mr. Walker was married to Lucinda A. LeGrand, who was born in St. Clair County, Illinois, June 19, 1847. and they had nine children: John, of Lyon township; Mrs. Jennie Newton, deceased : E:1- ward, of Lola township; William, of Lyon township; Stephen L., an attorney at Colum- bus, who is represented in this volume; Daniel A., a dentist at McCune, Crawford County : Frederick A., an attorney at Weir City; Rich- ard, a student in the County High School ; and Myrtle, who died at the age of one and a half years.
Politically Mr. Walker is a Republican. He is a valued member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is one of the men of whom their
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fellow citizens speak with respect and esteem. While his life in this section has been one of intich toil, he has accumulated a competency which permits him, while little past middle life, to enjoy its fruits.
® OBERT ALEXANDER LONG, a prominent figure in the humber circles of the West, is an esteemed resident of Kansas City, Missouri, to which city he removed from Columbus, Cherokee County, Kansas, when the general offices of The Long-Bell Lumber Company, of which he is president, were moved from Columbus to Kansas City. He was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, in 1850. That was the beginning of a life which has grown into strength, uni- formly but surely, until the man is a marvel to those who have watched him through the successive stages of his progress. Endowed by nature with a noble heart and a keen insight into the relation of his environment, he has passed in the achievement of his purposes from point to point so quietly and so unobservedly as to excite but little notice outside of the business circles in which he has moved.
Thirty years ago Mr. Long came to Kansas, a young man possessing no capital but his indomitable courage, his unvarying uprightness of purpose and his disposition always kindly to consider the rights and interests of others. He began as a retail lumber merchant, in a very humble and always unpretentious way, in the town of Columbus, then a mere village. Through industry and fair dealing he rose gradually in the business and early brought about the necessity for its enlargement. It was in these years that he laid the foundation for one of the greatest enterprises that the business community of the whole country now knows. The Long-Bell Lumber Company, of which
Mr. Long is the president, had its beginning 29 years ago in the town of Columbus, where the headquarters were located until about 13 years ago, when the general offices were moved to Kansas City, Missouri, on account of the greatly enlarged business. The company now owns property valued as follows: Timber lands. $2,353,529.82 ; coal lands, $236,232.47 ; milling plants, $786.777.65 ; coal mining plants, $101,821.22; retail yard plants, $147,827.34; railway equipments, $490.498.00; lumber, $964,010.95; general merchandise stores, $102,943.24 ; houses and improvements, $204,- 443.21 ; accounts receivable, $937,010.41 : cash and sundry investments, $521, 148.46, all ag- gregating $6,845,242.77. The average daily sales of the company amount to $23,000.75; and the total sales for the year 1903 were $7,199,237.25. Besides being president of The Long-Bell Lumber Company, Mr. Long is president of The Rapides Lumber Company, of Woodworth, Louisiana: The King-Ryder Lumber Company, of Bonami, Louisiana ; The Hudson River Company, of DeRidder, Louis- iana : The Globe Lumber Company, of Yellow Pine, Louisiana; The Minnetonka Lumber Company ; The Fidelity Land & Improvement Company, and the Fidelity Fuel Company, as also of the Long-Bell railway system. He is as well a large stockholder, in The Weed Lumber Company, of Weed, California, and also owns large interests in coal lands in Cherokee County, Kansas.
Mr. Long, although a man whose business takes almost his entire attention, ever finds time to consider the appeals of the poor and the needy ; he is identified in many efforts to better the moral and religious, as well as the physical. conditions of those about him. He has given largely to the Christian Church, of which he is an active member. Mr. Long's family consists of himself, his wife and two grown daughters. They live on Independence avenue, Kansas
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City, Missouri, where they have one of the most comfortable homes in the city.
The sketch of Mr. Long's character and achievements is given here for the reason that he was so long and so earnestly identified with the city of Columbus and Cherokee County. It is felt by the editor that a history of the county, if Mr. Long were not given prominent mention, would be, to the extent of the omis- sion, neglectful of much that entered into the material and moral upbuilding of the com- munity ; and the fitness of the sketch is further considered from the fact that Mr. Long is yet largely interested in the county and always feels concerned for the welfare of the people.
S. BOWMAN. The subject of this sketch was born in McDonough County, Illinois, August 6, 1864. Both his parents died before lie was four years old. When he grew to proper age, he attended the country school two or three months in the winter season of each year, and worked on a farm the rest of the time. At the age of 16, the boy started out into the world, wholly dependent upon his own exertions for a living. He had no money and only about a sixth-grade education, but he went to work on a farm, saved up his meager earnings and went to school at Champaign, Illinois. After being there a year, he found it necessary to go back to the farm to earn money enough to enable him to attend the school through another yearly term. He did so, and at the end of the term he secured a teacher's certificate. After that he taught school and attended school, alternately.
Mr. Bowman came to Kansas in 1884, and the following year to Cherokee County, where he has been connected with educational work ever since, with one or two brief intervals. He taught a number of terms in the country dis-
tricts, the first being in District No. 84. From the country schools he went to the city schools of Galena, then to Lowell, and afterward to Baxter Springs. He also taught in the schools at Weir City; and when the Cherokee County High School was established, in 1900, the board of trustees elected him to take charge of it. The building was not yet completed. He organ- ized the school in one of the buildings of the city schools of Columbus, which was used for about three months, when the school was moved into the County High School Building. He has continued as the principal of the County High - School ever since it was first opened, and at the last meeting of the board he was elected for the coming year.
Considering the hardships through which he passed in childhood and the struggles he had during his early manhood, and that he se- cured his education wholly through his own efforts, Mr. Bowman may be considered a self-made man. He overcame many obstacles which would have discouraged nearly any one of a less determined nature.
In 1886 Mr. Bowman was married to Dora E. Adams, daughter of A. H. Adams, of Cher- okee County.
ENJAMIN SUIT ABBOTT, a coal operator and merchant at Weir City, B and one of the ex-mayors of the city. was born in 1855 in Indiana, and is son of Benjamin and Catherine (Suit) a Abbott.
The parents of Mr. Abbott were born in what is now West Virginia, the father in 1803. and the mother in 1813, and both died in In- diana, the former in 1865, and the latter in 1876. The subject of this sketch is the young- est of their four children, the only other sur- vivor being Virginia, who was born in Indiana, where she married Dr. T. W. Curry, and has
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one child, Idelle. Benjamin Abbott was a son of Benjamin Abbott, who was born in Scot- land, and was a son of Thomas Abbott. Both the grandfather and the great-grandfather of our subject were Presbyterian preachers and spent their lives in what is now West Virginia.
Benjamin Suit Abbott grew to manhood on a farm in Indiana, where he remained until 1877, when the home was broken up by the death of his mother, and he went to Arkansas. There he worked on a railroad until 1879, when he came to Columbus, Kansas. Here he was engaged in clerking for four years in a hard- ware store, and then went into a venture of his own. at McCune, Crawford County, under the firm name of Crewsen & Abbott. This con- tinued until 1886, when he settled at Weir City and embarked in the general mercantile busi- ness, giving his establishment the name of the "Blue Front." Here Mr. Abbott, through his energy and enterprise, prospered greatly for some years, in the meantime building a number of business houses and taking an active part in promoting the prosperity and good name of the city. In 1888 he formed the firm of Abbott & Crowe, hardware merchants. He later sold his interest in this business and in 1893 estab- lished a hardware store at Scammon, which he conducted until 1896, when he sold out there. Ile continued his general merchandise store in Weir City until 1903, when he disposed of his interest in that. He is one of the city's large and successful coal operators, a wholesale dealer and owns a number of coal shafts and a large amount of land through Cherokee township and the county, having fully 50 men in his employ.
In 1883 Mr. Abbott was married to Mary C. Crowe, who is a daughter of David Crowe, and they have two children: Nellie, born at McCune, Kansas ; and Vida, born at Weir City.
Mr. Abbott is a prominent politician of this section and has been honored by his party on numerous occasions. He has served in the City
Council, and has twice been mayor of Weir City. He is a member of the Knights of Py- thias and the Ancient Order of United Work- men, and has held official positions in both bodies. He holds a place among the represen- tative men of Weir City and Cherokee County.
G EORGE W. CANFIELD. The name which we are here permitted to pre- sent will probably be recognized by more people in Cherokee County than most others mentioned in this volume, owing to the fact that Mr. Canfield has been a resident of the county continuously since the year 1866. In that year he located on 160 acres in section 8, township 33. range 22, in Lola township, which now comprises a part of the splendid farm which he has developed from the wild prairie. Mr. Canfield is a New Yorker, having been born at Willetstown (now Willet), Cort- land County, December 8, 1842.
Mr. Canfield's parents removed to French Creek, Chautauqua County, New York, when he was two years of age, and there he passed the time until he attained his majority. At the age of 23 years he left home, and after spend- ing the winter of 1865 in Winnebago County, Illinois, came to Cherokee County, Kansas. He arrived in the county before the ratification of the treaty with the Indians and, of course, before there was any county organization. It is not easy at this date to realize the wild state of the County at that time, with Kansas City the nearest railroad point, and Fort Scott the nearest trading center. Wild game was abund- ant, Indians were all about, and the country was full of vicious white men, who had been members of guerrilla bands during the war.
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