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Mr. and Mrs. Mosse have three children: Justine, a student in Kan- sas University ; Marion and Ruth, both at home with their parents.
Mr. Mosse is a republican, a member of the Episcopal church and is a Mason, a Shriner and an Elk.
James G. White, a successful and capable farmer of Tonganoxie Township, is the owner of 160 acres of land. He was born near Kansas City, Missouri, September 15, 1867, the son of James W. and Anna (Mc- Gee) White.
James W. White was born in Clay County, Missouri, October 21, 1836, and when a small child moved with his parents to Platte County, Missouri, where they owned a farm of 220 acres of land three and one-half miles north of Parkville, Missouri. James W. White remained with his parents from 1840 to 1865 on this farm. At this time he enlisted in the Southern army and was wounded at the battle of Wilson Creek.
After the Civil War, James White and Anna McGee were married at Kansas City, Missouri. She was born in Westport, now a part of
MR. AND MRS. JAMES W. WHITE
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Kansas City, in 1841, the daughter of Allen and Miss Fry McGee. They were among the very earliest settlers of what is now Kansas City, Mis- souri. Their homestead was located where Thirty-fifth Street and Broad- way are now located. Milton McGee, a brother of Allen McGee, was the first mayor of Kansas City.
Mr. and Mrs. James W. White, after their marriage, purchased 105 acres of land in what is now Fifty-seventh to Fifty-ninth and Broadway in Kansas City. They were the parents of six children, as follows: Mary E., deceased; James, the subject of this sketch; Addie, Mrs. William Hawley, of Kansas City, Missouri; William A., of Olathe, Kansas; Eliza- beth, Mrs. Eugene Littrell, of Kansas City, Missouri; and one infant, deceased.
James W. White remained on this farm until 1908, when he sold the land and retired, moving to Kansas City. He died at Fifty-first and Wal- nut streets in 1911. His wife, Anna McGee, died on the farm in 1896 and they are both buried at Forest Hill Cemetery.
James G. White attended the public schools of Kansas City and the Commercial College. He remained with his parents until he was twenty- eight years of age, when he went to South America for two years. Upon his return he was married. His marriage to Della Spence, January 5, 1898, was solemnized at Kansas City, Missouri. She was born February 7, 1873 in Pettis County, Missouri, the daughter of Milton and Fannie (Wifley) Spence.
Milton Spence was a native of North Carolina and came to Greene County, Missouri, when a lad. He followed general farming and stock raising and during the Civil War was allied with the Confederate forces. He was a second lieutenant. During the war he was wounded at the battle of Pilot Knob and later served a term in the Federal Military Prison at Johnson Island. He died in Kansas City, Missouri in 1920. Fannie (Wifley) Spence was born in Nodaway County, Missouri, near Mary- ville. She was fifteen years old when she moved to Kansas City, and she is now deceased. Mrs. Della (Spence) White was the second child of seven children born to her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. G. James White are the parents of the following chil- dren: Francis, a teacher in the Eureka School District No. 45 in Tonga- noxie Township; James G., Jr., in the United States Navy; and Pauline, at home with parents.
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James White is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Tonganoxie and is a Democrat. He is one of the esteemed and successful farmers of Tonganoxie Township.
Frank W. Logan, a leading grain farmer of Leavenworth, Kansas, and member of a prominent pioneer family, was born in Kickapoo Town- ship on the farm where he now lives, February 23, 1876, the son of B. B. and Sarah A. (Rasdall) Logan, natives of Kentucky and Missouri. The father was born in 1848 and died in 1920. He came to Kansas with his parents when four years old. He was the son of Camblin and Matildia (Fields) Logan, who settled in Walnut Township, Atchison County, Kan- sas, where they pre-empted land, later moving to Kickapoo Township, Leavenworth County, where they bought the farm now owned by Frank W. Logan. They lived the remainder of their life on this farm, and reared a family of fifteen children. Camblin Logan was an active member of the Methodist Church, and was a democrat in politics.
B. B. Logan was the second oldest in the family and farmed all of his life, with the exception of a few years, when he engaged in grade con- tracting in Colorado. He farmed in Oklahoma, and traveled quite exten- sively for those days. Mrs. B. B. Logan was born in Platte County, Mis- souri, in 1848 and died in 1911. She and her husband were the parents of eight children, Frank W. Logan being their third child.
Frank W. Logan was educated in the district schools, and began farming about nineteen years ago. During that time he spent four years in Oklahoma and California. He returned to Kansas in 1915 and bought his present farm, which consists of 158 acres, on which he has made neces- sary improvements. He farms about 300 acres, specializing in raising grain, having 190 acres in wheat. In 1920, he raised 1,700 bushels of wheat. He is strictly a grain farmer, and uses tractors and all modern machinery for farm use. He is one of the most enterprising farmers of the county. In politics Mr. Logan is a democrat. He is a member of the Methodist Church; a charter member of the Farmer's Grange; and also a member of the Knights and Ladies of Security.
November 28, 1900, Mr. Logan was married to Myrtle Hundley, who was born in Liberty, Kansas, the daughter of J. C. and Josie (McDonald) Hundley. The Hundley family were among the early settlers of Leaven-
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worth County from Kentucky. J. C. Hundley is a farmer of Atchison County. .
Mr. and Mrs. Logan have eight children, all of whom are at home; they are as follows: Clyde, Clarence, Elmer, Roland, Geraldine, Francis, Woodrow and Mary.
William F. Sharpe, an enterprising farmer and breeder of Durham shorthorn cattle of Kickapoo Township, was born March 25, 1862, in the town of Kickapoo, Kansas, the son of George O. and Lydia (Smith) Sharpe, who were the parents of three children, as follows: Ella, the widow of Timothy O'Connell of Logan, New Mexico; George O., of Kickapoo Town- ship; and William F., who was the youngest of the three.
George Sharpe was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1812, and died in 1894. He was a millwright and constructed flour mills, working at this business in Virginia. In the spring of 1854, he came to Leavell- worth and operated the first saw mill in this section for Murphy C. Scruggs, sawing lumber for many of the buildings that now stand in Leavenworth. He also did carpentering work, and after a few years engaged in the mercantile business at Kickapoo Township, and at the time of his death was the oldest postmaster in the United States in point of service, having conducted the post office of that town before the Civil War until 1894. He always kept a diary, which is interesting to his fam- ily and friends. His wife was a native of Pennsylvania, and died in 1878 at the age of fifty-six years.
William Sharpe was reared in this township, and in 1878, he began working for the railroad in the track department, for the Missouri Pacific railroad out of Kansas City, Missouri. After his marriage in 1890, he moved to a farm in this township, his wife being an heir to the 105 acres of land, where they now live. All of this place is in cultivation, and Mr. Sharpe has been very successful in farming and stockraising. He made an exhibit of his cattle at the Leavenworth County Stock Show last year, and, although he did not win any prizes, his stock made an excellent showing.
In politics, Mr. Sharpe is a democrat, and has been justice of the peace of his township. He belongs to the Security of Benefit Association. May 12, 1890, Mr. Sharpe was married to Fannie Finley, who was born on their present farm March 16, 1862, the daughter of William and
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Sarah (McCullah) Finley, natives of South Carolina, who settled in Wes- ton, Missouri, about the year 1854, and in 1860 preempted the present farm owned by Mrs. Sharpe. This place was improved by Mr. and Mrs. Finley, and they lived here until their death. Mr. Sharpe has further im- proved the place, and has tilled most of the land, making it much more productive than formerly, and better to farm in wet seasons.
Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe have two children, Sadie and Walter, who are at home with them.
George Schweizer, deceased, was a well to do and leading farmer of Kickapoo Township for many years. He was born April 26, 1840, in Wurtemberg, Germany, and came to the United States with his parents, Melchior and Anna Marie Schweizer, in 1852. George Schweizer was the only child reared out of sixteen children born to his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Melchior Schweizer first went to Canada and later to Weston, Missouri, and in 1853 went to Leavenworth, Kansas, where Mr. Schweizer conducted the first bakery in that town. In those days there were no horses with which to deliver and Mr. Schweizer was forced to carry the bread around town in baskets. Melchior Schweizer bought a farm and in 1861 with his family moved to Kickapoo Township and im- proved this farm.
George Schweizer was reared and lived in this township until he died, July 12, 1911. He owned eighty acres of improved land and did general farming and stock raising, always keeping a good grade of stock. In 1860 George Schweizer with his neighbors moved an old house from Kickapoo, Kansas, with oxen to the site of the present home. An addi- tion was put on and it made nine rooms. This old house was burned in 1903. His father was the first farmer in this township to sow wheat. His neighbors laughed at him for planting wheat here, but this same ground has been producing wheat since 1869. Mr. Schweizer was treas- urer of school district number five for a number of years. In politics he was a Democrat; was a member of the Lutheran Church and of the Knights of Pythias Lodge.
May 12, 1869, Mr. Schweizer was married to Elizabeth C. Schott, who was born December 5, 1851, in Dayton, Ohio, the daughter of John and Anna Mary (Kaechlele) Schott, both natives of Wurtemburg, Germany. They were the parents of seven children. They left their native country
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in 1849 and came to Ohio, where John Schott engaged in blacksmithing until 1853, when he came to Leavenworth, Kansas. He returned in 1855 and brought his family to Kansas. They came by boat up the Missouri River, a long and tedious trip, taking them fifteen days to come from St. Louis to Leavenworth. The boat would get stuck on a sand barge and then all the passengers would have to get out and walk. John Schott became a politician after he came to Leavenworth, and was the first city marshal and later was United States marshal. While he was a policeman Mayor Anthony was the mayor of Leavenworth. Mr. Schott was born May 2, 1836, and died in 1894, and his wife, who was born April 7, 1834, died in 1889.
To George Schweizer and wife were born the following children, fif- teen growing to maturity: Anna M., deceased; Karl F., of Arizona; Kath- erine, the wife of William LaCaille, of Kickapoo Township, a sketch of whom appears in this volume; Laura, who is deceased; Melchior, of Los Angeles, California; George, of Kansas City, Missouri; Ernest A., who lives at home and farms the home place; Fred A., who is employed by the government at Camp Funston; Andrew, who is dead; Charles Law- rence, of Nebraska, who is employed as bridge worker on the Missouri Pacific Railroad; Francis M., deceased; Lillian, the wife of H. F. Turner, and who is deceased; David J., of Nebraska, who works with a brdge gang for the Missouri Pacific Railroad; William W., of Los Angeles, Cali- fornia; and Lucien B., of Kickapoo Township.
Charles Lawrence Schweizer was inducted into service in the late war and went from Fort Leavenworth to Camp Funston, where he was stationed for two years in the infantry, and was discharged from there. He was one of the first of twelve men to leave Leavenworth County, and when they were asked as to their willingness to serve their country, out of the twelve, Charles Schweizer was the only one that stated he was willing to fight for his country, and he was then and there made color sergeant and carried the flag out of the county to Camp Funston.
David J. Schweizer enlisted and got as far as Dover, England, when the armistice was signed. He was in the aerial service.
William W. Schweizer enlisted at Kansas City, Missouri, and was in the 129th Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Mrs. Schweizer owns the home place of eighty acres. She is a mem- ber of the Baptist Church of Kickapoo and is an honored resident of this township.
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Joseph D. Cleavinger, a prominent farmer and stockman of Kickapoo Township, is a native of Easton Township, Leavenworth County, and was born September 25, 1857, the son of Eli and Jane B. (Davidson) Cleav- inger, the second of seven children, as follows: Rebecca Ann, the wife of H. J. Lohman, deceased; J. W., of Mission, Texas; Nancy E., the wife of J. M. Cory, deceased; Asa M., of Trinidad Colorado; Mary J., the wife of J. B. Herndon, deceased ; and Moses E. of Spring Lake, Texas.
Eli Cleavinger was born September 17, 1826, near Russellville, Ken- tucky, and died February 24, 1893. He settled in Missouri in 1849 and lived both in Platte and Clay counties, in that state, for six years. In 1855, he came to Easton Township, Leavenworth County, Kansas, and took up a claim of 160 acres, which he improved and farmed until his death. He was one of the pioneers who assisted in organizing Union Church, a church which all denominations in the neighborhood attended. Mr. Cleavinger was a member of the Masonic Lodge. During the Civil War he was in the one hundred day service, but never got any farther than Leavenworth, Kansas. His father and mother were Asa Eli and Miss (Danks) Cleavinger, natives of Virginia, who lived and died in Kentucky, and were the parents of seven children.
The mother of Joseph Cleavinger was born June 23, 1826, in Ken- tucky, but came to Missouri when six years of age with her parents. She died June 2, 1910.
Joseph D. Cleavinger has been a farmer all of his life. For twelve years he lived in Jefferson County, where he bought land. In the spring of 1906, he bought his present farm, which was the homestead of his father-in-law, Benjamin F. Edwards, who pre-empted the land from the government. Mr. Cleavinger does general farming and stock raising and is a progressive and worthy citizen of the county.
September 28, 1880, Mr. Cleavinger was married to Hattie Edwards, who was born July 4, 1858, on the present farm. She is a daughter of Benjamin F. and Sarah Jane (Dooley) Edwards, natives of Tennessee and Missouri, respectively. Benjamin Edwards settled in Leavenworth County in 1855 and his wife came in 1857.
Ten children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Cleavinger, as follows: Bettie, a teacher in the Leavenworth schools; Asa Benjamin, of Stranger Township; Alice, the wife of B. B. Buchanan, who lives near Fairmont, Kansas; Mary C., the wife of B. F. Highfill, who lives near Potter, Kansas ; Hattie, a teacher in the home district school; Joseph Almon, who farms on
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his father's place; Jane, a teacher in the Leavenworth schools; Albert, deceased; a child who died in infancy ; and Eugene, a student in the Man- hattan K. S. A. C.
Mr. Cleavinger is an independent voter in politics; an elder in the Methodist Church; a member of the Farmer's Grange; and a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of the 32d degree, and of the Scottish Rite.
Oscar Jaedicke, a well-known farmer of Kickapoo Township, was born on the present farm September 1, 1884, the son of William F. and Eda (Pasewark) Jaedicke, who were the parents of two children, Oscar and Selma, the wife of Mr. Baber of Des Moines, Iowa.
William Jaedicke was born in New York September 29, 1853, and came west before the Civil War with his parents, who were natives of Hanover, Germany, and settled in Atchison County, Kansas, where they died.
Mr. Jaedicke was reared on a farm, and, after his marriage, about thirty-eight years ago, he settled in Leavenworth County, Kansas, in Kickapoo Township, where he purchased 160 acres of land, and later bought eighty additional acres. This farm is now operated by his son, Oscar Jaedicke, the subject of this sketch. Mr. and Mrs. William Jaedicke retired from active life in 1911, and are now living in Leavenworth, Kan- sas. Mrs. Jaedicke was born in Leavenworth County.
Oscar Jaedicke has always lived on the present farm. He was gradu- ated from the grade schools. In 1911 he rented his father's place. Mr. Jaedicke is a fine man, and hard worker, and has a host of friends through- out the township.
January 19, 1911, Mr. Jaedicke was married to Minnie E. Volland, of Coffey County, Kansas, the daughter of Christopher and Sarah M. Bart- lett Volland, who were natives of Germany and Kansas, respectively. Both Mr. and Mrs. Volland are dead. Mrs. Jaedicke was educated in the Coffey County schools, and, when eighteen years of age, entered the Topeka State Hospital for training as a nurse, and was there for one and one-half years. In 1905 she entered the Cushing Hospital at Leavenworth, and was graduated in 1906, and did private nursing until her marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. Jaedicke have four children: Lucian Oscar; Mary Lou- ise; Francis Harold, and Corinne Ellen. Both of the girls were born
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on New Year's day, there being six years' difference in their ages.
Mr. and Mrs. Jaedicke are substantial and well-liked citizens of the township. Mr. Jaedicke is an independent in politics. He belongs to the Blue Lodge and Shrine in Masonry, to the Modern Woodmen of America, the Eastern Star and to the Farmer's Grange.
John T. Hughey. a prominent farmer and stockman who owns and operates 160 acres of land in Reno Township, was born October 27, 1874, in Stranger Township, near Edminster, Kansas. He is the son of George H. and Isephine (Hopkins) Hughey.
George M. Hughey was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1843 and with his father, John Hughey, came to Leavenworth County, Kansas, and settled in Sherman Township. For a time George M. Hughey followed farming four and one-fourth miles north of Linwood. He farmed in various parts of the county. He died at Linwood in 1909. Isephine ( Hop- kins) Hughey was born in Douglas County, Kansas, in 1848 and was married to George M. Hughey in Leavenworth County. She died at Linwood, Kansas.
Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. George Hughey, as follows: John T., the subject of this sketch; Myrtle, wife of T. W. Martin, resides at Linwood; and Elsie, wife of Will Nickelson, of Sedgwick, Kansas.
John T. Hughey attended the district schools of Leavenworth County and remained with his father on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age. For three years Mr. Hughey rented land in Reno and Sherman Townships. In 1902, he purchased 160 acres of land in Dixon County, Kansas, and farmed it for six years. Hr. Hughey then came to Tonga- noxie Township, Leavenworth County, and purchased 160 acres of land and in 1915 purchased his present farm of 160 acres in Reno Township. On this farm, Mr. Hughey has made various improvements, building a new barn and other buildings. He has a good herd of Holstein cattle, starting his herd in 1917. The sire of this herd is "Pledge Waverly." A number of the members of this herd came from the Neals herd at Man- hattan, Kansas.
Mr. Hughey was married in Montgomery County, Kansas, December 26, 1899 to Iva May Bingley. Her mother, Perlina (Foreman) Bingley, was born in 1853, in Iowa and was married in 1873. Her parents, Henry and Eliza (Masterson) Foreman, were early pioneers of Montgomery and
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Independence counties, Kansas. They were born in 1813 and were married in 1834. They celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary in 1909. Thirteen children were born to this union, five of whom are living.
Eva May (Bingley) Hughey was one of five children born to her parents, as follows: Gertrude, Mrs. Will Fruits, Kansas ; Bertha, deceased ; Iva May, wife of the subject of this sketch; Charles, Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Pearl, Mrs. James Kniffen, Montgomery County, Kansas. To Mr. and Mrs. Hughey have been born three children: Marvin, born November 2, 1900, deceased; Orville, born June 28, 1904 at home; and Harold, born March 29, 1906, at home.
John T. Hughey is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows and is a Republican.
James Hegarty, a prosperous and substantial farmer of Kickapoo Township, was born in Cork, Ireland, April, 1865, the son of John C. and Catherine (O'Neill) Hegarty, who were natives of Ireland, and who are now deceased. John Hegarty was a farmer, and he and his wife were the parents of seven children, four daughters and three sons.
James Hegarty spent his boyhood days and grew to manhood in Ire- land, and, in 1888, came to the United States, and in April, settled in Atchison County, Kansas, working as a farm hand by the month for Arthur Leacy, earning $200.00 the first year. James Hegarty attrib- utes his success to hard work, as he attended school for only three years, and he borrowed money with which to come to this country. He worked for Mr. Leacy for three years and then rented a farm in Jefferson County, Kansas, for three years, and in 1895 bought 280 acres in Kickapoo Town- ship, his present farm, which was owned by P. G. Lowe. He later bought an additional forty acres from Joe Cleavinger. Mr. Hegarty has made extensive improvements on the place. In 1910 he built a thoroughly mod- ern veneer house, consisting of two stories, which at that time cost $5,500.00, but which would be much more valuable at the present time. He has been a general farmer and stock raiser while on this place, and now has 125 head of cattle, and 200 acres of his farm is sown in blue grass. He also has a fine apple orchard, from which some of the best apples that were sold in Leavenworth in 1920 came.
On December 25, 1895, Mr. Hegarty was married to Martha Hudson, who was born near Potter, Kansas. To this union were born four chil- (28)
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dren: Raymond, Bessie and James, all at home; and David of Cushing, Oklahoma. David Hegarty, after finishing the Leavenworth High School, at Leavenworth, enlisted in the navy, and crossed the ocean twice. He was discharged in 1920, but is still in the reserves and is drawing a salary. He is but twenty-three years of age, but receives twelve dollars per day for his services in the oil fields.
Mr. Hegarty is a stockholder in the Potter State Bank of Potter, Kansas, and also a stockholder in a bank in Salina, Kansas, and a Kansas City bank. In politics, Mr. Hegarty is a democrat. He is a member of the Catholic Church, and of the Modern Woodmen of America.
Lawrence Kennedy, an enterprising farmer and stockman of Kick- apoo Township, who has lived all of his life on his present farm, was born May 11, 1860 on this place, the son of Lawrence and Elizabeth (Dunne) Kennedy, a history of whom will be found in the sketch of Matthew Ken- nedy, in this volume. Lawrence Kennedy was the fifth child born to his parents. He says that he was born in a slab board house. During his boyhood days he attended District Number Four School. He bought the home place, which consists of 267 acres, from his father several years before the death of the latter.
Lawrence Kennedy has made extensive improvements on the farm, and has been very successful in his agricultural pursuits, due to his energy, industry and thrift. He says that he has worked many a day for twenty- five cents, plowing corn and breaking up sod, and that he was glad to receive that amount.
In politics Mr. Kennedy is a democrat, and he is a member of the Catholic Church.
September 25, 1889, Mr. Kennedy was married to Katherine Hurley, who was born in Kickapoo Township at Eight Mile House. A history of this noted house appears in another part of this volume.
Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy have had eight children, as follows: Lawrence V., of Kickapoo Township; Mabel, the wife of Jack Laird of Leavenworth, Kansas; Clarence and Cecelia, who live at home; Floyd, who is in the United States navy, enlisting from Kansas City, Missouri, in 1920, and who was sent to the Great Lakes Training Station; Edwin and Harold, at home; and Jennive, also at home.
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Francis Payeur, a member of a pioneer family of Kickapoo Township, was born on the farm where he now lives August 24, 1884, the son of Julius and Elizabeth (Kennedy) Payeur.
Julius Payeur and wife were the parents of four children, as follows: Maude, the wife of Ed Ebies, who lives near Tonganoxie in Leavenworth County, Kansas; Blanche, the wife of William McNamee, who lives south of Leavenworth, Kansas; Elizabeth, the wife of Benjamin Aaron of Kick- apoo Township; and Francis, the subject of this sketch, who was the sec- ond child born to his parents.
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