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Caroline (Parrett) Leakey was born in Switzerland and when a very young girl came to England with her parents. To her union with John A. Leakey was born seven children, as follows: John Arundel; Charles James ; Caroline Arundel; Florence Emily; Arthur Troughton and Eustis P., the subject of this sketch. Caroline (Parrett) Leakey died in 1878, a year after Eustace P., the subject of this sketch, was born.
E. P. Leakey attended an English Grammar School and finished his education at Queens' College, Cambridge, England. After the death of his father, John A. Leakey, in 1896, E. P. Leakey decided to come to the United States and for a few months was located at Rochester, New York, moving then to Buffalo, New York. It was here that he decided to become an American citizen and take up dentistry. April 3, 1900, he took out his papers for citizenship and in September, 1900, started as a student in dentistry at the Buffalo University, finishing his course at the North- western University in Chicago, in 1904.
After Doctor Leakey finished his course in dentistry, he took a posi- tion in a dentist's office at Tonkawa, Oklahoma. He was not satisfied to work on a salary, so he started an office for himself at South Haven, Kan- sas. September 1, 1911, Doctor Leakey purchased his present business from Doctor Lockwood and has since then been having an ever growing clientele.
Eustace P. Leakey and Ethel P. B. Root were married at Buffalo, New York. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Root, both na- tives of Buffalo. To Doctor and Mrs. Leakey five children have been born, as follows: Dorothy Bannaman, in high school at Tonganoxie; Mar- jorie Florence and Horace Arundel, students in the grades, and John Eustis and Arthur Lee, still at home with their parents.
Doctor Leakey is a member of the Episcopal Church and is a republican.
Dr. Walter B. Coe, of Tonganoxie, Kansas, is one of the substantial and successful physicians of Leavenworth County. He has for the past twenty-five years given unstinted service to the people of Tonganoxie and vicinity.
Walter B. Coe was born in Tipton, Iowa, July 24, 1868, the son of John P. and Abigail (Soule) Coe. The former was born in 1827 in the state of New York and with his parents moved to Ohio, where he lived until 1888 when he established his home on a farm in Leavenworth
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County. This farm of sixty acres, one-half mile from Tonganoxie, was his home until his retirement, in 1908, to Kansas City, Missouri. He died and was buried at Kansas City, Missouri. Abigail (Soule) Coe was born in 1832 in Ohio and was married to John P. Coe in her native state. She died and was buried at Kansas City, Missouri. They were the parents of three children, as follows: Dr. C. M., of Fayettesville, Arkansas ; W. Sher- man, Portland, Oregon; and Walter B., the subject of this sketch.
Walter B. Coe was educated in the grade and high school of Omaha, Nebraska, and the Buchtal College of Akron, Ohio. He received his medi- cal education at the Rush Medical College of Chicago, graduating in the class of 1896. Upon the completion of his course, Dr. W. B. Coe opened up his office at Tonganoxie, Kansas. He has faithfully and unselfishly continued his service to the people of Tonganoxie and its environs.
Doctor Coe was married in 1901 to Mary E. Grist, a daughter of John S. and Matilda E. Grist, of Tonganoxie. No children have been born to this union.
August 13, 1918, at Fort Leavenworth, Doctor Coe enlisted in the Medical Corps as captain and was discharged at Fort Leavenworth, Decem- ber 14, 1918.
Doctor Coe is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a republican and with his wife a member of the Congregational Church. Mrs. Coe is also a member of the Rebeccas and the Eastern Star.
Calvin Kesinger, deceased, was a respected pioneer merchant of Springdale, Kansas, and real estate agent for many years. He was a na- tive of West Virginia, born August 29, 1841, and came to Kansas in his youth and grew up with the country. He was a general merchandise mer- chant at Springdale for many years, later being actively engaged in the real estate business, which took him to various cities. At one time Mr. Kesinger had a real estate office at Leavenworth, Kansas, on Broadway street, and was in partnership with Newton Mann.
Calvin Kesinger was the son of Wilson and Sarah Ann (Bean) Kesin- ger, the former a native of West Virginia, born July 22, 1819, and died in 1881, the latter was a native of West Virginia, born April 25, 1819, and died October 26, 1894. They were the parents of twelve children, Calvin Kesinger being the oldest.
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April 2, 1913, Calvin Kesinger and Mrs. Julia Rose (McArdle) Moore were married. She is the daughter of Collins and Nancy (Stevens) Mc- Ardle, the former born in West Virginia in 1833 and the latter born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1840. They were married in Illinois and in 1860 established their home on a farm of 200 acres, in Tonganoxie Township, Leavenworth County, Kansas. They were pioneer farmers and honored citizens of the county. Collins McArdle passed away in 1909 and his wife in 1916. They are buried at Hubble Hill Cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. McArdle were the parents of twelve children, as fol- lows: John, in Nebraska; Elizabeth, married Charles Burry, Tonganoxie; Mary, died at Wichita, Kansas; James, Covington, Oklahoma; Remus, Covington, Oklahoma; Mrs. Julia Kesinger, of this sketch; Lulu, the wife of Henry Geib, Tonganoxie; Collins, Vemeda, Oklahoma ; Bertha, married William Pardee, deceased ; Bessie, married George Cassidy, Oklahoma; Vir- gil, Oklahoma ; and Jennie, married Claude Keltner, Douglas, Oklahoma.
Mrs. Calvin Kesinger was married twice, the first time was on June 25, 1891, to John Moore, the son of George and Sarah (Cravens) Moore. John Moore was born in 1852 in Ohio and came to Kansas from Iowa, settling on a farm. He sold this farm and opened up a butcher shop and grocery store in Tonganoxie. He also bought and sold cattle, which busi- ness he was engaged in at the time of his death in 1904. He is buried at Hubble Hill Cemetery. Two children were born to this union, Mae J., born August 1, 1892, at home; and Grace, born March 24, 1894, died March 28, 1910.
Calvin Kesinger was a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons at Springdale, Kansas, and a member of the Friends Church. He was a republican. Mrs. Kesinger is a member of the Friends Church, and the Pythian Sisters. Calvin Kesinger died at Lawrence, Kansas, March 16, 1917. He was one of the honored pioneers of the county.
William H. Hillner, contractor and builder, located at Tonganoxie, Kansas, was born in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, October 31, 1874. He is the son of Clever D. and Lucy (Bernenger) Hillner.
Clever D. Hillner was born in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in 1844, the son of Isaac and Susan (Rider) Hillner. Isaac Hillner was a native of Germany who left his native land when very young and settled in Pennsylvania. His parents were meat packers in the old country.
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They had eleven children. Isaac Hillner died in 1861 in Pennsylvania, which was also the birthplace of Susan (Rider) Hillner. She was a de- scendant of an American family who had participated in the Revolution- ary War.
Clever D. Hillner was married in February, 1872, to Lucy Bernenger, who was born April 15, 1853, in Catawissa, Columbia County, Pennsyl- vania. They were the parents-of six children, as follows: William H., of this sketch; Charles, deceased, December, 1896; Anna, Mrs. Lemuel Wiley, Tonganoxie; Mary E., Mrs. William D. Allen, Berryton, Kansas; Minnie, Mrs. Joseph Starling, Whiting, Kansas; Lester W., Tonganoxie, Kansas. Clever Hillner died December 24, 1914, and Lucy (Bernenger) Hillner, April 27, 1920. They are buried at Maple Grove Cemetery.
Clever D. Hillner came to Kansas with his wife and family in 1878 and lived in Lawrence, Kansas, for two years, where he was employed by the Union Pacific Railroad. In February, 1880, he purchased eighty acres of land in Tonganoxie Township, later adding eighty acres to the original piece. This land was located three-fourths of a mile south of Tonganoxie. He was a successful farmer and stockman for many years.
William H. Hillner received his education in the district schools of Tonganoxie Township and the Friends Academy, which he attended for one year. In 1904, he left his father's home where he had worked as a farm laborer and went to Topeka, Kansas. He remained in this city until 1914, where he was employed as a carpenter. For two years, he was employed in his trade at Tonganoxie and then in 1916, he went to Great Falls, Montana, and Fairfield, Montana, where he followed his trade. He remained there a short time, later coming back to take charge of his mother's farm, until her death in 1920. Then Mr. Hillner discontinued farming and again took up his work as carpenter and builder at Tonga- noxie, Kansas. He is a member of the Friends Church and one of the substantial citizens of Tonganoxie.
Henry A. Kemberling, one of the well-known farmers and stockmen of Tonganoxie Township, is a native of Tonganoxie Township, and was born June 17, 1882, on the farm on which he now lives. He is the son of George W. and Lizzie (Lighterd) Kemberling, both natives of Pennsylvania.
George W. Kemberling was born in 1847 in Blair County, Pennsyl- vania, the son of Henry Kemberling, who came to Leavenworth County in 1868 and purchased one hundred acres of Union Pacific Railroad land.
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After Henry Kemberling's death, the land was transferred to his son, George Kemberling, and is now owned by Henry A. Kemberling. The wife of Henry Kemberling, Sr., lived to the advanced age of eighty-four years. She passed away October 24, 1911, on the present farm. George Kember- ling died November 27, 1914, and is buried at Hubble Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Lizzie (Lighterd) Kemberling was a native of Pennsylvania.
Mr. and Mrs. George Kemberling were the parents of three children, as follows: Henry A., the subject of this sketch; Ora, married Dan Dug- gan, of Willows, California; and William, died in infancy.
Henry Kemberling was reared on the present farm and received his early education in the Pleasant Prairie District School. He remained on the farm with his parents until he was eighteen years of age when he was employed by James Dewyer. He worked for Mr. Dewyer eight years, five years of which were spent laboring with never a holiday. In 1906, Mr. Kemberling went to Texas for a short while, and upon his return started farming for himself on a farm in Tonganoxie Township. In 1911, Mr. Kemberling came to the present farm, which was originally one hun- dred acres. To this he added ninety-four acres in 1917. He now has a well-improved farm, upon which he does general farming and dairying. He has eight head of Holstein cattle of which he is justly proud.
Henry A. Kemberling and Lottie Stokley were married on this farm in 1910. She is the daughter of Clayton and Zella (Roberts) Stokley, natives of Missouri. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Kem- berling, as follows: George, born September 9, 1911, at home; Clarence C., born May 26, 1913, at home; Pauline L., born January 23, 1915; and Rosella, born December 28, 1920.
Henry Kemberling is a republican and the Kemberling family is well known and highly respected in Leavenworth County.
Henry Murr, a successful farmer and stockman of Tonganoxie Town- ship, is a native of Leavenworth County. He was born April 17, 1880, on the place where he now lives, the son of William C., and Sena (Schrimpf) Murr. William C. Murr was born in 1834 in Wurtemberg, Germany, and in 1854 left his native land and came to the United States. For a number of years he worked as a farm laborer. In 1858, he came to Leavenworth County where for a number of years he worked as a laborer, and in 1870, he purchased eighty acres of land, which was the nucleus of the farm, now owned by his son, Henry Murr.
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Sena (Schrimpf) Murr was born in Franklin County, Missouri, Sep- tember 15, 1844. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schrimpf, came to Leavenworth County, Kansas, in 1855 and settled on a farm near the Dela- ware Indian Reservation. They are now both deceased. William C. and Sena (Schrimpf) Murr were married in Kansas and had one child born to them, Henry Murr, the subject of this sketch. William C. Murr died on the present place, October 8, 1919. Mrs. Sena Murr makes her home with her son.
Henry Murr was reared in Tonganoxie Township and attended the Eureka District Schood. He remained on the home farm with his parents all of these years and labored with and for them. In 1905, Mr. Murr com- menced the breeding of Chester White hogs started his business with three of the finest hogs procurable from the O. L. Kerr herd at Indepen- dence, Missouri.
Henry Murr, from small beginnings in the breeding of Chester White hogs, has made wonderful progress. He is an extensive advertiser and holds large sales of his hogs each year. In 1920, his sale of forty hogs netted him $4,720, an average of $118 a head. He also displays his hogs each year at the state fair and carries away prizes. In 1919, Prince Tip- Top, a Chester White sire, took the grand champion prize. This hog is a descendant of Wildwood Prince. Big Dora, an aged sow, took fourth prize at the same show. In 1920, Tonganoxie Chief, a junior yearling sire, took the first prize and also a senior sire first prize. Crown Prince, a junior sire, took the junior champion first prize at the same time. Henry Murr has an extensive sales territory of his hogs, which is scattered over ten states. He is well-known in his immediate territory as well.
Mr. Murr was married the first time in Leavenworth County, October 20, 1901, to Mabel Ida Stigleman, a daughter of M. L. and Mary (Robert- son) Stigleman. To this union two children were born, as follows: Will- iam, born July 16, 1903, at home; and Ida, born March 9, 1905, at home. Mabel (Stigleman) Murr died January 11, 1907. October 13, 1908, Henry Murr and Nellie E. Pecka were married. She is a daughter of Joseph and Jennie (House) Pecka. Three children have been born to this union, as follows: Charles H., born January 31, 1910, at home; Jennie M., born June 17, 1911; and Evelyn E., born December 22, 1912, at home with parents.
Henry Murr is a member of the Farmers Union, the Chester White Record Association of Kansas and the Chester White Breeders' Associa-
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tion. He is a republican, and one of the progressive and enterprising citi- zens of Tonganoxie Township.
James D. Anderson, a Civil War veteran who spent the latter years of his life in Leavenworth County, was a native of Illinois. He was born in Coles County, Illinois, November 19, 1846, and spent his early boyhood days on a farm. He was thus engaged when the Civil War broke out and in the summer of 1861 before he was fifteen years old when President Lin- coln called for 500,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion, young Ander- son literally left his team in the field and walked to Matoon, Illinois, and enlisted. This was on August 7, 1861, and he was assigned to Company D, Forty-first Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was discharged January 5, 1864, by reason of expiration of his term of enlistment and re- enlisted the same day in the same company on the battlefield near Bolivar, Tennessee. He was later transferred to Company K, Fifty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry and served as corporal with that command until he was discharged at Louisville, Kentucky, on July 22, 1865, by general order of the War Department, on account of the close of the war. He partici- pated in a number of the important engagements of the war and made a good military record.
After his discharge from the army, Mr. Anderson returned to Illinois, and for a time worked in a sawmill and was engaged in rafting logs down the Wabash River. About 1868, he removed from Terre Haute to Rock- ville, Indiana, where he worked in a cooper shop about a year. He then engaged in farming until 1877, when he went to Arkansas, where he was engaged in lumbering and rafting logs down the James River. In 1884 he went to western Kansas, where he was engaged in various pursuits, until he entered the National Military Home at Leavenworth, Kansas. Here he died October 19, 1908, and his remains rest by the side of his comrades in Section 24, row 1, in the National Military Home Cemetery, at Leavenworth.
James D. Anderson was married June 19, 1876, to Minerva Finnigan. She was born at Rockville, Indiana, December 19, 1859, a daughter of George and Nancy (Lambert) Finnigan, and was one of three children born to them, as follows: Albert, William and Minerva. George Finnigan was born at Steubenville, Ohio, about 1837, and died at the age of 73 years. His wife was born at Logansport, Indiana, and lived to be about 73 years old. Mrs. Minerva (Finnigan) Anderson is now the wife of Edward Coyle.
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To James D. and Minerva (Finnigan) Anderson were born seven chil- dren, five of whom grew to maturity, as follows: Albert G., a representa- tive of the Historical Publishing Company, of Topeka, Kansas; Charles C., a switchman in the employ of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, Kan- sas City, Missouri ; Mrs. Beulah Hockel, Pana, Illinois; Winona E., married George Wagoner, Amarillo, Texas ; and Frank, deceased.
James D. Anderson was a member of the Grand Army of the Re- public, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in politics he was a staunch adherent to the policies and principles of the republican party.
Theodore C. Davis, a well-known and highly respected retired farmer and Civil War veteran, of Tonganoxie, is an early pioneer settler of Leav- enworth County, Kansas. He was born in Windham County, Vermont, June 3, 1842, the son of Ethan and Lemira (Dix) Davis.
Ethan Davis was born in 1814 in Vermont and was engaged in farm- ing for many years. He was also a mail carrier from Leydon to Green- field, Massachusetts, where he was engaged in farming in Franklin County, Massachusetts, and in 1869, joined his son, Theodore Davis, on a farm in Leavenworth County, Kansas. In 1840, Ethan Davis was married to Lemira Dix, who was born in Vermont, in 1823. They were the parents of two children, Theodore C., the subject of this sketch; and Martha P., now Mrs. Arthur Davis, Caldwell County, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Ethan Davis made their home for many years with their son, Theodore, in Leav- enworth County, and were engaged in farming all the while. Ethan Davis died in 1873 and Lemira (Dix) Davis, in 1883. Both are buried at the Reno Cemetery.
Theodore C. Davis attended the district school in Leyden Center, Massachusetts, and finished at the Powers Institute, at Bernardston, Mas- sachusetts. At the age of sixteen he was employed at a shoe factory in Wooster, Massachusetts, and remained in this work from 1858 to 1864. He enlisted at Wooster in the Fourth Regiment, Massachusetts Cavalry, Company G., under Colonel Washburn in the Union army. He was on scout duty most of the time during the war and engaged in several skir- mishes. He was discharged at Boston, Massachusetts, November 15, 1865, as a first sergeant.
After the war, Theodore Davis returned to Wooster, Massachusetts. He was married at Whitingham, Vermont, September 19, 1866, to Char- lotte E. Hurd, the daughter of James E. and Angeline (Rector) Hurd.
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The former was a native of Bennington County, Vermont, and the latter was a native of Duchess County, New York. They were the parents of four children. Charlotte E. Davis, their third child, was born in Troy, New York, June 20, 1844.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore C. Davis are the parents of five children, as follows: Abbie L., deceased ; Clarence J., Maxwell, Nebraska; Herbert E., deceased ; Theodore C., Jr., of Tonganoxie; Ray S., of Los Angeles, Cal.
Theodore C. Davis came to Leavenworth County in 1869 and pur- chased a farm of 136 acres of land, on which he lived until he retired and moved to Tonganoxie in 1910. In 1917, he disposed of the land. Mr. Davis has always been interested in local affairs and served as a member of the council of Tonganoxie for two terms. He is a republican and one of Ton- ganoxie's substantial citizens.
Louis P. Sanders, who is successfully engaged in farming and stock raising in Tonganoxie Township, is a native of Leavenworth County. He was born in Alexander Township, December 21, 1862, the son of John and Sarah (Schrimpf) Sanders, both natives of Illinois.
John Sanders was born in 1834 in Illinois and in 1855 established his residence in Alexander Township, Leavenworth County. He did early day freighting across the plains for six years and during the Civil War was under General Price. He owned 566 acres of land at the time of his death in 1902. His wife, Sarah (Schrimpf) Sanders was born October 24, 1838, in Illinois, and was married to John Sanders in Kansas. She died in March, 1919. Her father, Henry Schrimpf, was an early pioneer of High Prairie Township, where he homesteaded land. He died at an advanced age in 1886.
John and Sarah (Schrimpf) Sanders were the parents of eleven chil- dren, as follows: Louis P., the subject of this sketch; Anna, Mrs. Thomas Courtney, Leavenworth County; Willie C., of Leavenworth; George, Leav- enworth; Benjamin, on the Alexander Township homestead; Charles, Cof- fey County, Kansas; all of whom are living; five children died in infancy.
Louis P. Sanders attended the district schools of Alexander Township and remained at home until his marriage, in March, 1887, to Maggie Cor- lett. She is the daughter of William and Sophia (Cowan) Corlett, natives of the Isle of Man. Sophia (Cowan) Corlett was the daughter of James
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and Sophia (Loon) Cowan, who were married in Peele, England, and lived in the Isle of Man. Their daughter, Sophia Cowan, was married to William Corlett in 1854 in the Isle of Man and soon after their marriage they set sail for the United States. They first settled in Illinois, where they farmed and then in 1860 came to Leavenworth County, where they spent the remainder of their days.
Louis P. and Maggie (Corlett) Sanders are the parents of four chil- dren: Dana, born July 31, 1888, now living in Reno Township, Leaven- worth County, was married February 10, 1912, to Grace Phencie, of Reno, Kansas; Clarence, born December 7, 1890, married Anna Kimmel, of Mc- Louth, Kansas, September 15, 1915, now lives in Jefferson County, Kansas; Paul, born January 8, 1893, is at home; Florence, born February 10, 1895, married January 29, 1916, to Norman Butterfield of Tonganoxie Township.
Louis P. Sanders, in 1887, operated one of his father's farms of 116 acres, three miles west of present farm, for three years. Then Mr. San- ders, previous to coming to his present arm, bought and improved 120 acres in Tonganoxie Township. In 1901 he purchased 206 acres of the finest improved land in the township, where he is actively engaged in the general farming and stock raising business.
Mr. Sanders is a member of the Methodist Church and in politics is republican. He has been a member of the District Number 206 school board for many years and is well known throughout the township.
Thomas Taylor, pioneer farmer and stockman of Reno Township, who lives retired on the farm which has been his home for over fifty years, has won the esteem and friendship of friends of many years standing. He was born in County Down, Ireland, August 14, 1834, the son of An- thony S. and Mary (Lowry) Taylor, both natives of the same county, Ireland.
Anthony S. Taylor was born in 1795 and his wife, April 10, 1797. They were married in their native land, where they followed farming. The following children were born to them: Mary, born September 8, 1823; Jane A., born December 28, 1825, deceased; Anthony, born October 16, 1827, deceased; John L., born December 21, 1829, deceased; Robert, born April 7, 1832, deceased; Thomas, the subject of this sketch and his twin sister Anna, the latter deceased; Hugh, born October 5, 1836, de-
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ceased; Sarah, born October 14, 1838, deceased, and Hans, born December 13, 1840, died in infancy.
Anthony S. Taylor established his home in the United States previous to the Civil War. He preceded his family to the United States and located in Brooklyn, New York, where he followed farming and also taught school. Later he and his family moved to Pennsylvania, where he died. His wife died in the same state October 14, 1872.
Thomas Taylor attended the National school of Ireland and came to the United States with his mother and family. They located in Brooklyn, New York, where their father had preceded them and later moved to Pennsylvania, where Thomas Taylor farmed with his father for six years. Later, Mr. Taylor spent ten years on rented land in Illinois, coming to Kansas in 1867. At this time, he selected the land which, in 1869, became his home. He, with his brother Robert, purchased 500 acres in partner- ship from the railroad company. This partnership lasted for ten years, when the land was divided equally among the brothers. To this land, Mr. Taylor has added other land until he now owns 490 acres. Part of the present home is the original house built upon the land upon their arrival in 1869.
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