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J. L. Clark was born at Salem, Nebraska, March 3, 1878, and is a son of Samuel T. and Martha (Hughes) Clark, both deceased. Samuel T. Clark was a Civil War veteran. He was born near Muncie, Indiana and enlisted at Indianapolis, Indiana in the Union Army. After the war he located at Salem, Nebraska and was in the mercantile business. He died at Marion, Indiana, at the age of sixty-nine years. His wife had died in 1894 and was buried at Salem, Nebraska.
J. L. Clark was reared in Salem, Nebraska, attending the public (34)
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schools of Salem and Humboldt, Nebraska. When seventeen years old he began the plumber's trade at the National Military Home, Leavenworth, Kansas, where he remained for eighteen months. He then went to Ne- vada, Missouri, where he finished his apprenticeship. He then worked in Oklahoma for eighteen months, and came to Denver, Colorado, where he remained for two years. From this place he went to Newton, Kansas, for five years, returning to Denver for one year. In 1905, he came to the Soldiers' Home, Leavenworth, remaining until 1910.
At the age of eighteen years, J. L. Clark was married to Fannie Clark, of Fall City, Nebraska. She is now deceased. She was the daughter of Willard and Betty Clark. Mrs. Fannie Clark died December 24, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have seven children born to them, as follows: Mrs. Mabel Kulmus, Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. Ethel Rhodes, Leavenworth, Kansas; Hazel, at home; Harry, first class bugler, now in United States Coast Artillery, located in the Hawaiian Islands the past year; Clayton, at home, attending high school; Evelyn and Fannie May, both at home.
In 1910, J. L. Clark and Miss Euphemia Manahan were married and to this union four children have been born, as follows: Geraldine, James, Jr., Edward and Rosemary.
C. L. Lord, a progressive merchant, who conducts an electrical supply store at 432 South Fifth Street, Leavenworth, Kansas, was born in 1867 at Norristown, Pennsylvania, the son of Timothy and Harriet (Gordon) Lord.
Timothy Lord was born in Pennsylvania, and his wife, Harriet (Gor- don) Lord, was born in Scotland. They came to Iowa in 1868, locating near Iowa City, Iowa. It was then the capital of the state of Iowa. Later they moved to Atlantic, Iowa, where Timothy Lord spent the remainder of his life. His wife remarried to a Mr. Mosher, who is also now deceased. She, at the advanced age of eighty-six years, makes her home at Shelby, Iowa.
C. L. Lord attended school in the Iowa and Kansas public schools. He received his electrical education while employed in Kansas City, Mis- souri. He helped on many important jobs while located in that city, as follows: The Vine Street Electrical Line, Northeast Electrical Line. He was also in the employ of the electrical railway for some time. In 1900, C. L. Lord came to Leavenworth, and for ten years was in the employ of
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the Tholen Brothers. After he left their employ he opened up his elec- trical shop at present address. He carries a complete line of electrical supplies and is a contractor for the very finest and best of electrical jobs in the city. He has done such important jobs as the county court house, Leavenworth National Bank and the State Savings Bank, where the most intricate wiring was used.
C. L. Lord and Marie Baskus were married December 31, 1919. She was an orphan and native of Leavenworth. They reside at 1310 South Broadway. Mr. Lord is one of the most capable electrical men in the city of Leavenworth.
Lewis Hiesrodt, a well known and successful farmer, who is the pro- prietor of "Hazel Dell Farm," was born in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, March 6, 1854.
Lewis Hiesrodt and his wife were educated in the Kalamazoo County, Michigan schools and settled in Marion County, Kansas in 1878. One year later they moved to Douglas County, Kansas, where he farmed for fifteen years. In 1898, he settled in High Prairie Township on a farm which he purchased. He remained here until 1920, when he bought the present farm of 100 acres of Doctor Faulkner, of Lansing, Kansas. This farm is located three miles southwest of Leavenworth on the New Law- rence highway. It has an excellent spring on it and is well improved. Mr. Hiesrodt has forty-five acres of wheat and twenty acres of alfalfa.
Lewis Hiesrodt was the son of Lawrence and Mary Hiesrodt, both deceased. July 12, 1874, Lewis Hiesrodt and Celia Butcher were united in marriage. She is a daughter of William and Rebecca Butcher, natives respectively of England and France. They settled in New York. where their daughter, Celia (Butcher) Hiesrodt, was born. William Butcher died at the age of seventy-one years and his wife died at the age of thirty years in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hiesrodt have one son, Bert, born September 2, 1875, and now lives with his parents on the farm and is a very popular farmer.
Lewis Hiesrodt is a member of the Ancient Order of United Work- men and his wife is a member of the Knights and Ladies of Security. He is one of the substantial citizens of Leavenworth County and has one of the finest farms near Leavenworth, to which they have given the name of "Hazel Dell Farm."
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Wallace Seifert is the hustling owner of "Maple Grove Farm," an ideal stock farm in High Prairie Township, which is located seven miles southwest of Leavenworth. He was born two miles west of Jarbalo, April 25, 1898, the son of William and Flora Seifert, of Leavenworth, Kansas.
Wallace Seifert spent his boyhood days on his father's farm and at- tended the schools of High Prairie Township, and he also attended the high school in Leavenworth one year.
Mr. Seifert has lived on his present place, of 320 acres, since 1910 and also owns the north half of the home place, consisting of 160 acres. The "Maple Grove Farm" is well improved with a good residence, a silo sixteen by thirty-four feet, made of concrete with a capacity for 160 tons, poultry house, and one of the best mills in the country. Mr. Seifert's farm is well adapted to raising stock, and he has thirty-seven pure bred and high grade Holstein cattle, twenty-one being milk cows. He markets the milk at Leavenworth. Mr. Seifert operates a thirty by sixty tractor and also owns a thirty-six by fifty-six Aultman Taylor threshing outfit. He is very industrious and successful agriculturist.
In June, 1919, Mr. Seifert was married to Lucille Humphreys, of Fairmount, Kansas, a daughter of John and Georgia Humphreys, of Fair- mount. Mrs. Seifert was born and reared in Fairmount.
Mr. Seifert is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, No. 3500, of Boling, Kansas, and also the Grange at the same place, and of the Farm Bureau. He receives his mail on route No. 1 out of Leavenworth.
Baxter Spears is the popular manager of the Coliseum skating rink at 411 South Fifth Street, Leavenworth, Kansas. He was born at Chat- tanooga, Tennessee, January 6, 1898, the son of Rosa and William Spears, both natives of that state.
Baxter Spears received his education in Chattanooga, and, at the age of seventeen years, enlisted in Company G, Sixth Infantry, at Harlan- town, Kentucky, in 1914. He was sent to the Mexican border, where he remained a short time and returned to Chickamauga Park, Georgia, where he stayed six months. During the World War he went overseas in Janu- ary, 1917, with the Fifth Division. He was at Brest, round the top at Sandya, at St. Mihiel, Verdun Forest, Arlone and Belgium. He was also at Axluxemberg and Coblenz with the Third Army of Occupation. In
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1919, he returned to the United States, after a service of a total of six years for his country. Mr. Spears was an excellent soldier and made a good record.
November 26, 1920, he came to Leavenworth and leased the Coliseum skating rink, February 15, 1921. This rink is one hundred by seventy-five feet, and roller skating, dancing and boxing is conducted here.
Although Mr. Spears has been in Leavenworth only a short time, he has made many friends, and runs the rink in a businesslike manner, and has made this place a popular place of amusement for the young people of the city.
Mr. Spears resides at 926 Cherokee Street.
Leo Banks, a prominent farmer of High Prairie Township, comes from a well known pioneer family of this section. He was born in Kicka- poo Township, January 7, 1876, the son of Anton and Amelia (Ketter) Banks, both now deceased, the former dying at the age of eighty-six years and six months and Mrs. Banks when seventy-nine years of age.
Anton Banks left Germany, his native country, when a boy, to escape army service. He settled in Leavenworth County prior to the Civil War, and improved a farm three miles west of Kickapoo. He made two trips across the plains, driving ox teams to California, for the government, when they were in peril from Indian attacks.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Parks are: John, of High Prairie Township; George, who is farm foreman for Indian training school at Red Cloud, Minnesota; Leo, the subject of this sketch; Benjamin, who lives on the home place; Amelia, the wife of M. N. Toltin, of Kickapoo Township; and Sophia, the wife of Frank Sax, of Oak Mills, Kansas; and Anton Banks, Jr., of Mayetta, Kansas. All of the children were educated at Rock School, District No. 34.
Leo Banks has been engaged in farming all of his life and is very successful. He sold his farm of 110 acres, southwest of Kickapoo, in August, 1919, and bought his present arm of 160 acres the same year, and, in 1920 purchased eighty additional acres, making a total of 240 acres, which he now owns, and is improving. Mr. Banks is very indus- trious and a good manager.
In 1907, Mr. Banks was married to Catherine Ehart, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Ehart, of Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Mr. and Mrs. Banks have two sons: Walter and Adam Orth.
Mr. and Mrs. Banks are members of Security Benefit Association and the Grange. The family are recognized enterprising and dependable citizens.
Sjoerd Defrees, a well known and successful farmer of Ackerland, Alexandria Township, is a native of Holland, born in 1852. His wife, Johanna Toussaint Defrees, is also a native of Holland and was born in 1854. They came to America in May, 1880 and settled near Leaven- worth, Kansas, first renting land until Mr. Defrees bought his present home of 160 acres in 1904. He placed all the improvements on the place, and they have a good residence of seven rooms, barn, granary, poultry house and tool shop. The farm is well watered, having a pond and fine wells. Mr. and Mrs. Defrees have a splendid country home, which lies three miles south of Springdale, and one-half mile north of Ackerland. They are thrifty, energetic and well respected citizens.
Mr. and Mrs. Defrees have seven children living: Cornelia, the wife of John Carpenter, of Tonganoxie, Kansas; Jacob, of Atchison, Kansas, who married Florence Jeffries; Joseph, of Topeka, Kansas, who married Philomena Scheetz; John, who farms the home place and was married in 1913 to Maude Watson; Ida, the wife of Charles Borst, of Atchison; An- drew, of Kansas City, Kansas, who married Gertie Trackwell; Eitson, who enlisted in the World War December 13, 1917, and was sent overseas with the Anti-Air Craft, Tenth Company, as mechanic, and was mustered out July, 1919; Joseph, who also enlisted in the World War, December 3, 1917, and was sent to Port Arthur with the heavy artillery. He was with the anti-aircraft while in Europe and was in the battle of St. Mihiel, return- ing home December, 1918.
Mr. and Mrs. Defrees had another son, Albert, who gave his life for his country in the World War. He enlisted, September 16, 1917, and was in Company C of the Three Hundred Fifty-third Infantry, Eighty-ninth Division. He was in Camp Funston eight months, and, in April, 1918, was sent to France. September 12th of that year, he was wounded in both legs at the battle of St. Mihiel, and, after having one leg amputated, died the next day and is buried at Toul, France. He was twenty-eight years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Defrees have a photograph of their son Albert Defrees in a frame, which was made by Eitson Defrees and is a work of art. The
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frame is a part of a propeller used overseas. This photograph is prized very highly.
Mr. and Mrs. Defrees have the following grandchildren: Edith, John, Leonard and Ruby Carpenter; Esther May, Alberta Marie, Evely and Joseph Defrees ; and Lyman and John and Carl Borst.
Peter Poberezny, the well known manager of the farm colony at Fort Leavenworth, has had a wide and varied career. He was born in Ukrania and educated in Trembowle, and, in 1908, came to America, his brother, John, having come here two years previously. For two years, he worked in Canada on a farm, receiving $23 for the two years work. He then went to work for the Hudson Bay Construction Company, driving a dog team between Cross Lake and Whiskey Jack. The next winter he drove a dog team again between Dupy, Manitobia and Port Nelson, a distance of 800 miles, covering about forty miles a day. In 1912, he returned to Winnipeg and freighted between Winnipeg and British Columbia. He made one trip on the Great Northern transport between Vaucouver and Portland, Oregon.
Mr. Poberezny came to the United States April 15, 1912 for the first time, going to San Francisco and Sacramento, California, and from there to Billings, Montana, where he worked for a month with a section gang. He then went to Laremore, North Dakota, and worked during the harvest, earning $64, but lost all of his money at Grand Forks, North Dakota, where he was robbed. He went to St. Paul, Minnesota, and worked for a short time, going from there to Savana, Wisconsin, where he worked on the Burlington section. He then went to Chicago, Illinois, and Quincy, Illinois, working in the latter town with the Excelsior Stone Foundry as moulder. He also had a try-out there with a baseball team and played that season. That fall he had a try-out with the Missouri League and located in Hannibal, Missouri, for a few months, going to Houston, Texas, from there, but returning to Hannibal and enlisting July 5, 1916, with the United States army. He was sent to Jefferson Barracks and assigned to Sixteenth Company, G. C. I., and remained there two months, when he was assigned to the Seventh Cavalry in Mexico and went to the border, joining this cavalry at Casse Grandy, Mexico, with the machine gun troops. In February, 1917, he was stationed at Columbus, New Mexico, then to El Paso, Texas, and served with the border patrol for six months.
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He was then assigned to the Three Hundred Fifth Cavalry when the war broke out with Germany and the regiment was re-organized, and Mr. Poberezny was the first man to join the Three Hundred Fifth Cavalry with Colonel Long. He was appointed regimental saddler and had charge of the school for five months, when he was assigned to the Forty-Fourth Field Artillery.
On December 27, 1918, he received twelve days' furlough and went to North Carolina and was there five days, and returned to the regiment and was assigned to casualty detachment, and while waiting for orders received further orders attaching him to the Fort Field Artillery, and, not liking this, asked for a transfer to the Eighty-second Field Artillery at Ft. Bliss, El Paso, Texas, and shortly after, he was transferred back to the Seventh Cavalry M. G. T. and made saddler on March 24th. While there, he had an opportunity to come to Ft. Leavenworth as prison guard, for which he made application March 28, 1919, and was assigned to First Company D. B. G.
He was soon assigned to the farm colony as assistant superintendent, and March 4, 1920, was made manager, which position he very capably fills.
The farm has 240 Holstein cows and furnishes milk, cream and but- ter for the post at Ft. Leavenworth. The farm contains 310 acres and is one of the finest in the United States, and the dairy herd is one of the best to be found.
Peter Poberezny was married July 6, 1920, to Jettie Dowdy of Jones- boro, Arkansas, a daughter of John C. and Sarah (Patterson) Dowdy. Mrs. Poberezny was a native of North Carolina and was reared at Jones- boro. She is the fourth of thirteen children, the others being as follows: Mrs. Winnie Davis, of Jonesboro, Arkansas; Mrs. Tilmont Marines, who is deceased; Fletcher Dowdy, of Jonesboro; Alice Dowdy, deceased; Mrs. Mannie Burnett, of Jonesboro; Martin, deceased; Janes, of Jonesboro; Frank, Homer, Margaret and Margaruite, all deceased; and Maurine, who lives at home in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Mr. and Mrs. Poberezny receive their mail at the farm colony office, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.
Mr. Poberezny is a member of the Railway Brotherhood. He is a good dairyman and manages the farm well; he is also very industrious. He made a good record as a soldier and has many friends throughout the country.
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H. E. Cockrell, cashier of the Jarbalo State Bank, has been identified with banking institutions for a number of years, and during which time he has advanced from one position of trust to another to his present re- sponsible position. He was born at Troy, Missouri, a son of J. L. and Rosetta Cockrell, distant relatives of the late Senator Frances M. Cockrell.
H. E. Cockrell received his educational advantages at Buchanan Col- lege, the Kirksville Normal School at Kirksville, Missouri, and the Gem City Business College at Quincy, Illinois. He was with the Peoples Bank of Troy, Missouri for three years, and the State Savings Bank at Leaven- worth for one year, and from there came to Jarbalo in 1912, where he succeeded J. E. Blevins as cashier of the Jarbalo State Bank. Mr. Blevins had succeeded C. H. Brumley, who was T. I. Mains' successor.
The Jarbalo State Bank was organized December 6, 1907, with capi- tal stock of $10,000.00. Its first officers were E. S. Woods, president, and T. I. Mains, cashier. Its present capital stock is $10,000.00, with surplus of $4,500.00, and its officers are as follows: President, Dan B. Mason; vice-president, Samuel Opliger; cashier, H. E. Cockrell; assistant cashier, W. D. Kendall. The directors are: Dan B. Mason, Sam Opliger, William Vogel, John Hitzemann and H. E. Cockrell.
The deposits of the bank are $85,000. The bank does a general bank- ing business and is under the guaranty laws of the state.
In 1915, Mr. Cockrell was married to Georgia Willis, of Jarbalo, Kan- sas, a daughter of George and Mary Willis. They have two children: John Lloyd and Harriet Louise. By a former marriage to Olivia Moore, of Troy, Missouri, Mr. Cockrell has a daughter, Eleanor.
Mr. Cockrell is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Modern Woodmen of America and Yeomen.
David C. Lowe, a well-known agriculturist of near Jarbolo, Kansas, was born on the farm where he now lives, July 19, 1885, the son of Isaiah and Amanda Lowe. Isaiah Lowe was a veteran of the Civil War, enlisting from Ohio. After the war, he came to Kansas with his family and bought the present farm of David Lowe, consisting of ninety-six acres, also 100 acres one-half mile west of the present home. Isaiah Lowe died in 1911 and is buried at Eagle Cemetery, and his wife lives at Jarbolo. They were the parents of eight children: Clara, the wife of William Hawkins,
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of Jarbolo; Jessie, the wife of William Flinner, of Topeka ; David C., of this sketch; Joe, of Jarbolo; Vernie, of California ; John, who was overseas for more than two years in the World War; Pearl, who lives with her mother at Jarbolo; and Edna, the wife of Joe Kester of Indiana. By a former marriage of Isaiah Lowe he had four children: Mrs. Emma Knox, of Fair Valley, Oklahoma; Charles, of California; William, of Jarbolo; and Henry, who is deceased.
David Lowe spent his boyhood on his father's farm and attended the public schools. He now owns the entire tract of 196 acres, which is a good farm and well improved. The residence is a short distance west of Jarbolo. All of the land is upland and well watered. Mr. Lowe does gen- eral farming; he has fifty acres of wheat and eighty acres in pasture. He has made his home in this district continuously and has a host of friends.
February 3, 1916, David Lowe was married to Lola Trackwell, a daughter of Frank and Sarah (Fitch) Trackwell. Frank Trackwell was born in Kansas, and his wife was a native of Tennessee. His father, Buell Trackwell, was a pioneer of Alexandria Township and died at the age of eighty years in 1920 and is buried at Fall Creek Cemetery. Frank Trackwell died in November, 1918, and his wife lives in Jarbolo, Kansas. They were the parents of the following children: Mrs. David Lowe; Ernest, of Kansas City, Kansas, who was overseas for more than two years in the World War; Gertrude, the wife of Andrew DeFrees, of Kan- sas City, Missouri; Frank, of Jarbolo, Kansas; Eunice and Ethel, who live at home; and Vollie and Walter, who are deceased. By a former mar- riage of Frank Trackwell, he had the following children: James, of Ne- braska; Thomas, of Montana; Robert and Henry, of Topeka; Hattie, the wife of John Brune; Daisy, the wife of Baker Fitch, of Jarbolo, Kansas; Agnes. By a former marriage of Sarah Trackwell to Harry Myers, she had a daughter Myrtle, who married Elmer Norris.
Mr. and Mrs. Lowe have two children: Clifton and Roy.
Henry E. Dohrn, the prominent proprietor of "Timber Grove Stock Farm," is well known in this vicinity and admired for his thrift and energy. He is a native of Cook County, Illinois, born March 25, 1857, and is the son of David and Catherine (Lesh) Dohrn who were married in Illinois and came to Kansas, May 12, 1868, settling in Delaware Town-
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ship, three and one-half miles southeast of Lansing. He died in 1878 and his wife died September 13, 1909, and both are buried in Mt. Muncie Ceme- tery. They were the parents of the following children: David, who was born in 1855 and was drowned in 1911 in Stranger Creek; Henry E., of this sketch; Charles F., of Delaware Township; Mrs. Louisa Schiltz, of Jarbolo, Kansas; Albert, of Delaware Township; Mrs. Amelia Keller, of Leavenworth; Mrs. Emma Hundley, of Lansing; Mrs. Ella Barber, of Leavenworth, and Mrs. Katie Parker, of Kansas City, Missouri.
Henry E. Dohrn was educated in Delaware Township, and has fol- lowed farming all of his life, working by the month until he was married March 25, 1886, to Mary Borst, a daughter of William Frederick and Chris- tina (Schallcup) Borst, of Ackerland Kansas. Mrs. Dohrn was born near Rock Island, Illinois, in 1866, and came to Kansas in 1874 with her par- ents. Mr. and Mrs. Dohrn have five children: Edward, of Alexandria Township; Jennie, the wife of William Schwinn, of Jefferson County, Kan- sas; Carl, a farmer of Alexandria Township; Annie, the wife of Adam Schwinn; and Albert, at home.
Mr. and Mrs. Dohrn have the following grandchildren: Elsie Marie Schwinn; Freda and Irene Edith Schwinn; Frank William Schwinn; Henry George and Mary Louise Dohrn.
Henry E. Dohrn bought 160 acres, his present home place, in 1896, from Harlan Hodley. Since then he has bought 160 acres more, making a total of 320 acres, improving the land himself. They have a good resi- dence of six rooms, two barns, garage, granary, poultry houses and other buildings. The residence is six and one-half miles northeast of McLouth, Kansas, and three and one-half miles northwest of Ackerland. All but fifteen acres was in timber when Mr. Dohrn came here and he now has 200 acres cleared, thirty acres in bottom land, eighty acres in wheat, fif- teen acres in corn, thirty-four acres in meadow and the remainder in pasture. The farm has running water, Fall Creek running through the place. Mr. Dohrn has sawed more than 200,000 feet of lumber from tim- ber on his land, and the building frames and box lumber of the buildings, except the residence, were sawed on the farm. From one sycamore tree more than 2,000 feet of lumber was sawed, three fourteen feet lengths.
Mr. Dohrn raises mostly cattle and hogs, specializing in the Red Poll cattle and the Chester White hogs. They raise Barred Plymouth Rock poultry.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dohrn are hard working people, and have made what they have by hard work, thrift and good management.
Mr. Dohrn is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America of Mc- Louth, Kansas, and is also treasurer of his school district, serving in this capacity for the past ten years.
Gerardus Rozendal, who is well known in Leavenworth as the "lettuce man", began the growing of hot house vegetation, fruit and truck gar- dening in 1898. He was born in Holland February 4, 1870, the son of Dirk and Giliska Rozendal, who came to America in 1880 and settled at Leavenworth. He was employed here as machinist at the old glucose fac- tory for a number of years, and he and his wife eventually settled in St. Joseph, Missouri, where they died, he at the age of fifty-nine years and she at the age of seventy-two years. Both are buried at Mt. Muncie.
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