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C. E. Cummings was educated in the common schools of Centralia and had two years of work in the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and attended the business college at Quincy, Illinois. After completing his education he entered the Citizens State Bank at Centralia, where he remained for two years, after which he went to Alvin. Texas, as assistant cashier of the Avin Exchange Bank. Ile remained at Avin for five years and then returned to Kansas, and in 1900 and organized the itizens State Bank at Netawaka. and operated that institution for two years, after which he sold the business and in 1904 came to Blue Rapids and organized the Citizens State Bank. A new stone building was erected and the bank was furnished with modern and sub- stantial furniture, safe and vault and was opened for business on February 8. 1905. The bank has done a successful business and is today recognized as one of the strong institutions of this section of the state.
On January 16, 1894. Mr. Cummings was united in marriage to Grace Birchfield, of Centralia, the daughter of .A. J. Birchfield. Mr. Birchfield. now deceased, was one of the prominent and successful merchants of Cen- tralia, and a man of much force and character. To Mr. and Mrs. Cummings one child has been born. Claude Edmund, who attended school at Kansas City and is now an employe of the Santa Fe railroad at Chicago, Illinois, and also attending school. He was born on January 20, 1897, and is preparing himself for a life of usefulness.
Mr. Cummings is identified with the Republican party and has always taken a keen interest in local affairs. Being a man of much force and pro- gressive ideas, his advice has had much to do with the progressive spirit of his home town. Since residing in Blue Rapids he has served the city for one term as mayor, and his administration was considered one of the best in the history of the city. His interest was ever with the future growth of the place and his constant endeavor was to make the community one of high
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ideals. Much was done at that time to advance the future interest of the financial, educational and social conditions of the community.
Fraternally, Mr. Cummings is affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Knights of Pythias, in all of which his influence is keenly felt for the good of the orders. He is a man of pleasing qualities and has made many friends in the social, business and financial world, and as a banker he has the confidence and respect of the entire district.
CHARLES L. GARRISON.
Of the business enterprises of Blue Rapids, Marshall county, Kansas, it is well to mention the United States Gypsum Company, one of the sub- stantial and progressive industries of the county. Much of the success of this large business is due to the ability and untiring effort of the superin- tendent, Charles L. Garrison, who devotes his best efforts to the interests of the mill. He was born in New York on March 25, 1866, and is the son of Edwin A. and Mary ( Phillips) Garrison.
Edwin A. and Mary ( Phillips) Garrison were also natives of the state of New York, where they were educated in the public schools, grew up and were later married. They were of Dutch descent; their forefathers came to America before the Revolutionary War and took an important part in the struggle for independence. As a young man Edwin A. Garrison learned the carpenter trade, at which he worked in his native state until 1888, when he came to Blue Rapids, where he continued at his trade until the time of his death in 1902, and his widow died at her home in Blue Rapids in 1913. To them were born children as follow: George, Susan and Charles L. George is now a resident of Gray county, Kansas, and Susan Whitman is living in the state of New York.
Charles L. Garrison received his education in the schools of his native state and there he grew to manhood. In February, 1887, he came to Kan- sas and located at Blue Rapids, where he worked as a farm hand for six years. He then entered the employ of the company with which he is still engaged. He learned every department of the large business. He devoted his best efforts for the success of the business, and seven years ago he was appointed to his present position as superintendent. For a year he was
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superintendent of the mill in Oklahoma, but returned to the mill at Blue Rapids in 1911.
Mr. Garrison was married in 1906 to Susan MI. Gilbert, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and to this union two sons have been born, Gilbert, aged nine years, and Ellis, aged six years. Mrs. Garrison is an excellent woman and she and her husband are attendants at the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Garrison is not identified with any political party, but he is an independent, yet takes much interest in the affairs of his home district. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and has attained the Scottish Rite degrees. He is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Garrison has attained his high place in life through his own efforts. Starting as a laborer, he is now a trusted employee, high in authority in a large business.
HARRY M. BRODRICK.
Harry M. Brodrick, editor of the Advocate-Democrat at Marysville and postmaster of that city, is a native of the old Hoosier state, but has been a resident of Kansas practically all the time since he was ten years of age. He was born in the city of Goshen, Indiana, December 31. 1869, son of John H. Brodrick and wife, who came to Kansas in 1879 and settled at Osborne, where, in 1881. he then being but twelve years of age, Harry M. Brodrick entered upon his journalistic career, working for the Osborne Daily News.
Upon completing the course in the public schools at Osborne, Harry M. Brodrick continued working for the Daily News awhile and then went to Chicago, where he took a course in the Metropolitan Business College. upon completing which he returned to Osborne and began working there as a drug clerk, presently transferring his services to a bank in that city, with which institution he was engaged for a year as a clerk. He then, in 1888, went to Marceline, Missouri, where his brother-in-law. S. E. Ruede, had started a newspaper, and began working on that newspaper. in 1890 buying a half interest in the same and in that same year becoming the sole owner of the paper. In 1893 Mr. Brodrick sokl his newspaper and went to .Alton, Kansas, becoming connected with the Alton City Bank at that place and served as cashier of that bank until 1895, when he returned to Marceline and bought his old printing plant there, which he soll a year later and then
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returned to his native state, accepting there a position as business manager of the Daily Review at Elkhart. In 1898 he resigned that position to be- come the assistant manager and general credit man for the National Paper and Supply Company at Elkhart, but presently, on account of the failing health of his wife, resigned that position and returned to Kansas, locating at Marysville, where he bought a half interest, with his brother-in-law, S. E. Ruede, in the Advocate-Democrat and resumed his old calling at the "tri- pod." Eighteen months later, Mr. Brodrick bought Mr. Ruede's interest in the paper and has since been the owner and editor of the same, giving his son, Lynn Brodrick, a partnership in the business in February, 1913. On March 1. 1914, Harry M. Brodrick received his commission as post- master at Marysville and has since been serving in that important public capacity.
On December 25, 1890, while living at Alton, this state, Harry M. Brodrick was united in marriage to Emma L. Rosegrant, a daughter of William L. and Anna ( Cheney) Rosegrant, natives of Ohio, who came to Kansas in 1879 and located at Alton, where Mr. Rosegrant was engaged in the banking business until 1911. Mrs. Brodrick's schooling was com- pleted in the Central Female College at Lexington, Missouri, from which institution she was graduated with the class of 1889. To Mr. and Mrs. Brodrick two sons have been born, Lynn, a partner with his father in the publication of the Advocate-Democrat and a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume, and Van C., who was born at Mar- celine, Missouri, December 14, 1895, and who is a graduate of the Marys- ville high school. Mr. Brodrick is a Democrat and the columns of his paper ever have reflected the earnestness of his faith in the principles of that party, the Advocate-Democrat long having been regarded as one of the most influential party papers in this part of the state. In his fraternal affiliations he is connected with the Masonic fraternity and with the Knights of Pythias.
ANDREW D. HUTCHISON.
Andrew D. Hutchison, a well-known and prominent retired farmer of Summerfield, Marshall county, was born in Ohio county, West Virginia, on September 11, 1850, the son of Joseph and Nancy (Dennison) Hutchison, both of whom were natives of that state.
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Joseph Hutchison was born on November 29, 1823, and Nancy Dennison Hutchison was born on July 7. 1817. They received their education in the public schools of their native state and there grew to manhood and woman- hood and were married. For some years after their marriage, they con- tinned to live in the state of their nativity, when in 1855 they emigrated to Illinois, where they established their home on a farm in Warren county. Here Mr. Hutchison engaged in general farming and stock raising for many years. On August 15, 1880, Nancy Hutchison died and five years later Mr. Hutchison came to Kansas and made his home with his son, Andrew D. His death occurred at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Joanna Millen, on January 1. 1894. Ile and Mrs. Hutchison were the parents of three chil- dren as follow: W. W., of Greenfield, California: Mrs. Joanna Millen of Pawnee county, Nebraska, and Andrew D.
Andrew D. Hutchison received his education in the schools of Illinois and there grew to manhood and engaged in farming until 1883. when he came to Kansas and settled on a farm of eighty acres, just south of Summer- field. in section 12. Richland township. Marshall county. For this prairie land he paid fifteen dollars per acre. In 1888 he purchased another eighty acres that adjoined his original purchase. On this last tract there was a house and some other improvements. The place has been greatly improved since that time. The house is nicely located on well-kept grounds and the barn is one of the best in the township. Mr. Hutchison engaged in general farming and stock raising and was soon recognized as one of the substan- tial and successful men of the county. In 1913 he retired from the more active duties of life and moved to Summerfield, where he now lives in his beautiful home in that city.
Andrew 1). Hutchison was united in marriage on February 16, 1876. to Sarah E. Brown, who was born in Warren county, Illinois, on AApril 16. 1850, the daughter of Thomas and Phoebe ( Giles) Brown. Her parents were natives of Ohio, where the father was born in 1819 and the mother on January 12, 1822. The Brown family were among the early settlers of Illinois, having emigrated from their home in Ohio, and the Giles family settled in the state in 1834. Thomas Brown went to lowa, but later returned afoot to Warren county, Illinois, where he purchased land, was married and there established his home. lle engaged in farming until 1883. when he came to Kansas with .Andrew D. Hutchison, and settled on a farm in Rich- land township. Marshall county, just south of Summerfield. It was here that Thomas and Phoebe Brown made their home until the time of their deaths, she having died on January 24. 1902, and he on April 22, 1908.
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They were among the prominent and highly respected people of the township and were held in high esteem. They took much interest in the moral and educational development of the community and were active in the early social life. They were the parents of the following children: John L., farmer and a resident of Summerfield; W. R., a resident of Summerfield, engaged in teaching and farming, and Sarah E., the wife of Andrew D. Hutchinson.
To Andrew D. and Sarah E. Hutchison have been born the following children: Hattie. Charles, Belle, and Arthur L. Hattie was born on Janu- ary 7. 1878, and is the wife of W. H. Fulwider, a clothing merchant of Sum- merfield : Charles was born on June 17. 1880. and is engaged in general farm- ing on his farm of eighty acres, two miles south of Summerfield : Belle was born on February 11, 1882, and is the wife of H. B. Finlayson, of Wynne- wood, Oklahoma, and Arthur L., who was born on May 21. 1891, is operat- ing the old home place. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchison are active members of the United Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Hutchison is an elder and attends the sessions of the presbytery in his district. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchison take much interest in the social and religious life of the community and are among the prominent workers for the moral development of the district in which they lived for so many years and where they are held in high regard. Mr. Hutch- ison is identified with the Republican party and has always taken an active interest in local affairs, but he has never been an office seeker.
Arthur L. Hutchison, second son of Andrew D. and Sarah E. Hutchison. He received his education in the district schools and at the Summerfield high school and later took a course of study at the Manhattan College. After completing his education he returned to the farm with the intention of taking up agriculture. He rents two hundred and thirteen acres, one hundred and sixty of which is his father's old home farm. He is engaged in general farming, and stock raising, making a specialty of high-grade stock. He has exhibited many of his fine animals, which have received favorable comment. In June, 1914. Arthur L. Hutchison was united in marriage to Hazel F. Hartman, who was born on February 17, 1892, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and is the daughter of J. B. and Anna ( Hultz) Hartman. Mrs. Hutchison received her education in the public schools of Kansas and is a graduate of the high school at Summerfield. Mr. and Mrs. Hartman were natives of the state of Ohio and were there married. For some years after their marriage they continued to reside in Ohio, but later came to Kansas and located on a farm in Nemala county, and are now living at Centralia, Kansas, where they are prominent in the social life.
To Arthur L. and Hazel F. Hutchison has been born one child. Dale
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Hartman, whose birth occurred on May 21, 1915. They are members of the United Presbyterian church and among the most prominent young people of the county. Mr. Hutchison is identified with the Republican party and is one of the well-known young men in that organization ; he is progressive in all the activities of life. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hutchison are popular with their friends and take much pleasure in the entertainment of their neighbors and friends.
HENRY C. FOLLETT.
Coming to Walnut township, Marshall county, from his home in Williams county, Ohio, where he was born on March 18, 1845, Henry C. Follett, the son of Robert and Julia (Turner ) Follett, has met with success as a farmer and stockman and has for many years been recognized as one of the substan- tial and influential men of this county.
Robert and Julia Follett were natives of the state of Massachusetts and were among the early settlers in Williams county. Robert Follett had first gone to Michigan, where he lived for a time, before coming to Ohio. The journey from Michigan was a hard one and fraught with much danger. Roads had to be cut through the brush and the timber, before the little party could proceed. \ home was established in Ohio and there the family lived until March, 1864, when they came to Doniphan county. There the father died on July 4, 1867, at the age of eighty-five years and his wife died in 1877 at the age of eighty-five years. The father of Julia ( Turner) Follett was a native of New Jersey and her mother was born in Ohio. They were well-to-do farm- ers and prominent in the social life of the community in which they lived, and where they were held in high regard. The father died in Ohio in 1865.
To Robert and Julia Follett were born the following children : William, Ilelen, Phoebe. Janette, Jerome, Henry C. and three who died in infancy. William is a retired farmer and now living in Williams county, Ohio ; Helen, who married a Mr. Pointer, died at her home in Holton, Kansas, on March 1. 1915. She was the mother of four children, one of whom died in infancy. Phoebe Sing, who died some years ago, was the mother of two boys; Janette is the widow of Mr. Cronin and resides at Severance, Kansas; Jerome gave his services to his country in the Civil War and was killed at the battle of the Wilderness.
Henry C. Follett received his education in the local schools of Williams county, Ohio, and there grew to manhood on the home farm, where he assisted
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his father with the farm work. He remained at home until 1863, at which time he enlisted in Company H, Thirty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on February 9, of that year. He saw much active service and was at the battles of Missionary Ridge, Buzzard Roost, Big Shanty, Jonesboro and Atlanta. At the latter place he was taken from the battlefield and placed in the hospital at Nashville, Tennessee, where he lay for two months with typhoid fever, after which he was transferred to the hospital at Camp Dennison, where he remained for another month. He then rejoined his company at Atlanta, and went with them on the "march to the sea." He also joined in the grand review at Washington and was discharged at Louisville, Kentucky, on July 12, 1865. He was but seventeen years of age at the time he entered the service, and his education had been much neglected. After his discharge, he came to Kansas, where his parents were located in Doniphan county. He remained in that county until 1869, when he came to Marshall county and homesteaded eighty acres of land in section 22, Walnut township, which is now a part of his fine farm of four hundred acres, all of which is in this section. On his homestead he built one of the first frame houses between Waterville and Marysville. He at once set to work to place his farm under cultivation and improve it. One of the first things that he did was to plant an orchard, which failed him : but three times he has planted an orchard, with a determination to win. His farm is today one of the best developed and nicely improved in the township, and here he engaged in general farming and stock raising, until 1908, when he retired from the more active duties of life and moved to Waterville. He was always an exact farmer and a believer in the best cultivation possible. He kept a splendid lot of high-grade stock, including cattle, Clydesdale and Norman horses and hogs. By hard work and excellent management he met with much success and soon became recognized as one of the foremost farmers and stockmen in the county. His home in Waterville is a modern two-story house and one of the best in the little city. He is a stockholder in the lumber company at Waterville and in the elevator company at Schroyer, Kansas, and has ever been active in those enterprises that would tend to the growth and prosperity of his community.
On January 16, 1868, Henry C. Follett was married to Aure E. Rose. the daughter of Lewis and Julia (Carr) Rose, natives of the state of Ohio. Mrs. Follett was born in Bryant, Williams county, Ohio, on July 5, 1850. and died at her home in Waterville, Kansas, on June 23, 1913. To this union two children were born, Elmer and Florence. Elmer is a farmer and stockman of Walnut township, where he is respected as a man and as a citizen. Florence M. was first married to Victor Madison, a native of
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Washington county, Kentucky, and to this union three children were born. Mr. Madison was killed some years ago by having an automobile turn over on him. Mrs. Madison later married Ed Green, a farmer of Burroak. Kansas.
Politically, Mr. Follett is a stanch Republican and has ever taken a keen interest in the affairs of his township. He is a member of the Knights and Ladies of Security and of the Grand Army of the Republic.
PETER CHAMPAGNE.
The town of Oketo, Marshall county, has many well-known and prom- inent retired residents, among the number being Peter Champagne, who is entitled to mention in the history of the county, he having had much to do with its growth and development. He was born in France on July 5. 1836. the son of Joseph and Justine ( Bay) Champagne.
Joseph and Justine ( Bay ) Champagne were also natives of France and there were educated grew to maturity and were later married. They spent their early married life in France, when they decided to come to America. During his life in his native land, Joseph Champagne engaged in farming and on his arrival in the United States, in 1846, he established his home on a farm in the state of Pennsylvania, where the wife and mother died the same year the family came to this country. After the death of his wife, Mr. Champagne kept his family together until the time of his death in 1853, when the three younger children were given a home in the family of an uncle. Peter, the other member of the family, decided to seek a home for himself and located in the state of Illinois. Emil and Frank later unlisted in the Federal army during the Civil War and were never heard of.
In 1861 Peter Champagne enlisted in Company A, Twelfth Ilinois Cavalry, and served in the Union army throughout the Civil War. He served for a year and a half in the Army of the Potomac and was with George Stoneman in his famous raid. At the end of his first enlistment he came home and then re-enlisted and was assigned to the Department of the Gulf under General Banks and took an active part in the campaigns in that section of the country. During his life as a soldier he was in the following engagements : Dartsville, Virginia; Harper's Ferry, Antietam, Ocesquam, Stoneman Raid at Yorktown; Allie. Virginia : Summerville. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Boonesboro, Maryland; Benevola, Maryland ;
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Funkstom, Maryland; Jones Cross Roads, Falling Waters, Chester Gap, Rap- pahannock, Culpeper. Racoon Ford, Madison Court House, Summerville and Prentville, Virginia. He received his discharge at Memphis, Tennessee, on June 16, 1865, and was mustered out of the service at Camp Butler, Spring- field, Illinois. After his discharge he returned to his old home in Pennsyl- vania and for a year and a half he was engaged in the oil fields of that state. In the spring of 1867 he came to Kansas, where he homesteaded a tract of land in section 22, Oketo township, Marshall county. He later purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in section 15, making him a splendid farm of three hundred and twenty acres. This he developed and improved and later added to his tract until he is now the owner of five hundred and sixty acres. He engaged in general farming for many years and met with much success, both as a farmer and stockman. He has two sets of build- ings on his extensive tract of land, but since 1911 he has been retired from the more active duties of farm life and has lived in Oketo, where he has a fine home.
On September 20, 1868, Peter Champagne was united in marriage to Elizabeth Suggett, who was born at Detroit, Michigan, on June 18, 1848, and is the daughter of John and Cinda (Burgess) Suggett. Her parents were natives of England and were for a number of years residents of Rock Island, Illinois, before they came to Marshall county in 1860, where they died some years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Champagne had born to them the fol- lowing children: Mary S., Victor B .. Eugene F., Grace B. and Ernest J. Mary S. is now living with her father in Oketo; Victor B. died on Septem- her 10, 1913, and left five children, Boyd, Reba, Vere. John and Garth. Eugene F. married Clara Farrend and they are living on the home farm; Grace B. is the wife of O. L. Poor; they are the parents of two children. Carleton and Stanery ; they live in Los Angeles, California, and Ernest J. is a farmer of Marshall county, where he is meeting with much success in his chosen work.
Mr. and Mrs. Champagne were always interested in the affairs of the township and the community in which they lived and where they were held - in the highest regard. They were regular attendants of the churches, and liberal supporters of all projects that tended to the better moral and educa- tional development of the district. Their interest in .the schools had much to do with the high standard of the educational institutions of the district. Mrs. Champagne died in April, 1916, and was buried in Oketo cemetery.
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