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early pioneer. As a boy he worked at the breaking of the wild prairie sod, when he was so small that it was necessary to place extra plow handles on the breaking plow, so that he could reach them.
In 1890 Nicholas Koppes was united in marriage to Sarah E. Parker, the daughter of Henry and Bridget (Malloy) Parker. Henry Parker was born in England in 1832 and was reared on the farm and educated in the public schools. At the age of twelve years he was brought to Canada where he grew to manhood and there engaged in farming until 1870, when he came to the United States, and located in Center township, Marshall county. Here he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land, which he developed and improved and engaged in general farming and stock raising until his death in 1892. Bridget Parker was born in Ireland in 1835; she was reared on the farm and received her education in the common schools. She came to Canada at the age of twelve years, and as a girl and young woman worked for others until her marriage. Mr. Parker was a member of the church of England and Mrs. Parker was a devout member of the Catholic church and until her death in 1893, was an active member of the altar society. Mr. and Mrs. Parker were the parents of five children as follow: Mary Murphy, now deceased: Theresa Finegan, a widow now living in Marysville; Sarah E., the wife of Nicholas Koppes, and two that died in infancy.
Sarah (Parker) Koppes was born in Center township. Marshall county, on August 2. 1871, grew to womanhood on the home farm and received her education in the local schools. Her early life was spent at the home of her parents, where she lived until the time of her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Koppes are active members of the Catholic church and are prominent in the social life of the community. Mr. Koppes is a member of the Knights of Columbus and Mrs. Koppes is one of the active workers in the altar society. Mr. Koppes is identified with the Republican party and takes much interest in the civic life of the district, yet he has never been an office seeker. MIrs. Koppes is a member of the Royal Neighbors and takes much interest in that organization. Mr. and Mrs. Koppes are the parents of six children as fol- low: Francis N., Florence, Sadie, Wallace, Carl and Nicholas, Jr. Francis N. is a well-to-do farmer of Elm Creek township: Florence was born on Octo- ber 23. 1895: Sadie. August 23. 1898: Wallace, November 14, 1901; Carl, October 6. 1905, and Nicholas, Jr., December 9, 1910. The children are all at home with the exception of Francis N. Mr. and Mrs. Koppes have a beautiful home, which is nicely located, presenting a commanding view from the distance.
Nicholas Koppes, by his own efforts and hard work, has won a place of
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prominence in the vicinity in which he lives. Beginning life a poor boy. he has now one of the finest and best improved farms in the township, and is recognized as one of the substantial men of the district.
GEORGE GALLUP.
George Gallup, now deceased, and at one time a prominent and success- ful farmer and stockman of Blue Rapids City township, Marshall county, was born at Mason, Michigan, on October 23, 1841, and was the son of Alfred and Nancy (Grey) Gallup, who were natives of Le Roy, New York. The parents were educated in the schools of that state and there grew to maturity and were later married. In 1839 they left New York and moved to Michigan, where Mr. Gallup engaged in general farming and stock rais- ing until his death in 1878, at the age of seventy years. Alfred and Nancy Gallup were the parents of three sons, all of whom are now deceased. They were much respected people and held in the highest regard throughout the district in which they lived.
George Gallup was reared on the home farm in Michigan and received his education in the schools of that state and later taught school for a num- ber of years, at Le Roy, New York. While at Le Roy, he met and married Caroline C. Hammond, who was born near that place on March 29. 1847, and is the daughter of Isaac and AAmanda (Dunning) Hammond, natives of Scipio, that state. Mrs. Gallup was the youngest of seven children and received her education in the public schools and at Ingham University, after which she taught school for one year. Her father was born on November 11, 1803, and died on February 27. 1866. He was a man of much ability and a successful farmer. His parents were Luther and Mary Hammond, also natives of the state of New York and were prominent people. The family date the advent of their appearance in the United States to the time of the "Mayflower". Both the Gallup and Hammond families have a family history that gives an unbroken record for many generations.
George and Caroline C. Gallup were united in marriage on June 23, 1870. and the next year they left their home in New York and came to Kan- sas. Here they established their home on a farm, where Mrs. Gallup lives. in Blue Rapids City township, Marshall county. . \ small frame house, twenty by twenty-four feet, was erected and consisted of four rooms. There was no other house so fine between their home and Marysville. and the people
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of the prairie country considered the new home something to be exceedingly proud of. Mr. Gallup and C. J. Brown laid out the Ridge road from Marys- ville to Blue Rapids and always gave his best efforts to the development and improvement of this section of the county. His worth and ability were recog- nized by the people of the community and he was honored with many of the local offices. The trust placed in him was never betrayed, for he gave the people his very best services. To him is due much of the early progress of the township and city of Blue Rapids. He was ever much interested in the establishment of the best schools and churches; he was a strong advocate of the building of good roads, and felt that the future greatness of the county, depended much on its schools, churches and roads. He was an attendant at the Presbyterian church and a liberal supporter of that denomination, as well as assisting in the support of other denominations in the district. He was an active member of the Knights and Ladies of Security.
As a farmer and stockman, Mr. Gallup met with much success and was recognized as one of the influential and successful men of the county. In 1886 he established a herd of Shorthorn cattle on his farm of four hundred acres, and was soon able to place some of his animals on the market at the highest market prices. He was a great reader and perhaps no man in the county kept more abreast of the times than did he. He believed in progress in all lines of work, and modern methods and modern machinery were intro- duced on his home farm. He did not believe that any one could make a success of farming and stock-raising, unless he was a student of natural and local conditions. In his death on April 10, 1914, the family lost a kind and indulgent father ; the wife, a loving husband and the community, a true friend.
To George and Caroline E. Gallup were born the following children : Elmina L., Stella C., Ralph and Alfred H., the last two being twins. Elmina L. is the widow of Rev. Samuel Moyer, and makes her home with her mother. She received her education in the public schools of her home county and com- pleted the high school course at Blue Rapids and later studied at Kansas Uni- versity. From the year 1900 to 1905 she was in the employ of the Dodd & Mead Publishing Company at New York City in the Biblical-geographical research library. She has two stepsons, Parkhurst A., a student in the Uni- versity of Kansas, and Francis, a student of Washburn College. Stella C. is the wife of Prof. Hamilton Cady of the University of Kansas. They have three children. Ruth Caroline, George H. and Helen F. Mrs. Cady is a graduate of the local high school at Blue Rapids and of Kansas University. and is a woman of exceptional ability and culture. Professor Cady is a man of high attainments and highly educated, and is at present professor of
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chemistry and liquid air. Ralph Forney is county engineer of Marshall county, and resides at Marysville, and is also a graduate of the State Uni- versity of Kansas, having completed his work with the class of 1907. On February 14. 1910, he was united in marriage to Stella Hawkins and to them two children have been born. Alice Caroline and Alfred F. Alfred Ham- mond Gallup lives with his mother on the home farm and is a successful young farmer and stockman. He is particularly interested in the breeding of Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs, and is recognized as one of the successful men in his line in the county. He was for several years in the Agricultural College of Kansas.
Mrs. Gallup is a most pleasing woman and has many friends, who hold her in the highest regard. She is an active worker in the Presbyterian church and one of the favorites in the social life of the community, where she has so long lived.
NEIL ROBINSON.
Among the native sons of Canada who have come to the United States. where they have met with success as general farmers and stockmen, is Neil Robinson, of Blue Rapids City township, Marshall county. He was born at Peterborough, Ontario, on February 24, 1858, and is the son of John and Elizabeth ( Neely ) Robinson.
John and Elizabeth Robinson were natives of Yorkshire. England, and Ontario, Canada. Mr. Robinson came to Canada with his parents when he was but two years of age in 1814. There he received his education in the schools of his adopted country, and there he grew to manhood and married. As a young man he engaged in farming, which work he followed until his death in 1872. Six years after the death of her husband Mrs. Robinson and her children came to the United States and located in Center township, Mar- shall county, where she died in 1896 at the age of sixty-six years. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson were held in high regard, and were active members of the Methodist Episcopal church, always taking much interest in religious work. They were the parents of nine children, one of whom is now deceased, and Neil is the eldest of the family.
Neil Robinson was educated in the schools of Canada, where he lived until he was twenty, when with his mother and the other children of the family he came to Marshall county, where he has since resided. His father had some time before his death purchased three hundred and sixty acres of
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land in Center township, and it was there that the family first settled. The place was undeveloped and without improvements of any kind. Here Neil, with the assistance of his mother and the other members of the family, erected a house, sixteen by twenty-four feet, in which they lived for a number of years. Other improvements were made and they were soon engaged at the task of putting the place under cultivation. In the spring of 1878, Mr. Robinson succeeded in breaking sixty acres of the prairie tract, preparatory to the planting of their crops. He remained on the home place, where he assisted with the many duties on the farm, until 1886, at which time he rented a farm in Elm Creek township and began farming for himself. In 1913 he purchased his present farm of three hundred and twenty acres, one of the best farms in the township and nicely improved with a splendid house and excellent barn. He has lately built a fine garage for the housing of his automobile.
Mr. Robinson is a most successful farmer and a breeder of high-class race horses. He has exhibited his horses at many of the fairs throughout Kansas and Nebraska and has taken part in several successful races. He is a great admirer of good horses, and was interested in racing while living in Canada. He is one of the best judges of horses in this section of the state. and the animals on his farm receive the utmost care and attention. In addi- tion to his horses he also has high-grade cattle and hogs. He believes in the thorough cultivation of the soil and his fine farm is an evidence of work in that direction. He is a man who has the confidence and respect of his home people, and in 1900 he was elected as trustee of Elm Creek township and held the position for two years, after which he moved to Blue Rapids City township, where in 1916, he was elected trustee of that township. His influence throughout the county was demonstrated in the spring of 1916, when he organized the County Fair Association. He made a canvass of the county and sold shares of stock to nearly every prominent man who was interviewed. Today the organization is one of the features of the county, with Mr. Robinson as its president. As an organizer and an executive he has few equals and much of the success of the new association is due to his untiring efforts and ability, as well as his faith in the county to have a good fair. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen and is one of their active members.
On November 17, 1887, Neil Robinson was united in marriage to Edith Brown, the daughter of Rev. George and Emma (Popplestone) Brown. Edith Brown was born at Elmira, New York, April 3, 1869. Her parents were natives of England, the father having been born in that country in 1844
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and died in January, 1913; the mother, who was born in 1840, is now living at Wamego, Kansas. They received their education in the schools of their native country and there they grew to maturity and resided until 1866, when they came to the United States. The father, as a young man entered the ministry and became a well-known Baptist divine. On coming to the United States he located at Elmira. New York. In 1881 he came to Kansas and located at Blue Rapids. He preached in many different towns of Kansas and Iowa, his last pastorate being Clay Center. Kansas. He died in Wamego, Kansas, January 11, 1913.
Edith ( Brown) Robinson attended the schools of Blue Rapids and specialized in music. also taking a course in New York. After completing her education, she was a successful teacher of music. She is a woman of rare attainments and greatly admired by her friends and acquaintances throughout the county. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson are the parents of five chil- dren, Earl. Nellie, Russell, Fay and lla. all of whom are at home with the exception of Nellie, who is the wife of Carl Andrews. The family are prominent in the social and . the religious life of the community and are among the well-known people of the county.
ALBERT L. JONES.
Albert L. Jones, one of Guittard township's representative farmers, former clerk of that township and now the township trustee, is a native son of that township and has lived there all his life. He was born on the farm on which he is now living. August 18, 1880, son of Peter and Emma (Tot- ten ) Jones, pioneers of Marshall county, the former of whom died in 1911 and the latter of whom is still living on the old home place.
Peter Jones was one of Marshall county's earliest settlers, having come here back in the days when land was still open to pre-emption. Upon com- ing to Kansas he had settled in Nemaha county, but after a short stay there came over into Marshall county and pre-empted a quarter of a section in Guittard township, where he proceeded to establish a home. He had no wagon, but he had a team of oxen and those he drove to St. Joseph, where he bought a wagon. He loaded on this wagon doors and sashes and the material for flooring and a roof and returned with the same to his claim, where he erected a stone house, which is still standing and which, with the numerous improvements that have been made to it. continues to make a
MR. AND MRS. PETER JONES.
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comfortable home for his widow, who is still living there, one of the hon- ored pioneer mothers of Marshall county. Peter Jones broke up his farm with a team of oxen and soon had it under cultivation and in a way to the later development that caused it to be regarded as one of the best-kept farms in that part of the county. When he settled there Indians still were numer- ous throughout this part of the state and for some time after locating on that place there was a band of two hundred Indians encamped on the place, the evidence of that aboriginal camp still being visible at the northwest cor- ner of the farm. At that time the nearest market was at Beatrice, Nebraska, to which place Mr. Jones hauled his first gathering of grain. The wheat was cut with a scythe and was threshed with a flail. Deer still were numer- ous along the timber line and the buffalo ranges still held numerous herds of buffalo, Mr. Jones often engaging in a buffalo hunt, particularly over in the western part of the state, where for some time he was manager of a ranch. At that time the old government trains were still making the trip west to Pike's Peak and the slowly-moving wagon trains could be seen from the Jones place on the way west through this county.
Albert L. Jones was reared on that pioneer farm and received his school- ing in the neighboring district school. From boyhood he was a valued assistant to his father in the labors of developing and improving the home place. Following his marriage he rented a portion of the farm and there established his home. Upon the death of his father on February 11, 19II, he became heir to one of the eighties and is now the owner of a full quarter section, on which he has made valuable improvements, including a modern house and barn, and he and his family are very comfortably situated. Mr. Jones is a Democrat and has long taken an active part in local civic affairs. For some time he served as clerk of the township.
On May 3. 1905, Albert L. Jones was united in marriage to Lillie Millikan, who also was born in Guittard township, this county, May 27. 1885, a daughter of William and Belle (Thorn) Millikan, who were the par- ents of four children, of whom Mrs. Jones was the second in order of birth. William Millikan was born in Missouri and his parents were among the earliest pioneers of Marshall county, having settled in the neighborhood of Frankfort shortly after lands in this county were opened for settlement. Belle Thorn was born in this county. on a pioneer farm in Guittard town- ship, and was one of the first white persons born in that part of the county. After her death Mr. Millikan married again and is now living in Kansas City, Missouri. To Mr. and Mrs. Jones four children have been born, Albert L., Jr., Iris Belle, Leroy and Peter V. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have a
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very pleasant home and take a proper part in the general social activities of their home community, helpful in advancing all good causes. Mr. Jones is a member of the local lodge of the Modern Woodmen of the World and takes an active interest in the affairs of the same.
THOMAS JEFFERSON SUGGETT.
Thomas J. Suggett, one of the well-known retired farmers of Oketo. Marshall county, was born in Detroit, Michigan, on July 25. 1855. and is the son of John Pontiach and Clinda ( Burgess ) Suggett.
John Pontiach and Clinda ( Burgess) Suggett. were born in England. the former having been born in Durhamshire in 1813 and died on June 7. 1874, and the latter was born in Somersetshire in 1827 and died on May 6. 1906. John P. Suggett was educated in the schools of his native country and there he grew to manhood and learned the butcher trade. At the age of twenty years he came to America and on his arrival in this country he at once located in Detroit, where he was engaged at his trade and did butcher- ing for the boats that plied on the lakes. Clinda Burgess, who became the wife of Mr. Suggett, received her first educational training in the schools of England, and when but ten years of age, she came with her parents to the United States and with them settled in Detroit. There she completed her education and grew to womanhood and was later married in 1847. Mr. and Mrs. Suggett established their home in their adopted city and there they lived until 1856, when they moved to Rock Island, Illinois. Mr. Suggett continued in his work as butcher, supplying the steamers that plied the Missis- sippi river with meat. After a residence of six years in that city the family moved to Kansas, the trip being made by boat to Hannibal. Missouri, and from there to St. Joseph by railroad. At St. Joseph Mr. Suggett purchased a team of oxen and completed the journey to Marysville. Marshall county. On his arrival in that town, he again engaged in the butcher business and supplied meat to the soldiers. In 1869 he homesteaded a tract of land in Oketo township and he and his boys built their first house. The logs were obtained along the creek, a two-story building being erected, in which the family lived for a number of years. Although the family was on the plains and in a sparsely settled country, they always had a plenty to eat. Their meat was obtained on the plains, where there was plenty of wild prairie chicken, wild turkey, duck and buffalo. The latter were quite plentiful until
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as late as 1872, and furnished fresh meat for the family. That year most of these animals had deserted the plains of this section of Kansas. but the family had plenty of dried meat to last them well into the next year.
As time advanced. John P. Suggett put his farm into a good state of development and had it well improved and he became a successful farmer and stock raiser. He made his home one of the pleasant places of the county, and there he and his wife lived until the time of their deaths. They were the parents of the following children: Elizabeth. William H .. John W., Nathaniel P .. Thomas J., Fannie L., Benjamin F .. Nellie, Clinda and Mary D. Elizabeth, who married Mr. Champagne, is now deceased, as are Will- iam H., Fannie L., who was the wife of John Watson, and Mary D .. the latter having died on November 7, 1895. Nathaniel P. resides at Oketo, where he is well known; Benjamin F. is a resident of Beloit, Kansas; John W. is engaged in farming in Marietta, and Mrs. Nellie Gibson is conducting a boarding house at Oketo. Clinda is the wife of John Mayhew, a farmer and stockman of Oketo township, their farm being located four miles west of Marietta.
John P. and Clinda Suggett were excellent people and were held in the highest regard and esteem in the community in which they resided. Mrs. Suggett believed in teaching her children the care of the home and how to cook. and her boys were adepts in both arts. They took the greatest interest in the moral and physical development of their home township. and were ever active in promoting the interests of the community.
Thomas Jefferson Suggett received his education in the schools of Mar- shall county and made his home with his parents until he was seventeen years of age, up to which time he worked in the neighborhood as a farm hand. On April 22, 1899, upon the opening of the large tract of land in Okla- homa, he made the run and was successful in obtaining a town lot in Guthrie and one hundred and sixty acres of land. For seven years he remained in Guthrie, living in a tent and operating the Royal grocery in a building, six- teen by twenty-four feet. He dug a well and sold the water at five cents per bucket and from this venture he made five dollars per day. He also operated a blacksmith shop in which he was also successful. He lived a strenuous life in the new land until 1906, when sold all his holdings in the territory and returned to Oketo. Here he has a splendid home and is the owner of eighteen city lots, and devotes his time to the raising of potatoes, strawberries and small fruit. For the most part he lives a semi-retired life, but he takes pleasure in the cultivation of his small tract of land and the care of his fruit.
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Politically, Mr. Suggett is a member of the Republican party and has always taken a keen interest in the affairs of the community. For ten years he has served the township as a constable and he was re-elected again in 1916. out of three hundred and ninety-nine votes, receiving three hundred. The family were members of the Episcopal church and Mr. Suggett was reared in that faith. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has given excellent service to his local lodge. He has devoted much of his time to the interests of the order and has had much to do with its growth. He has filled the chairs of his lodge twice, and is now a past noble grand. In 1910 he represented his order at the grand lodge in Junction City. He has served as treasurer and chaplain of his home lodge and is now filling the important position of deputy grand master, in which position he has demon- strated his ability and force.
On October 28. 1896. Mr. Suggett was united in marriage to Mrs. Rebecca Wood. Mr. Suggett has always been a hard-working man and is possessed of sound judgment and business acumen. Financially. he has met with success and is recognized as one of the substantial men of the township.
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