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LYNN ROSEGRANT BRODRICK
Lynn Rosegrant Brodrick, business manager of the Advocate-Democrat at Marysville and partner with his father, the editor and postmaster of Marysville, in the publication of that influential newspaper, was born at Marceline, Missouri, February 18, 1892, son of Harry M. and Emma L. (Rosegrant) Brodrick, further mention of whom is made in a biographi- cal sketch of the former presented elsewhere in this volume.
Lynn R. Brodrick was about eight years of age when his parents located at Marysville and he grew to manhood in that city, receiving his schooling in the public schools, and was graduated from the high school with the class of 1909. From boyhood he had been an active assistant to his father in the office of the latter's newspaper, the Marysville Advocate- Democrat, and on March 1, 1913, was given a one-third interest in the paper by his father and has since been acting as business manager of the paper. The plant of the Advocate-Democrat is one of the most up-to-date newspaper plants in this part of the state and the paper is managed along modern lines, long having been regarded as one of the ablest and most influential newspapers in this part of the state. Lynn R. Brodrick is a Democrat and in 1915 was elected chairman of the Marshall county Democrat cen- tral committee. He is now serving as secretary of the committee and is recognized as one of the most active young Democrats in the county.
On November 17, 1914, Lynn R. Brodrick was united in marriage to Jennie Schmidt Fulton, who was born on June 1, 1891, at Marysville, the daughter of E. R. and Jennie (Schmidt) Fulton, further mention of whom is made in a biographical sketch of the former. presented elsewhere in this volume.
Mrs. Brodrick secured her early education in the Marysville schools and graduated from the high school in the class of 1910. She completed her education by taking a year's course at the National Park Seminary at Washington, D. C. She was an active and energetic worker in church circles, having joined the Presbyterian church at the age of seventeen and engaged in Sunday school and church work. She and her husband took an earnest part in the general social activities of Marysville. On January 13, 1917, ' at the age of twenty-five years, seven months and twelve days, she passed away at her home after a brief illness.
Mr. Brodrick is a Royal Arch Mason and a Knight Templar and has held Masonic offices. He is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of
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America. In the affairs of these organizations and the others to which he belongs he has always taken a warm interest. In the general affairs of his home town he has taken an active interest even from the days of his boyhood and has always given his time and influence to the advancement of the general welfare of the city and the county at large.
WILLIAM H. MCATEE.
William H. McAtee, one of the best-known farmers of St. Bridget township, former trustee of that township and for years manager of the grain elevator at Mina, is a native son of Kansas and has lived in this state all his life. He was born in the city of Atchison on November 10. 1861. son of W. J. and Sarah A. ( Lancaster ) McAAtee, natives of Ohio, the former of whom was an honored veteran of the Civil War, and who became sub- stantial pioneer citizens of Marshall county, where they made their home for many years.
W. J. McAtee was but a boy when his parents, James McAtee and wife. moved from Ohio to Missouri and in the latter state he spent his young manhood. There his father died and the family later, in 1858, came to Kansas, settling on Elm creek in this county, among the very earliest set- thers in this part of the state. In 1856 W. J. McAtee moved into Doniphan county and thence to AAtchison, where he was living when the Civil War broke out. He enlisted for service in the Fourth Regiment, Missouri State Militia, and with that command saw considerable active service during the war. In 1865 he returned to AAtchison and with his family moved to Mar- shall county and located on a farm in Elm Creek township, where he remained until 1876, when he retired from the farm and moved to Blue Rapids, where he made his home until 1881, when he returned to farming and made his home on a farm in the Axtell neighborhood until 1887. In that year he definitely retired from farming and moved to Horton, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring in 1912. he then being seventy-six years of age.
William II. McAAtee was not yet four years of age when his parents moved from Atchison to this county and he spent his boyhood on the home farm in Elm Creek township, later moving with the family to Blue Rapids. where he completed his schooling. When twenty-one years of age, in 1882. he began working on his own account and rented a farm, on which. after
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his marriage in 1884, he established his home and there he lived until 1903, when he took charge of the grain elevator at Mina and was thus engaged until in July, 1915. In the meantime he had bought the farm of one hun- dred and twenty acres in St. Bridget township, on which he is now living, and had been improving and developing the same. and upon his retirement from his management of the elevator moved to that farm, where he and his family are now pleasantly and comfortably situated. Mr. McAtee built a new house on the farm, a house of eight rooms, with bath and modern conveniences, the dwelling being beautifully located on a hill and command- ing a fine view of the country for miles. His farm is otherwise well- improved and he is regarded as one of the progressive farmers of that township. Mr. McAtee is a Republican and for one term served the public as trustee of St. Bridget township, rendering a valuable service in that connection.
Mr. McAtee has been twice married. In 1884 he married Ada Will- iams, who died on May 2, 1895, leaving two children, Claude, who is now operating the grain elevator at Mina, and Mrs. Ida Packard. of St. Bridget township. In 1896 Mr. McAtee married Lottie Packard, daughter of J. W. Packard, formerly of Marshall county, now a resident of Enid. Oklahoma, and to this union nine children have been born, Mrs. Vera Burton, of near Axtell, Frank, Cora, William, Loyal, Howard, Chester, Iola and Anna, the latter of whom died in October, 1916. The McAtees are members of the Baptist church and take a proper interest in church work, as well as in the general social activities of the community in which they live, and have ever been helpful factors in advancing all good works in that community.
LACKLAND BROTHERS.
The impetus given to the breeding of Holstein cattle in Marshall county by the Lackland Brothers, owners of a fine farm of two hundred and forty acres three miles north of Axtell, has been of incalculable benefit to the live-stock interests of this county and it is undoubted that they have done very much toward developing the valuable animal industry of this part of the state. The firm of Lackland Brothers has been engaged in the breeding of pure-bred Holstein cattle for the past four years and has been very suc- cessful, their stock being sold at private sale to breeders and cattle fanciers over a wide range of territory in Kansas, Texas, Nebraska and Missouri.
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In October, 1916, they shipped half a carload of fine stock to New Mexico buyers and their market is being constantly extended. They are constantly giving their earnest attention to the extension of the very valuable plant they have created on their stock farm north of Axtell. The farm is well improved, the improvements including two capacious silos and all grain raised on the place is fed to the cattle. At the first annual Marshall County Stock Show held at Blue Rapids on October 2. 1916, Lackland Brothers took first and second prizes with their Holsteins and all the Holstein stock exhibited at that fair originated from their herd. eight head of such exhibits taking prizes.
The Lackland brothers are natives of Illinois, born in the city of Bloom- ington, that state, sons of the Rev. M. P. and Edith (Tryner ) Lackland, both natives of that same state, who were for many years engaged in educa- tional work at Bloomington, the Rev. M. P. Lackland later engaging in the gospel ministry, and who are now living retired in their comfortable home north of Axtell. The Rev. M. P. Lackland was born in Tazewell county, Illinois, and early engaged in educational work, presently being made presi- dent of Chaddock College. One of the instructors in that college was Edith Tryner, who was born in Bloomington, Illinois, in 1855, and was was engaged in teaching for five years before her marriage to Mr. Lackland. After their marriage both Mr. and Mrs. Lackland continued in their educa- tional work and for seven years Mr. Lackland was engaged as professor of mathematics in the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington. He then engaged in the gospel ministry, as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was for seventeen years engaged in ministerial labors. In 1881 he had invested the proceeds of his share in the old home in Illinois in land in this county, having bought the first quarter section in the northeast corner of Murray township, and upon his retirement from the ministry a few years ago came to Marshall county and is now living here. To the Rev. M. P. Lackland and wife were born three children, W. T., H. W. and Mar- garet, the two sons being the well-known young stock breeders now doing business in this county under the firm name of Lackland Brothers.
W. T. Lackland was born on March 11, 1884, and was educated in the Ohio Wesleyan University and in the Chicago University, from which latter institution he received his bachelor degree. He then was engaged in Young Men's Christian Association work in Illinois for five years, at the end of which time he became engaged as a traveling salesman for a whole- sale furniture house at Chicago and was thus engaged for five years, at the end of which time. February, 1913, he came to Kansas and has since
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been engaged in the live-stock business in this county, as set out above. He is an active member of the Masonic fraternity. In 1904 W. T. Lackland was united in marriage to Myra Barnes and to this union four children have been born, Mabel, W. T., Jr., Barnes and Elizabeth Jane.
H. W. Lackland was born at Bloomington, Illinois, December 5. 1891, and completed his schooling in Knox College at Galesburg, Illinois, after which for two years, 1912-13, he was engaged as teacher of mathematics in the high school at Magnolia, Illinois. He then accompanied his brother to Kansas and has since been engaged in the stock breeding business in partner- ship with his brother, under the firm name of Lackland Brothers. The Lacklands are members of the Holstein-Friesian Association of America and of the similar association of breeders in Kansas and take an active part in the deliberations of the same.
Margaret Lackland studied two years in the Illinois Woman's College, one year in the University of Illinois and completed her schooling in the . Illinois Wesleyan University, from which institution she received her degree. She then taught four years in the Brimfield (Illinois) schools and succeeded her brother as teacher of mathematics in the high school at Magnolia, and was thus engaged at the time of his marriage to Prof. H. H. Hayes, instructor in mathematics in the high school at Peoria, Illinois.
GEORGE B. BAUMAN.
One of the well-known and prominent retired farmers of Beattie, Mar- shall county, is George B. Bauman, who was born in Ottawa county, Michi- gan, on September 2, 1864, being the son of Henry and Harriett (Stettler) Bauman.
Henry Bauman was born in Switzerland in 1823, where he lived until he was nine years of age, when he came with his parents, William Bauman and wife, to the United States and located in Seneca county, Ohio. There he received his education in the public schools and grew to manhood on the home farm, later locating in Michigan, where he engaged in general farm- ing in Ottawa county, and where he enlisted in Company A, Seventh Regi- ment. Michigan Volunteer Infantry, in April, 1863. He was detailed to Indiana service and on account of ill health he was given an honorable dis- charge. He later located in Nebraska and in 1870 he came to Kansas, where he settled in section 4 Rock township, where he purchased eighty
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acres of land. The tract at that time was all wild prairie. He built a house and outbuildings, broke the land and engaged in general farming and stock raising until the time of his death in 1889. As a young man he learned the carpenter trade, which he followed for some years. Harriett Stettler Bauman was born in Pennsylvania in February, 1832, and died in March, 1911. To them were born the following children: Jacob F. James F., William H., Jr., Sarah, Emma. George B. and Elmer. William H., Jr., is a farmer of Marshall county and resides at Beattie; Jacob F. is retired and lives at Salem, Oregon: James F. is a retired fruit grower of Fresno, California: Sarah Dawson is a widow and lives at De Soto. Missouri; Emma died when she was ten years of age and Elmer died in infancy.
George B. Bauman was but six years of age when his parents left their home in Michigan and came to Gage county, Nebraska, where he was edu- cated in the public schools and was reared on the home farm. After com- pleting his education he remained on the home farm, and assisted his father with the work until his father's death. In 1910 he purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land in Marshall county, on which he built a splendid modern house and made other valuable improvements. His farm, which is located just south of the city limits of Beattie, is one of the best in the township. Here he is engaged in general farming and stock raising with much success. He keeps a splendid lot of hogs and Shorthorn cattle, and is today recognized as one of the substantial men and successful farmers and stock raisers of the county. He has always taken an active interest in local affairs, and has for many years been associated with the Republican party. He has served as treasurer of Rock and Guittard townships, in which positions he gave excellent service.
In 1895 George B. Bauman was united in marriage to Mary Bulkley, who was born in Fayette county, Indiana, on January 18. 1869, and was the daughter of Thomas and Clementine ( Porter) Bulkley, both of whom were natives of Indiana, where they received their education in the public schools, grew up and were later married. In 1879 they came to Rock town- ship. Marshall county, where they established their home on a farm, where they resided until the time of their deaths some years ago. In 1912 Mary ( Bulkley) Bauman died, and on July 17, 1913. Mr. Bauman was married to Aurora Kingsbury, who was born on February 11, 1876, in Johnson county. Nebraska, the daughter of David and Harriett (Moore) Kingsbury. To Mr. and Mrs. Kingsbury, who are now deceased, there were three chil- dren born, Aurilla D. Hardins. Aurora S. Bauman and Charles H. Kingsbury.
Mr. and Mrs. Bauman are active members of the Methodist Episcopal
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church and are prominent in all the social and religious life of the town- ship, where they have lived for so many years and where they are held in the highest regard and esteem by all who know them. Mr. Bauman is a member of the board of trustees of the church, and is active in the mem- bership of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights and Ladies of Security. His life has been a most active one and he has accom- plished much that is worthy of note.
JAMES M. DILLEY.
James M. Dilley, one of Guittard township's best-known and most substantial farmers and former trustee of that township, is a native of the state of Illinois, but has been a resident of Kansas since the days of his childhood. He was born on a farm in Carroll county, Illinois, November 22, 1864, son of Richard and Mary (Barnes) Dilley, who were the parents of six children, of whom the subject of this sketch and his twin brother were the last born. Richard Dilley was born on December 27, 1828, in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, and when a young man moved to Illinois, where he engaged in farming, later coming to Kansas and settling on a farm in the neighborhood of Hamlin. He died at St. Joseph, Missouri, in November. 1913, near the eighty-fifth year of his age. Richard Dilley was twice mar- ried. His first wife, Mary Barnes, mother of the subject of this sketch, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1830, died in 1877 and in 1878 Mr. Dilley married Martha Burgess, who is still living. To that union one child was born.
James M. Dilley was reared on a farm and completed his schooling in the schools of Hamlin, this state. Following his marriage at the age of twenty-one he began farming on his own account, on a rented place, and two years later, in 1887, bought the farm in Guittard township, this county, where he ever since has made his home and on which he has made all the present substantial improvements. Mr. Dilley is the owner of a quarter of a section of land in section 18 and has a very pleasant home, his house being situated on the Rock Island highway, two and one-half miles north- west of Beattie. In addition to his general farming he long has given con- siderable attention to the raising of high-grade live stock, specializing in Shorthorn cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs, and has done very well. Mrs. Dilley has more than a local reputation as a breeder of Barred Plymouth Rock
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chickens and has frequently made successful exhibits of her poultry at the fairs at Topeka, Marysville and other points. Mr. Dilley is a Democrat and has long given his earnest attention to local civic affairs, having served for some time as trustee of his home township.
On December 24. 1885, at Hiawatha, Kansas, James M. Dilley was united in marriage to .Anna J. Martin, who was born at Seneca, this state, February 27, 1870, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Merry) Martin, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Canada, who came to Kansas in 1867 and settled in Marshall county, later moving to Nemaha county. and to this union seven children have been born, namely: Arthur, a graduate of the Beattie schools. now farming in Franklin township, who married Myrtle Pautz, of Brown county, and has one child, a son, Martin ; Richard. a farmer in Guittard township, who was graduated from the high school at Beattie and taught district schools for six terms, married Edna Capps, of this county, and has one child, a daughter, Lauretta; Addie, who also was grad- nated from the Beattie schools and from Nazareth Academy, taught school for four terms, married Martin Flannigan, a grain and live-stock dealer at Summerfield, and has two daughters, Catherine and Mary: Clyde. also a graduate of the Beattie schools, who is at home; Annabel, at home; Coburn, also at home, and one, the sixth in order of birth, who died in infancy. The Dilleys are members of the Catholic church and take a proper interest in the affairs of the same, as well as in the general social activities of the com- munity in which they live, helpful factors in the promotion of all causes hay- ing to do with the advancement of the common good thereabout.
JACOB WULLSCHLEGER.
Jacob Wullschleger, for years one of the best-known and most success- tul carpenters and builders in Marshall county, but since 1908 a farmer in Center township, proprietor of a fine place of a quarter of a section there, is a native of the republic of Switzerland, but has been a resident of this country since 1882. He was born in the canton AAargau, Switzerland, August 5. 1859, son of Isaac and .Anna Wullschleger, both natives of that same country, the former born in 1829 and the latter, in 1830, who spent all their lives there, the latter dying in 1872 and the former in 1877. Isaac Wull- schleger was a farmer and carpenter and a substantial citizen in tlre neigh- borhood in which he lived. lle and his wife were the parents of nine chil-
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dren, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth and all of whom came to this country save Ida, the first-born, who died in her native land, the others being as follow: Mrs. Anna Costin, of Wichita, this state; Emma, who is married and lives in Oregon; Robert, one of the best- known residents of Center township, this county, who for years was engaged with his brother, Jacob, in building operations in this county; Richard, also of Center township; Otto, who is now living in California; Ferdinand, of Okla- homa City, and Mrs. Albertine Lenderman, who is living on a farm near Oklahoma City.
Jacob Wullschleger received his schooling in his native Switzerland and early learned from his father the carpenter trade, at which he and his brother, Robert, worked there until the fall of 1882, when they came to the United States, proceeding to Livingston county, Illinois, not long afterward coming on over into Kansas, locating near Wichita. In the spring of 1884 they came to Marshall county and located at Marysville, where they began work- ing as carpenters and builders and were there thus engaged for a period of twenty-eight years, during which time they became recognized as among the most successful building contractors in this part of the state, many of the best buildings not only at Marysville, but in other parts of this and surround- ing counties having been erected by them. In 1907 Jacob Wullschleger bought a quarter of a section of land in Center township and decided to become a farmer, the love of the soil being inherent in him, the Wullschlegers for generations back having been farmers. In 1908 he moved to the farm and has since lived there, he and his family being very well situated. Mr. Wullschleger has one of the best farm plants in the county. His buildings are of an excellent type and occupy a beautiful site on rolling land, or rather a group of knolls, offering admirable opportunities for landscape gardening. Much stone is used in the buildings and the driveway up to the house is enclosed between stone walls. Besides the commodious residence there are two barns, a garage, an ample granary, corn cribs and the like, all well kept, and an orchard in the rear. In addition to his general farming operations Mr. Wullschleger gives considerable attention to the raising of grade Hol- stein cattle and is doing very well. Politically, he is a Republican, but dur- ing the years of his busy life in this county has not found time to seek public office.
On April 18, 1885, the spring after he came to Marshall county, Jacob Wullschleger was united in marriage to Rosa Schwartz, also a native of the republic of Switzerland, born in the canton of Bern on April 27, 1865, daugh-
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ter of Christ and Anna ( Hanni) Schwartz, who came to America in 1883. arriving in Marshall county on December 31 of that year. Christ Schwartz died in Oklahoma in 1892 and his widow survived him three years, her death occurring in 1895. To Mr. and Mrs. Wullschleger six children have been born, namely: Otto, born on January 8, 1886, who is at home assisting his father in the operations of the farm; . Anna, November 10, 1887, who mar- ried Lawrence Griffis and is living at Frankfort, this county; Ida. April 7, 1890, born at Laramie, Wyoming, where the family spent one year, who is now a nurse in the Sisters hospital at St. Joseph : Huldah, April 18. 1893. at home; Ernest, January 15, 1900, and Walter, July 17. 1905. The Wall- schlegers are members of the Evangelical church and take a warm interest in church affairs, as well as in the general social affairs of their community. helpful in promoting all worthy canses thereabont.
ALFRED JOHNSON.
Alfred Johnson, recently deceased, was one of Lincoln township's best- known and most substantial farmers and was the proprietor of a farm of two hundred acres in section 28 of that township. He was a native of the kingdom of Sweden, but had been a resident of this county for more than thirty years. He was born in Sweden on March 10, 1857, son of John Ben- son and Brigitta Johnson, natives of that same country, who spent all their lives there and who were the parents of six children, those besides the sub- ject of this sketch being as follow: Herman, deceased; Amelia, deceased; Josephine, deceased; Edwin, a farmer in Lincoln township, this county, and Klaus, who is still living in his native land.
Reared in Sweden, AAlfred Johnson remained there until March 31. 1884, when he sailed for this country in company with a cousin, with a view to joining the considerable Swedish colony that had been established in this county. He arrived at the station at Frankfort on April 4. 1884, with just two dollars and fifty cents in his pocket with which to start in a new country. Without delay he secured employment on the Spiller farm, engaging his services there at the wage of sixteen dollars a month, and was thus engaged for two years, at the end of which time he had saved two hundred and fifty dollars. With that money he bought a team of horses, a set of harness and a wagon and thus equipped for work on his own account rented a farm of sixty acres in Rock township. That was in 1887 and those who recall the
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