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On July 20, 1890, John A. Winquist was united in marriage to Hannah P. Sanquist, who also was born in Sweden. July 19, 1873, a daughter of A. P. and Johanna Sanquist, who came to Kansas in 1887 and located in Lincoln township, but later moved to Beattie, where they are now living. To Mr. and Mrs. Winquist seventeen children have been born, namely : Martin W .. born on August 4, 1891: Elsie O. N., September 21, 1892: Frank R .. November 15, 1893: Mabel V .. November 27, 1895, who married Edward Doering, a farmer living west of Axtell, in Murray township, and has one child. a son, Ralph Willard : Lillie A., January 27, 1897 ; Mildred E., March 29. 1898: Albert S., January 13. 1900: Aaron Leroy, March 6, 1901, who died on September 25, 1901 : John Leroy, June 21. 1903: Lila B., July 14, 1904: Clifford R., August 21, 1905: Carl E., September 10, 1906; Hobart D. and Hannah (twins), January 14. 1909, the latter of whom died in infancy : Winifred V. and Wilfred H. (twins) April 26. 1911. the lat-
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ter dying at the age of one year, and Doris L., August 9, 1913. The Win- quists are members of the Swedish Lutheran church and Mr. Winquist was a former member of the board of trustees of the same. He is a Republican and for some time served as clerk of Lincoln township.
THOMAS H. LEWIS.
Thomas H. Lewis, a well-known and substantial farmer and stockman of Franklin township, this county, was born on a pioneer farm in that town- ship and has lived there all his life. He was born on September 18. 1871, son of William and Maria Lewis, pioneers of Marshall county, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, and grew to manhood on the old homestead farm. receiving his schooling in the school in the Brooks district. As a lad he used to herd cattle on the plains and helped to break the sod, retaining distinct recollections of the old oxen used on the farm. He remained an assistant to his father in the labors of improving and developing the home place until he was twenty-one years of age, when he rented a tract of land and began farming on his own account. In 1907 he bought a quarter of a section of land in section 35, Franklin township, from his mother-in-law and has since made his home on that place, bring- ing the same up to a high state of development. The place was well im- proved when he bought it, but he has made numerous valuable improve- ments to the same and now has one of the best-kept farms in that part of the county.
In 1903 Thomas H. Lewis was united in marriage to Lena Tangeman. who was born on a pioneer farm in Center township, this county, June 5. 1877. daughter of John and Dora ( Duever) Tangeman, natives of Germany, who became pioneers of Marshall county, where the former spent his last days and where the latter is still living. John Tangeman was born in the province of Hanover on Jime 22, 1835, and was trained to the trade of a blacksmith, at which he worked in the army. In 1866 he married Dora Dnever, who was also born in Hanover, May 31. 1837, and in that same year he and his wife came to the United States, the vessel on which they came over being fourteen days in making the passage. They located at Chi- cago, where Mr. Tangeman worked at his trade until 1871, when he came to Kansas and homesteaded a tract of forty acres in section 4 of Center town-
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ship and there established his home in a dug-out, in which humble abode a son was presently born. Later, he built a ten-by-twelve house of cottonwood lumber and in that little house two other children were born. During the grasshopper visitations his small attempts at farming were thwarted by the voracious pests, which ate every growing thing on the place. His first crop was five or six acres of corn, for which he received twelve and a half cents a bushel; a similar price being also all he could get for a few potatoes he also was able to raise. At that time Indians still were quite numerous in this part of the state and the family often was annoyed by the lazy aboriginals coming to the house and begging for something to eat. Presently, however, better times set in and Mr. Tangeman's affairs began to prosper. he after awhile becoming the owner of a quarter of a section of land, on which he did well and where he spent his last days, his death occurring on February 2, 1906. His widow is still living and now makes her home with her chil- dren. There were seven of these children, of whom Mrs. Lewis was the sixth in order of birth. the others being as follow: William, deceased; Ernest, a merchant at the village of Home; G. J., a farmer in the vicinity of Winifred : August, a merchant : Mrs. Amelia Reinhardt, wife of a hard- . ware merchant at Home, and Henrietta, deceased.
To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis two children have been born, Ruth, born on November 7. 1906, and Russell C., December 22, 1915. The Lewises have a pleasant home in Franklin township and take a proper interest in the gen- eral social activities of that neighborhood. Mr. Lewis is a Democrat and takes an earnest interest in local political affairs, but has never been a seeker after public office.
HENRY REB.
Among the old settlers of Marshall county the name of Henry Reb, one of the real pioneers of this county, who died in Vermillion township on March 24. 1874, is held in pleasant remembrance. He was one of the very earliest settlers in this county and did well his part in the work of developing that part of the county in which he settled. Henry Reb was born in Rhein- ish Bavaria, Germany, in 1830, and was trained as a blacksmith and wheel- wright in his native Fatherland. There he lived until after he had attained his majority, when, in 1852, he came to this country and lived in the states of Michigan and Iowa for a few years, and in 1858 came to Kansas and settled in Marshall county. Upon coming here Mr. Reb bought a quarter
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of a section of land in section 30 of what later was organized as Vermillion township and there set up a smithy and wagon shop, the only industry of the kind for miles around, and his services were in immediate demand, soon having plenty of work. Some four or five years after his marriage in 1860 Mr. Reb abandoned his smithy and gave his whole attention to the develop- ment of his farmi, on which he established his home and where he spent the rest of his life, leaving at the time of his death in 1874 an estate of two hun- dred acres of rich bottom land, now owned by his widow, who continues to make her home there. During the Civil War Henry Reb gave his services to his adopted country and rendered valuable service to Kansas as a member of the Home Guards. He was a member of the German Evangelical Asso- ยท ciation, as is his widow, and both took an active part in church and other good works hereabout in pioneer days.
On September 14, 1860, in this county, Henry Reb was united in mar- riage to Anna Regina Lodholz, who was born at Wurtemberg, Germany, November 10,1838, daughter of Joseph Frederick and Anna Mary Lodholz, natives of that country, the former of whom died in the Fatherland in 1843. Four years later, in 1847. the elder son of the Lodholz family, Godfrey Lodholz, came to the United States and about five years later, in 1852, an- other son, George Lodholz, also came. Two years later, in 1854, the Widow Lodholz and her daughter, Anna Regina, and another son, Frederick, fol- lowed and settled at Terryville, Connecticut, where they remained until 1858. when they came to Kansas, accompanied by Godfrey Lodholz and his family and settled on a tract of land they pre-empted six miles north of Beattie, in this county. Upon coming to Kansas the Lodholz family proceeded by rail and steamer as far as Atchison, where George met them on horseback and there procured another horse and a wagon and thus hauled their household goods over here to their new home in Marshall county, he having preceded them the year before and selected the land on which they made their home. Two years after coming to this county, Anna Regina Lodholz married Henry Reb and has ever since made her home on the land he pre-empted upon coming here, one of the honored and respected pioneer residents of Marshall county.
To Henry and Anna Regina (Lodholz) Reb five sons and two daugh- ters were born, namely: George Henry, who is at home farming the home place for his mother; Anna Mary, at home; John F., a Marshall county farmer, who married Lulu L. Jones and has two sons, James Henry and John Maynard, who are now attending high school at Blue Rapids ; Frederick C., who died aged two years and nine months: William G., owner of a farm
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adjoining the old home place on the southwest, who married Susan J. Ander- son and has one child, a son, Ralph William ; Helena Christina, at home, and Louis C .. owner of a farm adjoining the home place on the northwest, who married Pearl H. Smith, to which union one child has been born, a daughter. Christine Lenore. As noted above, Mrs. Reb is a member of the German Evangelical Association and her children, Henry, Mary, Helena, William and wife, Louis and wife, are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Bar- rett : John and his wife belong to the Christian church. Mrs. Reb has a pleasant home and has ever given her earnest attention to local good works. As one of the real pioneers of Marshall county, she is thoroughly familiar with the history of that section of the county in which she has lived ever since coming out here in the fifties and is a veritable mine of information on mat- ters relating to the early settlement of the county.
HUTCHINSON JOHNSON.
The late Hutchinson Johnson, who was one of the pioneers of Bigelow township, this county, and the proprietor of a fine farm in that township, where his widow continues to make her home, was a native of the great Keystone state and an honored veteran of the Civil War. He was born at Troy, in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, December 17, 1840, a son of James and Euphemia Johnson, the former of whom was twice married. Hutchin- son Johnson was reared at Gallipolis, Ohio, and became a farmer in Meigs county, that state, where he was living when the Civil War broke out. He enlisted his services in behalf of the Union and went to the front with one of the Ohio regiments. Upon the completion of his original term of enlist- ment he re-enlisted in Company G, First Artillery, February 3, 1864, and served with that command until the close of the war, his total period of service covering four years. Mr. Johnson was the owner of a piece of farm- ing property in Ohio, but not long after the completion of his military ser- vice sold that farm and in 1866 went to Iowa, settling on a farm in Wapello county, that state.
In Iowa, in 1874. Hutchinson Johnson married Amanda Reeves, who died in 1875. In the next year, 1876, he was united in marriage to Laura Smith, who was born in Iowa on June 12, 1857, daughter of Willis and Minerva (Smith) Smith, natives of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson continned to make their home in Iowa until 1881, when they disposed of their interests
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there and came to Kansas, settling on the farm in Bigelow township, this county, where Mrs. Johnson is still living. Mr. Johnson bought a tract of one hundred acres upon settling there, built a house and barn and presently had a well-established farm plant, which he continued to develop and im- prove until the time of his death, one of the progressive and enterprising farmers of that section of the county. He gave considerable attention to the raising of high-grade live stock, with particular reference to Jersey cattle, and did very well in his farming operations. Since his death his widow, who has continued the operations of the farm, had added an adjoining "forty" to the place and is now the owner of an excellent farm of one hundred and forty acres. Mr. Johnson, who died on October 24, 1907, was a Republican and gave a good citizen's attention to local political affairs. He attended the services of the Methodist Episcopal church and was an active member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Irving, in the affairs of which patriotic organization he ever took an earnest interest.
To Hutchinson and Laura (Smith) Johnson eight children were born, namely: Amanda, born on January 1, 1878, who married Edgar Williams and is now living at Alice, Texas; Sydney, May 12, 1882, now living near Barrett, who married Edith Jones and has three children, Arline, Winifred and Geneva : Clarence, February 19, 1884, now living at Barrett, who mar- ried Nellie Hodges and has one child, a daughter, Thelma : Effie, November 17. 1887, at home: William, January 5. 1891; Ray, July 26. 1893: Eva, January 15, 1897, and Velma, August 26, 1899. Ray Johnson is serving in the United States navy, now stationed on the "Huntington" in the Gulf of Mexico. The Johnsons have a very pleasant home and take a proper part in the general social activities of the community.
JOHN H. HUNT.
John H. Hunt. one of Bigelow township's well-known and progressive farmers and stockmen and the proprietor of a well-improved farm in sec- tion 13 of that township, is a native of Tennessee, but has lived in this county since the days of his infancy. He was born at Lebanon, in Wilson county, Tennessee, April 17, 1870, son of Henry N. and Elizabeth (Chan- pion ) Hunt, both now deceased, the former of whom was born in that same county and the latter in the state of Massachusetts, who became pioneers of Marshall county.
Henry N. Hunt was born on June 13, 1813, and grew to manhood in
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Wilson county, Tennessee, the place of his birth. On November 3, 1854. in that county, he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Champion, who was born at Lowell. Massachusetts, December 29, 1834, and he continued to make his home in Tennessee until the year 1870, when he became attracted to the possibilities that then were opening to the earnest settler in Kansas and moved out to this state, settling on a farm of sixty-seven acres just north of Blue Rapids, in the township of that name, that having been before the original Blue Rapids township was divided into four, and there he spent his last days, his death occurring on June 28, 1875, just about the time he was becoming well established on his farm. His widow later married Thomas Donahue and continued to make her home in this county the rest of her life, her death occurring on October 25, 1895. Henry N. Hunt and wife were the parents of seven children, those besides the subject of this sketch, the fourth in order of birth, being as follows: Henry N., who died at Mul- hall, Oklahoma, in 1916; William S., who is living in Oklahoma: James R., of Blue Rapids City township, and Carrie, Mary and Sarah, deceased.
John H. Hunt was but five years of age when his father died. He was reared on a farm, attending the district school in the neighborhood of his home in Blue Rapids City township, and at the age of fifteen began working as a farm hand in that neighborhood, later working with his step- father as a teamster in bridge-construction work. He was married in 1888 and in 1893 began farming, renting land in Wells township, where he lived until 1907, when he bought his present farm in section 13 of Bigelow town- ship, where he since has made his home and where he and his family are very comfortably situated. Mr. Hunt is the owner of two hundred and forty acres of land and his farm is well-improved and profitably cultivated. In addition to his general farming he is giving considerable attention to the raising of high-grade Hereford cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs and is doing very well.
On June 4. 1888, John H. Hunt was united in marriage to Ella Davis. who was reared in the neighborhood county of Nemaha, daughter of Daniel and Maria (Seward) Davis, natives, respectively, of Kentucky and of Vir- ginia, who came to Kansas about the year 1869 and settled on a farm east of Corning, in Nemaha county, remaining there until about 1883. when they came over into Marshall county and located in Blue Rapids City township, where Daniel Davis farmed the rest of his life, his death occurring in 1907. he then being seventy-two years of age. His widow is still living, being now in her eighty-fifth year. To Mr. and Mrs. Hunt four children have been born, namely : Daniel H., who married Cordelia Smith, of Bigelow, and
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is now farming at Bigelow: Albert C., who married Velma Carpenter, also of Bigelow, and is now farming in the vicinity of Hoxie, in Sheridan county, this state: Ruth R., who married Frank Morton, a farmer, of Wells town- ship, and has one child, a son, Charles L., and Charles Lester, who is at home ably assisting his father in the management of the home farm. The Hunts are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and take a proper interest in church work, as well as in the general social affairs of the com- munity in which they live, helpful in advancing all good causes thereabout. Mr. Hunt is a Democrat, but has never been included in the office-seeking class.
ROSS MANLY.
In the memorial annals of St. Bridget township, this county, there is no name held in better remembrance than that of the late Ross Manly, who had been a resident of that township since the days of his boyhood and who became one of the best-known and most substantial farmers of the Summer- field neighborhood, leaving to his widow and children, at the time of his death in 1901, not only the inestimable heritage of a good name, but a comfortable home and a fine bit of farm property in St. Bridget township, where the family still make their residence.
Ross Manly was a native of Ohio, born on a farm in Harrison county, that state, May 5, 1860, son of Beveridge and Sidney (Stephens) Manly, natives of that same state, the former born on July 14, 1819, and the latter, September 1. 1824, who became pioneers of Marshall county and here spent their last days.
Beveridge Manly was a farmer in his native state and along in the middle seventies became attracted to the possibilities awaiting the earnest homestead farmer in Kansas. He came out here with his family and settled in the northeastern part of Marshall county, in that portion of what then was Guittard township now comprised in St. Bridget township, and became a well-to-do landowner, the proprietor of a fine farm of more than seven hundred acres, on which he engaged extensively in cattle raising, in addition to his general farming operations. His wife died on the home farm on January 2, 1892, and he survived her until 1907. They were married on March 4. 1846, and were the parents of seven children, of whom the sub- ject of this memorial sketch was the fourth in order of birth, the others being as follow: Allen, who lives in Barber county, this state: Robert, a
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resident of Axtell: James, who died at his home in St. Bridget township; Rachel Ann, widow of J. Gallagher, living at Boise, Idaho; Mrs. Josephine Jennings, deceased, and Lucy, who married Walter Smith and is now deceased.
Ross Manly was still a boy in his teens when his parents came to this county and he grew to manhood on the home farm in St. Bridget township, completing his schooling in the schools of that neighborhood, and remained at home until his marriage, when he bought a partly-improved farm of eighty acres in section 17 of St. Bridget township, where he lived until after the death of his mother in 1892, when he bought an additional eighty, the west half of the northwest quarter of section 17 of that same township, and there established his home, his father thereafter making his home with him. Ross Manly was a good farmer and in addition to his general farming gave con- siderable attention to the raising of high-grade live stock and did very well, coming to be regarded as one of the most substantial and progressive farmers in that part of the county, and owning at the time of his death on May, 2, 1901, a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres, on which he had erected a comfortable and attractive dwelling and which he had improved in excel- lent fashion. He was a Democrat and had ever given a good citizen's atten- tion to local political affairs, but had never been included in the office-seeking class.
Ross Manly was united in marriage to Margaret Coughlin, who was born in St. Bridget township. this county, November 1, 1863, daughter of John and Honora (Rodgers) Coughlin, natives of Ireland, who were mar- ried in Kentucky and who came to Kansas in 1858, settling in St. Bridget township, this county, where they built a log cabin and made their home. thus having been among the very earliest settlers in Marshall county. In that pioneer log cabin five of the nine Coughlin children were born. Of these children Mrs. Manly was the third in order of birth, the others being as follows: Mary, who married Robert Manly, of Axtell; Catherine, who married W. Bowers and is living in Illinois; Anna, who married B. Gal- lagher, of Stockton, this state: John, who died when five years of age; Joseph, a well-known farmer of St. Bridget township; Bernard, of Axtell : Jennie, deceased, and Alice, who is living at Summerfield with her widowed mother.
To Ross and Margaret (Coughlin) Manly three children were born, Alfred R., Earl and Roy, all of whom are at home with their mother. Mrs. Manly is a member of the Catholic church, as was her husband, and their children have been reared in that faith, the family ever taking an earnest
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interest in parish affairs and in all neighborhood good works. Mrs. Manly is the owner of a quarter of a section of land surrounding her home and she and her family are very pleasantly and very comfortably situated.
WILLIAM T. BUCK.
William T. Buck, president of the State Bank of Vliets, and owner of the grain elevators in that village, is a native of the Old Dominion, born in Angusta county, Virginia, May 21, 1854, son of Napoleon . I. and Mary M. (Fahnestock) Buck, the former also a Virginian and the latter a native of Pennsylvania, both of whom spent their last days in Virginia.
Napoleon I. Buck was born in Morgan county, in that section of the Old Dominion now comprised within West Virginia, April 9, 1822, son of Isaac and Sarah (Waugh) Buck, the former a native of Scotland and the latter of England. Isaac Buck was born in 1797 and was but a lad when his parents came to this county, settling in Virginia, and when the second war of American Independence broke out in 1812 he ran away from home in order to take part in that war, and served for fourteen days before his father could get hold of him and take him back home. When he grew to manhood he took a very active part in Virginia politics and served for some years as a member of the Legislature in that state. Isaac Buck was twice married and was the father of thirteen children by his first wife and four children by his second wife. He died in Virginia in 1891, at the great age of ninety-four years.
Reared on a farm, Napoleon I. Buck for some time followed farming. He was appointed sheriff of his home county to fill an unexpired term and was later elected to that office. Upon the completion of his official term he engaged in the mercantile business at Sangerville, Virginia, and five years later sold his store and bought an interest in a paper-mill at Mossy Creek, same state, and was thus engaged for nine years, or until the Civil War broke out, destroying his business. Broken in health, Napoleon I. Buck was unable to enlist in the service of the Confederate States to aid in sup- porting the contention of his native state, but he paid a substitute, a valiant Irishman, one thousand dollars in gold to represent him at the front. At the close of the war he engaged in farming at Mt. Solon, Virginia, and there he spent his last days, his death occurring on June 15, 1881. His widow, who was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, 1828, and to
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whom he was married in 1850, survived him twenty-five years, her death occurring in 1904. They were the parents of nine children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth and all of whom are living save one.
William T. Buck spent his early years on a farm and received his elementary schooling in the rural schools, supplementing the same by a course in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He early became interested with his father in the paper-mill and when his father later became an invalid took charge of the mill for him. In 1885 he left Virginia and came to Kansas, locating at Shannon, in Atchison county, where he became a farmer and grain dealer, remaining there until 1897, when he came to Marshall county, locating at Vliets, where he bought one of the elevators and also helped to organize the State Bank of Vliets, of which he is now the presi- dent. Later Mr. Buck bought the other elevator at Vliets and is now the owner of both elevator A and elevator B at that place, long having been recognized as one of the leading bankers and grain men in Marshall county. Mr. Buck also is the owner of a quarter of a section of excellent land in Shannon township, Atchison county, and has other interests, all of which rank him as one of the substantial men of this county. He is a member of the Merchants' Exchange of St. Louis and gives his earnest attention to the general business affairs of this section. Politically, Mr. Buck is a Dem- ocrat and is the committeeman for his party in Noble township.
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