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December 4, 1868, D. C. Krone took his claim in Montgomery county. He came to Kansas the same year he left the army and stopped for three years near the Neosho river, between LeRoy and Neosho Falls. He was from Macon county, Illinois, where his birth occurred April 17, 1844. His father, Daniel Krone, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, February 2, 1806, and took for a wife Sarah A. Kiester. He left his native State at an early day and settled in Macon county. Illinois, where his large family were brought up. He was a son of Michael Krone who had children : Jacob, Philo, Elijah, David. Jesse, Daniel, Tillie. Mary, Abigail and Hannah. Daniel married a daughter of Michael Kiester and was the father of twelve children. as follows: Duquesne H .. who has resided in Montgomery county since 1877 and who was a veteran of the Civil War, belonging to Company "E." Forty-first Illinois; Mrs. Mary Star, of In- dependence, Kansas; Mrs. Susan Bradshaw. deceased; Dewitt C .. of this review; Jesse S., deceased; Ellis K .. of Wilson connty. Kansas; Mrs. Jennie Stevens, of Taylorville, Illinois ; Henry C .. deceased : Charles L., of Oklahoma; Edward B., of Chickasha, Indian Territory; and Mrs. Myrtle Taylor, of Independence, Kansas.
D. C. Krone acquired a country school education and grew to matur- ity on the farm. In 1862 he enlisted in Company "E." Forty-first Illinois Infantry, under Col. I. C. Pugh, the regiment being attached to the Army of the Tennessee. The principal engagements participated in by Mr. Krone were the Red River expedition, Siege of Vicksburg, Benton- ville. Cold Water and March to the Sea, and on to the Grand Review at Washington, D. C. He was discharged at Louisville, Kentucky, and was mustered out July 28, 1865. Returning home, his trip to Kansas was soon made and his connection with Kansas' development took place.
In 1868, Mr. Krone married Margaret J .. daughter of John S. Lo- baugh. of Neosho Falls. The Lobaughs came to Kansas as pioneers from the State of Pennsylvania. The union of Mr. Krone and his wife. Mar-
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garet J., produced the following children, viz: Naomi, wife of Jacob S. Corzine, of Taylorville. Illinois; Katherine M .; Mrs. Mabel M. Burke, of Whistler, Oklahoma ; and Walter W., of Neodesha, Kansas. The moth- er of these children passed away April 9. 1880. Mr. Krone married Mary I. White, a daughter of Capt. Charles White, of Longton, Knsas. Two daughters only have resulted from this marriage, viz: Edith Lucile, and Ruth, both with the family home. The family are members of the Methodist church and Mr. Krone has served for thirty-two years as a member of the district board of the Krone school. In politics he is a Re- publican, and has been three times chosen as a delegate to the State con- vention.
WILLIAM A. HEAPE-One of the successful young farmers of the county is William A. Heape. of Sycamore township. on section 5-31-16. He began his agricultural career in 1891 with a capital of $8.00, and, while any number of young men were deploring the delay of opportunity to pass their way. he boldly proposed to Robert Reis that he rent him a tract of 392 acres of wheat land, cash rent to be $1.200. Mr. Reis liked the spirit of the young man. chanced him and was not disappointed. To- day Mr. Heape owns his quarter section of land with its improvements, and he has demonstrated to the satisfaction of all that the possibilities of agriculture to the man of industry are without bounds.
William Heape was born in Perry county, Ilinois, September 19, 1869. a son of Abraham Heape, a native of the "Keystone State." When William was nine years old his parents located on a farm in Montgomery county. near Bolton, where he was reared and given a good common school education. His first venture for himself was in Clark county, Kansas, where he worked on a stock farm for $16 per month. Anxious to get ahead in the world, and not seeing much in the future at such a figure, he determined to return to Montgomery county where he was well known and try farming on his own account. The opening lines of this sketch relate his success.
The married life of Mr. Heape began in 1897, when he was joined to Rose, daughter of Albert Utterback, both natives of Indiana. Their home is brightened by the presence of a son and a daughter, Lee and Hazel.
For the purposes of a family record the following is added : Ulysses Heape our subject's grandfather and a native of Pennsylvania, married and later moved to Ohio with his seven children : Katherine, now Mrs. Miller, John, George, Cyrus, Levi. Abraham and Robert. Abraham mar- ried Caroline Miller, a native of Maryland, and a daughter of Jacob and Eva Miller. The result of his union was a family of ten children : Jacob, of Meade county, Kansas; Nancy Chew. of Galena, Kansas; Sarah Davis,
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William A. and Katherine Davis, of Montgomery county; Eva Veatch and Elizabeth Keith, also of Meade county; Robert, who is a leading cit- izen of Montgomery county, Kansas; and John, his twin brother, resides in Meade county, Kansas. The youngest is Frederick, who resides in Montgomery county.
ROBERT PAULL-Three decades in the State of Kansas have trans- formed the subject of this review into one of the popular and substantial citizens of Montgomery county. Given a native of Illinois and a veteran of the Civil War. and one has a combination of enterprise and loyalty to country which is a sure guaranty of a good citizen.
The immediate family history of Mr. Panll begins with his father, John Paull, who was a native of Virginia and settled in Illinois in the early part of the nineteenth century. Here he married Nancy Potter, who also had come from the State of Virginia. John Paull was a black- smith by trade, though he also tilled the soil. and he remained in Illinois until after the Civil War, when he came out to Kansas where he passed the remainder of his days, dying at the age of fifty-nine years. The wife had died at thirty-eight, after having borne a family of fourteen children. Robert was the oldest of the family, and there are five other living children.
Robert Panll was born in Adams county, Illinois, on the 26th of Sep- tember, 1841, and was reared to know the value of hard labor and the necessity of economy in the home. He was able to secure a fair education and was abont ready to begin life on "his own hook" when "Uncle Sam," through President Lincoln, informed him he was needed to help disci- pline some of his unruly children. Loyalty to country being one of the cardinal principles of the Paull family, it was not a difficult thing to se- enre the consent of the father to become her defender, and Robert was therefore enlisted as a private soldier in Company "K." of the Ninety- ninth Illinois Infantry. In this company he served three long years, years busy with battle and strife and marchings, but years which saved and unified the grandest country on the great round globe. Mr. Paull was with Grant in the notable siege of Vicksburg and took part in the battles of Champion Hills, Jackson, and many skirmishes. His regiment was the first to cross the river in the tinal charge at Vicksburg where he was struck by a spent bullet in the left side. After Vicksburg, the regi- ment was sent down into Texas, where, in a small skirmish, Mr. Paull again received a close call, this time on the right side. the bullet remain- ing on the inside of his shirt.
At the close of the war. Mr. Paull came out to Kansas on a visit to his father and on his return was joined in marriage with Mary E. Mil- ler, the date being 1867. Be settled on a farm in Pike county, Illinois,
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which he cultivated until 1873, when he followed the example of his father and came out to Montgomery county. He settled on an eighty- acre tract three miles northeast of the present town of Havana, and which is a part of the valuable farm of 236 acres he now owns. Here he has engaged in general farming and his well-tilled acres dem- onstrates what persistent and intelligent agricultural effort will accom- plish in Sunny Kansas. The small box house he erected on the eighty later was replaced by the commodions and handsome residence in which he now resides, and where he and his wife extend their friends a most cordial welcome.
Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Paull, a son and a daughter: Frank L. is in the hotel business in Independence, while the daughter, Nancy, is the wife of Milton Bowersock, a prosperous farmer residing in the neighborhood.
M. F. CASSIDY-Michael F. Cassidy, one of the "69ers," and thus entitled to membership in the Society of Pioneers, is one of the race whose magnificent battle against the wrongs and oppression of England has challenged the admiration of mankind and which is now evidently drawing to a close in the peaceful transference of the land back to its rightful owners. "Ireland for the Irish" is about to be realized. But it has cost England the flower of the Irish race to realize that homes, and homes only, make a contented people.
One of the thousands of families who came to America in the middle of the last century was that of Michael MI. Cassidy, who left the old coun- try in 1848. Michael F. was born in County Monaghan, October 22, 1835. His father was one of four children-his mother being Katherine, daugh- ter of Owen Bird, of the same county. The family of Mr. Cassidy, Sr., con- sisted of six children, all born in the island, as follows: James, Thomas, Ann, the latter dying in Ireland ; Mary MeGnire, Joseph, of Clinton coun- ty, Iowa ; Michael F., subject of this review ; and John, of Minnesota.
At maturity, Michael F. Cassidy married Bridget O'Brien, a native of Canada, and a daughter of James and Elizabeth O'Brien. natives of County Cork, Ireland. This wife became the mother of three children, two now deceased. To Ellen A. Dunn, the lady who now presides over the home of Mr. Cassidy and whom he married in 1875, there were born five children : Michael F., deceased; Mary A., a teacher of the county; John D., express messenger on the Frisco road; Nellie, at home; and Teresa, a student of the county high school. Mrs. Cassidy is also "to the manor born," being the daughter of John and Bridget Londergan, of County Tipperary, Ireland.
Mr. Cassidy was a wide-awake thirteen-year-old when he came to America with his parents. They sailed from Dublin on the good ship
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"Chancellor St. John" and came by way of New Orleans. A rough voy- age was experienced, the ship having struck on the Island of Hayti, two of her masts being carried away. The journey was thus lengthened to a tiresome period of fourteen weeks. At New Orleans the family secured passage up the river to St. Louis and were about to embark when the overloaded condition of the boat caused the father to decide to forfeit tickets rather than risk their lives; a decision which showed much wis- dom. as the boat actually went to the bottom of the river. Boarding tho next boat, they again were providentially hindered from reaching their destination, having to disembark at Memphis on account of cholera break- ing out on the boat. Here they remained four months. when the jour- ney was resumed. Not long after reaching St. Louis cholera became epi- demie there and Mr. Cassidy decided to move farther up the country. Thus bear Dubuque, Iowa, they had their first experience in American agriculture. Davenport. Scott county. and Clinton county of that State were points of residence for the family until 1869, when they came down into Montgomery county. Kansas.
In the spring of 1869, the journey was accomplished by team from the old home in lowa to the undeveloped region of Southern Kansas. Our subject filed on the claim where they have since lived, in West Cherry township, on section 3-32-16. Neighbors were few and far between- unless one might call the "noble Red Man" a neighbor-in which case they were plenty. However. Mr. Cassidy always liked the Indian and got along splendidly with him. Only once was there trouble, and that had such a laughable denouement. it passed off quietly. While he was away one day, Chief Beaver's son undertook to frighten Mrs. Cassidy. After worrying her as much as he desired in the house, he climbed on top of the chimney, and the first sight Mr. Cassidy had of him was in that position, waving a red blanket. To his orders to come down the boy gave Mr. Cas- sidy the laugh, whereupon that gentleman proceeded inside, placed a goodly portion of powder in the fireplace and while the boy was at the height of his glee. touched it off. The sight of that boy "seudding" off across the prairie still remains in the memory of our subject as one of the laughable occurrences of that early day. Mr. Cassidy is responsible for the name of Irish creek, the Indians having learned that he was Irish, thought to compliment him. and to some enquiring whites gave that name because the Cassidys lived on that creek.
In 1869, Mr. Cassidy and his family were the only white people in Montgomery county. Kansas, to celebrate the Fourth of July. Mr. Cas- sidy had been invited by Captain Ayers, mayor of Osage Mission, and Mr. Gilmore, an old Indian trader, to come over to a war dance of several tribes which met for several days at Osage Mission and during these days the celebration took place.
With the exception of seven years in the lumber business in Iowa,
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Mr. Cassidy has passed his life as a tiller of the soil. His standing in Montgomery county is of the best, as he has ever evinced a disposition to give his influence to those things that make for the material and intel- lectual advancement of the community. He is a member of the school board and acted as census enumerator in 1900. Both he and his family are devont communicants of the Holy Catholic church, and deserve, as they receive, the esteem of the entire community.
1. P. FORSYTH-The subject of this sketch was born in New Rich- mond. Clermont county, Ohio, May 24, 1830. He is of Scotch decent. His parents moved to Indiana when he was five years old and settled twenty miles northeast of Vincennes, where he remained most of the time until he reached manhood.
His education was received in the common schools of that time, sup- plemented with two terms at Asbury University (now De Paw).
He was married to Miss Louisa S. Hinkle, November 27. 1851. They had born to them six children, four of whom are living, three sons and one daughter.
He was admitted into the Indiana conference of the M. E. church as a travelling preacher in 1853 and sustained that relation for eight years.
Hle enlisted in the service of his country in July, 1862, and, upon the organization of the regiment, was commissioned by Gen. O. P. Morton, first lientenant of Company "I," Ninety-seventh regiment, Indiana Volunteers, and was discharged in August, 1864, by reason of disability incurred in the service.
lle then moved to Illinois, in the spring of 1865, and settled on a farm thirteen miles west from Paris, the county seat of Edgar county. He took quite an active part in the Grange movement; was elected and served three terms of two years each as master of the State Grange of Il- linois; was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress from the then Fifteenth district, as a Greenbacker or National Republican, the district having 5,000 Democratie majority. During his term in Congress, he acted and voted with the Republican party upon all National questions.
tu 1881, he moved to Kansas and settled on a farm in Liberty town- ship, six miles southeast of Independence. He took quite an active part in local politics and in the state campaign of 1888 and 1890, when Ly- man U. Humphrey was the candidate for governor, and spoke in a num- her of counties in different parts of the state; also took an active part in the campaign of 1892 when A. W. Smith was a candidate for governor. Since then he has taken no active part in politics.
He served three terms of three years each as regent of the Kansas State Agricultural College, being appointed thereto by Gov. John A. Martin and Lyman U. Humphrey, successively. He continued farming
W. H. SLOAN.
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until 1900, when he rented his farm and moved to Independence, Kansas, where he now resides.
WILLIAM H. SLOAN-Lonisburg township became the home in July, 1868, of William H. Sloan, one of the solid men of Montgomery county, who shares, in large part. the credit for the splendid development that has since come to the county. As stated in the review devoted to the Inscho family, these two gentlemen came together and filed on ad- joining claims, Mr. Sloan's quarter being on section 13-32-14. Here he passed through all the trials incident to pioneer life and is now enjoying the fruits of his well-directed efforts, being, at the present time, in posses- sion of a farm of 845 acres and having his home, since 1900, in Rutland township.
He landed on his claim that hot July day with a frying pan, a cof- fee pot. an axe,a sack of corn and a piece of bacon; having come from Hardin county, Ohio. He put up the usual 14x16 house and the follow- ing year began farming operations. He soon became well acquainted with the Indians and, though not being able to "conjure" them as his friend, "Medicine Man" Inscho, still. he lived with them in comparative peace. He became especially well acquainted with interpreters Alvin Wood and Paul and with Chiefs Nopawalla. Chetopa and Strike. Axe, and found them, in many respects. not wanting in the noble qualities of the "Fenimore Cooper" Indian.
As time passed. Mr. Sloan gave his best endeavors to the esatblish- ment of schools, churches and other civilizing and refining influences and bas always been particularly jealous of the good reputation of his township and county. He has served faithfully in the unpaid offices of township trustee and on the school board and is ready at all times to en- ter into any enterprise that will advance the public good. He is an old time Mason, belonging to all the different branches of that noble order, from Master Mason to Mystic Shrine.
Touching briefly on the family history of Mr. Sloan. John Sloan, his grandfather, was an Irishman of Reformed Presbyterian faith who, to- gether with a family of eleven children, came to America and settled on a farm in Ohio. The names of these children were : William, Sammel, Jo- seph, John. Thomas, JJames, David, Robert, Margaret, Elisha and Fannie. Of these, William married Ann Scott, also a native of the Emerald Iste, who became the mother of : Sarah A. Weaver. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Stew- art, Mrs. Frances J. Shaw, Margaret H., Mrs. Agnes L. Stewart, John, William HI. and Joseph G.
William II. Sloan married Rhoda Debo. a native of the "Hoosier State" and daughter of William and Henrietta Debo. These parents were children of the pioneer families of that state and passed their lives
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in the cultivation of its soil. To Mr. and Mrs. Sloan have been born : Homer, Ethel, Jessie. Helen and Fay.
Born January 15, 1842, William Henry Sloan was reared in his na- tive county of Champaign, in Ohio, and was at that age when the blood runs most freely, when the darkening clouds of the Civil War gathered in terrible array. He chafed under home restraint until September, 1864, when he enrolled as a private in Company "G." Ninth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, under Col. William Hamilton. General Kilpatrick of the Third Cavalry division, Army of the Cumberland, commanding. He reached the front in time to take part in "Uncle Billy" Sherman's pienic excursion to the sea, and participated in the closing scenes of the war in the Carolinas. His mustering out occurred at Concord, North Caro- lina, in July. 1865. when he returned home, to ne'er again engage in mor- tal strife with his fellowman.
THOMAS HARRISON-A period of thirty-three years takes one back to the beginning of things in Independence. Those were the days of "shacks," prairie schooners, bad Indians and worse cowboys; a con- trast. indeed, to the beautiful homes, elegant equipages and refined and intelligent citizenship which fill the city today. There are a few of those early landmarks left, but on the principle of the "survival of the fittest" the old settler of today is generally a well-to-do. self-respecting eitizen, whose earlier strennous days have given place to the quiet jog-trot of prosperous old age. On the 22d of September, 1870. the gentleman whose honored name initiates this paragraph took up his residence in Inde- pendence, and the entire stretch of the three decades has found him first and foremost in every movement that had for its object the better- ment of conditions in the town of his adoption.
Somersetshire, England, was the place of birth of our subject, the time January 8, 1835. He was a son of William and Ann (Chapman) Harrison, both now deceased. Following the good old English custom, Thomas was apprenticed to a trade after he had received a fair common school education, the period of apprenticeship in his case occupying the eleven years prior to his majority. This gave him ample time to thor- oughly master the saddlery trade. He worked as a journeyman in the city of London until 1868, when, in September. he carried out a resolu- tion he had made some time before of seeking his fortune in the new. world. He settled in the city of Detroit and worked at his trade two years, by which time he had succeeded in laying by enough to think of starting business for himself. Favorably impressed with representa- tions concerning the new State of Kansas, he began an investigation which enlminated in his selecting Independence as the most likely point, a decision he has never regretted. In company with his brother-in-law,
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James Cullyford, Mr. Harrison entered upon his business career under the firm name of Cullyford & Harrison, saddlers, a firm which was dis- solved five years later, the occasion being the first disastrous fire that visited the business section of the little town, and in which their building and its contents were destroyed. With the proverbial English grit, Mr. Harrison started at the foot of the ladder and again began its toilsome ascent, this time alone. Ten years later, he again suffered severely by fire, but since which time he has had a peaceful and successful career. Singu- larly enough, both fires originated next door, and both are said to have been of incendiary origin. Mr. Harrison is engaged extensively in the sale of leather goods, all kinds of farm implements and vehicles, which he houses in a commodious two-story business building, 23x140 feet. His trade is not confined by county or state lines, as his reputation of dealing in none but the best goods was a matter of careful calculation in the earlier days of his business career.
As intimated. Mr. Harrison's citizenship has been of the helpful kind. He has, at different times, served in offices of trust connected with the government of the city; a member of the fire company for eleven years. in the council eight years, during which many of the substantial improvements were made in the city, his last term being honored with election as president of that body. For one term he was a member of the school board.
Before leaving the land of his birth, Mr. Harrison had secured a partner to share with him the joys and sorrows of this life, the lady be- ing Mary A. Cullyford, a native of Somersetshire. Her three children were : William, in business with his father; Louisa, single; and Charlie, who died in infancy. The mother of these children died just one year from the date of My. Harrison's coming to Independence. The lady who now presides over his home and who became his wife in 1872, was Mrs. Catherine Morrison, and to them one son was born, Charles T., now a young pharmacist of the city.
Believing in the fraternity idea, Mr. Harrison early became a mem- ber of the I. O. O. F., in which order he has filled all the chairs and is at present Chief Patriarch of the Encampment. He is also an active member of the Woodmen, having held the office of Sovereign Lieutenant for a number of years. It is not fulsome praise to say that no more high- ly respected citizen lives in Montgomery county than Thomas Harrison. His hfe has at all times been an open book whose leaves remain stainless.
BERNHARDT ZAUGG-The late pioneer whose name initiates this memoir was a character, somewhat unique, whose career of twenty- seven years in Independence and vicinity was marked for its unabated industry and for its versatility. He came here in 1870, when the town
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possessed scarcely more than the name. engaged in the butcher business the first three years and followed it with a term of years in the whole- sale liquor business. On retiring from this, he occupied his farm in the Verdigris bottom just east of the city and was employed with its conduct until failing health forced his withdrawal from physical labors. He again became a citizen of Independence where he died June 8. 1897. Such is a brief synopsis of the life and achievements of Bernhardt Zaugg who filled a niche in the business life of Montgomery county. Widely known, respected by all, with honorable ancestry and without posterity he left to the world the prond record of a successful life.
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