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Mr. Lindley's tastes, in a fraternal way, are satisfied by membership in that good insurance lodge, the Modern Woomen. while, in religious faith, he follows the training of his youth. Politically, he reserves the right to vote for the best men and measures, regardless of on what ticket their names appear, or by what party a measure is advocated.
The home life of our subject began January 5, 1890, when he brought Miss Ella Stanley from Indiana, to preside over it. She became the mother of two children, Harry and Ethel, and, on February 27, 1896, she passed to the "great beyond." She was a true Christian mother to her children and a loving and devoted wife, whose greatest pleasure was found in ministering to the wants of her household.
HIRAM FOSTER-Primeval Montgomery, the banks of the Elk, the prairie grass, mounds of rock and unbroken soit. was the welcome of Hiram Foster when he arrived in Kansas, in the early spring of 1870, from Cedar county, Missouri. He, with his wife and two children, made the journey overland. by team. while two cows were driven ahead, that the family might have sustenance, in spite of a new country. The family located on the banks of the Elk river, but, by a new government survey,
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that claim was lost and they located on a new claim, a little to the north of the first one, and made vacant by the same survey. Later, through a contest, Mr. Foster lost eighty aeres, adjoining his present home. The old log cabin, which had been erected on the first elaim, was moved to the last and served for a comfortable residence until the erection of a new home, ocenpied by the family at the present time.
Three years passed before Mr. Foster succeeded in getting all of his farm under cultivation. It was here, on the banks of the Elk, that the Osage Indians gave one of their greatest demonstrations in numerical strength. It was here that this great body of Indians assembled and camped with all their belongings for weeks, preparatory to their final migration to the south.
Hiram Foster was a son of Eldred Foster, a native of Connecticut, the father's father being Oliver Foster, born in New England. Oliver Foster had children : Monroe, Oliver, Alonzo, Eldred, Michael, Mrs. Aurora Woods and Rosa V. Chandler.
Eldred Foster, the father of our subject, married Susannah Chand- ler, a native of North Carolina, and to this marriage was born two chil- dren : Hiram and Mary Tichnel.
Hiram Foster was born in Madison county, Illinois, March 25, 1847, and he remained there until the fall of 1868, when he went to Cedar county. Missouri. He married Mary Ashlock, a native of Illinois and a daughter of Richard and Harriet Ashlock. Their family consists of seven children : Eugene, of Montgomery county, who has one child, Aaron; Eldred, of Elk county, Kansas, whose two children are: Irby and Clarence; Ira, of Montana; Ballissie, of Montgomery county, whose four children are: Marian, Hiram, Bertha and Orvil; Mrs. Agnes Alex- ander. of Montgomery county, who has three children : Clarence, Ralph and Bernard; Mrs. Hattie Smith, of Oklahoma Territory; and William, at home.
Mr. Foster has followed farming, as an occupation, all his life. He bas served, faithfully, his district, for six terms, as a member of the school board, and is a member of the Sons and Daughters of Justice and of the A. H. T. A.
RICHARD H. HOLLINGSWORTH-One of the highly respected families, which have made Montgomery famons as a county of good homes, is that of the gentleman named above, whose honored head resides in Coffeyville, and in restful quiet from the cares of a long and active career. Mr. Hollingsworth has passed, by a full dozen years, the usual allotment of man, and yet, is hale and hearty, having lived a singularly correct and abstemions life.
Hollingsworth is an old English-Quaker name-the family settling
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in the Carolinas in early Colonial days. Here, grandfather, John Hol- lingsworth, and his wife, Rachel, were born and married, and, with a young family, some time in the latter part of the eighteenth century, moved up into Ohio, their hatred of the institution of slavery causing them to desire to rear their family outside of its influence. At that time, Richard Hollingsworth's father was thirteen years old. He was Henry Hollingsworth and married, in Ohio, Addie Skinner, a native of London county, Virginia, and they resided in Warren county until 1831, when he came out to Richmond, Indiana. In 1845, he moved to a farm in Peoria county, Illinois, where he died, aged eighty-one years. The mother passed away, in 1829, at the age of forty-two. Their children were: Harriet, Mrs. Robert Thomas; Sarah, Mrs. Absalom Glasscock; Richard H., Lossou D., Mary J., Mrs. Michael Crook ; our subject being the only one now living.
Richard H. Hollingsworth was born in Warren county, Ohio, April 27, 1821. With but a primitive education, he left home, in early boy- hood, and went to live with an unele, who taught him the trade of car- penter and millwright. Hle married at the early age of twenty and farmed, for several years, in Indiana, thence to Peoria county, Illinois, where his people, also, settled. With a young family, he, in 1854, settled on a farm near Iowa City, lowa, from which point he came to Mont- gomery county, in 1875. Here, he bought the farm of two hundred aeres, with and additional bottom piece of one hundred and sixty, upon which he resided, for a number of years, and which he brought to a fine state of cultivation. He also owns a home in Coffeyville, together with many lots, all of which constitutes a valuable piece of real estate.
The marriage of our subject occurred July 1, 1841-sixty-two years ago-the lady whom he married, still traveling life's pathway with him. Her name was Rebecca Hastings. She was a danghter of William and Sarah Hastings, the father a native of North Carolina, leaving that state, with his family, in 1812, on account of the curse of slavery. That was an early day in the "Hoosier State," when Indians were plenty and fierce, the family having to take advantage of the forts, at various times, to escape their ravages. The Hastings were Quakers in faith, and lived ont their days in Wayne county. Indiana, the mother dying. in 1840, at fifty-nine, and the father, in 1845, at the age of seventy-two. The Bible record of their children follows: Mary. born August 23, 1799; Catherine, born ,Iuly 30, 1801 ; Eunice, born December 1, 1803; Wilmot, born Decem- ber 7. 1805; Aaron, born Inne 2. 1808; Mary, born September 26, 1810; William, born March 10, 1813: Daniel C .. born February 19, 1815; Sarah, born April 8, 1817; Hannah, born Angust 28, 1819; David, born March 5, 1822; and Rebecca, born August 26, 1824.
To our subject and his good wife were born tive children : Margaret, born June 17, 1843, Mrs. Thomas Sweetman ; her children are: Richard,
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Luke and Anna, and they reside in Nowatta, Indian Territory; William A .. born June 11, 1845, married Rosanna Townsend, also deceased, and died in 1878; their two children being: Charles and Edward; Julia A., born February 20, 1847. resides in this county with her husband, Wm. H. Allin, whose children are mentioned in the Allin sketch; Al- bert N., born August 5, 1849, married Araminta Jayne, and resides in Coffeyville, with two children : May and Bertha ; Perry S., whose sketch is elsewhere herein.
A Republican in politics and a Quaker in religious observanee and belief, Mr. Hollingsworth has, by a life of probity and uprightness, won the respect and esteem of all. Ile has never aspired to political advance- ment, though, in his younger days, he served on the school board and board of county commissioners. He is one of those "old school" gentlemen, whose name on a piece of paper adds no strength to the obligation to pay, bis word being sufficient. Both he and his good wife are passing a serene and happy old age, secure in the love of their children and a host of admiring friends.
E. P. TODD-In this representative citizen of Montgomery county, now independent of the world's activities by reason of the fruits of his early labor, the biographer found a gentleman of the "old school," with judgment and opinions softened and tempered by long contact with the various actors on the stage of life. A residence of nearly thirty years in the county, with a life of the strictest rectitude, gives him a prestige and influence unsurpassed.
Lieutenant Todd is a New York man, born in Chantauqua county, July 24. 1837. the son of Silas and Betsey (Philley) Todd, both natives of Connecticut. The family lived in the east until 1844, when they re- moved to Joe Daviess county, Illinois, took up government land, and en- gaged in agriculture. A residence of two years in Minnesota, preceded their coming to Independence, in 1875. The parents had those superior qualities so frequently developed by close contact with nature, constant as the sun's light, invariable as the recurrence of the seasons, in honest practices, fruitful in good deeds, as the hillside and meadow which they cultivated. They were life-long members of the Congregational church, in which the father was an official for many years. They both passed the Bible age, the father dying in Labette county, Kansas, at eighty-seven years, and the mother at the age of seventy-nine. There were four chil- dren besides our subject, viz: Rev. James D., a prominent minister of the Presbyterian church, filling a pulpit in Portland, Oregon ; Esther E., Mrs. J. A. Funk, of Independence; Adelia, Mrs. B. B. Benson, deceased; E. P., of this sketch; and Mary E., Mrs. J. M. LeVake. of Spring Green, Wis- consit.
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Our subject attended the schools of Joe Daviess county, Illinois, and worked on the home farm until his enlistment. Angust 9, 1862, as a pri- rate soldier, in Company "E." Ninety-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Ilis term of service closed in Chicago, June 10. 1865. The war, in his case, was not a dress parade affair. Continnous and rigorous service characterized the whole period of his enlistment. The regiment became a part of "Pap" Thomas' corps and arrived at Chickamauga in time to take part in that battle, where "the rock," all day, withstood the fren- zied charges of the enemy. Mr. Todd was not in the battle proper, as he was early detailed on the ambulance corps. He. however, saw plenty of "gun play," Jater, as he participated in the battle which followed, "above the clouds," and in the entire Atlanta campaign. The actions in which he was under fire, were: Lookont Mountain. Rough and Ready. Dalton, Rock Face Mountain, Buzzard's Roost. Trinne. Kingston, Cassville, At- lanta, Lovejoy Station, Jonesboro, Franklin and Nashville. During the Atlanta campaign, he was under orders, ninety days continuously, and immediately engaged in the return march after Hood into Tennessee, where he took part in the bloody battles of Franklin and Nashville. He entered the army, a private, and filled the various positions until he reached a second lieutenancy, and, as such, he commanded his company for a period of three months. His service was faithful and long. His reward was that of thousands of other boys in blue-a reunited, undi- vided country.
Upon his return home. Lieutenant Todd rontinned farming, in Joe Daviess county, until February 24. 1874. when he located in Montgomery county, Kansas. Here he was one of the leading agriculturists, until 1899, when he removed to town and has since lived a retired life.
The marriage of our subject occurred February 2, 1858. Mrs. Todd was Jane M. Lemon, a native of Missouri. Her parents were P. V. and Elizabeth ( MeClellan) Lemon, both now deceased. They were native Canadians, farmers near the great falls of Niagara. They became resi- dents of Joe Daviess county, Ill., in the forties, where they lived out their lives, the father dying at seventy-nine, the mother at forty-one years. They were parents of ten children. tive yet living : Mrs. Todd, the eldest ; Mattie, Mrs. S. S. Hughes, of Chicago; Louisa, Mrs. William Mills, of Emporia, Kansas; Addie. Mrs. Henry Glindinning, of LaFayette county, Wisconsin ; Orpha, Mrs. J. V. Grabham, of Independence.
The family of Mr. and Mrs. Todd consists of six children, viz : Frank E., a farmer of the county, married Minnie Coleman and has children : Harland, Oscar, Lena, Russell and Frank: Jennie, born December 16. 1862, died October 19, 1871; Howard E., born June 10, 1866. died Feb ruary 3, 1890; Herbert W., a graduate of the Valparaiso, Indiana, Nor mal School, and for years a successful teacher. but now a bookkeeper for the wholesale house of Royse. Stanley & Co .. of Wichita, Kansas,
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and is married to Gertrude H. Hileman, with two children: Hubert H. and Lora L .; Wilbnr B., died in infancy; Elsie A., Mrs. Frank E. Stoops, of Independence. All of these children are useful members of society and a eredit to their parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Todd have always taken an active and helpful interest in the life of the different communities in which they have lived. They are members of the Congregational church, and he is, of course, one of the honored members of the G. A. R. He also affiliates with the Sons and Daughters of Justice. In political matters, he favors the policies of the Republican party.
J. HOWARD DANA-The bar of Montgomery county has recently known the subject of this sketch, as the public prosecutor of the county. Although comparatively young, in the legal field, he has shown himself to be deft and vigorous, as a counselor and attorney, and as the county's legal advisor and public proseentor, to be wary of the publie weal.
Mr. Dana is one of the pioneers of Montgomery county. His parents came hither, in 1869, when he was two years old, from Washington conn- ty, Iowa, where he was born. September 28, 1867. The well-known farmer of Caney township, William B. Dana, is his father and was born, in Ohio, in the year 1829. Hle was married, in his native state, to Nancy Williams, whose father was a Scotchman, with a long train of American antecedents. The Danas are among the American Colonial families, of which the distinguished Charles A., late of the New York Sun, was a rep- resentative. They have been prominent in American history and have shown themselves to be scholars, statesmen and, above all, patriots. Charles A. and William B. Dana's fathers were brothers, the father of William B. being Watson Dana, a native of New England.
William B. and Nancy Dana were the parents of five children, viz : William L., of Pittsburg, Kansas; Charles, of St. Louis, Missouri ; Ed T., of Dallas, Texas; Melville C., of Weir, Kansas; and J. Howard, of this review.
Howard Dana passed his life on the farm, as a boy and youth, and in the schools of Caney township, acquired his liberal education. For a higher training, he attended the Kansas Normal College at Ft. Scott, where he completed the scientific course. He taught school before he became a student of the Normal College and was, for three years, prin- cipal of schools at Caney, Kansas. He continued in the profession till he had read law to final admission to the bar, when he at once began its practice. His preceptor in law was J. R. Charlton, with whom he, after- ward, formed a partnership for practice. His first case in court was one embracing a charge of assault and battery against his client, Harry Temple, of Tyro. The case was tried regularly and resnlied in the acquit-
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tal of the accused; Mr. Dana thus scoring his first victory. In 1900, he was elected County Attorney and, during the course of his term, several important criminal cases were brought to trial. John Nelson, for the killing of Morris, at Coffeyville; John Walker, for the killing of Lancas ter, and Clarence Bird for the murder of Harry Linton, were all tried and convicted of their crimes. In the case of Truskett and others, pro- moters, against the Santa Fe railroad. Mr. Dana represented the plain- titl's and secured a judgment for $45.000 in their favor.
Mr. Dana was united in marriage with Mand Mulvaney, in Inde pendence. on the 9th of May, 1894. Mrs. Dana came to Kansas, with her parents, from Ohio, and is the mother of two sons: Merle and Pan). Mr. Dana is a Republican, an Odd Fellow, a Blue Lodge, Chapter and Com- mandery Mason and an Elk.
ANDREW M. MISHLER-The gentleman here mentioned is a mem- ber of a family which has, for nearly three decades, been prominently identified with the development of Montgomery county, and which, through its different members, reflects credit on the county's sturdy veo- manry. The parents and six of the thirteen children born to them, are cultivating farms in the county and are all citizens of unusual strength of character, whose standing none can gainsay. Mr. Andrew Mishler is the eldest of the family and lives on a farm of recent purchase, four and one-half miles from Independence.
The parents of the family, Samuel and Lonisa ( Ormon) Mishler, reside on a farm in West Cherry township. They are natives of the "Hoosier State," removing to Montgomery county, Kansas, in 1876, where they opened a farm in Drum Creek township. They are of that sturdy stock who bravely stood the hardships incident to pioneer life, and whose wise counsel and upright lives have furnished inspiration to the present generation. Their living children are all respectable and use ful members of society, their names being as follows: Andrew M. , Henry, of Manchester, Kansas; Jacob, of West Cherry township; Emeline, who married Martin Ormon and lives in Manchester; David, of West Cherry; Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Marow, living in Missouri; William, of Drum Creek township; Hannah, Mrs. Robert Brown, of Arkansas; Sarah, Mrs. B. White, of West Cherry township; Ellen. wife of Frank Hoagland, of Blackwell, Oklahoma Territory; Harry and Charles are deceased ; Harley lives with his parents in West Cherry township.
Andrew M. Mishler was born in Indiana-Clay county-in 1862. lle received a fair common school education in the schools of his native county and, at fourteen years old, accompanied the family to Kansas. His lot here has been one of continuous hard labor, but as he comes of stock to which labor is as bread and meat, that fact does not worry him in the
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least. He remained at home until his marriage, in 1882. He has culti- vated different farms in the county, purchasing the present one of eighty acres, in 1902. This was formerly known as the "John Marsh farm" and under the intelligent management of our subject, is fast becoming one of the best in the county. Since his ownership began, he has added various improvements, the most pretentious being a roomy addition to the house.
The wife of Mr. Mishler was Louise B. Stephens. She is a native of Bloomington, Illinois, and is the daughter of Nicholas and Carrie (Hughes) Stephens, who came to Kansas in 1868 and now live six miles west of Independence. Mr. and Mrs. Mishler are the parents of the fol- lowing children : Carl, the eldest, who lost his life while bathing, in July. 1902, was a manly boy, of a rare sunshiny disposition, and was the light of the home . His untimely death was a source of great anguish to his parents and genuine sorrow to his many young friends. Nellie is a young lady at home; Grace, nine years old.Clara, seven, while little El- sie is a babe in arms.
Mr. Mishler is too much of a worker to allow polities to interest him. except on election day. when he deposits his ballot for the Republican nominees. He and his family are members of the Methodist church and are always supporters of every good work that promises well for the community. The character of his citizenship is without blemish and par- takes of those qualities so essential in the individual citizen, honesty, so- briety and sincerity of purpose.
CONRAD L. ZACHER-One of the best known men in Cherryvale is Conrad L. Zacher, since 1886, the Standard Oil Company's trusted agent. Mr. Zacher's residence in the city has resulted in establishing a reputation for good citizenship and he and his family are looked upon with munch favor. He has always evinced a lively interest in the welfare of the city of his adoption, and has served her faithfully on the school board for several terms, during one of which he was its honored presi- dent.
The parents of our subjeet were Frank and Caroline Zacher, who came to the United States from their native land of Austria, about 1849. This removal was the result of a religious persecution then going on in Austria, against the Lutherans, of which seet the Zachers were promi- nent members. They settled in Ripley, Ohio, where the wife died, aged fifty-one years, after which the husband went to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he died, at the age of fifty-three. Of their six children, five are now living.
Conrad L. Zacher was born in Ripley, Ohio, July 31, 1852. At the age of four he was bound out to a porkpacker of the name of Archibald Liggette, and in his home was reared to manhood with every advantage
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that could have been given a son. In his foster father's establishment he learned the trade of cooper, and at twenty-two, came west to try life for himself. He found employment with the Armour Packing House, of Kan- sas City, but, after a time, became connected with the Standard people, beginning service in 1879. Hle continud with this company in Kansas City until 1886, the date of his transference to Cherryyale.
Mi. Zacher's family consists of a wife and a danghter, Ruth, by a former marriage. Mrs. Zacher was Alice Lining, prior to 1901, daughter of Greenburg and Mary Lining. Mr. Zacher 'is a member of the Moth- odist church, while he is enrolled with the Masons, the A. O. U. W., the I. O. O. F. and the Sons and Daughters of Justice. The political belief of our subject is probably the result of an incident which occurred in his boyhood home. One day, while the great Lincolli'was delivering a speech, he was lifted to the shoulders of a bystander, and from that point of vantage was so impressed with the personality of the' man as to ever after he the firm supporter of the principles he there promulgated.
JOHN WALLACE HOWE-The pioneer"and worthy gentleman whose name initiates this brief review, has witnessed the development of Montgomery county from its incipieney and has been a part of much that has been done. It is interesting to know the landmarks of the fron- tier and to get the story of the conquest from their own lips. A third of a century is, for this new country, a long time to be identified with the same community. yet Mr. Howe occupies just this position. He ar- rived in this county, in April, 1870, and settled in Liberty township, where he existed-as was then frequently the custom -- upon what he could catch, carpenter and at other miscellaneous work. It is no misfor- tune, at this distant day, to be unable to remember just what employment one trusted to for subsistence in this new country more than 30 years ago. Many of our most worthy pioneers, and who are now classed with onr subject as leading and honored citizens of the county, were unen- cumbered, as to property, and were compelled, as was the Irishman, "to make their living by their wits." Suffice it to say, Mr. Howe successfully passed the Rubicon and got on his way to prosperity,'off of the green grass and bleak prairies of a sparsely settled community and without the neces- sity of explaining how.
John W. Howe came to Kansas, from Breckenridge, Missouri, where he located, just after the war, from Newburn, Indiana. He was born in Bartholomew county. that state, July 5, 1847, and was reared and liber- ally schooled there. His father, Isaac Howe, was one of the early set- thers of that locality and came from the north of Ireland, where his birth occurred, about 1801. He migrated from his native land after he was grown and made his home, first. in the United States, in the city of C'in-
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cinnati, Ohio. There he met and married Rosanna Dunlap. a lady from the North of Ireland. They moved up into Bartholomew county, Indi- ana, where they reared their family, maintained their reputation as splendid citizens and died; the mother in 1892 and the father in 1894. The issue of their union was: Mary, deceased ; Nancy .J., wife of Albert. Richardson, of Breckenridge, Missouri; Rebecca, who married Charles A. May, of the same point; John W., our subject ; Robert, of Breeken ridge. Missouri; William, of Richmond, Missouri; and Charles F., of Breckenridge, Missouri.
Mr. Howe, of this record, was only a schoolboy when the war of the Rebellion came on. At just past sixteen years old. he enlisted, October 3. 1863. in Company "A," One Hundred and Twentieth Indiana Infantry, Col. A. W. Prather. The regiment formed a part of the First Brigade. First Division, Twenty-third Army Corps, and went ont on to the Atlanta campaign, a few months after Mr. Howe joined it. He participated in nearly all the engagements leading up to the capture of Atlanta, and when the city fell, the regiment accompanied Schofield's army back to Nashville, where, and at Franklin, Hood's army was annihilated. The command was then sent to Washington, D. C., and down the coast of North Carolina to Morehead Landing and up to Newburn, where Hardie's Corps was encountered, the battle really occuring at Wise Forks. Mr. Howe's regiment went next to Charlotte, by the way of Raleigh, and was mustered ont at the former plare, in January, 1866, the actual muster of our subject occurring at Indianapolis, Indiana, in the month of Feb- ruary.
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