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Iu looking for the birth-place of Mr. Schake, one needs to cross the ocean. to Hessen Cassel, Germany, where, on April 7, 1837, he was born. He is a son of Jacob and Mary Schake, who lived out their lives in the Fatherland, both dying at the age of seventy-two years.
At the early age of fourteen. Charles Schake was thrown upon his own resources, and, being a boy of resolute purpose and independent
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spirit, he immediately resolved to emigrate to the great Republic, across the sea. He landed at New York, in 1852, and from thence, went to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where. in the next three years, he learned the shoemaker's trade. In 1857. he came ont to Leavenworth, Kansas, and engaged in government work. Again. he made a western move, this time, to Colorado, where he spent a year, in a vain search for gold. He prose- ented the search in Montana, but, in 1864. returned to civilization. He stopped in Nebraska City, where he was proprietor of a grocery store, for a period, and where he married Panline Selmohl. This lady was a native of Germany and came to Nebraska, in girlhood, with her parents. The date of the marriage was March 21, 1866. Soon after this event, Mr. and Mrs. Schake sold their store and came to Montgomery county, where they filed on a claim, eight miles west and one mile north of Coffeyville. This claim was virgin prairie, and the splendid farm which now greets the eye of the traveler, is due entirely to the patient. persistent and in- telligent labor of this worthy conple. It is not too much to say that no more handsome farm property can be found in the county, the high eleva. tion making it one of the most desirable resident points in all the country round.
On the 2d day of March, 1591. death entered Mr. Schake's family and carried off the wife and mother. Mrs. Schake was fifty-six years of age, at her death, and was the mother of eight children, namely : Louise. wife of James MeCowan: Edith. Mrs. Speck ; Otto, Polly, Mrs. Burns; Alfred, Walter, Freda, Bohle and Ethel.
Mr. Schake has taken an active interest in matters pertaining to the welfare of his community, having been, at different times, a member of the school board, and has been helpful in many other ways, in securing to the township, the best educational and religious surroundings. In political belief, he cleaves to the principles of Democracy.
PHILIP H. CASS-One of the young attorneys of the Montgomery county bar, is Phillip H. Cass, a graduate of the law department of the University of Georgetown. D. C. He has been practicing before the courts of southern Kansas and the Territory, since 1899, and has met with deserved success.
Phillip H. Cass comes from an old pioncer family of Sangamon county, Illinois, having been born there, June 24, 1869. His grandfather, A. B. Cass, settled in that county, in 1828. from Kentucky, and took part in the Black Hawk Indian war. He was personally acquainted with sev- eral men in this campaign, who rose to national prominence, in after years-Lincoln, Jeff. Davis, Dr. Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin. He passed a long and useful life in that state, dying in 1897, at the advanced age of eighty-six years. He was a man of wide knowledge and possessed,
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in a marked degree, the characteristics of those noble pioneers who re- claimed the great middle west from its savage state. He was the father of eleven children, nine of whom reached maturity, as follows: Lewis, of Buffalo: Elizabeth, Mrs. Finfrock, of Waynesville, Ilinois; Mrs. Lney Gillett, of Beatrice, Nebraska ; Mrs. Mary Edwards, now deceased; Mrs. Pauline Shreve. deceased ; Hardin, deceased; W. Scott, of Buffalo Heart, Illinois; Marion and Harry, of the same place. Of this family, Hardin was horn in Sangamon county, September 16, 1846, and died, in Coffey- ville, Kansas, March 21. 1895. He married Harriet N. Landis, a native of Indiana, and now an honored resident of Decatur. Illinois. To them were horn : Phillip IL., Louis B., of St. Louis, Missouri, and Mabel, wife of Frank Skinner, of Coffeyville.
Hardin Cass was a prominent fruit farmer of Sangamon county, Illinois, and was a man of correct and industrious habits, though a rather short life. He was too young to take part in the Civil war, save for a brief period at the close, when he served, as a private, in Company "1." of the One Hundred and Thirty-third Infantry.
Phillip H. Cass grew to manhood, surrounded with the elevating in- fluences of a Christian country home. The foundation of his later educa- tion was laid in the excellent common schools of Ilinois and Kansas. He added a literary and business course at Beatrice, Normal College and, in 1893. entered the War Department at Washington. as record clerk. He remained in this service some six years, during which he employed his spare time in studying law in the Georgetown University, and from which he was graduated in 1896. In 1899, at the close of the Spanish- American war, he came to Coffeyville and opened a law office. The suc- cess which has attended his efforts, thus far. augurs well for his future. The efforts of Mr. Cass have shown him to be a capable, safe and con- servative counsellor at law.
Mr. Cass married, October 1, 1899, at Washington, D. C .. Miss Flor- ence P. Chase, a native of New Jersey, and a daughter of Mrs. Adele Chase, of the Capitol City. One child has come to bless their home, Phillip H., Jr.
Mr. Cass has identified himself with the life of Coffeyville in a help- ful way. He is a member of the Baptist church, while his wife holds membership with the I'nitarians. In fraternal life, Mr. Cass is an honor- ed member of the Masonic Lodge, and his political views are embodied in the platforms of the Republican party.
ANDREW J. DICKERSON-Andrew J. Dickerson was born in Boone county, Indiana, November 14, 1842. His father, Fleming Dicker- son, was a native of Virginia, and is still living in Indiana, at the mature age of ninety-three years. He married Jane R. Gwin, a native of Indi-
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ana, and of Irish descent; both of her parents having emigrated from Ireland. She died, in 1849, at the age of forty-six. To them were born seven children, all of whom are living, as follows: Elijah, Henry J., Andrew J., Susan Woods, Mary Smith, Jane McCormick, and Sarah Rey- nolds. For his second wife, Fleming Dickerson married Polly Clark. To this marriage were born five children : Charles. Virginia. John, Ella and William.
Andrew Dickerson spent his boyhood days in Indiana on a farm, where he received a common school education. In the fall of 1863, he enlisted in Company "G," Thirtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was in many skirmishes and battles, inchiding those of Pulaski, Colum- bia, Franklin and Nashville, and he passed through these without being captured or wounded. At the close of the war, he was mustered out, at Camp Stanley, Texas, and returned home.
On the 11th day of January, 1862, Mr. Dickerson was married to Sarah Acton, a native of Indiana, where she was born, on August 7, 1846. She was a daughter of James and Sarepta Acton. Her father, at the age of eighty-six years, is now living in Indiana, while the mother died at seventy-five years of age. Their children number ten. the seven living being : Mahala Acton, Margaret Dickerson, Bazil, Barton, Simon, James and Thomas.
Andrew J. Dickerson came to Kansas in 1885 and settled near Cof- feyville. Ile lived here until 1897, when he bought a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, six miles west of the city, where he resides at present. They have five children: Dora Abstine, Olive Harbison, Flora Arm- strong. Simon and Otis. Mr. Dickerson is a member of the G. A. R. and has always had a citizen's interest in Democratic politics.
BEALE A. ROBINSON-, V. S .- A worthy citizen of Independence whose professional career has been of vast good to the animal industry of the surrounding country, is the veterinary surgeon, Dr. B. A. Robin- son. His residence in the county has been comparatively brief, but the efficiency of his work has guaranteed his permanence, as a citizen, and it is mete to note, briefly, a few facts connected with his origin and his life work.
May 29, 1877, Beale A. Robinson was born in Union county, Ohio, of parents, Guido and Laura ( Andrews) Robinson. The father was born in Delaware county, Ohio, and was a son of John and Elizabeth (Tay- lor) Robinson, of London, England. The grandfather was an artist, painter and geologist, and had children: Edwin, Alfred, Reuben, Mary, Ferris, Arthur, Edward and Guido. The wife of the last named was a daughter of William and Effie Andrews, of New England.
Dr. Robinson is one of five chilrden. as follows: Gerard, of Ohio;
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Beale. our subject ; Ellis, of Ostrando, Ohio; Grace, wife of - Mackan, of Ostrando, Ohio, and Inez. During his boyhood and youth, Beale A. worked on the farm and contributed, in his natural way, to the domestic establishment. He attended country school and the Dover high school. and when nineteen years old, took up teaching school. For two years, he was a country teacher, in Union county, Ohio, and, at twenty-one years of age, came to Kansas, on a bicycle, in company with his brothers. He stopped at Parsons, several months, and, deciding to study veterinary surgery, entered the well-known college of that profession, in Ontario. Canada, from which he graduated. in the spring of 1900. He returned to Parsons, Kansas, and was in the practice there and at Beloit, Kansas, until his advent to Independence, in September of 1901. llere, he is asso- ciated with Dr. E. R. Sruve, a student of the same college with himself, and the firm constitutes one of the strong ones in veterinary surgery and practice in the state.
JOHN R. BLAIR-John R. Blair, who was, until early in 1903, a merchant of Havana, and a young man of splendid executive talents, but now a resident of one of the Territories of the southwest, came to Kan- sas with his parents in 1866, and, three years later, to Montgomery county. where his residence was maintained 'till his removal west. His birth occurred in Wappelo county. lowa, on the 3rd of March, 1862, he being a son of John C. and Damaris I. (Briggs) Blair. His parents were of the sturdy yeomanry of the country and both natives of Fountain counis. Indiana. After their marriage, they resided in Indiana until the date of their removal to the birthplace of John R., in 1856. They moved down into Kansas on the date stated above, and settled east of Galesburg, Neosho county, and, in 1869, filed on a claim near Havana. They were thrifty and industrious citizens, the right kind of pioneer material, and used their influence at all times in building well the foun- dations of Montgomery society. The mother passed away in 1886, aged fifty-five years, the father reaching the ripe oll age of three score and ten, dying November 27, 1901. Four of their seven children are living: James W., John R., Louisa M., now Mrs. Jones, and Daniel W. G. Blair.
The training of our subject was that of the Kansas pioneer farm, with somewhat limited school facilities. But such as they were, John R. made the most of them and managed to have sufficient education at eighteen years to qualify him for work in the school-room. He taught successfully for two years, and then coming to Havana began his career as a business man, as a clerk in the general store of Lockwood & Son. Four years of faithful service here, and he and his father went into the real estate business. After two years our subject started in the grocery
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business, in connection with which he served Uncle Sam as postmaster under the administration of President Harrison.
Mr. Blair had always been an active worker for the success of the Re- publican ticket, and this fact, together with his excellent standing with the business men of the county, was instrumental in his being selected as a candidate for county treasurer. He took the oath of office in 1895, and two years later his conduct of the office was endorsed by re-election. His jucumbeney of four years in the county's treasure-house was marked by efficiency and faithfulness, and he returned to private life with the best wishes of his constituents.
Under the firm name of the Havana Mercantile Company, Mr. Blair -his wife also being interested-now began business again, on a much larger scale than formerly. His success was most marked, the firm occupying a large two-story brick, filled with a splendid stock of general merchandise, and did the greater part of the business in their line in this part of the county. Mr. Blair owns two residence properties, one in In- dependence and the other in Havana.
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Blair was consummated on the 13th of October. 1889, her maiden name having been Lou M. Pettet. She is a daughter of George and Nancy (Greer) Pettet, of Independence, and both she and her parents are natives of the "Hoosier State." coming to Kansas in 1868. To Mrs. Blair have been born two children: Treva G., born July 14, 1890, and Lua E., born August 5, 1892.
Secure in the possession of the good wishes of a large portion of the population of the county, with an honorable public record and a success- ful business career, with conjugal happiness, a fair portion of this world's goods, and above all, a splendid optimistic disposition, always seeing the bright side of life, the career of John R. Blair in his new home is not hard to prognosticate.
CYRUS M. BURTON-Prominent among the worthy agriculturists of Montgomery county is C. M. Burton, one of the very earliest settlers of the county, where he located on a quarter section, in Louisburg township, in the year 1869. Later, he was away from the county for a time but after a short absence returned to the same township, where he has since re- sided.
Mr. Burton is one of the old soldier element attracted hither by the smiling prairies of Kansas after the hardships of the struggle of the 60's. His nativity dates in the "Buckeye State," where, in Harrison county, he was born in the year 1834. His parents were Lee S. and Hanna (Stone) Burton. Lee S. Burton was a son of Thomas Burton, who emi- grated from England to Maryland in the early part of the last century, and settled near Ellicott's Mills, and, in 1815, removed to Jefferson
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county. Ohio. On the mother's side, Grandfather Stone came from Penn- sylvania and became a pioneer of Ohio. Grandfather Burton, later in life, located in Harrison county, Ohio, where he reared five children, two, only, of whom are living: Samuel and Hannah, who reside in Boone county, Iowa. Grandfather Burton died on the old homestead, at the age of seventy-five years, his wife having died during the Civil war.
Our subject was the eldest of the family, the second child being Caroline; Thomas, John and Israel served in the Civil war; Benjamin B., Lura Jane, Elizabeth and Neal. Cyrus M. Burton was reared in Har- rison county, Ohio, and resided on his father's farm, until his enlist- ment, in 1864, as a private in Company "A," One Hundred and Sev- entietl: Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His regiment became a part of the Army of the Potomac and he was engaged in the following battles : Cedar Creek, Quaker Gap and Winchester, and he was mustered out, in October of 1864. After his return home, he cultivated his father's farm for a year and, in 1869, came to Montgomery county, Kansas, where he settled a claim in West Cherry township. Hle cultivated this claim until 1883, when he sold it and removed to Chautauqua county, where he pur- chased a two hundred and eighty acre farm, in company with his brother, and engaged in the cattle business. They continued this business for sev- eral years and then sold out and returned to Montgomery county, where . our subjeet purchased his present farm, in Lonisburg township. It con- sists of one hundred and sixty acres and is devoted to general farming purposes.
Mr. Burton was happily married to Mary J., a daughter of Samuel and Jane ( Harmon) Handley, all residents of Harrison county, Ohio. Mrs. Burton's father was a farmer of that county and reared a family of nine children, of which she was the eldest. The names of the other men- bers were : Nancy, John A., Phoebe, Sammel (deceased), Patience, Reason (deceased), Albert and Marshall. The father died in November of 1864, in his forty-fifth year, the mother living to the age of sixty-six, and pas- sing away, in Kansas, April 3, 1888. The father of the family was a gallaui soldier of the Civil war, second fientenant in Company "G." of the Seventy-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Mr. and Mrs. Burton are the parents of eleven children : Alice, born Jannary 5, 1862, married William MeCabe and resides at Coffeyville, with their four children : Ida, Amy, Owen L. and Claud; Minnie, born January 4, 1863, is the wife of Harrison Truitt and fives in Chautauqua, county, Kansas, with three children: May, Leona and Benjamin H .; Samnel Lee, born December 12, 1864, died in November of 1865; Carrie, born September 13, 1866, is Mrs. William A. Meadows, of Chautauqua county, Kansas, with seven children : Mattie, Guy, Siras, Alice, Viras, Ethel and Alvis; William A., horn August 23, 1868, is a Chautauqua county farmer, married Lettie Cunningham, and has three children :
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Avis, Alvin and Gladys; Jessie Luella, born April 24. 1873, resides at home ; Thomas B., born Inly 28, 1875, lives at Costello, is a farmer and married Bessie Frizell, and has one child : Goldie; Nannie M., born Jan- uary 29, 1878, resides in Elk City ; Cornelia, born February 8, and died April 20, 1879; Cyrus, born November 25, 1880. married Mand Harrison, and resides on the home farm; and Joseph P., born November 10, 1883, resides at home.
Mr. Burton has always been a leading member of the community in which he resides and has evinced interest in the institutions which go to make up this law-abiding community. He is an ardent Republican, in politics, and he and his family are active members of the Christian church.
JOHN W. BARLOW-For a number of years. the iron work, inei- dent to the commercial life of Caney, has been done almost exclusively by this "hardy son of toil," and whose merry anvil has rung out a cheery song of prosperity, since he first tapped its flinty face. within the city limits. Nor has this prosperity been the result of brawn, entirely ; brain has counted in the story ; intelligent management, and painstaking effort to please, has united, with a skilled hand, to make its owner one of the leading citizens of his city.
John W. Barlow was born in Neosho, Missouri, on the 28th of Ang- ust, 1857. His father's name was Matthew J. Barlow, a native of the State of Tennessee. He settled in Missouri, when a young man, where he learned the blacksmithing trade, a vocation which he followed during his entire life. In Missouri, he met and married Elizabeth Alexander, also ? native of Tennessee, and, after a number of years' residence there, removed to Kansas, in the spring of 1863. He settled in Neosho Falls, but, in June of the same year, answered the call of his country and went to the front, as a member of Company "M," Ninth Kansas Volunteer Cav- alry. He served, in this regiment, to the close of the war, his discharge dating July 11, 1865. He resumed work at the forge and lived, for sev- eral years, at Neosho Falls. Ile then passed short periods in Altoona, Fredonia and New Albany, where he died in 1885, at the age of fifty-six years. The wife still survives him and now resides in Oklahoma Terri- tory, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. The family of these par- ents consisted of three children, two daughters besides our subject, Mary and Laura, hoth living.
John W. passed his childhood, for the most part, in Woodson county, Kansas, and was inured to the hardships and privations of the early set- tlers in that time. He learned the blacksmith trade, in his father's shop, and early became one of his most expert hands. He remained with his father until his death, and, after a short trial of conducting the shop
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alone, sold out and went to Fredonia, where he worked, as a journeyman, for the following two years. In 1891, he came to Caney and, beginning at the very bottom of the ladder, has gradually forged to the front, until he owns a large shop and nice residence property, all the result of his own efforts. . Mr. Barlow takes a keen interest in the welfare of his adopted city, and his executive ability, so successful in the management of his own affairs, has won for him the honor of representation in the city council, where his work has been of the greatest practical value. He has served a unmber of terms and has occupied the honored position of chairman, and is now, mayor of the city. He is, also, the prosent effi- cient township treasurer. He affiliates with the Odd Fellows, New Al- bany Lodge, and is also a popular member of the M. W. of A.
In the year 1882, Mr. Barlow was happily joined in marriage with Mary J. Lee, daughter of Randolph and Mary Lee. This was an Indiana family, who came to Kansas in 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow are the par- ents of eight children, as follows: Claud, Lulu, Grover, Burl, Elizabeth, Furn, Pauline and Nellie. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow are members of the M. E. church.
HERMAN J. SCHHIERLMAN-Among the younger men who have, by their industry and economy, placed themselvs in the front rank of the agriculturists of the county, is this Tuetonie citizen, who embodies the solid virtues of that old and honored people. His parents brought him to Kansas when he was four years of age, so that he is a product of Mont- gomery's institutions.
In the year 1873, in the Fatherland, there was born to Theodore and Kate (Keiser) Schierlman, a son, Herman J. In 1877, the parents, moved by the reports that came back to them, of the fertility and cheapness of the land in the great republic, across the sea, left the land of their na- tivity, came to the United States, and settled, for a short period, in Chi- cago, thence to lowa, and, in 1881, purchased a farm, one mile south and east of Liberty, in Montgomery county, Kansas. Here. Herman was reared to farm life. receiving a fair education in the district schools, and developing the sturdiness and independence of character, which are his chief characteristics. He purchased the farm on which he now resides, a splendid traet of one hundred and sixty acres, eight miles from the county-seat town of Independence, and devotes it to general farming and stock raising. The intelligent methods used by our subject, and the per- sistence with which he "sticks to it." bid fair to make him, in the near future, one of the well-to-do men of the county. He leaves to others the admistration of the different local offices, contenting himself in helping to elect the best men, regardless of party, though, in state and national
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affairs, he generally supports the Democratic ticket. In religious mat- ters, he is a devont communicant of the Catholic church.
The maiden name of the wife of our subject was Mary Ann Mahar. She is a daughter of J. and Mary (Fanning) Mahar. She was, first, joined in marriage to Thomas MeKimin, who died May 1, 1896, and her marriage to Mr. SchierIman took place, later, and she has borne him two sturdy sons: Herman and James.
Mrs. Schierlman came of a large family, she being one of fifteen chil- dren, seven living, as follows: William, who lives in Ireland; John, re- siding in Kansas; Patrick, in New Zealand; Bridget. in Ireland; James, in St. Louis; Mrs. Schierhnan was the sixth child ; and Maggie, who mar- ried John Hanna, living in Drum Creek township.
This union of the Tentonie and Celtic races. is a most happy one. and their many friends delight to partake of their open-handed hospital- ity in the comfortable home where they reside.
JOHN BYSUNG-The gentleman whom the biographer is here per- mitted to review, has cultivated a farm just outside the corporation of Coffeyville, since 1880, having previously been one of the "Hoosier State's" honest yeomanry. Mr. Hysung's farm of thirty aeres, lying against the city, is a remnant of the once-large farm and will, no doubt, at no distant date, become a part of the city itself. In addition to this tract, Mr. Hysung owns a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Labette county, which fact still entitles him to consideration in agri- cultural circles.
The parents of our subject, Frederick and Mary ( Mann) Hysing. were natives of the "Keystone State." and passed their lives in the eulti- vation of a Bedford county farm. They were well to do, owning several good farms, on one of which was a grist-mill, which the father operated. In addition to these two occupations, he was a blacksmith of no mean order, showing that he led a very busy life. Both the parents were worthy and devout members of the German Reform church. The father died of heart failure, in 1855, aged sixty-five, the mother's demise taking place ten years later, at the age of seventy-fonr. There were four children : John, Hannah, who died single, aged fifty years; Mary, of Poland, In- diana, and Jacob. The latter was a lientenant in Company "C." Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and. with the Army of the Potomac, took part in twenty-three engagements, he receiving a serions wound, at the battle of Seven Pines. He now resides at Santa Cross, California.
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