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William P. Wallace is one of six children as follows: Hattie, Mrs. John Duke who died in 1878; William P., Harriet M .. wife of Frank Carter of Hannibal, Mo .; Victoria, who died in 1864; John H., a resident of Ft. Madison, lowa; and George A., in the mercantile business at Clarksville, Mo.
Mr. Wallace was educated in the schools of Clarksville, Mo., and during the winters, from 1872 to 1878, he assisted his father in the shop and worked at the ice business in the summer. He has handled ice summer seasons ever since he was twelve years old. and has com- pleted many a wagon without assistance, having become expert in the trade of wagon-making while at work with his father. For a time, in
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1880, be ran an engine in a tobacco factory, returning to his ice busi- ness in the summer. In 1892-his father having died-he returned to work in the wagon factory, where he spent iwo winters. Then he worked for a cider and vinegar Co .. the largest concern of the kind in northeast Missouri. After five years, he came to Cherryvale, 1899, and bought out J. P. Baker, who had been in the ice business here seventeen years.
During the years Mr. Wallace has been in business here he has handled thousands of tons of ice, and has done well at the business, as he understands it in all its details. Since coming here he has seen many come and many go, but he has gone on without interruption.
His marriage to Miss E. Estelle Baldwin took place in 1884. his wife being a native of Marengo, la. She was a daughter of M. D. Baldwin, a native of Springfield, Mass., and Elmira Arnold, a native of Oneda county. N. Y. Mr. Baldwin was a farmer by occupation. He was born in 1822, and died in 1875. He and his wife wore members of the Christian church. They were married in 1849, his wife dying April 18th, 1863, at the age of thirty-two years. Mrs. Wallace was one of six children, four of whom were: Eliza J., deceased: Estelle, and an infant who died at birth, and Owen, of St. Paul, Kansas.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace have seven children: William P., who died in 1885; John Arnold, Howard W .. Leslie V., Ray Kingsberry, Rudolph. deceased, and Ralph Adolph. This family of children is an interesting and well-ordered one, in which the parents take a pardonable pride. The parents are members of the Christian church, the father being assistant superintendent of the Sunday School and its secretary and treasurer, for twelve years. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and also the Modern Woodmen of America and he votes with the Republican party.
He is honorable and most reliable, and has the pluck, push and perseverance that are needful in a successful business career.
WILLIAM S. HOUGHTON, pharmacist and druggist of Cherryvale, was born in Koseinsko county, Ind., July 9th, 1860, a son of Tilden M. and Susan (Sarber) Houghton, the former a native of Massachusetts, the latter of Indiana. The father was a graduate of the Boston Con- servatory of Music and was a musician and vocalist of high class, having just started on a career of affluence and honor when he died at the early age of thirty-nine. Our subject's mother died but a short time before, and he was left to the care of his maternal grandfather, Christian Sarber.
Mr. Houghton was educated in the county schools and in the high school at Warsaw, Ind., afterward taking a course in the State Normal School at Valparaiso, Ind. He followed teaching for three years, but,
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later, went into a drug store in Warsaw. In 1882, he came to Kansas and engaged in the drug business at Altamont, but he sold out later on and was appointed postmaster of that city, under President Cleveland. On retiring from office he became a traveling salesman for a drug honse. Following this, he clerked four and one-half years in a drug store in Cherryvale, and in May of 1902, went into business for himself there. He is an efficient and safe prescription clerk and holds a druggist's diploma from the Kansas State Board of Pharmacy.
In 1878, Mr. Houghton was joined in marriage with Minerva A., daughter of Tallman and Rachel (Warren) Blue. Her father was a native of Ohio and a tanner by trade. He, later, moved over into Kos- ciusko county, Ind., where he died. Mrs. Houghton is the eldest of Three children, the others, Rosella and John, being deceased. Her father was married a second time, Nellie, a minister's wife, being the child of this marriage. She resides in Pennsylvania. To Mr. and Mrs. Houghton have been born seven children: Muriel E., clerk in the store; Charles F., who works in the press brick department of the vitritied brick con- pany; Grace E., Lce H., Pearl E., William and Howard D.
In a social way Mr. Houghton is a member of the Masonic order and of the A. O. U. W., and in politics supports the policies of the Democratic party. His citizenship is of that clean and healthful variety which secures the respect and esteem of all.
GEORGE ELLIOT COX is one of the large land owners of Mont- gomery county, being in control, at the present time, of a domain of eleven hundred and fifteen acres. He has been a resident of the county since 1869, in which year he settled with his parents in Louisburg town- ship, where his father purchased a large body of land, upon a part of which this son now resides. William Henry Cox, father of George E., was an Ohioan by birth, born Jan. 27, 1821, a son of William Cox, who located in Bartholomew county, Indiana, the year of Henry Cox's birth, Here William Cox continued to reside until his removal to Johnson Co., in 1849, where he died twenty years later. His wife died in 1834, at the age of thirty-seven years.
Wm. Henry Cox, in 1854, married Nancy Collett, a native of Johnson county, Ind., and a daughter of James Collett. Prior to this, he married hisfirst wife, Levena Elliott, whose three children were : Elizabeth, widow of F. M. Coleman, of Elk City, and Benjamin and Emma, deceased. By his second marriage were born: James M .. who married Clara Blair and now resides at Oak Valley, with children : Ethel, Gladys, Bernice, Herman, Victor, Alberta and James; George E., the esteemed subject of this review: John L., who married Laura L. Little, and resides at Crane, Kansas, with children : Essie, Hazel and Herbert ; Albert T., who married Ella Jones and resides in Independence, being editor of the
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"Star and Kansan;" their four children are: Andra, Earl, Paul and Nannie; Tra, who married Gertie Myers and resides in Anadarko, Okla- homa, where he is cashier of the First National Bank. Their two chil- drenare : Burnelland Maxine ; Annie May is the wife of Ray Dirst, and re- sides at Independence, Kansas: Chester C., who married Lillie May Har- mon of Elk City; their two children being: Ortis and Nannie; Silvia Gertrude married William Johnson and resides in Columbia, Missouri, with one child, Lorin. The parents of this family continued to reside on the old homestead for many years, but have given up the active life of the farm and are now residents of Elk City.
The Collett connections are Kentuckians, and grandfather Samuel follett and Elizabeth Whiteacre. his wife, having been early settlers in the "Blue Grass State."
James Collett settled on a claim of one hundred and sixty acres near Indianapolis, and became a man of much prominence in that portion of the state, where he grew quite wealthy. His estate, at his death, having been rated at $60,000. The Colletts are of English descent.
George E. Cox was born in Johnson county, Indiana. in the year 1862, and there he took his first steps toward an education. He con- tinned it in the district school of his home neighborhood-after his par- ents removed to Montgomery county and has been a resident of the okl homestead since, with the exeption of three years spent on a farm, a mile northwest of Elk City, when he traded for the old home place of two hundred acres. In 1891, he bought of his father three hundred and eight acres adjoining him: in 1895. he purchased one hundred and thirty-two acres adjoining this; in 1901, be added one hundred and fourteen acres more and in 1902, purchased of his brother, I. E. Cox, thirty-six acres on Elk river, eight miles from his home place. As stated, he is one of the most extensive farmers in the county, and the manner in which he con- duets his large interests clearly marks him as one of the most progres- sive and efficient members of the agrienltural class.
On the first of July, 1885. Mr. Cox took nnto himself a wife in the person of Fannie Allen, daughter of Pinkney and Martha Jane (Free. man) MeDowell. Mrs. Cox is one of four children; James Alexander, a farmer. of bonisburg township, elsewhere reviewed in this volume: Mary Susan and William Thomas, deceased, and Mrs. Cox, the youngest. The mother of this family is now an inmate of the home of James McDowell. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Cox five children have been born, viz: Clande 1 ... born October 13. 1886; Grace Inez, born December 12. 1887; William Allen, born September 5, 1889; C'eeil May, born November 24, 1893, and Anna Faye, born October 4, 1894.
Mr. Cox is regarded as one of the prominent spirits of Louisburg township and indeed of the whole county. He gives a large part of his attention necessarily to his extensive landed interests, but finds time to take a good citizen's part in the administration of affairs in his com-
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munity. In political belief he aseribes to the tenets of the Populist party. He is a member of the A. O. U. W., and in matters of religion is a worthy supporter of the Baptist church, of which he and his wife's family have been members for many years.
JOSEPH CHANDLER, deceased-The well-known subject of this memoir was a citizen of Montgomery county from its pioneer days to his death. He followed the profession of the law, and as a lawyer appro- priate mention of him appears under the chapter on "The Bench and Bar" in this volume.
Mr. Chandler was born in Wyoming Co., N. Y., May 4, 1846, of par- ents Hazen and Paulina (Stowe) Chandler, the father a native of Ver- mont, and the mother of Wethersfield, N. Y. Hazen Chandler was a carpenter, wagon-maker, and also carried on farming. He migrated to Wisconsin in the late forties and still later, to Shirland, Ilinois. His first wife was Lucinda Emmons, of Shirland, Ill., who bore him a son, Squire Emmons, born September, 1832. Hle latter served in Company "G." "38th" lowa, during the Rebellion, was carried from Vicksburg to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, sick, and died there Aug. 30, 1863. He left a wife and two children-Hazen and Burns-in lowa. May 16, 1842, Mrs. Lucinda Chandler died and by his second marriage Hazen Chandler was the father of : Judge George Chandler, mentioned in "The Bench and Bar" of this work; Mary A., deceased wife of Fayette G. Steele, of Shir- land, Illinois, who died leaving three children, and Joseph Chandler, of this review. Hazen Chandler, born February 4, 1807, died in Boston November 28, 1878, aged nearly 72 years.
Joseph Chandler graduated from Beloit College at Beloit, Wis., in 1872, and in 1875, took the degree of A. M. For two years he had charge of a graded school at Clinton, Wis., and of the Yankton, South Dak., academy the year 1873-4. He then came to Independence. Kansas, and sindied law under his brother and was admitted to practice in 1875.
June 20, 1876. Mr. Chandler married Libbie M. Chapin. a native of Jef- ferson, Wis., and a daughter of Josiah S. and Anna (Tompkins) Chapin, of Massachusetts and New York, respectively. Her parents were mar- ried in New York City, and lived together till 1870. when Mrs. Chapin died in Memphis, Tennessee, aged about fifty years. Mr. Chapin learned the cabinet-makers trade, but laid it aside in 1850, and went to the gold fields of California. He remained there three years profitably em- ployed in the mines, and, on his return east, established himself at Janesville, Wis., and engaged in the grain and commission business. He removed, later, to Madison, the state capital, where he was engaged ex- tensively in the grocery businss. Retiring from this, he engaged in the Christian Commission work, paying his own expenses for one year. At the close of the Civil War he took up his residence in Memphis, Tonnes-
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see, where he was general agent for the North Western Life Insurance Co., for the States of Tennessee, Alabama and Arkansas. Leavisg Mem- phis he located briefly in Kalamazoo, Michigan, whence he came to Inde- pendence, Kansas, in 1872. While in this city he conducted a hardware and implement business and on leaving here took charge of a store at Palmer, Kansas. This store and stock he traded for a farm near Salina, Kansas, and there he died December 26, 1882, at sixty-two years of age. He and his wife were active members of the Congregational church and were the parents of an only child, Mrs Chandler, widow of the subject of this notice.
To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Chandler were born tive children. viz: George Chapin, a graduate of the Valparaiso, Ind., Normal College, married Gertrude Fairleigh. in Independence. Jannary 14, 1900, and has a daughter Marion; Edward Hazen, a law student in Indopmedence; Alice, a graduate of the Montgomery County High School; Charles Halli- day and William G., pupils of the city schools.
Mr. Chandler maintained political relations with the Republican party by which he was honored with public office. He died in Independ- ence, October 16, 1902.
F. D. BREWSTER is one of the leading building contractors of In- dependence, a member of the Common Conneil from the Second Ward, and a gentleman whose usefulness as a citizen canses him to be most highly regarded. His handiwork is seen in many of the city's prominent buildings and is of a character which marks him a "workman that needeth not to be ashamed."
Mr. Breswter is a son of J. H. Brewster, who has lived four miles east of Independence for the past twenty years, and is, himself, one of the leading contractors of the county. The father is a native of Penn- sylvaria. He learned the stone-cutters' trade and followed if for some years in the cast. He married Jane Newton in 1865 or '66, and lived in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, until his coming to Kansas in 1884. He has since cultivated the farm on which he now resides, and. in addition, has carried on an extensive business as a general contractor in the county. Many of the larger public buildings are of his construction, notably the last two school buildings built in Independence. His citizenship during his residence in Montgomery county has been of the highest quality and the large family which he has reared reflect credit upon the different communities of which they are members. The parents are both life- long members of the M. E. church, and are held in high esteem by a large circle of friends. Their children are: llenderson A., a contractor, at Coffeyville: F. D., subject of this sketch; Caroline, Mrs. Harvey Wil- son, of Burlingame, Kan .; Maggie, wife of John Dreher, of Montreal, Canada; Jesse B., contractor. Bartlesville, I. T .; Flora B., Mrs. Frank
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Stovall, of Guthrie, Ok. Ty .; Minnie N., wife of F. G. Wilson, of Inde- pendence; Miles O., deceased, in 1902, at twenty-three years; Emerson W., a bricklayer, of Okla. City; Jennie, single, and Daisy, who died in infancy.
F. D. Brewster is a native of Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where he was born April 18, 1868. He came with the family to Kansas, and, after securing a good common school education learned the bricklaying trade with his father. He was his father's right-hand man until 1891, when he began contracting for himself. The Baden warehouse in Inde- pendence was his first contract, and his success in this instance has been duplicated many times. Some of his larger contracts are : several school houses, the Masonic Temple, Carl-Leon Hotel, and the Hollingsworth residence. The secret of his success is possibly in the fact that his word is as good as his bond, and when he enters into a contract to perform cor- tain work, the specifications will be followed to the letter.
Mr. Brewster and his family are active members of the M. E. church, while he affiliates with the Masons (Blue Lodge, Chapter and Comman- dery), and the A. O. U. W. He votes the Republican ticket.
Mrs. Brewster was Miss Mattie Flack prior to March 30. 1892, the date of their marriage. She is a native of Indiana, a daughter of John and Nancy Flack, deceased. Two children have been born to her, Ivan Elsie and James Russell.
MILTON DAVIS-The family of which Milton Davis, a worthy rep- resentative of the agricultural class in Cherokee township, is a member, originated in Wales. In the year 1650, four brothers crossed the ocean and cast their future with the people who had founded the colony of Maryland. From this family quartetto sprung the forefathers of our sub- ject and thus the head of the family represented by the subject of this review. From Maryland to North Carolina their posterity spread and our National history is filled with the names of patriots and statesmen who have added renown to the already brilliant achievements of our re- public. Captain Isaac Davis, who fought valiantly for our freedom from British rule, was a descendant of this and a grand ancestor of our sub- ject.
Milton Davis was born in Perry County, Illinois, December 24. 1840. His father was Joel Davis, a native of Tennessee, born March 2nd, 1818. His mother was Millie Robertson, a native of the same state, born March 18, 1820. The marriage ceremony was performed in Washington Co., Ill. The paternal grandparents of our subject removed, in 1822, to Illi. nois, where Joel Davis was reared to manhood on the farm and resided until 1870, when he came to Montgomery county, and settled in Chero- kee township, tive miles cast of Coffeyville. There he died August 5th, 1892, aged seventy-four years. His wife died in June, 1890, at the
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age of seventy years. Eleven children composed the family, four of whom died in infancy. Newton died at thirty-one and there are now six living: Frank M., William, Joel, Charles, Milton and Mrs. Sarah Graham.
Mr. Davis secured a district school education and was still at home when the call was made for troops to put down the rebellion. In the early part of 1862, he enrolled as a private in Company "A," 101st. III. Vol. Inf .. and served his country to the close of the struggle. lle was with "U'nele Billy" Sherman at Vicksburg, accompanied him across to Chattasooga, to Atlanta and to the sea, np through the Carolinas and to the Grand Review of the battle-scarred veterans at the Nation's Capitol. During these years of peril, he had many narrow escapes, but returned in comparatively vigorous health, and with no serious wounds. He was struck several times by spent balls and pieces of shell, but never lost a day by reason of his wounds. Ile was discharged on the 22nd of June. 1865, at Springfield, Ill.
Mr. Davis remained in Illinois engaged in farming until 1871. the date of his settling in Cherokee township. Montgomery county. He re- sided there for three years and then bought 160 acres of the land on which he now resides. le has redeemed this land from its wild state and has it in a high state of cultivation. To the original quarter, he has added another, the farm now comprising 320 acres. He is engaged ex- tensively in the raising of cattle and hogs.
During his residence in the county, Mr. Davis has taken an active and helpful part in building up the institutions of society which makes Montgomery county a desirable place of residence. Four terms has he served as trustee of his township and he has acted as treasurer, also, for a number of terms. Fraternally, he affiliates with the Masonic lodge at Coffeyville, and is also a member of the Commandery at Independ- ence. Ilis vote is always counted in support of the principles of Democracy.
November 3rd, 1867, was a day to be remembered in the lives of our subject and his wife. for, on that day, the latter changed her maiden name of Elizabeth Robinson to that of Davis. She was born in White county. Ill., on September 12, 1845. Her father was George Robinson, her mother, Elizabeth Overtield, both natives of Virginia. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Davis, five children have been born: Charles E., a farmer of this township; Berdella, wife of II. A. Brown. a farmer of the township; Richard. who lives at Coffeyville; Nellie, Mrs. O. A. Green of Independence, and Myrtle, Mrs. Elbert Dryden of Ft. Worth, Texas.
WILLIAM L. BOLTON-February 12, 1862, William L. Bolton was born in Cedar county, Iowa. He was twelve years of age when he ac-
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companied his parents from his native state into Kansas and became a citizen of Butler Co., later of Montgomery county. Here he came to maturity and was educated and has achieved his material success. lle is recognized as one of the men of promise in the agricultural and graz- ing world of Cherry township and is pursuing his calling with a modesty and frankness becoming the man.
Mr. Bolton is a son of James Bolton, a native of Virginia, and of Elsie Thorn, also of that state. In 1854, the parents moved out to Iowa and passed many years in Cedar county. They also resided in the State of Missouri a short time and, some years later, resided in Butler county, Kansas. They finally came to Montgomery county where the father yet lives and where the mother died at the age of sixty-eight years, Six children were the issue of their marriage, viz: Mary, Nancy, Ellen, William L. and James; Nancy and William L. being the sole survivors of the issne. One child died in infancy.
The country schools of Kansas supplied William L. Bolton with a fair education and equipped him to cope successfully with his fellow- man. He was married in November, 1885, his wife being Emeline Estes, a daughter of Edmond Estes, and widow of E. S. Estes from North Caro- lina. Mrs. Bolton came to Kansas with her first husband in 1883, and located on Drum creek, five miles northwest of Cherryvale. Their energy and industry improved this farm, brought it to a high state of cultivation and made it one of the splendid estates in the Drum creek valley. Since his marriage, Mr. Bolton has assumed charge of the affairs of this farm and its cultivation and management, together with that of his own farm adjoining, consumes his time and gives him ample lati- tude to demonstrate his prowess in the battle of life. The homestead and its adjunet comprise a traet of three hundred and four acres and constitutes one of the best wheat and stock farms in Cherry township. A new residence has sprung up and other substantial improvements mark the progress of its dual and worthy owners.
Mr. and Mrs. Bolton's marriage is withont issue. They are hospi- table and happy in their home life and are without ambition beyond good citizenship and a fair remuneration for their honest efforts. Mr. Bol- lon supports the cause of Republicanism at the polls and does this bit of political work from purely patriotic motives.
F. W. GARLINGHOUSE-It is said that a man's character is much affected by the work in which be engages -- that the mason's frequent use of the plumb line, the carpenter's use of his square, the farmer's efforts to run the plow in a straight line across his field-that all these exert an unconscious influence upon the character of the individual. If this be true, it accounts, in some measure, at least, for the upright char- acter of the gentleman above mentioned. Mr. Garlinghouse is a worker
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in marble, and the reputation which he sustains in his home town of In- dependence would seem to indicate that there is something in the above theory-he is as clear ent and upright as the shafts which show his handiwork.
Mr. Garlinghous is following the trade of his father, George C. Gar- linghouse, now a resident of Oklahoma, but for a number of years in business in Montgomery county. He and his wife, nce Helen Salisbury, removed to Montgomery county from MeDonough Co., Ill., with their family of five children. They resided in the county until 1894, when the parents removed to Oklahoma. The names of the children are: Eva E., now Mrs. C. Gibson, of Chanute, Kas .; F. W. the subject of this sketch; Opal, Mrs. P. E. Voyles, of Independence; Clyde, at home with his parents; Avis, of Independence.
F. W. Garlinghouse was born in MeDonough county, Ill., November 16, 1867, and came to Kansas with the family. He was given a good education in the common schools, after which he learned the trade of marble-cutter under the watchful and experienced eye of his father. In 1891, he began business for himself in Caney, with his father as a part- ner. The firm continued three years, when F. W., bought his father's interest, the latter having determined to go to Oklahoma. In 1895, Mr. Garlinghouse moved his business to Independence and purchased the marble yard of Wm. Dawson, where he has since been engaged success- fully. An evidence of the satisfactory character of his work is in the fact that although he covers a large field, no competitor has been able to establish himself here.
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