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The domestic life of Mr. McCormick was initiated on the 5th of January, 1871. when he was joined in marriage to Sara E., daughter of
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J. H. and Sarah E. Reid. To this marriage have been born four children -Molly F .. Mrs. Frank E. Shumard, of Cherryvale; her children being : Lucile and Mark; Minnie May died in infancy; Bertha M., wife of S. M. Steifer, with residence in Nimshew, Cal., and Stella M., a student in the high school.
Mr. and Mrs. McCormick and family are most highly respected in Cherryvale, where they number their friends among the most exclusive circles.
DANIEL G. PARKS, JR .- As a seventeen-year-old hoy, to whom the world was just opening up a career, the subject of this sketch set- tled with his mother on a farm on Elk river, in Montgomery county. This was in the year of the great immigration to the county in 1871. Daniel Parks has been a resident of the county since that time, and his character for probity and uprightness are such as to make his name one of the honored ones on the roll of the county's population.
In the year 1854, on the 15th of February, Mr. Parks was born in Blair county, Pennsylvania; the son of Daniel J. and Susan (Ropp) - Parks. He was one of eleven children, eight of whom are now living: Mary, the wife of farmer William M. Eddy, lives at Crane Station, Mont- gomery county; John is deceased; the third child was Daniel G .; Jacob lives in Chautauqua county, Kansas, and is married to Minnie Garst and has three children : Fannie. Lon and William : Ellen, married Will- iam Ropp, an Oklahoma farmer, and has four children : Julins, Walter, Maud and Mary; George married Bessie Blackmore and resides on the home farm and has three children: Clandia, James and Mattie; Julia married John Thompson, a farmer of the county, and has six children : James, John, Lula, Margaret, Grover and Emmet; Samnel L. is a farmer. residing in Sycamore township. He married Stella Goodwin and they have five chilrden : Rose, Bessie, Nellie, Daniel and an infant; Netfie is the wife of William Rennert, a farmer of Rutland township; their children are : Ona, Orval and Ella.
The members of this family are all respected factors of the different communities where they reside and are filling useful positions in life.
The parents of Daniel G. Parks remained in the east until after the war, when they removed with their family, in 1865, to Woodson county, Kansas, where the father died Sept. 11, 1871. The father and husband in Coffey county, Kansas, was a veteran of the Civil War, having served gallantly as a private soldier of Company "K," 35th Iowa Vol. Inft. He was a man of many good traits of character, industrious and honest. He died as a result of a breaking down. consequent upon the hardships of army life. After his death his widow removed with her family to Mont; gomery county, as above stated, where she purchased the farm upon which our subject now resides and which he purchased from the heirs
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after her death in 1892. This farm consists of ti7 acres, which is de- voted to general farming. He is a member of that vigorous young fra- ternal society, the Modern Woodmen of America, and in political belief is a supporter of the party of Jefferson and Jackson. He combines many of the best qualities of citizenship and is held in high esteem by his many friends.
J. J. WINE-At the corner of Sixth and Myrtle streets, Independ- ence, lives this native of the Buckeye State, a much respected and highly esteemed citizen, whose influence along the lines of good government has been a living factor in placing his home municipality among the well- governed towns of Kansas. By occupation a contracting carpenter, he reflects credit upon the craft by the excellence of his work, finished samples of which may be seen in every part of the city.
He is one of a family of ten, children of John and Margaret (Tharp) Wine, natives of Ohio, the grandfather, James, being from the "Key- stone State." Six of the ien children survive, but the parents are de- ceased.
Mr. Wine was born in Hocking county, Ohio, March 31, 1840. They were of the self-respecting farmer class, whose struggle for existence in those pioneer times precluded much in the way of an education for their children, so that our subject came to manhood with practically nothing in the line of book knowledge. His ambition in this line was such, however, as to cause him to supply the deficiency after he left home by burning the "midnight oil" after he had finished his day's work. He had learned his trade thoroughly under two different contractors, and in 1866, he set up for himself in Mapleton. Kan. He passed short periods of time at that place, Girard and Chetopa. thence to .toplin, Mo .. where he remained for six years in the employ of a smelting concern. In January of 1885, he came to Independence, where he has since resided. For a time he was engaged in the confectionery and bakery business, and for several years acted as night watch of the city, but, latterly. he has been devoting his entire time to the trade he learned in his youth.
When the toesin of war sounded its shrill note in 1861. it found our subject ready to enlist for the cause of freedom. Since boyhood he had been in a section of country where he saw much of disloyalty by the slave-holding class, and his blood had been stirred by the fiendish deeds of the border rutlians during the fifties. He was one of the first to vol- unteer, becoming a member of Company "1." 6th Kan. Vol. Cav. This regiment acted as a patrol between Kansas and Missouri during the war, Mr. Wine being on duty the entire time. never having lost a day, except by the measles.
The married life of our subject began in 1865, the lady whom he se- cured having had an experience which made her especially attractive to
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the young soldier. in that it showed the true worth of her character. Previous to her marriage to Mr. Wine she had been the wife of Richard Loomis, one of the loyal Free-State men of Lawrence, Kan. On the day .of Quantrell's raid on that town, Mr. Looomis refused to leave his family to the tender mercies of the drunken mob which had possession. His house was fired with the rest and he was forced to leave with his family. lle was met at the gate by a sqnad of the fiends, ordered to lay down his baby son, and as he sprang back into the burning building, fell pierced by bullets, his body being found afterward in the ashes of the home he had thought to defend. Mrs. Loomis secured the child and escaped. The boy was given the honored name of his martyr father and was reared in the home of Mr. Wine, and, singular to say, within half a block of the tiend who led the band who murdered his father. He now lives in Jop- Jin, Mo., a miner by occupation. He married Lucinda Myers, and has two children-Mand and John. A daughter was born to Mr. Wine's marriage, Lillie M., now Mrs. Alva Clark, of Independence, whose two daughters are : Jane F. and Harriet Irene. The wife of our subjeet passed away June 12, 1899, at the age of fifty-six years. She was a true wife and mother and a consistent member of the M. E. church. Mr. Wine is an ardent Republican in politics, a member of the Masonic fraternity, ot the G. A. R., and of the Sons and Danghters of Instice.
J. A. CLAYTON, moving spirit of the Clayton Saddlery and Man- ufacturing Company of Cherryvale, is a notable example of what the American boy can do in this country when coupled with plenty of eu- ergy and a fair amount of brains. Just eleven years ago he came to Cherryvale, bought, at Maple City, Kansas, his first bill of goods for $17.35, and with three cents still jingling in his pocket turned to wait on his first customer.
The above manufacturing company is one of the leading houses of its kind in the west, and is fast becoming the chief source of supply to all the adjacent territory. It ocenpies one of the best business sites in the city and now requires three large warehouses to manufacture and display the goods in which the firm deals. One of these is devoted to wheeled vehicles of all kinds, another to oils, greases, harness dressings and prepartions, and the third to heavy hardware and supplies. In the conduct of the business Mr. Clayton has the aid of his father, who owns one-third of the stock. He, himself, being a practical harness maker, gives close supervision to every piece made, and nothing is allowed to leave the shop unless perfect in every detail. Besides the manufacture of all kinds of harness there is a department devoted to buggy tops, and still another to the manufacture of cloth mittens and leather suspenders. Two competent traveling salesmen push the sale of these goods, all of
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which have become a standard article with those who handle saddlery goods.
Touching briefly the pionts in the career of this enterprising young Napoleon in business, the biographer notes that he was born in DeWitt county, Ill., July 10, 1871, and is the son of S. B. and Arletta M. Clayton. natives of Ohio and Illinois, respectively. The parents are respected residents of Cherryvale, the father, as stated, being a member of the firm. To these parents were born a family of two sons, Robert F., the youngest, being in the saddlery business in St. Louis.
J. A. Clayton was brought to Kansas by his parents in 1874. They settled on a farm in Cowley county, where the children were reared and given a good common school education. At the age of eighteen, Mr. Clayton entered upon aw apprenticeship to the harness trade in Emporia, Kansas, and in 1891, began business for himself at Maple City. In 1892. as stated, he came to Cherryvale, and, as may be inferred, is one of the "strictly business" kind of men. He has found some time to devote to civic duties, and, as in his private affairs, these duties have been performed with energy and fidelity. He was a member of the common council for four years, during one of which he was honored by his associates with the presidency, in which position he was acting Mayor of the city. Both he and Mrs. Clayton are earnest workers in the Presbyterian church, in which he is an Elder. In the fraternities he is a prominent member of the Knights of Pythias -- in which he has occupied all the chairs-and of the Modern Woodmen. Politically, an ardent Republican, he is a valued worker during the campaigns in the interest of that party's prin- ciples.
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton's marriage was an event of November 29, 1893. at Arkansas City, Kansas. She is a native of lowa, and is a daughter of HI. and Martha E. Ferguson, now residing at Maple City. To the Clayton home there has come one bright little son, Hubert Lee, who is the joy and pride of the household.
With material success already assured, a happy domestic life, and with the approbation of business and social friends, it would seem that there is little left to be desired by our subject. His career should be the source of great pride, and an object of emulation to others.
JOHN MASON-Two of the largest individual farmers in the coun- ty and gentlemen who have made farming a great success, financially. are John Mason and his brother Edward. The farm of the former con- sists of 240 acres, and lies in Rutland township. These gentlemen are vigorous and industrious workmen and show by the successful conduct of their farms what may be done by industry and economy in southern Kansas.
John Mason was born in Devonshire, England, in December. 1834.
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He remained in his native land until he was twenty-one years of age, when he crossed the Atlantic ocean and located at Leavenworth, Kan- sas. There he engaged with the United States government as a team- ster for two years. lle remained at this place until 1869, when, in the month of July, he located on his present farm, where he has since con- tinned to reside.
During the war and immediately after, Mr. Mason was confidential scout and messenger for the famous cavalry leader, "Phil" Sheridan.
A brother of our subject, Henry Mason, located in Cherokee county, where he subsequently died, while still another brother, James, located in and died in Rutland township. The parents of these sons died in England, as stated in the sketch of Edward Mason elsewhere in this book.
.lolm Mason married in the county, in 1873, Emily Howard, a native of Indiana. She came to Montgomery county. Kansas, with her parents and settled in the town of Caney. She is the mother of seven children, but two of whom are now living, viz: Minnie May, who married Cland King, of Coffeyville, with her two children : Ethel and Willje. The ser- ond child, Thomas Edward. now resides on the home farm. He married Mary Lolly, of this township, and they have one child, lohn, named in honor of his grandfather.
Mr. Mason is a man who attends studiously to his own affairs, con- verning himself very little with matters of public interest. He, how- ever. can always be depended upon to support measures which have for their objeet the betterment of conditions in his neighborhood, educa- tionally, religiously or otherwise. He is a consistent member and liberal supporter of the Friends church and votes the Democratie ticket. He and his family are looked upon as one of the most substantial residents of the township, where all unite in giving them the esteem which they deserve.
CHARLES A. EVANS-The life of the extensive farmer mentioned as the subject of this sketch almost began in Montgomery county, Kan- Sas. lle is a native of the Empire State, but was only five years of age when his parents cast their loi with the new country of Kansas. He was born January 13, 1865, in Oneida county, New York, and his father was the late George H. Evans, who pioneered to Montgomery county in 1869, took a tract of land as a claim in section 21, township 31, range 16, returned east and brought out his family the following spring and housed them in the rude cabin provided for them by his own hands.
George H. Evans was born in Oneida county, New York, also, his birthday being January 22. 1830. His father, Thomas Evans, was born in Tenby, England, August 1, 1801, and his mother, Elizabeth Bailey, was originally a subject of an English king. and was born in Wichwich, End., October 15, 1812. The parents established the family in
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Petersboro, Madison county, New York, and in 1823. in Oneida county, New York, where their children, George H., Thomas C., Mrs. Elizabeth Shaw and Horatio J .. were born. Thomas Evans was a prom- inent merchant and held the office of JJ. P. for twenty-four years, was a member of the Legislature in 1860, and died December 13, 1885. Thomas C. and Horatio J. are still residents of Florence, that county. The former visited Montgomery county, Kansas, in the latter sixties and entered a quarter of land in section 28, township 31, range 16, which traet now forms a part of the extensive landed dominions of the subject of this review.
After four years spent in the log cabin home the Evans' occupied their new and more modern dwelling, still the abiding place of the only surviving child. The family was devoted to industry, was successful in its accumulation of lands and now the estate of Charles A. embraces fourteen hundred acres of land. one princely in its proportions and in a fair measure compensatory for the effort which it cost. Its original owner was a leading citizen as well as a leading farmer and bore his share of the rough-and-ready service in the development of his county. Ile had dealings with the leading Osages -- White Hair, Beaver and Chou- tean- and paid them occasional trimmte for the logs with which to make his rude improvements of the pioneer days. He died Ang. 1st. 1900, and his wife passed away July 23d, 1893. The latter was Sarah Ann Com- stock. a New York lady. who bore him three sons, viz: George II., de- ceased; Charles A., of this notice, and Edwin B., also deceased. Mrs. Evans' parents were Abner and Mozella (Barney) Comstock, natives of Connecticut and Vermont respectively.
Charles . Evans had The advantages of a common school educa- tion, while growing up, and became an intelligent and successful farmer under the direction of his father. He heired the family estate upon the death of his parents and has maintained it intact and is probably now the largest young farmer in his county. His farm is well stocked with one hundred and fifty head of cattle, with five hundred head of hogs and is one of the largest corn-producing tracts in Montgomery county.
April 18, 1893, Mr. Evans married Cecelia F. Grover, born in Cham- paign county, Illinois, October 27, 1872. Her parents were Arthur and Ann (Coyle) Grover. natives of London and Dublin, respectively, in the British Isles. Five children resulted from their marriage, viz: Edwin H., the oldest, died Feb. 10th, 1891, an infant of one month ; Mozella G., Myrl Ann and George W., twins, and Arthur C.
Besides being a leading and influential farmer, Mr. Evans is occupied with whatever affects the welfare of his community or his county. lle manifests a citizen's interest in politics, being a Republican, is a member of the school board of his district, is a Modern Woodman, at
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member of the A. H. T. A. and a Trustee of the Chouteau Methodist church.
MRS. GEORGE W. KERR-One of the most respected families of Liberty township is that represented by the lady whose name initiates this review. For over two decades they have been leading members of the agricultural class in that township, where the husband died in 1897. Mr. Kerr was a native of Indiana, his father having been a farmer living near Terre Haute, where he married Mrs. Kerr, whose parents lived in the same neighborhood.
George W. Kerr was a man greatly respected in Montgomery county, and had many of the best qualities of citizenship. He was industrious, attended strictly to his own affairs and by thrift and economy accumulated a nice property, which descended to the family at his death.
Mrs. Kerr, as has been stated, was born and reared near Terre Haute, Indiana. She was the daughter of A. D. Dailey who, in early life, was a farmer, but later entered the ministry of the Christian church, with his pastorate located in the city of Terre Haute. She was joined in marriage to George W. Kerr in 1870. Her husband was a farmer in the home neighborhood until 1882, when they came to Mont- gomery county and purchased the farm in Liberty township on which Mrs. Kerr now resides. This farm contains one hundred and sixty acres and is one of the best in the township. Mrs. Kerr, herself, looks to the management of the farm, though she is aided by Harvey J. Martin, a son-in-law.
Mrs. Kerr is the mother of eight children, six of whom are now living, viz: William P., a farmer, married Mary Feltz, daughter of W. D. Feltz, a farmer of Liberty township; Della, married L. M. B. Tole, a farmer of Liberty township; Etta, wife of Harvey J. Martin, on the home farm. with their two children : Clarence, born Sept. 24, 1899, and Leota Beatrice, born Jannary 11, 1901. The fourth child is James Harvey, who married Bertha James of Liberty township. They have two children : Nellie, born November 29, 1901, and Minnie, born January 21, 1903. George and Orval are young men assisting in the cultivation of the mother's farm.
Mrs. Kerr and her family are highly respected residents of the township and are potent factors in the social and religious life of the community in which they reside. They deserve, as they receive, the high esteem in which they are universally held.
GEORGE W. QUIGLEY-Perhaps few farmers of Montgomery county are more permanent fixtures than George W. Quigley, of Cherry
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township, the subject of this brief sketch. He settled here from Indiana in 1885 and, until 1897, resided on his farm six miles north of Cherryvale. Ile has protited by his experience in Kansas where the productiveness of Montgomery county's soil has materially added to his financial stand- ing.
Our subjeet is a native of the eastern shore, having been born in Sussex county, Delaware, Sept. 18, 1840. John Quigley, his father, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was married to Margaret Valance, a lady of that city. About 1848, the parents moved westward and located in Laporte county, Indiana, where they died; the father passing away at seventy four years of age and the mother at sixty- two years. Of their old-time family of eighteen children, nine lived to maturity and only four vet survive, as follows: Thomas L., George WA, Mary A., and Leonard.
George W. Quigley attended the country schools of Indiana irregularly from his eighth to his nineteenth year. He was yet with his parents when the Rebellion of 1861 came on and he enlisted in the call for three month's troops in the 9th Indiana regiment. He ro-en- listed for three years, after the expiration of his first term, in com- pany "}," 29th Vol. Inf. The war not yet over when this enlistment expired, he veteranized and supported the fortunes of the Union 'till its last foo had laid down his arms. Ilis division was commanded by one of the MeCooks and among some of the engagements in which he participated were: the siege of Knoxville, Stone River, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and Gettysburg. He was captured three times but always made his escape; at one time overpowering the guard himself and enabling forty prisoners to get away. The most severe of his three wounds he received at the battle of Stone River, where a bayonet passed through his wrist and came out under his thumb. He was knocked down three times within ten minutes by bullets graz- ing his skull. on a certain battlefield, and the Rebels contributed a ball to his right hip which he will carry to his grave. No matter how hot the fight or how severe his wounds he kept his face to the enemy and stayed the battle through. He was discharged at Indianapolis, Indiana, with a service of four years, nine months and four days to his credit, which service has since had the effect of dimming his eye sight almost to the point of blindness.
In 1872. Mr. Quigley married Mary Ann Tate, an Indiana lady who died in 1893. leaving two children : Maggie, wife of Alexander Phebus, and Jennie, who died small. In 1897, Mr. Quigley married Haitie Manger, who came to Kansas young with her parents from the State of Illinois. Millie, George Dewey and May are the product of the mar- riage of Mr. and Mrs. Quigley.
The Quigley family home is situated six miles north of Cherryvale where they own one hundred and twenty acres. Mr. Quigley has been
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constable of his township and while he was brought up a Democrat his political opinions have changed and he now gives his support to the Republican party at the polls.
W. D. VANDERPOOL, M. D., physician and surgeon of Cherryvale, Kansas, was born in Ray county, Missouri, July 26th, 1852. On the father's side the Vanderpools are of Holland Dutch extraction and on the mother's, pure German. Grandfather Anthony Vanderpool came from Tennessee to Missouri in 1830, and died there at the age of sixty- five years. His wife was a descendant of the Yount family of Ten- nessee.
Our subject's parents were S. C. Vanderpool and Susan Green. They were both native Tennessee people. The father was a farmer and at the age of seventeen years came with his parents to Ray county, Missouri, where he settled, entered land and became one of the pioneers of the state. He was a prominent and devont member of the Baptist church, as was also his wife. He died at the age of eighty- one, while his wife died at the age of fifty years.
Dr. Vanderpool was the oldest of four children, all of whom are living. The second child was Amanda, Mrs. Stephen Lybarger, of Homestead, Kansas. The third child is Mrs. C. A. Cowley, who lives at Cottonwood Falls. Her husband is a merchant and served two terms as Treasurer of Chase county, Kansas. While the fourth child is Dr. JJ. E., a practicing physician of Grove Cily. Kansas.
Our subject received a common school education in the locality in which he was reared. Ile taught school for seven years in the country, with great success. While employed at this work he began reading medicine, as he could find time. For a year he read under J. D. Gant, of Knoxville, Missouri, and later attended the Missouri Medical College of St. Louis, where he graduated in 1882. He began practice the same year at Plymouth, Missonri, where he lived for four years, afterward moving to western Kansas, where he practiced a short time at Leota. After that, for fourteen years, in Arlington, Kansas, whence he moved to Cherryvale in 1902. He is the proprietor of the best equipped ding store in the city and has other substantial interests.
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