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Mary M. Norman was married Nov. 28, 1866, to Sammel W. Dangh- erty, born in Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, June 12. 1840. He graduated from the Westerville, Ohio, academy and taught school twenty years. He enlisted in 1861, in Coshocton, Ohio, in company "G." 122d Ohio Vol. Inf., in Capt. Gibson's company, Col. Ball's regiment; Mr. Daugherty being the Colonel's private secretary. He was in the service three years, and among other engagements participated at the 2nd battle of Bull Run.
Mr. Daugherty was a son of John Daugherty, of Ohio, and of Irish stock. His mother was Rachel Mears of Irish descent and the mother of the following children: William, Robert, Nathan, John J., Jane, deceased, and Samuel, our subject. The last named was the father of five chilrden, namely : Lester L., of Neodesha, Kansas, with children : Grover C., Otho A., and Reno C .: Alva E .. of Montgomery county, with
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one child, Anna Belle; Mrs. Bertha B. Stewart, of Cherryvale, with three children : Lona I., Daisy M. and Pearl M. J .; Mrs. Nellie Farling, on the home farm, with a child, Leota B .; Mrs. Hester L. Mahorny, of Wilson county, Kansas, one child, Samuel A.
CURTIS RORK, one of the successful and most progressive farmers of the county, was born near Lawrenceburg, Ind., July 15, 1838. He came to this county in 1894, locating on a farm of 240 acres of fine land in section 24, township 33, range 15, and began farming on a large scale. Theophilus Rork, of Salem, Ill., the father of Curtis, was the son of Daniel Rork, a native of New Jersey, where he spent his boy- hood days. When he grew to manhood he located in Hamilton county, Ohio, where he worked at his trade of blacksmithing. That part of the country was at that time a vast wilderness, and many, many were the trips taken by him through this wilderness driving horses to South Carolina. and many and varied were the experiences on these trips.
In the day of her need, Mr. Rork valiantly went forth to fight those whose traitorons hands would have throttled his country. He became. on August 8, 1862, a private in company "K," 79th Ill. Vol. Inf. under Capt. Martin and Col. Gwinnet. This regiment became a part of the Fifteenth Army Corps, Western Division, and during Mr. Rork's six months' service it saw some heavy work at Crab Orchard, Stone River and Murfreesboro. After this last battle he became incapacitated for service on account of sickness and received an honorable discharge.
Daniel Rork's family consisted of children : Theodoshia, Theophilus, Lydia, Daniel, Wesley and William.
Theophihis, a superannated minister of the United Brethren church of the Miami conference (Ohio), was born March 3, 1813. Since his retirement from active service in the ministry thirty years ago, he has lived on his Illinois farm in Edwards county. His wife was Deborah Edwards, daughter of Curtis and Percillia Edwards. Their family numbered fourteen children, twelve of whom are living-Daniel, of Horton, Kans. ; Curtis, our subject ; Mrs. Emily Smith, of Eureka, Il .; Franklin, of Sullivan, III .; Mary Rork, of West Salem, Ill .; Mrs. Kate MeKinney. of Carmargo. Ill .; Mrs. Jennette Bowen, of Indianapolis; Martha. of lowa ; Charley. of Valparaiso, Ind .; Mrs. Susie Haven, Lot- tie Rork and William W .. all of West Salem, Ill.
When Curtis Rork, the second child and subject of this sketch, was only a year old, his parents removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where they remained five years, afterward removing to Butler county, that state. The family lived here until Curtis was nineteen years old, when they came out to Douglas county, Il. Here Mr. Rork spent the years until 1894, when he settled in Montgomery county, Kansas.
The wife of Mr. Rork's youth was JJosepha Watson, daughter of
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William and Leonora Watson. Their only child, Maud Todd, lives at Independence, Kansas. To a second wife, Leonora Watson, a sister of the first wife, was born one child, Mrs. Josie Henneman. of Independ- ence.
The lady who now presides over the home of Mr. Rork was Mary, daughter of John and Susan O'Dare. They have one son, Theophilus, named for his paternal grandfather.
MILO M. LONG-One of Montgomery county's good citizens whose four years' residence in the county has been sufficient to establish the fact that society is not the loser by reason of his coming, is Milo M. Long, a worthy farmer of Independence township.
Mi. Long's nativity dates in Peoria county, Ill .. April 1, 1845. For fifty-four years he lived on the home farm, coming to Montgomery Co., Kansas, in March, 1899. Mr. Long's family is an old and honored one, whose different members in their time have contributed much to the upbuilding of our free institutions, and were always found on the side of right and patriotism in the different contests at arms which the republic has waged.
Henry Long, paternal grandfather of our subject, came to this country from Ireland in the early part of the 19th century. He married Miss Irwin, and to him were born, near Natchez, Miss., two sons, John and James. The latter at maturity, came up into Ilinois and was there joined in marriage with Nancy Proctor, daughter of Rouben and Sarah ( Mathews) Proctor. Their children were : Milo M., honored sub- ject of this review; Mrs. Mary J. Rose, of this county; John H., of Oklahoma; Sarah C., Mrs. Richardson, of Hlivois, now deceased.
Mr. Long was happily joined in marriage with Mary E., daughter of John and Eliza (Bonner) Kleffman. Mrs. Long was a native of Peoria county, Ill., born April 7. 1856. One son. Oscar, now a school- boy. has come to bless their home.
In his Illinois home Mr. Long was highly regarded, having been for a number of years a member of the school board and also promi- nently identified as a member of the A. I. T. A. He has been a life- long member of the Methodist church and is a staunch Prohilntionist and temperance man.
WALTER FRINK-The venerable gentleman whose name intro- dures this biography has been a resident of Montgomery county for twenty-seven years, having settled here in 1876. He came from Macomb connty, Michigan, in which state his parents settled in 1835. The family were emigrants from Niagara county, New York, where, at the town of Cambria our subject was born July 8. 1826. The parents
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brought their family np on a Michigan farm where the principles of good citizenship and industry were taught.
Walter Frink was a son of Elias and a grandson of Zachariah Frink, natives of Connecticut, in which state the family was estab- lished at a very early date. Zachariah Frink's family came into western New York when Elias was eleven years of age. He had five children : Darias, Elias, Moses, Ezra and Daniel. Elias was born at Sterling, Comeclient, and was married in New York to Hannah Carney, a Penn- sylvania lady and a daughter of Samnel and Hannah Carney, from down on the Susquehanna river. The children of Elias and Hannah Frink were: Marinda, who married Thomas Phillips; Annie, wife of Charles King; Samuel, Elias, Walter, Clarissa, Herman and Ellen.
Mr. Frink of this review was liberally educated in the common schools of Michigan-subscription in character-and he chose farming as his vocation which he followed in the Wolverine State for forty years. He then came to Kansas and purchased his Montgomery county farm. He chose a quarter section in section 27, township 31, range 16, and paid its owner, Patrick Dongan, $2,500.00 for it. Here he has since made his home and. while having no family of his own, his home is presided over by his sister, Ellen, and it is one of the hospitable places of West Cherry township. In politics, Mr. Frink leans toward the Democratic party, but has had no inclination toward public office and no ambition of this nature to gratify.
E. GOODELL-What impresses the transient most forcibly in Independence is the substantial character of the business seetion of the city and the evident pride taken in keeping its appearance up-to-date by the merchants and tradesmen doing business there. A closer acquaintance with the personnel of the business element diseloses the fact that this civic pride is due to a few choice spirits who have preached this sentiment, day in and day out, for years-and verily they have their reward. The name of one of the gentlemen to whom such is due for the splendid development the city has made, appears above. For two decades Mr. Goodell has been part and parcel of the city's growth, his character for business integrity not being surpassed by any of the many good men now connected with the business interests. He does a large business in meat products, and in many respects his trade is the choicest in the city.
The Buckeye State was the place of Mr. Goodell's nativity, he having been born in Portage county, September 10, 1840. He was a son of Samuel and Julia Goodell, the former a native of Vermont and the latter of Connecticut. They were among that class of early pioneers who met the foes of progress and faced dangers that might well appall the stontest heart, having settled there immediately succeeding the
JACOB SHUMAKER AND FAMILY.
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War of 1812. They were tillers of the soil and found its exacting labors too arduous, both dying within eight days in 1845; the father at thirty- eight, the mother at thirty six years. Of their family of four children, our subject is the eldest, the others being: Emeline, Annetta, Mrs. H. D. Coe. of Portage county, Ohio, and Jane, wife of Dr. Clark, of Washing ton.
E. Goodell received an excellent education in the common schools of his native state, to which was added scholastic training at Hiram College, he being a student there when it was under the charge of the lamented President Gartield.
After his school days he returned to the farm, where he was engaged at the breaking out of the Civil War. In January of 1862, he enlisted in Company "K." 17th Wisconsin Inf., to which state he had gone but a short time before. His regiment became part of the Army of Ten- nessee and he participated in its movements for a period of eight months, when he was honorably discharged from the service on account of sick- ness. Returning to Wisconsin, he put in the winter in the lumber camp, the following spring coming out to Kansas. Here he settled in Coffey county, where he was engaged in farming until 1869, the date of his settlement in Montgomery. He took a claim in Sycamore Twp., which he successfully farmed until 1883. A year on a cattle ranch preceded his coming to Independence, where he has since resided, engaged continuously in the sale of meats.
Mr. Goodell affiliates with the Masonic order, and is always found ready to engage in any service which has for its object the advance- ment of his municipality. He was married in April of 1865, in Le Roy, Kansas, his wife having been Mary A., daughter of Benj. and Sophrona Randall. Mrs. Goodell is a lady of many excellent traits of character, a consistent member of the Christian church, in whose social work she takes an active part. She is the mother of four children, three of whom have left the home roof and are respected members of society. Their names are : John E., and Clarence H., connected with their father in business. The former married Miss Retta Neilson, and the latter Mand Sevier. Mamie is living in Colorado, the wife of Earl Hamilton, and Bessie is a school girl at home.
JACOB SHUMAKER-March 2, 1850, Jacob Shumaker, of Cherry township, was born in Buffalo, New York. His parents were German by birth and were Jacob and Otheler Ursil Shumaker, the father a native Swiss. They left their native places at different times, when quite young, and met and married in Buffalo, New York, where they resided until 1860, when they moved to Des Moines, Iowa, thence to Missouri and settled in Buchanan county, near St. Joseph. They were farmers, and engaged in the dairy business in Missouri, where their
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children grew up and where both father and mother passed away, the mother at sixty years of age and the father at sixty-seven.
Six children comprised this family, as follows: Jacob, Michael, Barbara, John, Lena and Frank.
Jacob Shumaker was given a country school education in Missouri and after he reached his majority he spent some five years in siglit- seeing and travel. Ile visited Nebraska, lowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, in which last state he met, and subsequently married Mary Bauer. Returning to St. Joseph, he engaged in farming, and ran a dairy also. He continued the dual business until 1899, when he sold his property and came to Montgomery county, Kansas, where, in Cherry township, he purchased two hundred and forty acres of splendid land, six miles north of Cherryvale. His farmi lies on one arm of Drum creek, has plenty of bottom land, the timber-fringed creek passing through and supplying an abundance of stock water. He has one of the largest bearing orchards in the county and the productive- ness of his soil never permits his eribs to become empty. He is in the natural trend of the gas and oil vein and had the good fortune to locate here when land was yet cheap.
The Shumaker farm was made by Jacob Shumaker and his wife. Their efforts from their marriage through the years that followed have brought the accumulations that finally won them this splendid estate. The growing of grain occupies the attention of the household in their new home and their success marks Mr. and Mrs. Shumaker among the substantial farmers of their locality.
Eight children have come to bless the home of the Shumakers, as follows: Jacob, of Washington state; Emeline, deceased; George, Christina, wife of H. Nodurfth, of Washington; Dora, who died at six- teen years, and Henry, Gus and Matilda, still with the family circle.
In politics Mr. Shumaker is a Republican.
WILLIAM WRIGHT-One of the pioneer druggists of Montgomery county, and one whose connection with the business interests of Elk City antedates the recollection of nearly every citizen in the place at the present date, is the gentleman herein named, widely known and honored for the sterling quality of his citizenship.
Mr. Wright is of Irish descent, the son of William and Margaret Wright, natives, respectively, of County Down and County Monaghan. They came to America in childhood and were married in Canada, where they lived until 1857, when they settled in Kickapoo City, Kan., and later, at Ottawa, where they died; the father at seventy-three years. and the mother at sixty-three years old. They were the parents of thirteen children, five of the girls and three boys still living.
Mr. Wright, of this review, was born in the Province of Ontario,
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Feb. 16, 1834, and was there given a good primary education. His first venture, in the way of work for himself, was as clerk in a general store. At the age of twenty he left home and came west to St. Joe, Missouri, where he remained three years, thence to Kansas. He worked in various places in the state until 1874, when he came to Elk City and has since held his residence there. Until 188%. he operated a grist mill, then bought a stock of drugs and has since been engaged in the drug business. He has. for years, been the leading druggist of the town, keeping in stock besides his drugs, a full line of such articles as are usually found in like establishments.
Upright in his business dealings, social and generous by nature. no more popular citizen resides in the confines of the county than Wm. Wright. He is an honored member of the Masonic fraternity.
The home life of Mr. Wright began in the year 1857, when he returned to Canada and was joined in marriage with Miss Jane Kirby. This lady proved a splendid life companion to our subject, her death on Thanksgiving Day of 1897, causing intense sorrow to the husband and children, whose welfare was her constant thought in life. She was a devout member of the Methodist church, whose interests she was ever ready to serve. and whose membership sincerely mourned her death. The children were: JJ. W .. a graduate of the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, and a successful practitioner of Montgomery county, married Miss Minnie E. Dalby-his second wife-his first wife leaving him a child, Alpha: Teresa J .. widow of W. F. Kingston, three children-Minnie. Carrie L. and Goldie; Thomas J .. who married Mrs. Elder, and lives in Grangerville, Idaho; Minnie M., resides at home, and Burt, in the drug business at Longton. These children are all respected members of the communities where they reside, and are a credit to the parents whose careful training fitted them for responsible positions in life.
E. E. STUBBLEFIELD-In 1690, there settled in Rockingham county, Va., representatives of a family from Old England whose descendants have since been prominent in the industrial and political life of the nation, and the biographer is privileged to sketch a member of the family in the person of the gentleman whose name precedes this paragraph.
E. E. Stubblefield is traveling salesman for the large wholesale house of Tootle. Wheeler & Motter of St. Joe, Mo., with residence and headquarters at Independence. The great-grandfather of our subject was moved to settle in Virginia because of prominent family connee- tions, among whom were "Light Horse" Harry Lee, his consin. Robt. Stubblefield, an unele, was one of the "immortal few that were not born to die," he having appended his name to that memorable scroll. the
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Declaration of Independence. Grandfather Stubblefield reared a family of thirteen children in Mclean county, Illinois, where he had settled as a young man, just after his service in the War of 1812. Of these, there are tive living, nine sons, each weighing over 200 pounds, and being over six feet in height. The father of our subject, W. R. Stubblefield, now a resident of Coffeyville, Kans., was the youngest of this remark- able family. He was born Feb. 28, 1836. Hle grew to maturity and married in Illinois and has been a farmer during his entire life. He came to Kansas in 1879, and is the only one of his family who left the county where they were born, their numerous progeny being among the representative citizens there. this wife, who was born August 12, 1839, was Miss Martha Jeffrey.
E. E. Stubblefield is the eldest of three children: Dora, married A. L. Woodruff and resides in Coffeyville; Byron, State Grain Inspector with residence at Kansas City, and a veteran of the Spanish-American War, having served with the famous 20th Kansas. Our subject was born in McLean County, Ill., Feb. 22, 1862. A good primary education in the common schools was followed by a course at the Illinois Wesleyan University, and, later, at the State University of Kansas, where he graduated in the Civil Engineering course. After leaving school he changed his intention and embarked in the cattle business and for two years covered territory on the range from Texas up through the Indian Territory to Kansas. Hle then entered a store at Coffeyville in which he clerked some three years. In 1887, an opportunity offered to enter the ranks of the Commercial Travelers, an occupation which he has since followed with flattering success.
Mr. Stubblefield resides in a handsome residence in Independence, where he and his family are prominent factors in the social life of the community. He is an active worker in the political arena, being at present a member of the Republican Central Committee of the Third Congressional District. Fraternally he is a prominent member of the 1. O. O. F., in which organization he has filled all the chairs of its various branches. He is also a valued member of the United Commer- cial Travelers' Association.
Prior to Sept. 8, 1884, Mrs. Stubblefield was Miss Carrie Drake. She is a daughter of Rev. John Drake, for years a prominent Presby- terian divine, now deceased. Her mother was Zilpha Raymond and she is one of three children-Hattie M. Drake and Mattie, now Mrs. Frank J. Brown, of Topeka, Kansas, being the other two. Mr. and Mrs. Stubblefield are the parents of three bright children. The eldest, Bessie. is a graduate of the Montgomery County High School; Josephine is a sophomore, and Frances is a pupil in the seventh grade. Mrs. Stub- blefield and the children are members of the Presbyterian church and in social circles receive much attention on account of their refined and cultured personality.
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MRS. ANN REBECCA HENDERSON-In April, 1871, James Hen- derson and his wife, Rebecca, left Warrensburg, in Johnson county, Missouri, and brought their family of five children through to Kansas in a wagon. They settled in Montgomery county where Mr. Henderson entered land in section 10, township 31, range 16, on which a cabin 7x10 had previously been built, and into this a portion of the family belong- ings were stored. Between the cabin and the wagon-box, the house- hold found shelter the first summer, when a more pretentious log house, 20x20, was erected, in which the family was honsed the she- ceeding four years.
The work of farm development began at once with the settlement of the Henderson place. During the earlier years, fences were put up, buildings were erected. and orchard and shade trees set out and, as their circumstances would warrant, more land was added to the home. Before his death in 1898, Mr. Henderson owned a tract of two hundred aeres, successfully tilled, and well and substantially improved.
Mrs. Henderson was born in Wood county, Virginia, January 27, 1844, and left that state with her parents for Washington county, Ohio, when ten years old. She was a daughter of Silas and Elizabeth (Raines) Malcom, native born Virginia people, farmers and residents near the city of Charleston. Silas Malcom was a son of William Mal- com, a Virginia gentleman with Scotch forefathers. The children of William Malcohn were: Robert, John, William, Silas, Elizabeth and Mrs. Polly Dixon.
Silas Malcohn's children were: William. Mrs. Emeline Howell, Tamies, Mrs. Mary Neal, Mrs. Sarah Daugherty, of Columbus, Ohio; John, who was killed in the Civil war; Mrs. Rebecca Henderson, Andrew, of Cal .; Horace, Mrs. Nancy Wright. of Marietta, Ohio, and Silas, of Cal.
Ann Rebecca Malcom was married July 4, 1858, to dames Hender- son, her late husband. He was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, Novem- Der 27, 1831, and passed his life in the States of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Kansas. He enlisted in the Ohio National Guard, company "K," 148th regiment, under Capt. Wolcott, Col. Thomas Moore. The next year after the war closed he moved to Johnson county, Missouri and, five years later, came to Montgomery county, Kansas. He was a son of John and Jane (Steelet Henderson, natives of Pennsylvania, who reared other children. as follows: William, Rachel, who married Benj. Ray; Allen, Smith, John, Mrs. Sarah Crail, Henry, Mrs. Amanda Crouse and Robert.
The children of Mrs. Henderson are: George, Charles, of Okla- homa, with children : Alphonso F., Alta. Flossie and James ; Mrs. Frances Phelon. deceased; John, of Montgomery county; Mrs. Elizabeth John- son. of Neodesha, Kansas, with two children : Myra and Joy; Alonzo, of Neodesha, with two children : Pauline and Harold; Mrs. Etta Hurst, of
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Neodesha, with one child, Gaynell; Mrs. Myrtle Wescott, of Wilson county, Kansas, and Franklin and Ida with the family homestead.
SAMUEL H. CONNER-One of the successful farmers and stock raisers of Sycamore township is Sammel H. Conner. Mr. Con- ner is a young man comparatively, but by energy and good business judgment has placed himself in the van of the procession in Mont -- gomery county. He owns a large farm and rents several hundred acres, all of which he has nuder cultivation. He has lived in the county since the spring of 1885, and has a host of friends and well- wishers.
Sammel Conner looks back to the old Keystone State as the place of his birth, the time being February 6, 1867. In his infancy his parents removed to Whiteside county, III., and there he was reared to farm life. His education was such as comes to the average farm lad, and at nine- teen, le bade good-bye to home and its hallowed associations and started out in life for himself. For the first few years after coming to the county he rented land of three different parties, and in 1891, came to this place which he rented for 3 years and then was in partnership in the stock business with George T. Guernsey for seven years, since which time he has conducted business alone. He now lives on a three hun- dred and twenty acre farm which he rents from his former partner, renting another plot of 100 acres from I. E. Hansen. In addition, he has a quarter section of pasture land of his own. in Rutland township, and 320 acres in Sycamore, altogether making 920 acres which he has under control. Ile is interested largely in the feeding of cattle for the market, having handled successfully as high as two hundred and eighty head at one time. In addition to the raising of corn and forage for his stock, he has this year some two hundred and fifty acres in wheat.
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