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Mr. Wolfley is a Republican who during past years has filled va- rious township offices and taken an active part in civic and political affairs which he now leaves for younger men. He is a member of the Church of God and he and Mrs. Wolfley are religiously inclined. Al- though past seventy-two years of age, Jacob Wolfley is still active and spry and personally oversees the management of his farms and makes daily trips to the country. He has no notion of stopping work and rusting ont as many men of his age are inclined to do, but believes in keeping active as the best antidote for old age.
Rev. Samuel Munsell .- The late Rev. Samuel Munsell of Granada township, was born in Missouri, in 1840, and was reared on a Missouri farm. He began to make his own way in the world from boyhood. In 1880, he settled on an eighty acre homestead in Granada township, Ne- maha county, and resided there until his death in 1911. He was, for many years, a member of the Christian church, and was a minister of that denomination for over thirty years. Mr. Munsell was married in 1866 to Sarah Jane Cook who bore him eight children, as follows: James, a farmer living near America, Kans .; Joseph, Goff, Kans .; Horace, a road maker and wood sawyer in the State of Washington; Albert, a farmer in Missouri; Mrs. Mary E. Kerr, Valley Falls, Kans .; Mrs. Hes- ter Clifford, Seneca, Kans .; John, deceased; Samuel, a farmer in Harri- son township. Mr. and Mrs. Munsell had an adopted son, Charles Mun- sell, who still lives on the Munsell home place, and cares for his adopted mother. His name by birth was Charles Lackey, born in Cherokee county, Kansas, in 1881, and left an orphan when two years old. His grandparents reared him until he attained the age of nine years, and he (47)
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was then adopted by the Munsells. Mr. Munsell is an independent in politics, industrious and capable, and is conducting the Munsell home farm very successfully.
Mrs. Sarah Jane (Cook) Munsell, widow, was born in Missouri, Feb- ruary 16, 1848, and is a daughter of John and Mary Ann (Henderson) Cook, natives of Missouri. John Cook was an early Kansas pioneer who came to this state in 1852 and died from a bullet wound received at Easton, Kans., in the early border days. John Cook was married, in 1846, to Mary Ann Henderson, who was born in Missouri in 1826, and died in Arkansas, March II, 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Cook were members of the Christian church. They had a family of seven children, as follows: Mrs. Sarah Jane Munsell; James, Josephine, and Burton, dead. After the death of Mr. Cook, his widow was married to Jerry Edwards of Cher- okee, Kans., and three children were born to this marriage, namely: Nancy and William; and Benton, living in Arkansas.
Howard Spiker, an extensive farmer of Granada township, Nemaha county, is a son of Henry and Mary (Moore) Spiker, who were early pioneer settlers in Nemaha county. Henry Spiker, his father, was born in Ohio, in 1838, and served for three years in an Ohio regiment during the Civil war. He enlisted in the Seventy-eighth Ohio infantry, in 1861 and fought in the Union armies for three years until he re- ceived his honorable discharge. He was taken prisoner during one of the great battles in the Southland in which his regiment took an active part and he was placed in Andersonville prison. He remained in this terrible rebel prison for three months and sixteen days until his exchange was brought about. He immigrated to Kansas in 1870 and located on a farm near Mount Pleasant School House in Center town- ship. He developed a tract of 160 acres of prairie land into an excellent producing farm, and left the place in 1876 on account of the ravages of the grasshopper pests, lost his farm on account of debt and became a renter for three years. This enabled him to regain his footing and he again bought eighty acres on the present site of the town of Goff. He set out a large peach orchard on the place and again lost his farm. His next venture was to trade sixteen head of cattle and $200 for a forty- acre tract near Horton, Kans., where he made his home for twenty years previous to his retirement to a home at Horton. He had become owner of an 120-acre farm and was enabled to buy property at Hor- ton. After a residence of seven years in Horton he invested in a quar- ter section near Granada, upon which he lived for eight years, then sold it and bought 200 acres in Jackson county which he farmed until his death in 1909. This sturdy and persistent pioneer who achieved a final and lasting success despite misfortune which followed him for several years in Kansas, is deserving of the greatest credit for his accomplish- ments. He was a member of the Methodist church and was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic. His wife, Mary, was born in 1848. Ten children were born to Henry and Mary Spiker, as follows:
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Charles, a farmer in Oklahoma : Iloward, subject of this review ; Sum- ner, a farmer in Brown county, Kansas; Mrs. Sarah Pickering, Ilorton, Kans .; William, farming the Spiker home place in Jackson county ; Mrs. Fannie Ammon, Netawaka, Kans .; Logan, living on the home place ; Mrs. Hallie Benson ; Mrs. Allie Bedbork, llorton, Kans. ; Algie. a farmer of Granada township.
Howard Spiker, with whom this biography is directly concerned. was born in Ohio, September 27, 1870, and was educated in the district schools of Nemaha county. He assisted his father at home until he was twenty-four years old. He then worked for his father at wages for two years, and teamed in Horton for six months, after which he rented a quarter section near Horton, Kans., for two years. Ile then rented a farm three miles east of Whiting for a year, after which he bought 157 and one-half acres in Granada township which has since been his home. Mr. Spiker raises fifty hogs or more for market each year and usually has about twenty-five head of cattle each year. He has out over 180 acres in corn, which is his main crop. Mr. Spiker is owner of 247 acres in Granada township and is also farming a half section which adjoins his home place.
Howard Spiker was married March 22, 1894, to Miss Minnie Vanderslice, who has borne him the following children: Melvin, who is married and has two children ; Elsie, Mamie, Mildred, Norman, Olive, Lola, William. Harmon and Forest, at home with their parents. The mother of the foregoing children was born in Doniphan county, Kans., on August 10, 1876, and is a daughter of Daniel and Martha (Jeffries) Vanderslice, who were early Kansas pioncers. Daniel Van- derslice was born in Kentucky, September 10, 1844. His wife, Martha, was born in Buchanan county, Missouri, May 11, 1850. Mr. and Mrs. Vanderslice were the parents of ten children, as follows: Lewis and George, deceased; Thomas, a barber in Missouri ; Edward, a carpenter of Horton, Kans .; Mrs. Minnie Spiker; Mrs. Nellie Mcclellan, a widow living at Horton, Kans .; Robert, a farmer in Brown county ; John, a farmer at Alma. Neb .; Mrs. Della Moberly, Brown county, Kansas; Charles, at the home of his parents. Daniel Vanderslice is a son of Thomas Vanderslice, who was appointed Indian agent at the Iowa, Sac, and Fox agency, and had charge of all the different tribes of Indians in this part of Kansas, and was the first Indian agent in this State. The Vanderslice family came to Kansas in 1853 and William Vanderslice has lived at the old Vanderslice home near Highland, Kans., since he came to Kansas in his youth. When the Vanderslice family left their old Kentucky home they freed their one family slave. After their ar- rival in Kansas they were unable to get white help and the elder Van- derslice went to Westport, Mo., and bought a slave woman. Later on they bought more slaves, but sold them during the Civil war. During the Civil war Daniel Vanderslice joined the state militia and was en- gaged in police and patrol duty for a year's time. In 1864 he went to
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Montana, traveling by horseback and ox teams. While there he worked as a freighter and a miner and was with the crowd that opened the road from Big Horn Mountain to Deer Creek on the South Platte River. He remained in Montana for two years and then returned to Kansas and was engaged as a freighter in the early days.
Daniel Vanderslice came to Horton, Kans., when the town was one and a half years old and worked for many years in the railroad shops as a carpenter and is now retired.
Mr. Spiker is a Republican in politics, but has never been a seeker after political preferment. He is affiliated fraternally with the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Modern Woodmen, and the Knights and Ladies of Security. He is a member and director of the Nemaha County Farmers' Union.
Virgil A. Bird, city clerk of Bern, Kans., and manager of the Scott Lumber Company, is a native born Kansan and a son of Kansas pioneer parents. He was born in Wolf River township, Doniphan county, Sep- tember 3, 1869, and is a son of George and Emma (Davison) Bird.
George Bird, his father, was born in Litchfield, Conn., November 6, 1834, and was a son of James and Susan (Danhy) Bird, natives of New England. James Bird was a soldier in the War of 1812, and died in 1865. He was the father of ten children, of whom George was the yourgest Leaving the old home in the East, George Bird made a set- tlement in Doniphan county, Kansas, as early as 1858, cultivated a farm and also worked at his trade of mason in Highland, Kans. He enlisted in the Union army as musician in Company C, Seventh Kansas cavalry, under Colonel Jennison. His first engagement was at the battle of the Little Blue, near Kansas City, Mo., and he went with his command through Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi. He returned home after the close of the war and preempted a quarter section of land in Robin- son township, Brown county, which he later sold and moved to Wolf River township, Doniphan county. He followed agricultural pursuits until his retirement to a home at Denton, Kans.
George Bird was married in 1867 to Miss Emma Davison, who bore him the following children: Virgil A., with whom this review is di- rectly concerned ; Wilbur, living at Denton; Mrs. Effie Harless, de- ceased ; Mrs. Stella Harless, Severance, Kans .; George, Jr., farming the old home place. Mrs. Emma (Davison) Bird, mother of the foregoing children, was born in New York State, April 26, 1846, and is a daughter of Henry and Anna (Young) Davison, who migrated to Kansas in 1864.
Virgil A. Bird was reared on the family farm in Doniphan county, and after attending the district schools until he was sixteen years old, he entered Campbell College, at Holton, Kans. He studied there for two years, and then began clerking in a general merchandise store at Severance, Kans. Mr. Bird was first married in 1896 to Cathrine Cor- coran, of Severance. She died October 31, 1897. In 1899 he came to Bern and operated a bakery until 1910. He then became interested in
VIRGIL A. BIRD.
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the lumber business, invested his capital in the Scott Lumber Company, became a director, and took over the management of the concern, which is one of the prosperous business establishments of Nemaha county.
Mr. Bird was married in 1906 to Eva (Cox) Lehmann, widow of Charles Lehmann, eldest son of John Lehmann. Mrs. Bird was born Sep- tember. 19, 1872, on the Cox homestead, in Gilman township, and is a daughter of Posey W. and Frances (Williams) Cox, pioneer residents of Nemaha county, whose parents were also Kansas pioneers. (See biography of Posey W. Cox and George W. Williams for the family history, traced further back two and three generations). Eva Cox was educated in the Oneida public schools and attended the Western Nor- mal College, at Lincoln, Neb. She taught school for five years in the district schools of her native county, and taught the primary depart- ment of the Oneida graded schools for three years, until her marriage with Charles Lehmann in 1900. One child was born to this marriage, namely : Carl, at home. A child, Beverly Bernice, aged five years, has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bird. Mrs. Bird is quite active in social affairs in her home city, and is talented as a writer, one of the most in- teresting contributions to this volume of history being her "History of Bern, Kans." She is a member of the Christian church, and is affiliated with the Woman's Club of Bern.
One of the most attractive eighty-acre farms and farm residences in Nemaha county is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Bird, which is located two and a half miles northeast of Bern, and is known as the "Sunset." The pretty farm house is surrounded by large evergreen trees, which add to the beauty of the surroundings and enhance the broad, well-kept lawn. The place, as a whole, is well cared for and gives evidence of exacting management and thorough attention to details of farm man- agement.
Mr. Bird is a stanch Republican in his political affiliations, and takes an active part in political matters. He has served as president of the Bern Commercial Club and has filled the post of city clerk since 1909. His fraternal affiliation is with the Knights of Pythias. Mr. and Mrs. Bird are valued and useful citizens of the thriving little city of Bern and enjoy the respect and esteem of hosts of friends. They are proud of the fact that they were born and reared in the great State of Kansas, and also of the fact that their progenitors were among the sturdy army of empire builders whose early struggles gave the Union a great State developed from the prairies.
Mrs. Bird has been a loyal club woman for several years, and she believes that one of the highest ambitions in life should be to help others. This ambition is typical of club women in general, and they have stepped forward eagerly to aid by their counsel and support any movement which had for its object the betterment of civic and social conditions. Mrs. Bird was treasurer of the First District Federation of Clubs for two years, and at the present time she is serving as a member of the Library Extension of the First District Federation of Women's Clubs.
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Melvin H. Spiker, one of the younger farmers of Granada township, was born in Brown county, Kansas, July 6, 1895. He was reared on his father's farm in Brown and Nemaha counties, and received a district school education. Mr. Spiker is a son of Howard and Minnie Spiker, whose biographies,appear in this volume. He assisted his father in till- ing the home place until he was eighteen years of age, and then rented a tract of ninety acres from his father, and engaged in farming on his own account. Mr. Spiker has made a success of his independent venture, and has his farm well stocked with thirty-two head of hogs, five head of cat- tle, five mules and a pony. He raises equal amounts of corn and wheat as his staple crops each year, and usually has good crops.
Mr. Spiker was married on December 24, 1913, to Miss Ida Fuhrer, who has borne him one child, namely: Martha Alaine, born September 30, 1914. Mrs. Ida Spiker was born in Rawlins county, Kentucky, Au- gust 29, 1893, and was reared on a farm. She received a good school education, and was employed as clerk in a drug store and as telephone operator, prior to her marriage with Mr. Spiker. Mrs. Spiker is a daugh- ter of Rudolph Fuhrer, deceased, who was born at Thun, Switzerland, February 10, 1863, and died at his home at Wetmore, Kans., February 22, 1916. He came to this country with his parents in 1872, and was married to Rosa Stalder at Pawnee City, Neb., May 5, 1888. After his marriage, he moved to Cheyenne county, Kansas, and farmed in that semi-arid dis- trict until 1911, at which time he brought his family to Nemaha county and bought an eighty acre farm a few miles northwest of Wetmore. He made a small payment on the place and he and his family set to work to pay off the indebtedness. Soon they were getting along nicely, and were in a fair way to become prosperous when Mr. Fuhrer's health failed him in 1913, and after a lingering illness, he died. He was buried under the auspices of the Wetmore Lodge of Odd Fellows, of which he was a mem- ber. Mr. and Mrs. Fuhrer were the parents of the following children, namely : Mrs. Emma Howell, living on a farm in Granada township; Charles, a fireman on the Burlington railroad at Falls City, Neb .; Mrs. Ida Spiker, wife of the subject of this review; Mrs. Nora Hutchinson, living on a farm in Granada township; Manilla, Hattie, Lillie, and Georgia, at home with their mother. Mrs. Rosa Fuhrer was born in Switzerland in 1866, and came to America in 1884, and made her home at Bern, Kans., living with relatives until her marriage with Mr. Fuhrer.
Mr. Spiker is a Republican in politics, and is one of the hustling and enterprising young farmers of this section of the county, who takes a keen interest in township and county matters of a civic nature. Mrs. Spiker is a member of the Christian church, and both are popular and well liked among their many neighbors and friends.
Samuel Thornburrow, cashier of the Wetmore State Bank, was born on a farm in Jackson county, Kansas, April 14, 1865. He is a son of John and Mary (Thorpe) Thornburrow, the former of whom was born in England in 1833, immigrated to America in 1857, and located in Illinois,
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where he farmed during the summer months, and worked in the coal mines during the winter seasons for two years. He then went west to Salt Creek valley, in Leavenworth county, Kansas, and followed mining and farming there for two years previous to his removal to Jackson county, Kansas. When John Thornburrow came to this country, he bought a quarter section of land which he developed and tilled until his retirement to a home in Wetmore in 1898. His death occurred De- cember 3, 1900. He was a member of the Episcopalian church, and was a Mason. His wife, Mary, was born in England in 1835, and bore him seven children, as follows: Edward, a farmer in Wetmore; Mrs. Mary Scott, a widow living at Wetmore; Robert, deceased; Samuel, subject of this review; Elizabeth, Wetmore, Kans .; John, died in infancy; Clyde C., farmer and stockman at Wetmore.
Samuel Thornburrow began for himself when he became of age, and bought a quarter section of land which he farmed for eleven years. He then bought his father's home place and managed it from 1898 to 1904. He sold his first farm and bought 160 acres adjoining the home place, and also added another quarter, making 480 acres in all. Later, he sold eighty acres of this large tract and, in 1904, he removed to Wet- more, renting out part of his land and retaining a part for a live stock range until 1909. He served as a director of the Wetmore State Bank fram 1901 to 1909, and was assistant cashier until January 1, 1916, at which time he was promoted to the post of cashier of the bank.
Mr. Thornburrow was married December 31, 1890, to Etta Carney, daughter of James and Jane (Cummings) Carney, the former of whom was born in Ireland in 1820, was left an orphan at the age of seven years, and was forced to battle for his own livelihood from that time on. He made his home with a brother until he became of age. immigrated to Canada, and engaged in railroading for several years prior to taking up farming in that country. In 1869, he sold out his holdings in the Do- minion, and came to Jackson county, Kansas, where he rented land for twelve years. He next settled in Atchison where he followed teaming until his death, March 28, 1891. James Carney was married in 1862 to Jane Cummings, who was born at Stratford, Canada, in 1831, and died at St. Joseph, Mo., November 30, 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Carney were parents of eight children, namely: Etta, wife of the subject of this review, and who was born at Chipstow, Canada, November 23, 1861, learned the trade of dressmaker and milliner, and followed it at Atchison and Wetmore before her marriage; Mrs. Jane Nance, Wetmore, Kans ; Mrs. Mary Cullen, St. Joseph, Mo .; John, accidentally killed by falling from a building ; William, deceased : Mrs. Bessie Couser, deceased ; Mrs. Nettie McDonald, deceased ; Mrs. Katherine Smith, St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Thornburrow have an adopted son. Raymond, offspring of Mrs. Thornburrow's sister, whom they took to rear when he was an infant six weeks old. Raymond is a high school student, class of 1917, Wetmore High School.
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Mr. Thornburrow is a Republican, and is now filling the post of township treasurer. He is a member of the Episcopalian church, and is treasurer of the local lodge of Knights of Pythias.
Edward W. Thornburrow .- The measure of an individual success is the ultimate accomplishment of a decade of constant endeavor. The con- crete results show for themselves in instances where Kansas farmers have achieved a remarkable success, such as that of Edward W. Thornburrow, extensive land owner of Wetmore, Kans. During thirty-four years in following agricultural pursuits, Mr. Thornburrow has accumulated a total of 1,200 acres of land in Nemaha county and 240 acres in Jackson county, Kansas. Despite the fact that he is able to retire from active labor he personally oversees the work on his home farm of 240 acres and goes daily to his farm. He is a son of John and Mary (Thorpe) Thornburrow, Kansas pioneers whose biographies are given in connec- tion with that of Samuel Thornburrow, banker at Wetmore.
Edward W. Thornburrow was born on a farm near Leavenworth, Kans., January 13, 1861. When he was twenty-seven years old his father gave him a tract of land, which he farmed for fifteen years and made his home thereon. This farm was the nucleus around which his large acreage has been created. Mr. Thornburrow has bought land con- tinuously since beginning his career in Nemaha county. When Mr. Thornburrow moved to Wetmore, he erected a large and commodious fourteen-room residence, of three stories, modern in many respects, with a bath and heating plant. He rents out 1,200 acres of his land and has personal supervision of 240 acres to which he travels each morning and returns therefrom to his home in the evening. Mr. Thornburrow keeps 150 or more Duroc Jersey hogs on his place, sixty-two head of cattle, eight cows and heifers, and generally keeps his farm well stocked.
Mr. Thornburrow was married in 1890 to Isabella Johnstone, who was born in Illinois, September 28, 1871, and is a daughter of William Johnstone, an aged resident of Goff, Kans. (See sketch of William Johnstone.) This marriage has been blessed with one child, Mary Isa- belle, born September 25, 1893, a graduate of Wetmore High School, class of 1910. She studied at Evanston, Ill., for one year and spent two years in Kansas University at Lawrence, Kans. After studying at Law- rence she entered Oberlin University, at Oberlin, Ohio, and spent six months in this college. She studied music, both vocal and instrumental, in addition to her classical course and is an accomplished pianist and vocalist.
Mr. Thornburrow is a Republican in politics and has served as treas- urer of Reilly township. He filled the office of mayor of Wetmore for three terms. He and Mrs. Thornburrow are members of the Episcopalian church. Mr. Thornburrow is affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and is trustee of his lodge.
Harvey H. Lynn, vice-president of the Wetmore State Bank, was born in Platte county, Missouri, February 3, 1842, and is a son of Hines
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C. and Hester Ann (Caton) Lynn, natives, of Missouri. Hines C., his father, was born in St. Charles county, Missouri, in 1810. When Hines C. was two years old, his father was killed, being struck by lightning. Hines resided at home with his mother until his marriage in 1836, and then lived on rented farms until 1842, at which time he bought a quarter section in Platte county, Missouri, upon which he lived until 1858. In that year he migrated to Brown county. Kansas, and preempted 166 acres with a Mexican war land warrant. He developed this tract and made his home thereon until his death in 1891. Hines C. Lynn was the father of seven children, as follows: W. W., retired and living among his children; F. M., died as a result of disease contracted while in ser- vice in the Civil war; Harvey H., subject of this review; David H., farmer in Brown county, Kansas; three children died in infancy. Hes- ter Ann (Caton) Lynn, mother of Harvey H. Lynn, was born in War- ren county, Missouri, in 1813, and died in Platte county, Missouri, in 1850. Both parents were members of the Methodist church.
Harvey H. Lynn was reared on the pioneer farm of the family in Platte county, Missouri, and did not receive any schooling until he was fifteen years old and then had the advantage of but two terms dur- ing the winters. When fifteen years old he began earning his own way in the world by driving freighting teams across the great plains in the employ of a freighting company. He followed this adventurous occupation until 1860. In 1857 he drove westward with a large consign- ment of food stuffs and presents for the Sioux Indians and greatly en- joyed the wild, free life of the great outdoors during his years of freight- ing and "mule-whacking." In the year 1861 he enlisted for service in behalf of the Union in Company H, Seventh Kansas cavalry, and served faithfully until the close of the Civil war. He was in many famous engagements, such as the battle of Corinth, Miss., Oxford, Miss., Holly Springs, and Granada, and served the greater part of his time under the command of Gen. U. S. Grant. After receiving his hon- orable discharge from the service he returned to Kansas and again en- gaged in freighting to the far west until 1867. He then farmed with his father for a year and in 1868 he purchased his father's farm and en- gaged in the live stock business until 1897. In that year he removed to Wetmore, Kans., and practically retired from active pursuits. In 1882 he and Samuel Morris organized the Wetmore State Bank, of which thriving, financial institution he has been vice-president for the past fourteen years. Mr. Lynn is owner of 175 acres in Brown county, Kansas, and owns 160 acres in Nemaha county.
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