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He married, March 15, 1868, Rose F. Hough, who has borne him children as follows: Washington H., a traveling salesman whose home is at Wetmore; the second child died in infancy; Mrs. Cora A. Burt, wife of a Topeka, Kans., restaurant proprietor. The mother of these children was born in Sandusky county, Ohio, January 14, 1841, and is a daughter of Mason and Susan (Kuhn) Hough, the former of
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whom was born in Pennsylvania, in 1816, and became a carpenter and farmer. He migrated to Kansas in 1866 and bought a farm of 700 acres in Brown county, lived thereon for ten years and then divided his land among his children. He retired to a home at Granada in Nemaha county, where he resided until his death in 1892. Mason Hough was a member of the Methodist church and a class leader; was a Repub- can and served for many years as trustee of his township in Brown county, and also filled the important post of county commissioner for three years. He was married in 1842 to Susan Kuhn, who was born in Sandusky county, Ohio, in 1818, and died in 1894. Mason and Susan Hough were parents of nine children, as follows: Rosana F., wife of Harvey H. Lynn, subject of this review; Henry E., former bank cashier of Lawrence, Kans .; Mrs. Catharine H. Rolfe, deceased; John A., far- mer and stockman of Wetmore, Kans .; Washington H., retired hard- ware merchant, Wetmore, Kans .; Louis, dead; Valentine, farmer in Brown county; Mrs. Amanda Lockman, deceased; Mary E., dead.
Mr. Lynn is a stanch Republican who believes thoroughly in the principles and tenets of his party and supports the Republican can- didates. He is a member of the Methodist church.
William F. Turrentine .- The Wetmore "Spectator," of which Wil- liam F. Turrentine is editor and proprietor, was established in 1882, and has had different owners, until Mr. Turrentine bought a half interest in the newspaper in January, 1905. In October of the same year, he pur- chased the other half interest. On May 26, the plant of the "Spectator" was burned, and everything destroyed with almost a total loss. Mr. Turren- tine then borrowed $900, again issued his paper, and has never missed an issue. While awaiting the installation of his new outfit, the "Spectator" was issued from a Seneca printing plant for two weeks. The "Spectator" has a circulation of twenty quires, and is a well established weekly sheet. Mr. Turrentine has recently started the Netawaka "Chief" at Netawaka, Kans., under the date of May 4, 1916, for the initial number.
William F. Turrentine was born on a farm near Pana, Ill., Novem- ber 2, 1864, and is a son of Calvin, born at Winsor, Ill., in 1831. Calvin Turrentine was a singing teacher in his younger days and cultivated a rented farm in Illinois from 1861 until 1876. He lived the greater part of his long life in Pana, Ill., where he followed teaming and railroad work until his death in 1907. His wife was Susan P. Downing, born at Cairo, Ill., in 1838, orphaned at the age of twelve years, and subsequently reared by her uncle, Madison Haggie of Hillsboro, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Turrentine had children, as follows: Edward E., a printer in Illinois; William F., subject of this review ; Alice B., a trained nurse in Chicago; Ida M., deputy clerk of circuit court at Taylorsville, Ill .; Calvin P., a painter ; Mrs. Mira E. Foil, circuit clerk at Taylorville, Ill .; Charles S., a railroad bridge carpenter of South Chicago.
William F. Turrentine was educated in the Pana, Ill., public schools, and when fourteen years old, served an apprenticeship in the office of
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the Pana "Palladium." Beginning with noon of September, 1879, on the first Monday, he worked for eight years and learned the printer's trade thoroughly. He removed to St. Joseph, Mo., on July 22, 1887, and was employed on the St. Joseph "Gazette" until the spring of 1888. He then went to Centralia, Kans., and worked for four months on the staff of the Centralia "Journal," after which he returned to St. Joseph, and was again employed on the "Gazette" until 1890. He spent six months with the St. Joseph "Herald," and then worked on the staff of the "Daily News" for six years, learning to operate the linotype machine during this period. He learned linotype composition and operation of the first machine used west of Chicago. On March 1, 1897, he rented 160 acres of land near Ef- fingham, Kans. and farmed for eight years. He then came to Wetmore, Kans., and purchased the "Spectator."
Mr. Turrentine was married, September 13, 1893, at Good Hope, Ill., to Alice May Simpson, who has borne him five children, namely : Eva, died in infancy ; William F., Jr., born August 19, 1895, a student at Baker University; James S., born June 18, 1897, graduate of Wetmore High School, class of 1916, and a teacher in Brown county ; Glenn R., born January 1, 1899, student Wetmore High School, class of 1917; Carl F., born December 26, 1902. Mrs. Alice M. Turrentine was born at Macomb, Il1., March 17, 1867, and is a daughter of F. M. and Amanda L. (Lemon) Simpson, the former of whom was born at Macomb, Ill., in 1842, and has been a farmer all of his life in Illinois. He was married in 1864 to Amanda Lemon, born at Good Hope, Ill .. in 1849, and who bore him seven children, as follows: Mrs. Dora Eva Moore, in Colorado; Alice M., wife of subject of this review ; James R., a farmer in Colorado; F. W., a farmer at Soldier, Kans .; Charles, died in infancy ; Mrs. Martha E. Lindsey, Macomb, Ill .; Albert S., a civil engineer located in Cali- fornia.
Mr. and Mrs. Turrentine are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mr. Turrentine has been superintendent of the Sunday school for the past six years. He is also president of the Epworth League. In politics he is a progressive Republican, and is serving as mayor of the city of Wetmore. He is affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and is senior warden of the Wetmore Masonic lodge; is a member of the Eastern Star lodge, and past patron of same ; holds membership in the Odd Fellows, Rebekahs and the Modern Wood- men. Mrs. Turrentine is past worthy matron of the Eastern Star lodge, and is oracle of the Royal Neighbors, and a member of the Rebekahs.
Charles E. Cooley, owner of a fine farm of 160 acres in Granada township, was born in Illinois, June 25, 1879, and is a son of Roselle and Arimepha (Towler) Cooley, residents of Wetmore, Kans. Charles E. Cooley was educated in the common schools and was reared on the farm. When twenty years of age he began life for himself on an "eighty" which he rented near the town of Goff. One year later he bought a grist mill at Kelly, Kans., and operated the mill for six months. He then sold
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it, and after working as section hand for three months, he bought eighty acres near Goff, which he cultivated for three years, then sold out and bought an "eighty" near Bancroft, where he lived for four years. Selling out this place he bought a quarter section in Mitchell township, but traded this place seven months later for eighty acres in Ottawa county, Kansas. Eighteen months later he traded this tract for a quarter section in Granada township, Nemaha county. This was in 1910 and is the pres- ent home place of Mr. Cooley. He is a breeder of Poland China swine, of which variety he has fifty head, and also has sixteen head of cattle and eight horses. He operates a portable saw outfit with which he does considerable sawing for his neighbors.
Mr. Cooley was married, December 20, 1899, to Nettie A. Ruhlen, who has borne him children, as follows: Harold, born December 1, 1900; Mabel, born November 9, 1902; Lorimer, born August 25, 1904; Russell, born February 14, 1909; Lois, born May 10, 1911 ; Lela, a twin to Lois; Edith, died five days after her birth, on August 1, 1913. Mrs. Nettie Cooley was born in Union county, Ohio, September 21, 1878, and is a daughter of Jacob and Lydia (Clevenger) Rullen. Jacob Ruhlen, her father, was born in Germany, February 13, 1849, and secured a good education. He taught school for several years in his native land and immigrated to Kansas in 1881 and located on a rented farm in Granada township. A year later he bought eighty acres, which he farmed for two years, then sold out and bought a forty-acre farm in Granada township, upon which he lived for seven years. He then sold it and moved upon the tract now owned by Charles E. Cooley, which he had purchased some time previously. Mr. Ruhlen sawed all of the lumber with which his - house and farm buildings were built. After a three years' residence on this farm he rented out his place and moved to Wetmore, Kans., for two years. He then returned to his farm, where he remained for six years. His wife's health failing, he again removed to Wetmore. Two years later his wife again yearned for the farm home and at her entreaties he moved back to the farm, where she died two weeks later. After a residence of two years on the farm with his children, Mr. Ruhlen moved to Wetmore for a year, then traded his farm for eighty acres owned by Mr. Cooley. He is now living on a ten-acre tract in the outskirts of Baldwin, Kans. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs, and is a Baptist. Mr. Ruhlen was married in 1876 to Lydia Clevenger, who was born in Put- nam county, Ohio, December 2, 1850, and died in Kansas in 1890. They were the parents of eight children, as follows: The first born died in infancy ; Mrs. Nettie Cooley; Lewis, a machinist at Wetmore; Charles, of Madison, N. J .; Minnie, died in infancy; Edna, at home, Baldwin, Kans., and Nellie, who died in infancy.
Mr. Cooley is a Democrat. He is prominent in the Odd Fellows, has filled all chairs of his lodge and is past noble grand of the order. He and Mrs. Cooley are members of the Methodist church and Mrs. Cooley is a member of the Daughters of Rebekah and the Royal Neighbors.
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Martin T. Brock .- The history of the Brock family of Nemaha coun- ty, Kansas, begins with Samuel Brock, father of Martin T. Brock, sub- ject of this review and owner of a quarter section farm in Granada town- ship. Samuel Brock, his father, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1812. He lived in an Irish village until he became of age and-then immigrated to America. For the first twelve years he was employed in a paint factory at Newark, N. J. He then moved west to Illinois and bought a tract of land, which he farmed for ten years, then sold out and moved to Platts- burg, Mo. He farmed in Missouri for three years, in the vicinity of Plattsburg, and then moved to a farm near King City, Mo., and pur- chased 100 acres, which he cultivated for ten years, eventually selling out and coming to Kansas in 1881. He rented land near Axtell, Kans., for three years and then bought 120 acres in Nemaha county, east of Axtell. In 1884 he built a home and farm buildings on his place in Ne- maha county and moved to it. Mr. Brock bought this land for $7.50 an acre, and it was sold March 18, 1916, for $85 an acre. The senior Brockk lived thereon until his death, on February 16, 1914. He was a devout Catholic and a Democrat in politics, and lived to be over one hun- dred years old. Samuel Brock was married October 6, 1857, to Bridget Kerns, who was born in Ireland February 2, 1842, and emi- grated to the United States when fourteen years old. She lived in Illinois until her marriage with Mr. Brock. There were eight children born to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Brock, as follows : Mrs. Katie Hynes, widow, living at St. Joseph, Mo .; Mrs. Hannah Tichlofen, Junction City, Kans .; Mrs. Eliza Tatlow, Cottonwood Falls, Kans .; Martin T., subject of this review ; Michael, a farmer of Granada township; Agnes Brock, living at Axtell, Kans .; James, Mammoth Springs, Ark .; John, a farmer living near Ax- tell, Kans.
Martin T. Brock was born near Plattsburg, Clinton county, Missouri, March 6, 1868, and was reared on a farm and received a common school education. When he was twenty-two years of age he broke prairie land in Kansas for two years and then rented a sixty-acre farm in Clear Creek township, which he farmed for one year. He then rented land in Capioma township for a year, and after a year's residence in Seneca, he rented a tract of 100 acres near that city for a year. For seven years following he rented land in Capioma township and tilled a half section successfully. He then bought eighty acres in Granada township, which served as his home for sixteen years, after which he traded it for his present place of 160 acres, upon which he moved with his family, March 1, 1916. For the past twenty-seven years, Mr. Brock has operated a corn sheller, and probably has the record as a corn sheller operator, on account of having shelled over 3,000,000 bushels in that length of time. For the past two years he has raised over 10,000 bushels of corn on his own account each year. He favors the Duroc Jersey breed of swine on his place and has over eighty head at this time, besides twelve head of Shorthorns. twelve horses and two mules although his livestock is lower
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in numbers than is common with him on account of having depleted his stock by close selling in the spring of 1916. All of the products of his farm are fed to livestock on the place, thus insuring the continued fer- tility of his soil and continued yields of large crops.
Mr. Brock was married to Miss Jennie Parcels, August 10, 1891, and three children have been born of this marriage: Myrtle J., aged twenty-four years, who has taught school for three terms ; Mirl, a farmer near Goff, Kans., aged twenty-two years; Leland, aged fourteen years. Mrs. Jennie Brock was born at Watseka, Ill., February 23, 1868, and is a daughter of James and Elizabeth Parcels, old pioneer residents of Nemaha county and now living at Seneca. James Parcels, her father, was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, July 29, 1830, and was the son of a Methodist minister. His parents necessarily lived in several locations, as the father's duties called him and eventually moved to Indiana. When Mr. Parcels was twenty-five years old (1855), he joined a party of twelve men, two of whom were his brothers, on an overland trip to Placerville, Cal. They were five months and sixteen days in making the trip to their destination from Peru, Ind., and it was an eventful and wonderful journey to the young men who formed the party. Mr. Parcels stayed in California for three years and started on the return trip in December, 1858. The party returned home via the Isthmus of Panama and New York City, and landed at New York City on Christmas Eve. Mr. Parcels was married in 1858, but his first wife lived butt five years after marriage. One son, George, now deceased, was born of this marriage. Soon after his wife's death, Mr. Parcels enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Ohio infantry, and was mustered out at Camp Denison after his period of service expired. Soon after the close of the war he went to Iroquois county, Illinois, where he and Elizabeth H. Jones were mar- ried and eventually lived to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary in Seneca, Kans. Mrs. Parcels was the second daughter of Austin and Syrena Jones and was born in Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Parcels lived for a time at Watseka, Ill., but later went to Ohio and from there returned to Illinois. In 1873 they came to Kansas and took up a homestead near Wichita, but after seven years of grass- hoppers, drouths and crop failures, they moved to Alamosa, Colo., in order to make a new start. For eighteen months Mr. Parcels freighted in the mountain country and in the fall of 1881 they returned to Kansas. This time, the family located in Nemaha county and for several years Mr. Parcels rented various farms near Baileyville and in the vicinity of Centralia. He lived for five years on the Kendall place west of Seneca and in the early nineties he bought a place in the western part of the city, which serves as the Parcels home. Mr. Parcels is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and is a Mason. Their children are as follows. Mrs. Jennie Brock; James, Hiawatha, Kans .; William H., of Eureka, Mont. ; Mrs. Dora Harper, Seneca, Kans., and Louis B., Hiawatha, Kans. They have fourteen grandchildren.
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Mr. Brock is a Republican who takes an active and influential part in civic matters. He served on the school board of his district for fifteen years and was road overseer for two years. lle is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of Ameri- ca, serving as counsel of the latter organization at Woodlawn for six years.
Henry Gallentine is a son of Joseph and Nancy ( Miller) Gallentine, natives of Pennsylvania. Joseph Gallentine, his father, was born in 1826, was reared in the Keystone State and immigrated to Kansas in 1884. For the first three years in this State he rented land, and in 1887 he purchased a farm of 120 acres near the town of Wetmore, in Nemaha county. He lived on his farm until his return to Pennsylvania in 1899. Death resulted in his native state from cancer of the stomach, in 1900. During the Civil war, Mr. Gallentine served for three years as a volun- teer in a Pennsylvania regiment and was deprived of his hearing during his war service. Ile was a Democrat in politics. Joseph Gallentine was married in 1852 to Nancy Miller, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1836, and bore him a family of six children, as follows: Henry, subject of this review : Mrs. Emma Bedker, Cripple Creek, Colo .; the third and fourth children died in infancy ; Mrs. Maria Mahaney, Uniontown, Pa .; Mrs. Nancy Ellen Miller, deceased.
Henry Gallentine, formerly of Granada township, was born Septem- ber 2, 1853. in Pennsylvania, and began life for himself when eighteen years of age. He worked at farm labor in his native State until his re- moval to Kansas in 1879. He invested his capital in 146 acres of land in Granada township, Nemaha county, Kansas, which he cultivated until 1908, at which time he went to Colorado and homesteaded a quarter sec- tion of Government land, upon which he is living. Mr. Gallentine was married in 1879 to Miss Phoebe Cramer, a daughter of Frank and Mary (Miller) Cramer, natives of Pennsylvania. Frank Cramer, her father, was born in 1836 and followed farming in his native State until his re- moval to Kansas with his family in 1878. He located at Sabetha and followed various occupations until his death in 1905. Frank Cramer and Mary Miller were married in 1856 and were the parents of twelve chil- dren. as follows : Mrs. Phoebe Gallentine, wife of Henry Gallentine ; Levi, killed by a horse at the age of eleven years ; Mrs. Hulda Eiker, deceased ; Adam, a plasterer, living at Sabetha : Mrs. Rebecca Miller, Norton county, Kansas; Nancy, at home with her mother; Hattie and John, died in in- fancy ; Henry and William, Sabetha, Kans .; Mrs. Lydia Mize, deceased ; Elijah, a farmer, living near Wetmore. Mrs. Phoebe Gallentine was born in Pennsylvania. October 30, 1857, and is the mother of nine children, as follows : Mrs. Emma Larabee, Bern, Kans., and mother of three children ; Mrs. Ellen Heald, mother of three children, and living at Troy, Kans .; Frank, died at the age of thirty-one years; Mrs. Nora Kleeman, Seibert, Colo., whose husband is a photographer; Katherine, born in 1888; Jo- seph, farming home place, in Granada township, born in 1890; Edward,
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born in 1892, and living at Sabetha; Vernon, born in 1894, and lives in Iowa; Florence, born in 1896, and is at home with her mother. Mrs. Phoebe Gallentine owns 146 acres in Granada township.
When Henry Gallentine came to Kansas he was possesed of one old, blind horse, with which he began farming his Nemaha county tract. He also owned a one-horse wagon. With these assistants he made his start in this county and has become a wealthy man. Since locating in Colorado he has become owner of 320 acres of land and is a capitalist and money lender in his locality. With characteristic shrewdness and blessed with business ability, he saw an opportunity in the western State to make his capital earn money for him and he has succeeded even beyond his expectations in accumulating wealth.
C. C. Moore is the owner of 100 acres in Granada township and he rents an additional 253 acres, which gives him a large farm. His parents were J. B. and Mary (Ball) Moore, of Virginia. The father, J. B Moore, was born in Lee county, Virginia, in 1854. After receiving a rudimentary education, Mr. Moore went out to shift for himself, and at the age of nineteen he set up as a farmer in Virginia, where he rented land until 1892, when he came to Kansas and settled near Powhattan, where he remained five years. Later, he moved on the farm of George Williams, three miles south of Seneca, where he lived until 1914, when he bought eighty acres north of Corning, on which he now lives. He is a Republi- can in politics.
His wife, Mary (Ball) Moore, was born in Lee county, Virginia in 1855. She was reared on the farm and lived with her parents until her marriage, in 1878. She is a member of the Methodist church. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Moore, as follows: Amanda Brooks Stoldt; C. C., the subject of this review; Mrs. Lora Bales, wife of a farmer near Seneca, mother of three children; Margaret, living at home.
C. C. Moore was born in Virginia, November 13, 1876. At the age of twenty years, he began working out on the farm by the month, and three years later he rented eighty acres in Mitchell township, where he lived for a year. During the next few years he rented different farms and finally bought the 100 acre farm in Granada township, which he owns. He has forty hogs and nine head of cattle. He usually plants 165 acres in corn and thirty to forty acres in wheat and oats. He is a member of the Farmers' Union, and is a Republican in politics.
Mr. Moore was married in 1899 to Cordilia Dean, daughter of Hen- derson and Sarilda (Brooks) Dean. Ten children were born to them, as follows: Ethel, aged sixteen ; Henry, aged fifteen ; Lillie. aged thir- teen ; Minnie, aged eleven ; Jessie, aged nine ; Millard, aged eight ; Joseph, H., aged seven ; Grace E., aged five; Iva M., aged two; Florence, aged one. Mrs. Moore was born in Lee county, Virginia, March II, 1879. Her father, Henderson Dean, was born in Lee county, Virginia, in 1851, and farmed in Lee county all of his life. He owned 200 acres of heavily
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stocked land. He was a member of the Methodist church. In politics, he was an ardent Democrat, and for twenty years he acted as road boss in the township in which he lived. He died in 1907. Mrs. Sarilda Dean was born in Claiborne county, Tennessee, in 1857. She was a member of the Baptist church. Two children were born to them, as follows: Cordilia, wife of Mr. Moore, and Peter, a laborer in Kansas City, Kans., father of three children.
Daniel A. League, farmer, owner of 120 acres of fine farming land in Granada township, is one of the well known farmers of this section of the county. He is the son of David and Mary (Hudson) League. His father was born in Kentucky in 1840, and started out to work for him- self at the age of nine years. He worked out until 1865, and then lived on a rented farm in Illinois. He served as a member of the Fourth Iowa cavalry during the Civil war. He was wounded in the arm and was in a hospital at Keokuk for several months. David 'League farmed in Illinois and Iowa until 1878, and then came to Kansas, locating in Re- public county, where he homesteaded 160 acres. In 1894 he sold out and came to Nemaha county, Kansas, and bought forty acres at Granada. In 1905 he retired and lived in Granada until his death the following year. He was a member of the Masonic and Modern Woodmen of America lodges. Mr. League was a Republican in politics. His wife, Mary League, to whom he was married in 1862, was born in Pennsyl- vania, October 26, 1845, and was reared in the country. She worked out from the time she was fourteen years old until her marriage. Mrs. League was a member of the Evangelical church. Six children were born to them, as follows: James E., liveryman, Belleville, Kans., father of one child: Theodore F., died in Colorado in 1898, leaving two chil- dren ; Minnie M. and Thomas J., died in infancy ; Mrs. Bertha E. Chase, wife of a Granada township farmer, has eight children ; Daniel, subject of this sketch.
Daniel League was born in Republic county, Kans., February IO, 1883. He bought eighty acres on Wolfley creek, Nemaha county, when he was nineteen years old, and lived there for three years. He bought and sold various tracts and rented farms for several years before set- tling near Wetmore on the 120-acre tract which he now owns .. He has twenty-five head of cattle. He keeps enough stock to eat all the grain he raises and often has to buy feed.
He was married to Ethel Porter, December 25, 1902, and four chil- dren have been born to this marriage: David W., aged twelve; Louis M., aged eleven ; Rod, aged five; Mary, aged two. Mrs. League is the daughter of William and Nancy C. (Cullom) Porter, of whom more is told in the biography of Mrs. Chester Sourk. Mrs. League was born October 3, 1885, near Wetmore, Kans.
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