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Iowa farmer; Sarah, April 18, 1833, who married a Love and died in Orange county, Florida, October 6, 1914: Emma, August 2, 1836, who became Mrs. Robinson and died in Indianapolis, and David, August 22, 1838, whose last days also were spent in Indianapolis.
On April 23. 1842, at Cincinnati, Mary Newman was united in mar- riage to Daniel Collingwood, who was born at Wigham, England, December 9, 1817, son of William and Jane ( Barrow) Collingwood, who were married in the parish church of St. Peter's, Liverpool, on August 11, 1779. Jane Bar- row was the daughter of Thomas and Isabella ( Hunter) Barrow, the former of whom died on September 16, 1798, and the latter, February 5, 1807. Wil- liam Collingwood was a manufacturer of shoes and about 1833 he came to the United States, bringing with him his family, and located at Poughkeepsie, New York, where he engaged in the manufacture of shoes on a somewhat extensive scale. He lived but a few years after coming to this country, his death occurring on March 7, 1837. His widow then moved, with her chil- dren, to Cincinnati, in which city the family became domiciled in a house owned by Abner Newman, and it was thus that Daniel Collingwood and Mary Newman met. Mrs. Jane Collingwood spent the remainder of her days in Cincinnati, her death occurring on December 10, 1860. To William and Jane (Barrow) Collingwood seven children had been born, namely : Thomas, born on November 14, 1806, who died on August 16, 1871 ; Will- iam, March 23, 1808, died on December 27, 1820; Isabella, March 16, 1810. died on April 20, 1818; James, March 18, 1813, died in May. 1874: John, August 12, 1815, died on November 23, 1888; Daniel, of whom more pres- ently, and Elizabeth, June 21, 1821, died on December 24, 1894.
Daniel Collingwood was about sixteen years old when his parents came to this country and he was an active assistant to his father in the latter's shoe factory at Poughkeepsie during the time that concern was being oper- ated. When the family moved to Cincinnati he became engaged in the shoe-manufacturing business in that city. In 1845, three years after his marriage, he moved to Connersville, Indiana, where he established a shoe factory and in which city he remained for three years, at the end of which time he moved his plant to Fredonia, on the Ohio river, in Crawford county, Indiana, where he continued in business the rest of his life, his death occurring there on April 25, 1866. Mr. Collingwood took an active part in local political affairs and was a substantial and influential citizen. His first entrance into the field of politics in his adopted country was as a Whig, but upon the formation of the Republican party he became affiliated with
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that party and was an ardent exponent of its principles. He was reared an Episcopal, but later became connected with the United Brethren church and was an earnest supporter of the sainc.
To Daniel and Mary (Newman) Collingwood ten children were born, as follow : William James, born at Cincinnati, May 14, 1844, died on June 17. 1845: Abner, February 12, 1846, at Connersville, Indiana; Jane Elizabeth, December 1, 1847, at Cincinnati, died on February 16, 1915; Thomas, May 9. 1849, at Fredonia, Indiana, married Alice Truesdale; Joseph Gates, . November 9. 1852, at Fredonia, married Jeane Mckenzie and died on Febru- ary 3, 1912: John Alfred, December 23, 1854, married D. Vircilla McClellan ; James Albert, July 18, 1857, married Zona Young; Clara Isabella, Novem- ber 27, 1859, married M. E. Updegraff ; Daniel Franklin, October 14, 1862, and Sarah Ellen, January 27, 1866, who married S. G. Demarest, of Craw- fordsville, Indiana, and lives at Pretty Prairie, this county.
SHERIDAN PLOUGHE.
Sheridan Ploughe was born in Howard county, Indiana, near Kokomo, on June 1, 1868. In February, 1876, his parents moved to Hutchinson, Kansas, and located on a farm that now joins Hutchinson. Mr. Ploughe attended the district school, later attended and was graduated from the high school of Hutchinson in 1884. In 1886 he spent one year at the State Uni- versity, as a freshman, and the balance of his college course was taken at Garfield University at Wichita, Kansas, where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He studied law with L. M. Fall and was admitted to the bar in 1891. In 1899 he bought the Clipper and changed the name of the paper to The Independent, and continued to run it as a weekly paper until 1903. when he bought the Daily Bee, consolidating it with the Inde- pendent, and continuing it under the name of the Daily Independent. In 1905 he sold this daily to the Gazette Company, and the combined papers are now published as The Daily Gazette.
Mr. Ploughe was married to Eleanor F. Smith on March 5. 1902. Mrs. Ploughe is a native of Iowa and moved to Kingman county, Kansas, in 1883. She was graduated from Lewis Academy, at Wichita, and later attended and was graduated from Mary Thompson Hospital, Chicago, as a trained nurse. She left this hospital and entered the service of the government as a nurse, during the Spanish-AAmerican War being stationed part of the time at Lex-
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ington, Kentucky, in the John Blair Gibbs Hospital, where she did special work in typhoid fever. She was then transferred to Cienfuegos, Cuba, with General Bates' Division, on the general field hospital. To Mr. and Mrs. . Ploughe have been born four children. Margaret, Mildred, Mary and Matthew.
Mr. Ploughe began gathering material for this "History of Reno County" after he sold his daily paper, and has gathered material for a number of other books, which he expects to complete soon-among them, "A History of the Seventh Congressional District"; another, "Forty Forgotten Cities," a story of boom towns of western Kansas, out of which "Father" expected to get rich, but the tide of fortune turned the townsites into wheat fields; also another book, "The Land of the Buffalo Range," a history of the contest for the supremacy of the Southwest-a story of the first visit of the Spanish, then the story of the French exploration of the Southwest, then the Cowboy, then the Settler : the story of the "Comanche Pool", "The Chism Trail", "The Goodnight Trail," etc. Much of the material for these books has been gath- ered together.
Mr. Ploughe's father, Alfred H. Ploughe, died in 1892, and his mother, whose maiden name was Preble-a descendant of Commodore Preble, of the United States navy-died in 1903. He has two brothers living, Sherman, a twin, and John V., who lives with him in the old home.
HOWARD WADDLES.
Howard Waddles, one of the best-known and most popular commercial travelers in Kansas, is an Easterner by birth, but has lived in the West ever since he got out of school and has been a resident of Hutchinson, this county, ever since, having thus been a witness to and an active participant in the wonderful development of Reno county during the past quarter of a cen- tury. He was born in the town of Emmetsburg, Frederick county, Mary- land, November 13, 1865, son of Joseph S. and Sarah E. (Shuff) Waddles. both natives of that same county, members of old families in that section. the former of whom was born in 1826 and the latter in 1829.
Joseph H. Waddles, who was a well-to-do merchant at Emmetsburg. died in May, 1892. He was an ardent Republican, an active member of the Methodist church and a public-spirited and progressive citizen. His
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widow is still living at Emmetsburg. They were the parents of four chil- dren, the subject of this sketch having a sister and two brothers, Emma, who married William P. Nunamaker, a merchant of Mt. Airy, Maryland; E. S. Waddles, California representative for the Wheeler-Matter Mercantile Com- pany, of St. Joseph, Missouri, and Charles Waddles, general agent for the New York Life Insurance Company at St. Joseph.
Howard Waddles was reared in his native town in Maryland and upon completing the course in the public schools there came West, locating at San Angelo, Texas, where for two years he was engaged as a clerk in the gen- eral store of James Moorkens & Company. He then was engaged in buy- ing bronchos at Del Rio for the Eastern market for a year, at the end of which time he went to El Paso, where he was engaged as a clerk in a retail store until July 5, 1886, when he left for St. Joseph, Missouri, arriving there the next day, under engagement to the Wheeler-Matter Mercantile Company of that place, general wholesalers in dry goods, furnishings, notions, carpets and the like, and has ever since represented that company as its Kansas sales- man, during which time he has come to be regarded as one of the most suc- cessful commercial travelers in the state. In November, 1888, Mr. Waddles made his headquarters at Hutchinson and has ever since been a resident of that city. Until his marriage in the fall of 1893, he made his headquarters at the old Santa Fe hotel, at that time presided over by Captain Young. After his marriage he made his home at 500 Sherman avenue, east, until he built his present handsome house at 501, in that same block, in 1915. In addition to his activities "on the road" Mr. Waddles is a merchant in his own right, having been the owner of a thriving store at Sylvia. this county, since 1904 and is regarded as one of Reno county's substantial citizens.
It was on September 20, 1893, that Howard Waddles was united in marriage at Larned, this state, to Lena Norwood, who was born in Louis- ville, Kentucky, daughter of Joseph A. and Margaret (Quisenberry) Nor- wood, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Kentucky. Joseph .A. Norwood, a merchant. went to Kansas from Kentucky in 1877 and established a store at Girard, this state. There his wife died in 1878. In 1882 he moved to Larned and established a general store there, remain- ing there for twelve years, at the end of which time he came to Reno county and was engaged as manager of the Ruggles store at Sylvia until his retire- ment from business and removed to Hutchinson, where he died in 1905. To him and his wife two children were born, Mrs. Waddles having a brother, O. F. Norwood, present manager of the Ruggles store at Sylvia. To Mr.
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and Mrs. Waddles one child has been born, a daughter, Margaret, now a student in the Hutchinson high school. Mrs. Waddles is a member of the Episcopal church and both she and Mr. Waddles take an earnest interest in the various social and cultural activities of their home town. Mr. Waddles is a Mason, a life member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, a member of the United Commercial Travelers AAssociation, a member of the Hutchinson Commercial Club and the Hutchinson Country Club, in the affairs of all of which organizations he takes a warm interest.
CHARLES A. WELLS.
Charles A. Wells, one of the best-known and most substantial farmers of Miami township, this county, proprietor of a fine farm of three hundred and twenty acres in the Turon neighborhood, is a native of Tennessee, hav- ing been born in Marysville, Blount county, that state, January 31, 1870, son of A. L. and Mary L. (Peoples) Wells, the former also a native of Tennessee, born in Blount county, and the latter in Illinois.
A. L. Wells was a farmer and in the fall of 1883 came to Kansas with his family and settled in Kingman county. He homesteaded the north- west quarter of section I in Dresden township, that county, and there estab- lished his home, becoming a well-to-do farmer. Upon retiring from the farm he opened a general store at Olcott, in this county, and conducted the same for three years, at the end of which time he retired from business and moved to Pratt, later going to Plummer, Idaho, where he died in 1913, and where his widow is now living. They were earnest members of the Baptist church and their children were reared in that faith. There were five of these children, those besides the subject of this sketch being as follow : Stephen R., a farmer, of Plummer, Idaho; Isaac, deceased; Homer, a farmer, of Wyandotte, Oklahoma, and Dora, who married Samuel Grindel, a farmer, and died at Plummer, Idaho.
Charles A. Wells was about thirteen years old when he came to Kansas with his parents in 1883 and his schooling was completed in the schools of Kingman county. He actively assisted his father in the development of the latter's homestead farm and became an excellent practical farmer. He mar- ried in the summer of 1890 and continued farming in Kingman county until 1906, in which year he came to this county and has since then made his home on his well-kept farm in Miami township, the same being the west half
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of section 36 in that township. Mr. Wells is an energetic and progressive citizen and takes an earnest part in community affairs. He is a Republican and is treasurer of the school board of his home township.
On August 16, 1890, Charles A. Wells was united in marriage to Theresa Pieper, who was born in Bourbon county, this state, daughter of Conrad H. and Mary J. ( Sproule) Pieper, for years prominent residents of Miami township, this county, the former of whom was born in Lippe, Ger- many, December 7, 1841, and the latter, in Iowa, in 1849, who are the par- ents of six children, Mrs. Wells's brothers and sisters being as follow : Byron E., a farmer of Miami township; Thomas, of Hutchinson; Laura E., wife of John T. Woodson, a traveling salesman, of Jennings, Louisiana ; William F., a Miami township farmer, and Leonard, a farmer, of Caddo county, Oklahoma. To Mr. and Mrs. Wells five children have been born, Myrtle, Raymond, Mabel, Everett and Conrad, all of whom are at home. Mr. and Mrs. Wells are members of the Baptist church and take a warm interest in the general good works of the community in which they live.
ISAAC W. HERREN.
Isaac W. Herren has every right to be known as a self-made man, hav- ing been entirely orphaned by the time he was four years old, and thrown upon his own resources since the early age of seventeen years. His parents were Winget and Cynthia (Crow) Herren, both of Ohio nativity, and he was born on March 31, 1863, in Noble county, Ohio.
Winget Herren was a farmer until he enlisted in the Seventy-second Regiment .Ohio Volunteer Infantry, to fight in the Civil War. He was at home when his son was born, but left for the front three days later, never to return. The mother later was married to Benjamin Phelps. She died in 1867, leaving two sons, Isaac W., aged four, and William Henry, aged six, who went to make their home with their mother's father, Isaac Crow. They remained on their grandfather's farm until 1879, when they both went west to seek their fortunes and arrived in Kansas. Here they worked by the month for seven years, on wages ranging from fourteen to twenty- one dollars per month.
In 1886, Isaac W. Herren returned to Ohio, where on March 3, he was married to Matilda Caroline Smith, a native of Monroe county and the daughter of Samuel and Nancy Jane ( Sample) Smith, also born in Monroe
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county. The former is not living. The latter was the daughter of William Sample. Matilda Caroline Smith was born on the farm where her grand- father, Archibald Smith, first settled.
The children of Samuel and Nancy Jane ( Sample ) Smith were Porter S., Mary Ellen, wife of Theodore Wilson: Olive A., wife of C. L. Okey; Matikla Caroline, wife of Isaac W. Herren: Albert, Oliver Perry and Willie A.
After their marriage Mr. Herren brought his bride to Reno county, Kansas, and he rented a farm in Salt Creek township. Five years later, he purchased one hundred and sixty acres in the southwest quarter of section 12, in the same township, where he still resides and carries on general farming.
The children of Isaac W. Herren are. Clarence Ray, still at home as his father's assistant; William Clinton, who married Alice Griffen, and lives on a farm in Salt Creek township: Perry Arlington, who married Edith Potter and lives also on a farm in Salt Creek township.
Mr. Herren is affiliated politically with the Republican party. For sev- eral years he was treasurer of his home township. His brother, William Henry Herren, resides in the city of Hutchinson.
WALTER G. BARR.
Walter G. Barr, a prominent orthodontist of Wichita, Kansas, was born in Lyon county, Kansas, September 1, 1879, the son of Oliver F. and Lydia ( Harper) Barr, the former of whom was born in Iowa and the latter in Kansas. Oliver F. Barr was, for many years, a successful farmer and stock raiser, but he and his wife are now living retired in Emporia, Kansas. They have been the parents of seven children, all of whom were born in Emporia and all of whom are living. Besides Walter G., the children are, Mollie, who is the wife of John F. Bergen, a hardware merchant of Inman ; Connie, who is at home: Charles F., who is studying dentistry at the Kan- sas City Dental College and who taught school for some years in Reno county and was a member of the examining board: Maud, who is a teacher in the public schools of Reno county: Olla and Everett, both of whom are at home with their parents.
Walter G. Barr received his education in the public schools of Reno county, going as far as the second year in high school, after which he
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attended the Kansas City Dental College for three years, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. After his graduation from the Kansas City Dental College, he took a post-graduate course in the Dewey School of Orthodontia in Kansas City, Missouri, and has specialized in that branch of dentistry for the past four years, practicing in both Wichita and Hutchinson. He formerly lived in Hutchinson at 308 Eleventh Avenue, which residence he owned, but three years ago moved to Wichita, where he has since resided at 517 North Topeka Avenue. His office in Wichita is located at 702 Schweiter building, but he still retains an office in Hutchinson, which is located at 403 First National Bank building, and which he visits every Monday. Doctor Barr is very proficient in his profession and enjoys a large practice in both Wichita and Hutchinson, being well known and highly respected in both cities.
On October 5, 1905, Dr. Barr was married to Addie Robinson, who was born in Johnson county, Kansas, August 4, 1884, the daughter of George and Elizabeth Robinson. Her father was a successful farmer of Johnson county and died there in June, 1906, but her mother is still living in that county. To Doctor and Mrs. Barr has been born one son, Ralph, who was born in Stafford, Kansas, in July, 1907, and died in infancy.
Socially, Doctor Barr is a member of the Hutchinson Commercial Club, the Hutchinson Country Club, the Wichita Country Club, the Wichita Social Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is a thirty-second degree Mason. Politically, he is a Republican, but has never taken a very active part in politics, preferring to devote his time and attention to his profession.
WALTER F. WILLIAMS.
Walter F. Williams, one of the best-known farmers of Roscoe town- ship. this county, and a prominent resident of the Pretty Prairie neighbor- hood, is a native of the great Empire state, having been born at Beaver Dam, New York, July 3, 1858, son of J. G. and Mary ( Smalley) Williams, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of New York.
J. G. Williams, in his day, was one of the most prominent men in his section of New York state and was a power in politics. At the time Levi P. Morton was inaugurated governor of New York he offered to send a special car to Beaver Dam for Mr. Williams in order that he might ride in
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comfort to Albany to witness the inauguration. He was the son of John and Ruth ( Ferguson) Williams, the former of whom, with three brothers, sons of Jacob Williams, came from Ireland to the United States and settled at Williamsville, New Jersey. During the War of 1812 John Williams enlisted in behalf of the Americans in their second war of independence against England and served valiantly throughout that struggle. He mar- ried Ruth Ferguson, of New Jersey, daughter of Robert Ferguson, a soldier of the Revolution, who had served for six years during the War of Inde- pendence, and J. G. Williams was a son of that union. J. G. Williams was reared in New Jersey and became a cooper by trade. At the age of twenty- two he left his native state and went to New York state, where he engaged in farming, later moving to Beaver Dam, where he spent his last days, his death occurring in 1896. He was a life-long and active member of the Methodist Episcopal church. His first wife, Mary Smalley, mother of Walter F. Williams, was the daughter of William and Catherine (Conover ) Smalley, the former of whom, a native of England, a miller by trade, came to the United States and settled in New York state, erecting the first water- power mill in the section of the state in which he settled. Though born in England, William Smalley's sympathies were with the people of his adopted country during the War of 1812 and he fought on the American side in that struggle. Mrs. Mary Williams died on December 7, 1869, leaving two sons, the subject of this sketch having had a brother, W. S. Williams, who died at the age of thirty-seven years. W. S. Williams was an accomplished singer and was a traveling salesman for a musical-instrument firm, he having at one time been a resident of Hutchinson, this county. J. G. Williams mar- ried, secondly, Catherine Ferguson, which second union was without issue.
Walter F. Williams was little more than ten years old when his mother died and thereafter, until he was fifteen years old, he made his home with his uncle, Edwin Ottley. At the age of fifteen he began work on his own account and in the spring of 1880, he then being about twenty-two years of age, he came to Kansas and bought a quarter of a section of land in the Pretty Prairie neighborhood in Roscoe township, this county, which he immediately set about developing. On March 4, 1886, Walter F. Williams married Augusta Johnson, who was born in Dayton, Ohio. February 10. 1857, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Hemphill) Johnson, pioneers of Roscoe township, and established his home on his farm, where he ever since has resided and where he and his family are very comfortably and very pleasantly situated. The farm is admirably improved and well cultivated
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and Mr. Williams is regarded as one of the substantial figures in his com- munity. To Mr. and Mrs. Williams two children have been born, W. W., now living at Orlando, Florida, and Nellie. Mr. Williams is a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and takes a warm interest in the affairs of that organization.
EDWARD E. BARTON.
Edward E. Barton, son of Aaron B. and Mary G. (Roberts) Barton, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, February 5, 1857. His father was born in Steubenville, Ohio, May 3, 1820, and died in Terre Haute, Indiana, August 5. 1899. He was engaged in the wholesale leather business and was an extensive real-estate holder in Terre Haute. He was a member of the Masonic order, and an active member of the Congregational church. He was a life-long Republican and took an active interest in the promotion of the principles of his party. He retired from business at the age of forty years. Mrs. Barton, mother of Edward E., was born in Syracuse, New York, and was a descendant of Seth Warner, a Revolutionary hero. The father and mother were married in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1841; three sons and three daughters were born to that union. The members of this family, other than the subject of this sketch, are: Carrie, who married John Cook, wholesale druggist in Terre Haute, Indiana; she died in 1915. Eliza M., unmarried, living in Los Angeles, California. Helen D., unmar- ried, living in Los Angeles, California. Frank V., living in Los Angeles, California. William F., died in Mineral Wells, Texas, April, 1898.
Edward E. Barton was educated in the grade and high schools of Terre Haute, and was the youngest high school graduate of his class. He after- ward attended the DePauw University, at Greencastle, Indiana, and the Rose Polytechnic school, in Terre Haute. He was passenger agent of the' Indianapolis & St. Louis Railway for five or six years, and afterwards went to Ravenna, Nebraska, where he organized a bank and was president of the same for several years. He came to Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1889, and organized a banking and trust company in this place. Salt mines were discovered about that time and Mr. Barton invested in that business. He was sole owner of the Barton Salt Company, which had a productive capacity of eight hundred barrels per day, in a plant located at the corner of Cleve-
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land and Campbell avenues, Hutchinson, Kansas. Mr. Barton was president of this company and general manager of the same until his death, which occurred, February 26, 1912. He was also interested in railroad building ; was a director and the secretary of the Delaware Western Construction Company, which built the Texas Southern railway, in 1902 to 1904. In all the enterprises in which he engaged he was the leading spirit and manifested most excellent business ability. As a member of the Hutchinson Com- mercial Club he gave to that organization the benefit of his experience and practical knowledge of business affairs. Through that organization, and in his individual capacity, he contributed largely to the industrial and com- mercial enterprises of the community of which he was an honored citizen. Fraternally, he was a member of the Masonic order, the Knight Templars and the Elks. His religious faith was that of a Christian Scientist.
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