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Colonel Metcalf has always been an ardent Republican and in 1899 he was sent as a delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention held at Philadelphia. On March 1, 1902, he was appointed United State pension agent at Topeka, his offices being in the Federal Building in this city. He has held civic positions at Lawrence and is a member of the Board of Education of Douglas County.
Colonel Metcalf was married at Wellington, Ohio, July 30, 1878, to Mary E. Crosier, who was born in Ohio. They attend the Congregational Church. His fraternal associations include the higher branches of Masonry, the Society of the Army of the Philippines and the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and he is eligible to membership in the Sons of the American Revolution.
EDWARD B. GUILD.
EDWARD B. GUILD, proprietor of the oldest music house at Topeka and in the State of Kansas, is one of the city's old and esteemed business men. Mr. Guild was born at Seneca Falls, New York, and is a son of Loring and Pamelia (Butts ) Guild.
The Guild family is a New England one and is well represented in Boston, Massachusetts. The father of our subject removed to Wisconsin when Ed- ward B. was small and for some years published a newspaper at Kenosha. Later he removed to Madison, whence he came to Lawrence, Kansas, in 1860, re- moving then to Boonesboro, Iowa, in 1864, engaging in mercantile pursuits and milling during these years. In 1875 he came to Kansas again and settled at Topeka, where his death took place in the same year. He married in New York and Mrs. Guild died in 1892, at the home of our subject.
Edward B. Guild was prepared by Rev. Mr. Montague, at Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, for entrance to the State University, in 1853, where he was grad- uated in 1859, sharing honors with Alexander Botkin, who later became a famous lawyer and was selected to assist in revising the criminal laws of the United States. Another classmate belonging to that notable body of graduates
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of 1859 was Bishop Samuel Fallows, of Chicago, and still another was Leon- ard S. Clark, now a prominent attorney at San Francisco. In 1862 the degree of M. A. was conferred by his college on Mr. Guild.
From 1875 Mr. Guild's business interests have been at Topeka. Until 1875 he was engaged in a general mercantile line in Iowa and then opened up in Topeka in the musical line, succeeding S. W. Stone. Mr. Guild occupies a commodious building at No. 722 Kansas avenue, 25 by 150 feet in dimen- sions, where he carries a large and complete stock of everything in his line.
Mr. Guild was married at Topeka in 1878, to Ovella H. Dunn, who is a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Ann ( Morgan) Dunn, the father being one of the early merchants of this city. They have three children : Leslie E., How- ard C. and Florence Gladys. Their beautiful home is situated at No. 515. Topeka avenue.
Mr. Guild is a member of the Knights and Ladies of Security, is vice- president of the local council of National Union and is a member of the Com- mercial Club of Topeka. His long and honorable business career here has. made him known to a large majority of the citizens.
EDWIN KNOWLES.
EDWIN KNOWLES, cashier of The Central National Bank, of Topeka, and one of the leading financiers of this section, was born August 20, 1835, in the State of Maine, and is a son of Alfred Knowles.
Mr. Knowles came to Kansas in 1856 and preempted a claim of a quarter- section of land in Miami County. In 1871 he settled in Nemaha County where he engaged in banking and milling, residing for six years at Seneca, remov- ing then to Sabethia and in 1883 to Topeka.
After becoming a resident of the capital city, Mr. Knowles became cashier of the Central Bank of Kansas, and in January, 1894, assisted in the organiza- tion of The Central National Bank, of Topeka. The first officers were: P. I. Bonebrake, president ; C. C. Wheeler, vice-president ; Edwin Knowles, cash- ier; and Willis Norton, assistant cashier. The directors during the first year were : P. I. Bonebrake, Edwin Knowles, George R. Peck, the late Dr. D. W. Stormont, W. B. Strong, A. S. Johnson, H. P. Dillon, the late Willard Davis and E. B. Purcell.
The present officers are: P. I. Bonebrake, president; C. S. Downing, vice-president : Edwin Knowles, cashier and S. E. Thompson, assistant cashier.
In 1867 Mr. Knowles was married to Elizabeth Bergen and they have one daughter and one son. Mr. Knowles is a progressive and public-spirited
J. P. LEWIS, M. D.
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citizen, a man of prominence and character. He served six years as a member of the State Board of Charities and has been associated with a number of civic bodies.
J. P. LEWIS, M. D.
J. P. LEWIS, M. D., whose portrait accompanies this sketch, is recog- nized as one of the foremost physicians and surgeons of Eastern Kansas. He is a resident of Topeka, where he has practiced continuously since 1883. He is a broad-minded, well-educated man and has taken a deep concern in the welfare of his home city.
Dr. Lewis was born at Sulphur Springs, Ohio, December 20, 1848, and is a son of William and Caroline (Porter) Lewis. His paternal grandfather, Jacob Lewis, was a noted gunsmith, manufacturing all his guns by hand. Dr. William Lewis, father of our subject, was born in Ohio and there studied medicine under the direction of the ablest physician and surgeon in the com- munity, there being few medical colleges and societies at that date. With several others he formed a class under this preceptor, using a sub-cellar as a dissecting room. He engaged in practice at Sulphur Springs until 1861, when he enlisted in the Union Army as a private in the 31st Regiment, Ohio Vol. Inf., under Capt. John Free. He later became surgeon in his regiment, and served as such until he was discharged because of disability. This sick- ness resulted in his death on April 18, 1863, at Sulphur Springs, Ohio, where he was buried. He was united in marriage with Caroline Porter, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland, a daughter of John Porter, who was a prominent man and a political power in that city. Mr. Porter fought in the War of the Revolution under General Washington. In late life he moved to Ohio and there engaged in agricultural pursuits. Five children were born of this union, namely: Sarah E., wife of Dr. William Stallsmith, of Logan, Ohio; Amanda, deceased wife of Dr. Raney, of Logan, Ohio; J. P., whose name heads this sketch; and two who died in early life.
J. P. Lewis attended the public and high schools of McConnellsvile, Ohio, graduating from the high school in 1869, and then entered the Med- ical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati. Upon graduating from this institution, in 1873, he took the prize for surgical work in a class of 320 students and was heartily congratulated by the newspapers and his many friends. He located for practice at New Lexington, Ohio, and later at Pleasantville, Ohio, where he remained until 1883, in which year he came to Topeka, Kansas. He has been a constant student of his profession, and has taken a number of post-graduate courses in the institutions of this country and abroad. He
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attended the New York Polyclinic Hospital, and took a course in the General Hospital at Berlin, Germany. He went from there to Vienna and took up special work in gynecology. In returning home, he stopped in London long enough to complete a course in hospital and clinic work, and in Liverpool took a course in orthopedic surgery under the celebrated Dr. Hugh O. Thomas. He has met with remarkable success in his practice in Topeka, and has frequently been called upon to fill official positions. He was the first county health officer of Shawnee County, and at the same time was city physician, keeping the first record of the births and deaths the city ever had. He is on the medical staff of Christ's Hospital and is an ex-professor of anatomy and gynecology at the Kansas Medical College, a department of Washburn University. Politically, he is a Republican.
In the fall of 1872, Dr. Lewis was joined in marriage with Sarah A. Brown, a daughter of Isaac and Mary Brown, her father being a farmer and stock-raiser of Sulphur Springs, Ohio. She died April 18, 1880, at New Lexington, Ohio, leaving two children: Florence, who is her father's house- keeper and companion; and Olive, wife of Dr. Lawrence Chamberlin. Our subject formed a second union, in October, 1882, with Mattie A. Shoemaker, who died December 16, 1901, aged 41 years. One son was born to this union,- Charles W., who was formerly agent for the Provident Savings Life As- surance Company of New York, but is now engaged in the manufacture of the "Perfection" seed and grain cleaner, under the name of the Lewis-Tuttle Manufacturing Company, with headquarters at Topeka. He is one of the most active and energetic young business men of the city. Dr. Lewis is a member of Topeka Lodge, No. 204, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and served as its first treasurer.
H. L. ALKIRE, M. D.
H. L. ALKIRE, M. D., dean of the Kansas Medical College, at Topeka, one of the leading specialists on diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat,, has been associated with this well-known medical institution since the year of its organization. He is a native of Illinois, born near Springfield, November 17. 1862, and is a son of W. W. and Judith (Lightfoot) Alkire.
Although our subject was born in Illinois, he was developed in Kansas, where he received district school and university training. After three years of the latter, he read medicine under Dr. D. J. Holland, of Atchison, for 18 months and then entered Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia. where
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he was graduated with his degree, in 1887. He practiced in Western Kansas until 1889 and then settled at Topeka, where he continued in general practice until 1895. Finding his greatest professional interest to be in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, he took a course in the New York Polyclinic School, returning to Topeka in 1896. Since then he has made a specialty of the above diseases and has met with great success in this line. Since 1904 he has been dean of the Kansas Medical College, having been connected with this institu- tion since its organization, first as professor of chemistry, then in the chair of anatomy, and at present fills the chair of anatomy and otology.
Dr. Alkire is a member of all the leading medical organizations including the American Medical Association, the Kansas State Medical Society, the Shawnee County Medical Society, the Northeast District Society, the Golden Belt Society, and the Society of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology. He is also a Mason of high degree, having passed through the order's higher branches, and belongs to other fraternal orders. Dr. Alkire was married at Omaha, Nebraska, to Emma V. Somerlott, who was born in Maryland.
JOHN S. DEAN.
JOHN S. DEAN, United States district attorney, is considered one of the leading members of his profession in Kansas, and is a member of the well- known law firm of Kellar & Dean, of Topeka. Mr. Dean was born in Seneca County, Ohio, in November, 1861, and is a son of William O. and Hattie J. (Curtis) Dean.
The ancestral line of Mr. Dean reaches far back to the early settlement of New England, even to the days of the Plymouth colony, a member of which was William Spooner, who was an ancestor of Polly Spooner, our subject's grandmother. On the paternal side, his great-grandfather, Aaron Dean, was a soldier in both the Revolutionary War and that of 1812. His father, Wil- liam O. Dean, served in the Civil War and now resides on his farm in Ohio, where the beloved mother died in 1898. The six children of the family all survive.
John S. Dean completed his high school course at Oberlin, Ohio, in 1879 and then spent two years in Oberlin College, and then took up the study of the law in the office of the late Judge James Pillar, and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court at Columbus, Ohio, in 1883. He then came to Peabody, Kansas, and engaged in the practice of the law, subsequently being elected county attorney of Marion County. Later he formed a law partnership with
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L. F. Kellar, who is a brother-in-law of Governor Edward W. Hoch, and in 1901 was appointed United States district attorney.
In 1883 Mr. Dean was married to Jennie Laird, who was born in Ohio, and is a daughter of D. B. Laird, formerly of Pennsylvania. They have a family of three sons and three daughters.
Politically, Mr. Dean has always been active in the Republican party and his efficiency has been frequently recognized. He had the pleasure of being a delegate to the St. Louis convention in 1896, which nominated the late Presi- dent Mckinley. He is a member of the Bar Association of the State of Kan- sas, and there are few phases of the science of the law with which he is not thoroughly acquainted and competent to pass upon. His home continues to be at Marion, although the duties of his present office require his presence at Topeka. He is a member of various fraternal organizations at Marion and of the Elks at Topeka.
CHARLES W. JEWELL.
CHARLES W. JEWELL, deceased, was one of the founders of many of To- peka's business and educational organizations. He was born in Massachusetts, had but a district school education but was a man of so much native intelligence and progressive spirit that he became prominent wherever he lived. His busi- ness career began as a merchant at Harmar, Ohio. Later he was mate and part owner of a steamboat which bore the name of "Martha Putnam." In 1860 he came to Kansas and engaged for a year in farming and stock-raising in Crawford County, and resided near what is now the town of Arcadia until 1862, when he was appointed quartermaster and Ist lieutenant in the Sixth Kansas Cavalry, from which he received an honorable discharge. In Novem- ber, 1864, he came to Topeka.
Mr. Jewell entered into a banking business on March 10, 1866, with the late Fry W. Giles, under the firm name of F. W. Giles & Company. It was a private bank, which later became the Topeka National Bank, which failed in 1878. Mr. Jewell was authorized to settle the affairs of the bank which he did, paying the depositors in full. Mr. Jewell then organized the Topeka State Bank, of which he was president until 1887, when it was sold to the First National Bank at which time he retired from business. His death took place February 27. 1901, and he was buried in the Topeka Cemetery. He was identified with the developing of the entire city in the early days, was one of the founders of the Topeka Free Public Library, which was first located oppo- site the Central National Bank Building. He was also one of the founders of Washburn College, one of its trustees and treasurer and was connected with it
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when it was Lincoln College. He was one of the original committee of three who had charge of the State grounds, known as the State House committee. At his decease he left the sum of $10,000 for Washburn College on condition that the college would raise a like sum for their permanent endowment fund. Mr. Jewell was for many years a member of the Board of Education of the city of Topeka.
In 1853 he was married in Ohio to Susan A. Hendrie, who was born near Stamford, Connecticut, but later removed to Watertown, Ohio. She now resides in California. They had seven children, three sons and three daugh- ters still surviving.
CHARLES E. JEWELL.
CHARLES E. JEWELL, one of Topeka's successful business men and a mem- ber of one of the pioneer families in Kansas, was born in 1854 in Ohio, and is a son of the late Charles W. and Susan A. ( Hendrie) Jewell.
Charles E. Jewell was educated in the public schools at Topeka and at Washburn College. For seven years he was connected with the banking busi- ness, but when the Topeka State Bank sold out in 1887, he entered into the loan brokerage business. He has always been active in the Republican party, and is treasurer of the Shawnee County Republican Central Committee.
Mr. Jewell married a lady by the name of L. M. Meek, who is a native of Indiana. He enjoys fraternal relationship with the Order of Elks.
WILLIAM S. HIBBARD.
WILLIAM S. HIBBARD, one of the representative men of Williamsport township, Shawnee County, and the operator of a fine farm of 178 acres, was born at Lisbon, Grafton County, New Hampshire, November 20, 1828, and is a son of Moses and Eliza (Sutherland) Hibbard.
The father of Mr. Hibbard was a physician in active practice in Lisbon during his whole life, except the last six years spent in Townsend, Vermont, where he died aged 63 years. He was a surgeon in the State militia. The mother of Mr. Hibbard died in Vermont in 1881, at the age of 76 years. The paternal grandfather, Aaron Hibbard, was born in Connecticut and was a Revolutionary soldier. The Hibbard family is well known in the annals of New England. its founder, Robert Hibbard, having come from England with his wife and settled at Salem, Massachusetts, about 1635. Our subject was
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born the eldest of a family of six sons and six daughters, those surviving being : David S., a clergman of the Congregational Church at Gorham, Maine; Mrs. Sarah Thomson, a widow, residing with our subject; Ellen, a resident of Gorham, Maine; Mrs. Luella Neil, of Galliopolis, Ohio; and Albert, of Reno, Nevada.
William S. Hibbard was reared at Lisbon and remained there through his school days. Prior to locating on his present farm in Kansas, he saw a number of other sections of the country and had numerous experiences. Prior to leaving his native place when 21 years old, he did some clerking in a store and then accepted a clerkship and an offer to teach in Lawrence County, Ohio. Later he took a trip to New Orleans and up the Red River, stopping to teach one term of school at Shreveport, and then going on as far as San Antonio, Texas.
Upon returning North he found the river at Shreveport too low for steam- boating and no vessels ready or able to depart. He was not to be deterred, however, and with another young man who was equally anxious to get home, hired a skiff and in this frail boat sailed 500 miles. Finally he reached his home in New Hampshire. Some time later he embarked in a general mercan- tile business at Ironton, Ohio, which he continued for some three years and then engaged in clerking at the iron furnaces there for several years. In 1877 he came to Shawnee County and took up a quarter section of land in Auburn township where he lived many years and made excellent improvements. Dur- ing the Civil War he was out with the State militia under Col. George W. Veale and Captain Burke and was captured near Kansas City, but escaped with 20 companions at Fort Scott.
Mr. Hibbard then went back to Ohio and resumed clerking at the iron furnaces for the next three years, after which he returned to farming, an occu- pation in which he has continued to be interested ever since. In 1876 he came to the present farm, which originally consisted of 218 acres. A part of the farm had been broken but it was practically unimproved. He now has one of the valuable farms of this section, well improved and carefully cultivated. His main crops are wheat and corn, and he raises much stock.
Mr. Hibbard was married in 1859 to Eliza Gault, who was born in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, in 1831, and is a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Simmerwell) Gault, natives of Ireland. They have had four children, viz : Anna S., wife of T. B. Nelson, of Williamsport township; Harry L., who died at Kansas City aged 37 years; D. S., a Presbyterian missionary stationed at Dumagueta, Philippine Islands ; and James S., of Oklahoma. All the sons are graduates of Emporia College. The death of Harry L. Hibbard, the eldest son of our subject, was a blow not only to his family, but to the community which took pride in what seemed a very bright future for this brilliant young
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man. As an engineer he went to Nicaragua and then partly completed a medi- cal education in New York, but again accepted a flattering offer as an engineer and went to South America in this capacity. Thus he was enabled to put himself through medical college and, after a year and a half at Bellevue Hos- pital, New York, he settled in practice of medicine and surgery at Kansas City. His widow still survives and is employed by James L. King, State librarian.
Mr. Hibbard has always been a Republican. He has served a number of terms as township clerk. He is a member of and an elder in the Presbyterian Church and, what is remarkable, is a charter member of four church organiza- tions, viz : the church at Ironton, Ohio, at Hamden, Ohio, at Auburn, Kansas, and at WVakarusa, Kansas.
ALBERT TURNER REID.
ALBERT TURNER REID,* proprietor of the Reid-Stone School of Art, at Topeka, and part owner and proprietor of the Leavenworth Post, is one of the best known newspaper illustrators of the day, in addition to being a com- poser of popular music. Mr. Reid was born August 12, 1873, at Concordia, Kansas, and is a son of the late William E. and Jean (Turner) Reid.
The late William E. Reid was a man of versatile talent. He excelled in almost everything he attempted, business, law, music and painting. In early life his artistic penmanship led to his employment as a teacher of the same, at Milwaukee, and the city adopted his beautiful Spencerian system. He was a graduate of the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and was successful in his profession. Later he became known as a capitalist and financier, owning and operating two banks in Kansas, one at Mankato, Jewell County, and the other, now the First National Bank, at Smith Center, Smith County. Each was known as Reid Brothers' Bank. His death oc- curred April 8, 1887, at the early age of 45 years, and his interment was at Clyde, Kansas. Had he lived, it is more than probable that Kansas would have had one more name to add to her long list of talented musicians and artists.
William E. Reid was survived by four sons and one daughter, all of whom have inherited more or less of his artistic nature. These are: Albert T., George S., Frank A., Lew A., and Jean L. George S. is in business at Mi- ami, Florida, as an importer. Frank A., of Leavenworth, is associated with our subject in the ownership of the Leavenworth Post, a new venture which has a promising outlook. Lew A., student, musician and artist, is a resident of Topeka, well and favorably known in artistic circles. The one sister is still pursuing her studies in the Topeka High School.
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Albert Turner Reid was liberally educated, enjoying the advantages of the Clyde and Concordia high schools, the Kansas State University and a business college at Milwaukee. His business training was obtained in one of his father's banks. As indicated above, our subject, like his father, has been very successful along musical and artistic lines, and is well known as an illus- trator all over the country. Prior to settling at Topeka, he was on the staff of the Kansas City Star for three years and then was on the staff of the old Chicago Record, where he had many admirers. Later he went to the New York Herald, and he continues to be a regular contributor to Judge, the Kan- sas City Journal, the Bit and Spur, McClures and the Topeka Mail and Breesc.
When demands became insistent that he teach his method of drawing, Mr. Reid arranged his affairs so that he could give his personal attention to pupils and opened the Reid-Stone School of Art, at Topeka. This institution accommodates more than 50 students and its graduates have no difficulty in finding first-class positions. Two of these now hold remunerative positions on Topeka papers.
Two of Mr. Reid's musical compositions may be said to be famous : one of these-"Guardians of Liberty"-being a standard piece of band music all over the country. The other-"Dat Meddlin' Coon"-was 'sung through every amusement center for two years by that prince of entertainers, Lew Dockstader.
On October 22, 1902, Mr. Reid was married to Vera Low, who is a daughter of M. A. and Diantha ( Hovey) Low, of Topeka. Mr. Low is general attorney for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company. To this union one daughter was born, named Marian.
Politically, Mr. Reid is a stanch Republican. During the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1904, he attended in the capacity of illus- trator for a number of the leading journals of the country. Mr. Reid is a member of the Elks, belonging to Concordia Lodge, No. 286.
E. A. POPENOE, A. M.
E. A. POPENOE, A. M.,* professor of zoology and entomology at the State Agricultural College, at Manhattan, Kansas, occupies a very prominent position in the State as a scientist. Professor Popenoe was born at Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1853, and is a son of Willis P. and Marinda (Holcomb) Popenoe.
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