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James B. Gardiner, cashier of the Valley Center State Bank, Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born March 30, 1878, at Garden Plain, Kan. His father, who is now deceased, was George H. Gardiner, and his mother's maiden name was Laura V. Pope. Both parents were natives of Illinois. Mr. Gardiner obtained his education in the public schols of Wichita, Kan., afterward taking a business course at the Southwestern Business College, St. Louis, Mo. He began his business career in the private bank
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of S. F. Greene & Co., of Kane, Ill., and afterward holding a position for a few years with the Continental & Com- mercial National Bank of Chicago, Ill. Upon his return to Kansas he was made cashier of the State Bank of Peck, Peck, Kan., and in 1908 accepted his present position. Besides being cashier of the Valley Center State Bank he is director in five other banks in Sedgwick county. Fraternally Mr. Gardiner is a member of the Masonic order-King Solomon's Lodge, No. 197, Kane, Ill., A. F. & A. M .; La Fayette Chapter No. 2, R. A. M., Chicago, Ill .; Palestine Council, No. 66, R. and S. M., Chicago, Ill .; Wichita Consistory, No. 2; thirty-second degree and Midian Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Valley Center Lodge, No. 164. In politics Mr. Gardiner affiliates with the Democratic party.
James K. Gardner, of Cheney, Kan., where he is actively en- gaged in the real estate and loan business, was born May 2, 1849, at Cadiz, O. He is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Leard) Gardner. His father was a native of Virginia, and on the mater- nal line his remote ancestry is traced to Scotland. The parents came from Virginia to Ohio and afterwards removed to McLean county, Illinois, where the father was engaged in farming up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1885. He lived an exemplary life, being strong and well grounded in Methodism. He was a Republican, and took a decided interest in the affairs of his party. James K. Gardner left his home in Illinois and removed to Morton township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, in 1882, and the same year he married Miss Emma L. Rankin, a daughter of W. H. and Elizabeth Rankin, of Bloomington, Ill. Four children have been born of this union, two boys and two girls, only one of whom is now living, Caroline L., now attending the Illinois Wesleyan University, at Bloomington, Ill. When Mr. Gardner first located in Morton township he had barely enough money to buy a team of horses. He worked at painting for two years. He purchased 160 acres of land and for three years, while working on the farm, he also worked at the trade of painter. He then moved into Cheney and opened up the real estate, insurance and loan business, and was successful from the start. In 1909 the firm of Gardner & McCue, real estate and loans, was organized, and the firm is now transacting a large and lucrative business in these lines. Fraternally Mr. Gardner is a Mason, belonging to Morton Lodge, No. 254, A. F. and A. M.,
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in which he has filled all the chairs. He is also a member of Wichita Consistory, No. 2, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a director in the Citizens' Bank of Cheney, has been a member of the city school board for fifteen years, city councilman for three years, city treasurer for three years, and police judge for two years, which latter position he now holds. Mr. Gardner is a Republican in politics. He has several times been a representative to the Masonic Grand Lodge. He is known as a public spirited, enterprising man, and successful in all his undertakings. He is a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a strong worker in the denomination, and has contributed liberally to its support. He has been a superin- tendent in the Sunday school of his church for fifteen years.
Alexander Garrett, farmer, of Rockford township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born in Monroe county, Ohio, on March 4, 1845. His parents were J. E. and Mary J. (Gilmore) Garrett, both natives of Ohio, where they lived until 1869, when they moved to Ottawa county, Kansas, where they lived until their death. The elder Garrett died in 1873, and his widow in 1874. In September, 1869, Alexander Garrett went to Rockford town- ship, Sedgwick county, and filed on 160 acres of land in Section 12, on which claim he still lives, being the only man in Rockford township in 1910 living on his original claim. Mr. Garrett's first house was built of logs hewn by himself. He made the shingles himself and hauled cottonwood logs to Wichita, where he gave half to have them sawed into boards to make windows, doors and floors. On September 26, 1866, Mr. Garrett was married to Miss Margaret Dixon, who was born in Monroe county, Ohio. They have two children, Anna Mary, born in March, 1870, the first white child born in Rockford township, and Herman, born in January, 1876, who lives on a farm adjoining his father. Mr. Garrett has spent his life in agricultural pur- suits, has had a strenuous career, and is today one of the respected and representative citizens of Sedgwick county. He is a Republican in politics, but has never sought nor held office. He owns 1,040 acres in Sedgwick county and 200 acres in King- man county, and markets from 75 to 150 fat cattle each year.
Ichabod P. Garriss, of Mulvane, Kan., a retired farmer and pioneer, is a native of North Carolina, where he was born in Wayne county, on March 14, 1842. His parents were Wiley and Elizabeth (Pearson) Garriss, both natives of North Carolina.
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Joshua Garriss, the father of Wiley, came from England at an early date and settled in North Carolina, where he lived and died, Wiley also spending all his life in the same state. The mother also died at the same place. Ichabod P. Garriss lived in his native state until March 12, 1868, when he moved to Willow Springs, Kan., where he remained until 1871. Before coming to Kansas and while living in North Carolina he was conscripted in the Confederate Army, Company K, North Carolina Infantry, and served until May, 1865. In 1871 Mr. Garriss came to Rockford township, Sedgwick county, and laid the foundation of a house on Section 13. In the fall of 1872 he preempted this 160 acres and moved on the place. He paid 25 cents per tree and hauled the logs twelve miles and built his home. He lived on this farm until 1901, when he retired from farming and moved into Mulvane, where he has a pleasant home and enjoys the rest he has earned. On October 18, 1861, Mr. Garriss married Miss Elizabeth Bradbury, who was born in North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Garriss had one daughter, Mrs. Cora Mccullough, born on March 18, 1866, and who now lives in Rockford township. On August 2, 1902, Mrs. Garriss died, and on December 7, 1903, Mr. Garriss married Mrs. Annie M. Greene, who was born in England, a daughter of James O. and Thirza (Meade) Pearce, both of whom were natives of England, and came to Holden, Mass., in 1849. They lived at different times in Rhode Island and Connecticut, and then came to Douglas, Kan., where they died. Mrs. Garriss was married first March 8, 1864, to Albert A. Greene, and came to Kansas in 1872 to Rose Hill, Butler county. Mr. Greene died March 14, 1898. Albert A. Greene was a soldier in the Union Army in the First Rhode Island Cavalry, Company D, and served till the close of the war, when he received his honorable discharge. Mr. Garriss passed through all the trials and hardships of frontier life and has earned the rest he is now taking. He is a Liberal in politics and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Martin L. Garver was born at Scotland, Pa., May 16, 1844, and passed his early life on the home farm. After a short military service he was discharged, in the latter part of 1863, and soon thereafter entered the freshman class in Whittenburg College, Springfield, O., graduating with the class of 1866. Mr. Garver became a Master Mason, having passed the degrees in Chambers- burg, Pa. On April 11, 1871, he married Miss Kate B. Emminger,
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of Mansfield, O., and came to Topeka on their trip from there. M. L., in company with Judge T. F. Garver, still of Topeka, and his brother, made a trip to Wichita by mule team, and camped just south of where the Second street bridge is now located, and bought Buffalo steak at 25 cents a basket. In October, 1874, he moved from Pennsylvania to Mansfield, O., and in April, 1879, he again turned his face westward, locating at Columbus, Kan., in the real estate and loan business, as local representative of Wilson & Toms, loan brokers, of St. Louis, Mo., but soon there- after, in 1879, they transferred him to Wichita as their local manager for southern Kansas. Wilson & Toms later on organized as the Wilson & Toms Investment Company, and still later as the Central Trust Company of St. Louis. Mr. Garver repre- sented these people out of Wichita until they went out of busi- ness, in the early '90s, when he engaged in the same line of business in Wichita, on his own account. In March, 1896, he signed a contract with the Deering Harvester Company, of Chicago, to look after their Oklahoma collections. July, 1898, he entered the employ of the Deming Investment Company, lo- cated at Oklahoma City, as business manager. July 1, 1901, he returned to Wichita, accepting a position with the Monarch Trust Company, since reorganized as the Monarch Loan Com- pany, as examiner of farm securities, which position he still holds, serving as its vice-president. There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Garver four children : Mary L., married to Chas. J. Mckenzie, of Wichita; George J., secretary and treasurer of the Monarch Loan Company, single, and lives in the family home; James L., single, engaged in the chicken and pigeon business at the family home, 900 Mathewson avenue, Wichita, Kan., and Charles L., married, and living at Barstow, Cal., and is in charge of the Santa Fe Refrigerator Dispatch Company's business at that place.
Fred W. George, one of the enterprising business men of Wichita, Kan., was born in New Hampshire, in 1876, and is a son of Fred and Ella (Holman) George, natives of England and Massachusetts, respectively. They moved to Kansas in 1876 and settled on a farm in Sedgwick township, Sedgwick county, but four years later left the farm and moved into the village of 'Sedgwick, where the father became connected with the hard- ware business of S. W. Shattuck, in which line of trade he has since continued, being now-1910-proprietor of the Wichita Iron Store.
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Our subject acquired his education in the village schools and began his business career as a clerk in the store of Mr. Shattuck. Later he was traveling salesman for the Robinson Heary Hard- ware Company, of St. Joseph, Mo., and after that, till 1904, represented the Massey Iron Company, of Kansas City, Mo. In July, 1904, Mr. George, with his former employer, Mr. Shattuck, organized the Shattuck-George Iron Company, whose business is located at Nos. 138 and 140 North Wichita street, Wichita, occupying a three-story building and carrying a full and com- plete stock of heavy hardware and blacksmith's supplies, and, in fact, everything found in an up-to-date business of its character. The officers of the company are: F. W. George, president; S. W. Shattuck, vice-president; S. W. Shattuck, Jr., secretary, and W. R. George, treasurer.
Our subject stands high in business circles and is active in social and fraternal organizations. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Wichita Consistory, and of the Albert Pike Blue Lodge. He is also a member of the Commercial Club of Wichita, president of the Wichita Association of Credit Men, and treasurer of the Wichita Transportation Bureau.
In 1898 Mr. George married Miss Sadie Damon, a daughter of L. E. Damon, of Wichita, and they have two children, named, respectively, Ralph Damon and Edith Frances, and occupy a beautiful home at No. 1355 North Water street.
Christopher Gerhards,* farmer, of Union township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, is a native of Germany, where he was born March 31, 1869. He is a son of Valentine Gerhards, also a native of Germany. Christopher Gerhards came to the United States on May 26, 1886, and first located at Lake Linden, Michigan, where he worked for a time in the copper mines. He left the copper mines to enter the employ of Armour & Co., of Chicago, and in 1901 came to Russell county, Kansas, where he bought land and farmed for a time. This land he afterwards sold and bought 240 acres in Section 4, Union township, and has since lived on the same. Mr. Gerhards was married in August, 1891, to Miss Susan Schaass, a native of Michigan. Seven children have been born. of this union, of whom five are now living. The children are: Mary, born November 10, 1892; Matthew, born January 13, 1894; John, born August 11, 1895; Benjamin, born May 20, 1897; Ma- hannah, born March 18, 1900; Henry, deceased, born June 6, 1906.
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Mr. Gerhards is the present trustee of Union township. He is a member of the Catholic church and is a Democrat in politics.
John S. Giwosky, proprietor of the People's Cleaning and Dye Works, of Wichita, is a native of Russia, where he was born in 1873. His parents were S. and Frederika Giwosky. They came to America in 1885, and to Barber county, Kansas. Mr. Giwosky's education was acquired in Russia and Kansas. He came to Wichita in 1887, and went to school and helped his father in his store. Mr. Giwosky embarked in business for him- self as a tailor in 1897, and for eight years conducted this busi- ness successfully. In 1905 he broke out of the tailoring business and plunged into the cleaning and dyeing industry, in a tiny room at 129 North Lawrence avenue, and with less than $300 in capital. Today the business occupies an imposing new home on South Lawrence avenue. This is a fireproof three-story concrete block which has been erected at a cost, including land value, with its equipment, the plant is valued at $40,000. All this has been accomplished in a little over five years, the new building being completed in June, 1910. The business gives employment to an average of fifty persons. The out-of-town business of the con- cern has assumed large proportions. Mr. Giwosky, while closely applying himself to his business, is never unmindful of his public duty, nor of the joys of a whim or a hobby. His are automobiling and fine horses, in both of which he has time and ability to indulge himself. His five city delivery wagons are hauled by the best horse flesh he can buy. He was married in 1900 to Miss Viola Rockfouer, of Wichita, and they have two children-Marguerite and Harry. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and the Chamber of Commerce.
Edgar A. Goodin is a native of Van Buren county, Iowa, and was born March 25, 1858, to Asa and Caroline (McElhaney) Goodin. The father died in Iowa and the mother died in Wichita in 1899. On attaining his majority our subject rented a farm and carried on farming in Iowa till he was twenty-seven years old. He moved to Kansas in 1885 and the next year settled in Wichita, and with two teams of horses which he owned, and others which he purchased, engaged in the work of grading streets. The business was financially successful; but Mr. Goodin invested his profits in Wichita property, and when the financial panic came he was caught in the crash and his entire holdings were swept away. He, however, found work as engineer for
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the Eagle Publishing Company, and in 1891, having saved a small sum of money, rented eighty acres that had been subdivided into town lots and for two years gave his entire attention to raising hogs. This venture was followed by another year at farming, and in 1884 he joined the rush to Oklahoma. Failing to get a claim, he returned to Sedgwick county, Kansas, and with $1,500 he had saved purchased a quarter section of land, paying one-half cash and mortgaging it for the other $1,500, which he paid off in three years from his profits through feeding stock. In 1897 he bought eighty acres, to which he added 240 acres in 1898. In 1901 he further increased his holdings with the pur- chase of eighty acres, and in 1909 by another purchase of 320 acres, making his total holdings of land 720 acres, being 480 acres in Section 33, 160 acres in Section 34 and 80 acres in Section 32, all in Gypson township, in Sedgwick county, and all purchased with the profits of his farming, in which he has given his chief attention to raising and feeding cattle and hogs. In 1909 his sales of cattle, hogs and wheat amounted to $13,000. In 1905 Mr. Goodin erected a beauti- ful and commodious farmhouse, where he made his home five years. The place is also improved with fine barns, outbuild- ings and sheds and thoroughly equipped with all that pertains to a modern farm. Mr. Goodin still has the general supervision of his farm, though his sons have charge of the farming operations, and during 1910 he moved into his beautiful and spacious bunga- low, which he built on the township road on the south line of his property in Section 33. This home is thoroughly modern in all its appointments, and is equipped with every appliance looking to comfort, utility and convenience. A cistern with a capacity of 700 barrels supplies water for a complete water system through- out the premises; a hot-air furnace supplies the heat, and the the place is lighted with gas. Among other conveniences is a handsome garage for housing his new automobile, which is the third machine Mr. Goodin has possessed.
In 1879 Mr. Goodin married Miss Mary, daughter of Mr. William L. Foster, who settled in Lee county, Iowa, in 1854, and who died in 1891. His widow still lives in Iowa. Of seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Goodin, Delia, born in 1880, died in 1888, and Dewitt, born in 1894, died in 1896. Of the surviving children, Maggie, born in 1882, is married to Mr. Charles Lane, of Wichita. They have one child, Ruth by name. Roy R. was
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born in 1885; he married Miss Mabel Russell, and they have one child, Clark. They live on the homestead; Collier, who was born in 1888, married Miss Luella Urban, and also lives on the home farm. Lee, who was born in 1899, and Grace, born in 1901, both live with their parents and are attending school.
Mr. Goodin stands high in the Masonic order, and is a member of the Wichita Consistory. In politics he is a Democrat, inde- pendent in his actions and opinion.
Cutler W. Goodrich, M.D., of the medical firm of Goodrich & Wilhoite, No. 123 South Main street, Wichita, Kan., is a native of Ohio, where he was born in Athens county on September 11, 1841. His parents were Bingham and Elizabeth (Griffith) Goodrich, natives of Ohio and Maryland, respectively, the latter being of Scotch descent. The mother came when a child with her parents to Ohio, and went to Missouri in the early seventies. After her marriage to Bingham Goodrich and some time spent in Missouri, the couple moved to Kansas in 1880, locating on a farm in Harper county. Mr. Goodrich died at the age of eighty-seven and his widow died at the age of seventy-six. Cutler W. Goodrich was educated at the Ohio public schools and also received an academic course. He enlisted July 31, 1862, in Company A, Ninety-second Ohio Regiment. He was first sergeant for two years, and in his last year of service was promoted to first lieutenant. He was discharged from the army June 10, 1865, at Washington, D. C. During his service Dr. Goodrich was at the battles of Hoovers Gap, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Marietta, Ga., and wound up at Bentonville, when Johnson surrendered to General Sher- man. He received slight wounds, but braved it through every campaign, his hardest being with Sherman, Thomas and Grant. The medical education of Dr. Goodrich was received at the Physio- Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he graduated in the class of 1874. He began practice in Athens county, Ohio, moved to Missouri in 1875, and for seven years practiced at Houstonia, and then removed to Harper county, Kansas, where he continued practice until 1894. The doctor then moved to Grant county, Oklahoma, where he followed his profession until 1903, when he moved to Wichita and formed a partnership with Willis F. Wilhoite under the firm name of Goodrich & Wilhoite, and has since continued in practice. Dr. Goodrich is a member of the G. A. R., the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He was married to Miss Nancy J. Clark,
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of Athens, O., who died in 1874. Two children were born of this marriage-Iola C., wife of J. H. Martin, of Oklahoma, and Abbie E., wife of F. H. Brubaker, of Hobart, Okla. In June, 1876, the doctor was married to Miss Hattie B. Martin, of Ohio. Of this union the following children have been born: Bingham G. Goodrich, conductor in the Pullman car service for the Wabash railroad; Lottie B., Wichita; Ethel E., wife of G. B. Erwin, of Oklahoma City; Elizabeth, wife of M. L. Marley, Coldwater, Kan., and Elvaretta, of Wichita.
Timothy Goodrich, grandfather of the doctor, was a soldier in the War of 1812, and participated in the Indian wars. He was a native of Litchfield county, Massachusetts, and was reared in Vermont. He was one of five brothers who came from England and landed at Cape Cod. Three of the brothers went north and two south. He moved to Ohio shortly after it became a state, going to Athens, Ohio, where he passed the rest of his life, dying at the age of eighty-five years, December, 1865.
Walstein D. Goodrich,* of Wichita, Kan., is a native of New York state, where he was born in September, 1844. His parents were H. B. and Rachel (Valentine) Goodrich. The remote an- cestors of both parents were Germans. The father of Walstein D. Goodrich moved from New York to Wisconsin with a family of three children and located in Dodge county in 1846. He was a farmer there until his death in 1856, when he was killed in a mill accident. Walstein D. Goodrich remained at home after the death of his father until his enlistment in the army on August 11, 1862, in the First Wisconsin Cavalry. This regiment was equipped at St. Louis and at Cape Girardeau, Mo., where it remained one year, and was transferred in June, 1863, to the Army of the Cumberland. Mr. Goodrich was with Sherman in the campaign at Atlanta, Ga., and then was sent back to Nash- ville, Tenn., to intercept General Hood of the Confederate army, and remained there until the battle of Nashville, and then fol- lowed Hood to the Tennessee river. After this he was with General Wilson in the wind-up of the war at Macon, Ga., and served some time after he was entitled to his discharge, not know- ing the war was over. The regiment was busy protecting govern- ment property and was fighting almost every day while in the Army of the Cumberland. The regiment was finally discharged at Nashville, Tenn., in 1865, and Mr. Goodrich returned to his old home in Wisconsin. After a residence there of four years, he
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moved to Neosha, Kan., in 1869, and afterwards to Sedgwick county, where he homesteaded 160 acres in Kechi township, Sec- tion 6. Mr. Goodrich, since becoming a resident of the township, has held many minor offices. He is a member of the G. A. R., Valley Center post, and in politics is a Republican. He is now president of the bank at Valley Center and is a prominent citizen. Mr. Goodrich was married in March, 1865, at Beaver Dam, Wis., to Miss Sophia A. Kirkham, of Oak Grove, Wis. Of this union seven children have been born, of whom six are now living, viz .: Thaddeus, Wallace, Myrtle, Eugenie, Willard and Clyde.
Thomas J. Grace, stock raiser and farmer, of Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born August 14, 1867, in Zanesville, Ohio. His parents were Thomas J. and Hannah (Males) Grace. The father was a native of Pennsylvania and the mother a native of Ohio. The remote ancestry of the family on the maternal side is traced to England. The parents in an early day came from Pennsyl- vania to Ohio, and settled in Muskingum county, where the father lived until his death, on August 1, 1876. His widow died Septem- ber 1, 1910, on the old home farm in Muskingum county. The elder Grace was a wealthy contractor, farmer and stock raiser. The early education of Thomas J. Grace was obtained in the public schools of his native state. He remained at the old home- stead for three years after he was married on March 5, 1891, to Miss Margaret Butler, a daughter of F. C. Butler, of Zanesville. Two children have been born of this union, a daughter, now sixteen years old, and a son, now three years old. The daughter is attending high school in Cheney, Kan. Mrs. Grace is an edu- cated and cultured woman, being a graduate of the Zaneszille College for Young Ladies. Fraternally, Mr. Grace is a Mason, thirty-two degrees, and has occupied all the chairs of the Blue Lodge. He is a member of Wichita Consistory No. 2, of the Royal Arcanum and of the Woodmen of America. Politically he is a lifelong Republican. He is known extensively throughout Sedg- wick county as a successful stock raiser and dealer and a prac- tical farmer. Mrs. Grace is a member of the Reformed church of Cheney.
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