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through effective post-graduate courses in the diagnosis and treatment of such disorders, in which connection he availed himself of the ad- vantages of leading medical institutions in the cities of Cincinnati and Chicago. lle devoted a year to such post-graduate work, and he has personally done a large amount of research and experimental work along the lines to which he is now devoting his attention. He is a valued and -appreciative member of the Wyandotte County Medical Society, the Kansas Golden Belt Medical Society, the Kansas State Medical Society, besides which he is also identified with the American Medical Association and the Kansas City (Missouri) Academy of Medi- cine. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, in which he has received the degrees of the blue lodge, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian church.
In the year 1902 was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Zugg to Miss Adda Campbell, who was born in Ohio but who was reared in Illinois, to which state her father, Elias B. Campbell, removed when she was a child. Her father died at New Richmond, Ohio, in 1909, and her mother and her only brother, Albert, live at New Richmond, Ohio.
HENRY STOCKHOFF .- Among the most prosperous and best known of the agriculturists of Wyandotte county must be mentioned Henry Stockhoff, who, upon a fertile and finely situated traet of two hundred and seventy-nine acres, conducts extensive operations in general farm- ing and fruit growing. He belongs to that brainy, honest and general- ly admirable stock-the German-which has proved one of America's finest sources of immigration. Mr. Stockhoff, who is a son of George and Elizabeth (Sorenkamp) Stockhoff, was born in Hanover, Germany, March 10, 1842. At the age of nineteen years he came to the conclu- sion that he would find greater opportunity for success in America and he accordingly severed the associations of his youth and set forth. The old sailing ship in which the voyage was made required thirty- four days to cross the Atlantic and the landing was made at Baltimore. Mr. Stockhoff soon drifted westward to Ohio and spent eleven years in the city of Cincinnati. He learned the saddler's trade and was an employe of great usefulness in connection with a livery barn.
After having been in the new land for more than a decade, the subject returned on a visit to his native land and his parents. This delightful renewal of old associations was of about four months' dura- tion and when he came back he came on to Kansas, whither his brother Fred, who came to America in 1866, had preceded him. He arrived in the Sunflower state in the year 1876 and immediately set about be- coming a land owner. He purchased forty acres in the woods, this being a wilderness except for a log cabin in which lived a colored man he had hired. In a short time he constructed a good frame house in which he has ever since lived. He has added to his holdings from time to time and now owns, as previously mentioned, two hundred and seventy-nine acres. He does general farming and raises a large amount of fruit, having set out upon his place, three hundred apple trees and nine hundred peach trees. He is recognized as a substantial and public spirited citizen and at one time served the connty as tax collec- tor. He is an active member of the German Lutheran church and has been very zealous in its good works.
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Mr. Stockhoff was married on the 14th day of December, 1876, the lady to become his wife and helpmeet being Minnie Winker, daugh- ter of Christian and Margaret (Van Buren) Winker. Their union has been blessed by the birth of the following eight children: Emma Caroline, now Mrs. Henry Ellberg, lives on one of her father's farms; John Frederick, who remains under the paternal rooftree; Catherine Sophia, who became the wife of Emanuel Roemerman and resides upon the Stockhoff homestead; Louisa Margaret, Henry George, William August, Gertrude Dorothea, and Frederick Carl, all of whom are at home.
Mrs. Stockhoff was born in the Province of Westphalia, Prussia, July 29, 1858, and was but six years of age at the time of her parents' immigration to America. The sailing ship upon which she and her parents made the voyage was six weeks upon the ocean. The Van Burens were of noble stoek, but wars and other calamities deprived them of their property, as well as of their position, official and social. Upon coming to America, the father Christian F. Van Buren located first in Decatur county, Indiana, and went thence to Kansas in 1870, locating in Quindaro township. It is a pathetie circumstance that both parents died upon the same day-January 14, 1892, with pneu- monia. Mr. and Mrs. Stockhoff hold high place in popular confi- dence and esteem and they and their family are well known from boundary to boundary of Wyandotte county.
HON. WILLIAM H. HASKELL, former state senator and a business man of prominence in Kansas City, Kansas, was the organizer of the sub- stantial institution known as the Haskell Investment Company, of which he is president. Mr. Haskell was born in Cortland county, New York, on the 2nd of November, 1853, and he is a son of Moses and Hannah (Edmonds) Haskell, both of whom were likewise born in the old Empire state of the Union and both of whom are now deceased. The father was a farmer by voeation, was a devont member of the Bap- tist church and he was summoned to the life eternal in 1856, at the early age of thirty-two years. His cherished and devoted wife passed away in 1865, at the age of thirty-six years. The maternal and paternal grandparents of him whose name forms the caption for this review were natives of Connectient.
The only child of his parents, William H. Haskell was but three years of age at the time of his father's death. He was reared to adult age in his native place and after completing the curriculum of the public schools was matriculated as a student in the State Normal School at Cortland, New York. He attended the latter institution for a period of four years, at the expiration of which he secured a position as professor of mathematics therein. £ Ile was engaged in teaching
school for a number of years in the state of New York and in 1872 he re- moved to Toledo, Ohio, where he entered the employ of the Wabash Railway Company in the capacity of bookkeeper. Subsequently he worked for a time in the bookkeeping department of the First National Bank of Toledo and still later he was appointed assistant county treasurer at Toledo. In the fall of 1879 he removed to Gaylord, Smith county, Kansas, where he turned his attention to the general merchan- dise business. With the passage of time he became interested in
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cattle feeding, banking and milling enterprises and he achieved success as an able business man. In 1904 he was honored with election to the office of state senator, serving therein for one term. In 1901 he was appointed by former Governor E. W. Stanley as a member of the state prison board and later he was re-appointed to the same office by Gover- nor .J. W. Bailey. In 1905 he was appointed, by Governor Edward W. IToch, as prison warden of the state penitentiary at Lansing, Kansas, and he retained that incumbency for a period of four years. In 1909 he located in Kansas City, Kansas, where he became instrumental in the organization of the Haskell Investment Company, which concern is incorporated under the laws of the state with a capital stock of twenty-five thousand dollars and which is officered as follows. W. II. IIaskell, president; T. T. Kelley, vice president; and R. R. Russell, secretary.
On the 6th of September, 1877, Mr. Haskell was united in mar- riage to Miss Antoinette L. Coy, of Toledo, Ohio, and they have two sons. concerning whom the following brief data is here incorporated : Frank C., is in the employ of the Armour Packing Company at Kansas City, Kansas; and Mason L., a salesman of cattle at the Kansas City Stock Yards.
In his political proclivities Mr. Haskell is a stanch supporter of the Republican party, in the local councils of which he is a prominent and active factor. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the time-honored Masonic order. holding membership in Gaylord Lodge, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, and Smith City Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, in addition to which he is also a valued and appreciative member of the Kansas City, Kansas, Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
WYLIE WHITE COOK has ever been prominent in public life and has hield with great credit to himself and benefit to the community a num- ber of offices. For four years he was assistant state auditor of Kan- sas, he was subsequently chief of police of Kansas City, Kansas, and at the present time he holds the office of commissioner of elections, of this city. While a resident of Labette county, he held successively the offices of depnty county clerk, county clerk and deputy county treasurer. One of the influential Republicans of the state, he stands high in party councils; general confidence is reposed in him as the friend of honest and enlightened government.
Mr. Cook is a native of Indiana, his birth having occurred July 1, 1859. He is the son of Levi and Margaret (White) Cook, the father a native of Indiana and the mother of the state of Delaware. The elder gentleman who was for many years a resident of Hamilton county, Indiana, was a farmer by occupation and a man who enjoyed no small degree of consideration in the section in which he was best known. In fact the confidence and esteem in which he was held were manifested by the bestowal upon him of numerous local and county offices in Hamilton county, to whose duties he gave a whole-souled devotion. He also was a stalwart supporter of the Grand Old Party in the Hoosier state and in their religious convictions he and his wife were Methodist Episcopal. Both are now deceased.
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Mr. Cook had what has proved in so many cases the good fortune to be born upon farm amid rural surroundings were passed his boyhood and youth. He reaped to the fullest extent the advantages of public school education as afforded by the district school and his youthful strength was devoted for a time to farming. He also taught for a time and subsequently made an entirely new departure as a dealer in grain and live stock, in which he engaged until his marriage in 1879 at the age of twenty years. In the year 1902 he came to Kansas City, Kan- sas, and here has ever since made his home, meeting with success and honors. For six years he held the position as treasurer of the Bank- ing Trust Company and contributed in no small measure to its high standing by his marked discrimination in his share of the management of its affairs. In addition to his other claims to distinction, Mr. Cook is a well known Mason and is eligible to wear the white-plumed helmet of the Knight Templar. He is also affiliated with the Modern Wood- men of America, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Cook was married February 19, 1879, his chosen lady being Mary L. Sanders, daughter of Albert P. and Sarah J. Sanders. Mrs. Cook was born in Indiana and their marriage was celebrated in llamil- ton county, Indiana. £ She received an excellent academie education
and is a cultured and admirable lady.
Mr. and Mrs. Cook are the
parents of four children. Minnie L. born at Cicero, Indiana, on Christmas Day, 1879, received a college education. She married Ray- mond S. Holding, a clergyman of the Friends church, now established in Matehuala, Mexico. Albert L., born in Parsons, Kansas, in Septem- her, 1881, is a graduate of the high school, and at the present time holds the office of chief clerk of the Nipe Bay Company, of Preston, Cuba. He married Miss Anite Hogge of Manzanilla. Cuba. and London, Eng- land. Lois Margaret, born in Oswego, Kansas, in April, 1888, is the wife of Frederick Norman Moseley, cashier of the Nipe Bay Company, of Preston, Cnha. Edith Trene, born at Oswego, Kansas, in December, 1891.
Mr. and Mrs. Cook maintain a hospitable and interesting home and enjoy that general esteem which is the right of useful and altruistic members of society.
GEORGE IIAFNER .- In view of the great "wander-Just" which is gradually growing to animate all elasses of American citizens to roam about from one place to another, it is particularly gratifying to here accord recognition to a citizen who has passed practically his entire life time in the county in which he was born. George Hafner is ae- corded the unqualified confidence and esteem of people who have been familiar with his career from early youth and during his period of residence at Bonner Springs, Kansas, he has won an enviable name for himself as a capable and snecessful business man.
A native of Wyandotte county, George Hafner was born in Kan- sas City, the date of his nativity being the 1st of March, 1865. He is a son of Meleher and Anna (Grubel) Hafner, both of whom were born and reared in the great Empire of Germany. The father immi- grated to the United States about the year 1860 but previously to his coming hither he had entered upon an apprenticeship at the brewer's
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trade, with which line of enterprise he was thoroughly familiar. After disembarking in the harbor of New Orleans, he proceeded directly to St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained for two years, at the expiration of which he came to Wyandotte, now Kansas City, Kansas. Here he opened and operated the first brewery ever here conducted, continuing to be engaged in the operation thereof until his death, in 1868. His marriage to Anna Grubel was solemnized in old Wyandotte and this union was prolific of four children. concerning whom the following brief data are here incorporated : Charles is mail carrier at the Stock Yards; George is the immediate subject of this review; Rudolph was summoned to the life eternal in 1869. at the age of one year and eight months; and Gussie is the wife of G. A. Peters, of Bonner Springs, a sketch of whose career appears elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Melcher Hafner passed to the Great Beyond in the year 1901, at the venerable age of sixty-six years.
George IIafner was reared to adult age in old Wyandotte, where he early availed himself of the privileges afforded in the publie schools. After reaching years of maturity he was employed at a number of different packing plants in Kansas City, where he continued to maintain his home until 1910. In that year he came to Bonner Springs, where he has since resided and where he is held in high esteem by all with whom he has come in contaet. At the present time, in 1910, he is as- sociated with his brother-in-law, George A. Peters, in the poultry busi- ness, their thriving eoneern being well known under the firm name of the Bonner Springs Poultry Company. Splendidly equipped coops and vards are maintained and they have on hand regularly as many as three hundred fowl, their principal market being Kansas City, Missouri. Just prior to his advent in Bonner Springs, Mr. Hafner was bookkeeper for the George Grubel Bottling Works, at Kansas City, Kansas. He and his brother-in-law now control a splendid business and they are constantly extending the scope of their operations.
In politics Mr. Hafner is aligned as a stalwart in the ranks of the Democratie party and while he has never manifested aught of ambition for the honors or emoluments of puhlie office of any description he is ever on the alert to do all in his power to advance the general welfare of his home community. He is affiliated with a number of representa- tive fraternal and social organizations of a loeal nature. He is genial and kindly in his associations, is fair and honorable in his business methods and is everywhere esteemed and respected for his exemplary life. Mr. Hafner is not married.
WILLIAM ELLIS CRAWFORD .- A well known business man of Kansas City, Missouri, and a large property owner, William Ellis Crawford is an active dealer in real estate in this part of Jackson county, his transactions in realty being numerous and profitable. He was born, January 28, 1865, in Adair county, Missouri, a son of William Allen Crawford, and grandson of James Crawford, of Idaho, who, if he lives so long, will celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of his birth in December, 1911. The grandfather is the founder of a family in which four generations are now living.
William Allen Crawford married Elizabeth Pinkston, from whom he is now separated, he having left her when their son, William Ellis, Vol. II-6
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was a child of eighteen months, going to Idaho to make his fortune. and forgetting to return to his family.
Growing to manhood in Adair county, Missouri, William Ellis Crawford acquired a practical common school education, and a thorough knowledge of the various branches of agriculture on the farm where his youthful days were spent. From childhood he was specially interested in the raising of stock of all kinds, and began his active career as a stock raiser and dealer, continuing in that line of industry until 1908. Since that time Mr. Crawford has dealt largely in realty, buying and selling lands in different localities, and meeting with marked success in his operations. In 1910 he located in Kansas City, Missouri, where he is carrying on a substantial business, his home being at No. 3301 Mongall street, while his phone number is East, 3306. ITe has extensive property interests in the city, among other pieces of value that he owns being the Manhattan Hotel.
Mr. Crawford married, August 6, 1887, Thursa Holman, a daugh- ter of Joseph and Martha (Cox) Holman, natives of Knox county, Missouri, and they are the parents of five children, namely : Alma, Artie. Joseph, Benjamin and Freda.
HUGH WILKINSON, M. D .-- Though still a young man, the profes- sional career of Dr. Wilkinson has been marked by a large and distin- guished accomplishment, both in the domain of general practice and also in the educational field of his chosen calling. He is distinctively one of the leading surgeons of Wyandotte county, and his success and prestige are the more gratifying by reason of the fact that he is a native son of the Sunflower state and a scion of one of its honored pioneer families. He is engaged in practice in both Kansas Cities and his clientele is of an extensive and representative order, an indi- cation of not only objective appreciation of his professional skill but also of his sterling attributes of character. Dr. Wilkinson has digni- fied his profession by earnest and effective service therein, and his technical attainments in both departments of medical science are of the highest order. He continues to be a close and appreciative student, and keeps in constant touch with the advances made in both medicine and surgery, so that he is admirably fortified for the duties and re- sponsibilities devolving upon him in his exacting calling.
Dr. Wilkinson was born at Seneca, the judicial center of Nemaha county, Kansas, on the 27th of November, 1877, and is a son of Western E. and Mary (MeLellan) Wilkinson, the former born at Berrien Springs. Berrien county, Michigan, on the 21st of March, 1846, and the latter at Brunswiek, Cumberland county, Maine, on the 26th of June. 1845, their marriage having been solemnized at Buchanan, Ber- rien county, Michigan, on the 8th of April, 1869. where both were em- ploved at the time. Western E. Wilkinson was hut a boy at the time of the death of his father, Thomas Lee Wilkinson, in 1862, who was a native of Pennsylvania and who was one of the pioneer settlers of Berrien county, Michigan. Mary (MeLellan) Wilkinson is a daughter of Hugh MeLellan. who likewise was born in Maine, and who was a scion of a family founded in New England in the Colonial era of our national history. The original American progenitors were Hugh Me- Lellan and his wife Elizabeth, who immigrated from Scotland about
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1730, and who established their home at Gorham, Maine, thus becom- ing very early settlers of the fine old Pine Tree state.
In 1870, the next year after their marriage, Western E. Wilkinson and his wife came from Michigan to Waterville, Kansas, but established their permanent home in Seneca, Nemaha connty, in Jannary following, where they have continued to reside during the long intervening years, within which they have witnessed the development of that section of the state from the status of a primitive pioneer locality into one of the opulent and attractive portions of a great commonwealth. A man of strong individuality and excellent mental powers, Western E. Wilkin- son was well equipped for leadership in thought and action in the pioneer community. He had learned the printer's trade when a young man, and purchased the Sencca Weekly Courier. the first paper estab- lished in Nemaha county. He continued as editor and publisher of this paper until 1884, and then disposed of the plant and business. For the ensuing fifteen years he served as cashier of the First National Bank of Sencca, and to his careful administrative policies was largely due the upbuilding of this substantial financial institution. At the expiration of the period noted he retired from active business and has since continued to reside at Seneca, enjoying the rewards of former years of earnest toil and endeavor. No citizen of Nemaha county is better known than he and none commands a more secure place in popu- lar esteem. He came to Kansas poor, so far as financial resources were concerned, but by honest and well directed efforts in connection with normal lines of enterprise attained to substantial and gratifying suc- cess. He has ever been an uncompromising advocate of the principles of the Republican party and as a newspaper publisher he wielded much influence in connection with political, temperance, and other public affairs in Kansas in the pioneer days, though he never manifested anght of desire for public office of any description. He has been signally loyal and progressive as a citizen and has given support to those measures and enterprises tending to advance the material and civic welfare of his adopted state. As a compliment he was made postmaster of Seneca by United States Senator Ingalls, and served eight years. Though not formally identified with any home religions organization, he is a believer in conditional immortality as proclaimed by the Advent Christian church, and has been liberal in the support of Seneca church work. His wife is an active member of the Congre- gational church. Of their five children all are living except the only daughter, Prudie, who died at the age of five years; Paul. the eldest of the four sons, is an expert accountant by profession and resides in the City of Mexico; Hugh, of this sketch. is next in order of birth ; Alvin is engaged in elerical business in Costa Rica; and Collins is still attending school in Topeka, this state.
To the public schools of his native town Dr. Wilkinson is indebted for his preliminary educational training. At the age of sixteen he was sent to Brunswick, Maine, the old home of his mother and her an- cestors, and there he completed the scientific course in the high school, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1897. In prep- aration for the work of his chosen profession he availed himself of the advantages of an institution conceded to be one of the greatest in the entire Union. the celebrated Rush Medical College in Chicago.
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which has of recent years been affiliated with the University of Chicago. constituting its medical department. In this eollege Dr. Wilkinson completed the prescribed four years' course and was graduated as a member of the elass of 1001. with the well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. In November of the same vea> he located in Kansas City, Kansas, where he has been engaged in general practice and where he has gained distinctive precedenee as one of the most skilled and sue- cessful physicians and surgeons of this part of the state. He held the chair of surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in Kansas City, and after its affiliation with the University of Kansas he continued ineumbent of the same professorship for two years, at the expiration of which he resigned, owing principally to the exigent demands of his large and constantly expanding private practice. Ile is a specially skillful and resourceful surgeon, and in the institutions mentioned has proved a particularly valuable and popular member of the faculty. For the past seven years he has been physician and surgeon for the Kansas School for the Blind, having received his original appointment from Governor Bailey in 1903. In the same year he was also made a member of the surgieal staff of Bethany hospital in Kansas City, Kan- sas, and is at present abdominal and gynecologieal surgeon for this institution, with which he has been identified continuously since the year mentioned. He is a valued member of the Wyandotte County Medieal Society: the Northeast Kansas Medieal Society; the Golden Belt Medical Society ; the Kansas State Medical Society, besides which he is an honorary member of the Clay County Medical Society in his native state, and is identified with the American Medical Association. He has made valuable contributions to leading periodicals of his pro- fession and his enthusiasm in his work is of the most intense order. Dr. Wilkinson is an honorary member of the Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity of the University of Kansas, and in the Masonic fraternity is affiliated with Kaw Lodge, No. 72, Aneient, Free and Accepted Masons. In his home city he is a member of the Mereantile and Union Clubs. and is deservedly popular in business, professional and social wireles in Wyandotte county.
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