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In politics Mr. Lyons endorses the cause of the Democratie party and he is ever on the alert and enthusiastically in sympathy with all
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measures and enterprises advanced for the good of the general welfare. He was elected a member of the city council and was re-elected to that office. During his second term as city councilman he had charge of the street cleaning in Armourdale. In 1908 he was further honored by his fellow citizens in that he was then elected county commissioner, of which office he is the present, able and popular incumbent. He is very conscientious in discharging the duties connected with his official posi- tion, looking upon a public office as a public trust. He is a man of honor in all the relations of life and as such is everywhere accorded the unqualified confidence and high regard of his fellow men. In their religious faith he and his wife are both devont communicants of the Roman Catholic church and they are liberal contributors both of their time and means to all social, educational and philanthropical projects advanced for the welfare and betterment of their home community and of the county and state at large.
LOUIS H. ROSE is one of the most prominent and influential citizens of Rosedale, Kansas, where he is deeply interested in a number of financial enterprises of broad scope and importance, including banking and real-estate operations. He is a public-spirited business man, whose every effort has been exerted to make the city one of the foremost com- mercial centers of the state.
A native of the fine old Badger state of the Union, Mr. Rose was born in Waukesha, in the county of the same name, Wisconsin, on the 7th of February, 1860, and he is a son of Thomas and Sibyl (Jeffries) Rose, the latter of whom was summoned to the life eternal in 1901, at the venerable age of seventy-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rose became the parents of seven children, all of whom are living. in 1911, and of whom the subject of this review was the fifth in order of birth. The father was born in the city of Rochester, New York, where was solemnized his marriage to Sibyl Jeffries and whence they removed to the state of Wisconsin about the year 1850. Location was made in Waukesha county, Wisconsin, where he became interested in horti- culture and where the family home was maintained until 1870, in which year removal was made to Springfield, Missouri. In 1871 Thomas Rose settled in Cherokee county, Kansas, where he turned his attentions to farming and horticulture, his estate having been eligibly located one and a half miles distant from Seammon. In 1898 Mr. Rose disposed of his farm and came to Rosedale, where he lived virtually retired from active participation in business affairs. He resided with his daughter, Mrs. Lanra Middlekauff, and it is interesting to note that while he attained to the patriarchal age of ninety years, he was hale and hearty, his physical and mental qualities being practically unimpaired by the weight of years. In 1910 he was called to join the companion of his life. He was formerly a close friend of the renowned Eugene Ware. In politics he was a stanch Prohibitionist; and his religious faith was in harmony with the tenets of the Baptist church. Roseland, Cherokee county, Kansas, was named in honor of Thomas Rose.
Louis II. Rose received his early education in the public schools of Waukesha, Wisconsin, and he was a lad of but ten years of age at the time of his parents' removal to Cherokee county, Kansas, where he at- tended school during the winter terms, helping his father in the work
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and management of the home farm during the summer seasons. For a time he was a student in the schools at Columbus, Kansas, following which he taught school for two years in Cherokee county, going then to the Kansas University at Lawrence. £ From Lawrence he came to Wyandotte county in 1885, and tanght for two years in the district which comprises the northern part of Rosedale, and that part of Kansas City, Kansas, lying south of the Kaw. Mr. Rose engaged in the real- estate and loan business, in which line of enterprise he has built up an extensive and profitable business. Hle was one of the organizers of each of the two banks in Rosedale and is a stockholder in both, namely, -the Commercial State Bank and the Rosedale State Bank. He was also instrumental in the organization of the Kansas Building and Loan Association, which has an authorized capital of two million dollars and the official corps of which is as follows: James P. Burney, president ; F. M. Kimball, vice-president; L. H. Rose, secretary; C. N. Pronty, treasurer; and George R. Allen, attorney. The Kansas Building and Loan Association is operated under the supervision of the state bank commissioner.
In politics Mr. Rose is aligned as a stalwart in the ranks of the Republican party, and while he has ever manifested a deep and sineere interest in all matters affeeting the general welfare of this city he has never shown anght of ambition for any publie office other than that of postmaster. He was first appointed postmaster of Rosedale in 1896, by President McKinley, and he was his own snecessor in this office, having retained the ineumbeney for a period of thirteen years. It was through the efforts of Mr. Rose that this office was made a sub-station to the Kansas City, Kansas, postoffice in 1902. He resigned from the service two years ago to devote his entire time to his own business. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with Interstate Lodge, No. 477. Tudependent Order of Odd Fellows: Wyandotte Lodge. No. 440. Benevolent and Pro- teetive Order of Elks; and the local lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is also connected with the Mercantile Club and with the Rosedale Commercial Club. He was recently chosen president of the Wyandotte County Traffic Way Commission, an organization composed · of three representatives of one each of the following civie bodies: the cities of Kansas City, Kansas, and Rosedale ; the Board of County Com- missioners ; the Armourdale Drainage Board; the Mercantile Club; the Rosedale Commercial Club; the Grandview Improvement Association : the Central Avenue Improvement Association; and the Argentine Busi- ness Men's Club. The object of the Commission is to build a united and greater Kansas City in Wyandotte county.
On the 28th of November, 1889, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Rose to Miss Abbie E. Bell, who was born in Aubry, Johnson county. Kansas, now known as Stillwell, and who is a daughter of Dr. Simeon B. and Elinor (Taylor) Bell. Concerning Dr. Bell a sketch is dedi- rated to his career on other pages of this work so that further details in this connection are not deemed essential here. Mr. and Mrs. Rose became the parents of two children,-Harold, who died in 1900, at the age of nine years: and Robert Bell, whose birth occurred in 1893.
Mr. Rose is everywhere admired and respected for his fair and honorable business methods, and as a citizen his is an unblemished character.
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JAMES WHITCOMB IHILLIARD has gained distinctive prestige as a farmer and stock raiser of note in Wyandotte county, Kansas, his admirably improved estate of sixty acres being one of the finest farms in Wyandotte township. IIe is loyal and publie spirited in his civic atti- tude and gives freely of his aid and influence in support of all measures and enterprises projected for the good of the general welfare.
A native of the old Hoosier state of the Union, James W. Hilliard was born at Fairfield, in Franklin county, Indiana, the date of his nativity being the 14th of May, 1844. He is a son of James R. and Nancy A. (Crockett) Hilliard, both of whom were natives of North Carolina, the former having been born in Chatham county, in 1804, and the latter in Gilford county, in 1803. The paternal grandparents of the subject of this review were Silas and Sarah Hilliard, natives of the British Isles. David Crockett, the renowned Indian fighter, was the brother of Mrs. James R. Hilliard. The father of James Whitcomb IIilliard was a blacksmith by trade and he was engaged in that line of work and in farming in Indiana and in the vicinity of Independence, Missouri, for a number of years. In 1870 he removed with his family to Wyandotte county. Kansas, where he purchased a tract of one hun- dred and five aeres of wild timber land. He was then quite an old man, but with the assistance of his sons he managed to clear the place and improve it. Ile died in the year 1886, and his cherished and devoted wife passed away in 1891. Concerning the children born to Mr. and Mrs. James R. Hilliard the following brief data are here incorporated : Elizabeth, born in 1825, married John Cochran and she died in 1901 ; Caroline, born in 1828. died in 1904 as the wife of G. W. Adams; Mary A., whose birth occurred in 1831, died in 1872 as Mrs. S. W. Leiper; William F., born in 1834. died in 1886: Sarah Jane, born in 1835, mar- ried Samuel B. Jenkins and died in 1866; Silas M., born in 1837, died in 1897; Julia B., born on the 11th of October, 1842, is now residing in the home of the subject of this review; and James W., is the immediate subject of this notice.
James Whitcomb Hilliard resided with his parents until his mar- riage in the year 1882, when he started farming on his own aeeount on a section of the old homestead given him by his father. IIe attended the public schools of Indiana as a boy and latter was a student in Indepen- dence Academy, at Independence, Missouri, for a period of years. At the time of the inception of the Civil war his sympathies were with the cause of the Union and in May, 1862. he enlisted, but three weeks later was captured by the enemy. After his parole he became a member of the Missouri State Militia, serving as sneh for fifteen months and parti- cipating in the battle of Lone Jack, Missouri, on the 11th of August, 1862. In 1863 he enlisted in the Fifth Missouri Cavalry and was assigned to service in the Army of Missouri, Sixteenth Army Corps. In April. 1864, he entered the government employ as a driver to haul goods and supplies throughout the southern counties of Missouri, but after a period of four months spent in that manner he re-enlisted in a company of artillery, serving therein until the close of the war. Tn 1865, when peace had again been established throughout the country. Mr. Hilliard returned to Independence, Missouri, where he worked at blacksmithing until his parents' removal to Wyandotte county, in 1870. In 1882. as previously noted. he launched out into the business world as
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a farmer, beginning operations on an estate of sixty acres, the same in- «Iding his brother's share of the old farm, which he had purchased. He has introduced a number of fine improvements on the place and the same is recognized as one of the most beautiful rural estates in Wyan- dotte township.
Mr. Hilliard has served as road supervisor and as clerk of the school district for a period of sixteen years, and in discharging the duties of those offices has acquitted himself with all of honor and distinction. In the time honored Masonic order he is a valued and appreciative member of Delaware Lodge, No. 96. Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, of White Church, Kansas. In his religious faith he is a devont member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which the various members of his family are likewise members. He is a man of broad mind and liberal views, being ever tolerant of others opinions and sensibilities. His fair and honorable business methods have won him the unqualified confi- dence and esteem of his fellow men and he is everywhere beloved by reason of his innate kindliness of spirit and noble generosity.
On the 14th of May. 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hilliard to Miss Laura E. Ford, who was born in Garrett county. Ken- tneky, on the 24th of April. 1853, and who was a danghter of John and Polly E. (Brown) Ford. Mrs. Hilliard was summoned to the life eternal on the 6th of October. 1896. her loss being deeply mourned by a wide circle of admiring and loving friends. Concerning the three children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard the following brief record is here entered : Cyril M., engaged in farming operations in Wyandotte town- ship, married Miss Margaret Ropp and they have one child, Lottie Frene, born in November, 1908; Paul remains at the parental home; and Anna May is the wife of Floyd Carr, of Kansas City, Missouri. Another member of the Hilliard honsehold is Miss Julia B. Hilliard, sister of the subject of this sketch. She was born at Fairfield. in. Franklin county Indiana, on the 11th of October, 1842, and after the death of her parents has made her home with her brother. She inherited a portion of the old parental estate but as she never married she rented her farm. She is a woman of most gracious personality and is deeply beloved by all who have come within the sphere of her gentle influence.
JOSEPH SEIFERT .- The German element is one which has found many representatives in Wyandotte county and it is one which assuredly has contributed its quota toward the onward movement of progress, ever retaining a clear mental grasp and directing affairs along safe and conservative lines. America owes much to the German stock and has honored and been honored by many good citizens of this extraetion. .Joseph Seifert is a native of Germany and an agriculturist, his special- ties being fruit and sweet potatoes, and he has proved a prosperous and enterprising representative of the great basie industry.
Joseph Seifert was born in Baden, Germany, in 1870, and is a son of Valentine and Marguerite (Seiler) Seifert, both of whom were natives of the Fatherland. The date of the father's birth was 1839 and that of the mother. 1846. In the year 1886 the older people eame to the conclusion that it would be of advantage to them and particularly to their children to remove to the land of greater resonrees across the Atlantic. and they accordingly set sail in that year with their five
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children. Almost immediately after their arrival they came on to the west and made location in Kansas City, Missouri. After working for fourteen years in a packing house in that city the father found himself in a position to taste the greater independence of a farmer's life and he accordingly purchased land in Quindaro township and has engaged in its operation for many years and still resides there. The mother died in 1910. Both father and mother were members of the Catholic church and of the children born to them four survive, namely : Herman, Charley, .Joseph, and Louise, wife of Simon Ernest, a blacksmith of Kansas City, Missouri.
Mr. Seifert was reared in Germany and received his education in the renowned educational institutions of that land. When quite young he engaged in the serions activities of life, working at the cooper's trade. and he was eighteen years of age when he came to this country with his parents. After his arrival he secured work in the paeking houses of Kansas City, Kansas, but as soon as opportunity afforded he chose the more wholesome life of a farmer and secured a property, where he engages in the cultivation of the soil. his energies, as before men- tioned, being specially directed to the raising of fruit and sweet potatoes.
When Mr. Seifert was twenty-three years of age he laid the founda- tion of an independent household by his marriage to Tiny Miller, of Wyandotte county, daughter of Samuel and Marguerite Miller. There are three children: Ernest. Frank and Raymond. The family are affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church and give their support to all just causes.
GEORGE H. COOKE .- Distinguished not only for the honored ancestry from which he is descended, but for his own good life and works, George H. Cooke is numbered among the useful and valued citizens of Rosedale, which has, practically speaking, been his home for many years. He was born July 30, 1852. in Texas, a son of Alexander Hamilton and Mary A. (Crosby) Cooke. His father, a native of New York state, died in Texas in 1857. His mother was born and bred in Illinois. Both she and her husband were descendants of Mayflower passengers. their immigrant ancestors having come over on that vessel's first voyage across the Atlantic, in 1620.
But five years of age when his father died. George H. Cooke was subsequently taken by his widowed mother to Illinois to visit friends, and he was there brought up and educated, learning in his youthful days the cooper's trade, which he never followed to any extent. Com- ing to Kansas City. Missouri, in 1872, Mr. Cooke was for some time associated with different hotels, being employed first at the Lyndell, then at the Saint James, and later being with Colonel Coates in the office of the Coates House. Making a change of occupation, Mr. Cooke assumed charge of the Rosedale yards of the Kansas city Rolling Com- pany, with which he was identified for about three years, in the mean- time buying property in this suburb. His health failing. he went to . Denver to recuperate, and was there engaged in the practice of law for twelve years, retaining, however, for his mother and sister, his Rosedale home. This was afterwards destroyed by fire, and he then rebuilt on a more extensive scale, having now a most valuable property.
Mr. Cooke married. in 1879. in Kansas City. Mattie E. (Bevens)
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Graves, the adopted daughter of Judge Graves, of Kansas City, Missouri. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cooke, both of whom died in infancy. In 1903 Mr. Cooke was elected justice of the peace, and has held the office, by re-election, ever since. With the exception of faith- fully performing the duties devolving upon him in this capacity, he has lived retired from active business for a number of years, devoting his attention to his private interests.
NASCHOLD'S STEAM BAKERY .- From the very beginning of civiliza- tion there have been bakeries of more or less pretentious kind. In the early days people used to bake their bread in wood coals; later they had brick ovens; then they used coal stoves with iron ovens; after that came the gas stoves, and the latest method is to bake by steam. Today we would not care to eat the coarse bread baked in the hot coals, such as our great-great-grandfathers used to eat, although it was just as whole- some as the finer bread we eat now. Our tastes have become pampered and we refuse to eat anything that is not palatable. The bread that is made at Naschold's Steam Bakery is both palatable and wholesome.
Gottlieb Naschold, the founder of the bakery that bears his name, was born March 25, 1838, in Germany. He was educated in the public schools there and learned the bakery business. IIe married a young German girl, Caroline Wall, and together they came to America, where they believed they could do better than in their native land. They came direct to Kansas City and Mr. Naschold worked for others in the business he had learned at home. In 1884 he had saved enough money to warrant his starting in business on his own account. He first built a frame bakery, but it was destroyed by fire. In 1903 he built the modern building which still exists, situated at 804 Southwest Boulevard, in Rosedale. He only lived two years after the completion of his fine new building, as he died in the month in which he was born, March 15, 1905.
Gottlieb Naschold and his wife had four children. Freda. who is now Mrs. Fred Rhinehart, lives at Kansas City, Missouri. The second child, Anna, married Mr. Lemhart Schmidt and they make their home with Mrs. Gottlieb Nasehold. The two boys, John J. and Charles F., are both unmarried and they carry on the bakery business. They do
all kinds of bakery but make a specialty of their bread. The business has grown wonderfully since it was first started, seventeen years ago. The people in the vicinity feel that they can not only feel sure of getting good food at the bakery, but they will also have courteons treatment and a square deal. The family has become greatly respected in Rosedale.
Mr. Gottlieb Naschold was a member of the German Intheran church, and his family are still regular attendants at its services and loyal supporters of its work. The young men are exceedingly popular, not only because of their business ability, but because of their personal qualities.
JOHN W. WEST .- The history of a nation is nothing more than a history of the individuals comprising it, and as they are characterized by loftier or lower ideals, actnated by the spirit of ambition or indiffer- ence, so it is with a state, county or town. Success along any line of endeavor would never be properly appreciated if it came with a single effort and unaccompanied by some hardships, for it is the knoeks and
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bruises in life that make success taste so sweet. The failure accentuates the successes. thus making recollection of the former as dear as those of the latter for having been the stepping stone to achievement. The career of John W. West but accentuates the fact that success is bound to come to those who join brains with ambition and are willing to work.
John W. West, who has long been engaged in the wholesale and retail meat business at Kansas City, Kansas, is strictly a self made man and for that reason his success in life is the more gratifying to con- template. IFe is a native of this city, having been born on the 6th of November, 1863, at which time this place was better known as Wyan- dotte. Henry West, father of him to whom this sketch is dedicated, was born in Germany and came to Ohio when quite a youth. He pro- ceeded almost immediately to Wyandotte county, Kansas, settling in the city of Wyandotte in 1858. Ile learned his trade in Ohio and in 1858 he came to Wyandotte to run a store for Henry Grantman, which he ran with sueeess for eleven years. In politics he was a staunch advocate
of the Democratic party. Hle was married to Miss Harriet Arthur by Rev. Father Donley of Kansas City, Missouri. She was born and reared in Pennsylvania, whence she came to Wyandotte in the year 1857, in company with her married sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Burgard. After the death of her first husband Mrs. West removed to West Point, Iowa, where was solemnized her marriage to Frank X. Smith. By her first marriage she became the mother of two children, namely : John W., the immediate subject of this review, and Elizabeth, who is now a sister in St. Benedict's Convent at Nauvoo. Illinois. To Mr. and Mrs. Frank X. Smith has been born one daughter, Catherine, and a son who died when twenty-one years old.
Mr. West was a child of but six years of age at the time of his father's death, and in 1871 he accompanied his mother to West Point, Iowa. In 1884, however, he returned to Kansas City, Kansas, and here pursued a course in Spaulding's Business College. ITe then learned the meat market business and in 1886 engaged in that line of enterprise on his own responsibility. Later he disposed of his meat market but in 1895 he engaged in the wholesale and retail meat business, continuing to be identified therewith during the long intervening years to the present time. He is a very capable business man, one whose methods are always on the square and one whose integrity is of impregnable order. In 1906 he was elected a member of the city council and he served in that capacity until 1910. Mr. West ran on the Democratic tieket for mayor and carried five ont of six wards.
On the 11th of October, 1887, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. West to Miss Rose Arrighi, who was born at Natchez, Mississippi, and who is a danghter of Joseph and Ann Eliza (O'Farrell) Arrighi, both of whom were likewise natives of Natchez, Mississippi, and both of whom are now deceased. Mrs. West was fifth in order of birth in a family of ten children, eight of whom are living at the present time. Mr. Arrighi was bookkeeper in the city recorder's office at Kansas City. Missouri, at the time of his death, which oceurred in 1888. He came to Kansas City. Kansas. in 1885; was a Democrat in politics; and religi- ously was affiliated with the Catholic church. Mr. and Mrs. West be- came the parents of seven children, two of whom died in infancy and five of whom are living at the present time, namely : Gertrude G., George H., Vol. II-29
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Jolin W. Jr., Anna and Edward J., all of whom remain at the parental home.
In politics Mr. West accords a loyal allegiance to the cause of the Democratic party. He is a communicant of the Catholic church. In a fraternal way he is a valued and appreciative member of Damien Council, No. 826, Knights of Columbus; and he is also connected with the Knights of the Maccabees. Mr. West is deeply interested in com- munity affairs and is a co-operant factor in connection with all pro- jects advanced for progress and development.
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