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Gov. Anthony, while State Executive, presided wisely as counselor over the many difficult ques- tions arising at that time, and retired from the office with the best wishes of those who had realized how faithfully he had endeavored to perform his duty. He continued his residence in Leavenworth after the expiration of his term of office, and there- after was employed much of the time in a respon- sible position, in connection with the extension of the great Santa Fe Railroad through New Mexico and into Old Mexico.
That Gov. Anthony was popular during his in- cumbency of the Executive office, is indicated by the fact that the county seat of Harper County was named in his honor. Over the establishment of this town there was much carnest debate in regard to its location and many other important details in
connection therewith. It is now a city of impor- tance, and was honored with a post-office in the summer of 1878. At first the service was only weekly, but in due time became daily, and it was made a money-order office in 1880. Previous to this, however, a bank had been established in a small frame structure standing on the street, and its business was soon conducted in a store building, with a capital of $20,000. The Globe Mills were put up in 1880-81, at a cost of over $25,000, and in dne time commanded a large trade from points in the Indian Territory, as well as the surrounding towns.
Churches and newspapers sprang up in due time in the town of Anthony, and various lodges of the different societies were named in honor of the Governor. The town itself lies on the edge of a beantiful valley, a trifle over two miles from the geographical center of Harper County, and the site was selected after mnch deliberation by the Town Company, which had been formed at Wichita for the purpose, as it was found desirable to establish a town not far from the center of Harper County, which embraced large tracts of beautiful rolling land. The projected town was considered a matter of serious importance, and not the least among the matters connected with its establishment was the name by which it should be called. The descendants of Gov. Anthony may be pardoned if in preserving their family history they keep prop- erly in view this fact in connection therewith. The town site was made to cover 320 acres, and the first work of the company was to build a barracks for the accommodation of emigrants, and to dig three public wells.
About as soon as the announcement went forth that the "city of Anthony" was ready for settle- ment, about a dozen box houses sprang up as if by magic, and were soon followed by a store of general merchandise, a hardware and a drug-store, and closely upon the heels of these came a physician and an attorney. The new town grew rapidly, and now occupies a proud position among the other cities adjacent, going in some respects ahead of those which are older. As may be supposed, the patriot, the ex-soldier, and one of the most conscientious men who ever occupied the Gubernatorial Chair of Kansas, has watched its growth with lively interest.
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OHN P. ST. JOHN, eighth Governor of the State of Kansas, was born in Brook- field, Franklin Co., Ind., Feb. 25, 1833. The family is of Huguenot descent. Daniel St. John, the paternal grandfather, was a native of Luzerne County, Pa., and for sixty years was one of the fore- most ministers of the Universalist denomination, preaching with un- swerving faith the doctrines he had espoused, and illustrating their purity by a guileless and untarnished reputation. He was the friend and contemporary of Murray, Ballou, Streeter and Thomas, and was numbered with them as one of the American fathers of this religious faith. He was also a Freemason, and at the time of his death, which occurred in Broad Ripple, Ind., was the oldest member of the fraternity in the State.
The subject of this sketch was the son of Samuel St. John, who was born in Orange County, N. Y., and was a man of more than ordinary ability. The mother, Sophia (Snell) St. John, was of English extraction, a lady of rare intelligence, with a char- acter adorned by all the Christian virtues. The children of farmers in the rural districts of Indiana forty years ago were taught by such instructors as the limited means of the inhabitants could com- mand, and who dispensed knowledge usually only two short terms each year. Under these circum-
stances the early education of John P. St. John was acquired. He soon mastered the elementary branches taught in the district school, but deter- mined to carry on his education as soon as he could secure the means, and for this purpose, while yet a youth, entered a store, but devoted his leisure hours to his books.
In 1852 Mr. St. John made his way to the Pa- cific Slope, and employed himself at whatever he could find to do-wood-chopping, steamboating, mining, merchandising, etc. During the period of eight years, which were pregnant with adventure, hardship, danger and toil, if not of profit, he made voyages to Central America, South America, Mexico, Oregon and the Sandwich Islands. He was engaged in the Indian Wars of Northern Cali- fornia and Southern Oregon in 1852-53, in which he suffered all the perils and hardships incident to the struggles of that time, and was several times wounded in the service.
During his mining life in California the long- cherished predilection of Mr. St. John for the legal profession ripened into a definite purpose. He accordingly procured a few clementary law books, and under circumstances calculated to try the courage of one less determined, he commenced his law studies in his mining camp, reading each even- ing after the close of the day's labor by the light of a burning pine knot or the camp fire. Ile thus pursued his studies laboriously for two years. In 1860 he returned eastward with but little more of this world's goods than when he set out eight years before, but equipped with a rich experience, a
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knowledge of the world and a fair idea of common law. With the view of perfecting himself still further in his studies, he entered the office of Messrs. Starkweather & McLain, at Charleston, Ill., and at the expiration of a year's time was admitted to practice at the bar, and became a member of the firm above mentioned.
The anticipated professional career of Mr. St. John, however, was rudely broken in upon by the mutterings of Civil War, and laying aside his per- sonal interests, he enlisted as a private in Company C, 68th Illinois Infantry. The regiment was soon sent to Alexandria, Va., and St. John was assigned to detached duty as Assistant Adjutant General. He continued in this capacity until his term of enlistment had expired, but subsequently at Camp Mattoon, Ill., he was placed in command of the troops there, given the commission of Captain, and upon the organization of the 143d Illinois, was elected Lieutenant Colonel of this regiment. They operated subsequently in the Mississippi Valley, and Col. St. John continued in the service until 1864, when he retired to private life, and resumed the practice of law in connection with Judge McLain, the surviving partner of the old firm.
In February, 1865, Mr. St. John with his family removed to Independence, Mo., where he first became prominent as a politician, and as a most effective and popular orator. During his four- years residence at that point he took an active part in the political campaign of 1868, making an effect- ive and vigorous canvass of Western Missouri in behalf of the nominees of the Republican party. In May, 1869, he changed his residence to Olathe, Kan., and associated himself with M. V. B. Parker for the practice of law. This continued nntil 1875, and Mr. St. John then formed a partnership with Hon. I. O. Pickering, of Olathe, and continued the practice of his profession until pressing public duties forced him to abandon it.
The prominence of Gov. St. John in public life seems to have become his unsought, and as the re- sult of circumstances entirely ontside his individ- ual purposes or designs. Up to 1872 he had given only such attention to political affairs as was vouchsafed by all intelligent and patriotic voters. IIe had held unsought the various local offices
which fall to the lot of responsible citizens in the administration of town affairs, and as an ardent Re- publican had done acceptable work on the stump during the canvass of 1868. Four years later he was elected State Senator from Johnson County, and at once took a leading position, both on the floor as a debator, and in the committee rooms as an efficient business member.
The temperance movement found a sturdy and fearless advocate of prohibition in Mr. St. John. Consequently when the question came to be an issue in the politics of Kansas, he was at once rec- ognized as the fit exponent and defender of the then unpopular doctrine. The Kansas State Tem- perance Convention accordingly nominated him as its candidate for Governor, in 1876. He declined the nomination, although in full accord with the convention on the issue it presented. That same fall he was on the first ballot in the Republican convention, the leading gubernatorial candidate. On the seventh ballot he withdrew his name, which action resulted in the nomination and subsequent election of Hon. George T. Anthony.
At the Republican State Convention held two years later at Topeka, in August, 1878, Mr. St. John received the Republican nomination for Governor. Considering the distracting element of a third party, the campaign was brilliant and effect- ive, and the result one of the most decisive politi- cal victories ever achieved in the State. In 1880, in a total vote of 198,238, Mr. St. John was re- elected by a majority over the next highest candi- date of 51,647 and a majority over all of 32,170, a fact which shows how satisfactory to the people had been the manner in which he had discharged the duties of his office during his first term.
The great exodus of the colored people from the Southern States to Kansas began in 1879, and Gov. St. John at once took an active interest in their behalf. Through his influence, personal and official, the necessities of thousands of these destitute and suffering people were relieved and themselves placed in a position to become self-sustaining. In 1882 his friends nominated him as Governor for a third term, but lie failed of a re-election. In 1884 he was the nominee of the Prohibition party for President, and received 150.000 votes.
G. N. Glick
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EORGE W. GLICK, ninth Governor of Kansas, was its first Democratic State Ex- ecutive. He was born at Greencastle, Fairfield Co., Ohio, July 4, 1827, and on the paternal side is of Ger- man descent. His great-grandfather. Henry Glick, was one of five brothers who left the beautiful Rhine country prior to the Revolutionary War. In this immortal struggle they all partici- pated and subsequently settled in Penn- sylvania. George Glick, grandfather of the Governor, served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and was severely wounded at the battle of Ft. Meigs.
Isaac Glick, the father of George W., and who. was prominent as a farmer and stock-raiser of San- dusky County, Ohio, held for three consecutive terms the office of Treasurer of that county, and was a man accounted above reproach, both in his business and private character. He married Miss Mary Sanders, daughter of George Sanders, who was a soldier patriot in the War of 1812, in which he ranked as a Captain and bore the marks of his bravery in bodily wounds of a serious nature. Mrs. Mary (Sanders) Glick is a lady of high culture and great piety, active in the work of Christian charity. and of that retiring disposition which fully car- ried out the command of the great teacher, "Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth." As a boy, George W. Glick was more than usually studious, and acquired a good English education, embracing the higher mathematics and the lan- guages, which lent a polish to his practical sense and business qualifications, and enabled him to succeed
almost uniformly in his undertakings. When he was a little lad of five years the family removed to Lower Sandusky, now Fremont, where, after com- pleting his education, he entered the law office of Buckland & Hayes, the junior member of the firm being afterward President of the United States. In due time he passed a thorough examination in con- nection with the Cincinnati Law School students, and was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court.
Mr. Glick commenced the practice of his profes- sion at Fremont, Ohio, where his careful attention to the interests of his clients secured him a large patronage. Later he removed to Sandusky City, and in 1858 was made the Congressional nominee of the Democratic party in his district, but declined the honor in the presence of the convention, but accepted later the nomination for State Senator. Although defeated, he ran nearly 2,000 votes ahead of his party ticket. Later he was elected Judge Advocate General of the 2d Regiment of the Sev- enteenth Division of the Ohio Militia, with the rank of Colonel, receiving his commission from Gov. Salmon P. Chase.
Late in 1858 Mr. Glick came to Kansas, locating in Atchison, and associated himself in the practice of law with Hon. Alfred G. Otis. This gentleman was well versed in jurisprudence, and as Judge of the Second Judicial District from January, 1877, to January, 1881, won golden opinions as an adminis- trator of justice. The firm of Otis & Glick contin- ued fifteen years, and was finally dissolved in con- sequence of a throat affection from which Mr. Glick had suffered for some time. The firm settled up its affairs annually, never a dispute occurring, its last settlement having been effected within an hour.
At the first clection held under the Wyandotte
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Constitution, Dec. 6, 1859, Mr. Gliek was made the Democratic nominee for Judge of the Second Judi- cial District, and received a vote larger than that of any candidate on his ticket. Ile was elected a member of the House of Representatives from the city of Atchison, in 1862, and each consecutive year thereafter nntil 1867. He was re-elected in 1875 and again in 1880. During these years he was Chair- man of the Judiciary Committee, and was chosen to fill this position by the Republican Speakers of the House, who manifested the utmost confidence in his wisdom and integrity. Thereafter he served on the most important committees existing, and during the session of 1876 was Speaker pro tem of the House. In May, 1874, he served as State Sen- ator, having been elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the Hon. Joseph C. Wilson. From this time on Mr. Glick was constantly called into requisition by his party, being in 1886 a dele- gate to the Union Convention at Philadelphia, and in 1870 a member of the Democratic State Central Committee. Subsequently he was a member of the State Central Relief Committee, and was commis- sioned a Centennial Manager by Gov. Thomas A. Osborn in 1876. Subsequently he was elected Treasurer of the Board of Managers, and was pres- ent at the first meeting in Philadelphia, when the arranging of the display was completed. In July, 1882, he was nominated by acclamation as the Dem- ocratic candidate for Governor, and at the election received considerable support outside of his party.
Mr. Glick was County Commissioner of Atchison County upon his accession to the office of Governor, and was also holding the position of Auditor. In his election to this office he received about forty- six per cent of the votes cast, and was outdone by only one man in this respect, namely, John P. St. John, who, in 1880, received about fifty-eight per cent. Although a man of temperate habits, he does not consider prohibition a sovereign remedy for the evils arising from the use of, and traffic in, in- toxicating drinks. In February, 1876, while a member of the House and during the tendency of the proposed amendment to the Dram Shop Act, he entered a protest, which was spread upon the House Journal, in which he maintained that the Prohibi- tory Liquor Law had, wherever tried, failed to ac-
complish its purpose, and that this proposition was conceded by all who were not controlled by fanat- icism ; that no one would attempt to enforce such a law, and that regulation and control of the traffic was an absolute necessity for the preservation of the peace and good order of society, and that this control was made of no effect by the proposed amendment.
Mr. Glick furthermore contended that the reve- nue derived from the sale of intoxicating liquors aided in paying the burdensome expenses following the wake of such sales, and that by the proposed law the burdens upon the public were increased while its ability to prevent them was decreased. lle believed that if the bill became a law it would increase the number of places where liquor would he sold, thereby resulting in the increase of the evils of the traffic, and also the expenses of protecting life and property and preserving the public peace.
The early Kansas railroads found in Gov. Glick a stanch and efficient assistant, and he was one of the first Directors of the Central Branch of the Union Pacific, running west from Atchison. He was also a Director of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe-the important transportation line of the State and of the country west of the Mississippi. From the time of the organization of the Atchison & Ne- braska, he was its President to its completion, and spent four years of incessant labor in order to effect its construction from Atchison to the capital city of Omaha. He organized the Atchison Gas Com- pany and secured the building of the works. Many of the buildings in the city of Atchison, both busi- ness and dwelling-houses, were erected by him, and he has generously disbursed his capital to encourage those enterprises best caleulated to increase the im- portance of the city.
Mr. Glick was married at Massillon, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1857, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. A. Ryder, of Fremont, that State. While he was State Executive his son Frederick was his private secre- tary. This son and a daughter Jennie are his only children. Mr. Glick was the first Master of the Shannon Hills Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity nearly forty years, and aided in organizing the Royal Arch Chapter and Commandery, of Atchison.
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John
Martin.
SHE tenth Governor of Kansas was born March 10, 1839, at Brownsville, Pa., and in his early days, after an ordinary education, learned the prin- ter's trade. In 1857 he went to Pittsburgh, and was em- ployed in the office of the Commer- cial Journal, and early in October of that year he emigrated to Kansas and located in Atchison. He purchased the office of the Squatter Sovereign in February, 1858, and changed its name to the Freeman's Champion, and on the 20th of the month commenced his editorial career in this State, by the issue of the first number of the paper which he has since been identified with. He was always a stanch free-State man, and an earnest and ardent Republican, being among the organizers of that grand old party in his native State. He was Sec- retary of the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention, and was elected State Senator before he was of age.
During the summer of 1861 Mr. Martin assisted in organizing the 8th Kansas Infantry, of which he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel. The regiment served on the Missouri border during the fall and
winter of 1861. Early in 1862 he was appointed Provost Marshal of Leavenworth, and in March of the same year his regiment was ordered to Corinth, Miss., Lieut. Col. Martin in command. A few weeks after, when at Corinth, the regiment with the division to which it was attached, was ordered to join Gen. Buell in Tennessee, and thereafter during the whole war it served in the Army of the Cumber- land. Lient. Col. Martin was promoted to be Colonel on the 1st of November, 1862, and was Provost Marshal of Nashville, Tenn., from Decem- ber, 1862, to June, 1863. The regiment, under his command, took part in the battles of Perryville and Lancaster, Ky., the campaign against Tul- lahoma and Chattanooga, the battle of Chickamauga, the siege of Chattanooga, the storming of Mission Ridge, the campaign of East Tennessee, in the win- ter of 1863-64, the campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and the subsequent pursuit of Hood north- ward. Col. Martin commanded the 3d Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps, on the second day of the battle of Chickamauga, and during the siege of Chattanooga, and commanded the 1st Brigade, 3d Division, 4th Army Corps, from August, 1864, until his muster out at Pulaski, Tenn., Nov. 17, 1864.
In a lengthy description of the battle of Mission Ridge, published in the New York Times of July
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18, 1876, Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Wood, who com- manded the 3d Division, 4th Corps, Army of the Cumberland, says :
"Willich's brigade, in the center, had with it the heroic, accomplished Martin, Colonel of the 8th Kansas. What that regiment could not take it was not worth while to send any other regiment to look for. Martin was among the foremost to set the example of the upward movement, and among the first to reach the crest."
In a letter published in the Cincinnati Commer- cial of Jan. 24, 1876, the late Brig. Gen. Angust Willich, commander of the 1st Brigade, 3d Division, 4th Army Corps, after stating that the orders he received at Orchard Knob, concerning the advance to Mission Ridge, were to "take the rifle pit at the foot of Mission Ridge, and to keep that position," and describing the advance to the base of the ridge and the capture of the rifle pits there, says :
"Herein the work assigned by Gen. Grant was accomplished. But now the fire of the enemy be- came very severe; the shells rent the ground in every direction; our lines were infiladed from the different spars of the ridge, where the enemy was protected against our fire by his works and his dominant position. There appeared at first thought to Gen. Willich, holding position about 100 yards behind the rifle pits, to be only three chances, viz: To obey orders and to be shot without effective resistance; to fall back, or to charge. The second chance being ont of the question, I galloped with Lieut. Green, of my staff, up to the 8th Kansas, lying in line behind the rifle pits. Col. Martin, commanding the regiment, seeing me, jumped on the breastworks and shouted: 'Here we are, Gen- eral, what more?' 'Forward, storm! We have to take the works on the ridge,' was the answer. The Colonel: 'Altogether, boys, forward! Hip, hip, hurrah!' Like one man, the whole line, with one leap, cleared the breastworks; forward they moved and the air was soon filled with the sound, 'Forward! Forward!' extending more and more, right and left."
Returning home, Col. Martin resumed control of the Atchison Champion early in January, 1865, and on the 22d of March issued the first number of the Daily Champion. He has been commander of the department, a delegate to the National Republican
Conventions of 1860, 1868, 1872 and 1880; was a United States Centennial Commissioner, and one of the Vice Presidents of that body; was one of the incorporators of the State Historical Society, of which he was President for one term; was elected by the two Houses of Congress one of the Board of Managers of the National Soldiers' Home, in 1878, and re-elected in 1882, being now Second Vice President of that body. He was married, June 1, 1871, to Miss Ida Challiss, eldest daughter of Dr. William L. Challiss, of Atchison, and has seven children.
At the Republican State Convention, held in Topeka July 17, 1884, the rules were suspended and John A. Martin was nominated for Governor by acclamation. At the November election following he was elected Governor by a plurality of 38,495 votes. At the Republican State Convention, held in Topeka July 7, 1886, he was again unanimously nominated for a second term, and at the November election following was elected Governor by a plu- rality vote of 33,918. He was the first and only Governor of Kansas who was twice unanimously nominated by his party for that office, and has served with distinction, filling the honored position occupied by his able predecessors with equal ability, and giving to the people as the Chief Executive of the populous and growing State, satisfaction. He is a man of honest, upright character, and abhors trickery and deceit, and in looking over his long and useful life he may well feel a just pride at the position he has won in the esteem and confidence of honest men, and the respect of all good citizens. There are but few men of the stirring State of Kansas who have been more closely identified with all public movements for the general welfare and prosperity of the State than John A. Martin. His name may be found on almost every page of the memorable history of Kansas, from the holding of the first Republican Convention, held at Osawato- mnie in 1859, until to-day, when he is the leading spirit among the enterprising men of the most pro- gressive State of the Nation. A man of excellent judgment, moved by honest purpose and love for the general welfare of the whole State, he is always found identified with the right, and, as might be expected, popular with the people.
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