Portrait and biographical album of Marshall County, Kansas : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, Part 13

Author: Chapman Brothers (Chicago), pub
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago : Chapman Bros.
Number of Pages: 770


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Its splendid and far-reaching management ex- tends to its patrons, both in freight and passenger traffie, the best facilities for reaching the seaboard and the great Eastern marts of trade. The growth and development of the Missouri Pacifie System has been rapid and fully abreast of the times. Its local business is enormous and rapidly increasing. In


TRANSPORTATION.


respect to its through business no other road or system in Nebraska is better equipped than this. Its steel rail tracks, well-ballasted road beds and superior passenger coaches constitute it one of the greatest railroad systems of the West. Its superb fast train between St. Louis and Denver, via Kansas City and Pueblo, is unquestionably the most ele- gant and best equipped train of any road which enters the peerless City of the Plains.


It runs more passenger trains and finer coaches between St. Louis and Kansas City than any other road, and the volume of its freight traffic between the above mentioned emporiums of the State of Missouri is vastly greater than any other line. It has contributed in a marked and wonderful degree toward the building up of the various cities along its numerous lines. Kansas City has felt its influ- ence more than that of any other road centering there, largely on account of its lines that lead into the heart of the coal, iron and granite fields of Missouri, and the extensive timber districts of Ar- kansas, and by its connecting lines with the exten- sive and growing cattle interests of Texas and the Southwest.


It gives to its numerous and rapidly increasing patronage in Nebraska and Kansas unsurpassed facilities for reaching the great health resorts of Arkansas and Texas, over its line from Omaha to St. Louis, about 500 miles in extent. It runs the finest trains between these two cities passing through Weeping Water, where connection is made with the line from Lincoln, the State capital, thence to Nebraska City and Falls City, in Nebraska, and St .Joseph, Atchison and Leavenworth, before reaching Kansas City. The length of its main line and branches in Nebraska is over 322 miles, its northern terminus being Omaha, where connections are made with all the roads centering in that metropolis.


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The line from Omaha to Falls City is 115 miles, the C'rete branch 58 miles, Lincoln to Auburn 76 miles, Warwick to Prosser and Hastings 73 miles. Various extensions and diversions are constantly being made in Nebraska.


Thus it will be seen that this road already taps the two leading cities in the State, Omaha and Lin- coln, besides Nebraska City, rapidly growing into importance, and likewise Hastings. Its mileage in


Kansas is 2,707 miles, in Colorado 151 miles, and the total mileage of the Missouri Pacific System is 4,994 miles.


Hence the reader will readily observe that this great railway system is one of the most important which traverses the several important and growing States west of the Mississippi River. On account of its extensive mileage and the ramification of the system, it is destined to promote in a large degree the development of the material interests of the country through which it passes.


The Burlington & Missouri River Railroad in Kansas.


HIS important road was commenced at Plattsmouth, Neb., where it connected with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in 1869. and the main line of the road was ex- tended westward to Kearney. Subsequently the Denver extension was finished; this line was short- encd by the construction of the line from Kenne- saw to Oxford; by the acquirement of the Omaha & Southwestern Railroad, the Atchison & Nebraska Railroad, the building of the short line from Omaha to Ashland, and the extension to Cheyenne, Wyo., which gives the road a short line between the Missouri River points and Denver & Cheyenne. At Omaha connections are made with the roads centering there. The number of miles of road in Nebraska is 2,120.30. The road is ballasted with stone, gravel, einders and earth. 1,600.08 miles are laid with steel rails, the rest being laid with iron. The total mileage in the Burlington 'system West of the Missouri River is 2,778.78 miles.


Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific.


IIIS is the last important trunk linc to enter the South Platte Country. It enters the State of Nebraska at Berwick, and runs in a north and westerly direction to Fairbury and Nelson. At Fairbury the road branches and con- nects with the main line for Denver, thus giving the Southern part of the State another direct com- munication with the great lumber and other inter- ests of Chicago and Kansas City, and the great lake and seaboard marts of trade.


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BIOGRAPHICAL.


ON. PERRY INUTCHIN- SON. This gentleman is the most widely known citizen of Marshall County, of which he has been a resident for thirty years. He is a native of New York State, born in Chautauqua County. Dec. 2. 1831. His ancestors were from Connecticut, his great grand- father, Samuel Hutchinson. having been a resident of Hebron, in that State. where his grandfather, Enoch Ilutchinson, was born Dec. 8, 1766. He died Nov. 30, 1856, in the nine- tieth year of his age. The maternal great-grand- father of Perry Hutchinson, was David Townsend, a resident of Andover, Conn., whose daughter, Bet- sey, married Enoch Ihutchinson. She was born March 1, 1771, and died Sept. 29, 1848, in the seventy-eighth year of her age.


Calvin, a son of Enoch and Betsey Ilutchinson was the father of our subject. He was born in Con- necticut Dee. 9. 1800, but later removed to Chau- tanqua County, N.Y., and there passed the remainder of his days on a farm. He was a plain man, who never took any prominent part in public affairs,


but was looked upon as an upright and good citizen. He was a strict member of the Presbyterian Church, in which for many years he had been a Deacon. Accompanied by his wife, he twice came to Kan- sas to visit his sons, the mother making her last visit in 1876, but neither ever desired to settle here, preferring their Eastern home. The father died Dec. 25, 1879, in the eightieth year of his age.


Calvin Hutchinson was married, Nov. 7, 1824, in the town of Pomfret. N. Y. to Sophia Perry, who was born in Madison, Madison Co., N. Y. April 25. 1803. On this side the stock is also of old Connecticut origin, the parents of Mrs. Hutch- inson, both having been natives of that State. Her father, Benjamin Perry, was born at Windham, April 18, 1779, and he also emigrated to New York State, settling in the town of Pomfret, Chau- tauqua County, in 1807. He died in Arkwright, in that county. Dec. 28, 1848, in his seventieth year. In 1799. at the age of twenty he married Catherine Sloan, who was born in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 6, 1780, and died Sept. 27, 1856, aged seventy- six years. She had resided for nearly fifty years upon the land purchased by her husband, when they removed to New York. Benjamin Perry was a cousin of the hero of Lake Erie-Commodore Perry-and was himself a colonel in the army dur-


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the War of 1812. Sophia (Perry ) Hutchinson. died at the family home in Chautauqua County, N. Y., Sept. 7, 1886, aged eighty-three years and five months.


Calvin and Sophia Hutchinson were the parents of eight children, of whom we give the complete record as follows: George, the eldest, was born Feb. 21, 1826, and was married Feb. 25, 1852, to Margaret Ann Van Vleek, of Pomfret, N. Y., and is now living on the home farm in Chautauqua County;"their children are, Alfred, Clarence, Clara Jane, Mary Lutitia, Walter Tunis and Minnie Sophia. The second child of Calvin was Alfred, who was born Jan. 27, 1828. He went to Cali- fornia in the early days of the gold fever, but was taken siek there, and returning home, died Feb. 25. 1851; he was unmarried. The next was Calvin Perry, who was born Feb. 15, 1830. and died Feb. 25, 1831. Then came Perry, and after him, Walter H., born April 23, 1834, who was married Jan. 30. 1856 to Ann Eliza Gates. daughter of Phineas and Eliza Gates. He entered the Union army during the Civil War, enlisting in August, 1862 at Cedar Rap- ids, Iowa, and dying Nov. 14, 1862, of typhoid fever at Neosho, Mo .; he was buried at Ft. Scott, Kan. He left two children-George L. and Effie Sophie. The sixth child was Harriet, who was born Sept. 25, 1842, and was married March 30, 1870. to Manley J. Tooke, a farmer of Sheridan, N. Y., where they live. Delia was the seventh child, and was born Dee. 8, 1844. and married May 17. 1865 to Fletcher E. Rork. who died in 1870. She is now the wife of L. L. Augustus, a farmer of Perry, Ohio. The youngest of this family is Edward, of whom a sketch is given elsewhere in this work.


Perry Hutchinson, the subject of this sketch, spent his early life on the home farm in Chautau- qua County, N. Y .. and when about twenty-one years old went to Wisconsin, where, however, he stayed but one year, going from there to Iowa, where he built a mill and operated a farm for four years. During his residence in that State he made a large sum of money in his mill and real-estate speculations, but the rascality of his partner strip- ped him of every cent and left him to begin the world afresh. His partner ran away after giving company notes to a large amount, and Mr. HIutebin-


son to satisfy them gave up to his ereditors every thing of which he was possessed. A brother fitted him out with a team and a few household utensils and he made his way to Kansas, arriving in this county Oct. 1, 1859. He took up a preemption elaim, seven miles east of the site of the present city of Marysville, and with the pluck and energy characteristic of the man made a new start. The first winter was a hard struggle with poverty, but he found work at husking corn, receiving one bushel out of each fifty. and in that way managed to keep the wolf from the door. He lived on his claim until 1861, and during that time took a party across the plains to Denver. There he took up a mining claim, and was rich and poor by turns. having both good and bad fortune. During his absence his wife kept a boarding-house and took care of her young children, and much of his subsequent success in life is due to her capacity and admirable management.


On returning to Kansas. Mr. Hutchinson pro- cured backing and removed to Marysville. where he kept a hotel for sixteen months with considerable success. Selling out his hotel business, and the war being then in progress, he raised a company of volunteers and entered the service in July. 1862, as Captain of Company E., 13th Kansas Infantry. lle was engaged with his company in the battle of Cane Hill. Prairie Grove, the taking of Van Buren, and at Ft. Smith, all in Arkansas.


Before entering the army Mr. Hutchinson had bought the eighty acres on which he now resides. and the mill-site, and had begun the building of a dam across the Big Blue, but he left everything on enlisting. After a service of over a year he re- signed and coming back finished his dam, and built his mill on the east side of the river and be- gan operations in November, 1864. Since then his eareer has been one of uninterrupted prosperity. In 1867 he built his present mill on the west side of the river, but it has since been remodeled, and in 1881 he took out all of the old machinery, greatly enlarging the mill and introduced the most modern roller-process. increasing the capacity from 125 to 275 barrels per day. The mill turns out a superior quality of flour, which has a great reputation over a wide extent of territorry, and is known under the


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name of "Perry Hutchinson's Best." In addition he turns out large quantities of coru-meal, feed and all other kinds of mill products. This mill is a large factor in the prosperity not only of Marshall County, but all this region, affording as it does a ready cash market for all the spring wheat raised in this section of the country.


Mr. Hutchinson does not confine his business op- erations to milling. In connection therewith he feeds a large number of cattle, having bought land until he has now around his mill property 600 acres and on the south of Marysville owns 320 acres more, adjoining the corporation. On this land he feeds and sells annually about 250 to 300 head of cattle, although he has run as high as 700 head in one year. He has also been connected with many other enterprises. In fact, no project having in view the material prosperity of the county fails to receive his hearty support. He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Mary's- ville, when it was changed in 1882 from the old Marshall County Bank operating under a State charter. Ever since he has been a Director, and is now Vice-President.


December 19, 1855, in Fredonia, N. Y., Mr. Hutchinson was united in marriage with Miss Lydia Jenette Barber, daughter of Champlin and Mal- ancy (Green) Barber both residents of Chautau- qua County. Mrs. Hutchinson was born in that county. May 18. 1837. Their union has been blessed by the birth of four children. Frank born Aug. 2, 1857, is a merchant and postmaster in the city of Beattie, this county, and has been twice married, his first wife being Dorcas Carson, who died about three years after their marriage leaving no children. He subsequently married Emma Brumbaugh. Delia Viola, born July 19. 1859, died Feb. 15, 1865: Etta V., born Oct. 7, 1865, was married Oct. 10, 1889 to Henry L. Boder a banker of Troy, Kansas; and Wallace Walter, born Nov. 6, 1871, and still under the parental roof.


In 1879, Mr. Hutchinson was elected Senator from this district, serving his full term of four years, and bringing to the discharge of his legisla- tive duties the same qualities of good judgment and clear foresight, which have characterized his extensive business operations. He has never held


any other public position, except that of County Commissioner, his large private interests demanding his entire time and attention. In 1872 he erected his beautiful residence, on a bluff overlooking the city of Marysville, and close by his mill. It is a large, elegant mansion, said to be the finest rural home in Northern Kansas. Its erection cost over $15,000. The building covers a ground area of 50x75 feet and is two stories bigh, with a mansard roof surmounted by iron castings. The stories are unusually high, being respectively, fourteen and twelve feet, and the mansion presents an imposing exterior appearance, while the interior is corres- pondingly handsome.


Mr. Hutchinson belongs to the Masonic frater- nity and is a member of Marysville Lodge No. 91, A. F. & A. M. and of Marysville Chapter No. 29, R. A. M.


This brief sketch of the history of Mr. Hutchin- son would be incomplete without some reference to the character and position in business and social circles, of the man himself. Beginning life in Kan- sas in poverty, and suffering under the reverses which would have disheartened a man of less sturdy mold, both bodily and mentally, he has by indomi- table energy and rare good business qualities raised himself to the foremost rank among the suc- cessful business men of Northern Kansas. Nor is his reputation confined to this locality. No man is more widely known all over this part of the West, and he has been prominently identified with every enterprise tending to advance the growth and prosperity of the county and section of the country which has been his home for so many years. He is now one of the wealthiest men of Northern Kansas, and his success is entirely due to his energy and good judgment, together with a scrupulous uprightness in all his dealings, which bave gained for him the confidence and respect of all with whom he has business transactions. In bis early struggles to obtain a start he was ably sec- onded by his capable wife, and together they can now look back with satisfaction on the results of their days of trials and privations, and in their beautiful home enjoy the luxuries which are the legitimate fruit of their years of industry, good management and upright living.


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In politics, Mr. Hutchinson is a stanch Republi- ean. A fine lithographie portrait of this gentle- man will be found on another page.


ENRY BRUCKER is the owner and occu- pant of a farm, pleasantly located on see- tion 26, Balderson Township. He is a native of Lorraine. France. where he was born Sept. 7, 1842, and where he grew to manhood. At the age of twenty-three he emigrated to the l'nited States, landing at New York City. He went direct to Lee County, Ill., where he remained three years. He then went to La Salle County, and sub- sequently to Peoria County. He worked on the turnpike roads, and also for a farmer in the latter county for two years. In the spring of 1870 he came to Kansas, and settled on the farm which he now occupies. The land was then raw prairie. Now the entire eighty aeres are under thorough cultiva- tion and well improved. Mr. Brucker first put np a lumber shanty, which being destroyed by a storm. he replaced by a log house. Ten years ago he built the frame house which he now occupies, stable and corn-erib, and six years later the barn was erected. He has a fine young orchard, con- taining seventy-five apple-trees, together with pear, apricot and cherry; an exeellent vineyard, and 500 catalpa trees. Our subject devotes his at- tention to farming, and keeps about a dozen head of cattle, four horses and a score of hogs. The great comfort of his present surroundings is dne to his own industry, prudence and good judgment, as he had nothing except his hands with which to 'begin his battle of life.


The parents of our subjeet. Christian and Made- leine (Vargich) Brueker, were natives of France, the one having been born in Lorraine, and the other in Alsace. They were married in Lorraine, and spent their lives there. Mr. Brucker engaged in farming. The father served as a home guard under Napoleon. The mother died in 1848, but the father survived until March 10, 1877, when he, too, breathed his last, having attained the age of


eighty-three years, eight months and twenty-four days. The parental family consisted of four chil- dren, of whom our subject was the third.


Mr. Brneker was married July 12, 1884, to Miss Mena Meier, daughter of Fred and Kate (Frese) Meier, natives of Germany. Mrs. Brucker is the second in a family of three children, and was born Jan. 17, 1864. in Lincoln County, Mo. She has borne her husband three children. Mary Caroline, August Edward and Frederick Phillip.


Mr. Brucker takes an active interest in polities, voting the Democratie ticket, though formerly attached to the Republican party. He has had membership in the Grange Lodge. He occupies the position of Treasurer in the School Board, an office he has held for five years past. Both he and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Brucker is a man of intelligence and enter- prise, an honorable and reliable citizen. and es- teemed by the entire community.


ANIEL W. GRISWOLD. Amid the green hills of Vermont lived the family of the subject of our sketch. ITis father. Nelson Griswold, was born in the township of Berkshire, Franklin Co., Vt., July 8, 1810. His mother was also a native of that State, having been born in Hartland, Windsor County, in the year 1808. Her maiden name was Adeline Webster. After their marriage the young couple settled in Castleton, Rutland Co., Vt., where they lived but a short time before removing to Rutland. Here they resided several years, returning to Cas- tleton for a short time. During these years Mr. Griswold was engaged in farming. In October, 1849, becoming imbued with the gold fever. he started for California, via the Isthmus of Panama, leaving his wife and three children at Castleton. He was absent about nine years, and engaged a greater part of that time in mining. At the ex- piration of this time, returning to his home. he remained for seven years. In 1866 he again went to California, spending a few months only. Re- turning again to the East, he lived in different


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places until the spring of 1870, when he settled in Marshall County, Kan. Since that time he has been a resident on section 12, Marysville Town- ship. Mrs. Griswold died at Castleton, Vt .. in 1861, leaving three children, of whom our subject was the eldest.


Our subject, Daniel W. Griswold, was born in Rutland County, Vt., Sept. 8, 1841. He was reared on a farm, remaining in his native State until the age of twenty-one. Ile then followed his father's example, and bent his steps to the Pacific Slope. staying some eight years in the State of Cali- fornia, his chief occupation being lumbering. In the fall of 1870 he came to this county, settling in Marysville Township, where he has since that time been engaged in farming, operating his father's homestead. Ilis father owns 160 acres of land. on which are comfortable buildings and other improvements.


On the 17th of September, 1874, Daniel W. Griswold was married to Cynthia A. Carter, daugh- ter of John Carter. She died Aug. 10, 1882, in Marysville Township, having borne him four chil- dren, three of whom survive her. Their names are respectively : Cora M., George and John M. Our subject was again married, in Marysville Township, Sept. 24. 1883, to Louie M. House, who was a native of Racine County, Wis. By this marriage they have one child, a son, Nelson.


In politics our subject is a member of the Union Labor party. He exhibits all the sturdy virtues which seem so peculiarly to belong to the natives of tle Green Mountain State. His father is a hale and hearty man. nearly eighty years old, and a stanch adherent of the Republican party.


W ILLIAM CRANSTON, whose pleasant home islocated on section 32, Center Township, is he son of Caleb Cranston, who was born in Rhdle Island, he being a direct descend- ant of RogerWilliams; his mother was Algina Cole, a native of New York. Shortly after marriage they settled i Scioto County, Ohio, where they resided until 181, when they removed to Keokuk


County, Iowa: About twenty-four years after be- coming residents of that county, Mrs. Cranston took her departure from this world to a better one on high. Their family comprised eleven children, of whom our subject was the eldest.


William Cranston is a native of Scioto County, Ohio, where he was born March 27, 1837. Hle emi- grated to Keokuk County. Iowa, in 1851, with his father, and made that county his home, except for a portion of the time, which he spent in Washing- ton County, until 1881, when he removed to Marshall County, Kan. Upon his arrival, being pleased with the appearance of the country, he bought 160 acres of fine land, located partly in Center and partly in Wells Township. Following the purchase of his farm, he began making im- provements. By well-directed energy and wise adaptation of means to ends, he quickly succeeded in securing for himself a comfortable. commodious dwelling, which, if not so elegant as some others in the county, yet shelters a contented, happy fam- ily. well pleased with the blessings granted them by the Giver of all good gifts, united in tender re- gard for one another, and holding in affectionate remembrance those of their number who have pre- ceded them to the land beyond.


In the conduct of his farm Mr. Cranston has shown sound, good sense. All his efforts directed toward the betterment of his condition have been ably seconded by his noble wife, a very superior woman, to whom he was married in Keokuk County, Iowa, May 1, 1860. The maiden name of Mrs. Cranston was Elizabeth Disor. She is a daughter of George and Rebecca (McDonald) Di- sor, both natives of Virginia, where they were reared to maturity, and upon arriving at a suit- able age pledged their hearts and hands in the indissoluble bonds of matrimony. Some time after their marriage they removed to Ohio, and subsequently to Washington County, Iowa. Shortly before their death they changed their residence to Keokuk County, where they bade farewell to the scenes of earth and removed to their final home on the shores of Eternity. Mrs. Cranston is the second in a family of seven children. She was born in Old Virginia. Feb. 2, 1841, and accom- panied her parents in their migrations, remaining


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with them until she departed to reign as queen of the heart and home of her husband. She is a good neighbor, amiable and generous in her disposition, faithful in all the relations of life. an affectionate, intelligent companion to her husband, and a model for her children to pattern after.


Mr. and Mrs. Cranston are the parents of six children, of whom those living are: Mary E., who is the wife of George Adams; Rebecca A. is the wife of Joseph Adams; Laura I. and Florence A. Two other little ones grew weary of life almost before they rightly began to live, and were car- ried from the arms of the loving parents, who would fain have detained them. up to the bosom of their Heavenly Father, where they will be shel- tered from every ill for all eternity.




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