Portrait and biographical album of Washington, Clay and Riley counties, Kansas, containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent citizens together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of the state, Part 111

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The paternal grandfather of our subject was William Greenwood, who was born in Scotland, and who emigrated to America in time to serve in the War of 1812. He settled in Mercer County, III .. during its pioneer days and there with his wife. whose maiden name was Elizabeth Legg, spent his last years. The Greenwood family has flourished in America for several generations. The maternal great-grandmother of our subject was born in Germany and lived to be one hundred and two years old; she died in Illinois.

ARLOW W. INGRAHAM is one of the young farmers of Riley County. having charge of a fine and fertile estate compris- ing 216 acres on the Blue River, in the northeastern part of Manhattan Township. He is thrifty and energetic in business, and an intelligent. educated man. possessing a large fund of common sense. and is a citizen of the class who is an honor to the county.

Mr. Ingraham was born in Wild Cat Township. this county. Jan. 9. 1865, and is a son of Jesse and Patience Ingraham, whose history may be found in the sketch of Mrs. Patience Ingraham, which occu- pies a page elsewhere in this volume. During

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boyhood he attended the district schools, and after- ward spent two years in attendance at the State Agricultural College. He is operating a farm, which belongs to his mother, where he has twelve acres in orchard, having 800 trees therein, and where he is successfully carrying on general farming.

Mr. Ingraham was married at the early age of nineteen, the marriage ceremony being performed Sept. 12, 1884. The young lady who became his bride was Miss Annie Akin, an attractive, refined and educated daughter of J. H. and Helen (Me- Curdy) Akin, who are old settlers of Zeandale Township. Mr. Akin has for a number of years served as a .Justice of the Peace, and as a member of the School Board in his township, where he is a prominent farmer and citizen. Mrs. Ingraham is one of five children born to her parents. Her eld- est brother, Valdy, is a farmer in Zeandale Town- ship; he married Eva Ingraham, sister of the sub- ject of this sketch, and they have two children. Holley, Delmer and Pearl, the remaining members of the family, are still single and living with their par- ents. To Mr. and Mrs. Marlow Ingraham one lit- tle daugliter has been born, who bears the name of Irene.

R UFUS BERRY, one of the oldest settlers in the southwestern corner of Washington County, pre-empted a tract of land in Clif- ton Township, as early as 1870, and subse- quently laid out the town of Clifton in 1870. This was the first town in this part of the county and later, when the C. B. U. P., now Missouri Pacific Railroad was being built through this section, an impetus was given to the place which well rewarded the efforts of its projectors. Mr. Berry has been ac- knowledged as a leading spirit in its progress and prosperity since its inception. He endured the usual drawbacks of life on the frontier but was possessed of that persevering disposition which en- abled him to overcome all difficulties.

Mr. Berry prosecuted farming in connection with his other interests some years and later be- came a successful stock-raiser. His first purchase

of land was 320 acres, embracing the west half of section 36, Clifton Township, and later he pre- empted 160 acres comprising the southeast quarter of section 35, part school land, and part Govern- ment. This he began at once to cultivate and im- prove, putting up a house in the spring of 1870. The country began to be settled up and Mr. Berry began laving out the town of Clifton from thirteen acres which is now included in the new town site. lle also owns 240 acres on section 11, this also being highly improved.

The subject of this notice was born in far New England, in the township of Leeds, Kennebec Co., Me., Aug. 4, 1815, His father was Joseph Berry and his paternal grandfather, Richard Berry. The latter was the son of an old New England family who were pioneer settlers of Kennebec County, and who traced their ancestry to England. Richard Berry was a large farmer and stock-raiser and became well-to-do. He met his death accident- ally by his horse falling upon him while in a bot chase after cattle. He was then sixty-five years old. Hle was a prominent man in his community and had married a New England lady, Miss Eliza- beth Waterhouse, who died at the age of about fifty years in Kennebec County. Both she and her hus- band were connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Joseph Berry was the second child and eldest son of a large family and was reared to farming pursuits in his native county. He inherited the energetic disposition of his father in a marked degree and also accumulated a fine property. He was married to Miss Lydia Parcher, a native of his own county and the daughter of George Parcher, also a native of Maine and who had fought five years and nine months in the Revolutionary War. He was distin- guished as a brave and fearless soldier and died at a good old age in his native State where he had be- come well known as one of its most enterprising men.

After their marriage Joseph Berry and his wife remained residents of Kennebec County, Me., until 1836. Then leaving New England they emigrated to Illinois and Mr. Berry purchased a tract of Gov- ernment land in Peoria County, where he built up a beautiful home. There the wife and mother died

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in 1858 at the age of seventy-five years. Mr. Berry in 1859 pushed on further westward into Jowa, to which State he had been preceded by his son, Rufus of this sketch, about four years, He lived with the latter in Union County until his de- cease, which occurred in 1864, and when he had aattained to the advanced age of eighty-one years. During the war of 1812 he had served as a Ser- geant. Politically, he was an Abolitionist and a Republican and operated as station agent on the underground railroad prior to the Civil War. While a resident of Illinois he was the close friend of Owen Lovejoy, who sacrificed so much on account of his opposition to slavery. Joseph Berry and his estimable wife were members of the Free Will Baptist Church.

The subject of this notice was the fifth of nine children, four sons and five daughters, born to his parents, one of whom died young. Eight of the survivors were married and seven had families. Five of the number are still living, being in point of age quite remarkable. The eldest is eighty-one years old and the youngest sixty-four. They were all carefully reared, receiving a common school ed- ucation. Rufus, our subject, accompanied the family to Peoria County, III. in 1836, and three years later, on the 1st of January, 1839, was united in marriage with Miss Caroline Humphrey. This lady was born in Bradford County, Pa., June 16, 1821, and was the daughter of Stephen D. and Al- mira (Gorham) Humphrey, who were natives of Connecticut and of New England ancestry. Mr. and Mrs Humphrey were reared and married in their native State and later settled in Bradford County, Pa., where they became well-to-do. Sub- sequently they removed to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and later, in 1836, to Peoria County, Ill., where the father was very successful financially, and became the owner of a valuable farm. Finally, selling out their beautiful homestead they removed to Em- poria, Kan.,and Mr. Humphrey during the destruc- tion of his residence by fire, was so seriously burned that he never fully recovered, dying in 1861. His faithful wife, who attended him night and day. succumbed to weariness and exhaustion and died prior to the deccase of her husband.

Mrs. Berry was the eldest child of her parents,

whose family consisted of seven children, six of whom are living. She was carefully reared and re- ceived a common school education, remaining under the home roof until her marriage. Of her union with our subject there have been born ten children: Almira became the wife of G. W. Hlay and died leaving five daughters; Columbia, became the wife of Mr. Hay, and died leaving two children; Orrin died at the age of thirteen years from the kick of a vicious horse; Frances died when thirteen years old ; Charles died in childhood; Rufus Jr. married Miss Olive Burk and operates the homestead of his father; Lydia is the wife of G. T. B. Iman, a far- mer of Sheridan Township; Luna is the wife of G. C. Miller, a grain dealer at Clifton; Laura May married John Millard and they live on one of Mr. Berry's farms in Clifton Township; and an infant unnamed, who died. Mr. Berry, politically, is a sound Republican, but has no aspirations for office and meddles very little with affairs outside of his own domiain.

G ILBERT PERREAULT. Among the pleas- ant homes in the agricultural districts of Clay County, that of the above-named gentleman deserves mention. It is situated in Bloom Township and is in an excellent state of im- provement, furnished with substantial buildings. including a very comfortable dwelling. and is well stocked. The estate comprises 160 broad and fer- tile acres, thoroughly cultivated by its owner, who, having been trained to a farm life, has all the quali- ties of a practical agriculturalist.

Mr. Perreault became a resident of the glorious state of Kansas in 1882, coming to it from Kanka- kee County, Ill., where he had lived on a farm from. 1853 to the latter date. He is of Canadian birth and French ancestry, and was born thirty miles from Montreal, where his parents lived many years. their deaths taking place there when they were ripe in years. Both parents were devoted adherents of the faith of the French Catholic Church. Their family comprised fifteen children. ten of whom lived to years of maturity and the majority of whom are now married.

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After arriving at man's estate, the gentleman of whom we write was united in marriage with Miss Victoria Marsandt, who was also born near Mon- treal and there reared and educated. She has been by her husband's side in all his worthy efforts to increase their worldly prosperity and comfort, and has been a loving helpmate and mother. She has borne fifteen children, five of them being now deceased. All died young except one, who passed away when seventeen years old. The living are John, Thomas, John B., Joseph, George, Zeb .. Charles, Odie, Alexine, and Delphine. All are married except Joseph and George. The parents of Mrs. Perreault were very early settlers in this township, and are now living on their homestead here. being among the oldest residents in the county and still active and vigorous.

Mr. Perreault votes with the Union Labor party. that political body embodying the principles which seem to him best adapted to increase the prosperity of this broad land. Mrs. Perreault is a member of the Advent Church. Among the citizens of this vicinity, by whom their good qualities are; known, Mr. and Mrs. Perreault are highly regarded as both private individuals and neighbors.

e HARLES WEBER, Justice of the Peace at Hanover, Washington County,also an ice dealer and engaged in agricultural pursuits, owns and operates a fine farm two miles east of the city, but makes his home in the latter. He is a na- tive of Illinois, having been born in Naperville, Cook County, Sept. 6, 1855. Two years later his parents came to Kansas, settling in the infant city of Leavenworth.

The father of our subject was Christian Weber, a native of Germany, who was born Aug. 15, 1822. He emigrated to America when a young man, set- tling first in the city of Baltimore, Md. Ile was there married to Miss Elizabeth Payed, after which he emigrated to Illinois and engaged as a butcher at Naperville. After coming West they remained residents of Leavenworth for many years, but later removed to Hanover. Kan., where they now reside. They had a family of eight children, five

of whom are living. Carrie is the wife of John K. Winkleman and they live in Arkansas; Emma be- came the wife of Jacob Straub of Marysville, Kan., and they are residents of Hanover; Charles, our subject, is the next living in order of birth; Edward is represented on another page in this vol- ume ; Paulina is the wife of Mr. A. Bause of Barnes, this State. The wife and mother died at her home in llanover, July 23, 1889, at the age of sixty-nine years and one month.

The subject of this sketch received a practical education in the common schools of Leavenworth and worked with his father until 1874. Then com- ing to Kansas he settled in Hanover and for two years thereafter was in the employ of a railroad company. At the expiration of this time he es- tablished his butcher shop and was soon joined by his father who assisted him in the business. He was recognized as an intelligent member of the com- munity and at the time of grading the railroad was elected City Marshal. For six years he served as Constable. Ile established the first ice business in Ilanover and still bas the monopoly, being the only ice dealer in the place.

Mr. Weber was elected Justice of the Peace in 1888 and is still serving the people acceptably in this capacity. He was for four years the Deputy Sheriff of Washington County. The positions of trust and responsibility which he has filled indicate in a marked degree his character and the esteem and confidence in which he is held by his fellow- citizens. He was married on the 1st of May, 1878, to Miss Emma Kerhart of Marshall County, this State, and there have been born to them four chil- dren, all living, Charles, Myrtle, May and Ida. Mr. Weber is fond and proud of his family and intends that his children shall enjoy the best advantages, educationally, which he is able to give them. He affiliates with the Democratic party and has for some time been Chief of the Fire Department of Hanover. A man so industrious can scarcely be in- different to the labor question and Mr. Weber is accordingly prominently identified with the A. O. U. W.

Mrs. Auna (Kerhart) Weber was born in the kingdom of Bohemia, May 1, 1860, and came to America with her father, Frank Kerhart, about

Solomon whitney

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1866. The latter settled in Iowa, but removed to Marshall County, Kan. in 1869. Ile was a farmer by occupation and followed this until his death. which occurred Aug. 15, 1888 from the kick of a horse. The mother and her family are still resi- dents of Marshall County, ocenpying the old home- stead.

S OLOMON WHITNEY, who is well known to the early residents of Manhattan Town_ ship, looked upon Kansas during its pio- neer days and has contributed his quota to her growth and development. He was born fifty- seven years ago, March 10, 1832, in Whitingham. Vt., and is the son of Solomon, Sr., and Sybil (Arms) Whitney who were likewise natives of the Green Mountain State. The family is an old and highly respected one and the paternal grandfather of Solomon signified his patriotism in the Colonial days by serving in the Revolutionary War, during which he participated in the battle of Bennington and other important engagements.

To Solomon and Sybil Whitney there was born a family of nine children, the eldest of whom, a daughter, Emily, became the wife of Henry Closson, a practicing lawyer of Springfield, Mass .. and died in the winter of 1888 leaving four children. Eleeta died at Mt. Airy near Cincinnati, Ohio, about 1887; she was the wife of Enoch Jacobs, a minister of the Congregational Church, and ex-American Con- sul to Rio Janiero, Brazil. Lyman died in 1882 in Sunderland. Mass .; he was a farmer and local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church; he married Miss Emeline, sister of Isaae T. Goodnow, a prominent citizen of Riley County, and a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume; she died in 1866; their two children are both deceased. Henry, Charles and Frank died in early childhood; Lucy married Milo Crosby and died when about forty years old in Wilmington, Vt., leaving five children. Jane died unmarried at the age of twenty- one years; Ann is the wife of Stephen French, a re- tired capitalist of Orange, Mass.

The subject of this sketch was reared in his native State until a youth of sixteen years and attended Whitingham Academy two years. Later he was a

student in the Providence Conference Seminary at East Greenwhich, R. I., three terms. Subsequently he taught school seventeen terms. Shortly before reaching his twentieth year he was married in April, 1852, to Miss Sarah Chase at Little Comp- ton, R. I. In 1866, leaving New England, he made his way to the young State of Kansas and spent his first year traveling for a school furniture establish- ment, making his headquarters in St. George, Pot- tawatomie County. The following year he rented land in Manhattan Township, Riley County, and engaged in farming. From 1869 to 1874 he was in the employ of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Company as a surveyor. In the mean- time he lived one year in St. Louis and was also in Hannibal, Mo.

Mr. Whitney settled on his present place in the spring of 1870. It is finely located on seetion 2, four miles northwest of Manhattan and comprises eighty acres of well-developed land. Mr. Whitney has set out an orchard of 500 trees and 500 grape vines. lle has a very pleasant homestead and is in the enjoyment of a comfortable income. lle possesses considerable inventive genius and has recently patented a horizontal rotary cylindrical churn with a stationary dasher, which is attracting much attention among farmers and dairymen. The dasher is so constructed as to be stationary in the upper part of the churn which revolves around it. causing the cream to fall in a steady eataraet to the bottom. In competition with other churns it has distaneed them to the extent of producing butter in five minutes against ten minutes, the best time made by any of its predecessors. Mr. Whitney may reasonably expeet to realize handsomely from this contrivance.

Mrs. Sarah (Chase) Whitney departed this life at her home in Manhattan, June 21. 1879. Of her marriage with our subject there have been born seven children. the eldest of whom, a daughter. Ella J., became the wife of IIenry Hougham. son of Prof. J. S. Hougham. a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work; he is a carpenter and builder and resides in Manhattan; they have five children. Hattie E. married Cyrus Foltz, a farmer of Zeandale Township and they have two children. Willard A. married Miss Abbie Browning; he is

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farming in Manhattan Township, and they have six boys. Genevieve married J. S. Cunningham, a farmer of Parallel. Washington County, and they have four children; Sarah C. is the wife of Walter Taylor, member of the firm of Taylor Bros., drug- gists, Manhattan; Bertha E. resides in Orange, Mass .; Jessie C. is at home with her father.

The present wife of Mr. Whitney, to whom he was married Jan. 21, 1879, was formerly Mrs. Lucy (Crosby) Cozad, widow of Dudley Cozad of Cleve . land, Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Cozad there were born three children, Andrew, Clarence and Arthur.

Mrs. Whitney is a highly respected lady and a member in good standing of the Congregational Church. Mr. Whitney, socially, belongs to the Knights of Honor at Manhattan. He is a sound Republican, politically, quite prominent in his party and is frequently sent as a delegate to the County and Congressional Conventions.

A portrait of this worthy and well-respected cit- izen occupies another page of this volume.

R EV. WILLIAM KNIPE, a farmer and preacher combined, is equally successful in both fields of labor and is one of the self- made men of Riley County who has con-

tributed his full quota to its growth and development. A man of quiet manners, he . yet possesses great force of character and telling en- ergy. He has been an extensive reader and a close student and possesses a strong, active and vigorous mind while his genial and courteous disposition at- tracts to him friends wherever he goes. Ile has a pleasant home, with a charming family of sons and daughters who have been given liberal educational advantages and possess culture and refinement in a marked degree. His well-regulated farm compris- ing 160 acres of land, is finely situated on section 1, Manhattan Township, and is improved with good buildings and supplied with modern machinery. Mr. Knipe has been connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church since about 1843.

The subject of this sketchi was born Sept. 28. 1827, in Wayne County, Ind., and is the son of John and Jemima (Jackson) Knipe, who were na-

tives respectively of England and North Carolina. The father emigrated to America in early manhood and settled in Wayne County, Ind., where he was married and engaged in farming. The children born to himself and his excellent partner are re- corded as follows: The eldest a daughter, Ann, married James Fleming, became the mother of a family and died near Noblesville, Ind .; Margaret, the widow of Joseph Swafford, is living in Winter- set, Iowa; Susannah, the widow of John Knoll, a farmer and tailor combined, is the mother of ten children and lives in Owen County, Ind .; Dorothea married James Begole, a farmer, and lives in Michigan ; Thomas died in Iowa, leaving a wife and family; John died about 1860 in Owen County, Ind .; he had married Miss Nancy Goff and left a family. Agnes married Daniel Shopple and is now a widow, living in Owen County. Ind .; Jane mar- ried a Mr. Kelly, who died in Missouri; he served in an Iowa regiment during the late Civil War. Sanford married Emily Kelly, who died leaving two children, and he lives in Osborn County, this State. with his second wife.

William Knipe lived on a farm until reaching man's estate, attending the district school. In the meantime his mother died when he was about seven or eight years old and his father died in 1843, when he was a youth of sixteen years. Ile left home when fifteen years old and since that time has been dependent on his own resources. Upon the breaking out of the Mexican War he enlisted in the army, serving in the 1st Indiana Infantry, although not seeing any active fighting. When the war was ended he returned to the Hoosier State and operated on rented land until he was enabled to buy a small farm in Putnam County. Ile remained upon this two years, then removed to a point five miles east of Elgin, in Cook County, Ill., where he lived one year. Then returning to Indiana he came thence to Kansas in 1857, settling on land which he pre- empted near Holton, Jackson County. To his first 160 acres he added by subsequent purchase until he became the owner of 520 acres.

Mr. Knipe first eame to Riley County in 1861. and purchased a small tract of land in Manhattan Township, upon which he put up a residence now owned by Rev. Washington Marlatt. He occupied

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this until 1863, then selling out he commenced the ministry as a local preacher in 1858. He was or- dained a Deacon in 1862, at Wyandotte, by Bishop Simpson, and was made an Elder in 1865 by Bishop Baker. He continued preaching at various places thereafter, and in the meantime was assigned to regular charges in Holton, Ft. Riley, Circleville, Frankfort, Riley, Garrison, Blue Valley, Rock Creek, Wamego and Manhattan, as a member of the Kansas Conference. He labored faithfully in the Master's vineyard and in 1876 was placed on the superannnated list. Since that time he has turned his attention to farming pursuits.

Beside his homestead of 160 acres which he pur- chased in 1871. Mr. Knipe has also 630 acres in Green Township, Pottawatomie County. This lat- ter is operated as a stock farm upon which are raised and fed horses, cattle and swine for the mar- ket. Mr. Knipe is a successful breeder of Short- horn and grade cattle, also high grade Norman horses and roadsters. He occupies a very hand- some two-story frame residence, with outbuildings, a stable, corn-cribs and cattle sheds. The farm is substantially fenced and the land brought to a high state of cultivation. A large apple orchard fur- wishes in its season considerably more than the fruits of this kind required for the family use.

The marriage of Mr. Knipe with Miss Lucy A. Branham was celebrated at the bride's home in In- diana, by the Rev. John P. Sinclair, Dec. 26, 1847. This lady was born April 30, 1830, in Indiana, and is the daughter of Berry and Elizabeth M. (St. Clair) Branham, the latter of whom was a native of Putnam County, Ind., and the daughter of parents who were born in Kentucky. The ten children born of this union are recorded as follows: Susan- mah J. became the wife of Orville McClung and died at home in November, 1873; Mary Elizabeth married Ezekiel Harris and died in Pottawatomie County in April, 1881; Laura Belle married J. W. Hall, a farmer, and they reside near Riley Center, being the parents of five children; William Asbury married Lillian Paddleford and is the father of six children; he is in Oklahoma. Lucy Ann is the wife of B. F. Sweet, a farmer of Montgomery County, this State, and they have three children; George D. follows the profession of a teacher in

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Portrait and biographical album of Washington, Clay and Riley counties, Kansas, containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent citizens together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of the state, Part 111

Author: Publication date: 1890 Publisher: Chicago, Chapman Brothers Number of Pages: 1258

Author:
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Chicago, Chapman Brothers
Number of Pages: 1258