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 13

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From Portland magnificent ocean steamers de- part for the far distant Orient. Fine steamers also ply from Portland to Alaska.

From Portland to San Francisco the trip can be made in the iron steamships of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, which will compare favor- ably with the best ocean steamers on the Atlantic for safety, speed and comfort; or by rail over the Mt. Shasta route of the Central Pacific Railroad (the Southern Pacific Company ).

Between Cheyenne and Ogden about ten miles of snowsheds altogether are passed at different points on the line. These sheds are all in Wyoming. They are quite a feature of the ride across the continent ; the Central Pacific Railroad having about thirty

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miles altogether on its line between Ogden and Sacramento. Ogden is 1,034 miles from Council Bluffs, 1,260 miles from Kansas City, and 833 miles from San Francisco.

The crowning scenes of the trip across Utah and Nevada to San Francisco are not beheld until after leaving Reno. Cape Horn. Emigrant Gap, the Sierra Nevadas, Donner Lake. and other objects of more than ordinary interest will be found. Nevada is celebrated for her famous mines. The marvel- ous Carson and Humboldt sinks, in which the waters of all the rivers in the State of Nevada, save one, are swallowed; the Mud Lake, the Borax marshes, and countless numbers of thermal springs, have been the wonder of the scientist and the de- light of the tourists. One hundred and fifty-five miles from Reno is Sacramento, a beautiful city, and the capital of California.

From Sacramento the Central Pacific Railroad branches off, via Lathrop, to Los Angeles, from which point the prominent cities and noted resorts of California are readily reached. From Sacra- mento, the Davis cut-off, now the main line of the Central Pacific road, takes the tourist through to Oakland, where a transfer is made across an arm of the bay to San Francisco, and here this part of the trip "Across the Continent" terminates at San Fran- cisco.

NOTES ABOUT THE TRAINS, EQUIPMENT, JUNCTIONS, AND CONNECTIONS.

It is worth while knowing that two through trains leave Council Bluffs every day with through cars for Denver, Ogden. Salt Lake City, Los An- geles, San Francisco and Portland. One of these trains, the fast one, called the "Overland Flyer." has Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars only. running through to Denver. Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland. The other train, the Overland Express, has Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars, Modern Day Coaches, and Free Family Sleeping Cars. From Kansas City two fast express trains leave daily with through cars for Denver, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City and Portland. These trains have Pull- man Palace Sleeping Cars and Modern Day Coaches. The morning train has the Free Family Sleeping

Cars. The equipment of these trains is unsurpassed and all that can be desired. A good road-bed. standard-guage track, steel rails, iron bridges, and stone culverts combined. insure safety and speed.

The Missonri Pacific Railway System.

6 HIS great system, which now threads its way through several States west of the Mississippi River, has been a potential factor in the devel- opment of Missouri and Kansas, and with its accus- tomed enterprise, a short time ago penetrated with its lines into the rich agricultural districts of Ne- braska, to compete in this growing State with its rapidly accumulating business. It was also among the pioneer roads in Kansas, and its many branches now traverse in different directions the most thickly settled portions of the State. It has contributed in a large measure, by its liberal and aggressive policy toward the rapid development of the great resources of Kansas. It is interesting to note briefly its history, as it was the first road built West from St. Louis, as early as 1850-51. The preliminary steps to build the road were taken, and it has since gradually extended its lines, like the arteries and veins of the human system, until it has encompassed in its range the best portions of Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, and has even reached out and tapped the large commercial cen- ters of Texas and Colorado. In Missouri its sev- eral lines and connections pierce the great coal and mineral fields of the State, enabling it to lay down in Kansas City, Topeka, Leavenworth, Atchison, Wichita, Omaha, and Lincoln, cheaper than any other roads, these essential adjuncts so necessary in the development of commercial centers, and even the settlers in the outlying districts of Kansas and Nebraska have fuel laid down to them more cheaply on account of this road.

Its splendid and far-reaching management ex- tends to its patrons, both in freight and passenger trafic, the best facilities for reaching the sea-board and the great eastern marts of trade. The growthi and development of the Missouri Pacific system have been rapid and fully abreast of the times. Its local business is enormous and rapidly increasing.

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In respect to its through business no other road or system in the West is better equipped than this. Its steel rail tracks, well ballasted road-beds and supe- rior 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 finez 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 con- tributed in a marked and wonderful degree toward the building up of the various cities along its nu- merons lines. Kansas City has felt its influence 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 Arkansas, and by its connecting lines with the extensive 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 Lineoln, the State eapital, thence to Nebraska City and Falls City, in Nebraska. and St. Joseph. Atchison, Leavenworth, before reaching Kansas City. The length of its main line and branches is over 322 miles, its northern terminus being Omaha, where connections are made with all the roads centering in that metropolis. The line from Omaha to Falls is 115 miles, the Crete branch fifty-eight miles, Lincoln to Auburn seventy-six miles, Warwick to Prosser and Hastings seventy- three miles. Various extensions and divisions 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 Lincoln, besides Nebraska City, rapidly growing into importance, and likewise Hastings.

Kansas is literally covered by the lines and

branches of the Missouri Pacific Railway which amount in mileage in the State to over 3,000. The Central Branch Division extends from St. Joseph and Atchison. through the northern portion of the State out towards the western line, giving the rich counties in these tiers and the flourishing cities and towns. direct outlet to Omaha, Kansas City and St. Louis.

Another main stem extends through the central portion of the State, from Kansas City to Pueblo. over which through trains are run from St. Louis and Kansas City to Pueblo and Denver. Still farther to the south is Ft. Scott, Wichita & West- ern Railway, extending from the eastern to the southwestern portion of the State and giving a di- reet outlet from Hutchinson, Wichita, and the grow- ing country in this part of this State, Kansas City and St. Louis. In the extreme south of the State the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic Division, ex- tends from Chetopa through Larned and the west- ern part of the State, opening up the rich country tributary to Larned, Conway Springs, Winfield, Arkansas City and Coffeyville. and giving it a di- rect outlet also to St. Louis. A new division has already been surveyed, and work commenced from Ft. Scott through to Tipton in Missouri, on the Main Line, which will bring Central and Southern Kansas nearer than they have ever been before to St. Louis and the'great centers of the East. Perhaps the

most momentous event in the history of the road for the past year, has been the completion of the

small portion amounting to about eighty-two miles. of the Kansas & Arkansas Valley Railway, extend- ing from Ft .. Smith up through the Indian Terri- tory to Coffeyville. It is hardly realized as yet, what this means for the great country west and south of the Missouri River. This, it will readily be seen by a glance at the map. gives a direct line between the great eotton and iron produeing coun - try, of the Southeast. and the corn. wheat, pork and beef producing region of the West, formed by the divisions of the Missouri Pacific Railway, south from Omaha, St. Joseph and Kansas City-also from Denver, Pueblo and Wichita to Coffeyville, the Kansas & Arkansas Valley Railway. extending from Coffeyville via Wagoner to Ft. Smith, a divis- ion of the great Iron Mountain Route, which, as is

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well known, forms a part of the Missouri Pacifie System. From Ft. Smith, the Little Rock & Ft. Smith Railroad-another division of the Iron Mountain Route extends to Little Rock, connecting with other divisions there for Texarkana, Arkansas City, Hot Springs and Memphis. The Iron Moun- tain Route which has been before mentioned as a part of this System extends from St. Louis to the South and West, to Memphis, Little Rock, IIot Springs and Texarkana, and runs through Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars in connection with the various Texas Lines to Galveston on the Gulf of Mexico, and to Laredo and El Paso, on the Rio Grande River, connecting at those points for California and the City of Mexico, and the interior States of the Republic of Mexico. This constitutes largely the Railway System of the State of Arkansas, pass- ing through it from Northeast to Southwest, from Poplar Bluff to Texarkana, and from East to West connecting Memphis and Arkansas City with Ft. Smith. The total mileage of the Missouri Pacific System is 5094 miles. Henee the reader will read- ily observe that this great System is one of the most important which traverses the growing States west of the Mississippi River ; on account of its ex- tensive mileage and ramifications the System is des- tined to promote in a large degree, the develop- ment of the material interests of the country through which it passes.

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific

S among the oldest and most important trunk lines, having Chieago for its eastern terminus- the completion of this road in Illinois marked an important era in the development of the northern and western portion of the State, as well as contribu- ting to the upbuilding of many thriving manufactur- ing cities on its line-notably Joliet, Moline, Rock Island and Davenport; also with its two branches ex- tending to Peoria, has opened up good markets for the extensive eoal and agricultural resources of that locality, likewise giving a rapid impetus to the commercial and manufacturing resources of Peoria. Moline (except Chieago), is probably the most

important and extensive manufacturing city on the line, and through the enterprise of the Great Rock Island Route it has been enabled to

1 lay down its manufactured wares to the farmer's of Southern Iowa, Northern Missouri and Kansas, cheaper than by any other road, and the vast lum- ber interests of the eities of Roek Island and Dav- enport have by means of this Line been enabled to reach the most important, as well as the most remote, places in Kansas. The Rock Island has al- ways been in the very van of railroad progress; while always solid and substantial, yet it has ever been steadily and constantly building new lines and extending its system until it now ramifies into the best regions of the Mississippi and Missouri Valleys. Its lines extending to Denver, Colorado Springs, and other points in Colorado, offer unsur- passed facilities, to the tourist or man of business for elegant and comfortable traveling; its superb dining ears have among travelers made it renowned as among the best roads of the West. In brief the Rock Island company has by a judicious system of permanent improvements, and by the introduction of all the modern appliances which tend to the preservation of life and property, placed itself in such a condition, materially and physically, that its financial future cannot be affected by the con- tingencies which seriously affect other roads. Its snecess as one of the great highways of the West is an assured reality. It might be appropriately noted here that while much of this road's past success may be attributed to its admirable geographical location, embracing a very rich section of the coun- try for local traffic, and with termini on Lake Michigan, the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and Denver the heart of the Rocky Mountain regions, equally as much is due to the stabil- ity of the management and to the fact that the property has never yet become the foot-ball of speenlators. It is not surprising that the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacifie has maintained a firm posi- tion as an investment in the moneyed centers of the world, and it has acquired a well merited popularity with the traveling and shipping public. Its steel rails and well ballasted road-bed have long since made it the favorite with shippers. and its freight trafie is immense and growing. At Council Bluffs

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and Omaha connections are made with all the roads centering there. It is the most direct and shortest route between Omaha and Chicago-and hence the favorite of shippers. At Davenport a branch di- verges to the Southwest, and extends to Kansas City, Leavenworth, Atchison and St. Joseph.

At St. Joseph the road crosses the Missouri and enters Kansas; at Horton the line diverges and ex- tends up into Nebraska as far as Nelson; from Fairbury, Neb., the line extends through Northern Kansas to Denver and Colorado Springs. From Horton the line leads in a southwesterly direction through Topeka, the capital of the State; thence to Herington, Hutchinson and to Liberal, the latter place on the line of the Indian Territory. At Mc- Farland a spur extends in a northwestern direction through Manhattan and Clay Center to Belleville, where a junction is made with the main line to Denver, Col .; at Herington a short branch goes to Abilene and Salina. From Herington the line passes south through Wichita and Wellington to Caldwell, on the line of the Indian Territory.

With its acenstomed energy this road was the first to complete its line into the Oklahoma country, passing through Kingfish and having El Reno for its southern terminus.

It will be observed that all the great leading marts of trade in Kansas are tapped by this road,

thereby giving to that portion of the West a strong and substantial competitive market with the great Eastern commercial centers.

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- ened 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, cinders and earth. 1600.08 miles are laid with stecl rails, the rest being laid with iron. The total mileage in the Burlington system West of the Missouri River is 2,778.78 miles.

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SON. G. HENRY HIOLLEN- BERG was one of the most noted of the German settlers of Kansas, and con- tributed very largely to the upbuilding of Hanover yo and the country round about in Washington County. He was the first settler in the township and came to the county in the fall of 1858, settling on the Old Fort Kearney Road at a point which he called "Cottonwood Ranch." Here he kept a small stock of groceries and gen- eral store, and also obtained an ap- pointment for his clerk, George Perkins, and estab- lished a post-office at this point. He continued this ranch during the time of the immense travel and transportation to California and the mountains by overland stage and freighting trains.

It was near this point that the road crossed the Little Blue on the trail to Marysville, thence to the Big Blue, from there following the valley to near Fort Kearney. Mr. Hollenberg had his ranch here during the raids made by the Indians upon travelers and ranchmen further up the valley. During these troubles he was Colonel of a regiment of State militia and an expedition was soon in pursuit

of the Indians, but did not accomplish anything more than to drive them towards the head waters of the Republican, Travel was soon resumed and the settlers came back to their homes. There were other raids, but this was the most disastrous.

Hanover is located on the St. Joe and Grand Island Railroad and a branch of the Burlington & Missouri Railroad, at a point where the railroads reach the Little Blue River, 127 miles from St. Joseph, Mo. It is handsomely situated on the north bank of the Little Blue, on an elevated slope overlooking the valley. The establishment of the town is due to the enterprise of Mr. Hollerberg, who named it Hanover, in remembrance of his native place, Hanover, Germany. During the Indian raids in August, 1864, a party of Cheyennes and Arapahoes, who were waging a war upon the whites of Colorado and Western Kansas, extended one of their expeditions into the valley of the Little Blue, near a place called Oak Grove, six miles above where Hanover now stands; a family named Eubanks, ten in number, was murdered and scalped, one woman escaping only by being absent at the time. A man named Kelly was killed at Pawnee Station; Patrick Burk and a man named Butler were killed three miles above Oak Grove; a Mr. Ulick and a stranger were also murdered and a young lady, named Laura Roper, was carried into

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captivity, and other outrages were committed. This occurred during the time these Indians were keeping up a strife for the continued possession of the country assigned them by the treaty of 1851. Most of the settlers fled to the Big Blue River in Marshall County. Mr. Hollenberg bore an active and honorable part with the militia and others in the defense of the homes of the settlers.

Mr. Hollenberg was born in the Province of Hanover. Germany, on the 19th of December, 1823. Ilis father. Rudolph Hollenberg, was a farmer, and his means being small, his son received but a com- mon-school education, and spent his early years assisting his father on the farm. In 1849, at the time of the gold excitement in California, he left his native land, and sailed for this country. He was then twenty-six years of age. He tarried for three years in California, working as a common la- borer in the mines, and accumulated about $3,000, when he joined a mining expedition, and sailed for Australia. In Australia he mined quite success- fully, and then a mining excitement in Peru, South America, caused himself and sixty-five others to go to Peru. During their stay there they suf- fered nntold hardships; they crossed the Andes Mountains, and also crossed at great peril a branch of the Amazon, and on account of the hostility of the Indians, having almost every day to fight with them, their ammunition was soon exhausted, as well as their provisions. They occupied seven months on the trip, each man being provided with two mules, or burros, one to ride, and one to use as a pack animal. On Mr. Hollenberg's return from that trip to Lima, he took passage for New York via the Isthmus of Panama. At New York he was sick for a time. Becoming convalescent, his physician ad- vised that he make a trip for the benefit of his health. Desiring to see the States, he started west- ward, at St. Louis took passage on a steamboat, and made his way up the Missouri to Weston, above Leavenworth, and in the early spring of 1854, he came to Marshall County, Kan., and settled on the Black Vermillion, at what is now Bigelow, a station on the Chicago. Burlington & Union Pacific Rail- road, now known as the Missouri Pacific. There he kept a general store, and also farmed, his store be- ing at the ford on the old Independence and Cali-

fornia trail. In the fall of 1858, he removed to, and established the "Cottonwood Ranch" near Hanover, as above stated. While residing on the Black Ver- million, he was married on the 15th of May, 1858, to Miss Sophia Brockmeyer, in Marshall County.

In politics Mr. Ilollenberg was a stanch Repub- lican, and a member of the Lutheran Church. He was three times elected to the State Legislature of Kansas. and was for several terms County Commis- sioner and always Chairman of the Board. He was a man of the strictest honesty and integrity com- bined, and stood like a stone wall in favor of right and justice. Chicanery and fraud had no chance to commit any wrong against the county while he was in office. As the founder of Hanover and Hollen- berg he will always be remembered by the citizens of Washington County. His whole soul was in the effort to build up the county he had selected as his future home. He was ever ready to assist his poorer neighbors, on many occasions giving them corn and provisions, and in not a few cases furnish- ing them seed for spring or fall planting. As elsewhere mentioned, he established the city of Hanover in 1869, and his time and means were devoted to the development of that city.

In June, 1874, Mr. Hollenberg being in poor health decided to visit his native land with the double purpose of regaining his health and inducing emigration. He reached New York in the latter part of June, and sailed from that harbor on the steamer "Bolivia" on the morning of July 1, 1874. The steamer was but four hours at sea when Mr. Hollenberg was taken violently sick with hemor- rhage of the lungs. Every effort was made by those around him to relieve his sufferings, but without success. He breathed his last about midnight, July 1, 1874, in his fifty-first year. He was buried in the Atlantic ocean the next day, the funeral service being read by the Captain. He was identified by the papers on his person, and after the steamer had made the trip to Glasgow and return, the papers and an official notice of his death were mailed to his friends.

In Hanover Cemetery a monument contains a brief biographical sketch of his life, and names him the founder of Hanover and the father of Washing- ton County. May his many virtues be ever cherished

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in the memory of the citizens of the county as a bright oasis in their history. At his death he left a large estate. llis widow subsequently married Judge William Kalhoefer and resides in Hanover.

ON. THOMAS MURPHY, Mayor of the city of Hanover, represented his ward as Alderman in the City Council for eight years prior to his election as Mayor, and amply proved his fitness for this office. He came to Kansas in 1879, locating at once in Hanover, and engaged in the hotel business, officiating as "mine host" of the "Cottage Hotel" for six years. He put up the building, and still owns it. He has a fine residence on North Denver avenue, in addition to other valuable city property, including a large number of vacant lots. He has been one of the most stirring and energetic men of the town, and one warmly interested in the projects calculated for its general prosperity.

Mr. Murphy was born in County Kilkenny, Ire- land, in 1833, and there spent his childhood and youth until eighteen years of age. Then not be- ing satisfied with his condition or his prospects on his native soil, he set out alone for the United States, and located first in Herkimer County, N. Y. He occupied himself as a farm laborer near Little Falls, and was there married, July 5, 1862, to Miss Mary Toughey. Soon afterward he engaged in farming on his own account, operating successfully in this manner until 1867. Then leaving New York State, he removed to Kentucky, where he car- ried on farming one year.

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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 13

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

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