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 30

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Publication date: 1890
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When Mr. Klintberg came to this homestead the country was a wild and open prairie, and not a stiek of timber or anything but heavy prairie grass was on the claim. Ile now has a nice grove of forest trees, an apple orchard of about three acres, and a quantity of grapes. There are about 750 rods of hedge; and a good stable, graneries, corn- cribs, a wind-mill, ete., have been erected on the estate. Eighty acres have been added to the home- stead, and the entire acreage is carefully and intel- ligently handled.

Mr. Klintberg has worked at his trade of a carpenter part of the time since he came here, and has built many of the houses in this vicinity. IIe worked on the first frame building of Clay Center. which was the first house he built in the United States.

Mr. Klintberg has done much work as a pioneer minister, when there was no regular preacher here. lle would walk from his farm to near Clay Center. work all the week and walk home Saturday night, and then on Sunday morning would walk to a place of worship distant six miles, go again in the evening, and after his second service walk baek to Clay Center, to be ready for his work Monday morning.

In Sweden, in 1856, the gentleman of whom we write was united in marriage with Miss Bertie Klintberg. Five children were born to them while they still lived in their native land, and two died before the parents came to America. Three chil- dren have been born in America. The living are: Lewis P., Albert, Angust V., Charles E., Henry W and Matilda. The latter is living in Portland, Ore.

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Mr. Klintberg and his family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is an ex- horter and Class-Leader. He was formerly identi- fied with the Lutherans, and as a member of that denomination did pioneer work in spreading the Gospel. He had also preached for some years in bis native land. Ile and his wife can enjoy the comforts by which they are surrounded, in the con- sciousness that their years have been well and use- fully spent, and with a feeling of thankfulness that their labors have been crowned with success.

u LRICH G. PANNBACKER, farmer and cat- tle man, has been a resident of Washington County since the fall of 1877. He is the owner of a valuable farm consisting of 240 acres of land, on section 36, Franklin Township, where he is carrying on a successful business. The land is well improved, and the place which was for several years a "bachelor's hall," is now the home of a happy family.

Mr. Pannbacker is a native of Oldenburg, Ger- many, where he was born Dec. 28, 1848. He is a son of Ulrich and Christina Pannbacker, the for- mer of whom is still living in the Fatherland. The mother died forty years ago. She had borne six children, five of whom are now living: Ernest, Rudolph and Anthony are residents of the Father- land. Our subject and his brother Christian reside in America.

The gentleman of whom we write obtained a thorough education in his native land, enjoying excellent school privileges until the age of sixteen, being afterward engaged in work upon the farm. In 1876 he came to America, and after spending a few days with his brother at Peoria, Ill .. came to Kansas. He spent a short time at Hanover, and then went to St. Joseph, Mo., where he remained for two months. Returning to Ilanover the same year he purchased 160 acres of land, upon which he made his home. In 1883 he returned to Ger- many to visit his father, remaining in his native land a year.

On his return to America in the fall of 1884,

Mr. Pannbacker was married at Dixon, Ill., to Miss Mary Juelfs, and repaired at once with his bride to his Western home. Three bright children, Chris- tina, Ernest and Eva brighten the once lonely fireside. When Mr. Pennbacker first came to America he had a capital of about $1,600. 1lis present estate has been accumulated by industry, prudence and economy, while his herds of cattle and other farm accessories add to his financial prosperity. Mr. Pannbacker is of independent po- litical views, and religiously, is a communicant of the Lutheran Church.

Mrs. Pannbacker is a daughter of Jacob Juelfs, a native of Oldenburg, Germany, and a schoolmate of the father of our subject. Mr. Juelfs came to the United States in the fall of 1857, and locating in Dixon, Ill., became, in due time, the owner of 380 acres of well-improved land. There his wife died in 1871, and he, in August, 1887. He was the father of eleven children, nine now living: Jacob resides in Ida County, Iowa; Henry in York, Neb .; Eva, the wife of B. Johnson, near Sterling, III .; Anthony in Lawrence County, Dak .; Julius also in Dakota; Albert on the home farm at Dixon, Ill. ; Mary, wife of our subject; Christian, in Woodbury County, lowa, and Herman, at Dixon, Ill.

A lithographie view of the comfortable residence of Mr. and Mrs. Pannbacker is presented elsewhere in this volume.

M RS. BARBARA ETTER. It is no unusual thing for a woman in this age to take charge of the estate or business of her hus- hand and carry it on successfully. Among those who are engaged in such an enterprise few have succeeded better than the lady whose name initiates this sketch. Left a widow in 1882, with the care of eight children and an estate of 320 acres, she has carried on the farm in an eminently busi- ness like manner, erected good buildings, made fine improvements, and now can surround her family with all the comforts and many of the luxuries of life. The reader will notice elsewhere in this vol- ume a fine engraving of the old homestead, in which Mrs. Etter is comfortably domiciled, and

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where old and young, rich and poor, are alike hospitably received and pleasantly entertained.

Born in Switzerland in the month of November, 1846, Mrs. Etter was the daughter of John and Magdalina (Imdorf) Amacher, likewise born and reared amid the rugged scenery of that little Re- public, where after a life quietly passed in following the pursuits of a busy, work-a-day world, they died and were laid to rest. They had a family of ten children, of whom their daughter Barbara was the youngest. She had attained to womanhood before she left the land of her birth in 1868, and crossed the ocean to America. After living two years in the Buckeye State, she came to Washington County, Kan.

In Farmington Township, on the 11th of April, 1870, Barbara Amacher was united in marriage with Jacob Etter, who was of the same nationality as his wife, and born Dec. 25, 1839. In the spring of 1868 he came to the United States, and the fol- lowing year to this county. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Etter settled in Farmington Town- ship, where after a happy wedded life the husband and father died Oct. 27, 1882, when in the prime of a vigorous manhood. Eight children had been born to him and his wife, namely : John, Mary M., Edward A., Lizzie, Rudolph W., Anna S., Jacob H. and Emma E.

Mrs. Etter is a member of the German Reformed Church, to which her husband also belonged. She has in a marked manner displayed her business ability since the death of her husband, and no more fitting monument could be raised to his memory than she is building in preparing their children for future positions of usefulness, honor and respon- sibility.

ONIN J. L. JONES, editor and proprietor of the Wakefield Advertiser. That "poets are born, not made," is an old and trite remark. The same might be as truthfully said of journalists, for the best of education and training. and even a decided literary ability, will not alone make a successful editor. There must be also a combination of shrewdness, taet, and other quali-

ities which for want of a better term, we call the journalistie instinct. The gentleman above named, possesses this in a marked degree, having in a few short years established for his paper the third largest circulation in Clay County. The sheet was established in 1886, and is a five-column folio, all home printed (the only oue in the county), and is devoted to the interests of Wakefield and vicinity. It is independent in the field of politics, aiming to expose fraud and bad management on the part of public officials of whatever party.

Mr. Jones is a son of Richard L. and Bertha ( Morgan) Jones, and is the elder of the two chil- dren born to his parents, his brother Richard being now engaged in mercantile business in Utica, N. Y. The Jones family came originally from Chester, England, our subject being of the fifth generation in America. His grandfather, Pomeroy Jones, was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was a native of Connecticut, and later resided in New York, fol- lowing the legal profession. The father of our subject was also a lawyer, and was located in Oneida County, N. Y., for many years. He and his wife are now living near Philadelphia, Pa.

Mr. Jones opened his eyes to the light in Utica, N. Y., on Sept. 10, 1852. He was educated in the schools of Utica and the Whitestown Seminary, during his boybood. In his sixteenth year he did his first work in an printing office. Completing his education at the Madison University of Hamilton, N. Y., he again entered a printing office, spending some time as compositor of the Utica Herald. In 1872, he traveled Westward, and sojourned in Chi- cago for about three years, being employed as compositor, reporter, collector, etc., on various papers.

The next removal of Mr. Jones was to the Black Hills, where he went in 1875. Four years later he purchased an interest in the Phoenix, which was published at Wilmington, Ill., and retained connec- tion with that sheet for over a year. lle then worked on papers at Joliet, Ill .. for a short time, and on March 1, 1880, became a resident of this city. Ilis education had qualified him for the pro- fession of pedagogy, in which he engaged upon lo- cating here. In that profession he was principally occupied until the establishment of the Advertiser,

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since which time he has devoted himself entirely to journalism.

At the home of the bride in this city, in Octo. her, 1881, the rites of wedlock were celebrated be- tween Mr. Jones and Fannie J., daughter of John and Adeline Martin. The bride was born in Will County, Ill., and is a lady of high mental capacity and culture. The union has resulted in the birth of two children, Ira and Bertha.

Mr. Jones is a Democrat in his personal politics. though his editorial work is unbiased by party feel- ing. Ile has held the position of Assistant Post- master of Wakefield. He has membership in the social order of A. F. & A. M., belonging to Lodge No. 208, Joliet, Ill., and Milford Lodge I. O.O. F. The mental ability and business energy of Mr. Jones are combined with a moral and social nature, which cause him to be regarded with esteem in the com- munity, and it is expected that his journal will con- tinue to be a power in Clay County.

REDERICK A. EBELING. A strong man in his community, Mr. Ebeling exercises no unimportant influence among the people with whom he has lived for many years and who have learned to value him at his true worth. He is a man possessing a large experience of life in its different phases and has seen a goodly portion of the earth's surface, being a native of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Germany, where his birth took place Aug. 8, 1844. He was reared to man- hood in his native province, receiving a practical education in its common schools.

At the age of twenty years Mr. Ebeling was drafted into the German army and followed the fortunes of a soldier's life for four years thereafter, doing duty in Austria and Prussia, participating in the Franco- Prussian War and taking an active part in sixteen battles, as a member of the 19th Dra- goons. At the end of his military career in 1872, during which time he had not only gained the ad- miration of his comrades but the approval of his superior officers, he was given an honorable dis- charge and not long afterward set out for America.

The career of Mr. Ebeling in this country has been one creditable in the extreme. He at once sought the Western wilds and for a year was a resident of Doniphan County, this State. Then coming to Washington County, he purchased the farm which he now owns and occupies. About a year afterward in 1873, he was married to Miss Anna, daughter of John and Mary (Focke) Boecker. The parents of Mrs. Ebeling were likewise natives of Oldenburg where they grew to maturity, married and spent their entire lives, the father mostly following his trade of a linen weaver. He died in 1872, at the age of sixty-seven years. The mother is still living in Germany and is now seventy-four years old. Five of the six children born to them are living. A brother, Deidrich, lives in this county, the others remain in Germany. Mrs. Ebeling was the young- est of the family and was born in Oldenburg, March 24, 1854. She came to America in 1873 when a young woman of nineteen years and not long after- ward became the wife of our subject.

To Mr. and Mrs. Ebeling there have been born six children, five of whom are living, viz: Cather- ine J. S. Emma M. H., Annie C. H., Frederick J. and John G., all of whom are at home with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ebeling are connected with the Evan- gelical Lutheran Church at Hanover, Mr. Ebeling takes an active interest in politics and upholds the principles of the Republican party. He has never been ambitious for office, although serving for the last nine years as a member of the School Board of district No. 29. A man upright and honest in his dealings, he is looked upon as a worthy representa- tive of his nationality and possesses in a marked degree the best qualities of a substantial ancestry.

The Ebeling homestead comprises 240 acres of land, all of which is in a good state of cultivation and improved with modern buildings. The resi- dence, a story and a half frame structure, was erected in 1878. A good barn and other necessary outbuildings give ample facilities for the shelter of stock and the storage of grain. There is an orchard of 100 fruit trees, besides ninety grape vines and the smaller fruits in abundance. Mr. Ebel- ing has been quite successful in live stock and has at the present time (1889) thirty-four head of cattle, fifty head of swine and eight head of good fat horses.

RESIDENCE OF FREDERICK A. EBELING, SEC. 31. HANOVER TP, WASHINGTON CO.

DALE CHURCH.

TOWN LOTS.

GENERAL STORE

BLACKS MITH.

POST OFFICE

RESIDENCE OF E. W. CARSON AND ENOSDALE, COLEMAN TP, WASHINGTON CO .

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The improvements upon his farm are largely the work of his own hands and he has broken 100 acres of his land himself. Thirty-five acres additional are under the plow. The industry and perseverance of Mr. Ebeling have been the means of gathering around himself and his family all of the comforts and many of the luxuries of life.

John Ebeling, the father of our subject, was born in Oldenburg, Germany, and married Miss Cather- ine Meiners who was born and reared not far from the home of her husband. They spent their entire lives in their native province, the mother dying in 1872 at the age of seventy years, and the father in 1889 at the advanced age of eighty-three. They were the parents of eight children, four of whom are living and all residents of Germany, except our subject.

We invite the attention of our numerous readers to a fine view of the handsome residence and old home of Mr. and Mrs. Ebeling, on another page of this work.

E NOS W. CARSON is a well-known resident of Coleman Township, Washington County. He resides on section 23, where he owns 160 acres of land, and has a beautiful home, a view of which is given on another page of this volume. He possesses considerable other property in the township, including a portion of the town of Enos- dale. He has been the Postmaster of that village since the office was started.

Before giving the main events in the life of our subject, some brief notes regarding his ancestors will not be amiss. Ilis parents were Jesse B. and Mary (Williams) Carson. The father was the son of John and Abigail (Sumner) Carson of North Carolina. The mother was a daughter of James Williams of the same State. The grandfather of our subject moved from his native State to Indiana in the year 1819, and there entered land near Mon- rovia, Morgan County. His death occurred there, as did that of his wife, who lived to the ad- vanced age of ninety-three years. The homestead was afterward secured by the son. Jesse B. Carson, father of our subject. The ancestral families of

C'arson, Sumner and Williams were members of the Society of Friends.

Enos W. C'arson was born on the ancestral home- stead Nov. 14, 1836. He received his education in the neighborhood, and was there reared to farm pursuits. fle was married on Feb. 17, 1856, to Miss Mary J. Jones, daughter of Samuel and Nancy ( Ramsey ) Jones. The mother was a dangli- ter of Bartholomew and Catherine ( Williams) Ramsey, who removed from Kentucky to Indiana as early as 1816. The father was a son of Evan and Sarah (Bonine) Jones who removed from Ten- nessee to the Hoosier State about 1816. The Jones family belonged to the Society of Friends, while the Ramseys were Methodists.

About two years after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs Enos W. Carson purchased a portion of the Ramsey homestead. which had been entered by the grandparents of Mrs. Carson in 1816. It was lo- cated in Hendrieks County, Ind., five miles from Plainfield. There they lived until 1881, when they sold out and came to this State. They located near where they now reside, and Mr. Carson bought a large amount of land. Ilis purchase included eighty acres on section 16, eighty on 15, 160 on 13, eighty on 26, eighty on 22, eighty on 14, eighty on 25, and an additional 160 on section 15. Ile after- ward traded off some of this property and pur- chased the quarter section where he now lives. and sixty acres on section 24. In all this land he has placed about 240 acres under cultivation.

In July, 1884, Mr. Carson by special effort se- enred the location of a postoffice in the eastern part of the township. The department prefixed Enos to the word dale, making the station Enosdale. 1886 our subject started a store there in company with his sister-in-law under the firm name of Car- son & Snipes. Mrs. Snipes subsequently sold out to .l. E. Carson, the eldest son of our subject. The young man conducted the store until his death in the spring of 1888. During this time his father and he had platted the town of Enosdale. Mr. Carson has now disposed of all the lots but seven. There are now eight buildings erected there, mak- ing quite a nucleus for a village. After the death of his son, Mr. Carson sold his store to .J. W. ITol- fer, who removed to Lynn with the stock. Mr.

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Carson purchased of A. F. Robins another store, and sold out to Mr. William De Vallon, who is now erecting a fine frame store building.

Mr. and Mrs. Carson have become the parents of seven children. J. E., the eldest. who lived to become a young man and was possessed of good business qualities, met his death March 5, 1888. He left a widow to mourn his loss. Ile had been Trus- tee and held other offices in the township. Mattie is now the wife of P. Mills who owns a fine farm in Coleman Township. They have one child, Ethel. J. Fent. is a young man, at home, and has an interest in the stock on the place. Cornie, a young lady has fitted herself for teaching, but is still at home. Bertha is in school. Two children were taken from them in infancy, while their par- ents still lived in Indiana.

Mr. Carson is a stanch Republican. Hc and his family belong to the Society of Friends. There being no organization here when he came, he went to work to perfect one. He rallied men and means and a good frame edifice, 20x30 feet, was con- structed. He donated the land for a church and parsonage in the village of Enosdale, and also fur- nished a good share of the means and labor with which to build the church. The society now has a membership of 166. The generous and enterpris- ing character of Mr. Carson is shown in his history. IIc is interested in every movement which tends to the advancement of the county, where his wife and himself are widely and favorably known.

W HITMAN H. KNIGHT has been promi- mently identified with the educational, minsterial, and business interests of Washı- ington County and Northern Kansas, for nearly a score of years. He owns and occupies an excellent farm on section 28, Kimeo Township, but owing to a crippled hip, he has never farmed it for any great length of time. Several years of his life have been spent in the profession of teaching, and a greater number in the work of the ministry. in which he is at present engaged. He also conducts a drug store at Kimeo, and is the Postmaster there,

He is of New York birth and parentage, and a few words regarding his ancestors will not be amiss.

Our subject traces his descent from one of three brothers who emigrated from England to America in an early day. They settled in North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Maryland, respectively. To the latter was born a son, Joshua, who was the grand- father of our subject. The birth of Joshna Knight took place in Baltimore in 1776, and his death oc- curred in Vienna South Corners, Oneida Co., N. Y., in 1852. He was a Presbyterian minister.

Ilezekiah T. Knight, son of Joshna, and father of our subject, was born in Newport, N. Y., July 16, 1806. In 1840 he went to Adanis, Jefferson Co., N. Y., where he remained until April, 1855. He then removed to Linnville, Ogle Co .. Ill., where he resided until 1868. From boy- hood until this time he had been employed at the trade of a blacksmith. At the date last mentioned, he removed to Mount Morris, where he became connected with the Rock River College, and where he is now residing. Politically he was a Whig, and later a Republican, but he has kept out of politics as much as possible. In his younger days he was captain in what was then called the State Militia of New York. He is a Master Mason, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Miss Anna Angell, who was born Oct. 5, 1806, at Newport, N. Y. She was the daughter of Joshua and Mehritable Angell, natives of Rhode Island. Her father was a millwright, and met his death by an accident in a mill at Newport, in 1852. Six children were born to the parents of our subject. They were named respectively: Joshua, Louisa M., David A., Delia A., Whitman H. and Helen A. Of this family, David, Helen, and our subject are all who now survive.

Rev. Whitman H. Knight was born Dec. 15, 1839, at Sandy Creek, Oswego Co., N. Y. He was reared to the age of sixteen in Adams, Jef- ferson County, that State, and received his early education there. He then attended Rock River College in Mount Morris, Ill., from which he was graduated in 1858. He spent three years in school teaching in Ogle and DeKalb counties, and with that exception resided with his parents until 1863. The following seven years were spent by him in

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preparation for the ministry. He then, in 1870, came to this county and homesteaded the quarter section of land on which he now resides. For the first two or three years after becoming a resident of Kansas, he was engaged principally in school teaching. On Aug. 28, 1871, he was ordained in the Congrega- tional Church and now preaches every Sunday in Clay County. In 1877 he opened his store in Kimeo.

The marriage of our subject was celebrated June 17, 1863, the bride being Miss Mary F. Jones. IIer birth took place in l'tica, N. Y., Nov. 5, 1838. Her father, David Jones, was of Welsh extraction. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church from early life and was a local preacher in that denomination. Mrs. Jones bore the maiden name of Ellen Newsam, and was a native of the Em- pire State. She is now living here with her daughter at upwards of seventy-six years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Knight have had six children born unto them, but four have been removed by the hand of death. The deceased bore the names of Burton T., Alfred F., Edward L., and Clara B. Those surviving are Anna A., now in her sixteenth year, and Charles W., in his thirteenth year.

Mr. Knight has been a Justice of the Peace nearly ever since he became a resident of this State. The Republican party is that to which he gives his vote. He is now President of the Old Settlers' As- sociation of Washington, Clay and Riley counties. He has the oldest library in the State, and takes a justifiable pride in showing it to visitors. IIe ean look back over many years of honorable and use- ful manhood, and forward with the expectation of devoting many more to the uplifting of human- ity and the cause of the Master.

W ILLIAM KING. a farmer and stock-raiser on section 30, Highland Township, Wash- ington County, is a native of the Buckeye State, where a large part of his life has been passed. He left there when a young man, soon after his marriage, and located in Linn County, Iowa, pur- chasing a farm and improving it very materially.

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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 30

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

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