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 58

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0 LIVER R. IIAYNES. The States east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio rivers have sent many men to build up homes be- yond the Father of Waters. The Buckeye State has contributed her fair quota, and Clay County is now the home of many of them. The gentleman above named is one of those whom that State has sent farther toward the setting sun. . He owns a beautiful estate in Sherman Township, where he is engaged in farming, and makes a specialty of raising Poland-China hogs, of which he has a drove of fifty-nine fine specimens.

Mr. Haynes was born in Washington County, Ohio, where his mother, Susan (Griffin ) Haynes, died in 1839. The same year his father, Sylvester Ilaynes, removed to Monroe Connty, Ill., where he died in 1861. Sylvester Haynes was born in Massachusetts, and was a son of Aaron Haynes. who participated in the battle of Bunker Hill, and died in Princeton, Mass., where he had lived many years. Mrs. Susan Ilaynes was a native of New Hampshire, her parents, who were of Irish ancestry. dying in that State.

The subject of this sketch, after having gone to Illinois with his father, continned to reside in Mon- roe County until 1864, when he moved to Macou- pin County, Ill. In the fall of 1865 he came to this State and county, and homesteaded eighty acres of his present farm. This section of country was then a wild, open prairie, abounding with deer, antelope, wild turkeys and prairie chickens. The

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settlers for ten miles around could all congregate in a room twenty feet square. Since coming to this county, Mr. Haynes has improved his land and added forty acres to his homestead. He now has a fine, large frame house, with beautiful forest trees around it and on either side of the drive from the house to the road. He also has a good orchard and outbuildings, including a well-built chicken-house. All the improvements have been made and the trees planted by our subject's own hands.

In Monroe County, Ill., in 1855, Mr. Haynes was united in marriage with Mary A., daughter of Asa and Cynthia (Devall) Barker. Mrs. Haynes has borne seven children, one of whom died in infaney. The survivors are: Ida Z .. A. Grace, Olive E., Horace M., H. Elmer, and Walter E. The first-named is now the wife of D. C. Fraser, and lives in Clifton; Horace M. married Miss Ad- die Haynes; H. Elmer married Miss Mary B. Kiser.

Mr. Haynes is one of the most highly respected men in this part of the country, where his energy, ability and good character are known and recog- nized. His wife also has many friends in the com- munity.

AVID C. TROUP. Seldom does the bio- grapher meet with a more intelligent or well informed man upon all questions of the day, than he with whose well-known name we introduce this sketch. He possesses in- tellectual qualities of a high order, is very pro- gressive in his ideas, being opposed to dogmas and creeds, and holding that it is the privilege and duty of every man to do his own thinking. By occupation he is a farmer, and in this line he is one of the most skillful and successful men in his com- munity. He owns a snng homestead on section 18, in Linn Township, where he has effected good im- provements and is one of the leading lights in his community.

A native of Linn County, Iowa, our subject was horn March 19, 1841, and is the son of Christian Troup, who was born in Maryland, and who emi- grated to lowa in 1837, nine years before it had

been admitted to the I'nion as a State. The coun- try then abounded in Indians and wild animals. The first dwelling which sheltered Christian Troup in Iowa, was a three-cornered shanty made of poles and bed quilts. He was one of five men who had settled with their families in that locality, and three out of the five, becoming discouraged, recrossed the Father of Waters and returned whenee they had come that same fall. Panthers frequently roamed through the woods and wolves often made night hideous with their howling. The brave pioneer, Christian Troup, however, stood his ground, tilled a portion of the land around him, and effected improvements as rapidly as was possi- ble under the circumstances. He was the first I'nited Brethren minister in Linn County, Iowa. Ile there spent the remainder of his life, dying abont 1849. The mother died in 1879.

Young Troup grew up amid the wild scenes of frontier life and at an early age was taught those habits of industry which became so useful to him in after years. When he had become old enough to attend school, the settlers were coming slowly in and a school was established in a log-cabin. This structure was built in the most primitive style with puncheon floors, a clapboard roof, and seats and (lesks of slabs, the latter upheld by wooden pins. The system of instruction was similar to the sur- roundings. Our subject only attended school about six months altogether. For a time the fam- ily ground their bread-stuff, which was corn- meal, exclusively. in a coffee mill, the nearest grist mill being at Dubuque, eighty miles away. David C. in order to obtain a little hard cash, occasionally worked out for twenty-five cents a day. and sometimes in company with others, hauled dressed pork to Muscatine. forty miles distant, selling it at $1.50 per hundred. To obtain their supplies and provisions, the settlers were obliged to go to the Mississippi River.

The above events summed up the early life of Mr. Troup until the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1861 he enlisted as a Union soldier in Company 11, 7th Fowa Infantry and served four years and five tlays. He was in some of the most important battles of the war, namely : Fts. Henry and Don- elson, the siege and the second battle of Corinthi,

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was also at Shiloh, Belmont, and in other engage- ments. He went with Sherman on the Atlanta campaign, later joined in the famous march to the sea. and afterwards repaired to the National Capital and was present at the Grand Review. For 120 days he heard the discharge of fire-arms and artill- ery and was frequently in the thickest of the fight. He, however, escaped without a scratch, but con- tracted the measles, which confined him in the hospital seven or eight months, and from the ef- fects of which he was permanently disabled. being assigned to duty prematurely and standing on guard in the rain. This caused a relapse, which laid him up six or eight weeks.

Upon leaving the army Mr. Troup returned to Washington County, Iowa, where he carried on farming and lived until August, 1877. Then com- ing to Kansas, he settled in Washington County, of which he has since been a resident. He located on his present farm in 1879, when its only im- provement was a shanty and only fifty acres had been broken. The labor of bringing the soil to a good state of cultivation. and the homestead to its present condition has involved years of labor and the outlay of a goodly amount of hard cash. Mr. Tronp has planted two acres of forest trees and 150 fruit trees. Ile has a good frame house, 20x24 feet in dimensions, a granary and wind mill, and the various other appurtenances essential to the successful prosecution of farming. The home- stead proper, embraces eighty acres, while Mr. Troup operates besides 320 acres of land. During the season of 1889 he harvested 160 acres of corn. 50 acres of oats and about 100 acres of wild grass. He makes a speciality of stock-raising, having seventeen head of horses, thirty-five head of cattle, and over fifty head of swine.

In August, 1867, David C. Troup was united in marriage with Miss Mary A., daughter of Manley Brown, late of Washington County, Iowa, and now deceased. Mrs. Troup was born in Fayette County, Ohio, Sept. 4, 1843, and lived with her parents until her marriage. which took place in lowa. Four of the five children of this marriage are now living, namely : Ella M., Charles H., Orrie M. and Ira A., the latter two being twins.

Politically, Mr. Troup is a stanch supporter of

of the principles of the Republican party. He has been quite prominent in local affairs. Ile has for the last five years been a School Director in his district, and has officiated as C'onstable for two years. lle was Road Overseer one year. Ile is a member in good standing of the Masonic fraternity and belongs to the G. A. R. Ile is promi- nently connected with the Christian Church in Linn Township, the services being held in Reiter's School, district No. 84.

b ENRY DANIELS. One of the best farms in Riley County and one embellished with the finest buildings, belongs to the subject of this notice, a prominent and lead- ing citizen of Zeandale Township who, morally and financially, has been a decided success. Polit- ically he is a warm supporter of the Republican party, and has been somewhat prominent in local affairs, serving as Councilman while a resident of Manhattan and holding other positions of trust and responsibility. He is of New England ancestry, and was born in what is now West Roxbury, Mass., Nov. 24, 1829.

The father of our subjeet was Richard Daniels, and his mother's maiden name was Sarah Chamber- lain. Both were natives of Roxbury, Mass., and spent their entire lives within the confines of their native county, the mother dying when her son Henry was a lad of eight years. Richard Daniels was a farmer by occupation, and he survived his wife two years, dying in what is now West Rox- bury, about 1839. The parental family included four children, of whom Harry was the eldest born.

Young Daniels soon after the death of his mother went to Nottingham, N.11., where he lived on a farm seven years, then returning to his native State, made his home one year in old Cambridge, and the next ten years was a resident of Waltham, Mass. In the meantime he learned the carpenter's. trade which he followed until 'leaving New Eng- land. This event occurred in the fall of 1856. when he emigrated to Illinois, where he prosecuted carpentering and farming combined until the spring of 1867. Then, in the vicinity of Peoria, he

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worked at carpentering during the summer season and in the fall returned to McHenry County, so- journing there until the spring of 1858.

At the date above mentioned Mr. Daniels first trod the soil of Kansas. Establishing himself in the embryo town of Manhattan, he worked at his trade about two years, then in the spring of 1860 went to Colorado, of which he was a resident about five years engaged in farming. Manhattan saw him again in August, 1865, and later he visited Massachusetts and Illinois, but drifted back to Manhattan and worked again at his trade several months. In the spring of 1867 he established him- self at Salina in the livery business for a short time, then in the fall of 1868 purchased a tract of land in Zeandale Township, Riley County, upon which he settled and where he has since lived. He is now the owner of 360 acres, upon which he has erected substantial modern buildings and made other good improvements.

. In Zeandale Township, Riley County, Henry Daniels was united in marriage with Mrs. Naney M. (Crawford) Anderson. Mrs. Daniels was born in Pennsylvania, and was the widow of William Anderson, who with his brother was burned to death in a prairie fire while on their way from Manhattan to their home in Zeandale Township. Of her marriage with Mr. Anderson there were born four children, James W., Alice, Anna and Dora. Her marriage with Mr. Daniels has like- wise resulted in the birth of four children, Rich- ard Il., Sarah E., John W. and Charles R.

ONATHAN GLOVER. Among the men who ventured upon the frontier during the territorial days of Kansas, Mr. Glover is de- serving of special mention. Ile arrived in Riley County as early as 1856, with a capital of $12 in his pocket, and halted within a section of country which was chiefly inhabited by Indians and wild animals. Ile possessed the hardy spirit of the true pioneer, and without being dismayed by the outlook, preempted 160 acres of wild land on sec- tion 7, Ogden Township, where he made a dugout

in which to shelter himself, and proceeded in true pioneer style, with the improvement of his prop- erty. The hardships which he endured, and the manner in which he labored for a series of years. was but the story of many around him, and which has been detailed so many times in this volume. Suffice it to say that he was in no wise lacking in those qualities which insure a man's prosperity and success.

Mr. Glover lived upon his first place until 1870, making many improvements. and then selling out to good advantage, purchased 270 acres on sections 19 and 24, Fancy Creek Township. Of this he has since retained possession, and has made of it one of the most desirable farms in the township. He has brought the land to a good state of cultivation, planted forest and fruit trees, made fences and erected buildings, and surrounded himself and his family with all the comforts of life. The dwelling is a remarkably neat and tasty structure, and the premises at all points indicate the progressive and independent spirit of the proprietor.

Mr. Glover is of New England birth and ances- try, and first opened his eyes to the light in Hebron, Me .. April 25, 1825. His parents were Irvin and Orilla (Reckord) Glover, likewise natives of IIe- bron, where the father spent his entire life, dying when his son, Jonathan, was only six years old. Ile was a farmer by oceupation, and left his family in good circumstances. The paternal grandfather was Irvin Glover, Sr., a native of Massachusetts, and of English extraction. Mrs. Orilla Glover came to Kansas with a niece in 1863, and died at the home of our subject in Riley County, in 1880. Her father was Joseph Reckord, a native of Mas- sachusetts, and the son of an old soldier of the Re- volutionary War.

Three children only, were born to the parents of our subject-Jonathan, Frederick, and Irvin. Jon- athan is the only surviving member of the family. and he spent his childhood and youth in his native town. leaving there when a young man of twenty- one years, for Kansas. Prior to this, however, he had been married Dec. 14. 1854, to Miss Elizabeth Rich, the wedding taking place at the bride's home in Pembroke, Me. Mrs. Glover was born at Pem- broke, Me .. April 14, 1831. Of this union there

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have been born six children, viz: Ida, Fanny. Ed- ward, Frederick, Katie, and Louis. Fanny, Ed- ward and Louis, are deceased. Ida is the widow of Wilson Caley, and she is living on a farm in Wabaunsee County, this State. The parents of Mrs. Glover, were Joseph and Nancy ( Wood ) Rich, also natives of the Pine Tree State, and of English extraction. Mr. Glover, politically, is independent. and in religious matters is also independent, not being connected with any church organization.

Le R. ELLIOTT. No name is more familiar in the business and literary world of Kan- sas, or is more deservedly held in honor, than that of this gentleman, who is one of the fore- most financiers and business men of Riley County, in whose upbuilding he has borne a prominent part for more than twenty years. An extensive prop- erty-holder and a large real estate dealer, he is one of the leading citizens of Manhattan, and his hand has been felt in the various enterprises that have given an impetus to the growth of the city, developing its business interests, and attracting within its borders an intelligent and energetic class of men. A deep thinker. a reader of the best literature, a man whose mind has been broad- ened by travel and polished by contact with the outside world, he is a ripe scholar, though mostly self-educated. and possesses a wealth of informa- sion rarely surpassed by business men. He is besides a ready and talented writer, and wields an influential pen. He first came to Kansas as a mem- ber of the editorial profession, and is still connected with it as a regular correspondent, and as editor and proprietor of the Manhattan Homestead, a monthly publication, which has done much to encourage and foster immigration to this State. He has been President of the Manhattan Board of Trade ever since its organization ; he is President of the Union National Bank of Manhattan; President of the To- peka Sugar Company, and of the Kansas Land, Lot and Development Company, which owns large tracts of land in the Solomon and Kansas River valleys; and he has been Secretary of the North Kansas Real Estate Association since its organization, and

Vice-President of the National Real Estate Asso- ciation.

L. R. Elliott was born born in Greene, Chenango Co., N. Y., Nov. 21. 1835, a son of John J. Elliott, a native of Scotland. The father was an only son. and when quite young went to live with an uncle in London, and was apprenticed to learn the trade of tailor in that city. He married an Isle of Wight lady, Miss Jane Blake, and followed his trade in London till he came to America in 1829. For some years thereafter he carried on the fulling bus- iness in Utica, N. Y., and then removed to Greene, where he pursued his trade till his death, in 1846. His wife spent her last years with her children, and died in Manhattan in 1869. ller father. James Blake, was a native of the Isle of Wight, the son of another James Blake. He was a mason by trade, and spent his entire life on and near the Isle of Wight, and he and his wife. Jane Ockendon, and his parents are now quietly sleeping their last sleep in God's Hill church-yard, a few miles from Newport. on their native Isle. The following is recorded of the seven children born to the parents of our subject: John J., who served in the War with Mexico, and also in the late War, now lives in Idaho; JJane married Moses Tuttle, and died in Greene, in 1879; Charlotte married S. G. Hoyt, and lives in Colorado Springs; W. W. lives in San Francisco; L. R., our subject ; H. N. lives in Los Angeles, C'al. ; Elizabeth married T. A. Southworth, and lives in Coventry ville, N. Y.

He of whom we write was but eleven years old when his father died, and his mother was left with little means. Iler eldest son being a soldier in the Mexican War, and her second son an apprentiee. our subject, thus early in life, not only had to earn his own living, but also to assist in the support of other members of the family. Even then he dis- played marked self-reliance and a good capacity for work, doing well and with a will whatever he found to do, being mostly employed at farming and gardening, gleaning his education when and where he could, attending school as opportunity offered in the winter season. In 1853 he com- menced to learn the printer's trade in the town of Greene, and continued at it there and in the town

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of Norwich a part of the time for the ensuing three years. When his brother had completed his apprenticeship he joined him in the business of house painting, and in 1856 he and two of his brothers bought a farm in the town of Maine, Broome Co., N. Y., which they sold two years later, and our subject engaged as commercial salesman for a crockery house in Binghamton; and was at the same time corresponding editor of the Binghamton Standard. He traveled in New York and Pennsyl- vania in that capacity till January, 1866, when, with a partner, he engaged in business at East Sag- inaw, Mich. In August of the same year he sold out to his partner, and came to Kansas to accept the position of editor of the Atchison Daily Free Press, and six months later, in company with Frank A. Root, bought the office, and in 1867 put in the first power press in Atchison. In February, 1868, Mr. Elliott sold his interests in that city and came to Manhattan, and in July bought the Radical and the Independent, two weekly papers, and in September consolidated them under the name of the Manhattan Standard. Ile edited this paper till December, 1870, when he sold it to Albert Grif- fin, and the name was changed to The Nationalist. In the meantime he had also engaged in the real es- tate business, and pioneered that business in Man- hattan, and is still the leader in real estate in that city. He has for twenty-one years been agent for the lands of the Kansas Pacific and the Union l'a- cific Railroads. In 1869 Mr. Elliott commenced the publication of the Manhattan Homestead, of which we have before spoken, and is still publish- ing it. ' In connection with his other business he was engaged in insurance about fifteen years, and built up an extensive business which he sold in 1887. In 1873 he was appointed State Agent for the sale of the agricultural college lands, holding that office till 1883, and during that time he sold upwards of 60,000 acres. In 1888, in company with Major N. A. Adams, he bought a tract of land across the river eastward from Manhattan, and there laid out the manufacturing village of Fair- mont, on the Rock Island and Burlingame Rail- ways, giving a tract of land to the stove foundry, and another to the creamery, thus encouraging the establishment of substantial industries, and so pro-

moting the growth of Fairmont. When the Man- hattan & Northwestern (Blue Valley) Railway Company was organized he was elected Secretary, and later President of the company, and afterward appointed Receiver of it; and during that time thirty- three miles was graded, and seven miles of the railway were ironed. He was for several years President of the Manhattan, Alma & Burlingame Railway Company from date of its organization, and was instrumental in building that line.

Mr. Elliott has been an extensive traveler. hav- ing visited all but three of the States and every Territory in the Union. In 1886 he was in Eng- land on business, and took the opportunity to make quite an extended tour through several European countries. He sailed from Hull in July, and first landed in Trondhjem, Norway, and thence pro- ceeded to North Cape, the most northern point in Europe. During that trip he witnessed what to us of the temperate zone seems phenomenal, the sun above the horizon for eight days, visible the entire time except when obscured by clouds. Mr. Elliott also visited St. Petersburg, Moscow and other points of interest in Russia, Germany, Belgium and France, returning thence to London. While abroad he wrote graphic descriptions of his trav- els to the Topeka Commonwealth, of which he has been a correspondent since coming to Kansas, and his " Notes by the Way," signed L. R. E., were read with eager interest by his many friends throughout the State, who thus followed in their minds his journeyings from point to point.

The marriage of Mr. Elliott with Miss Emeline F. Bowen was solemnized Dec. 27, 1859. She is a native of the town of German, Chenango Co. N. Y., and a daughter of Nelson and Margaret Bow- en. Their marriage has been blessed to them by the birth of three children-Nellie F., Fred B., Albert R.

Of wide experience, and an exceptional career in life, Mr. Elliott's course has marked him as a man of extraordinary executive ability, of great business talent and a financier of high order. At the head of many and varied trusts, he has never used his office to further private ends, but through all these years has borne an unsullied reputation as a man of keen honor and unswerving probity.

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Although he has always been interested in public affairs, yet he has never been a politician nor a candidate for civic offices. He is at present a member of the City Council, to which he was both nominated and elected while absent from the city. Ile declined the nomination to the New York As- sembly in 1865, when the nomination was equiva- lent to election. In 1884 he was desired by the Prohibitionists of Kansas to be their standard bearer for the Governorship, but he refused to let his name go before the people. He and his wife are among the leading members of the Methodist Church, of which he is Trustee and Steward. He has been an ardent worker in the Sunday-school, and has served as Superintendent both in Bing- hamton, N. Y., and in this State, and is a member of the State Sunday-school Association, and was the delegate from Kansas to the International Conven- tion, at Atlanta, Ga., in 1878. He has always been an earnest advocate of temperance both in word and deed, and is twice Past Grand Worthy Patri- arch of the Sons of Temperance, in Kansas. and a member of the National Division, Sons of Tem- perance, and a member of the Kansas State Union, of which he was also Vice-President for several years, during the campaign for prohibition. Ile has never used tobacco in any form.

ILLIAM SILVER, of Morganville, is one of those men of whom it may be truly said. he has not lived in vain. Nature endowed him with the best qualities of human character. those elements of honesty, integrity and contempt of a mean action, which have ever main- tained him in a high position among his fellow citizens as one worthy of their utmost confidence and esteem. He is one of the pioneer settlers of C'lay County, with whose interests he has been per- sonally identified since it became a community of men struggling for an existence on the frontier. His industry, courage and endurance in the early days proved a stimulus to many a man around him, cheering the faint hearted and enabling

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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 58

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

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