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 65

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Publication date: 1890
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The marriage of our subject was celebrated in Dickson County, Tenn., Dee. 8, 1875. The bride was Miss Mary E. Gwin, a native of Pennsylvania, and a lady of intelligence and refinement. Six bright children have been the result of the union. They are named respectively: Effie V., Etta L .. Frank W., Edward G., Anna C. and Clyde L. When four years old, Etta was removed from her parents by death.

In politics Mr. Dull is a Republican, believing that party to be in the right. He takes an interest in the cause of education, which he has served as an incumbent to some of the school offices. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, and he has been one of the Stewards of the organization.

OHN L. MCCULLOUGHI, manager of the Chicago Lumber Co., at Manhattan, is a popular and progressive young business man, and he is prominently identified with the public life of the city as a valned civic official. He is a native of Illinois, born in Iroquois County, Aug. 13, 1855. His father, John C. MeCullough, was born in Pennsylvania, and was there reared. He moved from thence to Ohio, and later to Iro- quois County, of which he was an early settler. The removal thither was made with teams, and after his arrival he bought a tract of wild land, and engaged in farming there until 1860. In that year

he once once again took up the Westward march, and crossing the Mississippi River, he made his home in Davenport, lowa, where he worked at the carpenter's trade with good success, he having while in Ohio carried on the tanner's trade. He was actively employed at his calling in that city until death closed his busy career in February, 1882. Ile was a man of good natural abilities, and of sterling worth, so that he was respected wher- ever known. The maiden name of the mother of this subject was Jane Sinkey, and she was born in Pennsylvania, a daughter of Abraham and Ann (Foster) Sinkey. For further reference to her par- ents see sketch of J. H. Lee. She now makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Speneer, in Man- hattan. She is the mother of eight children, seven of whom grew to maturity, as follows: Ebenezer S., Anna, Harriet, Abram, Hannah, Isabella and John L.

The latter of whom we write was five years old when his parents removed to Davenport, Iowa and he was reared in that city, received a substantial education in its excellent schools. In 1872 he en- tered upon his business career as a clerk in a fruit store, acting in that capacity but a few months, however, and then giving his attention to learning the trade of blank book ruling. He worked at that in Davenport, Rock Island, Des Moines, and Lin- coln. Neb., for the space of ten years, and then en- tered the employ of Page, Dixon & Co,, lumber dealers in Davenport, continuing with them until 1883. The Chicago Lumber Co. then induced him to come to Manhattan to look after their ex- tensive interests as dealers in all kinds of dressed lumber and builders' materials, and he has acted as their manager ever since. Ilis employers find in him one who is in every way worthy of their trust, one who devotes himself strictly to their business, aud by his shrewdness and ability has greatly in- creased it since it eame under his charge.

Mr. Mccullough and Miss Addie Mead were united in marriage in November, 1885, and one child, Marguerite, has been born to them in their pleasant home. Mrs. McCullough is a native of Wisconsin. She is a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church and carries her Christianity into her every-day life.

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As a clear-headed. prompt, straightforward man. Mr. MeCullough has the material in him to make a good city official, and he is a valued member of the City Council. Politically, he is an ardent Re- publican and gives his party earnest support. So- cially, he belongs to the following organizations : Lafayette Lodge, No. 16, A. F. & A. M .; Phoenix Lodge, No. 35, K. P .; Manhattan Lodge, No. 100, A. O. U. W .; Kaw Valley Camp, No. 1011, M. W. A.

E RNEST OBERHELMAN. The majority of the successful farmers of the West began in life dependent upon their own resources. Among them may be numbered the subject of this notice, who is now the owner of a good farm prop- erty, lying on section 15, May Day Township, and which he brought to its present condition by un- tiring labor and perseverance. Ile is now located many leagues from his birthplace, which was in the Kingdom of Prussia, and where he first saw the light July 22, 1855.

The father of our subject was Henry Oberhel- man, likewise a native of Prussia and born in 1809. He was a typical son of the Fatherland-indus- trious and frugal, an expert in the handling of tools, working as a mechanic, and also carrying on farming. He emigrated to America about 1874, and coming directly to Kansas, settled with his family in Swede Creek Township, Riley County, where he subsequently made his home until his death, which occurred in 1884. Upon becoming a voting citizen in America, he identified himself with the Republican party.

Mrs. Fredericka (Bloom) Oberhelman, the mother of our subject, was a native of the same Province as her husband and son, and accompanied her fam- ily to America. She is now living in Riley County, this State, and is seventy-six years old. To her and her husband there were born thirteen children, two of whom died in infancy unnamed. The others were Minnie, Fredricka, Dina, Mary, Eliza. Fred- erick, Henry, William, August, Ernest. and Lizzie. Ernest was the tenth child, and was a youth of seventeen years when coming to America, He had gained a good education in the German tongue,

but after coming to Kansas attended the High School for a time at Irving, in Marshall County. He worked on a farm in Riley County, from 1872 until 1878, then starting out for himself, purchased a farm in that county, upon which he lived until 1881. Then selling out he purchased 160 acres on section 15, May Day Township, which comprises his present homestead. He is considerably inter- ested in stock-raising, and devotes his time and at- tention to his farming interests. He meddles very little with outside matters, but like his honored father, votes the straight Republican ticket.

Mr. Oberhelman in 1879 was united in marriage with Miss Caroline Schroer. This lady, like him- self, was a native of Prussia, and was born in 1858. Iler parents, Herman and Caroline Schroer, emi- grated to America in 1877, and located in Riley County, Kan., where they still live. Mr. Sehroer has been very successful as a farmer, and politi- cally, gives his support to the Republican party. This union has resulted in the birth of six children, viz .: Lydia, Eddie, Gideon, Ludwig, Ernest G. and Otto. One child, a son, Gideon, died at the age of six months.

OMER LYMAN, who is now conducting the livery business in Manhattan, is a repre- sentative of the veterans of the late war, the brave defenders of our country, who, having borne an honorable part in preserving the integrity of the Union, have since done much to advance its prosperity, and have so greatly aided in the upbuilding of the young, enterprising and flourishing States of the West. He has been a resi- dent of Kansas for nearly thirteen years, and has been variously connected with its interests.

He was born in the town of Jericho, amid the beautiful scenes of Chittenden County, Vt., Sept. 7, 1837. His father, Erastus Lyman, was a native of the same town, and a son of one of its early settlers, who improved a farm there, on which he spent his last years. The father of our subject was reared and married in his native State, and remained a resident there till after the war, when he removed to the city of Winona, Minn., where he made his home till his death, which occurred in Iowa while

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he was traveling in that State. The maiden name of his årst wife, mother of our subject, was Sarah White. She was born in the town of Sheldon, Franklin Co., Vt., and was a daughter of Deacon Samuel White, a man well known in that vicinity. She died in Vermont, in 1865.

When the subject of this sketch was fourteen years old, desiring to learn the printer's trade, he entered the office of the Messenger, at St. Albans, and in a three years' apprenticeship acquired a thorough knowledge of the art preservative in all its details. From there he went to Burlington, and first worked in a book-publishing house, and later on the Free Press, the Burlington Sentinel, and on the Times. In July, 1862, animated by the spirit of patriotism, he resigned his position to enlist in the army to do battle for the Northern cause, enrolling his name as a member of Company D, 10th Vermont Infantry, and serving with credit till the close of the war. He took part in many engagements, the most important of which were the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court- House, Cold llarbor and Gettysburg. Sometime after the latter battle he suffered from a severe attack of erysipelas, and was at once sent to the hospital at Washington, and thenee transferred to Alexandria. As soon as he was sufficiently recovered he was de- tailed to take charge of the printing department of the elerk's office, a position for which his experience and ability amply qualified him. He continued in that position till the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged. After leaving the army our subject went to Minnesota, and located on a farm near Winona. He farmed for a time, and then re- sumed his old occupation, entering the office of the Daily Republican, at Winona, and working at his trade there seven years. At the expiration of that time he turned his attention to work of an entirely different nature, opening an hotel, which he man- aged with good financial results till 1877, when he sold his property in Winona and came to Kansas. llere he first located in Woodson County, where he bought a farm of 240 aeres, and for four years was actively engaged in tilling the soil. His next ven- ture was to open an hotel in Yates Center, and also to establish himself in the livery business in con- neetion with the hotel. IIe managed both success-

fully till 1885, and in that year removed to Lindsborg, MePherson County, engaging in the hotel and livery business there. and in 1887 he came to Manhattan and leased the Commercial House, and started a livery. After running the hotel about eight months he sold out, but still eon- tinues to carry on the livery business, from which he derives a good income. His establishment is well fitted out with a good class of horses and car- riages of various kinds, which are to let at reasonable priees, and he is well patronized by the people of Manhattan.

Mr. Lyman's marriage v ith Miss Anna Steadman was consumated in 1857. The following five chil- dren have been born of their union: Alice, Lizzie, Sarah, George H. and Frank. Mrs. Lyman is, like her husband, a native of Vermont, born among the green hills of Addison County, in the town of Starksboro, to Emanuel and Phebe (Hoag) Stead- man.

Mr. Lyman's record during the war proved him to be a loyal and trustworthy citizen, and his career sinee those dark days has borne equal proof to that effect. He has the reputation of being an upright, straightforward, fair-dealing man, well endowed with intelligence, energy and thrift, and he and his wife enjoy pleasant social relations with their neighbors and other friends. whom they have won since they came to this city to make their home. Mr. Lyman was a charter member of Yates City Lodge No. 99. A. O. U. W.

OHN H. ALBRIGHT was born in Bedford County, Pa., Sept. 15, 1844. He is a son of Solomon and Mary (Woolford) Albright, who were natives of the same county with himself. They resided in that county until 1850, when they removed to Washington County, Wis., where they have since lived. Their family con- sisted of eight children, six sons and two daughters, and our subject was the fourth child. Being about six years old when his parents came to Wisconsin, he there grew to manhood, receiving his education in the common schools of that State. When twenty years okl he enlisted, Nov. 11, 1864, in the 1st

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Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, and was assigned to Company G. He served until July 13, 1865, when he was honorably discharged, and mustered out of the service at Milwaukee. Returning to Washing- ton County, Wis., he remained until the fall of 1869, when he came to Kansas. In October of that year he settled in Farmington Township, Wash- ington County, where he has since been a resident. He owns 160 acres of land on section 21, on which he has erected a fine residence, and made other improvements of a substantial character. He has always been engaged in the pursuit of agriculture, and is an enterprising and progressive farmer. who merits the success which is attending him.

In Washington County, Wis., on Jan. 12, 1869, Mr. Albright was united in marriage with Miss Adelaide Taylor. She was a lady of that noble and generous nature well fitted to make a happy home. Her parents, Albert and Martha ( Bailey ) Taylor, were natives of New York State. After marriage they settled in Waukesha County, Wis., where their daughter, Adelaide, was born June 30, 1847. She was the eldest in a family of four children.

Mr. Albright is a member of Kearney Post No. 5, G. A. R. He is a Republican in his politica! faith. He is a public-spirited citizen, interested in every movement which will elevate society and advance the interests of the county. He and his wife are held in high esteem for their upright char- acter and useful lives.

R. DEWITT C. TYLER. The medical profession of Washington and Clay coun- ties recognizes in Dr. Tyler one of its most worthy representatives. He makes his headquarters in the city of Clifton, and con- trols a large and flourishing business, which he has built up by his close attention to the duties of his profession, and that genial sympathy with the ills of mankind which is often more efficient than drugs and medicines. Ile took up his abode in Clifton in June, 1881, opening an office in com- pany with Dr. L. W. Lynde, which partnership ex- isted for three and one-half years. Afterward

Dr. Tyler assumed charge of the office until March. 1885, when he associated himself with his cousin, Dr. F. P. Tyler, and the two are now in the enjoy- ment of a successful patronage. Their practice extends over Washington and into Clay, Cloud and Republic counties.

Dr. Tyler completed his education in Rush Med- ical College, Chicago, from which he was graduated Feb. 21, 1881, and soon afterward located in Kan- sas City, Mo. Finally, however, he decided upon making his home in Kansas, and located in Clifton, of which he has since been a resident. IIe and his partner have a well-equipped office in the Clifton State Bank building. Some very difficult surgical cases have been handled successfully by the subject of this sketch, who is especially efficient in this line of practice. He is prominently connected with the Republican Valley Medical Association, also the State Medical Association of Kansas. He is a close student, and keeps himself posted in re- gard to the new theories of practice and new meth- ods of treatment. Before commencing his medical course he had graduated from the Illinois State Normal University, and for some time followed the profession of a teacher. He began life for himself at the early age of sixteen years, and was in debt when he left college, having afterward $200 to pay, but in due time he met this and established himself on a solid footing financially. He intends in the near future to visit Europe and continue his studies there until he shall arrive at the point which he desires.

Dr. Tyler was born in Winnebago County, III., in 1852, and came of good parentage, being the son of Freeman Tyler, a native of New York State, whose father, Asa Tyler, was born in Vermont. The latter followed farming in the Green Mountain State during his younger years, and afterward worked as a cooper. Asa Tyler was married to a Vermont lady-Miss Fanny Tucker-and in due time they removed to Central New York, where Freeman and the other children were born. After a time most of the family removed to Winnebago County, Ill., about 1842, joining their son Freeman, who had come to that region in 1840. They set- tled upon a tract of wild land, from which they improved a good farm, and there Asa Tyler de-

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parted this life in 1883, at the advanced age of ninety-six years. He was well known throughout that section of the country, and was generally re- spected. The wife and mother died about 1870.

Freeman Tyler was the second child and eldest son of his parents, whose family consisted of three sons and daughters, one of whom died young. The others all came to Illinois, where Freeman at- tained his majority. Later he went to Ashtabula County, Ohio, where he was married to Miss Har- riet N. Sexton. This lady was a native of New York State, and had removed to Ohio with her parents when quite young. The latter, after her marriage, removed to Winnebago County, Ill., where they spent their last years. Mr. Sexton fought in the War of 1812, and afterward employed himself in farming pursuits. . Mr. and Mrs. Free- man Tyler, after their marriage, removed to North- ern Illinois, where they lived some years, Mr. Tyler carrying on a cooper-shop. Later they went to Beloit, Wis., where Mr. Tyler conducted a thriving business in his line for nine years. Finally, re- turning to Illinois, they settled in Ogle County, and later removed to DeKalb County. In 1880 Mr. Tyler and his family came to Kansas, settling on a farm near Ottawa, where they now live, but are retired from active labor. Mr. Tyler is sev- enty-two years old and his estimable partner is about seventy-five. Politically he is a stanch Dem- ocrat, and has attained to the Royal Arch degree of Masonry.

The subject of this sketch was the fourth child of the parental family, and spent his boyhood and youth uneventfully, attending first the common school and then the High School at Sycamore. In R OLLIN MOSES. As a pioneer of Kansas, an ardent Free-State man in those "times that tried men's souls." it gives us pleasure to place within this volume a biographical review of this gentleman. lle was an early settler of Riley County, coming here in 1856. and since that time has not only witnessed its development. but has done what he could to advance its interests. Hle was a pioneer dairyman in this section, and also took part in promoting the advancement of its other agricultural interests, and has contributed his quota to its well-being. Just outside of the city due time he began teaching, and thus paid his way through the State Normal University. He lived in the most economical manner, in order to keep his head above water and pursue his studies uninter- ruptedly. In 1883 he was united in marriage with Miss Mary C. Edwards, at the bride's home in Springfield, Ill. This lady was born in St. Louis County, Mo., in 1861, and was the daughter of Rev. Richard Edwards, who is now State Superin- tendent of Public Schools of Illinois, and who is known as one of the oldest Normal School teachers. lle was for some years a Congregational minister. | limits of Manhattan he has built a beautiful home

and held the position of Superintendent of Instruc- tion in St. Louis, Mo., prior to his connection with the Normal. Of this latter he officiated as Presi- dent for the long period of thirteen years. Ile was born in Wales, and emigrated to America a poor boy, dependent upon his own resources. Ile was possessed, however, of those habits of industry and principles of honesty which usually work out success in a most admirable manner. He employed himself at whatever he could lind to do, thus earn- ing money whereby he obtained his education.

Mrs. Tyler acquired a first-class education in Normal and other institutions, and adopting the profession of a teacher, officiated as such in Prince- ton for a number of years. In Clifton she is prom- inently connected with the Presbyterian Church. Of her union with our subject has been born one child, a son, Frank E., Jan. 31, 1885. The Doctor has been Councilman four years out of the six since the city of Clifton was incorporated. He is a Democrat. politically, and a member in good stand- ing of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Blue Lodge No. 122, and to Chapter No. 52 of Clyde. Hle is also identified with the I. O. O. F. at Clifton, Lodge No. 181, and the A. O. U. W .. Lodge No. 40. Hle has been through all the Chairs of his Masonic lodge, and has twice represented his lodge in the Grand Lodge of Kansas, also the I. O. O. F. and the A. O. U. W. Besides his property in the city, he owns 160 acres of land in Clifton Township, and the same amonnt in Grant Township.

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with pleasant surroundings, and here he and his wife enjoy life and its comforts free from its cares, having a competence ample for all their wants.

The town of Canton, Hartford Co., Conn., was the birthplace of Mr. Moses, and Feb. 6, 1825, the date of his being born into the world. ITis father, Chauncey Moses, was a native of the same town, a son of Aaron Moses, who was a farmer and a mechanic, and died there. The father of our sub- ject was a manufacturer of the old-fashioned wooden mold board plows in use in his day. He pur- chased a farm in Canton, which he managed besides carrying on his business. Ile was a life-long resident of his native county, dying there in 1854. He was a man of good capacity, and excellent character, and of high standing in his community, where his wise counsels were appreciated by his neighbors, who often sought his advice. The maiden name of his wife was Catherine Johnson, and she was also a life-long resident of Connectient, dying in Canton previous to her husband's death. She was the mother of five children-Harry, Elizabeth, Flora A., Rollin, and Seymour D.

Rollin Moses, when not attending school in his youth, aided his father on the farm, or in the shop making plows, or in the sawmill, and thus his early life was passed till he was twenty years old, when he left the shelter of the parental roof to work in a elock factory at Bristol, Conn. He was employed there three years, and at the expiration of that time he left that place, and for two years was engaged in traveling. After that he located in New Haven, where he had a situation in a clock factory till 1856, when the factory failed, and as he had invested all his carefully saved earnings in it, all his worldly wealth was swept away. His next move was to join the New Haven Colony, which was bound for the Territory of Kansas, under the charge of C. B. Lines, our subject having watched with interest the struggle between the Free-State men and the pro-slavery people for the soil of Kansas, and, sympathizing fully with the former, wished to take their part. Before the company started, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher gave each member a Bible and a Sharpe's rifle, thus practically fortifying both soul and body, and Mr. Moses still retains his Bible as a precious relic both of the times and of the

good man who gave it to him. The colony started from New Haven in April, and came by rail to St. Louis. from there to Kansas City on a steamer, and thence overland to Riley County. Nearly all of them settled near Wabaunsec, but our subject and five others, after looking around, selected a claim in what is now Zeandale Township, six miles from Manhattan, which was at that time an insignificant hamlet of only a few houses, and was one of the settlements farthest west in Kansas. Deer and antelope were plentiful, and buffaloes roamed in large numbers a few miles to the Westward. The little company of six bought a pair of oxen and a wagon at Kansas City, and on the way to their destination purchased a cow. Three of the men returning to the East, the three remaining ones shared the milk of the cow during the winter, it being a welcome addition to their fare, and a luxury unattainable in many pioneer households. None of them had their wives with them, and they kept house for themselves all winter in a tent. In the spring of 1857 Mr. Moses' wife joined him, and he built a sod honse with a board roof for her accommoda- tion, and buying the interests of the others in the cow, and purchasing another one, he engaged in the dairy business on a small scale, it being his principal employment for some years. When the land came into the market he entered it from the Government at $1.25 per acre, and erecting a sub- stantial stone house, he resided there, actively en- gaged in improving the land, till 1866, when he rented his farm, and coming to Manhattan, he bought eleven acres of land adjoining the city, and built his present commodious briek residence, planted an orchard of 400 choice fruit trees, which yield him a fine income, besides making many other valuable improvements, which make this one of the most desirable places in the vicinity of Man- hattan. To the wife who has shared with him his pioneer days, and has been an important factor in raising him to his present prosperous circumstances. Mr. Moses was joined in wedlock in 1854. Her maiden name was Adeline Mead. She was born in Schoharie County, N. Y., a daughter of Daniel Mead. She is a thoroughly good woman in every respect, and a conscientious member of the Methi- odist Episcopal Church. Mr. Moses possesses those

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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 65

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

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