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USA > Kansas > Riley County > 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 72
USA > Kansas > Washington County > 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 72
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The paternal grandfather of Mr. Van Everen was a native of Ilolland. ITis son John, the father of our subject, was a carriage painter and married Harriet E. Frisbie, who was born in East Chatham, N. Y. Mrs. Van Everen departed this life in 1866, her husband surviving until December. 1872. Five children were born to them-Philip F., John N., George P., Julins C., and Alvah. The latter died in infancy. Philip is now living in Brooklyn, N. Y .; he is a dealer in library supplies, and is the inventor of the Van Everen Patent Adjustable Book Cover. He married Miss Elizabeth J. Ferguson and they have four children. John resides at Mt. Kisco, N. Y. He served three years in the 1st New York Mounted Infantry, during the late war. He is now a teacher of drawing in the New York public schools. He is a widower and the father of one child. George P. is the agent of a lumber company, his home being in Aurora, Ill. He also served three years in the 1st New York Mounted Infantry. Ile is married and has a family.
On September 17, 1876, near Abilene, Dicken- son County, the rites of wedlock were celebrated between Mr. Van Everen and Miss Hattie E. Bates, who was born in Vermont, Feb. 28, 1849. She is the second of three daughters born to Elijah and Frances E. (Farrand) Bates, who were also natives of the Green Mountain State. Her father died of a fever in the army and was buried in the hospital grounds at Philadelphia. Pa. Both her grand- fathers were soldiers and served in the war of 1812. Iler oldest sister, Ada F., died when a year old.
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The youngest, Lulu E., married William Ilouse, who is foreman in the carpenter shop in the State Agricultural College here; they have one child. Mrs. Van Everen is well educated and possesses the energy and shrewdness belonging to the natives of New England. To herself and husband five chil- dren have been born, named respectively, Philip F .. Harriet E., Elliott G., George D., and Lucy F.
Mr. Van Everen is a Republican and Prohibi- tionist. He lias served two years as .Justice of the Peace. performing the functions of the office in a satisfactory manner. Ile is a well educated, cultured and courteous gentleman, whose genial manners and excellent character gain him friends wherever he is known. lle and his wife are members of the Con- gregational Church, and both have many friends in the community.
WEN E. OSBOURN. a homesteader of 1858, in the spring of that year took up eighty acres of land on section 6, Center Township, and afterward purchased forty acres on section 31, where he now lives. Later he purchased additional land and is now the owner of 240 acres, which is chiefly devoted to general farming, although Mr. Osbourn is somewhat interested in stock-raising. Ile is of Southern antecedents and a native of North Carolina, born in Guilford County, June 19. 1812.
It will thus be seen that Mr. Osbourn is a veteran of seventy-seven years, but in consideration of having lived temperately he has preserved his faculties unimpaired and is still quite active. He comes of substantial stock, being the son of Thomas Osbourn, a native likewise of North Carolina, and who, leaving the South in 1812, emigrated to the young State of Ohio. Subsequently he removed to Indiana, and later crossed the Mississippi into Iowa, where he proscented farming as before and died when sixty-two years old.
Mrs. Rebecca Osbourn, the mother of our sub- ject, was born in North Carolina and died in Ohio at an advanced age. Her seven children were named respectively, Owen, Polly, Nellie, Martha, Rebecca, Lydia and Susan. Of these but two are
living-Martha and our subject. Owen was the eldest child of the family and developed into man- hood on a farm in Wayne County. Ind., where he lived until a man of forty-six years and whence he came to Kansas. On April 15, 1833, when not quite twenty-one years old, he was united in marriage with Miss Lydia Meridith, a native of North Carolina, and born May 4, 1817, being five years younger than her husband. Her parents were likewise natives of that State.
To Mr. and Mrs. Osbourn there have been born ten children, viz: Melissa, Thomas, John, Joseph, Minerva. Mary, Alonzo, Diana. Owen and Nathan. Minerva, Alonzo and Owen are deceased. All of the others are married and have families. Mr. Osbourn rejoices in the possession of forty-one grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. Many and great have been the changes which he has witnessed since crossing the Fathers of Waters. and in building up one of the finest farms of Riley County, he has thus contributed to its prosperity, also to the revenues, by turning over each year a handsome sum into the county treasury in the way of taxes.
B ERTHIA HOLZGANG. The oldest drug store in Clay Center. Clay County, and now one of the largest and finest in the city, is located on Lincoln Avenue, and is under the charge of the lady above named. It would be hard to find a neater or better kept drug store, or one where a better stock of drugs and druggist's sundries can be found. Mrs. Holzgang is a regis- tered pharmacist, and has the full confidence of the people of Clay Center and vicinity, enjoying a fine trade. The store was established by her husband in 1868, and he being now obliged to spend most of his time in the South on account of poor health, the business has been for the past two years under the sole control of Mrs. Holzgang.
Carl Holzgang was born in Switzerland in 1833, educated at Geneva, and acquired a thorough know- ledge of the chemist's calling in Germany. He was for some time engaged in the large chemical works at Wyl, Switzerland. Ile was there married Jan. 10, 1868, and soon after came to America and
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located in Clay Center, establishing the first drug store west of Manhattan in this latitude. He began business in a small log building, and he, Mr. Hun- tress and the firm of Dexter Bros., were the only men in trade at this place, which contained at that time only a half dozen houses. In 1871, Mrs. Holzgang joined her husband and with her assistance he con- tinued the business, which he finally left entirely to her. A fine brick building, two stores high, and having a ground dimension of 45 x 80 feet, has been erected and is now the site of their business. There is also a large warehouse back of the block. Mrs. Holzgang is now considered one of the sub- stantial business people of this city, and is most highly spoken of by its citizens, as being possessed of fine business ability, excellent sense, and most ladylike manners.
Mrs. Holzgang bore the maiden name of Beerli, and was born in Wyl, Canton St. Gall, Switzerland, Feb. 17, 1851, and resided in her native place until she removed to America. She has one child-Leda, a beautiful and educated young lady.
Mr. and Mrs. Holzgang were among the earliest members of the Catholic Church here, and among those who helped to build the St's. Peter and Paul Church. One of the earliest if not the first mass said here was in their house, whose hospitable doors are ever open to any need.
OSEPH II. CLARK. Among the well-reg- ulated farms of Goshen Township, Clay County, that of Mr. Clark's atttracts the attention of the passing traveler as the re- sult of persevering industry, good judgment and economical living. In 1878 be purchased it of a "squatter" who had become discouraged and retired to parts unknown. There was upon it a little log cabin 9x11 feet in dimensions, and taking posses- sion of this with his family, Mr. Clark occupied it until he could build a small frame house. He then homesteaded 160 acres and began the improvement of the whole. Upon coming here he had only a little money, simply enough to put up his house and buy a team of horses and a plow. He began breaking the prairie, but as it was in the month of
June when settling here, he could not make very much headway in the matter of crops that year. The following year, however. he was enabled to do better and after a few years more of industry and perseverance found himself the possessor of a good farm, with a commodious frame dwelling, a well-built barn with corn-cribs, granary, an orch- ard of 400 apple trees and 100 peach trees, besides the smaller fruits, and a growth of forest trecs sufficient to keep him in lumber and fuel. If he desired, he might now retire from active labor as he has su fficient of this world's goods to insure him against want in his old age.
Westmoreland County, Pa., was the carly home of our subject and where his birth took place Dec. 7, 1839. Ile attended school for a few years and assisted his parents in the lighter labors around the homestead, continuing a resident of his native county until 1848. Then Samuel Clark, the father. with his wife Dorcas (Knight) Clark, and their seven children, set out on the long journey to Grant County, Wis., Joseph H. being then a lad nine years of age. He grew to manhood in the Bad- ger State, sojourning there until after the outbreak of the Civil War. On the 11th of August. 1862, he enlisted in Company D, 33d Wisconsin Infantry, as a private and served eight months, being then obliged to accept his honorable discharge on ac- count of illness. Later, however, he determined to have a further hand in the fight, and in Febru- ary, 1865, re-enlisted in Company C, 48th Wiscon- sin Infantry, in which he served until the following spring, being mustered out March 24, 1866. In the meantime he had been promoted Corporal, and although always ready for the fray did not have the satisfaction of participating in any active en- gagement, his regiment being assigned to duty mostly in and around the Kansas frontier.
Upon leaving the army Mr. Clark returned to the old home in Wisconsin and farmed there with his father until his marriage, which occurred Nov. 7,1867. The maiden of his choice was Miss Sarah J., daughter of Samuel and Susannah Hlotinger. This lady was born in Shenandoah County. Va., Aug. 21, 1849. and when an infant was taken by her parents, first to Clark County, Ohio, and then to Clayton County, Iowa. In the latter place they
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lived many years, but finally crossing the Missis- sippi, sought the Southwest and settled in the In- dian Territory, where they now reside. The parents of Mr. Clark spent their last days in Wisconsin, the mother dying in October, 1886, aged about sev- enty-seven years, and the father in September, 1889, aged eighty-seven.
There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Clark ten chil- dren, seven of whom are living, the eldest of whom a daughter, Vinnie, is the wife of Albert Brown, a farmer of Garfield Township; Josephine, Rachel. Anna, Ilattie, Mary and Charlie remain under the home roof; Idia, born May 14, 1869, died Aug. 12. 1871 ; an infant, unnamed, born Aug. 22, 1882, died Sept. 4, 1882; Jennie, born Dec. 30, 1887, died March 4, 1889.
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G USTAVE E. SPOHR. This prominent and successful German farmer, is making good headway financially, on a well-regulated homestead, situated about five miles southwest of · Manhattan, on section 31, in what is known as the "Moehlman Bottoms," in Manhattan Township. Ilis improvements are first-class, consisting of a comfortable dwelling, a good barn and all the neces- sary outbuildings, with a fine large orchard. and the land has been as carefully cultivated as most gard- ens. The proprietor is a man nearly six feet tall, of rugged frame, quiet, and undemonstrative in manner, but one who wields a marked influence among his countrymen in this region. He is very intelligent, industrious and progressive, and a man who has been no unimportant factor in the growth and development of Riley County.
The subject of this sketch was born Dec. 18, 1841, in the Kingdom of Hanover, Germany, and is the son of Ludwig and Julia (Lockeman) Spohr, who were likewise of pure German stock. and spent their entire lives upon their native soil. The father fought against the first Napoleon in the Prussian army. The parental family consisted of nine chil- dren, the eldest of whom, a son, Louis, married Miss Louisa Wagner, and is a merchant of Rochester, N. Y .; Augusta died in Germany; Louisa and Amelia are still living there ; Gustave E. was the fourth in
order of birth : Dorothy, now Mrs. Cuelle, still lives in Germany; three died in childhood.
Young Spohr emigrated to America with his un- cle when a lad of fourteen years, landing in New York City in 1855,and at Rochester, entered the em- ploy of Frost & Co., nurserymen, with whom he re- mained until after the outbreak of the Civil War. That same year he enlisted as a Union soldier in Company C, 13th New York Infantry, and was pro- moted step by step until he was mustered out in 1863 as Second Lieutenant. He participated in the first battle of Bull Run, and was at Antietam, Fredericks- burg, Gaines Mills, and the siege of Yorktown. At Gaines Mills he was wounded by a canister shot in the back of his neck, and was also shot in the left heel after being repulsed on a charge in one of Longstreet's battles. At Fredericksburg he was shot through the left side, breaking the two lower ribs. Upon his recovery he received his honorable discharge, and repaired to Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., where he remained a few months as a military store- keeper. At the expiration of this time, he recrossed the Atlantic and visited six months among the friends and associates of his childhood. Upon re- turning to America. he resumed operations as a store-keeper at Benton Barracks near St. Louis, Mo., where he remained three months, and later was at Ewing's headquarters the same length of time, hav- ing charge of the public buildings occupied by ref- ugees from the South. Later, returning to New York State, he engaged in farming in the vicinity of Rochester two years.
Going now to Missouri, Mr. Spohr rented a farm in St. Charles County, which he operated until 1871. In the spring of that year he came to Nortli- ern Kansas and purchased the 150 acres of land comprising his present farm. He proceeded with its improvement and cultivation until 1864, then returning to Missouri, associated himself with a partner, and under the firm name of Sinclair & Spohr conducted a store of general merchandise. Then selling out, he returned to his farm, where he has since remained.
In St. Charles County, Mo., Mr. Spohr was mar- ried April 25, 1866. to Miss Minnie. daughter of Rudolph and Margaretta Moentmann. This lady was born Aug. 29, 1849, in St. Charles, Mo., and
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of her union with our subject there are now living nine children, viz: Louis R., Herman G., Emma E., Bertha J., Louisa M., Minnie W., Amelia Il., Julia, and George. Emil, the eighth child. died when six years old.
Upon becoming a naturalized citizen, Mr. Spohr joined the Republican party, and has been active in its councils in this section, officiating as a delegate to the County Conventions, and otherwise making himself useful in its deliberations. He is a mem- ber in good standing of the Lutheran Church, and is interested in the cause of education. He has served as a member of the School Board in his dis- triet, and is generally interested in those projects tending to the moral and social advancement of his fellow-citizens. Socially, he belongs to Manhattan Lodge No. 16, A. F. & A. M., also to Post No. 100, G. A. R., at Manhattan. In addition to the build- ings which he has erected, he has planted fruit trees in abundance, having a fine apple orchard set ont with various varieties of this almost indispensable fruit, besides pears, cherries, and the smaller fruits.
OHIN LAVERENTZ. The results of patient industry are finely illustrated in the subject of this notice, who began in life not only without means, but in debt. He is now the owner of a valuable farm, comprising 160 acres of improved land on section 29, Independence Town- ship, which he took up on a homestead claim, and which lay in its original state, just as the Indians had left it. It now presents a picture of one of the most beautiful estates in the township, embel- lished with a fine residence, a good barn and other convenient and necessary outbuildings, including a stable, hog-house and chicken-house, all built of stone. There is an orchard of 200 apple trees in good bearing condition, twenty-five cherry trees, and a considerable amount of the smaller fruit trees and grape vines. Mr. Laverentz makes a spec- ialty of live stock. having about thirty-five head of cattle, 100 head of swine, five good farm horses, a small flock of sheep, and 250 chickens. The entire farm is enclosed with osage orange hedge and in the summer time, especially, presents a :
charming appearance. The proprietor is a leader among the German element of his community-a class which has rendered efficient service in develop- ing the ontlying land, and assisting in the general ad- vancement and prosperity of Washington County.
The native place of Mr. Laverentz was in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Germany, where he was born Oct. 21. 1841. His parents, Mathine and Margaret (Focka) Laverentz, were likewise natives of that Province where they were reared, and lived thereafter. The father died in 1854. The mother is still living, and has arrived at the advanced age of eighty-two years. They were the parents of six children, of whom John was the eldest born. He was given a good education in the common schools, and remained under the home roof until a youth of eighteen years. He then determined to seek his fortunes on the other side of the Atlantic, and npon his arrival in America, came directly to this State. of which he has since been a resident, and with the exception of the time spent in the army, has been engaged in farming pursuits.
Mr. Laverentz, in 1863, enlisted as a soldier of the Union army, in Company D, 10th Kansas In- fantry, and served with his regiment until the close of the war. He was mustered in at Leaven- worth as a recruit, and joined his regiment in Ala- bama. He took an active part in the battle at Montgomery, but spent the greater part of his term of service in scouting through the State of Ala- bama. He endured many of the hardships and pri- vations incident to a soldier's life, but escaped without injury, was never in the hospital, and was always able to report for duty. After the war was ended, he was given an honorable discharge in Sep- tember, 1865.
Upon retiring from the service, Mr. Laverentz returned to Doniphan County, this State, where he remained until 1870, and that year changed his residence to Washington County. In the mean- time he was married, July 4, 1868, to Miss Lizzie, (laughter of William and Lena (Dealın) Jenicke, who were both natives of Mecklenburg, Germany, where Mrs. Laverentz was born, Feb. 15, 1848. She was the eldest child of her parents, and was given an excellent education. When thirteen years old the family emigrated to America, and settled
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first in St. Joseph, Mo., where they lived five years. They removed to Doniphan County, this State, where they sojourned three years, and thence came to Washington County, where Mr. Jenicke departed this life, in 1873. The mother is still living. mak- ing her home with John Laverentz, in Hanover, Kan. They were the parents of four children, of whom Mrs. Laverentz was the eldest born.
Mr. and Mrs. Laverentz are the parents of four daughters, namely : Emma, Hilda, Nellie, and Lil- lie. Both are members in good standing of the German Lutheran Church, attending services at Hanover. Mr. Laverentz has officiated as Trustee. He is conservative in polities, voting independ- ently, and aiming to support the man whom he considers best qualified for office. He has officiated as Road Overseer for a number of years, and dur- ing nearly the whole time of his residence in Inde- pendence Township, has been the Treasurer of School District No. 70. The school-house is situ- ated on his farm. Socially, Mr. Laverentz is a member of Lodge No. 155, I. O. O. F., at Hanover. HIe was at one time a member of the G. A. R.
E UGENE C. WILSON, former Postmaster of Clay Center, is one of the oldest resi- dents of this place, having come here in 1874, when it was but an embryo town. He was born in Theresa, Jefferson Co .. N. Y., March 4. 1842, and is thus approaching the forty-eighth year of his age. Ile lived there until the outbreak of the Civil War, attending both the village and High School, and being earefully trained by his excel- lent parents to habits of industry and sentiments of honor.
The inborn patriotism of young Wilson would not permit him to stand idly by while his friends and acquaintances were joining the Union army. and he accordingly enlisted in Company F, 10th New York Heavy Artillery, and served in the eastern fortifications at Washington, with a regi- ment 2,600 strong. They were stationed there one year, Mr. Wilson occupying the post of gunner, at which he became an expert. The repeated con- cussions finally nearly destroyed his hearing and
he was obliged to withdraw from the service. Upon his partial recovery a few months later, he went to Chicago, Ill., and re-enlisted in Company E, 9th Illinois Cavalry, which was assigned to the Army of the Tennessee, and operated in Mississippi, Ala- bama and Arkansas. Mr. Wilson participated in forty-four different engagements, and remained with this regiment until it was mustered out at Selma, Ala., in 1865.
Returning to Jefferson County. N. Y., Mr. Wil- son remained there for a time, then repairing to La- peer County, Mich .. engaged in the mercantile bus- iness at Hadley. and later established a branch store in Linden, Tenn., which he operated for years. In 1869 he crossed the Mississippi and sojourned for a brief time in Kansas City and Ft. Scott, where he officiated as State agent for the different companies, putting up bridges through Missouri and Kansas. The first structure was laid across the Republican River, and another was built at Con- cordia. In 1874 a company of men was organized to engage in the manufacture of brick at ('lay Center, and Mr. Wilson joined them and subse- quently operated as a contractor. In pursu- ance of this business he had a hand in building nearly all of the permanent briek structures in the city, and was thus engaged until a year after his appointment as Postmaster. his commission dating from April 22, 1886. He qualified on May 1, and discharged the duties of the office with credit to himself and satisfaction to all concerned.
After assuming charge of the post-office, Mr. Wilson acquired an interest in the post-ottice book and stationery stand, with which he remained con- nected a year, then withdrew to give his atten- tion fully to his official duties. He has a farm of eighty acres adjoining the town limits, and a snug home only six minutes walk from his place of business. He has very little to do with politics, simply voting with the Democratic party, and so- cially belongs to the I. O. O. F.
The marriage of Eugene C. Wilson and Miss Maggie J. Purvis, of Clay Center, took place at the bride's home, May 17, 1873. The five children born of this union are all living, and are named respectively, Byron C., Clarence S., Blanche, Grace und Bertie. Mrs. Wilson was born in Beaver
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County, Pa., May 28. 1845, and is the daughter of Samuel Purvis, who came to Kansas when quite young. She is a member in good standing of the Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Wilson is a regular attendant, and which he assists in support- ing.
The father of our subject was Suel Wilson, who was born in New York State in 1809, and labored as a general mechanic during his younger years. Later he conducted a hotel in Jefferson County, where he spent his last days.
ORMAN HILL, a veteran of seventy-five years and one of the early settlers of Goshen Township, is a fine type of the gen- nine New Englander who left his native hills early in life, casting his fortunes with the people of the Western frontier. He was born in Springfield. Mass., but when nine years old went to Bennington County, Vt., with one Mr. Flowers who had taken him to raise, as his father, Jonathan Hill, had died when he was a little lad of four years. His mother, Mrs. Nancy (Benedict) Hill spent her last years in Connecticut.
Young Ilill continued a resident of the Green Mountain State until 1847, and was married there to Sarah A. Wilder who was born in that State and was the daughter of Samnel and Lavina ( Howard) Wilder who spent their last days in New York. The newly wedded pair soon after their marriage emigrated to Illinois, settling in MeHenry County where they lived until 1570, Mr. Hill being en- gaged in farming. Not being contented with his condition or with his prospects he now resolved upon seeking the farther West and coming to Clay County, Kan., homesteaded 160 acres of land where he now lives.
When first coming here Mr. Hill could go across the prairie to Clay Center, without seeing a single fence and but few houses. The pioneers chiefly lived in shanties and dugouts. Wild animals were plentiful, including deer, antelope and wolves, the latter of which would howl around the house at night and sometimes follow a team for some dis- tance. Clay Center was then but a mere trading
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