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March 11, 1858, Mr. Ward married Miss Eliza- beth Pool, a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Pool, natives of New Jersey, and for many years residents of Delaware County, Ohio. In religious beliet they were members of the New Light Church. In their family were ten children, five of whom are now living. The father died in 1849, and the mother, coming to this county in 1876, died here in 1881. Mrs. Ward was born in Delaware County, Ohio, June 16, 1837, and was there reared to womanhood. Three children were born to their marriage, namely: Lewis V., who died at the age of two and one-half years; Emma Victoria, who passed away at the age of seven; and Ida Elnora, whose death occurred at the age of seventeen.
In February, 1866, Mr. Ward came to this county and settled on one hundred and sixty acres of unimproved land in Osage Township, to which he afterward added until he is now the owner of six hundred and forty acres. In Decem- ber, 1881, he removed to McCune and embarked in the mercantile and grain business, in which he engaged until March, 1883, Then disposing
of the business he spent the ensuing three or four months in travel through the west and especially in the Rocky Mountains. In July, 1883, he opened the bank, which he has since conducted with success.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward are members of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church and are active in Sunday- school work, he having been a teacher and she serving for three years as Superintendent. So- cially, he is identified with Temple Lodge No. 237, of MeCune, and has been its Master. Ile is also identified with the Royal Arch Chapter No. 39, of Parsons. Coner De Leon Commandery No. 17 at Parsons, and Abdallah Shrine, of Leavenworth. He and his wife are connected with the Order of the Eastern Star. In polities he is a Republican and has frequently been a delegate to its conven- tions.
ENRY CARBON, a prominent agriculturist, located on section 4, Paris Township, Linn County, Kan., has for thirty-five years been intimately identified with the struggles, upward progress and later prosperity of his adopted state, to which he emigrated from New York in March, 1857. ITis father, George Carbon, was a native of Montgomery County, N. Y., and, reared and educated in his birthplace, there met and mar- ried Henrietta Treabox, who was born in Germany. The parents settled in Montgomery County, where the father died in 1845, and the mother, remain- ing in the Empire State, passed away in Oneida County in 1891. George and Henrietta Carbon were the parents of three children: Henry, Julia and John. In the old Montgomery County home was born, upon July 11, 1838, our subject, who, early trained to the duties of agriculture upon the farm of his father, remained in the home locality until he was nineteen years ef age, when he resolved to try his fortunes in the then far west of Kansas,
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Taking up a claim, he entered with energy into the cultivation of the soil. He was married in Paris Township to his first wife, Miss Sophronia Sharp, a native of Ohio. This estimable lady became the mother of two children, Charles A. and Lillie H. Charles married Lassey Whinery; Lillie is the wife of Charles Gould.
Mr. Carbon participated in the early troubles of eastern Kansas, and enlisted on the 10th of March 1862, in Company D, Fifth Kansas Cavalry, and with fidelity served three years, one month and eight days. While in Arkansas he was taken prisoner, and for ten months experienced trials and sufferings in a rebel fort in Texas. At the close of his patriotic service, honorably mustered out, he returned again to his Kansas home, where he now owns three hundred and forty acres of fer- tile land, much of it now nnder a high state of cultivation and well improved with excellent buildings. Beginning life with little or no capital except his stout hands and heart, our subject has won his way upward to a comfortable competence, has held official positions of trust and enjoys the confidence of his friends. June 13, 1880, Mr. Car- bon a second time entered the bonds of matrimony, and was united in wedlock with Miss Katie Kane, a native of Boston, Mass., who was born November 22, 1852. The union was blessed with three children, George II., Julia M. and Katie M. The worthy wife and mother died February 2, 1890, regretted by all who knew her true nature and lovely char- acter.
Our subject, taking an active part in local poli- tics, held for one term the official position of Treasurer of Paris Township, and discharged the duties to the great satisfaction of the community by whom he is surrounded. He is a strong Re- publican and an ardent advocate of the party of reform. Fraternally, Mr. Carbon is connected with Magnolia Lodge No. 20, I. O. (). F., and also belongs to James P. Way Camp, a high order of the Odd Fellows. Many years have passed since upon the field he gave his services in behalf of national existence, and to-day, as then, our sub- ject is a public-spirited man, ever ready to extend aid in all matters tending toward promotion and advancement. An cye-witness of and important
factor in the wonderful development of Kansas, our subject may with pleasure review the record of his useful years as a neighbor, friend and citizen.
W ILLIAM ALLEN TRIGG is the editor and proprietor of the Garnett Eagle, a breezy sheet, which enjoys a good circulation and is published in the interests of the com- munity, especial attention being paid to local affairs, making it a history of the events that transpire in this locality. Moreover, it reviews most intelligently the public issues of the day, and its advertising columns are well filled and show that the merchants of Garnett appreciate it as a medium for making themselves known to the people at large. The intelligent and able editor of this journal was born in Harrison County, Ky., April 30, 1840, and is the son of Thomas E. and Nancy E. (Goghagen) Trigg, the mother being a daughter of Michael Goghagen, a celebrated Baptist minister.
Thomas E. Trigg was a native of the grand old state of Virginia, but at an early date went to Bourbon County, Ky. lle was married in Harri- son County, that state, and his wife died in 1845, leaving three sons: John T., a resident of Centre- ville, lowa; Samuel S., who died in 1853 in Iowa; and our subject. The father's second marriage oc- curred in 1847, and the year following he moved to Van Buren County, Iowa, settling on a farm near Bentonsport. In 1870 he came to the Sun- flower State and made his home in Linn County, where his death occurred January 7, 1892. To the second union five children were born: Israel F., George E., Charles II., Susie E. and Jessie.
The boyhood and youth of our subject were spent on his father's farm in lowa, and he secured a good education in the academy at Bentonsport and in the university at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Like many
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of the prominent men of the country, he began his career as a school teacher, and followed the pro- fession for eighteen years in the state of Iowa. In 1878 he came to Kansas, taught two years, and in 1880 was elected Probate Judge of Linn County, filling that position very efficiently for two terms. In 1884 he purchased the Linn County Clarion, which he published until 1887, when he came to Garnett and purchased the Eagle. In all these positions Mr. Trigg has distinguished himself as an educator and disciplinarian, and as a newspaper man he is alive to the current issues of the day, and handles his subjects with an ease, grace and finish that could not fail to attract attention.
Our subject selected for his wife Miss Mary E. Ware, a native of Van Buren County, Iowa, and the daughter of Rev. T. C. Ware, and their nup- tials were celebrated August 19, 1861. Six chil- dren have been the fruits of this union, four of whom reached mature years: T. Ellsworth, Clar- ence J. (see sketch), Fred C. and Anna S. In politics Mr. Trigg is a Republican, and besides holding the office of Probate Judge he has held numerons local offices, discharging the duties of all in a manner reflecting credit upon himself and his constituents. He has found time to cultivate the social graces to some extent, and is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In his religious views he is a Methodist.
E DWARD II. KLOCK. One of the promi- nent and successful enterprises of Pitts- burgh is the establishment of which Mr. Klock is the proprietor and manager. From the inception of this establishment until the present time it has enjoyed an uninterrupted growth and is now one of the most flourishing industries of the county. Here may be found a complete as- sortment of groceries, provisions, queensware,
cigars and tobacco, and, in fact, everything to be found in a model city store. By the uniform re- liability of his dealings and his courtesy of man- ners, Mr. Klock has built up a large trade among the people of Pittsburgh and the farmers of the surrounding country.
Born in Oneida County, N. Y., on the 4th of October, 1843, the subject of this sketch is the son of Charles Klock, who was born on the Mohawk River, near the city of Albany, N. Y. He was there reared, and there he married Miss Julia Bull, whose father was a prominent lawyer of Oneida County, N. Y. A cooper by trade, Charles Klock followed that occupation throughout much of his active life, though in later years he engaged in farming in Oneida County. In 1855 he removed to Wisconsin and engaged in farming in Wauke- sha County, but in 1857 he went to Minnesota and located in Goodhue County, at Cannon Falls, where he conducted a farm until his death in 1889. His wife died in 1886.
At the age of eleven years the subject of this sketch accompanied his parents to Minnesota, where he was reared to manhood, receiving his education in the common schools of the home neighborhood. In 1867 he married Miss Ella, daughter of James Clark. Mrs. Klock was born in Massachusetts and was reared in Minnesota, where she removed after her father's death. After his marriage, Mr. Klock located in Jackson County, Minn., where he purchased one hundred and sixty acres, making his home upon that farm for seven years. He then disposed of the place and went to Texas, where he engaged in raising cotton for two years, and for one year conducted a grocery store at Lawrence. Upon disposing of that business he came to Girard, in 1879, and for one year engaged in pressing hay.
Coming to Pittsburgh in 1880 Mr. Klock opened a meat market and conducted a fair business for two and one-half years, since which time he and his son have conducted a grocery business, the firm name being E. II. Klock & Son. Mr. and Mrs. Klock have one son, Robert II., and an adopted daughter, Rosa, who has made her home with them since she was three years old. During the late war, our subject served for seven months as &
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member of the Fourth Minnesota Infantry and he is now connected with the Grand Army of the Repubhe. In his political belief he is a Repub- lican on national questions, but in local matters he is independent. For four years he has been a member of the City Council, for two years being its President. Socially he affiliates with the An- cient Order of United Workmen, the Royal Arch Masons and the Knights Templar. He is a stock- holder in the Manufacturers' Bank at this place. llis residence property is located on the corner of Locust and Eleventh Streets in this city.
C APT. NICHOLAS W. BARNETT, in 1890 elected Probate Judge of Linn County, is a citizen of fine attainments, broad intelli- gence and superior ability, and is well qualified to discharge the responsible duties of his position on the Bench. He was born in Jessamine County, Ky., February 6, 1835, and is a son of Robert M. and Elizabeth (Rees) Barnett, long-time and highly respected citizens of Kentucky. The father was a native of Ireland, and the mother was born in South Carolina. Ile participated in the War of 1812, and was wounded at Horse Shoe Bend. In 1825, the parents of our subject moved from Vir- ginia to Kentucky, and there the father passed away in 18.12. The mother survived her husband nearly thirty years, passing away in 1870. Their family consisted of four manly sons, all of whom are now deceased with the exception of our sub- ject. One of the brothers was killed early in the war, at the battle of Iron Mountain, Mo.
Captain Barnett was reared upon a farm and was trained to the round of agricultural labors, in childhood attending the nearest district school. Shortly after the death of the father the family
removed to Spencer County, Ind., and when our subject was about twelve years of age he made his home in Warrick County, there remaining until he entered the army. Hle enlisted as a pri- vate July 9, 1861, in Company 1, Twenty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into the service at Evansville, Ind., August 19, 1861. He was forwarded with the regiment to St. Louis, and thence to Lexington, Mo., to re- enforce Mulligan. After remaining in camp at Sedalia some time, our subject followed the rebel General Price to Springfield, Mo., and was at first under Fremont, later under Hunter at St. Louis, thence joining General Grant at Cairo, Ill.
When the troops left Cairo, they proceeded to Ft. Henry, and actively participated in the siege of Ft. Donelson, where Captain Barnett was wounded, being shot in the right knee. Suffering severely, he yet remained in camp and accompanied his regiment to Pittsburg Landing, where he engaged continuously for two days in the battle. While charging on the " Hornet's Nest," the second day, he was shot in the left hand by a musket ball. He took part in the advance upon Corinth and in its subsequent evacuation. In the thick of the fight at Hatchie Bridge, in October, 1862, Captain Bar- nett was wounded by a rifle ball in the left breast, the ball passing through a large pocketbook and thus saving his life. He was next engaged in numerous scouts and skirmishes until the battle of Davis' Mills, Miss., where he was wounded by a ball striking him upon the right side of his fore- head and cracking his skull.
For ten months Captain Barnett did provost duty at Memphis, Tenn. The regiment was en- gaged in scouting, skirmishing and special duty, but was later attached to the Sixteenth Corps, under Gen. A. J. Smith. The regiment, now almost constantly under fire, took part in the decisive engagements of LaGrange, Tenn .; Mos- cow; Grand Junction, near Memphis; Jackson, Miss .; Champion Hills, Raymond, Black River Bridge, Stockton, Miss .; Meridian, Canton; and then again served on detached duty, engaging in the fights of Decatur and Morton, Ala.
August 7, 1864, the regiment joined . General Sherman at Atlanta, and participated in the siege
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of the city and the battle of Jonesboro. They then fought General Hood at Snake Creek Gap, and Marietta, Ga .; Powder Springs, Ala .; Griswold, and Savannah, Ga., and passed from one field of conflict to another on their celebrated march to the sea. They entered into a fight at Pocataligo Station, S. C., and our subject, taking an active part at Salkahatchie River, Bottom's Bridge and at River's Bridge, lost his left hand, which was shot to pieces by a shell. The arm was after- ward amputated just below the elbow. Terribly wounded February 3, 1865, Captain Barnett was sent to the hospital at Hilton Head, S. C., but was soon forwarded to David's Island, N. Y., and thence to Madison, Ind., where he was mustered out May 30, 1865.
During his faithful term of service, le gallantly engaged in thirty regular battles, and in all was wounded five times. Entering the service as a private, he was promoted to duty as Sergeant just before the battle of Shiloh, and after the battle of Corinth became First Sergeant. October 15, 1864, promoted on the field, Captain Barnett then became First Lieutenant, receiving the reward for especial- ly meritorious action. February 1, 1865, he was again promoted, serving as Staff-Captain under General Mower. Each promotion of our subject, well deserved, was gained by heroic action and gallant bearing upon the field of war. His record of faithful service and brave endurance is unsur- passed and stands out brilliantly from the dark background of those troublous times, pregnant with sorrow and suffering borne with courage in behalf of national existence. Captain Barnett served from July 9, 1861, to May 30, 1865, and when his three years' term had expired, re-enlisted in camp in Mississippi, February 29, 1864. He has no hospital record except when wounded, and was never absent from duty at any other time. Imme- diately after his discharge from the army he re- turned to Warrick County, Ind.
September 30, 1866, Nicholas W. Barnett and Mrs. Mary J. Tindell, who was a soldier's widow, were united in marriage. Mrs. Barnett, who is a native of Indiana, was born in 1837. Six children, of whom one son and two daughters are now liv- ing, blessed the union: Edgar J., the eldest-born;
Anna and Effie. After his marriage, our subject taught school in Warrick County, Ind., until April, 1867, when he went to Princeton, Gibson County, and June 15 of that year was appointed City Marshal, serving with efficiency for five years. Captain Barnett was Deputy Sheriff for two years. and from then until March, 1879, was engaged in the duties of Pension Attorney. Locating in Pleasanton, Kan., in March, 1879, he was soon after elected Justice of the Peace, and with judi- cial ability performed the various duties of the office until September, 1888, when, on account of his health, he resigned. Since 1875, he has served as Pension Attorney, and in 1890 received his promotion to the Bench of Linn County, where, to the great satisfaction of the public, he presides with dignity and honor.
Our subject is a valued member and Elder of the Presbyterian Church, and his wife and daugh- ters are also members of the same denomination. The son belongs to the Methodist persuasion, and is by business profession a pharmaceutist of Blue Mound, Kan. Fraternally, Captain Barnett is asso- ciated with Jewell Post, No. 3, and having aided in organizing that post became its first Commander, and has also been Deputy Staff. He affiliates with the Ancient Order of United Workmen of Pleas- anton and was First Master Workman two terms. He likewise belongs to the Order of Select Friends and is a member of the Supreme Lodge. He has been a member of the Executive Committees of the last-named order, and carries an insurance of $2,000 in the Workmen and $3,000 in the Select Friends.
Captain Barnett voted for Fremont in 1856, and was a stanch Republican until 1884; he then became an Independent, and was elected to his present offiee as the candidate of the Alliance party. He has recently refused the nomination unanimously tendered him by the same party, and has now re- tired from all business on account of poor health. Enterprising and possessed of superior business ability, he has passed through an eventful career, untarnished by a discreditable act and rich in the well performed duties which have been allotted to him as a friend, neighbor, citizen, soldier and as Judge upou the Bench. Captain Barnett needs
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no monument to record the story of his life, which will descend to his children as a valuable hequest and dwell in the memory of a host of sincere friends.
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AVID H. JOHNSON, a practicing physi- cian and surgeon of Paola, was born in Putnam County, near the city of Green- eastle, Ind., Mareh 8, 1828. He is of Vir- ginian parentage, his father having been born in the Old Dominion in 1777. He accompanied his parents to Ohio about 1784, and settled on the Muskingum River, the family being among the earliest settlers of the Buckeye State. Ile was a lad of but eleven years when, with his nine-year- old brother, Thomas, he was captured by the In- dians, who still roamed at will through the other- wise uninhabited wastes of Ohio. The boys were taken into the forests which then abounded, furn- ishing a convenient retreat for the savage redmen.
After one day's journey, at night while the In- dians were asleep, Jolin (our subjeet's father), stole a tomahawk from one of them, and his brother at the same time secured a gun. When the signal was given by John, Tom fired at one Indian, and at the same time John struek the other with his tomahawk. They then made their way through the forest by signs made by the elder brother breaking twigs along the way during the day, and when they arrived home and told their story it was not credited, and the neighbors collected and were lead by the brothers to the scene, where they found the Indian that was shot dead; but the other one had erawled away and hid in a hollow log and was still alive. As may be imagined from this episode in the life of our subjeet's father, he was a man of dauntless courage, fitted by nature for the adventurous life of a pioneer.
In the Buekeye State, John Johnson and Mary Van Buskirk were united in marriage. In 1801
they removed as far west as southern Indiana, of which they were early settlers. There Mr. John- son engaged in farming until 1824, when he re- moved to Putnam County, the same state, and en- tered a traet of Government land in the north- eastern part of the county. He cleared the land and improved a farm, upon which he made his home until his death in 1831. Being a man of excellent business qualifications, he acquired con- siderable land, and gained what was in those days considered wealth. Ilis wife, who was born in Maryland, became an early settler of Ohio, and died in Indiana in 1880.
In the parental family there were nine children, of whom three are now living: Sallie Ann, who married Jesse Kendall and lives in Putnam Coun- ty, Ind .; Mrs. Elizabeth George, of the state of Washington; and our subject, the youngest member of the family. lle was reared to manhood in Put- nam County, and received his education in the Greeneastle schools and at De Pauw (then known as Asbury) University. Upon completing his eol- legiate studies, he commenced the study of medi- cine under the guidance of Dr. J. B. Cross, of Car- pentersville, Ind. Later he entered the College of Physicians & Surgeons at Indianapolis, graduating from that institution in 1854.
Immediately after graduating from the medieal college, the Doetor commenced the practice of his profession at Carpentersville, Ind., where he re- mained for five years. Meantime, in 1855, he married and established a home of his own. llis wife, Leanna D., is the daughter of Thomas Akers, a farmer residing in Putnam County, Ind. They are the parents of two children: Edgar E., who is a marble cutter by trade; and Minnie B., the wife of Everett J. Matthews, who lives twelve miles north of Paola. In the year 1859 the Doctor re- moved to Kansas and located in Greeley, Anderson County.
In August, 1862, Doctor Johnson enlisted as a member of Company F, Eleventh Kansas In- fantry. In January of the following year the company was changed to a cavalry regiment, and our subjeet continued to serve in that connection until August 19, 1865, when he was mustered out of the service at Platte Bridge, Mont., he being at
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that time a non-commissioned officer. During the first year of his service he was in Missouri; the second year was spent along the Kansas borders, and the third in Montana, fighting the Indians, under the command of Colonel Plumb. Upon re- tiring from the army, he came to Paola, where he has engaged in the practice of his profession ever since.
Politically a Whig in former years, Doctor John- son is now an ardent Republican. He has ofli- ciated in a number of important positions, the most important of which was his election to and service in the State Legislature in 1871. For twelve years he has been a member of the Board of Education; for six years he has been Health Officer, and also served as a member of the Coun- cil for six years. He is the present Commander of the McCaslin Post No. 117, G. A. R., in which he has been very prominent. For three years or more he has filled the position of Secretary of the Board of United States Examining Surgeons at Paola. Ile and his wife are identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he aids in the support of the same.
M. MANNEN, an enterprising general agriculturist, successfully handling a high grade of cattle and horses upon his fine farm located on section 18, Stanton Town- ship, Miami County, is a native of MeLean County, Ill., and was born June 1, 1848. His father, W. R. Mannen, a Kentuckian by nativity, was born in 1810, and was the son of Harden Man- nen, a pioneer of the Blue Grass State. The mother, Maria M. (Hall) Mannen, likewise a native of Kentucky, and born in Warren County in 1812, was the daughter of Neal Hall, a man of ability, widely known and highly respected. A paternal uncle of our subject, Gen. John Mannen, of Ken-
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