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patronized by the residents of Fairfax and the farmers in the community. His home i- but three miles northeast of Fairfax, and it is there he entertains his numerous friends.
Mr. White married Adaline M. Muinch it: 1872. She was born in Germany, in 1852, a daughter of G. F. Muinch, who came to this country when his daughter was very young, locating in Atchison county. He is a prominent farmer near Rockport, this county, is a member of the Lutheran church and is respected by all. His children are Fannie E., Adaline MI. (the wife of our subject ). Pauline C. Lewis II, Gustavus, Charles and Ida MI.
Edward White, the subject of this sketch, is the father of ten children, namely: Olive II., the wife of R. L. Dills, a partner of Mr. White in the creamery business; Augusta E., Stella, Orville, Elmer, the twins Austin and Agnes, Walker, Elsie and Edward. The family are attendants of the Presbyterian church, in which Mr. White has been an cher for several years and is at present the Sabbath sch of superintendent. Mr. White i a Republican, and, while he has always been greatly interested in politics, has never cared to hoid any office. He is a charitable man and has many warm friends in the
AMBROSE N. GILLUM.
One of the prominent and successful ag- menhurists of Atchison county, Missouri. who is also entitled to honor as a veteran of le Civil war, is Ambrose N. Gillum, the straject of this sketch. He was born in Pike county, Illinois, February 2, 1845, was reared on Ius father's farm and educated in the command schools, He was the son of David and Melissa (Harris) Gillum, the the second; Alphro, a physician who died
former of New York, the latter of Indiana. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Benjamin Gillum, who, for services per- formed in the war of 1812, when he fought under General Jackson at New Orleans, was given a land warrant. He spent his last days in Pike county, Illinois. His wife was a Pennsylvania German. The name of Gil- lum is of English origin, while Harris is of Welsh derivation.
David Gillum, the father of our subject, was born in Indiana, but removed with his parents to Ilinois before he had reached manhood. He continued with them until he had reached his majority, then married and engaged in various kinds of work, re- maining in Adams county until he enlisted in the army during the Civil war. He entered the Twelfth Illinois Cavalry, remaining un- til shattered health compelled him to obtain an honorable discharge. He was in the Red river campaign, where the exposure and hardship caused disease from which he never recovered, he dying February 7, 1805. In carly life he had voted with the Democrats. but had a great admiration for President Lincoln and cast his last vote for him. Both he and his worthy wife were consist- ent members of the Methodist church, she surviving him until April, 1876.
The mother of our subject was a daugh- ter of William Harris, a prominent physi- cian of Pike county, Illinois, where he lived to an advanced age, known far and wide for his charities. He was a member of the Dunkard church, a good and pious man. His children were: William; Melissa, who became the mother of our subject ; Homer, Ellen, Sophronia and Flora. The family of Mr. and Mrs. David Gillum numbered ten children, as follows: Our subject, who was
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in Illinois in 1890, at the age of forty-three; Albertus, deceased; Mrs. Rebecca Stone ; Mrs. Mary Lilla ; Lucy, deceased; Mrs. Ellen Waters; Hugh D., deceased ; Charles, who i served for five years in the United States army; and Seth, employed on a railroad at Cairo, Illinois.
Until November, 1863, our subject re- sided at his home, assisting his father, whose health was delicate. He then enlisted in the Union army, entering the Twelfth Illinois Cavalry, serving in Companies M and 11. He was assigned to the Department of the Gulf and saw much hard service. He was in the Red river campaign and was under fire for eighteen days. The regiment was never in winter quarters, being constantly engaged in skirmishing. He performed his duties so faithfully that he received promo- tion and at the time of the surrender of Gen- eral Lee was first sergeant of his company. The mustering out was accomplished at Houston, Texas, and Mr. Gillum was honor- ably discharged after two years and seven months of service in his country's cause.
Returning to his home in Adams county, Mr. Gillum again engaged in peaceful pur- suits. In 1867 hie married and with his faithful and willing wife began the struggle that has resulted in the comfort and plenty that now surround them. Believing that greater opportunities were offered a poor young man in the west, he removed in 1868 to Nebraska, but in March, 1869, he settled in Atchison county, Missouri. For three years Mr. Gillum rented land, but in 1871 he was able to purchase eighty acres. He is one of the plain, sensible men who are will- ing to work hard, asking odds of none, and in his little shanty on that wild prairie land he put some of the hardest labor of his life. For nine years he improved this farm and
he owns it yet, but in 1881 he located upon his present place. A small frame house and a little tract of unbroken land constituted the improvements. Since that time Mr. Gil- lum has continued to improve the place, has ereted a comfortable and' commodious res- idence, outbuildings and barns, planted or- chards and trees and has brought his farm to a very high state of cultivation. He en- gages in a general farming line and also I raises stock.
The marriage of Mr. Gillum was to Miss Lucy L. Hedden, born in Pike county, Illi- nois, a daughter of Calvin and Frances (Gooding) Hedden, both natives of Ken- tucky, the former dying in Illinois, in 1855, the latter in 1889, in Kansas. They were worthy members of the Baptist church. The following children were born unto them : Mrs. Adeline Jelleson ; Irminda, deceased ; Abraham, of Colorado; Newton, deceased; Mrs. Mary Tarr; William, deceased; Mrs. Catherine Petterson; John, who has also passed away; Lucy, who became Mrs. Gil- lum ; James, of Oregon ; Roscoe, of the same state; and Sophia, who became the wife of William Moore and after his death wedded John Perdum.
Mr. and Mrs. Gillum reside in a beautiful home, located on an elevation which gives then a fine view of the surrounding country. They have reared a number of children and have provided them with every advantage in their power to bestow. The surviving children are Fanny L., the wife of G. Wal- lace, a farmer of Kansas; Laola, now Mrs. Baker; and Samuel and Sophia, who are at- tending college in Shenandoah, Iowa. Three children-Mary, Verda and Edward -died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Gillum are valued members of the Christian church, where they have many appreciative friends.
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.A, our subject has earned all he possesses by his own effort, assisted by the wise coun- sel and cheerful help of his wife, they can take a pardonable pride in their possessions, and he may feel assured of the esteem of the whole community, where he has lived an honest life.
JOHN H. FULLINWIDER.
Missouri has often been referred to as a cosmopolitan state. It is a refuge and a home for worthy settlers from all lands ; but it is no less remarkable from the fact that in the American division of its growing popula- tion are found representative families who have figured as pioneers and a- leaders in the work of emancipation, enlightenment and development in all periods of our na- tional history. This fact has been brought to the mind of the writer, perhaps for the hundredth time, by a consideration of the genealogy of the prominent citizen of Daw- son. Nodaway county, Missouri, whose name supplies the title to this article.
John Houston Fullinwider comes of an all Kentucky family, prominent in peace and in war, always patriotic, always high in the public confidence. He was born in a log calin at Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1830, a om of Dr. Sam Fullinwider, a native of Shelly county, Kentucky. Three brothers, the first of his family and mime in America. fled from Europe on account of the religious persecution, and the family, always liberty- loving, was represented in the patriot army during the struggle for AAmerican inde- pendence. Mr. Pullinwider's father. Jacob Followder, removed from Washington county, Pennsylvania, to Shelby county. Kentucky, where he became a warm personal friend of Daniel Boone, the pioneer and In-
dian fighter of the "dark and bloody ground.“ One of his daughters was gener- ally conceded to be the most beautiful woman ir her day in Kentucky. She married into the Mount family and was the mother of Governor Mount, of Indiana.
Dr. Sam Fullinwider received a good English and classical education, studied med- icine and married Jane Houston, a cousin of General Sam Houston, the liberator of Texas, and had six children : Miriam: John Houston, the subject of this sketch: Nar- cissa Virginia, Nancy Jane, Catherine and Samuel. Mrs. Fullinwider died in 1845. Dr. Sam lived to cast his vote for Mckinley in 1896, and died at Creston, Iowa, at his daughter's, Mrs. Judge Medill's. lle re- moved to Burlington, lowa, in 1836, when his son, John Houston, was six years old, and was a pioneer physician and long a prominent citizen of that town, which he saw develop from a mere hamlet of log cabins.
John Houston Fullinwider, who passed the years of his infancy and early childhood at his birthplace in Indiana, has a vivid recol- lection of the journey of the family to lowa. There he was educated and grew to man- hood. lle was married at Kossuth, lowa, in 1851, to Harriet E. Harper, a daughter of John and Delilah ( Hughes ) Harper. Mrs. Fullinwider's grandfather in the maternal line was Judge Hughes, a man of prominence in his day and generation. She was reared and educated in Ohio and lowa, finishing her studies at Mount Pleasant, in the latter state. She was one of ten children, of whom but one other is living. Eliza. Her mother died when about fifty years oldl, her father at the age of fifty-eight years.
Mr. Fullinwider served his country as a soldier for two years during the Civil war.
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as a member of Company K, Fourteenth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry. His regiment was in General Banks' Red river expedition and later was under the command of General A. J. Smith. He participated in the operations between the Red river and Memphis and was in the fight at Holly Springs and saw other active service in Mis- sissippi and Arkansas. He returned to Iowa and was mustered out of the service at Dav- enport. with an exceptionally good record as a soldier. In 1865 he removed from Iowa to Nodaway county, Missouri, and located in Lincoln township, where he has since operat- ed different farms, successfully. He is a prominent Republican and a member of Elmo Post, No. 162, G. A. R., and has ac- ceptably filled the office of postmaster at Dawson.
Mr. and Mrs. Fullinwider have had seven children : Neander, who died aged ten years and eleven months ; Edward T .; Charles H. : Laura E., now Mrs. McBride, of Piatt coun- ty, Illinois ; John H., of Lincoln township, Nodaway county: Mattie V., the widow of Grant Metcalf, of Colorado ; and William P. They are rearing four grandchildren, chil- dren of W. P., named Joseph W., Lavenia Il., Myra G. and Jessie May. They have also raised another grandson to manhood,- Pearl Harper, a son of Charles Fullinwider.
SANDERS H. RASCO.
Sanders H. Rasco, a member of one of the pioneer families of Nodaway county, Missouri, and for many years one of the leading farmers in this section of the state, is a native of Taswell county, North Caro- lina, and was born February 24, 1822. He is a son of Arthur and Polly ( Widen) Rasco, of North Carolina. John Rasco was
one of the pioneer settlers of that state, and followed the occupation of a farmer all his life. His children are as follows: William; Arthur, the father of our subject; and John and Rachael. John Rasco died at the age of seventy-six years, and his wife lived to the remarkable age of one hundred and sixteen years.
Arthur Rasco, the father of our subject, began farming after his marriage, and lived in the same house the remainder of his life. He was a farmer and cotton-raiser and a man of great integrity. Of a sociable na- ture he made many friends, and was well known in the community. He held some prominent positions for the Democratic party. His death occurred in 1870. His children were: Irason, Nellie, Smith, Sand- ers (the subject of this sketch), Vinson, William, Henry, Mary A. and John. None but Sanders settled in Missouri, and but four of the children are now living.
Sanders Rasco attended school but ninety days, and the education he has received has been from observation and from communica- tion with educated people. After his mar- riage he rented a farm, where he lived a short time. He then moved to Missouri, where he has resided ever since. His funds at first were very low, and success could be ob- tained only by hard work and perseverance. - He settled in Ray county in 1855, where he followed agriculture for eight years. He sold the land and moved to Buchanan county, residing in St. Joseph for eighteen months, where he worked at anything he could find to do. June 6. 1854. his wife died : but he continued farming in Buchanan county, and June 14, 1857. remarried. In 1861 Mr. Rasco moved to Nodaway county, settling near Hopkins, where he rented a farm. Nodaway county was but sparsely settled at
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that time, and the farm on which he moved was but little improved. He lived there one year and then moved west of Barnard, where he rented a farm for five years. The farm on which he next moved and has since lived, proved to be a valuable piece of land, and Mr. Rasco was very successful in raising good stock and crops. He is an honest, up- right man, and has the confidence of all in the community. He is considered one of the most prosperous men in the county, and his success in life has been of his own making
Mr. Rasco married Sarah A. Thomas. who was born in North Carolina, June 5, 1820, a daughter of Henry Thomas, of that state. She had the following brothers and sisters : Daniel, Henry, Isariah, John. James, Sally, Mary and Elizabeth. Mrs. Rasco died at St. Joseph, Missouri, June 6, 1854. She had three children : James H., born June 2. 1843; Logan, born April 1. 1845; and Mary, born April 7, 1850, and died April 6. 1860. Mr. Rasco remarried a few years later, this time choosing Melissa Martin, a native of DeKalb county. Missouri, born February 18, 1835. She was a daughter of Christopher and Parmelia ( Jobe) Martin. Christopher Martin was a native of Ken- tricky and moved to Missouri when very young. He settled in Saline county, where he carried on farming and later moved to DeKalb county, and then to Buchanan coun- ty, where he entered land and lived for a mumber of years. He then sold out and moved to lowa, where he died in 1860, a plan, honest farmer. His wife, who was a native of Tennessee, lived on the old home- stead in bwa until her death, which oc- eurrel in January, 189t. They were mem hers of the Christian church. They left the following children : Andrew ; Sarah, the wife of J. Bass: Morina: Ela; Melissa, the wife
of our subject : Susan, Benjamin F., Purcilla, James, Samuel, and Betty, deceased.
Mr. Rasco has the following children by his second wife: Eda, born May 1. 1858; William, born September 15, 1860: Sarah F., born March 7. 1862: John, born Decem- ber 23, 1863; Maggie E., born March 14, 1866: Arthur M .. born January 30, 1868: Ibra, born June 19, 1870: George S .. born August 20, 1873: Netta, born April 28. 1876. Mr. Rasco had two sons who served in the federal army during the war in the south. He himself was a Union man and a member of the state militia. Politically he is a Democrat. The family attend the Meth- odist church.
JOHN W. GRAVES.
John W. Graves, a descendant of one of the pioneer families of Atchison county and one of the well-known farmers and stock-raisers in that vicinity, is one of the public-spirited men of the county and is highly respected by all who know him. He is a man of splendid business ability and has been very successful in a financial way. lle is a native of Atchison county, having been born June 27, 1847. This country was in a very crude state of cultivation at the time and but thinly inhabited, and Mr. Graves has experienced all the hardships of pioneer life.
Samuel Graves, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of Kentucky. lle served in the war of 1812 and died in Ken- tucky some years later. He had three sons- E. H. J. P. and W. E., our subject's fa- ther. W. E. Graves grew to manhood in Kentucky and then moved to Missouri, spending some months in Buchanan county, before settling in Atchison county. He en-
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tered some land, which he improved and then sold, next buying a farm where the town of Milton now stands. Mr. Graves was a slave owner, and although a Union man he was in sympathy with the south. He was at one time the captain of the Paw Paw militia and saw some active service, though for only a short time. He underwent all the hardships of pioneer life, but at the time of his death was the owner of a fine, well stocked farm and was considered one of the well-to-do farmers in that section. He filled the office of justice of the peace for some time, and for a time was the postmaster at Irish Grove. Religiously he was a Methodist and was an active worker in the church. He married Edna Saunders, of Kentucky, and this union was blessed with five children, as follows: J. W., the subject of this sketch; Robert, of Milton, Missouri; R. S., of St. Joseph, Mis- souri, where he is secretary of the police board; W. E., of Craig; and Elizabeth, the wife of W. H. Hineman. Jack Saunders, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was one of the early settlers of Buchanan county, Missouri, and was a large slave-owner. He built the first house in Maryville, Missouri, and also built the Saunders Hotel, of St. Joseph. He owned considerable land in Nodaway county and was a heavy specula- tor, spending the most of his time in St. Joseph. His children were: James, Mary- ville ; Robert, of Oklahoma : Edna, the moth- er of our subject; Michaw, of St. Joseph ; and Betta, now Mrs. Jester, of Saline county, this state.
J. W. Graves, whose name heads this sketch, remained at home until he had reached his twenty-second year. His father gave him forty acres of land on which to make a beginning in life, and on this he built a house and started to cope with life's
struggles in earnest. A thorough, consci- entious worker, it was not long until he was fairly on the way to success. He began stock-raising and the tilling of the soil, and his present farm of three hundred and ten acres, on which there is a large house and several outbuildings, speaks for his thrift and labor. He also has a good orchard. which yields much fine fruit each year.
Mr. Graves married, May 20. 1865, Re- becca Angel, who was born in Clay county, Missouri, December 10, 1849. Her father, Thomas Angel. was an early settler of Clay county, who moved to Atchison county in 1859, where he was a prominent farmer. He served a short time in the Confederate army and died in this county in 1888. He was a member of the Baptist church. His children were: Alfred; Thomas; J. B .; Mrs. Nancy McDaniel; Ella, the wife of J Gray; Florida, the wife of H. Anderson ; Rebecca, the wife of our subject: Adda, the wife of R. L. Gross; Birda Moore; May, now Mrs. Shala; and Jane, the wife of J. F. Browning.
Mr. and Mrs. Graves are the parents of the following children, namely: Carrie, who married A. Smith; Ora, the wife of N. Moore; Guy, Bessie, Samuel, Ivan M. and Marie. They also have three grandchildren. Mr. Graves is a member of the Masonic fra- ternity and the Knights of Pythias.
ANDREW J. WADE.
Andrew Jackson Wade, a well known farmer and stock-raiser of Atchison county, Missouri, was born May 2, 1854, a son of Jefferson and Maria (Vineyard) Wade. Jefferson Wade was a native of Ohio and moved to Iowa in 1844, settling on a strip of territory which was then under dispute, both
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lowa and Missouri claiming the land. This land, or a portion of it. is now known as Fre- mont county, lowa, where our subject was born. At that time the country was but sparsely inhabited. the Indians being Mr. Wade's nearest neighbors. They were very friendly, and all the farmers were on equal footing, there being but little wealth in the community. Mr. Wade owned considerable land, and was an honest, thrifty farmer, commanding the respect of all in the commu- nity. He died at the age of seventy seven years, in 1812. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. He married Maria Vineyard, and the following children were lorn to them : Sanford. now living in Okla- homa: William, in the west ; Aaron, of Okla- loma: Mahala Jordan, of Iowa: Mrs. Mary Danny, of Wy ming: A. J. the subject of this sketch: and Franklin, of lowa.
A. J. Wade received his education in the schools of his native county .- Fremont county, lowa. In 1870 he bought land where he in a lives, and one year later began improving it, building a small house and cultivating the soil. He bought a cattle ranch m northwest Nebraska in 1886, but after having some stock he became dissatis- fel and add the ranch. His present farm I se en miles southeast of Tarkin and six miles north out of Fairfax. It is well im- proved in every way, having a large num- her , i forest trees and a splendid orchard. Inglesan dern house and commodious out- huddinge The country was nothing but prairie when Mr. Wade located here, and 1 1- present 1 me and farm is an example of the care and management given to the farms in this section of the country. Mr. Wade is a Democrat in polives, but he has never cared to accept public office.
In 1883 Mr. Wade was united in mar-
riage to Isabelle Green, a daughter of Will- iam and Isabelle ( Moore) Green. She was born in Moniteau county, Missouri, April 19, 1841. William Green was born in Ran- dolph county, Indiana, May 11, 1836, a son of James and Milla ( Vernard ) Green, both of Randolph county. James Green and his wife settled in AAtchison county in 1842, where Mr. Green's was one of the pioneer families of the county. In 1857 William Green married Isabelle Moore, a daughter of James and Sarah ( McKay) Moore, who lived in Missouri. James Moore went to California during the gold fever, and died on the ocean when returning east. His wife and family moved to Sullivan county, Mis- souri, and later to Atchison county, where the wife and mother died some years later. She was the mother of the following chil- dren : Joseph. George W .. James B. F., Will- iam A., Isabelle and Margaret. William Green and his wife were blessed with the following children : Amelia D., now Mrs. Fox: Isabelle, the wife of our subject : Ber- tha, the wife of J. Thornton ; Sarah, the wife of A. Strickland: William P .: Jerry, de- ceased ; and Mary, deceased.
Mrs. Wade has borne three children : Leta, born January 13, 1884: Cecil, born January 5, 188 ;; and Walter, born June 10, 1889. She is a consistent member of the Baptist church. Mr. Wade is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
ANDREW NICOLL.
Occupying the highest position within the gift of the people of Tarkio, Andrew Nicoll, as mayor of the city, is controlling it. affairs in a business-like manner, and he exercises lus official prerogatives in support of every measure which he believes will con-
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ANDREW NICOLL.
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tribute to the public good. Scotland has furnished many worthy and prominent citi- zens to the United States, and among the number is the subject of this review, who was born in Perthshire, on the 24th of July, 1832, a representative of an old family of that county. His father, Andrew Nicoll, Sr., was a farmer, noted for industry, hon- esty and fair dealing. The grandfather, William Nicoll, also carried on agricultural pursuits. He belonged to a lowland family, and throughout his entire life devoted his energies to the cultivation of the soil. On the old homestead the father of our subject was reared, and when he had attained adult age he chose as a companion on life's jour- ney Miss Margaret George, who was born in Perthshire and was a neighbor of An- drew Carnegie, the great steel king of Amer- ica. Her father, James George, was also a native of that locality- and was the pro- prietor of a tavern or inn of that town. Thinking to improve his financial condition and better provide for the wants of his family, Andrew Nicoll, Sr., crossed the At- lantic in 1839, emigrating from Glasgow, on a sailing vessel, which reached New York harbor after a voyage of seven weeks and two days. He then proceeded to Dela- ware county, New York, where he resided for the remainder of his life. Ile was the father of nine children, who reached mature years-three sons and six daughters-name- ly : Mrs. Elizabeth Beckwith, who died in the Empire state: William, of Delaware, New York; Andrew, of this review: Mrs. Mar- garet Russell, of Delaware county, New York: Anna, of Cedar county, Iowa ; Chris- tina E., a widow living in Red Oak, Iowa; David, a United Brethren minister, of Ida county, Iowa, who has several times repre- sented his county in the state legislature,
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