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To give even a brief outline of the military career of General Price would necessitate the writing of a history of the war in the Trans-Mis- sissippi department and extend this sketch beyond our limits. Suffice it to say here that he and his gallant Missouri troops fought in the battles of Carthage, Wilson Creek, Lexington, Pea Ridge, Arkansas, and Corinth, Mississippi. General Price never received the recognition from the authorities at Richmond that his military genius deserved. Whether it was due to ignorance of his merits or that Mr. Davis disbelieved in him because he had not been educated at West Point, or because he and his Missouri troops had not been sworn into the Confederate service, or whether, as alleged by some, he was prejudiced against General Price be- cause of the difference they had during the war with Mexico, must be left to individual judgment.
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It was the opinion of many that the prejudices of Mr. Davis against General Price arose when they were both young men in congress,-one representing Mississippi and the other Missouri. Both resigned from congress to serve in the war against Mexico and each was commissioned a colonel and ordered to lead a regiment to the seat of war, the Mississippi regiment to join General Taylor in Mexico, while the Missourians were to join General Kearney in New Mexico. Mr. Davis objected, not want- ing to serve under his father-in-law, because of the well-known estrange- ment between them, and insisted that his regiment should be sent up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to Fort Leavenworth and from there march overland to Santa Fe, and that Colonel Price's regiment should Mexico. The secretary of war appeared to be willing, but Colonel Price refused, declaring that time would be lost, additional expense be in- be transported to New Orleans and embark to join General Taylor in curred, and that the Missourians when they enlisted expected to serve in New Mexico, where a regiment under General Doniphan had already gone. He finally prevailed on the secretary of war to adhere to the original plan. Mr. Davis never forgave General Price, and his prejudice was shown all through the Civil war. It was a notorious fact that in- vidious distinctions were made against General Price and he was subor- dinated to those who were greatly his inferior in military ability and denied that recognition which his popularity with his men and his genius as a commander justly entitled him to.
General Price was a fine specimen of physical manhood, over six feet in height, straight as an Indian, and when in full uniform, mounted on his grey horse, he was the idol of his Missourians and inspired them with his own high courage. He was dignified, graceful and in every way a gentleman, and the chivalrous leader of as brave soldiers as ever followed the flag of the "Lost Cause." On the field of battle he was an inspiration to his men, and was greeted with the wildest cheers. At his command, with bayonets fixed, they would have charged "into the jaws of death, into the mouth of Hell." After the close of the Civil war General Price like many another among the leaders of the Confederacy, sought asylum in a foreign land, and after a short sojourn in the city of Mexico, he, with a number of Missouri exiles, obtained a grant to a large tract of land near Cordova, with the intention of starting an American colony. Ill health, the downfall of the Emperor Maximilian and the general un- settled condition of the country caused him in 1866 to return to Missouri, where he engaged in business in St. Louis as a commission merchant. His health continued to decline, however, and on the 29th of September, 1867, he died, at peace with all mankind, mourned not only by friends and faithful followers in Missouri, but his death cast a gloom over the whole Southland. After his body had lain in state in the church for several days, during which time thousands of his beloved followers took a farewell look at their honored commander and chieftain, he was followed to his last resting place in Bellefontaine cemetery by the largest funeral procession ever seen in St. Louis.
SETH LESLIE MAPES. Prominent among the educators of northeastern Missouri is Professor Seth Leslie Mapes, superintendent of the Kahoka schools. He is a man strongly qualified in character and personality as well as in educational attainments for the profession he has chosen and his labors in the educational field have been of a high order, his intel- lectual force and executive power being such as to make his services marked for efficiency.
Mr. Mapes was born on a farm in the east part of Cuivre township, Audrain county, Missouri, on November 11, 1878, and is the son of Seth
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and Hila Jane (Daily) Mapes, both native New Yorkers. The early ancestry of the Mapes family is a most interesting one, and while lack of space and a meagreness of early data make it impossible to give a detailed account of the family ancestry, some mention is here made concerning those of the name who first established the family in the New World. Authentic record traces the family back to the twelfth century, when one Walter Mapes,-or Maps, as the name was then rendered,-migrated from Wales to England, and the history is chronologically traced in Eng- land from the fourteenth century to the time when the first of the name, Thomas Mapes, to come to America, settled in Southhold, Long Island, and there, in 1650, he married Sarah Purier, who was born in Bucking- hamshire county, England. Thomas Mapes was born in Norfolk county, England, in 1628. The first son of these worthy people, Thomas Mapes, Jr., was born in 1651, in Long Island, where they settled after their mar- riage and lived for a long time. From Thomas Mapes. the first American of the name, the ancestors of Seth Leslie Mapes are Samuel, the son of Thomas; Erastus, son of Samuel; Josiah, son of Erastus; and Seth, son of Josiah, and the father of Professor Mapes of this review. Of these families, various members served in the Revolutionary war and in the War of 1812, as well as in the later conflicts which have made history for the American nation.
Seth Mapes, the son of Josiah Mapes, was born in Orange county, New York, in 1836, and there grew to manhood. At the outbreak of the Civil war he went into the Union service, as a member of the Fourth New York Heavy Artillery and remained numbered among the brave and gallant defenders of our national life until victory crowned the Union arms. This regiment left the state of New York on February 10, 1862, and served as heavy artillery and infantry in the defenses of Washington until 1864. As a part of General Hancock's corps it then joined the . Army of the Potomac at the beginning of the Wilderness campaign and took part in every important battle leading up to the final surrender at Appomattox. In February, 1865, it took the place of the Seventh New York Heavy Artillery, as a part of the famous Irish brigade. It gained a splendid reputation as a hard fighting regiment, being actively en- gaged in the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, assaults on Peters- burg, Reams' Station and Appomattox Courthouse, as well as at a num- ber of other important engagements. At Spottsylvania, Petersburg and Reams' Station its losses were heavy, its loss in the last engagement named being the severest of any regiment participating. Mr. Mapes was wounded in the attack on Petersburg, Virginia.
In 1867 Mr. Mapes came to Missouri and located in Lincoln county, moving later to Audrain county, where he purchased an eighty acre farm and where he followed farming and carpentering for many years. He is now a retired resident of Wellsville, Missouri. He married Hila Jane Daily, a native of New York, and a daughter of James Daily, and to their union were born eleven children, of whom brief mention is here made as follows : Mrs. Mary Brooks, of Hannibal, Missouri ; George, a resident of Montgomery county, Missouri; Josiah, now located at Bel- lingham, Washington ; Mrs. Jessie Burch, Joplin, Missouri; Horace, de- ceased; Wallace of Miles, Washington; Willis, deceased; James, de- ceased ; John, now a resident of Chama, New Mexico ; James E., of Wells- ville, Missouri ; and Seth Leslie, of this review.
Seth Leslie Mapes received his earlier education in the common schools of Audrain county, the Wellsville high school and Collins Academy at Laddonia, Missouri. This preparation was supplemented by a special course at the University of Missouri at Columbia and later by training in the State Normal School at Kirksville, Missouri, where he completed the
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advanced course in August, 1910, and received the degree of Bachelor of Pedagogy. He first took up the profession of teaching in 1897, at the age of nineteen years, when he taught in the rural schools of Montgomery and Audrain counties. From 1900 to 1904 he was principal of the gram- mar schools and from 1904 to 1907 was principal of the high school at Laddonia. Between the years 1907 and 1910 he was superintendent of ' schools at Martinsburg, Missouri. In 1910 and 1911 he served as assistant librarian at the State Normal School in Kirksville, and in the fall of 1911 he became superintendent of the Kahoka schools, and so efficient were his services in that capacity that he was reelected for the school year 1912-13. He has twelve teachers under his direction. The high school, which is of the first rank and maintains a four years course, has an enrollment of one hundred pupils, the total enrollment of the Kahoka sehools numbering three hundred and seventy.
In 1899 Professor Mapes was married to Mabel Elizabeth Bowman, of Laddonia, Missouri, a daughter of Mrs. V. B. Bowman, and they have three children,-Clarel B., Lynne R. and Rosalind.
Professor Mapes is a member of the Masonic order and the Modern Woodmen of America, and both he and Mrs. Mapes are members of the Christian church.
JOHN HENRY WOODWARD. A native of Knox county, Missouri, the Honorable John Henry Woodward, newly elected to the state legisla- ture, has attained in manhood the confidenee and friendship of the peo- ple among whom he has spent his life. He was born near Novelty in Knox county, Missouri, on July 17, 1864. His father was Daniel New- berry Woodward, who was born in Connecticut in 1829. He moved to New York with his father, John H. Woodward, in 1838, and there re- sided until 1857, moving to Knox county, Missouri, near Novelty, in that year. He was a carpenter by trade and followed that occupation in his new home, and found time in addition to cultivate the farm his son, John Henry, still owns. His death occurred on the 11th of December, 1902.
Daniel N. Woodward was married in New York to Perey Delie Cro- shaw, a daughter of Caleb Croshaw, who was born in New Jersey. His wife was a Miss Benjamin before her marriage, and members of her family saw service in the wars which figured in the early history of the United States. One of the great-uneles, Eben Benjamin, served as a drum- mer boy under General Washington in the War of the Revolution. He lost his eyesight during the war, but lived, nevertheless, to the advaneed age of ninety-eight years. Two of her uncles were soldiers in the Mexi- can war and her only brother in the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel N. Woodward were the parents of thirteen children and of these only ten reached mature years, namely : Julius, who died at the age of nineteen, and Ida, who died at the age of twenty-six, and Fannie A. died at the age of fifteen ; Francis M., who resides in the vicinity of Novelty ; Daniel, Boone, who makes his home near Edina; John H., the subject of this sketeh ; B. F., who lives at Edina; Sarah M., now Mrs. Tompkinson, re- siding near Hurdland; Nora B., who married Mr. Tompkins of Adair county, and Mina M. Perry, who resides near Novelty, Missouri.
John Henry Woodward was reared on his father's farm. He re- ceived his education in the schools of Knox county at Hurdland, Knox City and Novelty, where he obtained an adequate equipment for the affairs of life. After completing his education, he taught school for a short time, and has sinee given some time to farming, for he owns his father's old farm. as was mentioned above. Mr. Woodward's chief busi- ness, however, has been as traveling salesman. For about ten years he has traveled for the MeCormick Harvester Company and the Interna-
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tional Harvester Company, as expert salesman and collector. He also worked for the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company for part of one season as salesman.
In politics Mr. Woodward was a Populist, until 1896, when he be- came a Democrat. In 1910 he was a candidate for the office of state rep- resentative along with Dr. Wright of Colony township and James P. Delaney of Greensburg township, in the Democratic primary. The latter defeated him by a slight majority of thirty votes. In August, 1912, however, he again ran for the same office, and had the good fortune to defeat. his former rival by a vote standing 821 to 606 in the Demo- cratic primary. He also defeated the Republican candidate, Hon. Dr. Alexander McKee, his opponent in the general election by 367 votes. Although he is just starting out on his career as a public official Mr. Woodward's friends in Knox county have no doubt but that he will act in accordance with the highest principles of Democracy in discharging the obligations of his office.
On the seventh of January, 1901, John Henry Woodward was united in the holy bonds of matrimony with Kate Fields, of Humphrey, Sulli- van county, Missouri. On January 23 of the next year Mrs. Woodward met an untimely death, passing away in childbirth.
As might be expected from a man of Mr. Woodward's prominence and popularity, he is affiliated with several fraternal organizations. These are the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America.
ERNEST H. WOOD. As one of the representative agriculturists and stock growers of the younger generation in Putnam county and as a citizen whose character and achievement have given him secure place in popular esteem, Mr. Wood is well entitled to specific recognition in this history of the northeastern section of his native state.
On the homestead farm of his father, in Lafayette county, Mis- souri, Ernest H. Wood was born on the 22d of September, 1875. He is a son of Madison G. and Nannie E. (Moore) Wood, the former of whom was born in Lafayette county, in 1848, and the latter of whom was born in the same county, in 1849. Madison G. Wood is a son of Isaac F. Wood, who was born in Tennessee, of English parents, who settled first in the valley of Virginia and later in Tennessee. Isaac F. Wood came to Missouri in the early days, making the long overland journey with a one-horse chaise, in which he transported his wife and their one child, besides which he was accompanied by a number of slaves. He located in Lafayette county; where he secured grants of land from the government, in recognition of his having been a valiant soldier in the command of General Andrew Jackson in the Seminole Indian war in Florida. He also obtained other large tracts and insti- tuted the development of a fine plantation, under the fine old southern methods to which he had been reared. On this homestead he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, extending hospitality of gra- cious order and maintaining high place in the confidence and esteem of all who knew them.
Madison G. Wood was reared to manhood on the old homestead which was the place of his birth, and at the age of fifteen years he ran away from home to tender his services in defense of the cause of the Confed- eracy, in the Civil war. He realized his loyal ambition to the extent of taking part in the battle of Lone Jack, this state, and he soon returned to the parental home. He became one of the extensive landholders and prominent farmers and stock-raisers of his native county and continued to reside on his homestead until 1882, when he removed to Odessa, that
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county, where he established himself in the banking business. In 1888 he removed to Independence, Jackson county, where he became associ- ated with his brother, John D., in establishing the Bank of Indepen- dence. With the upbuilding of this substantial institution he was closely identified and he continued to be associated with the same until 1911, when he sold his interest and retired from active business. He and his wife now pass the winter months at Long Beach, California, and during the intervening seasons have their home at Independence, Missouri. Of their four children the eldest is Frances, who is the wife of William H. Turner, of Kansas City; Ernest H., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Mary Ann is the wife of William A. Austin, of that city; and John F., who is a civil engineer by profession, main- tains his home and business headquarters in the city of Milwaukee, Wis- consin.
Gaining his early education in the public schools, Ernest H. Wood completed the curriculum of the high school at Independence, this state, and thereafter was a student for two years in Woodlawn College, at Independence, Missouri. During his vacations he gained practical ex- perience by working in his father's bank, and at the age of eighteen years he assumed a position in the Old Missouri National Bank of Kan- sas City. With this important institution he continued to be identified in an executive capacity for two years, when the sedentary employment proved so detrimental to his health that he secured a position at the great stock yards of Kansas City, where he continued to be employed for twelve years, within which he rose to a position of distinctive trust and responsibility. In 1903 he became special agent in the accident and liability department of the Travelers' Insurance Company of Kan- sas City, and he retained this office until 1906. In the year of 1907 Mr. Wood removed with his wife, whom he wedded in the autumn of the preceding year, to his present beautiful country home, in Putnam county. The estate comprises three hundred and twenty acres and its permanent improvements are of high order, including the fine modern residence, which, with Mrs. Wood as a gracious chatelaine, has become a recognized center of refined hospitality and good cheer. Mr. Wood gives special attention to the raising of thoroughbred Hereford cattle, and has at the present time a fine herd of about forty cows of this type. He also raises swine of excellent grades. He finds marked satisfaction in the super- vision of his beautiful rural estate, and finds the life altogether inde- pendent and satisfying, as his home is supplied with all modern facilities and appointments and is situated in a community that affords pleasing social relations.
In politics Mr. Wood is a staunch supporter of the principles of the now dominant Democratic party, and both he and his wife hold member- ship in the Presbyterian church. He affiliated with Temple Lodge, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, in Kansas City.
On the 10th of October, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Wood to Miss Pearl Elizabeth Wood, daughter of William J. Wood. concerning whom specific mention is made on other pages of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Wood have a winsome little daughter, Mary Frances, who was born on the 21st of August, 1907.
JAMES ALLAN LONG. Since 1905 James Allan Long has been identi- fied with the business and financial interests of Powersville, where he has held the position of cashier of the Bank of Powersville, one of the stable and well patronized banks of the city and the third oldest in the county of Putnam. Under his regime, the bank has made a splendid growth, its deposits today being almost four times their amount at the
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time when he took charge of the office. The fact that he was utterly without previous banking experience has not seemed to retard his prog- ress in his present capacity, and he is regarded as being one of the ablest banking men in the county. Born on August 7, 1863, at St. John, Missouri, Mr. Long is the son of Thomas and Sarah C. (Bible) Long, the former born in Morgan county, Illinois, on June 7, 1840, and the latter in Pendleton county, Virginia (now West Virginia), on July 25, 1845.
Thomas Long was a farmer by vocation, and was reared in that occu- pation and educated in the district schools of his community, in so far as he may be said to have been educated. He made his home on his farm near St. John, Missouri, until a few years ago, when he retired from the farm and moved to Powersville, Missouri, and there he now resides. He is a Republican, but has never been active in local politics, and never held office. The mother, who died December 26, 1912, at her home in Powersville, came from her native state to Iowa with her parents in girlhood, and her residence in Putnam county, Missouri, began in 1857, four years after her husband came from Iowa with his parents and set- tled in Putnam county, where they met and were married.
James Allan Long was educated in the public schools, and after finishing his training in that branch of our educational system, he him- self began to serve in an educational capacity, and for three years he taught school in his home community. He then entered Avalon Col- lege, and following his training there once more resumed teaching. The year 1887 Mr. Long spent in western Kansas, upon a government claim which he had taken, and in the autumn of that year he returned to Mis- souri and once more resumed his teaching duties. In May, 1888, Mr. Long entered a new line of enterprise, and for three months was em- ployed in the store of D. W. Pollock, at St. John, Missouri. In July he went to Powersville and was there employed in Mr. Pollock's store in that place, and he continued as a salesman there until August, 1892, when he went to Unionville, Missouri, there to assume the duties of the office of deputy recorder of deeds. He continued there until January 1, 1899, then moved to Memphis, Missouri, and was connected with the insurance and farm loan business for two years. His activities in that line were interrupted by his return to Powersville, on April 1, 1901, to assume the duties of salesman for D. W. Pollock & Son, where he was en- ployed until September, 1905. The abilities which Mr. Long had dis- played in the administration of his duties with the Pollock people were sufficient to warrant his being offered the position of cashier of the Pow- ersville bank, which fell vacant in September, and he was tendered the position at that time, which he has so successfully filled from then until the present time. A healthy and consistent growth has marked the activities of the bank in the seven years that Mr. Long has been identified with it, and the quadrupling of its deposits in that time is sufficient evidence that the bank, as managed by him in his official capacity, has an excellent standing in the community.
Mr. Long is a Republican, like his father, and like that worthy parent also, has never been an office holder. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and his fraternal relations are represented by his membership in the Masons, in which he is identified with the A. F. & A. M., the Royal Arch Masons, the Commandery and the Order of the Eastern Star, and in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he has been a member since 1889. His Masonic affiliations date back to the year 1902, and he has held a number of important offices in these various lodges, having filled all chairs in the Odd Fellows order and the Eastern Star.
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On September 29, 1889, Mr. Long was married at Powersville, Mis- souri, to Miss Flora B. Doman. She was born near Peoria, Illinois, on June 7, 1865, and is the daughter of Virginia-born parents, who set- tled in Missouri in 1868, where they have since made their home. Mrs. Long received her education in the public schools of the community in which she was reared. Mr. and Mrs. Long are the parents of two chil- dren,-Margaret E. Long, and Ralph R. Long. The daughter was born at Powersville, on September 5, 1890. She was graduated from the high school of this place at the early age of sixteen, and began almost imme- diately to teach school. She afterwards attended the Kirksville State Normal and thereafter resumed teaching, her work in educational lines being confined to Powersville. On December 24, 1911, she married George G. Wilson, a miller of Powersville, and here they make their home. The son, Ralph R., was born at Unionville, on November 22, 1894, and finished with the high school in Powersville. He then worked in the bank with his father for two years, after which he entered the commer- cial department of the Highland Park College, at Des Moines, Iowa, where he remained until December 30, 1912, finishing the commercial course. He then accepted a position as assistant cashier of the Bank of Lucerne, at Lucerne, Missouri, his duties commencing on January 1, 1913. On September 7, 1912, he was married to Effie Scott, of Powers- ville, a well known school teachers of the town.
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