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Mr. Sharp is one of the active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Helena, and president of the official board. He is affiliated with Rochester Lodge No. 248, A. F. & A. M. Outside of business he is devoted to home and church, and takes much interest in music. In 1884 Mr. Sharp married Ella R. Best, who was born at Monrovia, Kansas, in 1861, a daughter of Capt. A. S. and Malinda (Bricker) Best, both natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Sharp's children are mentioned as follows: Bearl, who died at the age of ten months; Joseph Aaron, who died at the age of three months; John Harvey, who died in infancy ; Ralph, who died at the age of three years; Albert, who is now fourteen years of age; and Twila, aged twelve years.
JOSEPH P. GARRETT. Among the enterprising agriculturists of Holt County who have been progressive in inaugurating improvements on their properties and have shown their ability and progressiveness by taking advantage of modern inventions to increase their capability, Joseph Gar-
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rett holds a place in the front ranks. Mr. Garrett comes of an agricul- tural family, and has made a place for himself among the substantial men of his community.
Joseph P. Garrett was born in Henry County, Illinois, April 20, 1867, a son of James and Jane (Skillekorne) Garrett. His parents were born on the Isle of Man. In 1870 the family, consisting of the parents and four children, moved from Illinois to Northwest Missouri. Three children were born after they came to Missouri. James Garrett located on a farm four miles east of Mound City in Holt County. The land comprised a hundred and sixty acres, unimproved, and was bought for about nine dollars per acre. James Garrett had all the enterprise of the average Illinois farmer, and went to work improving his land, which now consists of 560 acres and has excellent buildings and is in thorough cultivation. He has served his community as school director, and was reared in the faith of the Episcopal Church.
Joseph P. Garrett acquired his education in the local schools of Holt County and the State University at Columbia, Missouri. He taught school and lived at home with his parents until his marriage. Mr. Gar- rett married Clara Baer, daughter of Noah F. and Mary Baer. The Baer family came to Northwest Missouri from Virginia in 1880. After his marriage Mr. Garrett began farming three and a half miles east of Mound City, and from there moved to his present farm. Mr. Garrett now owns and operates 240 acres, all of which is well improved and the efficiency of superintendence is reflected in the farm buildings and the condition of the fields. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett are the parents of six children : Irlene, Cleon, Marjorie, Maxine, Byron and Melba. All the children were born in Holt County. Mr. Garrett is a member of the local school board, and had a place on the democratic ticket a few years ago as candidate for county surveyor. He is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge at Mound City and is a member of the Methodist Church.
STEPHEN BOND. The connection of Stephen Bond with the farming interests of Holt County has made him widely known among the citi- zens about Maitland, and he has contributed his share to the growth and development of that section, where by his industrious efforts and able management he has caused a fertile tract of land, originally an uncultivated prairie, to become a fine farm, and has generously pro- vided both for his own needs and those dependent upon him. Mr. Bond has always been a busy man, and yet found time to devote to the needs of his locality, and is one of the public spirited citizens of Holt County.
Stephen Bond is a descendant of Joseph Bond, who emigrated to America in 1735. The family is of English origin, the English stock coming originally from Saxony to England about the time of William the Conqueror. Stephen Bond was born in Lake County, Indiana, Sep- tember 8, 1843, a son of Jesse and Rachel (Hobson) Bond, who were among the pioneers of Lake County, in Northwest Indiana. The parents represented the substantial old Quaker stock of North Carolina, and came from that state in the very early days and settled in Henry County, Indiana, and from there moved to the northwestern section of the same state in Lake County. The mother came to Indiana when about three years of age, and the father when about eighteen. In 1850 they made another change of home, driving across the country with wagon and team from Northern Indiana to Northwest Missouri. They arrived in Andrew County August 5, 1850, when Stephen was seven years of Vol. III-29
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age. The father entered eighty acres of land from the Government, and by purchase had a hundred and fifty-seven acres, only twenty-five or thirty acres of which could be classified as improved land. The labors of Jesse Bond were not long continued in Northwest Missouri, and he died November 9, 1852, and his wife passed away August 6, 1855. Both died in Andrew County. There were four children: George, Maryann, John and Stephen. Those now living are John and Stephen, and John has his home in Texas.
Stephen Bond acquired an education partly in Indiana and partly in Northwest Missouri, and in 1855 came to Holt County to live with his uncle, John Hobson. In his uncle's home he continued to live until about sixteen years of age, and then struck out for himself, and has since hewed out his own career. For a time he was employed by his grandfather, Geo. Hobson, who was a Quaker, and who died De- cember 24, 1864. After this he returned to Andrew County and im- proved his father's homestead. After four years there Mr. Bond returned to Holt County and bought eighty acres of raw prairie land, comprising half of his present fine farm. He later added another eighty acres and now has a quarter section, which in its improvements and fertility is classed as one of the best country estates about Maitland. Mr. Bond has placed all the improvements which now mark the land, and it stands as a monument to his long and earnest endeavor. Mr .. Bond married Elizabeth Brinson, daughter of Louis Brinson, an old resident of Holt County. To their union were born nine children, three of whom are deceased. Those surviving are: Anna M., who married Albert D. Stafford; Frances N., who married David Hildebrand, a Dunkard minister; William S., who married Ada West; Rebecca, who married John Norvell; May, unmarried; and Loretta, also single. All the children were born in Holt County except Frances and William, who were born in Andrew County. Mr. Bond is a republican in politics but usually votes for the best fitted man for the office rather than as a partisan.
LYMAN S. WHITE. Four successive generations of the White family have been identified with Andrew County. The prosperous little Vil- lage of Whitesville originated with an enterprise conducted by a member of this family, and that is the origin of the name. As farmers, pioneer developers of the land, merchants and thoroughly progressive citizens the Whites have contributed a valuable part to the history and growth of this community.
The first generation represented in Andrew County was John White, who married Charlotte Hunt. Both were born in Ohio, and came to Northwest Missouri in the early days. John White established a small country store in Platte Township, while his wife's father built a mill close by, and these two enterprises were at the foundation of the village of Whitesville, which was named to honor John White. In 1849 John White moved out to California, and the rest of his life was spent there. His widow, a venerable woman of ninety-nine years at this writing, is still living in California, with her home at San Jose and is the oldest representative of the White family still alive.
Among the children of John and Charlotte White was the late Lyman A. White, who was born in Ohio and when ten years of age accompanied his parents to Andrew County. He spent the rest of his life here as a farmer, and died in February, 1883. He was a member of the Christian Church and in politics a democrat. Lyman A. White married Susan E. Clemmons, who is now living in Whitesville. Her
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five children were: Charlotte, wife of C. H. Allen of Oklahoma; John R .; Maggie, now Mrs. McCue of Gentry County, Missouri; George F. and Laura, twins, former residents of Whitesville and the latter the wife of Charles Petree of Rea.
John R. White, representing the third generation in Andrew County, was born near Whitesville August 5, 1859. He grew up near his birth- place, was educated in the common schools, and has lived in that one locality of Andrew County all his life excepting only three years spent in California. He was a boy of thirteen when he went west with his parents. John R. White has been generously prosperous in his efforts as a farmer, and owns 160 acres of land a mile south of Whitesville. For several years he had made a specialty of raising seed corn, and much of his corn has been exhibited at the Whitesville Corn Show. He also raises high grade stock of all kinds. John R. White is a democrat and a member of the Christian Church.
On April 2, 1884, John R. White married Miss Verdi Saunders. She was born in Andrew County November 4, 1865, a daughter of O. B. and Mary A. (Combest) Saunders, her father a native of Virginia and her mother of Kentucky. O. B. Saunders was brought to Northwest Missouri by his parents at a time when the City of St. Joseph was a village. The Saunders subsequently settled in Andrew County, and O. B. Saunders and wife were married at Whitesville. He died at Savannah April 13, 1907, at the age of seventy-six, and his widow since that time has lived in California. Mr. Saunders was an active farmer until he retired to Savannah, and was a public spirited leader in his community. Politically he was a democrat and his church was the Christian. He was also affiliated with the Masonic Order. In the Saunders family were three sons and eight daughters, and all are living except one son and one daughter.
John R. White and wife have three children, one of whom died in infancy. The son, Lyman S., is a Whitesville merchant and C. Paul lives in Platte Township.
Lyman S. White, one of the energetic young business men of Platte Township, and representing the fourth generation of the White family, was born in Platte Township May 9, 1885, and grew up in this locality, being educated in the local schools and living with his parents until the age of nineteen. In 1904 he entered the Kirksville Normal School, spent two years there, and then traveled for the New Press of St. Joseph for eighteen months. This was followed by a business experience of one year as clerk in a wholesale drygoods house in St. Joseph, and . after farming for a time he engaged in the garage business and hardware trade at Whitesville. He is now active manager of a large hardware and implement house in Whitesville. Mr. White also operates a farm of 260 acres east of Whitesville. In everything that pertains to the betterment of his community he has been an active spirit, and has given special attention to the success and prosperity of the Whitesville Corn Show. His enterprise is also shown by his having established and owning the Acetylene Lighting Plant, which furnishes acetylene gas light to the business district. With other members of his family he is connected with the Christian Church and is affiliated with the Masonic Order and the Modern Woodmen of America.
On September 12, 1909, Mr. White married Lulu. Cline, who was born in Platte Township February 23, 1885, a daughter of Harvey and Lucinda Cline.
Harvey Cline, one of the substantial farmers and business men of Andrew County, was born in Ohio November 25, 1841, spent several
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years in his early youth in Wisconsin with his parents and then came to Harrison County, Missouri. While in Missouri he enlisted for three years' service in the Civil war. After the war he became a clerk to William Weaver at Whitesville, and the Weaver store was the original mercantile enterprise which under successive ownership has been con- tinued, and is now under the active management of Lyman S. White. Harvey Cline later bought this store and conducted it for many years. The stock of goods was sold to W. A. Crockett. The family then spent several years on a farm and then returned to Whitesville and acquired the former business. Mr. Cline was identified with merchandising most of the time from the close of the war until 1900, in which year he moved to his farm east of town, and since the marriage of his daughter Lulu to Mr. White has been a member of their household. He owns the farm of 260 acres operated by Mr. White. Mr. Cline now spends his winters in Florida. He is a republican in politics, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Christian Church. Mrs. Cline died in 1907. Their children are: Ada, wife of James F. Case of Largo, Florida; Edgar H. of Platte Township; A. O. of St. Joseph; N. G .; Curtis P. of Platte Township; Lulu, wife of L. S. White; and H. Victor of St. Joseph.
J. F. ROBERTS. While Mr. Roberts represents one of the oldest fam- ilies settled in Andrew County and has had success above the average as a substantial farmer in the vicinity of Whitesville, special interest attaches to his name through his active influence as one of the originators of the famous Whitesville Corn Show, of which he has been president since it was organized in 1907. The Whitesville Corn Show, though starting as a local society, for the benefit of a small community of farmers, has developed into an institution deserving of some particular comment as one of the factors in the agricultural development of the state. Twenty-one farmers in the vicinity of Whitesville may be called the charter members, each contributing one dollar in order to hold a small exhibition of the products of local corn fields. . At the close of the fair all the corn on exhibit was sold in order to pay the premiums, which totaled about fifty dollars. From that somewhat humble be- ginning the show has been developed into the biggest of its kind in Missouri. The value of the premium list in 1914 was about a thousand dollars. While the first exhibitors and most of the patronage was drawn from the immediate locality, the scope of the enterprise has been continually broadened, until for the past two years it has received exhibits from corn growers in six different states, and since 1912, owing to this development, the name has been changed to the Whitesville Interstate Corn and Poultry Show. Aside from the interest attaching to the daily exhibits during the fair, a special feature is the banquet, and at the last show about five hundred plates were laid. During 1913 the association entered upon still further extension of its worthy influence. A monthly bulletin will be issued under the auspices of the show, be- ginning in January, 1915. For the month of March a bulletin is in course of preparation, which will be mailed to each of the members of the association and will be distributed to about twenty-five thousand corn growers in the corn belt. While this corn show started as a modest affair with headquarters at the little Village of Whitesville, which contains about 125 people, it has since outgrown the town, and the village is now more an appendage of the corn show than the show an institution of the town. To provide adequate quarters a hall costing seven thousand dollars was built at Whitesville.
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J. F. Roberts is a native of Buchanan County, Missouri, where he was born June 17, 1868, a son of J. P. and Jane (Richards) Roberts. Both his parents were natives of Andrew County, Missouri, and with the exception of about four years spent in Buchanan County lived in Andrew County practically all their lives. The father was born in 1842 and the mother in 1841. He died February 26, 1912, and since then the widowed mother has lived with her son J. F. The paternal grandparents were Thomas and Polly Roberts, both natives of Ken- tucky, where they married, and came to Missouri about 1840, securing Government land near Rosendale. About the time of the war they sold their property and moved to Clinton County, where both died when about eighty years of age. Grandfather Roberts in the early days gave considerable time and attention to the raising of horses. There were four sons and three daughters in his family: James, Thomas, Martha, John, Jane, Porter and Ella. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Roberts were Mr. and Mrs. Zachariah Richards, the former a native of Tennessee, from which state he removed to Illinois and was married there and came to Andrew County, Missouri, in 1841, locating four miles southwest of Whitesville. He died on the old homestead there after a residence of sixty-one years. He was likewise head of a large family of children.
The career of J. P. Roberts was spent as a farmer, but for a number of years he was a stock shipper, and at the time of his death was con- nected with the bank at Rea.
J. F. Roberts, the only son of his parents, was reared in Andrew County, attended the public schools, and turned his early training to advantage when he chose farming as his regular career. He now resides on the old home farm in section 28 of Platte Township. He owns 308 acres, divided into two farms. The home place, comprising about one hundred and forty acres, is situated a mile west of Whitesville, while the other farm is a mile and a half south of the home place. He operates both farms for the raising of grain and stock. His farm is known as the Cloverdale Farm, and has come into considerable note as the home of some fine Shorthorn cattle. He has made a specialty of planting and raising the Boone County white corn.
Mr. Roberts is a democrat, has taken considerable part in local affairs and though a member of the minority party was a prominent candidate a few years ago for the office of county judge, being defeated by only six votes out of a total of 1,900, the normal republican majority of the county being about three hundred. Mr. Roberts is affiliated with the Masonic Order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
In 1894 he married Maude Wilson. She was born in Kansas June 24, 1871, a daughter of Henry and Sarah (Clark) Wilson, both natives of Illinois. Her father died in Andrew County in 1911, and her mother now resides at Bolckow in this county. Mr. Roberts takes much pride in his children, who are five in number and named Oscar, Chloe, Clar- ence, Forest and Clyde. The son Forest, aged twelve years, at the last Whitesville Corn Show delivered the address of welcome, and is called the boy orator, and gives promise of a brilliant career. In 1913 he also made a speech at the banquet, when about one hundred and fifty persons were present, fifty of them being members of the Commercial Club of St. Joseph. Among them was the vice president of the Chicago Great Western Railway, who had the boy's speech typewritten and published in the St. Joseph Gazette. All the children take much in- terest in corn growing, and they are showing the influence of that movement for agricultural uplift which has resulted in the formation of so many boys' corn clubs throughout this country, and is bringing
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about a training for the younger generation which will undoubtedly ' show some remarkable results in future years.
G. M. SCOTT. Some of the finest pedigreed stock in Northwest Mis- souri 'originates at the Quiet Glen Stock Farm in Andrew County, located on section 31 in Platte Township. According to all available information this farm furnishes a larger numerical breeding service than any other farm in America. The stud stables at different times have had as many as sixty jacks and stallions and the judgment and long experience of the proprietor, Mr. Scott, have given a reputation to his animals second to none in the Middle West. The Quiet Glen Farm is famous for its jacks and jennets, its high grade Percheron and also saddle and harness horses. Mr. Scott does business in a business-like way, and every year issues a large amount of literature concerning the animals kept on his farm. Every year or so one of the large engraving houses of St. Joseph gets out for him a handsomely illustrated booklet of twenty-five or thirty pages giving description of pedigrees and terms of breeding stock, illustrating half a dozen or more of his draft and saddle horses, and a large number of the jacks which have made his stables known all over the West. Every year in the month of September, Mr. Scott holds an annual colt show at his farm, a custom that has been observed for the past fifteen years, and which is of great benefit to his customers. This show brings from two thousand to four thousand peo- ple to the farm, and it is one of the celebrated one-day events in North- west Missouri. As high as two hundred colts are usually shown at each show.
In improvements and equipment the Quiet Glen Farm is one of the most conspicuous in Northwest Missouri. The seventeen-room modern house would do credit to a big city, and at well placed intervals around stand the five substantial barns and enclosed lots, besides a variety of smaller buildings. The main breeding barn is 72 by 100 feet. The farm has a large acreage of as fine blue grass land as can be found in the famous blue grass districts of Kentucky, and underlaid with lime- stone, well drained, and especially suitable for stock farming. Besides the chief industry of the farm, Mr. Scott also breeds a few Jersey cattle and Poland China hogs.
Mr. Scott has the genial personality of the typical successful Mis- souri business man, and as his business has been built up on the basis of thorough integrity and exact representation and the strictest regard for all promises, he has had no need to resort to exaggeration in any of his claims concerning his achievements. It is therefore with the quiet humor characteristic of the man that in one of his circular letters he refers to the long standing of the business and the comparatively ancient relations of his family with the stock breeding enterprise. Sev- enty years or so past his great-grandfather, Robert Scott, kept a breed- ing stable on Scott's Ridge in Marion County, Kentucky. At his death George S., a son, continued the business, and in 1856 moved to Andrew County, Missouri, where he died soon afterward. Then came George's son, S. M. Scott, who took up the business and in 1866 commenced the breeding of jacks and jennets and continued it until his death in 1898. Mr. G. M. Scott began the same business for himself in 1873, and as he expresses it has not been "out of the sound of their gentle voice more than two weeks at a time since 1866." The records of the breeding and sale barn go back to the early '40s, and there has never been a case of litigation, the motto of the present and past proprietors having been "do to others as we would have them do to us."
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G. M. Scott, to take up some of the further details of his career and his ancestry, was born in Platte Township of Andrew County No- vember 20, 1861, a son of S. M. and Elizabeth C. (Abell) Scott, both of whom were born in Marion County, Kentucky. The great-grand- father, Robert Scott, was born and died in Kentucky, and was in business as a breeder of jacks and horses. The grandfather, George S. Scott, married Rachel Miller, both being natives of. Kentucky, and George came to Northwest Missouri with his son in 1856, and died about six months after his arrival. His wife also passed away in this county. The late S. M. Scott was born in Marion County, Kentucky, in 1834, and died January 4, 1898, aged sixty-three years, six months and seven days. His wife was born March 21, 1835, and now lives on a farm adjoining that of her son, G. M. Scott. S. M. Scott, after first locating in Andrew County, returned to Kentucky in 1857 and was married in that state. On coming to Andrew County he entered land from the Government, and during the war sold out and lived in Illinois from 1862 to 1866. On coming back to Andrew County after the war he bought what is known as the old homestead on Rock Creek, and at one time owned about a thousand acres in this township. Besides his regular business as a breeder of jacks, jennets, mules and horses, he was for several years well known as a breeder of Durham cattle. S. M. Scott was a lifelong democrat, and a Baptist, and his widow is a member of the Baptist Church at Whitesville. Their five children were: G. M. Scott; Fannie M., living with her mother; Nannie E., who died in 1895, as the wife of W. E. Younger; Eliza Alice of St. Joseph ; and Samuel P., with his mother.
Mr. G. M. Scott has lived on his present place, the Quiet Glen Farm, since his marriage on December 19, 1883, to Mary Bell Smith. Their children are: Bonnie Scott Garrett of Platte Township; Annie Scott Warrick of St. Joseph, Missouri; and Freeman Scott, attending high school at St. Joseph. Mrs. Scott was born in Platte Township Septem- ber 3, 1864, a daughter of Thontas K. and Eliza (Allen) Smith. Her father was born in Missouri and her mother in Illinois, and both died on their old farm. The Quiet Glen Farm is an estate of 390 acres, and its nearest railroad station is Rea.
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