A history of northwest Missouri, Volume III, Part 87

Author: Williams, Walter, 1864-1935 editor
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 912

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one of the last to leave the ranks. He was a whig in politics, and in ad- dition to serving a number of years as eounty judge was also a member of the school board. He was reared a Lutheran, but subsequently became a member of the Presbyterian Church, in which Dr. and Mrs. Long are also active members. Doctor Long and wife have two sons. The elder, Dr. Thomas Long, married Alice Patterson, and they have three children : Adessa, who married B. M. Terhune, and has a son, John; Fannie, who married A. J. Wells; and Gothe, who married R. E. Cottier and has a daughter, Elizabeth. The younger son of Doctor and Mrs. Long, Wil- liam Ellis Long, is unmarried and living at home. Both sons were born in Holt County. Doctor Long is a democrat, and has had affiliation with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for more than half a century.

JOHN C. BAGBY. To Mr. Bagby belongs the honor of being a native son of Holt County, and having spent all his life in one community he has many pleasant associations with the country and its people, and has won that esteem which is paid to prosperous and right living. He owns one of the large farms near Mound City, and the name Bagby has for many years been identified with large land holding and agricultural activities.

John C. Bagby was born in Holt County June 13, 1866, a son of Rich- ard R. Bagby. His father was an early settler in Holt County. His original home was Kentucky, from which state he migrated with wagon and team, spent a time in Illinois, and then came to Buchanan County, Missouri. He took up land in Buchanan County, but left it and home- steaded about two miles east of where his son John C. now lives. Mr. Richard Bagby's brother James also homesteaded 160 acres in the same locality. The first home they put up for their family was a log cabin, and it was necessary to contend with many difficulties before the land was feneed and brought under cultivation. During the war Richard Bagby moved to Nebraska and spent a couple of years in that state, but then returned to Holt County and steadily followed his vocation as an agriculturist until the death of his wife. He had married Margaret J. Gibson, and their marriage was celebrated in Holt County. To their union were born eight children, and the three now living are: Sallie M., the widow of Chester C. Fuller; Ella M., widow of Frank Zachary ; and John C. All the children were born in Holt County. Both parents were members of the Christian Church and were upright people and good neighbors. The father had come to Holt County with very limited capital, and for the first ten years had employed much of his time in work for others at $10 a month. Possessing good habits, thrift and industry, he steadily prospered, and now at the age of eighty-four looks back upon a career which has covered both the pioneer and modern activities of Northwest Missouri, and among the substantial rewards of his life was the accumulation of an aggregate of 1,400 acres of land, all of which represented his own industry and business ability, and a large part of which has since been sold or distributed among his children. Through- out his life he has been noted as a man who never uses profane lan- guage.

John C. Bagby grew up in Holt County, had his schooling in the brief months when work on the farm was slack, and has been success- ful without higher training than that given by the country schools. He lived at home and helped his father until his marriage to Flora Ansel- ment, a daughter of Charles Anselment. They were among the early settlers, and her grandfather had the first grist mill in Holt County. Mr. and Mrs. Bagby have three children: Lucile, Blanche and Sallie, all of whom were born in this county. Blanche married Ray

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Cardinell, and has two children, Thomas and Elizabeth. Lucile married Fred Burk. Mr. Bagby has lived on his present estate since 1893, at which time he bought the land in an improved condition and has since increased it to an aggregate of 400 acres, all of it under cultivation ex- cept forty-five or fifty acres. He has gone ahead with the improvements, has erected a good house and barns and several outbuildings, and has one of the most attractive farmsteads in the vicinity of Mound City. Mr. Bagby is a member of the Christian Church and in politics is a democrat, the same political allegiance as his father.

E. L. SCHNEIDER. One of the sterling citizens and prominent busi- ness men of Avenue City is Emil L. Schneider, proprietor of a general store here, owner of a fine farm in Jefferson Township, and a member of the board of directors of the Farmers and Traders Bank of St. Joseph, Missouri. He was born three miles southeast of Avenue City, in Monroe Township, Andrew County, Missouri, November 15, 1868, and is a son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Schindler) Schneider. The father was born in Switzerland, in September, 1839, a son of Christopher Schneider, and accompanied his parents to the United States when thirteen years of age.

Christian Schneider located in Monroe Township, Andrew County, Missouri, on the farm on which his grandson, Emil L., was born many years later, and there spent the rest of his life. Frederick Schneider fol- lowed farming on the large tract his father had bought and was one of the five sons to be given a farm. He died there August 29, 1911. He married Elizabeth Schindler, who was born in Ohio and had accompanied her parents to Andrew County, in childhood. After she became a widow she removed to St. Joseph and now lives there with a daughter. There were ten children in the family: Rosetta, who is the wife of Stephen Hug, of Holton, Kansas; Anna, who is the wife of Charles Ritter, of Rochester Township; Pauline, who is the widow of Frank Heggeman, of St. Joseph, Missouri; Harry H., who is a merchant of Crosby, Missouri ; L. F., who is a farmer in Jefferson Township; W. G., who is a resident of Denver, Colorado; Oscar C., who remains on the home farm; Flora, who is the wife of Henry Bolliger, of Monroe Township ; Frederick, who died at the age of four years; and Emil L., who was the second born.

Emil L. Schneider remained with his father until he was twenty- one years of age, in the meanwhile attending the country schools. After- ward he was a student for two years in the Chillicothe Normal School, where he was graduated in 1892. Finding his tastes ran in the direc- tion of a mercantile life, Mr. Schneider then entered a general store at St. Joseph, where he continued until January 1, 1895, when he embarked in his present business at Avenue City. He carries a very complete assortment of general merchandise, including agricultural implements, everything a farmer needs being found in his stock. He has a large trade, partly on this account, but largely because of his accommodating manner and honorable business methods.

Mr. Schneider was married April 7, 1896, to Miss Emma Ritter, who was born in Monroe Township, Andrew County, and is a daughter of Joseph Ritter. They have three children: Leola, Russell and Louis. Mr. Schneider is giving his children many advantages. With his family he belongs to the German Reformed Church at Cosby, and all are active and interested in the Sunday school. He takes no very active part in politics but never fails to perform every duty that good citizenship de- mands, always having been identified with the republican party. For twenty years he has been a member of the Lodge of Odd Fellows at Ave- nue City, where the membership is large.

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GEORGE P. HARTMAN. A mile and a half west and half a mile south of the Village of Cosby, in section 10 of Monroe Township, Andrew County, is located the fine dairy farm known as the Holstein Dairy Farm. Its proprietor is George P. Hartman, who has spent practically all his life in Andrew County, and of whose success as a dairyman and general farmer the best proof is in the fine establishment he has built up in the last twenty or twenty-five years. He is one of the best known citizens of Monroe Township, and likewise one of the most successful.

George P. Hartman was born half a mile west of his present farm on January 29, 1865. His family has been identified with Andrew County for more than half a century. His parents were Charles W. and Ellen Nora (Shanka) Hartman, his father a native of Indianapolis and his mother of Virginia. They were brought to Northwest Missouri when children, grew up and were married in Andrew County, and both passed away in this locality. The father died October 20, 1889, at the age of sixty-seven, and the mother was at the same age when she died on June 6, 1896. Charles W. Hartman started out with his only possession a horse, and yet long before the end of his life had acquired a property of about five hundred acres in Andrew County. He was a member of the Baptist Church and a democrat in politics. In the family were eight sons and two daughters, named as follows: Harvey, who died at the age of seventeen; John Wesley, who died in 1908; William, who died in 1899; Leander Jackson, who lives in Buchanan County; Catherine, widow of John Kelley of Monroe Township; Lucinda Jane, wife of Nathaniel Lewis of DeKalb County; James Daniel, of DeKalb County ; Oscar, of Flag Springs, Andrew County; George P .; and Charles, who lives in St. Joseph.

George P. Hartman grew up in Monroe Township, received his edu- cation in the public schools, and after a training as a boy on the farm was ready for an independent career as soon as he reached his majority. Mr. Hartman owns 165 acres of land in his farm, and runs a fine dairy, his herd numbering about fifty head of high grade Holstein cattle. He has his barn equipped with all the modern facilities for dairying, and separates the cream and sells it through the Cosby Creamery to the St. Joseph market. Besides Holstein cattle he makes a specialty of Hamp- shire hogs, and keeps about sixty-five head. He has his farm equipped with four barns and two houses, and all these improvements have been placed there since Mr. Hartman took possession of the land.

Mr. Hartman is a democrat, and is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge at Cosby. In 1901 he married Miss Lillian Kelley. She was born in Monroe Township, Andrew County, in 1870, a daughter of Frank and Lydia Kelley of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Hartman are the parents of two children, Viola and Elsie.

JAMES A. SLADE. Prominent among the men who are ably represent- ing the farming interests of Andrew County is found James A. Slade, proprietor of Fairview Farm, a handsome tract of land lying in Roch- ester Township. Mr. Slade is well known to the people of his locality, where he has spent his entire life, and bears the reputation of being a business man of sterling integrity and a citizen who is always found favoring advancement in any direction. He was born on his father's farm, one mile south of Helena, in Rochester Township, January 6, 1861, and is a son of William W. P. and Isabella (McDonald) Slade.

The Slade family is of Scotch-Irish descent, and has been in America from colonial times. John Slade, the grandfather of James A. Slade, was a son of John Slade, a Revolutionary soldier, participated himself in the War of 1812 and saw service in the battle of New Orleans, under

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Jackson, and his only brother, Thomas Slade, was killed in the naval en- gagement in Chesapeake Bay, in 1813. James A. Slade's maternal great-grandfather was Maj. John Cartmell, a well-known officer of the Revolution. William W. P. Slade was born near Franklin, Bedford County, Tennessee, August 4, 1825, and was four years of age when his parents brought him to Lafayette County, Missouri. There he was reared and educated, and was living on his father's farm when the Mex- ican war commenced, and he at once enlisted for service under General Lanigan, continuing in the service for two years. He then returned to Andrew County, whence his father had preceded him, and here he en- tered two farms, comprising 164 acres, in the cultivation of which he was engaged during the remainder of his active life. In his declining years he retired from activity and moved to Helena, Missouri, where his death occurred March 24, '1912. Mrs. Slade, who was born in Indiana, March 10, 1826, died on the farm, March 9, 1899. Mr. Slade played an active part in local events during the Civil war, he serving all through that struggle as a member of the Twelfth Missouri Cavalry, his term expiring April 6, 1866. Later he went on expeditions against the Sioux Indians, and remained in the regular army, being appointed by Governor Fletcher as drillmaster and recruiting officer. He drilled the Ninety-seventh Missouri Cavalry, the drill grounds being near his home, and a large part of his life was devoted to military matters. A democrat in politics, he served at times as justice of the peace, township collector, school director and a member of various commissions. He was an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church from the time of his eighteenth year until his death.

The children born to William W. P. and Isabella (McDonald) Slade were as follows: T. D., who met his death in a railroad accident, June 26, 1903, leaving a widow and five daughters; Sophia, who is the wife of J. F. Beeler, of Helena; Betty, who is the wife of Albert Wilkerson, of Union Township; Mary S., who is the wife of A. J. Mathersead, of Wal- lace, Nebraska ; Susie, a resident of Helena; John, a wealthy and promi- nent farmer of Andrew County; James A., of this review; Abbie, who is the wife of L. D. Fisher, of Union Station; R. W., who is in the United States Secret Service, and is located at Denver, Colorado; and two children who died in infancy.

James A. Slade secured a public school education, and while he has always been engaged in farming, he was also for twenty-three years en- gaged in teaching school, becoming well and prominently known as an educator in Buchanan and Andrew counties. At this time he is the owner of a farm of 1351% acres, one-half mile south of Helena, which is under a high state of cultivation, and which he devotes to general farming, the raising of hay and grain, and the breeding of a fine strain of livestock. Here he has erected modern, substantial buildings, in- cluding a comfortable eight-room house, and has his own water and light works. He is a good agriculturist, using practical and modern methods, and in business circles his name is honored on commercial paper. In politics Mr. Slade is a democrat, his religious faith is that of the Presby- terian Church, and fraternally he is connected with the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.

On June 29, 1910, Mr. Slade was married to Miss Ella Bermond, who was born March 19, 1866, in Buchanan County, Missouri, a daughter of George and Martha (Castle) Bermond, he a native of France and she of Missouri. He was an early settler of Missouri, and both he and his wife died on their farm in Buchanan County. Mr. and Mrs. Slade have had no children.

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BOURTER LEGG. Among the old and honored residents of Grundy County, Missouri, one who has long held a substantial place in the com- munity is Bourter Legg, who is now living retired at Tindall, after many profitable years passed in agricultural pursuits. Mr. Legg was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, January 29, 1834, and is a son of Seldon and Rachael (Deckard) Legg, natives of Virginia.

Bourter Legg was a child when his parents removed from their Ohio home to Edgar County, Illinois, and there he received his education in the country schools while growing to manhood on his father's farm. In 1855 he came to Grundy County, Missouri, purchasing forty acres of prairie land at prices ranging from three to five dollars per acre, and so well were his labors prosecuted during the years that followed that he became the owner of 520 acres of land. At the time of his retirement he divided this property equally among his five children, who still retain and operate it. At the present time Mr. Legg is living in retirement at Tindall, although he still has extensive interests under his supervision, including 101 building lots. He was at all times known as a practical and progressive farmer, whose operations not only brought him a hand- some competence but also served to advance the development of the community. While he was shrewd and businesslike, never neglecting an opportunity to add to his holdings, his transactions were carried on in a strictly honorable manner, and he never advanced himself by taking advantage of another's misfortune. Thus it is that he is held in high esteem by those who have had dealings with him.

Not long after arriving in Missouri, in 1855, Mr. Legg enlisted for service in the Union army during the Civil war, as a member of the Fourth Regiment, Provisional Missouri State Militia, from Tindall, Grundy County. He was subject to call throughout the war and was mustered out of the service in 1864, with the rank of third sergeant. He has never lost interest in the affairs of his old army comrades, and still retains his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Legg's three brothers, William, Mathias and Elijah, all served in the Union army, enlisting from Edgar County, Illinois, and the last-named endured the hardships and privations of Andersonville Prison, in which he was con- fined for fifteen months after his capture by the Confederates. Mr. Legg is a republican in his political views, and at various times has been called upon to serve his fellow-citizens in offices both at Tindall and in the country, and his official record is that of a conscientious and capable public servant. He is a devout member of the Baptist Church, in the faith of which all his children were reared.

In 1864 Mr. Legg was united in marriage with Miss Cemira Woods, daughter of Jarvis and Amanda (De Vaul) Woods, natives of Ray County, Missouri, of German and Welsh descent. Mrs. Legg has two brothers living at Edinburg, Missouri, and one in Trenton. Of the five children born to Mr. and Mrs. Legg four are living : Rachel, wife of J. W. Tracy, of Tindall, Missouri, and they have one daughter, Miss Venice Tracy, now a teacher in the Trenton public schools; Marion, who married Miss Mollie Tracy, daughter of Nathan and Addie Tracy, has two children : Miss Cleatis Legg, a student in the Trenton high school, and Agel, a son attending school at Tindall, Missouri; Annie, wife of Fred Thompson, of Des Moines, Iowa ; Dr. Grace O'Doan, who is engaged in the practice of medicine in Des Moines is a daughter of Mrs. Thompson by a former marriage; Jennie, wife of W. R. Crockett, a successful business man of Trenton, Missouri, their daughter, Miss Willie Lee, being a student in the Trenton high school; Mrs. Minta Legg Jordan, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bourter Legg, died in Kansas City in 1910, leaving a

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husband and two children, Helen and Donald, who are attending school in Vancouver, Washington.

THOMAS PETTIGREW. The career of Thomas Pettigrew, a venerable resident of Helena, Andrew County, is one well worthy of consideration by the younger generation. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States as a young man, but before he could start on a career of his own he was forced to serve five years for another to clear off an indebted- ness. Subsequently he saw service in the great war between the North and the South, in which he sustained severe injuries, and finally, when he came to Missouri, it was as a laborer. His experiences, however, had given him self reliance and courage, and with determination he set forth to make a place for himself among the men of substance of his community. How well his ambitions were realized is evidenced by the high esteem in which he is held in his county and the handsome property which he has accumulated for his declining years.

Thomas Pettigrew was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1831, and is a son of William and Margaret (Aken) Pettigrew, the latter of whom died when Thomas was a baby, while the former, a farmer all his life, passed away in New Jersey. The following children were in the family : William, Eliza, James, George, Charles, all deceased, Thomas, Mary, deceased, and Margaret, of Orange New Jersey. Mr. Pettigrew received only a public school education in his native land and was a young man of twenty-four years when he emigrated to the United States. He was bound to his brother William for five years, in the manufacture of hats, and served the time at Milburn, New Jersey, following which he secured a position as conductor on a street railway in Brooklyn and was thus engaged for three years. The outbreak of the Civil war found Mr. Pettigrew a resident of New Jersey, and in May, 1861, he enlisted in Company K, Second Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. This regiment was attached to the Army of the Potomac, which partici- pated in the great and sanguine battle of the Wilderness, five miles from Richmond, when Mr. Pettigrew was severely wounded by a bullet in the left leg below the knee. He fell into the hands of the Confederates, and for six days lay on the field without having anything done for his injury, but subsequently went to Chesapeake Hospital, and was discharged therefrom and from the service after one year and eleven months as a soldier.

Mr. Pettigrew, with an excellent war record, came to Missouri to see his sister, Mrs. Eliza Atkinson. He was at once struck with the opportunities offered in this rich and fertile region, locating in Nod- away County, where he decided to remain. For three years he worked as a laborer, but in 1866 established a home of his own, when he was married to Mary C. Pattison, who was born in Indiana, May 27, 1844, and came to Nodaway County, Missouri, with her parents, in 1858. After his marriage Mr. Pettigrew engaged in farming ventures on his own account, and for twenty-four years resided on one farm, this adjoining the town of Rosendale, on the east. He still owns this prop- erty, which consists of 120 acres, on which there are numerous sub- stantial buildings and modern improvements. For ten years. Mr. Pettigrew resided at Woodston, Kansas, and for eleven years at El Reno, Oklahoma, and he still owns properties at both of these places. He is also interested in the Woodston State Bank, the Rooks County (Kansas) State Bank and the First National Bank of Stockton. Kan- sas. Mr. Pettigrew also owns 960 acres of fine land in the Pan Handle district of Texas, on which he has a well 340 feet deep. In all his business

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ventures he has been honorable and upright, and as a result he stands high in the esteem of his community.

Mr. Pettigrew has no professed religious connection, although he has always supported movements which have made for morality and education. He has been a lifelong republican, but is, at the same time, an ardent admirer of President Wilson.

HON. ABRAHAM H. BURKEHOLDER. On July 12, 1865, a new member was added to the bar of Trenton and Grundy county. He had many competitors then, all more or less acquainted with the community by virtue of some residence. Not one of those lawyers with whom he had his first associations is longer in practice, a fact which leaves Abraham Hudson Burkeholder as the dean of the legal profession at Trenton. Previous to his location in Trenton he had acquitted himself worthily as a soldier and in minor capacities, and since then many honors and important services have come within the scope of his years and attain- ments.

Abraham H. Burkeholder was born on a farm in York County, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1835. His father was Joseph Latshaw Burke- holder, born also in York County in 1797, while Grandfather Abraham was likewise a native of that portion of Pennsylvania. However, it is believed that the head of the next previous generation was from Lancaster County, and of early German stock. Abraham Burkeholder owned and cultivated a farm about five miles from Petersburg in York County, and lived there till death. His wife was named Brown and was of English and French stocks.

Joseph L. Burkeholder, the father, after a training on a farm, left York County in 1839, and in Perry County of the same state bought a farm on the Juniata River near Newport. Selling out there in 1860, in the following year he moved to Ohio and secured a new home in Putnam County. That was his home until his death at the age of seventy-one. He had married Barbara Harmon. Her birthplace was a farm near the Village of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and some of the actual fighting between the armies of Lee and Meade during the first three days of July, 1863, occurred on that farm. Her father, John Harmon, spent all his days in that state. Barbara Burkeholder died in 1859, leaving a family of ten children, all of whom grew to man- hood and womanhood.

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A history of northwest Missouri, Volume III, Part 87

Author: Williams, Walter, 1864-1935 editor Publication date: 1915 Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis publishing company Number of Pages: 912

Author: Williams, Walter, 1864-1935 editor
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 912