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as township clerk, and was a member of the school board from its organization until his death. He had been a school-teacher in his early life and was deeply interested in the cause of education, doing all in his power for its advancement. In the Axline family were twelve children, but only two passed the age of twelve years, -our sub- ject and his brother William M., who man- ages a part of the old farm. Mrs. Axline still resides on the old homestead, which has been her place of abode for forty years. Our subject was reared there and remained at home until his marriage, which occurred on the 17th of December, 1874, the lady of his choice being Miss Florence Woodward. She died May 16, 1886.
Upon his marriage, Mr. Axline began farming on a small scale. He had inher- ited sixty acres of the old homestead and to this he has added from time to time as his financial resources have increased until he now owns three hundred and twenty acres, all in one body, together with an eighty- acre farm in La Fayette county, three miles distant. His specialty, however, has not been the raising of grain. He has given the greater part of his time and attention to stock dealing. For twenty years he has been extensively engaged in feeding cattle, and now has upon his farm one hundred and twenty-five head. About twelve years ago he began the breeding of Poland-China hogs and now raises more than one hundred a year, his sales extending all over the coun- try. He is a member of the Missouri State Swine Breeders' Association, also of the Standard Poland-China Record Associa- tions. His animals are all registered, and he has some of the finest specimens of the breed in the country. At the head of his drove is Roy U. S. 13,843, and Western
Wilkes, 12,846. He has never been an ex- hibiter but sells exclusively by catalogue and advertising, and has been very successful in his business. He has one of the best equipped stock farms in this section of the country; has recently built a new feed barn, 40x100 feet and 16 feet high, which will ac- commodate about one hundred head of cattle. He also has a general barn, 52x72 feet with a basement under the entire structure. He has also bought and shipped stock in company with some of his neighbors, sending out about fifty car-loads annually, for fifteen years, and has engaged to some extent in the breeding of mules, trotting and saddle horses, owning a number of very fine animals.
He is a man of excellent business abil- ity, sagacious and far-sighted, straightfor- ward and honorable in his dealings, enter- prising and progressive in his methods, and his prosperity is the merited reward of his own labors.
The children of Mr. Axline's first mar- riage are Berta L., aged nineteen, and Jo- seph Ewing, aged sixteen. On the 3d of May, 1888, Mr. Axline was again married, his second union being with Miss Tura A. Pallette, daughter of A. C. and Martha B. Pallette, pioneers of this community, the former a native of Tennessee and the latter of Virginia. Two children grace this union: Ivy Irene, aged six years, and Ora Orene, a little maiden of three summers.
The parents are prominent and active members of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, of Pleasant Prairie, of which Mr. Axline has served for many years as stew- ard. He has been district school clerk for ten years, and a member of the board for five years, and in politics is a supporter of democratic principles.
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HOMAS B. BUCKNER is the sen- ior member of the firm of Buckner, Bird & Lake, attorneys at law of Kansas City, whose offices are in the New York Life building. This firm enjoys an excellent reputation and receives from the public a liberal patronage, such as is given only to those whose ability and standing at the bar enable them to handle successfully large legal interests.
Mr. Buckner was born in Callaway county, Missouri, September 8, 1854, de- scending from English and Irish ancestry. The paternal grandfather, Colonel Robert R. Buckner, was a native of Kentucky, and married a Miss Tate, who was of Irish and Scotch descent. He carried on business as a farmer, tobacco-raiser and trader, and later was a commission merchant in St. Louis. A man of considerable prominence, he served as a member of the state legisla- ture of Kentucky at the time when Senator George G. Vest was a page in the house. He was a typical southern gentleman, of generous manner and kindly nature. On the occasion of his coming to Missouri in the early days on an Ohio steamer, his boat collided with another vessel, and he lost eight slaves, six mules, three wagons and $1,800 in gold. His last days were spent in Missouri, where he died in 1877, at the age of seventy years.
The father of our subject, John T. Buck- ner, was born in Kentucky, and is now a retired farmer. He came to this state in 1840, locating in Callaway county with his father. He has since been a resident of that locality, and, having acquired a com- petence through his well managed business interests, is now spending his declining years in the enjoyment of the fruits of his former labor. He married Ellen M. Bernard, a
native of Virginia, a sister of Judge William R. Bernard, of Westport, and a daughter of Major Thomas Bernard, who was of En- glish lineage, while his wife was of German descent. A farmer by occupation, he owned a large tract of land, and was an aristocratic southern gentleman in the truest sense of that term. From Virginia to Missouri he removed in the '40s and settled in Callaway county, where his death occurred when he had reached the age of seventy years. In religious belief he was a Methodist, and sev- eral of his brothers were ministers of that denomination, while his home was the place of entertainment for all of the preachers vis- iting that part of the county.
Mr. and Mrs. John Buckner, however, are members of the Presbyterian church, and in his political views he is a stalwart democrat. Their family numbered six children: Robert R .; Thomas B .; Mollie, wife of John S. Harrison; John E .; Joseph Frank; and William T., who died at the age of twenty- one.
Thomas B. Buckner was reared in the county of his nativity, on a farm, working thereon in summer and attending the dis- trict school in winter. In 1875 he was graduated at Westminster College, of Ful- ton, Missouri. After his graduation he fol- lowed surveying and teaching school, study- ing law at the same time, and subsequently pursued the law course in the Michigan Uni- versity at Ann Arbor, where he graduated in 1877. When thorough preparation had fitted him for his chosen calling, he estab- lished an office in Mexico, Missouri, where he remained for nine years in active practice. During that time he served as city attorney for one year, and was prosecuting attorney of the county for four years.
In 1886, attracted by the marvelous
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growth of this city and wishing a larger field of professional life, he came to Kansas City, where he has practiced continuously since. For four years he was attorney of the Mis- souri Pacific Railroad Company, and attor- ney for a number of the largest banks in the city, and now has an extensive and dis- tinctively representative clientage. In his professional capacity he has been connected with many important cases, and that his ability and honorable methods are appre- ciated is shown in the large business that now engrosses his attention.
In January, 1880, Mr. Buckner married Effie Hendricks, a native of Harrison coun- ty, Texas, daughter of Colonel Sterling Brown Hendricks. They now have four children,-James Tucker, Sterling Hen- dricks, Margaret and Thomas B., Jr.
Mr. Buckner is a member of the Cen- tral Presbyterian church, at Kansas City, and a member of the Odd Fellows and Masonic fraternities. He was knighted as a Knight Templar, in Kansas City com- mandery, No. 10, in 1888, with which com- mandery he still affiliates. In politics he is and always has been a pronounced demo- crat, and has taken a prominent part in the councils of his party since 1878. He was the youngest member of the state conven- tion of his party which assembled that year, and he has been a prominent speaker on the stump in almost every campaign since that year. His acquaintance in the city and state is very extensive, extending to almost every prominent member of his party. Mr. Buckner never forgets a face, and but few forget him. His striking characteristics are absolute fidelity to friends and clients, and intense zeal in the espousal of any cause he advocates. His character is of that posi- tive sort which never dissimulates. He
never allows any one to treat him with more consideration than is given in return. No one has a greater contempt for the betrayer of a confidence and friendship than he.
As an orator and advocate, whether on the stump or in the forum, he carries his strong personality with him. His earnest- ness, his honesty, and his facility for put- ting things in the strongest and most trench- ant and forcible manner has won for him the reputation of being a hard fighter and one of the strongest advocates at this bar.
He has an ardent love for family, home and friends. His home life, attended by his accomplished wife and four children, is his principal delight. He lives in a comforta- ble residence at 426 Prospect avenue, one of the most delightful locations in Kansas City. At this home a generous hospitality is dispensed, where all friends of the family are made welcome.
Mr. Buckner is a direct descendant of .
the Buckner family of Kentucky, whose fame extends to almost every household in that state. The history of that state would not be complete without mentioning the names of Judge Richard A. Buckner, Judge Benjamin F. Buckner, Alexander Buckner, Aylette H. Buckner, and General Simon Bolivar Buckner, and many others high in the roll of honor. From these names she has selected her congressmen, her judges, her senators, her generals and her govern- ors. These men are all relatives of the sub- ject of this sketch, and with his strong per- sonality, his industry, his courage, honesty and absolute fidelity to both right principles and friends, he will keep alive a name un- tarnished, already rendered illustrious by his distinguished ancestors in the service of their country.
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APOLEON BOONE is an honored representative of a family of pio- neers. His grandparents located in this state when it was under Spanish rule and he traces his ancestry in direct line back to Daniel Boone, who was his great-grandfather. This honored pio- neer, who opened the way to civilization in Kentucky, was born October 22, 1734, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and was a son of Squire and Sarah (Morgan) Boone. When fourteen years of age he accompanied his father to North Carolina, the family lo- cating within a short distance of the mouth of Kanawha river. In that colony he was married, on the 14th of August, 1756, to Rebecca Bryan, who was born January 9, 1739. Soon afterward he made a settlement in southwestern Virginia, on the bank of the Holston river. He loved pioneer life with the freedom and experiences of the frontier, and took great pleasure in making his way into unexplored regions. In 1760 he hunted through Tennessee, where he left a record on a beech tree, as follows:
D Boone cilled a bar
The following year he formed a party that started for Kentucky, but near the present site of the city of Abingdon the ex- pedition disbanded. In 1764 he penetrated into the interior of the " dark and bloody" ground as far as Rock Castle branch of the Cumberland river. In 1769, in company with Findlay Stewart and others, he again started to explore Kentucky and lived the wild life of a hunter and pioneer in that state from 1769 until 1784. The record of his career there has largely become a matter
of history, as it deals with the development and settlement of the state. He was con- nected with many stirring events, including a number of encounters with the Indians. Wild animals roamed through the forest and made it dangerous for one to venture out without fire-arms. Daniel Boone was frequently called upon for some prominent service. He was sent to negotiate a treaty with the Indians at Watauga and when the new state of Transylvania seemed on the eve of establishment he was chosen a dele- gate from one of the districts to the legis- lature at Boonesboro, where one of his first acts-characteristic of the thoughtfulness and kindness to man-was to offer a bill for the protection of game.
When the effort to establish the new state fell through and Virginia divided Ken- tucky into the three counties of Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln, he was appointed lieutenant colonel of Fayette county, and was also elected to represent that county at the legislature at Richmond, Virginia. When Boonesboro was organized as a town he was made one of its trustees. In 1774 Lord Dunmore, on organizing his Shawnee campaign, placed Daniel Boone in command of three garrisons, -one at Fort Union- now called Louisburg -- and Donnelly's fort and Stewart's fort in Greenbrier county, Kentucky, to protect citizens in the rear of General Lewis' army. He removed his family to Kanawha, and was appointed lieutenant colonel and elected to the legis- lature at that place. About 1790 he set- tled in West Virginia, where he made his home until 1795, when he came to Missouri, taking up his residence in the territory that was then under Spanish rule. He died September 26, 1820, and his wife passed away March 18, 1813.
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In their family were nine children. This included Daniel Morgan Boone, grandfa- ther of our subject, who was born in 1769, and was reared in Kentucky. He was mar- ried March 3, 1800, to Sarah Lewis, who was born January 29, 1786. They settled in St. Charles, Missouri, and subsequently removed to Kansas, where Mr. Boone was engaged in farming among the Kaw Indians for five years. He then returned to this state, locating first in Westport township, and then in Washington township, Jackson county, on section 4, and later removing to section 20. He served as a soldier in the war of 1812, and held the rank of colonel. His death occurred on the home farm in Washington township, July 13, 1837, and his wife passed away June 19, 1850. They had a family of nine children: John W., Nathan, Daniel, Lindsey and Edward,- all now deceased; Elizabeth Levice, who married Mr. White; and Alonzo, James and Morgan, who also have passed away.
Daniel Boone, father of our subject, was born in St. Charles county, Missouri, March 27, 1809, and came with his parents to Jackson county. He was married in January, 1832, to Marie Constance Phili- bert, a native of Canada and a daughter of Gabriel Philibert, of French descent. Her parents started from Canada to St. Louis, Missouri, and while on the way the wagon in which they were traveling was over- turned, falling upon them, and both parents died from the effects of the injury! Their children were as follows: Gabriel, Mary Ann, John, Joseph, Jean Baptiste, Marie Constance and Peter. All are now de- ceased. Mrs. Boone was born March 13, 1812, and was therefore very young at the time of her parents' deaths. She was taken to St. Louis and was reared by a family
who lived on the river bank at the foot of Washington street. Her brother Gabriel was a gunsmith with the Kaw Indian agency in Kansas, and while visiting him she be- came the wife of Daniel Boone, the mar- riage ceremony being performed by Rev. Thomas Johnson. They took up their res- idence on section 4, Westport township, Jackson county, where Mr. Boone pur- chased a tract of land. This he afterward sold to Boone Hayes, and removed to sec- tion 20, Washington township, where he made his home for sixty years. His chief occupation was farming, but he was iden- tified with many of the events that go to make up the history of the early develop- ment of Jackson county. He was also one of the California argonauts of '49, who crossed the plains to the Pacific slope. Again during the war he visited California and Idaho. His death occurred February 22, 1880, but his widow yet survives. She can relate many interesting incidents of life on the frontier, for she has lived in Jackson county for sixty-three years, -a record that is equaled by few.
To Daniel and Marie C. Boone were born twelve children, eleven of whom reached years of maturity. Elizabeth be- came the wife of John Stewart, but both are now deceased. Their children were Daniel, Jennie, Josephine and Leander. Delilah is the deceased wife of Samuel Stewart, and her children are Mary Jane, Amelia Belle, Theodore, David, William, May and Eliza- beth. Mary Jane became the wife of Leon- ard Fuqua, and they have one son, John Bell. Alonzo Havington died unmarried. Napoleon is the gentleman whose name in- troduces this biographical account. Theo- dore W. is married and lives in Idaho, and has eleven children, namely: Ernest, Rob-
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ert, Clara, James, Gertrude, Lou, May, Minnie, Grace, John and Florence. Daniel is married and resides in Washington town- ship, and his family numbers seven children, -Claude, Maud, Daniel, Della, Earl, Leo and Stella. Cassandra is the wife of George Douglas, of Randolph county, Missouri, and they have six children, -Rosella, Nathan, Dollie, Elka, Rolla and Dee. Nathan re- sides in Washington township and is un- married. Margaret is now the wife of Lem- uel Stevenson, and by a former marriage had one son, Boone Gordon. John is mar- ried and lives in Washington township, and his family numbers four children,-Arlie, Velma, Forest and an infant. James Harvey completes the family and resides with his mother. The father of this family was a member of the Methodist church, and a democrat in political views.
We now take up the personal history of Napoleon Boone, a well known and highly respected farmer of Westport township. He was born on the old homestead in Washing- ton township, October 1, 1842, and re- mained there until seventeen years of age, when he started out in life for himself. In 1859 he went to Colorado, crossing the plains with his father on a freighting expe- dition. He afterward drove a team from Kansas City to Fort Lyons, also from that point to Fort Union, to Albuquerque and to Santa Fe, New Mexico. He also engaged in freighting to Fort Laramie, and from Fort Atchison went to Fort Lyons, Colo- orado. As assistant wagon-master for Major Barr & Company, he went to Salt Lake City, thence to Virginia City, Mon- tana, for Al Spottswood. Subsequently he returned to Salt Lake City for Mr. Jennings and had charge of the stockades there dur- ing the succeeding winter. 17
On the 6th of March, 1865, Mr. Boone purchased a horse and proceeded to Virginia City, Montana, where he engaged in mining during the summer. On the 28th of August he started on a return trip to Kansas City, and in the spring he went to Nebraska City, starting out as a teamster. On reaching Julesburg the train was turned over to him as wagon-master. He made three trips from the mountains to Fort Kearney, and during the winter had in charge a herd of cattle on the Bijou river, sixty-five miles east of Den- ver. The following summer he hauled grain on the stage line, then went to the Black Hills, and hauled railroad ties for the Union Pacific Railroad. In the autumn he returned home and in 1868 engaged in farming.
On the 14th of January, 1869, Mr. Boone married Miss Jennie Douglas, a native of Kentucky and a daughter of Will- iam and Emily (Dooley) Douglas, who came to Jackson county in 1850, and removed to the farm on which Mr. Boone is now living in 1851. Mr. Douglas died March 20, 1886, but his widow is now living with her daughter. They had six children: Albin, who is living in Washington township; Harriet Watts, deceased; George, of Randolph county, Missouri; Mrs. Boone; Joseph, of Washing- ton township; and Mrs. Lizzie Lee, of Cockrell, Missouri (named after the senator).
On their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Boone located on section 20, Washington town- ship, and there improved a good farm. In 1891 they removed to their present home, where he has erected a fine residence and made excellent improvements, having now one of the most valuable and desirable places in this locality. They have had eight children, of whom seven are now living, namely: William, who died at the age of eighteen years; Benjamin F .; Flora; John
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Wallace; James; Albert D .; Rachel and Adlai Grover.
In his political views Mr. Boone has always been a stalwart democrat, and is un- faltering in his support of the principles of the party. He has served as a delegate to conventions, but. has never been a politician in the sense of office-seeking. He served as school director for several terms, and the cause of education finds in him a stalwart champion. He is a thoroughly reliable busi- ness man, energetic and enterprising, and his possessions have largely been acquired through his own efforts. As a representative of an honored pioneer family he stands prominently before the people to-day, and he has himself been largely connected with frontier life, having traveled all over the west during the days of its early history.
EV. JOHN EMERSON ROB- ERTS was born in Fredonia, Ohio, September 28, 1853, the fourth child of William S. and Henrietta (Skinner) Roberts. His father was a native of Ohio and his mother a native of New York state. William S. Roberts was a Baptist minister, having been educated at Grangeville, Ohio. Henrietta Skinner was a Presbyterian, but joined the Baptist church after marriage. In 1857 the family moved to Michigan and settled on a farm near Battle Creek, where the children attended the district school.
When seventeen years of age, John E. Roberts left the farm and went to Upper Alton, Illinois, where he remained a student of Shurtleff College for eight years, spend- ing two years in the preparatory course, four in the collegiate, graduating from the
latter in 1876, and two in the theological department, from which he received, in 1878, the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry in July, 1878, at Carrollton, Illinois, and re- mained in charge of the Baptist church at that place till February, 1881. He then accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist church of Kansas City, Missouri, continuing in this capacity till the autumn of 1884.
At this time, having found himself unable to reconcile the orthodox doctrine with reason, he resigned the pastorate of this church and withdrew from the Baptist min- istry. The following year he organized a liberal congregation in Grand Rapids, Mich- igan, continuing with them until October, 1887, at which time he became the minister of All Souls church of Kansas City. Their house of worship is located on Tenth street just west of Broadway. The church exists for the purpose of helping to make the world better. It has no creed nor confes- sion of faith, and bars no one on account of doctrinal opinion. It welcomes to its fel- lowship any who will unite to promote mor- ality and intelligence, and ask no questions about what they believe. It teaches the duty of intellectual hospitality, the sacred- ness of freedom, and the saving power of intelligence and light. Acting upon the principle that religion is most helpful when most free, it has abandoned the ceremonies and sacraments as useful to neither God nor man. In this church the matter of belief is left to each individual, for whom there is no authority but his own reason. The scriptures recognized as inspired, and read at the regular service, are selections from the world's best literature without re- gard to sacred canons, so-called, the decrees
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of councils, or ecclesiastical traditions. It holds that reason is the highest authority, and justice is the whole duty of man.
J M. SCOTT .- Classed with the re- spected and representative farmers of Washington township, Jackson county, Missouri, we find the gentle- man whose name appears at the head of this sketch. His farm, located on section 34, comprises one hundred acres.
Mr. Scott's parents, Thomas and Mary (Merrin) Scott, were natives of England, the former born in 1799 and the latter in 1792. Their marriage was consummated in Nottingham, England, and that place continued to be their home until 1829, when they emigrated to America and located in Albany, New York. He was a carpenter by trade and followed that vocation in this country. In 1833 they removed to Mich- igan, first settled in Detroit, and two years later took up their abode in Ann Arbor, which continued their abiding place until 1866. That year they came to Missouri, and in Kansas City the residue of their lives was passed. Both died in Kansas City, in the year 1884. They were the parents of six children, viz .: Mary, who died of cholera in Detroit, at the age of seven years; J. M., the subject of this article; William, who married a Miss Leonard, lives at La Porte, Indiana, and has one child; Theresa was twice married, first to Dr. Henry Dean, and secondly to Dr. S. S. Todd, and died with- out issue; Delia, wife of D. S. Twichell, an attorney of Kansas City, Missouri, died and left a husband and two sons; and Mary Elizabeth, who died in childhood. The parents of this family were members of the
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