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In January, 1860, Mr. Millard was united in marriage with Miss Elsie A .- Tower, a daughter of Peter G. Tower, and they now have two children, -Frederick A. and Maud.
By his ballot Mr. Millard has always supported the men and measures of the re- publican party, and undoubtedly could have won high honors in the political field had he so desired. In 1874 he positively declined the nomination for state senator, and for twenty years entirely eschewed politics, but in 1894 he was nominated by the republican convention as justice of the peace of Inde- pendence, and at length was prevailed upon not to withdraw his name from the ticket.
When the election returns were received it was found that he had the largest vote of all of the seven candidates for the office, and he is now acceptably serving in that capacity. Mr. Millard is one of the prominent Masons of the country, and in 1870, in Cincinnati, Ohio, took the thirty-third degree. He is a man of excellent business albility, as is evidenced by the promptness with which he resumed operations at the time of the Chi- cago fire.
D. HORNBUCKLE, are present- ative farmer of Jackson county, living on section 33, Westport townshlp, is numbered among the native sons of this state, his birth having occurred in Johnson county, Missouri, May 18, 1842. He belongs to an old Kentucky family, that originally came from North Carolina. His grandfather, Alfred Horn- buckle, was a native of the latter state and a soldier in the war of 1812. At an early day he removed to Kentucky and subse- quently to Missouri, taking up his residence in Callaway county, in 1825. In 1841 he removed to Johnson county, and in 1849 became a resident of Jackson county. He had a son who served in the Confederate army, and on this account he was taken prisoner. After his release he removed to Carroll county, Missouri, where he died in 1863. He was twice married, and was the father of eighteen children. He first wed- ded Nancy Duvall, by whom he had thir- teen children, only one of whom is now liv- ing, namely: Eliza, wife of Richard Crump, a resident of Texas. His second wife was Mrs. Nancy Curl, nce White, and they had five children, four of whom are now living,
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namely: Mrs. Julia Reynolds, of Westport ; Noble, of La Fayette county, Missouri; Sterling Price, of Kansas; and Charles, of Carroll county, Missouri.
The father of our subject, W. R. Horn- buckle, was born in Mason county, Ken- tucky, in 1816, and was therefore only nine years of age when he accompanied his par- ents to Missouri. In Callaway county, this state, he was united in marriage with Amanda Davis, a native of Hopkins county, Kentucky, born December 18, 1817, and a daughter of Robert and Deborah (Horn- buckle) Davis, the former a native of Vir- ginia and the latter of North Carolina. When a young man her father removed to Kentucky, and so wild was the country that the family had to live in stockades. He was a son of James Davis, who was acci- dentally killed in that state. In 1819 the father of Mrs. Hornbuckle removed to Mis- souri, locating on a farm in Callaway county, where he died about 1845. His family numbered thirteen children, all of whom reached maturity, while four are now living, namely: James Madison, a resi- dent of Howard county, Missouri; Mrs. Hornbuckle; Mrs. Nancy Smith, who lives in California; and Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, of Monroe county, Missouri.
For three years after their marriage W. R. Hornbuckle and his wife resided in Cal- laway county, and then removed to Johnson county, Missouri, where they lived until 1851. That year witnessed their arrival in Jackson county, and for five years they lived in Westport. They then made their home upon a farm until 1885, when they returned to Westport, where the father died, June 3, 1890. The mother is still living and now makes her home with our subject. They were parents of seven children, but only two
reached adult age: Minerva, now the widow of Roland Flournoy, and the mother of six children; and W. D., of this review. The parents held a membership in the Baptist church in Westport, and Mr. Hornbuckle was a very prominent and active worker therein, serving for some time as deacon.
The gentleman whose name introduces this sketch acquired his education in West- port and Kansas City, and remained at home until he had attained his majority, giving his father the benefit of his services. He afterward made several trips across the plains, being engaged for four years in freighting for the United States government and visiting New Mexico, Colorado, Wyo- ming and Nebraska.
In 1874 Mr. Hornbuckle was united in marriage with Miss Minerva Canine, a daughter of Cornelius Canine, who removed from Kentucky to Jackson county about 1857, and died in 1868. His son James served throughout the war under General Forrest. After the close of the war he was assistant wagon-master for a freighting team and was killed in 1868 in a battle with the Indians. For nine years our subject and his wife made their home upon a farm on sec- tion 4, Westport township, and in 1883 re- moved to their present farm, whereon he erected a comfortable and commodious resi- dence, and is now giving his entire attention to agricultural pursuits. Their home has been blessed with four children: Roy D., Nannie B., Robert C. and William R.
The parents are widely and favorably known in this community, having a wide circle of warm friends, and are prominent and influential members of the Baptist church in Westport, of which Mr. Horn- buckle is also serving as trustee and deacon. Socially, he is connected with the Masonic
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fraternity, holding membership in the blue lodge of Westport, and is now past master. His political support is given the democracy.
a E. BURNHAM, attorney at law, Kansas City, is one of the promi- nent young lawyers of the Jackson county bar, having attained a place which is commensurate with his not- able ability. The "place at the top" spoken of by the immortal Webster was the goal of his youthful ambition, and with an eye ever in that direction he has so ordered his life as to keep in line with that goal of his laudable aspiration.
He is a native of Randolph county, Missouri, born July 27, 1867, and is a son of William E. and Lucy A. (Flournoy) Burnham, the former a native of Howard county, Missouri, and the latter of Scott county, Kentucky. Mr. Burnham is yet a resident of Randolph county, where he is widely known as a progressive man, a use- ful and highly respected citizen. By occupa- tion he is a farmer, in which highly honorable calling he has been eminently successful. The Burnham family is of English origin, the American founder tracing to that un- settled period in English history so fraught with war and bloodshed, when men battled to the death for conscience' sake and per- sonal liberty.
Tradition even does not seem to have handed down the Christian name of the Burnham who first crossed the Atlantic to seek a home in the new world, away from the civic and religious persecutions of his native land, but it is reasonably certain that he came about 1665 The family is now a numerous one in this country, being found in nearly, if not quite all, the States of the
Union, and many have been prominent in the professions and callings with which men have become connected; and during the wars that afflicted the early colonists the men of the name bore a conspicuous part.
William E. and Lucy A. (Flournoy) Burnham were parents of seven children, of whom our subject was second in order of birth. Nothing occurred in his boyhood to particularly distinguish it from the average farmer boy's early life. He attended the public school and made good progress in his studies, early displaying a capacity for learn- ing in advance of his school associates, and quickly mastering the curriculum of the pub- lic schools. Subsequently he was privileged to attend the Moberly high school, where he materially added to the scope and thorough- ness of his knowledge, and he became a high-school graduate at the age of sixteen years.
His diligence in study up to this time had incurred a slight delicacy in health, and as a rest and change he accepted a position in a dry-goods and clothing house in Moberly, where he remained two years. He then en- tered Star University at Columbia, Missouri, taking the academic course, which he com- pleted in two years, finishing his literary edu- cation. In the fall of 1888 he taught a short term of school, but teaching was not to his tastes. The law, for which he had a na- tural aptitude, was decided upon for a future career, and the wisdom of this decision has been made abundantly manifest by the suc- cesses he has won. Late in the year 1888 he went to Kansas City and applied himself with his old-time vigor and industry to the study of the law, with such good results that in May of the following year he passed a highly creditable examination before Judge Gibson and was admitted to the bar.
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Immediately thereafter he opened an office in the city and began practicing, first alone, and in the fall of 1892 he entered into a copartnership with George N. Elliott, a rising and successful lawyer, under the firm style of Elliott & Burnham, which has remained unchanged to the present, Mr. El- liott having been appointed assistant state's attorney in March, 1895. Mr. Burnham was elected city attorney in April, 1894, for a term of two years. In this election he was highly complimented, his supporters at the polls showing themselves by a majority of 2,200, leading every other name on the republican ticket. His popularity is un- measured, but it can be defined and ac- counted for by the masterly manner he handles his large practice, and the results obtained.
He came to Kansas City at the age of twenty-one years, and unlearned in the law. He came a stranger to a strange city, with- out the prestige of name or influential friends, but despite all this he has risen out of obscurity and in six years has won dis- tinction and honors of which any man might well be proud. His successes are not ephem- eral, not the result of a chance or a so-called "lucky hit," but they are the result of an intelligent conception of law and evidence. In the common law he is well versed, and in this alone the. lawyer finds a tower of strength as he marshals his hosts for vic- tory. His business, while large and some- what varied in character, is tending to cor- poration practice, being now the attorney for several local companies. Socially Mr. Burnham is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Baptist church.
His marriage to Miss Julia, daughter of Hon. J. W. Sebree, of Carrollton, Missouri, was consummated in 1892.
R. T. H. HUDSON. - Standing as one of the most eminent mein- bers of the homeopathic school of medicine in Missouri is this gentle- man, now recognized as a most able and skillful physician and surgeon of Kansas City.
He was born in Shelby county, Ken- tucky, August 13, 1847, and is a son of Musker L. and Rebecca (Green) Hudson, natives of Kentucky. The father was a physician and a graduate of the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, and practiced his profession until his death. He located in Gunn City, Cass county, Missouri, about 1870, and his death occurred three years later. His wife survived until 1878. In their family were six children, and of their four surviving sons the Doctor is the youngest.
The Doctor's literary education, begun in the common schools, was completed by a course in the University of Kentucky at Lexington. In the summer he worked on a farın, pursuing his studies through the winter season. At length he determined to take up the study of medicine and make its practice his life work. He began his in- vestigations along this line in 1872, and was graduated in the medical department of the University of Louisville in the class of 1877. After the first course of lectures he began practice in connection with his brother, Dr. Lycurgus H. Hudson, of Indiana. He had to do this in order to secure the means necessary to pay his college expenses. Upon his graduation he opened an office in Boston, Indiana, thence came to Camden, Kentucky, and was at Frankfort, Kentucky, from 1881 to 1885.
The Doctor has ever been a progressive physician, and although educated as a inem- ber of the regular or allopathic school he
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became dissatisfied, and at length continued his investigations and researches until ulti- mately he became a member of the opposite school, and is now one of the eminent practitioners of homeopathy west of the Mississippi. The account of his abandon- ment of the one mode of practice and his adoption of the other, he has given to the world in a little volume entitled, "Two Decades in Medicine," which has been widely circulated throughout this country and also translated into the German tongue. He was reared to accept the beliefs and practices of the regular school, and it is no easy matter to put aside the lessons that have been taught us in childhood, especially if they be taught us by those in whom we have implicit confidence. It is hard to realize that they may have been misguided, and taking away the beliefs of our early life there comes a time-before we have ac- cepted another faith-when there seems nothing substantial or to be depended upon.
Dr. Hudson studied in one of the best allopathic colleges in the country and never dreamed that there was a better place, more efficient teaching, or wiser instructors. His professors were men of high ability and he accepted without question their teachings. One of the faculty, addressing his class of 300 students, said, "Gentlemen, when you leave your alma mater go not after strange gods; chase no will o' the wisp through the bogs and marshes of homeopathy or eclec- ticism. All that is worth teaching in medi- cine we know; all that is worth knowing we teach." Dr. Hudson entered upon practice firm in his belief of what he had been taught and continued to follow the old methods for ten years. Occasionally, how- ever, when results were not what he antici- pated after administering the orthodox rem-
edies, questions would arise in his mind and doubts and unbelief stole their way in; but they were hushed up. He had been told by men in whom he had implicit confidence that he was practicing in the right way, and he did not wish to believe otherwise. How- ever a number of cases came before him that resulted in death and forced on him the conviction that he was not administering the right remedies. A humane physician will always feel the responsibility that is placed upon him. It is a grave matter when the question of life and death is placed in the hands of an individual, or the most prized possession, health; much depends on the ignorance or knowledge of a fellow man. Keeping up with the theories and discoveries connected with the science, Dr. Hudson of course knew that homeopathy was attract- ing great attention throughout this country and the old world, and was winning many followers; but he " considered homeopathic physicians willful humbugs, and their super- stitious patrons unwittingly humbugged."
The affairs of a lifetime often hinge upon accidents. In 1880 Dr. Hudson was one day invited to a dinner, where he met a homeopathic physician. Speaking of this he says: "I had prepared some stunning questions to propound to the first homeo- pathic doctor to whom etiquette, common politeness or circumstance should compel me to talk. I found in my new acquaint- ance a dignified, intellectual, scholarly man. I propounded my questions. I expected to upset his theories, demolish his sophistries, in short, as Mr. Micawber says, 'floor him,' and march triumphantly over his prostrate form. I had undersized my opponent, un- dervalued his theory. He answered my in- terrogatories. He gathered them together and dumped them at my feet; he took them
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up and dissected them; plucked them to pieces and scattered them like chaff to the winds. He knew all that I knew of my own school and apparently all that I did not know of his. He led me into a new field; he explained the theory of potency, the law of cure, the division of the superfices of drugs and the dynamic power of remedies. In his presence I sat abashed, confused, con- founded." The gentleman-Dr. J. A. Lucy -afterward invited Dr. Hudson to visit him, took him with him to see different patients, loaned him books and aided him in his in- vestigation. It was a long way, however, from allopathy to homeopathy, at which our subject felt that he could not go at a single bound. He hoped for some middle ground, and in September, 1880, entered the Elec- tical Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, at which he was graduated in the spring of 1881. While thus engaged he visited the other medical colleges in the city and made it possible to be present at many of the lectures of the Pulte Homeopathic College.
From 1882 until 1888 Dr. Hudson practiced in Frankfort. All this time he was a close student and continued his re- searches as one by one his old beliefs slipped away froin him and were replaced by a firm and unfaltering faith in the principles of homeopathy. He afterward became a part- ner of Dr. Lucy, to whom he expresses the deepest gratitude for leading him into the new light. In 1888 he came to Kansas City and has here built up a very large and extensive practice. He has been acting president of the Missouri State Medical As- sociation and held the office of vice-presi- dent. He is vice-president of the Missouri Valley Association, also a member of the National Homeopathic Association. and of the State Board of Health. He was elected
to the chair of organon in the Kansas City Homeopathic College, which he is now fill- ing, and is president of the State educational and legislative committee. He does all in his power to disseminate the truth as he believes it. Upon his banner is emblazoned the word Excelsior. He will never rest content with the knowledge that he has al- ready gained, but will continually endeavor to reach perfection through earnest and un- tiring research.
In 1880 Dr. Hudson was united in mar- riage with Miss Anna Wallace, a native of Kentucky, and they have one son, Howard, born December 25, 1888. They hold a membership in the Christian church, and the Doctor belongs to the Masonic fraternity.
Although modest in disposition and free from ostentation it is but just to say of him that his life typifies the truth that" nothing so dwarfs man as selfishness, nothing so broadens and elevates man as sympathy." To the latter quality he undoubtedly owes part of his sucess; and Fame, who bestows her favors charily, has already acknowledged his superior merit and ability.
H. PITTENGER. - The rich lands of Jackson county, once wild prairie or timbered regions, have been transformed into high- ly cultivated farms whose productiveness equals that in any other section of this country. The owner of a desirable piece of farming property in Washington township is the gentleman whose name introduces this sketch, who has 125 acres of land on sec- tion 8, the greater part of which is com- prised in arable fields which yield to the owner a golden tribute in return for the care he bestows upon them.
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Mr. Pittenger was born on the old fam- ily homestead in Adamns county, Ohio, No- vember 17, 1835. His father, Westley. Pit- tenger, was born there in 1811, and was a son of William Pittenger, a native of Mary- land, and one of the pioneers of Adams county, Ohio, where he took up a large tract of land under a patent. The family is of English lineage. The father of our sub- ject was reared on a farm in Adams county, and having attained his majority was there married to Catherine Coppel, who was born in Adams county in 1811, a daughter of John Coppel, a native of Pennsylvania and one of the early settlers of the Buckeye state. The parents of our subject took up their residence upon the old Pittenger tract of land, where they spent their remaining days. Of their seven children five reached adult age and three are now living, namely: W. H .; Wilson; and Lizzie, wife of James A. Gash. Annie was the wife of A. A. Robertson and had ten children. Jane was the wife of R. E. Pittenger, and had one child. These daughters are now deceased. The parents were both members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and their two sons were numbered among the "boys in blue " of the civil war.
Our subject acquired his education in North Liberty Academy, in Adams county, and started out in life for himself at the age of seventeen years. For four years he en- gaged in teaching school in Ohio. In 1861 he responded to his country's call for troops, enlisting on the 4th of July. It seemed fitting that he should enter the service in defense of the Union on the day set aside to celebrate the anniversary of the event that gave to the Union an existence. He became a private of company I, Thirty-ninth Ohio infantry, was made corporal, afterward
became sergeant and commissary sergeant, then second lieutenant and first lieutenant, and finally was placed in command of his company with the rank of captain. He continued to operate with the regiment in northern Missouri until February 22, 1862, when the troops went to St. Louis to organize for the Island No. 10 campaign. He participated in the battles of Platte City and Lexington, Missouri, New Madrid, and went to Fort Pillow with the fleet, which was ordered to Pittsburg Landing. Our
subject afterward took part in the siege of Corinth, the battle of Iuka, and a few days later the second battle of Corinth, after Price and Van Dorn. He was with Grant in the rear of Vicksburg, and was then sent to oppose Forrest, after which he returned to Jackson, Tennessee, and later participated in the battle of Parker's Cross Roads. He aided in guarding Memphis until after the surrender of Vicksburg, then marched to Prospect, Tennessee, and after veteranizing received a thirty-days furlough. When he again joined his regiment it was organized as a part of Sherman's army for the Atlanta campaign, and he continued with that com- mand until the surrender of the city, Sep- tember 19, 1863. He followed General Hood's army as far as the Tennessee river, then returned to Atlanta, and went on the celebrated march to the sea and the Carolina campaign to Raleigh. He was present at the surrender of General Jolinston, took part in the battle of Bentonville, North Carolina, marched to Washington, and participated in the grand review of the victorious army in that city. He then went to Louisville, Kentucky, where he was mustered out, July 9, 1865, after serving for 1,465 days and marching 17,000 miles. He served on the staff of Generals Fuller
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and Mower, and was never wounded and never off duty except for two weeks. His service was an honorable one, and of his record he may well be proud. The Union owes its preservation to such valiant soldiers, and the record of their heroic deeds will ever be found on the pages of America's history.
After his return to the north Mr. Pit- tenger remained on the home farm until April, 1866, and then came to Jackson county, Missouri, on the 3d of May, follow- ing. He married Miss Maria Louisa Dry- den, a native of Adams county, and a daughter of Thomas G. Dryden, who was born in Maryland in 1813, and is now a resident of Lees Summit. The grandfather, William Dryden, was one of the honored pioneers of Adams county. The mother of Mrs. Pittenger bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Ellis, was a native of Ohio, and a daughter of Samuel Ellis, of Maryland, who served as a soldier in the war of 1812, hold- ing the rank of lieutenant. Mrs. Dryden died in 1860. In the family were nine chil- dren, five of whom reached maturity, name- ly: Samuel, a resident of Lees Summit; Isaac N., who was killed at the battle of Chickamauga during the civil war; Mrs. Pittenger; Mrs. Belle Shepherd, who lives in St. Louis, and has one child; and Mrs. Thyrza A. Munns, who lives near Lees Summit, and has two children.
Mrs. Pittenger was born February 28, 1844, and was reared and educated in Adams county, Ohio. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Pittenger was blessed with a family of seven children: Effie May, wife of James E. Burton, of Kansas City, Missouri, by whom she has three children-Ralph, Grace and Florence; Thomas, deceased; Arthur, of Kansas City; Nora A., wife of
W. T. Palmer, of Brooklyn township, by whom she has one son, Lloyd; Edward N., deceased; Ira, at home; and Homer, who completes the family.
Mr. and Mrs. Pittenger began their do- mestic life upon the county farm, which they rented for a few months. Subsequently they lived in Prairie township until 1867, since which time they have resided upon their present farm, comprising 125 acres of land, and highly improved with all the modern accessories and conveniences. They are members of the Christian church, and are active and prominent in church and Sunday-school work. Mr. Pittenger is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and in politics is a stalwart republican. He has served as committeeman for seventeen years, and has been a delegate to the State and other party conventions. For some years he was chairman of Washington township. He has never sought or desired public office and has served only as deputy assessor and school director. During his fifteen years' incumbency in the latter posi- tion he did effective service in the interest of education.
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