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B ACHEL S. TENNEY, M. D., is a representative of the medical profession in Kansas City, belong- ing to the homeopathic school. She was born in Fayette, Kennebec county,
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Maine, December, 2, 1831, and is a daugh- ter of Caleb C. and Rachel (Shaw) Knowles. Her father was born in 1798, and died in 1876, while her mother, who was born in 1800, passed away in 1893. Her father was a farmer by occupation and was a man of extensive education. He was a close student of the Bible and was a devout mem- ber of the Baptist church. Five children of the family survived the mother's death, namely: Mrs. Martha E. Drouillard, of Kansas City; Louis M., now superintendent of public instruction in Marion county, Kansas; John, a farmer, near Sun City, Kansas; Mrs. Josephine Pugh, of Independ- ence, Kansas, and Rachel S. The pater- nal grandfather of Dr. Tenney was John Knowles, the first settler of Fayette, Ken- nebec county, Maine. He was of English descent, was a very wealthy man, and served with distinction in the Revolutionary war. Her maternal grandfather was John Shaw, a farmer, and also a native of the Pine Tree state.
Dr. Tenney, although born in Maine, was reared and educated in Illinois, where her parents removed when she was only eleven years of age. She was married in 1849 to Dr. Abijah D. Tenney; and as she had also prepared herself for the medical profession they engaged in practice together, locating in Lawrence, Kansas. After the death of her husband, which occurred in that place, she removed to Independence, Kansas, where her mother lived, and there made her home until after her mother's death, when she came to Kansas City and opened her present office. By her marriage were born four children, of whom two are living: Amos, now a civil engineer of Oregon; and Mrs. Alice T. Sampson, of Kansas City.
Dr. Tenney of this review, is thoroughly educated in medicine, having taken a degree from both an allopathic and homeopathic college. She first attended the Woman's College of the New York Infirmary, and afterward the Hahnemann Homeopathic College of Chicago, Illinois. In her prac- tice, however, she follows the homeopathic system, and is meeting with good success, receiving a liberal patronage. Besides her medical training she possesses a fine general education, and is widely known throughout Kansas as a public speaker and an advanced thinker, having been a co-laborer with Anna Dickinson and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was chosen president of the woman's suffrage organization on its establishment at Lawrence, Kansas, and delivered her maiden speech on that occasion. She was for eight years the secretary of the Montgom- ery County Medical Society of Kansas, and is now associated with the leading medical organizations of Kansas City.
J AMES A. MOORE, who carries on general farming on section 12, Snia- bar township, is the owner of a val- uable tract of land of 165 acres, which is now under a high state of cultivation and well improved. Throughout the greater part of his life he has been connected with agricultural pursuits.
He was born on a farm in La Fayette county, Missouri, five miles east of his pres- ent home, on the 5th of August, 1836, and is a son of Robert R. Moore, a native of Tennessee, who located in La Fayette county in 1835, and became the owner of 240 acres of land. He had followed the carpenter's trade in his early life, but after- ward turned his attention to agricultural
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pursuits, which he carried on in Missouri until his death, which occurred in 1874, at the age of sixty-seven years. His family numbered four children, -two sons and two daughters.
The subject of this review was reared on the old family homestead, and obtained his education in the public schools of the neigh- borhood. During the civil war he joined the state troops, and served under Colonel Martin and Lieutenant Colonel Hayes. His company participated in the battle of Lex- ington, and subsequently crossed the Missis- sippi river. He also took part in the bat- tle of Pea Ridge, and continued at the front until July, 1862. During the remainder of the war he was located in Illinois, and for two years was in the employ of Mr. Alexan- der, a prominent cattle dealer. In 1865 he returned to Missouri, and during the sum- mer drove a freighting outfit in company with some of his neighbors, hauling general merchandise from Nebraska City to Salt Lake. In December, of that year, he re- turned to his father's farm, which he aided in cultivating for several months.
On the 27th of January, 1867, was cele- brated the marriage which secured to Mr. Moore as a companion and helpmeet on life's journey Miss Leah Grubb, a native of Virginia. They have two children: Lizzie, a graduate of Odessa College; and William Rutledge, who is now a student in Marshall College. Mr. and Mrs. Moore began their domestic life upon the farm which is still their home. Only a small portion of it was under cultivation at that time, but the greater part is now transformed into rich fields, and Mr. Moore has made most of the improvements upon the place himself. For ten years he has engaged in the raising of shorthorn cattle, and has found it a profita- 27
ble business. In politics he is a democrat, and has frequently been a delegate to the conventions of his party, but has never ac- cepted office. He and his daughter are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church at Pleasant Prairie, and his wife be- longs to the Methodist Episcopal church.
S ETH E. WARD, whose long identi- fication with the history of Jack- son county well entitles him to representation in this volume, is descended from one of the old and promi- nent families of Virginia; and back of that history tells of one of the remote ancestors of the Ward who bore the name of Seth and was bishop in the Church of England. The name Seth was handed down to the eldest son for five generations. The great- grandparents of our subject were Seth and Mary (Goode) Ward, and the next in line of direct descent was the grandfather, Seth, who was born in Sheffield, Chesterfield county, Virginia, April 10, 1772, and died in Clarksville, Tennessee, in 1859. He married Martha Norvell, daughter of Hon. William Norvell, of Lynchburg, Virginia. Their son Seth was born in Lynchburg, July 9, 1798, and in the Old Dominion mar- ried Ann Hendrick, a native of that state. About 1830 he emigrated westward and died about 1832. The mother died of yellow fever in Mississippi, in 1878. In their fam- ily were four children: Seth E., of this sketch; Martha N., wife of Thomas L. Austin, of Nebraska, by whom she has nine children; Mary, widow of Judge J. Nelson, of Mississippi; and Georgiana, who became the wife of John C. Clark, and died leaving two children.
Seth Ward, whose name introduces this
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article, is one of the native sons of Virginia, his birth having occurred in Campbell county, March 4, 1820. There he remained until fourteen years of age, receiving but limited school privileges, for his father had died, leaving the family in rather strait- ened circumstances. In 1834 he became a resident of Indiana, being in the charge of Jacob Haas, of La Porte, that state. After two years, however, he returned to Virginia, walking all the way, leaving the Hoosier state in December, and reached his destina- tion the following May.
After a short visit with his mother in Greencastle, Virginia, he again started west- ward, his cash capital consisting of twenty- five dollars, which she had given him. Tak- ing up his residence in Louisville, Kentucky, he remained there until the fall of 1836, when he went to St. Louis, Missouri, secur- ing employment in a tobacco factory for a year. Spending some time in various places in Illinois, he subsequently returned to St. Louis, where he spent the winter of 1837-8, and in June of the latter year he started up the Missouri river. He remained in Lexing- ton for a short period and then went to Independence, but within three weeks joined the company of Captain L. P. Lupton, a fur trader, having trading posts on the South Platte river, where they arrived in Septem- ber, 1838. This vast region west of the Mississippi was then an almost unbroken wilderness, its prairies unimproved, its for- ests uncut, -untouched as yet by the civil- izing hand of man.
With a company of fur traders employed by Thompson & Craig, he crossed the Rocky mountains to Green river, -one of the earliest ventures in this direction. A member of this band was Kit Carson, the noted explorer and pioneer, from whom Mr.
Ward received his first horse. Mr. Carson had entered into a wager with Mr. Thomp- son, who said that no "greenhorn" could drop a buffalo at the first trial. Our sub- ject made the attempt and brought down the buffalo, but was himself thrown. He was picked up insensible, carried into the camp, and when he recovered Kit Carson gave him the horse that he had won in the wager. On that trip they also had a skir- mish with the Indians. In 1839 Mr. Ward accompanied a party of trappers to the terri- tory occupied by the Navajo and Digger Indians, where they were fired upon by the red men and one of their number killed. Constant danger attended these excursions through the west, and the experiences of the fur traders in those early days equal in exciting incident some of the most remark- able tales of fiction. Mr. Ward spent seven years among the Indian tribes of the south- west and became quite familiar with their habits, customs and modes of life. For sonie years he was in the employ of Bent & St. Vrain, traders, with whom he re- inained until 1845, during which time he was an associate of Francis P. Blair, after- ward United States senator from Missouri.
Mr. Ward's experiences as a fur trader ended in 1845, he returning from the remote west with a capital of one thousand dollars which he had saved from his earnings. While on his journey eastward he camped in Kansas within sight of his present home.
His next venture was in the line of mer- chandising. In the summer of 1845 he pur- chased two yoke of oxen, a small wagon and a varied assortment of goods and again went out in company with his old employers. The same year he traded his goods for horses and mules, and in 1846 lived in the neighbor- hood of Bent's fort on the Arkansas river,
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after which he sold his stock and came to Missouri, in 1847. Having purchased a large wagon and five yoke of oxen, he once more entered the service of Bent & St. Vrain for the winter. With the advent of spring he sold his outfit, and returning se- cured four wagon-loads of goods, which he sold in his own interest. This line of mer- chandising in the west, supplying the dis- tricts which were without railroad communi- cation, proved a very profitable one, and he kept enlarging his stock from time to time as the demand increased until he had twen- ty-five wagons upon the road, while his trade extended to the waters of the Mis- souri river.
In 1856, by Jefferson Davis, secretary of war, Mr. Ward was appointed sutler at Fort Laramie, a United States fort, and bought out the stock of his predecessor. He held the position of sutler until 1861. In 1860 he was married, and he took his bride to that far western fort, and remained until 1861, when they established a home in Westport, Missouri. Mr. Ward's busi- ness at the fort increased rapidly and proved a profitable source of income. He also did a large freighting business during the war, and at its close had made a for- tune and was numbered among the wealthy men of the west. In 1863 he removed to Nebraska City, where he made his home until 1872, when he came to his present residence. He here invested largely in real estate and now owns a great deal of very valuable realty in Kansas City and Jackson county, which yields him a large income. His farm, one mile south of Westport, is one of the largest and finest this side of the Mississippi. He was instrumental in intro- ducing Durham cattle into this part of Mis- souri, and has taken a very active part in
promoting the interests of agriculturists in this part of the state. From 1870 until 1878 he was president of the Mastin Bank of Kansas City, -the largest financial insti- tution of the kind in the place at that time.
Mr. Ward was married on the 9th of February, 1860, to Mrs. Mary F. McCarty, nee Harris, a daughter of John Harris, de- ceased, of Westport. Her family is one of the oldest in the county, having been estab- lished here in 1832. Mrs. Ward was born in Kentucky, in December, 1825, and by her marriage has become the mother of three children, namely: John Edmund, who was born June 21, 1861, wedded Mary O. Jones, and has two children, -Seth E. and Helen; Hugh Campbell, who was born March 10, 1864, and is an attorney; and Mary F., who was born June 9, 1869, and died September 23, 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Ward are mein- bers of the Baptist church of Westport, and the lady takes an active part in church work. Socially he is identified with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in politics he has always been a democrat.
Mr. Ward has witnessed almost the en- tire development of the west through more than half a century and the history of its development, its upbuilding and develop- ment has been to him an interesting pano- rama. There are few who are more familiar with that epoch in which all communication with the region east of the Mississippi was carried on by means of teanis. He was even connected with the earlier period, when the greater part of the settlers had come to the west merely for the purpose of hunting and trapping. The era of railroads followed and in their path came all the ad- vantages and improvements known to civili- zation. Then Mr. Ward retired from the
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frontier to link himself with the agricul- tural and stock-raising interests of western Missouri, and has since been a prominent farmer of Jackson county, while at the pres- ent he is living a happy retired life on his fine estate, surrounded by the comforts and luxuries that wealth can secure.
ON. HUGH C. WARD, attorney at law, Kansas City, is one of the deservedly popular and successful young barristers of the Jackson county bar who has by the sheer force of his professional and business ability accomp- lished results in a few years that would be creditable if attained in half a life-time.
He is a son of Seth E. and Mary (Har- ris) Ward, the former a native of Vir- ginia and the latter of Kentucky. His fa- ther was a successful business man, for many years president of the Mastin Bank, of Kansas City. He is one of the well known men of the city, now living in com- fortable retirement, at the age of seventy- five years.
Mr. Ward, whose name heads this sketch, was born in Jackson county, Mis- souri, March 10, 1864, was reared on his father's farm until thirteen years of age, at- tending private school at Westport, and later William Jewell College, at Liberty, Missouri, to prepare for taking a thorough collegiate course, and in 1884 entered classic Harvard, where he made a splendid record as a student, graduating in 1886 with the degree of A. B. Having a predilection for the law, he chose to make it the business of his life, and to that end entered a law school at St. Louis to secure the necessary theo- retic and technical equipment, and graduated
in June, 1888, passing a creditable examina- tion. The following year he was admitted to the bar. Selecting Kansas City as a field for future operations, he opened an office, in 1889, and launched into practice. From the start he secured business, which has gradually been assuming greater proportions until now he has a clientage that is not ex- celled by any lawyer of his age and experi- ence in the city.
In November, 1892, he was elected to a seat in the state legislature and served in the thirty-seventh general assembly; was on important committees, being vice chairman of the judiciary committee, a member of the committee on constitutional amend- ments, and vice chairman of the committee on municipal corporations. As a legislator he displayed tact and capacity for dealing with abstruse political questions and in every issue in which he took part the influ- ence of his logic and eloquence was felt.
In July, 1892, his business capacity re- ceived a handsome recognition at the hand of the United States circuit court for the western district of Missouri by being ap- pointed receiver of the business of John J. Mastin & Company, a partnership. The suit was brought for dissolution of partner- ship and the appointment of a receiver to administer its affairs until dissolution thereof by a final decree of court. The partnership had been extensively engaged in real estate and had acquired over three million dollars' worth of property in Kansas City and throughout the west. Mr. Ward is still in charge of this vast estate, and his success in administering the trust is commendable in the highest degree. In addition to the business supervision of this stupendous affair he also does the legal work growing out of the receivership of the Mastin estate. He
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is also attorney for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad Company.
His general practice is large, which, to- gether with his present special business to look after, makes him one of the busiest practitioners of the Jackson county bar. Few lawyers of his age have acquired his prominence or achieved the success that crown his career. He is only thirty-one years of age, and, judging his future by what he has already accomplished, it be- comes evident that still greater honors await him. With the members of the pro- fession he is exceedingly popular, his ur- banity of manner and courteous speech win- ning all men to him.
He became a member of the Missouri Society of Colonial Wars in 1895, being seventh in descent from John Goode (1630-1709) in the Virginia colonial forces (1675-6). He is president of the Kansas City Country Club, and also a member of the Kansas City Club, the Commercial Club, Harvard Club of the Southwest, Jackson County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and a director of the National Bank of Commerce, the largest bank in Kansas City.
HOMAS P. FLAHIVE .- In the official department which controls the interests of a city, one of the most important offices is that of chief of detectives, and that position in Kan- sas City is occupied by the gentleman whose name initiates this record. An element of lawlessness is always found in every large gathering of people, hazarding in a certain degree the lives and property of the citizens, who must depend for safety upon a well organized detective and police department
to hold in subjection those whose lives are given over to crime. Therefore upon this department depends in a large measure the welfare and prosperity of the community, and it is, in consequence, especially urgent that at the head of this branch of city government shall stand a man who is cour- ageous enough to perform his duty at all times, thus causing terror to the evil-doers and bringing a feeling of safety to the law- abiding citizen. In the administration of the affairs connected with his office Mr. Flahive has won the commendation of all concerned, for duty is with him always the first consideration, and his record is untarn- ished by even a suspicion of remissness.
Mr. Flahive is one of the worthy sons that the Emerald Isle has furnished to America. His parents, John and Nora (Car- roll) Flahive, were natives of Kerry county, Ireland, and Thomas P. was born near the beautiful lakes of Killarney, famed in story and in song, December 16, 1861. He at- tended the parish schools near his home, ac- quiring a fair education, and in 1878 sailed for America, coming directly to Kansas City, where an elder brother was already located. This is Patrick Flahive, who is now in the employ of the Pacific Express Company of Kansas City. Our subject first worked as a laborer in the Hannibal & St. Joseph freight department, and after six months was given the position of night clerk under Edward Collins, serving in that capacity until July 12, 1882, when he was appointed patrolman and assigned to police headquarters. After three years he was detailed for duty with the mountain squad, with which he was con- nected for two years. In October, 1888, he was promoted to the position of sergeant, and in May, 1890, was promoted to the rank of captain and given charge of station
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No. 2. He was at its head for three years and then was transferred to police head- quarters. On the 19th of March, 1896, he was made chief of the detective service of Kansas City, and is now the incumbent. His rapid promotion has been well merited, for there has never been an officer attached to the police force of Kansas City who has acquitted himself more creditably in the discharge of the onerous duties devolving upon him. He has been president of the police relief association for the past four years, and was selected as one of their dele- gates to visit Jefferson City on behalf of the police pension fund.
Mr. Flahive married Miss Elizabeth Burns, daughter of James Burns, and they have a son now seven years of age. Mr. Flahive possesses that pleasant, easy, genial inanner so characteristic of his countrymen and at the same time has an innate dignity that well fits him for the responsible office he now fills. He is popular among all classes,-save the law-breakers, -and his friends in the community are many.
ENRY L. McCUNE .- " Earn thy reward; the gods give naught to sloth," said the sage Epicharmus, and the truth of the admonition has been exemplified in human affairs in all the ages which have rolled their course since his day. The subject to whose life history we are now permitted to direct attention has by persistent effort and the exercise of those abilities with which nature endowed him and those he has acquired gained a foremost place at the Kansas City bar, and is recognized as one of the distinctly repre- sentative men of the community. He is to-day president of the Kansas City Bar
Association, -- the youngest incumbent ever in the office; yet while he is thus honored he in turn is an honor to the position.
Mr. McCune is numbered among the native sons of Illinois, his birth having oc- curred June 28, 1862, in Ipava, Fulton county, Illinois, where for many years lived his parents, Joseph L. and Martha E. (Quillin) McCune. His father was a native of Ohio, of Scotch-Irish descent, and his mother a native of West Virginia and of English ancestry. Among his mater- nal ancestors were numbered heroes of the Revolution. Hon. Joseph L. Mc- Cune, our subject's father, was for many years a merchant and banker of Ipava, where his death occurred in December, 1893. He served as a member of the Illinois legis- lature and was a prominent citizen of his section of the state. His wife is still a resi- dent of Ipava.
Mr. McCune, the eldest in their family of seven children, was reared in his native town, acquiring his preliminary education in the common schools of Ipava and later en- joying the advantages of higher education in Illinois College, at Jacksonville, where he pursued his studies for two years, -- 1877-9. He was graduated at the University of Illinois, at Champaign, with the class of 1883, and with the intention of entering the legal profession he began his preparatory work as a student in the law office of Mor- rison & Whitlock, of Jacksonville, Illinois. He subsequently entered the Columbia Col- lege Law School in New York city, where he was graduated in 1886.
Believing the west to be the best field of labor for a young man entering upon a busi- ness career, he located in Oswego, Kansas, where he followed his chosen calling until 1890, becoming a member of the law firm
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of Perkins, Morrison & McCune, the senior member afterward serving as United States senator from that state. Mr. McCune was during that period city attorney of Oswego, holding the office for two terms. On the expiration of his second term he came to Kansas City, where he has since maintained his residence, and his connection with the bar of this city has been honorable and commendatory. In January, 1891, he en- tered into partnership with Hon. Charles L. Dobson, now on the circuit bench, and Herbert L. Doggett, the firm name being Dodson, McCune & Doggett. This con- nection was continued until February, 1894, when the senior partner was appointed to the office of circuit judge. Since his arrival in this city Mr. McCune has succeeded in building up a very satisfactory practice, and as his ability is demonstrated by his able handling of cases his clientage is constantly increasing. He has won not only the sup- port of the public, but also, what is far dearer to every legal practitioner, the ap- proval and esteem of his fellow members of the bar. His election to the presidency of the Kansas City Bar Association was a trib- ute to his worth from his fellow practition- ers, and he entered upon his duties with their confidence and sincere esteem. His high principle and aims when he took upon himself the duties of the office are shown in his address in assuming this position, when he said: "The objects of this association, as declared by its constitution, are to main- tain the honor and dignity of the profession of the law, to cultivate social intercourse among its members, and for the promotion of legal science and of the administration of justice. Every loyal member of the profes- sion naturally desires to further these ob- jects. The honor and dignity of our profes-
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