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Captain Davis was born in Washington county, Missouri, near Potosi, December 4, 1838, and with the family removed to La Fayette county, where his father, William Davis, a native of Virginia, died. The mother bore the maiden name of Nancy Reynolds, was a native of Illinois, and a sis- ter of the noted Governor Reynolds of that state. After her husband's death she re- moved with her children to Jackson county, locating southeast of Westport. This was
about 1849. She had two sons and a daughter, namely: William H., who still resides on the old farm; Napoleon; and Margaret A., now deceased. Mrs. Davis died on the old home farm where she located on coming to Jackson county. She was a woman of excellent business and ex- ecutive ability, displaying most efficient management in the care of her property, and by her well-directed efforts she suc- ceeded in accumulating 400 acres of land in Jackson county, and some additional realty in Cass county.
Captain Davis remained under the pa- rental roof until the outbreak of the civil war. He early became familiar with all the duties of farm life and obtained his edu- cation in the schools of the community. He continued to aid in the cultivation of the home farm until war was inaugurated, when, his sympathies and interests being with the south, he joined a company raised in the lower part of the county. He went to the field of action with Captain George Webb and joined General Price's command at Springfield, Missouri, and was with that army until after the battle of Pea Ridge. He was also with the command of Colonel Upton Hayes, and participated in the hotly contested battle of Newtonia, where Colo- nel Hayes was killed. With a comrade, Si Porter, the brave colonel rode in advance of the main command and passing over a hill met the pickets of the Federal troops. Pulling his revolver he asked, "What are you chaps doing here ?" and snapped his pistol, when one of them shot. The ball pierced his forehead right over the eye and killed him instantly. Porter immediately returned and reported the death of his com- rade. So enraged were the troops at the loss of their loved commander that they
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hurried forth into battle and paused not un- til the opposing forces were routed and a number captured. During the remainder of the war the regiment was commanded by Colonel Shanks, and was joined to the forces under General Joseph Shelby. When Captain Webb was killed Mark Rider was chosen captain and Mr. Davis became his successor. He had previously served as lieutenant and virtually commanded the company, and during the last two years of the war held the rank of captain, surrender- ing at Shreveport, Louisiana. His brother, William H., was also a member of the same company throughout the war. Captain Davis returned to Missouri at the time of Price's second raid and participated in the engagement at Westport, his old home farm serving as the battle-ground for that strug- gle. The farm house was burned by an old tenant and the armies tramped back and forth over the fields where he had worked and played as a boy. His mother and sister were still in the neighborhood, but he failed to see them.
When the war was over, Captain Davis returned to the old home place, and has since continued his residence in Jackson county. He was married in 1872 to Miss Pency Robinson, daughter of R. H. Robin- son. To them have been born three chil- dren,-a son and two daughters,-namely: Nannie, Richard L. and Margaret.
Upon his marriage the Captain pur- chased a part of the Colonel Hayes farm, which he continued to operate until 1882. In that year he went to Colorado, bought a cattle ranch, and engaged extensively in the raising of cattle there for the next ten years. He still owns his ranch, his cattle and his horses, although the management of the place is left to another. He shipped
over five hundred andeighty cows from Kan- sas City to Colorado. On the expiration of a decade he returned to Jackson county in 1 892, and has since been connected with the business interests of Kansas City, residing near his old home south of Westport. Here he has extensively engaged in trading in cattle, but is now connected with the feed and coal business, carrying on opera- tions at 1809 Grand avenue. He is a man of good business ability, straightforward and honorable in all dealings, and has secured the confidence of the public and therefore the public support. In his political views he is a stalwart democrat, taking an active interest in the success of the party, though never seeking office.
ALPH INGALLS, lawyer, is the eighth in descent, upon his father's side, from Edmund Ingalls, who, with his brother Francis, was a founder of the city of Lynn, Massachusetts. They were members of the Endicott colony, emigrating from the west of England to the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1628-9. Their descendants served honorably in the French and Indian wars and in the war of the Revolution. Among the well known members of this family are General Rufus Ingalls, who was quartermaster general in the war of the Rebellion; M. E. Ingalls, president of the Big Four Railway system; President Janies A. Garfield, whose grand- mother was an Ingalls; and John J. In- galls, ex-senator from Kansas. The mother of Senator Ingalls, nce Eliza Chase, be- longed to the same family of which Chief Justice Chase, Bishop Chase, of Vermont, and Samuel Chase, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, were
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members. Upon his mother's side, who was Anna Louisa Chesebrough, our subject is the ninth in descent from William Chese- brough, one of the founders of the city of Boston, Massachusetts, in 1630, and sub- sequently the founder of the city of Ston- ington, Connecticut.
Ralph Ingalls is the fourth child of John J. and Anna Louisa Ingalls, and was born February 14, 1870, at Atchison, Kansas. He obtained an academic and classic educa- tion at the public schools, from private tutors, and at Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas, and his legal education at George- town University, Georgetown, District of Columbia, where he graduated in 1891. Thereupon he went to New York city and entered the office of Evarts, Choate & Bea- man, the most prominent law firm in that city. At the end of 1892 he returned to his native state and began the practice of law at Topeka, where he remained until May, 1895. At that date he removed to Kansas City, Missouri, his present location, and has already acquired a large clientage in his chosen profession.
Mr. Ingalls is an industrious and pains- taking lawyer, well read, and a gentleman of scholarly instincts. He inakes friends easily, and is one of the best known young men in the city. His long line of American ancestry has stamped its characteristics upon him and endowed him with patriotism and interest in public affairs.
HOMPSON ROTEN .- Success is not a matter of genius, but of sound judgment, ability and perseverance, and that Dr. Roten is numbered among the leading physicians of Kansas City is due to his possession of these character-
istics. The record of his life is deserving of a place in the history of his adopted state, and we gladly give it a place in this volume.
The Doctor was born near Scottsville, Kentucky, August 10, 1828, and is a son of John and Anna (McReynolds) Roten. His father was a farmer by occupation and was also a native of Kentucky, his birth having occurred in Allen county, November 27, 1800. In 1830 he removed with his family to Putnam county, Indiana, and located on a farm. In 1843 he removed to Platte county, Missouri, where he made his home until 1851. He died in 1887 at the ripe old age of eighty-seven years. His wife passed away some years previously. Their family numbered seven children, but only two are now living, the other besides himself being Mrs. Elizabeth C. Ferrill, a resident of Dayton, Missouri, and the widow of Milton Ferrill, who died in 1895. The Doctor's paternal grandfather was Nehemiah Roten, a native of South Carolina, who removed to Kentucky when a young man. In that state he died at the extreme old age of one hundred and ten years. The maternal grandfather, James McReynolds, was also a Kentuckian, and died at the age of sixty-five years.
The Doctor was reared in Putnam and Hendricks counties, Indiana, and took ad- vantage of the opportunities offered by the public schools to acquire an education. After his removal to Missouri he taught school for five years, and in 1848 took up the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. Hunn, of Platte county, Missouri. After his admission to practice he opened an office in Oxford, Missouri, where he remained until 1862, when he attended medical lectures in the St. Louis Medical College, and was graduated from that insti-
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tution with the class of 1859-60. The fol- lowing year he removed to Barry, Clay county, Missouri, and from Clay county they removed to Bates county. In 1876 the Doctor moved to Appleton City, St. Clair county, Missouri, and practiced there until 1882, when he moved to Odessa, in La Fay- ette county, where he remained four months, and purchased property at Garden City, Cass county, where he practiced until No- vember, 1889, when he removed to Kansas City, his present home. Here he soon built up an excellent practice and has always en- joyed a lucrative business.
The Doctor has been twice married. In 1849 he was joined in wedlock with Miss Ruth E. Nevill, of Wellington, Missouri, and to them were born eight children, but only three are now living: Mrs. Julia A. Burch, of Bates county, Missouri; Mrs. Elizabeth F. Lytle, of Kansas City; and Mrs. Emma Nolan, of St. Joseph, Missouri. In 1878 the Doctor was united in marriage with his present wife, Mrs. Lourenna M. Bowling, nee Turner, formerly of Appleton City, Missouri. They have a pleasant home at No. 906 Independence avenue, where the Doctor also has his office. He and his fam- ily attend the First Christian church, and he is deeply interested in all that pertains to the moral, educational and material welfare of the community.
3 OHN THOMAS BOLAND, who for almost ten years has engaged in the practice of medicine in Kansas City as a member of the homeopathic school, descended from Revolutionary an- cestry, and belongs to a family that since the foundation of the republic has been con- nected with its military history.
He was born in Dane county, Missouri, December 31, 1848, and is a son of John and Rebecca (Hudspeth) Boland. The pa- ternal grandfather, John Boland, was born on French Broad river in North Carolina, and was one of the heroes in the war for in- dependence, serving in a regiment that was forined in his native state. He married Catherine Sater, and both died at an ad- vanced age, the grandfather passing away at the age of ninety-six. He left five chil- dren, including John Boland, father of our subject, who was born in Giles county, Tennessee, in 1801. In his early life he followed farming, but afterward was em- ployed on a steamer. Later he served as a soldier in the Seminole war, and subse- quently in the Mexican war. In 1857 he was connected with Joseph E. Johnston in the military survey establishing the southern boundary line of Kansas and Missouri. In 1861 he enlisted in Colonel John T. Coffin's regiment of the Missouri Confederate volun- teers, and was with him at Carthage, Wil- son's creek, Pea Ridge, Little Rock and other engagements along the Kansas line. He died of cholera during Price's raid in 1864, being then sixty-three years of age. His wife had died in 1851, at the age of forty-one. Eight children survive the fa- ther: of these six are now living, namely : James J., who is a resident of Independ- ence, Missouri; Mrs. Margaret Necessary, who is living in the same place; Morgan L., who makes his home in St. Louis; Giles, also a resident of that city; Mrs. Sarah Mitchell, who is living in Greenfield, Mis- souri; and the Doctor.
The ancestry on the maternal side was notable for longevity, the record in this re- spect being remarkable. Eight generations remote Raymond Hudspeth came to Amer-
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ica from England, and lived to the age of one hundred and one years. His son, Will- iam Hudspeth, reached the age of one hun- dred and fifteen years, and ten years before his death went hunting and killed a deer with his rifle! His son, David Hudspeth, died at the age of one hundred, and the son of the latter, Henry Hudspeth, the great- grandfather of the Doctor, lived to the age of one hundred and three. The grand- father, Giles Hudspeth, was born in North Carolina, in 1779, and died in 1868, at the age of eighty-nine. He served in the war of 1812, under General Jackson, and was a farmer by occupation. Seven of his nine children survive him.
Dr. Boland passed his boyhood days in Greenfield, Dade county, Missouri, and was educated in the common schools. In 1864, when only sixteen years of age, he enlisted in the third Missouri cavalry of the Confed- erate service, and continued at the front un- til the close of the war. He began his preparations for the practice of medicine in 1872, in Coldwater, Mississippi, pursuing his studies under the direction of Dr. J. M. Robertson. Later he attended the St. Louis Medical College, and subsequently was graduated at the Missouri Homeopathic College of Medicine, in the class of 1882. He first began practice in St. Louis, but since 1886 has been located in Kansas City, and has succeeded in building up a business that many an older practitioner might well envy. His skill and ability and thorough preparation, combined with his genial pres- ence in the sick-room, make him an able combatant of disease, and entering the lists against that dread antagonist he many times comes off conqueror in the strife, although at the outset the contest has frequently seemed doubtful. He is a member of the Missouri
Institute of Homeopathy and the Hahne- mann Medical College of Kansas City.
The Doctor has a happy home, and his family consists of his wife and two daugh- ters. In 1876 he was united in marriage with Miss Susan V. Weatherford, of Frank- lin county, Missouri, daughter of Childs and Sarah Weatherford, of the same place.
ROF. GEORGE BARTHOLO- MEW, the greatest horse educa- tor in the world, deserves to be known among those whose hu- mane and kindly actions have classed them as benefactors. Man, in his superiority of intellect, claims his right of dominion, and this is often exercised to the injury of the lower order of creation, which should have the highest claims upon his protecting care, and yet receive his abuse. From time to time isolated cases of horse intelligence have been brought to the notice of the public, and the noble steed has shared in the admiration and love which is justly his due; but it re- mained to Professor Bartholomew to dem- onstrate that the horse is capable of a great degree of education when kindness, gentle- ness and sound judgment form the basic elements of the instruction. His inerited fame as a horse educator is as unique as it is widespread, and to almost every lover of the horse in this country, and to some ex- tent abroad, is the name of our subject known.
Prof. Bartholomew was born on the farm of his father, Noah W. Bartholomew, in Erie county, New York, May 14, 1833. His mother's maiden name was Miranda Catlin. In 1846 his parents removed to the west, locating in a region which was soon after made a portion of the territory of
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Utah, and in Fillmore spent their remaining days. The father was a miller by trade, but made farming and stock-raising his principal occupation. He achieved an enviable repu- tation as a subduer of fractious animals and from him the son undoubtedly inherited his talent in this line, which, however, has been largely developed until he is known through- out the country as a horse educator.
The Professor had entered his 'teens only a short time before the emigration of the family to Utah. To him the novelty of the trip and life on the frontier had a wonder- ful fascination, and after two years spent in the new home in Fillmore his love for adventure and a desire to see more of the world led him still further west,-California being his objective point. He arrived in San Jose in 1849, during the great excite- ment occasioned by the discovery of gold, and though he gave to mining his chief at- tention for several years, the horse was always the subject of much thought with him, and he ultimately gave all of his time to the training of the noble steed. After leaving the mine he engaged in farming for three years, and during this time his am- bition to make his mark in the matter of educating horses and in the arena promi- nently developed. His first important suc- cess was the education of the western won- der, " Young America, " in 1855, and thus for more than forty years he had devoted his best energies to the training of this most useful animal to man,-the horse. In 1860 he lost the valuable horse which he had trained and for which he had refused ten thousand dollars, a discharged groom poison- ing the animal!
Between 1871 and 1874 Professor Bar- tholomew educated and arranged the only " school of horses,"-ten in number, -- pre-
sented in the world up to this time, known as the " Bronchos." In 1875 he disposed of this school in St. Louis, effecting the sale on the installment plan, but was defrauded by his purchasers and thus left penniless to begin life anew. Nothing daunted, how- ever, for he possessed a resolute spirit, he set to work to retrieve his lost possession. He broke horses for some months and did the best he could in St. Louis until he was able to return to Oakland, California, where he resumed the work which he so much loved,-the subduing and educating of horses. By strict economy and untiring in- dustry he accumulated sufficient capital to purchase from time to time different mem- bers of his present " school," which now con- sists of twenty-four educated horses, known as Bartholomew's Equine Paradox. These horses have been exhibited in almost every state in the union and were taken on a three months trip to old Mexico. The first exhibition of this school, then numbering ten members, was given in Oakland, Cali- fornia, July 4, 1879, and after a tour in that state an exhibition was given in Chi- cago, Milwaukee, and other large cities of the Mississippi valley, and then in the east, taking in the principal points along the Atlantic coast.
He determined to retire from active public life in 1886, but the numerous urgent and con- tinued letters from the officers and members of humane societies throughout the country for him to continue his practical school, knowing the wonderful results accomplished by kindness, gentleness and perseverance with horses, he finally consented to renew his marvelous exhibitions, and has since continued in the work. He has exhibited his famous schools before audiences num- bering up into the thousands and has con-
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tinually awakened the wonder, amazement and admiration of all who have seen the performances. The school now consists of eighteen large horses, four ponies, a mule and a donkey, all tractable, loving their mas- ter and obedient to his slightest wish,-a fact that shows that any horse, no matter what breed, is capable of education. Prof. Bartholomew is at present engaged in educat- ing fourteen thoroughbred horses at Oakland, California, and has again launched out with original ideas to entertain the public, an- ticipating his debut in Oakland in July, 1896.
The Professor is plain, modest and un- assuming in manner, a candid and self-made man of retiring disposition, and a thorough gentleman at all times. He has been often honored by prominent and humane people because of his system of horse education, which has revealed heretofore unthought-of equine sagacity, and has been of incalculable good in causing the better treatment of that noble animal by all who have been fortunate enough to see his entertaining, instructive and refined exhibition of his interesting school. Social honors have been paid him, and on several occasions he has been the recipient of beautiful and costly gifts in recognition of his humane work. He now has in his possession a beautiful diamond ornament, made of ninety-nine brilliant gems, set in the form of a horse. Above this, and serving as a pin from which the horse is suspended, is a horseshoe and whip, also set with diamonds. By the Massa- chusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals he was presented with a gold medal set with diamonds and appro- priately inscribed. It was given him at a public performance which he tendered the teamsters and hack-drivers of Boston, and
which was an object lesson of kindness that will never be forgotten.
Professor Bartholomew has educated more horses and animals for exhibition and tames more horses for general purposes than any other man in the world. His life has been most romantic, and, where many men would have despaired in the face of diffi- culties that he has met, he has seemed to be impelled by the hardships to greater exertion, and thus has gone onward until he has reached the great goal of success.
The professor was married in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 22, 1858, to Miss Emily Marilla Hopkins, daughter of Andrew and Amy Ann Hopkins.
J OHN W. TATUM, a veteran of the civil war and an early pioneer of Blue Springs, Missouri, was born in Pat- rick county, Virginia, November 21, 1834. His parents, Thomas J. and Eliza- beth (Clark) Tatum, moved to Blue Springs when he was but five years of age. The land then belonged to the government, and the elder Mr. Tatum secured a claim on several rich tracts, one of which included the pres- ent homestead occupied by Mr. J. W. Tatum. After an interval of twenty years he sold one tract, of one hundred and sixty acres, which lay four and one-half miles southwest of Blue Springs, to Mr. Clark.
The Tatum family of which our subject is a member consisted of four sons and four daughters, all of whom lived to maturity. James Edward was killed in the late war, after a few days' fighting, at the age of twenty-three years. John W., whose name introduces this sketch, was the oldest in or- der of birth. Thomas B. is a resident of
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Blue Springs, and the above named, with David T., were the sons in the family. The daughters were Priscilla and Martha Jane, who died unmarried; Nancy, who married J. B. Shaw, of Carroll county; and Sally, who married Josif P. Bridges; these also are deceased.
When the civil war broke out Mr. Thomas J. Tatum removed his family and belongings to Carroll county, where they remained until 1865. Previous to the war Mr. T. J. Tatum owned a number of slaves and dealt largely in stock, in addition to cultivating a large amount of land. When the war closed his slaves were gone, his horses stolen and everything portable upon the place had been carried off, and his buildings were in ruins; but with the aid of his three remaining sons he set to work to repair with their own hands the ravages which the cruel war had made. Although it was a dreary and disheartening task, and Mr. Tatum was growing old, with bravery and perseverance they toiled on, and at length prosperity smiled upon their indefati- gable efforts. Up to the time of Mr. Ta- tum's death, which occurred when he had attained the age of four-score years, his general health having been remarkably vi- gorous.
On the death of his father Mr. Tatum, our subject, fell heir to the original home- stead, removed there, placed it in good con- dition, and has since made that place his home.
Our subject's career has been an event- ful one. Deprived in his youth of the schooling he was entitled to on account of the newness of the country, he early turned his attention to discover the best means in rapidly improving the pioneer home. His business ability developed rapidly, and from
1855 to 1860 he was employed by Major Waddell & Russell, government contractors, as assistant wagon-master in freighting goods to New Mexico, and for Irving & Jackman in freighting goods to Fort Lara- mic.
At the outbreak of the war he joined the state troops and participated in the battle of Lexington, under Colonel Rosser. After the battle of Pea Ridge he joined General Price and was in the second battle of Cor- inth. In 1862 he recrossed the Mississippi river and joined Shelby's cavalry, with which he remained during the campaign in Arkansas and Missouri. Mr. Tatum sur- rendered at Sherman's Point, on his way from Corsicana to Texas. He had many narrow escapes, but was neither wounded nor captured during the whole time. Four years to a day from the time he had left home and enlisted, he returned to his father at Blue Springs, where his brother, D. F. Tatum, now lives. His present possessions comprise two hundred and forty-three acres, one hundred and eighty-seven acres of which belong to the old place. Eight acres are set in small fruits and the remainder is devoted to miscellaneous crops. Mr. Ta- tum keeps a goodly number of fine-bred animals, although he makes no specialty of stock-raising.
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