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In April, 1871, Mr. Hudson became a member of the Christian church and has taken quite an active part in its work, hav-
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ing served as deacon, while at the present time he is filling the office of elder. So- cially he is connected with Buckner lodge, No. 501, F. & A. M., of which he served as master for eight years. He belongs to the Royal Arch chapter, of Independence, and is also connected with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, of that place.
He takes an active interest in politics and has always given his support to the democratic party and its principles. In the fall of 1888 he was elected county judge and filled that position for four years, to the satisfaction of all concerned, discharging his duties with an ability and fidelity which won him high commendation. Whatever tends to benefit the community or promote its welfare receives his hearty support and co- operation, and he has long witnessed the growth and development of the county, being numbered among its honored pioneer settlers.
'DWARD B. GOSSETT, M. D., is a member of the regular medical profession of Kansas City. Ken- tucky is the state of his nativity, Bath county the place of his birth, and July 24, 1865, the date.
He is a son of Jacob D. and Joan (Rat- liff) Gossett, also natives of Kentucky. Their family numbered nine children-six sons and three daughters-of whom eight are now living, namely: Sandford, Matthias, Mar- tin, Mollie, wife of William Downs; Alford, Emma; Ward B., and Claude. Elizabeth, the third child, has passed away. The father of this family is a farmer by occupa- tion. He came to Missouri in 1867, taking up his residence at Independence, where both he and his wife are still living. They
hold a membership in the Baptist church, and Mr. Gossett often engages in service as a minister of that denomination. The pa- ternal grandfather of the Doctor. was also a native of Kentucky, was a Baptist minister and agriculturist. His well-spent life com- mended him to the confidence and high re- gard of all, and at the age of seventy-six he passed away, mourned by many friends. He had five children. The maternal grandfa- ther of the Doctor was Richard Ratliff, who was born in Kentucky, of German lineage. As a means of livelihood he carried on agri- cultural pursuits and stock-raising.
Our subject was reared on his father's farm in Jackson county until seventeen years of age, when, tiring of the monoto- nous routine of farm life, he took up the study of pharmacy. Later he entered the Uni- versity Medical College of Kansas City, and was graduated at that institution with the class of 1893. Immediately afterward he opened an office and has since engaged in practice here. His literary education was obtained in Woodland College, of Independ- ence, and proved a good foundation on which to rear the structure of his financial success.
In politics the Doctor is a democrat, and is a member of the Twin City Medical So- ciety. Although a young man he has al- ready attained considerable prominence in his profession and is enjoying a good gen- eral practice.
a AUDE MCKINLEY HERROLD, M. D., Kansas City, was born near Nelsonville, Ohio, the third daughter of John Herrold and Lucretia Davis Herrold. Her mother died before she, the daughter, was three years of age, and her father's death occurred in
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IS75. In deference to his wishes the daughter retains the family name.
In 1876, while attending the Wesleyan College at Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Herrold decided to enter the spring term of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, where she continued the study of medicine for seven years, taking special courses in surgery, nervous diseases and electricity.
In 1877 she was married to Herbert Mc- Kinley, of Philadelphia, who nobly respected his wife's wishes to keep her father's namc. The two children who were afterward born to them were given both family names. Dr. Herrold graduated at the Woman's Medical College at Philadelphia in 1883, and in the fall of that year located in Leaven- worth, Kansas, and later in Kansas City, Missouri, where she continues the practice of medicine; while her husband, who is a graduate of pharmacy, is engaged in the manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations.
In her work, this physician justifies the growing belief in the peculiar fitness of women for the practice of medicine. The steady opposition with which she formerly had to contend has brought about the re- sults which it always produces in characters strong enough to be sustained by a knowl- edge of the righteousness of their position. Certain of herself, unmoved, except to greater efforts, by the obstacles put in her way, she steadily teaches, by her words and work, the gospel of woman's adaptability to the highest position in professional life.
Y. FREEMAN .- On section 34, Prairie township, there is a highly cultivated farm of one hundred and sixty acres, and inquiry would re- veal that the owner is the gentleman whose
name introduces this review and who is justly recognized as one of the wide-awake and progressive agriculturists of Jackson county.
He was born in the township which is still his home, February 27, 1849. His father was Thomas F. Freeman, a native of Virginia, who at the age of two years was taken to Kentucky by the grandfather, James Freeman, also a native of the Old Dominion. The mother of our subject was born in the same state and bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Cowherd. During her early girl- hood she removed from Kentucky to Mis- souri, and when a young man Thomas Freeman came to this state, locating a mile and a half south of Greenwood, his farm lying partly in Jackson and partly in Cass counties. He continued his residence there until the war, when he removed to Welling- ton, Missouri, where he remained until after the cessation of the hostilities. He then returned to Jackson county and made his home in Prairie township, near Green- wood, until 1885, when he removed to Cal- ifornia, where his death occurred in IS89. The mother of our subject died in 1849. She had three children, but two died in childhood. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Freeman married Elizabeth Thomas, now deceased, daughter of Colonel Tom Thomas. They had one child, Elizabeth, now the wife of John Bedford, of Colusa county, California.
Our subject was only six months old at the time of his mother's death. He was reared by his maternal grandparents until four years of age and then went to live with Charles J. and Emily Cowherd, with whom he remained until twelve years of age. At the age of seventeen he started out in life for himself and for two years worked as a
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farm hand. He then engaged in clerking for the firm of Gattrell & Cowherd, dealers in dry goods at Lees Summit, and remained there for seven years. He next served as constable of Prairie township for two years, after which he served as deputy county marshal under James Leggitt for two years. Again he turned his attention to farming, which he carried on for two years, and was then deputy marshal for seven years. In 1894, however, he located upon his present farın, and now owns one hundred and sixty acres of richly cultivated land and forty acres of timber. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity of Lees Sum- mit, and in politics is a democrat.
HE REV. FATHER WILLIAM J. DALLIN, pastor of the Church of Annunciation, located at the corner of Fourteenth and Wyoming streets in Kansas City, was born in St. Louis, Mis- souri, August 12, 1847. His father, Rich- ard Dallin, was a grocer and dry-goods merchant who also was born in St. Louis, where for many years he carried on business, and during the civil war served as a member of the second Missouri regiment.
Our subject spent his boyhood days in his native city and was graduated at the St. Louis University, with the class of 1863. Later he pursued the philosophical and theological courses in the school at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and then became a student in the Milwaukee Theological Semi- nary, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after which he was sent to the Louvain University, in Belgium. He was ordained as a priest in St. Louis, November 30, 1869, by Arch- bishop Kendrick, and his first work was as assistant to the Very Rev. Fathers Ryan
and Thean, the former being now archbishop of Philadelphia. Father Dallin served as assistant until 1872, when he was assigned to the pastorate of the Church of the An- nunciation in Kansas City.
The history of his career here is a pecu- liar one. When he took charge of the parish it contained about thirty families, but the church grew rapidly until it num- bered one thousand families, with nearly five thousand communicants. This growth continued through the years up to 1880, but at that date the railroads began to encroach upon the territory comprised within his parish and the church in conse- quence began to diminish, for the residences were torn down to be replaced by the iron rails. A large church edifice was erected, at a cost of nearly $50,000, and the church property comprised five large buildings, in- cluding the hall, council room and rector's residence. Many thousand dollars were in- vested in this property and the entire work was accomplished by Father Dallin. So onerous grew his labor that he was forced to employ two assistants. He also estab- lished a school, which he conducted himself for a few months and then called to his aid in this work some Sisters of Charity. At one time he was in charge of the largest parish in the state, but it is now the smallest in the city, numbering only a few families! With the encroachment of other interests the church has decreased until the parish has nearly all been absorbed, and it is only a question of time when the church will have to be abandoned altogether. Through its varied history Father Dallin has stood by it unfalteringly, serving earnestly and faith- fully, whether the congregation be large or small. His fidelity to his work has com- manded the respect of all classes of other
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denominations as well as his own, and the high regard in which he is held was shown by the celebration, in 1894, of his twentieth anniversary as a clergyman. This was held at the Auditorium on the 30th of November, 1894, and was participated in by many prominent citizens. He has exerted an in- fluence for good that cannot be measured by any common standard, his work has been continuous and faithful, and through sun- shine and storm he has devoted his best energies to the church with which he has been connected during the greater part of his ministerial work.
J OHN COX .- This gentleman is re- garded as the oldest male settler in Brooking township, Jackson county, Missouri, he having come here with his parents when a mere boy.
William Cox, his father, was born in South Carolina, and was married in Scott county, Virginia, to Miss Jane Irving. In 1835 they left the Old Dominion and came west to Missouri, making the journey by wagon, and upon their arrival in Brooking township, Jackson county, settled on the farm now owned and occupied by their son John, having purchased it from a Mrs. Kim- sey, a widow. The land was then only slightly improved, and this part of the coun- ty was very thinly settled. Here the parents reared their family, remained resi- dent until death, and on the home farm their mortal remains are buried. Both were devoted members of the Baptist church, were people of great usefulness, and in the pioneer community in which they settled were as much esteemed as they were well known. The father had in his mental con- stitution many of the qualities of the true
pioneer. Even before the war of 1812 he had fought in Indian wars. This worthy couple were the parents of eight children, namely: Tilda Watson; James; David; Henry, deceased; John, the subject of this review; Nancy, deceased; Jane Rice; and Merinda, deceased. Henry was a soldier in the Confederate army during the civil war, and it was while in the service that he died.
John Cox dates his birth in Scott coun- ty, now West Virginia, March 22, 1822, and was just beginning to number his years by the 'teens when he came with his parents and the rest of the family to Missouri and settled where he has since lived in Brooking township. This township was long known as the "lost township," it having been neglected in the survey. Here on his father's farm John was reared, and finally it came into his possession. In addition to the home place, which comprises one hun- dred and forty-four acres, he owns eighty acres in another part of the same township.
Mr. Cox was married in 1857 to Miss Charlotte Price, a native of Lawrence county, Kentucky, born January 18, 1834, daughter of Moses and Sarah (Van Hoost) Price. Her father was a native of Kentucky and her mother of West Virginia. They were married in Kentucky and lived for many years in Lawrence county, that state. He died in 1888; she in 1891. In the Price family were eleven children, their names be- ing Louisa Boyd, Mrs. Cox, James B., De- troit, Major Muckleworth, Sidney, Martin, Margana, Cleveland, Melancthon and Eliz- abeth. Mrs. Cox's parents, like her hus- band, were members of the Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. Cox have had ten children, of whom seven are living, namely: Moses, of this township, married Miss Minnie Smelzer
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and they have six children; John, a resident of Clay county, Missouri, married Miss Tab- itha Burch and has two children; Henry Jefferson, married Nancy Burch, has two children, and lives in this township; Long- street, of Clay county, this state, has been twice married, first to a Miss Williams and after her death to Miss Mollie Record, and has two children by his first wife and one by his second; Sarah Jane, wife of John Taylor, Johnson county, Kansas, has three children; Benjamin, who wedded Fay Burnham and lives in Clay county, has two children; and Lottie, wife of Jesse Burch, has one child, their home being with her parents.
Reared in the faith of the Baptist church, Mr. and Mrs. Cox retain their allegiance to this faith, their membership being with the Missionary Baptists. Mr. Cox has given liis children good educational advantages and has always been interested in having good schools in his community. For a time he served as a member of the school board. In his political views he is independent and casts his vote for men and measures rather than party.
EORGE W. CASSELL, one of the respected farmers of Brooking township, Jackson county, Mis- souri, has been indentified with this place from his youth up, having come here when a child with his father and family.
David Cassell, his father, was a native of Jessamine county, Kentucky, born in the year 1814, the son of a Virginian, a veteran of the Revolution and a pioneer of Kentucky. The mother of our subject was by maiden name Miss Mary Corn. She, too, was a native of Kentucky, her father being Abram Corn, who in 1848 removed from Kentucky
to Platte county, Missouri, where he spent the closing years of his life and died. David Cassell and Mary Corn were married in Kentucky, and lived there until her death, in March, 1847. That same year he and his children caine to Missouri and settled in Jackson county, their location being on sec- tion 28 of Brooking township, where they made their home until after the war. Then he sold out and removed to a place two miles north of his first location, where he passed the residue of his life and where he died in October, 1888. He married for his second wife a Mrs. McMillan, who is now deceased. She bore him no children. The children of his first wife were ten in number, all of whom reached adult age, as follows: Lucy Young, deceased, left one child; Elizabeth Walton is the mother of three children: Sallie McMillan; George W .; James, who is married and has a family of five children; William, who is the father of two children; Joseph, deceased, who left a widow and two children; Thomas, who has three children; Theodore, deceased; and David, who has two children. Six of the sons were in the Confederate service during the civil war. Theodore was killed near Booneville, and Joseph near Springfield, both in this state.
George W. Cassell was born in Ken- tucky, May 24, 1837, and at the time of of their emigration to this state was ten years of age, and on his father's farm in this county he was reared. About the time he emerged from his 'teens the business of freighting across the plains was one that at- tracted his attention. In the year 1856 he made his first trip as teamster in a freight train to New Mexico, and in the fall of that year went on another freighting expedition, this time to Fort Laramie, and in the em- ploy of Henry Childs. The next spring he
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drove a team for Tom Ackerman to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and in the fall of the same year made a similar trip to Albuquerque. When the war opened he enlisted in the Missouri state troops, C. S. A., and took part in the engagement at Lexington and in all the battles under General Price. He was a member of company A, sixteenth Missouri. After the Lone Jack engage- ment Mr. Cassell was captured, was held as a prisoner of war for ninety days, and at the end of that time made good his escape. During the latter part of the war he was wounded in the right leg. At the close of his army life he resumed his former occu- pation, that of freighting, and in charge of a train went to Fort Union. That was in 1865. He spent the winter on Red river, returned in the following spring, and in 1866 went to Albuquerque. While in New Mexico he had an attack of mountain fever and at once came home. That ended his experience in the freighting business. The next year, 1867, he settled on his pres - ent farm, seventy acres, in section 4 of Brooking township, and here he has ever since devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits.
Mr. Cassell was married in March, 1858, to Susan Rhodes, a native of this county, born August 12, 1858, and a daughter of George Rhodes, one of the early settlers of this community. They are the parents of nine children, viz .: Katie, Theodore, Wal- ter, Henry, Charles, Dollie, Leslie, Homer and Dora. Four are married and the grandchildren now number eight. Katie is now Mrs. Wallace and has three children, Theodore has one child, Walter has two, and Dollie, wife of a Mr. Barrett, has two.
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Mr. Cassell's father was a stanch mem- ber of the Methodist church, was a steward
in the church for forty years, and also for a number of years was a class-leader. Like his honored father, Mr. George W. Cassell is identified with the Methodists, his men- bership being with the Methodist church, south. He has served as steward and is now a trustee in the church. Politically, his support has ever been given to the dem- ocratic party. Although he is not a politi- cian or office-seeker, he has been chosen to fill somne local offices and has filled the same acceptably. He served two terms as con- stable and has been a member of the school board.
a AMPBELL CHAPMAN, clerk of the board of health of Kansas City, has occupied this position since September 19, 1894. He is a young man well known in this city, having spent most of his life here, and as one of the mu- nicipal officers is entitled to specific consid- eration in this volume.
Mr. Chapman is a native of Missouri. He was born in Clay county, January 5, 1867, son of Dr. Andrew L. and Mildred F. (Masby) Chapman, both natives of that county, the Chapman family having come west from Pennsylvania and the Masbys from Kentucky. Dr. Andrew L. Chapman was educated at Bethany, West Virginia, and after his graduation at that place re- turned to Clay county, Missouri, where he was engaged in the practice of medicine un- til 1869. That year he came to Kan- sas City, and continued his practice un- til about 1886, since which time he has lived in retirement. He served on the pension board of this city, and was president of the same, under President Cleveland's adminis- tration. Both as a physician and citizen he
FRANKLINE FING FAN
C.S.Northup.
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figured prominently here during all the time of his active practice. Four sons compose the family of Dr. Chapman, namely: Walter R., Arthur, Campbell and Homer.
Campbell Chapman was two years old at the time his father removed to Kansas City. His education was received in the public schools of this city and at the State University at Columbia, Missouri, where he took a law course and graduated with the class of 1890. In July of the same year of his graduation he was admitted to the bar, immediately thereafter entered upon the practice of his profession, and continued the same until, on account of failing health, he was obliged to abandon business. He has occupied his present position a little over a year and has proved himself an effi- cient officer.
Mr. Chapman was married in February, 1890, to Miss Margaret M. Adair, of Henry county, Missouri, and they are the parents of two children, -Irvin and Marguerette F. He and his wife are consistent inembers of the Christian churchi, and in politics he harmonizes with the democratic party.
e MERSON SEYMOUR NORTHUP. -The history of the homeopathic school of inedicine in Kansas City would be incomplete without the record of this gentleman, who is at the head of a large and lucrative practice and is continually adding fresh laurels to his al- ready enviable reputation.
He was born in Salisbury, Herkimer county, New York, January 22, 1842, and is a son of Daniel Allen and Eliza (Merri- man) Northup. His paternal grandfather, Nicholas Northup, was a native of Rhode Island and a farmer by occupation. He
married a Miss Ferguson, by whom he had eleven children,-all now deceased. His death occurred at the age of sixty-eight years. The father of the Doctor also was a son of the Empire state, his birth having occurred at Oppenheim, Fulton county, New York, June 17, 1817. He devoted his time and energies to farming and merchan- dising, and passed almost his entire life in the town of Salisbury, where for fourteen years he efficiently served as postmaster. He also filled the office of supervisor for several terms, and was twice honored with an election to the state legislature. Promi- nent in public affairs, his abilities well fitted him for leadership, and he was an honored citizen of the community in which lie made his home. His wife died when only twenty- six years of age. He passed away on the 14th of July, 1875, at the age of fifty-eight years, leaving a family of five children, of whom the Doctor is the eldest. The others are Charles Merriman, who is located in Kansas City, and is a member of the real- estate firm of Sills, Northup & Company ; Daniel Eugene, a fruit-grower of Duarte, California; William Guile, general manager and treasurer of the North Star Woolen Mills at Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Jennie Eliza, wife of George C. Martin, president of the Kansas City Sewer Pipe Company.
Dr. Northup spent his boyhood days in Salisbury, New York, no event of special importance occurring prior to his twentieth year. It was in that year that the great civil war was inaugurated, and hardly had the smoke from Fort Sumter's guns cleared away when he offered his services to the country. He had been a close student of affairs in the south and the attitude of that section of the country toward the union, and resolved that if secession was attempted he
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would strike a blow in defense of the national government. Therefore on the 26th of April, 1861, he enlisted as a private of com- pany K, thirty-fourth New York infantry, of which he was afterward elected second lieutenant. He was successfully promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and captain, and participated in a number of important engage- ments, including the battles at Yorktown, Vir- ginia, Edward's Ferry, Fair Oaks, the seven days' battle before Richmond, the battle of An- tietam and Fredericksburg. He was wound- ed at the battle of Glendale, Virginia, in 1862, and on this account received a leave of absence. In September he rejoined his regiment, and in July, 1863, was mustered out at Albany, New York.
Immediately afterward Mr. Northup re- moved to the west and located in Chicago, entering the wholesale dry-goods house of Barren Brothers. After a short time, how- ever, he returned to his native town, and on the 13th of June, 1866, was joined in wed- lock with Miss Charlotte Elizabeth Pitt, daughter of Dr. John C. and Mary B. Pitt, of Salisbury, New York. In 1868, he re- moved to Bloomfield, New Jersey, and en- gaged in the commission business in New York city. The west, however, attracted him, and in 1870 he became a resident of Elkhorn, Dakota, where he engaged in the hardware business. He once more, how- ever, returned to Bloomfield, New Jersey, and in 1876 entered the New York Homeo- pathic Medical College, where he completed the three-years course, and was graduated in March, 1879. He began practice in Montclair, New Jersey, and in December, 1880, came to Kansas City, where for the past fifteen years he has since successfully engaged in practice. He is a member of the Kansas City Homeopathic Club, the Mis-
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