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OLD AND NEW RESIDENCES OF EUGENE RHOADES.
J. W. RAINES.
JOHN W. RAINES, Rock Port, Mo., son of John and Mary (Miller) Raines, was born in Lancaster, Grant county, Wisconsin, Jan. 3, 1840. When he was quite young his father died, and he lived at home with his mother until he enlisted in the Union army, on June 11th, 1862. He was assign- ed to Co. C, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry; was in the first battle of Bull Run: was wounded in the battle of Gainesville, Aug. 28, 1862, and discharged on Dec. 31. 1862, on account of the wound. In 1863 he was appointed elerk in the Provo Marshal's office at Prairie Du Chene, Wis .. which position he held until in the spring of 1865. After leaving that office he was at home until in July, 1866, when he went to the state of Alabama and elerked in the Freedman's Bureau at Huntsville. He was also in the internal revenue service there twelve and a half years as office deputy. From that position he went into the United States Marshal's office as deputy, which position he held from 1882 to 1885, when he located at Rock Port, Mo., and engaged in the abstract business, and he has been condneting that business ever since.
Mr. Raines is not only a leading business man of the city of Rock Port but he is prominent in all movements for the good of the public and is an active leader in fraternal societies. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. and has held the office of Financier of the Rock Port lodge. In the lodge of the I. O. O. P. at Rock Port he has been Treasurer several years and has held other offices in that lodge. He has been Adjutant of James Karnes Post, G. A. R., of Rock Port, ever since the organization of the post.
He is a leading Republican of Atchison county, and is a Clay township committeeman. Was elected Treasurer of Atchison county in November, 1894; is Treasurer and Director of the Rock Port Fair Association: is a Notary Publie and has the ageney of several insurance companies. The abstract business is conducted by John W. Raines & Co., the firm being composed of John W Raines and Wil- liam R. Erwin. Although Mr. Raines had but a common school education he is well read and well informed and is a fine penman and book-keeper. Penmanship cameto him naturally and his peculiar style of vertical writing is beautiful.
On Jan. 16, 1870, Mr. Raines and Miss Mary Lakin were united in holy matrimony at Huntsville, Ala. Mrs. Raines is the only child of A. S. and Axsie Lakin, and was born June 2'st, 1839. Her father was a noted Methodist minister, having held several important charges in different parts of the United States, and in the army he was known as "the fighting parson," as he fought as well as prayed, although he was chaplain and not supposed to take a stand on the firing line. The last church pas- torate held by him was the Methodist Episcopal at Rock Port. He died in Rock Port in 1890. Rev. Lakin and his wife were natives of the state of New York.
Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Raines, four of whom are living, namely: Mary Edith. born July 17, 1872; Herbert Lakin, born March 23, 1874; Earl N., born June 8, 1875; Laura Theodosia Evaline, born Feb. 24, 1877. Wilfern, born Feb. 6, 1880, died Nov. 3, 1880.
Miss Edith graduated from Rock Port High School, and from the Tarkio High School with the honors of the class; also graduated from Wellsley College, Wellsley, Mass .; is at present teaching English in the High School at St. Joseph, Mo. Herbert attended Roek Port High School and Tarkio College: is at present a member of the firm of Raines Bros., jewelers, at Maryville. Mo. Earl grad- uated from Rock Port High School and Tarkio College, and is at present Cashier of the First National Bank of Tarkio, Mo., and a member of the firm of Raines Bros., jewelers, Varyville, Mo. Miss Theo- dosia is a graduate from Tarkio College and Wellsley College, at Wellsley, Mass. She has been prin- cipal of the public school at Westboro and teacher of English at the Warrensburg ( Mo. ) State Normal.
Mr. Raines owns an eight-room residence in Tarkio and what is known as the John W. Smith residence in Rock Port, the latter one of the beautiful homes of the town.
Mrs. Raines attended a seminary at Charlottsville, N. Y., and a college at Oberlin, Ohio. She is a very accomplished lady.
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RESIDENCE PROPERTY OWNED BY J. W. RAINES IN ROCK PORT AND TARKIO
W. W. RANKIN.
YTILLIAM W. RANKIN, of Colfax township, was born in Warren county, Illinois, on Jan. 13th, 1859, the son of James and Ellen Rankin. Until in his fifteenth year he lived at Kirkwood, Ill., and in 1876 his father moved to Atchison county and conducted a ranch for his cousin, D. Rankin. At the time of writing this sketch Mr. Rankin owned and lived upon a farm of 353 acres, in section 25, township 65, range 35, and in section 36, township 65, range 39, eight miles southeast of Tarkio. The residence is of 112 stories, in size 16x32 feet and 16x32 feet, and a summer kitchen of 11% stories, in size 16x16 feet. The barn, in size, is 30x40 feet, with 14-foot posts. There are also all necessary outbuildings, an arch cellar, orchard, etc. Mrs. Rankin owns twenty-three acres of land in Nodaway county, Missouri. Mr. Rankin markets annually about forty head of fat cattle and two car-loads of fat logs.
Mr. Rankin and Miss Amilda J. Heflin were united in marriage on Aug. 29, 1883. Mrs. Rankin is a daughter of Sylvester and Nancy Heflin and was born in Nodaway county, Missouri, on Jan. 9th, 1856. To Mr. and Mrs. Rankin were born six children, four of whom are living, namely: James Lloyd, born Oct. 31, 1886; Laura C., born Nov. 14, 1888; Lola Genevieve, born May 14, 1892; Jesse McKinley, born Aug. 12, 1896. William Wal- lace, born Feb. 20, 1903, died Feb. 1, 1904; Lulu Belle, born Sept. 14, 1884, died Jan. 21, 1885.
Mr. and Mrs. Rankin are members of the United Presbyterian church at Tarkio, in which organization Mr. Rankin is an Elder. Miss Laura is Secretary and Treasurer of the Sunday School. In politics Mr. Rankin favors the Republican party. He is now a direct- or of his school district. He was once elected to the office of Constable of Colfax town :hip, but did not qualify. Mrs. Rankin was educated in a college at Lexington, Mo.
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HOME OF W. W. RANKIN.
LUCRETIA B. RUDASILL.
E now record the biography of one of Atchison county's lady pioneers, who, perhaps, is the oldest settler living in the county. We refer to Lucretia B. Rudasill, daughter of Moses and Phobe Maria Beal. She was born in the state of Illinois on April 1st, 1840, in which state her parents stopped four years while en route from New York (their native state) to the Platte Purchase, making the protracted stay on account of the country sought being in such a wild state. When the subject of this sketch was only a few months old her parents made the trip from Illinois to the Platte Pur- chase and what is now Atchison county, Missouri, locating on what is now known as the old Beal homestead, near High Creek church. Here Mr. Beal entered and bought over 2,000 acres of govern- ment land-some of the finest land in the county,-which is still in possession of his descendants and worth from $60 to $100 per acre. Here the first post office between Savannah, Mo., and Council Bluffs. Ia., was established, with Mr. Beal as postmaster. Here they lived more than three months before Mrs. Beal saw a white woman, the only white inhabitants in that part of the country at that time being the Cloepfils, Wolfs and Branstines, who had lately emigrated from Germany, His first crop of grain he marketed at Council Bluffs, Ia. He did his milling at Savannah, Mo.
Mr. Beal, having studied law seven years and graduated from the law department of a college at Buffalo, N. Y., soon became very much in demand among the unlettered inhabitants of the wild country, and much of his time was occupied clerically-in writing letters and drawing instruments for them. The three first elections in the county were held at his home. He secured the first appro- priation of school money for the county, teaching several days in a log school house in order to get this money on time. In fact, Mr Beal was a highly esteemed and useful citizen. His career, however, was cut short on April 24th, 1854, by a bolt of lightning, and his untimely death was universally mourned by his neighbors and acquaintances.
Nearly the whole life of the subject of this sketch has been passed in the locality in which she lives. She was educated, however, at St. Joseph, Mo., and Platte City, Mo. On Sept. 1, 1858, she was united in marriage with Preston J. Rudasill, son of William and Zola Rudasill. He was born in Rappahannock county, Virginia, Nov. 10th, 1834, and was the oldest in a family of nine children. Mr. Rudasill was postmaster at Linden, formerly the county seat of Atchison county, in the years 1858 and 1859. He also conducted a store at that place. In partnership with that other pioneer, James Low, he was also in the mercantile business thirteen years at Logan, Ia. After retiring from that business he came to the farm which Mrs. Rudasill at present owns and lives upon. Mr. Rudasill died on June 1st, 1897.
Mrs. Rudasill's home farm comprises 360 acres, in sections 21 and 22, township 66, range 41, and is one of the best farms in the county. She also owns 40 acres in section 21, township 66, range 41: 30 acres in section 33, township 66, range 41; 60 acres in section 29, township 66, range 41. The resi" denee, as is shown by the accompanying view, is a modern eleven-room structure, with all modern conveniences; is heated with a furnace and has a system of water-works; is in the midst of a beautiful and well-kept lawn. There is also a large barn, cribs, sheds, scales, tenant houses and an orchard. From her farms are marketed about 1,000 head of hogs annually. She also feeds cattle successfully, and, withal, is shrewd in matters of business generally, among other transactions accommodating borrowers of money from her own funds. She has been a member of the Baptist church about forty years, and for many years has had fellowship with the High Creek congregation.
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D. C. RANKIN.
D AVID CLARK RANKIN was born in Monmouth, Ill., on Sept. 14, 1855, the son o Alexander and Jane G. Rankin, and second in a family of five children. He lived ou his father's farm until in his twentieth year and came to Atchison county, Missouri, in 1876; was the first member of the Rankin family to come here with the purpose of locating permanently. He bought 320 acres of land in section 28, township 65, range 39, 5% miles southeast of the present site of the town of Tarkio, and hauled the lumber from Shenandoah, Ia., with which to build his house. Coming here with limited means he is deserving of much credit, as he now has one of the best improved farms in the county. The house is of the following dimensions: 18x28 feet, two stories, with two wings-16x20 feet and 12x28 feet; barn, 24x48 feet in size, with 18-foot posts; barn, 30x44 feet, with 14-foot posts; carriage house and granary, 20x24 feet; scales, tenant house and other improve- ments necessary for conducting a first-class farm. There is an orchard of about 200 trees. The residence is in the midst of a beautiful lawn. A complete system of water-works is also a convenience on the premises. When feeding stock he markets about 150 head of fat cattle annually, on an average, and three or four car-loads of fat hogs.
On "Pine Grove Farm," as Mr. Rankin's farm is called, some of the speediest light- harness horses in the country have lived and been foaled-such horses as the renowned Major Edsell; Major Wonder, pacer, with a record of 2.0644; Monkey Wonder, pacer, 2.38; Ethelbert, trotter, 2.2914; Starwood, trotter, 2.28; Capt. Edsell, Jr., pacer, 2.24; Little Dandy, pacer, 2.25, and others. Mr. Rankin is certainly a thorough and successful breeder of this class of horses. He also breeds and imports high-class Duroc Jersey swine. Withal he is a progressive farmer and stock-breeder.
On Oct. 26th, 1881, he was united in marriage with Miss Anna I. Ray. She died Jan. 11, 1891. By this union there was one child-Eva J., who was born Sept. 16, 1882, and died Feb. 16, 1902. On Feb. 27, 1901, Mr. Rankin was married to Mrs. Fannie M. Wilson, who lias two children-Nicholas G., born March 22, 1879, and Silva Lois, born Sept. 30, 1881. The latter was educated in Tarkio College, Tarkio, Mo., and Forest Park University, St. Louis, Mo.
Mr. and Mrs. Rankin are members of the Old School Presbyterian church. Mr. Rankin is a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge at Tarkio, in which he has held the office of Trustee. Politically he is an ardent Republican, and he has represented his party in Atchi- son county as delegate to various State and Congressional conventions.
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W. A. RUPE.
W ILLIAM ASA RUPE, prominent farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Atchison county, Missouri, on Oct. 25th, 1851, the son of Richard and Mary Rupe and the youngest of four children. The whole life of the subject of this sketch, with the exception of the years 1865 and 1867, has been passed on the farm where he now lives. His farm is situated in sections 6 and 7, township 64, range 40, five miles southeast of Rock Port, comprising 700 acres. The residence shown herewith is a 112-story structure, in size 16x32 feet and 18x24 feet; barn, 36x50 feet, with 16-foot posts; smoke-house and waslı-house, 16x24 feet; other outbuildings, sheds, cribs and an orchard. Mr. Rupe makes a specialty of raising corn, cattle and mules.
On Sept. 18, 1877, Mr. Rupe and Miss Mollie Pryor were united in marriage. Mrs. Rupe was born at New Market, Jefferson county, Tennessee, on July 11th, 1855. Mr. and Mrs. Rupe have five children, namely: Richard P., born Nov. 24, 1882; Lena R., born Nov. 23, 1884; Edna T., born June 10, 1887; Wayne, born July 5, 1894; Margaret, born June 5, 1896. Misses Lena and Edna have attended Central Female College, at Lexington, Mo. Mrs. Rupe's father was a native of Tennessee-her mother of Virginia. Mr. Rupe's father located in Atchison county in 1839. He was a native of Howard county, Missouri. His wife, whose maiden name was Renick, was a native of Kentucky.
The subject of this sketch got his schooling in the old log school house which stood one-fourth of a mile from the present site of the English Grove church. Of the Rupe's Grove M. E. church, South, Mr. and Mrs. Rupe have been members for many years. Mr. Rupe is a Trustee in that organization and was Superintendent of the Sunday School nineteen years. He also held the office of school director twelve years. He is also Vice- President of the Citizens' Bank of Atchison County. Politically he is a Democrat.
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MR. AND MRS, W, A, RUPE AND THEIR HOME
D. B. RUNDLE.
D AVID BRUCE RUNDLE was born in Monroe county, Iowa, Ang. 7, 1855. the seventh of nine children. His parents were John and Lydia Rundle, natives of the state of Ohio. Mr. Rundle came to Atchison county, Missouri, with his parents when he was a babe in his mother's arms. His father conducted a woolen mill at the old Rundle home, five miles south of Rock Port. The subject of this sketch worked in the mill until he was about fifteen years old. While yet a very young man he began dealing in fruit, partly his present occupation, principally, at first, by hauling apples and peaches to parties in Iowa. In the year 1883 he went to Kansas and took a claim. Remained there about four years; returned to Missouri and remained about one year. Then went to Superior, Neb., and engaged in the wholesale apple business four years. Returning to Rock Port he engaged in the ice and fruit business and has been so occupied ever since.
Politically he is a Republican; is a member of the Baptist church and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Has held no public office other than that of school director while living in Kansas.
He was married to Ida Elsie Warner on April 3rd, 1881. She was born in Rock county, Wisconsin, on Dec. 29, 1856. They have three children-Elsie, born Feb. 3, 1882; Arthur, born June 26, 1885; Jessie, born Sept. 26, 1889. Mrs. Rundle is a member of the Rock Port M. E. church, South; is a member of the Ladies' Aid Society and has been Presi- dent of same. She was educated at Milton College, Milton, Wis., and also attended the State Normal at Whitewater, Wis.
They live in and own a neat six-room cottage in Rock Port, with six lots. Mr. Rundle has a large ice house on the Nishnabotna river and also one in Rock Port. He sells from ten to twelve hundred tons of ice annually in Rock Port.
Mr. Rundle's father died in 1866. His mother, aged 84 years, died in 1904. Mrs. Rundle's mother, aged 64 years, resides in Rock Port.
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ALFRED SALFRANK.
A LFRED SALFRANK, a successful farmer on a 258-acre farm in section 8, township 64, range 41, three miles southwest of Rock Port, was born in Atchison county on September 24, 1871, the son of Charles and Elizabeth Salfrank and the fifth child in a family of six. His parents (natives of Germany) located in Rock Port in 1849. After a residence there of twelve years they located on the farm where the subject of this sketch now lives and which has been his home since that time. The farm is owned and operated jointly with his sister Lydia, who lives with him at the old homestead, known as "Plain View Farm," overlooking, as it does, the Nishnabotna and Missouri river valleys for miles. The residence is of 11% stories, in size 18x48 ft. and 16x32 ft. The barn, in size, is 28x40 ft., with 12-ft. posts; tool shed, 16x30 ft. in size; hen house, 16x32 ft .; a splendid arch cellar, which cost $165.00, and an orchard and vineyard. They market their grain and feed it to stock of their own raising, and also market about 75 head of fat hogs annually. Politically, Mr. Salfrank is a Republican.
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THE SALFRANK HOMESTEAD.
JOHN F. SLY.
JOHN F. SLY was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, Feb. 22nd, 1828, and is the third of nine children. He is a son of Henry and Anna Sly-his father a native of Virginia and his mother of Maryland. John F. Sly is truly a self-made man. Starting out when he was young, unaided and without means, he acquired a fortune by means of his energy, foresight and good management, and only one person in Atchison county pays more taxes than he.
At the age of twenty-one years, after having been raised on his father's farm, he began work as a drover and handled stock for others. He came to Atchison county, Missouri, in 1857, and in the following year bought 150 acres of what is now known as his old home place, seven miles south of Rock Port, paying $10 per acre for same. He has owned 800 acres of land in Atchison county. However, he has long since disposed of his landed interests and has retired from active business, except that he often accommodates parties who wish to borrow money. For more than twenty-five years he has been loaning his own money. For more than twenty years he has been President and Director of the Farmers' Bank of Fairfax; was formerly a Director of the First National Bank at Tarkio.
In 1878 he was elected Judge of the South District of Atchison county, on the Demo- cratic ticket; was Justice of the Peace of Clark township and school director several years. During the Civil war he belonged to the State Militia, under Lieutenant James H. La Hue and Capt. Joseph Brusha.
In 1856 Mr. Sly and Mrs. Nancy Jane Hindman were united in marriage. Mrs. Sly's maiden name was Stevenson, she being a daughter of Joseph and Margaret Stevenson. She was born in Park county, Indiana, Dec. 26th, 1832. To them were born five children, three of whom are living, namely: Henry Oscar, born Dec. 31. 1860; Noma, wife of George Hunter, born Oct. 1, 1868; Mary, wife of H. E. Wyatt, born Jan. 2, 1872. Lilly, wife of II. F. Stapel, born Oct. 10, 1864, died Aug. 9, 1894; John Alonzo, born Feb. 10, 1863, died April 9, 1865. Noma and Mary are graduates from Rock Port High School; Oscar attended college at Shenandoah, Ia., and the State Normal at, Kirksville, Mo.
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JOHN F. SLY AND GRANDSON, JOHN C. STAPEL.
HENRY SPREITZER.
H JENRY SPREITZER, of Polk township, was born in Nebraska on June 30th, 1863, the son of Leonard and Ann Spreitzer. On his farm of 160 acres, in section 9, township 65, range 41, nearly the whole of his life has been passed. This farm is well improved, and, in fact, it is a model farm. The residence is of 11% stories, in size 14x28 feet and 14x20 feet; a barn, in size 30x32 feet; double crib and several other outbuildings. In fact, the premises have the appearance of a small village. He markets annually about fifty or sixty head of fat hogs.
With Mr. Spreitzer lives his mother, Mrs. Ann E. Gross, whose maiden name was Knierim. She was born in Hesse, Germany, on June 7th, 1831, and came to America in her twenty-fourth year, locating at Linden. She has been twice married-first to Leonard Spreitzer, who died in 1871, then to John Gross, who died in 1892. By the first union four children were born, two of whom are living, namely: Henry, and Eliza, wife of Henry Meyerkorth. Those dead are Charles and Martha.
Mrs. Gross has been a member of the Reform church since childhood.
Politically, Mr. Spreitzer is a Democrat.
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ABNER SMITH.
A BNER SMITH was born in the state of Tennessee, on June 26th, 1835, the son of George and Nancy Smith, natives of Tennessee. He lived on the farm with his par- ents until he reached his majority, when he began farming for himself. His family located in the state of Illinois in 1844, and came from that state to Atchison county, Missouri, in 1852. locating on the Missouri bottom, near the town of Sonora. There he lived until in 1875, when he bought and moved to the farm which he owns at present, comprising 1421 acres, in section 1, township 65, range 40, three miles southeast of Tarkio. From this farm Mr. Smith markets two or three car-loads of fat cattle and about 100 to 150 head of fat hogs annually. The dimensions of the residence on this farm are as follows: 16×24 feet, 11% stories, 12x14 feet and 12x14 feet, one story; the barn, in size, is 30x32 feet, with 16-foot posts; double corn crib, 24x28 feet; buggy shed, smoke house, orchard of 200 trees and other improvements.
Mr. Smith was married in Atchison county on Jan. 1st, 1854, to Miss Ersley Bavee, a native of Indiana. She died in July, 1900, having borne him nine children, namely: Ellen, wife of George Jackson; Nancy .J., wife of Philburt Payne; Isadore, wife of Joseph Jackson; Frank; Matilda, wife of A. W. Mutchler; Clara, wife of Thos. R. Reynolds; Laura, wife of William Baker; Tulley; Minnie, wife of Edward VanDeusen. Tulley and Clara were educated at Tarkio College.
On May 1, 1903, Mr. Smith was united in marriage with Mary Hensley, widow of James Preston Howell. She has two children-Lutitia, wife of Clarence Graves, and Wil- liam Russel.
Mr. Smith is a member of the Prairie Hill congregation of the Protestant Methodist church-Mrs. Smith of the Baptist church. Mr. Smith is a member of the A. O. U. W. at Tarkio, and at the time of taking this sketch held the office of Overseer in that lodge. In politics he is a Democrat. He has held the office of school director several times, and is Vice-President of Tarkio Mutual Telephone Co. No. 2.
He is a veteran of the Civil war, having fought to preserve the Union. He enlisted in Co. I, 43rd Missouri Volunteers, on Aug. 9, 1863; was mustered out on Aug. 17, 1865.
Mr. Smith now resides in the town of Tarkio.
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W. H. SLEMP.
W ILLIAM H. SLEMP was born in the state of Virginia on June 21st, 1868, the son of John and Margaret Slemp, and the oldest of four children. Mr. Slemp came from Virginia to Atchison county, Missouri, in 1890. On Aug. 8, 1891, he was married to Jennie Slemp, widow of William Slemp, and whose maiden name was McDaniel. She was born in the state of Virginia on June 25th, 1852. On March 1, 1885, her first marriage occurred. Her husband died April 11th, 1891. Mrs. Slemp is a daughter of Asa and Margaret McDaniel and is the oldest of thirteen children.
By the first marriage there were four children, namely: Austin A., born Nov. 22, 1885; Richard F., born Dec. 2, 1886; Lillie E., born Sept. 24, 1888; Ida M., born June 28, 1890. By the second marriage there were three children, two of whom are living, namely: Charles, born Oct. 19, 1892; Everet, born May 12, 1896. Donald, born Feb. 27, 1894, died Dec. 12, 1896.
Mr. and Mrs. Slemp own one farm of 80 acres, in sections 5 and 6, township 65, range 40, and one farm of 40 acres, in section 6, township 64, range 40, six miles southeast of Rock Port. They also lease 135 acres adjoining these farms. They market what grain they do not feed to stock of their own raising. They market about fifty head of fat hogs annually.
The residence on the 40-acre farm is a one-story structure, in size 16x23 feet and 10x20 feet. The barn is, in size, 14x28 feet and 10x28 feet; granary, 14x16 feet; also hog and cattle sheds, cribs, etc., and an orchard and vineyard. The residence on the 80-acre farm is a one-story structure, in size 24x16 feet and 24x14 feet; barn, 24x30 feet, with 16-foot posts.
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