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In 1909, the marriage of Roy Bartlett and Daisy Seelinger, a dangh- ter of John Seelinger, a well-to-do, intelligent farmer and stockman of Summit township, Bates county, Missouri, was solemnized. Mrs. Bartlett is a native of Summit township, a granddaughter of one of the honored pioneers of Prairie township, Bates county. To Roy and Daisy Bartlett have been born three children: Agnes Magdalene,
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Helen, and Ruth Esther. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett and their daughters reside in Butler at 502 West Adams street.
Fraternally, Roy Bartlett is affiliated with the Knights and Ladies of Security and the Yeomen, Politically, he is a stanch member of the Democratic party. Like his father before him, Mr. Bartlett is a man of prominence in his community and one of the substantial citizens of Butler and Bates county.
H. C. Hyatt, Jr., manager of "Fairview Stock Farm" of four hun- dred acres of land located two miles east of Adrian in Deer Creek township, one of the finest stock farms in this section of the state, is one of the progressive, young agriculturists and stockmen of Bates county. "Fairview Stock Farm" was improved by Edward Argen- bright and purchased by H. C. Hyatt, Sr., in 1908 .. The splendid im- provements on the place include a handsome residence, a house of two stories and nine rooms; a barn, 64 x 74 feet in dimensions, for horses ; a barn, 40 x 80 feet in dimensions, for cattle and hay ; and several good wells. One well on the place is only ten feet in depth, but with a wind- mill attached furnishes a sufficient amount of water to supply all the stock. There are three windmills on "Fairview Stock Farm." H. C. Hyatt, Sr., sold the farm in 1916 and H. C. Hyatt, Jr., is the present lessee. He has at the time of this writing in 1918 one hundred head of cattle and usually keeps on the farm at least one hundred head of hogs and at the present time has twenty head of horses and mules. One year ago, H. C. Hyatt, Jr., had two hundred fifty head of cattle and four hundred head of hogs at "Fairview Stock Farm." He is one of the most extensive feeders in Bates county and he states that he was reared in the stock business and knows no other.
HI. C. Hyatt, Jr., was born near Schell City in St. Clair county, .
Missouri, on March 11, 1889, a son of H. C. and Eliza (Lucas) Hyatt, residents of Clinton, Missouri. The junior Hyatt was reared and edit- cated in St. Clair county, Missouri. He came with his parents to Bates county in 1905 and with them located first in Mound township, coming thence to his present farm in 1908. The son was in partnership with the father until the latter sold the farm in 1916 and since that time H. C. Hyatt, Jr., has been employed as manager of "Fairview Stock Farm." He is an exceptionally capable and intelligent stockman and is making a marked success and a name for himself in the stock business.
In 1907, H. C. Hyatt and Leora V. Beaman, a daughter of David W. and Missouri Ella Beaman, honored and respected pioneers of Sum-
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mit township, Bates county, were united in marriage. To H. C. and Mrs. Hyatt have been born two children : H. C., "The Third," who was born February 7, 1912; and Elsie Marie. Mr. and Mrs. Hyatt are widely and favorably known in Deer Creek township and they have an enviable standing in the county, socially and financially.
Reared in the country and from his boyhood days accustomed to toil in the field, meadow, and wood, the life of H. C. Hyatt, Jr., has thus far been practically devoid of striking incidents, but has been the career of a dutiful son assisting his father in industriously discharging the obligations of a prosperous and successful husbandman and later of the independent, energetic farmer and stockman.
William Buckles, of William Buckles & Son, merchant of Altona, Missouri, is one of the successful business men of Bates county. Mr. Buckles and his son, H. F., purchased the Tabler Brothers' stock of merchandise at Altona on March 1, 1917, and are engaged in conducting a general store at this place, carrying a splendid line of groceries, boots, shoes, rubber goods of all kinds, tanks, and oil, gas, and water pumps. The mercantile establishment owned by William Buckles & Son is located in their own two-story building in Altona, a building 24 x 60 feet in dimensions, the second story of which is used as a dwelling. Altona is a little city situated seven miles east of Adrian, Missouri, having three churches, the Baptist, the Christian, and the Methodist, a postoffice of which H. F. Buckles is the efficient and popular post- master and Fred Cowgill the well-known carrier on Rural Route 1, a circulating library of two hundred volumes which is much appreci- ated by the citizens of the town who may have the privilege of read- ing all the volumes for the payment of two dollars membership fee used to obtain new books, a blacksmith shop, and the general store owned by William Buckles & Son. Altona is in the midst of the richest farming district of Bates county.
William Buckles is a native of Iowa. He was born in 1859 in Van Buren county, a son of A. J. and Julia (Abbott) Buckles, the former, a native of Indiana and the latter, of Illinois. Both parents of Mr. Buckles died in Van Buren county, Iowa. He was reared and educated in Iowa and in early manhood came to Missouri, locating near Chilli- cothe in 1883, then in Benton county, whence he came to Bates county in 1893 and located on a farm in Grand River township, which place he rented for nearly thirteen years before purchasing the tract of land which he traded for the stock of merchandise previously mentioned.
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In 1881, William Buckles and Ella Patterson, a daughter of Robert R. and Catherine Patterson, of Van Buren county, Iowa, were united in marriage. Mr. Patterson is now deceased and the widowed mother resides at Bolivar, Missouri. To William and Ella ( Patterson) Buckles have been born seven children: Pearly G., superintendent of the Odessa High School, Odessa, Missouri; Robert Ernest, who is with the Kansas City Milling Company, Kansas City, Missouri; Harley F. and Charley F., twins, the former, the assistant postmaster of Altona from March until November, 1917, and the postmaster since November, 1917, a teacher employed at Altona for two years prior to entering business with his father and now his father's willing, able, and energetic assistant, and the latter, an industrious and successful agriculturist and stock- man of Grand River township, Bates county, Missouri; Nora, the teacher at Smoky Row in Mingo township, Bates county, Missouri, who resides at home with her parents; and Howard and Homer, twins, both of whom are now sophomore students in the Adrian High School, Adrian, Missouri.
The life of William Buckles has been one of untiring activity and has been crowned with a degree of success attained by those only who devote themselves indefatigably to the work before them. Mr. and Mrs. Buckles and their family are highly respected and valued in Altona and they have scores of friends in Bates county.
Charles W. Wolfe, a retired farmer and stockman of Butler, Mis- souri, one of the honored Union veterans of the Civil War, is one of the leading citizens of Bates county. Mr. Wolfe is a native of Athens county, Ohio. He was born October 9, 1842, a son of Jacob and Sallie (Bryson) Wolfe, the father, a native of Ohio and the mother, of Bed- ford county, Pennsylvania. Jacob Wolfe was a son of George Wolfe, a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Both parents of Charles W. Wolfe are now deceased and their remains lie interred in. a cemetery in Athens county, Ohio.
In the common schools of Athens county, Ohio, Charles W. Wolfe received his education. At the age of nineteen years, he enlisted in the Union army on April 22, 1861, and for five months served with Company A, Twenty-second Ohio Infantry, when taken ill with measles and honorably discharged. Mr. Wolfe re-enlisted with the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry on September 26, 1864, and he was with Sherman on his famous march from Atlanta to the sea. Charles W. Wolfe was mustered out and received his final honorable discharge at Louisville,
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Kentucky, and his pay at Davenport, Iowa. After the close of the Civil War, Mr. Wolfe returned to his home in Ohio, coming to Bates county, Missouri, in 1869, and locating on a farm in Charlotte town- ship, in which township he has since owned several different country places. Later, he purchased a farm of one hundred forty-eight acres of land in Homer township and at the present time is the proprietor of a country place located near Old Virginia. Mr. Wolfe retired from the active pursuits of agriculture in 1910 and moved to his home in the city of Butler, a comfortable residence at 116 West Fort Scott street.
The marriage of Charles W. Wolfe and Mary Young, a native of Athens county, Ohio, a daughter of John and Mary Ann (Higgins) Young, was solemnized in January, 1862. John Young was born in Ohio and Mrs. Young was born in West Virginia near Wheeling and both departed this life at the Young homestead in Athens county, Ohio. To Charles W. and Mary (Young) Wolfe have been born five children, four of whom are now living: James, a noted attorney of the state of Kansas, who practiced law with Senator Stone of Mis- souri and was admitted to the bar under him when located at Nevada, Missouri, a popular author whose book, "Why Is a Bachelor?" has been widely read throughout the country, a recently appointed mem- ber of advisory draft board of Kansas, receiving his appointment from Governor Capper, and a talented lecturer who has traveled extensively on chautauqua circuits ; David C., who was a successful and prosperous farmer and stockman at the time of his death at the age of forty-nine years at Virginia, Missouri, and he has left a widow, Tella May ( Parks ) Wolfe, and several children; Julia Etta, the wife of W. F. Mckibben, of Amsterdam, Missouri; Reverend J. J., a graduate of the Butler High School and a former teacher in the Bates county public schools, a recently ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal church at present serving at Garden City, Missouri; and Bertha L., the widow of Andrew Simpson and the mother of two daughters: Mary Josephine, a graduate of the Butler High School in the class of 1915 and now a teacher in the public schools of Bates county, Missouri; and Lee Etta, a student in the Butler High School, Butler, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe have repeatedly opened their hearts and home and welcomed other lit- tle ones for whom they have cared with the same solicitude bestowed upon their own children and they have reared, in addition to their own. three children, namely: Robert Tye Wolfe, a grandson, who is now
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with his father, Reverend J. J. Wolfe, at Garden City, Missouri, and is a student in Kansas City Business College; Maud Hockett, now the wife of Reverend Edward Skidmore, of Sugar City, Idaho; and Ivy Cathey, now the wife of Claude Kenion, of Amoret, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe are lovers of children and they are very proud of their fifteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Mrs. Wolfe is a remarkable woman, a lady of boundless energy and deep and abiding human sympathy. Mr. Wolfe, at the age of seventy-six years, is still physically and mentally alert and as active as many men several years younger than he. He is a fluent and interesting conversationalist and justly proud of his splendid family of boys and girls.
Hermann A. W. Schapeler, a late prominent farmer and stockman of Prairie township, was one of Bates county's prosperous and success- ful citizens. Mr. Schapeler was born in Germany in 1847. He emi- grated from his native land and located in Texas in the United States in 1870, going thence to Kentucky, where he remained but a short time, when he came to Missouri in 1873 and settled in Bates county on the farm now owned by his widow, Mrs. Minnie Schapeler. Hermann A. W., Ferdinand, and William Schapeler, three brothers, with their widowed mother, Mrs. Frederika Schapeler, settled on a tract of land in Prairie township, Bates county. Mrs. Schapeler donated the land which is the present site of the Reformed church and cemetery, a tract of three acres, and she was the second person to be laid to rest in the cemetery. "Johnny" Flick was the first to be interred in the cemetery of the Reformed church. Mrs. Schapeler died July 26, 1879.
The marriage of Hermann A. W. Schapeler and Minnie Drawe was solemnized May 30, 1879. Minnie (Drawe) Schapeler was born August 8. 1859, in Fayette county, Texas, and is a daughter of Louis and Katherina Drawe, who were residents of Texas at the time of the marriage of their daughter. To Mr. and Mrs. Schapeler were born the following children: William L., of Hudson township. Bates county, Missouri; Hermann H .. of Prairie township, Bates county, Missouri : Louis F., of Pleasant Gap township, Bates county, Missouri; Frederika. who died at the age of nine years; Henry J. and Edward E., who reside at home with their widowed mother.
For many years. Hermann A. W. Schapeler fed cattle extensively and was one of the progressive men of his community. Mr. Schapeler increased his holdings until he had at one time an estate of eight hun- dred acres of valuable land. He and his two brothers, Ferdinand and
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William, were in partnership in farming and stock raising until all three were married. To his sons Mr. Schapeler gave at the time of his death one hundred sixty acres of land each. Hermann A. W. Schapeler died May 2, 1916. He was one of the most substantial and enterpris- ing stockmen of Bates county and as a citizen, neighbor, and friend his record was an honorable one, his good name being far above re- proach. Mr. Schapeler was a man of much public spirit and stanchly supported every laudable movement made in behalf of the general good of his township and county. He was a faithful and consistent adherent to the creed of the Reformed church and contributed freely of his means and influence in support of the Gospel and those who knew Mr. Schapeler best know that he fearlessly met his "Pilot, face to face," when he had crossed the bar. He has been sadly missed in his home and in the community.
The Schapeler farm lies two miles north and one mile west of Prairie City, Missouri. Henry J. and Edward E. Schapeler have charge of the place and their mother is their homemaker, housekeeper. and counselor. Mrs. Schapeler recalls many old settlers of Bates county, among whom were the following: Leonard Hegnauer, Samuel Kaiser, Tony Hammer, Peter Grop. John Camp, William Burris, John Barrows, and George Malbley. She states that "Nick" Johannas was the merch- ant of Prairie City in the early seventies. Reverend Kinerem was the first minister of the Reformed church of Prairie township. He died in St. Clair county, Missouri, and was succeeded by Reverend Hinski. The church was organized shortly after the Schapelers came to Bates county, and from the time of their coming here they have been active in promoting the moral and spiritual welfare of their township. Mrs. Schapeler's boys have gained recognition and prestige as capable and energetic agriculturists and public-spirited citizens. Mrs. Schapeler is a devoted member of her church and a lady of refinement and true culture.
H. Steiner, a successful and prosperous merchant of Prairie City, Missouri," was born June 30. 1880, a son of Rudolph, Sr., and Elizabeth (Wertz) Steiner, both of whom were born in Switzerland. Rudolph Steiner, Sr., located at Rockville, Missouri, on coming to the United States and engaged in his trade of blacksmithing for several years. In later life, the senior Steiner moved with his family to Prairie City. Missouri. He died about 1915 and interment was made in the cemetery at Rock- ville. Rudolph Steiner, Sr., is survived by his widow, who resides at
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Nevada, Missouri, and seven children, as follow: Rudolph, Jr., a well- known hardware merchant of Rockville, Missouri; John, Galveston, Texas; H. Steiner, the subject of this review: Emma, Nevada, Mis- souri; Walter, a highly respected grocer of Rockville, Missouri; Mrs. Mary Theno, Nevada, Missouri; and Albert, who is one of our "Sam- mies" in the service of the United States in the present world war.
In the city schools of Prairie City, Missouri, H. Steiner obtained an excellent common-school education. After leaving school Mr. Steiner was engaged for nine years in blacksmithing. He opened his present general store in 1904, at Prairie City, Missouri, erecting a new building in 1912, a building 24 x 50 feet in dimensions. Mr. Steiner carries a general line of merchandise and since he entered the mercantile busi- ness fourteen years ago he has enjoyed a liberal patronage and at the time of this writing in 1918 has a splendid and lucrative trade.
H. Steiner and Johanna Caroline Filgus were united in marriage in 1901. Mrs. Steiner is a daughter of August Filgus, a prominent citizen of Rockville, Missouri. To this union have been born three children: Wilbert, Delmer, and Fern. Mr. and Mrs. Steiner are widely known in Bates county and they are held in the highest regard in Rockville, where the Steiners have long been respected as good neigh- bors, faithful friends, and honest, substantial citizens.
Politically, Mr. Steiner is a Republican of the orthodox stamp and he has always manifested a lively interest in public and political ques- tions. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of Ameri- ca. He is one of the progressive men of the county and is ever ready to give his support and influence to aid every enterprise calculated to promote the prosperity of the country and to elevate the standards of citizenship.
W. G. Sellon, owner of a splendid tract of two hundred forty acres in Charlotte township, was born in Pike county, Illinois, January 3, 1853, but has lived in Bates county, Missouri, since 1881. He was a son of Benjamin and Harriet (Grimshaw) Sellon. His father was born in England and accompanied his parents to America when he was two years of age. When he attained young manhood he located in Pike county, Illinois, during the early thirties. The mother of W. G. Sel- lon was born in Ireland, a daughter of William Grimshaw who immi- grated to America and settled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Benjamin Sellon was industriously engaged in tilling his farm in Illinois when the Civil War began. Like Cincinnatus of old, he left his plow in the furrow
W. G. SELLON.
JOHN SELLON.
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and organized a company of Unionists in his neighborhood and joined the Third Missouri Cavalry Regiment, serving for four years in the United States army. Later, he was appointed to the captaincy of a col- ored company and was badly wounded at the battle of Blakely, Ala- bama. This was near the close of the war and hostilities had ceased by the time he had recovered from his wound. After the war he received the appointment of deputy internal revenue collector at Quincy, Illi- nois, and served for six years in this important official position. Prior to the war he had filled the post of census enumerator for Pike county, Illinois, in 1850. He died in July, 1881, and after his death the widow came to Missouri in the fall of 1883 and died in 1885, at the home of the subject of this review. There were five children in the Sellon family : John, deceased; Harriet, deceased; Sidney, deceased: Charlotte J., deceased ; and W. G., subject of this biography.
The early education of W. G. Sellon was obtained in the schools of Pike county, Illinois. When he attained young manhood, he came West in 1881, and in the spring of that year made a permanent settle- ment in Bates county. He and his brother, John, purchased a farm of two hundred forty acres and farmed it together in amicable and lucrative partnership until the latter's death in 1912, possession then passing to the survivor. Mr. Sellon raises Shorthorn cattle, and has one of the finest herds of pure-bred cattle in this section of Missouri. The Sellon herd numbers from sixty to eighty head at all times and are of the pure-bred, registered stock which bring high prices when placed upon the market for disposal. Mr. Sellon also maintains a drove of pure-bred Poland China swine and raises mules for the market. He is a stanch Republican who has been prominently identified with the party in Bates county for a number of years. He has served as a mem- ber of the township board and filled the post of justice of the peace of his township for two terms. He is a member of the Episcopal church and is highly regarded as a substantial and desirable citizen of Bates county.
Jonathan Yost, an honored pioneer of Bates county, Missouri, was born October 9, 1833, in one of the cantons of Switzerland. He is a son of Christian Yost, a member of Napoleon Bonaparte's bodyguards. Mr. Yost came from his native land to America in 1851 and located first in the state of Wisconsin and was in Chicago when it was but a hamlet. He was very ill throughout the ocean voyage and was glad when the ship came to port. He spent some time in the city of
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Philadelphia and thence went to the state of Wisconsin. Mr. Yost has during his lifetime traveled very extensively, both in Europe and in the United States, has visited the countries of Germany, France, Eng- land, Ireland, and Scotland and worked in seventeen different states in the United States. He is well acquainted with the territory of Alsace Lorraine, which has figured so prominently in the present world war. From Wisconsin, Mr. Yost went to Tennessee in 1860. He was employed in the navy yards at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1862, and from St. Louis he moved with his family to Illinois and there located on a farm and engaged in agricultural pursuits. Mr. Yost came to Bates county, Missouri, from Illinois in 1878 and settled on a farm in Prairie township, a tract of land comprising one hundred sixty acres of produc- tive soil formerly owned by Mr. Billman, and followed general farming. The place was slightly improved at the time of Mr. Yost's purchase and he constantly labored bettering and adding to it. While in Ten- nessee, in the years prior to the Civil War, Jonathan Yost was employed as foreman of a large plantation by a wealthy slaveholder.
In Tennessee in 1860, Jonathan Yost and Agatha Gansner were united in marriage. Mrs. Yost was born January 10, 1842. To Jonathan and Agatha Yost have been born three children, two of whom are now living: "Nick," of Madison county, Illinois; Anna, who died at the age of seven years; and Mary, the wife of William Woods, of Papinsville, Missouri. There are four generations of the Yost family represented among the living members, namely: Jonathan, who makes his home with his grandson, George N., a sketch of whom will be found else- where in this volume: "Nick," the son of Jonathan, now living in Illi- nois; George N., the son of "Nick," the subject of a biographical review to be found in this book ; and Lloyd George, the only son and youngest child of George N.
Fraternally, Jonathan Yost is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, with whom he affiliated in 1862 at Pocahontas, Illi- nois. He has long been one of the most conspicuous and familiar citizens of Bates county, one of the leading men of Prairie township, where he has been a resident for forty years. He has always manifested a deep and commendable interest in his county's development and prosperity and has nobly done his part in furthering both. Although he is now far past the allotted span of human life, being at the time of this writing in his eighty-fifth year, Mr. Yost retains to a remarkable degree his bodily and mental vigor.
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George N. Yost, a successful farmer and stockman of Prairie town- ship, proprietor of the "George N. Yost Stock Farm" one mile north of Prairie City, is a representative of a pioneer family of Bates county. Mr. Yost is a son of "Nick" Yost, now a resident of Madison county, Illinois. "Nick" Yost is a son of Jonathan and Agatha (Gansner) Yost, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume.
In the public schools of Prairie City, Missouri, George N. Yost received his education. Practically all his life he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits in Prairie township, Bates county. In 1906, he purchased his present country place, a farm comprising ninety acres of land, formerly owned by his grandfather, Jonathan Yost. The "George N. Yost Stock Farm" is nicely improved, the improvements including a good barn, erected ten years ago, 20 x 36 feet in dimensions, having a sixteen-foot shed attached; a silo, 14 × 28 feet in dimensions, built on a concrete base; a crib, 25 × 32 feet in dimensions ; several sheds; and the residence, a well-constructed house of two stories and six rooms, built in 1910. Mr. Yost has eighteen head of Holstein dairy cattle, of which two heifers are registered. He also owns a registered male Holstein. Mr. Yost sells the products from his dairy to the cheese factory at Prairie City.
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