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D. R. Hutchison was educated in the public schools of his native state and attended school in Gallipolis, Ohio. In 1868, he came to Cass County, Missouri, and worked as a farm laborer for two years. He was then mar- ried and worked rented land for five or six years and in 1878 bought a part of his present place, which he has since made his home. His first purchase consisted of one hundred and fifty-five acres and he now has four hundred and forty acres, which is one of the finest farm's in Cass County. He carries on general farming and stock raising and also dairying. He has one of the finest herds of Jersey cows to be found any- where. He is a thoroughly progressive dairyman. His stable is a model of sanitary arrangement and is equipped with all modern dairying methods.
Mr. Hutchison was married October 15, 1871, to Miss Rebecca Jane Vandeventer. She was born in Stevenson County, Illinois, in 1850, and is a daughter of James and Jane (Sprowles) Vandeventer, Cass County pioneers who settled here in 1866. James Vandeventer was born in Tennessee May 1, 1819, and died in Cass County March 6, 1888. He was a prominent farmer and a highly respected citizen of this county. He was married to Jane Sprowles May 23, 1841. She was a native of Mon- roe County, Ohio, and when a child removed to Illinois with her parents, making the trip down the Ohio River in a flat boat. Mrs. Hutchison is one of the following children born to her parents: James S., Lincoln County, Kansas; Rebecca Jane, the wife of D. R. Hutchison; and John R., Harrisonville.
To Mr. and Mrs. Hutchison have been born the following children: Andrew James, an employee of the Armour Packing Co., Kansas City, Missouri; Agnes, married Byron Knox and lives near Doherty, Missouri; Reed, Osborne County, Kansas; Susan, married William S. Steplen, Grand
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River township; Otto, farmer, Grand River township; and Mary, married Lawrence Martin and lives near Doherty, Missouri. Mrs. Hutchison departed this life February 12, 1917, after a brief illness. She was a high type of Christian womanhood and will long be remembered for her many excellencies by all who knew her.
Mr. Hutchison is a republican and is inclined to vote independently concerning local matters. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge. While Mr. Hutchison's early opportunities to obtain an education were limited, he has always been a close student of men and affairs and is a great reader and is one of the best posted men to be found in Cass County. He has done a great deal of study by himself and possessed particular ability along mathematical lines and matters of measurement and computing dimensions and such kindred problems are second nature to him. Mr. Hutchison has an extensive acquaintance in Cass County and his genial manner and generous disposition has made hosts of friends for him.
Rodney D. Ramey, M. D., one of the prominent and widely known professional men of Cass County, was born in Pettis County, Missouri, on November 4, 1855, son of David Stout and Eliza Guinn (Rice) Ramey. David Stout Ramey, son of Judge William Ramey, third judge in Pettis County, was a native of Kentucky. He came to Georgetown with his parents when he was but a lad. Rodney D. Ramey, subject of this review, was but two years of age when his father died in 1858. Eliza Guinn (Rice) Ramey, a native of Fairfax County, Virginia, was reared in Cooper County, Missouri. In 1892 she joined her husband in the Better Land whither he had preceded her thirty-four years before. To David Stout and Eliza (Guinn) Ramey were born ten children: John K., deceased; Nathan Kindred, deceased; Mrs. Rovilla Lauretta Fisher, LaMonte, Missouri; William Hampton, Wellington, Kansas; Mrs. Judea Cretha Hopkins, Garden City, Missouri; James Annapias, deceased ; Etta E., deceased; Rodney D., subject of this review; and Mrs. Eliza Guinn Choplin, LaMonte, Missouri.
Rodney D. Ramey enjoyed a better education than most men of his time. His elementary education was obtained in the common schools of Pettis County. Upon attaining manhood he attended the Warrensburg State Normal, after which he entered the teaching profession. For four years he taught school in Cass and Pettis Counties. He early chose the profession of medicine for his life work and at the age of twenty-seven began practicing in Dayton, Cass County.
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Doctor Ramey is a graduate of the Missouri Medical College, in the class of 1883. April 10, 1883, he moved to Dayton and there remained until 1899, when he moved to Garden City, where he has been practicing ever since.
April 5, 1883, Dr. Rodney D. Ramey and Della May Oglesby, daughter of Pleasant and Sarah C. Oglesby, of Knobnoster, Johnson County, Mis- souri, were united in marriage, and come to Cass County on their honey- moon. Pleasant Oglesby is deceased and Mrs. Oglesby makes her home with Doctor and Mrs. Ramey. The only child of Doctor and Mrs. Ramey, Lottie Dodson, is the wife of G. O. Rockey, an operator for the Kansas City, Clinton and Springfield Railway Company, residing in Osceola, Mis- souri. Doctor Ramey is local surgeon for this railroad company.
Rodney D. Ramey, M. D., is fraternally affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Yeomen, Modern Woodmen of America, and the Royal Neighbors. He is a mem- ber of Graduates of Suggestive Therapeutics and Medical Electricity, American Medical Association, Missouri State Medical Association, Cass County Medical Association, Southwest Medical Association and holds life membership in the Red Cross Medical Association.
Doctor Ramey has built up a large practice. No physician in this part of the state is more widely known and few doctors in Cass County have practiced longer than he, Doctor Jerard of Pleasant Hill and Doctor Griffith of Creighton, being the two exceptions. For fifteen years he traveled on horseback to visit his patients. Doctor Ramey is a well read practitioner but does not limit himself to medical books. He is a practical reasoner, a man of vision. He studies difficult cases from the common sense standpoint and his ideas and suggestions have much weight with men of investigative minds. Doctor Ramey takes an active interest in his profession, rarely missing a meeting of the County Medical Associa- tion in which he always take a leading part. The life story of Rodney D. Ramey is one of unselfish, devoted service to mankind.
E. V. Burdett, a prominent real estate man of Garden City, Missouri, was born in 1874 in Index township, Cass County, son of L. W. and Ger- trude (Van Hoy) Burdett. Gertrude (Van Hoy) Burdett was born in Cass County. L. W. Burdett came to Cass County, Missouri, in 1856, locating west of Index where he remained about nine years. He then moved to a farm south of Index. After one year upon this place he returned to Kentucky in 1875. Mr. Burdett came back to Cass County
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and started the first furniture store in Garden City in the spring of 1885. He lived in Garden City until 1906. At that time he left for New Mexico and California. He now makes his home in the latter state in Santa Anita. Gertrude (Van Hoy) Burdett is the daughter of Dr. J. H. Van Hoy, who came to Cass County in the forties and settled at Pleasant Hill temporarily. He later moved to a place on Knob Creek near the present site of Creighton, where he operated a carding machine previous to beginning the practice of medicine. At Index, where he had a drug store and practiced medicine, he died about 1889. Gertrude (Van Hoy) Burdett died about 1892 in Garden City, Missouri, and is buried at Index, Missouri. L. W. and Gertrude (Van Hoy) Burdett were the parents of three children; E. V., subject of this review; J. D., Los Angeles, California; and Mrs. Ella M. Knowles, Santa Anita, California.
E. V. Burdett attended school in Garden City, Missouri. At the age of eighteen he was married. For four years he engaged in agricultural pursuits and then spent two years in St. Louis. Upon his return to Garden City he followed the printer's trade for ten years. Mr. Burdett has, dur- ing the past three years, devoted his attention exclusively to the real estate and loan business, which has been very extensive, reaching into many states. He has sold much Texas land.
February 15, 1893, E. V. Burdett and Gussie E. Berry, daughter of John C. and Rebecca J. Berry, of Garden City, were united in marriage. John C. Berry was a Civil War veteran, enlisting at Kane, Illinois, in Company C, One Hundred Twenty-second Regiment, Illinois Infantry, in 1862 and served three years. A brother, Christy, was with him in the same regiment. To Mr. and Mrs. Burdett have been born five children: Gertrude, wife of J. J. Strong, Kansas City, Missouri; Homer B., married Mary B. Hagan, Kansas City, Missouri; James D., Kansas City, Missouri ; Robert J., at home; and Rebecca J., at home.
John C. and Rebecca J. Berry, parents of Mrs. Burdett, were natives of Illinois, who came to Cass County in 1869, locating one-half mile north of the present site of Garden City, Missouri, on the Stark farm. This farm had been entered by a Mr. Stark. There Mrs. Berry lived until 1889, when she moved to Garden City, her present home. Mr. Berry died in 1879 and is buried in Clearfork cemetery. John C. and Rebecca J. Berry were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Susan McCarter, Shattuck, Oklahoma; Gussie E., wife of E. V. Burdette, subject of this sketch; Mrs. Mary S. Hogg, Collinsville, Illinois; Mrs. Grace L. Gross, Guymon, Oklahoma; and a son Walter, who died at the age of three years.
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John C. Berry was one of three sons of James G. Berry, who came to Index township in 1869 with his three boys, John C., Uriah B., and Christopher C. Wm. T. Berry, a fourth son, lived in Kansas at that time. He died in Labette County, Kansas, in the early eighties. The last two, Uriah B. and Christopher C., died in Greene County, Illi- nois, in 1901. Christopher C. Berry had moved to Kansas about 1886 but had returned to Illinois to make his permanent home just a short time before his death. Uriah had gone back to Illinois about 1896. Both he and his wife died there. Fourteen grandchildren and four great- grandchildren, descendants of John C. and Rebecca J. Berry, are all liv- ing. The grandchildren are: Mrs. Cora Linder, Liscomb, Texas; Mrs. Edna Mitchell, Arnett, Oklahoma; Mrs. Alice McCarter, Shattuck, Okla- homa ; Martin B. McCarter, Shattuck, Oklahoma; Gertrude Strong, Kan- sas City, Missouri; Homer B. Burdett, Kansas City, Missouri; James D. Burdett, Kansas City, Missouri; Robert J. Burdett, Garden City, Missouri ; Rebecca J. Burdett, Garden City, Missouri; Hazel Hogg, Chicago, Illinois ; Clara Carter, Detroit, Michigan; Vern C. Gross, Guymon, Oklahoma; Ernest Gross, Guymon, Oklahoma ; and George Gross, Guymon, Oklahoma. The four great-grandchildren are: Lucille Linder, Liscomb, Texas; Nina Linder, Liscomb, Texas; Homer B. Burdett, Jr., Kansas City, Missouri; and Hazel Carter, Detroit, Michigan.
Mr. and Mrs. Burdett are prominent socially in Cass County and are universally esteemed. Mr. Burdett would succeed in any vocation he should choose to undertake for he is a genial man of marked integrity of character and possesses a high sense of honor.
J. R. Connely, a prominent citizen of Garden City, belongs to a Cass County pioneer family. Mr. Connely was born at Paola, Miami County, Kansas, October 15, 1867, a son of James R. and Susan (Cassidy) Connely. The father was born in Kentucky in 1825, and was reared to manhood in Indiana. The mother was a native of Indiana.
James R. Connely came to Cass County, Missouri in the summer of 1856 and for a short time lived on the old Snider farm near Dayton. Shortly afterwards he entered one hundred sixty acres of land from the government in Austin township where he made his home until Order No. 11 was issued during the Civil War, when he went to Paola, Kansas. While there he served in the home guards. He remained in Kansas until the spring of 1875, having sold his land in Cass County in the meantime. He then returned to Cass County and located three and one-half miles
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southeast of Austin where he was successfully engaged in farming and stock raising the remainder of his life. He died November 22, 1892. . His wife died March 11, 1907. Both are buried in Austin cemetery. They were the parents of the following children: Abigail, who married W. T. Moore, and is now deceased; Jennie, who married James Fields, Kansas City, Missouri; Fanny, who died at the age of eighteen; William, who died in infancy ; James R., the subject of this sketch; John E., Harrison- ville; and Charles F., who occupies the home place near Austin.
James R. Connely was about eight years old when the family returned to Cass County after the war and therefore received the principal part of his education in the public schools of this county. He has made farm- ing and stock raising his principal occupations, engaging in that sphere of enterprise for himself when he was about twenty-two years old. He was engaged in farming and stock raising in Austin township until 1900, when he sold his place there and bought one hundred sixty acres, one and one-half miles from Garden City, which place he still owns. In 1912 he removed to Warrensburg to educate his son and since returning from there has resided in Garden City.
Mr. Connely was married in 1889, to Miss Katie M. Dailey, daughter of Josiah and Catherine Dailey, of Austin township. The Dailey family came from Indiana to Cass County about 1882. The parents are now both deceased. Josiah Dailey died October 31, 1902 and his wife, Cath- erine Dailey, died January 7, 1900. Both are buried in Austin cemetery. To Mr. and Mrs. Connely have been born two children: Bessie May, a graduate of the State Normal School at Warrensburg, and also a graduate of the Conservatory of Music there, now a teacher at Rocky Ford, Colo- rado ; and Lyle J., a graduate of the State Normal School at Warrensburg and the Kansas City School of Pharmacy, graduating from the latter in- stitution in 1914. He is now a druggist at Jefferson City, Missouri.
George L. Walker, of Garden City, Missouri, is a representative of one of the best families that ever came to Missouri. He was born in Miller County, Missouri, in a log cabin near Eldon, in 1871. He is the son of Joseph and Mary E. (Shelton) Walker. Joseph Walker, a native of Moniteau County, Missouri, was born in 1848. Mary E. (Shelton) Walker is a native of Miller County, Missouri, and at present resides in Sedalia, Missouri. To Joseph and Mary Walker were born five children: George L., subject of this review; Estella, who died at the age of eighteen;
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Francis Seigel Walker, Wann, Oklahoma; Mrs. Daisy Brouse, Eldon, Mis- souri; and William J., Olean, Missouri.
George L. Walker received a good common school education, after which he attended Butler Academy one year and the Warrensburg State Normal two years. After receiving the normal training Mr. Walker entered the teaching profession, in which he was engaged for twelve years. He was very successful as a teacher, few being more conscientious, cap- able, thorough in their work than he. It is a gift given to few to be able to impart knowledge. Mr. Walker possesses the ability to a marked degree and his loss was keenly felt when he resigned this work to accept the appointment of rural mail carrier in 1906. Prior to this appointment he was for three years township clerk and assessor of Camp Branch township. For the past eleven years Mr. Walker has been the efficient carrier on Rural Route No. 1, out of Garden City.
In 1882 an epidemic of smallpox, which destroyed many lives, swept Miller County. Joseph Walker, father of the subject of this review and sixteen relatives were taken at a time when it seemed impossible to part with them. No man was ever needed more than Mr. Walker, when he was cut down by the Grim Reaper at the early age of thirty-four years. Left fatherless when but ten years of age, the care and management of the large farm fell upon George L. Walker. He was the oldest of the five small children left to the mother's care. It was no small undertaking for a boy of his age to assume responsibilities incidental to the successful management of a farm, but assisted by the counsels of an intelligent, industrious mother, he did the work, and did it remarkably well. Mr. Walker remained with his mother until he was eighteen years of age. In 1892 he came to Cass County from Bates County where he had been living since 1889.
In 1899 George L. Walker and Fannie B. Coles, daughter of Jacob and Emma (Keller) Coles, of Jackson County, Ohio, were married. The Coles family came to Dayton, Missouri, in 1867. Mr. Coles was a veteran of the Union army, serving from 1862 until the close of the war. He was mustered out at Galveston, Texas, April, 1867. The farm upon which Jacob and Emma Coles located when they came to Missouri is one mile southeast of Dayton. They later moved to a farm one and one-half miles south of Dayton, upon which they lived for five years. To Jacob and Emma (Keller) Coles were born the following children: Albert, Mound Valley, Kansas; Mrs. Etta Pollard, Dayton, Missouri; Alfred S., Medicine
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Lodge, Kansas; Mrs. Minnie Dale, Creighton, Missouri; Mrs. Fannie Walker, wife of the subject of this review; and Arthur, residing at Gage, Montana. For two years previous to her marriage, Mrs. Walker was engaged in teaching. To George L. and Fannie (Coles) Walker have been born two children: One babe died in infancy; and Earl Logan, one year old at the time of this writing.
The original ancestors of George L. Walker were called the "Preacher family" of England. They came from England to America, locating in Virginia and North Carolina, and were signers of the "Mecklenburg Reso- lutions" which were drawn up by a committee of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in May, 1775, declaring that British government of the colonies had ceased to exist.
Hiram Walker, grandfather of George L., came to Missouri about 1820 and settled on a farm in Moniteau County upon which he lived for sixty years. Samuel Gilleland, grandfather of Mary E. Walker, mother of George L., came about the same time. Thus the Walker family is one of the fine, old pioneer families of Missouri.
Mr. Walker's handsome residence in Garden City was erected in 1910. It is a large two-story structure of nine spacious rooms. Besides his residence he is owner and manager of the Alamo picture show and build- ing. Mr. and Mrs. Walker are very prominent materially and socially in Garden City and are held in highest esteem in Cass County.
James H. McCulloh has been prominently identified with the agricul- tural interests of this section for a number of years and is one of the suc- cessful farmers and stock raisers of Cass County. He was born in Henry County, Illinois, in 1854 and is a son of W. G. and Matilda (Souders) McCulloh, natives of Pennsylvania.
W. G. McCulloh went from Henry County, Illinois, to Johnson County, Kansas, in 1858, and settled near Olathe, where he remained about a year when he went farther south locating in Miami County where Fontana is now located. He was one of the men who gave that town its name. He remained in that locality until 1866, when he came to Cass County and purchased the Nicholas Pogue farm in Dayton township, which consisted of four hundred acres. The mother died in 1908 and later the father removed to Garden City where he departed this life in 1915. W. G. McCulloh saw much of the pioneer life of eastern Kansas and western Missouri. In 1858 when he settled in Kansas that section of the country
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was considerably agitated by the border war, a condition that added to the inconveniences and dangers of pioneer life. After removing to Miami County, Kansas, he served in the Kansas regiment during the Civil War and about the year the war closed was a member of the Kansas legisla- ture. After coming to Cass County he served as county recorder from 1870 to 1874.
James H. McCulloh was one of the family of nine children born to his parents, as follows: A. S., deceased; J. H., the subject of this sketch ; Mrs. Mary Ellen Gloyd; deceased; Mrs. Sarah E. Clements, deceased; George S., farmer and stockman, Dayton township; Mrs. Clara Talbot, deceased; Mrs. Laura Morlan, Garden City; Eugene, Dayton township; and O. B., Garden City.
James H. McCulloh received a good common school education in the public schools of Dayton township. For over half a century he lived in the same school district. He served as school director in that district for thirty-one years. Mr. McCulloh assisted in building the first school house there, which building was done by voluntary subscription. Mr. McCulloh was reared on a farm and began life for himself as a practical farmer and stockman and in that field of endeavor it my be truthfully said of him that he has met with unqualified success. He now owns nine hun- dred acres of land, the improvements upon which are worth twenty-five thousand alone. His place is unusually well improved. He has eight barns and two large silos. He built the second Dickey silo in Cass County. Mr. McCulloh has been a very successful breeder of Shorthorn cattle. In 1917 he practically retired from the farm which is now in charge of his son, Everett, and his son-in-law, Bruce Pollard, and Mr. McCulloh and his wife reside in Garden City.
Mr. McCulloh was married September 17, 1878, to Miss Anna E. Hewson, of Dayton, Missouri, a daughter of Frederick and Margaret (Wil- son) Hewson. The Hewson family came to Dayton in 1866 and the par- ents spent their lives in that locality. The father died in 1875. He was a pioneer merchant of that section. In early life Frederick Hewson was a miller and for a time owned a mill at Dayton which he built in the latter sixties. This mill was destroyed by fire later and while he was rebuilding it in 1875 he died of pneumonia. His wife survived him several years and died in 1908. They were the parents of six children of whom Mrs. McCulloh was one and the others are as follows: Frederick, Garden Grove, Iowa; Mrs. Josie Chapman, Hay Springs, Nebraska; Mrs. Jennie
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Lawrence. Pierce, Nebraska: William, who died at the age of three; and Grant who died at the age of twenty-five. Mr. Hewson was postmaster at Dayton at one time.
To James H. McCulloh and wife have been born the following chil- dren : Mrs. Lena Argenbright, Butler, Missouri; Mrs. Josephine West, Garden City, Missouri; William Blaine, Adrian, Missouri; Mrs. Margaret Oberweather, Garden City, Missouri; Elva, who died at the age of six; Mrs. Martha Pollard, Dayton township; Everett, who resides on the home place; Opal, a student in the Garden City High School; and Corinne, a student in the grade school. The McCulloh family is well known and highly respected in Cass County.
A. J. Martin, a well known stockman and one of the most substantial citizens of Cass County, was born in Tazewell County, Illinois, in 1874, son of Christian and Phoebe (Naffsinger) Martin. Christian Martin was born in Alsace, Germany, that territory which has figured so prominently in the present war, August 25, 1843. He came to America with his par- ents when he was but a child of eight years. They settled in Peoria, Illi- nois. Christian Martin died August 16, 1907. Phoebe (Naffsinger) Mar- tin is now making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Nellie Kenagy in Garden City, Missouri. Christian and Phoebe Martin were the parents of the following children: Mrs. J. K. Miller, Garden City, Missouri ; Amos J., subject of this review; Mrs. Mary E. Yoder, East Lynne, Mis- souri ; Ben, Minot, North Dakota; Mrs. Phoebe Goode, deceased; and Mrs. Nellie Kenagy, Garden City, Missouri.
Amos J. Martin received his education in the schools of Dayton town- ship, attending Peach Grove. His father, Christian Martin, settled in Dayton township in 1875 and there made his home until his death in 1907. In 1875 Christian Martin purchased two hundred forty acres of land and Gradually increased his holdings until, at the time of his death, he was owner of over eleven hundred acres of good farm land. He was an exten- sive feeder of cattle and horses. Christian Martin brought one of the first high-grade horses to this part of the country, a Percheron, and paid as high as one thousand five hundred fifty dollars for a pure bred animal. He was widely known as a splendid horseman and did more than any other man in Cass County to develop high grade farm stock. He also in the early days raised wheat and corn, buying much, too, from others. At one time when he bought forty acres and sowed it all to wheat, and the wheat paid for the land.
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Amos J. Martin inherited his present home from his father. He moved to this place of two hundred acres, located one mile west of Garden City, in 1897. With the exception of a small barn and summer kitchen, Mr. Martin has added all the improvements upon his place. He has four barns, one of which is a hog barn. The improvements include a silo, 16 x 30, having a concrete base. The farm is well stocked with from twenty to thirty horses, Shropshire sheep, Duroc hogs, Shorthorn cattle and Buff Rock chickens. Mr. Martin bought two Percherons, two Mam- moth Jacks, in 1916, and is maintaining his father's reputation as stock- man. Hog-tight fences inclose the farm and many fields are fenced off. There is not in all Missouri a better kept, neater farm than the Martin place.
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