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W. H. Wade came to Missouri with his parents in the fall of 1868, and lived the life of the average boy on the farm, attending the common schools and assisting his father. At the age of eighteen he began life for himself. He had been reared on the farm and quite naturally chose farm- ing as his vocation. For several years he was engaged in farming in Cass County, near Wadesburg, later near Garden City, where he remained ten years.
In 1889 W. H. Wade and Mary Etta Gregg, daughter of John W. and Elizabeth Gregg, of Sherman township, were united in marriage. John W. Gregg came to Cass County before the Civil War, locating near Creigh- ton. One night, during those troubulous times, the bushwhackers came for him. It was widely known that he was a Union man. Mrs. Gregg discovered the bushwhackers just in time to waken her husband and for him to fly to the woods. The men searched the place and not finding him took his team. The next morning by sunrise John W. Gregg was back in
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Harrisonville, under the protecting wings of the federal service, and neither did he walk all the way there. To W. H. and Mary Etta (Gregg) Wade have been born five children, all born in Sherman township: Louis Alvis, Shindo, California; Mrs. Lura Bell Tomberlin, Shindo, California; George W. Bryan, at home; Pearl and Charles William Henry, twins, at home.
W. H. Wade bought his present home, which is located five miles east of Garden City, in 1901, from P. M. Willis. It was formerly owned by Mr. Gross and another man, who originally entered the place. The farm is known as the "Elm Valley Stock Farm" and comprises one hundred twenty-five acres and thirty-four acres, which though separated are in the same township. The place is well watered by a branch which flows into Walnut Creek. Mr. Wade has improved the place himself, erecting the residence, a two-story structure of six rooms and basement, a barn, 36x40 feet in dimensions, a feeder, 34x32 feet, and a silo, 12×24 feet. The silo was built four years ago of two-inch Oregon fir. Mr. Wade ships from fifteen to twenty cars of stock annually, two and three of which are of his own raising.
W. H. Wade is one of the county's best stockmen, a man of much vim and energy. He and Mrs. Wade are widely known and highly esteemed and are numbered among Cass County's most valuable citizens. No man is doing more than he to advance the best interests of his township and county.
Daniel B. O'Bannon, proprietor of the "O'Bannon Walnut Grove Farm," a prominent stockman of Sherman township and a representative of one of Cass County's best pioneer families, was born January 16, 1863, in Sherman township, Cass County. He is one of four sons born to Elijah and America (Hazlewood) O'Bannon. Elijah O'Bannon, a native of Ken- tucky, was born in 1824. When a lad he migrated from Kentucky to Pettis County, Missouri, and thence to Cass County in 1856. He located upon a farm adjoining on the east the farm of Daniel B. O'Bannon. He purchased this tract of land at ten dollars per acre, and from time to time entered more land until he became owner of three hundred forty acres in Missouri and eighty acres in Oklahoma. America Hazlewood was also a native of Kentucky. She was born April 15, 1821. To Elijah and America (Hazlewood) O'annon were born six children: J. W., deceased ; Mrs. Elizabeth Tabor, deceased ; Mrs. Katie Elliot, Aline, Oklahoma ; Jacob,
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Aline, Oklahoma; Daniel B., subject of this review, and G. W., Lake Arthur, New Mexico. Elijah O'Bannon moved to Henry County, Missouri, when Order No. 11 was issued, but he soon brought his family back home for he was a Union man. Mr. O'Bannon was with the home guards at Harrisonville and remained there most of the time while conditions were in an agitated state. Mrs. O'Bannon died October 12, 1898, and eleven years later was followed in death by her husband, who died November 26, 1909. Elijah O'Bannon is buried in the Pemberton Cemetery in Johnson County, beside his wife.
Daniel B. O'Bannon received his education in the schools of Cass County. He has lived in the vicinity of his present home all his life. He was reared on a farm and has always followed the vocation of farming, becoming a good, thorough, practical agriculturalist.
In 1888 Daniel B. O'Bannon and Mary Wade, daughter of G. W. and Isabel (McGrew) Wade, pioneers of Sherman township, were united in marriage. G. W. Wade and wife settled in Cass County, near Wadesburg, Missouri. Mrs. Wade died in 1874, and Mr. Wade in February, 1917. Both are buried in the Wadesburg Cemetery. To Daniel B. and Mary (Wade) O'Bannon have been born the following children: Eva, at home with her parents ; Frank, married Jessie Kackley and resides near Gunn City, Mis- souri ; Floyd, married Emma Chisler, of Creighton, Missouri ; Glenn, Lake Arthur, New Mexico; Lee, Hazel, Dell, Everett and Estel, all residing at home.
In 1890, Daniel B. O'Bannon purchased the farm, comprising one hundred eighty acres, formerly known as the David Tabor farm. Mr. O'Bannon has gradually increased his holdings until he is now owner of three hundred fifty acres, one hundred seventy of which comprised the old home place. This farm is an ideal stock farm six and a half miles east of Garden City, and here Mr. O'Bannon follows general stock-raising. The place is well stocked with cattle and hogs.
All the fine improvements upon his place, Daniel B. O'Bannon, him- self, has placed there. In 1899 the beautiful residence, a two-story struc- ture of seven rooms, was built. A splendid, commodious barn, 36x38 feet in dimensions, was built in 1907. Many other buildings, including a gran- ary and chicken house have been added and all are kept in the best repair. Stately forest trees surround the residence, adding the last touch to a per- fect picture of a lovely, woodland home.
Probably we find more men of merit engaged in agricultural pursuits
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than in any other vocation in the United States. It is the path to prom- inence and position which is perhaps more frequently traveled than any other, and it is therefore not unusual to find the leading citizens of a com- munity occupied with the peaceful work of the farm. Mr. O'Bannon is one of Cass County's most desirable citizens.
N. S. Clark, one of the best and most prominent farmers and stock- men of Cass County, is a resident of Sherman township. He is the son of Gerry and Salana (Holcomb) Clark, natives of Hartford, Connecticut, and pioneers of Marion County, Ohio, where N. S. Clark was born Janu- ary 12, 1852. Gerry Clark died in Marion County, Ohio, in 1856, when his youngest son, N. S. Clark, was but a child of four years. To Gerry and Salana (Holcomb) Clark were born ten children: J. N., deceased; A. B., Knoxville, Iowa; L. L., a prominent land owner, who died in 1915 at Mar- shalltown, Iowa; Mrs. Emma Boughton, who died in 1915 at Marshall- town, Iowa; F. A., Enterprise, Kansas, a veteran of the Eighty-eighth Ohio Infantry, in service three years; Winfield Scott, Columbus, Kansas ; H. C., who died at the age of thirty years; Mrs. Elvira Green, who died in Ohio about 1910; J. H., who was a well-known merchant of Ottawa, Kansas, where he died and is interred at Peabody, Kansas; and N. S., subject of this review. It will be noted that only four of this unusually fine family are left: A. B., of Knoxville, Iowa ; F. A., of Enterprise, Kan- sas ; Winfield Scott, of Columbus, Kansas, and N. S., subject of this sketch.
N. S. Clark received his education in the schools of Marion County, Ohio. At the age of twenty-two years he entered the hardware and imple- ment business in Caledonia, Marion County, Ohio. In 1879 Mr. Clark migrated from Ohio to Vernon County, Missouri, and for five years was in partnership with W. P. Saylor, operating a ranch owned by Noah See, near Schell City. This firm fed from two hundred to four hundred head of cattle. They were very successful in operating the ranch, but N. S. Clark soon left Missouri and located in Labette County, Kansas, where he had purchased a farm of one hundred sixty acres. Here he made his home for fifteen years.
In 1876, N. S. Clark and Libbie N. Waddell, daughter of John Wad- dell, of Morrow County, Ohio, were united in marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Waddell were natives of Ohio. Mrs. Clark has three brothers and one sister: Henry, of Morrow County, Ohio; Isaac, Sidney, Ohio; A. J., a contractor and builder, Wichita, Kansas, and Allie Waddell, Marion, Ohio.
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To N. S. and Libbie N. (Waddell) Clark have been born three children: Brittie, at home; Bertie, wife of Ed. M. Hines, Harwood, Missouri; and Claude, merchant in Archie, Kansas.
N. S. Clark took a prominent part in civic affairs in Labette County, Kansas. For six years he was trustee of Fairview township in Labette County. He was twice delegate to the Democrat-Populist State Conven- tions at Wichita, Kansas, when Governor Lewelling was nominated, and at Abilene, Kansas, when Governor Leedy was nominated. For years Mr. Clark took an active and influential part in all reform movements in Kansas. He is an able man, thoroughly posted on political affairs. He was candidate for representative in Labette County, Kansas, when a suc- cessful move was made which resulted in the fusion of the populists and Democrats there, and Mr. Clark withdrew from the race and threw his influence on the side of the Democratic candidate, who was elected. The fight in Kansas against the railroad and other corporate interests, which were intrenched in the Republican party from 1890 to 1896, was won by such men as N. S. Clark and those early reforms are now written into the laws of that state and have been taken up by other States and the nation.
Mr. Clark returned to Vernon County, Missouri, and purchased a farm of one hundred sixty acres, three and a fourth miles southeast of Harwood, where he lived until 1908. Nine years ago he purchased one hundred twenty acres from Jacob Smith and moved to this place in Sher- man township. He has since sold forty acres. The remaining eighty acres comprise his place which is delightfully located three and one-fourth miles east of Garden City. Since coming to this place Mr. Clark has remod- eled the home, a house of seven rooms, and built a barn 30x52 feet, a double corncrib, and a chicken house, which is 12x24 feet in dimensions. Everything about the place shows care and bespeaks the hand of an expert. There is no better, more neatly kept place in Cass County.
Mr. and Mrs. Clark have already formed many warm attachments since their coming to this county, and their circle of friends is ever widen- ing. Cass County is especially fortunate to have enrolled among her citi- zens a man like N. S. Clark.
Robert H. Chandler, proprietor of "Fair Mead Stock Farm," one of Sherman township's most highly esteemed citizens, is a big man in all that the term implies. He was born April 11, 1862, in Medina County, Ohio,
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son of Isaac H. and Emily (Hilliard) Chandler. Isaac H. Chandler was a native of Medina County, Ohio, born in 1834. Isaac H. and Emily (Hil- liard) Chandler were the parents of the following children: Robert H., subject of this review; Lura N., residing on the home place near Creigh- ton, Missouri ; Jennie, residing on the home place; and Roy A., residing on the home place.
Isaac Chandler, father of Robert H., came from Ohio to Sherman township, Cass County, in 1869. He purchased at this time the John Hardin farm of four hundred acres, in partnership with Mr. Crane. Mr. Hardin kept two hundred forty acres of the original ranch. Here Isaac Chandler engaged in stock raising. For several years he had free range for his stock, but three or four farms being fenced between his place and Harrisonville. Holden was his trading point. Upon this place he and his wife spent their lives. Isaac Chandler died May 3, 1915, his wife having preceded him in death the year before. Both are interred in the Dayton Cemetery. Mr. Chandler was a prominent man of his day. He was one of the committee of safety, a committee composed of seventy persons, selected to investigate the fraudulent bonds issued by county judges. He, George G. Crane and Cornelius C. Quick represented Sherman township.
Robert H. Chandler received his education in the schools of Cass County. His boyhood days were spent as most boys on the farm spend them. Until he was twenty-nine years of age he remained on the home place. In 1891 Robert H. purchased two hundred acres of land from his father and began life for himself.
In 1892 Robert H. Chandler and Lucy Staley, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth Staley, of Bates County, Missouri, were united in marriage. Stephen and Elizabeth Staley were living in Bates County at the time of the Civil War. Stephen Staley enlisted under "Fighting Joe Shelby" and served throughout the war. Mrs. Staley managed the farm while her husband was in service and she experienced all the trials and hardships of pioneer life in addition to the perils of border war. Mrs. Staley is a highly esteemed old lady, and now makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Chandler. She recalls in her own delightful way some very interest- ing incidents of the early days in Cass County. To Robert H. and Lucy (Staley) Chandler have been born three daughters: Mrs. Alma Ruckel, residing in Sherman township, near Creighton, Missouri; May, at home ; and Emma, at home.
The "Fair Mead Stock Farm," comprising two hundred eighty acres,
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is located four miles northwest of Creighton. This farm is ideally located and well watered by a stream which touches the southwest corner. Mr. Chandler handles registered cattle and hogs, Shorthorn-Durhams and Poland Chinas. Since 1894, he has been raising stock for exclusive mar- kets and usually keeps about seventy-five head of cattle and one hundred head of hogs.
Mr. Chandler has improved his place himself and no finer improve- ments better arranged will be found in the state. In 1892 the residence, a two-story structure of seven rooms, was erected. Besides a garage, and many other buildings, he has erected a feed and stock barn, 36x45 feet, a hay and stock barn, 48x60 feet, a stock barn 40x42 feet and a silo, 14x30 feet, making a capacity of one hundred tons. The silo was erected in 1914. In 1915 Mr. Chandler drilled a five hundred ninety foot well to which he has attached a pump driven by a gasoline engine and from the well water is piped into the feed yards.
Robert H. Chandler has by hard labor and constant application to business, made his way in the world. He is one of the progressive type of sons of pioneers who have pushed Cass County to the front. The Chandler name is known throughout the state and universally honored and respected.
M. A. Creighton, proprietor of "Crestland Farm" and a worthy mem- ber of one of the best families that ever came to Missouri, is of Scotch descent. He was born in Adams County, Illinois, in 1847, son of J. B. and Ann (Ferree) Creighton. J. B. Creighton was born in Scotland. Ann (Ferree) Creighton was born October 29, 1821, near Lockhaven, Clinton County, Pennsylvania. To J. B. and Ann (Ferree) Creighton were born the following children: Mrs. Helena Payne, Dover, Oklahoma; M. A. Creighton, subject of this review ; Mrs. Mary McDonald, Chanute, Kansas ; J. H. Creighton, Creighton, Missouri ; and Mrs. Emma C. Wallis, Wichita, Kansas.
J. B. Creighton immigrated to America when he was sixteen years of age and located near Nauvoo, Illinois. He came with his father, John Creighton, Sr., who remained in Illinois the remainder of his life. J. B. Creighton, Jr., migrated to Cass County in 1869 and located one mile north of the present site of Creighton, in Sherman township. The city of Creighton was named in honor of J. B. Creighton when it was laid out in 1885. Mr. Creighton was one of the pioneer merchants of the town. His
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death occurred August 13, 1913, in Wichita, Kansas, when he was visiting his daughter, Mrs. Emma C. Wallis. Ann (Ferree) Creighton, wife of J. B. Creighton, was of French Huguenot descent. Her grandfather was beheaded when a bitter religious war broke out in France between the Catholics and Huguenots, and his widow, the great-grandmother of Ann (Ferree) Creighton, came to America, joining William Penn's colony which Penn established in 1682. She was given title to two thousand acres in Pennsylvania by the renowned Quaker. Mrs. Creighton died August 17, 1908, and by the side of her husband is at rest in Grant Cemetery.
M. A. Creighton received his education in the schools of Illinois and Missouri. Even as a lad he was a hustler. He began life for himself when but a boy. Mr. Creighton has always been interested in agriculture and the stock business. In 1869 he entered the mercantile business with Wood- son A. Wade and Wm. Kiler at Wadesburg, but he remained with the firm but one year. The call of the free, open country could not be resisted and in 1873 he purchased ninety acres, forty acres of which are part of the town site of Creighton.
June 26, 1873, M. A. Creighton and Mary Adella Wallis, daughter of Jacob C. and Mary (Dimm) Wallis, of Johnson County, were united in marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Wallis came to Missouri in 1868 and located near Rose Hill in Johnson County. Both are now deceased and buried in Grant Cemetery. Mrs. Creighton has two brothers and one sister living: I. D. Wallis, Wichita, Kansas; D. B. Wallis, Kansas City, Missouri, who is engaged in the real estate business; and Mrs. Margaret Blayney, wife of Rev C. P. Blaney, a Presbyterian minister of Marshall, Missouri. To M. A. and Adella (Wallis) Creighton have been born the following children: Mrs. J. H. Arnold, Bluemound, Kansas ; Mrs. Jennie Lankford, Plattsburg, Missouri; Ralph, who is mayor of Creighton, Missouri, and has been superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday School since he was fifteen years of age and elder in the church for many years; and John Wallis, who is a Presbyterian missionary and has been for the past ten years in Can- ton, China.
M. A. Creighton owns three hundred forty acres of fine farm land adjoining the city of Creighton on three sides. This beautiful country place is known as "Crestland Farm" and overlooks the Black Oak Valley on the east and Creighton on the west. For forty-four years Mr. Creigh- ton has lived at "Crestland Farm" and has witnessed many changes which
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have occurred incidental to the growth and development of the country and Creighton. He recalls vividly a picture of the primitive conditions in the county when telephones, railroads, and even fences were unknown. Mr. and Mrs. Creighton have done their part nobly and well in the up- building of the state and county, and we are especially fortunate in having such a fine family in our midst.
Robert H. Ross, a prominent attorney of Creighton, Missouri, was born in Cooper County, Missouri, in 1868, son of Wm. J. and Anna H. (Thomas) Ross. Wm. J. Ross, a native of Green County, Missouri, was born in 1833. Anna H. (Thomas) Ross, a native of North Carolina, was born in 1832. She came with her parents to Pettis County when she was six years of age, in 1838. In 1870 Wm. J. Ross and wife came to Cass County and located in Sherman township where they purchased one hun- dred twenty-five acres of land, ninety-five acres of which now belong to R. H. Ross, subject of this review. Five years later, in 1875, Wm. J. Ross died. His widow remained on the home place until the children were reared to maturity and then in 1894 moved to Creighton. She died in 1907 and is interred in Wadesburg Cemetery, where Wm. J. Ross had been taken to his last resting place. Robert H. Ross is one of six children born to Wm. J. and Anna H. (Thomas) Ross, who were as follows: Annie E., Foster, Missouri; James D., Creighton, Missouri ; Wm. R., deceased ; Mrs. Ida Helms, Foster, Missouri; Robert H., subject of this review, and John A., Creighton, Missouri.
Robert H. Ross received his elementary education in the public schools of Cass County and in 1894 graduated from the law department of the State University of Missouri. After graduation, having read law with attorney-general B. G. Boone, of Clinton, Missouri, Mr. Ross opened a law office in Creighton, Missouri, and here he has been engaged in the prac- tice of his profession for twenty-two years. He possesses a fine law library, which is much larger than the average.
November 28, 1901, Robert H. Ross and Emma Gregory, daughter of B. F. and M. A. (Earhart) Gregory, of Mingo township, Bates County, were united in marriage. B. F. Gregory is a native of Illinois and Mrs. Gregory, of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory reside on their farm, which is one of the best in Bates County, six miles south of Creighton. Mr. Gregory is a large land-owner and deals extensively in high-grade stock.
For more than a score of years Robert H. Ross has given his entire
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attention to the practice of law. He has never aspired to public office, but has been content to devote himself faithfully and conscientiously to the interests of his numerous clientage. Thoroughly honest and upright, he is a valued member of the bar. Perhaps the law has been the main high- way by which more men of intellectual strength have reached position and distinction in our country than any other, and we therefore expect to find among the leading citizens of a community members of the legal fra- ternity. The legists of the first decade in Cass County have passed away. Those who came to the bar in the early days have long since laid down their briefs. Those who come in the future will have in the record of Robert H. Ross an example of clean, honest, faithful devotion to his chosen profession well worth emulating.
Andrew G. Forsyth, a well-known and popular farmer near Creigh- ton, Missouri, is of noble pioneer stock and Irish lineage. He was born in Stark County, Ohio, December 26, 1840, son of John F. and Anna (Thornburg) Forsyth. John F. Forsyth was born in 1780 in Tyrone County, Ireland. He immigrated to America when a youth and located in Ohio. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. Anna (Thornburg) Forsyth was a native of Ohio. To John F. and Anna (Thornburg) Forsyth were born six children: Wm. T., who died in Illinois; James S., who was cap- tain of Company H., One Hundred Fifth Illinois Infantry in the Civil War; R. W., who came to Cass County in 1867, died January 7, 1917, on the same day that the death of his second wife occurred, and both are buried at Grant Cemetery; Mrs. M. A. Clark, Los Angeles, California; Andrew G., subject of this review, and Mrs. Mary Ellen Gilchrist, deceased. John T. Forsyth died in 1864 at the age of eighty-four years.
Andrew G. Forsyth received his education in the public schools of Ohio. At the age of twenty-one he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred Fifth Illinois Infantry at Sandwich, Dekalb County, Illinois, when Lin- coln's call for volunteers came in 1861. His regiment saw active service in many battles and was especially prominent in the campaign against Atlanta in 1864. Mr. Forsyth was in the battle of Resaca and of Kene- saw Mountain, where Sherman made an impetuous attempt, by delivering a powerful assault, to break through Johnston's line and came off with a loss of three thousand men, and was advised by General Thomas in the future not to butt "against breastworks twelve feet thick and strongly abatised." July 17 General J. B. Hood, a man who would fight, replaced
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Johnston and within eleven days he fought and lost three battles, Peach Tree Creek, July 20; Atlanta, July 22; and Ezra Church, July 28, with a loss of more than ten thousand men, and Sherman by a masterly stroke succeeded in capturing Atlanta, September 3, 1864. In all these battles Andrew G. Forsyth nobly did his duty, and in many more, including Dallas, Cassville and Golgotha Church. It was a year of hard fighting and heavy sacrifice. He was in the march with Sherman to the sea. He was mus- tered out June 17, 1865, at Washington, D. C., having faithfully served three years.
After the war had ended, Mr. Forsyth migrated from Ohio to Illinois and thence to Cass County, Missouri. He was in Illinois but three years, coming to Missouri in 1868, well prepared by his baptism of fire to cope with the primitive conditions then existing in Missouri. He located in Sherman township where he rented land for several years. When Mr. Forsyth had accumulated sufficient savings he purchased forty acres near old Wadesburg and upon this place lived for twenty years. In 1902 he purchased seven acres adjoining Creighton, where he now resides.
November 28, 1870, Andrew G. Forsyth and Nellie Foreman, daughter of James and Rachel (Trimble) Foreman, of Sherman township, were united in marriage. The Foreman family came to Missouri in 1865, locat- ing in Sherman township, Cass County, where they purchased one hundred sixty acres. Mr. Foreman died July 4, 1888, in Sherman township and his wife died a few years later in Denver, Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. Fore- man were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Sarah J. Wolfe, Creighton, Missouri; Mrs. Kate Roberts, deceased; Mrs. Bell Holmes, who died in Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Rachel Foreman, mother of Mrs. Forsyth, wife of the subject of this review; Mrs. Maggie Cox, who died in Denver, Colorado; Mrs. Mary Stewart, who died in Denver, Colorado; James B. McComb, Oklahoma, and Addie, Denver, Colorado. Sarah J. Wolfe, the eldest of the children, was born near Vincennes, Indiana, and is now eighty-five years of age. She is very active and possesses a bright, keen mind, whose faculties are still undimmed. She lived in Sullivan, Indiana, until the death of her husband, Benjamin S. Wolfe, in 1889. Since, she has traveled widely in Texas, Colorado and Mexico. She attend- ed the World's Fair in Chicago, and enjoyed it immensely. Although Mrs. Wolfe spends much of her time visiting with her children, her home is really in Creighton. Andrew G. and Nellie (Foreman) Forsyth have been
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