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To J. P. and Colista E. (Allen) Hamilton the following children were born : Lullie B., the wife of W. B. Rose of Kansas City, Missouri ; Lillie, died at the age of fourteen; S. E., a subject of this sketch; Lura, Mrs. Dixon, died at the age of twenty-six, and Carl D., a subject of this sketch.
S. E. Hamilton was born October 5, 1872, and was educated in the public school of Bethany and Kemper Military Academy at Boonville, Mis- souri, from which he graduated in 1893. He began business with his father, the founder of the Hamilton Hardware Company, in 1889 and con- tinued with him until the business was sold by J. P. Hamilton to the firm known as Phillips and Storm, who later reorganized it into the Bethany Hardware Company. S. E. Hamilton spent two years in the real estate business, then went into the hardware business again with Claude Cole and remained in it for seven years, at the end of which time he again entered the real estate business. On March 12, 1918, he, with his brother. C. D. Hamilton, opened the present business. The Hamilton Hardware Company now occupies the first and second floors of a building on Main Street. It has a basement and a frontage of 25x93 feet. The company carries a full line of hardware and does an excellent business.
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S. E. Hamilton was married in April, 1906, to Inme Davis, a daughter of Polk and Emma (Harvey) Davis, both deceased. Mrs. Hamilton was born in Roanoke, Virginia, and was educated in the Methodist College at Albany, Missouri. Her grandparents owned the land upon which Roanoke. Virginia, was built.
C. D. Hamilton the other member of the Hamilton Hardware Com- pany was born at Bethany, October 8, 1878. He graduated from Kemper Military Academy at Boonville, Missouri, in 1902, and has been in the hardware business ever since. He was with his father up to the time of the latter's death and has been with the present firm since its organiza- tion in 1918. Mr. Hamilton was married April 16, 1913, to Romaine Lewis, a daughter of Harry H. Lewis and wife of Lakeside, California. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton have an adopted son, a nephew of Mrs. Hamilton, Craig Junior Lewis.
S. E. Hamilton is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodman of America. C. D. Hamilton is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has filled the office of marshal of Bethany. The Hamilton family is prominent in Harrison County and both S. E. and C. D. Hamilton are enterprising and progressive business men.
J. H. Cuddy, a member of the firm of Cuddy & Dunn Department Store, is one of the enterprising and progressive business men of Bethany. The Cuddy name has been known in the annals of Harrison County for many years. David and Mary (Dunn) Cuddy, the parents of the present subject, were natives of Washington County, Virginia, where J. H. was born on July 13, 1875. Mary (Dunn) Cuddy died at Abington, Virginia, in 1904, at the age of seventy-two and David Cuddy died at the same place in 1912 at the age of eighty-three. The remains of both are buried in the Dunn fan- ily cemetery where M. S. McCulloch, great grandfather of the subject of this sketch, settled about 1800. His home, built about 1805, was one of the landmarks of the county as it was the first house thereabouts to have glass window panes.
J. H. Cuddy was educated at Abington. Virginia. He came to Bethany in 1896 and began to work in the store then known as the firm of Dunn Brothers & Company. This store is one of the pioneer mercantile houses of Harrison County. It was originally known as the McGeorge & Dunn store
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and was established in Bethany about 1868. Ever since that date the store under various firm names, has been a part of the development of Harrison County. The first firm was succeeded by the firm known as Dunn Brothers, and that firm was in turn succeeded in 1901 by Cuddy & Dunn. The present members of the firm are J. H. Cuddy, of this sketch ; H. W. Dunn, and W. T. Templeman. The present business, which consists of a complete stock of groceries, dry goods, clothing, shoes, gent's furnishings, and ladies' ready- to-wear goods, occupies two floors of the building on the southwest corner of the Square.
Mr. Cuddy was married May 17, 1911, in Bethany, to Eva Claytor, a daughter of William and Alice Claytor. Mrs. Cuddy was born in Bethany and was educated in the Bethany Public School. Mr. and Mrs. Cuddy have three children: Alice Jean, Mary Elizabeth and James Hyden.
Mr. Cuddy is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Bethany. Mr. Cuddy is well known in the county where he has a reputation for good citizenship and progressive business ideas.
H. W. Dunn, a member of the mercantile firm of Cuddy & Dunn De- partment Store, belongs to a family whose name has long been associated with mercantile interests in Bethany. The Dunn name has appeared in the firm title of the present store since the organization, in 1868, of the pioneer store of McGeorge & Dunn. Robert H. Dunn, father of the subject of this sketch, came to Harrison County in 1869, and settled in Bethany where he was a member of the mercantile firm of Dunn Brothers, the successors of McGeorge & Dunn. He is now retired and lives in Bethany after a mercantile career of nearly fifty years.
H. W. Dunn was born at Bethany, September 27, 1883, the son of Robert H. and Clara B. (Blackburn) Dunn, both still living in Bethany. Mr. Dunn was educated in the public schools of Harrison County and has been in business here since his boyhood. He was reared in the midst of mercantile pursuits and worked for the firm in which he is now a partner. until 1918, when he became a firm member. His environment and training fitted him well for his present work in which he is making a marked suc- cess.
Mr. Dunn was married to Faye Sutton, April 27, 1910. Mrs. Dunn is a daughter of Henry G. and Gertrude (Thomas) Sutton of Bethany. Mrs. Sutton died September 27, 1920, and her remains are buried in Beth-
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any. Mr. Sutton is a contractor in Bethany. Mrs. Dunn received her edu- cation in the schools of Bethany and later attended school in Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Dunn have one daughter, Maxine Roberta.
Mr. Dunn is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Bethany and of the Chapter and is a Knights Templar, Order of Royal and Select Masters, and the Shrine in St. Joseph, Missouri. Mr. Dunn is one of the group of alert business men who are helping build up standards of good citizenship and progressive business methods in Bethany. He de- servedly stands high in the estimation of his community.
James B. Manifold, a well known ex-sheriff of Harrison County and now with the S. A. Evans Implement and Farm Machinery firm, was born in Wayne County, Indiana, July 26, 1866, the son of Moses and Mary E. (Walker) Manifold.
Moses Manifold and his family settled in Iowa in 1868, later moving to Cherokee County, Kansas, where they remained for six years. They came to Harrison County, Missouri, in 1874, settling first at Bethany and then in Bethany Township. Mr. Manifold purchased a farm in Jefferson Town- ship which he later sold and moved to Bethany, where he died February 22, 1913. He is buried in the Bethany Cemetery. His widow still lives in Bethany.
Moses and Mary E. (Walker) Manifold had the following children : James B., the subject of this review; Irene, now Mrs. James E. Barry of Albany, Missouri; and Jennie, the widow of Clarence Caldwell, Bethany, Missouri.
James B. Manifold received his early education in the Bethany Public Schools. Later he attended the Normal at Stanberry, Missouri, and the Normal at Chillicothe, Missouri. He was a teacher in Harrison County for seven years, teaching his first school west of Bethany and his last in the Star District. Mr. Mamfold has filled most successfully several offices to which his township and county have elected him. He was the clerk and assessor of Jefferson Township. He was the deputy sheriff of the county for eight years and, in November, 1906, his county showed its appreciation of his services by electing him sheriff. He was relected in 1908, this time for a four-year term. At the expiration of his term of office, Mr. Manı- fold entered the mercantile business in Bethany and continued in this work until four years ago when he took up his present work with the S. A. Evans firm.
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Mr. Manifold is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Knights of Pythias Lodge in Bethany. He is energetic and affable and deserves the success with which he has met.
Stanley M. Haas, a popular furniture dealer and undertaker of Beth- Any, Missouri, was born in Worth County, Missouri, September 7, 1872, the son of Henry and Martha J. (Frost) Haas.
Henry Haas is a native of Holmes County, Ohio, and his wife is a native of Sangamon County, Illinois. Mr. Haas was formerly a farmer but is now retired and lives in Bethany. To Henry and Martha J. (Frost) Haas the following children were born: Stanley M., the subject of this review; Stella E., now Mrs. Charles D. Neff of Fayette, Iowa, and W. H., a jeweler and optician of Bethany.
Stanley M. Haas received his education in the Normal at Stanberry, Missouri; Christian College at Albany, Missouri, and the State University at Columbia, Missouri. At the age of nineteen he began teaching school in the Ashland District in Harrison County, walking four and one-half miles back and forth to school and receiving $30 a month salary. He con- tinued teaching school for several years, first in Worth and Gentry count- ies and then in the Albany High School of which he was principal for several years. He was also the principal for one year of the Mound City High School.
Mr. Haas engaged in the furniture and undertaking business in Albany. Missouri, with H. W. Bare, using the firm name of H. W. Bare & Com- pany. Mr. Haas sold his interest in the company to Mr. Bare in 1908 and bought out the firm of Monson & Bonser in Bethany, Missouri. He has continued in this business to the present time. He is located on the west side of the Public Square. His building which was remodeled in 1920 is fifty by ninety feet and makes an excellent display room for his well-kept stock. Mr. Haas is a licensed embalmer and has all modern equipment for the conducting of funerals.
Mr. Haas was married June 15, 1898, to Minnie H. Bryant of Harrison County, a daughter of Henry O. and Lou (Chenoworth) Bryant, both de- ceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Haas the follownig children have been born: Thornton H., a graduate of the Bethany High school and now at work with his father; Martha Louise, at home; Stella Pauline, at home, and Mel- vin Bryant, at home.
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Mr. Haas belongs to the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Bethany Chapter and Bethany Commandery; The Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows; the Patriarch Militant, and the Knights of Pythias Lodge. He is an elder in the Christian Church in Bethany and has served for a number of years on the local Board of Education which position he still holds. Mr. Haas is an estimable and upright citizen and well merits the success which he has attained.
William H. Bales, a well know retired farmer of 603 North Twenty- second street, Bethany, Missouri, was born in Monroe County, Indiana, May 23, 1840, the son of James and Miranda J. (Neal) Bales. Mr. and Mrs. James Bales came to Harrison County in 1880, and settled in Butler Township. Mr. Bales died at Spickard, Missouri, and his wife then made her home with her son and daughter Mrs. Betsey Williams near Beth- any, until her death.
Mr. and Mrs. James Bales were the parents of the following children : Betsey Jane, was the wife of Mathias Williams, and is now deceased; Abigail Chitwood, deceased; Mrs. Rachel Richardson, deceased; William H., the subject of this sketch; Stephen, Nancy Goodman, Bloomington, Indiana; Susan Richardson, Unionville, Indiana; Martha and Tarlton Bales, deceased; and Celia Grimm, who now lives in Indiana.
William H. Bales enlisted for service in the Civil War, August 21, 1862, in Company I, 59th Indiana Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was with Sherman, and in the Battle of Atlanta, Corinth, Mississippi and many skirmishes. At the close of the war, Mr. Bales returned to Indiana, and, in 1867, came to Clay County, Missouri and later settled in Ray County, Missouri. In 1869, he came to Harrison County Missouri settled in Butler Township, where he purchased 140 acres, which he later sold and bought 160 acres in Cypress Township, and later added several acres to this tract. Mr. Bales was a very successful farmer, but moved to Bethany, in March, 1904, and bought his present home seven years ago. This place consists of six acres and is well improved.
Mr. Bales was married March 15, 1867, to Polly Ann Roberts of Hendricks County, Indiana. She died in October, 1871. Mr. and Mrs. Bales were the parents of the following children: Eliza Jane, deceased; Oliver H., who was born June 15, 1869, and now lives in Albany, Mis- souri.
WILLIAM H. BALES
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Mr. Bales was married the second time to Miss Margaret E. Mat- kins of Butler Township, and they were the parents of the following children: Leota, wife of Wm. H. Cox, Cypress Township; William Logan of Wray, Colorado; Walter J. of Bethany, Missouri; Nora B., deceased ; Thomas of St. Joseph, Missouri; Mrs. Cordie M. Davis, deceased; and James H., who died at Albany, Missouri.
Mr. Bales was married a third time March 16, 1911 to Susie (Good- night) Stock, a daughter of A. J. and Mary A. (Wilson) Goodnight, both of whom are deceased, and are buried near Mt. Moriah, Missouri. By a former marriage of Mrs. Bales to Wiliam W. Stock, she had two children: Zella Ruth, the wife of Harry Taff, of Concordia, Kansas; and Mabel Orvice, the wife of William T. Coots.
Mr. Bales is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, at Bethany, Missouri, and has many friends in this city and throughout the county.
S. A. Evans, a popular dealer in implements and farm machinery in Bethany, Missouri, was born in Tonganoxie, Leavenworth County, Kansas, September 11, 1871, the son of Lemuel and Ellen J. (Lash) Evans.
Lemuel Evans settled in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1854, and his wife, with her parents, came to the same place in 1856. When the Civil War broke out Lemuel Evans enlisted at Lawrence as a member of the First Kansas Troop of Infantry. He was wounded at the Battle of Wilson Creek the same day that General Lyons was killed, August 10, 1861, and carried the ball which wounded him in his head to the day of his death. Because of his wound, he was discharged from the army. He took up the vocation of farming and continued this work for several years when he engaged in the real estate business in which work he remained for the last thirty years of his life. He died January 22, 1921, and is buried at Tonganoxie, Kansas, where his widow still lives.
To Lemuel Evans and Ellen J. (Lash) Evans the following children were born: S. A., the subject of this sketch ; J. W., now in the real estate business at Tonganoxie, Kansas; a daughter, now Mrs. Ivan Secrest, of Tonganoxie, Kansas, and L. F., now living in Salesia, Montana.
S. A. Evans received his education in the public grammar school of Tonganoxie and in the Friends Academy at the same place. He followed the vocation of farming until he was twenty-six years old when he went into the implement business at Tonganoxie, remaining in this business
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until 1912. In 1913 he bought the Moore & Boatman stock of implements and farm machinery at Bethany, Missouri, and has continued in this loca- tion ever since. He carries a complete line of goods, handling the machin- ery of the International Harvester Company and the John Deere Company.
S. A. Evans was married September 12, 1894, to Etta Anderson, a daughter of C. D. and Mary (Rice) Anderson, of Tonganoxie, Kansas. Mrs. Evans and her parents were natives of New York. C. D. Anderson and his wife both died in Tonganoxie, and are buried in the Tonganoxie Cemetery.
S. A. Evans and Etta (Anderson) Evans have two children: Edna, now Mrs. Lloyd N. Brown, a sketch of whom appears in this volume; and Wilma, now a student in Junior High School.
Mr. Evans is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Tonganoxie, Kansas; of the Chapter and Commandry at Bethany and the Council at Chillicothe, Missouri; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Bethany ; the Knights of Pythias Encampment at Bethany and the Modern Woodman of America at Bethany.
Mr. Evans is a progressive and reliable citizen, always ready to further the civic interests of his town and standing high in the esteem of his fellow citizens.
William McCulloch Dunn, merchant for nearly fifty years in Bethany, Missouri, and now living retired but still connected with the Harrison County Bank, was born in Washington County, Virginia, January 9, 1839.
His early environment was that of a farm boy, his father being a small planter and he grew up with the other children in the rural districts of Old Virginia. He attended the old Field Schools of Virginia and the build- ing he knew as a school house was constructed of logs with better than ordinary furnishings and equipment. Here he gleaned a knowledge of geography, grammar, history, and physics and thus acquired sufficient knowledge to qualify him as a teacher.
Shortly after he reached manhood the war between the States began, and in 1861 he enlisted for service and for four years was a member of the Southern Army, battling for the Confederacy. He was commissioned captain, quartermaster and paymaster. He was assigned to the Thirty- sixth Virginia Regiment of Infantry, which regiment was a part of the Army of Northern Virginia, but his service was in West Virginia and the Mississippi Valley. In 1861 he was in his first battle at Gauley, under the command of General Floyd. He was also present at Cloyd's Farm and
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other minor engagements. In the early part of 1862 he was with the troops concentrated along the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers and was under the command of Floyd at Fort Donelson. Just before the surrender of that fort, he and his command escaped by boat up the Tennessee River and he went on the same boat with Generals Pillow and Floyd. He later saw service under Jubal A. Earley up and down the Shenandoah Valley and was at the battles of Winchester, Cedar Creek and was captured at Waynesboro but managed to escape a short time later, leaving all his per- sonal belongings, even to his tooth brush. He walked across the country to Lynchburg and then joined Breckenridge's command. Toward the end of the war his regiment was at Christianburg on its way to Petersburg and Richmond to join Lee's army when the command was disbanded, the commander being General John B. Echols. Mr. Dunn saw service the en- tire four years of the war. He was never wounded and was acting quarter- master of a brigade when the war closed.
After the war Mr. Dunn taught one term of school in Virginia and then came west to Bethany, Missouri. He traveled by rail to Chillicothe, Missouri, and by stage the remainder of the way. Bethany at that time was a town of several hundred people. Mr. Dunn clerked one year for H. M. Cuddy and a little later became a partner. A year later he bought an interest in the firm of Munson & McGeorge and for several years the firm of McGeorge & Dunn had a large trade. Mr. McGeorge sold out to Robert H. Dunn, a brother of William M. and the firm became William M. Dunn & Brother. Later a nephew, W. F. Cuddy, came into the firm and it was then reorganized as Dunn Brothers & Company. Mr. Dunn retired from the firm in 1902 and has since been engaged with his private interests.
William M. Dunn was married in 1870 to Miss Desdemona Munson. daughter of Thomas Munson, who came to Missouri from Kentucky. Mrs. Dunn died in 1874, leaving a son, William Victor, who for a time was asso- ciated with his father in business. Later he went to Kansas City, Missouri. where he was a successful real estate dealer and where he died March 12, 1907. William Victor Dunn married Louisa Morrison, who now lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with her son, Stewart William Victor Dunn.
Mr. Dunn comes of an old Virginia family of Scotch Irish stock and. besides his record as a Confederate soldier, the descendants are entitled to inembership in the patriotic societies that commemorate service in the Co- lonial and Revolutionary wars. His grandfather, William Dunn, came from Ireland and founded the family in Virginia and was a soldier in the Revolu-
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tion. His children were: William, John, Dr. Samuel, Mary, who married Caleb Logan; Katie, who married Shaw Logan; Lydia, who married Jonas Smith. All except the subject of this review spent their lives in Virginia.
John Dunn, father of William M. Dunn, was born in Washington County, Virginia, and died there in 1845. He married Mary McCulloch, a daughter of Robert McCulloch and a grand-daughter of Thomas McCul- loch. The McCulloch family came from Scotland. Thomas McCulloch was a Colonial soldier during the Revolution and was killed at Kings Mountain. Robert McCulloch married Sarah Clark. Mary (McCulloch) Dunn died in Virginia when nearly eighty-six years of age. She was a member of the Methodist Church. Her children were: Mary, who married David Cuddy and spent her life in Virginia; Theophilus, now deceased was a soldier in the Thirty-seventh Virginia Infantry during the war and was wounded in the Battle of Kernstown, under Stonewall Jackson. For many years after the war he was a merchant in Virginia. He came to Gilman, Mis- souri, in 1904 and died there in January 1918.
The other children of Mary (McCulloch) Dunn were: William M., of this sketch; Robert H., of Bethany, and John F., who was a Confederate soldier and is now a farmer in Washington County, Virginia.
Mr. Dunn is a democrat and is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge.
W. T. Lingle, the efficient manager of the Bethany Mill & Elevator Company, was born in Cameron, Missouri, June 13, 1877, the son of E. Y. and Mary (Cline) Lingle. E. Y. Lingle was born near Wauseon, Ohio, where he grew to manhood. He enlisted for service in the Union Army during the Civil War, serving in an Ohio company. Soon after the close of the war, he came to Missouri and settled at Cameron where he operated a mill. He had learned the trade of miller in Ohio and continued in that work all of his life. He left Cameron and came to Bethany where he operated the mill now managed by his son. He was married in Cameron to Mary Cline, a native of Pennsylvania. She lives in Bethany ; her husband died in 1911 and is buried in the Pythian Cemetery at Bethany.
W. T. Lingle received his education in Missouri Wesleyan College at Cameron and in Kansas Wesleyan College at Salina, Kansas. He was trained in the milling business by his father with whom he worked for some time. He took over the Bethany Mill & Elevator management, suc- ceeding his father several years ago. This mill is located in West Beth-
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any on the site of the first mill ever built in the town. It is an historic spot in the annals of the commerce of Bethany. In the early days wool was carded here, and later on a saw mill was operated on this site for many years. The present mill was formerly run by McClures and was later taken over by E. Y. Lingle. The mill has a capacity of 100 bushels per day, grinding both wheat and corn. The "Daylight Flour," a very popular brand, is made here. The mill also makes a white corn meal which is proving un- usually satisfactory.
W. T. Lingle was married in 1907 to Emma Jennings who was born and reared in Bethany. Mr. and Mrs. Lingle have one daughter, Bedonna, and one son, Elmore.
Mr. Lingle is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Bethany. He has served two terms on the council of Bethany and has been the secretary of the Harrison County Fair since its organization in 1915. Mr. Lingle is a good business man who merits and has the esteem of his fellow citizens.
A. C. Flint, one of the capable proprietors of the Crossan Motor Com- pany, of Bethany, Missouri, was born in Bethany. December 7, 1887, the son of A. H. and Ida (Miller) Flint, both living in Bethany, where Mr. Flint conducts a grocery store.
A. C. Flint is one of the energetic and popular young business men of Harrison County. He was educated in the Bethany Public Schools and when only twenty-three years old was honored by his county with the election to the office of sheriff. He was the youngest man ever elected to that office in the State. He served from 1912 to 1916 and then went into the automobile business in partnership with L. M. Crossan, which business relationship continues to the present time.
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