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the place modern and convenient. The Jefferson Highway runs along the east and south lines of the farm.
Mr. Montgomery was married December 25, 1895, to Laura Lowrey, a daughter of Greene and Ruth (Williams) Lowrey, both deceased. Mrs. Montgomery was born in Daviess County, Missouri, near Pattonsburg, where she was reared and educated.
Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery have three children: Winne, a teacher in the high school, at Tuscon, Arizona, and who was graduated from the Wolcott College at Denver in 1918, and from the University of Arizona in 1921; George W., a graduate of the Pattonsburg, Missouri, High School, and who attended the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1920 and who has been specializing in agriculture at Tuscon, Arizona for the past year; and Opal, who was graduated from the county schools this year and is now a student at Florence, Arizona ; and Ina, who died in infancy.
Mr. Montgomery is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Bethany, and has filled the offices on the township board. He is one of the county's most substantial citizens and the Montgomery family is representative of the best citizenship. Mrs. and Mr. Montgomery are members of the Presbyterian Church.
Dr. Ernest Logan Wood, a well known osteopath of Bethany, Mis- souri, and proprietor of Wood Hospital, 330 North Twenty-second Street, was born near Lyons, Kansas, July 17, 1886, the son of Rev. Eli T. and Ora (Bartlett) Wood. Rev. Wood was a Methodist minister and class leader for seventeen years in the church of the county. He was born November 12, 1860, and died June 12, 1913. The Wood family came to Harrison County about the year 1892. John N. Wood, father of Rev. Eli T. Wood, was a veteran of the Civil War and was wounded while in service, being shot through the lung. He was a resident of this county for many years and late in life moved to Kansas, where he died.
Dr. Ernest Logan Wood was educated in the public schools, Bethany High School, and spent four years at the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, graduating in June, 1921. Both Dr. Wood and wife took special hospital work while there in addition to the regular course.
Eva Electa Foster Wood, the wife of Dr. Ernest Logan Wood, was born in Sherman Township, a daughter of John L. and Victoria A. (Dale) Foster. The latter lives in Ridgeway, Missouri, and the former died July
MAXINE WOOD
DR. ERNEST L. WOOD
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DRS. WOOD AND WOOD HOSPITAL, BETHANY, MO.
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3, 1921, and is buried at Dale Cemetery. Thomas Foster, grandfather of Mrs. Wood, was a pioneer of Sherman Township, settling here in 1853. Eva Electra Wood was edeucated in the common schools and Ridgeway High School. She attended a teachers' normal at Bethany and taught school in this countp for six years, after which she attended the Ameri- can School of Osteopathy, and was graduated in June, 1921, with the degree of Doctor of Osteopathy.
Dr. and Mrs. Wood were married at Ridgeway, Missouri, August 14, 1907, and they have a daughter, Maxine.
Wood Hospital of Bethany, Missouri, was opened for business August 1, 1921. The building is of brick and consists of twenty-four rooms, and was formerly owned by Davis Johnson of Bethany, Missouri. Doctors Wood and Wood purchased the building in September, 1920, and remod- eled it in June, 1921. The building is three stories high and fronts the beautiful Allen Park. The spacious yard, interspersed with native trees is a delight to the eye, as seen from the veranda on the front.
Wood Hospital is up to date in every respect and modern throughout. There is a special room for obstetrical cases, major and minor operations, and a room is being fitted for all kinds of cast work. This hospital is a long felt need for the people of this county, and Doctors Wood and Wood are thorough in every detail of its management, and well qualified and fitted for their position. Dr. George Laughlin of Kirksville, Missouri, a son-in-law of the founder of osteopathy, will do major operations for Wood Hospital at any time. He is considered the leading surgeon of the West, and out of 900 cases in 1921, he lost but three.
The Wood Hospital is one of the important institutions of Harrison County.
James B. Slemmons, an enterprising member of the firm of Slemmons and Walker, of Bethany, Missouri, was born in Plattsburg, Clinton County, Missouri, August 3, 1869, the son of Beverly T. and Nancy J. (Burr) Slemmons, both of whom died in King City, Missouri, and are buried there. Mr. Slemmons received his education in the public schools and entered the mercantile business September 1, 1890 and has been engaged in this line of work continuously since that time.
Mr. Slemmons was married September 1, 1892 to Mollie J. Walker and they have a daughter Lucille, now a teacher in Bloomfield, Iowa. She was educated at Lake Forest. Chicago, Illinois and at Grinnell College, in Iowa, specializing in English which she teaches.
Mr. Slemmons is a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge.
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John H. Flint, an extensive and successful farmer and stock raiser of Cypress Township, was born in Bethany Township, December 18, 1867, the son of Joseph Flint and wife. Joseph Flint died in Bethany Township and is buried at Antioch. He was a member of the Home Guards during the Civil War. His wife died in 1879 and is also buried at Antioch. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Flint were the parents of the following children : Mary, the wife of William Linthacum of Sherman Township; Thomas and J. H., of Cypress Township. By a second marriage of Joseph Flint to Martha Hilton, he had six children, as follows: Anna, the wife of Charles Huff of Coffey; Missouri; Mrs. Katie Boyles, deceased; George, of Oklahoma; Charles, of St. Joseph; Alice, the wife of Legrand Burris, and Effie Shaw, deceased.
J. H. Flint was educated in the public school, and after finishing his education, he rented land, prior to buying his home about 1901, from New- ton Rucker. He now owns 280 acres of well improved land in Cypress Township, and does general farming and feeds hogs extensively.
Mr. Flint was married March 1, 1893, to Ellen Foster, a daughter of Samuel and Mary A. (Smith) Foster. Samuel Foster was a veteran of the Civil War, enlisting from Arkansas in the Union Army, and he served three years in the Second Arkansas Infantry. He died November 13, 1910, and is buried at Antioch Church, and his wife is now living at the age of ninety years, near Antioch Church in Sherman Township.
Mr. and Mrs. Foster were the parents of the following children: Sarah Harvey, of Bethany Township; Thomas, of St. Joseph, Missouri; George. of Daviess County ; Mrs. Flint ; and Samuel, on the home place in Sherman Township. Mrs. Flint was born in Sherman Township and educated there.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Flint are the parents of six sons : Joseph H., a World War veteran, who enlisted December 1, 1917, at St. Louis, Missouri, in the aviation corps and was sent to Champaign, Illinois, where he was in training three months, and then to Rantoul, Illinois, field. and for nine months he was commissioned second lieutenant and kept there as an in- tructor until the war closed. He returned home December 17, 1918, and is now a teacher of vocational agriculture at Maysville, Missouri. He was married December 27, 1920, to Mabel Thurston.
Walker Flint enlisted in the United States Army for the World War, October 3, 1917, at Camp Funston, and was then sent to Newport News, Virginia, where he was with the veterinary corps, and saw sixteen months' service before returning home, February 1, 1919. He married Mabel Utterback, April 16, 1920.
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Fred and Claude Flint were in the S. A. T. C. at Fulton, Missouri, for four months during the World War.
Doyle and Victor Flint live at home.
Mr. J. H. Flint has served on the school board here for more than fif- teen years. He and his family are highly respected citizens and stand high in Harrison County.
Oliver P. Tilley, a leading and prosperous farmer of Cypress Town- ship, and president of the Harrison County Farm Bureau, and of the Fed- eral Farm Loan Association, and also of the Harrison County Dairy Asso- ciation, is a member of a pioneer family of this county, and was born in Butler Township, August 18, 1862, the son of Sanford M. and Lydia Salmon Tilley, both deceased, and a sketch of whom appears in this volume.
Oliver P. Tilley was educated in the public schools of the county and has made his own way in life since thirteen years of age. He now owns the Hard Scrabble Dairy Farm, seven miles southwest of Bethany, which consists of 360 acres, and which is one of the finest farms of the county. He bought his first 100 acres about the year 1885, when twenty-one years of age. Prior to this, he owned a farm in Dakota, which he sold when he came here. The Hard Scrabble Farm is well improved with modern house, equipped with gas, both lights and furnace; large barn for horses and a cow barn, and poultry houses, and a second set of improvements on the farm, consisting of good residence, barn and poultry houses, are used by Ray J. Tilley.
Oliver Tilley raises registered pure bred Jersey cattle, registered Du- roc Jersey hogs, certified white Leghorn poultry and breeds the Reid's yel- low dent corn. He sells cream through the Dairy Association, and this farm is the only one doing official testing for official merit test. Oliver Tilley assisted in organizing the Harrison County Dairy Association and has been its president since 1910. He also assisted in organizing the Har- rison County Farm Bureau in 1918, and the county has had a county agent since 1919. The Federal Farm Loan Association is the largest in the state of Missouri and Mr. Tilley is its president, and was the prime organizer of this association here. Mr. Tilley also helped organize the Harrison County Fair and has been on the board ever since. Besides his numerous other duties, Mr. Tilley made the race for county judge on the Bull Moose ticket in 1912 and has been prominent in the Republican party.
In November, 1880, Mr. Tilley was married to Lizzie Davis, a daughter
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of W. M. Davis and wife. Mrs. Tilley died in 1887, leaving five children: Daisy, the wife of Lloyd Atwood, of Darlington, Missouri ; Fred, of Bethany, Missouri; J| Ross, of Idaho; Arthur, who died at the age of twelve years; and Goldie, who died in infancy. Mr. Tilley married a second time January 1, 1890, to Bertha M. Brown, a daughter of James T. and Mary Brown, both deceased. Mr. Brown was a farmer in Bethany Township, and was a prominent horseman of this county.
By his second marriage, Mr. Tilley has the following children: Ray J., who is engaged in farming and stock raising in Cypress Township; Hoyt G., a professor of vocational agriculture at Mound City, Missouri, and a graduate of the Missouri University in class of 1920, and who received his degree in the same class with General John J. Pershing and General Crowd- er, the latter receiving degrees on account of their distinction, married Pauline Abbott of Columbia; Ruby Coral, a graduate of Bethany High School, and who spent one year at school in Valparaiso, Indiana; Doris Olive, a sophomore at the Missouri University, and who is a graduate of Bethany High School; Geraldine, a junior in the Bethany High School; and Oliver Pierce, a freshman in the Bethany High School.
Hoyt G. served seven months on the Mexican Border, having been called out with the National Guards August 5, 1917, and was at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, until January, 1918, and then went east for special training in aerial photography. He spent three months at New York City in Colum- bia University, three months at Sacketts Harbor, three months with the Eastman Kodak people; three months at Cornell University and was must- ered out in Texas, February 5, 1919. The picture in the book of the Harri- son County Fair was taken by Hoyt G. Tilley.
S. A. Dale, a progressive and well known farmer of Grant Township, was born in Bethany Township, May 7, 1858, the son of T. J. and Lecta (Fuller) Dale.
T. J. Dale was the son of Alfred Dale, a native of Virginia, who came with his family to Harrison County in the early forties and settled near Bethany, where he followed the vocation of farming and where he died. His son, T. J. Dale, was a soldier in the Union Army in the Civil War, and died at the age of twenty-four in Lexington, Missouri, from typhoid fever. Lecta (Fuller) Dale was born near Cleveland, Ohio, and died in 1917 at the age of eighty. After the death of her first husband, she
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married Uriah Hallack, the father of Hyman Hallack of Grant Township. A sketch of Hyman Hallack appears in this volume.
The children of T. J. and Lecta (Fuller) Dale were: S. A., the subject of this review; Victoria, married John L. Foster of Ridgeway, Missouri; and Ella E., married B. O. Coleman and died in Oklahoma.
S. A. Dale was reared in Sherman Township, Harrison County, and received his education in the Hickory School in Sherman Township and the Harmony School in Bethany Township. He began to farm when a young man, first renting land, and then buying 120 acres in Grant Town- ship for which he paid $480, paying eighty dollars at the time of the pur- chase and the remainder with in a few years. He later sold this land and bought another farm and now owns 250 acres. He has a ten room, attractive residence with modern equipment. He also has a good barn and other good farm building. Mr. Dale does general farming and raises Durham cattle and Poland China hogs. He is accounted one of the suc- cessful farmers in the county.
S. A. Dale was married to Lucy A. McGee, October 9, 1885. Mrs. Dale was a native of Kentucky, a daughter of T. J. McGee, now deceased. Mrs. Dale came to Missouri with her parents when she was fourteen, and lived here the remainder of her life. She died in 1900. To S. A. and Lucy A. (McGee) Dale the following children were born: V. E., now a farmer and stockman in Sherman Township; Orrie, married Oscar Coleman and lives in Pratt County, Kansas; Iva, married Dock Cotrell, and lives in Daviess County, near Gilman City ; June, now living at home and keep- ing house for her father; and Ruth, a graduate of the Bethany High School, later a teacher, and now a student in the State Teachers College in Kirksville, Missouri.
Mr. Dale is a democrat and a member of the Christian Church. He is one of the substantial and reliable citizens of Harrison County.
Ray J. Tilley, son of Oliver P. Tilley, is a successful farmer and stock- man of Cypress Township. He is a graduate of the Grand Island Business College at Grand Island, Nebraska. He took a short course in agriculture at the Missouri University, and also took the long course for one year. For six years he worked at stenography, and worked his way through the University at Columbia.
During the World War Mr. Tilley was in the United States Navy for
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thirteen months. He enlisted December 5, 1917, and was mustered out January 11, 1919.
Ray J. Tilley made a special study at the University of Missouri, in the line of judging all grains and won the highest medal in grain judging. He also won the dairy judging prize at Sedalia State Fair in 1919, first for dairy cattle and second prize on mules.
Ray J. Tilley married Miss Iva Dell Grigsby of Fayette, Missouri. She is a daughter of Thomas J. and Eliza Grigsby. To Mr. and Mrs. Tilley have been born one daughter, Margaret Ethalyn.
Mr. Tilley is a progressive young man and is widely and favorably known.
E. M. Hill and Son, B. H. Hill, well known and successful proprietors of a general merchandise and grocery store at Blue Ridge have been in business here since 1897, although E. M. Hill has been retired for the past four years and his son is the active manager.
E. M. Hill was married in 1888 in West Virginia to Lou Rayburn, who was born and reared in Mason County, Virginia, and who was a daughter of Griffin and Mary (Morehead) Rayburn. Griffin Rayburn was a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted in the Union Army from Mason County, Virginia. He and his wife both died in that county and are buried there. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have four children: May, the wife of S. J. Gutshall of Adams Township; B. H. of Adams Township; Bell, the wife of G. L. Taggart of Sherman Township; and Wilbur D., who died in infancy.
During the Civil War, E. M. Hill enlisted in Company H. 53rd O. V. V., on November 25, 1861, and, before he was sixteen years of age, was in the battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, and, in this battle, he was wounded in the right leg. He was mustered out August 25, 1865, after three years and nine months of service, and, while in the war, participated in sixty seven engagements. Out of the entire regiment to which Mr. Hill belonged, there were but thirteen living when the last reunion was held in Columbus, Ohio.
E. M. Hill, came to Harrison County, Missouri, in 1872 and engaged in farming, and returned to Virginia in 1888 where he married, having known his wife from childhood.
Mr. Hill has also found time, aside from his business affairs, to take an interest in the affairs of his township and has very capably filled the
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office of township assessor of Sugar Creek Township. He was formerly a member of the G. A. R. at Bethany, Missouri. Mr. Hill is now living a retired life practically, although he has fifteen acres of land at Blue Ridge which he looks after.
B. H. Hill, manager of the store at Blue Ridge, was born in Sugar Creek Township, January 4, 1892, and was educated in the county schools, and prior to entering the mercantile business, he engaged in farming, and also hauled freight from Bethany to Blue Ridge for about ten years. He manages the store in a very efficient manner, and the business has grown materially in the last few years.
B. H. Hill was married March 28, 1915 to Edith Lee Baldwin of Gilman City. She was born in Gentry County, Missouri, a daughter of W. A. and Emma Baldwin, both of whom live at Bethany, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have two sons: Max Marvin and Roe Allen.
B. H. Hill is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Bethany. He has filled the office of tax collector for six years, and has been constable for about that length of time.
Vincle Abner Cummings. a successful and energetic citizen at Blue Ridge, Missouri, was born in White Oak Township November 10, 1889, the son of Henry and Melissa (Justice) Cummings, who now live at Avondale, Missouri.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cummings were born in Harrison County, Mis- souri, and are the parents of the following children: John, who died at the age of fourteen years; Vincle A., the subject of this sketch; Victor of Gilman, Missouri; Mella of Gilman, Missouri; Mary, the wife of Sanders Stewart of North Kansas City, Missouri; Ed of Gilman, Missouri; Cora of Kansas City, Missouri ; and Ceba of Avondale, Missouri.
Vincle A. Cummings was educated in the public schools of Burton and Brady districts, and in early manhood engaged in the saw mill busi- ness. Mr. Cummings located in Blue Ridge in 1912 and opened up a general repair shop in November, 1920. In addition to auto work and blacksmithing, he grinds feed and chop and also has an electric dynamo of 3000 watt capacity. Mr. Cummings has had a nice business since com- ing here, which continues to grow. He has the confidence of the people and has made many friends in this community.
Mr. Cummings was married in 1913 to Grace E. Cummings, a daugh-
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ter of John and Flora Cummings. Mrs. Cummings was reared near Blue Ridge and educated here. Her parents reside in Nebraska.
Mr. and Mrs. Cummings are the parents of five children: Mary Alice, Thelma May, Deloris, Maxine and Vincle, Jr.
He is a good mechanic and a progressive and enterprising citizen.
H. M. Tilley, deceased, a prominent and leading pioneer of Butler Township, was born August 28, 1860, the son of Sanford M. and Liddia (Salmon) Tilley. Sanford Tilley was born in North Carolina, January 24, 1827, and died April 19, 1916. When one year old, he moved to Cumber- land Gap, Virginia, and three months later, he moved to Monroe County, Indiana, with his parents, who remained there for eight years, when they moved to Illinois, and the next spring went to St. Louis, Missouri, and came up the Missouri River to Westport landing, finally locating in Platte County, Missouri, where they lived for eight years, at the end of which time, in 1845, they settled in Harrison County. In 1846, Sanford Tilley volunteered in the Mexican War, and served under Captain Salmon, grand- father of H. M. Tilley, deceased. He was in service for eighteen months, and upon his return from the army, was employed by the Government and drove a six-mule team to Fort Hall, Oregon. The next spring, he joined a company of men going to the gold fields of California, and, while there, he took sick and returned via Panama, walking across the present site of the canal, and took a ship for New Orleans. He walked home from St. Louis, arriving March 26, 1851.
Sanford Tilley married Liddia Salmon, a daughter of Captain Salmon, who was wounded in a battle with the Indians near Taos, New Mexico, and died as a result of his injuries.
Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Tilley were the parents of the following chil- dren: Martha Gibson, of Idaho; Oscar Tilley of Spencer, South Dakota; Anna Loomis, who died in Alberta, Canada, in 1920; O. P. Tilley of Cypress Township; Roy Tilley of Buffalo, Missouri ; Mrs. Dora Youngman of Butler Township; H. M., deceased, the subject of this sketch ; and Loraine, Luther and Clara, all of whom died in infancy. In addition to the ten children, Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Tilley had fifty-eight grandchildren and thirty-two great-grandchildren, eighty-nine of whom were living at the time of his death in 1916. Sanford Tilley's grandfather, David Tilley, was in the Revolutionary War, and his father was in the War of 1812. Sanford Tilley was in the Missouri State Militia as well as in the Mexican War.
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H. M. Tilley was educated in the public schools of the county, and at the age of fourteen years, went west and was gone for about eight years, during which time he was a cowboy and Government freighter. He re- turned to Harrison County at the age of twenty-three years, and was married September 21, 1884, to Emma F. Brown, a daughter of James T. and Mary (Sackman) Brown. James Brown died September 12, 1915, and his wife died in January, 1908, and they are buried in Burris Cemetery. James Brown and wife were married in Schuyler County, Illinois, and located in Harrison County, Missouri, in 1865, in Bethany Township. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Tilley ; Mrs. O. P. Tilley of Cypress Township; Mrs. Cora Allen of Gentryville, Missouri ; George L. Brown of St. Joseph, Missouri ; Julius and John Brown, deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Tilley were the parents of four children: William San- ford, who was born July 1, 1885, and who has been operating the home farm for six years, and for three years previous was in the Western States, and while at Grand Junction, Colorado, lost an arm in a railroad wreck, while working for the D. R. G. Railroad; May G., born December 7, 1887, the wife of Walter Atterberry of Butler Township; George Mer- ton, born April 8, 1889, of Welch, Okla., who married Clara Goldsberry; Frances Herbert, born January 28, 1891, and died August 28, 1892; and Argil, born September 25, 1893, and who married Artie Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Tilley also reared Myra Brown, now the wife of Clifford Burris of Bethany Township.
Emma F. (Brown) Tilley, wife of H. M. Tilley, was educated in sub- scription and public schools of this county. H. M. Tilley and wife moved to her present home November, 1892. Mr. Tilley owned 174 acres of finely improved land, which was thoroughly adapted to dairying. He raised the registered Holstein cattle and Duroc Jersey hogs, and also fed stock extensively. He was a member of the Woodmen of the World, and the Yeoman lodges, and also a member of the Bethany Commercial Club. Mr. Tilley was a man of progressive attributes and a leader for things of public merit.
Paul Tilley, a nephew of H. M. Tilley, was reared by H. M. Tilley and wife, and he won the silver cup and two gold medals for the best five acres of corn grown in the state in 1921, the corn being grown on the Tilley farm in Butler Township.
William S. and Argil Tilley are specializing in corn breeding in Reed's yellow dent corn. Mrs. Tilley raises the English sngle comb White Leg-
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horn chickens and, in 1919, sold $800.00 worth of eggs, and almost as many in 1920.
Argil Tilley owns and operates a farm of 120 acres in Butler Town- ship, formerly the home of his great grandfather, who entered the land in 1846. He was educated in the public schools and has been engaged in farming and stock raising all of his life. He moved to his present farm in 1916, and has lived here ever since. Prior to coming here, in July, 1914, he enlisted in the National Guards and was with Company G on their trip to the Mexican border, and was in service for two and one-half years, and was mustered out October 12, 1916.
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