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Mr. Shroyer is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Bethany, joining when eighteen years of age, having a special permit on account of being a musician. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias at Bethany, and a member of the National Association of Musical Merchants, since its organization in 1914.
Mr. Shroyer is well and favorably known in Bethany, and takes an interest in the affairs of his town.
N. B. Williams, an enterprising citizen of Gilman City, and efficient cashier of the Gilman Bank, was born near Blue Ridge, December 7, 1871, the son of D. N. and Ruth (Newell) Williams. D. N. Williams was a native of New York, but reared in Ohio, and came to Missouri just after the Civil War and owned a farm in Adams Township, where he died in 1895. He is buried at Fairview Cemetery. His wife was born in Ohio and died in 1900.
Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Williams were the parents of the following chil- dren : B. F., of Gilman; Mrs. Elizabeth Young, deceased; Mrs. Viola Fair, Chandler, Oklahoma; T. L., of Daviess County ; Luella Welden, deceased ; Mrs. Nettie Wagoner, widow of John Wagoner, of Bethany; and N. B .. the subject of this sketch.
N. B. Williams was educated in the public schools and at Stanberry Normal School, from which institution he was graduated, and following
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his graduation, he engaged in farming for a while, and then operated a hotel at Gilman, and under Roosevelt's administration was postmaster for five years. He was then with W. T. Dunn and Company in a general store at Gilman, and has been connected with the Gilman Bank since November, 1910, and since that time the bank has shown excellent growth.
The Gilman Bank was organized in 1897 with a capital stock of $10,000.00, with Frank Vincil as cashier. Later J. B. Markey was presi- dent and H. C. Honan cashier, and following them were W. J. Wilden, president, and Charlie Burrell, cashier. These officers were succeeded by the present officers, who are as follows: F. B. Ray, president; C. A. Spruger, vice-president; N. B. Williams, cashier ; J. H. Cutshall, assistant cashier; and Helen Doherty, assistant cashier. The present capital stock is $25,000.00, with surplus of $15,000.00, and $17,000 of undivided profits. The bank owns its building, a brick structure 25x100 feet.
Mr. Williams was married December 25, 1900, to L. Etta Bogue, a daughter of Jonah and Nancy Bogue, of Gilman, Missouri. Mrs. Williams is a native of this county and a prominent teacher here at the time of her marriage.
Mr. Williams is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Gilman.
T. A. Doherty, a well known and enterprising druggist of Gilman City, Missouri, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1864, and came to America in 1870 with his parents, T. A. and Helen Margaret (Grant) Doherty, who settled first in Chicago, where Mr. Doherty engaged in blacksmithing for a few years. He then moved to Elkhart, Indiana, where T. A. Doherty attended school. He learned the drug business at Belleville, Kansas, with his brother, and was there for about fifteen years prior to locating here. He bought his present store in 1913, and has one of the fine businesses of this county. He carries a full line of drugs, paints, wall paper, druggist sundries ,toilet articles, etc., and has done a very successful business.
Mr. Doherty was married in 1890 to Mary A. Horan, of Jackson, Michigan. She died in 1899 at Trenton, Missouri, leaving a son and daughter: Helen M., with the Gilman Bank, a graduate of the Belleville, Kansas, High School; and Charles G., a graduate of the Gilman High School, and who is in business with his father. He enlisted at St. Joseph, Missouri, May 1, 1917, for service in the World War, and was sent first
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to Fort Riley, Kansas, in June, 1917, and to Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, later, where he remained until he sailed for France in May, 1918, with the Thirty-fifth Division. He was in the battles of Alsace Front, Geraden- ner, France, at St. Mihiel, Argonne, Verdun, and was on the Metz front when the armistice was signed. He was discharged at Camp Funston in May, 1919, with more than two years' service to his credit. He says that his finest job at Camp Funston was when guarding the lumber piles before the building was done. Charles Doherty attended the Kansas University for one year. He passed the Missouri Board of Pharmacy November 5, 1919, he having learned the drug business in Belleville, Kansas, with his father. Besides Charles Doherty, the following boys from Gilman were with the Thirty-fifth Division: Mark Reilly; Jesse D. Lowe, who was wounded; Floyd Smith; James Ivan Ray, who was wounded, and Carl George.
Dr. W. T. Doherty, brother of T. A. Doherty, who is city physician at Wichita, Kansas, was overseas with the Eighty-ninth Division. While in France he was gassed. He now has charge of the Public Health Service at Dallas, with rank of major, and is still in the Medical Corps.
Edmund J. Dorney, a nephew of T. A. Doherty, of Gilman, was with the Third Division in France, also trained at Camp Funston, and was gassed while in service. He was in the battles of Argonne and Chateau Thierry.
Hugh F. Reilly, a prominent business man of Harrison County, Mis- souri, was born in Warren County, Ohio, March 22, 1860, the son of Thomas and Mary (Reilly) Reilly.
Thomas and Mary (Reilly) Reilly were both born in County Meath. Ireland, and were married there. They came to the United States about 1848 and settled first in Ohio, coming to Harrison County, Missouri, in 1866. They settled first in Adams Township for one year, then moved near Edinburgh, and finally to Blue Ridge. Mr. Reilly died at Blue Ridge in 1901 at the age of ninety-three; his wife still lives in Gilman City and is now ninety-seven years old. The children of Thomas and Mary (Reilly) Reilly were: Patrick, who died in 1882; James, now living in Saline County, Missouri ; Ella, deceased in 1874; Anna, married to Hugh Markey, of Gil- man City; Hugh F., the subject of this sketch; Michael, now living in Gilman City; and Lizzie, the widow of Robert Thomas, Springfield, Missouri.
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Hugh F. Reilly was educated in the schools of Harrison County. He entered the mercantile business in Bancroft, Missouri, later moving to Jamesport, Missouri, and then returning to Bancroft, remaining in busi- ness there for ten years. For five of the years he lived in Bancroft, Mr. Reilly was the postmaster there. When the town of Gilman City was started, Mr. Reilly moved his stock of goods there and remained in busi- ness for four years, at the end of which he sold his stock to Higgins and Cavanaugh. Mr. Reilly remained in Gilman City until 1911, when he moved to Columbia, Missouri, to send his children to school. In 1916 he came to his present home, a ten room stucco house, modern in every way, with a concrete basement, cement cellar house and a cave. Mr. Reilly owns 260 acres of land adjoining the town of Gilman City, the original townsite having come off the southwest corner of this land. Mr. Reilly helped organize the Gilman City Bank in 1897 and was its efficient president for six years.
Hugh F. Reilly was married to Mary A. Jourdan, of Chillicothe, Mis- souri, June 11, 1889. Mrs. Reilly is a native of Kentucky and a daughter of Owen and Catherine Jourdan. Mr. Jourdan died in Plattsburgh, Mis- souri. His wife died in 1905 at Chillicothe, Missouri.
To Hugh F. and Mary A. (Jourdan) Reilly the following children were born: Mary Catherine, died at the age of four years; Hugh F., a brief sketch of whom appears later; Nina C., graduated from the Columbia, Missouri, High School, graduated from the University of Missouri in 1916, attended Columbia University, New York City, in the summer of 1916, taught in Missouri University for one year, taught in the University of West Virginia for three years, and is now teaching in the Home Eco- nomics Department at the University of Missouri; Mark B., a brief sketch of whom appears later ; Ruth R., graduated from the Columbia, Missouri, High School, graduated from the University of Missouri class of 1921, now a teacher of Vocational Home Economics in Jameson, Missouri ; and Esther, graduated from the Gilman City High School in 1921 and is now a student in St. Teresa Junior College at Kansas City, Missouri.
Hugh F. Reilly, Jr., the oldest living child of Hugh F. and Mary A. (Jourdan) Reilly, attended the Gilman City High School. He then went to Chillicothe to school and later to St. Louis University and to Missouri University at Columbia, from which latter university he graduated in the Law Department. He was practicing law in St. Louis when the United States entered the World War. He enlisted at St. Louis, Missouri, March,
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1918. Sent to Camp Funston, served as a corporal, then made sergeant in Thirtieth Machine Gun Battalion, was detached from Tenth Division and made second lieutenant in Insurance Department, Washington, Dis- trict of Columbia. Was discharged in January, 1919, and is still a mem- ber of officers reserve. Since that time has been an attorney in Kan- sas City, Missouri.
Mark B. Reilly is a graduate of the Columbia, Missouri, High School, and a member of the class of 1922 of the University of Missouri. He enlisted for service in the World War in Columbia, Missouri, in April, 1917, and was sent first to Nevada, Missouri, then to Camp Doniphan, Okla- homa, later to Camp Mills, New York, and overseas April 22, 1918. He was with the Thirty-fifth Division and was with brigade headquarters of the One Hundred Thirty-ninth and One Hundred Fortieth Infantry. He was in St. Mihiel, Argonne, Meuse and the Vosges Mountains, and was gassed while in the Argonne Forest. Mr. Reilly came back home in August, 1919. While in London, England, he attended Kings College for three months and is now a student in the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.
The Reilly family has been prominent in Harrison County for years, where the name stands for integrity, for uprightness and for patriotic service.
Andrew J. Flint, a successful farmer of Bethany Township, and mem- ber of a pioneer family of this county, was born in Sherman Township, two miles from his present home. November 5, 1860, the son of George W. and Sarah (Noah) Flint, both deceased.
George W. Flint came to Harrison County, Missouri, in 1839, when he was eight years of age and Mrs. Sarah Flint came here in 1838, when six years of age. George W. Flint died in 1900 and his wife died in 1889 and both are buried in Antioch Cemetery. Thomas Flint, the grand- father of Andrew J. Flint, was one of the first settlers in Bethany Town- ship and held one of the first offices in pioneer days. George W. Flint held the office of justice of the peace when he lived at Cainsville, Mis- souri, and was a merchant there for many years. His first mercantile venture was in Bethany and later moved to Coffey, Missouri. From there he located in Mt. Moriah and later at Cainsville, eventually moving to Lorraine, Missouri, and he was prominent in a movement to move the county seat to Lorraine, but the effort failed.
OWEN PAUL FLINT
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Mr. and Mrs. George W. Flint were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Frances Terry, of Daviess County, Missouri; Mrs. Alice Nichols, of Bethany; Andrew J., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Addie Gale, of Bethany, Missouri; Mrs. Josie Bartlett, of Clinton, Missouri ; Charles, of Los Angeles, California; and three deceased : Minnie, George and Robert. Mr. Flint was married a second time to Mrs. Ruth Stretch, of Daviess County, Missouri.
Andrew J. Flint was educated in the public schools of this county and has lived on his present farm for twenty-two years. He owns sixty acres, all improvements put on by him. He bought forty acres from E. H. Frisby and twenty acres from Charlie Fordyce, and thirty-five acres of the farm is bottom land. Mr. Flint has raised watermelons very suc- cessfully for the past seven years and finds a ready market at Bethany, Missouri. He also does general farming and stock raising, raising the Jersey cattle, O. I. C. hogs, White and Brown Leghorn and Rhode Island Red chickens.
February 8, 1888, Mr. Flint was married to Ruth A. Stretch, a daughter of William and Tamsy (Cline) Stretch, both deceased. Mr. Stretch was a native of England and his wife a native of Daviess County, Missouri. Mrs. Flint was born and reared in Daviess County.
Mr. and Mrs. Flint are the parents of the following children: Maude Alma, the wife of E. A. Stout, of Ft. Laramie, Wyoming; George W., a barber, of Macon, Missouri, who married Ethel Bishop, of Clarence, Mis- souri; Owen Paul, who was born October 18, 1892 and died April 16, 1919, further mention of whom is made below; Hugh M., of Ft. Laramie, Wyoming, who married Gladys Parker, of Scotts Bluff, Nebraska; Alice R., who lives at home; and Clayton J., who lives at home and assists in operating the home farm.
Owen Paul Flint enlisted in Company G, of the 4th Missouri Infantry, June 18, 1916 and went to the Mexican border, where he remained several months, returning from the border at the beginning of the World War, when he was promoted to sergeant and going overseas with the 35th Division. He was in the battles of Grand Balleu sector, June 19, 1918; Wessenburg sector, July 16, 1918; St. Mihiel, September 13, 1918; Arg- onne, September 26th to October 2, 1918. He died at Brest, France, at the St. Nazaire hospital from pneumonia, April 16, 1919, and his remains have been returned home and are buried in Antioch Cemetery. He was on scout duty while in France and was one of the best men that his
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colonel had according to the colonel's report. He could have evaded the war on account of agricultural pursuits, but he said: "No, dad, if my country needs me, I want to serve it."
Russell Gale, a cousin of Owen Paul Flint, was also in Company G of the 35th Division and was captured in the Argonne Forest on Septem- ber 28, 1918, and was kept prisoner until the armistice was signed. He now lives at Gillett, Wyoming, on a government claim.
Andrew J. Flint has been prominent in the affairs of his township and county. He is a Republican and has filled the office of constable for the past ten years; he has also served as deputy sheriff under Sheriff A. H. Flint. He is a member of the Yeoman lodge.
Mr. Flint, in 1904, was awarded a silver medal and diploma on corn, having shown 100 ears of what is known as the mortgage lifter corn. He has experimented in producing seed corn since 1903 and is one of the best posted men in this section concerning this interesting and important branch of agriculture. He is a member of the Church of Christ.
George A. Richardson, the present capable and popular manager of the Miner Frees Lumber Yard in Gilman City, Missouri, was born in Mon- roe, Wisconsin, May 28, 1852, the son of Asa and Phoebe A. (Watson) Richardson.
Asa and Phoebe A. (Watson) Richardson both died in Lawrence, Kansas, where they had moved in 1870. Their children were: Sarah A., deceased ; Flora E., now Mrs. Coleman, of Pasadena, California ; George A., the subject of this sketch; May E., deceased; Nora Alma, now Mrs. Wal- lace, of Durango, Colorado; D. A., now living in Nevada; Fred O., of Lawrence, Kansas; Herman O., of Abilene, Kansas; Mabel E., now Mrs. Pontius, of Lawrence, Kansas; Ernest Arthur, of Lawrence, Kansas; and Olla G., later Mrs. Bigsby, and now deceased.
George A. Richardson was educated in the public schools of Monroe, Wisconsin, and later attended the Wisconsin State University and the State University of Kansas. In 1890 he came to Missouri and was engaged in farming in Harrison County until 1900, when he accepted a position with the Miner Frees Lumber Company. He held this position for about two years, and then was made manager of the Gilman City Yard, which place he has filled most successfully for nineteen years. The Miner Frees Lumber Yard in Gilman City covers five city lots, and carries a full line of building materials.
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Mr. Richardson was married to Frances M. Miner, of New Hampton, Missouri, October 19, 1883. She is a daughter of S. E. Miner and a sister of E. S. and W. A. Miner. She was born and educated in Wisconsin, and was a teacher in Monroe, Wisconsin, for several years prior to her marriage.
To George A. and Frances M. (Miner) Richardson the following children were born: Asa Verne, deceased at the age of thirtp-six in 1921. married to Beatrice Proper, and was a merchant in Grand Junction, Colo- rado, where his widow and son, George A., are living; Etta May, now Mrs. W. L. Browning, of Broadwater, Nebraska ; Fannie Mina, married to Haver Bruner, and have six children, Marjorie, Miner, Fannie Olive, Charline and Haver Lyall; Flora, living at home, is assistant cashier of the Citizens Bank, Gilman City, Missouri; Edwyl E., holding the position of assistant at the Miner Frees Lumber Yard, married to Gussie Lee Lovingier, and having two children, Neva May and Shirley Lee.
Mr. Richardson is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and the Order of Eastern Star. He has an excellent standing in the town and is highly esteemed.
F. M. Williams, well known retired farmer and merchant living in Gilman City, Missouri, was born January 1, 1852, near Coffey, Daviess County, Missouri, the son of W. and Matilda (Williams) Williams.
W. Williams was born in Kentucky in 1818. He located in Indiana, then left that state and came by water to Lexington, Missouri, later settling in Daviess County. He served in the Civil War as a member of the Missouri State Militia. He died in Harrison County, near Gilman City, in 1898. His wife, Matilda (Williams) Williams, was born in Kentucky in 1820, and died in 1895. To W. and Matilda (Williams) Williams the following children were born: George, who died at the age of twelve in Daviess County ; Mary, deceased ; John, deceased ; Martha, deceased; Em- maline, the wife of Joseph Mullen; W. H., deceased; F. M., the subject of this sketch ; and Lafayette, who was serving as the mayor of Gilman City at the time of his death, on March 25, 1921.
F. M. Williams was educated in the public schools of the county, and has made his own way in the world since early boyhood. He followed farming in Harrison County until twenty-one years ago, when he moved to Gilman City, Missouri. He entered the coal business and remained in
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that work for some time, but is now retired. He is a stockholder in the Citizens Bank of Gilman City. He was on the building committee of this bank and was a director for one year.
Mr. Williams has been married twice; the first time to Luella How- ard, December 28, 1876. Mrs. Williams was a daughter of S. L. and Ada- line (Ellis) Howard. Mrs. Williams died in 1905 and is buried in Coffey, Missouri. F. M. and Luella (Howard) Williams had one daughter, Daisy. who married S. F. Gannon, and who died at the age of twenty-eight. Mr. Williams was married the second time to Georgiann Land, of Gilman City. She is a native of Illinois and was educated in Iowa.
Mr. Williams is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons at Gilman City, and is a member of the Christian Church. He is a sub- stantial and reliable citizen of his community.
Edgar A. Aten, one of the retired farmers of Cypress Township, Har- rison County, Missouri, was born in Jackson County, Ohio, January 2, 1854, the son of Aaron and Margaret (Vandevert) Aten.
Aaron Aten was born in Pennsylvania, and later moved to Minnesota, where he died in 1856. His wife, Margaret (Vandevert) Aten, was born in Pennsylvania, and died in Jackson County, Ohio. Aaron and Margaret (Vandevert) Aten had two children: Melissa, now the widow of John R. Wilson, of Jackson County, Ohio; and Edgar A., the subject of this sketch. By a later marriage of Mrs. Aten she had one son, Oscar Bennett, now living in Jackson County, Ohio.
Edgar A. Aten was educated in the public schools of Ohio. He came to Harrison County, Missouri, to visit his uncle, William Vendevert, in 1871; and in 1877 he located ten miles south of Bethany, Missouri, on Big Creek in Cypress Township. In 1879 he bought a farm of 167 acres, which he later sold. He remained on his farm in Cypress Township for over forty years, doing general farming, stockraising, and some shipping. At present he owns 100 acres of land in Daviess County, Missouri, and is living on a five acre place at the west edge of Gilman City. He bought his present home from G. A. Richardson in August, 1919. Mr. Aten has a good two story, modern house, neatly kept yard, a small orchard in which he has a variety of fruits. Here he is enjoying a well earned retirement from business.
Mr. Aten was married to Jane Hawk, March 14, 1878. Mrs. Aten
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was born in Jackson County, Ohio, and came with her parents, John and Synthia (Burris) Hawk, to Missouri when she was seven years old. Mr. and Mrs. Hawk were among the early settlers of Cypress Township, Har- rison County, where they both died.
To Edgar A. and Jane (Hawk) Aten one daughter was born: Lillie M., now Mrs. M. S. Jarrett, of Coffey, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Jarrett have four children, as follows: Erman E., married to Rada Musick and now living in Spencer, South Dakota; Romaine Frances, now Mrs. P. R. Tibbs, of Daviess County ; Avie Jane, at home; and Willard Aten, now nine years old. Mr. and Mrs. Aten have also two great-grandchildren: Fontel Musick Jarrett, and Margaret Elizabeth Tibbs.
Mr. and Mrs. Aten are members of the Christian Church at Bridge- port, Missouri. They are estimable people and have the esteem of their entire community.
W. E. Puls, a highly esteemed farmer living in Adams Township on Route No. 3 from Gilman City, was born in Scotland County, Missouri, February 2, 1878, the son of J. A. and Margaret Puls.
J. A. Puls was too young to enlist for service in the army during the Civil War, but he went anyway and, while not on the roll, he is really a veteran of the war. He lives in Harrison County. His wife died in Scotland County, Missouri. To J. A. and Margaret Puls the following children were born: Dosie, now Mrs. Mattick, of Scotland County ; P. E., living in Eagleville, Missouri; Rena, now Mrs. Cunningham, of Scotland County, Missouri; P. F., living in Lewiston, Idaho; Mada, the wife of C. M. Wagner, of Bethany, Missouri; W. E., the subject of this sketch ; P. C., living in Bethany, Missouri; and Cora, now the wife of John Nighthart, of Pattonsburg, Missouri.
W. E. Puls received his education in Scotland County. He was in Oklahoma on a farm for four years, and came to Harrison County twenty- two years ago. He owned 160 acres of land in Bethany Township which he sold in 1918. He then bought his present farm of 200 acres in the northeast corner of Adams Township, four and one-half miles north of Gilman City. He keeps a part of his farm in pasture, ninety acres in corn and the remainder in other grains. He has a good residence, a barn 56x60 feet, other farm buildings, good water for his stock and a good well and spring.
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Mr. Puls was married to Leah Montgomery in 1897. Mrs. Puls is a daughter of John and Lydia Montgomery, of Scotland County, both now deceased. Mrs. Puls was born and reared in Scotland County.
To W. E. and Leah (Montgomery) Puls two children have been born: Bernice, married Laura Black and lives in Sherman Township; and Lois, married William Richter, of Cypress Township.
Mr. Puls is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge in Bethany, Missouri. He is a man who is well and favorably known for his integrity and for his community interest.
He is a Republican and he and his wife are members of the Christian Union Church.
Hugh Markey, a well known farmer of Adams Township, near Gilman City, Missouri, was born in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, October 30, 1837, the son of Philip and Rose (McEnroe) Markey.
Philip Markey died in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1869, and is buried there. His wife died in Daviess County, Missouri, in 1882 and is buried in St. Johns Cemetery in Gilman City. The children of Philip and Rose (McEnroe) Markey were: Catherine, now Mrs. Farren, of Hancock County, Illinois ; Mary, deceased, who was Mrs. Honan; Hugh, the subject of this sketch; Bernard, deceased; John B., now in Kansas City, Missouri; and Rose, now Mrs. McManus, of Kansas City, Missouri.
Hugh Markey was educated in the public schools of Pennsylvania and Adams County, Illinois, and graduated in penmanship from Eastman Busi- ness College at Poughkeepsie, New York. He has several ink drawings which are his work and which show unusual ability ..
Mr. Markey came to Missouri in 1859 and settled in Daviess County, where he improved a farm just west of Bancroft. He moved to Adams Township, Harrison County, where he had bought a farm two years previously, in 1880. He now owns 543 acres of land in Adams Township known as the "St. John's Farm." The old St. John's Church originally stood on this place. Mr. Markey has a good house, a good barn, and sev- eral stock buildings. The lawn at the front of his house is set with Scotch pines, which make a striking entrance to the house. Mr. Markey had, at one time, one of the best Shorthorn herds in the county, and was an extensive stock feeder.
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