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Harvey Nally, a prominent physician and banker of Cainsville and a resident of Missouri since his early childhood, was born November, 1854, in Jackson County, Ohio, the son of William and Patsy (Gillespie) Nally, early settlers of Missouri.
William Nally was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, and when he was eleven years old he went with his parents to Jackson County, Ohio, where he farmed until the fall of 1865, when he came to Missouri and settled for a time on a farm four miles north of Chillicothe. In 1869, he moved to Harrison County, where he bought a farm seven miles south- east of Bethany. He lived on this farm until his death December 31, 1888 at the age of eighty-two years. Mr. Nally was a Republican in poli- tics but never held any offices. His wife, Patsy (Gillespie) Nally, was born in Jackson County, Ohio, January 22, 1818 and died in 1887. Their children were: Lucinda, now Mrs. Barlow of Bethany; Sarah, now Mrs. Gibbons of Chillicothe; Susie, now the wife of Edward Poor, Jackson County, Ohio; W. J., now deceased; W. S., a resident of Morton County, Kansas ; Moses, died in Harrison County at the age of thirty-one, leaving a family ; O. H., living at Blue Ridge, Harrison County ; Harvey, the sub-
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ject of this sketch; and Frank H., died in Harrison County in 1914, leav- ing a family.
. Doctor Nally came to Missouri with his parents when he was eleven years old. He attended the public schools here and at the age of nineteen, entered the Missouri State University at Columbia from which he gradu- ated in 1876 with a medical degree. On January 1, 1877, he came to Cainsville and began the practice of medicine which profession he has continued ever since. He was in the drug business for twenty-five years; first with I. B. Woodard as his partner and later with Mr. Shaw in the dry- goods business. Doctor Nally has been interested in the promotion of several enterprises in Cainsville, some of which have now gone out of existence. The Enterprise Manufacturing Company and the Handle Fac- tory no longer do business. Doctor Nally was one of the men who secured the right of way for the Narrow Guage Railway here and in company with J. H. Burrows, he brought the first railroad surveyor to Cainsville to look over the route. As they came down from Iowa the three men mapped out in a general way the route for the new road which was later built but, after going into the hands of a receiver, was sold to the Keokuk and Western Railway Company. This company made a standard guage road of it and finally sold it to the Burlington system.
Doctor Nally served as a director on the Cainsville Board of Educa- tion for more than a quarter of a century. He has seen the Cainsville school grow from a little frame building with two teachers to the present commodious, well managed high school. Doctor Nally maintains an interest in every phase of civic life. He is a member of the Harrison County Medical Society, of the Missouri State Medical Society and of the American Medical Association. He is the local surgeon for the Burling- ton Railway. Not only has he kept up professional and civic duties but he has always been interested in all propositions that tend to build up the town in any way. He was one of the farseeing body of men who organized the Cainsville Bank, and save for a year or two, he has been a director of the bank ever since.
The Cainsville Bank was organized in 1883 with a capital stock of $13,000.00, later increased to $20,000.00, and again to $30,000.00 and in 1914 to $50,000.00. The surplus of the bank is $12,000.00. The present officers are: S. N. Glaze, president; H. T. Rogers, cashier; Doctor Nally and P. O. Wickersham, assistant cashiers; and Grace Turrell, bookkeeper. The official board of the bank is composed of the following members: S. N. Glaze, M. F. Oxford, P. O. Wickersham, Daniel Smothers, H. T.
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Rogers and Harvey Nally. The stockholders are scattered about over Harrison and Mercer counties and a few shares are held in Des Moines, Iowa.
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When the Cainsville Bank opened its doors for business, Samuel H. Glaze was the president. C. B. Woodward was the cashier and book- keeper and did all the work of the bank for years, filling these positions until his death twenty years after the opening of the bank. The first bank was operated in an old frame building on the site of the present building, which was erected in 1897. In 1913 the building was remodeled and refitted with marble furnishings which give the bank a metropolitan appearance.
Doctor Nally was married at Cainsville, November 29, 1881 to Char- lotte E. Pickens, a daughter of Enos and Charlotte Ann (Earle) Pickens, natives of New York and New Jersey and early settlers of Harrison County. To Harvey and Charlotte E. (Pickens) Nally the following chil- dren were born: Enos Clifton, a graduate of the Cainsville High School and of the Northwest Dental School of Chicago, Illinois, now practicing in Decatur, Illinois; Hortense, now the wife of F. D. Lawhead, of Cains- ville; Bronna, married to Dr. Scott, of Cainsville; William H., a farmer near Cainsville; and Eugene Field, living at Cainsville.
Doctor Nally is a Republican in politics and is a member of the Bap- tist Church. He is a member also of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias Lodge. Doctor Nally's tall and erect figure is a familiar sight on the streets of Cainsville. His varied interests, his high ideals of citizenship and his indomitable energy have made him one of the wdely known men of the county.
George E. Girdner, prominent business man of Cainsville, was born in Mercer County, two miles southeast of Princeton, June 23, 1874, the son of John R. and Mariah Isabelle (Granlee) Girdner, the parents of five children of whom George E. was the oldest.
John R. Girdner was born in Mercer County, November 28, 1848, the son of James and Anna (Prichard) Girdner, natives of Kentucky, who came to Mercer County and settled in the early days. John R. Girdner operated land in Mercer County in early life and came to Harrison County in the spring of 1876. He owned a large farm here which he operated and was also an extensive cattle feeder and was well known. He was one of the men who organized the First National Bank of Cainsville. He
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married Mariah Isabelle Granlee who was born in Pennsylvania, January 21, 1854, the daughter of Joseph and Jennie (Maple) Granlee, both natives of Pennsylvania who came to Mercer County, Missouri, about the time of the Civil War. Mr. Granlee was a farmer and owned the land which was later owned by John R. Girdner. John R. Girdner and his wife now live in Princeton, Missouri, which has been their home for the past twenty- five years.
George E. Girdner was reared on a farm in Harrison County and at- tended the Ross district school and the Cainsville High School. He later spent nine weeks as a student in the old Grand River College at Edinburg, Missouri, and took a business course of ten weeks at the Stansberry Col- lege. He went on the farm in Trail Creek Township with his father and when the father moved to Princeton in 1896, George E. Girdner took charge and conducted the farm until 1904 when he began to farm for himself on his own land. He remained on this land until 1907 when he traded it for the home place which he sold in 1916. He still owns several acres of land. In 1915, Mr. Girdner bought a lumber yard at Cainsville with his brother, Charles, as a partner. In September, 1916, the brothers traded the lumber yard for a farm in Iowa and a little later George E. Girdner bought out his brother's interest in the land. In 1918 he again bought the lumber yard at Cainsville and has conducted that business ever since. He has a large, well equipped yard and does an ex- cellent business.
Mr. Girdner was married on February 26, 1899 to Elizabeth Leazen- by, who was born in Ohio, the daughter of William V. and Sarah (Keys) Leazenby, both natives of Ohio who came to Harrison County in 1881 and located on a farm south of Cainsville. Mr. Leazenby now lives on a farm in Marion Township. After the death of Mr. Leazenby's first wife, Sarah (Keys) Leazenby, he married Mary Harrison. To George E. and Elizabeth (Leazenby) Girdner the following children were born: Forrest W., Charles Dorrel, Lois May, and Elizabeth Lee, all living at home. Forrest W. and Charles Dorrel are students at Baker University at Baldwin, Kansas.
Mr. Girdner is a Democrat and is a member of the Methodist Church where he has been the superintendent of the Sunday School since 1915. He belongs to the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Yeo- man Lodges. He was the trustee of Trail Creek and Madison townships;
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for six years he served in Trail Creek and for two years in Madison. He has been a member of the board of education at Cainsville, acting as the president for the past five years. He is the secretary and treasurer for the Harrison and Mercer County Drainage . District. This is a corpora- tion organized for the purpose of straightening Grand River for a dis- tance of about twenty miles with a view of preventing overflows and to this extent reclaiming about twenty-two thousand acres of land. The district was organized in 1916 and the actual work of excavation was begun in August, 1921.
Mr. Girdner is a progressive man who can always be relied upon to aid in anything for the public welfare or the community improvement.
S. C. Mossburg, a well known farmer and successful stock trader of Harrison County, lives in Clay Township where he was born July 14, 1868, the son of Philip and Mary (Collins) Mossburg.
Philip Mossburg was born in Ohio and later came to Iowa, where he married Mary Collins, a native of Jones County, Iowa. In 1868 they came to Missouri and settled in Clay Township, Harrison County, where they engaged in farming. Philip Mossburg died a few years ago at the age of seventy-seven and his wife died in 1918 at the age of eighty-two. The re- mains of both are buried in Akron Cemetery. Mr. Mossburg was a Demo- crat in politics and both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church. Their children were: S. M., a resident of Mullens, Idaho; Fred- erick, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Frances, the oldest child, who is now de- ceased and who was married to J. N. Edwards; Charles W., living at Cains- ville; S. C., the subject of this review; Cora and Carrie, twins; Cora mar- ried to W. L. Riley of Davis City, Iowa, and Carrie, deceased; and Floyd, living at Riverton, Wyoming.
S. C. Mossburg was reared on the farm and has followed that occu- pation all of his life. He has been a trader and has owned various tracts of land at different times. He at one time owned 600 acres and at present has a farm of 205 acres in Clay Township. For the last thirty-five years he has been a live stock buyer. In the fall of 1920 he left his farm and moved to Cainesville where he continues in the business of stock trading in which he has been very successful.
Mr. Mossburg was married on March 1, 1888 to Lena Riley, a native of Ohio and the daughter of W. E. and Sidney (Frazier) Riley, both natives
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of Ohio. Mrs. Mossburg was reared in Harrison County and was a school- mate of her husband in the district school. Mr. and Mrs. Mossburg have one child, Clayton. He married Nellie Brower of Cainsville and they now live at Rosette, Wyoming. They have five children as follows: Maudie, Samuel Clair, Kenneth, Robert and Lena K.
S. C. Mossburg served as the assessor of Clay Township in 1918. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Knights of Pythias Lodge. In politics he is a Democrat. Mr. Mossburg is a reliable and substantial citizen of his community.
W. Pelikan, reliable hardware merchant of Cainsville, was born in the part of Europe now known as Czecho Slovak, July 12, 1858. His parents were W. and Antonia (Hlinecky) Pelikan, both of whom were born and lived in Europe. The father died in his native country, Bohemia. He was a shoemaker by trade. W. and Antonia (Hlinecky) Pelikan had two children born to them: W., the subject of this review; and Joseph, now deceased.
W. Pelikan, the subject of this sketch, learned the tinners trade in his native land. In 1881 he left his old home, came to the United States and settled in Racine, Wisconsin, where he remained for five years work- ing at his trade. In 1886 he came to Cainsville, Missouri, and began working for Burrows and McKiddy Hardware Company. Later he worked for Moss and Rogers Hardware Company and continued in this position for several years. In 1905 Mr. Pelikan went into business for himself and opened a hardware store in connection with which he has a tin shop. His son, Ted, is a partner in the business with him. The store is located in a good, modern building owned by Charles Girdner. Mr. Pelikan and his son carry a good stock of goods and conduct a substantial business. Mr. Pelikan's early training, as well as the practical work he did after coming to Cainsville, have contributed to his later success.
W. Pelikan has been married twice. The first time was in 1884 to Katherine Repa, who was born in Bohemia, November 26, 1864, and died in the United States, May 17, 1895. To the union of W. Pelikan and Katherine (Repa) Pelikan the following children were born: Mary, now the wife of Charles Dolecheck, of Ringgold County, Iowa; Edwin, now a resident of Chicago, Illinois, and a pharmacist by trade; Oldrich, de- ceased; Martha, now Mrs. Alva Rake of Ringgold County, Iowa; and Fred,
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now a druggist in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Pelikan was married the second time to Mary Jane Zeycheck, a native of Bohemia, in 1897. To this union three children were born: Florence, living at home and a teacher in the public schools; Ted, in business with his father; and Esther, at home.
Fred Pelikan is a veteran of the World War. He enlisted for service at Sterling, Illinois and was first sent to Post Hospital, Ward F, Fort Sher- idan, Illinois. Later he was sent to the Signal Corps in Camp McArthur, Texas, and from there he was sent to the Aero Squad 673, Morrison, Vir- ginia. He was next put in 332 Air Service Squadron, Hempstead, Long Island, Aviation Field No. 2, and a short time later he was sent overseas. He returned home in 1919 and went back into the drug business in Chi- cago. All of his war service was done in the medical corps.
W. Pelikan is a Democrat in politics. He is a member of the Yeo- man Lodge and of a Bohemian lodge, the C. S. P. S. Mr. Pelikan is well known in his community where he has the esteem of his associates.
T. S. Duff, a well known and successful physician and surgeon of Cainsville, has been engaged in the practice of his profession since he was twenty-one years old, and was a graduate of a medical college before he was of age. He was born in Hancock County, Illinois, July 26, 1878, the son of J. F. and Mary A. (Rockhold) Duff. Three children were born to this union as follows: T. S., the subject of this review; Lee, now a mechanic in Los Angeles, California ; and Boise, deceased.
J. F. Duff, father of Dr. T. S. Duff, was born in Illinois in 1852 and died at Mountain Grove, Missouri, in 1905. He was a graduate of the Law School of Ann Arbor, Michigan and practiced law in Illinois for a time. He also farmed and at different times engaged in various occupa- tions. After he came to Missouri, he practiced law in Princeton. His wife, Mary A. (Rockhold) Duff was born in Wayne County, Iowa, in 1858 and now lives in Los Angeles, California.
Dr. T. S. Duff attended the school at Lineville, Iowa. He took two years of high school work and then entered the Kansas City Medical Col- lege at Kansas City, Missouri, from which he graduated in 1899. He began the practice of his profession in Mercer County, Missouri. He settled at Cainsville in 1905. Here Doctor Duff has worked hard and has built up a good practice. He is always keenly interested in the advances
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made in his profession. He has taken post-graduate courses, one of them polytechnic, both in Chicago, Illinois. He has a good home within the city limits.
Doctor Duff was married in 1901 to Clara Bowman of Davis City, Iowa, the daughter of Samuel and Emma (Arnold) Bowman, both natives of Iowa. Three children have been born to Doctor and Mrs. Duff. They are Ethelyn, Madelyn, and Darrel, all at home.
Doctor Duff is a member of the Methodist Church. He is also a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.
David E. Bain, a farmer of Madison Township, is a veteran of the Civil War who has been a resident of Harrison County since he was thir- teen years old, when his parents drove overland from Indiana to Missouri.
David E. Bain was born March 10, 1846 in Morgan County, Indiana, the second of eleven children born to his parents, John and Nancy (Bryant) Bain, natives of North Carolina and Kentucky and both early settlers in Indiana where they were married. When John Bain was thirteen years old he, with his sister and his mother, walked from North Carolina to Morgan County, Indiana. He with his wife and children came to Harrison County in 1859 and settled in Madison Township on a farm. Later John Bain became superintendent of the County Home and retained that position for seven years. About 1872 he opened a hotel at Cainsville which he conducted successfully for several years. At the same time he carried the mail from Princeton to Blythedale. He died at Cainsville and his wife died in Mercer County, in August, 1891, at the age of sixty-nine.
David E. Bain was reared on a farm and worked as a farm hand, re- ceiving as payment twenty-five cents a day. As he was a better worker than the average his wages were raised to sixteen dollars a month. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted at Eagleville in the Forty-third Mis- souri Volunteer Infantry, Company E. This company was captured by Price at Glasgow, Missouri, in October, 1864, but was later paroled. The company was then put on duty to guard the Missouri Pacific Railroad between Kansas City and St. Louis and was stationed on the Big Blue River in Jackson County. The company was discharged from service in August, 1865, at St. Louis. Mr. Bain returned to his work on the farm and in 1869 he bought the eighty acres that is now his home. He moved onto this place about five years later and built a log house. He fenced the place with rails which had to be hauled a distance of eight to ten
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miles. There were practically no improvements and many times dur- ing each year the roads were so muddy that they were impassable for horses. Since those early pioneer days, however, the county has been developed and Mr. Bain, who has been road overseer for years, points proudly to the good roads of the township now.
David E. Bain was married in October, 1870, to Elizabeth Wilcox, a native of Ohio who came to Harrison County with her uncle, Reece Preston. Mr. and Mrs. Bain have thirteen children as follows: William Franklin, living in Decatur County, Iowa; Deliah, wife of Grant Hadley, of Cainsville; John A., a contractor and carpenter of Lake Andrews, South Dakota; Harvey, a farmer living near Grand Forks, North Dakota; Nancy, deceased, who was married to Tony Baker; Samuel, a farmer living in Trail Creek Township; Oscar, in the oil fields of Oklahoma ; Pearl, living at home; Della, wife of Sherman Casebolt, of Iowa City, Iowa; Dorothy, wife of Everet Baker of Madison Township; Benjamin Harrison, Houston, Texas; Oren Earl, who served in the World War. He was inducted into service and assigned to Company D, 134th United States Infantry, at Camp Cody and was there when the armistice was signed. He is now living at Sheridan, Wyoming. One child who died in infancy. Pearl and Oren Earl are twins.
Mr. Bain is a life long Republican and was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is one of the oldest settlers in this part of the county and his recollections of the hardships and privations of his early life in the county and of the perilous days of the Civil War are interesting reminiscences.
J. G. Buis, an enterprising farmer of Madison Township and the owner of 120 acres of land in Harrison County, was born in Trail Creek Township, April 28, 1885, the son of James Franklin and Marcella Jane (Smothers) Buis.
James Franklin Buis was born in Indiana, March 14, 1854, the son of Henderson Greenbury Buis who came with his wife and family to Missouri in early days and settled on a farm four miles east of Ridgeway where they spent the remainder of their lives. James Franklin Buis left Missouri in 1894 and went to western Kansas where he now lives. His wife who was born in Mercer County about 1857 is also living. To the union of James Franklin Buis and Marcella Jane (Smothers) Buis the following children were born: Ida, now the wife of R. D. Taylor, of
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Des Moines, Iowa; Ella, now the widow of Samuel Bridge and living on her home place in Madison Township; John, deceased; J. G., the subject of this sketch; Frances, now the wife of Alva Crabb of St. Joseph, Mis- souri; Rosa, living in Des Moines, Iowa; Lola, married Leonard Larson of Mercer County, Missouri; and Roy, deceased. Lola and Roy Buis were twins.
J. G. Buis attended the White Oak district school and was reared on a farm. He began working for himself as a farm hand when he was nineteen years old and continued until he was twenty-one. He then rented some land in Harrison County south of Ridgeway. He farmed on rented ground for five years when he bought his present farm in Madison Township. He has made extensive improvements on his farm. He breeds Spotted Poland China hogs and sells by public sale and in the private markets. He is a careful dealer, although liberal. He is known as one of the successful young business farmers of his community.
J. G. Buis was married on March 24, 1907, to Anna Mary Wyant who was born in Madison Township, November 14, 1891, the daughter of P. A. and Margaret (Wright) Wyant. To J. G. and Anna Mary (Wyant) Buis the following children were born: Delia Delores, Dorrel Dean, Deva Delane and Darrel Dee. It will be observed that both the names of all the children begin with the letter D.
Mr. Buis is a Democrat and is a member of the Church of Christ. He is serving at present on the school board of district No. 59. Mr. Buis is a progressive young man who merits the esteem in which he is held by his fellow citizens.
Frank Peshek, a well known and successful farmer and business man of Madison Township, was born in Austria, December 8, 1879, the son of Joseph and Frances Peshek, who came to the United States and settled in Harrison County in 1882. They bought land in Madison Town- ship and farmed for many years. Frances Peshek died in 1911 at the age of sixty-seven and her husband died in 1917 at the age of seventy- eight. To their union six children were born, only one of whom, the subject of this sketch, now survives.
Frank Peshek was reared on the farm and attended the rural schools of the county. He farmed at home until 1903, when he moved to Cains- ville and bought a partnership with his brother Joseph, in a grocery and meat market. He remained in this business for three years, when he
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sold his interest to his brother and went into the hardware business with George Burris. This firm remained in business until they sold out to Smith and Hall and in 1909, Frank Peshek bought the old home place of 120 acres. The farm which is called the White Oak Stock Farm is well kept and has been improved steadily by Mr. Peshek. The owner handles high grade stock and conducts a scientifically managed farm.
Frank Peshek was married in 1904 to Julia Roubinek who was born in Diagonal, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Peshek have no children but they are rearing as their son, Virgil Gereaux.
Mr. Peshek is a Democrat and is a member of the Methodist Church. Joseph Peshek helped to organize the First National Bank of Cainsville. In 1910, Frank Peshek became a stockholder in the bank and in 1919 he was elected to the position of vice president of the bank. He has served as a member of the board of directors for five years. Mr. Peshek is one of the successful farmers and business men of the county. His varied training has fitted him for the position of trust he holds in the bank and his integrity and business insight have given him the excellent standing he has with his fellow citizens.
Joseph Klesalek is a farmer and stockman of Madison Township, where he owns 150 acres of well improved land and handles high grade stock and is known as an enterprising and substantial man.
He was born at Cainsville, August 9, 1883 and is the son of Joseph and Frances (Golias) Klesalek. There were four children in the family as follows: Anna, deceased; Antone, deceased; Mary, deceased; and Joseph, the subject of this sketch. Joseph Klesalek, Sr., was born in: Bohemia in 1847. He was a blacksmith and came to the United States about 1874. He settled at Cainsville and worked there at his trade until 1893 when he began farming on the land now owned by his son, the subject of this review. Here he died in 1906. His wife, Frances (Golias) Klesalek, was born in Bohemia in 1851, was married there and her two oldest children were born there. Mrs. Klesalek is now living at Cainsville.
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