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Joseph Klesalek received his education in the Cainsville public school and the St. Joseph Business College at St. Joseph, Missouri. After completing his work in school, he began farming on his father's land in Madison Township. In 1906 he bought eighty acres of land and in 1915 he added more until he owned his present tract. Mr. Klesalek has made
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a great many substantial improvements on the land and has been suc- cessful in his work.
Mr. Klesalek was married July 10, 1915 to Rosa Lisa. Mrs. Kle- salek was born in Madison Township, the daughter of John and Frances Lisa who are now living in Madison Township. To the union of Joseph and Rosa (Lisa) Klesalek one child, Clarence Edward, has been born.
Mr. Klesalek is a Republican. In 1921 he was elected trustee of Madison Township and is now serving on the school board for District No. 59. He is an enterprising young man, well liked in his community.
Porter Reeves is a prominent farmer and land owner of Harrison County. His land holdings consist of 743 acres, 240 acres in Madison Township, 160 acres near Lomani, Iowa, 103 acres south of Leon, Iowa, and 240 acres in Mercer County, Missouri.
Porter Reeves was born in Schuyler County, Missouri, July 26, 1861, the son of John and Lucenda (Hulen) Reeves. John and Lucenda (Hulen) Reeves were the parents of six children: an infant, deceased; Porter, the subject of this sketch; Anna, now deceased, who was mar- ried to Charles Lynch; Effie, now Mrs. Sheets, of Cainsville, Missouri; E. S., now a resident of Lawrence, Kansas; and William, of Olathe, Kansas.
John Reeves was born in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1832 and came to Missouri when he was eight years old with his parents, Hiram and Anna (Halley) Reeves, both natives of Virginia. They entered the first eighty acres of land ever taken up in Schuyler County and spent the remainder of their lives there. John Reeves and family came to Harrison County in 1875 and bought a farm three miles east of Eagle- ville. In 1892 Mr. Reeves retired from active farming and moved to Cainsville where he died September 16, 1912. He was a prominent farmer and stockman in the county. He bought and fed cattle and at one time owned 1500 acres of land near Blythedale as well as land south of Cainsville. His wife, Lucenda (Hulen) Reeves was born in Schuyler County in 1842 and died in 1917. Both Mr. and Mrs. Reeves were mem- bers of the Christian Church. Their remains are buried in Oak Lawn Cemetery.
Porter Reeves was educated in the rural schools of the county. In 1887 he went into the livery business at Blythedale and later left that to enter the hardware business in the same town. He also conducted a
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hardware store at Cainsville and has dealt in farm and commercial trad- ing for several years. In 1903 he moved to Cainsville and has devoted his time to the management of his farms since that time. In 1909 Mr. Reeves moved to his present home at the northwest part of the city limits.
Porter Reeves was married on October 14, 1880 to Carrie Scott who was born in Harrison County, a daughter of Moses and Mary (Graham) Scott, both natives of Indiana and early settlers of Harrison County. Moses Scott was a well known farmer of the county. Both he and his wife are deceased. To Porter and Carrie (Scott) Reeves the following children were born: Guy E., a clothier with Frank French, of Cains- ville; and Lora, now the wife of Arthur Brann, of Tulsa, Oklahoma. They have one child, Mary Reeves Brann.
Mr. Reeves is a Democrat in politics. He is a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Modern Woodmen of America lodges. In 1916 he was appointed presiding judge of the First District in Harrison County., In his work as a farmer and as a cattle man, in his management of the various farms which he owns and in his per- formance of his public duties Mr. Reeves has been successful. He has high ideals of citizenship and always stands ready to forward the com- munity interests and civic welfare.
James Parrish, deceased, was a well known farmer of Madison Township, where he spent many years of his life. Mr. Parrish was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, November 28, 1828. His father was Pausley Parrish, a native of Illinois, now deceased. James Parrish left Ohio in 1860 and went to Illinois where he remained for several years. In 1879 he left his old home at Bennett, Illinois, and came to Harrison County where he bought a farm of 240 acres of which he later sold 120 acres to his brother who was also a farmer. Mr. Parrish was a practical man in his work; he thoroughly realized the value of progress and put many improvements on his farm.
James Parrish was married July 4, 1881 to Samantha Light, who was born in Shelby County, Illinois, November 10, 1853. She was the daughter of Samuel and Cynthana Light, both natives of Pennsylvania. She was reared on a farm and has always been a woman who worked hard. To her union with Mr. Parrish no children were born, but Mrs. Parrish took a little girl into her home and reared her to womanhood.
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The child was Stella Parrish, now the wife of Mr. Beeson of Ridgeway. She has a family of ten children.
James Parrish died at this home on his farm near Ridgeway, Janu- ary 11, 1908, at the age of seventy-nine years. He identified himself with the Baptist Church in 1850, and his funeral service was conducted by the Baptist minister, Rev. V. M. Harper. The remains of Mr. Par- rish are buried in the Lilly Cemetery.
While he lived in Illinois, Mr. Parrish was a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. He was an industrious, energetic man who held the high esteem of his neighbors.
Anthony Skroh, a retired farmer of Madison Township, is now liv- ing at Cainsville where he moved after his retirement from active work on his farm. He has six acres of ground and a good, well kept home in the northeast part of Cainsville where he is enjoying his freedom from active business cares.
Anthony Skroh was born in southeast Bohemia, June 11, 1854, the son of Joseph and Anna (Fiala) Skroh. Joseph Skroh was born in Bohemia in 1813 and was married in 1848 to Anna Fiala, a native of Bohemia, born in 1826. They left their native land in June, 1865 and came to the United States where they settled in Madison Township, Harrison County. Joseph Skroh was a tanner by trade but he bought 140 acres of land in Madison Township from Peter Cain and made im- provements on it. This land is now held by his son, the subject of this review. Joseph Skroh died July 19, 1875 and his wife died in Septem- ber, 1876. To their union three children were born: Joseph, deceased; Anthony, the subject of this sketch; and Anna, deceased.
Anthony Skroh came to Harrison County with his parents and re- mained on the farm where they settled until his retirement in 1916. After the death of his father, he made extensive improvements on the farm and added to the original holding until he owned 380 acres of land which he later divided among his children. Mr. Skroh also owns land in North Dakota. Several years ago he began breeding Holstein and Shorthorn cattle and Percheron horses in which work he made a success.
Mr. Skroh was married November 6, 1881 to Mary Stocklasa, born February 2, 1862 in Bohemia, the daughter of Wencil and Anna Stock- lasa, early settlers of Harrison County, having left Bohemia in 1876.
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Mr. Skroh was married in Mercer County. To this union seven children were born: Anna, wife of Joseph Posler of Madison Township; Fred V., who with his wife and three others were killed September 24, 1921 on their farm at Monte Vista, Colorado; Matilda M., married to Joseph Jezek, of Diagonal, Iowa; Adolph, living on the home place; Edwin H., living in North Dakota; Charlie, the fifth child, who was killed; and Tressie M., living at home.
Mr. Skroh is an independent voter in politics and is a member of the C. S. P. S. Lodge, a Bohemian organization which has held a charter in St. Louis since 1854. Mr. Skroh says that his success has been achieved because of his hard work. He has been an energetic and in- dustrious man and a highly esteemed citizen of his community.
Samuel H. Glaze, deceased, was a man whose name is connected with the pioneer days in Harrison County. He had large land holdings and was interested in commercial enterprises, in politics, and in lodge work. He was born in Wood County, Virginia, November 13, 1816, the son of John and Annie (Wolf) Glaze of German and English descent. John Glaze was a soldier in the War of 1812, and later a farmer of West Highland County, Ohio, where he died in 1879 at the age of eighty years.
Samuel H. Glaze was reared on a farm in West Highland County, Ohio, and farmed on a small tract of land which he owned until 1857, when he sold out and moved to Harrison County, where he bought more than 2,300 acres of land near Cainsville. He improved this land which was later divided among his children. Mr. Glaze helped to organize the Cainsville Bank and was the first president of the bank, holding that office for a number of years. He was a Republican in politics and served as the justice of the peace of his township. He was a devoted member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and worked faithfully in that order until his death which occurred May 13, 1907.
Samuel H. Glaze married Sarah Milburn, a native of Pennsylvania, born August 22, 1815. She died September 6, 1885. To this union nine children were born, four of whom are now living: Samuel N., of whom a sketch appears; Sarah A., wife of W. C. Baker, whose sketch appears in this volume; Lydia L., married to John H. J. Summers and living at Blythedale; and Daniel R., a review of whose life appears in connection with the sketch of his son, Dr. L. A. Glaze.
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Samuel Nelson Glaze, prominent citizen of Cainsville, belongs to a family whose name is well known in Harrison County. The Glaze name has been connected with farming interests, mercantile pursuits and commercial enterprises for many years.
S. N. Glaze was born in West Highland County, Ohio, March 9, 1843, the son of Samuel H. and Sarah (Milburn) Glaze. Data on the life of Samuel H. Glaze appears elsewhere in this volume.
Samuel N. Glaze came to Missouri with his parents in 1857. Dur- ing the Civil War he enlisted in Company E, 43rd Missouri Volunteer Infantry under Colonel Harding and served from August, 1864, until June, 1865. He returned to Harrison County and operated a sawmill on Grand River with his brother-in-law, W. C. Baker, from 1869 to 1876. After then he farmed and then conducted a flour mill in connection with his farming for a number of years.
Mr. Glaze was married April 3, 1893 to Mary E. Kinion, a daughter of John Kinion, a farmer and stockman of Madison Township, who came to Missouri from Wapello, Iowa, in 1856. He was a veteran of the Civil War. To the marriage of Samuel N. and Mary E. (Kinion) Glaze the following children were born: Oscar L., now living in Canada; Bertram, an implement dealer at Cainsville; Carl E., a farmer in Madison Town- ship; and Carrie Austin who died in infancy.
Mr. Glaze is a Republican in politics. He is the president of the Cainsville Bank which his father helped organize. Mr. Glaze is one of the leading citizens of Cainsville, a man whose integrity and high ideals in business have brought him the trust and esteem of his community.
Wesley C. Baker, who has been a farmer and stockman in Harrison County since 1860, was born in Van Buren County, Iowa, April 20, 1845. His father, Jacob A. Baker, was a native of Maryland and came to Indiana in his early manhood and became a farmer and plasterer. In Maryland he married a Miss Hall who died and later in Indiana he married Mary Ann Hite who became the mother of Wesley C. Baker. In 1845 Jacob A. Baker came to Iowa but did not like the country and soon returned to Indiana where he died in Monroe County in 1850. His wife, Nancy (Hite) Baker died in 1857. Jacob A. Baker was the father of thirteen children by both marriages. By his marriage to Ann Hall, Jacob A. Baker had four children as follows: Eliza Ann, Sarah Jane. John Wes- ley and Joseph Henry, all deceased. By Jacob A. Baker's marriage,
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March 5, 1835, to Mary Ann Hite, the following children were born: Samuel H., Jacob A., Charles G., Daniel R., Wesley C., the subject of this sketch; Cathrine G., Ann B., Margaret, Isaac W., all of whom are deceased except Wesley C.
Wesley C. Baker was reared in Indiana and after coming to Mis- souri with his half brother, Joseph Henry Baker, he worked as a farm hand on the brother's farm receiving his board and clothes for his work. n 1862, he left home and enlisted for service in the Civil War in Com- any E, 3rd Missouri State Militia Cavalry. He served for six months and then was discharged on account of disability. In 1863 he helped his brother raise a crop and again in 1864, he enlisted in the army at Cainsville, in Company C, 48th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He was on guard duty at Rock Island and was discharged in the fall of 1864.
After leaving the army Mr. Baker came back to Harrison County and in 1865, made an agreement with his brother by which he obtained the ownership of 118 acres of land, paying his brother $400.00 in cash and working by the month and trading for the remainder which was $100.00. In 1866 he left the farm and learned the plasterers trade. For three months that winter he attended the district school at Eagle- ville. In 1860 and 1861 he attended school in a log cabin which was the school building of that day. Here he had as teacher, Henry Carson. In 1867 Mr. Baker went back to his farm and began work there. This place was north of his present farm. He sold some land and traded for other land, conducting his business of general farming from 1869 to 1874 in partnership with S. N. Glaze, his father-in-law from whom he borrowed money for part of his enterprises. In 1873, Mr. Baker moved to his present farm. Here he built a log cabin and a stable of logs and at once set about making improvements. No such thing as barbed wire was known, the fences being constructed of rails. Mr. Baker bought some land from Mr. Glaze, paying ten dollars an acre for part of it. Other people around him wanted to sell, so from time to time he bought more land. His wife also inherited land and altogether they had over eleven hundred acres in Madison Township.
Wesley C. Baker was married November 24, 1867 to Sarah Anna Glaze who was born March 11, 1849, the daughter of S. H. and Sarah (Mil- burn) Glaze. To the union of Wesley C. and Sarah Anna (Glaze) Baker the following children were born: Anna M., married to L. D. Cochran who now lives at Kirksville and are the parents of four daughters, all teachers; Samuel H., a farmer living southwest of the home place in
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Madison Township and the father of one child; Charles W., a farmer living west of his father's farm and with three children; Harvey N., a farmer living six miles southeast of Cameron with four children; Coy E., a resident of Madison Township with three children; Mary Cordia, at home; and Manly V., conducting the home place, has one child. All of Mr. Baker's children had a good common school education. He has sixteen grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Mr. Baker is a Republican and a member of the Methodist Church. Before the Civil War, he was identified with the United Brethren Church, but later went into the Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church and was a class leader in it for many years. He belonged to the Grand Army of the Republic and always took an active interest in the work of that organ- ization. Mr. Baker is a citizen who can always be depended upon to further the cause of community improvement, a man with high standards of citizenship and one who has been successful because of his energy and perseverance.
J. O. Reed, a druggist and well known business man of Blythedale, was born in Union Township, March 29, 1870. His parents were George O. and Jennie (Shirtz) Reed.
George O. Reed was born in Kentucky in November, 1842. He was a farmer and came to Missouri with his parents very early in his life. They settled in Clinton County and George O. Reed remained there until after the Civil War when he moved to Union Township, Harrison County and farmed there until his death, March 19, 1894. His wife was born in Clinton County in 1849. She now lives at Ridgeway. To the mar- riage of George O. and Jennie (Shirtz) Reed the following children were born: Cora G., now Mrs. Albert Garrison of Ridgeway; Mary V., mar- ried to F. L. Cowperthwaite of Dighton, Kansas; J. O., the subject of this review; and Lydia, now the wife of Dr. J. J. Winningham, of Blythe- dale.
J. O. Reed was reared on a farm and remained in farm work until 1886. He was educated in the district schools and the Eagleville High School. In 1892-1893 he attended the college at Stanberry and then taught school for eight years in the rural schools at Ridgeway, at Eagle- ville and at Blythedale. He clerked in a drug store for a while and then went to Highland Park College in Des Moines where he took a course in pharmacy. In 1896 Mr. Reed entered the drug business at Blythedale
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which business he has conducted ever since, and in which he has been successful.
Mr. Reed was married May 6, 1896 to Mamie Winningham who was born in Harrison County, the daughter of Dr. F. M. and Elizabeth (Woodward) Winningham, both now deceased. No children were born to Mr. Reed's marriage. In 1921, Mr. and Mrs. Reed adopted a son, Jack C., who was born June 11, 1921.
Mr. Reed is identified with the Democratic party in politics and is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America Lodge. He helped organize the Citizens Bank of Blythedale and has been on the board of that institution since its organ- ization. He is a stockholder in that bank and also in the Farmers and Merchants Bank. Mr. Reed is a progressive business man and a reliable citizen of his community.
Dr. J. J. Winningham, a successful physician and surgeon of Blythe- dale and the owner of 363 acres of land in Union Township, belongs to a family that has been favorably known in Harrison County for many years. He was born at Brooklyn, Missouri, March 3, 1870, the son of Dr. F. M. and Elizabeth (Woodward) Winningham. His birth place was the same farm where his mother and his son, Archie, were born. The tract of 176 acres is now owned by Dr. J. J. Winningham.
Dr. F. M. Winninghanı was born March 3, 1846 on a farm two miles northeast of Bethany. He received his medical training at the Cincin- nati Medical School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he graduated in 1874. He began the practice of his profession at Martinsville and came to Blythedale in 1896 where he built up a practice and remained until his death in 1912. He was also interested in the drug business. Doctor Winningham was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His parents were Sharp and Malinda (Miller) Winningham, natives of Indiana. Sharp Winningham was one of the memorable group of men who went west in 1849 in search of gold. He was killed on the way to the gold fields. Elizabeth (Woodward) Winningham was born in 1850, the daughter of Jesse and Sarah (Robinson) Woodward, both natives of Virginia and early settlers of Harrison County where they owned land in Union Township. Mrs. Winningham died in 1912.
Dr. J. J. Winningham is one of three children born to his parents. The others are: Allie, now the wife of Porter Buntin of Blythedale;
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and Mamie, now the wife of J. O. Reed, a sketch of whose life appears in this volume. All of the children grew up on the farm and J. J. Win- ningham attended the Marion Sims Medical College at St. Louis from which he graduated in 1897. He began practicing at Brooklyn, Mis- souri and remained in that location until 1907, when he came to Blythe- dale where he has established a good practice.
Doctor Winningham was married October 30, 1890, to Lydia Nevada Reed, born in Harrison County, the daughter of George O. and Jennie (Shirtz) Reed. To this union two children were born: Archie J., a veteran of the World War who served in France for a year in the Engineer Corps and now living at Eastland, Texas; and Bonnie Lee, now the wife of Vern Trotter of McPherson, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Trotter have one daughter, Catherine.
Doctor Winningham is a Democrat in politics. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and belongs to the Harrison County Medical Society. He is a substantial citizen and a progressive man in his profession.
Thomas Brinigar, a practical farmer and stockman of Harrison County, is the owner of 196 acres of well improved land and has his residence one-fourth mile from the city limits of Blythedale.
Mr. Brinigar was born in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, June 23, 1852, the son of Michael and Emily (Kreamer) Brinigar, sketches of whose lives appear in connection with the review of the life of W. J. Brinigar in this volume. Thomas Brinigar attended the district schools of Wisconsin and came with his parents to Missouri when he was eighteen years old. That was in the early days when Harrison County was still a part of the wild frontier and Mr. Brinigar tells that the country abounded in deer, wild turkeys and prairie chickens. He had all a boy's zest for hunting and used to shoot the prairie chickens from his father's doorway.
Thomas Brinigar became heir to forty acres of land and later added to that tract. He improved his land and sold it, buying it back in 1921. He does general farming on his land and is a successful stock raiser.
Mr. Brinigar was married the first time February 16, 1872 to Lucinda Bandy, a native of Knox County, Illinois. To this union four children were born: Rosa, the wife of Jacob Walton of Colfax Town- ship; George, living in Marion Township; Alta, married to B. M. Troxell,
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of Wyoming; and Grace, wife of Benjamin Briggs. Mrs. Brinigar died February 12, 1918 at the age of sixty-one years. On March 4, 1920, Mr. Brinigar married the second time, Mrs. May (Bell) Smith, widow of Norman Smith, of Lamoni, Iowa, who had, by her first marriage, one daughter, Ruth, now married and living in Montana.
Mr. Brinigar is a Republican and is a member of the Latter Day Saints Church. He is much interested in the problem of better roads and has served as road overseer for his township. He has also served on the grand jury at Bethany and has been a member of the petit jury five terms, one term at St. Joseph. Mr. Brinigar is a reliable citizen, industrious and enterprising.
J. E. Harper, the popular and efficient cashier of the Citizens Bank at Blythedale, was born in Colfax Township, February 29, 1888, the son of S. M. and Eldora (Richardson) Harper to whom three children were born: J. E., the subject of this sketch; Telore, living in Colfax Town- ship; and W. I., a resident of St. Joseph.
S. M. Harper was born in Colfax Township, in January, 1867, the son of W. B. and Nancy (Bridges) Harper, the former a native of Ken- tucky and the latter of Illinois. They were among the early settlers of Harrison County, coming here in 1848 and homesteading land in section 22 of Colfax Township. W. B. Harper died on the land which he took up. He owned other land in Missouri and also in Kansas at the time of his death in 1894 when he had reached the age of ninety-four years. His wife died in 1906 at the age of seventy-two. Eldora (Richardson) Harper was a native of Clay Township and died when only a young woman. S. M. Harper now lives with his son, the subject of this re- view. As a young man, S. M. Harper was a farmer, later conducting a butcher shop and still later engaging in the drug business at Blythe- dale. He went to St. Joseph and was in various lines of work until 1920, when he came back to Blythedale to live with his son.
J. E. Harper was reared on a farm, attended the district school and began life for himself at the age of sixteen, when he began farming on a farm with his uncle, John A. Harper. Mr. Harper continued to farm until 1911, when he began to carry the mail on Route No. 3 and later on Route No. 1 from Blythedale. In 1919 he accepted the position of cashier at the Citizens Bank and has continued in this place ever since.
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The Citizens Bank of Blythedale was organized in 1910. The first president was Christopher Canaday. The present officers are: W. J. Brinigar, of Marion Township, president; M. B. Officer, of Blythedale, vice president; J. E. Harper, cashier; and R. F. Richardson, J. M. Gill, J. O. Reed, E. M. Dale, W. J. Brinigar, and M. B. Officer, directors. The capital stock surplus and undivided profits of the bank is $37,000.00. The bank is located in a building owned by the organization with furni- ture and fixtures valued at $1,750.00.
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