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Charles Girdner was made the cashier of the bank in 1907 and has retained that position ever since. He owns lands in Harrison County and also in North Dakota. His land interests combined with his thorough training in business have given him an unusual opportunity to help build up the institution with which he is connected.
Mr. Girdner was married on September 18, 1908 at Cainsville to Daisy G. Wilson who was born and reared at Cainsville. She is the daughter of George R. and Rhoda B. (Woodward) Wilson, pioneers of Harrison County and both living now at Cainsville. Mr. and Mrs. Gird- ner have no children.
Mr. Girdner is an independent Democrat in politics. He is a mem- ber of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of the Modern Woodmen of America and of the Yeoman Lodge. He is an enterprising young man who is proving successful in business.
O. S. Baker, an enterprising and reliable farmer of Marion Town- ship has lived in Harrison County since his childhood. He was born in Edgar County, Illinois, January 30. 1881, the youngest of five chil- dren born to Thomas J. and Rosa (Sifferman) Baker. The other chil- dren were: Low, deceased; Oll, retired and living at Ridgeway; Minnie, wife of Henry Lindsey of Marion Township; and Harvey, now living in the southern part of Missouri.
Thomas J. Baker was born on a farm in Pickaway County, Ohio. He was later a farmer in Edgar County, Illinois and in 1893 he came to Harrison County and located three miles south of Eagleville. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted in Ohio in the volunteer infantry. He was with Sherman on his famous March to the Sea. Mr. Baker retired from active life on his farm and went to Ridgeway to live about three years before his death which occurred in 1914, when
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he was sixty-seven years old. After the death of his first wife, Rosa Sifferman Baker, a native of south Missouri, whose death occurred when she was thirty-two years old, Mr. Baker married the second time. His second wife was Alice Drake, a native of Indiana, now living at Ridge- way. To this second union four children were born: Ethel, married to Burr Pointer and living in New Mexico; Lavilla, wife of Hersey Good- win, of Ridgeway; Howard, a resident of Ridgeway; and Elsie, living at home.
O. S. Baker was reared on a farm and attended the district schools. He started work for himself when he was a young man and bought land southeast of Eagleville in 1906. He improved his land, going into debt for the eighty acres. After he paid out on the land he sold it and in 1915 he bought his present farm of 120 acres which he has now im- proved. He has ten acres of his farm in orchard.
Mı. Baker was married December 25, 1904 to Flora Buntin, a native of Harrison County, the daughter of Greenburg Buntin, a farmer who was prominent in the politics of the county, now deceased.
Mr. Baker is a Republican in politics. He is a substantial young man, industrious and capable, who is making a success of his farm.
R. J. Goodrich, one of the public spirited men of Cainsville who has devoted much time to matters pertaining to community improvement, was born in Grundy County, September 10, 1869, the son of Martin and Amanda (Johnson) Goodrich.
Martin Goodrich was born in Missouri, his parents having moved from Vermont to Macon County, Missouri. Here Martin Goodrich was reared on a farm. He died in Grundy County at the age of thirty-five. His wife, Amanda (Johnson) Goodrich was born in Yorkshire, England and came to the United States when she was only a child. After the death of Mr. Goodrich she married John Williams. She died at Beloit, Kansas. To the union of Martin and Amanda (Johnson) Goodrich the following children were born: Carrie, married to Henry Maxey and now deceased; R. J., the subject of this review; and Nellie, deceased.
R. J. Goodrich grew up in Grundy County and near Lansing, Mich- igan. He attended the public school at Trenton, Missouri and took a business course at Moberly. Later he was a student in the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated there in 1893.
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He located in Mt. Moriah, Missouri, and practiced his profession there for twelve years. In 1906 he moved to Cainsville and went into the drug business which business he has since conducted with marked success.
Doctor Goodrich was married June 16, 1894 to Addie Jones whose home was near Moberly, Missouri. To this union the following children were born: Gladys, now the wife of Raymond Allison of Quincy, Illi- nois; Wilbur J., now with his father in the drug store; and Charles R., living at home.
Doctor Goodrich is a Democrat in politics and is a member of the Christian Church of which he is the treasurer. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He helped promote and organize the Farmers Telephone Company of Harrison County and is now the vice president, auditor and a director in that company. He has served as a member of the city council and the township board and has given freely of both his time and financial aid to the good roads move- ment in the county. Doctor Goodrich merits the esteem in which he is held in the town and community thereabouts.
Frank Sobotka, well known farmer and stockman of Madison Town- ship, is the owner of 179 acres of land and all of it is well improved. Mr. Sobotka is a dairyman and a breeder of Jersey cattle and has been successful in his enterprises.
Frank Sobotka was born in Madison Township, Harrison County, January 14, 1869, the son of Joseph and Anastazie (Klubka) Sobotka. Joseph Sobotka was born in Bohemia in the Austrian Empire, August 16, 1836, the son of John and Annie (Santrucek) Sobotka, both of whom died in their native country, February 19, 1848. Joseph Sobotka became a butcher and on December 25, 1858 he opened a meat market in his native land. He left Bohemia and came to the United States in 1867. Here he settled in Harrison County, Missouri. He rented land near Cainsville and later conducted a meat market. Afterwards he bought land and at one time owned 400 acres. He died at Diagonal, Iowa, July 3, 1892. Joseph Sobotka was married twice: the first time was in Bohemia to Anastazie Klubka in 1859. To this union seven children were born, two of whom died in infancy. The others are: Emanuel, living at Diagonal, Iowa; Joseph F., near Diagonal, Iowa; John, Little Rock, Arkansas; Frank, the subject of this sketch; and Charles, living
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near to his brother Frank. Anastazie (Klubka) Sobotka died in 1888 and Joseph Sobotka married the second time Mary Rychonovsky, now deceased. To this second marriage no children were born.
Frank Sobotka was reared on the farm and attended school in Lin- coln, Nebraska, and Shenandoah, Iowa. In April, 1898, he enlisted for service in the Spanish War. He was assigned to Company I, First Nebraska United States Volunteers Infantry and went to the Philippine Islands. He remained in the service for eighteen months and was dis- charged at San Francisco, California in 1899. He was in the following engagements during his service: Capture of the city of Manila, August 2-5; the Philippine Insurrection, August 13, 1899; Santa Mesa and De- posito, February 4, 5; Santolan Pumping Station, February 6; Mariquina Road, March 5, 6; San Francisco del Monte, March 25; Novaliches River, March 26; Marilo River, March 27; Grugunto and Santa Maria, March 29; battle near Malolos, March 30, 1899; capture of Malolos, March 31; Quinga, April 23; Bagbag River, April 24; San Tomas and San Fern- ando, May 4, 1899. Mr. Sobotka was a corporal from April 27, 1898 until December 25, 1898 and was a quartermaster sergeant from De- cember 26, 1898 to August 23, 1899.
After his return from the war, Mr. Sobotka taught school in some of the Nebraska counties and for a time was principal of the Imperial, Nebraska, High School. Several years before this time, in 1894, he had taught in Harrison County, Missouri, and in 1901 he came back and taught a district school. That same year, however, he began farming and improving land and in 1914 he began the breeding of pure bred Jer- sey cattle.
Mr. Sobotka married Rose Brower on September 15, 1901. Mrs. Sobotka was born in Madison Township, the daughter of John and Eliza- beth (Beardsley) Brower, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Ohio. Elizabeth Beardsley's father was from New York. She was born in Medina County, Ohio, 1845. In 1852 the family moved to Tazewell County, Illinois. In 1864, she moved with her father to Har- rison County, Missouri, by wagon, she driving one of the teams all the way. John Brower was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, in 1838 and was a farmer by occupation. He came to Missouri and enlisted for service in the Civil War on October 15, 1861 in Company I, Twenty- third Regiment Infantry, Missouri Volunteers. He served for three years. He was with Sherman on the March to the Sea and was dis-
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charged at Savannah, Georgia, December 29, 1864. He reenlisted, but was discharged shortly afterwards. Mr. Brower was at Washington for the Grand Review at the close of the Civil War.
To the marriage of Frank and Rose (Brower) Sobotka the follow- ing children were born: Esther; Mark; Paul was accidentally injured in his thirteenth year by a horse and died six days later; Ralph, Helen, George, Elizabeth; and Randall and Russell, twins.
Mr. Sobotka is a Republican and is a member of the Methodist Church. He is also a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He has been a member of the township board and is now serving on the School Board No. 59. Mr. Sobotka is a reliable man who has the esteem of his community.
Lowell A. Glaze, osteopathic physician and ophthalmologist of Cains- ville, belongs to a family that has been well known in Harrison County since the early days when his grandfather, Samuel H. Glaze, took up land here.
Samuel H. Glaze was born in Virginia, November 16, 1816 and mar- ried Sarah Millburn who was born in Pennsylvania, August 22, 1815. She died September 6, 1885 and her husband died May 13, 1907. They were the parents of nine children of whom Daniel R., the father of the subject of this sketch, was the youngest. He was born in Harrison County, February 8, 1860, was reared on the farm and later in life entered the commercial field. He owned a drug store, a grocery store, and a hardware store in Cainsville at various times. After handling the last named for several years he retired from active business and now lives at Cainsville. He still retains the old home place first owned by his father. Daniel R. Glaze was married twice; the first time to Mary Elizabeth Cochran, a native of Madison Township in this county. She died in November, 1888. To their union three children were born: Erben F., deceased; Lowell A., the subject of this review; and Truman D., a teacher in the schools of Columbia, Missouri. Daniel R. Glaze was married the second time in 1890 to Amelia Clayborn and to this union two daughters were born: Chloe A., deceased; and Joye I., married to Hall Baker and living on the home place.
Lowell A. Glaze was born at Cainsville, February 5, 1885, was reared here, attended the public school and later went to Missouri Wesleyan
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College at Cameron, Missouri. He was at home for a while, conducting the work on 700 acres of land. In 1911 he went to Kirksville and worked for an uncle, L. D. Cochran, in the implement business, remain- ing there about two years. He then accepted a position as manager of a garage at Kirksville and in 1914 he entered the American School of Osteopathy. The next year he entered the Waggoner School of Oph- thalmology and graduated from both schools at Kirksville, July 2, 1917. He located at Cainsville and at once began the practice of his profession. He has built up a large clientage and is successful in his work.
Doctor Glaze was married March 29, 1909 to Harriet Biddison, who was born at Leon, Iowa, the daughter of Albert and Miss (Richardson) Biddison. Mr. Biddison was a merchant at Cainsville for a number of years, having located here when his daughter was about thirteen years old. He was intensely interested in the betterment of Cainsville and worked hard for all civic enterprises. He is now living retired at Leon, Iowa. Dr. and Mrs. Glaze had two children: the older died in infancy ; the younger is a son, Wilbur C., born April 6, 1912.
Doctor Glaze is a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Yeoman lodges. He also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, an order in which his paternal grandfather was much interested. Doctor Glaze is one of the progressive and popular young men of Cains- ville, an asset to his profession and to the community.
Earl C. Young, an enterprising farmer and stockman of Madison Township, is the owner of 210 acres of land on which he does general farming and breeds Spotted Poland-China hogs and Hereford cattle. Mr. Young was born on the farm where he now lives, October 18, 1893. His parents were Caleb and Clara (Lilly) Young to whom four children were born, as follows: Rosa Anna, now the wife of Francis Johnson of Madi- son Township; Cora, deceased, was married to Leonard Francis; Lilly, the wife of Wesley Hallock of Grant Township; and Earl C., the subject of this review.
Caleb Young was born in Madison Township, the son of Frederick and Jerusha (Stoner) Young, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Ohio. They were early settlers of Harrison County, where they homesteaded land, adding to the original holding until, at the time of his
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death, Frederick Young was the owner of several hundred acres. Caleb Young died in 1895 at the age of forty-five years, and his wife, who was also a native of Madison Township, died in 1917 at the age of fifty-one years.
Earl C. Young received his education in the district schools and spent three years in the Ridgeway High School. He has always farmed on the home place which he bought in 1914 in partnership with his sister, Lilly. In 1916 Mr. Young bought his sister's interest in the place, and has made some improvement on the farm since that time.
Mr. Young was married February 17, 1917, to Fay Smith, who was born in Grant Township, the daughter of Lynus and Mollie (Rakestraw) Smith, now living on their farm in the northeast corner of Grant Town- ship. Mr. and Mrs. Young have one child, Gerald E.
Mr. Young is a Democrat in politics and is a member of the Christian Church. He is an industrious and progressive young man who is making a success of his work.
Charley Sobotka, well known over Harrison County as a successful farmer and breeder of Jersey cattle and Duroc Jersey hogs, is the owner of 280 acres of well improved land on which he farms and raises stock.
Mr. Sobotka was born on the farm where he now lives, February 24, 1876. He was the seventh child of Joseph and Anastazie (Klubka) Sobotka, sketches of whose lives appear in connection with the review of the life of Frank Sobotka, a brother of the subject of this sketch.
Charley Sobotka has always lived on the farm where he now re- sides. He attended the district school of the county and later was a student in the Western Normal at Shenandoah, Iowa. When he was twenty-two years old he went to work for himself. His father, a well known farmer of Madison Township, gave him eighty acres of land and on this land Charley Sobotka at once began making improvements. He added land to the original tract from time to time, the last addition being in 1917. In 1918 he built a two story house which is modern in equipment. He began handling pure bred cattle in 1910 and had begun breeding Duroc Jersey hogs two years before. Mr. Sobotka and the three sons who are with him are all energetic, industrious men and are making a marked success of their work.
On September 30, 1899, Mr. Sobotka was married to Anna Rouse of Princeton, Missouri, daughter of John and Anna (Mlika) Rouse both
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of whom were born in Bohemia and are residents of Princeton, Mercer County, Missouri. To this union three children were born: Edward E., Walter J. and Arnold C., who are all living at home with their father. On September 3, 1914, his wife Anna departed to the world beyond and was laid to rest in the Bohemian Cemetery. On October 22, 1915, Mr. Sobotka was married to Lillie Rouse, of Princeton, Missouri, a sister to his first wife.
Mr. Sobotka is a Democrat in politics and is known as a good citizen, ready to help any movement for the public good. Mr. Sobotka has conducted several private sales of his stock and has been very success- ful in this enterprise.
Mrs. Sobotka has charge of the poultry business of the farm and has been very successful in breeding up a large flock of pure bred White Wyandotte chickens and also Bourbon Red turkeys.
H. T. Rogers, cashier of the Cainsville Bank, is a member of one of the pioneer families of Missouri. His father, T. G. Rogers, was born in Clay County, Kentucky, in 1841. His parents were George H. and Nancy (Robinson) Rogers, both natives of North Carolina. They were among the intrepid men and women who came, in the trying days of 1847, to build homes in the practically unpeopled state of Missouri. They settled in Daviess County and helped found the stable community that soon existed there. Their son, T. G. Rogers, father of the subject of this sketch, began working for himself by clerking in a store belonging to his brother-in-law, M. Moss. The two men continued in partnership in various towns in Missouri and in 1879, Mr. Rogers came to Cains- ville and entered into a business partnership with John Hall. The firm was later known as Rogers and Wilson.
T. G. Rogers was married to Eleanor O. Chambers of Mercer County in 1861. She died March 4, 1902 at the age of fifty-four and her hus- band died June 15, 1910. They had only one son, H. T., the subject of this review.
H. T. Rogers was reared in Cainsville; he attended the Cainsville High School and the Bryant Commercial School at St. Joseph, Missouri. He was a clerk in his father's general store at Cainsville until 1887, when he went into mercantile business independently at Cainsville. He later sold this business and accepted a position as assistant cashier in
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the Cainsville Bank where he succeeded to the position of cashier after the death of C. B. Woodward. Mr. Rogers was one of the group of men who organized the Cainsville Bank in 1883. He owns 400 acres of land in Harrison and Mercer counties and, because of his varied inter- ests in mercantile pursuits, in farming, and in business, he has been more than ordinarily successful in his work in connection with the Cainsville Bank.
H. T. Rogers was married May 12, 1887 to Maggie C. Burrows who was born October 28, 1867 on a farm near Cainsville in Mercer County. She is the daughter of Joseph H. and Mary A. (Shaw) Burrows. Her father was born May 15, 1840, in Manchester, England, the son of Thomas and Mary (Pendlington) Burrows, who came to the United States in 1842 and settled at Keokuk, Iowa. Mary (Pendlington) Burrows died on the trip up the Mississippi River. Joseph H. Burrows worked for his uncle in the latter's brick yard in Quincy, Illinois, for a while and later became a clerk in a general store. In 1862 he came to Cainsville and in 1867 he was ordained a minister in the Baptist Church. In 1870 he was elected a representative to the State Legislature. After hav- ing been reelected several times, he retired from political life and took up his duties in the church. He was a very fluent speaker and a suc- cessful minister. He died April 28, 1918.
Two children were born to the union of H. T. Rogers and Maggie C. (Burrows) Rogers; Eva, now the wife of O. R. Booth of Cainsville; and Burrows living at home.
Mr. Rogers is a Democrat in politics and a member of the Baptist Church. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias Lodge. He is one of the successful men who have helped to build up Harrison County.
C. I. Jincks, farmer and stockman of Madison Township, was born February 17, 1857, on the farm which he now owns, the son of Elisha H. and Phoebe (Taylor) Jincks. The Jincks name appears early in the his- tory of the county, where Elisha H. Jincks came when the land was in the hands of the Indians and before there was any evidence of the present highly developed industrial and commercial life.
Elisha H. Jincks was born near Cleveland, Ohio, and migrated first to Livingston County, Missouri, and then came to Harrison County, where he entered the land which now is comprised in the farm owned by his
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son, C. I. Jincks. Elisha H. Jincks was a versatile man who adapted him- self well to the trying times of the pioneers when, in order to succeed, one man must do many things. Mr. Jincks studied law and was a justice of the peace; he was a physician before the Civil War; and was an active minister of the United Brethren Church. He belonged to intrepid stock ; his ancestors also were pioneers. His father, Ichabod Jincks, was born in the New England States, the son of parents who were natives of Ire- land. Ichabod Jincks was a soldier and captain in the Revolutionary War and came west and entered land in Madison Township, where he later died. Ichabod Jincks' wife, Elizabeth (Herrington) Jincks, was a native of Virginia and her parents were born in England. Ichabod Jincks and his wife made the trip from Ohio to Missouri in a wagon, bringing with them their son, Elisha H. Elisha H. Jincks died in Madison Township in 1897 at the age of eighty years.
Elisha H. Jincks was married to Phoebe Taylor, a native of Ken- tucky, who was born May 28, 1834, and died at Ridgeway, Missouri, Jan- uary 2, 1912. To this union the following children were born: C. I., the subject of this sketch; William W., deceased; Benjamin B., deceased; John, deceased; Betsey Jane, deceased, married twice, the first time to Andrew Stiner and the second time to William Baker; and an infant, the oldest child, deceased in infancy.
C. I. Jincks has always lived on a farm and has worked occasionally at carpentering. He attended the district schools and later inherited some land to which he added from time to time, until he now owns 185 acres all well improved. He has made several exhibits of farm products at the Harrison County Fair and is known as an enterprising farmer.
Mr. Jincks was married in 1878 to Susan Rake, who was born in Kansas and died at her home in Beaver County, Oklahoma, in 1906, and is buried in the Guymon Cemetery. To this union twelve children were born: Phoebe L., deceased; Margaret L., deceased in 1913, had been married to S. E. Richardson and left a family of seven children; Gertrude L., now the wife of George Richardson, living in Madison Township; Calvin Clifford, at home; Fred E., married to Julia Harper and living in Mercer County ; Irvin H., a veteran of the World War living at home; Stella, at home; Dennis, a brief account of whom appears later; Lyman, was at Camp Funston, married to Ruth Harper and now living in Mercer County near Cainsville; and Josie, Mary, and Viola, all living at home. Dennis Jincks entered the service for the World War on October 2, 1917,
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and was sent to Camp Funston and assigned duty as a cook. He was trained here until October 13, 1918, when he went overseas and was in service there until his return to the United States on July 4, 1919. He is now living at home.
C. I. Jincks is a Republican and is a member of the Baptist Church and is a deacon. Mr. Jincks is an energetic man who stands well in the esteem of his neighbors and fellow citizens.
R. E. Johnson, a well known farmer and stockman of Madison Town- ship, has 120 acres of land on which he farms during the season, and has property in Ridgeway, where he spends the winters.
Mr. Johnson was born in Mercer County, Missouri, August 16, 1864, the son of Joseph and Nancy (Stanley) Johnson to whom nine children were born, six boys and three girls, R. E. being the youngest. Both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were born in Virginia, grew up there, and were married there. They came to Mercer County after their marriage and settled on a farm where they spent the remainder of their lives. Joseph Johnson died in 1865 at the age of fifty-six and his widow afterwards married Samuel Hammock. They are both now deceased.
R. E. Johnson attended the district schools of Mercer County, helped on his father's farm, and began farming for himself on rented land in Mercer County. He continued this work until 1892 when he bought his present farm in Harrison County. Mr. Johnson has been successful in his work, his land is highly productive, and has been well operated by the owner.
Mr. Johnson was married in March, 1889, to Anna M. Young, a daugh- ter of Fred M. and Jerusha (Stoner) Young, mention of whom appears in the sketch of Earl C. Young in this volume. To the union of R. E. and Anna M. (Young) Johnson the following children were born: Grace, deceased; Fred D., mentioned again at the close of this sketch; Ruby F., living at home; Clarence, and Charles R., both at home. Fred D. Johnson is a veteran of the World War. He enlisted and was in service on the Mexican border. Later he returned home and was transferred to the navy and was sent to the Great Lakes Training Station. He has crossed the ocean seventeen times and has seen most of the world. On one occa- sion his ship was torpedoed at sea; he, with three of his mates, were the only survivors; they drifted in the lifeboats for twenty-one days, and were finally picked up off the coast of Ireland, after the most intense suf-
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