History of Johnson County, Missouri, Part 81

Author: Cockrell, Ewing
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Topeka, Kan. : Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1234


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To Mr. and Mrs. Jacoby were born twelve children: Samuel, who was born in Ohio and was killed at the battle of Corinth, Mississippi, on October 4, 1862, while serving in the Union army; John E., born July 1, 1839 in Ohio, a Civil War veteran, now residing in Columbus town- ship, Johnson county; Elias, born in Ohio, February 24, 1841, and in childhood was killed July 1, 1851, by the fall of a tree, in Marshall county, Indiana : Mrs. Mary Ann Stump, born December 6, 1842, and now resides in Columbus township. Johnson county ; David, born November 22, 1844, in Ohio and died March 18, 1917, in Lane county, Oregon; Mrs. Catha- rine Grimm, born December 11, 1846, in Ohio, and died November 12, 1870; Mrs. Margaret Bondurant, born February 19, 1849, in Marshall county, Indiana, where she is now residing; Levi, born March 16, 1851, in Indiana and now resides in Columbus township, Johnson county, Mis- sonri; Mrs. Eliza Jane Summers, born April 25, 1853, in Indiana and now resides in Hazel Hill township, Johnson county; Isaiah, the subject of this review; Mrs. Annette Eve Knaus, born April 3, 1859, in Marshall county, Indiana, and is now residing in Knob Noster, Missouri; and William Daniel, born April 9, 1864, in Marshall county, Indiana, and now resides in Holden, Missouri. The father's death occurred July 20, 1877, and the mother's on September 26, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Jacoby were candid, upright, noble-minded citizens, who were unyielding in their condemnation of wrong doing, yet always charitable and kind to every one with whom they came in contact.


Elias Jacoby came to Johnson county, Missouri, in February, 1872, and settled on a farm of one hundred seventy acres of land in Columbus township, a place which he purchased from Abraham Winn. Mr. Jacoby lived but a very short time to enjoy his new home in the West, his death occurring five years after he came to Johnson county. Mrs. Jacoby made her home on this farm the remainder of her life and since her death, which came in 1910, the grandson, Lyle C., son of Isaiah Jacoby, purchased this farm in 1913 and now resides there.


Isaiah Jacoby attended the public schools of Indiana and Missouri. After receiving a good common school education, he began farming. Mr. Jacoby has made his own way since he was twenty-one years of age. In May, 1880, he purchased his first land, a tract of sixty acres, which he later sold and purchased his present home. He acquired his farm, now comprising one hundred eighty-five acres, by purchasing sepa- rate tracts at three different times. The original tract embraced one


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hundred twenty acres of land, which had been entered from the govern- ment by Mr. Adams and afterward became the Middleton homestead, and to this Mr. Jacoby has since added until "Maple Grove Farm" now consists of one hundred eighty-five acres of splendid farm land in Hazel Hill township. In August, 1883, Mr. Jacoby moved to this farm, upon which he has ever since resided. Ten years ago, he became interested in the Black Aberdeen Angus cattle and has annually raised a large num- ber of this breed since, having at the time of this writing, in 1917, ten pure-bred and twenty-five good grade cows, with a registered male at the head of the herd. Mr. Jacoby usually keeps about fifty head of cattle on the farm. Eighty acres of the place are in pasture, forty acres in meadow, and the balance in corn and small grain. "Maple Grove Farm" is exceptionally well improved and equipped for handling stock. The residence, a structure of seven rooms, is modern throughout. It was built in 1906. There are two large, well-constructed barns on the place. Mrs. Jacoby has charge of the poultry and she is making a splendid success of raising White Wyandotte chickens and White Holland tur- keys. Pehaps no other farm in Hazel Hill township has so many beauti- ful maple trees growing on it as has the Jacoby farm. The seed was planted many years ago by James Middleton.


September 15, 1880, Isaiah Jacoby and Ada Ellen Middleton were united in marriage. Mrs. Jacoby is a daughter of James and Jane Ann (Parsons) Middleton, the former, born May 11, 1825, in England, from which country he emigrated when he was twenty-four years of age and came to the United States, settling in Ohio, where he was married. and the latter, a native of Ohio. Mrs. Middleton was born June 5, 1833. James and Jane Middleton were the parents of the following children : William Arthur, Warrensburg, Missouri; George Albert, Columbus township, Johnson county; Mary J., who died in infancy; Ada E., the wife of Mr. Jacoby, the subject of this review; Charlie J., deceased; Alfred Grant, Centerview, Missouri; and Walter Eugene, who died in infancy. To Isaiah and Ada Ellen Jacoby have been born four children : Earle M. and Pearle M., twins, Earle M., died at birth, and Pearle M. is now the wife of Irwin K. Ramsey, of Columbus township; Lyle C., who married Vera Fay Henry and now resides on the Jacoby home- stead in Columbus township; and Charlie Isaiah, who married Artie May Ogden and now resides on a farm in Columbus township. Mrs. Jacoby's father died September 1, 1877, and her mother died November


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6. 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Jacoby are worthy and valued members of the Presbyterian church, as are all their children. This family has done much to further the cause of Christianity in their community.


Jacoby Chapel, which is located on the Jacoby homestead, was named in honor of Elias Jacoby, who donated the land for the church site and the cemetery in 1872. The first burial made in the cemetery was made July 4, 1872, for Jeremiah Waldon. In 1906, Mr. and Mrs. Jacoby began a campaign for the purpose of raising funds with which to erect a church. They began soliciting in March and in two days one thousand dollars were subscribed. The church building was completed . in the autumn of 1906 at a cost of nearly two thousand dollars, which were paid at the time of dedication without any aid whatsoever from any outside church or community. Reverend Burchfield, of Harrison- ville, delivered the dedicatory sermon. The church site and the adjoin- ing cemetery comprise two and one-fourth acres of land. Great praise and honor are due the Jacobs who have always stood for the best and highest in the moral and social life of Johnson county. Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Jacoby are numbered among the county's most noble and estimable citizens.


R. L. Brown, a progressive agriculturist of Hazel Hill township, is a member of a prominent pioneer family of Johnson county. He was born in Hazel Hill township in 1870, a son of W. H. H. and Emma (Cleveland) Brown, the former, a native of Hazel Hill township and the latter, of Kentucky. W. H. H. Brown was born in 1841, a son of Simpson Brown, who came from Kentucky to Missouri in the thirties and entered land and purchased tracts until he was at one time owner of more than a thousand acres located in one of the best farming dis- tricts of this state. The present John Gilkeson farm was a part of his farm, where Simpson Brown spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in the eighties. Burial was made in Oak Grove cemetery. When Emma (Cleveland) Brown was five years of age. she came to Missouri with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Cleveland, who entered the farm in Hazel Hill township, now known as the Robert White place. They are both now deceased and their remains lie in Liberty ceme- tery. To W. H. H. Brown and Emma (Cleveland) Brown were born eight children: Mrs. Fannie Shackleford. Warrensburg, Missouri; Mrs. Ida May Bowen, Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. J. A. Hawley. Big Springs, Texas, the wife of one of the leading bankers of that city: James Will-


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iam, Kit Carson, Colorado; Rufus L., the subject of this review; T. S., Warrensburg township, Johnson county; J. C., Tacoma, Washington ; and F. C., Los Angeles, California. Both parents are now living, their home being at present in Los Angeles, California.


Rufus L. Brown obtained a good education in the public schools of Hazel Hill township and at the age of twenty-three years began life for himself farming in Illinois. For ten years, Mr. Brown was a resi- dent of that state, when he returned to Johnson county, Missouri and puchased the Cleveland farm of two hundred acres, on which he lived ten years. He then moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he resided five months, returning to Warrensburg and purchasing eighty acres of land in Hazel Hill township. For eight years, Mr. Brown lived in Warrensburg, where he was engaged in buying and shipping stock. In 1917, he traded his city residence and the eighty-acre tract for his pres- ent home, a place comprising one hundred forty acres of splendid farm land, known as the Bedo Dyer farm. Since he moved to this home, Mr. Brown has installed an acetylene plant, for lighting purposes, and will soon begin work remodeling the residence, making it modern throughout. There is a large, well-built barn on the place and the site of the farm buildings and residence could not have been better chosen, as it is the highest point on the north and south road from Fayette- ville to Higginsville.


Rufus L. Brown was first married in Illinois to Abbie Cobb. Mrs. Brown died in January, 1910, leaving one daughter, Mida June. In 1911 Mr. Brown and Edith Roach, daughter of John Roach, of Hazel Hill township, were united in marriage. Mr. Roach is now deceased and the widowed mother resides in Warrensburg. To Rufus L. and Edith (Roach) Brown has been born one child : R. L., Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are valued highly among the best citizens of Hazel Hill township. Mr. Brown is a worker and his pretty country home, with its well-kept lawn and neat surroundings, bespeaks the thoughtful care and attention of an intelligent, capable farmer.


Alex J. Dyer, a well-known and popular young farmer and stock- man, proprietor of "Elm Grove Stock Farm," is a member of one of the best and most prominent pioneer families of Johnson county. He was born in 1873 in Hazel Hill township, son of James D. and Mary (Greer) Dyer, the former, a native of Kentucky and the latter, of Simp- son township, Johnson county, Missouri. The father was born in 1837


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in Warren county, Kentucky, on his father's farm near Bowling Green. James D. Dyer was a son of Noah W. Dyer, who moved with his family to Missouri in 1840 and settled on a tract of land located near Aullville. Noah W. Dyer died in Warrensburg, Missouri, and burial was made in Oak Grove cemetery. James D. Dyer resided for many years on the farm in Hazel Hill township, which farm is a part of the place now owned by his son, Alex J., the subject of this review. Mary (Greer) Dyer was a daughter of Alex Greer, of Simpson township, born on the Greer farm in that section of Johnson county. To James D. and Mary Dyer were born twelve children, eight of whom are now living: Alonzo, Kansas City, Missouri; James, Jr., who died at the age of two years; Mrs. Inez Huff, Nevada, Missouri; Mrs. Mattie Greenwell, Columbus, Missouri; Bedo, Warrensburg, Missouri; Noah, Aullville, Missouri; Alex J., the subject of this review; Miles, Los Angeles, California; Roy, Day- ton, Washington; Virgie, who died in 1915 at the age of thirty years; Sallie, who died in childhood at the age of two years; and Willie, who died in infancy. The father is now deceased and the mother resides in Warrensburg.


Mr. Dyer, whose name introduces this sketch, obtained his educa- tion in the Neff district school in Hazel Hill township. He began life for himself at the age of twenty-one years, engaged in farming on the place where he now resides. In 1897, he purchased the farm, which is a part of the original Dyer homestead. There were no improvements on this tract of land at that time and Mr. Dyer has added all that are now on it. There are at present two splendid barns, well-constructed and equipped for handling stock. The handsome residence, a house of seven spacious rooms, is modern throughout. It was built in 1915. “Elm Grove Stock Farm" comprises one hundred sixty acres of land, which lie on the line between Simpson and Hazel Hill townships, a place con- veniently located twelve and a half miles north of Warrensburg.


October 18, 1899, Alex J. Dyer and Jimmie Odell, daughter of Isaiah H. and Anna E. (Marr) Odell, of Columbus township, both natives of Johnson county, were united in marriage. Mr. Odell was born December 23, 1829, and died April 18, 1914, and Mrs. Odell was born April 7, 1844, and died January 14, 1911. They were the parents of four children, who are now living: Mrs. Hazel Wood, who resides on the home place in Columbus township; Mrs. Joe Barnett, Odessa, Mis- souri; Mrs. Jessie Collins, Odessa, Missouri; and Mrs. Jimmie Dyer,


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the wife of Alex J. Dyer, the subject of this review. To Mr. and Mrs. Dyer has been born one son, Odell, who is now a student in the third year of the Farmers High School, consolidated district Number 3. Mr. and Mrs. Dyer have taken into their home to rear two little ones, orphans, a brother and sister, Earl and Mayola Playford, who are now attending school in the home district. Earl was adopted four years ago and his little sister two years later. This humanitarian act of the Dyers is only one instance of their fine big-heartedness, charity, and kindness. But no Dyer is known, who is of little, narrow-minded, selfish disposi- tion. This family is one of the most respected and most public-spirited in Johnson county.


Thomas C. Lamb, the efficient and highly esteemed mail carrier on Rural Route 39 out of Fayetteville, Missouri, was born October 2, 1890, in Barry county, on his father's farm near Washington. He is a son of L. and Louisa (Willis) Lamb, both of whom were natives of Clark county, Illinois. L. Lamb was born in 1851. He learned the har- ness trade in early manhood and followed this work for more than thirty years. He served as apprentice for J. Steele, while mastering the details of the harness business at Washburn, Missouri. Louisa (Willis) Lamb was born in 1853. The Lambs came to Missouri from Illinois in 1886 and they located first in Newton county, coming thence to Johnson county in 1900, where Mr. and Mrs. L. Lamb have made their home for the past seventeen years. They are the parents of eleven children : John Edward, Washburn, Missouri; Eli Victor, Warrensburg, Missouri; Mrs. Clara Bray, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Mrs. Ida Clauch, Warrensburg, Mis- souri; Sadie, at home with her parents; William, Warrensburg, Mis- souri; Mrs. Etta Barkhurst, Warrensburg, Missouri: Lee R., Republic, Missouri; Thomas C., Fayetteville, Missouri; Lifus, Fayetteville, Mis- souri : and Follis, Fayetteville, Missouri.


Thomas C. Lamb attended the public schools of Fayetteville. He was engaged in farming in Hazel Hill township until November 1, 1910, when he was appointed mail carrier on Rural Route 39 out of Fayette- ville and for the past seven years has been filling this position. Mr. Lamb leaves Fayetteville in his auto at 11 a. m. and covers his route of twenty-four and two-tenths miles in three hours. In July 1917, he carried six thousand pieces of mail and July was a light month. Mr. Lamb has given splendid satisfaction and all the people on his route speak of him and his work with the highest praise.


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March 23, 1913, Thomas C. Lamb and Mary F. Mckenzie, daugh- ter of W. E. Mckenzie, of Higginsville, Missouri, were united in mar- riage. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lamb, both of whom died in infancy. Thomas C. and Mrs. Lamb are highly respected and very popular in Fayetteville, where they reside at their home known as the Doctor Miller property.


Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the widely-known director of physical educa- tion and athletics of the Warrensburg State Normal School, is one of the most prominent practitioners of osteopathy in this section of Mis- souri. Dr. Allen was born November 18, 1885, in Jameson, Daviess county, a son of William T. and Mary E. (Perry) Allen. William T. Allen was born in Virginia in 1850, a son of George P. and Sarah ( Mil- ler) Allen. The Allens came to Missouri from Virginia in 1866 and settled in Daviess county, where for many years George P. Allen was county surveyor. He was a Confederate veteran, having served in the regiment commanded by General Sterling Price. Both Mr. and Mrs. George P. Allen are now deceased. Mrs. Allen died in 1904 at Inde- pendence, Missouri, where the son, William T., now resides. Mary E. (Perry) Allen is a daughter of Reverend John Wesley Perry, a native of Virginia, who came to Missouri within a short time after the close of the Civil War and settled in Daviess county. Reverend Perry was also a Confederate veteran. He served throughout the war under General Robert E. Lee, one of the best military leaders the world has ever known. To William T. and Mary E. Allen have been born six children, all of whom are now living: Homer P., a prominent lumber- man of Independence, Missouri; Elmer M., a successful motor car dealer of Independence, Missouri; Harry B., captain of Battery F, Second Missouri Field Artillery; Forrest C., the subject of this review; Hubert Lee, formerly a motor car dealer in the employ of Studebaker's manu- facturing company located at San Francisco, California, and now with the United States Aviation Corps; and Richard C., who recently enlisted with the United States Aviation Corps at St. Louis, Missouri. The six sons of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Allen composed the well-known and remembered "Allen Brothers' Basket Ball Team."


Dr. Forrest C. Allen is a graduate of Independence High School, Independence, Missouri. While a student in high school, Doctor Allen was a member of every athletic organization in the school and played on every team, taking an active and prominent part in all forms of


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athletics. In 1905, he entered the University of Kansas and was in at- tendance at that institution during the years of 1905, 1906, and 1907. Doctor Allen matriculated at the university in October and in the autumn of that year played with the "Freshman Ever-Victorious Football Team," which team defeated every college team they played against that year. "Pat" Crowell, Carl Pleasant, and "Tommy" Johnson were three celebrated players of the university team, which was coached by "Shorty" Hammel. one of the best and most renowned football coaches in the country, that played on the Freshman team with Doctor Allen. At the beginning of the basket ball season of the same college year, Doctor Allen was chosen captain of the Kansas University basket ball team and this team won the Missouri Valley championship. He was a member of the Kansas City Athletic Club Team, which defeated the Buffalo German Young Men's Christian Association. world's cham- pions, in a series of three basket ball games at Convention Hall. Doc- tor Allen was awarded a life membership in the Kansas City Athletic Club for this victory. In the spring of his freshman year at the uni- versity. Doctor Allen played as second baseman on the baseball team. He so distinguished himself in athletics at college that in 1907 he received a flattering offer to coach the Baker University team in basket ball, a position which he accepted and at the same time continued his work in Kansas University. The Baker University team won the Missouri Valley championship in 1907. In 1908 and 1909, Doctor Allen coached the Kansas University team in basket ball and they won back the Mis- souri Valley championship. As coach, he was associated with Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basket ball. who is director of physical edu- cation at Kansas University. Doctor Allen, in 1908. coached the Has- kell Indians in addition to his athletic work at the university and that year took the Indians on a five-thousand-mile trip through Missouri, Illinois, Indiana. Ohio, Kentucky. and Michigan, and out of the twenty- four games played on twenty-five different nights, the Indians won nineteen. The doctor resigned his position as coach in September, 1909, and entered the Central College of Osteopathy at Kansas City, Missouri, from which institution he graduated in June. 1912. He came to Warrensburg in September. following, and assumed the duties of coach or director of physical education and athletics in the Warrens- burg State Normal School, which position he still holds. The first year after he took charge, the college won every game in football, basket


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ball, and baseball they played and the school has maintained its record and high standard in athletics practically ever since.


June 25, 1907, Dr. Forrest C. Allen and Bessie E. Milton, daughter of Robert F. and Elizabeth L. Milton, of Jackson county, Missouri, were united in marriage. Robert F. Milton is a well-known and pros- perous farmer and stockman of Jackson county, proprietor of "Sunny- side Stock Farm." To Dr. and Mrs. Allen have been born four chil- dren : Mary Elizabeth, Forrest Claire, Jr., Milton Perry, and Jane. The Allens reside in Warrensburg in their attractive home at 110 Broad street, a handsome bungalow constructed of brick and stucco having eight large, airy, well-lighted rooms and supplied with all the latest and most modern conveniences.


As a practitioner, Doctor Allen's abilities have been recognized by the different universities of Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. Huff, the athletic director of the University of Illinois, wired Doctor Allen in December, 1916, to come to Champaign and "fix up" his men, who had dislocated bones, strained tendons, and sprains. The doctor answered the call for help and the Champaign "Daily News" soon after his arrival came out with a splendid "write up" of him, calling the stranger "The Miracle Man." The paper, in giving a list of the men treated and re- stored to their pristine vigor and strength, quoted the doctor as follows:


"I like to coach football and to fix the fellows up," said the Miracle Man on Tuesday. "I believe I could make more money practicing in some large city, but I wouldn't leave my position at Warrensburg for anything."


John M. Gilkeson, proprietor of "Mount Sinai Stock Farm," is one of the most industrious and progressive farmers and stockmen of Hazel Hill township. He was born in Warrensburg in 1870 at the Gilkeson home on West Gay street, a son of Archibald H. and Mary J. Gilkeson. Archibald H. Gilkeson was born in Virginia in 1830. He was one of the pioneer merchants of Warrensburg, in which city he opened a mercantile establishment in 1859 and for more than forty years was active in the business affairs of Warrensburg. To Mr. and Mrs. Archi- bald H. Gilkeson were born five children, all of whom were reared to maturity and are now living: Mrs. W. L. Hedges, Warrensburg, Mis- souri; Dr. H. P. Gilkeson, Warrensburg, Missouri; Mrs. Cora Menefee, of Oklahoma; John M., the subject of this review; and A. L., who is a leading merchant of Grangeville, Idaho. The father died in 1911


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and interment was made in the cemetery at Warrensburg. He was an honest, upright, capable citizen, who was well known and respected in Johnson county. The widowed mother now makes her home in War- rensburg.


"Mount Sinai Stock Farm" comprises five hundred acres of land, which lie at the heads of Honey and Walnut creeks, and is generally conceded to be one of the very finest farms in the county. This tract of land was entered from the government by Samuel Cornet and from him was transferred to Simpson Brown. The Johnson county Savings Bank obtained the farm from Mr. Brown and the bank sold it to Mr. Gilkeson in 1894. All the splendid improvements on the place have been placed there by Mr. Gilkeson. He has built three large stock barns, which are well equipped with modern appliances. The residence is an imposing structure of ten rooms, constructed with a concrete basement, large porches, and supplied with the latest conveniences. It is modern throughout and well lighted by an acetylene plant. Mr. Gilkeson has tiled all the low land on his farm and has given much time and attention to improving the soil. The place is exceptionally well watered by six excel- lent springs, which furnish water for every field. All the fields are fenced with "hog-tight" wire fencing and the past season of 1917 Mr. Gilkeson had one hundred twenty-five acres of the farm in wheat, one hundred twenty-five acres of corn, and the balance in pasture land and grass. He employed three assistants and he and his son, Jack E., man- aged the farm work very successfully. For the last four years, John M. Gilkeson has handled Shorthorn cattle, mules, and hogs. Recently he disposed of his entire herd of cattle. He has the distinction of hav- ing sold the first carload of mules ever shipped from Johnson county. that brought two hundred fifty dollars a head. The mules were pur- chased by Mr. Gilkeson when they were colts and fed for the mar- ket. He has been one of the most widely-known and extensive buyers and feeders in this county. He is an earnest advocate of vaccination for hog cholera and he. himself, double treated his first hogs with vac- cine and when he buys hogs from different parts of the county, he invariably vaccinates them, making them immune from cholera before shipping. Mr. Gilkeson thinks that the day is not far distant when hog cholera will be unknown, having been eliminated by vaccination. It is his present plan to devote more attention in the future to general farming and he has purchased a tractor for ploughing, harrowing, and




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