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Mr. Carr was married twice, his first marriage being in May, 1857, to Mary J. Guthrie, whose death occurred on May 15. 1873. They became the
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parents of eight children, namely: Lewis R .: Emma R., the wife of J. H. Whitnack, of Hastings, Nebraska; Albert; Fred. of Stevens, Nebraska ; Charles Clayton, who is referred to in following paragraphs ; John, deceased ; a daughter that died in infancy, and Samuel, who died in infancy. On March 23. 1874, Mr. Carr married Mrs. Lucy Colburn, whose death occurred on April 16, 1907. No children were born to this union, but Mrs. Carr had a son, Herbert O. Colburn, born to her first marriage.
Charles Clayton Carr was born on August II, 1871, in Polk township. this county, and was reared under the paternal rooftree, receiving his educa- tion in the common schools. He was reared to the life of a farmer, and along this line he has achieved a most pronounced success, being today one of the most progressive and up-to-date farmers in the county. He owns five hundred and sixteen acres of the old home farm, and another tract of two hundred and fifty-nine acres, acquired by his own efforts. Everything Mr. Carr does is done well. as is evidenced by a cursory glance over the premises. The attractive and comfortable residence, recently completed, ex- cites favorable comment from all who see it. It is built of cement blocks and contains ten rooms. the interior arrangement of the house being ex- tremely convenient and according to the most advanced architectural ideas. It contains a commodious pantry, bathroom and other conveniences, and is two full stories and a basement. The building is heated throughout by a furnace, lighted by acetylene gas light, and a hydraulic ram sends water to every part of the house where needed, the overflow being piped to the barns and the yard. The other buildings on the farm are substantially built and commodious in arrangement, the general appearance of the entire place indicating the owner to be a man of good judgment and excellent taste.
Mr. Carr gives special attention to the raising of stock, principally cat- tle, in which line he has met with gratifying success. He puts two hundred acres to corn, and everything about the place is on a large scale. He has three renters on the land, though all the tracts contain his own stock. The land cannot be excelled in Nodaway county, and among the improvements made on it was the laying of over ten miles of drain tile. The timber of the land is of the finest quality, practically all the lumber and timber used in the erection of the new residence having been cut from his own land. Mr. Carr keeps in touch with advanced ideas relating to agriculture and is emi- nently practical in his methods of operation, thus insuring the largest returns from his efforts.
On November 5, 1893. Mr. Carr was united in marriage to Anna B. Davison, who was born in Polk township, this county, November 10, 1874.
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the daughter of Henry L. and Isabelle (Forest) Davison. These parents were born respectively in Michigan and St. Joseph, Missouri, their marriage occurring in Nodaway county. Mr. Davison died in about 1889, his widow being still a resident of this county. Mrs. Davison's father, Capt. James A. Forest, on coming to Nodaway county, took up as a homestead the land now owned by Zach Johnson. He was a veteran of the Civil war and he died in California at an advanced age. Mr. and Mrs. Carr are the parents of eight living children, namely: Ersel Clayton, Ona Opal (died in in- fancy). Lucy Belle. Ira Osrow, Marjory, Charles Cleo, Forest Theodore. Hazel Constance and Henry Truman.
Mr. Carr is a Republican in politics and a member of the Christian church. He has reason to be proud of the fact that although he is now thirty-eight years old he never took a chew of tobacco, smoked a cigar or took a drink of whisky.
Genial and accommodating in his relations with those about him, Mr. Carr has earned an enviable reputation in the community where he has spent his entire life, and his life has been such as to gain for him the com- mendation of all who know him. As a representative citizen of Nodaway county, he is eminently entitled to representation in a work of this nature.
REV. FR. HENRY F. NIEMANN.
It would seem from studying the characteristics of Rev. Fr. Henry F. Niemann. rector of St. Patrick's church at Maryville, that he is a born leader of men : however, being entirely unassuming, he does not seek to be regarded as such, but he is accomplishing a great work among his fellowmen and is eminently deserving of the esteem that is accorded him by his wide acquaint- ance. He was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, June II. 1867. the son of Clement Niemann, a former furniture dealer in St. Joseph. for many years conected with the Hax Furniture Company and a well-known man in the commercial life of that city.
Father Niemann spent his boyhood in St. Joseph, passed through the preparatory schools and a business college, later attended St. Benedict's College at Atchison. Kansas, for two years, then spent two years in Sales- ianum at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and four years at the University of Ins- bruck. Tyrol. Austria, then spent one year in Rome as a special student, thus becoming well equipped for his chosen life work. He was ordained on
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March 16, 1890, in St. Joseph, Missouri, by Bishop Hogan, of Kansas City, then bishop of the St. Joseph diocese. His first mass was in the Immaculate church in St. Joseph.
Father Niemann's first work was in St. Peter and St. Paul's, Kansas City; later he was at St. Joseph and Stanberry, Missouri, for two years. On Jan- uary 3, 1896, he took charge of St. Patrick's church at Maryville, and he has done a very commendable work, greatly building up the same and winning the esteem of not only his immediate charge but also of all classes, to say nothing of the splendid church edifice he caused to be erected, work on which began in the fall of 1898, replacing the old frame church. The new church was dedicated on Thanksgiving day, 1899. It is a magnificent structure, beautiful in architectural design, substantial and convenient, erected at a cost of twenty-five thousand dollars. Its seating capacity is five hundred and twenty-four. Father Niemann also remodeled the residence. He has done a great work for the parish here during his fourteen years of service, the parish now having more than six hundred and thirty souls. The church is now engaged in the building of a large common school in the rear of the church, at a cost of about twenty thousand dollars.
Father Niemann has been a member of the Carnegie Library board for the past four years and his counsel in the affairs of the same has resulted in building up a splendid library.
WILLIAM H. LAZENBY.
One of the thriving farmers of Union township and a man whose interests have long been closely identified with the progress of Nodaway county is William H. Lazenby, a native of Van Buren county, Iowa, his birth occurring there on June 9, 1843. He grew to maturity in his native county, attended the common schools and took up farming when a young man. He came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1873 and has made this his place of abode ever since, having purchased his present farm at that time for seven dollars per acre, the place consisting of one hundred and sixty acres. He improved the place and added to it, buying eighty acres at thirty dollars per acre, and he now has an excellent farm. He has dealt extensively in stock, raising and marketing from year to year large numbers of hogs, cattle and horses. His plan has been to constantly rotate his crops, keeping a great deal of the land in grass, and he has thus kept his soil fertile and
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very productive. He was told upon coming here that lawn grass would not thrive on this land, but he persisted and has his fields well set with it. He has a nice home and good buildings.
Mr. Lazenby was married when twenty-two years old to Susan Holli- day, who died in February, 1906. Seven children were born to them, as follows: Harry is working with his father; Minnie married Bernard Van Scroy, of Independence township: Dora married Ed. Wiley and is living near her father in Union township: Lillie married Reginald Shroger, of Maryville: Harvey is living on an adjoining farm which he owns: Nellie married Guy Phillips and lives in South Dakota ; Cora married James Hantz. of South Dakota. Mr. Lazenby has assisted each of his children to get a start in the world and they are all very comfortably situated.
Mr. Lazenby has been a Republican since the days of Lincoln, always voting the ticket. He is a member of the Masonic order, having joined the lodge at Pickering thirty years ago, and has served as past master several times, being a member of the blue lodge, but he is well known in this section of the county for his fraternal work.
An interesting chapter in the life of Mr. Lazenby is that bearing on his military career. In 1861 he enlisted in Company F, Fourteenth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, with which he served through the war in a very creditable manner. having been in the armies under Grant and Sherman, under Generals A. J. Smith and Banks, and he saw some hard service. taking part in many a trying campaign and battle. He received a flesh wound at Ft. Donelson, but was soon back in the service. His regiment was captured at Shiloh, but he was at the hospital and thus escaped.
LEWIS JOHNSON NEAL.
This is an age when the farmer as well as the lawyer or any professional man. artisan or tradesman must study and labor to keep abreast of new conditions and situations that are constantly arising. This has been done by Lewis Johnson Neal, of Union township, where his fine farm is located. He was born in Lawrence county. Ohio. September 16. 1844, the son of William and Mary (Wiseman) Neal. both natives of Virginia, from which state they each came to Ohio with their parents in an early day, the Neal family having been natives of Monroe and the Wiseman family of Greenbrier county, Virginia. The father of William Neal died in Ohio at the advanced
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age of ninety-six years. Mary Wiseman's father, Samuel Wiseman, came to Nodaway county in the spring of 1852, locating near Myrtle Tree church. and near there died of smallpox during the Civil war and is buried at Mary- ville ; in the winter of 1907 his body and that of his wife and three of their daughters were removed to the cemetery at Myrtle Tree. His daughter, Mrs. Thomas Kelly, contracted the smallpox on the way from Ohio to this county : all the family took it. but one died of it, the elder Wiseman's death being the only one caused by the disease in this community. His wife had died some . six years previously. In the fall of 1852. his daughter and other members of the family and Mrs. Thomas Kelly and family all came here, later return- ing to Ohio. William Neal located first on the Frazier Swinford farm, five miles northeast of Maryville, and in the spring of 1853 moved to his father- in-law's farm near Myrtle Tree and remained on the same two or three years. In the meantime he had entered land three miles south of Pickering in Polk township, on the west side of One Hundred and Two river and on Canal branch and there began making general improvements. erecting buildings, etc .. and in 1856 he removed to the place, where he remained until 1861, having broke and fenced some sixty acres and had a good farm. In 1861 he traded for land near Hopkins, but moved into the little village of Xenia, which is now off the map. He remained at this place about eight years engaged in farming, then moved to a place northwest of Maryville on Clear creek, about eight miles from town, and there Mrs. Mary Neal died July 20, 1868, at the age of forty-five years, five months and sixteen days, having been born on February 4, 1815. The birth of William Neal is given as March 8. 1809. and he died March 17. 1901. at the ripe age of ninety-two years and nine days. He died in Meade county. Kansas, at the home of a daughter, where he had spent the last two years of his life, he having lived with his children after his wife's death in Missouri, and in Indiana for four or five years, having been brought back to Missouri by L. J. Neal. and he went from here to his daughter in Kansas. Even after her death he looked after the place, buy- ing young stock and selling them when they had grown to beef cattle. He was not a public man. He belonged to the Missionary Baptist church at Maryville. He was a good and useful man and highly honored by all who knew him.
To Mr. and Mrs. William Neal seven children were born, named as follows : Minerva Ann married John Broad, and both died in Indiana : they came to Missouri about 1855 and five years later returned to Indiana. Henry C. Neal, a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church, also spent five years in Missouri, later returned to Ohio, where he finished his ministerial education.
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preaching at Maryville and Pickering while on a visit here in 1908; he served in the Indiana conference as presiding elder. Sarah Melissa Neal married John Howard and she died near the old home, in young womanhood, on June 30. 1878. in Polk township, Nodaway county ; Araminta Neal is the widow of Oliver Norman, of Drury, Kansas; she married in Nodaway county, Missouri, went to Indiana and from there to Kansas and while liv- ing there her father made his home with her. Lewis Johnson Neal, of this ยท review. Samuel H. Neal has been a wanderer ; he attended school in Indiana, read law, was admitted to the bar in Sully county, South Dakota, was made district attorney and is now living in Nodaway county, Missouri. Mary Belle married Ed. Downer, in Indiana: soon afterwards he died in eastern Iowa, and she returned to her brother, Lewis J., of this review; she later returned to Indiana, where she married a second time and died there.
Lewis J. Neal, of this review, remained with his father until he was twenty years of age; then went to Ohio and attended the academy at Mt. Washington. Upon his return home he stopped at his sister's in Parke county, Indiana, and he attended the graded schools at that place, and he was absent from Nodaway county ten years. He taught school in Parke county, Indiana, in the fall and winter for some time, or until his marriage. This, with the exception of a few months in which he served in the Missouri state militia, marked his life up to October 7, 1868, when, in Parke county, Indiana, he espoused Nancy Webb, who was born in Putnam county, Indiana, near Greencastle, August 8, 1848, the daughter of John T. and Edna Webb, both natives of Kentucky. In 1874 Mr. Neal returned to Nodaway county, Missouri, for the purpose of taking care of his father, and he purchased a farm north of Maryville, near his sister, with both of whom the father made his home. He remained on that farm for a period of twenty-five years. It was a new eighty-acre farm when he bought it. He made improvements here and finally exchanged the place for a farm of one hundred and thirty acres in White Cloud township, to Aaron McNeal ; this was an old farm, on which stood somewhat dilapidated buildings. Here he remained eleven years, dur- ing which time he erected new buildings and made many other improvements. He exchanged this place for two hundred and fourteen acres, with James Kenney moving here. his present home, two miles northeast of Pickering, in February, 1907. This is one of the oldest farms in the county, but has been well tilled and is still very productive. Seventy acres of this land is in the bottoms of the One Hundred and Two river, the balance being upland. A fine white-oak grove was cut from this place. The farm was rented for years and was somewhat "run down" when Mr. Neal took charge of it. but
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he has made improvements in every way and now has a good farm. The house stands on an eminence, overlooking a fine stretch of country. Mr. Neal devotes a great deal of attention to the raising of stock and grain. He pre- pares large numbers of hogs for the market. He has sold forty-eight acres to his son.
Mr. Neal has never been an office seeker, but he is a strict Democrat : he has manifested a deep interest in educational matters.
To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis J. Neal ten children have been born, named as follows : Marion is working with his father on the home place; Lizzie mar- ried John Henry Hanna, of Polk township; Mary married Elza G. Wysong, a jeweler of Clinton, Henry county, Missouri; George lives on a part of the home farm; Edna married John Collins, of White Cloud township, this county ; John is a barber in Oneida, Kansas; Edith is a teacher in Newton, Kansas, having formerly taught in Nodaway county, Missouri; Ethel, twin sister of Edith, married Charles Hinton and is living in Elmira, Washing- ton : Dolly married Joseph Baum, of St. Joseph ; Dorrit lives in St. Joseph.
Mr. and Mrs. Neal are members of the Christian church at Pickering.
JOSEPH S. WEAVER.
A veterinary surgeon is one of the most useful men of a community and he is usually well known throughout the country where he resides, for in this age of good livestock men owning a fine horse, and most farmers have at least one, they are ever solicitous when any inroads of disease are manifest and send for the veterinary with as much haste as they would send for the family physician in an emergency case. A popular veterinary and farmer of Union township, Nodaway county, is Joseph S. Weaver, who was born in Morris county, New Jersey, February 24, 1853. In 1857 he was brought by his parents to Mills county, southwestern Iowa. He is the son of William and Nancy J. (Van Dorn) Weaver. The father was for several years a policeman in Newark, New Jersey, and the night club he carried is in the possession of his son. Joseph E. The parents were born in New Jersey, William, in Morris county. He was a descendant of the Holland Dutch on both sides of the house. He remained in Mills county until his death, in June, 1906, at the age of seventy-six years, having been born in 1830; Mrs. Weaver is still living in Malvern, Iowa.
Joseph S. Weaver grew to maturity in Mills county. The longest per-
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iod he attended school was one term of fifty-five days at White Cloud, Iowa. the old stage town between Red Oak and Glenwood, where his father lived for forty-five years on one farm. Mr. Weaver attended a log school house. with benches made of slabs, a board on pegs for a desk and one small square pane of glass for a window. He recalls seeing at one time a drove of hogs of seventeen hundred head, the drove being driven to the Missouri river and then taken across the plains to Virginia City, Montana. He has seen thou- sands of hogs started across the state to Burlington. His father sold hogs to be killed and salted, then hauled in wagons across the plains ; these usually brought thirty-three and one-third dollars each; once, refusing two and one- half cents per pound, the elder Weaver killed his hogs and finally sold them for seventeen cents per pound to builders of the Wabash Railroad.
The only member of this family to come to Nodaway county, Mis- souri, was Joseph S. He remained at home until he was twenty-five years of age assisting his father, who came to Mills county with very little capital. to develop a farm from the wild prairie. He secured a piece of land of his father, then went to Nebraska, where he lived ten or twelve years, buying a farm in Washington county, thirty-five miles west of Omaha. He then came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1892, and bought the farm in section 5. Union township, five miles east of Pickering, where he now resides and which has been his home since that time. It lies on the Mazingo branch. He has sold forty acres of his place, now owning one hundred acres. He built a good barn in 1893. In 1909 he erected a handsome cottage of nine rooms ; his farm is now valued at one hundred and twenty-five dollars per acre. A good school is close by and the Mazingo Valley Methodist Episcopal church is also near. He carried on general farming. always keeping some good hogs and other livestock. His home is well located, in the midst of beautiful sur- roundings.
As already indicated. Mr. Weaver, in connection with his farming. practices veterinary surgery, having followed the same very successfully in Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri.
Mr. Weaver is not a public man, but is a Republican in politics : he has never had to resort to the courts, the extent of his attendance at court being when he served as a juryman in St. Joseph.
Mr. Weaver was married on August 30. 1888, at Blair, Nebraska, to Eleanor Hamaker, a native of Mills county, Iowa, where she grew to woman- hood and was educated ; she was but fifteen years old at the time of her mar- riage. This union has been without issue. Mrs. Weaver belongs to the Chris- tian church at Gaynor City.
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JOHN W. POOL.
Among the sturdy and enterprising farmers of Hughes township, Noda- way county, Missouri, is the gentleman whose name appears above, whose life has been one of industry and strict adherence to honorable principles, which has resulted in gaining a comfortable living and at the same time win- ning the respect of his fellow-men. Mr. Pool was born in Ross county, Ohio, on November 7. 1838, and is a son of Peter and Vinson ( Haler) Pool. The subject's paternal grandfather, John W. Pool, was one of the first settlers of Ross county and took a prominent part in the early development of that section. The subject's parents settled on a farm in Ross county after their marriage, and there the father died at the age of about sixty years. His widow survived him a number of years, dying in Highland county, Ohio, at the age of sixty-eight years. They were the parents of nine children who reached years of maturity, of which number the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth.
John W. Pool was reared in his native county and received a good, practical education in the public schools of the neighborhood. He was reared to the life of a farmer and devoted his efforts in that direction up to the 2d day of May. 1864, when he became a member of Company I. One Hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served about four months, giving faithful and valiant service. After leaving the army Mr. Pool resumed his farming operations in Ross county and remained there until February, 1883, when he came to Nodaway county, Missouri, locating on the farm in Hughes township where he now resides. He is the owner of ninety acres of splendidly improved land, practically all of which is under a high state of cultivation and from which Mr. Pool receives satis- factory returns for the labor bestowed. He has erected a good set of farm buildings, comprising a comfortable and attractive residence, substantial and commodious barn and other necessary outbuildings, the general appearance of the place indicating the owner to be a man of good ideas and practical judgment. Mr. Pool is a progressive farmer and gives thoughtful and intel- ligent direction to the operation of the farm. In addition to the raising of general crops, he also devotes some attention to the raising and handling of livestock, from which source he derives a considerable part of his income.
In Ross county, Ohio, on November 29, 1864. Mr. Pool was united in marriage with Barbara A. Beath, who was born in Ross county, Ohio, on August 30, 1837, and they became the parents of six children, namely : James : Alpharetta, who is the wife of Lindsay Stephens : Maggie. Susie. Eletha and
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Anna. Mrs. Barbara Pool died in Hughes township, this county, on August 1, 1894, her death being deeply regretted throughout the community, where her many excellent qualities were widely recognized.
Religiously, Mr. Pool is a consistent member of the Methodist Episco- pal church, which he joined in 1868 and to which he has ever given an earnest and generous support. Mr. Pool takes an intelligent interest in the welfare of the community in which he lives and his support is given without reserve to all movements which promise to elevate the moral, educational, social or material conditions. Because of his high personal character and his genial disposition he enjoys the good will of all who know him.
WILLIAM M. PISTOLE.
A well remembered citizen of Union township who labored there not only for his own advancement and that of his immediate family. but who had at heart the general good of his neighbors and fellowmen was William Pis- tole, who is now sleeping the sleep of the just. He was a man of friendly and generous instincts, honest and trustworthy, therefore numbered his friends by the scores wherever he was known.
Mr. Pistole was born in Tennessee, March II, 1833, and when ten years of age came to Buchanan county, Missouri, in the fall of 1842, and in the spring of the following year he came to Nodaway county, thus being among the early settlers here. He was the son of Thomas J. and Lucinda (Long) Pistole, the former born in Virginia, it is believed, for there his family lived in the early days. Mr. Pistole settled on the One Hundred and Two river, near the Narrows, two and one-half miles north of Pickering: the house he first lived in used to stand on the bluffs there. After a time he moved to the upland between the Mowry and Mazingo branch, three miles east of Pickering on the farm now owned by Edmund Harvey. They entered land from the government and there Thomas Pistole spent the balance of his life, dying on March 27, 1870, at an advanced age. He was a hard worker and a man well thought of. His widow survived until December 28. 1888. reaching the age of seventy-three years. Eleven children were born to them. namely : Parazetta married George W. Nash, both now deceased; Austin Nash, of Maryville. is their son; William M .. of this review; George W. is living retired in Kansas City: John died in young manhood ; Steven C. is liv- ing retired at Hopkins. this county: Leander B. died in middle life: Adeline
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