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Hanson H. Ware passed his youthful days in Ross county, Ohio, and there received a good education. He accompanied his parents to Nodaway county, Missouri. When the war between the states began he proved
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his patriotism by enlisting in Company I. Forty-fourth Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, in 1864. and by faithful service he was promoted to first lieutenant and later appointed adjutant of his regiment. He was in the battles of Spring Hill. Frankfort. Nashville, Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely. He was mustered out at St. Louis in August. 1865. After his army career, which, indeed, was a very creditable one. he returned home and devoted the rest of his life to farming. In April, 1863, he married Angeline Alexander, daughter of Judge Alexander. She was born in May, 1844, and died in May. 1864. Mr. Ware was married a second time. in 1866, to Parmelia Needles, daughter of Judge E. S. Needles ; she died in 1870, leaving three children, John E., Eliza J. and Samuel F. He was subsequently mar- ried to Mary Elnor Branson, daughter of Louis and Jane Branson. She was born in Pike county, Ohio, February 3, 1839. Her father was born in Germany in 1804. and her mother in Maryland in 1812. They were mar- ried in 1827 and settled in Ross county. Ohio. Three children were born to Mr. Ware and his last wife, namely: Harry A., whose sketch appears herein ; Glen D. and Sarah A.
The parents of these children were both members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Ware was also master workman of Lodge No. 216. Ancient Order of United Workmen. The death of this excellent citizen oc- curred on July 11, 1886.
Mrs. Ware is still living in Quitman, where her son Glen also lives. Her daughter, Sarah, married Frank P. Prosser and lives at Joplin, Missouri, where he is city ticket agent for the Missouri- Pacific Railway. John E. Ware is married and lives at Chickasha. Oklahoma: Eliza J. is the wife of Joseph Carden and lives southeast of Quitman : Samuel F. Ware died in August. 1888.
WILLIS S. FRANKUM.
Those interested in the history of Nodaway county do not have to carry their investigations far into its annals before learning that Willis S. Frankum. of Green township, has long been an active and leading representative of its agricultural interests and that his labors have proven a potent force in mak- ing this a rich farming region. For several decades he has gradually im- proved his valuable place, and while he has prospered in his general farming operations, he has also found ample opportunity to assist in the material de-
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velopment of the county, and his co-operation has been of value for the general good.
Mr. Frankum was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, in 1861, and is the son of William Henry and Caroline (Westfall) Frankum. William Henry Frankum was the only son of George and Rachael Frankum, born in Pick- away county, Ohio, August 30, 1836. He was left fatherless when ten years old. The father had set an excellent example of character for the boy, and he went to work to emulate his father's example. He worked by day, studied in leisure hours and at night, consequently obtained a good education, though his schooling was limited. When twenty-one years of age he began teaching school. He married, on October 16, 1860, Caroline Westfall, and on April 13. 1863. moved to Nodaway county, Missouri, and engaged in farming and stock raising near Quitman, teaching school during the winter months. George Frankum, father of William Henry, was born October 21, 18II, in Chester county, Pennsylvania. He was the son of William and Mary (Root) Frankum. William was the son of John and Mary Frankum, who were natives of Germany, as was William Frankum. They came to America early in the nineteenth century and lived in Virginia from 1810 - to 1815. Mrs. William Henry Frankum, mother of Willis S. of this review, was born in Ross county, Ohio, February 2, 1837, and her death occurred on March 20. 1889, at the age of fifty-two years. For many years she was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
When Willis S. Frankum was one and one-half years old, on April IO, 1863. the family came to Missouri and located three miles northeast of Quitman. Nodaway county, where Mr. Frankum purchased a farm of George Cordell. About four years later the family moved one and one-half miles west of Quitman and bought a farm which is still the family home: it consists of one hundred and sixty acres, west of Nodaway river and ten acres east of this stream. There Willis S. grew to manhood. In October, 1874, the family moved to Cavaleras county, California, and rented land on which they remained until the spring of 1875. when they moved to Monterey county, that state, and remained there until fall. then went to San Benito county, and in the spring of 1876 they returned home. The trip was both for sight-seeing and for the benefit of the mother's health, and in March, 1889, she died here on the home place. The father and two sisters of Willis S. kept house for a while, later moving to Tarkio, Atchison county. and remained there three years, then returned to the old home again, where they lived until about 1897. There were five children in this family, one of whom died in childhood: those living are Ethel M., who resides in Cali-
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fornia ; John C. lives on a farm at Wellington, Kansas; Carrie also lives in California; Willis S., of this review.
A good education was acquired by Willis S. Frankum in the public schools and in Amity College, at College Springs, Iowa. Returning home he remained here for two or three years, then went to western Nebraska in the spring of 1886 and took up a homestead, on which he remained a year and a half, then returned to Nodaway county at the old place near Quitman.
In 1889 Mr. Frankum was married to Belle Evans. daughter of Jerome B. and Ellen (Duffy) Evans. She was born in Hancock county. Illinois, and came to Maryville, Missouri, when a child, and about 1876 she lived on a farm near Maryville, later moving into Green township, west of Noda- way, and there grew to womanhood. After their marriage, Mr. Frankum farmed three years on a place west of his father's old home, then went to western Nebraska and bought a farm on which he lived three and one-half years, then returned to his father's old home in the fall of 1896, living with his father and sisters. The following spring one sister began teaching school and the other entered the millinery business, and they have been away from home ever since. The father remained at home two or three years, then married Anna M. Caldwell, and Willis S. moved into another house, near by, on land that is now a part of the old farm. Some three or four years later the father moved to Maryville where he lived until his death in February, 1909. His widow still lives there. Willis S. has lived on the old homestead ever since. In his family are three children, Guy L .. Melba D. and Dale E., all at home with their parents.
Politically Mr. Frankum is a Republican, and he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen lodges at Quitman. He has been very successful and has accumulated several hundred acres of land by his good management. He is quiet, friendly and unas- suming, and a man whom to know is to respect and to be a friend to.
CALLAHILL M. B. SUTTLE.
One of the successful, large-hearted, genial and unpretentious agri- culturists of the western part of Nodaway county is Callahill M. B. Suttle, who springs from one of the best of old Southern families, whose honor and traditions he has ever sought to bear aloft. His birth occurred in Clinton
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county, Missouri, in 1856, and he is the son of Jerome B. and Elizabeth (Layton) Suttle, the father born in Lynchburg, Virginia, of German an- cestry. There he grew to maturity, coming to Clinton county, Missouri, in the latter fifties and remained there until a few years ago when he came to Nodaway county and lived with his son, Callahill M. B., of this review, the balance of his days, dying in 1902. He devoted his life work to farming, owned a good place of one hundred and forty acres in Clinton county, and he was an honest, industrious and well-liked man, highly respected by his neighbors. His wife was born in Kentucky and she had been married before her alliance with Mr. Suttle, being the widow of William Finnell, and mother of John Finnell, of Nodaway township; her death occurred in September. 1888. One daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Jerome B. Suttle died in infancy.
Callahill M. B. Suttle lived on his father's farm in Clinton county until nineteen years of age, when he came to Nodaway county, locating near Quitman, where he worked at farm work by the month. On February 5, 1885, he married Sarah C. Bowman, daughter of Henry and Maria (Hagey) Bowman ; she was born near Quitman and when ten years of age the family moved to near Burlington Junction, where she grew to maturity. Her father (lied in 1866, when she was only thirteen months old. The mother, who is still living in Burlington Junction, was left to rear four children, and she also cared for other children besides her own and was a very diligent and ingenious woman, rearing her family in comfort and respectability, a woman of strong vitality, great energy and pluck. She is now seventy-eight years old and keeps her home much neater than most young women. She has been the head of her household ever since 1866, when her husband died.
Abraham Hagey, father of Mrs. Maria Bowman, was born in Amber- son's Valley, southwestern Pennsylvania, in 1803. He married Susan Harnor, a native of Carroll county. Ohio. They came to Missouri in 1852, located in Nodaway county, west of Dawson, entering one thousand acres of land from the government. About 1858 he moved into the northwestern part of Green township, near where the Hagey school house is now located, and that was the family home as long as he lived. His family consisted of five children, four sons and one daughter: Mrs. Maria Bowman, mother of Mrs. Suttle : Abraham Hagey. Jr., lives at Burlington Junction ; Isaac was killed at the battle of Corinth: Jacob was killed at the battle of Champion Hills; they were both soldiers in the Union army during the Civil war: John Hagey lives in the northwest part of Green township, in section 24.
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After his marriage Mr. Suttle began farming for himself, and about three years after he married he bought a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in Green township, seven miles southwest of Burlington Junction, and he has lived in that locality ever since. In 1900 he bought another farm of one hundred and sixty acres west of the road from the first one, still retain- ing the first place. In 1908 he bought another of forty acres on the east side of the road, adjoining the first tract, and in the spring of 1910 he bought eighty acres south of the first tract, making four hundred acres in all; only twenty-five acres of this vast and valuable tract are not in cultivation. His land is well improved and most admirably adapted for general farming and stockraising, to which Mr. Suttle devotes his exclusive attention. He has been very successful in his business career, always alert. progressive, and at the same time considerate and straightforward in his dealings with his fellow-men. He has a substantial, pleasant and attractively located dwelling and such outbuildings as his needs require. Various kinds of good livestock are to be found here.
To Mr. and Mrs. Suttle nine children have been born, of whom three (lied in infancy. Those living are Charles D., who is farming for himself near the family home; Jesse J., Dottie V., Okalla, Edwin and Edna M., who are twins, are all members of the home circle.
JAMES D. MALVERN.
One of the leading farmers of Green township, Nodaway county, and a man whose life has been led along lines calculated to inspire the confidence and respect of all who know him, is James D. Malvern, who was born in 1860 in Doniphan county, Kansas. He is the son of George M. and Mary E. (Warren) Malvern. The father was born near Hackettstown, New Jersey. and when a boy went with his parents to Pennsylvania and lived there about ten years, later coming to Iowa, locating in Mills county, where he grew to manhood. He was the son of David and Kate Malvern. In 1852 he went to California and worked in the gold mines and there he and his father conducted a store. He returned to Iowa in 1856, later to Missouri, enter- ing two hundred and forty acres of land in Harrison county. On his way there he secured the numbers of the tracts where Burlington Junction is now located, with the intention of entering it at the land office at Plattsburg. but upon his arrival there found that the land had already been taken. He.
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then entered land in Harrison county. About 1857 he went to Andrew county and located near Rochester. He was married about 1858 to Mary A. Warren, who was born near Greensburg, central North Carolina. She was the daughter of Briscoe and Adeline (Troxler) Warren, and when she was a little girl her parents brought her to Andrew county. That was in an early day, when St. Joseph was only a village, and she grew to maturity in Andrew county.
After George M. Malvern and wife, parents of James D., were mar- ried, they farmed in Andrew county until the spring of 1860, then lived one year in the extreme eastern part of Kansas, where their son, James D., was born. They then came back to Andrew county and lived there until about 1865, then came to Nodaway county and located near Quitman. the father buying a home there of one hundred and sixty acres and soon became well established.
James D. Malvern is one of a family of eight children, of whom four boys and one girl are living, namely : James D., of this review; Briscoe W. lives at Blunt. South Dakota: Edmund N. lives on the home place in the northwest part of Green township; Mollie F. is the wife of Robert T. Lamar and lives at Elmo, Missouri; George M., Jr., lives at Sterling, Oklahoma ; Thomas J. died when sixteen or seventeen years old ; David died when seven or eight months old. and Daniel S. died when about eighteen months old.
In 1903 or 1904 George M., Sr., moved to Oklahoma where he died in October, 1908; he had bought a half-section of land there, but still re- tained the old home place at Quitman. Missouri; he also owned eighty acres one and one-half miles west of Quitman; thirty acres south of Quitman, and one hundred and sixty acres in Powers county, Colorado. He was very successful, being a good business man and a keen observer. He was well liked wherever he was known, being a man of honest impulses and kind and genial. His wife died in 1891 on the old home place near Quitman.
James D. Malvern came to Nodaway county with his parents when a boy and he grew to maturity on the home place near Quitman. In 1882 he married Albina Weddle. daughter of James W. Weddle, Sr., and a sister of J. W. Weddle. Jr., whose sketch appears herein. She was born in Lawrence county, Indiana, and came west when three years old. After their marriage, James D. Malvern and wife went to farming near Quitman and remained in that locality until 1888, then went to Colorado and took up a government claim on which he lived a little over eighteen months, then, in the latter part of 1889, he came back to Green township, this county, where he has since resided. He has a good farm, and has been very suc-
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cessful in all his operations. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Burlington Junction. He is, like his father before him, a man well liked because of his hospitality, friendliness and honesty.
To Mr. and Mrs. Malvern nine children have been born, namely : Maude E., born in September, 1883, is the wife of W. P. Nicholas, and they live two miles southwest of Burlington Junction, and are the parents of one child, Joab. The others, who are all living at home, were born as follows : Warren H., born in September, 1886; Blanche L., born in August, 1890; Edmund R., born in February, 1893; Daniel B., born in January, 1896; John A., born in February, 1898: Annie Marie, born in September, 1900: Kate Lucile, born in September. 1903: Melba Grace, born in September, 1906.
JOSIAH CARL BURKE.
Although a young man, Josiah Carl Burke, usually called "Carl." one of the efficient foremen on the Bilby ranch in Nodaway county, is well versed in the science of twentieth-century agriculture and stock raising. He was born in Harrison county, Missouri, in 1877. He is the son of Josiah Carl Burke. Sr .. and his mother was known in her maidenhood as Mary E. Barber. The father was born in Adams county, Illinois, near Quincy, being the son of Lewis Burke : his mother was of Scotch descent, while the Burke family orig- inated in Ireland, from which country, many and many years ago, came the great-great-great-grandfather of the subject. The father lived in Illinois until he was fifteen years of age, then went with his parents to lowa. but returned to Illinois in 1862, and married Mary E. Barber, sister of A. C. and Fred C. Barber, whose sketches appear herein. In the spring of 1863 Mr. Burke enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Nineteenth Regiment Illi- nois Volunteer Infantry. He was badly wounded at the battle of Mobile. April 14, 1865, a musket ball passing through his breast and passing out under his right arm. After the war he returned to his farm in Mason county, Illi- nois, and lived there ten or twelve years, then came to Nodaway county, Mis- souri, and farmed in the south part of Green township, where R. I. Bilby now lives. Three years later he moved to Harrison county, Missouri, and lived there about eight years, followed farming and became very well estab- lished. All of the nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Josiah C. Burke, Sr.,
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grew to maturity; they are. Ida, wife of J. M. Colburn ; Cora A., wife of Grant Ruddle: Lottie E., wife of Charles Sisson; Ella M., wife of Elman Bever: W. Frank lives in Atchison county; Myra A. is the wife of George Leekey: George L. died when twenty-four years old; Josiah Carl, of this review : Zola B. is the wife of Ova Cook.
Prior to the birth of the subject the Burke family came to Nodaway county and located in Green township, southwest of Quitman, and lived on John S. Bilby's ranch. Three or four years later they went to Harrison county, where Carl was born, then they moved back to Nodaway county and located in the southwest part of Green township in section 23 and lived there twelve or thirteen years, then moved into Skidmore where the mother of the subject still lives.
J. Carl Burke, of this review, received a fairly good education and he has always made farming his chief life work. On May 1, 1902, he married Lulu Carmean ; she was born at Chanute, Kansas, and when thirteen years old her parents brought her to this county, where they located, and she grew to matur- ity at Skidmore. After his marriage Mr. Burke worked for a time at general farm work, then came to the Bilby ranch, west of Quitman, and ran traction and gasoline engines and other similar work. In 1906 he became a foreman on the Ed. Bilby ranch, which comprises fifteen thousand acres, and he has charge of one thousand acres of the same, looking after general farming, stock feeding, etc., for all of which he has been carefully trained and which he makes a great success of, being not only a man of good judgment but also a hard and persistent worker.
Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Burke, Hildred and Hazel. He and his wife both belong to the Christian church at Quitman.
Mrs. Carl Burke was known in her maidenhood as Lulu Carmean, daugh- ter of Arthur and Jennie (Lindsay ) Carmean ; her father was from Decatur, Illinois, and her mother was born at Springfield, that state. When her father was a boy his parents, Arthur and Mary Carmean, moved to Chanute, Kansas, and there Mrs. Burke spent her childhood. Her mother went to Kansas when she, too, was a girl, and lived awhile at Thayer, later moving to Chanute, where she and Mr. Carmean were married. Mrs. Burke is one of four children, namely: Lulu. Mrs. Burke: William lives in the east edge of Atchison county, being a foreman on Ed. Bilby's ranch; Cleo married Clyde Mast and lives one and one-half miles south of Skidmore; a son died in infancy, unnamed. Mr. and Mrs. Carmean moved to Skidmore and lived there about eight years and it was while living there that Mr. and Mrs. Burke were married.
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ALBERT L. CALLAWAY.
The old and well-established Callaway family is well represented in this generation and in Nodaway county by Albert L., commonly known as "Tip" Callaway, who was born October 1, 1840, in what is now Woodford county, Illinois, which locality was then a part of McLean county. He is the son of William Dudley and Amanda J. ( Wigginton) Callaway, both born and reared near Hopkinsville, Christian county, Kentucky, and there they were married By a previous marriage, to Miss Wright. William D. Callaway became the father of two children. Ann M. and Samuel B. Their mother died when they were small. To Mr. Callaway and his second wife one son, James E., was born in Kentucky, in April, 1836. After his birth the family came to what is now Woodford county, Illinois, and there the father followed his trade as a wheelwright, which he continued for a number of years, then bought a farm and devoted his attention to it. In 1846 the family moved back to Kentucky, but after three months moved to Cass county, Illinois, and there William D. Callaway again took up his trade and followed the same until 1853. then moved to Menard county, Illinois, there buying a farm which his boys worked while he followed his trade. Selling out there, he moved to Sweetwater, in that county, in 1857, remaining there until 1876. then moved to Graham, Missouri, and lived a retired life, working a little now and then at his trade. His second wife, mother of Albert L., of this review, died in 1879, and the father re-married in 1881 and located near Oregon, Holt county, Missouri, on a small farm, and his death occurred there in 1884. He was buried beside his second wife in the Odd Fellows cemetery at Graham. Both parents were members of the Christian church, in which the father was an elder and sometimes preached. being considered a good expounder of the Gos- pel. He was a good and useful man. He was stoutly built, active, jovial and good natured even in old age.
Albert L. Callaway remained at Sweetwater until the Civil war. In April. 1861, when came Lincoln's first call for seventy-five thousand troops, he enlisted for three months in Company E. Fourteenth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Col. John M. Palmer, afterwards major- general and United States senator. When Mr. Callaway was discharged he returned home and on the 2d of August. 1861, re-enlisted for three years in Company F. Twenty-eighth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry. At the expiration of his term of enlistment he again enlisted in the same regiment for three years more, and at the close of the war in April. 1865, his com- mand was ordered to the Rio Grande, where they went into camp at Browns-
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ville, Texas, remaining there until April, 1866, when Mr. Callaway received his final discharge from the service. Thus his army record was a long and interesting one. He followed Grant from Belmont to Vicksburg, including Fort Henry, Fort Heinan. Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Landing. Corinth, in 1862: the battle on the Hatchee, usually called "Hill on the Hatchee" and various other skirmishes. He was at the siege of Vicksburg, battle of Alex- andria, Louisiana. siege of Spanish Fort on Mobile Bay and capture of that fort, also. Fort Blakeley on Mobile Bay, the occupation of the city of Mobile. thence three miles north of Mobile on the Mobile & Ohio railroad to White- ley Station, where there was a slight brush with the enemy which was believed to be the last fighting of the war. Mr. Callaway was next to the smallest man in his company. He served in every position from private to lieutenant. being mustered out as lieutenant.
After his army career Mr. Callaway returned to Menard county, Illinois. and in February. 1867. he married "the girl he left behind." Mary E. Bracken. who was born and reared in Menard county. Illinois. She is the daughter of James Bracken, a native of Bourbon county. Kentucky. Her mother was known in her maidenhood as Arminda Blane, a native of Menard county, Illinois. After his marriage, Albert L. Callaway settled on a farm near Greenview, Illinois, where he remained four years, moving to Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1871, locating near Quitman the day of the memorable Chicago fire. in October of that year. He went to work on the raw prairie. dug a well, built a small house and lived there ten years, five miles northwest of Quitman. Selling the one hundred and sixty acres which he had improved. he rebuilt on a raw forty acres, buying eighty acres adjoining which had been improved. Selling out in the fall of 1883. he bought an old and "dilapidated" farm of two hundred and forty acres, improved it by building a good house. fences, etc. He was caught in the panic of 1893 and financially ruined. In 1896 he bought a farm of eighty acres two miles northeast of Quitman, which he sold in 1899 and moved into Quitman, where he has resided ever since. He owns two residence properties where he is living a quiet, contented life with his wife and children, surrounded by plenty.
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