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W. H. Nicholas was born in Vinton county, Ohio, on December 23. 1845. and was the son of John and Nellie (Graves) Nicholas. His parents were natives of North Carolina, who removed to Ohio in an early day. settling in Vinton county. About 1848 they removed to Stark county, Illinois, locat- ing near Wyoming, where they carried on farming pursuits. They remained there until 1876, when they came to Nodaway county, the subject and his wife coming with them. Together they bought two hundred and eighty acres of land, where Mrs. Nicholas now lives, and there the parents spent the rest of their days, they being now buried at Burlington Junction. The parents also owned one hundred and sixty acres across the road from the home farm, of which they gave to their son Leonard eighty acres. They had also owned several hundred acres of land in Illinois. They were good farmers and gave considerable attention to the raising of good livestock. The subject of this
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sketch was reared by his parents and remained with them after his marriage, coming, as has been said, with them to this county. He had secured a good education in the common schools and was an intelligent and well-read man. He became a successful farmer and stock raiser and was numbered among the leading farmers of his township. On February 23. 1865, he enlisted in Company B, Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with which he served one year.
On September 18, 1870, Mr. Nicholas married Sarah Darby, who was born in Vinton county, Ohio, March 13, 1853, the daughter of Britton and Nancy (Graves) Darby. The father was probably born in North Carolina and died in Vinton county, Ohio. He was a successful farmer and was a veteran of the Mexican war. To Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas were born the following children: Nettie Belle, born February 17, 1871; Elmer Layton, born August 7, 1872, died in 1876; Pearl Day, born July 27, 1874; Charles. born March 14, 1876; Anna, born August 23. 1878; Allie, born September 15, 1880: Zella May, born February 28, 1883 ; Elma, born May 24, 1885; Fred. born May 10, 1887 ; Harry, born July 27, 1889; Gertrude Myrtle, born Feb- ruary 15, 1893 ; Nellie Ethel, born October 25, 1895, died February 7, 1897.
Fraternally Mr. Nicholas was an appreciative member of the time-hon- ored order of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons for many years and in his life he exemplified the sublime principles of that beneficent order. His re- ligious membership was with the United Brethren church, to which he gave liberally and in the success of which he was deeply interested. Possessing a genial disposition and always on the alert to be of service to others, especially those of his own household, he lacked not for friends and his home was the center of a large social circle. He was one of God's noblemen and was eminently deserving of the high opinion in which he was generally held.
VIRGIL A. GUTHRIE.
Specific mention is made of many of the worthy citizens of Nodaway county within the pages of this work, citizens who have figured in the growth and development of this favored locality and whose interests have been identi- fied with its every phase of progress, each contributing in his sphere of action to the well-being of the community in which he resides and to the advance- ment of its normal and legitimate growth. Among this number is he whose name appears above, peculiar interest attaching to his career from the fact that practically his entire life has been spent within the borders of this county.
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V. A. Guthrie was born on January 21, 1855, four miles east of Burling- ton Junction, in Nodaway township, but then a part of Atchison township. He is descended on the paternal side from sturdy Kentucky ancestry, his grandparents, James and Margaret (Phillips) Guthrie, having been natives of that state. In a very early day they came to Missouri, settling in either Monitor or Boone county, later locating in Platte county, where the father devoted himself to the improvement of land and its cultivation. James Guth- rie was a soldier in the war of 1812 and was highly respected wherever known. He and his wife eventually moved to Nodaway county, where their deaths occurred. The subject's maternal grandfather was Joseph Mckay, who in an early day brought his wife to Missouri, locating in Monitor county, where he followed farming and where his death eventually occurred. The subject's parents were Samuel F. and Allie Ann ( McKay) Guthrie, the for- mer of whom was born in Boone county, Missouri. on March 20, 1822, and the latter in Monitor county on January 4. 1832. The father died on March 2, 1906. and is survived by his widow, who is living at Lovel, Oklahoma. Samuel F. Guthrie was educated in the public schools and was reared to the life of a farmer, which was his occupation mainly throughout his life. For some years he was located in Buchanan county. this state, but in 1853 he bought two hundred and forty acres of land, that on which the subject of this sketch was born, and moved onto it the following year. The place contained but few improvements, the house being a rude log cabin. On this place the family lived until 1892. when the parents moved to Oklahoma, where the father operated a farm until about three years prior to his death, when he re- tired from active labor and moved to the town of Lovel. In politics he was an ardent Democrat and at one time served a term of four years as county judge, giving eminent satisfaction because of the fairness of his rulings and the soundness of his judgment. He was a member of the Masonic order for the long period of sixty years and was a charter member of three lodges in Nodaway county : Lodge No. 165, at Maryville, Lodge No. 196, at Quitman, and Lodge No. 442, at Burlington Junction. His religious membership was with the Baptist church. to which he gave an earnest and consistent support. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, of which number three died early in life : the others. two sons and four daughters, are living.
V. A. Guthrie is indebted to the public schools of his home neighborhood for his education, which has been liberally supplemented during the subsequent years by much reading and habits of close observation, so that today he is considered a well informed man on general topics. Mr. Guthrie remained
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with his parents until twenty-nine years old, when he was married and at once went to farming on his own account on eighty acres of land which he had purchased four miles east of Burlington Junction. He operated this land with a gratifying measure of success until 1892, when he bought ninety acres of land in the northern part of Nodaway township, and there he assiduously devoted himself to general farming operations until 1907, at which date he moved to Wilcox, where he has since resided, though he still retains an active supervision of his farming operations. Mr. Guthrie has given thoughtful and intelligent direction to all his operations and has kept closely in touch with the most advanced ideas relating to the science of agriculture, so that he has been able to realize large results from his operations, being numbered among the successful farmers of his section of the county.
In 1884 Mr. Guthrie was united in marriage to Ella M. Vert, daughter of Jacob D. Vert. of Wilcox, and to them has been born a son, Glenn Vert Guthrie, who was born on March 12, 1893. Politically. Mr. Guthrie is a stanch Democrat and has rendered efficient and satisfactory service as trustee of his township and justice of the peace. Fraternally. he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World, while he. with his wife, belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church South, to which he gives a generous support. His life has been characterized by persistent industry, sound judgment and stern integrity, characteristics which have won for him the sincere respect and esteem of the entire community, he being a popular member of the circles in which he moves.
Jacob D. Vert, father of Mrs. Guthrie, owned a farm of eighty acres adjoining Wilcox, where he had resided about thirty-five years. He died on February 13. 1909. and his wife died July 11, 1906.
C. C. HAINLINE.
One of the enterprising and successful citizens of the vicinity of Wilcox. Nodaway county, is C. C. Hainline, who, although a native of the Prairie state. is a loyal citizen of Missouri, taking an interest in whatever promotes the general good of his adopted state. He was born in McDonough county, Illinois, in 1849, and is the son of Nathan and Elizabeth ( Hale) Hainline. natives of Kentucky, who, in about 1835, came as pioneers to Illinois, buying two hundred acres of raw land. On this Mr. Hainline put on extensive im- provements as the years went by, eventually having a fine farm which he man-
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aged successfully, and on which he spent the remainder of his life, dying in 1865. A Republican, he took an active interest in party affairs. His family consisted of six children.
C. C. Hainline was reared on the home farm where he assisted with the general work and received a fairly good education in the home schools. He remained at home until 1870 when he came to Laurence, Missouri, and in 1871 located in Nodaway county, between Burlington Junction and Wilcox. buying an improved farm of eighty acres, on which he lived about six years. then moved to a place near Wilcox, buying one hundred and sixty acres which he has since made his home, being the possessor of a well improved and very productive farm. He also owns a few town lots. He has proved his taste and ability as a farmer as is evidenced through the splendid appearance of his place today compared with its condition when he took possession of it. He has always carried on general farming. In 1901 he bought out the general store at Wilcox and successfully operated the same for a period of eight years. building up a very satisfactory trade with the surrounding country. selling out in 1908 to J. B. Nunnelley.
Although Mr. Hainline has been postmaster of Wilcox since 1901, hav- ing given the greatest satisfaction in this capacity, he oversees the work of his farm, keeping things moving in the right direction.
In the year 1868 Mr. Hainline married Frances Shaffer, and this union resulted in the birth of the following children: Minnie. Arthur ( deceased) . Frederick, Nathan ( deceased) and Ida. This family belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church South. Politically Mr. Hainline is a Republican ; he was township trustee for four years and assessor for eight years, and he has been justice of the peace for the past two years. He has taken the census twice. He has long been active in the local affairs of his party and in all public posi- tions he has been called upon to fill he has discharged his duties in a most worthy manner and has the confidence and approval of all his constituents and acquaintances.
ELIJAH THOMAS BAILEY.
The trend of civilization in the United States has, from the beginning of statehood. been ever toward the West. Gradually from state to state the advanced guard has thrown out its lines until now the major part of the available agricultural land has been appropriated. Thus it is a rare thing to observe men born in some western state migrating in the other direction, to-
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ward the East. but that is what occurred in the career of Elijah Thomas Bailey, of the vicinity of Elmo, Nodaway county, for he was born in Leaven- worth county, Kansas, August 6, 1867, and is the son of James M. and Mary Ann (Cravens) Bailey, the former a native of North Carolina, born there April 1. 1837, and the mother was born in Lexington, Missouri. James M. Bailey emigrated to Platte county, Missouri, with his parents. He later came to Nodaway county, where he spent some time, then went to Kansas and in 1874 returned to Nodaway county, Missouri, where he is now residing, his wife having died in Leavenworth county, Kansas, in 1872. Their family consisted of five sons and one daughter, all now living but one son. The second wife of James M. Bailey was Matilda A. Jones and to this union six children have been born, all living but one. Politically Mr. Bailey is a Repub- lican and he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has been very successful as a farmer.
Mr. Bailey was one of the defenders of the national Union during the Civil war, having enlisted in Company D. Thirty-sixth Missouri Cavalry, in which he served until the close of the war with a very creditable record. He is a member of Post No. 162. Grand Army of the Republic. department of Missouri.
The paternal grandparents of Elijah T. Bailey were Joel and Nancy ( Kerley ) Bailey. the former born in Georgia and the latter in North Carolina. They came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in the fifties. Grandfather Bailey died in Leavenworth county, Kansas, and the grandmother in Andrew county, Missouri. William Tecumseh Bailey, a brother of Elijah T. Bailey, served seventeen years in the United States army, his death occurring while stationed at Manila. Philippine Islands. Another brother. Edward R. Bailey, served three years in the regular army, a part of which time was spent in the Philip- pines. and a nephew of the subject. William Bailey, is now in the United States army and in the islands mentioned above.
Elijah T. Bailey was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools of Nodaway county, and he has devoted his life to farming pursuits and has achieved a large measure of success, being the owner of a very valu- able place consisting of two hundred and forty acres, all of which he has accumulated by his own industry and good management. Besides engaging in general farming, he raises and feeds a great deal of stock, which finds a ready market owing to their unusual fine quality. He has a well-improved place, a very comfortable dwelling and good outbuildings for his stock and grain.
Politically. Mr. Bailey is a Republican, but he has never held public
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office. He is a member of the Canady Lodge, No. 329. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Mrs. Bailey belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Bailey was married on March 15, 1893, to Clara A. Bain, who was born in Nodaway county in 1874, the daughter of William and Clarisa Jane (Hardy) Bain, the latter born in Page county, Iowa. They came to Nod- away county, Missouri, about 1870, and there they both spent the remainder of their lives. To Mr. and Mrs. Bailey three children have been born, namely : Elijah Dale. Glen Monroe and Donald Raymond.
PATRICK CUMMINS.
It is no doubt true that Ireland, of all countries of the world, has sent more emigrants in proportion to population to the United States than any other country, and the reason is well known. For hundreds of years the Emerald Isle has been denied many valuable rights and privileges by Great Britain, and the pride and honor of the people were ground into the dust. They could avoid this only by leaving the island, much as they loved it. and accordingly thousands of them, as the years rolled round, have crossed the wide Atlantic to find a home of greater freedom in America. In every state they have settled and built up comfortable homes, have been among our most successful farmers, business and professional men, and today they occupy many of the proudest positions within the gift of the people. Among the sons of the Emerald Isle who have become identified with American insti- tutions is the subject of this sketch, who is numbered among the successful agriculturists of Nodaway county.
Patrick Cummins was born in Callan, Ireland, in 1840, and is a son of Thomas and Honora ( Whalan) Cummins, who were born, reared, married and died in their native land. The subject was educated in the schools of his native locality and was reared under the parental roof. At the age of twenty-five years he came to the United States with his brother, going first to Ohio, but the following year moving to Illinois, where he spent the following four years engaged in farming. In 1870 Mr. Cummins came to Nodaway county and bought the farm in Nodaway township on which he now resides. This farm comprised one hundred and sixty acres, and has been added to from time to time until he is now the owner of eight hun- dred and thirty acres of excellent land, all of which is under cultivation and returning to Mr. Cummins a nice annual income. He gives his personal attention to every detail of the farm work and has scored a distinct success
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in his line of effort. In addition to general farming, Mr. Cummins also gives some attention to stock raising and feeding. The property is well improved, with a comfortable and well-arranged residence, substantial barns and other necessary farm buildings, the general appearance of the place being inviting to the eye.
In 1878 Mr. Cummins was united in marriage to Ann Ryan, a native of Massachusetts, and of Irish descent, who came to Nodaway county with her parents in an early day. To Mr. and Mrs. Cummins have been born the following children : John Thomas Benedict. Mary Clare, Honora Gertrude, Francis Edward, Katie Ellen, William P. (deceased), James Emmett, Simon Leander, William Patrick, Julian Joseph, Gerald. Agnes C. and Elizabeth.
Religiously, Mr. Cummins and the members of his family belong to the Catholic church, to which they give a devout allegiance. Politically, Mr. Cummins is a stanch Democrat.
John P. Ryan, father of Mrs. Cummins, was born in county Limerick, Ireland, and came to America in 1848. locating first in Massachusetts. In 1858 he came to Nodaway county, Missouri, locating three miles west of Quitman, where he engaged in the blacksmithing business, which he fol- lowed continuously until he retired from active labor, he having been the first blacksmith in that part of the county. He is a member of the Roman Catholic church and is highly respected in his community.
Mr. Cummins has proved a worthy citizen of this great republic and has given his support at all times to such movements as promise to benefit the entire people. He is broad-minded and intelligent and is numbered among the leading men of his community.
WILLIAM MCNEAL.
No citizen of a past generation in Hughes township had more friends or will be longer remembered than the late William McNeal, who. after a very active, useful and successful life, has gone to that sphere where there is no death nor change, leaving behind him a comfortable inheritance for his family and what is more to be desired-a good name. He was a Pennsyl- vanian by birth, having been born in Huntington county, July 6. 1829. and there he was reared and educated. He was the son of James and Margaret (Gibson) McNeal, both natives of Ireland. William McNeal was married in Huntington county, Pennsylvania, on November 25. 1852. to Elizabeth
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Rickets, who was born in that place. on May 8, 1836; she is the daughter of Nathan and Maria (McGiffin) Rickets, both natives of Huntington county. They left Pennsylvania and came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in October, 1867. and for a few months lived in Hughes township and then settled about two and one-half miles northwest of Maryville. in Polk township, where they died. she being in her seventy-eighth year and he in his eighty-eighth. Mrs. McNeal was one of the older members of a family of eight children. She was reared in her home community and received a very good education in the common schools.
To Mr. and Mrs. McNeal five children were born, namely : Henrietta ; Walter; Flora is the wife of Michael McQuade. of White Cloud township, this county ; Anna B. is the wife of J. A. Connor, of Nodaway county ; Grace is the wife of J. H. Allen, of St. Joseph. Missouri.
William McNeal owned eighty acres of good land in Hughes township, which he improved. He was a hard worker and made a very comfortable living for his family. His death occurred on this place, January 10. 1893.
Henrietta McNeal is an old teacher, formerly prominent in educational affairs for many years, having taught four years in Montana and twenty- four years in Nodaway county.
Mrs. William McNeal is a faithful member of the Baptist church, and, like her husband during his lifetime here, has hosts of warm personal friends. She lives with her daughter on the old homestead. being now seventy-four years old.
LEANDER E. CARPENTER.
The efforts of Leander E. Carpenter, the present popular county re- corder of Nodaway county, have proven of the greatest value to his fellow- citizens as well as to himself and family, for he has shaped his career along worthy lines, and they have been discerningly directed along well defined channels of endeavor. He is a man of distinct and forceful individuality, of marked foresight. of undaunted enterprise, and in manner he is genial. courteous and easily approached, being thus well qualified in every way for the position of trust which he now holds. His career has ever been such as to warrant the trust and confidence of the business world, his activity in industrial. agricultural and political circles forming no unimportant chapter in the history of his locality: but he is entirely unassuming and does not deign to maintain that he is one of the local history makers.
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Mr. Carpenter's family has long been prominent in western Nodaway county, where, on the paternal farm in Green township, his birth occurred on January 13, 1864. He is the grandson of John Carpenter and the son of Fleming M. Carpenter, the latter a native of Kentucky where he grew to maturity and received his early schooling. Leaving his native blue grass hills in the spring of 1857. he came to Nodaway county, Missouri, and settled in Green township where he soon got a good start, developed an excellent farm and remained on it until his death, on September 22, 1876, at the age of fifty-four years, having been born in 1822, near Flemingsburg. Fleming county. Kentucky, of an excellent old family. He was a prominent Mason and was master of the lodge at Quitman, this county, at the time of his death. Religiously he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church South and a good and useful man in his community, highly respected by all who knew him.
The Carpenter family is of Irish descent on the paternal side and Scotch on the maternal side. The wife of Fleming M. Carpenter was known in her maidenhood as Kate Weedon, born at Manassas, Virginia, where her family were long prominently identified with the life of that locality. She was born in 1833 and her death occurred in 1893. at the age of sixty years. She came to Kentucky in her youth and married there, a year after which event she accompanied Mr. Carpenter to Putnam county, Indiana. Three children were born to them, Dora (deceased), Leander E., of this review, and Wrae, who lives on the old homestead.
Leander E. Carpenter was born on the old homestead and there lived until January 1. 1907, beginning work about the place and thus early in life became familiar with agricultural pursuits, which he has made his principal vocation all his life. He received a good common school education and later attended Central College at Fayette, Missouri, for five years, where he made a splendid record and received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. After leaving college he took up farming in Green township on the paternal acres, which he followed continuously and very successfully until he was elected re- corder of Nodaway county in the fall of 1906, on the Democratic ticket. his term lasting for a period of four years. He had long been locally prominent in his party and prior to this selection for recorder he was, for two terms, a member of the township board of Green township: he also very ably served as clerk and ex-officio assessor of this township. His public record has been one calculated to inspire confidence in his constituents.
Mr. Carpenter was married August 17, 1886. to Mary LeMar, daughter
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of J. W. and Elizabeth (Terhune) LeMar, an honored family of Lincoln township, Nodaway county, where Mrs. Carpenter was born, reared and edu- cated. This union has resulted in the birth of six children, Dora, Winifred Lee, Fleming M., Catherine Elizabeth, Lillian Olive and Mary Weedon.
Mr. Carpenter still maintains an active interest in farming, owning a good farm in Lincoln township, also one of no less desirability in Jackson township, each being well improved and well managed.
Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter are members of the Methodist church, of which Mr. Carpenter is trustee. He is a great lodge man, belonging to the local lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Masons and Modern Woodmen. He has taken a great deal of pride in the development of his county and played no unimportant role in its general progress, having lived to see it transformed from a sparsely settled and uncultivated locality to one of the very best counties in the great empire state of the West.
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