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Judge Schieber was married on January 25. 1870. to Henrietta Meyer. who was born in Prussia, and to this union the following children have been born : John N., who owns a farm near the old home. Mary E. married Philip Walter and lives near the old home. Nicholas is a priest at Cottonwood. Idaho. He is a member of the Benedictine order. now has the name Father Ofillo and is the present parish priest at Cottonwood and a member of the monastery at that place. He was ordained at Conception on April 6, 1902. by Bishop Burke. Aloys Schieber is living on the old home farm. Gertrude A. is an invalied. Mary Augusta married Hiram G. Lager, of Jackson town- ship. Joseph G. died in childhood. Agatha L. married Charles B. Hengger. a farmer in Idaho. Joseph Benedict studied for the ministry at Conception. and finished the course at Mt. Angel (Oregon) Monastery, and he was ordained there in May. 1909. in the abbey church at Mt. Angel. Oregon, and is prefect over the college in that monastery ; his name is Father Basil. Agnes K. is living at home. Lee Adolph also lives at home.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Schieber were reared in the Catholic church and they have ever been loval to the same, rearing their family in this faith.
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JAMES M. McGINNESS.
One of Polk township's leading farmers and citizens is James M. Mc- Ginness. He is a Hoosier by birth, having first seen the light of day in Greene county. Indiana, on December 16, 1847. the son of Abinnah W. and Susan ( McClanahan) McGinness, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Ohio, and in the latter state they were married. coming to Indiana soon afterwards, about 1844. In 1856 they emigrated farther west and located in Page county, Iowa, and in 1857 came on to Nodaway county. Missouri, locat- ing eight miles northwest of Maryville, in Polk township. Mr. McGinness bought land at five dollars per acre, making his home there over forty years, or until 1898. his death occurring near by but on another farm, in Union town- ship. in 18cg. at the age of seventy-four years. Mrs. McGinness died in 1863. at the age of forty-four years. The second wife of Mr. McGinness was Nancy Graham, of Andrew county. Missouri ; she is now living in Picker- ing. this county. In 1857 when the family came here there was not a house between where they located and Maryville, eight miles, and they had but three neighbors. Sylvester Heflin, Chancy Dahlrymple and Elijah Heflin, all with- in two miles and the first named within one-fourth of a mile. This was a wild prairie and Abinnah McGinness bought seven hundred acres very cheap and finally became well-to-do for those days and one of the influential men of his township ; however, he was not a public man. Religiously he belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church and was a good honest man in all the walks of life : he took considerable interest in the church of this denomination at Pleasantview, near Pickering. He and his first wife were the parents of seven children. five of whom reached maturity, namely : Abannah W. is living in Kansas: William C., of Bedford, Iowa, is ex-sheriff of Taylor county ; Mary married Jacob Ashford, of Union township. Nodaway county ; David is living in the West: James M .. of this review, was the oldest of this group. Five children were born to the second marriage : Dennis is a coal dealer living in Pickering: Denver is a farmer living near Pickering, and Mildred, Mariah and Myra all died after reaching the age of maturity.
James M. McGinness was ten years old when he came to Nodaway county. He remained at home until he was twenty-one years old. He was one of the patriotic lads of the North who went to the front during the dark days of the sixties to save the national honor. having enlisted in February. 1864. in Company H. Fifty-first Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, a new regiment, in which he served very faithfully until August. 1865. his entire service being within Missouri, being out of the state only once. He
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was in the fight with Marmaduke at Cape Girardeau and in Price's raid. He was honorably discharged at St. Louis in August, 1865. He was scarcely past sixteen years of age when he enlisted.
Mr. McGinness married, in June, 1869. Cassie Meek, of Polk township, the daughter of Reason Meek. He had a horse when married and he bought forty acres on time, with but one hundred dollars paid, at five dollars per acre. It was wild land, but he set to work with a will and soon had a good foothold. adding to his place until he had one hundred and twenty acres, having paid three dollars and seventy-five cents per acre for one eighty of rough land. and he paid twenty-five dollars for one forty and twenty dollars per acre for twenty acres and another eighty for twenty-five dollars per acre. He had given a son eighty acres and still had one hundred and sixty left. He paid for his first land partly by working with a saw-mill in winter and with a threshing-machine in summer, following the threshing business for thirteen seasons, he and his brother operating a machine over Nodaway county and he became well known as a thresher. He made rails at fifty cents per one hundred, boarding himself, but he got a start in this way and accumu- lated a good farm, which he sold in 1902 for forty-five dollars per acre, which is now considered worth eighty dollars per acre. He came to his present farm. seven and one-half miles east of the county seat, consisting of two hundred and forty acres at fifty dollars per acre, with first-class buildings. the dwelling having been built by a Mr. Hagan and a Mr. White built extensive sheds and other outbuildings. The place is well watered and a fine stock farm-in fact. is one of the choice places in every respect in Polk township. Mr. McGinness not only carries on general farming on an extensive scale, but he is also a large cattle grower, and he breeds many thoroughbreds, as well as hogs. his fine stock being much admired by all who see them. He is deserving of the large success he has achieved owing to the fact that he has made what he has unaided, having started in life under rather discouraging circumstances.
On March 20, 1877. occurred the death of Mr. McGinness, who was the mother of three children, two of whom reached maturity: Florence married Dr. Daniel Adams, of Gentry county, Missouri, and now lives in Oklahoma, at Taloga, Dewey county : Reason McGinness is farming near Wilcox. Noda- way county.
The second marriage of James M. McGinness was solemnized on April 17, 1880, to Sophia Forshea, daughter of Rev. Martin and Elizabeth ( Smith) Forshea, of Ohio, who came to Missouri in 1865, locating in Nodaway county ; after living in Polk township for some time, they moved to Inde- pendence. near Kansas City. He was a minister of the Methodist Protestant
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church, having preached continually for ten years or until the death of his wife. His death occurred in July, 1902, at the age of seventy-two years. Mrs. McGinness was born in Madison county, Ohio. Six children were born of this union, namely : Mattie married Claude Moore, of Polk township; Rob- ert died when ten years of age : David is in Sheridan, Wyoming ; Joseph is as- sistant cashier in the bank at Huron, South Dakota; Bernice, who is living at home, has taken a course at the normal school at Maryville: Robert and Roxie (twins ) are in school.
Mr. McGinness is a Republican in politics, a member of the Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen and the Yeomen.
JOHN H. BAUBLITS.
One of the native-born sons of Hughes township. Nodaway county, whose persistency of effort along rightly directed lines has won for him a fit reward in material affairs and who at the same time has maintained the excellent reputation of his ancestors along moral lines is John H. Baublits, who was born here January 14, 1858, the son of Henry F. and Mary J. ( Hare) Baublits. They were both natives of Baltimore county, Maryland, where they were reared, educated and married and from which they came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in the spring of 1855. and settled in Hughes township, being among the earliest settlers in Nodaway county. They lived in Hughes town- ship until their deaths. the father dying in 1888, when about sixty-seven years old : the mother's death occurred in 1889, at the age of sixty-five years. Their family consisted of eight children, of whom John H., of this review, was the seventh in order of birth.
Mr. Baublits was reared to manhood in Hughes township, where he has always resided and where, in his boyhood, he attended the public schools. This family settled on the farm where John H. Baublits now lives, in 1866, which place consists of four hundred and twenty-nine acres, one of the best farms in the county and which has been so well managed by the family that it has re- tained its original fertility of soil. It is well improved in every respect and on it stand comfortable and convenient buildings. Mr. Baublits has devoted his life to farming and stock raising and has been very successful at both : some fine grades of stock may be found on his place at all times.
Mr. Baublits was married in Hughes township, on January 29. 1890. to Ida Alban, who was born in Baltimore county, Maryland. September 15. 1863.
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She is the daughter of George S. and Catherine (Kone) Alban, who came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in the fall of 1871 and settled in Hughes town- ship, where Mrs. Alban died in 1889, Mr. Alban dying in Nemaha county, Kansas, on October 26, 1896. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Baublits, named as follows: Loren H., Alice and Dale J.
Mr. Baublits has held the office of justice of the peace and township trustee, and he has long taken an abiding interest in the affairs of his town- ship. He has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 1885.
LEVI BUZZARD.
In writing the history of Nodaway county we find that many of her honored agriculturists have come here from the Hoosier state, and that all who were old enough to bear arms during the great war between the states proved their loyalty to the national government by faithfully supporting the same. Here and there these old soldiers, a credit to any community, are to be found in comfortable homes in this locality. One such is Levi Buzzard, who was born in Stark county, Ohio, July 5, 1840, but was reared mainly in Indiana. He is the son of John and Elizabeth (Rudy) Buzzard, the father born in Pennsylvania in 1803 and the mother in the same state in 1806. They came to Stark county. Ohio, in the thirties, where Mr. Buzzard engaged principally as a farmer, although he was a shoemaker by trade. Elizabeth Rudy had two brothers, George and Daniel Rudy. John Buzzard was a Whig, later a Republican, and he and his wife were members of the Luth- eran church. Their family consisted of six children, three of whom were born in Pennsylvania and three in Ohio. Five of them are still living. In 1851 this family moved to Greene county, Indiana, settling on a farm, where the mother died in 1853. and here the father was killed on May 29, 1881, by a tree falling on him.
Levi Buzzard was reared on a farm and was educated in the common schools. He was about eleven years old when he came to Greene county. Indiana. He has always been a farmer, but he at one time owned a number of lots in Buena Vista. Indiana, in which state he also owned forty acres of land. He came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1881, and rented a farm. In 1888 he bought eighty acres of land, which he still owns, carrying on general farming and stock raising. In politics he is a Democrat, and he has been justice of the peace for several years in Missouri. While living
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in the Hoosier state he enlisted in Company 1, Twenty-ninth Regiment In- diana Volunteer Infantry, in 1864, and served until the close of the war.
August 21, 1859, Mr. Buzzard married Martha Maria Carter, a native of Greene county, Indiana, where she was born December 25, 1839. She was the daughter of Lewis and Deliah Elizabeth (Tarkington) Carter, both natives of Indiana, his parents having coming to Greene county, Indiana, from Virginia in a very early day. Here Mr. Carter died in 1865 and his wife in 1879: her parents came from Tennessee in an early day. Twelve children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Carter, five of whom are living at this writing. Mr. Carter was a farmer, and a Democrat in politics; his wife was a member of the Baptist church.
To Mr. and Mrs. Levi Buzzard ten children have been born, namely: May Elizabeth, Margaret Louisa, Martin Ensley, Cynthia Emerine, Charley Clarence, Laurilla Catherine. Thomas Franklin; those deceased are Amanda, John and an infant.
Mr. and Mrs. Buzzard are members of the Missionary Baptist church.
JOHN H. HAUN.
We find in going over Nodaway county many citizens who have come from various sections of Iowa, but the southern counties have furnished a larger per centage than any other section of the state. From Taylor county comes John H. Haun, who was born there on April 23, 1857, and who is now very comfortably located in Independence township. He is the son of Calvin and Susan (Kemery) Haun, the former a native of Whitley county, Kentucky, and the latter of Lee county, Iowa. He came to Taylor county, Iowa, in 1851, and she in 1853, and there she died on October 14, 1901, Mr. Haun still surviving. Their family consisted of seven children, of whom four are living. Mr. Haun has devoted his life to farming, and is now living re- tired in Sheridan. Nodaway county. Politically, he is a Republican.
John H. Haun was reared on the farm and began working in the fields when quite young. He received a common school education and then turned his exclusive attention to farming, which he has always followed. He came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1892, and he is the owner of a valuable farm of one hundred seventeen and one-half acres, on which he carries on general farming and stock raising and which is well improved in every re- spect. He understands well the rotation of crops and gets a large yield from his land.
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Politically, Mr. Haun is a Republican, and is now school director of his district and has been district clerk for the past fifteen years. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.
Mr. Haun married, on April 13, 1884, Elizabeth Schneider, who was born in Pekin, Illinois, January 1, 1865. She is the daughter of Anton and Christina (Tangard) Schneider, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Pennsylvania. They came to Pekin, Illinois, in an early day. The father died on July 4, 1897, and the mother is still living. They were the parents of thirteen children, six of whom are living. Mr. Schneider devoted his life to farming. Politically, he was a Democrat.
Five children have been born to Mr. . and Mrs. Haun, namely : William Henry, Eva Etta, Alva Oren, Rosa May (deceased) and Edward Orley. Mrs. Elizabeth Haun is a member of the Royal Neighbors.
Mr. Haun was first married on December 18, 1879, to Nellie Perdue, and one child was born to this union, whom they named Bertie. now de- ceased.
BENJAMIN F. GILMORE.
From the log-cabin days of the long ago to the opulent present has come Benjamin F. Gilmore, one of the highly-honored and venerable citizens of In- dependence township, Nodaway county. He was born in Warren county, Illinois, in 1837, and is the son of Robert and Maria ( Pilgrim) Gilmore. The former was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, and the latter in Ohio. In a very early day Robert Gilmore left his home in the old Keystone state and came to Ohio, and in 1833 he moved to Illinois. He was a typical pioneer, brave, true and hard-working. During the war of 1812 he proved his patriotism and performed conspicuous service as captain of a military com- pany. His was the second family to locate at Spring Grove, Warren county. Illinois. There he purchased one hundred and sixty acres in the wilderness. But he conquered both wild beasts and wild vegetation and established a good home, first building a log cabin and making a small clearing. Part of his land was wild prairie. In due course of time it was all under cultivation and there the old pioneer remained until his death, owning eventually about a section of land. He took an active part in the affairs of the Democratic party and was supervisor, also justice of the peace for many years. In re- ligious matters he was a Presbyterian. He was twice married, five children having been born by his first wife and eleven by his second. Robert, a child by his second wife, served through the Civil war.
Benjamin F. Gilmore, of this review, received his education in the public
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schools and lived under the parental rooftree until January. 1881, having im- proved one hundred and fifty-two acres of land in Illinois. He still lives on the farm he located on when he first came to Nodaway county, Missouri. He later bought one hundred and twenty acres more, all in Independence township. He has improved the place and it now ranks well with the best in the township in every respect. He has been a breeder of fine thoroughbred Poland-China hogs for forty years, and is well known as such. He also keeps. some excellent Shorthorn cattle. He has been very successful as a stock raiser as well as a general farmer.
On May 25. 1906, occurred the death of Mrs. Gilmore, since which time Mr. Gilmore has lived retired. He has made his home on his farm since coming here. with the exception of two years from 1896 to 1898, when he lived in Maryville.
Mr. Gilmore was married on November 15, 1860, to Charlotte Yard. No children were born to them, but they reared Albert Daily, from the age of two and one-half years : he now lives in Colorado; they also reared Eliz- abeth Buck. now Mrs. John Densmore.
Mrs. Gilmore was a member of the Second Adventist church, where Mr. Gilmore also holds membership. He is a Democrat politically. and he has been a member of the township board and he was school director of his dis- trict in Illinois for a period of fourteen years.
HARVEY SLATES.
All honor is due the aging "boys in blue" who left hearth and home, business and pleasure and went forth to do and die for the national govern- ment, risking health and life in the fever camps and dismal swamps of the South in the dark days of the early sixties : they did a work which we should appreciate to a fuller extent than some. perhaps, are wont, and more respect is due the old soldiers, now bent with the weight of many winters and de- scending the last hill-slope of life.
One such is Harvey Slates, a farmer of White Cloud township, who was born in Carroll county. Ohio, May 17. 1843; he is the son of Conrad and Hannah (Funk) Slates, both natives of Loudoun county. Virginia. The father was a 'farmer and one of the early settlers of Carroll county, Ohio, where these parents both died. Eleven children were born to them, of whom Harvey. of this review, was the youngest child.
Harvey Slates was reared on his father's farm in Carroll county, Ohio, and he lived at home until he was fifteen years of age, when he went to
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Martin county, Indiana, where he worked with his brother Samuel for twenty- two months at the cooper's trade. In the spring of 1861 he settled in Car- rol! county, Ohio, and remained there until August of that year, when he enlisted in Company D, Eightieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served very creditably nearly four years. On May 14, 1863, while engaged in a charge at Jackson, Mississippi, he was shot through the body, taken prisoner and confined in Libby prison for four months ; later he was paroled and exchanged. He took part in six general engagements, Corinth, Iuka, Lookout Mountain, Raymond, Port Gibson, Jackson and Resaca. He was with Sherman on his march to the sea. After the war he returned to Carroll county, Ohio, and worked at the cooper's trade for about two years, then came to Clinton county, Missouri, where he remained one year. He came to Nodaway county, in October, 1870, and settled in Polk township, where he lived for fifteen years, when he sold his farm and moved to Dade county, this state, bought a farm and lived there for three and one-half years; then sold out and returned to Nodaway county and bought the farm where he now lives and where he has since resided. He owns eighty acres, all im- proved.
Mr. Slates was first married in Carroll county, Ohio, to Seralda Shipps, who was born there, the daughter of James W. and Margaret Shipps; she died in Polk township, Nodaway county, in August, 1880, when about thirty- seven years old. Five children were born to this union, two of whom died when young, three reaching maturity, namely: Ernest L. died in Dade county, Missouri, in his twentieth year; Ella M. is the wife of John Cox; Viola B. is the wife of Ed. Riggle. Mr. Slates was again married in this county on July 27, 1881, to Sarah Ellen Williams, daughter of Dr. Isaac and Elizabeth Reece Williams. For a history of her parents, the reader is directed to the sketch of M. C. Williams in this volume. Mrs. Slates is a native of Morgan county, Ohio. One son has been born to this second union, Elmer C.
Mr. and Mrs. Slates are members of the Swan Chapel. Methodist church, Mrs. Slates being a very active worker in the same.
JOHN H. BRYANT.
Success has attended the efforts of John H. Bryant because he has worked for it along legitimate lines and employed such methods as will almost invari- ably result in the attainment of one's ambitions in all walks of life. He is a native of Wingate. Montgomery county, Indiana, born September 30, 1849.
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and is the son of James and Sarah ( McJimsey) Bryant, the former a native of Parke county, Indiana, and the latter of Ohio. Mr. Bryant was a tanner by trade, which he followed for many years, later in life engaging in farming. His father, Gabriel Bryant, was the son of William Bryant, founder of Bryant Station, Kentucky, one of Daniel Boone's colonies, known in history for the continual Indian warfare made against it. William Bryant was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, his discharge papers showing that he served two years and four months in the Continental army, not counting one year in which he was engaged in the Indian war following his first year's service. After the close of that service he again settled in Kentucky and remained there until about 1812, when he came to Missouri, first locating at Femme Osage, near his old-time friend, Daniel Boone, then later ( 1821) moved to Boone county, where he resided until his death in 1834, at the advanced age of ninety-five years. He was buried in an old cemetery on a high hill over- looking the Missouri river near the vanished town of Stonesport, one mile up the river from Claysville, in Boone county, the grave being now marked by a large cottonwood tree.
James Bryant, father of John H., of this review, was a member of the Indiana militia. He came to Burlington Junction, Nodaway county, Mis- souri, in 1881, and died here in 1907, having retired while living in Burling- ton Junction. His family consisted of four sons and one daughter, namely : John H., of this review; Josiah J., president of the Tri-State College at An- gola. Indiana : James Harvey is professor of penmanship and mathematics in the Pierce College at Philadelphia ; William M. is proprietor and manager of the Nebraska School of Business at Lincoln, Nebraska : Mrs. James T. Lin- ville lives in Maryville.
John H. Bryant received a good education and prepared himself for a teacher, and began teaching in the common schools of Montgomery county. Indiana, and while living there he married Mary A. Bever. on January I, 1876; she was born and reared at Wingate, that county. This union re- stilted in the birth of four children, three of whom are living: Fred E .. of Moberly, Missouri, is foreman of the Democrat printing office; Mark C. is manager of the Post at Burlington Junction ; Mabel is clerking in the local postoffice and living at home: James Harlan died when eighteen years old. Mrs. Bryant was called to her rest in 1893. Mr. Bryant's present wife was known in her maidenhood as Emily Elfreda Lundell, whom he married in 1895 : she was born in New York, and this union has resulted in the birth of one child, John McJimsey, born in 1902.
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Mr. Bryant, in 1878, came to Nodaway county, Missouri, and engaged in fruit farming on a small scale, and assisted in the office of the Maryville Republican. In October, 1879, with Byron A. Dunn, he bought the Burling- ton Junction Post and has since that time been connected with the same, with the exception of a short time when it was owned by R. P. Tuten. Mr. Bryant is at present, 1910, serving very acceptably as postmaster of Burlington Junc- tion, having succeeded himself three times without opposition. He has been an active member of the grand lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows of Missouri for twenty-six years, and was elected grand warden in May, 1909, and the following December was elected deputy grand master, leading the vote in the state in the field. He will be grand master of the state, be- ginning with the May session, 1911. He has long been prominent in the state affairs of this order, and is spoken of as one of its best speakers. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church; he has been very active in Sunday school work, especially in classes of young people. Politically, he is a Republican.
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