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E. M. HARBER.
Edgar M. Harber was born upon a farm near Richmond, in Madison county, Kentucky, October 26, 1854. He attended the common schools of Clinton county, Missouri, whither his parents had removed from Ken- tucky, and completed his education in the high school at Nebraska City, Ne- braska, where his parents resided from 1857 to 1871. In this latter year he removed to Trenton, and in 1873 entered the law office of Captain H. J. Herrick as a student, and after two years' study was admitted to the bar in August, 1875, and at once began practice. During the time he was pursu- ing his studies in the office of Captain Herrick he was elected and served as justice of the peace, his term, however, not expiring until Jannary, 1877. In 1879 he was appointed city attorney of Trenton by Mayor George Tin- dall, was re-appointed by Mayor H. S. Low in 1881, and still holds the posi- tion, which he has most ably filled. He was nominated and elected presi- dential elector for the Tenth congressional district on the Democratic ticket in 1880, and was the youngest member of the electoral college.
Mr. Harber was united in marriage to Miss Lizzie Austin, of Trenton, on the 8th of March, 1881. For so young a man, Mr. Harber has reached a
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prominence in the community in which he lives which is surpassed by few, and in the achievement of this well deserved popularity has laid the founda- tion for a future of great promise.
L. D. HALL.
Was born in Smithfield, Jefferson county, Ohio, February 27, 1836. When he was five years old his father removed to. Lawrence county Ohio, where he was reared, and received a common school education, which he completed at the Ohio State University, at Athens, in 1854. In November, 1855, he began teaching in Lawrence county and continued until 1871, when he en- listed in the Union army, first in a three months' regiment, and at the ex- piration of that time again enlisted, in company D, Ninety-first Ohio volun- teer infantry, and served during the war. While out was promoted through the various grades from private to second lieutenant, and participated in a number of battles, the most important being Cloyd Mountain, Winchester, Cedar Creek and Lynchburg. After the war he resumed teaching in Lawrence county, Ohio. He came to Grundy county in 1858, and continued teaching until 1873, when he was engaged in his present position of time- keeper of the southwestern division of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, under R. O. Carscadin. March 31, 1873, he was united in mar- riage to Miss Nancy E. McCollum, of Trenton.
JOSEPH W. IIILL
Was born at Bellefontaine, Logan county, Ohio, April 11, 1849. At the age of eight years, with his parents, he went to Mckinney, Collin county, Texas, and after living there two years, returned north and came to Boli- var, Polk county, Missouri, in 1859, and from there came to Grundy county the following year and settled on a farm in Madison township. He continued to live with his parents until March, 1865, when he enlisted in company B, Fifty-first Missouri volunteer infantry, and served six months. On being mustered out at the close of the war he returned to Trenton and began to learn the carpenter's trade, hiring out at once and not serving any time. He has since worked at the trade in Trenton, with the exception of the time from March, 1871, until January, 1872, when he lived in Clinton, Missouri, where he failed to find employment, but had a good team stolen. He returned to Trenton in January, 1872, and began. work as a contractor and builder, and has built up a good business. April 7, 1870, Joseph W. Hill and Miss Ella Luke, of Trenton, were married. They have three chil- dren, Eva, Maud and Lula, all born in Trenton. Mrs. Hill is a member of the M. E. Church at Trenton. He is a member of Grand River Lodge No. 52, I. O. O. F., and of Adelphia Lodge No. 38, K. of P., at Trenton.
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J. G. HEMLEY
Was born in Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, October 24, 1835. His par- ents removed to Ashland, Ohio, where they lived until he was ten years old, and then removed to Pendleton, Putnam county, Ohio. His father being a harness-maker, he was brought up to the trade, and began work in his father's shop when he was twelve years old, and worked with him until he was twenty-four. April 24th, 1859, he married Miss H. L. Bagley, of Pendleton, and immediately went to Mill Grove, in Wood county, Ohio, and embarked in the harness business. He remained one year, and then removed his business to Pendleton, where he soon after closed up his shop. At the breaking out of the late war in 1861, he joined the Union army, enlisting in company D, Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and served three years and three months-three months over his term of enlistment. His regiment was in the Fourteenth army corps under generals Rosecrans and Thomas, and took part in the battles of Stone River, Chickamauga, and others too numerous to mention. He was mustered out and discharged at Galesville, Alabama, October 22, 1864, and returned to Pendleton, Ohio, sold out his property there, came to Missouri, and settled at Utica, Livingston connty, where he carried on harness-making in connection with farming until 1869. In that year he went to Chillicothe and continued harness-making until 1873, when he removed to Trenton, and established his present bus- iness, dealing in and manufacturing harness and saddles. He is doing an extensive business and employs from six to seven hands. He has four sons, George W. and Nathaniel E. at work in the shop; and Russell H. and John L. One son, Alfred, died in Pendleton, Ohio, in 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Hemley are members of the Baptist Church at Trenton. He is a member of Grand River Lodge, No. 52, I. O. O. F., and of Adelphia Lodge No. 38, K. of P.
R. H. HUME
Was born near Richmond, Kentucky, March 6, 1843, where he lived with his parents until he was eighteen years old. At that age he joined the Con- federate army, enlisting in company F, Third Tennessee cavalry, and served first under Gen. Zollicoffer, and after his death under Gen. Kirby Smith, serving in that army corps some eighteen months; was discharged and returned to his home in Kentucky, where he was soon after taken prisoner by the Union provost-guards, and imprisoned three months. Was released in May, 1865, and soon after enlisted in company F, Third Kentucky cav- alry, under Gen. John Morgan, and served until July 19, of the same year, when he, with his corps, was taken prisoner near Buffington Island, Ohio, and was for a short time imprisoned at Camp Morton, at Indianapolis, Indiana, and from there taken to Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois, and kept until the close of the war. After his release he returned to Kentucky,
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and engaged in farming until February, 1866, then went to Arkansas, and was employed as superintendent on a cotton plantation for one year. Sub- sequently he was employed as a clerk in the store of W. K. Hocker & Co., Lonoke, Arkansas, remained with them one year, and went to Jefferson county, Arkansas, and engaged in raising cotton. The following year he returned to Kentucky, and after a visit of a few months came to Missouri, arriving in Trenton in April, 1869, where he permanently settled the follow- ing year, and engaged in the grocery business, which he followed until May, 1881. With his brother he built the first brick business house in Trenton. He has made all his property since coming to Trenton, and is among the substantial men of that enterprising young city. November 8, 1876, he married Miss Irena Stombaugh, of Trenton, by whom he has three children: Ethel Lilian, Maggie Myrtle and Robert Allen, all born in Trenton.
G. P. HAMMER
Was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, May 8, 1840. In 1854 he came to America with his parents, who settled in the Territory of Minnesota, where they still reside and where he lived with them until attaining his majority. He was educated in Germany. He acquired a knowledge of the English language by his intercourse with Americans and by devoting his spare mo- ments to study. His father, desirons that he should be a farmer, gave him no opportunity to learn any other business, and on leaving home, when twenty-one years of age, to seek other employment more congenial to his taste, his father, although well-to-do, gave him no aid. He started for La Crosse, Wisconsin, on foot, with only a small bundle of clothing, his mother accompanying him a short distance to cheer and counsel him. At La Crosse he failed to find the desired employment, that of clerking. Being withont inoney, and happening on the steamboat wharf as the Northern Belle landed he asked the mate if he wished to hire a hand, was answered in the affirmative and offered $20 in gold per month, which he accepted and became a roustabout on the boat and endured the hardest of labor for about two months, when he was accidentally seen by a minister of his ac- quaintanee, a passenger on the boat, who advised him to seek other employ- ment and to stop off at Red Wing, Minnesota, and he would use his influ- enee to get him a more pleasant situation. He did so, and found employ- ment as a clerk in the store of William Eisenbrand, of Red Wing, with whomthe remained five years, or until 1866. Since leaving his old employer hejhas seen the rough side of life. He has failed in business twice, the first the result of inexperience, and the second of misplaced confidence. In January, 1871, after being in business at Lake City, Minnesota, and at Cameron, Missouri, he started a restaurant at Gallatin, Missouri, without a dollar, and continued in that business until 1876, when he had, to some ex- tent, retrieved his losses, and during that year he came to Trenton and en-
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gaged in the wholesale and retail liquor trade until September, 1881, and has engaged in the wholesale business, exclusively, since. In 1871 he mar- ried Mrs. Minnie Ellis, of Warrensburg, Missouri. He is a Knight of Pythias, a member of Adelphia Lodge No. 38, of Trenton, and has passed all the chairs and is now filling his second term as chancellor commander. He is also a member of Grand River Lodge No. 52, I. O. O. F., of Trenton.
THOMAS KIMLIN, M. D.
Thomas Kimlin is of Irish birth and parentage. He was born in Armagh, Ireland, in 1838, and accompanied his parents to the United States when eight years of age. They settled in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he attended the common schools, and in 1859 graduated from the commercial department of Eastman's Business College. In 1860 he began to read medi- cine privately, continning for two years, or until he removed to Trenton in 1862, when he placed himself under the preceptorship of Dr. R. N. Feather- ston, under whose guidance he remained until admitted as a student in the medical college of the New York University, in 1863. From this institu- tion he received his diploma in 1865, and immediately thereafter was ex- amined by the United States board of army surgeons, and appointed acting army surgeon and assigned for duty to the field hospital of the Fifth army corps, at City Point, Virginia, where he served until the close of the war. After his return to Trenton in 1865, he formed a partnership with Dr. W. R. Berry, and they practiced together until his removal to Lindley in 1866, where he carried on the drug business in addition to the practice of medi- cine. Six years later, in 1872, he again located in Trenton, where he has since remained, engaged in the drug business and the practice of his pro- fession. Dr. Kimlin married Miss Lousia F. Turney, daughter of Elder Daniel Turney, of Trenton, on the 5th of October, 1865. They have six children, Henrietta, Cara, Julia, Annie, William and Walter. The family removed to, Quincy, Illinois, on the first of May, 1881, that the children might receive the benefits of the excellent educational advantages of that city.
REV. J. J. KENNEDY.
J. J. Kennedy is a native of Ireland, born on the 25th of July, 1846. While an infant, his parents emigrated from the "Emerald Isle" to America, landing at Toronto, Canada, where they remained a short time and then came to the United States. After making several temporary locations the family finally settled at Columbus, Ohio. His parents were members of the Cath- olic Church and he was reared in that faith, and early evinced a predilection for holy orders. He entered the St. Francis Seminary at Milwaukee, Wis- consin, and began his studies for the priesthood, and from there went to Cape Girardeau, where he became a student in St. Vincent's College, and gradu- ated from the theological department in June, 1870. The same month he
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was ordained at St. Joseph, Missouri, by the Right Reverend John J. Hogan, bishop of that diocese. His first labor in the field in which he was to devote his life, was in a parish composed of the counties of Daviess, Harrison, Grundy, Mercer, Putnam and Sullivan with headquarters at Unionville, the county seat of Putnam county, where he formed his first congregation and zealously went to work to erect a church, completing in 1871 the Church of the Assumption. In October of the same year he was called by the bishop to temporarily officiate at Chillicothe, where he remained until July, 1873, beloved by his congregation and esteemed by all who knew him. Leav- ing Chillicothe, he became permanent pastor of the congregation in Trenton, and again gave his attention to the erection of a church edifice, which re- sulted in the present handsome structure which was dedicated St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Father Kennedy has two other charges, St. John's, near Bancroft, in Daviess county, and St. Mary's, near Akron, in Howard county, both in the country. He is genial, courteous and affable, makes friends wherever he goes, and in Trenton is held in highest esteem by the people in general, and his congregation in particular.
M. G. KENNEDY.
Matthew G. Kennedy was born on a farm in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, September 4, 1845, where he lived and grew to manhood. When twelve years of age he entered the West Bedford Academy, at West Bedford, Ohio, in which institution he was a pupil until 1859, when he returned home and became a clerk in his father's store, remaining four years. In 1863 he ac- cepted a clerkship in the quartermaster's department, at Nashville, Tennes- see, where he continued until the summer of 1864. During the winter of 1865 he taught school, and the following spring attended the Holbrook Normal Institute, at Lebanon, Ohio, which he continued to attend alter- nately with teaching school, until 1867, when he began the study of law in the office of D. W. Stambaugh, at New Philadelphia, Ohio. He remained here until 1869, giving part of his time to his studies and the remainder to school-teaching. During 1869 and 1870 he took a two years' course in the law department of the Michigan State University, at Ann Arbor. The winter of 1871 he taught school in Madison county, Illinois, and in the spring of the same year came to Trenton and began the practice of law, which he engaged in until August 10, 1880, when he purchased the Grundy County Times, to the publication and editing of which he has since given his attention, and attained a most gratifying success.
JOHN KIRK
Was born in Manchester, England, June 5, 1844. When eleven years old he entered the machine-shops of Picksley, Simms & Co., of Bedford Leigh, Lancashire, England, to learn the machinist's trade, and at the age of four- 28
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teen was apprenticed to the same company until twenty-one. He was first employed as a regular machinist in 1865, after serving his apprenticeship, by the London & Northwestern Railway Company, at St. Helen's Junction, near Liverpool, leaving here in 1868 to take charge of the machinery in the cotton mills of C. Wright & Co., at Tyldesley, England, with whom he re- mained two years. In 1870 he came to the United States, landing in New York City on the 24th of April, and was at once employed in the machine shops of J. & J. Innis, on West Street, manufacturers of stationary engines. He was called from there three months afterward to Fall Brook, Pennsyl- vania, where his family were visiting friends, by the death of his little daughter, Mary Alice. He remained there and was employed by the Fall Brook Coal Company to repair engines and do extra running on locomo- tives until January, 1871, when he was employed in the machine-shops of Connell, Gleason & Graham, of Rochester, New York, for six months, and in the stationary engine shops of Woodbury & Booth, of the same place, one year. In 1872, on the 10th of June, he came to Trenton to take a place
in the round-house of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company as a machinist, under R. O. Carscadin, master mechanic, and in 1873 was promoted to the foremanship of the round-house, and in July, 1875, was promoted general foreman of the machine-shops and round-house, and now holds that position. In 1878 and 1879 he was a member of the city coun- cil of Trenton. In 1864 he married Miss Sarah Hampson, of Bedford Leigh, England. They have two children, Edwin John and Earl Law, and have lost two, Mary Alice and Frederick.
FRANCIS W. LOWEN
Was born on a farm near Monticello, Lewis county, Missouri, May 18, 1836. When quite young, his parents removed to Knox county, Missouri, and set- tled on a farm near Newark, where he lived until he was seventeen, and came with his mother-his father being dead-to Grundy county and bought a farm six miles north of Trenton. He remained on the farm, one year and then began to learn the trade of bricklaying with his uncle, Wil- liam Collier, Jr., with whom he worked six years. Leaving his uncle in 1860, he went to Colorado and prospected and mined one year, then re- turned to Trenton and in the summer of that year joined the Union army, enlisting in company B., Twenty-third Missouri volunteer infantry, and par- ticipated in the battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862, when his regiment was cut to pieces, their colonel, J. T. Tindall, killed, and he, with many of the com- pany, were taken prisoners and held as such for seven months, in the pris- ons at Memphis, Montgomery, Chattanooga, Macon, Richmond, and in Libby Prison. He was finally paroled at Aikin's Landing, South Carolina, and soon after sent to Washington City, where he remained in the hospital until about the first of February, 1863, when he was sent back to Missouri. Here
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he remained until the first of May, when an exchange was effected and with the other captives, he was ordered back to the regiment in Missouri. His regiment served in the State . until November, when it was ordered to Tennessee, and from there in 1864 to join Sherman's army and cam- paign to Atlanta. His term of service expiring while there, in 1865, he was mustered out at that place, and immediately returned to Trenton, where he was soon after employed in the store of W. W. Hubbell & Co., as a clerk, remaining with them until 1867. In this latter year he received the ap- pointment of deputy sheriffand constable, holding the former position eight years and the latter nine. In 1876 he was deputy county collector, and since then has been engaged in fruit growing and dealing in nursery stock. Mr. Lowen married Miss Mary C. Allen of Trenton in October, 1865. They have two children, Bessie. fifteen, and Hallie, ten years old, both born in Trenton. Mr. and Mrs. Lowen are members of the Christian Church of Trenton. He is an Odd Fellow and has passed all the chairs and is now P. G.
II. C. LANIUS
Was born on a farm near McConnelsville, Morgan county, Ohio, January 14, 1838. He never attended school more than eight months in his life, but by applying himself to study during his leisure hours he has acquired a fair business education. Starting out in life as a farm hand, he worked in his native county until the breaking out of the war of the rebellion, and enlisted in the Union service as corporal in company D, Seventy-eighth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served three years. Was a participant in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Bolivar and Memphis. After his discharge, in 1864, he came to Missouri and settled in Marion township, Grundy county, and engaged in farming as a renter until 1865, and from that time up to 1868 worked a small farm of his own, excepting about six months that he operated a saw and grist-mill in Callaway county, Mis- souri. Having disposed of his farm in 1868 he leased a farm in Trenton township and worked it six years. In 1874 he purchased a farm in the same township, which he still owns and rents. Leaving his farm in 1878 he came to Trenton and went into the hardware business with Thomas A. Murphy and Corwin Borders, under the name and style of Murphy, Lanius & Borders, and is still in the same business, the firm, however, having changed to Murphy, Lanius & Hubbell. On the 2d of November, 1858, Mr. Lanius married Miss Hester A. Fouts, of Morgan county, Ohio, by whom he has four children: Mary A., Annie O., Fannie and Claude.
LAFFERTY BROTHERS.
This firm is composed of Jacob L. and William P. Lafferty. They were born on a farm near Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio; the senior, March 14, 1844, and the junior, May 7, 1851.
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When fourteen years of age Jacob was sent by his parents to Washington College, Pennsylvania, where he attended four years, taking the preparatory course and beginning the collegiate, but quit during the junior year, and at- tended the Iron City Commercial College, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated. Soon after he began teaching, and taught in Ohio and Missouri four years. In 1866 he came to Missouri and settled in Chilli- cothe where he engaged in the mercantile business and farming until Jan- uary, 1869, when he came to Grundy county, and gave his attention to farming and teaching for seven years. From 1876 until 1879 he was vari- ously employed in teaching and the mercantile business, and during the lat- ter year was employed by his brother as a clerk, and was with him until June of 1881, when the present firm was established.
William P. Lafferty came to Missouri with his parents in 1866 and set- tled in Chillicothe. In 1867 he was an apprentice in the Constitution office, of Chillicothe, to learn the art of printing under T. B. Reynolds & Co., and worked there until 1869, when he came to Trenton and was em- ployed in the Republican office under W. B. Rogers, working two years as compositor and seven years as foreman. In January, 1878, he was elected treasurer of Grundy county and served two years, and during the same time. was engaged in the mercantile business, which he followed until April, 1881, when he sold out to Pratt Brothers, and the next June became as- sociated with his brother under the firm name of Lafferty Brothers. No- vember 12, 1875, he married Miss Anora DeBolt, of Trenton. They have three children: Austin, Willie and Rayniond.
REV. PAUL M'COLLUM.
The gentleman whose name heads this sketch was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, on the 17th of Jannary, 1828, the eldest of a family of twelve children, nine of whom still survive. His parents were natives of New Jersey, and among the early settlers of Ohio. His father departed this. life in 1854; his mother is yet living. Early realizing the advantages of thorough mental discipline, he entered school at Antrim, then known as Madison College, where he acquired a liberal education, and entered upon the profession of school-teaching. He continued to teach for eight years, and. in the meantime, having become a member of the Baptist Church, interested himself in church work and the study of theology, and was ordained a regular minister of the Baptist Church in August, 1855. Accepting a call from the Sarchet's Run Church, he officiated one year. In 1856 he became pastor of Will's Creek Church, and in 1857 was called to preside over the Bird's Run Church; dividing his time between the two. congregations, he continued with both charges during five years of suc- cessful ministerial work: In the antumn of 1857, he was appointed by the American Baptist Publication Society to act as colporteur in the Will's
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Creek Association, in which capacity he faithfully served until July, 1864, when his work closed in his native State, Ohio, and he journeyed toward the setting sun to seek a home in the distant west. In the fall of 1864, he set- tled in Trenton, Missouri, where he accepted the pastorate of the Baptist Church, continuing also, in the service of the Publication Society. In the spring of 1865 he organized the North Union Baptist Church, to which he gave a portion of his time during his four years' pastorate in Trenton. In addition to this work, Rev. Mr. McCollum officiated at the Alpha (Liberty), Providence, Rural Dale and Lindley churches, during a period of four years, when he gave up his ministerial labors, and entered actively into the work of the Publication Society. In 1873 he resumed his pastoral rela- tions, and continued until 1876, when he was appointed by the government to give his attention to the education of the freedmen. After two years' service he returned home and accepted the financial agency of the Grand River College at Edinburg, this county, in which position he continued until October, 1880. Since this latter date he has labored as missionary and colporteur of the Grand River Association, and continues to make his home in Trenton, where he has deservedly won a large circle of friends.
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