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R. F. CAMPBELL,
Farmer, section 5, was born in Greene County, Tennessee, September 5, 1825, and lived there until about twenty-five years of age. Then he located in Cass County, Missouri, and remained three years, and in Bates, Vernon and Lawrence Counties until 1871, when he came to Jackson County where he has since lived engaged in farming, except when employed in teaching school. He finished his education at Doak's College, Tennessee. Was married to Margaret Peck in 1853. By this marriage there were five children: James B., born October 25, 1854, and now dead; Mary S., born March 21, 1857, and now dead; John T., born January I, 1859; Jane F., born April 19, 1861 ; and Albert L., born December 16, 1863. Mrs. Campbell died September 11, 1864. He was again married to Nancy A. Rhodes, February 25, 1866, who was born in Ross County, Ohio, August 2, 1831. By this marriage two children were born : Robert F., born February 9, 1867 and William G., born January 26, 1869. All of the children living remain at home. Mr. Campbell has served a number of terms as justice of the peace. He has an eighty acre tract of land on which he resides, about three-fourths of a mile northeast of Lee's Summit, all improved and well stocked He is a mem- ber of the Methodist Church, South, and his wife and daughter are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
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J. W. CAMPBELL,
Farmer and stock raiser, section 29, is a native of Kansas City, Missouri, and was born May 9, 1855. Lived there until twenty years of age, then moved to . his farm in Prairie Township. Was educated at the High School, Kansas City, and gradnated at Spalding's Commercial College. After attaining his education, and up to 1874, he spent most of his time traveling in the mountains. Was mar- ried November 1, 1874, to Mary E. Murray, of Clay County, Missouri, who was born December, 25, 1853. There are two children : Nellie S., born August 30, 1875 and Lavina T., born March 1, 1879. Mr. Campbell was a son of John S. Campbell who was president of the ferry company, and a son of William Camp- bell, one of Jackson County's first settlers. J. W. owns 140 acres of land all under cultivation ; also fine buildings and an orchard of 250 trees. It is univer- sally acknowledged that he has the finest farm in the county, located just one and one-half miles west of Greenwood. He contemplates entering the commer- cial business in Kansas City, where we bespeak for him the best success. Al- though yet a young man he is possessed of more than ordinary business ability, and having a fine education, he is well qualified to fill almost any position of hon- or and trust.
A. B. CASTLE, M. D.,
Farmer, section 30, is a native of Ashtabula County, Ohio, and was born Janu- ary 22, 1819, and was a son of Amasa Castle Jr. and Rosaline Watrous. The former was born in Plymouth, Connecticut, April 5, 1786, from which place his parents removed to Burlington, Vermont, where they remained several years, and then went to Ashtabula, Ohio, while it was yet a dense forest and teeming with Indians and wild animals. The marriage between Amasa Castle, Jr. and Rosa- line Watrous was celebrated in Jannary. 1813. She was a daughter of Captain John Watrous. For fifty-eight years this father and mother walked hand in hand through the pathway of life, and when he died in 1870, at the age of 84, his devoted wife received his last word and look of recognition. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a brave and intrepid soldier in the Revolutionary War, and the grandmother, Mary Stanley Castle, was a direct descendant of the English Stanleys. She was a woman of rare abilities and strength of character, a worthy mother of children who helped to make the history of this country. A. B. Castle received his early education in Ohio, and was an honored graduate of Transylvania University, Kentucky. At the age of nineteen he enlisted as a member of the 2nd Kentucky Infantry, and was commissioned assistant surgeon, and served faithfully through the Mexican War. He was married April 20, 1848, to Miss Anna A. Windfield. She was born in Woodford County, Kentucky, March 24, 1831. In 1849 he moved to Jackson County, Missouri, and located in Prairie Township, and engaged in the practice of medicine till the beginning of the War. Then went into the United States service as assistant surgeon in the Missouri State Militia, and served with his regiment till the expiration of its term of service. He remained in charge of the hospital at Macon till the close of the War. Then returned to his Missouri home to find it in desolation, everything being burned off and destroyed. He has, since his return, been exclusively engaged in rebuilding and beautifying his old home. He is a self-made man, both as to his mental acquisitions and financial accumulations. He has had no help but his own well directed industry, and that of a worthy wife and family. The family consists of Homer K., born February 5, 1849; Carlos W., born July 23, 1851; Emma H., born May 26, 1853; Edward S., born January 10, 1856; David W., born April 1, 1858; Hubert A., born March 5, 1860; who on his twenty-first birth-day graduated with honor at the St. Louis Medical College ; Horace S., born May 11, 1862, who died at the age of two years, and Milo W., born November 25, 1866. Mr. Castle owns 240 acres of fine land, all well improved and stocked ; one of the finest orchards in the county.
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LUCAS CORLEW,
Farmer and stock raiser, was born in Boone County, Missouri, October 25, 1825, and lived there and in Monroe County till ten years of age; then moved with his parents to and located near the south line of Jackson County. Was married to Nancy White, of Cass County, in 1848 ; one child was born, Joseph H. Corlew, now principal of the schools at Oak Grove, he being a graduate of Lincoln Col- lege, Greenwood. Mrs. Corlew died in the fall of 1852, and he was again united in marriage October 25, 1855, to Nancy A. Moore, of Douglas County, Kansas, but formerly of Erie County, Pennsylvania. By this marriage there was one child, Georgia A. Corlew, born October 4, 1857, now married to E. M. Hanlon. Mr. Corlew was in northern Missouri during the Civil War, but took no active part, although his sympathies were with the South. He has a choice farm of forty-eight acres under cultivation and well stocked. The family circle at present is composed of Mr. Corlew and wife and Quintilla Ritter, a young lady of about nineteen years of age who has been reared and educated by Mr. Corlew. She is now engaged in teaching. He is a M. M. of fine standing. Has served as trustee and member of school board, and takes an active interest in educational matters. Mrs. Corlew is a member of the Baptist Church.
IRA F. DAVENPORT,
Farmer and stock dealer, section 23, was born in Morgan County, Illinois, Novem- ber 22, 1839, and lived there until February, 1867, when he moved to Prairie Township, Jackson County, Missouri, near where he now lives. His occupation through life has been farming and feeding and shipping stock.' He was married April 15, 1860, to Eliza A. Cox, who was born in Illinois October 13, 1836. Two children were born : Corydon, born February 14, 1861, and Albert, born August 25, 1864. Mrs. Davenport died May 1, 1865. He was again married March 22, 1866, to Susan J. Cobb, of Morgan County, Illinois, she having been born in McMinn County, Tennessee, July 29, 1845. By this marriage three children were born: Frank R., born April 15, 1871; Herbert, born February 7, 1874, and Katy May, born November 6, 1879. Mr. Davenport was a son of Henry Davenport, who was a commissioned officer in the Black Hawk War, and a native of North Carolina, he being the son of William Davenport, who was a renowned soldier at the battle of New Orleans. Mr. Davenport owns 252 acres of choice land stocked and improved with good buildings and orchard. He has had no financial assistance, but what he owns has been accumulated by his own industry. He has been a heavy loser by having to pay security debts. Mr. Dav- enport and wife and two eldest sons are active members of the Baptist Church at Greenwood.
J. H. DAVENPORT,
Farmer and stock dealer, section 24, was born in Morgan County, Illinois, February 3, 1844, and was a son of M. C. Davenport, who was a native of Kentucky. Was educated in Illinois in the common schools, afterward at the High School in Jacksonville, and was a graduate of the Jacksonville Business College, in the class of 1872. He was engaged in dealing in stock from 1870 to 1875, when he moved to Jackson County, Missouri, and settled on the farm which he now occu- pies. He was married September 10, 1877, to Ella Shepherd, a'daughter of Rev. S. Shepherd, of Jackson County, Missouri, but formerly of Wort County, West Virginia. She was born May 5, 1859. One child was born to them, Grace M., August 5, 1878. Mr. Davenport now has 240 acres of fine land, well improved and stocked. He is a man of good education and fine business ability. He and wife are both members of the Baptist Church.
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JAMES DRIPPS,
Farmer, section 16, was born in County Antrim, Ireland, June 19, 1830, and when about five years of age he came to America with his parents and located in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and lived there until 1859. Then moved to Mis- souri and located in Jefferson City, where he remained seven years, and then went to Johnson County and lived for thirteen years near Kingsville. From that place came to Jackson County, and purchased a farm in Prairie Township in 1880. He has always followed the occupation of farmer. Was married to Eliz- abeth Johnson January 2, 1853. She was born in Canada in 1832. Four chldren were born, two of whom are living: Elizabeth Jane, born November 29, 1858, and James A., born October 10, 1859. Mrs. Dripps died March 8, 1863. He was again united in marriage, March 29, 1870, to Martha J. Skiles, who was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, August 20, 1842. By this marriage two children were born : John W., born January 25, 1871, and Mary A., born December 14, 1873. Mr. Dripps when he came to the State was penniless, losing all that he had accumulated by being security for others, but by hard, earnest labor and industry has again made a good start, owning a farm of eighty acres, all well tilled and stocked, and one of the finest orchards for its size in the county.
JAMES W. DUNN,
Farmer and stock raiser, section 5, was born in Hampshire County, Virginia, July 17, 18II, and lived there for one year; then moved with parents to Winchester, where he lived till about eighteen years of age, then moved to Zanesville, Ohio, and lived there until 1858. Thence to St. Louis one year, and lived in Gascon- ade County during the War, and in 1865 moved to Jackson County, locating about five miles northeast of Independence. In 1869 he located on his present farm, about three-fourths of a mile northeast of Lee's Summit. Was married August 15, 1837, to Maria Bennett of Muskingum County, Ohio, who was born June 12, 1818. Mr. Dunn now has 560 acres of choice land, all well improved and stocked, also eight choice business and residence lots in Kansas City. The home farm is beautifully located and highly improved with fine buildings and orchard, etc. Few men have risen from so small a beginning to such a competency, but Mr. Dunn and wife richly deserve the fruits of their united labors. During the War Mr. Dunn lost about $7,000, and also had his home burned.
WILLIAM DUPUY,
Farmer, section 25, was born in Greenup County, Kentucky, July 25, 1808, and lived there until the fall of 1853. Then moved to Jackson County, Missouri, and located upon the farm on which he now lives. Was married in 1835 to Miss Ann Littlejohn; by this marriage two children were born: Richard, who died in the Confederate service, and Mary Ann who now lives in Lee's Summit. Mrs. Dupuy died in Kentucky in the fall of 1865. He was again married in the fall of 1877 to Miss Ann Hart, of Lexington, Kentucky. Mr. Dupuy has served his township as justice of the peace for twelve years. He was instrumental in form- ing the first public school in this section of the country, and also in having Prairie Township cut off from Van Buren. He sustained the loss of all his stock and grain during the War, while he was in Kentucky, and when he returned had to begin anew. But he now owns a beautiful and well cultivated farm of 122 acres, stocked with orchard, etc.
ROBERT P. FANN,
Farmer, section 34, post-office Raymore, Cass County, Missouri, was born on the 31st of January, 1837, in Clay County, this State, and was brought to this county by his parents when quite young, and has been reared as a farmer, and has taken 61-
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an active part in the up-building of the county; he owns a fine farm of eighty acres most of which is under cultivation. He is one of the honest energetic farmers of this vicinity who gives his attention to his business. April 13, 1862, he married Miss Elizabeth Yeary, a native of this county, born March 16, 1842. They have had seven children, six of whom are living : Charlie, Elbert, Lonzo, Julia, Sadie, and Effie.
E. P. FOUNTAIN,
Traveling agent for G. M. Nichol & Brother, Independence, is a native of Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, and was born August 28, 1846. He lived there until about thirteen years of age. Then shipped from New York City on a merchant vessel to San Francisco, visiting China, South America, Sandwich Islands, Arctic Ocean, and various foreign ports. Sailed from San Francisco as master of a coasting vessel. Has been pilot on the Sacramento River. In 1865 he had charge of a gang of Cninamen in the construction of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads; taking the first train run over the road from Ogden to San Francisco, and followed the business a number of years. Leaving there he helped to construct twenty-two miles of road from Virginia City to Carson City, Nevada. Leaving there he went to Zanesville, Ohio, in the employ of the Balti- more & Ohio Railroad ; from there to Springfield, Ohio, and was there engaged by the Champion Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of reapers and mowers, and traveled four years. He then went to Indianapolis, Indiana, and was there in the employ of Dickson & Co., in the implement business; thence to Kansas City, Missouri, then to Independence and engaged with G. M. Nichol & Brother. February 22, 1881, he was introduced into the business by being sent over the worst roads that were ever seen in the country, and during the great storm, that prevailed at that time. Mr. Fountain and the historian are under lasting obliga- tions to J. W. Campbell, who lives two miles south of Greenwood, for his great kindness in assisting the wearied travelers out of some tremendous snow-drifts. Mr. Fountain was married at Newark, to Miss Mary C. McClearg, June 19, 1875. There have been born to them two children : Pearl L., born February 1, 1876, and Eddie C., born December 29, 1877. Mr. Fountain never had the advan- tages of a good education and no financial assistance, but he has become, by his own exertions, a fine business man. His family at present live in Indianapolis, Indiana.
T. F. FREEMAN,
Farmer and stock dealer, section 28, was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, November 5, 1808. At the age of three years he moved with his parents to Bath County, Kentucky, and lived there until the fall of 1843; then came to Jackson County, Missouri. He was married in the fall of 1844 to Elizabeth Coward. Three children were born : Sarah H., William H and Richard Y., the last named being the only one now living. Mrs. Freeman died in 1850, and he was again married in 1851, to Elizabeth Thomas. By this marriage they had one child, Elizabeth T., now living in California. His second wife died in 1852, and he was again married in 1855 to Ann Eliza Houston, of Lafayette County, Missouri, formerly of Bourbon County, Kentucky, and born January 21, 1832. Just prior to the breaking out of the War, Mr. Freeman owned 600 acres of land, under cultivation, and well stocked. He was very generous-hearted, and became surety for a great many persons, and has been obliged to pay large sums for other's debts. He has a good home of three and a half acres within the town limits of Green- wood, where he and his excellent wife live quiet and Christian lives. They are both active members of the Christian Church, and enjoy the respect of all their neighbors. Old Uncle Kemp, one of their old servants still remains with them, and says he "never wants to leave Massa and Missus Freeman."
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J. B. GHORMLEY,
Farmer, section 32, is a native of Fayette County, Ohio, born April 4, 1827. There he lived until eighteen years of age, then moved to Logan County, Ohio, and rem lined until March, 1880, when he came to Jackson County, Missouri, and located in Prairie Township. Has been engaged in farming and the produce trade in Bellefontaine, Onio. He was married, March 15, 1849, to Minerva J. Collins, of Logan County, Ohio. One child, Emma, was born, December 16, 1849, who is now married and living in Ohio.\ Mrs. Ghormley died March 3, 1862, and he was again married December 31, 1863 to Amanda C. Irwin, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, who was born May 28, 1833. There are four children by this marriage : Ida B., born June 5, 1865 ; Owen L., January 31, 1869; Wilbur H., September 9, 1871, and Ira H., April 4, 1873. Mr. Ghormley owns 160 acres of fine land, the home eighty being well improved and stocked; also a fine orchard. He is a son of David and Margaret Ghormley, who were born in Penn- sylvania, David having been a son of Thomas, who was reared in Pennslvania, and he being a son of Hugh Ghormley, who emigrated from Scotland about a century ago. Mr. Ghormley, although but a new-comer, is highly spoken of in his neighborhood. He and his family are members of the United Presbyterian Church of Green wood.
N. GREENLEE,
Farmer and stock raiser, section 13, was born in Polk County, Missouri, Novem- ber 13, 1842, and is a son of David Greenlee, who was a native of Virginia, and who, from the time he was nine years of age, was running on the Ohio River. He was a pilot from the time steamboats first ran on the river until his death, which occurred in 1851. Mr. N. Greenlee moved with his parents to Lawrence County, Ohio, when about four years of age. He received his education there, and when eighteen years old he enlisted in Battery B, Ist Virginia Light Artillery, and served three years and two months, and was with them in all the various engagements in which they participated. After his discharge he re-enlisted as veteran in Company F, 5th United States Veteran Regiment, Hancock's Corps, and served a little over one year. He was married to Malinda Payton, February 26 1865, a native of Lawrence County, Ohio, and born July 30, 1847. She was a daughter of John Payton, a native of Virginia. The family circle is composed of five children : Ella, boorn March 9, 1867; John B., January 9, 1871; Julia, November 25, 1873 ; Byron, April 9, 1876; Fannie, March 17, 1879. After the close of the War he lived in Lawrence County, Ohio, for a year and a half, then moved to Brown County, Kansas, and located on a farm, and lived there three years. Then he moved to Jewell County, Kansas, lived there for four years, and in 1875, being driven out by grasshoppers and drouth, concluded to make Jackson County, Missouri, his home. He owns 200 acres of land near Lone Juck. For the last five years he has been superintendent of the John W. Reed Stock Farm, in Prairie Township. He is a member of the school board, and takes an active interest in the advancement of education, and politically is a stanch Democrat, and liberal in his religious views. Once, while in Ohio, on account of sickness, and once, while in Kansas, on account of failure in crops, he was entirely broken up, and when he located in Jackson County, was $200 in debt. He was in thirty different skirmishes and engagements during the War, and was eleven days under fire at one time. He served under Hancock, Shields, Crook, Mulligan, Burn- side, Sheridan and McClellan.
JOSEPH HAYNES,
Farmer and stock raiser, section 19, was born in Stokes County, North Carolina, October 11, 1816, and when but an infant his parents went to Rockford, Surry County, and lived there till he was sixteen years of age. Then entered the iner-
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cantile business, first as clerk and then as partner, and was also engaged in trad- ing in tobacco, horses, and wagons for about sixteen years. Afterward moved to Laurel Spring and Gap Civil, in Ashe County, and for nine years engaged in the mercantile business ; then back to Surry County and farmed for nine years ; then to Champagne County for eleven months, and was in Polk County, Missouri, fore five years. In 1872 he came to Jackson County; Missouri, where he has since lived, engaged in farming. He was married May 12, 1850, to S. L. Johnson, a native of Wilkes County, North Carolina, born August 15, 1819. She was a daughter of William and Letitia Johnson, both natives of North Carolina. Mr. Haynes was a son of Wm. G. Haynes and Martha Hill, both natives of North Carolina. His grandfather on his mother's side, by name Robert Hill, was a valiant soldier and major in the Revolutionary War, and connected with the renowned family of Hills, of Georgia and North Carolina. Six children have been born to this family: Wm. J., Stephen G., John H., Martha L. (wife of Henry F. Longenberg), Mary M. (now in Warrensburg at Normal School), and Fannie E. At the age of about twenty-five years he had accumulated quite a fortune, having a half interest in 555 acres of choice land, and a large amount of stock; but being a liberal-hearted man he became security for $8,000, and he was obliged to dispose of all his property to meet the obligation. He has now a home of eighty-nine acres of choice land, under good cultivation, and well stocked. Mr. Haynes, wife, and son are members of the Methodist Church. Mr. Haynes is, and always has been, a stanch Democrat.
JESSE HENDRICKSON
Was a native of Maryland, born December 13, 1818.' He was married April 16, 1843, to Mary A. Tetter, who was a native of Ross County, Ohio, and born Jan- uary 20, 1824. They lived in Ross County, Ohio, and Somerset County, Penn- sylvania, until moving to Jackson County, Kansas, in 1859. Here they lived about ten years, when they moved to Jackson County, Missouri, where they have since resided. While living in Ohio and Pennsylvania Mr. Hendrickson was engaged in the woolen manufacturing business, and when in Kansas, in farming and stock raising. At the beginning of the War he was preparing to engage extensively in freighting across the plains, and had sixty yoke of work cattle, besides a large number of young stock. This stock was all taken from him by Federals. He enlisted as a member of Company A, 11th Kansas Volunteer Cav- alry, but was discharged from active field service on account of ill health. After- ward served as wagon-master in freighting from Leavenworth to Fort Scott, Gib- son and Smith. Ten children were born to this family, eight of whom are liv- ing : Mary Jane (married Benj. McPherson, and died September 3, 1878), Thomas J., George W., Rachel, Josephine (married and living in Jackson County), Hortense (died in 1873), Jesse, Edwin R., Mary B., and John P. Mr. Hendrickson died February 6, 1875. He was a member of the Methodist Church, and had also been a member of the Sons of Temperance, and of the I. O. O. F. He had served as justice of the peace for a number of terms, and was a man well respected by all, and by his death society lost a useful and honored citizen, and the family a kind and loving husband and father. He left a fine estate of 150 acres, all under improvement and well stocked. Mrs. Hendrick- son and daughter Rachel are members of the Methodist Church.
INGRAM HICKLIN,
Farmer and stock raiser, section 25, was born September 27, 1836, on the farm on which he now resides, and has always lived there except about eighteen months spent in Colorado during the years of 1857 and 1858. He was a son of John and Mary F. Hicklin, his father being a native of Tennessee and his mother of Kentucky, they having settled on the farm, now owned by him, in 1834. His
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father died in 1847 and his mother now lives in Texas with her daughter Eliza, and is in the seventy-fifth year of her age. Mr. Hicklin was married August IT, 1861, to Miss Sally Hayes, who was born in Hawkins County, Tennessee, Sep- tember 20, 1842. She was a daughter of Sterling and Cecelia Hayes, both natives of Tennessee. To this family two children have been born : Ella, born May 25, 1862, and Helen, born March 26, 1872. Mr. Hicklin owns 194 acres of finely improved land. He takes an active interest in educational matters; is a member of the A. O. U. W. Politically, he is a Democrat, but during the War he re- mained neutral He and wife and daughter Ella are all active members of the Baptist Church at Greenwood. They are a well-known and respected family and form a pleasant home circle.
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