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The romance connected with Mr. Trout's courtship and marriage has a tinge of the ludi- crous and fateful about it. At the time he was living in Macoupin county. to avoid the Yankees, and the young woman whom he married Decem- ber 24, 1879, was living there with her parents. to avoid the Rebels. She was Dilla Morton, a daughter of W. S. and Harriet (Coplin) Mortou. and was born in Mexico, Mo. The Rebel and Yankee forces thus brought into close juxtapo- sition were forced to either fight or lay down their arms. The antipathy to bloodshed was ap- parent from the first, and the terms of capitul ??- tion seem to have been arranged to the satisfaction of all concerned, especially to the Rebel contingent. A daughter, Jessie, now Mrs. W. H. Howe, confesses to an impartial liking for Rebe !- and Yankees.
Mr. Trout is a Democrat and voted for Greeley in 1872. While in Illinois he became conspicu- otis in a political way. and held several impor- tant offices, including that of justice of the peace. He was justice of the peace, collector and road : upervisor at the same time. At one time he was candidate for the board of supervisors, and.
MICHAEL CONNOLLY. Canadian County
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though the township was strongly Republican, he was defeated by only one vote. Mr. and Mrs. I rout are members of the Christian Church.
M ICHAEL CONNOLLY, a well-known agriculturist, residing on the northeast quarter of section 24, township 14, range. 8 west, Canadian county, was born in County Cork, Ireland, September 29, 1833, a son of Michael and Ellen ( Heffernan) Connolly. He was reared upon a farm and educated in the national schools of his native land. In 1848, at the time of the great famine in that country, he came to America on the Columbus, a sailing vessel, commanded by Capt. Robert Mackern, of Maine. The voyage proved a long and stormy one and the ship was disabled in mid-ocean. being finally towed by a Portuguese man-of-war into Fayall, on the Azores, where it was repaired. Although Mr. Connolly embarked in September, he did not reach New York until the 15th of the following February. He soon went to Maine, where he worked on a railroad eight months, and then returned to New York to work on the Frie canal a few months, being next employed on the Syracuse & Binghamton Railroad.
In 1850 he went to Logan county, Ohio, where he followed railroading two years, and then removed to Illinois, entering the service of the Illinois Central Railroad. In 1853 he went to Memphis, Tenn., and worked on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad about a year, and from there went to St. Louis, where he enlisted in the general service and was transferred to Com- pany I, Sixth United States Infantry. He was stationed at Fort Kearney. Neb .. until June. 1857, when he went to Utah, taking part with Albert Sidney Johnston in the Mormon war, re- maining there until discharged June 15. 1858. He then located in Jefferson county, Neb .. and turned his attention to farming. While there he married Martha Jane Alexander. of Gage county. that state. In 1863 he enlisted in Company M. Second Nebraska Cavalry, and served nine months in the northwest.
After the war Mr. Connolly lived in Gage county, Neb .. until 1869, when he purchased a tract of wild land in Jefferson county, that state. and engaged in its improvement and cultivation for some time. On selling that he moved to Nuckolls county, Neb., where he bought an- other farm and made his home for thirteen years. Subsequently he owned and operated a farm in Phelps county, that state, but was living in But- falo county, Neb., when he decided to come to Oklahoma in 1892. Since then he has made his home upon his present farm and has given his entire time and attention to its improvement and cultivation.
While living in Nebraska Mr. Connolly's first wife died, leaving two children, John Y. and William A., both of whom are now married, have families of their own, and are engaged in farming in Nuckolls county, Neb. In Jefferson county, that state, our subject was again married March 15, 1868, his second union being with Miss Lucy Powell, a native of Monroe county, Ohio, and a daughter of John and Amelia (Blair) Powell. By this union eleven children were born, five sons and six daughters, of whom three daughters died in infancy. Of the others we note the following: Thomas, the oldest, died at the age of five years : Omar D. is a farmer of Kingfisher county, Okla .: Edwin Forrest, a farmer living near Waukomis, Okla., is married and has one child, Earl; Charles, born in Nuckolls county, Neb., married and lived in Custer county, Okla., where he and his only child, Ralph Walter, lost their lives April 8, 1900, by the falling in of his sod-house on the farm. Daisy is the wife of Elmer Hender- son, of Oklahoma, and they have one child, Charles E. Walter, Ora and Viola are still with their parents.
Since casting his first presidential vote for U. S. Grant, in 1868, Mr. Connolly has been a stanch supporter of the Republican party and has taken quite an active and prominent part in public affairs, serving two terms as county com- missioner in Phelps county, Neb., and school director for some years. He has been township trustee in Cement township, Canadian county. Okla., two years, and was the Republican nom- inee for county commissioner in 1898, but was defeated by nine votes on account of the fusion ticket. Religiously he is a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, and socially is a member of Sharon Post No. 27, G. A. R.
JOHN QUIGLEY WADDELL, D. D. S. The laborious study and constant research of Dr. Waddell along the line of his chosen work, that of dental surgery, has met with the appreciation dne so painstaking and conscien- tious a member of the profession. This recogni- tion of merit is not alone confined to the residents of Kingfisher, who have profited by his skill since 1892, but has been substantially acknowledged by the governor of the territory, who, in 1805. appointed him a member of the Oklahoma Board of Dental Examiners, and they in turn elected him president of the board at its organization. Governor Renfrow confirmed his wise decision in 1897 by causing Dr. Waddell's second ap- pointment to the same position, the term of ser- vice to extend over a period of four years.
Surrounded in his youth by an atmosphere of intelligence and refinement, Dr. Waddell inher- its to a degree the ability to turn his talents to
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the best possible account. Of sturdy Scotch ancestry on the paternal side. he is a grandson of William Waddell, who, in the early part of the century, cast his fortunes with the early pioneers of Virginia, and later moved to Ohio, where he conducted a farm in the vicinity of Springfield. His son, J. M. Waddell, D. D., the father of John, came to an early decision to enter the ministry, and with this object in view graduated from the Allegheny College and Theological Seminary and entered upon his long and useful ministry in the Presbyterian Church at Decatur, Ohio. During the war he served for a hundred days as captain in an Ohio regiment, and was later appointed chaplain of the same. For eight years he was associated with a church at Kirk- wood. Ill .. and for eighteen years ministered to the spiritual and intellectual welfare of Knox- ville, Ill. While at the latter place he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Knox College, Galesburg. A later charge was the church at Lisbon, N. D. His wife, Mattie J. (Quigley) Waddell, was born in Ohio, and was a daughter of Dr. John Quigley. Mrs. Waddell died at Kirkwood when her son John was four years old. She was the mother of two other children, W. E., a graduate of Knox College. Galesburg, Ill., and of the Pultee Medical Col- lege, is ex-secretary of the faculty of Hering College, Chicago, Ill., and is now practicing medicine in Los Angeles, Cal. Mary, the only daughter, died when three years of age. Dr. J. M. Waddell contracted a second marriage. and of this union there is one son. Ralph, who is living at home and attending Knox College.
Owing to difficulty with his eyes, John Wad- dell, who was born in Decatur. Ill., February 10, 1866, received much of his early educational training from his father, and subsequently grad- uated from the high school of his native town. In 1887 he began the study of dentistry with Dr. J. W. Adams, of Knoxville, and later attended the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, a de- partment of Lake Forest University, from which he was graduated in 1890, receiving the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. In Canton. Fulton county, Ill., Dr. Waddell entered upon the prac- tice of his profession, going from there after eighteen months to Beatrice, Neb .. and event- ually, in 1892. settling in Kingfisher, Okla. He has here established an enviable reputation, and has added to his own comfort and convenience and to the appearance of the town by erecting. in 1900, a commodious and homelike residence.
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Dr. Waddell was united in marriage with Ella Cummings, of Atchison, Kans., and a daughter of S. H. Cummings, a prominent real-estate man of Pond Creek, Okla .. and the first postmaster of the place. Dr. and Mrs. Waddell have an adopted child named Fern C. Waddell. The
Waddell family are prominent in the Presbyte- rian Church in Kingfisher, in which organization the doctor is a ruling elder, the clerk of sessions and superintendent of the Sunday-school. He is a member of the Fifth Illinois Regiment, Na- tional Guard, and is second lieutenant of the company. Fraternally he is associated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Woodmen of the World, and Modern Woodmen of Amer- ica.
J. E. TINCHER. The high rank which King- fisher has attained within a few years in the sisterhood of the representative cities of Oklahoma is due to the sterling, enterprising citizens who constitute her commercial class. and those who, in public positions of trust and honor, have molded her destiny. Prominent among these is the gentleman of whom this sketch is penned-one of the first members of the city council and for the past seven years treasurer of the city funds. He possesses marked financial ability and has given entire satisfaction to all concerned in the administration of local affairs. A man of progressive ideas and public spirit, he advocates all measures which he be- lieves will accrue to the general welfare of our people.
Hon. John L. Tincher, father of our subject, was born in Kentucky, and during his mature life he was identified chiefly with Illinois, where he won distinction and material success. In the house of representatives and in the senate of his chosen state he served for a number of terms, and for a long period he was engaged in the banking business in Dan- ville, at first as a member of the firm of Tincher & English, and later as one of the stock- holders of the First National Bank of Danville. He was summoned to his eternal rest in 1870. when about fifty years of age. His widow, now living at her old home in Danville, was Miss Caroline R. Hicks in her girlhood. She was born in Fountain county, Ind., on the pioneer homestead which had been cleared by her father, George Hicks, a New England man. Two of the eight children born to John L. Tincher and wife are deceased.
J. E. Tincher was born in Danville, Ill., April I, 1858, and when of a suitable age commenced laying the foundations of knowledge in the pub- lic schools. Ile pursued a course of study in the Collegiate & Commercial Institute, at New Haven, Conn., and later attended Williston Sem- inary, at East Hampton, Mass. Returning then to Danville, the young man embarked in busi- ness, conducting a men's furnishing goods store for three or more years. In 1883 he went to Kansas, and, with some other enterprising men,
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assisted in the founding of Nescatunga, Co- manche county. There he embarked in the drug business and prospered in his undertaking. On the 22nd of April, 1889, he came to Kingfisher, and when affairs here had settled into a business- like shape he removed his stock of drugs from Kansas to this county seat, and has since been numbered among the leading business men of the place. He owns two valuable farms in this county and devotes considerable attention to the cultivation of the land and to the raising of live stock.
One of the organizers of the Central State Bank, Mr. Tincher has served on its board of directors ever since, and in 1900 it was reorgan- ized, becoming the First National Bank of King- fisher. Initiated into the Masonie order in Dan- ville, he now belongs to Kingfisher Lodge No. 8. A. F. & A. M., and to Cyrene Chapter No. 6, R. A. M. There is no uncertainty as to his po- litical faith, for the Republican party has no truer exponent and champion. The lady whom he chose to share the joys and sorrows which life might have in store for him bore the maiden name of Delta Berry. She was born in Holden, Mo., and their marriage took place in Comanche county, Kans., in 1887. One bright little boy, Donald, blesses their home and brings sunshine into the hearts of all who know him.
H ENRY WULFF, one of the energetic busi- less men to whose efforts Guthrie is in- debted for its prosperity and high standing among the cities of the west, is a native of Ger- many, his birth having occurred in Steinhaussen, Oldenburg, January 8, 1864. His father, Ger- hardt Wulff, of the same province, was a success- ful business man, and during the Schleswig- Holstein war he served in his country's army. He died in 1873, but his widow is still living. now being in her sixty-fourth year. She was Miss Metha Tapken in her girlhood, and since the death of her husband has resided upon their old homestead in the Fatherland. Of their ten children three are deceased, one son, Gustav. having been killed by lightning in 1885, when he was living in Burlington, Iowa.
Henry Wulff, who is the only representative of his father's family in America, received a good general education in the public schools. When he was fourteen years old he went to Jever, near the North Sea, and there served an apprentice- ship to a carpenter and stair-builder. During the four years of this preparation for his life- work he received no payment except his food, and provided all of his own clothes. Being an ambitious youth he attended an evening school during the entire four years, continuing his stud- ies in mathematics, drawing and architecture.
After having so systematically and thoroughly mastered everything pertaining to his chosen calling, it is not strange that he determined that he would not diverge from his work, in order to devote three years to military service, as the law of his land required of able-bodied young men.
Therefore, in June, 1882, Mr. Wulff left Bre- men on a steamship bound for New York city. Going to Burlington, Iowa, he found plenty of employment at his trade, and at the end of two years his brother joined him. In 1886 our sub- ject commenced taking contracts and transacting business on his own account and met with grati- fying success. With foresight he came to the conclusion that he would locate in Oklahoma when it was thrown open to white settlers, for he knew that builders would be in great demand. He arrived in Guthrie on the third train that reached this place April 22, 1889, and at once selected a lot. In company with some other men he chopped some trees, and in this primitive manner formed a bridge across the creek. It was situated at a point a short distance west of Fourth street, on Oklahoma avenue, and was used for over a month, or until a new bridge was built. Mr. Wulff invested the capital which he had in lumber and built a store, 40x50 feet in dimensions. He has rented it ever since, and from time to time has purchased other property and put up buildings to rent. On both sides of the Cottonwood he has constructed a great num- ber of stores and residences, and in addition to this has built many cold storage plants in differ- ent parts of this territory for the Ferd Heim Brewing Company, and also increased the Guth- rie plant of the Pabst company.
In the spring of 1900 Mr. Wulff was elected to represent the fourth ward in the city council. He has been an effective factor in the ranks of the Republican party, and is actively supporting all local enterprises calculated to benefit the place. He is chairman of the committees on streets and alleys and printing, and is a member of the com- mittees on fire protection and water supply. The local water-works are to be enlarged and made further reaching in scope. Fraternally Mr. Wulff is a charter member of the Sons of Herman and is ex-president of the lodge, and is also identified with the Guthrie Lodge of Odd Fellows. Relig- iously he is a Lutheran and is one of the trustees of the church here.
For a wife Mr. Wulff chose Miss Annie Rit- terbusch, a native of Butler county, Neb. They have a son and a daughter, their names being. respectively, Rheinhart and Alma. Mr. and Mrs. Wulff have been married five years, the cere- mony which united their destinies having been performed in Guthrie April 10, 1896. They have a pleasant modern home at No. 1420 West Logan street.
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E DWIN LOWE, an enterprising and promi- nent agriculturist of Logan county, residing on section 36, township 17, range I west, has contributed largely toward the progress and development of his adopted country, and is large- hearted and public-spirited and interested in all that pertains to the upbuilding of the commu- nity.
Mr. Lowe was born in Vienna, Oneida county, N. Y., May 19, 1834. His parents were John and Fannie (Boutelle) Lowe. Ile was reared on his father's farm in Oneida county, N. Y., and early displayed an aptitude for agriculture and a diligence of application at the public schools. His parents moved eventually to Cattaraugus county, N. Y., and there continued in agricul- tural pursuits. When twenty-one years of age young Lowe decided to start out in the world for himself, and with this object in view went to Wisconsin, and later to Minnesota, where he re- mained for two years. At the end of that time he went to Iowa and remained on a farm for several years, after which he rented his place to another party.
Going to the Rocky Mountains, Mr. Lowe engaged in mining in the vicinity of Denver. In 1862 he returned to the home farm and there worked for a year, when he enlisted for the war in Company I, Twenty-third Iowa Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel Dewey, serving for three years. He was in the thick of the fight during all of the campaign along the Mississippi river under General Grant. His first battle was at Port Gibson, his second at Raymond. Miss, his third at Champion Hill and his fourth at Black River bridge. Then followed the siege of Vicks- burg, which lasted for forty-seven days. Prior to the siege he was in the hard-fought battle of Mil- likens Head in Louisiana. He was with Banks in the Red River campaign, and in 1863 win- tered in Texas and aided in the capture of Fort Esperanza. During 1865 he participated in sev- eral engagements in the state of Alabama, and after the capture of Mobile was sent to Texas to maneuver against Maximillian in Mexico, but did not get across the border because the French came to terms and the army was withdrawn. Mr. Lowe was honorably discharged in 1865. His war career was remarkable in that he was never wounded or captured, and with the exception of a siege of the measles, which incapacitated him for a few weeks, suffered few of the vicissitudes of war.' At the siege of Mobile a shell burst at his feet and wounded a man standing at his side, but he himself escaped uninjured. He was under arrest but once and that was for appropriating neighborly rails to keep his bed out of the water and mud.
After his discharge from the army, Mr. Lowe returned to his home in Iowa, where he engaged
in farming until 1880. On removing from there to Nebraska, he took up land in Gage county and there made his home for eleven years. His residence in Oklahoma dates from 1891. (11 coming to this territory he secured a tract of school land. About sixty acres of his farm is now under cultivation and in a highly improved state. Besides general farming he has given considerable attention to gardening and horticul- ture. He aims always at the most advanced and scientifie methods, and works with the most modern appliances. In politics he is a Repub- lican and cast his first presidential vote for John C. Fremont in 1856.
In January, 1869, Mr. Lowe married Mrs. Jane Cotter, nee Davis, a daughter of W. M. and Martha (Dennison) Davis, of Kentucky. Iler father died when she was a child and she was reared and educated by an uncle. To Mr. and Mrs. Lowe have been born seven children, of whom five are living, viz .: John C., Winfield S., Edna M., Jessie B. and James William. The second child, Fannie E., died August 23, 1890, aged eighteen years, and Edwin, the third child, died when eight months old.
Mr. Lowe is a believer in eternal life (which he considers already begun), governed by natural and rigid laws, and is thus incredulous about miracles or special revelations. His views are shared by his family. He considers moral living of more importance than belief in, or the practice of, any or all religions.
J AMES S. RUSSELL, one of the progressive agriculturists of Canadian county, is de- serving of a place among its representative citizens. A son of Weldon and Frances (Shack- elford) Russell, he was born in Casey county, Ky., May 24, 1859. His father also is a native of Kentucky, and prior to and during the Civil war he was numbered among the stanch defend- ers of the Union. He served in the Federal army, and soon after the conflict had ceased he went to De Witt county, Ill., where he carried on a farm for some years. About 1882 he removed to Elk county, Kans., where he is yet living and owns a valuable homestead.
The youth of James S. Russell was spent in the peaceful labors of agriculture, and as he lived in a region where good public schools abounded he acquired an excellent education. He was the first of his family to go to Kansas, and in part- nership with his brother for some time he car- ried on a livery stable in Wichita, Sedgwick county, making a success of the undertaking. Then selling out, he went to Missouri, where he purchased cattle, which he first took to Sum- ner county, Kans., and later to Elk county, same state. From 1887 to 1895 he was engaged in
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the cattle business in Beaver county (then known as No Man's Land), Okla., and during the next two years he made his home in Barber county, Kans. Three years ago hie located on his present homestead, which is situated on the northeastern quarter of section 26, township 14, range 6 west, his postoffice being Mathew- son. He soon inaugurated many changes for the better in this property, and has many more sub- stantial improvements in view. While he is thoroughly interested in all public affairs, he is in no sense a politician, and contents himself with casting his ballot for Democratic nominees and principles, as his views accord with that party's platform.
Mr. Russell formed the acquaintance of the family of Dr. E. H. Long, and July 15, 1885. in Winfield, Kans., he was united in marriage with the doctor's daughter, Marguerite. Her mother bore the maiden name of Katherine Smith. Five children bless the union of Mr. and Mrs. Rus- sell, namely: Katie, who was born in Greenwood county, Kans .: Elisha Weldon, born in Beaver county, Okla .; Laura Ella and William Edwin, both of whom also are natives of that county; and Cora Lillian, whose birth occurred on the homestead now owned and managed by our sub- ject.
W ILLIAM E. MALALEY. One of the best known of the pioneers in the Pan- handle and Indian territory is William E. Malaley, who has been associated with this region more or less for a quarter of a century and has witnessed remarkable changes here. He was born in Talladega, Randolph county, Aia .. but his father, Edward Malaley, was a native of Ireland. The latter accompanied his parents to Alabama when he was young and for. some years assisted in carrying on his father's tannery. La- ter he engaged in a mercantile business in Talla- dega, and was called to his reward prior to the Civil war. For a wife he had chosen Anna Car- ter, a native of Alabama, in which state she like- wise died. Her father was a native of England. who, after his settlement in the south, was en- gaged in building and contracting. One of his sons was a commissioned officer in the Confed- erate army during the Civil war.
The birth of our subject occurred on New Year's day. 1851. Though he was reared in the south, his sympathies were with the Union when the storm clouds began to gather. Though a mere lad he made his way to Eastport, Miss .. where he became a dispatch messenger for Colonel Wells, of the Eleventh Indiana Cavalry, and continue'l with that regiment until the close of the war. Then, accompanying Lieutenant Stober of the gallant Eleventh to Wabash City,
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