BADGETT, John A.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Howard Township, Bates Co, MO
JOHN A. BADGETT, farmer, section 1, was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, April 19, 1834, and is a son of John R. and America (Bosley) Badgett, both natives of Kentucky. John was raised and educated in the state of his birth, and in 1860 he married Miss A. Meeker, of the same county as himself, born in February 1842. Her parents were A. and Lucinda Meeker, nee Allen, of Franklin County, Ohio. Mrs. B. was also brought up in Lincoln County, and there received her education. In 1877 Mr. Badgett settled on his present fine farm of 160 acres, although he had resided in the county in New Home Township for many years. He and his wife have four children: James, Mecca, Wesley and Lulie.

BAIE, William
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
WILLIAM BAIE, a prosperous and influential farmer and stockman of Deer Creek township, near Adrian, is one of the highly respected, "self-made" men of Bates county. Mr. Baie is a native of Illinois. He was born in 1860 in DeKalb county, a son of Christian, Jr. and Minnie Baie. Christian Baie, Jr. was a son of Christian Baie, Sr., who was born in Germany and came to America when he was a young man, eighteen years of age, and settled in Kane county, Illinois. The father of William Baie, Christian Baie, Jr., was a successful and well-to-do agriculturist of DeKalb county, Illinois, owner of more than six hundred acres of land in DeKalb county. He died in 1907 and the widowed mother still makes her home in Illinois. To Christian, Jr. and Minnie Baie were born eleven children, all of whom have been reared to maturity and are now living: Henry, Adrian, Missouri; William, the subject of this review; Herman, Hinckley, Illinois; Mrs. Lena Marsh, Hinckley, Illinois; August, Waterman, Illinois; Mrs. Amelia Troeger, Hinckley, Illinois; Louis, Hinckley, Illinois; Mrs. Minnie Remsneider, Hinckley, Illinois; Mrs. Ida Walgrin, who resides in Pierce township, DeKalb county, Illinois; Carl, Waterman, Illinois; and Mrs. Ada Remsneider, Hinckley, Illinois. Mrs. Minnie Baie died February 15, 1918. In 1887, William Baie came from Illinois to Missouri and settled on a tract of land located near Adrian, a farm comprising two hundred acres, to which he has constantly added until at one time he was owner of three hundred seventy-three acres of choice land in Bates county, but he has recently sold eighty-three acres of his place to his son, Roy. Mr. Baie began life in Missouri under very discouraging conditions, being in debt and having ill-fortune in raising crops for the first few years. He had a very hard time to get a start in the new Western home, but by unflagging industry, perseverance, and tenacious endeavor, Mr. Baie has prospered and is now the owner of one of the attractive country places in the township. He has remodeled the residence, has built a large barn and several smaller barns, and has added implement sheds and other necessary farm buildings on his place and is now well equipped to handle large herds of stock and amounts of grain and hay. Mr. Baie keeps a nice herd of Shorthorn cattle and forty head of Poland China hogs. This past season, of 1917, he harvested two thousand bushels of oats and more than one hundred tons of hay and in addition has fifty-seven acres of the farm in corn, which yielded an average of forty bushels to the acre. He is a most progressive farmer and is an advocate of crop rotation and the constant use of the manure spreader. In former years, William Baie operated a steam thresher and corn sheller for many years in this vicinity and was very successful in this line of work. William Baie and Carrie Ridelspeger, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ridelspeger, were united in marriage in 1884 in Illinois. To this union were born five children: Mrs. Jennie Troeger, Hinckley, Illinois; Frank, San Simon, Arizona; Mrs. Cora Temme, deceased; Mrs. Ida Black, Kansas City, Missouri; and Roy, Adrian, Missouri. The mother died in 1894. Mr. Baie remarried, his second wife being Ida George, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William George, of DeKalb county, Illinois. William Baie and Ida George were united in marriage in 1899 and to them were born two children: Elizabeth and Sadie, both of whom reside at home with their father. Their mother, Ida (George) Baie died September 23, 1915 and Mr. Baie and his two daughters reside alone at the old homestead. Politically, William Baie is affiliated with the Democratic party. He takes a keen interest in public and political affairs and has held several offices of honor and trust in his township. Mr. Baie has served his township as school director ever since he came to Bates county thirty-one years ago and he has been president of the school board and of the township board. He has been a member of the town board of Adrian for five years and was justice of the peace of Deer Creek township for five years. He is a worthy and highly valued member of the German Lutheran church and has been a deacon and the church treasurer for many years. William Baie is numbered among the enterprising and public-spirited citizens of Bates county.

BAILEY, John W.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Walnut Township, Bates Co, MO
JOHN W. BAILEY was born in Washington County, Ohio, on November 7, 1832, his parents being John J. and Mary Bailey nee Chapman, both also natives of Washington County. They had a family of five children. John W. was reared near Marietta, on the banks of the Ohio River, and in 1863, he went to Cumberland County, Illinois, having charge of government supplies at Mattoon. In 1869, he located at his present point of residence, and made his first purchase of uncultivated prairie land. This has been changed into a well improved farm of 400 acres, surrounded and subdivided by Osage hedge. His orchard contains a well selected variety of fruit. Mr. Bailey is now devoting his entire attention to the raising of cattle and fine merino sheep. He married Miss Louisa A. Carpenter, who was born in Athens County, Ohio, July 12, 1832. She was brought up and educated in that vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey have a family of four children: John F., Mabel, Mary A. and Bertha. They are members of the Presbyterian Church.

BAILEY, W. E.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
W. E. BAILEY -- Nothing in the way of a history of Hudson township would be in the least complete without prominent mention of the Bailey family, pioneers and prominent citizens of this part of the county. W. E. Bailey, subject of the above caption, is a son of Wright Bailey, now living in Appleton City and widely known as one of the most successful stockmen in southwest Missouri. The Bailey farm consists of five hundred fifty-four acres in high state of improvement and showing on every hand evidence of modern and successful management. The father, Wright Bailey, was born in Howard county, Missouri, in 1854 and is a son of Moses Bailey, who came to southwest Missouri from that section of the state and settled in Bates county in 1865. Wright Bailey married Miss Fannie Stephenson, a daughter of the late Judge Stephenson, who was for many years one of Appleton City's official and most prominent citizens. To them five children were born: C.H. Bailey, Rockville, Missouri; Pearl, now wife of O. E. Piepmeier, a well-known farmer and stockman of Hudson; Lottie Gladys Bailey, teacher in Appleton City High School; Miss Myra, at home; W. E. Bailey, the subject of this sketch, who was born on the farm where he now lives and is already one of the best known and successful young stockmen of this part of the state, showing that he is a "chip off the old block" and following in the footsteps of his father. He was educated in the public schools at home and in the Appleton City Academy. For the past seven years he and his father have been engaged in the stock business under the firm name of Bailey & Son and feed on an average of one hundred fifty to two hundred head of cattle and as many hogs each year. In addition to other stock they are handling one hundred fifty goats. At the present time they are drilling a deep well in order to furnish better water supply. W. E. Bailey was married in 1904 to Miss Amelia Fox, a daughter of John and Marguerette Fox, former residents of Hudson township. Mrs. Fox is deceased and Mr. Fox lives at Appleton City. The Fox family came to America from Switzerland in 1869 and first located in Prairie township. The children of the Fox family are as follow: Anna, widow of John Yoss, Prairie City; Elizabeth, wife of John Mock, Hudson township; Christian, living on the home place in Hudson township; Peter, whereabouts unknown; Lena, wife of Jared Griggs, Hudson township; May, wife of William Smith, St. Louis, Missouri; Mrs. W. E. Bailey.

BAKER, J. H.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
J. H. BAKER, proprietor of "Gold Medal Stock Farm" in Deepwater township, is one of twelve worthy descendants of a good, old, sterling pioneer family of Bates county, Missouri. Mr. Baker is widely known in this part of the state as a successful and prosperous agriculturist and stockman. He was born May 8, 1870, in Pleasant Gap township, a son and seventh child of Zephaniah and Martha Ellen (Hale) Baker, the former, a native of Indiana and the latter, of Iowa. Zephaniah Baker brought his family to Missouri in the early fifties and they settled on a tract of land located near the present townsite of Butler. When the Civil War broke out in 1860, on account of the terrible drought of that year, the Bakers moved back to Iowa, where they remained during the four years of the conflict. They returned to Bates county, Missouri, in 1866 and Mr. Baker sold his farm, which was near Butler, and located one mile north of Pleasant Gap and about two years afterward, on a farm lying three and a half miles southwest of Pleasant Gap in March, 1872. To Zephaniah and Martha Ellen Baker were born twelve children, all of whom were reared to maturity and are now living, the youngest child being thirty-eight years of age at the time of this writing in 1918: J. W., the capable sheriff of Bates county, Missouri; Mrs. Lillie Ferrell, Rich Hill, Missouri; John T., a well-to-do merchant of Rich Hill, Missouri; Mrs. Mary Griffin, of Pleasant Gap township; Mrs. Anna Olan, who resides in Oklahoma; W. A., a well-known farmer and stockman of Pleasant Gap township; J. H., the subject of this review; Mrs. Parthena Beard, Parsons, Kansas; Mrs. Ella Dillon, Southmound, Kansas; Charlie Z., of Pleasant Gap township; Mrs. Ida Davis, Enid, Oklahoma; and George W., of Summit township. Mr. Baker, father of the children, was a highly respected, industrious citizen. He was for many years employed in hauling merchandise for Brooks & Mains, merchants of Pleasant Gap, from Pleasant Hill to Pleasant Gap and he was known to practically everyone in his township. Zephaniah Baker died at his country home in February, 1907. A few years prior to his death he moved to Butler but became dissatisfied and bought a farm of forty acres near his son, W. A., where he died. The widowed mother survived her husband but a short time, when they were united in death. Mrs. Baker, one of Bates county's noblest and bravest pioneer women, died in 1910. Both father and mother are interred Rogers cemetery in Bates county. J. H. Baker received a good common-school education in the public schools of Pleasant Gap township in Bates county. His boyhood days were spent in assisting with the work on his father's farm and in attending the country school near their home. Mr. Baker remained with his parents until he was nearly twenty-one years of age and then he began farming independently on the home place, a part of which he rented for some time and they purchased a tract of one hundred twenty acres of land formerly belonging to his father. Mr. Baker, in early manhood, left Missouri and went to Oklahoma, where he took up a claim in Garfield county. After relinquishing his claim in Oklahoma, he returned to Bates county, Missouri, and in 1900 again located on a farm near the Double Branches church in Pleasant Gap township, where he resided for six years. He then disposed of that place to his brother, W. A. Baker, and purchased his present country home in Deepwater township, about ten years ago. The marriage of J. H. Baker and Alma Edith Beard was solemnized December 17, 1890. Alma Edith (Beard) Baker is a daughter of Henry and Eliza (Kretzinger) Beard, a highly valued and worthy pioneer family of Deepwater township. The Beard family came to Missouri from Ohio, of which state Henry Beard was a native. He was a member of a family that had settled in Ohio among the first pioneers of the Northwest Territory and in that state was reared and educated. The Beards later moved to Indiana and there the father and mother of Henry Beard died. He then came West and located in Kansas, where he was united in marriage with Eliza Kretzinger and in the years immediately following the Civil War they settled in Bates county, Missouri, on a farm in Deepwater township, a place comprising one hundred eighty acres of land. To Henry and Eliza Beard were born ten children: Charles F., Parsons, Kansas; Mrs. Emma Frost, of Deepwater township; Mrs. J. H. Baker, the wife of the subject of this review; J. A., of Summit township; I.E., of Deepwater township; Ava M., Lone Oak township; Mrs. Minnie Ferris, who resides in Canada; Mrs. Maud Parker, of Deepwater township; Mrs. Dora Thomas, of Pleasant Gap township; and Mrs. Nina McKinley, of Hudson township. The father died in 1895 and the mother remained on the farm and alone reared and educated their children. Mrs. Beard still resides at the old homestead in Deepwater township and she is now sixty-seven years of age, one of the most honored residents of Bates county. To J. H. and Alma Edith Baker have been born nine children: Roy Castle, who married Stella Ritchey and resides on a farm in Summit township; Ethel Viola, wife of Omer B. Randall, of Shawnee township; Ira Henry, of Summit township; Oscar Leland; James Lloyd; Z. Z.; Vera Laverne; Arlie, deceased; and an infant son, deceased. Four of the children are at home with their parents. "Gold Medal Stock Farm" in Deepwater township was purchased by J. H. Baker in the autumn of 1907 from C.F. Beard, who had bought it from Joseph W. Webb. Mr. Webb had obtained the place from Mr. Matchett and he, in turn, had secured it from the one who entered the land from the government. This farm comprises two hundred twenty acres of choice farming land in Bates county, one hundred acres of the tract lying north of the Butler, Spruce, and Johnstown road and one hundred twenty acres lying south of the road and nine miles east of Butler. In point of location, no better could be desired and the land is chiefly prairie and well drained and watered. The soil is very productive, but Mr. Baker is as much interested in stock raising as in farming and at the time of this writing in 1918 he has on the place from eighteen to twenty head of Percheron horses, one of which is a registered animal, and jacks, and jennets, also registered; twenty-five head of cattle; and fifty head of purebred Poland China hogs. Mr. Baker has built a new stock barn in recent years and the residence, which was originally built by Mr. Matchett forty-five years ago out of lumber hauled from Pleasant Hill, has been remodeled and all the other buildings on the farm put in good repair and all are now neatly kept.

BAKER, William A.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
WILLIAM A. BAKER, of Pleasant Gap township, is perhaps the best known man in Bates county, a successful stock dealer. So extensive and successful has he been in his chosen field of endeavor that he is frequently referred to as "The Hog King." Mr. Baker is a native son of Bates county. He was born two miles north of Pleasant Gap, December 9, 1867, a son of Zephaniah and Martha E. (Hale) Baker, natives of Indiana. The father went to Iowa with his widowed mother at a very early day. He came here prior to the Civil War. During that conflict, he returned to Iowa, where he remained until peace was declared. He then returned to Missouri, settling in Pleasant Gap township, Bates county, and here spent the remainder of his life, with the exception of one year in Oklahoma. He died in 1907 and the mother departed this life three years later. William A. Baker is one of a family of twelve children born to his parents, all of whom are living, as follow: Joseph, the present sheriff of Bates county; Mrs. Lillie Ferl, resides on the old home place in Pleasant Gap township; John T., Rich Hill, Missouri; Mrs. Mary Griffin, Pleasant Gap township; Mrs. Anna Olen, lives in Oregon; William A., the subject of this sketch; J. H., lives near Spruce, Missouri; Mrs. Thena Beard, Parsons, Kansas; Mrs. Ella Olen, Parsons, Kansas; Mrs. Ida Davis, Enid, Oklahoma; C. Z., Pleasant Gap township; and G. W., Summit township. Mr. Baker was reared in Pleasant Gap township and he there attended the public schools. He engaged in farming and stock raising in early life, and has since made such his occupation. About ten years ago, he began raising registered Poland China hogs and he has been unusually successful in this line of endeavor. He raises about two hundred head annually, which he sells in various parts of the country. The high standard of his registered stock is well known to breeders and the demand is generally more than he can supply. He is also engaged in breeding registered Aberdeen Angus cattle. He engaged in this branch of business about seven years ago and at this writing has seventy-eight head of these cattle, which compose one of the finest herds to be found in western Missouri. Mr. Baker has a farm consisting of three hundred sixty acres, well adapted to stock raising and general farming. May 15, 1881, Mr. Baker was united in marriage with Miss Maggie Griffin, of Harwood, Vernon county, Missouri. Six children have been born to this union, as follow: Claude A., Pleasant Gap township; Clarence H., Pleasant Gap township; Alice, married Verni Geheere, Pleasant Gap township; Marie, a student in the Butler high school; Frederick H. and Lydia, at home. Mr. Baker is a stanch supporter of the politics and principles of the Democratic party and takes a commendable interest in local political affairs. He has served as collector of Pleasant Gap township two terms. He is a member of the Christian church and of the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Baker is one of the Bates county's most progressive citizens.

BALLARD, J. N.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Spruce Township, Bates Co, MO
HON. J. N. BALLARD, a native of Missouri, was born in Cooper County March 20, 1842. His parents were Newton and Sarah E. Ballard, nee Hutchinson, the former a native of Georgia, and his mother of Knox County, Tennessee. Newton Ballard was married in Tennessee, and moved from there to Missouri in 1836, when he located in Cooper County, among the first to settle there. J. N. spent his youth on a farm and was educated in the common schools. Early in 1863 he took a trip to Montana, where he embarked in the lumber business at Deer Lodge City, continuing it for five years. He married in Cooper County, January 8, 1868, Miss Josephine Stark, a daughter of Dryden Stark, of that county. Some time after he came to Bates County, where he bought land and improved his present farm. He has 600 acres, with 560 fenced, 160 acres of which are in pasture, and 400 acres in corn. There is a good residence and a fine orchard upon this place, which is located upon section 11. He is a thrifty farmer, and has his large farm all well fenced, and in good condition. He makes a specialty of handling and feeding stock for the market. Mr. Ballard is Democratic in politics and is one of the best informed men, on the political issues of the day, in the county. He was appointed one of the county judges by Governor Hardin in 1876, and after serving two years, was elected to the same position, and acted in that capacity for four years. At the general election in 1880, the judge was elected representative of Bates County, and discharged the duties of that position with credit to himself and his constituents. Mr. and Mrs. Ballard have five children: Lewis B., Emmet S., Josephine, Jasper, and an infant son. Mrs. B. is a member of the M. E. Church, South.

BARCLAY, Alexander M.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
ALEXANDER M. BARCLAY -- The late Alexander M. Barclay was a pioneer settler of Bates county, whose forty years of residence in Bates county were devoted to good deeds in the constant endeavor to do to the utmost of his ability and strength his part in the upbuilding of Bates county. When Mr. Barclay came to Bates county forty years ago, all of the visible property which he possessed consisted of a team of horses. His first investment in land was made on his promise to pay. During all these years he made good in his adopted county and became one of the most progressive and best-loved citizens of the county. Mr. Barclay was born in Smith county, West Virginia, September 4, 1847, a son of Joseph and Mary (Call) Barclay. Joseph Barclay, his father, was born and reared in Kentucky, a son of parents who came to Kentucky from North Carolina, of English descent. He married a lady who was of Virginia parentage, and removed to Kentucky from Virginia when Alexander M. was but one year old, and made a settlement in Pulaski county, that state. In 1867, Joseph Barclay settled in Kansas, where the wife and mother died in 1905. Later, Mr. Barclay went to Oregon and died there. Two children of Joseph and Mary Barclay are yet living: Felix, residing at Vale, Oregon; and John, living at Cambridge, Idaho. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Alexander M. Barclay enlisted when fifteen years of age in the First Kentucky Cavalry and served thirty-one months to the day in continuous and active service of the most hazardous character, much of which was hand-to-hand fighting between the opposing forces. He participated in the battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky, and was present at the capture of the famous Rebel raider, General John Morgan, whose forces were surrounded in a natural pocket in Columbiana county, Ohio, and forced to surrender to the Union forces under General Hildebrandt. He fought in the battle of Resaca, Georgia, and was in many sharp skirmishes and minor engagements, being among the first troops to enter the captured city of Dalton, Georgia. During the course of his military service, he received a few slight wounds and at one time was struck on the head by a Confederate soldier who wielded a pistol in an effort to compel his surrender. He had many narrow escapes from death and capture, but survived to receive his honorable discharge at Louisville, Kentucky, and now enjoys the honor of being one of the very few survivors of the grand "Old Guard," bearing the distinction of having been one of the youngest soldiers to fight in the Civil War. After the close of his war service, he returned to Kentucky and followed the peaceful pursuits of farming until his removal to Missouri in 1878. Three years after coming to this county, he purchased his present home place on time, but with good management and diligence he was not long in paying for the land. The years that have passed brought prosperity to this aged veteran and besides his fine farm he was well-to-do and was a stockholder in the Walton Trust Company of Butler. On December 9, 1869, Mr. Barclay was united in marriage with Miss Louisa F. James, and to this union there have been born two children: Mary, wife of William G. Dillon, of Mound township; and Susan, who married Charles Jenkins, of Mound township, and died in 1896. Mrs. Louisa F. (Barclay) James was born in Virginia and reared in Kentucky and is an aunt of Senator Ollie James, the famous Democratic leader and statesman of Kentucky. Until the disbanding of the Adrian Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, Mr. Barclay was affiliated with the organization. He had always been a Republican and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was progressive in his views and tendencies and had always endeavored to keep pace with the march of progress. Mr. Barclay loved to contrast the easy times of the present with the hard times and vicissitudes through which he was compelled to make his way during his young manhood, and recalled that in the days of long ago, he husked corn in Missouri for a wage of sixty-five cents a day during cold winter days when the weather was very similar to that which we have endured during the past winter of 1917-18 and that "it was cold enough to freeze a man to death." Happily the days of low wages and low prices for farm products are passed and the farmer "has come into his own," and is enjoying his share of the widespread prosperity which has enveloped the whole country. Mr. Barclay departed this life on February 8, 1918, and his remains were interred in Mt. Olivet cemetery on the Sunday following his death. His loss has been a sad one to the community and Bates county is bereft of a splendid and noble citizen whose life was well spent and whose soul rests in peace in the "Bourne from which no man returneth." His spirit is still with us and his example of right living was a noble one.

BARD, Warren J.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Homer Township, Bates Co, MO
W. J. BARD, farmer and stock raiser and dealer, section 13, was born September 19, 1840, in Addison County, Vermont, his parents being John and Cornelia (Parkhill) Bard. His father, a native of the same county as himself, was born August 3, 1807, and died March 18, 1876. His mother, originally from St. Lawrence County, Kentucky, was born April 14, 1816. They were married February 7, 1839, and had two children: W. J. and Mary. The former came west while quite young, and after traveling through different states finally embarked in agricultural pursuits in Iowa, where he soon gained for himself an enviable reputation. In 1872 he came to Bates County, Missouri, and turned his attention to cattle feeding, subsequently purchasing a farm. He is now recognized as one of the progressive and substantial farmers of this county, and is the owner of 880 acres of good land, the results of his own industry and good management. Mr. Bard was united in marriage, January 22, 1877, to Miss Mary V. Buckels, of Springfield, Ohio, where she had been brought up and educated, and where also her marriage occurred. The date of her birth was June 3, 1847, and she was the daughter of Henry and Mary Buckels, nee Tuttle. The former was born at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, September 10, 1820, and the latter in Clark County, Ohio, October 21, 1822. She died December 12, 1855. They were married March 31, 1845. Mr. and Mrs. Bard have two children: Mary C. and Anna. Mr. B. is a Mason.

BARKER, Commodore P.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Spruce Township, Bates Co, MO
COMMODORE P. BARKER is one of the leading merchants of Johnstown. He was born in Logan County, Kentucky. His father, C. P. Barker, was born in Virginia and served in the war of 1812. He died in Logan County, Kentucky, in 1862. His mother's maiden name was Nancy M. Ragdale, a Kentuckian by birth. Commodore spent his youth in Logan County on a farm and received a common school education. He enlisted in the fall of 1861 in the Eighth Kentucky Cavalry and served for about thirteen months in the Union Army, participating in a number of engagements. After his discharge he returned to his home in Kentucky, and in the fall of 1866 he came to Missouri and located in Henry County, where he was engaged in farming for some three years. Mr. Barker was married there May 29, 1868, to Miss Isabelle Hull, a daughter of Thomas Hull, of Henry County. In 1869 he moved to Bates County, and after tilling the soil in Deepwater Township for about ten years, in June 1879, he came to Johnstown and embarked in his present business. He has a well selected stock of general merchandise, has built up a good trade and is enjoying a successful patronage. Mr. and Mrs. Barker have three children: James Lee, Nancy S. and Charles. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church.

BARKER, William
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - New Home Township, Bates Co, MO
WILLIAM BARKER, of the firm of Stafford & Barker, contractors, is of English nativity and was born in Lancashire, July 13, 1841, his parents being Miles and Ann (Marland) Barker. When he was three years old the family came to the United States, and his father worked in the mines of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, for two years. Going to St. Louis, young Barker first toiled in the mines, in what is now the Twenty-seventh Ward, until twenty-six years of age. He has since worked in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and upon settling at Alma he remained there seven years. Thence to St. Louis, and after one year, in March 1881, he came to Rich Hill and dug coal in the mines until November 1, 1882, when he entered into the contracting business with Mr. Stafford to move the coal from Shaft No. 1 and load the cars. They are successors to Patrick Shields. Mr. B. was married in St. Louis, May 3, 1868, to Miss Ellen Lewis, a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. They have four children: Thomas, Lydia, William and Joseph. His father was killed at Alma, Illinois, October 13, 1872, by a train running over him. His mother died November 17, 1874, from the effects of a stroke of apoplexy. William is the eldest of thirteen children, of whom only three besides himself are living: Phoebe, Anna and Betsy. He is a member of the I.O.O.F. and the K. of P. orders, and in politics is a Greenbacker.

BARNETT, Benjamin F.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
BENJAMIN F. BARNETT, ex-collector of taxes in Summit township, one of Bates county's progressive and successful, young agriculturists and stockmen, was born in Carroll county, Kentucky, May 13, 1886. Mr. Barnett is a son of J. W. and Frances (Todd) Barnett, natives of Kentucky. They were the parents of four children, who are now living: Gordon, Butler, Missouri; Nannie, the wife of Roy Argenbright, of Summit township; May and Lillie, at home with their father. Mrs. Barnett, the mother, died at the Barnett home place in Summit township in 1916. Mr. Barnett is engaged in farming and stock raising in this township. Mr. Barnett, whose name introduces this sketch, received his elementary education in the public schools of Carroll county, Kentucky. He was a student at Clay City High School, Clay City, Kentucky, for two years. He came to Bates county, Missouri, in 1903 and located on a farm one mile south of Butler, where he remained two years, and then he moved to a country place in Summit township located seven miles east of Butler. Mr. Barnett bought a tract of land, embracing one hundred ten acres, in 1909 from Doctor Foster. The land was practically unimproved, having only a small house and barn. Benjamin F. Barnett has rebuilt the residence and the barn and erected a silo, 14 x 35 feet in dimensions, and a dairy barn, equipped with twenty-four stanchions, and a chicken house, 12 x 38 feet in dimensions. He has increased his holdings and his farm now comprises two hundred ten acres of excellent prairie land, well watered and nicely improved, which he is constantly building up and making better. Mr. Barnett has at present a herd of twenty-four dairy cows and sixteen heifer calves of both Holstein and Jersey breeds. He is the owner of one cow which gives forty pounds of milk daily and the milk tests four per cent, butter fat. Mr. Barnett is enthusiastic in his defense of the dairy cow as a moneymaking investment. It has frequently been said by other stockmen of Bates county, whose words are quoted in this volume, that beef cattle are a better paying proposition in this part of the state than dairy cattle, but Mr. Barnett states that the dairy cow beats everything else on the farm, being a source of income constantly while at the same increasing the fertility of the soil and he is planning to handle a larger herd of registered dairy cattle in the future. He has a mechanical milker, which milks twenty-five cows in an hour, the one of two such milkers in Bates county, the other being owned by Sunderwirth Brothers of Prairie City. Mrs. Barnett is raising Brown Leghorn chickens and has at present a flock of three hundred fowls, which are proving to be a very profitable feature of the farm. In 1910, the marriage of Benjamin F. Barnett and Jessie Cantrell, a daughter of Starlin and Hattie (Gloyd) Cantrell, was solemnized and to this union has been born one child, a daughter, Elizabeth. Mr. and Mrs. Barnett are widely known and universally respected in Butler and Bates county. Mr. Barnett has an extensive acquaintance throughout his township, having served four years as collector of taxes in Summit township. He is a young man of exceptional business ability and judgment, and his standing, financially, commercially, and socially is second to none in the county.

BARR, N. R.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Hudson Township, Bates Co, MO
N. R. BARR, farmer and stock dealer, section 15, was born in Breckenridge County, Kentucky, April 22, 1834. His father, Elias Barr, was a native of the same county, and his mother (formerly Sally Beauchamp) was born in Washington County, of that state. N. R. grew to manhood in his native county, his youth being spent on the farm. In 1855, he went to Illinois, and settled in Hancock County, where he bought land and improved a farm, and where he remained until 1873, when he sold out and came to Missouri. He then purchased and improved his present farm in Hudson Township. He has 280 acres, all under fence, 160 acres being in grass, and the balance under cultivation. His orchard contains 115 apple trees, mostly bearing, and about 200 fine peach trees. Mr. Barr was married in Hancock County, September 27, 1857, to Miss Eveline Potter, a daughter of Pardon Potter. There are six children by this marriage. Mrs. B. died June 29, 1869. He was again married in Hancock County, March 10, 1870, to Miss Lucy A. Grisham, a daughter of Ezekiel Grisham. They have two children: Fannie B. and William E. The children by his first wife are Daniel T., Martha E. (wife of Smith Potter), John S., Mary L., Ulysses Grant and Charles C. Mr. Barr takes a great interest in educational matters, and endeavors to secure the best of teachers for his school district, of which he has been a director for several years. He is the present justice of the peace of his township, and was elected in 1881. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

BARRON, John A.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Osage Township, Bates Co, MO
JOHN A. BARRON, farmer, section 2, is a native of Scotland and was born at Glasgow April 5, 1833. He was brought up in the country of his birth until fifteen years of age, when he emigrated to America, settling in Cooper County, Missouri, where for three years he followed farming. Then he came to Bates County, Missouri, in 1857 and located upon his present fine farm, comprising 320 acres of land, all of which is well improved. He was one of the first men to venture a settlement on the prairie, but has never seen fit to regret his choice. Mr. Barron was married, in October 1858, to Miss Sallie A. Elliston, a native of Kentucky. They had five children: William F., Charles, James, Edward and Arthur. Mrs. Barron died in 1872. He was again married November 8, 1874, to Miss Mary E. Heddon. Their family consists of three children: Lee, Kate and Glenn.

BARROWS, Asenath C.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
MRS. ASENATH C. BARROWS, who died at Rich Hill, Missouri, January 28, 1908, was born at Union Mission, fifteen miles east of Ft. Gibson, Indian Territory, January 5, 1822. Her father, Rev. William F. Vaill, a graduate of Yale College, and later a pastor of the Presbyterian church at North Gilford, Connecticut, was sent in the year 1820, by the board of the United Foreign Missionary Society in New York City, to establish the aforesaid mission. In less than two years after their arrival, the subject of this sketch was born, and at this mission was thoroughly taught, by her cultured parents and other instructors, in divine as well as literary matters. Among some of the notable happenings was the visit at different occasions of Washington Irving and Gen. Sam Houston, who were guests of her father at the mission, while Irving was making his tour to the wild western prairies, and upon which is based his story of the "Capture of the Wild Horse," found in "McGuffey's Fourth Reader." The time arrived for placing Asenath in school to complete her education. In the summer of 1834, in company with her father and mother, she made an overland trip to Lexington, Missouri, where they took passage by steamboat for St. Louis, making the trip to Cincinnati, where three days were spent visiting the family of Rev. Lyman Beecher. On this occasion Mrs. Barrows made the acquaintance of Miss Harriet Beecher, a young lady then of eighteen years, who afterward became Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, being a sister of Henry Ward Beecher, and a woman who became celebrated as author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." From thence to New York City and on Long Island to Hadlyme, Connecticut, the original home of her parents, where in a short time her mother died. Miss Vaill was soon after placed in the Munson Academy. While there she became a member of the Congregational church. From the Munson Academy she was sent to the Mount Holyoke Seminary at Holyoke, Massachusetts, where she received two years of thorough training. At this time Miss Vaill was nineteen years of age. She then returned to the West, arriving in December, 1841. Here she met Freeman Barrows, a young man from New Bedford, Massachusetts, a man of good business attainments and at that time the county and circuit clerk of Bates county, Missouri, to whom she was married August 23, 1842, soon afterward locating two miles east of the old town of Papinsville. In April, 1861 Mr. Barrows died. Mrs. Barrows continued to reside here until 1892, having lived a half century on the estate where he and her husband first located in 1842. The last four years of her life were spent at her home in Rich Hill.

BARROWS, Asenath C.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Prairie Township, Bates Co, MO
ASENATH C. BARROWS. The earliest pioneers of Bates County, a few of whom are now living, remember Freeman Barrows, the first county and circuit clerk of this county, and remembering him will doubtless recall to mind Asenath C. Barrows, his surviving widow. In 1820, her father. Rev. William F. Vaill and wife, in company with a few other self-sacrificing men and women, under the auspices of the American Board of Home Missions, embarked at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on keel boats for the Union Mission, then located in the Indian Territory, in the state of Arkansas, whither they went to christianize and instruct the Osage Indians. During their residence at this missionary station. January 5, 1822, Mrs. Barrows was born. Her mother's maiden name was Selden, she and her husband being natives of Hadeline, Connecticut. In 1834, Miss Vaill, (now Mrs. Barrows), returned with her parents to Connecticut, where she remained seven years, spending two years of that time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, Massachusetts, where she received a most careful and excellent education, the while constantly storing her mind with useful knowledge. In 1841, she visited a few friends of her father, residing at Harmony Mission, Bates County, Missouri. While there, she met and married, August 23, 1842, Freeman Barrows, Esq., who was a native of Massachusetts, he having emigrated to Bates in 1838. Being a good business man and possessing, many of the elements of popularity, he was appointed the first county and circuit clerk of Bates County, which positions he held at the time of his marriage, and which he continued to hold for the space of twelve years. Mr. Barrows died April 26, 1861, about the breaking out of the great civil war, since which time, Mrs. Barrows has continued to live on the old homestead, where she located as a young and happy bride, forty years ago. Here she has spent her days in quietude and contentment, highly appreciated and respected by her neighbors and numerous friends, not only because she is the widow of Freeman Barrows, but, because of her many virtues of head and heart. Although more than three score years have passed over, time has touched her gently, leaving as yet, no frost or snow about her brow. Being one of the earliest pioneers of Bates County, she is familiar with all the scenes and incidents which marked the history of its settlement, and possesses a most accurate and wonderful memory, of all that transpired during that incipient period. Surrounded by loving and devoted children; blessed with health and a beautiful home, and supplied with all the comforts and conveniences of life, she is quietly and unostentatiously enjoying the evening of her life. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Barrow were born nine children, three sons and six daughters, whose names are as follows: Theodore, John M., William Vaill, Sarah L., Abby E., Florence E., Arabella S., Susan E., and Delia.

BARTLETT, Edmund
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Walnut Township, Bates Co, MO
JUDGE EDMUND BARTLETT, was born in Cumberland County, Kentucky, May 9, 1817, and was the son of Edmund and Sally (Packwood) Bartlett, both Virginians by birth, They died when young Edmund was a small boy, and on this account he was denied the advantage of attending any but poor schools, though in later years he has obtained a good education by self application and close observation. In 1836 he was married in the state of his birth to Miss Maria L. Cook. They have four children now living: Josephine E. (now Mrs. James McKay), Sarah Ann (now Mrs. W. M. Dryden, living in Kansas), Molly S., (wife of William Parks, residing at Cherryvale, Kansas), and James E., who married for his second wife, Miss Florence Phillips, and at present living upon the home farm. Mrs. Eliza Jane Barnett, died in 1866, in Otterville, Missouri, leaving three children, who make their home with the subject of this sketch: James E., William C, and Thomas C. In 1837 Mr. Bartlett left Kentucky with a blind horse, old wagon, and a few necessary household articles, and with his wife settled in Morgan County, Missouri, where he purchased eighty acres of land, on time, on which he made some improvements. After living thereon for five years, he disposed of it for $300, and in March 1843, came to Bates County. At first he rented a farm of Humphrey Dickinson, on Deepwater River, but the spring following moved in Walnut Township, and bought a claim, the land not then being in market. After working hard, and suffering many hardships, to acquire a home, he overcame all obstacles and has in his possession now a farm of 600 acres, 420 of which are in section 2. He has an excellent new residence and other good buildings. In 1850, he was elected county judge, and was re-elected until he served ten years, with much credit -- ably discharging his official duties. He is now township collector, and has ever had his share of business to perform, relating to the township. Politically he was formerly an old Clay Whig, but is now found in the Democratic ranks. Judge Bartlett has been a consistent member of the M. E. Church for thirty-eight years. During the early days of the county's history, it was not an uncommon occurrence for him to teach school during the winter seasons.

BARTLETT, James E.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
JAMES E. BARTLETT, a prominent citizen of Butler, is a representative of one of the first pioneer families of Bates county. He was born at the Bartlett homestead in Walnut township May 25, 1857, a son of Edmund and Maria L. (Cook) Bartlett. The Bartlett's came to Missouri from Kentucky in 1844 and located temporarily in Morgan county. Two years later, Edmund Bartlett came to Bates county and located on the land which is the present townsite of Spruce, whence he afterward moved to a farm in Walnut township in 1849, where his son, James E., the subject of this review, was born. The Bartlett's continued to reside on the farm in Walnut township until "Order Number 11" was issued in 1863, when they moved to Baldwin, Douglas county, Kansas, and there remained until the close of the war. They returned to their country home in Walnut township after the Civil War had ended and there resided until 1883. Edmund Bartlett was a member of the Bates county court in the early fifties during the time Judge Myers was a member. At one time, Judge Bartlett was the owner of five hundred acres of land located in Walnut township, Bates county, a portion of which he entered from the government. He had succeeded in accumulating a handsome competence in spite of the hardships of pioneer life and the disasters of war. Before the outbreak of the Civil War, much of his property was stolen and during the war all his farm buildings were burned and his stock taken. The Bartlett's hauled their heavy merchandise from Boonville and from Pleasant Hill, using oxen. The senior Bartlett used to haul loads of pecans and hickory nuts to Boonville in Cooper county and trade the nuts for groceries and other necessities. Judge Bartlett died in January, 1898, and his remains are interred at the cemetery at Foster, Missouri. He was a splendid example of the brave, early pioneer, a strong, virile man, who nobly did his part and cheerfully discharged his duties in wresting the country from its primitive state and laying strong and deep the foundations upon which rests is present prosperity, a representative citizen and public-spirited gentleman of Bates county. Miss Josephine Bartlett, a sister of James E. Bartlett, was employed as teacher at Greenview school house when James E. began school work there. He recalls his second teacher, Miss Bradshaw. After leaving school, Mr. Bartlett began farming for himself on the home place and was thus engaged until 1883, when he located near La Cygne, Kansas. One year later, he returned to Bates county, Missouri, and for a year was located at Passaic, after which he located on a farm in the spring of 1885 of one hundred thirty-four acres of land, in Lone Oak township, which he purchased for twenty-five dollars an acre. Mr. Bartlett improved his farm in Lone Oak township, adding a comfortable residence and a good barn and all necessary farm conveniences. While a resident of this township, James E. Bartlett was a leader in his community and filled many offices of public trust, serving as collector of taxes, township clerk, township assessor, and school director in his district for many years. The marriage of James E. Bartlett and Florence Phillips was solemnized in 1881. Mrs. Bartlett is a daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Phillips, who settled near La Cygne, Kansas, in 1858. Mr. Phillips died in the autumn of 1883 and is buried in the cemetery located southeast of La Cygne. The widowed mother survived her husband until 1906, when she joined him in death. Mrs. Phillips died in Lone Oak township, Bates county, and her remains were taken to the cemetery at La Cygne for burial beside those of her husband. To James E. and Florence (Phillips) Bartlett have been born two sons: Homer C., who is engaged in farming in Lone Oak township on the home place; and Roy C., a well-known, progressive real-estate man of Butler, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett moved to Butler March 1, 1918. As a good citizen, James E. Bartlett occupies no small place in the public esteem, being active in all that concerns the public good and liberal in his support of all worthy enterprises, which have for their object the material or moral advancement of the community.

BARTLETT, Roy
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
ROY BARTLETT, of the firm of Sleeth & Bartlett, abstract, loans and real estate, is one of the enterprising young citizens of Butler, Missouri. Mr. Bartlett was born May 10, 1885, a son of James E. and Florence (Phillips) Bartlett, a highly respected family of Butler, a sketch of whom appears in this volume. Roy Bartlett has an older brother, Homer C., who is a prosperous farmer of Lone Oak township. Mr. Bartlett, whose name introduces this review, received his education in the city schools of Butler, Missouri. After completing his school work, he engaged in agricultural pursuits until the autumn of 1913, when he, in partnership with C.A. Sleeth, opened an office on Ohio street in the city of Butler and entered the abstract, real estate, and loan business, in which he has been profitably engaged for the past five years at the time of this writing in 1918. When Mr. Bartlett was but twenty-one years of age, he was elected a member of the township board of Lone Oak township and although he is still a young man thirty-three years of age, he has been twice honored with the office of justice of the peace, which he satisfactorily and capably filled for two terms. In 1909, the marriage of Roy Butler and Daisy Seelinger, a daughter of John Seelinger, a well-to-do, intelligent farmer and stockman of Summit township, Bates county, Missouri, was solemnized. Mrs. Bartlett is a native of Summit township, a granddaughter of one of the honored pioneers of Prairie township, Bates county. To Roy and Daisy Bartlett have been born three children: Agnes Magdalene, Helen, and Ruth Esther. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett and their daughters reside in Butler at 502 West Adams street. Fraternally, Roy Bartlett is affiliated with the Knights and Ladies of Security and the Yeomen. Politically, he is a stanch member of the Democratic party. Like his father before him, Mr. Bartlett is a man of prominence in his community and one of the substantial citizens of Butler and Bates county.

BASKERVILLE, Lucien
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
HON. LUCIEN BASKERVILLE, former representative of Bates county, is a progressive farmer and stockman of Deepwater township. He is the son of William Baskerville, late pioneer settler of Deepwater township, who was one of the best-known citizens of the county. William Baskerville was born in Montgomery county, Virginia, May 20, 1828, the son of William B. and Mary (Ferguson) Baskerville, natives of Virginia. The family left Virginia in 1837 and moved to Cooper county, Missouri, residing in that county for twelve years. William B. Baskerville later located in Henry county, Missouri, and was engaged in the mercantile business and in agricultural pursuits in that county until his death in 1882 at the age of ninety-two years. When William Baskerville was twenty-three years of age he joined an overland freight train as teamster and made the long trip to New Mexico. After he had served as teamster for twelve months he was promoted to the post of wagon master, and in 1852 took a train through to California, arriving on the coast in the spring of 1853. He then returned to New Mexico and took a drove of 20,000 sheep through to California. He returned home in 1854, spent the winter at home, and in the spring of 1855, he made another trip to California but was taken sick and remained ill for nearly a year. In the fall of 1856 he made a trip to the West Indies, and from the Islands came home by way of New Orleans, arriving late in that year. He then engaged in the mercantile business with his father in Henry county, Missouri, and continued in business until the breaking out of the Civil War. From 1861 to 1865 he was engaged in farming. He had previously purchased his home farm in Deepwater township, Bates county, in 1856, when land was cheap and plentiful. He improved the tract and made his permanent home thereon in section 25, of Deepwater township, in 1869. Mr. Baskerville became owner of over three hundred thirty-six acres of well-improved land, which is now owned by the children of the family and managed by his son, Lucien. William Baskerville was married October 31, 1870, to Miss Mary Caldwell, born in Kentucky, a daughter of James and Mary Caldwell. The following children were born to this marriage: Benoni R., farmer, Deepwater township; Virginia, Martha, Judith, at home and Lucien B., of this sketch. Mr. Baskerville died in June, 1914. Mrs. Baskerville departed this life in 1887. Lucien M. Baskerville, youngest son of the family, was educated in the district school of his neighborhood, the Appleton City Academy, and the Missouri State University at Columbia, where he finished his studies in 1904. Not long afterward he was employed as foreman of the rolling mill department of the Acme Steel Goods Company, Chicago, Illinois, and remained with this concern for a period of five years. He began with the company as shipping clerk and was soon promoted to the post of foreman. Owing to his father's declining health by reason of advancing age he returned home and has since had charge of the home place of the family. Mr. Baskerville pursued a law course at Columbia and was admitted to the Bates county bar in 1904, and practiced for a short time in Butler previous to locating in Chicago. In the fall of 1912 his candidacy for the office of representative from Bates county was announced and he was nominated and elected. Mr. Baskerville and his sisters are living on the old home place which Mr. Baskerville is managing. This farm consists of three hundred and twenty acres of excellent farm land. His brother, Benoni, and he are farming in partnership and are making a great success of their farming and livestock operations. They have about one hundred and fifty head of cattle on the place and have fifty head of Hereford cows for breeding purposes. Besides a good grade of Poland China hogs they have a herd of twenty-five head of sheep. The Baskerville farm is well improved and nicely located about five miles northwest of Appleton City and lies in the southeast corner of Deepwater township. Benoni R. Baskerville was born in Deepwater township in 1872. He received his education in the district school and the Academy at Appleton City. He was married in October, 1903, to Jeannette Galt, a daughter of James and Mary (Brown) Galt, of Appleton City, the latter of whom died in 1912. Mr. and Mrs. "Ben" R. Baskerville have a daughter, Pauline.

BASKERVILLE, William
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Deepwater Township, Bates Co, MO
WILLIAM BASKERVILLE, a substantial farmer of the county, was born in Montgomery County, Virginia, May 20, 1828. His parents, William B. and Mary (Ferguson) Baskerville, were also Virginians by birth. In 1837, the family moved to Missouri, and first located in Cooper County, where they were among the pioneers. They resided there for about twelve years. William spent his youth on a farm and acquired a common school education. At the age of twenty-three he joined a merchant train in the capacity of teamster, and went to New Mexico. After driving for twelve months he was promoted to wagon-master, and in 1852 took a train through to California, where he arrived the following spring. He then returned to New Mexico, and took a drove of 20,000 sheep through to California. Coming home in the fall of 1854, he spent the winter, and in the spring of 1855 made another trip to California, where he was taken sick. He was sick for about one year, and in the fall of 1856 he visited the West Indies, and from there came home by way of New Orleans, where he arrived late in the same year. Mr. B. then became engaged in the mercantile business with his father in Henry County, and continued this business until the breaking out of the war in 1861. From 1861 to 1865 he was occupied in farming. William B. Baskerville died February 3, 1882, at the age of ninety-two. Mr. B. was married October 31, 1870, in Henry County, to Miss Mary Caldwell, daughter of James and Mary Caldwell. She is a native of Kentucky. They have five children: Benoni, Virginia, Martha, Judy, and Lucien M. Mr. Baskerville moved to his present farm, in section 25, in 1869. He has over 337 acres of land, nearly all fenced and in fair cultivation, with a good bearing orchard of apple and peach trees, and some small fruits. Mrs. B. is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

BASSETT, D. D.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
D. D. BASSETT, a well-known and successful farmer and stockman of Pleasant Gap township, is a native of Michigan. He was born in Branch county, April 18, 1870, a son of George and Rebecca (McCool) Bassett. George Bassett was born in Billows Falls, Vermont, April 8, 1828. He was a son of George R. Bassett, who was also a native of Vermont. He went to Utica, New York, with his family in 1842, when George, the father of D. D., was about fourteen years old. Six years later, or in 1848, he went farther West, this time locating in LaGrange county, Indiana. Here, George R. Bassett spent the remainder of his life. He died in 1899, lacking only six days of being one hundred years old. His wife lacked only three days of being one hundred years old at her death. The Bassett family is of English descent and trace their ancestry back to the House of Kent in England. The Bassett family was founded in America by Francis Livingston Bassett, who settled in New England in colonial times. Richard Bassett, ancestor of D. D. Bassett, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rebecca McCool, mother of D. D. Bassett, was a Pennsylvanian, born near Philadelphia. She was a daughter of Aaron and Margaret (Montgomery) McCool. Her father was a native of Ireland and her mother was a daughter of Robert R. Montgomery and of Scotch descent. George Bassett was about twenty years of age when he came West with his parents. He was employed on the first railroad to reach Chicago from the East, at that time making his home at Elkhart, Indiana. Later, he went to Michigan and was engaged in the lumber business for a time when he returned to Elkhart, Indiana. In the fall of 1874 he went to Iowa with his family, remaining there until 1877, when he went to Kansas and settled in Dickinson county. Three years later, or in 1880, he came to Bates county, Missouri, locating in Pleasant Gap township on the place where D. D. Bassett, the subject of this sketch, now resides. He was successfully engaged in farming and stock raising here during the remainder of his life. He died on September 27, 1911. He was a progressive citizen and a man whose career may well be said to have been a successful one. He was reared a Democrat but in later life became a Republican. George Bassett was twice married, his first wife being Martha Lee, a direct descendent of "Light Horse Harry Lee." To this first marriage were born four children as follow: William, with the Postum Cereal Company, Battle Creek, Michigan; James, locomotive engineer on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad, resides at Elkhart, Indiana; Charles, resides near Elkhart, Indiana; and Ewing, Pleasant Gap, Missouri. To George Bassett and Rebecca McCool, his second wife, whom he married in 1867, was born only one child, D. D. Bassett, the subject of this sketch. Rebecca McCool was a widow when she married Mr. Bassett, her first husband being Timothy W. Adams. Two children were born to that union: Timothy W. Adams, Jr., whose whereabouts is unknown; and Cassius Adams, deceased. Rebecca (McCool) Bassett died in 1897. D. D. Bassett was about ten years old when he came to Bates county with his parents. He received his education in the public schools and has made farming and stock raising his occupation. He specializes in high-grade Shorthorn cattle and has his place well stocked. Mr. Bassett's farm is one of the valuable places of Pleasant Gap township. It is well improved, well kept and has all the earmarks of a progressive and thrifty owner. The home place consists of one hundred forty-five acres. Mr. Bassett was united in marriage in 1900 with Miss Eva Willey, a native of Pleasant Gap township, born in August, 1872. She is a daughter of Gideon Willey, a native of Delaware, born in 1829. He came to Missouri in 1870 and died here in 1882. To Mr. and Mrs. Bassett have been born three children, as follow: Helen, born in 1900 and died in infancy; Dexter Dillard, born February 6, 1902; and Lloyd L., born November 8, 1903, both attending school. Mr. Bassett is a Republican and takes an active interest in the local political organization, having served as township committeeman for a number of years.

BATCHELOR, Bate
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
BATE BATCHELOR, a late prominent and influential farmer and stockman of Deepwater township, was one of the substantial and leading citizens of Bates county. Mr. Batchelor was a native of Kentucky, born December 18, 1868, a son of John and Sarah J. (Allen) Batchelor, who came to Missouri and settled in Bates county on a farm located near Appleton City, when their son, Bate, was a child five years of age. Mr. Batchelor, whose name introduces this review, was reared on the farm near Appleton City and his youth was spent much as the average lad on the farm spends his boyhood days. He assisted his father with the work on the home place and attended Oak Grove district school, applying himself assiduously to his farm duties and to his studies, growing strong and vigorous mentally and physically. Mr. Batchelor was always interested in agricultural pursuits and in early manhood began farming and stock raising, which he followed the remainder of his life. In 1900, he and his wife located on the farm, which is the present home of his widow, located four and a half miles south of Spruce in Deepwater township and, as the place is well adapted to the production of both stock and grain, Mr. Batchelor became very interested in both general farming and stock raising. He was very prominently identified with the stock interests of Bates county, especially, and his stock farm became noted for the high grade Poland China hogs and white face cattle bred and raised there on. In matters of business, Bate Batchelor was careful and methodical, and all his dealings were marked by discriminating judgment and a high sense of fairness and honor. The marriage of Bate Batchelor and Clara Cumpton was solemnized June 1, 1898. Clara (Cumpton) Batchelor is a native of Deepwater township, born March 18, 1871, a daughter of W. G. and M. L. Cumpton. Mrs. Batchelor's father is a member of an honored pioneer family of Johnson county, Missouri, in which county he was born and reared. Mr. and Mrs. Cumpton are now living, he at the age of seventy-five and his wife is one year his junior. Mrs. Batchelor attended school in Cumpton school district in Deepwater township, Bates county, Missouri. To Bate and Clara Batchelor was born one child, a daughter, Nina E., who was born May 13, 1900. Mr. Batchelor died December 22, 1910 and interment was made in Union cemetery. "Fairview Stock Farm" in Deepwater township, now owned by Mrs. Clara (Cumpton) Batchelor, widow of Bate Batchelor, is one of the pretty, rural homes of Bates county. The place is nicely located and well watered and the residence is situated at the highest point of the farm, affording a splendid view of the surrounding country, and thus the farm came by its name, "Fairview Stock Farm," which is registered. Mr. Batchelor purchased the land from Mr. Van Meter, of Butler, Missouri. The farm embraces two hundred acres of land, twenty acres of which are timber land. A barn, 32 x 42 feet in dimensions, having a capacity of sixty tons of hay, un-baled, has been added recently to the improvements of the place, the frame of which structure is of native timber, walnut lumber sawed for this purpose on the farm. All the pastures are enclosed with hog-tight fencing of wire. D. M. Cumpton, a brother of Mrs. Batchelor, has charge of the farm work. The citizen, to a brief review of whose life and achievements the reader's attention has been herewith directed, was for many years one of the progressive stockmen of Deepwater township, who by his tireless endeavors and up-to-date methods contributed in a material way to the agricultural advancement of this section of Bates county and in the course of an honorable career did as much as any one man to improve the grade of livestock in Bates county. Mr. Batchelor was a gentleman of wide perspective, of intelligence, of countless praiseworthy qualities. A Democrat in his party affiliations and a firm believer in the principles he espoused, he was by no means an office-seeker. Mr. Batchelor was essentially a stockman and a business man and his life, though in many respects uneventful, was fraught with much good to his community and Bates county was proud to number him among the successful and substantial citizens, grieved to enroll him among those who have gone on before.

BATEMAN, Lorenzo
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Charlotte Township, Bates Co, MO
LORENZO BATEMAN, farmer, section 32, was born in Logan County, Ohio, January 18, 1832, and was a son of William and Susan (Rowe) Bateman. His father was born near Louisville, Kentucky, in 1808, and while a young man went to Ohio, where his marriage occurred, his wife having been born in that state in 1812. About the year 1844, the family settled on the Fox River, in Illinois, and remained there until 1849, then going to Texas, where the mother soon after died. In 1853, the senior Bateman returned with his children to Illinois, where he resided until his death, in 1873. Lorenzo first started in life for himself as a farmer, and in February, 1861, he married Mrs. Caroline Fuller (whose maiden name was Stone), and at that time the widow of Charles Fuller. She was born in New Hampshire, September 12, 1834, her parents being Samuel and Deborah Stone. The former was born in 1801, and died in 1861, and her mother was born in 1806. They were married in 1822, and when Caroline was eight years old removed to Massachusetts, where she grew up, subsequently locating in Illinois. She is a sister of Captain George N. Stone, of Cincinnati, Ohio, the first purchaser of the celebrated trotter Maud S. During the late war Mr. Bateman served some three years in the Seventeenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. In the fall of 1866, he removed from Woodford County, Illinois, to this county and settled where he now resides. His farm consists of 200 acres of improved land. Mr. and Mrs. B. have three children: William W., Harper J., Guy L. There are living with them two young ladies: Lillie E. Fuller and Lizzie Sharp.

BATES, S. L.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
S. L. BATES, M.D., one of the most prominent physicians of Bates county, ex-mayor of Adrian, vice-president of the First National Bank of Adrian, and the city physician, is a native of Indiana. Doctor Bates was born in 1850 at Castleton in Marion county, Indiana, a son of Ozro and Mary M. Bates, and a descendant of one of the leading colonial families, whose ancestors came to America from Scotland among the one hundred two Pilgrims on board the "Mayflower" which set sail from Plymouth, England, September 6, 1620. Ozro Bates was born at Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1813. When he was a child, five years of age, his parents moved from Brattleboro to Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 1818 both father and mother died from cholera, an epidemic of which dreaded disease swept the city at that time. The orphan boy was apprenticed to a Quaker family residing near Cincinnati, Ohio. In his youth, Ozro Bates mowed hay on the land which is the present site of Chicago, Illinois. He was greatly afflicted with the desire for change in his early maturity and he traveled extensively, always on horseback. Later in life, he purchased a tract of land, embracing one hundred twenty acres, located near Indianapolis, where he spent the remainder of his life engaged in the pursuits of agriculture. Ozro and Mary M. Bates were the parents of seven children, four of whom are now living, as follow: Nathaniel S., Rensselaer, Indiana; David H., Henrietta, Texas; William M., Delphi, Indiana; and Dr. S. L., the subject of this review. On his father's farm near Indianapolis, Indiana, Dr. S. L. Bates was reared and his boyhood days were spent much as are spent the days of the average lad on the farm. The doctor attended a little country school, which was held at Vertland school house near his home and which was taught by Professor Phipps at the time S. L. Bates began his educational career. He vividly recalls an occasion indelibly impressed upon his mind because of his keen disappointment in the results. One day, when the doctor was a schoolboy, the janitor of the school house built a booming fire of "poplar" wood and the young Bates had naturally thought that that day they would have a "popping" fire and impatiently watched through the entire session to hear the "pops." In 1878, Dr. S. L. Bates graduated from Ohio Medical College, the oldest medical school in the West, and immediately afterward opened his office at Colburn in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession for several years. Dr. S. L. Bates completed the graduate course in medicine at the Ohio Medical College in 1886 and in February, 1887, he came West and located at Adrian in Bates county, where he has ever since been actively engaged in the medical practice. At the time of his coming, Adrian was a new town and presented a very primitive appearance. The country was mostly unfenced and there were no bridges or roads. Dr. Bates has responded to calls fifteen miles from Adrian and in the early days always traveled on horseback. The marriage of Dr. S. L. Bates and Effie M. Chapman, a daughter of Jacob H. and Mrs. Chapman, natives of Indiana, was solemnized in 1880. To this union have been born seven children, four of whom are now living: Dr. Carl, who is now engaged in the medical practice in Colorado; Dr. Gerald C., Adrian, Missouri; Wilma A., Kansas City, Missouri; and Gertrude, at home with her parents. Each of the doctor's children is interested in the medical profession and all his sons have entered it. Miss Wilma E., the eldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Bates, is at present a student in the Christian Church Hospital at Kansas City, Missouri, preparing for medical work, and Miss Gertrude, a student in the Adrian High School, is planning to be a physician and nurse. With the accession of the youngest child in the profession, the doctor's entire family will have become physicians. Dr. Gerald C. Bates is commissioned as first lieutenant and will soon be called to France. The little city of Adrian is still grieving over the loss of Dr. Floyd Bates, a son of Dr. and Mrs. Bates, who was commissioned as first lieutenant, who was one of the first "to go to the colors" when the call to arms came. He was a young man of great ability with a bright and most promising career opening before him. Dr. Floyd had graduated from the Kansas City Medical College in the class of 1910 and was engaged in the practice of medicine at Adrian, associated with his father, and he had long since made scores of friends in this city and county. He was in camp at Fort Riley, when on the night of August 6, 1917, he was killed by lightning. His remains were brought to Adrian for interment. Doctor Bates is a most public-spirited and patriotic citizen and he is always interested in all that concerns the welfare of his city and county. He has been honored with several offices of public trust, having served as mayor of Adrian, as a member of the school board, and is now serving as city physician of Adrian. Doctor Bates is vice-president and a member of the directorate of the First National Bank of Adrian. He has succeeded admirably and has prospered since his coming to Bates county, Missouri, thirty-one years ago and is now the owner of a splendid farm of two hundred forty acres of land in this county, which country place he rents, and of his beautiful modern residence in Adrian, a two-story structure of ten pleasant and spacious rooms. In all his relations with his fellowmen, professional, business, or social, the conduct of Dr. S. L. Bates has been open and straightforward, his integrity unassailable, his courtesy that of a gentleman of the old school. His professional career has from the beginning been characterized by close and diligent attention to duty and an unusual skill and proficiency in all branches of general practice and he is now justly enjoying a most lucrative practice. He and Mrs. Bates are highly respected and valued in Adrian.

BAUM, Jacob R.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
JACOB R. BAUM, proprietor of "The Baum Stock Farm" in Mount Pleasant township, is one of the progressive "hustlers" among the successful agriculturists and stockmen of Bates county. Mr. Baum is a native of Ross county, Ohio. He was born in 1867 near Chillicothe and in Ross county was reared and educated. Practically all his life has been spent in agricultural pursuits. "The Baum Stock Farm" produces high-grade Percheron horses and whiteface Hereford cattle, which Mr. Baum began breeding about eight years ago, dating from the time of this writing in 1918. This stock farm is located three miles northwest of Butler, in Mount Pleasant township, and comprises one hundred sixty acres of valuable farm land, originally known as the "McFarland Farm." John Baum, father of Jacob R., purchased "The Baum Stock Farm" in 1886, but never came to Bates county, and spent all of his life in Ohio, dying in 1898. Jacob R. Baum came to Bates county, Missouri, in 1889 and assumed control of the stock farm and has been profitably managing it ever since. His father would never leave Ohio to come West, and the son states that if a man once "drinks from the Miami river he either never leaves or always returns." Mr. Baum has at the present time on the farm thirteen head of registered Percherons, the largest herd perhaps in Bates county, eleven head of registered Herefords and good grade cows, and ten head of good grade horses. "Jonas," an imported registered stallion formerly owned by W. H. Bayliss, of Bluemound, Kansas, heads the Percherons and "Subject, the Forty-first," registered steer purchased in Iowa and owned by Mr. Baum for eighteen months, heads the Herefords. He does not ship his products but finds a ready market at home for all he is able to produce. "The Baum Stock Farm" is equipped with a large stock barn, 36 x 71 feet in dimensions, having a shed attached for stock, hay, and grain, a hay barn, 36 x 48 feet in dimensions, tool shed, corncribs, hog houses, and all modern facilities for handling stock. Mrs. Baum has charge of the poultry industry and is making a name for herself as a successful fancier, raising purebred White Leghorn chickens and Toulouse geese. Jacob R. Baum was first united in marriage with Maggie Carr, of Ross county, Ohio. To Jacob R. and Maggie (Carr) Baum was born one child, a daughter, Nettie. Mrs. Baum died in 1905. Mr. Baum and May McCann, of Butler, Missouri, were united in marriage in 1906 and Miss Nettie makes her home with them at "The Baum Stock Farm." Fraternally, Mr. Baum is affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Baum is devoting his life to the ancient and honorable pursuit of agriculture and the farming and stock interests of Bates county are represented in this volume by no more worthy man.

BEACH, E. R.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Mt. Pleasant Township, Bates Co, MO
E. R. BEACH, editor of the Bates County Republican, is a native of Fulton County, Illinois, and was born May 12, 1841. His father, Cyrus W. Beach, was a native of Massachusetts, and an extensive carriage manufacturer. The maiden name of his mother was Mary Sloan, born in New York. E. R. was principally reared in Bureau and Peoria Counties, Illinois, and educated at the Mosely High School of Chicago, Illinois. After leaving school he went to Tennessee and taught for one year, when he returned north. Soon after the war commenced he became connected with the quartermaster's department, and again went south. In 1863 he enlisted in the regular army, and was appointed first sergeant and placed on detached service in West Tennessee. In 1864 he was in the Sturgis raid and was captured at the battle of Guntown, June 11, 1864. He was taken to Andersonville, and confined until September 19, 1864, when he was exchanged at Atlanta, Georgia. While in prison he was an eye witness to the atrocities there perpetrated on the Federal prisoners, and of which "the half has never been told." After his exchange he was commissioned first lieutenant and adjutant, for meritorious services at Guntown, and owing to impaired health was again placed on detached service in West Tennessee, serving until mustered out on the first day of January, 1866. He then came north as far as St. Louis, still suffering from his confinement, and without application or solicitation on his part, he received the appointment of mail agent on the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad. The following year he received the appointment of local special agent of the post office department at St. Louis and confidential agent for that district. This position he resigned in 1869, and took a trip to Colorado, and for one year was engaged in mining and mine speculation. He then returned to St. Louis, and accepted a position of press reporter. He remained in St. Louis, connected with the papers on local and editorial work, until 1871, when he visited Philadelphia, and was employed on papers in that city until 1878, when he came west and worked on most of the Chicago papers as "paragrapher." In 1880 he moved to Sedalia, Missouri, and purchased the Sedalia Evening News, and published it during the presidential campaign of that year. Selling his interest he went on the Eagle and did editorial work a few months before coming to Butler, June 26, 1882. Since taking charge of the Republican he has largely increased both its subscription list and advertising patronage. Mr. Beach is a Republican in politics, with a large experience in political matters for a man of his years. He was married, December 12, 1871, to Miss Francis E. White, a native of Port Byron, New York. Their family consists of three children: Duane, Alice, and Chester.

BEAMAN, David W.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
DAVID W. BEAMAN, an honored pioneer of Bates county, is a member of one of the oldest pioneer families of Missouri. Mr. Beaman was born March 20, 1848, in Pettis county, Missouri, a son of William and Jane (Stanford) Beaman, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter, of Tennessee. William Beaman came to Missouri in 1826 and located in Pettis county, on a tract of land near the Cooper county line. In April, 1866, the Beaman family moved to Bates county and settled on a farm in Summit township, where Mr. and Mrs. Beaman spent the remainder of their lives. To William and Jane Beaman were born six children: Mrs. Margaret Jones, deceased; Franklin, a veteran of the Civil War, who served with Company C, Forty-fifth Missouri Infantry, and whose last known address is Soldiers' Home, Leavenworth, Kansas; Mrs. Jemima Frances Walker, Sedalia, Missouri; Mrs. Missouri Ann Stelman, Beaman, Missouri; Carlton Jobe, a veteran of the Civil War, who died August 12, 1917, at Fort Dodge, Kansas; and David W., the subject of this review. By a former marriage, William Beaman was the father of five children: Lucinda, John, Martha, Sarah Ann, and Thomas, all of whom are now deceased. John Beaman was also a veteran of the Civil War. He was born in North Carolina. The father died July 8, 1874, on the farm in Bates county and three years later, in March, 1877, he was joined in death by his wife. The father was interred in Glass cemetery. The mother was buried in Mt. Olivet cemetery. February 11, 1867, David W. Beaman came to Bates county and settled on his present farm in Summit township in the same year. His father and mother with his brothers, John and Carlton Jobe, and his three sisters, Margaret, Jemima Frances and Missouri Ann, had preceded him and were already comfortably situated in Summit township in a small box house, which they had built on the farm. Their trading point was Butler, where Doctor Hill conducted a general store, dealing chiefly in dry goods and hardware, and Doctor Pyle kept a drug store. David Beaman is now owner of two hundred fifty acres of valuable land in Summit township, about half of which is devoted to pasture. Mr. Beaman has for years been engaged in stock raising and in former times was want to feed a large number of cattle annually for the market. He has, at the time of this writing, in 1918, forty head of stock on the farm. A good barn was built by Mr. Beaman about fifteen years ago and he is at the present time remodeling the residence. The marriage of David W. Beaman and Missouri Delitha Ellitt, a native of Arkansas, was solemnized on January 17, 1866. Mrs. Beaman's father died in Arkansas when she was a little child and, when she was three years of age, she came to Missouri with her mother and they settled in Pettis county, where Mrs. Beaman was reared and educated. She has one brother living, William H. Ellitt, of Wichita, Kansas. Mrs. Ellitt died in Pettis county, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Beaman were married in Pettis county and soon afterward settled in Bates county on the farm which is still their home. To David W. and Missouri D. Beaman have been born eight children: William, Iola, Kansas; Jane Elizabeth, the wife of C. B. New, of Cromwell, Iowa; John, who is engaged in farming on the home place; Robert Luther, Tipton, Kansas; Minnie Luetta, the wife of George Kersey, of Butler, Missouri; James Nila, Adrian, Missouri; Leora Viola, the wife of H. C. Hyatt, of Adrian, Missouri; and Effie Lillian, the wife of Charles Aman, of Independence, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Beaman celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary on January 17, 1916. They are still enjoying fairly good health and are as active, physically and mentally, as many a score of years younger. Mr. Beaman would have been sixty-seven years of age within two days when he was obliged to call for the assistance of a physician for himself for the first time in his life. Mr. and Mrs. Beaman have twenty-five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. William married Mary Brooks and has five children: Ina, Roe, Emmet, Amos, Archie; Mrs. Mary E. New has four children: Boyd, Claude, Walter, Hugh. John married Myrtle Dent and has six children: Oliver, Mabel, Clarence, Howard, Wendell, Ruth. Luther married Alta Smith and has three children: Roberta, Robert, Norman. Mrs. George Kersey has two children, Kendall and Christine. Mrs. Leora Hyatt has two children, Henry Clay, Sr. and Elsie. Mrs. Effie Aman has three children, Orville, Ellitt, Loran. Mrs. Ina Dixon, daughter of William Beaman, has one child. Boyd New is father of one child, Ruby. Claude New is father of one child, Eugene. Mr. Beaman was a resident of Bates county, Missouri, during the grasshopper visitation in 1874 and 1875 and he recalls their coming and how they ate everything green in sight, from peelings of sumac bushes to the growing plants in the fields. But, there is no cloud so black but has its silver lining, and the next season he raised the largest crops he has ever raised. Mr. Beaman was a resident of Deepwater township for a few months previous to his coming to Summit township. When he came to Bates county, he was the owner of one horse, three calves, and seven pigs. A kindly neighbor hauled the pigs from Pettis county to Bates county for him. If any man in Bates county has earned the right to be called "self-made," that man is David W. Beaman. He began life with little of this world's goods but with the most valuable capital which any young man could possibly be endowed -- good sense, a clear brain, discriminating judgment, a strong arm, and determination to succeed. Mr. Beaman is not a theorist but a man of sound, practical ideas. He has undoubtedly earned the distinction of being numbered among Bates county's best citizens and most representative pioneer agriculturists. Mr. Beaman loves the country, the freedom of the great out-of-doors, to watch and study the mysteries of Nature in growing plants and animals, and when people have querulously inquired of him why he doesn't move to town and escape the hard work of the farm he has always wisely replied that he is happier where he is and would rather be on the old home place where he is and his noble wife reared their children and where they have together enjoyed the passing of the seasons for more than fifty years.

BEARD, Henry
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
HENRY BEARD, late of Deepwater township, was one of the early settlers of Bates county who was noted for industry, intelligence and his progressive spirit. He was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1838 and departed this life at his home in the southwestern part of Deepwater township in 1894. He was one of the Kansas pioneers and came from that state to Missouri in 1866 and first located on a farm northeast of Johnstown, where he lived for one year, then rented land in Deepwater township until 1875, at which time he purchased the Beard home place and made his home there until his death. He purchased one hundred acres of land of a Mr. Johnathan in that year and proceeded to develop his property. He later bought eighty acres more from a Mr. Reed and some time later bought another "eighty," at the time of his death owning two hundred sixty acres of land which was well improved and kept in a state of high cultivation. Mr. Beard erected all of the buildings on the place, set out practically all of the beautiful shade trees and was continually adding to the attractiveness of the homestead when not engaged in his farming activities. He was one of the most successful stockmen in this section of Bates county and occupied a substantial place in the citizenship of the township and county. His death in 1894 was the occasion for much sorrow among relatives and friends. His life was so lived that a deep impress was left upon the community where he was for many years a valued and worthy member. On April 21, 1866, Henry Beard and Miss Eliza Kretzinger were united in marriage in Coffey county, Kansas. Mrs. Eliza Kretzinger Beard was born in Paulding county, Ohio, June 22, 1848, and is a daughter of Nicholas and Margaret (Kingery) Kretzinger, the former of whom was born in Alleghany county, Pennsylvania, and the latter having been a native of Marion county, Ohio. The Kretzingers came west from the old Buckeye state in 1865, and after a short residence in Henry county, they located in Deepwater township, Bates county. In the spring of 1866, Mr. Kretzinger went to Kansas and remained there but a short time, finally returning to Deepwater township, where he lived until his death in 1870. Mrs. Kretzinger died in Bates county in 1910 and her remains were interred in the Dickison cemetery. The children of the Kretzinger family were: Van, living in Oklahoma; John, Spruce, Missouri; George, Rich Hill, Missouri; William, El Dorado, Missouri; Mrs. Emma Cunningham, Oklahoma; I. M. Kretzinger, Deepwater township. Mrs. Eliza Kretzinger Beard was reared and educated in Ohio, and her marriage with Henry Beard was a most happy one and prosperous. Henry and Eliza Beard were parents of the following children: Charles, Parsons, Kansas; Emma, wife of James Frost, Deepwater township; Edith, wife of James Baker, Deepwater township; John, Summit township; Israel, who is cultivating the old home place; Ava, lives in Lone Oak township; Minnie, wife of John Pharis, living in Canada; Maude, wife of Thomas Parker, Deepwater township; Dora, wife of Claude Thomas, Pleasant Gap township; Nina, wife of Clay McKinley, Hudson township; two sons, Atlee, and Delany, died in youth, the latter dying at the age of thirteen years. Mrs. Beard has forty-nine grandchildren, as follow: Francis, Alta, Ora, Myrtle, Henry, Burley, Leslie, and Albert Beard; Thomas, Leo, and Francis Frost; Roy, Ethel, Ira, Oscar, Lloyd, Zephaniah, and Vera Baker; Harley, Herschell, Buell, Basil, Cecil, Lucille, Kenneth Beard; Fremont, Rue, Donald, Dean, Clyde, Beard; Clarice, Wilma, and Thurman Beard; Opal, Miles, Rita, Kate, and Bernice Pharis; Gilbert, Warren, Mina, and Josephine Parker; Willis, Norma, and Welton Thomas; Chester, Cecil, Beulah, and Hazel McKinley. Mrs. Beard makes her home upon the old place which she and her husband created and where her children were reared to maturity. Although nearing the allotted three score and ten years in age, she is active, mentally alert, and does her own housework and many other duties which fall to a woman's lot in and about a farm house. She is an intelligent and sprightly lady who has good and just right to be proud of the fact that she and her late husband reared one of the largest and finest families in Bates county.

BEARD, J. A.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
J. A. BEARD, a well-known and successful farmer and stockman of Summit township, is one of the Bates county boys of yesterday who have "made good." Mr. Beard was born January 2, 1875, at the Beard homestead in Deepwater township, a son of Henry and Eliza (Kretzinger) Beard, one of the worthy and most prominent pioneer families of Bates county. Henry Beard was a native of Indiana. He came with his family to Missouri in 1867 and they settled in Bates county on a tract of land in Deepwater township. Mr. Beard died in 1897 and interment was made in Smith cemetery. His widow still survives her husband and now, at the age of seventy-two years, resides on the home place in Deepwater township. Henry and Eliza (Kretzinger) Beard were the parents of the following children: Charles F., who was at one time sheriff of Bates county and now resides at Parsons, Kansas; Mrs. Emma Frost, of Deepwater township; Mrs. J. H. Baker, the wife of J. H. Baker, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume; J. A., the subject of this review; I.E., who is engaged in farming on the home place in Deepwater township; Ava, of Lone Oak township; Mrs. Minnie Ferris, who resides in Canada; Mrs. Maud Parker, of Deepwater township; Mrs. Dora Thomas, of Pleasant Gap township; and Mrs. Nina McKinley, of Hudson township. In Deepwater township, Bates county, J. A. Beard was reared and educated and, at the age of twenty years, began farming independently. The first farm he ever owned was a part of the Allen place, a tract comprising sixty acres, which he sold within a short time after purchasing. Mr. Beard then bought one hundred acres of land in Pleasant Gap township, of which he disposed at the time he left Missouri and went to Colorado, in which state he resided two years, and Kansas, where he was a resident of Labette county for two years. After four years, Mr. Beard returned to Bates county. J. A. Beard was engaged in the mercantile business at Pleasant Gap for one year and for eight years was a leading auctioneer of the county, but in the future he intends to devote his entire time and attention to the pursuits of farming and stock raising. He has, at the present time, on the farm three head of Shorthorn cattle, thirty head of Duroc Jersey hogs, and seven horses of good grade. February 7, 1897, J. A. Beard and Lizzie King, a daughter of Alfred and Minerva King, of Butler, Missouri, were united in marriage. The Kings came to Bates county from Ohio in 1886 and they located near Rockville, where they remained for five years, and then returned to their native state to reside for three years, when, they again came to Bates county and at this time located at Butler, where Mrs. King still makes her home. Mr. King died in 1906 and his remains were interred in Rogers cemetery in Bates county. To J. A. and Lizzie (King) Beard have been born eight children, all of whom are now living and are at home with their parents: Harley, Hershel, Buell, Ava, Basil, Cecil, Lucille, and Willie Kenneth. J. A. Beard was left fatherless at the time he most needed a father's advice and assistance and financial support in getting started in life, and he was but one of a large family. Bates county is proud to number him among the most valued of the "self-made" men of Summit township.

BEDINGER, J. F.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
J. F. BEDINGER, of Mount Pleasant township, is one of the successful farmers and stockmen of Bates county. Mr. Bedinger is a native of Illinois. He was born in 1885 at Normal, a son of William H. and Mary E. (Bishop) Bedinger, both of whom were born in Kentucky and died in Illinois. William H. Bedinger was a prosperous farmer and stockman of Illinois. J. F. Bedinger is a descendant of colonial ancestors. George Michael, his great-grandfather, came to America from Germany with his parents and they settled in Pennsylvania. He was at Philadelphia at the time the Declaration of Independence was signed and later fought at Valley Forge, serving under General Washington. J. F. Bedinger obtained his elementary education at Normal, Illinois and afterward attended the State University of Illinois. In early maturity, he came to Missouri from Bloomington, Illinois, and located at Kansas City, where he conducted a hat store for several years. He came from Kansas City to his present country home in Bates county. The Bedinger farm comprises two hundred forty acres of land located three miles southwest of Butler. This farm is one of the attractive country places in Bates county. There are two sets of improvements. The Bedinger residence is a comfortable house of seven rooms and with it is a barn, 34 x 60 feet, and a garage. On the east one hundred sixty acres are a cottage of four rooms and a barn, 80 x 50 feet. A well, twenty feet in depth, was dug on the farm in 1917 and from it water is piped to the barn. The water runs over the top of the well and into the pipes at the rate of about thirty barrels a day, thus an abundance of good water is supplied the stock. He is just beginning the raising and breeding of registered Hereford cattle. He has at the present time twenty-six head of Hereford heifers eligible to be registered, heifers from the Jacob Warren herd at Appleton, Missouri. "Vincent," 481148, a registered steer from the Judge E. Hurt herd, heads the Bedinger herd. In February, 1915, J. F. Bedinger and Maud Florence Snyder, a daughter of George Snyder, of Kansas City, Missouri, were united in marriage. To this union has been born one child, a son, George Wesley, who was born July 23, 1917.

BEEGLE, D. F.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Mt. Pleasant Township, Bates Co, MO
D. F. BEEGLE, of the firm of A. L. McBride & Co., dealers in groceries, hardware, tinware, stoves, etc., is a son of Solomon and Sarah (Shaffer) Beegle, natives of Pennsylvania, and was born in the same house as his father, in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, February 12, 1835. He was reared in his native county, and was educated there in seminaries and common schools. During his boyhood days he was engaged in clerking, and when eighteen he began the mercantile trade for himself. In 1859 he went to Atchison, Kansas, where he was occupied in clerking till June, 1861, when he returned to his native home. There he organized Company D, 1O1st Pennsylvania, and was mustered in as first lieutenant, remaining in service till April, 1865. He served on General Wessell's staff at Plymouth, South Carolina, and on April 20, 1864, he was captured and placed in the Libby Prison, subsequently being transferred to different prisons. He was released March i, 1865. After being mustered out he returned to Bedford County, Pennsylvania, where he was married May 10, 1865, to Miss Eliza J. Williams. Shortly afterward, the same year, he came west, locating at Pleasant Hill, Cass County, Missouri, where he was interested in the lumber business more or less for eight years. In the meantime he built the factory of the Pleasant Hill Woolen Manufacturing Company. For two years he gave his attention to the manufacturing business at Covington, Kentucky, after which he was engaged in the grocery and milling business till 1879. Going to Colorado, he mined for two years, and in February, 1882, he came to Butler and became a partner in the firm of A. L. McBride & Co. Mrs. Beegle was born in the same county as her husband in August, 1841. They have five children: Harry W., Anna B., Laura W., James G. and Mary.

BELISLE, Milton
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Hudson Township, Bates Co, MO
MILTON BELISLE, farmer and stock dealer, section 3, is a native of Kentucky, and was born in Callaway County, February 20, 1852. Ira Belisle, his father, who was born in North Carolina in 1815, moved with his parents to Tennessee, when a child, and there grew to manhood and married Lucinda Smith, who was a native of Tennessee. They had a family of eight children, six of whom were sons, the subject of this sketch being the youngest boy. He moved from Kentucky to Missouri with his parents in 1859, and first located in St. Clair County, from whence after living three years they went to Saline County, where they resided four years. They came to Bates County in the fall of 1867. Young Milton spent his youth on a farm. He was married in St. Clair County, January 12, 1871, to Miss Jael Robertson, of Missouri, and a daughter of Matthew Robertson. After his marriage, Mr. B. located on a farm in Spruce Township, where he farmed about seven years, then coming to Hudson Township in the fall of 1878. He has 125 acres of land, all fenced, and with improvements, and an orchard of apple and small fruits. He makes a specialty of handling and trading in stock. Mr. and Mrs. Belisle have four children: Matthew R., Milton F., Minnie W., and Lizzie. Mrs. B. is a member of the Baptist Church.

BELL, James S.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
JAMES S. BELL, a well-known Bates county pioneer, who is making his home with Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Collins, on the old Bell homestead, was born August 10, 1836, in Virginia, a son of James L. and Hannah Maria (Sherman) Bell, natives of Virginia, who immigrated to Missouri in 1837 and made a settlement in Cooper county. During the Civil War the family lived in St. Louis county and the elder Bell suffered losses exceeding sixty thousand dollars through the ravages of warfare. They remained in St. Louis county until 1867 and then came to New Home township, Bates county, in order to make a new start. James L. Bell lived in Bates county for the remainder of his days and died here. He was twice married, his second wife being Marinda (McCutcheon) Bell, who is still living at the age of over ninety-four years. J. S. Bell enlisted in the Southern Army in 1864 down in Texas, whither he had gone in 1861. He was a member of a band of Partisan Rangers connected with the Confederate forces and he served until the close of the war, taking part in many battles, the most important engagement being the battle of Mansfield, or Sabine Cross Roads. His service extended in all parts of Texas and Louisiana. After the war ended he became a trader in cattle and drove large herds of Texas cattle to the Northern states to be sold. When he first went to Texas he was interested in sheep raising but lost out in this venture and engaged in cattle raising and herding on the Texas plains. James S. Bell, his father, had entered large tracts of land in New Home township, entering six hundred forty acres, which he gave back to his father during the war, when his father had met with severe reverses. Until he was forty years old James S. Bell lived with his father and assisted him and helped to rear the entire family. During the war he helped to support the family in St. Louis county, and frequently shipped produce and grain to his father. He also kept the taxes paid on his father's land holdings. Eventually his father gave back the land to him and he prospered exceedingly, becoming owner of eight hundred acres in Bates county and a part owner with his brother, Charles Bell, of four thousand acres in Kansas. Having given land to his children he now owns a tract of three hundred sixty acres. During his active career, Mr. Bell was an extensive raiser and feeder of cattle. James S. Bell was married in 1876 to Fannie Rand, who was born in Missouri in 1853, a daughter of James Rand, a pioneer settler of Bates county, concerning whom an account is given elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Bell departed this life in 1889. The following children were born to James S. and Fannie (Rand) Bell: Frank, Bartlettsville, Oklahoma; James S., a farmer in Osage township, and Mrs. Lillian L. Collins. It is worthy of note that James L. Bell was father of twelve children, all of whom attained maturity and of whom the following are now living: James S. ; Mrs. Louisa Sulens, Pueblo, Colorado; Mrs. Virginia Yagle, Saline county, Missouri; Charles C, Oklahoma; Lida and Hattie, Pueblo, Colorado. Mr. Bell has been a life long Democrat. He was the first Democratic township-official to hold office in New Home township after the war when the vote was given to the former secessionists. He is a member of the Methodist church.

BELL, James S.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - New Home Township, Bates Co, MO
JAMES S. BELL was born in Richmond County, Virginia, August 10, 1836, and is the second of twelve children, eleven of whom are now living, one, John M., having been killed October 12, 1881, by Indians in Mexico. When James was but one year old the family came to Missouri and settled in Cooper County, where his early days were spent, and where he received a fair education. During the war the Bell family removed to the vicinity of St. Louis, and James himself went to Texas. He soon after enlisted at Dallas in the Second Texas Partisan Rangers, and served mainly upon and along the Mississippi River. When hostilities closed he was at Hempstead, Texas, and in October 1865, he returned to Missouri, and for the next three or four years was engaged in driving cattle from Texas. In 1867 he came to Bates County and secured his present situation in New Home Township, where he has a finely improved farm of 520 acres. He is one of the most extensive cattle raisers of that section of the county. Mr. Bell was married, October 10, 1878, to Miss Fanny Rand, daughter of James Rand. She is a native of Indiana. They have two children, Frank and James. Mr. Bell's parents live on an adjoining farm, and three sisters are still with them: Anna, Lida and Hattie. Two brothers also live in the same neighborhood, Melville F. and W. M. One sister Elizabeth A. Langford is in Colorado; one, Louisa N., is in the Indian Nation; one, Virginia Yagle, in Saline County, one brother, Charles, in Cedar County. In politics, Mr. Bell is Democratic, and has been entrusted with much of the business affairs of the township. He has been fortunate in his business ventures, and has accumulated a comfortable living. He is connected with the Methodist Church South.

BELL, William M.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
WILLIAM M. BELL. The late William M. Bell, of New Home township, a pioneer settler of Bates county, was the son of Missouri pioneer parents. He was born in Cooper county, Missouri, March 21, 1850, and departed this life at his home in Bates county, January 5, 1916. He was a son of James L. and Hannah Maria (Sherman) Bell, both of whom were natives of Virginia. James L. Bell was a son of Rev. Charles Bell, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal faith, a miller and owner of a large plantation in Virginia. Rev. Charles Bell was ol English descent and his ancestors settled in Virginia prior to the Revolutionary War. L. Bell was born in Virginia in 1807, married in that state and migrated to Cooper county, Missouri, in the early thirties. He was a son of Charles Bell, who was born November 20, 1770, and died August 29, 1825. The Bell family became well established in Cooper county and were wealthy prior to the Civil War period, during the course of which so many families of Southern extraction were impoverished. Hannah Maria (Sherman) Bell was a daughter of Captain Samuel Sherman, who was born in Virginia on March 3, 1776, and there married Nancy Martin, who was born November 27, 1781. Samuel M. Sherman was a veteran of the War of 1812, and departed this life January 14, 1815. During the Civil War, James L. Bell, with his family, removed to St. Louis county, Missouri, and remained there until the close of the war. After the war was over, he came to Bates county and settled on land in New Home township which he had previously entered from the United States Government. William M. Bell accompanied his parents to St. Louis county, where he remained until the Civil War closed and then went to Cooper county and spent about one year in assisting close up his father's affairs in that county. This task being accomplished he came to Bates county and lived with his father on the Bell homestead until he erected the home now occupied by his widow and son in New Home township. He began with one hundred acres of land which he improved and brought to a high state of cultivation. He prospered during the course of time and added to his possessions until he owned two hundred sixty acres of the best land in Bates county. The Bell homestead is located on a hill and the farm land gently slopes to the southward from the home. For the first year of their residence on the place, he and his wife lived in a one-room cabin which was boxed, sealed, and weather boarded, after which additions were made to the residence. Mr. Bell was married on December 7, 1881, to Miss Rosa Caldwell, who was born November 6, 1860, in Johnson county, Missouri, a daughter of Benjamin and Martha (Craig) Caldwell, natives of Kentucky and Tennessee, respectively, and whose parents were pioneers who settled near Boonville, Missouri. Benjamin Patton Caldwell, father of Mrs. Bell, was a son of Benjamin P. Caldwell, who resided in Kentucky and died there. His wife was Elizabeth Toomey, who was left a widow with a large family which she brought to Missouri in 1839. Her children were James, Benjamin P., Elizabeth, Mary Jane, Margaret, Phoenix, Christopher, and Catherine Caldwell. Benjamin Patton Caldwell was born in 1824 and died in July, 1907. He located in Johnson county, Missouri, in 1848, and came to Bates county in 1878, settling in New Home township. Mrs. Caldwell, mother of Mrs. Bell, died when Mrs. Bell was a child, and Benjamin P., married Mrs. Martha Koontz, a widow. To William M. and Rosa (Caldwell) Bell were born children as follow: Mary, wife of Albert Ellis, Alamosa, Colorado, mother of two children, Irene and Rosalie; William Louis, a farmer living in New Home township, married Sylvia Goodrum, and has four children, Harold, Donald, Pauline and Virginia; and Fletcher Caldwell, who is managing the home place of the Bell family, born April 11, 1894, received his education in the district schools, a very intelligent young man who is a capable farmer and a good citizen. Like his father before him, Fletcher Caldwell Bell is a Democrat and he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. The Bell family is one of the oldest and most highly respected pioneer families in Bates county, every member of which is a successful and enterprising citizen. William M. Bell was a worthy representative of his family and his life was so lived that when death called him from his earthly labors his loss was sincerely mourned by the people of his home community.

BENNETT, E. A.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
E. A. BENNETT, one of the organizers of the Bennett-Wheeler Mercantile Company of Butler, a skilled mechanic, a successful business man of Bates county, was born May 14, 1849 at Springfield, Ohio. Mr. Bennett is a son of B. G. and Anna (White) Bennett, the former, a native of Chester, Pennsylvania and the latter, of Hagerstown, Maryland. B. G. Bennett was born in 1818. He came to Missouri in 1872 and settled in Holt county, where he resided until his death. Mr. Bennett died at Oregon, Missouri, about 1897. He was an expert mechanic and a citizen universally respected and esteemed. Mrs. Bennett died in 1911 while visiting her son in Oklahoma. Both mother and father were interred in the cemetery at Oregon, Missouri. In the public schools of Clark county, Ohio, E. A. Bennett received an excellent common school education. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, E. A. Bennett was but a child twelve years of age. Nevertheless he felt the call of his country much more keenly than many of his elders and from 1862 until 1865 served in the Clark county, Ohio militia. He was then a growing boy, from thirteen to sixteen years of age. Mr. Bennett came to Missouri in 1869 and located in Holt county. His first mercantile experience was at Whig Valley in that county, in a crossroad store near the site of Mariland, where he was employed until 1878 when he accepted a position as traveling salesman for the Deere, Mansur & Company of Kansas City, Missouri, later the John Deere Plow Company. Mr. Bennett was on the road for this company for five years, when, in 1882, he came to Butler. Mr. Bennett mastered the mechanic's trade when he was a youth. He was for many years with John A. Pitts, of Dayton, whose father invented the Pitts separator. B. G. Bennett was a foreman of the woodworking department of the factory owned by John A. Pitts and there E. A. Bennett learned to make every piece of a threshing machine except the iron parts. His part of the work was to assemble the different portions of the machines. Mr. Bennett also learned thoroughly the carpenter's trade, which knowledge later proved to be of inestimable benefit in the implement business that followed in after years. He was one of the three organizers of the Bennett-Wheeler Mercantile Company of Butler in 1890, from which organization he resigned probably in 1900. Since that time, Mr. Bennett has been engaged in the loan business at Butler, with the exception of six years spent in Colorado. In 1878, E. A. Bennett and Hannah J. Roberts, of Holt county, were united in marriage. To this union were born four children: Mrs. Doctor Zey, Butler, Missouri; Mrs. Charles McFarland, Butler, Missouri; Charles R., who is employed as civil engineer, by the United States Government, in the city of Manila, Philippine Islands; and Gordon, a successful farmer and stockman, Holt county, Missouri. In November, 1910, E. A. Bennett and Minnie Chandler were united in marriage. Hannah J. (Roberts) Bennett had died in May, 1909. The Bennett-Wheeler Mercantile Company of Butler, of which O. A. Heinlein is now manager, was organized in 1890 by E. A. Bennett, C. S. Wheeler, and J. B. Armstrong with a capital stock of thirty-five thousand dollars. This firm succeeded Bennett-Wheeler & Company, organized in 1882 with a capital stock of five thousand dollars, successors of B. G. Wheeler, who occupied a small frame building, 25 x 50 feet in dimensions, located on the present site of the Missouri State Bank building. There B. G. Wheeler had started in business in partnership with Mr. Harwi, under the firm name of Wheeler & Harwi. The latter retired from the firm later and went to Atchison, Kansas, where he established a wholesale and retail hardware and implement business and became wealthy. Mr. Harwi died about 1912. B. G. Wheeler left Butler after selling his interest in the store in 1882 and went to Boston, Massachusetts and in that city he died, probably in 1908. C. S. Wheeler was engaged in the real estate business at Westplains, Missouri at the time his death occurred. He died at a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri in 1909. J. B. Armstrong is still with the Bennett-Wheeler Mercantile Company. Mr. Bennett retired from the company after eighteen years service. E. A. Bennett was one of the original stockholders of the Farmers Bank and for many years was a member of the directorate. He later became vice-president of this bank and also served as president of the Farmers Bank until January 1, 1911. He has been a member of the city council two terms, during which time the city ownership of the waterworks was being agitated. Honored and respected by all who know him, there is no man in Butler or Bates county, who occupies a more enviable position in commercial and financial circles than does Mr. Bennett, not alone on account of the marked success he has achieved, but also because of the honest, straightforward policy he has ever pursued.

BENNETT, Robert S.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - West Boone Township, Bates Co, MO
DR. ROBERT S. BENNETT was born in Upshur County, West Virginia, May 24, 1851, and is the son of Stewart and Margaret M. (Swisher) Bennett, both Virginians by birth. Robert is the fifth of eleven children, of whom six are now living: James F., Andrew J., Maggie (a teacher in Freeman), Mary Walker and Clara Fullerton, both in Nodaway County. In 1863, the family moved westward and settled in McDonough County, Illinois, living there until 1868, when they came to Cass County. They bought a farm near Pleasant Hill, where Mrs. B. is still living. The father died in Illinois in 1864. During his residence in Illinois the subject of this sketch attended Hedding Seminary, at Abingdon, Illinois. Soon after coming to Missouri he began to teach in Cass and Johnson Counties, and until 1875, his time was mostly spent in the school room. He then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Kansas City, from which institution he graduated, in the spring of 1876. Soon after he located at Aubrey, Johnson County, Kansas, for the purpose of practicing his profession, and after remaining there five years he returned to Missouri, and resided for one year at Freeman. When the village of Rosier was laid out he determined to locate there, having a farm near the town. Though residing at this place but a short time, he has gained quite an extensive practice, and is recognized as being well versed in his profession. Dr. Bennett was married April 24, 1875, to Miss Nannie Guilliam, daughter of Tazewell Guilliam, of Austin, Cass County. They have two children: Ada May and Edgar Poe.

BERRY, James Claude
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
JAMES CLAUDE BERRY, or "J. C." Berry, extensive farmer, tax collector of New Home township, Bates county, was born November 22, 1870, in Saline county, Missouri, a member of an old pioneer family of Missouri. His father was A. M. Berry, a native of Bates county, and his mother was Mary E. (Prewitt) Berry, a native of Jackson county, Missouri. A. M. Berry was born in 1843 and died January 3, 1917, in Oregon, at the time of his death being probably the oldest living pioneer of Bates county. Mary E. Berry was born in 1838 and departed this life in June, 1915. A. M. Berry was born in New Home township, a son of John Berry, a native of Kentucky who settled in Bates county in the early thirties. During the Civil War period, the Berry family left the county and did not return until the war closed. A. M. Berry served in the Confederate army under General Price and saw much hard service in Missouri, Arkansas, and the South. After the war, he returned to Saline county and made his home there until his removal in 1883 to Bates county and to Charlotte township, where he lived until 1895, when he removed to Oklahoma. Ten years later, he moved to Oregon and there died. His children were as follow: W. H., Oregon; N. A., living in Kansas; S. A., living in Washington; James Claude, subject of this sketch; and Mrs. Bessie L. Wallace, Oregon. J. C. Berry was educated in the schools of Saline county and of Bates county. He began doing for himself when nineteen years old and first farmed on his own account in Mt. Pleasant township. He purchased his first farm in New Home township in 1896. He improved the tract and sold it shortly afterward. He then bought a place consisting of one hundred twenty acres, located just north of his present home. He sold forty acres of this tract and the remaining eighty acres are included within his present holdings of two hundred forty acres. His present home place is well improved with a good home, barns, and silo. Mr. Berry is farming and pasturing a total of six hundred acres, in all, and raises and feeds over seventy-five head of cattle yearly. J. C. Berry was married in 1893 to Lillie Pickett, a daughter of John E. and Maria J. (Lindley) Pickett, who came to Bates county in 1883. That is, the widow and family located in this county at that time, Mr. Pickett having died in Illinois. Mrs. Pickett now makes her home among her children. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Berry have children, as follow: Ruby, Ralph, Grace, Frank, Sina, Lena, Emmet, and Mabel, all at home with their parents. Mr. Berry is prominent in the affairs of the Democratic party in Bates county and is now serving his second term as tax collector of New Home township. He was first elected to this office in 1915 and reelected in March, 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Berry and the three oldest children are members of the Baptist church. Mr. Berry is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America at Butler.

BEVER, William
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Pleasant Gap Township, Bates Co, MO
WILLIAM BEVER, farmer and stock dealer, section 25, was born in Warren County, Missouri, May 14, 1836. His parents, Henry and Elizabeth (Gerdaman) Bever, were both natives of Germany. The former grew to manhood and married in the country of his birth. He immigrated to the United States and settled in Warren County in an early day, and was one of the pioneers of that county. William spent his younger days on a farm, his education being limited to the common schools. He was married in Warren County, in December 1860, to Miss Adelaide Gardyne, a Virginian by birth, and who was born September 7, 1838. She is a daughter of Peter and Mary (Hammond) Gardyne. After his marriage Mr. B. farmed in Warren County until 1864, when he moved to Crawford County, and after two years, in the spring of 1867, to Henry County. Selling his property there he located at Appleton City, where he was engaged in teaming and stock trading for two years. Then he purchased land and came to Bates County, and settled on the farm where he now resides. He has 168 acres in fair cultivation, with a comfortable house and an orchard of 250 apple and other trees. Mr. and Mrs. Bever have seven children: Elizabeth (wife of Joseph Whitely), David H., William G., Mary E., Nathaniel, John and Charles. They have lost two children: Lillie W., their eldest, died at the age of eleven months, and George at the age of fourteen months. Mr. B. is a successful farmer and stock raiser, and has made his property by his own industry. He is a noted sportsman, and keeps a number of fox hounds and occasionally indulges in the exciting pleasures of the chase.

BIGGS, J. C.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
J. C. BIGGS, cashier of the Commercial Bank of Hume, Missouri, was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1858, a son of Andrew E. and Sarah (Payton) Biggs, natives of McLean county, Illinois, and Ohio, respectively. Andrew E. Biggs, his father, came to Bourbon county, Kansas, in 1857, and entered homestead land which now forms a part of the site of the thriving city of Ft. Scott. His purpose in coming to Kansas at that early period was to take part in the making of Kansas into a free state. Naturally, his presence in Bourbon county was not desired by the slavery men, who were at that time in the majority. He, with others of his persuasion, found it necessary in order to save their lives, to leave the territory. He returned to his old home in McLean county, Illinois, in 1859, and remained there until 1878, when he again came to the West and located in Miami county, Kansas. He followed farming in that county until 1880, at which time he moved to Custer county, Nebraska, and took up a homestead. Five years later, he returned eastward and made his final settlement in Bates county, where he resided until his death in 1904 at the age of sixty-three years. He was the father of seven children, as follow: J. C., subject of this review; B.F., proprietor of a meat and grocery store in Hume; Mrs. Ella Palmer, Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. Phoebe McLean, deceased; Mrs. Lizzie Snell, Hume, Missouri; Harmon, a railroad man whose headquarters are at Wichita, Kansas; Charles, also a railroader living in Hume. The last four children mentioned in the preceding paragraph were born of a second marriage of Andrew E. Biggs with Jennie Settle. Mrs. Jennie Biggs now makes her home at Hume. J. C. Biggs, subject of this review, received his education in the common schools and at Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois. For a period of seven years he taught school successfully in Illinois and Bates county, Missouri, his last year in the profession of teaching, 1883-1884, having been spent in Bates county. During the years of 1885 and 1886, he was engaged in the mercantile business at Virginia in Bates county. Following which he came to Hume in 1887 and from 1887 to 1892 he was engaged in the drug business, the Biggs' Drug Store now being conducted by his son. From 1892 to 1896, he was connected with the old Hume Bank, after which he again reentered the drug business and remained in this business until 1903, when he organized the Commercial Bank of Hume, a banking concern which has a well-merited and successful growth for the past fifteen years. His capabilities as banker have been recognized, and as its cashier he has been the guiding hand for this bank. In addition to his banking interests, Mr. Biggs is a successful farmer and prides himself upon the fact that he is as much a farmer as a banker. He is owner of four hundred acres of splendid farm land in Howard township, the cultivation of which place receives his personal attention. The Biggs farm produces, upon an average, one hundred head of hogs and from forty to eighty head of cattle, annually. Mr. Biggs was married in 1883 to Miss Cora B. Forsythe, who was born in Illinois, a daughter of Charles Forsythe, an early settler of Bates county, Missouri, who located in this county in the early sixties. Mr. and Mrs. Biggs have three children: George, a druggist, Hume, Missouri, a graduate pharmacist, married Miss Mary Sieg; Mrs. L.C. Williams, Tulsa, Oklahoma, has two sons, John Robert and Richard James; Kenneth, aged thirteen years, who is attending school. Mr. Biggs is allied with the Republican party and is religiously affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and takes high rank as a public-spirited, influential citizen, who has the best interests of his home city and county at heart.

BIRD, F. J.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Charlotte Township, Bates Co, MO
F. J. BIRD, farmer, section 22, was born within four miles of Springfield, in Clark County, Ohio, his father being H. H. Bird, a native of Virginia, born August 8, 1809. He died April 9, 1875. He had early accompanied his parents to Ohio, locating in Clark County, where he grew to manhood. There he married Miss Catherine Tittle, of that county, born November 27, 1824. She is still living in her native county. F. J. was the second of a family of six children. He was reared and educated at his birthplace, and in 1864 enlisted in Company K, I52d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served for about six months in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, and at the close of the war returned to Clark County, where he continued agricultural pursuits until 1869. Then he came to Bates County, Missouri, and purchased his present farm of 220 acres of improved land, though it was then uncultivated. Retracing his steps to Ohio, he was married on February 9, 1871, to Maggie M. Snodgrass, originally from Kosciusko County, Indiana, where she was born November 26, 1844. She was a daughter of William and Sarah K. (Edgar) Snodgrass, the former born in Ohio, January 12, 1812, and died September 28, 1844. Her mother was also born in Ohio, May 9, 18 17. They were married in 1838. Maggie M. was the youngest of a family of four children, and was brought up and educated in Clark County. After his marriage Mr. Bird settled in Missouri and remained here until 1874, when he returned to Ohio. In 1882 he again came to this state. He and his wife have three children living: Della, born April 23, 1874; William, born August 20, 1878; and Freddie, born July 12, 1881. Their eldest child, Harry, was born January 8, 1872, and died July 24, 1878. They are both church members.

BLACK, A. H.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Deer Creek Township, Bates Co, MO
A. H. BLACK, farmer, section 10, was born in Warren County, Indiana, March 6, 1856, and was the son of William Black, a native of Ohio. A. H. was the eldest of three children. When ten years old his parents removed to Illinois and remained there one year, when they came to Cass County, Missouri, and engaged in farming. In 1872, Bates County became their home. The mother died in 1875 and the father in 1879. His brother is a resident of Idaho. The subject of this sketch resides with his sister, Mary E., and conducts the farm which contains 180 acres of land, 100 acres in cultivation. This is above the average and is well improved, with a good house and orchard.

BLANGY, John
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
JOHN BLANGY, one of the old settlers of Bates county, living retired upon his farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Walnut township, was born in 1852 in Starke county, Illinois. He was a son of James W. and Sarah (Scott) Blangy, the former of whom was a native of New Jersey, and the latter, of Ohio. The Blangy family came West in 1869 and settled on Walnut creek, purchasing a farm now owned by Fred Laughlin and comprising one hundred and forty acres. After Mrs. Blangy died, James C. moved to the neighboring state of Kansas and settled on a farm eight miles west of Pleasanton, where he resided for some years, eventually disposing of his farm to a coal mining company and retiring to a home in Pleasanton, where he died in September, 1902. At the age of eighteen years, John Blangy began farming on his own account but made his home with his parents until his marriage in 1876. On January 2, of that year he was united in marriage with Emma Schwechheimer, born in 1857, at Canal Dover, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, a daughter of George Philip and Annie Marie (Leoffler) Schwechheimer, the former of whom was born in Baden, and the latter in Schlaitdorf, Wurtemburg, Germany. At the age of twenty years, George Schwechheimer came to America. His wife was eighteen years of age when she immigrated to this country. They resided in Ohio until after the close of the Civil War, in which George Schwechheimer served as a soldier in an Ohio regiment of volunteer infantry. George P. Schwechheimer served as a private, then was promoted an orderly sergeant in Company K, Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served four years and was honorably discharged from the service on the 11th of January, 1864, at Huntsville, Alabama. In 1871 they came to Missouri and settled on what is now the Swarens place in New Home township, where Mr. Schwechheimer died in 1883. To George and Annie Marie Schwechheimer were born seven children: Mrs. Emma Barbara Blangy; Willie George, deceased; Philip, a railroad man at Sedalia, Missouri; Mary, deceased; Mrs. Lydia McGehee, Vernon county, Missouri; Mary Magdalene, deceased. The mother of these children died in 1870. By a second marriage with Julia Engel he was the father of seven children: Charley, deceased; Mrs. Matilda Haley, Lost Spring, Wyoming; Mrs. Flora Hicklin, Hume, Missouri; Albert, living near Sprague, Missouri; Edward, a resident of Fort Scott, Kansas; Walter, resident of Kansas City, Missouri; John, living in Wyoming. Soon after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Blangy settled on their home place on Walnut creek and have lived there continuously with the exception of two years spent in Colorado. Mr. Blangy is a Republican, and both Mr. and Mrs. Blangy belong to the Methodist Episcopal church. Their children are as follow: Mary Alta, born in 1877, wife of Clarence Click, living near Worland, Missouri; Sarah Pearl, born 1878, wife of Denny Bright, resides in Bates county; Ira John, born in 1880, resides on a farm near Hume in this county; Effie Mabel, born in 1884, wife of Frank Smith, Walnut township; Ada Theresa, born in 1885, wife of William Lee, residing on a farm northwest of Foster.

BLOUNT, Allen
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Deer Creek Township, Bates Co, MO
ALLEN BLOUNT, farmer, section 20, was born in Smith County, Tennessee, March 29, 1835. His father, John M. Blount, was a native of North Carolina, and in 1832 married Miss Sallie Thornton, of Tennessee. They had three children, Allen being the second. When he was thirteen years old his parents went to Illinois, where they remained until the winter of 1852, then removing to Cass County, Missouri. In a short time they came to Bates County. The subject of this sketch received his education in the schools of Tennessee and Illinois. In 1853 he began working in a mill at Harrisonville, where he continued seven years. Returning to Bates County, he engaged in farming. His farm contains 115 acres of average land, with good house and orchard. He is a member of the Baptist Church, as is also his wife. October 7, 1855, Mr. Blount married Miss Eliza Jane Atkinson, who was born in Orange County, Indiana, August 27, 1833, They have five children living: John W., Eliza M., James A., Walter and Mable C. They have lost five: George W., Henry A., Albert B., Mary E. and Reuben A.

BLOUNT, T. W.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
T. W. BLOUNT, a successful agriculturist of Deer Creek township, is one of the highly respected and valued citizens of Bates county, a member of one of the first and best pioneer families of this section of the state. Mr. Blount was born in Bates county in 1873, a son of Allen and Eliza J. Blount. Allen Blount settled in Bates county, Missouri in the days before the Civil War and the remainder of his life was spent in the arduous toil necessary in the making of a home in a new and unsettled country, and toil it was in the fullest sense of the word, a never-ceasing round of work from early dawn until sundown. He cleared much land and devoted his life to farming and stock raising. Mr. Blount was the type of brave pioneer that took his life and future in his own hands and introduced civilization into the great West, exposing himself to hardships and perils of which the people of the present day can form no adequate conception, yet completing his life work like a hero, although his memory may never be commemorated in song or story. He was called upon to suffer more of the tragedies of pioneer life than fell to the lot of the ordinary pioneer and had more than one close call and narrow escape from a tragic death, yet he cheerfully endured all his heavy burdens and lived to a noble old age. Allen Blount was a skillful woodsman and hunter and he had abundant opportunities for the exercise of his prowess in life on the frontier. He used often to relate how he once stood in his wagon and from that vantage-point killed a fine specimen of deer. He used yokes of oxen in the work of breaking the virgin sod on his farm and in hauling supplies from Pleasant Hill. In an old "day-book," kept in the early days by one of the pioneer merchants of old Crescent Hill, are many entries made of articles sold to Allen Blount. His son, T. W., the subject of this review, has in his possession an old-fashioned staple taken from an ox-yoke which his father used to own. To Allen and Eliza J. Blount were born seven children, four of whom are now living: J. W., Coffeyville, Kansas; E. M., Simmons, Arizona; T. W., the subject of this review; and Mable, who resides with her brother, T. W., at the Blount homestead near Adrian. The mother died in 1892. She was survived by her husband twenty-three years, when in 1915 they were united in death. Allen Blount was a man of wide acquaintance in Bates county, a gentleman of the old school, courteous, kindly, and charitable, whom to know was to esteem and honor. He was considered more conservative than progressive, still he was one of the first settlers to purchase a farm in Bates county, Missouri. In many respects, Allen Blount was worthy of the respect universally accorded him and of mention and commendation in a work of this character. T. W. Blount attended school at Liberty school house in Deer Creek township, Bates county. His first instructor was A. J. Smith and he was succeeded by William Duncan and he, in turn, by Miss Amanda McGraw. Rev. Aaron Showalter had charge of the moral and religious welfare of the community, when T. W. Blount was a lad, and to the teachings of this pioneer preacher he has often listened. Mr. Blount recalls how, in his boyhood days, he was want to ride an old-style corn planter and drop the seed in the designated marks, for his father and their neighbors. His father told him how he used to ride a still more primitive machine made of wood, in his youth, and drop corn. Mr. Blount, Jr., has spent his entire life on the farm in Deer Creek township, on the place which he now owns. The Blount homestead was given T. W. Blount by his father, who desired that his son should remain on the home place and care for his sister, Mable. Mr. Blount is profitably engaged in general farming and stock raising and this past season, of 1917, harvested three hundred bushels of oats and had twenty-five acres of the farm planted in corn. In every community, there are always a few rare men who are unmistakably identified with the material growth and prosperity of the country, who are invariably stanch supporters of every worthy enterprise which has for its object the advancement and betterment of their fellowmen, who are always alert and ready when called upon for assistance in enhancing the importance of their locality, yet who are so unobtrusive that the people in general hardly realize their importance, as their presence and value are not thrust upon them, the public only unconsciously feel their impress. Yet just as surely do they exert a wholesome influence in their respective communities. Such a one is T. W. Blount, who in a quiet, but forcible, way has done and is still doing much to advance the interests of his home township and county. He is numbered among the citizens of highest standing in Bates county and is a worthy son of a most worthy father.

BOBBITT, James W.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
JAMES W. BOBBITT, retired merchant and former postmaster of Sprague, Missouri, has, since the very beginning of the town of Sprague, been one of the leading citizens of this locality. He was born in Pulaski county, Kentucky, January 18, 1850, a son of Joseph D. and Polly Ann (Barrow) Bobbitt, both of whom were born and reared in old Kentucky. The parents of Joseph D. Bobbitt were natives of Virginia, who made a settlement in Kentucky during the early years of the history of that state. Mr. Bobbitt migrated to Missouri and arrived in Pettis county on March 10, 1870. For a time he was engaged in the mercantile business in Pettis county until his removal to Wilson county, Kansas, where he again engaged in mercantile pursuits, remaining in Kansas until he came to Sprague, Bates county, Missouri, in 1900. He was engaged in business here until a short time before his death in 1910. Mrs. Polly Ann Bobbitt died in 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Bobbitt were the parents of the following children: James W., subject of this review; William Perkins, a resident of La Fontaine, Kansas; Mrs. Nannie Prigmore, a widow living at Pueblo, Colorado; and Perry Davis Bobbitt, Canon City, Colorado. J. W. Bobbitt received his schooling in Kentucky, his common-school education being followed by a course in the Davis Academy in Kentucky. He accompanied his parents to Missouri in 1870 and for two years after his arrival in Pettis county he and his brothers followed farming while the father conducted his store. He then engaged in business with his father. In 1878, he came to Bates county and settled on a farm four miles north of Sprague. In 1881 he located in Sprague and opened one of the first mercantile establishments in the village. He established the first harness business, and then opened a general mercantile store which he conducted until 1906 when he retired from active business pursuits. Mr. Bobbitt has an eighty-acre farm, located west of Sprague, which is cultivated by a tenant. Mr. Bobbitt was married March 8, 1876, to Miss Hattie E. Winston, who was born in Pettis county, Missouri, a daughter of Drayton and Mary Winston, natives of North Carolina, who first made a settlement in Pettis county, Missouri, and then came to Bates county in 1882, settling on a farm located north of Sprague where both died in the same year, of 1887. To James W. and Hattie Bobbitt have been born children as follow: Mrs. Minnie McCray, Pueblo, Colorado, who has two children -- Murle, and William W.; Mrs. Cecil Gault, Buhl, Idaho, who has three daughters, Theo, Esther, and Genevieve; Clyde, at home with his parents; and Mrs. Auda Lee, Pueblo, Colorado, who has an infant daughter, Johanna Elizabeth. The Republican party has always had the allegiance of Mr. Bobbitt, who has been one of the leaders of his party for many years in Bates county. He has held many positions of trust during his long residence here and has acquitted himself creditably in every instance. For a period of twenty-three years, he served as postmaster of Sprague. In March, 1915, he was elected tax collector of Howard township and served for two years in this office. He has always taken a great interest in school matters and at the present writing is president of the local school board. When Sprague was actively maintained as an incorporated town, he served as a member and clerk of the town council. Mr. Bobbitt is a member of the Christian church and is serving as clerk and treasurer of the Sprague Christian church. He is fraternally affiliated with the Woodmen of the World and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

BOHLKEN, G. B.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
G. B. BOHLKEN, prosperous farmer and stockman of Homer township, vice-president of the Bank of Amoret, Missouri, is a Bates county citizen of German birth who has made a splendid record in his adopted land. He began life in this country as a farm hand, followed by a period of homesteading on the plains of Nebraska, where his home was a sod house, and later by a successful career in Bates county as farmer and stockman. Mr. Bohlken was born in Germany in 1845, a son of C.H. and M. Bohlken, who lived and died in their native land. Mr. Bohlken received a good education in the schools of his native country and in 1869 he immigrated to America. He was endowed with very little of this world's goods when he arrived in Illinois and his work was as farm hand for six months at a wage of twenty-five dollars per month. He then rented a farm and cultivated rented land in Illinois until 1886, when he went to Cheyenne county, Nebraska, where he homesteaded a half section of land whereon he grazed cattle for a number of years. His home on the prairie was a sod house, which followed the dugout wherein he and his family first lived. He ranged cattle on the plains and improved his land, and it can be said that Mr. Bohlken has no complaint to make of any hardships endured while on his ranch, life being easy, and no hard work connected with herding cattle. He disposed of his Nebraska land in 1895 and came to Bates county, where for the following twelve years he operated a tract of Scully land on a lease. In 1907 he bought his present splendid farm of two hundred and eighty acres in Homer township. Mr. Bohlken was married in Germany in 1869 to Catherine Hemen and came directly after his marriage to America, accompanied by his bride. Mrs. Bohlken was a faithful helpmeet to her husband until her death in 1897. Children were born to this marriage as follow: Mrs. Margaret Emanuelson; Mrs. Mary Fitz; Mrs. Annie Wilkerson; Mrs. Helen Alberts; William, Sina, and George, at home with their father; Henry, deceased. Mr. Bohlken is independent in his political views and votes as his conscience dictates. He is a member of the Lutheran denominational faith and is highly esteemed as one of Bates county's most substantial citizens.

BOLIN, Thomas
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
THOMAS BOLIN, Union veteran and farmer of Shawnee township, was born January 8, 1843 in Montgomery county, Kentucky, a son of Hiram Bolin, who was born in Culpepper county, Virginia. Hiram was a son of John Bolin, who was a pioneer of Kentucky. Hiram Bolin married Emily Hall of Kentucky, a daughter of Green Hall. Her grandfather, William Hall, was a soldier of the Revolution and served under General Greene as captain. Thomas Bolin was reared and educated in Kentucky and he enlisted at the beginning of the Civil War, at Camp Dick Robinson, in Boyle county, Kentucky, in 1861, under Captain Gist. He served in Colonel Frye's brigade, and under General Thomas in the Fourteenth Army Corps. He fought in the first hard battle at Mill Springs, Kentucky. Other notable engagements in which he participated were Stone River, Tennessee; Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and many skirmishes and minor engagements, fighting from Dalton, Georgia to Atlanta. He was with Sherman at the capture of Atlanta and took part in Sherman's famous march from Atlanta to the sea and the capture of Savannah. He served over four years in the Union army and received his final discharge in September of 1865 at Wilmington, North Carolina. Mr. Bolin was captured by the Confederates in the rear at Atlanta and interned in Andersonville prison, where he remained for eleven months and then he managed to escape. After the close of his war service he returned to Kentucky and resided in his native state until 1880, and then came to Henry county, Missouri, residing there until the early nineties when he made a settlement in Shawnee township, Bates county. Mr. Bolin has prospered in Bates county and owns a splendid farm of two hundred and forty acres, well improved. While a resident of Kentucky he took a prominent part in civic affairs and filled the offices of constable and magistrate. Mr. Bolin was married February 12, 1868 to Ansel D. Hoskins of Estill county, Kentucky, who died January 10, 1914 and her remains are interred in the cemetery at Butler. She was a good and faithful wife and a kind mother to her children. To Thomas and Ansel Bolin were born children as follow: Albert, living in Arizona; Laura, at home with her father; Green H., state mine inspector of Arizona; Sterling, Bates county, Missouri; Mrs. Emma Johnson, Platte county, Missouri; D.S., farming near Phoenix, Arizona; and Clara, at home with her father. Although this aged veteran has passed the allotted span of three score years and ten and spent over four of the best years of his life in the service of his country, he is active and well preserved and is still able to do work about his farm.

BOREING, J. M.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Rockville Township, Bates Co, MO
J. M. BOREING, real estate and insurance agent, was born in Virginia, November 26, 1836, his parents being Montgomery and Ann (Leib) Boreing. J. M. was the eldest of a family of ten children. He was reared in the town of Buchanan, Virginia, until sixteen years old, the family then removing to Tennessee, where he embarked in farming. Remaining there until the age of twenty-two years, he subsequently removed to Dayton, Ohio, and taught school one year, going to Iowa in the following year. There he also taught. He was married in that state, April 5, 1860, to Miss Belle C. Laughlin, a native of Illinois. He continued to teach and to clerk in a store until August 1862, when he enlisted in Company B, 18th Iowa Infantry, as second lieutenant, and when mustered out at the close of the war, he had received the promotion to captain of Company A. He returned to Iowa, and in 1866 went to Kansas, and in the same year came to Bates County. He has been a school teacher here and was also in the mercantile business until 1876, when he removed to Rockville. In 1881 he engaged in his present business, that of a real estate, loan and insurance agent. Mr. Boreing has been county assessor one term. He is also a justice of the peace and notary public. He is a member of the M. E. Church, and also belongs to the United Workmen. His wife died September 13, 1881, leaving five children: Elmer, Ralph, Walter, Maud and Nannie. They had lost two: Fred and Katie.

BORLAND, George W.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
GEORGE W. BORLAND, a highly honored and valued Union veteran of the Civil War, an enterprising farmer and stockman of Deepwater township, is a native of Pennsylvania. Mr. Borland was born October 22, 1841 in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, a son of James and Margaret (Barr) Borland, who were natives of Allegheny county and Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, respectively. James Borland was born in 1818 and died in January, 1891. Margaret (Barr) Borland was born in 1821 and died in 1904. Both parents died in their native state. Mrs. Borland was laid to rest in a burial ground in Ross township, Allegheny county, located near Pittsburg. In the public schools of Pennsylvania, George W. Borland received a good common school education. He enlisted in the Civil War in 1863 and served with Company K, Sixty-first Pennsylvania Infantry, taking part in about twenty-five engagements. Mr. Borland was in the battles of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864; Spottsylvania Court House, May 8 to 21, 1864; Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864; and with Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley. From the Rapidan to the James river, Grant's list of casualties in the campaign of The Wilderness was fifty-four thousand nine hundred twenty-nine men. Lee lost probably nineteen thousand. Mr. Borland was mustered out and honorably discharged at Braddock Barracks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1865. In April, 1866, George W. Borland left Pennsylvania and came to Missouri, where he located on a farm in St. Louis county. He was a resident of that county for thirteen years before coming to Bates county, Missouri in February, 1879. At that time, Mr. Borland purchased the Slayback farm, which comprised two hundred acres of land located one mile west of Spruce in Deepwater township. Since, he has added to his holdings and now the Borland place embraces two hundred seventy-one acres of choice land in Bates county, forty acres of which are "bottom land" and the remainder upland. Mr. Borland has himself placed upon the farm every tree and building now there. The improvements, which are of the very best, include a nice residence, a house of seven rooms, two and a half stories, built in 1879 and remodeled in 1890; a barn, 32 x 60 feet in dimensions, constructed of a native timber, a general-purpose building, built in 1891; a feeder; a tenant house; and four splendid wells and an excellent cistern. The Borland place is one of the most attractive rural homes in the township and one of the finest stock farms in the county. Mr. Borland had more than one hundred acres of land in corn this past season of 1917. He recalls that when he and his family came to Bates county in 1879 they were obliged to travel a distance of ten miles across the prairie weekly to Butler to obtain their mail. Now, their mail is delivered daily at their door. In 1879, there was no store at Spruce. Within a few years after the Borlands settled in Bates county, Mr. Smith opened the first mercantile establishment at that place. The marriage of George W. Borland and Doretta Puellman was solemnized October 21, 1869 in St. Louis county, Missouri. Mrs. Borland is a native of St. Louis county, a daughter of Lewis and Doretta Puellman, who emigrated from Germany to the United States and settled in St. Louis county, Missouri, about 1837. One sister of Doretta (Puellman) Borland is now living, Johanna, the wife of James Collins, of St. Louis county, Missouri. Mr. Collins was born in Ohio near Ravenna. To George W. and Doretta Borland have been born four children: Joseph A., who married Mary E. Cumpton and they reside on a farm in Deepwater township; George W., Jr., who died December 8, 1906 and is buried in White cemetery in Bates county; Margaret Jane, deceased, the wife of W. E. Dickison, of Deepwater township; and Cora Belle, who is at home with her parents, the sunshine and comfort of her father's household and her mother's invaluable helper. Throughout his long life of three score years and seventeen George W. Borland has discharged the duties of citizenship with the same loyalty and zeal which characterized him on Southern battlefields when he followed the Stars and Stripes to victory. He has endeavored to live up to the highest ideals of manhood, to discharge with fidelity and honor all obligations incumbent upon him and he is well worthy of the universal respect and confidence accorded him by his fellowmen.

BORLAND, George W.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Deepwater Township, Bates Co, MO
GEORGE W. BORLAND, section 17, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in Allegheny County October 22, 1841. James Borland, his father, and also his mother, formerly Margaret Barr, were natives of Pennsylvania. George W. was raised on a farm and educated in the common schools. He enlisted in the summer of 1863 in Company K, Sixty-first Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war, participating in a number of important encounters, some of the most important of which were the battles of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor and the engagements of the Shenandoah Valley, in all about twenty-five different engagements. After the war he returned to Pennsylvania. In April 1866, Mr. Borland came west and located in St. Louis County, where he was engaged in farming for some thirteen years. Moving from there to Bates County, in February 1879, he bought land and improved his present farm. He has 200 acres, all fenced, with good improvements and a young orchard. Mr. B. was married in St. Louis County, October 21, 1869, to Miss Doretta Puellman, a native of that county and a daughter of Lewis Puellman. They have four children: Joseph A., George W. Jr., Margaret Jane and Cora Belle.

BOSLEY, Andrew M.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Deer Creek Township, Bates Co, MO
ANDREW M. BOSLEY, farmer, section 22, was born in Orange County, Indiana, May 23, 1853, his parents being James W. and Sarah J. (Vance) Bosley. They had one son and two daughters, of whom Andrew was the second child. He was reared on his father's farm and was partly educated in the public schools, but owing to failing health left before completing his course. After this he engaged in the huckster business, continuing that occupation two years. He then gave his attention to farming in Indiana until 1880, when he came to Bates County, Missouri, where he resumed agricultural pursuits for a short time. Coming to Adrian he clerked in a hardware store from August 1880, until July 1881, when he accepted a situation as salesman with H. L. Fair. This position he held until March 1882, at which time he again became interested in farming. His farm contains eighty acres, under fence, with good improvements. He is a member of the United Brethren Church. Mr. Bosley was married July 2, 1882, to Miss Ella B. Ward, a native of Minnesota.

BOSWELL, John H.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - West Boone Township, Bates Co, MO
JOHN H. BOSWELL was born June 20, 1821, in Muskingum County, Virginia, on Roanoke River and is the fourth of eight children of whom four are living. His parents, George W. Boswell and Mildred nee West were of English origin. They emigrated to Kentucky when our subject was quite young, and where his father died in 1849. In 1856 John came to Missouri, settling in Cooper County and here he was engaged in farming until 1859, when in company with his brother he entered the mercantile business at California. He had an extensive trade until the outbreak of the civil war, at which time he disposed of the stock of goods at a great sacrifice, and then entered Jackson's State Troops and was with them for some months. He subsequently dealt in cattle for some years, spending one year in Chariton County and was in Pettis County in 1856. In 1866 he went to Texas on a business venture; having secured a supply of side saddles he traded them to the Texans for mules and ponies. After spending one year in Pettis County he returned to Texas and bought a drove of beef cattle which he packed at Kansas City and sold in New York the following spring. In May 1869, he came to Bates County and began to improve land for which he had traded in 1861. Mr. Boswell was married at Dover, Lafayette County, Missouri, February 17, 1859, to Miss Sallie Rucker a native of Kentucky. She lived but a short time thereafter, dying on August 11, following. Ten years after, December 7, 1869, Mr. Boswell married Mrs. Eliza Jane Bevin, widow of James Bevin. They have two children, both boys: George Vest and John H.

BOTKIN, Isaac H.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
ISAAC H. BOTKIN, retired farmer. Union veteran, and Bates county pioneer, is one of the grand old men of Bates county. He is now living comfortably retired in Foster and his long life has been an eventful and very useful one. Mr. Botkin was born in Belmont county, Ohio, March 10, 1834. His parents were R. C. and Rachel (Vernon) Botkin, natives of Maryland and Pennsylvania respectively. His mother was born on the banks of the historic Brandywine in the Keystone state. Both his father and mother lived all of their days in Belmont county, Ohio. The Botkin family is one of the oldest and best known of the old American families and its members are prominent in various sections of the United Isaac H. Botkin, retired farmer. Union veteran, and Bates county pioneer, is one of the grand old men of Bates county. He is now living comfortably retired in Foster and his long life has been an eventful and very useful one. Mr. Botkin was born in Belmont county, Ohio, March 10, 1834. His parents were R. C. and Rachel (Vernon) Botkin, natives of Maryland and Pennsylvania respectively. His mother was born on the banks of the historic Brandywine in the Keystone state. Both his father and mother lived all of their days in Belmont county, Ohio. The Botkin family is one of the oldest and best known of the old American families and its members are prominent in various sections of the United States. Secretary of State Thomas H. Botkin of Kansas is a relative of Isaac H. Botkin, subject of this biographical review. There were ten children in the Botkin family, all of whom are deceased except two. The children were as follow: Maria, born January 27, 1819; Arlotto, born August 21, 1820; Benjamin V., born July 15, 1822; Sarah, born April 7, 1825; Elma N., born July 25, 1827; John Y., born April 5, 1829; Susan Y., born March 21, 1832; Isaac Harry, born March 10, 1834; Catherine E., born July 4, 1836; Caroline, born July 12, 1839. The only member of this family living besides Isaac Harry Botkin, is Mrs. Susan Y. Chapman, of Claysville, Washington county, Pennsylvania. In the spring of 1858, Isaac H. Botkin went westward to Iowa and settled in Adams county, where he purchased one hundred sixty acres of land. He erected a small cabin, and broke up the land for his first crops with a breaking plow pulled by ox teams. Civil War breaking out between the Union and the Southern states, he enlisted in Company C, Fourth Regiment of Iowa Cavalry on November 15, 1861 and served until his honorable discharge at Atlanta, Georgia, August 17, 1865. He was sixth sergeant of his company, and after his term of enlistment expired he reenlisted as a veteran December 12, 1863, and was promoted to the post of first lieutenant of Company I on February 18, 1865, under General Winslow. His first battle in the war was at Pea Ridge, after which he was placed in charge of two thousand prisoners who were to be escorted from Rolla, Missouri to Springfield. His command then went to Batesville, down the White river to Helena. He was then detached from his command and sent back to southwestern Iowa on recruiting duty. This work being performed he returned to Camp McConnell at Davenport, Iowa, and a short time later was ordered to report to his regiment which was to take part in the siege of Vicksburg under General Grant. After the fall of Vicksburg they were ordered to destroy the Central Mississippi railroad as far as the environs of Memphis, thus severing one of the arteries of communication held by the Confederates. This task partly accomplished, they went to Yazoo City where they awaited supplies. Their provision ship being grounded in the river, the men of the regiment elected to go on without their supplies and finish the task of tearing up the railroad. From Memphis they were then ordered back to Vicksburg. Other engagements in which this valiant soldier participated were Gunntown, Mississippi; Tupelo, Mississippi; Jackson, Mississippi; Champion Hills; battles which were fought before the siege and capture of Vicksburg. His next encampment was at Louisville, Kentucky, where his regiment remained until the spring of 1865, and then proceeded to Gravelly Springs, Tennessee, under Generals Wilson and Upton who moved out and struck the forces of General Forrest at Selby, Alabama, capturing the Confederate forces and blowing up the munition supplies. They then crossed the river and took Fort Montgomery and after a night attack, captured Columbus, Georgia. They met a flag of truce at Macon, Georgia and learned that General Lee had surrendered. After receiving his discharge at Atlanta, he with the regiment Was sent to Davenport, Iowa, and mustered out. Mr. Botkin returned to his farm and remained in Iowa for two and ship, Bates county, taking possession of his new tract in the fall of 1869. The Botkin farm is unquestionably one of the best and richest four-hundred-acre tracts in western Missouri, with splendid improvements and known as "Maple Grove Farm." The Botkin farm residence is an imposing place of eleven rooms almost completely encircled with wide verandahs and sitting in a beautiful grove of large maple trees planted by Mr. Botkin. For some years this fine farm has been in the capable hands of Mr. E. D. Waller, a son-in-law of Mr. Botkin. On December 5, 1869, the marriage of Isaac Harry Botkin and Miss Emma F. Jones took place and the marriage has been a very happy and prosperous one, blessed with children as follow: Robert Edward, deceased, and his remains lie in Foster cemetery; Benjamin V., born in 1875, lives in Spokane, Washington; Mrs. Ina Waller, wife of E. D. Waller, Rich Hill, Missouri. The mother of this family was born January 7, 1838, in Culpepper county, Virginia, a daughter of William Edward and Lucretia (Barrack) Jones, the former of whom was born in North Carolina and the latter was a native of Virginia. William E. Jones located in De Kalb county, Missouri, in 1866 and there bought a four hundred-acre farm which he sold in 1869 and then came to Bates county where he died. Mr. Botkin has been a Democrat in politics and during his younger days, he took a keen interest in political matters, serving his township as trustee. He and Mrs. Botkin are members of the Foster Baptist church, and Mr. Botkin is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. They retired to a home in Foster, by reason of advancing age on April 4, 1905. When Mr. Botkin moved to Foster the town was infested with saloons. During all of his life he has been a strong temperance advocate and he promptly led the fight for the abolition of the saloon from the village and eventually succeeded. Despite threats from the saloon advocates who sent him word to "leave town or be killed" he stayed by his guns and won out in behalf of morality and order. He is still overseeing the cultivation of one hundred thirty-five acres adjoining the city all of which are sown to wheat for the next harvest. For twenty-five years, this aged citizen fed hundreds of cattle and has bought and sold live stock in this section of Missouri for many years. Despite his great age and the fact that he gave four of the best years of his life to the defense of the Union, during which time he never experienced a sick call and was never wounded, he is still able to manage his own business affairs and his intellect is keen, and his patriotism is a half years, then traded his Iowa farm for land in New Home town undimmed his love of the old flag under which he marched and fought being as great as when in the flower of his young manhood he freely offered his life that the Union might be saved, and would now be on the firing line in Europe fighting in defense of democracy were he still a young man.

BOTKIN, Isaac H.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - New Home Township, Bates Co, MO
ISAAC H. BOTKIN, stock dealer and farmer, was born in Ohio County, West Virginia, ten miles south of Wheeling, March 10, 1834. His parents were Robert C. Botkin and Rachel, nee Vernon, the former a native of Maryland, and the latter born on the Brandywine, near where the battle of Brandywine was fought, and is of Quaker family. They settled in Ohio County about 1830. Isaac H. is the eighth of ten children, two brothers and seven sisters; of these four only are living: Benjamin and Elma A., in Adams County, Iowa; and Susan Chapman, Pennsylvania. While youngMr. Botkin learned the harness trade, at which he worked for three years in Hillsboro, Pennsylvania. In 1859 he moved to Adams County, Iowa. he tendered his services during the war, and as sergeant of a company in the Fourth Iowa Cavalry, under Colonel Porter, went south at the commencement of hostilities. His service was in Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi, and for some time he was under Gen. A. J. Smith. At Gravelly Spring, Tennessee, he was commissioned first lieutenant. When Lee surrendered he was at Macon, and carried the news of Davis' capture from Atlanta to Dalton, and received his discharge at Atlanta. He remained in Iowa for three or four years, and in 1870 came to De Kalb County, Missouri, where he was married, on December 8, of that year, to Miss Mary F. Jones. Soon after he came to Bates County and settled on his present farm, which he had previously secured. Mr. Botkin, beside feeding quite a number of cattle himself, is the most extensive buyer and shipper in his section of the county, doing nearly all of that business for a large scope of country. In 1879 he took his family to Oregon with the hope of finding a more satisfactory residence, but remained only a short time. They have two children living: Vernon and Ina. Their eldest son, Robert E., died when about six years of age. Mr. Botkin is Democratic in politics, and he and his wife are consistent members of the Baptist Church.

BOTTOM, Henry
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Hudson Township, Bates Co, MO
HENRY BOTTOM, a native of Kentucky, was born in Mercer County, September 1, 1836. His parents, James and Mary (Nichols) Bottom, were also Kentuckians by birth. Henry accompanied the family to Missouri in 1849, and first located in Johnson County, where they lived about four years, then going to Pettis County. He spent his youth on a farm, and was married, September 3, 1857, to Miss Nancy Richardson, a daughter of Thomas Richardson. She is a native of Kentucky, but moved to Missouri with her parents when six years old, and settled in Pettis County. After this Mr. B. farmed for about twenty-two years, and in the fall of 1879 he came to Bates County, where he purchased land in Hudson Township, on section 9, and improved his present farm. He has 160 acres, 100 acres of which are fenced and mostly in cultivation, with a fair house, barn and outbuildings. Mr. and Mrs. Bottom have six children: Serilda F. (now Mrs. Charles Shell), Thomas M., William T., Rhoda A., H. Grant and Lissey E. They also have a brother's child, James F. Bottom, which they are raising. Mr. and Mrs. B. have lost two children. Mrs. B. is a member of the Baptist Church.

BOULWARE, T. C.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Mt. Pleasant Township, Bates Co, MO
T. C. BOULWARE, M.D. This prominent member of the medical fraternity has been engaged in the practice of medicine at his present location, since 1868, and as a practitioner, has gained an enviable reputation in this community. His grandfather Boulware emigrated with his parents from Virginia to Kentucky in an early day, where Stephen G. Boulware, his son was born. He came to Missouri with his parents and located in Callaway County, where he grew to manhood, and was married to Miss Mary Ratekin, a native of Kentucky. T. C. Boulware was born in Callaway County, Missouri, February 4, 1843. He was reared to habits of industry on a farm in his native county, and there received a primary education in the common schools, completing his literary education under S. S. Laws, of Westminster College, at which institution he took a scientific course. Leaving school in 1861, he enlisted in the state service, and was then under General Price as one of his bodyguards, remaining as such during the war, after which he returned to Callaway County, Missouri. Previous to the war he had chosen the practice of medicine for his profession and had studied sufficiently to have acquired such a knowledge of it as rendered him capable of assisting in hospital duties during the first of his war service. He completed his studies at Fulton, and was graduated from the Missouri Medical College, of St. Louis in 1868. He then located in Marvel, Bates County, and one year later came to Butler, where he has since resided. On June 20, 1877, Dr. Boulware was married to Miss Ida J. Humphrey, a daughter of A. H. Humphrey. Mrs. B. was born in Johnson County, Iowa, February 9, 1855, and died August 2, 1882. The doctor is a most agreeable man socially, and has many warm friends among his professional brethren.

BOULWARE, Theodrick C.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
THEODRICK C. BOULWARE, physician, a native of Missouri and leader of the medical profession of Bates County, was born in Callaway County, son of Stephen G. and Mary (Ratekin) Boulware, the former, a native of Kentucky and a son of Theodrick Boulware, Sr., who was born in Essex county, Virginia in 1780. Early in the life of Theodrick Boulware, Sr., and in the year 1784, his parents removed from Virginia to Kentucky. At that time, he was a mere child but, with the rest of the family, walked the entire distance, the packhorses being employed to carry the necessary household goods. The records of that state show that they were numbered among the founders of the commonwealth. They were constantly surrounded by dangers incident to life in the wilderness at that period, and it is related of them that when they went to church the head of the family always carried his musket on his shoulder in order to protect his family in event of an attack by Indians, who were then numerous and warlike in that region. The Boulware family is of Scotch descent, though the date of the original ancestor's coming to America is now known. Several representatives of the family have risen to prominence. An uncle of the subject of this sketch was for many years a resident of Albany, New York and was known as one of the most prominent physicians and surgeons of the Empire State. Stephen G. Boulware, the father of Dr. Boulware, accompanied his parents from Kentucky to Missouri in 1826, in the pioneer days of this state. His father finally settled in Callaway county, near Fulton, where he developed a fine farm and also preached in Fulton and the vicinity for many years. He died in 1868 on his daughter's plantation near Georgetown, Kentucky. As indicating his character and the principles which governed him, we transcribe the following rules which he adopted soon after his marriage, when quite young, and to which he adhered throughout life: "First. Read the Scriptures and worship God in the family. Second. Use regular industry and prudent economy. Third. Never deal in credit or go in debt, except through unavoidable necessity. Fourth. Make expenses less than your regular profits. Fifth. Keep a regular book both of profits and expenses." Reverend Boulware was not a voluminous writer, but he published an autobiography, two or three volumes on doctrinal subjects, and a considerable number of sermons. Stephen G. Boulware grew to manhood on his father's farm, married, and reared a large family. His son, Dr. Theodrick C. Boulware, was reared at the old homestead and began his education in the common schools of the neighborhood. After completing his preparatory course, Dr. Boulware entered Westminster College, a Presbyterian institution at Fulton, where he pursued the scientific course. Upon leaving this school, he became a student in the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1868. In the same year, he located for practice in Walnut township, Bates county, but one year later moved to Butler, becoming one of the pioneers of that city, where he has remained ever since. At the time he located at Butler, there were but eight or ten small houses in the town. Deer and other game were abundant in the neighborhood and he could ride a distance of ten miles on the prairie without seeing a single house, for, by Order Number 11, issued by General Ewing on August 21, 1863, all houses in the surrounding country has been burned for the purpose of depriving the Confederate forces places of refuge. The court house of Bates county was a small frame building and the town had no railroad facilities. At that time, Butler was the principal station on the stage route between Pleasant Hill and Fort Scott, this route have been established in 1865. No roads had been laid out and no bridges spanned any of the streams in this vicinity. Horses were not thought to be capable of breaking sod on the raw prairie and oxen were employed in the work. The doctor relates that he has seen as many as one thousand prairie chickens at one time, while herds containing a dozen or fifteen deer were not uncommon. In the fall of 1874, he witnessed the memorable plague of grasshoppers. In the middle of the day, the hoppers began to descend like snowflakes, literally covering the ground. Everything growing, in the line of vegetation, was completely destroyed in a few hours. Even the bark of trees was eaten. The insects deposited billions of eggs in the ground and, with the amount of warm weather in 1875, the new generation created even greater havoc than the original pests. So general and complete was the devastation resulting from their ravages, that the inhabitants of western Missouri were compelled to apply to the outside world for food to keep them from starvation. Even the common weeds were destroyed. But the marvelous part of the story is that the destructive visit of these pests was followed by the greatest yield of farm products that this section of the country has ever known. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Doctor Boulware, then a lad of sixteen and a student in Westminster College, was seized with the martial fever, so common with boys at that time, and enlisted in the Confederate service. Though his expectations were that the demand for his services would cease at the end of two or three weeks, his services covered a period of four years, or until the close of the war. He at once became a member of the personal escort of Gen. Sterling Price, remaining with that noted commander until the close of the conflict and witnessing all the campaigns in which he participated. He was never seriously injured, though he had more than one narrow escape from injury or capture. Dr. Boulware has always exhibited a deep interest in matters pertaining to the advancement of his profession. For many years, he has been a member of the American Medical Association, the Missouri State Medical Society, of which he has been vice-president, the International Association of Railway Surgeons, and the Hodgen Medical Society, of which he has served as president. During the second administration of President Cleveland, he was chairman of the local board of pension examiners, and for thirty years Dr. Boulware was the local surgeon for the Missouri Pacific Railway Company. Though a lifelong Democrat, Dr. Boulware has never sought or consented to fill public office. Fraternally, he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is one of the incorporators and still a director of the Missouri State Bank and he is identified with other interests calculated to promote the welfare of the city, of which he has been a prominent and influential citizen for nearly fifty years. Dr. Boulware's first marriage occurred June 21, 1877. He was married to Nettie Humphrey, a native of Iowa and a daughter of A. H. Humphrey, who was for many years a resident of Bates county, Missouri. Dr. and Mrs. Boulware had one child, who died in infancy, and Mrs. Boulware died in 1882. October 25, 1887, Doctor Boulware married Miss Dixie Ostrom, of St. Louis, Missouri. She was formerly a resident of Butler. She died April 26, 1896, leaving one son, John B., now a citizen of Butler. Doctor Boulware is a man of the highest moral character, and his professional career has been without spot or blemish. Of great liberality of heart, deeply interested in all matters pertaining to the well being of the community in which he has resided so long, he has assisted in the promotion of numerous measures calculated to advance the material welfare of Butler. His record is that of a liberal, broad-minded, upright, and useful member of society. Doctor Boulware has been practicing medicine longer than any doctor in the county and he is still an active practitioner, thoroughly alive to the new things that come up in the medical profession. The long experience under the trying conditions of the early days has given him a fund of anecdotes, which, when related by him in his inimitable, humorous art, delight his hearers. At the meetings of the medical associations in the state, a talk from Doctor Boulware will receive the closest attention and the point he desires to make is so well placed, with his original humor interspersed, that the audience never fails to get the full benefit of the lesson he intends to convey. Doctor Boulware states that a Mr. McFarland, a pioneer of the early seventies, was the first man to introduce barbed-wire fencing in this vicinity. He fenced his farm with wire and one night a party of men, residing in the neighborhood, destroyed the fence, claiming that it was dangerous to stock. In time, this prejudice was overcome and a few years later all the farms in the county had more or less wire fencing on them. Farm land in 1869 sold here for from two to four dollars an acre and when land rose in value to six dollars an acre there were many who thought it too high and the same land today is worth more than a hundred dollars an acre. Doctor Boulware says that if steamboats then had been selling for five dollars, he couldn't have bought a skiff. In the early days in Bates county, in the days when the rivers and streams were unbridged and at times of high water were practically impassable, Dr. Boulware conceived the idea of building a vehicle which should be so high that any swollen creek or stream in the county might be forded in safety and comfort by the occupant. Accordingly, a buggy was specially made to order for the doctor, a buggy having unusually large, high wheels, high springs, and seat, the running gear costing one hundred ten dollars, and when complete two steps had to be added so that one could climb into it. Doctor Boulware then could travel on the worst roads and in the worst weather and no swollen stream might delay him on any journey for his horses would swim across and the doctor, "high and dry," would land in safety on the opposite bank. Doctor Boulware's buggy became as famous in its day as Doctor Holmes' "Wonderful One-Hoss Shay" and throughout the countryside was known as Doctor Boulware's "Two-Story Buggy."

BOWDEN, John H.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Spruce Township, Bates Co, MO
JOHN H. BOWDEN is among the prominent farmers and stock men of Bates County. He is a native of North Carolina, and was born in Caswell County, February 22, 1830. Benjamin Bowden, his father, was a native of North Carolina, where he grew to manhood and married Miss Anna Combs, also of that state. John H. moved with his father to Missouri in the spring of 1843, and located in Callaway County. He spent his early days on a farm, obtaining his education principally through his own efforts. In the spring of 1850, in company with Captain McCulloch and others, he made the trip overland to California, where they arrived in July. After passing about two years in the gold mines prospecting and mining, he returned to Missouri in the fall of 1852. Mr. Bowden was married in Callaway County, October 11, 1854, to Miss Emarine Wayne, a daughter of John W. Wayne. She is a native of Callaway County, where she was raised and educated. Directly after this event he came to Bates County, purchased land and improved his present farm. He has 700 acres, 400 acres in his home place, all fenced and improved, upon which is a fair house and barn and a good orchard, with 300 apple trees and an abundance of peach, etc. He resides on section 24, and is quite extensively engaged in feeding and handling stock. Mr. and Mrs. Bowden have seven children: Margara R., a teacher in the Butler school; Georgia Ann (now Mrs. William Herrel); Elizabeth W. (now Mrs. John Allison); Susie E., Ella, Charles P. and Emma J. Mr. B. is a member of the M. E. Church and his wife of the Christian Church.

BOWDEN, William A.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Spruce Township, Bates Co, MO
WILLIAM A. BOWDEN, farmer and stock dealer, section 23, was born in Caswell County, North Carolina, June 21, 1828, and was the son of Benjamin and Anna (Combs) Bowden, both natives of North Carolina. William A. moved to Missouri with his parents in 1843, and located in Callaway County. His youth was passed on the farm, and he was educated in the public schools. He was married in Callaway County, May 11, 1853, to Miss Mary A. Chaney, a daughter of John L. Chaney, and who was born in Tennessee. After his marriage he was engaged in wagon making and carpentering in Fulton, Bloomfield and Jefferson City; coming thence to Bates County in the spring of 1868, when he located on land which he had previously bought, in the southern part of the county, and what is now Rockville Township. Here he improved a farm and lived upon it for ten years. In the spring of 1878 he settled on his present farm in Spruce Township. He has 110 acres nearly all fenced, with a fine large house and a good orchard. Mr. Bowden is a supporter of the principles of the Democratic party and has been selected by his party and elected to several positions of honor. He filled the office of assessor of Rockville Township two terms in succession, and also the office of township trustee and treasurer. He was elected justice of the peace of Spruce Township in 1881, and now holds this position. He takes great interest in educational matters, and has held the office of director of his school district for three years. Mr. B. and his wife have four children: James W., now in New Mexico, Walter S., now in Butler, Missouri, in the drug business, Laura Belle and John L. They are members of the Baptist church.

BOWMAN, Charles R.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
CHARLES R. BOWMAN, a member of the Bowman & Company Real Estate firm of Butler, Missouri, is one of Bates county's most enterprising citizens. Mr. Bowman is a native of Ohio. He was born January 22, 1873 in Pickaway county, the youngest of ten children born to his parents, Conrad and Ruth (Ritter) Bowman. The father, Conrad Bowman, was born in Germany and at the age of nine years emigrated from the fatherland with his parents and came to America. The Bowman's first located in Virginia and thence Conrad Bowman later went to Pickaway county, Ohio. Ruth (Ritter) Bowman was a native of Winchester, Virginia. The children born to Conrad and Ruth Bowman were, as follow: James, Williamsport, Ohio; John, Mount Sterling, Ohio; David, Pendleton, Oregon; Rachel, the wife of William Hulett, New Holland, Ohio; George, Mount Sterling, Ohio; Frank, Hillsboro, Ohio; Elizabeth, the wife of Caleb Taylor, Mount Sterling, Ohio; Matthias, Mount Sterling, Ohio; Thomas, Cathlamet, Washington; and Charles R., the subject of this review. The mother died in Ohio in 1884 and interment was made in the cemetery at Hebron church. Eleven years after the death of his wife, Conrad Bowman left Ohio and came West, locating on a farm two miles east of Amoret in Bates county, Missouri in 1895. He resided on his Missouri farm for five or six years and then returned to the old home in Ohio, where he died in April, 1916. His remains were laid beside his wife's in the cemetery at Hebron church. Charles R. Bowman obtained his education in the public schools of Ohio. When a young man, twenty-four years of age, Mr. Bowman came to Missouri from Ohio and settled in Bates county. He first engaged in farming, in 1897, and for fourteen years followed agricultural pursuits near Amoret. In recent years, he has been interested in the real estate business, in which he was engaged for five years at Amoret. In April, 1914, Mr. Bowman moved to Butler and opened his present office in the American building on the north side of the public square. Charles R. Bowman is a gentleman, a man of pleasing personality and courteous manners, and a "hustler." During the dull season of 1916, he sold forty-three Bates county farms and at the time of this writing, in 1917, he has this year sold thirty-three country places. Mr. Bowman is intensely interested in his work and firmly believes that Bates county farms, at the present prices, comprise the cheapest yet most valuable body of land on this earth today. He handles only Bates county real estate, both farm and city property, but puts his trusts and hopes in farm land. In 1899, Charles R. Bowman was united in marriage with Anna Payne, daughter of William and Harriet Payne, at Butler, Missouri. William Payne is now deceased and his widow resides on a farm near Amoret. To Mr. and Mrs. Bowman have been born four children: Mona, who is at present a student in the Butler High School; Pearl, who is a student in the Butler High School; Clyde and Pierce, who are pupils in the graded schools of Butler. The Bowman home is in Butler on North Fulton street. Though Mr. and Mrs. Bowman have been residents of Butler but a very short time, they have made a vast number of friends in this city and have an enviable standing in the city's best social circles. Mr. Bowman is well known in Bates county as a substantial citizen. He is a man of liberal views and a worker, a member of the large and valuable class who, by deeds rather than words, do so much to build up the country and promote its material and moral interest.

BOYD, John F.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Mt. Pleasant Township, Bates Co, MO
JOHN F. BOYD is of the firm of Wyatt & Boyd, a lumber establishment of eight years standing, they having a yard at Butler, Appleton City and Rich Hill. They started the first lumber business in Rich Hill when the city was in its infancy. At each of the points named they have an extensive stock connected with their line of trade, and are having an immense patronage in Bates, St. Clair, Hickory and Cedar Counties. They also have at Butler one of the finest planing mills in Southwest Missouri. John F. Boyd, a son of John D. and Carrie Boyd, natives of Harrison County, Ohio, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, May 10, 1846. In 1856 his parents moved to McLean County, Illinois, where he grew to manhood. He was educated in the common schools of the vicinity where he resided, engaging in farming till 1864, when he accepted a position as clerk in the mercantile business at Centralia, Illinois. This he continued till 1870, when he came to Butler, where he was interested in different branches of business till he embarked in his present occupation. Mr. Boyd was married November 13, 1872, to Miss Mary Cullar, a native of Virginia. They have three children: Cora C, Eddie E. and Lee S.

BOYER, Joseph A.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - West Point Township, Bates Co, MO
JOSEPH A. BOYER was born in Centre County, Pennsylvania, September 13, 1830. His father, John Boyer, and also his mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Krouse, were natives of Pennsylvania. Joseph is the second of seven children, all of whom are living, four in Illinois, one in Iowa and one in Colorado. In 1847 he moved to Kendall County, Illinois, where he learned the carpenter trade, at which he worked for ten years. In 1859 he came to Bates County, and on September 18 of that year married Miss Almira Wolley, daughter of Elizabeth Wolley. In 1861 he went to Kansas, where he served at different times in the Home Guards. In 1865 he returned to Bates and secured the tract of land upon which he now lives. He has a farm of 420 acres near the village of West Point. Mr. and Mrs. Boyer have six children: Elizabeth Alice, who was married October 4, 1882, to Edwin Cryder, of Grundy County, Illinois; Rachael Ann, John Lincoln, Jennie Ettie, George W. and Frank Gideon.

BOYTS, J. P.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Walnut Township, Bates Co, MO
J. P. BOYTS, farmer, section 30, is a native of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, was born May 6, 1846, and is a son of Philip and Mary (Gindlesperge) Boyts, who also came originally from Pennsylvania. The former, who was born in April, 1823, died in March 1880. He was early taught the blacksmith trade, which he followed in the state of his birth, where also he married the mother of the subject of this sketch, who was born in June 1823. She is still living. In 1867, Mr. Boyts removed to Bates County, Missouri, settling in Mount Pleasant Township, where he remained until 1880, then going to his present location. He now has a well improved farm, the results of his own industry. He was married, October 3, 1867, to Miss Caroline Lotterer, who was born in Michigan, April 25, 1850. Her parents were George and Harriet Lotterer nee Herrick. The former, born in 1809, came to America from England in 1829. The mother was born in New Jersey. They are now residents of Fort Scott, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. B. have four children living: Miles A., Ella N., Mary E. and Dennis E. Three are deceased: George, Charles, and Duly.

BRADEN, D. R.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Homer Township, Bates Co, MO
D. R. BRADEN was born in 1845 in Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, the native county of his father, William Braden, born in April, 1807, and who was married in Belmont County, Ohio, to Miss Anna Ritchey, who was born there in 1824. They were old pioneers of Bates County, Missouri, and the senior Braden was one of the leading men and among the most enterprising in the county up to the time of his demise, which occurred July 15, 1882. They had a family of seven children: David R., Mary A. (wife of Dr. Leech, of Chicago), Robert L., William F., James B., John P. and an infant. During the late war they were residents of Kansas. The subject of this sketch accompanied his parents to Missouri when fifteen years of age. On the breaking out of the civil war he was notified of having been enrolled in the Confederate Army, but this not being in accordance with his tastes, he enlisted in Company F, Ninth Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and served on the border. At the close of the war he returned to his old home and devoted his time to farming and stock raising, and has since remained here, with the exception of a few years, when he was occupied in the sheep trade in New Mexico. In connection with his brother, Robert L., he is now very extensively interested in wool growing, and they rank among the leaders of this enterprise in the county. Mr. D. R. Braden was married, October 25, 1877, to Miss Lizzie Leech, who was born, reared and educated in Harrison County, Ohio. She is the daughter of John and Esther Leech, of the same county. They have two children, Lenora M. and John H. They are members of the United Presbyterian Church. Robert L. Braden, brother of David R., was also born in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1855, but was principally reared in Missouri. He was married, in November, 1875, to Miss Lizzie Robison, a native of Wayne County, Ohio, born in September 1846, who, with her brother, came to Missouri in 1870. They have three children: Mary, Jennie and Robert M. They are also connected with the United Presbyterian Church.

BRADEN, David
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Homer Township, Bates Co, MO
DAVID BRADEN was born in Harrison County, Ohio, in February, 1809, and is a son of David and Margaret Frances Braden, the former of Pennsylvania, and the latter a native of Ireland. Young David was brought up within two and a half miles of the county seat of Harrison County, and upon leaving that vicinity went to McLean County, Illinois, in 1853, living there until 1868 when he came to Bates County, Missouri. In 1836 he was married to Miss Sidney Holliday, also originally from Harrison County, born in December 1810. They had four children: Margaret F. (the wife of Mr. Crawford), David T., Belle (the wife of Dr. Davidson, now a resident of Chicago), and Eliza J., who is deceased. David Braden and his wife are now residing on section 16 with their son, David T., who was also born in Harrison County, Ohio, April 19, 1844. His youth and early manhood were passed in Ohio, Illinois and Missouri. August 28, 1873, he married Miss Laura Crawford, a native of Greene County, Ohio, born in 1852. Her parents were Andrew and Mary Crawford and with them she moved to Warren County, Illinois, in 1854, and in 1856 to Washington County, Iowa. In 1870 she came to Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Braden have four children: Albert, Willie, James and Elmer. Both families are members of the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. B.'s farm contains 160 acres of fine land upon which is a large quantity of coal.

BRADLEY, James Newton
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Prairie Township, Bates Co, MO
JAMES NEWTON BRADLEY, farmer and stock dealer, section 3, was born in Scott County, Kentucky, June 12, 1828, his parents being Granville Clifford Scott and Maria (West) Bradley, both of whom were born in the year 1802, the latter in the state of Maryland. James N. spent his youthful days in Missouri, and was educated in the schools. of Callaway County. In 1866, he removed to Bates County, and since residing here has served two terms as representative in the state legislature, from 1872 to 1876, and one term as senator, 1878-82. The duties of each of these positions he discharged in a manner which won for him high praise from all parties. During the war Mr. B. served four years as a private under General Price, and upon leaving the army he was a major. He was married, in 1852, to Miss Martha A. Brenham, who died in 1856, leaving one son, Eugene. Mr. Bradley is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He has ever been a leading member of the Democratic party. His present fine farm contains 640 acres of choice land.

BRANNOCK, William H.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
WILLIAM H. BRANNOCK, one of the pioneers of Bates county, a successful farmer and stockman of Summit township, is widely known throughout the county as a breeder of high-grade Percherons. For more than fifty years, the Brannock name has been a familiar and highly respected one in Butler and Bates county for the Brannock's settled here in 1866, when this part of the state was still in its primitive condition, having but one highway across the prairie and abounding in wild deer and prairie chickens. Mr. Brannock is a native of Kentucky. He was born in Harrison county in 1841, a son of Darius and Catherine (Hall) Brannock, natives of Kentucky. Darius Brannock moved with his family from Kentucky to Indiana in 1848 and from Indiana to Missouri in 1866, settling on the farm now owned by William H. Brannock, a place comprising two hundred eighty acres of land formerly owned by Jeptha Hollingsworth, a wealthy slave owner of Bates county in the days before the Civil War. Mr. Brannock was a stonemason by trade and he followed his vocation previous to coming to Missouri and for several years afterward. He erected the Sheriff Atkinson building in Butler, a building which stood on the east side of the public square on the site of the one now occupied by the Levy Mercantile Company. He paid Mr. Hollingsworth ten dollars an acre for his farm and at the Brannock homestead, Darius Brannock departed this life a few years after he had come West. Mrs. Brannock survived her husband many years, when in 1903 they were united in death. Both father and mother were interred in Oak Hill cemetery. Robert Brannock and William H. Brannock are the sole surviving members of their father's family. William H. Brannock was reared and educated in Indiana. He attended school at Greencastle, Indiana, and remained with his parents and assisted with the farm work until after the death of his father, about 1873, when he took charge of the home place and continued to carry out his father's plans. A small house, of two rooms, was built in 1867 and later rebuilt and made larger. Mr. Brannock built a new residence in 1913, a comfortable, pleasant home of seven rooms, and a good barn. His farm comprises fifty-three acres of land located four miles southeast of Butler. He is an expert horseman and naturally so, for all the Brannock's as far back as they are known have been interested in fine horses. Mr. Brannock raises Percherons of high grade. In 1864, the marriage of William H. Brannock and Clara Nelson was solemnized. Mrs. Brannock is a daughter of William Nelson, a late resident of Greencastle, Indiana. To this union has been born one child, a daughter, Minnie, who is at home with her parents. Measured by the true standard of manhood, Mr. Brannock's life has been a decided success. He is an excellent agriculturist and breeder, industrious and enterprising and though not laboring on quite so extensive a scale as some of his neighbors, he has by capable management of his business affairs acquired a fair share of this world's goods. Personally, he is a very companionable gentleman, and a man of many friends.

BRICKER, C.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Mt. Pleasant Township, Bates Co, MO
C. BRICKER, proprietor of livery, feed and sale stable, was born in Knox County, Ohio, January 18, 1846. At the age of nine years he was taken by the family to Madison County, Ohio, where he was brought up and educated, following from boyhood his present business. In 1865, he removed to Champaign County, Illinois, where he resided for five years, then going to Vermillion County, of that state. After making his home in this vicinity for five years, he came to Butler, Missouri, in 1875, and engaged in the livery business for six months. He gave his attention to the same calling in Shell City, Missouri, until September, 1882, when he returned to Butler, purchasing the stable of T. Berryhill. He immediately opened his present barn, and now has a stock of seventeen excellent horses and eleven buggies, and is doing a good business. He was married, March 15, 1865, to Miss Cordelia Watson. They have four children, George, Alonzo, Leonard and Bert. In 1862, Mr. Bricker enlisted in Company C, 110th Ohio Regiment, serving three years. He was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness in the left shoulder and lower limb, and at Cold Harbor he was wounded in the right leg.

BRICKER, John N.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Deer Creek Township, Bates Co, MO
JOHN N. BRICKER, druggist at Adrian. The subject of this sketch was born in Henry County, Missouri, August 10, 1848, and was the son of William Bricker, a farmer and carpenter by calling, and Sarah (Ainsworth) Bricker, both of whom were natives of Tennessee. John grew up on his father's farm and was educated in the common schools of the county of his birth. In 1867 he engaged in the occupation of a miller, two miles west of Calhoun, which he continued seven years. In 1874 he removed to Bates County where he followed farming two years, after which he went to Crescent Hill and embarked in the drug trade. He remained in business there until 1880 when he came to Adrian. Mr. B. carries a large stock of drugs and enjoys a good patronage. In 1875 he was elected justice of the peace which office he has held until the present time. He is a member of Crescent Hill Lodge, No. 368, A.F. and A.M. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Whitley of Linn County, Missouri, September 25, 1868. They have lost one child, Sallie J., who was born May 30, 1872, and died July 19, 1875.

BRISCOE, Charles B.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
CHARLES B. BRISCOE, pioneer farmer of Walnut township, owner of a half section of fertile land southwest of the town of Foster, is a native of Cooper county, born August 22, 1847, and a son of Samuel L. and Alpha Ann (Corum) Briscoe, who are among the earliest of the pioneer settlers who settled and developed Cooper county, Missouri. There are three sets of farm improvements on the Briscoe farms, the land being divided into three tracts by the public highways. Mr. Briscoe is wintering at this writing, fifty-five head of cattle in one herd, thirty-four head in another and has a number of very fine Poland China hogs on the place. Samuel L. Briscoe, his father, was born March 2, 1817, in Madison county, Kentucky, a son of Andrew Briscoe, who had seven brothers, who when grown, dispersed in various directions, some settling in Ohio, others locating in Illinois, and others of the family in Indiana. Andrew himself settled in Kentucky, and in June, 1817, moved to Howard county, Missouri. The following year he settled in Cooper county, Missouri, entering there a large tract of 640 acres of free government land. The old Briscoe homestead where Charles B. Briscoe was born and reared, recently sold at a high price of $137.50 an acre -- so great has been the advance in value of Cooper county farm lands during the past century. Samuel L. Briscoe was reared to young manhood on the primitive farm in Cooper county and made his home there until 1877, when he came to Bates county and settled on a farm in Walnut township, south of Foster, dying here January 12, 1894. His children were as follow: Charles B., subject of this review; Susan T. Morris, born July 4, 1859, residing in El Dorado, Missouri; William T., born July 22, 1864, lives on a farm northwest of Foster; Andrew Logan, resides on the old home place of the family in Walnut township; Mrs. Mary Eugenie, born in 1850, wife of Lawrence Eads, living at Arrow Rock, Cooper county, Missouri. Mrs. Alpha Ann (Corum) Briscoe, mother of the foregoing children, was born in Cooper county, near Palestine, February 3, 1828, and died in Bates county, in December, 1909. She was a daughter of Hiram Corum, a native of Georgia, who settled near Old Palestine, Cooper county, as early as 1815. In the early pioneer days of the upbuilding of Cooper county, the schools were among the best in the country and, as a rule, were supported by private subscription on the part of the pioneers who were descended from some of the best families in the South. Well educated college men came from the East and the younger sons of the families received the benefit of learned instruction from them. Charles B. Briscoe attended school and received instruction in both common and higher branches from college men who came from the East and Kentucky. In his younger days Mr. Briscoe saw roving bands of Indians passing his home in Cooper county, and he remembers with glee that "Grandmother" Cole kept a pan of hot suds ready to pour upon prowling Indians who had a miserable and thieving habit of taking whatever they could lay their hands upon from the homes of the settlers. Mr. Briscoe came to Bates county in 1869 and during his first year's residence in this county he made his home on a place near the old village of New Home while looking after the erection of a shack on his eighty-acre tract in Walnut township which he had purchased in 1868 at a cost of five dollars an acre. He moved to his present place in 1870 and for the past forty-five years has been engaged in agricultural pursuits with considerable success. On December 3, 1871, he was married to Miss Lucinda C. Miller, born November 29, 1852, on a farm in New Home township, located near the village of New Home. She was a daughter of Oliver H. P. and Charlotte (Bryants) Miller, natives of Missouri and Kentucky, respectively. O. H. P. Miller was a soldier in the Confederate army and died in 1863 in Springfield prison, where he had been confined following his capture by the Federals during the Civil War. Mr. Miller was born in Miller county, Missouri, and came to Bates county when a young man. A brother of Mrs. Briscoe, Henry Clay Miller, was killed at the battle of Lone Jack, while serving with the Confederate forces. Other children of the family were: Rev. William B. Miller, New Home, Missouri; Mrs. Emily Jane Perry, deceased; Mrs. Prudence Elizabeth Woodfin, Walnut township; Mrs. Mahala Susan Comer, living near Nevada, Missouri; Mrs. Josephine Daniel, deceased; John, residing on the old home farm in New Home township; and Mrs. Martha Weadon, New Home township. To Charles B. and Lucinda C. Briscoe, have been born the following children: Alvin Jeter, lives in Florida; Charles Barton, born April 7, 1874, married October 30, 1895, to Nellie Leona Jones and has nine children, Charles Bryan, Fannie Helen, Glenn Francis, Ruby Grace, Mabel Leora, Edith Marie, Ernest Hiram, Pauline Mildred, Louis Edward; Samuel Perry Briscoe, born January 5, 1876, killed August 22, 1917, his remains being interred in Foster cemetery; Clara Gertrude, wife of Ed Shelton, Kansas City, born October 2, 1877, has five children -- Arthur Perry, Ernest, Luther, Lottie Marie, Charles James; Tattie Grace, wife of Rand Deaton, Foster, Missouri, born December 11, 1878, and has two children -- Lulu Belle and Harvey; Henry Clay Briscoe, born August 30, 1880, lives on a farm four miles northwest of Foster, married Belle Caton, and has two sons, Horace Lee, and Hubert; Margaret C. Briscoe died at the age of fifteen years; Robert Ewing Lee Briscoe, farmer, Walnut township, born March 22, 1885, married Theresa Lake and has three children, Velma Lucille, Frances Laverna, and Katherine Marie; Nora Belle, born March 28, 1888, married John Burns, and lives at Bisbee, Arizona; Frank Stanley Briscoe, born September 18, 1890, lives in New Home township, married Belle Halley. Mr. Briscoe is a member of the Baptist church and Mrs. Briscoe belongs to the Christian denomination. During his whole life since attaining voting age, Mr. Briscoe has been allied with the Democratic party and served for six years as assessor of Walnut township. He is widely and affectionately known throughout the countryside as Uncle Charley Briscoe and is highly esteemed as a good and industrious citizen of Bates county.

BRISCOE, William T.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
WILLIAM T. BRISCOE, proprietor of a fine farm of one hundred sixty acres in Walnut township, was born July 22, 1864, in Cooper county, Missouri, a son of Samuel Logan and Alpha Ann (Corum) Briscoe, early Missouri pioneers, a sketch of whom appears in this volume in connection with the biography of Charles B. Briscoe, brother of the subject of this review, who accompanied his parents to Bates county in 1877 at the age of thirteen years. Mr. Briscoe had little opportunity to attend school in Bates county. He assisted his father on the home place until 1886 and then began farming on his own account. He first rented part of the parental homestead and after his marriage in 1887 he moved to a farm south of Foster, where he resided for three years. In 1890 he moved to southern Missouri and purchased a farm near Mountain View and for thirteen years was engaged in producing fruit and raising livestock. He sold out there in 1904 and rented a farm located southwest of Foster near Independence church for two years. In 1906, he bought his present home farm and he and his family have since made their home thereon. Mr. Briscoe was married September 15, 1887, to Alice May Steele, born in Cooper county, Missouri, May 1, 1860, a daughter of James H. and Alice Maria (Bartlett) Steele, the former of whom was born in Cooper county, and the latter in Cooper county, Missouri also. James H. was a son of William Steele, a Missouri pioneer. Mrs. Alice Maria Steele died in Cooper county and her father removed to Bates county in 1881, dying here in August, 1895. Three of the children of William T. and Alice May Briscoe died in infancy. The others are: Alonzo Otis, born February 29, 1892, a graduate of the Normal School at Warrensburg, studied at Columbia University, Columbia, Missouri, and now filling the position of superintendent of the Orrick, Ray county, High School; Charles Logan, born April 9, 1894, and died September 24, 1894; Alpha Dale, born November 21, 1896, a teacher in the Foster public schools; Lottie Opal, born February 20, 1899, attending school at Orrick, Missouri; John Gabriel, born December 23, 1900, also attending school at Orrick. The Democratic party has always had the support of William T. Briscoe, but he has never at any time in his life, been a seeker after political honor. He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church and belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America lodge. The Briscoe homestead is an historic place from the standpoint of early associations and being one of the first farmsteads improved in Walnut township. The residence was formerly a stopping place on the old stage line which ran from Pleasant Hill, Missouri, to Fort Scott, Kansas, and the Marvel post office was conducted in the house for some time in the early days.

BRITTON, John R.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Osage Township, Bates Co, MO
JOHN R. BRITTON, also connected with the firm of Farmer, McGrew & Britton, came originally from Rappahannock County, Virginia, where he was born August 10, 1827. His parents were also natives of the same state, their names being John and Mary K. (Bragg) Britton. When John R. was thirteen years of age the family moved to Missouri and located in Lincoln County, where he grew to manhood, receiving his education in the common schools of Troy. In 1850 he went to California, and was engaged in mining for about eighteen months, after which he followed farming in Lincoln County, Missouri, till 1881. Then he came to Rich Hill, first forming a partnership with Dr. W. M. McGrew in the hardware business, which was afterwards changed to the present business. Mr. B. is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He has been twice married, first in February 1852, to Mrs. Eliza Hammond, of Princeton, Kentucky. Her maiden name was Goodlett. By this marriage he has one child, Mary E. (now the wife of Dr. W. M. McGrew). Mrs. Britton died November 26, 1857. Mrs. Sarah E. Foster, a sister of his former wife, became his second wife. May 2, 1867. She died July 14, 1872.

BRIXNER, Adam
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Summit Township, Bates Co, MO
ADAM BRIXNER, section 20, is a native of Germany and was born in Wurtemberg January 30, 1826. His father, J. Brixner, and also his mother, whose maiden name was Catherine Mickels, were both born in Wurtemberg. The youth of Adam, from six to fourteen years, was spent in school, where he received a good common education. From the time he was fourteen until twenty-three he was engaged on a farm. In the spring of 1849 he emigrated to the United States, landing at New Orleans in April of that year with his brother and his wife. He then went to Cincinnati, and afterwards located at New Richmond, Ohio, where he learned the cooper's trade, working at the business for two years. Mr. B. was married at New Richmond, May 6, 1851, to Miss Caroline Beiswinger, also a native of Germany. In the fall of 1852 he moved to Aurora, Indiana, where he worked at coopering for four years. Going from there to Patriot, Indiana, in 1856, he carried on a large cooper shop and employed from twenty-five to thirty men. After four years there, in the winter of 1860, he sold out and returned to Aurora, and was occupied in the grocery and whisky rectifying business, which he continued two years. In the winter of 1862 he went to Lawrenceburg, bought a brewery and operated it four years. In the spring of 1866 he disposed of his Indiana property and moved to Missouri and settled in Bates County, where he bought land and improved his present farm. He has 240 acres of land, with 200 under fence and 180 in cultivation. His orchard contains 300 apple, 150 peach trees and some other fruits. Mr. and Mrs. Brixner have a family of eight children: Amelia, Henry, Rosie, Carrie, Ada, Adam, Adolphus and R. Hayes. Mr. B. is a member of the Odd Fellows' order.

BROADDUS, Thomas M.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Shawnee Township, Bates Co, MO
THOMAS M. BROADDUS, teacher and farmer, was born in Madison County, Kentucky, May 21, 1848, and is the son of George W. Broaddus, one of the early Baptist ministers of that portion of Kentucky, who married Elvira Hocker, a descendant of a Maryland family, but born in Madison County, Kentucky. They were the parents of nine children, of whom Thomas is the youngest; six of the entire number are living, all in Madison County, but himself and one sister, Mary A. (the wife of L. C. Haggard). Young Broaddus received a good education, having attended the Georgetown College for some time, but not long enough to entitle him to graduation. After leaving school he entered a store and for four years was engaged in selling goods. In 1870 he embarked in merchandising at Rob Roy, Arkansas, where he continued for three years, then coming to Missouri. He followed the calling of teacher in the public schools of Bates County for two years. June 15, 1875, he was married to Miss Alice R. De Jarnett, daughter of Richard J. De Jarnett. Since that time he has been farming and occasionally teaching school. He has four children: Nicholas C, Richard D., Harriet E. and Claude. Mr. Broaddus is a Democrat in politics, and holds advanced views in regard to prohibition and compulsory education.

BRODIE, John
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Osage Township, Bates Co, MO
JOHN BRODIE, of the firm of Brodie & Ditten, house, carriage and ornamental painters, was born in Scotland, in 1837. He was early apprenticed to learn the painters trade, for seven years, and became proficient in the business in all its branches. In 1857 he emigrated to this country and settled in St. Louis. He returned to Scotland three times, and after coming to America in 1859 he worked in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and Boston. In May 1881, he removed to Missouri and started a shop in Rich Hill, where he is doing the leading business in his line in the town. In 1861 he entered the Fourth Missouri Cavalry, and remained in service for three years, two years of his time he was detailed at headquarters as clerk. Mr. Brodie was married in Chicago, in 1864, to Miss Isabella Tate. She was born in Inverness, Capitol Highland, of Scotland. They have three children: Norval Grant, Nellie, and Marshall. He is a Republican, politically, and an honored member of the Knights of Honor.

BROOKS, I. W.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Pleasant Gap Township, Bates Co, MO
I. W. BROOKS, merchant and stock dealer, and of the firm of Brooks & Mains, Pleasant Gap, was born in Branch County, Michigan, July 3, 1840. His father, Samuel Brooks, was a native of Connecticut, while his mother, whose maiden name was Effie Coolly, came originally from Canada. I. W. grew to manhood in his native county and was educated in the common schools and the Coldwater High School. In August 1861, he enlisted in Company B., Forty-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, known as the Northwestern Rifle Regiment and served until September 1864, when he was discharged. He participated in the battles of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, Perryville, Kentucky, and Stone River, Tennessee, where he was wounded through the wrist by a gunshot wound and was in the hospital some eight months. Upon reporting for duty he was acting adjutant at the exchange barracks at Louisville, Kentucky. After his discharge at Springfield, Illinois, Mr. Brooks went to Nashville and was engaged in the grocery and produce business for about eighteen months. He returned to Coldwater, Michigan, in 1866, and was occupied in farming there for about four years. In the fall of 1869 he came to Missouri, located at Pleasant Gap, in Bates County, and embarked in the mercantile business and has since contunued it at this point. The present partnership of Brooks & Mains was formed in 1871. Mr, B. was married in April 1867, to Miss M. A. Tallmage, a daughter of Lewis and Elizabeth Tallmage, of Branch County, Michigan. She was a native of New York and was born in Saratoga, but moved west with her parents and was educated in Branch County. She died August 28, 1877. There are three children by this marriage: Lizzie M., born May 2, 1871; Jay N., born July 27, 1873; and Minnie, born October 4, 1875. Mr. Brooks was married to Miss Kate M. Boyd in May 1882. She is a daughter of J. D. Boyd and was born in Ohio. Mr. B. is identified with the Republican party and shortly after he settled here he was elected a justice of the peace of Pleasant Gap Township and has held numerous other positions of honor. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

BROOKS, Jesse L.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
JESSE L. BROOKS, wide-awake and progressive farmer of Pleasant Gap township, is a native of Michigan, having been born in that state in 1876. He is the son of Samuel Jay Brooks, who was also born in Michigan, November 30, 1845. He disposed of his farm holdings in Branch county, Michigan in 1883 and came to Bates county, Missouri, his first purchase of land being a tract of one hundred acres formerly owned by David Walker and located three-fourths of a mile north of the village of Pleasant Gap. The improvements on the place at the time of the purchase were a small house and poor outbuildings. Mr. Brooks erected a barn, dug a cellar, and built a hay-shed and added to his possessions until he became owner of two hundred forty-five acres. He died December 8, 1893. His wife was Amanda Evelyn Sweezey prior to her marriage. She was a native of New York, and now makes her home in California. The children of Samuel Jay and Amanda E. Brooks are: Jesse L., subject of this review; Fannie Effie, wife of Perry Rogers, Porterville, California. After attending the common schools, Jesse L. Brooks studied for one year at Butler Academy. He then returned to the farm in Pleasant Gap township and worked with his father until his death. Mr. Brooks has added twenty acres to the original Brooks home farm and now owns two hundred sixty-five acres in one connected body -- splendid farm land -- all of which is in extensive cultivation and producing good crops excepting seventy acres of timber and pasture. Mr. Brooks has erected a fine barn 20 x 32 feet in dimensions. His barn number two is larger and measures 45 x 60 feet in size. He has also erected a silo, 12 x 36 feet, and has a smaller barn for hay and fodder. At the present writing (January, 1918) Mr. Brooks has twenty head of cattle, thirty head of fine hogs, and ten horses and mules -- all good stock. On January 31, 1903, Jesse L. Brooks and Mary Alice Swezy, of Pleasant Gap township, were united in marriage. Mrs. Brooks is a daughter of David B. and Ida (Brandenburg) Swezy, well-known residents of Pleasant Gap township, the former of whom died on November 5, 1916, and the latter is still living on the farm three miles south of Pleasant Gap. The Swezys came to Missouri in 1871 and located in Bates county in 1873. The remains of Mr. Swezy are buried at Round Prairie cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks have two children: Ida Evelyn, and Mary Arleen. The Brooks home is a very pleasant one and Mr. and Mrs. Brooks take an active part in social affairs in their neighborhood. Mr. Brooks is a member of the Pleasant Gap Booster Club, which is working for the establishment of a community house at Pleasant Gap, an undertaking which is worthy of success and will prove of great benefit to the people of this vicinity in many ways.

BROOKS, V. W.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Osage Township, Bates Co, MO
V. W. BROOKS, dealer in hardware, stoves and tinware, is a son of W. T. and Elizabeth Brooks, natives of Kentucky, and was born in Clay County, Missouri, January 3, 1860. He received his education in his native county, and in 1874 went to Humboldt County, Kansas, from which vicinity he came to Rich Hill in March 1881. He began in business in June 1882, and is now occupying a store on Park Avenue on the east side of the railroad, where he is meeting with good success. Mr. B. was married, February 7, 1882, to Miss Emelia Sick of Ottawa, Kansas.

BROWN, David V.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Mt. Pleasant Township, Bates Co, MO
JUDGE DAVID V. BROWN. The subject of this sketch, a native of Fairfield County, Ohio, was born December 16, 1855, and was the son of William Brown, originally from Ohio, who married Miss Rebecca Wyle of the same state. They had a family of eleven children, of whom David was the eldest. He passed his youthful days in tilling the soil of his birthplace, and for some time attended school, where he received a common English education. In 1864 he removed to Shelby County, Illinois, and it was while residing here that he was township clerk of Holland Township from 1866 to 1868. For the succeeding two years he was a member of the county board of supervisors from that township, and in 1871, he was appointed deputy sheriff of the county. In the spring of 1872, Mr. Brown came to Bates County, Missouri, and continued to farm and teach school until 1880, when the people of the county, recognizing his peculiar fitness for the position, elected him probate judge of Bates. The judge was married on the 27th of March 1862, to Miss Olive Wilson, who was born in Ohio. They have five children living: Penelope B., Cosbi I., William W., Clara N., and Ollie A. They hold their membership in the United Brethren Church.

BROWN, Edwin Howard
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Osage Township, Bates Co, MO
EDWIN HOWARD BROWN. One of the ablest representatives of western enterprise and western successes that Missouri boasts of, is to be found in the person of Edwin Howard Brown, whose name stands at the head of this sketch. Of New England origin, he was transplanted to the west in early youth, when he commenced life with rare self-reliance and a noble ambition, that have been fruitful of good to those with whom his lot was cast, and that have in their development honored him with a place among his fellows worthy of the best intellect and the best directed endeavors. His education and his training have been so distinctively such as belong to the west, that that expansive section may claim the credit of infusing into him the spirit for great enterprises and then furnishing the opportunities for their consummation. He has shown, also, a wise foresight of the drift of events around him, and has been enabled by his rare directing power and ability to perform combinations of men; to make realities and successes of the splendid schemes which he has matured. Edwin H. Brown was born in the state of Maine, August 22, 1833. His father was engaged in mechanical pursuits, and was a prosperous man in his section. The boy enjoyed good educational advantages at home and at school until he reached the age of twelve years. Even at that early and formative age, his mind had laid hold upon the possibilities of the undeveloped west, and he was filled with a desire to make it his home. This wish was gratified, and in the family of a gentleman named Baldwin, at Hudson, Ohio, he spent two years, attending school in winter and working in summer. From Ohio, he removed to Adrian, Michigan, where he enjoyed the advantage of four years' attendance at one of the best schools of the country, paying for the same with his own labor. After leaving school, he spent four years more in Adrian, where, by his industry and economy, he saved a little money, and was then attracted to Des Moines, Iowa, where the fever of land speculation was then reaching its height. Entering into this employment, requiring so much of steadiness and judgment to make it successful, Des Moines became his residence from 1856 to 1858. Later, although that city was his nominal home, his chief labors and activities were carried on elsewhere, and it was not until ten years later that he became a citizen of Missouri, and a worker, and an able one, with the people. At Des Moines, too, in 1867, he was married to Miss Eleanor E. Ayers, an accomplished and superior lady, who has helped him in the achievement of his later successes, and by whom he has five children now living. The excitement which follows the discovery of gold always tempts from older settlements some among the hardiest and boldest of its population, and, in this instance, led Mr. Brown to set out with an expedition to Pike's Peak. Reaching the land of such magnificent promise, he engaged in mining, and met with a fair share of success. He also gained what was more valuable -- a fine and vigorous physique -- an acquaintance with the products and resources of the western plains, and an intimate knowledge as to what was required in conducting industrial exercises in that section. He also learned the command of men in a society in which public opinion was law of itself, and laid a foundation for the conduct of those broader operations in which he was soon to take the place of a leader. The building of the Union Pacific Railway offered an opportunity which he was quick to take advantage of, and in 1864 he became a contractor upon that great national thoroughfare. Viewed in the light of a preparatory labor, his previous four years spent in the far west was a splendid investment. He worked upon almost the entire line from Omaha to Cheyenne, and even beyond; approved himself as one of the best railroad constructors, and amassed a fortune in his work. Upon the completion of that trans-continental highway, in 1868, he removed with his family from Des Moines to Carthage, Missouri, where he identified himself with a section rich in resources, and much in need of developing industry and enterprise. His practical railway experience, and the knowledge he had gained of the stimulating effects of the iron way, led him to project the Memphis, Carthage and Northwestern Railway and secure a charter for building it; the charter secured, he proceeded at once to build and secure unity of sentiment and action among the people who were to be benefited. Subscriptions were freely made by counties, corporations and individuals when the financial revulsion of 1873 came, and with it a wide-spread distrust in the profitable future of western railways. The obstacles which Mr. Brown then encountered were serious, but he pushed the enterprise steadily on until, in 1875, the St. Louis and San Francisco road purchased the line and changed its name to the Missouri and Western Railway. Under the management of that great corporation, new life and energy was given to construction, and its extension westward to Wichita, Kansas, made it a portion of the main line of that continental thoroughfare. Meantime the mining interests of Joplin had grown into importance and required railway facilities, and Mr. Brown having closed his connection with the Memphis, Carthage & Northwestern Railway in 1876, proceeded to map out a line from Joplin to Girard, forty miles, and thence connecting with the coal fields of Southern Kansas. For this road also he procured a charter and organized a company, which continued operations for three years, when it was seen to be so clearly a necessary part of the system of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway, that the latter corporation effected its purchase. He secured the organization of a company of which he was president, for the building of the Lexington & Southern Railway, the charter line extending from Pleasant Hill, in Cass County, to the Arkansas line. This road secured the co-operation of Mr. Gould in its construction, and is now being operated in harmony with the Gould interests. An important feature attending it was the establishing of coal mining interests in Bates County. Mr. Brown organized this company in anticipation of the building of the railway, and became its president. The first car load of coal mined and shipped passed over the road on the 21st of October 1880. The coal is the finest quality of bituminous coal mined in the Mississippi Valley. These rich coal fields, through the enterprise of Colonel Brown, have been converted into stores of wealth to himself and his associates. In 1881, he inaugurated a minor railway scheme, which is now a feeder of the Missouri Pacific Railway. This is a road from Carthage to Joplin, called the Carthage, Joplin & Short Creek Railroad. Mr. Brown assumed the presidency of this organization. The town of Rich Hill, fostered by a town company of which he is president, has grown up with a population of 5,000 inhabitants. The new life and substantial basis for prosperity that have created a city of such remarkable promise, prove the potency of railway facilities in attaining wealth. Of the men who have brought great good to the west, and substantial growth to Missouri, Edwin H. Brown holds a foremost and honored position. Through his efforts and his genius for combination. Southwestern Missouri now has a network of railways that has brought that portion of the state into such prominence that under less favorable circumstances would have taken generations to accomplish. A man of broad, original views, he wins his way among men by the strength and clearness of the propositions he lays down and the liberality and good nature with which he carries them into effect. Keenly in sympathy with the ambition and desires of those around him, his own high personal qualities make him a leader in their enterprises, and he carries these on to brilliant accomplishment, winning successes for himself and for his friends, by open and honorable methods, that secure the good will and hearty approbation of all who know him.

BROWN, Ira M.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
IRA M. BROWN, owner of the "Vivo Vista Stock Farm" in Hudson township, is a native-born resident of Bates county and a member of the splendid pioneer family whose members stand high in the citizenship of this county. He was born January 26, 1870, and is a son of William G. and Mary E. (Wells) Brown, old and highly respected residents of Hudson township, concerning whom an extended biography is given elsewhere in this volume. "Vivo Vista Stock Farm" is a splendid tract of three hundred and twenty acres of well tilled and highly productive land located eight and a half miles southwest of Appleton City, and exactly the same distance northwest of Rockville. This farm is well stocked with high-grade Shorthorn cattle, registered Duroc Jersey hogs, and some fine horses and mules. Mr. Brown is a large feeder of livestock and his farm is arranged for handling large numbers of cattle and hogs. The farm equipment includes in the way of buildings, a metal-covered cow barn, a large horse barn, and a commodious hog house. In addition, there is a silo 14 x 30 feet in dimensions with a four-foot concrete basement. Mr. Brown purchased the land in 1895 from Shelby Brown and placed all of the improvements thereon. He built his residence in 1896. There are two wells on the place, 87 and 120 feet in depth, respectively, which show traces of an oil deposit on the land. A vein of coal twenty-six inches in thickness underlies part of the land. Mrs. Brown is a well-known breeder of Barred Plymouth Rock poultry, as well as the purebred Buff Orpington breed -- a vocation which she has followed for the past twenty years with pronounced success. She is also a breeder and raiser of White China and Bourbon Red turkeys. She was one of the organizers of the National Bourbon Red Turkey Club and is now the secretary and treasurer of this organization, which has a membership covering many states of the Union. When the national exhibits are held her turkeys placed on exhibition invariably win premiums and ribbons. She carried away every premium offered at the World's Fair held at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1893. The National Club was organized in 1907. The following are the national officers: Mrs. G. W. Price, Belmont, Ohio, president; Mrs. Clyde H. Meyers, Fredonia, Kansas, vice-president; Mrs. Minnie M. Brown, secretary and treasurer. Ira M. Brown received his education in the public schools of his native county and the Appleton City Academy. In 1891 he went to Oklahoma and for a time following farming in that state. He also taught two terms of school during the winter of 1891 and 1892. In 1893 he became connected with the Overstreet Mercantile Company as bookkeeper and remained with this concern for some time. In 1895 he returned to Bates county and engaged permanently in farming and stock raising. Success has attended his efforts. Mr. Brown was married in 1892 to Miss Minnie Maud Browning, a daughter of F. P. and Louisa Browning, of Hudson township. Her father died in October, 1900, and her mother resides upon the Browning home farm in Hudson township. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have two children: George Francis Quincy Brown, and Trucy Warren Brown. Mr. Brown is president of the Bates County Mutual Fire and Lightning Insurance Company and served as director of this company prior to his election as president in 1913. He has been a member of the company since 1896 and it is one of the strongest insurance concerns in this section of Missouri. This company has nearly $2,000,000 worth of insurance policies in force. Gottlieb Hirshi is secretary and August Fischer is treasurer.

BROWN, J. O.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
J. O. BROWN, well-known citizen of Passaic, Mound township, was born in London, Madison county, Ohio, in 1849, and is a son of James P. and Mary A. (Black) Brown, the former a native of Hampshire county, Virginia, of English descent, and the latter a native of Pickaway county, Ohio. James P. Brown was a drover who was engaged in the arduous business of driving herds of cattle across the country from western Ohio to the Pittsburg and across the Alleghany Mountains to other Eastern markets for a number of years. When Bates county was largely in an unsettled state and the land was still owned to a considerable extent by the United States Government, he with three other men, came to this section and entered one and three-quarters sections of government land at a cost of one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre. Of this original tract, J. O. Brown, subject of this review, owns one hundred and seventy-six acres. James P. Brown never took up his residence in this county, but returned to Ohio and engaged in farming for the remainder of his days, dying at his home in Madison county, Ohio. He became identified with the Whig party when it was formed and when the Whigs were succeeded by the Republicans as a political organization, he espoused the principles of that party. The three children reared by James P. and Mary A. Brown are: J. O., subject of this sketch; Elizabeth, wife of Charles Frye, wealthy land owner of Circleville, Ohio; Annie, wife of David Campbell living at Dayton, Ohio. Another son, Charles Wesley, is deceased. The boyhood and school days of J. O. Brown were spent in his native county of Madison and Ross county, Ohio. He migrated to Bates county, Missouri, in 1877 and has since been engaged in farming operations. His first employer in this county was Levi Steele, and he later handled cattle in his brother's interest for some time. He was engaged in herding cattle on the plains for four years and was then engaged in pasturing cattle for fifteen years in all. Finally when the wire fence came into vogue, and the entire country was crossed and crisscrossed with fences of barbed or woven wire, thus cutting up all the free ranges which had marked the surface of Bates county for a long period of time, he fenced his land and then engaged in farming like other settlers. He has two hundred and sixty-three acres of very fine land in Mound township and makes his home in the pretty little village of Passaic. Mr. Brown is an excellent farmer and keeps only the best grades of livestock, his special fancy being Shorthorn cattle and Duroc Jersey hogs. Mr. Brown was married to Alice Troutman, of Ohio. They have three children, namely: James Arthur, a student in the Adrian High School; Gladys, also in high school; and Harry, who is attending the Passaic public school. Mr. Brown has always been a stanch Republican and is a member of Crescent Hill Lodge No. 1, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Butler. When Mr. Brown came to Bates county there was no railroad in the county and no Passaic. Butler was a little village consisting of a cluster of houses around the public square. There were no highways, and one followed the trails which crossed the open prairie and took the shortest route to any given destination. Wild animals, such as wolves and deer, were plentiful. Prairie chickens and wild turkeys were here in abundance. For fifteen years, Mr. Brown kept bachelor's hall and then decided that he needed a helpmeet. When he came to this county, he, like others, had little expectation of ever seeing the country so thickly populated as it is at this day, and had no idea that land values would climb as they have been doing of late years. He was content to herd his cattle upon the plains and did not undertake actual cultivation of his land until he saw that intensive farming was inevitable and that the old days of the free range were gone, never to return.

BROWN, John
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Hudson Township, Bates Co, MO
JOHN BROWN, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, June 4, 1833. His parents, John Brown, Sr., and Mary (Fanegan) Brown, were natives of the same state. The subject of this sketch moved with the family to Ohio in 1837 and settled in Hocking County, where they were among the early settlers. He spent his youth on a farm and in his father's mill, also attending the public schools. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted in the 122d Illinois Volunteer Infantry and served three years, having participated in several important engagements and numerous skirmishes, among which are the battles of Parker's Cross Roads, Tennessee; Tupelo, Mississippi, and Fort Blakely. Previous to the war he had, in 1854, moved to Illinois and located in Morgan County. After his discharge Mr. Brown returned to Illinois, and in the spring of 1866 came to Missouri and located in Bates County, where he bought land and improved the farm on which he now resides. He has 125 acres all fenced, mostly with hedge, and cross-fenced into forty-acre fields. This place is in cultivation, with a comfortable house, barn and outbuildings and a bearing orchard, located in section 21. Mr. B. was married in Cass County, October 14, 1866, to Miss Lizzie Seavers, of Morgan County, Illinois, and a daughter of Jeremiah and Nancy Seavers. She died October 17, 1880. Mr. Brown has a family of four children: Horace E., George L., Albert and L. N.

BROWN, John W.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Hudson Township, Bates Co, MO
JOHN W. BROWN, is a native of Maryland, and was born in December 1813. John Brown, his father, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1790, married Miss Nancy Bralsford, from the same state. John W. moved to Ohio with his parents in 1817, and located in Muskingum County, being among the first settlers there. He passed his youth on the farm and received a common school education, after which, in 1835, he went to Champaign County. On the 3d of November 1836, he was married to Miss Elizabeth White, a daughter of Samuel and Mercy White. She was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1820. After this event Mr. B. resided in Champaign County for about twenty years. He came to Missouri in February 1866, and first settled in Henry County, but in one year moved to Bates County, in 1867, where he bought land and improved his farm. He has 270 acres, 160 acres in his home place, all fenced and in fair cultivation, with a fine bearing orchard. This place is located in section 6. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have raised a family of eleven children. Amos A. and Samuel W. both died in the service of their country, in October 1862, The former was in the Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died in the hospital at Annapolis; Samuel W. a member of the Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, died in the hospital at Memphis. Three others are also deceased, Tamar, Joseph N, (who died in October 1867), and John H., an express messenger who was killed in a railroad accident in December 1880. Those living are Thomas J., Mary A. (now Mrs. M. R. McKinley), James T., Benjamin F., Caroline E. (now Mrs. Clark Wix), and Virena (now Mrs. G. W. Pharis). Mr. and Mrs. Brown are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

BROWN, Samuel T.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Elkhart Township, Bates Co, MO
SAMUEL T. BROWN was born in Madison County, Illinois, February 25, 1828, his parents being Thomas S. and Adelaide (Gillim) Brown. The former is a native of Illinois, his father having settled in that state in 1800. The mother was born in North Carolina. When our subject was but a few days old she died and he was put in care of his grandfather, with whom he lived in Scott County, Illinois, until the age of eighteen years. Then he began working for himself, first by the month and having acquired a fair education, mainly by home study, he commenced to teach school. At this he has occasionally been engaged ever since. In 1863 Mr. Brown bought a tract of forty acres of land in Piatt County, Illinois, and here improved his first farm. In 1868 he came to Bates County, Missouri, and secured his present home farm consisting of 120 acres in section 19. He has been married three times, his first wife being Miss Mary Ann Keller, to whom he was married in Scott County, Illinois, October 9, 1856. She died May 3, 1861, leaving one child, Eliza Adelaide, who died two years after. Mr. Brown's second marriage was on December 17, 1861, to Miss Margaret P. Conway. Her death occurred in Bates County April 8, 1872. She left three children; Orville T., Elva M. and Elbert D. He was married to Mrs. Mary E. Melsie, widow of James F. Melsie, April 3, 1873. She had one child by a former marriage, Luella J. Melsie. Mr. Brown is Republican in politics, and takes an advanced ground on subjects of education and temperance. He is a member of the M. E. Church.

BROWN, Sandford M.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Mt. Pleasant Township, Bates Co, MO
REV. SANFORD M. BROWN, pastor of the Baptist Church at Butler, was born in Yadkin County, North Carolina, July 12, 1856. His parents were Rev. W. G. and Priscilla (Eldridge) Brown, both of whom came originally from North Carolina. Sanford completed his education at the Sulphur Springs Academy, North Carolina, and at the same school he took a thorough course of study in theology preparatory to preaching. While there he commenced to preach and continued to do so through the course. In 1876 he accepted a call to the Baptist Church in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, where he remained for three years. He then resigned in order to travel with his brother, Rev. W. J. Brown, of the Baptist Church of Nevada, who resigned his charge on account of poor health. After traveling for about a year his brother returned to Nevada and died October 4, 1881. In March, 1881, the subject of this sketch accepted a call to the Baptist Church in Butler, where he has since been located. He found the church with eighty-seven members, and his zealous labors, with the hearty co-operation of the members, have been richly rewarded by an addition to the church of 143 members. The church is being revived and additions made from time to time under his able ministrations. He is a young man of much originality of thought and great earnestness in his pulpit exercises. His father has been pastor of the same Baptist Church for twenty-six years. He has raised ten children, four of whom have died and three of whom are Baptist preachers: Solomon D., William J. and Sanford M.

BROWN, Troy F.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
TROY F. BROWN, merchant, founder and proprietor of the Fair Oaks Mercantile Establishment, Hudson township, is a Bates county citizen to whom opportunity beckoned -- he heeded, and established a business where there was none before. Mr. Brown conceived the idea that a general store and trading establishment would do well in a certain location far from a town or village. In fact, he had a "hunch" that he could make good in the general mercantile field, and on May 1, 1917, he built his store and began business at a point in the heart of Round Prairie, eight and one-half miles southwest of Appleton City, and seven and a half miles northwest of Rockville, on section 21, just north of Round Prairie Baptist church. The store has made good and he is caring for a patronage that has ever been increasing. The store building is 20 x 40 feet in dimensions with a basement under the main floor and well stocked with a general line of goods. Mr. Brown purchased the produce of the surrounding farms at fair prices, hauls the produce to Appleton City by motor truck and on the return trip brings the commodities in demand for his patrons. His business is conducted systematically, the McCaskey System of accounting having been installed and the store is kept up to the minute in many particulars. Troy F. Brown, himself, was born in Hudson township, January 1, 1882, the son of W. G. and Mary E. Brown, an account of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. Mr. Brown was educated in the public schools of Appleton City and worked on the home farm after completing his schooling. He went to New Mexico in 1908 and remained in that state until 1911, at which time he returned home and engaged in the hardware and furniture business at Bolivar and Appleton City, Missouri, until establishing his own business in 1917. Mr. Brown is a born business man and enjoys his latest venture inasmuch as he is making a pronounced success of the enterprise. A look at Mr. Brown's latest calendar issued to his patrons will give a fair indication of his live-wire methods. He has adopted the following phrase as the slogan of his store: "If it comes from Fair Oaks, you will know it's good -- the Newest Town in Bates." The marriage of Troy F. Brown and Miss Bertha Hegnauer was solemnized in 1905. They have two children, namely: Ramona Arlene; and Wilma Elaine. Mrs. Bertha Brown is a daughter of Martin Hegnauer, of Rockville, Missouri, and was born in St. Louis, Missouri.

BROWN, William G.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
WILLIAM G. BROWN, Union veteran and pioneer settler of Hudson township, is a native of the old Buckeye state, who for over half a century has been engaged in farming and stock raising in Bates county, becoming widely and favorably known throughout his section of this county as a fine citizen and a successful tiller of the soil. Mr. Brown was born in Hocking county, Ohio, September 16, 1842. He is a son of John Brown, a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother was Mary Amelia Fanegan, a daughter of Alexander Fanegan, a native of Ireland. The Brown family of which William G. Brown is a worthy descendant is a good, old, American family whose members were of the fighting stock which have ever been ready to defend the liberties of their country. The grandfather of William G. Brown, was John Brown, a soldier of the War of 1812. The youth of William G. Brown was spent on the home farm in his native county, he attended the common schools, and upon the outbreak of the Civil War he was among the first to respond to President Lincoln's call for troops with which to quell the rebellion of the Southern states. In August, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Thirtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and served for three years and one month, being mustered out of the service at Jonesboro, Georgia, September 1, 1864. He took part in many hard-fought engagements and fought at the second battle of Bull Run. He participated with his command in the siege and capture of Vicksburg, battle of Antietam, South Mountain, Jackson, Mississippi, Missionary Ridge, and the many battles incident to the siege and capture of Atlanta, Georgia, and fought at Dallas, Georgia and at Kenesaw Mountain. He never received a wound and had good health all through his arduous war service. His first captain was named Warner. Like many other Union veterans who returned home after their war service and found all the good places and opportunities taken by the "stay-at-homes" and no place to go but to the far West, and being filled with the spirit of adventure and the restlessness peculiar to the returned soldier, he made up his mind to come to the West and make a start for fortune and a lifetime home. Accompanied by his brother, John, he left the old home in Ohio on January 3, 1866, and came to Bates county, driving overland, the trip requiring three months' time. They first located on land in Kansas, but finding that there seemed to be a cloud on the title they abandoned the idea of making a home in Kansas and retracing their steps, made a permanent location in Hudson township, this county. Mr. Brown bought eighty acres of the Meyers land for five dollars an acre. John Brown bought one hundred twenty acres for five dollars an acre. John prospered, reared a fine family and departed to his reward a few years ago, and is quietly sleeping the sleep of the just in the Baptist cemetery in Hudson township. His sons, L. V. and Albert Brown, own the old home place. William G. Brown has added to his acreage as the years have passed and now owns a total of 460 acres of splendid land, which is now being tilled by his children. Mr. Brown has followed general farming and stock raising and has fed hundreds and even thousands of cattle during his sojourn in this county. At the time he located in Bates county, he recalls that rattlesnakes were plentiful in the neighborhood and it behooved the settlers to be wary of the reptile when abroad. His first home was a little cabin 14 x 16 feet in size, and this cabin served as his home until he was able to erect a larger residence. He erected his present fine home of ten rooms in 1883. The old cabin is still standing and is now used for a tool house. Mr. Brown cut all of the logs used for lumber in its construction in 1868, did the hauling for one-half of the logs he cut, and then gave another half of his share for having them sawed ready for building. He thus gave two days' work for one on his own account. The Brown farm is well equipped with a large barn and other out buildings which are maintained in good condition. On December 20, 1868, Mr. Brown was united in marriage with Miss Mary Wells, who was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, May 15, 1852, a daughter of Henry M. and Lovicy Wells, who came to Missouri from Indiana and settled in Hudson township, Bates county. Mrs. Brown departed this life on January 26, 1899. She was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. The children of William G. and Mary Brown are as follow: Ira Merton, born January 26, 1870, farming in Hudson township; Mrs. Ora Elfie Page, born September 10, 1872, living in Hudson township; Garry Liston, died at the age of five years; Troy Foster, successful merchant at Fair Oaks, Hudson township; Harry Blaine, died in 1916, had married Nellie Seelinger; Mrs. Icie Lodema Robinson, widow of Millard Robinson, resides with her father and owns the home place. Mr. Brown's second marriage occurred October 10, 1912, to Mrs. Clementine Reat, widow of G. W. Reat. Mrs. Brown's maiden name was Clementine Thomas, a daughter of Joseph and Nancy (Rice) Thomas, of Hocking county, Ohio. In the days of long ago when they were children growing up amid the hills and valleys of their native county, Mr. and Mrs. Brown were schoolmates. Mrs. Brown has three sisters and two brothers living: Mrs. James Patterson, Macon, Illinois; Isaiah G. Thomas, Tarlton, Ohio; Otis W. Thomas, Circleville, Ohio; Mrs. J. H. Lutz, Circleville, Ohio; Mrs. Elizabeth Pitman, Amanda, Ohio. Mr. Brown is a member of Stedman Post, Grand Army of the Republic No. 172, Appleton City. In the eventide of his long, eventful, and energetic life, this aged veteran is living in peaceful and comfortable enjoyment of the fruits of his long years of labor. Well past the allotted three score and ten years which are the Scriptural span of life given to man, he is still active, mentally and physically, and has a zest for living equaled by but few men of his years. Mr. Brown and his family are among the best respected in Bates county and have many warm friends who wish them well and esteem them highly for their excellent qualities. Only recently, Mr. Brown divided his land among his children and gave each son and daughter a nice farm.

BROWN, William G.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Hudson Township, Bates Co, MO
WILLIAM G. BROWN, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Hocking County, Ohio, September 16, 1842. John Brown, his father, was a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother, whose maiden name was Mary Amelia Fanegan, was from the same state. William G. grew to manhood in his native county, his youth being spent on the farm. He attended the common schools for some time and in August 1861, enlisted in Company E, Thirtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served for three years. He participated in several important engagements and was in the second battle of Bull Run, siege of Vicksburg, battle of Antietam, South Mountain, Jackson, Mississippi, Mission Ridge, and all the fights of the Atlanta campaign. He was mustered out at Jonesboro, September 1, 1864. After being discharged he returned to his home in Ohio. In January 1866, Mr. Brown came west and located in Bates County, Missouri. He was married here December 20, 1868, to Miss Mary E. Wells, a daughter of Henry M. Wells of Bates County. She is a native of Indiana and was born, raised and educated in Jefferson County. Soon after Mr. B. settled on his present farm in section 21, where he has 210 acres of land with 200 under fence and forty acres in tame grass. The past season he had 100 acres in corn. There is a comfortable house on the farm and also out buildings, and a splendid orchard of about 200 apple and 120 peach trees, mostly fine budded. Mr. Brown is a progressive and thrifty farmer, one of the best in Hudson Township. He and his wife have three children: Ira Merton, born January 26, 1870; Ora Elfie, born September 10, 1872, and Troy F., born January 1, 1882. They have lost one child, Garrie L., who died in October 1880, aged five years. Mr. Brown is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry. His wife belongs to the Cumberland Presbyterian church.

BROWNING, Eli
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Shawnee Township, Bates Co, MO
ELI BROWNING, farmer and stock grower, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, May 22, 1830, and is the eldest of fourteen children. His parents were of Kentucky birth. His father was John M. S. Browning, and his mother's maiden name was Octavia Kennedy. Eli was reared on a farm and was educated in the common schools. He married a few months prior to his twenty-first birthday, on February 20, 1851, to Miss Amasetta Thompson, also a native of Kentucky. Soon after he began to conduct a farm, at which he continued three years, when he removed to Saline County, Missouri, where he continued his farming operations for nine years. Retracing his steps to the home of his youth he purchased a portion of his old home farm. Three years sufficed to satisfy him that Missouri presented superior advantages to the man striving to secure a suitable home, and accordingly he returned to his adopted state and located in Bates County, where he has since resided. His farm consists of 180 acres, of which 160 are in cultivation. Mr. Browning has held the office of justice of the peace in this county and also in Saline. He has had nine children, of whom two, Amelia and Frank, have died. The eldest, John A. is a traveling salesman for a medical house; Richard H. is occupied farming; Eli Jr., is traveling for Collins Bros., St. Louis; Mary B. is the wife of E. O. Haggard; Katie, William and Amanda.

BRUMBACH, J. J.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Deer Creek Township, Bates Co, MO
J. J. BRUMBACH, attorney at law, is a representative citizen of Adrian. He was born May 30, 1851, in LaSalle County, Illinois. His father, Joseph Brumbach was a farmer and mechanic by trade, and a native, of Virginia. His mother (formerly Comfort Springstead) came originally from New York. J. J. was the sixth child of ten children. He was reared on the home farm, attending the district schools until 1865, when he taught school one year. He then attended college for two years, and in 1868 graduated at the Detroit Commercial College. The same year he came to Bates County, Missouri, and taught school till August 1869, when he entered the law department of the state university, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating from there in 1872. Returning to Butler, he practiced law for five years. Since that time Mr. B. has been engaged in practicing law and teaching school in the northern part of the county. In 1880 he located in Adrian where he has since resided. He was elected justice of the peace in 1878, and held the office two years. He is now a notary public. He was deputy county surveyor in Illinois for some years, during vacation. On September 15, 1874, occurred his marriage to Miss Mattie E. Misley, a daughter of William H. Misley. She was born in the state of Illinois, September 15, 1855. They have one child living, William C, born December 12, 1876. Nettie L., who was born November 15, 1879, died December 23, 1879.

BRUNDIGE, George
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Deer Creek Township, Bates Co, MO
GEORGE BRUNDIGE, farmer and stock raiser, section 34, was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, October 19, 1842. John Brundige, his father, a native of Ohio, married Miss Mary Kirkwood, of Fairfield County, same state. George was the eldest of six children, two sons and four daughters. He remained on the home farm, receiving his education in the public schools, until sixteen years old, when his father removed to Illinois. He resided with his parents until the spring of 1861, then enlisting in Company C, Seventy-ninth Illinois Infantry. At the battle of Chickamauga he was wounded and was taken to the hospitals at Nashville, Louisville and Quincy. He was sergeant of the company for a time. After the war he returned to Illinois, where he remained until 1869, then coming to Bates County, Missouri. He soon engaged in farming, and now owns a farm containing 320 acres, all in cultivation and well improved. This place is near the town of Adrian, which makes it quite valuable. Mr. B, handles a quantity of stock. October 5, 1869, he married Miss Emma Rush, a native of Ohio. They have one son living, John. They lost one child, Aquilla.

BRYANT, Reuben
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - West Boone Township, Bates Co, MO
REUBEN BRYANT was born in Jackson County, Missouri, June 29, 1857. His parents, Isaac and Annie E. (Edmond) Bryant, settled in Missouri about 1850, having come from Kentucky, their native state. Reuben received a fair education in youth, and took a course in book-keeping at Spalding's Commercial College of Kansas City in 1875. In 1873 he, in partnership with his brother, James M. Bryant, began business at Brosley and continued here until 1879. He then spent three months with Christopher Bros, it Harrisonville, and in the latter part of 1879 he entered into business in Kansas. He sold out at the end of nine months and then traveled for Horner & Bond, of Kansas City, for six months, in Western Kansas. Not liking the commercial business, he entered the firm of Bryant Bros. & McDaniel at Freeman, and in September 1881, started the branch house at Rosier. Mr. Bryant is a man well liked in this community and is building up a good trade.

BUCHNER, Emil
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Mt. Pleasant Township, Bates Co, MO
EMIL BUCHNER, of the firm of Buchner & Joseph, manufacturers of cigars, was born in Alsace, Germany (formerly France), August 19, 1856. His father, George Buchner, came to this country, settling in Quincy, Illinois, about the year 1873. He is still located there, employed at the railroad shops, being a machinist by trade. His wife was formerly Miss Catharine Daul. They had four children, George Adolph, Mary, Leonie and Emil. The three former all grew up and died within three months of each other, with typhoid fever. The subject of this sketch received a good education in Germany, and when sixteen years of age he emigrated to America, locating in Quincy, Illinois. There he learned the cigar making business, at which he worked until the spring of 1882, when he established factory No. 33, Fifth District of Missouri, at Butler, where he is having a good trade. He earned the money himself with which to start in life, and by his straightforward conduct has gained an enviable reputation. The family are all Catholics. Theodore Joseph, junior member of this firm, was born in Quincy, Illinois, in 1858. His father, Stephen Joseph, was born in Baden, Germany, and came to this country in 1844, soon establishing himself in business in Quincy, Illinois. The son learned the cigar trade in Quincy, and removed to Butler in 1882, engaging in business with Emil Buchner, where they are succeeding beyond their expectations. After receiving a common education Mr. Joseph attended the St. Francis College, from which institution he graduated in 1872, with honor. He is a good business man and an excellent workman and has gained the respect and esteem of all who know him. His parents as well as himself are Catholics.

BUCK, Thomas
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Mingo Township, Bates Co, MO
THOMAS BUCK farmer, was born in the city of London, England, May 5, 1844, being the seventh in a family of nine children. His father, George Buck, was by occupation a manufacturer of edged tools. His mother's maiden name was Mary Fullagan. Thomas received his education in Kent and also in France, and when about fifteen years old, having a desire to become a sailor, he secured a position on a ship and followed the ocean for two years, visiting all the principal ports of the world. Tiring of a sailor's life and hearing of the wonders of America, he emigrated to New York and obtained a position as shipping clerk with Sweet, Brow & Co., with whom he remained one year. He then worked on a farm and in a factory until 1865, when he moved westward, coming to Bates County in June of that year. The following spring, February 15, 1866, he married Miss Mary Marchall, a native of France. They have since continued to live on a farm, and now have a home on section 35. Their house is a model of taste and neatness, and was built two years ago at a cost of $1,200. The farm contains 900 acres, nearly all under fence and in a fair state of cultivation. There is a vein of good coal underlying the farm, which can be worked to good advantage. Mr. Buck handles about 100 head of cattle and feeds a number of them. He has Poland-China hogs, and takes some interest in keeping the best of stock. He was elected justice of the peace at the last township election. Mr. and Mrs. B. are members of the M. E. Church South. They have seven children: Mary E., Fannie H., Alice M., Royal DeWitt, Annie L., Leon de Lesseps, Louis Dore.

BUCKERIDGE, Robert
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Osage Township, Bates Co, MO
ROBERT BUCKERIDGE, of the firm of Buckeridge & Cheverton, proprietors of central meat market, was born in Berkshire, England, January 19, 1848. He was reared in his native country, receiving the advantages of some of the best schools there. When he was eighteen years of age he came to America, landing at New York, and locating near Cleveland, Ohio, where he remained till the following spring. Then he went to Beloit, Wisconsin, and was engaged in the butchering business till 1871, when he settled in Fort Scott, Kansas. There he followed the same occupation. August 20, 1880, he began business in Rich Hill, and has now the leading meat market in the city. Mr. B. was married April 19, 1875, to Miss Mary L. P. Shrigley, a native of Maryland. They have two children: Robert S. and Ida S.

BUCKLES, William
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
WILLIAM BUCKLES, of William Buckles & Son, merchant of Altona, Missouri, is one of the successful business men of Bates county. Mr. Buckles and his son, H. F., purchased the Tabler Brothers' stock of merchandise at Altona on March 1, 1917, and are engaged in conducting a general store at this place, carrying a splendid line of groceries, boots, shoes, rubber goods of all kinds, tanks, and oil, gas, and water pumps. The mercantile establishment owned by William Buckles & Son is located in their own two-story building in Altona, a building 24 x 60 feet in dimensions, the second story of which is used as a dwelling. Altona is a little city situated seven miles east of Adrian, Missouri, having three churches, the Baptist, the Christian, and the Methodist, a post office of which H. F. Buckles is the efficient and popular postmaster and Fred Cowgill the well-known carrier on Rural Route 1, a circulating library of two hundred volumes which is much appreciated by the citizens of the town who may have the privilege of reading all the volumes for the payment of two dollars membership fee used to obtain new books, a blacksmith shop, and the general store owned by William Buckles & Son. Altona is in the midst of the richest farming district in Bates county. William Buckles is a native of Iowa. He was born in 1859 in Van Buren county, a son of A. J. and Julia (Abbott) Buckles, the former, a native of Indiana and the latter, of Illinois. Both parents of Mr. Buckles died in Van Buren county, Iowa. He was reared and educated in Iowa and in early manhood came to Missouri, locating near Chillicothe in 1883, then in Benton county, whence he came to Bates county in 1893 and located on a farm in Grand River township, which place he rented for nearly thirteen years before purchasing the tract of land which he traded for the stock of merchandise previously mentioned. In 1881, William Buckles and Ella Patterson, a daughter of Robert R. and Catherine Patterson, of Van Buren county, Iowa, were united in marriage. Mr. Patterson is now deceased and the widowed mother resides at Bolivar, Missouri. To William and Ella (Patterson) Buckles have been born seven children: Pearly G., superintendent of the Odessa High School, Odessa, Missouri; Robert Ernest, who is with the Kansas City Milling Company, Kansas City, Missouri; Harley F. and Charley F., twins, the former, the assistant postmaster of Altona from March until November, 1917, and the postmaster since November, 1917, a teacher employed at Altona for two years prior to entering business with his father and now his father's willing, able, and energetic assistant, and the latter, an industrious and successful agriculturist and stockman of Grand River township, Bates county, Missouri; Nora, the teacher at Smoky Row in Mingo township, Bates county, Missouri, who resides at home with her parents; and Howard and Homer, twins, both of whom are now sophomore students in the Adrian High School, Adrian, Missouri. The life of William Buckles has been one of untiring activity and has been crowned with a degree of success attained by those only who devote themselves indefatigably to the work before them. Mr. and Mrs. Buckles and their family are highly respected and valued in Altona and they have scores of friends in Bates county.

BULLOCK, R.N.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Spruce Township, Bates Co, MO
R. N. BULLOCK, farmer and stock dealer, section 16, is a native of Missouri and was born in Clay County, February 16, 1842. A. L. Bullock, his father, was born in Culpepper County, Virginia, in 1818, while his mother, whose maiden name was Sarah Harrington, came from Clay County, Missouri. The former moved to Missouri in 1836 and located in Clay County, near Kansas City, being one of the pioneers there. He was a tanner by trade and at an early day furnished Kansas City and St. Joseph with all the stock they could use from his tan yard. R. N. Bullock spent his youth on the farm and in the tan yard, having limited opportunities for acquiring an education at the common schools. In 1871 he came from Clay to Bates County where he bought land and improved his present farm. He has seventy-nine acres all improved. He was engaged in the sheep business previous to coming to this county and brought with him a flock of 1,000 head and continued the business until 1874, when he disposed of them, and has since been occupied in dealing in and feeding cattle and hogs. Mr. Bullock was married in Bolivar, Polk County, October 25, 1877, to Miss Sarah Covington, a daughter of William Covington, one of the leading business men of Bolivar. She was born and educated in the town where she was married. They have two children: William L., born August 30, 1878, and Maud A., born June 11, 1880. Mr. B. and wife are members of the Christian Church.

BULLOCK, William J.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
WILLIAM J. BULLOCK, an ex-sheriff of Bates county, is a native of Cass county, Missouri. He was born near Old Index, March 1, 1860, a son of H. N. and Margaret M. (Hereford) Bullock, the former, a native of Kentucky and the latter, of Mason county, West Virginia. H. N. Bullock was born September 24, 1832 and, when a child three years of age, came to Missouri with his father, William Bullock, who located first in Johnson county in 1835 and shortly afterward settled in Cass county. H. N. Bullock has been a resident of Cass county for eighty-two years and is now living, at the advanced age of eighty-five years, at Archie, Missouri. His father, William Bullock, died many years ago and his remains are interred in the cemetery at Index. H. N. Bullock is a Confederate veteran and he was in active service throughout the Civil War, serving under Gen. Francis M. Cockrell. When Mr. Bullock enlisted, he left his wife in charge of their farm in Cass county and to care for their little ones. Order Number 11 was enforced and Mrs. Bullock moved with her children to Clinton in Henry county, Missouri, where her brother, Capt. W. P. Hereford resided. During their absence, all the improvements on the Bullock farm were destroyed. The home was burnt to the ground in 1862. Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Bullock were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Dora Adair, Archie, Missouri; Mrs. Minnie Keyes, Wellington, Kansas; Mrs. Nora Lee, Appleton City, Missouri; James Emmet, deceased, a prominent minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, who died at Bronson, Kansas in 1894 while engaged in ministerial work and his remains were interred in Crescent Hill cemetery; and William J., the subject of this sketch. The public schools of Index in Cass county and of Burdett in Bates county afforded William J. Bullock the means of obtaining an excellent common school education. At the age of twenty-one years, he began life for himself, engaged in the pursuits of agriculture in Cass county. Mr. Bullock moved to Bates county in 1878 and located in East Boone township, returning later to Cass county for two years, when he came back to Bates county and located in Deer Creek township. Mr. Bullock always took an important part in the public affairs of his township and in the autumn of 1908 was elected sheriff of Bates county and served from 1909 until 1913. Since that time, he has resided in Butler, where he has a handsome home at 201 Delaware street. Mr. Bullock is at the present time in the employ of the Red Arrow Oil & Gas Company of Oklahoma, having their main office in Kansas City, Missouri. June 22, 1884, William J. Bullock and Mary A. DeJarnette were united in marriage. Mrs. Bullock was born in Boone township in Bates county, a daughter of W. H. and Mary A. DeJarnette. Mr. DeJarnette is now deceased and the widowed mother resides in Archie, Missouri. To Mr. and Mrs. William J. Bullock were born seven children, all of whom are now living: Georgia, the wife of Charles Hall, Floweree, Montana; Willa, the wife of Clarence Buillman, Oak Grove, Missouri; Aumer, at home with her father; Minnie, at home with her father; Julia, who is with her sister, Mrs. Charles Hall, at Floweree, Montana; Emmet H., a student in the Butler High School; and Wallace, at home with his father. Mrs. Bullock died July 23, 1908 and her remains were laid to rest in the cemetery near Adrian, known as Crescent Hill cemetery. Nearly six years afterward, Mr. Bullock's mother died at Archie, Missouri and she, too, was taken to Crescent Hill cemetery for burial. Mrs. H. N. Bullock died April 15, 1914. Both women were beautiful and exemplary moral characters, mothers whom to know was to admire and love, and they have been sadly missed, not only in their home circles, but by a vast number of close personal friends. In all the relations of life, William J. Bullock has manifested unquestioned integrity.

BURK, Monroe
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
MONROE BURK, well-known farmer of Charlotte township, was born in Union county, Indiana, June 2, 1846, a son of Lemuel and Mary Isabel (Girard) Burk, the former, a native of Indiana and the latter, a native of Virginia. The family came to Missouri and settled in Lafayette county in 1866. In 1884, they moved to Johnson county, Missouri, and afterward located in Bates county. After a long and useful life, the father died at Lees Summit, Missouri, and the mother died near Rich Hill in this county. Lemuel and Mary Isabel Burk were parents of ten children, eight of whom are living: John D., Washington; Angeline, wife of William Scudder, Kokomo, Indiana; Mrs. Sina Boland, Kansas City, Missouri; Monroe Burk, subject of this sketch; Conaway, Lexington, Missouri; Elliot, Amoret, Missouri; Mrs. Ida Culp, Kansas City; and Mrs. Belle Atherton, Holden, Johnson county. The boyhood days of Monroe Burk were spent in Indiana, where he attended the district schools. He accompanied his parents to Missouri in 1866 and in 1881 began his own career in Bates county, locating on a farm in Charlotte township, three-fourths of a mile east of his present homestead. Mr. Burk has accumulated a large farm of two hundred eighty acres of good land and is engaged extensively in raising and feeding livestock for the markets. He handles Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs and each year adds to the number of splendid mules produced in this county. November 11, 1874, Mr. Burk was united in marriage with Nannie Belle Evans of Platte county, Missouri, who has borne him nine children: Emmet, a farmer of Charlotte township; Rose, wife of Morton Jackson, Linn county, Kansas; John, residing in Washington; Lulu, wife of Herbert Steele, of Butler, Missouri; Lloyd, of College Station, Texas; Ray, at home; Edna, wife of Edlin Allison; Perry, at home; and Maud, at home. The mother of this fine family is a daughter of John Wesley and Jennie (Flagler) Evans, natives of Ohio, who located in Missouri in the early fifties. They later homesteaded in Kansas, remaining in that state for a few years and then lived for about ten years near Kickapoo, Leavenworth county, Kansas, after which they went to Newton county, Missouri. Following a short residence in Newton county, they lived for two years in Jackson county and then removed to Lafayette county, later residing for a time in Kansas City. Mrs. Burk's father died in Lafayette and her mother died in Kansas City. Mr. Burk has been a lifelong Democrat, one who has served his political party faithfully and well and served as a township collector of Charlotte township one term. Mr. and Mrs. Burk are well and favorably known in their neighborhood and are among Bates county's most substantial citizens.

BURKHART, Owen M.
History of Bates County, Missouri, W. O. Atkeson, 1918
OWEN M. BURKHART, of Pleasant Gap township, is a native son of Missouri. He was born in Cass county, near Harrisonville, February 15, 1851, a son of Michael and Frances (Walters) Burkhart, natives of Indiana. The Burkharts were formerly from Pennsylvania, but migrated to Indiana at an early day. The parents of O. M. Burkhart were married in Indiana and came to Missouri, probably about 1850 or a little before that date. Upon coming to this state, they located in Newton county and, shortly afterward, went to Cass county. Here they remained until 1852, when they came to Bates county and settled in Pleasant Gap township. The father bought land on Double Branches creek, about two and one-half miles west of where O. M. Burkhart now lives. Later, he entered considerable government land in that vicinity. When the Civil War broke out, when it not only became unsafe but against military law to live in Bates county, the Burkhart family moved out and, during that period, they lived in Henry and Benton counties. At the close of the war, they returned to Pleasant Gap township, where the parents spent the remainder of their lives. Their remains now rest in Double Branches cemetery. O. M. Burkhart was one of a family of seven children, as follow: Robert Emanuel, deceased; Margaret, married William Allen, Weatherfield, Oklahoma; William L., Waynoka, Oklahoma; John, Monett, Missouri; Owen M., the subject of this sketch; Frances, married John Bentley and she is now deceased; and James, deceased. The first recollection that O. M. Burkhart has is of Pleasant Gap township and Bates county as he was only one year old when he was brought to this county by his parents. He grew to manhood here and attended school in an old log school house that was located on Double Branches creek, about two miles north of the Burkhart home. Mr. Burkhart well remembers this old pioneer school house with its stone fireplace and stone chimney. The old building served its purpose and passed on, and now lives only in the memory of those whose early lives were interwoven with the old institution. Mr. Burkhart began life for himself at the age of twenty-two, engaging in farming and stock raising. Thirty-six years ago he bought the place where he now lives. When he bought his place, it was mostly timbered land. He cleared it himself, which represents a great deal of labor, involving many years of everlastingly "keeping at it." But he is rewarded at last by being the owner of one of the most valuable farms of Bates county. He owns two hundred eighteen and one-half acres and for years successfully carried on general farming and stock raising, but for the past few years he has rented out most of his land, and is trying to take life a little easier. He has two good reasons for this: First, he can afford to. Second, he has done about one man's share of hard work. Mr. Burkhart was married March 21, 1878, to Miss Dora L. Hall, a native of Marshalltown, Iowa, a daughter of Ansel Hall. Mrs. Burkhart came to Bates county with her parents when she was ten years old. For further history of the Hall family see sketch of E. R. Hall, a brother of Mrs. Burkhart. To Mr. and Mrs. Burkhart have been born the following children: Arthur C., Pleasant Gap township; Cardia May, married Burt Harkrader, Pleasant Gap township; and Vira Vivian, married David W. H. Smith, Pleasant Gap township. Mr. and Mrs. Burkhart are members of the Christian church. Mr. Burkhart is a Democrat. He has held the office of justice of the peace two terms, and is well and favorably known in Bates county.

BURNES, C. F.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Mt. Pleasant Township, Bates Co, MO
C. F. BURNES, of the firm of Burnes & Co., dealers in dry goods, notions, hats, caps, etc., was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, September 14, 1850. He grew to manhood in that vicinity, and in 1868-69-70, was a student of the Ohio Wesleyan University, located at Delaware. In 1870, he became connected with his father in the dry goods business at Roscoe, which he continued until 1877, when he embarked in milling. To this occupation he gave his attention till 1881, when he came to Butler, Missouri, and for a short time was in the employ of McClintock & Son as clerk. In November 1881, he was admitted as a member of that firm, the style then becoming McClintock & Burnes, which in August 1882, was changed to the present firm name of Burnes & Co. The stock of goods is very complete, and the remunerative patronage which they are receiving from the people enables them to conduct a fine store. Mr. Burnes is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

BURNS, J. C.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Osage Township, Bates Co, MO
J. C. BURNS. Among the prominent merchants of Rich Hill worthy of mention in this history is the subject of this sketch. He commenced business in this city December 1880; first carrying only a stock of groceries but he has since added most all articles of general merchandise till his store may be classed among the first. He was born in County Perth, Canada, November 13, 1846; his parents, James and Mary Burns, both being natives of Scotland. J. C. was reared and educated in his native country where he received the benefits of the best schools. In May 1866, he was graduated from Musgrove & Wright's Commercial College of Toronto, and now holds a second-class certificate from the Dominion of Canada which is dated June 1866. From the time he was fourteen years of age he was taught the mercantile business which he followed principally in Canada till 1870, when he came to Missouri, locating at Seneca. For seven or eight years he was engaged in the tannery business, and after the expiration of this time he went to Sumner County, Kansas, where he was occupied in farming till 1874. Then he took a trip to Colorado for a short period, thence to Independence, Kansas, and one year later he located in Joplin, Missouri, where the grocery business received his attention until he came to Rich Hill. Mr. Burnes is a member of the Masonic fraternity and also of the A.O.U.W. March 16, 1869, he was married to Miss Jane Sebben, also originally of Canada, but of English and Irish parentage. They have two children: Mary J. and James G. E.

BURROWS, Charles Myron
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Pleasant Gap Township, Bates Co, MO
CHARLES MYRON BURROWS was born in Exeter, Scott County, Illinois, May 19, 1831, his parents being Stephen and Nancy (Morgan) Burrows. The former was born in Windham, Windham County, Connecticut, June 19, 1792, and the latter in Genesee County, New York, May 14, 1805. Charles spent the early portion of his boyhood in Illinois, and in 1868 he came to Bates County, Missouri, commencing life in this state as a farmer with his brother, William W. Burrows, they locating on forty acres of land in section 34 of this township. From this time on the interest of these brothers was a common one and they were the joint owners of 545 acres. The residence upon this place is a fine one, and with the surroundings presents an attractive appearance to the passer-by. They were also identified as partners in the Butler Lime Works, the style of the firm being Taggart, Clark & Co. This branch of business, although of recent date, has already yielded a satisfactory return on the capital invested. During the war he entered the Union army in Company D, 129th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, but was disabled and compelled to return home. He married Miss Jane Ogle, of Illinois, and by this union they had four children: Ida, Charles, Curtis and George. On Monday, November 13, 1882, a more happy family than that of Charles M. Burrows could not be found, surrounded as they were with all the necessaries and many of the luxuries of life, and all in the enjoyment of excellent health. On Tuesday Mr. B. met with a terrible accident by being thrown from his wagon by unmanageable horses, and later he was found by the roadside in an unconscious condition. Upon being carried into a neighbor's house near at hand he lingered for about twenty-four hours, when he expired. The funeral, which occurred on Friday, November 17, 1882, was held from his late residence under the auspices of the A.O.U.W. fraternity, of which order he was a beloved member, the Rev. O. Spencer, of Rich Hill, officiating. The deceased had many friends, who sincerely mourned his untimely death.

BUTLER, J. D. H.
History of Cass & Bates Co, MO, 1883 - Pleasant Gap Township, Bates Co, MO
J. D. H. BUTLER, farmer and stock raiser, section 30, was born in Howard County, Missouri, November 8, 1838. James Butler, his father, was born in Boyle County, Kentucky, and his mother, whose maiden name was Martha Ann Jackman, was also a native of that state. The former was a soldier in the war of 1812. He emigrated to Missouri at an early day, and was one of the pioneers of Howard County. J. D. H. Butler moved to Bates County with his parents in 1855. He spent his youth as a farmer, and was educated in the common schools, and at the breaking out of the war his sympathies being with the Southern cause, he enlisted in the Confederate service in May 1861, in Peyton's Cavalry, and was, for six months in the state, and afterwards in Colonel Jackman's Infantry Regiment, serving till the close of the war. He took part in the fighting at Lexington, Carthage, Drywood, Jenkins' Ferry, Helena, and Little Rock, and several other minor engagements. After the war he returned to Bates County and resumed farming. Mr. Butler was married here in October 1868, to Miss Lizzie Allen, a native of Tennessee, and a daughter of Robert Allen, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. In the winter of 1874 he came to his present farm, where he has 250 acres, about 160 acres being under fence and fairly improved. He is Democratic in politics, and has been elected to various township offices, and has been a delegate from his township to numerous conventions. He was elected township trustee, and served for three years. He is deputy collector at this time. Mr. and Mrs. Butler have five children: Minnie J., Lucinda, Elijah A., Mary A. and Lizzie.

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