Harrison County, Iowa Biographies B. C. Adams, of the firm of Adams Bros., stock raisers and dealers, (farms in Jefferson township, three miles north of Logan), was born in Asthabula county, 0.; moved to Ill.; thence to Wis., and in 1854 came to Harrison county, Ia. He was in the government service during the late war, as deputy provost marshal and enrolling officer. Was married in Denison, Ia., in 1858, to Almira P. Carrico, and has five children—three sons and two daughters. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] S. Altshuler, dealer in dry goods and clothing, came to Ia. in 1864, and located at Council Bluffs; established his present business in Missouri Valley in 1867. He has a fine store on the corner of Fourth and Erie streets, and carries a large stock of goods. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] M. I. Bailey, attorney at law, established business in 1875. He was born in Delaware county, N. Y., in 1847; removed to Missouri Valley, Ia., in 1875, and engaged in the practice of law. He married C. L. Ames, a native of N. Y. Mr. B. is the present mayor of this city. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] J. H. Ball, proprietor of billiard parlor—cor. 6th and Huron sts—is a native of Ind.; moved to Knoxville, Marion county, Ia., with parents in 1851. In 1862 he engaged in freighting in company with J. B. Beard, which he continued until 1865. He then traveled through the territories until he settled in Council Bluffs in 1869; moved to Missouri Valley in 1878, and engaged in his present business. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] J. T. Baldwin, foreman of the boiler shops at Missouri Valley, was born in Md. He was employed in the navy yards at Washington, D. C., until 1868, when he moved to Omaha. Neb., and was in the employ of the U. P. R. R.; came to this city in 1870, and assumed his present position. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] C. H. Barber, proprietor of the Palace billiard parlor, is a native of N. Y., removed to Clinton, Ia., in 1878, and was in the employ of the Union Iron Works; thence to Missouri Valley in 1879, and was in the employ of the railroad companies until 1881, when he established his present business. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] John W. Barnhart, attorney at law, was born in Northumberland county, Pa., Nov. 30th, 1837; moved to Mich. in 1849. He graduated from Michigan University, at Ann Arbor, in 1864; read law with H. T. Severns, and was admitted to the bar in 1865; came to Iowa and located at Boonsboro, Boone county, and opened an office. He was mayor of that place three terms. In Feb., 1878, he removed to Logan; has been mayor of this city one term. He was married in Mich. to Susan M. Hicks, of Saratoga, N. Y., July 11th, 1865. They have four children—two sons and two daughters. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] J. M. Berry, proprietor of the city livery, is a native of Ind.; came with parents to Harrison county, Ia., in 1855, was engaged in farming until 1879, when he came to Missouri Valley and engaged in his present business. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] John A. Berry, attorney at law, was born in Md. He was a student of the Agricultural College in the senior class of '71; came west in 1874, and after spending some time in Montana, located at Logan. He engaged in teaching school and in various pursuits, until 1880, when he was admitted to the bar, and engaged in the practice of the law. His office is known as the Harrison County Collection Agency. He married Martha Burnett, of Mount Vernon, Ia., Nov. 7th, 1880, and has one child, a daughter. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] T. N. Berry, of the firm of Morgan & Berry, grocers, was born in Pottawattamie county, Ia., in 1855; moved with his parents to Harrison county in 1856. He located in Missouri Valley in 1879, and was engaged in the livery business until 1881, when he entered the above firm. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] J. L. Berkley, of the firm of Grigsby & Berkley, dealers in general merchandise, is a native of Va.; moved to Magnolia, Harrison county, Ia., in 1872; thence to Missouri Valley in 1876, and engaged in milling until Oct., 1881, when he engaged in his present business, with W. E. Grigsby, a wealthy farmer of Harrison county. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] E. A. Boies, dealer in general hardware, is a native of O.; moved to Magnolia, Harrison county, Ia., in 1867, and to Missouri Valley in 1869 and was employed as salesman and journeyman tinner in the hardware business. He engaged in the business for himself in 1877, sold out after two years, and resumed business again in May, 1881. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Hon. L. R. Bolter represents Harrison county in the state legislature. He was born in O. in 1835; moved to Logan in 1863, and engaged in the practice of the law. He was elected to the legislature in 1865, '73, '75 and '81 on the democratic ticket. He was temporary speaker of the house in 1874. In 1855 he married Caroline J. Rhinehart, of Cass county, Mich. They have two sons and one daughter. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Mrs. A. E. Bresee, dealer in millinery and fancy goods, located in Crawford county, Ia., in 1877, and moved to Missouri Valley in 1879, and engaged in present business; carries a large and complete stock of goods, and does all branches of millinery work. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] W. H. Bradley. Jr., of the firm of Walker & Bradley, dealers in general merchandise, is a native of Canada; came to the U. S. in 1869, and located at Missouri Valley, Ia. He was employed as salesman in the mercantile business, until he entered his present business in 1878. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] L. Brown, attorney at law, was born in Jackson county, O., in 1845; removed to Appanoose county, Ia., where he lived until he moved to Missouri Valley. He is a graduate of the Iowa State University. He married Fanny G. Manning, a native of Iowa. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] S. A. Broadwell, land and loan office, was born in Cincinnati. O., March 21st, 1848. In 1862, he joined the 34th O. Zouaves; was afterwards courier and messenger, did in 1864 returned to Cincinnati. He was employed by Tyler, Davidson & Co. until 1866, when he was appointed sutler of Jefferson Barracks, Mo., where he remained two years; then went to New Orleans, and ran a trading boat for about a year, and then engaged in the wholesale boot and shoe business in New Orleans. He then removed to Mobile, Ala., and engaged in the same business, and through sickness was obliged to discontinue and travel for a time. He next engaged in the land and loan business in Champaign, Ill., remaining there five years; removed thence to Logan and opened his present office. He is a very popular man, and does an extensive business, owning and controlling four thousand acres and more of well improved lands, besides a large amount of stock. He is one of the leading members of the Masonic order in Ia., being Grand Warden of the Grand Commandery of the State of Iowa. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] T. J. Buchanan, furniture dealer and undertaker, was born in Boone county, Ill., March 10th, 1856; removed to Rockford; thence to Harrison county, Ia., and engaged in farming three years in Union township. In Feb., 1881, he bought his present business of Rudd & Soper, and carries an elegant stock of goods. He married Alice A. Brownell, at Rockford, Ill., April 14th, 1876, and has one child, a daughter. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] W. P. Bump, of the firm of Bump & Smith, dealers in general merchandise, was born in Addison county, Vt., in 1811; moved to western N. Y. in 1831, and in 1836 he engaged in the mercantile business; continued there until 1856, when he removed to Rochelle, Ill.; thence to Missouri Valley in 1869, and engaged in his present business. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] D. Burgess, proprietor of billiard parlor, was born in Courtland county, N. Y. He was employed for several years as conductor on the S. B. & N. Y. Ry., also was telegraph operator for same road. He moved to Neb. in 1875, and engaged in the stock business; removed to Missouri Valley in 1877 and engaged in his present business, on the corner of Fifth and Erie sts. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Hugh Alfred Butler BUTLER, Hugh Alfred, a Senator from Nebraska; born on a farm near Missouri Valley, Harrison County, Iowa, February 28, 1878; attended the public schools and was graduated from Doane College at Crete, Nebr., in 1900; construction engineer with the Chicago, Burlington Quincy Railroad 1900-1908; member of the city board of Curtis, Nebr. 1908-1913; engaged in the flour-milling and grain business 1908-1940; member of the board of education of Omaha, Nebr.; Republican National committeeman for Nebraska 1936-1940; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1940; reelected in 1946 and again in 1952 and served from January 3, 1941, until his death in the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., July 1, 1954; chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Eightieth Congress), Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Eighty-third Congress); interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Nebr. [Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present; transcribed by A. N.] Hon. Phineas Cadwell, president of the Cadwell bank, was born in Madison county, N. Y., April 17th, 1824; moved to Racine, Wis., and engaged in farming; thence to Harrison county. Ia., in Aug., 1851, engaged in farming, until 1875, when he established his present business. He also deals in real estate, loans, and insurance. He was elected to the legislature in 1871, on the republican ticket. He has been president of the county agricultural society twenty years, and on the state agricultural board as one of its directors eighteen years, and served four years as trustee of the state agricultural college at Ames, Ia. He married Harriet N. Fisk, Oct. 7th, 1845, and has three sons and two daughters. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] E. P. Cadwell, of the firm of King & Cadwell, attorneys at law, land, loan and insurance office, was born in Racine, Wis., Dec. 21st, 1854; moved with his parents to Independence, Ia. Entered the Ames Agricultural College in 1871, graduated in 1875, was admitted to the bar in 1877, under Judge Bradley, of Marshalltown, Ia., and soon after opened an office in Logan. In the fall of 1877 he formed a partnership with Mr. Barnhart, and in Nov., 1881, with Mr. King. He owns a fine stock farm in Jefferson township, of 840 acres, well fitted with buildings and improvements, where he keeps about 400 head of cattle, besides horses hogs, etc., and has 440 acres of pasture land in Monona county. He married Hannah I. Lyman, of Messapotamia, O., in the autumn of 1877. They have one child, a daughter. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] C. J., T. C. & W. M. Carlisle, of the firm of Carlisle Bros., wholesale and retail dealers in hardware, wagon stocks, pumps, agricultural implements, and sewing machines, are natives of O.; came to Missouri Valley, Ia., in 1872, and engaged in their present business. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] W. M. Chenoweth, manufacturer of cigars, is a native of Pa.; came to Missouri Valley in 1879, and engaged in his present business. He employs five men in the busy season. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] J. C. Caley, dealer in boots and shoes, was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He enlisted in Co. I, 29th O. Vol., served one year, and in the spring of 1863 went to Montana; returned to Ohio in 1864, and two years later came to Missouri Valley, and built the first building in the town, excepting a few R. R. buildings. He is the pioneer boot and shoe dealer of the city. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Maj. J. F. Cheney, senior proprietor of the Merchants and Depot Hotels at Sioux City, Ia., also of a Hotel at Blair, Neb., and the Union Hotel at Missouri Valley, was born in Grafton county, N. H. In 1861 he enlisted in the 1st Ill. Light Art. as a private, was soon promoted to first lieutenant, then to captain, then to major and when discharged at the close of the war was lieutenant colonel. He then opened the Nachusa house at Dixon, Ill., also a summer resort at Spring Lake, Mich., called the Spring Lake house. He moved to Sioux City and opened the Merchants Hotel, in 1880, and his other hotel soon after. Major C. is one of the oldest hotel men in the country, and all of his hotels will be found to be first class. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] A. W. Clyde, of the firm of Smith & Clyde, attorneys at law, was born in Otsego county, N. Y.; moved to Mitchell county, Ia., in 1855, and was proprietor of the Mitchell County News, for five years. He then moved to Logan, and engaged in the practice of the law. He was married at Madison, Wis., in 1877, to Bessie Johnson, and has one child, a son. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] S. H. Cochran, attorney at law, was born in Carmine, Ills., in 1852; in 1874 he graduated at the Iowa State Law School, and engaged in the practice of law at Missouri Valley; removed to Logan in the fall of 1881; attends exclusively to trial business. In 1880 be was engaged in the prosecution of the Western Millers' Association cases, involving the constitutionality of the "Iowa Fish Way Laws," in which a decree was obtained, holding them void, and he was also successful in obtaining a decree annulling section 3,058 of the code as unconstitutional. In 1880 he was appointed one of the committee of examiners of the law class at Iowa City; was the youngest lawyer on the committee. In 1877 he was married to Mary E. Shimmins, a native of Wis., although of English parentage. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Oscar Coffey, of the firm of Coffey & George, proprietors of bakery, restaurant and grocery, was born in Pottawattamie county, Ia.; was engaged in farming until locating here in Aug., 1881, when he established present thriving business. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Clifford C. Cole Among the enterprising citizens who are contributing to business development in Boulder in the field of real estate operations is Clifford C. Cole, who has spent his entire life west of the Mississippi river and is imbued with the western spirit of progress and enterprise. He was born upon a farm in Harrison county, Iowa, in 1872. His father, Enoch Cole, was a native of New York and in 1855 removed westward to Iowa, becoming one of the pioneer settlers of that state. He arrived in Boulder, Colorado, in 1907, and spent his remaining days in that city. He was married in Iowa to Mrs. Mary Hogue, who still survives her husband and yet makes her home in Boulder. Clifford C. Cole was largely reared in the town of Missouri Valley, Iowa, where he pursued his education in the public schools. After putting aside his textbooks he spent twelve years in the railroad service in Iowa, making steady advance during that period, and then seeking a broader and what he hoped would be a more profitable field of labor, he came to Boulder, Colorado, in 1904. Here he soon entered the real estate business, with which he has since been identified, and through the intervening period of twelve years he has negotiated many important property transfers in Boulder. There is no man more familiar with real estate values in the city and his clientage has become extensive and important. On the 23d of December, 1897, in Mondamin, Iowa, Mr. Cole was united in marriage to Miss Gertrude Kidder, a daughter of H. P. Kidder, who was born in the state of New York and who enlisted there as a soldier of the Civil war, taking active part in defense of the Union on southern battlefields. In his fraternal relations Mr. Cole is an Elk. Politically he is a republican and in 1912 he served as chairman of the progressive party of Boulder county. He stands loyally at all times for what he believes to be right and in all that he does Is actuated by a spirit of progressiveness and advancement, whether in relation to the public welfare or the promotion of his individual interests. Both he and his wife are widely known in Boulder and this section of the state and occupy a very enviable position in social circles, having the warm regard of those with whom they have been brought in contact. (History of Colorado, 1919; Submitted by: Cathy Danielson) G. W. Coit, M. D., was born in N. J., in 1837; was assistant surgeon during the latter part of the war of the rebellion. He graduated from the Bellevue Hospital, M. Y. in March 1868, and came to Harrison county in Nov. of the same year, and located at St. Johns; the following February, removed to Missouri Valley. He has been government examining surgeon for Western Iowa ten years. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Wm. Conner, engineer for the S. C. & P. transfer company, was born in Va. in 1842; moved to Ill. in 1849, and in 1859 engaged in steamboating on the Mississippi river. In 1866 he went to Quincy, Ill., and took charge of the machine shops for two years; then came to Missouri Valley and was employed in his present position. He has been absent one year since coming to this city, traveling on the Pacific coast. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Logan Crawford, county surveyor, was born Jan. 13th, 1822, in Union, Conn.; moved to Mayville, Wis., in the spring of 1847, and was employed on the Fond du Lac & Watertown R. R. He surveyed in 1851, and in the summer of 1852 was again employed by the Railroad Company as surveyor, under J. S. Sewell, engineer. Mr. S. was transferred to the C. & N. W. R. R. on the Ill. division, and sent for Mr. C. to assist. In 1854 he settled in Harrison county, and bought land near Calhoun; has suffered large losses from prairie fire. He enlisted in 1861 in the 5th Ia. Infantry; enlisted as a private; was promoted in 1863 to lieutenant; was engaged in the battle of Pittsburg Landing; was wounded at Corinth, Oct. 6th, 1863, and again at Atlanta, Ga.; was severely wounded by musket shot through the chest, and reported dead; was taken prisoner in that condition, and put in the hospital at Macon, Ga.; was transferred to Charlestown, S. C., and exchanged in December in 1864. He was elected surveyor in 1879, on the republican ticket, and re-elected in 1881; has been justice of the peace of Calhoun township two terms. He married Helen M. Rising, at Maysville, Wis. They have four children living. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Dr. P. R. Crosswait, of the firm of P. R. Crosswait & Co., dealers in dry goods, clothing, groceries and general merchandise, was born in Fulton county, Ill., July 12th, 1853; removed to Cass county, Ia., in 1856, and engaged in school teaching until the beginning of the late war, when he enlisted in the 1st Ia. Cav.; served three years west of the Missouri river; was in the battle of Prairie Grove and the taking of Little Rock, Ark. In Sept., 1864, he was mustered out of the service, and went to Rush Medical College, Chicago, and in 1865 settled in Harrison county, where he practiced twelve years; then went to Miami College, at Cincinnati, and graduated in the spring of 1877; then returned to this county and practiced two years in Logan, when he engaged in his present business. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge and encampment, also of the A. O. U. W. lodge. He married Mary Murphy, of Magnolia, Ia. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] J. H. Crowder, postmaster, also dealer in books, jewelry and fancy goods, is a native of Ind.; removed to Harrison county in 1866. He enlisted in the war of the rebellion, in the 18th Ia. Reg.; was a member of the band. He was appointed postmaster in 1871, which office he has since held. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] C. L. Cutler Stage Coach Driver Logan, Iowa, August 30 -- A pioneer of western Iowa is C.L. Cutler, 88 of Logan, born a full blooded yankee at Bakersfield, VT, December 24, 1842. He is the last member of a family of five. He came to Iowa in 1866 spending his first night at the North Western Hotel in Council Bluffs on the present site of the Hotel Chieftain. In '67 he located at Magnolia, Iowa, and drove a stage coach between Missouri Valley and Onawa, Iowa, carrying mail, baggage and passengers. He was married May 7, 1871 to Cornelia Merchant and to them three children were born. His first vote was cast for Abe Lincoln for his second term and saw the martyred president in Boston. On the other side of the continent he saw Theodore Roosevelt in Seattle when Roosevelt was bull-moose candidate. Mr. Cutler has voted republican in every presidential election from Lincoln to Hoover but his vote for Harding, sent from Seattle, came to late to be counted. He has made seven round trips to Seattle, three of them from coast to coast. His first trip to Boston after coming west was in 1901 after an absence of thirty six years. At the age of 88, Mr. Cutler is very active and hoes from four to five hours every day in the garden, mows the lawn, splits wood, helps with the housework, and enjoys meeting his friends on the streets of Logan where he can be seen almost every day. He lives with his daughter, Mrs. Bert Schmidt, about one and a half miles east of Logan. [Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Published August 31, 1930] Submitted by Ann - - - - - - - - - - C. E.* Cutler Logan, August 6 -- C.E. Cutler of Logan is one of the few men living who can relate experiences as a stage coach driver in the early 50's. Mr. Cutler, nearing 90 years old, enjoys recalling the joys and griefs of a stage coach trip in the early days. "It is hard to realize in these days of the automobile, airplane and fast express trains that great lunging coaches once carried mail and passengers across Iowa," he says. In July 1853, the old Western Stage Company, a historic institution by the way, pushed its lines through Harrison County. Its routes were then thought to be the great trunk lines of the state and people were quite content to travel by them before they became more accustomed to a speedier mode of transportation. Mr. Cutler drove one of these stages between Missouri Valley and Onawa and every other day made a trip between Onawa and Sioux City, carrying mail and passengers until the approach of the railroad pushed the slow coach westward. The body of the Concord coach as described by Mr. Cutler, was approximately oval shape, but was flattened on the top to make a place for baggage.There also was a triangular, leather covered space in the rear known as the boot to hold such luggage as could not be carried on the top. Inside the enclosed body were three seats, each designed to hold three passengers. The front seat faced the rear, the driver sat outside on an elevated seat in front of the covered body. The body of the coach was swung on thorough braces composed of several strips of leather riveted together and fastened to bolsters, much the same as the cables of a suspension bridge are fastened to the piers. As the coach was oval, it rocked to and fro on the flexible braces, subjecting the passengers to series of rocking chair vibrations. The swinging coaches, the spirited horse, the whipcracking driver and the hospitable landlord in his rude but romantic tavern, all contribute to the picturesquesences of stage coaching. "The work of the stage coach driver," said Mr. Cutler, "was not all swagger." "On the road he was lookout, engineer, brakeman and fireman -- in fact the whole crew. It was his duty to read the road, know every hill, slough, stump and stone, but skilled as he was he sometimes misjudged the conditions of the ground." "Where one day he passed safely over, the next day his wheels would break through and find no bottom. Boisterous passengers, balky horses, and bandits also were sources of irritation and danger to the driver. "Although the stage coach endeavored to run on a definite schedule, mud and inclement weather often interfered. In the spring of the year it was not uncommon for a stage driver to carry rails to pry his coach out of the mud.” "Three and a half miles an hour, according to the load carried, was considered fairly good speed, Mr. Cutler said, “Although from seven to nine persons constituted a load, as many as eighteen were sometimes carried in one stage, some riding with their baggage on top.” “On exceedingly rough roads the pitching of the coach fairly disjointed the backs of the passengers.” Under such circumstances the corner seats were the most comfortable, for there a passenger could brace himself -- sometimes coaches upset. "The other side of stage coaching," said Mr. Cutler, "was one of jolly passengers, smooth roads, hearty appetities, bounteous meals. Stage trips were sometimes made interesting by the presence of congressmen, writers and foreign notables as fellow passengers. Chance acquaintances in the coaches spun many a yarn.” Stations were established from ten to fifteen miles apart for changing horses. On the arrival of a stage the tired team was quickly unhitched and a fresh four pulled the coach to the next station. Sometimes a tavern was kept in conjunction with the station. As far as can be learned there is only one other man living who once drove coaches for the Western Stage Company. Mr. Cutler is a native of Vermont. He came to Council Bluffs in 1856 and later settled in Magnolia. He is very active for his age and reads without the use of glasses. (*Name should have been C. L. Cutler.) [Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Published August 7, 1932] Submitted by Ann N. S. Dahl, jeweler, is a native of Denmark; came to America in 1873, and settled in Chicago. He engaged in the jewelry business in various parts of the west, until 1879, when he located in Missouri Valley and opened his present business. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] F. L. Davis, insurance agent, was born in Western N. Y. He enlisted in 1861 in Co. E, 5th N. Y. Cay., was discharged in 1862 and returned to N. Y., and soon after was appointed deputy sheriff of Cattaraugus county. He came to Iowa in 1870 and located at River Sioux; in 1872 moved to Missouri Valley and engaged in the livery business; was also deputy sheriff for several years. In 1878 he engaged in his present business. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] C. H. Davis, was born in Penobscot county, Me., in 1839; moved to Mass. in 1852 and went to sea as a cabin boy. At the breaking out of the war in 1861 he enlisted in the navy in Com. Farragut's fleet; was transferred to Com. Dahlgren's fleet in 1864. He left the navy at the close of the war and in 1866 moved to Council Bluffs, Ia., and was engaged as engineer on the Missouri river, until coming to Missouri Valley; is here employed by the S. C. & P. R. R. company. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] F. M. Dance, attorney at law, was born in Wis. in 1838; moved to Missouri Valley, Ia., in 1868 and engaged in general law and real estate business. He graduated from the law department of the Ann Arbor University, in 1867. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] C. H. Deur, lumber dealer, was born in N. Y.; moved with his parents in 1860 to Pottawattamie county, Ia.; thence to Missouri Valley in 1877 and engaged in his present business. He has always a good supply of hard and soft coal, builders' supplies, lime, hair, cement, etc. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] William Elliott, farmer, La Grange township, owns 305 acres of land all fenced and a well improved stock farm. He was born in Durham, Eng.; came to America in 1846 and located in Pa.; removed to Ia. in 1862 and located on his present farm and has a fine herd of cattle. He married Anna Phillips, in Pa., in 1853. They have seven children. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] John V. Evans, attorney at law, was born in Genesee county, N. Y., Jan. 8th, 1847; removed to Clinton county, Ia., in 1863; studied law with Geo. B. Young of De Witt, and was admitted to the bar in Clinton, Dec. 7th, 1870. He removed to Magnolia, Harrison county; thence to Logan at the time it became the county seat. He was county attorney two years and mayor of Logan the first two terms; is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge and encampment and a blue lodge mason. He married Clara M. King, June 16th, 1875. They have one child, a son. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] M. S. Frick, of the firm of Frick & Snyder, dealers in general merchandise, is a native of Pa.; moved to Ia. in 1865 and to Harrison county in 1868, was engaged in contracting and building, then dealing in furniture, previous to engaging in his present business in the spring of 1881. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Wm. Giddings, P. M. and druggist, also dealer in stationery, toys, etc., was born in McHenry county, Ill., Aug. 26th, 1845; removed to Council Bluffs in 1868 and was with DeHaven & Giddings, druggists. In 1869, came to Magnolia, Harrison county, and in 1872 came to Logan and engaged in his present business. In June, 1875, was appointed postmaster of Logan. He married Helen N. Nelson in Beloit, Wis. They have one child, a son. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] W. B. Goodenough, shoemaker, was born in Lewis county, N. Y., May 17th, 1862; moved with parents in Nov., 1867, to Logan, Ia., and is engaged in the above business, with his father M. H. Goodenough, who was born in Lewis County, N. Y., and was engaged in shoe making, until he came to Logan, where he resumed same business. He served from 1863 to the close of the war, in 20th N. Y. Cay. He married Aug. 17th, 1856, to Emeline Dodge. They have three sons and two daughters. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Geo. S. Green, of the firm of G. S. Green & Co., proprietors of the Commercial House, is a native of N. Y.; moved to Vinton, Ia. in 1860; thence to Missouri Valley in 1875 and was engaged in various business houses, also in the post-office, until Nov., 1881, when he purchased the hotel and engaged in his present business. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] A. K. Grow, county recorder, was born in Courtlandt county, N. Y., in 1862; removed to Washington county, Neb., in 1857; thence to Harrison county, Ia., in Nov., 1858, and settled in Boyer township and engaged in milling for three years; then built a mill which he ran until 1875, and sold to John & Wilson Williams. Was elected to his present office in 1876 on republican ticket. He married Eliza J. Baskin, a native of Pa. They have one son and six daughters. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] G. W. Guilford, proprietor of meat market, was born in Orleans county, Vt., 1843; moved to Tama county, Ia., in 1860. He enlisted in 1861 in the 10th Ia. Vol. Inf., and served four years and two months; was in twenty-seven engagements; was wounded at the battle of Champion Hill, Miss.; was at the seige of Corinth and New Madrid, at the battle of Missouri Ridge and wounded twice. Was with Sherman in the march to the sea; discharged in 1865. Came to Harrison county in 1867; resided in Dunlap thirteen years; while there, was a member of the city council four years. Has lived in Logan two years; is now a member of the city council of that place. He married Mrs. Campbell, of Harlan, Ia. They have two sons and three daughters. He is a member of the G. A. R. post at this place. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] A. L. Harvey, of the firm of Harvey, & Ford, proprietors of the Harrison County Bank, was born in Madison county, N. Y., in July, 1826; removed to Rockland county in 1853; thence to Jasper county, Ia., in 1856, and the following year located at Magnolia, Harrison county. In 1860 he was elected county treasurer and recorder, the two offices being consolidated; was re-elected in 1862. He opened a land and loan office in 1864, and when Logan became the county seat removed there; in 1876 established the bank with J. C. Milliman, who sold his share in 1878 to Mr. Ford. Mr. H. was the first land agent and first notary public in the county, has sold about 25,000 acres of land during the last year (1881), owns a fine farm of 436 acres, four and one-half miles from Woodbine, besides about 200 acres in other parts of the county. Has been internal revenue assessor three years. Is a member of the A. F. and A. M. lodge, also of the I. O. O. F. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] D. M. Hardy, deputy treasurer, was born in Glenwood, Ia., in 1851; removed with his parents to Harrison county, is son of Judge Hardy, one of the oldest settlers of this county and the first county judge. He is an extensive farmer, and one of the proprietors of Willow mill, the oldest mill in the county. Mr. Hardy is a member of the A. 0. U. W. lodge, also of the I. O. O. F. He married Miss Severins, of Wis., in 1872. They have two sons and two daughters. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] L. Harker, dealer in stock, is one of the pioneers of Harrison county, Ia., came to this county in 1867 and located at St. Johns, and engaged in the grocery business. He moved to Missouri Valley the same year and continued the grocery business; is now buying and selling stock. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] J. J. Hancock, tobacco dealer, was born in England in 1830; came to America in 1851, and located at London, Canada; removed to Buffalo, N. Y. in 1853, and engaged in the boot and shoe business. He removed to Dubuque, Ia., in 1858; thence to Sioux Falls, Dak., in 1871, where he resumed the boot and shoe business. In 1878 he was in the employ of the American Express Company. In 1879 he located in Missouri Valley. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Hon. D. M. Harris, senior member of the firm of Harris & Son, editors and proprietors of the Missouri Valley Times, was born in Dayton, Montgomery county, O., in 1821, and moved with parents to Ind. in 1824; thence to Maury county, Tenn. In 1854, he came to Audubon county, Ia., and engaged in farming and the real estate business, and there served three terms as county judge. He represented the 26th Iowa district during two sessions of the legislature. He next removed to Panora, Guthrie county, and engaged in the practice of law, also editing and publishing the Guthrie County Ledger. In 1868 he first came to Missouri Valley and established the Harrisonian, which he sold in 1872, the name of the paper being changed to the Missouri Valley Times. In the same year he moved to Independence, Kans., and published the Kansas Democrat, returned to Missouri Valley in 1873, engaging in the mercantile business. His establishment was shortly afterwards destroyed by fire, and he located at Exira, which town he had previously "laid out," and began the publication of the Audubon County Defender. Soon afterwards he published the Car-Sheaf, at Atlantic, Cass county, which he conducted until 1876, when he resumed the publication of the Times at Missouri Valley. He was married in 1842 to Martha M. White, of Tenn.; has six sons and four daughters. Mr. Harris was the democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of Ia., in 1866, and was twice a candidate for county representative from Harrison county. He has held a number of minor offices. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Robert H. Harris is a son of Judge Harris, and junior member of the firm. He was born in Tenn., in 1854, and in 1874 was married to Frances Chapman, of Exira, Ia. They have two sons. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] A. L. Harvey, of the firm of Harvey, & Ford, proprietors of the Harrison County Bank, was born in Madison county, N. Y., in July, 1826; removed to Rockland county in 1853; thence to Jasper county, Ia., in 1856, and the following year located at Magnolia, Harrison county. In 1860 he was elected county treasurer and recorder, the two offices being consolidated; was re-elected in 1862. He opened a land and loan office in 1864, and when Logan became the county seat removed there; in 1876 established the bank with J. C. Milliman, who sold his share in 1878 to Mr. Ford. Mr. H. was the first land agent and first notary public in the county, has sold about 25,000 acres of land during the last year (1881), owns a fine farm of 436 acres, four and one-half miles from Woodbine, besides about 200 acres in other parts of the county. Has been internal revenue assessor three years. Is a member of the A. F. and A. M. lodge, also of the I. O. O. F. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] C. L. Hyde, clerk of the courts, was born in Otsego county, N. Y., in 1813; came to Ia. in 1866, and first located at Little Sioux, Harrison county; has been a resident of the county ever since. He was elected to his present office in 1876 on the republican ticket. He enlisted in 1862 in the 20th Wis. Inf.; was discharged after seven months, and then joined the 41st Wis. Inf. He married Mary Russell, and has three sons. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] E. F. James, dealer in agricultural implements, pumps, windmills, etc., is a native of Pa., lived during youth in Ill.; moved to Missouri Valley, Ia., in 1868. He engaged in railroading, until 1873, when he engaged in his present business; is also proprietor of the James line of drays and express wagons. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Lorenzo Kellogg KELLOGG, Lorenzo, a banker in Dunlap, a heavy real estate owner and prosperous business man, was born January 2, 1829, in West Springfield, Hamden County, Massachusetts, where he remained until twelve years of age. At that time the family removed to Ellington, Connecticut, and from there to Rockville, Tolland County, Connecticut, where he lived until 1857, when he came to Harrison County, Iowa, arriving April 25, and this has since been his home. When he came to the township the only tract of land under cultivation was 160 acres on the northwest corner of section 33, and one farm on section 22. He located on section 28, where he took a claim of eighty acres on the east half of the southwest quarter, and afterwards purchased 160 acres on the same section. Here he made his home for twenty-six years, when he came to Dunlap to enjoy the fruits of his toil and secure better opportunities for business. From time to time he has added to his landed property until he now has about 1,000 acres, located on sections 20, 21, 28 and 29, all of which he improved himself. During his quarter of a century of farm life, together with stock-raising, he has operated quite extensively in real estate and has been a successful business man. Being among the pioneers of Harrison county, he has assisted largely in building up and developing the county. In 1871, in company with D. F. Clark, of Magnolia he organized the Dunlap Bank, with which concern he is still associated and has been president since 1879. Mr. Kellogg occupies an independent position in politics. He has served as county supervisor and has held other minor offices, but has always preferred to keep out of politics as much as possible. He is the son of Israel and Jerusha Pease Kellogg, natives of Connecticut, who were of Scotch, English and Irish extraction, and were among the early pioneers of this country. On the mother's side they date back to the Mayflower. The parents of our Mr. Kellogg reared a family of eight children, six sons and two daughters. Five sons are still alive, two in Hartford, Connecticut, and one in Boston, Massachusetts. Lorenzo and his brother Theodore are the only members of the family in this part of the country. Theodore is a resident of Woodbine, Iowa. Mr. Kellogg was married April 4, 1854, to Mary Brigham Gager, of Tolland County, Connecticut, the daughter of John Webb and Anne Brigham Gager, of English, French and Spanish extraction. Her grandfather, Don Brigham, was a drummer in the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Kellogg was born in 1834. Four children have been born to them: Helen Eliza, now the wife of B. J. Moore, of New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, whose home is now in Missouri Valley, Iowa; Clara Webb, now the widow of Oscar W. Taylor, of Fremont, Ohio, now living in Dunlap; Mattie Pease and Lillian Brigham, both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg are members of the Congregational Church and are active in the religious and social life in which they move. Men, like trees of the forest, have various capacities and proportions, and it will not in the least be underrating the achievements of other men to state that this gentleman, like some sturdy forest king, has made a substantial growth in all that goes toward the making up the life of a successful and useful member of society. (Biographies and portraits of the progressive men of Iowa, 1899) Submitted by: Cathy Danielson G. T. Kelley, attorney at law, was born in Johnson county, Ill., in 1846; moved to Mills county, Ia., in 1854, and to Harrison county in 1867. He graduated and was admitted to the bar at the Iowa State University, June 10th, 1876, and soon after opened a law office at Logan. He married Maria Allen, in Harrison county, in 1870, and has two children, a son and daughter. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Granville P. Kemp G.P. Kemp Fought To Free Kansas While in Teens "Ran" Guns for John Brown Using Guns Himself If Necessary Head of Bluffs Stage Says Stage Divers Beat Pony Express in Spreading News of Lincoln's Assassination Guarded Gold Dust Across Iowa Woodbine, IA, December 22 - Stories of gun-running for John Brown, fighting for a free state in Kansas and casting his vote against slavery there before 21, of hauling General Grant in his stage across southwestern Iowa, of driving a thieving partner from camp at pistol point while yet in his teens and of riding the first railroad into Council Bluffs, are told by Granville P. Kemp of this place. Mr. Kemp, who is now 91 years of age lives here with Mrs. Kemp. They have been married sixty five years. Before coming to Woodbine they resided at Council Bluffs at various residences in the west side, including 2111 Avenue B. Mr. Kemp chooses to tell his story chronologically. It follows: I was born ninety one years ago at Beverley, Randolph County, West Virginia, and they named me Granville P. I was barely 16 when they gave me the right to drive a stage and carry mail sacks for the government. We removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, just in time to get into the cholera epidemic there in 1849, during which time hundreds of people died. Then we moved back to West Virginia, settling at Parkersburg. We left Parkersburg in 1854 and came by steamer down the Ohio River into the Mississippi and reached St. Louis for a change of steamers, then on to Keokuk, Iowa. I was at the first state fair ever held by the state of Iowa, at Fairfield, in 1854. From this place I resumed the business of stage driving which I continued for some months, then had a chance to buy a bankrupt stock of goods to peddle in Kansas over round Atchison, Topeka, Lawrence and Ossawattomie. I got hold of a bankrupt stock of goods and went over into Kansas to sell them. At one town they arrested me and find me $50 because, as they said, I had no right to peddle goods from a wagon without a license. The sheriff refused to receive his share of the costs, and the judge and all the officers of the court let me off as lightly as they could. There was a man I had hired to go with me who turned out to be a cut throat and tried to kill me. I had got off my wagon load of goods, and was watering the horses, and my partner's gun went off and the bullet struck in the gravel. I felt something hit my hat, but I supposed it to be gravel thrown up by the bullet. Next morning I found a bullet hole in my hat and realized that the fellow had shot directly at me. I drew my revolver, went into the bedroom, covered the man with my gun, and told him that for just a little I would shoot him as he lay. He turned white as a sheet. I let him get up to dress, then marched him into the yard still keeping him covered, and started him through the water of the creek nearby, telling him not to look back, or I would drill a hole through him. He kept on going, and was soon out of sight. I heard the rattle of a sabre, and heard an army officer behind me who asked me, after learning my story, why I had not killed the fellow: saying, "He richly deserved it, and you would have been perfectly justified in shooting him." This officer was in command of a body of calvary camped near by. I never saw my partner again. On another occasion I caught a man in early morning trying to steal my horses. He was untying their halters and I got down on one knee and took a shoot at his shins and he ran away leaving my horses. They had big land sales in Kansas, and I attended several of them. At one of these Gen. Jim Lane delivered an anti-slavery address. There were twenty five or thirty Missourians, all partly intoxicated, who swore they would take Lane out of the wagon and end the speech. One fat man seemed to be the leader of the bunch. Just behind Lane stood a fellow about six feet seven in height, and as I was behind him, I could see that he had a big revolver which he was holding ready partly covering it with his hat. The Missouri crowd wanted to capture Lane, but that big red haired fellow behind the speaker, with his gun ready, was too much for their courage. They let the general alone and he finished his speech. Captain Cook came to one of these land sales and a couple of bushwhackers waylaid him and his companion and shot at both of them with rifles. Cook's companion was killed, and the captain fired his repeating rifle once or twice at the murderers, then drew both of his revolvers and with one in each hand shot them both before they could fire again or get away. Cooke went to the nearest town and told the people to go and care for the bodies of the two bushwhackers, "for," said he, "they need care." This happened near Lawrence in 1858. Mrs. John Brown kept a little store in that town and I got acquainted with her. Brown himself was away at the time I was in Lawrence. I missed getting acquainted with him. I lacked a few months of being 21 years old, but they didn't mind that. I voted to make Kansas a free state. Lane's speech to which I have just referred was made at this election. Coming away from the town where I voted, a man came out of the house and said, "What have you in that wagon?" "Sharp's rifles and revolvers for John Brown," I replied. He jumped over the fence and said, "I'll just take a look at those guns." and started to grab my horse's bridle and stop the team. I picked up my rifle and said, "Here's one of them now. You come any nearer to the horses and I will make a hole through you that you could look through to see moon rise." He drew back, and I drove off. After my stay in Kansas I came to Council Bluffs and drove the stage over the two southern tiers of counties. I drove over one of the routes from Council Bluffs to St. Joseph and from Woodbine to the town of Lewis. Senators and representatives and generals of the army often rode with me. Members of the different state legislatures were frequently on my stage. Once General Curtis came from the plains to Omaha, and they drove the stage across the Missouri on the ice. I had to walk ahead and pilot the driver over. He called to me, "come quick. I believe the general is dying." We got the general out, stretched him on the river bank, and he breathed his last. They sent his body east for burial. General Sherman was one of my passengers, and his fare was $2. He gave me two greenbacks, the first I had ever seen. On another occasion General Grant was on board, during his candidacy for president in 1867. One of his army captains sat on top of the stage with me, the general inside. I had a team of very mettlesome horses, and as this was in the night, and I did not want to talk, I cut the captain off with short answers. You see, I had been up all of the night before, driving and was tired. He asked if I had much experience, and just to get the joke on him I told him I was a perfectly green driver without experience. He was scared stiff, for the horses were mettlesome and the road was slippery. When we got through, the captain climbed down and went on a great rate about greenhorn drivers, and a big fellow called "Canada Bill," hearing him told the captain, "Kemp drive a stage before you were born." Just then the general spoke up and said, "Captain, that was one time you got let down." I read The Nonpareil all through the Civil War. We watched for it and read it with good relish all the while, just as I have done ever since. I quit staging in 1867. Before doing so, however, they put me in charge of the different stage routes, such as the Bluffs to St. Joe, the Bluffs to Des Moines and the Bluffs to Sioux City. I had to superintend the building of all sheds and depots on the lines. We hauled lumber from Des Moines for the purpose. Once they gave me a sawed off shotgun and I was special guard on a stage trip from the Bluffs to Des Moines. The reason they gave me that job was that there were 400 pounds of gold dust on board and several of the stages had been held up and robbed. I never staged on the west side of the river. When Lincoln was assassinated, the stage company arranged to have the vehicle driven at high speed to carry the news. A stage from Des Moines came to the Bluffs, with special relays of horses, in eighteen hours and fifty minutes. The usual time was thirty six hours, so they cut it down one half. The news was relayed by the stage boys out of Omaha. The pony express started out, too; but the stage boys beat the pony express fellows to Denver, and the news that the president had been shot was printed and papers being sold on the street when the express rider got in. That was one of the things that helped put the pony express out of business. Mr. Kemp's wife, now 83, sat by her husband during the telling of the story. She has been by his side for sixty five years. Mr. Kemp, in closing the afternoon's conversation, said, "But I'm not entirely a stager. I rode the first train hauled by steam between Council Bluffs and Bartlett in 1867. It had a wood burning engine." [Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Published December 23, 1928, submitted by Ann] - - - - - - - - - - Woodbine Man With Wild Bill in Bloody Kansas Campaign, But Did Not Know It Woodbine, Iowa, Dec. 24 -- Granville P. Kemp, aged 91, of this place veteran stage driver, and who still is in his teens, took part in the anti-slavery movement in Kansas, was on the platform with Wild Bill Hickok during one of Gov. Jim Lane's addresses against slavery and did not know it, it has been revealed here. A letter to The Nonpareil from William E. Connelley, state historian of Kansas, reveals this. Sunday, The Nonpareil published a story of Mr. Kemp's life, in which he recalled being on the platform with Lane while the later was defying the proslavery Missourians, and said that a large man stood behind Lane with a hat covering his gun. Mr. Kemp did not know the identity of this man, but Mr. Connelley says it was Wild Bill. Mr. Connelley reading the advance proofs of Mr. Kemp's story, says the later was mistaken in saying that he secured guns at Lawrence from the wife of John Brown, the famous manager of the underground railway. It must have been another Mrs. Brown, or a woman agent of Brown, because Mrs. Brown was not in Kansas at that time, Mr. Connelley says. [Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Published December 24, 1928, submitted by Ann] Fred Kimpel, jeweler and barber, was born Mar. 16th, 1847, in Bavaria, Ger.; came to America in Sept., 1864; learned the barber trade in N. Y. In 1866 he removed to Scranton, Pa., and engaged in the barber business; removed to Dunlap, Ia., in 1869; thence in 1876, to Logan, and engaged in his present business; owns considerable real estate in this city. He is a member of the A. 0. U. W., I. O. O. F., and A. F. & A. M. lodges. He married Mary Fisher, in Scranton, Pa. They have one son and three daughters. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] S. I. King, of the firm of King & Cadwell, attorneys at law, was born Sept. 8th, 1848, in Saratoga county, N. Y.; came to Harrison county with his parents in 1852 and located at Six Mile Grove. He is the son of Judge S. King, who was one of the first settlers of this county and one of the commissioners who located the county seat at Magnolia, in 1854. Mr. King removed to Boyer Valley, and was engaged in teaching most of the time, from the age of fifteen until 1867, when he attended the State University, of Iowa City. He left in graduating year on account of serious illness. Again engaged in teaching school; in 1870 taught the high school of Magnolia. Then traveled for the wholesale dry goods house of Smith & Crittenden, Council Bluffs. He attended the Law School at Des Moines in 1875, graduated and was admitted to the bar in 1876, and opened an office in Logan; at the end of two months he removed to Magnolia and opened an office there; came back to Logan in 1879 and formed a partnership with E. P. Cadwell in Nov., 1881. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., and A. 0. U. W. lodges. He is also chairman of the republican central committee. He was married in 1874 to Abbie M. Mark, of Fredonia, N. Y. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Hon. Thomas M. C. Logan, senator elect of 34th district, was born in Rush county, Ind., Feb. 13th, 1830; moved to Richland county, Ill., in April 1857; thence to Cedar Rapids, Linn county; and from there to Harrison county. He has been engaged most of his life in farming and dealing in stock. He resides on his fine farm adjoining Logan. He was married Feb. 17th, 1851, to Charlotte Snodgrass, in La Porte, Ind., who died in Jan. 1867, leaving a son and daughter. He afterwards married at Cedar Rapids, Harriet Herbert. They have four sons and three daughters. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] A. Longman, Jr., proprietor of the Logan Flouring Mills, was born in Derby, Eng., in 1848; came to America with his parents in 1851 and located in Holt county, Mo.; removed to Harris Grove, Harrison county, Ia., in 1852. The subject of this sketch graduated from Oskaloosa College in 1874. The mill was built in the winter of 1855-6 by Henry Reel, who sold it to Mr. McCoid, of whom Mr. L. purchased it in Sept., 1880, and has established an extensive business. He was married in Wis., to Miss Whitcomb, in 1877, who died leaving one child, a daughter. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] J. B. Lucas, attorney at law, was born in Lucas county, Ia., in 1858; removed to Missouri Valley in 1875. He was admitted to the bar in Harrison county, and established office in Oct., 1881. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] James A. Lusk, proprietor of the Lusk House and livery and feed stable, established business in 1869. He was born in Morris county, N. Y., in 1824; removed to Mills county, Ia., in 1855; thence to Harrison county in 1863; was engaged in farming until he engaged in the hotel business. He married Minerva Roberts (deceased) in 1846, and afterwards Lydia B. Kelsey. They have four sons and one daughter. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] F. L. Mandevill, druggist, was born near Rochester, N. Y., in 1835; moved to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1842; thence to Missouri Valley in 1871 and engaged in his present business; carries a complete stock in the drug line. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Horace C. McCleary, M. D., was born in Warren county, Ia., in July 1859; received his education at the Simpson Centenary College, at Indianola, Ia., studied medicine in the medical department of the State University, at Iowa City, and graduated in 1881 from Rush Medical College, Chicago. He located in Logan, July 20th, 1881, succeeding Dr. Giddings. Although a new-comer he is already in the possession of a lucrative and increasing practice. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. Lodge. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Barney McDowell (Deceased.) The McDowell's were pioneers in Sherman county and are of the few families who still own the original homestead secured upon their coming to the region. They have done much toward the development and advancement of the community and have always stood for its best interests. The late Barney McDowell was well known throughout the county as an industrious farmer and a public-spirited citizen, who was always ready to do his duty in every relation of life. He was a true friend and kind neighbor much esteemed for his sterling qualities. He was born in England and his wife in New Orleans, Louisiana, whence her father returned to England after a sojourn in the southern states. They were married at Whitehaven, England, in 1860, and came to the United States about 1866, moving from Pennsylvania to Harrison county, Iowa, in 1877. In the fall of 1882 Mr. McDowell went to Sherman county and secured a homestead comprising the southeast quarter of section six, township sixteen, range sixteen. The following spring Mr. McDowell and his family located in their Nebraska home. Mr. McDowell improved and developed a fine farm, and the home place now contains three hundred and twenty acres of valuable land. He lived there the remainder of his life and passed away May 5, 1910, survived by his wife and six children. He was in his eightieth year, and his widow, though in advanced years, is well and active, and lives on the farm with her sons, Barney and James, who manage the place. One daughter, Bessie, is teaching in the district schools. The oldest daughter, Mary, is the wife of Edward McDowell, a sketch of whom appears in this work, and their farm adjoins the McDowell farm on the south. The other two daughters are Kate, wife of Phil Lynch, of Custer county, and Nellie, Mrs. John Sweeney, also of Custer county. The family are well known and popular in social circles and have many friends. [Compendium of History, Reminiscence and Biography of Nebraska, 1912, submitted by CD=FOFG] Hon. G. H. McGavren, M. D., is a native of Pa.; came to Harrison county in 1854 and first located at St. Johns; removed to Missouri Valley in 1868. He was elected to the legislature in 1870, and is engaged in the practice of medicine with his son, Charles, who is a graduate of the Rush Medical College, at Chicago, Ill. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Allen Middleton, deputy sheriff, was born in Washington county, Ia., in 1855; came to Harrison county in 1867. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Wiley Middleton, sheriff, was born in O.; removed to Washington county, Ia.; thence to Harrison county in 1867. He was elected to his present office in 1879. He married Julia A. Lockling, and has three sons and one daughter. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] James Cutler Milliman MILLIMAN, James Cutler, of Logan, lieutenant governor of Iowa, is a conspicuous example of the men of Iowa who are shaping its destinies and who have done well for themselves by their own efforts. He was born January 28, 1847, m Galway, Saratoga County, New York. His parents were Francis Milliman and Sally Emily (Hunt) Milli- man. His great-grandfather on his mother's side was Captain Ziba Hunt, of the Revolutionary army. His father's family was Scotch-Irish. The family lived on a farm, and James attended the district school during the three months of the winter and worked hard on the farm during the rest of the year. The hardships of early life, both in and out of school, developed habits of industry and the fact that life is earnest, and so this training has aided and influenced him through life. He has had no other business or professional training than that gained by hard knocks and acute observation. He earned his own living since he was nine years old, when he lost his home by the death of his mother. He has relied upon common sense and honest dealing to carry him through, and has found no obstacle that he could not overcome by this means. He commenced his business career picking wild strawberries and selling them in town. Until he was thirteen years old he worked for his board and clothes. Then he began working for 25 cents a day and often for much less, doing anything he could find to do. In 1864 he enlisted in Company E, Forty-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry, as a private, and was discharged December 23, 1864, on account of the loss of his left arm above the elbow by a gunshot wound received in action in the long, hard fight in front of Petersburg, Va., September 30, 1864. In February, 1865, Mr. Milliman came west and located in Harrison county, at a time when there were no railways in the western half of the state. Here he taught school and earned money with which he attended the state university two years, where he was a member of the Irving Institute, a literary society connected with the university. In November, 1868, he was elected county recorder of Harrison county and was three times re-elected, serving eight years. In 1876, with A. L. Harvey, he established the Harrison County Bank, in Logan, retiring at the end of three years. In 1884 he formed a partnership with Almor Stern in the real estate, abstract and loan business, and this firm is still doing a good business. Governor Milliman has been an Odd Fellow for twenty-seven years and a member of the Grand Lodge for six years. As a member of the Grand Army of the Republic he has held the office of senior vice-commander of the Department of Iowa during the years 1893 and 1894, and served on the Council of Administration for two years following. Governor Milliman has always been a republican, and has repeatedly been endorsed by the republicans of Harrison county. His worth and party activity were recognized in 1893, when he was elected to the legislature from Harrison county. He took an active and useful part in the session of 1894, and it was there that he attracted the attention of the republicans of the state, who made him their nominee for lieutenant governor in 1897, on the first ballot in the state convention in Cedar Rapids in August. He made a successful campaign and was a source of strength to his party ticket, especially in his own congressional district, where he is best known. He ran ahead of his ticket in the state and was elected, receiving 226,005 votes, against 189,473 for B. A. Plummer, fusionist. As president of the senate, Governor Milliman, applying the principles of common sense and fairness, made an excellent presiding officer, retiring at the end of the session with general approval and congratulations from the representatives of both parties for the fair and able manner in which he had discharged his trying duties. He was re-elected in 1899 and is now serving a second term. Mr. Milliman was married November 20, 1870, to Ettie R. Stern, daughter of Jacob T. Stern, of Logan. Two children were born to them, Maude E., born October 15, 1871, and Edith R., born May 25, 1881. Mrs. Milliman died in 1883 and Mr. Milliman was again married in 1886 to Miss Bella S. Rice, daughter of Silas Rice. Five children have been born to them, as follows: Eleanor M., born October 8, 1886; Hattie A., born January 15, 1888; Bernice R., born July 19, 1899; Almor S., born December 8, 1894, and Cutler J., born November 28, 1897. (Biographies and portraits of the progressive men of Iowa, 1899) Submitted by: Cathy Danielson S. H. Morgan, of the firm of Morgan & Berry, grocers, was born in Ind.; moved to Lucas county, Iowa, in 1859. He enlisted in 1861, in Co. C, 13th Ia. Vol.; served until Sept., 1862; then returned to Lucas county and engaged in farming; removed to Harrison county in 1864 and settled in St. Johns and engaged in the drug business; removed to Missouri in 1868, and came back to Harrison county in 1877 and located at Missouri Valley and engaged in his present business. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Hans Newman was born in Sweden; came to America in 1870 and was in the employ of the S. C. & P. Ry., at Sioux City, until 1879 when he was appointed passenger conductor on the Nebraska division. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] J. W. Palmer J.W. Palmer, dentist, Council Bluffs, was born in Vinton, Benton County, Iowa, September 2, 1861; lived there four years, then moved to Iowa City. After residing in Iowa City for six years, he moved to Harrison County, Iowa, where he lived until the fall of 1879, when he came to Council Bluffs. Mr. Palmer began the study of dentistry under Drs. Swinton & West on Pearl Street, Council Bluffs, in the spring of 1882, and purposes completing the study of his profession at the Iowa City dental college. He is the son of Capt. J.E. Palmer, of Company A Twenty eighth Iowa Volunteers, who was born in Ohio in 1821, and who was killed September 19, 1864, at the battle of Winchester, his remains being brought back to Vinton, Iowa, for interment. Subject's mother was born in Essex County, NY, in 1822, was married at Vinton, Iowa, in 1856, and resided there until 1862. [1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, Part 2, page 48, submitted by Ann] Wm. Palmer, farmer, was born in London, Ontario, Canada, in Oct. 1833; came to Whiteside county, Ill. with his parents in 1851, where he remained two years; then removed to Walworth county, Wis., where he remained seven years; then came to Harrison county. He has been married three times; his present wife was Sarah Streeter; were married in 1880. He has three sons and three daughters. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] W. H. Ramseyer, superintendent of the car shops at Missouri Valley, was born in N. Y.; moved to Neb. in 1867 and engaged in the furniture business, and in 1869 came to this city and was employed by the S. C. & P. R. R. company as pattern maker. He was appointed superintendent in 1871. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] J. W. Reed, dealer in general merchandise, WM born in Va. in 1847; moved to Harrison county, Ia., in 1868, and engaged in present business with P. J. Rudisell in 1875; became sole proprietor in 1877. He has been a member of the town council several years. During the war of the rebellion he served in the 43rd West Va. Bat., Mosby's command. He was married in 1874 to Miss Low, of Atchinson county, Mo., who died in 1876, leaving one child, a daughter. He was again married in 1878 to Miss Williams., of Boone county, Ia. They have two children, daughters. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] H. H. Roadifer, of the firm of Evans & Roadifer, attorneys at law, was admitted to the bar in La Salle county, Ill., June 4th, 1875, before the supreme court. He came to Logan in 1878, and engaged in the practice of law with Mr. Evans; has been Mayor of this city one term. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] A. H. Rockwell, contractor and builder, was born in Otsego county, N. Y.; moved to Missouri Valley, Ia., in May 1873. He has built most of the brick blocks and fine residences in the place. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] J. W. Rudd, farmer in Union tp. was born in 1838, in Va.; moved to Harrison county in 1870 with his father. Wm. T. Rudd, and located at Logan, where they engaged in furniture and undertaking business, which they continued eleven years; then sold to T. J. Buchanan. He was city councilman three years and is a member of the A. O. U. W., I. O. O. F., and A. F. & A.M. lodges. He married Sarah C. Sprinkel, of Amsterdam, Va., and has two sons and two daughters. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Geo. B. Seekel, dealer in lumber, grain and agricultural implements, was born in Taunton, Mass., in Sept., 1823; the most of his younger days were spent in Providence, R. I. In 1856 he moved to Madison, Wis., and engaged in the grain business; went south in 1864 and remained two years, after which he engaged in the lumber trade in Chicago; after two years he went to St. Paul, Minn., having the management and general agency of the Singer sewing machine. In 1871 removed to Logan and engaged in his present business; has been a member of the city council, and president of the school board several years. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and A. F. & A. M. lodges. He was married in Dec., 1847, to Martha M. Williams, of N. Y., and has one daughter. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] L. Shaubel, foreman of the S. C. & P. R. R. company's paint shop, at Missouri Valley, was born in Pa.;, moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1854 with parents, and was employed in the C. & N. W. R. R. paint shops, until, coming to this city in 1877 and accepting his present position. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Hon. Joseph H. Smith, of the firm of Smith & Clyde, attorneys at law, was born in Beaver county, Pa.; moved to Harrison county, Ia. in 1857, and engaged in the practice of law; formed a partnership with A. W. Clyde in 1879. He enlisted in 1862 in Co. C. 29th Ia. Inf.; was second lieutenant. He was elected a member of the legislature one term. He married Julia A. Warrick, a native of Pa., and has five sons and one daughter. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] S. B. Shields, dealer in general merchandise, was born in N. J. He came west in 1870, settled in Missouri Valley in 1872, and engaged in his present business. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] S. B. Smith, proprietor of the City barber shop, is a native of Ark.; removed to Polk county, Ia., in 1862 and to Harrison county in 1881, and established his present business at Missouri Valley. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Geo. Soper, dealer in hardware, was born in Rome, N. Y., July 14th, 1853; moved with parents to Clinton, Ia., in 1857, and came to Logan in July, 1878, and engaged in present business. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge. He was married Aug. 26th, 1878, to Lena Dodson, of Stanwood, Ia. They have one child, a son. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] J. T. Stern, farmer, was born in Chester county, Pa., in 1814; moved to Ia. in 1857 and settled on his present farm, in LaGrange township, Harrison county, of 200 acres of well improved land, forty acres of it good timber. He was reporter for the Government Signal Service, Washington, D. C., for twenty years. He married Millicent B. Fletcher, of Lincolnshire, Eng., and has two sons and one daughter. His son Almor is county auditor. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Almor Stern, county auditor, was born in Chester county, Pa., in 1854; came to Harrison with his parents in 1857; was employed in farming, until he engaged as clerk in auditor's office; was elected to his present office in 1878. He married Laura Mann, of Harrison county in 1880. They have one child, a son. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Daniel Stewart, wagon maker, was born in Little Falls, Herkimer county, N. Y., Oct. 31st, 1833; moved to Logan in 1872 and engaged in his present business. He served during the rebellion in the 121st N. Y. Vol.; was in a number of important battles; was wounded Oct. 19th, 1864, and in hospital at Baltimore; was discharged May 16th, 1865. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. and G. A. R. orders. He married Margaret M. Clarke, of Herkimer county, N. Y., in July, 1861, and has one child a son. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] John W. Stocker, grocer and dealer in corn and stock, was born in Caledonia county, Vt., June 2nd, 1835; moved with parents to Lowell, Mass., in 1843; thence to McHenry county, Ill., in 1854 and engaged in farming; thence to Henry county, Ia., and engaged in setting up woolen mills; thence to Buchanan county in 1857 and engaged in farming one year; then moved to Little Sioux. He enlisted in Co. C, 29th Ia. Inf.; was in a number of important battles; was regimental quartermaster and commanded his company the last year and a half of his service; was some time in Rio Grande, Tex., and returned home Sept. 2nd, 1865; moved to Woodbine and bought an interest in the woolen mill there; after six months sold out and removed to Magnolia, then the county seat, and was elected clerk of the courts in 1866 and re-elected in 1868. In 1876 he located in Logan and engaged in the stock and grain buying business and added the grocery business in 1879. He is a member of the Masonic, I. O. O. F., and I. O. G. T. orders. He married Susan B. Bonney, in 1862. They have three daughters. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] A. L. Tamisiea. harness maker and dealer, was born in Dubuque, Ia., in 1855; removed with parents in 1856 to Harrison county, Ia. He came to Missouri Valley in 1875, and engaged in the confectionery business. He engaged in his present business in 1879. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] J. D. Tamisiea, dealer in groceries and provisions, is a native of N. Y.; moved to Dubuque, Ia., in 1853; thence to Harrison county in 1856; moved to Missouri Valley in 1877, and engaged in his present business. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] S. A. Teal, manager of the railroad machine shops, at Missouri Valley, Ia., was born in Albany county, N. Y., in 1831. He was for a time engaged in the iron business at Zanesville, O.; moved to Chicago in 1853 and was employed as engineer for the C., B. & Q. R. R.; remained there four years; then came to Cass county, Ia., thence to Council Bluffs, in 1861, and was engaged as manager of the iron works at that place; thence to this city in 1876 and engaged as manager of machine shops. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Thomas Turnbull, dealer in grain and farm machinery, was born in Greene county, O., June 20th, 1841, was engaged in farming and stock raising there until 1874, when he came to Des Moines, Ia., and engaged in pork packing and curing with Fayette Meek; removed to Harrison county in Nov., 1876, and engaged in his present business. He owns a well improved farm in Jefferson twp., of 120 acres. He was married June 25th, 1865, to Susan B. Thompson, in Greene county, O. They have four sons and three daughters. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] E. G. Tyler, land, loan and abstract office, was born in Chittenden county, Vt., Feb. 15th, 1856; in 1866 moved to Hastings, Minn.; thence to Dunlap, Ia., in 1867. He graduated in 1878 from the Iowa Agricultural College, at Ames, Ia. In 1879 he opened tile office in Logan. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] J. L. Witt, M. D., was born March 4th, 1855, in Galesburg, Knox county, Ill. He graduated from the medical department of the State University, at Iowa City in 1878, and located in Logan the same year and engaged in the practice of his profession. He was married in Logan Nov. 30th, 1881, to Millie Vanderhoof. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] John Williams was born in Fayette county, O., in 1827; moved with his parents to Noble county, Ind.; thence to Mason county, Ill.; thence to Jefferson twp., Harrison county, Ia., where he now resides. He owns a well improved farm of 650 acres. He makes a specialty of raising fine stock. He has some very fine horses and one thoroughbred stallion which was imported from France at a cost of $2,500. In fact we may say that Mr. Williams has one of the finest stock farms in Western Iowa. He was married in 1849 to Sarah Anderson, of Noble county, Ind. They have three sons and five daughters. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Horace N. Warren, dentist, was born in Council Bluffs, Ia., Aug. 24th, 1858; he studied dentistry with Dr. H. N. Urnuy. He located permanently in Missouri Valley in 1880; makes professional visits to Logan every two months, and three times a year at Little Sioux and Magnolia. Although comparatively a newcomer, he has by his careful and skillful practice, established a very lucrative business. John R. Wheeler WHEELER, John R., of Dunlap, comes of revolutionary ancestry. His great grandfather, Francis Wheeler, of Concord, Mass., was one of the immortal patriotic "minute men," who left their farms, stores and shops at the beginning of the struggle for liberty, and at Concord met the British soldiers in mortal combat, covering themselves with glory for all time. His grandfather, Josiah H. Wheeler, then fourteen years of age, was ill with typhoid fever, and was removed to the woods in an oxcart, for safety, when the news came that the British troops were marching upon Lexington. The father of the subject of our sketch, was James Wheeler, who was a farmer and lumber man, and his mother was Nancy Rose Wheeler, who was reared in England. They settled in Frewsburg, Chautauqua County, New York, in 1815, where John R. was born, September 30, 1833. His boyhood was spent on a farm, and his only opportunity for acquiring an education was in the common schools of that period. In 1856 he went to Eau Claire, Wis., and in 1860 was elected sheriff of Eau Claire county. In the fall of 1861 he raised and organized Company G of the Sixteenth Wisconsin Infantry, and was elected captain of the company. His period of service extended through the entire war. He was in the battles of Shiloh and Corinth in 1862, at Vicksburg in 1863, at the siege of Atlanta in 1864, where he was shot through both thighs on July 21, 1864, and was in the closing fight of the great struggle, at Kingston, North Carolina, in March, 1865. He was promoted to the rank of major of his regiment, and was in active service until the final surrender of the last confederate. After the war, Major Wheeler settled at Clinton, Iowa, and engaged in the lumber business. As the North Western Railway was extended through the state, Mr. Wheeler established lumber yards at Boone, Jefferson, Denison, Woodbine and Dunlap, Iowa, and at Blair, Nebraska. In 1867 he settled at Dunlap in Harrison county, where he established the first lumber yard in that town. In 1876 he married Miss Nancy E. Tyler, of Hamburg, Iowa. Their only child, John R. Wheeler, Jr., was born November 10, 1879. Major Wheeler is a member of the democratic party, and in 1895 was nominated by his party for representative in the Twenty- sixth General Assembly, and was elected, notwithstanding the fact that Drake, the republican candidate for governor, had over 700 majority in the county. He was an intelligent and useful member of the house, serving on several important committees. (Biographies and portraits of the progressive men of Iowa, 1899)Submitted by: Cathy Danielson C. Williams, of the firm of Williams & Blenkiron, proprietors of meat market, was born in England in 1855; came to America in 1861 and settled with his parents in Cherokee, Ia.; removed to Missouri Valley in 1876 and engaged in his present business. [History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, 1882, submitted by Cathy Danielson] ©2009 Genealogy Trails