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DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS BIOGRAPHIES
JOHN DELBERT ADAMS John Delbert Adams began his education in rural schools, and was graduated from high school at Everest. On April 26, 1916, he was married to May Sophia Sheldon at Eudora. She was born in Phillips County, Kansas, July 25, 1893, of English ancestry. A Republican, Mr. Adams has served as mayor of
Eudora for three terms. He is a member of the Masons, and is past master and former secretary of the local lodge.
He is an Odd Fellow, a member of the Red Cross, and an attendant of the Methodist Church. He has always been active
in all civic and community work. He enjoys baseball and football while his hobby is band music. Residence: Eudora.
(Illustriana Kansas, by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin, 1933, page 10) Forrest Claire Allen attended public school at Independence, Missouri, and was graduated in law from the University of Kansas. He received the degree of Doctor of Osteopathy from Central College and was a student and coach at Baker University. During the years 1905, 1906 and 1907 he was a member of the basketball team, and during the years 1906 and 1907 a member of the baseball team at the University of Kansas. In 1905 he was manager and right guard to the world's champion Kansas City Athletic Club team. He was coach of the varsity team of the University of Kansas, 1908, 1909, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1932. He was also varsity football coach and athletic director at Baker University, Haskell Institute, and the Warrensburg, Missouri, Teachers College. On June 25, 1908, he was married to Bessie E. Milton at Independence. Mrs. Allen was born at Wellington, Missouri, September 10, 1887, of English ancestry. Dr. and Mrs. Allen have five children living and one deceased; Forrest, Jr., born April 10, 1911, died October 16, 1925; Mary, April 25, 1909, who married Lee Hamilton and resides at Kansas City, Missouri; Milton, May 26, 1913; Robert, July 3, 1919; Jane, November 19, 1917; and Eleanor, October 15, 1922. From 1912 until 1919 Dr. Allen was coach and athletic director of the Central Missouri State Teachers College. He is now director of the division of physical education and intercollegiate athletics at the University of Kansas. He is a member of the finance committee of the First Methodist Church, past president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and a member of the joint rules committee of the National Basketball Association. He is the author of My Basketball Bible, and contributed a chapter on physical education and athletics to Higher Education in America. On April 18, 1922, Dr. Allen founded the Kansas Relays. They were ten years old in 1932. He has won eleven Missouri Valley basketball championships in sixteen years. During the World War Dr. Allen was a private in
the United States Army stationed at Camp Sheridan, Illinois. He was a three minute speaker and active in loan drives.
He is a member of the American Legion, the Red Cross, and Salvation Army, the Kansas State and Lawrence Chambers
of Commerce, and the Rotary Club, of which he was a member of the board of directors from 1923 until 1926. He is
a member of the Masons (Knights Templar, Scottish Rite), the Elks and Eagles and the Hoo Hoo Club. He is a member
of the research committee of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, a member of the Kansas City Athletic
Club, the Lawrence Country Club, and the University Club. His favorite sports are golf, handball, and hiking, while
his hobby is building and paying for the Memorial Stadium of Kansas. Residence: Lawrence (Illustriana Kansas, by
Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin, 1933, page 22) Emma Buck Eldridge, his wife, was born in Seaville, New Jersey, April 4, 1845, and died at Cawker City, December 15, 1925. Her parents were William Eldridge and Elizabeth Gandy. William Eldridge was the son of Nathaniel and Rachel Eldridge, while Elizabeth Gandy was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Gandy. Emma B. Alrich was graduated from the State Normal School of New Jersey on June 23,1864. She was a teacher, and in February, 1866, she was married to Mr. Alrich. He was a veteran of the Union Army, Company B, 71st Pennsylvania Regiment. For several years they lived in Pennsylvania, where Mr. Alrich was engaged in business. Sometime afterward Mr. Alrich came west and Mrs. Alrich and children spent a year with her parents in New Jersey. He located in Cawker City, which was then a new and rapidly developing territory. The rest of the family came west in 1879 and Mrs. Alrich became a teacher in the public schools of Cawker City. In 1883 Mr. and Mrs. Alrich purchased a newspaper, and from that time until the death of Mr. Alrich in 1917 they were editors of the Cawker City Record. Mrs. Emma B. Alrich was a member of the First Baptist Church of Cawker City, and served as president of the Kansas Woman's Relief Corps, as national vice president of the Woman's Relief Corps and as clerk and postmistress in the Kansas legislature. Alaric Gandy Alrich attended public school in Philadelphia until 1876, and after continuing his education in Cawker City public schools left to work in the printing office of his father. On August 20, 1890,he removed from Cawker City to engage in work on the Daily Journal at Lawrence. There he continued for 14 years. Thereafter he worked a part of a year for the Burnap Printing Company in Kansas City, when he started in the printing business for himself at Lawrence. He has been the owner of his own plant for more than 28 years, this plant covering the phases of printing, binding, engraving, and rubber stamp making. On June 30, 1897, Mr. Alrich was married to Helen
M. Oatman at Lawrence. She was born at Leavenworth, October 23, 1876 and has been connected with her husband's
business for 28 years. She is the daughter of A. G. and Mary A. Oatman. Mr. and Mrs. Alrich have one daughter,
Eleanore Evelyn, born February 5, 1905, who is employed in the university library at Lawrence. Mr. Alrich's religious affiliation is with the
First Baptist Church of Lawrence. He is past commander of the Kansas Division of the Sons of Veterans of the Civil
war, past president of the International Printers Union of Lawrence, and a life member of the Kansas State Historical
Society. He is also a member of the Masons, the Red Cross, and the Young Men's Christian Association. Residence:
Lawrence. (Illustriana Kansas, by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin, 1933, page 32) Upon his graduation from high school in 1914, Laurel Everette Anderson attended Oberlin conservatory, received the degree of bachelor of Music in 1921 in organ and composition, having studied under Dr. George Whitfield Andrews. He received the degree of Master of Music in 1922, being the second to earn his degree. During his six years' study at Oberlin, Mr. Anderson was assistant to Edward Dickinson, and during 1922 was substitute teacher in piano. In that year, upon leaving Oberlin, he became head of the department of organ and composition at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, also lecturing in the history and criticism of music. Resigning in 1924, he went to Paris to become organist and director of music in the American Church of Paris and to continue his studies in organ under Joseph Bonnett and Louis Vierne. During that period he took composition with Laparra. Professor Anderson resigned his position in 1927 to become assistant professor of organ and theory in the School of Fine Arts of the University of Kansas. In 1928 he was advanced to the rank of associate professor, and the new position and title of university organist was created and bestowed upon him. On August 23, 1924, he was married at Racine, to Mervyn DeMuth Agnew. She was born in Creston, Iowa November 16, 1900, and received her early education there. She then attended Oberlin Conservatory, from which she was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Music in Organ and Harp in 1921. Mrs. Anderson was a concert harpist at the time of her marriage, and during her years in Paris studied the harp with Renie. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have two children, Whitfield DeMuth, born September 29, 1929, and Claudia Louis June 10, 1931. Professor Anderson is a member of Phi Mu Alpha, the American Guild of Organists and of Pi Kappa Lambda. At the present time he is dean of the Kansas chapter of the American Guild. He is known on two continents for his extensive work in organ recitals, and was the founder of the Vesper Organ Recital Series of the University of Kansas in 1927. In 1933 he was soloist for the national convention of the American Guild. Among his compositions are to be found works for string quartette, orchestra, ensemble, combinations, piano and voice. Professor Anderson enjoys walking, swimming and
tennis, while his hobbies are cabinet making and interior decorating. Residence: Lawrence. (Illustriana Kansas,
by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin, 1933, page 36) Jennie Lourie was born in Cambridge in 1833 and
died there in 1902. her great-grandfather came from Scotland in 1770. On December 26, 1904, he was married to Cora Phillips at Scranton, Pennsylvania. There are two children, Madilene, born September 28, 1905; and Annette, born December 26, 1906, who married Leon Bocker. Mrs. Ashton was born at Scranton, Pennsylvania, August 16, 1873 and is a teacher and musician. Professor Ashton holds membership in the Plymouth Congregational Church, the Mathematical Society of America, and the Mathematical Association of America. His club is the University Club. Residence: Lawrence. (Illustriana Kansas, by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin, 1933, page 45) Hiram Appelman was born at Groton, Conn., June 23, 1825. He was the son of John F. Appelman, who immigrated to the United States at the age of twenty, and settled at Mystic river, Conn., in 1806. The father was born at Wolgast, now a Prussian City. Hiram Appelman attended the common schools until the age of fourteen, when he began work in a country store. In 1847 he went to New York City where he became skilled in the dry-goods trade. On the 24th of January, 1849, he sailed for California around Cape Horn. After a voyage of 194 days he landed at San Francisco and settled at Sacramento. He was a very active business man, and a Broderick Democrat in that state, until June 21, 1856, when he returned to his native place. In July 1856, he made a trip for pleasure through the Western States, when he concluded to settle at Lawrence, where he became an active free-state man. In October, 1858, he concluded to return to Connecticut. He was the first man to enlist from his neighborhood in 1861, becoming a member of Company E, Second Connecticut regiment. He was in the first battle of Bull Run. In August, 1861, he re-enlisted for three years and was assigned to the Eighth Connecticut regiment, of which he was colonel. He was wounded twice, the second time at Antietam so severely that he was physically disqualified, and in December, 1862, was honorably discharged. He then took up the study of law. He died September 4, 1873, during his third term as secretary of state of Connecticut, having also served as state senator and judge of probate in that state. (Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1907-1908, Vol. X, edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary, State Printing Office, Topeka, 1908, page 208) Oliver Barber, son of Thomas Barber and Mary Oliver, was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, December 10, 1816. He was educated in the common schools of Pennsylvania, and when about nineteen years of age removed to Richmond, Ind., where he entered into partnership with his brother, Thomas W. Barber, in the manufacture of woolen cloths. Thomas W. Barber came to the territory and was murdered by a pro-slavery party on the afternoon of December 6, 1855. Oliver Barber removed to Kansas in 1856, and the following year his family came, making their home in Douglas County. He was elected to the house of representatives in 1857; was one of the county commissioners of Douglas County in 1858, and re-elected in 1859. Upon the admission of Kansas into the Union he was again elected a member of the first house of representatives. In June, 1862, he was appointed commissary by President Lincoln, commissioned captain, and served on the staff of Gen. James G. Blunt for a little over two years. In 1865 he was elected state senator, and in 1878 county treasurer of Douglas County. He was a Mason. He was married November 8, 1858, to Miss Malinda Burgess, daughter of Samuel Burgess. While in Kansas he was engaged in farming and stock raising. He died at Lawrence, October 24, 1895. (Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1907-1908, Vol. X, edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary, State Printing Office, Topeka, 1908, page 208) John Curtis, of Franklin county, was elected from the unorganized or frontier counties with S. J. Stewart and Christopher Columbia. He was born in Indiana and came to Kansas in 1856, settling on the Wakarusa, in Douglas County. He moved to Peroia, in Franklin County, in March 1857. He was a good lawyer, and all accounts agree that he was an able and brilliant man. He was interested with Perry Fuller in promoting the scheme to make Minneola the territorial capital. He died in Lawrence during the session of the legislature, February 15, 1858. (Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1907-1908, Vol. X, edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary, State Printing Office, Topeka, 1908, pages 209 & 210) George W. Deitzler, of Douglas County, born in Pine Grove, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, November 30, 18226, was killed near Tucson, Ariz., April 10, 1884, by being thrown from a carriage. He was a member and speaker of the territorial legislature of 1857 and 1858; and also of the territorial session of 1861. During the territorial troubles he was arrested for treason and suffered the indignities put upon free-state men. He was appointed colonel of the First Kansas infantry and was badly wounded at the battle of Wilson Creek. He was made a brigadier-general by President Lincoln, November 29, 1862, for gallant services, resigning August 27, 1863. On February 29, 1864, he was appointed major-general of Kansas state militia by Governor Carney, and was in command of all Kansas forces - about 20,000 in number - in the Price raid. He was mayor of Lawrence in 1860, treasurer of the State University and a member of the Emporia Town Company. He left Lawrence for California in 1872 and in 1884 was in Arizona, where he was killed. He was married about the close of the war to a Miss Anna McNeil of Lexington, Mo., by whom he had three daughters. Mrs. Deitzler died in California in 1901. On his deathbed General Deitzler expressed a desire to be buried in Kansas soil and his bones now rest in a cemetery at Lawrence. (Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1907-1908, Vol. X, edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary, State Printing Office, Topeka, 1908, page 210) Carmi William Babcock, of Douglas county, president of the council, was born in Frank-lin county, Vermont, April 21, 1880; received his education at Bakersfleld Academy, and encaged in teaching. In 1860 he moved to St. Paul, Minn., where he read law and was admitted to the bar. He came to Kansas in 1864, arriving in Lawrence in September. Finding that the practice of law was not remunerative at that time he engaged in the real estate business. In 1867 he established a bank in connection with Mr. Johnston Lykens, but the panic of that year overwhelmed it. He was the first postmaster of Lawrence, receiving his appointment February 1, 1866, but was removed in 1867 to make place for a pro-slavery man. He was also the second mayor of Lawrence; a delegate to the convention of National Democracy, June. 1866, and was a member of the committee on resolutions; also a member of the executive committee of the free-state convention at Grasshopper Falls, August 26, 1857. In 1868 he was appointed surveyor-general of Kansas, which office he filled two terms, or until its discontinuance. With E. D Thompson, Josiah Miller and Marcus J. Parrott he built the bridge across the Kaw River at Lawrence, completing it in December, 1868. When Silvers & Son withdrew from the contract of replacing the rotten foundation of the east wing of the state-house, at Topeka, July 24, 1867, it was awarded to Bogert & Babcock, who carried it to completion. General Babcock was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1868. In November, 1871, he became one of the incorporators of the Kansas Magazine Company. In his later years he was connected with the Kansas Basket Manufacturing Company, being its secretary. He died in St Louis, October 22, 1888. . (Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1907-1908, Vol. X, edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary, State Printing Office, Topeka, 1908, page 205) SAMUEL NEWITT WOOD ROBERT DODGE BALDWIN DEMAS M. ALEXANDER Abner Allen, a member of the first state legislature, 1861 was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, September 16, 1826, and died at Ocean Park, Cal. April 3, 1899. While yet a very young man he made a trip to California via the Isthmus of Panama, where he engaged in mining for a time, but returned to Ohio in 1853. In October, 1855 he again left his native state, this time for Lawrence, Kan. He remained in Lawrence until the spring of 1856,when he moved to Zeandale township, in what was then Richardson County, where he preempted a piece of land. He remained in Zeandale until 1887, when he moved to California. He was married to Lavinia Taylor November 29, 1859. (Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1907-1908, Vol. X, edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary, State Printing Office, Topeka, 1908, page 243) Thomas A. Churchill is an extensive stock-raiser
and dealer and owns and operates a splendid farm of five hundred and eighty-three acres on sections 28 and 29,
Garden Grove township. His birth occurred near Springfield, in Sangamon county, Illinois, in 1856, and he is a
son of Joel and Lucretia (Bondurant) Churchill, both natives of Kentucky, although descended from New England stock.
The ancestry in the Churchill line is traced back to England. The Bondurants were originally French Hugenots but
about 1687, following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, emigrated to Virginia. When a boy, Joel Churchill
accompanied his parents to Sangamon county, Illinois, and there his marriage occurred. He was a farmer and was
well known and highly respected in his community. In 1865 he removed with his family to Douglas county, Kansas,
settling between Lawrence and Ottawa. In the spring of 1874 they returned to Illinois and became residents of Piatt
county. Mr. Churchill's Thomas A. Churchill was reared in Illinois and
Kansas and received his education in the public schools. He began his independent career in Illinois and although
he had no capital, he was energetic and determined and soon began to prosper financially. Later he removed to Wayne
county, Iowa, where he farmed for five years, and on the 18th of November, 1908, he removed to Garden Grove, Decatur
county. He remained there until October 18, 1909, when he settled upon his present farm of five hundred and eighty-three
acres on sections 28 and 29, Garden Grove township. His property is not only extensive, but is well improved, and
he is meeting with marked success as a raiser of high grade hogs and cattle. Mr. Churchill was married in Kansas
to Miss Mary Browning, a native of Indiana, who accompanied her parents to the Sunflower state in 1868. Her father
was a farmer and blacksmith and took considerable interest in public affairs, serving at one time as assessor of
Franklin county, Kansas. His wife passed away in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal church and he is also deceased,
both dying in Mr. Churchill is a republican and is now serving as a member of the Garden Grove township board of trustees. Fraternally he belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America and to the Royal Neighbors, and his wife is likewise a member of the latter order. Their daughter Pearl is a member of the P. E. O. Sisterhood. Mr. Churchill has made many improvements upon his farm since it came into his possession and has but recently erected a large barn, which replaces one destroyed by fire a year ago, the building with its contents, including five horses, being an entire loss. Although he began his career empty handed, he has accumulated more than a competence, and his success is a source of justifiable pride to him. He has also gained the sincere respect and esteem of all who know him, for his business methods have at all times been open and honorable, and he has manifested a praiseworthy consideration for the rights of others. [Source: "History of Decatur County, Iowa, and Its People" By J. M. Howell, Heman Conoman Smith; Published by S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1915 - Submitted by K. Torp] MORSE, FREDERIC
DANIELS M. D. Asa Daniels Morse was a farmer, and on his farm his son, Dr. F. D. Morse, was reared, and was sent to the public schools, then to Monson Academy, at which he graduated in 1858. He then entered Amherst College, at which he was graduated in 1862. Immediately after graduating in Amherst he enlisted in Company B, Forty-second Massachusetts infantry, as a private, serving about one year. The term of enlistment was nine months, but he served nearly a year, being mustered out of the service Aug. 20, 1863. He took up the study of medicine at Rush Medical College, Chicago, in which he graduated in 1867. For a short time he practiced his profession with his preceptor, Dr. C. M. Fitch, of Chicago. In August, 1868, he located at Lawrence, Kan., where he has continued in an active and successful practice, occupying the same office, for thirty-three years. For six years he lectured to Kansas University medical students, his subject being, "History of Medicine." He has served as president of the Kansas State Medical Society, of which he was secretary for ten years. He is a member of the Douglas county and Kansas state medical societies, and of the American Medical Association. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and since 1893 has been a member of the United States board of pension examiners. In politics Dr. Morse has affiliated with the Republican party, but he has never sought political honors. He is a Knight Templar and Thirtieth degree Scottish Rite Mason, also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, Abdallah Temple, at Leavenworth. Both he and his wife are members of the Congregational church at Lawrence, he being a deacon in the church. Dr. Morse was married at Monson, Mass., in 1869, to Miss Addie A. Smith, born at Monson, and who is descended from an old and highly respected Massachusetts family. Dr. and Mrs. Morse have no children. Their lives have been exemplary, and in Lawrence, where they have lived for over thirty-three years, they are highly respected. Dr. Morse has won a high place in the esteem and confidence of not only the public, but also of his professional brethren. (Kansas Biography, Vol. III, Part 2, Page 773-774 Transcribed by: Millie Mowry) Jasper Byrd Wilson, lawyer and formerly a teacher, was born on a farm near Perry, Jefferson county, Kansas, Jan. 28, 1879, a son of jasper and Octavia Adelaide (Norwood) Wilson. The father was born in Catawba county, North Carolina, and the mother in Iredell county, of that same state. The Wilson's are of Irish lineage, while the Norwood's are of English. Joshua Wilson was the progenitor of the Wilson family in America. He came from Ireland for the expressed purpose of joining the Colonial army in the struggle for American independence, and became a Revolutionary soldier. The parents of our subject were reared and married in North Carolina, and from that state they came to Kansas, settling in Jefferson county in November, 1868. During the Civil war they resided in their native state, but on account of the father's pronounced Union sentiment, which was not calculated to make further living in the South pleasant, he decided to come North. Farming has been his life occupation. He is one of the highly respected citizens of Jefferson county, and has passed the eighty-first milestone in the journey of life, while his wife is seventy-four years of age. They had eleven children, of whom Jasper B. is the youngest. He was reared on the farm, attended the schools at Perry, and then the University of Kansas, at which he graduated in 1904, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. For three years after his graduation Mr. Wilson taught American history and government, in the high school of Lawrence, and was then, for two years, superintendent of the schools at Lecompton. For a short time he was engaged in the insurance business at Lawrence. Meanwhile he studied law, and was admitted to the bar, Jan. I9, 1911. In politics he is a Republican. He is now serving as justice of the peace for the city of Lawrence. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; the Phi Alpha Delta and the Phi Beta Kappa fraternities; and in church relations a Baptist. In 1905 Mr. Wilson married Miss Eva Isabel Barrett, of Lawrence. They have two children: Justin Barrett and Octavia Frances. (Kansas Biography, Vol. III, Part 2, Transcribed by: Millie Mowry) Alaric Gandy Alrich, was born in Camden, New Jersey,
September 24, 1868, son of Levi Lockard and Emma Buck (Eldridge) Alrich. Levi Lockard Alrich was a native of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, born October 5, 1840. He was the son of Peter L. and Eliza Alrich, and for 35 years was editor of
the Cawker City Public Record. Dinsmore Alter, professor of astronomy at the University
of Kansas, was born in Coifax, Washington, March 28, 1888, son of Joseph and Jeanette (Copley) Alter. His father,
born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania,, was a clergyman, whose death occurred at Monmouth, Illinois, February
14, 1904. His wife was born near Kittaning, Pennsylvania, January 26, 1861, and is of Revolutionary ancestry. Charles Hamilton Ashton, professor of mathematics
at the University of Kansas, was born at Cambridge, New York, August 12, 1866, son of John and Jennie (Lottrie)
Ashton. His father, a physician, was born at Cambridge in 1830, and died there in 1902. His great-great-grandfather
came from England in 1772. Theodore Henry Aszman, clergyman of the Presbyterian
Church, was born at Portage, Wisconsin, October 1, 1886, son of Edward and Anna (Heidemann) Aszman. The father,
a clergyman also, served the German Evangelical Trinitatis Church at Portage for thirty-two years. Thomas Edgar Atkinson, professor of law at the
University of Kansas since 1926, was born at Toledo, Ohio, August 6, 1895, son of Thomas Baker and Lyra Viola (Williams)
Atkinson. Edgar Henry Summerfield Bailey, professor of chemistry,
and director of laboratory of the University of Kansas, was born in Middlefield, Connecticut, September 17, 1848.
His father, Russell Enos Bailey, was born in Middletown, Connecticut, June 14, 1815, and died at Meriden, on April
21, 1894. Augusta McMillen Baker, daughter of Alvah Grenelle
and Annie (Seney) McMillen, was born at Chapin, Iowa, March 16, 1875. Her father was born in Galway, New York,
July 23, 1849, and died at Everly, Iowa, December 5, 1920. Annie Seney was born in Port Hope, Canada, March 1,
1852, and died at Chapin, Iowa, January 10, 1882. Arthur J. Anderson, M. D., of Lawrence, is one of the foremost physicians of that city and has gained prominence among the members of his profession in the state. He is not a Kansan by birth, though he is almost to the manor born, a Kansan. He was five years of age when his parents located at Lawrence, where his father, Dr. Samuel B. Anderson, successfully practiced medicine for a period of nearly twenty-five years, then going to Colorado. He died at Denver, in 1907, at the age of eighty-two years. Dr. Samuel B. Anderson was born in Pennsylvania and was descended from sturdy Scotch ancestry. He graduated in the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, and later studied homeopathy, which latter system of medicine he practiced for years, achieving an enviable reputation in his profession. He was well and favorably known in Lawrence, being highly esteemed as a citizen, as well as a physician. He began the practice of medicine at Greenfield, Highland county, Ohio, and it was at that place that his son, Arthur J., was born, June 19, 1863. His wife bore the maiden name of Nancy L. Davis. She was possessed of sterling qualities of heart and mind and was highly respected by all who knew her. In Lawrence, Dr. Arthur J. Anderson was reared, and there he has made his home since five years of age, his parents locating in that place in 1868. In the city schools he obtained a fair common school education which was supplemented by attending the University of Kansas, in which institution he remained up to his junior year. Predilection led him to the study of medicine, a profession in which his father had gained the reputation of a skillful practitioner. He spent one year in the Missouri Medical College, at St. Louis, and then graduated, in 1887, from the Hahnemann Medical College, at Chicago. Immediately he began the practice of his profession, at Lawrence, and soon rose to prominence. He has long held a large patronage, many of the prominent families of Lawrence being numbered therein. He is a member of the Douglas County Medical Society, of the Kansas State Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association. He is a Thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, Abdallah Temple, at Leavenworth. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In politics he is a Democrat, but has not sought or held political position. After five years of efficient service as school physician for Haskell Institute he resigned the position, Sept. 8, 1911. For six years he was general examiner for the Fraternal Aid Society, and for two years was a member of the Kansas state board of health. (Kansas Biography Part 2, Vol. III, 1912, Page: 976-977, Transcribed as written by Millie Mowry. (A picture of Arthur Anderson may be obtained by contacting the contributor at Rock2Plate@aol.com.) Gage, Alexander Kimball, lawyer; born, Lawrence, Kan., May 17, 1874; son of William Tenney Gage (son of William Gage and Eleanor Kimball) and Elizabeth (Godwin) Gage (daughter of Henry Goodwin and Jerusha Ann Peters); educated Barrows School, Hartford, Conn.; district school, Cromwell, Conn.; Cass school, Detroit, graduating, June, 1888; Detroit High School, graduating, June 24, 1892; Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., A.B., June 1896; Detroit College of Law, LL.B., April 19, 1899; married at Detroit, Apr. 18, 1903, Gertrude Mary Candler, daughter of Claudius H. Candler (son of William Candler and Letitia Thomas), and Mary V. Kaple (daughter of John H. Kaple and Fanny Chapel). Has engaged in general practice at Detroit since Apr. 22, 1899; member firm of Hill, Gage & Ranney, 1899-02; alone since 1902. Secretary Detroit Bar Association since June, 1907. Republican. Episcopalian. Member Beta Beta of Psi Upsilon. Club: University. Recreations: Baseball and tennis. Office: 808 Hammond Bldg. Residence: 61 Garfield Av. (Source: The Book of Detroiters by Albert Nelson Marquis 1908 by Albert Nelson Marquis, submitted by Christine Walters) DIGGS, Mrs. Annie LePorte, politician and journalist,
born in London, Ontario, Can., 22nd February, 1853. She became the wife of A. S. Diggs, of Lawrence, Kans., in
1873 Their family consists of two daughters and one son. Mrs. Diggs traces her ancestry in a direct line to General
John Stark, of Revolutionary fame. She has certainly inherited his fighting qualities. After her marriage she began
her career in public as a journalist. She entered the field to fight for political and personal independence and
equality. She lectured before literary, reformatory and religious assemblages very successfully. In religion she
is a radical Unitarian. When the Alliance movement among the western farmers began, she entered the field and soon
found herself at the front among those who were engineering that great industrial movement. During the political
campaigns in Kansas and neighboring States she made many speeches. She was chosen by the People's Party to reply
to the platform utterances of John J. Ingalls, to whose overthrow she contributed largely. She was elected national
secretary of the National Citizens' Industrial Alliance, at the annual meeting of that organization in St. Louis,
Mo., 22nd February, 1892. Mrs. Diggs is a clear, forcible writer, a strong, attractive orator, and a thinker and
reasoner of unusual power. She has done considerable lecturing and preaching. In 1881 she addressed the annual
convention of the Free Religious Association, in Boston, Mass., on "Liberalism in the West." She has
for years been a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Much of her journalistic work was done on the
"Advocate," the organ of the Alliance, on which journal she served as the leading editorial writer. She
has spent much time in Washington, D. C., since the upheaval caused by the Alliance, and has done notable work
in correspondence for the western newspapers. She is president of the Woman’s Alliance of the District of Columbia. GRUBB, SOPHRONIA FARRINGTON NAYLOR GRUBB, Mrs. Sophronia Farrington Naylor, temperance
worker, born in Woodsfield, Ohio, 28th November, 1834. Her father and mother were persons of force, character and
intellect. Her educational training was directly under the care of her father. When seventeen years old, she was
graduated from the Illinois Conference College, in Jacksonville, and at nineteen she was put in charge of the woman's
department of Chaddock College, Quincy, Ill. In 1856 she became the wife of Armstead Otey Grubb, of St. Louis,
Mo. In the home they made she was engrossed until 1861, the beginning of the Civil War, when she and her family
returned to Quincy. In the emergencies of wartime began to be manifest the ability, energy and enthusiasm that
have distinguished her through life. Devoted to her country and humanity, she served them for four years, as those
who, without compensation, gave time and strength in loving help in hospital, camp and field. At times she helped
bring up the sick and wounded from southern swamps and fields. Again, surgeons and nurses being scarce, she was
one of the women of nerve in requisition for surgical operations. Meanwhile the needs of the colored people were
forced on her attention. Many of them, as refugees, went to Mr. Grubb's office, asking assistance, and were sent
by him on to his home, with directions that their wants were to be supplied. The work became so heavy a drain on
time, strength and sympathy, that Mrs. Grubb called a public meeting, and with her sister, Mrs. Shields, and with
others, organized a Freedman's Aid Society. In the three years following they cared and provided for over three-thousand
destitute negroes. At the close of the war Mr. and Mrs. Grubb returned to St. Louis. When her sons grew to manhood,
the dangers surrounding them growing out of the liquor traffic led Mrs. Grubb to a deep interest in the struggle
of the home against the saloon. She saw there a conflict as great, and needs as pressing as in the Civil War, and
she gradually concentrated upon it all her powers. In 1882 she was elected national superintendent of the work
among foreigners, one of the most onerous of the forty departments of the national organization of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. By her effort and interest she has brought that department up to be thoroughly organized,
wide-reaching and flourishing. She publishes leaflets and tracts on all the phases, economic, moral, social and
evangelistic, of the temperance question in seventeen languages, at the rate of fifty editions of ten-thousand
each per year. These are distributed all over the United States. She established a missionary department in Castle
Garden, New York City, through which instructions in the duties and obligations of American citizenship are afforded
to immigrants in their own tongues as they land. She has also recently been made president of the Kansas Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. Her home is now in Lawrence, Kan. Rev. Arthur Lincoln Gowdy, eldest son of John and
Jane Amelia (Luccock) Gowdy, born in Peoria, Ill., Feb. 17,1861; moved with his parents from Bloomington, Ill.
to Audubon Co., Ia., in 1868 and to Burlingame Kan in April, 1870. He was educated in the private schools of Illinois
and Iowa and in the public schools of Bloomington, Ill., and Burlingame, Kan. (then ungraded), a half year preparatory
work at the College in Emporia, Kan. Collegiate course at Kansas University, in Lawrence, Kan., with A.B. in 1900.
Elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter of Kansas, 1900. Chosen pastor of Pilgrim Congregational
church, Lawrence, Kan., Dec, 1891. He was in Y.M.C.A. work 1889 to 1891 at Newton Kan and Emporia Kan. He was ordained
July 23, 1895, in the same church. Was paator of the Congregational church of Tonganoxie, Kan., 1898 to l900 Pastor
Congregational church in Sycamore, Kan., from Sept. 1900 to 1902; at Olathe, Kan., from Sept. 1902 till Nov. 1904;
pastor at Kinslet, Kan., from 1904 till 1908 Spent 1908 and 1909 travelling and on a farm at Fruita, Colorado.
Supplied the First Congregational at Fruita ad interim in the winter of 1908-9. Preached periodically at Dragon,
Utah, in 1909. Was pastor at Shoshoni, and Wyoming, Oct. 1909-1911, and Worland, Wyoming, Oct. 1911-1912. Was past
at Athol, Kan., Oct. 1912, to date (1917). He married Dec 27, 1892, Anita Melvin at Lawrence, Kan., who was born
Aug 6, 1856, in West Virginia and moved with her parents to Lawrence, Kan., in the early '60s. These have two children
as follows: John Todd Rushmer, a manufacturing optician of Ogden, selling to the wholesale trade and identified with the directorates of several important corporate interests of the city, thus figures prominently in its business circles. He was born in Lawrence, Kansas, July 8, 1874. His father, Henry J. Rushmer, was a native of Columbus, Ohio, and conducted business for a number of years as a hardware merchant. He afterward removed to Kansas, where he became owner of a large farm and was prominently connected with the agricultural interests of that locality. Later he established a jewelry business in Lawrence, Kansas, which he conducted with success to the time of his death, which occurred in 1886. The business he founded has been carried on for sixty years, being still in existence, and the high standards he instituted at the beginning have always been maintained. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Sarah J. Frazer, was a native of Vermont and she, too, has passed away. Their family numbered eight children. In the public schools of Lawrence, Kansas, John T. Rushmer began his education, passing through consecutive grades to the high school. His business training was received in the jewelry store of his father, which he entered at the time of his father's death, there remaining for ten years. Coming to Ogden, he established his present business in 1901. He began the sale of optical goods under his own name and later organized the Rushmer Optical Company for the conduct of a wholesale business. He is now a manufacturing optician and the output of his establishment has a wide sale, owing to the high standards and scientific methods employed in manufacture. Mr. Rushmer is a graduate of the Chicago Ophthalmic College, of the class of 1899 and thus received thorough training for the activity which he has taken up as a life work. He has also extended his business connections along other lines, becoming a director of the Security State Bank, also a director of the Ogden Motor Car Company and a director of the Mountain View Cemetery Association. His optical business is located at No. 2464 Washington avenue in Ogden, where he is accorded a very large patronage. By a former marriage, Mr. Rushmer has a son, Lawrence H. He married the second time, in 1908, Emma Osborn, of Ogden, and they have become parents of three children: Henry Earl, Robert Frazer and Barbara, all in school. Mr. Rushmer is a valued member of the Weber Club, the leading organization of the kind in Ogden, and he is also a Mason, having taken the degrees of Weber Lodge, No. 6, A. F. & A. M., and of Weber Chapter, R. A. M. His religious faith is indicated in his membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, to the teachings of which he loyally adheres. He enjoys hunting and fishing and is an enthusiastic motorist, taking many long trips. Those who meet him in business and social relations find him affable and genial. He is always appreciative of the good qualities of others and by reason of his attractive personal characteristics and his straightforward business dealings all who know him acknowledge that the success which he has won is richly merited. [Source: Utah since Statehood: Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.] Wellington Y. Leonard, M. D., a leading physician of Lawrence and coroner of Douglas County, was born in Troy, Miami County, Ohio, October 5, 1834, a son of James W. and Julia (Renshaw) Leonard, natives respectively of Rutland, Vt., and Philadelphia, Pa. His grandfather, Joseph Leonard, who was a member of a pioneer family of New England, spent his entire life in Vermont, with the exception of the period of his service in the Revolutionary war; his wife passed away in Massachusetts when within six months of one hundred years old. For some years James W. Leonard was foreman of large iron works in Phoenixville, Pa., but in 1834 settled in Troy, Ohio, and for some time cultivated a farm near that village. In 1851 he removed to Albion, Ind., where he continued farm pursuits until his death, at the age of seventy-five years. His wife, who was of Scotch descent and a woman of estimable character, died at sixty-four years. They were the parents of seven children, four of whom attained mature years and two are now living. The education of Dr. Leonard was begun in Troy public schools and further prosecuted in the college of Xenia, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1856. Later he taught two terms of school and in 1858 began to study medicine under Dr. D. "W. C. Denney, of Albion, Ind. The following year he entered Jefferson Medical College, where he carried on his studies for two years. Returning to Albion, he formed a partnership with Dr. Denney, with whom he remained until the latter entered the army. In 1862 he matriculated in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, from which he graduated in 1863, with the degree of M. D. In 1865 he entered Rush Medical College in Chicago, and the following year was given the degree of M. D. by that institution. Afterward he frequently returned to Rush for the purpose of conducting post-graduate work. The continuous practice of his profession in Albion in the course of time undermined his health and he felt the need of a change of climate and surroundings. For this reason in 1883 he came to Lawrence and here he carried on a drug business, starting the City drug store, as a member of the firm of Leonard & Hamlin. At the same time he also gave some attention to practice. In April, 1898, he sold the store in order that he might devote himself exclusively to professional work. In Phoenixville, Pa., Dr. Leonard married Miss
Sarah A. Place, who was born there and received an academic education. They are the parents of four children, namely:
E. W., who is a business man in Kansas City; J. R., editor of the Strong City Derrick, at Strong, Kans.; O. P.,
a merchant tailor in Lawrence; and Ella M., at home. During his residence in Indiana Dr. Leonard was for eight
years surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Politically he has always been a Republican. On that ticket,
in 1893, he was nominated for county coroner and received a good majority at the election. In 1895 and 1897 he
was re-elected, his third term to expire in January, 1900. Fraternally he is a Mason, identified with Lawrence
Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M. He is identified with the Lawrence Medical Society, and prior to his removal west
was active in the work of the American Medical Association. In religion he is a member of the Baptist Church, and
is serving upon the board of trustees of the same. (Portraint and Biographical Record of Leavenworth, Douglas &
Franklin Counties, Kansas, 1899, Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago, page 123)
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