BOWERS, Fred W., state agent Phoenix Insurance Co.; born, Geneva, Ashtabula Co., O., Mar. 30, 1863; son of Henry F. and Marana A. (Evens) Bowers; educated in public schools of Norwalk, O., and Smith Business College, Toledo, O.; married, Ottawa, Kan., Dec. 24, 1891, Pearl Simpson; one son: Wilbur S. (died in infancy, June 15, 1899.) Began career with Germania Fire Insurance Co. in Chicago, 1884-87. Became identified with local agencies in Los Angeles, Cal., and Kansas City, Mo.; was chief clerk at Kansas City to resident manager of North British & Mercantile Insurance Co. of England; four years later became special agent of the Orient Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn.; for Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory, first at Kansas City, Mo., and later at St. Louis. Since Feb. 1, 1899, state agent for Missouri for Phoenix Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn. Director Provident Loan and Securities Co. Member Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest, Chicago (vice president, 1903-04), Missouri Fire Prevention Association (president, 1907-08-09). Republican. Congregationalism Clubs: Missouri Athletic, Automobile. Favorite recreations: music, golf. Office: Pierce Bldg. Residence: 5560 Waterman Ave.
(Source: The Book of St. Louisans, Publ. 1912. Transcribed by Charlotte Slater)
Submitted by Linda Rodriguez
Dr. Frank E. Scarsdale
DR. FRANK E. SCARSDALE, physician, P. O. Lick Creek; born in Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio, April 9, 1938. William Edward Scarsdale, his father, born in Stafford, Staffordshire, England in 1807; came to this country in 1829, settling first in Maryland, then moving to Kentucky, stayed there about a year, and then moved to Ashtabula, Ohio about 1832. Here he married Amanda, daughter of Erastus and Jerusha Cook, of Ashtabula County. By this union there were two children; of these, the elder is Mrs. Lilly Pierce, living at Ellsworth, Pierce Co., Wis., and the younger, our subject. The Doctor was educated at Kingsville Academy, remaining there until he was sixteen years of age; from there he went to Minnesota, and remained there one summer and then came to Marion County, Ill., about the year 1858, where he taught in the country schools for three years; from here , he next went to Johnson County, where he again taught school for a year. It was here that he commenced the study of medicine in 1860 in the office of Dr. C. L. Whitnel; after completing here, he attended lectures in 1862 and 1863 at the Rush Medical College, Chicago. Doctor Scarsdale then came back and entered into partnership with his old percepter and remained in Johnston County for about two years. In January 1865 he came to Union County, Ill., where he located about three miles from Saratoga at what was then Bradshaw Post Office. Here he remained all of the time since, except when he attended medical lectures at Pope's Medical College, St. Louis, in 1870-71, and also a post-graduate course in the spring of 1882. He was married April 9, 1865 in Union County to a Miss Louisa P. Hastings, daughter of Westley and Mary Ledbetter Hastings. By this union he has had nine children, six of whom are living.
Source: Perrin's 1883 History of Union County, Illinois
Contributed by Anna Newell
AZRO EUGENE CHENEY, 1854-1922 Former member of Executive Council of the Nevada Historical Society. Born at Monroe, Ashtabula County, Ohio, April 15, 1854. Educated, Conneant Academy and Jefferson Polytechnic, Ohio. Received Honorary Degree of LL.D. from the University of Nevada, 1 908. Admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Ohio, 1877; by the Supreme Court of Nevada, 1880, and by the Supreme Court of the United States, 1904. Married Jennie Wethered at San Francisco, 1887. District Attorney of Eureka County, Nevada, 1885-1887. Member of Nevada Legislature, 1 889. District Judge of Nevada (assigned to Second Judicial District), 1891-1898. Practiced law at Reno from 1 898 to his death. Nevada delegate to Universal Congress of Lawyers at St. Louis, 1904. Nevada Commissioner in National Conference on Uniform State Legislation, 1912. President of Nevada Bar Association, 1913. Regent University of Nevada, 1919-1920. Charter member of Nevada Historical Society. Member of Executive Council of Nevada Historical Society for three years. Died in Reno, March 13, 1922. For more than twenty years he was the recognized leader For more than twenty years he was the recognized leader of the Nevada Bar. The lofty eminence to which he attained was due solely to the high qualities of his mind and character, which enabled him to overcome obstacles and struggle upward while weaker men remained behind. Because of failing health he came West and engaged in manual labor in order to gain the physical strength for the continuation of his professional work. Intermittently, through all the intervening years, he was threatened with a return of delicate health. But this was thwarted, as were all other obstacles, by his indomitable will and unflinching determination never to retrace a step. Balzac tells us "The qualities of a great man are often federative. If among these colossal spirits one has more talent than wit, his wit is still superior to that of a man of whom it is simply stated that 'he is witty.' Genius always presupposes moral insight. This insight may be applied to a special subject; but he who can see a flower must be able to see the sun." And so Judge Cheney answered the description of genius. His qualities were certainly federative. He probably had more talent than wit; still his wit was keen, quick, forceful, and superior as manifested both in humor and invective. He could apply himself with close and careful scrutiny to the minutest details of a special subject, but never lost sight of the greater surrounding entities of which it was a part. When looking at a flower, he always saw the sun. So manifold were his activities and his virtues that we cannot enumerate them all, but will refer to a few that particularly distinguished him. He was not an orator. His mind was of the philosophical rather than the oratorical turn. The philosopher states a truth and lets it rest. The orator states, illustrates, enforces, and adorns the truth. To illustrate: Lord Bacon, the philosopher, says: "Histories make men wise," and quits. Edmund Burke, the orator, says exactly the same thing, but he says it in this way : " History unfolds a vast volume for our instruction, drawing the materials for future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind." Judge Cheney was a conservator of energy. His mind went directly to the meat in the nut. He was a diligent student of the law and was a thorough master of a vast store of legal learning. He studied keenly into public affairs and economics, dipped into arts and sciences, traveled widely, and learned what he could of all things. He was peculiarly keen and alert, always on his guard. He knew human nature, loved its virtues, admired its strength, forgave its frailties, abhored its meanness. Judge Cheney practiced law to succeed. He tried his cases to win. But he did not espouse a cause which he considered unjust and he was always ethical. He never allowed the commercial side of his practice to crowd out the professional, but ever kept in mind those sacred duties that distinguish a profession from a trade. Above all things he was wise, sagacious, and philosophic. In one trait he was most remarkable. To the very end, he was as interested in and enthusiastic for the future as a boy. Always his eyes were turned from the past. But history meant to him the wisdom of the ages and he hence was deeply interested in the work of the Nevada Historical Society. Until failing health compelled his resignation, Judge Cheney was an active worker in the Council of the Society. His legal advice to the officers on matters pertaining to the Society was always gratuitous and willingly given. With an exhibition of the same courage that had characterized him through life, Judge Cheney met death with the same fearless intrepidity with which he had faced all the exigencies of life, a credit to himself, a joy to his family, a pride to his friends, an honor to the community, and an inspiration to all who desire to live a great and noble life. *''
*Adapted from Memorial of Nevada Bar Association.
[Source:
Nevada Historical Society Papers
By Nevada Historical Society
Published by State Printing Office, 1922]
EDWARD NELSON SAUNDERS. In the death of Edward Nelson Saunders on June 22, 1913, passed away one of the men whose work and influence had been most conspicuous in the development of the great coal trade in the Northwest, though the interests and the usefulness of his long career were not confined to one industry. He was a pioneer in the best sense of the term, a hard worker, a good manager of men, a keen and resourceful business man and faithful and efficient in the performance of his civic responsibilities.
Edward Nelson Saunders was born at Geneva, Ashtabula County, Ohio, April 26, 1845. His parents were of old New England stock, having come to Ohio in the early days when most of the northern and northeastern counties of that now popular state were comprised in the “Western Reserve.” His father was a country minister of the Presbyterian church, whose duties could be likened mostly to those of a missionary in modern times. This faithful minister died in 1855, and his wife two years later, so that at twelve years of age Edward N. Saunders had to make his own way in the world. His early education was received at the little schools in the villages where he spent his young boyhood, and from the teachings of his mother, and, later of his grandmother and aunt, women of the type that had so much influence in bringing up boys to be the men that made the State of Ohio what it now is. In the early ‘60s Mr. Saunders was able, by hard work of any kind that he could find to do, to give himself the benefit of two years in the Western Reserve University of Ohio.
After his two years at the university he began work in Cleveland, employed as a clerk in a retail dry goods store until the spring of 1870. In that year he came to Minnesota by way of the lakes. This trip was taken as a vacation, in search of much needed rest. However, on his arrival at St. Paul, on the then newly completed railroad from Duluth, the possibilities of the new and growing country so impressed him that he decided to remain in Minnesota.
His first venture was in the oil business, bringing a small cargo or so of oil from Cleveland to Duluth by water. But he was one of the first to realize the possibilities of the coal trade, due to developments made in railroad building, and in 1871 started the shipment of coal from the lower lake ports to Duluth. The first cargo of coal ever received at the head of the lake was consigned to him in the spring of that year.
This first cargo of coal marked the starting of one of the greatest industries of the upper lakes, and Mr. Saunders, as its originator and as a lifelong leader in the industry, was always affectionately known among his associates and competitors in business as “father of the coal trade.” One of the greatest factors in making Duluth a prominent commercial city is its position and facilities with reference to the coat distribution over the Northwest, and Mr. Saunders deserves lasting memory for assisting to lay one of the chief corner stones of that city.
His career since his start in the coal trade was a continuous and important factor in the industry. In 1877 he organized, with a number of St. Paul and Minneapolis associates, the Northwestern Fuel Company, of which company Mr. James J. Hill was the first president and Mr. Saunders the general superintendent. The history of the Northwestern Fuel Company, the history of the coal trade of the Northwest, and the life of Mr. Saunders have been almost identical. A short time after the organization of the North Western Fuel Company, Mr. Saunders became its president and principal stockholder, and retained that connection with the company until his death.
Outside of his interests in the northwestern coal trade, he was for many years before his death actively and financially interested in the coal mining industry in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, having been closely allied with some of the largest producers of coal in those states. He was for many years also actively interested in banking circles of St. Paul, being for a long time a director in the First National and the Merchants National banks of that city, and for some years vice president of the First National Bank.
His interests in matters pertaining to the civic welfare of St. Paul and the development of the Northwest was at all times sincere and helpful, and he was also a factor in the social side of his home city. He was identified with the various clubs of St. Paul, and at times held the position of president in the most influential of those organizations.
His home life was always the happiest. He was surrounded by many friends and by a devoted wife and family of three daughters and one son. His first thought was always for his family and in his rise from a poor boy in Ohio to a leader of the commercial life of the Northwest he took his greatest joy in giving to his dear ones the pleasures and advantages he was unable to have himself in his early life. Mr. Saunders was married February 9, 1873, to Mary Proal, daughter of Charles Proal, an early resident of St. Paul.
The late Mr. Saunders was fortunate in being one of the men whose span of life covered a period of growth and development in his country extending from the early pioneer stage to the time of achievement of great things. He was one of the men who could see the future of the Northwest and help bring that future to reality. Such opportunities as his are rapidly diminishing as the resources of the country are more fully developed, although the younger generations of men are carrying on the work of such a man as Mr. Saunders, the chances of originating and starting the development of new countries must necessarily be more and more limited. To those who knew him, the career and life of Edward Nelson Saunders in all things has been a help and an example both practical and inspiriting.
Source: "Minnesota: Its Story and Biography, Vol. 2 (1915)" Submitted by Karen Hammer
GILCHRIST, Mrs. Rosetta Luce,
physician, author and poet, born in Ashtabula, Ohio. In youth she was a
student in the Kingsville, or Rexville, Academy, and later in Oberlin College.
She taught in the Cleveland public schools, and after graduating from the
Cleveland Homeopathic College, gained a lucrative practice in the medical
profession. It seems evident to those who have read her "Apples of
Sodom," "Margaret's Sacrifice," "Thistledew Papers,"
and numerous poems, which were written during the press of business or
housekeeping affairs, that she would have attained a high place among American
authors. She also possesses talent as an artist, and is a member of the Woman's
National Press Association; also of the Cleveland Woman's Press Association, and
president of the Ashtabula Equal Rights Club.
(Source: American Women by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice
Livermore, Vol. 1, 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow)
GRAVES, Mrs. Adelia C, educator and
author, born in Kingsville, Ohio, 17th March, 1821. She is the wife of Dr. Z. C.
Graves, a noted educator both north and south, founder and for forty years
president of Mary Sharp College, in Winchester, Tenn. She is the daughter of Dr.
Daniel M. Spencer and Marian T. Cook, and a niece of P. R. Spencer, the
originator of the Spencerian system of penmanship. The mother of Mrs. Graves was
a woman of fine intellect. Her people were wealthy and cultured, all the men
having for generations had the benefit of collegiate education. Her father
especially excelled in the Greek and Latin languages. Perhaps one of the most
critical linguists of the time was his youthful granddaughter. For years she
taught classes of young men in languages in the Kingsville Academy, who desired
her instructions in preference to all others. Many of them have since attained
positions as lawyers, ministers, physicians, presidents and
professors of colleges. The present president of Beyrout College, in Syria, Asia
Minor, was for some time a student with her, especially in the Latin language.
Mrs. Graves may be said to have inherited the poetic temperament from both sides
of the house. The Mary Sharp College under Dr. Graves' presidency acquired a
national reputation, and he avers that its success was owing quite as much to
her wise counsels and management as to his own efforts. There were few positions
in the college she did not, at some time, occupy, save that of mathematics. For
thirty-two years she was matron and professor of rhetoric, belles-lettres,
elocution and English composition, at different times, as need be, teaching
French, ancient history and ancient geography, English literature, or whatever
else was required. The published works of Mrs. Graves are "Seclusaval, or
the Arts of Romanism" (Memphis, Tenn., 1870), a work written to deter
Protestants from sending children to Catholic schools, and "Jephtha's
Daughter," a drama, (Memphis, 1867). Besides these are two prize stories.
Twelve or thirteen small volumes were also compiled from the Southern Child's
Book, at the request of the Southern Baptist Sabbath School Union, for the use
of Sabbath-schools. Mrs. Graves for years edited and wrote for that publication.
She wrote the "Old Testament Catechism in Rhyme" (Nashville, Tenn.,
1859), on request of the same society, for the use of the colored people while
still slaves, for which she received twenty cents a line, they, her employers,
saying, they knew of no one else that could do it. Her unpublished poems are
numerous. Mrs. Graves has found a place in "Woman in Sacred Song," and
"Southland Poets," and she is mentioned in the “Successful Men of
Tennessee” for her extraordinary financial ability, having managed a business
of fifteen-thousand to twenty-thousand dollars per year for years at a time,
most successfully.
(Source: American Women by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice
Livermore, Vol. 1, 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow)
DOE, Mrs. Mary L., woman suffragist, temperance reformer and
business woman, born in Conneaut, Ohio, 27th July, 1836. Her maiden name was
Thompson. Her immediate ancestors, the Thompsons and Harpers, emigrated from
Vermont and settled in that portion of Ohio known as the Western Reserve. At
nine years of age she was sent to the Conneaut Academy, then just completed. At
fifteen she began to teach a country school for one dollar a week and ''boarded
around." Later she attended the State Normal School in Edinboro, Pa. She
signed the pledge under one of the original Washingtonians when but eight years
old, and in 1853 she joined the Good Templars. In 1878 she became a member of
the Michigan Grand Lodge of Good Templars, and held the office of grand
vice-templar and of grand assistant secretary for several years. She has further
shown her interest in temperance by joining the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union and the various other temperance organizations in the towns where she has
lived. In 1877 Mrs. Doe went to Saginaw, Mich., where she at once made friends
with the advocates of equal suffrage. In 1884, in a meeting called in Flint by
equal suffragists of national prominence to organize a State suffrage
association, Mrs. Doe was chosen president of the association. That office she
held for six years. She has been active in securing many of the privileges
granted to women by the Legislature of Michigan, and has spent much of her time
with other equal suffragists in the State capital. Mrs. Doe changed her
residence from Saginaw to Bay City in 1886, and opened a store for fancy goods.
(American Women, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Volume 1
Copyright 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow.)
REV.
JONATHAN C. STOUGHTON, a superannuated minister of the Rock River
conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, residing at No. 70
South Lincoln avenue, Aurora, Illinois,
was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, November 3,
1820, and is the son of Henry and Almira
(Clapp) Stoughton, both of whom were natives of Connecticut. The father moved
from Connecticut to Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1812,
when a young man, and was there married. His
life occupation was that of a farmer, and his death occurred in Windsor township,
Ashtabula county, in 1876, when
in his eighty-sixth year. He was a member of the Congregational church, while
living in Connecticut, but, after coming to Ohio, did not unite with any
church, as there were no churches of that denomination there at that time. He
was well and favorably known in the county, which was so long his home. His
wife, who was a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church, died in 1844.
Of their seven children, four are still
living: Mary, wife of Mr. Gould, residing in Ashtabula county, Ohio; Sarah,
also a resident of that county; and Henry E., of Cambridge, Illinois, which
has been his home for many years.
Jonathan
C. Stoughton, who was the eldest of the seven children born to his parents,
remained on the home farm until in his eighteenth year, when he came to
Illinois, and worked on a farm in Trivola township, Peoria county, for one
hundred dollars per year, remaining there for three years. He then entered
Knox College, at Galesburg, from which he graduated in 1846.
During vacations he taught school, and
worked in the harvest fields, that he might secure the means to continue his
studies.
At
an early age he was converted, and united with the Methodist Episcopal church.
From the time of his conversion, he felt the desire to enter the ministry. In 1846,
he joined the Rock River conference, with
which he has since held official connection. In 1854,
after having served at various places, he
came to Aurora, and took charge of the Methodist Episcopal church at this
place. Two years later, by appointment from the conference, he built the
Jennings Seminary. In 1858, he
went to Freeport, where he continued until 1860.
He was elected a delegate from the Rock
River conference to the general conference, held at Buffalo, New York, in 1860.
He then went to Champaign, Illinois, and
there erected a building, and started the Champaign and Urbana Seminary. A
few years later, when the Illinois legislature had passed an act for the
creation of a State University, the building and grounds of the seminary were
offered the state, as an inducement to locate the university there. Had it
not been for this generous offer, it is more than probable the university
would have been established elsewhere.
During
the summer of 1861 and
that of 1862 he
was in the recruiting service, and was instrumental in securing many volunteers.
In the fall of 1862, Mr.
Stoughton offered his services as a private, and with the command went to Camp
Douglas, where he was commissioned by Governor Yates as a captain of cavalry,
but never served in that capacity. He was later commissioned chaplain of the
One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was
sent south to Memphis, and was with Sherman when after Price in .Tennessee,
and on the Tallahatchie river. He also took part in the siege of Vicksburg. He
stood the service fairly well, but took sick on the Yazoo, in the fall of 1863,
and was compelled to leave the service. He
personally knew Grant, Sherman, and many of the leading officers of the
Western army.
Returning
home, he shortly after was assigned to Grace Methodist Episcopal church,
Chicago where he remained one year, returning to Champaign, and completing
the institution, which had been abandoned thus far during the war. At this
time he was not engaged in pastoral work, but was appointed by the conference
as a general agent, and lectured much on temperance. In 1864,
he started and edited a temperance paper,
which was wiped out by the fire in Chicago, in 1871.
As a lecturer on temperance, he attained
great celebrity, and his services were in great demand. After traveling in
Europe for a time, he returned and again took up the regular work of the
ministery. After serving the
Galena street church, Aurora—followed with Rock Falls, Rochelle and Wyanet—he
then went to New Mexico, in charge of the English mission, at old Santa Fe.
Later he was sent to Chicago as pastor of the Asbury, and later to the Winter
street church, the State street church and the Fifty-fourth street church.
After leaving Chicago, he served three years at Sugar Grove, Kane county,
Illinois, when he came to Aurora, where he has since continued to reside. He
is now retired, after having served the church fifty years in the active work
of the ministry, though not always as a pastor.
Mr.
Stoughton has always taken an interest in political affairs, believing it to
be the duty of a minister, as well as a layman, to exercise all the rights of
citizenship. In 1870, he
ran as an independent candidate for congress, against General Farnsworth, who
two years previously had been elected by fifteen thousand majority. Notwithstanding
the large majority to overcome, Mr. Stoughton made a vigorous canvass. For a
few days after the election, the Chicago papers had reported he was elected,
but the back townships counted him out. On the 9th
of January, 1847,
Dr. Stoughton was united in marriage with
Miss Amanda Cheritre, a native of New York state. By this union there were
three children, a son and two daughters. The son, Lorenzo T., was drowned in
Fox river, at Montgomery, in 1864. With
another boy he was in a skiff, floating down the river, and not observing the
dam, was carried over and drowned. Of the daughters, Ethel is now the wife of
Rev. W. K. Beans, of the Methodist Episcopal church, of Spokane Falls, by whom
she has one son, Lorenzo W., student in the medical department, of the
Northwestern University, class of '99.
Estella, now the wife of Justice
Anient, of Chicago. The wife and mother died, August 24,
1880, at the age of fifty-six years. She was
a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a very active worker in the
same. September 1, 1881, Dr.
Stoughton was again married, his second union being with Miss Mary J. Leet, of
Bradford, Illinois, and a daughter of William and Helen Leet. See sketch
elsewhere in this volume. Mrs.
Stoughton is a woman of superior business ability, and is a very successful
worker in the Methodist Episcopal church, of which she has been a member for
many years.
Since
1847, Dr
Stoughton has been a member of the Sons of Temperance, and for many years was
grand worthy patriarch of the order. Through his instrumentality, many persons
have been saved from the curse of drink, and started in the way of
righteousness. In 1852, he
was made a Royal Arch Mason. While residing in New Mexico, he was a member of
the G. A. R., but has not affiliated with the order to any great extent since
his return to Illinois. While for many years a strong Republican, in 1872
he supported Horace Greeley for president,
making many speeches in his behalf in Indiana and Illinois. For some years
he has been an active worker in the Prohibition party.
["Biographical
Record of Kane County, Illinois" - S.J. Clarke Publishing Company,
Chicago, 1898 - Sub. by K.T.]
BOWER, Vernon V.
Perhaps no better estimate of a community's stability, importance and
prospects can be secured than that given by a successful business man, one
who has made his own way and through experience has learned both the
possibilities and limits of business development. Many prospectors, tourists
and transients have come to Idaho and have left again with but a cursory
knowledge of the great resources of this part of the Union and their
statements are of no more value than those of the traveler from across the
sea who spends a day in the great eastern metropolis and goes back to his
home to publish his notes on America. It is from the solid, sensible,
business-establishing, home-building class of residents of Idaho that comes
the enthusiasm that proclaims this one of the most promising states of the
western country, rich in every possibility and awaiting proper developing
agencies. To this class belongs Vernon V. Bower, a successful real estate
man, at Richfield, Idaho, where he is also one of the representative men in
all public matters.
Vernon V. Bower was born at Ashtabula, Ohio, December 20, 1877, and is a son
of William J. and Augusta (Atkins) Bower, the father being a native of Ohio,
and the mother belonging to one of the old settled families of Ohio. In 1879
the Bowers moved from Ohio to Norton, Kansas, and there the father engaged
in merchandising and so continues. There were nine children in the family,
Vernon V. being the fifth in order of birth, the others being as follows: A
babe that is deceased; Adelmer A., who is a resident of Norton, Kansas;
Frank L., who is in the real estate business at Gooding, Idaho; Ernest B.,
who is in the mercantile business at Goodlands, Kansas; Maude B., who is the
wife of Noel J. Hedge, of Norton, Kansas; Claude, who is associated with his
father at Norton and Goodlands, the firm being extensive hardware and
furniture merchants; Floyd, who is a resident of Kansas; Glenn E., who is
associated with the Ostrander Furniture Company at Twin Falls, Idaho.
Vernon V. Bower was graduated from the Norton high school at Norton, Kansas,
afterward taking a business course in a commercial college there and then
worked for his father for two years, after which he went out on the road as
a commercial traveler and continued in that line for seven years, seeing
much of the country and making and cementing many friendships, his routes
taking him through Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. After retiring from that
line he engaged in merchandising at Norton for two years and then sold his
interests there and in the fall of 1908 came to Richfield, Idaho, and early
in the following year embarked in the real estate business, which he has
continued with every evidence of marked success. He owns a considerable
amount of valuable realty in this place and enjoys one of the most
attractive and well placed residences as his home.
In June, 1904, Mr. Bower was married to Miss May Hedge, who was born in
Iowa, and they have one daughter, Irene B., an engaging little maiden of
seven years. Mr. Bower is not only an energetic and active business man but
he is also deeply interested in public matters and has been a factor in
Republican politics, and in 1909 was elected to the Idaho legislature and
served ably in the interest of his constituents.
[History of Idaho: a narrative account of its historical progress ...,
Volume 3 -- By Hiram Taylor French, 1914 - Sub. by K.T.]
CALLENDER,
Sherman D.,
lawyer; born, Hartsgrove, O., (Ashtabula
Co) Mar.
18, 1869; son of Robert F. and Lois (Winslow) Callender; educated in public
schools of Hartsgrove; New Lyme Institute, South New Lyme, O.; Oberlin
College, graduating, degree of Ph. B.., 1895; Ohio State University, Law
Department, degree of LL.B., 1898; married at Monroeville, O., Apr. 23,
1904, Sylvia May Cornell. Reared on farm; sold books to pay expenses at
college; taught school three years before studying law; began in practice at
Toledo, O., 1898; removed to Detroit, 1899. Secretary Kennedy Optical Co.;
director and attorney Detroit Improved Realty Co.; attorney Vinton Co.
Member Detroit and Michigan State Bar associations. Republican.
Congregationalist. Member Corinthian Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M., Beta
Theta Pi. Clubs: Detroit Boat, Fellowcraft. Recreations: Tennis and outdoor
sports. Office: 412 Moffat Bldg. Residence: 50 W. Ferry Av.
The Book of Detroiters.
Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis Copyright, 1908 - transcribed by
Christine Walters
CAUGHEY, Frank T.,
grain commission; born in Ashtabula
Co., O., June 21, 1853; son of Samuel S.
and Nancy (Davidson) Caughey;
educated in public schools of Ashtabula Co. and at Pennsylvania State
Normal School; married, Union City, Mich., May 24, 1883, Della A. Shumway.
Located in Union City and began clerking in general store,1870; traveling
hardware salesman, 1873-76; began in grain and seed shipping, 1876;
removed to Detroit and became special partner of Gillett & Hall, 1888;
has been member of the firm Caughey & Carran, grain commission
merchants. Member Detroit Board of Commerce (president Detroit Board of
Trade, 1897, 1898 and 1903). Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner. Clubs:
Detroit, Country. Recreations: Automobiling, boating and fishing. Office:
620 Chamber of Commerce, Detroit. Residence: Grosse Pointe, Mich.
The Book of Detroiters.
Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis Copyright, 1908 - transcribed by
Christine Walters
KEYES, AMORY , retired merchant, Marion; born in Worthington, Mass. , May
17, 1801; moved, with his parents, to Maine, when about 6 years of age; in
1821, went to Marietta, Ohio; built a flat-boat and went to New Orleans with
freight; returned to Ohio and was engaged in farming, which he continued
until 1825 or 1826, when he engaged in tannery business, which he continued
until 1843, when he came to Marion, Iowa; engaged in mercantile business
here for many years. Married Louisa Cheadle Aug. 5, 1823; she was born in
Windsor, Ohio , May 12, 1806; they have had nine children; the living are
Eliza (now Mrs. Robert Holmes ), born Feb. 16, 1829; Mary Ann (now Mrs.
Preston Daniels ), born Aug. 14, 1831; Harriet Josephine (now Mrs. Lemuel K.
Parkhurst ), born Sept. 20, 1841; Helen F. (now Mrs. J. D. Giffen ), born
June 20, 1844, and Arthur J. , born Jan. 20, 1847; four children deceased—
Laura , born June 16, 1836, and died April 15, 1837; Sarah , born Feb. 28,
1838, died May 29, 1839; Caroline , born Feb. 22, 1826, died March 4, 1846;;
and Everett R ., born March 12, 1833; he died Sept. 20, 1856. Mr. and Mrs.
Keyes are members of the Congregational Church.
[Source: The history of Linn County Iowa ; Western Historical Company;
1878; transcribed by Andaleen Whitney]
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