Thomas Merrick home was Elwood, Kansas, and would enlist on May 30, 1861, and was mustered in on the same day as a Sergeant in Company A. of the first Kansas infantry. He was wounded in the action at Wilson’s creek in Missouri on August 10, 1861. On October 21, 1863, he would be promoted to Sergeant major. Now here is were his military career becomes a little confusing. The records shows he was also in Company new D., of the First Kansas infantry. Here he was a Sergeant and had enlisted on January 3, 1864, and was mustered in January 4, 1864. The on April 1, 1865, he was reduced in rank to private and was mustered out on August 30, 1865, at Little Rock Arkansas.
Thomas Merrick had not been in the army very long when he had his first adventure, it took place at Iatan, Missouri, the following is the account of that adventure.
Early in 1861, before war had been declared, a Confederate flag was raised at Iatan, Mo., a small village about 12 miles above Leavenworth. Col. D. R. Anthony of Leavenworth, one day happened to be a passenger on a boat that was carrying regular troops from Fort Leavenworth to St. Joseph, and when the boat tied up at the landing near Iatan, he and a companion decided to visit that village and make inquiries regarding the flag. They found the town loafing place was a small grocery, at which place they made their inquiry. About a dozen men were in the store at the time, and one of them pointed to the flag that was folded and lying on the counter. "I'll take that with me," said Anthony, whereupon every individual in the store drew a revolver, and the colonel changed his mind. The story reached Leavenworth and the pro-slavery element had considerable fun out of the incident.
Shortly after the organization of the First Kansas infantry a few members of Companies A and I learned that the flag still defiantly floated, and also that a force of Confederate cavalry had been organized and armed at the place. A spy was sent to Iatan to make investigations and upon his return reported that the flag pole had been erected within a few feet of the railroad track, that a company of "rangers" had been organized and was then encamped, 140 strong, within the town. On June 3, 1861, a portion of the First Kansas received arms, and a few of them resolved to lower the Iatan flag. The members of the proposed expedition, through the kindness of friends among the other companies, secured rifles enough to arm their crowd, together with a limited supply of ammunition.
That night 17 men stole quietly out of camp and midnight found them hunting up and down the river for boats to enable them to cross. A small skiff capable of holding 5 persons was found and the first load crossed. In the meantime another small boat had been found and pressed into service. When the first boat returned for the others, 5 men concluded to withdraw from the expedition, leaving but 12 to carry out the plans. The balance of the members were taken across the river, whereupon they started on a long march for their destination, arriving at the outskirts of Iatan about daybreak. The spy originally sent to make investigations was again delegated to make a reconnaissance, which he did, reporting that the flag would not be hoisted that day and that it was kept at the rear of a small store. Determining to have the flag at any cost, the party advanced on the town and when turning a corner within a hundred yards of the flag pole discovered that the stars and bars were being run up.
The members of the expedition charged and surrounded the flag pole just as the cord had been tied. A demand was made for the flag, which resulted in a little parleying, whereupon "Mell" Lewis, one of the expedition, whipped out a knife, cut the rope, and the flag fell at their feet. It was gathered up and a retreat ordered, when some one inside the store opened fire on them at a distance of less than 100 feet, three of the expedition being wounded by buckshot, two of them quite severely. The retreat was much slower than was hoped for on account of the wounded men, but at last all were safely landed on the Kansas side with their trophy.
The men taking part in the capture of the flag were Frank H. Drenning, Thomas Merrick, Frank M. Tracy, G. Mellen Lewis, Fred Amerine, William Smart and James Liddle, of the Elwood Guards, and Emil Umfried, Theo. Kroll, — Voeth, Richard Lander and Henry Laurenzier, of the Steuben Guards. The boys reached camp about dusk and intended to keep the matter quiet, but the story got out and was printed in the Leavenworth Conservative the next morning. This noted flag now reposes in the museum of the Kansas State Historical Society at Topeka.
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CHAPTER V.
PEN SKETCHES, ETC.
A SKETCH OF EARLY ELWOOD.
"The first rebel flag ever captured by Kansas soldiers was taken from Iatan, Missouri, June 3, 1861, by a party of twelve soldiers of the First Kansas, then in camp at Fort, Leavenworth. Seven of the soldiers were members of the Elwood Guards company of this Township. Sergeant Frank Drenning demanded the lowering of the flag "In the Name of Abraham Lincoln and the Congress of the United States." That trophy is now in possession of the State Historical Society.
"It was Thomas Merrick, a citizen of this township, who captured the first Rebel flag raised in St. Joseph. It was brought over here and burned.
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Knights of Columbus in Kansas.
This information comes from a book called (Knights of Columbus; Their First Fifty Years in Kansas.) This book was printed in 1950. ( Now I do not endorse any religious organizations or lodges ), but I will go any where there are surnames, to help you find information on your family members. This never ending hunt may takes me into church records, Jail records and government records, and I will go where ever I think I can find interesting facts on a surname, so you will have a chance to find out something out about your ancestor you never know before.
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Knights of Columbus in Kansas.
Peter J. Monaghan.
Peter J. Monaghan, was a State Deputy ( 1902-1903), of Topeka Council 534, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1859, but was a resident of Topeka sometime in the eighties. He began his business life as a bookkeeper of the Southwestern Coal and Fuel Company and rose to become its owner and manger. He was happily married to Nellie A., ( 1870-1917 ), and had four sons. He was a charter member and Grand Knight of Topeka Council 534, and was elected State Deputy in 1902. He was very active in the organization of the Knights, and served in various official capacities during the early years. During the first World War he spoke as a Four-minute Man in the Liberty Loan campaign and was a National Representative of the United War Workers Campaign. The vigor of his faith is indicated by the fact that he was a daily communicate. He died He died March 15, 1919.
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Richard F. Hayden.
Richard F. Hayden, was born near Wetmore Kan., but lived in Topeka most of his life. He married Florence J. Johnston and they had three children. He practiced law from 1899, until his retirement in 1927. He was appointed Judge of the Probate Court of Shawnee County in 1903, and served two years. He was a charter member and Grand Knight of Topeka Council 534, Territorial Deputy until the fprmation of the State Council in 1902, and was elected State Deputy for the terms of 1903-1904. He died August 21, 1941.
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Thomas J. Coughlin.
Thomas J. Coughlin, was born in Warrensberg, Missouri, in 1867. The family moved to Kansas the same year. He was educated at Spalding Business College in Kansas City and at St. Mary’s Collage. He married Mary White of Perry Kan., November 6, 1895. He was foreman of the car department of the Missouri Pacific in Kansas City for five years, chief clerk of the State Insane Asylum in Topeka for two years, and with a wholesale hardware firm in Kansas City for three years. After 1902, he was proprietor of the Coughlin Hardware Company in Topeka. He was a charter member of Topeka Council 534, and one of the outstanding figures in the growth of the Knights of Columbus in Kansas. He was State Secretary in 1902-1903, State Deputy for the terms 1904-1905, and a Supreme Director of the Order from 1908-1911, He died in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 24, 1939.
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James W. Gibbons.
James W. Gibbons, Was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on December 9, 1865. He was married and had four sons. He worked for the Santa Fe for forty-three years and was general foreman of the passenger coach department at the time of his death in November 17, 1930. He he was a charter member and a Grand Knight of Topeka Council 534. He served as District Deputy and was the only State Deputy to be elected for three terms. He was Master of the Fourth Degree of the Kansas Jurisdiction for the years 1911-1912, and a Supreme Director from 1923 to his death. He was active organizer of the Knights of Columbus and was credited with instituting more councils in Kansas and neighboring state than any other man. After the first world War he was head of the Knights of Columbus Night School for servicemen in Topeka. The affection in which he was held by brother Knights is indicated by the resolution to offer Holy Communion for by the conventions of 1928 and 1930.
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Charles Frances McCarthy.
Charles Frances McCarthy, was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, on October 24, 1872. His father died when Charles was only a few months old, and his mother came to Kansas City with her five children to make her home with a brother-in-law and his family. On January 10, 1898, he married Miss Nellie Mae Curry, the daughter of a Kansas City pioneer, James A. Curry. Three daughters were born to them. Most of his business life was spent as general agent for various fire insurance companies and his office was in Kansas City, Kansas. He was State Deputy of Kansas Knights of Columbus from 1909-1911. He died after about a year’s illness, on May 10, 1920.
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W. J. Moriarity.
W. J. Moriarity, Was a charter member of St. Mary’s Council 657, its Grand Knight in 1904-1905, and State Deputy from 1911-1913. During the First World War he was a special agent for the Order and worked first on the Mexican border and then in the Knights of Columbus War Work. He was engaged in the life insurance business and now resides in St. Louis.
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William Dennis Jochems.
William Dennis Jochems, was born in Topeka, April 20, 1886. He attended the Kansas State Normal School at Emporia and took his degree in law from the Kansas City of Law in 1910. A year later he married Helen Roetzel and they had three sons. She died in 1922 and three years later married Alicia C. Healy. He taught in the public schools from 1904-1906. He began the practice of law in Wichita in 1910, was assistant city attorney in 1911, was associate justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas in 1930-1931, and is a member of the law firm of Jochem. Sargent and Blaes, and counsel for the board of regents of the University of Wichita. He is a member of Phi Alpha Delta, the Wichita Bar Association ( ex-president ), and the Kansas Bar Association. He is a director of the First National Bank of Wichita. He was presented with the Catholic Action Award in 1941 and was made a Papal Knight of St. Gregory in 1942.
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George Daniel bordenkircher.
George Daniel bordenkircher, was born March 30, 1871, Mount Sterling Illinois. The family moved to Burlington Kansas, about 1881. He was a charter member of Emporia Council 727, its Grand Knight in 1905-1906, State Secretary from 1908-1910, and State Deputy in 1915-1916. He refused a second term as State Deputy for business reasons. In announcing this State Deputy Gibbons credited him with restoring harmony to the State Council and with extraordinary growth of the membership during his term. He was interested in history and was the active head of the Kansas Catholic Historical Society. His outstanding characteristics were his zeal and fervor; he was one of those responsible for the vigorous Retreat movement in the Knights of Columbus. When he died on January 27, 1938, William Allen White saluted him as a scholar and gentleman, who was also a devout and conscientious Christian through all his happy useful life.
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Michael A. Quigley.
Michael A. Quigley, was born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Canada, on October 2, 1860. He took his degree at the University of New Brunswick and then studied medicine There and in Boston. The urge to go west put and end to his medical education and after having established himself in Atchison Kan., he returned to New Brunswick to marry Anna J. Sharky. They had two children. Mr. Quigley was known throughout northern Kansas and southwest Nebraska in the wholesale grocery business. He was admitted to citizenship in 1916. He served as Chancellor, Deputy Grand Knight, and Grand Knight of Sacred Heart Council 723, in Atchison. He was appointed District Deputy in 1814, was elected State Deputy in 1914, was elected State Deputy for the terns of 1916-1917, and was Master of the Fourth Degree from 1918-1925. He died May 7, 1927.
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James F. Sheehy.
James F. Sheehy, was born in Shullsburg Wisconsin. He married Gladys C. Curtis of Paola Kan., He was an Internal Revenue Agent from 1914, to his retirement in 1945. Sine 1924, his residence has been in Long Beach California. He was Grand Knight of Paola Council for three terms, District Deputy for two years, State Advocate from 1914-1916, and State Deputy from 1918-1920. He was one of the group that initiated the Laymen’s Retreat movement in Kansas and continued that interest in his present home where he has also been president of the Holy Name Society and the St. Vincent de Ppaul Society.
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Thomas P. Downs.
Thomas P. Downs, was born June 9, 1881. He married Marie E. Walsh of Beloit, Kan., on June 10, 1905. They have four children. He served as Financial Secretary of Beloit Council from 1904, the year he was initiated, until 1912, and as Grand Knight from 1912-1918. He was a member of the State Fourth Degree Staff from 1917-1922. He was District Deputy 1916-1920, and State Deputy from 1920-1922. He entered the service of the Supreme Council in 1924 as a special agent and now resides in Kansas City.
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James Malone.
James Malone, was born in Tecumseh, Nebraska, on November 22, 1874, He married Mary Mentlick of Iowa City and they have two sons. He farmed until he was thirty, was president of Malone and Wenzel, owners and operators of the Beaver Valley Roller Mills at Herndon from 1904-1920. He was a state legislator from 1908-1911, state senator from 1912-1920, and a member of the State Labor Commission from 1937-1939. He served as an enlisted man in the first World War and was first commander of the Sam Hubbard Post of the American Legion at Atwood. He has been a director of the Kansas State Historical Society since 1922. He has been president of the St. Vincent, dePaul and the Holy Name Societies in Topeka. He was District Deputy from 1915-1922 and State Deputy from 1922-1924. He is the senior member of the legal firm of Malone and Malone in Topeka and the senior member of the only father-and-son team among the past State Deputies of Kansas.
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Patrick J. McGinley.
Patrick J. McGinley, was born at Killibegs, county Donegal, Ireland, October 14, 1867. He came to this country with his parents who first resided in Cleveland Ohio, and later moved to Chetopa Kansas. He first employment was as a clerk for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. In 1893 he left their employ to make a run into the Cherokee Strip with his brother Frank. After two years he returned to Chetopa and employment with the Missouri Pacific. In 1896, he was stationed at Pittsburg, Kansas, where he married Emma Felicia Pompeney on October 18, 1898. Five children were born to their marriage. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Oklahoma, and joined the Knight of Columbus at Oklahoma City. After the death of his wife in 1938, he moved to Chicago and served as an acc0untant until his retirement in 1947. He now makes his home in Topeka. He is a member of the Fourth Degree, served Pittsburg Council as Gran Knight, and was State Deputy for the terms of 1924-1925.
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Charles Alfred Beedy.
Charles Alfred Beedy, was born July 11, 1887 at Hill City Kansas. He taught school in Graham County where he married Mary Agnes McCarthy and they reared a family of nine children. He engaged in the real estate and building and loan business in Hays from 1919-1935. He moved to Topeka in 1936. He worked for the government during the second World War and has dealt in real estate and insurance since that time. He is active in the work of the Kansas Crippled Children Commission and is its district chairman at present. As District Deputy from 1918-1926 he was very active in the growth of the Order. He was State Deputy from 1926-1928 and Master of the Fourth Degree in 1929-1930. He was one of the first directors of the National Catholic Welfare Council, representing the archdiocese of St. Louis.
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Michael J. Healy.
Michael J. Healy, was born March 8, 1891 at Lincoln, Kansas. He married Mary Joslin in 1912 and the reared a family of eight children. He graduated from the Kansas City School of Law and was admitted to the Kansas Bar in 1916. He practiced in Lincoln from 1916-1925, serving as clerk of the district court from 1917-1921 and as city attorney from 1921-1924. He moved to Topeka in 1924 to serve as general attorney for the Kansas Public Service Commission until 1929, when he returned to private practice in Topeka. He was chairman of the law committee representing eleven central western states in class rate cases before the Interstate Commerce Commission from 19225-1928. He was appointed to the legal department of the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1936. In the Knights of Columbus he served as District Deputy1922-1924, State Advocate 1824-1925, State Deputy 1928-1930, Master of the fourthDegree1930-1936, and Supeme Dicector 1930-1937. He died October 17, 1837. Burial: Saint Patricks Cemetery, Lincoln, Lincoln County, Kansas.
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Joseph J. Sullivan.
Joseph J. Sullivan, was born at Tampa Kansas, on December 23, 1892. He married Ellen Doyle of Kansas City Missouri, on November 24, 1915. Six children en were born to them, three of whom are living. He joined Salina Council 601 in 1915 and served as Chancellor, Deputy Grand Knight, Grand Knight for five consecutive terms, and Trustee for six years. He was Drictrict Deputy for two years and State Deputy from 1830-1932. He has operated a mortuary in Salina for many years.
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Vincent A. Smith.
Vincent A. Smith, was born in Washington D. C. on December 5, 1891. He took his degree in law from Georgetown University in 1915 and was admitted to the bar in the Supreme Court, D. C., in the same year. He was certified as a public accountant in Oklahoma in 1922, and in Missouri and Kansas in 1939. He married Mary Elizabeth Lappin of Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1922. They have three children. He was a member of the A. E. F. from 1917-1919. After the war he moved to Wichita and became a junior partner in Chas. A. Smith and Company accountants. Since 1939 he has been a partner in Lunsford, Barnes and Company, Certified Public Accountants in Wichita. He belongs to the Wichita in 1931-1935. He served his council as treasurer from 1923-1929, and Grand Knight in 1935. He was District Deputy in 1931-1932 and State Deputy from 1932-1934.
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Edward D. Sheehan.
Edward D. Sheehan, was born at Independence Iowa, July 18, 1878. He joined the Knights of Columbus in 1903 at Dubuque and was a charter member and first Grand Knight of Goodland Council. He is a member of the Fourth Degree, was District Deputy from 1926-1930 and State Deputy from 1934-1936. He spent forty-eight years in railroad work as rules examiner and chief dispatcher for the Rock Island system. He retired in 1944 and now lives in Denver. He is unmarried.
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M. J. Dorzweiler.
M. J. Dorzweiler, was born at Catherine Kansas, on January 5, 1899. He was married Matilda Dreiling of Hays Kan., on September 20, 1921. The had six children, four of whom are living. He was a member of St. Joseph Council 1325, at Hays, and served it as Grand Knight and Financial Secretary. He was District Deputy from 1930-1934, State Secretary for the terms 1934-1936, and State Deputy from 1936-1938. He participated in the degree work of the Order in all parts of the state on many occasions. He was general agent in the insurance department of the Knights of Columbus in Kansas from 1940-1948. He now operates a hotel in Denver.
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Edward L. Dunbar.
Edward L. Dunbar, Was born in Kansas City, Kansas on August 18, 1896. He attended the school of journalism, Kansas University in 1913-14, the conservatory of music in 1915 and 1919. He served in the United States Navy in 1917 and 1918. He received his degree in law from the University of Kansas City in 1926. He was employed at the Kansas City Terminal Union Station and was appointed to the Board of appeals in Kansas City Kansas 1947. He married Josephine Quigley of Atchison in 1924. They had three children. He joined Bishop Miege Council in 1913 and served his council as Recorder, Chancellor, Lecture, Advocate, and five terms as Grand Knight. He was District Deputy in 1930-1932 and 1935-1936, State Deputy in 1938-1940 and has been Master of the Fourth Degree in Kansas since 1945.
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Andrew Jerome Pflumm.
Andrew Jerome Pflumm, was born at Shawnee, July 13, 1899. He did his college work at St. Mary’s and Rockhurst and took his degree in law at the University of Kansas City. He married Elizabeth H. Lally in 1924. They have five daughters; their only son Andrew, was killed in action on Anzio Beachhead, February 18, 1944. Brother Pflumm was employed by the RANIN-Benedict Underwriting Company for 18 years and since 1936 has engaged in private practice at Mission, Kansas. He is chairman of the Shawnee Township Zoning Board, president of the Mission Fire Department for the past 10 years, and director of three township fire departments in Shawnee Township. He was the first Financial Secretary of Shawnee Council 2332 and held the office for four years. He has also served the council as Advocate and Grand Knight. He has been District Deputy, was Advocate in 1934-1935, and was State Deputy from 1940-1942.
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Emmet Andrew Blaes.
Emmet Andrew Blaes, was born in Cherryvale on April 18, 1907. He attended Conception College and Kansas State Teachers College at Pittsburg. He received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from Creighton University in 1931. He married Anna Rose Sebron Kranda of Omaha on October 3, 1933. They have three children. He has practiced law in Wichita sine 1931. He is associate counsel of the Diocese of Wichita and of the Farmers and Bankers Life Insurance Company, and a director and treasurer of the Insulwool Insulation Corporation. He is president of the National Council of Catholic Men and was awarded an Honor Scroll for work in the field of Catholic Action by Conception College in 1942. He was State Deputy from 1942-1944. His home is in Wichita.
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Dr. Harry M. Klenda.
Dr. Harry M. Klenda, was born in Marion, March 16, 1907. He attended Sy. Procopius College and graduated from Loyola University in Chicago with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1930 and as Doctor of Dental Science in 1931. He married Frances Elizabeth Trampota of Chicago on August 1, 1931. They have five children. He is a member of the Wichita Dental Society ( director 1937-40, president 1939-40), of the American and Kansas State Dental Associations, and the American Full Denture Society. He received the Kansas State Clinic Award in 1940. He was president of the Diocesan Catholic Action Committee from 1941-1943, vice-president of the Diocesan Confraternity of Christian Doctrine in 1937-1939, and is a member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. He was awarded the papal decoration Benemerenti in 1949. He has served his council as Grand Knight and Trustee, and was elected State Deputy for the terms of 1944-1945. His home is in Wichita.
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Clarence J. Malone.
Clarence J. Malone, was born in Herndon on March 18, 1910. He graduated from St. Mary’s College in 1931 and received his degree in law from Georgetown University in 1934. He married Audrey Wiss of Topeka on May2, 1935. They have four children. He has practiced law with his father, past State Deputy James Malone, in the firm of Malone And Malone since 1934. He enlisted in the army in 1942 and was mustered out an officer in 1945. He was state representative of the National Catholic Community Service to form the USO in 1941 and the first state chairman of the USO in 1941-1942. He is president of the National Council of Catholic Men for the Diocese of Kansas City in Kansas. In Topeka Council 534 he has been Chancellor 1934-1938 and Grand Knight in 1938-1940. He was State Advocate in 1940-1942, State Deputy in 1946-1948, and has been Supreme Warden since 1947. His home is in Topeka.
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John G. Dowd.
John G. Dowd, was born in Saint Paul Kansas, on March 16, 1910. He attended St. Benedict’s College in 1927-1928. He taught in the rural schools of Neosho County 1929-1931 and was principal of the grade schools of St. Paul from 1931-1940. He married Pauline Bulger of Cherryvale on May 25, 1940. At that time he entered government servive as Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue. He has since been stationed at Winfield, Coffeyville, and Marysville. He served in the navy in 1944-1945. He has been a member of the Knights of Columbus since 1p28. He served as Deputy Grand Knight and Grand Knight of St. Paul Council 760, was District Deputy in 1935-1937 and 1940-1941, Stater Treasurer 1937-1939, Grand Knight of Coffeyville Council 991 in 1943-1944, State Secretary 1946-1948, and since 1948 he has been State Deputy. He makes his home in Marysville.
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Joseph D. Hurley.
Joseph D. Hurley, was born in Leavenworth on July 28, 1868 and attended the old Cathedral school. He married Agnes Frances Downey on October 26, 1892. He was a railroad man for fifty years. He went to work for the Missouri Pacific in 1888 and nine years later joined the Union Pacific from whose service he retired in 1938. The last twenty years of his service he was deport passenger agent in the Kansas City Union Station. After his retirement he made his home with his daughter, Mrs. A. V. Christ, in Leavenworth. He was a member of St. Vincent de Paul Society. He was a member of the Board of Education for sixteen years and its president for twelve years. He was a charter member and the first Grand Knight of Leavenworth Council 900, and a member of the Fourth Degree. He was elected Warden of the State Council in 1906 and was reelected by joyous acclamation every year thereafter. He was probably the best liked and certainly the best known Knight in Kansas. He was presented with a tea service in 1929 to honor his twenty-fifth year in office. The length of his service makes the slight error in figures understandable. The convention at Manhattan in 1948 was the first one he failed to attend since joining the Knights. His death on August 23, 1948 marked the end of an era for Kansas Knights.
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Knights of Columbus in Kansas.
Peter J. Monaghan.
Peter J. Monaghan, was a State Deputy ( 1902-1903), of Topeka Council 534, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1859, but was a resident of Topeka sometime in the eighties. He began his business life as a bookkeeper of the Southwestern Coal and Fuel Company and rose to become its owner and manger. He was happily married to Nellie A., ( 1870-1917 ), and had four sons. He was a charter member and Grand Knight of Topeka Council 534, and was elected State Deputy in 1902. He was very active in the organization of the Knights, and served in various official capacities during the early years. During the first World War he spoke as a Four-minute Man in the Liberty Loan campaign and was a National Representative of the United War Workers Campaign. The vigor of his faith is indicated by the fact that he was a daily communicate. He died He died March 15, 1919.
Burial: Mount Calvary Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas.
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Richard F. Hayden.
Richard F. Hayden, was born near Wetmore Kan., but lived in Topeka most of his life. He married Florence J. Johnston and they had three children. He practiced law from 1899, until his retirement in 1927. He was appointed Judge of the Probate Court of Shawnee County in 1903, and served two years. He was a charter member and Grand Knight of Topeka Council 534, Territorial Deputy until the fprmation of the State Council in 1902, and was elected State Deputy for the terms of 1903-1904. He died August 21, 1941.
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Thomas J. Coughlin.
Thomas J. Coughlin, was born in Warrensberg, Missouri, in 1867. The family moved to Kansas the same year. He was educated at Spalding Business College in Kansas City and at St. Mary’s Collage. He married Mary White of Perry Kan., November 6, 1895. He was foreman of the car department of the Missouri Pacific in Kansas City for five years, chief clerk of the State Insane Asylum in Topeka for two years, and with a wholesale hardware firm in Kansas City for three years. After 1902, he was proprietor of the Coughlin Hardware Company in Topeka. He was a charter member of Topeka Council 534, and one of the outstanding figures in the growth of the Knights of Columbus in Kansas. He was State Secretary in 1902-1903, State Deputy for the terms 1904-1905, and a Supreme Director of the Order from 1908-1911, He died in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 24, 1939.
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James W. Gibbons.
James W. Gibbons, Was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on December 9, 1865. He was married and had four sons. He worked for the Santa Fe for forty-three years and was general foreman of the passenger coach department at the time of his death in November 17, 1930. He he was a charter member and a Grand Knight of Topeka Council 534. He served as District Deputy and was the only State Deputy to be elected for three terms. He was Master of the Fourth Degree of the Kansas Jurisdiction for the years 1911-1912, and a Supreme Director from 1923 to his death. He was active organizer of the Knights of Columbus and was credited with instituting more councils in Kansas and neighboring state than any other man. After the first world War he was head of the Knights of Columbus Night School for servicemen in Topeka. The affection in which he was held by brother Knights is indicated by the resolution to offer Holy Communion for by the conventions of 1928 and 1930.
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Charles Frances McCarthy.
Charles Frances McCarthy, was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, on October 24, 1872. His father died when Charles was only a few months old, and his mother came to Kansas City with her five children to make her home with a brother-in-law and his family. On January 10, 1898, he married Miss Nellie Mae Curry, the daughter of a Kansas City pioneer, James A. Curry. Three daughters were born to them. Most of his business life was spent as general agent for various fire insurance companies and his office was in Kansas City, Kansas. He was State Deputy of Kansas Knights of Columbus from 1909-1911. He died after about a year’s illness, on May 10, 1920.
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W. J. Moriarity.
W. J. Moriarity, Was a charter member of St. Mary’s Council 657, its Grand Knight in 1904-1905, and State Deputy from 1911-1913. During the First World War he was a special agent for the Order and worked first on the Mexican border and then in the Knights of Columbus War Work. He was engaged in the life insurance business and now resides in St. Louis.
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William Dennis Jochems.
William Dennis Jochems, was born in Topeka, April 20, 1886. He attended the Kansas State Normal School at Emporia and took his degree in law from the Kansas City of Law in 1910. A year later he married Helen Roetzel and they had three sons. She died in 1922 and three years later married Alicia C. Healy. He taught in the public schools from 1904-1906. He began the practice of law in Wichita in 1910, was assistant city attorney in 1911, was associate justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas in 1930-1931, and is a member of the law firm of Jochem. Sargent and Blaes, and counsel for the board of regents of the University of Wichita. He is a member of Phi Alpha Delta, the Wichita Bar Association ( ex-president ), and the Kansas Bar Association. He is a director of the First National Bank of Wichita. He was presented with the Catholic Action Award in 1941 and was made a Papal Knight of St. Gregory in 1942.
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George Daniel bordenkircher.
George Daniel bordenkircher, was born March 30, 1871, Mount Sterling Illinois. The family moved to Burlington Kansas, about 1881. He was a charter member of Emporia Council 727, its Grand Knight in 1905-1906, State Secretary from 1908-1910, and State Deputy in 1915-1916. He refused a second term as State Deputy for business reasons. In announcing this State Deputy Gibbons credited him with restoring harmony to the State Council and with extraordinary growth of the membership during his term. He was interested in history and was the active head of the Kansas Catholic Historical Society. His outstanding characteristics were his zeal and fervor; he was one of those responsible for the vigorous Retreat movement in the Knights of Columbus. When he died on January 27, 1938, William Allen White saluted him as a scholar and gentleman, who was also a devout and conscientious Christian through all his happy useful life.
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Michael A. Quigley.
Michael A. Quigley, was born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Canada, on October 2, 1860. He took his degree at the University of New Brunswick and then studied medicine There and in Boston. The urge to go west put and end to his medical education and after having established himself in Atchison Kan., he returned to New Brunswick to marry Anna J. Sharky. They had two children. Mr. Quigley was known throughout northern Kansas and southwest Nebraska in the wholesale grocery business. He was admitted to citizenship in 1916. He served as Chancellor, Deputy Grand Knight, and Grand Knight of Sacred Heart Council 723, in Atchison. He was appointed District Deputy in 1814, was elected State Deputy in 1914, was elected State Deputy for the terns of 1916-1917, and was Master of the Fourth Degree from 1918-1925. He died May 7, 1927.
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James F. Sheehy.
James F. Sheehy, was born in Shullsburg Wisconsin. He married Gladys C. Curtis of Paola Kan., He was an Internal Revenue Agent from 1914, to his retirement in 1945. Sine 1924, his residence has been in Long Beach California. He was Grand Knight of Paola Council for three terms, District Deputy for two years, State Advocate from 1914-1916, and State Deputy from 1918-1920. He was one of the group that initiated the Laymen’s Retreat movement in Kansas and continued that interest in his present home where he has also been president of the Holy Name Society and the St. Vincent de Ppaul Society.
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Thomas P. Downs.
Thomas P. Downs, was born June 9, 1881. He married Marie E. Walsh of Beloit, Kan., on June 10, 1905. They have four children. He served as Financial Secretary of Beloit Council from 1904, the year he was initiated, until 1912, and as Grand Knight from 1912-1918. He was a member of the State Fourth Degree Staff from 1917-1922. He was District Deputy 1916-1920, and State Deputy from 1920-1922. He entered the service of the Supreme Council in 1924 as a special agent and now resides in Kansas City.
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James Malone.
James Malone, was born in Tecumseh, Nebraska, on November 22, 1874, He married Mary Mentlick of Iowa City and they have two sons. He farmed until he was thirty, was president of Malone and Wenzel, owners and operators of the Beaver Valley Roller Mills at Herndon from 1904-1920. He was a state legislator from 1908-1911, state senator from 1912-1920, and a member of the State Labor Commission from 1937-1939. He served as an enlisted man in the first World War and was first commander of the Sam Hubbard Post of the American Legion at Atwood. He has been a director of the Kansas State Historical Society since 1922. He has been president of the St. Vincent, dePaul and the Holy Name Societies in Topeka. He was District Deputy from 1915-1922 and State Deputy from 1922-1924. He is the senior member of the legal firm of Malone and Malone in Topeka and the senior member of the only father-and-son team among the past State Deputies of Kansas.
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Patrick J. McGinley.
Patrick J. McGinley, was born at Killibegs, county Donegal, Ireland, October 14, 1867. He came to this country with his parents who first resided in Cleveland Ohio, and later moved to Chetopa Kansas. He first employment was as a clerk for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. In 1893 he left their employ to make a run into the Cherokee Strip with his brother Frank. After two years he returned to Chetopa and employment with the Missouri Pacific. In 1896, he was stationed at Pittsburg, Kansas, where he married Emma Felicia Pompeney on October 18, 1898. Five children were born to their marriage. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Oklahoma, and joined the Knight of Columbus at Oklahoma City. After the death of his wife in 1938, he moved to Chicago and served as an acc0untant until his retirement in 1947. He now makes his home in Topeka. He is a member of the Fourth Degree, served Pittsburg Council as Gran Knight, and was State Deputy for the terms of 1924-1925.
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Charles Alfred Beedy.
Charles Alfred Beedy, was born July 11, 1887 at Hill City Kansas. He taught school in Graham County where he married Mary Agnes McCarthy and they reared a family of nine children. He engaged in the real estate and building and loan business in Hays from 1919-1935. He moved to Topeka in 1936. He worked for the government during the second World War and has dealt in real estate and insurance since that time. He is active in the work of the Kansas Crippled Children Commission and is its district chairman at present. As District Deputy from 1918-1926 he was very active in the growth of the Order. He was State Deputy from 1926-1928 and Master of the Fourth Degree in 1929-1930. He was one of the first directors of the National Catholic Welfare Council, representing the archdiocese of St. Louis.
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Michael J. Healy.
Michael J. Healy, was born March 8, 1891 at Lincoln, Kansas. He married Mary Joslin in 1912 and the reared a family of eight children. He graduated from the Kansas City School of Law and was admitted to the Kansas Bar in 1916. He practiced in Lincoln from 1916-1925, serving as clerk of the district court from 1917-1921 and as city attorney from 1921-1924. He moved to Topeka in 1924 to serve as general attorney for the Kansas Public Service Commission until 1929, when he returned to private practice in Topeka. He was chairman of the law committee representing eleven central western states in class rate cases before the Interstate Commerce Commission from 19225-1928. He was appointed to the legal department of the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1936. In the Knights of Columbus he served as District Deputy1922-1924, State Advocate 1824-1925, State Deputy 1928-1930, Master of the fourthDegree1930-1936, and Supeme Dicector 1930-1937. He died October 17, 1837. Burial: Saint Patricks Cemetery, Lincoln, Lincoln County, Kansas.
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Joseph J. Sullivan.
Joseph J. Sullivan, was born at Tampa Kansas, on December 23, 1892. He married Ellen Doyle of Kansas City Missouri, on November 24, 1915. Six children en were born to them, three of whom are living. He joined Salina Council 601 in 1915 and served as Chancellor, Deputy Grand Knight, Grand Knight for five consecutive terms, and Trustee for six years. He was Drictrict Deputy for two years and State Deputy from 1830-1932. He has operated a mortuary in Salina for many years.
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Vincent A. Smith.
Vincent A. Smith, was born in Washington D. C. on December 5, 1891. He took his degree in law from Georgetown University in 1915 and was admitted to the bar in the Supreme Court, D. C., in the same year. He was certified as a public accountant in Oklahoma in 1922, and in Missouri and Kansas in 1939. He married Mary Elizabeth Lappin of Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1922. They have three children. He was a member of the A. E. F. from 1917-1919. After the war he moved to Wichita and became a junior partner in Chas. A. Smith and Company accountants. Since 1939 he has been a partner in Lunsford, Barnes and Company, Certified Public Accountants in Wichita. He belongs to the Wichita in 1931-1935. He served his council as treasurer from 1923-1929, and Grand Knight in 1935. He was District Deputy in 1931-1932 and State Deputy from 1932-1934.
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Edward D. Sheehan.
Edward D. Sheehan, was born at Independence Iowa, July 18, 1878. He joined the Knights of Columbus in 1903 at Dubuque and was a charter member and first Grand Knight of Goodland Council. He is a member of the Fourth Degree, was District Deputy from 1926-1930 and State Deputy from 1934-1936. He spent forty-eight years in railroad work as rules examiner and chief dispatcher for the Rock Island system. He retired in 1944 and now lives in Denver. He is unmarried.
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M. J. Dorzweiler.
M. J. Dorzweiler, was born at Catherine Kansas, on January 5, 1899. He was married Matilda Dreiling of Hays Kan., on September 20, 1921. The had six children, four of whom are living. He was a member of St. Joseph Council 1325, at Hays, and served it as Grand Knight and Financial Secretary. He was District Deputy from 1930-1934, State Secretary for the terms 1934-1936, and State Deputy from 1936-1938. He participated in the degree work of the Order in all parts of the state on many occasions. He was general agent in the insurance department of the Knights of Columbus in Kansas from 1940-1948. He now operates a hotel in Denver.
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Edward L. Dunbar.
Edward L. Dunbar, Was born in Kansas City, Kansas on August 18, 1896. He attended the school of journalism, Kansas University in 1913-14, the conservatory of music in 1915 and 1919. He served in the United States Navy in 1917 and 1918. He received his degree in law from the University of Kansas City in 1926. He was employed at the Kansas City Terminal Union Station and was appointed to the Board of appeals in Kansas City Kansas 1947. He married Josephine Quigley of Atchison in 1924. They had three children. He joined Bishop Miege Council in 1913 and served his council as Recorder, Chancellor, Lecture, Advocate, and five terms as Grand Knight. He was District Deputy in 1930-1932 and 1935-1936, State Deputy in 1938-1940 and has been Master of the Fourth Degree in Kansas since 1945.
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Andrew Jerome Pflumm.
Andrew Jerome Pflumm, was born at Shawnee, July 13, 1899. He did his college work at St. Mary’s and Rockhurst and took his degree in law at the University of Kansas City. He married Elizabeth H. Lally in 1924. They have five daughters; their only son Andrew, was killed in action on Anzio Beachhead, February 18, 1944. Brother Pflumm was employed by the RANIN-Benedict Underwriting Company for 18 years and since 1936 has engaged in private practice at Mission, Kansas. He is chairman of the Shawnee Township Zoning Board, president of the Mission Fire Department for the past 10 years, and director of three township fire departments in Shawnee Township. He was the first Financial Secretary of Shawnee Council 2332 and held the office for four years. He has also served the council as Advocate and Grand Knight. He has been District Deputy, was Advocate in 1934-1935, and was State Deputy from 1940-1942.
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Emmet Andrew Blaes.
Emmet Andrew Blaes, was born in Cherryvale on April 18, 1907. He attended Conception College and Kansas State Teachers College at Pittsburg. He received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from Creighton University in 1931. He married Anna Rose Sebron Kranda of Omaha on October 3, 1933. They have three children. He has practiced law in Wichita sine 1931. He is associate counsel of the Diocese of Wichita and of the Farmers and Bankers Life Insurance Company, and a director and treasurer of the Insulwool Insulation Corporation. He is president of the National Council of Catholic Men and was awarded an Honor Scroll for work in the field of Catholic Action by Conception College in 1942. He was State Deputy from 1942-1944. His home is in Wichita.
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Dr. Harry M. Klenda.
Dr. Harry M. Klenda, was born in Marion, March 16, 1907. He attended Sy. Procopius College and graduated from Loyola University in Chicago with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1930 and as Doctor of Dental Science in 1931. He married Frances Elizabeth Trampota of Chicago on August 1, 1931. They have five children. He is a member of the Wichita Dental Society ( director 1937-40, president 1939-40), of the American and Kansas State Dental Associations, and the American Full Denture Society. He received the Kansas State Clinic Award in 1940. He was president of the Diocesan Catholic Action Committee from 1941-1943, vice-president of the Diocesan Confraternity of Christian Doctrine in 1937-1939, and is a member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. He was awarded the papal decoration Benemerenti in 1949. He has served his council as Grand Knight and Trustee, and was elected State Deputy for the terms of 1944-1945. His home is in Wichita.
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Clarence J. Malone.
Clarence J. Malone, was born in Herndon on March 18, 1910. He graduated from St. Mary’s College in 1931 and received his degree in law from Georgetown University in 1934. He married Audrey Wiss of Topeka on May2, 1935. They have four children. He has practiced law with his father, past State Deputy James Malone, in the firm of Malone And Malone since 1934. He enlisted in the army in 1942 and was mustered out an officer in 1945. He was state representative of the National Catholic Community Service to form the USO in 1941 and the first state chairman of the USO in 1941-1942. He is president of the National Council of Catholic Men for the Diocese of Kansas City in Kansas. In Topeka Council 534 he has been Chancellor 1934-1938 and Grand Knight in 1938-1940. He was State Advocate in 1940-1942, State Deputy in 1946-1948, and has been Supreme Warden since 1947. His home is in Topeka.
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John G. Dowd.
John G. Dowd, was born in Saint Paul Kansas, on March 16, 1910. He attended St. Benedict’s College in 1927-1928. He taught in the rural schools of Neosho County 1929-1931 and was principal of the grade schools of St. Paul from 1931-1940. He married Pauline Bulger of Cherryvale on May 25, 1940. At that time he entered government servive as Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue. He has since been stationed at Winfield, Coffeyville, and Marysville. He served in the navy in 1944-1945. He has been a member of the Knights of Columbus since 1p28. He served as Deputy Grand Knight and Grand Knight of St. Paul Council 760, was District Deputy in 1935-1937 and 1940-1941, Stater Treasurer 1937-1939, Grand Knight of Coffeyville Council 991 in 1943-1944, State Secretary 1946-1948, and since 1948 he has been State Deputy. He makes his home in Marysville.
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Joseph D. Hurley.
Joseph D. Hurley, was born in Leavenworth on July 28, 1868 and attended the old Cathedral school. He married Agnes Frances Downey on October 26, 1892. He was a railroad man for fifty years. He went to work for the Missouri Pacific in 1888 and nine years later joined the Union Pacific from whose service he retired in 1938. The last twenty years of his service he was deport passenger agent in the Kansas City Union Station. After his retirement he made his home with his daughter, Mrs. A. V. Christ, in Leavenworth. He was a member of St. Vincent de Paul Society. He was a member of the Board of Education for sixteen years and its president for twelve years. He was a charter member and the first Grand Knight of Leavenworth Council 900, and a member of the Fourth Degree. He was elected Warden of the State Council in 1906 and was reelected by joyous acclamation every year thereafter. He was probably the best liked and certainly the best known Knight in Kansas. He was presented with a tea service in 1929 to honor his twenty-fifth year in office. The length of his service makes the slight error in figures understandable. The convention at Manhattan in 1948 was the first one he failed to attend since joining the Knights. His death on August 23, 1948 marked the end of an era for Kansas Knights.
Monday, February 1, 2010
George H. McIntre-McIntyer-M'Intire
Will researching for soldiers of Kansas, I ran across George H. McIntire. I found his story very interesting and I felt it should stand a lone.
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George H. McIntire or McIntyer, 11th., Kansas Cavalry, Company C., Private, Home Emporia, Enlisted in Aug. 23, '62, Mustered in Sept. 10, '62, Promoted Corporal June 1, 1865, Corporal, Mustered out with company August 7, 1865.
The Arkansas City Daily Traveler, Monday, December 12, 1921, Pg. 1
G. H. M'INTIRE, OLD TIMER HERE, DIED ON SUNDAY
Was One of Best Known Residents In County
SHERIFF TWO TERMS
Succumbed to Pluro-Pneumonia, Aged 77 Years.
ILL ONLY FEW DAYS.
Judge McIntire Saw Service in Civil War and Was One of First Officers in Cowley County.
George H. McIntire, who was reported last week to be critically ill of double pneumonia, passed away at the family home, 720 North Second Street, Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock, having been bedfast for only four days. He was very sick the night he became ill and there were no hopes entertained for his recovery from the start, it is now said, although all that medical skill and care could do to prolong his life, was properly attended to night and day, during his recent illness.
He went from his office in the Zadie block last Wednesday night, feeling a bit under the weather, and the next morning he was reported to be quite sick. The following day pneumonia developed and he grew steadily worse until the end came. He had no chance whatever after the attack came on, to carry on with any business matters, nor to give any instructions in matters of law suits now pending in his court. These matters will have to be transferred to some other state court and be disposed of by someone else because he was suddenly called away, never to return to earthly pleasures or troubles.
George McIntire was one of the best peace officers that Arkansas City and Cowley county has ever known. He was sheriff of this county for two terms in the 80s and he made good in this office as well as in all the other offices he had been connected with in the past 51 years, for he came to this city in 1870
True, he had not held public office all that time, but his record for the number of years in office stands out above all others in the county.
He had held all offices from deputy United States marshal to sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, policeman, police judge, and justice of the peace. He had been reelected to the latter office every two years for the past 12 or 14 years.
He was appointed to the office of sheriff of the county in 1884 and after serving one term was elected. He served until the latter part of 1888.
No officer or justice of the peace in Arkansas City in the past twenty years, at least, was more thoughtful of the newspaperman and none have ever been more lenient in the matter of giving out news to the press. The Traveler reporter can testify to the fact that Judge McIntire was always ready and willing to give the facts in any sort of criminal action to the reporters and help them to get the stories together and give the real facts as he knew them. When a law-breaker would ask him to keep a certain case from the papers, he would always tell them that his court records were public property and that he could not keep the newshounds off, even if he so desired. Only a few days ago, the Traveler reporter who makes the courts, heard a story from Judge McIntire on some of the noted cases he had worked on when he was sheriff of this county, and one day last week the reporter had started a story which was partially related by the judge; and it was headed as follows:
“Recalls Old Times Former Sheriff says all Parties Convicted of Crime are not Real Criminals." The story was never finished by Mr. McIntire, because he was ill and unable to be at his office the following day. He did not return to his office after that date. The story was in regard to two different men who were convicted of crime in this county and sent to prison. Later, when they had been released from the state penitentiary, Mr. McIntire had loaned them money, in order as they stated to him, to get a new start in life, not expecting them to ever return the same. But later on, according to the story, both made good and both kept their promise and returned the borrowed money. Each of them had called later and told the officer that they were men and had made good, were seeking and making an honest living. They attributed this fact to the splendid treatment that the officer (McIntire) gave them when they were in trouble, which they brought upon themselves.
George H. McIntire, at one time in the early days of the state, deputy United States marshal, was born in New Hampshire in 1844; son of Timothy and Catherine McIntire. At the age of ten years, he came to Kansas with parents, locating at Topeka. He and his brothers were the first boys in that place. He then removed with his parents to Lyon county.
He enlisted in 1862, in Company C, Eleventh Kansas Volunteers, and participated in the engagements of Prairie Grove, Cane Hill, Price's raid from the Kansas to the Arkansas rivers, and escorted the mails from Fort Larned to Bent's Fort; was mustered out in August, 1865.
After the war he engaged in farming for two years in Lyon county; then in the stock business until 1870, when he came to Arkansas City; and for two years was engaged in merchandising under the firm name of McIntire & Son, the senior partner being the late Timothy McIntire, since which time he has been engaged as an officer of the law and justice of the peace. He was appointed as U. S. deputy marshal in 1880. He was elected constable in the year 1873. He held that office for ten years. Then he was elected sheriff, as stated above. After the four years service as sheriff, he was constable again and later a city policeman.
During the opening of the Cherokee Strip, south of here in Oklahoma, when this city was on the border and was wild and wooly, he saw real service as a peace officer.
Prior to that time he and his father and brothers saw and lived the hardships of the early border days in Kansas, and they all could relate many interesting and hair raising stories of the "wild west."
C. H. McIntire was married to Miss Mary R. Chaplan [?], in 1869, and she was a native of Wisconsin. She passed away here several years ago and he recently remarried. The second wife and five children survive him. Some time ago Mr. McIntire was a member of the A. O. U. W. lodge and the Select Knights.
Besides the five children, he leaves one sister, Mrs. Innis Osgood, of this city, who at this time is very ill; and two brothers, Timothy McIntire, of Emporia, who is now in Redwood, California, and will be unable to come here for the funeral, and C. M. McIntire, the youngest of the children of the late Timothy McIntire. G. H. McIntire would have been 78 years of age had he lived until next March. Mrs. Osgood is several years older than he. The children are: Mrs. Cora Friend, of Lamar, Colorado; Mrs. Claude Duval, of Newkirk, Oklahoma; Mrs. T. E. Smith, of Kaw City, Oklahoma; Mrs. Chas. Boyles, of Quincy, Illinois; and Al McIntire of this city. All will be here for the funeral services and burial.
G. H. McIntire was a member of the G. A. R. Post of this city, and the post members and also the W. R. C. will attend the funeral services in a body. It was recalled this morning by some of the old timers here that in the death of Mr. McIntire, the only living member of the Eleventh Kansas regiment of the Civil war, in this city, is D. G. (Dave) Lewis. The late Capt. Thompson, father of City Commissioner F. L. Thompson, was also a member of this famous regiment, which was one of the liveliest in the Civil war times.
Mr. McIntire served two years as sheriff in Colorado in the early days. Captain M. N. Sinnott, F. L. Thompson, and other local men who have served as officers of the law in this city in the years gone by, were this morning recalling some of the chases of criminals and the many serious cases that the former officers of the law, including G. H. McIntire, the late Capt. Rarick, and the late J. J. Breene, participated in in the early days of the city and the county. Mr. McIntire could recall many instances where he was in a bad way, when men of known criminal records had the drop on him, but by his thoughtfulness and easy going manner, under such circumstances, he was able to turn the trick successfully and get the drop on the other fellow in the end.
There has been nothing of a definite nature made public in regard to Mr. McIntire's successor in the office of justice of the peace; and as in the case of the late E. H. Addington, the vacancy will be filled by appointment of the governor of the state. His term of office would not have expired until next fall. It is probable, however, that there will be several applicants for the office. In the case of E. H. Addington, J. W. Martin was appointed to fill the unexpired term.
The children of Mr. McIntire were all at home this morning, and it was announced that the funeral services would be held tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Christian church. Rev. McQuidy will have charge of the services and the body will be interred in Riverview cemetery.
THUMBNAIL SKETCH OF HIS LIFE
George Henry McIntire was born Mar 8, 1844 in Wilton, New Hampshire to Timothy and Catherine Jane McIntire. In 1847 his family moved to Lancaster, Massachusetts and then to Dixfield, Maine in 1849.
In 1854 he and his family, including a 15 year old sister, an eight year old brother and a two year old brother, got on a train in Boston and traveled, under the "protection" of the Emigrant Aid Company of Massachusetts, to the Kansas Territory. From Boston they went to Albany, New York, across Lake Erie to Detroit, Michigan, probably to Rock Island, Illinois, from Rock Island to St. Louis, Missouri and then up the Missouri River by Steamboat to Kansas City, Missouri. At Kansas City they traveled, probably by wagon and walking, to a place on the banks of the Kansas River now called Topeka, Kansas where they lived, part of the time in a sod house, for four years and in 1858 a farm near Emporia, Kansas.
By July of 1862, the war had taken its toll on men and materiel so President Lincoln called for 300,000 more men. Kansas responded with three regiments of infantry volunteers (about 3,000 men). On August 23rd, at age 18, young George, with the approval of his father, enlisted in the 11th Kansas Volunteers in Emporia, Kansas and was assigned to Company C under the command of Capt. Preston B. Plumb. In the next three years his unit was reassigned as a cavalry unit and George and his comrades saw action against the Indians and the Confederate army in Arkansas, up and down the Kansas-Missouri border. In October of 1864, under the command of Col. Thomas Moonlight, Company C fought with distinction at the Battle of Westport in Kansas City during Confederate General Sterling Price's raid through Missouri.
George mustered out of the Military in 1865 and returned to his home in Emporia. He married Mary Champlin in 1869 and in 1871, he and his wife, moved from the family farm, along with his father and mother and the rest of the McIntire family, to a new settlement on the Kansas border newly named Arkansas City. Until his death, in 1921, he served on the Arkansas City City Council; he was a Deputy United States Marshall; a Constable; city Policeman; police judge; Deputy Sheriff and Sheriff of Cowley County, and Justice of the Peace. Following his second term as Sheriff in 1888, he moved to Springfield, Colorado where he served as Sheriff of Baca County Colorado. He returned to Arkansas City in 1890 and was serving as Justice of the Peace at the time of his death in December 1921
He' is buried in Riverview Cemetery in Arkansas City beside his wife of 48 years, Mary Rozella (Champlin), a child who died in infancy and other members of the McIntire family.
Obituary provided by his great grandson
Ron McIntire
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George H. McIntire or McIntyer, 11th., Kansas Cavalry, Company C., Private, Home Emporia, Enlisted in Aug. 23, '62, Mustered in Sept. 10, '62, Promoted Corporal June 1, 1865, Corporal, Mustered out with company August 7, 1865.
The Arkansas City Daily Traveler, Monday, December 12, 1921, Pg. 1
G. H. M'INTIRE, OLD TIMER HERE, DIED ON SUNDAY
Was One of Best Known Residents In County
SHERIFF TWO TERMS
Succumbed to Pluro-Pneumonia, Aged 77 Years.
ILL ONLY FEW DAYS.
Judge McIntire Saw Service in Civil War and Was One of First Officers in Cowley County.
George H. McIntire, who was reported last week to be critically ill of double pneumonia, passed away at the family home, 720 North Second Street, Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock, having been bedfast for only four days. He was very sick the night he became ill and there were no hopes entertained for his recovery from the start, it is now said, although all that medical skill and care could do to prolong his life, was properly attended to night and day, during his recent illness.
He went from his office in the Zadie block last Wednesday night, feeling a bit under the weather, and the next morning he was reported to be quite sick. The following day pneumonia developed and he grew steadily worse until the end came. He had no chance whatever after the attack came on, to carry on with any business matters, nor to give any instructions in matters of law suits now pending in his court. These matters will have to be transferred to some other state court and be disposed of by someone else because he was suddenly called away, never to return to earthly pleasures or troubles.
George McIntire was one of the best peace officers that Arkansas City and Cowley county has ever known. He was sheriff of this county for two terms in the 80s and he made good in this office as well as in all the other offices he had been connected with in the past 51 years, for he came to this city in 1870
True, he had not held public office all that time, but his record for the number of years in office stands out above all others in the county.
He had held all offices from deputy United States marshal to sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, policeman, police judge, and justice of the peace. He had been reelected to the latter office every two years for the past 12 or 14 years.
He was appointed to the office of sheriff of the county in 1884 and after serving one term was elected. He served until the latter part of 1888.
No officer or justice of the peace in Arkansas City in the past twenty years, at least, was more thoughtful of the newspaperman and none have ever been more lenient in the matter of giving out news to the press. The Traveler reporter can testify to the fact that Judge McIntire was always ready and willing to give the facts in any sort of criminal action to the reporters and help them to get the stories together and give the real facts as he knew them. When a law-breaker would ask him to keep a certain case from the papers, he would always tell them that his court records were public property and that he could not keep the newshounds off, even if he so desired. Only a few days ago, the Traveler reporter who makes the courts, heard a story from Judge McIntire on some of the noted cases he had worked on when he was sheriff of this county, and one day last week the reporter had started a story which was partially related by the judge; and it was headed as follows:
“Recalls Old Times Former Sheriff says all Parties Convicted of Crime are not Real Criminals." The story was never finished by Mr. McIntire, because he was ill and unable to be at his office the following day. He did not return to his office after that date. The story was in regard to two different men who were convicted of crime in this county and sent to prison. Later, when they had been released from the state penitentiary, Mr. McIntire had loaned them money, in order as they stated to him, to get a new start in life, not expecting them to ever return the same. But later on, according to the story, both made good and both kept their promise and returned the borrowed money. Each of them had called later and told the officer that they were men and had made good, were seeking and making an honest living. They attributed this fact to the splendid treatment that the officer (McIntire) gave them when they were in trouble, which they brought upon themselves.
George H. McIntire, at one time in the early days of the state, deputy United States marshal, was born in New Hampshire in 1844; son of Timothy and Catherine McIntire. At the age of ten years, he came to Kansas with parents, locating at Topeka. He and his brothers were the first boys in that place. He then removed with his parents to Lyon county.
He enlisted in 1862, in Company C, Eleventh Kansas Volunteers, and participated in the engagements of Prairie Grove, Cane Hill, Price's raid from the Kansas to the Arkansas rivers, and escorted the mails from Fort Larned to Bent's Fort; was mustered out in August, 1865.
After the war he engaged in farming for two years in Lyon county; then in the stock business until 1870, when he came to Arkansas City; and for two years was engaged in merchandising under the firm name of McIntire & Son, the senior partner being the late Timothy McIntire, since which time he has been engaged as an officer of the law and justice of the peace. He was appointed as U. S. deputy marshal in 1880. He was elected constable in the year 1873. He held that office for ten years. Then he was elected sheriff, as stated above. After the four years service as sheriff, he was constable again and later a city policeman.
During the opening of the Cherokee Strip, south of here in Oklahoma, when this city was on the border and was wild and wooly, he saw real service as a peace officer.
Prior to that time he and his father and brothers saw and lived the hardships of the early border days in Kansas, and they all could relate many interesting and hair raising stories of the "wild west."
C. H. McIntire was married to Miss Mary R. Chaplan [?], in 1869, and she was a native of Wisconsin. She passed away here several years ago and he recently remarried. The second wife and five children survive him. Some time ago Mr. McIntire was a member of the A. O. U. W. lodge and the Select Knights.
Besides the five children, he leaves one sister, Mrs. Innis Osgood, of this city, who at this time is very ill; and two brothers, Timothy McIntire, of Emporia, who is now in Redwood, California, and will be unable to come here for the funeral, and C. M. McIntire, the youngest of the children of the late Timothy McIntire. G. H. McIntire would have been 78 years of age had he lived until next March. Mrs. Osgood is several years older than he. The children are: Mrs. Cora Friend, of Lamar, Colorado; Mrs. Claude Duval, of Newkirk, Oklahoma; Mrs. T. E. Smith, of Kaw City, Oklahoma; Mrs. Chas. Boyles, of Quincy, Illinois; and Al McIntire of this city. All will be here for the funeral services and burial.
G. H. McIntire was a member of the G. A. R. Post of this city, and the post members and also the W. R. C. will attend the funeral services in a body. It was recalled this morning by some of the old timers here that in the death of Mr. McIntire, the only living member of the Eleventh Kansas regiment of the Civil war, in this city, is D. G. (Dave) Lewis. The late Capt. Thompson, father of City Commissioner F. L. Thompson, was also a member of this famous regiment, which was one of the liveliest in the Civil war times.
Mr. McIntire served two years as sheriff in Colorado in the early days. Captain M. N. Sinnott, F. L. Thompson, and other local men who have served as officers of the law in this city in the years gone by, were this morning recalling some of the chases of criminals and the many serious cases that the former officers of the law, including G. H. McIntire, the late Capt. Rarick, and the late J. J. Breene, participated in in the early days of the city and the county. Mr. McIntire could recall many instances where he was in a bad way, when men of known criminal records had the drop on him, but by his thoughtfulness and easy going manner, under such circumstances, he was able to turn the trick successfully and get the drop on the other fellow in the end.
There has been nothing of a definite nature made public in regard to Mr. McIntire's successor in the office of justice of the peace; and as in the case of the late E. H. Addington, the vacancy will be filled by appointment of the governor of the state. His term of office would not have expired until next fall. It is probable, however, that there will be several applicants for the office. In the case of E. H. Addington, J. W. Martin was appointed to fill the unexpired term.
The children of Mr. McIntire were all at home this morning, and it was announced that the funeral services would be held tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Christian church. Rev. McQuidy will have charge of the services and the body will be interred in Riverview cemetery.
THUMBNAIL SKETCH OF HIS LIFE
George Henry McIntire was born Mar 8, 1844 in Wilton, New Hampshire to Timothy and Catherine Jane McIntire. In 1847 his family moved to Lancaster, Massachusetts and then to Dixfield, Maine in 1849.
In 1854 he and his family, including a 15 year old sister, an eight year old brother and a two year old brother, got on a train in Boston and traveled, under the "protection" of the Emigrant Aid Company of Massachusetts, to the Kansas Territory. From Boston they went to Albany, New York, across Lake Erie to Detroit, Michigan, probably to Rock Island, Illinois, from Rock Island to St. Louis, Missouri and then up the Missouri River by Steamboat to Kansas City, Missouri. At Kansas City they traveled, probably by wagon and walking, to a place on the banks of the Kansas River now called Topeka, Kansas where they lived, part of the time in a sod house, for four years and in 1858 a farm near Emporia, Kansas.
By July of 1862, the war had taken its toll on men and materiel so President Lincoln called for 300,000 more men. Kansas responded with three regiments of infantry volunteers (about 3,000 men). On August 23rd, at age 18, young George, with the approval of his father, enlisted in the 11th Kansas Volunteers in Emporia, Kansas and was assigned to Company C under the command of Capt. Preston B. Plumb. In the next three years his unit was reassigned as a cavalry unit and George and his comrades saw action against the Indians and the Confederate army in Arkansas, up and down the Kansas-Missouri border. In October of 1864, under the command of Col. Thomas Moonlight, Company C fought with distinction at the Battle of Westport in Kansas City during Confederate General Sterling Price's raid through Missouri.
George mustered out of the Military in 1865 and returned to his home in Emporia. He married Mary Champlin in 1869 and in 1871, he and his wife, moved from the family farm, along with his father and mother and the rest of the McIntire family, to a new settlement on the Kansas border newly named Arkansas City. Until his death, in 1921, he served on the Arkansas City City Council; he was a Deputy United States Marshall; a Constable; city Policeman; police judge; Deputy Sheriff and Sheriff of Cowley County, and Justice of the Peace. Following his second term as Sheriff in 1888, he moved to Springfield, Colorado where he served as Sheriff of Baca County Colorado. He returned to Arkansas City in 1890 and was serving as Justice of the Peace at the time of his death in December 1921
He' is buried in Riverview Cemetery in Arkansas City beside his wife of 48 years, Mary Rozella (Champlin), a child who died in infancy and other members of the McIntire family.
Obituary provided by his great grandson
Ron McIntire
Sunday, January 31, 2010
The Kansas Soldier
Henry Wheeler, Kansas 2nd., infantry, Company B., Private, Home Junction City, Enlister May 14, '61, muster in June 20, '61, Mustered out with regiment October 31, 1861. This was a 3., month duty. His tombstone states he was in company F., but he could only be found on the rosters as being in company B.
Birth: unknown, Death: Mar. 17, 1885, Died at age 63.
He was a member of Lew Gove Post (#100), Grand Army of the Republic.
Burial: Sunset Cemetery, Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas.
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George B. Hines or Hines 11th., Kansas Cavalry, Company L., Private, Home Manhattan, Enlisted Feb. 29, '64, Mustered in same day, Mustered out with company Sept. 26, 1865.
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Jacob Van Antwerp, 11th., Kansas Cavalry, Company G., Sergeant, Home Zeandale, Enlisted Aug. 30, '62, Mustered in Sept. 13, '62, Promoted 1st Lieut. Company L, April 18, '64, Mustered out with company Sept. 26, 1865.
In 1880,Jacob Van Antwerp, was a Carpenter in Manhattan, his wife Elizabeth keep house their children Gerty VAN ANTWERP ( 14 ), Bertie VAN ANTWERP ( 11 ), Sarah VAN ANTWERP ( 8 ), Edward VAN ANTWERP ( 6 ), where in school, Myrtle VAN ANTWERP, was at age 3m.
Jacob Van Antwerp, was Born about 1818, at Caledonia, New York, His father was John Van Antwerp, his mother was Polly Ann Leiter, married his wife Elizabeth J. Hamilton, on 14 Mar 1861, at Sparland, Illinois, Jacob Van Antwerp, died 21 Dec 1880, at Manhattan, Kansas. Burial: Sunset Cemetery, Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas.
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John Condray, 5th, Kansas cavalry, Company E., Private, Home Junction City, Enlisted in April 3, '62, Mustered in June 19, '63, Transferred to Co. H, August 6, 1864, Transferred to Co. K, November 2, 1864, Mustered out April 15, 1865, on detachment roll.
Birth: unknown, Death: Feb. 13, 1914, died at age 70. He was a member of the Lew Gove Post (#100), Grand Army of the Republic. Burial: Sunset Cemetery, Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas.
In 1880, John CONDRAY ( 36 ), was a farm his Wife Caroline CONDRAY ( 31 ), was keeping house. There children were; Annie CONDRAY ( 8 ), Nellie CONDRAY ( 5 ), Mary CONDRAY ( 1 ), Charles H. CONDRAY ( 3 ), Rena CONDRAY Sdau ( 12 ), Gorgia CONDRAY Sdau ( 11 ) and a Servant Sophia CARLSON.
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John N. Smith, 11th., Kansas Cavalty, Company E., Private, Home Wabaunsee, Enlisted in Aug. 25, '62, Mustered in Sept. 13, '62, Promoted Corporal. Mustered out with company August 7, 1865.
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Peter Wettstein, 8th., infantry, Company B., Privatr, Home Leavenworth, Enlisted Sept. 2, '61, Mustered in same day. Mustered out Sept. 5, 1864, Leavenworth, Kan.; Wounded in action Sept. 19, '63, Chicamauga, GA., was also part of the Block's Co., Leavenworth Zouaves, Kans. Birth: unknown, Death: unknown, Burial: Sunset Cemetery Manhattan
Riley County Kansas.
In 1880, Peter WETTSTEIN ( 50 ) was a farmer in Jackson, Kansas with his son Fredrick WETTSTEIN ( 5 ). Was on the Riley County, pension roll of 1883, was living in Leonardville, Kansas, was wounded in the right arm.
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William H. Bower.
Co. B, 2nd KS. Infantry.
William Cutler wrote the following about this gentleman:
WILLIAM H. BOWER was born in New York City, October 13, 1829. When a child, his parents moved onto a farm in Chatham, N. J., where he was educated in the academy of that place. At about the age of seventeen he went to learn the cabinet-making business, and served an apprenticeship of four years. He then went West to South Bend, Ind., and Southern Michigan, and worked a year. In 1850-51 he traveled through Illinois, and returned to his old home, where he remained until July, 1854, when he traveled West, through Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas, looking upon the site of Leavenworth, then covered with a forest just beginning to be cleared away for the future city.
Returning to Illinois, he worked for a time at Jerseyville, but the next spring, 1855, he again traveled through Southern Illinois, and finally located at Springfield, where he lived until February, 1858, when he came to Riley County stay. He settled at Manhattan, and worked as a contractor and builder until the war, when he enlisted as a private, in April, 1861, in Company B of the Second Kansas Volunteer Infantry. He served six month, when the regiment was mustered out by reason of the expiration of term of service. He was in the regiment sent against the Indians in July, 1864, and in the militia of the Price raid, in October of that year.
In November, 1861, he was elected Clerk of the District Court, and re-elected in 1863, serving four years in that office, meanwhile acting as Deputy County Clerk and Register of Deeds. He has been City Marshal and Collector of Taxes, and is now a member of the City Council, which office he has before filled. In 1875 he opened his present business, undertaker, in the city of Manhattan. He belongs to the Odd Fellows. He was married September 24, 1862, to Miss Hannah H. Hornby, of Manhattan.They have one child - Mary C., born September 19, 1863.
The Daily Mercury, Monday, May 20, 1912, Pg. 1
Vol. IV, No. 8
Wm. Bower Dead.
In the death of Wm. Bower Sunday Manhattan loses another of her pioneer citizens. Mr. Bower came here from Springfield, Ill., where he was a friend and neighbor of Abraham Lincoln. He arrived here in the latter fifties and was employed by Count Charles De Vivaldi, the first editor of Manhattan, to assist in setting the type and printing the “Western Express.” Mr. Bower was a Kansas soldier for three years and was a good one and true. For many years he was engaged in the furniture and undertaking business in Manhattan and prospered. For some years he was in partnership with his son-in-law, I. L. Ady, as W. H. Bower & Co. Mr. Bower was once the mayor of Manhattan and all his life long has been an honorable and upright citizen. Always rather fragile, very gentle and thoughtful of all around him. Until the past winter he has been quite active though he is over 80 years old. He was buried today in Sunset cemetery.
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Adoniram J. Mill, 16th., Kansas Cavalry, Company F., Captain, Home Ohio City, Enlisted---?, Mustered in Apr. 27, '64, Resigned June 15, '65. Remarks from rosters 5th., cavalry co B., Resigned July, 1862; was sworn into service Oct. 1, 1861; was com. and msut. Feb. 8, 1862, to cover previous service, and on same date mustered out on acc't of Co. being below the minimum; was again com. and must. March -, '62
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Alexander Abshear, 13th., Kansas infantry, Company F., Private & Corporal, Home Robinson, Enlisted in Sep. 19, '62, Mustered in Sep. 20, '62, Pro. Corp.; mus. out with reg. June 26, '65. Remarks from Co. H., Reduced to ranks
Birth: Jan. 12, 1841, Death: Sep. 20, 1910, Burial: Riverview Cemetery, Arkansas City, Cowley County, Kansas.
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Amos Walton, 9th., Kansas Cavalry, Company B., Private, Enlisted in Oct. 12, '61, Mustered in sane day, Farrier, Promoted Quartermaster Sergeant June 1, 62., Promoted Sergeant May 25, 1863, Quartermaster Sergeant, Mustered out Nov. 19, '64, Leavenworth Kan. Birth: 1838, Death: 1898, wife Mary Murray Walton; Birth: 1858, Death: Jun. 5, 1954, both are at rest at; Riverview Cemetery, Arkansas City, Cowley County,
Kansas.
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Charles G. Thompson, 11th., Kansas Cavalry, Company G., Private, Enlisted in Aug. 30, '62, Mustered in Sept. 13, '62, Promoted Corporal September 19, 1862, Corporal, Promoted Sergeant September 14, 1863, Sergeant, Promoted Q. M. Sergeant March 24, 1864, Q. M. Sergeant Mustered out with company June 13, 1865.
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Peter M. Carnine
Co. H, 9th KS. Cavalry.
The Emporia Gazette, Friday, Dec. 6, 1918.
Died: Dec. 5, 1918
Peter M. Carnine Dead.
Peter Marion Carnine died at his home, 1102 Congress Street, yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock, of hardening of the arteries. Mr. Carnine had been in failing health for a year or more, and for the past few months his condition was critical. He was conscious until yesterday morning, and death came while he was asleep.
Mr. Carnine was born in Johnson County, Indiana, March 4, 1835. He came to Kansas in 1857 and took a claim six miles north of Iola. He enlisted for service in the Civil War, in Company H, 9th Cavalry, in the fall of 1862, he was married to Miss Mary Susan Luyster, and in 1890 the Carnines moved to Emporia. Mr. Carnine was a charter member of the oldest Presbyterian Church in Southeastern Kansas, of Carlyle, and was an elder of that church until they left Carlyle.
Mr. Carnine united with the church when a young man, and lived every day the faith he professed. No man was more faithful to his church than he, no man more loyal to his friends, and his eight sons and daughters, fine, true men and women, attest to his devotion to his family, and to the fulfillment of his family, and to the fulfillment of his every obligation to them. The Carnine golden wedding celebration in 1912, was one of much joy and satisfaction to Mr. and Mrs. Carnine, when their children and grandchildren, their old friends and neighbors, came to rejoice with them. Mr. and Mrs. Carnine retained in their old age a remarkable degree of health and attended regularly to their duties in their home and in the community. For a year or more Mr. Carnine had been kept at home by failing health, and Mrs. Carnine was his constant companion.
Mr. Carnine is survived by Mrs. Carnine and their eight children, Mrs. E. W. Beeson, of Emporia; William Carnine, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Vermillion; Mrs. Hattie Gordon, Ordway, Colo.; John Carnine, in Y. M. C. A. work at Fort Lawton, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. Dell Buckingham, Yuba City, Calif.; Harry Carnine, of Burlingame; Charles Carnine, of Emporia; George E. Carnine, of Arco, Iowa; three sisters, Mrs. Joseph Handley, Mrs. Sarah Bergen and Mrs. Rachel Heln, all of Frankland, Ind., and one brother, John Carnine of Seattle, and seventeen grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Carnine home, 1102 Congress Street. Dr. R. B. A. McBride, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Carnine, was a member, assisted by Dr. W. C. Templeton, of Winfield, will conduct the services, and interment will be made in Maplewood Cemetery, N. B. Haynes, S. Altman and L. P. Munson, of the eldership of the First Presbyterian Church, and J. H. Ray, Charles Harris and J. R. B. Edwards, of the Grand Army, will be the pall-bearers. Mrs. J. M. Parrington, Mrs. John Hoffer, E. N. Evans and E. E. Anderson will have charge of the music.
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Owen L. Davis, 11th., Kansas, Cavalry, Private, Home Emporia, Enlisted in Aug. 19, '62, Mustered in Sept. 10, '62, Disc. for dis. Jan. 8, 1863, Elm Springs, Ark.
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William O. Ferguson, 9th., Kansas, Cavalry, Company B., Private, Home Emporia, Enlisted Dec. 20, '61, Mustered in same day, Assigned to new Company B., Disc. for dis. Nov. 25, '64, Jefferson Barks, Mo.
He was born in Preble County, Ohio, April 17, 1831. December 26, 1861, enlisted in the Ninth Kansas Cavalry Regiment and served on the frontier eighteen months. Participated in one battle with the Ute Indians and several skirmishes. Once carried a dispatch from Fort Halleck to Fort Laramie, 116 miles in thirty-nine hours in the cold of winter. The company came back to Kansas after the Quantrell raid, and was stationed near Lawrence about four months. Then went to Arkansas, where Mr. F. was taken sick with fever. Was discharged for disability November 27, 1864, at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.
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WILLIAM O. FERGUSON, carpenter and builder, was born in Preble County, Ohio, April 17, 1831. When seven years old he moved with parents to Indiana, in which State he resided fourteen years. Then returned to Ohio, and remained three years. Then started for the West. Remained in Iowa two years, whence he journeyed by wagon to Kansas. Entered this State March 27, 1857. Camped in the brush on the spot where now stands the city of Leavenworth. Passed through Lawrence and located two and one-miles north of Topeka on the Delaware Reservation. Remained there but a short time, and in August removed to Emporia and pre-empted a claim of 160 acres. Sold his claim shortly after, and until the breaking out of the Rebellion worked at his trade, that of carpenter and builder.
December 26, 1861, enlisted in the Ninth Kansas Cavalry Regiment and served on the frontier eighteen months. Participated in one battle with the Ute Indians and several skirmishes. Once carried a dispatch from Fort Halleck to Fort Laramie, 116 miles in thirty-nine hours in the cold of winter. The company came back to Kansas after the Quantrell raid, and was stationed near Lawrence about four months. Then went to Arkansas, where Mr. F. was taken sick with fever. Was discharged for disability November 27, 1864, at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Returned to Emporia, and in the spring of 1865, he went into the grocery business, as a member of the firm of Frederick, Ferguson & Edwards. Continued business over a year, then the firm was changed to Ferguson & Ely. Six months after Mr. Ferguson sold his interest to Ely.
Clerked one year for Holderman Bros., then started a grocery and bakery on the corner of Commercial street and Seventh avenue. Continued in this business until 1880,when he sold out, and has since been engaged in building. Mr. F. is a member of the Christian Church of Emporia, a member of Post 55, G. A. R. also of Emporia Lodge No. 2, A. 0. U. W. Married Miss Catharen Stack, of Emporia, August 18, 1867, and by this marriage has two children - Lou Etty and Daisy Dutton, both living.
source: William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, published 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.
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John H. Heriford or Herriford, 5th., Kansas Cavalry, Private, Enlisted in Aug. 12, '61, Mustered in same day. Absent sick at Keokuk, Iowa, at date of muster out of company. Birth: 1838, Death: unknown, wife Clara, Birth: 1851, Death: 1915, both at rest at; Highland Cemetery, Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas.
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Ansel B. Hackett, 1st., Independent Battery Kansas Light Artillery, Enlisted Aug. 6, '61, Mustered in same day, Renl. Veteran, Veteran Volunteers, Enlisted Jan. 25, '64, Mustered in Feb. 25, '64. Mustered out July 10, '65.
1st Independent Battery Kansas Light Artillery From A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, copyright 1918.
ANSEL B. HACKETT. The nation was celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence when Ansel B. Hackett was born July 4, 1836. His birth occurred at Minot, Cumberland County, Maine. It was in that picturesque district of the Pine Tree State that he spent his early years. Mr. Hackett, who with his venerable wife, now resides at Carbondale, is one of the true pioneers of Kansas, as is also Mrs. Hackett. Both came here when Kansas was a territory, and they experienced the dangers and hardships of frontier life. It is a matter of special interest that Mrs. Hackett is one of the very few surviving witnesses of the Quantrell raid on Lawrence, in which city she was living at the time. Mr. Hackett has now passed the age of four-score, and nearly sixty of those years have been spent in the State of Kansas. He is one of the honored survivors of the Civil war.
His grandfather Hackett came from Ireland and his grandmother from Scotland, and the Hacketts became identified with America during colonial days. His parents were Barnabas and Abbey Hackett, who had a family of ten children, named: Lucas, Abbey, Ruby, Sarah, Maria, Hattie, Nathan, Daniel, Ansel and Elmer. Ansel and his brother Elmer are the only ones now living. It was on September 20, 1857, when Ansel B. Hackett arrived in Kansas. He was then twenty-one years of age. His early years had been of circumscribed opportunities, and he came West so that his vigorous youth and ambition might find a new field in which to work out its destiny. He pre-empted land soon after coming to Kansas, but was employed in various lines of work until the outbreak of the Civil war.
Mr. Hackett spent four years and one month in the service of the Union army. He enlisted August 6, 1861, in the First Kansas Light Artillery, Captain Moonlight, and did not receive his honorable discharge until September 7, 1865. Much of his service was on the frontier, in Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas, until 1864, when his regiment was transferred east of the Mississippi and took part in the great campaign which the battles of Franklin and Nashville were the culmination. Earlier in the war he fought in the engagements of Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, Dry Wood, near Fort Scott, and throughout the Curtis campaign in Arkansas. After being sent first to Tennessee in 1864 he was in the battle at Johnsonville, and then in those bloody conflicts at Franklin and Nashville. When the resistance of the Confederate arms was broken down by the last named battles, he remained with Thomas' army around Huntsville, and the end of the war found him and his comrades at Chattanooga.
His long service exposed him to countless hardships and dangers, but the only affliction resulting from his honored career was a disease of the eyes, and that has brought him a pension from the United States Government for a number of years.
He was still a member of the army when on May 6, 1863, he married Caroline Evans, of Lawrence. She is a daughter of William and Betsey Evans, who formerly lived at Lynn, Massachusetts. Mrs. Hackett and her mother, Betsey Evans, came to Kansas in the fall of 1856. Thus Mrs. Hackett, who was born October 10, 1829, and is now in her eighty-seventh year, has a vivid recollection of many pioneer events in Kansas Territory during the free-state movement and in subsequent epochs.
As already stated, she was living at Lawrence during the Quantrell raid, and in spite of her advanced years has a vivid recollection and can recite in detail many of the incidents of that attack. After the war Mr. Hackett rejoined his wife at Lawrence, and on either the 5th or 6th of March, 1868, they moved to a farm comprising the southeast quarter of section 21, town 14, range 16. This land lies 2 1/2 miles east of Carbondale. It was the pre-emption claim of Mr. Hackett in 1858, but he had never occupied it for the first ten years, having been employed with other matters in addition to his war service. On that farm Mr. and Mrs. Hackett lived profitably and comfortably until they retired in 1913 to a pleasant home in Carbondale. Mr. and Mrs. Hackett have no children. In matters of politics Mr. Hackett has voted the republican ticket, and has been affiliated with that organization since the first campaign in 1856. Outside of voting and performing his duties as a good citizen he has had no aspirations for public office.
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Henry C. Thomson or Thompson 11th., Kansas Cavalry, Company I., Private, Home Burlingame, Enlisted Aug. 20, '62, Mustered in Sept. 15, '62, Mustered out with company Sept. 26, 1865.
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John McMaster, 2nd , Kansas, Cavalry, Company F., Private, Home Topeka, Enlisted Sept. 10, '62, Mustered in Aug. 13, '63, Assigned to new Co. D, March 18, 1865, Mustered out June 22, 1865, Fort Gibson, C. N. Birth: May 3, 1834, Ireland, Death: Aug. 20, 1914, Eskridge, Wabaunsee County, Kansas.
John and Elizabeth Neil were Married in Peach Orchard, Lawrence Co., Kentucky on 17 Jan 1859.
Moved to Osage Co., Kansas in April of 1859.
John was a Civil War Veteran enlisted Sept. 10, 1862, and was mustered into Company F on Aug. 13, 1863. He was assigned to company "D" March 18, 1865. He mustered out June 22, 1865 at Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation (Oklahoma.
John and Elizabeth had the following Children:
Robert Henry McMaster, born on 17 Sep 1859, Ridgeway, Osage Co., Kansas; married Mary Jane Shumate, on 12 Sep 1883; died on 1 Oct 1938, Topeka, Shawnee Co., Kansas.
Minerva Lydia McMaster, born on 17 Dec 1861, Wakarusa, Wabaunsee Co., Kansas; married Frank Sylvanus Tufts, on 19 Oct 1881; died on 25 May 1942, Eskridge, Wabaunsee Co., Kansas.
Fred Winfield McMaster, born on 16 Mar 1866, Mission Creek Township, Wabausnee Co., Kansas; married Anna Luella (Luella) Clark, on 7 Jan 1891; died on 27 Apr 1937.
Elijah McMaster was born on 15 Jun 1868 in Mission Creek Township, Wabausnee Co., Kansas. He died on 26 Mar 1877 in Kansas. He was buried in 1877 in Eskridge Cemetery; Eskridge, Wabaunsee Co., Kansas.
Sarah J McMaster, born on 5 Mar 1871, Mission Creek Township, Wabausnee Co., Kansas; married Walter Augusta Harris, on 12 Oct 1898; died on 10 Feb 1956, Eskridge, Wabaunsee Co., Kansas.
John R. McMaster, born on 10 Jun 1874, Mission Creek Township, Wabausnee Co., Kansas; married Lizzie Hughes, on 5 Jan 1898, Eskridge, Wabaunsee Co., Kansas; died on 26 Feb 1952, Eskridge, Wabaunsee Co., Kansas.
George Joshaway McMaster, born on 17 Oct 1877, Eskridge, Wabaunsee Co., Kansas; married Amelia L. Schultz, on 29 Mar 1905, Eskridge, Wabaunsee Co., Kansas; died on 3 Mar 1948, Topeka, Shawnee Co., Kansas.
Birth: unknown, Death: Mar. 17, 1885, Died at age 63.
He was a member of Lew Gove Post (#100), Grand Army of the Republic.
Burial: Sunset Cemetery, Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas.
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George B. Hines or Hines 11th., Kansas Cavalry, Company L., Private, Home Manhattan, Enlisted Feb. 29, '64, Mustered in same day, Mustered out with company Sept. 26, 1865.
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Jacob Van Antwerp, 11th., Kansas Cavalry, Company G., Sergeant, Home Zeandale, Enlisted Aug. 30, '62, Mustered in Sept. 13, '62, Promoted 1st Lieut. Company L, April 18, '64, Mustered out with company Sept. 26, 1865.
In 1880,Jacob Van Antwerp, was a Carpenter in Manhattan, his wife Elizabeth keep house their children Gerty VAN ANTWERP ( 14 ), Bertie VAN ANTWERP ( 11 ), Sarah VAN ANTWERP ( 8 ), Edward VAN ANTWERP ( 6 ), where in school, Myrtle VAN ANTWERP, was at age 3m.
Jacob Van Antwerp, was Born about 1818, at Caledonia, New York, His father was John Van Antwerp, his mother was Polly Ann Leiter, married his wife Elizabeth J. Hamilton, on 14 Mar 1861, at Sparland, Illinois, Jacob Van Antwerp, died 21 Dec 1880, at Manhattan, Kansas. Burial: Sunset Cemetery, Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas.
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John Condray, 5th, Kansas cavalry, Company E., Private, Home Junction City, Enlisted in April 3, '62, Mustered in June 19, '63, Transferred to Co. H, August 6, 1864, Transferred to Co. K, November 2, 1864, Mustered out April 15, 1865, on detachment roll.
Birth: unknown, Death: Feb. 13, 1914, died at age 70. He was a member of the Lew Gove Post (#100), Grand Army of the Republic. Burial: Sunset Cemetery, Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas.
In 1880, John CONDRAY ( 36 ), was a farm his Wife Caroline CONDRAY ( 31 ), was keeping house. There children were; Annie CONDRAY ( 8 ), Nellie CONDRAY ( 5 ), Mary CONDRAY ( 1 ), Charles H. CONDRAY ( 3 ), Rena CONDRAY Sdau ( 12 ), Gorgia CONDRAY Sdau ( 11 ) and a Servant Sophia CARLSON.
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John N. Smith, 11th., Kansas Cavalty, Company E., Private, Home Wabaunsee, Enlisted in Aug. 25, '62, Mustered in Sept. 13, '62, Promoted Corporal. Mustered out with company August 7, 1865.
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Peter Wettstein, 8th., infantry, Company B., Privatr, Home Leavenworth, Enlisted Sept. 2, '61, Mustered in same day. Mustered out Sept. 5, 1864, Leavenworth, Kan.; Wounded in action Sept. 19, '63, Chicamauga, GA., was also part of the Block's Co., Leavenworth Zouaves, Kans. Birth: unknown, Death: unknown, Burial: Sunset Cemetery Manhattan
Riley County Kansas.
In 1880, Peter WETTSTEIN ( 50 ) was a farmer in Jackson, Kansas with his son Fredrick WETTSTEIN ( 5 ). Was on the Riley County, pension roll of 1883, was living in Leonardville, Kansas, was wounded in the right arm.
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William H. Bower.
Co. B, 2nd KS. Infantry.
William Cutler wrote the following about this gentleman:
WILLIAM H. BOWER was born in New York City, October 13, 1829. When a child, his parents moved onto a farm in Chatham, N. J., where he was educated in the academy of that place. At about the age of seventeen he went to learn the cabinet-making business, and served an apprenticeship of four years. He then went West to South Bend, Ind., and Southern Michigan, and worked a year. In 1850-51 he traveled through Illinois, and returned to his old home, where he remained until July, 1854, when he traveled West, through Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas, looking upon the site of Leavenworth, then covered with a forest just beginning to be cleared away for the future city.
Returning to Illinois, he worked for a time at Jerseyville, but the next spring, 1855, he again traveled through Southern Illinois, and finally located at Springfield, where he lived until February, 1858, when he came to Riley County stay. He settled at Manhattan, and worked as a contractor and builder until the war, when he enlisted as a private, in April, 1861, in Company B of the Second Kansas Volunteer Infantry. He served six month, when the regiment was mustered out by reason of the expiration of term of service. He was in the regiment sent against the Indians in July, 1864, and in the militia of the Price raid, in October of that year.
In November, 1861, he was elected Clerk of the District Court, and re-elected in 1863, serving four years in that office, meanwhile acting as Deputy County Clerk and Register of Deeds. He has been City Marshal and Collector of Taxes, and is now a member of the City Council, which office he has before filled. In 1875 he opened his present business, undertaker, in the city of Manhattan. He belongs to the Odd Fellows. He was married September 24, 1862, to Miss Hannah H. Hornby, of Manhattan.They have one child - Mary C., born September 19, 1863.
The Daily Mercury, Monday, May 20, 1912, Pg. 1
Vol. IV, No. 8
Wm. Bower Dead.
In the death of Wm. Bower Sunday Manhattan loses another of her pioneer citizens. Mr. Bower came here from Springfield, Ill., where he was a friend and neighbor of Abraham Lincoln. He arrived here in the latter fifties and was employed by Count Charles De Vivaldi, the first editor of Manhattan, to assist in setting the type and printing the “Western Express.” Mr. Bower was a Kansas soldier for three years and was a good one and true. For many years he was engaged in the furniture and undertaking business in Manhattan and prospered. For some years he was in partnership with his son-in-law, I. L. Ady, as W. H. Bower & Co. Mr. Bower was once the mayor of Manhattan and all his life long has been an honorable and upright citizen. Always rather fragile, very gentle and thoughtful of all around him. Until the past winter he has been quite active though he is over 80 years old. He was buried today in Sunset cemetery.
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Adoniram J. Mill, 16th., Kansas Cavalry, Company F., Captain, Home Ohio City, Enlisted---?, Mustered in Apr. 27, '64, Resigned June 15, '65. Remarks from rosters 5th., cavalry co B., Resigned July, 1862; was sworn into service Oct. 1, 1861; was com. and msut. Feb. 8, 1862, to cover previous service, and on same date mustered out on acc't of Co. being below the minimum; was again com. and must. March -, '62
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Alexander Abshear, 13th., Kansas infantry, Company F., Private & Corporal, Home Robinson, Enlisted in Sep. 19, '62, Mustered in Sep. 20, '62, Pro. Corp.; mus. out with reg. June 26, '65. Remarks from Co. H., Reduced to ranks
Birth: Jan. 12, 1841, Death: Sep. 20, 1910, Burial: Riverview Cemetery, Arkansas City, Cowley County, Kansas.
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Amos Walton, 9th., Kansas Cavalry, Company B., Private, Enlisted in Oct. 12, '61, Mustered in sane day, Farrier, Promoted Quartermaster Sergeant June 1, 62., Promoted Sergeant May 25, 1863, Quartermaster Sergeant, Mustered out Nov. 19, '64, Leavenworth Kan. Birth: 1838, Death: 1898, wife Mary Murray Walton; Birth: 1858, Death: Jun. 5, 1954, both are at rest at; Riverview Cemetery, Arkansas City, Cowley County,
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Charles G. Thompson, 11th., Kansas Cavalry, Company G., Private, Enlisted in Aug. 30, '62, Mustered in Sept. 13, '62, Promoted Corporal September 19, 1862, Corporal, Promoted Sergeant September 14, 1863, Sergeant, Promoted Q. M. Sergeant March 24, 1864, Q. M. Sergeant Mustered out with company June 13, 1865.
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Peter M. Carnine
Co. H, 9th KS. Cavalry.
The Emporia Gazette, Friday, Dec. 6, 1918.
Died: Dec. 5, 1918
Peter M. Carnine Dead.
Peter Marion Carnine died at his home, 1102 Congress Street, yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock, of hardening of the arteries. Mr. Carnine had been in failing health for a year or more, and for the past few months his condition was critical. He was conscious until yesterday morning, and death came while he was asleep.
Mr. Carnine was born in Johnson County, Indiana, March 4, 1835. He came to Kansas in 1857 and took a claim six miles north of Iola. He enlisted for service in the Civil War, in Company H, 9th Cavalry, in the fall of 1862, he was married to Miss Mary Susan Luyster, and in 1890 the Carnines moved to Emporia. Mr. Carnine was a charter member of the oldest Presbyterian Church in Southeastern Kansas, of Carlyle, and was an elder of that church until they left Carlyle.
Mr. Carnine united with the church when a young man, and lived every day the faith he professed. No man was more faithful to his church than he, no man more loyal to his friends, and his eight sons and daughters, fine, true men and women, attest to his devotion to his family, and to the fulfillment of his family, and to the fulfillment of his every obligation to them. The Carnine golden wedding celebration in 1912, was one of much joy and satisfaction to Mr. and Mrs. Carnine, when their children and grandchildren, their old friends and neighbors, came to rejoice with them. Mr. and Mrs. Carnine retained in their old age a remarkable degree of health and attended regularly to their duties in their home and in the community. For a year or more Mr. Carnine had been kept at home by failing health, and Mrs. Carnine was his constant companion.
Mr. Carnine is survived by Mrs. Carnine and their eight children, Mrs. E. W. Beeson, of Emporia; William Carnine, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Vermillion; Mrs. Hattie Gordon, Ordway, Colo.; John Carnine, in Y. M. C. A. work at Fort Lawton, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. Dell Buckingham, Yuba City, Calif.; Harry Carnine, of Burlingame; Charles Carnine, of Emporia; George E. Carnine, of Arco, Iowa; three sisters, Mrs. Joseph Handley, Mrs. Sarah Bergen and Mrs. Rachel Heln, all of Frankland, Ind., and one brother, John Carnine of Seattle, and seventeen grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Carnine home, 1102 Congress Street. Dr. R. B. A. McBride, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Carnine, was a member, assisted by Dr. W. C. Templeton, of Winfield, will conduct the services, and interment will be made in Maplewood Cemetery, N. B. Haynes, S. Altman and L. P. Munson, of the eldership of the First Presbyterian Church, and J. H. Ray, Charles Harris and J. R. B. Edwards, of the Grand Army, will be the pall-bearers. Mrs. J. M. Parrington, Mrs. John Hoffer, E. N. Evans and E. E. Anderson will have charge of the music.
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Owen L. Davis, 11th., Kansas, Cavalry, Private, Home Emporia, Enlisted in Aug. 19, '62, Mustered in Sept. 10, '62, Disc. for dis. Jan. 8, 1863, Elm Springs, Ark.
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William O. Ferguson, 9th., Kansas, Cavalry, Company B., Private, Home Emporia, Enlisted Dec. 20, '61, Mustered in same day, Assigned to new Company B., Disc. for dis. Nov. 25, '64, Jefferson Barks, Mo.
He was born in Preble County, Ohio, April 17, 1831. December 26, 1861, enlisted in the Ninth Kansas Cavalry Regiment and served on the frontier eighteen months. Participated in one battle with the Ute Indians and several skirmishes. Once carried a dispatch from Fort Halleck to Fort Laramie, 116 miles in thirty-nine hours in the cold of winter. The company came back to Kansas after the Quantrell raid, and was stationed near Lawrence about four months. Then went to Arkansas, where Mr. F. was taken sick with fever. Was discharged for disability November 27, 1864, at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.
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WILLIAM O. FERGUSON, carpenter and builder, was born in Preble County, Ohio, April 17, 1831. When seven years old he moved with parents to Indiana, in which State he resided fourteen years. Then returned to Ohio, and remained three years. Then started for the West. Remained in Iowa two years, whence he journeyed by wagon to Kansas. Entered this State March 27, 1857. Camped in the brush on the spot where now stands the city of Leavenworth. Passed through Lawrence and located two and one-miles north of Topeka on the Delaware Reservation. Remained there but a short time, and in August removed to Emporia and pre-empted a claim of 160 acres. Sold his claim shortly after, and until the breaking out of the Rebellion worked at his trade, that of carpenter and builder.
December 26, 1861, enlisted in the Ninth Kansas Cavalry Regiment and served on the frontier eighteen months. Participated in one battle with the Ute Indians and several skirmishes. Once carried a dispatch from Fort Halleck to Fort Laramie, 116 miles in thirty-nine hours in the cold of winter. The company came back to Kansas after the Quantrell raid, and was stationed near Lawrence about four months. Then went to Arkansas, where Mr. F. was taken sick with fever. Was discharged for disability November 27, 1864, at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Returned to Emporia, and in the spring of 1865, he went into the grocery business, as a member of the firm of Frederick, Ferguson & Edwards. Continued business over a year, then the firm was changed to Ferguson & Ely. Six months after Mr. Ferguson sold his interest to Ely.
Clerked one year for Holderman Bros., then started a grocery and bakery on the corner of Commercial street and Seventh avenue. Continued in this business until 1880,when he sold out, and has since been engaged in building. Mr. F. is a member of the Christian Church of Emporia, a member of Post 55, G. A. R. also of Emporia Lodge No. 2, A. 0. U. W. Married Miss Catharen Stack, of Emporia, August 18, 1867, and by this marriage has two children - Lou Etty and Daisy Dutton, both living.
source: William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, published 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.
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John H. Heriford or Herriford, 5th., Kansas Cavalry, Private, Enlisted in Aug. 12, '61, Mustered in same day. Absent sick at Keokuk, Iowa, at date of muster out of company. Birth: 1838, Death: unknown, wife Clara, Birth: 1851, Death: 1915, both at rest at; Highland Cemetery, Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas.
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Ansel B. Hackett, 1st., Independent Battery Kansas Light Artillery, Enlisted Aug. 6, '61, Mustered in same day, Renl. Veteran, Veteran Volunteers, Enlisted Jan. 25, '64, Mustered in Feb. 25, '64. Mustered out July 10, '65.
1st Independent Battery Kansas Light Artillery From A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, copyright 1918.
ANSEL B. HACKETT. The nation was celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence when Ansel B. Hackett was born July 4, 1836. His birth occurred at Minot, Cumberland County, Maine. It was in that picturesque district of the Pine Tree State that he spent his early years. Mr. Hackett, who with his venerable wife, now resides at Carbondale, is one of the true pioneers of Kansas, as is also Mrs. Hackett. Both came here when Kansas was a territory, and they experienced the dangers and hardships of frontier life. It is a matter of special interest that Mrs. Hackett is one of the very few surviving witnesses of the Quantrell raid on Lawrence, in which city she was living at the time. Mr. Hackett has now passed the age of four-score, and nearly sixty of those years have been spent in the State of Kansas. He is one of the honored survivors of the Civil war.
His grandfather Hackett came from Ireland and his grandmother from Scotland, and the Hacketts became identified with America during colonial days. His parents were Barnabas and Abbey Hackett, who had a family of ten children, named: Lucas, Abbey, Ruby, Sarah, Maria, Hattie, Nathan, Daniel, Ansel and Elmer. Ansel and his brother Elmer are the only ones now living. It was on September 20, 1857, when Ansel B. Hackett arrived in Kansas. He was then twenty-one years of age. His early years had been of circumscribed opportunities, and he came West so that his vigorous youth and ambition might find a new field in which to work out its destiny. He pre-empted land soon after coming to Kansas, but was employed in various lines of work until the outbreak of the Civil war.
Mr. Hackett spent four years and one month in the service of the Union army. He enlisted August 6, 1861, in the First Kansas Light Artillery, Captain Moonlight, and did not receive his honorable discharge until September 7, 1865. Much of his service was on the frontier, in Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas, until 1864, when his regiment was transferred east of the Mississippi and took part in the great campaign which the battles of Franklin and Nashville were the culmination. Earlier in the war he fought in the engagements of Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, Dry Wood, near Fort Scott, and throughout the Curtis campaign in Arkansas. After being sent first to Tennessee in 1864 he was in the battle at Johnsonville, and then in those bloody conflicts at Franklin and Nashville. When the resistance of the Confederate arms was broken down by the last named battles, he remained with Thomas' army around Huntsville, and the end of the war found him and his comrades at Chattanooga.
His long service exposed him to countless hardships and dangers, but the only affliction resulting from his honored career was a disease of the eyes, and that has brought him a pension from the United States Government for a number of years.
He was still a member of the army when on May 6, 1863, he married Caroline Evans, of Lawrence. She is a daughter of William and Betsey Evans, who formerly lived at Lynn, Massachusetts. Mrs. Hackett and her mother, Betsey Evans, came to Kansas in the fall of 1856. Thus Mrs. Hackett, who was born October 10, 1829, and is now in her eighty-seventh year, has a vivid recollection of many pioneer events in Kansas Territory during the free-state movement and in subsequent epochs.
As already stated, she was living at Lawrence during the Quantrell raid, and in spite of her advanced years has a vivid recollection and can recite in detail many of the incidents of that attack. After the war Mr. Hackett rejoined his wife at Lawrence, and on either the 5th or 6th of March, 1868, they moved to a farm comprising the southeast quarter of section 21, town 14, range 16. This land lies 2 1/2 miles east of Carbondale. It was the pre-emption claim of Mr. Hackett in 1858, but he had never occupied it for the first ten years, having been employed with other matters in addition to his war service. On that farm Mr. and Mrs. Hackett lived profitably and comfortably until they retired in 1913 to a pleasant home in Carbondale. Mr. and Mrs. Hackett have no children. In matters of politics Mr. Hackett has voted the republican ticket, and has been affiliated with that organization since the first campaign in 1856. Outside of voting and performing his duties as a good citizen he has had no aspirations for public office.
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Henry C. Thomson or Thompson 11th., Kansas Cavalry, Company I., Private, Home Burlingame, Enlisted Aug. 20, '62, Mustered in Sept. 15, '62, Mustered out with company Sept. 26, 1865.
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John McMaster, 2nd , Kansas, Cavalry, Company F., Private, Home Topeka, Enlisted Sept. 10, '62, Mustered in Aug. 13, '63, Assigned to new Co. D, March 18, 1865, Mustered out June 22, 1865, Fort Gibson, C. N. Birth: May 3, 1834, Ireland, Death: Aug. 20, 1914, Eskridge, Wabaunsee County, Kansas.
John and Elizabeth Neil were Married in Peach Orchard, Lawrence Co., Kentucky on 17 Jan 1859.
Moved to Osage Co., Kansas in April of 1859.
John was a Civil War Veteran enlisted Sept. 10, 1862, and was mustered into Company F on Aug. 13, 1863. He was assigned to company "D" March 18, 1865. He mustered out June 22, 1865 at Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation (Oklahoma.
John and Elizabeth had the following Children:
Robert Henry McMaster, born on 17 Sep 1859, Ridgeway, Osage Co., Kansas; married Mary Jane Shumate, on 12 Sep 1883; died on 1 Oct 1938, Topeka, Shawnee Co., Kansas.
Minerva Lydia McMaster, born on 17 Dec 1861, Wakarusa, Wabaunsee Co., Kansas; married Frank Sylvanus Tufts, on 19 Oct 1881; died on 25 May 1942, Eskridge, Wabaunsee Co., Kansas.
Fred Winfield McMaster, born on 16 Mar 1866, Mission Creek Township, Wabausnee Co., Kansas; married Anna Luella (Luella) Clark, on 7 Jan 1891; died on 27 Apr 1937.
Elijah McMaster was born on 15 Jun 1868 in Mission Creek Township, Wabausnee Co., Kansas. He died on 26 Mar 1877 in Kansas. He was buried in 1877 in Eskridge Cemetery; Eskridge, Wabaunsee Co., Kansas.
Sarah J McMaster, born on 5 Mar 1871, Mission Creek Township, Wabausnee Co., Kansas; married Walter Augusta Harris, on 12 Oct 1898; died on 10 Feb 1956, Eskridge, Wabaunsee Co., Kansas.
John R. McMaster, born on 10 Jun 1874, Mission Creek Township, Wabausnee Co., Kansas; married Lizzie Hughes, on 5 Jan 1898, Eskridge, Wabaunsee Co., Kansas; died on 26 Feb 1952, Eskridge, Wabaunsee Co., Kansas.
George Joshaway McMaster, born on 17 Oct 1877, Eskridge, Wabaunsee Co., Kansas; married Amelia L. Schultz, on 29 Mar 1905, Eskridge, Wabaunsee Co., Kansas; died on 3 Mar 1948, Topeka, Shawnee Co., Kansas.
Friday, January 29, 2010
The Real Life Adventure Of Luther R. Tillotson
About a year ago my family went to a garage sale and brought back this type written book?, of about ten pages. Well I give it a fast glance then put it in my library in the garage. Yes in the garage, it’s not a real library I just call it that, it’s a big book case filled full of history book and what nots and just too many to have in the house, says my wife. Well I got it out today and began to read it and found I couldn’t put it down. When I was done I know I had to put ( Luther Rudolph Tillotson) story on my web site.
Now the grammar is bad but, I deiced not to change anything, oh I could fix the grammar, but I felt it would be taking something from the story. I know she put in a lot of hard work on his story, and I just feel that by changing the errors the story would not be or read the same, for this reason his story stands on it’s own.
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By and about.
Luther Rudolph Tillotson.
In 1905, I was a instrument man in Nevada on a railroad maintenance survey party. The railroad was named the Tonopah, extending from Hazen via a switchback at Tonopah and terminating at Goldfield through the heart of the gold boom region. Twenty-eight miles south of Hazen was Churchill Junction where the Tonopah met the Virginia and Truckee Railroad of Comstock Lode fame. Beside the tracks at this junction there stood the adobe ruins of Fort Churchill where the first trans-continental telegraph crews held their historic East-West meeting under soldier guard.
The road was standard gauge from Hazen To Tonopah, with the added attraction oh three rails for nine miles from Mina to Mina Junction to accommodate the narrow gauge with terminals at Mina, a freight division point, and Keeler, California. At the junction the standard gage turned eastward. The one hundred and six miles of narrow gauge had a telegraph station and an agent approximately every forty miles. Meeting and passing points were determined by smoke.
The narrow gauge train usually consisted of combination baggage and local freight car, and a long day coach with smoking compartment also serving as the caboose. Lighting was by coal-oil lamp, with sperm-oil candles for emergency. The engine was an old wood burner, modernized. The freight service was three times a week, as food for the gold region depended on the irrigated Owens River valley, through which the narrow gauge meandered.
I had heard the Mormon bullwhackers tell of the Mormon patch of burlap bagging with which they repaired their tools and harness, and also of the Montana patch of baling wire. I encountered the latter when the engine broke down on splitting the switch at Mina Junction. The hoghead called back to the conductor for a piece of baling wire. The conductor yelled that his kit held some barbed wire, which answered the purpose, and we were soon on our way.
In order to secure right-of-way through the Piute Indian reservation south of Hazen, the railroad agreed that the ordinary Indian could ride on the open coaches free. The chief was permitted to ride free on the cushions of the day coach. When we traveled the narrow gauge on our work, the chief was invariably riding from one squaw to another. Always he wanted me to write a letter for him.
Once when he was less drunk than usual, I agreed. We seated ourselves in the smoking compartment. He proceeded to cross his arms over a very considerable paunch, closed his eyes, and between snores, began to dictate to me a very crude love letter to a squaw, but in good English. He never vouched the reason for the advanced missive, and mailed it at the next station. Just as the chief closed with “Please excuse the bad writing,” I looked up to see two of the menbers of the party grinning in the doorway. They had beenn there through the dictation and it was weeks before their ribbing died out about my writing abilities.
L. R. Tillotson.
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Note. I transcribed from shorthand I jotted down while Dad talked. We were in the living room at 1321 MacVicar, Dad on the sofa, mother in a chair near the fireplace, and I seated near the foot of the stairs. Dad was utterly unselfconscious of my note taking. Unfortunately, I did not persist in the effort. I was doing this in 1954, dad died in 1955.
Note. It was one of his daughters ( Mary Belle? ) that took his sotry down.
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In June 1902 dad graduated from Topeka High. He was class orator and had to give a speech.
July 1, 1902, he went to work for the AT & SF. railroad, in the blueprint room under John Dailey. He took the position with the understanding he would eventually go out on surveys.
Just before April 1, 1903, dad was notified to report to F. Meredith Jones at Llano, New Mex. A pass was issued for him on the Rock Island rail road to Santa Rosa; he had to pay his way from there to Llano ( now Espris ). The position was rear chainman of a survey party at $30, a month and found; in others words, all expenses plus a $30, monthly allowance. They were put up in tents but had to furnish their own bedding.
When he was put off the Rock Island train it was blowing sand and dust. He was put off at telegrapher’s place. The telegrapher was a man named Crew. All he had was a cot and a board with the telegrapher’s key. His clothes just hung around the wall. Crew told dad to go along track and he would find a section house. When he found it the place seemed deserted, but a man was batching there while his wife and boys had gone back home to Leavenworth. Dad and his companion lighted an oil lamp and crawled into bed. The companion was Ed Frank. Early in the morning they heard a knock at the door. Dad opened it and there stood a cowpuncher. He proved to be F. Meredith Jones. The party was still three days out but they would meet at the section house. The county was hilly desert. Ed Frank was a rod-man in the same party dad was to join.
They got up on the morning of the day third, ate breakfast and started walking to the top of Llano summit, a big hill. Dad saw his first mountains from there, the Pedernales. They were beautiful and golden with the sun on them. They reached the top of the peak where the survey would start, sat down and watched the dust of the party coming while F. M. Jones went to meet them. The party got in, hobbled the horses and mules and it was time to eat. They set up a windbreak of tent and heated up some stuff, stew and ancient bread. The instrument man of the party was a man named Williams, later retired as chief engineer of the Western Pacific, _____transit man. They set up camp while Williams and Jones hunted for section corners to start survey.
Next morning the stock had gone for home, with nobody having heard them. Am Indian pony a stub, had been trained to trot after wagon eating instead of being hitched. He had nipped at the other horses to start them off with him, back to Belen’s, a hot rotten place in the river bottom below Albuquerque. Everyone hunted for them but it was too dusty to see them. Granddad had told dad the first thing was to look at the shoeing of the horses. Dad found shoe marks; too dusty to see animals. One of the teamsters got a mount, found the horses by following the trail and drove them back.
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They ran out of water and at the section house the man said they would have to wait for the next work train. An extra came through instead of the work train, a red ball freight. They had to stop and the conductor came down from the head ready to fight. They had passed up a red flag so the section man made them back up; they got their water and bucketed it up to the party. It was the next morning before they could start their survey.
Final location on which AT. & SF., built. The survey paralleled the Rock Island about three miles following Llano ridge and went about four miles east then. A new foreman named Martin Tobin showed up. Arthur Lagron, the first boss, had been born and educated in France. He had been sent over by a France stockholders syndicate to locate a couple of roads that ran out of Peoria, one branch having been taken on by the AT. & SF. He had made preliminary location and construction work but, a man of considerable means, had been retired in Peoria and came out on request of the At & SF. He was not happy and told F. M. Jones he would have to have relief. He paid his way back and Martin Tobin came out in answer to a wire.
Tobin went back to Llano summit and went east plotted a big fill. A man named Cunningham was topographer, did the drafting and was in charge of purchasing. They went east and dad drove the stake for the center of the depot at the present town of Vaughn. That was the end of that survey.
The party consisted of:
Chief Locating Engineer, F. Meredith Jones.
Chief of party, Martin Tobin ( First was, Arthur Lagron ).
Topographer and draftsman, Cunningham.
Teamsters, Carson, Zeno, Tilden Gilman ( A barfly picked up in Belen by Williams).
The teamsters reported to Cunningham.
Instrumentman, Williams, Transitman.
Head chainman, Shipman Lane.
Rear chainman, Tillotson.
Man to drive and carry stakes and axe-man, John Hand.
Level-man, George Wilhelm
Rod-man, Ed Frank.
Teamster Zeno, while Lagron is chief, Jones went to telegrapher’s office and there was a telegram from Zeno’s father telling him to send Zeno home because his mother was worried. Zeno had a pretty sister and a swell home with brass beds. He had come out to see the west and was a teamster, something he know about because he had learned from Becker at Belen. Zeno’s father was the biggest manufacturer of householed electrical equipment. He had been backed originally by Standard Oil to make gas fixtures. At the time ( 1903 ), he was making combination gas and electric lighting fixtures. Jones issued pass.
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After the Vaughn survey they went back to Lagon’s line paralleling the Rock Island. Jones had surveyed it once but they never went by just one survey.
Water commenced to get scarce. The head teamster had to act as guide. He didn’t find any water. Dad took off. They stopped at Llano ranch, the headquarters for a Mexican ranch outfit, called it El Rancho Leon. A man came out and said he had 60,000, head coming and would hardly have water for them so couldn’t do anything for the party and didn’t know if anyone else could help either for drinking or stock water. He left and out came his wife. She said to follow the trail and wind along until they saw a little mesa ( Mesas were lava with a little earth and a few pines on top.)
They would find a house which would be abandoned and they could see from there a well. They went on. She said she would have drinking water when they came back. The well had a windlass with a barrel sawed in two and attached to a rope. They got up a barrel and a half of stock water. They still had an empty barrel. The woman had left at the gate one-half barrel of rain water. They helped themselves liberally and backtracked. These people had know the author of ( Black Beauty ). One of their horses was ( Black Beauty ), and the author had got his notes at their ranch. The big ranchers then were Portuguee or Spanish. This woman’s sons were then in Lisbon to be educated. The place where they got water was El Rancho Leoncito.
They went back to join party but had moved to a canyon where a windmill was located. Dad followed trail. Made an awful long drive. Jones was there when they got there, he said if they couldn’t do better for water they would have to make a 250-mile trek and teamster Carson would guide them. Carson was half Mexican.
Worked south of line again next morning. When they got in the darky cook from Albuquerque was gone. He was old, a strapping fellow, and had the job because they didn’t retire in those days. At noon a couple of cowhands had showed up. They all carried guns then. The cook was outside peeling potatoes. They had come to get something to eat and the code in that time was to give it to them. The cook said they would have to see the boss. They pulled their guns and said they were boss and they got fed. Jones came in and took cook to station at Leon and put him on a freight.
They went about a week without a cook and dad helped out with the meals. Jones finally brought one from Santa Rosa. He said he was much of a cook but thought he would do. He had some food and baked a canned apple pie. There was always plenty of tomato juice. They brought #10, cans of tomatoes, drank the juice and cook the tomatoes. Dad learned to make Mulligan stew when he helped cook ( learned out of his inner conscious ).
Shipman Lane was head chainman. He was tall, rawboned. He had been to high school, never out of San Francisco. He had complained about food of the new cook. There was one gong ( pound on skillet ) to get up. Same when breakfast ready. One gong but Shipman didn’t get up, even with Ed Frank’s prodding.
Lane’s placed had been at the head of the table next to Ed Frank ( both were choosey about where they would sit. ) cook asked where Lane was. Cook figured Lane evidently didn’t like his cooking. He goes into Lane’s tent. Lane was bigger but cook grabbed him up, bedding and all, and set him at head of table. He socked him on the side of his head so hard his head rolled. He told him that from now on “You like my cooking.” Lane said “Yes sir” and ate. Lane had turned up his nose at cook’s ( which wasn’t much ). The apple pie was soggy. Survey continued under Tobin.
Equipment-three wagons and a buckboard, an Indian pony and bronco for the buckboard, one team mules, two teams horses, one extra team.
Eating-big pans and skillets, #10 cans tomatoes, canned cherries and peaches, cabbage ( fresh big hard heads ), corned beef, fat bacon, ham, eggs bought by the case, Mexican beans, flour, sugar, coffee, condensed milk, fresh beef tougher then a boot. Usually put cabbage with beef. Coffee three times a day. Can of coffee, bread and meat ( Usually bacon) sent out on line. Cook beef around the clock. Fresh ( Tough ) rabbit sometimes to cook with beef. Rarely got wood; occasional busted railroad ties.
Near Logan ( first started in sinkhole country)-dug up yucca cut off top, cut with axe as low as could in the ground, pounded out on stone early Sunday before breakfast. Let dry all morning. After dinner get water hot in powder cans and wash hair and rest of self in washtub.
Not many antelope seen. Trading post man at Nara Visa said quite a heard north. Dad borrowed single shot shotgun. About a mile to rim of large bowl open on east end. Dad dropped down flat but antelope gone. Too sudden to have gun loaded. Trading post man estimated over 1,000, antelope in heard. Quite a sight running in dust.
Tobin was a Catholic. He and Williams always fussing. Tobin ( he had come back off ridge ) said to Williams to have men follow him to top of ridge and Tobin would wave arms when okay. The did. The thought Tobin waved but it was an antelope. Tobin said he was through. He was furious. Jones back in camp about this cook business, seeing how new cook getting along. Tobin said he quit. Jones wrote him a pass on Rock Island and Williams took over as chief.
Getting out of water and had to make 250-mile trek. In this camp dad told Carson they would want to get coyote pelts to get out on the ground with. Tents got so cold. Next morning Carson called dad and dad called shipman Lane and Ed Frank. Dad had borrowed gun, a single shot shot-gun and got it out from under bunk, flipped it to see if it was loaded. Lane ( Looked ) down his and pulled both barrels ( still so sleepy ). Ed Frank quite precise and had slicker folded over bed, shoes in certain spot ( big high top shoes ). Jones had made him send back fancy stuff at Llano. Lane ruined Frank’s slicker and one slug went through both sides of shoes. Frank just had to get along with his stuff until they got to a trading post.
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Duran ( not present day Dran ). Ilfeldt had a trading post there ( he had a string of them ). First place Frank could get anything to replace shot-up effects. ( D. C. had warned dad against carrying gun ). Loaded up at Duran on food, ammunition, etc. Stayed there that night . Frank and Lane had to make arrangements to sleep indoors, of course. Threw up a shelter and bedded down in the open. A little rain had settled dust. Next morning they left.
Wound up at Santa Rosa, a division point of the AT. & SF. Dad head of party scouting trail. Dad saw Mexican come out of house and dip in spring on the edge of the mesa ( ____down into Pecos river valley ). Dad drank out of it. Smelled to high heaven, sulfur and alkali. Dad went down to ____along trail that crossed over Rock Island bridge. Everyone had hoped they would get ice at Santa Rosa but they didn’t have any. Along track dad found work train ( W. R. Stubbs construction train ). They had been putting in extra yard facilities at Santa Rosa. Dad got there before they put their cold beer away in car. They sold dad a bottle of beer for 20 cents ( cheap in those days ). Dad went back and made reports of stream. The train pulled out before the men got there.
In Duran they had got copy of Santa Rosa paper. On the front page it said “Seven young ladies pertaining to Scarlet Brigade are camped across the tracks.” Carson slept with “his cousin” that night. Drunk. Carson quit. Last of Carson. They followed trail out of Santa Rosa. They had tried to hire a Mexican guide but Carson had knocked him off wagon. He had to go back. Carson went back to his cousin.
They could see Rock Island track plainly. They followed trail beside it. They took turns driving wile rest sat back on bedding and played pitch. Dad driving by Montoya. They had seen it for miles upside down in the mirage. A little store at Montoya. What had looked like buildings were bid blocks of rock Island Ties. Store had once been home of Montoya family big folks in Spain. Regular mansion now crumbling. Montoya’s had put in good irrigation but ditches now full of sand. They kidded dad about his driving. He asked them in if they wanted anything in store. They said “Oh, if there was something.” So dad slapped the reins on the back end of the mules and turned them at right angles. They went at gallop right across ditch. Instruments in this, bedding and tenting. The ____in there because awful place to ride on wagon where no front springs and back about shot. Instruments and bedding tumbling around. They never said anything else for a long time about dad’s driving.
They went on from Montoya with a little water from section foreman. They got to Mount Tucumcari, a double mesa, a division point of Rock Island. A Rock Island branch called Roy branch to Roy mines ( Coal ). Good water up at Roy mines, 100 miles north (?). Brand new. At. & SF., maps didn’t show it. Neither did Rock Island. Following trail from Mt. Tucumcari to Roy, guiding by Mt. Tucumcari. Ran into brush and sand. Had to cut branches and lay on ground to help wagon. Here was gully; just stopped them. They could still see Tucumcari mountain. Had to camp there. Then turned around and went to Tucumcari. Got there at noon. Town marshal asked if they had any guns. Williams said yes. A week before there had been a shooting scrape by strangers. Williams said they would pull on out and he give his word they would put up guns in town.
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Not long till 4th, of July 1903, Kept on. Lacking water till they got to ford at Elm Creek. Don’t know why it was called Elm. All kinds of folks headed for fourth celebration at Tucumcari. A good ford and horses drank fill and they filled barrels. Pulled up to a town called Logan. Had a trading post run by a man named Rankin and a store or two. Rankin financed out of watrous. Made camp at Logan.
Jones showed up and said they were to go on about 20, miles next day and tie onto Texas State line. Went to Nara Visa near state line. Trading post there run for benefit of Wolf ranch. Fellow showed up there named Scotty. Jones hired him as head teamster. Started backwards on little parallel on Rock Island under general supervision of Jones. Jones said to sleep at depot at Logan. Ate at Rankin place. Slept out in open to begin with. Got away from wind by sleeping on south end of depot platform. Twelve-inch planks ( 2x12 ) had been cupped by weather. During night rain came down went over roof and came back under them in cupped planks. They went inside about midnight, just bedded down when train whistled. Two fellows there with bicycles. One bought ticket and got out door. Other ran around on top of them, then ran out and agent had to go out and get his money from him. Held up train. Then they managed to get sleep.
Got up next morning and went back to Nara Visa. Cunningham a southerner used to hiring darkies in construction work on Mississippi River levees. Trading post at Nara Visa let them have a case of force and broken cases of vegetables and two cases of carnation cream, something yet fairly new on the market. ( Nara Visa a crossing point of Denver and Ft. Worth now called Colorado and Central and owned by Burlington ). They were expecting in cattle and he didn’t have things to spare. They went back to windmill with good water and had big old tin bowls and filled them. Filled bowls with force, put in milk and alkaline water. Each used a whole carton of force, bigger than big corn flakes cartons. Got it all down but dad couldn’t eat cereal for a long time.
Jones making preliminary stuff to parallel Rock Island from fence where they tied in and went clear across Texas to see if they would go. The party went back to tie in to Texas State line. Three-fourths mile west from Texas never had been surveyed. Trying to find section corners and had dickens of a time. Government had required Bell Ranch to replace corners but on stones had placed bell instead of government inscription. Jones brought letter to Lane from his brother who was an office engineer, some people were to go to California and dad sick because he was not on list.
Necessary to go load car half of it was stock, half the bedding. Three teamsters to go. When they got letter Scotty said to Jones he had to get money and buy partner some groceries. Scotty didn’t turn up till third morning. Jones lit into him. Scotty said they were out of groceries. Partner said they were short of meat so they just as well get a deer. They slept, heard rustling, he shot, deer took fence, stobs and wire and everything with them.
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That evening dad went down by stockyard. Here comes Jones with brass from Chicago office. Jones wanted help carrying wood stove they had to load on car. Jones to front end and dad took back, shoving it forward on Jones so he really carried it. Made it to top of steps got it on platform of stockyards, managed to shove it in and close and thought it necessary to seal doors ( seal of antimony or some such soft metal, stamp it with AT&SF., seal which locks it officially ). Jones puts on back and, staggering, said “You think you’re a pretty good man, don’t you?” Dad said “Yes.” He said, “You go on and join party in California.
Dad took midnight train east. An old-fashioned train. In smoker turn two seats around face to face and sleep in them. Dad only had about fifty cents. Party had sent along big breakfast of sandwiches and stuff. Dad got letter about 1903, flood. D. C. had stood at foot of Western avenue and helped boats get in with people. Dad thought about all of Topeka covered. Boys exercised dad going back to flood district, but it was down when dad got back home. He wander around North Topeka. Party was to meet at Albuquerque to head west. They were making up two parties. Dad at Topeka in July 1903, D. C. wanted him to stay and go to school. No money. Dad returned to Albuquerque after about a week in Topeka. Dad stayed at cheapest place called Sturgis House. Dad had got paid in Topeka by AT&SF., Everybody happy since all got paid.
He went to California on coach. Met a Mrs. Capwell whose husband was resident engineer at Belen. Mrs. E. W. Grant and Mrs. Capwell were sisters. They later wrote his mother about their visit. Mary Grant ( Daughter of Mrs. Grant ) taught Latin at K. U., forever. Williams at Albuquerque wired J. J. Keyes who was chief engineer in charge of construction ( out there because of T. B. ) Eight days before Keyes answered.
They get away at midnight. Dad had $6, of his pay left. Keyes had four big residencies under him and he had been traveling, two east and two west. They were getting ready for track. They had been working days so hot. Dad gave Williams $5, and he kept $1. Cook had wanted 10-cent package of sweet caporal cigarettes. He said just before dad left on midnight train to come to back door of Alvarado kitchen. Dad had slipped and torn leg of new trousers. Dad went to cook who could sew it up and he did. He handed dad a great big sandwich. Dad went right to smoker where rest of boys were. A man asked him what that cost him-a fancy chicken and egg sandwich. Dad said it was in repayment for a favor. Man said he paid $2.50, for one. Cut a loaf lengthwise. Boy dumbfounded and dad didn’t offer to divide. Last he saw of cook. Cook with them ( Bar fly ) used to bum sandwiches for them. Not the cook of ( the ) sandwich.
Transfer at Daggett. Over to Hatch by ( Tehachapi? ) slow four per cent grades and tunnels. Landed at Bakersfield. See folks along way waiting for train to pass. No money to even gamble in pitch game. At Stockton a telegram from W. B. Storey who was supposed to meet Williams at AT&S F, offices in San Francisco. They were to go to San Francisco and pay way from there to get paid at Willits. They got to San Francisco but they didn’t have any money to go on to Willits. Williams went to hotel in San Francisco. They were floored they would be let in such a plush place. They said they had no money but it was only ____they had baggage. Boys out early looking for free lunches. Would meet at entrance to Monadnock building where AT&SF, officers were, a new building in those days. Boys all had checks there but dad. Got way paid up to Willits. Storey met them at train and unbent more then usual. Take bus up to Willits hotel but dad didn’t such a short distance.
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New Mexico-Coyotes followed wagons parallel and behind. Shot at them but never hit one; just to see how fast they really would go. Coyotes chased dogs back under wagons. First camp at Llano summit, borrowed a dog and pup. During night dog ran out to front of tent, barking to keep coyotes away. Pup followed him out, then held himself under dad’s bunk for the rest of the night. Only dog able to keep with them on a survey party. Camps usually a headquarters for awhile and they work both ways from it.
New Mexico-Accuracy required of railroad surveys. They would try to find two section corners this crossed the railroad line. They would have to run a line from one section corner to other and chain line ( measure a line ) from the corner so they would be in an exact location of the line ( an exact tie ) so would hitch with government surveys. Distances between stakes depended on just how many takes you had with you, usually. Save stakes by pulling them up if line not acceptable. In New Mexico, owing to rarity of section corners, about every week they would determine true north from Polaris. You didn’t have a way of getting Direction from sunlight. Chained surveys with real chain, quite a knack to learn to throw the chain. Learned to throw the steel tape in a lop for transportation purposes.
A Sunday chore was to undo tape and string it out and see how accurate it was with government steel tape. Learned to use a railroad chain that was 100 links to 100 feet. The old chain was a land measure chain and it was 66 feet long because it would fit with measurements of side of an acre. The prototype of present transit and level and steel tape and rod and poles for survey party was brought from England by Dixon for line.
Tents and cots for sleeping. Railroad furnished tents and cots and each furnished own bedding. Cook had tent to himself. Office tent used by chief of party, transit man and instrument man. It would have drafting board and what ever office equipment they had brought. Tent for teamster, and the feed they stocked was kept there if it rained. Usually a surplus they would have to store in there. One tent for everyone else. All big Tents.
Cooking arrangements-A stove. Carried some wood with them all the time plus coal ( the main heat ) they got from section houses. Tents had no warmth in them as a rule. Get warm in morning by getting a big old 5-gallon lard can, stuff paper in it at night. The fellow next tent flap would get up in shirt tail and bare feet, throw one tent flap back ( flaps tied shut during night ) and fasten it back. Usually let head teamster do that. Can just in the opening. Drop match in can and everyone would jump and dress fast as he could, teeth chattering. Coal oil stove not in fashion. Cook just used coal oil to get fire started in morning so his tent always had some burnt holes. He would holler “Fire.” but no one would pay any attention to him. He would scramble around to put out fire.
Granite-Were pans, common steel forks and knives since before days of aluminum ware. Cook had two big tubs for washing purposes so he could wash out clothes after a fashion.
Harness-If it was patch with burlap, was a Mormon patch. If patched with wire it was the Montana patch.
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California-At Colonel Hardin ranch the road had blown out but on leveler side of it sat an old-time rail fence for a corral. One evening after supper dad crawled up bank and looked over rail fence and here stood Colonel Hardin. He was surrounded by genuine Texas longhorns and away-backed Arkansas hogs. Dad asked him what he was doing keeping these things. He said he had a desire to go to California and prospect for gold. His home was in east Texas. He went to nearest port and took ship around the Horn. It was without incident until they got to Erueka bay. Storm struck them. They went onto rocky beach and were stuck but managed to get all off with what they had on them. Boat broke up. He had very little money. There wasn’t any gold in the vicinity. He struck out looking for homestead that had timber on it. He homesteaded 320 acres as a timber claim; now 14,000 acres. He used what little money had to eat and trade on. He did pretty well in lumbering business, buying and selling footage.
When he made some money he decided he would go back to Texas, see his folks and marry his childhood sweetheart. No railroads then. He went overland on foot and horse. Stayed just a spell in Texas, married girl and got hold of ancestors of these longhorns and razorbacks. He started to herd them back from Texas. That was in “84.” He missed Indian difficulties. He managed to herd to California. He kept them in remembrance of home.
Hardin had a son on the ranch who was always wandering around very well dressed. Sundays dad talked to him and learned lots about identification of trees, location of springs, etc. He had been born on the ranch. He wanted to go to ocean and learn ways of seamen. He did and finally bought boat for $90,000 and had captain’s license. He was doing alright in tramp steamer business. Tried to make a fortune running guns and ammunition to Russians at Vladivostok. He got caught at dock when the Japanese besieged. They took him to Japan for trail before a Japanese court, sentenced him to death by hanging but American ambassador interfered. He was finally got off by agreeing to go back and stay on old home place for ten years. That’s why he was running around through forests. He had read every book he could get his hands on. The U. S. marshal came by every two months to check to see if he was there. Left tanbark oak branches just there, dead.
In California surveying various preliminary and locations from Willits to ______There was another party north of them. The end of the line had recently been finished to Willits. A ruckus on between AT&SF, and Southern Pacific. Running a bunch of surveys from Tiburon clear up to _____bluffing each other.
First they run a preliminary line. They put a few stacks on---news to the level party to keep in line. The rodman’s duty is to step off distance in between. Then topographers take off on either side of the line to determine slope of the ground. Then they plat ( or plan? ) another preliminary line, or two or three, depending on how rough the ground is. The topographers put in contours. If they decide that one of the preliminaries is good enough, they retrace the line more accurately--like determining haw accurate the north is, resetting angles, etc. Mountain country around there terrible. Ran out innumerable surveys and make modification (?) so they would be different.
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Pacing-Normal stride they try to hold to -30 inches to a pace ( 40 paces to 100 feet.) F. Meredith Jones was deadly at it. Get your direction a foresight and a backsight ( terrible with mirages jumping up and down.) Count to 40, remember how many stations he had. Jones might pick out a tree up on a mountain and pace for miles. This was preliminary stuff. Reconnaissance was picking feasibility of route. Determine how much right-of-way would cost in already settled country, number of acres of timber, pasture, fills, etc. Fremont did reconnaissance for U. P. by finding the pass.
Jones daughter lives in Topeka--a Mrs. Chrysler. He had several boys. Jones maintained home with wife back in Santa Fe. She was Mexican and morose, didn’t go any place with him. Only child that favored him was one son who got really good education at K. U., a graduate, but was morose. This son committed suicide by jumping off bridge. Jones has specialized in math at Northwestern. First time dad knew he was friendly, Jones said to dad “If I had authority I would take you with me on my trip around the world.” He was accurate on estimates of lumber from a stand of timber. Jones was gone for a year on tour around the world. AT&SF sent him.
Last time dad saw him was in the summer of 1905, in Newton office working in the right-of-way sketches. Dad had back room, dirty walls that had been originally painted ____, window dirty in a kind of well. One little old carbon light with no shade hung from the ceiling. He came behind him just enough to shade his drawing. Dad thought it one of the boys but it was F. Meredith just grinning.
Jones had beautiful spencerian shaded handwriting. Jones said president had told him he would have to have a stenographer with typewritten work. Very few stenographers in those days. Dad said he knew of a girl who was doing that work for the office engineer but that Jones would want a man really with an engineering education.
Jones said he was in room No. 1, of the Harvey House. Had a private bath, walls decorated, beautiful drapes at the windows. There was a fellow, though, who had taken a business course in addition to graduating from K. S. A. C., so dad introduced him to Jones. Jones sitting there with maps and things spread out. Jones never a man to say a great deal. Not long till man was back from Jones’s office. Jones was then chief locating engineer for the system. Jones looked like a cowpuncher except he always wore real shoes except for hobnail boots in woods of California. Jones middle height, ______bowlegged, always had a squint _______eyes but never did wear glasses that dad knew of, always traveled light, had just one outfit at a time.
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Family History.
Luther Rudolph Tillotson, born July 5, 1884 in Topeka KS., to Dewitt Clinton Tillotson and Belle Viola Rudolph. Luther married Eva Gertrude Kinley on January 18, 1919, they would have two daughters, Mary Belle Tillotson born January 8, 1921 and Margaret Gale, born October 31, 1927.
Luther Rudolph Tillotson would die of a heart attack on August 26, 1955.
Now the grammar is bad but, I deiced not to change anything, oh I could fix the grammar, but I felt it would be taking something from the story. I know she put in a lot of hard work on his story, and I just feel that by changing the errors the story would not be or read the same, for this reason his story stands on it’s own.
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By and about.
Luther Rudolph Tillotson.
In 1905, I was a instrument man in Nevada on a railroad maintenance survey party. The railroad was named the Tonopah, extending from Hazen via a switchback at Tonopah and terminating at Goldfield through the heart of the gold boom region. Twenty-eight miles south of Hazen was Churchill Junction where the Tonopah met the Virginia and Truckee Railroad of Comstock Lode fame. Beside the tracks at this junction there stood the adobe ruins of Fort Churchill where the first trans-continental telegraph crews held their historic East-West meeting under soldier guard.
The road was standard gauge from Hazen To Tonopah, with the added attraction oh three rails for nine miles from Mina to Mina Junction to accommodate the narrow gauge with terminals at Mina, a freight division point, and Keeler, California. At the junction the standard gage turned eastward. The one hundred and six miles of narrow gauge had a telegraph station and an agent approximately every forty miles. Meeting and passing points were determined by smoke.
The narrow gauge train usually consisted of combination baggage and local freight car, and a long day coach with smoking compartment also serving as the caboose. Lighting was by coal-oil lamp, with sperm-oil candles for emergency. The engine was an old wood burner, modernized. The freight service was three times a week, as food for the gold region depended on the irrigated Owens River valley, through which the narrow gauge meandered.
I had heard the Mormon bullwhackers tell of the Mormon patch of burlap bagging with which they repaired their tools and harness, and also of the Montana patch of baling wire. I encountered the latter when the engine broke down on splitting the switch at Mina Junction. The hoghead called back to the conductor for a piece of baling wire. The conductor yelled that his kit held some barbed wire, which answered the purpose, and we were soon on our way.
In order to secure right-of-way through the Piute Indian reservation south of Hazen, the railroad agreed that the ordinary Indian could ride on the open coaches free. The chief was permitted to ride free on the cushions of the day coach. When we traveled the narrow gauge on our work, the chief was invariably riding from one squaw to another. Always he wanted me to write a letter for him.
Once when he was less drunk than usual, I agreed. We seated ourselves in the smoking compartment. He proceeded to cross his arms over a very considerable paunch, closed his eyes, and between snores, began to dictate to me a very crude love letter to a squaw, but in good English. He never vouched the reason for the advanced missive, and mailed it at the next station. Just as the chief closed with “Please excuse the bad writing,” I looked up to see two of the menbers of the party grinning in the doorway. They had beenn there through the dictation and it was weeks before their ribbing died out about my writing abilities.
L. R. Tillotson.
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Note. I transcribed from shorthand I jotted down while Dad talked. We were in the living room at 1321 MacVicar, Dad on the sofa, mother in a chair near the fireplace, and I seated near the foot of the stairs. Dad was utterly unselfconscious of my note taking. Unfortunately, I did not persist in the effort. I was doing this in 1954, dad died in 1955.
Note. It was one of his daughters ( Mary Belle? ) that took his sotry down.
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In June 1902 dad graduated from Topeka High. He was class orator and had to give a speech.
July 1, 1902, he went to work for the AT & SF. railroad, in the blueprint room under John Dailey. He took the position with the understanding he would eventually go out on surveys.
Just before April 1, 1903, dad was notified to report to F. Meredith Jones at Llano, New Mex. A pass was issued for him on the Rock Island rail road to Santa Rosa; he had to pay his way from there to Llano ( now Espris ). The position was rear chainman of a survey party at $30, a month and found; in others words, all expenses plus a $30, monthly allowance. They were put up in tents but had to furnish their own bedding.
When he was put off the Rock Island train it was blowing sand and dust. He was put off at telegrapher’s place. The telegrapher was a man named Crew. All he had was a cot and a board with the telegrapher’s key. His clothes just hung around the wall. Crew told dad to go along track and he would find a section house. When he found it the place seemed deserted, but a man was batching there while his wife and boys had gone back home to Leavenworth. Dad and his companion lighted an oil lamp and crawled into bed. The companion was Ed Frank. Early in the morning they heard a knock at the door. Dad opened it and there stood a cowpuncher. He proved to be F. Meredith Jones. The party was still three days out but they would meet at the section house. The county was hilly desert. Ed Frank was a rod-man in the same party dad was to join.
They got up on the morning of the day third, ate breakfast and started walking to the top of Llano summit, a big hill. Dad saw his first mountains from there, the Pedernales. They were beautiful and golden with the sun on them. They reached the top of the peak where the survey would start, sat down and watched the dust of the party coming while F. M. Jones went to meet them. The party got in, hobbled the horses and mules and it was time to eat. They set up a windbreak of tent and heated up some stuff, stew and ancient bread. The instrument man of the party was a man named Williams, later retired as chief engineer of the Western Pacific, _____transit man. They set up camp while Williams and Jones hunted for section corners to start survey.
Next morning the stock had gone for home, with nobody having heard them. Am Indian pony a stub, had been trained to trot after wagon eating instead of being hitched. He had nipped at the other horses to start them off with him, back to Belen’s, a hot rotten place in the river bottom below Albuquerque. Everyone hunted for them but it was too dusty to see them. Granddad had told dad the first thing was to look at the shoeing of the horses. Dad found shoe marks; too dusty to see animals. One of the teamsters got a mount, found the horses by following the trail and drove them back.
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They ran out of water and at the section house the man said they would have to wait for the next work train. An extra came through instead of the work train, a red ball freight. They had to stop and the conductor came down from the head ready to fight. They had passed up a red flag so the section man made them back up; they got their water and bucketed it up to the party. It was the next morning before they could start their survey.
Final location on which AT. & SF., built. The survey paralleled the Rock Island about three miles following Llano ridge and went about four miles east then. A new foreman named Martin Tobin showed up. Arthur Lagron, the first boss, had been born and educated in France. He had been sent over by a France stockholders syndicate to locate a couple of roads that ran out of Peoria, one branch having been taken on by the AT. & SF. He had made preliminary location and construction work but, a man of considerable means, had been retired in Peoria and came out on request of the At & SF. He was not happy and told F. M. Jones he would have to have relief. He paid his way back and Martin Tobin came out in answer to a wire.
Tobin went back to Llano summit and went east plotted a big fill. A man named Cunningham was topographer, did the drafting and was in charge of purchasing. They went east and dad drove the stake for the center of the depot at the present town of Vaughn. That was the end of that survey.
The party consisted of:
Chief Locating Engineer, F. Meredith Jones.
Chief of party, Martin Tobin ( First was, Arthur Lagron ).
Topographer and draftsman, Cunningham.
Teamsters, Carson, Zeno, Tilden Gilman ( A barfly picked up in Belen by Williams).
The teamsters reported to Cunningham.
Instrumentman, Williams, Transitman.
Head chainman, Shipman Lane.
Rear chainman, Tillotson.
Man to drive and carry stakes and axe-man, John Hand.
Level-man, George Wilhelm
Rod-man, Ed Frank.
Teamster Zeno, while Lagron is chief, Jones went to telegrapher’s office and there was a telegram from Zeno’s father telling him to send Zeno home because his mother was worried. Zeno had a pretty sister and a swell home with brass beds. He had come out to see the west and was a teamster, something he know about because he had learned from Becker at Belen. Zeno’s father was the biggest manufacturer of householed electrical equipment. He had been backed originally by Standard Oil to make gas fixtures. At the time ( 1903 ), he was making combination gas and electric lighting fixtures. Jones issued pass.
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After the Vaughn survey they went back to Lagon’s line paralleling the Rock Island. Jones had surveyed it once but they never went by just one survey.
Water commenced to get scarce. The head teamster had to act as guide. He didn’t find any water. Dad took off. They stopped at Llano ranch, the headquarters for a Mexican ranch outfit, called it El Rancho Leon. A man came out and said he had 60,000, head coming and would hardly have water for them so couldn’t do anything for the party and didn’t know if anyone else could help either for drinking or stock water. He left and out came his wife. She said to follow the trail and wind along until they saw a little mesa ( Mesas were lava with a little earth and a few pines on top.)
They would find a house which would be abandoned and they could see from there a well. They went on. She said she would have drinking water when they came back. The well had a windlass with a barrel sawed in two and attached to a rope. They got up a barrel and a half of stock water. They still had an empty barrel. The woman had left at the gate one-half barrel of rain water. They helped themselves liberally and backtracked. These people had know the author of ( Black Beauty ). One of their horses was ( Black Beauty ), and the author had got his notes at their ranch. The big ranchers then were Portuguee or Spanish. This woman’s sons were then in Lisbon to be educated. The place where they got water was El Rancho Leoncito.
They went back to join party but had moved to a canyon where a windmill was located. Dad followed trail. Made an awful long drive. Jones was there when they got there, he said if they couldn’t do better for water they would have to make a 250-mile trek and teamster Carson would guide them. Carson was half Mexican.
Worked south of line again next morning. When they got in the darky cook from Albuquerque was gone. He was old, a strapping fellow, and had the job because they didn’t retire in those days. At noon a couple of cowhands had showed up. They all carried guns then. The cook was outside peeling potatoes. They had come to get something to eat and the code in that time was to give it to them. The cook said they would have to see the boss. They pulled their guns and said they were boss and they got fed. Jones came in and took cook to station at Leon and put him on a freight.
They went about a week without a cook and dad helped out with the meals. Jones finally brought one from Santa Rosa. He said he was much of a cook but thought he would do. He had some food and baked a canned apple pie. There was always plenty of tomato juice. They brought #10, cans of tomatoes, drank the juice and cook the tomatoes. Dad learned to make Mulligan stew when he helped cook ( learned out of his inner conscious ).
Shipman Lane was head chainman. He was tall, rawboned. He had been to high school, never out of San Francisco. He had complained about food of the new cook. There was one gong ( pound on skillet ) to get up. Same when breakfast ready. One gong but Shipman didn’t get up, even with Ed Frank’s prodding.
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Lane’s placed had been at the head of the table next to Ed Frank ( both were choosey about where they would sit. ) cook asked where Lane was. Cook figured Lane evidently didn’t like his cooking. He goes into Lane’s tent. Lane was bigger but cook grabbed him up, bedding and all, and set him at head of table. He socked him on the side of his head so hard his head rolled. He told him that from now on “You like my cooking.” Lane said “Yes sir” and ate. Lane had turned up his nose at cook’s ( which wasn’t much ). The apple pie was soggy. Survey continued under Tobin.
Equipment-three wagons and a buckboard, an Indian pony and bronco for the buckboard, one team mules, two teams horses, one extra team.
Eating-big pans and skillets, #10 cans tomatoes, canned cherries and peaches, cabbage ( fresh big hard heads ), corned beef, fat bacon, ham, eggs bought by the case, Mexican beans, flour, sugar, coffee, condensed milk, fresh beef tougher then a boot. Usually put cabbage with beef. Coffee three times a day. Can of coffee, bread and meat ( Usually bacon) sent out on line. Cook beef around the clock. Fresh ( Tough ) rabbit sometimes to cook with beef. Rarely got wood; occasional busted railroad ties.
Near Logan ( first started in sinkhole country)-dug up yucca cut off top, cut with axe as low as could in the ground, pounded out on stone early Sunday before breakfast. Let dry all morning. After dinner get water hot in powder cans and wash hair and rest of self in washtub.
Not many antelope seen. Trading post man at Nara Visa said quite a heard north. Dad borrowed single shot shotgun. About a mile to rim of large bowl open on east end. Dad dropped down flat but antelope gone. Too sudden to have gun loaded. Trading post man estimated over 1,000, antelope in heard. Quite a sight running in dust.
Tobin was a Catholic. He and Williams always fussing. Tobin ( he had come back off ridge ) said to Williams to have men follow him to top of ridge and Tobin would wave arms when okay. The did. The thought Tobin waved but it was an antelope. Tobin said he was through. He was furious. Jones back in camp about this cook business, seeing how new cook getting along. Tobin said he quit. Jones wrote him a pass on Rock Island and Williams took over as chief.
Getting out of water and had to make 250-mile trek. In this camp dad told Carson they would want to get coyote pelts to get out on the ground with. Tents got so cold. Next morning Carson called dad and dad called shipman Lane and Ed Frank. Dad had borrowed gun, a single shot shot-gun and got it out from under bunk, flipped it to see if it was loaded. Lane ( Looked ) down his and pulled both barrels ( still so sleepy ). Ed Frank quite precise and had slicker folded over bed, shoes in certain spot ( big high top shoes ). Jones had made him send back fancy stuff at Llano. Lane ruined Frank’s slicker and one slug went through both sides of shoes. Frank just had to get along with his stuff until they got to a trading post.
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Duran ( not present day Dran ). Ilfeldt had a trading post there ( he had a string of them ). First place Frank could get anything to replace shot-up effects. ( D. C. had warned dad against carrying gun ). Loaded up at Duran on food, ammunition, etc. Stayed there that night . Frank and Lane had to make arrangements to sleep indoors, of course. Threw up a shelter and bedded down in the open. A little rain had settled dust. Next morning they left.
Wound up at Santa Rosa, a division point of the AT. & SF. Dad head of party scouting trail. Dad saw Mexican come out of house and dip in spring on the edge of the mesa ( ____down into Pecos river valley ). Dad drank out of it. Smelled to high heaven, sulfur and alkali. Dad went down to ____along trail that crossed over Rock Island bridge. Everyone had hoped they would get ice at Santa Rosa but they didn’t have any. Along track dad found work train ( W. R. Stubbs construction train ). They had been putting in extra yard facilities at Santa Rosa. Dad got there before they put their cold beer away in car. They sold dad a bottle of beer for 20 cents ( cheap in those days ). Dad went back and made reports of stream. The train pulled out before the men got there.
In Duran they had got copy of Santa Rosa paper. On the front page it said “Seven young ladies pertaining to Scarlet Brigade are camped across the tracks.” Carson slept with “his cousin” that night. Drunk. Carson quit. Last of Carson. They followed trail out of Santa Rosa. They had tried to hire a Mexican guide but Carson had knocked him off wagon. He had to go back. Carson went back to his cousin.
They could see Rock Island track plainly. They followed trail beside it. They took turns driving wile rest sat back on bedding and played pitch. Dad driving by Montoya. They had seen it for miles upside down in the mirage. A little store at Montoya. What had looked like buildings were bid blocks of rock Island Ties. Store had once been home of Montoya family big folks in Spain. Regular mansion now crumbling. Montoya’s had put in good irrigation but ditches now full of sand. They kidded dad about his driving. He asked them in if they wanted anything in store. They said “Oh, if there was something.” So dad slapped the reins on the back end of the mules and turned them at right angles. They went at gallop right across ditch. Instruments in this, bedding and tenting. The ____in there because awful place to ride on wagon where no front springs and back about shot. Instruments and bedding tumbling around. They never said anything else for a long time about dad’s driving.
They went on from Montoya with a little water from section foreman. They got to Mount Tucumcari, a double mesa, a division point of Rock Island. A Rock Island branch called Roy branch to Roy mines ( Coal ). Good water up at Roy mines, 100 miles north (?). Brand new. At. & SF., maps didn’t show it. Neither did Rock Island. Following trail from Mt. Tucumcari to Roy, guiding by Mt. Tucumcari. Ran into brush and sand. Had to cut branches and lay on ground to help wagon. Here was gully; just stopped them. They could still see Tucumcari mountain. Had to camp there. Then turned around and went to Tucumcari. Got there at noon. Town marshal asked if they had any guns. Williams said yes. A week before there had been a shooting scrape by strangers. Williams said they would pull on out and he give his word they would put up guns in town.
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Not long till 4th, of July 1903, Kept on. Lacking water till they got to ford at Elm Creek. Don’t know why it was called Elm. All kinds of folks headed for fourth celebration at Tucumcari. A good ford and horses drank fill and they filled barrels. Pulled up to a town called Logan. Had a trading post run by a man named Rankin and a store or two. Rankin financed out of watrous. Made camp at Logan.
Jones showed up and said they were to go on about 20, miles next day and tie onto Texas State line. Went to Nara Visa near state line. Trading post there run for benefit of Wolf ranch. Fellow showed up there named Scotty. Jones hired him as head teamster. Started backwards on little parallel on Rock Island under general supervision of Jones. Jones said to sleep at depot at Logan. Ate at Rankin place. Slept out in open to begin with. Got away from wind by sleeping on south end of depot platform. Twelve-inch planks ( 2x12 ) had been cupped by weather. During night rain came down went over roof and came back under them in cupped planks. They went inside about midnight, just bedded down when train whistled. Two fellows there with bicycles. One bought ticket and got out door. Other ran around on top of them, then ran out and agent had to go out and get his money from him. Held up train. Then they managed to get sleep.
Got up next morning and went back to Nara Visa. Cunningham a southerner used to hiring darkies in construction work on Mississippi River levees. Trading post at Nara Visa let them have a case of force and broken cases of vegetables and two cases of carnation cream, something yet fairly new on the market. ( Nara Visa a crossing point of Denver and Ft. Worth now called Colorado and Central and owned by Burlington ). They were expecting in cattle and he didn’t have things to spare. They went back to windmill with good water and had big old tin bowls and filled them. Filled bowls with force, put in milk and alkaline water. Each used a whole carton of force, bigger than big corn flakes cartons. Got it all down but dad couldn’t eat cereal for a long time.
Jones making preliminary stuff to parallel Rock Island from fence where they tied in and went clear across Texas to see if they would go. The party went back to tie in to Texas State line. Three-fourths mile west from Texas never had been surveyed. Trying to find section corners and had dickens of a time. Government had required Bell Ranch to replace corners but on stones had placed bell instead of government inscription. Jones brought letter to Lane from his brother who was an office engineer, some people were to go to California and dad sick because he was not on list.
Necessary to go load car half of it was stock, half the bedding. Three teamsters to go. When they got letter Scotty said to Jones he had to get money and buy partner some groceries. Scotty didn’t turn up till third morning. Jones lit into him. Scotty said they were out of groceries. Partner said they were short of meat so they just as well get a deer. They slept, heard rustling, he shot, deer took fence, stobs and wire and everything with them.
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That evening dad went down by stockyard. Here comes Jones with brass from Chicago office. Jones wanted help carrying wood stove they had to load on car. Jones to front end and dad took back, shoving it forward on Jones so he really carried it. Made it to top of steps got it on platform of stockyards, managed to shove it in and close and thought it necessary to seal doors ( seal of antimony or some such soft metal, stamp it with AT&SF., seal which locks it officially ). Jones puts on back and, staggering, said “You think you’re a pretty good man, don’t you?” Dad said “Yes.” He said, “You go on and join party in California.
Dad took midnight train east. An old-fashioned train. In smoker turn two seats around face to face and sleep in them. Dad only had about fifty cents. Party had sent along big breakfast of sandwiches and stuff. Dad got letter about 1903, flood. D. C. had stood at foot of Western avenue and helped boats get in with people. Dad thought about all of Topeka covered. Boys exercised dad going back to flood district, but it was down when dad got back home. He wander around North Topeka. Party was to meet at Albuquerque to head west. They were making up two parties. Dad at Topeka in July 1903, D. C. wanted him to stay and go to school. No money. Dad returned to Albuquerque after about a week in Topeka. Dad stayed at cheapest place called Sturgis House. Dad had got paid in Topeka by AT&SF., Everybody happy since all got paid.
He went to California on coach. Met a Mrs. Capwell whose husband was resident engineer at Belen. Mrs. E. W. Grant and Mrs. Capwell were sisters. They later wrote his mother about their visit. Mary Grant ( Daughter of Mrs. Grant ) taught Latin at K. U., forever. Williams at Albuquerque wired J. J. Keyes who was chief engineer in charge of construction ( out there because of T. B. ) Eight days before Keyes answered.
They get away at midnight. Dad had $6, of his pay left. Keyes had four big residencies under him and he had been traveling, two east and two west. They were getting ready for track. They had been working days so hot. Dad gave Williams $5, and he kept $1. Cook had wanted 10-cent package of sweet caporal cigarettes. He said just before dad left on midnight train to come to back door of Alvarado kitchen. Dad had slipped and torn leg of new trousers. Dad went to cook who could sew it up and he did. He handed dad a great big sandwich. Dad went right to smoker where rest of boys were. A man asked him what that cost him-a fancy chicken and egg sandwich. Dad said it was in repayment for a favor. Man said he paid $2.50, for one. Cut a loaf lengthwise. Boy dumbfounded and dad didn’t offer to divide. Last he saw of cook. Cook with them ( Bar fly ) used to bum sandwiches for them. Not the cook of ( the ) sandwich.
Transfer at Daggett. Over to Hatch by ( Tehachapi? ) slow four per cent grades and tunnels. Landed at Bakersfield. See folks along way waiting for train to pass. No money to even gamble in pitch game. At Stockton a telegram from W. B. Storey who was supposed to meet Williams at AT&S F, offices in San Francisco. They were to go to San Francisco and pay way from there to get paid at Willits. They got to San Francisco but they didn’t have any money to go on to Willits. Williams went to hotel in San Francisco. They were floored they would be let in such a plush place. They said they had no money but it was only ____they had baggage. Boys out early looking for free lunches. Would meet at entrance to Monadnock building where AT&SF, officers were, a new building in those days. Boys all had checks there but dad. Got way paid up to Willits. Storey met them at train and unbent more then usual. Take bus up to Willits hotel but dad didn’t such a short distance.
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New Mexico-Coyotes followed wagons parallel and behind. Shot at them but never hit one; just to see how fast they really would go. Coyotes chased dogs back under wagons. First camp at Llano summit, borrowed a dog and pup. During night dog ran out to front of tent, barking to keep coyotes away. Pup followed him out, then held himself under dad’s bunk for the rest of the night. Only dog able to keep with them on a survey party. Camps usually a headquarters for awhile and they work both ways from it.
New Mexico-Accuracy required of railroad surveys. They would try to find two section corners this crossed the railroad line. They would have to run a line from one section corner to other and chain line ( measure a line ) from the corner so they would be in an exact location of the line ( an exact tie ) so would hitch with government surveys. Distances between stakes depended on just how many takes you had with you, usually. Save stakes by pulling them up if line not acceptable. In New Mexico, owing to rarity of section corners, about every week they would determine true north from Polaris. You didn’t have a way of getting Direction from sunlight. Chained surveys with real chain, quite a knack to learn to throw the chain. Learned to throw the steel tape in a lop for transportation purposes.
A Sunday chore was to undo tape and string it out and see how accurate it was with government steel tape. Learned to use a railroad chain that was 100 links to 100 feet. The old chain was a land measure chain and it was 66 feet long because it would fit with measurements of side of an acre. The prototype of present transit and level and steel tape and rod and poles for survey party was brought from England by Dixon for line.
Tents and cots for sleeping. Railroad furnished tents and cots and each furnished own bedding. Cook had tent to himself. Office tent used by chief of party, transit man and instrument man. It would have drafting board and what ever office equipment they had brought. Tent for teamster, and the feed they stocked was kept there if it rained. Usually a surplus they would have to store in there. One tent for everyone else. All big Tents.
Cooking arrangements-A stove. Carried some wood with them all the time plus coal ( the main heat ) they got from section houses. Tents had no warmth in them as a rule. Get warm in morning by getting a big old 5-gallon lard can, stuff paper in it at night. The fellow next tent flap would get up in shirt tail and bare feet, throw one tent flap back ( flaps tied shut during night ) and fasten it back. Usually let head teamster do that. Can just in the opening. Drop match in can and everyone would jump and dress fast as he could, teeth chattering. Coal oil stove not in fashion. Cook just used coal oil to get fire started in morning so his tent always had some burnt holes. He would holler “Fire.” but no one would pay any attention to him. He would scramble around to put out fire.
Granite-Were pans, common steel forks and knives since before days of aluminum ware. Cook had two big tubs for washing purposes so he could wash out clothes after a fashion.
Harness-If it was patch with burlap, was a Mormon patch. If patched with wire it was the Montana patch.
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California-At Colonel Hardin ranch the road had blown out but on leveler side of it sat an old-time rail fence for a corral. One evening after supper dad crawled up bank and looked over rail fence and here stood Colonel Hardin. He was surrounded by genuine Texas longhorns and away-backed Arkansas hogs. Dad asked him what he was doing keeping these things. He said he had a desire to go to California and prospect for gold. His home was in east Texas. He went to nearest port and took ship around the Horn. It was without incident until they got to Erueka bay. Storm struck them. They went onto rocky beach and were stuck but managed to get all off with what they had on them. Boat broke up. He had very little money. There wasn’t any gold in the vicinity. He struck out looking for homestead that had timber on it. He homesteaded 320 acres as a timber claim; now 14,000 acres. He used what little money had to eat and trade on. He did pretty well in lumbering business, buying and selling footage.
When he made some money he decided he would go back to Texas, see his folks and marry his childhood sweetheart. No railroads then. He went overland on foot and horse. Stayed just a spell in Texas, married girl and got hold of ancestors of these longhorns and razorbacks. He started to herd them back from Texas. That was in “84.” He missed Indian difficulties. He managed to herd to California. He kept them in remembrance of home.
Hardin had a son on the ranch who was always wandering around very well dressed. Sundays dad talked to him and learned lots about identification of trees, location of springs, etc. He had been born on the ranch. He wanted to go to ocean and learn ways of seamen. He did and finally bought boat for $90,000 and had captain’s license. He was doing alright in tramp steamer business. Tried to make a fortune running guns and ammunition to Russians at Vladivostok. He got caught at dock when the Japanese besieged. They took him to Japan for trail before a Japanese court, sentenced him to death by hanging but American ambassador interfered. He was finally got off by agreeing to go back and stay on old home place for ten years. That’s why he was running around through forests. He had read every book he could get his hands on. The U. S. marshal came by every two months to check to see if he was there. Left tanbark oak branches just there, dead.
In California surveying various preliminary and locations from Willits to ______There was another party north of them. The end of the line had recently been finished to Willits. A ruckus on between AT&SF, and Southern Pacific. Running a bunch of surveys from Tiburon clear up to _____bluffing each other.
First they run a preliminary line. They put a few stacks on---news to the level party to keep in line. The rodman’s duty is to step off distance in between. Then topographers take off on either side of the line to determine slope of the ground. Then they plat ( or plan? ) another preliminary line, or two or three, depending on how rough the ground is. The topographers put in contours. If they decide that one of the preliminaries is good enough, they retrace the line more accurately--like determining haw accurate the north is, resetting angles, etc. Mountain country around there terrible. Ran out innumerable surveys and make modification (?) so they would be different.
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Pacing-Normal stride they try to hold to -30 inches to a pace ( 40 paces to 100 feet.) F. Meredith Jones was deadly at it. Get your direction a foresight and a backsight ( terrible with mirages jumping up and down.) Count to 40, remember how many stations he had. Jones might pick out a tree up on a mountain and pace for miles. This was preliminary stuff. Reconnaissance was picking feasibility of route. Determine how much right-of-way would cost in already settled country, number of acres of timber, pasture, fills, etc. Fremont did reconnaissance for U. P. by finding the pass.
Jones daughter lives in Topeka--a Mrs. Chrysler. He had several boys. Jones maintained home with wife back in Santa Fe. She was Mexican and morose, didn’t go any place with him. Only child that favored him was one son who got really good education at K. U., a graduate, but was morose. This son committed suicide by jumping off bridge. Jones has specialized in math at Northwestern. First time dad knew he was friendly, Jones said to dad “If I had authority I would take you with me on my trip around the world.” He was accurate on estimates of lumber from a stand of timber. Jones was gone for a year on tour around the world. AT&SF sent him.
Last time dad saw him was in the summer of 1905, in Newton office working in the right-of-way sketches. Dad had back room, dirty walls that had been originally painted ____, window dirty in a kind of well. One little old carbon light with no shade hung from the ceiling. He came behind him just enough to shade his drawing. Dad thought it one of the boys but it was F. Meredith just grinning.
Jones had beautiful spencerian shaded handwriting. Jones said president had told him he would have to have a stenographer with typewritten work. Very few stenographers in those days. Dad said he knew of a girl who was doing that work for the office engineer but that Jones would want a man really with an engineering education.
Jones said he was in room No. 1, of the Harvey House. Had a private bath, walls decorated, beautiful drapes at the windows. There was a fellow, though, who had taken a business course in addition to graduating from K. S. A. C., so dad introduced him to Jones. Jones sitting there with maps and things spread out. Jones never a man to say a great deal. Not long till man was back from Jones’s office. Jones was then chief locating engineer for the system. Jones looked like a cowpuncher except he always wore real shoes except for hobnail boots in woods of California. Jones middle height, ______bowlegged, always had a squint _______eyes but never did wear glasses that dad knew of, always traveled light, had just one outfit at a time.
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Family History.
Luther Rudolph Tillotson, born July 5, 1884 in Topeka KS., to Dewitt Clinton Tillotson and Belle Viola Rudolph. Luther married Eva Gertrude Kinley on January 18, 1919, they would have two daughters, Mary Belle Tillotson born January 8, 1921 and Margaret Gale, born October 31, 1927.
Luther Rudolph Tillotson would die of a heart attack on August 26, 1955.
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