200                     HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY


honor and trust, professional or otherwise, having graduated and received
degrees from Harvard, Stanford, Vassar and other institutions. Three
of the sons and the two daughters are married, to whom have been born
eight (grand) children.
    Mr, and Mrs. Kennedy have both been devoted readers and close
students and the home all along through the half century of their married
life supplied with the best in current literature and philosophy.
    Their urban home is at 2709 Boulevard F, Denver, with a summer
residence known as “Eagle Eyrie,” at Estes Park, in the Rockies. On
the 25th day of November, 1908, Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy celebrated their
golden wedding.

    Enos Miles, son of Samuel Miles, who came with the family to Clay
county, locating at Bowling Green, in his early boyhood, where he
attended the schools of that time, including the county seminary, has
lived at Denver, Colorado, since the time of his leaving Bowling Green,
in 1873. At some time in the fifties he engaged in the practice of the
law, continuing in the profession for something more than a half century,
until his retirement at the close of the year 1906, including thirty-three
years of successful practice in the city of Denver. While in the practice
here he made a specialty of probate business. He is remembered by the
people of Bowling Green and of the county at large as an intelligent,
enterprising, worthy citizen and a safe counsellor at law.

    Joel H. Buckallew, native of Clay county, born near Middlebury,
Harrison township, November 21, 1833, was brought up on the farm in
Lewis township, where he acquired a meager education in the log-cabin
schools of that time, On the 19th day of December, 1854, he married
Miss Isabel Cooprider, of Middlebury, who was born October 9, 1835;
resided in Lewis township until the 4th day of January. 1862, when he
enlisted in the service of the government, returning home after the close
of the war—July 19, i865. In 1866 he engaged in merchandising at
Middlebury for the period of about four years. In the fall of 1878 he
moved to Missouri, having traded his Middlebury property for a farm
near Butler, Bates county, where he still resides. The. Buckallew and
Cooprider families were among the hardiest and best of the very early
pioneers of the south end of the county.

    Montgomery Oliver, native of Butler county, Ohio, born June 8
1851, son of Montgomery and Katherine Oliver, resided in Clay county
from the time he was five until he was thirty years of age. The family
came to this county in 1856, locating in Posey township, two and a half
miles south of Staunton, where the father died in 1860, the mother sur-
viving until 1903. The subject of this sketch, Montgomery Oliver, Jr.,
left Clay county in 1881, and went to Cherokee county, Kansas, thence
to Idaho, in 1891, locating at Boise, the State Capital, where he has since
resided. In 1896 he was elected sheriff of Ada county and served during
the years 1897 and 1898. As a public servant Mr. Oliver discharged
the duties of the trust committed to him with honor to himself and satis-
faction to his constituency, and stands high in the estimation of the com-
munity. Aside from his being proprietor of a valuable ranch, he is inter-
ested in a large hardware business in Boise, to which he devoted his entire
time and attention for a period of years before going onto the ranch.