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of February, 1872, he married Miss Sophia Harbaugh, who died July
18th, 1885, when, on the 15th day of August, 1886, he married Mrs.
Susan E. Huffer, of Tippecanoe county, Indiana. He served one term
of two years as trustee of Harrison township.
    A feature of the public school system of the state of Kansas is the
County High School, managed by a board of trustees elected by the
people, just as other county officers are elected. Mr. Shideler has been
elected twice to this position and is at this time secretary of the board.
Though he resides on the farm, in Cherokee county, his postoffice is
McCune, Crawford county. The subject of this sketch is the father of
four children, three sons and one daughter, born of his first wife, all of
whom have made enviable records in school work and won the honors
of the profession.
    Harry Wilson Shideler, native of Clay county, born January 14,
1873, graduate of the Kansas Normal College, is at present superinten-
dent of the Girard (Kansas) City schools. He was captain of Company F,
Twentieth Kansas Regiment, Colonel Funston’s command, in the Span-
ish-American war.
    Dora Ellen (Shideler) Painter, native of Clay county, born January
20, 1875, taught successfully for several years in the country schools of
Southeastern Kansas.
    Daniel Wilkins Shideler, native of Clay county; born March 4, 1878,
who was educated at the Kansas Normal College and the State Uni-
versity, has taught for a number of years in the country and village
schools of Cherokee and Crawford counties.
    John Whittier Shideler, native of Clay county, born November 18,
1880, was educated at the Kansas State Normal School and the Chicago
University. He is now a member of the faculty of the Cherokee County
High School, at Columbus, teaching history and civics.

    Howard H. Zenor, native of Clay county, born January 27, 1843,
attended the public schools in his boyhood and afterward taught in the
schools of Perry township; was for a time deputy under County Auditor
Hezekiah Wheeler ; enlisted in Company F, Fourteenth Indiana Regiment,
serving his country in the War of the Rebellion and was wounded in the
battle of Winchester Springs in 1862. In 1867 he left Clay county and
went to the Territory of Montana, where he lived for forty years, most
of the time at Deer Lodge City. During this period of more than half
a life-time, to use his own language, he “did a little of almost everything,
such as holding office, mining, merchandising, etc.” In the public service
he was clerk of the probate court two years, county clerk two years,
recorder two years, county commissioner eight years, and chairman of
the board all this time. Additional to this his clerical work comprised
a number of years of deputyship in the offices of United States marshal,
county treasurer, county Clerk and county recorder. After going to the
Northwest, he married Helen Witter, a native of Missouri. They have
one son, Nicholas, aged 24 years. Something more than a year ago, he
quit Montana, went to Washington and located at Bellingham, on Puget
Sound, where he invested in a large fiouring and feed manufacturing
plant. Here, as he puts it, he expects to stay, “awaiting the end.”

    Charles Kidd, native of Virginia, son of Andrew Kidd and wife,
born in 1843, came to Clay county with his parents in 1857, locating at