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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas First published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Brown County -- HENRY SMALL, farmer and stock raiser, Section 26, Township 4, Range 17, P. O. Everest, was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1835, and lived in his native State until 1865, when he became a resident of Kansas, locating on his farm in Mission Township, Brown County, where he has resided since. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was married in Darke County, Ohio, in 1863, to Miss Susanna Feger, a native of Ohio. They have seven children living, whose names are - Mary Catherine K. E., David Elmer Ellsworth, Marion Winfield Oscar, Sarah Clara L. D. M., Elwood Otis R. A., Harriet Elizabeth, and Harley Dow. Mr. Small owns two fine upland farms lying in Mission Township which together contain 320 acres. They are well calculated for stock farms, and range among the best in the township. These farms are all enclosed with good fences, are in a high state of cultivation, and are well supplied with timber and water; Mission Creek flowing through one of them in a southerly direction. The improvements are good, embracing among others, a neat and comfortable dwelling, stock stables, sheds and lots, handsome orchards, groves, etc. Mr. Small grows on his handsome Mound Valley Farm, as his estate is called, 4,000 to 5,000 bushels of corn, and 700 bushels of small grain, yearly; feeds a car load of cattle; keeps 40 to 50 stock cattle; 50 stock hogs; 8 head of work horses; a dozen head of milch cows, and makes and sells $200 worth of "gilt edged" butter, yearly. He is a hard working, intelligent and prosperous farmer, a good citizen, and has a high standing in his community, Mound Valley Schoolhouse, District No. 66, Brown County, is located on what was once a portion of Mr. S.'s farm, the land being donated by him for this purpose. The building was erected in 1876, at a cost of $600. It is a handsome frame structure, well supplied with modern school furniture, and has a seating capacity of fifty. Miss Kittie Jones (now Mrs. Harvey Richard) was the first, and R. S. Finley is the present teacher. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:30:48 -0400 From: "Billy J. Baker" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3904E738.6D1C3A11@erols.com> Subject: BIO - RYNEARSON, CHARTRAND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas First published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Sedgwick County -- JOSIAH RYNEARSON, baker, born in Darke County, Ohio, in 1843; son of Barnett Rynearson and Anna V. Drake Rynearson. He married in 1875 Miss Malannie Chartrand, daughter of Annaclat and Margaret Chartrand. They have two children - Arthur and Allie. He came to Kansas in 1871, and locating at Newton remained until 1878, when he removed to Larned and remained one year. He then moved to Peabody, Kan., in 1881 and came to Wichita, and commenced the bakery business, located at No. 74 Main street. He was in the War of the Rebellion and enlisted in 1861, Sixty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, Company D. He was in the engagement at Resaca, Peach Creek, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, and others. He was mustered out at the close of the war, after four years' and three months' service. He is an ancient member of the I. O. O. F. and encampment; of the G. A. R. of Peabody, Kan., and was a member of the City Council at Newton. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:44:05 -0400 From: "Billy J. Baker" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3904EA55.3B6E8A5B@erols.com> Subject: BIO - BARNHART, SWOPE - Darke Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas First published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Neosho County -- W. M. BARNHART, farmer, Section 34, P. O. Osage Mission, is a native of Darke County, Ohio; born in 1840. He was raised in Indiana, where he attended the Somerset High School, and afterwards clerked for John Swope. In 1860 Mr. Barnhart was married to Miss Swope, and was then taken into the business partnership, which business they disposed of in 1867. John Swope came to Kansas in the spring of that year, and bought what is known as the Mound Farm, situated on the southwest quarter of Section 35, erected a house, and made improvements on the place. In the fall of 1867, Mr. Swope and wife, in company with W. M. Barnhart and wife, removed to Kansas, experiencing the difficulties of a journey by wagon through a new country, and the subsequent privations incident to pioneer life. Mr. Barnhart located upon Section 34, on land adjoining Mr. Swope's farm, and remained there until the death of Mr. Swope, which occurred in 1874. Since that date he has, with the assistance of his eldest son, worked both farms, and has met with encouraging success. No untoward calamities have visited his homestead. During the Osage ceded land fight he belonged to the Land League. Mr. and Mrs. Barnhart have three sons and three daughters. The family are members of the Christian Church. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:54:56 -0400 From: "Billy J. Baker" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3904ECE0.81A89A69@erols.com> Subject: BIO - HANWAY, STITT - Darke Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas First published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Franklin County -- JUDGE JAMES HANWAY. The subject of this brief sketch was born September 4, 1809, within fifteen miles of the far-famed "Bow Bells," London, England. His father was Jonas Hanway, the noted English philanthropist, and his mother a Quaker lady. James Hanway was educated at home by a governess, then at school, and upon finishing his collegiate education and attaining his majority, becoming dissatisfied with the English form of government, he emigrated to America, settling in Darke County, Ohio. He was married, November 1, 1832, to Miss Rebecca Stitt, of Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio. While in Ohio, Judge Hanway wrote largely for the papers, taking advance ground on the subject of American Slavery. He also took an active part in politics, acting consistently with the Republican party after it s organization at Columbus, Ohio, and was a delegate to the Convention at Columbus, which organized it. He was also a delegate to the Convention, which at Pittsburgh nominated Hale and Julian, respectively, for President and Vice President of the United States. In 1856, he moved to Kansas, settling in Pottawatomie Township, Franklin County. Here he took an active part in the struggle to make Kansas a Free State; and was one of the managers of the Underground Railroad. He was chosen to fill numerous positions of honor and trust; being the first Superintendent of Public Instruction in Franklin county; a member of the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention in 1859; a member of the Senate in 1860, and of the House of Representatives in 1864, and again in 1869. He wrote largely also during his residence in Kansas, on a great variety of subjects, and always with force and elegance of diction. Among those subjects were Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Temperance, Finance, Politics, Natural Science, Metaphysics and Religion, bringing to bear upon all great learning as well as sturdy common sense; a rare combination, especially with writers upon the latter subject. He believed in liberty, not only of the body, but also of the mind, in freedom of thought, and was as much opposed to the shackles of creeds as of chains. In character he was a pure, honest, upright man, loved by his relatives and friends, honored by all. His death occurred on Tuesday, May 9, 1882, and his burial on Wednesday, May 10, in Grove Hill Cemetery, four miles east of Lane, Rev. S. L. Adair conducting the services. Judge Hanway was the father of six children - William Henry Brougham Hanway, born August 5, 1833; John S., born November 1, 1834; Martha B., born November 3, 1836; Samuel, born February 11, 1840; Sarah H., born May 11, 1842, and William Henry Brougham born September 27, 1844. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:03:47 -0400 From: "Billy J. Baker" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3904EEF3.AB75FC2A@erols.com> Subject: BIO - ROBERTS, STANSBURY - Darke Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Nebraska First published in 1882 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Nuckolls County -- J. A. ROBERTS, one of the proprietors of Blue Bluff Mills, was born in Darke County, Ohio, 1844. IN 1856, emigrated to Iowa, locating in Clarke county, remaining there the most of the time until 1871. In 1862, enlisted in company D, Thirty-ninth Iowa Infantry, serving three years. was in all the engagements of his regiment. In 1871, came to Nebraska and took a homestead on Section 6, Town 3, Range 6, which he improved and owned until 1879. In 1876, in company with Mr. Aikens, rented the Blue Bluff Flouring-Mills, which they ran nearly two years. Then purchased a half-interest in a mill at Amboy, which he ran until 1881, then sold and bought an interest in the Blue Bluff Mills. The mills are 36X48 feet, with two run of wheat buhrs and one for corn. The capacity is about fourteen bushels per hour for each run of stone. The dam has a seven-foot fall, and the power is strong enough to run about as much again machinery. There is a stone quarry in connection with the mill. Was married in 1867, in Clarke County, Iowa, to Miss Stansbury, They have three children, viz.: Clara, Henry and Maggie. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:11:38 -0400 From: "Billy J. Baker" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3904F0CA.B15DEDA4@erols.com> Subject: BIO - McCLURE, BALL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Nebraska First published in 1882 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Johnson County -- THOMAS McCLURE, farmer and stock raiser, Section 23, Elk Creek P. O., was born and reared in Darke County, Ohio, and came to Nebraska in 1860 and has been actively identified with the agricultural and stock industries of this locality since. In 1860 he was married in Iowa to Miss Ellen Ball, who was born in Ohio. They have a family of one son and five daughters, Hannah F., Hester E., Ira T., Mina, Idella and Daisy E. Mr. McClure has been actively identified with the growth and development of the social life of his locality. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:17:33 -0400 From: "Billy J. Baker" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3904F22D.E0507615@erols.com> Subject: BIO - THOMAS, MOORE - Darke Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Nebraska First published in 1882 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Douglas County -- LEWIS THOMAS, Union Precinct, Douglas Co., for twenty-five years a farmer and stock-raiser, Section 15, Irvington P. O. Was born and reared in Darke County, Ohio, and was identified with the making and brick-laying business there until 1854, then moved to Scott County, Iowa, and went to farming. Removed to his present place of residence in April, 1857. Since that time he has been actively engaged in the farming and stock-raising. In 1851 he was married to Miss Susan Moore, who was born in Montgomery County, Ohio. They have a family of one son and four daughters: Margaret E., Elizabeth S., Cynthia F. D., Ethan E. and Myrtle L. R., living; and one daughter, Frances N., who died August 9, 1864. Has been an active worker in the development of the agricultural interests of the soil in his locality. Religiously he is a Liberal, of the Thomas Paine stamp. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #8 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:21:24 -0400 From: "Billy J. Baker" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3904F314.33FA8609@erols.com> Subject: BIO - THOMAS - Darke Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Nebraska First published in 1882 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Douglas County -- G. W. THOMAS, Jr., Route Agent Railroad Mail Service, was born in Darke County, Ohio, in 1852, from there went with his parents to Davenport, Iowa and from there to Douglas County, Iowa, in 1863, where he was engaged in farming until 1881, when he received his appointment as Route Agent, running from Omaha to Ogden. Was married in 1876. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #9 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:26:27 -0400 From: "Billy J. Baker" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3904F443.C9780734@erols.com> Subject: BIO - FRYAR, BANCROFT - Darke Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Nebraska First published in 1882 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Clay County -- LOUIS F. FRYAR, Clerk of Clay County, was born in Darke County, Ohio, in 1849, and raised on a farm there until sixteen years of age, when he removed to Rock Island, Ill., and was there employed in farming until August 1, 1861, when he enlisted in the Thirty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving four years and nine months. Subsequently returning to Rock Island, he again devoted his time to farming. He came to Nebraska in 1869, and homesteaded 160 acres in Thayer County, residing on it for two years; then farmed in Fairfield Precinct, Clay County, for about two years, and also merchandising for about that length of time; after which, he moved to the town of Fairfield and engaged in the implement business in company with R. Bayly, remaining with him some years; and, in January, 1880, joined S. Randall in the same business and is still a member of the firm of Randall & Fryar. Mr. F. was elected Clerk of the county in November, 1881, entering upon the duties of his office January 5, 1882, and is now residing in Clay Center. He was married in Sutton, Neb., in 1873, to Laura Bancroft; they have three children--Louis C. and infant twins. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #10 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:31:56 -0400 From: "Billy J. Baker" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3904F58C.F38A1461@erols.com> Subject: BIO - BYRAM, DAWSON - Darke Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Nebraska First published in 1882 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Clay County -- REV. ALBERT B. BYRAM, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Edgar, was born in Darke County, Ohio, October 31, 1843, and raised on a farm in Iowa. He was educated at the State University of Iowa City, graduating in 1874, and afterward at the Northwestern Theological Seminary, at Chicago, graduating there in 1877. He was licensed to preach, by the Chicago Presbytery, in the spring of 1876, and in April, 1877, took charge of the Presbyterian Church at Greenville, Ill., remaining there until he came to Nebraska in June, 1880, at which time he took charge of the First Presbyterian Church at Fremont, remaining there for a year. He came to Edgar, in July, 1881, and entered upon his present duties. He is a very able speaker, and popular with his congregation. Mr. Byram was married at West Liberty, Iowa, in July, 1873, to Mary E. Dawson, a native of Pennsylvania. They have two children--Elbert W. and Ethel. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #11 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:38:32 -0400 From: "Billy J. Baker" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3904F718.E7A15C2F@erols.com> Subject: BIO - SIMMONS, HEAD - Darke Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Nebraska First published in 1882 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Dodge County -- JACOB SIMMONS, physician and surgeon, located in North Bend September 13, 1871, and soon after began practicing his profession, which he has since continued, and has an average practice of about a$2,500 per annum. Was born in Miami County, Ohio, March 26, 1839. Began the study of medicine at Fort Recovery, Ohio, in 1861, remaining there three years. He then went to Union City, Ind., afterward entered the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated in February, 1868. Then began practice at Hollansburgh, Darke Co., Ohio, in 1868, where he remained until 1871, and practiced. During the rebellion, he served a short time on State Militia of Ohio. He was married, in Jay County, Ind., in November, 1860, to Miss Lydia A. Head, a native of Darke County, Ohio. They have three children--Amy M., William T. (deceased), Philip Sheridan and Charles D. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #12 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:42:02 -0400 From: "Billy J. Baker" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3904F7EA.6216E94@erols.com> Subject: BIO - COATS, MERSHON - Darke Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From - William G. Cutler's History of the State of Nebraska First published in 1882 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Dixon County -- M. V. COATS, general merchandise. Is a native of Darke County, Ohio. In 1856 came to Iowa County with his parents. In 1869, came to Ponca, made a homestead of 160 acres of land, which he improved. In 1874 he returned to Iowa County; engaging in farming till 1878; went to the Black Hills, remaining there one year, in the fall returning to Ponca and commenced this business. Married January 22, 1882, to Miss Nettie Mershon, of Jones County, Iowa. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #143 *******************************************