JAMES O. ALLEN
James O. Allen, merchant, was born in Summitville, Indiana, February 3, 1873, son of Joseph Alonzo and Jane (Webster)
Allen. The father was born in Wayne County, Indiana, May 21, 1848, and died at Summitville, March 2, 1906. He was
a merchant whose family came from Scotland to North Carolina. Jane Webster was born near Summitville, where she
died in 1880.
Educated in public school and business college, James O. Allen attended Terre Haute State Normal and taught seven
years in Indiana. Coming to Kansas in 1908 he was principal at Iola 1908-12. For nearly twenty years he has been
in the furniture business at Humboldt and Iola.
On July 8, 1908, he was married to Minnie Alice, daughter of Henry and Mary E., (Landon) Bowen at Iola. She was
born at North Liberty, Indiana, and from 1903 until 1930 was principal of Garfield School.
Mr. Allen is a member, former choir leader and a teacher in the First Methodist Church. He is a member of the Iola
Country Club. Residence: Iola (Illustriana Kansas, by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin, 1933, page
25)
AUGUSTUS ROSS ARBUCKLE
Augustus Ross Arbuckle, automobile dealer, was born in Humphrey, Missouri, November 16, 1891, son of Charles Henry
and Dora Elizabeth (Sorge) Arbuckle.
Augustus Ross Arbuckle attended public and high school and has completed two courses in electrical engineering.
In 1913 he was a mechanic in the Fort Scott Garage and then worked in Oklahoma for the Willy's Overland Company
as a tester. For the past 16 years he has operated a garage an automobile sales business in Iola. He is a Republican.
On July 25, 1917, Mr. Arbuckle was married to Elizabeth Mary Jeck at Iola. Mrs. Arbuckle was born at Weir, Kansas.
There are three children, Charles born May 6, 1918; Harold, August 5, 1919; and Glen; November 16, 1923.
Mr. Arbuckle is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Elks. He enjoys trap shooting, fishing, and hunting,
while his hobby is flying. He is a licensed commercial pilot. Residence: Iola. (Illustriana Kansas, by Sara Mullin
Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin, 1933, page 39)
CHARLES LAWRENCE
ARNOLD
Charles Lawrence Arnold, retired farmer was born near Macomb, Illinois, December 25, 1853, son of Joseph Warren
and Harriett Elizabeth (Ruggles) Arnold. He attended public school and upon reaching maturity engaged in farming.
He has been retired since March 1, 1928.
On December 29, 1881, he was married to Mary Elizabeth Jacoby, who died December 7, 1926. There is one son, Earl
Casper, born June 8, 1884 who married Mabel Weaver, now deceased. Earl is dean of the law department of Vanderbilt
University at Nashville, Tennessee.
Mr. Arnold's second marriage was to Christina Elizabeth Oberg, nee Young, and was solemnized at Iola, January 13,
1929. Mrs. Arnold was born at Ulungsfors, Ofvanaker, Sweden, July 31, 1859.
Mr. Arnold is a Republican, a member of the United Brethren Church and the Ancient Order of the United Workmen.
Since December 1878, he has been a contributor to the Iola Daily Register. Residence: Iola. (Illustriana Kansas,
by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin, 1933, page 43)
SAMUEL J. STEWART
Samuel J. Stewart was born in Miami county, Ohio,
March 28,1883. He came to Kansas from Indiana in April, 1856, settling in Allen county, on land which he still
owns and farms. He was educated in the common schools. He married Miss Dollie Tinder, of Monticello, Ill., December
29, 1864 who died October 15, 1866 without issue. September 22, 1868. He married Miss Emma Heath, also of Monticello,
Ill., by whom he has had seven children. He represented Allen county in the territorial house of representatives
of 1857 and 1858, and in the Leavenworth constitutional convention; was a member of the Grasshopper Falls convention
of 1857. When the war broke out he enlisted as a private, was promoted to a lieutenancy in the Fourth Kansas, later
the Tenth regiment, in August of the same year, and to captain in February, 1863, serving until he was mustered
out, in 1864. He was a member of the house of representatives in 1883 and 1885, and was in the state senate of
1901 and 1903. He has been regent of the State Agricultural College from 1896-1900 and 1901-'05. He resides at
Humboldt. March 23, 1908, he celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday, all his children, three sons-in-law, two daughters-in-law,
and eleven grandchildren being present. (Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1907-1908, Vol. X,
edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary, State Printing Office, Topeka, 1908, page 215)
BENTON, CHARLES
E.
Charles E. Benton, lawyer, was born at Astoria,
Ill., in 1857; was admitted to the bar in the State of Illinois in 1882; came west, locating in the fall of 1883,
at Iola, Kan., where he practiced law until the fall of 1890, when he removed to Fort Scott, Kan., where he now
resides. In 1884 Mr. Benton was appointed assistant attorney of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company for southern
and eastern Kansas, and in connection with Mr. J. H. Richards was made general attorney of that company in
1908. In May, 1910, Mr. Richards retired from the service of the company, since which time Mr. Benton has been
sole general attorney for southern and eastern Kansas. Mr. Benton has been retained as attorney by other
large corporations of the state, and served one term as county attorney of Allen county. Mr. Benton was married
in 1885 and has three sons. (Source: Kansas Biography, Vol. III, Part 2, Page 1401, Transcribed by: Millie Mowry)
KELLAM, SAMUEL H.
DR.
Author- Duncan L. Wallace Date- 1901
DR. SAMUEL H. KELLAM, who located in LaHarpe about
three years ago and who already enjoys a large and lucrative patronage in the line of his profession, was born
in Shelby county, Illinois. May 6, 1865. His father, Nathan Kellam, was a farmer and stock raiser of Elk county,
Kansas. He, too, is a native of Shelby county, Illinois, his birth having occurred there in 1827. In the place
of his nativity he continued to reside until 1882, when he took up his abode in Kansas and has since become a prominent
stock raiser and shipper of Elk county. Having acquired a comfortable competence he is now retired, he is a leading
representative of the Democracy in that locality and is respected by all who know him.
He married Ellen Yantis, a daughter of Isaac Yantis,
a farmer of Marion, County. Ohio, who at an early day removed to Illinois, carrying all his personal effects in
a red handkerchief. In the Prairie state the latter prospered, becoming well-to-do. The paternal grandfather of
our subject was born in Kentucky in 1790. and he also became a pioneer of Illinois, making the journey to Shelby
county in a two wheeled cart. There he began the arduous task of transforming the wild land into a good farm.
He married Nancy Smith and they became the parents
of five sons and two daughters, namely: Samuel, William, Nathan, Logan, John, Mrs. Lerau James and Mrs.Matilda
Handerly, the last named being still a resident of Shelby county. The Kellam and Yantis families were united through
the marriage of Nathan Kellam and Ellen Yantis. Their union was blessed with six children who are still living:
Flora, wife of W. T. Calon, of Elk county, Kansas; Sarah, wife of J. W. Donnell; William J., who died in 1892;
Norm Belle, wife of J. G. Yantis. of Elk county; Metta Blanche and Aullendore. who are also residents of Elk county.
Into the mind of Dr. Kellam of this review were
early instilled lessons of industry. When quite young he began work on his father's farm, remaining there until
he was twenty-one years of age. His father retired and for four years he managed the ranch. In the meantime he
secured a good foundation for his professional knowledge by a thorough English course, supplementing his preliminary
studies by a course in the Howard high school, of which he is a graduate. For some time he occupied the position
of department foreman of the Armour Packing Company, of Kansas City, but wishing to make the practice, of medicine
his life work he began reading in the office and under the direction of Dr. Stunen, with whom he remained for two
years. Later he was graduated in the Kansas City College of Physicians and Surgeons and received practical training
while acting as assistant in the free dispensary hospital at Bethany. Prior to coming to LaHarpe he practiced medicine
in Kansas City for three years, but since 1897 has been a valued member of the medical fraternity of Allen county.
Doctor Kellam married Miss Hattie Graham, who was born in Ohio in 1867, a daughter of James Graham, now a farmer
of Elk county, Kansas. Two children grace their union: Marvelle and Lillian. The Doctor and his wife have many
friends in Allen county where he is enjoying an excellent practice, having a patronage that many an older representative
of the medical fraternity might well envy. As a citizen he is public spirited and progressive, and is therefore
a welcome addition to LaHarpe. (Source: History of Allen and Woodson Counties, Kansas: Illustrated; embellished
with portraits of well known people of these counties, with biographies of our representative citizens. submitted
by Don Tharp and transcribed by L. Morgan)
