Bios Index

Jasper Dorman Adams, educator, was born at Darlington, Missouri, August 21, 185, son of George Ellsworth and Amanda Caroline (Shoemaker) Adams. His father was born in Tioga, Illinois, Septembe r3, 1862. His mother was born at Albany, Missouri, June 3, 1864.

Mr. Adams attended rural school, was graduated from high school at Albany, Missouri, and in 1923 received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from Manhattan. He is a member of Gamma Sigma Delta Omega Tau Epsilon (secretary 1922), was president of his college freshman class at Maryville, Missouri, president of the Agricultural Economics Club, corresponding secretary of the Athenia Literary Society and president of the Baptist Young Peoples' Society at Kansas State. He was a letterman in basketball in high school and at Maryville. He was also active in debate at Maryville and president of a literary society. Mr. Adams has had some graduate work at Kansas State.

In 1923-1924 he taught vocational agriculture at Cleburne, Kansas and during the years 19225-32 has taught the same subject at Garden City. He has served as Boy Scout master six years and is superintendent of the Sunday School of the First Baptist Church. He is president of the Kansas State Association of Vocational Agriculture Teachers, a member of the American Vocational Association and the Kansas State Teachers Association.

Mr. Adams was president of the only summer literary society ever held at Kansas State Agricultural College in the summer of 1922. He has held four years of successful evening schools for adult farmers, being a pioneer instructor in adult farmer schools. He has a large livestock improvement program in Finney County and is the author of Do's and Don't s in Evening Schools (Agricultural Education, March 1932); and Grading Shop Work (ibid, March 1932).

He is a Republican, a member of the American Legion, the Rotary Club (chairman Boy Scout committee), the Chamber of Commerce an the Red Cross. During the World War he served 20 months with Company K, 356th Infantry, 89th Division participating in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives, with the rank of corporal (runner). He served with the Army of Occupation in Germany, where he taught in the Army Post Schools. Later he was a student at the American University at Beaune, France.

On August 2, 1925, he was married to Freda Gertrude Peoples at Skidmore, Missouri. She was born there September 12, 1898 and is the daughter of Fred R. and Anna (Bond) Peoples. Her father was born at Craig, Missouri, April 29, 1869 and her mother at Graham, Missouri, April 29, 1868. She is an active worker in the Baptist Church and in community affairs. She was a teacher before her marriage. They have four children, Betty Lou, born June 27, 1927; and triplet girls, Joan, Jacqulin and Jean, born June 2, 1933. Residence: Garden City. (Illustriana Kansas, by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin, 1933, page 10)

Benjamin Leroy Allen, civil engineer was born at Oregon, Missouri, January 19, 1871, son of Herman L. and Sarah Anne (Pierce) Allen. His father, who was born at Hornellsville, New York, September 29, 1845, died at Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1901. Sarah Ann Pierce was born at Oregon, Missouri, May 6, 1849 and died there on July 15, 1925.

Upon his graduation from high school Benjamin Leroy Allen was a student of survey and engineering.

In 1908 Mr. Allen built a short line from Pueblo, northwest and from 1910 until 1917 was chief engineer of the Scott City northern Railroad in Kansas. He was county engineer of Logan and Wallace counties during 1918-19, and since 1920 has been county engineer of Finney County. A Republican, eh was elected county surveyor of Logan County in 1893, serving until 1903 and in 1908 was re-elected.

His marriage to Emma Catherine Riddle was solemnized at Winona, Kansas, April 24, 1895 and to them were born two children, Inez, March 31, 1895, who married D. Arthur Dunn; and Lois, April 26, 1908. Mrs. Allen was born in Warrick County, Indiana, August 16, 1873.

Mr. Allen is a member of the Elks Lodge (exalted ruler, 1928), the Rotary Club (president 1928; director 1927-28), the Chamber of Commerce (president 1928), the Kansas Engineering Society and the Kansas County Engineers Association of which he was president in 1929. In 1918 he was elected city councilman, serving two years. Mr. Allen is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for ten years has taught a Sunday School class. His club is the Garden City Country club. Residence: Garden City. (Illustriana Kansas, by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin, 1933, page 22)

Walter O. Carter, hardware merchant since 1887, was born in Lyon County, Kansas, May 10, 1862, son of Jacob V. and Eunice H. (Hadley) Carter. The father, born in High Point County, North Carolina, in 1833 was a farmer, Indian agent, merchant and capitalist, who died at Garden City, in 1916. The mother was born in Morgan County, Indiana, in 1834 and died at Garden City in 1910.

Mr. Carter grew up on the home farm near Emporia, engaged in farming for a time and has been in the hardware business since 1884. He is president of the Garden City building and Loan Association and active in public affairs. A Republican, he has served as a member of the board of education as city councilman and as mayor two terms.

His memberships include the Chamber of commerce of which he has been president three years, the Masons (32nd degree), the Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Rotary Club (past president), the Red Cross, the Community Church (deacon 35 years), and the Garden City Country Club.

His marriage to Flora M. Moon occurred at Emporia, September 13, 1882. Mrs. Carter was born in Lyon Coutny, January 27, 1863. There are three children, Ralph Irving, born October 16, 1883, who married Myrtle Hatcher; Rene Josephine, June 12, 1888 who married E. F. Ewing and Chester Arthur, May 29, 1893 who married Mabel Kessler. Residence: Garden City. (Illustriana Kansas, by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin, 1933, pages 212-213)

Eber N. Gause, of Caney, who was ordained and served for a number of years in the Quaker ministry, has also been identified with large business enterprises, being at thee present time secretary ands general manager of the American Vitrified Brick Company, of Caney, and president of the Sapulpa Brick Company, of Sapulpa, Okla. Rev. Mr. Gause was born in Hamilton county, Indiana, March 18, 1859, a son of Jesse and Ann (Stanbrough) Gause, both of whom were natives of Ohio. The Gause family is an old one in America, and originally of Quaker faith, having been established in this country by ancestors who were followers of William Penn and settled with him in Pennsylvania. The name is of Scotch origin, while that of Stanbrough is of English origin. Jesse Gause, who was a farmer, came to Kansas in 1862 and-settled on a farm near Emporia, where he resided until his death. The mother also died there. Five of their children grew to maturity.

Rev. Mr. Gause was reared on the farm near Emporia, and received an excellent education, his education in the country schools having been supplemented by courses in the Kansas State Normal School at Em-poria, and in Westtown College, near Philadelphia, Pa., the latter of which is a Quaker institution. He became chief clerk of the Sac and Fox Indian agency, in the Indian Territory, and remained in the Indian service four and a half years, after which for twelve years he was located at Garden City, Kan., where he was engaged in the hardware and implement business. After following that business five years in Mound City, Kan., he quit merchandising in order to accept the position of secretary and general manager of the Mound City Brick & Gas Company, which position he held until 1908, when he relinquished it in order to accept a similar position with the American Vitrified Brick Company, of Caney, Kan., of which he was one of the leading organizers.

Rev. Mr. Gause was ordained to the Quaker ministry in 1898 and served regularly as pastor at Garden City and at Barclay from 1898 until his removal to Mound City, in 1902. During his residence at Mound City he served seven years as pastor of the Congregational church. During all his services as a pastor he also continued his business interests.

Rev. Mr. Gause was married, in 1882, to Miss Almeda M. Carter, a native of Kansas, and to their union have been born four children Charles I., Orval J., Paul E., and Eunice Ann. Rev. Mr. Cause supports the men and measures of the Republican party, and served as alderman six years while a resident of Garden City. He is a Master Mason, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. (Kansas Biography, Part 2, Vol. III, 1912, Pages 879-880, Transcribed as written by, Millie Mowry)