ARNOLD, FRED W.
Fred W. Arnold, editor and postmaster, was born
at Hader, Minnesota, September 26, 1868, son of Samuel and Carrie (Hayford) Arnold.
Samuel Arnold, born in Ohio, July 22, 1838, died at Vermillion, Kansas, on March 18, 1914. He served in Company
F, 6th Minnesota Regiment in the Civil War, and was later a merchant for a number of years. He served as postmaster
at Vermillion for about 10 years.
His wife, Carrie Hayford, was born in Wisconsin, March 26, 1847, and died July 3, 1933. She was a charter member
of the Order of Eastern Star Chapter at Vermillion, and a charter member and an active worker in the Mutual Improvement
Club.
Fred W. Arnold attended public school, at Vermillion and in May, 1890, founded the Vermillion Record. In November,
1895, he purchased the Alton Empire, and in the fall of 1898 disposed of it.
In April, 1903, Mr. Arnold purchased the Valley Falls Nezv Era, at Valley Falls, which in June, 1905, he sold.
At that time he returned to Vermillion, and engaged in the drug business for several years. On November 1, 1914,
he purchased the Vermillion Times, of which he is now editor. In October, 1922, he was appointed postmaster and
is still holding this position. A Republican, he served as register of deeds of Osborne County in 1898 until 1903,
and in 1903 was clerk of the legislative session of that year.
His marriage to Carrie V. Gamber, was solemnized at Alton, July 4, 1898. Mrs. Arnold was born at Columbia, Pennsylvania,
March 20, 1879, and died at Vermillion, on October 1, 1907. There are two children, Eugene Gulf, born December
19, 1898, who married Goldia McCabe at Corning, Kansas; and Maurice Edgar, born May 1, 1901, who married Blanche
Morton at Marysville. Eugene is associate editor of the Vermillion Times, while Maurice is a linotype operator
on the Marshall County News.
At the present time Mr. Arnold is secretary of Vermillion Lodge of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He is
a member of the Royal Arch Masons and the Knights Templar at Marysville, and the Arab Shrine at Topeka. He is a
member of the First Presbyterian Church. Residence: Vermillion. (Illustriana Kansas, by Sara Mullin Baldwin &
Robert Morton Baldwin, 1933, pages 43-44)
GLASS, WILLIAM STUART
William Stuart Glass of Marysville, State Tax Commissioner
of Kansas, was born on a farm near Napoleon, Ripley county, Indiana, April 8, 1856. His father, John Glass, was
a son of James Glass, a Revolutionary soldier, and was reared a farmer. He died in Ripley county, Jan. I9, 1871,
aged about seventy-four years, having been born in 1797. The mother of judge Glass was Ann Major, daughter of Allen
Major and an aunt of the well known novelist and writer, Charles Major of Shelbyville, Ind. She was born in County
Longford, Ireland, and came to America with her parents, in 1825, when a little girl. She died in Ripley county,
Indiana, Dec. 29, 1866. Her brother, judge Stephen Major, father of Charles Major, was for many years judge of
the circuit court at Indianapolis, Ind.
Judge Glass spent his boyhood on the farm until fourteen years of age when, upon the death of his father, he went
to the home of an older brother, in Illinois, and remained there several years. He received his collegiate education
in Blackburn University, at Carlinville, Ill., and at Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, Ind., and during the earlier
years of his manhood taught school three years. In 1879 he graduated in the law department of the Iowa State University
and in the same year located in Marysville, Marshall county, Kansas, and there entered upon the practice of law.
He has been a resident of Marysville for the past thirty years and has been a practicing lawyer at the Marysville
bar from 1879 until the present time, except for a period of four years, from 1898 to 1902, during which he served
as judge of the Twenty-first judicial district of Kansas, which district is formed by Clay, Riley and Marshall
counties. In 1906 he was the candidate of the Democratic party in Kansas for judge of the supreme court. This honor
came unsought, when he was at home engaged in his private work. In 1907 he was appointed a member of the state
tax commission by Governor Hoch, the appointment coming to him without any solicitation upon his part, whatsoever.
In 1909 he was reappointed to the position by Governor Stubbs, and his present term extends to 1913. In view of
the fact that he is a Democrat his appointment at the hands of two Republican governors is a very high compliment
to his merit and worth as a citizen. Since becoming a member of the tax commission Judge Glass has resided temporarily
in Topeka, but he regards Marysville as his permanent home. He votes there and is frequently called upon to take
part in the trial of important cases in the courts of Marshall and surrounding counties. Prior to his services
as judge of the Twenty-first judicial district he served two terms as prosecuting attorney in Marshall county,
two terms in the state legislature, and several terms as city attorney of Marysville. Much credit is due him for
all of these political honors, since he is a Democrat and all of the counties in which he has ever been a candidate
for office are strongly Republican. He has made a special study of political economy and taxation in all of its
phases, and the fact that he has been placed twice on the state tax commission by governors not of his own political
faith is no doubt due to his wide knowledge of these subjects. His services to the tax commission are given more
for the benefit he can thus give his state than for the small salary attached to the office, for he would be wholly
independent without this salary. He is a member of the Kansas State Bar Association. While he has specialized,
to a degree, in the study of .philosophical and economic subjects, he has devoted his life to the service of his
clientele, which has called him to all the courts of Kansas and to the local Federal courts, in addition to which
he has been employed in the trial of important cases in many other states and in the higher Federal courts.
On Jan. 30, 1884, Judge Glass was married to Miss Sadie May Raguet, of Marysville, Kan., daughter of Llewellyn
Gwynne Raguet and his wife, whose maiden name was Carrie Hadley, a member of the well known Massachusetts family
of that name. On her paternal side Mrs. Glass is a lineal descendant of a Frenchman who came to America and served
as a surgeon in the Revolutionary war. Llewellyn Gwynne Raguet, father of Mrs. Glass, is a Mexican war veteran,
and he and his wife survive at this date (1911), aged, respectively, eighty-one and seventy-eight years. On her
paternal side Mrs. Glass is also related to the Virginia Thornton family, of Revolutionary fame. Judge and Mrs.
Glass have an only daughter, Mabel Ann, who is the wife of Benjamin C. Johnson of Topeka. (Kansas Biography, Vol.
III, Part 2, Pages 798-800, Transcribed by: Millie Mowry)
MILLER, J. P.
All that can be learned about J. P. Miller, who represented Marshall county, is that he was living there in 1859
and 1860 and that he died in 1862. He raised a secession flag in 1861 and gathered more of a storm than he could
control. A man named W. S. Blackburn contested Miller's seat, but Miller was sustained by the house, and in the
latter days of the session voted regularly. (Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1907-1908, Vol.
X, edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary, State Printing Office, Topeka, 1908, page 212)
