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Uriah E. Heckert
Uriah E. Heckert, postmaster at Tescott, was born in Dalmatia, Pennsylvania, June 13, 1865, and for 45 years has
resided in Kansas.
His father, Henry Heckert, who was a farmer, was born in Dalmatia, on January 24, 1842, and died there in December,
1866. His mother, Harriett Dobson, who was born in Hemdon, Pennsylvania, in 1845, died at Sunbury, Pennsylvania,
in February 1917.
On July 15, 1890, Mr. Heckert was married to Nancy Jane Roy at Minneapolis. She was born at Canton, Illinois, August
5, 1869. There are four children, Minnie, born April 18, 1891; Josiah, January 22, 1893; Nora, April 27, 1904;
and Harriet, September 15, 1906. All are teachers.
Mr. Heckert is a Republican. He is a member of Tescott Methodist Episcopal Church and the Ancient Order of United
Workmen.
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Ralph G. Hemenway
Ralph G. Hemenway, publisher of the Minneapolis Messenger, was born in Ellinwood, Kansas, May 3, 1885. He is the
son of Millard Crary and Gussie (Channon) Hemenway, the former a native of Fon du Lac, Wisconsin, born December
5, 1843. At the time of his death at Hope, in August, 1921, he was the publisher of the Hope Dispatch. The Hemenway
family, which is of American stock, dates to the 1600s, when it first became known in Massachusetts.
Gussie Channon was born in England in 1845, and died at Ellinwood, Kansas, in 1887. She met her husband when both
were school teachers in Dickinson County in the 1870s.
Ralph G. Hemenway attended Hope public schools until 1898, and the following year was a student at Kansas Wesleyan
Business College. From 1902 until 1908 he attended the Kansas State Normal School at Emporia, and from that time
until 1910 was a student at the University of Kansas. He was graduated from that institution with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts in the latter year.
Mr. Hemenway is a charter member of Beta chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, and while in school was a member of Delta
Sigma Rho. He led the debate team of Kansas against the University of Colorado in 1909, and while a student at
the University of Kansas was a member of the quill Club.
After attending business college in 1899-1900, Mr. Hemenway returned to Hope where he assisted his father in the
publication of the Dispatch until the fall of 1902. Entering the State Normal School at Emporia, he worked for
three years on the Emporia Republican and the Emporia Times. For a period of two and one-half years, until he entered
Kansas University, he was stenographer and assistant secretary to the president of the State Normal School. His
first term at the University of Kansas he was secretary to the state geologist, Erasmus Haworth, and the remaining
two years made his way by writing for newspapers (sports and news from the University of Kansas). About a year
after completing his college education, he purchased the Haven Journal, first having published the Eudora News
on a lease for several months. He sold the Journal in the fall of 1922, and in March, 1923, purchased the Minneapolis
Messanger.
On January 7, 1911, Mr. Hemenway was married to Lillah Evelyn Hogue at Houston, Texas. She was born at Springhill,
Kansas, December 8, 1886, the daughter of Samuel R. Hogue of Springhill. He was a veteran of the Civil War and
a pioneer in Johnson County. He engaged as a farmer in early life, and later as a merchant, dying at Springhill
in 1923. Mr. and Mrs. Hemenway have one son, Ralph William, born January 25, 1926.
Mr. Hemenway is a Republican. He is a member of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Lions Club, Friendship
lodge No. 208 of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons (1913-). For a number of years he was a tennis enthusiast,
but now finds his recreation in golf.
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Llewellyn Magellan Hinshaw
Llewellyn Magellan Hinshaw, physician and surgeon, was born in Harveyville, Kansas, February 23, 1875, and has
been engaged in the practice of medicine at Bennington since 1905.
His father, William Jasper Hinshaw, was born in Annapolis, Indiana, March 15, 1849. He taught school at an Indian
agency in the early days of Kansas near Fort Anadarko, Oklahoma, before the state was formed. He is now a retired
farmer. His ancestry is English. Sarah Jane Elliott, wife of William Jasper Hinshaw, was born in Marion, Indiana,
March 10, 1854, and died at Harveyville, Kansas, February 13, 1930. She taught cooking and sewing in the Indian
agency in which her husband was a teacher. Her ancestry was Welsh and Irish.
Upon his graduation from Burlingame High School in 1895, Llewellyn Magellan Hinshaw attended State Teacher College
at Emporia until 1898. He was valedictorian of his high school class.
Dr. Hinshaw was married on December 26, 1912, to Pearle Cynthia Alvord at Bennington. Mrs. Hinshaw, whose ancestry
is Scotch and English, was born at Delphos, November 28, 1888. three children were born to them, Tella A., January
8, 1915; Lawrence E., January 4, 1917, who died July 21, 1917; and Jean M., November 20, 1919.
Dr. Hinshaw is a Republican. He has been a director of the Bennington School Board since 1921, is a member of
the Masons, the Lions Club, the Presbyterian Church, Saline County and Kansas State Medical Societies. During 1918
he was a member of the Officers Training Corps at Fort Riley. His sports are football and baseball.
Residence: Bennington
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Annie Belle Hossack
Annie Belle Hossack, milling executive, was born in Odell, Illinois, October 9, 1882, daughter of William and
Ella Frances (Kenyon) Hossack. The father, a cattleman, miller, and grain dealer, was born in Hossack's Grove,
Illinois, February 10, 1846, and died at Delphos, on February 11, 1920. His father and mother were Scotch, and
in 1818 at the age of 12, the father moved to Quebec. He came to Illinois in 1849, and made the first shipment
of grain to Chicago on the canal. He was one of the instigators of the Underground Railway during the Civil War.
His wife, Ella, was born in Clyde, New York, September 20, 1848, and died at Girard, on August 11, 1884. She was
a music teacher, of English ancestry.
Graduated from elementary school at Great Ben, in 1897, Annie Belle Hossack was graduated from high school in
Salina in May, 1900. In 1902 she was graduated from Salina Business College.
During most of her mature life Miss Hossack has been associated with her father in his offices at Independence,
Oklahoma; Altus, Oklahoma; and at Delphos, Kansas. She became a secretary and manager and treasurer of the Delphos
Milling Company upon the death of her father in 1920, which position she still holds. She is a member of the Delphos
Chamber of Commerce, the Red Cross, the Presbyterian Church, the Delphos Social Club, and the We Go It Alone Club.
Her hobbies are motoring, radio, and music.
Residence: Delphos
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