Harry S. Henderson, veteran of the Spanish-American War and farmer by occupation, of Valley Center, Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born March 20,1882, in Sumner county, Kansas. His parents were Harry H. Henderson and Clara (Fassett) Henderson, both of genuine Yankee stock. The elder Henderson died in Rogers, Ark., to which state he had gone for his health when his son was nine years old. After a residence of four years in Arkansas with his father, Harry S. Henderson came back to Kansas and made his home with his grandfather, Lewis Fassett, who owned 160 acres in Section 10, Grant township, and afterward moved to Texas. On January 8,1901, Mr. Henderson enlisted for the Philippine War in B Troop, Fifteenth Cavalry Regiment, organized about February 15, under the command of Colonel Wallace, as a private for three years. Mr. Henderson left Wichita when he enlisted and was sent to San Francisco, and on March 18, 1901, sailed for the Philippine Islands, arriving at Manila bay on April 17. His regiment was placed in General Wood's.expedition on Jolo Island from August 27, 1901, to August 31, 1903. Mr. Henderson served three months as a special prison guard. The regiment being divided up into battalions, he was placed in the First Battalion, where he served up to the time of his discharge on October 15, 1903. Mr. Henderson was married on February 14, 1906, in Sedgwick county, to Miss Mabel W. Bingham. Two children have been born of this union, Florence Lavina, born April 9, 1907, and Ceres Irene, born November 9, 1909. Fraternally Mr. Henderson is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Sons of Veterans. He is the owner of a well-improved farm in Section 10, Grant township, and is a well respected man in the community in which he lives. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Page 801)
Nathan B. Hern, real estate operator of Cheney, Kan., was born January 7, 1866, in west Tennessee. He is a son of George W. and Mary C. Hern, and traces his remote ancestry back to England. His parents removed from Tennessee to Reno county, Kansas, when he was a small child, and there he was reared with the benefit of a common school education. At the age of fifteen he left home and spent several years on a cattle range in western Kansas. In 1885 he took up his residence in Cheney and obtained employment as a clerk in a hardware and implement store conducted by D. M. Main, for one year, when he engaged as salesman for the McCormick Harvesting Machine company, and remained in that capacity up to 1907, when he engaged in real estate, which business he is engaged in at the present time. The firm of Hern & Northcutt, of which he is a member, transacts a large business, selling and buying ranches running into thousands of acres. Mr. Hern holds large real estate interests in Kingman and Sedgwick counties, Kansas. He is modest in recalling his successful career in real estate, yet no man in the state is better posted on realty values than he, and through careful operations he has accumulated a large fortune. Fraternally Mr. Hern is a Mason, a member of Morton Lodge No. 258, A. F. & A. M., in which lodge he has occupied all the chairs, and is a member of Wichita Consistory No. 2. On February 3, 1893, Mr. Hern was married to Miss Nellie M. Marble, of Cheney, daughter of A. S. Marble. Mrs. Hern was born at La Cygne, Linn county, Kansas, on April 20, 1875. On her father's side her ancestry is Scotch, and on her mother's German. No children have been born of this union. Mr. Hern is a Democrat of the Jefferson school. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 801-802)
Severen E. High, a prosperous and substantial farmer of Rock-ford township, in Sedgwick county, Kansas, is a native of Van Wert county, Ohio, and was born in 1853 to Lewis and Erga (Mattox) High. The father was a native of Pennsylvania and a plasterer by trade. In 1877 he settled with his family on a quarter-section of land in Rockford township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, and lived there till his decease in 1889. He enlisted as a private and served four years in the Civil War and was mustered out as second lieutenant of Company K, Sixty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteers. He belonged to Wichita Post, Grand Army of the Republic. The mother died in Ohio in 1859.
Our subject lived in Ohio and Illinois during his early life and first came to Sedgwick county in 1876. He then returned to Illinois and went thence to West Virginia in 1878, and there married Miss Mary Powell, a daughter of Mr. John Powell. Returning to Illinois he lived on a rented farm till March, 1880, whence he came again to Sedgwick county and settled on his father's farm in Section 9, in Rockford township. Four years later he bought a quarter-section in Gypsum township and lived there till his father's death in 1889, when he sold it and returned to the family homestead, where he has since continued to live. He afterwards bought 160 acres in Section 4, 80 acres in Section 5, and 80 acres in Section 9, making a total of 480 acres, which he now owns in Rockford township. Mr. High carries on general farming and stock raising, and has made his money by the sale of cattle and hogs. He has made a financial success of his farming operations and lives in the enjoyment of a beautiful home, surrounded with all the comforts and conveniences of the modern prosperous farmer. In politics he has always been a Democrat and has served as trustee of Gypsum township and treasurer of Rockford township.
Of four children born to Mr. and Mrs. High, Charles P., born in 1879, married Miss Izah, a daughter of Mr. George Rickerds. They have one child, Helen, and live on the father's farm in Section 4. Glenn, who was born in 1881, married Miss Nellie, a daughter of Mr. Elias Mitchell. They live on the father's farm in Section 9, and have two children, Ruth and Severen. Carl C, who was born in 1888, died in 1906, and Lemuel, born in 1884, passed away when three years of age. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 802-803)
A. H. Hill, president of the Hill-Engstrom Lumber Company, of Wichita, Kan., is a native of Illinois, having been born in that state on March 29, 1864. His parents were Asa L. and Charlotte (Pratt) Hill, of Pittsfield, Ill. His early education was obtained in Pittsfield, Ill. After leaving school he was engaged during 1890-1891 as cashier of the Winona bank, Winona, Ill. In 1892 he went into the lumber business, and in 1907 he came to Wichita.
Mr. Hill organized the corporation which bought out the old-time lumber interests of ex-Mayor Ben McLean, added to the capital and yards under control and started a career of consolidation that places him now in a class all his own-that of having handled and transformed, united, expanded and consolidated probably more interests in large figures than any other man in the city in his line, or perhaps in any line. Since coming to Wichita he has acquired interests in or consolidated nineteen line yards. His own company has a string of sixteen yards and is adding to or rearranging the system all the time. Mr. Hill has been for nineteen years in the lumber business. His first business venture, a small yard at Winona, Ill., he clung to until 1908, when he sold it. He operated many yards in Illinois, and then acquired control of the Chihuahua Lumber and Manufacturing Company, of Old Mexico, which operated a string of sawmills, sash and door factories, and owned 20,000 acres of fine standing timber. Mr. Hill has now closed out all his Mexican holdings, his yards in Illinois and Missouri, and has centered and consolidated all his interests in Wichita, where he has built a beautiful home. He is president and general manager of the syndicate whose headquarters are in this city, where supplies and purchases are all made for the yards scattered throughout Kansas and Oklahoma. Mr. Bull, besides his lumber interests, has large land holdings in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, and is a stockholder in several plants and companies, including the Portland cement industry, and is a member of the chamber of commerce. He was married in 1891 to Miss Alice Vaughn, of Winona, Ill. They have two children, Ruth and Roland. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 803-804)
I. N. Hockaday, of Wichita, Kan., president of the Hockaday Paint Company, of that city, is the head of a concern of which the city is proud, and so also are the stockholders. The concern is only five years old, but already its trade extends all over the Southwest, and into the far Northwest and the Pacific slope. Mr. Hockaday was born in 1868 at Plattsburg, Mo. His parents were I. N. and Fanny (Lincoln) Hockaday, and his early education was obtained at Plattsburg College, Plattsburg, Mo. After finishing his education Mr. Hockaday located at Kingfisher, Okla., in 1889, where he went into the hardware business and had the first store of that kind in the territory. In 1899 he came to Wichita, and the first wholesale hardware store in this section of the Southwest was organized through his efforts and was known as the Hockaday Wholesale Hardware Company. The company at once entered upon a remarkable period of growth and dividend paying business. Five years ago the hardware house was bought out by a syndicate, but Mr. Hockaday would not leave the city, and saw then, as now, incalculable possibilities in its future. So the Hockaday Paint Company was organized, and has been even a greater success in its brief career. It is the only concern in the city, probably, except the packing houses, whose products reach such a wide extent of territory. Large branch houses are maintained in Denver and Kansas City. Mr. Hockaday is a thirty-second degree Mason.
He was married in 1901 to Miss Birdie Bohart, of Plattsburg, Mo. They have three children. (Page 803)
Ferdinand Holm, a successful farmer of Sedgwick county, Kan., was born June 17,1846, near Meldorf, Germany. His parents were Hans and Margaret (Jurgan) Holm. He is in line of direct descent from the house of Piel, who were court officials under Adolphus of Sweden. Mr. Holm received his education in Germany, after which he entered the wholesale and retail grocery business in Meldorf, Germany. Because of ill health he left this work and spent the next seven years on the ocean, stopping at all ports of the commercial world. He came to the United States in 1869 and located first at Pittsburg, Pa., where he spent three years mining. On February 4, 1872, Mr. Holm was married to Miss W. Elizabeth Lorenz von Frederickshof, Eddelac, Germany. This was the culmination of a romance which had begun in their school days. Miss W. Elizabeth had come to New York in 1871 with school friends.
In July, 1872, Mr. and Mrs. Holm came to Sedgwick county, Kan., and preempted 160 acres of land in what is now Section 23, Attica township. Seven children were born to this union, of whom Hive are now living, viz.: Lily, Emma, Ida, Florence and Elizabeth. Two boys are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Holm together braved the pioneers' struggles and won the land from the prairie to make it their own. Fraternally Mr. Holm is a member of the Masonic order, being a member of Florence Lodge No. 86 of Wichita, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of God-dard, Kan. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Page 803)
E. P. Holmes, of Wichita, Kan., is the head of one of Wichita's best known and most successful retail clothing stores. " There is no place like Holmes," has become a household word in Wichita and Sedgwick county. Mr. Holmes was born in Michigan, His parents, Robert and Elizabeth (Fisher) Holmes, being residents of Livingston county, coming from England. The early education of young Holmes was acquired in the public schools of his native town. About 1881 he decided that a better career was open to him in the West and came to Kansas. Here he remained for four years, during which time he had a mixed career as a farmer, school teacher and stock raiser. In the fall of 1885 he returned to Michigan and took up mercantile training, with the result that again he migrated to Kansas in the spring of 1886 with Charles M. Gregory, and the two started the firm of Holmes & Gregory at Cottonwood Falls, this partnership continuing for seventeen years. In 1891 Mr. Holmes again went into stock raising on a large and valuable ranch in Chase county with great success, and there he remained for ten years. In 1902 Mr. Holmes withdrew from the firm of Holmes & Gregory and came to Wichita. Here he formed the firm of Holmes & Jones. Three years later Mr. Jones retired and Mr. Holmes became the sole owner of the Holmes company. From the start the highest possible standard of merchandising was adopted and the utmost liberality of treatment was extended to customers. In the eight years in which the company has been in existence the volume of its business was trebled. Mr. Holmes has always taken a deep and generous interest in boys and young men. At Cottonwood Falls he organized the "Holmes Boys' Band," which won the first prize of $100 in its class in a tournament at Topeka. Mr. Holmes is a life member of the Young Men's Christian Association of Wichita, and a strong believer in its ideals. He is also a member of the Commercial Club and the Country Club, K. of P. and K. N. L. of S. He was married in 1886 to Miss Alberta MeMillen, of Livingston county, Michigan. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 805-806)
Alonzo B. Hope, farmer, of Sedgwiek county, Kansas, is a native of the Dominion of Canada, having been born at Toronto on December 24, 1861. His parents were Joseph and Elizabeth A. (Young) Hope, natives of England. The father was born February 22, 1825, and the mother February 11, 1823. They were married in England on May 15, 1847, and immigrated to Canada in 1850. After living in Canada fifteen years they moved to Ohio in April, 1865, and to Kansas in 1872. In Kansas the elder Hope preempted 160 acres of land in the southwest quarter of Section 21, Ohio township, where he lived the rest of his life. He died July 28, 1886, and his widow died October 13, 1906. They were the parents of nine children, five of whom are living. The children were: Mrs. Jane Mackey, of Gray county, Kansas; Herman, deceased; Walter, of Michigan; Stewart A., of Labett county, Kansas; Leonard, deceased; Augusta J., deceased; Alonzo B., of Ohio township; Mrs. Anna Walter, deceased; Bert, of Gray county, Kansas. Alonzo B. Hope bought the old homestead in 1891, where he now lives and owns 320 acres. On May 3, 1898, Mr. Hope married Miss Alice Robinson, who was born in Illinois December 12, 1871, a daughter of Samuel and Sybel (Burke) Robinson. Mrs. Hope's father came to Sedgwiek county, Kansas, in 1886, and settled near Oatville, where he worked at his trade as a blacksmith. He died October 31, 1898. His widow still lives and resides with Mr. and Mrs. Hope. The latter have had six children, viz.: Rachel A., born February 13, 1899; Ruth E., born July 19, 1900; Clifford J., born April 1, 1902; Stewart A., born August 19, 1903: Leonard J., born October 31, 1906, and Nancy J., born August 26, 1909. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 806)
Claude F. Hough, cashier of the Mulvane State Bank, Mulvane, Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born at Woodland, Barry county, Michigan, on March 24, 1873. He is a son of Christopher A. and . Minerva J. (Eowlader) Hough. Christopher A. Hough, the father, was born in Ohio on January 25, 1846. The mother was born in Woodland, Mich., on May 18, 1854. They were married at Woodland on July 3,1871. Joseph Hough, grandfather of Claude F., was born in Pennsylvania on April 21, 1821, and married Miss Ann N. Monasmith and moved to Woodland, Mich., where he died on April 15, 1886. His widow died on April 9, 1901. Christopher A. Hough, father of Claude F., learned the trade of carriage and wagon maker, at which he worked in Woodland. He served four years as county treasurer of Barry county, and was a member of Co. "C," One Hundred and Ninety-eighth O. V. Infantry. In 1889 he was elected cashier of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank at Nashville, Barry county, Michigan, which position he still holds. Claude F. Hough attended school at Hastings, Mich., and in 1890 began work in a bank as bookkeeper, which position he held until December 1, 1899, when he moved to Mulvane, Kan., and accepted the position of cashier of the Mulvane State Bank, which position he still holds. On March 4, 1896, Mr. Hough was married to Miss Mildred C. Eowlader, who was born in Woodland, Mich., on October 31,1876, a daughter of Washington and Catherine (Miller) Eowlader. Mrs. Hough's father was born in Herkimer county, New York, on December 8, 1830, and her mother was born in Ionia, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Hough have two children, Helen L., born October 2, 1900, and Claude F., Jr., born September 22, 1909. Mr. Hough is a director and treasurer of the Mulvane Ice and Cold Storage Company and secretary and a director of the Mulvane Mutual Telephone Company. Fraternally he is a member of Mulvane Lodge, No. 201, A. F. & A. M., of which he is past master. He is a Eepublican in politics and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 807)
Joseph D. Houston, of Wichita, Kan., is the senior partner in one of the most prominent legal firms practicing in the Southwest, that of Houston & Brooks, organized in 1898, with offices in the First National Bank building. The firm engages in a general practice, but its specialty is corporation law, and acts as counsel for many of the large corporations of Wichita and other parts of the state of Kansas. Mr. Houston is a native of Kentucky, having been born in Bourbon county, that state, on March 17, 1858. His parents were F. W. and Fannie L. (Simpson) Houston. Mr. Houston obtained his education in the public schools of his native state and at Kentucky University. After his graduation from the latter in 1879 he began the study of law at Shelbyville, Ky., with the firm of Caldwell & Howard, a noted legal firm in the state, and afterward supplemented this by a course in the Cincinnati (Ohio) Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1879 and has since continuously practiced his profession. Finding the field in Kentucky rather restricted, Mr. Houston looked about for a larger one, and in 1880 removed to Kansas. He located at "Wichita and at once opened an office for the practice of his profession and has been successfully engaged in general practice since that time. Mr. Houston was married on April 8, 1885, to Miss Fanny Eddy, of Hillsdale, Michigan, and from this union there has been issue two children: Aleen and Gwendolyn Houston. Mr. Houston has taken an active interest in the Masonic Order, being a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 807-808)
J. E. Howard, of Wichita, Kan., is one of the millers of Wichita, commencing business about fifteen years ago, when milling Kansas hard turkey wheat was drawing the attention of the world to Kansas as a great wheat producing state.
The first export bill of lading out of Wichita on a car of Kansas flour was put through one of the Wichita banks by the Howard Mills Company in 1895, or soon thereafter, when their mill was located on East Murdock avenue. Their business has expanded by virtue of the high grade of flour produced by them until in 1900 the present plant of 300 barrels capacity was erected on West Douglas avenue. There the company's brands have grown in favor and are sold at nearly all points within fifty miles of Wichita.
Mr. Howard is a native of the state of Ohio, where he was born the 3d of March, 1848, and is a son of Jeremiah E. Howard, Jr. Mr. Howard's education was acquired in a common school in Ohio. He moved to Burrton, Kan., the fall of 1874, and resided there until 1901, when he moved to Wichita, Kan., and has resided there since that date.
Mr. Howard married Ellen Hicks, of Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1869. They have three children, C. R. Howard, an officer and one of the active managers of The Howard Mills Company; Fannie A. Howard, who resides at home with her parents, and Florence Howard, who is married and lives in the city.
Mr. Howard is a member of the Modern Woodmen and the A. O. U. W. He has been president of the Chamber of Commerce, also of the Wichita. & Southwestern Fair Association, county commissioner, and has been president of the Associated Charities since its organization ten years ago, excepting about eighteen months.
He was one of the first to stir up public interest in the commission form of government. His great hobby has been freight rates and the removal of discrimination against the transportation interests in southwestern Kansas, and until the final consummation of what is known as the Hepburn Law was enacted he was a member of the executive committee of the National Interstate Commerce Law Convention and at its dissolution at the enactment of the above law Mr. Howard was vice-chairman of the organization.
This organization had 400 and over commercial organizations throughout the United States, all working under the direction of this committee. This organization was the only one in active operation and did so much to bring pressure on congress to enact favorable legislation for the shipping interests. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 808-809)
Daniel S. Howe, who is counted among the successful business men of Wichita, Kan., is a native of St. Lawrence county, New York. He was born in 1848 and is the eldest of a family of three children born to William S. and Eliza (Stratton) Howe. The father was a native of the Green Mountain state an<J settled in St. Lawrence county, New York, in 1842. He was a carpenter and contractor and a successful business man. He was descended in direct line from John Howe, who settled in Plymouth in 1623. Daniel S. acquired his early education in the schools of St. Lawrence county and later was graduated from the Eastman Commercial College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and in 1866 went to St. Joseph, Mo., where, for three years, he was engaged in the fire insurance business. Returning to St. Lawrence county, New York, in 1869, he lived there three years, engaged in the dairy business, and then, in 1872, went to Boston, where he dealt in horses, cattle and hogs. From 1885 till 1896 Mr. Howe was employed traveling through the central western states as buyer for the Erie Preserving Company, of Buffalo, N. Y., and then took up his residence in Wichita, his present home. Here he has devoted himself to loaning money on city property, exclusively, with eminent success. He is an active member of the local lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
In 1869 Mr. Howe married Miss Abbie Brown, a daughter of Mr. Tyler Brown, of St. Lawrence county, New York. Of four children born to them, William T. lives in Spokane, Wash.; Le-land M. resides in Chicago; Mabel is married to Mr. Leon Courser, and Bernice is the wife of Mr. Louis Stark, and both live in St. Lawrence county, New York.
In 1901 Mr. Howe married Mrs. Jennie Myers, of Kansas City, and they have a beautiful home at No. 1218 Bitting avenue, Wichita. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 809-810)
Charles C. Hoyt, merchant, of Kechi, Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born July 21, 1867, in Indiana. His parents were Benjamin F. and Mary (Flint) Hoyt, the father being a native of Indiana and the mother of Michigan. The ancestry on the paternal side is traced to England, and on the maternal, to Holland. Charles C. Hoyt was the eldest of three children. His parents moved to Kansas and located in Grant township, Sedgwick county, and afterwards moved to Wichita, where the father died in 1908. His widow died August 5 of the same year. Charles C. Hoyt attended the public schools of Indiana up to his seventeenth year and afterwards worked as a laborer for some time. He was married February 5, 1895, in Wichita, to Miss Elizabeth Widder. Two children have been born of this union, Reeee and Irene. Mr. Hoyt engaged in the mercantile business in Wichita in 1896 for himself, and continued in a general store there for ten years. He then disposed of his business and went to New Mexico, where he engaged in the real estate business. Coming back to Sedgwick county, he bought out the general store of G. S. Warner at Kechi, and has been conducting it ever since. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church. Mr. Hoyt is an independent in politics. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Page 810)
Myron L. Hull is the director of the Metropolitan School of Music of Wichita, Kan., which was established by Mr. Hull March 1, 1905. In its first year the school had an enrollment of 100, which was increased to 300 in 1910. The school specializes on the piano, brass and stringed instruments. Mr. Hull was born in Butler county, Kansas, on August 24, 1874. His parents were Lewis and Eliza (St. Clair) Hull, natives of Ohio, who came to Kansas in 1873 and located in Butler county, where they resided until the death of Mr. Hull in 1902, at the age of sixty-one.
Myron L. Hull was the fourth child of a family of seven, all of whom are living. He was educated in the public schools of Butler county, the Augusta High School and the Great Bend (Kansas) Normal School, and also received a commercial training. His musical education was begun at the College of Music in St. Joseph, Mo., and while there he studied violin and voice culture. In 1903 Mr. Hull went to Chicago, where he studied with Prof. F. W. Root, Signor Tomaso and Joseph Kneer, the latter being for years associated with the Thomas Orchestra. He then went to Philadelphia, Pa., where he had charge of the Osborne Conservatory of Music for the term of 1904. "While in Philadelphia Mr. Hull also studied with Mr. F. "W. Wurtele, of that city, and afterward supplemented this with a course of instruction under W. A. Fritschy and Samuel Siegel, of New York City. After this Mr. Hull returned to Kansas and opened a chain of schools, including "Wichita and Oklahoma City. The Wichita school grew to such proportions that Prof. Hull was obliged to devote his whole attention to it, and from this beginning the Metropolitan School of Music developed and has become one of the leading institutions of its kind in the Southwest. Prof. Hull is well known in musical circles and has sung with the Apollo Club in recital and also in the church choirs of "Wichita. He was for three years with the Masonic Quartet and is frequently a singer at Jewish services. Prof. Hull has also devoted considerable time to composing. Two of his compositions for mandolin, an instrument which he has adopted as his especial favorite, "Lullaby, A Token," and "Barcarolle, The Gondolier's Dream," have been especially well received. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 810-811)
Alvin C. Hunter, proprietor of the Cash Meat Market, fancy groceries and delicatessen, No. 217 East Douglas avenue, Wichita, Kan., is a native Kansan. He was born on a farm in Delano township, Sedgwick county, on August 7, 1873. His parents were Bazil W. and Thursey (Richcreek) Hunter, natives of Ohio and Indiana, respectively, who came to Kansas in the '60s and took up a claim in Delano township. They sold their farm in 1874 and moved to Wichita, where the elder Hunter died soon after at the age of thirty-nine. His widow survived him until April 8, 1906, when she died at the age of sixty-six. Alvin C. Hunter was the youngest of a family of three children, two boys and one girl, all of whom are living. Mr. Hunter was educated in the public schools of Wichita and began work when still young in the slaughter house of J. L. Moore & Son, where, after learning the butcher business, he began for himself in company with his brother, V. J. Hunter, and opened a shop on the West Side four years later. After conducting this market for two years they sold it out. Alvin C. Hunter then went to Oklahoma and his-brother to Colorado. In Oklahoma Alvin C. took up a claim and proved it up, when he sold it out and returned to Wichita, where he again embarked in the butcher business, adding groceries,. etc. On October 10, 1904, he located at his present stand, and has since that time more than doubled his stock to meet the increasing demands of his trade, and he now has one of the leading places of its kind in the city. Mr. Hunter is a member of the fraternal order of the Modern Woodmen of America and i& also a member of the Christian Church. He was married in 1894 to Miss Minta A. Anderson, of Mt. Hope, Kan. Of this union one child has been born, Thursey Lenora Hunter. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 811-812)
Frank Isbell, proprietor and sole owner of the Wichita baseball team, with headquarters at 127 South Main street, Wichita, Kan., is one of her citizens in whom Wichita takes a justifiable-pride. "Izzy," as he is familiarly known, has won his fame in the baseball world, in which he takes high rank as an important figure. He is a native of the Empire state, having been born at Delevan, N. Y., on August 21, 1875. His parents were John N. and Julia B. (Lawton) Isbell, who were natives of New York. They removed to Minnesota in 1880 and after a residence there of ten years decided to locate in Kansas. Young Isbell's education was acquired in the public schools of North Branch, Minn., and McAlister College, St. Paul, Minn. As a boy he was always-devoted to athletic sports. He began his baseball career as a pitcher at Virginia City, Minn., in 1896, with the Iron Range team, where he won thirteen out of fourteen games in which he played. His brilliant work attracted the attention of Charles Comiskey, who was then manager of the St. Paul club in the Western Association, and the latter signed young Isbell in the fall of 1896, playing him in the outfield. In 1898 Comiskey sold Isbell to the Chicago National League, where he was utilized as pitcher and utility man. In August of the same year Isbell was-sold back to the St. Paul team and remained with the club until the end of the season of 1899. In the spring of 1900 the American League was organized and Comiskey took his team to Chicago.
Isbell remained with this club during the years 1900 to 1909, inclusive, and in the latter year came to Wichita.
In the spring of 1905 Dr. Shively, president of the Western Association, endeavored to raise capital for the purchase of the Pittsburg, Kan., franchise, on condition that Isbell would take charge of the club. Several prominent citizens were interested and the necessary capital was quickly subscribed and the franchise turned over to Isbell, but it was impossible for the latter to leave Chicago. So he called W. J. Kimmell, of Enid, Okla., who came to Wichita and assisted by the business men organized a stock company and took over the franchise. In the fall of 1907 Mr. Isbell and John Holland paid $7,100 for the club and Mr. Holland took charge. Kansas was placed in the Western Association territory in 1905. Holland and Isbell got busy, put a deal through and got into the Western League in the spring of 1909. In the spring of 1908 Isbell remained with the club until June 25, when he went to Chicago and played with the White Sox during the seasons of 1908 and 1909. In the spring of 1910 Comiskey, through friendship, granted Isbell an unconditional release, and he returned to Wichita and bought Holland's interests. Thus he was able to hold the fort at Wichita and is now sole owner and proprietor of the club. "Izzy" made a record in the world series of 1906, making four successive two-base hits in one game, which has never been equaled. In selecting a site for a home for himself he was able to secure and build on the spot occupied by the diamond in the early eighties. Mr. Isbell is a member of the Masonic fraternity, having attained the thirty-second degree, and is a Shriner. He is also a member of the Young Men's Christian Association, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Maccabees, and the Chamber of Commerce of Wichita. He was married in 1898 to Miss Addie A. Baker, of Wichita, and is the father of one child, James LaFloyd Isbell. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 812-813)
E. W. Jewell, furniture dealer, of Mount Hope, Sedgwick county, Kan., was born June 25,. 1860, in Princeton, Mo. He is a son of D. W. Jewell, a native of New Jersey. The mother was a native of Ohio. The remote ancestors of the family in the paternal line were English. D. W. Jewell was born on the Monmouth battlefield in 1813. He moved from New Jersey to Ohio with his parents in 1817, where they settled for a time at Middletown. The father of E. W. Jewell was married twice, the first time to a Miss Shaffer, of Middletown, Ohio. Of this union eight children were born, four of whom are now living. In 1835 the elder Jewell moved to Cass county, Michigan, and engaged in farming. In 1852 he again moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where his first wife died in 1850. Mr. Jewell's second wife was Miss Sarah Clapp, a daughter of Newton Clapp, of South Whit-ley, Ind. Four children were born of this union, A. W., E. W., Mary and D. I. In 1852 the elder Jewell started for Oregon, but on account of sickness and the Border Ruffian war he was unable to proceed further than Princeton, Mo., where he lived twenty-three years. . In June, 1878, he moved to Sedgwiek county, Kansas, near Mount Hope, and lived there up to the time of his death in 1884. He was a successful farmer and held the office of County Clerk at Princeton, Mo., for two years. His second wife died in 1901. E. W. Jewell obtained his education in the common schools of Missouri and Kansas, which he attended up .to the age of twenty-one. He was then for two years clerk in a store at Mount Hope and then was clerk in a furniture store with Mr. Bardshar nine months, and in 1884 purchased the latter's interest in the business. He is now the sole proprietor of one of the largest retail furniture stores in southern Kansas, having a big trade in Kansas and Oklahoma. Mr. Jewell is a member of the Masonic Order, Blue Lodge, No. 238, in which he has been Junior Deacon and Senior Deacon. He is a Republican in politics and active in the interests of his party. Mr. Jewell was married to Miss Elma Kennedy, of Ravenna, Mo., on September 8, 1886. Mrs. Jewell was educated in the common schools of that place and in a musical college at Des Moines, Iowa, and Leavenworth, Kan. For several years she has taught instrumental music in Mount Hope and is known as an accomplished musician. Six children have been born of the union, all of whom are living. They are: Nellie, Carrie, Gladys, Mary, Edwin A. and Gertrude. The oldest, Nellie, is now (1910) attending the Mount Carmel Institute at Wichita. The other children are attending the city schools of Mount Hope. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 813-814)
Frederick M. Johnson, wholesale and retail dealer in coal, hay, feed and building material, of Wichita, Kan., is a native of Illinois, having been born at Peoria, that state, on August 3, 1858. He is a son of John M. and Lucinda 0. (Ayers) Johnson, his father being a native of Norway, while his mother was a native of Vermont. The elder Johnson was born and reared in southern Norway, about fourteen miles from Christiania. He was born in 1830 and at the age of twenty came to the United States, first locating at Lawrence, Mass., where he met and married Miss Ayers. The elder Johnson was a building contractor and a man well versed in business affairs. After their marriage the couple removed to Peoria, Ill., where the balance of Mr. Johnson's business life was spent. He died January 18, 1898, and his widow later came to Wichita, where she died April 3, 1902, at the age of seventy years. Frederick M. Johnson was the eldest of two children, and his brother, Charles F. Johnson, is now a resident of Freeport, Ill. Frederick M. Johnson acquired his education at the public schools of Marseilles, Ill., and the Dixon (Ill.) Business College. He began at the age of seventeen to learn the contracting and building business with his father, and after a period of ten years with him became superintendent for large firms, which he followed successfully for another ten years, in the meantime acquiring several interests on his own account. Failing health brought him to Kansas in 1900, and becoming infatuated with the country and the possibilities which he saw in Wichita, he returned to his Illinois home, where he arranged to close up his business affairs and in 1902 came to Wichita, where he has since resided. On his arrival in Wichita he at once began operations in the contracting business, which he continued until he established his present business in 1906. His offices are at No. 812 West Douglas avenue and his yards are located at No. 120 North Handley street. Mr. Johnson was elected the first alderman from his ward when Marseilles, Ill., was made a city. He is a member of the West Side Commercial League, of Wichita. On his mother's side his family dates back to the old line families of both England and the New England states, the famous jurist, Salmon P. Chase, being in the same line. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 814-815)
Wallace W. Johnson, retired farmer and Civil War veteran of Derby, Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, on December 16, 1831. His parents were William and Nancy (Pomfert) Johnson. In March, 1871, Mr. Johnson came with his father to Sedgwick county, Kansas, where both preempted 160 acres of land. The father's land was in Rockford township, Sedgwick county, while that of Wallace W. was in Gypsum township. The latter did not stay in Gypsum township long, as he sold his land and moved to Rockford township, where he lived till he moved to Derby. Mr. Johnson enlisted in the spring of 1863 in Company I, Forty-first Ohio Infantry, and served until the war closed. He was wounded while in action at Reseea and New Hope Church. After the war, Mr. Johnson returned to his Ohio home, where he remained until he came to Kansas, and has spent his life in farming until a few years ago, but is now living retired in Derby. Mr. Johnson has never married. He is a member of the G. A. R. post at Derby, a Republican in politics and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 815-816)
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