Biographies of Wyandotte County, Kansas

WYANDOTTE COUNTY, KANSAS

BIOGRAPHIES

FORSBERO, GUSTOFP

There are many men who feel that the only way in which they can be sure of having something that will provide them with a living in their old age is to secure a farm of their own. Mr. Forsberg, although he was not a farmer as a young man, has been able to purchase a farm and to run it on a paying basis. He is well known in Bethel as the stone mason farmer. There is a wonderful satisfaction in feeling that everything a man owns is the result of his own work and thought, and Mr. Forsberg has made a success of his work as a stone mason and he has made an undivided success of his work as a farmer.

Born in Sweden January 6,1844, he was the son of Ola Forsberg and his wife Louisa, who was formerly Louisa Peterson. Ola Forsberg was a brick mason in Sweden, and he and his wife both died in their native place. Gustoff was brought up in Sweden and attended the public schools there. In 1868 he came to this country and went direct to Illinois, where he went to work in the stone quarry at Joliet. Later he went to Kansas City, Missouri, and worked for the railroad as section man. Then he had a little shoe shop in Kansas City, Missouri, and made money at that. He also worked on the streets of Kansas City and was one of the first men to work on the streets of that city, then only a very small place. In 1871 he came to Kansas City, Kansas, and he bought the farm of one hundred acres at Bethel. He makes a specialty of raising cattle and has some very fine animals, and he also does general farming.

In 1876, after he had got very well started on his farm, he married Mary Peterson, who was a native of Sweden and had come to this country a few years before. She died in 1881 leaving two children; Alma, who is now the wife of Ludwig Johnson and is living in the state of Washington; and Charles Gus, who is living at home on the farm with his father.

Mr. Forsberg is a member of the Lutheran church and is a very regular attendant at the church services. In politics he is a Republican and is very much interested in the elections, and is particularly concerned about the men who run for office in the county, as he has traveled about the county considerably and has done stone work in all parts of the county. He is still living in the stone house that he built thirty-five years ago There he and his son Charles live a quiet, contented life, attending to their own affairs, but interested in the affairs of the county and state. (History of Wyandotte County, Kansas and It's People, by Perl W. Morgan, Vol. II, 1911, Pages 664-665)

JOHNSON BROTHERS

If those who claim that fortune has favored certain individuals above others will but investigate the cause of success and failure, it will be found that the former is largely due to the improvement of opportunity, the latter to the neglect of it. Fortunate environments encompass nearly every man at some stage of his career, but the strong man and the successful man is he who realizes that the proper moment has come, that the present and not the future holds his opportunity. The man who makes use of the Now and not the To Be is the one who passes on the highway of life others who started out ahead of him, and reaches the goal of prosperity in advance of of them. It is this quality in the Johnson brothers, who are most successfully engaged in the dairy business in the vicinity of Rosedale, Kansas, that has won them an enviable name in connection with business interests in this section of the old Sunflower state.

The Johnson family is a stanch old Swedish stock. Charles Johnson, father of Dave, Fred and Charles Johnson, of this notice, was born and reared in Sweden, where was solemnized his marriage to Miss Emma Stolz and where he resided during his entire life time. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits during the major portion of his active career and he was summoned to the life eternal in the year 1891, at the age of forty-eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson became the parents of six children, whose names are here entered in respective order of birth: Hilda, (died in infancy); Dave, Fred, Charles, Oscar and Anna. The year after the father's demise the mother, with her five surviving children, immigrated to the United States, locating in Kansas, at Rosedale. Here the mother began to keep house for her brother, F. 0. Nordwall, who had come to America in the year 1885 and who at that time engaged in the dairy business at Rosedale. The children grew up in the home of their uncle and it was under his guidance that they thoroughly familiarized themselves with the ins and outs of the dairy business.

Dave Johnson was born in Sweden, as was also his brothers, the date of his nativity being the 15th of January, 1877; Fred Johnson was born on the 20th of September, 1879; and the natal day of Charles is the 11th of November, 1881. They were all reared through early boyhood on their father's farm in Sweden, in which place they received their early educational training, the same having been supplemented by further study after their arrival in Kansas. In 1901 the Johnson brothers began business at Rosedale with sixteen head of cattle and a milk route which they had previously purchased. Since that time they have retailed and wholesaled milk and at the present time they are the owners of eighty head of cows, each of which gives about three and a half gallons of milk per day. Their pasturage near Rosedale consists of eighty acres of land, and in 1908 they bought another tract of land, consisting of thirteen and a half acres of land, near Argentine, where they also conduct a dairy. In their various business enterprises the Johnson brothers have achieved noteworthy success and inasmuch as their present high position in the business world of Rosedale is entirely the result of their own well directed endeavors it is the more gratifying to contemplate. Their sterling integrity of character and splendid executive ability command to them the unalloyed confidence and esteem of all with whom they have come in contact.
In their political convictions they are aligned as uncompromising supporters of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor and while they have never manifested aught of ambition for the honors or emoluments of public office Charles has served with the utmost efficiency as constable of Rosedale, he having been incumbent of that important position from 1905 to 1907. Charles was at one time a valued and appreciative member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Dave was united in marriage to Miss Ellen Gustafson in 1901 and to this marriage have been born five children, whose names are here entered: Elmer, Raymond, Ellen, Carl and Fred, two of whom are pupils in the public school at Rosedale. Fred married, in 1905, Mrs. Louise Vistol, widow of Mr. Vistol. They have one child, Ellis, and Mrs. Johnson had one child by her former marriage, Moody. The Johnson brothers are very popular in this neighborhood by reason of their fair and honorable business methods and their respective homes are recognized as centers of most gracious and generous hospitality. (History of Wyandotte County, Kansas and It's People, by Perl W. Morgan, Vol. II, 1911, Pages 665-666)

POLLOCK, THOMAS A.

It has been given this well known and highly esteemed citizen of Kansas City to gain prestige as one of the able and representative members of the bar of his native state, and he now controls a practice of extensive and important order. He is known as a versatile and resourceful advocate and as a conservative counselor, well fortified in his knowledge of law and precedent. He has held in Wyandotte county various official positions in line with the work of his profession and his civic loyalty and public spirit have been of the most pronounced order.

Thomas Allen Pollock was born on the old homestead farm of his father, in Lyon county, Kansas, and the date of his nativity was December 20, 1866. He is a son of Robert and Jane (Smiley) Pollock, the former of whom was born in Scotland and the latter in the north of Ireland, of Scotch ancestry. The mother was a child at the time of her parents' immigration to America and she was reared to maturity at Sparta, Illinois, where her marriage was solemnized. Robert Pollock was reared and educated in his native land, whence he came to the United States when eighteen years of age. For several years he here followed the vocation of stationary engineer and after his marriage, March 15, 1866, he came to Kansas and secured a tract of government land in Waterloo township, Lyon county, where he reclaimed a productive farm and became a valued and influential citizen of the community, as his strong mentality and inflexible integrity amply justified the unqualified popular confidence and esteem accorded to him. He continued to reside in Lyon county, one of its sterling pioneers, during virtually the residue of his life, and he was about seventy years of age at the time of his death, which occurred December 13, 1901. His widow now resides in the home of her son Thomas A., of this sketch, who is the elder of the two children; the other son, Robert B. resides upon the old homestead farm in Lyon county. Both of the parents were orginally members of the Presbyterian church, but at the time of his death the father held membership in the Methodist church and the mother is now identified with the Congregational church. Robert Pollock gave to his adopted country the loyal service of a soldier in the Civil war. In 1863 he enlisted in Company G, Eighteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with which he took part in a number of the important engagements marking the progress of the great conflict through which the integrity of the Union was perpetuated. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and his political allegiance was-given to the Republican party.

Thomas A. Pollock found his boyhood and youth compassed by the benignant influences of the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth and to the work of which he early began to contribute his quota. After completing the curriculum of the district schools he attended the Kansas State Normal School at Emporia for two years, and thereafter he prosecuted his studies in both the academic and law departments of the University of Kansas, at Lawrence, in which institution he remained five years. He was graduated in the law department in 1889, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Admirably fortified for the work of his chosen profession, Mr. Pollock came to Kansas City in June, 1889, and here his novitiate was of brief duration, as he soon proved his powers and gained a practice that gradually but surely expanded in scope and importance. He has appeared in connection with much important litigation in both the state and federal courts and his success stands in the most effective evidence of his ability, his discrimination and his sterling personal characteristics, which have begotten objective confidence and regard of unequivocal order. He has served as city attorney and city counsellor for eight years and for a short term in 1890 he held the responsible office of county attorney. His careful observance of the unwritten ethical code has gained to him the respect and good will of his professional confreres, and as a citizen he is ever found ready to support all undertakings tending to foster and conserve the best interests of the community. In the time honored Masonic fraternity he has attained to the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and he holds membership in the Kansas City Mercantile Club. His political opinions are conclusively shown by the zealous support given by him to the cause of the Republican party, and he is a valued factor in its local councils and work. He has one of the best private law libraries in his home city and continued to be an appreciative student along professional lines, the while he is well fortified in his opinions and convictions as to matters of public import. The year 1890 witnessed the marriage of Mr. Pollock to Miss Melinda Yarnold, of Lawrence, Kansas, and she was summoned to eternal rest in 1905. In 1906 Mr. Pollock married Mrs. Amelia (Yarnold) Alexander, a sister of his first wife. (History of Wyandotte County, Kansas and It's People, by Perl W. Morgan, Vol. II, 1911, Pages 667-668)

THOMAS, WILLIAM B.

Beginning for himself the struggle for advancement among men at the early age of fifteen, learning a trade as a means to the accomplishment of his purpose in life, and adhering to one line of effort for a continuous period of thirty years, William B. Thomas, who conducts a very successful and profitable business enterprise in Kansas City, Kansas, has made his way steadily to worldly comfort and independence, albeit his path has been beset with obstacles and his progress has been several times stayed by adversities of a severe and trying nature.

Mr. Thomas is a native of McDonough county, Illinois, where he was born on April 17, 1864. He is a son of W. O. and Mary (Broaddus) Thomas, the father a native of Ohio and the mother of Illinois, and residents of McDonough county, Illinois, until 1886, when they moved to Kansas City, Missouri. There all the subsequent years of their lives have been passed in comfort, and they have been rich in the esteem and good will of all who have known them well enough to have cognizance of their worth. Their son, William B. Thomas, obtained a limited education in the district schools of his native county, attending them during the winter months for a few years with as much regularity as his circumstances allowed. Early in life he was filled with a strong desire to carve out a career for himself, unaided by family influence and independent of family considerations. In 1879, therefore, when he was but fifteen years old, he went to Chicago on his own account wholly and started out in life for himself. In that city he learned his trade as a paper hanger and decorator, acquiring a thorough knowledge of it in three years. At the end of that period he changed his residence to Kansas City, Missouri, arriving there in the winter of 1883 and at once opening a shop of his own for a paper hanging and decorating business, which he carried on for one year.

Desire for another change and the promise involved in a good opening induced him to move to Arkansas City, Kansas, at the end of a year, and in that location he prospered and made substantial advancement until 1889. There, as elsewhere, he followed paper hanging and decorating on his own account, and by his skill, good taste and conscientious attention to his business won a high and widespread reputation in his craft and considerable favor and esteem among the people.
The field for his operations in Arkansas City became too small for his ambition, and he determined in the year last mentioned to seek one of wider scope and greater opportunities. Accordingly he came to Kansas City, Kansas, and established himself in the suburb of Armour-dale. Here he remained and flourished fourteen years, and was on the high road to big business success when a disastrous flood swept away his property and his attachment to the place. The next three years were passed by him in the city of Wagoner, in what was then Indian Territory but is now a part of the new and highly progressive state of Oklahoma.
Kansas City, Kansas, still had a hold on his regard, however, and he found himself longing to return to it. His three years in Oklahoma had intensified his desire, and at the end of the period he sold all his interests there and came back to gratify it. He at once opened another paper hanging establishment in Kansas City, locating at 946 Central avenue, where he is still conducting an extensive business, handling wall paper, room moldings and other decorative and finishing material*, and doing a great deal of work in putting them up in all kinds ot structures. His business is so considerable as to necessitate his employment of several men, and it occupys all his own time and industry, except what has been required for the active duties of citizenship and efforts to promote the welfare of the community by efficient help in the administration of its public affairs. Mr. Thomas has long been very zealous and energetic in connection with the political, fraternal and social life of his city and county, and is regarded as one of their most useful and representative citizens. Fraternally he is connected with the Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America, belonging to organizations of these fraternities in Kansas City. Politically he is a firm and faithful member of the Democratic party and at all times effective in its service. In 1902 he was elected a member of the city council for a term of two years. In the fall of 1910 he became the nominee and successful candidate of his party to represent his district in the Lower House of the State Legislature, of which he is now (1911) a member. In public office as in private life he has been true and faithful, diligent and capable, attentive to every duty and strictly upright, working out a career that is creditable to him and has been of great service to the people whose interests he has had in charge.

In 1883 he was married in Kansas City, Kansas, to Miss Ada C. Toland, a daughter of Nelson and Sarah (Cox) Toland. Five children have been born of the union, all sons and all living. They are: Dayton T., Ralph B., Roy N., Walter O. and J. Earl. They have all been educated in the public schools of their native city, attending the lower grades and the high school and making good records in both. Like their parents, the young men are highly esteemed as worthy and useful citizens in all parts of the city and wherever else the people have knowledge of them. (History of Wyandotte County, Kansas and It's People, by Perl W. Morgan, Vol. II, 1911, Pages 668-669)

EICHOLTZ, EDWARD J.

The man who is interested in civic improvement is a friend to the carrier of the dinner pail and votes for the best man regardless of party lines-that man is pretty sure to stand in well with the company he represents and the people among whom he lives. Such a man is Edward J. Eicholtz, who has charge of the yards of the Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad at Rosedale, Kansas.

Mr. Eicholtz was born June 7, 1861, in Frederick county, Maryland, son of Jesse and Malinda (Hahn) Eicholtz, both natives of Frederick county. In 1863, when Edward J. was a small child, his father moved to York county, Pennsylvania, and subsequently went from there to Cumberland county, that state. By trade Jesse Eicholtz was a millwright, and in Cumberland county he operated what was known as the White Hall flour and saw mills. Later he was foreman of a large mill at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to which place he moved in 1876. He died in 1907, at the age of seventy-three years. In politics he was a Democrat, and his religious creed was that of the Lutheran church. To him and his wife were given nine children, namely: John, who died in infancy; Sarah, wife of David Rudy, died at the age of twenty-four years; Edward J., the direct subject of this sketch; Anna, wife of David Rudy, of Pennbrook, Pennsylvania; and George W., William J., Charley H., Mary and Ida.

Edward J. Eicholtz received his education in the public schools of Harrisburg, and on leaving school entered the employ of the Harrisburg Car Manufacturing Company, with which he remained for a period of ten years. In 1887 he came west to Kansas City, Missouri, and went to work for the Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad, with which he is still connected, having been transferred to Rosedale and placed in charge of the company's yards at this point.

Mr. Eicholtz has fraternal affiliation with a number of leading organizations, including the Free and Accepted Masons, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Modern Woodmen of America. His popularity with the railroad people with whom he is associated, and with the citizens of the town in general has been such as to gain for him official favor. Twice, in 1908 and again in 1909, he has been elected chief executive of the town, and as showing his influence and work as mayor it may be stated, without fear of dispute, that Rosedale has enjoyed greater prosperity in the past three years than in the fifteen years prior to this time.
On December 13, 1888, Mr. Eicholtz married Miss Carrie Miller, a native of Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, and they have an only child, Mrs. Carrie B. Dye, of Nowata, Oklahoma, whose husband is in the real estate business at that place. Mrs. Eicholtz's father is still living, at this writing being engaged in farming near Kansas City, Missouri. (History of Wyandotte County, Kansas and It's People, by Perl W. Morgan, Vol. II, 1911, Pages 670-671)

BABCOCK, LUKE

If we were to select one class of men who have helped more than any other to make Kansas the thriving, prosperous state it now is, we should point to the farmers. Where there are so many efficient agriculturists it seems invidious to pick out one as being more effective than another. We must, however, give to each one his due and Luke Babcock, as one of the pioneer farmers in Kansas, deserves a front rank in the field of agriculture.

Our subject was born in Franklin county, Ohio, in 1833, the son of James and Jannetty (Search) Babcock. James Babcock was born in Germany and was a farmer in Ohio and later near Springfield, Illinois, where he and his wife both died. They had fourteen children of whom there are now (1911) only two living-Luke and his brother Charles, who makes his home at Springfield, Illinois.

Luke Babcock came with his parents to Illinois when he was quite young and the family settled on a farm, Luke attending the district school in winter and worked on his father's farm in summer. In 1857, when he was twenty-four years of age he left the old home and went out to make a career for himself. There was one thing that he knew how to do and to do well-namely, to farm, and accordingly considered where would be the best place to locate. He realized the future possibilities of Kansas and came here, locating at West Port Landing, which is now a part of Kansas City, Missouri, but at the time when he first came to Wyandotte county there was no such city as Kansas City, Missouri, nor Kansas City, Kansas. He has seen both cities spring up with mushroom growth from the arid plain; he has seen them become agricultural centers and then business centers of the state. Mr. Babcock remembers all of the border troubles with the Indians and can tell many interesting reminiscences of those turbulent times. When the Civil war broke out he enlisted in the First Infantry and later in the Second Kansas Cavalry Regiment, Company B, and he served all through the war, fighting in all the engagements in which his company participated. Before the war broke out Mr. Babcock bought a hundred acres of land from the Shawnee chief, Graham Rodgers, which he worked for some years, making it yield to its fullest capacity. Now (1911) he still resides on his farm with his wife, but is living in retirement, renting his land out to others.

In 1869 Mr. Babcock married Mary Layton of Pennsylvania. Her parents were Jesse and Esther (Shoup) Layton and were both born in Pennsylvania. They came to Kansas in 1865 and located in Wyandotte county with their twelve children. At that time there were not very many farmers in the county and they all knew each other, so that the acquaintance of the Laytons and the Babcocks eventually resulted in this marriage. They have had eleven children, but six of them have already passed on to the other land. The living are as follows: Jannetty, wife of John Perera; Druzella, who is married to Robt. Perera; Luster J. Roy, who is living at home with Mr. and Mrs. Babcock ; and Sylvia at home.

Luke Babcock is a Republican and there is no more stanch upholder of the principles of that party than he. To know a man of such wide experience, such sterling merit and withal such a pleasing personality is a real blessing. (History of Wyandotte County, Kansas and It's People, by Perl W. Morgan, Vol. II, 1911, Pages 671-672)

MINDEDAHL, PETER S.

As a general thing it is only the ambitious, enterprising foreigners who come to America from other countries. Men who are content to jog along in the same old way as their parents did before them remain in the old country. Peter S. Mindedahl of Bethel, Kansas, is ambitious. He was desirous of owning a farm of his own and he has succeeded, through his own unaided efforts.

Peter S. Mindedahl was born in Denmark, April 10, 1882, and is the son of Peter and his wife who was formerly Ella Ferdinand. Both parents were born in Sweden and went to Denmark soon after they were married. Mrs. Peter Mindedahl, senior, died twenty-two years ago when her son Peter was only a child seven years of age. Her husband is living in Denmark still and is farming there. Peter S. Mindedahl went to school in his native village and then worked on his father's farm until he was twenty-two years old. He made up his mind that he could do better if he came to America, so he crossed the ocean and a good part of the continent and located at Kansas City, Kansas, in 1904. For a time he worked in a dairy, milking cows. Then he was seized with the desire to go still further west and went to Portland, Oregon. Here he worked for the railroad and saved money enough to buy a farm, and came back to the fine agricultural state of Kansas and bought his farm near Kansas City. For four years he worked on this farm and prospered so well that he was able to buy the farm on which he now lives, in Prairie township. Besides general farming he raises stock. He breeds nothing but fine stock. He has a beautiful Hamiltonian horse and has Holstein cows. Mr. Mindedahl is unmarried at present, but he is not all alone, as his brother John and sister Jennie are both in this country. He has one sister Mary still in Denmark and she is very proud of the success which her brother has achieved.

KLINE, CALVIN ELLIS

Calvin Ellis Kline, widely known in Kansas City as a blacksmith and a wagon maker, is a self made man, as he has earned his own living since the time he was twelve years old. For a man to make a success of his life under any circumstances is a subject for congratulation, in this age of competition, but when he has all of the difficulties to surmount that Mr. Kline has encountered, he may justly be proud of himself. As a matter of fact, however, Mr. Kline is a very modest man in regard to his own abilities and attainments. In addition to his business career, which has been exemplary throughout, Mr. Kline has been connected with many public improvements of different nature, he has for years been deeply interested in the educational progress of the county, and perhaps he feels the more concern because he was deprived of very much schooling in his boyhood days, and for that reason he wants to do all that is possible for his children and for others of the present generation. He is not, however, an ignorant man, as he has observed much that was useful to him and has besides read a great deal about those subjects which are of vital interest to any citizen of the United States.

Calvin Ellis Kline was a native of Columbia county, Pennsylvania, where he was born December 9, 1851. He is the son of Leonard and Mary Ann (Labour) Kline, both natives of Pennsylvania, the father being of German descent and the mother of English and German. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom Calvin Ellis Kline was the sixth in order of birth. He attended the public schools in his native township, but was only able to stay in school until he was twelve years of age, owing to the necessity there arose for him to begin to earn something to help defray the expenses of the family. He made excellent use of the few years that he was in school and there learned to think something that many a college graduate never learns. Mr. Kline stayed in Pennsylvania until he was twenty-eight years old, engaged in the work of wagon-making and blaeksmithing, both of which trades he learned when he left school. In 1879 he came to Kansas and located in Wyandotte county, where he worked in the Union Pacific shops for a time, about eight months, and then he moved to Quindaro township and went to work in a shop there. At the expiration of four months he bought out the interest of his employer and since that time has been the proprietor of a very prosperous business, which has changed its location three times. He himself superintends each piece of work that comes into the shop and he employs a man and a boy to assist him.
Mr. Kline has been twice married. As a young man in Pennsylvania, he married Miss Laura L. Preston, the daughter of the Reverend James L. and Carrie T. (Lukins) Preston, respected residents of that state, where their daughter, Laura, was born. To Mr. and Mrs. Kline eight children were born, as follows: Emma L., now Mrs. A. C. Cooke; Carrie, now Mrs. Harry Cooke; J. Wilbur, who enlisted in Company L, of the Twentieth Kansas Infantry, to serve in the Spanish-American war, and was killed in the Philippine Islands, and whose body was brought back to Kansas and buried in Quindaro cemetery, where his grave is carefully tended; Myra Elizabeth, now Mrs. George Tooley; Elsie M., wife of Fred Spellman; Calvin E. Jr., who married Miss Nellie McNaughton and lives in Quindaro township, where he carries on the business of carpentering and blaeksmithing; Boyd L., who married Margaret Miller and lives on Eighteenth street, where he works as a grocery clerk and a butcher; Mabel, who is Mrs. Charles Painter. In 1892 Mrs. Kline died, at the age of thirty-three years, and she is buried beside her soldier boy in Quindaro cemetery. In 1893 Mr. Kline married Mrs. Myra N. Larish, widow of Wallace Larish, and sister to the first Mrs. Kline. Four children were born to this second union; James L. Preston (named after his maternal grandfather) is a carpenter living with his father; Chester Bryan is an apprentice in his father's shop and a graduate from the public schools; Virginia and Ruth are both students in the public school.

In the midst of his business and domestic life, Mr. Kline has taken time to attend to matters of public interest and his fellow citizens have shown their appreciation of his uprightness of character and keen mind by bestowing honors on him, honors which involved work, however. Mr. Kline was a member of the school board for one term, and was for four terms township clerk; he served two terms as township trustee and was for twelve years justice of the peace, during which period his decisions were remarkable for their fairness and leniency at the same time. He is affiliated with various fraternal orders, holding membership with the Improved Order of Red Men, and he has passed the chairs and represented his lodge in the Great Council at Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1910. He has held offices in the Pocahontas Society, and holds membership too with the Woodmen of the World, his direct affiliation being with the Kansas City, Kansas, chapter. He is also a member of the Masonic order and among the very oldest in Wyandotte county, having joined the old Delaware Lodge, No. 96, at White Church, Wyandotte county, in 1886, where he passed through the chairs and is Past Master of that lodge. He was instrumental in organizing Roger E. Sherman Lodge, No. 369, Quindaro, and became a charter member by his transfer from Delaware Lodge, in 1903. Thus does Mr. Kline interest himself in affairs that have a tendency to broaden him in intellect and in views, and there is no one in Quindaro township who stands higher in the estimation of its residents. (History of Wyandotte County, Kansas and It's People, by Perl W. Morgan, Vol. II, 1911, Pages 672-674)