his interest therein and bought 280 acres in Marion Township, section 21,
township 65, range 27. This farm was likewise started by settler Rey-
burn, an Illinois man, but Mr. Leazenby purchased it of the Hall estate.
In this locality Mr. Leazenby lived continuously for sixteen years, and
when he left it it was a well-ordered place. Mr. Leazenby made deals
and changes in land, disposing of some and buying other during the time,
and still owns 240 acres there. He also erected barns, built fences and
cross-fenced it, and made numerous other intelligent improvements, and
left it as one of the handsome and valuable country places of that com-
munity.
From the Marion Township farm, Mr. Leazenby came to his father's
old home, which he purchased, within a mile of Ridgeway. It contains
eighty-one acres and he has restored it to a splendid state of cultivation
and substantial improvement. Here he provided a separate home for his
mother and cared for her during her last years, she dying March 6, 1912.
Here he is continuing his general farming in addition to carrying on
the other farm. In a modest way he has been growing Short Horn cattle
and his Norman horses have scattered themselves, through his sire, about
over a wide territory adjacent to Ridgeway. His exhibits of stock for
prizes have occurred at local fairs and stock shows and he also holds
annual farm sales to dispose of his surplus stock, which have become
quite a yearly event and are largely attended.
Mr. Leazenby is a Methodist, He was converted at the age of twenty
years and is a trustee of the Ridgeway Methodist Church, and has ever
given his strength to the work of the Sabbath school, which he has led
in the capacity of superintendent and class leader. He was born a repub-
lican, and while on several occasions he has scratched his ticket it has
been in the interest of good men for local offices always. He has been
a justice of the peace in both Marion and Grant townships, serving eleven
years in that capacity, and entered thus officially into the regulation of
public morals. Mr. Leazenby is one of the stockholders of the Harrison
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County Fair Association of Ridgeway, and for twenty years has been a
Master Mason.
Mr. Leazenby was married in February, 1879, his first wife being
Sallie Keys, a daughter of Thomas Keys and Elizabeth (Beatty) Keys.
They were farming people of Ohio and early settlers of Pickaway County,
that state. Their children were as follows: Mrs. Leazenby; Jane, who
died single; Amanda, who married Albert Miller, of Columbus, Ohio;
and Ida, who married Mr. Smith and resides near that city. Mrs. Leazen-
by passed away as a resident of Marion Township, having been the
mother of the following children : Lizzie, who became the wife of Ed
Girdner, and resides in the vicinity of Cainesville, Missouri ; Ethel, who
became the wife of William Norwood, and resides at Ridgeway ; Minnie,
who became the wife of Mack Burgin, is a resident of Marysville, Mis-
souri ; Wilda, who became the wife of Herman Wasso, and is also a resi-
dent of Ridgeway ; and Miss Laura, who is a student of the normal school
at Marysville, Missouri.
Mr. Leazenby was married the second time, August 26, 1900, to Miss
Mary Harrison, a daughter of Henry and Catharine J. (M;lligan) Harri-
son, who came to the State of Missouri in December, 1871, from their
native East Tennessee and were farmers in Harrison County. Two
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Leazenby, Truman and Ray.
The boys are being educated in Ridgeway High School. Mr. Leazenby
has educated his daughters liberally, graduating them from the Ridge-
way High School and preparing them for effective spheres of usefulness
in church and society where they live.
Grove E. Kelso. A newspaper which has had a fine and vitalizing
influence in its community is the Hardin News in Ray County. Its editor
and proprietor, Grove E. Kelso, is a newspaper man with ten years) of
successful experience, was for a number of years identified with educa-
tional affairs in Chariton County, and is one of the prominent citizens of
his section of the state.
A native of Chariton County, Grove E. Kelso was born near Mussell-
fork, December 8, 1868. His father, Samuel S. Kelso, who is now living
retired and one of the venerable citizens of Chariton County, was born
in Richland County, Ohio, October 8, 1841. The mother's maiden name
was Luella Frayer, who was born in Huron County, Ohio, August 15,
1848, and died January 2, 1907. They were the parents of nine children,
and there are seven now living, in widely diverse portions of the country,
who are named as follows: Grove E. ; Mary, wife of William G. Pfeiffer,
of Hugo, Colorado; Olive A., wife of Cornelius DeWese of Huntsville,
Missouri; L. E. A. of Madison, Wisconsin; Warner E. of Missouri; Miss
Meryl, of Hugo, Colorado; and Isaac E., of Quincy, Illinois.
Samuel S.' Kelso, the father, grew up on an Ohio farm, attended the
public schools and was educated perhaps more liberally than the average
boy of his time. His career was identified with his home locality until
the outbreak of the war. His record as a Union soldier was one of ex-
ceptional experiences, hardship and length. He assisted in raising a
company and enlisted in Battery D of the First Ohio Artillery. During
a campaign in Kentucky he was captured, but was soon paroled and
returned to his command. Later after the fall of Atlanta he was one
of fourteen men who were captured on the morning that Sherman started
his march to the sea. Then followed thirteen months of imprisonment
and the endurance of almost unspeakable conditions at Libby and Ander-
sonville, and when he was released in August, 1865, he was the only one
of the fourteen prisoners captured with him who survived the terrible
hardships and exposures of those notorious prisons. When he was re-
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leased he was naked and too weak to walk. Returning to Ohio, he soon
left that state and came west and located in Chariton County, Missouri.
Having made some money and unsatisfied with his experience in this
state, he then went back to Ohio, was married on December 26, 1867,
and, brought his bride to Chariton County, where he bought land and
engaged in the substantial business of agriculture. Subsequently he was
identified with merchandising at Mussellfork, and for several years held
the office of postmaster there. He is now living retired and enjoying
•^he fruits of a long and well-spent career.
Grove E. Kelso, the first child of his parents, and born soon after
the establishment of the home in Chariton County, grew up in his native
locality, attended the country district schools, and early became ambitious
for an education and for a larger life than could be found on a farm.
At the age of sixteen he left home, and spent one year in attendance at
the Stanberry Normal School, and then found work as a teacher and as
a farm laborer. With the means thus acquired he paid his way for two
years in Central College at Fayette, leaving there in June, 1893. Then
followed a period of work on the farm, and beginning with July, 1894,
he entered upon a long and successful experience as an educator, being
identified with school work for eleven years in Ray County, and much
of the time at Hardin with one year in Rayville.
Finally Mr. Kelso's energies were directed from education to journal-
ism, and on January 2, 1904, he bought the Hardin News from Walter
L. Bales. Since then he has given all his time to the publication of one
of the livest papers of Ray County. Mr. Kelso as a result of his own
experience and his broad outlook on life is in a position to afford a fine
influence on local opinion through the columns of his paper, and main-
tains a journal which not only publishes the news but exercises a high
standard of civic and public morality. Politically his paper maintains a
neutral position, though personally Mr. Kelso is republican. He has an
active part in the improvement of commercial and civic conditions in
his home town, and is a member of the trade extension committee of the
Hardin Commercial Club, a director of the Hardin Building & Loan
Company, and besides his newspaper he has the agency for several fire
insurance companies and writes a large amount of business in and
around Hardin.
Mr. Kelso has fraternal affiliations with the Masonic order, the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America,
and belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church South. On August 14,
1901, he married Mrs. Pernie Swinney, a widow, who died August 10,
1904. By her first marriage she had one son, Oliver K. Swinney, who
now has his home in Ray County. On August 1, 1907, Mr. Kelso mar-
ried for his present wife Miss Ida Kellenberger, who was born in Ray
County, a daughter of George W. and Bertha (Hileman) Kellenberger.
Her parents were both natives of Germany and now live at Hardin.
Mr. Kelso and wife have one child, Bertha Luella, who was born Novem-
ber 27, 1909.
Willis G. Hine. Senior member of the law firm of Hine, Cross &
Wells and vice president of the Wells-Hine Trust Company at Savannah,
Willis G. Hine has had a long and successful career, beginning in the
restricted sphere of farmer, student, teacher, and for more than twenty
years as a lawyer of increasing distinction and business duties and civic
responsibilities. Mr. Hine has a secure place in professional and business
circles in Andrew County, and has done much for' their advancement.
Willis G. Hine was born at Garden Grove, in Decatur County, Iowa,
April 8, 1861, a son of Hiram and Evaline (Bradley) Hine. On both
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sides Mr. Hine comes of old and distinguished American citizenship. He
holds membership, by right of ancestry, in the Missouri Chapter of the
Sons of the American Revolution, and there were soldiers on both the
paternal and maternal side in that war. His mother was born in Wood-
ford County, Kentucky, May 6, 1840, a daughter of William Bradley,
who in turn was a son of John Bradley, who was born in North Carolina
in 1780, and emigrated with his father to Kentucky about 1784. Ken-
tucky was then a wilderness and the Bradleys were pioneers in the
' ' dark and bloody ground ' ' and assisted in wresting that fair state from
the dominion of the wilderness and the Indians. The founders of the
Bradley family were John and William, brothers, who emigrated from
England in 1740 and located in Yadkin County, North Carolina. Sen-
ator Bradley of Kentucky, one of the most prominent figures in Ameri-
can public life for a number of years, was a cousin of Mr. Hine 's maternal
grandfather. Three of Mr. Hine 's ancestors served on the American side
during the War of the Revolution — Colonel AVebb of Maryland, Ebenezer
Hine of Connecticut, and William Bradley, just mentioned. (Although
William Bradley never enlisted, he was, however, at the battle of King's
Mountain and served with Colonel Sumter.) William T. Bradley, the
maternal grandfather, after his marriage brought his family out of Ken-
tucky to Illinois in 1842, went to Iowa in 1843, when that state was
still a territory, and in the following year entered Government land in
Marion County, lived there until 1853, and then transferred his residence
to Decatur County, Iowa, where he lived until death. Hiram Hine,
father of the Savannah lawyer and banker, was born at Milford, Con-
necticut, in 1840, and in the same year his parents went to Iowa, where
they were likewise among the pioneers. His death occurred in 1880 at
Garden Grove, and his wife passed away in 1886 at Fillmore, Missouri.
His father was a farmer in early life, and later a merchant and brick
manufacturer. In the family were three sons and three daughters who
reached maturity, and three are now living. Willis G. is the oldest ;
Florence is the widow of Franz S. Cole, of Rea, Missouri ; and Harry
E. lives in Seattle, Washington.
Willis G. Hine spent the first twenty years of his life in Decatur
County, Iowa, and starting life with the inheritance of good qualities
from his parents, has had to fashion his career largely through his own
efforts. He was graduated from the Garden Grove High School in 1876,
attended the Shenandoah Normal School of Iowa, and was in the State
University for one year until the death of his father called him home.
His first efforts in earning a living were as a teacher, and for two years
he was principal of the schools at Humeston, Iowa, and for five years
was principal of the schools at Fillmore, Missouri. During his residence
at Fillmore Mr. Hine was admitted to the bar in 1887, and in 1888 was
elected county surveyor of Andrew County, the duties of which office
kept him employed about two years. Since 1891 Mr. Hine has been estab-
lished as one of the lawyers at the county seat of Savannah. In asso-
ciation with William B. Allen he organized the Allen & Hine Land and
Loan Company, which subsequently became the Hine Land & Loan
Company, and this business in 1914 was merged with the State Bank of
Savannah and incorporated as the Wells-Hine Trust Company, of which
Mr. Hine is vice president. As a lawyer he practiced alone until 1908,
except a year or two with Judge James M. Rea, and in that year formed
a partnership with Kipp D. Cross under the name of Hine & Cross, and
on September 1, 1914, Walter B. Wells was admitted, making the firm
style Hine, Cross & Wells. For several years Mr. Hine was vice president
of the First National Bank of Savannah, and though he still retains his
stock, resigned the office on September 1, 1914. For twenty-three years
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in addition to his law practice he has been engaged in the land, loan and
abstract business.
Mr. Hine has been identified with the republican party since casting
his first vote, has served as mayor of Savannah, and was on the school
board twelve years. Since his nineteenth year his membership has been
with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, enjoys associations with both the Chapter
and Consistory branches of Masonry, was past chancellor of the Knights
of Pythias during his residence in Iowa, and belongs to the Elks Club
in St. Joseph.
On August 15, 1887, Mr. Hine married Mary Gregory, who was born
at Fillmore, Missouri, a daughter of Rufus K. and Masy (Crawford)
Gregory. Her parents were married in Kentucky about 1847, came to
Missouri in 1854, and spent the rest of their lives in this state. Mr.
Hine and wife have three children : Raphael G., who was educated in
the University of Missouri, now has charge of the insurance department
of the W T ells-Hine Trust Company; Marjorie E., graduated B. A. from
the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, in the class of 1913,
receiving the Phi Beta Kappa degree ; Ruth is still in the Savannah High
School.
Walter T. Lingle. At different places in Northwest Missouri the
name Lingle has for many years had familiar associations, especially with
the grain and milling business. For the past ten years Bethany has been
the center of operations, where the late Elmore Lingle located in 1904,
after returning from Salt Lake City, and where he leased the Bethany
mill and operated it as the Bethany Mill and Elevator Company until his
death in 1911. The business has since been conducted by his son, Walter
T. Lingle, who is one of the stirring young business men of Bethany.
Elmore Lingle was born in Wauseon, Ohio, in 1842, the son of a
farmer who spent his active life there, and was of German stock. Elmore
was the third in a family of children, and one of his brothers is 0. B.
Lingle, long a prominent business man of Cameron, Missouri. Elmore
Lingle had a limited education so far as books and schools were con-
cerned, but was a thoroughly competent man of affairs. During the war,
when a young man, he entered the volunteer service in an Ohio regiment,
was in the Atlanta campaign and then with Sherman on the march to
the sea. He served as a private and the only serious injury he sustained
was a sunstroke. He was a pensioner in later years, and always an inter-
ested participant in Grand Army circles. While a stanch republican, he
was never a practical politician. During his residence in Pattonsburg
he was active in the Odd Fellows order, and his church was the Congre-
gational. After leaving the army Elmore Lingle came out to Missouri
and joined a number of Ohio people in Cameron, where he found em-
ployment in a flour mill conducted by Mr. Cline, a veteran miller. Avhose
enterprise has since been continued by his son and grandsons and is now
one of the oldest mills under one continuous! ownership in that section
of the state. Mr. Lingle eventually became associated with the Cline
brothers, and many of the older residents remember the flour manufac-
tured by the firm of Cline and Lingle. On leaving Cameron Mr. Lingle
located at Concordia, Kansas, where with one of his former associates he
bought a mill and continued its operation for seven years. Selling out,
he moved further west, to Salt Lake City,, and there bought the plant
of the Salt Lake Mill and Elevator, which was operated under his owner-
ship five years. During that time he won the medal for the best flour
on exhibition at the Utah state fair in 1899. After selling this mill Mr.
Lingle returned to Missouri and took up business at Bethany. At Came-
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ron Mr. Lingle married Miss Mary C. Cline, who was born in Williams-
port, Pennsylvania, in 1850, a daughter of the pioneer miller in Came-
ron, who was of Pennsylvania German stock.
Walter T. Lingle, the only son and child of his parents, was born at
Cameron, Missouri, June 13, 1877, and learned the milling business under
the eye of his father, and is a thoroughly practical man in all its details.
He attended the public schools of Cameron and made his education count
toward a practical training for business. He was a student in the Mis-
souri Wesleyan College at Cameron, and while there helped to dig out
the trees for the athletic grounds. He also attended the Wesleyan School
at Salina, Kansas. He was with his father in all the changes of busi-
ness and locations, and became manager of the Bethany mill when his
father died. He is also interested in the grain and feed business, owns
a fourth interest in the Schmid Drug Company of Bethany, and a half
interest in tbfi elp.vator at Garden Grove, Iowa.
Mr. Lingle was married at Bethany in October, 1904, to Miss Emma
Jennings, a daughter of John and Mary Jennings, who came to Missouri
from Virginia, and spent their last days in Bethany. Besides Mrs.
Lingle the Jennings children were Verne, Oma, Lillie and Jacob. Mrs.
Lingle was born in Harrison County, Missouri, December 16, 1880. To
their marriage have been born two children, Bedonna and Elmore. Mr.
Lingle is a member of Lodge No. 204, Knights of Pythias. His wife is
a member of the Presbyterian Church.
Harvey Nally, M. D. A resident of Cainesville for a period of
twenty-eight years, Dr. Harvey Nally has been one of the most important
factors in the development of this thriving community of Northwest
Missouri. While he has won distinguished eminence in the ranks of the
medical profession, his activities have by no means been confined to his
labors therein, for in the fields of finance and business, in the promotion
of education and good citizenship and in the encouragement and support
of movements which have contributed to the city's prestige in various
ways, he has taken a most active and prominent part, and at all times
his name has been synonymous with the maintenance of high principles
and ideals.
Doctor Nally was born in November, 1854, on a farm in Jackson
County, Ohio, a member of a family which originated in England. His
father, William Nally, was born in Westmoreland, Virginia, and when
eleven years of age accompanied his parents to Jackson County, Ohio,
where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. In the fall of 1865 he came
to Missouri and settled temporarily four miles north of Chillicothe, Liv-
ingston County, but in 1869 moved to Harrison County and settled seven
miles southeast of Bethany. There he died December 31, 1888, at the
age of eighty-two years. He was a republican in politics, but had no
political aspirations, nor did he have a military record. He married in
Jackson County, Ohio, Miss Patsy Gillespie, who died at the old home-
stead, and their children were as follows: Mrs. Lucinda Barlow, of
Bethany, Missouri ; Mrs. Sarah Gibbons, of Chillicothe, Missouri ; Susie,
who is the wife of Edward Poor, of Jackson County, Ohio; W. J., of
Saint Louis; W. S., a resident of Southwest Kansas; Moses, who died in
Harrison County, Missouri, at the age of thirty-one years, leaving a
family; 0. H., of Blue Ridge, Harrison County; Dr. Harvey, of this
review ; and Frank H., who died in 1914, in Harrison County, leaving a
family.
Harvey Nally was eleven years of age when he accompanied his par-
ents to Missouri, and his education was largely secured in the public
schools here. Having chosen medicine as a profession, at the age of
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nineteen years he went to the university and entered the medical depart-
ment, which was then located at Columbia, and graduated with the class
of 1876. On January 1, 1877, he came to Cainesville, applied himself
faithfully to his practice, and has continued to do so to the present time.
He is a member of the Harrison County Medical Society, the Missouri
State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and is
local surgeon of the Burlington Railway, as well as city physician and
health officer of Cainesville.
In the business affairs of Cainesville, Doctor Nally has taken a promi-
nent part. He was one of the organizers of the Cainesville Bank, in
1883, and save a year or two has been a director during all these years,
having seen the institution grow from a capital of $13,000, to one of
$20,000, then to $30,000, and finally, in 1911, to $50,000. Its surplus is
$12,000. and its officers are J. H. Burrows, president; G. R. Wilson, vice-
president; H. T. Rogers, cashier, and Dr. Harvey Nally and T. O. Wick-
ersham, assistant cashiers, the official board being composed of J. H.
Burrows, S. N. Glaze, M. F. Oxford, G. R. Wilson, C. H. Woodward,
H. T. Rogers and Harvey Nally. The stockholders are scattered' about
over Harrison and Mercer counties and a few shares are held in Des
Moines, Iowa. When the Cainesville Bank opened its doors for busi-
ness, Mr. C. B. Woodward was cashier and bookkeeper and did all of
the work of the bank for years, filling these positions until his death
twenty years later. The first bank occupied an old frame building where
the present new edifice stands, the latter being erected in 1897, and now
a force of three in the institution is required to do the work, while an-
other bank in Cainesville, with a capital of $25,000, requires the work of
two. In 1913 the whole bank inside was refitted and furnished in marble,
giving it a metropolitan appearance.
Doctor Nally was identified with the drug business at Cainesville for
twenty-five years as a partner of I. B. Woodward. He was also engaged
in the dry goods business here as one of the firm of the Shaw-Nally Dry
Goods Company, and in addition has been interested in the promotion
of enterprises which promised something for the town, but which have
since gone out of existence. Among the latter were the Enterprise Manu-
facturing Company and the handle factory. He was one of the factors
in securing the right-of-way for the Narrow-Gauge Railway here, and
in company with J. H. Burrows brought the first railroad surveyor to
Cainesville to look over the route. As they came down from Iowa the
three mapped out in a general way the route of the new road, which was
built, but later went into the hands of a receiver and was sold to the
Keokuk & Western, which made a standard road of it and finally sold it
to the Burlington System.
Doctor Nally is a republican, having been brought up in that political
faith. He has served as a school director here for twenty-seven years,
and has seen the Cainesville system grow from a little frame building
with two teachers to a high school of the first class, this being affiliated
with the state educational institutions, while the equipment compares
favorably with that of any school in this part of the state. He is a
member of the Baptist Church, is a Master Mason, and also holds member-