History of Allen and Woodson counties, Kansas : embellished with portraits of well known people of these counties, with biographies of our representative citizens, cuts of public buildings and a map of each county . fense ofOhio and was one of the Morgan pursuers. Two of his brothers enlistedin the volunteer service and thus the cause of the Union was upheld andthe loyalty of the Merchants demonstrated. In politics, as in war, oursubject has been on the right side. His ancestors were Whigs and he casthis maiden vote for Gen. Taylor, and for Gen. Scott, the last two Whigcandidates for the presi
History of Allen and Woodson counties, Kansas : embellished with portraits of well known people of these counties, with biographies of our representative citizens, cuts of public buildings and a map of each county . fense ofOhio and was one of the Morgan pursuers. Two of his brothers enlistedin the volunteer service and thus the cause of the Union was upheld andthe loyalty of the Merchants demonstrated. In politics, as in war, oursubject has been on the right side. His ancestors were Whigs and he casthis maiden vote for Gen. Taylor, and for Gen. Scott, the last two Whigcandidates for the presidency. He was a Fremont man in 1856, a Lincolnman in 1860-4 and a supporter of Grant, Hayes, Blaine, Harrison andMcKinley. As for actively engaging in local political frays Mr. Merchantnever does. His moral attitude leads him to the support of municipalcandidates who .stand for principle instead of spoils. His whole life is onelong Christian example and moral lesson. He became a Christian in earlylife and has done much religious work in the home and in the pulpit. Heis a licensed preacher of the Methodist church and his talks are filled withearnestness and Christian zeal. Mr. and Mrs. Mecrhants children are:. £!^ hfSi^.m/^i,v„s3BmNir if- ^/^^^ WOODSON COUNTIES, KANSAS. I37 Eliza E., who married Bela Latham; Josephine, widow of Arthur Latham;Mary E. Merchant, and Nancy J., wife of William Moffit, of Folsom, New-Mexico. William Merchant is one of the strong characters of Allen distinguishing marks are his pronounced sincerity, his unstintedlionesty and his intense Christian simplicity. He is a man among menand a gentleman without taint or suspicion. LEVI LEE NORTHRUP.—The history of a community is largelymade up of the biography of a few^ individuals, and the history oflola and Allen county can never be written without including also therecord of L. L- Northrup, one of the pioneers of the county, and from thedate of his arrival until the day of his death one of th
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