TREGO   COUNTY
 

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Governor of Ohio, and tho firnt (iovernor of the Territory of Iowa. His father was a furmer,
and Joseph remained at home until he was twenty-three years old, attendin;: thc public
schoolH until he wat? well advanefd toward hin majority, after which all hi-^ time was de¬
voted to farm work. In 1858 li'' started out for himnelf, ^oint; to Madison County, 111 ,
where he engaged in fnrmnit;. While thus engaged the war Iiroke out, and he enlisted for
three months in Company F, Seventh Illinois Infantry. At the end of hin term of servire
hi- re-enlisted for three j^e^rn in Company G. Forty-ninth Illinois Infantry. His three-
years' term of service expiring, he again re-enlisted, and served until September, 18ti5, when
he was mustered out with his regiment at Paducah, Ky., after having served four yearn and
six months. He was present at, and took part in, the following engagements: Fort Don¬
elson, Shiloh, Corinth, Little Rock; was with the force that accompanied Oen. Sherman in
his expedition into Alabaraa; alao with Gen. Banks in hiw Red Rivt^r expedition. He was
engaged in the att^,ck on Fort Darouche, the battles of Pleasant Ilill, Tallahatchie, Franklin,
Nashville, and several severe skirmishes. Upon his first re-enlistment he was appointed
Third Sergeant; February 1, lrt65, he was promoted to Orderly Sergeant; April '^0, of the
same year hc was commiseiond as Second Lieutenant, and in August, 1865, was appointed
acting Adjutant of the regiraent, which position he held when mustered out. Leaving the
army he returned to Jersey County, III., where he resumed farming, and in IHOm moved to
Kansas, settling in Jeflferson County, locating on a quarter-section of land he purchased of
the railroad company. In 1877 he moved to Lawrence, Kan., where he became engaged in
the hardware and implement business, in which he remained until April, IHTH, when he
sold out llis business and became traveling agent for the McCormick Reaper Company. In
December, 1879. he raoved to Wakeeney. Trego County, where he i;^ now engaged in the
furniture business, and also that of boots and shoes. In October, 18H1. he was appointed
Sheriff of Trego County, to fill an unexpired term, and is now holding the position of Under
Sheriff. In Jersey County, 111., June 30,18G4, while at home ona veteran furlough, he was
married to MissCatherine Aulthouse,the issue of this marriage being (ieorgiana, born Julv 6,
18U6, and died August 10, 1867; Elmer E., born May 19, 1868; William P., the survivoi' of
twins born Februarys, 1870; Mary Alice, born January 3,1872; Rosa, born February 1, \H7i'>.
and died January 26, 1880; Albert ]VI., born August ::3-3,1877. and Ethel May, born April 18,1881.
OEORGE PINKHAM. Couuty Clerk, farmer,and proprietor of whiting works, washorn
in the city of Detroit, Mich., April 3, 1846 While yet a child, his parents moved to Port
Huron, where George passed his boyhood days, and grew to that age in life that marks
the dividing line between boyhood and manhood. His father, George W. Pinkham, was a
merchant, and the time George had to spare from school was given to the assislance of his
father in business. His early education was received in the puljlic schools of Port Huron,
leaving which he attended the Ypsilanti Seminary forseveral terms. Leaving the seminary
in 1864, he went to Oconto, Wis., where he taught four terms. In December, 1865, he moved
to Kansas, and located at Fort Hays, in Ellis County, where he was engaged as clerk in the
commissariat department at thc fort, and where he remained until the winter of 1866, when he
removed to Fort Dodge, where he was similarly employed until the summer of 1867, when he
joined a company in the United States service known as Forsyth's Scouts, Was enga;;rd in
several severe engagements with the Indians in Kansas.and accompanied Generals Sliendan
and Custer in their expedition against the Indians iu the Indian Territory in 18118 Iu the
spring of 1869 the company was disbanded, and for the foUowing.iive year?^ the busines>i he
followed was quite diversified, doing whatever he found most convenient for his hands to
do. In 1874 he was employed by the Kansas Pacific Railway Company as a painter, and
had charge of the painting work on the Smoky Hill division of the road. He remained in
the employ of the company until 187r, and while thus employed he discovered a chalk bed
in Tre^o County, and shortly afterwards quit the employ of the company and took a home¬
stead claim and located thereon, the chalk bed being embraced in the land upon which he
filed his homestead claim, and which he immediately be^an to utilize by erecting whiting
works, which he is now operating quite successfully. Mr. Pinkham was the first County
Clerkof Trego County, having been appointed by the Governor in June, 1879, when th«
county was first organized, to which office he was afterwards elected at the special election
held in July. From January, 1880, until January, 1882, his entire time was devoted to the
manufacture of whiting; but having been again elected, in November, 1881, to the office of
 

(,!ounty Clerk, he entered upon the duties of the ntllce in Januarv, issj, and is now serving
in that capacitv. On Der,-Tiil>er. 29. 1S77. Mr. Pinkham wa- marriid ni the nty of St. Louia.
bv lit'v. Dr P.etls. to Mis- Matilda Upton, a native of New York si.-iie. Tliey ha\e three
t liildren- Minnie Maud, liorn Sei)tember IM, isi'.i. CharU- F., born F'-l)rnary 24. Ii^l. and
Bessie Mav, bnrn Ma\- 4. lHs-3.

(;K()R(;E tipple STOXEX, County Trea-urer and farmer. The parent-of Geor-'e T.
Stonex were William and Kli/abeth Stones, both natives of England. Oeorge T. \\a- born
in tlie cilv of London, Eng., Sept.mb.-r. 2fi. is-,'i.i He -"ame with his parent- to the United
States in March, 1 Kin. and located in Westeluster, ('hester Cmnty. Pa., where they remaiued
until lH:i;i when they removed to Lanca-^ter Counts In the ^.priiig of 1H;^5 the family moved
to Deartinrn County, Ind., wln-re they lived about nineteen year^. George T. received his
education in the common school- of "London and Penns\]vania. In July. Isiil he enlisted
in the Thirtv-sixth Re;_'Mnent. Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was elected to rlu- rank of
First Lientenant of Company F in said regiment. He s.rved all through the Mi^-ouri and
Arkansas campaigns under (ieiierals SieL'cl and Curtis until after the battle itf IVa KldL,'e.
whenhe went with his regiment to Mii loh He iiarlieipated in thesieL.'e of Corintli. after tlw-
c:ipture of which, on account of his family,he re^ignell and re'urneri home. Snbsequentlv
he was appointed Deputy Provoyt-Marshal, and wa-a-.gigned to duty in the -ei ret ser\ ice
of the Government, his field of service lieing < lin-ily in Illinois, remaining in tlii> service
until finally discharged at the close of thc war. liehirning to civil life, he engaged in the
mereantile business in Mendota. III., where he remained for two years, when he sold out
and removed to Dwight, where he established him-elf in the hardware bnsiness, where he
remained for severalvears, until failing health eorniielled him to seek mlier pursuits, and
disiHising of his business he en^ag<-d in farming, on May IH. ]s^-l. he ua- married to Mis-
Kate B Peterson in Franklin ('ountv, Ind, but no i-sue followed the maiTiage. Mr. and
Mrs Stonex. however, have had quite a large faTinly of childreu by adoption, raising three
to manhood and womanhood, and four others for a number of year-. One of their adopted
sons was captured at Cedar Mountain and dual in camp. In September. ls;s. Mr. Stonex
moved from Douglas County. III., to Kansas, and located in the eastern jiart of Trego
Connty.and in November, IkV'i. waselectedTreasurerof thecounty. and two year^- after¬
wards was re-elected to the same oftice. and is now serving on hi- hecoud term; and in ad¬
dition to his other duties and busim ss, he lia< given much of his time to the -service of the
church, having been a minister in the Mithndist Episcopal Church for twenty-two ycur.-*.
and with which lie is still connected.

WINFIELD STILTON, proprietor of the Wakeeney JPnrW. was born of poor bul
respectable parents in Effingham County, 111. May 27, 1848. His father, Elijah Tiiton, was a
physician, horn in Ohio in IK2J: his mother was a school teacher, who was born in theSlntc
of New York. His parents moved to Fa\ette County,III., when hewas two yearsof age. In
iHdo, his parents moved to Minnes(pta,wli'ere lie farmed unilei his faflu-r's direction and went
to school. In 1862 his parents moved to Central loua. In 1H63 he enlisted in Cfunpany II.
Ninth Iowa Cavalry, and served twenty-seven month<. until the mustering out of the regi¬
ment. Hereturned to Des .Moines, Iowa, where he attended .sctiool in IHbii. then Ijiugnl
school awhile He received a commission as Lieutenant of Company L, Nineteenth Kansas
Cavalry, in the fall of ISilS, aud served with the n-giment in the Indian Territory and West¬
ern Kansas until its muster out in the follou hilt spring. Hi'was marned the following
December tn Mis- Annie M. Wilcox, of Miami (.'ounty, Kan., who died in 1873. They have
had two children. In Ihti he worked as a compositor ou the La Cyu'iie, Kan.. Journal. He
then went to Mound City, in the same county, and the same year.and for eighteen months
worked as compositor, associate editor and editor on the Border Sent'uieL In 1874 he was
traveling agent, correspondent and city editor of the Leavenworth Daily Thne.^. Thc
same year he went to Sedalia, Mo.; worked as a compositor, and for a time conducted the
Daily Republican. In 1875 he was one of two to -tart the Stone County Boald'^}. at (iaiena,
Mo.; then wentto Carroll Countv. Ark., where he ran the Carroll Comity Boirhi-r. at Car¬
rollton. In 1877 was married toMis- Jessie McClure. of Carroll County. Ark., by whom he
has three children. In March, 1H71I. he started the Wakeeney Weekly IVoild. which he has
conducted ever since. In l^Hi) wus apiiointeil Paymaster-General of Kan-^as militia, with
the rank of Colonel, by Gov. St. John.