A HISTORIC PICTURE [DAVID E. BALLARD, JOHN K. RANKIN, EDWIN C. MANNING, SAMUEL J. CRAWFORD, HORACE L. MOORE] Excerpted from "Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1911-1912", Edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary. Vol XII., State Printing Office, Topeka, Kansas 1912, pages 271-276. submitted by Teresa Lindquist (merope@radix.net); (copyright) 2001 by Teresa Lindquist ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KSGENWEB INTERNET GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In keeping with the KSGenWeb policy of providing free information on the Internet, this data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other gain. Copying of the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- THE SOLDIER IN KANSAS. A HISTORIC PICTURE. THIS picture is a remarkable human epitome of a half century of Kansas. All these men came to Kansas in territorial days and served in the Second Kansas cavalry regiment in 1861, and three of them were at Wilson's Creek, close to General Lyon when he fell. One became governor, one became congressman, and four served in the state legislature. All married and reared families; all acquired a competence by industry and economy; all attended the laying of the corner stone of the Historical and Memorial building, September 27, 1911, and this group was taken then. The central figure in the lower line is Ex-Gov. Samuel J. Crawford; on his left is Col. Horace L. Moore; on his right is Hon. Edwin C. Manning. In the upper line on the left is Hon. David E. Ballard; on the right Hon. John K. Rankin. These men still live in Kansas, and although ranging in age from seventy-three to seventy-seven, are still actively participating in private affairs and public life. All five are members of the Kansas State Historical Society. Moore and Manning are ex-presidents; Ballard and Crawford are vice presidents. They are wonderful contributors to Kansas history. They have known every phase of pioneer life. In all these years each has been clean, faithful and true in public as well as in private life. The entire list of ex-presidents of the Kansas State Historical Society has a most remarkable connection with the history of the state, all having been conspicuous in its historical and political development. The brief sketches following, of the men in this photograph, will show remarkable activity and usefulness on the part of each. The Kansas State Historical Society is very proud of such friends and promoters. Not in a hundred years to come will such a group be duplicated. It looks as though the Second Kansas cavalry had captured the State Historical Society in 1912. ----- DAVID ELLENWOOD BALLARD. The subject of this sketch was born in Franklin, Vt., March 20, 1836. He was carried in his mother's arms the next year to central Ohio, Sparta. Here he attended the public schools until 1848, when his people moved to Lansing, Mich., while Lansing was a city of trees and stumps. In 1850 the boy went down to Mount Gilead, Ohio, to clerk for his uncle, Wm. Henry Harrison, and a year later returned home to clerk for his father and go to school. His father's store burned down in 1852, without insurance, and he was a bankrupt. Then young Ballard had to leave school, and went out to central Iowa, Toledo, to sell goods for his uncle again, thereby helping support a family of ten brothers and sisters. By the way, there have been ten children in the Ballard family for five generations, and the subject of this sketch, not to be outdone, has accumulated the same number, all living but two. Early in the spring of 1857 Ballard heard the call to Kansas, the New York Tribune calling for voters to go to Kansas to vote it a free state, and he packed his belongings, including a Sharps rifle, and went, arriving in Lawrence April 23. He voted there in July for a new city charter. Afterwards he settled on a claim near Powhattan, Brown county, and taught school the winter of 1857 and 1858. In the spring of 1858 he got into the town-site business, and laid out Pacific City, in Nemaha county, and ran it for the county seat against Richmond and Seneca, but lost. He hiked out for Washington county, where the next year, 1859, he laid out the town of Washington, which became the county seat the following year. He was elected the first county clerk and the first register of deeds of that county. He had been elected, December 6, 1859, a member of the first state legislature from the third district, composed of Nemaha, Marshall and Washington counties, and served during the session, but after Sumter was shot at by rebels he was on the drill ground half the time, with about twenty-five other members, all of whom went into the army, learning the step and march of the soldier. He is of Puritan ancestry and Yankee born, with Revolutionary War ancestors on both sides of the house. His grandmother Ballard was of the Everett family of Boston, and his grandfather Ellenwood was a sea captain, and sailed from Halifax harbor and fought pirates in the Mediterranean. In November, 1861, Ballard recruited forty-one men in Marshall and Washington counties and took them to Fort Leavenworth at his own expense. There they were all mustered in, he as first lieutenant. They were assigned to the Second Kansas infantry, which was reorganizing, and the detachment afterward became company H, Second Kansas cavalry. Lieutenant Ballard was in all the engagements in which that historic regiment participated during the war, serving three years and three months, when he resigned to accept the appointment of quartermaster general of Kansas under Governor Crawford. He was married in Leavenworth city December 25, 1865, to Louise Bowen, of Brandon, Vt. In 1867 he moved to Manhattan and sold Kansas Pacific railroad lands, and in 1869 he moved onto his Little Blue farm in Washington county. In 1878 he was elected to the legislature again, and is the father of the penitentiary coal shaft, and now, at seventy-five years of age, is again a candidate for the nomination of representative, fifty-ninth district, Washington county. G. W. M. ----- SAMUEL JOHNSON CRAWFORD. Samuel Johnson Crawford was born in Lawrence county, Indiana, April 10, 1835. His parents were William Crawford and Jane Morrow Crawford, both born in North Carolina and emigrating to Indiana in 1815, five years after their marriage. The boy Samuel was educated in the common schools of Indiana, finishing his education at the law school of the Cincinnati College. Of Scotch descent, with Revolutionary War ancestors, he had plenty of war blood in his veins, as his brilliant military service in the Civil War proves. He came to Kansas in March, 1859, and settled at Garnett, in Anderson county, engaging in the practice of law. In December of the same year he was elected as a member of the first state legislature under the Wyandotte constitution, which had just been adopted. On March 26, 1861, this legislature convened at Topeka, and he became a lawmaker. After Sumter was fired upon, he, in May, obtained a leave of absence from the. house of representatives and returned to Garnett to recruit a company of infantry for military service in suppressing the rebellion. He was elected captain of the company, which entered the service as company E of the Second Kansas infantry, at the head of which regiment General Lyon fell at Wilson's Creek August 10, 1861. When the Second Kansas infantry was mustered out and its reorganization as a cavalry regiment began, Crawford was active in the work and was made captain of company A. October 22, 1862, at Maysville, Ark. (old Fort Wayne), Captain Crawford led a detachment, consisting of about 100 men on foot, in a charge upon a rebel battery which was supported by 3000 Confederates, capturing it and taking it off the field. Captain Crawford was the first man at the guns when they were captured. With this gallant act, done upon his own initiative, accompanied by Lieut. Horace L. Moore and Lieut. D. E. Ballard, his military fame was established. In all the engagements of the Second until October, 1863, he bore a conspicuous part. October 1 he was appointed colonel of the Eighty-third U. S. colored infantry, a newly raised and equipped regiment then at Fort Smith, Ark. Under his command this regiment did heroic service. In the fall of 1864, and while in the field with his regiment, he was nominated governor of Kansas, and returned to the state after his nomination in time to render efficient service as a staff officer in driving out Price and his army. He was elected governor on the 8th of November, just two weeks after the battle of Mine Creek, when Price was driven from the state. After serving four years as governor he was commissioned colonel of the Nineteenth Kansas cavalry, and took the field with the regiment to subdue the hostile Indians on the plains. In 1911 he contributed to the history of Kansas a book entitled "Kansas in the Sixties," which is the chronicle of a busy, eventful and patriotic life. E. C. M. ----- EDWIN CASSANDER MANNING. Edwin Cassander Manning was born at Redford, Clinton county, New York, November 7, 1838, and lived with his parents at Burlington, Vt., until 1852, when he came to Dubuque county, Iowa. In the spring of 1859 he came to Kansas, spending the summer in the gold diggings near Denver and in the fall settling at Marysville, Marshall county. Early in 1861 he was appointed postmaster at Marysville, resigning in November to enlist in the Second Kansas infantry, shortly to be reorganized into a cavalry regiment. In the fall of 1862 he was appointed first lieutenant in the Indian Home Guards and assigned to the command of company C. On account of ill health, be resigned in 1863 and returned to Marysville, where he purchased the newspaper named the Big Blue Union. In the fall of 1864 he was elected to the Kansas state senate from the district embracing Marshall, Washington and Riley counties. In 1866 he removed his printing office to Manhattan and established a paper there called the Kansas Radical. In 1867 he was elected mayor of Manhattan. He sold his paper to L. R. Elliott in 1868, and engaged in taking contracts for government supplies at frontier posts. In the fall of 1869 he took a claim on the Osage reservation, organizing the Winfield Town Company in January, 1870, and succeeded in organizing Cowley county and making his claim the county seat of the county in February of that year. His claim cabin was the only house on the original town site of Winfield. In November he was elected the first representative of Cowley county to the Kansas legislature. He published the Winfield Courier from 1875 to 1878, erected the block known at the time as Manning's Opera House and other business houses in 1876, 1877 and 1878, and in the fall of 1878 was again elected as a member of the Kansas legislature. From 1880 to 1882 he was engaged in mining and railroad work in New Mexico, and in 1882 went to Washington, D.C., and for twelve years was engaged in engineering work, mining in Virginia and railroad work in Virginia and Tennessee. In 1896 he returned to Winfield, where he now resides. He has been quite a contributor to the public prints, publishing his autobiography in 1911, and to the making of Kansas history. At the time this picture was taken, when the corner stone of the Kansas Historical Memorial Building was laid, September 27, 1911, he was the president of the Kansas State Historical Society. G. W. M. ----- HORACE LADD MOORE. Horace Ladd Moore was born at Mantua, Ohio, February 25, 1837, the son of Samuel Moore and Elizabeth Keyes Moore. He was educated at the Western Reserve Electric Institute, at Hiram, Ohio, James A. Garfield being a teacher in the institute at the time. Young Moore taught school in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and emigrated to Kansas in 1858, settling at Lawrence. There he read law in the office of Christian & Lane, but the Civil War coming on cut short his legal career. On May 14, 1861, he enlisted in company D, Second Kansas infantry, serving in all the engagcments of that regiment, among them the noted battle of Wilson's Creek. When the Second Kansas infantry was mustered out by reason of its expiring term of service he re-enlisted in the Second Kansas cavalry, and was made second lieutenant of company D, and on May 1, 1862, was promoted to first lieutenant. He was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Fourth Arkansas cavalry February 16, 1864, and commanded that regiment until it was mustered out, June 30, 1865. On September 16, 1864, he married Esther A. Harmon, and they have reared a family of two sons. In 1867, to check the depredations of Indians on the plains, the Eighteenth Kansas was enlisted and mustered into the United States service. Colonel Moore was given command of the battalion, with the rank of major. Indian hostilities increasing, Governor Crawford was authorized in the fall of 1868 to raise another Kansas regiment for frontier duty. The governor resigned his office to take command of this regiment, the Nineteenth Kansas cavalry, and, having been intimately associated with Major Moore in the Civil War, he prevailed upon him to accept the lieutenant colonelcy. Colonel Crawford resigned the command in February, 1869, Colonel Moore succeeding him. It was a memorable campaign for both officers and men. A graphic story of it was published in volume 10 of the Kansas Historical Collections. When his time of enlistment had expired Colonel Moore engaged in business in Las Vegas and Albuquerque. N. M., but in 1882 returned to Lawrence. He has been treasurer of Douglas county, and was a member of the Fifty-third Congress from the second district. At the present time he is vice president of the Lawrence National Bank. Such, briefly told, are the high points of a career of one of the "boys" in the picture. He has been a state builder, a history maker, and has filled full the measure of a patriotic American citizen. What better record can a man have? E. C. M. ----- JOHN KNOX RANKIN. John Knox Rankin was born in Cass county, Indiana, November 3, 1837, of Scotch-Irish parentage. His father, Rev. Robert Rankin, and three of his father's brothers were Presbyterian ministers. The Rev. Mr. Rankin died when John was three years of age, and his mother reared him, giving him an education in an antislavery school in Ohio, all his people being active antislavery workers. His great-grandfather, Capt. Thomas Rankin, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and took with him into that service four sons, one of whom, Richard, was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. On May 1, 1859, J. K. Rankin arrived in Lawrence, Kan., joining his brother who had come to Douglas county in 1857. Under Gen. James H. Lane young Rankin toured Douglas county on an electioneering tour in a "one-horse shay." He served as doorkeeper in the territorial council of 1859, and in 1860-'61 he was an enrolling clerk. He also served as journal clerk of the first state legislature, and was the first person to inform General Lane of his election as United States senator. When the Second Kansas infantry was organized, in June, 1861, Rankin was mustered as second lieutenant of company C, and served in all the engagements in which that regiment participated, including the famous battle of Wilson's Creek. When the regiment was mustered out and the Second Kansas cavalry was formed, in the fall of 1861, Rankin engaged in its reorganization, and was chosen second lieutenant of company H. In the spring of 1862 he was, with other officers and 156 men, assigned to the artillery service in a brigade under Gen. Robert B. Mitchell, with orders to join General Grant's army at Corinth, Miss. Later this battalion was mounted as cavalry, with Lieutenant Rankin in command, and used as a body guard to General Mitchell through North Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky. Shortly after participating in the battle of Perryville, the detachment was returned to the Second Kansas, Lieutenant Rankin remaining with General Mitchell as personal aide-de-camp. His staff duties brought him to Lawrence, Kan., in August, 1863, and on the 21st of that month Quantrill raided the town, murdering 160 men and boys. Lieutenant Rankin was one of the only two men who offered open resistance to the guerrillas, by engaging in a pistol duel in the street with six of the murderers. He later joined in pursuit of the raiders and engaged in the skirmish at the Fletcher farm. Here he was so overcome with emotion and rage at the failure of the attack on Quantrill and his gang that he wept with humiliation. The whole of that humiliating incident should be told by some one. Lieutenant Rankin served on General Mitchell's staff, taking part in all the campaigns of the army of the Cumberland until after the battle of Chickamauga. At the expiration of his term of enlistment, June, 1865, he was appointed by Governor Crawford as paymaster and inspector general of the Kansas militia, with the rank of colonel. This appointment he held during the two terms of Governor Crawford's administration, in the meantime making final payment of the border militia of Doniphan, Douglas and other counties. In 1865 he was elected to the legislature from Douglas county, and elected again in 1888. From 1867 to 1871 he was postmaster of Lawrence, and in 1875-'76 was mayor of that city. In 1890 he was appointed special allotting and disbursing agent in the Indian service, where he remained for nineteen years, during which time he made allotments to about 15,000 Indians in Arizona, New Mexico, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Quiet and unassuming in manner and appearance, he has a personal history of trials, dangers, responsibilities and achievements that have fallen to but few of the generation of heroes who are passing away. The North American Indian is a better judge of men than is his civilized brother. If, after dealing with thousands of them, different in tribe and country, one remains high in their regard, it is a better certificate of character than can be obtained from any other source, and this is the certificate John Knox Rankin has earned. More moral and physical heroism and bravery was never clothed in flesh. E. C. M.