Samuel Little (M)
(1818 - b 1877), #294989
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     Samuel Little was born in 1818. He was the son of Benjamin Jackson Little and Sarah Wisner. Samuel Little died b 1877.

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Sarah Ann Little (F)
(c 1845 - ), #384916
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     Sarah Ann Little was born c 1845 at Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Peter C. Little and Miriam Little.

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Sarah E. Little (F)
(c 1843 - ), #301089
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     Sarah E. Little was born c 1843 at Ohio. She was the daughter of Tobias Polhemus Little and Elizabeth Horn.

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Sarah Jane Little (F)
(28. Aug. 1852 - Aug. 1899), #294720
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     Sarah Jane Little was born on 28. Aug. 1852. She was the daughter of John Polhemus Little and Martha Hallock Edkin. Sarah Jane Little married Samuel Sprout. Sarah Jane Little died in Aug. 1899.

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Sarah M. Little (F)
(c 1903 - ), #384868
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     Sarah M. Little married Joseph Brandt. Sarah M. Little was born c 1903 at Oklahoma. She was the daughter of William Thomas Little and Maude Jensen Heileman.

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Sarah R. Little (F)
(3. Mar. 1838 - 14. May. 1885), #294823
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     Sarah R. Little was also known as Sarah Ann Little. Sarah R. Little was born on 3. Mar. 1838. She was the daughter of Peter C. Little and Miriam Little. Sarah R. Little married William Molyneaux. Sarah R. Little died on 14. May. 1885 at age 47.

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Sarah Rebecca Little (F)
(c 1853 - ), #294774
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     Sarah Rebecca Little was born c 1853 at Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Thomas Laird Little and Anna M. Pennington. Sarah Rebecca Little married William Robbins.

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Sarah Little (F)
(4. Oct. 1877 - 29. Nov. 1880), #293837
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     Sarah Little was born on 4. Oct. 1877. She was the daughter of Allen Little and Rachel Vargason. Sarah Little died on 29. Nov. 1880 at age 3.

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Sarah Little (F)
(10. Mar. 1837 - 28. Jun. 1892), #293864
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     Sarah Little was born on 10. Mar. 1837. She was the daughter of Henry Little and Ann Hunt. Sarah Little married Edwin Corpe. Sarah Little died on 28. Jun. 1892 at age 55.

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Sarah Little (F)
#369525

     Sarah Little married Garret Lare.

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Sedgwick Christopher Little (M)
#403765

     Sedgwick Christopher Little married Ida May Burd, daughter of David Milton Burd and Catherine C. Melick.

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Sherrerd J. Little (M)
(20. Mar. 1855 - 23. Sep. 1888), #402322
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     Sherrerd J. Little was born on 20. Mar. 1855 at New Jersey. He was the son of John Sherrerd Little and Elizabeth Finley Van Doren. Sherrerd J. Little resided at at Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. He died on 23. Sep. 1888 at age 33.

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Teresa Little (F)
#352389

     Teresa Little married John Allen Roberts, son of John Henry Roberts.

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Thelma Jean Little (F)
#294411
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     Thelma Jean Little was the daughter of Leroy Little and Elsie Bloom.

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Theodore Wells Little (M)
(27. Mar. 1832 - 16. Dec. 1912), #294885
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     Theodore Wells Little was born on 27. Mar. 1832 at Pennsylvania. He was the son of James Seabrook Little and Elizabeth Little. Theodore Wells Little married Catherine Corson. Theodore Wells Little was shown in the census on 18. Jun. 1860 as a lumberman.
Theodore Wells Little and Catherine Corson appeared on the census of 18. Jun. 1860 at next to his father, Shrewsbury Twp., Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; personal property 125.00. Theodore Wells Little was shown in the census on 1. Jun. 1900 as a cabinet maker.
Theodore Wells Little appeared on the census of 1. Jun. 1900 at with his sister Jerusha, Picture Rocks, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. He died on 16. Dec. 1912 at age 80.

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Theola C. Little (F)
(c 1870 - 1887), #294909
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     Theola C. Little was born c 1870 at Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Charles L. Little and Mary Ann McClintock. Theola C. Little died in 1887.

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Theophilus Little (M)
(22. Mar. 1807 - a 22. Mar. 1807), #293861
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     Theophilus Little was born on 22. Mar. 1807. He died young a 22. Mar. 1807. He was the son of Tobias Little and Content Allen.

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Theophilus Little (M)
(23. May. 1830 - ), #294857
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     Theophilus Little was born on 23. May. 1830 at in the brick house built by his grandfather. He was the son of Theophilus Little 3rd. and Eunice Weeks. Theophilus Little married Sarah Elliott Taylor, daughter of General Jonathan Taylor, in 1855 at Licking County, Ohio. Theophilus Little was shown in the census on 12. Jul. 1860 as a farmer.
Theophilus Little and Sarah Elliott Taylor appeared on the census of 12. Jul. 1860 at Newark, Licking County, Ohio; real estate value 2,000.00, personal property 3,000.00
. Theophilus Little was shown in the census on 21. Jun. 1870 as a farmer.
Theophilus Little and Sarah Elliott Taylor appeared on the census of 21. Jun. 1870 at Olathe, Johnson County, Kansas; real estate value 5,000.00, personal property 350.00. Theophilus Little was shown in the census on 22. Jun. 1880 as a mail carrier.
Theophilus Little and Sarah Elliott Taylor appeared on the census of 22. Jun. 1880 at Abilene, Dickinson County, Kansas.
Theophilus Little and Sarah Elliott Taylor appeared on the census of 26. Jun. 1900 at Abilene, Dickinson County, Ohio; 3 children, 2 living. Theophilus Little was buried at Abilene Cemetery, Abilene, Dickinson County, Ohio. EARLY DAYS IN ABILENE

In January 1851 I landed at Abilene. The depot was a little square building built of cottonwood boards, about 16 or 20 feet square located about where Cramer and Kruger’s lumber office now stands.

I am sure that there was not a single shade tree in the town plat. There were hardly any buildings on the north side of the U.P.R.R. track. I think not to exceed twenty or thirty. Of course there were on Mud Creek banks, but not nearly so large as now. That was forty years go last January. The Post Office was located on the south side of the rail road down near to where now stands the big flouring mill. It was built mostly, if not all, of logs. H.H. Hazlett was Postmaster and had a stock of general merchandise therein. At his time there were not to exceed 600 people in Abilene. Nearly all the business was done on the south side of the U.P.R.R. which was the only railroad in town. The only house west of Mud Creek was a large hewn log house, which stood, where now stands Geo. Sterl’s home. I think it stood just a little north of Mr. Sterl’s home.

Just a few rods west of the house stood a long, low stone stable covered with dirt. This had been the stage and eating station for the great Overland Mail and Passenger route running from Leavenworth, Kansas to San Francisco, California.

This is where the great Horace Greeley and Bayard Taylor got their "last square meal" as they were crossing the Plains on their way to the Pacific Coast, by stage in 1849. (Incidentally Horace Greeley was the greatest journalist that this or any other country ever produced.)

Timothy Hersey kept this Overland Stage Station. Mrs. Hersey gave Abilene its name, getting it from the bible.

In the early spring great herds of Texas cattle began to arrive for shipment to eastern markets, thousands upon thousands. With them came cowboys, cattle owners, cattle buyers, gamblers, thieves, thugs, murderers, the painted women, the rich, the poor. Money flowed like the waters. Thousands upon thousands of people came. It was said that there were 7,000 people by June first. Talk about the "Wild and Wooly west", everything wild or wooly ran away from it.

Nothing but human beings would stay with it. Everything but man fled from it. Abilene was called the "wickedest place on earth."

My lumber yard was on the corner of Walnut and First Street, right in the red hot center of H-ll.

We called first street Texas street. It had no other name. It was Texas close down to the Gulf of Mexico.

It wasn’t Kansas. It was full–jam full–of saloons, gambling dens, dens of infamy of all kinds of character, cutthroats, robbers, murderers. I’m not exaggerating, I have not half told it, it was indescribable and I was there on Texas street selling lumber.

All the cattle were herded west of town. Every cowboy that came into town had to pass my office door. There were hundreds of them every day and every "son of a gun" had two guns and I thought ever gun was as long as an Ohio fence rail. These boys came to town and did not leave Texas street, would drink and gamble, get rip-roaring crazy drunk and towards evening jump on their Texas ponies and then begin to shoot hundreds of shots, yelling like a million Indians, ponied on the dead run. Every boy passed my office and by the time they got there the air was lurid as they shot upwards. At first I would run to the door to see the show, but I soon learned to crawl into a hole and pull the hole in after me or pull a pile of lumber over on to me. Then down into the creek and up the west bank and disappear over on the unlimited prairie and

then back the next day and repeat.

James B. Hickock "Wild Bill" was then City Marshall of Abilene. Born in the state of New York, his father a Presbyterian deacon as he told me, he "just went west and just couldn’t stop going and just kept going."

He stood over six feet tall, straight and erect, graceful as a woman, superb fingers, shoulders as a Hercules, hair flowing to the shoulders, an eagle’s eye, and with two big ivory handled guns loaded to the muzzle always hanging to his belt, the "bad men" feared him.

He never missed his mark when he fired those guns and the "bad men" fled from him.

"Phil" Coe was from Texas, ran the "Bull’s Head" a saloon and gambling den, sold whiskey and men’s souls. A vile a character as I ever met for some cause Wild Bill incurred Coe’s hatred and he vowed to secure the death of the Marshall. Not having the courage to do it himself, he one day filled about 200 cowboys with whiskey intending to get them into trouble with Wild Bill, hoping that they would get to shooting and in the melee shoot the marshal. But Coe "reckoned without his host." Wild Bill had learned of the scheme and cornered Coe, had his two pistols drawn on Coe. Just as he pulled the trigger one of the policemen rushed around the corner between Coe and the pistols and both balls entered his body, killing him instantly. in an instant, he pulled the triggers again sending two bullets into Coe's abdomen (Coe lived a day or two) and whirling with his two guns drawn on the drunken crowd of cowboys, "and now do any of you fellows want the rest of these bullets". Not a word was uttered.

"Get your ponies and ride to your camps of I’ll shoot into you," a hush was upon these boys and in less than two minutes the mob had vanished into the darkness. Wild Bill sent to Kansas City for the policeman’s mother, bought a fine coffin, paid all expenses of burial of his policeman.

By way of diversion I’ll give the children a little problem to work. In 1871 practically 40 years ago, I sold to this Phil Coe a bill of lumber amounting to $40.00. I could not get him to pay the bill, could have filed a lumber lien on his building and sold it. I knew if I did so, he would burn my lumber yard. He still owes me $40.00 with interest. Let some of the children compute with compound interest @6% for the 40 years, and send me what it amounts to in dollars and cents and if I can collect I will give them 50% of collection.

During the summer of 1871 the Post office was removed to the north side of the R.R. track. Prior to this the cowboys had never crossed to the north side, except to go to the "Twin Livery Stables", which stood where now stands the brick block, surrounded by Spruce, 2nd, and 3rd, and Buckeye. This was neutral territory and both cowboys and citizens held passes to the stables, but when they went after their mail they were polite, quiet and gentlemanly, when on the north side. "Not a shot, nor scarce a yell" but the moment they touched the soil south of the track they were back in Texas and were free men and with a Comanche whoop the old harry would break loose.

Sometime during the cattle season a large barn like structure was erected on the ground now occupied by the Steam Laundry on the south side. It was intended for public entertainment. In fact it was the "Grand Seelye Theatre" of the day. I do not recollect whether it was built by the citizens of the "400" of the Texas Element, but I do remember that some of the high toned plays put on the boards were somewhat on the high kicking and "whoopee-doo-dee-noo"order. Anyhow when the public schools were about to be closed probably in May, the south side "Seelye Theatre" was secured for the closing exercises in the evening. Of course the citizens were "permitted" to go.

The cowboys exercised the inalienable rights of the Texas American citizen to go where they "d-nd" please on the south side, were thee and filled the edifice to the roof of words to that effect, but hundreds were there, citizens, cattlemen, cowboys, gamblers, the elite from the addition on Fisher’s farm – in fact – a cosmopolitan gathering. The cowboy element in the ascendancy being most numerous.

The exercises were very satisfactory and of great interest of the parents and patrons.

The cowboys held themselves steady just as long as human endurance could endure, but finally got tired and restless and noisy and more noisy and very noisy, interrupted the proceedings. Mrs. Little and I and the two little boys, Eddie and Willie were seated together in chairs immediately in front us were two big Texans. Each one big enough to have swallowed me whole. They became very noisy and offensive and I remonstrated with them quietly, pled with them to keep quiet. They turned and laughed at me, asking what in "h-ll" I was going to do about it anyhow. I quit talking and began to get mad, madder yet. I was young the, if not handsome. I began to think I could just whip 20 wild cats right there with a lot of Texans thrown in. They were standing up right in front of me, swearing and laughing, having the biggest time in town. I lost sight and sense of everything but mad and fight.

I jumped up and caught on of them by the throat and jammed him into his chair and choked him till he gurgled in a flash I had the other huck by the throat. You too I yelled and choked him until his Texas tongue ran out of his mouth, jammed him into his chair and hissed into their ears, another word out of you tonight and I’ll smash ever bone in your bodies.

It’s a wonder I was not shot to pieces, but I thought then that I could smash ever cowboy in that big shanty. I think they thought so too for I tell you that silence reigned profound the balance of that evening.

They were so utterly astounded at the audacity and foolhardiness of the act that they were cowed and helpless. Just as the exercises close, Wild Bill strode swiftly toward us with his silk hat in his left hand, his right thrown across the left breast and with a low and courtly bow to Mrs. Little, in most gracious tones said, "Mr. Little if you will allow me, I will walk home with you and your family this evening." I thanked him saying, "We would deem it an honor but not a necessity."

Said he, "I think I understand this case better than you do, Mr. Little" and he went to our home with us.

He was a great lover of children and tender hearted. My little boy Will, then nine years old, had the misfortune to cot off two of his fingers. As Dr. McCollam was dressing his hand one day, Wild Bill stepped in, "Ah", said he, "that is too bad, too bad such a find manly little fellow too," patting him on the dear head. Dear glorious Will.

I thought to close this talk now, but I must tell you about the sermon that was preached in Tom Smith’s whiskey saloon.

In 1872 I was acting Mayor of Abilene and in that capacity kept close tab on the saloons, we had but two (in 1871 there were at least fifty) while not a patron of Tom’s yet he and I were good friends.

Rev. Christopher sometimes preached in Abilene and was a very eloquent speaker, one, day said to me, "I would like to preach in on of these saloons."

"Well", said I, "I’ll arrange it for you". It was Saturday, I went over to Tom’s place, said I, "Tom we’re going to have preaching here tomorrow.", his eyes looked wild at me, "And you’re crazy Little’. "Tomorrow at 10 o’clock, Rev. Christopher will preach here, Tom, you better clean up a little, get your bar fixtures and whiskey out of sight."

"Say Mr. Little, d-n-d if I don’t just do it. Why it will be a big ad for me won’t it though".

"Scrub the floor Tom, there will be a big crowd. I will send over a load of lumber for seats".

I hired a boy who with a bell, worked the streets announcing that Rev. Christopher would preach in Tom Smith Saloon at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning.

A crowd! Yes, enough to fill the saloon 3 or 4 times, and he preached a fine sermon with plenty of good music.

The monument for Theophilus reads:

Theophilus Little, Esq.
Settled at Olathe, Kansas 1866
Pres - City Council Abilene 1872
Acting Mayor 1873
Pres - School Board 1875
Organizer - Elder & Trustee
First Presbyterian Church
Born Granville, Ohio May 23, 1830
Died Kansas City, Kan. Oct. 3, 1919

Note: His children were William Thomas Little (Will T.) and U.S. Senator Edward Campbell Little.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~pasulliv/settlers/settlers25/WildBill.htm.

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Theophilus Little 3rd. (M)
(21. May. 1797 - 3. Jul. 1876), #294848
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     Theophilus Little 3rd. was born on 21. May. 1797. He was the son of Thomas Little and Lydia Jackson. Theophilus Little 3rd. married Eunice Weeks on 29. Mar. 1825 at Granville, Licking County, Ohio. Theophilus Little 3rd. was shown in the census on 28. Jun. 1870 as works on son's farm.
Theophilus Little 3rd. and Eunice Weeks appeared on the census of 28. Jun. 1870 at Granville, Licking County, Ohio; real estate value 3,000.00, personal property 3,000.00. Theophilus Little 3rd. died on 3. Jul. 1876 at age 79.

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Theophilus Little Jr. (M)
(2. Dec. 1776 - 26. Jan. 1862), #39954
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Relationship=4th great-grandson of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven.

     Theophilus Little Jr. was born on 2. Dec. 1776 at Tinton Falls, Monmouth County, New Jersey. He was the son of Maj Theophilus Little Sr. and Mary Polhemus. Theophilus Little Jr. married Elizabeth Holmes, daughter of John Garrison Holmes and Mary Knott, on 17. Jan. 1809. Theophilus Little Jr. died on 26. Jan. 1862 at Eagles Mere, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, at age 85.

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Thomas Aaron Little (M)
(1851 - ), #295075
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Relationship=7th great-grandson of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven.

     Thomas Aaron Little was born in 1851. He was the son of John Wisner Little and Charlotte Coon.

Last Edited=15 Oct 2006

Thomas Dennis Little (M)
#294934
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     Thomas Dennis Little was the son of Samuel Little and Mary Gower. Thomas Dennis Little removed to at Illinois. He married Mary Smith.

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Thomas Dennis Little (M)
(1806 - ), #294983
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     Thomas Dennis Little was born in 1806. He was the son of John Little and Mercy Dennis. Thomas Dennis Little married Mary Smith. Thomas Dennis Little removed to at Illinois in 1846.

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Thomas Laird Little (M)
(22. Feb. 1829 - 10. May. 1886), #294772
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     Thomas Laird Little was born on 22. Feb. 1829 at Nordmont, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of John Little and Sarah Laird. Thomas Laird Little married Anna M. Pennington, daughter of Jesse Pennington and Rebecca Colley, on 1. May. 1851 at Nordmont, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. Thomas Laird Little was shown in the census on 2. Jun. 1860 as a farmer.
Thomas Laird Little and Anna M. Pennington appeared on the census of 2. Jun. 1860 at Laporte Twp., Sullivan County, Pennsylvania; 900.00 real estate, 500.00 personal property. Thomas Laird Little was shown in the census on 16. Jul. 1870 as a farmer.
Thomas Laird Little and Anna M. Pennington appeared on the census of 16. Jul. 1870 at Laporte Twp., Sullivan County, Pennsylvania; real estate value 5,000.00 personal propety 850.00. Thomas Laird Little died on 10. May. 1886 at Nordmont, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, at age 57.

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Thomas M. Little (M)
#301101
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     Thomas M. Little was the son of Tobias Polhemus Little and Elizabeth Horn.

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Thomas Morton Little (M)
(2. Jul. 1910 - ), #295068
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     Thomas Morton Little was born on 2. Jul. 1910. He was the son of John Wesley Little and Susan Heim.

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Thomas Little (M)
(12. Apr. 1811 - 5. Jul. 1880), #293939
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     Thomas Little was born on 12. Apr. 1811 at New Jersey. He was the son of Tobias Little and Content Allen. Thomas Little married Mary Ann Bennett in 1832.
Thomas Little and Mary Ann Bennett appeared on the census of 7. Oct. 1850 at with his father Tobias, Shrewsbury Twp., Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. Thomas Little was a farmer on 29. Jun. 1860.
Thomas Little appeared on the census of 29. Jun. 1860 at Shrewsbury Twp., Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. He was a farmer on 15. Jul. 1870.
Thomas Little appeared on the census of 15. Jul. 1870 at Shrewsbury Twp., Sullivan County, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Little appeared on the census of 1880 at with daughter Charlotte, Shrewsbury Twp., Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. He died on 5. Jul. 1880 at Pennsylvania at age 69. He died on 25. Jul. 1880 at age 69. He was buried at Eagles Mere Cemetery, Eagles Mere, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania.

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Thomas Little (M)
(24. Sep. 1774 - 31. Mar. 1863), #294703
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     Thomas Little was also known as Squire Thomas Little. He was also known as Squire Little. Thomas Little was born on 24. Sep. 1774 at Shrewsbury Twp., Monmouth County, New Jersey. He was the son of Maj Theophilus Little Sr. and Mary Polhemus. Thomas Little married Lydia Jackson in 1793. Thomas Little removed to at Shrewsbury Twp., Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, in 1812. He removed to at Granville, Licking County, Ohio, in 1815. He died on 31. Mar. 1863 at Granville, Ohio, at age 88. Thomas Little and his brother, Theophilus, were appointed to the same Court of Common Pleas and Quarterly Sessions where their father and grandfather had served for 60-years. When Thomas was elected to the New Jersey Legislature, "Squire" Thomas, the son of Theophilus, was appointed to fill the vacancy. This took place in 1803. Thomas served the court for ten years during which time his uncle Thomas was chosen as the acting Lieutenant Governor. It was before this, at the turn of the century, that the family began to splinter.
On 25 Jan 1811, Theophilus' son Thomas purcahsed 160 acres on Muncy Creek from John Lochard for $195 (Book 9, page 316). In November of the same year, Theophilus purchased an additional 402.5 acres from Priestly (Book 12, page 122). His sons Daniel and Tobias Little came with their families in 1804 and commenced to improve the land. A settlement called "Little's Corners" was established about a mile west of Eaglesmere and Lewis Lake at a point where the State Highway from Eaglesmere now joins the highway from Forksville to Muncy Valley.
"Squire" Thomas had married Lydia Jackson, the daughter of Benjamin Jackson and Rebecca Green, and later migrated to Granville, Licking County, Ohio, arriving in the winter of 1815 with their son Theophilus, daughter Jane, and son-in-law Jarod Bancroft.(from http://www.rootsweb.com/~pasulliv/settlers/settlers25/settlers25.htm).

Last Edited=14 Mar 2008

Tobias Polhemus Little (M)
(29. Feb. 1820 - 1. Mar. 1909), #294450
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     Tobias Polhemus Little was born on 29. Feb. 1820 at Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Benjamin Jackson Little and Sarah Wisner. Tobias Polhemus Little removed to at Hanover Twp., Licking County, Ohio, in 1825. He married Elizabeth Horn, daughter of Sebastian Horn and Anna Rosina Wissner, on 19. Nov. 1840; 17 children. Tobias Polhemus Little was shown in the census on 30. Jul. 1850 as a farmer.
Tobias Polhemus Little and Elizabeth Horn appeared on the census of 30. Jul. 1850 at Habiver, Licking County, Ohio; real estate value 300.00. Tobias Polhemus Little removed to at Fulton County, Illinois, in 1856. He married Catherine Horn in 1868; one child. Tobias Polhemus Little married Martha Clark on 20. Jun. 1889. Tobias Polhemus Little married Nancy Coons, daughter of David Henry Coons and Miriam Sarah Cox, on 30. Apr. 1893 at Smithfield, Fulton County, Illinois. Tobias Polhemus Little died on 1. Mar. 1909 at Seville, Fulton County, Ohio, at age 89. Parents and siblings of Mrs. Marta Clark and Mrs. Nancy Lance are unknown.
Tobias was a carpenter who built many of the homes in Hanover, Ohio before moving. While in Illinois, he built the Sixteen Schoolhouse in Lee Township. He farmed 220 acres North of Smithfield before he retired. When he married Nancy Lance, he moved to her ancestral home called the Old John Lance Farm. It was originally located in Harris Township but became a part of Cass Township when the county line was moved.
NOTE: In the 1870 Federal Census siblings by the name of Elsworth and Elizabeth Setzer b. abt 1860 in Ohio were listed as members of his household. Nothing is know about these children.

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Tobias Little (M)
(17. Jul. 1779 - 27. Sep. 1867), #293774
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     Information on the descendants of Tobis Little came from Eric Howard's website http:\\kutah.phast.umass.edu\~ehwd email:ehwd@kuthath.astro.umass.edu. Tobias Little was born on 17. Jul. 1779 at Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey. He was the son of Maj Theophilus Little Sr. and Mary Polhemus. Tobias Little married Content Allen, daughter of Nathan John Allen and Patience Bills, on 17. Mar. 1802. Tobias Little was shown in the census on 7. Oct. 1850 as a farmer.
Tobias Little appeared on the census of 7. Oct. 1850 at Shrewsbury Twp., Sullivan County, Pennsylvania; real estate value 800.00
living with him is the family of Thomas Little. He died on 27. Sep. 1867 at Eagles Mere, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, at age 88.

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Tobias Little (M)
#301102
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     Tobias Little was the son of Tobias Polhemus Little and Elizabeth Horn.

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Ulysses Grant Little (M)
(11. Jan. 1866 - 5. Dec. 1933), #39961
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     Ulysses Grant Little was born on 11. Jan. 1866 at Forksville, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Daniel Little and Anna Kalis. Ulysses Grant Little married Lillian Osler, daughter of Jeremiah Osler and Julia Brown, on 7. Mar. 1890 at Lincoln Falls, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. Ulysses Grant Little was shown in the census on 1. Jun. 1900 as a farmer.
Ulysses Grant Little and Lillian Osler appeared on the census of 1. Jun. 1900 at Elkland Twp., Sullivan County, Pennsylvania; 3 children, 3 living. Ulysses Grant Little died on 5. Dec. 1933 at Forksville, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, at age 67.

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Vera Little (F)
(27. Oct. 1895 - 5. Sep. 1974), #427920
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     Vera Little was born on 27. Oct. 1895 at Kanab, Kane County, Utah. She was the daughter of Willis C. Little and Addie Jackson. Vera Little married George Alonzo Swapp, son of James Hill Swapp and Margarette Nina Brinkerhoff, on 30. Apr. 1914.
Vera Little and George Alonzo Swapp appeared on the census of 19. Jan. 1920 at Kanab, Kane County, Utah.
Vera Little and George Alonzo Swapp appeared on the census of 11. Apr. 1930 at Kanab, Kane County, Utah; real estate value 3,600.00. Vera Little died on 5. Sep. 1974 at Kanab, Kane County, Utah, at age 78. She was buried at Kanab Cemetery, Kanab, Kane County, Utah.

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Verna Little (F)
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     Verna Little was the daughter of Charles Wright Little and Mary Etta Speary.

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Vina Little (F)
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     Vina Little married Benjamin Franklin White, son of Samuel White and Jemina Anne Holt.

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Watson Little (F)
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     Watson Little was the daughter of Charles Wright Little and Mary Etta Speary.

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Wesley Lamar (Jim) Little (M)
( - 18. Mar. 1972), #79328

     Wesley Lamar (Jim) Little died on 18. Mar. 1972 at Marlin, Texas. He was buried on 20. Mar. 1972 at Stephenville, Erath County, Texas.

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Whitney Amasa Little (M)
(26. May. 1919 - 24. Jun. 1988), #427930
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     Whitney Amasa Little was born on 26. May. 1919 at Utah. He was the son of Lorin Amasa Little Jr. and Loretta Swapp. Whitney Amasa Little died on 24. Jun. 1988 at Nevada County, California, at age 69.

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Willard J. Little (M)
(1. Feb. 1888 - ), #295037
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     Willard J. Little was born on 1. Feb. 1888. He was the son of Isaac N. Little and Jennie A. Brown. Willard J. Little married Gladys Fay Urguhart.

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William F. Little (M)
(1847 - 11. Oct. 1848), #294279
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     William F. Little was born in 1847 at Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Joseph Bloomfield Little and Louisa Armes. William F. Little died on 11. Oct. 1848 at Sullivan County, Pennsylvania.

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William Martin Little (M)
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     William Martin Little was the son of William Polhemus Little and Rebecca Rogers.

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William Polhemus Little (M)
(28. Apr. 1812 - 18. Aug. 1886), #294825
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     William Polhemus Little was born on 28. Apr. 1812. He was the son of Daniel Little and Eleanor Covenhoven. William Polhemus Little married Rebecca Rogers. William Polhemus Little died on 18. Aug. 1886 at age 74.

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William Thomas Little (M)
(c 1862 - c 1908), #384863
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     William Thomas Little was born c 1862 at Ohio. He was the son of Theophilus Little and Sarah Elliott Taylor. William Thomas Little was shown in the census on 22. Jun. 1880 as a store clerk.
William Thomas Little appeared on the census of 22. Jun. 1880 at with his parents, Abilene, Dickinson County, Ohio. He married Maude Jensen Heileman in 1902. William Thomas Little died c 1908 at insane asylum, Norman, Cleveland County, Oklahoma. William Thomas Little (Will T.) participated in the land rush at the opening of the Oklahoma Territory. He wrote and printed the first newspaper in the newly opened Unassigned Lands. Named The Guthrie Getup, it came off the press on April 28, 1889. In his salutory statement he wrote, "The Guthrie Getup prances into the promised land at the head of the procession, and issues before one week after the glorious 22nd of April, 1889."

Little suffered the same fate as many of the lesser known '89ers; historians largely overlooked them. Where many of the land rush participants rushed in to grab a quick profit, Little and thousands of other participants stayed. They built homes, started businesses and raised families. From the very beginning they built Oklahoma history and wrote about it. During his lifetime he was an editor, reporter, historian, farmer, and arborculturist. In 1890, he compiled the new laws in the first volume of the Statutes of Oklahoma. In 1895, he was the newly elected representative of the territorial legislature. During his tenure, he introduced bills: to regulate oleomargarine; to help develope waterworks and other utilities in towns and villages; to improve the election process; to regulate pharmacists, and to establish a territorial insane asylum.

Little also took a strong interest in the new Oklahoma Historical Society which the Oklahoma Press Association started in 1893. During 1895, after the Oklahoma Press Association learned the University of Oklahoma incorporated the Oklahoma Historical Society, the two entities merged and soon after William Thomas Little became its custodian and curator. He developed the first archives, increased the number of documents and organized local meetings to collect local history.

During the next four years, he divided his time between the Historical Society and his home in Perry. He was the first Oklahoman to raise Tamworth hogs and the first to apply "shelterbelts" to his farm. He was elected VP of the American Forestry Association, representing Oklahoma. In 1889, he worked as a government land appraiser. In 1901, was appointed to the position of Postmaster at Perry where he persuaded the city fathers to plant trees in the local cemetery and convinced local school officials to start a tree nursery on unclaimed land on the edge of town. In 1902, he helped organize the Nobel County Farmers Instititute. In 1904, he published Oklahoma Farmer, a review for farmers and tree growers. Little was recognized by the leading forestry societies of his time for his unwavering position on planting windbreaks in semi-arid areas such as those that existed in western Oklahoma. To illustrate his point, he purchased several thousand seedlings and planted them as windbreaks -- especially on the grounds of the Perry Courthouse -- and throughout the town before he died.

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William Little (M)
(15. Jul. 1882 - 15. Jul. 1882), #295036
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     William Little died on 15. Jul. 1882 at age 0. William Little was born on 15. Jul. 1882. He was the son of Isaac N. Little and Jennie A. Brown.

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William Little (M)
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     William Little was the son of Tobias Polhemus Little and Elizabeth Horn.

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Willis C. Little (M)
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     Willis C. Little married Addie Jackson.

Last Edited=24 Jun 2007

Woodrow W. Little (M)
(10. Jul. 1915 - 6. Mar. 1997), #400643

     Woodrow W. Little was born on 10. Jul. 1915. He married Etta Kathryn Blauvelt, daughter of Charles Ross Blauvelt and Loretta Covalt, on 11. Apr. 1935. Woodrow W. Little died on 6. Mar. 1997 at Bluffton, Allen County, Indiana, at age 81.

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Judge John Little Jr. (M)
(1712 - Jan. 1785), #39950

     Judge John Little Jr. was born in 1712 at Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Judge John Little Jr. was born in 1712 at Eatontown, Monmouth County, New Jersey. He married Moika Longstreet, daughter of Stoffle Dircksen Longstreet and Moyka Lane, in 1735. Judge John Little Jr. married Elizabeth Wales on 23. Dec. 1752. Judge John Little Jr. died in Jan. 1785 at Eatontown, Monmouth County, New Jersey. He died on 4. Feb. 1785 at Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.

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Maj Theophilus Little Sr. (M)
(15. Feb. 1743/44 - 19. Feb. 1825), #39951
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     Maj Theophilus Little Sr. was born on 15. Feb. 1744 or 26. Feb. 1744. Maj Theophilus Little Sr. was born on 15. Feb. 1743/44 at Eatontown, Monmouth County, New Jersey. He was the son of Judge John Little Jr. and Moika Longstreet. Maj Theophilus Little Sr. married Mary Polhemus, daughter of Daniel Polhemus and Margaretta Covenhoven, on 26. Jan. 1769 at Dutch Reformed Church, Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Maj Theophilus Little Sr. removed to at Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, in 1799. He died on 19. Feb. 1825 at Eagles Mere, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, at age 81. He was buried at Eagles Mere, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. BIOGRAPHY: Theophilis served in 1775 as a Lieutenant in Col. Sam Breese's Co. of the Shrewsbury Township Militia; 1776: Commissioned Lieutenant, 1st Reg. Monmouth County Militia; 1776: Served in Nathaniel Heard's Brigade of "Minute Men," Continental Army, and took part in battles of Long Island and Harlem Hieghts; 1776: Served in Capt. Joseph I. Stilwell Company, 1st Reg.,Monmouth Militia; 1777: Promoted to Captain on the 27th of Sept; 1778: Captured May 27; transferred to Sugar House, NYC in June; 1778: Released Aug 11 at New Entrecht, Long Island; 1779: Captain in Col. Asher Holmes' Regiment, Monmouth County Militia. Theophilis was a prisoner during the Battle of Monmouth (D.A.R. records and NJ Archives).

In 1799, Theophilus traveled with friend George Lewis to Lycoming County, Pennsylvania where they co-jointly purchased 9,500 acres from Joseph Priestly and his wife.
Theophilus was an early pioneer and instrumental in the development of the county. Shrewsbury Township was established by a decree of the Court of Lycoming in 1803 and at that time embraced the whole of what is now Sullivan County. It is said that Theophilus Little gave it the name of Shrewsbury, that being the name of the Township where the Little family came from in Monmouth County, New Jersey (Streby's History of Sullivan County, 1903; History of Lycoming County by Meginnes, 1892, p. 567)
On July 2, 1804, Priestly and his wife Elizabeth deeded to Theophilus All of the tracts of the land situate lying and being in Lycoming Cunty on the waters of Loyasock and Muncy Creeks containing 4,500 acres wtih allowances for highways, xxx containing tracts No. 8, called Copeland, No. 9 called Hempfield, No. 10 called Belfast, No. 11 called Wilmington, No.12 called Springfield, No.13 called Woodbridge, No. 14 called Rangers Lodge, S1/2 of 15, No. 16 called Hope, No. 17 called Dovers, N1/2 of 25 called Milford, and No. 28 called Union. (Deeds, Book 5, pages 211, 212, 213, Lycoming County Court House)
On the same day, Theophilus deeded to his nephew Peter Knott 1051 acres adjoining his purchase for $1576 (Book 7, page 7), as well as 600 acres to John Garrison Holmes near the Little purchase (Book 6, page 128). Holmes moved to this area before 1810 with his family. Theophilus then returned to New Jersey where he remained actively engaged in the operation of his farms until 1813.
On 25 Jan 1811, Theophilus' son Thomas purcahsed 160 acres on Muncy Creek from John Lochard for $195 (Book 9, page 316). In November of the same year, Theophilus purchased an additional 402.5 acres from Priestly (Book 12, page 122). His sons Daniel and Tobias Little came with their families in 1804 and commenced to improve the land. A settlement called "Little's Corners" was established about a mile west of Eaglesmere and Lewis Lake at a point where the State Highway from Eaglesmere now joins the highway from Forksville to Muncy Valley. (from http://www.rootsweb.com/~pasulliv/settlers/settlers25/settlers25.htm).

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Senator Edward Campbell Little (M)
(14. Dec. 1858 - 27. Jun. 1924), #384861
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     Senator Edward Campbell Little was born on 14. Dec. 1858 at Newark, Licking County, Ohio. He was the son of Theophilus Little and Sarah Elliott Taylor.
Senator Edward Campbell Little appeared on the census of 22. Jun. 1880 at with his parents, Abilene, Dickinson County, Ohio. Senator Edward Campbell Little was shown in the census on 22. Jun. 1880 as a school teacher. He married Edna Margaret Steele, daughter of Leonard James Steele, on 29. Nov. 1899 at Chapel of Bethany College, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. Senator Edward Campbell Little and Edna Margaret Steele removed to at Kansas City, Jackson County, Kansas, in 1908. Senator Edward Campbell Little died on 27. Jun. 1924 at Washington, District of Columbia, at age 65; while serving in Congress. He was buried at City Cemetery, Abilene, Dickinson County, Ohio. LITTLE, Edward Campbell, a Representative from Kansas; born in Newark, Licking County, Ohio, December 14, 1858; moved to Kansas in 1866 with his parents, who settled in Olathe; attended the public schools of Abilene, Kans., and was graduated from the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1883; connected with the Santa Fe Railroad for several years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1886 and commenced practice in Lawrence, Kans; chairman of the Republican State convention in 1888; city attorney of Ness City in 1889; prosecuting attorney of Dickinson County 1890-1892; delegate at large to the Republican National Convention in 1892; United States diplomatic agent and consul general with rank of Minister Resident to Egypt in 1892 and 1893; private secretary to Gov. John W. Leedy in 1896 and 1897; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1897; lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth Regiment, Kansas Volunteers, during the Spanish-American War in 1898 and 1899; received Congressional Medal of Honor as well as the Spanish War and Philippine Campaign Medals for services in the Philippines; settled in Kansas City, Kans., in 1908; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1917, until is death in Washington, D.C., June 27, 1924; chairman, Committee on Revision of the Laws (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth Congresses); interment in the City Cemetery, Abilene, Kans. Edward Campbell Little was born 14 Dec 1858. Here are some salient facts in his life:

1-AB 1883 Class Valedictorian
2-BA 1886 Class Valedictorian
3-Editor, Kansas Review
4-Phi Kappa Psi
5-Admitted Kansas Bar 1886
6-Admited Bar of the Supreme Court 1892
7-Elected 'delegate at large' to the Republican Nat'l Convention to nominate Benjamin Harrison for President 1892
8-Diplomatic Agent, Consul General and Minister Resident to Egypt at age 33 under Harrison
Received the Grand Cordon of the Medjidieh from the Sultan of Turkey for his diplomatic services
9-Supported William Jennings Bryan for President in 1896, making over 100 speeches in Kansas for him
10-Formed a law office at Topeka (with ex-chief Justice David Martin and Attorney General Louis Boyle). the law firm of Martin, Little and Boyle was opened in 1897 while he was a Secretary to populist Governor, John W. Leedy.
11-1898-99 Lt. Col. Little took the 20th Kansas Volunteer Infantry to San Francisco and sailed to the Phillipines in command of its 1st Battalion, the Wyoming Battery and troop ship Newport. He took part in no less than 10 engagements, commanding in several battles in the absence of Col. Fred Funston.. Little received the Spanish War Medal, The Phillipines Campaign medal and the Congressional Campaign medal.
12-1908-Moved law practice to Kansas City, KS
13-1914- Nominated Justice, Kansas Supreme Court; defeated
14-1916- Elected as a Republican to the 65th US Congress during WW I
15-Relected to the 66th, 67th, and 68th Congresses
16-1924- Died June 24, age 65, while serving Congress
17-Buried in Abilene cemetery in Kansas

After the Spanish-American Was, he married Edna Margaret Steele, daughter of Leonard James Steele, and resumed his law practice in Abilene, Kansas. Edna wrote, Works of Jesus (Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco). She was also an active member of the DAR of some repute, and politically active until her death in 1943 at Kansas City, Kansas. Her father served in the Civil War and was a lineal descendant of John Steel, the founder of Hartford, Connecticut.

Edward and Edna moved in 1908 to Kansas City, KS, where he became an esteemed trial lawyer of note. While serving in the US Congress, he was Chairman of the Revison of Laws Committee of the U. S. House. He wrote the then current Code of the Laws of the United States between 1919-1924. (See Who's Who in America 1906-1924; Congressional Directory; Congressional Record, Index 1917-1924). Edward Campbell Little.—In the year 1134 William Little was born on the North Sea at Bridlington, Yorkshire, England. In the year 1198 he died, as he passed most of his life, a Canon of Newberg Abbey in the North Riding of Yorkshire. He was the foremost scholar and historian of the Twelfth century in England, the author of the Standard History of England for that century, and is known in history as William of Newbury. In the next century John Little, famous as Robin Hood's lieutenant, took rank as England's foremost archer and athlete, from which place he has not been ousted in the seven centuries that have followed. Robin Hood and Little John first met on a log crossing a stream. "Go back, my man," said the King of the Foresters. "Not your man nor any man's man," said John Little. "Go back yourself. I came on the log first." Declining to accept this excellent advice, Robin Hood was promptly tossed into the stream and secured a new lieutenant, and the Little family was launched on the pages of history in a manner entirely satisfactory to its members.

In the Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries there appears to have been quite an immigration from Yorkshire into Dumfriesshire, Scotland, the Bruces and Balloils being particularly notable. The Littles seemed to have joined in this hegira, settling exactly on the border between Scotland and England in Dumfriesshire on what became known as the disputed ground. By the year 1300 Edward Little married a niece of Sir William Wallace and was a Scotch patriot. By 1398 A. D. Nicol Little was an intermediary, adjusting difficulties between the Scotch and the English on the border. However, the constant border forays back and forth all harried the debated ground occupied by the Littles and in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries they were forced to retaliation. Uniting with the Armstrongs and a few others similarly situated they declared war against all of the known world within a couple of days' ride and took care of themselves very well until equally efficient but more technical methods for enforcing equity and justice were adopted by the people on the border. In 1525 William Little was a member of the Scotch Parliament from Edinburgh and, in 1592, Edward Little held the same seat. About 1580 William Little founded the University of Edinburgh and his brother, Clement Little, an advocate, established the library of that institution. In the Sixteenth century several Littles were baronets in England, the daughter of one marrying the brother of Francis Bacon. Many of the family settled in Northern Ireland. At Gretna in Dumfriesshire is a tombstone which reads, "Here lyes in Redkirk, Thomas Little, born 1548, died 1659, and his spouse, Masie Dalglise, and their son, John Little, died 1698, aged 110 years, and his spouse, Barbara Johnston." There then followed three generations of men of that name and family of such age that the average of five generations is eighty-four years. This Thomas Little and his son, John, were keepers of the king's forests, owing fealty to none but the king. This seems to have been the family from which the American stock spread.

About the beginning of the Eighteenth century an emigrant ship carried one of them, a widower and his children, to New York City. An English man-of-war sent among the emigrants a crew to press them into the English navy. The captain of the emigrant ship declining to resist, John Little declared himself, "The mon that won't foight is a dead mon." The English navy was defeated and the Scotch emigrants launched the family in America near Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, New Jersey, in a manner again entirely satisfactory to its descendants. The first emigrant, Col. John Little of the Monmouth regiment in King George's war, was a Presbyterian elder, a successful farmer, and died in 1749, leaving a will still on file in Monmouth county. His son, Judge John Little, married Moica Langstreth (Longstreet), was made judge of the court of common pleas of Monmouth county in the year 1749, and a member of the committee of public safety in 1775. He was the "rich Little," dying in 1785, and his will is still on file. His three sons, Capt. Thomas Little, Capt. Theophilus Little and Lieut. John Little, served during the Revolutionary war with the Monmouth regiment, John being killed by the the Hessians in action. Capt. Theophilus Little married Mary Polhemus, sister of Major Polhemus of the Monmouth regiment, bought a large estate in northeastern Pennsylvania, in what is now Sullivan county, settling there with his half dozen sons about the year 1800 and leaving numerous descendants in that region. His son, Squire Thomas Little settled in Licking county, Ohio, just after the war of 1812 with his wife, Lydia Jackson, and his son, Theophilus Little, Sr., born in Monmouth county, New Jersey, in 1797. Theophilus married Eunice Weeks, whose father was a Connecticut Yankee (they fought at Louisburg), and whose mother was the daughter of Welsh emigrants by the name of Griffith. Their son, Theophilus Little, Jr., was born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1830, and married there, in 1855, Sarah Elliott Taylor, a graduate of the class of 1853 at the Granville Female Seminary, daughter of Gen. Jonathan Taylor, a member of Congress from Ohio, whose ancestors settled in northeastern Connecticut about 1650, and granddaughter of Samuel Elliott of Carvel Hall's Maryland regiment in the Revolution. Clifford Little died in infancy. One son, the Hon. William T. Little, served with distinction in the Oklahoma legislature, was the first compiler of the statutes of Oklahoma Territory, published the first newspaper in Oklahoma Territory, founded the Historical Society of Oklahoma, and died in 1908, postmaster at Perry, Okla., leaving a widow, Mrs. Maude Little (nee Jensen), and two children—Sarah and Edward Thomas Little. He was educated at Kansas University and Columbian Law School.

Col. Edward Campbell Little, the other son was born Dec. 14, 1858, on the place settled by the Elliotts in the Eighteenth century at Newark, Ohio, coming to Kansas with his parents in the spring of 1866. He herded cattle, carried United States mail, worked on the farm, clerked in a store, worked in a wholesale house, graduated from the Abilene High School, taught country school, entered the State University of Kansas, taught city schools at Enterprise, Abilene and Leavenworth, graduated at the University of Kansas as a Bachelor of Arts in 1883, being selected by the faculty as one of the three commencement day speakers and by vote of his class as one of the class day speakers. He was captain of the baseball nine, won the 100 yard race on field day in his freshman year, was business manager, editor and editor-in-chief of the Kansas University Review, was junior class day orator, was orator for the Oread Literary Society in one of the annual contests with the the Shield, the nationl[sic] organ of the Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity.

Reading law one year with Hon. L. B. Wheat of Leavenworth and one year with Hon. John P. Usher of Lawrence, secretary of the interior in Lincoln's cabinet, he graduated in the law department of the University of Kansas and was admitted to the bar in 1886, being valedictorian of his class and receiving the degrees of Bachelor of Laws and Master of Arts. He practiced law for three years at Ness City, Kan., where he served as city attorney. In 1890 he returned to his old home at Abilene as general attorney for the Hardesty-Pelham corporations, and was elected county attorney. In 1897 he was associated with ex-Chief Justice Martin and Attorney-General Boyle in the law firm of Martin, Little & Boyle, at Topeka, Kan. In 1908 he removed to Kansas City, Kan., and has been engaged in the practice of the law at that point ever since.

Colonel Little was chairman of the Republican state convention that opened the campaign of 1888 that rolled up the majority of 80,000; was president of the Republican League of Kansas and delegate-at-large to the Republican national nominating convention at Minneapolis, Minn., in 1892. He supported Roosevelt in 1904 and the nominations of that party since, but is independent in his thinking. He was appointed by President Harrison and confirmed by the senate of the United States in 1893 as diplomatic agent and consul-general to Egypt, receiving the Grand Cordon of the Medjidieh from the Sultan of Turkey for diplomatic service. Richard Harding Davis dedicated to him his book, "The Rulers of the Mediterranean." In 1896 Colonel Little was one of those who took the position that the corporations should not dominate public life and supported Mr. Bryan, being chairman of the Free Silver Republican convention, chairman of the delegation to their national convention, and at the request of the Nebraska delegation, placed Mr. Bryan in nomination for president in 1896. He made an extensive and fruitful campaign and was a candidate in the Fusion caucus for United States senator. He was second on the first ballot, first on the fifth ballot and through two all-night sessions of that caucus stood always either first, second or third, running very closely with the other two leading candidates and finally being beaten for the nomination and election by the Hon. William A. Harris. He served as secretary to John W. Leedy, who gave him credit for some of the work done on state papers in that administration. He secured for Frederick Funston an appointment as colonel of the Twentieth Kansas infantry in the Spanish-American war, and served throughout the Spanish and Filipino wars as lieutenant-colonel of the Twentieth Kansas himself. Colonel Little participated in the battles of Rio Tulijuan, Polo, Malinto, Meycaucauan, Marilao, Bocave, Bigwa, Guiguinto, Malolos, the Malolos night attack, San Fernando, June 16th and other days, and on several of these occasions was in command of the regiment. At Marilao he crossed the river on the railroad bridge at the head of the regiment under a heavy fire. At Guiguinto his disposition of his battalion—the first to cross—was largely responsible for the victory achieved in this fierce engagement. In common with the rest of the regiment who participated in the extra service after the term of enlistment was expired, he received a Congressional medal of Honor. In 1908-09 he was department commander of the United Spanish War Veterans, Department of Kansas, being twice unanimously elected and was twice made a member of their national committee on legislation, being chairman of their delegation to the national encampment at Denver in 1910.

Colonel Little is the author of several verses, including "Domus et Porta," is the writer of several sketches in "Pearson's" and "Everybody's" magazines, "A Son of the Border," "The Battle of Adobe Walls," "The Round Table of Dodge City," which was illustrated by Frederic Remington.

On Nov. 29, 1899, in the chapel of Bethany College at Topeka, Kan., he was married to Miss Edna Margaret Steele, a teacher in that institution. This lady was eighth in direct descent from John Steele, the first secretary of the colony of Connecticut and the founder of Hartford, one of the original proprietors and the first representative in the general court of Newton (now Cambridge), Mass. They have one son, Donald Little, who was born at Abilene, Kan., Jan. 29, 1901. The family resides at 618 Freeman avenue, Kansas City, Kan.

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