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From History of Montgomery County, Kansas, By Its Own People, Published by L. Wallace Duncan, Iola, Kansas, 1903, Pg. 333-335:
Farlow, Nathan M. Bio
Prominently identified with the agricultural and general material interests of Bolton and vicinity, is the gentleman and worthy citizen of this review, Nathan M. Farlow. He was numbered among the “second relief”, or the influx of immigrants who came to Montgomery county some fifteen years after its pioneer days and gave to it a new blood and a renewed vigor of citizenship. October 20th, 1887, was the day he began his residence among the toilers and the prairie pioneers, and he located on section 16, township 33, range 14, municipality of Rutland. He was actively connected with farm culture and improvement ‘till November 11th, 1902, when he established himself and his, now reduced family, in the village of Bolton, where he is modestly and quietly passing the evening of life.
Nathan M. Farlow is a native of Orange county, Indiana, born January 5th, 1842. His father, Jonathan Farlow, was one of the pioneers of the then Territory of Indiana, having settled there in 1811, an emigrant from the state of North Carolina. The latter was born in Orange county, the old, “Tar Heel State” in 1807, and accompanied his father, Joseph Farlow, into Indiana, where the first work of clearing up the heavily-timbered region was just taking place. The family were of the English Quaker stock, whose antecedents settled in North Carolina from the colony in Pennsylvania and were of the direct followers of William Penn. Jonathan Farlow was a quiet, dignified gentleman, industrious and thrifty, and performed a manly and honorable part in the affairs of his county in whatever capacity he was designated to occupy. He married Ruth, a daughter of John Maris, and died in 1873, thirty years after the death of his first wife. The children of the first marriage of Jonathan Farlow were: Jane, wife of Mark Hill, of Orange county, Indiana; Joseph of Bolton, Kansas; Deborah, who died in February, 1900, was the wife of John B. Atkinson, of Montgomery county; Thomas, who died in Orange county, Indiana, in January 1886; and Nathan M., of this record. Mary Hill became the second wife of Jonathan Farlow, and their children were: Lindley, of Kokomo, Indiana; Ruth, who died in 1875; Ellen, wife of Joseph Trimble, of Orange county, Indiana; and Sena, unmarried and residing in the same Indiana county.
The Maris’s are among the first settlers of Pennsylvania. They emigrated from Inkborough, in the county of Worcestor, England, in 1683, and joined the Quaker colony in Pennsylvania. George Maris was the founder of this branch of plain Quaker folk and the records show that he left England on account of his arrest and imprisonment for permitting a meeting of this religious sect at his house. His friends armed him with a letter commending him to the colony in America, and reciting in it consistency of his religious life and other striking traits of real character. This George Maris is the eighth gentlemen removed from Ruth Maris, the mother of the subject of this sketch.
Nathan M. Farlow came to manhood’s estate at a time and in a country when and where there was a prime opportunity to work. He “passed through” school in just a little while and it is not unfair to assume that while he was doing this feat he was also making a hand on the farm. He enlisted, January 4th, 1864, in Company F, 13th Ind. Vol. Cavalry, under Col. G. M. L. Johnson. The regiment was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, and saw service in the States of Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi and Kentucky. He was with Gen. Grierson and Participated in some sharp bouts with the enemy of its own country, prior to its final order to rendezvous at Vicksburg, Mississippi, where its muster our occurred November 18th, 1865, by special order No. 76.
February 4th, 1868, Mr. Farlow married Martha Cloud, a daughter of Daniel and Mary A. (Milliken) Cloud, both of which families—the Clouds and the Millikens—were from the State of North Carolina. Beside Mrs. Farlow, the other Cloud children were a sister, Ann, deceased wife of James Jones, of Orange County, Indiana and a brother, William Cloud, of the same county and state. Mrs. Farlow was born February 21st, 1849, was reared on a farm, where her mother died in 1866, and her father in 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Farlow’s children are four in number, as follows: Elmer, a farmer in Montgomery county, Kansas, is married to Ella Finney; Harry, a merchant of Bolton, is married to Carrie Metzger; Mamie, wife of Daniel Webster Finney, of Montgomery county, Kansas; William C., who occupies the family homestead in Rutland township, has taken him to wife, Blanche Brownell.
Upon his return from the army Mr. Farlow resumed farming and has continued it without material interruption. He has participated in the affairs of his municipality as one interested in the public welfare and when such participation involved a question of political action, he has been an unswerving Republican. He never experienced confusion of opinions and consequent change of front when “ the great breakup of 1890” came on and he forecasted the comparative temporary character of that movement from the period of its first victory. Mr. Farlow is a trustee of the County High School, member of G. A. R. and A. H. T. A.
