REPUBLIC COUNTY: LIBERTY TOWNSHIP. A. B. BACHELOR, farmer, P. O. Crainville, was born in Macomb County, Mich., in 1849. In 1858, he emigrated to Hardin County, Iowa, where he lived until 1865; then emigrated to Colorado, remaining there three years. In 1868, he located in Brownville, Nebraska, and attended school until 1878, and then came to Kansas, locating in Republic County and took a homestead on Section 32, Township 1, Range 3. He has 100 acres under the plow, forty acres fenced for pasture, and twenty acres of hay land; has planted five acres of forest trees, 800 fruit trees, mostly peach; has a few apple and plum and cherry trees, besides small fruit of all kinds. He has one and one half miles of hedge, good well and wind-mill, good frame house and barn, and is engaged in raising stock; has fifteen head of cattle, five head of horses, seventy-five head of hogs, and usually has 100 to dispose of annually. He was elected County Commissioner in 1878 for a term of three years. He has served as Town Trustee for some time, and is now on his fourth term. He is one of the leading men in this part of the country, and well liked. He was married in 1873 in Liberty Township, to Miss Mattie James. They have two sons--Frank and Guy. Mr. Bochelor(sic)is a member of Belleville Lodge No. 129, A., F. & A. M. SHAWNEE COUNTY JOHN D. JAMES, carpenter, has been a resident of Cloud County, Kansas, owning a farm of 640 acres in that county, but has disposed of a portion of his land. Was elected president of the National Farmers' Alliance of the United States at the regular annual meeting in Chicago in October, 1881. Has been connected with that organization for ten years, and has visited every state in the Union, to organize subordinate State Alliances and strengthen the cause. Has delivered addresses to nearly every State organization, explaining the objects and aims, and the benefits to be derived therefrom. Has organized 223 subordinate alliances, and was for several years president of Cloud County Alliance. Is chairman of the finance committee of the Kansas State Alliance, and vice-president of alliances in the First Congressional District of Kansas. Was nominated as County Clerk in Cloud County in 1881, but declined for the reason that he preferred to devote his time to alliance work. Was editor and founder of the Enterprise Register of Dickinson County, and brought that paper up to a degree of prosperity that it never before enjoyed. Was born in Ogle County, Ill., July 3, 1848. Remained in his native county until he was thirty years of age--engaged in farming. Learned his trade there. Came to Kansas in 1879, first locating at Concordia, Cloud County, where he engaged in farming and stock-raising. Came to Topeka May 27, 1882. Was married July 6, 1871, at Ashton, Lee Co., Ill., to Miss Maggie A. Putnam, a native of Montgomery County, N. Y., and a distant relative of General Putnam of Revolutionary fame. Have two children--Henry L. and Kitty Louisa. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. HON. THOMAS M. JAMES, North Topeka, inspector of United States surveys, was born at Sandusky, Erie Co., Ohio, October 10, 1840. Remained in his native place until he was sixteen years of age, then entered Oberlin College, leaving that institution while a sophomore. He left college in 1861, and assisted in raising an infantry company for the One Hundred and Seventeenth Ohio Volunteers, which was consolidated in June, 1862, with the First Ohio Artillery, and Mr. James was made Second Lieutenant of Company B.; promoted in November, 1863, to First Lieutenant of Company D. He continued in service until several months after the close of the war. Returning to Ohio, he began the study of law, but soon thereafter was obliged to abandon it on account of ill health, and he then went to Illinois, where he remained until he came to Kansas October 16, 1866, locating on the northeast quarter of Section 17 Town 11 Range 16 being in Soldier Township, Shawnee County, where he now resides. In December, 1868, he was appointed Assistant Internal Revenue Collector, and in 1869 he removed to Topeka, but returned to reside on the farm the following year, holding the office before mentioned, however, until July 1, 1872. In 1871 he was elected County Treasurer and assumed the duties of that office July 1, 1872. He held that position two terms. Afterwards for two years he served as Deputy Treasurer, retiring from that position in the fall of 1878. He had been elected a member of the Legislature in November of that year, and served as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives during the session of 1879; afterwards giving his attention to his farming interests, having extensive agricultural and stock interests. For a short time in 1882 he was interested in mercantile business in North Topeka. In November, 1882, he was again elected a member of the Legislature. He has held various township offices, being now treasurer of his township. He has always been prominently identified with the Republican party, having been a delegate to several State conventions, Congressional conventions, and a member of the Shawnee County Republican Central Committee. He was appointed inspector of United States surveys March 2, 1882. Mr. James was married at Kansas City in January, 1870 to Laura A. Wendell, a native of Arrow Rock, Mo. They have three children--David W., Louis A. and Thomas M., Jr.