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THOMAS M. TOWNSEND, farmer, P. O. Columbus, was born in the State of New York, March 20, 1820. He received an academic education and began farming at the age of fourteen in New York, where he remained until 1876, at which time he came to Kansas and settled on his present farm, which contains 320 acres, now run as a grain, stock and fruit farm. In 1882, he sold 500 bushels of apples at $1 per bushel. He has peaches and plums and all kinds of small fruits in abundance. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was married to Miss Sarah M. Rappleye, of New York State, in 1848. They have five children—Abram Rappleye, Sarah Alice, Thomas Irving, Harry Clay and Willis Chester Tarus. Abram Rappleye was born in 1849, graduating at Cornell University, of Ithaca, N. Y., in 1872; he attended the Medical School at Philadelphia in 1873. Was married to Ida Baker, of Ithaca, in 1874. He is now running a drug store at Marshalltown, Iowa. Sarah Alice was born in 1850, and married, in 1879, to M. M. Edmiston, a lawyer, of Columbus, Kan. The remaining children are at home attending school under Prof. Cutler, of Fort Scott, Kan.