Martha Amanda Stephens (F)
#384859

     Martha Amanda Stephens married Henry Jackson Little, son of Theophilus Little 3rd. and Eunice Weeks, on 27 December 1855 at Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

Sarah Elliott Taylor (F)
b. circa January 1832, #384860
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     Sarah Elliott Taylor was also known as Eunice Taylor. Sarah Elliott Taylor was born circa January 1832 at Ohio. She was the daughter of General Jonathan Taylor. Sarah Elliott Taylor married Theophilus Little, son of Theophilus Little 3rd. and Eunice Weeks, in 1855 at Licking County, Ohio.
Sarah Elliott Taylor and Theophilus Little appeared on the census of 12 July 1860 at Newark, Licking County, Ohio; real estate value 2,000.00, personal property 3,000.00
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Sarah Elliott Taylor and Theophilus Little appeared on the census of 21 June 1870 at Olathe, Johnson County, Kansas; real estate value 5,000.00, personal property 350.00.
Sarah Elliott Taylor and Theophilus Little appeared on the census of 22 June 1880 at Abilene, Dickinson County, Kansas.
Sarah Elliott Taylor and Theophilus Little appeared on the census of 26 June 1900 at Abilene, Dickinson County, Ohio; 3 children, 2 living. Sarah Elliott Taylor was buried at Abilene Cemetery, Abilene, Dickinson County, Ohio.

Senator Edward Campbell Little (M)
b. 14 December 1858, d. 27 June 1924, #384861
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     Senator Edward Campbell Little was born on 14 December 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 June 1880 at with his parents, Abilene, Dickinson County, Ohio. Senator Edward Campbell Little was shown in the census on 22 June 1880 as a school teacher. He married Edna Margaret Steele on 29 November 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 June 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.

Pages 1524-1527 from volume III, part 2 of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed December 2002 by Carolyn Ward. This volume is identified at the Kansas State Historical Society as microfilm LM195. It is a two-part volume 3.

Clifford Talor Little (M)
#384862
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     Clifford Talor Little is the son of Theophilus Little and Sarah Elliott Taylor. Died at age 2 years.

William Thomas Little (M)
b. circa 1862, d. circa 1908, #384863
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     William Thomas Little was born circa 1862 at Ohio. He was the son of Theophilus Little and Sarah Elliott Taylor. William Thomas Little was shown in the census on 22 June 1880 as a store clerk.
William Thomas Little appeared on the census of 22 June 1880 at with his parents, Abilene, Dickinson County, Ohio. He married Maude Jensen Heileman in 1902. William Thomas Little died circa 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.

Edna Margaret Steele (F)
d. 1943, #384864

     Edna Margaret Steele married Senator Edward Campbell Little, son of Theophilus Little and Sarah Elliott Taylor, on 29 November 1899 at Chapel of Bethany College, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. Edna Margaret Steele and Senator Edward Campbell Little removed to at Kansas City, Jackson County, Kansas, in 1908. Edna Margaret Steele died in 1943 at Kansas City, Jackson County, Kansas.

Donald Campbell Little (M)
b. 29 January 1901, #384866
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     Donald Campbell Little was born on 29 January 1901 at Abilene, Dickinson County, Kansas. He is the son of Senator Edward Campbell Little and Edna Margaret Steele. Donald Campbell Little, born in Abilene in 1901, had a no less illustrious career in law, politics and WWII, receiving the Bronze Star and 5 campaign stars. Little was also a Phi Kappa Psi, Delta Theta Phi (legal) and author. He was the grandson of Theophilus Jr., and descendant of Thomas "Squire" Little.

Donald was 53 when he wrote this account of the Little family. At that time, Susan Heim, the wife of John Wesley Little, was the family historian.

Maude Jensen Heileman (F)
b. circa 1881, #384867

     Maude Jensen Heileman was born circa 1881 at Nebraska. She married William Thomas Little, son of Theophilus Little and Sarah Elliott Taylor, in 1902.
Maude Jensen Heileman appeared on the census of 27 April 1910 at with her grand father John Jameson?, Perry, Noble County, Oklahoma; a widow
2 children, 2 living.

General Jonathan Taylor (M)
#384871

Benjamin Little (M)
b. 1781, d. 1781, #384872
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     Benjamin Little died in 1781. Benjamin Little was born in 1781 at Shrewsbury Twp., Monmouth County, New Jersey. He was the son of Maj Theophilus Little Sr. and Mary Polhemus.