Carroll W. High and Johnson Neal High

Carroll W. High and his family came to Napoleon between 1850 and 1860. Carroll was a blacksmith and established a business in Napoleon near the canal. His wife, Elizabeth, was a milliner.

[Photo, p. 253a] Taken in 1897, Johnson N. High, Marion Palmer (Stout) High, Carl Stout High, Helen H. High. Donated by Marson High French and Lillian C. French, Partridge, Kansas.

Carroll was a son of Frederick and Mary M. (Eckman) High who were married April 4, 1813. He had the following brothers and sisters: Louisa (Eggerman), George, William H., Daniel S., Henry Lee, John C., Andrew J., Mary Susan, and Joseph L. - all were born in Frederick County, Maryland. The family moved to Richland County, Ohio, between 1833 and 1838 and lived in Jefferson Township. Carroll's mother, Mary, was interred in Bellville, Ohio, Cemetery, November, 1838. Carroll died April 16, 1866, at Napoleon.
Carroll (born February 26, 1815) was married on October 7, 1841, Bellville, Ohio, to Elizabeth W. Neal (born November 28, 1819, Bellmont, Maine). They had one son, Johnson Neal High (born October 3, 1842, Bellville) who grew up in Napoleon and married April 21, 1874, at Napoleon, to Marion Palmer Stout (born August 4, 1851, Napoleon). Marion was a daughter of Joseph A. Stout. J. N. High started practicing law after graduation from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with Major Swigert. He served in the Civil War enlisting at Napoleon, November, 1861, and served with Captain Crockett's Company D., 68th Regiment, Ohio Vol. Infantry.

[Photo, p. 253b] Elizabeth Webber High

J. N. High left the active law practice to enter into employment with the U. S. Department of the Interior. Mr. and Mrs. High were in Oregon with the Interior Department at time of Modoc Indian troubles in 1872. Mr. High appears to have joined his brother-in-law, Al Stout, in a ranching operation near Pocatello, Idaho, about 1872. Mrs. Carroll W. High, mother of J. N. High, was buried at Ross Fork on Ft. Hall Indian Reservation about September 6, 1872. During part of this time, J. N. High was Indian agent at Ft. Hall apparently for the Blackfoot Tribe.

About 1885, J. N. High went to Reno County, Kansas, looking for a place to establish a horse breeding operation to provide "work horses" for expanding agriculture and "city trade" of the area. Mr. High apparently selected Reno County, Kansas, because there were several families in this section of Kansas from Napoleon. Some of these families being: Sidlinger, Bigger, Scheble, Hess, and others.

J. N. High and Marion P. (Stout) High had two children: Carl Stout High, born in Napoleon, August 21, 1875, and Helen Hull High born in Kearney, Nebraska, October 18, 1877. Carl Stout High went to school in Napoleon, Washington, D.C. and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Helen H. High went to school in Napoleon, Hutchinson, Kansas, and Washington, D.C. and graduated from Armour Institute in Chicago. After graduation and prior to marriage, Helen taught in Home Economics Department of what is now Kansas State University at Manhattan, Kansas.

Carl S. High married Clara Isabella French at Partridge, Kansas, in 1907. They have two daughters living at this time: Anabel (High) Collins (born November 25, 1914) who lives on the original "High Ranch" established in1886; Carolyn (High) Jones (born December 4, 1917) has resided in Glendale, California, for the past twenty years.

Carl S. High managed the "High Ranch" in Kansas from about 1900 to 1964, when he passed away and management transferred to Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Collins.

[Photo, p. 253c] Johnson Neal High - husband of Marion Palmer (Stout) High

[Photo, p. 254] Marion Palmer (Stout) High

Helen Hull High married William Marson French September 17, 1903, at the home of her parents at the High Ranch in Troy Township, Reno County, Kansas. They had two children: Marson High French, born February 19, 1905, Partridge, Kansas, and Marion Isabel (French) Parker, born March 15, 1906, Partridge, Kansas.

The following members of the family are interred in the Partridge, Kansas, Reno County, Cemetery: Joseph A. Stout; J. N. High; Marion (Stout) High; Carl S. High; Clara (French) High; Helen (High) French; William Marson French; and Marion Isabel (French) Parker.

Submitted by Marson High French