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- A Biographical History of Central Kansas, Volumes 2 (on microfiche)
- by The Lewis Publishing Company, pub. 1902.
- Biographies in this work are well written and contain an abundance of genealogical data. One such biography for Lewis Laverty mentions that his grandfather was one of the first to arrive in Boston where he worked as a weaver. Lewis came to Reno county with his parents, at which time there were only six families in the county. The biography tells who he married as well as giving information about his children, parents and grandparents.
- This microfiche combines all the segments into one.
- There is a list of biographies at the beginning of this records. Pages 761 through 1633 are on 15 microfiche. The text is clear and easy to read.
- Sample biography:
EDWARD CHILDS.
- One of the enterprising citizens of Hoisington is Edward Childs, a progressive hardware merchant, who established business here in 1898. He was born in Stark county, Illinois, in 1865, and is a son of John Childs, who came with his family to Kansas in 1878 and located on section 4, Union township, Barton county, where he entered the southeast half of the northwest quarter, residing there until his retirement from business life. At that time he was the owner of other farming lands adjoining. He removed to Bunker Hill, and there his last days were passed. His wife bore the maiden name of Melissa Fisher. The father of our subject was born in England, but the parents were married in New York and they had thirteen children, of whom eight are now living.
- Mr. Childs, of this review, was only thirteen years of age when he came with his father and mother to Kansas, and upon the home farm he was reared, there remaining until he abandoned agricultural pursuits in order to enter business in Hoisington. In 1898, in connection with Messrs. Geery, Mehr and Koch, he established a hardware store, but one by one his partners have withdrawn and in 1898, by purchase of another's interest, he became sole proprietor of the hardware store,which he now owns and conducts. He has a large double store, carrying an extensive line of hardware, queensware, trunks, harness, robes, buggies and carriages, also heavy wagons and all kinds of farming implements. The second floor is used as a tin shop and as a carriage repository. His business is extensive and is constantly growing. His business methods are reliable and in all trade transactions he is trustworthy, promptly meeting every obligation and conducting all business along the line of strict commercial ethics.
- Mr. Childs was united in marriage to Miss Anna Mehr, a daughter of R. Mehr, now a resident of Kansas City. They have had three children: Fred E.: an infant son deceased; and Melissa Elsie Adelia. Socially Mr. Childs is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America and with the Knights of Pythias fraternity. He stands to-day a strong man, strong in the consciousness of well spent years, strong to plan and perform, strong in his credit and good name.
- Surnames on this fiche are:
Baggs Bailey Baldauf Banta Barkell Barr Barrett Bartlebaugh Baumgartner Beachy Beam Becker Beham Benefiel Bennett Berger Berkeley Bigbee Biles Binger Bishop Bissantz Blackmore Blackwelder Blackwell Blake Blank Blanton Blunk Board Boilcau Bolin Bolster Bond Bowles Bowron Boyle Brand Branine Brayton Bressler Bright Brothers Brougher Brown Buck Bulow Burgess Burnett Burns Burris Bush Butler Butts Byers
Cade Cady Cain Callis Campbell Carey Carlisle Carswell Carter Case Casto Cavanaugh Cederberg Chapin Chapman Charlton Chase Chears Chilcott Childs Chitholm Christopher Circle Clark Cloud Cludas Clutter coburn Colborn Cole Collinge Collins Colson Commer Compton Congleton Conkling Conley Conner cook Corliss Courtney Coy Cramm Crawford Crew Crosson Crow Crowl
Daniel Daniels Davenport Davidson Davis Dawson Day Deeds Delp DeMott Denno Dettweiler DeWeese Diamond Dilley Doty Dougherty Douglass Drake Drury Duke Dunn Dymond
Edwards Elliott Evans Ewart
Fair Faris Fayette Fearing Feather Feder Fife Fisher Flora Ford Forney Fort Fortina Fowler Fox Frame Fringer Fugate Fulton
Gafford Gale Galpin Gamble Gano Gant Gawith Geisen Geissert George Gerber Gibson Gilchrist Gilmore Goerz Goctze Goff Goldsmith Goodson Gordon Gosch Grace Gransbury Gray Green Gregory Griem Griffin Groom Grove Guier Guldner
Hager Haggart Haley Hamilton Handy Hanselman Harmon Harris Harrison Hart Hartley Hartshorn Harvey Haston Hathaway Haury Hawk Hay Hayes Haynes Herr Hershner Hewitt Hibben Hicks Hill Hiades Hirst Hobson Hodgdon Hoffman Hoisington Holdren Holscher Horne Horner Hoss Hudson Huff Huggins Hull Hulme Hunter Hutchinson
Isaac
Jackson Jacobs Jagger Jansen Jenness jennings Johnson Johnston Jordan Judy
Keener Keesling Kelley Kennedy Keyes Kimpler King Kininger Kinsey Kipp Kirk Kirkendall Kirkpatrick Koon koons Kramer Krehbiel
Lacy Lake Lakey Langenwalter Larkin Leaf LeBaron LeClere Lennen Leonard Lester Levitt Lewis Liggett Lindholm Lindley Lingo Liscum Litchfield Long Lott Loutzenhiser Lowrey Lynde Lyons
Maddox Magee Maguire Malick Mallory Manson Manuel Maple Markley Marks Markwell Marshall Martin Masemore Mason Massey matthews Maupin Maze McAdoo McBride McBurney McCabe McCague McCardle McClure McColloch McCoy McGowen McInturff McKede McMilan Mead Means Medbery Merryfield Messenger Meyeres Millard Miller Minocks Mitchell Moll Morchouse Motter Mulligan Murphy mussen Myerly Myers
Neal Nees Nelson Nestor Newkirk nichols Nicholson Nickel Noftzger Nossaman
O'Brian O'Donnell Olsen Orndorff Owen
Page Painter Parham Parker Parks Parsons Parvin Patterson Peck Pells Peters Pider Pierce Pipkin Plank Polson Postlethwaite Potes Presnall Prouty Purcell Pursel
Raffington Ragland Rall Ramage Rapp Ratcliff Raynolds Rea Reel Rees Reno Revel Reynolds Rich Richardson Rife Riner Risser Robbins Roelfs Rollins Rolph Rose Ross Ruth Rutledge
Sanders Sanderson Schaefer Schlichter Schmitt Schumacher Scoresby Scott Seaman Seitz Selfridge Sessler Settle Shafer Sharpe Shattuck Shedden Sheldon Sherman Singley Shonyo Shore Showalter Shuler Shultice Shumway Sickman Sinsley Smith Smy5res Snowden Spangler Spaniol Spawr Spear Spore Springer Starr Steckel Sterling Stevens Stone Stout Straton Stubbs Swartley Swartz sweeney Sweetser Sweigard
Tamplin Tanner Tapp Tasker Taylor Tedrow Templin Thomas Thompson Thorn Tilton Trousdale Trouslot Troy Truesdell Tucker Tuttle Tyler Tylor
Updegrove Utter
VanArsdale Vance VanDeventer Vandorsten Vaniman Vanmeter Veal Victor Vincent
Wagner Walker Ward Warner Warnstaff Warren Washbon Waters Watkins Watts Wethered Weihe Weinschenk Welch Welsh White Whitelaw Wilcox Wiley Wilkins Wilson Winfrey Wisner Wohlford Wolfersperger Wood Worick Worrell Worrick Wright Wynn
Yeoman Yiengst Young
Zimmerman
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