A biographical history of central Kansas, Vol. II, Part 1

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Publication date: 1902
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ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01095 0142

M. L.

GENEALOGY COLLECTION

A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

CENTRAL KANSAS

ILLUSTRATED

FORT WAYNE AND ALLEN COUNTY,I

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

EMBELLISHED WITH PORTRAITS OF MANY WELL-KNOWN . PEOPLE OF THIS SECTION OF THE GREAT WEST, WHO HAVE BEEN OR ARE PROMINENT IN ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT.

VOL. II.

NEW YORK AND CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1902

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INDEX.

Abrahams, George F., 1230 Adams, Nelson, 1276 / Ahrens, Henry C., 1349 Alexander, Patterson, 959 Alford, W. C., 830 Allen, James, W., 928 Allen, Levi, 984 Allison, Robert T., 833 Almond, George T., 1585 Archer, Stephen S., 1374 Arrowsmith, John W., 861 Ashcraft, Jacob C., 1440 Athen, Edgar T., 1592 Ayers, Ed F., 1622

Baggs, Robert, 1399 Bailey, Charles T., 903 Bailey, George H., 1222 Bailey, Herman A,, 867 Bailey, John P., 1398 Baldauf, J. H., 1595 Banta, Daniel A., 950 Barkell, Michael, 1432 Barr, Robert W., 943 Barrett, Henry C., 1295 Bartlebaugh, Alexander L., 1014 Baumgartner, Abraham, 841 Beachy, Richard, 1565 Beam, James M., 1510 Becker, Erskine, 1362 Becker, Peter, 1593 Beeler, Fred, 1246 Beham, L. P., 1326 Benefiel, William M., 796 Bennett, Edward T., 1487 Berger, Peter, 1608 Berkeley, Mahlon C., 1564 Bigbee, Wilson S., 1436 Biles, Phineas K., 935 Binger, Gustav H., 1372 Bishop, A. J., 1147 Bissantz, Louis, 997 Blackmore, Samuel C., 1067 Blackwelder, Jacob F., 1041 Blackwell, Benjamin A., 1492 Blake, Nathan J., 1568 Blank, Jacob, 948 Blanton, Napoleon B., 1573 Blunk, John W., 1520 Board, Jacob K., 1197 Boileau, Alexander, 1375 Bolin, Hamilton, 1486

Bolster, David, 1513 Bond, Charles C., 1193 Bowles, Samuel, 1438

Bowron, Albert G., 1394

Boyle, Charles, 1481

Boyle, L. E., 1482

Boyle, M. C., 1482

Brand, G. C., 1544

Branine, George W., 1493 Brayton, L., 811

Bressler, John W., 942

Bright, J. D., 1381

Brothers, Ira S., 1630

Brougher, Ira D., 958

Brown, George, 1545

Brown, John C., 1582

Brown, John M., 1522

Brown, O. G., 1380

Brown, Willard R., 1608

Brown, William, 1131 Buck, John L., 1008

Bulow, Henry F., 946

Burgess, George G., 1491

Burnett, N. M., 860

Burns, William F., 1210 Burris, William, 990

Bush, G. E., 1184

Butler, Horace, 133I

Butts, A. H., 1514 Byers, Albert, 913

Cade, George C., 1165

Cady, Lewis R., 1297 Cain, Charles, 902 Callis, David H., 962

Campbell, Charles. 1280

Campbell, William, 1344 Carey, Peter, 991

Carlisle, John A., 929

Carswell, William C., 992 Carter, Stephen, 963 Case, George H., 1089

Casto, Millard F., 1340 Cavanaugh, Greenville W., 1127 Cederberg, Nels S., 1242 Chapin, Will, 1257 Chapman, Stephen B., 909 Charlton, William, IOII Chase, A. Sidney, 793 Chase, Dwight W., 1473 Chears, Abijah S., 1010 Chilcott, John, 1031

Childs, Edward, 774 Chisholm, Benjamin F., 1307 Christopher, Charles L., 1419 Circle, Duncan M., 954 Circle, John R., 924 Clark, C. D., 1150 Clark, Robert, 1019

Cloud, A. S., 1538 Cloud, John J., 809 Cludas, A. L., 1133

Clutter, Samuel, 1314

Coburn, Thomas B., 1523

Colborn, Frank C., 876 Cole, P. B., 1265

Collinge, Adam, 1158 Collins, W. T., 1018

Colson, Angelo, 822 Colson, John, 1229 Commer, Carey J., 848 Compton, Harry, 938 Congleton, George W., 1270

Conkling, Daniel, 1371

Conley, George E., 1627

Conner, Mrs. Josephine, 1460

Cook, S. C., 1605 Corliss, Ozro J., 994 Courtney, Mrs. Sabina B., 1569

Coy, Daniel J., 1615 Cramm, George, 886

Crawford, James F., 1211

Crew, J. W., 1590

Crew. Walter F., 1588

Crosson, John, 1482 Crow, Isaac, 856 CrowI, John F., 1178

Daniel, John H., 1221 Daniels, Martin L., 899 Davenport, A. B., 971 Davidson, James A., 816 Davis, Charles H., 1024 Davis, George P., 1454

Davis, Nathan M., 1515 Davis, Samuel K., 1136 Dawson, Orrin W., 951 Day, Frank, 1442 Deeds, J. L., 1335 Delp. S. E., 896 DeMott, Abraham, 1245 Denno, Charles P., 1013 Dettweiler, Abraham, 1128 De Weese, Benjamin F., 120I

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INDEX.

Diamond, Henry P., 1345 Dilley, Thomas A., 1552 Doty, Andrew B., 1057 Doty, Charles E., 907 Dougherty, Robert, 912 Douglass, Ithamore E., 1364 Drake, B. L., 1250

Drake, Francis C., 916 Drury, M. F., 1016 Duke, David W., 1198 Dunn, Joseph F., 1338 Dymond, James, 1174

Edwards, D. O., 1594

Elliott, Garnett, 1107 Elliott, William Q., 1336 Elliott, W. S., 1118 Evans, John, 1228 Ewart, John E., 1126

Fair, John P., 1579 Faris, Henry V., 1365

Fayette, William H., 1305 Fearing, Frederick C., 1317

Feather, James R., 1114

Feder, William P., 1328

Fife, Lionel E., 1470 Fisher, J. J., 1179 Flora, Asbury, 795 Flora, Levi, 1574 Ford, J. A., 1272

Forney, Samuel V., 1427

Forrey, Henry B., 1319

Fort, Homer F., 782 Fortna, David K., 1173

Fowler, Job N., 1617

Fox, James B., 1296

Fox, Marion, 854 Frame, Louis, 1065

Fringer, The Family, 1530 Fugate, John O., 1441 Fulton, John W., 989

Gafford, Joseph C., 1146 Gale, Jonathan D., 1496 Gale, The Family, 1496 Galpin, William C., 1452 Gamble, J. F., 1614 Gano, J. B., 1030 Gant, Richard V., 1421 Gawith, John, 1283 Geisen, Jacob, 918 Geissert, Lewis, 847

George, Emmett D., 807 Gerber, Jacob, 1454 Gibson, J. S., 1192 Gilchrist, Andrew B., 1238 Gilmore, Jeremiah J., 1403 Goerz, David, 1080 Goetze, John C., 107I Goff, Jetho G., 1123 Goldsmith, Gilbert M., 843 Goodson, John J., 1320 Gordon, Robert, 956 Gosch, George, 1040 Grace, Elijah, 1254 Gransbury, Henry A., 760 Gray, Solon, 1475 Green, H. L., 893

Green, John, 1395

Gregory, John, 878

Gregory, William, 1472

Griem, R. F., 1288

Griffin, Samuel, 1020

Groom, .J. W., 1566

Grove, Henry, 1392

Guier, Charles, 1159

Guldner, Benjamin, 1155 Guldner, Edward, 1157

Guldner, George, 1153

Guldner, Gustave, 1156

Guldner, John, 1152

Guldner, Nicholas, 1154

Guldner, William, 1150

Hager, Zachariah, 1187 Haggart, Darius C., 1347

Haley, Abraham, 915

Haley, Mrs. Isaac, 877

Hamilton, G. M., 1545

Hamilton, William S., 905 Handy, Edward S., 1110 Hanselman, David, 1290

Harmon, Robert M., 1581

Harris, James R., 1516

Harris, William H., 1388

Harris, William H., 858 Harrison, William, 1453

Hart, George, 771

Hartley, William, 1226

Hartshorn, J. S., 1521 Harvey, Roland B., 1132

Harvey, S. T., 831 Haston, James, 1401

Hathaway, John L., 1185

Haury, Daniel, 1253

Hawk, Phillip A., 1247

Hay, Adolph, 1053

Hayes, Jacob B., 1325

Haynes, Joseph H., 843

Herr. A. L., 859 Herr, Uriah C., 1528

Hershner, Josiah C., 898 Hewitt, Frank, 1368 Hibben, William D., 840 Hicks, Andrew J., 945

Hill, Edward C., 1223

Hill, Sheldon E., 1077

Hindes, William P., 1168

Hirst, Samuel, 1546 Hobson, Felix, 957

Hodgdon, David P., 1046

Hodgson, George W., 1577

Hoffman, George M., 804 Hoffman, G. S., 1460 Hoisington, Perry M., 1104 Holdren, George E., 1237 Holscher, Herman, 882 Horne, Lewis S., 1092 Horner, B. F., 1284

Hoss, George D., 1164 Hudson, David D., 821 Huff, Andrew S., 874 Huggins, Joseph W., 799 Hull, George G., 1236 Hulme, George H., 774 Hunter, William E., 985 Hutchinson, A. M., 1488

Hutchinson, C. C., 1336 Isaac, Elizabeth Z., 1610

Jackson, David, 1207 Jacobs, James H., 1304 Jagger, Joseph, 1299 Janssen, Brothers, 1632 Janssen, Hie, 1632 Jenness, John J., 1038 Jennings, Obediah, 825 Johnson, Albert C., 1624 Johnson, August, 927

Johnson, Charles W., 768 Johnston, Joseph E., 1097

Jordan, Isaac N., 838 Judy, Alexander S., 1494

Keener, W. H., 1459 Keesling, George R., 832 Kelley, John B., 931

Kennedy, Andrew V., 982 Keyes, John F., 1035

Kimpler, Peter B., 939 King, John L., 1101 Kininger, J. E., 1373 Kinsey, Andrew S., 1135

Kipp, Andrew, 1601 Kirk, Thomas, Jr., 829 Kirkendall, William, 961 Kirkpatrick, Grant, 1414 Kirkpatrick, Henry N., 1279

Koon, Harrison B., 1451 Koons, F. W., 1312 .

Kramer, George R., 1079 Krehbiel, Christian, 1006

Lacy, Burd, 100I Lake, Reuben, 863 Lakey, Henry W., 1064 Langenwalter, Daniel, 897

Larkin, Arthur, 791 Leaf. John P., 875 LeBaron, Solon, 1243 LeClere, Joseph, 1326 Lennen, F. W., 864 Leonard, E. S., 1389 Lester, John A., 839

Levitt, Richard T., 1464 Lewis, David J., 940 Lewis, Howard S., 776 Liggett, John S., 1171 Lindholm, J. A., 1444 Lindley, T. L., 1027 Lingo, John C., 1343 Liscum, Frank H., 1479 Litchfield, George, 1160 Long, David B., 1260 Long, George F., 855 Lott, George W., 1119 Loutzenhiser, C. H., 901

Lowrey, L. G., 1293 Lynde, Alonzo, 1397 Lyons, J. A., 1280

Maddox, William A., 1203 Magee, Henry G., 1533 Maguire, Francis P., 1309 Malick, A. J., 1561

INDEX.

Mallory, William E., 1322 Manson, Walter, 1484 Manuel, John V., 1208 Maple, Silas, 920 Markley, Ben, 1440

Markley, Israel. 1099

Marks, Enoch C., 808 Markwell, W. P., 786 Marshall, Elmer E., 1587 Martin, G. M., 975

Masemore, F. N., 947

Painter, Charles C., 1529

Painter & Herr, 1527

Parham, John B., 1275

Matthews, HI. E., 1181

Maupin, W. H., 1404 Maze, Walter W .. 1020

AcAdoo, Barnett A., 869

Parsons, William L., 1034

Parvin, James H., 1003

Patterson, Robert G., 1411

Peck, C. C., 881

Pells, William, 1604

Peters, W. D., 1378

Peters, William N., 1353

Pider, Christian, 1049

Pierce, Daniel L., 1062

Pipkin, Henry W., 1598

Plank, Levi, 1352

Polson, Samuel, 969

Postlethwaite, William, 1461

Potes, J. W., 895

Presnall, Lindley M., 9448

Prouty, Amos, 1021

Purcell, John M., 977

Pursel, William, 1182

Raffington, Arthur D., 938 Ragland, Benjamin J., 792

Rall, E. B., 1076

Ramage. Albert, 1224

Ramage. Samuel W., 1232

Rapp. J. B., 1420

Rateliff, Elisha S., 781

Ratcliff. John M., 1591

Raynolds, Elmer L., 1078

Rea. John B., 1087

Reel, Jonas M., 763

Rees, Franklin C., 1139

Reno, Samuel D., 1447

Revel, Henry B., 1416

Reynolds, Augustus B., 1205

Reynolds, Frank E., 1405 Rich, John, 1529

Richardson, Aurelitts, 1271

Richardson, Melvin E., 766

Rife. William H., 1333

Riner, William, 1058 Risser, Christian, 1112 Robbins, James H., 1625 Robbins, W. B .. 892 Roelfs. Henry, 879

Rollins. Isaac, 1463

Rolph, Thomas S., 1430

Rose, Rial D., 1318

Ross, Charles M., 1505

Ross, O. A., 891

Ruth, John W., 1116

Ruth, Daniel, 852 Ruth, Henry G., 1120

Rutledge, E. H., 1384

Sanders, John A., 1002 Sanderson, William. 1271 Schaefer, Charles, 1286 Schlichter, John B., 1176 Schmitt, Jacob E., 1004 Schumacher, Lewis F., 817 Scoresby, Fred S., 770 Scott, George W., 1251 Scott, James M., 1085 Seaman, Chauncey A., 1088

Seitz, George, 1507 Selfridge, John T., 1616

Sessler, Martin J. M., 1554

Settle, C. E., 1056 Settle, Charles, 917

Settle, Theodore C., 1623

Settle, William E., 1443

Shafer, Joseph, 779

Shafer, Samuel E., 1268

Sharpe. Charles O., 1172

Shattuck, Samuel W., 1096

Shedden, Thomas H., 1218

Sheldon, Dennison, 787

Sheldon, J. N., 978 Sherman, M. M., 1134 Shigley, Grant G .. 987 Shonyo, Frank, 885 Shore, Erastus, 1123 Showalter, Abraham L., 820

Shuler, William, 1511

Shultice, C. IL., 1303

Shumway, Henry L., 1342

Sickman, Daniel, 1628

Sinsley, Marion F., 1259

Smith, Andrew J., 1115

Smith, G. W., 1122

Smith Henry C., 1410

Smith, James E., 1457 Smith, John F., 1320 Smith, John L., 1390

Smith, Joseph W., 1095

Smith, Phillip A., 802

Smith, Robert W., 922

Smith, William H., 868 Smyres, Daniel P., 952 Snowden, David FT., 813 Spangler, Simon M., 1610 Spaniol, Peter M., 824 Spawr, Charles W., 1541

Spear, Amos A., 919 Spore. Zenas S., 1606 Springer, James W .. 910 Springer, Robert. 884

Springer. W. B., 1471 Starr, William H., 888

Steckel Frederick, 1214 Sterling, William J., 936

Stevens, G. W., 973 Stevens, John T., 952

Stone, Harry M., 1412

Stone, Howard E., 1126

Stout, R. R., 1277 Stout, S. A., 1283

Stratton, George, 1161

Stratton, George D., 1054

Stratton. John, 1093

Nicholson, John C., 1029

Nickel, Phillip, 1074 Noftzger, Thomas A., 1532

Nossaman, L. D., 789 Nossaman, W. P., 1216

O'Brian, A. J .. 972 O'Donnell. Henry, 1619 Olsen, B. H., 1235 Orndorff, Hezekiah, 1450 Owen, J. H., 983

Page, George W., 1289

Mason, Henry C., 1103 Massey, Joseph P., 1069

McAdoo, Isaac N., 1084 McAdoo, William J., 1081

McBride, Robert H., 1500 McBurney, Alexander, 1044 McBurney, James B., 777 McCabe, Wesley, 844 McCague, W. H., 1017 AcCardle, J. B., 1143 McClure. John G., 1012

McColloch, Robert P., 827 McCoy, Dale S., 1001 McCoy. Joseph A., 1059 MeGowen, Samuel F., 1022

Melnturff, Andrew, 976

McKee, James, 1428

McKee, John R., 1542 Mc Millan, W. H., Mead, Reginald H., 1572 Means, Alexander, 933

Medbery, J. Frank, 1556

Merryfield, Riley J., 1043

Messenger, Henry N., 1448 Messenger, William H., 1240

Meyeres, Nicholas M., 1602 Millard. Robert W., 967

Miller, Andrew J., 1292

Miller, Henry P., 1313 Miller, John L., 846

Miller, William A., 1351

Miller, W. W., 1536

Minocks, George W., 1572

Mitchell, O. P .. 850

Moll. C. C., 773 Morehouse, Hiram N., 1405 Motter, George R., 1547 Mulligan, Joseph E., 1113 Murphy, Samuel, 1391 Murphy, Thomas, 1023

Mussen, Jerry, 1199

Myerly, Noah E., 004 Myers, Abraham A., 800 Myers, B. A., 1329

Neal, J. B., 1220 Nees, Isaac, 1364 Nelson, Magnus M., 1512 Nestor, Marshall, 1445 Newkirk, Charles D., 1596 Nichols, Taylor C., 1207

Stubbs. Joseph H., 1468

Swartley, John R., 1009 Swartz, Henry, 1476

Parker, the Creamery Company 1524 Parks, Mrs. Minnie E., 1500

INDEX.

Sweeney, John, 1333 Sweetser, Charles H .. 1539 Sweigard, Samuel, 708

Tamplin, W. H .. 1425

Tanner, Peter. 932

Tapp, Evan M., 1249

Tapp, Isaac W., 1248

Tasker, Emma J., 1005

Taylor, Fieldon, 870

Tedrow, Douglass F., 1169

Templin, Albert, 1484

Thomas, R. A., 1386

Thompson, Rinaldo F .. 1400

Thorn, Frank, 1590

Tilton, Jonathan F .. 1360

Trousdale, W. J., 960

Trouslot, Julius R .. $19

Troy, Benjamin F .. 1144 Truesdell, Richard R .. 925

Tucker, H. H .. 1549

Tuttle, Daniel. 1167

Tyler, George R., 1052

Tylor, Humphrey, 1501

Updegrove, Jacob B .. 784 Utter, Charles A., 1507

VanArsdale. Cortland. 1072

Vance, Daniel J., 109I

Vance, Robert H., 1200

VanDeventer. Christopher C .. 1350

Vandorsten, W. S., 1183

Vaniman. J. P .. 785 Vanmeter, William M., 1433 Veal, John, 1564 Victor, Robert M., 1215 Vincent, Harvey B., 1213

Wiley, Joseph, 980

Wilkins, O. S., 1631

Wilson, Andrew W., 1570

Wilson, Jesse H .. 1408

Wilson, Marion T .. 1163

Wilson, Morrison W .. 964

Wilson, Thomas P., 836

Wilson, T. R .. 1571

Winfrey, William C., 1234

Wisner, Henry, 1273

Wisner. J. N., 1273

Wohlford, George W., 1339

Wolfersperger, Henry F., 1478

Wood, A. J .. 1239

Warren, James H., 1129

Wood, Charles H .. 1385

Waters. Isaac W. 1500

Wood, T. J., 1387

Watkins, Elden R .. 1000

Watkins. W. A., 998

Worrell. James P .. 1400

Worrick, John H .. 1563

Wright, Isaac V .. 1037

Wright, Moses, 866

Weinschenk. Frank H .. 872

Wynn. Albert, 1190

Welch. John A., 1357

Wynn. C. D., 1177

Wynn, Mrs. Sarah J., 1613

Welsh. D. S., 1278

Welsh, George W., 1149

Welsh, Horace G., 762

Viengst, Frank. 880

Young, Alonzo. 1355

Young, George W .. 1075

Young, R. C., 1377

Young, W. H., 1032

Whitelaw, Chester W., 1281

Wilcox. Daniel W .. 1048

Zimmerman, George H .. 1347

Wagner, Albert. 1300

Walker, Christian L., 1-264

Walker, Robert J., 1040

Walker. William P., 1252

Ward, Charles E .. 806

Warner, Wilber H .. 1189

Warner, William A., 1190

Warnstaff, Noah, 1559

Washbon, Fred .. 1057

Wood. Edgar, 1138

Worick, Reuben, 1050

Watts, Hiram P., 1227

Weathered, Pleasant B., 1519 Weihe. C. H .. 883

Welch, Otto R., 1231

Yeoman, Marcus M., 775

White, Hayes B., 1586

White, William H .. 1504

White, W. R., 944

MR. AND MRS. HENRY A. GRANSBURY.

A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

CENTRAL KANSAS.

HENRY A. GRANSBURY.

Among the many residents of central Kansas, who are of English descent, none Is more highly respected than the venerable Henry A. Gransbury, who is living a life of retirement on his farm in Walnut town- ship, Reno county, near Sterling. Mr Gransbury, who has lived the peaceful life of a farmer, is descended from ancestors who have been soldiers and sailors. His father, Stephen Gransbury, was born in Kent, England, in 1795, and came to Amer- ica in 1829, making a nine weeks' voyage in a schooner, the captain of which was lost and which eventually went to the West In- dies. For nine years Mr. Gransbury was a sailor on a British man-of-war. Stephen Gransbury, father of Stephen Gransbury, and grandfather of Henry A. Gransbury, served eighteen years, six months and twen- ty days as a private in the British army and was never disciplined for insubordination. and after he came to America was very use- fully employed in drilling state militia troops in the state of New York. He came to the United States in 1836, bringing with him his wife, one of his sons and a grand- child. His wife died in Delhi, New York. in April. 1855, and he died in September, following. He was born in 1773. his wife in 1775. and he was eighty-two years old at the time of his death, and his wife, eighty. They reared two sons and three daughters.

Stephen Gransbury, father of Henry A. Gransbury, married Ann Crowhurst, of

Kent, England, June 9, 1816. They had eleven children, of whom they reared seven to years of maturity. They lost twin sons by death. Henry A. Gransbury, who was born at Courtright Center, Delaware coun- ty, New York, December 31, 1829, was the seventh child of his parents and the only one of their sons born in America who is now living. His brother, John, is a re- tired fruit grower and lives near Walton, New York. He had five sons in the Union army during the Civil war and one of them was shot through the head. Two sons of Oliver Gransbury, another of Mr. Grans- bury's brothers, were soldiers in the Civil war also, and when it is stated that John. George and Oliver Gransbury all periled their lives on southern battlefields in defense of the stars and stripes and that Oliver was killed in battle and was buried near where he fell, no room is left for doubt that mem- bers of this family were actuated by patri- otic love of country, whether that of their birth or of their adoption. Stephen Grans- bury, Sr., was a British soldier in London when Queen Victoria was crowned, and loyal as he was to the parent country his descendants were no less loyal to America in her time of need.

Stephen and Ann (Crowhurst) Grans- bury were married in 1816. She died in Delaware county, New York, August 10. 1857; Mr. Gransbury in Cattaraugus coun- ty, New York, in 1863. The subject of this sketch was reared to woodland farming in New York state. aiding in the work of clear-

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ing land and putting it under cultivation. He acquired a fair common-school education and when not in school and not needed at home he worked for neighboring farmers. He was married June 26, 1851, to Julia Ann Bolton, who was born at Trumansburg, Tompkins county, New York, January 20, 1832, a daughter of James S. and Lucinda ( Williams ) Bolton, the latter a native of Colchester. New York. Of their thirteen children they reared six sons and three daughters to maturity. Esther Abigail died at the age of twelve years; Alester A. died at the age of two years, a few hours after the birth of one of his brothers; Eveline, who married Hiram Heath and lives at Exira, Iowa, has five children ; Matilda mar- ried David B. Cuppy and died November 7, 1888, leaving an only child, Mary A., then an infant, who was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Gransbury, who have reared her as their daughter, and whom she assists and comforts in many ways; Freeman L. has a wife and four children and lives in Okla- homa: Washington, also of Oklahoma, has six children : Melinda E. married Charles B. Deitz, of Kingston, New York, and has seven children; Ida M. married Henry A. Conklin and lives in Oklahoma ; Emma N., who married Joseph Linn and lives in Okla- homa, has four children ; Lillie M. married Otha Bell and has a little daughter, who is a member of her parents' household; Addi- son A. died in Walton township, Reno coun- ty, Kansas, in 1899, aged thirty-six years, and left four children, who with their mother live at Sterling, Rice county.

Mr. Gransbury is in feeble health and is retired from active life. His adopted grand- children worthily repay him and his good wife for the interest they have taken in them, being helpful and inspiring to the highest degree.

HORACE G. WELSH, M. D.

Among the able and popular represen- tatives of the medical profession in the state of Kansas is Dr. Welsh, who main- tains his residence in the thriving city of

Hutchinson, where he controls a large prac- tice, giving special attention to surgery, and where he has established a private hos- pital which is one of the best of the sort in the state, being finely equipped and having a corps of able assistants to the Doctor, who maintains direct supervision of the institu- tion, which was opened on December 2, 1901, and which supplies accommodations and facilities whose need has been definitely recognized in the city, the enterprise and progressive spirit of Dr. Welsh leading him to thus found the hospital. In the surgical branch of his profession particularly has he attained a high reputation, and he is recog- nized as one of the most skillful practition- ers in this line in the Sunflower state.

Dr. Welsh is a native of the old Buck- eye state, having been born in the city of Fostoria, Seneca county, Ohio, on the Ist of October, 1855. He was reared on a farm in that county and received his pre- liminary educational discipline in the coun- try schools. At the age of eighteen years he was matriculated in the Ohio Wesleyan University, in the city of Delaware, where he completed his more purely literary stud- ies. lle began teaching school in 1876, and was successfully engaged in pedagogic work for a period of three years. In 1878 he began reading medicine in the office of Dr. Henry Hale, in Fostoria, and thereafter de- voted a year to technical study in the Ohio Medical College, in Cincinnati, after which he completed his collegiate medical and surgical courses in the celebrated Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, being graduated in this institution as a member of the class of 1880, and receiving his cov- eted degree of Doctor of Medicine. Thus thoroughly fortified for the work of his chosen profession, Dr. Welsh located in the city of Defiance, Ohio, where he was en- gaged in active practice for a period of three years, within which time he was local surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road. In the year 1883 he located at Mer- rill. Wisconsin, where he built up an excel- lent practice, there maintaining his residence for three years. In 1889 Dr. Welsh came to Kansas, and was engaged in the practice

WELSH PRIVATE HOSPITAL.

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of his profession in the northeastern part of the state until 1895, which represents the date of his arrival in Hutchinson, where he has gained a large and representative practice, having made a specialty of surgery since 1893. In December, 1901, the Doc- tor completed the erection and equipment of his private hospital, a commodious and modern building, located at 514 North Main street, and the accommodations there afford- ed have not lacked for popular appreciation, many patients having already been given treatment in the institution, where the Doc- tor employs a corps of fully qualified trained nurses. The sanitary and other equip- ments of the hospital are of the best type, and here are afforded excellent facilities for the treatment of surgical cases, as well as all classes of disease. The private offices of Dr. Welsh. are established in a fine suite of the Masonic Temple, and in addition to his regular practice he holds the position of lo- cal surgeon for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. In. politics he exercises his franchise in support of the principles and policies of the Republican party, and fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is one of the leading physicians of this section of the state, and is honored both professionally and as a citi- zen of sterling character.

JONAS M. REEL.

The state of Indiana has furnished to Kansas an element in its population that has been influential for intellectual enlighten- ment and material development. Of the class of citizens here indicated Jonas M. Reel, whose farm is in the west half of the southeast quarter and the east half of the southwest quarter of section fourteen, Ha -. ven township, Reno county, Kansas, and whose post office is at Mount Hope, is a conspicuous representative.

Jonas M. Reel, who is one of the most successful general farmers in his vicinity, was born in Knox county, Indiana, Septent-

ber 24, 1849, a son of Jacob Reel, also a farmer, who was born in North Carolina about 1808 and a grandson of Godfrey Reel, who was a native of Germany. God- frey Reel, who had served his time in the German army, married in his native land and came the United States with no educa- tion. except in his own language, unable to speak a word of English. He and his wife located in North Carolina, where they lived for many years, until with a family of five children they removed to Indiana and set- tled on government land in a densely tim- bered region south of Vincennes. There he became prosperous and well-to-do: and prominent in local affairs, and there both he and his wife died. When he passed away about sixty acres of his land had been cleared and put under profitable cultivation. The children of Godfrey Reel were named Moses, Jacob, Abraham, David and Kate, and all of them married and had families and died in Indiana, where descendants of most of them are still living. Jacob, the second in order of birth, was married when he was about twenty years old to Fannie Killion, who was born in Daviess county, same state, about 1812, of German parents who were pioneers there. After his mar- riage he entered and located on forty acres of government land near his father's home- stead in Knox county, Indiana, to the acre- age of which he added until he had a well improved and valuable homestead of one hundred and eighty acres, on which he and his good wife lived until they died,-he in 1860 and she in 1864. In politics he was a Democrat and he was an active and offi- cial member of the Methodist church, the house of worship of which body in his neighborhood was built on land donated by his father.

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A biographical history of central Kansas, Vol. II, Part 1

Author: Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago Publication date: 1902 Publisher: New York Chicago: The Lewis publishing company Number of Pages: 1084

Author: Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: New York Chicago: The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 1084