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Akin, Rev. Dudley D., D.D 322
Allmon, Elbert
O
382
Anderson, Joel M. 208
Armour, Thomas G.
101
Ash, Fred W 461
Asher, Arthur E 62
Astle, George
1 252
B
Bailey, J. N 775
Bailey, Joe F 457
Bain, Millard F 661
Ballard, Benjamin F 511
Bangs, Merwin B
243
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Barr, Walter G.
757
Barrett, George 1
1 232 1
Barrett, Nelson T
183
Barton, Edward E 760
Bay, C. M. 528
Bay, Clyde 740
Bay, Delmar E 507
439
517
Chubbuck, Willis
530
Bennett, Capt. William
R
296
714
Bloom, Charles
144
Boehm. John J
263
Bonnet, Lee 527
Bowman, Eli 196
Bowser, George R. 160
Bowser, Lemon 162
Brainard, Capt. Jesse 192
Branch, Charles M. 55
Branine. Judge Charles E 36
Brewer, Elmer 271
Brown, Harlow B
Brown, Morrison H
291
Brown, William A
303
Buettner, J. H.
550
Burgess, William H. 387 I
Burris, Martin 256
Buser, Atlee M. 626 1
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Bush, Charles H
405
Bush, James M
659
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Buskirk, James E.
639
1
Bussinger, Martin C.
72
1 Byers, O. P 697
C
Cain, Morris R 614
Calbert, Robert E. L
747
Campbell, John H
283
Campbell, John W
378
Cantwell, George W 674
Carey, HIon. Emerson 33
Carpenter, Fred H. 275
Carr, William E
217
Carson, William F 121
Catte, Joseph 371
Chamberlain, Grant 486
Chapin, Cornelius O
368
Citizens Bank of Hutchinson, The_ Claybaugh, C. W 327
Clothier, J. B 568
Coffman, Capt. George T 560
Coleman, Lewis W. 429
Coleman, Monroe 389
Collingwood, J. M. 768
Collingwood, John A 681
Collingwood, Mrs. Mary 748
Comes, John W. 384
Cone, William R., D.D.S. 203
Conkling. Charles 707
Connelly, William M 470
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54
Bigger, Leander A
Bixler, Thurman J 282
Bear, Arthur M
Beck, Konrad C.
Barrett, M. L. 623 1
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Cook, Fred W., D.V.S. 52
Cook, J. W. 776
Cooper, S. Leslie 774
Cooter, Fred W. 117
Cooter, George W
264
Copeland, Cornelius B 418 ·
Cost, Frank H 684
Crabbs, Abraham B 366
Crawley, William P 720
Crotts, Samuel M
588
1
Crow, Edward G.
1
719
Crow, George I
277
Crow, William R. 320
Curnutt, Henry G.
151
D
Dade. Arthur 174
Dade, Ernest 546
1 Dade, Richard G. 656
Danford, E. F
632
1
1
Danford, Isaiah 221 1
Danford, Louis P 1
1 728
Davies, John M 1 I
245
Dean, Albert A 703 I 1 1
I Deatz, A. J 586 1
Deck, Peter
373
Decker, Thomas J. I 1
670.
1
Dick, James L
478
Dillon, Franklin E I
267
1
Dixon, Albert P
215
Dunn, George W.
493
Dunn, F. M
489
Dunsworth, Buckner W 383
Duvall, Hunter J., M.D
562
E
Eastman, Byron 723
Eastman, Wilbur B. 570
Elliott, Alpheus E 272
Ellis, Peres
424
1 1 Erker, George .1 730
1 1 Eskelson, Swan 155
Everett, Elmer
1 535
F
Fairchild, William G. 85
Fall, George T 624
Farley, Joseph P 218
Farrell, Rev. William M 286
Farthing, Peter R. 520
Farthing, Sylvester 261
Fearl, Frank E.
672
Ferguson, James E 295
·Fernie, George K. 450
Field, Hon. F. C. 312
Firebaugh, Frank F
495
Fontron Family, The
134
Forsha, Fred A
738
Fountain, Albert S., M.D. 552
Fraser. Thomas J
494
G
Gantz. George R.
622
Gaston, Samuel D
112.
Gibson. . Charles
370
Giles, Benjamin E
138
Glass, John W
107
Graham, Robert
J
146
1
Gray, George T.
1
363
Graybill, Samuel S
288
Grayson, John W 512
Green, James
496
Guymon. Edward T
64
H
Hadley, Levi P 104
Hall, Justus
O
437
Hall, Ross E 299
Hamilton, Frank D.
1
1
226
Handy, Edward S.
185
1
1
Harden, Albert E 178
1
Hardy, Noah
541
I
Harms, Henry W
612
Harris, Walter B
133
Harsha, John P 82 1
Hartford, Col. Henry 200 1 1
Hartmann, Henry P
509
1
Harvey, Royal M.
655
1
llaston, James
780
Haston, Samuel
412
Hedrick. Capt. John M.
77
Herr. I. Nevon 57
Herren, Isaac W. 756
Hershberger, Randall P
195
Hiatt. Charles E
779
Hickey, John
650
Hickman, Overton
572
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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.'
Hickman, William H. H
631
Hill, Harrison A. 410
Hinds, David H 667
Hinman, Milton
709
Hinshaw, William . H.
584
119
Hirst, Frederick
80
Hirst, George
Hirst, William
96
Hitchcock, Charles .O
361
Hoagland, Ben S.
573
Hoagland, Lieut. Martin
396
Hodge, L. D.
503
Hodgson, Herbert
C.
314
Hodgson, William
336
Hodgson, William
519
Holaday, Harry E., D.V.S
734
Holdeman, A. R.
783
Hornbaker, Finley D 504
Hoskinson, George W
348
Housinger, Nicholas
743
Howell, Ed. G.
409
Huckleberry, Andrew J., Jr.
157
Hudson, William L
380
Hurd, E. R
630
Hutton, Emmett
259
Hutton & Oswald
258
Hutton, Samuel F ! 1
606
J
Jennings, Thomas
583
Jessup, Barclay 319
Jewell, Warren D. 593
Johnson, Arthur W
428
1
Johnson, Jesse W
675
1
1
Johnson, William H. 451
Jones, Peter 182
1 1 Jones, Robert S 596
1 Jones, Walter F 543 1
Justice, Richard
581
Justus, J. F
771
K
Kautzer, John D. 342
Kellams, James C. 431
Kelling, Henry
415
Kennedy, Thomas K.
498
King, David H 616
King, Joseph W 646
Klein, Frank F 712
Koontz, George M
364
Kroeker, George T
464
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Lambert, Charles A.
315
Larabee, Frederick D
602
Layman, Roscoe C.
308
Leatherman, William
508
Lec, George W
416
Leighty, Stephen S.
176
Leonrod, George von, M.D
640
Leslie, John F
628
Loc, William A
472-
Long, William E
269
Lovelace, James R
300
Mc
McCandless, Archibald W
598
McCowan, Samuel
350
McDermed, Frank M. 213
McDermed, Robert F
566
McIlrath, James H
688
McKeown, B. 677
Mckinstry, James 553
McLaughlin, T. R.
280
McLeod, Hector K
110
Me Murry, James F.
136
M
Mackay, James B.
54
Magwire, Frank 240
Markham, John J 434
Marshall, Elmer E
657
Martin, . Edward T 351 1
Martin, Frank 402 1
1 Martin, Hon. Frank I 331
607
Meyer, Dietrich 1 488
Meyer, Eugene 39
Miller, Clark
732
Miller, Eugene T 732
Miller, William H 249
Mills, James 317
Mitchell, Hon. William H 48
Moore, David A 579
Moore, Rev. Daniel M., D.D. 67
Moore, Marcellus
236
Morgan, Hon. William Y.
440
Mastellar, D. H F 1
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Mourn, George W 165
Mueller, William, Jr 325
Myers, Dr. James 188
Myers, John A.
224
N
Nafzinger, John 532
Nation, Pet
76
Neeley, Hon. George
A
44
Nelson, James
432
Nelson, John
W
604
Nelson, Peter A.
211
Nettleton, Adelbert M.
229
Neuenschwander, Henry
154
Nicholson, George
426
O
Obee, Louis H 548
Olmstead, Oscar W 175
Oswald, Charley W.
258
P
Parish, James W. 375
Payne, Walter W 699
Pearson, William
148
Peckham, Charles W 352
Peirce, Walter C.
344
Penney, James :
131
Pennington, William R 54-4
Peterson, Arthur F
339
Peterson, Charles
340
Ploughe, Sheridan
752
Potter, James
617
Potter, John W.
I 678
Potter, Martin
1 635
1 Poulton, Irvin W 448
Presby. Wilbur F
634
Price, Rhys R.
762
Priddle, Vincent
171
Prigg, Hon. Frank F 557
Puterbaugh, Samuel G.
70
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Rabe, Henry 620
Ramsey, Herbert E
223
Rayl, Levi 482
Ream, William B. 413 1 1
Reed, John 92
Reichenberger, Nicholas 745
Reynolds, Melvin J. 140
Rexroad, William W. 310
Rice, Thomas J.
376
Richhart, David E.
115
Rickenbrode, Harvey J 460
Roberts, Pierce C.
126
Rowland, John 683
Rowland, Prof. Stewart P.
86
Rutherford, Gordon S
642
Ryker, Charles
A
60
S
Sallee, Garrett
167
Sanders, John R.
407
Scales, Herbert L., M.D
559
Schardein, Fred
199
Schardein, John
181
Scheble, Alfred R
515
Schlaudt, Arthur H
447
Schmitt, E. B.
294
Schoonover, John U
608
Seedle, Charles
172
Shafer, Omaha T
653
Shea, Patrick
456
Shircliff, Edward E
592
Shive, Eads E.
741
Short, George B.
164
Shuler, William D.
99
Shuyler, John S.
578
Siegrist, Arthur L 231
Siegrist, George W.
524
Siegrist, Jacob L
328
Simmons, John S.
98
Slavens, Oscar R. 576
Smith, Charles H 686
Smith, E. B., A.M
706
Smith, Fay 467 1 1
Smith, Isaac 254 1 J 1 I
I Smith, James W 228 1
Smith, John
F
522
Smith, Parke 292
Smith, Wilson 4 142
1 Snyder, Charles M 539 a
Specht, Robert T., Jr. 443
Spencer, Orlando
770
Spencer, Ornaldo
770
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Sidlinger, Samuel
H.,
M.D.
41
Skeen, Mrs. Elizabeth 400
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Sponsler, Alfred L. 304
Sponsler, William J. 564
Spront, John 772
Sprout, James H. 459
Stecher, Christian
480
Stevens, Nelson P 701
Stevens, Rev. William
454
Stewart, Richard A., M.D
767
Streeter, Ray G.
534
Suter, Arthur H.
123
Swarens, Albert
168
Switzer, Alexander M
392
T
Taylor, Carr W 444
Taylor, Harry H 124
Teed, Edson L 465
Thacher, Mowry S., M.D
679
Thompson, Henry S. 669
Thompson, Will S.
479
Thorp, Fred W
220
Thurman, J. S
247
Turbush, George
159
U
Updegrove, Jacob B
347
V
Van Eman, William
J
234
Vincent, Hon. Frank.
500
W
Waddles, Howard 753
Wagoner, Charles E. 128
Wall, David L. 690
Wall, Mrs. Henrietta Briggs 692
Watson, Lawson
663
Weesner, Fred 391
Wells, Charles A 755
Wespe, Oscar S 600
Wheeler, J. O 143
Whinery, Lorenzo V 648
Whiteside, Houston 205
Wiley, Francis M. 665
Wiley, Vernon M. 475
Williams, Judge Charles M 190
Williams, Walter F 758
Winchester, Charles S. 513
Winsor, George R
453
Withroder, John 638
Wittorff, John 643
Wolcott, Frank D. 704
Wooddell, Charles N
652
Woods, Mrs. Mary M. (Lippitt) 736
Y
Yaggy, Edward E
88
Young, Jacob A
118
Yust, George H
420
Z
Zimmerman, George
238
Zimmerman, John S
474
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Quesson Carey
BIOGRAPHICAL
HON. EMERSON CAREY.
The natural limitations of a review of this character prevent anything like an exhaustive or complete record of the various enterprises with which the Hon. Emerson Carey, of Hutchinson, this county, is connected; neither can there be set out here in detail the history of the present status of these industries or a detailed account of the very considerable improvement and extensive new works that have been brought into operation within the past few years. The Carey industries really comprise four distinct industries. each one being magnitudinal in its individual capacity and scope. The salt plants have a capacity of two thousand barrels a day and are the only plants of the kind in the world equipped with a quadruple-effect vacuum system for the manufacture of salt. The ice plant has a capacity of eighty-five tons a day, and there is a cold-storage space of over half a million cubic feet. The cold-storage plant is equipped with triplicate machinery throughout the whole system, as a sure safeguard in case of a breakdown. By a new process the salt is manufactured in enclosed vessels, which are absolutely dust proof, and no chemicals whatever are used to whiten or purify it. The grain is abso- lutely uniform and during no part of the process of manufacture is it touched by hand. The hundreds of barrels of salt that roll out of the city of Hutch- inson daily on long freight trains, tell a tale of industry that no rhetoric can match. The history of the Carey industries is a record of development and expansion, one of the most interesting in the industrial annals of Kansas. As it is commonly said in Hutchinson that Emerson Carey is the Carey industries personified, it will be interesting to the reader to note at this point some of the salient points in the career of that energetic captain of industry.
Emerson Carey was born on a farm in Grant county, Indiana, on January 22, 1863, son of Samuel and Nancy J. (Bundy ) Carey, both natives of that same county, the former of whom was born on July 28. 1839, and the latter, April 15, 1842. Samuel Carey was the son of Robert and Susan Carey, pioneer residents of Grant county, who with their children and the
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various members of the latters' families emigrated in 1868 to Shelby county, Illinois, where the remainder of their lives were spent. Nancy J. Bundy was the daughter of Talbot and Jane Bundy, also pioneer residents of Grant county, who, about the year 1865, emigrated to Champaign county, Illinois, where they also resided the rest of their lives.
Samuel Carey was reared amid pioneer conditions in his early Indiana home and was married before he and the other members of the family moved over. into Illinois. He was possessed of the true instinct of the frontiers- man and after reaching Illinois, kept moving farther westward as advancing settlements encroached on his pioneer locations, it having been his custom to get a farm under cultivation, sell it and move on. Before coming to Kansas he had thus made his home, successively, in Shelby, Douglas and Vermilion counties, in Illinois, clearing up farms; his son, Emerson, sharing in all the vicissitudes of these numerous advances toward the continually receding frontier. In 1878, Samuel Carey came to this state and took up a tract of government land in the Sterling neighborhood of Rice county, from which he presently moved to McPherson county and thence, in 1880, came to Reno county and rented a considerable tract of land on the edge of the flourishing village of Hutchinson, at that time virgin prairie, in what is now known as the Sunflower addition to the city of Hutchinson, and for a time engaged in farming there. He then became associated with his son, Emerson, in the coal and building-supply business and later assisted in the organization of the Carey Salt Company and in other ways became a prominent factor in the development of the industrial life of Hutchinson. Samuel Carey was by birthright a Quaker, but after his marriage he joined the Methodist church, in conformance with his wife's faith, and in this faith their children were reared. There were fourteen of these children, as follow: Almeda, who married P. M. Gratton and lives at Kenton, Kansas; Marrietta, who mar- ried Charles Nelson and lives in Hutchinson, this county; Emerson, the immediate subject of this biographical review; Susan (deceased), who mar- ried Ethan Thomas; Arthur, who lives in Hutchinson; Elizabeth, who mar- ried Isaac Palmer and lives at Halstead, Kansas; Emma, who married Burrett Hanks and lives near Sterling, Kansas; Bertha, who married Harvey Craw- ford and lives at Stafford, Kansas; Rosa, who married James Kirk, and lives in Texas ; Edith, who married S. Allen Winchester and lives in Hutchin- son ; Eva, who married Waverly S. Albright and lives in Hutchinson ; Maud, who married Dr. J. J. Brownlee, of Hutchinson ; Claude, who lives in Cali- fornia, and Albert, who died in infancy. Samuel Carey died at Hutchinson
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on March 9, 1905. His wife had preceded him to the grave about ten years, her death having occurred on July 2, 1896.
Emerson Carey was five years of age when his parents left Indiana and was fifteen years of age when they entered Kansas in 1878. He had acquired some schooling in Illinois and upon coming to Kansas attended school at Sterling one winter. The next winter he attended a district school in McPherson county and the next winter he entered the schools at Hutchin- son, he being then seventeen years of age. For the first three years after coming to this county he assisted his father on the farm and then for two years he worked in Hutchinson for Mr. Hale, who was engaged in the retail coal business. In 1885 he started in the retail coal and building supplies business on his own account, under the firm style of Conn & Carey. A short time later the firm became Carey, Beers & Lee and thus continued until 1890, in which year Mr. Carey took over the business alone and so continued until 1910, in which year he closed it out. In the meantime, in 1896, Mr. Carey had organized the Hutchinson Ice Company, which com- pany is still doing business and supplies most of the ice for that city. In 1900, in connection with the operation of his ice plant, Mr. Carey started the Carey Salt Company, which began operations in a small way, but which has gradually grown to its present enormous proportions, with a producing capacity of two thousand barrels a day, one of the most important industries in central Kansas. A man of indefatigable industry and boundless energy, Mr. Carey became interested in various other enterprises as the time passed and has become one of the most important factors in the industrial develop- ment of this section of the state. He was one of the chief organizers, chief owner and first president of the Hutchinson Interurban Railway Company : helped organize and was president of the Kansas Chemical Manufacturing Company of Hutchinson, and is also president of the Grand Saline Salt Company, of Texas.
On September 26, 1888, Emerson Carey was united in marriage to Anna M. Puterbaugh, who was born near Mackinaw, Illinois, daughter of John and Olive Puterbaugh, who were among the earliest pioneers to settle in Harvey county, Kansas. They located at Newton in 1873, where for years Mr. Puterbaugh was engaged in the real-estate business. In 1885 they moved to Hutchinson, where Mr. and Mrs. Puterbaugh spent their last days, the death of the former occurring in 1888 and that of the latter in 1911.
To Emerson and Anna M. ( Puterbaugh) Carey four children have been born, namely: Horbard J., born in 1892, a graduate of Cornell University. who assists his father in the management of the Carey Salt Company, mar-
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ried Louise Banks, of Ithaca, New York, and lives on North Main street in Hutchinson: Charles E., 1894. for three years a student at Cornell, mar- ried Alice Degnan, of Jersey City, New Jersey, and assists his father in superintending the Carey industries : William, 1902, and Emerson, Jr., 1906. Mr. and Mrs. Carey are members of the Christian church and are active in all good works in and about Hutchinson. After his marriage in 1888 Mr. Carey built a home in the eleven hundred block on Main street and in 1898 located at his present beautiful home at 821 North Main street, a home widely known for its cordial hospitality.
Mr. Carey is a Republican and in 1908 was elected to represent this district in the state Senate and was re-elected in 1912. He has never been a candidate for any other public office. He is a thirty-second degree Mason. a member of the blue lodge and the commandery at Hutchinson and the con- sistory at Wichita. He also is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
JUDGE CHARLES E. BRANINE.
Few names in the long list of judges and lawyers who have so notably served the people of Kansas during the past generation are better known or held in higher regard by the people generally throughout this section of the state than is that of the Hon. Charles E. Branine, a prominent attorney of Hutchinson. this county, and former judge of the ninth Kansas judicial district, who has been a resident of Hutchinson since the year 1910. follow- ing his election to the district judgship, and who before that time had attained wide distinction as a practitioner at Newton, this state, and, who, since resuming his practice, at the close of his honorable judicial tenure, has added so conspicuously to his well-earned success that his many friends confidently predict that the future holds for him still higher honors in the service of the public.
Charles E. Branine was born on a farm on the old grade road near St. Elmo, Fayette county, Illinois, on March 7, 1864. a son of Joshua and Margaret J. ( Dewese) Branine, the former of whom was born in Decatur county, Indiana, March 7, 1834, and the latter in Ohio in 1835, the Branines being of Irish ancestry and the Deweses of French stock. Joshua Branine was reared in Decatur county, Indiana, a member of one of the pioneer families in that historic section of the Hoosier state, and in 1860, not long after his marriage. emigrated to Illinois, where he bought government land
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in Fayette county, which he improved and on which he and his family lived until the spring of 1874, at which time he brought his family to Kansas and settled on a quarter section of land, which he purchased near the growing town of Newton, and there he lived until 1893, when he and his wife retired from the farm and moved into. Newton, where their last days were spent, Joshua Branine dying in November, 1898, and his widow in November, 1912. Joshua Branine was a most ardent Republican and almost worshipped the memory of Abraham Lincoln. He was more or less active in local politics and for years served his township nost acceptably as township trus- tee. He and his wife were devoted members of the Methodist church, in which he long was a class leader and office bearer, and their children were faithfully reared in that faith. These children, ten in number, were as follow: Mary C., who married S. B. Holdeman and lives on the home farm in Harvey county, Kansas; Ira, who died in infancy; George W., a pros- perous farmer of Kingman county, Kansas : Elmer L., also a farmer living near Blackwell, Oklahoma; Charles. E., the immediate subject of this bio- graphical sketch; Sarah E., who married Everett Anderson, of Newton. this state, for twenty-five years past a telegraph operator in the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad Company : John K., also a prosperous Kansas farmer ; Ezra C., a prominent attorney, member of the firm of Branine & Hart, New- ton, Kansas, who studied law in the office of his brother, Charles E., and for seventeen years, and until the time of the latter's election to the district judgship, was a partner of his brother; Jeanette, who married the Rev. William J. Shull, a minister of the Methodist church. now located in McPherson county, this state, and Anna J., who married Charles Joseph, stock dealer and farmer living at Potwin, Kansas.
Charles E. Branine was ten years of age when his parents came to Kansas, -in 1874, and his elementary education therefore was continued in the district schools of Harvey county. He later attended the public schools in Newton, and supplemented this course by a course of one year at Baker University and one year at the University of Kansas. . . He then taught school in his home district for one year, after which he entered upon a rigid course of reading in the law office of that sterling old lawyer. J. W. Ady, of Newton, former United States district attorney and an orator of rare power. In November, 1889, Charles E. Branine rented an office in Newton, took the bar examination one night, was admitted to the bar and the next day in a barren little office without a dollar started in the practice of the profession in which he was destined to achieve large note. In this same office room, which, however, was not long as bleak and barren as at
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first, he remained nineteen years, until 1908, the year of his election to the district judgeship, by which he had become a lawyer of note and power throughout this section of the state. In 1892 Judge Branine's brother, Ezra C. Branine, a lad of twenty, right off the farm, entered his brother's law office and entered seriously the study of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1893 and in the next year became his brother's partner, a mutually agree- able connection which continued until Judge Branine assumed his judicial functions.
While studying law in 1888, Judge Branine was elected justice of the peace of Newton township and occupied that office for two years. In 1889 he was appointed United States commissioner for his district and in 1892 was elected county attorney for Harvey county. It was during his four years tenure in this office that the famous Rogers record-burning case was brought to trial, a trial that continued for three years, being tried twice in the district court and twice in the supreme court, and in which Judge Branine figured quite prominently, his management of the prosecution gain- ing for him a wide reputation as a brilliant and talented lawyer.
Judge Branine ever has been an ardent Republican, as was his father before him, and in 1898 served his party as county chairman. In 1900 he was elected to the state Senate from the thirteenth Kansas senatorial dis- trict, comprising Harvey and McPherson counties, and served with dis- tinguished ability in the upper house of the Legislature from 1901 to 1905. In November. 1908, Senator Branine was elected judge of the ninth Kansas judicial district, comprising the three counties of Reno, Harvey and Mc- Pherson, and in January, 1909, ascended the bench, serving as a just and impartial judge until January, 1913, at which time he opened an office for the practice of law in the city of Hutchinson, and has been located there ever since, never having been out of the harness a single day. Judge Bran- ine enjoys the unique record of having gone directly from the practice to the bench and from the bench back to the practice without missing any time. In July, 1910, he had moved his family from Newton to Hutchinson, in which latter city he had built a handsome residence at 114 Twelfth street, west, and where he still resides, the Branine home being widely known for the fine character of its hospitality.
On October 8, 1891, Charles E. Branine was united in marriage to Mary E. Rigby, who was born in Doniphan county, Kansas, daughter of Jonathan A. Rigby and Jane A. ( Ferguson) Rigby, the former of whom, now deceased, was for many years a building contractor at Concordia, this state. and the latter of whom. a native of Ireland, of Scotch parentage, is
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still living. Mary E. Rigby was a school teacher at Concordia and later at Newton and it was there that she and Judge Branine formed the mutual attachment which led to their happy union. To this union two children have been born, Harold R., born on October 10, 1892, graduated from the New- ton high school in 1910 and from Kansas University in 1914 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and elected to the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity and wearing the coveted key with becoming dignity, and now completing the law course at Kansas University, and Hazel E., born on March IO, 1895, graduated from the Hutchinson high school in 1913, from which she was admitted to Wellesley and now attending Wisconsin University at Madison, Wisconsin.
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