Kansas

Biographical Sketch of Robert B. Mitchell, Gen.

Gen. Robert B. Mitchell was a soldier of the Mexican war from Ohio, a leading figure of Kansas territorial days, one of the ablest officers of the Oivil war representing the Union army of the state, and finally governor of the Territory of New Mexico. He was born in Richland County, Ohio, April 4, 1823; educated at Washington College in Pennsylvania, after which he studied law; was admitted to the bar, and practiced at Mansfield, Ohio, from 1844 to 1846. He then entered the army as a first lientenant in an Ohio regiment and served through the Mexican war, resuming … Read more

Biography of Thomas Azro Noftzger

Thomas Azro Noftzger had long been successfully identified with the legal profession in Kansas, and is now senior member of the firm of Noftzger & Gardner, with offices in the Beacon Building at Wichita. His partner is Mr. George Gardner. Mr. Noftzger was born November 15, 1861, in Jackson Township of Kosciusko County, Indiana. His father, Levi J. Noftzger, was born September 3, 1836, and is still living at the age of four score. The mother, Mary C. Noftzger, also living, was born September 2, 1840. Party through the liberality of his parents and partly through his own ambitious determination … Read more

Biography of Delmar E. Deputy

Long a prominent citizen of Riley County and a successful business man of Manhattan, Delmar E. Deputy, in his capacity of private citizen and as a member of the firm of Deputy & Schellenbaum, publishers of the Manhattan Nationalist, had done much to advance the welfare of his city and county. He was born in Jennings County, Indiana, November 9, 1862, a son of Silvester F. and Jane (Fowler) Deputy, natives also of Jennings County, and descendants of old Virginia ancestors, and with his parents came to Kansas in 1878 and settled in Riley County, where the father became a … Read more

Biography of Henry C. Lindsey, Col.

One of the most interesting citizens of Kansas is Henry C. Lindsey of Topeka. He is one of the men who know by ectual experience and recollection the pioneer times of this state. He was a soldier in the Civil war, afterwards took nart in one of the important Indian campaigns in Western Kansas, and added to his military prestige and honor by service during the Spanish-American war. He is also one of Topeka’s oldest business men. He comes of a family that have apparently lived on the frontier and taken a leading part in its activities for several generations. … Read more

Biography of William Leslie Porter

A public office is only an opportunity for rendering real service to the public. Whether that opportunity is utilized depends upon the man. Several years ago the people of Topeka elected William Leslie Porter commissioner of parks and public properties. When he entered office he was new to the duties, and he was practically without political experience. But he had exhibited other qualities far more important that political experience. He had a well defined ambition to do everything he could for the community welfare through the opportunity afforded by his office. Mr. Porter also had a reputation of having a … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Samuel D. Lecompte

Samuel D. Lecompte, first chief justice of the Territory of Kansas and afterward prominent on the bench of Leavenworth County, and a representative in both houses of the Legislature, was born in Dorchester County, Maryland, December 13, 1814. After graduating from Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, he studied law in Maryland and, upon being admitted to the bar, began practice in Carroll County, that state. He had served one term in the Maryland Legislature and become quite prominent politically, when he moved to Baltimore in 1854. In October, 1854, President Pierce appointed Mr. Lecompte chief justice of the Territory of Kansas, which … Read more

Biography of James C. Shimer

Thirty years or association with the coal and feed business at Topeka had established for James C. Shimer a reputation for ability, resource and unflagging industry. He is one of the captains of suscess who have piloted their own craft to harbor. In his numerous varieties of experience, he had gained the good will of his fellow men, had made a place for himself in the business world and had served his county faithfully and well in public office, and out of all his struggles had evolved the belief that hard work rarely injures any one and that straightforward dealing … Read more

Biography of Sidney Clarke

Sidney Clarke, one of the early members of Congress from Kansas, was born at Southbridge, Massachusetts. October 16. 1831, and in his early manhood published and edited a weekly newspaper which he had founded in his native town. He became an active free-soil advocate, supported Fremont in 1856. and three years later, upon the advice of his physician, went west and located at Lawrence. He hecame an ardent supporter of the radical wing of the free-state party, and in 1862 was elected to the State Legislature. The following year President Lincoln appointed him adjutant general of volunteers, and he was … Read more

Biographical Sketch of J.C. O.Morse

J. C. O. Morse, who was the first superintendent of the State Reformatory at Hutchison, a former member of the State Board of Railroad Commissioners and now president of the Kansas Casualty and Surety Company of Wichita, had had a long and prominent career in Kansas. He is an able business man and the efficiency of business characterized all his public work. His name is widely known among financial and business circles, and he had attained that position after beginning life as a Kansas farmer. His home had been in Kansas since he was about thirteen years of age. He … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Elmer Ellsworth Enoch

Elmer Ellsworth Enoch began practicing law at Wichita when that city was still on the southwestern frontier, and within the range of his own observation he had witnessed history in its making in that part of the state. His home had been in Wichita upwards of thirty years, and his reputation as an able lawyer had become widely extended. He was born in Morristown, Belmont County, Ohio. February 10, 1864, and was liberally educated in preparation for his professional career. After the public schools he entered Franklin College in his native state, where he was graduated A. B. in 1885. … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Eugene F. Ware

Eugene F. Ware, a soldier of Iowa, a lawyer and public man of Kansas, and an author both of that state and Missouri, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, May 29, 1841. His parents moved to Burlington, Iowa, in his childhood and he was educated in the public schools of that place. During the Civil war he reached the rank of captain in the Fourth Iowa Cavalry. He took a section of land in Cherokee County, Kansas, in 1867, studied law and was admitted to the bar at Fort Scott and to the United States Supreme Court; entered the law firm … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Erastus H. Crosby

The Crosby Brothers Co. store of Topeka is not only an institution of that city but of the state at large. It is one of the metropolitan department stores of the Middle West. For thirty-six years or more the firm had been in existence at Topeka, and in that time, more than a generation, the reputation of the firm had become extended, as a result of honorable merchandising, to practically every county of the Sunflower commonwealth. It was in 1880 that Erastus H. Crosby and his brother William T. Crosby, comprising the firm of Crosby Brothers, located in Topeka and … Read more

Biography of William Potter Campbell

There had been no period in the long and significantly active, vigorous and varied career of Judge Campbell in which there had been any possibility of submerging his incisive individuality. As a youthful and gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, as a lawver and jurist, as a man of large and benignant influence in public affairs and as one of the honored pioneers of Kansas he had left a record that shall ever refiect honor upon his name and memory. He had been most elosely and influentially associated with civis and material development and progress in the … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Llewellyn Kiene

Llewellyn Kiene had served four years in the office of sheriff of Shawnee County, and his administration had been all that his friends predicted and had been such as to give him rank among the ablest sheriffs this important county in the state had ever had. Sheriff Kiene is a Kansan by many years of residence and is thoroughly in the spirit of the Sunflower commonwealth. He was born March 2, 1868, in Putnam County, Illinois, one of the twelve children of Francis A. and Rose (Doriot) Kiene. When he was fifteen years of age his parents came to Kansas, … Read more

Kansas WW2 NMCG Casualty List – A Surnames

ABBOTT, Herman Riley, Aviation Machinist’s Mate 3c, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Myra Abbott, 3521 Metropolitan, Kansas City. ABBOTT, Robert A., Pfc., USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray A. Abbott, 405 Ellis St., Coffeyville. ABBOTT, William Houston, Lieutenant (jg), USNR. Wife, Mrs. Helen Jane Abbott, 2504 Everett Ave., Kansas City. ABERCROMBIE, William Warner, Ensign, USNR. Father, Mr. C. W. Abercrombie, 5811 Mastin Rd., Merriam. ADAMS, Charles Glen, Pfc., USMCR. Mother, Mrs. Gertie May Adams, Urbana. ADAMS, Paul Thomas, Radioman 3c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lou V. Adams, Rt. 7, Wichita. ALBERS, Harold Sidwell, Aviation Machinist’s Mate 1c, USN. Parents, Mr. and … Read more

Kansas WW2 NMCG Casualty List – B Surnames

BAILEY, Eldon Ray, Aviation Ordnanceman 3c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Hershall Bailey, Rt. 1, Wauneta. BAILEY, William Thomas, Ensign, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Catherine Viola Bailey, 1513 E. 39th St., Kansas City. BAKER, James Calvin, Aviation Machinist’s Mate 2c, USN. Mother, Mrs. Grace Baker Wilson, 335 No. Francis St., Wichita. BALAFAS, Paul C. A., Pvt., USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Balafas, 2421 E. Douglas, Wichita. BALDWIN, Howard E., Pfc., USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Baldwin, 510-3 Organ Ave., Ft. Leavenworth. BARB, Lionel Henry, Fireman 2c, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Mildred Dorothy Barb, 522½ E. 3rd St., Russell. BARBER, … Read more

Kansas WW2 NMCG Casualty List – L Surnames

LAMB, John D., Pvt., USMCR. Mother, Mrs. Beatrice A. Crocker, 142 So. Richmond St., Wichita. LAMBERT, John Patrick, Pvt., USMCR. Wife, Mrs. Beverly J. Lambert, Rt. 2, Bethel. LAMMONS, Perry R., Technical Sgt., USMC. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Lammons, 1140 No. Emporia St., Wichita. LAND, Basil I., Seaman 2c, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Shirley Christine Land, 1018 W. 5th St., Ft. Scott. LANDAU, Vincent Laird, Ensign, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Doreen Faye Landau, Oberlin. LANDERS, Mardonis Thomas, Radarman 3c, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Doris Evelyn Landers, 1323 Crawford, Parsons. LANGE, Elmer Eugene, Seaman 2c, USNR. Father, Mr. Elmer John Lange, McLouth. … Read more

Kansas WW2 NMCG Casualty List – Y Surnames

YOUNG, Dean Calvin, Staff Sgt., USMCR. Wife, Mrs. Bonnie J. Young, RFD 3, Clyde. YOUNG, Wallace Keith, Hospital Apprentice 1c, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Edna Carleen Young, 6233 W. 55th St., Merriam. YOUNT, Louis Ray, Aviation Radioman 1c, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Elsie Juanita Yount, 1614 Millington St., Winfield.

Kansas WW2 NMCG Casualty List – J Surnames

JACCARD, Richard Alonzo, Ensign, USNR. Father, Mr. C. R. Jaccard, 1611 Laromie St., Manhattan. JACKSON, Guy Alfred, Gunner’s Mate 3c, USNR. Father, Mr. John Alfred Jackson, Severy. JACOBS, Emmitt F., Cpl., USMC. Father, Mr. Joseph P. Jacobs, 1919 Brown Ave., Kansas City. JACOBSON, Carl Helge, Seaman 1c, USN. Mother, Mrs. Helga Jacobson, 331 No. Main St., Lindsborg. JAMES, Floyd Leroy, Aviation Ordnanceman 1c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Olin Harold James, Quenemo. JENKINS, John David, Motor Machinist’s Mate 2c, USN. Wife, Mrs. Noveta Velma Jenkins, 616 No. Jackson St., Pratt. JENSON, Louis Robert, Aviation Machinist’s Mate 2c, USNR. Parents, Mr. … Read more

Kansas WW2 NMCG Casualty List – K Surnames

KAMMERER, Jack D., Pvt., USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julius W. Kammerer, 351 No. Hydraulic St., Wichita. KEATH, William W., Pfc., USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Keath, 1107 W. Locust St., Independence. KEELER, John Haworth, Lt., (jg), USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Andrew Keeler, Jewell. KEHL, William Paul, Hospital Apprentice 1c, USNR. Guardian, Mrs. Margaret Shank, 3057 No. 17th, Kansas City. KEITH, John Henry, Lt., (jg), USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eyrl Keith, Bronson. KELLER, Cecil Wesley, Seaman 2c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Glenn Keller, Waldo. KELLER, Goldwin Cecil, Aviation Pilot 1c, USN. Parents, Mr. … Read more