Butler County Genealogy Trails Kansas Joe Egan Bio

BUTLER COUNTY'S EIGHTY YEARS BIOS

JOE EGAN

(Transcribed by Peggy Luce)

Joe Egan is dead – and with what a world of regret is that statement chronicled. For Joe Egan was a useful citizen and an amiable and obliging neighbor. He was a tinsmith and he took as much pride in the perfection of his work as the masters in any craft or profession. For thirty years he had been engaged at his chosen occupation in El Dorado. In all that time he never took a dishonest stroke or slighted a single task. He gave to his labor a single-hearted devotion. He never sat on corporate or civic boards or led a parade in his life. But when one wanted a thorough and honest job of roofing or guttering or any other of the manifold phases of the tinsmith’s craft – Joe Egan was the man for it. And so the product of his toilworn hands has gone into hundreds of homes and business structures in El Dorado – and his work lives after him. Above all, he was gracious, kindly and soft-spoken. His smile brightened many a drab day, his sympathetic mien softened many a hard circumstances. February 11, 1928.