Butler County Genealogy Trails Kansas George Ramsey Bio

BUTLER COUNTY'S EIGHTY YEARS BIOS

GEORGE A. RAMSEY

(Transcribed by Lori DeWinkler)

There were numerous many traits in the character of George A. Ramsey which endeared him to his fellows. He was or rugged, virile type. He was square as a brick. He was honest as the July sunshine; there wasn’t a grain of humbug in his nature. He was a worker and an optimist. He possessed supreme self-confidence; he took the world as he found it and had an intensely practical man’s ambition of making it better. He did not delude himself with too spiritual or metaphysical a view of men and things. But his virtues were strong and self pronounced—and he was loyal to his ideals. No more faithful man to his obligations ever lived. His associates knew they could always count upon him just as he was, without pretense or affectation—serene, courageous and full of energy and enthusiasm for whatever he undertook. Above all, he was a fighter. He came by this trait honestly. Both heredity and environment played their part here. Ramseys before him were men of sturdy breed accustomed to obstacles, and wont to smash their way through them, rather than employing maneuver or flank attack. His boyhood was spent largely in the cattle country, and he knew deprivation and hardship and early learned the value of a dollar. Always he had to fight his way, and, brave-hearted and iron-souled, he did so. His imperfections were only those of the fighting man who glories in the struggle. His virtues were of the same mold, for he never turned his back on the foe, and he was generous and magnanimous in victory, as the true fighter always is.

Men loved George Ramsey because he was primarily a man’s man and a fighter, but they esteemed him also for his chivalry and kindliness. And so today the widespread sorrow over this community is for a friend who was upright and strong, tried and true. No more will his infectious laughter boom in the hearing of his friends, no more can his calm, unflurried presence be enlisted in some movement for public welfare and improvement. But he has left behind in the hearts of his friends and the institutions he has aided, a monument of supreme manhood that is more enduring than rugged piles of granite.—July 9, 1927