Mitchell County, Kansas Biographies

MITCHELL COUNTY, KANSAS

BIOGRAPHIES

BAIRD, JACOB EDWIN

Jacob Edwin Baird, public accountant, was born in Cuba, Kansas, March 16, 1871, son of Thomas Jefferson and Diana (Thomas) Baird. The father, who was born in Ohio, is a veteran of the Civil War. Diana Thomas, who was born in Illinois, is descended from the Thomas family, which came from Germany and settled in Illinois.

Jacob Edwin Baird attended public schools in district No. 34 of Jefferson Township, Republic County, Kansas, and the Cuba High School. From March 1, 1899, until October 1, 1931, he was a state employee at the Girls Industrial School. Prior to 1899 he was owner and editor of the Cuba Daylight. He served as president of the Beloit Rotary Club for the year ending June 30, 1932, and during 1930-31 was chairman of the Mitchell County Red Cross. He is a Republican.

His marriage to Clara Jane Causey was solemnized at Cuba, November 12, 1891. Mrs. Baird, who was born in Vandalia, Illinois, June 3, 1870, died at Beloit, March 22, 1930. For 30 years she was an employee of the Girls Industrial School of Beloit. Mr. and Mrs. Baird adopted three children, Kenneth C, Lloyd L. and Louise.

Mr. Baird is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Beloit, the Mitchell County Welfare Association, the Red Cross, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Rotary Club. Residence: Beloit. (Illustriana Kansas, by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin, 1933, page 57)

MILLS, FRANK ARTHUR DOCTOR

Doctor Frank Arthur Mills (417), son of James Madison Mills and Cora May Bradley, was born August 15, 1832 three miles southwest of Osborne, Osborne County, Kansas. He was married May 5, 1909 at two p.m. at Plain7ille, Rooks County,Kansas, by the Reverend Mr. Rarick, father of the bride, to Renshaw, and she was born June 15, 1881 at Glen Elder, Mitchell County, Kansas.

Children:
Margaret May Mills was born March 17, 1919 at Powell, Park County, Wyoming.
Kenneth James Mills was born April 23, 1922 at Powell, Wyoming.
Charles Keith Mills was born April 23, 1922 at Powell, Wyoming.

Doctor Frank Arthur Mills graduated from the state university medical course at Rose Dale, Kansas (Kansas City), after it had absorbed his school of doctors and surgeons at Kansas City, Kansas, where he took the first two or three years' work. He was graduated from the university in 1907 and passed the Kansas State Board soon afterward. He passed the Oklahoma State Board in 1909 and the one in Wyoming in 1916 or 1917.

He began practice at Powell, Wyoming in 1917 and has had a good business ever since. He has always been an officer in the Northwest Wyoming Medical Association and is on the state medical board. In the years 1928 and 1929 he served as state president of the medical board. He is now also county health officer. He is a partner in a large ranch in Wyoming, and is in all, a very busy and successful man.

Source: "Forney's five family records of genealogy of Benners, Clappers, Ettlemans, Forneys and Studys : with historical sketches by Charles Willam Forney. Boone, Iowa: Printed for the author by the Standard Print. Co., 1931" submitted by Kim Thorp