Fred W. Dold, manager of the Jacob Dold Packing Company, of Wichita, Kan., is a native of the Empire State, having been born at Buffalo, N. Y., on December 14, 1872. He is a son of the late Jacob Dold. Fred W. Dold is the manager of one of "Wichita's largest business interests. He received his educational training in the Buffalo public schools, and, under his father's supervision, began early in life to devote himself to business pursuits. Entering his father's concern, the Jacob Dold Packing Company, he served in every department, from the lowest up. At the age of twenty-one he became a stockholder, and October 1, 1899, was elected manager of the Wichita branch of the Buffalo house. This extensive business enterprise was conceived and carried into execution by Jacob Dold, the elder. Beginning when a poor boy, trading in cattle, selling both beef and hides,. in 1888 he founded the stock company which bears his name. In the same year a branch was established at Kansas City, and the Wichita house was also founded, being now among the most substantial in the country. In 1900 the last frame building was replaced by more substantial structures of brick and stone. A more extended mention of the plant is given in the historical portion of this work. Fred W. Dold, the manager, has a high reputation for business ability, and is an important factor in the business life of Wichita. The officers of the company are as follows: Jacob C. Dold, president; Fred W. Dold, vice-president; Edward F. Dold, second vice-president and treasurer; Charles H. Dold, third vice-president; Philip B. Dold, secretary-Fred W. Dold being manager of the Wichita branch. Jacob Dold died in October, 1909. After the death of George P. Dold, Fred W. came to Wichita and took charge of the plant. Mr. Dold is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Knight Templar. He is also a member of the Commercial Club, the Riverside Club, and the Country Club. He was married in 1901 to Miss Lena Cox, daughter of Hon. L. M. Cox, who was mayor of Wichita. Of this union two children have been born, Frederick L. and Richard C. Dold. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Page 766)
Richard N. Dorr, proprietor of the Baseball Headquarters, Wichita, Kan., is a native of Kentucky, having been born at Marion, in the Blue Grass State, on June 29, 1874. His parents were R. B. and Sallie K. (Stewart) Dorr, natives of Kentucky, who moved to Kansas in 1898 and later removed to California. The elder Dorr died December 29, 1909, at the age of sixty-four. Richard N. Dorr was educated at the public schools of Marion and first began work in the service of the Ohio Valley Railway Company in the passenger department. He moved to Kansas and entered the traffic department of the Missouri Pacific railway, and in an accident, March 8, 1904, lost both legs. Mr. Dorr was elected city clerk of Wichita in 1905, a position which he filled with credit for four years. He purchased his present business, known as the Baseball Headquarters, at No. 127 South Main street, of Holland & Isbell, in January, 1910. Fraternally Mr. Dorr is a member of the Masonic order, in which he is a member of the Consistory and Shrine, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was made a life member of Lodge No. 427, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in August, 1906. Mr. Dorr was married on November 18, 1895, to Miss Jessie Degraffenreid, a native of Kentucky. Of this union six children have been born, viz.: Fayellena R., Wilson E., Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Richard N., Jr., and Rodgers B. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 766-767)
Shelby P. Duncan, attorney, of Wichita, Kan., is a native of Kentucky, where he was born in Fayette county on March 2, 1856. His parents were Harvey and Mary (Bowden) Duncan, natives of Kentucky, where they resided until the Civil War broke out, when they removed to Evansville, Ind., where the father died. Mrs. Duncan died at Evansville, Ind. She was a sister of the late Judge Bowden, of the Supreme Court of Kentucky. Shelby P. Duncan was educated at the Canton (111.) High School and at the Peru (Neb.) Normal School. He taught in the public schools of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, and read law while teaching and afterwards in the office of his uncle, the late Judge James H. Bowden, of Kentucky. He was later law clerk to George Gillhan, in Memphis, Tenn., having been admitted to the Russellville (Ky.) bar in 1875 and in Tennessee in 1876. Mr. Duncan opened an office at Fairview, Fulton county, Illinois, in connection with Charles H. Robinson, and there practiced law until 1884, when he moved to Kansas, locating in the village of Nescatunga, Comanche county, which was at that time a rival county seat. In 1888 Mr. Duncan removed to Cold-water in the same county, where he was prominent, holding several public offices. He was honored with the office of United States commissioner, police judge, justice of the peace, probate judge and county attorney. He was also a member of the Republican Congressional Committee. May 31, 1898, Mr. Duncan moved to Wichita, and after a time again took up the practice of law, which he has since continued. He was married in 1881 to Miss Kunegunda Kuehn, of Fulton county, Illinois. Two children have been born of this union, Nellie B. and Flora K. Fraternally Mr. Duncan is a member of the Knights of Pythias. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Page 767-768)
Henry I. Ellis, president of the Ellis Construction Company, of Wichita, claims the Empire State as his native domain, having been born at Buffalo, N. Y., on May 13, 1875. His parents were Gottlieb and Mary (Burger) Ellis, the father being a native of France and the mother claiming Germany as the land of her birth. Young Ellis was educated at the public schools of Buffalo, and at the age of fifteen began to learn the carpenter's trade, for which he had displayed an early aptitude. After having served his apprenticeship he followed the trade for seven years, but in 1905 the call of the West appealed to him and he came to Wichita. Here he entered the employ of the Wurster Construction Company, and was superintendent of this company until July, 1909, when he organized the H. I. Ellis Construction Company. Since that time, among other notable works that the company has undertaken, has been the erection of the Michigan building, the Huber building, the Giwosky building, the Grace Presbyterian church and other buildings. Mr. Ellis also had charge of the construction and erection of the Boston Store building, the Murdock building, the Young Men's Christian Association building and the Western Biscuit building. In the fraternal orders Mr. Ellis belongs to the Knights of Columbus. He was married in 1904 to Miss Kate Reilly, of St. Louis, Mo., and from this union there has been issue one child, Mary U. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Page 768)
Elmer P. Emery, railroad man, of Mulvane, Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born in Sangamon county, Illinois, on July 3, 1855. He was a son of Thomas F. and Mary (Plymell) Emery, both natives of Ohio, where the father was born July 10, 1814, and the mother May 13, 1817. Mr. Emery's parents were married in Illinois in 1839 and resided there until 1871, when they traveled overland by wagon from Decatur, 111., to Wichita, Kan., arriving at the latter place in February, 1871. (The elder Emery preempted 160 acres of land in Rockford township, Section 28, where he lived until 1882, when he sold his farm and moved to Mulvane to live with his son Elmer F., his wife having died on January 18, 1889. Mr. Emery, Sr., died March 9, 1893.) Elmer F. Emery came with his father to Kansas in 1871 and worked on the farm until 1874, when his railroad career began. He went to Colorado with the Denver & Rio Grande railroad as station agent at Walsenburg, and remained there until 1878, when he was transferred to Mulvane, where he opened a station September 15, 1879. His first office was in a box car, and in this the business of the road was handled for a short time until its first station was completed, a structure which is now used as a freight station. Mr. Emery's office was in that building until 1909, when the railroad built its present station. Mr. Emery has held his position in Mulvane thirty-one years. He was married August 14, 1881, to Miss Fannie G. Parker, who was born in Chicago February 11, 1858, a daughter of Cale H. and Mary Parker. Mr. and Mrs. Emery have two children-Elizabeth M., born May 29, 1882, and Norma H., born June 8, 1889. The eldest daughter is a teacher in the Mulvane High School. Mr. Emery served as the first clerk of Mulvane when it was incorporated. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order, Mulvane Lodge, No. 201, A. F. and A. M., of which he is past master; Wichita Chapter, No. 33, R. A. M.; Mount Olivet Commandery, No. 12, and Wichita Council, No. 12. He is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Emery is a Republican in politics. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 768-769)
Josiah D. Emerick, of Wichita, Kan., was born in Fulton county, Ohio, on September 16, 1846. His parents were James P. and Mary A. (Humphrey) Emerick, both natives of New York state. One the paternal side the ancestry of the family is traced to Germany. On the maternal side one of the ancestors came over in the Mayflower, while the mother's grandfather's father served in the Revolutionary War. Josiah D. Emerick served as a soldier in the Civil War. He enlisted in 1863 in Company K, Thirty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and received a wound in the battle of Entory Creek from which he has never entirely recovered. After his discharge he returned to his home in Fulton county, Ohio, and in 1870 he came to Kansas and located in Wichita. After a short residence there he homesteaded 160 acres of land in what is now Section 10, Kechi township, which he afterward sold and bought 160 acres in Section 5 of the same township, which he now owns and has added forty acres to, all in Section 5. Mr. Emerick was married on March 14, 1878, to Miss Elizabeth E. Johnson, in Sedgwick county, Kansas. Four children have been born of this union, viz.: J. Horner, born September 17, 1880; Robert G., born November 27, 1884; Eliza M., born July 14, 1888, and Edson H, born June 27, 1894. Mr. Emerick is a member of the G. A. R., of the Masonic order, Yalley Center Lodge, No. 364, and Consistory No. 2, Wichita. In politics he is a Republican and active, in the interests of his party. He has served three years as a trustee of Kechi township and has held other minor township offices. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 769-770)
Elmer Ellsworth Enoch, a leading member of the bar of Wichita, Kan., is a native of the Buckeye State, he having been born at Morristown, Belmont county, Ohio, on February 10, 1864. His early education was obtained- in the public schools of the state, and at Franklin College, Ohio, from which he was graduated in the class of 1885 with the degree of bachelor of arts. After leaving college Mr. Enoch began the study of law at St. Clairsville, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar of the state in 1888. In the same year he removed to Wichita, Kan., with whose interests he has ever since been prominently identified, and began the practice of his profession. His abilities won early recognition, and he soon built up a lucrative practice. His first political office was as clerk in the probate court of Wichita, in which capacity he served during the years 1895-97-1901-04. He was elected to the office of justice of the peace and served in that position during the years 1897-99, inclusive. In 1903 Mr. Enoch was elected probate judge of Sedgwick county, of which Wichita is the county seat, and served on the bench during the years 1904-07, inclusive. After retiring from the bench Mr. Enoch again resumed the practice of law, which he has continued to the present time. Mr. Enoch was married in 1888 to Miss Ella Douglas West, a daughter of the late State Senator Henry West, of Ohio. From this union five children have been born. They are: Edith, who married J. L. Fox, of Joplin, Mo., where she now lives; Mary, Henry S., Alfred W. and Elmer Ellsworth, Jr. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Page 770)
George W. Ernest, superintendent and manager of the Wichita Hydraulic Stone and Brick Company, was born at Whiting, Kan., on December 21, 1881. His parents were John J. and Alice M. (Smith) Ernest, natives of Altoona, Pa., who came to Kansas in 1879, locating in Jackson county, where the elder Ernest was engaged in contracting and building. Mr. Ernest died in 1906 at the age of forty-nine. George W. Ernest acquired his education in the public schools of Whiting and the Atchison Business College. His first employment was as telegraph operator and agent for the Rock Island railroad at Hoyt, Kan., and afterwards as baggageman for the same road at McFarland. This was followed by five years in the position of yardmaster, when he became assistant yardmaster at Topeka, later going to the Santa Fe in the capacity of passenger rate clerk in the general offices of the company. Mr. Ernest came to Wichita in 1909, and in December of that year became interested in the Wichita Hydraulic Stone and Brick Company as a stockholder, succeeding to the business management of the concern, which is incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. The officers of the company are as follows: President, F. C. Dymock; secretary, W. L. Brown; treasurer, J. W. Craig; superintendent and manager, George W. Ernest. The yearly output of the company amounts to $75,000 and it gives employment to twenty hands. The output of the company is about equally divided between the city and shipping trade. The plant was first organized in 1905. Mr. Ernest is a member of the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Aid. He was married in 1904 to Miss Bess Deck, daughter of John and Mary Deck, of Crieksville, Kan. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 770-771)
Josiah F, Fager, farmer, of Waco township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born in Ogle county, Illinois, on April 26, 1849. His parents were Conrad and Mary (Myers) Fager. The father was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, and the mother in Washington county, Maryland. The parents were married in Ogle county, Illinois, where they both spent the balance of their lives. Josiah F. Fager remained in Ogle county until 1871, when he moved to Sedgwick county, Kansas, and pre-empted 160 acres of land in Ohio township. He lived for two years in Wichita, when he sold his claim in Ohio township, and in 1875, in partnership with W. W. Hays, built a flour mill, the second built in the county, at what is now Haysville. The first postoffice at Hays-ville was established in 1876 and was kept in the mill. Mr. Hays was postmaster and Mr. Fager was deputy. Mr. Fager was interested in and worked in the mill until 1883. when he sold his interest and moved on his present farm, having bought 160 acres in 1880. He now has 220 acres. On this place he has an orchard of 100 acres in apple and pear trees. Aside from the Hoover orchard Mr. Fager has one of the largest in the county. On December 25, 1877, Mr. Fager married Miss Antonia Shaw, who was born in Shelby county, Illinois. Mrs. Fager is a daughter of Caleb and Mary A. Shaw. Her father came to Sedgwick county in 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Fager have one son, Clinton C, born January 6, 1879, who lives on the home place. Fraternally, Mr. Fager is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is a Republican in national politics and a liberal in local affairs. Mr. and Mrs. Fager are members of the Christian church.
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