Edward Forward, a well-known resident of Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born in Cayuaga county, New York, on July 19, 1839. His parents were- George and Sarah (Cager) Forward, both natives of England, where the father was born in Sussex, on October 30, 1806, and the mother on October 30, 1809. They were married on June 22, 1828, and came to the United States in 1833, settling in Cayuaga county, New York. They sailed on the Duke of Brunswick on May 4, 1833, and were on the water seven weeks. They were the parents of twelve children, nine of whom are living, viz.: George, born in England September 9, 1829, and now living in Illinois, at the age of eighty-two; Charlotte, born June 22, 1832, deceased; William, of Illinois, born September 5, 1834; Franklin, of Clinton county, Michigan, born August 11, 1838; Edward, of Ninnescah township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, born July 19,1839; Mrs. Fannie Bunker, of Delano township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, born August 1, 1840; Charles N., of Goddard, Kan., born January 30,1843; Mrs. Mary Beard, of Delano township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, born August 8, 1845; Lewis, of Mt. Hope, Kan., born November 13, 1852; Adelbert, of Grand Rapids, Mich., born July 16, 1855; Sarah, deceased, born August 7,1847; one child died in infancy. The father of this family died in Michigan on September 15, 1881. The mother is living in Delano township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, at the age of 102 years. Edward Forward remained at home until 1858, when he went to Yorktown, Bureau county, Illinois, where he remained till 1861, when he enlisted in Company B, First Battalion, Yates Sharpshooters, which in 1864 was veteranized and called the Sixty-fourth Illinois. Mr. Forward was in thirty-three different engagements. At the battle of Corinth a minie ball seared his right cheek. The same day three balls passed through his blouse and one tore the heel off his shoe. The sharpshooters were in groups of four, and Mr. Forward was the only one left out of his group, the other three being killed. He was with Sherman on his march to the sea, and was discharged with a commission as second lieutenant on July 18, 1865. After the war Mr. Forward returned to Illinois and resumed work at his trade of mason and bricklayer, where he remained until 1877, when he came to Kansas and located in Mitchell county, but returned to Illinois. In 1878 he returned to Kansas and located three miles west of "Wichita, in Delano township, where he bought a farm and lived eighteen years. He then sold his farm and bought a farm in Waco township near Bayneville, where he lived until 1909, when he sold it and bought 220 acres in Section 21, Ninnescah township. On March 1, 1873, Mr. Forward was married to Miss Margaret A. Gramphin, who was born in Niles, Mich., on November 10, 1852, a daughter of Watkins and Elizabeth (Granger) Cramphin, both natives of Cayuaga county, New York; Mrs. Forward's father was born June 6, 1817, and her mother May 23, 1819. Her father died June 21, 1890, and her mother September 3, 1897.
Mr. and Mrs. Forward have five children, viz.: Mrs. Alma Parsons, born July 26, 1876; Edward W., born March 12, 1878; Mrs. Walter Brazill, born May 22, 1880; Mrs. Frank Coulson, born August 21, 1883, and Mrs. Eaymond Lucas, born September 14, 1885. All the children live in Sedgwick county, Kansas. Mr. Forward has devoted his entire attention to farming since coming to Kansas. He has held no political positions except trustee of his school district, which he held for a number of years. Fraternally, he is a member of Yorktown Lodge, No. 655, of Tampico, 111. He is a liberal in politics, always voting for the best men in local affairs, but is a Republican in national affairs. (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 772-773)
Harvey J. Freeman is a native of Butler county, Kansas, and was born in 1870 to Henry and Emma (Hart) Freeman, the former a native of England and the latter of Canada, who settled in Butler county in 1869, where the father died in 1907. Our subject is the seventh child of a family of twelve children. He acquired his preliminary education in the district schools, then pursued a course of study at Lewis Academy and later was graduated from the Southwestern Business College of Wichita. After his graduation, in 1893, in connection with the institution last named, and under Mr. E. H. Fritch, he organized a school at Guthrie, Okla., where he remained two years. Then associating himself with the Wichita Commercial College, he established a school at Oklahoma City and continued with it two years. Returning to Wichita in 1897, he held a position as instructor in the institution there till the spring of 1905, when he and Mr. T. W. DeHaven purchased the school. In the fall of that year, Mr. H. S. Miller also became financially interested in the school. Under this proprietorship, the school was carried on till 1909, when Mr. Miller sold his interest to his partners, who have conducted the school since that time. The school, in its various departments, occupies the entire third floor at Nos. 508-16 East Douglas street, and has an enrollment of from 200 to 225, with a yearly attendance of 500 pupils. He was a member of the city council on the Republican ticket for a period of two terms, and was president of that body for the term ending April 1, 1906. He has been a member of the board of the Kansas state poultry board for the past five years, and on January 1 last, was elected president of the state board, which position he still holds. Mr. Freeman is a prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a past grand of the order. He also belongs to the Woodmen of the World. In religious faith, he is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1896 Mr. Freeman married Miss Evelyn Peoples, a daughter of Dr. D. A. Peoples, of Guthrie, Okla., who removed thither from Philadelphia in 1889. They have one child, Louise, who was born in 1897. (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 773-774)
Farley A. Gackenbach is a wide awake and progressive citizen of Wichita, Kan. He is a native of Allentown, Pa., and was born in 1866, to Charles W. and Jane (Schenck) Gackenbach. The father was a carriage manufacturer and the son learned that trade, though he never followed it. He started out for himself in 1884, going to Atehison, Kan., and spending two years as traveling salesman for Messrs. Sterner & Co., cigar dealers. He then, in 1886, went to Arkansas City, Kan., and spent one year in the real estate business. Here our subject traded some real estate he had acquired for a stock of groceries located at No. 933 South Emporia street, Wichita, Kan. He carried on the grocery trade till 1889, when he sold the business and engaged in the cigar business, first at No. 119 South Main street and afterwards at No. 227 East Douglas street. He conducted this business till 1907, when he sold out his interest and accepted the position of deputy grand master of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, having been, for nine years previous to this time, financial agent of the local lodge, No. 22. Mr. Gackenbach stands high in fraternal circles, being a member of the Mystic Shrine, a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Wichita Consistory. He also belongs to Wichita Lodge, No. 93, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and many others.
In 1906 Mr. Gackenbach was elected a member of the Wichita Board of Education, and re-elected in 1908, and served as its president till 1909, when he resigned. He has the credit of establishing separate schools in Wichita, but the case being reversed by the Supreme Court the matter was dropped until such time as the law was amended. (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 774-775)
William H. Gaiser, carriage maker, of Wichita, Kan., is a native of Illinois, having been born in the city of Alton, that state, in 1862. He is a son of John and Celia (Hanna) Gaiser, the father being a native of Germany, who came to the United States when young and settled in Illinois. William H. Gaiser -received his education in the public schools of Alton, and began to learn the trade of carriage making when a boy. He came to Wichita in 1887, where he was first employed by J. M. Mc-Kenzie and later by J. M. Washburn. Mr. Gaiser was in the employ of the latter for seventeen years, when he was taken into partnership, the style of the firm being Washburn & Gaiser. This arrangement continued until the death of Mr. Washburn, when Mr. Gaiser succeeded to the business. The business plant was formerly located at Nos. 114 and 116 St. Francis avenue, but the constantly increasing business made larger and more modern quarters imperative, and in 1910 Mr. Gaiser built the present up-to-date plant at Nos. 217 and 219 St. Francis avenue, the most modern to be found in the Southwest. The structure is a two-story brick, covering a ground area of 42x125 feet, and is complete in every detail. The shops are filled with all the equipment required in the carriage business. Facilities are here to be found for the building and repair of all kinds of vehicles, from a wheelbarrow to an automobile. The floors are of concrete, there is an elevator for the transport of vehicles from one floor to another, while the paint and varnish rooms, carriage top and repairing department, and a modern forge, all go to make up a new and twentieth century equipment. The works are an illustration of what can be accomplished with enterprise and push. Mr. Gaiser was married in 1887, to Miss Julia Doyle, of Missouri. Three children have been born of this union, viz.: George, Harry M., and Paul. (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 775)
James B. Gardiner, cashier of the Valley Center State Bank, Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born March 30, 1878, at Garden Plain, Kan. His father, who is now deceased, was George H. Gardiner, and his mother's maiden name was Laura V. Pope. Both parents were natives of Illinois. Mr. Gardiner obtained his education in the public schols of Wichita, Kan., afterward taking a business course at the Southwestern Business College, St. Louis, Mo. He began his business career in the private bank of S. F. Greene & Co., of Kane, 111., and afterward holding a position for a few years with the Continental & Commercial National Bank of Chicago, 111. Upon his return to Kansas he was made cashier of the State Bank of Peck, Peck, Kan., and in 1908 accepted his present position. Besides being cashier of the Valley Center State Bank he is director in five other b'anks in Sedgwick county. Fraternally Mr. Gardiner is a member of the Masonic order-King Solomon's Lodge, No. 197, Kane, 111., A. F. & A. M.; La Fayette Chapter No. 2, R. A. M., Chicago, 111.; Palestine Council, No. 66, R. and S. M., Chicago, 111.; Wichita Consistory, No. 2; thirty-second degree and Midian Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Valley Center Lodge, No. 164. In politics Mr. Gardiner affiliates with the Democratic party. (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 775-776)
GARDNER, JAMES K.
James K. Gardner, of Cheney, Kan., where he is actively engaged in the real estate and loan business, was born May 2, 1849, at Cadiz, 0. He is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Leard) Gardner. His father was a native of Virginia, and on the maternal line his remote ancestry is traced to Scotland. The parents came from Virginia to Ohio and afterwards removed to McLean county, Illinois, where the father was engaged in farming up to. the time of his death, which occurred in 1885. He lived an exemplary life, being strong and well grounded in Methodism. He was a Republican, and took a decided interest in the affairs of his party. James K. Gardner left his home in Illinois and removed to Morton township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, in 1882, and the same year he married Miss Emma L. Rankin, a daughter of W. H. and Elizabeth Rankin, of Bloomington, 111. Four children have been born of this union, two boys and two girls, only one of whom is now living, Caroline L.. now attending the Illinois Wesleyan University, at Bloomington, 111. When Mr. Gardner first located in Morton township he had barely enough money to buy a team of horses. He worked at painting for two years. He purchased 160 acres of land and for three years, while working on the farm, he also worked at the trade of painter. He then moved into Cheney and opened up the real estate, insurance and loan business, and was successful from the start. In 1909 the firm of Gardner & McCue, real estate and loans, was organized, and the firm is now transacting a large and lucrative business in these lines. Fraternally Mr. Gardner is a Mason, belonging to Morton Lodge, No. 254, A. F. and A. M., in which he has filled all the chairs. He is also a member of Wichita Consistory, No. 2, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a director in the Citizens' Bank of Cheney, has been a member of the city school board for fifteen years, city councilman for three years, city treasurer for three years, and police judge for two years, which latter position he now holds. Mr. Gardner is a Republican in polities. He has several times been a representative to the Masonic Grand Lodge. He is known as a public spirited, enterprising man, and successful in all his undertakings. He is a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a strong worker in the denomination, and has contributed liberally to its support. He has been a superintendent in the Sunday school of his church for fifteen years. (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 776-777)
Alexander Garrett, farmer, of Rockford township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born in Monroe county, Ohio, on March 4, 1845. His parents were J. E. and Mary J. (Gilmore) Garrett, both natives of Ohio, where they lived until 1869, when they moved to Ottawa county, Kansas, where they lived until their death. The elder Garrett died in 1873, and his widow in 1874. In September, 1869, Alexander Garrett went to Rockford township, Sedgwick county, and filed on 160 acres of land in Section 12, on which claim he still lives, being the only man in Rockford township in 1910 living on his original claim. Mr. Garrett's first house was built of logs hewn by himself. He made the shingles himself and hauled cottonwood logs to Wichita, where he gave half to have them sawed into boards to make windows, doors and floors. On September 26, 1866, Mr. Garrett was married to Miss Margaret Dixon, who was born in Monroe county, Ohio. They have two children, Anna Mary, born in March, 1870, the first white child born in Rockford township, and Herman, born in January, 1876, who lives on a farm adjoining his father. Mr. Garrett has spent his life in agricultural pursuits, has had a strenuous career, and is today one of the respected and representative citizens of Sedgwick county. He is a Republican in polities, but has never sought nor held office. He owns 1,040 acres in Sedgwick county and 200 acres in King-man county, and markets from 75 to 150 fat cattle each year. (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 777)
Ichabod P. Garriss, of Mulvane, Kan., a retired farmer and pioneer, is a native of North Carolina, where he was born in Wayne county, on March 14, 1842. His parents were Wiley and Elizabeth (Pearson) Garriss, both natives of North Carolina. (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 777)
Joshua Garriss, the father of Wiley, came from England at an early date and settled in North Carolina, where he lived and died, Wiley also spending all his life in the same state. The mother also died at the same place. Ichabod P. Garriss lived in his native state until March 12, 1868, when he moved to Willow Springs, Kan., where he remained until 1871. Before coming to Kansas and while living in North Carolina he was conscripted in the Confederate Army, Company K, North Carolina Infantry, and served until May, 1865. In 1871 Mr. Garriss came to Rockford township, Sedgwiek county, and laid the foundation of a house on Section 13. In the fall of 1872 he preempted this 160 acres and moved on the place. He paid 25 cents per tree and hauled the logs twelve miles and built his home. He lived on this farm until 1901, when he retired from farming and moved into Mulvane, where he has a pleasant home and enjoys the rest he has earned. On October 18, 1861, Mr. Garriss married Miss Elizabeth Bradbury, who was born in North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Garriss had one daughter, Mrs. Cora McCullough, born on March 18, 1866, and who now lives in Rockford township. On August 2, 1902, Mrs. Garriss died, and on December 7, 1903, Mr. Garriss married Mrs. Annie M. Greene, who was born in England, a daughter of James O. and Thirza (Meade) Pearce, both of whom were natives of England, and came to Holden, Mass., in 1849. They lived at different times in Rhode Island and Connecticut, and then came to Douglas, Kan., where they died. Mrs. Garriss was married first March 8, 1864, to Albert A. Greene, and came to Kansas in 1872 to Rose Hill, Butler county. Mr. Greene died March 14, 1898. Albert A. Greene was a soldier in the Union Army in the First Rhode Island Cavalry, Company D, and served till the close of the war, when he received his honorable discharge. Mr. Garriss passed through all the trials and hardships of frontier life and has earned the rest he is now taking. He is a Liberal in politics and both he and his wife are members of the-Methodist Episcopal Church. (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 778)
Martin L. Garver was born at Scotland, Pa., May 16, 1844, and passed his early life on the home farm. After a short military service he was discharged, in the latter part of 1863, and soon thereafter entered the freshman class in Whittenburg College, Springfield, O., graduating with the class of 1866. Mr. Garver became a Master Mason, having passed the degrees in Chambers-burg, Pa. On April 11, 1871, he married Miss Kate B. Emminger, of Mansfield, O., and came to Topeka on their trip from there. M. L., in company with Judge T. F. Garver, still of Topeka, and his brother, made a trip to Wichita by mule team, and camped just south of where the Second street bridge is now located, and bought Buffalo steak at 25 cents a basket. In October, 1874, he moved from Pennsylvania to Mansfield, O., and in April, 1879, he again turned his face westward, locating at Columbus, Kan., -in the real estate and loan business, as local representative of Wilson & Toms, loan brokers, of St. Louis, Mo., but soon thereafter, in 1879, they transferred him to Wichita as their local manager for southern Kansas. Wilson & Toms later on organized as the Wilson & Toms Investment Company, and still later as the Central Trust Company of St. Louis. Mr. Garver represented these people out of Wichita until they went out of business, in the early '90s, when he engaged in the same line of business in Wichita, on his own account. In March, 1896, he signed a contract with the Deering Harvester Company, of Chicago, to look after their Oklahoma collections. July, 1898, he entered the employ of the Deming Investment Company, located at Oklahoma City, as business manager. July 1, 1901, he returned to Wichita, accepting a position with the Monarch Trust Company, since reorganized as the Monarch Loan Company, as examiner of farm securities, which position he still holds, serving as its vice-president. There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Garver four children: Mary L., married to Chas. J. MeKenzie, of Wichita; George J., secretary and treasurer of the Monarch Loan Company, single, and lives in the family home; James L., single, engaged in the chicken and pigeon business at the family home, 900 Mathewson avenue, Wichita, Kan., and Charles L., married, and living at Barstow, Cal., and is in charge of the Santa Fe Refrigerator Dispatch Company's business at that place. (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 778-779)
Fred W. George, one of the enterprising business men of Wichita, Kan., was born in New Hampshire, in 1876, and is a son of Fred and Ella (Holman) George, natives of England and Massachusetts, respectively. They moved to Kansas in 1876 and settled on a farm in Sedgwiek township, Sedgwick county, but four years later left the farm and moved into the village of Sedgwick, where the father became connected with the hardware business of S. W. Shattuck, in which line of trade he has since continued, being now-1910-proprietor of the Wichita Iron Store.
Our subject acquired his education in the village schools and began-his business career as a clerk in the store of Mr. Shattuck. Later he was traveling salesman for the Robinson Heary Hardware Company, of St. Joseph, Mo., and after that, till 1904,. represented the Massey Iron Company, of Kansas City, Mo. In July, 1904, Mr. George, with his former employer, Mr. Shattuck,. organized the Shattuck-George Iron Company, whose business is located at Nos. 138 and 140 North "Wichita street, Wichita, occupying a three-story building and carrying a full and complete stock of heavy hardware and blacksmith's supplies, and, in fact, everything found in an up-to-date business of its character. The officers of the company are: F. W. George, president; S. W. Shattuck, vice-president; S. W. Shattuck, Jr., secretary, and "W. R. George, treasurer.
Our subject stands high in business circles and is active in social and fraternal organizations. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Wichita Consistory, and of the Albert Pike Blue Lodge. He is also a member of the Commercial Club of Wichita, president of the Wichita Association of Credit Men, and treasurer of the Wichita Transportation Bureau.
In 1898 Mr. George married Miss Sadie Damon, a daughter of L. E. Damon, of Wichita, and they have two children, named, respectively, Ralph Damon and Edith Frances, and occupy a beautiful home at No. 1355 North Water street. (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 779-780)
Christopher Gerhards, farmer, of Union township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, is a native of Germany, where he was born March 31, 1869. He is a son of Valentine Gerhards, also a native of Germany. Christopher Gerhards came to the United States on May 26, 1886, and first located at Lake Linden, Michigan, where he worked for a time in the copper mines. He left the copper mines to enter the employ of Armour & Co., of Chicago, and in 1901 came to Russell county, Kansas, where he bought land and farmed for a time. This land he afterwards sold and bought 240 acres in Section 4, Union township, and has since lived on the same. Mr. Gerhards was married in August, 1891, to Miss Susan Schaass, a native of Michigan. Seven children have been born of this union, of whom five are now living. The children are: Mary, born November 10, 1892; Matthew, born January 13, 1894; John, born August 11, 1895; Benjamin, born May 20, 1897; Mahannah, born March 18, 1900; Henry, deceased, born June 6,1906.
Mr. Gerhards is the present trustee of Union township. He is a member of the Catholic church and is a Democrat 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 780-781)
John S. Giwosky, proprietor of the People's Cleaning and Dye Works, of Wichita, is a native of Russia, where he was born in 1873. His parents were S. and Frederika Giwosky. They came to America in 1885, and to Barber county, Kansas. Mr. Giwosky's education was acquired in Russia and Kansas. He came to Wichita in 1887, and went to school and helped his father m his store. Mr. Giwosky embarked in business for himself as a tailor in 1897, and for eight years conducted this business successfully. In 1905 he broke out of the tailoring business and plunged into the cleaning and dyeing industry, in a tiny room at 129 North Lawrence avenue, and with less than $300 in capital. Today the business occupies an imposing new home on South Lawrence avenue. This is a fireproof three-story concrete block which has been erected at a cost, including land value, with its equipment, the plant is valued at $40,000. All this has been accomplished in a little over five years, the new building being completed in June, 1910. The business gives employment to an average of fifty persons. The out-of-town business of the concern has assumed large proportions. Mr. Giwosky, while closely applying himself to his business, is never unmindful of his public duty, nor of the joys of a whim or a hobby. His are automobiling and fine horses, in both of which he has time and ability to indulge himself. His five city delivery wagons are hauled by the best horse flesh he can buy. He was married in 1900 to Miss Yiola Rockfouer, of Wichita, and they have two children-Marguerite and Harry. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and the Chamber of Commerce. (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 781-782)
Edgar A. Goodin is a native of Van Buren county, Iowa, and was born March 25, 1858, to Asa and Caroline (McElhaney) Goodin. The father died in Iowa and the mother died in Wichita in 1899. On attaining his majority our subject rented a farm and carried on farming in Iowa till he was twenty-seven years old. He moved to Kansas in 1885 and the next year settled in Wichita, and with two teams of horses which he owned, and others which he purchased, engaged in the work of grading streets. The business was financially successful; but Mr. Goodin invested his profits in Wichita property, and when the financial panic came he was caught in the crash and his entire holdings were swept away. He, however, found work as engineer for the Eagle Publishing Company, and in 1891, having saved a small sum of money, rented eighty acres that had been subdivided into town lots and for two years gave his entire attention to raising hogs. This venture was followed by another year at farming, and in 1884 he joined the rush to Oklahoma. Failing to get a claim, he returned to Sedgwick county, Kansas, and with $1,500 he had saved purchased a quarter section of land, paying one-half cash and mortgaging it for the other $1,500, which he paid off in three years from his profits through feeding stock. In 1897 he bought eighty acres, to which he added 240 acres in 1898. In 1901 he further increased his holdings with the purchase of eighty acres, and in 1909 by another purchase of 320 acres, making his total holdings of land 720 acres, being 480 acres in Section 33, 160 acres in Section 34 and 80 acres in Section 32, all in Gypson township, in Sedgwick county, and all purchased with the profits of his farming, in which he has given his chief attention to raising and feeding cattle and hogs. In 1909 his sales of cattle, hogs and wheat amounted to $13,000. In 1905 Mr. Goodin erected a beautiful and commodious farmhouse, where he made his home five years. The place is also improved with fine barns, outbuildings and sheds and thoroughly equipped with all that pertains to a modern farm. Mr. Goodin still has the general supervision of his farm, though his sons have charge of the farming operations, and during 1910 he moved into his beautiful and spacious bungalow, which he built on the township road on the south line of his property in Section 33. This home is thoroughly modern in all its appointments, and is equipped with every appliance looking to comfort, utility and convenience. A cistern with a capacity of 700 barrels supplies water for a complete water system throughout the premises; a hot-air furnace supplies the heat, and the the place is lighted with gas. Among other conveniences is a handsome garage for housing his new automobile, which is the third machine Mr. Goodin has possessed.
In 1879 Mr. Goodin married Miss Mary, daughter of Mr. William L. Foster, who settled in Lee county, Iowa, in 1854,. and who died in 1891. His widow still lives in Iowa. Of seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Goodin, Delia, born in 1880, died in 1888, and Dewitt, born in 1894, died in 1896. Of the surviving children, Maggie, born in 1882, is married to Mr. Charles Lane, of "Wichita. They have one child, Ruth by name. Roy R. was born in 1885; he married Miss Mabel Russell, and they have one child, Clark. They live on the homestead; Collier, who was born in 1888, married Miss Luella Urban, and also lives on the home farm. Lee, who was born in 1899, and Grace, born in 1901, both live with their parents and are attending school.
Mr. Goodin stands high in the Masonic order, and is a member of the Wichita consistory. In politics he is a Democrat, independent in his actions and opinion. (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 782-783)
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