Cyrus Sullivan, real estate dealer, and head of the firm of Cyrus Sullivan & Son, of Wichita, Kan., is a native of the Dominion of Canada, having been born at Carleton, Carleton county, Province of Ontario, on August 10, 1852. His parents were Thomas and Adaline (Rood) Sullivan, natives of New York and Vermont, respectively. The parents, after some fifteen years of married life spent in New England, joined a colony which located a few miles from Ottawa, in Canada, where they engaged in farming until 1870. In that year they joined a colony of twenty bound for Kansas, and on June 15, 1870, located in Kechi township, Sedgwick county, where they pre-empted a claim of the Indian trust lands of the Osage tribe. The claim selected by Mr. Sullivan was in Section 22, which he found to be wild prairie, but which, by careful cultivation, he made fertile and productive, and there he spent the balance of his life. He died in 1871 at the age of seventy-six; his widow survived until 1894, when she died at the age of eighty-eight. Mr. Sullivan was an educated man, of fine character, and was prominent in occupying local offices while a resident of Ontario. Mrs. Sullivan was descended from noted ancestry, her great-grandfather on her mother's side being Governor Belcher, who was sent from England at an early day to be Governor of Vermont. Robert Sullivan, the grandfather of Cyrus, was a native of Ireland, and came to the United States and settled in New England about the year 1790, and was a merchant in Ireland. Cyrus Sullivan was educated in the pub-lie schools of his native town of Carleton, Ontario, and also at a commercial school, and began farming early in Kechi township, Sedgwick county. He was one of the fortunate ones in securing a claim, a portion of which he still owns. He was actively engaged in farming pursuits until 1904, when he removed to "Wichita, and has since been successfully engaged in the real estate business. Mr. Sullivan is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Aid. On January 15, 1872, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Q. D. Rorison, daughter of Hugh Umstad Rorison. Mrs. Sullivan is the youngest of a family of thirteen children. Her grandfather, Captain Grierson, was an officer in the British o army, and was given 3,000 acres of land when he had served his term in the navy. Three children have been born to Mr. Sullivan and his wife, viz.: Alden Newton, Cyrus Clayton and Arthur Douglas Sullivan, all of Wichita. Alden N. Sullivan, the eldest son, is a member of the firm of Cyrus Sullivan & Son. He was born April 14, 1878, in Kechi township. His education was obtained in the public schools, Lewis Academy and the Wichita Commercial College. He first began work on the farm at home, and then entered commercial life as a traveling salesman for W. R. Case, cutlery, of Bradford, Pa., covering the territory of Kansas and Oklahoma. He continued this employment until 1908, when he engaged in the real estate business with his father. The offices of the firm are at No. 212 Anchorm Trust building. Alden N. Sullivan was married on December 28, 1904, to Miss Fannie Doratt, daughter of O. R. Doratt, of Wichita. (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 892-893)
Thomas A. Sullivan, lawyer, of Wichita, Kan., is a native of Sedgwick county, Kansas, where he was born on January 8, 1873. His parents were George G. and Letitia (Hunt) Sullivan, natives of Ontario, Canada, who moved to Kansas in 1869, freighted from Emporia to Wichita by mule team, and settled on a farm in Wichita township, locating on the northeast quarter of Section 29, township 26, range 12, which is now known as the Lone Tree farm, and is one of the best and most productive in Sedgwick county. Thomas A. Sullivan now owns a portion of the homestead farm and devotes some of his spare time to raising registered stock. George G., father of Thomas A., held various public offices and was a member of the school board. Fraternally, he was a member of the Knights of Pythias and was also a member of the First Presbyterian church. He died May 6, 1902, in his sixty-third year. His widow is still living and is a resident of Wichita. Thomas A. Sullivan was the eldest of a family of four children, all of whom are living, and on holidays it is their custom to meet in a family gathering. George G. Sullivan, father of Thomas A., was a son of Thomas A. Sullivan, a native of Canada, who moved to the Southwest after his son, stopping first at Kansas City, Mo., and later joined his son in Kansas. He was a cabinetmaker by trade and made some of the coffins in which the pioneers were placed for their last rest. His location was in Wichita township near his son. His wife's name was Adeline, and she was of English-Irish descent. Thomas A. Sullivan was educated in the public schools of Sedgwick county, at Lewis Academy and Wichita University, and studied law in the office of Amidon & Conley. He was admitted to the bar of Sedgwick county and began practice in the city of Wichita as a partner of C. A. Sefton, with an office in the Zimmerly building. Four years later the firm was dissolved and Mr. Sullivan has since continued alone. In 1889 he located his office in the Sedgwick -building* and has since conducted a general practice. Mr. Sullivan was married on December 20, 1899, to Miss Florence G. Kelley, daughter of George W. and Naurie Kelly, of Roanoke, Va. Three children have been born of this union. Mabel, the eldest, died in 1902, and the two living are Frances Louise and Marion. (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 893-894)
Richard H. Sullivan was born December 11, 1863, at Madison, Ind. His parents were William Blackmore and Mary Esther (Hughes) Sullivan, of Virginia and Kentucky nativity, respectively. He was educated in the common and high schools of Madison, and under a private tutor in the academical and collegiate branches of science, English and history. Mr. Sullivan mastered the printing business and followed the profession of journalism prior to entering the services of the United States weather bureau. He passed the entrance examinations and entered the United States signal service, war department, on September 24, 1887, and was transferred to the United States weather bureau,. department of agriculture, on July 1, 1891. Mr. Sullivan has been stationed twice at Indianapolis, Ind., and once each at Kansas City, Mo., Denver, Colo., Nashville, Tenn., Grand Junction, Colo., and Wichita, Kan. He was observer and first assistant at Denver for six years and at Indianapolis six years; observer in charge at Grand Junction and local forecaster in charge at Wichita. Nearly eighteen years of his professional life have been passed in the West. Mr. Sullivan is a member of the Indiana Society, the Sons of the Revolution, of the National Geographic Society, and is president of the State Audobon Society of Kansas. He has written and lectured on many subjects of a scientific nature, some of which are the following: "The Work of the United States Weather Bureau," "Protecting Orchards from Spring Frosts," "Conservation of Moisture for the Proper Growth of Vegetation," "Relation of Bird Life to the Horticulturist and Agriculturist as an Economic Proposition," and "So-Called Change of Climate in the Semi-Arid West." Mr. Sullivan was married to Clara A. Amberg, daughter of Charles and Susan Amberg, of Indianapolis, at Kansas City, Mo., June 10,1890. One daughter, Esther Louise Sullivan; two sons, Warwick Amberg Sullivan, and Richard Franklin Sullivan, have resulted from this union. (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 894-895)
Charles W. Tallman, of Ninnescah township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, on December 21, 1844. His parents were Charles and Isabelle (Brown) Tall-man, both natives of the Keystone state. The father was born in February, 1812, and the mother in March, 1813. The parents of Mr. Tallman were married in Pennsylvania and in 1860 went to Missouri, where they remained during the remainder of their lives. The father died in January, 1869, and the mother died on January 7, 1905. Charles W. Tallman remained at home until he enlisted in the army in 1864 in Company E, Forty-eighth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and served during the remainder of the war. He then returned to his home in Missouri, where he remained about two years. He then moved to Leavenworth county, Kansas, in the spring of 1868, where he remained five years, and in the spring of 1873 came to Sedgwick county and pre-empted 160 acres of land in the southeast quarter of Section 17, Ninnescah township, which farm he still owns. In 1887 Mr. Tallman moved to Wichita and did gardening for thirteen years, and in 1900 returned to his farm in Ninnescah township. When he first came on his claim there was about eight acres broken. Aside from that Mr. Tallman has done all the improving, erected the buildings, and now has a pleasant home and a finely improved farm. On October 20, 1875, Mr. Tallman married Miss Nellie Swartz, who was born in Leavenworth county, Kansas, on January 9, 1856, a daughter of David and Mary (Collins) Swartz. David Swartz was born in Indiana on March 8, 1804, a son of Michael and Catharine (Sheets) Swartz. Michael Swartz was born in Pennsylvania on February 20, 1766, and his wife was born on August 15, 1777. They were married on March 1, 1798. Mary Collins Swartz was born in- New Jersey on October 11, 1814, and was married March 5, 1838. She and her husband came to Kansas in 1852 or 1853. Mr. and Mrs. Tallman have had five children, four of whom are living. They are: Mrs. H. L. Boyer, born October 14, 1876, of Viola township, Sedgwick county; Mrs. R. B. Russell, born February 6, 1878, of Wichita; Samuel P., born February 16, 1882; Grace D., born November 27,1888, and died April 28, 1889, and Helen E., born March 15, 1892. Mr. TaUman has served many years on the school board of his district. He is engaged in diversified farming and has a fine orchard of 200 apple trees and about 150 peach trees. He is a Republican in politics and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church; also a member of the Grand Army Post at Clearwater. (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 895-896)
Houston Lee Taylor, late of Wichita, Kan., was a native of Concord, N. H., and was born in 1834 to John and Lucinda (Jackson) Taylor, who moved to Eaton, Ohio, when he was a child. He acquired his education there, and after leaving school, in 1854, went to Mattoon, Ill., and engaged in the hardware trade. Appointed postmaster by President Buchanan in 1858, he served in that capacity three years, studying law in the meantime and being admitted to the bar. In 1861 Mr. Taylor responded to the call of President Lincoln for volunteers, and was commissioned captain of Company H, Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battle of Pea Ridge, the siege of Corinth and other early engagement of the Civil War, and in September, 1862, was promoted for gallant services to the rank of lieutenant-colonel of the Sixty-eighth Illinois Regiment. Colonel Taylor, after his honorable discharge, was appointed by President Lincoln special treasury agent and assigned to duty in the Mississippi valley. From 1865 to 1869 he served as United States government agent for the Shawnee Indians in Kansas, after which, in 1870, he engaged in banking at Oswego, Kan., and conducted a successful business for three years, and then withdrew from the bank to look after his private affairs in Johnson county, Kansas, where he held large property interests. In May, 1874, he took charge of the Wichita Land Office under appointment by President Grant and filled that office some five years. He also helped to incorporate, and for one year served as a director of, the Carthage, Oswego & Southwestern Railway Company, and about 1880 was appointed special agent of the government to look after the timber interests in Arizona. About 1882 he engaged in the insurance business as senior member of the firm of Taylor & Taylor, and so continued a number of years. Colonel Taylor was one of the progressive men of his city and entered heartily into all projects looking to the betterment and development of the community. He served as commissioner of elections, was on the police commission under appointment by Governor Humphrey and also served as state oil inspector, appointed by Governor Lewellen. Colonel Taylor stood high in Masonic circles, was also a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and of the Woodmen of the World. In politics, Colonel Taylor was a Republican till 1890, when he became a Populist, later becoming a Democrat. His death occurred at Wichita on June 26, 1906.
On October 15, 1862, Mr. Taylor married Miss Anna M., daughter of J. C. and Lydia (Ogden) Walter, natives of Pennsylvania, who settled in Ohio in an early day. Mrs. Taylor now lives in the family home at No. 304 St. Lawrence avenue, Wichita. Of four children born to Mr. and Mrs. Taylor the eldest, Walter Sherman, born January 5, 1864, died in January, 1884; Houston Lee, born April 21, 1870, married Miss Lulu Wisch, of Denver, in September, 1903, and lives at Cripple Creek, Colo.; Raymond Lee, born February 8, 1872, in 1908 married Miss Bessie I., a daughter of R. P. Dodds, of Wichita. He was graduated from the high school, then studied law with Kos Harris, and was admitted to the bar in 1896, though he was never engaged in practice. Instead he engaged in the railroad business, being chief clerk in an office at Oklahoma City for a time, and from 1901 to 1906 serving as cashier in the employ of the Missouri & Pacific Railway Company. In 1906 he was elected clerk of the district court of Sedgwick county, Kansas, and is now-1910-serving his second term, to which he was elected in 1908. The youngest child, Helen, lives at home. She is a teacher by profession and taught six years in Lewis Academy, Wichita. (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 896-897)
William Seward Taylor, the son of David and Mary S. (Callender) Taylor, was born in Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, May 14, 1858. His parents were natives of New York and Michigan, respectively. The father died at Madison, Wis., April 3. 1891. The death of his mother occurred in October, 1899.
William S. received a common school education in Wisconsin, and in April, 1879, came to Kansas, hearing of the advantages of Sedgwick county, Kansas, purchased a quarter section of land in Section 25, Minneha township, Sedgwick county, where he has since made his home. Since taking up his residence in this county he has added to his original purchase another three-quarters section, making in all a full section, which lies in Sections 24, 25 and 33.
In politics he affiliates with the Republican party, but of late years he leans toward the Independents. Fraternally he is a member of the Woodmen of the World. He was a census officer.for the district in which he resides, having been appointed by the head of the census bureau in 1910. (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 897)
Thomas H. Temple, head of the firm of T. H. Temple & Co., dealers in agricultural implements and vehicles, of Wichita, Kan., whose establishment is located at No. 210 West Douglas avenue, has the distinction of directing the largest business of its kind in the Southwest. Mr. Temple hails from Illinois, having been born in Pike county, that state, on January 27, 1857. He was a son of Robert C. and Adeline T. (Fisher) Temple, both natives. of Ohio, who left the latter state in the fifties and moved to Illinois, where the elder Temple engaged in farming. Both the parents are now deceased. Thomas H. Temple was the youngest of a family of six, he having two brothers and three sisters. His early education was acquired in the public schools of Pike county, after graduating from which he attended Lombard University at Galesburg, Ill., graduating in the class of '78. He first engaged in farming in Illinois after leaving the university, and in 1885 decided to go to Kansas, locating first in Anderson county, where he again engaged in farming for one year. He then came to Wichita in a wagon, in which he spent his first night in the city, owing to the scarcity of lodging places at that time. From Wichita he continued his journey to Anthony, Kan., where he obtained employment as yard manager for the Rock Island Lumber and Manufacturing Company, soon after becoming manager of the yards of the same company at Danville, Kan., a position in which he remained for the next four years. Upon leaving Danville he went to Stafford, Kan., where he was manager for the D. J. Fair Lumber and Hardware Company until 1900, when he went to Oklahoma and became manager of the Trekell & Round Lumber Company, continuing with the latter until 1905, when he came back to Wichita and formed a partnership with John F. Stewart, under the firm name of the Stewart & Temple Lumber Company, which continued until the death of Mr. Stewart in September, 1906. This firm conducted a chain of lumber yards. Mr. Temple next engaged in the hardware business at Mt. Hope, Kan., in which he continued until January, 1908, when he again returned to Wichita and established himself in the agricultural implement and vehicle business, which has now become the largest in the Southwest, occupying a building with four floors of 50x140 feet each. On February 1, 1910, Mr. Temple formed a partnership with R. H. Tighe, a man of ability and business push, and the business was conducted under their joint names till August 8, 1910, when the firm was changed to T. H. Temple & Co., Mr. Tighe retiring. Mr. Temple is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Fraternal Aid and the Wichita Chamber of Commerce. He was married on September 5, 1880, to Miss Maria Stewart, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Of this union four children have been born, viz.: Robert C.; Sarah, wife of C. J. Hinkley, of Mt. Hope, Kan.; Anna, wife of W. B. Borders, of Wichita, and Mary F. Temple. (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 897)
L. W. Thompson, a native of Chilhowee, Mo., was born on July 9, 1866, to M. W. and Elizabeth (Faith) Thompson, of Chilhowee, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson settled on a tract of land in Johnson county, Missouri, near the old postoniee of Chilhowee. Later, in 1893, when the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad went through that section of the country, it passed near the corner of the farm and homeplace of our subject. A new town was established there and about forty acres was sold off for townsite purposes, which is now covered by the town of Chilhowee. Our subject received his education in the public schools of Chilhowee, Mo., and from the Normal Business College of Clinton, Mo., after which he spent three years farming. In 1889, Mr. Thompson married Miss L. Anna, daughter of J. F. and Martha Downing, of Cornelia, Mo. They have five children, the oldest, Claudie, being dead. They have four children living, viz.: Clarence P., Lloyd A., Beulah M., and Louis Elmo, all of whom are living with their parents in this city. In 1892 Mr. Thompson engaged in the wholesale flour, feed and coal business in Clinton, Mo., selling his interests there in the spring of 1898, and moving to Wellington, Kans., where for two years he was in the threshing business. In 1890 he be came traveling representative of the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, covering the southern territory of Kansas, and at the same time owned half interest in the Wellington Wholesale Produce Company. This he sold on his removal to Wichita, in October, 1903, where he established a branch house for the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, of which he had charge until 1906. In 1903 Mr. Thompson became president of the Threshers' Association of Wichita, this association being organized for the purpose of promoting the interests of the threshers' trade and bringing different branch houses to the city of Wichita. He was president of this association for four years, and the association was successful in increasing the number of branch houses from three to thirteen, their traveling men from about ten to forty. During the year 1907 he was actively engaged with the Port Huron Threshing Company, located at No. 219 South Wichita street, of Wichita, Kans. In December, 1907, Mr. Thompson entered the employment of the Nichols & Shepard Company, opening up a branch house for them in this city, which he had charge of until July, 1909. In December, 1908, the Wichita Supply Company, of Wichita, was organized at Wichita, Kans., and Mr. Thompson became its president. He is still a stockholder in that company and its vice-president. In July, 1909, he resigned his position with the Nichols & Shepard Company and took up the sale of Halladay automobiles on the Kansas and Oklahoma territory for the Streator Motor Car Company, of Streator, Ill. In March, 1910, the Halladay Motor Company, of Wichita, was organized, of which Mr. Thompson is vice-president and general manager. Mr. Thompson is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Wichita Consistory. (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 897-899)
J. H. Tjaden, of Ninnescah township, Kansas, may fairly be described as one of the bonanza farmers of that favored section of the Sunflower State- Mr. Tjaden was born in Woodford county, Illinois, on January 26, 1858. His parents were J. H. and Minnie (Hyden) Tjaden. J. H. Tjaden remained at his Illinois home until he was twenty-four years old, when he came to Sedgwick county, Kansas, and bought 320 acres in Section 22, Ninnescah township. The land was most of it in its primitive condition, and he at once commenced to break and improve it. He has added to his original purchase until he now owns 2,500 acres, most of which is in Ninnescah township. On March 5, 1883, Mr. Tjaden married Miss Johanna Janssan, who was born in Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Tjaden are the parents of seven children, viz.: Mrs. Minnie Sautter, of Sumner county, Kansas; Mrs. Johanna Blumenshine, of Ninnescah township; Bertha, Jacob H., Lena, who died on July 13, 1903; Herman L. and Janet, the four latter being at home. Mr. Tjaden has much of his land rented, on which is conducted diversified farming. He feeds cattle for the market and also raises hogs. He feeds and markets about 250 head of cattle and from 600 to 700 hogs yearly. Mr. Tjaden has served as a school director for many years. Fraternally, he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a Democrat in politics, and a German Lutheran. (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 899)
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