Butler County Genealogy Trails Kansas L.D. Himebaugh Bio

BUTLER COUNTY'S EIGHTY YEARS BIOS

L. D. HIMEBAUGH

(Transcribed by Lori DeWinkler)

L. D. Himebaugh came to Kansas City in 1868, on a river transport from Marietta, Ohio. He worked on a farm near Topeka in the summer and taught school in the winter. In 1870 he came to Richard Township and took a claim in section 33. Here he built one of the first cabins in the township. In 1884 it was vacated for a modern home, one of the finest in the county. Here Mr. and Mrs. Himebaugh lived until March, 1908, when they moved to Wichita, their son, R. W. Himebaugh, succeeding them on the farm.

Mrs. Himebaugh, the former Maria Walton, was also a pioneer, a with her husband aided materially in establishing schools, Sunday Schools, and churches. Mr. Himebaugh was public spirited, serving as township trustee and justice of the peace. He was also the township’s historian, contributing the article on Richland Township to the Mooney History of Butler County, in 1916, to which the writer of this sketch is greatly indebted.