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HARRY ELMER ASHLEY
| Harry Elmer Ashley, farmer, was born at Pleasanton, Kansas, August 7, 1878, and died in the Chanute Hospital, December 16, 1932. He was the son of Thomas and Caroline Ashley, the former of whom a farmer, died at Pleasanton, November 22, 1891. The mother, who was born in Ohio, July 10, 1855, died at Pleasanton, January 10, 1927.
Harry Elmer Ashley completed a course at the Bridgeford Barber College at Kansas City, Missouri. He followed his profession for several years after 1901, and then engaged in farming and stockraising. Mr. Ashley was married on December 29, 1901, to Iva Belle Seright at Pleasanton, and to them twin daughters were born, Beatrice and Berenice, on September 1, 1908. Both were graduated from high school in 1928. Berenice has taught three terms, and now attends Teachers College at Pittsburg. Just prior to his death he was honored by election to the office of county commissioner. He was a member of the city council, the First Christian Church, the Chamber of Commerce, and the School Board of District No. 59, on which he served for seventeen years. (Illustriana Kansas, by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin, 1933, pages 44-45) |