Wichita, July 13 - Will C. Atchison, a newspaper man of this city, died at Colorado Springs last night from consumption. He worked at different times on the Wichita Beacon, Wichita Eagle and the Topeka Capital. (The Kansas City Star, July 13, 1900)
S. B. Aulder victim of accident near Wichita - was here ten years. After having run away from his sister's home while ill, R. S. Aulder, of Oklahoma City, was fatally injured near Wichita, Kan., and died there in a hospital Sunday morning, according to information which has reached friends of his in Oklahoma City. He has been living at the Linden hotel.
Before his death Aulder never made a statement as to how he was injured, merely saying that he was on a train en route to Oklahoma City. The knowledge of his weakened condition before he left his sister's home has led to the belief that he fell, either from the platform or through one of the windows.
Aulder had a broken thigh and shoulder when he was found by a farmer lying near the tracks. The man carried him into Wichita and though at first it was expected he would die, favorable indications began to appear about the middle of last week, and physicians stated that he had a good chance to recover. After a relapse Saturday night, however, Aulder died.
He left Oklahoma City, Sept. 17 to go to his sister's home in Council Grove, Kans., a long sickness having rendered him unfit to carry on his business here.
He grew dissatisified there recently, however, and wished to return to Oklahoma City, wiring to friends here for the money. His sister urged him to remain in Council Grove awhile, but he left suddenly one day without saying goodbye to any of his sister's family.
Aulder has been living in Oklahoma City almost ten years. Prior to statehood he ran a saloon, but since prohibition has gone into effect had been running a small pool hall at 12-1/2 South Hudson avenue. He had been married, but his divorced wife now is living in Perry, Okla. (The Daily Oklahoman, October 26, 1910)
George W. Benton, died at his residence in Wichita on Wednesday. Mr. Benton was one of the oldest settlers and a Mason, in which order he was upon the ritual list. He was in the eighties in age, and was the father of Lydia Benton, formerly county superintendent of the Sedgwick County Schools. (Kansas Weekly Capital and Farm Journal, April 19, 1894)
Mr. Harvey R. Brown died on Monday, last, July 2, at the home of his son, Mr. Dudley R. Brown in Wichita, Kansas in his eighty-second year. His death was not altogether unexpected, for it closed an illness of one year's duration of great suffering.
Mr. Brown came to Lexington during the pastorate of his brother, the Rev. Dr. John H. Brown, D. D., of the Second Presbyterian Church, who was pastor when the edifice was erected in 1846, and also when it was dedicated October 31, 1847.
Many local citizens remember Mr. Brown. In 1853 he married Miss Howard Ellen Parrish, whose maternal ancestors were of the famous Dudley family of pioneer heroism and later-day usefulness. He, for years, was in the clothing and insurance business in Lexington. Nearly twenty years ago he made his home with his son Dudley at Anadarko, Indian Territory. He recently moved to Wichita. Mr. Brown was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church and a leader in the Sabbath School. A gentleman, kind, courteous and benevolent, ever ready and willing to do a favor for a friend and assist the poor and afflicted. His family have the sympathy of many relatives and friends in their old Kentucky home at Lexington. (The Morning Herald, July 8, 1900)
Wichita, Kas., Dec. 26 - Timothy J. Callahan, father of Dan F. Callahan, president of the Federal Land Bank in Wichita, died at his son's home here. He came to Kansas from Illinois in 1880 and settled in Kingman County. (Kansas City Star, December 26, 1917)
Wichita, Kas., Dec. 7. - Rufus Cone, 69, who in his forty-four years' residence in Wichita has held four public offices, died of heart disease at the home of his son, Ed Cone, here yesterday. Mr. Cone formerly was city commissioner, chief of police, sheriff and constable. (The Kansas City Times, December 7, 1922)
Chickamauga, Ag. 22 - Private Roy Dumont, Twenty-second Kansas, Company K, who enlisted in Wichita, died of typhoid fever at the division hospital this morning.
He was a graduate of Lewis academy, of Wichita and made a hard fight for his life. He will be buried in the National cemetery with military honors.
Everyone anticipates an early move to Lexington, Ky. Major Armstrong, with the ambulance company of the Third division, First corps left this morning for that place. (The Kansas Semi-Weekly Capital, August 23, 1898, page 1)
Wichita, Kan., March 15 - Last Wednesday at high noon Arthur Dyer was married in Geneseo to a young lady to whom he had been engaged for the past three years. Owing to the fact that the young lady had the consumption the wedding had been postponed for some time. After the wedding on Wednesday the young couple started for Springfield, Mo., intending to spend their honeymoon with a brother of the bride. They arrived in this city at 11 o'clock and Mrs. Dyer feeling fatigued, they decided to remain over night with the family of Mr. Starks in the eastern part of the city. The young wife began to grow worse immediately and on the following day at the same hour, which she was married, she died. The remains were taken back to Geneseo. (Kansas Weekly Capital & Farm Journal, March 23, 1893)
Wichita, Kan., Oct. 14 - An unknown man, who was first seen here last Sunday died last night at the Wichita hospital. The man was about 50 years old and when discovered was wondering aimlessly and helplessly around the streets of the town, he was taken in charge by the police, but was unable to tell anything of himself and had nothing in his possession to indicate who he was or where he was from. At first he could talk some, but his mind was gone. On Tuesday night he became unconscious and never rallied, dying at 10 o'clock last night.
From recognition pins on his clothes, it is supposed he was a Mason, an Odd Fellow and an Old Soldier. The Odd Fellows sent him to the hospital, and the Masons telegraphed a number of places in a vain effort to learn something of him. There were several names and addresses in his pockets, but it couldn't be learned which was his. The most likely name was George Foster. That name was among those in his pockets and he sometimes seemed to notice it when he was addressed that way. (The Kansas Semi-Weekly Capital, October 18, 1898)
Wichita, Kas., Aug. 12. - Samuel Hess, a wealthy clothing merchant of Wichita, died suddenly Sunday of heart disease in Yellowstone Park, where he had gone for a vacation. He was single and 43 years old. He was a thirty-third degree Mason. (The Kansas City Star, August 12, 1912)
Wichita, Kan., Jan. 25 - The soldier who died in camp under alleged distressing conditions; cited by Senator Chamberlain in the Senate yesterday was Albert Hestwood, son of the Rev. C. D. Hestwood, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Liberal, Kan., who formerly resided in Wichita, it became known here today.
The Rev. Mr. Hestwood told all the facts to Henry Allen of this city, who is now on his way to France for the Red Cross. Mr. Allen today telegraphed from Pittsburgh, Pa., that the case mentioned by Chamberlain was the Hestwood case.
"I do not feel a spirit of bitter vengefulness toward the authorities responsible for conditions at Camp Doniphan, where by son died," said Rev. Mr. Hestwood, in relating the facts of the case some time ago. "My whole desire now is that my son will not have died in vain and other soldiers may be spared the things that he went through. (Dallas Morning News, January 26, 1918)
Wichita, Kan., December 5, - John Horton died today from wounds inflicted with a knife by Artie Cates. Ten days ago Cates escaped and no clew as to his whereabouts was discovered until today, when strangely enough he was captured in Paola, Kan. (Kansas Weekly Capital & Farm Journal, December 8, 1892)
Wichita, Kas., July 14 - J. B. Hupp, reputed millionaire grain man and vice-president and general manager of the Kansas Flour Mills Company, Wichita, who died in Kansas City yesterday, saw one of the heaviest traders on the Wichita board of trade. He was 43 years of age. He has lived in this territory since January 1912 coming here from Pratt, Kas., where he also was connected with the milling industry, owning the Pratt Mill and Elevator Company. Besides his connection with one of the largest milling concerns in this section Mr. Hupp was an extensive stockholder in Wichita institutions being a director of the Fourth National Bank and owner of three office buildings. He was also a stockholder in the Pratt Ice Company.
Mr. Hupp was born in Laputte, Ind. When a boy he moved to Kansas, settling in Saratoga, Pratt County in 1886. Later he engaged in the grain business in Pratt County, in which he has been active ever since. He is survived by his wife, a step-mother and two half-brothers living in Minnesota.(The Kansas City Times, July 15, 1920)
Wichita, Kan. - Feb. 25 (AP) - W. R. (Tex) Jones, 52, Wichita operator, died in a hospital here Saturday after several weeks' illness. Prior to entering the oil industry more than twenty years ago, he played professional baseball with the Wichita team in the Western League and was a first baseman with the Chicago White Sox. (Dallas Morning News, February 27, 1938)
Thomas Payne King dropped dead this morning in the Rock Island Depot here. Apoplexy was the cause King went through the Camean war as a British officer and was in the famous charge of the high bridgade at Balaklava. Shortly before the war he came over to America and joined the union forces and served all through the war. He has been drawing good pensions from both the American and British govenments but he was never known to buy anything so he is supposed to have amassed considerable money. He owns property here and at Chicago, Fort Scott and Kansas City, but as no one knows where he dwealt no papers have yet been discovered. He was the worst miser, went about in rags with his feet swathed in cloths, and he fed from the scrap barrels of the restaurants, hence he was known as Swill barrel Charley. His wealth has been estimated from $30,000 to $100,000. (Kansas Weekly Capital & Farm Journal, January 4, 1894)
LANDRUM, DAVID LAWRENCE JR. REV. & MRS.
A Methodist minister who was a member of a prominent church family in Texas, his wife and two friends returning from the Methodist Church conference in Dallas died late Sunday in a plane crash about 7 miles south of here.
Killed were the Rev. and Mrs. David Lawrence Landrum Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Drew Noble.
Landrum was pastor of the First Methodist Church here. His father, the Rev. D. L. Landrum Sr., is the Methodist superintendent of the Palestine, Texas, district.
Mrs. Landrum was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Basil Curry of Dallas. She and the Rev. Mr. Landrum attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Before going to Wichita about a year ago, the minister organized Memorial Drive Methodist Church in Houston and was its pastor for about 12 years.
Mrs. Noble was the former Miss Jean Fairchild, daughter of a Houston architect.
Noble, president of the United Savings & Loan, was a descendant of a pioneer Wichita family. Officials said they believe Noble was the pilot.
The plane had left from a private airport in Houston.
The aircraft hit in a muddy field and was demolished. The wreckage and bodies were found by Air Force men in a helicopter from McConnell Air Force Base. (Dallas Morning News, April 23, 1968)
Wichita, Kan., Feb. 29 - Rev. Anton Josef LeGrand, died here today, aged 77 years. He was an Episcopalian until about 20 years ago, when he was converted to the Roman Catholic faith by the Order of Resurrectionists. He was of noble birth, born and educated in France and served in the French army.
During the first years Father LeGrand was in America he held professorships in various colleges in Canada. From Canada he went to Chicago. Of late he had been chaplain of St. Francis Hospital at Wichita. (The Worcester Spy, March 1, 1904)
Former Governor L. D. Llewellyn died suddenly at Arkansas City tonight of heart failure. (The Morning Herald, September 4, 1900)
Wichita, Kan., Jan. 1 - Colonel M. M. Murdock, editor and owner of the Wichita Eagle, and postmaster of Wichita, died at 1:20 this morning. He had been unconscious since Monday, His son, Congressman Victor Murdock, had hurried here from Washington to be at the bedside.
Colonel Murdock was the most noted man in Kansas. His powerful pen shaped the destiny of the Republican party on many occasions. He figured in some exciting scenes of the early history of the state, notably Quantrell's raid on Lawrence. He was 70 years of age. He was born in Virginia and came to Kansas before the Civil War. He is survived by a wife, two sons and one daughter. Congressman Victor Murdock, Marcellus M. Murdock, business manager of the Eagle, and Mrs. Paul Eaton. (Morning Oregonian, January 2, 1908)
Wichita Kan., July 9 (AP) Victor Murdock, 74, editor in chief of the Wichita Eagle, former Congressman and member of the Federal Trade Commission, died Sunday night following an illness of several months.
Born March 18, 1871, in Burlingame, Kan., the son of Col. and Mrs. Marshall M. Murdock, he was 1 year old when his parents moved to Wichita and established the eagle.
He was elected to Congress in 1903, defeating seventeen other candidates and served for twelve years, retiring from the House in 1914 to make an unsuccessful race for the Senate. From 1917 to 1924 he served on the Federal Trade Commission, part of the time as chairman.
Leaving government work, he returned to Wichita to again become active in newspaper work as editor of the Eagle.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Howard Fleeson, Wichita and Mrs. Harvey Delano, San Francisco and one brother, Marcellus M. Murdock, publisher of the eagle. (Dallas Morning News, July 10, 1945, page 9)
A Methodist minister who was a member of a prominent church family in Texas, his wife and two friends returning from the Methodist Church conference in Dallas died late Sunday in a plane crash about 7 miles south of here.
Killed were the Rev. and Mrs. David Lawrence Landrum Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Drew Noble.
Landrum was pastor of the First Methodist Church here. His father, the Rev. D. L. Landrum Sr., is the Methodist superintendent of the Palestine, Texas, district.
Mrs. Landrum was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Basil Curry of Dallas. She and the Rev. Mr. Landrum attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Before going to Wichita about a year ago, the minister organized Memorial Drive Methodist Church in Houston and was its pastor for about 12 years.
Mrs. Noble was the former Miss Jean Fairchild, daughter of a Houston architect.
Noble, president of the United Savings & Loan, was a descendant of a pioneer Wichita family. Officials said they believe Noble was the pilot.
The plane had left from a private airport in Houston.
The aircraft hit in a muddy field and was demolished. The wreckage and bodies were found by Air Force men in a helicopter from McConnell Air Force Base. (Dallas Morning News, April 23, 1968)
Former Resident Dies.
Mrs. Octavia Mull, 58, died unexpectedly at her home in Wichita. Mrs. Mull was born August 13, 1893, in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Helen Kilgore and Miss Ruby Mull of Wichita, and a son, John Dunn, Wichita; three brothers, a sister and three grandsons. Funeral services were held Tuesday.
Mrs. Mull and family lived in McLouth several years. (The McLouth Times, Jefferson County, Kansas, Friday, November 30, 1951)
John Parker, a well known Mesquite young man, died yesterday. (The Weekly Times Herald, February 1, 1890)
WIlliam Pray, aged 50 years, died at his residence in Wichita on Wednesday. Mr. Pray had been ill for two or three years, but the immediate cause of his death was pneumonia. He was buried at Excelsior Springs. (Kansas Weekly Capital & Farm Journal, April 19, 1894)
Wichita, Kan., Dec. 7 - Thomas A. Robertson, 78, penniless, who was a Scottish nobleman, whose son is in the Bank of England and whose brother is a retired British admiral, was buried in Highland Grove Cemetery here yesterday afternoon with only a few of his Wichita acquaintances at the grave.
He died in Wichita Monday penniless and apparently forgotten by his family. He was buried at the expense of his employers.
Robertson said he was the eldest son of G. Robertson, a Scottish nobleman, and his brother, he said was Admiral Charles Hope Robertson, retired, of the British Navy.
For seven years, "the gentleman," as he was respectfully called by those who knew him had worked in a Wichita laundry.
"The gentleman" told his story to only a few close friends.
Robertson according to the story came to America with a young wife, also of noble blood, about 50 years ago, intending to establish an estate patterned after the ancestral home in Scotland. The young wife died; the fortune disappeared. Robertson took his three children and went back to Scotland. He married again. His second wife was not of noble blood and partly because of this he was disinherited. (Fort Worth Star Telegram, December 7, 1922)
Wichita, Kan., March 16 - Wesley Siddall was shot and fatally wounded tonight by Policeman Irish. Irish caught Siddal and another man stealing coal from a car in the Santa Fe yards. Siddall bolted and Irish put a bullet through his body. He cannot live through the night. Another coal thief was shot by a policeman last night. (Kansas Weekly Capital & Farm Journal, March 23, 1893)
Ex Congressman Jerry Simpson died at 6:05 a.m. of aneurism of the aorta. Mr. Simpson had been in ill health for nearly a year. Six months ago he consulted a specialist at Chicago, who pronounced his case hopeless.
Ex-Congressman Simpson was born in New Brunswick on March 31, 1812. At fourteen he began life as a sailor and during his twenty-three years following that pursuit commanded many large vessels on the Great Lakes. In the Civil war he served in the Twelfth Illinois infantry. He came to Kansas in 1878. Originally he was a Republican, but later became a Greenbacker and Populist. He was a member of congress from 1891 to 1895 and from 1897 to 1899, being nominated the last time by both the Democrats and Populists. After he left congress he moved to Roswell, N.M., where he engaged up to the time of his death in stock farming. He returned to Kansas a month ago and entered a local hospital for treatment. His condition became hopeless ten days ago and since then the patient kept alive principally by sheer force of will. His wife and son were at the bedside at the end.
"The sage of Medicine Lodge," as Jerry Simpson was called, was in many respects one of the most unique characters which adorns the history of congress. He was swept into the Fifty-second congress by a wave of Kansas Populism, charged with the task of reforming the whole government and living down the only advance information his colleagues had of his personality - that he wore no socks. The latter task he succeeded in accomplishing in fact, although he never quite lost the title "Sockless Jerry." His legislative accomplishment consisted in turning popular Eastern sentiment regarding Populism from scorning ridicule to respectful consideration during his service of six years in the Fifty-second, Fifty-third and Fifty-fifth congresses. There was not a question of congressional action during that time on which Jerry Simpson did not think and on which his conclusions were not strikingly and entirely different from those of anyone else. His language and manner of speech were quaint in the highest degree. Jerry Simpson always tried to make his adversaries look ridiculous, always threw new light on every subject, made a personal friend of every member of the house and his political opponents declared, never changed a vote on any question of legislation. As an entertainer and as a personality the house came to have the warmest regard for him. (Aberdeen Daily News, October 24, 1905)
George H. Snyder, 60 an independent operator in Midcontinent oil fields for more than thirty years, died Friday. (Dallas Morning News, March 6, 1943)
Wichita, Kan., Feb. 5 - Mrs. C. C. Spencer, wife of a minister of Peabody, Kas., tried to save her 4 year-old boy from flames by wrapping her skirts about him. While playing with fire his clothing was ignited. She put the fire out but the boy inhaled the flames and died within a few hours. (The Kansas City Star, February 5, 1913)
Omaha, Sept. 5 - Miss Pearl E. Taylor of Wichita, Kan., formerly of Omaha, died of heart disease at 8:30 o'clock yesterday at the home of her uncle, Cadet Taylor. Miss Taylor was on her way to Kansas City from Hot Springs, S. D., where she visited her father, LeRoy P. Taylor, quarter-master sergeant in the Battle Mountain sanitarium. The funeral will be held Sunday at the Taylor home, with services conducted by the Rev. Edwin Hart Jenks. Burial in the Forest Lawn Cemetery. (Aberdeen Daily News, September 5, 1914, page 3)
A Wichita Woman Died in Motor Accident Near Chicago. Chicago, Oct. 20 - Mrs. Ray Taylor of Wichita, Kas., her brother, Arthur W. Hill of Chicago, and F. E. Miller of Chicago were killed late last night at Niles Center, Cook County, Ill., when their motor car struck the curbing and overturned. (The Kansas City Times, October 20, 1919)
Wichita, Kas., July 2 - Benjamin Tines, a Negro from Kansas City, who was shot early yesterday morning by Policeman Dennis, died in the Wichita hospital today. Tines was dragging a trunk from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe depot platform to a nearby alley when arrested by Dennis. The two started to the police station, Dennis says, when Tines quickly took a backward step and struck him. Tines then started to run and Dennis shot him. The trunk Tines was dragging away was checked to Kansas City and bore the name of B. L. Tines. (The Kansas City Star, July 2, 1906)
Wichita, Kan., May 28 (AP) - Jack W. Ward, 50, prominent throughout the State as a criminal lawyer, was found dead in bed at his home here early Sunday. Physicians said he died while asleep. (Dallas Morning News, May 29, 1933)
Wichita, Kas., Sept. 29 - A telegram received here Saturday from the War Department announced the death in action September 12 of First Lieut. Edward D. Wells. No details were given but it is presumed that Lieutenant Wells, who was an officer in a headquarters company, was killed in the St. Mihiel drive which was launched September 12. (The Kansas City Star, September 30, 1918)
Wichita, Kan., Nov. 11 UP. - The Rev. Gerald Winrod, a controversial Kansas figure for two decades and a one time unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate, died at his home tonight. He was 57. (Dallas Morning News, November 12, 1957)
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