Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....De Tar, Mary Elizabeth 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  Miss Mary Elizabeth De Tar, the well-known proprietor of the popular Hotel De
Tar, Edgerton, Kan., is a native of Johnson county. Miss De Tar was born in
Edgerton and is a daughter of B. F. and Sarah De Tar, the former a native of
Pennsylvania and the latter of Massachusetts. The De Tar family is of French
extraction and B. F. De Tar, the father of our subject, came to Kansas in 1857,
where he was successfully engaged in farming for a number of years. He is now
living retired, at Wellsville, Franklin county, Kansas. Miss De Tar, whose name
introduces this sketch, is one of a family of eight children, as follows: Curtis
married Miss Ella Garrison and resides at Wellsville; James, resides at
Edgerton; Mary Elizabeth, the subject of this sketch; Mark, resides near
Wellsville; married Kate Sloan; Frank, married Esther McCarthy, lives near
Edgerton; Belle married Henry Eckerson and has five children; Cora married Joe
Sloan and resides at Wellsville, and Bertha, married Milt Sloan and resides at
Wellsville. Miss De Tar received her education in the Edgerton public schools
and since that time has traveled a great deal, and has had a great deal of
experience in the hotel business, more particularly along the Pacific coast. In
1915 she built the De Tar hotel at Edgerton which was opened to the public in
May. This is one of the best equipped hotels to be found anywhere in a town the
size of Edgerton. It is a commodious building, conveniently arranged for hotel
purposes and Miss De Tar has already built up a large patronage among the
traveling public. Her vast experience in the hotel business enables her to know
the most minute wishes of the public in the way of hotel accommodations and she
aims to please, and by that method, is making the new De Tar Hotel at Edgerton
one of the popular hotels of the State.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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