Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....De Vault, Lafayette 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  Lafayette De Vault is a representative Johnson county farmer residing in
Olathe township on the southeast quarter of section 18, township 14, range 24.
His farm bears the official name of "Maple Lane" farm, and was the second place
in Johnson county to be named and registered under the Kansas law passed in 1910
which provided for such a procedure. Lafayette De Vault was reared in Johnson
county, Iowa, and received his education in the public schools of Johnson
county, Iowa, and attended Spaulding's Commercial College of Kansas City, Mo.,
one term. Lafayette De Vault is one of a family of six children of Strawder and
Caroline (Stiles) De Vault, natives of Ohio, the former of Scotch-Irish and the
latter of German parentage. Strawder De Vault walked from Indiana to Iowa in
1839, where he homesteaded a farm and remained on it until his death in 1908. He
was one of the early settlers of Johnson county, Iowa, where he farmed. He went
to California during the "gold fever" in early days. Lafayette De Vault came to
Kansas in 1888, and located on a farm which was in the Black Bob Indian
reservation, where he now resides, and has been engaged in general farming and
stock raising and has been successful. He was married May 17, 1893, to Miss
Gussie K. Matthews, who was born in Johnson county, Iowa, and came to Kansas in
1895, a daughter of O. E. and Lydia J. Matthews. Lafayette De Vault is a member
of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons.

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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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