Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Deweese, J. E. 1880 - 
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Author: Ed Blair

 J. E. Deweese, the capable manager of the De Soto Lumber Company, of De Soto, 
Kan., is one of Johnson county's progressive business men. Mr. Deweese is a 
native of Kansas, born at Hillsdale, Miami county, March 22, 1880, and is a 
son of J. F. and Mary Louisa (Marshall) Deweese. J. F. Deweese was born at 
Monmouth, 111., May 30, 1839, and came to Kansas and located in Miami county 
in the fifties. When the Civil war broke out he was one of the first to 
respond to the President's call for volunteers. He enlisted at Paola, Kan., in 
April, 1861, in Company I, Twelfth regiment, Kansas infantry. He received a 
gun shot wound in the right arm below the elbow, while on the firing line at 
Jenkin's Ferry, Ark., in 1863. He was taken prisoner after being wounded and 
confined in the Confederate prison camp at Ford, Texas, for thirteen months. 
S. R. Hogue, of Spring Hill, a comrade, was a fellow prisoner. Mr. Hogue, with 
some other soldiers, dug a tunnel, through which they made their escape, but 
Mr. Deweese on account of his wounded arm was unable to crawl through the 
small hole and was compelled to remain in prison. However, he assisted his 
comrades in every way possible and they made their escape. He died at Spring 
Hill, November 2, 1893. He married Mary Louise Marshall at Spring Hill, May 
25, 1869. She was a native of St. Johns, Newfoundland, born March 18, 1849. 
She now resides with her son, William Deweese, at Bonner Springs, Kan. To J. 
F. and Mary Louisa (Marshall) Deweese were born nine children, as follows: 
Harry, born in Miami county, and died at the age of four years; Bertie died at 
the age of four years; Eddie died at the age of nine years, as a result of 
accidental burns-; William Marshall, born December 4, 1877, married May 
Hudson, is now manager of the Bonner Springs Lumber Company, Bonner Springs, 
Kan.; J. E., the subject of this sketch; Mollie Frances, born at Hillsdale, 
Kan., September 27, 1883, now the wife of Edward Morgan, of Lenexa, Kan.; Dale 
Drennen, born at Hillsdale, Kan., March 5, 1886, married Lena Scarf and 
resides in Kansas City, Kan.; Sarah Ethel, born May 5, 1888, at Olathe, Kan., 
married John Green at Spring Hill, December 19, 1909, and they reside at 
Maryville, Mo., and have one daughter, Thelma; and Charles Maxwell, born at 
Spring Hill, February 26, 1891, is employed in the United States mail service 
and resides at Kansas City, Kan. J. E. Deweese received a good public school 
education, but at the death of his father gave up school and went to work in 
the Grange store at Spring Hill, under Isaac Rudy, who was manager at that 
time. He followed clerking in Spring Hill for ten years, and then entered the 
employ of the Metropolitan Railway Company of Kansas City, Mo. In 1902, he 
returned to Spring Hill and entered the employ of his former employer, John 
Drury, for a time and then went to Grandin, Mo., in the employ of the Missouri 
Lumber and Mining Company for three years. In 1905 he entered the employ of 
Hodges Brothers Lumber Company at their Spring Hill yard. He remained there 
until 1908 when he accepted the position as manager of the De Soto Lumber 
Company, a position which he has since successfully filled. Mr. Deweese is a 
practical business man, and, although a young man, has had a broad and varied 
experience in the business world. He was united in marriage, October 25, 1905, 
to Miss Mary Edna Deem, of Spring Hill, Kan. She is a daughter of David and 
Rhoda Deem, early settlers of Spring Hill township. To Mr. and Mrs. Deweese 
have been born two children, Rhoda Maxine, born at Spring Hill, July 28, 1907, 
and Grace Mildred, born March 31, 1911, at De Soto, Kan.

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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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