Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....England, William C. 1873 - 
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Author: Ed Blair

 William C. England, manager of the Overland Guernsey Dairy Farm, perhaps has 
more new modern and up-to-date ideas about running a dairy farm than any other 
man in Johnson county or anywhere else. The sanitary condition, the modern 
conveniences and the detail system of this dairy farm baffle description. The 
only way to get anything like the proper conception of this modern dairy plant 
is to go there and take a half day to look it over, and then you will come 
away without remembering more than half of what you have seen. Not but what it 
is worth remembering, and all that, but there is so much of it that you can 
not remember it all at once. The closest attention is given to the health and 
cleanliness of each of the seventy-five Guernsey cows. An ice factory is 
operated in connection with the dairy for the use of the dairy; a great 
refrigerator where the temperature is kept between thirty-three and thirty-
five degrees, sterilizing room, where the bottles are thoroughly sterilized 
and every detail necessary to the carrying out of the work are found there. 
Provision is made for giving the cows a hose bath and the udders are 
thoroughly washed before milking. The milkers and attendants on the place are 
provided with both tub and shower bath conveniences, and in order for one to 
get employment at this place in any position where they come in contact with 
the milk, such as bottling and so forth, they are required to be examined by a 
physician, in order to insure freedom from any disease which might contaminate 
the milk. In fact, the whole arrangement of the Overland Guernsey dairy is 
complete in every detail. The several buildings are arranged at most 
convenient points, silos, store-houses, tool-shed, in addition to all the 
other buildings, complete the grand scheme of the arrangement of this place. 
One of the most important adjuncts to the place is the large spring of flowing 
water from which the water is mechanically distributed in galvanized tanks for 
watering the cattle. About eight men are usually employed to do the work on 
the place and their accounting system shows the most minute details of profit, 
loss and the slightest variations. W. C. England, the capable manager of this 
place, is a native of Monee, Ill., and was born in 1873. He is the son of 
William and Alice (Holmes) England, the former a native of England and the 
latter of Mobile, Ala. They were married near Joliet, Ill., in 1862. W. C. 
England received his education in the public schools of Johnson county and 
Kansas City, Mo. He entered the employ of C. F. Holmes at the age of eight 
years and was engaged in pulling mule cars up the hill at Westport, Mo., and 
when the street cars changed to cable power he was afterwards promoted to 
division superintendent and remained in that capacity until 1909, when he 
became manager of the dairy at Forty-third Street and Jackson, which was 
afterward removed to Overland Park and which Mr. England has since managed as 
above mentioned. Mr. England has been in the employ of Mr. Holmes, in various 
capacities for thirty-five years. William C. England was united in marriage 
July 15, 1894, to Miss Nettie E. Benjamin, of Kansas City, Mo., and they are 
the parents of five children, as follows: Alice, born 1895; Lenora, born 1898; 
Marguerite, born 1903; Helen, born 1907; Conway E., born in 1911.

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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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