Johnson-Douglas-Franklin County KS Archives Biographies.....Haney, Fred C. 1871 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  F. C. Haney, the present mayor of Edgerton, Kan., is a native of Kansas. He
was born in Baldwin, October 20, 1871, and is a son of M. M. and Martha E.
(Haskins) Haney, the former a native of Illinois and the latter of Missouri. M.
M. Haney is a Civil war veteran and now resides at Edgerton. He was born May 28,
1835, at Alton, Ill., and in early life learned the wagon maker's trade. He then
went to Wisconsin where he spent about eight years, and in 1859 came to Kansas
and opened a shop and engaged in wagon making at Prairie City, where he remained
several years. He then went to Ottawa, Kan., and a year later returned to
Johnson county, locating at Edgerton, where he has since resided. He enlisted in
1861 and did military service at Lawrence and other places on the border. M. M.
Haney is a Republican and throughout his life has taken a commendable interest
in local political affairs and has served two terms as councilman of Edgerton.
He cast his first vote for John C. Fremont in Wisconsin in 1856, the year of the
birth of the Republican party. His wife, Martha E. Haskins, was born in Taney
county, Missouri, and is a daughter of John Haskins and Elizabeth Jennings. M.
M. and Martha A. (Haskins) Haney were the parents of five children: George,
deceased; William, deceased; Hattie Jane married Albert Brown, and Fred and
Frank, twins. Fred is the subject of this sketch and Frank resides in Gage,
Okla. F. C. Haney received a good high school education, and entered the employ
of the Santa Fe Railroad Company and has been in the employ of that corporation
for twenty-five years. He married Miss Josephine McCarthy and they have five
children: Corrine, Genevieve, Edward, Gregory and Vincent. Mr. Haney is one of
the progressive citizens of Edgerton, and has served as a member of the council
a number of years. He was elected mayor in 1914 and is now serving in that capacity.

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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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