Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Hedrick, Frank D. 1888 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  Frank D. Hedrick, registrar of deeds of Johnson county, was born in Olathe,
August 26, 1888. He is a son of Thomas D. and Jennie (Keeler) Hedrick. The
father was born in Macon City, Mo. He was a son of Daniel M. Hedrick, who came
from Corning, Iowa, to Johnson county, Kansas, in 1885, and now resides in
Olathe and is still hale and hearty at the advanced age of eighty-one years. He
was a strong anti-slavery man before the Civil war and he left Virginia and went
to Iowa because he differed in political sentiment with the slaveholders of his
native State. He served in an Iowa regiment in the Civil war and had four
brothers who served in the same company, one of whom was killed in the service.
Daniel M. Hedrick was the son of Joseph Hedrick, who settled in Johnson county,
Kansas, in 1867. He spent his later years near De Soto, where he died at the age
of eighty years. Thomas D. Hedrick, the father of Frank D. Hedrick, whose name
introduces this sketch, was reared to manhood in Iowa. He was an expert penman
and in 1885 came to Johnson county to accept a position as recording clerk in
the recorder's office under J. A. Stephenson. At that time Johnson county was
rapidly developing and he also engaged in the title and abstract business, and
was the pioneer in that field in Johnson county. After coming to this county he
continually held the office of deputy registrar until he was elected registrar
in 1902. He was a prominent Republican and active in the local organization of
his party. He died April 8, 1911. His wife, Jennie Keeler, was born in Olathe, a
daughter of Col. J. A. Keeler, an early settler of Johnson county, and prominent
in the affairs of this section of the State for a number of years. He came to
Olathe during the Civil war in the capacity of quartermaster, and at the close
of the war located here permanently, where he resided for many years. He was
justice of the peace several terms, and now resides at Garden City, Kan., where
he is interested in a large ranch with his two sons, Lewis and B. Mrs. Hedrick,
Frank D.'s mother, now resides in Olathe, and is deputy county registrar. Frank
D. Hedrick is one of a family of six children, Fred M., Cherryvale, Kan.;
Margaret, married E. U. Pelham, a contractor, Olathe, Kan.; Frank D., the
subject of this sketch; Joseph J.; Mary J.; Alice Ruth, student in the Olathe
public schools. Frank D. Hedrick was reared in Olathe and graduated from the
Olathe High School in the class of 1907. He then engaged in the abstract
business, being associated with his father, whom he succeeded at the latter's
death, and later became associated in that business with Frank Norman, of Norman
& Robinson, abstractors of Kansas City, and they have the only complete set of
abstract books in Johnson county. Mr. Hedrick served two terms as deputy county
registrar and in 1912 was elected to the office of county registrar and in 1914
was reelected to that office. He was reelected by a majority of 1,710, which is
the largest majority ever given a candidate in Johnson county. Mr. Hedrick was
united in marriage April 1, 1912, to Miss Edda Irene, daughter of H. U. Stewart,
of Olathe, Kan. They have one child, Frank D., Jr. Notwithstanding that Mr.
Hedrick's life is a busy one in both his official and business capacities, he
has found time to devote to the study of law, and is now a member of the class
of 1916 Kansas City School of Law. He is a Republican, a member of the Masonic
lodge, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and holds membership in the
Methodist Episcopal church.

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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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