Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Lorimer, F. M. 1878 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  F. M. Lorimer, manager of the M. G. Miller estate, is a native son of Johnson
county. He was born in Oxford township, May 27, 1878, and is a son of J. C. and
Sadie (Walker) Lorimer. J. C. Lorimer was a native of Ireland, born October 20,
1846, and died in Olathe, Kan., October 20, 1914. His wife was a native of Ohio
and they were married in Olathe in 1873. They were the parents of seven boys,
all of whom were born in Oxford township, Johnson county, as follows: J. B.,
married May Marvin and resides in Johnson county, four miles east of Olathe;
Charles U., is married; Dean, married Madge Milligan, of Olathe, and lives each
of Olathe; Claud, married Allie Wood; George George married Bessie Douglas, of
Olathe, and resides on the home farm in Oxford township; Lee is unmarried and
lives with his mother in Olathe, and is in the employ of Willis C. Keefer; and
F. M., the subject of this sketch. F. M. Lorimer was reared on the home farm in
Johnson county, and was educated in the district schools and the Olathe High
School. His business career began at the time he finished high school. As he was
passing M. G. Miller's place of business, on his way to school one morning, Mr.
Miller called him into his office and asked him what he was doing. The boy told
him that he was going to high school, and Mr. Miller told him what he wanted in
these words: "I want you to work for me just as soon as school is out," and from
that day he began working for Mr. Miller, evenings and Saturdays, and from that
time he has been in his employ. This was in 1897 and Mr. Lorimer remained in the
employ of Mr. Miller until his death in 1909, and, since that time, has been in
the employ of the estate as manager, and in that capacity is at the head of one
of the important commercial enterprises of Johnson county. When he entered the
employ of Mr. Miller, the latter was interested in various enterprises in Olathe
and Johnson county. He owned a bank, a grocery store and a fourth interest in
the Hadley Mill and considerable business and farm property. Later Mr. Miller
acquired the Olathe Citizens Telephone Company which is still owned by his
estate and comes within the scope of Mr. Lorimer's management. Mr. Lorimer has
developed this telephone system and has installed modern telephone apparatus and
it is now one of the extensive local telephone systems of the State. Mr. Lorimer
has the management of the farm properties of the Miller estate also, which
consist of five farms in Johnson county and has an aggregate of 1,331 acres. The
management of these vast acres together with the telephone and other interests
of the Miller estate puts Mr. Lorimer in a class almost by himself, and it is a
safe guess that he is about the busiest man in Johnson county, but with it all
he has a noiseless way of doing things that gives the casual observer the
impression that he always has plenty of time to attend to whatever matter is
then before him. Mr. Lorimer was married in 1900 to Miss Maude Smith, of Olathe,
and they have one child, Nelle, born August 14, 1903. Mrs. Lorimer was born in
Gardner and was a daughter of W. Lee Smith. Her father died when Mrs. Lorimer
was a child and left her widowed mother in meaner circumstances to face the
problem of life with five small children. Notwithstanding the fact that she was
a frail woman, she possessed the will and determination to win, and did. She
kept her little family together and brought them up well and gave them all
exceptional educational opportunities. The other memrebers of the family beside
Mrs. Lorimer are as follows: Mrs. Bertha Wilkerson, of Spring Hill; Mrs. Nelle
Akers, who resides in Oklahoma; Eleanor, bookkeeper for the Burnap Stationery
Company, Kansas City, Mo.; and Ed., a veteran of the Spanish-American war,
serving in the Twenty-third Kansas regiment in the Philippine Islands, and for a
number of years was an employe of the Bell Telephone Company in Colorado, and
now resides in Kansas City, Mo.

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Extracted from:

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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