Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....McFeatters, Mathew 1834 - 1908
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

 Rev. Mathew McFeatters came to Edgerton, Kan., to take charge of the
Presbyterian church in April, 1887. He spent the following fourteen years in
earnest endeavor to promote the spiritual and temporal welfare of the community.
Mr. McFeatters was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, born in Pennsylvania in 1834, and
graduated from Jefferson College at Cannonsburg, Pa., in 1854. Several years of
his young manhood were spent teaching in Lexington, Ky., where he acquired a
lasting enthusiasm for the famed blue grass country. It was here that he decided
to devote his life to the ministry, and studied theology at Danville, Ky. The
broad prairies of Texas then appealed to him as a field of labor, and here he
found the gifted woman who became his wife, in 1861, Miss Antinette Wallace, a
successful educator, and herself a minister's daughter, she proved through the
thirty-eight years of their married life a true helpmate. His life work was in
the Presbyterian churches of Gonzales, Tex.; Lockhart, Tex.; New Middleton,
Milton, Stone River, Tenn.; Quinemo, Kan.; Navasota, Tex., Gardner and Edgerton,
Kan. In almost all these places church buildings or manses were erected as a
result of his labors; but the upbuilding of worthy characters in the people
under his pastoral care was his chief desire. He was known as a good preacher,
and, better still, as a kindly, Christian gentleman. It was his fate to go from
North to South and South to North in those days when sectional prejudices ran
high, but it was characteristic of the man that without any sacrifice of
principle those who knew him loved and honored him on either side of the Mason
and Dixon line. His good wife, having died in 1899, Mr. McFeatters felt the
weight of advancing years, and resigned his pulpit in 1901, spending the
remaining years until his death, in 1908, tranguilly in the little home in
Edgerton with his only daughter, Miss Elizabeth McFeatters, who since the death
of her father has resided in Edgerton. She was born at Lockhart, Tex., and after
finishing her education in Bethany College, Topeka, taught in the Texas public
schools, about a year, at Novasota. She then specialized as a private teacher in
painting for a number of years, and has taught English and German to private
pupils, and has also had classes at Gardner, Wellsville and Edgerton. She is an
accomplished woman and a devout member of the Presbyterian church and active in
church work and Sunday school.

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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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