Johnson-Wyandotte County KS Archives Biographies.....Noland, T. W. 1843 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  T. W. Noland, civil engineer, Olathe, has been a resident of the Sunflower
State for half a century. Mr. Noland was born in Platte county, Missouri,
January 31, 1843, and is a son of Joshua and Sarah (McKinney) Noland, both
natives of Madison county, Kentucky. When the father settled in Platte county,
Missouri, in 1837, he took up Government land and followed farming there until
the time of his death which occurred April 11, 1854, when he was fifty-nine
years of age. His wife died December 25, 1864, aged sixty-four years. T. W.
Noland is the only surviving member of a family of seven children, as follows:
W. H., died in 1854; J. M., died in February, 1865, from the effect of impaired
health while in the army. He served in the Civil war as captain of Company C,
Thirty-ninth regiment, Missouri cavalry; G. W., spent his life in Missouri and
was second lieutenant in Company C, Thirty-ninth regiment, Missouri cavalry,
died in 1903; J. R., spent his life in Platte county, Missouri, and died in
1906; O. C, also spent his life in Platte county, Missouri, and died in 1901; N.
F., died in Nebraska City in 1867, and T. W., the subject of this sketch. T. W.
Noland spent his boyhood days in Platte county and received a good education in
the public schools and Platte City Academy. He remained at home until July 14,
1862, when he enlisted at Platte City in Company C, Thirty-ninth regiment,
Missouri cavalry, he being the third one of the Noland brothers to belong to
that company, one of his brothers being the captain and another second
lieutenant, as above stated. He was at the battle of Westport, Newtonia, and a
number of skirmishes. He was with his regiment in the campaigns along the border
of Kansas and Missouri and Arkansas. After Mr. Noland was discharged from the
service, he returned to Platte county and the same year, 1865, came to Kansas,
locating in Wyandotte county and was engaged in farming there until 1887 when he
came to Johnson county and followed farming for a time. While in Wyandotte
county he was engaged in surveying a great deal and also served as deputy county
surveyor of that county and after coming to Johnson county, he also followed
surveying and engineering and has practically made it his life vocation. He has
had charge of the construction of every rock road built in Johnson county and
has acted as consulting engineer in a great deal of county and city work as well
as other construction work. Mr. Noland was elected county surveyor of Johnson
county in 1910 and reelected to that office in 1912. During that period he was
also county engineer. He served four years as deputy sheriff of Wyandotte county
under Sheriff Armstrong, and since retiring from the office of county surveyor
has been engaged in general engineering and surveying. Mr. Noland was married
May 19, 1864, to Miss Mary Malott of Platte county, Missouri, and seven children
were born to this union, only one of whom is living, W. H., who is now general
superintendent for F. C. Turner in one of the largest planing mills and
woodworking factories in the South, located at Mobile, Ala. Mr. Noland's first
wife died in 1889 and in December, 1895, he married Mrs. Emma Williams, a native
of Sangamon county, Illinois. Mr. Noland has been a life-long Democrat and
active in local and State politics since coming to Kansas. He is a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic, Franklin Post, No. 68, and has been a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 1868. He is a Knights Templar Mason and
has been a member of the Masonic lodge for over forty years. He is a member of
the Christian 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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