Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Wilkinson, S. E. 1856 - 
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Author: Ed Blair

  S. E. Wilkinson, a progressive and prosperous business man of Olathe, is a 
native of the Keystone State. Mr. Wilkinson was born in Meadville, Pa., in 
1856, and is a son of S. L. and Mary (Harper) Wilkinson, natives of 
Pennsylvania. S. E. is one of a family of five children, as follows: Minnie, a 
teacher of Meadville, Pa.; Edwin, a photographer, Roswell, N. M.; Ella, 
teacher of domestic science in the State University of Utah; Maud, a 
stenographer, of Los Angeles, Cal.; and S. E., the subject of this sketch. S. 
E. Wilkinson was educated in the public schools of Meadville, Pa., receiving a 
good high school education. At the age of eighteen he went to LaHarpe, Ill., 
and learned the tinner's trade, and after having served an apprenticeship, 
worked at his trade in various parts of Illinois for three or four years. He 
then went to Missouri and located at Independence where lie worked at his 
trade six months. April 6, 1881, he came to Olathe, and entered the employ of 
A. J. Clemmens. He worked at his trade in Olathe until 1900, with the 
exception of the years 1891-2 when he was in Colorado. In 1900 he opened a tin-
shop on South Cherry Street, in partnership with Henry Nowling. They conducted 
this business for three years when Mr. Wilkinson located at 114 South Cherry 
Street, where he has since been engaged in business. Shortly after locating at 
the latter place he added plumbing to his already well-established trade, and 
today has the leading tinning and plumbing business in the city of Olathe. Mr. 
Wilkinson was united in marriage, February 3, 1897, to Miss Susie Welker, of 
Olathe. She is a native of Cape Girardeau, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson are well 
known in Olathe and Johnson county and have many friends.

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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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