Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Huxtable, William C. 1833 - 1915
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WILLIAM C. HUXTABLE.

    The late William C. Huxtable, for years one of the substantial farmers of
Marshall county, who died at his home in Frankfort in 1915, was a native of
England, born there in 1833, and there grew to manhood. In 1857, he then being
twenty-four years of age, he came to this country and settled in New York state,
where he engaged in farming and where he was married in 1862. After his marriage
Mr. Huxtable continued farming in New York until 1871, in which year he
emigrated to Kansas with his family and became one of the pioneers of Marshall
county. Upon coming here he bought a homesteader's right to a tract of land one
mile north of Frankfort and there established his home, continuing his residence
there for ten years, at the end of which time he moved five miles northwest and
bought a fine farm of one hundred and ten acres of bottom land in Rock township,
where he remained, successfully engaged in farming, until his retirement from
the farm and removal to Frankfort, where he spent his last days. As he prospered
in his farming operations he added to his land holdings and was the owner of a
quarter of a section in addition to his home farm. Politically, Mr. Huxtable was
an independent Democrat. He had served on his local school board and was
treasurer of the school district for some time.

    In 1862 William C. Huxtable was united in marriage, in New York state, to
Maria Page, who was born in 1841, daughter of William and Betsy Page, natives of
England, and to that union five children were born, namely: Mrs. Sophia Hunt,
who lives on a farm near Blue Rapids, this county, and has seven children,
George, Harry, Kittle, Archibald, Ruth, Lawrence and Letha; Mrs. Bertha Flinn,
who lives northwest of Frankfort and has four children, Roy, Bessie, Lydia and
Clarence; Mrs. Minnie Carver, who lives on a farm northwest of Frankfort and has
three children, Nina, Gladys and Homer; William B., of Blue Rapids, who married
Bessie Saville and has two children, Clark and Viola, and Edgar, a farmer,
living south of Frankfort, who married Effie Saville, who died in 1916, leaving
two children. Dorothy and Marvin. Since her husband's death in 1915 Mrs.
Hux-table has continued to make her home in Frankfort, where she is very
comfortably situated. She is a member of the Episcopal church, as was her
husband, and has ever taken an earnest interest in church work, as well as in
other good works of the community in which she has lived since pioneer days.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)

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