Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Scanlan, Frank A. January 17, 1867 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter

FRANK A. SCANLAN.

    Frank A. Scanlan, a well-known and substantial farmer and stockman of
Marshall county, who makes his home at Axtell and from that point looks after
the affairs of his farms in Guittard township and in St. Bridget township, is a
native of the state of West Virginia, but has been a resident of Kansas
practically all the time since the days of his early childhood, having come to
this county with his parents when he was but three years of age. He was born in
West Virginia on January 17, 1867, son of Thomas and Catherine (Broderick)
Scanlan, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Virginia, who came to
Kansas in 1870 and became counted among the early settlers of Marshall county,
where they spent their last days.

    Thomas Scanlan was born in Ireland in 1830 and was nineteen years of age
when, in 1849, he came to the United States and settled in Massachusetts, whence
he presently moved to Virginia, where he was living when the Civil War broke
out. He enlisted in one of the Virginia regiments of the Confederate army and
served for four years or until the close of the war. In that state he married
Catherine Broderick, who was born in 1837 in that part of the Old Dominion now
comprised in West Virginia, and in 1870 he and his family came to Kansas and
located in St. Bridget township, this county, where Thomas Scanlan bought a
partly-improved farm and established his home. Ten years later, in 1880, he
moved over into the neighboring county of Nemaha and settled on a farm three
miles east of Axtell, where he lived until 1902, when he returned to this county
and located at Axtell, where he and his wife spent the rest of their lives, his
death occurring in 1911 and hers on September 3, 1916. During Thomas Scanlan's
years of activity in this part of the state he became a large landowner and at
the time of his death was the proprietor of three quarter sections of land, all
of which had been brought to a high state of development. He and his wife were
members of St. Bridget's Catholic church and ardent supporters of the same and
their children were reared in the faith of that church. There were thirteen of
these children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the sixth in order of
birth, the others being as follow: James B., who died at San Diego, California,
February 15, 1916; William H., who is on the old home farm north of Baileyville,
over in Nemaha county; Emmet, who died in Texas on September 2, 1902; Sister
Virvina, who was in the St. Scholasticas convent at Atchison and who died on
March 23, 1913; Thomas E., who is a general foreman in the shops of the Illinois
Central Railroad Company at Chicago; Mrs. Bryan Waters, who lives on a farm four
miles west of Axtell, in Murray township; Sister Genevieve, who is in the St.
Scholasticas convent at Atchison; Sister Aurelia, a member of the Order of St.
Scholasticas, who is now teaching at Argentine, this state; Benjamin F., a
farmer, of Axtell; Cora, who is keeping house for her brother, Frank A., at
Axtell; John B., a stockman in Sioux county, Nebraska, and J. Paul, who is with
the Omaha Grain Exchange at Omaha, Nebraska.

    As noted above, Frank A. Scanlan was but three years of age when his parents
came from West Virginia to Kansas and he grew up on the paternal farm,
thoroughly familiar with pioneer conditions of living. Until he was thirty years
of age he remained with his father, a valued assistant in the labor of
developing the latter's extensive farming interests, and then went to
California, where he spent a year. He then located at Omaha, where he was
engaged in the employ of the Union Pacific railroad for ten years, at the end of
which time, in 1908, he returned to Marshall county and has since then been
engaged in looking after his extensive farming interests, making his home at
Axtell. Mr. Scanlan is the owner of a fine farm of two hundred and ninety acres
in Guittard township, two miles south and six miles west of Axtell, and a
quarter section in St. Bridget township and a quarter section in Nemaha county,
part of the old home farm, all of which farms he has brought up to a high state
of cultivation.

    On December 17, 1906, while living at Omaha, Frank A. Scanlan was united in
marriage to Orilla May Butterfield, daughter, of Doctor and Mrs. Butterfield, of
that city, and who died on April 22, 1907, a little more than four months after
her marriage, at the age of twenty-nine years. Mr. Scanlan is a Democrat. He is
a member of the Catholic church and of the Knights of Columbus. He takes a
proper interest in the general business affairs of his home town and is regarded
as one of Axtell's substantial and public-spirited citizens.


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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