Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Bird, Josiah M. 1864 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Josiah M. Bird, of Wichita, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, on July 27,
1846. He is a son of Jonathan and Nancy H. (Downing) Bird, his father being a
native of Pennsylvania and his mother of the state of Delaware. The
great-great-grandfather of Josiah M. was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and
fought under Washington. The father of Josiah M. in his early life was a Whig
and afterwards became a Republican, to which political faith he adhered the
remainder of his life. He was known as an upright man in the community and lived
an honored and useful citizen until his death in 1870. His wife died on February
7, 1866. Josiah M. Bird came from Ohio to Sedgwick county, Kansas, in the fall
of 1884, and located in Minneha township, where he bought 110 acres of land in
Section 26 and moved on the same in 1885. He was married on January 15, 1873, in
Muskingum county, Ohio, to Miss Elizabeth A. Downs, a daughter of Isaac and
Rebecca Downs, of the same county. Three children have been born of this union,
two of whom are now living, Harry S., born October 26, 1873, now a clerk in the
postoffice at Wichita, Kan., and Chalmer Downs, born August 8,1876, who now
lives on his farm (joining his father's). Mr. Bird is a successful farmer, and
he and his wife are faithful and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. They have both taken a deep interest in the Sunday-school and both have
been teachers in it for years. In politics Mr. Bird is a Republican.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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