Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Brown, Will W. 1878 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Will W. Brown, cashier of the Stock Yards Bank, of Wichita; Kan., is a native
Kansan, having been born in Sedgwick county on March 8, 1878. He is a son of
James R. and Ada (Winter) Brown, who came to Kansas from Illinois in 1871,
locating in Eagle township, Sedgwick county. Mr. Brown, Sr., served as register
of deeds for Sedgwick county two terms, and made his permanent residence in
Wichita in 1889. Will W. Brown was educated in the public schools of Sedgwick
county, and after his graduation taught in the country schools of the county for
a period of four years, after which he took up a business course, and was
bookkeeper in several banks in the counties of Sedgwick and Reno. He came to
Wichita in 1889, and was first in the employ of the Hockaday Hardware Company,
and then for seven years filled the responsible position of cashier at the
Morton-Simmons hardware establishment. In 1907 Mr. Brown organized the Stock
Yards State Bank, and has since acted as its cashier. The other officers of the
bank are: Garrison Scott, president, and George T. Cubbon, vice-president. Mr.
Brown is a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Wichita, the Riverside Club, the
Young Men's Christian Association and the Knights of Pythias. He was married
September 12, 1907, to Miss Marie G. Kenargy, daughter of L. H. Kenargy, of
Wichita. Of this union there has been issue one child, Raymond K. Brown.

Additional Comments:
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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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