Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Colver, Mark S. 1855 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Mark S. Colver, a successful farmer and stock raiser of Sedgwick county,
Kansas, is a native of Illinois, where he was born at Little York, Warren
county, on September 9, 1855. His parents were Dr. Charles S. and Hadessa T.
(Hamilton) Colver. Mark S. Colver remained at home until March 27, 1877, when he
went to Page county, Iowa, and engaged in farming, remaining there two years. He
then went to Colorado and worked in the mills three years and in the silver
mines for the same length of time. He abandoned mining to take charge of the
plant that manufactured gas for the lighting of Georgetown, Col., and this he
conducted for about five years. Mr. Colver then moved to Denver and worked in
the shops and for the gas company for about two years. Then he embarked in
business for himself, opening a plumbing and gas fitting establishment, which he
conducted successfully until 1895. In this latter year he sold out his interests
and came to Sedgwick county, Kansas, and commenced farming, where he remained
until 1900, when he moved on to his present place of 240 acres, which he bought
in 1899. Mr. Colver practices diversified farming and raises stock, and for
about five years has made a specialty of Shorthorn cattle. On June 26, 1880, Mr.
Colver was married to Miss Hannah Jane Brownlee, who was born in Warren county,
Illinois, on June 26, 1857, being a daughter of Thomas R. and Mary R. (Smiley)
Brownlee. Mr. Brownlee was born in Pennsylvania on October 16, 1827, and Mrs.
Brownlee was born in Butler county, Ohio, on December 5, 1829. They were married
in Henderson, Ill., in October, 1852. There were ten children in the Brownlee
family, eight of whom lived to maturity, viz.: Mrs. Anna M. Moore, deceased;
Mrs. Hannah J. Colver, of Sedgwick county, Kansas; Mrs. Alice L. Oliver,
deceased; William L., of San Francisco, Cal.; Carl T., of Lincoln, Neb.; Mrs.
Bessie Shaffer, deceased; John, deceased, and Chester R., of Oskaloosa, Ia. The
mother of this family died on January 30, 1897, and the father on April 5 of the
same year. Mr. and Mrs. Colver have been the parents of seven children, four of
whom are living. They are Mrs. Alice Pearl Broadus, born December 12, 1882, and
married June 1, 1904; Charles T., born December 27. 1885; Guy Lewis, born
November 5, 1890, and died April 17, 1892; Ralph B. D., born July 18, 1892;
Elizabeth Gertrude, born January 22, 1899, and two who died in infancy. Mr.
Colver served as township committeeman for several years, and in 1910 was United
States census enumerator for Ohio and Ninnescah townships. He is a Republican in
polities and a member of the Presbyterian church.

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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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