Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Conklin, P. J. 1854 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   P. J. Conklin, of Wichita, Kansas, is one of the men who have helped to build
up Kansas by loaning its citizens money. Mr. Conklin was born at Dayton, Ohio,
January 2, 1854. His parents were Joseph O. Conklin and Julia (Hunt) Conklin.
The early education of the boy was obtained at Champaign, Illinois. After
leaving school he obtained employment with the "Gazette" at Champaign. Mr.
Conklin came to Wichita in 1893, and it was one of the leanest of the lean years
in Wichita and the West. He has been here ever since. In 1907 he organized the
P. J. Conklin Loan Company, and while this is in no way connected with the old
Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Company, it is a sort of aftermath. The P. J. Conklin
Company is capitalized at $50,000, with P. J. Conklin as president, R. L. Holmes
vice-president and A. O. Conklin secretary and treasurer. It does an annual
business of from $800,000 to $1,000,000, and now has outstanding on its books
over $3,000,000 on long-time farm loans principally. The company does no chattel
business, and it is a trust repository for large sums of local money and pays
especial attention to this feature. The operations of the company cover scores
of thickly settled and prosperous Kansas counties, and while local deposits are
only a minor part of their resources, it desires in a large measure to make
local idle funds remunerative by placing them conservatively on long-time loans
with the very best of security. Fraternally, Mr. Conklin is a thirty-second
degree Mason, and belongs to the Wichita consistory. Mr. Conklin was married in
Mt. Pulaski, Illinois, in 1876 to Miss Laura Capps, of Mt. Pulaski. From this
union seven children have been born-Alfred O., Edward J., Bessie Amy (now Mrs.
Jay Chapple), Julia Hunt (now Mrs. Carl Guizel), Minnie Gertrude, Dorothy G. and
Stanley Jarvis Conklin.

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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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