Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Dorr, Richard N. 1874 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Richard N. Dorr, proprietor of the Baseball Headquarters, Wichita, Kan., is a
native of Kentucky, having been born at Marion, in the Blue Grass State, on June
29, 1874. His parents were R. B. and Sallie K. (Stewart) Dorr, natives of
Kentucky, who moved to Kansas in 1898 and later removed to California. The elder
Dorr died December 29, 1909, at the age of sixty-four. Richard N. Dorr was
educated at the public schools of Marion and first began work in the service of
the Ohio Valley Railway Company in the passenger department. He moved to Kansas
and entered the traffic department of the Missouri Pacific railway, and in an
accident, March 8, 1904, lost both legs. Mr. Dorr was elected city clerk of
Wichita in 1905, a position which he filled with credit for four years. He
purchased his present business, known as the Baseball Headquarters, at No. 127
South Main street, of Holland & Isbell, in January, 1910. Fraternally Mr. Dorr
is a member of the Masonic order, in which he is a member of the Consistory and
Shrine, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was made a life member of
Lodge No. 427, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in August, 1906. Mr.
Dorr was married on November 18, 1895, to Miss Jessie Degraffenreid, a native of
Kentucky. Of this union six children have been born, viz.: Fayellena R., Wilson
E., Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Richard N., Jr., and Rodgers B.

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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