Sedgwick-Comanche County KS Archives Biographies.....Duncan, Shelby P. 1856 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Shelby P. Duncan, attorney, of Wichita, Kan., is a native of Kentucky, where
he was born in Fayette county on March 2, 1856. His parents were Harvey and Mary
(Bowden) Duncan, natives of Kentucky, where they resided until the Civil War
broke out, when they removed to Evansville, Ind., where the father died. Mrs.
Duncan died at Evansville, Ind. She was a sister of the late Judge Bowden, of
the Supreme Court of Kentucky. Shelby P. Duncan was educated at the Canton
(Ill.) High School and at the Peru (Neb.) Normal School. He taught in the public
schools of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, and read law while teaching and
afterwards in the office of his uncle, the late Judge James H. Bowden, of
Kentucky. He was later law clerk to George Gillhan, in Memphis, Tenn., having
been admitted to the Russellville (Ky.) bar in 1875 and in Tennessee in 1876.
Mr. Duncan opened an office at Fairview, Fulton county, Illinois, in connection
with Charles H. Robinson, and there practiced law until 1884, when he moved to
Kansas, locating in the village of Nescatunga, Comanche county, which was at
that time a rival county seat. In 1888 Mr. Duncan removed to Coldwater in the
same county, where he was prominent, holding several public offices. He was
honored with the office of United States commissioner, police judge, justice of
the peace, probate judge and county attorney. He was also a member of the
Republican Congressional Committee. May 31, 1898, Mr. Duncan moved to Wichita,
and after a time again took up the practice of law, which he has since
continued. He was married in 1881 to Miss Kunegunda Kuehn, of Fulton county,
Illinois. Two children have been born of this union, Nellie B. and Flora K.
Fraternally Mr. Duncan is a member of the Knights of Pythias.

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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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