Sedgwick-Atchison County KS Archives Biographies.....Gackenbach, Farley A. 1866 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Farley A. Gackenbach is a wideawake and progressive citizen of Wichita, Kan.
He is a native of Allentown, Pa., and was born in 1866, to Charles W. and Jane
(Schenck) Gackenbach. The father was a carriage manufacturer and the son learned
that trade, though he never followed it. He started out for himself in 1884,
going to Atchison, Kan., and spending two years as traveling salesman for
Messrs. Sterner & Co., cigar dealers. He then, in 1886, went to Arkansas City,
Kan., and spent one year in the real estate business. Here our subject traded
some real estate he had acquired for a stock of groceries located at No. 933
South Emporia street, Wichita, Kan. He carried on the grocery trade till 1889,
when he sold the business and engaged in the cigar business, first at No. 119
South Main street and afterwards at No. 227 East Douglas street. He conducted
this business till 1907, when he sold out his interest and accepted the position
of deputy grand master of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, having been, for
nine years previous to this time, financial agent of the local lodge, No. 22.
Mr. Gackenbach stands high in fraternal circles, being a member of the Mystic
Shrine, a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Wichita Consistory. He
also belongs to Wichita Lodge, No. 93, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and
many others.

   In 1906 Mr. Gackenbach was elected a member of the Wichita Board of
Education, and re-elected in 1908, and served as its president till 1909, when
he resigned. He has the credit of establishing separate schools in Wichita, but
the case being reversed by the Supreme Court the matter was dropped until such
time as the law was amended.


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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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