Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Gaiser, William H. 1862 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   William H. Gaiser, carriage maker, of Wichita, Kan., is a native of Illinois,
having been born in the city of Alton, that state, in 1862. He is a son of John
and Celia (Hanna) Gaiser, the father being a native of Germany, who came to the
United States when young and settled in Illinois. William H. Gaiser received his
education in the public schools of Alton, and began to learn the trade of
carriage making when a boy. He came to Wichita in 1887, where he was first
employed by J. M. McKenzie and later by J. M. Washburn. Mr. Gaiser was in the
employ of the latter for seventeen years, when he was taken into partnership,
the style of the firm being Washburn & Gaiser. This arrangement continued until
the death of Mr. Washburn, when Mr. Gaiser succeeded to the business. The
business plant was formerly located at Nos. 114 and 116 St. Francis avenue, but
the constantly increasing business made larger and more modern quarters
imperative, and in 1910 Mr. Gaiser built the present up-to-date plant at Nos.
217 and 219 St. Francis avenue, the most modern to be found in the Southwest.
The structure is a two-story brick, covering a ground area of 42x125 feet, and
is complete in every detail. The shops are filled with all the equipment
required in the carriage business. Facilities are here to be found for the
building and repair of all kinds of vehicles, from a wheelbarrow to an
automobile. The floors are of concrete, there is an elevator for the transport
of vehicles from one floor to another, while the paint and varnish rooms,
carriage top and repairing department, and a modern forge, all go to make up a
new and twentieth century equipment. The works are an illustration of what can
be accomplished with enterprise and push. Mr. Gaiser was married in 1887, to
Miss Julia Doyle, of Missouri. Three children have been born of this union,
viz.: George, Harry M., and Paul.

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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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