Sedgwick-Shawnee-Cherokee County KS Archives Biographies.....Garver, Martin L. 1844 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Martin L. Garver was born at Scotland, Pa., May 16, 1844, and passed his
early life on the home farm. After a short military service he was discharged,
in the latter part of 1863, and soon thereafter entered the freshman class in
Whittenburg College, Springfield, O., graduating with the class of 1866. Mr.
Garver became a Master Mason, having passed the degrees in Chambersburg, Pa. On
April 11, 1871, he married Miss Kate B. Emminger, of Mansfield, O., and came to
Topeka on their trip from there. M. L., in company with Judge T. F. Garver,
still of Topeka, and his brother, made a trip to Wichita by mule team, and
camped just south of where the Second street bridge is now located, and bought
Buffalo steak at 25 cents a basket. In October, 1874, he moved from Pennsylvania
to Mansfield, O., and in April, 1879, he again turned his face westward,
locating at Columbus, Kan., in the real estate and loan business, as local
representative of Wilson & Toms, loan brokers, of St. Louis, Mo., but soon
thereafter, in 1879, they transferred him to Wichita as their local manager for
southern Kansas. Wilson & Toms later on organized as the Wilson & Toms
Investment Company, and still later as the Central Trust Company of St. Louis.
Mr. Garver represented these people out of Wichita until they went out of
business, in the early '90s, when he engaged in the same line of business in
Wichita, on his own account. In March, 1896, he signed a contract with the
Deering Harvester Company, of Chicago, to look after their Oklahoma collections.
July, 1898, he entered the employ of the Deming Investment Company, located at
Oklahoma City, as business manager. July 1, 1901, he returned to Wichita,
accepting a position with the Monarch Trust Company, since reorganized as the
Monarch Loan Company, as examiner of farm securities, which position he still
holds, serving as its vice-president. There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Garver
four children: Mary L., married to Chas. J. MeKenzie, of Wichita; George J.,
secretary and treasurer of the Monarch Loan Company, single, and lives in the
family home; James L., single, engaged in the chicken and pigeon business at the
family home, 900 Mathewson avenue, Wichita, Kan., and Charles L., married, and
living at Barstow, Cal., and is in charge of the Santa Fe Refrigerator Dispatch
Company's business at that place.

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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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