Sedgwick-Brown County KS Archives Biographies.....Healy, Edward J. 1851 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Edward J. Healy, head of the firm of E. J. Healy & Co., livestock commission
merchants at the Wichita stock yards, bears the distinction of being the pioneer
stockdealer of Wichita and of Sedgwick county. Mr. Healy is a native of the
state of Daniel Boone, having been born in Woodford county, Kentucky, on July 6,
1851. His parents were J. P. and Elizabeth (Drew) Healy, who were natives of
Ireland, and who came to Kentucky in 1848. Here the elder Healy engaged in
business as a contractor, but removed to Illinois in 1855, and later to Kansas,
where he settled in Brown county. Both the parents of Mr. Healy are now dead.
Edward J. Healy acquired his education in the public schools of Mt. Sterling,
Ill., and after leaving school became engaged in farming-and stock raising,
which he prosecuted successfully until 1886, when he decided that Kansas offered
a larger field for his efforts. On leaving Illinois he chose Wichita as his
location, and at first engaged in the real estate business, which he conducted
with success for the next three years. In 1889 Mr. Healy decided that the
livestock commission business offered a larger field for his activities. Wichita
was growing and the cattle business was an important factor in the city's trade.
He was one of the pioneer dealers of the Wichita stock yards, and became
successful from the very start. He has now the largest business of the kind in
the city of Wichita. In addition to his livestock business Mr. Healy is
treasurer of the Wichita Livestock Exchange, a position which he has held since
1889, and is also a large stockholder in the Union National Stock Yards Bank, of
Wichita. Mr. Healy was married in June, 1881, to Miss Alicia Fitzsimon, of Mt.
Sterling, Ill. From this union there have been seven children, viz.: Mary E.,
wife of Albert Ford; Ida, John P., Edward J., Jr., Alicia, Emmet T. and George
Healy.

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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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