Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....High, Severen E. 1853 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Severen E. High, a prosperous and substantial farmer of Rockford township, in
Sedgwick county, Kansas, is a native of Van Wert county, Ohio, and was born in
1853 to Lewis and Erga (Mattox) High. The father was a native of Pennsylvania
and a plasterer by trade. In 1877 he settled with his family on a
quarter-section of land in Rockford township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, and lived
there till his decease in 1889. He enlisted as a private and served four years
in the Civil War and was mustered out as second lieutenant of Company K,
Sixty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteers. He belonged to Wichita Post, Grand Army
of the Republic. The mother died in Ohio in 1859.

  Our subject lived in Ohio and Illinois during his early life and first came to
Sedgwick county in 1876. He then returned to Illinois and went thence to West
Virginia in 1878, and there married Miss Mary Powell, a daughter of Mr. John
Powell. Returning to Illinois he lived on a rented farm till March, 1880, whence
he came again to Sedgwick county and settled on his father's farm in Section 9,
in Rockford township. Four years later he bought a quarter-section in Gypsum
township and lived there till his father's death in 1889, when he sold it and
returned to the family homestead, where he has since continued to live. He
afterwards bought 160 acres in Section 4, 80 acres in Section 5, and 80 acres in
Section 9, making a total of 480 acres, which he now owns in Rockford township.
Mr. High carries on general farming and stock raising, and has made his money by
the sale of cattle and hogs. He has made a financial success of his farming
operations and lives in the enjoyment of a beautiful home, surrounded with all
the comforts and conveniences of the modern prosperous farmer. In politics he
has always been a Democrat and has served as trustee of Gypsum township and
treasurer of Rockford township.

   Of four children born to Mr. and Mrs. High, Charles P., born in 1879, married
Miss Izah, a daughter of Mr. George Rickerds. They have one child, Helen, and
live on the father's farm in Section 4. Glenn, who was born in 1881, married
Miss Nellie, a daughter of Mr. Elias Mitchell. They live on the father's farm in
Section 9, and have two children, Ruth and Severen. Carl C., who was born in
1888, died in 1906, and Lemuel, born in 1884, passed away when three years of age.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

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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