Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Hockaday, I. N. 1868 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   I. N. Hockaday, of Wichita, Kan., president of the Hockaday Paint Company, of
that city, is the head of a concern of which the city is proud, and so also are
the stockholders. The concern is only five years old, but already its trade
extends all over the Southwest, and into the far Northwest and the Pacific
slope. Mr. Hockaday was born in 1868 at Plattsburg, Mo. His parents were I. N.
and Fanny (Lincoln) Hockaday, and his early education was obtained at Plattsburg
College, Plattsburg, Mo. After finishing his education Mr. Hockaday located at
Kingfisher, Okla., in 1889, where he went into the hardware business and had the
first store of that kind in the territory. In 1899 he came to Wichita, and the
first wholesale hardware store in this section of the Southwest was organized
through his efforts and was known as the Hockaday Wholesale Hardware Company.
The company at once entered upon a remarkable period of growth and dividend
paying business. Five years ago the hardware house was bought out by a
syndicate, but Mr. Hockaday would not leave the city, and saw then, as now,
incalculable possibilities in its future. So the Hockaday Paint Company was
organized, and has been even a greater success in its brief career. It is the
only concern in the city, probably, except the packing houses, whose products
reach such a wide extent of territory. Large branch houses are maintained in
Denver and Kansas City. Mr. Hockaday is a thirty-second degree Mason.

   He was married in 1901 to Miss Birdie Bohart, of Plattsburg, Mo. They have
three children.


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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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