Sedgwick-Kiowa County KS Archives Biographies.....Kemp, W. C. 1883 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com April 5, 2007, 1:29 am Author: O. H. Bentley (1910) W. C. Kemp, one of the prosperous young business men of Wichita, Kan., is a native of Park county, Indiana. He was born in 1883, and is a son of A. K. and S. J. Kemp, both of whom were natives of Indiana. They settled on a farm in Kiowa county, Kansas, in 1884, where the father also opened and conducted a general store, and served as postmaster, and also ran a line of stages between Kiowa and Wichita before the railroad was built. In 1902 he helped to organize and incorporate the Citizens' State Bank of Wichita, of which he was made vice-president, and in 1903, removed to Wichita with his family and became president of the bank, and filled that office till his decease in 1907. His widow now lives there with her son. Our subject acquired his early education in the schools at Kiowa and supplemented this with two years' study at the Friends' University at Wichita. On leaving the University he entered the bank as assistant cashier, and in 1908 was promoted to the office of cashier, which he now fills. This bank is reckoned among the substantial financial institutions of Wichita, its present officers being W. S. Hadley, president; G. E. Outland, vice-president, W. C. Kemp, cashier, and H. C. Outland, assistant cashier. In religious faith Mr. Kemp is affiliated with the Friends' Church of Wichita. In 1906 he married Miss Blanche, a daughter of Mr. C. W. Jones, of Wichita, and they enjoy the comforts and pleasures of a happy home, with a choice circle of friends. 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) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/sedgwick/bios/kemp347gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ksfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb