Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Kernan, Samuel B. 1851 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Samuel B. Kernan, who has filled a prominent place in the affairs of Wichita
and Sedgwick county, is a native of the Keystone state, having been born in
Monongahela City, Pa., on May 26, 1851. He is the son of F. F. and Margaret J.
(Patton) Kernan, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania. Samuel B. Kernan was
educated in the public schools of Monongahela City, and after leaving school was
engaged in farming in Pennsylvania until the spring of 1883, when he came to
Kansas and located in Wichita. His first business venture was to engage in the
real estate business, but after a short time he abandoned this to embark in the
mercantile line, and continued in this line for twenty years in the city of
Wichita. At the end of this time he again entered the real estate business, in
which he has since continued. Mr. Kernan has always taken an active interest in
the political affairs of his city and county, and in 1905 was elected a county
commissioner, and in 1907 was again renominated and elected. During his term of
office he had much to do with the construction of the concrete bridge over the
Arkansas river to the West Side, and proved himself to be an important factor in
many other improvements for the betterment of the city of Wichita and the county
of Sedgwick. Other political offices held by Mr. Kernan have been those of
treasurer of the city of Wichita and president of the School Board. Mr. Kernan
has also taken a keen interest in fraternal orders, and is a prominent Mason,
besides being a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights
of Pythias. Mr. Kernan was married in 1874 to Miss Emma J. Warne, of
Monongahela, Pa., and from this marriage there has been issue one son, Dr. J. F.
Kernan, of Wichita.

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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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