Sedgwick-Pratt-Rice County KS Archives Biographies.....Ladd, Frederick Otis 1850 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Frederick Otis Ladd, of Cheney, Kan., manager of one of the largest grain
elevators in Sedgwick county, was born February 4, 1850, in Dearborn, Mich. His
parents were Daniel and Margaret (James) Ladd. His father was a native of
Vermont, while on the maternal side the ancestry is traced back to England. The
elder Ladd went to Canada West, now the province of Ontario, and then moved to
Dearborn, Wayne county, Mich., where he followed his trade of a millwright. He
later removed to Pratt county, Kansas, where he now resides. Frederick O. Ladd
obtained a common school education, and then, following in the footsteps of his
father, learned the millwright's trade under John Webster, of Detroit, Mich. In
1873 he went to Minneapolis, where he worked on the large flour mills of that
city for five years. He then returned to Kansas and located in Wichita, where he
was engaged in mill building for some time. In 1885 he went to Lyons, Rice
county, Kan., where he operated a mill for five years for Corning & Done. He
left Lyons in 1890 and went to Pratt county, Kansas, where he operated and
managed a mill for John McGruder for four years, and then settled on a farm
owned by him, on which he worked for one year. He then came to Cheney and became
manager of the Cheney Grain and Elevator Company, which was organized in 1900
and built by Mr. Ladd. This he has managed ever since. The concern does an
extensive business and is one of the largest in Sedgwick county. Fraternally Mr.
Ladd is a Mason, having for twenty-one years been a member of Dearborn Lodge,
No. 172, of Dearborn, Mich. Politically he is a Republican. Mr. Ladd was married
on March 11, 1893, to Miss Etta McGruber, daughter of John McGruber, of Cairo,
Kan. His wife is a native of Missouri. One son, Fred D., has been born of this
union and is now fifteen years old. The father of Mrs. Ladd is proprietor of the
flour mills at Cairo, Pratt county, Kan.

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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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