Sedgwick-Kingman County KS Archives Biographies.....Magill, Charles A. 1861 - ************************************************ 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, 2:17 am Author: O. H. Bentley (1910) Charles A. Magill, secretary and treasurer of the Johnson & Larimer Drygoods Company, of Wichita, Kan., is a native of Illinois, having been born at Chicago on December 29, 1861. His parents were Charles and Esther (Chalker) Magill, natives of the Bermuda Islands. The elder Magill was a sea captain, who located at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1856, and in Chicago soon afterward. Both he and his wife are now dead. The education of Charles A. Magill was obtained in the public schools of Chicago. He came to Wichita in 1878, at the age of sixteen, and clerked for John Dunscomb until the latter went out of business, and then for A. Hess, in the wholesale and retail grocery business, until 1882, when he went to Kingman, Kan., and entered into business for himself. At Kingman he started in the mercantile business under the firm name of Magill & Smyth, but Mr. Magill later purchased the interest of his partner and the business is now conducted under the name of the C. A. Magill Mercantile Company. While still conducting this business Mr. Magill has been secretary and treasurer of the Johnson & Larimer Drygoods House, the largest in the Southwest, and which is described in the historical chapters of this work. Mr. Magill has been associated with this house in the capacity of secretary and treasurer since January 1, 1902. He was one of the original partners to purchase the Johnson interests. The present officers of the company are as follows: John L. Powell, president; W. E. Jett, vice-president; C. A. Magill, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Magill is a member of all the Masonic bodies and is a thirty-second degree Mason. He is also a member of the Commercial and Country Clubs, a director of the Young Men's Christian Association, and junior warden of St. John's Episcopal Church. Mr. Magill is a firm believer in the future of a Greater Wichita. He was married in the Bermuda Islands on January 25, 1888, to Miss Evangeline Ward, of Hamilton, Bermuda. Of this union there has been issue four children, viz.: Edmund C, R. Ward, Gladys E. and Mary Esther Magill. He has just finished a beautiful home of ten rooms, colonial style, of stucco material, located at 1208 North Emporia. 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/magill363gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ksfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb