Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Matson, Le Roy 1859 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Le Roy Matson, president of the Bank of Kechi, Sedgwick county, Kansas, was
born August 14, 1859, in Princeton, Ill. He is a son of Enos and Helen
(Westbroke) Matson, his father being a native of Ohio and his mother of
Pennsylvania. Mr. Matson received a limited education in the public schools of
Illinois, and lived with his father, who was a prominent stock dealer in
Illinois, until he was twenty-one. After leaving the home, he worked on a farm
as renter up to the time he left his native state to finally make Kansas his
home. He came to Kansas in 1896 and bought land in Payne township, then in
Section 7. After a time spent in Wichita, he concluded to make Kansas his
permanent home and went back to Illinois, where he married Miss Etta Schroeder,
of Bureau county. Three children have been born of this union, viz.: Marie H.,
Enos and Paul. Fraternally Mr. Matson is a member of the Modern Woodmen of
America. He is president and director of the Bank of Kechi. For ten years he has
been a member of the school board of his township and is greatly interested in
good schools. Mr. Matson is the owner of 640 acres of choice farm land in Payne
township, Sedgwick county, Kansas. He was elected president of the Henderson Oil
and Gas Company, but the market price of petroleum being so low it was thought
best to suspend operations until it advanced in price. Mr. Matson for a long
time was successful in raising hogs and cattle on the farm, but conceived the
idea of breeding fast horses and is devoting much of his time to this business,
finding it profitable. He commenced breeding from a single mare, which produced
a colt afterwards known as Rushville, which sold for $1,000. Another colt of his
breeding he sold for $500, and had offers of $1,000 for Sercher M. Some of the
horses Mr. Matson has bred have made records of 2:20 1/4 and 2:25. Sercher Boy,
which he disposed of to George Pulis, of Wichita, Kan., made the time of 2:17
1/4. Previous to his marriage to Miss Schroeder, Mr. Matson was married to her
sister, who died January 30, 1896. To this union one child was born, Harry L.

Additional Comments:
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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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