Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....McCollister, Madison M. 1846 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Madison M. McCollister, Coroner of Sedgwick county, Kansas, and a resident of
Wichita, is now (1910) serving his twelfth year as Coroner. He was first elected
in 1891, and served two years, again elected in 1899 and then served five years
successively, again elected in 1903 and again in 1909. During the time he has
been in office Mr. McCollister has empaneled over 200 juries. He was a deputy
sheriff under Judge Reed. Mr. McCollister was born in Jamestown, Ohio, on
October 27, 1846. His parents were Rev. John and Mary (Shook) McCollister,
natives of Ohio and Kentucky, respectively. The parents spent their early
married life in Ohio and Iowa, and then moved to Wichita, where the father was
killed by an accident at the age of seventy-eight. His widow survived for six
years and died at about the same age.

Mr. McCollister was educated at the public schools of his native town and in
Iowa. In 1873 he went to the range, and four years later moved to Wichita,
locating on a farm in Waco township. Seven years later he received an injury
which laid him up. In 1861 Mr. McCollister enlisted in Company A, Eighth Ohio
Regiment, for three months' service. He re-enlisted with his father in the
following June in Company K, Ninety-fourth Ohio Regiment, and served in the
battles of Perryville and Stone River. He was injured at States Ferry, having
his collarbone broken, and was taken prisoner by Morgan's Cavalry. This injury
resulted in complications from which he has never recovered. The father was
wounded at the battle of Stone River, the injury resulting in permanent
deafness, which brought about his fatal accident. Mr. McCollister is a member of
Garfield Post, G. A. R., No. 25. He was married in 1877 to Miss Helen Leiter, a
daughter of Andy and Sarah Leiter. Of this union the following children have
been born, viz.: Charles C, Grace M., Mary M., Nellie M., Eveline L., John A.,
Georgia M., Ralph W. and Sarah, the latter being deceased.


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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