Shawnee-Osborne County KS Archives Biographies.....Mohler, Martin 1830 - 1903
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Author: James L. King (1905)

HON. MARTIN MOHLER.

    HON. MARTIN MOHLER, formerly secretary of the Kansas State Board of
Agriculture, was born March 20, 1830, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and
died at Topeka, Kansas, March 20, 1903.

    In his youth Mr. Mohler had more than the usual amount of boyish enthusiasm
to secure a good education, this seeming to him the goal toward which he must
direct every effort. Fortunate circumstances gave him an opportunity to enter
Northwestern University, at Evanston, Illinois, where he finally graduated, one
of the three members of the second graduating class of that institution. His
home remained in Pennsylvania, and thither he returned, with the idea of
devoting his future to educational work.

    Time brought changes and other interests came into his life, and in 1871 he
removed from Pennsylvania to Osborne County, Kansas, where he secured a
half-section of land. This was early in the settlement of that part of the
State, conditions were hard and the rewards of toil were only won through the
greatest effort. The work by which Mr. Mohler transformed his wild tract of land
into what seemed then a garden spot doubtless aroused the deep interest in his
mind which later brought him so prominently forward and identified him so
closely with agricultural matters.

    Mr. Mohler held several positions of trust in Osborne County, and he resided
there until he was appointed to the State Board of Agriculture in 1888. He then
moved to Topeka, where he resided until his death, serving through two
subsequent terms. During his administration as secretary, he aroused great
public interest in the study of soils, seeds and climate and it is undoubtedly
due to his efforts that Kansas stands to-day as one of the greatest agricultural
States of the Union. The sixth biennial report, issued under his direction, was
awarded a medal and diploma at the paris exposition, in 1889, as the best of its
kind in the world.

    Mr. Mohler is survived by his widow and by two daughters and two sons,
namely: Margaret L., wife of W. A. Neiswanger, manager of The Capitol Real
Estate Company, of Topeka, with offices at No. 116 West Sixth avenue; Laura M.,
wife of Rev. H. C. Buell, of Willmar, Minnesota; Jacob C, assistant secretary of
the State Board of Agriculture, residing at No. 1224 Fillmore street; and Frank
M., a student, who resides with his mother in the family home at No. 1611 Warren
street. Mrs. Mohler is a daughter of Christiana C. Hoover, of Pennsylvania, a
farmer by vocation, now deceased.

    Mr. Mohler was a member of the Presbyterian Church and one whose life was in
consonance with his professions. He was a Mason and had other fraternal
associations, being a man of social instincts. He was also one whose culture,
education and refinement impressed his companions as did his strong personality
and sterling attributes.


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HISTORY OF SHAWNEE COUNTY, KANSAS
AND
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS

EDITED AND COMPILED BY
JAMES L. KING
TOPEKA, KANSAS 

"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples"

PUBLISHED BY
RICHMOND & ARNOLD,
GEORGE RICHMOND; C. R. ARNOLD.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
1905.

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