Shawnee County KS Archives Biographies.....Stanton, John Frederick 1862 - 
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Author: James L. King (1905)

JOHN FREDERICK STANTON.

    JOHN FREDERICK STANTON, Kansas State architect, one of the leaders in his
profession with years of exacting experience behind him, has been a resident of
Topeka since 1887. Mr. Stanton was born July 29, 1862, at Manchester, New
Hampshire, and is a son of John M. and Meribah F. (Pike) Stanton.

    Mr. Stanton is a descendant of the early New England settlers, his ancestors
having come to this country from England in 1636 and located at Salisbury. His
father was born at Brookfield, Maine, and his mother at Plymouth, New Hampshire.
After completing common and high school courses at Manchester, he took a special
course in civil engineering under Joseph B. Sawyer. While interested in this
line, before turning his attention to the particular field of art in which he
has been so successful, he served two years as assistant city engineer at
Manchester, and later was. for some time connected with the engineering
department of the Stark Corporation in the same city.

    With the idea of supplementing his engineering knowledge he took a course of
study in architecture, combining both the technical and practical phases of the
profession. Later a partnership was formed with W. M. Butterfield and Mr.
Stanton began the practice of architecture as a profession; during the following
three years they designed some of the best public and private buildings in the
State.

    In 1887 Mr. Stanton came to Kansas and located at Topeka, taking charge of
the office work for J. G. Haskell, at that time the leading architect in the
State. For six years he occupied this position and then became a partner. The
firm of Haskell & Stanton during the following two years planned many of the
best buildings erected, not only in Kansas, but also in Nebraska, Oklahoma,
Indian Territory and Missouri.

    In 1895 Mr. Stanton was appointed superintendent and assistant State House
architect, having in charge the work of finishing the rooms on the first and
second stories of the Capitol Building at Topeka.

    In 1897 when the Populist party came into power, he was removed for
political reasons and immediately entered upon the independent practice of his
profession, which he successfully conducted until July, 1899, when the
Republican party again took control of State affairs and Mr. Stanton was
appointed State House architect. During the succeeding four years he
successfully filled this important position and completed the magnificent State
Capitol Building. In July, 1903, the State Executive Council appointed him State
architect, having in charge the architectural work for all of the various State
institutions. This work he so satisfactorily conducted that later when the
Legislature changed the law, vesting the appointive power in the Governor, he
was, in 1905, again appointed for a term of two years, by Governor Hoch, the
appointment being one of the most popular made.

    Mr. Stanton was married at St. Joseph, Missouri, on the 24th of November,
1892, to Julia M. Lamb, a daughter of William P. and Margaret Lamb. They have
one child, a beautiful little girl named Mildred who with them enjoys the
comforts of a substantial home at No. 1211 Western avenue, Topeka. Politically,
Mr. Stanton is a stanch Republican and served two terms as president of the
Topeka Republican Flambeau Club.


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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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