Shawnee County KS Archives Obituaries.....ALBAUGH, Mrs. Morton  April 30, 1947
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The Topeka Daily Capital
Wednesday
April 30, 1947

Last Rites for Mrs. Albaugh Thursday.
Wife of GOP Leader Dies After Injury.

Funeral services for Mrs. Morton ALBAUGH, who died in a local hospital late
Monday evening, will be held Thursday at 2 o'clock at the Wall-Diffenderfer
Chapel. The Rev. C.O. Stuckenbruck, pastor of First Christian Church, will be
the officiating clergyman, and burial will take place in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
The late Morton Albaugh was prominent in Kansas Republican circles in the early
1900's. For many years, until his death in 1918, he was outstanding in the
political life of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Albaugh came to Topeka from Kingman in
1901, when Governor Stanley appointed Mr. Albaugh as State Bank Commissioner.
Previously he had been receiver for the R.A. Cross Bank in Emporia.

Injured in Fall.
Formerly a publisher of a Kansas newspaper, Mr. Albaugh developed a party
organization that smashed Populist rule, and became known as one of the most
astute political organizers in the state. Mr. Albaugh was clerk of the State
Supreme Court at one time, and shortly before his death in 1918, he had
prefected the organization which was responsible for the nomination of Henry J.
Allen as Governor in the primaries of the following August.
Mrs. Albaugh suffered injuries in a fall at her home, 1331 Harrison, Saturday,
which resulted in her death late the following day.
Mrs. Albaugh, was before her marriage in 1898 was Eule Lee HOUGHTON, was born in
Loogootee, Ind. She was 83 years of age at her death, the last member of the
family of Aaron Houghton. 
Prominent in Topeka for many years as an accomplished pianist, Mrs. Albaugh was
a charter member of Minerva Club and a member of the Music Study Club. She was a
member of the First Christian Church of Topeka. 
She leaves two children, Mrs. Clatyon KLINE of Topeka and dr. H.S. Albaugh of
Olathe, and three grandchildren.


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