Shawnee County KS Archives Obituaries.....Silliman, John B. October 7, 1918 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jim Laird jlaird@bellsouth.net October 13, 2009, 7:24 pm The Topeka Daily Capital, Tuesday, October 8, 1918 Veteran, Merchant Dies. John B. Silliman of Atchison, Was 73 Years Old. Atchison.--Oct. 7.--John B. SILLIMAN, wholesale hardware dealer of national reputation died at his home here, yesterday, aged 73 years. He came to Atchison in 1870 and bought a retail hardware business which he converted into a jobbing business by interesting his brothers-in-law, D.P. BLISH and E.A. MIZE, both now deceased, and establishing the firem of Blish, Mize & Silliman. He was vice president, a member of the executive committee of the National Hardware Dealer's association and was widely known by the hardware trade. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/shawnee/obits/s/silliman1754gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ksfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb