Washington County KS Archives Obituaries.....LONG, Dr. J. S. February 18, 1898
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The Washington Republican
Washington County
Friday
February 18, 1898

Dr. J.S. Long Dead.
An Honored Citizen Responds to the Summons of Death.
A Useful Life Ended.
The silent hand of death laid hold on one of our honored cititzens last Sunday
evening at 7 o'clock and he was called from this world over the river from
whence no traveler ever returns.
On Dec. 30th, Dr. Long, president of the First National Bank, was stricken with
apoplexy, while in his usual good health. Without a moment's warning he was made
as helpless as a child and for a few days his physician and his close friends
thought there was no hope for his recovery. From the time he was striken to his
death, he never gained strength enough to be up, but at time was conscious and
conversed with his wife and the family. Friday before his death he rallied and
gave great encouragement to his friends, but the following day he took a relapse
and gradually sank away, so when the end came Sunday he peacefully closed his
eyes in sleep, from which he never awakened.
The funeral service was conducted Tuesday by Dr. Hageman, form the home of O.S.
Long, where J.S. Long had been moved only two weeks ago from the bank building.
A large circle of friends were present to pay their last respects to the dead
and lend sympathy to the bereaved wife and son and his family. The body was laid
to rest in the cemetery south of Washington beside that of his daughter, Mrs.
RACE. Mrs. Long and family have the sympathy of all their friends and aquaintances.


Dr. J.S. Long was a man of rare business ability, strictly honest and very
energetic. He was not a man of fraternal make up so belonged to no secret
orders. His delight was in pushing business and working for some enterprise. In
his long business career he accumulated considerable of this world's goods, but
with ---unreadable sentence----, not a cent by dishonest means or defrauded
anyone. One of the best houses in Washington was put up by him and will stand
for ages as a momument to his enterprise. Dr. Long had only moved here four
years ago form Doniphan county. Sol. MILLER, deceased, editor of the Troy Chief,
gave Dr. Long, this notice, Nov. 23, 1893:
"John S. Long was born in Pennsylvania, April 7th, 1831, and was educated in
that state. He was a student in the Eclectic Medical College, of Cincinnati, and
practiced his profession in Adrian, Michigan, for five years before coming to
Kansas, which occurred in the winter of 1856-7, locating on a claim near Winona,
west of Highland. The following year he moved to Iowa Point, to practice his
profession. He case his first vote at some point on Wolf River. He and his party
went to the polls in a wagon, well armed with Sharp's rifle's. A portion of the
crowd remained and guarded the wagon while others voted. In the sping of 1857,
he witnessed the sale of a slave woman at public auction on the streets of Iowa
Point--perhaps the only instance of the kind that ever occurred in Kansas. About
the close of the war, he became engaged in the Indian trade with the Osages,
which was kept up for several years, making two trips a year. This was quite a
lucrative business, securing in a single trip, which would occupy form two to
five months, as high as $8,000 to $10,000 worth of Buffalo robes, besides
buckskin, wolf and smaller peltry, and as high as 160 head of ponies, large
horses and mules.
This all vividly recalls the hardships and danger of the pioneer immigrant and
overland frieghter of these days. The buffalo, strange as it may seem, that
roamed the prairie only a few years ago in such herds that when on a stampede
would make the earth tremble, now are almost entirely extinct. With the
abandoning of the Indian trade, so also with the practice of medicine. He then
engaged in farming and stock raising. He is one of the largest farmers and stock
dealers in the west, having as high as 2,500 acres in cultivation in Doniphan
county. He has also extensive farming interests in Washington county, having,
among other farms in that section, one of 800 acres. For the past ten years he
has been president and principal owner of the First National Bank, of
Washington, Kansas. He served one term as county commissioner of Doniphan
county; and was a member of the legislature in 1877-8; and has represented the
county or township in many state and county conventions. He voted for Franklin
Pierce in 1852; but after a careful analysis of the principles of both parties,
he cast his lot with the Republicans, and has since been steadfast in his
allegiance to that party. He was married in 1855, in Michigan, to Miss Anna
Steele, a native of Pennsylvania. He has one child living, Oscar S. Long,
cashier of the National Bank In Washington, Kansas. His daughter, Maud, age 24
years, died almost six years ago, her husband, Mr. Race being at that time
connected with the Washington Bank. 


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