Casey-Marion County KyArchives Biographies.....WEATHERFORD, William S. April 8, 1834 - August 28, 1905
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     William S. WEATHERFORD, a member of the firm of Weatherford & Son, dealers 
in general merchandise at Winchester, is one of the prominent business men of 
Jefferson County and displays marked abilityand a strict integrity in all his 
affairs.  The firm began business in September, 1885, for two years previous to 
which time our subject had been engaged in farming.  The establishment of 
Weatherford & Son employs five clerks, carries a stock valued at $18,000, and 
their sales run from $35,000 to $40,000 during the year.  Business is carried 
on in a main room 40X70 feet, and three outside rooms, the general storage 
department being 20X60 feet, the oil room 18X24 feet, and the flour room also 
18X24 feet; a cellar is under one-half of the structure.
     The senior member of the above firm is W. S. WEATHERFORD, who was born 
near Lexington, Ky., and who was a practical farmer.  He married Miss Mary 
BELDEN and lived in Kentucky until 1859, when with his family, consisting of a 
wife and four children, including our subject, who was the eldest and was then 
a lad of about nine years, he settled on a Kansas farm.  His location was in 
Jefferson County, east of Winchester, and afterward bought the place known as 
the "Uncle Billy Gardiner Farm," one mile south of the town, and lived upon it 
until he moved into Winchester to take an interest with his son in the 
mercantile business.
     Since coming to Kansas, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. WEATHERFORD have had four 
children born to them and their entire household still survives.  The oldest 
daughter, Lue, is the wife of T. V. VARNER of Jefferson, Colo., and they have 
two children.  Ella married A. MCDERMOT, who carries on his trade of harness-
making in Winchester; their family comprises three children.  Emma is the wife 
of C. S. MCCONNELL, a contractor and builder of Topeka, Kan., and is the mother 
of two children.  W. F., who is book-keeper for the firm, is a graduate of the 
business department of Holton University; he recently married Miss Nanny 
MEREDITH of Winchester.  Laura, a young lady, is quite proficient with the 
artist's brush, her specialty being landscape painting; Idona has charge of the 
dry-goods department in the store and has become expert in her department of 
business; Dora is a young miss still at school.
     J. H. WEATHERFORD, the son of the subject of this biography, married Miss 
Sallie, daughter of Albert PEMBERTON, one of the early pioneers of Leavenworth 
County, in which Mrs. WEATHERFORD was born.  The happy union has been blessed 
by the birth of bright boys:  Frank, Walter, Albert and J. H. Jr.  Mrs. 
WEATHERFORD is cultured and refined, and her chief anxiety is to make her home 
happy for her husband and her children, and to train her boys for usefulness in 
life.
     Mr. J. H. WEATHERFORD belongs to the I. O. O. F., and the Knights of 
Pythias, has passed the Chairs in each lodge, and is at present Deputy Grand 
Chancellor of the State of Kansas for this district.  He is a supporter of the 
principles of the Republican...

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