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.  His parents were Sally Amelia Deming and Jedediah Peck Mather.  The family 
of six sisters and two brothers moved from Pa. in 1856.  For six months they 
remained in Chicago and Eugene attended public school.  Their next home was in 
Jonesville, Indiana for the next nine months, then to Missouri then Kansas 
until 1860.  During this period his father decided to grasp an unusual 
opportunity by moving to Council Grove, Kansas and building a grist mill and a 
saw mill.  Eugene was a boy of about 13 and grew up helping his father and 
learning much about business practices and handling of mules, horses and oxen.  
He attended Normal School at Emporia.  He hauled sawmill equipment into Augusta 
in 1868 where he  later went into the lumber business and met his future wife, 
Miss Mary Alice Pomeroy, who was attending school there.  In May 1876 he went 
to Silverton, Co. where he and his good friend George Munkers hauled the first 
blast furnace into Silverton--presumably from Denver--with their three 4-mule 
teams.   They were in the freighting business for the next few years, taking 
several government contacts.  He married Mary Alice Pomeroy Nov. 12 1880 at her 
home on the ranch on the Fontenelle in Wyoming.  They went to live in Alamosa, 
CO. where their son, Alvin was born.  He later hauled freight into Buffalo, Wy. 
from Rock Creek on the U.P.R.R. a distance of 320 miles.  His wife and son 
joined him at Buffalo in 1882 where they lived the remaining years of their 
lives.  During those years he he engaged in the hardware business, was 
appointed the first Receiver for Johnson County, started the Munkers and Mather 
cattle ranch, was the first Master of Anchor Lodge No. 7,A.F. & A. M. 1885-87. 
His ceremonial sword can be seen in the Jim Gatchell Museum there.  He died may 
4, 1935 at the home of his daughter, Inez Mather Kube. He was engaged in the 
freighting business during the years of 1882 to 1888.  Robert Foot opened the 
first store in Buffalo in 1882 and the first stock of goods was brought by 
wagons by George W. Munkres and Eugene B. Mather, presumably from Rock Creek.  
In 1891 he purchased the Hardware store of C. P.  Organ  Co. which he operated 
for 12 years (to 1903)  Early in 1893 Munkres and Mather was selling coal from 
their mine just a miles east of Buffalo for $3.50 per ton.  In the fall of 1906 
a fire started in one of the galleries of the mine.  Fifty men worked hard to 
seal off the burning area with temporary barriers of wet sawdust and straw 
backed by a brick wall to keep air from the fire.  After two weeks they 
succeeded.                                                                      
                                                                                
                        To the Mathers were born:  Alvin J. Mather at Alamosa, 
Co., Inez and Carl Deming Mather who died from an accidental gunshot wound to 
his leg at age 16 on Aug. 15, 1902. 

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