Barber County Kansas
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Wherever you find a Scotchman [sic], under whatever circumstances, you will find an industrious, thrifty, conservative citizen, who abhors debt and pays as he goes. Consequently he is a man of independence and calls no man master.We ran up against a man of this class the other day in the person of Hugh Rankin, county commissioner from the first district. He is a Scotchman [sic] by birth, who immigrated to Kansas from Pennsylvanian about fifteen years ago and located in Barber county. The obstacles to his success were manifold and for a time it was problematical as to what the outcome would be. But there was never yet lived a man who started out in life with an honest purpose and a determination to be somebody, that he did not succeed, and so it has been with Mr. Rankin, for while he is in very comfortable circumstances as you can easily find out by a visit to his home in Sharon township, where he owns a ranch of 1900 acres of land, stocked with perhaps a hundred head or more of well graded cattle and all the appurtenances for their protection and comfort.
Mr. Rankin, we should judge without asking, is a man of about forty years of age, but looks younger despite the rough usage of years on the frontier. He is alert, active and brim full of energy and has a dead cinch on the caudle appendage of prosperity.
Also see:
Archibald RANKIN, grandson of Hugh Rankin.
Henry RANKIN, son of Hugh Rankin.
Thanks to Ellen (Knowles) Bisson for finding, transcribing and contributing the above Medicine Lodge Cresset article to this web site!
It is one of a series of articles published together on 2 March 1900 under the title of Barber County Profiles: Men Who Have Taken a Prominent Part in Developing the Stock Industry in Barber County.
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