Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 830 - 831

C. W. STRUTHERS, Justice of the Peace, is a well-known and respected farmer and stock-raiser, residing on section 27, Illinois Township. He is a native of Greene County, Ohio, and was born Aug. 5, 1850. He is the son of William and Julia (Dean) Struthers, who were natives of Virginia and Ohio respectively. His father, William Struthers, was born May 3, 1825, and was by occupation a merchant and a farmer in turn. During the late civil conflict between the States, he enlisted in Company B, 83d Illinois Infantry, and served gallantly for three years with that band of heroes, who carried their State flag into many of the hard‑fought battles of the war, where, like a meteor, it was ever found at the front. He died July 7, 1887.

            The mother of our subject was born April 27, 1829, and died Oct. 11, 1863, after which the father again entered into the marriage state. This second time he led to the altar Miss Mary J. Perry, daughter of Walter and Anna (Dean) Perry, who was born Jan. 12, 1835, in Greene County, Ohio. She was one of a family of eight children, born to her parents as follows: David, Julia, Mary J., Jeanette, Daniel D., Sarah, Elizabeth and Johanna. David was born Nov. 11, 1830, and died in 1879; Julia was born June 10, 1833, married William Coley, and died in 1876, leaving a family of six children, who were called upon in 1884 to mourn their father, who followed her; Mary J. is the wife of William Struthers; Jeanette was born March 20, 1837, and married Ebenezer Curry, and accompanied her husband to Egypt, where they both died, leaving one child; Daniel D. was born May 28, 1839, and married Mary Reed; he was a member of Company F, 3d Ohio Infantry, during the war, and lost a limb, and is now a resident of Illinois. Sarah was born June 28, 1841, married Joseph Getterny, and is a resident of Moline, Ill., and the parent of two children; Elizabeth was born April 11, 1843, and married William Brown, who is running a news office in Burlington, Iowa, and is the parent of three children; Johanna was born June 19, 1846, and married William Young, a newspaper reporter in Massachusetts, and is the parent of two children.

            Mr. Struthers is one of a family of five children born to his father during his first marriage, as follows: Clark W., the subject of this sketch; two infants unnamed, deceased; Louisa, born Aug. 13, 1853, and died July 27, 1879; and Alonzo H., born June 19, 1856, who married Louise McGroom, and is a resident of this township and the father of four children. There were seven children as the issue of the second marriage of William Struthers, as follows: William, who was born May 3, 1866, and died August 15 of the same year; Annie Mary, born Oct. 20, 1867, the wife of Dr. W. H. Morehead, and a resident of Kansas; Olive C., born Dec. 25, 1869; Ralph, Dec. 11, 1871; Jessie, born March 24, 1874, and died Dec. 26, 1876; Charles, born March 2, 1876; and an infant son deceased.

            When the subject of our sketch was but two years of age his parents removed to the State of Illinois, and located in Warren County, where he was reared to manhood. He received his education in the excellent schools provided in that part of the United States, and laid the foundation of his future character in that commonwealth. In 1874, being in search of a new country in which he could improve his fortunes and make a start in life, he came to Kansas, and is now the owner of a beautiful farm of 240 acres of most excellent land. Eighty acres of it are in Ninnescah Township, and the balance in Illinois Township. All of it is most excellent arable land, and eighty acres are brought under the plow and converted to the uses of civilized man.

            Esquire Struthers has held the offices of Township Treasurer, Town Clerk, School Director and School Treasurer, and is now Justice of the Peace in the township. He is in politics a Prohibitionist of the strictest type, being convinced that the rum fiend is the great destroyer of moral character and physical being of many of our country's brightest lights. A great reader, his researches have led him to advocate the views of the new third party. He is honest, industrious, and thoroughly honorable in all the walks of life, and enjoys the esteem and respect of the community to a large extent.

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