Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Page 910

EDMUND CALLAWAY is one of the reliable and progressive young farmers and representative men of Salem Township. He is actively engaged in general farming and stock-raising on section 16, where he has an excellent farm of 160 acres of land. He is a native of Mason County, Ill., and his birth took place Nov. 27, 1851. He is the son of Dr. John C. and Mary C. (King) Callaway, the former of whom was a very successful physician and surgeon, and was the second settler of that profession in Coffey County, Kan.

            Both the parents of our subject were natives of the State of Kentucky, who had removed to Illinois before their marriage. They were the parents of the following eight children: Sallie, the wife of William Davis, a resident of this State; Chauncey, a resident of Colorado; Lizzie, Mrs. W. J. Cox, residing in Wichita; William, who lives in No Man's Land; Edmund, the subject of our sketch; Maggie, the wife of John King, of Colorado; Nellie, Mrs. George Salonica, a resident of McPherson County, Kan., and Addie, who is living in Colorado.

            When Edmund was about seven years old his parents brought him with them to Coffey County, Kan., but after a residence of some years they removed to Mahaska County, Iowa, where he was reared to man's estate. He received his elementary education in the excellent schools of the Hawkeye State, and remained in that locality until the fall of 1877, when he came to Kansas and settled in Sedgwick County. Here he has made his home ever since. He located on the farm where he now resides in 1881, and by industry and good management has brought it to a high state of cultivation. His energy and perseverance, together with the tact and management of his estimable wife, have raised him from a position of comparative poverty to a place among the well-to-do farmers of Sedgwick County.

            Edmund Callaway and Miss Josephine French were united in marriage Nov. 25, 1880. The bride was a native of Sullivan County, Ind., born April 22, 1861, and is a daughter of Benjamin and Julia French, who claimed Kentucky as their birthplace. In 1876 she came with her parents to Kansas and settled in Waco Township, where the father and mother are still living. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Callaway are as follows: Gracie, born Oct. 15, 1881; Carl, July 31, 1885, and Ora J., July 29, 1886.

            In his political affiliations, Mr. Callaway is an inflexible adherent to the doctrines and principles of the Republican party. He has no aspirations, however, for popular preferment, and although he has been elected to several of the township offices, has never qualified for them, preferring the peace and quietude of his own fireside. He is a public-spirited and enterprising man, and takes an active interest in everything which seems to promise a benefit to the community. He enjoys the esteem and confidence of his neighbors, and, with his excellent wife, is an important addition to the society of the township. Mrs. Callaway is an earnest member of the Christian Church, holding connection with Prairie Home Church, in Waco Township.

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