Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 1077 - 1078

 GEORGE DADISMAN, a leading representative of the farming and stock-growing interests of Salem  Township, is also quite extensively engaged in the grain business, buying and shipping stock, and in other ways is distinguishing himself as a man who has a thorough contempt for the idler.  His has been a busy life, and if there are any who thoroughly enjoy downright active labor, both of mind and brain, he is the man.

      Our subject first opened his eyes in the Blue Grass State, and was born in Nelson County, on the 25th of February, 1835.  His parents, Jacob and Sally (Calvert) Dadisman, were also natives of Kentucky, and the father of German descent.  Jacob Dadisman served under Gen. Harrison in the War of 1812, participating in the battle at Thames River in Canada, where he was captured by the British, but subsequently escaped after running the gauntlet under the fire of the British soldiers and the Indians, commanded by the famous Tecumseh.  After the war he settled in Nelson County, Ky., where he was married, and reared a large family of children. Of these it is believed the following survive: Bennet, of Nelson County; Madison, of Morgan County, Ill.; Emily, widow of George Fry, of Greene County, Ill.; Frances, widow of Samuel M. Fanning, of Missouri (Ralls County); Martha, widow of Thomas Redman, of Kentucky, and Mary, also still remaining in that State, besides George, of our sketch.

      Mr. Dadisman was reared to manhood in his native county, receiving but a limited education, and in connection with farming, engaged for many years as a grain and stock-dealer there.  On St. Valentine's Day, 1856,he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah A. Summers, who was born in Spencer County, Ky., Oct. 30, 1833.  Mrs. D. is the daughter of Martin and Surilda (White) Summers, the former a native of Kentucky, of German descent, and now deceased. The mother, who traced her ancestry back to England, was also a native of Kentucky.  They were the parents of a large family of children, of whom James, and Jane, the wife of David Cox, are supposed to be residents of Morgan County, Ill., as also Emily, the wife of Jeremiah Spainhoward; Shelby is a well-to-do farmer of this county, and Angeline, also living here, is the wife of Arthur Steele; Sarah, the wife of our subject, was the youngest.

      Of the eleven children born to our subject and his wife, three died in infancy, and six are now living.  Their eldest daughter, Paralee, is now the wife of Charles Simmons, and a resident of Kechi Township, this county; Isaac married Miss Emma Goodrich, and is engaged in farming at Valley Center; Lewis is operating a farm in Salem Township; Braxton is in Salem Township; Everett and Matilda are at home with their parents; Mary J. died when nineteen years of age, and William when fifteen months.  Three died unnamed.

      Mr. Dadisman, in 1858, removed from Kentucky to Illinois, whence, after a residence of fourteen years, he crossed the Mississippi and took up his residence in this county.  He first located in Kechi Township, a few miles north of the city of Wichita, and in the fall of 1883 took possession of his present homestead.  Here he has eighty acres of fertile land under a good state of  cultivation, and from an humble beginning in life has made for himself a name and a position among his fellow citizens.  He is a Democrat, politically, and religiously, with his estimable wife, an active member of the Baptist Church.  He has served as School Director in his district several terms, and socially, is a member in good standing of the A. F. & A. M., belonging to the lodge at Maryville, Ill.  Financially, he has reason to be satisfied with the result of his labors, and his course as a citizen has been such as to commend him to the people among whom he has lived at various times and places.

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