Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Page 1120

 WILLIAM FLOOD, a member of the farming community of Attica Township, is located on section 16, where he follows agriculture and stock-raising, and enjoys a comfortable income. His birthplace was near the city of Rochester, N. Y., the date thereof Oct. 24, 1853, and his parents were John and Anna (Tierney) Flood.

             John Flood was born in England, April 25,1824. The mother was a native of Ireland, and was brought to this country by an elder sister when a little girl. The father of our subject settled first in Canada. He had been a soldier of the British regular army before crossing the Atlantic. Upon leaving the Dominion he took up his abode in New York City, where he was married, and worked a few years for the nursery firm of Ellwanger & Barry, where he learned the secret of successful gardening, and finally purchased a piece of ground near Rochester, where he prosecuted this calling a number of years.

             There were born to the parental household eleven children, three of them in New York City, and one in Iowa, to which place the parents removed when William, our subject, was a mere child. The others were born in Illinois, to which State the family removed in 1858. The eldest, John W., is a grain dealer, and with another brother, James C., is a resident of Goddard: Mary Ann died when three years old; Henry lives in Oregon; Sarah, Mrs. Williams, is a resident of Goddard, and the mother of two children; Emma, Mrs. John McAllister, lives in Garden Plain Township, and has three children; George died, when two years of age; Annie and Maggie are with their parents, who are now residents of Waco Township.

             John Flood came to Kansas in 1873, when William, our subject, was a young man twenty years old. The latter attended school in Wichita when it was a city of about 500 inhabitants, and was considered fully qualified for teaching, although he did not chose to follow this profession. When ready to establish a home of his own: he was married, Oct. 10, 1878, to Miss Temperance McElya, who was born in Massac County, Ill., Dec. 15, 1855. Of this union there were horn three children: Elona E., July 9, 1879; William Roger, March 31, 1881; and Paul, June 4, 1885. The latter died at the age of eighteen months.

             William Flood, in 1874, secured a tract of land on the northeast quarter of section 14, in Attica Township, which he occupied until 1879, then moved to his present farm, which was given to his wife by her father. Here, in addition to general agriculture, he makes a specialty of fine stock, including thoroughbred Holstein and Short-horn cattle, registered animals. He at one time kept registered Poland-China swine, and yet has a pure strain of stock hogs.

             Mr. Flood, politically, is a sound Democrat, although liberal in his ideas, but has steadily declined becoming an office-holder. In religious matters he belongs to the Baptist Church, at Goddard, of which he is Clerk, and is a strong temperance man, warmly interested in the success of the movement.

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