Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 1114 - 1115

 JOHN R. SENTER, of Clearwater, was born in Grayson County, Va., July 20, 1849. His parents, Nathaniel M. and Margaret Senter, were also natives of the Old Dominion. His ancestors on both sides of the house were from Scotland. His paternal grandfather, Drury Senter, was a soldier in the War of 1812. Our subject spent his boyhood in Virginia, remaining there until the spring of 1867. He then came to Johnson County, this State, and from there in the spring of 1868 to Clearwater, where he has since resided.

            Mr. Senter was one of the pioneer settlers of Johnson County, and there found the lady whom he afterward made his wife, namely, Miss Charity Grinsley, who was a native of one of the Carolinas, and a daughter of Lowry and Katie Grinsley, now deceased. Of this union there have been born six children, namely: Andrew T.; Charles, deceased; Mattie M., Samuel B., Clay R. and Frederick.

             Mr. Senter has been quite prominent in local affairs since coming to this county, and in the spring of 1887 was elected Police Judge of Clearwater for a term of one year. He is an intelligent and industrious citizen, in favor of everything calculated to improve the county and elevate society. He has a comfortable home and owns considerable town property in Clearwater, besides his farm of eighty acres in Johnson County. His principal business is the breeding of fine horses and mules, and he takes pride in the fact that he has some of the choicest animals in this part of the State. At the head of his stables is the pure-bred stallion, Arabian Tom, a very fine and valuable animal.

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