Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 446 - 449

DR. HARVEY W. BLACK, proprietor of the Riverside Feed and Sale Stables at No. 414 West Douglas avenue, Wichita, as a man of excellent business capacity has made a decided success of his present undertaking. He has had a varied experience in life, having been reared to farm pursuits, later studying medicine, and has been quite an extensive traveler, taking in most of the Western States and Territories. In 1870 he came to Wichita, established his present business and also speculated considerably in lands thereafter.

       The property of our subject comprises two very fine, large livery stables with stockyards and the Riverside Hotel, besides business houses and city lots. He put up the first stable for stock in the city of Cheyenne, Wyo., during one of his Western trips, and has had ample experience in the ranch business. During the years 1862 and 1868 he freighted from the Missouri River to the Western Territories with mules, from the proceeds of which he realized a handsome sum of money. His energy and industry are proverbial, and in the possession of a fine property he has but that to which he is justly entitled.

       Jefferson County, Ky., was the early home of our subject, where his birth took place on the 1st of April, 1838. He is the son of, George W. and Sarah L. (Bounds) Black, natives respectively of Virginia and Ohio. His father was a practicing physician and farmer combined, and accumulated a fine property. He was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and removing to Kentucky about 1864, spent his last days in McCracken County, of that State, where his death took place in 1868. The mother of our subject was born in 1811, and was married to George W. Black in 1831, when twenty years of age. She is still living and a resident of Wichita. The following is a record of their children: Mary is the wife of S. Daily, of this State; William died when about twenty years old; Harvey W. was the third child; Naoma is the wife of Nelson Colburn, of Cincinnati, Ohio; George W. is deceased; Alonzo H. is a resident of Reno County, this State; Minerva married a Mr. Bureh, and is now deceased; Sarah, Mrs. Coffman, lives in Tennessee; Jane died when about eight years old.

       Dr. Black when twenty-eight years of age was united in marriage with Miss Corietta Pearson, the wedding taking place in September, 1867. Mrs. Black was born May 31, 1849, in Galveston, Tex., and is the daughter of Alex and Mardonia (Ferguson) Pearson the father a native of Albany, N. Y., and the mother, a full-blooded Castilian, was born in Chihauhua, Mex. The three children of the parental family were: Marietta T., who married Oliver T. Tipkin; Francis, a Captain on the Red River, and Minerva, Mrs. Black. The father, who also follows river navigation, is now a Captain on the Rio Grande, Red and Mississippi Rivers. He and his son are members of the I. O. O. F. The mother is living, and during the absence of her husband and son makes her home in Galveston, Tex. The Doctor and Mrs. Black have no children. Our subject was reared, politically, in the Democratic faith, to which he still loyally adheres.

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