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Title: History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas, past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bentley, Orsemus Hills Cooper, C. F., & Company, Chicago, pub
Subjects: Wichita (Kan.) -- History Sedgwick County (Kan.) -- History
Publisher: Chicago, C. F. Cooper & Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ec-retary and treasurer. Mr. Cone has been a city commissionersince April, 1909, and is a member of the committee on financeand revenue. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member ofthe Shrine, a charter member of lodge No. 22, Ancient OrderUnited Workmen, and a charter member of the local lodge ofElks. Mr. Cone was married on August 26, 1878, to Miss EllaCenter, of Chantlerville, Illinois. Of this union three childrenhave been born, viz.: Sylvia, wife of Frank Garrety, of Wichita;Edwin and Walter Otis Cone. In 1909 Mr. Cone, with his family,made a trip around the world. P. J. Conklin, of Wichita, Kansas, is one of the men who havehelped to build up Kansas by loaning its citizens money. Mr.Conklin was born at Dayton, Ohio, January 2, 1854. His parentswere Joseph O. Conklin and Julia (Hunt) Conklin. The earlyeducation of the boy was obtained at Champaign, Illinois. Afterleaving school he obtained employment with the Gazette atChampaign. Mr. Conklin came to Wichita in 1893, and it was
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RODOLPH HATFIELD. BIOGRAPHY 749 one of the leanest of the lean years in Wichita and the West.He has been here ever since. In 1907 he organized the P. J.Conklin Loan Company, and while this is in no way connectedwith the old Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Company, it is a sort ofaftermath. The P. J. Conklin Company is capitalized at $50,000,with P. J. Conklin as president, R. L. Holmes vice-president andA. O. Conklin secretary and treasurer. It does an annual busi-ness of from $800,000 to $1,000,000, and now has outstanding onits books over $3,000,000 on long-time farm loans principally.The company does no chattel business, and it is a trust repositoryfor large sums of local money and pays especial attention to thisfeature. The operations of the company cover scores of thicklysettled and prosperous Kansas counties, and while local depositsare only a minor part of their resources, it desires in a largemeasure to make local idle funds remunerative by placing themconservatively on long-time loan

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