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James Stigenwalt

Birth	:	21 Oct 1845 Fairfield County, Ohio, USA
Death	:	1873
Burial	:	Geneva Cemetery, Geneva, Allen County, USA
Coordinate	:	38.0127983, -95.4811020
Description	:	Name: Jas. A. Stigenwalt Spouse's Name: Minerva R. Hull marriage Date: 14 Feb 1864 Event Place: Anderson Co., Kansas 1870 Geneva, Allen, Kansas, 3 June James Stigenwalt 26 OH Manerva R Stigenwalt 30 OH Ida M Stigenwalt 5 KS William Stigenwalt 4 KS Otas H Stigenwalt 2 Ks Effie L Stigenwalt 3/12 Ks March 1880 Iola, Allen, Kansas Frank Root Self M 53 Lucinda Root Wife F 44 William Root adopted Son M 14 Effie Root Daughter F 10 Source: William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas 1883 Labette Co Kansas MOUND VALLEY TOWNSHIP JOHN... Read More	Name: Jas. A. Stigenwalt Spouse's Name: Minerva R. Hull marriage Date: 14 Feb 1864 Event Place: Anderson Co., Kansas 1870 Geneva, Allen, Kansas, 3 June James Stigenwalt 26 OH Manerva R Stigenwalt 30 OH Ida M Stigenwalt 5 KS William Stigenwalt 4 KS Otas H Stigenwalt 2 Ks Effie L Stigenwalt 3/12 Ks March 1880 Iola, Allen, Kansas Frank Root Self M 53 Lucinda Root Wife F 44 William Root adopted Son M 14 Effie Root Daughter F 10 Source: William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas 1883 Labette Co Kansas MOUND VALLEY TOWNSHIP JOHN M. STIGENWALT, farmer and stock raiser, Section 18, Township 32, Range 18, P. O. Cherry Vale, was born near Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Ohio. February 27, 1836; son of John and Hannah (Jones) Stigenwalt, both natives of Ohio. John M. moved with his parents to Miami County, Ind., when twelve years of age, where he grew to manhood. In 1857 he went to Pleasant Hill, Mo., and remained some eighteen months, and while there opened a restaurant. In 1869 he went to Anderson County, Kan., and engaged in farming, improving 160 acres. He married May 2, 1859, Miss Elizabeth Leisure, born in Darke County, Ohio, February 28, 1831. By this marriage they have three children - Adelia M., Margaret J. and U. Grant; have lost Edwin L. and Franklin E. He enlisted September 8, 1862, in the Second Kansas Battery, organized by Gen. Blair and commanded by Capt. E. A. Smith, of Fort Scott. They did duty between Fort Scott and Fort Smith. He was discharged at Leavenworth, Kan. He then settled in Allen county, Kan., and remained until he came to Labette County in 1867, and located where he now resides. His farm consists of 200 acres improved land; good buildings. Both he and Mrs. S. are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. History of Allen and Woodson Counties, Kansas, 1901 WILLIAM H. ROOT.—Conspicuous among the mechanics who have aided in the material advancement of Iola and who have contributed liberally, in a substantial way, to its development is William H. Root. He knew Iola when it was in its swaddling clothes and as boy and man has followed its careers of adversity and prosperity through village and town and city. He is not a stranger to Kansas for he is one of her own. He was born in Anderson county the second of March, 1866, and has resided in Allen county since 1873. Mr. Root was orphaned in childhood by the death of both father and mother and at the age of seven years he had fallen into the hands of Frank Root, of Geneva, together with a younger sister, Effie. Will and Effie Stigenwalt were adopted by Mr. Root and assumed the latter's name. The Stigenwalt family were of German origin. John Stigenwalt, our subject's grandfather, immigrated to the United States from some point in the German Empire and settled in Pennsylvania. From that state his son James, the father of our subject, together with his brother came westward by degrees to Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and to Kansas, reaching the last named state before the outbreak of the Civil war. John Stigenwalt's sons were James, John, Andrew, Thomas and George, of whom Thomas and Andrew reside near Los Angeles, California. James Stigenwalt was a farmer and died at the age of twenty-eight years in 1870. He married Ruth, a daughter of John Hull, a Welchman, who came to Kansas from Illinois and lies buried at Earlton, Kansas. Mrs. Stigenwalt died almost simultaneously with her husband and left two sons and two daughters, viz: Ida M., wife of William Swiger, of Neosho county, Kansas; William H. Root, our subject; Otis H., who was reared by Bert Hodgson and holds that name, and Effie Root, who died in California December 15, 1891. In the fall of 1876 Frank Root moved with his family to Iola to assume the office of County Superintendent of Schools. From that date our subject's residence in the county seat begins. He was educated in the public schools of the town but quit school at sixteen years of age to take his initial step in business. His uncle Root was one of the partners in the hardware firm of Henderson & Root and Will rather grew up in their tin shop. At seventeen years of age he began regularly to learn the tinner's trade with Jacob Casmire and served his full time of three years. He was in the employ of Ewarts, and Lawyer, in Iola, as tinner and spent two years in Eldorado, Kansas, at the same work. Upon his return to Iola he did the tin work in the hardware store of J. W. Coutant for one year. In 1890 he set up alone and for the past ten years has been engaged in building up of one of the leading businesses in the city. One of the results of his ten years of unremitting labor is the Root business house on south Washington avenue, a two-story brick extending to the alley and having a width of twenty-five feet. The lower floor of this building Mr. Root uses himself as work shop and store for his line of builders' supplies and gas fittings and the like. November 21, 1889, Mr. Root was married to Adda, a daughter of Warren Arnold, one of the pioneers of Allen county. The children of this marriage, surviving, are Florence A., Franklin P., Bernice and Katie Root. Aside from personal considerations Mr. Root has manifested a lively and public-spirited interest in the welfare of Iola. This is demonstrated in his connection with enterprises originated for the public good, by the substantial manner in which he has improved his properties and by his liberal aid and encouragement of whatever tends to the moral and educational advancement of his home and county. A matter with which he is especially concerned and interested is the welfare of the Methodist congregation of Iola. For years has he affiliated with it as a member and his official connection with the body extends over a long period. Mr. Root began his political career with a vote for Benjamin Harrison for president. His early training was from the head of that honest citizen and Christian gentleman, Frank Root, whose Republicanism passed through drouth and pestilence and war and never failed.

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Family Members:

Parent

John M Stigenwalt

(1811 - 1866)

Hannah Jones Stigenwalt

(1808 - 1865)

Spouse

Minerva Ruth Hull Stigenwalt

(1840 - 1873)

Siblings

George W Stigenwalt

(1838 - 1866)

Andrew J Stigenwalt

(1839 - 1882)

Andrew J. Stigenwalt

(1839 - 1913)

Caroline Stigenwalt McQuigg

(1843 - 1868)

Sarah Ellen Stigenwalt Black

(1848 - 1873)

Children

(unknow - unknow)

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Coordinate: 38.0127983, -95.4811020

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Coordinate: 38.0652700, -95.3634000

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Coordinate: 37.9237930, -95.4009080

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Coordinate: 38.0093994, -95.3328018

18. Veteto Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.0895100, -95.6123000

19. Saint Johns Catholic Cemetery
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Coordinate: 37.9317017, -95.3371964

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Coordinate: 38.0819016, -95.6455994

23. Stoeltzing Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.1208000, -95.6097031

24. Altamont Cemetery
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