I. B. WILCOX DEAD
Pioneer Kansan and Well-Known Politician Passses Away Near Atchison---His Wealthy Estimated at $300,000 Atchison, Kan., May 5 - I. B. Wilcox, aged 66, fusion representative in the legislature from the country district of Atchison county died unexpectedly last night at his home near Muscotah. Wilcox owned valuable property in Kansas City, Mo., and many farms in Kansas. His wealth is estimated at $300,000. He has been prominent in Kansas since in 1863. He made the original government surveys of much of the land in western Kansas and surveyed for the Central Branch in northern Kansas and for the Kansas Pacific from Leavenworth to Lawrence.
(Emporia Gazette ~ Saturday ~ May 5, 1900)
ISAAC B. WILCOX, farmer, was born in Delaware
County, N. Y., Town of Harpersfield, April 11, 1834. He is the son of Alonzo B. and Hannah Wilcox, the former of English descent and the latter, whose maiden name was Swift, of Holland Dutch. They were engaged in farming in that State, and Isaac B. spent some of his time on the farm with them, and the rest was devoted to acquiring an education. He graduated from the State Normal School at Albany in 1854, and later took a course to fit himself for civil engineering. He then taught school until 1856, when he came West to Minnesota, where he followed surveying until 1860. At that time he removed to Missouri and was Chief Engineer in the survey of the Parkville and Grand River, R. R. Removed to Leavenworth, Kan., in 1863, and for some time was employed in the survey of the Kansas Pacific R. R., from that place to Lawrence under the supervision of John C. Fremont and Samuel Hallett. After this he took charge of twenty-eight miles of the Central Branch of the Missouri Pacific R. R., and later took contracts from the Government for the survey of lands in the western portion of the State of Kansas. Since 1867 he has made his home at Muscotah, and in the meantime has made large investments in real estate. He now owns land in Grasshopper and Kapioma Townships, all of which is under improvement. Mr. Wilcox's wife was formerly Miss Nannie J. Mooney, of West Virginia, whom he married at Plattsburgh, Mo., in 1865. He is a member of Muscotah Lodge, No. 164, of the A., F. & A. M.
Pioneer Kansan and Well-Known Politician Passses Away Near Atchison---His Wealthy Estimated at $300,000 Atchison, Kan., May 5 - I. B. Wilcox, aged 66, fusion representative in the legislature from the country district of Atchison county died unexpectedly last night at his home near Muscotah. Wilcox owned valuable property in Kansas City, Mo., and many farms in Kansas. His wealth is estimated at $300,000. He has been prominent in Kansas since in 1863. He made the original government surveys of much of the land in western Kansas and surveyed for the Central Branch in northern Kansas and for the Kansas Pacific from Leavenworth to Lawrence.
(Emporia Gazette ~ Saturday ~ May 5, 1900)
ISAAC B. WILCOX, farmer, was born in Delaware
County, N. Y., Town of Harpersfield, April 11, 1834. He is the son of Alonzo B. and Hannah Wilcox, the former of English descent and the latter, whose maiden name was Swift, of Holland Dutch. They were engaged in farming in that State, and Isaac B. spent some of his time on the farm with them, and the rest was devoted to acquiring an education. He graduated from the State Normal School at Albany in 1854, and later took a course to fit himself for civil engineering. He then taught school until 1856, when he came West to Minnesota, where he followed surveying until 1860. At that time he removed to Missouri and was Chief Engineer in the survey of the Parkville and Grand River, R. R. Removed to Leavenworth, Kan., in 1863, and for some time was employed in the survey of the Kansas Pacific R. R., from that place to Lawrence under the supervision of John C. Fremont and Samuel Hallett. After this he took charge of twenty-eight miles of the Central Branch of the Missouri Pacific R. R., and later took contracts from the Government for the survey of lands in the western portion of the State of Kansas. Since 1867 he has made his home at Muscotah, and in the meantime has made large investments in real estate. He now owns land in Grasshopper and Kapioma Townships, all of which is under improvement. Mr. Wilcox's wife was formerly Miss Nannie J. Mooney, of West Virginia, whom he married at Plattsburgh, Mo., in 1865. He is a member of Muscotah Lodge, No. 164, of the A., F. & A. M.
I. B. WILCOX DEAD
Pioneer Kansan and Well-Known Politician Passses Away Near Atchison---His Wealthy Estimated at $300,000 Atchison, Kan., May 5 - I. B. Wilcox, aged 66, fusion representative in the legislature from the country district of Atchison county died unexpectedly last night at his home near Muscotah. Wilcox owned valuable property in Kansas City, Mo., and many farms in Kansas. His wealth is estimated at $300,000. He has been prominent in Kansas since in 1863. He made the original government surveys of much of the land in western Kansas and surveyed for the Central Branch in northern Kansas and for the Kansas Pacific from Leavenworth to Lawrence.
(Emporia Gazette ~ Saturday ~ May 5, 1900)
ISAAC B. WILCOX, farmer, was born in Delaware
County, N. Y., Town of Harpersfield, April 11, 1834. He is the son of Alonzo B. and Hannah Wilcox, the former of English descent and the latter, whose maiden name was Swift, of Holland Dutch. They were engaged in farming in that State, and Isaac B. spent some of his time on the farm with them, and the rest was devoted to acquiring an education. He graduated from the State Normal School at Albany in 1854, and later took a course to fit himself for civil engineering. He then taught school until 1856, when he came West to Minnesota, where he followed surveying until 1860. At that time he removed to Missouri and was Chief Engineer in the survey of the Parkville and Grand River, R. R. Removed to Leavenworth, Kan., in 1863, and for some time was employed in the survey of the Kansas Pacific R. R., from that place to Lawrence under the supervision of John C. Fremont and Samuel Hallett. After this he took charge of twenty-eight miles of the Central Branch of the Missouri Pacific R. R., and later took contracts from the Government for the survey of lands in the western portion of the State of Kansas. Since 1867 he has made his home at Muscotah, and in the meantime has made large investments in real estate. He now owns land in Grasshopper and Kapioma Townships, all of which is under improvement. Mr. Wilcox's wife was formerly Miss Nannie J. Mooney, of West Virginia, whom he married at Plattsburgh, Mo., in 1865. He is a member of Muscotah Lodge, No. 164, of the A., F. & A. M.
Pioneer Kansan and Well-Known Politician Passses Away Near Atchison---His Wealthy Estimated at $300,000 Atchison, Kan., May 5 - I. B. Wilcox, aged 66, fusion representative in the legislature from the country district of Atchison county died unexpectedly last night at his home near Muscotah. Wilcox owned valuable property in Kansas City, Mo., and many farms in Kansas. His wealth is estimated at $300,000. He has been prominent in Kansas since in 1863. He made the original government surveys of much of the land in western Kansas and surveyed for the Central Branch in northern Kansas and for the Kansas Pacific from Leavenworth to Lawrence.
(Emporia Gazette ~ Saturday ~ May 5, 1900)
ISAAC B. WILCOX, farmer, was born in Delaware
County, N. Y., Town of Harpersfield, April 11, 1834. He is the son of Alonzo B. and Hannah Wilcox, the former of English descent and the latter, whose maiden name was Swift, of Holland Dutch. They were engaged in farming in that State, and Isaac B. spent some of his time on the farm with them, and the rest was devoted to acquiring an education. He graduated from the State Normal School at Albany in 1854, and later took a course to fit himself for civil engineering. He then taught school until 1856, when he came West to Minnesota, where he followed surveying until 1860. At that time he removed to Missouri and was Chief Engineer in the survey of the Parkville and Grand River, R. R. Removed to Leavenworth, Kan., in 1863, and for some time was employed in the survey of the Kansas Pacific R. R., from that place to Lawrence under the supervision of John C. Fremont and Samuel Hallett. After this he took charge of twenty-eight miles of the Central Branch of the Missouri Pacific R. R., and later took contracts from the Government for the survey of lands in the western portion of the State of Kansas. Since 1867 he has made his home at Muscotah, and in the meantime has made large investments in real estate. He now owns land in Grasshopper and Kapioma Townships, all of which is under improvement. Mr. Wilcox's wife was formerly Miss Nannie J. Mooney, of West Virginia, whom he married at Plattsburgh, Mo., in 1865. He is a member of Muscotah Lodge, No. 164, of the A., F. & A. M.
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