S. S. RICHMOND, book-keeper in the Caldwell Savings' Bank, is a native of Ohio and was born in 1841, reared in the agricultural profession, receiving and academic education. When twenty years of age he joined the army, One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company G, for three years, after which he was two years on a farm in Tennessee. He was next book-keeping in Philadelphia one year. In 1868 he immigrated to Ottawa, Franklin Co., Kan., where he engaged in the lumber business. He was next in Oswego, Labette County, in the lumber business, two years. In 1871, came to Sumner County where he ran a portable saw-mill ten years, and in the meantime was doing some farming and speculating in real estate and improved three or four farms. In 1881 and 1882 was engaged in the loan, real estate and insurance business in Caldwell. In 1882 he accepted the position of book-keeper in the Caldwell Savings' Bank, which position he holds in connection with his real estate and other business. In the fall of 1881 he was appointed by the officers and creditors of the Merchants' and Drovers' Bank as trustee, to settle the business of the bank. In 1872 he assisted in organizing a company to build a bridge across the Arkansas River at Oxford, in which he was stockholder and one of the directors. He is a stockholder in the Caldwell Savings' Bank and assisted in organizing the same. He built residence and business house in Oxford, in 1871; built a residence in Wellington; built a residence in Caldwell and built three residences on farms. He is a member of the order of Freemasons and is a charter member of the Oxford Lodge. He assisted in organizing Upton Post, No. 27, G. A. R., in 1881. Mr. Richmond was married to Miss Charlotte L. Deming, of Illinois, in 1876, by whom he has one child, Alva. Mr. Richmond owns a fine farm of 180 acres on Bluff Creek, all under cultivation.