Anderson County Biographies
"Portrait and Biographical Record of Southeastern Kansas"
Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1894
EDWARD STEIN. The business opportunities in this country are great, and are
open to all, whether native or foreign born,
and all a young man needs to do is to determine
what his natural gifts, taste and capacity will enable him to successfully grasp and prepare himself
for, and when this is determined, to industriously
persevere in his vocation, observing honorable
methods in all relations. If this is done, success, the aim and object of all, will be the reward.
Such a narrative of success is afforded in the life
of Edward Stein, and is a lesson from which others
can profit. In Lehigh County, of the Keystone
State, was born April 29, 1842, a boy who grew
up to sturdy manhood ambitious to excel in the
pursuit of his choice. His father, John Stein,
died about the year 1846, and his mother, who
was known in her maidenhood as Mary Klingamon, died in 1851. Early in life Edward was
thrown on his own resources, and as his parents
had moved to Pickaway County, Ohio, when he
was but three years old, he had been reared to
the life of a farmer, consequently receiving very
little schooling. After his parents both died, he
farmed until he was twenty years of age. At that
time the Civil War broke out, and, with a patriotic
desire to serve his country, he enlisted in Company F, Forty-third
Ohio Infantry, in 1861. During his three years of service he was a drummer,
and was in the battles of Island No. 10, Corinth
and Iuka, and was also with General Sherman in
his Atlanta Campaign. He was mustered out of
service in 1864, at Savannah, Ga.
After his war experiences, Mr. Stein returned
home to Pickaway County, and again engaged in
farming for two years, and then removed to Anderson County in the fall of 1868. He settled in
Lincoln Township, on the section where he now
resides,and at once began clearing and cultivating
the land. Since that time he has so skillfully
managed as to increase his estate both in dimensions and value, and is now the possessor of a
quarter-section of fine farming land. Gentle and
unobtrusive, Mr. Stein accords to every man the
light to his opinions, and his dealings with his
fellow-citizens have always been of an honest and
upright character.
Our subject's marriage united him with Miss
Kate F. Morgan, who is a native of Pickaway
County, where she was born July 31, 1844. Their
marriage occurred in that county, October 12,
1865, and has resulted in the birth of seven
living children, as follows: George E., who married Miss Maud Ridgeway; Harley, Edmund S.,
Rosa M., Charles M., Ray A. and Hattie B. William is deceased. Mrs. Stein's parents, Samuel D.
and Electa (Sabine) Morgan, came to Anderson
County in the latter part of the '70s, where the
former died November 1, 1890, and the latter
passed to her final rest April 8, 1888. Both were
highly respected in the neighborhood in which
they resided, and were sadly missed when death
called them from this life to the one beyond.
Mr. Stein has always taken an active interest in
the public issues of the day, and he has held some
township offices, having been elected Trustee for
two terms, and at one time was a candidate for
County Treasurer, but was defeated by seventeen
votes. Politically he is a Democrat. He is a
member of Kilpatrick Post No. 180, and is highly
connected with the Grand Army of the Republic
and the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Stein is a public-spirited man, and is ever ready to do all that lies
within his power toward the advancement of his
community.
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