Atchison County Biographies
E. W. Howe's Historical Edition of the Atchison Daily Globe
These biographies were originally published in 1896 in the Atchison Daily Globe, written by the editor and publisher, E. W. Howe. In 1916 the biographies were reproduced in Sheffield Ingall's "History of Atchison County, Kansas," with a few updates such as death information.
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CLEM ROHR.
Clem Rohr came originally from Buffalo, N. Y., where he was born in
1835. He learned the trade of harness maker there, and afterwards worked
at his trade at Chicago, Detroit and Moline, Ill. In Davenport, Iowa, he
heard Jim Lane make a speech about Kansas. This speech caused Rohr to
go to Leavenworth in 1856, and while living in that town and employed as
mail carrier he ran into the famous battle of Hickory Point. He slept in
Hickory Point the night after the fight and helped fix up the wounded. He
walked to Atchison in 1857 from Leavenworth, with Nick Greiner, for many
years a prosperous German farmer, south of Atchison, and started a harness
shop, which he conducted in the same place on the south side of Commercial
street, between Fourth and Fifth streets, for over forty years.
The first telegram that came to Atchison announcing that Kansas had
been admitted was sent to Clem Rohr, and was signed by S. C. Pomeroy.
He served as mayor of Atchison. Early in the sixties when the home guard
was organized in Atchison Clem Rohr was made captain. His father was
one of Napoleon Bonaparte's body-guard, and was with that great soldier at
Austerlitz in the Russian campaign, and at the battle of Waterloo. Mr. Rohr
always claimed that Julius Newman, who had a farm near the Soldiers' Home,
made the first filing in the Lecompton land office.
Mr. Rohr died in Atchison on the twenty-third day of May, 1910.
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