Dickinson Co., KS AHGP-Portrait and
Biographical Album of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and
Marion Counties-Abraham Lesher
Portrait and Biographical
Album of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and Marion
Counties
Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1893
ABRAHAM LESHER, who is engaged in
general farming on section 7, Grant
Township, Dickinson County, claims
Maryland as the State of his nativity.
He was born near Clear Springs, Washington
County, eleven miles from Hagerstown, on the
13th of April, 1834, and is a son of Isaac and
Nancy (Martin) Lesher, both of whom were natives
of Pennsylvania. The father was a farmer
and followed that occupation during the greater
part of his life.
The subject of this sketch spent the days of his
boyhood and youth upon the home farm in Maryland
until his father's death, after which he settled
up the estate. He is the eldest in a family of
eight children, seven of whom are yet living, and
thus this duty devolved upon him. He remained
in the State of his nativity until thirty years of
age, residing on a farm adjoining the old homestead
after his marriage. At the age of twenty seven
he was joined in wedlock with Miss Ann
Elizabeth Tice, their union being celebrated on
Christmas Day of 1860. The lady was also born
in Washington County, Md., the date being December
30, 1841.
Mr. Lesher continued to reside in Maryland until
1864, when he bade good-bye to his native
State and removed to Fulton County, Pa., where
he resided for three years engaged in general
farming. In 1867 he became a resident of Franklin
County, Pa., where he made his home for a
period of fourteen years, and the year 1881 witnessed
his arrival in Kansas. He came direct to
Dickinson County and purchased his present farm,
which is pleasantly situated three miles northwest
of Abilene, which is his post-office. It contains
one hundred and sixty acres of land, which is now
under a high state of cultivation. He carries on
general farming and wheat is the principal crop
raised. He has been successful in his undertakings
through life, and now has a comfortable competence
as the result of his own industrious efforts.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Lesher have been born the
following children: William Luther, who is a resident
of Talmage, Kan., graduated from a business
college and is now engaged in teaching; John
Tice aids in the operation of the home farm; Samuel
Martin, who engaged in teaching for three
years, graduated from Midland College in the Class
of '92, and will enter upon the work of the ministry;
Carrie Virginia is the wife of E. R. Pierson,
a liveryman and horse dealer of Norwich, Conn.;
Anna Amelia successfully taught for four years in
the country and Abilene public schools, from which
latter she was graduated in the Class of '87; Abraham
Alvie is now in Neota, Kan.; May Lillian,
who graduated from the Abilene High School in
1890, has been engaged in teaching for two years;
Bertha May, Nancy Grace, Charles Frederick and
Alice Elizabeth are still under the parental roof.
The Lesher family is one of which the parents
may well be proud. The intelligence of the children
and their careful training along educational
lines have made them excellent teachers, and several
of the family have already successfully followed
that profession, winning the commendation of
many. The Lesher household is the abode of
hospitality, and all of the family rank high in social
circles.
(c) 2009 Sheryl McClure for
Dickinson County KS AHGP