Sumner County Biographies
"Portrait and Biographical Album of Sumner County"
Chapman Bros., Chicago, 1890
WILKES E. BOZMAN. The mercantile interests of Argonia find a worthy representative in the person of the subject of this
notice, who established himself in business at this
place in 1886, and is enjoying a fair share of patronage. He has seen considerable of the great
West, going when a young man of twenty years to
California, by the way of the Isthmus of Panama,
and was engaged at mining in the Golden State for
a period of nine years, being fairly successful. He
has been a keen observer, although quiet and self-contained, and possesses a good fund of general
information, being a man with whom an hour may
always be spent in a pleasant and profitable manner.
He is held in high esteem in his community, both
as a man and a citizen.
A native of Morgan County, Ohio, Mr. Bozman
was born August 8, 1831, and there grew to man's
estate, acquiring such education as was to be obtained in the common school. After his sojourn on
the Pacific Slope, he returned, in 1860, to his native
State, and settling in Muskingum County, engaged
in farming and stock-raising for about twenty-one
years, coming then to Kansas. In the meantime,
in 1864, he assumed domestic relations, being married in January, that year, to Miss Asenath, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Hiatt, the latter being
natives of Virginia. Mrs. Hiatt departed this life
at her home in Ohio many years ago. The father
of Mrs. Bozman came to Kansas, and is now residing on a farm in Reno County.
Of his first marriage there were born five children, only three of
whom are living. Mrs. Bozman was born in Ohio,
in January, 1833, to which State the family had removed about 1828-29.
Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs.
Bozman, the eldest of whom a daughter, Frances,
is the wife of Dr. J. S. Baughman, of Argonia, and
they have two children; Edward married Miss Bertha Hall, and they are living in Argonia; John
Wilkes married Miss Nettie Hettrick; neither of
these have children; William T. is unmarried, and
makes his home with his parents, being a telegraph
operator for the Santa Fe Railroad. Mrs. Bozman
and her daughter are prominently connected with
the Presbyterian Church.
While a resident of Ohio, Mr. Bozman served
as a Justice of the Peace for the long period of
eighteen years in succession. He was also a member of the School Board therefor twenty-one years.
A stanch Democrat and active in local politics, he
was as at one time made the candidate of his party
for the legislature, but was defeated with the balance of the ticket. His people were the old-line
Whigs, with southern proclivities, and later identified themselves with the Democratic party.
The father of our subject was John Bozman, a native of Ohio, who, during the years of bis active
life, was engaged as a stock dealer and grazier. He
was first married in his native State to Miss Eliza
Brady, a native of Virginia, and they settled in Morgan County, where the mother of our subject died
in 1845, when Wilkes E. was a lad of fourteen. The
elder Bozman was subsequently married to Jane
Glass, and is now deceased, aged eight-five years
old. His wife is also deceased. Of the first marriage there were born four children, all of whom
are living. The paternal grandfather was Wilkes
Bozman, a native of Baltimore County, Md., and
who removed to Ohio in 1808. He served during
the War of 1812, and assisted at the bombardment
of Ft. Henry. A prominent and successful man,
he became an extensive farmer, leaving at his death
two thousand acres of land in Morgan County,
Ohio.
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