Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 344 - 345

ROBERT F. HAUGHEY, a valued and esteemed agriculturist of Salem Township, has his residence upon section 9, where he has a farm of eighty acres of most superior land, which is under excellent culture and well improved. The buildings upon his place are of a neat and substantial character, and betoken thrift and prosperity. He is meeting with a merited success in his farming operations, and bids fair to achieve an easy competence, so that in his declining years he may rest peacefully from the cares of life.

     The birth of Mr. Haughey took place Feb. 27, 1853, in Williams County, Ohio, at the home of his parents, Jacob and Margaret (Cassel) Haughey, who are now residents of this county, and of whom a sketch is given elsewhere in the pages of this Album. In 1878 the subject of this memoir came with his parents to Kansas, and settled in Sedgwick County, where he has made his home ever since. In his youth he attended the district schools of his native State, from which he drew the elements of a liberal education. He remained beneath the parental roof, surrounded by all the tender influences of that home, until his marriage, which occurred Dec. 28, 1876. On that day he and Miss Mollie Brandon became man and wife, and joined their fortunes for better or for worse. The bride, who was a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, was born Sept. 4, 1855, and is the daughter of Francis and Ann (Cunningham) Brandon. Her parents are living at present in Williams County, Ohio, and are both natives of Ireland. They had a family of nine children, seven of whom still survive. Their names are as follows: Hugh, living in Williams County, Ohio; Thomas, in the same State; George, a resident of Hillsdale County, Mich.; Mollie, the wife of our subject; Alexander, who is living in Williams County, Ohio; Eliza, the wife of Blinn Peck, who makes her home in the Buckeye State; and Maggie, also living in Williams County, Ohio.

     The domestic fireside of Mr. and Mrs. Haughey has been brightened by the advent of two lovely children: Reno B., who was born April 11, 1881; and Orilla, whose birth took place July 20, 1887. Both the subject of this sketch and his estimable wife are esteemed and valuable members of the community, and possess the entire confidence and regard of their neighbors. Success has waited upon the labors of this gentleman in all his efforts, and the general verdict is that he has deserved it. Labor and perseverance, coupled with economy and frugality, are bound to win in the long run, and he and his wife possess these virtues to a large extent.

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