Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Page 581 

THOMAS W. FLESHMAN, Treasurer of Salem Township, is also in connection with farming successfully engaged as a stock-dealer, in partnership with J. W. Starr. He is numbered among the active business men who are contributing so much to the reputation of Salem Township as a desirable place of residence, both in a social and financial point of view. A native of the Old Dominion, Mr. F. was born in Bedford County, on the 10th of August, 1855, and is consequently now in the thirty-third year of his age. He has already attained a good start in life, and having been endowed by nature with energy and good judgment has a fair prospect for the future.

            Of William H. Fleshman, the father of our subject, a sketch appears on another page in this ALBUM. The family came to Kansas in 1869, and the father pre-empted a quarter-section of land in Sumner County, but later moved to this county, within whose limits he has since resided. Thomas W. has been familiar with farm pursuits since his earliest recollection, and received his education in the district school. His life during his stay in Virginia was spent in a comparatively uneventful manner, and he had attained his fourteenth year when he first looked upon the Father of Waters, and crossing it, took up his abode in this county, where he has since remained.

            Our subject upon reaching the twenty-fourth year of his age, was married, in Salem Township, to Miss Ella N. Culter, who was born in Marshall County, Ill., March 27, 1861, and became the wife of Mr. Fleshman on the 18th of December, 1879. Mrs. F. is the daughter of Robert C. and Mary J. Culter, who were natives of Illinois, and are now residents of Los Angeles County, Cal. They left Illinois in 1871, and coming to this county located on section 3, in Salem Township; the father preempted 160 acres of land, and with his family lived here until in July, 1887. In that month he departed for the Pacific Slope. Mr. C. was prominent in township affairs while a resident of this county, serving several terms as Justice of the Peace, and holding various minor offices.

             To our subject and his wife there have been born three children, namely: Metta A., born Oct. 30, 1880; Daisy N., Nov. 3, 1882; and Frederick, March 8, 1885. Mr. Fleshman, politically, is a stanch Democrat, and was elected to his present office in November, 1887, for a term of two years. He enjoys in a marked degree the confidence of his fellow-citizens, and with his amiable lady is a member in good standing of the Baptist Church.

            Mrs. Fleshman comes of excellent Scotch ancestry, and is one of the three living children yet spared to her parents. Her brother, Horace M., lives in this county, while Alice G. still makes her home with her parents, and is single.

            A lithographic view is shown in this connection of Mr. Fleshman's residence.

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