Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 1030 - 1033 

WILLIS E. HAUGHEY, who is favorably known among the citizens of Salem Township as an intelligent farmer and a musician of more than ordinary talent, is a native of Williams County, Ohio, and occupies a comfortable homestead on section 6. He was born on the 23d of May, 1858, and is the son of Jacob and Margaret (Cassil) Haughey, of whom a sketch will be found on another page in this work. The family came to this county in the spring of 1878, where they have since resided, and are recognized as among the intelligent men of their community.

            Our subject received an excellent education in his youth and followed teaching for a time after leaving school. He left his native State a single man, and after reaching the twenty-fifth year of his age, was married in Jonesville, Hillsdale Co., Mich., July 31, 1883, to Miss Clara E., daughter of Calvin and Ellen (Troutner) Heath, who are residents of Cumberland County, Tenn.

            Mrs. Haughey was born Feb. 10, 1860, in Allen County, Ind. She was the youngest of her parents' three children, her elder sister being Meda, the wife of Stillman E. Johnson, of Wichita, her brother being the late James Monroe Heath, of Muskegon, Mich. When a child three years of age, the parents of Mrs. H. removed to Steuben County, Ind., where she was reared and educated. Our subject and his wife have one child only, a son, Harry G., who was born Aug. 8, 1884. Their homestead comprises eighty acres of good land, where Mr. Haughey is carrying on general farming successfully and enjoys the confidence and esteem of his neighbors. Politically, he is a Republican with Prohibition tendencies.

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