Biography of Otto Philip Byers



Excerpted from "Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1911-1912", Edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary. 

Vol XII., State Printing Office, Topeka, Kansas 1912.



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OTTO PHILIP BYERS was born at Tampico, Howard county, Indiana, May 2, 1863, the son of Jasper J. Byers, M. D. and Sarah E. 

Byers. He was educated in the high school at Russiaville, Ind. Before coming to Kansas he lived at Kokomo, Ind. He located 

in Kansas August 31, 1878, and has lived at Brookville, McPherson, Carbondale, Detroit, Wamego, St. Marys, Solomon, Abilene 

and Hutchinson, in various railroad capacities on the Union Pacific, Rock Island and Hutchinson & Southern. He has been a 

telegraph operator, station agent, train dispatcher, train master and superintendent. He was with the Union Pacific from 

September 10, 1878, until July 23, 1887, when he became connected with the Rock Island. December 15, 1905, he resigned to 

become general agent of the Dawson Fuel Company, of Dawson, N. M., for Kansas and Colorado. He is also interested in the 

Kansas Flour Mills Company and in the Pratt Light and Ice Company. January 8, 1885, he was married to Mary Rowe, at 

Solomon. They have a son and daughter. Their home is in Hutchinson.



(Included with the article, "Personal Recollections of the Terrible Blizzard of 1886", page 99)