Biography of Pleasant Chitwood



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.



submitted by Teresa Lindquist (merope@radix.net); (copyright) 2001 by Teresa Lindquist

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PLEASANT CHITWOOD was born in Macon county, Tennessee, February 22, 1827. He began

his business life as a hotel clerk in Mississippi, and in 1848 emigrated to Boone county, Iowa,

where he became a farmer. He was elected sheriff of Boone county in 1852, and during his term

of office read law, being admitted to the bar in 1856. The next year, 1857, he came to Kansas,

settling in Linn county. Mr. Chitwood was married in Macon county, Tennessee, May 10, 1848,

to Miss Mary Whitley, a native of Smith county, Tennessee.



[included in the article "Paris, Linn County", page 431]