BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES S. TRIPLETT 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KSGENWEB INTERNET GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In keeping with the KSGenWeb policy of providing free information on the Internet, this data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other gain. Copying of the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES S. TRIPLETT Charles S. Triplett was born at Lima (now Howe), La Grange county, Indiana, December 20, 1849. He is the son of Robert Triplett, a native of Virginia, and Emily R. (Kinney) Triplett, a native of Vermont. They settled in La Grange county when Indians were their neighbors. He was educated in the common schools and the printing office. He came from La Grange to Kansas in March, 1870. He first settled in Burlingame, then Marion, Hutchinson, and subsequently in various localities, engaged in printing and publishing of county newspapers. For six years past he has been engaged in the state printing plant in Topeka. He worked at Burlingame for a year and a half on the Chronicle for Hon. M. M. Murdock, and then going to Marion in the summer of 1871, he established the Marion Record. In the fall of 1874, after the grasshopper invasion, he sold the plant to E. W. Hoch and moved to Hutchinson, where he worked on the News. In the fall of 1885 he located at Leoti, Wichita county. Here he established the Wichita County Standard, afterwards changed to the Leoti Standard. He published this paper for eleven years. He was the first justice of the peace in Wichita county, appointed in 1886. He represented Wichita county in the legislature in 1887 and 1889. He was postmaster at Leoti in 1891 and 1892. He was one of the original guards at the Hutchinson Reformatory. In 1897 and 1898 he was a justice of the peace at Herington. While justice of the peace in Wichita county he performed the first marriage ceremony in that county and sentenced the first man to jail from the county. At different times he engaged in editorial work on the Junction City Republican, Manhattan Mercury and Mound City Republic. He has no wife, no children and no near relatives, every member of his family being dead. [included with the article "The End of Coronado", page 442]