Hon. S.B. Mahuron (Biography)

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Taken from History of the State of Kansas, by William G. Cutler

HON. S.B. MAHURON, farmer, P.O. Howard, was born in Grayson County, Ky., in 1830, but was brought up in Illinois, where he remained until 1855, thence went to Texas, and in 1857 came to Kansas, locating in Bourbon County, and was there during the border ruffian troubles, and as there were no railroads in Kansas, had to go to Sedalia, Mo., a distance of 150 miles, for supplies.  In 1860, he was elected to the first State Legislature, and was in the State Militia during the war.  In 1864, he located in Franklin County and remained untill 1869, when he came to Howard County, was among the early settlers and located on Section 18, Town 29, Range 11, on Snake Creek, the nearest post office was twenty-two miles, and sixty miles to a trading post.  The subject of this sketch has a choice of 280 acres , all fenced, 150 acres under cultivation, good stone house, stone barn, and has planted a fine orchard, has about twenty acres of timber, with plenty of running water, makes a desirable place for stock-raising, which he is at present engaged in.  In 1850, he married to Miss McCarty, of Richland County, Ill.  They have eight children--Albert G., Thomas J., P.A., M. F., Eva C., Mary E., Steven A., and Eliza A.