Joel Hamor (biography)

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

JOEL HAMOR, farmer, P.O. Longton, was born in Delaware County, Penn., in 1806, but was raised in Chester County. In 1826, he went to Philadelphia and took a mathematical course at the B. C. Tucker Academy, going from there to Lancaster County; while there, he was engaged in teaching for three years.  In 1840, he located in Blair County, and was Professor of mathematics in the Evansburg Academy for one year.  In 1850, he emigrated to Iowa and engaged in farming, near Davenport.  In 1873 he emigrated to Kansas and bought a large farm on the Elk River bottoms, on Sections 8 and 17, Township 31, Range 12, and engaged in farming and stock-raising. The place had about thirty acres of very fine timber, and is one of the best places in the county.  He has 206 acres, with 100 acres under cultivation, which produce from sixty to eighty bushels per acre. He has a fine orchard which yields from 500 to 600 bushels of apples per annum, and a variety of other fruits, and raises the largest pears in the county, also raises from forty to fifty head of cattle and sixty to seventy head of hogs per annum.  Although nearly seventy-eight years of age, Mr. Hamor is hale and hearty, and oversees and manages his farm as well as a younger man.  He was married in 1843, to Miss Youngling, a native of Pennsylvania.  Their children are Flavia, Mary A., Thomas L., Finetta, Martha, Edward R., Adella, and Olive.

Note:  I have questions about the valiidity of this bio, and I have no way of proving or disproving some of the statements given.