J.C. Bonebrake (Biography)

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

J.C. BONEBRAKE, farmer, P.O. Oak Valley, was born in Preble County, Ohio, in 1828, but was brought up in Fountain County, Ind.  In 1847, he went to Warren County, then engaged in farming inTippecanoe county for the next five years, then engaged in railroading on the C. B. & Q Railroad in Illinois.  In 1862, enlisted in the Twentieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of the war.  Was wounded at Pittsburgh, in June 1864, and again in Virginia, in 1865.  After leaving the army he remained in Tippecanoe County until 1871, when he emigrated to Kansas, locating in Howard County, and bought a farm on Section 20, Township 31, Range 11, which was on the Elk River, well timbered.  Twenty-five acres he cleared, and has the place well improved with good house, orchard, stables, and other buildings and good fences.  The farm is of the best bottom land, producing from thirty to forty-five bushels of wheat, and in good seasons from sixty-five to eighty bushels per acre, and about a half mile from the depot of Oak Valley.  He was married in 1851, in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, to Miss Catherine Shoemaker, of that county.  They have six children -- Jennie, Mollie, Alice, Frank, Annie, and Myrtle. He is a member of the G.A.R. of Indiana.