R. U. Lawyer (biography)

[genealogynut]

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

R. U. Lawyer, farmer, P.O. Grenola, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio in 1844. In 1855, he went to Illinois and was raised in Tazewell County, living there until the fall of 1869, when he located in Bates County, Mo., and at the end of one year, located on a claim in Howard County, Kan., on Section 30, Township 30, Range 9, and was among the first settlers in that part of the township.  He was at the organization of the county, and was elected the first Trustee of Greenfield Township.  The following year he was elected Justice of the Peace and held the office continuously for seven years.  Again in 1883, was elected Trustee of the township.  When he first settled in Kansas, he was eighty miles from a railroad.  He has improved his farm, which consists of 137 acres, all under cultivation but ten acres, all fenced, and has planted twelve acres of orchard, put up two houses on the farm and other buildings.  He has been in the sheep-raising business for some time.  He was married in Bates County, Mo., in 1871, to Miss Nellie Gardner.  They have three children--May, Jane E. and Ada.  He is a member of Meridian Lodge, No 126, A. F. & A. M.

[Wilma]

If he just had a third initial of A.  wouldn't that have been interesting.  R. U. A. Lawyer?