John Rambo (biography)

[genealogynut]

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

John Rambo, farmer, P.O. Howard, was born in Mercer County, Penn., 1832, living there and in Erie Counties, where he took a course at the Waterford Academy.  In 1856, migrated to Kansas, and stopped at Lawrence until the city was sacked, then went to Osage County, and bought a farm and engaged in farming.  Soon after he settled here, was appointed County Clerk, and held the office two terms by appointment, and was elected for the third term but did not finish, and the war broke out and he enlisted early in 1861, and resigned the office.  After serving three months in Company I, Second Kansas, the only mustered company in the regiment, it was re-organized as a cavalry, and he served on the plains scouting until the summer of 1863, then served in the Fifteenth Kansas Infantry until the fall of 1865, was mustered as Orderly Sergeant.  After coming out of the army, was clerking in Leavenworth, then, in company with another party, started a store at Williams' Mill, on the Missouri River, furnishing supplies for the railroad, which was being built.  Then, in 1867, was employed in Williams' Mill as book-keeper, and at the end of one year bought the mill. After running the mill there two years, moved it to Howard, locating on the Elk River, where he ran it for a number of years.  Also took a claim on Section 1, Township 30, Range 1, joining the town site of Howard, and laid out a few acres in town lots.  Also bought a farm in Greenwood County, with forty acres of timber, and well watered, and is engaged in stock-raising.  Was married in 1876, in Greenwood County, Kan., to Miss Jennie Kenedy.  Is a member of E. M. Stanton Post, No. 23, G.A.R., and of Burlingame Lodge.

[Janet Harrington]

Now, this makes you wonder where that mill actually was located.  That would be interesting to see if anything is left like a foundation, etc.