THE KANSAS CITY GAZETTE
Kansas City, Kansas
Tuesday, February 19, 1901
Major Otis Berthoude Gunn, the well known civil engineer, died Monday afternoon in his room at the Montague hotel. He had been ill with stomach trouble and died from starvation.
His wife and one of this three children, Fred C. Gunn, the architect, were at his death bed. He was prominent in railroad building in Kansas and Missouri.
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Kansas
Maj. Co. F&S 10th Inf.
Enlisted 1Oct1861
Discharged 5May1862
Died Kansas City, MO.
Wife: Mary H. Crosby
Otis Berthoude Gunn a member of the first state senate from Wyandotte county was born October 27 1828 at Montague Massachusetts the son of Otis and Lucy Fisk Gunn He had a thorough New England common school education and began work as a rodman on the construction of the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad was engineer in charge of the railroad between Rochester and Niagara Falls taught school for two years near Harrisburg Pennsylvania and in 1853 was division engineer in the construction of the Toledo Wabash & Western following railroad construction westward until he located in Kansas in 1857 settling at Wyandotte In 1859 he was elected to the first state senate which met in 1861 in 1861 he was appointed major of the Fourth Kansas regiment later the Tenth Kansas Infantry but in May 1862 resigned to resume railroad work being connected at various times thereafter with the Kansas City & Cameron the Leavenworth Pawnee & Western the Central Branch Union Pacific and the Missouri Kansas & Texas Of this last named road he built six hundred miles He also built the bridge across the Missouri river at Atchison and in 1876 superintended the construction of the present union depot in Kansas City finally earning the name of a great engineer In 1896 he wrote a financial article entitled Bullion versus Coin which the Republican national committee circulated broadcast over the country He died in Kansas City February 18 1901 and was buried in Oak Grove Lawrence His widow (Mary Helen Crosby) (1831-1918) resides in Kansas City Missouri.
The Gunns had five children:Vera Helen Gunn Whitehead, Frederick Gunn, Ellen Ann Gunn Howard, Charles Gunn and Lucy Gunn passed away before their parents.
History of Wyandotte County, Kansas: and its people, Volume 1
edited by Perl Wilbur Morgan
Kansas City, Kansas
Tuesday, February 19, 1901
Major Otis Berthoude Gunn, the well known civil engineer, died Monday afternoon in his room at the Montague hotel. He had been ill with stomach trouble and died from starvation.
His wife and one of this three children, Fred C. Gunn, the architect, were at his death bed. He was prominent in railroad building in Kansas and Missouri.
___
Kansas
Maj. Co. F&S 10th Inf.
Enlisted 1Oct1861
Discharged 5May1862
Died Kansas City, MO.
Wife: Mary H. Crosby
Otis Berthoude Gunn a member of the first state senate from Wyandotte county was born October 27 1828 at Montague Massachusetts the son of Otis and Lucy Fisk Gunn He had a thorough New England common school education and began work as a rodman on the construction of the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad was engineer in charge of the railroad between Rochester and Niagara Falls taught school for two years near Harrisburg Pennsylvania and in 1853 was division engineer in the construction of the Toledo Wabash & Western following railroad construction westward until he located in Kansas in 1857 settling at Wyandotte In 1859 he was elected to the first state senate which met in 1861 in 1861 he was appointed major of the Fourth Kansas regiment later the Tenth Kansas Infantry but in May 1862 resigned to resume railroad work being connected at various times thereafter with the Kansas City & Cameron the Leavenworth Pawnee & Western the Central Branch Union Pacific and the Missouri Kansas & Texas Of this last named road he built six hundred miles He also built the bridge across the Missouri river at Atchison and in 1876 superintended the construction of the present union depot in Kansas City finally earning the name of a great engineer In 1896 he wrote a financial article entitled Bullion versus Coin which the Republican national committee circulated broadcast over the country He died in Kansas City February 18 1901 and was buried in Oak Grove Lawrence His widow (Mary Helen Crosby) (1831-1918) resides in Kansas City Missouri.
The Gunns had five children:Vera Helen Gunn Whitehead, Frederick Gunn, Ellen Ann Gunn Howard, Charles Gunn and Lucy Gunn passed away before their parents.
History of Wyandotte County, Kansas: and its people, Volume 1
edited by Perl Wilbur Morgan
THE KANSAS CITY GAZETTE
Kansas City, Kansas
Tuesday, February 19, 1901
Major Otis Berthoude Gunn, the well known civil engineer, died Monday afternoon in his room at the Montague hotel. He had been ill with stomach trouble and died from starvation.
His wife and one of this three children, Fred C. Gunn, the architect, were at his death bed. He was prominent in railroad building in Kansas and Missouri.
___
Kansas
Maj. Co. F&S 10th Inf.
Enlisted 1Oct1861
Discharged 5May1862
Died Kansas City, MO.
Wife: Mary H. Crosby
Otis Berthoude Gunn a member of the first state senate from Wyandotte county was born October 27 1828 at Montague Massachusetts the son of Otis and Lucy Fisk Gunn He had a thorough New England common school education and began work as a rodman on the construction of the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad was engineer in charge of the railroad between Rochester and Niagara Falls taught school for two years near Harrisburg Pennsylvania and in 1853 was division engineer in the construction of the Toledo Wabash & Western following railroad construction westward until he located in Kansas in 1857 settling at Wyandotte In 1859 he was elected to the first state senate which met in 1861 in 1861 he was appointed major of the Fourth Kansas regiment later the Tenth Kansas Infantry but in May 1862 resigned to resume railroad work being connected at various times thereafter with the Kansas City & Cameron the Leavenworth Pawnee & Western the Central Branch Union Pacific and the Missouri Kansas & Texas Of this last named road he built six hundred miles He also built the bridge across the Missouri river at Atchison and in 1876 superintended the construction of the present union depot in Kansas City finally earning the name of a great engineer In 1896 he wrote a financial article entitled Bullion versus Coin which the Republican national committee circulated broadcast over the country He died in Kansas City February 18 1901 and was buried in Oak Grove Lawrence His widow (Mary Helen Crosby) (1831-1918) resides in Kansas City Missouri.
The Gunns had five children:Vera Helen Gunn Whitehead, Frederick Gunn, Ellen Ann Gunn Howard, Charles Gunn and Lucy Gunn passed away before their parents.
History of Wyandotte County, Kansas: and its people, Volume 1
edited by Perl Wilbur Morgan
Kansas City, Kansas
Tuesday, February 19, 1901
Major Otis Berthoude Gunn, the well known civil engineer, died Monday afternoon in his room at the Montague hotel. He had been ill with stomach trouble and died from starvation.
His wife and one of this three children, Fred C. Gunn, the architect, were at his death bed. He was prominent in railroad building in Kansas and Missouri.
___
Kansas
Maj. Co. F&S 10th Inf.
Enlisted 1Oct1861
Discharged 5May1862
Died Kansas City, MO.
Wife: Mary H. Crosby
Otis Berthoude Gunn a member of the first state senate from Wyandotte county was born October 27 1828 at Montague Massachusetts the son of Otis and Lucy Fisk Gunn He had a thorough New England common school education and began work as a rodman on the construction of the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad was engineer in charge of the railroad between Rochester and Niagara Falls taught school for two years near Harrisburg Pennsylvania and in 1853 was division engineer in the construction of the Toledo Wabash & Western following railroad construction westward until he located in Kansas in 1857 settling at Wyandotte In 1859 he was elected to the first state senate which met in 1861 in 1861 he was appointed major of the Fourth Kansas regiment later the Tenth Kansas Infantry but in May 1862 resigned to resume railroad work being connected at various times thereafter with the Kansas City & Cameron the Leavenworth Pawnee & Western the Central Branch Union Pacific and the Missouri Kansas & Texas Of this last named road he built six hundred miles He also built the bridge across the Missouri river at Atchison and in 1876 superintended the construction of the present union depot in Kansas City finally earning the name of a great engineer In 1896 he wrote a financial article entitled Bullion versus Coin which the Republican national committee circulated broadcast over the country He died in Kansas City February 18 1901 and was buried in Oak Grove Lawrence His widow (Mary Helen Crosby) (1831-1918) resides in Kansas City Missouri.
The Gunns had five children:Vera Helen Gunn Whitehead, Frederick Gunn, Ellen Ann Gunn Howard, Charles Gunn and Lucy Gunn passed away before their parents.
History of Wyandotte County, Kansas: and its people, Volume 1
edited by Perl Wilbur Morgan
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