GRANT G SHIGLEY, a popular and enterprising merchant of Lake City, is a self-made man, whose advance to his present prominent position in commercial circles is through his own efforts. He was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, December 6, 1863. His father George W. Shigley was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and was of Scottish descent. When four years of age he was left an orphan and when a little lad of eight summers was bound out to a man with whom he resided for several years. When he arrived at man's estate, he removed to Tippecanoe County, Indiana, where he purchased land from the government. There he married Sarah Hampton, who was born in Columbus, Ohio, a daughter of James Hampton, a farmer of this state. After his marriage Mr. Shigley carried on farming until 1862, when he enlisted in Company G, 52nd Indiana Infantry, being mustered in at Indianapolis. He served for three years under Generals Grant, Sherman, Logan and Thomas and participated in many of the most important engagements of the war, including the battle of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge. He went with Sherman on the celebrated march to the sea and was present at the fall of Atlanta. He also participated in the grand review at Washington, and after being mustered out at the National City returned to his home in 1865. In 1866 he removed to Allen County, Kansas, where he purchased and operated a farm, making it his home until 1870, when he went to Montgomery County where he entered a homestead claim. Ten years later he removed to Parson, Kansas, where he lived retired until his death, which occurred December 19, 1882, when he was 67 years of age. In 1875 he built a church at Independence, Kansas, and gave it to the United Brethren congregation. He was long a zealous and faithful worker in that denomination. His wife still survives him and is now living with her daughter in Humboldt, Kansas at the age of 77 years. Like her husband she has long been a consistent member of the United Brethren Church. Our subject is the eighth in their family of four sons and five daughters, namely: Riley, who died in 1872 at Independence Kansas at the age of 22; Martha, who passed away in 1868 at the age of 19 at Humboldt, Kansas; Mary, the twin of Martha, now the wife of Jesse Mullenniex, a farmer of Yates Center, Woodson County, Kansas; Elizabeth A, who married Aquilla Cochran, a farmer of Humboldt, Kansas; Charles W, who is engaged in the butcher business in Wichita, Kansas; John W, who was inspector for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad and whose death recently occurred at Coffeyville, Kansas; Ellen, residing at home with her mother; Grant G, our subject and Emma J, who died at Parson, Kansas, in 1900, and was the wife of Joseph Ross, express manager of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Company.
Grant G Shigley has been connected with Kansas for 36 years, having been brought to this state by his parents when a little lad of three summers. He acquired a good education in the schools of Independence and at the age of 21 secured employment in a store in Attica, Kansas, where he remained for four years. It was while he was living there on the 23rd of October, 1887, that he married Miss Maud Miller, a refined and accomplished young lady, who was born in Mound City, Lynn County, Kansas, a daughter of J. W. and Amanda (Fairbanks) Miller, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of New York. Her parents now reside in Woodward, Oklahoma, where Mr. Miller is serving as receiver in the United States land office, having filled the position for four years. While residing in Lynn County, Kansas, he served as county collector. Unto him and his wife have been born five children: John A, an engineer residing in Wyoming; Charles, who carries on farming in Woodward, Oklahoma; Maud, now Mrs. Shigley; Harry, a farmer of Woodward, Oklahoma; and Lena, wife of William Hixon, who operates a meat market in Woodward.
Soon after his marriage Grant G. Shigley came to Lake City, where for three years he engaged in clerking for I. C. Cubby in Rueben Lake in a general mercantile store. With a limited capital he then started in business for himself with a small stock of groceries, but as success attended his efforts he added other lines of goods, first dry goods, then hats and caps, harness, saddlery and hardware. His business has steadily grown until he now carries a stock valued at $6,000.00, while his annual sales amount to more than $20,000.00. This is one of the best and most complete stores in the county and would be a credit to any of the larger towns of southern Kansas. Mr. Shigley now owns a two story brick block in which his business is conducted, the upper rooms being rented for dwelling purposes while all the space of the lower floor, fifty by one hundred feet, is utilized in his business. In 1894 he purchased his present home, a neat cottage in one of the desirable residence portions of town. For 13 years he has also been postmaster, conducting the office in his store.
Mr. Shigley has filled other position having served for one term as assessor and two terms as treasurer and for six years he has been on the school board. In politics he is a staunch and earnest Republican and has served as a delegate to the county, congressional and state conventions. Fraternally, he is connected with Medicine Valley Lodge number 262, F & A M, in which he has held offices and with Lake City Camp number 4763, M W A. He deserves great credit for what he has accomplished. His life has been one of continuous activity, in which has been accorded due recognition of labor and today he is numbered among the substantial citizens of his county. His interests are thoroughly identified with those of the northwest and at all times he is ready to lend his aid and cooperation to any movement calculated to benefit ready to lend his aid and cooperation to any movement calculated to benefit ready to lend his aid and cooperation to any movement calculated to benefit this section of the country or advance its wonderful environment.
A Biographical History of Central Kansas - Shigley, Grant G., pg. 987, Vol II
New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company 1902
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It is now fifteen years ago that G.G. Shigley found his way to Lake City then a town of mighty expectations of future metropolitan grandeur and business prosperity.
Reuben Lake was the enthusiastic promoter and it was in his store that young Shigley began his business career as a clerk. He was a lad of quick perception, honest, faithful, with an ambition to be a factor in business affairs and of course secured the confidence of his employer. When later Mr. Lake sold out, young Shigley stayed on, rendering his new employer the same conscientious service he had given Mr. Lake.
At the end of seven years he had an opportunity to buy out the grocery department of the store and with a capital of $178 he started business for himself in a room 25x25. It was a small beginning, but his industry, tact and universal good nature won him customers and as his trade increased he enlarged his rooms, careful, however, not to go beyond his means in buying, beyond his capacity to pay out. Later he purchased the stock of a rival dealer, adding dry good and general merchandise to his business.
He has been successful from the start and now occupies a brick built store room with a twenty-five foot front by one hundred feet deep, with two separate store rooms for heavy goods, where you can find any conceivable article of merchandise. In Kansas City this would not be such a tremendous affair but in a town of 189 inhabitants, it is different.
Besides this, Mr. Shigley carries an average stock of not less than $6,000, discounts all of his bills and a close invoice would probably show him $10,000 ahead, clear of all his obligations, if he has any such thing as obligations.
Mr. Shigley is at his best so far as years are counted and usually is a most congenial gentleman. Merchandise can be purchased at his shops at competing prices or lower than in the railroad towns and a customer always gets what he buys.
He takes an interest in public affairs, is always ready to chip in to help out any public or charitable enterprise and is an all-around good citizen. He is a republican in politics and for eleven years postmaster at Lake, without regard to the color of the administration at Washington.
He is happy in the possession of a wife and daughter, a pleasant home and so far as we can see is at peace with all the world as he certainly ought to be. May he live long and prosper abundantly.
Barker Co., Kansas History and Genealogy
Grant G Shigley has been connected with Kansas for 36 years, having been brought to this state by his parents when a little lad of three summers. He acquired a good education in the schools of Independence and at the age of 21 secured employment in a store in Attica, Kansas, where he remained for four years. It was while he was living there on the 23rd of October, 1887, that he married Miss Maud Miller, a refined and accomplished young lady, who was born in Mound City, Lynn County, Kansas, a daughter of J. W. and Amanda (Fairbanks) Miller, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of New York. Her parents now reside in Woodward, Oklahoma, where Mr. Miller is serving as receiver in the United States land office, having filled the position for four years. While residing in Lynn County, Kansas, he served as county collector. Unto him and his wife have been born five children: John A, an engineer residing in Wyoming; Charles, who carries on farming in Woodward, Oklahoma; Maud, now Mrs. Shigley; Harry, a farmer of Woodward, Oklahoma; and Lena, wife of William Hixon, who operates a meat market in Woodward.
Soon after his marriage Grant G. Shigley came to Lake City, where for three years he engaged in clerking for I. C. Cubby in Rueben Lake in a general mercantile store. With a limited capital he then started in business for himself with a small stock of groceries, but as success attended his efforts he added other lines of goods, first dry goods, then hats and caps, harness, saddlery and hardware. His business has steadily grown until he now carries a stock valued at $6,000.00, while his annual sales amount to more than $20,000.00. This is one of the best and most complete stores in the county and would be a credit to any of the larger towns of southern Kansas. Mr. Shigley now owns a two story brick block in which his business is conducted, the upper rooms being rented for dwelling purposes while all the space of the lower floor, fifty by one hundred feet, is utilized in his business. In 1894 he purchased his present home, a neat cottage in one of the desirable residence portions of town. For 13 years he has also been postmaster, conducting the office in his store.
Mr. Shigley has filled other position having served for one term as assessor and two terms as treasurer and for six years he has been on the school board. In politics he is a staunch and earnest Republican and has served as a delegate to the county, congressional and state conventions. Fraternally, he is connected with Medicine Valley Lodge number 262, F & A M, in which he has held offices and with Lake City Camp number 4763, M W A. He deserves great credit for what he has accomplished. His life has been one of continuous activity, in which has been accorded due recognition of labor and today he is numbered among the substantial citizens of his county. His interests are thoroughly identified with those of the northwest and at all times he is ready to lend his aid and cooperation to any movement calculated to benefit ready to lend his aid and cooperation to any movement calculated to benefit ready to lend his aid and cooperation to any movement calculated to benefit this section of the country or advance its wonderful environment.
A Biographical History of Central Kansas - Shigley, Grant G., pg. 987, Vol II
New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company 1902
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It is now fifteen years ago that G.G. Shigley found his way to Lake City then a town of mighty expectations of future metropolitan grandeur and business prosperity.
Reuben Lake was the enthusiastic promoter and it was in his store that young Shigley began his business career as a clerk. He was a lad of quick perception, honest, faithful, with an ambition to be a factor in business affairs and of course secured the confidence of his employer. When later Mr. Lake sold out, young Shigley stayed on, rendering his new employer the same conscientious service he had given Mr. Lake.
At the end of seven years he had an opportunity to buy out the grocery department of the store and with a capital of $178 he started business for himself in a room 25x25. It was a small beginning, but his industry, tact and universal good nature won him customers and as his trade increased he enlarged his rooms, careful, however, not to go beyond his means in buying, beyond his capacity to pay out. Later he purchased the stock of a rival dealer, adding dry good and general merchandise to his business.
He has been successful from the start and now occupies a brick built store room with a twenty-five foot front by one hundred feet deep, with two separate store rooms for heavy goods, where you can find any conceivable article of merchandise. In Kansas City this would not be such a tremendous affair but in a town of 189 inhabitants, it is different.
Besides this, Mr. Shigley carries an average stock of not less than $6,000, discounts all of his bills and a close invoice would probably show him $10,000 ahead, clear of all his obligations, if he has any such thing as obligations.
Mr. Shigley is at his best so far as years are counted and usually is a most congenial gentleman. Merchandise can be purchased at his shops at competing prices or lower than in the railroad towns and a customer always gets what he buys.
He takes an interest in public affairs, is always ready to chip in to help out any public or charitable enterprise and is an all-around good citizen. He is a republican in politics and for eleven years postmaster at Lake, without regard to the color of the administration at Washington.
He is happy in the possession of a wife and daughter, a pleasant home and so far as we can see is at peace with all the world as he certainly ought to be. May he live long and prosper abundantly.
Barker Co., Kansas History and Genealogy
GRANT G SHIGLEY, a popular and enterprising merchant of Lake City, is a self-made man, whose advance to his present prominent position in commercial circles is through his own efforts. He was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, December 6, 1863. His father George W. Shigley was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and was of Scottish descent. When four years of age he was left an orphan and when a little lad of eight summers was bound out to a man with whom he resided for several years. When he arrived at man's estate, he removed to Tippecanoe County, Indiana, where he purchased land from the government. There he married Sarah Hampton, who was born in Columbus, Ohio, a daughter of James Hampton, a farmer of this state. After his marriage Mr. Shigley carried on farming until 1862, when he enlisted in Company G, 52nd Indiana Infantry, being mustered in at Indianapolis. He served for three years under Generals Grant, Sherman, Logan and Thomas and participated in many of the most important engagements of the war, including the battle of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge. He went with Sherman on the celebrated march to the sea and was present at the fall of Atlanta. He also participated in the grand review at Washington, and after being mustered out at the National City returned to his home in 1865. In 1866 he removed to Allen County, Kansas, where he purchased and operated a farm, making it his home until 1870, when he went to Montgomery County where he entered a homestead claim. Ten years later he removed to Parson, Kansas, where he lived retired until his death, which occurred December 19, 1882, when he was 67 years of age. In 1875 he built a church at Independence, Kansas, and gave it to the United Brethren congregation. He was long a zealous and faithful worker in that denomination. His wife still survives him and is now living with her daughter in Humboldt, Kansas at the age of 77 years. Like her husband she has long been a consistent member of the United Brethren Church. Our subject is the eighth in their family of four sons and five daughters, namely: Riley, who died in 1872 at Independence Kansas at the age of 22; Martha, who passed away in 1868 at the age of 19 at Humboldt, Kansas; Mary, the twin of Martha, now the wife of Jesse Mullenniex, a farmer of Yates Center, Woodson County, Kansas; Elizabeth A, who married Aquilla Cochran, a farmer of Humboldt, Kansas; Charles W, who is engaged in the butcher business in Wichita, Kansas; John W, who was inspector for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad and whose death recently occurred at Coffeyville, Kansas; Ellen, residing at home with her mother; Grant G, our subject and Emma J, who died at Parson, Kansas, in 1900, and was the wife of Joseph Ross, express manager of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Company.
Grant G Shigley has been connected with Kansas for 36 years, having been brought to this state by his parents when a little lad of three summers. He acquired a good education in the schools of Independence and at the age of 21 secured employment in a store in Attica, Kansas, where he remained for four years. It was while he was living there on the 23rd of October, 1887, that he married Miss Maud Miller, a refined and accomplished young lady, who was born in Mound City, Lynn County, Kansas, a daughter of J. W. and Amanda (Fairbanks) Miller, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of New York. Her parents now reside in Woodward, Oklahoma, where Mr. Miller is serving as receiver in the United States land office, having filled the position for four years. While residing in Lynn County, Kansas, he served as county collector. Unto him and his wife have been born five children: John A, an engineer residing in Wyoming; Charles, who carries on farming in Woodward, Oklahoma; Maud, now Mrs. Shigley; Harry, a farmer of Woodward, Oklahoma; and Lena, wife of William Hixon, who operates a meat market in Woodward.
Soon after his marriage Grant G. Shigley came to Lake City, where for three years he engaged in clerking for I. C. Cubby in Rueben Lake in a general mercantile store. With a limited capital he then started in business for himself with a small stock of groceries, but as success attended his efforts he added other lines of goods, first dry goods, then hats and caps, harness, saddlery and hardware. His business has steadily grown until he now carries a stock valued at $6,000.00, while his annual sales amount to more than $20,000.00. This is one of the best and most complete stores in the county and would be a credit to any of the larger towns of southern Kansas. Mr. Shigley now owns a two story brick block in which his business is conducted, the upper rooms being rented for dwelling purposes while all the space of the lower floor, fifty by one hundred feet, is utilized in his business. In 1894 he purchased his present home, a neat cottage in one of the desirable residence portions of town. For 13 years he has also been postmaster, conducting the office in his store.
Mr. Shigley has filled other position having served for one term as assessor and two terms as treasurer and for six years he has been on the school board. In politics he is a staunch and earnest Republican and has served as a delegate to the county, congressional and state conventions. Fraternally, he is connected with Medicine Valley Lodge number 262, F & A M, in which he has held offices and with Lake City Camp number 4763, M W A. He deserves great credit for what he has accomplished. His life has been one of continuous activity, in which has been accorded due recognition of labor and today he is numbered among the substantial citizens of his county. His interests are thoroughly identified with those of the northwest and at all times he is ready to lend his aid and cooperation to any movement calculated to benefit ready to lend his aid and cooperation to any movement calculated to benefit ready to lend his aid and cooperation to any movement calculated to benefit this section of the country or advance its wonderful environment.
A Biographical History of Central Kansas - Shigley, Grant G., pg. 987, Vol II
New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company 1902
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It is now fifteen years ago that G.G. Shigley found his way to Lake City then a town of mighty expectations of future metropolitan grandeur and business prosperity.
Reuben Lake was the enthusiastic promoter and it was in his store that young Shigley began his business career as a clerk. He was a lad of quick perception, honest, faithful, with an ambition to be a factor in business affairs and of course secured the confidence of his employer. When later Mr. Lake sold out, young Shigley stayed on, rendering his new employer the same conscientious service he had given Mr. Lake.
At the end of seven years he had an opportunity to buy out the grocery department of the store and with a capital of $178 he started business for himself in a room 25x25. It was a small beginning, but his industry, tact and universal good nature won him customers and as his trade increased he enlarged his rooms, careful, however, not to go beyond his means in buying, beyond his capacity to pay out. Later he purchased the stock of a rival dealer, adding dry good and general merchandise to his business.
He has been successful from the start and now occupies a brick built store room with a twenty-five foot front by one hundred feet deep, with two separate store rooms for heavy goods, where you can find any conceivable article of merchandise. In Kansas City this would not be such a tremendous affair but in a town of 189 inhabitants, it is different.
Besides this, Mr. Shigley carries an average stock of not less than $6,000, discounts all of his bills and a close invoice would probably show him $10,000 ahead, clear of all his obligations, if he has any such thing as obligations.
Mr. Shigley is at his best so far as years are counted and usually is a most congenial gentleman. Merchandise can be purchased at his shops at competing prices or lower than in the railroad towns and a customer always gets what he buys.
He takes an interest in public affairs, is always ready to chip in to help out any public or charitable enterprise and is an all-around good citizen. He is a republican in politics and for eleven years postmaster at Lake, without regard to the color of the administration at Washington.
He is happy in the possession of a wife and daughter, a pleasant home and so far as we can see is at peace with all the world as he certainly ought to be. May he live long and prosper abundantly.
Barker Co., Kansas History and Genealogy
Grant G Shigley has been connected with Kansas for 36 years, having been brought to this state by his parents when a little lad of three summers. He acquired a good education in the schools of Independence and at the age of 21 secured employment in a store in Attica, Kansas, where he remained for four years. It was while he was living there on the 23rd of October, 1887, that he married Miss Maud Miller, a refined and accomplished young lady, who was born in Mound City, Lynn County, Kansas, a daughter of J. W. and Amanda (Fairbanks) Miller, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of New York. Her parents now reside in Woodward, Oklahoma, where Mr. Miller is serving as receiver in the United States land office, having filled the position for four years. While residing in Lynn County, Kansas, he served as county collector. Unto him and his wife have been born five children: John A, an engineer residing in Wyoming; Charles, who carries on farming in Woodward, Oklahoma; Maud, now Mrs. Shigley; Harry, a farmer of Woodward, Oklahoma; and Lena, wife of William Hixon, who operates a meat market in Woodward.
Soon after his marriage Grant G. Shigley came to Lake City, where for three years he engaged in clerking for I. C. Cubby in Rueben Lake in a general mercantile store. With a limited capital he then started in business for himself with a small stock of groceries, but as success attended his efforts he added other lines of goods, first dry goods, then hats and caps, harness, saddlery and hardware. His business has steadily grown until he now carries a stock valued at $6,000.00, while his annual sales amount to more than $20,000.00. This is one of the best and most complete stores in the county and would be a credit to any of the larger towns of southern Kansas. Mr. Shigley now owns a two story brick block in which his business is conducted, the upper rooms being rented for dwelling purposes while all the space of the lower floor, fifty by one hundred feet, is utilized in his business. In 1894 he purchased his present home, a neat cottage in one of the desirable residence portions of town. For 13 years he has also been postmaster, conducting the office in his store.
Mr. Shigley has filled other position having served for one term as assessor and two terms as treasurer and for six years he has been on the school board. In politics he is a staunch and earnest Republican and has served as a delegate to the county, congressional and state conventions. Fraternally, he is connected with Medicine Valley Lodge number 262, F & A M, in which he has held offices and with Lake City Camp number 4763, M W A. He deserves great credit for what he has accomplished. His life has been one of continuous activity, in which has been accorded due recognition of labor and today he is numbered among the substantial citizens of his county. His interests are thoroughly identified with those of the northwest and at all times he is ready to lend his aid and cooperation to any movement calculated to benefit ready to lend his aid and cooperation to any movement calculated to benefit ready to lend his aid and cooperation to any movement calculated to benefit this section of the country or advance its wonderful environment.
A Biographical History of Central Kansas - Shigley, Grant G., pg. 987, Vol II
New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company 1902
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It is now fifteen years ago that G.G. Shigley found his way to Lake City then a town of mighty expectations of future metropolitan grandeur and business prosperity.
Reuben Lake was the enthusiastic promoter and it was in his store that young Shigley began his business career as a clerk. He was a lad of quick perception, honest, faithful, with an ambition to be a factor in business affairs and of course secured the confidence of his employer. When later Mr. Lake sold out, young Shigley stayed on, rendering his new employer the same conscientious service he had given Mr. Lake.
At the end of seven years he had an opportunity to buy out the grocery department of the store and with a capital of $178 he started business for himself in a room 25x25. It was a small beginning, but his industry, tact and universal good nature won him customers and as his trade increased he enlarged his rooms, careful, however, not to go beyond his means in buying, beyond his capacity to pay out. Later he purchased the stock of a rival dealer, adding dry good and general merchandise to his business.
He has been successful from the start and now occupies a brick built store room with a twenty-five foot front by one hundred feet deep, with two separate store rooms for heavy goods, where you can find any conceivable article of merchandise. In Kansas City this would not be such a tremendous affair but in a town of 189 inhabitants, it is different.
Besides this, Mr. Shigley carries an average stock of not less than $6,000, discounts all of his bills and a close invoice would probably show him $10,000 ahead, clear of all his obligations, if he has any such thing as obligations.
Mr. Shigley is at his best so far as years are counted and usually is a most congenial gentleman. Merchandise can be purchased at his shops at competing prices or lower than in the railroad towns and a customer always gets what he buys.
He takes an interest in public affairs, is always ready to chip in to help out any public or charitable enterprise and is an all-around good citizen. He is a republican in politics and for eleven years postmaster at Lake, without regard to the color of the administration at Washington.
He is happy in the possession of a wife and daughter, a pleasant home and so far as we can see is at peace with all the world as he certainly ought to be. May he live long and prosper abundantly.
Barker Co., Kansas History and Genealogy
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