Typed
from Opal’s handwritten copy titled “Writing the History of Your Family Second
Year Lesson 19.” She and Vernon took a genealogy class from ____?
“The following
information was obtained from “History of the State of Kansas” (1883; publisher,
A. T. Andreas, Chicago: Galena
Biographical Sketches, page 1167.)
“R.A. Teeter,
Superintendent of Teeter’s crusher, Maggie Taylor tract, was born in Montgomery
County, Ind. In 1855 and removed to Iroquois County, Ill, in 1856 with his
people, where he was reared to the farming industry. In 1877, he came here
[Galena, Kansas] and engaged in mining operations the following year, and has
been successfully connected with it since.
In 1881, he married Miss Elizabeth Eckles, a native of Hancock County,
Ill. They have one little boy—Robert.
Mr. Teeter formed a partnership with Judge Miller and Capt. A Arnold in this
enterprise in May 1882. It gives employment to four skilled workmen, and turns
out about twenty tons of marketable ore a day.”
Note
from Opal: (This is an account of my grandfather. The boy-Robert, mentioned, is my father.)
