Notes for Lewis W. BREYFOGLE, SR.

Family History Pages

Thank you for visiting our family history pages, are you in some way connected to this family group? We'd like to include your family history and you are invited to submit you data by e-mail . We also accept information submitted by postal mail, please contact us by e-mail for the appropriate mailing address.

Ancestorial Home Page

Notes for Lewis W. BREYFOGLE, SR.

Lewis Breyfogle describes his great grandfather's family move from Ohio to Kansas as follows:

"The Breyfogles came to Kansas from Delaware, Ohio in 1866. The whole family came: Israel, Sr., and his wife; Israel, Jr. and his wife, and Mora (born 1844) and her husband, John Coe, a Civil War veteran. The bought land and lived for a while in what is now downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and later they purchased rich Shawnee Indian farmland within what is now the fast-growing suburban Johnson County, Kansas City of Overland Park. There, for about 40 years, until shortly after the turn of the century, the three children of Israel lived on their separate farms and raised their families."

SOURCE: What I know about the Breyfogle Family, Lewis W. Breyfogle, 1963, Page 43

Lewis W. Breyfogle remembers his grandfather:

"He carried on extensive farming and banking operations, and found time to spend several terms in the Kansas State Senate, where he held the important post of Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. In his younger days, before the railroads were built, he operated wagon trains, freighting goods across the plains from Westport (now part of Kansas City, Missouri) to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

"There is one more thing I like to remember about my grandfather that was probably common to early members of the family. This was his insatiable thirst for knowledge. to the end of his life, he kept abreast of the times, and read himself to sleep every night (except the last few years) by the light of an old-fashioned coal oil lamp."

SOURCE: What I know about the Breyfogle Family, Lewis W. Breyfogle, 1963, Page 43 & 44

Flora Grumman describes Lewis Breyfogle as follows:

"He was a very highly respected man, and served a term in the Legislature. He accumulated considerable property."

SOURCE: The Breyfogle Genealogy, Flora Breyfogle Grumman, About 1909, Page 4

The 1880 Federal Census recorded Lewis and his second wife Laura living in Johnson County Kansas. Lewis was listed as L. W. Breyfogle and employed as a farmer. There was also a person identified as E. Breyfogle, a cousin, living with them along with two boarders that are assumed to be hired hands for the farming operation.

SOURCE: 1880 Federal Census, Johnson County, District 101, Kansas

HON. LEWIS W. BREYFOGLE, farmer, P. O. Lenexa, and dealer in live stock, was born in Delaware, Ohio, September 17, 1836. He learned the trade of carpenter and joiner and followed that vocation for a livelihood. In 1862 he turned his attention to farming, following it for a year in Morrow County, then in Delaware. In 1865 he engaged in the grain business. The subject of this sketch came to Johnson County, Kansas, in 1866; for a year he was employed in freighting across the plains to New Mexico for the United States government and in 1867 settled on his present farm. He owns about 600 acres, all improved, and is largely engaged in breeding Short-horn cattle and blooded hogs and dealing in live stock. He has fifteen acres of orchard on his place and his farm is considered one of the finest in the county. He was elected in 1879 to the State Legislature and in 1881 to the State Senate. Mr. Breyfogle was married in Morrow County, Ohio, March 25, 1860, to Lizzie M. Shaw, who died August 19, 1865, leaving two children: Frank L. and Jessie F. He was married again in Shawnee, November 20, 1867, to Laura A. Pennock. They have four children: Lizzie E., Grace, Warren and Charles C.

SOURCE: William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, Johnson County, Part 9

L. W. Breyfogle was born in Delaware, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1836. When William Penn, about 1681, advertised his lands for sale, asking forty shillings besides a perpetual quit-rent of one shilling for every one hundred acres, his great-great grandfather emigrated from Switzerland, and bought land of Penn in Berks County, Pa., as the terms were liberal and unlimited freedom of conscience and the right to be governed by laws enacted by themselves were secured to the people. When improving he employed Indians to carry rails down the mountains to the valley. The father of the subject of this sketch, Israel Breyfogle, was born in Berks co., Pa., in 1800; emigrated to Ohio in ’33; and came to Johnson co. in ’66, and located where he now resides in ’67. He was united in marriage in ’60 to Miss Elizabeth M. Shaw, of Denmark, Ohio; she died in August, ’66, and in October ’67 he married Miss Laura A. Pennock, of this county.

Mr. B. has a fine farm, well improved and stocked, and gives his undivided attention to raising stock and grain. He is one of the solid men of the county—strictly honest, industrious—and esteemed by all who know him. A view of his residence will be seen on page 85 of this work.

SOURCE: Atlas Map of Johnson County, Kansas, E. F. Heisler and Co., 1874, P.55

| HOME | EMAIL | SURNAMES |

In an effort to save space on this web site we have abbreviated the source information to the barest minimum. In many cases our source information is available in Word documents or other electronic files as well as links to other web sites. If you would like a complete source list on an individual please let us know and we will be happy to e-mail it to you. We would also be happy to share a complete GEDCOM file as well.

Ancestorial Home Page

This page is sponsored by www.breyfogle.com and all information, presentation, and graphics are considered the property of it's authors.