Annals of Emporia and Lyon County . EX-SENATOR P. B. PLUMB. The Annals presents pictures ot ex-Senator Preston B. Plumb and of thehome of his family. The latter buildingAvas completed after the Senators death,and in it dwells the family, except youngPreston, who is temporarily absent atschool. Mr. Plumbs career in Kansas is so wellknown that there is little use for a histor-ical writing here. He came here in 1S57and helped locate the town, and startedits first newspaper, The Emporia was intimately associated with thetown as long as he lived. He had beenreared in Ohio and learned the p
Annals of Emporia and Lyon County . EX-SENATOR P. B. PLUMB. The Annals presents pictures ot ex-Senator Preston B. Plumb and of thehome of his family. The latter buildingAvas completed after the Senators death,and in it dwells the family, except youngPreston, who is temporarily absent atschool. Mr. Plumbs career in Kansas is so wellknown that there is little use for a histor-ical writing here. He came here in 1S57and helped locate the town, and startedits first newspaper, The Emporia was intimately associated with thetown as long as he lived. He had beenreared in Ohio and learned the printerstrade. At the age of eighteen years he?was one of the editors and proprietorsof the Xenia (Ohio) Nczvs, and before hewas twenty he had established his Empo-jia paper. When he was twenty-five hewas a member of the Kansas house ofrepresentatives and chairman of its iu-<iiciary committee. He left the newspa-per in 1S59, and went to law school. Re-luming here in 1861, he opened a law of-fice, after a brief trial at editoria
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