History of Reno County, Kansas; its people, industries and institutions . -hich the candidate subscribes. SAMUEL S. One night at a banquet in Topeka. Samuel S. Graybill. present popularpostmaster at Hutchinson, this county, was introduced as toastmaster of theoccasion as the man \\\v) knows more men in Kansas than any other man inthe state; and this prandial compliment was well deserved and probablywithin the exact limits of the truth, for there are mighty few persons ofconsequence in Kansas with whom .Mr. Graybill is not. at least, on speakingterms, and with most of whom he enjoys a
History of Reno County, Kansas; its people, industries and institutions . -hich the candidate subscribes. SAMUEL S. One night at a banquet in Topeka. Samuel S. Graybill. present popularpostmaster at Hutchinson, this county, was introduced as toastmaster of theoccasion as the man \\\v) knows more men in Kansas than any other man inthe state; and this prandial compliment was well deserved and probablywithin the exact limits of the truth, for there are mighty few persons ofconsequence in Kansas with whom .Mr. Graybill is not. at least, on speakingterms, and with most of whom he enjoys an intimate acquaintance. Thisunusually wide acquaintance is based upon his many years as a stockman,during which time he traveled widely and constantly over the state buyingcattle, and upon his long connection with state political circles, during whichtime he has missed very few occasions for mingling with his fellows at suchtimes as politicians are wont to foregather. His jovial, whole-souled man-ner of greeting his fellow men has made Mr. Graybill not only one of the. t^ RENO COUNTY, KANSAS. 289 best-known men in the state, Intt one of the most popular, and it is but fittingand proper that some extended mention be made of him here in this historyof the county in which he has so long resided and in the affairs of whichhe takes so deep an interest. Samuel S. Graybill was born in Juanita county, Pennsylvania, Novem-ber 29, i860, son of Amos and Mary (Shelley) Graybill, both natives ofthat same county, the former of wdiom, born in 1828, died in 1900, and thelatter, born in 1835, died in 1912, both having spent their last days in Kansas. Amos Graybill was reared on a farm in Juanita county, Pennsylvania,his parents devout Mennonites and earnest-minded people, one of whose sons,William, was a bishop in the ]\Iennonite church. In his native county AmosGraybill married an earnest Mennonite maiden, Mary Shelley, and settleddown on a farm nearby his fathers home, where to him and his w
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