History of Allen and Woodson counties, Kansas : embellished with portraits of well known people of these counties, with biographies of our representative citizens, cuts of public buildings and a map of each county . as a Frenchman, but his mother, Mrs. Mary Esse, wasof German birth. When twelve years of age George Esse came to Americaand resided in New York until he had attained to mans estate. He wasmarried there to Miss Mary Ann Ikins, an English lady who came to States in 1845. In 1867 they emigrated to Kansas, locating on afarm near their present home. There the father carried o
History of Allen and Woodson counties, Kansas : embellished with portraits of well known people of these counties, with biographies of our representative citizens, cuts of public buildings and a map of each county . as a Frenchman, but his mother, Mrs. Mary Esse, wasof German birth. When twelve years of age George Esse came to Americaand resided in New York until he had attained to mans estate. He wasmarried there to Miss Mary Ann Ikins, an English lady who came to States in 1845. In 1867 they emigrated to Kansas, locating on afarm near their present home. There the father carried on agriculturalpursuits for a number of years, but he has since disposed of all of his landwith the exception of a small tract, not caring to be burdened with agreater amount. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Esse were born two children: EugeneC. and Clara, the former a resident of lola. Clara M. Esse spent her girlhood days under the parental roof andpursued her education in the public schools. When eighteen years of ageshe gave her hand in marriage to Edward R. Mabie, the wedding beingcelebrated on the 27th of May, 1880. Mr. Mabie was born in vSouth Wes-ley, New York, August 25, 1838, was reared there and was graduated at. € WOODSON COUNTIES, KANSAS. 339 the high school in Albany, New York. When the country became in-volved in Civil war he joined the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh NewYork Infantry, at Rome. New York, .serving for three years. He partici-pated in the battles of Shiloh, Richmond, Antietam, Vicksburg, Atlantaand many others which led to the successful termination of the one occasion was wounded by a minie ball which grazed the backof his neck, and he incurred diseases that finally terminated his life. In 1866 Mr. Mabie came to Kansas and secured a claim of eighty acreson Martin creek, two miles east of Geneva, where he resided until thetime of his death. He added to his farm as opportunity offered until heliecame the owner of three hundred and twenty-five acr
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