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Notes for Cyrus SULLIVAN


Was living in Kansas at the time of his marriage, and was a farmer Witness to the weding was James Gibbons of Horton.

Taken from “Kansas Trails” (published 1910):

SULLIVAN, CYRUS Cyrus Sullivan, real estate dealer, and head of the firm of Cyrus Sullivan & Son, of Wichita, Kan., is a native of the Dominion of Canada, having been born at Carleton, Carleton county, Province of Ontario, on August 10, 1852. His parents were Thomas and Adeline (Rhude) Sullivan, natives of New York and Vermont, respectively. The parents, after some fifteen years of married life spent in New England, joined a colony which located a few miles from Ottawa, in Canada, where they engaged in farming until 1870. In that year they joined a colony of twenty bound for Kansas, and on June 15, 1870, located in Kechi Township, Sedgwick County, where they pre-empted a claim of the Indian trust lands of the Osage tribe. The claim selected by Mr. Sullivan was in Section 22, which he found to be wild prairie, but which, by careful cultivation, he made fertile and productive, and there he spent the balance of his life. He died in 1871 at the age of seventy-six; his widow survived until 1894, when she died at the age of eighty-eight. Mr. Sullivan was an educated man, of fine character, and was prominent in occupying local offices while a resident of Ontario. Mrs. Sullivan was descended from noted ancestry, her great-grandfather on her mother’s side being Governor Belcher, who was sent from England at an early day to be Governor of Vermont. Robert Sullivan, the grandfather of Cyrus, was a native of Ireland, and came to the United States and settled in New England about the year 1790, and was a merchant in Ireland. Cyrus Sullivan was educated in the pub-lie schools of his native town of Carleton, Ontario, and also at a commercial school, and began farming early in Kechi township, Sedgwick county. He was one of the fortunate ones in securing a claim, a portion of which he still owns. He was actively engaged in farming pursuits until 1904, when he removed to “Wichita, and has since been successfully engaged in the real estate business. Mr. Sullivan is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Aid. On January 15, 1872, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Q. D. Rorison, daughter of Hugh Umstad Rorison. Mrs. Sullivan is the youngest of a family of thirteen children. Her grandfather, Captain Grierson, was an officer in the British army, and was given 3,000 acres of land when he had served his term in the navy. Three children have been born to Mr. Sullivan and his wife, viz.: Alden Newton, Cyrus Clayton and Arthur Douglas Sullivan, all of Wichita. Alden N. Sullivan, the eldest son, is a member of the firm of Cyrus Sullivan & Son. He was born April 14, 1878, in Kechi township. His education was obtained in the public schools, Lewis Academy and the Wichita Commercial College. He first began work on the farm at home, and then entered commercial life as a traveling salesman for W. R. Case, cutlery, of Bradford, Pa., covering the territory of Kansas and Oklahoma. He continued this employment until 1908, when he engaged in the real estate business with his father. The offices of the firm are at No. 212 Anchorm Trust building. Alden N. Sullivan was married on December 28, 1904, to Miss Fannie Doratt, daughter of O. R. Doratt, of Wichita. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 892-893



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