The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
Topeka Well Represented in
Who's Who.
Forty-One Citizens Are Given a
Place.
LARGEST ON RECORD,
Not Another City of This Size
With So Many.
List Of Those Whose Names Are
Written There.

Forty-one Topekans have been Civ
en- space in the 1908 edition Of who's
Who In America" and mentioned as
among the notables OF this country.
That fame can be won more quick
~ In Topeka than in any other city of
similar size in the United States is
born out by the statistics that are con-
tanned in who's Who" for the capt.
tai city of Kansas has just five times
the number of notables within its
boundaries than the average city of
similar size in the country. There are
1926 names in the book and of this
number Topeka claims one-fourth of
one per cent, while it can claim but
.O5 OF the population of the United
States out of which the names oc-
cupying space in the book are gar
nered.
There is not another town of 49,
600 inhabitants that can cite so many
celebrities. Topeka runs Omaha and
Kansas City close second, both of
these towns of from four to six times
the size Of Topeka. Put your ear to
the ground and listen, and this is the
answer: Its no use going to Kansas
City or Omaha to carve out a name
for yourself. Don't go to these dinky
towns. stay in Topeka where your
chances are better" Omaha has just
~ Who's Who" while Kansas City
Topeka leads with forty-one in the
Sunf1ower state, Lawrence comes next
with ~, all of whom, with the excep-
tlon OF two are members of the fac
ulty of Kansas university
Wichita shows seven names, Leav.
enworth SIX, Salina six. Atchison five.
one or whom is ex-governor Willis J.
Bailey, Emporia four. which includes
William Allen White, Kansas City.
Kan, four. FIT. Leavenworth two, Ft.
Riley two, both of them army officers,
Abilene two. and Of these Joseph
two, lola three, Fred Funston and his
father being of this quota, Ottawa has
three, Manhattan three, Baldwin two,
Hiawatha two, Lindsborg three. and
these other towns one each: Cawker
cry. Coffeyville; Concordia. Council
Scott, Galena, Garden City. Girard. In
dependence, Junction City, Linwood,
Logan, Mankato, Marion, Marysville,
Medicine Lodge, Newton, Oak Mills.
Olathe. Peabody, Pittsburg. st. Marys.
Sedan, Sterling and Winfield.
The Topekans are from all of the
varying walks of life. Here they are:
Stephen Haley Allen, lawyer; Win
field Austin Scott Bird, lawyer; Ros-
seau Angelus Burch, jurist; Harold
Taylor Chase, newspaperman: Foster
D. Coburn, secretary Kansas board of
agriculture; Ernest Bancroft Conant,
lawyer; James Mark Council, railroad
official; William EIsey Connelley, auth
or; Charles Curtis, United States SEN
ator; Frank Burnett Dams, chemist;
Annie L. Diggs, librarian; Frank Dos
ter, jurist; Daniel Moses Fisk, educa-
tor; Charles Sumner Gleed, lawyer;
James Willis Gleed, lawyer; Edward
Wallis Hoch, governor; Eli j. Hoen-
shell, educator; Albert Arthur Hurd,
lawyer; James E. Hurley, railroad
official; William Agnew Johnston,
jurist: Marcus A. Low, lawyer; Dun
can Lendrum McEachron, educator;
Frank Pitts MacLennan, newspaper
man; Thomas Allen McNea1, journal
list; William E. Mcvey, physician:
John Martin, United States senator;
Frank R. Millspaugh, Episcopal bish-
op; David Winfield Mulvane, lawyer;
William Alfred PETER, United States
senator: Norman Plass. clergyman
and educator; Silas Wright Porter,
jurist; Albert Turner Reid. illustrator;
Frank Albert Root, journalist;
Charles Monroe Sheldon. clergyman;
j. G. Slonecker, lawyer; William Red
wood Smith, jurist; Timothy Bailey
Sweet, capitalist; Eugene F. Ware,
lawyer; Frederick Wellhouse, fruit
grower; Emil Carl Wilm, educator;
Harry Erwin Woods, educator.
Six of the above number are men,
bers of the Washburn college faculty.