Capt. A.B. Elliott (1836-????) Biography

Submitted by Kyle M. Condon

William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas

CAPT. A. B. ELLIOTT, farmer and miller, P. O. Dexter, was born in Vermillion County, Ill., in 1836. In 1847, he emigrated to Iowa, locating in Polk County, remaining there until 1856, when he emigrated to Kansas and settled in Lyon County near Emporia. It was twenty-five miles to a post office, there were no railroads in the Territory, but there were plenty of Indians, and for a time he was in doubt about being permitted to remain. In 1861, he served as Captain of Company B, Eleventh Kansas Militia, and was out during Price's raid, and to Humboldt when the city was burned, and in several other difficulties. In 1867, he sold out and settled in Missouri, remaining there until May, 1877, when he returned to Kansas and bought a farm in Cowley County, adjoining the town site of Dexter, consisting of 296 acres on Town 33, Range 7. This is one of the best natural stock farms in the county, watered by Grouse Creek, which furnishes plenty of water, with about sixty acres of timber along the stream, affording ample shelter for stock. The most of the land is fine bottom land - 175 acres of which are in cultivation. In the fall of 1879, in company with L. B. Bollington, built a flouring mill on Grouse Creek, near Dexter, the building 24 x 40, with two run of buhrs, the fall being twelve feet, and furnished with a thirty-horse-power turbine wheel. This was a benefit to the people of this vicinity, it being the first mill of any consequence built in this part of the county, and filled a long-felt want. In 1856, he was married to Miss Amanda Rinker, of Iowa. They have ten children, viz.: Annie M., E. V., Clara L., R. J., A. E., S. V., C. B., F. O., Roscoe and Ettie.

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