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 AMES P. ELSEA is a large land owner, one of the most extensive cattle men in this section of the country, and who. although doing some general farming, devotes his attention almost wholly to the handling of stock, buying, feeding and shipping, in large numbers. He owns five hundred and sixty acres of land in this county, and an extensive range in Barber County, having a controlling interest in about nineteen hundred acres there. At this writing he has about one hundred and seventy-five head of cattle, and his herds number far more at some seasons,Mr. Elsea was born in Elkhart County, Ind., December 4, 1847, and there grew to manhood, acquiring a fair education under the fine system of the Hoosier State, and residing in his native county until the spring of 1873. Having chosen Kansas as his future home, he came to this county in April of that year, and pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres of land on section 32, Greene Township, where he still makes his home. During some six or seven years he spent much of his time in the Indian Territory, looking after the cattle which he fed upon the ranges there, and he also spent two or three years in Barber County, although this has been his home since he first took up his claim here. He spent two years upon the Pacific Coast in California. Mr. Elsea is a Democrat, and is deeply interested in the welfare of the party, although he has no political aspirations. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity. He is one of the most energetic of men, jolly and companionable. and with the exception that he still pursues a life of single blessedness, his citizenship has in it no cause of complaint. As may well be supposed, he has many friends, and is warmly welcomed in social circles. |
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