Personal Details

Born	April 5th, 1844
Birthplace	county of Adams, OH, USA
Baptized	No Entry
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Died	September 21st, 1920, aged about 76 years
Died at...	Topeka, KS, USA
Cause of Death	Acute Indigestion
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Parents

Father	[1402B_sd_ffff]	Mitchell Kirkpatrick 7
Mother	[1402B_sd_fffm]	Susan Lowry (Guilinger) Kirkpatrick 7

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [1402b_sd_ffm] - Elizabeth (Sleeth) Kirkpatrick 8 Married by: No Entry Married at: county of Livingstone, IL, USA Children by this spouse: I [1402B_sd_ff_s1] Dr. John Ervin Kirkpatrick 9 b. February 20th, 1869 c. May II [1402B_sd_ff_s2]+ James Mitchell Kirkpatrick 9 b. April 6th, 1870 c. July III [1402B_sd_ff_s3] Lillian MaBelle (Kirkpatrick) Kirkpatrick 9 b. January 1st, 1874 c. April IV [1402B_sd_ff_s4]+ Pearl Irene (Kirkpatrick) Bair 9 b. July 11th, 1875 c. October V [1402B_sd_ff]+ Adelbert Blaine Kirkpatrick 9 b. November 19th, 1878 c. February VI [1402B_sd_ff_s5] Winifred (?) Kirkpatrick 9 b. October 18th, 1883 c. January

Immediate Family Tree

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Wilson Blaine Kirkpatrick	Mitchell Kirkpatrick	Adam Kirkpatrick	No Entry	No Entry
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	Susan Lowry (Guilinger) Kirkpatrick	? Guilinger	No Entry	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1844 to 1920

1829-1851: 2nd Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 7 1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from before birth until age 16 1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 57 1841-1844: John Tyler president of US from before birth until age 0 1844: 1st telegraph line message, Washington to New York at age 0 1845-1848: James K Polk president of US from age 1 to age 4 1845-1849: Irish Potato Famine from age 1 to age 5 1845: Florida enters the union - 27th at age 1 1845: Texas enters the union - 28th at age 1 1846: Iowa enters the union - 29th at age 2 1846-1848: The Mexican-US War from age 2 to age 4 1848: Oregon organized as a territory at age 4 1848: Wisconsin enters the union - 30th at age 4 1848: NY allows women to own real estate at age 4 1848-1856: 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from age 4 to age 12 1849-1852: Zachary Taylor president of the US from age 5 to age 8 1849: Fizeau measures speed of light at age 5 1850: US pop reaches 23 million at age 6 1850: California enters the union - 31st at age 6 1850: World pop. est. at 1.1 billion at age 6 1850: Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory at age 6 1850: New Mexico organized as a territory at age 6 1851: Gold rush in Australia at age 7 1852-1859: 3rd Cholera pandemic from age 8 to age 15 1853-1856: Franklin Pierce president of US from age 9 to age 12 1853: Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory at age 9 1854: Nebraska organized as a territory at age 10 1854-1856: Crimean War from age 10 to age 12 1854: Kansas organized as a territory at age 10 1857-1860: James Buchanan president of US from age 13 to age 16 1857-1866: Transatlantic cable laid from age 13 to age 22 1857: Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 13 1858: India bill transfers government of India to England at age 14 1858: Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 14 1859: Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 15 1859: Oil Well at age 15 1859: Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 15 1860: South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 16 1860: Rifled barrel invented at age 16 1861-1865: Civil War from age 17 to age 21 1861: Colorado organized as a territory at age 17 1861: South Dakota organized as a territory at age 17 1861: Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 17 1861: Gold rush in New Zealand at age 17 1861-1865: Confederate States of America Exist from age 17 to age 21 1861: North Dakota organized as a territory at age 17 1861: The Apache Declare War on the US at age 17 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 17 to age 21 1861: Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 17 1861: Nevada organized as a territory at age 17 1862: US Homestead act at age 18 1863: Arizona organized as a territory at age 19 1863: Idaho organized as a territory at age 19 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from age 19 to age 35 1863: Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 19 1863: West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 19 1863: Battle of Gettysburg at age 19 1864: Louisiana organized as a territory at age 20 1864: Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 20 1865: President Lincoln assassinated at age 21 1865: Lister invents Disinfection at age 21 1865: Ku Klux Klan founded at age 21 1866-1868: Andrew Johnson president of US from age 22 to age 24 1866: Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 22 1867: Alaska purchased from Russia at age 23 1867: Dynamite at age 23 1867: Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 23 1867: Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 23 1867: Confederation of Canada at age 23 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from age 24 to age 34 1869: Suez canal opened at age 25 1869: Cutty Sark built at age 25 1869: Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 25 1869: Trans-continental railroad completed at age 25 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 25 to age 32 1870: US black men can vote at age 26 1870: 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 26 1870-1871: Franco-Prussian war from age 26 to age 27 1871: Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 27 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from age 29 to age 34 1873: Color Photographs at age 29 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 32 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 32 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 32 1876: American Centennial at age 32 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 33 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 33 to age 36 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 34 1879: Zulu war at age 35 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 35 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 37 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 37 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 37 to age 52 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 37 to age 41 1884: 1st subway at age 40 1884: Motorcycle at age 40 1885: Automobile at age 41 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 41 to age 44 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 42 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 43 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 44 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 44 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 45 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 45 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 45 to age 48 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 45 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 45 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 45 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 46 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 46 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 46 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 46 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 47 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 49 1893: Movies at age 49 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 49 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 49 to age 53 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 49 to age 52 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 50 to age 51 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 50 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 52 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 52 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 53 to age 57 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 54 1899-1902: Boer war from age 55 to age 58 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 55 until after line end 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 56 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 56 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 56 1901: First British submarine launched at age 57 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 57 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 57 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 57 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 57 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 57 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 57 to age 66 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 57 to age 64 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 59 1903: Airplane at age 59 1904: Radar at age 60 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 60 to age 61 1907: Plastic at age 63 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 63 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 64 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 65 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 65 to age 68 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 65 1910: Halley's Comet at age 66 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 66 until after line end 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 66 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 67 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 68 1912: Titanic sinks at age 68 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 68 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 68 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 69 to age 76 1914: The Bra at age 70 1914-1919: World War I from age 70 to age 75 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 71 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 72 1916: Sonar at age 72 1917: US enters WWI at age 73 1917: Russian revolution at age 73 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 74 to age 76 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 74 until after line end 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 75 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 75 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 76 until after line end 1920: Palestine established at age 76 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 76

Additional Information

The prominent position held by Mr. Kirkpatrick, as national president of the Knights and Ladies of Security, has not only made him a well known figure in Kansas, the original home of the order, but has brought him into nation-wide associations, and that order's phenomenal growth and its importance has made it one of the large business enterprises of the state and of Topeka. Wilson B. Kirkpatrick was born on a farm in Adams county, Ohio, April 5, 1844, and on his father's side is descended from sturdy Irish stock, while from his Scotch mother he has inherited the noble traits of the Guilinger line. His father, Mitchell Kirkpatrick, was also born in Adams county, Ohio, and was a son of Adam Kirkpatrick, a native of Ireland. His mother, whose maiden name was Susan Lowry Guilinger, was born in Scotland. Of the ten children born to these honored parents, Wilson Blaine is the only survivor. Wilson Blaine Kirkpatrick was but six years old at the time of his parents' removal from Adams county, Ohio, to McLean county, Illinois, where he was reared, and educated in an Illinois country school. Mitchell Kirkpatrick died when his son, Wilson, was but ten years old, and when the latter reached manhood he devoted himself to the occupation to which he had been reared—that of farming—and was thus engaged on the old homestead in McLean county, Illinois, until he was thirty-six years of age. In 1880 he gave up farming and for fifteen years thereafter was engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was thus engaged in Paxton, Ford county, Illinois, two years, then in 1882 he removed to Kansas, where he was similarly engaged three years in Arkansas City, Cowley county. In 1885 he became a resident of Topeka, where he has since maintained his home and where he conducted a boot and shoe store for ten years. In 1892, while still engaged as a shoe merchant, he became one of the officers of the Knights and Ladies of Security, a fraternal order that today does an extensive business throughout the Union. He became its first treasurer and served as such until Jan. 1, 1896, when he was promoted to the presidency of the order, a position which he has held continuously since that time and in which he has shown unusual talent for organization and administration. His labors for the advancement of the order have been effective and far reaching, and very much of the credit for the remarkable growth of the order throughout the United States and for its present fine condition is due to Mr. Kirkpatrick. In fact, more credit is due to him than to anyone else for the successful and prosperous growth of this well known and popular fraternal order that today is as firmly established in this country as any one of the several other orders doing a similar business. When he became its treasurer in 1893 he also took charge of its field work. It had then but 800 members and owed $5,000. He stood sponsor for its indebtedness, cashed all claims as fast as presented against it out of his own funds, such was his faith in the ultimate success of the order. Today the order has 115,000 members scattered over twenty-six states, and it has a surplus in its treasury of $1,860,000. It has paid out to beneficiaries over seven millions of dollars. The net growth of the order in the year of 1909 showed it to be the sixth in point of growth in a total number of about 150 such societies doing business in the United States. On Dec. 13, 1867, Mr. Kirkpatrick was married to Miss Elizabeth Sleeth, and they have five living children: John Ervin, who is a member of the faculty of Washburn College, and is field secretary of the institution; James Mitchell, who is first assistant to his father in the office of president of the Knights and Ladies of Security; Lillian MaBelle; Pearl Irene; and Adelbert Blaine. Pearl Irene is the wife of J. K. Bair, of Topeka. Mr. Kirkpatrick is a Republican in his political views. He has prominent fraternal associations outside of the order with which he is offlcially connected, being a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of Maccabees, the Fraternal Aid Association, the Tribe of Ben Hur, and the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Kirkpatrick is also a director of the Central National Bank of Topeka. Pages 694-695 from volume III, part 1 of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed December 2002 by Carolyn Ward. This volume is identified at the Kansas State Historical Society as microfilm LM195. It is a two-part volume 3.