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Jesse Henry Briney
JESSE HENRY BRINEY, county attorney of Rawlins County, was a
homesteader and farmer in that district of Kansas long
before he determined to qualify himself for the profession
of law, which he has honored since his admission to the bar
twenty years ago.
Mr. Briney was born in Warren County, Indiana, June 5, 1864.
His grandfather, Stephenson Briney, was born in Germany in
1794. In 1801 the family came to the United States and
settled out on the western frontier in Darke County, Ohio.
Later they moved to Boone County, Indiana, where Stephenson
Briney was a pioneer farmer and where he died in 1869.
P. S. Briney, father of the Atwood attorney, was born in
Darke County, Ohio, in 1824 and when a boy accompanied his
parents to Boone County, Indiana, and after attaining an
independent position himself he moved to Warren County in
that state. He farmed there a number of years and from 1870
to 1890 had his home in Fremont County, Iowa. In 1890 he
went to Nebraska and died in that year at Stratton in that
state. He was a republican and an active supporter of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Briney first married Miss
Meek, who bore him a son, Richard B., of Abilene, Kansas,
and a daughter Isabel, who died in Nemaha County, Kansas, in
1885, as Mrs. J. Diffenderfer. Mr. Briney married for his
second wife, Elmira Henderson, who was born in Warren
County, Indiana, in 1838 and died at Colorado Springs in
February, 1915. She was the mother of five children: P.
Loren Briney, a tailor at Santa Ana, California; Lida E.,
who died in 1890, at Stratton, Nebraska, the wife of George
L. Burney, a farmer now at Blue Mound, Kansas; Jesse Henry;
Frank W. Briney, a farmer near Atwood; and Clarence E., a
carpenter living at Colorado Springs.
Jesse H. Briney received his education in the rural schools
of Warren County, Indiana, and Fremont County, Iowa, and
also attended a normal school at Bloomfield, Iowa. These
early educational advantages were finished when he was about
nineteen years old. He then resumed his place on his
father's farm, but soon after reaching the age of twenty-one
started out seeking land of his own. His quest brought him
to Rawlins County in 1886. Here he homesteaded a quarter
section, took a timber claim, and was busied with their
development for nine years. Later he sold these claims,
although he still owns a large stock and grain farm of 480
acres two miles southeast of Atwood. He lived on his
homestead for nine years and in 1895 came into Atwood,
having been elected clerk of court in the fall of 1894. He
was re-elected in 1896 and was one of the popular officials
at the courthouse for two terms. While there he took up and
mastered the fundamentals of law, was admitted to the bar in
1898, and since that year has carried on a gratifying and
successful practice at Atwood, combined with the real estate
and abstract business, with offices on Fourth and State
streets. From 1902 to 1904 he was county attorney of Rawlins
County and in 1918 was again called to the responsibilities
of that office. He is a democrat. His church affiliations
are Presbyterian, and he is a past noble grand of Atwood
Lodge of Odd Fellows.
Mr. Briney owns a home that furnishes recreation and
employment for all his leisure time. It comprises a block of
ground, with a modern residence, surrounded by shade and
fruit trees.
On December 25, 1888, in Rawlins County, he married Miss
Cady E. Chadwick. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Chadwick,
are both now deceased. They were farmers in Fremont County,
Iowa, and her father at one time was a leading stock dealer
in that section. Mr. and Mrs. Briney have three children:
Roy S., born December 21, 1889, was educated in the local
public schools, graduated from the county high school in
1911, and for three years was a teacher in the public
schools of Rawlins County and one term principal of the
Atwood schools. He then joined his father in business, an
association that still continues. Bernard C., the second
son, was born August 8, 1891, and is a farmer near Atwood.
Fern, born November 20, 1902, is still in school.
Source Citation:
Boone County Biographies [database online] Boone County
INGenWeb. 2007. <http://www.rootsweb.com/~inboone>
Original data: Connelley, William E., "A Standard History
of Kansas and Kansans." Lewis Publishing Co., 1919.
[online data] The KSGenWeb Project, <http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/index.html>
Submitted by:
T. Stover - October 27, 2007
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