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Peffley - Artie


Source: The Peffley, Peffly, Pefley Families in America, A historical  and genealogical record of the Peffley, Peffly and Pefley  families from 1729-1938; Published in 1938, By May Miller Frost  and Clarence Earl Frost
 

 594--ARTIE PEFFLEY (son of No. 589 ) married at Leon, Kansas,  Apr. 19th, 1893, PHOEBE CHARLOTTE BOELLNER, born at Henderson,  Minn., Nov. 15th, 1867, died at Manhattan, Kan., June 15th, 1937  (dau. of JOHN HENRY CHRISTOFF and MARY ANN (Wagle) BOELLNER).
 
 Artie received his education at Ladoga, attending the Central  Indiana Normal School at Ladoga, moved with his parents to El  Dorado, Kan. in 1886 and began teaching in 1887 and followed this  profession for twelve years, teaching in Butler, and Sheridan  counties in Kansas and Rio Blanco and Prowers counties in  Colorado. Artie was principal of the school at Meeker, Colo. and  Selden, Kan., taught in small College at El Dorado, Kan.,  Instructor in Teachers' Institutes in Butler and Sheridan  counties, Kan., was one time Surveyor of Butler Co., Kan., was  Asst. Editor of Educational Advance and Editor of Industrial  Advocate, Eldorado, Kan., and at one time Telegraph Correspondent  for the Wichita Beacon. He was in the merchandising business for  twelve years. Moved to Manhattan, Kan., where he educated his  children; is now City Treeman. Member of Methodist Church and an  I. O. O. F.
 
 Address (as of 1938); 816 Pierre St., Manhattan, Kansas.
 
 Issue:
 
 1--ELBA BOELLNER PEFFLEY, b. 7-8-1899, El Dorado, Kan.
 2--ARTIE IRVIN LESLIE, b. 7-14-1902. Whitewater, Kan.
 3--EVELYN STELLA PEFFLEY, b. 3-10-1905. Whitewater, Kan.

Thanks to Jeff S. for his great job on the Peffley family in Montgomery County
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