FERGUSON, D. S. - Putnam

D. S. FERGUSON, farmer, Covington the present keeper and superintendent of the County poor farm, was appointed to his position by the Commissioner of Fountain County March 1 1880, holding the same for one year. He is a thoroughly efficient manager and practical farmer, and received his present appointment over nineteen competitors and bidders. Under his management there is already a visible improvement and those who are fed and cared for at the county’s expense are worthy objects of charity and not specimens of the tramp order. The average number of inmates is about twenty-five. The total number of acres in the farm 220; number improved, and cultivated 180. Mr. Ferguson is a man about thirty-two years old and is the son of Zachariah & Jane (Kergen) Ferguson, who settled in Wabash township Fountain County as early as 1835. Mr. Ferguson has been interested in Milling, Distilling and Farming. Mr. Ferguson has been dependant on his own resources. His early life was spent in his native county. In April 1876 he married Emily daughter of O. Shelby who is now is one of Fountain county’s leading farmers and stock dealers. Besides the interests Mr. Ferguson owns in Fountain County, he has also secured a fine farm of 160 acres in Cowley County Kansas. Politically is views are Democratic.