"ALDAMAR P. ELDER"
  "One of the names that will always have significance in Kansas
history is that of Elder.
Over the state at large it is most closely
associated with the career of the late Peter Percival Elder, who came
to Kansas when it was a territory, was prominent in many ways during
the early and formative period of the state, and at one time filled
with distinction the office of lieutenant governor. Governor Elder
had a long and active career, and died in 1914.

His only son is Aldamar P. Elder, who for over forty years has been
one of the leading merchants and public spirited citizens of Ottawa,
KANSAS, and is now serving as postmaster of that city.

Aldamar P. Elder was born in Kenduskeag, Maine, August 17, 1854. His
parents brought him to Kansas, when he was four years of age, and his
earliest recollections are of the primitive conditions and incidents
of the new state. As a boy he attended the public schools of Baldwin
and Ottawa, and spent the years from 1871 to 1873 in the University
of Kansas.

His powers and talents were early developed, and by a special act of
the Kansas Legislature he was given the rights of majority at the age
of nineteen.
 In January, 1874, before he was twenty years of age he and A. V.
Cobb embarked as partners in the grocery business at Ottawa.
Thus for forty-three years his career has been continuously
identified with that city's business affairs. After two years Mr.
Elder bought the old established stove and hardware business of S. D.
Smith at Ottawa, and there is perhaps not a citizen in Franklin
County in the past or present generation who has not known the Elder
place of business at Ottawa.
 Its record is that of a steadily growing and prospering concern. In
1907 the business was incorporated as the Elder Mercantile Company,
with Mr. Elder president. Many other business enterprises have been
helped to success through his influence and active participation. He
has been president of the Ottawa Foundry Company, a director in the
First National Bank, and president of the Rohrbaugh Theater Company.

In any special undertaking for the betterment of the city or county
Mr. Elder's leadership and contribution of means have been important
factors.
 In 1908 he was the largest contributor to the King Road drag fund.
He has been an active member of the Ottawa Commercial Club since it
was organized and has served as vice president. He is also a member
of the United Commercial Travelers organization, in a Royal Arch
Mason, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

He has not been content merely to furnish money and not take an
active part in local affairs. For more than a quarter of a century he
has been a member of the Ottawa Fire Department. He was its chief for
over ten years, and for two years was president of the Kansas State
Firemen's Association. He was a member of the association's committee
on legislation, and it was his thorough understanding of the work of
fire departments, his sympathy with the individual fireman, and a
broad sense of justice that prompted him to advocate a bill which
subsequently became a law and which levies a tax of 2 per cent on
gross premiums for fire insurance charged by the various companies on
business done in cities where organized fire departments art
maintained. The proceeds of this tax are applied to a fund for the
relief of injured firemen injured while on duty as firemen or to
their families in case of death from such injury.
Kansas was one of the first states in the Union to adopt such a
position, and the credit for this economic measure is largely due to
Mr. Elder's broad experience and deep sense of justice. He has always
been a man of convictions, one who speaks his mind forcefully on
public affairs, and his thorough honesty and integrity have kept him
more or less constantly in the public view.
in 1911 he was elected to the Legislature from Franklin County. He
was elected as a democrat, though the county is normally republican.
During the following session he was chairman of the committee on
telegraph and telephones, and a member of the ways and means
committee, the committee on fees and salaries and cities of second
class. He was one of the ablest members of that Legislature. A loyal
and active democrat, as well as a leader in his home city, it was
with special consistency that President Wilson named him on March 1,
1915, as postmaster of Ottawa. He his since served in that office and
has given it the same intelligence, efficient and wise administration
which he has paid to every undertaking throughout life, whether in
business or in public affairs.

Mr. Elder was married in 1876 at Ottawa to Miss Clara M. Maxwell.
Mrs. Elder was born in Jonesboro, Tennessee, and is now deceased. Her
father, William H. Maxwell, was a lawyer by profession, and came from
Tennessee to Ottawa, where he practiced law for a number of years,
but finally moved to Paola, Kansas, where he died.
 Mr. Elder is the father of three children, Raymond E., Pierre
Penney, Jr., and Clara D. The son Raymond enlisted in May, 1898, in
Company K of the famous Twentieth Kansas Infantry and was in active
service as a corporal until honorably discharged at San Francisco in
October of the same year. The son, Pierre P., Jr., has had his active
business experience as a member of the Elder Mercantile Company. The
daughter, Clara, like the other children was well educated and has
taught in the Ottawa City schools.

Reference:
A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written & compiled by
William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical A
Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written & compiled by William
E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society,
Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, copyright 1918;
transcribed by students from Baxter Springs Middle School, Baxter
Springs, Kansas, February 3, 1999.

***
Pierre Penney Elder, Jr., son of Aldamar P. Elder, and grandson of
former Lieut.-Gov. Peter Percival Elder, was born Jan. 27, 1884, at
Ottawa, Kan., in which city he was reared and educated in the public
schools, finishing the high school course. His life to date has been
that of a hardware merchant, and he is the secretary of the Elder
Mercantile Company, of Ottawa. He is president of the Ottawa
Commercial Club, chairman of the Ottawa city Democratic central
committee, past exalted ruler of Ottawa lodge of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, and past worshipful master of Ottawa Lodge,
No. 18, Free and Accepted Masons. In 1908 he married Miss Mary
Gertrude Sallee, of Iola, Kan.

REFERENCE:
Page 1347 from volume III, part 2 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.

***

1880 United States Federal Census
about Raymond Elder
Name:  Raymond Elder
Home in 1880:  Ottawa, Franklin, Kansas
Age:  2
Estimated birth year: abt 1878
Birthplace:  Kansas
Relation to head-of-household: Son
Father's name:  A. P.
Father's birthplace:  Maine
Mother's name:  Ella
Mother's birthplace:  Tennessee
Marital Status:  Single
Race:  White
Gender:  Male
Household Members:
Name  Age
A. P. Elder  26
Ella Elder  24
Raymond Elder  2
M. Ready  18
Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Ottawa, Franklin, Kansas;
Roll: T9_381; Family History Film: 1254381; Page: 107.2000;
Enumeration District: 87; Image: 0663.
***
1900
Name:   Clara M Elder
Home in 1900:  Ottawa, Franklin, Kansas
Age:  40
Estimated birth year:  abt 1860
Birthplace:  Tennessee
Relationship to head-of-house:  Wife
Spouse's name:  A P
Race:  White
Household Members:
Name  Age
A P Elder  45
Clara M Elder  40
Ray Elder  21 b. 1879
Pierre Elder  16 b. 1884
Dee Elder  14 (Clara D.) b. 1886
Melvin Price  33 (servant)
Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Ottawa, Franklin, Kansas;
Roll: T623 480; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 87.

***
1910
Name:   Raymon E Elder
Age in 1910:  32
Estimated birth year:  abt 1878
Birthplace:  Kansas
Relation to Head of House:  Son
Father's name:  Aldimer p
Father's Birth Place:  Maine
Mother's Birth Place:  Tennessee
Spouse's name:  Grace D
Home in 1910:  Ottawa Ward 3, Franklin, Kansas
Marital Status:  Married
Race:  White
Gender:  Male
Household Members:
Name  Age
Aldimer p Elder  56
Raymon E Elder  32
Grace D Elder  30
Pierre P Elder  26
Gertrude M Elder  21
Clara D Elder  24
Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Ottawa Ward 3, Franklin,
Kansas; Roll: T624_439; Page: 27A; Enumeration District: 93; Image:
1262.
**
Name:   Gertrude M Elder
Age in 1910:  21
Estimated birth year:  abt 1889
Birthplace:  Illinois
Relation to Head of House:  Daughter-in-law
Father's Birth Place:  Virginia
Mother's Birth Place:  Illinois
Spouse's name:  Pierre P
Home in 1910:  Ottawa Ward 3, Franklin, Kansas
Marital Status: Married
Race:  White
Gender: Female
***

Name:   Gertrude Elder
Home in 1920:  Ottawa Ward 3, Franklin, Kansas
Age:  30 years
Estimated birth year:  abt 1890
Birthplace:  Kansas
Relation to Head of House:  Wife
Spouse's name:  Pierre
Father's Birth Place:  South Carolina
Mother's Birth Place:  Illinois
Marital Status:  Married
Race:  White
Sex:  Female
Able to read:  Yes
Able to Write:  Yes
Household Members:
Name  Age
Pierre Elder  35  (b. 1885)
Gertrude Elder  30
Dorothy Elder  8 dau  (b.1912)
Source Citation: Year: 1920;Census Place: Ottawa Ward 3, Franklin,
Kansas; Roll: T625_532; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 96; Image:
873.
***

1930  (line 77, 78, 79, 80)
Name:   Gertrude Elder
Home in 1930:  Ottawa, Franklin, Kansas
Age:  44
Estimated birth year:  abt 1886
Relation to Head of House:  Daughter-in-law
Spouse's name:  Piere
Household Members:
Name  Age
A.P. Elder 75
Clara 44 dau KS
Mable 14 (dau of Clara Dee) KS
Dorothy 18 (g-dau) KS (dau of Pierre and Gertrude)
Piere Elder  46  (line 25)
Gertrude Elder  44  (line 26)
Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Ottawa, Franklin, Kansas;
Roll: 703; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 17; Image: 309.0.
**

Name:   Martha Mabel Elder
Home in 1920:  Ottawa Ward 3, Franklin, Kansas
Age:  4 years 0 months
Estimated birth year:  abt 1916
Birthplace:  Kansas
Relation to Head of House: (Daughter of Clara Dee)
Father's Birth Place:  Maine
Mother's name:  Clara Dee
Mother's Birth Place:  Kansas
Marital Status:  Single
Race:  White
Sex:  Female
Able to read:  Yes
Able to Write:  Yes
Household Members:
Name  Age
Andamar Elder  65
Clara Dee Elder 34 (dau)
Martha Mabel Elder 4 0/12  (dau of Clara Dee)
Glen Jameson  21 (step-son of Clara Dee)
Source Citation: Year: 1920;Census Place: Ottawa Ward 3, Franklin,
Kansas; Roll: T625_532; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 96; Image:
848.
***

LDS
Peter Percival Elder
Event(s):
 Birth:  30 SEP 1823 New Portland, Somerset, Maine
 Christening:
 Death:
 Burial:  East New Portland Cemetery, , Somerset, Maine
  [Should be KANSAS]
Parents:
   Father:   Isaac Elder
   Mother:   Mary Quint

***
FATHER:
Isaac Elder

Wife
Mary Quint

Children
1. David Elder
    Male
Birth:  About 1811 New Portland, Somerset, Maine
Christening:    Death:   25 NOV 1877
Burial:  East New Portland Cemetery, , Somerset, Maine

2. John Elder
    Male
Birth:  About OCT 1813  New Portland, Somerset, Maine
Christening:
Death:  18 MAY 1895
Burial: West New Portland Cemetery, , Somerset, Maine

3. Catherine G. Elder
    Female
Birth:  About 1818  New Portland, Somerset, Maine

4. Peter Percival Elder
    Male
Birth:  30 SEP 1823  New Portland, Somerset, Maine
Christening:
Death:
Burial: [not]East New Portland Cemetery, , Somerset, Maine
 [should be KANSAS]
Hope Cemetery, Ottawa, Franklin County, KS

5. Abigail C. Elder
    Female
Birth:  13 JUL 1827  New Portland, Somerset, Maine
Christening:
Death:  24 JUN 1857
Burial:  East New Portland Cemetery, , Somerset, Maine
****

FindaGrave:  (bio, portrait and photo of stone)
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Peter Percival Elder
Birth:   1823    Maine, USA
Death:   1914  Kansas, USA
 
Politician. Elder served in the Territorial Legislature, as well as the state Senate and House.
Elder was appointed an Indian agent by President Abraham Lincoln to recruit Indian Nations to serve on the
Union side during the Civil War. He was Lieutenant Governor of Kansas in 1870;
served on the first Franklin County Board of Commissioners, and was an Ottawa Mayor.
He was a key supporter in the building of the first railroad to Ottawa and founded the Ottawa Times newspaper.
His home is located at 540 South Elm, Ottawa, Kansas.
 
Burial:
Hope Cemetery
Ottawa
Franklin County
Kansas, USA
Record added: Mar 27 2004
By: Tom Denardo
***
http://www.ottawa.lib.ks.us/OttawaAnnals.txt

Ottawa Annals 1864-2003
Abstracts from Ottawa, Kansas Newspapers Incorporating Park's Annals
(1864-1920)
In 1988 Doris Parks Elder contributed to Ottawa Library annals
compiled by her father, Hobart Parks, for the years 1864-1920. These
were known around the library for years as "Park's Annals." In the
1970s, Virginia Loyd added annals for the years 1921-1964 using "The
Ottawa Herald" newspapers on microfilm at the library, and she
created an index for the entire period.  In 2003-2004, Virginia's
granddaughter Alena Loyd retyped the entire document into Microsoft
Word 2000, added to the annals using the microfilmed papers for
1965-2003, and redid the index once again.
Alena used "The Ottawa Times" for 1965-2000 and "The Ottawa Herald"
for 2000-2003.  Users may also search for a specific word in the
annals using the computer's Edit/Find feature. Alena also made a
separate file of obituaries for 1965-2003. Specifics
of it may also be searched using Edit/Find.

OTTAWA HISTORY --KANSAS 1866
March ? P. P. Elder occupies new house on Elm street....
...
1875, continued.

Apr. 1 ? Best lot of relief goods, from John Davenport, Bathe, NY, a
carload valued at $1800
consigned to Gov. Elder.

May 26 ? Gov. Elder has enclosed the Old Ohio Town Site quarter, for
a pasture "over the dam"
account of a boat with John Lillard in being swept over the Mill Dam,
and body found later the next day at food of Cedar.
...more...
***

WorldConnect
by Karen
e-mail: [email protected]
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hcgriff&id=I2984
Howard C. Griffin Relatives

# ID: I2984
# Name: David Elder
# Surname: Elder
# Given Name: David
# Sex: M
# Birth: 7 Nov 1813 in New Portland, Somerset, Maine
# Death: 25 Nov 1877 in New Portland, Somerset, Maine
# Burial: East New Portland Cemetery, New Portland, Maine

Marriage 1 Mary Cornforth b: 11 Apr 1821 in Industry, Franklin, Maine
    * Married: 19 Dec 1849 in Industry, Franklin, Maine
Children
   1.  Annie S Elder b: 20 Aug 1856 in New Portland, Somerset, Maine
   2.  Ella A Elder b: 12 Sep 1858 in New Portland, Somerset, Maine

**
1850
Name:   David Elder
Age:  38
Estimated birth year:  abt 1812
Birth Place:  Maine
Gender:  Male
Home in 1850(City,County,State):  New Portland, Somerset, Maine
Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: New Portland, Somerset,
Maine; Roll: M432_269; Page: 210; Image: 403.

1860
Name:   David Elder
Age in 1860:  48
Birth Year:  abt 1812
Birthplace:  Maine
Home in 1860:  New Portland, Somerset, Maine
Gender:  Male
Post Office:  East New Portland
Household Members:
Name  Age
David Elder  48
Mary Elder  38
Anna S Elder  4
Lenelah a Elder  1
Mary Elder Elder  74

Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: New Portland, Somerset,
Maine; Roll: M653_452; Page: 0; Image: 286.

***
1880
Name:   John Elder
Home in 1880:  New Portland, Somerset, Maine
Age:  65
Estimated birth year:  abt 1815
Birthplace:  Maine
Relation to head-of-household:  Self (Head)
Father's birthplace:  Maine
Mother's birthplace:  Maine
Occupation:  Farmer
Marital Status: Widower
Race:  White
Gender:  Male
John Elder   65
Homer F. Elder 17 (son) b. 1863

Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: New Portland, Somerset,
Maine; Roll: T9_487; Family History Film: 1254487; Page: 414.4000;
Enumeration District: 168; Image: 0831.
***

ELDER genforum, by Amelia JAMES
at
http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?maine::elder::1625.html
 > I am getting back into Elder genealogy after a long hiatus! : )
and re-read this post. I am wondering what part of the family your
bible has information on? Can you let me know in an e-mail to me? at
[email protected]
It's always nice to find people studying the Elders in Maine. So many
of the posts are from Pennsylvania Elders.:)

Here is a brief note on how I am descended from Elders in Maine;

Samuel Elder m. ? Huston
their son Isaac Elder m. Mary Hunnewell
their son Isaac Jr? Elder m. 1)Katherine Gilman 2) Mary Quint
Elvahton Elder (son of Isaac and Mary Quint) m. Joanne S. Brackett
their son Samuel Brackett Elder m. Harriet A. Frazier
their son Frederick Eugene Elder m. Mary Emily Griffin
their dau. Grace Denny Elder is my paternal grandmother
  >any information you can provide would be wonderful!
thanks, Amelia James
***
ELDER GENFORUM:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/elder/messages/1036.html
Re: Elder neighborhood, Maine (New Portland)
Posted by: [Bertrand Dyer]
Date: October 25, 2000 at 18:06:18
In Reply to: Elder neighborhood, Maine (New Portland) by Amelia
Ramirez
   > Yes I am familar with the Elder nieghborhood in New Portland
Maine.  I was born in a farm house less than a half a mile from the
Elder home site and still live in the neighborhood
the cellar hole and stone foundation is still accessible from the
middle road where I live .
 >I would be glad to share what I know about the family, I am going
to meet with a Mr Clyde Elder who says his ancestor also came from
New Portland,
 >I am Bertrand Dyer 455 Middle Road North New Portland Me 04961
 207 628 6569 or 207 628 3461..
Good luck

Followups:
    * Re: Elder neighborhood, Maine (New Portland) David Howard
5/19/02
          o Re: Elder neighborhood, Maine (New Portland) Donna
Sutliff 10/22/02
                + Re: Elder neighborhood, Maine (New Portland) Marion
Estabrook 7/19/07

****
Clyde's father?
***
1910
Name:   Charles S Elder
Age in 1910:  58
Estimated birth year:  abt 1852
Birthplace:  Maine
Relation to Head of House:  Head
Father's Birth Place:  Maine
Mother's Birth Place:  Maine
Home in 1910:  Westbrook Ward 4, Cumberland, Maine
Marital Status: Widowed
Race:  White
Gender:  Male
Household Members:
Name  Age
Charles S Elder  58
Percy S Elder  38
Winfield L Lawrence  32
Addie H Lawrence  30
Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Westbrook Ward 4,
Cumberland, Maine; Roll: T624_540; Page: 7B; Enumeration District:
114; Image: 302.
***
1880
Name:   Percy Elder
Home in 1880:  Westbrook, Cumberland, Maine
Age:  4
Estimated birth year:  abt 1876
Birthplace:  Maine
Relation to head-of-household:  Son
Father's name:  Chas. L.
Father's birthplace:  Maine
Mother's name:  Mary E.
Mother's birthplace:  Maine
Marital Status:  Single
Race:  White
Gender:  Male
Household Members:
Name  Age
Chas. L. Elder  30
Mary E. Elder  24
Percy Elder  4
Ada H. Elder  11M
Genia Percy  12  (sister in law)
Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Westbrook, Cumberland,
Maine; Roll: T9_478; Family History Film: 1254478; Page: 533.3000;
Enumeration District: 64; Image: 0442.

***
1860
Name:   Charles Elder
Age in 1860:  4
Birth Year:  abt 1856
Birthplace:  Maine
Home in 1860:  Portland, Cumberland, Maine
Gender:  Male
Post Office:  Portland
Household Members:
Name  Age
Sarah S Elder  46
Joseph F Elder  21
Martha E Kimball  21
Abby Kimball  17
Sarah C Elder  16
Samuel H Elder  14
Charles Elder  4
Mark H Dunnell  37
Sarah P Dunnell  27
Warren F B Dunnell  8
Ellen A Dunnell  6
Fanny F Dunnell  2
Sarah M Hale  17
Celia A Knor  17
Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: Portland, Cumberland,
Maine; Roll: M653_436; Page: 0; Image: 363.

***
1850
Name:   Joseph F Elder
Age:  12
Estimated birth year:  abt 1838
Birth Place:  Maine
Gender:  Male
Samuel Elder 45 Joiner
Sarah H. 42
Jane 18
Roscoe G. 16 Clerk
Joseph F 12
Leonard 8
Sarah 5
Samuel 3
Howard 7/12
Home in 1850(City,County,State):  Portland Ward 6, Cumberland, Maine

Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Portland Ward 6,
Cumberland, Maine; Roll: M432_252; Page: 197; Image: 381.

***
LDS
SAMUEL ELDER

Wife
SARAH H.

Children
1. ROSCO GREEN ELDER
    Male
Birth:  24 APR 1834   Portland, Cumberland, Maine

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