Kay County OK Bios for: Konklin, James T.
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Submitted to the archives by: Joe Kirkpatrick at  joekir40@yahoo.com

Date submitted: 15Jul2010
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BIO FOR JAMES T. KONKLIN by his grandson L. B. Kirkpatrick
 
My Grandfather (Jim Konklin) was born in High Point, Iowa, in 1862.   
He lived there until he was a young man.   He then went to western Kansas 
with his two brothers, where they homesteaded.   He farmed and raised cattle 
near Colby, Kansas and was married in 1889 (to Jenny Baxendale).   
In the same year he started a general store in Colby. He ran his store until 
he sold it in 1893.
    In 1893 he and his two brothers ran in the Cherokee Strip.   They used a 
wagon to run in the Strip.   They staked lots in Perry, Oklahoma.   They knew 
that after Perry was settled the lots would be valuable, but the next day after 
they had staked the claim they found that they had staked claims where the 
streets of Perry were to be made.
    They pulled up stakes and went ten miles north and one mile east of Perry 
and all three men staked claims on one section.   My Grandfather staked on the 
southeast quarter of the section.   It was school land and they had to pay rent 
on it until it was sold and they bought it.   The location where my Grandfather 
put up his tent is in the pasture in what is now a pond about a half mile north 
of the house where it is now present.
    The men after getting their land returned to western (Brewster)Kansas for 
their families.   When they returned they found that someone else had taken   
up their claims.   After my grandfather and his two brothers told them that they 
had already staked the land the other parties left.   My Grandfather's two brothers 
sold their land in 1905 and moved east, but my Grandfather stayed on his land.   
In 1913 my Grandfather and one of his sons went to Montana.   He staked a 320 acre 
homestead..While he was away in the year 1913, his home in Oklahoma burnt down.
    It had burned the same morning as the Wilkins Hall on campus of UPS in Tonkawa 
burned down.   He soon returned home to rebuild it.   My Grandfather died in 1923 
and my Grandmother still has possession of his farm.