ELDRIDGE B. FENN
Born and reared on a farm in Niagara County, New York, in September, 1830. He got the rudiments of his education in the district school and to some extent, while a young man, was engaged in teaching. He attended an academy in Wisconsin. While yet a young man he decided to enter upon the profession of medicine and in the preparation for this he attended the Western Reserve Medical College at Cleveland, Ohio. In 1857 being then 27 years of age settled in the practice of his profession at Iowa Center Iowa. He was married to Miss Elizabeth W. Cochrane, of Iowa Center, Iowa. In the providence of God he was led to engage for a time in the newspaper business in Panora, Iowa. He also served two terms as a member of the legislature of that state and was for a time Superintendent of Public Instruction. One thing in his life that he often referred to with great satisfaction to himself was the fact that while he was a member of the Iowa legislature he was the author of a resolution by which the word "white" was stricken from the state constitution. When the war broke out he was appointed and served for a time as Provost Marshal of his district. He then enlisted in the 4th Iowa Infantry and served for three years as a soldier, all of which time he served as hospital steward. In 1866 he came to Kansas and located at what is now the town of Quenemo, then the Agency of the Sac & Fox Indians. He there held the position of Post physician and surgeon under the government.
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