|
Edward Payson Bancroft moved with his family in
1834 to Michigan, where he studied medicine with
Dr. B. G. Ellis at Clinton and attended medical
lectures at the Michigan State University at Ann
Arbor, from 1849 to 1851. After practicing medicine
at Chelsea, Mich., until the fall of 1856, he moved
to Emporia, Kansas, in February 1857, and engaged
in the real estate business. He was elected
Secretary of State in 1858 and State Senator in
1860. On 1 August 1861 he was commissioner first
Lieutenant and quartermaster in the Eighth Kansas
Regiment and was promoted to the rank of major in
the Ninth Kansas Cavalry on 15 March 1862, but
resigned because of dsiability in February
1863.
He, together with his wife, his brother Asa Rand
Bancroft, and his sister Louisa and her husband
Ephriam Gilbert, was at the sacking of Lawrence,
Kansas, by Quantrell on 21 August 1863.
He re-entered the army and served in the
quartermaster's department at New Orleans and Port
Jackson, La., Key West, Fla., Navy Cove Mobile, and
Montgomery, Ala., until some time after the close
ofthe War. He planted cotton two seasons near
Montgomery, Ala., returned to Emporia in December
1868, resumed his former business and published the
Emporia Real Estate Register for several years,
besides several county and state maps. He was
regent of the Kansas State Normal School for
several years, and was one of the Commissioners of
the State of Kansas for the Centennial Exposition
at Philadephia in 1876. Early in the summer of 1881
he moved to Chihuahua, Mexico, where he established
the Chihuahua Mining and Real Estate Exchange.
|
