F. RINGHISEN                     GRAVESTONE PHOTO                      

William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas

OSAGE COUNTY, Part 14

LYNDON, PART 2.

 

F. RINGHISEN, farmer, two and one-half miles east of Lyndon, on Salt Creek; has 400 acres of land; about 200 under cultivation. He has twenty-five to 100 head of cattle and about twenty head of horses. He came to Kansas in the spring of 1872. Was born in Hocking County, Ohio, July 26, 1843. In 1866 moved to Wells County. Enlisted in 1861 in Company F, Fifty-eighth Ohio. Was at Fort Donaldson, Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg and Arkansas Post. Was wounded at Milligan's Bend and discharged April, 1863. Was married June 14, 1866, at Logan, Ohio at Catherine Angle. Mr. Ringhisen was one of the original stockholders of Lyndon Savings Bank. Is a member of G. A. R. Post, No. 19.