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View Tree for Edwin Benjamin HumphreysEdwin Benjamin Humphreys (b. 26 May 1870, d. 01 Sep 1961)

Edwin Benjamin Humphreys (son of James Dabney Humphreys and Ellen Mary Patterson) was born 26 May 1870 in Macon City, Macon County, MI, and died 01 Sep 1961 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He married (1) Gertrude Buehl aka Minnie G. \Humphreys\. He married (2) Pearl Kitchen on 23 Oct 1918 in Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, daughter of James Taylor Kitchen and Mary Elizabeth Stewart.

 Includes NotesNotes for Edwin Benjamin Humphreys:
Mr. E.B. Humphreys who was born in Macon City, Missouri, moved
at an early age to Kingman, Kansas, near Witchita, where he
later managed and did the bookkeeping for a lumber yard. Also
present at Kingman were his mother Mary Ellen (Patterson) and
father James Dabney and probably his sister Alma Rice
(Summers), brother Curtis James, and future brother-in-law Dr.
Milton H. Haskins. It is believed that while EB, Curtis, and
Dr. Haskins were in Kingman that all were members of the
masonic Lodge and probable advanced to the degree of Knights
Templer.

In the year 1898, Oklahoma opened land for settlement known as
" the strip" in which everyone interested in homesteading was
to line up at the start line and when th gun was fired each
would ride out to locate his claim. Mr. EB and brother Curtis
decided that they would try their luck as this. However,
everywhere that they traveled they found the each track had
already been staked out.

Early in the 20th Century, Mr. EB, then married to Gertie
Buell, moved to Raton, New Mexico upon the invitation of a
friend, Mr. Roof. Here he opened his own Lumber yard which
became the Raton Lumber Co. (a corporation) and later opened
another which was basically;;u a woodworking Shop named Home
Lumber Co. Gradually this organization expanded to the
ownership o Lumber yards in Des Moines, New Mexico and Maxwell,
New Mexico and a connection with the O.L. Davis Lumber Company
in Trinidad, Colorado. This was probably about 1904 and New
Mexico was still a territory and of course communication in any
form was extremely limited and undeveloped. The period of the
development of railroads was underway, and Mr. EB has stated
that at one time their were plans for five separate railroads
giving service to and from Raton. Some of these later
developed into spur lines for the Santa Fe railroad to the
different coal mining camps and the towns around Raton.

Gertie Humphreys died in February the twenty sixth in the year
1916 in Raton and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Denver,
Colorado. Two and one half years later Mr. EB married Pearl
Kitchen of Columbus and Rushville, Indiana, on 23 October 1918.
They had one daughter Mary Eleanor (now McWhirter) born 15
October 1919, and one son Edwin B. Humphreys, Jr., born 14
August 1922.

By this time New Mexico had become a state of the United
States(in 1912), but the department stores and centers of
industry had not come to New Mexico at this time, andd of
course communication was very limited. Therefore, it was a
common practice to travel to Denver, Colorado and other cities
for some of the yearly purchased, and Mrs. Pearl Humphreys
tried to make annual trips to her parents home in Indiana. It
was always better to have purchases shipped to Raton than to
try to carry the purchases back because o the limited space
available. New Mr.EB became exasperated with some of the
clerks and managers of the stores who wanted to know how much
"duty" they should charge, wo he got in the habit of telling
them to ship the packages to Raton, Colorado, and strangely
enough they would arrive. This unfortunate situation existed
to the next 15 to 20 years.

Siblings of Mr. EB were Alma Rice (Sumner),(Haskins) born 20
Jan 1859; Victor Belden, born 27 Nov 1862 ; Kay, born in 1865;
Edwin B. born 26 May 1870; Norman, born in 1873; and Curtis
James, born 29 October 1879. Their father was James Dabney who
was born 28 October 1834, and their mother who was Mary Ellen
(Patterson), born 14 November 1839. James D. was born in
Randolph County Mo.(?Silver Creek Twnsp) and Mary Ellen was
Born in Howard County (Prairie Twnsp) Mo. Mary Ellen went by
the name of Ellen to distinguish her from her grandmother (Mrs.
Rice Patterson) who was also Mary Ellen and west by Mary. This
parental pair were Married 13 Den 1857 in Howard County,
Missouri.

Mr. EB was a member of the Raton Rotary Club, Gate City Lodge
#11 (Masonic), Knight Templars, and the Raton Country Club. He
served as President of the Mountain States Lumber Dealers
Association, as a ruling Edder in the First Presbyterian Church
in Raton, and briefly on the city council and also the board of
Miner's Hospital in Raton. He enjoyed playing bridge, golf,
and fishing.



More About Edwin Benjamin Humphreys:
Burial: 04 Sep 1961, Fairmont, Raton, Colfax, Colfax Coulnty, New Mexico.
Record Change: 02 May 2000

More About Edwin Benjamin Humphreys and Pearl Kitchen:
Marriage: 23 Oct 1918, Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana.

Children of Edwin Benjamin Humphreys and Pearl Kitchen are:
  1. +Mary Eleanor Humphreys.
  2. +Edwin Benjamin Humphreys Jr..
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