QUINCY BLOSSER

The following "Quincy Blosser in Kansas" was taken from "Illustriana" published by the Kansas Illustriana Society.

Quincy Blosser, a retired farmer and stock raiser since 1933 was born in Marshall, Missouri, December 17, 1865, and died in Concordia, Kansas, February 7, 1950.  He was the son of Henry and Sarah (Baker) Blosser.  Henry Blosser was born in Page County, Virginia, March 24, 1831 and died at Marshall, Missouri, June 14, 1913.  He was of Swiss decent.  Sarah Blosser, his wife, was born in Ohio in 1838.

Quincy Blosser was married to Betty Turley Gauldin, Jan. 1, 1890.  Her father, Martin , went to California in the Gold Rush with two teams of Oxen, returning by the Panama Canal.  Mrs. Blosser was born March 13, 1876.  Just eighty years after in 1930, his grandson Charles Blosser made the trip by plane in twenty hours.  Mr. and Mrs. Blosser reared a family of six children and also a nephew born in 1905 and deceased 1937.  In 1883, Quincy Blosser made his first trip to Norway Township with his father in a covered wagon, where they purchased 1260 acres of land in the Republican River valley.  Later, he purchased 740 additional acres which brought his total holdings to 2000 acres.  The most of this land is still owned by his children.  In 1925, the parents gave each child 160 acres of land.  In 1906, Mr. Blosser, his wife an seven children made the trip settling in the Republican River valley.  The Blossers came to Norway before there was a school in town and when there was only one church, the Norway Lutheran.  They donated land for a church an school.  These things were made possible largely through Mr. Blosser's generosity.  Until the family moved to Concordia, he served on the Board of Education, was president of the Norway State Bank for eleven years, president of the Farmer's Elevator seven years, and it was largely through his help that the Farmer's Elevator was built in Norway.

Quincy Blosser's father and mother were members of the Christian Church, as was he before moving to Concordia.  He there joined the Presbyterian Church, the Red Cross, the Rotary Club and the Masonic Order.

Quincy Blosser died February 7, 1950.  Betty Gauldin Blosser died December 18, 1854.

In 1906, six other families came from Missouri to the Norway Community with the Qunicy Blosser family: Mr. and Mrs. James Robert Figgins, Mrs. and Mrs. Charles Figgins (son of James Robert). Mr. and Mrs. Elihu Lahua, Mrs. and Mrs. B. B. Medlin, Mrs. Robert Gauldin, Mrs. and Mrs. Harry Hawse.