In the news… Charles Wentworth, L. E. Tibbits, Willard Wentworth and William Peters have put telephones in their residences last week. – Ashton, Kansas, 1906 [see source below]
Alexander Graham Bell placing the first New York to Chicago telephone call in 1892, only 14 years before “my” family got telephones installed in Ashton, Sumner County, Kansas (photo from Wikipedia)
It’s hard to imagine a time when getting a telephone installed at your house was news! I’m wondering if they were among the first to get phones in this small Kansas town.
I believe these four men (& their households) were all related as follows:
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- Charles Wentworth (b 1855) m. Leni Tibbetts
- L. E. Tibbetts (b 1838) was father of Leni Tibbetts
- William Peters (b 1875), brother of my great grandfather, Emil Peters(1877-1955), married Clara Wentworth, daughter of Charles & Leni (Tibbetts) Wentworth
- Willard Wentworth (b 1866) was a nephew of Charles Wentworth
Source: Charles Wentworth article, Weekly Republican-Traveler, Arkansas City, Kansas, 29 November 1906, page 5, column 5, digital image, Newspapers.com (http://www.newspapers.com : accessed 29 August 2016)
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