Jacques Mete' Descendants

Pottawatomie county History First White Settlers who Came to the County For the Purpose of Agriculture and Stock-Raising and with the intention of Becoming Citizens Sketches of the Settlers of 1854 Dr. Sol Metty came from Michigan to what is now Pottawatomie county, Kansas, in 1854, arriving here September 15 of that year. He run a little store in Louisville and as a doctor was a specialist and treated mainly chronic diseases. He first married Miss Alice Palmer, who died* and later he married Miss Maggie McKowen. He was captain of Company G, of the Kansas militia in 1863. Dr. Metty, after residing in the vicinity of Louisville for nearly half a century, moved to Topeka a few years ago where he still resides. He is about 70 years of age. The RECORDER is indebted to Dr. Metty for considerable information regarding pioneers and early county history. *There is evidence that Alice Palmer did not die until the early 1930s. This article addresses Solomon as Dr. Metty, and the question h...

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On May 23rd, 1891, Samuel Metty filed his Declaration for Original Invalid Pension in St. Joseph County, Michigan. In it he declares that he is 56 years of age and that he is unable to earn a support by manual labor by reason of deafness and rheumatism, attributable to his service in Company K, 9th Regiment of Michigan Volunteer Cavalry in the war of 1861. In a supporting statement given on the 25th day of May 1892 he further states that while in the army in February 1865 he contracted a severe cold in his head, from which he has suffered more or less since, but did not know it was catarrh until so informed by the examining physicians. On the 25th of May 1900, Samuel again filed a petition to include in his claim additional disabilities. Based on his physical examination at Three Rivers on September 13, 1899, the doctors discovered that he had “disease of liver and arteries.” In the original declaration his surname appears to be spelled Methy, but when he signed the form, he sig...

July 1st, 1913: The Topeka Daily Capital, page 6: Oliver Solomon 76 years old died at his home 2025 Van Buren St., yesterday afternoon. The funeral will be held at Assumption Church at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning. The body will be sent to Wamego for burial. July 2nd, 1913: Dr. S. T. Metty, Pioneer Kansas Physician, Dies Practiced Medicine for half century in Topeka - Funeral Today The funeral of Dr. S T Metty this morning at 8 o'clock at the Church of the Assumption will mark the passing away of another Kansas pioneer. Dr. Metty practiced medicine in Topeka for more than half a century; he died a the family home, 2025 Van Buren Street last Monday afternoon. S. T. Metty was born in Monroe, Mich., in 1837; he came to St. Mary's, Kan. in '54, one of the early settlers in that section of the state, where his name still is remembered, though for the last fifty years he has been a citizen of Topeka. He is survived by his wife and eight children: J. F. Metty, William Metty...