SOLOMON METTY IN THE NEWS

By Bertie Brillhart -
The Pottawatomie Gazette" Aug. 20, 1869 "Sol. Metty requests all who are indebted to him to come forward and settle immediately either by money or note.But a settlement, he must and will have."

Dec. 3, 1874 Kansas Reporter : "Mr. Sol Metty has another heir. It's a boy." KS Hist. Society microfilm #L2311 (This item is believed to be reporting on the birth of Jesse Frederick Metty who was the first born son of Solomon and Margaret McKown Metty, born 25 Nov 1874)

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