HOLSINGER, LONG, ROSE, WILSON "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Monday, January 3, 1916 MAJOR HOLSINGER IS DEAD Maj. Frank HOLSINGER, Kansas pioneer, one of the men who obtained prohibition for that state and an authority on horticulture, died suddenly last night at his home, 1300 Walnut Street, Rosedale. He was 80 years old. Major HOLSINGER was one of the founders of the Old Men's Club of Kansas City and attended a meeting of that organization Saturday afternoon. Several years ago, in order to interest the children of Rosedale in fruit raising, Major HOLSINGER gave away several hundred young fruit trees at the close of the school year, each child being instructed to plant them. They are to be seen growing in yards in all parts of that city. Major HOLSINGER was one of the men interested in the improvement of Southwest Boulevard and in the building of good roads in the environs of Kansas City. The Holsinger Road is named for him. Major HOLSINGER was born in Pennsylvania. He first went to Kansas before the Civil War and located south of Lawrence. He took part in several of the border war engagements. He returned to his native state and when the Civil War broke out enlisted in Company F, Eighth Pennsylvania Reserve. He was promoted to the rank of major during the campaign in Virginia. On the battle field of Antietam he met Miss Frances LONG, whom he married after the war. He had gone to visit an injured comrade, who was being cared for at the emergency hospital in a little church. After the war, Major HOLSINGER went to Texas, where he was in charge of the Freedmen's Bureau. In 1868 he again went to Kansas and settled the following year on the 160 acre farm just southwest of Rosedale, where he lived until recently. He has filled the offices of president and treasurer of the Kansas State Horticultural Society and was one of its organizers. When the fight to amend the constitution of Kansas so as to obtain prohibition was waged, Major HOLSINGER was one of those who stood with ex-Governor John P. St. JOHN of Olathe and obtained its adoption. Major HOLSINGER was candidate for governor in 1900 and for state senator on the Prohibition ticket in the '80s. Major HOLSINGER was a member of the Loyal Legion and was one of the founders of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Rosedale. Major HOLSINGER is survived by a widow and six children: Mrs. George ROSE, president of the Kansas side Council of Clubs Gerald HOLSINGER C. V. HOLSINGER, professor of horticulture, Milwaukee Horticultural College George HOLSINGER Mrs. Maude WILSON Miss Edna HOLSINGER ====================================================== ====================================================== "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Friday, May 14, 1943 Word has been received by relatives here of the death yesterday in Chicago of Mrs. Gerald L. HOLSINGER, who lived one mile west of the Rosedale district in Wyandotte County, Kansas, from 1901 to 1938. She was 71 years old. She was a past president of the Mary Tenney Gray Travelers club and a member of the Council of Clubs, Abdiel chapter of the O.E.S., and of Rosedale Methodist church. Before her marriage in 1901, Mrs. HOLSINGER was Miss Ida May KING of Topeka. Three sisters and a brother of Mrs. HOLSINGER's late husband live in or near Kansas City, Kansas. They are Mrs. E. D. WILLIAMS, 35 South Seventeenth street; Mrs. Laurence E. WILSON, 4106 Francis street; Mrs. George E. ROSE, route No. 6, and George W. HOLSINGER, Twenty-first street and Merriam boulevard. Mrs. HOLSINGER is survived by a son, Wallace K. HOLSINGER, Chicago; two grandchildren, Gerald Glenn HOLSINGER and Georgia May HOLSINGER and a brother Edward L. KING, Horton, Kansas. Services will be held in Kansas City, Kansas. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ====================================================== neirbo5