"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 88, No 9, p 286, Mar. 1, 1920. Perry Burdick Maxson was born in Rhode Island July 20, 1826, and died in Emporia, Kan., in January, 1920. Brother Maxson began service as a school teacher at the age of eighteen and in his nineteenth year he attended school in DeRuyter. There he met Miss Mary S. Wilcox, who became his wife in 1851. In 1856 he started for the West, and after two years spent in Wisconsin, took up his residence near Emporia, Kan. He was active in the anti-slavery interests during the excitement over settling the territory as a free State. Almost immediately after settling there he began serving in public life, as county commissioner and justice of the peace. Later he became a member of the first legislature of the State, serving terms in both houses. He was a member of the council that made the treaty with the Cherokee Indians. Mr. Maxson was the first man to advocate a north and south railroad to the Gulf of Mexico, and took a leading part in organizing and establishing the system known as the U. P. S. B. R. R. Co. In 1893 he was elected state railroad commissioner, and in 1895 he was appointed to fill the vacancy in the office of probate judge of Lyon County, Kan. Upon completing this term of office, he retired to his farm south of Dunlap where he spent fifteen years. He is survived by one son, W. P. Maxson, of Emporia, and a daughter, Mrs. J. H. Jetmore, of California. At the age of sixteen, Mr. Maxson united with the Seventh Day Baptist Church and continued in that faith through life. He was counted among the lone Sabbath-keepers. - Emporia Gazette They Came to Milton http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jonsaunders