Plumb, Preston B
soldier, journalist, lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, was born Oct. 12, 1837, in Berkshire, Ohio. In 1856 he moved to Kansas; and the following year was instrumental in laying out the town site of Emporia; and founded The Kansas News. In 1851 he was a member of the Leavenworth constitutional convention; was admitted to the bar in 1861; and served with distinction through the civil war, attaining the rank of colonel. In 1867-68 he was a representative in the state legislature; and in 1877 became a United States senator from Kansas; and was re-elected in 1883 and in 1888. For fifteen years he was president of the Emporia National bank. He died Dec. 20, 1891, in Washington, D. C.