S. M. Cornatzer
S. M. Cornatzer was born in N. C. in 1813, and emigrated to Clay Co., Mo. In 1844; in Dec. ’45 he came to the Indian Territory and located on Mission Creek, and taught at the Kaw Mission for three years; subsequently taught three years at the Shawnee Methodist Mission. March 6th, ’50, he married Caroline Sugget, a Shawnee, and in ’52 was adopted into the tribe. In ’66 he was elected clerk of the council. At the time of the organization of the Territory he espoused the Free State cause. He has a family of five children, who with his wife make their home with the Shawnees in the Indian country, while he remains on his farm near Shawnee; they frequently visit him while he in turn visits them. He has also a fine farm on Indian creek. He is a man of few words and short sentences, but they signify all they express.
Atlas Map of Johnson County, Kansas, E. F. Heisler and Co., 1874, p. 86.
