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- Found at Harvey Co., KS Message Board at Ancestry.Com (This may not be the same Janett, but possible - JTC):
Harvey County Kansas Biography
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DR. HENRY A. ENSIGN, physician and surgeon, was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, March 13, 1825. When he was quite young, his parents moved to Painesville, and when he was thirteen years of age, to William County. At the age of nineteen he entered the Austinsburg Seminary, a preparatory school and subsequently Oberlin College, from which he graduated when twenty-six. he read medicine with Dr. Plympton, Madison, Lake Co., Ohio and graduated from the medical department of Western Reserve College, at Cleveland, Ohio. He commenced his practice with his preceptor, Dr. Plympton, with whom he remained one year, and then located at Bryan, Williams County, where he practiced his profession twenty-five years, and until he removed to locate in Kansas.
Dr. Ensign was first married near Bryan, Williams Co., Ohio, December, 1853, to Jane Ann Bigelow, a native of New York State. Mrs. Ensign died in August, 1861, leaving four children -- Orrin Andrew, Wilbur Augustus, Elsworth Elmore, and Clinton. Elsworth Elmore died in Kansas, July 7, 1881. He was again married, September, 1863, to Janette Case, a native of Washington County, N. Y. Two of their children have died -- Henry at the age of four years, and Charles, at the age of twelve. They have five children living -- Frank, May C., Phileman, L. G., and Ray.
Dr. Ensign was elected Surgeon of the One Hundred and Eleventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but was obliged to decline the office on account of sickness in his family. He proved his patriotism, however, in a quiet way at home, treating, according to announcement, all families of enlisted soldiers free of charge, until the close of the war. he immigrated to Kansas in 1871, arriving at Topeka, March 7, where he remained about two weeks, and located during the month at Garden Township, now Harvey County, now in Harvey County.
He engaged in agricultural pursuits at Garden Township, which he continued about years, and then came to Newton and settled on a farm, commencing his medical practice about two years later. In the fall of 1872, he was elected the first Representative to the State legislature from Harvey County, and has held various minor offices since that time. When Dr. Ensign located in Garden Township, it contained three families, including his own, the others being F. P. Munch and Heath brothers, the former now living at Newton, a partner of S. Lehman. Dr. Ensign is a member of South Kansas medical Society, and of Harvey County Medical Society.
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1822 - 1836 (14 years)
d. 20 Oct 1840, Onondaga, NY