E. F. traveled with his father Isaiah and 9 brothers and sisters from Caldwell, Ohio to Hutchinson, Kansas in March 1887. E. F. was 18 at the time. Two years later he married Elizabeth Ellen Crow (born in Harrietsville, Ohio in 1869). E.F. and Lizzie are both 20. Her parents, Isaac Crow and Mary Calvert had been married in Hutchinson in 1859. She had 11 brothers and sisters who were born in Caldwell, Ohio in the years 1859 - 1874.