Timothy G. Chidsey first appears in the 1859 census for Shawnee County (above), which lists his date of arrival in Kansas as 1857. He can also be found in the 1865 Kansas state census for Shawnee county (below, right page, line 8). During the Civil War he was a member of the 2nd Kansas Militia (along with Frank's brother, Jerome), a unit that helped to repulse Price's Raid into Kansas in 1864.