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Haskell
Birch
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Bush City
Westphalia
Welda
Selma
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Lone Elm.
Northcott
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Colony
Anderson.
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Invermay
Goodinlent · Lancaster
ATCHISON
MO .. P David R. Atchison, a Senator from Shannon Missouri, and President of the Muscotah C United States Senate at the date of M the passage of the Act for the organ- Effinghane Monrovia Parnell Farmington R. ization of the Territory of Kansas. Hawthontur William 311. .. Cummings Arrington 1 Pottri lak Mille Pleasant He was a Pro-Slavery Demoerat, and zealous partisan leader in the diseus- Atchison. sions and movements affecting the interests of slavery and its attempted establishment in the new State to be created.
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Anderson .- Organized in 1855. County seat, Garnett. Received its name from Jos. C. Anderson, of Missouri, who was a member of the first Kansas Territorial Legisla- ture, and Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.
Atchison .- Organized in 1855. County seat, Atehison. Named for
Huron Eden
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Isabel
"Amber',
Lake City.
Munford:
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Sharon
· Drerhead
Pixley
Eagle
Sexton
Lodg
Roundup
Aetna
5
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Hardtner
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Barber.
Barber .- Organized in 1873. County seat, Medicine Lodge. In honor of Thomas W. Barber, a Free State settler of Douglas county, who was killed in consequence of the political troubles, near Lawrence, December 6, 1855. (The county was originally named in the statute as "Barbour," but was corrected by special act of the Legis- lature in 1883.)
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Galatia
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Maherville
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Boyd
Hosington Odin
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Claflin
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Ark
yawnce Rock
Barton.
ably effective philanthropic career in the sanitary department of the army.
Bourbon. - Organized in 1855. County seat, Fort Scott. Received its name from Bourbon county, Ky., the latter having been one of the
Reserve
Springs
3
Morrill
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Padonia
Hamlin
p
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Fairview
HIAWATHA / Mannville
idolity
Comet
Powhattan
Baker
&
Willla-
Germantown
Everest
Pierce Je.
Horton
Brown.
Barton. - Organized in 1872. County seat, Great Bend. In honor of Miss Clara Barton, of Massachu- setts, who won great distinction during the war for the Union by her remark-
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Mapleton
osage
Xenia
Harding &
· Holman
CY
Hammond
Berlin
Devon
13
Majella
Azua
Woodl'd
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Redfield
Marmato
T
Lakeside
Ronald
Washburn
Jc.
· Rockford
Godfrey
Hiattville
Porterville)
Pawnee Sta.
M
Clark sburg
Garland
Bourbon.
nine counties organized in 1785 by the Virginia Legislature, before Ken- tucky became an independent State. It was so called as a compliment to the Bourbon dynasty of France, a prince of that family (then on the throne) having rendered the American colonies important aid in men and money in their great struggle for independence. Colonel Samuel A. Williams, a native of
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S
Ellinwood
Dundee
Uniontown
Banders
FT SCOTT
Bronson
etle
Fulton
Medicin
Lodi
Hazelton
M
Robinson
Carson
303
DESCRIPTION OF COUNTIES.
Bourbon county, Ky., was a member of the House from Fort Scott in 1855, and it was at his request that the county was so named. He was mustered in as Cap- tain of Company I, Second Kansas Cav- alry, November 22, 1861, and resigned March 28, 1862. He died at his old home, Fort Scott, in August, 1873.
Brown .- Organized in 1855. County seat, Hiawatha. After Albert G. Browne, Burgess S of Mississippi, who had been Senator Lorena dom Beaumont and member of the House of Represen- Aral Le ire Vuma tatives from that State, was United States Rose: H Douglass . Pine: Grove Latham Senator at the date of the Act organizing Butler. Vingate Kansas Territory, was re-elected for six years in 1859, but withdrew with Jeffer- Hymer Saffordville son Davis on the secession of the South- Toledo Elba ern States. The name is properly Rocklang Ellinor Elk S Evails Stroug. spelled with an e in the original statute, Elindal but on the county seal the e was left :COTTON WOOD Hlad tone off-accidentally, probably. All later Clements FALLS statutes present the name without the final e.
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Cedar Point:
Birleye
Morgan3
Homestead
:Matfield Greende
.. Wousevy.
`Thurman
.C'age
Elbing
Sycamore Springs
Amador
De Graff
Durachen:
Whitewater Brainerd
MO
Chelsea
Potw
S
Hopkins
o Muritoch
FEDORADO.
Pontia
en
Towan
White
Arido
Indianola
Haverhill
Keighley
Butler .- Organized in 1855. County seat, Eldorado. For Andrew P. Butler, who was United States Senator from South Carolina, from 1846 to 1857.
Chase .- Organized in 1859. County Chase. seat, Cottonwood Falls. Created out of portions of Wise and Butler counties, and named in honor of Salmon P. Chase, successively Governor of Ohio, United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. In the Senate he was earnest in his opposition to the extension of slavery into Kansas.
Chautauqua .- Organized in 1875. County seat, Sedan. Created out of a portion of what was first God- frey county, named after "Bill" God- Colfax Farmersburg frey, a noted trader among the Osages; Cloverdale (Centre Hale. Monett. then Howard county, in honor of . Leeds Grafton Brown Major-General O. O. Howard, for Spring Creek V. PAC his efforts in behalf of the Union. Love Rogers Chautauqua county, N. Y., was the '%lar Vale MO former home of Hon. Edward Jaquins, Wauneta TU Osro Perú J F a member of the Kansas Legislature . . . SEDAN Hewins Elgin. S Chautauqua Niotaze in 1875 from Howard county, who A · Jonesburg
Chautauqua.
osali
Palin
PA
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Mineml Cy
Mackie
K: & T.
ME
Scammon
Sherman.
Starvale
Pleasant View
Turck
Messe
Hallowell.
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Crestline
Tehama.
Galena
M
'Lowell
irck
.Baxter Sprs.
Lowell :P.O
Melrose
:Keelville
Cherokee.
which embraced all the territory of Seward and a five-mile strip additional. on the west.
Cherokee. - Organized in 1866. County seat, Columbus. First named McGee in 1855, for E. McGee, of Mis- souri, who was a member of the Ter- ritorial Legislature. In 1866 the name
Cherokee was adopted, from the fact that a large portion of the "Cherokee neutral lands," reservation of that tribe of Indians, was included in the geographical area of the county.
Cheyenne .- Boundaries defined in 1873. Organized April 1, 1886. County seat, St. Francis. Named after the Indian tribe of that name.
akhill' :: . Exeter® Clay. - Or- Wakefield ganized in 1866. Longford Athelstane County seat, Industry . Bateham Clay Center. Clay. Named in honor of the distin - guished Kentucky statesman, Henry Clay, who was chosen United States Senator in 1806. He afterwards served in both houses, and was in public life most of the time during a period of forty-six years. He was minister to England and France, and candidate for
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Letitia.
Lexington
ASHLAND.
Manning
Ci
Englewood
Cheyenne.
Faet
Reput
Fancy Creek
Morganville
Green W
. Charity
CLAY
CENTER
: Idana
Broughton
Gatesville: Sidin
introduced the Bill which divided Howard into Chautauqua and Elk; hence, from his native place this county derives its name. The name originally given (in 1855) to Howard county was Godfrey, and the name was changed to Seward in 1861. In 1867 the Legislature, ignoring former names, created the county of Howard,
River
OSAINT FRANCIS.
Wheeler
Bird City
Gurney
Republican
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R
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Lawnridge
Beaver
Warren Little
Clark.
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Neutral
Sta
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Sitka
Folsom
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DESCRIPTION OF COUNTIES.
President in opposition to Polk. He died in Washington in 1852.
Clark. - Organized May 5, 1885. County seat, Ashland. Originally and correctly Clarke, with a final e, in memory of Charles F. Clarke, Cap- tain and Adjutant-General, United States Volunteers, who died at Mem- phis, December 10, 1862.
Cloud .- Organized as Shirley, in Miltonyale 1860. County seat, Concordia. The Cloud. county was AT&SF Leho : Agrico Ma 4 originally named after Governor Willliam M P Shirley, colonial Governor of Massachu- Halls Summit Waverly setts from 1741 to 1756. The name was changed to Cloud in 1867, in honor of S M Ottumwa Sharpe Kong Colonel William F. Cloud, of the Second Strawn Pottawatomie Regiment, Kansas Volunteers.
River
Patmos
Big.S Coffey .- Organized in 1859. County O BURLINGTON seat, Burlington. Named in honor of Col. A. M. Bristol Wilmore yi M Coffey, a A member of M Gridley Alicefille Kyle Crotty YOY Je. the first Crandall Coffey. Territorial Legislative COLDWATER Council. Colonel Coffey died at Dodge Nescatunga City in 1879.
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:Avilla.
Comanche. - Organized February 27, 1885. County seat, Coldwater. Named from the Indian tribe of that .Mayo. name. The county was first organized Red J Rock Burden in the Comanche. 5 . Bud .Atlanta leagrouse fall of . LL Udall u. Wilmot 4. Grand Som 1873, under a general law then in Akron .. Cambridge · Torrance force, and was represented in the Leg- Floral Seely New Salem : islature under that organization in LSFA 1874; but that organization was held A T Tisdale Eaton V fraudulent and void.
Kellogg
WINFIELD
Dexter '
Hackney .
Treshan
Hooser.
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ARK
l'inton
Taussig
Arkansas Cy
· Otta .
Silverdale Maple City
· Cale
Avidsoas
Cowley.
Oneonta
Christie
Lawrence burg .: Clvd
um
James
Rice
M town CONCORDIA
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. Macyville
· Graves
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St: Joseph
: Half Way .
Aurora
5
Sulphur Sprs.
Heber
Glasco:
Meredith
A
Cameron '
Cowley .- Organized in 1870. County seat, Winfield. Named in honor of Matthew Cowley, First Lieutenant of Company I, Ninth Kansas Cavalry, who died in the service October 7, 1864, at Little Rock, Ark. The county
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Crawford.
was originally named Hunter, after R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia.
Crawford. - Organized in 1867. County seat, Girard. This county was, by an Act of the Legislature of 1867, created out of the northern half of Cherokee, which prior to that date reached to Bourbon. It was named in honor of Samuel J. Crawford, who
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Ruth3 was elected Governor in 1864, and Jennings served nearly four years. The Legis- OBERLIN, Allison lature named the county in obedience Kanona: to a resolution passed in convention, Hooker. held to petition for its organization. .Keith Governor Crawford resigned in Octo- Bassettville :: M. ber, 1868, to become Colonel of the . Lund Nineteenth Kan- "Shibboleth Stitt Dresden sas Cavalry, . Hawkeye Manchester New. Chillicothe ;Borin Sutphen Decatur. specially raised Moonlight . for the Indian Talmage ·. Detroit hens japon S war of 1868-69. He served as Captain in the .Elmo' Second Kansas Infantry, and was Colonel of the Second Regiment Colored Volunteer Infantry, enterprise "Rhinehart during the war for the Union.
colomo
Pearl
Bonaccord
MISS RI Decatur .- Organized in 1879. County seat, . V Avarre Donegal Wondbini Oberlin. Boundaries defined by legislative Holland enactment in 1873. Named in Dayton Hope modore Stephen Bann .. P. Her ingtuy White Cloud tinguished Amer- honor of Com- Decatur, a dis- Rhoades ican naval offi- Dickinson. cer. He fell in a flowa Point R duel with Com- modore Barron, United States Navy, Highland in 1808.
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TROY
Morav
Severance:
Blair
Bondena'
.Wathen:
Elwoul-
Denton
: Palermo Brenner.
.Dentonville.
.Purcell
Geary:
Dongphan
Doniphan.
Dickinson. - Organized in 1857. County seat, Abilene. In honor of Daniel S. Dickinson, who was a Sena- tor from the State of New York. In 1847 he introduced, in the United States Senate, resolutions respecting
Sta.
Fanning;
Highland
Rvans
Cherokee
. Flemi
Weir City
A.itchyjef
ABILENE
S
Brazilton
Walnut:
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DESCRIPTION OF COUNTIES.
KANSAS
Grover
Glendale
Lecompton
Lake View
LAWRENCEO
A
T &S F
Clinton
Belvoir y
Gideon Sibley
Hesper
Boud
.
Pleasanı
Twin Mound
Gr Vinland
Alfred ·
Holling.
Clearfield
Lapeer
Worden Hillsan
Globe
Baldwin
Jack
· Appanoose
Media®
Douglas.
territorial government, embodying the doctrine of popular sovereignty, afterwards incorporated in the Bill for the organization of Kansas R Territory. He died in 1866.
Doniphan. - Organized in 1855. County seat, Troy. In honor of Col. A. W. Doniphan, of Missouri. He commanded a regiment of cavalry during the Mexican War, marching across the plains, and taking a very prominent part in the conquest Mexico. He zealous parti-
of New was a
san in the effort made to extend slavery into Kansas.
Douglas. - Organized in 1855. S County seat, Lawrence. In honor of Lewis. Belpre Stephen A. Douglas, United States A T KINSLEY .. Senator from Illinois, and candidate Offerle for the presidency in 1860. As a Kirkfield, Fellsburg® Senator, Douglas, in 1854, took a Bannock leading part in securing the adoption . Wendell ARKANSAS & of the Edwards. Western Park. "' pop- ular sovereignty" principle in the Act Blanche ·Fiat: Cave Springs organizing Kansas Territory, which HOWARD gave the particular form of the issue Busby involved in the Kansas struggle.
Chaplin: Upola
Longtou S
Moline
&
Grenola
Elk Fatty
Jak Valle
Elk.
tor. Colonel Edwards removed from Kansas to New Mexico.
Elk .- Organized in 1875. County seat, Howard. Created out of the northern portion of what had been Howard county. Named for the Elk river, which traverses its area from northwest to southeast. (See Chau- tauqua.)
Ellis .- Organized in 1867. Hays is the county seat. Named in memory
Turkyill
Ellis
Catharine-
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Walker
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Victoria
MILITARY RES.
Toulon.V
Munjor
Pfeifer Norfolk
K
Ellis.
Edwards. - Organized in 1874. County seat, Kinsley. Named in honor of John H. Edwards, of Ellis, State Sena-
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Eudora
Weaver"
Black
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of George Ellis, First Lieutenant of Company I, Twelfth Kansas In- fantry, killed in battle April 30, 1864, at Jenkins' Ferry, Ark.
Ellsworth. - Organized in 1867. County seat, Ellsworth. Named after Fort Ellsworth, a military post built on the bank of the Smoky Hill, in 1864. This fort was so called by General Curtis, in honor of the officer
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Spearville
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DODGE-CY.
Fort Dodge .
S. Dodge
C
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Wilroad-
Mulder
Ford
Bucklin
&
Wilburn:
Kingsdown:
Bloom C
Ford.
seat, Dodge City. Named in honor of Colonel James H. Ford, of the Second Colorado Cavalry, and Brevet Brigadier-General United States Vol- unteers.
Franklin. - Organized in 1855. County seat, Ottawa. Named in honor of the illustrious Benjamin Franklin.
Finney. - Organized in 1884. County seat, Garden City. Originally Sequoyah, from the celebrated Chero-
Imperial
.Amazon
Terryton
Ravanna
Loyal
Knauston
Pitt
Eminence
.
Kalvesta
A
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Mansficht
Plymel1· Piercevi
Finney.
who constructed it, Allen Ellsworth, Second Lieutenant of Company H, Seventh Iowa Cavalry. When the name was adopted for the county it was supposed that the fort had been named in memory of Colonel E. E. Ellsworth, of national fame.
Ford .- Organized in 1873. County
Centropolis. Norwood
Wellsville
·Garlington
Le Loupe
S
Ushers .
Pomona
> Richter
N. Osawa OTTAWA
M
Peoria
M
Burlington Je.
F
Rautoul
Homewood 5
Ransom V.
Princeton.
Williamsburg
Silkville
Lane
Richmoud
Franklin.
kee Indian of that name, the inventor of the alphabet of his language, and a most remarkable man. Changed in 1883 to Finney, in honor of D. W. Finney, then Lieutenant-Governor of the State.
Geary .- Organized in 1855 as Davis county. which name was given for JJefferson Davis- United States Senator and Secretary of war-who became President of the Southern Confederacy.
Sherlock
GARDEN CITY
Essex
Wilson'
Delight
Ren's Ranch
Maśmer:
Black Wolf:
ELLSWORTH
Mt.Zion
U Carneiro
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Palacky MILITARY RESSAL, Harker
' Arcola
: Phipps
Farmville
Alliance : :
& Midway
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Hollyrood ~
Trivoli
A
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Burton
... Langley
S
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F
Ellsworth.
Kinopolis
terra Cotta
Lorraine :
5
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5
309
DESCRIPTION OF COUNTIES.
The Legislature changed the name to Geary, in 1889, in honor of John W. Geary, who was Territorial Governor of Kansas from 1856 until March, 1857. County Milford Sta. seat, Junction City.
NO.
Milford P.O:
Rep
Fort Riley
Co lida
P
JUNCTION CITY
N
Vansay Falls
Treford
9
Gove .- Organized Septem- ber 2, 1886. Gove is the county seat. In Humbo Briggs . Vestgate Welcome honor of Captain Grenville L. Gove, Eleventh Kansas Weston Cavalry, Moss Springse who died Clarky in 1864.
UNION
Grinnell
Grainfield
Buffalo Park
Quinter
Blackberry
GOVE
Tiffany
Jerome
Catalpa
Smoky Hill
River
Alanthus
Gove.
Graham. - Organized in 1880. County seat, Hill City. In honor of Captain John L. Graham, of the Eighth Regiment, Kansas Infantry -- killed in action at Chickamauga, Tenn., September 19, 1863, before he was mustered.
Grant. - Organized June 9, 1888. County seat, Ulysses. Named in honor of General Ulysses S. Grant.
Gray. - Organized July 20, 1887. County seat, Cimarron. Named in honor of Alfred Gray, late Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture.
Be;
Warrendale ..
Shockey .
Appomattox
ULYSSES
Conductor
Fork
Golden®
Lawson
Zionville
Grant.
Greeley .- Or- ganized July 9, 1887. County seat, Tribune. Named in honor of the founder of the New York Tribune.
Greenwood .- Organized in 1862. County seat, Eureka. This county re- ceived its name
Charleston
A
Ingalls
F
CIMARRONOS
Ensign
Montezuma
Ego
Carmen
Gray.
Bow
· Gradan ..
Carl! :
Morland
Penokee
HILL CITY
Solomon
PAC
S
Turk
Nicodemus
B
Kebar
Leland
· Hoganville :
Happy
Graham.
Geary.
PAC
ARKANSAS
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.Hurt
White Woman
Astor
Horace
·TRIBUNE
DIEhitelaw
0
M
Ainsworth
·Underwood .
Greeley.
as a compliment to Alfred B. Greenwood, who, about the time of the organization of the Territory, was commissioner of Indian affairs. He negotiated treaties on the part of the United States with the Sac and Fox, and other tribes in southern Kansas.
Barry Hamilton. - Organized January 29, 1886. County seat, Syracuse. In honor of General Alexander Hamilton, the great American statesman; he was killed in a duel Madison WiNJur with Aaron Burr, July 11, 1804. HilltopA Lamonte Madison Je. Dunaway Thrall
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3 S
Virgil Fame Harper. - Or- S ganized in 1873. County seat, Anthony. o Lapland Prova The organization of this county was one of · Ivanpal p Tonovay Flint Ridge Hamilton the most glaring frauds ever perpetrated in Quinch EUREKA Neaft the State. Attorney-General Williams, in Utopia his official report, says: "It is not pretended Climax Twin Falls ·Carrol that Harper county ever had an inhabit- Medmony Hickman ST Derry : Shiloh Stowelle ant." The form of Greenwood. S Sever) aGreenwood Fall River Federalª its organization was Reece legal on paper, and that is all. In 1878 the organization became legal. The county Coolidge was named in memory of Marion Harper, ARKANSAS RIV Medway first Sergeant of Company E, Second Regi- SYRACUSE: ment Kansas Cavalry. He was mortally wounded at Waldron, Ark., December 29, 1863, and died the following day. His Maylin Kendall comrades say he took his death coolly. When brought Hatton· in wounded, Duquoin Hamilton. he proposed a Fox 1 wager that in C so many hours he would be dead; the Harper F 'Danvill & bet was taken, and Marion Harper Crystal Springs T won. Runnymede
Harvey .- Organized in 1872. County seat, Newton. Named for James M. Harvey, Captain of Company G, Tenth Regiment of Kansas Infantry, and Governor of the State from 1869 to 1873. In January, 1874, he was elected
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Albiom
Attica
Banner
Freeport
Chisfield ANTHONY
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Mo3 Riella
Blutt Cy.
Corwin
Goss
Spring
nos'
Cameron
Harper.
SF
Bluff
311
DESCRIPTION OF COUNTIES.
United States Senator to fill an unex- pired term ending in 1877.
Haskell .- Organized July 1, 1887. County seat, Santa Fe. Named in honor of Dudley C. Haskell, of Law- rence, who died, while serving the
Colusa·
Ivanhoe
Lockport
SANTA FE
.
Folsom
Taw
Haskell.
Alta)
Eleanor.
Doyle
Hesston
MO
Walton
Braddock
Little
Em may
S
Burrton
Paxton
Halstead
Mission
Mc Lain
A
T
Ark
Patterson
Putnam Annelly
Sedgwick
Harvey.
State as Congressman, December 16, 1883.
Hodgeman. - Organized in 1879. County seat, Jetmore. Named in honor of Amos Hodgman, Captain of Company H, Seventh Kansas Cavalry. He died October 16, 1863, near Ox- ford, Miss., of wounds received in an
Hodgeman
· Kiffderville
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Hanston
action at Wyatt, Miss., October 10, Laurel JETMORE T & 1863. The name should be spelled Hodgman without the e-it was so uckners Fullerton. spelled in the original statute of 1868, Wittrup · Holbrook which created the county, but by · Milroy accident - probably - in the statute which defined its boundaries in 1873, Hodgeman. the e was inserted. Of course it is legally Hodgeman, and must remain orthographically incorrect until changed by legislative enactment.
Jackson .- Organized in 1857. County seat, Holton. Originally Calhoun, in honor Delaware& of John C. Cal- Rock Creek - F Nortonville rtawaka Nichols houn, of South K MO Whiting Valley Fall Carolina, changed Boyle ... & Cy Winchester 1 K Ontario . Straight Cr. N. Cedar & in 1859 to Jack- Soldier "ireleville son, after Andrew Dunavant Drake 3 Jackson, seventh W Carl Oskaloosa T Soldier 0 HOLTON Ozawkirl Bevard Larkin President of the 5 Birmingham 1 1.ce OSKALOOSA United States.
TAvora
Denison
Mayetta
& South Cedar
Adrian
Nadenn
C
Crrek
Hoyt
Jackson.
Jefferson .- Organized in 1855. County seat, Oska- loosa. In honor of Thomas Jefferson,
Meriden
Mc Intosh
Mc Louth
Meriden Je
Oak ·
Grantville
·Thompson
Dean :
U
Mamina
Perry
Williams T.
Chester
KANSAS
R
Jefferson
River
ONEWTON
IST L & S
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· Harrison
North Branch
Webber
Gregory
· Rubens
Burr.Oak
Salem.
Steuben
Bishop
Mo
Lovewell
C.
&
P
Esbon
Otego
MANKATO
Montrose.
Formoso.
Dentonia '
Jeweil City
.
·fonia
. Randall
Athens
.Mayview
Jewell.
third President of the United States- author of the Declaration of Inde- pendence.
Jewell .- Organized in 1870. County seat, Mankato. Named in memory of Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis R. Jewell, Sixth Kansas Calvary, who died No- vember 30, 1862, of wounds received in the battle of Cane Hill, Ark., November 28, 1862.
Wilde
Missiono
South Park
Red
KANS "Cedar
Merriam
Olover
Zarah
Glenn · Hectore
A T DesSoto
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Johnson .- Organized in 1855. County seat, Olathe. Named for Rev. Phila Elizabeth Lackmans. Thomas Johnson, who in 1829 estab- Prairie Cen. o S lished a mission among the Shawnee OLATHEO CY FT.S & Stanley Indians, about Clare M Morse FT eight miles south- Bonita Newington west of Kansas Gardner CY Oanica . T a City. Mr. John- Ocheltree Stillwell Kearney Deerfield &Chantilly Spring Hill son took the Pro- MO Slavery side of Johnson. politics, and was Passaie Edgerton President of the first Territorial Council. He was shot and killed, in January, 1865.
ARKANSAS Kearny .- Or- ganized March 27,1888. County Basin seat, Lakin. Named after Gen- Kearny. eral Kearny, who commanded United States troops in
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Kingman. - Organized in 1874. County seat, Kingman, which was . named in honor of Samuel A. King- man, who was then Chief Justice of Kansas.
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Kiowa .- Organized March 23, 1886. County seat, Greensburg. Named after the Kiowa Indians.
Labette .- Legally organized in 1867. County seat, Oswego. Originally part of Dorn county, after Colonel Earl Van Dorn, of the regular army (he was also a Confederate officer), but changed from Dorn to Neosho in 1861, after name of the principal river in southern Kansas. Labette county has a peculiar history, not generally known, or at least not found in the books. Prior to the sum- mer of 1866 all that part (and being the south half) of Neosho county, now com-
Shields prising Labette, was sparsely populated. In the spring of 1866 there was a great rush PAC of immigration to that locality, and the new : Pen Dennis settlers proceeded to organize a government Healy Toogana of their own. They gave the name Labette MO (then written La Bette), and called a con- vention, nominated a full set of county Walnut officers, and a representative to the State A Legislature, and elected them at the Novem- ber election, and started a county govern- ment-for all of which no authority of law F whatever existed. The "Representative" so elected was Charles H. Bent, who re- · Sutton Alamota, ported at Topeka with a petition, “signed by John G. Rice and 224 other citizens of Labotte county," asking that Mr. Bent be Lane. admitted to a seat in the House. He was admitted, and afterwards introduced a Bill to "organize and define the Allwood 3 Kickapoo City DIGHTON boundaries of Labette county," which passed, Lowemont leavenworth Wade Ft. and was approved the 7th of February, 1867. Morene The word La Bette is French, and signifies CastanHund' s St. LEAVENWORTH "the beet."
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