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Leavenworth .- Organized in 1855. County seat, Leavenworth. From Fort Leavenworth, the most important military post in the West. It was established in 1827, and was named after Colonel Henry H. Leavenworth, of the United States Army.
Lane .- Organized June 3, 1886. Boundaries defined in 1873. County seat, Dighton. In honor of Senator James H. Lane, of Kansas.
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Lincoln.
F. Linn, a distinguished United States Senator from Missouri, who died in 1843, in office. He was a colleague of Hon. Thos. H. Benton.
Logan .- Organized September 17, 1887. County seat, Russell Springs.
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Lincoln. - Organized in 1870. County seat, Lincoln. Named in honor of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States, and author of the emancipation proclama- tion, who was assassinated April 14, 1865.
Linn .- Organized in 1855. County seat, Monnd City. Named for Lewis
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By an Act of the Legislature in 1887, the name of the then unorganized county of St. John was changed to Logan, in honor of the late General John A. Logan.
Waldeck Kulinbrouk Lyon .- Organized in 1860. County seat, Emporia. Named by the first Leg- Lost Springs islature, Breckinridge, Durhamy nada Youngtown in honor of John C. Ramona Lincolnville P Breckinridge, United Tampa Jacobs States Senator from MARION Oursler Kentucky, and who af- Lehigh : Goessel Hillsboro Fred Antelops terward became Vice- President of the United A States in 1856. Name changed in 1862 to Lyon, Hampson Creswell in honor of General Na- T I Peabody Burns S thaniel Lyon, who was Kitners Florene- killed while in command of the Union Army at
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DESCRIPTION OF COUNTIES.
the battle of Wilson's creek, Mis- souri, Angust 10, 1861.
Marion. - Organized in 1860. County seat, Marion. Named for Marion county, Ohio, which was so- called in memory of General Francis Marion, of revolutionary fame.
Marshall .- Organized in 1855. County seat, Marysville. After Gen-
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Monitor
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McPherson.
plied to the county. Marysville was declared the permanent county seat by the Legislature in 1860.
MePherson .- Organized, 1870. County seat, MePherson. In honor of Major- General James B. McPherson, United
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Thomas
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Wyoming
Swede Cr.
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Marshall.
eral Frank J. Marshall, who estab- lished a ferry on the Big Blue at the crossing of the old Independence- California road in 1849. He was a prominent member of the first Leg- islature, and had his own name ap-
Mertilla
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Spring Lake®
Fowler
MEADE
Plains.
Crooked
Jalma
Odee.
Byers
Lakeland
Meade.
States Volunteers, who was killed in battle at Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864.
Meade .- Organized November 3, 1885. County seat, Meade. Named in honor of Major-General George G. Meade, United States Army, who died in 1872.
Miami .- Organized in 1855 under the name of Lykins. County seat,
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·Victor
Mitchell.
Union army as a private in Company K, Second Kansas Cavalry; was promoted to Captain in the Second Kentucky Cav- alry, and killed March 10, 1865, at Mon- roe's Cross Roads, N. C.
Montgomery. - Organized in 1869. County seat, Independence. Named for Gen. Richard Montgomery, born in Ire- land, December 2, 1736; was an officer of
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Morris .- Organized as Wise in 1855. County seat, Council Grove. Originally named for Henry A. Wise, who was Governor of Virginia during the John Brown seizure of Harper's Ferry. The execution of that "grand old man," at Charlestown, December 2, 1859, was one of the last acts of Wise's administration. Name was changed to Morris in February, 1859, in honor of Thomas Morris, a United
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W'estola.
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Taloga
Morton .
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Cess
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Mitchell .- Organized in 1870. County seat, Beloit. In honor of William D. Mitchell, who entered the
Costello
Sycamore
Elk City
Elkhorn
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Caney
Montgomery.
distinction in the British Army; re- signed and settled in New York State in 1773; was appointed one of the eight Generals to command the Revo- lutionary army of America, in 1775; was killed in the attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775, shouting, "Death or liberty!"
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Paola. In honor of Dr. David Lykins, who was a missionary among the Miamis. He was also a member of the first Territorial Council. Name changed in 1861 to Miami, after the tribe of Indians.
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DESCRIPTION OF COUNTIES.
States Senator from Ohio in 1832, who distinguished himself as an opponent of slavery. He died in 1844.
Morton .- Organized November 18, 1886. County seat, Richfield. Was named in honor of Honorable Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana.
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Austin
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Neosho.
and changed in 1861 to Neosho, after the Neosho river, which traverses the county from northwest to southeast. The name was given to the river by the Osages.
Utica
MO
Forrester
Ransom
Brownell
waring
Beeler
Laird
NESS CITY
Bazine
Ness. - First Organized in 1873. County seat, Ness City. Disorganized T S F in 1874; reorganized in 1880. Named in honor of Noah V. Ness, Corporal Franklinville of Company G, Seventh Kansas Cav- Buda Riverside · Manteno alry, who Wellman. Rayville Ness. · Nonchalanta .ville died Aug. Devizes · Se Hanbaok 22, 1864, R Rockwell City .- at Abbeyville, Miss., of wounds re- ceived in action August 19, 1864 .. Alinen: Francis .
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A Nemaha .- .Granada MO Centralia. 4 Organized in Corning · Swifton: 1855. County seat, Seneca. Bancroft Goff: etmore. Named from . AmericaCy Neuchatel a river in Ne- braska - the Nemaha. Nemaha, one of whose branches drains the northern half of the county.
Neosho. - Organized in 1864. County seat, Erie. The county was originally named Dorn (see Labette),
Norton .- Organized in 1872. County seat, Norton. In memory of Orloff Norton, Captain of Company L, Fif- teenth Kansas Cavalry, killed by gue- rillas at Cane Hill, Ark., October 29, 1865. In 1873 the county was repre- sented by one N. H. Billings, who, in consequence of his peculiarities, be- came a sort of butt of the Legislature.
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Alton R · Bristow PAC Corinth M Osage .- Osage T& SA C'>LYNDON Organized 4 Deavers MO Barclay Quenemy Solomon as Weller Mount Ayr Maxon UN PAC 4 Melser . Pleasant Plain county in . Kun Creek Fort 1855; name Arvomia Olivet T & Rosemont changed to Osage in Deliverance Osage. 1859. Origi- Mound Round : Covert Twin Creek. Free Wille · Potterville® nally named for John B. Weller, of Dial® Ohio, member of Congress, and Gov- Cheyenne . Stuyvesant Delhi . Vincent . ernor of that State; also Governor of California and Senator, Minister to Mexico, etc. The name Osage comes Osborne. from the Osage river, the headwaters of which stream drain almost the entire county. Lyndon is the county seat. Natoma
Osborne .- Organized in 1871. County seat, Osborne. Named in honor of Vincent B. Osborne, Solomon Delphos ·Pipe Cr. Private of Company A, Second Kan- UN C · Lamar. sas Cavalry, who lost his right leg Page Suntn erville Widerange January 17, 1865, on the steamer Anna Pengute Jacobs, at Joy's Ford, on the Arkan- Ada sas river. 7 F Wells S
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MINNEAPOLIS
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Lindsey Vine
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Bennington.
Tescott
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Culver
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Ottawa.
once powerful tribe of Pawnee In- dians, the area of this county having been included in their original hunt- ing grounds.
Phillips .- Organized in 1872. County seat, Phillipsburg. Named in memory of William Phillips, a Free-State martyr, murdered September 1, 1856, in Leavenworth.
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A member of the Senate at the time had the name of Norton changed to Billings, in two lines hidden in a paragraph of a Bill fixing the boundaries of certain coun- ties. The next Legislature restored the name of Nor- ton. MO Porits
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Ottawa .- Created in 1860, and or- ganized in 1866. County seat, Min- neapolis. Named for the tribe of Ottawas.
Pawnee .- Organized in 1872. County seat, Larned. Named for the
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DESCRIPTION OF COUNTIES.
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Powell:
. Bow Creek .
Phillips.
Lieutenant of Company D, First Kan- sas Infantry, killed in action August 10, 1861, at Wilson's creek, Mo.
Rawlins. - Organized in 1881. County seat, Atwood. Named in
Nora ..
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Preston
Carmi
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MO
Silverton
'Inka
Natrona
PRATT
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Lawndaleo
Coats
Sawyer
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Pratt.
Reno .- Organized in 1872. County seat, Hutchinson. In memory of
.Avery
Nickerson
Medora
Buhler
o Hunts
Fruit Val.
2
V
HUTCHINSON
5 Kent
Sherman
Hintchinson
Elmer
Partridge
Fernie
Yoder
Arlingtony
Rooth
Langdon
Haven stleton
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Prairie .
Pretty
· Ierado
Mona
Oleott
Reno.
Pottawatomie .- Organized in 1856. County seat, Westmoreland. Named for the Pottawatomie Indians, whose reservation at the opening of Kansas Territory for settlement, and for years afterward, embraced a large portion of the geographical area of the county.
Pratt .- First organized in 1873. County seat, Iuka, but not recognized Savannah in consequence of frauds. Pratt is now the county seat. Organized constitu- tionally in 1879. Named in memory of Caleb Pratt. Second · Springside Wheaton wO naga Blaine
Mariadahl
.Moody Ville Havensville
Big
Olsburg
OWESTMORELAND
St Clere
Garrison
Laclede
Myers Valley @
Broderick
Louisville
Belvue
St. Mary's
memory of St George PAC Wamego R Gen. John A. Rawlins, who was a Pottawatomie. staff officer of General Grant. and went into his cabinet, when elected President, as Secretary of War.
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Herndon
Vaughn
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Beardsley &
Blakeman
MOCThornton
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Chardon
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Pentheka
Tully
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Plevna
Abbyville
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Fustoria
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Rawlins.
Jesse L. Reno, Captain United States army, and Major-General of voltmu- teers, who was killed in battle, Sept. 14, 1862, at South Mountain, Md.
Beaver
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Munden
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Republic.
Republic. - Organized in 1868. County seat, Belleville. Received its name from the Republican river, which extends through the county. The river was so called because many years ago the valley of that stream was the seat of the "Pawnee Republic," a designation given to a principal division of the Pawnee In- dians, or Panis, as they were origi- nally known.
Rice .- County seat, Lyons. Named in memory of Samuel A. Rice, Brigadier-General United States volunteers; killed April 30, 1864, at Jenkins' Ferry, Ark.
May Day
Winkler
Lavita Monterey Walsburg
Leonardville Bala'
MANHATTAN
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Kan.
Zeandale
Riley.
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Sugar: Loaf
Slate
STOCKTON
MU
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Highhill
Fork Webster
South
Damar.
Cr.
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IN
Zurich
Plainville
Laton
Palco
PAC
.Amboy
Rooks.
Rush. Organized in 1874. County seat, La- Crosse. Inmemory of Alexan- der Rush, Captain of Company H, Second
Liebenthal
Pleasant Dale
Saunders
Cracken
Chaffee
Linndalė :
M
Hargrave.
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Otis
Alexander
Vekoma
Galnut
1
Rushcentres
Timken.F
Shaffer
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Fenton
Ryan
Cain Cy.
MO
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Crawford
Genesen
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Galt
Noble
Pollard
Little River
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Avegano
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LYONS :
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Saxman
9
S
Alden
MO
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F
Sterling
R
Rice.
Riley .- Organized in 1855. County seat, Manhattan. Florena Cleburne Received its name Randolph from the adjacent military post, which was established in 1853, and called Garrison PAC Cross. Fort Riley, in honor Biley Stock dale of General Riley, of the United Grafit Keats Statesarmy.
Rushton?
Frederik
MO
Mitchell
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Rooks .- Organized in 1872. County seat, Stockton. In memory of John C. Rooks, private of Company I, Eleventh Kansas Infantry, who died December 11, 1862, at Fayetteville, Ark., of wounds received in the battle of Prairie Grove, December 7, 1862.
MO
Bison
Igo
Lost
Codeli
Kackler
Woodston
Hampton
Rush.
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DESCRIPTION OF COUNTIES.
Colored Infantry, killed April 3, 1864, at Jenkins Ferry, Ark.
Russell. - Organized in 1872. County seat, Russell. In memory of Alva P. Russell, Captain Company K, Second Kansas Cavalry, who died December 12, 1862, in field hospital near Prairie Grove, Ark., of wounds received in battle December 7, 1862, at Prairie Grove.
Saline .- Organized in 1859. County seat, Salina. Named for the Saline
Paradise
Waldo
IN
PAC
· Fairport
Elbon
Fay
· Hough
Saline
RUSSELL.
R
Gorham
Bunker Hill
UN
PAC
Homer
Dorrance
R
Hawley
Hill
Forest Hill
Dubuque
Russell.
river, whose waters drain a large area of the county.
Scott. - Or- ganized Jan- mary 29, 1886. Scott is the County seat. Boundaries defined in 1873. In honor
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Arkalon
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LIBERAL
Seward.
S. Wichita Sedgwick. - Organized in 1870. County seat, Wichita. AR K Valley:Centr A Bentley Furley T Sunny In memory of Colwich Witt · Dale S John Sedg- Maize Heights Andale MO . . PAC Davidson Co Tolerville | Wichita Greenwich Saint Mark W. Wich York Kechi, Minneha wick, United States army, Germania Garden Plain P. Major-Gen- Aleppo Oatville eral of volumn- 30 teers, killed in Cheney Galdard & Tyler W Peck Sedowa WICHITA. College Green · Ruby* lowaville .R Peotone Bayneville Hays Clearwat SF 0 MO Derby battle, May 9, 1864, at Spott- Viola Hukle sylvania, Va. T -
Anness
Sedgwick. Seward. - Organized January 17, 1886. County seat, Liberal. Boundaries defined in 1873. In honor of Wm. H. Seward, Governor and United
Luray
IN
Saline
. New
Cambria
PAC
Shiptou
-PAC
R
· Trenton
SALINA
Brook vill
Bavaria
PAC
PAC
PAG
Kipp
.UN
Mentor
Hitt
. Smolan
SUN
Gypsum Cy
MO
Salemsburg
: Assaria
Falun
Hallville
Bridgeport
Wonderly
Saline.
of Major-General Winfield Scott, United States army, hero of the Mexican war.
Goddard
MO PAC
SCOTT
PAC
Smoky
Success
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States Senator of New York, and Secre- tary of State under Abraham Lincoln.
Shawnee .- Organized in 1855. County seat, Topeka. Was carved out of what was, before the treaty of 1854, Shaw- nee Indian lands-hence the name. General H. J. Strickler, of Tecumseh, who was a member of the council in 1855, and also of the Joint Com- mittee on Counties, claimed Shawnee
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Macgraw
Seldon
Solomon
Lucerne
C
Fork
North
Aleyone
Seguin
HOXIE
PAC
Museum
Orange
R
Phelps
Solomon
Henry
Angelus
Beaver
Saline
R
Sheridan.
Sheridan .- Organized in 1880. County seat, Hoxie. Named in honor of Lieutenant - General Philip H. Sheridan, United States army.
Sherman .- Organized September 20, 1886. County seat, Goodland. In
Womer
Judson.
Ohio
. Reamsville ." . Sherwood
Truer
Jackson burg
Cora
Hardilee
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Bellaire
Lebanon
Athol
R
SMITH CENTER
Kensington
Oakvale
darville.
Sti
MO
Gaylord
Harlan
Solomon ..
AC
Smith.
for the name of his county, a prefer- ence stontly contended for by the Reverend Thomas Johnson for the county in which the Legislature was sitting, but the committee yielded to General Strickler, and, without solici- tation, complimented Mr. Johnson by conferring his own name upon his county.
Northfield.
· Nejille:
Charlotte
Muldrow
B
Ruleton:
... c ..... R Lamborn
Griswold
La Blanche
Topland
Presley
Lava
Sherman.
honor of General W. T. Sherman, United States army.
Smith .- Organized in 1872. County seat, Smith Center. In memory of Nathan Smith, Major of Second Colo- rado Volunteers, killed October 23, 1864, at battle of the Little Blue, Mo.
Stafford .- Organized in 1879. County seat, St. John. In memory
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Rossville
Soldier
Kingsville
Silver Lake
Elmont
Kilmer
W'illard
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Wanamaker
P
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Seahronk Quinton Heights
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MO
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Pauliue
Whatfeild
Watson Berryton Tevie
Auburn
Vaveland
akarusa Richland
Shawnee.
R
Elliott
Tasco
Studley
UN
Kanorado
GOODLAND.
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Cr. N. Topeka
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DESCRIPTION OF COUNTIES.
of Lewis Stafford, Captain of Company E, First Kansas Infantry, who was accidentally killed at Young's Point, La., January 31, 1863.
Stanton .- Organized June 17, 1887. County seat, Johnson. This county was named after Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of war under President Lincoln.
. Fisher
Eletcher
Edwin
Border. .
O JOHNSON
Gognac
Monon
Liverpool·
Roanoke
Stanton.
named after the late distinguished statesman, Thaddeus Stevens.
Sumner .- Organized in 1871. County seat, Wellington. In honor of
Millerton Mulvaney
Conway
Zybas
BeHel
. Spra
Plaque
Ewell
A'nson
Argonia
.Milan
Mayfield
Palton
T
WELLINGTON
S
Knox
Perth
Concord
Rome
. Clear. Dale., Geud;
forhin
W
Rorfland
5
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South: Haven.
Falls
Hunbewell".
Sumner.
was a leader in the opposition to ex- tension of slavery into Kansas, as proposed in the Bill to organize the Territory.
Thomas. - Organized October 8, 1885. County seat, Colby. In honor
Salt
Sandago . Marshet
Seward
MO
Hudson
Kenilworth
Bedford
Green Ridge
Dillwyn
Stafford
Zenith
T
A.
Macksville
.ST. JOHN
Freeman
Leesburg
Prattburg
Rattlesn
Antrim
Neola
Emerson .
Stafford.
Stevens .- Organized August 3, 1886. County seat, Hugoton. Was
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Charles Summer, the distinguished Massachusetts Senator. In 1854 he
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of Major-General George H. Thomas, United States army, who died in 1870.
Trego .- Organized in 1879. County seat, Wakeeney. In memory of Edgar P. Trego, Captain of Company H, Eighth Kansas Infantry, killed Sep- tember 19, 1863, at Chickamauga, Tenn.
Wabaunsee .- Organized as Rich- ardson, in 1859. County seat, Alma. The county was created in 1855. Kansas Colonel "Dick" Richardson, of C Wabaunsee Illinois, for whom thecounty Pavilion & Vera Paxico Mc Farland
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Washington .- Organized in 1860. County seat, Washington. Named in honor of George Washington, the first Presi- dent of the United States.
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was first named, was the leader in the House of Representatives on the Demo- cratie side in the debate on the Kansas- Nebraska Bill. In February, 1859, the name was changed to Wabaunsee, that being the Mahaska · Albia Hollenberg name of a Gerardy Gask ill · Spence chief of the Pottawatomie Kara Hanover Tansel Mill Indians.
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Wallace .- Organized in 1888. County seat, Sharon Springs. Named after Gen- eral Lew. Wallace, anthor of "Ben Hur."
Wilson. - Organized in 1865. County seat, Fredonia. This county originally
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extended to the south line of the State, and was named in honor of Colonel Hiero T. Wilson, who lived in Fort Scott from September, 1843. He was the first white person to settle there.
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Newark
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Brooks
Wilson.
Woodson .- Organized in 1855. County seat, Yates Center. Named in honor of Daniel Woodson, who was Secretary of the Territory, and for some time acting Governor, after the resigna- tion of Governor Shannon, in 1856.
Wyandotte .- Organized in 1855. County seat, Kansas City (formerly Wyandotte). Named after the Indian tribe of that name.
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ORGANIC ACT.
ORGANIZATION OF KANSAS TERRITORY.
ON 30TH MAY, 1854, CONGRESS PASSED AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO ORGANIZE THE TERRITORIES OF NEBRASKA AND KANSAS."
THE Organic Act took effect on its approval, 30th May, and on 30th June, 1854, President PIERCE appointed officers for Kansas, as follows: ANDREW H. REEDER, of Pennsylvania, as Governor; DANIEL WOODSON, of Virginia, as Secretary; ANDREW J. ISAACS, of Louisiana, as United States District Attorney; MADISON BROWN, of Maryland, as Chief Justice; and SAUNDERS W. JOHNSTON, of Ohio, and RUSH ELMORE, of Alabama, as Associate Justices. Judge Brown refused the appointment, and SAMUEL D. LECOMPTE, of Maryland, was appointed Chief Justice on 3d October, 1854.
THE first eighteen sections of the Kansas-Nebraska Act relate solely to the Territory of Nebraska. The material portions of the sections of said Act relating to KANSAS TERRITORY, are as follows:
¿ 1. (SEC. 19.) All that part of the Territory of the United States, included within the following limits, except such portions thereof as are hereinafter expressly exempted from the operations of this Act, to-wit, beginning at a point on the western boundary of the State of Missouri, where the thirty-seventh parallel of
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north latitude crosses the same; thence west on said parallel to the eastern boundary of New Mexico; thence north on said boundary to latitude thirty-eight; thence following said boundary westward to the east boundary of the Territory of Utah, on the summit of the Rocky Mountains; thence northward on said summit to the fortieth parallel of latitude; thence east on said parallel to the western boundary of the State of Missouri; thence south with the western boundary of said State to the place of beginning, be, and the same is, hereby created into a temporary government, by the name of the Territory of Kansas; and when admitted as a State or States, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission; provided, that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to inhibit the Government of the United States from dividing said Territory into two or more Territories, in such manner, and at such times, as Congress shall deem convenient and proper, or from attaching any portion of said Territory to any other State or Territory of the United States; provided, further, that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to impair the rights of person or property now pertaining to the Indians in said Ter- ritory, so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to include any Territory which, by treaty with an Indian tribe is not, with- out the consent of said tribe, to be included within the Territorial limits or jurisdiction of any State or Territory; but all such Territory shall be excepted out of the boundaries, and constitute no part of the Territory of Kansas, until said tribe shall signify their assent to the President of the United States, to be included within the said Territory of Kansas, or to affect the authority of the Government of the United States to make any regulation respecting such Indians, their lands, property, or other rights, by treaty, law, or otherwise, which it would have been competent to the Government to make if this Act had never passed.
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