A standard history of Kansas and Kansans, Volume I, Part 6

Author: Connelley, William Elsey, 1855-1930. cn
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis
Number of Pages: 668


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Joel Walker Garrett, 309; David R. Atchison, 318; Judge William C. Price. 329; Josiah Miller, founder of the Kansas Free State, Lawrence, 1855, 362; John Speer, Lawrence Pioncer Editor and Author, 363; Gov. Andrew HI. Reeder, 367; General James H. Lane, First U. S. Senator from Kan- sas, 420; Gov. Wilson Shannon, 474: Benjamin F. Springfellow, 476: Col. Samuel N. Wood, 494; James B. Ab- bot, 497; Samuel C. Pomeroy, 551 : John Brown, the Great Anti-Slavery Leader, 556; Gov. John W. Geary, 633; Gov. Robert J. Walker, 652; Gov. Fred- eriek P. Stanton, 661; Gov. James W. Denver, 667; James Montgomery, 681 ; Samuel Walker, 688; Gov. Samuel Me- dary, 697; Gov. Charles Robinson, 713; Mrs. Sara T. L. Robinson, wife of Gov. Charles Robinson, 715: Senator Preston B. Plumb, 726; Major-General James G. Blunt, 730: General Thomas Ewing, Jr., 733; W. C. Quantrill, 741 ; Gen. Sterling Price, 751; Gov. Thomas Cary, 766; Governor Sammel J. Craw- ford, 770; Gov. Nehemiah Greene, 775; Gov. James H. Harvey, 777: Gov. Thomas A. Osborn, 780; Gov. George T. Anthony, 783; Gov. John P. St. John, 786; Mrs. Drusilla Wilson, 818; Mrs Carrie A. Nation, the fa- mous saloon smasher and advocate of prohibition, 827: Gov. George W. Gliek, 830; Gov. John A. Martin, 833; Gov. Lyman U. Humphrey, 836; Gov. Lorenzo D. Lewelling, 840; Gov. Ed- mund N. Morrill, 843; Gov. John W. Leedy, 846; Gov. William E. Stanley, 848; Gov. Willis J. Bailey, 85]: Gov. Edward W. Hoch, 854; Gov. Walter R. Stubbs, 58; Gov. George H. Hodges, 861: Hon. Arthur Capper, Governor of Kansas, 866 Postal savings banks, 1162, 1195


Potato machinery, 1274


Pottawatomie county, 74, 209, 214, 262


Pottawatomie Massacre, 567, 593; map. 568


Pottawatomie Mission, West of Topeka ( view ), 259 Pottawatomie murders, 581; cause of, 579; approved by the Free-State peo ple, 580


Pottawatomie reservation, 259, 263


Pottawatomie Rifle Company, 562, 572


Pottawatomie Rifles, 564


Pottawatomies, 258, 336, 1055. 1678; war on the Pawnees, 262


Potter, Androy .A., 1034, 1717


Potter. F. W .. 721


Potter. Horace E., 1566


Pottorf, John .A., 1735


Potwin Ledger, 1389


Powder Face, Chief of the Cheyen"- portrait , 236 Powell, James H., 2140


Prager, David, 1966


Prager, Walter, 1967


Prager, William, 1967


Prairie chicken, 171]


Prairie City, 271, 356. 584. 591. 717. 749; churches, 1010


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Prairie-Dog Creek, 80


Prairie fires, 1662


Prairie Grove, 728; battle of, 724


Prairie Oil and Gas Co., 1003, 1844 Prairies, 180


Prather, L. A., 499


Pratt City, 1777


Pratt county, 1776; climate and soil, 1777


Pratt, Dudley, 1787


Pratt, John (1., 250, 270, 1253, 2089


Pratt, Walter R., 1626


Pre-emption law, 349


Prentis, Noble L., 1274


Presbyterian church, 1012, 1235; first in Kansas, 1012


Presbyterian mission, 226, 267, 275


Presbyterians, 225


Prescott, John H., 1570


Prescott, Mary E. L., 1571


Preston, Frenn L., 2480


Preston, H. D., 718, 796


Preston, James C., 2229


Preston, Richard O., 1569


Price-Atchison faction, 308, 317


Price, Charles J., 1282


Price, Charles W., 1598


Price Gen. Sterling, 753; portrait, 754: raid, 753; invasion, 769; raid claims, 902


Price, James H., 1878


Price, Mande A., 1598


Price, Ralph R., 925, 1355


Price, Samuel, 1597


Price, S. E., 1042


Price, William C., 299, 300, 322, 403: originated repeal Missouri Compromise, 328; portrait, 329


Price, William M., 2198


Priddy, James M., 1671


Primary election law, 856


Printing, 992 Printing plant, first, 1691


Printing press, first in Kansas, 271


Printing presses destroyed at Lawrence, 551


Pritchard, George C., 1803


Privett, William L., 1545 Proclamation of I. B. Donalson, 545


Proctor, Charles, 1423


Progressive party, 1193


Prohibition in Kansas, 788, 950, 1143, 1565: legislation, 786, 813; amend- ment, campaign for, 821; amendment, election, 827: laws, 863; enforcement of, 2266 Prohibition memorial, 791


Prohibition party, 785; organized, 807 Prohibitory amendment, 830 Prohibitory law, 787, 859


Promoted emigration, 475; from the South, 526, 531; in Kansas, 429 Pro-Slavery, 391, 654, 700; settlers, 356; meeting, 378: moh, 469; organizations, 475: meeting of October, 1855, 479; leaders, 480; resolutions, 480; party, 482: people in Hickory Point, 484; wireles, 534: element at Dutch Henry's ('rossing, 577 ; people, flee to Missouri, 581; view of Brown's campaign, 592; fragment of the democratic party, 598; settlers, outrages upon, 608; in Bour- bon county, 680


Prouty, S. S., 271


Provisional government, 298


Provisional government of Nebraska ter ritory, 308; cause of failure, 315


Provisional Governor, 304 Public credit of Kansas, 723


Public Utilities Commission, 857. 1091. 1257, 1266 Puderbaugh, Ira, 1380


Pugh, Burton H., 1273


Pugh Manufacturing Company, 1274


Pugh, Robert, 1273 Purcell, Newt, 2526


Pure Food and Drug Act, 1091 Pursley, James, 87 Putt, Charles S., 1527


Quaker Missions to the Shawnees, 242 Qualification of voters in 1854, 377 Quantie, Henry H., 1796


Quantrill, William Clarke, 164. 423, 732, 736, 739, 767, 1204, 1700, 1964: por trait, 741: double character, 740; raid, 740, 1014, 1016, 1071, 1204, 126-, 1966, 2120, 2312; guerilla force, 742; mrsuit of, 746; massacre, survivor of, 2489


Quapaws, 275


Quayle, Bishop, 1601


Quigley, William A., 1663


Quincy, Fred H., 1880


Quindaro, 1040, 2030


Quindaro Town Company, 1209


Quinlan, LeRoy E., 2662


Quivira, 1, 85, 230; first mentioned, 6; location of, 10; in Kansas, 13; brings Kansas to the world, 25; authorities, 26


Radcliffe, Joseph, 1700


Radcliffe, Victoria L., 1700


Railroad Bill, 1257


Railroad building, 707


Railroad Commissioners, 846, 849. 50; first board, 831 Railroad Convention, 305, 707


Railroads, 483, 768, 777, 848, 926, 1122, 1267, 1293, 1730, 1752; construction, 182; and political unity, 186; man- agement, 186; mileage, 186; communi- cation with Pacific coast, 301, 629; great central route, 306; strikes, 334; regulation of, 845: freight rates, 855, 1157; land grants, 933; shops, 991; in politics, 1122; free passes, 1195; build- ers of, 1201, 1210, 2338; legislation, 1257; great Kansas engineer, 1285; first through Johnson County. 1700; locating engineer, 2527


Raines, J. L., 988, 1408 Rainfall, 1777


Ramsey, Albert C., 2609


Ramsey, G. LeRoy, 2493


Ramsey, Robert H., 2551


Rankin, John K., 248S


Ransom, Gertie N. K., 2022


Ransom, Henry R., 2021


Ransom, Raymond R., 2022 Rapp, William F., 2666


Ranh, Abram A., 1825 Ray, Edward P., 1484 Ray, P. Orman, 332 Raynolds, Elmer L., 2611


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Raynolds, Lewis D., 2610 Raynolds, William L., 2611 Raysville, 688 Raysville agreement, 689 Rea. Edward S., 1829


Read, B. L., 671 Rea-Patterson Milling Co., 1829 Redden, J. W., 1090


Redenbeaugh, William HI., 1229


Red Legs, 742 Redmond, John, 2636


Redpath, James, 584, 646, 832


Reeee, Henry E., 1933


Reed, Charles F., 1863


Reed, Don F., 2721


Reed, Fred W., 1473


Reed, George W., 825, 1412


Reed, James A., 1363


Reed, James H., 2480


Reed, Ollie E., 1993


Reed, Robert A., 1843


Reed, William H., 1793


Reed, William W., 1488


Reeder, Andrew H., 315, 366, 388, 394, 397, 401, 409, 449, 457, 462, 471, 476, 481, 533, 592, 601, 937, 1317; adminis- tration, 366; portrait, 367; review of administration, 371: message, 403; attempt to remove, 411; removed from office, 416; removal of, 456; speech at Big Springs, convention, 458; Dele- gate to Congress, 464; flight from Kansas, 541 Rees, Benjamin, 1547


Rees, Richard R., 401


Refinery, first independent, 1005


Reformatory, 784


Regier, Wilhelm E., 2639


Registered live stock, 1281


Reid, Ernest E., 1346 Reid. George K., 2101 Reid, James W., 1999


Reid, John W., 613, 642


Reid, William R., 1345


Reign of terror at Lawrence, 548


Reitzel, Walter M., 1603


Religious beliefs of Osages, 219


Religious practice of Kansas Indians, 199


Remsburg, George J., 964 Reno county, 1001, 1138 Reno churches, 1012 Renz, August, 2729 Reporter, Le Roy, 2658 Representative Distriets, 390


Republic County, 65, 68, 855, 996, 1076 Republican League, 1155


Republican party in Kansas, 627, 700, 1248, 1268; platform in 1856, 628; recognizes temperance, 806 Republican Pawnees, 64; village, 66,


Republican-Register, 1535 Republican River, 155, 896 Republican State Convention of 1859, 699 Reser, Zachariah, 1765 Resources, 996 Retail Grocers' Association, 1199 Retail Merchants' Association of Pitts burg, 2066


Reynolds, E. B., 810 Reynolds, Thomas J., 1681


Rhoads, Ross Il., 2481 Rhodes, Fred H., 2253


Rhodes, John S., 1818 Rhodes, William II., 1901


Riee, Benjamin, 681, 690 Riee County, 97, 112


Rice, Cyrus R., 1227


Rice, Elial J., 1016


Riee, Harvey D., 1062


Rice, John H., 676, 817, 820, 1159, 1221


Rice, Oscar, 1344


Rich, Ben C., 1181


Richards, John F., 978, 2311 Richards & Conover pany, 1298, 2312 Richards, Oscar G., 2322


Richards, William A., 2314


Richardson, Ason G., 1892


Richardson, William A., 303


Richardson, William H., 323


Richardson, William P., 401, 501, 507


Richland, 175 Richmond, Benjamin, 2238


Rickel, Joel H., 2082 Riekenbacher, William J., 1328


Riddle. Alexander P., 1219


Riggs, J. D. S., 1042


Rightmire, W. F., 1147, 1160


Riker, Charlie H., 1654


Riley, Major Bennett, 118


Riley County, 161, 767, 965, 1001, 1768; The Secrest Family, 1259; one of first settlers, 1871; pioneers, 1872


Riley, William F., 1672 Ringler, Peter J., 2006 Rio Grande, 5 Rippetoe, William E., 1905


Risdon, Charles S., 1850 Ritchey, John, 795


Ritchie, John, 946, 950, 1062


Roach, Thomas W., 2415


Road building, 1625


Road through Iowa and Nebraska to Kansas, 601 Road to Oregon, 110


Roads, old animal, 145 Robb, William E., 2269


Robb, William W., 2095


Roberson, Henry L. F., 2703


Roberts, Dr. James B., 1449


Roberts, Frank HI., 1383 Roberts, James B., 1439


Roberts, John W., 2230


Roberts, John W., Sr., 2230


Roberts, William Y., 449, 161, 468


Robertson, Fred, 1351


Robertson, I. A., 2631


Robertson, John D., 2214 Robinson, Albert A., 1285


Robinson, Charles, 348, 360, 373, 353. 428, 447, 459, 465, 468, 471, 509, 519, 520, 535, 536, 543, 576, 593, 600, 701, 702, 705, 707, 712, 722, 723, 837, 906, 928. 938, 941, 993, 1016, 1125, 1133, 15.11, 1999: portrait, 713: leaves


Kansas, 541; Arrest illustration ). 542; against prohibition, 825; and Lane, character of, 130 Robinson, Earl M., 2235


Hardware Com-


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Robinson, George W., 1797 Robinson Index, 1532


Robinson, John L., 2067


Robinson, John W., 699, 718


Robinson, Sara T. L. (portrait ), 715 Robinson, William II., 2386


Robson, Walter, 1481


Rochelle, Martin S., 1305


Rock Island Railway System, 1434 Rock salt, 997 Rockville, 735


Rockwell, Bertrand, 2103


Rocky Ford battle, 262


Rocky Mountain Fur Company, 119, 148 Rogers, Duke A., 1916


Rogers, George, 1700


Rogers, J. C., 1916


Rogers, J. Newton, 1573


Rogers, Neil W., 1473


Rohr, Albert, 2359


Rohr, John, 2359


Rohr, Paul, 2359


Rollins, Elisha H., 2094


Rollman, Thilon J., 2535


Roman Nose, 773


Roome, L. M., 1935


Rooney, William T., 2603


Root, Frank L., 150%


Root, Joseph P., 699, 798, 993, 1253


Root, Phares, 1749


Rorabaugh-Wiley Dry Goods Co., 2667 Rose, John, 1668


Rose, Lonis H., 1561


Rose, William W., 2183


Rosedale, 2474; schools, 2474


Rosenstein, Robert E., 1914


Roser, Emil B., 1788


Ross, Charles, 1692


Ross, Claude, 1692


Ross, C. O., 2051


Ross, Edith Connelley, 769


Ross, Edmund G., 771, 946, 1244, 1291


Ross Family, 1691


Ross, Floyd, 1692


Ross, George B., 2209


Ross, Patrick, 671


Ross, William, 1692


Ross, William W., 692


Roter, Cora T., 1890


Roter, Lonis R., 1890


Rotten Commonwealth, the, 722


Roughton, William C., 2604


Round Grove, 118


Rounds, William M., 1879


Rowland, Herbert A., 2516


Rowland, Stewart P., 2723


Royal Buffalo Hunt, 1213


Royal Neighbors of America, 2059


Royce, La Rue, 1454


Royer, Charles G., 1384


Ruder, Frederick, 2319


Ruder, Fred W., 2320


Ruell, Rollin, 1433


Ruffians, Border, 550; character of, 508 Ruffner, F. J., 1582


Ruins of Lawrence, 1863; (illustration), 744


Rumbaugh, Isabel H., 2193 Rumbaugh, Jacob, 2190 Rural, 211 Rural Delivery, 1195


Rush, Elmore, 391


Rushton, George, 1449 Rushton, George Baking Company, 1449 Russell, Captain A. P., 725


Russell County, 67 Russell, Majors & Waddell, 165, 167 Russell, William H., 165, 177, 979


Ryan, Edward C., 2232


Ryan, Edward J., 1618 Ryan, Thomas, 1284


Sae and Fox reservation, 268


Saeking of Lawrence by Border Ruffi- aus May 21, 1856, 552; (illustration), 553


Sacs, 265, 266 Saes and Foxes of the Mississippi, 267


Sage, Aaron, 1638


Sage, A. O., 1502


Sage Family of Shawnee County, 1637 Sagundai, 249


St. Benedict's College, 1011, 1051


St. Francis Hospital, Topeka, 1066 St. John, John P., 785, 807, 809, 810, 821, 826, 830; portrait, 786; message on temperance, $11 St. John, Marsena, 2388 St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Hum-


boldt, 2584


St. Louis, city of, 43; trading post for Upper Louisiana, 43 St. Mary's, 262, 399, 464, 996, 1056


St. Mary's Church, 1011


St. Mary's College, 1011, 1054


St. Mary's Mission, 1055


St. Paul Journal, 1953


St. Paul State Bank, 1944 Salathiel, Thomas S., 1656


Salina, 815, 957, 1304, 2515; a civic leader, 2367; first eity eonneil, 2535; early history, 2540 Salina Cement Plaster Co., 1×75


Salina Daily Union, 1335


Salina Sun, 1407


Saline county, 60, 911, 2486, 2559; bench and bar, 2518; pioneer condi- tions, 2523; prominent pioneer, 2532;


Saline County Bar Association, 2566


Saline Valley Bank, 2591


Salisbury, George W., 1372


Salisbury, Ward, 1507


Saloons, 792, 837 Salt Creek, 368


Salt Creek Valley, 350, 356, 524


Salt Creek Valley resolutions, 437


Salt industry, 836, 990, 996, 1237, 1777


Salter, Park E., 1567


Salters, Sam, 496, 538


Salt-springs, 285 Sample, Charles W., 2728


Sams, Willis F., 2727


Sanborn, F. B., 623; letter of, 576


Sand Bank Convention, 446


Sanders, George A., 2264


Sandidge, James G., 1864: Sandusky Mission, 257 Sandzen, Sven. B., 2546 Sanger, J. M., 1503 Santa Fe caravans, 140 Sante Fe, city of, 85. 90


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Sante Fe Railroad, 25%, 777, 991; strike, 784; the greatest builder of them all, 1285; shops, 1311


Sante Fe trade, interference of the Texans, 121; successive headquarters, 138; business of ontfitting. 139; ex. tent of, 141


Sante Fe Trail, 71, 84, 122, 336, 356, 483, 584, 734, 743, 747, 771, 855, 2170, 2172; father of, 89; marked, 91; through Kansas, 110; table of distanees, 116; and the Texans, 121: roads, 135; authorities, 143 Sapp, Edwin E., 2054


Sapp, William F., 1836


Sargent, John, 1337


Sarver, 1. F., 1775


Saunders, J. P., 487, 608


Savage, Joseph, 361


Savage, Joseph F., 1812


Saviers, Al., 742


Sawin, Leroy E., 1536


Sawmills, 346, 988


Sawyer, Charles M., 2084


Saxon, Esther J., 1678


Saxon, Theodore, 1677


Schalker, Anstin, 2353


Schalker, John Jr., 2353


Sehalker, Jolın Sr., 2353


Schalker Packing Co., 2353


Scherman, Franeis J., 1650


Schermerhorn, William E., 1621


Schilling, Albert J., 2393 Schilling, John, 2392


Sehippel, Gotthart, 2718


Schmidt, Mathias M., 1492


Sehneider, Charles H., 1434


Schoch, William F., 2693


School Book Commission, 1212


School for the Blind, Kansas City, 231-


School geographies, early, 78


School Text-Book Commission, 1095


School text-book Jaw, 1193


Schools of instruction for officers and soldiers, originator of the plan, 150; for Indians and whites, 215; Indian mission, 336; View of First in Marion County, 1589 Schrader, Georg F. C., 2457


Schroeder, Henry W., 2664


Schuyler, Phillip C., 447, 463, 465


Schwartz, William, 2525


Seidmore, W. A. 2630


Seientific and Historical Society, 107]


Seott, Andrew, 1630


Scott, Charles F., 1360


Scott County, 36, 966


Scott, Dred, case, 185


Scott, Lee, 2384


Scott, Merle K., 1486


Seott, Samuel, 401, 693 Scott, W., 255%


Seotton, Edwin, 1712 Scotton, W. E., 1713 Seranton, 111 Serip money, 970, 92 Scudder, Thomas W., 1210


Seal, John II., 2702 Searl, Oscar R., 1489 Sears, W. 11., 575 Searson, J. W., 1325


Seaver, Il. A., 798


Second Indian regiment, 901


Second Kansas Colored Volunteer In fantry, 898


Second Kansas Infantry, 725


Second Kansas Volunteer Battery. 99 Second Regiment, 769


Second Regiment Kansas Volunteer


Cavalry, 874


Second Regiment Kansas Volunteer In- fantry, 873


Secrest, Edward, 1259


Secrest Family, Riley County, 1259


Secrest, Solomon, 1265


Secretary's Private Office, Kansas State Historical Society (illustration ), 1074


Seewir, Charlie (., 2373


Seewir, John G., 2373


Seitz, Jeremiah L., 2550


Self-Protective Company, 1232


Selig, August L., 2441


Selig. H. W. 11., 2441


Sells, Allen W., 1340


Sells Brothers Cirens, 1340


Semi-Centennial Anniversary, 551


Seneca, 167, 175


Seneca Tribune, 1415


Sessions, Charles H., 1333 Settlement of Kansas, 710; result of Kansas-Nebraska bill, 347; first mis- take, 352


Settlers, from free states, 363; from Massachusetts. 348; from Missouri, 350; in 1854, 356; from Russia, 437 Settlers' Protective Associations, 1140 Seven Cities, The, 1


Seventeenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, 896


Seventh Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, 880


Severin, John P., 1431


Severy Severvite, 2294


Sewell, Henry S., 1985


Sewell, J. B., 1339


Sowell, William C., 1641


Shafer, Jacob, 1636


Shaffer, A. C., 2352


Shannon family, 473


Shannon, Governor Wilson, 457, 459,


470, 473, 479, 481, 500, 501, 510, 514, 518, 521, 536, 540, 544, 549, 594, 605. 612, 633; portrait, 474; interview with Gov. Geary, 636


Sharp, Anderson M., 21-7


Sharp, George J., 2122


Sharps' Rifles, 431, 432, 505, 511, 554


Shaver, Albert N., 2334


Shaw, 227 Shaw, A. J., 1441


Shaw, Wayne F., 2719 Shawnee, 741 Shawnee Baptist Mission, 270, 271 Shawnee cession, 243


Shawnee county, 74, 214, 260, 336, 911, 1010, 1946; Old Brownsville, or Au burn, 1655; oldest building in, 1820 Shawnee Mission, 110, 159, 336, 390. 402, 407, 441, 444, 455, 17%; capital of Kansas territory, 241 Shawnee Mission Grounds (map . 410; Johnson county, Kansas, 110


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Shawnee prophet, 241 Shawnee reservation, 240, 336


Shawnee reserve line, 484 Shawnee tribe, 310 Shawnees, 239, 299 Shearburn, Edwin W., 1572


Sheard, Thomas E., 1660


Sheedy, Dennis J., 2239


Shelby. Joseph O., 395, 602


Shelden, Alvah, 2404


Shelden, Chester C., 2576


Shelden, John G., 1405


Shelden, Louisa V., 1405, 2405


Shelden, Mary M. L., 2404


Sheldon, Emmor J., 2530


Sheldon, Herbert F., 2401


Sheldon, Leroy B., 2284


Shelksohn, Otto W., 1609


Shellenbaum, Edward, 1220


Shellenbaum, Frank H., 1769


Shellenbaum, Henry, 1768


Shelton, D., 817


Shelton, Edward M., 1026


Shelton, Frank W., 1923


Shepard, William Il., 1852


Sheridan, Phil. H., 1213


Sherman, 772


Sherman, John N., 1992


Sherman, William, 570, 578


Sherman, William T., 772, 1627


Shermansville, 578, 579


Sherrill, K. Ellis, 1530


Sherwood, Frank H., 2233 Shew, John, 1008 Shideler, Harry W., 1872


Shideler, Henry, 1872


Shimer, James C., 1309


Shine, Rev. Michael A., 14


Shinn, Charles W., 2206 Shin-oaks, 83 Shirk, David F., 1685


Shirk, James A. G., 1824


Shive, Edison E., 2713


Shoemaker, Thomes C., 423


Shope, Robert S., 1510


Shore, Captain, 584


Shore, Samuel T., 590


Short ballot, 863


Shriver, William I., 2578


Shuler, Lewis E., 1526


Shumway, Charles C., 2663


Sickles, T. N., 1835


Silos, 1089, 1281 Simmerwell, Fannie (portrait), 261


Simmerwell, Robert, 260, 1010; (por- trait), 261 Simmons, Marion J., 1897


Simms, Franklin B., 1701


Simon, Reinhold W., 2598 Simpson, Benjamin F., 699, 750, 758, 763, 946 Simpson, Charles L., 2001 Simpson, Jerry, 1122, 1148, 1151, 1154, 1159, 1167, 1192, 1194; (portrait), 1168 Simpson, John W., 2648 Simpson, Samuel N., 1999 Sims, John B., 1790 Sims, John T., 2078 Nims. William, 1088, 1790 Singer, John M., 738


Siouan Indian family, 191 Siouan Indians, 193 Sipple, G. K., 2157 Sister Felicitas, 2395 Sixteenth Kansas, 756 Sixteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, 895


Sixth Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cav- alry, 878 Sjogren, Claus J., 2490


Skidmore, A. II., 2313


Skidmore, Charles B., 2127


Skinner, Carl H., 1387


Skinner, Frank N., 2028


Skinner, Fred B., 2028


Slaughter, John P., 1673 Slavery, 291, 292, 296, 297, 299, 318, 333, 350, 360, 378, 386, 467, 475, 479, 561, 629, 630, 633, 927, 929, 943


Slavery abolished in Kansas, 707 Slavery and the Constitution, 18.5


Slavery eause, 657


Slavery eode, 417


Slavery impossible in Kansas, 341


Slavery issue, 435 Slavery laws, 418


Slavery men, at Atchison, 36I


Slavery, opposition to in Missouri, 337


Slavery opposition from people of Alle- ghany Mountain system, 340


Slavery prohibition, 446


Slavery party, 648


Slavery question, 383, 403


Slavery, seeret order, 349; unprofitable in west, 354 Slaves in Missouri, 337


Sleeth, Pauline B., 2467


Sleeth, William M., 2466


Sloan, E. O., 2113


Słonecker, J. G., 1368


Sloop, C. J., 1823


Slosson, George, 2201


Slosson, Minnie H., 220I


Slough Creek, 622


Small, William, 2313


Smelser, William N., 2255


Smelters, 1004 Smith, Albert, 2002


Smith, Arthur B., 1724


Smith, B. S., 2122


Smith, Charles A., 2677


Smith, Clement, 1694


Smith, Emery E., 2709


Smith, E. O., 2370


Smith, F. Dumont, 1756


Smith, Flavius R., 2364


Smith, Glenn, 1462


Smith, G. O., 465


Smith, George S., 1586


Smith, George T., 1436 Smith, George W., 446, 463, 516, 549, 2128 Smith, H. R., 2453


Smith, H. H., 2617


Smith, J. C., 510


Smith, Jacob, 1757


Smith, James N., 2629


Smith. Jedediah S., 119, 149


Smith, John M., 2565 Smith, John Q., 2247 Smith, Joseph B., 2323


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Smith, Leonard T., 2474 Smith-Lever Act, 1023 Smith, Mary P., 2208 Smith, Mrs. M. B., 818 Smith, Samuel C., 498 Smith, S. C., 981 Smith, Solomon A., 2497 Smith, Tom D., 1394


Smith, Walter A., 1705


Smith, William A., 1383


Smith, William H., 1431


Smith, William H., 2147


Smith, William R., 1212


Smoky Hill river, 60


Smolan, 2490


Smyser, Lavinia J., 2669


Smyser, William C., 2669


Smyser, William G., 1563


Smythe, John H., 2286


Snively, Colonel, 121


Snodgrass, W. C., 1601


Snow, Chancellor, 960


Snow, E. H., 1156


Snow, Francis H., 2412


Snow, Frank H., 1018


Snyder, Captain Elv, 672


Snyder elaim fort, 677, 679


Snyder Claim (map of), 675


Snyder, Elias, 673


Snyder, Elmore W., 2349


Snyder, Ely, 676


Snyder, Howard L., 2574


Snyder, Jonathan T., 1681


Snyder, William P., 1692


Snyder's shop, 672


Sockless Jerry, 1152


Soda ash plant, 1001


Sod house, 2259


Soil of Kansas, 711, 1777; and elimate, 344


Soldiers ' Home, Leavenworth, 2404


Soldiers in Civil war from Kansas, 905 Soldiers of Kansas, 869 Soldiers' Orphans' Home, 833 Soller, August, 1516


Solomon, 997


Solomon and Republican valleys, 772 Solomon Solar Salt Co., 997 ** Some Impressions of Enrope," 2656 Songer, Harvey L., 2575 Sorghum, 1300


Sonth alarmed by emigration companies, 348


South Carolina company, 554 Sonth Carolina flag, 552 South, Charles, 2173


South, emigration to Kansas, 526 Southeastern Kansas, 859; disorders, 693; troubles, 696; territorial troubles, 680


Southern emigration, 530 Southern, George W., 1771 Southern Kansas Academy, 2298 Southerners in Kansas, 532


Southwest Kansas and loan companies, 1139


Southwestern College, 1009 Southworth, Hiland, 1576 Sowers, Fred A., 1251 Spalding, Morillo 1., 2035


Spanish-American war, 846, 909, 954;


brigadier-general of volunteers, 2103 Sparks, Oliver W., 2161


Spanlding, Azel, 721 Special privileges, prohibition of, 855 Specie payments, resumption of, 1121 Speck, Frederick, 2044 Speer, John, 364, 436, 447, 468, 1269; portrait, 363


Speer, Joseph L., 718


Spencer, Calvin M., 2300


Spencer, Charles F., 1900


Speneer, Elizabeth T., 2492


Spencer, Francis M., 1756


Spencer, F. M., 1047


Sperry, John H., 1936


Spilman, Alexander C., 2553 Spilman, Judge Robert B., 1226 Spilman, Robert B., 1226


Spines, J. H., 1818


Spirit of frec mien, 444


"Spirit of 1856," 2471 Spirit villages of Kansas Indians, 204


Spooner, Charles E., 1996 Sprague, Keith E., 2226


Spring Hill, 746


Spring, John Brown, 672


Spring river, 24 Squatter associations, 363


Squatter elaims, 349 Squatter court at Fort Scott, 683, 684


Squatter laws, 489


Sqnatter sovereign, 832


Squatter sovereignty, 185, 348, 366, 437


Squatter's Claim Association, 350


Sqnier, William H., 1457


Squires, Jeremiah H., 1808


Squires, Ralph W., 1811


Staatz, John H., 2646


Stafford county, 996


Stage coaches, 172; illustration, 179


Stage routes, 169


Stagg, David L., 1776


Stahl, Elmer G., 1326


Stahl, Frank M., 1315 Stahl, Mrs. Michael, 1326


Stahlman, David C., 1388


Standard Asphalt and Rubber Co., 1006. 1912


Standard of weights and measures, 857 Standard Oil Company, 853, 1003, 1001, 1006


Stanford, John W., 1879


Stanley, William E., 847; portrait, 818 Stansbury, Captain Howard, 155


Stanton, Frederick P., 652, 660, 700, 716; portrait, 661; character of, 665


Stanton, James, 2403


Stanton, Michael, 2403


Star of the West, 602


Stark, Dale, 1375


Starr, Alva C., 1844


Starry, Clark N., 1959


State agent for Kansas at Washington, 2655


State bank commissioner, 1696 State Bank of Elgin, 2490 State Bank of Leon. The, 1483 State Bank of Nickerson, Kansas, The, 2696


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State Board of Agriculture, 1216, 1258 State Board of Health, 1089


State Board of Railroad Commission- ers, 1224 State capital, 712, 776, 852


State constitution, 455, 467


State dairy commissioner, 1032


State finances, 767, 860, 865


State fire marshal, 1211


State food and drugs law, 1033


State Good Roads Association, 21\7


State Historical Society, 1073, 1303, 2655


State Home for Feeble Minded. Win- field, 1104


Statehood movement, 446, 461


State Hospital, 861


State Hospital for Epileptics, 2037


State Hospital for the Insane, Topeka, 1653 State House, 756, 837, 849; architect of, 1264 State Insane Asylum, 859




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