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JULY 22. Election of township supervisors. Samuel A. Kingman is chosen for Irving, Roger P. Smith for Walnut Creek, Joseph Round for Clay- tonville. Lochnane township did not elect until August.
JULY 28. Samuel W Wade contracts to build the court house for $2,000 and agrees to have the same completed by August 1, 1859. He gives bond in the sum of $4,000 with James Round and William D. Duncan as sureties.
AUGUST 2. Vote on the Lecompton Constitution as submitted by the English bill.
AGAINST.
FOR.
Hamlin.
41
3
Hiawatha.
83
1
Plymouth
22. 0
Mt. Roy.
21.
6
Claytonville
68.
25
Locknane.
28
3
Robinson
76. 25
-
339
63
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1858-59]
The returns from Locknane were returned as being from Powhattan town- ship and were thrown out. No precinct had been established at Robinson and the returns from there were not counted. The vote as finally certified to by the board of canvassers was, against 243, for 35.
AUGUST 16. The old board of County Commissioners hold a meeting but County Clerk Peebles refuses to recognize them and is deposed.
AUGUST 28. Election in Locknane township. Henry C. Gragg is chosen chairman of the board of supervisors.
SEPTEMBER 26. The Congregationalists organize at the home of E. H. Niles on Walnut Creek. Eight persons are received into the church. Revs. J. H. Byrd and R. D. Parker conduct the services.
SEPTEMBER 30. The Padonia town company orders an assessment of one hundred dollars on each share for town improvement.
OCTOBER 4. George Graham, of Seneca, elected to represent Brown and Nemeha counties in the Territorial Legislature. The vote stood Graham 129, H. H. Patterson 73, H. Sutherland 28, Lloyd D. Aslıby 2.
OCTOBER 16. James Round, chairman of the board of supervisors for Clay- tonville township, Samuel A. Kingman, chairman of the board of supervisors for Irving township and Roger P. Smith, chairman of the board of supervisors for Walnut Creek township, met at the office of the Probate Judge and organ- ized by the election of Roger P. Smith as chairman and William B. Barnett clerk.
OCTOBER 19. First Mechanics Lien in the county filed. John H. Schenck files his lien in the probate court against Andrew J. Selleg .for $210 for brick furnished for the hotel on lot 82, on Utah Street in Hiawatha.
OCTOBER 22. E. A. Smith is commissioned a Notary Public for Brown county.
OCTOBER 23. The board of supervisors levy a tax of seven mills on the dollar for county purposes and three mills for territorial purposes.
NOVEMBER 16. The clerk of the board of supervisors makes the following report of the financial standing of the county.
Warrants 1 to 163 $2136.65
Appropriation for court house. 2000.00
Appropriation for bridge on Wolf river 500 00
Appropriation for bridge at Padonia. 200.00
Appropriation for bridge at Hamlin 200.00
Appropriation to buy books and stationary 60.00
Total
$5096.65
By warrants paid
549.58
$4547.07
To warrants on order book.
74.90
Total amount of indebtedness. $4621.97
NOVEMBER 25. E. A. Spooner appointed Superintendent of Public In- struction. He declined the office and subsequently Jas. Stanly was appointed.
1859.
FEBRUARY 3. White Cloud and surrounding territory make another effort to get into Brown County. A remonstrance is sent from Hiawatha to
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the legislature as it is feared White Cloud wants to get the county seat away from Hiawatha.
FEBRUARY 7. The legislature provides for Commissioners "to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims." Its object is to find out the amount , of property destroyed during the territorial troubles. Samuel A. Kingman is a member of the Commission. Its report was published by the 36th Congress and makes two octavo volumes containing 1767 pages. It allowed claims for $412,978.03 but neither Congress or the state would pay them.
FEBRUARY 9. The Robinson Town Co. incorporated by George S. Parks, O. H. Macauley, Ira H. Smith, J. P. Macauley and A. D Richardson.
FEBRUARY 11. The road leading from Elwood, running up Peters Creek by way of Troy, Lewis crossing on Wolf river near Highland, Hiawatha, Sen- eca and Marysville is declared a Territorial road.
FEBRUARY. John Brown makes his famous trip over the Lane road with 14 escaped negroes. There were several stations on the underground road in Brown County.
MARCH 11. School District No. 1 (Carson) organized by Supt. J. A. Stan- ley. The first board is Noah Hanson, director; I. B. Hoover, clerk; A. M. Kendall, treasurer.
MARCH 15. The boundary line of Irving township is changed so as to include within the township all of the fractional townships in range 17, lying north of the Kickapoo reserve.
MARCH 28. The question whether a constitu.ion is wanted is voted upon. Walnut casts 23 votes for and 3 against, Plymouth 48 for, Irving 55 for, but as the returns were sent to the Governor instead of the County Board they were not counted. No record can be found of the returns from the rest of the county.
MARCH 30. Jolin Belk is chosen chairman of the board of supervisors for Irving, James Rounds for Claytonville; I. B. Hoover for Walnut and Urias Billman for Lochnane.
APRIL 18. The first session of Court in the county is opened by Chief Jus- tice John Pettit. The order for holding court having been lost the Judge refused to try any cases. B. F. Killey Samuel A. Kingman and Warren W. Guthrie are enrolled as attorneys.
APRIL 20. Joint school district No. 1, B. & N. is organized by Supt. Stanley. The first officers are E. Whittenhall, director, John S. Graham, treasurer; Geo. Graham, clerk.
APRIL 30 School District No. 2 (Stone) organized by Supt. J. A. Stanley. This district was re-organized on Dec 27, 1862. On the 13th of January, 1863, a meeting was held at the house of E. H. Niles and Franklin Myers was elected director, W. C. Foster, treasurer, and Samuel Speer, clerk.
MAY 7. Mass convention at Hiawatha of all those opposed to the admin- istration to consider the propriety of sending delegates to the Osawatomie convention.
MAY 18. The Republican party in Kansas is organized at Osawatomie. D. W. Wilder is one of the secretaries.
MAY 30. The board of Supervisors consisting of James Round, of Clayton- ville, John Belk of Irving and Isaac B. Hoover, of Walnut Creek organized by the election of James Round as chairman and Henry Graves, clerk,
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-The clerk is ordered to send to the land office at Kickapoo for plat of Brown county with all the land marked that was entered on the first day of April, 1853, and also since then up to the first of June, 1959.
-Henry S. Rvmal is appointed assessor for Claytonville township to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of Theron Norman.
JUNE 7. Delegates are elected to the Wyandotte constitutional conven- tion. Brown county is entitled to one delegate. There were one hundred fourteen votes polled in the county. Samuel A Kingman received 17 votes in Walnut Creek: 9 in Claytonville; 56 in Irving and 11 in Locknanc. Total 93. S C. Shields received 19 votes in Claytonville. William Linguist and Samuel W. Wade each received one vote in Claytonville.
JUNE 21. The board of supervisors appropriate $200 to build a bridge across the branch of Wolf river east of John Walters' and a like amount to build a bridge across Walnut creek at Carson.
JUNE 30. Rev. G. G. Rice takes charge of the . Congregational church on Walnut creek.
JULY 5. The Wyandotte convention convenes. Samuel A. Kingman is elected temporary president by a vote of 32 to 12.
JULY 18. The following resolution was adopted by the board of super- visors.
RESOLVED: That James Round, presiding officer of this board be empowered and directed to attend to the entering of town sites within this county whenever called upon by the occu- pants thereof subject to, and in the manner provided by the act to regulate the entries and disposals of town sites."
AUGUST 3. A Republican convention at Lawrence nominates M. J. Par- rott for Delegate to Congress. Warren W Guthrie, of Brown county is one of the vice presidents.
AUGUST 27. The salary of the probate judge is fixed at $150.
-At a conventiou of the Free State party at Hiawatha the following nom- inations were made: Representative, H. R. Dutton; Probate Judge, B. F. Killey; Sheriff, J. H. Schenk; School Commissioner. Jas. H. Stanley; Register of Deeds, Henry Woodward; County Attorney, J. G. Kelsey; Treasurer, Geo. J. Englehart; Clerk of Board of Supervisors, Dr. H. Graves.
-Messrs. H. R. Patton, C. W. Whittenhall and - McCoy were sent as delegates to the Senatorial Convention to be held at Seneca.
AUGUST 31. School district, No. 3 (Meadow Brook) is organized by Supt. J. A. Stanley. An election had been held on the 13th inst and E. S. Pound chosen as clerk and Thomas Hartman as treasurer. There is no record show- ing who was the director.
-The Leavenworth Times in writing up the members of the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention says:
"Samnel A. Kingman, of Brown, is decidedly the first man on the floor of the Convention. He is a Massachusetts Yankee as is clearly evidenced in the whole man. Tall, thin, dark com- plexioned, with very dark hair, beard and eyes, of a bilious temperament, sharp face, high forehead, with the perceptive faculties large, and the head generally well balanced, his per- sonal appearance marks him immediately as a man of decided and peculiar individuality. Politically he is a Republican, but not radical. His tendency is not to extremes, unless ex- tremes are right; and only then, or when he thinks them so, is he an extremist."
SEPTEMBER 8. Sol. Miller roasts the Free State party of Brown county because six of their eight nominees are from Hiawatha and says there is no
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wonder that dissatisfaction exists. He wants to know why it is that the ticket is termed Free State instead of Republican as the people of Brown county claim to be.
SEPTEMBER 15. School District No. 4 (Hiawatha) is organized by Supt. J. A. Stanley. At the first meeting A J. Sellegg was elected director and Mar- tin B. Bowers, clerk. No record is given as to the treasurer.
OCTOBER 2. Republican state convention at Lawrence. Samuel A. Kingman is nominated for Associate justice of the Supreme Court. W. W. Guthrie is the delegate from Brown county.
OCTOBER 4. The Wyandotte constitution is adopted Brown county casts 269 votes for and 103 against. The Homestend clause receives 173 votes for and 163 against.
OCTOBER 10. The Padonia town company organizes under the articles of incorporation.
OCTOBER 16. First tax sale, 62 pieces of land advertised the amounts run- ning from 50 cents to $14.00.
OCTOBER 19. Voting precincts were established as follows: In Clayton- ville township at the house of John Page; in Irving township one at Padonia and one at Mt. Roy.
-Johnathan Snowden and others petitioned for a hog law and the board of supervisors order a vote to be taken upon the question in the several pre- cincts.
-- A levy of 5 mills on the dollar for county and township purposes is ordered. NOVEMBER 8. Teritorial election.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS.
Marcus J. Parrott, Republican 272
Saunders W. Johnston, Democrat .25
COUNCILMAN FOR FIFTH DISTRICT.
Warren W. Guthrie, Free State.
128
Luther R. Palmer, Free State. .. 3
George Graham, Free State
160
REPRESENTATIVE.
H. R Dutton. 232
A. B. Anderson 60
Orville Root
I
SHERIFF.
Jolin H. Shenck 237
Homer L. Deane. 11
Preston Melton 6
A. M Gifford.
21
John Hughes
4
REGISTER OF DEEDS.
Henry Woodward 186
David Peebles
113
TREASURER.
George J. Englehart .. 169
Samuel Wade
120
PROBATE JUDGE.
Benjamin F. Killey
281
Samuel A. Kingman
1
COUNTY CLERK.
Henry Graves
287
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.
Joel G Kelsey
238
Orville Root .
1
Warren W. Guthrie.
1
I G Smith
1
Preston Melton
1
E. H. Grant.
1
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
Ira H. Smith
237
James J. Ross
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.
James H. Stanley
261
Warren W. Guthrie
1
CORONER.
Andrew J. Selleg
261
W. G. Sargent.
1
For the Hog Law
190
Against the Hog Law
104
NOVEMBER 10. Republican Judicial Convention at Robinson. Albert L. Lee, of Elwood, is nominated for District Judge.
NOVEMBER 19. Republican District Convention of the counties of Brown and Atchison at Kennekuk to nominate two Senators and six members of the legislature. The basis of representation is one delegate for every thirty votes or major fraction thereof, cast for the Wyandotte Constitution. Brown county was represented by B. F. Killey, A Cool, J. Englehart, H. H. Morton, J. M.
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1859-60]
Benson, Charles Carrol, E. W. Plankington, W. W. Ross, L. W. Demming, It was decided that Brown county should have one Senator and one representa- tive and Atchison county one Senator and five Representatives. The Brown county delegates organized by the selection of B. F. Killey as chairman and nominated H. R. Dutton, of Hiawatha, for Senator and Ira H. Smith, of Rob- inson. for Representative.
NOVEMBER 26. A meeting of the members of the bar held at Hiawatha, nominates Geo. W. Glick, of Atchison, for District Judge.
DECEMBER 6. First election held under the Wyandotte Constitution.
GOVERNOR.
Chas. Robinson, Republican 273
Samuel Medary, Democrat 81
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
I. P. Root, Republican
.271
John P. Slough. Democrat .. 80
SECRETARY OF STATE.
I. W. Role, Republican
.270
A. P. Walker, Democrat
81
TREASURER.
William Tholen, Republican 273
Robert L. Pease, Democrat 81
AUDITOR.
G. S. Hillyer, Republican
. 273
Joel K Goodin, Democrat
81
CHIEF JUSTICE.
Thomas Ewing. Republican
.271
Joseph Williams, Democrat
80
ASSOCIATED JUSTICE.
Samuel A. Kingman, Republican. 280
L. D. Bailey. Republican 274
Samuel A Stinson. Democrat ... 71
Robert Mitchell, Democrat
80
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
B. F. Simpson, Republican
273
Orliu Thomston, Democrat 81
CONGRESSMAN.
M. F. Conway, Republican.
258
John A. Holderman, Democrat 95
DISTRICT JUDGE.
Albert L. Lee, Republican
274
Geo, W. Glick, Democrat
80
STATE SENATOR. '
John A. Martin, Republican 266
H. R. Dutton, Republican .297
Gideon O. Chase, Democrat 88 Samuel A. Wade, Democrat 46
REPRESENTATIVE SECOND DISTRCT.
William H. Grimes, Republican
.273
E. P. Lewis, Republican
.272
Thomas Butcher, Republican
273
C. B. Keith, Republican 273
A. Elliott, Republican
27.3
Ira H. Smith, Republican 175
Junius T. Herford, Democrat 83
Leander Sawyer, Democrat
77
William Nole, Democrat
81
Thomas L. Fortune, Democrat 81 John K. Ship. Democrat 81
Geo. E. Irvin, Independent ..
168
PROBATE JUDGE.
Enmion W Plankington
346
DISTRICT CLERK
H. L. Deane
176
Joel G. Kelsey
154
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.
Joseph Paschal.
261
Martin C. Willis
93
JUSTICE PEACE, IRVING TOWNSHIP.
W. H. M. Jones
.36
William Drake
60
I. P. Winslow 50
'T. J. Kenyon
56
I. K. Brown
.7
H Graves
5
John Spencer
2
James V. Jack
6
JUSTICE PEACE, WALNUT CREEK TOWNSHIP.
James W. Belts
73
T. M. Sterns
57
E. A. Spooner
32
J. C. Foster
12
W. Hunter
26
John Powe
11
JUSTICE PEACE, LOCKNANE TOWNSHIP.
W. J, Hart
15
N. Williams
10
Doctor Soog .
4
Hugh Sutherland
3
JUSTICE PEACE, CLAYTONVILLE TOWNSHIP.
S. C. Sheilds 33
A. B. Anderson
21
John Page ..
46
James Round
36
W. H. H. Sawyer
2
1860.
JANUARY 4. Superintendent S. W. Greer presents his reports to the leg- islature. It shows the following in respect to the Brown county schools.
Number of districts organized, 4.
Number of youthis between the age of five and twenty-one, 204.
Number of children enrolled in schools, 95.
Number of months taught in the year, 15.
Number of districts in which schools were taught, 2. Amount of money raised to build school houses, $980.
Amount of public money for schools, $3.80.
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JANUARY 4. School district No. 5, (West Powhattan) is organized by Superintendent J. A. Stanley. Chas. Smith was chosen as the first director, Collingwood C. Grubb, treasurer, and W. E. Long, clerk.
FEBRUARY 1. A Kansas Historical Society is organized at Lawrence. Samuel A. Kingman delivers the address.
FEBRUARY 20. School district No. 6, (Bellevue) organized by Superin- tendent J. A. Stanley. Jesse Chandler was chosen as director and Henry H. Norton as clerk.
FEBRUARY 23. School district No. 7, (White Eagle) organized by Super- intendent J. A. Stanley. R H. Bollinger was chosen clerk and James Round treasurer.
FEBRUARY 24. The legislature declares all section lines in Brown county public highways the same as though located by the local tribunals.
FEBRUARY 27. The Iowa Point, Hiawatha & Denver City Railroad Co. is incorporated. Henry Alle, Charles H. Blake, Wm. N. Byers, Wm. H. Slaughter, Richard Sopris, Isaac B. Hoover, Andrew J. Sellegg, George J. Engelliart, Abraham Cole, H. W. Forman, J. P Johnson, A. Fall, J. T. Lane, D. Vanderslice, J. Powell, J. W. Forman, Richard Leach, A. Poulet, Jno. Slemmons, H. K. Stout, Wm. Word and J. S. Pemberton are named as diretors.
MARCHI 2. School district No. 9, (Claytonville) organized by Superin- tendent J. A. Stanley. Jesse Chandler is chosen director and Thompson Kem- per clerk.
MARCH 19. The board of supervisors in accordance with the law passed February 25th, district the county into three Commissioner districts.
MARCH 22. School district No 8, (Hill Top) organized by Superintendent J. A. Stanley. On April 7th a meeting was held and Elijah Allen was chosen as director, J. A. Alford as treasurer and M. B Bowers as clerk.
MARCH 26. Election for county and township officers.
Commissioner First District.
W. B. Barnett ..
165
Lewis C. Dunn
.48
Daniel Hawks
26
Orville Root.
2
J. W. Belts
31
E. B. Osborne
1
John Belk
1
Commissioner Second District.
I. B. Hoover.
158
Noah Hanson 49
W. H. Pratt. 17
Commissioner Third District.
James Round. 102
I. H. Smith 1
County Assessor.
E. A. Spooner
.115
Joseph Paschal 60
Lewis C. Dunn. .13
John Maxwell
27
J. W. Oliver ..
1
Trustee, Irving Township.
David Peebles 82
James Long
David McCoy 1
Justice of Peace, Irving Township.
Joseplı Paschal 54
I. P. Winslow 31
G. H. Chestnut 4
Seth Barnum
Justice of Peace, Walnut Creek Township.
William Nelson
54
Andrew Hunter
1
Constable, Walnut Creek Township.
Wm. Tidwell.
.39
David Ross
48
L. W. Denning
5
A. Hunter.
2
Trustee. Locknane Township.
I. N. Seaman
.20
Orville Root
.. ]
S. W. Jewell.
1
Constable. Irving Township.
James Mills
79
H. M. Robinson
.61
David McCoy
21
Thomas Strange
.1
Loyd Ashby
1
Trustee, Claytonville Township.
J. H. Rogers
31
Chas. Carrow
15
J. H. Oliver
1
Justice of Peace, Claytonville Township.
S. C. Sheilds.
29
N. P. Rollen
13
1 | M. C. Willis.
5
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25
Constable, Claytonville Township.
Henry Honnell. .26
W. J. Guwalt. .22
P. F. Lindley .20
J. W. Wilbur . 10
John Hughs .3
Oldham Nelson 2
Trustee, Walnut Creek Township.
Noah Hanson 31
W. McBride
19
John Russell
.36
E. A. Spooner 3
John Spencer. 16
J. H. Chandler. 3
Justice of Peace, Locknane Township.
H. C. Gragg 35
E. W Plankington 5
P. M. Hedges 19
H. Sutherland.
.18
Constable, Locknane Township.
James Day 33
MARCH 30. Henry Graves resigns as County Clerk and H. R. Dutton is appointed to fill vacancy.
APRIL 1. The Board of County Commissioners organized by the election of William B. Barnett as chairman. An examination of the records showed that warrants to the amounts of $7,713 02 had been issued up to this time and that appropriations for $335 more have been ordered. Making a total of $8,518 02. Warrants to the amount of $2,187.18 have been redeemed. The county has bid in for taxes lands to the amount of $300.90. Adding to this the $4231.01 worth of taxes assessed for 1859 and the county indebtedness at this date stands at $1,828.93. It is ordered that the numbering of county warrants shall be commenced anew from this date. Five mills is levied on all lands in the county subject to taxation as a road tax.
APRIL 4. David Peebles is appointed County Superintendent to fill va- cancy caused by the resignation of James A. Stanley. H. R. Dutton is allow- ed $125 for enclosing the court house square. The Clerk is ordered to post in five public places of the county a written statement of the receipts and ex- penditures of the county up to April 1, 1863.
APRIL 11. Republican convention at Lawrence to elect delegates to the Chicago National Convention. Brown county is represented by Dr. H. Seburn, who is made a member of the committee on permanent organization. E. N. Morrill in his history of the county says it was difficult to find any one to go. Those who had money had no horses and those with horses had no money. Finally a collection of $4 50 was raised to pay the delegate's expenses.
APRIL 16. The first regular term of court in the county is held. Hon. Rush Elmore, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court presided. H. R Dut- ton was sworn as foreman and John G. Spencer, W. J. Caruthers, A. B. Ander- son, Caleb McGill, Nathaniel Kimberlin, Ellihu Whittenhall, L. W. Denning, J. A. B.ixter, Jacob Weltmer, George Bissell, Wm. J. Hart, Jacob Klinefelter, Franklin Thomas, David Peebles and Seth Barnum were sworn as members of the grand jury. H. M. Robinson was sworn as bailiff to the grand jury. There is no record to show that they found any indictments.
-R. P. Smith, James Belk, Soloman McCall, E. A. Spooner, I. D. Hardy, James Smith, M. C. Willis, Hiram Wise, Henry Honnell, Samuel Spear, Miles Simmons, T. S. Gottsell, W. B. Barnett, Benjimin Watkins, Lloyd Ashby, Benjimin Winkles, Samuel Chandler, David P. McGill, Thurston Chase, Wm. Twidwell, W. C. Foster, Azariah Freasgell, Wm. H. Jones and Gregory Amann were sworn as members of the petit jury.
-The first case tried was Albert Heed vs. Josiah G. Duke. The plaintiff was given judgment for $240.44 and costs.
-H. Starr, Ira J. Lacock and X. K. Stout were sworn in as attorneys.
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-No prosecuting attorney being present W. G. Sargent was appointed by the Court for Brown and Nemeha counties for the term.
APRIL 19. Stephen Hughes, a native of Ireland, is naturalized in the district court. This seems to have been the first proceedings of the kind in the county. William Linquist, a native of Sweden, is naturalized on the same day.
APRIL 20. The case of Abadiali Shumaker by next friend Peter Shumaker vs. Mallan P. Neville is tried. This seems to have been the first jury case in the county. The jury found for the defendant. E. A. Spooner was foreman.
- Judge Elmore orders that all fines and forfeitures belonging to the county be used by the Clerk to buy chairs, seats and stationary for the use of the Court.
APRIL 21. Judge Elmore makes the following order:
"That in all cases of arrest for alleged crimes the Sheriff be directed to to take bail with two sufficient sureties to be approved by said Sheriff for the following sums, to-wit: Grand larceny and burglary $5000; assult with intent to kill $1000; petit larceny $250; for violating the liquor law and assault and battery $150; for assuming office of public trust $500.
APRIL 26. Judge Elmore held court in Brown county last week and dis- posed of a large amount of business, We learn that in his charge to the Grand Jury he declared that polygamy is practiced to as great an extent in Kansas as in Utah! He seems to think that about two-thirds of the men in Kansas have one or more wives elsewhere .- Kansas Chief.
MAY 15. School district No 10, (Pleasant Valley) is organized by Superin- tendent David Peebles. It is found that a portion of the territory described belongs to Union District No. 1, Brown and Nemeha. No further record can be found until Aug. 27, 1864, when Superintendent Noall Hanson orders the first meeting to be held at the home of George Roberts on Sept. 21, 1861. At that meeting Wm E Vasser was chosen director, Wm. Ledbetter clerk, and Phillip Rochafellow treasurer.
MAY 20 School District No. 11, (Flickenger) is organized by Superin- tendent David Peebles. James Oldfield is elected director and Wm. MeBride, clerk.
JUNE 1 The population of the county according to the government cen- sus is 2607.
-The Hiawatha, Padonia and Pony Creek Sunday Schools picnic at Padonia.
JULY 9. A new treaty it proclaimed with the Sacs and Foxes by which their reservation is reduced in size.
JULY 10. School district No. 12, (Terrapin) is organized by Superinten- dent David Peebles. W. G. Sargent is elected director, George J. Peebles clerk, and A. J. Comstock treasurer.
AUGUST 16. The delinquent tax list for 1859 appears in the Kansas Chief. It fills four columns of the paper and shows that the people of the county have been playing in hard luck.
SEPTEMBER 15. A Republican county convention nominates the follow- ing ticket: Representative, W. W. Guthrie; County Commissioners, John Bertwell, Lewis C. Dunn, Wm. Vasser; County Attorney, E. W. Plankington: Assessor, E. A. Spooner.
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SEPTEMBER 29. School district No. 13, (Padonia) is organized by Superin- tendent David Peebles. John Belk is elected director and John Schimitt treasurer.
OCTOBER 2. A tax two and a half mills is levied for road purposes.
-A voting precinct is established at the house of William I. Hart in Locknane township.
OCTOBER 4. Democratic county convention at Hiawatha.
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