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On the evening of July 15, 1860, Joseph Hagen, our county assessor, was drowned while bathing in the Missouri river at Kansas City, Mo., and on the seventeenth Col. John T. Quarles was appointed to fill the vacancy by the board of county fathers.
On the eighteenth day of July, 1860, the first examination of students for admission to practice law was held in Olathe. Governor Shannon, Judge Cato, one of the Territorial judges and General Wear were the examining committee, and W. A. Ocheltree, Columbus Burris and George H. Ham were the applicants. The committee gave them great credit for the intelligent manner in which they passed the fiery ordeal.
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On the nineteenth day of July, 1860, there were present in attendance upon our district court, then presided over by the Hon. Joseph Will- iams, the following named attorneys : Governor Shannon, Judge Cato T. T. Abrams, William Holmes, Gen. A. C. Davis, district attorney for the territory of Kansas; Charles S. Glick, L. L. Jones, James Christian, Judge Smith, ,of Lawrence ; Samuel Young, J. Stockton, John Groom, H. M. Vail, L. S. Bolling, M. Wolf, James F. Legate, G. M. Waugh, A. P. Walker, W. H. M. Fishback, John T. Burris, Edwin S. Nash, Archie Carnahan, E. S. Wilkinson, Gen. R. B. Mitchell, W. P. Lamb, P. J. Camp- bell, A. S. Devenney and John M. Giffen, with William Roy as clerk of the court.
On the twenty-eighth day of August, 1860, a temperance ball was given in Hayes hall, in Olathe. No one was permitted to attend who had tasted spirituous liquors within the twenty-four hours preceding the ball, and no one was permitted to enter the hall and look on who had taken a drink that day. It was strictly a temperance ball in every respect; it was the first and last of the kind ever held in Olathe.
On the twenty-sixth day of September, 1860, William H. Seward made
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his ever to be remembered speech, at Lawrence, Kan., and a large ma- jority of the Good Templars lodge, at Olathe, attended the meeting in Lawrence. Nearly every one from Olathe (we mean the boys of course) got considerably stewed, and the result was what might have been ex- pected by the remainder of the members of the lodge who stayed at home. They attempted to turn out those who had fallen from grace, but the eloquence of the young ladies who acted as the champions for the recalcitrants, together with the large preponderance of voters on that side, settled the matter and nobody was turned out. In justice to the girls, we must say that their efforts in that direction were successful, and all were reformed in the lodge. The arguments were, that in the lodge they could reach and influence them for good, but once turned out, the boys would go to the saloons for recreation and amusement, and even good boys might then learn bad habits.
On the thirteenth day of October, 1860, the first lyceum course was organized and this, in interest, at least, has far surpassed any one ever organized in Olathe. At the organization twenty persons were selected to give lectures upon some subject at each meeting, and by this means these lectures were prepared with care, and Hayes hall was crammed full each Wednesday evening for twenty weeks. Other exercises were had each evening and all of them would compare favorably with institu- tions of the kind anywhere.
During the year 1860, the following named persons filled the religious directory as pastors of the several churches: Rev. J. M. Lackey, at Hayes hall, on the third Sabbath of each month at II a. m. and 6:30 p. m.
Rev. C. I. Beach, of the Presbyterian church, at Hayes hall, the first Sabbath of each month.
Rev. C. R. Rice, of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, at Hayes hall, the fourth Sabbath of each month.
Rev. J. H. Drummond, of the Episcopal church, at Hayes hall on the third Sabbath of each month at II a. m.
Rev. C. H. Lovejoy, of the M. E. church, at Hayes hall each Sabbath at 3:30 p. m.
W. B. Stone taught the public school from April 9, 1860, for the sum- mer.
The Presbyterians built their church building during the early part of 1860. It was located on Park Street. James Ingalls and a man by the name of Maybe were the carpenters and contractors. This was the first church building in Olathe. It was paid for, as then understood, from the building fund of the Presbyterian church, and by subscriptions from the citizens.
Mr. Thavis was one of the oldest citizens, having located in Olathe early in the fall of 1858. He impressed his handiwork upon nearly every
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building of note in Olathe. He built the greater portion of the Ameri- can House alone, and helped to build the jail, then he helped build the Francis block and the court house, and finally the old deaf and dumb asylum.
We think those young fellows who located in Olathe at an early day, and who helped to build up the town, should have a niche high up in the historical tablet of the city.
Doctor Scott was another, and his brother, Herman Scott, came to Olathe during the year 1857. The Doctor was always a friend to Olathe and Johnson county. He moved from Olathe to Iola, Allen county, Kansas, in the fall of 1858, and after that time was a member of the leg- islature from that county, and was for one term speaker of the house of representatives.
Herman Scott preempted the quarter-section on which Corwell & Bar- ton's addition to Olathe is located.
Mrs. Bowen was one of the early pioneers of Olathe. She came to Olathe some time during the year 1857 with her husband, S. F. Hill, who died in the winter of 1862, and was the second white woman in Olathe, Mrs. Jonathan Millikin being the first, Mrs. Bowen, then Mrs. Hill, the second, Mary Kirby, then Whalen, third, and Mrs. B. L. Roberts the fourth, and these women were the only women in Olathe until the early spring of 1858.
During the winter of 1860 and 1861 the principal employment of the citizens of Olathe was reading the reports from Washington City and speculating upon the chances of a settlement of the difficulties then existing between the North and the South. The year 1860 had been desolating in the extreme throughout Kansas, and when the heavens had again given copious showers hopes began to thrive and all nature wore a sunny aspect to the inhabitants of Olathe. New buildings, as early as February and March, 1861, began to show themselves all over the town, and the sound of the axe and the hammer was heard all around and about the town and property began to have a money value and the town lot owner and speculator was heard, from early morn to dewy evening, extolling the beauties of the town of Olathe, and soon the stranger showed himself and everything seemed to be approaching an age of prosperity and happiness, but, alas, for human expectations. On the twelfth day of April, 1861, Fort Sumpter was fired upon, and in the twinkling of an eye almost the peaceable and, unusually quiet town, was transformed into a military camp and marching, counter marching and preparation for the deadly conflict, were the order of the day, and the peace and prosperity vanished as the dew before the morning sun.
On the twenty-sixth day of March, 1861, the first State legislature met, and a great number of Olathe citizens visited the capitol to witness the imposing spectacle of the organization.
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Col. J. E. Hayes was a member of the house from Olathe and B. P. Noteman was elected enrolling clerk.
On April 1, 1861. the following named persons were elected trustees of the town of Olathe for the year 1861: S. B. Myrick, Moses Wells, B. L. Roberts, James Clemans and Philander Craig.
During the spring of 1861, J. J. Todd and family, Dr. J. F. Everhart and family, J. E. Clark and family, A. P. Walker and family, Mack Smith, and a host of others came to Olathe and located, for good, as they then thought and said but the uncertainty of life on the border drove a large number of people who had located here to seek safer quar- ters for themselves and their families during the struggle that followed.
On the fourth day of April, 1861, W. C. Quantrill took dinner at the Olathe House, now Avenue House, in Olathe. He then stated that some four years before he and his brother started across the plains for Mexico, and were attacked and robbed by eight armed men, and his brother killed, and then stated that he had sworn that he would avenge his brother's death, and that he at all times had put seven of them out of the way, and was then after the eighth man. This was the last seen of Quantrill in Olathe until the night of the sixth day of September, 1862. when he sacked Olathe.
About this time an independent company was organized for the pro- tection of the border, Evan Shrever, captain ; John Judy, first lieutenant, and William Pellett, second lieutenant. Then the sympathizers com- menced moving out of Kansas to Westport and Kansas City, Mo.
During the summer of 1861, very little business was transacted in Olathe. A large per cent. of our fighting population went into the First and Second regiments of Kansas volunteers, and a great many more sought a safer place for themselves and families than they thought Olathe to be at that time.
In 1860, when the census was taken, Olathe had a population of 520 men, women and children. More than half this number left during the year 1861, and when the war closed there were only fifteen persons left of those who were included in the census list of 1860, yet our town was as densely populated as when the census was taken, by refugees from Mis- souri, Arkansas and the Indian Territory. The year of 1861 was a period of anxiety to the citizens of Olathe and will not be forgotten by those who passed through it.
The war following so closely upon the heels of the drouth of 1860, had the effect to stop all sorts of improvements, and before the year 1861 expired, Olathe showed signs of decay, and long before the war ended more than half the buildings standing in the spring of 1861 were gone, having been moved into the country upon "claims owned by former citizens of the town or were destroyed." The year 1861 was one of the best growing seasons ever seen in Kansas and as a large majority .
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of the people were poor and needy, they entered largely into farming and from that time on to the end of the war Johnson county kept increasing her productions of corn and hay until the end of the war, and the prices of produce, corn and hay kept rising in proportion. Corn was worth, in 1861, from $1.00 to $1.50 per bushed, and hay brought readily $10.00 per ton.
CHAPTER VI.
OLATHE.
Olathe and Its Institutions-Merchants' Association-First Hotel-Vot- ers in 1859-Old Landmarks and Border Day Experiences-Churches -State Institute for the Deaf-Banks-Fifty Years of Olathe-A "County Seat Town."
OLATHE AND ITS INSTITUTIONS.
Olathe is the county seat of Johnson county, and had a population of 3,272 in 1910, and, with its suburbs, now has about 4,000. It has twelve miles of paved streets, a sewer system and a waterworks plant costing about $10,000. Its basin covers twenty acres. The Olath High School, costing $30,000, manual training and domestic science building, costing $10,000 were built in 1913, and a central school building, costing $25,000, was built in 1910. Two ward schools, costing $5,000 each, and a $10,000 public library were built in 1912. A city hall was built in 19II, at a cost of $17,5000. The Johnson county court house is a handsome edi- fice standing in the court house square. The State school for the deaf is located here also. Mrs Kate S. Herman has been superintendent since 1913. It has 250 pupils and twenty teachers. The Masonic temple was built in 1913-14, at a cost of $15,000. The Odd Fellows have two halls, nicely fitted up, and have a strong membership.
The commission form of government is in force here and the present officers are: J. S. Pellett, mayor; C. V. Townley, commissioner of finance; S. P. Howland, city clerk; Roy Murray, city engineer ; J. H. Milhoan, police judge; E. V. Knox, fire chief; A. H. Carberry, marshal.
MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATIONS.
The Johnson County Retail Merchants and Farmers' Association, with headquarters in Olathe, F. L. House, secretary, is one of the important institutions of the county. Its object is closer association and better- ment of the merchants and farmers in Olathe and Johnson county, to secure and disseminate to its members any and all legal and proper information, which may be of interest, value or protection to any mem- ber or members thereof. Membership may consist of any reputable mer- chant, banker, farmer, doctor, dentist, newspaper or any one else inter- ested in the progressive business affairs of Johnson county. It has proven of great value to its members, to the merchants in saving on advertising, collections, credits, and merchants' delivery and free employ-
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ment department, of which the secretary is in charge. This idea origi- nated with the secretary, Mr. House, and was put in effect at once on opening the office and has proven a wonderful success. Over 300 farm hands had been placed from March 17, 1914, to January 1, 1915.
The merchants' delivery started July 1, 1914, and has proven a suc- cess from the start. It was quite a task to establish this system, but it has proven economical for all the members. In the delivery depart- ment they have four two-horse wagons, one going in each direction at nothing invested in the outfit, a livery man doing the work for the members at a stated salary. Through the cooperation of this associa- tion many public improvements have been agitated and while the im- provements are not yet completed, they are under headway. The asso- ciation has the following members :
Active Members .- Olathe State Bank. Olathe Packing Company, T. A. Sutton Company, Hodges Brothers. Grange Store, S. E. Wilkinson, W. C. Keefer, H. B. White. H. M. Dixon. R. W. Moll. W. E. Christie, Bradshaw Furniture Company, J. All Evans Company, E. N. Garrett, H. O. Woodbury, C. G. Morrison. Patron's Bank, Fred Ruppelius, National Bank, Olathe Mirror, F. R. Lanter, L. W. Snepp Company, Big Racket, Julian Furniture Company, B. F. Adair, Olathe Light Com- pany, Harry McKoin, J. L. Pettyjohn & Company, Hadley Milling Company, Ben Gifford, Olathe "Register," F. W. Gras & Son, George D. Whitney & Son, White & Shinn, Warren & Hammond, Olathe Tele- phone Company, Olathe Independent Publishing Company, Weber Mill- ing Company, Nowlin & Brown, Bertha Mills, Dr. P. L. Lathrop, E. J. Allison, Smith Brothers, Morse. Kans .; Olathe Auto Company, J. J. Kuhlman. Bonita, Kan .; Morrison & Martin. J. H. Cosgrove & Son, Ryan & Company, Farmers Bank, Gardner, Kans .; Lenexa Grain Com- pany, Lenexa, Kan .; Peters grocery, Louis Krumm, Lenexa, Kan .; Ames & Payne, J. S. Hartley, Olathe Bottling Works, Spring Hill Coop- erage Association, Spring Hill. Kans.
Social Members .- Charles Ott. W. B. Strang, J. C. Caswell, George Abbott, W. J. McIntyre, Al Pichie, E. G. Carroll, Charles Stuart, A. E. Moll, Dr. C. W. Jones, Rev. S. F. Reipma, Dr. R. L. Moberly, O. D. McClung, S. E. Ferguson, Samuel Trotter, Bert Saunders, T. H. Miller, Ed Blair, W. G. Tainter, Al White, P. N. Root. H. L. Phillips.
Rural Members .- Arthur Robinson, Wyatt Hayes, J. Fred Marvin. John Huston, S. H. Allison, D. J. Page, D. Z. Ernst, Frank Mahaffie, H. T. Norton, D. R. Steiner, J. E. McKittrick, J. C. Duguid, J. S. Lorimer, C. A. Swank. J. E. Bartlett, T. J. Ewing, Ed Beckett. L. D. Ewing. W. E. Montgomery, W. E. Wright. C. W. Stoddard, W. A. Gordon, Jeff Keys, J. J. Wright, Shelden E. Case, C. W. Fay. W. L. Johnson, A. R. Allison, R. H. Ilite, S. R. Huchinson, Alph Beckett, W. P. Steiner, W. H. Perkey, A. O. Moon, Clyde Ewing, W. D. Montgomery, Albert Ott,
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J. N. Ware, W. G. Milligan, R. T. Cornwell, Syd Kennedy, C. F. Lan- caster.
FIRST HOTEL.
Olathe's first hotel was a frame building, 12x14 feet, built of rough lumber hauled from the Kaw river, and was located on West Park Street, where the Cottage Hotel now stands. It was used as a grocery, drygoods and drug store, saloon and hotel. At the time it was built, the hotel and saloon part of it did a rushing business, as many as from 100 to 200 people would stop there during the day, but the little hotel turned none away. When bedtime came, the night clerk would open the door and say: "Gentlemen, here is your bed; there is plenty of room out here on this prairie grass. Don't crowd," and with a kind "goodnight" he would return to his duties, while the traveler found his bed on the prairie and counted the stars until he drifted to sweet dreamland. This hotel had a rough board counter at which the guests took meals, as their turns came. There were no kicks registered on the cooking, either. The grub that was set out was eaten gladly, and if a customer needed a little extra stimulant there was a barrel of liquor right in the room and a turn of the spigot would soon fill his cup. Those were good old days.
The Olathe House, on the north side of the square, is owned by Ed Moll, and the lot, in 1862, had a two-story frame building on it and here Mr. Tillotson and another gentleman ran a hardware store. The part- ners did not get along very well, but neither one was disposed to buy the other out. In 1862 a cyclone came along and blew the building down. The proprietors, by ducking behind the stove, managed to escape with their lives when the building fell. When Tillotson's part- ner crawled out of the wreck he straightened himself up and said to Til- lotson: "You can have the d-d store, I don't want it," and forthwith left the town. Tillotson got busy then and put up a one-story stone building, with walls two feet thick, as he said he wanted something that the "winds wouldn't blow down." Later, Colonel Reed, of Ocheltree, bought the building and added two stories more of brick and made it into a grist mill. Ed. Moll bought the building in 1903 and remodeled it for a hotel and has been operating it ever since under the name of Olathe House.
VOTERS IN 1859.
Copy of a notice to the registered voters, published in the Olathe "Herald," October 20, 1859:
Olathe township, Johnson county, Kansas Territory. Office of town- ship clerk. The following is a list of registered voters of said township. All persons who are not registered, and who are entitled thereto, are. hereby notified that I will attend at my office at the court house, on
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the twenty-eighth and twenth-ninth days of October next, the same being the eleventh and twelfth days before election, as the law provides. to make an additional register, October 14, 1859. William Roy, clerk, per, E. H. Cornell, deputy clerk : Atkinson, William ; Atherton, C. R .; Ains- worth, J. M .; Ainsworth, D. E .; Ainsworth, M. N .; Annett, E. M .; Adair, Thomas ; Barton, J. T .; Blake, J. H .; Boggs, H. H .; Burris, J. T .; Bowen, Addison ; Brown, Samuel ; Brandt, William ; Bailey T. L .; Bean, Patrick; Beckwith, Watts; Barner, W. O .; Bown, Walter; Beach, I. C .; Branaugh, William; Butler, G. K .; Baker, Ira; Bower, John; Banning, C. S .; Bird, Jeremiah; Crist, L. F .; Cosgrove, Pat ; Cosgrove, Peter ; Case, F. W .; Clemens, A. J .; Coles, C. J .; Campbell, J. P .; Clay, John ; Cope, William; Craig, Philander ; Corley, A. J .; Currey, Jesse ; Cox, A.
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A; Corithers, N .; Duffield, E .; Dyer, James ; Davies, Isom; Dustan, E. B .; Devenney, A. S .; Domlar, Peter; Davis, Augustus; Davenport, Martin ; Davenport, Noah; Davis, William; Davis, Andrew; Dunham, C. E .; Danks, J. S .; Doyle, J. H .; Drake, M. J. P .; Dunham, R. B .; Evans, John; Easly, Frederick ; Freeman, John ; Fleck, Jackson ; French, J. F .; Flanagan, F. W .; Foster, S. L .; Fritz, Abraham; Fleek, Henry ; Forrest, J. C .; Foster, James; Gregg, Burr; Gregg, A. H .; Giffin, J. H .; Ginther, Peter; Gibson, James; Hollow, Samuel; Hale, Williams ; Hill, A. J. ; Hill, S. F .; Hill, Benjamin ; Hoff, Frederick ; Ham, J. H .; Holmes, James ; Hudson, John ; Hendrick, S. P .; Hayes, J. E. ; Hill, J. H .; Irwin,
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Sampson; Jewett, B. M .; Johnson, Edward; James, Irwin; Johnson, T. L .; Judy, J. J .; Kempp, W. R .; Kildarry, John; Kelley, Mike; Kerr, B .; Lawson, John; Lemasney, John; Lemasney, Richard; Lawrence, James ; Larkin, E .; Lilly, Anderson; Luther, Alexander; McMillen, Lewis; McKeigh, John; Mahaffie, J. B .; Millikan, Jonathan; Myrick, S. B .; McMillen, Hugh; Mann, Aaron; Mann, Robert; Marsh, Sylvester; Mel- houn, Thomas ; McFarland, Ambrose ; Melhoun, J. H. : McFarland, Will- iam ; Miller, W. M .; McGill, William; McIntosh, A. J .; Milliken, Bran- son ; McFarland, F .; McGill, S. F .; Mann, W. J .; Nash, E. S .; Nevills, James; Ocheltree, W. A .; Osgood, C. A .; Overall, James; Ott, C. M .; O'Rourk, J. T .; Oliver, Dennis; Plumber, B. A .; Pettit, B .; Parmetar, J. W .; Parker, I. J .; Peck, W. S .; Pully, Carlos; Pace, James ; Quarles, J. T .; Randolph, Milton; Roberts, G. W .; Roberts. B. L .; Roy, W .; Raney, W. R .; Russell, James; Roberts, C. L., Jr .; Sutherland, John ; Smith, J. H .; Smith, Arthur; Smith, John V .; Sutton, J. E .; Shrion, Evan; Soward, J. A .; Swartz, R. W .; Shorb, John A .; Smith, F. M .; Stukeberry, William; Steward, W .; Smith, Felix; Taylor, Thomas; Thompson, C. H .; Tuttle, W. D .; Thiers, G. A .; Trayhorn. W. A .; Thomas, W. H .; Tuttle, Hiram; Thomas, J. M .; Tucker, T. S .; Umph- ries, Moris; Umphries, Langford; Umphries, Linville; Venard, Moses; White, D. M .; Woodcock, W .; Wallingford, D. W; Wilhelm, John; Wallace, G. W .; Whitcomb, J. B .; Woolfe, John ; Winkie, Peter ; White, George; White, David; Wilkinson, E. S .; Wiley, John; Walker, W. T .; Wheeler, G. W .; White, Albert.
OLD LANDMARKS AND BORDER DAY EXPERIENCES.
Colonel Hayes built the old Hyer shoe factory building in 1859, or 60, and it was one of the best hotels along the border in its early days. It was used for militia quarters during the war. Colonel Keeler was one of the militia officers with headquarters there, also General Fishback. When Fishback was at the front, during the Price raid, an Indian came up to him and asked him who he was. Fishback replied that he belonged to the militia. "You officer?" he asked. "Yes, General," said Fishback. "O, shucks!" said the Indian and walked off. Mr. Fishback's uniform was not flashy enough to make a hit with that Indian.
Back of the Avenue House, on the west side of the square, stands an old building, facing the south and occupied by Mr. Eckengreen as a car- penter shop. This building formerly stood on the lot now occupied by the city hall and was built in 1857 and used for a butcher shop.
Another building, on the west side of the square, is occupied by the Olathe Monument Company, as an office. It stands where it was orig- inally erected by F. S. Hill in 1857, and still belongs to his widow. Lieu- tenant Pellett, the first mayor of Olathe, after the town became a city of the second class, began his first work in the mercantile line in this
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building, July 4, 1859. He began work here for Mr. Hill, who ran a general store, and also "several race horses," as Mr. Pellett puts it. Mr. Pellett was a recruiting officer at the time of the Quantrill raid and tells this interesting story: "Quantrill killed six of my men," said he. "He had twenty-five of us in the bull pen in the square. I was up town," said he, "and the first I knew of anything being wrong was when Will- iam Roy yelled, 'There's a company of soldiers coming!' When they came up Roy halted them, and asked who they were. The leader did not answer immediately, but soon gave a command: Take immediate possession of the town!' and then the company filed around the square. I think he had about 150 or 160 men, all mounted. Ile put us fellows all inside the square, and put guards to watch us. They robbed the store where I was working, along with the rest of the town.
"One of the incidents I remember very distinctly was, that I had some money and did not want Quantrill's men to get it, so I slipped down in the grass and tied some grass over it, thinking I might locate it later. I am sure Quantrill's men did not get the money, and also sure that I never did. When Quantrill was ready to go, he rode up with twenty men and made the front guards open up in two straight lines, with open rear, and the citizens he let go, but those connected with the Twelfth Kansas, he ordered into line and we were soon upon our way south, his intention being to go to Spring Hill. Before we got there. however, a report came that a lot of soldiers had arrived at Spring Hill, and we turned east to Old Squiresville. Andy Young ran a grocery there. They put us into a little shed where Andy kept a barrel of molasses and some crackers. We helped ourselves to these, and he claimed afterwards, that we left the bung of the barrel open so his molasses ran out. After Quantrill had eaten breakfast there, he ordered us all out and formed us in a straight line .. I was the smallest man in the crowd.
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