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Chicago Great Western Railroad, 455
Chief Ketchum's death, 44
Chiefs of fire department. 309
Chiefs of police, 310
Chief who was a warrior, 24
Children's Home. 341
Childs, Wesley R .. 828
Cholera, 112
Chonteau, August, 11, 319
Chouteau Brothers. 41 Chonteau Family, 11 .
Chouteau, Pierre, 11. 319
Christian church, 357
Christian Science organizations, 358: schools, cost of. 383 Christy, James M., 342
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Chronister, Bert, 931
Churches, Bonner Springs, 322
Churches, Rosedale, 314
Church of war time days. a. 349
Cireuit court clerks, 277
Cireuit court judges. 277
"Citizen '' 424
Citizens State Savings Bank. 338
City assessors, 310
City attorneys, 309
City elerks, 309 City counsellors, 309
City engineers. 309
City Hall in Kansas City, 331
City organized, Bonner Springs, 321 City Park, 330
City school history, 382
City treasurers, 309
City's forty school buildings, 384
City's great publie library. 390 Civic organizations. 341
Civil government, struggle for, 129
Civil war brought ruin, 115
Civilization's advance agents, 41 Claflin, Oliver Q., 644
Clarke. Samuel, 1016 Clark, Philo M., 874 Clark, William, 6 Clarkson, Colonel, captured, 211
Clasen, Samuel, 873 Clayton Powell, command of, 209
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Clerks, cirenit court, 277 Clerks, eity, 309 Clerks, common pleas court, 277 Clerks, county, 277 Clerks, district court, 277 Clopper, David E., 611 Closed the door to slavery, 154 Clotfelter, A. Lloyd, 576 Clovers, 498 Club women took the lead, 392 Cobb, Colonel, logical address, 302 Coffey, Christopher F., 633 Coleman, James B., 576
Colonel Moonlight guarded the town, 232 Colonel Veale's heroic stand, 218 Colonel Weir's men, 204
Colorado in the Wyandotte district, 285 Colorado was part of Kansas, 170 Colored Methodist churches, Rosedale, 315 Coming of Wyandots to Kansas, 60 Commercial National Bank, 338 Commercial State Bank, Rosedale, 338 Commissioner districts established, 280 Commission form of government, 310 Commissioners of election, 310 Commissioners, police, 310 Commissioners, street, 310 Common pleas court clerks, 277 Common pleas court judges, 277 Congregational church, 349 Congregational church, Rosedale, 315 Congressman Madison's tribute, 163 Congress slow to act, 156 Connelley, William Elsey, 62 "Conservative'' 157 Consolidated Kansas City Refining Company, 299 Consolidation of Kansas regiments, 195 Constitution approved by the people, 156 Convention did right, 180 Convention of young men, 148 Convention roll, 148 Cooke, George H., 949 Cook, Wylie W., 581 Cooperage and box factories, 481 Cooper, Judge Jesse, 264 Cornell, Dudley E., 857 Cornerstone laying, 400 Coronado, 182 Coroners, 277 Correspondents of long ago, 423 Cost of the schools, 383 Cotton industry, 482 Counsellors, city, 309 County attorneys, 276 County clerks, 277 County farm and crop statistics, 500 County machinery in motion, 273 County officers in fifty-two years, 276 County. organization of, 271 County seat at Wyandotte, 278
County superintendents of public instruction, 277 County surveyors, 277 County treasurers, 277 County's war record, 201 Courses of Kansas City Baptist Theological Seminary, 404 Court house blown down, 291 Court house, first, 279 Court house, Wyandotte county, 278
Courts under statehood. 286 Coy, William A., 963 Craft, Carlis C., 569 Crawford. William E., 583 Creative Act, 272 Croatian church, 369 Crockett, J. D. M., 914 Crooks, Captain Thomas, 264 Crooks, Julia F., 548
Crooks, Thomas, 546 Crop conditions, 489 Crossing at Byrom's ford, 217
Crossley, George W., 728 Cruise, John D., 469 Cubbison, James K., 559
Cunningham, Rev. J., 378 Curious things in the mail, 467
Curran, Robert, 627 Cut off the "Short Grass" country. 172
Dagne, A. B. C., 856 "'Daily Evening Globe" 427 Dana, J. W .. 1048
Daniels, William H., 732
Darby, Harry. 966
Darnall, Charles D., 831
Dash for Kansas, 217
Davis, Colonel A. C., 261
Davis, Jefferson A., 807
Davis, William D., 541
Day on the firing lines, 238
Dean, Henry E., 597 Death of Chief Ketchum, 44
Death of Tecumseh, 30 Death of the founder, 399
Debate on the western boundary, 171 DeBover, Camiel, 994
Debus, George, 817 Debus, John, 594
Debus, William F., 989
Defeat of the plan, 176
Deitz, James N., 524
Deitzler, General, 222
Delahay, Judge Mark W .. 424, 429
Delaware Baptist mission, 57
Delaware chiefs, 43
Delaware Methodist mission, 55
Delaware township, 281 Delawares, 39
Delawares as Irving saw them, 40
Delawares not given to fighting only, 43 Delawares treaty, 46
Delawares visited by Parkman, 41
Delawares wars on Pawnees, 39
Delights of pioneer travel by steamboat, 121
Democratic members refuse to sign. 155
Depredations of the Kansas, 25 Descendant of the Puritans, 402 Description of Indian village, 21 "Die Fackel," (The Torch) 426 Discovery of natural gas, 321
District court clerks, 277 District court judges, 277, 293 Doctor Mather's offer accepted, 398
Doctors Speck, 257 Dogs bought the books, 392 Dougherty, James G., 265 Douglas, Stephen A., speech of, 179 Drake, Joseph F., 523
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Dramshop cases, 289 Draper, Everett D., 722 Drennon, Edward, 627 Drought, Edward S. W., 718 Drought of 1860, 351 Dudley, John, 778 Duffels, Bernard, 816 Dunlap, Doniphan, 820
Eager, John L. B., 888 Earliest railroads, 449 Early day court scene, 288 Early day paymaster, 464 Early farm methods, 493 Early French and Spanish explorers, 2 Early history of Wyandot nation, 60 Early Kansas politics, 106 Early Kansas villages, 20 Early members of the bar, 290 Early time characters, 252 East bonndary of Kansas, 168 Educational interests, 380 Edwards, Ninian, 27 Edwardsville, 323 Edwardsville State Bank, 338 Effect of school training, 407 Egan, Lewis M., 528 Eicholtz, Edward J., 670 Eighth Infantry, 193 Einhellig, William E .. 819 Eldridge House, 339 Eleanor Taylor Bell Memorial Hospital, 316, 415 Election commissioners, 310
Elections before statehood came. 144 Eleventh Kansas Infantry, 196
Elliott, Samuel J., 995 Ellis, Floyd C .. 808 Ellis, Frank S., 904 Ely, Louis L., 981 Embry, Earnest H., 797 Emigrant Aid societies, 140 "Emma Harmon's" famous first trip, 123 End to steamboating. 128
Engineers, city, 309 Enright, Edward A., 1015 Enright, Timothy J., 936 Ensley, Charles C., 606 Episcopal church, 353 Era of improvement, 327 Era of railroad building, 456 Erhardt, Philip, 1033 Espenlanh, Gottlieb F., 657
Every mail clerk a politician. 466
Ewing's, Young Tom. regiment, 196 Exchange State Bank, 338 Excitement in Wyandotte, 451 Execution in Wyandotte. an, 284 Exodus, negro, 232 Expense of raising corn in Kansas, 501 Explorations of Lewis and Clark, 6 Explorers, early French and Spanish, 2 Explorers, trails of the, 1 Extensive railway yards, 457 Eyes of a nation on Shawnee mission, 134
Falconer, John C .. 804 Falk, Henry, 682 Families in Kansas City, Missouri, ninety years ago, 109 Famous cavalry regiment, 191
Famous "four houses" 319
Famous Kansas Indian orator. 24 Famous Muncie holdup, 466 Famous old hall, 95 Farm and erop statistics for the county, 300 Farmers State Bank. Bonner Springs, 338 Farm methods. early. 493 Farm truck, 499 Farrow Tiera, 965 Father Hennepin's wonderful map. 4 Father Kuhls' personality, 378 Father Kuhls silver jubilee, 364 Father Marquette, 2, 19
Faust, John W., 698
Fennell, James, 835
Ferguson, Roscoe W., 890 Ferguson, Winfield S., 575 Fidelity State Bank, 338 Field, forage and silo plants, 498
Fifth Kansas Cavalry, 193
Fifth Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, 203 Fifth street. old church on. 353
Fifth ward, 307 Fifty years under the Constitution, 160
Fighting Cavalry, 206 Fighting in the Ozarks, 208
Fighting to the death. 220
Fight on the Little Blue, 215
Figures show substantial growth, 327 Financial strength, 337
Fink. Bishop, 376 Fink, Samuel F., 784 First annual meeting of Kansas Medical Society, 419 First commercial eenter, 318
First county grant to the Missouri Pacific, 453
First court house, 279
First election. 130
First election of county officers. 273
First execution in Wyandotte, 284
First Fourth of July celebration in Kansas, 7 First glimpses of Kansas, 119
First governor of Kansas, 135
First industrial movements, 293
First Infantry Regiment, 190 First interurban railway. 337
First invasion. 134
First jurors drawn, 274 First Kansas Masonic lodge, 434 First Kansas Volunteer Battery, 199 First land agent, 256
First locomotive in Kansas, 448
First marriage in Wyandotte county, 74
First mart of trade in Kansas, annual output, 11 First mayoralty election in Kansas City, Missouri, 112 First mention of the Prophet, 33 First Methodist Episcopal church, Rosedale, 314 First Methodists in Wyandotte, 344 First National Bank. Bonner Springs, 338
First newspaper. 423 First newspaper in Kansas, 50
First officers of consolidated eity, 306 First permanent white settler in Wyandotte, 88 First public improvements, 115
First public school, 381 First railroad started from Wyandotte. 448
First railroads chartered. 442
First real battle in Philippines, 239
First Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry, 202 First regular municipal election, 308
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First rural mail delivery, Bonner Springs, 322 First session of Wyandotte district court, 287 First smell of powder, 238 First State Bank, Argentine, 338 First steamboat that ascended the Missouri. 9 First steamboat to navigate the Kansas river. 122 First taxes levied, 279
First ward. 306 First white child born in Kansas, 13 Fisette. Rush L., 1009 Fleming, Pettis, 806 Flood of 1903, 327 Flour milling, beginning of, 473 Folk lore of the Wyandots, 62 Forbidding looking place. 96 Forsberg, Gustoff, 664 Fort Henry, 76 Fort Osage, 9, 11 Fort Riley, 14 Fort Sumter, 189 Foundries and machine shops, 481 Four broad avenues, 95 "'Four Houses,'' 11, 319 Fourteenth Infantry, 197
Fourth ward. 307 Fraternal Order of Eagles, 439
Freedman University, 405 Free Masons, 43 Free State boomers started Quindaro, 102 Free Soilers, 176 Fremont expeditions, 13 Fremont, John C., 13 Frenehmen, first merchants, 10 Friedman, David, 774 Friend of the Indians, 426 Frisbie, L. G., 602 "Frisco" built, 447 Fromholtz, Adam, 522 Frngality and chief afm, 406 Frye. William E .. 586 Fulcher, Benjamin W., 619 Fulton, James A., 876 Fur traders, 11 Future possibilities of Kansas City, 487
Galvin. James, 605 Garleek, William B .. 563 Ganlke, Gustav, 716 "Gazette's"' founder, 425 "'Gazette Globe," 84. 426 Geary, Governor. on the scene, 141 General Deitzler's official report, 222 Gerleez, James, 555 Gerner. George, 626 Glasseock, Samuel S .. 759 "Globe, "' 426 Goebel, Peter W., 801 Gonser, Karl, 735 Gosling, Lake, 7 Gottesburen, Henry L., 747 Government by commission, 310 Governor's consolidation proclamation, 304 Governor Geary on the scene, 141 Governor Medary, 143 Governor of Kansas, first. 135 Governor orders an election, 132 Governor Reeder eame and went, 121 Governor Robert J. Walker, 142 Governor Shannon to the frontier, 137
Governor Stubbs on "Kansas, " 161 Grafke, Ilenry O., 990 Grain elevators, 475 Grand Army of the Republic, 439 Grand View Sanitarium, 759
Granger lines, 443
Grasses, 497 Grasshoppers, 495 Gray, Alfred, 253 Gray, George M .. 330, 1012
Gray. Homer B., 973
Gray, Mary Tenney, 262
Great Battle of the Blue, 213
Great eivie demonstration, 301
Great medieal school and hospital, 316
Great railway shops and terminals, 457 Great smelter, a. 299 Great soap mannfactories, 480 Great steel plant, 485 Great Stilwell enterprise, 459
Great trade center, 100 Green, Charles W., 641
Greenman, Sarah J., 396, 663
Grinter, Ann, 88 Grinter, Moses, 88
Growth of litigation, 292
Growth of the library, 393 Grubel, Edward J., 786
Grund Hotel, 339
Gunn, Otis B., 260
Guthrie, Mrs. Quindaro, 103 Guyer, U. S., 843
llaff, John, 641 Hafner, George, 582 Haines, Dempsey S .. 849
ITale, John A., 893 Hallett a railway genins, 452
Hallett assassination, 450
Hallett, Samuel, 452 Hannibal bridge, 117 Harrod, Otho N., 588
ITartig, Frank, 748
Hartman, Henry E., 598 Haskell, William H., 580 Hauber. Frank J., 1044 Hays, Henry C., 849 Heisler, E. F., 1050 Henry, Minerva, 785 "Herald of Freedom, " 424 Heroism of Elizabeth Zane, 76 Hewlett, Charles B., 599 Hierarchy of Kansas, 375 Higgins, Richard J .. 898 lligh schools, 386 Hilliard, James W., 947 ITinman, Aaron P., 630 Hipple. Jacob B., 513 Historie St. Mary's, 365 Hogin, James L., 1035 Holcomb, Frank M., 895 "Holdup" on the trail, 469 Hollingsworth, Frank. 648 Holmes, Alexander, 659 Holmes, Herbert J., 809 llome Gnards, 202
Ilome life of Kansas Indians, 22 Tome State Bank, 338 Honest Indian, 23
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llortsman, Christian F., 596 Horticultural statisties, 502 Hospitals and medical schools, 411 Ilotels of Oldl Wyandotte. 339 Hotels on the levee, 116 Hough, Harry C., 878 Hovey, George U. S., 634 Ilovey, John P. J., 634
How Quindaro lost out, 107
Hovie, Mrs. Vinnie Ream, 267
Hughes, Peter D., 733 lluron cemetery, 81 Hurrelbrink, William, 649 llutchings, Frank D., 1038 Hutchison, John B., 938 Hynes, Michael, 930 Ilvoort. Oscar, 762
lee manufacturing companies, 486 Ill-fated Twelfth, 205 Implement factories, 482 Indian lodge, 21 Indian Manual Labor School, 48 Indian missions, old, 47 Indian regiments, 200 Indians in the Fifth Cavalry, 203 Indian springs, 319 Industrial statistics, 487 Industries, 472 Ingalls, John J., 149 International Sunshine Society, 341 Interstate National Bank, 338 Interurban railway, first, 337 Irving, Washington, 40 Isaac Johnnycake, 44 lsaae Zane's Perpetual Motion Machine, 91 Isenburg, August, 740
Jackson, John L., 775 Jacks, Warden T., 531 Jacks, William, 532 James, A. R., 674 Jenkins, Caius, 269 Jennings, Franeis H., 746
Johnnycake, Chief Charles, 44 Johnnycake, Isaae, 44 Johnson, Angust, 771 Johnson Brothers, 665 Johnson, Charles, 665 Johnson, Dave, 665 Johnson, Fred, 663 Johnson, Ola, 743 Johnson, Thomas, 47, 48 Johnston, Anthony, 999 Joliet, Lonis, 3 Jones, J. Arthur, 992 Jons, Marx, 786 "",Journey through Kansas, " 14 Journey to the west, 402 Journey to Wyandotte, 188 ""Joy Roads, '' 446 Judd. Byron, 256, 661 Judges, circuit court, 277 Judges, common pleas court. 277 Judges, district court, 277 Judges, probate. 277 Judges, second division district court, 277 Judges who followed Pettit, 292 .hudges who played poker, 291
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Kansas admitted to statehood, 137; colored regiments, in, 207; expense of raising corn in, 501; first Fourth of July celebration in, 7; first glimpses of, 119; first white child born. 13: in the rebellion, 189; made a free state, 154; smallest county in, 15; the "Middle Spot of North America," 182; to the front, 236; early villages of, 20
Kansas, a dominant tribe, 19; Indian home life, 22: Indian lodge, 21: Indians here three centuries ago, 18 Kansas artist, a, 266
"Kansas Catholic" 427
Kansas City, Kansas, 293; banking interests, 337; in- corporated, 297; lost its opportunity, 180; an oil distributing center, 484; parks and boulevards, 329; post office, 323; stock yards, 476
Kansas City Baptist Theological Seminary, 403
Kansas City Cut Stone Company. The, 972
Kansas City, (Kansas) boys, 250
Kansas City of today, 326
Kansas City, Missouri, 108
Kansas City Savings Association, 116
Kansas City Structural Steel Company, 299
"Kansas City Times, " 181
Kansas City Town Company, 296
Kansas City University, 397
"Kansas Free State, '' 424
Kansas Medical Society. act to incorporate, 417
Kansas merchandise landed at Quindaro, 104
Kansas-Nebraska Aet, 130
Kansas-Nebraska bill passed, 131
Kansas Osages at war, 25
Kansas Osages treaty of peace, 25
Kansas papers indifferent, 176 Kansas patriotism aroused, 300
"Kansas Pilot, " 426
". Kansas Post, " 426
"Kansas Real Estate llerald, '' 426
Kansas River, abandoned by Indians, 27; first steam- boat to navigate on. 122; scene at, 10; steamboats, 126
Kansas Rolling Mill Company, 316
Kansas School for the Blind, 408, 409
Kansas State Bank, 338
Kansas State Editorial Association, 425
Kansas treaties, 26
Kansas Trust Bank, 338
Kansas war-time senator, 136
Kapka, Carl J., 1005
''Katy" System, 446
Kaufman, Frederick C., 704
Kaufman, Joseph R., 676
Kay, William S., 538
Kelchner House, 339
Keller, John J., 753
Kelly, David C., 835
Kelly, William Jr., 826
Kennedy, George D., 960
Keplinger, Lewis W., 1014
Kern, Henry 11., 488, 1014
Kerr, Hanford L., 566
Kidnappers of Lawrence, 230
Killmer, James M., 823 Kindred, Joel C., 691 Klamm Park, 330
Kline, Calvin E., 672
Knights of Pythias, 438 Kopp, Christian, 750 Kuhls, Father, arrival of, 362; reminiscences of, 373
"'Labor Record, '' 429 Ladd, Walter L., 777 La Grange. Isaac. 743 Laird, Otho E., 972 Lakes and parks of Bonner Springs. 322 Lallier, Engene, 757 Lallier, Frank, 758 Landry, Joseph L., 1042 Lane, "Jim, "' 136, 230 Lane, Vincent J .. 505 Lapse of six years, 420 Larson, Fred, 1024 La Salle, 4
La Salle discovers month of Mississippi. + Lasley, Jonathan II., 695 Last of a great family of warriors, 35 Last of a noble race, 44 Last stand of Shawnees, 30 Last to desert Quindaro, 262
Latter Day Saints elmurch, Rosedale, 315 Laverie, William, 643 Law enforcement in 1859, 274 Lawrence, burning of. 352 Lawrence kidnappers, 230
"Lawrence Republican, " 177 " Lawrence Tribune, " 124 Laws. John A., 677 Lawyers of the early days, 293 Leading chiefs of the Wyandots. 73 Leavenduskey, Valentine, 632 Leavengood, D. J., 655 Leavenworth, Colonel Henry, 12 Leavenworth convention, 143 "Leavenworth Herald, " 177, 423 Lecompton Constitution, 142 "Lecompton Democrat.'' 177 Leefrom, Joseph, 615 Leinbach. Charles N., 704 Lewis and Clark explorations, 6 Lewis, Meriwether, 6, 20 Library, boys' and girls' department. 395 Library, growth of, 393 Library staff, 396 Library, uses of, 394 "Lightfoot" built for Kansas, 124 Limestones, 493 Lind, Olander, 680 Lindberg, Heming, 971 Link, Michael, 753 Lisa, Manuel de, 11 Literary and artistic women, 267 Little Blue, battle of, 215 Little Blue, fight on the, 215 Littick. George W., 906 Live stock market, 475 Lloyd, John, 736 Locomotive, first in Kansas, 448 Longfellow, Jacob W .. 865 Long, Stephen H., 9 Long tramp, a, 186 Loring, 323 Louisiana Purchase, 12 Lovelace, Charles, 935 Lovelace, Charles W., 918 Lovelace, Eldridge H .. 919 Lust, Edward, 756 Luther, Belton .I., 731 Lutz, Earnest J., 899 Lyons, T. J., 943
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Macadam roads in Wyandotte county, 283 Madison, congressman. tribute, 163 Maher, Daniel J., 916 Mailand, Jep H., 701 Mail, curious things in the, 467 Major Long's expedition, 9
Malolos taken, 241 Maloney, Matilda, 644 Maloney, Thomas, 644 Mank, John, 883 Manual training and industrial edneation, 387 Marty, Samuel C .. 881 Marxen, Adam, 776
Marxen, Henry A., 770 Masonic lodge, first in Kansas, 434
Mason, Lawrence J .. 1037 Mather, Doctor. 398, 399; death of, 399; gifts to the young. 403: offer of accepted, 398
"Mather Hall, " 400 Mather, Samuel F., 402 Matney, David B., 618 Matney, John R., 1007 Mayoralty election, first in Kansas City, Missouri, 112 Mayors of Argentine. 300
Mayors of Kansas City, 309 Mayors of Rosedale for thirty-four years, 313 Maywood, 324 McClean, James A., 589 MeCleery, John A., 897 MeClung, Charles L., 570 MeDonald, Ernest, 752 McDonald, James M., 942
McDonald, John, 751
McFadden, Jolın E., 616
MeFarland, Robert J .. 754
MeGeorge, William, 686 McGrew, Governor, 260 MeGrew, Henry, 872 McGrew, James, 867 MeKay, Austin T., 553 Mckenzie, Frank, 792 Mckenzie. Robert, 793 Mckeown, James F., 976
MeMurray, Charles E., 980
McNarrey, John, 896 McWilliams. Charles A .. 933
Meat packing companies, 480 Meat packing industry, 477 Medary, Governor, 143 Medical school and hospital, great, 316
Medical schools, 411 Medicine and surgery, 417
Meek, James M., 941 Menager Junetion, 324
Mendenhall, Harry A., 855 Mercantile Club, 339 Merchant, John W., 739
Merriam, Willard, 590 Merriweather, Frederick W., 679 Meseraull, Samuel I., 534 Methodist churches burned, 346
Methodist Episcopal church. 343
Methodist Episcopal church South. 348
Methodist Mission of Shawnees, 47 Methodist Protestant church. 357 Metropolitan Hotel, 339 Metropolitan police. 308 Meyers, Albert J., 727 Meyn, Frederick, 953 Mid-continental industrial center, 472
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'Middle Spot of North America "' 182 Miller, A. F., 796
Miller, Charles A., 922 Miller, Henry, 969 Miller, Houston, 812
Miller, John H., 813
Miller, Orrin L., 912
Millspaugh, Harris K., 664
Milner, John O., 797 Mindedall, Peter S., 671
Misenhelter, Thomas 1., 1027
Mission graveyard, 49
Missions, social life about, 33
Missouri, first steamboat that ascended the, 9
Missouri Fur Company, 11 Missouri opinion of Kansas. 178
Missouri Pacific, first county grant to, 453 Modern farming, 496 Monahan, George, 688
Moncachtape, The Interpreter, 19
Moonlight, Colonel, guarded the town, 232
Moonlight, Colonel Tom, 232
Moore, James W., 561 Moore, John M., 511
Morgan, Perl W., 1052 Morris, 323
Morris, William A., 848 Morton, Isaiah L., 663 "Mother "' Sturges, 268 Mountains, pathway to the, 173 Mudge, Benjamin Franklin, 255 Muneie, 323 Municipal electrical plant, 329
Municipal water works, 329 Murray, James P., 549 Muster into service, 248
Myers, Thomas E., 1017 Myers, William H., 558
Naschold, John 1., 930 Naschold's Steam Bakery, 950 Nason, Zachariah, 967 Natural gas, 493
"'Nebraska City News, " 176
Nebraska's Delegates to Wyandotte, 175
Nebraska's many capitals, 174 Nebraska, part of, wanted to be in Kansas, 174 Needles, William, 909
Negro exodus, 232 Negro regiments, 198 Nelson, Andrew, 747 Nelson, John P., 568 Neudeck, Irvin R., 997 New Bethany Hospital, 414 New city hall, 330 New era, 28 Newhall, Sarah W., 790 Newhall, Martin IF., 789 New Home Ilotel, 339 New movements, 459 New post office building, 334 "'News, "' 429 New St. Mary's church, 364 Newspaper first to be published in Kansas, 423 Newspaper for the Indians, 50 Newspapers, 422 Newspapers favored annexation, 181 New Terminal railway plans, 458 Newton, Julia D., 795
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Newton, Periander C., 795
Nicholas, Harry JJ., 654 Nichols, Mrs. C. I. II., 259
Night and Day State Bank, 338
Night attack. 239
Night of terror, 231
Night schools, 385 Ninth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, 195
North boundary of Kansas, 169
Northrop, Stephen A., 1001
Northrup Banking Company, 338
Northwestern Railway, 435
Notable voyage up the Kansas river. 124
Objected to the mining regions. 173 ()'Connell, Paul J., 954 Odd Fellows, 437
Officers for twenty-eight years, 98
Official dog enumerator. 393 Official report of General Deitzler, 222
Officials of Kansas City, 309
Ohio Constitution followed, 151
Ohio Reservation of the Wyandots, 67 Oil distributing center, 484
Olander, John W., 998 Old church on Fifth street, 352
Old church re-organized. 347 Old Indian missions. 47
Old Fool Chief, 23 Old Palmer Academy, 382
Old Quindaro, 102
Old rolling mill, 316
Old steamboat days, 118
Old Wyandotte's early days, 87
Old Wyandot family romances, 74
Oldest church organization in Kansas, 346
Oldest house in Wyandotte county, 320 Olson, Osear M., 684
Overland trails, 441
One hundred day men. 198
Organizers of the first Masonie lodge, 435 Organization of the county, 271
"Oregon Trail, "' 41 Origin of name Kansas, 18 Other civic organizations, 341 Other hospitals, 416 Other industries of Rosedale. 317
Other mannfactories, 486 Other Masonic bodies, 435 Other Methodist churches, 348
Other religions organizations. 358 Other river ports out-distanced. 103
Other secret societies, 440 Other towns in Wyandotte county, 323
Ott. Miles W., 770 Our boys in the Philippines, 234 Our boys in the Second, 203 Outposts annoyed. 244 Outside of Kansas City, 312
Pacific lines, 443 Packing houses, 479 Painting of the Battle of the Big Blue, 220 Paradowsky, Joseph, 545 Parkman, 41 Parks and boulevards, Kansas City, 329 Parks, Captain Joseph, 36 Parochial schools, 390 Parr, James R. and others, 270
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Part of Nebraska wanted to be in Kansas, 174 Pathway to the Mountains, 173 Pawnee Indians, 185 Peace relations end, 235 Pearson, Matthew E .. 1013 Pennington Hotel, 339 Peoples National Bank, 338 Perkins, George A., 687 Perkins, John S., 958 Perkins, Robert H., 959 Peters, George A., 639 Peterson, August, 711 Phelps, Frank N., 646 Philippines, our boys in, 234 Physical and geographical features, 15 Physicians, 417 Picturesque little city, 313 Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 8 Pike's expedition, 7 Pike's instructions, 8 Pike's Peak region, 178 Pill Box, 417 "'Pill box" and Dr. Root, 252
Pioneer missionary, 57 Pioneer for Kansas good roads, 317 Pioneer railroad telegrapher, 469 Pioneer tales of rail and trail, 460 Piper, 324 Platte the boundary, 174 Platting of Argentine, 299 Play grounds, 388 Poindexter, E. W., 926 Police commissioners, 310 Police department, 308 Police judges, 310 Polish church, 369 Political history of Wyandotte county, 271 Pollock, John C., 317 Pollock, Thomas A., 667 Pomeroy, 325 Population of Wyandotte county, 283 Porter, James E., 516 Post office building, 332 Post office building, new, 334 Post office of Kansas City, 332 Powell Clayton's command, 209 Prairie township, 281 Prather, Van B., 319 Pratt-Journeycake Memorial Library, 404 Pratt. Rev. John G., 57. 422 Preacher conductor's yarn, 466 Presbyterian church, 354 President Jefferson, 6 Press of the county, 422 Price, General, bold plan of, 214 Price, Sterling, 214 Probate judges, 277 Proclamation, governor's consolidation, 304 Prophet, 31 Prophet's death. 34 Pro-slavery party, 181 Protectors of the southern border, 210 Protestant churches of the county. 343 Public improvements, 300 Public Library, 663 Public library. city's great, 390 Puhr, Vietor W., 742 Quaker mission. 33
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