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Halderman, John A., soldier, statesman and diplomat, was born and reared in Kentucky. He was educated at McKendree College, Leba- non, Ill., and subsequently studied law in the University of Louisville. In the spring of 1854, at the age of twenty-one years, he came to Kan- sas and began the practice of law at Leavenworth. He served as private secretary to Andrew H. Reeder, the first territorial governor, and in 1855 was secretary of the first territorial council. He was appointed the first probate judge of Leavenworth county ; was major of the First Kansas regiment in the Civil war, and major-general of the state militia. He served two terms as mayor of Leavenworth ; was a regent of the university; a member of the state house of representatives ; and in 1870 was elected a member of the state senate. In 1872-73 he traveled abroad. In 1880 he was appointed consul at Bangkok and was soon promoted to consul-general by President Garfield. In 1883 he was the first United States minister to Siam, where the king honored him with the decoration of Knight Commander of the Order of the White Elephant, and later the French government gazetted him Com- mander of the Royal Order of Cambodia. He resigned his position in 1885 and returned to Leavenworth. For some years he resided in Washington, D. C., and at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war promptly tendered his services to the secretary of war. He was a mem- ber of the Kansas Historical Society and a frequent contributor to its publications. He died in Washington, D. C., in Oct., 1908, and was buried in the government cemetery at Arlington.
Hale, a station on the Missouri Pacific R. R. in Chautauqua county, is located 12 miles northeast of Sedan, the county seat, and 9 miles from Elk city, Montgomery county, whence it is supplied with mail. The population, according to the census of 1910, was 45.
Halfmound, a post-hamlet of Jefferson county, is located in Delaware township on the Union Pacific R. R., 25 miles northwest of Oskaloosa, the county seat, and 5 miles from Valley Falls.
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Halford, a money order postoffice of Thomas county, is situated on the Union Pacific R. R. 10 miles east of Colby, the county seat. It has a general store, a lumber yard, etc., and does some shipping.
Halifax, a village of Mill Creek township, Wabaunsee county, is a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. 8 miles southeast of Alma, the county seat. It has an express office, some general stores, and a money order postoffice. The population was 40 in 1910.
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Hallet, a post-hamlet of Hodgeman county, is situated in the town- ship of the same name, in the Buckner creek valley about 10 miles southwest of Jetmore, the county seat and nearest railroad station.
Hallowell, a town in Iola township, Cherokee county, is a station on the St. Louis & San Francisco R. R. 9 miles west of Columbus, the county seat. It has a money order postoffice with three rural routes, 3 churches, telephone connections, some well stocked stores, a hotel, an express office, and in 1910 reported a population of 210.
Hall's Summit, a village of Coffey county, is a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. 14 miles north of Burlington, the county seat. It has a bank, various lines of mercantile interests, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The popula- tion in 1910 was 125.
Halstead, one of the thriving little cities of Harvey county, is located on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. and Little Arkansas river 10 miles west of Newton, the county seat. It has a bank, telegraph and express offices, and a weekly newspaper (the Independent). It is an important grain and live stock market and has all lines of mer- cantile establishments. All the leading denominations of churches and secret orders are represented. According to the census of 1910 the population is 1,004.
The country about Halstead was settled by Germans in 1872, and in the summer of that year an attempt was made to establish a town. A site was laid off by John Sebastian, a representative of the railroad company. In the autumn a town company was formed, with H. D. Albright as president, and in the spring of the next year the town was laid out. A postoffice was established about the same time, with George W. Sweesy as postmaster. It was made a money order postoffice in 1877. The first religious services were held in the Sweesy house in the spring of 1873. The first marriage was between O. Y. Hart and Mary J. Collier, in 1873, the first birth was a child of David Eckert in 1874, and the first death, which occurred the same year, was that of John Ashford, who "died with his boots on." A school house was built in the winter of 1873-74, and the first school teacher was Laura Belle Walker. The first newspaper was the Zurheimath, pub- lished in the German language, the initial number of which was issued on June 6, 1876, by the Western Publishing company, with David Goerz as editor. The first number of the Independent was issued in 188I.
Halstead was incorporated as a city of the third class in 1877 and the election for officers was held in March of that year. The officers chosen were: Mayor, H. H. McAdams; police judge, James Ryan ; councilmen, C. S. Brown, O. Y. Hart, John Lehman, J. E. Ruthand and M. S. Ingalls. Those appointed were: Clerk, G. E. Terry ; treas- urer, W. M. Tibbot : marshal, W. C. Hinkle. In the latter 'zos and in the early 'Sos Halstead enjoyed a substantial growth. Large mills and elevators were built, and business enterprises, including the Bank of Halstead, with a capital of $100,000, were organized on a large scale.
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Hamelton, Charles A., a pro-slavery leader during the border troubles, was a native of Cass county, Ga., where his father, Dr. Thomas A. Hamelton, was a wealthy and influential citizen. The name is spelled "Hamilton" by some writers. When the Territory of Kansas was organized Milton McGee went to Georgia to recruit men to aid in making Kansas a slave state. At Cassville he made a fiery speech and Charles Hamelton and his brother were among the first to rally to McGee's standard. Dr. Hamelton contributed $1,000 to the cause. Charles A. Hamelton is best known as the perpetrator of the Marais des Cygnes massacre (q. v.) on May 19, 1858, concerning which the legislature adopted a resolution asking the governor to offer a reward of $500 for Hamelton's apprehension, and to make a requisition upon the governor of any state in which he might be found. When Hamel- ton came to Kansas he was the owner of a plantation in Georgia, but was heavily in debt. At the close of the border troubles he returned to his native state, was stripped of everything by his creditors, took the benefit of the bankrupt act and went to Texas, where he engaged in horse raising. In 1861 he raised a regiment, of which he was com- missioned colonel, and served with Gen. Robert E. Lee in the Con- federate army in Virginia. After the war he went back to Georgia, where he died some years later.
Hamilton, a village of Greenwood county, is a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. in Janesville township 15 miles northeast of Eureka, the county seat. All lines of mercantile enterprises are represented. There are banking facilities, a weekly newspaper (the Times), telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. Hamilton is an important shipping point for the products of a large and productive agricultural country. The popula- tion, according to the government report for 1910, was 325.
Hamilton County, one of the western border tier, was erected by the act of March 6, 1873, which defined the boundaries as follows: "Commencing at the intersection of the east line of range 39 west with the 4th standard parallel; thence south along said range line to its intersection with the north line of township 27 south; thence along said township line to the west boundary of the State of Kansas; thence north along said west boundary line of the State of Kansas to where it is intersected by the 4th standard parallel; thence east to the place of beginning."
In 1883, when several of the western counties were discontinued by act of the legislature, the boundaries of Hamilton were extended to include the western half of the present counties of Grant and Kearny and all of the present county of Stanton, but by the act of March 5, 1887, the original boundaries were restored. At present the county is bounded on the north by Greeley county ; on the east by Kearny; on the south by Stanton, and on the west by the State of Colorado. . It was named for Alexander Hamilton, one of the founders of the American republic, who was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr.
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Pike's expedition of 1806 crossed the western boundary of Kansas in what is now Hamilton county; Long's expedition of 1820 passed through the county, and Fowler's journal of Glenn's expedition for Nov. 4, 1821, says: "We steered No 75 west 4 miles to [a point] of Sand Hills washed by the River and at Six miles farther to an Island clothed With Willow and Cotton Wood-the main Chanel on the North Side of the Island the last 6 miles of our Corse. Was West," etc. Coues thinks the 16 miles of this day's march took the expedition past the site of the present city of Syracuse, and that the camp of the 4th was not far from the present town of Coolidge. Fort Aubrey (q. v.) · was established not far from Mayline in the late summer of 1865 and was occupied as a military post until the following spring.
The first permanent settlement in the county was made by a colony from Syracuse, N. Y. The colony was organized there on Oct. 23, 1872, and a committee, consisting of Evelin P. Barber, S. R. Jones and D. G. Ackland, was sent forward to Kansas to select a location. On Christmas day the committee decided on a tract of land in Hamilton county, though that was before the county had been created by legis- lative enactment. The main body of the colony arrived on the site on March 23, 1873. These colonists tried to have the name of the county changed to Onondaga, after their old county in New York, but the legislature declined to comply with their request. Following the New Yorkers came some Mennonites and other settlers, and by the begin- ning of 1886 an agitation was commenced for the organization of the county.
Early in that year a memorial signed by 250 citizens of the county was presented to Gov. John A. Martin, who appointed Alfred Pratt to take a census of the county. The census showed a population of 1,893 people, of whom 614 were actual householders, and on Jan. 29, 1886, the governor issued his proclamation declaring the county organ- ized. At that time the county embraced Stanton and the portions of Kearny and Grant above mentioned. The governor appointed as com- missioners J. H. Leeman of Hartland, Lawrence W. Hardy of Med- way, and Dennis Foley of Syracuse. Thomas Ford was appointed county clerk, and Kendall was designated as the temporary county seat.
A bitter contest soon arose between Kendall and Syracuse for the permanent seat of justice, and an element in the fight was the ques- tion of restoring the old county lines by the reestablishment of the counties of Grant, Kearny and Stanton. At an election on April I, 1886, Syracuse was declared the county seat, but Kendall charged gross frauds on the part of the advocates of Syracuse and appealed to the supreme court. That tribunal threw out the vote of Syracuse township and ordered the county officers to take their offices back to Kendall until another vote could be taken at the general election the following Novem- ber. At the November election the vote for county seat stood: Syra- cuse, 785; Kendall, 390; Coolidge, 224; Johnson City, 93; Scattering,
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4, giving Syracuse a majority of 74 over all competitors. At the same election the following county officers were chosen: Representative, J. T. Kirtland ; probate judge, W. C. Higgins; clerk of the district court, W. P. Humphrey ; county clerk, J. M. Hicks ; sheriff, C. C. Mills ; treas- urer, J. H. Bentley ; register of deeds, J. P. Gardner ; county attorney, G. N. Smith ; county superintendent of schools, C. N. Gartin ; surveyor, J. W. Beatty ; coroner, J. N. Slown; commissioners, L. C. Swink, A. A. G. Stayton and S. S. Taggert.
Hazelrigg's History of Kansas (p. 224) says the fight for the county seat was kept up for some years, two sets of county officers being elected and the county records divided, until the question was finally decided by the supreme court in favor of Syracuse.
The surface of the county is level in the northern part and rolling prairie in the southern. The Arkansas river enters the county from the west, near the center, and flows in a southeasterly direction until it enters Kearny county. Along this river the bottom lands are from 2 to 4 miles wide. There is little native timber, but a number of artificial groves have been planted. White magnesian limestone is abundant in the bluffs along the river and some gypsum deposits have been found. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad runs along the north bank of the Arkansas river, giving the county a little over 28 miles of railroad. The county is divided into eight townships, viz .: Bear Creek, Coolidge, Kendall, Lamont, Liberty, Medway. Richland and Syracuse. In 1910 there were 27 organized school districts in the county, with county high schools at Coolidge and Syracuse. The population of the county in that year was 3,360, a gain of 1,934 during the preceding decade-over 100 per cent. The value of taxable prop- erty was $5,257,355, and the value of farm products, including live stock, was nearly $372,500. The principal crops are broom-corn, milo maize, hay (including alfalfa), sorghum and wheat.
Hamlin. an incorporated city of the third class in Brown county, is located in the township of the same name, and is a station on the St. Joseph & Grand Island R. R. 7 miles northwest of Hiawatha, the county seat. It has a bank, a graded school, 3 churches, a number of retail stores, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 208. The town was laid out in 1870 and the postoffice moved from the old location 2 miles south. J. Rodgers was the first postmaster. The first school was taught by Miss Emma Fisher in 1871. The first building in the town was erected by a Mrs. Leonard, who engaged in the millinery business.
Hammond, a post-village of Bourbon county, is on the St. Louis & San Francisco R. R. 7 miles north of Fort Scott, the county seat. In 1910 it had a population of about 30.
Hampson, a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. in Marion county, is located 14 miles southeast of Marion, the county seat, and 5 miles south of Florence, whence it receives mail by rural route.
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Hampton, a post-hamlet of Fairview township, Rush county, is located about 10 miles northwest of La Crosse, the county seat, and 4 miles from Hargrave, which is the nearest railroad station.
Hanback, Lewis, jurist, soldier and member of Congress, was born on March 27, 1839, at Winchester, Scott county, Ill. His father, Wil- liam Hanback, who was by profession a portrait painter, moved to Madison, Ind., in 1844, and resided there until the spring of 1848. He then moved to Switzerland county, Ind., but returned to Illinois in the spring of 1850 and settled near Quincy, where he died in 1855. A year later his wife died, leaving a family of six children, of whoin Lewis was the eldest. During the winter he attended the district schools, and was for a part of three years at Cherry Grove Seminary in Knox county, Ill. The winter of 1860-61 he taught school in Mor- gan county, Il1. In April, 1861, at the first call for volunteers by Presi- dent Lincoln for three months' men, he enlisted as a private in the Tenth Illinois infantry and was mustered out the following July. He immediately reënlisted as a private in the Twenty-seventh Illinois infantry. Mr. Hanback rose rapidly in rank, being appointed brigade inspector on the staff of Col. G. W. Roberts and remained on staff duty until mustered out of the service in 1864. He took an active part in many battles, among them being Corinth, Stone's River, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, and was with the Fourth army corps, Army of the Cumberland, in its many battles. At the close of the war he entered the law school at Albany, N. Y., but soon returned to Illinois, and on Aug. 9, 1865, married Hettie A. Cooper at Chapin. Immediately after the wedding they came to Topeka, Kan., where three children were born to them. In 1868 Mr. Hanback was elected probate judge of Shawnee county and held that position for four years. He was assistant clerk of the state house of representatives in 1876, and assistant sec- retary of the senate in 1877. In March, 1877, he was appointed assistant United States attorney for the district of Kansas and held the position for two years, when he was appointed receiver of public moneys at Salina, Kan. This position he held until he was elected to Congress as representative at large as a Republican in 1882. He was reëlected in 1884. Mr. Hanback died at Armourdale, Kan., Sept. 9, 1897.
Hannum, a small hamlet of Cloud county, is a station on the Strong City & Superior division of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. 3 miles northwest of Concordia, the county seat, whence mail is received by rural route.
Hanover, an incorporated city of Washington county, is situated 12 miles northeast of Washington, the county seat, at the junction of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the St. Joseph & Grand Island railroads, which makes it an important shipping point for a rich agri- cultural district. The town was laid out in the spring of 1869 by G. H. Hollenberg. It was incorporated as a city of the third class in July, 1872. Mr. Hollenberg died on July 1, 1874, and left $600 for the purpose of building a city hall, provided the citizens would raise $1,000.
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The money was secured without difficulty and the hall was built in 1875. Hanover has electric lights, waterworks, public and Catholic schools, 2 banks, 2 weekly newspapers (the Democrat-Enterprise and the Herald), an international money order postoffice with four rural routes, express, telegraph and telephone facilities, a bottling works, a number of good mercantile establishments, hotels, etc. The popula- tion was 1,039 in 1910.
Hanston, one of the principal towns of Hodgeman county, is a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. II miles northeast of Jetmore, the county seat. The railroad name is Olney. It has a bank, several general stores, an international money order postoffice, tele- graphi and express offices, Catholic and Methodist churches, good pub- lic schools, and ships large quantities of grain and live stock. The population in 1910 was 350.
Happy, a country hamlet in Graham county, is located 12 miles south of Hill City, the county seat and the postoffice from which it receives its mail.
Harahey .- North of the ancient province of Quivira (q. v.), in a district known as Harahey, lay the home of another Indian tribe, sup- posed to be the Pawnees of more modern times. This province is called "Arche" in Castaneda's relation of the Coronado expedition, and the Relacion del Suceso spells the name "Harale." It is also given as "Arahei" by some writers. The Wichita Indian name for the Pawnees was "Awahi," a word which in sound resembles Harahey. A map accompanying Hodge's "Spanish Explorations in the Southern United States" shows the province of Harahey in southern Nebraska, along the Platte river, with the southern portion extending into Kansas east of the Republican river and including the greater part of Republic, Washington, Marshall and Nemaha counties. Jaramillo says the peo- ple of Harahey were related to those of Quivira.
On Oct. 27, 1904, a monument was unveiled in the city park at Man- hattan, Kan., to Tatarrax, the great ruler or chief of the ancient nation of Harahey, who with a delegation of his braves visited Coronado in Quivira in 1541. The members of the Quivira Historical Society believed that Manhattan was somewhere near the geographical center of the ancient kingdom of Harahey, but the probabilities are that Hodge is more likely to be correct, and that the greater portion of the province lay north of the 40th parallel of north latitude, in what is now the . State of Nebraska.
Hardilee, an inland hamlet of Smith county, is located 13 miles north- west of Smith Center, the county seat, and 8 miles north of Kensing- ton, on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R., the nearest railroad station and shipping point, and the postoffice from which its mail is dis- tributed by rural route.
Harding, a hamlet in the northern part of Bourbon county, is situated on the Missouri Pacific R. R. 15 miles northwest of Fort Scott, the county seat. It has a money order postoffice, telegraph and express facilities, and in 1910 had a population of 25.
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Hardtner, a village in Barber county, is 20 miles south of Medicine Lodge, the county seat. It is the terminus of a branch of the Missouri Pacific R. R. extended from Kiowa, 9 miles east. There are about twenty retail establishments, an express office and a postoffice. The population, according to the census of 1910, was 100.
Harger, Charles Moreau, journalist and author, was born at Phelps, N. Y., Jan. 23, 1863, a son of Henry and Martha (Densmore) Harger. He graduated in the Phelps Classical School with the class of 1881, and subsequently received the degree of L. H. D. and Litt. D. from Bethany College and Baker University. Upon coming to Kansas he engaged in teaching, and for some time he was principal of the public schools at Hope, Dickinson county, where on Oct. 3, 1889, he married Miss Blanche Bradshaw. In 1888 he became editor of the Abilene Re- flector, and in 1905 he was made a director and lecturer in the depart- ment of journalism in the University of Kansas. Mr. Harger is a Republican and a prominent Mason, being a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is a contributor to magazines and periodicals and a writer of peculiar force and charm.
Hargrave, a post-village of Rush county, is located in Brookdale township and is a station on the Missouri Pacific R. R. 7 miles west of La Crosse, the county seat. It has a general store, a lumber yard and some minor business establishments, does some shipping, and in 1910 reported a population of 50.
Harlan, a village of Smith county, is located on the north fork of the Solomon river and the Missouri Pacific R. R. 12 miles southeast of Smith Center, the county seat. It has telegraph and express offices, a money order postoffice with one rural route, and a number of retail stores. The population in 1910 was 175. The town was laid off in 1877 and named in honor of Judge Harlan, a citizen of the county. The first store was opened by F. R. Gruger in 1878. The postoffice was established in 1877, with A. L. Bailey as postmaster. A weekly news- paper (the Independent) was established about 1878 by Garretson & Topliff. The United Brethren founded Gould College here early in the history of the town.
Harmony, a discontinued postoffice of Pawnee county, is situated near the northwest corner of the county, about 18 miles from Larned, the county seat. Mail is received through the office at Nekoma, and Rozel is the nearest shipping point.
Harper, the second largest town in Harper county, is located on Spring Creek 10 miles north of Anthony, the county seat, and on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and Kansas City, Mexico & Orient rail- roads. It has waterworks, an opera house, 3 banks, a foundry, machine shops, a flour mill, creamery, 2 weekly newspapers (the Advocate and the Sentinel), 7 churches and excellent public schools. The principal shipments are of live stock, flour, wool, creamery products, hides and produce. It has an international postoffice with four rural routes, tel- graph and express offices. The population, according to the census of
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1910, was 1,638. The town was founded by a party from Iowa in April, 1877. The first building was built by J. B. Glenn, president of the town company, with lumber hauled from Wichita. In July, 1877,. a postoffice was established and Mrs. Josie B. Glenn was appointed postmistress. Mail came weekly to Hutchinson, from which town it was brought to Harper, at private expense. The money order depart- ment was added in 1879. Harper was organized as a city of the third class in Sept., 1880, and the first election, which was held in that month,. resulted as follows: Mayor, Sam S. Sisson ; police judge, J. W. Appley ; councilmen, R. B. Elliott, H. Martin, R. J. Jones, S. D. Noble, L. G. Hake. G. W. Appley was appointed clerk. The population of the city at that time was about 700.
Harper County, located in the central part of the southern tier of counties, is bounded on the north by Kingman county, on the east by Sumner, on the south by the State of Oklahoma and on the west by Barber county. It was first organized in 1873 and named in honor of Marion Harper, of the Second Kansas cavalry. As first described the boundaries of Harper included the southern tier of townships in what is now Kingman county. The bill fixing the final boundaries passed the legislature in 1879. The organization of 1873 proved to be one of the most gigantic frauds ever perpetrated in connection with county organizations. There was not at that time a single resident in the county, and it was heavily bonded immediately. In 1873 three men- from Cherokee county named Boyd, Wiggins and Horner, having laid' a scheme to organize some of the uninhabited lands of southwestern Kansas for the purpose of exploitation, came into the territory which is now Harper county, where they met a trapper by the name of George Lutz, who took them to his camp. Taking Lutz into their scheme, a petition was drawn up asking that John Davis be appointed special census taker, and that H. H. Weaver, H. P. Fields and Samuel Smith be appointed special county commissioners. These names were copied from a Cincinnati directory. The petition further asked that Bluff City, "centrally located in the county, and being the largest and most important business point in the county," be made the temporary county seat. To this petition was attached 40 names. The governor granted the petition and a census report was sent in which showed 641 names of persons declared to be "bona fide" residents. The county was then declared organized.
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