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The population of the county is 56,378. In 1901 the assessed valuation of property was as follows: Land $3,968,660 2,790,710 Personal property City lots. 8,568,010
Railroad
1,303,425
Total $16,630,425
The farm and crop products in 1900 amounted to $1,852,924.14, and live-stock to the amount of $1,556,881.25.
The total value of public-school property in the county is over a half-million dollars, divided among one hundred and three organized school districts, and about the same amount is represented by private educational institutions.
Elections are held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
Board of County Commissioners.
Regular sessions of the Board are held in the County Clerk's office, in the court-house, the first Monday in each month. Adjourned sessions are held on Tuesdays and Fridays of each week.
First District-S. H. Haynes
Second District -Silas Rain.
Third District-Frank W. Harrison
Salary, $900 each.
Judiciary.
Shawnee County District Court-Hon. Z. T. Hazen, judge; Galen Nichols, attorney ; A. M. Cal- laham, cierk ; Porter S. Cook, sheriff. Regular terms of court are held on the second Monday in January, April, and September.
Probate Court-W. E. Fagan, judge. Regular terms of court are held on the first Monday in Janu- ary, April, Juiy, and October of each year.
The Court of Topeka -Hon. Arthur J. McCabe, judge; Ed. L. Good, clerk; F. M. Stonestrect, marshai ; Josiah Ross, deputy marshal. In continuai session, with jurisdiction of justices of the the peace.
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Members of the Legislature.
Senator, 17th District
Representative, 35th District
John T. Chaney, Topeka. . John B. Sims, Topeka.
Representative, 36th District
J. B. Betts, North Topeka.
Representative, 37th District
.E. D. Mckeever, Topeka.
Register of County Officers.
Office.
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Judge of District Court Z. T. Hazen.
Physician .
G. W. Ellinger.
Clerk of District Court.
A. M. Callaham.
Supt. Poor Asylum .
Silas F. Joy.
Attorney
Galen Nichols.
Commissioner of Poor A. C. Hale.
Sheriff. Porter S. Cook.
Deputy Clerk of District Court .. . I. S. Curtis.
Judge of Probate Court.
W. E. Fagan.
Assistant Attorneys ( J. R. McNary.
Treasurer
H. M. Philips.
W. I. Jamison.
Clerk
John M. Wright.
Under-Sheriff
W. H. Williams.
Surveyor.
John P. Rogers.
Deputy Sheriff.
W. E. Stewart.
Register of Deeds.
. F. L. Stevens.
Jailer
Carl Lawson. ,
Coroner.
H. B. Hogeboom.
Deputy Treasurer
Wm. S. Eberle.
Auditor.
Chas. D. Welch.
Bailiff District Court. John Coyne.
Stenographer District Court
R. H. Gaw.
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Territorial Government of Kansas.
A. H. REEDER.
WILSON SHANNON.
J. W. GEARY.
F. P. STANTON.
Governors.
[ Collated from Volumes 1 and 2 of the Kansas Historical Society's Collections, 1881.]
Andrew H. Reeder, the first governor of Kansas Territory, took the oath of office July 7, 1854. His official service ceased August 16, 1855, he having been removed from office by the president. .
Daniel Woodson, secretary of the Territory, by virtue of office, became acting governor August 16, 1855, and served until September 7, 1855.
Wilson Shannon assumed the duties of the office of governor September 7, 1855, and continued in the office until August 18, 1856.
Daniel Woodson, secretary, acted as governor from June 24 until July 7, 1856, during a visit of Governor Shannon to St. Louis.
Daniel Woodson, secretary, then again acted as governor, from August 18, 1856, until September 9,1856.
John W. Geary became governor September 9, 1856, and served until March 12, 1857.
Daniel Woodson, secretary of the Territory, then again acted as governor, from March 12, 1857, till April 16, 1857.
Frederick P. Stanton, having been appointed secretary of the Territory, assumed office as acting governor April 16, 1857, and continued in that capacity till May 27, 1857.
Robert J. Walker became governor May 27, 1857, and served until November 16, 1857.
Frederick P. Stanton, secretary, again acted as governor, from November 16, 1857, to December 21, 1857.
James W. Denver, having been appointed secretary of the Territory, became acting governor December 21, 1857, and served as such till May 12, 1858, when he received the appointment of gov- ernor. He continued in office as governor till October 10, 1858, when he resigned.
Hugh S. Walsh, secretary of the Territory, became acting governor October 10, 1858, and served as such till December 20, 1858.
Samuel Medary became governor December 20, 1858, and continued in office till December . 17, 1860.
George M. Beebe, secretary of the Territory, became acting governor December 17, 1860, and con- tinued to act in that capacity till February 9, 1861, at which time official notice of the admission of Kansas into the Union was received.
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State Government of Kansas.
The Territory of Kansas remained unorganized and almost unpeopled until the 30th of May, 1854, when Presideut Pierce signed the famous Kansas-Nebraska bill, organizing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska. In July, 1859, the Constitutional Convention met in Wyandotte, and on the 29th of July signed the "Wyandotte Constitution." This was ratified by the people in October of the same year, but it was not, however, until January 29, 1861, that President Buchanan signed the act of Con- gress admitting Kansas under the Wyandotte Constitution ; and then her existence as a State legally began.
The State of Kansas includes an area of 82,080 square miles, or 52,531,200 acres, and is larger than the whole of the New England States and Delaware and Maryland added ; equal to North and South Carolina combined, and is twice as large as Ohio. According to the United States census, the population was 1,469,496.
Pointers.
Legal Interest, six per cent .; rate allowed by contract, 10 per cent.
Statute of Limitation. Three years on open accounts ; 5'years on notes, etc .; 5 years on judgments.
Qualification of Voters. Citizens of the United States or aliens who have declared their intention. Previous residence required in State, six months, and in county, town or precinct, 30 days. Per- sons excluded from suffrage: felons, insane, felons uot restored to citizenship. Australian ballot law is in force.
Elections.
Elections are held on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in November, in each year. The governor, secretary, treasurer, auditor, attorney-general, superintendent of public instruction and members of the house of representatives are elected in the even year, for a term of two years. State senators are elected every four years. Judges of the supreme court are elected in the even years for a term of six years, one being elected every two years. The State printer is elected every two years, by joiut ballot of the legislature; and United States senators are elected in like manner for a term of six years. A State superintendent of insurance is appointed by the governor, by and with the approval of the senate, once in four years, his term commencing in July after his appoint- ment.
The gubernatorial term commences on the second Monday in January, following the election ; and regular sessions of the legislature are held biennially, commencing on the second Tuesday in January, in the odd years.
Electlous are held on the first Tuesday following the first Monday iu November in eveu years.
Legal Holidays.
There are only three legal holidays authorized or recognized by law In this State, and they are as follows : DECORATION DAY, 30th May, was made a legal holiday by chapter 125, Laws of 1886, (Gen- eral Statutes of 1889, paragraph 3251.) LABOR DAY. the first Monday in September, was made a legal holiday by chapter 145 of the Laws of 1891. WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, February 22d, was made a legal holiday by chapter 161, Laws of 1895. It is a popular notion or belief that new-year day, January 1, independence day, July 4, thanksgiving day, as fixed annually by the president or governor, Christmas day, December 25, and arbor day, in April, are legal holidays; but the legisla- ture of Kansas has never declared any or either of said days to be legal holidays. The section which stands as paragraph 481 of the General Statutes of 1889, in the act relating to bonds, bills, and promis- sory notes, was first enacted in 1868 as it now stauds, except that in 1870, by chapter 37, the word "preceding " was substituted for "succeeding" next before the words "business day"; but this sec- tion applies to all Sundays as well as to the other days named, and simply regulates the time at which "days of grace" allowed on commercial paper shall expire; but Sundays have never been declared or even recognized as legal holidays, and the section referred to does not declare any or either of the days named to be a legal holiday.
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The following epitome is taken from the report of Hon. F. D. Coburn, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture :
What:
An undulating, fertile plain, 400 miles long, 210 miles wide, 52,000,000 acres, virtually all tillable, with an altitude of 750 to 3300 feet, sloping upward to the west; without mountains and without swamps; in the favored zone for healthful climate and a maximum productiou of cereals, fruits and live-stock with a minimum of effort.
Where:
Center of the United States ; mid way between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and betweeu Canada and the Gulf of Mexico; along the parallel that has been the thread upon which jeweis of wealth, plenty, luxury and refinement have been hung from time immemorial; the girdie which the genii of civilization has spun around the world.
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Average annual temperature (deg.) .. 54.1
Milch cows and other cattle.
3,000,000
Average annual precipitation ( iu.) . .
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Population
1,430,000
Swine
2,350,000
Free public schools
9,200
Slaughtered, or soid for slaughter, in ten years, animais worth $406,000,000
Colleges, academies, high schools.
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Church organizatious.
6,000
Made in dairies in ten years $45,625,055
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Mined coai in one year worth $5,124,250
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Other minerai products in one year, $7,573,400
Miles of railroad.
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Nationai, State and private banks ..
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Bank deposits
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Raised corn in ten years ( bush.) .... 1,442,000,000
Raised wheat in ten years ( bush.) ..
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Counties of Kansas.
Origin of Their Names and Date of Organization.
Allen. Organized in 1855. County seat, Ioia. " Named in honor of Wm. Allen, of Ohio, who was for many years a member of the United States Senate from that commouwealth, and aiso its gov- ernor. He favored the doctrine of popular sovereignty on the opening of the Territory of Kansas to settiement, aud the most ultra measures for the perpetuation of slavery.
Anderson. Organized in 1855. County seat, Garnett. Received its name from Jos. C. Anderson, of Missouri, who was a member of the first Kansas Territorial legislature, and speaker pro tem. of the house of representatives. He figured in the " Wakarusa War" in December, 1855, and his name appears in connection with a proposition to march under the "black flag" to Lawrence.
Atchison. Organized in 1855. County seat, Atchison. Named for Davld R. Atchison, a senator from Missourl, and president of the United States senate at the date of the passage of the act for the organization of the Territory of Kansas. He was a pro-siavery Democrat, and zealous partisan leader in the discussions and movements affecting the interests of siavery and its attempted estab- lishment in the new State to be created. He was conspicuous among the mob at the sacking of Lawrence, on the 21st of May, 1856.
Barber. Organized in 1873. County seat, Medicine Lodge. In honor of Thomas W. Barber, a Free-State settier of Douglas county, who was killed in consequence of the political troubles, near Lawrence, December 6, 1855. (The county was originally uamed In the statute as "Barbour," but was corrected by the legislature iu 1883.)
Barton. Organized in 1872. County seat, Great Bend. In honor of Miss Ciara Barton, of Massa- chusetts, who won great distinction during the war for the Union by her remarkably effective philanthropic career in the sanitary department of the army.
Bourbon. Organized in 1855. County seat, Fort Scott. Received its uame from Bourbon county, Kentucky.
Brown. Organized in 1855. County seat, Hiawatha. After Aibert G. Browne, of Mississippi, who had been senator and member of the house of representatives from that State; was United States seuator at the date of the act organizing Kansas Territory.
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Butler. Organized in 1855. County seat, El Dorado. For Andrew P. Butler, who was United States senator from South Carolina, from 1846 to 1857. He was a bitter partisan, and a zealous advocate of the right of the South to introduce slavery into the Territory of Kausas.
Chase. Organized in 1859. County seat, Cottonwood Falls. Created out of portions of Wise and Butler counties, and named in honor of Salmon P. Chase, successively governor of Ohio, United States seuator, secretary of the treasury, and chief justice of the suprenie court. In the senate he was earnest in his opposition to the extension of slavery into Kansas.
Chautauqua. Organized in 1875. County seat, Sedan. Named for Chautauqua, N. Y. Was cre- ated from a portion of what was originally Howard county, which was divided in 1875 Into Chau- tauqua and Elk counties.
Cherokee. Organized in 1866. County seat, Columbus. The name Cherokee was adopted from the fact that a large portion of the "Cherokee Neutral Lands," reservation of that tribe of Indians, was included iu the geographical area of the county.
Cheyenne. Boundaries defined in 1873. Organized April 1, 1886. County seat, Bird City. Named after the celebrated Indian tribe of that name.
Clay. Organized in 1866. County seat, Clay Center. Named in honor of the distinguished Ken- tucky statesmau, Henry Clay.
Clark. Organized in 1885. County seat, Ashland. Originally and correctly Clarke, with a final e, in memory of Charles F. Clarke, captain and adjutant-general, United States volunteers, who died at Memphis, December 10, 1862. The legislature of 1873 dropped the final e under a misapprehen- sion, as the legend goes, that the county was named for another, and, to many of them, an obuoxi- ous individual, whose name was spelled with an e.
Cloud. Organized as "Shirley," in 1860. County seat, Concordia. The county was originally named after Governor William Shirley, colonial governor of Massachusetts from 1741 to 1756. The name was changed to Cloud in 1867, in honor of Colonel William F. Cloud, of the Second regiment, Kan- sas volunteers. This change was made at the suggestion of Hon. J. B. Rupe, then representing the county in the legislature.
Coffey. Organized in 1859. County seat, Burlington. Named in honor of Colonel A. M. Coffey, a member of the first territorial legislative council. Colonel Coffey died at Dodge City in 1879.
Comanche. Organized in 1885. County seat, Coldwater. Named from the Indian tribe of that name. (The county was first organized in the fall of 1873, under a general law then in force, and was represented in the legislature under that organization in 1874; but that organization was held fraudulent aud void.)
Cowley. Organized in 1870. County seat, Winfield. Named in honor of Matthew Cowley, first lieutenant of Company I, Ninth Kansas cavalry, who died in the service, October 7, 1864, at Little Rock, Arkansas. ( The county was originally named "Hunter.") ( Bogus Laws of 1855, page 208.) The name was changed to "Cowley" in 1870.
Crawford. Organized in 1867. County seat, Girard. This county was by an act of the legislature of 1876 created out of the northern half of Cherokee, which prior to that date reached to Bourbon. It was named in honor of Samuel J. Crawford, who was elected governor in 1864.
Decatur. Organized in 1879. County seat, Oberlin. Boundaries defined by legislative enactment in 1873. Named in honor of Commodore Stephen Decatur, a distinguished American naval officer. He fell in a duel with Commodore Barron, U. S. N., In 1808.
Dickinson. Organized in 1857. County seat, Abilene. In honor of Daniel S. Dickinson, who was a senator from the State of New York. In 1847 he introduced, in the United States senate, reso- lutlons respecting territorial government embodying the doctrine of popular sovereignty, afterward incorporated in the bill for the organization of Kansas Territory. He died iu 1866.
Doniphan. Organized in 1855. County seat, Troy. In honor of Colonel A. W. Doniphan, of Mis- souri. He commanded a regiment of cavalry during the Mexican war, marchlug across the plains, and taking a very prominent part in the conquest of New Mexico. He was a zealous partisan in the effort made to extend slavery into Kansas.
Douglas. Organized in 1855. County seat, Lawrence. In honor of Stephen A. Douglas, United States senator from Illinois, and a candidate for the presidency in 1860. It was iu this county that the first legislature located the capital of the Territory. As a senator, Douglas, in 1854, took a leading part in securing the adoption of the " popular sovereignty " principle in the act organiz- ing Kansas Territory, which gave the particular form of the issue involved iu the Kansas struggle.
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Edwards. Organized . in 1874. County seat, Kinsley. Named in honor of John H. Edwards, of Ellis, State senator.
Elk. Organized in 1875. County seat, Howard City. Created out of the northern portion of what had been Howard county. Named for the Elk river, which traverses its area from northwest to southeast.
Ellis. Organized in 1867. County seat, Hays City. Named in memory of George Ellis, first lieu- tenant of Company I, Twelfth Kansas infautry, killed in battle April 30, 1864, at Jenkins's Ferry, Arkansas.
Ellsworth. Organized in 1867. County seat, Ellsworth. Named after Fort Ellsworth, a military post built on the bank of the Smoky Hill, in 1864. This fort was so called by General Curtis in honor of the officer who constructed it, Allen Ellsworth, second lieutenant of Company H, Seventh Iowa Cavalry. When the name was adopted for the county it was supposed that the fort had been named in memory of Colonel E. E. Ellsworth, of national fame.
Ford. Organized in 1873. County seat, Dodge City. Named in honor of Colonel James H. Ford, of the Second Colorado cavalry, and brevet brigadier-general U. S. volunteers.
Franklin. Organized in 1855. County seat, Ottawa. Named in honor of the illustrious Benjamin Franklin.
Finney. Organized in 1884. County seat, Garden City. Originally Sequoyah, from the celebrated Cherokee Indian of that name, the inventor of the alphabet of his language, aud a most remark- able man. Changed in 1883 to Finney, in honor of D. W. Finney, then lieutenant-governor of the State.
Geary. Organized in 1855 as "Davis" county, which name was given for Jefferson Davis- a grad- uate of West Point, officer of the U. S. army, United States senator, and secretary of war, and who afterward turned traitor to his government, and became president of the so-called Southern Confederacy. The legislature changed the name to Geary, in 1889, in honor of John W. Geary, who was Territorial governor of Kausas from 1856 until March, 1857. County seat, Junction City.
Gove. Organized September 2, 1886. County seat, Gove City. In honor of Captain Grenville L. Gove, Eleventh Kausas cavalry, who died in 1864.
Graham. Organized in 1880. County seat, Millbrook. In honor of Captain John L. Graham, of the Eighth regiment Kansas infantry -killed in action at Chickamauga, Tenn., September 19, 1863, before he was mustered in.
Grant. Organized in 1888. County seat, Ulysses. Named in houor of President Ulysses S. Grant. Gray. Organized in 1887. County seat, Cimarrou. Named in honor of Alfred Gray, late secretary of the state board of agriculture.
Greeley. Organized in 1888. County seat, Tribune. Named in honor of the founder of the New York Tribune.
Greenwood. Organized in 1862. County seat, Eureka. This county received its name as a com- pliment to Alfred B. Greenwood, who, about the time of the organization of the Territory, was commissioner of Indian affairs. He negotiated treaties on the part of the United States with the Sac-and-Fox and other tribes in southern Kansas.
Hamilton. Organized January 29, 1886. County seat, Syracuse. In honor of ]General Alexander Hamilton, the great Americau statesmen; he was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr, July 11, 1804.
Harper. Organized in 1873. County seat, Anthony. The county was named in memory of Marion Harper, first sergeant of Company E, Second regiment of Kansas cavalry.
Harvey. Organized in 1872. Couuty seat, Newton. Named for James M. Harvey, captain of Company G, Tenth regiment of Kansas infantry, and governor of the State from 1869 to 1873. In January, 1874, he was elected United States senator to fill an unexpired term ending in 1877.
Haskell. Organized in 1887. County seat, Santa Fe. Named in honor of Dudiey C. Haskell, of Lawrence, who died while serving the State as congressman.
Hodgeman. Organized in 1879. County seat, Jetmore. Named iu honor of Amos Hodgman, cap- tain of Company H, Seventh Kansas cavalry.
Jackson. Organized in 1857. County seat, Holton. Originally Calhoun, in honor of John C. Cal- houn, of South Carolina; changed in 1859 to Jackson, after Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States.
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Jefferson. Organized in 1855. County seat, Oskaloosa. In honor of Thomas Jefferson, third presi- dent of the United States -acknowledged author of the declaration of independence.
Jewell. Organized in 1870. County seat, Mankato. Named in memory of Lieutenant Lewis R. Jewell, Sixth Kansas cavalry, who died November 30, 1862, of wounds received at the battle of Cane Hill, Arkansas, November 28, 1862.
Johnson. Organized in 1855. County seat, Olathe. For Rev. Thomas Johnson, a Methodist min- ister, who in 1829 established a mission among the Shawnee Indians, about eight miles southwest of Kansas City. Mr. Johnson took the pro-slavery side of politics, and was a member of the first Territorial council. He was, when the war came on, a faithful Union man. He then lived in Missouri, and becoming obnoxious to the bushwhackers, his house was sacked by them, and he was shot and killed, in January, 1865.
Kearny. Organized March 28, 1888. County seat, Hartland. Named after General Kearny, who commanded United States troops in the West during the Indian troubles.
Kingman. Organized in 1874. County seat, Kingman. Named in honor of Samuel A. Kingman, who was then chief justice of Kansas. Judge Kingman resides in Topeka.
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