USA > Kansas > Shawnee County > Topeka > Polk Topeka, Kansas, city directory, 1905 > Part 14
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81
Since the admission of Kansas as a State, in 1861.
James H. Lane.
Robert Crozier.
Bishop W. Perkins.
W. A. Harris.
Samuel C. Pomeroy.
Alexander Caldwell.
.John Martin.
J. R. Burton.
.John J. Ingalls.
.James M. Harvey.
W. A. Peffer.
Chester I. Long.
.
Edmund G. Ross.
Preston P. Phumb.
Lucien Baker.
Official Roster.
1905.
United States Senators.
Name.
Politics. Residence.
Term expires.
Salary.
J. R. Burton
R .. . Abilene. 1907
$5.000
Chester I. Long.
R. . . Medicine Lodge
. 1908
5.000
Representatives in Congress.
District.
Politics.
Name.
Residence.
Salary.
At large.
R. . . Chas. F. Scott Iola
$5.000
First District
R. . . Chas. Curtis. Topeka
5.000
Second District
R. . . J. D. Bowersock
Lawrence 5.000
Third District
R. . . Phil P. Campbell. .Pittsburg
5,000
Fourth District. R .. . . J. M. Miller
Council Grove.
5,000
Fifth District R .. . W. A. Calderhead. Marysville
5,000
Sixth District
R .. . W. A. Reeder
Phillipsburg
5.000
Seventh District
R .. . Victor Murdock
Wichita
5.000
Dealer in all kinds of Building Material . ..
W. I. Miller Lumber Co.
213 EAST SIXTH AVE. BOTH PHONES 204.
1
REAL ESTATE LOANS. No Accepted Application ever has to Wait a Day for Money
MERRIAM MORTGAGE CO; COLUMBIAN BUILDING.
RADGES' TOPEKA DIRECTORY.
Supreme Court.
Office.
Name.
Residence.
Term of office.
Salary.
Chief Justice. W. A. Johnston ..... Minneapolis
.Jan. 1901, Jan. 1907 .. $3,000
Associate Justice.
William R. Smith ... Kansas City
... Jan. 1899, Jan. 1905 .. 3,000
Associate Justice.
. E. W. Cunningham. Emporia
.Jan. 1901, Jan. 1907 .. 3,000
Associate Justice.
A. L. Greene .. .. .. Newton
.Jan. 1901, Jan. 1907 .. 3,000
Associate Justice.
*Rousseau A. Burch. Salina
Sept. 1902, Jan. 1907 ..
3,000
Associate Justice. Henry F. Mason ..... Garden
City. .Jan. 1903, Jan. 1909 ..
3,000
Associate Justice.
1Wm. D. Atkinson .. Parsons
.Jan. 1904, Jan. 1905 ..
3,000
Associate Justice. .Clark A. Smith ..... Cawker City .... Jan. 1905, Jan. 1911 ..
3,000
* Appointed to succeed A. H. Ellis, who died September, 1902.
t Appointed to succeed J. C. Pollock, who resigned to become Federal judge.
Executive Department.
Office.
Name.
County.
Salary
Governor
E. W. Hoch
Marion
$5,000
Governor's Private Secretary
2,000
Lieutenant-Governor.
D. J. Hanna ...
. Clay
. Smith
2,500
Assistant Secretary of State.
Hill P. Wilson ... Ellis
1,600
Treasurer of State ..
Thos. T. Kelly ... Miami
2,500
Assistant Treasurer of State.
John D. Kelly. ..
Johnson
1,700
Auditor of State.
Seth G. Wells .. .
. . Neosho
2,500
Assistant Auditor of State.
James M. Nation. Neosho
1,600
Attorney-General ...
C. C. Coleman .... Clay
2,500
Assistant Attorney-General ..
Jay F. Close ..... Republie
1,800
Superintendent Publie Instruction. I. L. Dayhoff ..... Reno Assistant Superintendent Publie Instruction. . Frank R. Dyer ... Sedgwick
1,600
State Printer
George A. Clark. . Geary
Secretary State Board of Agriculture
F. D. Coburn ..... Wyandotte
2,500
Secretary Academy of Science
G. P. Grimsley ... Shawnee
1,000
Secretary State Historical Society
Geo. W. Martin. . Wyandotte
1,800
NOTE .- The salary of the Lieutenant Governor is $700 per year as-Railroad Assessor, and $6 per day during the session of the Senate. The State Printer is paid legal rates for ali work done for the State.
Executive Council.
Governor, secretary of state. treasurer of state, auditor of state, attorney-general, and superintendent of publie instruction.
Board of School-Fund Commissioners.
Secretary of state, attorney-general, and superintendent of publie instruction.
Board of Equalization.
Secretary of state, treasurer of state, and auditor of state.
Board of Railroad Assessors.
Lieutenant-governor, chairman; auditor of state, secretary; secretary of state, treasurer of state and attorney-general.
Board of Canvassers.
Governor, secretary of state, treasurer of state, auditor of state, and attorney-general.
Land Office.
Auditor of state, register ex officio.
Sinking-Fund Commissioners.
Governor. secretary of state, and auditor of state.
BUY YOUR SASH DOORS AND MOULDINGS OF W. I. MILLER LUMBER CO.
213 EAST SIXTH AVENUE.
BOTH PHONES 204.
2,000
Secretary of State.
J. R. Burrow.
106
Low Rates.
MERRIAM MORTGAGE CO. Every Accommodation to Borrowers.
Prompt Money.
RADGES' TOPEKA DIRECTORY. 107
Fiscal Agency.
National Park Bank, New York City.
Board of Public Printing.
Secretary of state, treasurer of state, and attorney-general.
Board of Railroad Commissioners.
A. D. Walker.
Holton $2,500
Geo. W. Wheatley
Galena 2,500
J. W. Robison.
El Dorado 2,500
Cyrus Anderson, secretary. Blakeman 1,500
E. C. Shiner, stenographer . Topeka
1,200
Department of Insurance.
C. H. Luling.
Wichita $2,500
Chas. W. Barnes, assistant.
. Topeka 1,500
lke S. Lewis, chief clerk.
St. John 1,200
Harry E. Trovillo, clerk. . Topeka 720
Bank Commissioner.
W. S. Albright.
Leavenworth $2,500
S. C. Crummer. deputy
Belleville 1,800
E. Davis, deputy.
Spring Hill 1,800
H. L. Finley, deputy.
Topeka
1,500
Anna E. Speck, stenographer Emporia 1,200
Oil Inspector.
M. C. Kelley
Mulberry $1,500
Bureau of Labor and Industry and Factory Inspection.
W. L. A. Johnson, commissioner and factory inspector. . Kansas City .. $1,800
W. D. Robinson, assistant.
. Pittsburg. 1,200
C. B. Burge, stenographer . Topeka 720
Mine Industries.
James A. Orr, secretary.
Weir City. $1,500
Abraham Walker, deputy.
Leavenworth
1
Per
Frank Gilday
Seranton
diem.
George Murphy. Pittsburg
Adjutant-General.
S. H. Kelsey.
Atchison $1,500
James Smith, quartermaster
.Topeka
1,200
Fannie S. Beardsley, clerk.
Topeka
720
Grace L. Brent, stenographer . Topeka
600
Forestry and Irrigation.
R. M. Wright, commissioner Dodge City $1,000
Live-Stock Sanitary Commission .*
W. C. Campbell.
Wichita.
J. H. Johnson Holton.
H. P. Hood
Emporia.
* Per diem and expenses.
Grain Inspection Commission.
J. W. Radford, inspector.
Kansas City.
$1,800
Thomas Cross, deputy.
. Topeka
900
S. E. Cole, Commissioner
Harper
Per
H. Parker. Commissioner
McPherson
diem.
W. D. Kuhn. Commissioner. Holton
IF you are going to shingle your house, figure with
W. I. Miller Lumber Co. 213 East Sixth Avenue. Both Phones 204.
INVEST YOUR SAVINGS THROUGH MERRIAM MORTGAGE COMPANY
108 RADGES' TOPEKA DIRECTORY.
Fish Commissioner.
D. W. Travis.
Pratt $1,000
Board of Charities.i
II. J. Allen.
Ottawa
. $2,000
G. W. Kanavel ..
. Sedgwick
2,000
Frank Denman
. Osborne
2,000
R. Vincent. .
Washington
2,000
C. A. McNeill . Columbus 2,000
The board of charities control the following-named institutions:
State Hospital (insane asylum), Topeka, Shawnce county; T. C. Biddle, M. D., super- intendent.
State Hospital (insane asylum), Osawatomic, Miami county; L. L. Uhls, M. D., super- intendent.
Boys' Industrial School, Topeka, Shawnee county; H. W. Charles, superintendent. Girls' Industrial School, Beloit, Mitchell county; Julia B. Perry, superintendent.
School for the Deaf, Olathe, Johnson county; H. C. Hammond, superintendent. School for the Blind, Kansas City, Wyandotte county; Lapier Williams, superintendent. School for Feeble-Minded Youth, Winfield, Cowley county; C. S. Newlon, superintendent. Soldiers' Orphans' Home, Atchison, Atchison county; E. L. Hillis, superintendent. ¡ And expenses.
State Penitentiary, Lansing.
F. B. Jewett, warden
Wichita
. $2,500
C. L. King, director*
El Dorado.
-
Mark Tulley, director *.
. Independence.
W. H. Haskell, director* . Gaylord.
State Industrial Reformatory, Hutchinson.
E. E. Marshall. superintendent
Ellsworth
$1,500
Philip Kelly, director*
White Cloud. $1,000
T. J. O'Neil, director*
Osage City. 1,000
W. M. Jones, director*
Lyons
1,000
* Per diem and mileage.
State Soldiers' Home, Dodge City.
S. H. Thomas, commandant
Ellsworth
$1,000
Geo. Burton, managert.
. Hallowell.
J. B. Dobyns, managert.
.Howard.
James Dutro, managert.
. Yates Center.
Regents State University. #
T. M. Potter, Peabody.
Chas. N. Converse, Waverly. A. C. Mitchell, Lawrence.
Frank G. Crowell, Atchison. T. W. Butcher, Wellington. Scott Hopkins, Horton.
Regents State Agricultural College.t
E. T. Fairchild, Ellsworth.
C. E. Friend, Soldier.
J. W. Berry, Jewell.
J. S. McDowell, Smith Centre. J. C. Tullos, Sedan. Geo. T. Murphy. Manhattan.
Robert J. Brock, Manhattan.
# No salary - expenses. *Actual expenses.
Regents State Normal School.
S. H. Dodge, Beloit.
Geo. T. Codding, Louisville.
E. A. Ross, Burr Oak.
L. B. Kellogg, Emporia. A. H. Bushey, Peabody. .J. H. Glotfelter, Atchison.
F. J. Altswager. Hutchinson.
State Board of Health.
S. J. Crumbine, sec'y, Topeka.
J. B. Carver, Fort Scott.
A. B. Scott, Jetmore.
G. E. Locke, Holton. L. A. Golden, Kensington. H. W. Bentley. Sterling.
B. J. Alexander. Hiawatha.
.J. B. Carlile, Leon.
Chas. Lowry, Topeka.
E. P. Mills, Olathe.
W. I. Miller Lumber Co.
LUMBER AND ALL KINDS OF BUILDING MATERIAL. 213 East Sixth. Both Phones 204.
YOU WILL FIND SECURITY FOR YOUR IDLE MONEY IN INVESTMENTS OFFERED BY Merriam Mortgage Company.
RADGES' TOPEKA DIRECTORY. 109
State Board of Education.
H. M. Culter. Almena.
E. A. Shepardson, Anthony. O. G. Markham. Baldwin.
State Board of Pharmacy.
W. E. Sheriff, Ellsworth.
L. Ardery, Hutchinson.
W. W. Naylor, Holton. F. A. Snow, Topeka.
C. I. Becker, Ottawa.
State Board of Dental Examiners.
M. L. Hults. Hutchinson.
O. H. Simpson, Dodge City. J. P. Root, Kansas City.
School Text-Book Commission.
A. B. Carney, Concordia. H. F. Butcher, Argentine. Samuel I. Hale, La Crosse.
D. O. McCray, Topeka. C. H. Swingle, Manhattan. John Madden, Emporia. Geo. W. Kendrick, Leavenworth.
Trustees Western University, at Quindaro.
Green Keith, Lawrence. L. W. Keplinger, Kansas City. Corwin Patterson, Kansas City.
J. R. Ransom, Topeka.
State Board of Medical Registration and Examination.
G. F. Johnston, pres't, Lakin. O. F. Lewis, Hepler. N. L. Jones, Norton.
F. P. Hatfield. Grenola. T. E. Rains, Concordia. W. F. Flack, Longton.
D. P. Cook. Clay Center.
State Board of (Barber) Examiners and Inspection Commission. Roy Hammond, Topeka. N. B. McCammon, Hutchinson. W. M. Stevenson, Pittsburg.
State Free Employment Bureau.
T. B. Gerow, director, Atchison. T. S. Williams, agent at Topeka.
State Historical Society.
John Francis, president, Colony. Jolin Guthrie, treasurer, Topeka.
William H. Smith, vice-president, Marysville. Geo. W. Martin, secretary, Topeka. W. B. Stone, vice-president, Galena.
Kansas Academy of Science.
Organized at Topeka, in I868; made coordinate department State Board of Agriculture, 1873; meets annually, at Topeka, or some other city of Kansas; has an office in west wing of State House; has a scientific library of 9,000 volumes; has a museum in connection with the State Board of Agriculture, in the west wing of the Capitol, valued at $40,000.
J. C. Cooper, president, Topeka. Geo. P. Grimsley, secretary. Topeka.
Edward Bartow, vice-president, Lawrence. Alva J. Smith, treasurer, Emporia.
J. A. Yates, vice-president, Ottawa.
State Board of Agriculture.
J. H. Churchill, president, Dodge City. J. W. Robison, vice-president, El Dorado. Edwin Snyder, treasurer, Oskaloosa. F. D. Coburn. secretary, Topeka. E. W. Hoch, governor elect, Ex officio,
J. R. Burrow, secretary of state. Topeka. W. R. Dowling, Norcatur, Decatur county. Thos. H. Potter, Peabody, Marion county.
A. W. Smith, Groveland, McPherson county. I. L. Diesem, Garden City, Finney county. T. A. Hubbard, Rome, Sumner county. Chas. E. Sutton, Russell, Russell county. Geo. W. Hanna, Clay Center, Clay county. Geo. W. Glick, Atchison, Atchison county. Edwin Taylor. Edwardsville, Wyandotte county. J. T. Tredway. La Harpe, Allen county.
Good Grades. :: Low Prices.
213 EAST SIXTH AVENUE.
W. I. MILLER LUMBER CO. Both Phones 204.
LOW RATES, PROMPT MONEY. MEDIUM EXPENSE TO BORROWERS.
MERRIAM MORTGAGE CO.
110 RADGES' TOPEKA DIRECTORY.
State Horticultural Society.
F. Wellhouse, president, Topeka.
Second District-B. F. Smith, Lawrence.
J. W. Robison, vice-president, El Dorado. Third District-F. L. Kenoyer, Independence. Fourth District-John Cousins, Eskridge.
William H. Barnes, secretary, Topeka .*
Irma I. Barnes, assistant secretary, Topeka. Fifth District-Wm. Cutter, Junction City. Sixth District-J. J. Alexander, Norton.
G. L. Holsinger, treasurer, Rosedale.
First District-B. F. Van Orsdol. Silver Lake. Seventh District-Dr. G. Bohrer, Lyons.
State Library.
James L. King, librarian, Topeka.t Rosamond Horton, assistant' librarian, Topeka.
Rosa M. Hibbard, assistant librarian, Topeka. Lulu Clugston, clerk, Topeka. Nellie G. Dodge, assistant librarian, Topeka. Herbert Clayton, clerk, Topeka. Nellie G. Armentrout, Superintendent Kansas Traveling Library, Topeka. # Salary, $1,200 per annum. + Salary, $2.000 per annum.
Kansas Traveling Library Commission.
James L. King, chairman .. . Topeka. Cora G. Lewis. Kinsley.
Nellie G. Armentrout, secretary. . . Topeka.
Lucy B. Johnston . Topeka.
Edward Wilder
Topeka.
-
H. G. Larimer. .Topeka.
State Agent at Washington, D. C.
.Fort Scott.
Official State Paper.
Topeka Daily Capital.
.Topeka.
Subordinate Officers and Clerks of Departments.
Supreme Court. Salary.
D. A. Valentine, clerk.
. Clay Center.
Fees
H. L. Armstrong, deputy
. Topeka
Fees
T. E. Dewey, state reporter.
Abilene
$2,000
Chas. H. Morton, cost and record clerk.
. Topeka
1,200
W. H. England, filing clerk ..
. Winfield
1,000
Dora B. Mote, stenographer
. Emporia
720
E. E. Clark, copyist.
. Gardner
600
Augusta Simpson, copyist.
. Paola
600
Lillian Valentine, copyist.
.Topeka
600
Laura Blomberg, stenographer
Parsons
1,200
W. A. Smith, stenographer.
Topeka
1,200
Grace Proudfit, stenographer
. Kansas
City.
1,200
C. E. Carroll, stenographer.
Alma
1.200
W. H. Burnham, stenographer.
Larned
1.200
Belle Hollingshead, stenographer
Garnett
1.200
Caroline Underhill, stenographer .
. Topeka
1,200
Augusta Dewey, assistant reporter
Abilene
1,000
James Clayton, assistant reporter
· Topeka
1,000
Governor's Office.
private secretary
$2,000
H. W. Brent, executive and pardon clerk.
Lawrence
1,500
Hubert S. Jordan, stenographer.
Seneca
1,200
Secretary of State's Office.
Hill P. Wilson, assistant secretary
. Hays City
$1,600
E. A. Cornell, chief clerk.
. Kensington
1,200
E. S. Knight, commission clerk
Goodland
1,200
A. F. Morrison. charter clerk
. Colby
1.200
Pearl Hughes, filing clerk and copyist.
Topeka
900
Alta Dennis. stenographer.
. Topeka
800
Best Grades and Lowest Prices on Lumber. W. I. MILLER 213 E. Sixth Ave. Both Phones 204.
LUMBER COMPANY.
W. W. Martin
Real Estate Loan Brokers,
MERRIAM MORTGAGE CO., NO ACCEPTED APPLICATION HAS EVER HAD TO WAIT A DAY FOR MONEY.
RADGES' TOPEKA DIRECTORY. 111
Attorney-General's Office.
Jay F. Close, assistant attorney-general
. Belleville
$1,800
John F. Dawson, chief clerk.
. Hill City
1.600
H. L. Pestana, second assistant attorney-general .. Russell
1.200
J. P. Coleman, stenographer . Topeka
900
Auditor's Office.
James M. Nation, assistant auditor
. Erie $1,600
J. S. Rogers, bookkeeper.
. Wellington 1.200
William Hayslip, chief clerk.
. Topeka
1,200
Maud A. Gilycat, bond clerk.
Independence 1.200
Alf Gibson, land office clerk.
. Chanute
1.200
Arvilla Roseberry, stenographer.
Erie
900
Treasurer's Office.
J. B. Kelly, assistant treasurer
Paola $1.700
W. L. Payne, chief clerk
Lawrence
1.200
Isaac Jones, bond clerk
.Osage City. 1.200
B. C. Johnson, clerk.
. Topeka
1,200
Maude Findlay, stenographer.
. Topcka
800
J. N. Brandon, guard.
Paola
900
W. F. Ogg. assistant bond clerk. Olathe
900
Superintendent of Public Instruction's Office.
Frank R. Dyer, assistant.
. Wichita $1.600
T. J. Hayes, bond clerk
Kansas City
1,200
James Harbison, stenographer.
Hutchinson
800
Laura A. Payne, statistical clerk
Hutchinson
1.000
Emily Metzger, stenographer.
Hutchinson
720
PATRONIZE
The business and professional men whose cards appear in this volume. Their liberal support made it possible for the publisher to issue this model Directory. In consideration of their financial support, their names appear in BLACK TYPE throughout the book, both in the alphabetical arrangement and in the business classi- fication.
,
W. I. MILLER LUMBER CO. 213 EAST SIXTH AVENUE. BOTH PHONES 204.
1
MERRIAM MORTGAGE CO. Twenty years successful leaning In Eastern Kansas.
REAL ESTATE LOANS. Columbian Building. To borrowers we offer prompt money, lowest rates, and every possible accommodation.
CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE TERRITORY AND STATE OF KANSAS.
From the Official Records of the State Historical Society.
Kansas, Alaska excluded, is geograph- ically the central State of the United States, lying between lon. 94° 38' and 102° W., and lat. 37° 40' N. It is bounded by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Indian Territory and Oklahoma on the southi, and Colo- rado on the west. Area, 81,700 square miles, in 105 counties; population, 1900, 1,470,495. Capital, Topeka.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, with a force of 350 Spaniards and 800 In- dians, set out from Culiacan on the southeast shore of the Gulf of Califor- nia in search of Quivira. He traveled northerly to the head-waters of the river Gila, crossed the mountains to the head-waters of the Rio del Norte and followed them to their sources, then journeying northeasterly came into the province of Quivira (Kansas), reach- ing, as he said, the 40th degree of lati- tude. He described the earth as black and well watered, the best possible for all kinds of productions of Spain, and the plains full of crooked-back oxen; but he found no gold or silver, and re- turned in September. . 1541
Kansas becomes French soil through La Salle's discovery of Louisiana ...... 1662 French explore the Missouri river as far as the mouth of the Kansas river. . 1705 Spaniards from Santa Fé, seeking to found a colony on the Missouri, are destroyed by the Missouri Indians near the present site of Fort Leavenworth, only one settler, a Spanish priest, es- caping and returning to Santa Fe. . .. . . 1720
M. de Bourgmont, commandant at Fort Orleans, Mo., undertakes a com- mercial expedition to the Paduca (Co- manche) Indians in June, 1724, but fall- ing sick on the way, returns to the fort, on an island in the Missouri river, just above the mouth of the Osage. He resumed the journey in October, taking with him . an escort of 31 Frenchmen. his son, a lad of ten, and a body of Indians from the neighboring tribes. The expedition entered Kansas at the Kaw Indian village. then situated near
the present site of Atchison, moved in a southwesterly direction across Kansas for about 230 miles to the nearest vil- lage of the Paducas, made a satisfactory treaty, and returned to Fort Orleans, October 5. .1724
Louisiana ceded to Spain, 1762; ceded back to France .. .1800
Kansas included in the Louisiana ter- ritory purchased of France .. . . . 1803
Congress divide's Louisiana into two unequal parts, the one, north of 33º N. lat., called the District of Louisiana, under the governor of Indiana Terri- tory; March 26. 1804
Lewis and Clark leave St. Louis for the Pacific, under Government authority, and find remains of an old French fort near the present site of Atchison; May, 1804 District of Louisiana made the Terri- tory of Louisiana, March. .. 1805
Zebulon M. Pike, at the village of the Pawnee Republic, causes the Spanish flag to be lowered and the flag of the United States to be raised (State Leg- islature in 1901 marks the site with a granite shaft), September 29. .1806
Territory of Louisiana admitted to the second grade of government as Mis- souri Territory, June 4. .1812
First steamboat, a stern-wheeler, called the Western Engineer, passes up the Missouri river, carrying Major S. H. Long on an expedition up the Yellow- stone, a party under the leadership of Mr. Thomas Say was detached from the expedition at Fort Osage, to visit the Kansas village at the junction of the Big Blue and Kansas rivers, resulting in a valuable report on the condition and characteristics of that tribe. . . . .. . 1819
Section 8 of act for admission of Mis- souri into the Union provides that in all Louisiana, north of lat. 36° 30', and not included in the State. slavery " shall be and is hereby forever prohibited." but runaway slaves may be lawfully re- claimed. Act passed March 6. .1820
Kansas without territorial govern- ment .1821-1834
Estimates Cheerfully Given on Large and Small Orders of Lumber 213 EAST SIXTH AVENUE. BOTH PHONES 204.
W. I. MILLER LUMBER CO.
REAL ESTATE LOANS. No Accepted Application ever has to Wait a Day for Money
MERRIAM MORTGAGE CO. COLUMBIAN BUILDING.
RADGES' TOPEKA DIRECTORY. 113
The Osage and Kansas Indians treat with William Clark, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and cede to the United States their territory in Missouri and the principal part of their land in Kan- sas, retaining for their own use, in Kansas, limited reservatious upon the Arkansas and Kansas rivers ... . . 1825
Messrs. Reeves, Sibley and Mather, commissioners appointed by Congress, treat with the Osage and Kansas In- dians to secure the right-of-way of a commercial road from western Mis- souri to Santa Fe. N. M., which they then proceed to locate .. .1825
Floods on the Neosho in the months of March and September destroy the corn-fields of the Osages and the fields and dwellings of their missionaries ... 1826
Fort Leavenworth, called a canton- ment until 1832, established, and U. S. troops stationed there. . 1827
Fish band of Shawnees remove to the eastern portion of the reserve in Kan- sas set aside for the tribe by the treaty of 1825. .1828
Frederick Chouteau built a trading- house for the Kansas Indians at Horse Shoe Lake (Lake View, near Law- renee), in the fall of ........ 1828 or 1829 Treaty with the Delaware Indians, lo- cates them in the fork of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, September 24. ... 1829
The Kansas Indians removed their permanent village from near Manhat- tan to Mission ereek, eleven miles west of Topeka, in 1830; and that year Frederick Chouteau built a second trading-house at this point and aban- doned the first .. 1830
Baptist Shawnee Mission ( Rev. John- ston Lykins and wife, resident mission- aries ) established four miles west of the Missouri line, under Rev. Isaae MeCoy; also appointed agent by the Government for colonizing the eastern Indians within the Territory . . . ... ... 1831 Indian tribes located in Kansas, in- cluding the Ottawas, Kiekapoos, Kaskas- kias, Peorias, Piankeshaws, and Weas, 1831-32
First printing-press brought to Kan- sas by Rev. Jotham Mceker, set up at the Shawnee Baptist Mission, in Jolin- son county, fall of. . 1833
Congress makes all U. S. territory west of the Mississippi not in the States of Missouri and Louisiana or Territory of Arkansas. "Indian country," June 30 .1834 Col. Henry Dodge, U. S. A., makes an expedition to the Rocky Mountains,
leaving Fort Leavenworth May 29, and returning along the line where the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway now runs .1835 Fort Scott established on the Marma- ton river, April 9. .1842
Lieut. John C. Fremont, in his expe- dition west from St. Louis. reaches site of Lawrence, June 12; Topeka, June 14; and thenee travels northwest to the Blue and Platte rivers. . .1842
Wyandottes remove from Ohio. en- eamp on the east bank of the Kansas in what is now Wyandotte county, in July. and remove to permanent loea- tion purchased from the Delawares, in the forks of the Kansas and Missouri rivers. December. .1843
Frémont passes up the Kansas river on a second expedition. .1843
Flood in the Kansas. Osage and upper Missouri valleys in May and June, sup- posed to exceed by two to three feet the flood of 1903 during the same months. . 1844
Kansas Indians eede to the U. S. for the Pottawatomies. thirty miles square of the eastern portion of their reserva- tion. and exchange the remainder for a reserve in the neighborhood of Couneil Grove. January 14. .1846
Gen. S. W. Kearny marches from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fé .. .. .. 1846 Catholic Osage mission established in Neosho county, May 1. . 1847
Mormon battalion leaves Fort Leav- enworth in the employ of the United States for service in the Mexican War, August .1847
Catholie mission among the Potta- watomies in Linn county. removed to St. Mary's. .1848
Military road built by the Govern- ment from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Kearny .1850
Fort Riley, near junetion of Repub- liean and Kansas rivers, established un- der name of Camp Center. in the fall of 1852 Willard P. Hall, of Missouri, intro- duees a bill to organize the Territory of Platte (Kansas and Nebraska), De- eember 13 .. 1852
Senator Douglas reports a substitute for former bills, providing for the or- ganization of the Territories of Ne- braska and Kansas, and leaving the people thereof to decide whether the States to be formed of these Territo- ries shall be slave or free; January 23, 1854
Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society, soon after incorporated as the New Eng- land Emigrant Aid Company, organized in Boston. March. .1854
BUY YOUR SASH DOORS AND MOULDINGS OF
W. I. MILLER LUMBER CO.
213 EAST SIXTH AVENUE.
BOTH PHONES 204.
Low Rates.
MERRIAM MORTGAGE CO. Every Accommodation to Borrowers.
Prompt Money.
114 RADGES' TOPEKA DIRECTORY.
Delawares. Shawnees, lowas and. Kickapoos cede lands in Kansas to the United States, May .... .1854
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.