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The first settler in Elk County was Richard Graves, who came in 1856, and was twice driven out by the Indians. The land at this time belonged to the Osages, upon which legal settlement could not be made. There was, however, extending along the northern part of the county, six miles wide, a "ceded strip." It was consequently along the streams included within this belt where the earliest settlement was made. But it was not long to be confined to this narrow limit. Ad- venturous men, at the risk of their lives among the Indians, upon whose rights they were intruding, and with expectations of being driven off by United States troops, determined to make an effort to settle here. Only a few at first made the attempt, and, in consequence, their presence was not distasteful to the authorities or alarming to the Indians. Others began to come in, until in 1870 the number of " squat- ters" had become quite considerable. Among those who were leaders of the vanguard, and who came to stay, were J. C. Pinney, James Shipley, R. M. Humphrey, Elison Neat, H. G. Miller, J. B. Roberts,
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and others. The first child born in the county was Sarah F. Shipley, December 8, 1866.
In 1864 or 1865 Fort Fletcher post was established in Ellis County, on Big Creek, about fourteen miles southeast of where Hays City now stands. The post was utterly destroyed by a flood in the spring of 1867. Immediately thereafter Fort Hays was established on its present site by Gen. Pope. Up to that time the county was with- out settlement, but the location of Fort Hays, and the near approach of the Kansas Pacific Railway, attracted a good many settlers to that locality, and then followed the founding of Hays City. Some early futile attempts to cultivate the prairie in the vicinity of Hays City were made. In 1871 Thomas Arrowsmith, J. H. Edwards, and Louis Watson tried farming near Ellis, but met with poor success. In 1872 ten or twelve homestead and pre-emption claims were all that had been settled upon in the county. In that year a small colony from Ohio located at what is now known as Walker Station. Follow- ing this colony, two others, very limited in number, arrived the next year, one from New York, in and about Ellis, and one from Pennsyl- vania, at Hays City. That year George Grant arrived from England, and purchased of the railway company 50,000 acres of land in the county, for the purpose of colonizing it with English agriculturists. During the next two or three years two or three hundred Englishmen, many of them with families, located on the Grant purchase. A town was started on the line of railway, a few miles west of Walker, which was named Victoria. A stone depot, a handsome stone church, an elevator, and a store were introduced. In a short time the place had about twenty five houses and 150 people. Experience, however, soon taught the colonists that Ellis County was not an agricultural country, and meeting with nothing but failure and disappointment in their ef- forts at farming, they became discouraged, and began to return to England, and now, of all those that came, but very few remain. In 1879 the originator of the scheme, George Grant, died. The colony has ceased to exist. There is a large Russian colony in this county. The first couple married in Ellis County was Peter Tondell and Elizabeth Duncan, in 1868, and the first child born was John Bauer, Jannary 29, 1868.
Ellsworth County was organized in 1867, but, antedating this by ten years, attempts were made at settlement. P. M. Thompson, known by the early settlers as " Smoky Hill Thompson," Joseph Leh- man, D. H. Page, Adam Weadle, and D. Cushman, were the first who
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made permanent settlement. The next was made by Henry and Irwin Farris, S. D. Walker, C. L. and J. J. Prather. This party came in 1860, and located on Clear Creek. H. Wait and H. P. Spurgeon came late in 1860. Up to August, 1861, there was not a white woman in the county, but in that month a man named T. D. Bennett moved from Dickinson County with his wife. A man named Lewis came, with his family, in the fall of 1862. Indian troubles drove all the settlers away. Settlement was not revived until 1865, when Harry Anderson came. The next year came Rev. Levi Sternberg and family, and others.
Gov. Thomas A. Osborn, in his proclamation providing for the organization of Ford County, April 5, 1873, appointed Charles Rath, J. G. McDonald and Daniel Wolf special county commissioners, and Herman J. Fringer special county clerk. This body met at Dodge City, and made choice of Charles Rath as chairman of the board. James Hanrahan was appointed commissioner in place of Mr. Wolf, who was not in the county. An election for county officers was or- dered June 5, 1873, and at that election the following named persons were elected, the first body of officers for Ford County: Charles Rath, A. C. Myers and F. C. Zimmerman, county commissioners; Herman J. Fringer, county clerk and clerk of the district court; A. J. Anthony, county treasurer; Charles E. Bassett, sheriff; T. L. McCarty, coro- ner; H. Armitage, register of deeds; George B. Cox, probate judge; M. V. Cutter, county attorney. M. Collar was trustee of Dodge Township; P. T. Bowen and Thomas C. Nixon, justices of the peace. A C. Myers was selected chairman of this board; M. V. Cutter resigned the position of county attorney, and was appointed commis- sioner, vice Rath, resigned July 24, 1873; M. V. Cutter was appointed chairman vice Myers. The county was divided into two municipal townships, Dodge and Ford.
Owing to the fact that most of the land in Franklin County was occupied by a number of different tribes of Indians, the titles to whose reservations were not extinguished until 1862, 1864 and 1867, the settlement of the county was not so early as that of adjoining counties. Along the northern edge, however, on what was known as the " Shawnee purchase," a strip of land about three miles wide, the Shawnee title to which was extinguished by the treaty of May 10, 1854, a number of settlements were made in that year.
The first settler in the county was Reuben Hackett, near the west line of Hayes Township, on June 7, 1854. Amos Hanna moved
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in about the same time. Quite a number of others came during the same year, among them, Rev. William Moore and four or five sons, who settled about a mile east of the present location of Norwood.
The first settlement in Graham County was made May 18, 1872, by W. E. Ridgely, on the northeast section of the county, his nearest neighbor being at Logan, Kas., eight miles distant. From that date until the census was taken in November, 1876, there were but seven- ty-five inhabitants in the county.
The first settlement in Greenwood County was made in the spring of 1856, by colonists from Mississippi, who came with the avowed in- tention of helping to make Kansas an ally of the Southern slave-hold- ing States. These pro-slavery people drifted away to more congenial soil on the breaking out of the war. A few anti-slavery men were sprinkled about the county in the fall of 1856, but real settlement did not take place in any considerable numbers until the spring of 1859, which saw a party of new comers in Lane and Madison Townships, among whom were D. Vining, Austin and Fred Norton, Anderson Hill, Wesley Pearsons, Mark Patty, Myrock Huntley, E. R. Holder- man, William Martindale, E. G. Duke, James and W. F. Osborn, Isaac Sharp and David Smyth. In July of this year came Josiah Kinnaman, Archibald Johnston, Peter Ricker, Adam Glaze, John Baker, Wayne Sumner and William Kinnaman.
The earliest settlement in Harper County was by M. Devore, H. E. Jesseph, John Lamar and William Thomas, near the east line of the county in 1876. No further settlement was attempted until the arrival of the party who laid out and built Harper City. The first wedding in the county took place at Harper, on September 22, 1878, and united Dr. J. W. Madra and Miss Mary Glenn.
H. Nieman, who took up a claim in Richland Township in June, 1869, was the first settler in Harvey County. Other early settlers were Kimball, Howard, George F. Perry, William Cleveland, M. Alexander, Seth Goodley, Lawrence, Wilcox, A. G. Richardson, C. S. Fink, R. W. Denny, Joel and Jesse Parker, H. W. Bailey, B. P. Parks, S. Saylor, T. Ezra, R. Smith, Edward Doty, Thomas Winn, C. E. Berry, E. Marks, O. B. Hildreth, William Geary, I. Stockwell, O. B. Gingress, James Allen, Palmer and Daniel Heath, F. P. and A. E. Munch, A. W. Baker, Mile Davids, Joshua Perkins, John Hengst, C. W. Patterson, J. V. Sharp, H. Beery, F. Livingston, J. S. and F. W. H. Hackney, J. C., W. E. and J. M. Johnston, R. T. Elwood, J. L. Caveny, W. Davis, James McMurray, James Patterson,
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John Gorgas, John W. Blades, William and Charles Bean, E. C. Mun- ger, G. Webster, Theodore Kline, John N. Corgan, G. L. Cooper, J. Schoonover, A. Olson, Allen Miller, L. D. and A. Brewer, John Harlan, J. and P. Ray, L. B. Owen, D. E. Sheldon, H. D. and C. Kettle, D. Denny, S. Chamberlain and S. A. Powell.
Settlement in Hodgeman County was begun in the spring of 1877. Among the early settlers in different parts of Jackson County were J. W. Williams, John Rippetoe, A. W. Bainbridge, William Cunning- ham, Hugh Piper, John Piper, David R. Rice, Rufus J. Rice, Josiah Soule, John N. Willard, Luther M. Myers, George Coleman, Stephen J. Elliott, R. S. Gillies, B. H. Bradshaw, Edward McNieve, E. L. Stalker, W. H. Chase, George Bainbridge, Chauncey J. Cowell, George W. Drake, Simeon Fees, Garrett Groomer, Godfrey Hafer, W. K. Lutz, Jacob Morroid, Walter Palmenter, George Smith, Cyrus G. Waynant, John Arnold, W. G. Barnett, Thomas Fennell, B. Hafer, J. F. Pomeroy, A. Ash, J. H. Bateman, J. H. Thompson, John Hibbard, S. J. Rose, R. L. Thornton, William Cline, W. Bran- ham, E. Fairbanks, William Knipe, Henry Runcier, Jacob Kern, Roger O'Meara, P. B. Rust, J. H. Sutherland, I. Travis, Andrew Brown, John M. Duff, Henry Haub, Michael O' Neill, George T. Watkins, George C. Weibles, D. R. Williams.
The first settlement in Jefferson County, as well as in Kansas, was that of Daniel Morgan Boone, son of Daniel Boone, the Kentucky pioneer. Between the years 1805 and 1815, the elder Boone often spent months in hunting along the Kaw or Kansas River, for a dis- tance of 100 miles or more from its mouth, a portion of this time being spent in the southern part of the present Jefferson County. Returning from his hunts he gave glowing accounts of the country to his family.
In the spring of 1862, William Harshberger and wife settled upon land adjoining the present town of White Rock, and John Furrows took a claim just west of Mr. Harshberger's farm. They formed the first settlement in Jewell County, built cabins and broke ground, but were soon driven away by well grounded fears of Indian raids. A second attempt at settlement was made in the spring of 1866. Will- iam Belknap took a claim five miles 'west of the present town of White Rock; John Marling, with his wife and child, settled near the present town of Reubens; Nicholas Ward, his wife and adopted son, Mrs. Sutzer and son, Al. Dart, Arch. Bump, Erastus Bartlett and a man by the name of Flint, tok claims east of that town. In August
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of this year a party of forty Cheyennes attacked Marling's cabin, and while he was gone for assistance the savages entered his house, dragged his wife into the woods with a rope around her neck, and hor- ribly outraged her. They then stole everything they could find, set fire to the cabin and dashed off before Mr. Marling could obtain assistance. After this, the entire settlement left their homes. A few days afterward, learning that the rumors of a general massacre were groundless, they returned to their claims. They rested in fancied security until the following April, when occurred a bloody massacre which effectually destroyed the little settlement. Of the original members of the settlement who were not victims of this massacre Mr. Flint was absent at Clyde, the Darts were absent, Mr. Marling, wife and child had returned to Missouri, and Messrs. Bump and Davis had been waylaid and shot in Cloud County during the previous May. The survivors, including Mr. Rice, all left the county after this horri- ble affair. Settlement was resumed in 1868, and went forward with- out further serious interruption by Indians.
Previous to the advent of the Shawnee Indians in 1828, but little was known of what is now Johnson County by white people. In common with the whole of the present State of Kansas, it was occu- pied, when occupied at all, by the Kaw Indians. As soon as a large portion of the reservation was thrown open for settlement, large num- bers rushed in to secure claims. Few of the earliest settlers remained in the county. Among those who settled in the county during 1857 were the following free-Staters : Thomas E. Milhoan, William Will- iams, Rynear Morgan, William Holmes, Dr. Irving Jaynes, J. D. Allen, J. C. Forrest and L. F. Bancroft; and on the pro slavery side, Dr. J. B. Morgan, Col. J. T. Quarles, T. H. Ellis, A. Slaughter, James H. Nounan, C. C. Catron, W. S. Gregory, Jonathan Gore, A. J. Turpin, Dr. Shuck and M. T. Wells. During the time of the occu- pancy of the county by the Shawnee Indians, few white men became residents of it, and they only in some connection with the Indians. The earliest were the Choteau brothers, Frenchmen, who built trading houses among the Shawnees and Delawares in 1828 and 1829, Rev. Thomas Johnson and family came in 1829. Samuel Cornatzer came to the mission in 1844, Mr. Crockett, nephew of Davy Crockett, Janu- ary 24, 1847; and at different times, Perk Randall, John Bowles, Isaac Parish, Samuel Garrett, John Owens, John Boyle and Calvin Cornatzer.
The first actual settler in Kingman County was Martin Updegraff,
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on the Chikaskia. Mr. Updegraff made settlement in February, 1873, and was followed a few months later by J. K. and S. F. Fical and Charles Barr, and two or three others. In the spring of 1874 came W. H. Childs, H. L. Ball, A. D. Culver, H. S. Bush, W. P. Brown and W. H. Mosher. In the course of the year, several others came in, who located chiefly in the central portion of the county along the Ninnescah. That year an Indian scare occurred, and nearly all the settlers had fled the county. The years 1875 and 1876 were not remarkable for the arrival of many new settlers coming into the county, but the year 1877 was not a month old when Samuel David- son, E. S. Allen, R. T. Nolan, John Jackson, C. M. Tack, H. J. Golds- borough and William Green all settled in the eastern part of the connty, followed immediately after by large numbers of others.
As early as 1853 Dr. George Lilse, formerly a prominent physi- cian of Belmont, Ohio, obtained leave from A. J. Dorn, Indian agent, to settle in the southeast part of what is now Labette County, where he carried on a trading business and kept a sort of gun shop. Prior to this, however, James Childers had established a trading post near the same place. Besides those named, this settlement numbered several others, among whom were G. Hanson, William Doudna, George Walker, Larkin McGee, McMurphy, the Rogers and Blythe families, etc. In the early part of 1858 Rev. J. P. Barnaby, of the Southern Methodist Church, established a circuit including this settlement and embracing about 150 miles around. In October of that year Rev. J. E. Ryan succeeded to the circuit. These parties, with a number of half-breeds and Cherokee Indians along the Neosho, made up the bulk of the settlement, up to the beginning of the Rebellion. At an early stage of the war Mathews allied himself to the cause of the Confed- eracy, organized a body of Confederate troops, some of whom killed Union men and brutally treated the inhabitants; burned the town of Humboldt, leaving only the Masonic lodge standing. Several futile attempts were made to capture the band, which was finally pursued by United States troops under Col. Blunt, overtaken near Chetopa, and Mathews shot and killed, and his houses at Oswego burned. These acts of disorder and invasion almost annihilated the settlement. From 1860 to 1865 there were only two white men living within the limits of the county. These were S. M. Collins and A. T. Dickerman, near Erie, and who, in July, 1865, by permit of White Hair, chief of the Osages, removed four miles south of the present site of Oswego. During the fall of 1865 the return of refugee settlers began. Settlers
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came along the Neosho valley, extending to the line of the Indian Territory, J. C. Rexford, A. P. Elsbee, C. C. Clover, D. M. Clover, Ber- gen Van Ness, C. E. Simmons, B. F. Simmons, John Modesitt, Norris Harrar, Cal. Watkins, William White and sons, Grant Reaves and others being of the number. The news of the treaty of September 25, 1865, being made with the Osage Indians, and the prospect of the land being soon opened to settlement, was the main stimulus in bringing in settlers, who soon flocked in by the hundreds. It was in this county that the celebrated Benders plied their murderous trade. The first land claimed in Kansas by citizens of the United States, after the passage of the Kansas- Nebraska act, was at Leavenworth. June 12, 1854, Gen. George W. Gist, Samuel Farnandis, and John C. Gist, staked off and marked the claims. It had been the opinion of many would-be set- tlers that the city was destined to be located at Fort Leavenworth. But the Government had no intention of abandoning it as a military post, and accordingly, the next day after Gen. Gist and his friends had staked their claims, a meeting was called at Weston for the for- mation of a town association. The various squatters in Leavenworth and vicinity, who had taken claims near the coming city of Fort Leavenworth, held a meeting at Riveley's store, in Salt Creek Valley, June 10, 1854, the first squatter meeting ever held in the Territory, and it was resolved to relinquish all rights and titles to the future town association; hence, when it was formed on June 13, everything appeared harmonious. The original proprietors were mostly citizens of Missouri, residing at this time at or near Weston. Gen. Gist was elected president; H. Miles Moore, secretary; Joseph B. Evans, treas- urer; Amos Rees, L. D. Bird and Maj. E. A. Ogden, trustees; com- mittee on by-laws: L. D. Bird, O. Diefendorf and H. Miles Moore. Subsequent to the first meeting, James W. Hardesty and W. S. Yohe were admitted as original members of the association. Including the two last named gentlemen there were thirty-two original proprietors, classified as follows: Ministers, three; lawyers, four; doctors, five; printers, two; merchants, four; surveyors, one; army officers, two army clerks, one; farmers, eight.
The settlement of Lincoln County was begun in 1865 by George Green, E. E. Johnson, R. B. Clark, D. C. Skinner, J. M. Adams, Isaac De Graff and W. E. Thompson. In the spring of 1866 Wash- ington Smith, W. T. Wild, John Dart and two young men named Peate and Gaskill became permanent residents of Lincoln. October 4, 1866, M. D. Green, Martin. and William Hendrickson, Volany
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Ball, John S. Strange, David G. Bacon, M. Zeigler, Thomas Noon, J. C. Parks and families settled throughout the county. For several years buffalo hunting was the chief pursuit. This county was the scene of some Indian outrages.
With the exception of M. Dutisne, Girard and Chouteau were proba- bly the first white men in what is now Linn County. The first to set- tle in the county, with the view to making improvements, were James Osborne and Adam Pore, in January, 1854, at the head of Little Sugar Creek, about two miles from the present site of Mound City. D. W. Cannon, John Brown and William H. Murray, all pro- slavery, and William Park, James Osborne and James Montgomery, free- State, came in the same year; the latter in August, buying the claim on which he lived the rest of his life, for $11, paying $5 down, and promising to pay the additional $6 some time in the future.
By common agreement, the first settler in Lyon County (then not organized) was Charles H. Withington, in the extreme northern part, on the old Santa Fe road, June, 1854. Mr. Withington was one of the earliest settlers of the State, coming to Kansas in 1846, being gun- smith to the Sac and Fox Indians. Removing to Council Grove five years later, he opened a store for the Santa Fe and Indian trade. In 1857, when the bulk of early immigration flowed to this county, and for years afterward, he was prominent in all important affairs locally. His house was a hotel, and his store the only one in Southern Kansas, except those of the regular Indian posts. Oliver Phillips, Chris. Ward and J. S. Pigman came in 1855. Other settlers were Charles Johnson, James H., Phenis, David Vangundy, John Rosenquist, Joseph Moon, Rev. Thomas J. Addis, Lorenzo Dow, R. H. Abraham, William Grims- ley, Thomas Shockley, Joseph Halley, William H. Eikenbery, Joel Haworth, Dr. Gregg, Mr. Carver, James Hendricks, Albert Watkins, John Fowler, G. D. Humphrey, L. H. Johnson, Charles N. Link, Sol Pheanis, Moses Puckett, Silas Howell, D. Roth, Isaac Cox, Eli Davis, Curtis Hiatt, Andrew Hinshaw, W. J. Carney, Milton Chamness, N. Lockerman, P. W. Manning, Mr. Taylor and S. G. Brown.
The first settlement made in Marion County was by an Irishman named Moses Shane, at the spot where now stands Florence, early in the spring of 1858. He built a log house, broke several acres of ground, and resided there until his death, in 1859. Patrick Doyle, in 1859, located near Florence, but soon afterward returned to Leaven- worth; in a few years he returned. In August, 1859, the first white child, named Welsh, was born in the county, two miles from Florence.
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Its parents emigrated to Kansas from Wisconsin. The Lost Springs trading post was established in 1859, on the Santa Fe trail. In the fall, A. A. Moore established a trading post at Cottonwood Crossing, later "Moore's Ranch."
The first in McPherson County, who remained long enough to be called a settler, was Isaac Sharp, who lived upon Sharp's Creek (after whom the creek was named) during the winter of 1859-60, on what is now known as the Maxwell estate. He traded with the Indians, trapped and hunted. He came from Pennsylvania, and brought with him his father and mother. The latter died, and was buried upon the creek. Mrs. Sharp was, without doubt, the first white woman who resided in McPherson County. When the war of the Rebellion broke out, the Western Indians became troublesome, and Mr. Sharp removed to Coun- cil Grove. Shortly after Mr. Sharp cam? to the county, a man named Lewis settled upon the Smoky, below Marquette, on the farm now owned by Solomon Stephens. He was also a trapper and a trader, but made some improvements upon his claim, and a strip of land plowed by him can yet be distinguished, although nearly gone back to the native sod. A man named Peters also came to Sharp's Creek, shortly after Mr. Sharp. He died, and was buried upon the creek. From the time of the removal of Mr. Sharp from the county, until the settlement in 1866, there were only occasional visits of traders and trappers.
One of the first white men to settle in Miami County was David Lykins, in 1844, as missionary to the confederated tribes of Indians. Other missionaries and teachers came to these tribes and to the Miamis, from time to time, and also traders, all of whom came to aid or live among the Indians. In 1854 bona fide settlers began to arrive, with the object of making homes for themselves, and developing the re- sources of the country. Among these, in various parts of the county, were S. H. Houser, Daniel Goodrich, C. A. Foster, John Childers, Harmon Dace, C. H. Crane, John Serpell, William Chestnut, S. J. Adair, R. W. Wood, O. C. Brown, Knowles, Isaac, Cyrus and Will- iam Shaw, T. J. Hedges, D. L. Peery, W. A. He'skell, David Anderson and William Blair.
In the fall of 1867 a few settlers moved into Mitchell County, and in the spring of 1868 several log houses were built along the river, from the east line to Solomon Rapids. The first actual white settler was Joseph Decker, early in 1866, north of the village of Glen Elder. Mr. Decker filed on this quarter-section of land at the Junction City
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land office, and came on with quite a large herd of cattle and built a dug-out and broke a little spot for garden. Before fall the Indians drove off his cattle, and he abandoned the country. Among the earliest permanent settlers were Hon. John Reese, Thomas Howie, William Joiner, Matthias Nelson, David Bogardus, B. Bell, Whit Mc- Connell, Tunis Bulis, James Farow, James Duff, H. A. Bell, John White- hurst and his sons, Vinton and Abraham, and John Smith. Early in the spring of 1868 nearly all of these settlers were making primitive im- provements, from the east line of the county west as far as Solomon Rapids.
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