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664
Lobban, Carl P. 919
Lobban. Charles 920
Lobban, G. A.
918
Lobban, James 920
Loebenstein. Rudolph 835
Long, James C. 645
Lowe, Charles 551
Lowry, D. E.
714
McBride, U. A. 859
McCann, Dr. J. P. 667
McCardle, Reverend Frank S. 123
McClean. Erskine
589
McDonald, Mrs. Carrie (Peak) 877
McDougal, Richard T. 735
McDougal, WV. Clark 1136
McKay, B. D. 952
McKeehan, P. H. 1081
McMahan, W. J. 921
McMurphy, Levi 984
McNair. S. F.
1057
Mc Wethy. F. A.
1003
Marr, J. W. 724
Martin, Dr. W. L. 939
Martin, R. E. 1114
May, Henry 708
Mayes, F. L. 444
Mayes, Wm. J.
441
Merritt, L. C.
638
Middleton, George A.
1054
Miller, Fred F. 503
Miller, John W. 1079
Miller, Joseph M.
643
Miller, Sibert A. 881
Minor, Edwin P. 653
Mitchell, B. F. 794
Mohler, David 466
Mohler, James M. 992
Moody, Melville P.
447
Moore, James M., Jr.
1010
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Morton, 1I. C. 736
Moseley, George Franklin, Esq 694
Murphy, John B. 973
Murray, Thomas P. 953
Musser, Adolphus, Jr. 620
Neil, M. R. 967
Newton. Jasper F. 1033
Noland, C. 965
Noland, Levi
1071
Orsborn, J. G. 475
Ozias, Arthur W. 783
Ozias, Elmer J. 536
Ozias, Jesse R. 781
Ozias, J. P.
886
Ozias, Mrs. Lavina R. 782
Pare, Dr. E. Y. 716
Park, Henry, M. D. 655
Parker, H. F., M. D.
494
Parsons, Arthur
1043
Parsons, W. B.
1034
Patterson, Thomas Alexander, Sr. 568
Pemberton, H. L.
544
Pendleton, E. N.
1098
Phillips, J. J.
698
Pickel, Jacob
862
Piper, Kim
1077
Piper, S. P. 1076
Pollock, Alpha E. 838
Pollock, Cleo F. 838
Pollock, William G.
826
Porter, Birch D.
932
Porter, Dr. J. E.
600
Porter, Ernest L.
932
Raber, J. S. 943
Raber, S. W. 755
Raker, G. V. 771
Rcavis, Mrs. Lorretta (Warren) 666
Redford, J. E.
1039
Renick, R. F. 459
Reynolds, J. O.
524
Reynolds, William F. 531
Rice, Pleasant 1053
Rice, Pleasant, Jr. 1052
Rice, T. E. 1078
Rice, Tompkins
1051
Riddle, James 758
Rigg, T. E. 760
Rittman, John 1044
Rittman, William Edward 1055
Robbins, Thomas S. 720
Robbins, W. L. 1041
Roberts, Dr. Ira A. 677
Roberts, F. Allen
1140
Robey, W. A. 796
Robinson, Jas. L. 521
Robinson, Mrs. Mary M. (Hocker) 510
Roop, A. B. 1088
Roop, Mrs. Nancy J. (Baile) 885
Rothwell, Joseph H. 661
Rowland, R. H. 1116
Rucker, Clinton J. 548
Runyon, Laura L. 557
Russell, Harvey 867
Russell, J. W.
693
Ryan, Rev. Thomas 1060
Sammons, S. P. 1069
Sams, Ben T. 564
Samuel, J. F. 1029
Sanders, S. Y.
776
Saults, Dr. Harlowe A. 659
Senior, John Granderson 576
Schofield, Linn J., M. D. 501
Scott, Benoia
484
Scott, W. Emery 985
Scruggs, C. M. 979
Shackleford, H. H. 1035
Shaneyfelt, Dr. Joshua N. 870
Shaneyfelt, Mrs. Bettie (Logan) 1067
Shannon, S. L.
936
Sharp, J. C.
1095
Sheller, John 1102
Shepherd, James M. 799
Shepherd, James P. B. 574
Shepherd, John W.
681
Shimel, Alexander 972
Shockey. William 561
Shy, Dr. David E.
1080
Sibert, Francis L.
682
Simmerman, Joe
785
Simpson, James
812
Smith, G. W. V. 1131
Snyder, M. R. 950
Sprague, William Truman 784
Sproat, Truman E. 976
Squires, B. M.
941
Stacy. Henly
526
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Reichle, Charles August
138
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Starkey, C. E. 612
Steele, Dougald 538
Steele, E. K. 1026
Stevens, John T. 675
Stewart, John E.
812
Stillwell, Orl
816
Stirling, L. D.
982
Stitt, H. A. 110
Stockton, E. B. 1128
Stockton & Lampkin 595
Strange, J. W.
614
Stratton, H. B.
1133
Strickland, G. W.
935
Wash, C. A. 1090
Wayman, James B. 976
Wells, John Frank, Sr. 779
Werling, John H.
566
White, Dr. W. L. 1107
White, L. N. 1106
Wingfield, Judge J. C.
699
Wilcoxon, J. D.
850
Wilkinson, J. C.
1119
Williams, Cyrus
802
Williams, Elmer Eugene 680
Williams, J. M.
802
Williams, J. N. 804
Williams, Thomas Eugene 672
Wilson, John H. 499
Wilson, Mrs. W. T. 519
Wolf, August
995
Wolfenbarger, W. M.
1117
Wood, R. H.
481
Yoder. L. N.
753
Young, George S.
618
Young, Mrs. Belle (Carter) 704
Youngs, George
712
Youngs, Marcus
442
Zimmerman, John Adam
470
Turnbow, Dr. W. B.
959
Vernaz, Adamı 474
Vitt, H. E. 872
Vitt-Mayes Manufacturing Co 855
Wall, Adrian M. 767
Wall, Dr. Robert Z. R. 765
Wall, R. W. R. 750
Wallace, C. D. 1093
Warnick, E. N.
443
Warnick, Major James N. 847
Warnick, Oscar D. 854
Warnick, S. F.
787
Summers, Judge B. F.
824
Surber, David C.
947
Surber, Mrs. Mary (Stigall)
947
Sutherland D. L.
520
Sutherland, E. E.
1082
Sutherland, J. O. 686
Sutton, William E. 558
Swearingen, J. Harvey 989
Sweeney, William
732
Swift, D. B.
641
Tatlow, Richard Henry 1142
Tempel, K. G. 897
Terrell, James J. 628
Tevis, C. C.
601
Theiss, Peter
832
Thiele, John C. 500
Thompson, Emery, M. D.
603
Thompson, Fred N. 938
Thompson, John A.
951
Thomson, Mrs. Nancy B. (Warren) 541
Thomson, W. F. 546
Thrailkill, John M. 864
Tompkins, W. A. 768
Townsend, H. S.
505
Tracy, E. F.
456
Zion, W. H.
1064
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JOHNSON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, WARRENSBURG, MISSOURI.
History of Johnson County
CHAPTER I-GEOLOGY.
FORMATION-GEOLOGICAL DIVISIONS-DRILLINGS IN JOHNSON COUNTY-SHAFT AT SUTHERLAND, JOHNSON COUNTY-PLEASANTON FORMATION IN JOHNSON, CASS AND JACKSON COUNTIES-THE WARRENSBURG SANDSTONE-GEOLOGY AND SOIL-AUTHORITIES.
Formation .- Back of the history of the people of Johnson county, of the men and women who have lived on its soil and dug in its earth, is the history of that earth and soil itself. What is more, the history of that earth has actually determined to a remarkable extent the history of these men and women. The crops we raise to feed our bodies, the habita- tions we build to shelter them and the fuel we burn to warm them were, for us, predetermined thousands and millions of years ago.
When the earth "was without form and void," it was probably a hot unorganized mass of material. Under the operation of the force of grav- ity, the heavier materials drew together in the center, and the lighter ones went to the outside. At the outer edge were the lightest gases forming the atmosphere. Next came the heavier gases forming the oceans that evidently first covered the globe. Then came the outer layer of the solid earth composed of rocks two to three times the weight of the water. While in the center of the earth are materials, probably metalic, proved to be five and a half times the weight of water.
Gradually this molten mass, with its oceans of boiling water began to cool, and as it did so, it formed a crust on the outside. As it kept on cooling, it became smaller, and the solid crust in endeavoring to accommodate itself to the diminishing interior would wrinkle. The ridges of these wrinkles became the dry land and the hollows the oceans. Some of the wrinkles would break or become too thin and the pent up hot materials underneath the crust would break through in volcanoes.
As the earth continued to cool, new wrinkles would be formed and (3)
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sometimes a former ridge or uplift would become a hollow under the sea and the sea bottom would be raised to thousands of feet above the water, and smaller wrinkles would come in the ridges and hollows themselves. Thus we have two great ridges, the eastern and western hemispheres, and two great hollows the oceans between. The western hemisphere is itself wrinkled into the ridges of its mountains, and the hollows of the plains between.
Johnson county is on one of the earliest formed ridges in the United States. This is the Ozark ridge or uplift, which is said to be far older than the Rocky mountains. In eastern Kansas this uplift divides into two sections as it goes eastward, a northern one beginning in Cass county and continuing east down to the Lamine district, and a southern part lying in southern Missouri and Arkansas. The northern section contains Johnson county.
After this Ozark uplift arose from the ocean, the crust composing it became exposed to all the "weathering" we see now going on. Under the heat of the sun, the freezing of winter and the washing of the rains, the rocks disintegrated, and soil was formed. Then organic life entered the world, and on this soil, plants grew and developed, and animal life came in the water and on the land.
For a long time, Johnson county, like many parts of the earth that had been lifted above the oceans, was very low and close to or partly covered by the water. The trees and ferns and other plants dropped their leaves and branches into the water, and thus accumulated a great mass of vegetation, underneath the water. Then a new, probably small, wrinkle in the earth's crust was so formed or some shift in the crust so made that the county and all the neighboring shore of the then great sea went down into the water.
As the ages went by, the dry land surrounding Johnson county was gradually washed down into the sea and covered this county and the neighboring sunken area. The mass of vegetation that had accumu- lated was thus buried, compressed and decomposed and became the earliest or lowest coal vein in the county.
In course of time the filling up of this sunken area or another uplift in the earth's crust or both these causes resulted in the surface of the county again being above or near the surface of the water. The nearest vegetation gradually spread until again the county was covered with it. Again the surface and all this mass of vegetation was submerged, covered
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again by washings from the uplands, and Johnson county's second coal vein was formed. This process was repeated till the land finally emerged for good, with its numerous coal veining and stores of fuel for its future inhabitants.
At different periods of the county's submergence, conditions were favorable for sea life, and millions of primitive sea animals lived and died and their bones dropped to the bottom till the floor of the sea was covered thick with their remains. These remains became covered in the same way as the vegetation that made the coal, were decomposed and compressed and formed limestone rock.
Geological Divisions .- The age at which these processes went on is called by the geologists the Carboniferous, and the layers of the earth's crust formed at this time have been divided in the United States into three series, called the Mississippian, (at the base) the Pennsylvanian (in the middle) and the Permian (at the top). The Mississippian of Missouri contains a very large portion of crystalline limestone, in strong litho- logic contrast to the Pennsylvanian, in which shale is preponderate, sandstone common and the limestone chiefly of the fine-grain type. The Permian series does not differ markedly from the Pennsylvanian, but it has not been found in Missouri.
The Pennsylvanian series in Missouri is composed of about 1,900 feet of shale, sandstone, limestone, clay and coal. It is the only formation containing commercially important coal beds and is the youngest con- solidated formation in the area in which it outcrops. It includes beds that are contemporaneous with formations of the Appalachian region.
In Missouri the Pennsylvanian series is subdivided into the Missouri and Des Moines groups. The Missouri group is divided into five formations, which outcrop in the northwestern part of the state and in Jackson and Cass counties. The Des Moines group consists of the Pleasanton, Henrietta, and Cherokee formations which outcrop in John- son county and over a strip of territory extending from Clark county in the northeast corner of the state to Barton county in the southwest part of the state, varying in width from thirty to about one hundred miles. The United States Soil Survey also gives a Bethany Falls lime- stone which occurs in the northwest part of the county.
The Pleasanton formation, the outcrop of which reaches the western part of Johnson county varies in thickness from one hundred to two hundred and twenty-five feet. The Henrietta formation, which takes
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its name from a former Johnson county postoffice, varies in thickness from twenty-six to one hundred and ten feet. This formation outcrops over a considerable portion of Johnson county. Underlying the Henrietta formation and extending to the Mississippian limestone is the Cherokee formation, which varies from seventy-five to seven hundred and ten feet in thickness. This formation outcrops in the eastern portion of Johnson county, and it is in this formation that the thickest beds of coal are found in this county. All these formations are composed of shale, sandstone, limestones and coal beds.
The most important economic deposits are in the Cherokee forma- tion. Here we find coal, shales and clays used for firebrick, pottery, common brick, tile, and other ceramic products, sandstone and other building stones. Judging by analogy from the composition of this formation, from the Kansas fields, and from the rather meager results from drilling in Missouri, it is considered probable that any gas and oil accumulations that may exist in this state also lie in this formation.
Drillings in Johnson County .- In central Johnson and neighboring counties on the north and northeast, most of the upper Cherokee strata assume characters that are persistent as far north as the Iowa line.
Typical sections of Cherokee shale in central Johnson county, from outcrops and drillings near Montserrat.
Number.
Stratum.
Thickness. Depth. Feet. Feet.
1 Shale, soft and argillaceous at top, black and slaty at bottom
3
3
2 Coal (Lexington) 1
4
3 Clay, with nodular limestone at base
4
8
4 Shale, yellow
10
18
5 Interval, chiefly shale ; very variable in thickness- average 20
38
6 Limestone, dark gray; compact ; vertically jointed
2
40
7 Shale, in part slaty
8
48
8 Coal (Mulky)
2
50
9 Interval, chiefly shale
10
60
10 Shale, with a few thin limestone bands at top; black, slaty, and with small nodules at base 21
81
11 Limestone, bluish-black, very fossiliferous
1
82
12 Coal (Bevier)
2
84
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13 Clay, white
4
88
14 Limestone, blue to
gray ; irregularly bedded;
nodular
3
91
15 Shale
2
93
16 Coal (Tebo)
2
95
17 Shale
17
112
18 Sandstone, reddish-brown; in part massive; in part thin-bedded
11
123
19
Shale, dark below, light above
15
138
20 Coal .(Brushy Hill)
1
139
21 Clay
5 144
22
Shale
8
152
23
Coal
1 153
24 Clay
4
157
25 Shale
12
169
26 Coal
1
170
27
Clay
6
176
28 Shale
9
185
29 Coal
1/2
1851/2
30 Clay
41/2
190
31 Shale, black, slaty, present only in places
5
195
34
Shale, sandy at top, black at base
25
230
35
Sandstone : thin-bedded ; firmly cemented
20
250
36 Mississippian flint and limestone
On the divide in southern Johnson county there are many outcrops of the Henrietta formation and practically the full formation extends east to Sutherland. The following record was furnished by Mr. J. B. Scott.
Shaft at Sutherland, Johnson County.
Thickness. Depth.
Number.
Stratum.
Feet.
Feet.
1
Dirt
9
9
2 Rock (Pawnee limestone)
8
17
3 "Soapstone"
20
37
4 "Slate"
3
40
5 Coal
( Labette shale)
1
41
6 Clay
2
43
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
f
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
I 1
1
1
32 Coal ( Montserrat )
33 Clay, sandy
10
205
1 1
1
I
1
1
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7 Rock (upper limestone of Fort Scott member)
11
54
8 Black clay
5 59
9 "Soapstone"
11 70
10 Rock (lower limestone of Fort Scott member)
4
74
11 "Slate" (top of Cherokee shale )
3
77
12 Coal
1 1/6
78
13 "Soapstone, fire-clay and boulders"
61
139
14 Rock ( Marbut's base of Henrietta)
14
153
15 "Slate"
2
155
16 "Soapstone"
12
167
17 Coal
2
169
1
Pleasanton Formation in Johnson, Cass, and Jackson Counties .- Broadhead determined the thickness of the Pleasanton formation in John- son, Cass, and Jackson counties to be one hundred seventy-six feet and constructed the generalized section given below in modified form :
Distance Thickness. from Top.
Number.
Stratum.
Feet.
Feet.
1 Shale, bituminous
11/2
11/2
2 Shale, argillaceous, or porous sandstone
131/2
15
3 Limestone, sandy
1
16
4 Sandstone, calcareous ; 3 inches of coal at base_
11/2
171/2
5 Shale, sandy
351/2
53
6 Coal, a few inches
15
68
8 Sandstone, buff
4
72
9 Sandstone and shale
45-55
117
10 Limestone
2
168
11 Shale, marly, and limestone nodules 1
7
126
12 Shale, olive and purple
10
136
13 Shale, sandy, and shaly sandstone
22
158
14 Coal (Holden)
1
159
15 Shale
6
165
16
Limestone
2
167
17
Shale
9
176
1
1
1
I
1
The Warrensburg Sandstone .- Among the most unique geological
-
7 Shale, clayey
1
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features of the state are two long narrow channels filled with sandstone and shale which have been eroded in Cherokee, Henrietta and some Pleas- anton strata. One of these is in Henry, Johnson and Lafayette counties and the other in Randolph county.
The length of the Warrensburg channel of sandstone is more than fifty miles and is believed to have been made by water flowing from higher country on the Ozark dome bringing with it sands, and muds.
It extends from north of Louis station, Henry county, northward to the north bluffs of the Missouri river. It passes through Johnson county from the south line near the village of Post Oak directly north into Lafayette county. The city of Warrensburg is about in the middle of the channel.
The Warrensburg sandstone is well exposed in the northwestern quarter of the Calhoun quadrangle (Sections 28 and 29, T. 43, N., R. 25 W), where over one hundred and six feet of it outcropped.
West of Post Oak village in Johnson county, the top of the channel of sandstone is on the level with the top of the Henrietta formation, but nothing is known of its depth. It contains rather large specimens of silicified wood. Between this and Warrensburg a number of wells that do not reach the bottom of the sandstone show it to be at least ninety feet thick.
At Warrensburg the channel is one to two miles wide and at least eighty-seven feet and possibly 175 feet deep. A drilling two and one- half miles north of Warrensburg penetrated 75 feet of sandstone and 100 feet of soft, dark sandy shale, the former a channel deposit and the latter of either Warrensburg or Cherokee Age. The bottom of this drilling is at least 105 feet above the horizons of limestones of the Hen- rietta formation in neighboring counties.
A description of the sandstone quarries north of Warrensburg is given elsewhere in this volume. The sandstone here has a light gray or gray-blue color, is crossbedded in places and contains films of Carbona- ceous material in the bedding planes and irregularly distributed frag- ments of coal. Microscopic examination showed it to consist of small roundish to subangular quartz grains in a calcarious and ferreugenious cement with subordinate amounts of calcide, mica, chlorite, ionoxide, bitumen, feldspar and clay.
Several outcrops in the vicinity of Warrensburg show the valley-
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like shape of the bottom of the channel. Irregular deposits of coal have been found just below the sandstone, and in the bed of the branch in the northwest quarter of section 26, township 46, range 26, there are two beds of limestone dipping at a high angle and overlaid by arena- ceous channel deposits.
North of Warrensburg the channel averages probably one and a half miles wide.
In northern Henry county the base of the sandstone in the lowest point yet found is at least 77 feet and at Warrensburg 105 feet below the base of the Henrietta formation. The fall south of Warrensburg, according to these figures is 1.4 feet per mile, and north of Warrens- burg about two feet per mile. The apparent difference in fall is due possibly to the greater amount of limestone through which the channel was cut at the southern end. The hypothesis of northward flow obtained from the data given above rests on the very probable assumption that at the time of the making of the channel, the beds through which it was excavated were horizontal or nearly so.
Geology and Soil .- All the soil of Johnson county is derived from the decomposition of these immediately underlying limestones, shales and sandstones, which were formed in the long geological ages of the past. They fall in the five groups, described-the Pleasanton shales, the Henrietta limestones, the Cherokee shales and sandstones, the Bethany Falls limestone and the Warrensburg sandstone. Their characteristics are given elsewhere under the chapter on Agriculture.
Authorities .- Hinds and Greene, stratigraphy of the Pennsylvania Series in Missouri; U. S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Survey of Johnson County, Missouri (1914) ; John A. Gallaher (of Johnson county ) in Encyclopedia of History of Missouri, Vol. III (1901) : Standard Texts on Geology.
CHAPTER II .- INDIANS.
THE COUNTRY OF THE OSAGES-EARLY RELATIONS BETWEEN THE WHITE SET- TLERS AND THE INDIANS-TREATY OF NOVEMBER, 1808-PURCHASE PRICE OF JOHNSON COUNTY-CHARACTER OF OSAGES-THE INDIANS' YEARLY CIRCLE.
Johnson county before the advent of the white man was the country of the Osage Indians. Here the Indian was complete master and hunted or roamed at will through the timber and over the prairie and raised his lodge or pitched his barbaric tent or buffalo skin.
Before the nineteenth century, when the white settlements were few in number and scattered over a wide expanse of country, the question of land ownership was hardly considered. Early treaties between the French and Spanish and the Indians were in the most part merely for the purpose of establishing friendly relations with the natives, and the question of land cession rarely, if ever, entered into the negotia- tions. Such treaties were made by Iberville, Bienville and Cadillac as governors of the colony and also by explorers in behalf of their govern- ments.
However the British government, especially after the peace of 1763, prohibited the whites from settling on Indian lands and after the Revolution the same policy was pursued by the United States for several years. The Federal government during this time recognized the several tribes and confederacies as quasi nation, with a right to the soil, and the right to dispose of same.
Following the Louisiana purchase settlers began to infringe on the lands of the Osages in portions of what is now the state of Missouri and other relations arose between the whites and the Indians. Hence a treaty was made between the Great and Little Osages and the United States in November, 1808.
This treaty occupies an important place in the real history of John- son county. Beginning in 1682, with France, who by reason of the explorations of La Salle, claimed all the territory drained by the Mis- sissippi river, France, Spain and the United States, had at different
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HISTORY OF JOHNSON COUNTY
times, claimed the same territory by virtue of treaties and agreements between themselves. But none of these nations either occupied by settlement or otherwise the actual territory. The actual inhabitants of that much of the territory now comprising this county were these Indians. And it was by this treaty that their right passed to the United States, and the country of the Great and Little Osages became the country of the Rices and the Houxs and the other pioneers, who came and, in the name of the United States of America, remained, and whose lineal descendants are here to this day.
This treaty was entitled :
"Articles of a treaty made and concluded at Fort Clark, on the right bank of the Missouri, about five miles above the fire prairie, in the territory of Louisiana, the tenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight, between Peter Chou- teau, Esquire, agent for the Osage, and especially commissioned and instructed to enter into the same by his excellency Meriwether Lewis, governor and superintendent of Indian affairs for the territory afore- said, in behalf of the United States of America, of the one part, and the chiefs and warriors of the Great and Little Osage, for themselves and their nations respectively, on the other part."
The treaty was signed by "P. Chouteau; E. B. Clemson, Captain First Regiment Infantry; L. Lorimer, Lieutenant First Regiment Infantry; Reazen Lewis, sub-agent Indian Affairs," for the United States, and on behalf of the Indians by "Papuisea, the grand chief of the Big Osage, his (x) mark; Nichu Malli, the grand chief of the Little Osage, his (x) mark," and by one "second chief" each of the Big and Little Osage, by ten "little chiefs" of the Big Osage and seven "little chiefs" of the Little Osage, by three "war chiefs" of the Big Osage and two war chiefs of the Little Osage and by forty-two "warriors" of the Big Osage and forty-two "warriors" of the Little Osage.
Thus when our children ask us who ruled over this county before the President and the governor of Missouri, we can tell them Papuisea and Nichu Malli.
Fort Clark was located on the Missouri river between the present city of Lexington and Independence, and by Lewis and Clark while on their expedition to the Pacific coast in 1804. It was at first named Clark in honor of one of the two leaders. After this treaty the name
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HISTORY OF JOHNSON COUNTY
was changed to Fort Osage. Later it was changed to Fort Sibley in honor of George C. Sibley, an army officer.
By this treaty with the Osage Indians, a line was established "beginning at Fort Clark on the Missouri, five miles above Fire Prairie, and running thence a due south course to the Arkansas river, thence down the same to the Mississippi." All east of this line was relinquished by the Osages to the United States. For sometime thereafter there was some uncertainty as to just where the real line was intended to be. However, there is no question but what it was miles west of the western boundary of Johnson county, perhaps about ten miles, and thus ceded Johnson county to the United States.
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