Elbing Kansas.

Bulter County.

Fairmont Township, map, 1905.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209415/page/10.

 

On the county map Elbing can be found in Township 23-South and Range 3-East.  On the township map Elbing can be found in section 16.

 

Elbing Post Office History.

 

Worth post office open March 16, 1886 and ran to November 2, 1887, moved to Elbing who's post office open November 2, 1887 and is still opne?

 

Businessmen who used Elbing as their P. O. address as of 1905.

 

 

H. K. Brown, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1870.

Jacob Dyek, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1892.

William Fisher, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1891.

O. A. Furman, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1888.

I. Lambert, General Merchantidies, came to county 1888.

E. Langenegger, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1889.

William Parris, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1883.

Luther Reid, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1884.

Henry Rutsehman, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1899.

A. C. Tucker, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1901.

 

Elbing Kansas 1912.

 

Elbing, a village of Fairmount township, Butler county, is a station on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. near the northwest corner of the county, about 22 miles from Eldorado, the county seat. It has a bank, a money order postoffice with one rural route, express and telegraph offices, telephone connections, and is the principal trading point for that section of the county. The population in 1910 was 175.

 

Elbing Kansas 1916.

The town of Elbing is an enterprising little place, consisting of a bank, of which Herman Jackson is president, and D. C. Crosby is cashier ; two general stores, a hardware and implement store, lumber yard, together with a postoffice, blacksmith shop and other lines of business and all seem prosperous. More live stock is shipped from this point than any other point within 100 miles of it on the Rock Island railroad. For a number of years, the citizens of this town were com- pelled to go to Peabody in Marion county to get their mail- that being the nearest postoffice.