Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Udall Kansas.

Cowley County.
Ninnescah Township Map, 1885.
 
On the county map Udall can be found in Township 31-South and Range 3-East.  On the Township map Udall can be found in section 5.
 
Business men who used Udall as their P. O. address as of 1885.
 
J. H. Bilsing, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Ohio, came to county 1871.
 
D. P. Byers, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Pennsylvania, came to county 1871.
 
J. B. Cook, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from New York, came to county 1876.
 
Henry H. Martin, Farmer, from Indiana, came to county 1872.
 
Philip Stout, Farmer and Shoemaker, from Pennsylvania, came to county 1871.
 
P. W. Smith, Merchant, from Ohio, came to county 1872.
 
The following link will give you a little information on the town of Udall.  It will also tell of the murder of Sheriff Senneman and give many Biographical Shetches of Ninnescah Township, 1883.
 
Business men who used Udall as their P. O. address as of 1905.
 
Edmund Burke, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1903.
 
Henry Burke, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1903.
 
John Frye.
 
Amos Hann, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1872.
 
J. H. Hildebrand, President of Bank of Commerce, came to county 1881.
 
E. A. Houser, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county  1870.
 
T. W. Leeder, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1903.
 
J. H. Willis, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1876.
 
Udall Kansas 1912.
 
Udall, an incorporated city of the third class in Cowley county, is located in Ninnescah township on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., 13 miles northwest of Winfield, the county seat, and about 25 miles from Wichita. It has a mill, a bank, a weekly newspaper (the News), a number of retail establishments, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with three rural routes. The population in 1910 was 330. A school was established here in 1873 and the postoffice in 1879. The town was laid out in 1882 and several stores were built. One of the startling events of the early history of the town was the killing of Sheriff Shenneman of Cowley county, who was shot b\- Charles Cobb in Jan., 1883.
 

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