Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Wilmot Kansas.

Cowley County.
Richland Township Map, 1882.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/223990/page/28

On the county map Wilmot can be found in Township 30-south and Range 5-east.  On the Township map Wilmot can be found in section 27.
 
Wilmot Post Office.
 
Wilmot post office open March 20, 1879 and ran to June 28, 1957.  Mrs. A. L. Phoenix was first postmaster.
 
Business men who used Wilmot as their P. O. address as of 1882.
 
J. W. Groom, Farmer, from Missouri, came to county 1870.
 
James P. Groom, Farmer, from Missouri, came to county 1871.
 
N. J. Larkin, Horticu'st and Ju'ce of the Peace, from New York, came to county 1872.
 
J. W. Miller, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Ohio, came to county 1871.
 
S. W. Phoenix, Farmer and Dealer in Agricul. Impl'mts, from Pennsylvania, came to county 1871.
 
J. P. Stuber, Farmer, from Illinois, came to county 1878.
 
J. R. Thompson, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Pennsylvania, came to county 1870.
 
Wilmot Kansas, 1901.

This town is located on the Frisco railway WILMOT in Richland town-hip. It has a population of about one hundred and fifty, good stores and ships a large amount of stock, Captain Adam Stnber was one of its founders.

Wilmot Kansas, 1912.

Wilmot, a village in Cowley county, is located in Richiand township on Dutch creek and on the St. Louis & San Francisco R. R. 15 miles northeast of Winfield, the county seat. It has general stores, an express office, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 75.

Authors note.  If you were to search the site of ( Blue Skyways ), you will find many families that were from Wilmot.  Key word Wilmot Kansas.

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