Cool Kansas.

Cloud county

Lyon township map, 1885.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/223984/page/39

 

On the county map cool can be found in township 8-south and range 4-west.  On the township map Cool can be found in section 4.

 

Cool was named for the Honorble Joseph Cool.

 

Cool Post office.

 

Cool post office open May 11, 1881 and ran to December 31, 1887.  First postmaster was Alfred Adams next was D. M. bourne.

 

Business men who used Cool as their P. o. address as of 1885.

 

D. M. Bourne, Merchant and Postmaster, from Massachusetts, came to county 1887.

 

A. L. bates, Teacher, from New York, came to county 1876.

 

A. W. Bickford, Teacher and Township Trustee, from Iowa, came to county 1870.

 

Frank Wilson, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Dealer, from North Carolina, came to county 1872.

 

Authors note.  There was very little information on Cool, in fate it was just another post office out in the middle of no where.  It did have a couple of stores and a blacksmith.  Cool only lasted about six years.

 

 

 

 

 

Furley Kansas.

Sedgwick County.
Lincoln Township Map, 1905.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209421/page/5

On the county map Furley can be found in Township 25-south and range 2-east.  On the township map Furley can be found in section 16.

 

Furley Kansas was named after Doctor C. C. Furley, of Wichita, Kansas.

 

Furley Post Office.

 

Furley post office open September 20, 1887 and ran to June 30, 1953.  The first post master was William E. Hoag.

Business men who used Furley as their P. O. address as of 1905.

J. W. Anderson, Farmer, came to county 1882.
U. Z. Blaser, Farmer, came to county 1895.
D. R. Bump, Farmer, came to county 1870.
P. C. Evans, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1895.
William Kinna, Farmer, came to county 1900.

Furley Kansas, 1912.

Furley, a village of Sedgwick county, is a station on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. 15 miles northeast of Wichita. It has a money order postoffice with one rural route, telegraph and express offices, general stores and implement houses, and is the principal shipping point for a rich agricultural district in the northeastern part of the county. The population in 1910 was 52.

Urbana Kansas.

 

Neosho County

Chetopa Township, map, 1906.

http://img.kansasmemory.org/00061893.jpg

 

On the county map Urbana can be found in Township 29-south and Range 17-east.  On the township map Urbana can be found in sections 1 & 2.

 

Urbana Post Office.

 

Urbana post office open May 2, 1870 and ran to May 3, 1957.  First postmaster Reuben F. Truman.

 

 

Urbana, Kansas, 1883.

 

Urbana is a small town in the western part of Neosho County, about nine miles south of Chanute on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The town was founded by Dr. Peters and a few other settlers living in the vicinity. Up to August, 1870, it contained two stores and a few residences. At this time Samuel Crawford, D. B. & W. C. Emmert, McCullough and some others took interest in the town. The site was re-surveyed and everything made ready for its upbuilding.Circumstances however, did not favor the place, which has made but slight progress, and remains with but little increase in size over what it was in 1870.

Business men who used Urbana as their P. O. address as of 1906.

D. L. Swan, General Store.

C. C. Yockey, Farmer.

 

Urbana Kansas, 1912.

 

Urbana, a village of Neosho county, is located in Chetopa township on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas R. R., 10 miles west of Erie, the county seat. It has express and telegraph offices and a money order postoffice. The population in 1910 was 85. The town was founded by Dr. Peters, and replatted in 1870 by some parties who believed it had a great future. This little town is credited with more volunteers in the Spanish-American war than any other town of its size in the county.

Miles kansas.

Meade county.

cimarron township, map, 1909.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209448/page/33

 

On the county map Miles can be found in township 35-south and range 29-WEST.  On the township map Miles can be found in section 10.

 

Miles Post Office.

 

Miles post office open August 31, 1899 and ran to August 31, 1913.  Mary A.Busing was first postmaster, her husband Heny A. Busing would become postmaster in 1909.

 

business Men od Miles, 1909.

 

Henry A. busing, Postmaster and Farmer, and General Merchandies.

robert & Adams, Stockmen and Ranchers.

 

Miles kansas, 1912.

Miles, a country postoffice in Meade county, is located in Cimarron township and on the Cimarron river, about 22 miles south of Meade, the county seat, and 16 miles north of Beaver, Okla., the nearest shipping point. The population in 1910 was 20.

Miles kansas, 1916.

Miles was a little store and post office conducted for many years by captain and mrs. Busing on the south side of the Cimarron.

Sunflower Kansas

Mitchell County.
Bloomfield Township.

Sunflower was so little of importance that it was not shown on any maps.

Post Office.

Sunflower post office open April 27, 1898 and ran to July 31, 1901.  First postmaster was Honora M. Cook.

Sunflower Kansas, 1912.

 

Sunflower, one of the inland hamlets of Mitchell county, is located about II miles south of Beloit, the county seat, from which place it receives mail. The population in 1910 was 25.

Authors note.  If any one has information on Sunflower I would like to hear about it.

Shoo Fly City Kansas Now South Haven, Kan.

Sumner County.

South Haven township map, 1883.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224019/page/37

 

On the county map South Haven can be found in Township 34-South and Range 1-West.  On the township map South Haven can be found in sections 34 & 35.

 

Shoo Fly City Kansas 1883.

 

At an early day an effort was made to build up Shoo Fly City in South Haven township.  The Post Master General, refused however, to open the post office under that name and the town was called South Haven there after.  It grow but slowly and was not chartered as a town until after the Sumner County Rail road reached it on June 17, 1881

 

South Haven Post Office.

It's recorded that F. F. Meister was first post master.  It's also recorded that South Haven post office open October 5, 1871 and ran to ?, and that Seymour Dye, was first post master.

 

Business men who used South Haven as their P. O. address as of 1883.

 

C. H. Bell, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Iowa, came to county 1873.

 

J. H. Bateman, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Ohio, came to county 1873.

 

Jos. S. Chenoweth, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Illinois, came to county 1878.

 

John F. Clark, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Illinois, came to county 1873.

 

W. A. Clark, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Pennsylvania, came to county 1873.

 

Frank Gott, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Ohio, came to county 1972.

 

F. A. Hunt, County Commissioner and Stock Raiser, from West Virginia, came to county 1872.

 

J. W. Lockman, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Indiana, came to county 1872.

 

David D. Moss, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Tennessee, came to county 1881.

 

S. C. Noble, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Kentucky, came to county 1875.

 

John C. Peckham, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Ohio, came to county 1877.

 

C. W. Robinson, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Ohio, came to county 1873.

 

A. Shinner, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from New York, came to county 1871.

 

James Stell, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from England, came to county 1876.

 

M. L. Trout, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Ohio, came to county 1878.

 

L. D. Wilson, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Pennsylvania, came to county 1873.

 

South Haven, 1912.

South Haven, one of the incorporated towns of Sumner county, is located in South Haven township, at the junction of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Kansas Southwestern railroads, 14 miles south of Wellington, the county seat. It has a milling company, a bank, numerous retail establishments, telegraph and express offices, and an international money order postoffice with three rural routes. The town was founded in 1872, and the postoffice established that year. The first
postmaster and also the first store-keeper was F. F. Meister. The rail road reached South Haven in 1879 and the town company was formed that year.

Doster Kansas.

Sumner County.

Bluff township, map, 1883.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224019/page/58

 

On the county map Doster can be found in Township 34-South and Range 4-West.  On the township map Doster can be fount in section 13.  In 1883, Doster was in section 13, however some time between 1883 and 1902 some of the townships must have been divided up, for the township maps of 1902 and 1918, Doster is found in section 26.

 

Land owners of Bluff Township, section 13, 1883.

 

M. C. Gordon.

C. Lewis.

D. A. Brown

B. Chestnut.

Jos. Chesrnut.

William Ward.

Post Office.

Doster post office open around December 27, 1878.  Anthoney N. Wilson was appointed first post master from December 27, 1878 to May 15, 1891.  He was appointed again in 1902.

 

Doster Kansas, 1912.

 

Doster, a small village of Sumner county, is a station on the Kansas Southwestern R. R. 6 miles west of Caldwell and about 20 miles south-west of Wellington, the county seat. mail is received by rural delivery from Caldwell.

Coyville Kansas.

Wilson County.

Verdigris Township, Map, 1881.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224010/page/9

 

On the county map Coyville can be found in Township 27-South and range 13 & 14-East.  On the township map Coyville can be found in section 22.

 

Coyville Post Office.

 

Coyville post office open May 2, 1866 and ran to ?, first post master was Oscar Coy.

 

Business men who used Coyville as their P. O. address as of 1881.

 

Edward Caley, Farmer and Sol. of 9th., Ka, Cav. Co. E., from Isle Man., came to county 1870.

M. J. Caley, Farmer, from Canada, came to county 1870.

James Marr, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Scotland, came to county 1867.

O. Marr, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Ohio, came to county 1874.

Charles Gidley, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Blacksmith, from New York, came to county 1873.

Myra Gidley, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from England, came to county 1873.

Adam Teter, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Virginia, came to county 1877.

William A. Nelson, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Trader, from West Virginia, came to county 1874.

Margaret Nelson, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from West Virginia, came to county 1874.

D. B. & S. F. Ludwick, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Illinois, came to county 1869.

Mathew M. Craig, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Illinois, came to county 1862.

W. Graig, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Ohio, came to county 1862.

P. A. & J. R. Greathouse, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Illinois, came to county 1859.

Thomas R. Carlisle, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Virginia, came to county 1857.

William Bramhall, Merchant and Postmaster, from Ohio, came  to county 1870.

John V. Simpson M. D., Physician and Surgeon, from Pennsylvania, came to county 1875.

R. B. Whetmore, Physician and Surgeon, from Ohio, came to county 1866.

Thomas W. Large, Blacksmith, from Tennessee, came to county 1880.

Elisha Tinker, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Indiana, came to county 1870.

Margaret Tinker, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Indiana, came to county 1870.

Doddridge Cartwright, Attorney of Law, from --. Came to county 1870.

Thomas Sylyester, Farmer and Stock and Fruit Raiser, from Ohio, came to county 1864.

P. W. Coy, Farmer and Stock and Fruit Raiser, from New York, came to county  1872.

J. Coy, Farmer and Stock and Fruit Raiser, from Ohio, came to county 1875.

Allen Blackman, Merchant and Real Estate Dealer, from New York, came to county 1865.

John Foreman, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Indiana, came to county 1858.

M. Foreman, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Tennessee, came to county 1868.

F. F. Hickcox, Farmer, from Vermont, came to county 1871.

F. J. Hickcox, Farmer, from New H., came to county 1871.

Jno. W. Butts Farmer and Hedge Grower, from ----, Came to county 1869.

E. Butts, Farmer, from Pennsylvania, came to county 1869.

Jno. Hancock, Farmer, from England, came to county 1858.

S. Hancock, Farmer, from Missouri, came to county 1860.

Joseph Smith, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Dealer, from Ohio, came to county 1860.

 

Civil War Pensioners of Coyville 1883.

 

James Blackman, Gun shot right ankle, $6., per month, pension started December 1877.

Rachell Dewalt, Dep. Mother, $8. per month, pension started October 1874.

Nancy Lee, Widow, $8. per month, pension started May, 1879.

Robert Quinn, Inj. to left hip, $10. per month.

William A. Joy, Gun shot left leg, $2., per month pension started May, 1879.

Jno. Foreman, Gun shot to right arm, $8, per month.

James W. Ross, loss of right eye and Dis. of left eye, $6., per month.

Jonas Worten, Gun shot right leg, $6., per month.

Elisha Coy, Gun shot left arm, $4, per month, pension started May, 1881.

Jon. Jones, Gun shot Left arm $8., per month.

Shell William, Disease of throat, $6., per month.

Elisha Tinker, loss left leg, $10., per month pension started March, 1871.

Howard Pangborn, loss middle finger let hand, $2., per month.

 

J. W. SIMPSON, M. D., 1883. 

 

Was born in Somerset County, Pa., in 1839, and came to Kansas in 1875, locating in Coyville, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession, he being a graduate of the Pennsylvania Medical College. In 1874 the doctor married Miss Lena Bemis, of Chester, Pa. Dr. S. is considered one of the first physicians of Southern Kansas and enjoys a large practice.

 

Coyville Kansas, 1912.

 

Coyville, an incorporated city of Wilson county, is located on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. and on the Verdigris river, in Verdigris township, 12 miles north of Fredonia, the county seat. It  has all the main lines of business, including banking facilities. There are telegraph and express offices and a mone}^ order postoffice with
one rural route. The population in 1910 was 227.

The first store was opened at this point in 1859 by Albert Hagen, a Polish Jew, whose principal customers were Osage Indians. The first church was organized at the home of Rachel Conner by T. B. Woodward. The place was named for Oscar Coy, who, with P. P. Steele, bought out Hagen's store in 1864. In May. 1866. the post office was established with Coy as postmaster. In August of the next year R. S. Futhey located a sawmill a mile below the town, which was the first one in the county. The next year he was grinding corn and making flour in the same mill. The mill was later moved to Coyville. A bridge was erected over the Verdigris in 1873, and in 1886 the railroad was built. -

Duquoin Kansas.

Harper County.
Grant Township Map, 1902.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209388/page/6

On the county map Duquoin can be found in Township 13-South and Range 7-West.  On the township map Duquoin can be found in section 3.

 

Post Office.

 

Duquoin post office open May 3, 1883 and ran to January 17, 1975.

 

Business men who used Duquion as their P. O. address.

 

1902.

James Barnhill, Farmer, came to county 1885.
J. S. Quigg, Farmer, came to county 1881.
D. H. Russell, Farmer, came to county 1885.

1919.

R. E. Coleman, Barred Rock Poultry farm, came to county 1879.
Fred McAllister, Farmer, came to county 1882.
B. F. Meredith, Farmer, came to county 1902.
W. T. Stevens, Farmer came to county 1895.
J. R. Mulberry, Grove Farm, came to county 1884.
Lewis Wren, Cottonwood Grove Farm, Came to county 1905.

Duquoin Kansas, 1912.

Duquoin, a village of Harper county, is located in Grant township 18 miles northwest of Anthony, the county seat. It is a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., has telegraph and express offices. a money order postoffice with one rural route, general stores, two grain elevators and a flour mill. The population in 1910 was 75.

Waterville Kansas.

Marshall County.

Watervill Township, map, 1904.

http://img.kansasmemory.org/00070389.jpg

 

On the county map Waterville can be found in Township 4-South and Range 6-East.  On the township map Waterville can be found in sections 21 & 22.

 

Waterville Post Office.

Waterville post office open February 18, 1868 and ran to ?  First postmaster was George Hutt.

 

Business men of the city of Watervill and Waterville Township.

 

Push to enlarge.

 

Some businesses of Waterville.

 

Mr. and Mrs. August Frahm arrived at Waterville at the completion of the railroad and erected the first building in town, a stone hotel, called the "Bay State House," in the early spring of 1868. Mr. Frahm shipped the first carload of lumber to Waterville and the freight on it was eighty-five dollars.

Henry Agle built the "Eagle Hotel" in the fall of 1868. Other buildings erected in, or moved to. the town in 1868 were: A frame store building. erected by R. S. McCubin. of Atchison. Kansas; R. S. Newell moved his store from Marble Falls and Joseph Samuels moved a store building from Maryville. J. C. Peters built a store and dwelling combined. George
Hutt erected a small building, now standing on the corner by the town pump. Mr. Vowers. a homesteader, two miles west, supplied the people of Waterville with good water from his spring on Coon creek at five cents a pail, until the town well was bored in 1870. Mike Niggley built a one-story saloon, eighteen by twenty feet, in which he started operations with one keg of beer and one gallon of whiskey. Roy Sholes opened a hardware store and tinner's shop, where Ed Adam's barber shop now stands. He sold out in 1869 to J. Miord, who enlarged the building and stock.

In 1869 J. D. Flannery built and operated a general merchandise store. Heineke & Cowgill built a furniture store. Frank Glasser erected general merchandise store, building it himself. John Mullender and J. C. Dickey each built and operated a blacksmith shop. W. C. Johnson and William Haskel opened a lumber office. A. M. Pickett built a photograph gallery and A. Simie, a drug store: J. D. Farwell and J. Miexell, each, a hardware store; W. W. Smith and W. P. Mudgett, a law office; A. D. Willson and Mr. McKinnon, a real-estate office; John Wilson, a livery.

 

George W. Filley A citizen of Waterville.

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Massachusetts First Cavalry.

 

Enlisted at age 29, residence Dedham, Mustered in October 10, 1861, detailed in Regimental Band, November 21, 1861, Exp. November 11, 1864, in company H, was also in company F.

 

Waterville Kansas, 1912.

 

Waterville, a city of Marshall county, is located on the Little Blue river and the Missouri Pacific R. R., 16 miles southwest of Marysville. the county seat. It has telegraph and express offices, weekly newspapers, grain elevators, banking facilities, a public library, an opera house and good schools and churches. Three rural delivery mail routes
go out from the postoffice.

 

Waterville was settled in 1857 by Stearns Ostrander. He was followed the same year by Ralph Ostrander, P. Bollar, R. Brown, T. Palmer and H. Brown. The next year William Pearsoll, William Hawkinsmith, John Hughes, W. Dickinson, H. Bramer and Mrs. A. Davis located in the vicinity. A mill was built in 1858 by William Pearsoll, who operated it as a combination grist and sawmill. The original owner of the land which became the town site of Waterville was David King. It passed through the hands of G. H. Hollenberg, William Osborn and R. M. Pomeroy, the last named conveying it to the Central Branch R. R. The railroad company established the town in 1868, and several business buildings were erected. Waterville was incorporated as a village in 1870 and was made a city of the third class the next year. The population in 1910 was 704.

 

A lot more about Wasterville from 1883.

http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/marshall/marshall-co-p7.html#WATERVILLE

Clearwater, Kansas.

Sedgwick County.

Ninnecscah Township map, 1882.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224001/page/41

 

On the county Map, Clearwater can be found in Township 29-South and Range-2-West.  On the township map, Clearwater can be found in section 26.

 

Post Office History.

 

Clear Water post office open April 5, 1871 and ran to February 17, 1894.  Name changed to Clearwater, who's postoffice open February 17, 1894 and ran to ?

 

Business men who used Clearwater as their P. O. address as of 1882.

 

R. M. Gardner, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Pennsylvania, came to  county 1878.

 

S. Gardner, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from England, came to county 1878.

 

William H. Dyer, Farmer and Stock Dealer, from Tennessee, came to county 1871.

 

M. E. Dyer, Farmer, from Indiana, came to county 1874.

 

E. H. Brown, Farmer and Veterinary Surgeon, from Alabama, came to county 1870.

 

Joseph T. Hammers, Farmer and Stock Dealer, from Pennsylvania, came to county 1875.

 

J. P. Murrison, Farmer, from Pennsylvania, came to county 1872.

 

Charles K. Freeman, Farmer and Stock Dealer, from Wisconsin, came to county 1879.

 

George S. Freeman, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Illinois, came to county 1877.

 

William Ross, Farmer and Stock Raise, from Scotland, came to county 1870.

 

David Davis, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Indiana, came to county 1876.

 

Edward Murray, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Ireland, came to county 1868.

 

C. W. Wood, Farmer, from Ohio, came to county 1873.

 

Thomas S. Weston, Farmer and House Builder, from Illinois, came to county 1872.

 

A. E. Chambers, Farmer, from Indiana, came to county 1873.

 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - NINNESCAH TOWNSHIP, 1883.

http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/sedgwick/sedgwick-co-p21.html#CLEARWATER

 

Clearwater Kansas, 1912.

 

Clearwater, an incorporated town of Ninnescal: township, Sedgwick county, is situated 17 miles southwest of Wichita, near the Ninnescah river, and at the junction of the Missouri Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroads. It was first settled in 1870, was platted as a town in 1872, and in 1910 reported a population of 569. Clearwater has 2 banks, a money order postoiiice with three rural routes, express and telegraph offices, telephone connections, a weekly newspaper (the Courant), Baptist, Christian, Methodist and Presbyterian churches, good public schools, and is the principal trading and shipping point for a rich agricultural district in the Ninnescah valley.

Wea Kansas.

Miami County.

Wea Township map, 1878.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224023/page/20

 

On the county map Wea can be found in Township 15-South and Range 25-East.  On the township map Wea can be found in sections 29 & 30.

 

Wea Post Office.

 

Wea post office open May 31, 1867 and ran to November 25, 1867.  Closed then reopen August 8, 1873 and ran to October 30, 1903.  Frist postmaster was Eugene Vohs.

 

Business men who used Wea as their P. O. address as of 1878.

 

Eugene Vohs, Postmaster and Merchant, from Germany, came to county 1866.

 

P. W. Goebel, Merchant, from Germany, came to county 1877.

 

J. T. Lee, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Wyandotte county, Ohio, came to county 1869.

 

C. F. Worthington, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Washteha, Michigan, came to county 1866.

Eugene Vohs, Postmaster and Merchant.

Eugene Vohs, 1844 - 1906 Was born in Nassau, Germany, July 31, 1844, and came to Kansas in 1868, where he purchased a farm close to the Wea Catholic Church. He remained on the farm until 1876, when he bought the village store and became postmaster. In those days he had to haul the country produce to, and his merchandise from Kansas City, a distance of thirty miles. Wea was on a Star Mail Route, the mail being carried from Kansas City to Fort Scott and later from Kansas City to Louisburg.

When the Missouri Pacific Railroad was built through this part of the county a R. F. D. Route was established through Was, and the Wea Postoffice was discontinued. Mr. Vohs was married January 9, 1872, to Margaret Goebel, daughter of Peter and Anna Goebel. Mrs. Vohs has one sister and three brothers, who are now or have been residents of Miami county, Mrs. Mary Legner and J. L. Goebel of Louisburg, Kansas, and P. W. and F. S. Goebel, now of Kansas City, Kansas.

Mr. P. W. Goebel came to Wea when about fifteen years of age, and made his home with Mrs. Vohs for about four years. Mr. and Mrs. Vohs had a family of six children: Margaret (Mrs. T. E. Schwartz) of Paola Kansas, Albert P., Jasper J. and Ida (Mrs. Terrence McGuirk) of Louisburg, and William E. and Lawrence F., on the home farm with their mother. Mr. Vohs died November 24, 1906, and was buried at Wea. Mr. and Mrs. Vohs took an active interest in the welfare of the community and were ever ready to give their time and assistance to the betterment of the community in which they lived.

Wea Kansas, 1912.

Wea, is a hamlet in the extreme northeastern part of Miami county, about 5 miles east of Bucyrus, from wich place it has rural mail delivery

Ivy Kansas.

Lyon County

Waterloo Township map, 1878.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/223971/page/36

 

On the county map, Ivy can be found in Township 16-South and Range 12-East.  On the township map Ivy can be found in section 26.

 

Ivy Post Office.

 

Ivy post office open July 19, 1871 and ran to August 31, 1896.  First postmaster was Phillip J. Stoops.

 

Fates about Ivy.

 

Ivy was also known as Joy, Kansas and was in Ivy township at one time.  Names changed, Joy became Ivy and the township of Ivy became Waterloo.  History doesn't record way the name changes.

 

Business men who used Ivy as their P. O.  address as of 1878.

 

S. C. Scott, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Washington County Pennsylvania, came to county 1870.

 

Josep Ogleby, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Ireland.

 

G. W. Mosher, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Essex County New York, came to county 1870.

 

Charles E. Paine, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Rockingham county, N. H., came to county 1860.

 

Robest Best, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Muskingham County, Ohio, came to county 1856.

 

Thomas E. Best, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Muskingham County, Ohio, came to county 1867.

 

J. W. Best, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Muskingham county, Ohio, came to county 1857.

 

David Moore, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Pennsylvania, came to county 1866.

 

Siney Putman, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Erie county, New York, came to county 1857.

 

Joseph Denby, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Yorhshire, England, came to county 1872.

 

John Bramhill, Stock Raiser and Township Trustee, from Lincolshire, England, came to county 1857.

 

A. P. Burns, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Hillsboro county, N. H., came to county 1857.

 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, OF THOSE USING IVY AS THEIR P.O. ADDRESS, AS OF 1883. 

 

 

JOSEPH W. BEST. farmer, Section 34, Township 16, Range 12, P. O. Ivy, was born March 22, 1835, at Zanesville, Ohio. When about ten years of age he removed with his parents to Morgan County, Ind., where he remained during his minority. In August, 1856, he removed to Bad Axe County, Wis., where he remained one winter, then, in the spring of 1857, came to Kansas, locating on Hill Creek, in Waterloo Township, pre-empting 160 acres of land, which he has ever since resided upon. His farm is improved by the erection of dwelling-house and the necessary farm buildings, has an orchard of about 600 apple and 300 peach trees, besides smaller fruits. His principal crop is corn. Mr. B. was enrolled in the State militia during the war, and was called into service at the time of the Price raid and during several Indian raids and alarms. He was also with Kansas troops in Missouri for some time as an independent Unionist without pay. He has been a member of the School Board three years, and has held other local offices. He is a member of Ivy Grange, P. of H. He married Mrs. Lydia Ward of Cincinnati, Ohio, April 7, 1858, By which marriage he has had ten children, of whom Sarah J., William H., Charles V., Belle M., Susan E., Arminta E., Lloyd E. and George A. are living.

RICHARD H. BEST, farmer, Section 20, Township 16, Range 12, P. O. Ivy, was born at Zanesville, Ohio, in October, 1830. While he was yet an infant, his parents removed to Springfield, Ohio, where they resided until 1847, then removed to Morgan County, Ind. Here the subject of our sketch remained until 1854, when he removed to Decatur County, Iowa, where he resided, engaged in farming for about three years. In July, 1857, he came to Kansas, locating on Hill Creek, in Waterloo Township. He pre-empted 160 acres of land which he at once began to improve, and which he continued to farm until August, 1862 when he enlisted as a Corporal in Company C, Eleventh Regiment Kansas Volunteers. He participated in the battles of Old Fort Wayne and Cane Hill, in the latter receiving a severe wound in the head by a minie-ball, which he still carries in his head, surgeons never having been able to extract or definitely locate it. This wound disabled him from further service, and after remaining about five months in hospital he was discharged. He then returned home and resumed the operation of his farm. He has since made additional purchases, so that his farm land now amounts to 500 acres, divided into two farms one of which he personally operates, renting the other. Both farms are valuable land, being largely bottom land, each having timber and running water upon it. He is largely engaged in stock raising, and feeds most of his crops to his own stock. Mr. Best has held several offices in the township. His a member of Ivy Grange, P. of H. He married Miss Dicie Hopkins, of Morgan County, Ind., in March, 1852. She died in October, 1868, leaving five children, of whom James K., George W., Robert H. and Dicie M. are now living. August 14, 1977, he married Miss Julia A. Monti, of Emporia, by whom he has two children - Willie A. and Emma.

ROBERT BEST, farmer, Section 33, Township 16, Range 12, P. O. Ivy, was born August 19, 1814. at Zainesville, Ohio, where his youth was spent. His father was a distiller, and he followed the distilling business most of the time until he came to Kansas. He removed to Mason County, Ky., in 1832, and remained there sixteen years. In 1848 he began farming, in Shelby County, Ohio, continuing until he came to this State. He was one of the earliest settlers of Breckinridge (now Lyon) County, coming here in April, 1856, when he took a claim of 160 acres, situated on Hill Creek, in Waterloo Township. He has ever since remained upon his homestead, and is now the oldest settler living in Waterloo Township. He has since purchased eighty acres adjoining the home farm and eighty acres between Dow and Duck creeks, in Fremont Township. He has made valuable improvements upon the home farm. Has about 130 acres under cultivation, and an orchard containing about 200 apple and 3,000 peach trees, besides other fruits. He raises cattle and hogs, feeding all his own crops, and buying more for his stock. Mr. Best is a member of the Emporia Commandery, No. 13. K. T. He held the office of Justice of the Peace of Waterloo Township four years, and has held other local offices. He has been married three times. By his first wife, Miss Dorathy Smith, of Clarke County, Ohio, whom he married June 9, 1939, he had one child - Samuel A. who was a member of the Fifty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, and was killed in Virginia. This wife died February 7, 1841. He married Miss Margaret Leighton, of Clarke County, Ohio, in April, 1844. She died January 6, 1851, without issue. He married Miss Isabella V. Radabaugh, of Logan County, Ohio, April 27, 1852. Uncle Robert, as he is called, has led an active life, and has met with some exciting and interesting experiences. While on his return home from a trip to Kansas City, then the nearest trading point to the settlers in this county, the 4th day of June, 1856, at the time John Brown was engaged in his Black Jack battle, Mr. Best was taken prisoner by a band of border ruffians, known as the Buford Men, at Bowl Creek, in Johnson County. He was held five days and robbed of $350 in cash. His companion was not held so long, but lost his ox team and wagon, with its contents.

JOHN BRAMHILL, farmer, Section 2, Township 17, Range 12, P. O. Ivy, was born July 21, 1828, at Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, where he was brought up on a farm. He came to the United States in 1834, locating in Dane County, Wis., where he remained until he came to Kansas in the spring of 1857. He took a claim of 160 acres of land, situated on One Hundred and Forty-second Creek, which claim he sold in 1860. During the war he was enrolled in the militia and was called into service at the time of the Price raid, and on several other occasions. He farmed rented land, until 1866, when he bought eighty acres of partly improved land, situated on One Hundred and Forty-second and Hill creeks, in Waterloo Township. He has since purchased additional lands, and now has in his home farm 187 acres, and 160 acres one-half mile southwest of and forty acres one-fourth of mile north of the home farm. He has about eighty acres under cultivation, forty acres of timber land, and uses the remainder for hay and grazing. He raises cattle and hogs, feeding most of his crops to his own stock. He has made valuable improvements upon the home farm. Has an orchard of about 300 apple trees besides other fruits. Mr. Bramhill is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, also a member of Ivy Grange, P. of H. He married Mrs. Elizabeth Courtney, of Waterloo Township, September 20, 1830. She has two children by her former marriage - Anna A., and Thomas S. By this marriage Mr. Bramhill has had four children, of whom George L., William A., and Frances M., are living.

TRUMAN E. GILBERT, farmer and stock dealer, Section 35, Township 16, Range 12, P. O. Ivy, was born in Washington County, Ohio, December 20, 1837. Twelve years later he removed with his parents to Jefferson County, Ill., but after a residence there of one year removed to Appanoose County, Iowa. Here he remained upon a farm until August, 1862, when he enlisted as a Sergeant in Company I, Thirty-sixth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He was assigned to the army operating on the Mississippi River, and participated in the battles of Helena, Little Rock and Marks Mills, besides many lighter engagements and skirmishes. He was mustered out of service in September, 1865, and returned to Appanoose County, where he remained until he came to Kansas, in the spring of 1867. He located in Lyon County, and bought a farm of 100 acres situated on One Hundred and Forty-second Creek. This place he sold In 1878, and the following year he bought the farm now owns, containing 320 acres, situated on One Hundred and Forty-second Creek, in Waterloo Township. He has made valuable improvements on the farm, including a large and fine dwelling, good barn and other buildings. He has 175 acres under cultivation, sixty acres of timber land and uses the remainder for hay and grazing. His principal crop is corn. He raises cattle and hogs, and feeds many more, using all his own crops and buys additional. He married Miss Laura Moore, of Appanoose County, Iowa. December 5, 1858. She died August 16, 1880, after bearing him ten children, of whom Isabella, Elmer E., Elva L. and Emma are living. He married Miss Elizabeth W. Kirkpatrick, of Emporia, August 18, 1881, by whom he has one child - Jessie M.

LEMUEL W. HUTCHASON, farmer, Section 35, Township 16, Range 13, P. O. Ivy, - known as Well Hutchason the Infidel - was born September 27, 1824, in Clinton County, N. Y., and raised upon a farm in Niagara County, N. Y. His father died before he was ten years old, in 1833, leaving a family of six children of whom he was the oldest, and upon him and his next oldest brother devolved the maintenance of the family. His principal vocation was farming. In 1849, he bought 160 acres of land in Grundy County, Ill., and the following year, began farming for himself. He sold this farm in 1856, and in January, 1857, came to Kansas. Located in Waterloo Township and pre-empted 160 acres of land situated on One Hundred and Forty-second creek, which he began at once to improve and has ever since cultivated. He has since bought five acres of timber land. He has made valuable improvements upon his farm, including a commodious frame dwelling completed in the spring of 1883. He has about 100 acres under cultivation; principal crop is corn. He raises cattle, horses and hogs, feeding all his crop to his own stock. He married Miss Minnie G. Chandler, of Chicago, Ill., April 13, 1856. She died March 4, 1883, leaving six children - Mary, Ettie, Franz, Zilpha, Lila and Meda. Mr. Hutchason has given to his children a good education, sending some to the State Normal School and some to the State University.

Lost Springs Kansas.

Marion County.

Clesr Creek, Township Map, 1885.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224032/page/9

 

On the county map. Lost Springs can be found in Township 17-South and Range 4-East.  On the township map, Lost Springs can be found in section 21.

 

Lost Springs Post Office.

 

Open July 9, 1879 and ran to ?

 

Business men who used Lost Springs as their P. O. address as of 1885.

 

M. F. Ehms, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Arkansas, came to county September, 1884.

 

S. D. Hyson, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Hopkins county, New York, came to county April, 1884.

 

B. Hunsparger, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Waterloo, Canada, came to county April 1880.

 

A. M. Nettroner, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Elkhart county Indiana, came to county March, 1884.

 

Albert Peck, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Mason county, Illinois, came to county June, 1879.

 

M. F. Shupe, Farmer, Merchant and Land Agn't., from Canada, came to county April, 1879.

 

W. J. Weaver, Farmer and Stock Raiser, Pennsylvania, came to county December, 1876. 

 

Fates About Lost Springs.

 

The first settlers in the county located on Doyle creek, near the present town of Florence. They were Moses Shane, who came in 1858, and whose death the next year was the first in the county; Patrick Doyle, in 1859, for whom Doyle creek and township were named, and a family by the name of Welsh, in which occurred the first birth in the county in Aug., 1859. In the spring of 1859 a trading post was established at Lost Springs on the Santa Fe trail and in the autumn of the same year Moore Bros. established a ranch near the present town of Durham. The first postoffice was established at this place with A. A. Moore as postmaster. Later in the same year a postoffice was established at Lost Springs with J. H. Costello as postmaster. Previous to this the nearest postoffice was Emporia. Thomas J. Wise settled on Clear creek and John Brenot on Brenot creek in 1859. The next year William H. Billings, George Griffith and William Shreve located where the city of Marion now stands. The population of the county in that year was 74.

 

Lost Springs Kansas. 1912.

 

Lost Springs, one of the historic points in Marion county, is an incorporated town located in Lost Springs township, on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroads i8 miles north of Marion, the county seat. It has a bank, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postofifice with two rural routes. All the regular lines of business activity are represented, and one of the largest mills in this section of Kansas is located here. There is a hotel and livery stable for the accommodation of travelers. According to the census of 1910 there were 276 inhabitants.

 

The springs for which the town was named, a noted camping place on the Santa Fe trail, are about 2 miles west of the depot. Many explanations have been given as to why they were called Lost Springs, none of which are authentic enough to bear repetition. These springs were known to the earliest travelers on the trail, and this was a camping point. The first historical mention of this place was by Josiah Gregg in his work, "Commerce of the Prairies," written in 1845. I" his table of distances he places it 175 miles west of Independence, and 15 miles west of Diamond Springs, the previous stopping place. A trading post was established there in 1859 by J. H. Costello and a partner, Joshua Smith, who six months afterward sold out to Costello. Some lime during the Civil war a detachment of soldiers was ordered up from Mississippi to guard the Santa Fe trail, and Corporal Fred Sucksdorf, with a few men, was stationed at Lost Springs. In 1908 a large granite boulder was set up to mark the trail at Lost Springs. The usual inscription was cut on the stone and a fitting ceremonry attended the occasion. In 1904 the town of Lost Springs was incorporated as a city of the third class.

Dragoon P. O., Osage County, Kansas.

Osage County.

Fairfax Township Map, 1879.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224042/page/28

 

On the county map Dragoon P. O., can be found in Township 16-South and Range 16-East.  on the Township map Dragoon P. O., can be found in section 8.

 

Dragoon Post Office.

 

Post office open June 5, 1873 and ran to December 31, 1900.  Silas J. Watson was postmaster from 1873-1900.

 

There were only two business men that were listed in using Dragoon's P.O., they were:

 

In 1879, William Gregory, Farmed and Stock Raiser, from Greene County, Pennsylvania, came to county 1870

 

In 1899, William Wischropp, Farmer, no  place given on were he was from nor when he came to the county.

The Nameing Of DRAGOON.. . 

Located in Fairfax Township, seven and one half miles from Lyndon, ten miles from Carbondale on Dragoon Creek.  First Post Master: Silas J. Watson, June 5, 1873-December 31, 1900.  It was in Shawnee County until 1860.  A U.S. solder, a dragoon, died on the west bank of the creek.  It was named by Lieutenant Fields, who brought a company of Dragoon soldiers and wagon train, in 1852 through from Fort Leavenworth in route to New Mexico.

 

Sheriff H. B. Lowe, Lyon County.

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H. B. Lowe was county sheriff in 1878, was a nativity of Greene county Pennsylvania and was also the Propr. of the central Livery Stables in Emporia, Kansas, came to the county in 1857.  The 1875 census shows his wife was Sarah, and a son William.  If any one has information on him I would like to hear about it, so I can post it here.  My address can be found in my profile.

 

Strawn Kansas.

Coffey County.

Pleasant township map, 1878.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/223986/page/33

 

On the county map Strawn can be found in Township 20-South and Range 14-East.  On the township map Strawn can be found in section 33.

 

Post Office History.

 

Strawn has had three other names Strawnsburgh and Sidney and New Strawn.  History does not record why the town changed  it name so many times.  It is known that Strawnsburgh was shorten to Strawn.  Because of the building of the John Redmond Dam, Strawn was relocated six miles to the east to higher ground.  The town was renamed New Strawn. 

 

Strawnsburgh, post office open March 10, 1870 and ran to July 22, 1870.  Name changed to Sidney,  whos post office open July 22, 1870 and ran to September 21, 1871, name changed to Strawn whos post office open September 21, 1871 and ran to January 18, 1963.  George S. Wilcox was the first postmaster.

 

Busines men who used Strawn as their post office address as of 1878.

 

Enos Strawn, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Perry county, Ohio, came to county 1855.

 

James Smith, Faarmer and Blacksmith, from Washington county, Virginia, came to county 1870.

 

D. L. Wingard, Merchant and Noryary Poblie, from Lexington county, Dist. S. P., came to county 1872.

 

Artur Veach, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Minister, from Harrison county, west Virginia, came to county 1857.

 

George Hamman, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Pike county, Ohio, came to county 1870.

 

T. L. Horrell, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Dealer, from Madson county, Ohio, came to county 1857.

 

C. S. Perkins, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Feeder, from Hartford county, Conn., came to county 1871.

 

James Jacobs, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Dealer, from Allen county, Ohio, came to county 1855.

 

J. F. King, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Boone county, Indiana, came to county 1871.

 

Sindney Updegraft, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Allen county, Indiana, came to county 1866.

 

Samuel Hodges, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Township Trustee from Herkimer, New York, came to county 1872.

 

P. Sowders, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Dealer, from Dearborn county, Indiana, came to county 1871.

 

Alfed Jones, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Dealer, from Randolph county, N. C., came to county 1859.

 

L. C. Knight, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Township Trustee, from Sangamon county. Illinois, came to county 1862.

 

George L. Hoover, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Justice of the piece, from Boone county, Indiana, came to the county 1858.

 

Strawn Kansas, 1883.

 

This town is situated in Pleasant Township, on the south bank of the Neosho River, and is a point on the Neosho division of the Missouri Pacific Railway. The town site was surveyed in 1871. The first settlers were Enos Strawn, Hiram Hoover, J. Chesnut, J. Jacobs, W. Jacobs, T. L. Harrell and E. Benedict. It contains two stores (a dry goods and grocery by Mr. Wingard, and a grocery by Mr. Fletcher), a shoe shop by Mr. Prather, one blacksmith shop, a hotel kept by R. Smith, and the postoffice by F. Newkirk. On the west side of the town, on an eminence overlooking the country, stands a fine large frame schoolhouse, 26x40, with a bell. An iron bridge costing $15,000 spans the river, near town. Valuable limestone and sandstone quarries are on the town site. Population about one hundred and fifty.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - PLEASANT TOWNSHIP-STRAWN, 1883.

 

DR. WILLIAM A. DUMBAULD, P. O. Strawn, was born in Perry County, Ohio, in 1846, and lived there thirty-one years, and came to Kansas in 1879, and located in Coffey County, and engaged in the practice of medicine in Strawn. He was educated in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery and graduated from that institution in the class of 1874, and has been engaged in the practice of his profession since in Ohio and Kansas. He was married in Licking County, Ohio, in 1867, to Miss Jennie Walker, a native of Ohio. They have three children -- Lida, Della and Bun. Dr. Dumbauld is a member of the Masonic Order and the I. O. O. F., and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He studied medicine with Dr. B. Coleman, of Homer, Ohio, for three years.

F. M. NEWKIRK, railroad agent, Strawn, was born in Kentucky in 1842, and in 1872 came to Kansas, and went into business as a merchant at Strawn until 1875. In 1873 he was appointed station agent of the M. K. &T. R. R., and is engaged in handling grain. He was married in Kentucky in 1870 to Miss Lillie A. Wingard. They have four children -- Arthur, Samuel, Minnie, and Mary. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

JAMES JACOBS, farmer, P. O. Strawn, was born in Allen County, Ohio, in 1833; lived there twenty-two years, and came to Kansas in 1855, and located in Coffey County, Le Roy Township, and moved to where he now lives, in Pleasant Township in 1857. Has been engaged in farming and stock-raising, and is a large dealer and shipper of livestock. Mr. Jacobs was married in Allen County, Kan., in 1863, to Miss Nancy S. Hall, a native of Georgia. They have four children -- Mary Lizzie, Anna May, Charlie Clinton, and Florence Alta. Mr. Jacobs has been Township Treasurer, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of the G. A. R. He enlisted in 1862 in Company F, Twelfth Kansas Volunteer Infantry and served three years.

JAMES M. PIERATT, farmer, section 36, P. O. Strawn, was born in Kentucky in 1844, and lived there ten years. He came to Kansas in 1854, and located in Douglas County, and lived there until 1867, when he came to Coffey County and located on a farm in Pleasant Township. He was married in Douglas County, Kan., in 1864, to Miss Margaret J. Kennedy, a native of Ohio. They have four children -- Marian R., William I., James M., and Martha. His wife died September 29, 1882, aged thirty-five years, two months and twenty-five days. Mr. Pieratt is a large farmer and stock-raiser, and is engaged in shipping cattle.

CONLEY F. SMITH, merchant, Strawn, was born in Virginia in 1852, and lived there sixteen years. In 1869 he came to Kansas and located at Strawn, and engaged in farming. In the spring of 1882 he engaged in merchandising. He was married in Strawn in 1876 to Miss Susie A. Daylong, a native of Indiana. They have one child -- Eliza E. Mr. Smith's father, Emanuel Smith, was born in Virginia in 1818, and lived in his native State about fifty years, and came to Kansas and located at Strawn, Coffey County. He was married in Virginia in 1838, to Miss Eliza Mann, a native of Virginia. They have eleven children -- Lydia, Catharine, Emeline, William, Caroline, James, Conley, Archimadis, Thomas, L. H., and Eliza. Mr Smith is Postmaster at Strawn.

ENOS STRAWN, farmer, Section 33, P. O. Strawn, was born in Perry County, Ohio, in 1812, and lived there twenty-five years; then moved to Delaware County, Ind., and remained there until 1855, when he came to Coffey County, Kan., and located in Pleasant Township, where he is now engaged in farming and stock- raising. He was first married in Delaware County, Ind., to Miss Mehethelan Dodd. They had six children -- Rebecca, James, Joshua, Martha, Phineas and Jane. Mr. Strawn was married to his second wife in 1860, Miss Sarah Farrell, of Trumbull County, Ohio. They have two children -- Kate and Sarah. Mr. Strawn has been Probate Judge of Coffey County one term, and one of the commissioners appointed to locate the county seat. He has been a Justice of the Peace for forty-one years.

N. S. WILKINSON, merchant, Strawn, was born in Indiana, in 1843, and lived there until 1865. He then came to Kansas, and located in Coffey County, where he has been engaged in farming and stock-raising, and is now a merchant. He was married in Coffey County, in 1868, to Miss Adelia Price, of Indiana. They have five children -- Ada, Clara, Anna, Nathan and Charles. He is a member of the Baptist Church.

D. L. WINGARD, merchants born in South Carolina, in 1825, and lived there twenty-five years, when he moved to Georgia, and lived there fourteen years. He moved to Indiana in 1864, and to Kentucky in 1867, and came to Kansas in 1872, locating at Strawn, Coffey County, as a merchant. He was married in South Carolina in 1848. He lost his first wife, and was again married in Georgia, in 1852, to Miss Lorena Shaw. They have three children -- Lillie E., Sallie E., and Eda L. He was again married in 1868, in Kentucky, to Miss Maggie A. Newkirk. They have four children -- Gracie, Frankie L., Lennie E., Agnes S. Mr. Wingard has been a Notary for five years, and agent of Adams Express Company, and is a member of the Christian Church.

1883 Pensioners of the Civil War whos P. O. address is Strawn.

George Amy, Dis. Feet and legs Resit, frostbite, dis of eyes, $8., per month, pension started April 1882.

Isaac Leabo, Gun shot right leg, $4., per month.

George Stumpf, Inj. to spinal cord, causing locomotor ataxia, $8., per month, pension started March 1880.

Andrew Monroe, Dis of heart$6., per month, pension started November 1882.

Farleigh Mauck, Gun shot of Abd., $6., per month, pension started November 1881.

Business men who used Strawn as their P. O. address as of 1901.

 

O. F. Bowman, Farmer and Breeder Standard Bred Horses.

Albert Cummins, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

Z. T. Granf, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

Jacob Hamman, Farmer and stock Raiser.

W. H. Keith, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

W. M. Wilcox, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

 

Strawn Kansas, 1912.

 

Strawn, one of the larger villages of Coffey county, is located in California township on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas R. R. and the Neosho river, 12 miles northwest of Burlington. It has good schools and churches, various mercantile interests, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The town was laid out in 1871, and the population in 1910 was 200.

 

Business men who used Strawn as their P. O. address as of 1919.

 

W. H. A. Bowman, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1868.

T. L. Horrell, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1874.

S. A. Hutchinson, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1865.

P. J. Long, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1913.

O. L. Porter, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1905.

T. W. Strawn, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1860.

W. E. Strawn, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1884.

Redfield Kansas.

Bourbon County.

Marmaton Township Map, 1878.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/223977/page/35

 

On the county map Redfield can be found in township 25-South and Range 23-East.  On the township map Redfield can be found in section 22.

 

Redfield post office.

 

Redfield post office open in May 22, 1872, and ran to ? First postmaster was John Hopkins.

 

Two business men of Marmaton township who used Redfield as their P. O. address as of 1878.

 

B. R. Wood, Ex-county Com., and Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Harrison County, West Virginia, came to county 1859.

 

John P. Quick, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Juniata County Pennsylvania, came to county 1868.

 

CITY OF REDFIELD: BUSINESS PROFILES
Redfield Herald
April 8 1905. 

http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/bourbon/biography/R170_RedfieldBusiness.html#BLACKSMITH

 

1883, pensioners from Redfield.

 

John M. Morgan, Injury to abdomen, $8., per month, pension started 1880.

Marshal Smilie, Gun shot to left side, $12., pen month.

William T. Ramsey, Gun shot to right arm, $8., per month.

 

 

Redfield Kansas, 1912.

 

Redfield, a money order post-village of Bourbon county, is situated on the Missouri Pacific R. R., 9 miles west of Fort Scott, the county seat. It is the supply and shipping point for a considerable district, has several general stores, express and telegraph offices and in 1910 had a population of 225.

 

Authors note.  In 1872 the town of Redfield was a mile noth from where it now sats, it was moved in 1884, the site of today.

Bonita

Bonita Kansas, 1883.

 

Bonita is a small town situated about five miles south of Olathe on the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad. The village was first named Alta by the Railroad company on account of it being at the highest spot on their road; but there being another postoffice in the State by that name, the name of this town was changed to Bonita, Spanish for beautiful. The name is very appropriate, because of the beauty of the surrounding rolling prairie.

 

The first settlement was made there by Frank Temple and William Jobi, October 17, 1879. The postoffice was established in December, 1879, F. Gilbert being appointed first Postmaster. Mr. Gilbert also opened a store in the same month on the north side of Main street. The first birth was that of John Temple, December 1, 1881, and the first death that of Miss Annie McElheny, July 17, 1880.

 

Johnson County.

Spring Hill Township Map, 1902.

 

On the county map Bonita can be found in Township 14 & 15-South and Range 23 & 24-East.   On the township map Bonita can be found in section 25.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209390/page/15

 

Three Business men who used Bonita as their P. O. address as of 1902.

 

Price K. Hendrix, General Merchandies, Coal and Grain, came to county 1872.

 

John McKaig, Farmer and Stock Raiser came to county 1857.

 

Liewellyn Siess, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1865.

 

Bonita Post Office.

 

Bonita post office open February 12, 1880 and ran to June 14, 1890.  Closed and then reopen on November 26, 1890 and ran to September 15, 1934.  First Postmaster was F. Gilbert.

 

Bonita Kansas, 1912.

 

Bonita, a village of Johnson count}', is located in the southern part of the St. Louis & San Francisco R. R. about 5 miles south of Olathe, the county seat. It was settled first in 1879, a postoffice was established in the fall of that year, and the first store was opened about that time. The town was first called Alta as it was the highest point on the railroad, but as there was another postoffice by that name in the state it was changed to Bonita. At the present time it has a money order postoffice, telegraph and express facilities and in 1910 had a population of 35.

 

Bonita Kansas, 1915.

 

Bonita, Kan., a small town, five miles south of Olathe, on the Frisco railroad. It was at first named Alta, on account of its being the highest point along the road. There being another postoffice in the State with the same name, it was changed to Bonita, the Spanish word meaning, "beautiful." The name is very appropriate, as the surrounding country is one of the prettiest scenes to be found on the prairies of eastern Kansas. Each year the farms grow fine yields of corn and wheat. J. J. Kuhlman has a general store and elevator there and does a large business in shipping grain. This country is one of the best grain growing districts along the Frisco.

Pekin Kansas.

Reno County.

Enterprise Township Map. 1902.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209395/page/22

 

On the county map Pekin can be found in Township 23-East and Range 8-West.  On the township map Pekin can be found in section 17.

 

Pekin Post office.

 

Pekin post office open August 21, 1897 and is still open?  Christian H. Wagler, was postmaster from 1897 to 1905. He also owned the land the post office sat on.

 

Business men of Enterprise township who used Pekin as their P. O. address as of 1902.

 

Anna baughman, Farmer.

W. D. Blauchfield, Propr.. Orchard Grove Stock Farm.

Val Farney, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

Noah Guth, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

Peter Guth, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

B. E. Kattfman, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

J. F. Rounds, Farmer and Cotractor and Builder.

J. Schrock, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

C. H. Wagler, Farmer and Propr. of Pekin Store and Creamery.

 

Pekin Kansas, 1912.

Pekin, an inland hamlet of Reno county, is located 15 miles west of Hutchinson, the county seat, and 5 miles north of Abbyville, on the "cut of?" of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., which is the near- est railroad station and shipping point and is the postofifice from which its mail is distributed by rural delivery. The population according to the census of 1910 was 40.

Bazaar Kansas

Chase County.
Bazaar Township, Map, 1901.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209375/page/20

On the county map, Bazaar can be found in Township 20-South and Range 8-East.  On the Township map Bazaar can be be found in section 33.

 

The town of Bazaar and its Post Office.

 

Mary Leonard wife of George M. L. Leonard is given Credit for nameing the town.  She had a Bazaar shop in a town in Pennssylvania, and thought it would make a good name for the town.  Mr. Leonard would later name the town Mary in honor of his wife, who died year earlier, in later years the was renamed back to Bazaar.  George M. L .Leonard, was first postmaster, and his wife Mary was the first to died in the Township.

 

Bazaar post office open April 16, 1860 and ran to March 17, 1876, closed and reopen May 4, 1876 and ran to July 20, 1876, name changed to Mary.  Closed and reopen March 19, 1878 and ran to April 28, 1974, name changed back to Bazaar.

 

Business men of Bazaar township who used Bazaar as their P. O. address as of 1901.

 

S. H. Baker, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

M. Burnside, Farmer and Stcck Raiser.

F. S. Davis, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Carpenter.

B. A. Grover, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

J. Madden, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

B. Makin, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

P. B. McCabe, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

Thomas H. McCabe, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

N. W. Russell, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

Jay Sharp, Farmer and Stock Eaiser.

Arthur Wilson, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

 

Bazaar Kansas, 1912..

Bazaar, a village of Chase county, is the southern terminus of a branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. that runs to Strong City. It is 10 miles south of Cottonwood Falls, the county seat, has a money order postoffice, express and telegraph offices, some retail stores, and in 1910 reported a population of 75.

Blue skyways.

http://skyways.lib.ks.us/

 

By takeing this link you can find some interesting things about Bazaar Kansas.

 

Bazaar, Kansas.

http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/chase/chase-co-p8.html#BAZAAR_TOWNSHIP

 

By takeing this link you read about some of the interesting people of Bazaar.

Sego Kansas.

Reno County Kansas.

Loda Township Map, 1902.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209395/page/59

 

On the county map Sego can be found in Township 26-South and Range 8-West.  On the Township map Sego can be found in section 14.

 

Sego Post Office.

 

Sego post office open October 12, 1874 and ran to January 14, 1905. James F. Stevens was first Postmaster.

 

Business men of Loda township who used Sego as their P. O. address as of 1902.

 

W. S. Cole, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

C. S. Long, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

Frank Long, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

D. H. Sickmon, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

Robert Vest, Propr. of Creameryand Real Estate.

E. R. Watkins, Farmer and Stock Raiser.  Dealer General Merchandies and State Representative.

W. N. Yaple, Farmer and Stock Raiser.

 

Sego Kansas, 1912.

Sego, an inland hamlet of Reno county, is located 18 miles southwest of Hutchinson, the county seat, and 7 miles from Arlington on the Missouri Pacific, the nearest railroad station and shipping point, and the postoffice from which mail is distributed by rural route. The population in 1910 was 16.

Sego Cemetery, Loda Township
Pretty Prairie, Reno County, Kansas

http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/reno/cemeteries/segocem.htm