Lehigh Kansas.

Marion County.

Lehigh Township Map, 1885

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224032/page/15

 

On the county map Lehigh can be found in Township 19-South and Range 1-East.  On the Township map Lehigh can be found in section 27.

 

Lehigh Post Office.

 

Lehigh post office open April 23, 1888 and ran to ?

 

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

 

Peter Arnbrecht, Farmer ans Stock Raiser, from Russia, came to the county June, 1875.

 

A. Ehrlech, Grain, Groceries and Hardware, from Russia, came to county August, 1876.

 

C. C. Funk, Farmer, from Russia, came to county July 31, 1875.

 

Henry Hiebert, Prop. Lehigh Livery Stable, from Russia, came to county October, 1883.

 

A. L. Hannaford, Postmaster and Clerk in Bank, from Butler County Ohio, came to county October, 1876.

 

Cornelius Wedd, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Russia, came to county September, 1874.

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

P. P. Janke, Trustee of Elhigh Township, came to connty 1884.

B. M. Pauls, Lehigh Lumber company and Mayor, came to county 1888.

J. D. Schmidt, Lehigh Township Trustee.

State Bank of Lehigh, E. R. Borkholder President, S. L. Armstrong, Visce, President, A. B. Hirschier Cashier, and J. S. Hirschier, Asst. Cashier.

Lehigh Kansas, 1912.

 

Lehigh, one of the incorporated town of Marion county, is located in Lehigh township on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. 16 miles west of Marion, the county seat. It is the trading point for a large and wealthy agricultural and stock raising district. It has a bank and a newspaper printed in German called "Das Echo." All lines of mercantile enterprises are represented. There are telegraph and express ofiEces and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The town was incorporated in 1901. The population in 1910, according to the government census, was 385. Lehigh was platted in 1881 by Alden Speare of Boston. L. Monniger was the first merchant and postmaster