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 on April 23, 1880, and ran to ?. First postmaster was L. Monniger.  Second postmaster was A. L. Hannford, 1885.

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

 

Peter Arnbrecht, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Russia, came to county June of 1875.

 

A. Ehriech, Grain, Groceries, Hardware and Agr. Imp., from Russia, came to county August of 1876.

 

C. C. Frank, Farmer, from Russia, came to county 1874.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.