History of Nemaha County, Kansas +bonus

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History of
Nemaha County, Kansas
By Ralph Tennal 1916
966 pages, Searchable
- Bonus Book -
Nemaha County
By John H. Dundas, 1902
220 pages, Searchable
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Bonus Book -
History and Government
Of Kansas
By E. H. Butler, 1894
174 pages, Searchable
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CHAPTER I. GEOLOGY AND THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD.
Scientific Terms — "Pliocene" — Evidence of Coal and Oil — Brick
Clay — Cretaceous Niobrara Formation — Fossils — Loess Soil —
Elements of Soil — Plant and Animal Life — Evolution — Car-
boniferous Age — Rock Formations — Upheavals — Glacial-
Theory Pages 33-37
CHAPTER II. EARLY TIMES.
Significance of Name — Nemaha County Visited by Coronado in
1541 — Coronado's Report — Fremont's Expedition in 1841 —
Mormons — "Forty-Niners" — Freighters — H. H. Lynn — Jo-
seph Griffin — Edward Avery — ^Travelers' Graves — Majors
and Russell — Old Trails — Stage Lines — Overland Traffic — .
Early Day Prices — Fares — Route from Atchison .... Pages 38-44
CHAPTER III FIRST SETTLEMENTS.
At Baker's Ford — Early Settlers — Settlers Hold Meeting — First
Bridge — Other Families Come — Election Held — -Boundaries
Defined — First Townships Settled — Samuel Magill — David
Locknane — First Negro Settler — Settlement in Rock Creek
— Other Townships Formed — Neuchatel — Home Township —
Seneca, the County Seat — Ferry — Election District — First
White Child Born in Seneca — Early Day Postmasters . . Pages 45-50
CHAPTER IV. FOUNDING OF TOWNS.
Original Townships — Present Townships — Original Towns — Free
State Towns — Present Towns and Villages — Central City, the
First Town — First Mill — First School — Richmond Incorpor-
ated — Temporary County Seat^Ash Point — Urbana — Pa-
cific City — Granada — A. B. Ellit — Capioma — County Seat
Election — Seneca Won — Court House Burned Pages 51-55
CHAPTER V. FIRST EVENTS AND INSTITUTIONS.
First White Child — First Marriage — First Bridge — First Teacher
— First Piano — Indians Perplexed — The Whittenhall Fam-
ily — First County Commissioners — First Census — Dr. String-
fellow and Jim Lane — Judicial District — Judge Horton, First
Judge — Election — Political Meeting — An Emigrant Band —
Mormons — First Store at Fidelity — The Wempe Family ....
Pages 56-62
CHAPTER VI. INDIAN HISTORY.
Traditions of Great Dakotahs — Treaty of 1806 — Believed in a
"Great Spirit" — Treaty With the Government — Ceded Lands,
— Pottawatomies — Aunt Lizza Roubidoux Barrada — Pawnee
Burial Ground — Characteristics — Vanished Race — Treasure
Relic — An Indian Tragedy — No Resident Indians — a Mod-
ern Incident — An Indian Burial — Modern Conditions — Res-
ervations — Soldiers Pensioned Pages 63-69
CHAPTER VII. TRANSPORTATION .
Early Day Methods — The Ox Team — Early Trails — Advancement
Slow— Railroad "Talk"— Bonds Voted — St. Joseph and Den-
ver — St. Joseph and Grand Island — Rock Island — Missouri
Pacific Branches — How the Railroads Affected Towns —
"Railroads on Paper" — Automobiles — St. Joseph and Grand
Island the Pioneer Railroad — ^A Trading Post — Freighting —
Ferry on the Big Blue — Government Lays Out a Military
Road — California Emigration — Stage Lines — -Marysville, Pal-
metto and Roseport Railroad-^Other Railroal Companies . . .
Pages 70-78
CHAPTER VIII. SENECA, THE COUNTY SEAT.
Selected for County Seat — Town Founded — First House and Store
— Second Structure — A Literary Blacksmith — Hotel and Mill
— Other Buildings and Early. Day Enterprises — Business
Booms — Growth of Town — Advantages of Seneca — Prog-
ress — Business Enterprises and Professions — Guilford Hotel
— A Colony Comes from England — Their Early Struggles —
Interesting Citizens — Jake Cohen — Civic Improvement — Com-
munity Church — Tabernacle — High School Building — Mu-
nicipal Light and Waterworks — City Hall Pages 79-91
CHAPTER IX. SENECA SHALE BRICK INDUSTRY.
An Agricultural Community — The One Exception — Important In-
vention — The "Klose Continuous Tunnel Kiln" — A Visit to
the Seneca Shale Brick Company's Plant — Interview With
Mr. Klose — Organization of Company — Beginning of Indus-
try — Period of Uncertainty — Present Capacity — Capitaliza-
tion Pages 92-97
CHAPTER X. SABETHA.
Unlike Other Towns — Name — Sabetha Excels — A Healthful CH-
mate — ^^Model Town — Prosperous Citizens — Farm Products
Shipped — Prominent Men — An Incident of Honor — Sabetha
People Everywhere — How Named — Town Located — Town
Company Organized — Organization — The Library — A Rare
Host — Industries and Business Houses — Albany, the Mother
of Sabetha — Reminiscences of the Late J. T. Brady. .Pages 98-1 11
CHAPTER XL CORNING.
Its Peculiarities — A Solid Town — Founded By a Colony from
Galesburg, 111. — Dr. McKay — Named in Honor of Erasmus
Corning — Postoffice Established in 1867 — First Store —
Location of Town Changed When Railroad Was Built —
First Hotel — Jacob Jacobia — First School — Present
School — Dr. Magill — Modern Corning — Highest Point in
County — Nathan Ford and the Drouth of i860 — Popula-
tion and Business Houses Pages 112-115
CHAPTER XII. BERN.
Town Founded in 1886 — Controversy Over Name — Altitude —
Natural Advantages — Statistics — Churches — Societies and
Lodges — Business Enterprises — Mineral Springs — As a
Trading Point — Above the Average — Business Men ....
Pages 1 16-120
CHAPTER XIII.WETMORE.
A Shipping Point — A Railroad Town — Named for W. T. Wet-
more — Postoffice Established in 1867 — Early Business En-
terprises — First Events — A Hanging — Earliest Citizen —
Pony Express and Overland Stage — Schools — A Jesse
James Incident — Pioneers and Their Descendants — First
Settler in Township — Prospecting for Coal — Bancroft —
W. F. Turrentine — Cardinal Points oi Compass Disregard-
ed Pages 121-126
CHAPTER XIV. CENTRALIA.
Third Town in County — Townsite Selected — Moved to the Rail-
road — Located by a Maine Colony — A Would-Be Seminary
— Progress — -Incorporated — Library — Becomes City Proper
in 1906 — Dr. J. S. Hidden — Prominent Newspaper Men —
Schools — Vital Statistics — Home Association — Early Set-
tlers Pages 127-133
CHAPTER XV. OTHER TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
Goff — A Railroad Center^ — ^Named in Honor of Edward H.
Goff — Location — Judge Donaldson — Mr. Abbott, First
Merchant — Kelly — A Shipping Point — "The Kelly Boos-
ter" — A Beautiful Church — The Kelly Bank — School —
Business Enterprises — Pioneer Families — The Villages of
Dorcas, Clear Creek, Sother, Price, Etc. — The Town of
Baileyville Pages 134-138
CHAPTER XVI. ONEIDA.
Founded by Col. Cyras Shinn — Election of Name — Liquor Re-
striction — Supported Governor St. John^Postoffice —
Early Enterprises — Churches — Substantially Built — School
— "Real Estate Journal" — New York "Tribune" Reports
of "Bleeding Kansas" — First Religious Service — Lodges
and Woman's Clubs Pages 139-143
CHAPTER XVII. NEMAHA IN THE BORDER .W^AR.
Anti Slavery Sentiment — Underground Railroad — John Brown
Here — Rev. Curtis Graham — Recollections of William Gra-
ham — Nemaha Not Seriously Affected — Quantrill — Slaves
Here — Jim Lane Here — Mexican War Veterans .. Pages 144-148
CHAPTER XVIII. NEMAHA IN THE CIVIL WAR.
Nemaha Responded Promptly^ — A Company Organized Here —
George Graham Organized a Company — "John Brown's
Body" — Belonged to the Seventh and Eighth Regiments —
Real Warfare -Troops Return on a Furlough — Nemaha
Soldiers in Important Engagements — Nemaha Boys in the
Ninth Cavalry — Eleventh Regiment in Campaign Against
Indians — Nemaha Soldiers Saw Much Service — Prominent
Nemaha County Men in the Civil War — Grape Shot Found
Here — War Relics Pages 149-161
CHAPTER XIX. THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.
Nemaha Responds Promptly-Company K, Twenty-second Regi-
ment — Equipment of Company — To Camp Alger, Va. —
Drilling — Efficience— Foraging — Camp Mead, Pa. — ^^Mus-
tered Out at Ft. Leavenworth — Captain Miller — Nemaha
Always to the Front — A Sham Battle Pages 162-165
CHAPTER XX. AGRICULTURE.
Marvelous Resources — Improved Methods — Evolution in Crop
Raising — Live Stock — Comparative Statistics, 1875 to
191 5 — Increase of Land Values — Scientific Farming — Im-
proved Stock — Prominent Breeders — Beef Cattle — Model
Farms — Irrigation — States and Countries Represented —
Survey of County — Cheese and Butter — Other Statistics —
The Tractor as a Labor Saver — A Big Grain Business ....
Pages 166-179
CHAPTER XXI. AGRICULTURE CONTINUED.
Apple Orchards — Honey — Cattle Shipments — Prize Crops —
Agricultural and Horticultural Society^ — First Annual Fair
— Board of Trade — Repaying New York — A Freak Peach
Tree — Prize Winners — Pure-Bred and "Scrub Com"- —
Fletchell and Wright's ,000 Grain Crop — Harvesting
the Crop — As a Health Resort — Age of Nemaha — Jacob
Fleisch's Quarter Section Tree Farm Pages 180-187
CHAPTER XXII. NEWSPAPERS.
The First Newspaper — The Nemiaha "Courier" — Its Policy —
John P. Cone, Editor — The "Courier-Democrat" — "Mer-
cury" — The Seneca "Tribune" — Other Newspapers — Sa-
betha Newspapers — Centralia, Corning and Goff News-
papers — The Bern "Gazette" — The Wetmore "Specta-
tor" — A Rare Newspaper Collection Pages 188-196
CHAPTER XXIII. BENCH AND BAR.
A Lawyer and Judge — The Lawyer and Necessity of Law — Its
Application — The Bench — Judicial Power Vested — Albert
L. Lee — Albert H. Horton — Robert St. Clair Graham —
Nathan Price — Perry L. Hubbard — Alfred G. Otis — David
Martin — Reuben C. Bassett — John F. Thompson — Rufus
M. Emery — William I. Stuart — District Clerks — Sheriffs
— County Attorneys — Probate Judges Pages 197-204
CHAPTER XXIV. THE BENCH AND BAR, CONTINUED.
The Bar-;-A Lawyer's Duty — His Work — Resident Lawyers —
Nernaha Attorneys Who Have Attained Distinction — Expe-
riences of Lawyers — Senator Ingalls — Cases — Early Juries
— Important Cases — Louis Lorimer and Regis Loisel Titles
— Railroad Bond Case — Noted Criminal Cases — State vs.
Carter and Winters — State vs. Wilton Baughn — State vs.
Blancett — State vs. John Craig — State vs. Mrs. Frank Mc-
Dowell — State vs. Thomas Ramsey — State vs. Fred Kuhn
Pages 205-215
CHAPTER XXV COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND OFFICIAL ROSTER.
First Election — Bogus Legislature — County Created— First Of-
ficers — Members Elected to Second and Third Territorial
Legislature — County Officers Elected in 1859 — First Court
House — First Term of Court — District Judge — Grand Jury
— An Important Case — Townships — Council — State Sena-
tors — Territorial Representatives — State Representatives —
Sheriffs — County Clerks — Registrars of Deeds — County
Treasurers — Probate Judges — Superinteridents of Public
Instruction — Clerks of District Court — County Commis-
sioners — County Surveyors — Coroners — County Attorneys
— County Assessors Pages 216-222
CHAPTER XXVI. BANKS AND BANKING.
First Bank in the County — The Sabetha State Bank — Wetmore
State Bank — First National Bank in the County — Bank-
ing Interests Develop — Banks Organized — Changes and
Consolidations — Farmers Bank of Morrill Organized —
Present Banks — The National Bank of Seneca — First Na-
tional Bank of Seneca — Citizens Bank of Seneca — The Na-
tional Bank of Sabetha — The Citizens State Bank, Sabetha
— Other Nemaha Banks Pages 22-234
CHAPTER XXVII. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
Prior to i860 — Early Day Doctors — Dr. Anderson, Dr. Hid-
den — Well Known Physicians — First , Medical Society Or-
ganized — Now a Part of the American Medical Associa-
tion — Present Organization^Requirements to Practice —
Hospital — Prominent Physicians and Surgeons . . . Pages 235-238
CHAPTER XXVIII. SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION.
The Pioneers' Interest in Schools — First County Superintend-
ent — Other Superintendents — Establishing Districts — Rec-
ords Destroyed by Fire^The District School — Number of
Districts — Ca,ndidates for Certificates in 1877, 1885, 1900
and 1915 — Officers and Teachers in i886^School Offi-
cers, 1915-1918^-Joint Districts — County High School
Plan Rejected — Consolidation — School Centralization —
Notable Teachers— The Albany School — A Beloved Teach-
er Pages 239-266
CHAPTER XXIX. LODGES AND SOCIETIES.
Masonic, the First to Organize — Royal Arch Masons in 1877 —
Grand Army of the Republic — Women's Relief Corps —
Masonic — Odd Fellows — Knights of Pythias — Knights and
Ladies of Security — Modern Woodmen — -Royal Neigh-
bors — Ancient Order of United Workmen — Degree of
Honor — Fire Department — C. M. B. A. — Organizations
and Officers — Clubs and Social Gatherings , . Pages 267-275
CHAPTER XXX. MISCELLANEOUS.
Calamities — Great Drouth of i860 — Grasshopper Visitation —
The Cyclone of 1896 — John P. Cone's Experience — -Indian
Massacre of Argonauts — ^An Exciting Buffalo Hunt — Re-
miniscences of Alfred Stokes — The Orphan Population —
The County Hospital Pages 276-287
CHAPTER XXXI.Nemaha's sons and daughters of renown.
Dr. Benjamin L. Miller — Mrs. Ethel Hussey — Ex-Gov. W. J.
Bailey — E. G. Stitt — Mrs. Nannie Kuhlman — Senator W
H. Thompson — Mrs. Virginia Greever — Walt Mason —
Frederick Gates — Rev. A. G. Lohman — Col. H. Baker —
And Others Pages 288-296
CHAPTER XXXII. THE CHURCH IN NEMAHA COUNTY.
First Sermon — Seneca Baptist Church Organized Here — Meth-
odists in 1857- — Presbyterian Church in 1863 — Congrega-
tionalists — Universalists — Roman Catholic — St. Mai"y's
Church of St. Benedict — Sts. Peter and Paul's, Seneca —
St. Bede's Catholic Church — Seneca Church Meetings — ^Sa-
betha Churches — Centralia Churches— Wetmore Churches
— Oneida Churches — Corning Churches — Churches of
Other Towns Pages 297-321
CHAPTER XXXIII. BIOGRAPHICAL
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