History of Reno County, Kansas: Its People, Industries and Institutions, Volume 1B.F. Bowen, Incorporated, 1917 - Reno County (Kan.) |
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appointed April Arkansas river August Bank barrels bonds buffalo building built C. C. Hutchinson C. W. Babcock Campbell cattle Charles city clerk city marshal Corporal council county attorney county commissioners court Cow creek December Democratic district election February filed Frank Frank Vincent Fred Carpenter Gen'l George Grant township grass Harper county Harry Hodson held hundred Illinois Illinois Private Indiana interest Iowa James Withrow January John July June Kansas land Legislature Lieutenant located Main street mayor Medford township miles mill Missouri Nickerson November Ohio opponent organized Osages party Pennsylvania petition plant polled prairie present president Private H probate railroad re-elected received records register of deeds Reno county Reno township Republican road Salt Company Santa Fe Sergeant settlers Smith Smoot soda-ash sold term territory thousand dollars town township votes ward Wichita Wilcox & Mong Wilcox & Thomas William York
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Page 95 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left : and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Page 64 - These men have done in the last two years, and will do more in the next year, to settle the vexed Indian question, than the entire regular army has done in the last thirty years. They are destroying the Indians...
Page 34 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that, if this bill passes, the bonds of this union are, virtually, dissolved ; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare, definitely, for a separation : amicably, if they can ; violently, if they must* (Mr.
Page 11 - Every biographical sketch in the work has been submitted to the party interested, for correction, and therefore any error of fact, if there be any, is solely due to the person for whom the sketch was prepared.
Page 11 - The deeds and motives of the men that have gone before have been instrumental in shaping the destinies of later communities and states. The development of a new country was at once a task and a privilege. It required great courage, sacrifice and privation. Compare the present conditions of the people of Clinton county,.
Page 49 - The tent floor was nicely carpeted ; a comfortable bed invited repose after the toil of the day; dainty china, bright cut glass, and shining silverware, handsome enough to be preserved as family heirlooms by their descendants, were used on the camp table. It was something of Parisian life in the dreary wilderness. Major Fowler died in Covington in the year 1850. His life as a surveyor and explorer in the West subjected him to many hardships, but a constitution naturally vigorous was preserved with...
Page 48 - Major Fowler was born in New York, in 1765, and came to Kentucky in early life, a fine specimen of physical manhood, fully equipped for the office and duties of a surveyor. His surveying instruments were the best of their day, and elicited no little envy from those who used the common Jacob's staff and compass, and chain of the times. He had the reputation of being an accomplished surveyor, and did much in this line for the United States government. His surveying extended to the great plains and...
Page 11 - ... productions. Can any thinking person be in-sensible to the fascination of the study which discloses the aspirations and efforts of the early pioneers who so strongly laid the foundation upon which has been reared the magnificent prosperity of later days? To perpetuate the story of these people and to trace and record the social, political and industrial progress of the community from its first inception is the function of the local historian. A sincere purpose to preserve facts and personal memoirs...
Page 265 - Louis, where he remained until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the Confederate cavalry service, and was present at the battles of Wilson's Creek, Lexington, Pea Ridge, and Corinth.
Page 56 - to authorize the President of the United States to cause a road to be marked out from the Western frontier of Missouri to the confines of New Mexico...