History of Atchison County, Kansas +bonus

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History of
Atchison County, Kansas
By Sheffield Ingalls 1916
784 pages, Searchable
Bonus Book -
The Story of A
Kansas Parish
1857-1911
Being A Compliation From
The Records, and a Partial Survey
Of the Work and Some Workers
Of Trinity Church, Atchison, KS
By Rev. Francis White
114 pages, Searchable
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“There is nothing definite to show that Coronado ever reached the confines of what is now Atchison county in 1541,
as some historical writers have seen fit to state, but there is a probability that the Indian province of Harahey,
which the natives thereof told him was just beyond Ouivira. embraced our present county and most of the region
of northeastern Kansas. Alark E. Zimmerman, an intelligent and painstaking student of Kansas archaeology and
Indian history, has given this matter much consideration, and is confident that the Harahey chieftain,
Tatarrax, immortalized in Coronado's chronicles, ruled over this territory nearly four centuries ago.
Until this fact is established, however, it remains that the Indian history of what is now Atchison county begins
with the Kansa Indians in the earl}- part of the eighteenth century. At the time of the Bourgmont expedition
in 1724, and for some time before, this nation owned all of what is now northeastern Kansas, and maintained
several villages along the Missouri river, the principal one being near the mouth of Independence creek, or
at the present site of Doniphan.
“Here they had a large town. The writer made a careful examination and fully identified the site of this old
town in 1904. The results of this exploration are given in a pamphlet entitled "An Old Kansas Indian Town on
the Missouri," published by the writer in 1914. Another important village of the Kansa was located at the
mouth of what is now Salt creek, in Leavenworth, county. Both of these historic villages
were situated right near and at about the same distance from the present borders of Atchison county. There
were several old Indian villages within the confines of Atchison county already stated in the preceding pages,
but whether they belonged to the Kansa or to the Harahey (Pawnee) is yet a matter of conjecture.”
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
Fossils — Evidences of Early Animal and Plant Life — Geological Ages
— Rock Formation — Glacier Period — Minerals Paees 17-20
CHAPTER II. PRE-HISTORIC PERIOD.
Evidences of Paleolithic Alan — .\n Ancient Fortification — Aboriginal
Village and Camp Sites — The Ingalls and Other Mounds — Pages 21-24
CHAPTER III. INDIAN HISTORY.
Harahey, an Indian Province of Coronado's Time — The Kansa Nation
— Bourgmont's Visit in 1724 — Council on Cow Island in 1819 —
The Kickapoo Indians Pages 25-30
CHAPTER IV. EARLY EXPLORATIONS.
Coronado in 1541 — The Bourgmont Expedition in 1724 — Perin Du ^.^■■
Lac — Lewis and Clark — First Fourth r)f July Celebration —
Major Stephen H. Long — Cantonment Martin — Isle au Vache
— Other E.xplorers — Paschal Pensoneau — The Old ^Military Road
— The Monnons Pages 31-36
CHAPTER V. TERRITORIAL TIMES.
Territory Acquired From France in 1803 — Organization of the Terri-
tory — Kansas-Nebraska Act — Immigration to Kansas — Territorial
Government — Free State and Pro-Slavery Conflict — First Elec-
tion — Secret Political Organizations — Border War xA^ctivities and
Outrages — Contests Over Adoption of Constitution — Kansas Ad-
mitted to the Union Pages 37-63
CHAPTER VI. ORGANIZATION OF COUNTY AND CITY OF ATCHISON.
One of the Thirty-three Original Counties — City of Atchison Located —
Town Company — Sale of Lots — Incorporation of Town — Early
Business Enterprises — Organization of County — Commercial
Growth — Freighting — First Officers — Free State and Pro-Slavery
Clashes — Horace Greeley Visits Atchison — Abraham Lincoln
INIakes a Speech Here — Great Drouth of i860 — City Officials. . . .
Pages 64-83
CHAPTER VII. TOWNS, PAST AND PRESENT.
Sumner, Its Rise and Fall — Ocena — Lancaster — Fort William — Ar-
rington — ]\Iuscotah — Effingham — Huron — Old ]\Iartinsburg —
Bunker Hill — Locust Grove — Helena — Cayuga — Kennekuk —
Kapioma — Alashenah — St. Nicholas — Concord — Parnell — Shan-
non — Elmwood — Cummingsville — Eden Postof fice — Potter —
Mt. Pleasant — Lew^is' Point — Farley's Ferry Pages 84-128
CHAPTER VIII. THE CIVIL WAR.
The Issue Between Early Settlers — Influx of Free State and Pro-
Slavery Partisans — Early Volunteering — Military Organiza-
tions — Threatened Invasion from Missouri — Political Societies
— Jayhawkers — Cleveland's Gang — Lynchings — Atchison Coun-
ty Troops in the War — Price's Attempted Invasion Pages 129-150
CHAPTER IX. NAVIGATION.
Pioneer Transportation — Early Ferries and Rates — Famous River
Boats — Steamboat Lines to Atchison — Steamboat Registers. . .
Pages 1 51-157
CHAPTER X. OVERLAND FREIGHTING.
Atchison as an Outfitting Point — Freigliting Companies — Principal
Routes — Stage Lines — Overland Mail Routes — Ben Holladay —
"Butterfield's Overland Dispatch" — Time to Denver — Tables of
Time and Distances on Various Routes — Statistical Pages 158-173
CHAPTER XL RAILROADS.
Early Railroad Agitation — The First Railroad — Celebrating the Ad-
vent of the Railroad — Other Roads Constructed — The Santa Fe
— The xA.tchison & Xebraska City — The Kansas City. Leaven-
worth & Atchison— The Rock Island— The Hannibal & St.
Joseph — The First Telegraph — ^Modern Transportation. .Pages
CHAPTER XII. REMINISCENCES OF EARLY PIONEERS.
D. R. Atchison — Matt Gerber — J. H. Talbott — William Osborne —
John W. Cain — W. L. Challiss — George Scarborough — Samuel
Hollister — John Taylor — John M. Cromwell — Luther Dicker-
son — Luther C. Challiss — George W. Click — A\'. K. Grimes —
Joshua Wheeler — William Hetherington — William C. Smith —
John M. Price— Samuel C. King— Clem Rohr— R. H. Weight-
man — Case of Major Weightman Pages
CHAPTER XIII. AGRICULTURE AND ITS DEVELOPMENT.
An .Agricultural Community — Scientific Farming — Farmers, the
Aristocracy of theest — Modern Improvement — Topography
— Soil — Statistics Pages 213-216
CHAPTER XIV.
Influence of Xewspapers — Part Played by the Early Press — Squat-
ter Soz'crcign — Freedom's Champion — Champion and Press —
Pioneer Editors — Later Xewspapers and Xewspaper Men....
Pages 2 1 7-233
CHAPTER XV. BANKS AND BANKING.
Early Day Banking — Pioneer Financiers — The Oldest Bank — Pri-
vate, State and National Banks — Atchison County Bankers
and the Development of Banking Institutions Pages 234-244
CHAPTER XVI. CHURCHES.
Methodist — Christian — Presbyterian — Baptist — Salem Church —
German Evangelical Zion Church — First Church of Christ,
Scientist — St. Patrick's, Mt. Pleasant — Trinity Church, Episco-
pal — St. Mark's, English Lutheran — St. Benedict's Abby— First
German Evangelican Lutheran Church Pages 245-263
CHAPTER XVII. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
Establishment of the Public School System — Pioneer Schools and
Early Teachers — Districts — Statistics — Atchison County High
School — County Superintendents of Public Instruction — Atchi-
son City Schools — Private Schools — Mt. St. Scholastica's Acad-
emy — Parochial Schools — Midland College and Western Theo-
logical Seminary — St. Benedict's College Pages 266-292
CHAPTER XVIII. BENCH AND BAR.
Early Mecca oi Legal Talent — Organization of Judicial District —
Early Judges — Prominent Pioneer Lawyers — ^Members of the
Atchison County Bar Pages 293-301
CHAPTER XIX. MEDICAL PROFESSION.
First Physicians — Early Practice — Pioneer Remedies — Modern
Medicine and Surgery — Prominent Physicians and Surgeons —
Atchison County Medical Society Pages 302-310
CHAPTER XX. INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Much Wealth and Enterprise Abound — Manufacturing- — Milling —
Extensi\e \Miolesale Hardware antl Grocery Establishments —
Planing Mills — \'arious Jobbing and Retail Interests. . . .Pages 311-317
CHAPTER XXI. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND INSTITUTIONS.
Atchison Postoffice — Court House — County Hospital — Young
Men's Christian Association — State Orphans' Home — Atchi-
son Public Library — Atchison Hospital — Masonic Temple ....
Pages 318-327
CHAPTER XXII. SOCIETIES AND LODGES.
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks — Fraternal Order of
Eagles — Atchison County Protective Association — Secret Socie-
ties — Catholic Societies Pages 328-333
CHAPTER XXIII. THE AFRO-AMERICAN RACE.
Early-day Conditions — Their Advancement — Prior Dickey — Henry
C. Buchanan — Eugene L. Bell — Charles Ingram — Charles J-
Ferguson — Henry Dickey — Dr. Erank Adrian Pearl, I\I. D. —
Dr. W. W. Caldwell, M. D Pages 334-344
CHAPTER XXIV. OFFICIALS.
County, Township and School Officers Pages 345-350
CHAPTER XXV. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
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