History of Butler County, Kansas +bonus

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History of
Butler County, Kansas
By Vol. P. Mooney 1916
966 pages, Illustrated, indexed, Searchable
- Bonus Book -
An Illustrated Handbook
of Butler County
By T. B. Murdock, 1887
65 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
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Bonus Book -
History and Government
Of Kansas
By E. H. Butler, 1894
174 pages, Searchable
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. ORGANIZATION.
Named in Honor of Andrew P. Butler — Earl}- Influence indicated
in Name — One of the Original Thirty-three Counties^ — First
and Later Boundaries — -First County Seat — Township Bound-
aries — Organization of Townships — Districts — Topography
— Products — Herd Law — Fences Pages 33-40
CHAPTER II ARCHAEOLOGY.
Pre-Historic Red Man — Coronado's Visit in 1541 — Native Indian
Tribes — Indian Character — Early Trails — Evidences of Pre-
Historic Occupation of Butler County — Indian Relics — Vil-
lage and Camp Sites — Indian Traditions — Indian Imple-
ments Pages 41-46
CHAPTER III. FIRST EVENTS.
First Settler — Births — Marriages — Postoffices — Stores — Schools
— Churches — Court Records and Procedure — Official Acts
— Elections — Assessment and First Valuation — Present Valu-
ation Pages 47-53
CHAPTER IV. COUNTY SEAT AND COURT HOUSE.
First County Seat — County Seat Elections — First Court Flouse —
Bond Issue Defeated — Citizens' Subscription — Further Coun-
ty Seat Contention — Court House Enlarged — Ne^v Court
House — Location — Building — Cost — Extinct Towns . . Pages 54-62
CHAPTER V. INDIAN HISTORY AND EARLY TIMES.
The Plains — Dawn of Era — I'rimiti\e Times — First Settlement —
Indian Perils and Scares — Cherokees Come — Indian Trading-
Posts — Camps — Settlement Prior to 1870 — Settlement in
1857 — Drouth of i860 — Home Defense Company Organized
— Bntler County in the CiYil War — First Settler in El Dorado
— Cholera — Early Settlers — Postoffice — First Fourth of July
Celehration— Homesteading Pages 63-74
CHAPTER VI PERMANENT SETTLEMENT.
Real Settlement — Pioneer Women — Erection of Saw Mills — Pio-
neer Life — Amusements — Grasshopper Year — Devastation —
Reaction — Brighter Hopes — "Sleep. Old Pioneer" — After-
wards — Pul)lic Enter]:)rises — Prosperity — Xow Pages 75-85
CHAPTER VII. TRANSPORTATION.
Highways in Early Days — Freighting — Government Trains —
Mathewson — Stage Coaches — Experiences of Stage Coach
Days — Stage Drivers — -Passing of the Stage Coach Days —
Railroads — First Railroad Bonds Voted — Another Bond
Election — Santa Fe — Alissouri Pacific — Frisco — Communica-
tion — Pioneer Alail Carrier — Star Route — Automobiles ....
Pages 86-94
CHAPTER VIII TOWNSHIPS, CITIES AND TOWNS.
Augusta Township — Benton Township — Bloomington Town-
ship — Bruno Township — Chelsea Township— Clay Town-
Ship — Clifford Township — Douglass Township Pages 95-119
CHAPTER IX. TOWNSHIPS, CITIES AND TOWNS. (Continued.)
El Dorado Township — City of El Dorado — Location — Early
Industrie's^-Name — First Postoffice — First Hotel — Rail-
roads — Walnut Valley Times — El Dorado in 1870 — From
the Walnut Valley Times of March, 1881 — El Dorado in
1916 Pages 120-152
CHAPTER X. TOWNSHIPS. CITIES AND TOWNS. (Continued.)
Fairmount Township — Fairview Township — Glencoe Township
— Hickory Township — Lincoln Township — Little Walnut
Township — Leon — Logan Township Pages 153-170
CHAPTER XI. TOWNSHIPS, CITIES AND TOWNS. (Continued.)
Milton Township — Murdock Township — Pleasant Township —
Plum Grove Township— Prospect Township Pages 171-192
CHAPTER XII. TOWNSHIPS, CITIES AND TOWNS. (Continued.)
Richland Township— Rock Creek Township — Rosalia Township
— Spring Township Pages 193-214
CHAPTER XIII TOWNSHIPS, CITIES AND TOWNS. (Continued.)
Sycamore Township — Towanda Township — Towanda — Union
Township — Walnut Township Pages 215-235
CHAPTER XIV. POLITICAL HISTORY.
Early Political Views — Judicial Districts — First Election —
Character of Officers — First Township Officers — An In-
dependent Party — First Conventions — Political Parties — •
Farmers' Alliance and Populism — Free Silver Party — Last
Election — Senators — Representatives — County Commis-
sioners — County Clerks — County Treasurers — County At-
torneys — Sheriffs — Clerks of the District Court^ — Registrar
of Deeds — Probate Judges — Superintendents of Public
Instruction — County Surveyors — County Assessors — Coun-
ty Health Officers Pages 236-249
CHAPTER XV. COURTS AND THE BAR.
Early Judicial Districts — "No Man's Land" — County Lines in
1864 — County Seat Changed — Early Lawyers and Law
Suits — First Deed Recorded — First and Second Terms of
Court — Horse Thieves — Vigilance Committees — Lynch-
ings — "Butler County ^^^ar" — Criminal and Civil Cases — •
Attorneys Pages 250-261
CHAPTER XVI MEDICAL PROFESSION.
Physicians of this Generation — Qualifications — Experiences —
Pioneer Physicians — Advance of the Science — Surgery —
Hospitals Pages 262-263
CHAPTER XVII. AGRICULTURE.
Agricultural Society — First Fairs — Kafir Corn Carnival —
Changes in Methods — Alfalfa — Kafir — Licrease of Crop
Acreage — Market Conditions — Oats and Wheat — Prog-
ress — "Kafir Corn" — County Farm 264-270
CHAPTER XIII. LIVE STOCK INDUSTRY.
Early Day Horses— Trotting Stock — Some Fast Ones — Draft
Horses — Mules — First Cattle — Losses from Severe AA'in-
ters — Cattle Raising- as a Business — Effect of Herd Law —
First Cows — Breeders — Finest Herd of Herefords in the
World Pag-es 271-274
CHAPTER XIX. HORTICULTURE.
Fruits of Pioneer Times — First Orchards^Plant Dis-
ease — Insects — Investment — Butler County Horticultural
Society — Successful Emit Growers — Orchards — Native
Trees — Native Flowers Pages 275-280
CHAPTER XX. OIL AND GAS.
Supply of Fuel — Deep Test in 1879 — Other Tests — First Com-
pany Organized to Drill for Oil — Early Geologists, Re-
ports Discouraging — Company Organized at Augusta —
First Gas Discovered West of the Flint Hills Near Au-
g-usta — Other Tests and Discoveries — Oil Discovered —
Marvelous Development Pages 281-284
CHAPTER XXI. BANKS AND BANKING.
Present Prosperous Conditions — Number of Banks in the Coun-
tv — First Bank — Second and Third Banks — First Na-
tional Bank — Exchange National Bank — h\)urth Bank in
El Dorado — Ed. C. Ellet — Officers and Capital — Citizens
State Bank — Butler County State Bank — Exchange Stat^
Bank — State Bank of Leon — Peoples State Bank. Latham
— Bank of Whitewater — Peoples State Bank, \Miitewater
— Towanda State Bank — Rose Hill State Bank — Rosalia
State Bank — Beaumont State Bank — Character of Banks — ■
Bank Commissioner Pages 285-291
CHAPTER XXII. TELEPHONE SYSTEM.
Mysterious Switchboard — First Telephone Exchange at El Do-
rado — Butler County Telephont- and Electric Company —
Growth of Business — JMissouri and Kansas Telephone Com-
pany — Officers — Charles H. Parker Pages 292-294
CHAPTER XXIII. BUTLER COUNTY SCHOOLS.
First School — Difficulties of Early. Organization — Early X'or-
mal Institutes — First Teachers Associations — Course of
Study Provided — First Commencement — First School House
in El Dorado — Barnes Law Schools — Special Courses —
Barnes High School League — Rural School Contests —
Early Teachers — El Duradu High School — Superintend-
ents — Central School Building Burned — Development of
Schools Pages 295-300
CHAPTER XXIV. THE PIONEER CHURCH.
First Religious Services in Butler County — A Pioneer Meeting-
House — Beecher's Sermons Delivered Here — First Sermon
in \'estern Butler County — Alissionaries — First Metho-
dist Alinister — All Denominations Represented — Sunday
Schools — Influence of Churches Pages 301-303
CHAPTER XXV. FRATERNAL ORDERS AND LODGES.
Masonic Lodges — Independent Order of Odd Fellows — Modern
Woodmen of America — Grand Army of the Republic —
Woman's Relief Corps — Anti Horse Thief Association . .
Pages 304-313
CHAPTER XXVI. women's CLUBS.
Federated Clubs — Beethoven Club. El Dorado — Shakespeare
Club — Woman's Mutual Benefit Clul^ — The Avon Club,
El Dorado — Dausihters of American Revolution — The Out-
look Club, Augusta — Twentieth Century Clul), Douglass —
Mutual Helpers. Cassoday — E. Ai. B. Club, Towanda —
Every Wednesday Home'Study Club Pages 314-317
CHAPTER XXVII. REMINISCENCES.
First Commercial Sign — The Xext Beer Story — A Booze Story
— Another One — Just a Story — Celebration — Some
Things — A Murder — When Times Were Young, by Fran-
ces E. Alooney— In Society — The Old Hotel — Another
Time \ '. Pages 3 18-325
CHAPTER XXVIII REMINISCENCES, CONTINUED.
Mv Parents — The "Quilting Bee" Crowd — Recollections of
Plum Grove — Back in tlie Sixties — The Last Battle —
"Vagrant Memories" Pages 326-339
CHAPTER XXIX. REMINISCENCES, CONTINUED.
My First Xight in El Dorado — Memories — A Hunting Party —
Dr. John Horner's Recollections — Southeast Butler —
Early Times — A Story of the Days Long Gone — Memo-
ries of Pioneer Days Pages 340-358
CHAPTER XXX. REMINISCENCES, CONTINUED.
Experiences of a Lawyer.
Toe Everson — Joe Everson and the Fool Boy — Gardner's He-
roic Effort — Tiger Bill — An Intelligent Jury — A Defend-
ant Who Lied — The Colonel's Stratagem — A Game of
Pool — The Colonel and Dan — Mistaken Identity .. Pages 359-366
CHAPTER XXXI. REMINISCENCES, CONTINUED.
The Victory of Half a Century — A Pioneer — Story of Early
Days — Pioneer Days — A Pioneer of 1868 — Recollections
fo Jerry Conner Pages 367-378
CHAPTER XXXII. REMINISCENCES, CONTINUED.
Mead's Ranch — Recollections of Early Times — An Indian Scare
— Early Schools in El Dorado — A Tornado — \A'ing in the
Seventies Pages 379-392
CHAPTER XXXIII. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.
INDEX
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