What a wonderful look at life in Kansas in the 1800’s.  This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Butler County Kansas and its people.

 

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original book published in 1916.

 

HISTORY

OF

BUTLER COUNTY,

KANSAS

 

BY

VOL. P. MOONEY

 

/

ILLUSTRATED

 

STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY

Lawrence, Kansas

 

1916

 

(870 pages on 1 CD)

An essential resource for Genealogists

Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect.

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Table of Contents

 

CHAPTER I. - ORGANIZATION.

CHAPTER II - ARCHAEOLOGY.

CHAPTER III. - FIRST EVENTS.

CHAPTER IV. - COUNTY SEAT AND COURT HOUSE

CHAPTER V. - INDIAN HISTORY AND EARLY TIMES.

CHAPTER VI - PERMANENT SETTLEMENT.

CHAPTER VII. - TRANSPORTATION.

CHAPTER VIII. - TOWNSHIPS, CITIES AND TOWNS

CHAPTER IX. - TOWNSHIPS, CITIES AND TOWNS. (Continued.)

CHAPTER X. - TOWNSHIPS. CITIES AND TOWNS. (Continued.)

CHAPTER XI. - TOWNSHIPS, CITIES AND TOWNS. (Continued.)

CHAPTER XII. - TOWNSHIPS, CITIES AND TOWNS. (Continued.)

CHAPTER XIII. - TOWNSHIPS, CITIES AND TOWNS. (Continued.)

CHAPTER XIV. - POLITICAL HISTORY.

CHAPTER XV. - COURTS AND THE BAR.

CHAPTER XVI. - MEDICAL PROFESSION.

CHAPTER XVII. – AGRICULTURE.

CHAPTER XVIII. - LIVE STOCK INDUSTRY.

CHAPTER XIX. - HORTICULTURE.

CHAPTER XX. - OIL AND GAS.

CHAPTER XXI. - BANKS AND BANKING.

CHAPTER XXII. - TELEPHONE SYSTEM.

CHAPTER XXIII. - BUTLER COUNTY SCHOOLS.

CHAPTER XXIV. - THE PIONEER CHURCH.

CHAPTER XXV. - FRATERNAL ORDERS AND LODGES.

CHAPTER XXVI. – WOMENS’S CLUBS.

CHAPTER XXVII. - REMINISCENCES.

CHAPTER XXVIII. - REMINISCENCES, CONTINUED.

CHAPTER XXIX. - REMINISCENCES, CONTINUED.

CHAPTER XXX. - REMINISCENCES, CONTINUED.

CHAPTER XXXI. - REMINISCENCES, CONTINUED.

CHAPTER XXXII. - REMINISCENCES, CONTINUED.

CHAPTER XXXIII. - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.

 

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

 

Adams, Aikman, Alexander, Allebach, Allen, Amlong, Anderson, Armstrong, Arnold, Atkins, Avery, Axtell, Bachelder, Baldwin, Bally, Barkalow, Barker, Bates, Beck, Becker, Benson, Betz, Bishop Blankenbaker, Blankinship, Blakeman, Blood, Bodecker, Boland, Bourgett, Boyles, Braley, Breidenstein, Brooks, Brown, Brumback, Buck, Butts, Cain, Calmeron, Campbell, Cannon, Carnahan, Cartwright, Case, Cease, Chance, Chesebro, Chisman, Church, Clark, Claypool, Cline, Coggshall, Colyar, Coppins, Corcoran, Correll, Cox, Cron, Crowley, Cupp, Curry, Davis, Dedrick, Dillenbeck, Dodge, Dodwell, Drake, Eaton, Eckel, Egan, Elder, Elliott, Ellis, Enright, Epperson, Erickson, Etnire, Eyman, Farr, Fell, Fenton, Ferguson, Ferrier, Fillmore, Flenner, Foskett, Fostnaught, Fox, Frazier, Freeman, French, French, Fuller, Fullinwider, Gale, Gallagher, Gamble, Garrison, Gaskill, Geddes, Getz, Gibson, Gilmore, Girod, Glancey, Glendenning, Green, Gregg, Griffith, Guinty, Guthrie, Haines, Hall, Hamilton, Hammond, Hanes, Hanson, Hanstine, Harding, Harper, Harris, Harrison, Harsh, Harshman, Hartenbower, Harvey, Haskins. Havner, Hawes, Hawks, Hayes, Haymen, Hazlett, Hein, Henrie, Hershey, Hewitt, Hill, Himebaugh, Hinz, Hitchcock, Holderman, Holford, Holmes, Hopkins, Horner, Hoss, Houser, Houston, Hoy, Hufford, Hughes, Hulburt, Hunt, Hutton, Irwin, Jamison, Jennings, Johnson, Jones, Joseph, Julian, Kelley, Kemper, Kennedy, Kenoyer, Kimberlin, Kinley, King, Kinsay, Kirkpatrick, Kiser, Kramer, Lamb, Landis, Lathrop, Leidy, Leland, Levring, Leydig, Liggett, Lightner, Logan, Long, Loomis, Love, Loy, McAnally, McAnnally, McCluggage, McCool, McCullough, McGinnis, McGlade, McWilliams, Magill, Mannion, Marshall, Martick, Martin, Mead, Mellor, Miller, Mitchell, Mooney, Moore, Morgan, Morley, Morrison, Mosier, Moyle, Munson, Murdock, Myers, Neal, Neiman, Nellens, Newbury, Newland, Noble, Noe, Nolder, Norris, Nossaman, Ogden, Ohmart, Oldbury, Olmstead. Osborn, Osburn, Overstreet, Ow, Pace,Palmer, Parker, Parsons, Paulson, Payne, Peas, Penley, Perkins, Pierson, Pimlot, Plummer, Poffinbarger, Poston, Pottle, Powell, Preston, Price, Prosser, Purcell, Pyle, Ralston, Ramsey, Ratts, Reid, Rhodes, Rice, Rickey, Riffe, Robinson, Robison, Robson, Rcdwell, Russell, Russell, Rutherford, Rvan, Sandifer, Sandifer, Satterthwaite, Schumacher, Scrivner, Sensenbaugh, Sehy, Seward, shaffer, Sharp, Shelden, Sheppard, Sherar, Showalter, Shriver, Sinclair, Skaer, Sluss, Smiley, Smith, Snorf, Songer, Sowers, Spalding, Spangler, Staley, Stearns, Steiger, Stephens, Stewart, Stipe, Strasser, Stratford, Sturdyvin, Sunbarger, Switzer, Tabing, Tague, Taylor, Templeton, Teter, Thomas, Thompson, Tillotson, Tolle, Torrey, Turner, Vandeberg, Van Tuyl, Varner, Vinson, Wagoner, Wait, Waldorf, Wallace, Walker, Ward, Warrender, Waterfall, Watkins, Weatherby, Weidlein, Weidman, Welch, Wells, Whitecotton, Whiteside, Wilcox, Wilford, Williams, Williamson, Wilson, Winn, Wolf, Worline, Wright, Wyant, Yeager, Young, Zimmerman,