History of Atchison County, Kansas

Preface

In the preparation and compilation of tliis history, n(j effort has Ijeen made to interpret the logic or spirit of events that snrronnded the birth and progress of Atchison connty. The work was nndertaken with the idea of compiling a narrative plainly told, of the people antl the institutions here. I was interested in. putting in permanent form chronologically the events that have transpired in the past sixty years, that have made for the ]")olitical, social, moral antl commercial development of the county, laut. had 1 realized in ad\'ance the nianv hours of laljor and patient study it required, the work of completing the task in six months would not have lieen attempted. 1 am very deeply conscious of the imperfections of die completed work, but had there been more time for research and study, much might have been included that does not appear.

It would he ingratitude if no acknowledgment were made at the outset, of the obligation I am under to George J. Remsburg for the assistance he has rendered me. Without his unfailing courtesy, kindness and hel]j I should never have been able t<i do the work at all. His ability as a local historian is truly mai-\-elous. He wrote two chapters of the history and contributed most of the matter touching upon the founding of cities and towns. It is to be regretted that the condition of his heahh prevented him from undertaking the work which I have so imperfectly done.

Acknowledgment is also due George A. Root of the State Historical Society, who has rendered me in\aluable assistance, and to the Atchison Daily Globe, from whose files I gnthered much important data. Nor can I fail to give proper credit to Andreas' History of Kansas, from which a wealth of information has been secured. D. Anna Speer, county superintendent, collected for me most of the historical matter relative to the schools of the countv and Professor Nathan T. Veatcli was more than kind in ]>rci)aring for me a sketch of the .\tchison city schools.

And my dear mother, a loyal resident of Atchison since July, 1859. intimatelv identified with its history and growth for fifty-seven years, has visualized to me as no other could, the story of the early days. Remarkable as a mother, loved and adored by all lier children, she is no less remarkable

PREFACE.

as a woman, stalwart, rugged and buoyant. She lived her young life with the pioneers of Atchison, and now in the fullness of her years she looks over the past, so full of pleasures, tribulations and sorrows, with gladness and resignation, and faces the future with a determined spirit and a brave heart. To the ministers of the various churches of Atchison and to Professor Erasmus Haworth and Charles H. Taylor, the county farm agent, and to many other good people of Atchihu, I entertain sentiments of the deepest appreciation, and if any of them ever undertakes the work of writing a histor\-, I shall gladly render them any service in my power.

SHEFFIELD INGALLS.

Atchison, Kan., March 6, 1916.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Abell, P. T 295

Adams, John P 488

Adams, Mary A 584

Adams, William 584

Adams, S. W 520

Atchison County Court House 57

Atchison County High School, Effingham 274

Ballinger and Wife, S. E 64S

Ballinger, Julia H 600

Ballinger, Thomas E 600

Barber, Moses 672

Barber, Mary 672

Beard and Family, Frank 704

Blodgett, Thomas L 624

Boyington, Home of Frank W. and

Julia 584

Burbank, E. G 520

Burrows, C. H 544

Bush, William H 464

Btittron, Henry and Family 472

Carnegie Library, Atchison 289

Challis, William L 307

Cheseborough, Ellsworth 193

Christian Church, Atchison 249

Cirtwill, Jennie 712

Commercial Street, Atchison 66

Conlon, Charles J 488

Deutsch, Julius 520

Dorssom, George 464

Du Bois and Wife, Lewis P 768

Eagles' Home, Atchison 330

Effingham Street Scene Ill

Elks' Club House, Atchison 329

Falk, Charles H 464

First Church of Christ, Scientist 255

Forest Park, Atchison 80

Fox, Jared C 408

Click, George W 351

Graner's Annual Sale 785

Graner, Gottlieb 784

Graner, H. C ; 785

Graner Homestead 784

Graner, Martha 784

Graner, W. H 785

Griffin, L 680

Gundy, Charles T 560

Ham and Wife, Martin W 608

Hansen, H. C 520

Hart, C. C 792

Harvey, Albert B 440

Harwi, Alfred J 416

Hazel, Ernest C 744

Highfill, Thomas 704

Hines, Micliael J 464

Hooper, Daniel E 616

Hospital, Atchison S7

Hughes, Bela M 19.3

Ingalls, John J 392

Ingalls School, Atchison 279

Ingalls, Sheffield — Frontispiece

Jackson, William A 488

Jackson Park, Entrance 172

Jewell, L. M 536

Johnson, George H. T 456

Kaaz, Julius 688

Keirns, Gail Maxine 568

Keith, U. S 544

Keithline, Andrew 432

King. S. S 560

Kingman, S. C 295

Kuhn, Julius 592

Laird, Britamore 736

Laird, Marcus J 736

Lane, Jim 189

Maiigelsdorf Building 312

Martin, Col. J. A 297

Masonic Temple, Atchison Z2y

Million, George 200

Morrow, James G 384

Mt. St. Scholastica's Academy, .Atchison 286

Muscotah School Building 108

Muscotah Street Scene 107

Newcomb, Don C .' 424

Xewcomb, D. C., Residence of 426

Old High School Building, Atchison .... 268

Orr, James W 360

Orr, J. \X.. Residence of 362

Orphans' Home, General V'iew 23

Orphans' Home, Main Building 19

Overland Freighting 16

Perdue. Edward .- 576

Plummer and Wife, T. 696

Pomeroy, S. 189

Potter Street Scene 124

Potter School House 126

Post Office, Atchison 35

Presbyterian Church, Atchison 250

Presbyterian Church, Effingham 112

Remsburg, George 504

Remsbnrg, John E _ 504

Sanders, B. F 568

Scarborough, William 200

Scaton, John 376

Sharp, Harry L 512

Sharpless, U. B 560

Simmons, O. A 800

Speer, D. .Anna 776

St. Benedict's Abbey, Atchison 263

St. Benedict's College, Atchison 291

Storch, George 448

Sutter and Wife, Fred 752

Sutter, Fred, Residence of 753

Sutter Homestead 840

Thompson and Wife, George W 664

Thompson, Matilda 720

Trimlile. Roy C _ 488

\oclkcr, C. M 560

AN'aggencr. Balie P 368

Walker. Claudius D 400

Wards of tlie State 29

Wilson, Charles 544

Wilson, Mary K 544

Wolf, Rt. Rev. Innocent 264

V. M. C. .\. Building, Atchison 57

Chapter I. Geology

Fossils — Evidences of Early Animal and Plant Life — Geological A.sfes

— Rock Formation — Cdacier Period — Minerals Pa.ees 17-20

CHAPTER n.

PRE-HISTORIC PERIOD.

Evidences of Paleolithic Man — An Ancient Fdrtification — Aljoriginal

Village and Camp Sites — The Ingalls and Other ^lonnds — Pages 21-24

Chapter III. Indian History

Harahey, an Indian Province of Coronado's Time — The Kansa Nation — Bourgmont's Visit in 1724 — Conncil on Cow Island in 1819 — The Kickapoo Indians Pages 25-30

Chapter IV. Early Explorations

Coronado in 1541 — The P.ourgmont Expedition in 1724 — Perin Du Lac — Lewis and Clark — First Fourth of July Celel:)ration — Major Stephen H. Long — Cantonment Martin — Isle an Vache — Other Explorers — Paschal Pensoneau — The Old Military Road — The Monnons Pages 3 1-36

Chapter V. Territorial Times

Territory Acquiretl From France in 1803 — Organization of the Territory — Kansas-Nebraska Act — Immigration to Kansas — Territorial Government — Free State and Pro-Slavery Conflict — First Election — Secret Political Organizations — Border War Activities and Outrages — Contests Over Adoption of Constitution — Kansas Admitted to the Union Pages 37-63

Chapter VI. Organization Of County And Citv Of Atchison

One of the Thirty-three Original Counties — City of .\tchison 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

Makes a Speech Here — Great Drouth of 1860 — City Officials

Pages 64-83

Chapter VII. Towns^ P.vst And Present

Sumner. Its Rise and Fall — Ocena — Lancaster — Fort William — Arrington — ]vIuscotah — Effingham — Huron — Old Martinsburg — Bunker Hill — Locust Grove — Helena — Cayuga — Kennekuk — Kapioma — Mashenah — St. Nicholas — Concord — Parnell — Shannon — Elmwood — Cummingsville — Eden Postof fice — Potter — Mt. Pleasant— Lewis' Point — Farley's Ferry Pages 84-128

Chapter VIII. The Civil War

The Issue Between luarly Settlers — Influx of Free State and Pro- Slavery Partisans — Early Volunteering — Military Organizations-^Threatened Invasion from Missouri — Political Societies — Jayhawkers — Cleveland's Gang — Lynchings — Atchison Countv 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 151-157

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 Advent of the Railroad — Other Roads Constructed — The Santa Fe — The Atchison & X'ebraska City — The Kansas City, Leavenworth & Atchison — The Rock Island — The Hannibal & St. Joseph — The First Telegraph — ^lodern Transportation. .Pages 174-185

Chapter XII. Reminiscence.s Of Early Pioneers

D. R. .Atchison — ]\Iatt Gerber — J. H. Talbott — William Osborne— John W. Cain — W. L. Challiss — George Scarborough — Samuel Hollister — John Taylor — John M. Cromwell — Luther Dickerson — Luther C. Challiss — George W. Glick — \V. K. Grimes — Joshua Wheeler — William Hetherington — William C. Smith — John M. Price — Samuel C. King — Clem Rohr — R. H. Weightman — Case of Major Weightman Pages 186-212

CHAPTER XIII. ACRICLLTIRE AND ITS nEVELOPMENT

An Agricultural Community — Scientific I'armino- — Farmers, the Aristocrac}' of the West — Mndcrn Improvement — Topography —Soil— Statistics Pages 213-216

CHAPTER XI\'.

THE TRESS.

Influence of Newspapers — Part Played b_\- the Early Press — Squatter Spz'ercign — Freedom's Champion — Chauipion and Press — Pioneer Editors — Later Newspapers and Newspaper Men .... Pages 2 1 7-233

Chapter XV. Banks And Banking

Early Dav Banking— Pioneer Financiers — The Oldest Bank — Private, State and National Banks — Atchisini 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, Episcopal — St. Mark's, English Lutheran — St. Benedict's Abby — First German Evangelican Lutheran Church Pages 245-265

CHAPTER XVn.

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

Establishment of the Public School System — Pioneer Schools and Early Teacher.s — Districts — Statistics — Atchison County High School — County Superintendents of Public Instruction — Atchison City Schools — Private Schools — Mt. St. Scholastica's Academy — Parochial Schools — Midland College and Western Theological Seminary— St. Benedict's College Pages 266-292

CHAPTER X\'IIT.

BENCH AND BAR.

Early Mecca of Legal Talent — Organization of Judicial District — ■ Early Judges — Prominent Pioneer Lawyers — IMemliers of the Atchison County Bar Pages 293-301

CHAPTER XIX.

MEDICAL TROFESSION.

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 — Extensive Wholesale Hardware and Grocery Establishments — Planing Mills — Various Jobbing and Retail Literests. . . .Pages 31 1-3 17

CHAPTER XXL

PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND INSTITUTIONS.

Atchison Postoffice — Court House — County Hospital — Ycmng Men's Cliristian Association — State Orphans' Home — Atchison Public Library — Atchison Hospital — Masonic Temple. . . . Pages 318-327

CHAPTER XXn.

SOCIETIES AND LODGES.

Bene\-olent and Protective Ordei of Elks — Fraternal Order of Eagles — Atchison County Protective Association — Secret Societies — Catholic Societies Pages 328-333

CH.XPTER XXIII.

THE AFKO-AMKRICAX RACE.

Early-day Conditions — Their Advancement — Prior Dickey — Henry C. Buchanan — Eugene L. Bell — Charles Ingram — Charles J- Ferguson — Henry Dickey — Dr. Frank Adrian. Pearl. M. D. — Dr. \V. W. Caldwell, M. D Pages 334-344

CHAPTER XXIV.

OFFICIALS.

County. Township and School Officers Pages 345-350

CHAPTER XXV.

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.

Index

Abner, John W 534

Adams, John P 488

Adams, Stark W 524

Alkire, Charles L 726

Allen, Edmond W 7SS

Allen, Joseph W 4/6

Allison, Ralph A 7Si

Anderson, George V 836

Arensberg, L. C 611

Armstrong, James L 733

Arthur. Joseph X 422

Atkin, Paul 859

Babcock, O. M ."igi

Bailey, Willis J 882

Baldwin, Royal 830

Ballinger, Thomas E 600

Ballinger, Samuel E 648

Barber, Herbert J 672

Barker, Charles E 682

Barker, O. 761

Barnes, Asa 715

Barry, John H 481

Bean, John H 708

Beard, Frank 704

Beckman, Carl L 382

Behen, James E 796

Belz, John 884

Best, Aaron S 379

Beyer, David 822

Beyer, John 731

Bilderback, Allen T 738

Binkley, Fred 852

Bishop, Frank W 876

Bishop, Robert F 596

Blair, Albert H 454

Blair, John L 586

Blodgett, Thomas L 624

Boos, Nicholas 699

Boyington, Julia E. A 584

Bradley, Lewis 819

Brockett, Renton L 637

Brown, George L 837

Brown, Thomas 452

Brown, Walter E 519

Bullock, Edmund 847

Burbank, E. G 520

Burrows, Charles H 547

Bush, William H , 464

Bushey, Calvin 871

Buttron, Henry 472

Buttron, Jacob 728

Calvert, Alexander H. , 747

Calvert, Presley H 848

Chalfant, W. D 727

Chandler, Charles A 716

Cirtwill, Jennie 712

Clapp, Alva 447

Clem, William J 406

Cleveland, Richard B 834

Cline, Thomas L 656

Cloyes, Marshall J S7i

Coliett, W. B 612

Collins, Davis W 832

Conlon, Charles J 494

Conlon, John F 49S

Cortelyou, Luther 757

Coupe, Joseph 375

Cummins, Barney 445

Curtis, Benjamin P 531

Davis, Cyrus E 470

Dawdy, Drennan L 808

Deutsch, Julius 523

Donnellan, William R 538

Dooley, James 613

Dorssom, George 468

Drinmiel, John 854

Du Bois, Lewis P 768

Duncan, John E 620

Duidap, Rienzi M 767

Dysingcr, Holmes 724

Evans, Aaron B 749

Falk, Charles H ,. 467

Fankhanel, John 635

Ferguson, Charles W 581

Ferris, John 734

Fiechter, Samuel E 71'

Finnegan, Thomas 647

Fleming, John : 604

Flynn, J. F 743

Forbriger, Robert 658

Fox. Jared C : 408

Frable, Thomas 359

Fuhrman, Charles H 460

Fuhrman, Rinhold 502

Garside, James H 880

Gault, Thomas 495

Gibson, George \V 823

Gibson, Joseph E 529

Gigstad, Knud G 439

Gigstad, Ole G 480

Gilmore, Earl A 415

Glattfelder, Henry 741

Glick, George \V 35'

Goodwin, George 833

Gragg, James R 542

Graner, Henry C 787

Graner, William H 784

Grccnawalt, Joseph C 778

Griffin, John 821

Griffin, Lawrence 680

Grimes, Robert L 642

Gundy, Charles T 565

Guthrie, Warren W 483

Hackney, Hiram H 660

Ham, Bishop K 608

Ham, W. Perry 702

Hamon, Alferd J 820

Hansen, H. C 521

Harvey, Albert B 440

Harwi, Alfred J 416

Harwi, Frank E 419

Hart, Charles C 792

Hartman, l-'rcd 797

Hartman, William 828

Hastings, Z. S 436

Hawk, John D ; 670

Hawk, Lafayette T 539

Hawk, Rutherford B 868

Hazel, Ernest C 744

Hekelnkaemper Brothers 804

Hendee, George E 429

-Henderson, William 535

Hetherington, Wirt 510

High fill, Thomas 706

Higley, Clem P 806

Hines, Michael J 465

Hixon, Charles L 577

Holmes, James I 841

Hooper, Abraham 616

Hooper, George R 867

Horan, Michael J 501

Horner, Thomas E 527

Howe, Edgar W 844

Hubbard, Lewis H 815

Hubbard, William E 807

Hubbard. William S 759

Hulings, :Mark H 605

Hunn. Frank J 824

Hutson, William T 730

Ingalls, John J 392

Ingalls, Sheffield 632

Intfen. Theo 645

Jackson, Horace M 353

Jackson, William A 490

Jackson, Zaremba E 356

Jewell, Lumas M 536

Johnson, Charles H 458

Johnson, George H. T 456

Jones, F'arl \' 582

Kaaz, Julius 688

Kammer, Karl A 570

Kanning, Christ 644

Kaufman. Fred W 781

Keith. Uri S 544

Keithline, Andrew 432

Kcithline, Charles J 630

Kelly, Edward J 635

King, Richard K 788

King, Samuel S 564

Kistler, William D 430

Klein, Martin 442

Kloepper. Louis 580

Koester, Frederick \V 551

Kramer, John A 883

Kuehnhoff, Henry 513

Kuehnhoff, Louis R 567

Knlm, Julius 592

Laird, Marcus J 736

Lange, Arnold 783

Lange, Charles 725

Lilly, C. A 818

Lincoln, Frederick W 692

Linley, Charles 461

Linley, Charles H 610

Loudenback, Henry H 653

Low, Hal C 775

Loyd, Samuel L „ 686

Lukens, Charles M 762

•McAdani, William 399

McCullough, Edward B 599

Mclnteer, John 651

McKelvy, William A 865

Mangelsdorf, Albert H 852

Mangelsdorf, August 856

Mangelsdorf, Frank A 858

Mangelsdorf, William 850

Markwalt, Amel 556

Martin, Sidney 393

Mayhevv, Albert E 372

ililler, John O. A 791

Moeck, John 790

Moore, June E 701

Morrow, James G 384

Myers, Charles 552

Xass, John H 722

Xewcomb, Don C 424

Niemann, Henry 780

Xitz, W'illiam M 740

North, Howard E 698

Xusbaum, Leo 629

Oliver, John R 626

Orr, Louis C 381

Orr. James W 360

Parsons, Peter 861

Peery, Rufus B SS7

Pennington, James E 411

Perdue, Edward 576

Pfouts, Ralyh U 479

Pike, Napoleon B 516

Pinder, Robert 675

Pitts, E. P 634

Plummer, Thomas 696

Potter, Thomas J 677

Power, Grace E 718

Price, John M 811

Raterman, John L 559

Redmond, George W 689

Remsburg, George J 50S

Remsburg, John E 504

Reynolds, John A 838

Robinson, Charles W 650

Rover, Boyd 814

Rudolph, Harrison \V 598

Ryan, William 879

Sanders, Benjamin F 568

Schaefer, George H. T 554

Schapp, William 622

Schiffbauer, Henr\' 862

Scholz, George 526

Scholz, John A 517

Schrader, George : 729

Schurman, Arthur S 816

Scoville, Orlando C 389

Seaton, John 376

Sharp, Harry L 512

Sharpless, Ulysses B 560

Shaw, Benjamin F 679

Shelly, Edwin T 843

Shortridge, Alfred 589

Simmons, Oscar A 800

Smith, Albert J 618

Smith, W. H 473

Smith, Wilson R , 427

Snyder, Mark D 574

Speck, A. S 640

Speer, Andrew 710

Speer. D. Anna 776

Speer, William F 846

Stanley, U'ilfull A 497

Stever, Abram 434

Stod<lard, John 748

Storch, George 448

Stutz, Christian W 499

Stutz, Gustave 69s

Stutz, John 639

Sullivan, John E 684

Sullivan, John Edward "65

Sullivan, Roger P 602

Sutter, Frank 607

Sutter, Fred 752

Sutter, William 840

Synins, Andrew B 365

Thomas, Robert M 397

Thompson, George W 664

Thompson, William H 720

Tomlinson, B. F 668

Treat, Thomas C 458

Trimlile, James M 764

Trimble, Roy C 492

Trompeter, Joseph 421

Trueblood, Alva C 405

Tucker, Thomas W 742

Valentino, John C 693

\'ansell, Martin C 873

Veatch, Nathan T 733

\'oelker, Conrad I\I 562

Waggener, Balie P 368

Wagner, Frank J 827

Walker, Claudius D 400

Walter, H. B 803

Warren, William T 849

Watowa, Frank J 818

Watowa, Joseph H 732

Weber, Peter 594

Wehking, William 828

Wertz, Frank P 655

Wheeler, D. N 514

White, George E 663

\\'ilson, James E 549

Wolf, August J 826

Woodworth, Edwin S 772

Woodford, Frank M 723

Young, William 794

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