Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Finney County, Kansas.

Official Website

Finney County began about 1880 as Buffalo County and Sequoyah County, named after Sequoyah, the Cherokee Indian responsible for the development of the Cherokee alphabet. The two counties were renamed Finney County in honor of then Lieutenant Governor David Wesley Finney.

Charles "Buffalo" Jones, a co-founder of Garden City, was the first member of the Kansas House of Representatives from Finney County. He was known for his efforts to preserve the buffalo from extinction.

Adjacent Counties

• Scott County
• Lane County
• Ness County
• Hodgeman County
• Haskell County
• Gray County
• Grant County
• Kearny County

Cities & Townships

• Garden City
• Garfield
• Holcomb
• Ivanhoe
• Pierceville
• Pleasant Valley
• Sherlock
• Terry

Other Towns & Communities: Amazon, Eminence, Essex, Friend, Imperial, Kalvesta, Knauston, Leeser, Lowe, Loya, Mansfield, Pierceville, Pitt, Plymell, Ravanna, Ritchall, Rodkey, Quinby and Terryton

Links

Wikipedia

National Register of Historic Places

Genealogy Trails

Roots Web

KS Gen Web

RAOGK

Lost Towns of Finney County