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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Washington County, Kansas. Official Website In 1857, Washington County was established. The Oregon-California Trail, the Overland Stage Line, and the Pony Express all ran through Washington County. Adjacent Counties Jefferson County, Neb. Gage County, Neb. Thayer County, Neb. Republic County Cloud County Clay County...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Kansas. Official Website In 1855, Jefferson County was established, and was named for President Thomas Jefferson. Settlement of the county was slowed by events prior to and during the Civil War, but the present day unincorporated community of Thompsonville was the first established in 1851 by Mormon settlers who in...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Osage County, Kansas. Official Website The county was originally organized in 1855 as Weller County, and was renamed in 1859 after the Osage River that runs through it, which is itself named for the Osage Native American Tribe. Adjacent Counties Douglas County Franklin County Coffey County Lyon County Wabaunsee County ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Geary County, Kansas. Official Website Geary County was originally named Davis County in 1855 after Jefferson Davis (then the United States Secretary of War). During the American Civil War, when Davis became president of the Confederacy, attempts were made to change the county's name, but both failed. Federal and state census record...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Chase County, Kansas. Official Website History The Great Plains of North America was inhabited by nomadic Native Americans. From the 16th century to 18th century, the Kingdom of France claimed ownership of large parts of North America. In 1762, after the French and Indian War, France secretly ceded New France to Spain, per the Tre...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died Stafford County, Kansas. Official Website Established in 1879, the county is named in honor of Lewis Stafford, captain of Company E, First Kansas Infantry, who was killed at the Battle of Young's Point in Madison Parish, Louisiana on June 7, 1863. Adjacent Counties Barton County Roce County Reno County Pratt County Edwar...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Leavenworth County, Kansas. Official Website In 1855, Leavenworth County was established and was named, as was its county seat, after Henry Leavenworth, an officer in the War of 1812. By a special act of Congress, the reservation for the U.S. Penitentiary was deeded by the War Department to the Justice Department in 1897 to build t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Coffey County, Kansas. Official Website Coffey County was established in 1855. It was named after A.M. Coffey, a territorial legislator and Free-Stater during Bleeding Kansas era. Adjacent Counties Osage County Franklin County Anderson County Allen County Woodson County Greenwood County Lyon County
Please add profiles for those who were born in Lyon County, Kansas. Official Website In 1806, Zebulon Pike led the Pike Expedition westward from St Louis, Missouri, of which part of their journey followed the Cottonwood River through Lyon County. In 1862, Lyon County was established from the county formerly known as Breckinridge County. It was named for General Nathaniel Lyon, who was killed...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Atchison County, Kansas . Official Website Named for David Rice Atchison (1807-1886), United States senator from Missouri at the time of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. French explorers and trappers were the first Europeans to journey across what became Atchison County. Etienne de Bourgmont, military commander of the French colony of Lou...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Douglas County, Kansas. Official Website In 1855, Douglas County was established. Douglas County was opened for settlement on May 15, 1854, and was named for Stephen A. Douglas, a senator from Illinois. The county was practically at the center of the Bleeding Kansas years as leaders in Lecompton (the territorial capital) wanted Kans...
This project is for those buried in Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery, located on 1150 North 38th Street, Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas. The cemetery was established in 1901 at what was the western edge of Kansas City, Kansas. Originally ten acres, Mt Calvary now encompasses thirty-four acres. This cemetery erected its first mausoleum in 1974 and is also known as Mount Calvary Cemetery ....
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wyandotte County, Kansas. Official Website The county is named after the Wyandot (also known as Wyandott or Wyandotte) Indians. They were called the Huron by the French in Canada, but called themselves Wendat. They were distantly related to the Iroquois, with whom they sometimes fought. They had hoped to keep white Americans out of ...
This subportal is part of the State of Kansas Portal . Wikipedia Please go to following link for further information: United States with Counties, Areas & Communities Project . Projects on Geni Cities & Communities Fort Riley Kansas City Overland Park Topeka Wichita
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Morris County, Kansas. Official Website The county was established on ancient grounds of the Kaw American Indian tribe. Settlers and the Kaw lived in increasingly uneasy relationship as settlers encroached on native lands. Council Grove, established by European Americans in 1825, was an important supply station on the Santa Fe Trai...
Wikipedia Washburn University (WU) is a co-educational, public institution of higher learning in Topeka, Kansas, United States. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as professional programs in law and business. Washburn has 550 faculty members, who teach more than 6,100 undergraduate students and nearly 800 graduate students. The university's assets include a $152 million en...
Wikipedia =Kansas State University, commonly shortened to Kansas State or K-State, is a public doctoral university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. Kansas State was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 – the first public institution of higher learning in the state of Kansas. It had a record high enrollment of 24,766 students for the Fall 2014 semester.Branch...
Kansas Governors Since admission to the Union on 29 January 1861, Kansas has had 48 governors. For governors prior to statehood, refer to United States Territorial Governors . Charles L. Robinson Thomas Carney Samuel J. Crawford Nehemiah Green James M. Harvey Thomas A. Osborn
Televisions shows that depicted the Old West that ran approximately 1940-1975. The studio and network (NBC) were set on ending the Vriginian series, as evidenced by rivals CBS and ABC making demographic moves away from rural oriented shows (see "rural purge" for more information). The final episode aired on March 24, 1971 ending its 9-season run. Bonanza ended its 14 season run on January 16, 1...
Wikipedia The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university and the largest in the U.S. state of Kansas. KU branch campuses are located in the towns of Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, Salina, and Kansas City, Kansas, with the main campus located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest location in Lawrence. Founded March 21st, 1865, the university was opened in 1866, under a char...
Wikipedia Wichita State University (WSU) is a public research university in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is the third-largest university governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. Wichita State University offers more than 60 undergraduate degree programs in more than 200 areas of study in six colleges. The Graduate School offers 44 master's degrees in more than 100 areas and a specialist...
Wikipedia =Emporia State University (Emporia State or ESU) is a public university in Emporia, Kansas. Established in March 1863 as the Kansas State Normal School, Emporia State is the third-oldest public university in the state of Kansas. Emporia State is one of six public universities governed by the Kansas Board of Regents.The university offers degrees in more than 80 courses of study through...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas. It is not to be confused with Kansas City, Missouri Official Website In October 1872, "old" Kansas City, Kansas, was incorporated. The first city election was held on October 22 of that year, by order of Judge Hiram Stevens of the Tenth Judicial District, and resulted in the election of Mayo...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Reno County, Kansas. Official Website Reno County was established in 1867 and was named for Major-General Jesse Lee Reno who fought in the Civil War and died in the line of duty at the Battle of South Mountain in Maryland in 1862. Adjacent Counties McPherson County Rice County Harvey County Sedgwick County Kingman County...