

Wichita, Sedgwick County,Kansas:
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sedgwick County, Kansas. Find a Grave Sedgwick County was founded in 1867, and named after John Sedgwick, who was a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The Chisholm Trail began in 1865 in Sedgwick County. Hundreds of thousands of tons of freight left Wichita and over 3000000 head of stock arrived over th...
Friends University is a private non-denominational Christian university in Wichita, Kansas, founded in 1898. The main building was originally built in 1886 for Garfield University, but was donated in 1898 to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) by James Davis, a St. Louis business man. In the 1930s the leadership of the school was turned over to an independent Board of Trustees, with some...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sedgwick County, Colorado. The county was named for Fort Sedgwick, a military post along the Platte Trail, which was named for General John Sedgwick. Adjacent Counties Deuel County, Neb. Perkins County, Neb. Phillips County Logan County Cheyenne County, Neb. Towns Julesburg (County Seat) Ovid Sedgwick ...