Transcribed from History of Wyandotte County Kansas and its people ed. and comp. by Perl W. Morgan. Chicago, The Lewis publishing company, 1911. 2 v. front., illus., plates, ports., fold. map. 28 cm. [Vol. 2 contains biographical data. Paged continuously.]

Index


St. Anthony's church, 367
St. Margaret's Hospital, 411, 412
St. Paul Hotel, 339
St. Peter's high school, 372
St. Thomas church, 366
Santa Fe system, 445; building of, 454
Sauer, Anthony P., 574
Sayers, Ray, 775
Scanlan, John, 624
Scenes of rare beauty, 14
Schaible, John L., 556
Scheidt, Jacob, 815
Scheller, Charles W., 983
Schenck, Eugene A., 781
Schleifer, Fred, 1025
School districts organized, 389
School officers, 384
School statistics, 389
School yards, 388
Schools, 380; books in the, 394; high, 386; medical, 411; night, 385; parochial, 390
Schools, Bonner Springs, 322
Schools, Rosedale, 314
Schools, Wyandotte county, 388
Schubert, Carl, 830
Schuetz, William E., 710
Scottish Rite Masons, 435
Scottish Rite Temple, 436, 437
Scott, Larmon E., 609
Scroggs, Margaret E., 957
Scroggs, John B., 956
Second and third districts, 286
Second division district court judges, 277
Second Kansas Volunteer Battery, 199
Second Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry, 203
Second ward, 307
Secret and benevolent societies, 434
Secret societies of Rosedale, 315
Seifert, Joseph, 948
Seminaries, 397
Senators and representatives, 275
Seutter map of Louisiana, 5
Seutter, Matthew, 4
Seven departments, "The Kansas City University," 400
Seventeen days in a snow bank, 467
Seward, Atwell C., 548
Seward, Nancy L., 549
Shannon, Governor, to the frontier, 137
Sharp, Benjamin T., 932
Sharp, Judge Isaac B., 261
Shawnee Baptist mission, 50, 422
Shawnee Light or Sun, 50, 422
Shawnee Methodist Mission, 47
Shawnee prophet, 31
Shawnee Quaker mission, 52
Shawnee township, 282
Shawnees clung to old customs, 37; coming to Kansas, 31; farewell to Kansas, 38; first emigrants, 29; last stand, 30; wars and wanderings of, 29
Shawneetown, 372
Sheaff, John M., 604
Shepherd, Orrin W., 1034
Sheriffs, 276
Shore, Joseph L., 814
"Short Grass" country cut off, 172
Shively, Delbert M., 525
Sihler, Charles J., 937
"Silence and no questions asked," 228
Silvey, James M., 737
Simmons, Ave, 761
Simms, Charles H., 821
Simpson, Benjamin F., 149, 179
Simpson, Samuel N., 836
Simpson, William A., 910
Sims, John T., 506
Sisters of St. Francis, 411
Site for a church, 363
Site of Kansas City, 70
Situation before battle of the Blue, 216
Sixteenth Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, 206
Sixteenth Volunteer Cavalry, 198
Sixteenth's roll of honor, 206
Sixth Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, 203
Sixth ward, 307
Skirmish march, 240
Slavery, closed the door to, 154
Sloan, Joseph H., 1023
Slow trains in the sixties, 465
Smallest county in Kansas, 15
Smalley, James L., 637
Smith, Daniel M., 656
Smith, George C., 864
Smith, Hugh J., 975
Smith, Walter D., 1052
Smith, William H., 763
Smith, William S., 649
Smyth, John E., 717
Snell, William D., 907
Snyder, Kimble P., 850
Snyder, Samuel H., 655
Soap manufactories, great, 480
Social life about the missions, 53
Societies, benevolent and secret, 434
Societies, Emigrant Aid, 140
Soil, types of, 490
Soldiers attended prayer meeting, 350
Soldiers guarded a steamboat captain, 233
Some of the men of the old K. P., 463
Some valuable freight, 229
Sonntag, Carl H., 952
Southern Boundary line of Kansas, 169
Southwick, Albert, 550
Southwick, Susan P., 552
Speck, Frederick, 258, 857
Speck, Joseph, 257, 857
Speckled Eye, 24
Speech of John H. Atwood, 165
Speech of Stephen A. Douglas, 179
Splitlog, Mathias, 72
"Splitlog's Hill," 72
Stark, John A., 863
State geologist Mudge, 255
State line depot, 465
State line, surveying a, 184
State mass meeting, 301
State organization, 418
Statistics, horticultural, 502
Statistics, school, 389
Statistics of Wyandotte county, 283
Steamboat captain guarded by soldiers, 233
Steamboat days, old, 118
Steamboat trail trade, 114
Steamboats of Kansas river, 126
Steamboats that went down, 126
Steel plant, great, 485
Sterrett, Rev. Alexander, 268
Stevens, C. B., 690
Stilwell enterprise, great, 459
Stine, Benjamin L., 882
Stockton, Cora M., 267
Stockhoff, G. Herman, 521
Stockhoffoff, Henry, 579
Stories of war-time days, 230
Story hour, 395
Story of two bishops, 374
Stotler, Joseph J., 1036
Stover, Harvey L., 660
Street commissioners, 310
Street railway facilities, 335
Strohmyer, John J., 611
Struggle for civil government, 129
Stubbs, Governor on "Kansas," 161
Sturges, "Mother," 268
Studt, Charles F., 683
Studt, John H., 594
Sturtz, Adam L., 730
Sunflower State, 14
"Sunny Kansas," 162
Supreme judges, 286
Superintendents of public instruction, 277
Surveyors, county, 277
Surveying a state line, 184
Sutherland, Thomas W., 537
Sutton, William B., 621
Swope, Thomas Hunton, 269
Synopsis of reports of Kansas regiments, 200
Tabler, Charles M., 805
Taggart, Joseph, 628
Talbott, Ingram J., 692
Tanner, William C., 799
Taylor, Charles S., 703
Taylor, John C., 543
Tayor, Richard Baxter, 425
Teaching the negroes trades, 406
Tecumseh, 30; death of, 30
Temperature, 16
Tenth Kansas Veteran Regiment, 196
Theden, Herman, 825
"The Great American Desert," 12
Then came the Civil war, 419
Theno, Mathias A., 620
Thomas, Tabitha N., 265
Thomas, William B., 668
Thompson, Charles E., 1011
Thompson, John A., 847
Thornhill, Arthur, 734
Thoroughness in the courses, 408
Those who joined the Sixth, 203
Threatened by Pawnee Indians, 185
Three judicial districts, 285
Three makers of Kansas history, 136
Three Wyandotte founders, 268
Third Kansas Battery, 200
Third ward, 307
Thirteenth Kansas Infantry, 197
Tiblow, 320
Tiblow ferry, 320
Tiblow, Henry, 320
Timmerman, William, 891
To become a great university, 401
Topeka battery's loss, 221
Topeka Constitution, 138
"Topeka Tribune," 177
Total volunteers for Wyandotte county, 202
Town of real live men, 104
Town of Wyandotte, 362
Town organization, 92
Townships, 281
Township organization, 281
Townsite boomers, 92
Trails of the explorers, 9
Trant, James, 854
Traveling post office, 113
Travels of Moncachtape, 19
Treasurers, city, 309
Treasurers, county, 277
Treaty of 1866, 46
Trees and native flora, 490
Trembly and White in swimming, 243
Trembly, William B., 243
Trower, Oliver B., 988
True, Lewis C., 508
Turner, 323
Turner, R. L., 736
Twelfth Cavalry's many battles, 211
Twelfth Infantry, 197
Twelfth Regiment Volunteer Cavalry, 205
Twentieth Kansas Volunteers, 248
Twenty-five years of statehood, 157
Twist, John R., 788
Twist, William S., 852
Types of soil, 490
"Underground" and war stories, 227
"Underground Railroad," 227
Union Volunteers from Kansas, 189
United Zinc & Chemical Company, 485
Universities and seminaries, 397
University of Kansas School and Hospital, 415
Unpromising town, an, 111
Uses of the library, 394
Utilization of lands along the Kansas river, 295
Vance, 324
Veale, Colonel G. W., 261
Veale, Colonel, heroic stand of, 218
Vegetable gardening, 499
Venard, Edward E., 714
Vermillion Sea, 3
Visit to the missions, 51
Wahlin, Anders L., 741
Waiting for an attack by Indians, 461
Wakarusa war, 139
Walker, Governor Robert J., 142
Wallula, 324
Walsh, Dennis, 769
Ward boundaries established, 306
Ward Hall and Industrial building, 407
Wards, 306
War stories, 227
Wars and wanderings of Shawnees, 29
Washington Boulevard Methodist Episcopal church, 346
Waters, James D., 868
Watson, Joseph F., 651
Webb, William H., 681
"Weekly Press," 428
"Weekly Spy," 427
"Weekly Sun," 428
Weir, Colonel, men, 204
Welcome to Governor Reeder, 132
Wells, Charles K., 514
West, John W., 950
West, Owen M., 612
"Western Argus," 424
Western boundary, debate on, 171
Western Terra Cotta Company, The, 891
Western University and Industrial School, 405
Westport a great trade center, 109
Westport Landing, 110
What killed old Quindaro, 106
When Cholera struck Kansas City, Missouri, 112
When Colorado was a part of Kansas, 170
When Father Marquette came, 2
When Kansas City was born, 110
When the Methodists were divided, 344
When the news of statehood reached Kansas, 157
When the old church bell rang, 351
When the townsite boomers came, 92
When the white settlers came, 88
When the Yankee Free State men came, 120
When Wyandotte became a city, 96
Whence came the name Kansas, 18
Where the Legislature met, 48
Where their spirit originated, 239
White church, 324
White, Edward, 243
White, George H., 1030
White, William Allen, on "The Old Insurgents," 164
Whitlock, Edna E., 889
Whitlock, John W., 889
Wiegers, August, 1043
Wiehe, Gus F., 554
Wilcoxen, Melinda, 44
Wiles, James P., 790
Wilkinson, Hugh, 584
Williams, Ernest D., 1029
Wilson's Creek, battle of, 190
Wilt, Anderson S., 592
Winship, William L., 892
Winters, William H., 1019
Woestemeyer, Henry F., 617
Wolcott, 324
Wolcott, Mary H. S., 267
Woman founder of library, 390
Woman's influence in the convention, 155
Wonderful map of Father Hennepin, 4
Wood, DeWitt C., 989
Wood, Watson F., 1006
Wood, William L., 844
Woodcock, Grant A., 699
Working in a blizzard, 187
Would make the Platte the boundary, 174
Wray, Thomas W., 960
Wulf, Henry F., 601
Wyandots, 59, 60; pioneers in the movement, 130; nation, ancient, 59; allegiance to the French, 65; became a civilized nation, 66; become citizens, 79; chiefs, 73; come to their promised land, 68; cultivated farms, 72; the first Methodists, 344; founded the village of Wyandotte, 70; purchase a home from the Delawares, 69; sold their Ohio Reservation, 68; version of the creation, 63; wars at an end, 66.
Wyandotte, the name, 1
Wyandotte, county seat, 278; excitement in, 451; in the Civil war, 201; officials, 98; pioneers, 268
"Wyandotte City Register," 424
Wyandotte Constitution, 146
Wyandotte convention, 146
Wyandotte convention cut off Colorado, 171
Wyandotte county, 16; area of, 15; bridges, 283; court house, 278; first in material wealth, 16; macadam roads in, 283; political history of, 271; population, 283; schools, 388; statistics, 283
Wyandotte County Women's Club, 259
Wyandotte County Women's Columbian Club, 259
Wyandotte district court, first session, 287
"Wyandotte Democrat," 427
"Wyandotte Gazette," 84, 424
"Wyandotte Herald," 427
Wyandotte Hotel, 339
Wyandotte Medical Society, 421
Wyandotte township, 281
Wyandotte Wagon and Carriage Works, 555
Yankee Free State men, 120
Young, Arch A., 593
Young Tom Ewing's regiment, 196
Young Women's Christian Association, 342
Yunghans, Oscar, 783
Zane, Elizabeth, 76
Zane, Isaac, 91
Zugg, Clarence L., 577

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