Research Resources

I hope you find these resources helpful in your search for your ancestors. The links are on the left. If you have any resources that you consider helpful, please let me know.

LINCOLN COUNTY KANSAS BOOKS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES
(A bibliography of material with Kansas library locations)

A SOUVENIR HISTORY OF LINCOLN COUNTY
(An online transcription of the book by Elizabeth Barr, 1908 edition. Transcribed by Joan Stevenson.)

INDIAN RAIDS IN LINCOLN COUNTY KANSAS, 1864 AND 1869
(An online transcription of the text of the book by Christian Bernhardt, published in 1910, describing the struggles between Native Americans and settlers. Transcribed by Joan Stevenson.)

A Name index to the 1938 book, A HISTORY OF LINCOLN COUNTY, KANSAS by Mabel S. Wallace.
(Written by Ms Wallace as a thesis for the degree of Master of Arts at Colorado State College of Education, Greeley, Colorado. The online index was compiled by Wilda Rollyne Kessler Webber (Wendy) Morris)

Lincoln County chapter of CUTLER'S HISTORY OF KANSAS
(Also called the ANDREAS HISTORY OF KANSAS. William Cutler's 1883 classic history of the state. Included in the Lincoln County chapter is a a map of the county showing towns and townships in 1883. To see other counties in the Cutler book click here

Stories from Lincoln County Pioneers

Forsyth Scout-Beecher Island Battle Newsletters

First Train in Lincoln

Lincoln Sentinel-Republican, July 4, 1929

On Aug. 30, 1886, the first Union Pacific train pulled into Lincoln. This is from official records of the Union Pacific, for which we are indebted to R.W. Greene. Mr. Greene obtained this information to settle a friendly argument over the time when Lincoln received its first train. As a result of this information Mr. Greene is smoking good cigars for which Grant Crawford was obliged to pay. As there was no way to settle the argument between Mr. Greene and Mr. Crawford, Mr. Greene wrote to the headquarters of the Union Pacific at Salina nd received this reply: "I am pleased to inform you that first U.P. train came into Lincoln Center Aug. 30, 1886." -- G.E. Oberlander

Mrs. Votruba One of Few Kansas Women To Manufacture Cigars

Lincoln Republican, 29 March 1917

Anna Johnson of Salina is the only woman in Kansas who manufactures cigars. She is proprietor of Cigar Factory No. 21, District of Kansas and is also the sales lady and cigar maker she is purchasing agent and distributing clerk; she is janitor and bookkeeper; in fact, Miss Johnson is the whole force. – Osborne Farmer

Mistaken again, Bro. Walker, Lincoln has had a cigar factory, run by Mrs. Votruba, for over 15 years. She is a widow and largely from her efforts in making and selling cigars, she has been able to put three boys through high school. She does the work herself and also sells the cigars.

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