Contents

EARLY HISTORY, begins on page 11

Origin of our Laws and the Sources of Titles to our Homes - Discoveries - Charters - Treaties - Laws Prior to the Organization of Kansas Territory - Territorial Government - The Osages - Survey of Reservation - Schools - Chiefs - Towns - Battle - The Two Bands - Character - Burying Grounds - Treaties with the Osages - John Mathews - Early Expeditions - Early Settlements - Surveys - Labette - Boundary

PERMANENT SETTLEMENT, ORGANIZATION AND GROWTH, begins on page 27

Organization of the County - Land Titles - Hardships - First Administration - Marriages - County-Seat and County-Seat Contests - County Buildings - Furnishing County Offices - Self-Organized Courts - District Court - Home for the Poor - List of Superintendents of Poor-Farm - Bridges (Neosho Township, Propositions by the County, Bridges across the Labette, Bridges across the Neosho, Bridges across other streams) - U. S. Census - Assessment for 1867 - Tax Sales - County Expenses - Colored People - Athletics - Official Delinquencies - Reception of President Hayes -

INDUSTRIAL PURSUITS - COUNTY ORGANIZATIONS, begins on page 48

First Wheat Crops - Threshing Machines and Grist-Mills - Castor Beans - Tame Grass - Cotton Industry - Grasshoppers - Fish and Game - Bounty - Dehorning Stock - Texas Fever - Hedge and Weed Law - Tables showing Acreage, Product and Value of Field Crops - Farmers' Organizations (Farmers' Club, Farmers' Alliance, Farmers' Union, Grange) - Fair Associations - Agricultural and Mechanical Society - Agricultural and Horticultural Societies (Neosho Valley Stock Association, Horticultural and Agricultural Fair Association, Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechanical Association, Parsons Fair and Driving Park Association) Labette County Horticultural Society - Other County Organizations (County Medical Society, Bar Association, Hoosier Association, Old Settlers' Association) - Labette County Historical Society - Other Local Organizations (County Centennial Board, Columbian Club) - G.A.R.

CRIMINAL MATTERS, begins on page 68

Assassinations, &c., &c. - The Bender Slaughter-Pen - Vigilance Committee - Citizens' Protective Association

MISHAPS, begins on page 78

Drownings - Conflagrations - Boiler Explosions - Deaths by Fire, &c., &c.

METEROLOGICAL, begins on page 81

The Weather, embracing the period from 1865 to 1900.

STORMS, begins on page 92

 

MUNICIPAL TOWNSHIPS, begins on page 94

A condensed History of all the Townships in the County from the Date of the Organization of each Township up to the Present Time.
Neosho Township - North Township - Walton Township - Osage Township - Mound Valley Township - Labette Township - Liberty Township - Montana Township - Oswego Township - Fairview Township - Mount Pleasant Township - Canada Township - Howard Township - Elm Grove Township - Hackberry Township - Richland Township

TOWNS AND CITIES, begins on page 118

Proposed Towns (containing some account of the various towns which at one time had an actual or "paper" existence, but are now dead)
Labette - Dayton - Jacksonville - Cherryville - Verbena - Kingsbury - Timber Hill - Big Hill - Neola - Elston - Kingston - Deerton
The Cities, Towns and Stations in Labette County as existing at present.
Angola - Penfield - Wilsonton - Idenboro - Mortimer - Dennis - Laneville - Matthewson - Stover - Big Hill - Stevens - Cecil - Montana City - Bartlett - Edna - Valeda - Labette - Altamont - Mound Valley - Chetopa - Oswego (cont'd) - Parsons

EDUCATIONAL, begins on page 166

Public Schools The First Schools in the County Detailed History of each School District - (District No. 1 - 10, District No. 11 - 39, District No. 40 - 85, District No. 86 - 112 - Grading Country Schools - Teachers' Institutes - County Teachers' Association - Private Schools - County High School - Public School Graduates - Hobson Normal Institute - Sacred Heart Academy - Oswego College - Osage College for Young Ladies - Literary Circles

RAILROADS, begins on page 203

Roads Attempted to be secured - Roads Constructed - Railroad Strikes

POLITICAL, begins on page 212

Brief Account of all the Conventions of the Various Political Parties, beginning with those of 1866 - Candidates for Judicial Honors
Organizations - Greenback, Farmers' and Laborers' Union, Farmers' Alliance
Conventions - Republican County, Republican Representative, Democratic County, Democratic Representative, Greenback County, Greenback District, Temperance, Prohibition, Union Labor County, Union Labor Representative, People's Party County, People's Party District, Senatorial, Judicial, Farmers', Grange, Judicial, Laboring Men's, People's Mass, Farmers' and Laborers'
Elections - Commissioner Districts - Legislative Apportionment - List of Officers - List and Terms of Chairmen of Board of County Commissioners - List of Official Papers

THE STRUGGLE FOR TEMPERANCE

The First Licensed Saloon - The Crusade Spirit - Reform Club - Breweries - Murphy Meetings - Dispensing with Petition - Temperance Organizations - The Prohibition Canvass - First Anniversary of Prohibition - Organizations for Enforcing the Law - Druggists' Reports - "Original Package" Houses

POSTOFFICES AND POSTMASTERS, begins on page 260

A Complete List of the Postoffices and Postmasters of Labette County, from 1865 to the Present

THE PRESS, begins on page 264

Brief account of each Newspaper and Periodical which has been Published in the County.
Published at Oswego, Chetopa, Parsons (cont'd), Altamont, Edna, Mound Valley, Labette, Wilsonton, Dennis. Published by Colored People

BENCH AND BAR, begins on page 281

Court, Bench (cont'd)

RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS, begins on page 297

History of every Religious Organization (embracing Churches, Sabbath Schools, Bible Societies, Y.M.C.A., &c., &c.) which has existed in the County. The American Bible Society - Y.M.C.A. - Y.W.C.A. - Sunday-Schools - Union Sunday-Schools - Colored Schools - Denominational Schools - County Sunday-School Associations - Township Associations - Church Organizations (part 2) (part 3)

THE SETTLERS' CONTEST FOR THEIR HOMES, begins on page 359

Preliminary Steps in the Contest - Settlers' Meetings - Basis for their Claims - Action of Congress and of the Land Department - Attitude of the Local Press - Settlers' Protective Association - Its Constitution - Legal Measures - Further Legislation - Final Victory

REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS, begins on page 377

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y, Z

Images Index - (not part of the original book)

 

Name Index - (not part of the original book)

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