A History of Kansas

by Anna E. Arnold

STATE OFFICERS OF KANSAS
Governors
Charles Robinson		1861-1863
Thomas Carney		1863-1865
Samuel J. Crawford		1865-1868
Resigned November 4, 1868.
Nehemiah Green, Acting Governor		1868-1869
James M. Harvey		1869-1873
Thomas A. Osborn		1873-1877
George T. Anthony		1877-1879
John P. St. John		1879-1883
George W. Glick		1883-1885
John A. Martin		1885-1889
Lyman U. Humphrey		1889-1893
Lorenzo D. Lewelling		1893-1895
Edmund N. Morrill		1895-1897
John W. Leedy		1897-1899
William E. Stanley		1899-1903
Willis Joshua Bailey		1903-1905
Edward W. Hoch		1905-1909
Walter Roscoe Stubbs		1909-1913
George H. Hodges		1913-1915
Arthur Capper		1915-1919
Henry J. Allen		1919 ——
Lieutenant-Governors
Joseph P. Root		1861-1863
Thomas A. Osborn		1863-1865
James McGrew		1865-1867
Nehemiah Green		1867-1868
Charles V. Eskridge		1869-1871
Peter P. Elder		1871-1873
Elias S. Stover		1873-1875
Melville J. Salter		1875-1877
Resigned July 19, 1877.
Lyman U. Humphrey, elected November 6		1877
Lyman U. Humphrey		1879-1881
D. W. Finney		1881-1885
Alex. P. Riddle		1885-1889
Andrew J. Felt		1889-1893
Percy Daniels		1893-1895
James A. Troutman		1895-1897
A. M. Harvey		1897-1899
H. E. Richter		1899-1903
David J. Hanna		1903-1907
W. J. Fitzgerald		1907-1911
Richard J. Hopkins		1911-1913
Sheffield Ingalls		1913-1915
William Yost Morgan		1915-1919
Chas. E. Huffman		1919 ——
Secretaries of State
John Winter Robinson		1861-1862
Removed July 28, 1862.
Sanders Rufus Shepherd, appointed		1862-1863
William Wirt Henry Lawrence		1863-1865
Rinaldo Allen Barker		1865-1869
Thomas Moonlight		1869-1871
William Hillary Smallwood		1871-1875
Thomas H. Cavanaugh		1875-1879
James Smith		1879-1885
Edwin Bird Allen		1885-1889
William Higgins		1889-1893
Russel Scott Osborn		1893-1895
William Congdon Edwards		1895-1897
William Eben Bush		1897-1899
George Alfred Clark		1899-1903
Joel Randall Burrow		1903-1907
C. E. Denton		1907-1911
Charles H. Sessions		1911-1915
John Thomas Botkin		1915-1919
L. J. Pettijohn		1919 ——
Auditors
George Shaler Hillyer		1861-1862
Removed July 28, 1862.
David Long Lakin, appointed		1862-1863
Asa Hairgrove		1863-1865
John R. Swallow		1865-1869
Alois Thoman		1869-1873
Daniel Webster Wilder		1873-1876
Resigned September 20, 1876.
Parkinson Isaiah Bonebrake, appointed		1876
Parkinson Isaiah Bonebrake		1877-1883
Edward P. McCabe		1883-1887
Timothy McCarthy		1887-1891
Charles Merrill Hovey		1891-1893
Van B. Prather		1893-1895
George Ezekiel Cole		1895-1897
William H. Morris		1897-1899
George Ezekiel Cole		1899-1903
Seth Grant Wells		1903-1907
J. M. Nation		1907-1911
W. E. Davis		1911-1917
F. W. Knapp		1917 ——
Treasurers
William Tholen, elected in 1859.
Entered the army and did not qualify.
Hartwin R. Dutton, appointed March 26		1861
Hartwin R. Dutton, elected		1861-1863
William Spriggs		1863-1867
Martin Anderson		1867-1869
George Graham		1869-1871
Josiah Emery Hayes		1871-1874
Resigned April 30, 1874.
John Francis, appointed		1874-1875
Samuel Lappin		1875
Resigned December 20, 1875.
John Francis, appointed		1875
John Francis		1877-1883
Samuel T. Howe		1883-1887
James William Hamilton		1887-1890
Resigned March 1, 1890.
William Sims, appointed		1890-1891
Solomon G. Stover		1891-1893
William Henry Biddle		1893-1895
Otis L. Atherton		1895-1897
David H. Heflebower		1897-1899
Frank E. Grimes		1899-1903
Thomas T. Kelly		1903-1907
Mark Tully		1907-1913
Earl Akers		1913-1917
Walter L. Payne		1917 ——
Attorneys-General
Benjamin Franklin Simpson		1861
Resigned July, 1861.
Charles Chadwick, appointed		1861
Samuel A. Stinson		1861-1863
Warren W. Guthrie		1863-1865
Jerome D. Brumbaugh		1865-1867
George Henry Hoyt		1867-1869
Addison Danford		1869-1871
Archibald L. Williams		1871-1875
Asa M. F. Randolph		1875-1877
Willard Davis		1877-1881
William A. Johnston		1881-1884
Resigned December 1, 1884.
George P. Smith, appointed		1884-1885
Simeon Briggs Bradford		1885-1889
Lyman Beecher Kellogg		1889-1891
John Nutt Ives		1891-1893
John Thomas Little		1893-1895
Fernando B. Dawes		1895-1897
Louis C. Boyle		1897-1899
Aretas A. Godard		1899-1903
Charles Crittenden Coleman		1903-1907
F. S. Jackson		1907-1911
John S. Dawson		1911-1915
Sardies Mason Brewster		1915-1919
Richard J. Hopkins		1919 ——
Superintendents of Public Instruction
William Riley Griffith		1861-1862
Died February 12, 1862.
Simeon Montgomery Thorp, appointed		1862-1863
Isaac T. Goodnow		1863-1867
Peter McVicar		1867-1871
Hugh De France McCarty		1871-1875
John Fraser		1875-1877
Allen Borsley Lemmon		1877-1881
Henry Clay Speer		1881-1885
Joseph Hadden Lawhead		1885-1889
George Wesley Winans		1889-1893
Henry Newton Gaines		1893-1895
Edmund Stanley		1895-1897
William Stryker		1897-1899
Frank Nelson		1899-1903
Insley L. Dayhoff		1903-1907
E. T. Fairchild		1907-1912
Resigned November 19, 1912.
W. D. Ross, appointed		1912
W. D. Ross		1913-1919
Lorraine E. Wooster		1919 ——
Chief Justices
Thomas Ewing, Jr.		1861-1862
Resigned November 28, 1862.
Nelson Cobb, appointed		1862-1864
Robert Crozier		1864-1867
Samuel Austin Kingman		1867-1876
Resigned December 30, 1876.
Albert Howell Horton, appointed		1876
Albert Howell Horton		1877-1895
Resigned April 30, 1895.
David Martin, appointed		1895
David Martin		1895-1897
Frank Doster		1897-1903
William Agnew Johnston		1903 ——
State Printers
S. S. Prouty		1869-1873
George W. Martin		1873-1881
T. Dwight Thatcher		1881-1887
Clifford C. Baker		1887-1891
E. H. Snow		1891-1895
J. K. Hudson		1895-1897
J. S. Parks		1897-1899
W. Y. Morgan		1899-1903
George A. Clark		1903-1905
T. A. McNeal		1905-1911
W. C. Austin		1911-1915
William R. Smith		1915-1919
Resigned February 1, 1919.
Imri Zumwalt, appointed		1919 ——
Superintendents of Insurance
Webb McNall		1897-1901
W. V. Church		1901-1903
Charles H. Luling		1903-1907
Charles W. Barnes		1907-1911
Ike S. Lewis		1911-1915
Carey J. Wilson		1915-1919
Frank L. Travis		1919 ——
United States Senators
LANE SUCCESSION
James H. Lane		1861-1866
Died July 11, 1866.
Edmund G. Ross, appointed		1866
Edmund G. Ross		1867-1871
Alexander Caldwell		1871-1873
Resigned March 24, 1873.
Robert Crozier, appointed		1873-1874
James M. Harvey, elected		1874-1877
Preston B. Plumb		1877-1891
Died December 20, 1891.
Bishop W. Perkins, appointed		1892-1893
John Martin, elected January 25		1893-1895
Lucien Baker		1895-1901
Joseph Ralph Burton		1901-1906
Resigned, 1906.
A. W. Benson, appointed		1906-1907
Charles Curtis		1907-1913
William H. Thompson		1913-1919
Arthur Capper		1919 ——
POMEROY SUCCESSION
Samuel C. Pomeroy		1861-1873
John James Ingalls		1873-1891
William Alfred Peffer		1891-1897
William A. Harris		1897-1903
Chester I. Long		1903-1909
J. L. Bristow		1909-1915
Charles Curtis		1915 ——
Congressmen
Martin F. Conway		1861-1863
Abel Carter Wilder		1863-1865
Sidney Clarke		1865-1871
David P. Lowe		1871-1875
Stephen Alonzo Cobb		1873-1875
William Addison Phillips		1873-1879
William R. Brown		1875-1877
John R. Goodin		1875-1877
Dudley C. Haskell		1877-1883
Thomas Ryan		1877-1889
John Alexander Anderson		1879-1891
Edmund N. Morrill		1883-1891
Samuel Ritter Peters		1883-1891
Lewis Hanback		1883-1887
Bishop W. Perkins		1883-1891
Edward Hogue Funston		1883-1893
Erastus J. Turner		1887-1891
Harrison Kelley		1889-1891
Case Broderick		1891-1899
B. H. Clover		1891-1893
John Davis		1891-1895
Jerry Simpson	{	1891-1895
		1897-1899
John Grant Otis		1891-1893
William Baker		1891-1897
William Alexander Harris		1893-1895
Horace L. Moore		1893-1895
Charles Curtis		1893-1907
Thomas J. Hudson		1893-1895
Richard W. Blue		1895-1897
Orrin L. Miller		1895-1897
Snyder S. Kirkpatrick		1895-1897
Chester I. Long	{	1895-1897
		1899-1903
William A. Calderhead	{	1895-1897
		1899-1911
Jeremiah Dunham Botkin		1897-1899
Mason Summers Peters		1897-1899
N. B. McCormick		1897-1899
Edwin Reed Ridgely		1897-1901
William D. Vincent		1897-1899
Willis Joshua Bailey		1899-1901
Justin DeWitt Bowersock		1899-1907
James Monroe Miller		1899-1911
William Augustus Reeder		1899-1911
Charles Frederick Scott		1901-1911
Alfred Metcalf Jackson		1901-1903
Philip Pitt Campbell		1903 ——
Victor Murdock		1903-1915
D. R. Anthony		1907 ——
E. H. Madison[22]		1907-1911
A. C. Mitchell[23]		1911-1911
Fred S. Jackson		1911-1913
R. R. Rees		1911-1913
I. D. Young		1911-1913
Joseph Taggart		1911-1915
Dudley Doolittle		1913-1919
Guy T. Helvering		1913-1919
John R. Connelly		1913-1919
George A. Neeley		1912-1915
Jouett Shouse		1915-1919
William A. Ayers		1915 ——
Edward Little		1915 ——
Hayes B. White		1919 ——
Homer Hoch		1919 ——
James Strong		1919 ——
James N. Tincher		1919 ——

INSTITUTIONS IN KANSAS
State Schools
University of Kansas	Lawrence.
State Agricultural College	Manhattan.
State Normal School	Emporia.
Fort Hays Kansas Normal School	Hays.
State Manual Training Normal School	Pittsburg.
Kansas School for the Blind	Kansas City.
Kansas School for the Deaf	Olathe.
Denominational Schools
Baker University, Methodist Episcopal	Baldwin.
Bethany College, Swedish Lutheran	Lindsborg.
Bethany College, Episcopalian	Topeka.
Bethel College, Mennonite	Newton.
Campbell University	Holton.
College of Emporia, Presbyterian	Emporia.
College Preparatory School (Private)	Atchison.
Cooper College, United Presbyterian	Sterling.
Enterprise Normal Academy, German M. E.	Enterprise.
Fairmount College, Congregational	Wichita.
Fowler Friends Academy, Friends	Fowler.
Friends University, Friends	Wichita.
Highland University, Presbyterian	Highland.
Haviland Academy, Friends	Haviland.
Kansas City University, United Brethren	Kansas City.
Kansas Wesleyan University, Methodist Episcopal	Salina.
McPherson College, Church of the Brethren	McPherson.
Midland College, Lutheran	Atchison.
Mt. St. Scholastica’s Academy, Catholic	Atchison.
Nazareth Academy, Catholic	Concordia.
Northbranch Academy, Friends	Northbranch.
Ottawa University, Baptist	Ottawa.
Southwestern College, Methodist Episcopal	Winfield.
St. Benedict’s College, Catholic	Atchison.
St. John’s Lutheran College, Lutheran	Winfield.
St. Martin’s School, Episcopalian	Salina.
St. Mary’s Academy, Catholic	Leavenworth.
St. Mary’s Academy, Catholic	Great Bend.
St. Mary’s College, Catholic	St. Marys.
Walden College, Evangelical	McPherson.
Washburn College, Congregational	Topeka.
State Penal or Corrective Institutions
State Industrial Reformatory	Hutchinson.
State Industrial School for Girls	Beloit.
State Industrial School for Boys	Topeka.
State Penitentiary	Lansing.
State Benevolent Institutions
State Training School	Winfield.
State Hospital for the Insane	Topeka.
State Hospital for the Insane	Osawatomie.
State Hospital for the Insane	Larned.
State Hospital for Epileptics	Parsons.
State Hospital for Tuberculosis	Norton.
Special Institutions
State Soldiers’ Home	Fort Dodge.
Mother Bickerdyke Home	Ellsworth.
Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home	Atchison.
State Colored Schools
Topeka Industrial and Educational Institute	Topeka.
Western University	Quindaro.
Federal Institutions
Haskell Institute, Indian	Lawrence.
Pottawatomie Boarding School for Indians	Nadeau.
Federal Prison	Leavenworth.
National Soldiers’ Home	Leavenworth.
United States Disciplinary Barracks	Fort Leavenworth.
(Military Prison.)

BALANCE OF POWER IN THE UNITED STATES SENATEBETWEEN THE FREE AND THE SLAVE STATES
FREE.	SLAVE.
Pennsylvania.	Delaware.	The original thirteen states.
New Jersey.	Georgia.
Connecticut.	Maryland.
Massachusetts.	South Carolina.
New Hampshire.	Virginia.
New York.	North Carolina.
Rhode Island.
7	6
Vermont, 1791.	Kentucky, 1792.
Ohio, 1802.	Tennessee, 1796.
Indiana, 1816.	Louisiana, 1812.
Illinois, 1818.	Mississippi, 1817
	Alabama, 1819.
11	11	The Missouri Compromise, 1820.
Maine, 1820.	Missouri, 1821.
	Arkansas, 1836.
12	13	First slave state majority.
Michigan, 1837.	Florida, 1845.
Iowa, 1846.	Texas, 1845.	Last slave state.
Wisconsin, 1848.
15	15
California, 1850.		Compromise of 1850.
16	15	Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 1854. The last chance for the South to win.
Minnesota, 1858.
Oregon, 1859.
Kansas, 1861.
19	15	Secession and the Civil War.

ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTIES OF KANSAS
Counties Organized Before 1860
County.	Date of Organization.	County Seat.
Allen	1855	Iola.
Anderson	1855	Garnett.
Atchison	1855	Atchison.
Bourbon	1855	Fort Scott.
Brown	1855	Hiawatha.
Butler	1855	El Dorado.
Chase	1859	Cottonwood Falls.
Coffey	1859	Burlington.
Dickinson	1857	Abilene.
Doniphan	1855	Troy.
Douglas	1855	Lawrence.
Franklin	1855	Ottawa.
Geary[24]	1855	Junction City.
Jackson[25]	1857	Holton.
Jefferson	1855	Oskaloosa.
Johnson	1855	Olathe.
Leavenworth	1855	Leavenworth.
Linn	1855	Mound City.
Marshall	1855	Marysville.
Miami[26]	1855	Paola.
Morris[27]	1855	Council Grove.
Nemaha	1855	Seneca.
Osage[28]	1855	Lyndon.
Pottawatomie	1856	Westmoreland.
Riley	1855	Manhattan.
Saline	1859	Salina.
Shawnee	1855	Topeka.
Wabaunsee[29]	1859	Alma.
Woodson	1855	Yates Center.
Wyandotte	1855	Kansas City.
Counties Organized 1860-1870
Cherokee	1866	Columbus.
Clay	1866	Clay Center.
Cloud[30]	1860	Concordia.
Crawford	1867	Girard.
Ellis	1867	Hays.
Ellsworth	1867	Ellsworth.
Greenwood	1862	Eureka.
Labette[31]	1867	Oswego.
Lyon[32]	1860	Emporia.
Marion	1860	Marion.
Montgomery	1869	Independence.
Neosho[33]	1864	Erie.
Ottawa	1866	Minneapolis.
Republic	1868	Belleville.
Washington	1860	Washington.
Wilson	1865	Fredonia.
Counties Organized 1870-1880
Barber	1873	Medicine Lodge.
Barton	1872	Great Bend.
Chautauqua	1875	Sedan.
Cowley[34]	1870	Winfield.
Decatur	1879	Oberlin.
Edwards	1874	Kinsley.
Elk[35]	1875	Howard.
Ford	1873	Dodge City.
Harper[36]	1878	Anthony.
Harvey	1872	Newton.
Hodgeman	1879	Jetmore.
Jewell	1870	Mankato.
Kingman	1874	Kingman.
Lincoln	1870	Lincoln.
McPherson	1870	McPherson.
Mitchell	1870	Beloit.
Norton	1872	Norton.
Osborne	1871	Osborne.
Pawnee	1872	Larned.
Phillips	1872	Phillipsburg.
Pratt[36]	1879	Pratt.
Reno	1872	Hutchinson.
Rice	1871	Lyons.
Rooks	1872	Stockton.
Rush	1874	La Crosse.
Russell	1872	Russell.
Sedgwick	1870	Wichita.
Smith	1872	Smith Center.
Stafford	1879	St. John.
Sumner	1871	Wellington.
Trego	1879	WaKeeney.
Counties Organized 1880-1890
Cheyenne	1886	St. Francis.
Clark	1885	Ashland.
Comanche[37]	1885	Coldwater.
Finney[38]	1884	Garden City.
Gove	1886	Gove.
Graham	1880	Hill City.
Gran	1888	Ulysses.
Gray	1887	Cimarron.
Greeley	1887	Tribune.
Hamilton	1886	Syracuse.
Haskell	1887	Santa Fe.
Kearny	1888	Lakin.
Kiowa	1886	Greensburg.
Lane	1886	Dighton.
Logan	1887	Russell Springs.
Meade	1885	Meade.
Morton	1886	Richfield.
Ness[37]	1880	Ness City.
Rawlins	1881	Atwood.
Scott	1886	Scott.
Seward	1886	Liberal.
Sheridan	1880	Hoxie.
Sherman	1886	Goodland.
Stanton	1887	Johnson.
Stevens	1886	Hugoton.
Thomas	1885	Colby.
Wichita	1886	Leoti.
Wallace	1888	Sharon Springs.

[1] Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.

[2] In 1819 the United States gave to Spain that part of Kansas lying south of the Arkansas River and west of the 100th meridian. This territory again became a part of the United States by the annexation of Texas in 1845.

[3] Coues, Expedition of Zebulon Montgomery Pike.