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Memorial
To His Excellency the Governor of the State of Kansas
We the undersigned Householders and legal electors of the State of an unorganized County being fully satisfied that this (Barbour) county contains upwards of Six Hundred inhabitants would most respectfully pray [or] your Honor to appoint a person to take the census of this county and appoint, also, three commissioners and a Clerk for said county We your petitioners would most respectfully recommend H. T. McCarty as a competent person to take the census in this county and C. C. Bemis D. Updegraff and W. E. Hutchinson for commissioners and George Ellis for clerk of said County. Your petitioners would most respectfully ask that this county may be organized at the earliest moment possible and as in duty bound we will ever pray.
Barber County
Issued tho proper papers as within
Re Eustus Osborn
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M. S. Cobb
Alfred W. Hutchinson
W E [XXXX]
William Walters
A. H. Hutchinson
John W Uppermen
J S [XXXX]
J N Lane
H. G. McCarty
[X] [X] [XXXX]
Salmon Tuttle
J Frank Thomas
L. L. Duvall
M R Davis
Frank Foster
Wm. S. Williams
George Williams
Samuel [XXXX]
Peter [XXXXX]
Janson Williams
[XXXX] Olden
G W Wassett
E Sturns
C [XXXX]
F. M. Bristow
C D Tucker
John W. Cummings
A Everett
John O’Conor
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Samuel Allen
James W Bigby
Steven Morrill
Storis N, Morton
Faxen Roswell
George Torbert
S S Dickinson
A J Benran
E Cummings
Geo W. Stephens
A Tyler
Benj W Jackson
State of Kansas
Reno County ss
H. T. McCarty, Wm Walters A. H. Hutchinson Swear that they are householders in Barbour County and that the signatures in this memorial are genuine signatures of Householders of this unorganized county Also that they have reason to and do believe that there are Six hundred inhabitants in the county of Barbour as shown in the above Memorial
H. T. McCarty
A. H. Hutchinson
W. M. Walters
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Subscribed and Sworn to before me a Notary Public in and for Reno County Kansas This Fourteenth day of January A. D. 1872
W. E. Hutchinson
Notary Public
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State of Kansas
Reno County ss..
I H. T. McCarty Do solemnly swear to support the constitution of The United States & of [Kan] [of] The state of Kansas and faithfully and honestly discharge the duties of Census Taker of Barbour County. So Help me God.
H. T. McCarty
Subscribed and sworn to before me the County Clerk of Reno County This 20” day of March 1873
A C Keis
County Clerk Reno Co.
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Page (1)
1 E. J. Kercher 37
2 S. M. Kerchner 28
3 J. O. Turner 38
4 L. [X] Farris 29
5 E. M. Mosley 30
6 W E Farris 26
7 J H McFarland 24
8 D. Bolen 25
9 Chas. Jennison 32
10 L. Miller 20
11 G. Miller 24
14 John Leaveneo 25
15 Allen Devest 32
16 L. C. Hopkins 39
17 B. S. Schofield 37
18 J. C. Pikins 38
19 John Post 27
20 Frank M. Forests 25
21 Miss Forest 18
22 William Cochran 38
23 Mrs Cochran 34
and 4 children
24 “ “ 15
25 “ “ 12
26 “ “ 6
27 “ “ 3
28 A. J. Johnson 40
29 Albert Cochran 76
30 R. W. Lee 20
31 M. Longwell 24
32 Mrs Longwell 19
33 And Child 1
34 S. D. Triggs 48
35 Dr. Triggs 45
36 Wm E. Armstrong 30
37 Henry Floyd 27
38 John Jefferson 37
39 George Jefferson 30
40 B. [X] Morris 29
41 D. [X] Morris 23
42 Mr. McGrew 34
43 Mrs “ “ 32
3 children
44 “ “ 12
45 “ “ 9
46 “ “ 4
47 Pete Crawford 30
48 Col. Johnson 42
49 John V. Fishburn 60
50 Robt “ “ 31
51 Wm “ “ 21
52 Lizzy “ “ 24
53 Maggie “ “ 18
54 Annie “ “ 15
55 Alice “ “ 12
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Page (2)
56 Moses L Meyrew 37
57 R. Webster 32
58 Bill Chain 26
59 H. [XXXXX] 38
60 Doc. Duvall 29
61 R. Davis 19
62 W. Walters 36
63 S. Tuttle 33
64 John Upperman 27
65 B. Turner 40
66 L. Mosley 12
67 S. Cobb 30
68 Mrs Walters 29
69 [XXXX] Walters 2
70 D. Updegraph 58
71 Mast Updegraph [XX]
72 Mrs. Updegraph 45
73 Albert Updegraph 26
74 Annie Updegraph 12
twins
75 Olivia Updegraph 12
80 C. Douglass 30
81 George Douglass 36
82 J Serthrn 38
83 Wife “ 32
84 Child “ 2
85 Miss Burlingame 18
86 M D. Houk 32
87 J. N. Lane 30
88 H. T. McCarty 26
89 C Brooke [XX]
90 George Ellis 25
91 John Beady 38
92 L. T Hubbard 29
93 Wife “ “ 22
94 child “ “ 8
95 [X] Duncan 35
96 Wife “ 23
97 Will Wall 38
98 R. Smith 26
99 Wife “ 23
100 Child “ 3
102 Alfred Chrivn 27
103 Albert Hutchinson 23
104 Alfred Hutchinson 21
105 Joseph Creese 26
106 R. P. Smith 19
107 Chas Lusk 33
108 A. C. Rust 30
109 A. Collins 29
110 W. Kirkpatrick 24
111 L. M. Stanton 42
112 [XXXX] J. Beebe 29
113 Geo. Leonard 26
14 G. H. Trancis 32
15 A. Tarmer 37
16 James Parson 41
17 James Shelton 28
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Page (3) Age
147 Moses Edwards 24
48 Isaac Edwards 30
49 John Shadday 40
50 Thos Sharpe 45
51 J Menlder 27
52 Oliver Evans 32
53 M. Duncan 32
54 W. Fry 27
55 Ebenezer [XXXXX] 40
56 David Wilson 43
57 Henry Mulder 41
58 T. C. Phillips 50
59 Daniel Bennett 45
60 Thos Milliken 22
61 H H Lee 35
62 W. [XXXXX] 29
63 J. B. Fauker 62
64 Mary Fauker 58
65 Susan Fauker 16
66 George Fauker 33
67 A J Payton 24
68 J. Clark 40
69 Eliza Clark 34
70 Edwin Clark 21
71 J. W. Lewis 29
72 Dr Scogginn 38
73 R. Reynolds 52
74 N W [XXXX] 20
175 J Matteson 41
Age
118 P. Essig 34
19 S. A. Mooney 27
20 J. Mooney 24
21 C. Hathaway 43
22 M. Walling 32
23 Kate Walling 19
24 J Walling 29
25 T. Walling 16
26 J. Doyl 64
27 Harry Nichols 29
28 John Buchanan 38
29 M Buchanan 36
30 J S. Lasalle 40
31 Phebe Lasalle 28
32 Kitty Lasalle 22
33 J Barr 48
34 Emma Barr 45
35 J. McLaughlin 29
36 Sarah McLaughlin 25
37 H. Cristman 40
38 Wm Hibbard 36
39 S Hubbard 27
40 P. Shoebeck 42
41 Fanny Shoebeck 34
42 E. O. Musgrave 29
43 H Musgrave 26
44 Philip Held 30
45 Geo. Steele 29
146 Ella Steele 32
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Age
176 Frank Stewart
178 Sarah Stewart 35
79 Daniel Strock 40
80 Amanda Strock 19
81 John Strock 15
82 James Fields 29
83 Hannah Fields 27
84 Fields 7
85 Fields 5
86 Fields 3
87 Geo. Billion 28
88 Frank Weather 32
89 Rueben Hulgate 30
90 A. J. Latimer 27
91 E. W. Cooper 30
92 Danl Keslter 25
93 Soloman Ulmer 40
94 Geor. Ulmer 37
95 Geo Dearr 29
96 A. Fry 25
97 Danl. Easley 32
98 L. Heller 32
99 Philip Kestler 32
200 C J Snyde 26
1 P J Ried 23
2 [X] [X] Bliss 31
3 C. Thomas 45
5 Sabra Thomas 47
Age
Thomas 18
Thomas 16
Thomas 13
Thomas 9
209 B. F [XXXX] 19
10 Judge Hooper 45
11 R. A. Gawin 23
12 Chas. [XXXX] 35
13 [X] B. De Witt 45
14 James Townsend 40
15 Dr. Scott 35
16 Chas Harr 27
17 Thos. Shaffer 32
18 James Gooden 40
19 James Upp 28
20 H. A. Mabee 36
21 W. Brown 31
22 Jacob Pitman 32
23 Austin Dedrick 50
24 Mariah Dedrick 49
25 W. Dedrick 25
26 Susan Dedrick 20
27 Alex Rhoner 42
28 M. B. Henry 35
29 J. L. Bicker 25
30 Mrs. Becker 20
31 Becker 1
32 H. Miller 24
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Continued from 232 (5)
Age
233 D. K. Barry 29
234 Thos. Brandon 30
35 Alex Barrett 27
36 Harvey Franklin 32
37 Titus Wiltriem 40
38 John Becker 38
39 James A. Whiteman 40
40 N. C. Canfield 43
41 Mrs. N. C. Canfield 40
42 Canfield 19
43 Canfield 8
44 Harvey Furgeson 28
45 Emma Furgeson 23
46 Miss Furgeson 25
47 Robt Couls 31
48 Henry Kieser 28
49 Thos Sharp 38
50 Lewis Johnson 42
51 John [XXXX] 26
52 Thos., Luton 50
53 Donald McGilvery 59
54 Mrs. McGilvery 58
55 McGilvery 30
56 McGilvery 18
57 H. M. Sisson 46
58 W. P. Sisson 43
59 W. F Neiley 27
60 W. P. Folsom 32
261 J. [X] Ricketts 43
62 John S. Gibbs 39
63 George Patterson 28
64 E. T Russell 52
65 N H. Baldwin 38
66 Carl Hayman 27
67 W. Ragan 48
68 Horatio White 37
69 G. Morton 61
70 Wm Carl 54
71 Thos. A Howard 25
72 Lomack Statien 33
73 H. Sedgwick 23
74 Harvy Bowen 25
75 G. Purley 48
76 Mrs G. Purley 43
77 Purley 23
78 Purley 17
79 Purley 8
80 Danial Burrows 35
81 Sarah Burrows 28
82 Eve Burrows 12
83 Susan Burrows 9
84 Harry Burrows 3
85 L. Risley 24
86 S. Hutchinson 32
87 C Dallinger 29
88 [X] H Cochran 30
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289 H. J. Durand 24
90 D. L. Wilbur 31
91 W Smith 26
92 W. Cunningham 30
93 W. L. Harper 29
94 J A Leach 37
95 R. A. Arnett 42
96 J. A. Arnett 39
97 J J Cohnant 40
98 W. M Raine 38
99 Mrs Raine 32
300 Julia Raine 15
1 Ania Raine 12
2 Thos. Raine 8
3 W. S. Lewis 34
4 E. Link 23
5 N. Sparkman 26
6 Miss Sparkman 32
7 W. Crickfield 21
8 C. Gillingham 19
9 Robt Harrisson 24
10 Jas. Newman 40
11 J S. Green 28
12 D. S. Bell 30
13 Alex Asher 37
14 G. W. [XXXX] 28
15 H [X] Armistead 45
16 J C Nurrall 39
317 R [X] Davis 54
18 R. Rodgers 38
19 J. B. Gollicoffe 32
20 J. G Peterson 25
21 David Ashbury 27
22 J J Thornton 48
23 J A. Cadwell 33
24 L. Frelich 31
25 J. C. Humphreys 20
26 W. L. Williams 27
27 Mrs. Williams 22
28 Williams 5
29 Williams 2
30 F. S. West 38
31 Henry West 2
32 Louis West 12
33 Annie West 5
34 Elijah Crotts 43
35 Mrs Crotts 39
36 Miss Crotts 18
37 John Meets 36
38 D. P. Wiliams 34
39 J. L Harvey 25
40 Robt. Danials 55
41 M Jones 49
42 Wm Allen 29
43 L Wagoner 46
44 James Hall 58
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345
(7)
345 Jesse Hadsen 61
346 James Pike 26
47 John Carter 25
48 C. W. Harvey 34
49 J. P. Sugart 38
50 Bery Gump 55
51 Dr. Hobson 34
52 A. Rau 23
53 Allen Williams 20
54 D. D. Davis 40
55 George B Omer 30
56 M. Road 36
57 James Welsh 39
58 Soloman Hadley 28
59 J N. Gregory 24
60 S. H. Dakin 29
61 Robt Scott 30
62 Benj Dakin 26
63 Wm Hardick 32
64 G. W. Busbee 40
65 Mrs Busbee 42
66 Busbee 21
67 Busbee 7
68 J J. Graham 50
69 Mrs Grayham 44
70 H S Grayham 23
71 L M Grayham 14
72 Ada Grayham 4
3 J Vincent 37
74 B. Jessup 24
75 N Hodson 31
76 Caleb Hunt 42
77 J L Harvy 37
78 James Byne 30
79 Mrs Byne 25
80 Mollie Byne 6
81 J [X] Pickering 32
82 Mary Pickering 29
83 F Galliott 24
84 R. O Keeman 33
85 Wm Shannon 30
86 E. Northy 29
87 E Burt 41
88 Mrs Burt 37
89 Oliva Burt 16
90 Harriet Burt 9
91 J. W. Irvin 21
92 D. Guinter 36
93 R Templeman 52
94 John Flory 39
95 John Smith 27
96 Abram Miller 25
97 Zach Warfield 50
98 W. Linnett 53
99 Rich Martin 28
400 John Bowman 37
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400
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401 John Beabert 25
2 Lewis Ballard 20
3 James Polett 19
4 L. C. Farwell 24
5 Pat O.Brien 37
6 John Snyder 42
7 Geor. Horton 39
8 John W. Bland 53
9 Alex Nickerson 31
10 Isreal Watt 33
11 Henry Buchanan 60
12 Joseph Rodgers 47
13 Theodo Tucker 55
14 Mrs Tucker 48
15 Jane Tucker 22
16 Frank Tucker 25
17 Eliz Tucker 15
18 Rich Hagadon 24
19 Chas Barnes 36
20 Lucy Walton 29
21 Frank Walton 34
22 Miss Walton 12
23 Frank Richardson 22
24 Samuel Mathews 40
25 Hiram Howland 29
26 [XXXX] Ingalls 37
27 Robt Taylor 30
28 Geo. Hearvey 34
429 J. P. De Witt 49
30 George Mathews 38
31 Levi Clark 40
32 Theodore [XXXX] 37
33 A. H Kethridge 59
34 Mrs Kittridge 43
35 Susan Kittridge 25
36 Mary Kettridge 10
37 Florence Kittridge 15
38 F. E. Gould 25
39 Mrs Gould 18
40 Lettle Gould 1
41 L. T. Gould 58
42 H. S. Hunt 29
43 Richard Kelley 20
44 F O. Jones 35
45 T. J Smith 26
46 R. S Wyatt 23
47 John Doddsworth 48
48 Mrs Ellis 53
49 John Abott 22
50 Judson Eldred 34
51 Danial Allen 27
52 Edwin Dopp 32
53 E S Decker 30
54 Mrs Decker 27
55 Willie Decker 5
56 Julius Aldrich 34
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457
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457 Danial Eldred 32
58 Milton Pickett 25
59 Harvy Hatch 34
60 Warren Wells 43
61 Mrs Wells 40
62 Amos Wells 29
63 Louis Wells 12
64 Katy Wells 18
65 Warren Wells 73
66 Robt Young 22
67 Miss Mollie Young 17
68 J. B. Blanchard 32
69 J. M. [XXXXX] 27
70 S. A. Marshall 26
71 C. J. Snyder 35
72 Alson Hall 34
73 L. C Hird 22
74 Miss Johnson 22
75 B. P. Hannah 31
76 A. R Green 27
77 A. S. Lewis 32
78 Miss Lewis 18
79 H. [X] Bliss 26
80 [X] [X] Brown 22
81 Robt S. Thomas 28
82 Albert Flanders 30
83 G. T Crowbargler 64
84 J. [X] Smith 34
485 D. O. Amos 54
86 Levi H. Garnell 57
87 J. M. Cunningham 39
88 S. B. Zimmerman 53
89 Mrs. Zimmerman 49
90 Zimmerman 22
91 Zimmerman 15
92 W. Friedley 65
93 W. A Davis 39
94 A. J L. Berlin 31
95 James [XXXX] 26
96 W. L. Murdock 29
97 Miss Murdock 26
98 Elimer Chase 21
99 W. Creary 28
500 Milford Clairmont 38
1 Frank Means 40
2 A. Riled 48
3 John Bridges 34
4 Emeline Bridges 28
5 Julius Bridges 10
6 Sallie Bridges 2
7 Thos. Nine 24
8 Squire Grisson 53
9 Wm Penwell 31
10 J J. Savage 32
11 J. Walter 29
12 H. Folson 40
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500
(10)
13 G. B. Amos 27
14 S. H. Amos 33
15 Frank Knapp 18
16 W. H. White 37
17 Danial Webstar 41
18 C. J Edgar 22
19 John T. Cochran 30
20 Thos. Hairdenbrook 29
21 Marcus E. Colmstock 18
22 W. L. Martin 43
23 W. Disney 29
24 J. McIntosh 28
25 Ira Harrington 22
26 Wm Barsby 31
27 Wm Bryan 53
28 Joseph Hanchester 29
29 G. W. Lufkin 56
30 Newton Tisdale 33
31 Marselle Lauepher [XX]
32 Wm Upton 26
33 Robt [XXXX] 58
34 B. H Lane 48
35 J. B. Medlin 59
36 Danial Bancroft 37
37 G. S. Parker 43
38 Ed Murdock 26
39 Dan Richardson 19
40 R. R. Roberts 37
541 Silas Lane 19
42 J. [X] Nelson 42
43 T. Lane 39
44 M L Jarvett 34
45 Mrs Jarvett 29
46 Jarvett 8
47 Jarvett 5
48 Jarvett 2
49 Isaah Simons 29
50 Mrs Simons 25
51 J. P Butler 20
52 John Gray 33
53 Fred Bardwell 31
54 S. K. Noble 27
55 S [X] Benadict 25
56 Mrs. Benadict 19
57 Benadict 2
58 John Sigler 24
59 Albert Bryant 37
60 John Albright 34
61 James Hildrith 35
62 Mrs Hildrith 30
63 Hildrith 14
64 Henry Hildrith 68
65 Lewis Keeler 20
66 John [XXXX] 26
67 C. Fenhill 67
68 Robt Maskey 47
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69 John Hopkins 37
70 Mrs Hopkins 29
71 Mary “ “ 12
72 Johnny “ “ 8
73 Jenett “ “ 2
74 P. L Cain 74
75 Sampson Lett 29
76 H. S. Mills 32
77 Capt. L. Grayson 43
78 W. White 49
79 Shelby Jones 36
80 John Walker 23
81 Mrs Walker 17
82 G. G Gilmer 30
83 Wm Moore 27
84 James Sterling 40
85 D. D. Pierson 41
86 E. G. Douglass 39
87 John Jones 36
88 Henry Douglas 39
89 John Bambridge 29
90 T. J. Patterson 37
91 Joseph Stephens 30
92 Maria Stephens 25
93 S. Kirkpatrick 24
94 Jacob Goudy 18
95 Jas A Newman 24
596 Wm Simpson 29
97 S. J. Langdon 30
98 C. C McDowell 26
99 J. S Vincent 42
600 A. S childs 31
601 George Harris 20
602 Samuel Farnsworth 31
603 Jacob Collyer 29
604 Jesse Wyncoop 45
606 Mary Wymcoop 42
607 [XXXX] Wyncoop 10
608 Nellie Wyncoop 6
I H. T. McCarty hereby certify that the list of names herewith is a true and [XXXX] cinsus of the inhabitants of Barbour County Kansas
[XXXXX] [XXXXX]
Kansas this 28th day of March A. D 1873
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Duplicate
Proclamation
Whereas a memorial signed by Forty house holders residents of Barbour County Kansas and legal electors of the State whose signatures have been duly attested by the affidavits of three householders thereof showing that said County had Six hundred inhabitants and praying for the organization of same. said affiants setting forth that they had reason to and did believe said memoria and
Whereas it appears from actual enumeration by census returns duly made and certified according to law by an officer regularly Commissioned and qualified that there are six hundred bona fide inhabitants in said County of Barbour:
Now therefore know ye that I Thomas A. Osborn Governor of the State of Kansas by authority vested in me have appointed and Commissisoned C. C. Bemis, D. Updegraff and W. E. Hutchinson Special County Commissioners and George Ellis Special County Clerk for Barbour County Kansas who were the person recommended for said officers in said memorial and do hereby declare Medicine Lodge the temporary County Seat for said County.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my names and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State. Done
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At Topeka this fourteenth day of April A. D. 1873
Thomas A Osborn
By the Governor
W H Smallwood
Secretary of State
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Barber County
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