What a wonderful look at life in 1800’s.  ThisDennis Clark Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Reno County and its people.

 

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original 2 volume set published in 1917.

 Dennis Clark

History

of

Reno County,

Kansas

Its People, Industries and Institutions

 

With Biographical Sketches of RepresentativeDennis Clark Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

 

By Sheridan Ploughe

 

Volume 1 and Volume 2

 

Illustrated

 

B.F. Bowen & Company, Inc.

Indianapolis, IndianaDennis Clark

 

1917

 

1250 pages on 1 CD

An essential resource for Genealogists

Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, Dennis Clarkand is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect.

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Contents

CHAPTER I—EARLY EXPLORATIONS OF THE WEST

CHAPTER II—PHYSICAL APPEARANCE AND EARLY CONDITIONS

CHAPTER III—THE ARKANSAS RIVER AND OTHER STREAMS

CHAPTER IV—THE OSAGE INDIANS

CHAPTER V—THE BUFFALO

CHAPTER VI—EARLY TRAILS ACROSS THE COUNTRY

CHAPTER VII—BOUNDARY LINES

CHAPTER VIII—THE EARLY SETTLERS

CHAPTER IX—SOME FIRST THINGS

CHAPTER X—A YEAR OF DISASTER

CHAPTER XI—ORGANIZING THE COUNTY

CHAPTER XII—TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATIONS

CHAPTER XIII—POLITICAL PARTIES

CHAPTER XIV—THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

CHAPTER XV—PROBATE JUDGES OF RENO COUNTY

CHAPTER XVI—CLERKS OF THE DISTRICT COURT

CHAPTER XVII—COUNTY CLERKS

CHAPTER XVIII—COUNTY ATTORNEYS

CHAPTER XIX—REGISTER OF DEEDS

CHAPTER XX—SURVEYORS AND CORONERS

CHAPTER XXI—REPRESENTATIVES AND STATE SENATORS

CHAPTER XXII—SOME EARLY BOND ELECTIONS

CHAPTER XXIII—BONDS OF THE COUNTY AND ITS SUBDIVISIONS

CHAPTER XXIV—RENO COUNTY'S FINANCIAL MATTERS

CHAPTER XXV—BUILDING THE MISSOURI PACIFIC

CHAPTER XXVI—THE HUTCHINSON & SOUTHERN RAILROAD

CHAPTER XXVII—EARLY FARMING

CHAPTER XXVIII—RENO COUNTY FAIRS

CHAPTER XXIX—THE GRAIN BUSINESS

CHAPTER XXX—POSTOFFICES AND MAIL ROUTES

CHAPTER XXXI—SCHOOLS, RENO COUNTY

CHAPTER XXXII -NEWSPAPERS OF THE COUNTY

CHAPTER XXXIII—FIRST CHURCHES IN THE COUNTY

CHAPTER XXXIV—EARLY DOCTORS OF RENO COUNTY

CHAPTER XXXV—BANKS OF RENO COUNTY

CHAPTER XXXVI—THE RENO COUNTY BAR

CHAPTER XXXVII—THE NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

CHAPTER XXXVIII—CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS IN RENO COUNTY

CHAPTER XXXIX—STATE MILITIA—COMPANY E

CHAPTER XL—COMMUNITY MUSIC

CHAPTER XLI—SMALLER TOWNS IN RENO COUNTY

CHAPTER XLII—FORTY-FIVE YEARS IN RENO

CHAPTER XLIII—THE BEGINNING OF HUTCHINSON

CHAPTER XLIV—HUTCHINSON, A CITY OF THE THIRD CLASS

CHAPTER XLV—HUTCHINSON, A CITY OF THE SECOND CLASS

CHAPTER XLVI—HUTCHINSON AS A CITY OF THE FIRST CLASS

CHAPTER XLVII—THE SALT INDUSTRY

CHAPTER XLVIII—BUILDING UP THE SALT INDUSTRY

CHAPTER XLIX- LOCATING THE PACKING HOUSE

CHAPTER L—SODA-ASM PLANT AND STRAWBOARD WORKS

CHAPTER LI—THE SCHOOLS OF HUTCHINSON

CHAPTER LII—THE Y. M. C. A. AND Y. W. C. A

CHAPTER LIII—THE WEATHER

 

Biographical Index

 

Abel,2009-2017 Ancestry Found Aelmore, Akin, Allmon, Anderson, 2009-2017 Ancestry FoundArmour, Ash, Asher, Astle, Bailey,2009-2017 Ancestry Found Bain, Ballard, Bangs, Barr, Barrett, Barton, Bay, Bear, Beck, Bennett, Bigger, Bixler, Bloom, Boehm, Dennis Clark Bonnet, Bowman, Bowser, Brainard, Branch, Branine, Brewer, Brown, Buettner, Burgess, Burris, Buser, Bush, Buskirk, Bussinger, Byers, Cain, Calbert, Campbell, Cantwell, Carey, Carpenter, Carr, Carson, Catte, Chamberlain, Chapin, Chubbuck, Clark, Claybaugh, Clothier, Coffman, Coleman, Collingwood, Comes, Cone, Conkling, Connelly, Cook,Dennis ClarkCooper, Cooter, Copeland, Cost, Crabbs, Crawley, Crotts, Crow, Curnutt, Dade, Danford, Davies, Dean, Deatz, Deck, Decker, Dick, Dillon, Dixon, Dunn, Dunsworth, Duvall, Eastman, Elliott, Ellis, Erker, Eskelson, Everett, Fairchild, Fall, Farley, Farrell, Farthing, Fearl, Ferguson, Fernie, Field,Dennis Clark Firebaugh, Fontron, Forsha, Fountain, Fraser, Gantz, Gaston, Gibson, Giles, Glass, Graham, Gray, Graybill, Grayson, Green, Guymon, Hadley, Hall, Hamilton, Handy, Harden, Hardy, Harms, Harris, Harsha, Hartford, Hartmann, Harvey, Haston, Hedrick, Herr, Herren, Hershberger, Hiatt, Hickey, Hickman, Hill, Hinds, Hinman, Hinshaw, Hirst, Hitchcock, Hoagland, Hodge, Holaday, Holdeman, Hornbaker, Hoskinson, Housinger, Howell, Huckleberry, Hudson, Hurd, Hutton, Jennings, 2009-2017 Ancestry FoundJessup, Jewell, Johnson, Jones, Justice, Justus, Kautzer, Kellams,Dennis Clark Kelling, Kennedy, King, Klein, Koontz, Kroeker, Lambert, Larabee, Layman,Dennis Clark Leatherman, Lee, Leighty, Leonrod, Leslie, Loe, Long, Lovelace, McCandless, McCowan, McDermed, Mcllrath, McKeown, McKinstry, McLaughlin, McLeod, McMurry, Mackay, Magwire, Markham, Marshall, Martin, Mastellar, Meyer, Miller, Mills, Mitchell, Moore, Morgan, Mourn, Mueller, Myers, Naizinger, Nation, Neeley, Nelson, Nettleton, Neuenschwander, Nicholson, Obee, Olmstead, Oswald, Parish, Payne, Pearson,Dennis Clark Peckhara, Peirce, Penney, Pennington, Peterson, Ploughe, Potter, Poulton, Presby, Price, Priddle, Prigg, Puterbaugh, Rabe, Ramsey, Rayl, Ream, Reed, Reichenberger, Reynolds, Rexroad, Rice, Richhart, Rickenbrode, Roberts, Rowland, Rutherford, Ryker, Sallee, Sanders, Scales, Schardein, Scheble, Schlaudt, Schmitt, Schoonover, Seedle, Shafer, Shea, Shircliff, Shive, Short, Shuler, Shuyler, Sidlinger, Siegrist, Simmons, Skeen, Slavens, Smith, Snyder, Specht, Spencer, Sponsler, Sprout, Steelier, Stevens, Stewart, Streeter, Suter, Swarens, Switzer, Taylor, Teed, Thacher, Thompson, Thorp, Thurman, Turbush, Updegrove, Van Eman, Vincent, Waddles, Wagoner, Wall, Watson, Weesner, Wells, Wespe, Wheeler, Whinery, Whiteside, Wiley, Williams, Winchester, Winsor, Withroder, Wittorff, Wolcott, Wooddell, Woods, Yaggy, Young, Yust, Zimmerman,