■ 686 G79 opy 1 GREEN'S HISTORICAL SERIES RARLY DAYS IN KANSAS ALONG THE SANTA FE TRAIL, IN THE COUNTIES OF DOUGLAS, FRANKLIN, SHAWNEE, OSAGE AND LYON. THE GRANDSON **QUENEMO" * The one standing With Fellow Tribesmen at the Carlisle, Pennsylvania School MARY MITCHELL MEANS SARAH GOODELL WHISTLER A Goodell Family Group Mrs. Fannie Whistler Nedeau of Sac and Fox Agency, Oklahoma, and son, Guy Whistler, taken about 1906 in Indian garb. GREEN'S HISTORICAL SERIES EARLY DAYS IN KANSAS Pioneer Narratives of the First Twentv-five Years of Kansas History. HISTORY GIVEN OF SOMK OF TIIK SAC AND FOX INDI VNS ILLUSTRATED WITH MArsY PORTRAITS OF PIONEERS AND INDIANS Leida Saylor's Story The Old Sauk Indian, Quenemo Henry Hudson Wiggans' Narrative INDIAN PAMPHLET NUMBER ONE CHARLES R. GREEN July. 1912 Olathe, Kansas MORE EARLY DAY HISTORY BY ONE OF THE FOXES. Rev. .lared Fox preached some time for the Presbyterian Church at Lyndon. His son Elliott H. Fox in his duties as a deputy county officer along about 1872 seems to have been married there May 1, 1872 by his father to Leida Saylor, who, while a resident of Lyndon, was one of the county teachers Elliott H. Fox and wife's name are on the Lyndon Presby. Church Roll. Some years later they removed to Des Moines, Iowa, where Mr. Fox has lived since, engaged in the commercial work. When preparing my history of the Sac & Fox Indians and their days at Quenemo I learned that Miss Leida Saylor taught the first public school in Quenemo. I wrote to her for her nar- rative of that early day — 1869 and '70 — before the Indians had all been re- moved. While the story has but little to do with Ridgeway, yet not having been printed yet, I introduce it here to show the reader a history of that sec- tion then. (C. R. G.) LEIDA SAYLOR'S NARRATIVE. In the fall of 1869 my grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Bales, sold their farm, 6 miles north of Des Moines, Iowa, and with four of their youngest children and families, bid good bye to Iowa and sought homes in Osage Co., Kansas. There were three other families joined the company and I was invited to take the trip with them and as it was to be overland I gladly acceptel, having often heard my father and mother tell of their trip by wagon from Indiana. There were many pleasing features but also many disagreeable ones, such as sticking in clay on some of the Missouri hills but the pelasanr, days with the ever new sceneries and the pleasant anticipations of a lovely spot to pitch our tent, swing on the big pots over camp fires and the gathering around ihe even- ing meal to talk over our different views and experiences of the day and the rest we enjoyed either in some beautiful grove or high rolling prairie (which I enjoyed more than the groves, especially in the evenings, as I had lived all my life in the heavy timber along the Des Moines river and it seemed as if the moon had never shone so brightly as those evenings and thoso Kansas breezes were something new to us all. It was one beautiful evening in Otcober that our Tvaiii of s or Id cnvei-oii wagons drew n\) in front of Mr. Knoughs, north of Salt Creek, and S. \V, or (Juenemo. After a pitched camp and rest of a day or twj Vlr Halo.s and hi?- families moves down into some stone houses near the Mara is des Cygm-s. Mr. William S, Fislier (who was buried last Wednesikiv l and Ins Mtrle daueh ler had hauled a load of household goods for Mr. Mules, atier s|)erHlin^ a week looking over the country, expected to start back to Iowa Tuesday and I tv was to accompany them, having only asked for a six veeka vacation As we • sat around those great cheerful fire places, one in each room, we already be- ^C ?an saying what we wanted before i)arting. Mr. .lake Hales, who vv'as on a 1*? visit from Denver, Colo., to his parents in Iowa, accomjjanied us on the trip, ts thinking perhaps he ought to stay and help his father and mother locate, l)roposed that it would be a fine thing for my health if I would spend the winter with them. After some deliberation I decided if I could get some- thing to do. so as not to be an expense to anyone. I would be only too glad, as I thought I had never seen such sunsets, such an Indian summer or Fall, never nicer was known, and those tall grasses, high as a man's shoulders on horseback. So on Monday morning immediately after breakfast Uncle went to town (Quenemo) and in less than two hours was back with the word to get my hat on and go down and see if I would like what he had found for me. In a very short time I was sitting in the parlor of Mr. Whistler's home, learned how anxious he was to have a successful school and school methods established and 1 entered into the idea very heartily and in two hours more I was signed for 4 months school, to commence the next Monday, but I frankly admit that when we (Uncle and I) went out to the wagon to go back to our stone hut, 1 was almost sorry, for I was startled to see many Indians stalking around, since I had always been taught to be afraid of them. Next Sunday eve found trunk and me domiciled in Mr. Whistler's home and Monday morning at 9 o'clock 1 called to order perhaps 15 to 20 pupils and such a mixture, whites, half Indian, and a few full bloods and two little lone negroes. I put all the energy and Chirtsianity in it possible and felt a new field was opened up to me and could perhaps see the result of my labor in shorter time than here in old organized districts and we were all getting on pretty fiiendly terms when to my utter astonishment, the third or fourth morning, in walked four big Indians and now and also after I learned them, I knew they were as much astonished as myself, for they hesitated, looked from face to face and then planted themselves down on either side of the big slove and decided to take ih the situation. Then si>ying Leo Whistler, they began questioning him, but hewas so small he hardly knew how to tell them, and do you ask what I was doing all this time? Just did manage to get to my chair behind desk without falling and "was frozen stiff with fear." They surely did not at that first call find in me a very genial hostess, 1 did not move nor speak and soon as they were gone I collected myself enough tn say: "Be dismissed till alter dinner." I could scarcely swallow a mouthful of dinner, but Leo had told his papa of our visitors, so you see I did not have to enter complaint, but he (Mr. W.) understood and told me to pay no attention but for several weeks I had few strange callers and finally mustered up courage enough to tell him that I wished he would get some one to take my place, but not a bit of it would he listen to, but called a council meeting and had as many together as possible and sent w^ord to the rest of what was being done. You see our school was in their council room and on their coming into town and seeing big smoke comig from chimney very naturally concluded there was business on hand and as they were to be moved to Indian Territory soon and as many of them were loath to give up their homes, of course they expected to be posted in the affairs. After they fully understood matters I often noticed a twinkle in their eyes as I was passing, and some allusion made as to "Pale Face 'fraid." A cousin of Mr. Whistler's wife. Old Chickaskuk, made it a past- time to step behind the sitting room door and as I would enter drop his hands over my eyes and then chuckle, but I must say right here that there was enough of the gentleman about him to never do it unless either Mr. or Mrs. Whistler was in the room and then how they would laugh! but it took me a good long time to see where the fun came in, for my blood would run cold a ndmy heart almost stop — but before the term expired Crickaskuk and I were very warm friends and he would often walk out almost to Grandpa's with M. C. Bales and me on Friday evenings. As to' the officers of the school board at that time I do not think there was any organization as I know that Mr. Whistler paid my salary from his own pocket, $30.00 per month. The last two months of school were a real pleasure and I was almost sorry to come north. We had our church and Sunday school, also in the Council Room The Rankins, Dr. Fenn and family, Mrs. Dr. Wiley, Becker, Young, Wilkins, Downs, HuUibarger and Bales were all active workers in both church and S. S. work and many others I do not recall. I returned to Iowa in March, 1870, only to talk of Kansas so constantly that my father, Mr. J. P. Saylor, who had been an invalid for years, decided to try the cjiange of climate and we started on the 26th of May and arrived at Lyndon June 14th. In Sept. I went down to Quenemo and between us we ar- ranged our school work for the year. The next thing was to drive to Bur- lingame and take examination for certificate under C. CJ. Fox and Mr. Kirby. On our return we found the prairie on fire from sparks from engine and it was almost a drive for .life for a few miles and for a long distance two large wolves led our procession in the race. By this time Old Chief Keokuk had become interested in the stliooi wuvk and was often a visitor with Mr. Whistler or Johnnie CJoodell as interpreter. His son Charles (loodell was an apt scholar and quite an artist and 1 encouraged him all I could and wanted him to go to Lawrence or Topeka to an instructor. Our fall term opened with many interested in the work and in each other, a fact I have so often noticed where nearly everyone is a stranger, they seem more sociable and anxious to do something for someone. We got along fairly well in the little council room until after the holidays, when the big boys started and then we were soreb' taxed for room and our accomodations were few. At this time 1 had to have assistance from some of the larger pupils. Miss Frankie Wilkjns and M. C. Bales and one of the young boys would hear classes in the primary grades and often have I remained with scholars of the more ad- vanced classes and also some few in as low as 3rd grade, until pitch dark to help them thro the day's lessons and to bring out the practical parts; but for the Spring term we were glad to go into the new building, if only the shell it gave us something for breathing room, more than one blackboard, a place to hang maps without having to place and replace for each different class, also hat and cloak room, and what I enjoyed fully as much as anything, a wash room, how I did have to explain and demonstrate to that Board the real nec- essity of that one luxury; and I feel pretty sure that Mr. Whistler paid that extra amount from his own purse. You know "seeing is believing" and I often invited our friends to come in and take a pee)) at us as soon after as- sembly as possible. But perhaps you don't know that those were my most trying ordeals, the majority thought "larnin' " was alright but not a few thought it all a stuckup notion to want a basin, combs and towels, the two latter I furnished myself and did extra work and made little things for Mrs. Whistler's colored girl to put them through on her wash day. Frankie Wilkins and some of the larger girls took turns in ironing the towels. I often reminded myself of the Caricature on the advertising list of Peck's soap; but you would have enjoyed and also been surprised how soon each one would notice if an untidy one would slide into seat. That was my first in kindergarten work, so far as it went. I boarded with Dr. Wiley, Dr. Fenns and Mrs. Isaac Goodell for the first three months as Whistler's family were in the south camping in regular Wickiup style. Mr. John K. Rankin was a good help, often sending into the school room ribbons and remnants of bright colors for decoratig. The last three mouths of the term which closed 1st of April, were very hard months for me and many were the evenings when on going to my room I would feel I could not go another day, but 1 was carrying too much, as 1 had a quite large music class besides my school work. Our social work was on the whole enjoyable as Dan Lafferty and sister, Miss Ellen Lafferty were added to "our crowd which took everybody that would work with us," we made the winter months pleasant as well as profitable in the way of little sociables and church suppers to which everybody would donate and then pay so much for supper beside and nearly every one was such a willing worker, quite different from what we find in our large city churches of today, plenty of work but few workers. The following summer (that of '11) I spent on the farm, Vz mile N. E. of Lyndon and I thought I'd make butter and raise chickens, etc., but Mr. Whistler had set his heart on doing what he could in an educational way and having tried a subscription school and not successful, resolved on another trial. The dis- trict had rapidly filled as there were 2 or 3 families on nearly every clear spot, and as most of the people were of the "Horace Greely" kind — "Go west and grow up with the people," nearly all had families of children of school age and I felt I could not undertake the responsibilities I knew were before anyone who had the interest at heart and I knew I would ask for broader ideas and more advantages, and therefore could not accept the small re- muneration, $40.00 per month, but open hearted Mr. Whistler and a few more generous gentlemen said if I would take hold of it they would see me through. You know there always had been growlers and of course they were still in style at that time. But I renewed my energy and we went to work and I freely confess it was one of the happiest years of my school work. All this time we were working in the Churches and S. S. A new M. E. and a Presbyterian Church were built north of the town out toward the old Keokuk home. While I was a born Methodist I could always fall in line and work with any of God's people, but please do not think it was all sunshine and pleasre, many were the dark days and heartaches, for of course we are all mistaken in judgment at times. The winter was quite severe at times, but not of long duration. But time went by with an assistant most of the time and of encouraging different scholars in hearing classes recite to give them- selves the practical knowledge. I acting as principal, we accommodated an enrollment of 90 scholars, with almost 70 in daily attendance and I was re- ceiving $H1.00 per month and an allowace of $10.00 for helpers. We closed the school year on the 1st day of April with a "great exhibition for the day " in the M. E. Church and when I went to my home I was booked to go down to the Indian Territory in Sac and Fox Reservation and open and carry on the schools, for which I was to receive $600 in gold and Vi section of land. JJul wliile 1 wH!s oil uiy vatatioii Lu Iowa the dread messenger death on! ered Mr. Whistler's home and took him away. I dared not think of going so far from my family and seemingly alone, therefore gave up the proposed worK in the Indian Territory, for which I have many times regretted, for surely we who are left should be willing to take up the cudgel and carry on any good work that may have been so carefully planned. So if we were just talking I might tell of other little incidents, many of our little home socials, where Mother Ooodel and Miss Fanny and Isaac Goodell were so prominent. Of Mr. .lohn Goodell, with all his Indian dignity and of Mr. Whistler's colored boy, Ben, a typical Southern darkey, and of those dreadful prairie fires in that tall grass north of Salt Creek on the high rise of ground; they were dreadful and yet beautiful. The fiery flames seemed to lash their tongues into the very Heavens and many were the evenings that objects in our rooms were made plain by the light from the fires, "out of course with all its grandeur it many times carried destniction. Now if I v/as in the habit of using slang, I think I could hear you say, ring off, so by adding that I knew of nothing that would give me more pleasure than a visit with Quenemo and Lyndon friends, I am. Respectfully, MRS. LEIDA SAYLOR FOX, ftl6 drove St., Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. Elliott H. Fox and Leida Saylor Fox have four children. In 190.^) tiie record was: George P^ox, 28 years old, married and living at Duluth, Minn. Bessie Fox, married and living in Keokuk, Iowa. Fay Fox, living at home. Kenneth Fox, living at home. Mr. Fox travels over the Northeast and Northwest parts of the U. S. m the interest of a Flour Mill in Des Moines — has been at it 24 years. The Mr. Whistler that Mrs. Fox alludes to was William Whistler, who married Sarah Goodell, a half Indian and who was the first Representative in the State Legislature from Sac and Fox Reserve. There is much more history and lists of pupils of that early day down at Quenemo that 1 do not attempt to give in this Ridgeway History, as I got it for the Quenemo work. C. R. GREEN. Contribution By Albert M. Winner Real Estate Agt. 529 Brooklyn Ave., Kansas City, Mo. April 25, 1912. During the winter of 1862-3-1 a boy of 14 yrs. was at Baldwin Kansas — working for my board (and I earned it) and attending Baker. Among the pupils — Was Charley Keokuk and Joe Chic kus kuk or some such name and an Indian girl about 17 or 18 — called Jane Goodell — I do not recall her indian name all Sac and Fox people — I recall — late one evening seeing a light in the old park and going over found the two boys had killed with bow and arrows several birds and had them spitted on twigs cooking them — I joined them and had a bird but I do not think I ate all of it — no salt — and being a little dubious in regard to how fully it had been (un) dressed? I think they must have been 10 or 12 years old — silent and queer little fellows — I have often wondered how the hunting instinct developes in children and es- pecially among those of the primitive races — Is not Keokuk the present Chief? One cold afternoon — I came into the kitchen with a basket of chips — it had been sleeting and the chips were coated with ice — Jane was sitting on a low stool — crouching over the fire — she had a dress on cut rather low in the neck and as I passed her — I dropped one of the ice covered chips down her waist. I did not think until the thing was done — but I had good cause to remember it for it was many days before all the black and blue marks and scratches went away — I was living with Old Nathan Taylor and it took me a long time to get back into the good graces of the Methodist brothers and sisters. I suppose you know all these people so I will not write about them. • I came to Kansas — September, 1858 — My father one year earlier, I think that this Indian girls name was Jane Shaw paw kaw kof . C. R. G. MOSES KEOKUK AND SON CHARLES--I860 OR ABOUT THE TIME OF THE REMOVAL TO QUENEMO Mrs. Julia Goodell late in life. Her daughter, Mrs. Mary Means Keo- kuk. When Julia was about 22 and Mary Mitchell a Httle child of 4 during the Black Hawk war the mother took the child on her back and swam the Wisconsin river at flood tide, one-eighth of a mile wide with the soldiers shooting at the Indians. Mrs. Moses Keokuk's talk to C. R. Green 1903. The Sauk Indian, "QUENEMO" By C. R. Green, Historian, Lyndon, Kas., 1903. Among the mounted paiiers on file in our Kansas Historical Society articles, is one contributed to a newspaper in 1894 by the late Maj. Henry Inman author of the Santa Fe Trail books. It is a very readable article entitled "How the town of Quenemo was named." However like many other tales and traditions handed down to us by the pioneers of the days when many Indian tribes dwelt here in Kansas along our streams crowded together in some cases, 50 years ago, this Quenemo story will bear some sifting out. Why! Said an old pioneer to me within the year who lives within four miles of Quenemo and has lived in the territory now called Osage county since November 14, 1854. I thought Quenemo was named from a woman, the wife of the Sac and Fox Indian interpreter John Goodell, the woman who in the Black Hawk war swam the Mississippi river with a child on her back to escape being shot down by the soldiers. Maj. Inman's story is nearer the truth than anything that I have ever seen in print, but living on the Sac and Fox Reserve these twenty-three years and improving every opportunity to interview both white pioneers and many half blood Indians I feel that my investigations have not been in vain and that my story can be substantiated. One of the pioneers of the Reserve who came to Kansas in 1855 just in time to be- one of the defenders of Lawrence against Sheriff Jones and his friends from Missouri, in time became a Government employee among the Sac and Fox Indians at Agency Hill and says one of his first jobs was to as- sist in making a coffin for an old chief named Quenemo and he also assisted in the burying of him. That was in 18G3 I suppose in the new Indian burial ground up at the large Mission building on the Hill. O. S. Starr, O. C. Williams, Elmer Calkins, George McMillen and others all settlers of 1869 and '70 on the Reserve S. W. of Melvern along the Marias des Cygnes knew Quenemo very well and during the 70's when as one of Mo ko ho kos Band, later known as the Kansas band, he continued to live along the river in his wicky-up with his second wife between Melvern and Olivet and worked for some of these settlers I think they are right, Mr. Calkins says that he was alive as late as 1880 for he lived on their farm. Finally when down in the Indian Ty. after his annuities dying there and was buried in his blanket by his fellow Indians on Deer Creek. Oh! the joys of a historian. To add to my confusion a sister historian took up the cudgel against me and managed to bury on the classic banks of "The Swan River" right here in Osage "My Old Indian Quenemo." So this time out of desperation I helped pay the expense of a young man who having Indian blood in his veins was going down to visit relatives and see to business among the Sac and Fox Indians in the Indian Ty. I asked several questions in writing and he wrote down the answers. He went to the old Chief Moses Keo- kuk who is yet alive more than 80 years old and whoseonly wife now is the well known half breed woman, Mary Mitchell Means, the child in July, 1832, who was carried across the river on the squaws back above alluded to. Keo kuk said Quenemo died down there some time prior to 1880 and was buried out about IVz miles from the Agency. While the Sauks never learned to talk English very easily yet they could understand and make replies by signs and a few words, so that Orlando S. Starr drew out considerable history from Quenemo as he helped him to hoe his crops and ate at his table. Investigations on Starrs part satisfied him that Quenemo was born of a union of a Sauk warrior and an Ottawa or Seneca squaw about 1805-8 back on the banks of the Huron of the Lakes in what would now be Huron Erie or Sandusky counties, Ohio. At the close of the 18th century there use to be an Indian town by the name of Pequatting on the Huron river 6 miles from Lake Erie. The city of Milan birth place of Thomas A. Edison and your humble servant has occupied the site of that old Indian town now nearly a century. Black Hawk and his Sauk followers were allies of the British and every year back in the beginning of the 19th century were going back and forth from their homes on the Mississippi river to the British Post at Maiden, Canada, where they received presents for their faithfulness though living in United States Territory. These Indian warriors roamed a long ways from home. I find in Missouri history that large bands of the Sauk use to hunt as far south, 100 years ago, as the Ozark mountains on the south side of the Missouri river. So we can account very well for this union of Sauk with Ot- tawa. What pleasant hunting grounds they found in Michigan and Ohio. They were at peace with all these tribes then which only a few years later were moved to the Kansas, Nebraska Indian Territory. Quenemo says that he remained there on the banks of the Huron until after two Indians were hung for murder .Inly 1, 1819, at the county seat, Norwalk, O. These were the Ottawa Indians who had murdered a white ped- dler and it is a matter of court record in my old county of Huron. Quenemo now perhaps 15 removes west, of his history beyond the Mississippi fighting the Sioux or what part he took in the Black Hawk war of 1832 or whose band he stayed with in Iowa on the Des Moines Sac and Fox Reservation. I know not, in October, 1845, they left Iowa and went by land southward led by their agent, John Beach to Brunswick, Mo., near the mouth of the Grand River. Here they could be fed and more easily looked after because of the steam- boat service an the Missouri river to and from St. Louis the great western Indian agency. By treaty they had in 1842 faith fully promised to give up their Iowa Reservation by October, 1845. The 2400 Sac and Fox conferate tribes were to receive more than a million dollars and a new reservation in Kansas. When they moved from Iowa the question had not been fully de- cided as to the exact location of the new reservation. That winter of 1845-46 it was settled and Keo kuk, the father of Moses known as the watchful Fox with most of the confederation moved in the Spring up on to the Wa-ka-rusn what later was Douglas county. That year they raised treir squaw patch gardens there while Agent Reach had the agency buildings known later as Greenwood Sac and Fox agency built. So that by fall of 1846 the Sac and Foxes that had kept with Keo kuk and Agent Beach gathered there. Some four or five hundred Indians went off visiting the Iowa and Sac and Fox band which had located west of the Missouri River on the Great Nemaha in the neighborhood of what 10 years later Highland, Kansas. Mo ho ko ho ko was of that band, but I think Quenemo stayed wth Keokuk or some of the other chiefs. As I understand it from inquiries Quenemo never was really a chief, though always spoken of by whites as if he was. He was naturally of a quiet, peaceable, half civilized nature. In reply to my written questions the other Indians simply called him a "Brave" choosing from year to year to whose band he should belong. For they could not draw their annuities with- out being enrolled. I find by referring to an old pay roll of Agent Albert Wiley for the year 1868-69 loaned me by the heir of Maj. Wiley's papers Miss I M. Andrews Kenton, Ohio, that Quenemo was No. 13 on Mo ko ho kos roll that there were then 3 in Quenemo's family drawing a total of 60 dollars cash. Each man, woman and child, even Moko ho Ko the chief got the same viz. $20 unle?s by reason of blindness, old age or death when $20 more was added, $14840 annuities cash were paid then to 694 persons. Men, 227; women, 234; children, 233. The old settlers there all testify that liquor could not be got on the Reservation easily as it was against the law but that those who would have it had to got to some of the low graggeries in towns round about to have their big drunks. Our old Quenemo was not of that sort for on a time he fell sick with the ague and chills long in the 70's. He went to Dr. W. C. Sweezy of Olivet who prescribed quinine and whiskey but could not supply him. He then went to Orlando Starr for whom he had worked a good deal and asked a loan of two dollars to get the medicine with. After he got it it made two bottles and he left one of them there for safe keeping for he had as a second wife a squaw who was a sort of termigant, nearly killing him one time in their wickyup a couple of miles away in a fit of passion with a butcher knife. Thus we catch a glimpse of old Quenemo who had he been able to talk English could have told many interesting incidents of his Indian life since he left Ohio in 1820. Mr. Starr was born there on the Firelands only l.'i miles from Milan. His grandfather. Smith Starr, moved into Clarkstield from Conn, about Nov., 1817, Some 30 townships off the western end of the Western Reserve Northwest Ty. had been granted to a great number of sufferers from Fires along the Long Island Sound living in Connecticut by reason of British expeditions sent out during the Revoltutionary war. In time the lands in the west sur- veyed divided up and being settled were called Firelands. The long land journey through woods over almost impassable swamps from Conn, had consumed many weeks. The journey towards the last was a very tedious one — dense woods, deep streams to cross with now and then a settlers cabin or a camp of Indians. How rejoiced they were at last to reach their lands. The writers grandparents uncle and aunt came 8 years later from Conn, and settled in the adjoining town of Walieman and his mother was born there in 1826 and thus he has heard stories about "Early Days There." I do not know how many children this family of Smith Starrs had when they came there. There were half grown boys for one of them Taylor Starr came to Baldwin in the 50's to help fight Kansas battles in the ranks of the Free State men, and died here "twice a pioneer." Smith Starrs riches were not very great in those days after the close of the war of 1812-15, when he ar- rived at his journeys end his team consisted of a cow and horse yoked to- gether some way pulling a cart I presume for that is what my Great Grand- father Smith used in one of his journeys as late as the 30's. The cow was part of their living and when they got to their new home was turned out to graze on the marshes and by and by came up missing. A search around home in the woods by the youngsters did not reveal her where- abouts; no cow could be found. A cow on the Firelands in 1818 was about as plenty as bears were here when our first settlers came, none at all. A friendly Indian relieved young Starr's search for the cow by piloting him a journey of 12 miles through the forests to an Indian town on the Huron river where as they drew up near young Starr heard the sound of the old familiar cow bell ringing in most gladsome tones accompanied by the shouts and laughter of a lot of Indian youths in play as they raced around the little In- dian village after their leader who had the cow bell. "There's your cow" said his Indian guide. The lad went home satisfied that it was useless to hunt longer. The Indians had made venison of the cow. While Quenemo may not have been one if those Indian lads, yet he was of that age and living thereabouts. Fifty-two or three years now elapse, a grandson of that same old Ohio pioneer Smith Starr, a young man with family now comes out to Kansas to carve himself out a home. After a year or two residence at Baldwin the In- dians are removed and the Sac and Fox Reserve thrown open to settlement. He is one of the "Pioneers" who came in those years of 1S69 and '70, one of hundreds of old soldiers of the Civil War his name Orlando S. Starr. By the payment of money he secured the homstead rights from some settler earlier on the ground to a choice 160 acres 5 miles N. W. of Melvern out on the smooth level prairie in the Richview neighbor- hood now. An acquaintance Scott Daniels secures a bottom farm a couple of miles distant on the Marias des Cygnes, he had been there a year longer and Starr now has plenty of work on his hands the breaking and fencing of his land. He has a good team and wagon that he brought from Ohio. It has enabled him to make a good living since his arrival in Kansas and lay up money beside to buy their home. Daniels has a well timbered farm with numerous squaw patches on several parts of it where the prairie glades ran down to the river, but he has no team. Those little Indian patches are easily enlarged into fields and strong team help was needed so in those years of be- IV QUENEMO Wm. Hurr, the Sac and Fox inter- preter in 1903 told me that he had a step-son by the name of Orilla Davis, whose Indian name was Quenemo. That through his father Arthur Davis the lad was great-grandson of old Quenemo's. He was then away attending the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa. Later through the assistance of the Supt. of that school I procured this picture. There are other descendants of old Quenemo alive but mostly of the fe- male line. Quenemo is standing. The others are fellow tribesmen to fill out the picture, one is named Thoi-pe. If old Quenemo ever had a picture taken as some said he did in Osage county. My offer of five dollars for its use failed to bring it, although one of the half IVoods manae-ed to get $3.50 of the offered sum into his hands and kept it. C. R. Green. ginning these two settlers join forces and the crops are raised down on the the bottom and in a year or two when Daniels leaves he places the farm in Starrs hands to manage and sell. William Cables well known to Bnrlingame people owned the next bottom farm below on the Marias des Cygnes. This farm had an Indian Sac and Fox burial ground on it, later it was owned many years by O. C. Williams. The farm immediately above the Daniels farm also a river bottom farm was owned then by Samuel Calkins, the father of P:imer Calkins, who with Orlando Starr still lives there on the Reserve. We will now leave these settlers for the present who in many cases were squatters on claims for several months before the Reserve was proclaimed by the President open for settlement. Starr has told me that many times in those earlier years his shake cabin, small as it was, has sheltered of a night many both Indians and whites who rolled in their own blankets asked only the use of fire and floor. Agent Albert Wiley helped the Indians to select another reservation in the Indian Ty. in the spring of 1869 and the date of the departure of the Sac and Fox tribe from Agency Hill (later Quenemo) under Government escort was Nov. 26, 1869. All the full blood Indians were gathered in and removed. Moko ho ko and his band which in one of these years embraced three-fifths of the whole tribe were carried from the Reservation by force, Moko ho Ko when the first treaty under Agent Henry Martin February 18, 1867, was be- ing made did all he could to keep the Indians froni agreeing to trade away their Reservation in Osage county. He showed them how back on the Des Moines, la.. Reservation the Government had faithfully through their agent John Chambers October 11, 1842, entered into covanent with them that if they would sell their Reservation there and remove to the new one on the head- waters of the Osage that that should always be a perpetual residence for them and their descendants," October, 1845, they had left the Iowa Reserva- tion and fulfilled their part and again October 11, 1859, the Sac and Fox na' tion had consented to the sale of the west half of their Reservation to the settlers and speculators that funds thus gained might be expended by Perry Fuller and others in the erection of houses on the Diminished Reserve and the starting up of the Mission buildings. This had been done and now the Indians had a nice compact Reservation well watered and timbered and Moko ho ko wild Indian as he was knew what his band wanted, knew that they were attached to this home. He had been to Washington and was when he succeeded to the command of Hard Fishes band removed further up the Marais des Cygnes to the neighborhood of Rock Creek holding himself aloof from civilization, and can one blame him? From the treaty of 1859 for ten years drunken unprincipled white traders, land speculators, sharks made these Indian tribes of Kansas their prey because while the Civil War was on our better class of American citizens were largely at the front saving the na- tion. When General (Jrant came into office the wliole Indian question was placed in the hands of Quakers. But though Mako ho ko did all he could to save his people Keokuk, Che-kus kuk, Uc kuaw ho ko, Mut tut tah and Man ah to wah all chiefs with various fololwings the total not amounting to as many braves as Mo ko ho ko had were influenced by liquor, by gifts by favors until after 18 months the treaty with some changes was got through Congress and proclaimed by the President October 11, 1868, one of its pro- visions being that no settlers were to be allowed on the Diminished Reserve until the Indians were removed. One of the teamsters who went on this two or three weeks journey by land to help haul the Indians supplies and accompany the Indians said that after they unloaded and started back mounted Indians passed them every day returning to their old liome. How many stayed there I never heard, Moko ho ko did not for him and his band now reduced to from 120 to 80 dwelt on the Marias des Cygnes among the whites 17 years longer. The Govern- ment gathered them up and took them with the half bloods down to their Indian Ty. Reservation again in 1872. This time Moko ho Ko and his band were the only ones who returned. The settlers found that the Indian bucks were good workers at crop tending and gathering and were honest and most of them sober, well behaved Indians of Quenemo stripe. Remaining as they did in Kansas away from their agency they could not draw any annuities so that they soon realized that to live they had to labor. They camped all along the river, I met one evening a party of 15 or more coming out of a corn field with corn knives in hand where they had been shocking corn up near Arvonia, with their families camped up there. O. C. Williams, who carried on farming extensively after I moved onto the Re- servation in 1880 use to work them in very successfully and agreeably to all parties. So as I have remarked at the beginning of this article Starr and Daniels hired Quenemo and later on Starr had old Quenemo to help him sev- eral times thus getting very well acquainted and Starr visited his wickyup near the Daniels farm. In the several years that Quenemo lived around there lie made trips with his family down to the Sac and Fox agency and stayed long enough to be enrolled anl draw his annuity and it was on one of these occasions about 1878 that he died. Evidently about the time that the treaty was made in 1859 he had married his second wife. His two boys went with the Indians and for themselves so that Starr never knew them. I learned in more recent years that one of them died without issue, the other whose name was Waw po lo Kah married and had left two children when he too died. The childrens names were Mrs. Tecumseth and Arthur Davis or else the boy died and Mrs. Tecunseth an Indian widow had married Arthur Davis. It is very, difficult to trace kinship among Indians. I learned that up to Mrs. Tecun- seth's marriage there had never been any Quenemo, but Orilla Davis, her son, received that name. He was picked cut as a fit person to be educated at the Carlisle Indian school in Pennsylvania and by payment of 50 cents the superintendent of that school had an excellent picture taken of him and sent to me. It is presented herewith. Some of the half blood Indians thought that old Quenemo had had his picture taken once and 1 was induced to ad- VI vance $3.r>0 to get the loan of it but I failed. I was i)articiilarly interested in this because the Quenemo Sanitarium in its published circular papers once gave an Indian's picture in its columns as old Quenemo which I carried down with me to the Sac and Fox Agency and showed to the Indian council through Mr. Hurr the Indian interpreters assistance one day when the chiefs and principal men of the nation were assembled. They immediately pronounced it a hoax. It was a St. Joe Medicine Go's, picture simply labeled Quenemo. it was that of some Sioux. In late years in Vol. 11 of Kansas Hist. Society a writer or the editor of an article on the history of the Sac and Fox Miss, band uses this spurious picture the second time for Quenemo. Anyone at all versed in the peculiar dress and porcupine quill work and long visage of the Sioux warrior can detect the fraud. The Sauk and Fox are inclined to have a rounder skull and they wear ornaments of necklace style, posing with a tommyhawk pipe perhaps. Here I will insert a short article that I wrote for a paper several years ago that throws some more light on Quenemo's history. In my article thus far I have touched several points embraced in this for which the reader will pardon me the repetition. I find from reading this article over after several years that it brings out Mr. Starrs story of Quenemo in a very interesting form. So many of the prominent chiefs and Indians of that Reserve around Agency Hill used liquor to such an extent that it was very unpleasant to have them around. THE INDIAN QUENEMO. A True Story of Indian Life by C. R. Green, Lyndon, Historian 1902. Lemuel F. Warner brother-in-law of Charlie Cochran and present Co. Commis- sioner for our district of Osage county has been here more than 40 years. Though on general principles a farmer he has kept store at Melvern many years and is always an interesting talker on early day matters. Recently he was telling me how the Indians caught on to Uncle Sam's facilities, find- ing its advantages in sending communications to the Iowa band of Sacs up in Brown Co. near the Nebraska line. Two or three squaws from Mokohokos camp on Cyrus Cases's farm came into his store one day, and after doing their trading, proceeded to dispatch a letter, the post office also being in the store. They were anxious to have the letter go through quickly to its destination, therefore they placed a stamp at each end of the envelop and Warner was interviewed as to further aids in its delivery. These Indians of Osage Co. worked. They earned very much more than if they had been with treir tribe. I have met bands of 2(t or more corn cutters and buskers going to and from work. Orlando Starr's first asquaintance with Quenemo began in 1871, when he came and asked work to help hoe the crops. He and Daniels raised lots of truck crops to sell the miners in Osage City, Quenemo had his wicky-up near by on the Calkins or Daniels farm. The settlers never forbid them the use of camping places as a rule, for they never stole and often caught off the wild animals that made raids on the whites' premises, (iuenemo had a second wife then, a boy 8 or 10 years old, and a little girl some older. His first wife had been dead many years, leaving him two or three sons of the regular blanket Indian kind, 30 o 40 years old who went with the tribe. Starr, thought Quenemo to be 75 or 80 then, as he was gray. His second wife was a vicious squaw of an evil disposition, who Quenemo told Starr, had tried to kill him on an occasion with a butcher knife. Says Starr, "Que'iemo was honest, temperate and a respecter of Christian ways. He sat up to the table find behaved as well as any white and had a very high sense of honor. He hoed and worked for me a great deal until as late as 1S7 4. He was a good corn busker and him and I use to do .such jobs together for the neighbors He worked a great deal for O. C. Williams and others. One time he came to me out on my farm looking quite ill, he said he was sick and wanted some medicine but he had no money. He had money owing to him off somewhere but was unable to go after it. He probably was sick with malaria, chills and ague. He wanted to borrow 2 dollars to get medicine. I had nothing but a 5 dollar bill but trusting him fully I gave it to him and he went up to Dr. Sweezie's at Olivet who prescribed medicine for him the required whiskey to put it in probably quinine. The Dr. didn't have the whiskey for his medi- cine. Back Quenemo came to me a round trip journey of ten or twelve miles, gave me my change and told me the trouble about the whiskey. All saloons, drug stores and individuals had to be careful about selling Indians liquor then as now, as it was against laws of the government, I had none to give or sell him so he made arrangements with me to get some when next I went off to Osage city and as his case was very urgent he went and got an- other Indian by the name of Alec from the Indian camp two or three miles up the river to come and help me dig potatoes and prepare my loading for my trip the next day to Osage city where I got his whiskey. Another time he had me get a pint for him, divide it and give him part at a time with the quinine in it, to be used as medicine. "He respected the Sabbath day for I had a brother, Wm. Starr, out here from Ohio visiting me over Sunday and we walked down to the bottom farm to see the crops, while there we went over to call on Quenemo and his family in his wickyup on Calkins place. As we drew nigh we heard a rasping noise going on and when we entered the hut saw Quenemo busily at work making a saddle tree with an old rasp. After some talk by which Quenemo was led to ask what day it was, and finding it was Sunday he at once put up his work, signifying that he did not wish to engage in work on Sunday. Quenemo said he had lived not only in Ohio but in Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. He made maps with his fingers on the ground that corresponded very well with Starrs maps and later Starr got maps and Quenemo showed him at once his old locations. In his earlier years with the tribe before the Black Hawk war they seemed to be among the Winnebagoes of Wisconsin gathering wild rice a great deal and he says that he lived on a reservation in those days in what was later the N. E. corner of Iowa, possibly opposite Prairie du Chien. This VIII PROBABLY A SIOUX INDIAN. A picture of an Indian furnished the folks at the town of Quenemo by a St. Joe medicine company purport- ing to be that of the Indian Quenemo. Dr. Robinson used in May 28,1903 with some Indian stories in the paper to advertise his Sanitarium there, Nov. 20 of the same year I appeared before the Sac and Fox Indian Council in Oklahoma and showed them the pic- ture which the Indians present who knew Quenemo well and helped to bury him there immediately pronoun- ced a fraud. The writer of an article afterwards (1910) published by the Kansas His- torical Society in Vol. 11 page 380 entitled "Sauks and Foxes of Frank- lin and Osage counties" allows the ' ame picture to be used of hte Sioux Indian purporting to be Quenemo's. The reader can compare the shape of the skulls and dress and see the dif- ference from our Sac and Fox Indians. C. R. Green was a 20 mile strip running diagonally south west ward from the Mississippi river to the Des Moines ceded by the Sac and Foxes to the U. S. in 1830. Fort Dodge was on it. If the old Indian was yet alive and would talk as freely to me he did to friend Starr 30 years ago what a bonanza he would of truck crops to sell the miners in Osage City, Quenemo has his wicky-up was made in 1867-9 he had married his second wife. His two boys went with long enough to be enrolled and draw his annuity and it was one one of these shocking com up near Arronia, with their families camped up there. O. C. be to my "Historical Bureau." Pretending to no education yet the very soul of honor. An Indian easy to get acquainted with yet never begging a favor. Warner, Craig one of the early pioneers at the agency was one of the organizers of the proposed town that should be built up there when the In- dans were removed. It was left to him to suggest an appropriate name for the new town. While several of them were deliberating over the town plans I presume in the Indian Council House in 1869 the door opened and Quenemo stepped in. Immediately without further thought Craig spoke up "I name this town Quenemo after my old Indian friend here." The story came direct to me from Dr. E. B. Fenn's lips who was a Govern- ment Doctor there from 1866 among the Indians. Fenn asked Craig about it and was told the circumstances of naming it. The meaning of Quenemo Dr. Fenn said was something "hoped for" "longed for," etc., which is a lit- tle different from that expressed in the "legend of Quenemo "as interpreted by George W. Logan who semed among all the whites there at Quenemo to best understand their legends — and mythology. John Capper obtained this definition for me in 1901 Quenemo! "I am longing for you" or "I am lonesome without you." A SHORT VERSION OF THE LEGEND OF QUENEMO. Ages ago the Dacotahs made a treaty with the Sauk and Foxes. One stipulation of which was that the women captured in war by either tribe should not be put to death as had been the custom in their savage warfare before. At the close of one terrible conflict in which the Dacotahs were victorious seven of the Sauk and Fox squaws were captured and carried off to the cold bleak country of the Dacotahs far to the north. After remaining prisoners for some time they were released, provided with a supply of dried buffalo meat and set on their way south towards home. Many weary days were con- sumed in wandering aimlessly through the deep pine forests of the upper Mississippi. At last the poor squaws realized that they were lost, and a heavy snow storm peculiar to that latitude coming on they constructed a rude hut of boughs in which they prepared to pass the winter or until the weather would admit of their continuing their journey. Weeks passed one by one the women died of starvation, until only one was left. She was (enciente) and in her terrible loneliness and helpless con- dition gave birth to a boy pappoose. In her misery as she looked uiion her new born babe, she uttered these words Que ne mo!" "Que ne mo!" There is no English equivalent, but imagine all that expresses the deepest despair and most poignant sorrow. O! my God! My God! Why has thou deserted me? The poor squaw with her pappoose struggled slowly southward when Spring came at last reaching her people and home with the boy in fine condi- tion. That she had been forced by starvation to feed on the flesh of her dead companions and thus by that means had lived to returned and tell the tale to her people was something partaking of the supernatural. The warriors held a great council of seven days. One day for each of the dead and one for the living and her child, and made a covenant with the squaw mother that this child should be a chieftain of his band and that as long as time should last the title should remain in her family and that the oldest son of each generation following should be called Quenemo and that there should never be but one Quenemo at a time. END. I have heard that there were in the 60's near the Agency a Quenemo Band, I think that about 1850-60 he belonged to Hard Fish's Band east of Greenwood Agency at his death there for a short time it was Quenemo Band Then Moko ho ko with Indians from the Missiouri Band of Sauk and Foxes joined the Mississippi Band and many of the latter joined Moko ho ko because he hated civilization. In Iowa Quenemo was with the band that kept further away from the white man's influences. In Kansas Agent Chenault in his report of 1851 commends the Chief Tuck-quas Band of Sacs. He said that the chief never took liquor. Had great influence over them and it was the best regulated one of all the Indians. Henry Clay Jones whose father was a Frenchman and mother a Fox squaw, born back in Iowa so far as I know is living yet. I have been to his home in the nation and stayed with him. He is a well informed wealthy land owner with a large family. He has always been with the conferedate tribes. Has filled many responsible positions and his history will be given in full hereafter. He is well known in Osage County, Kansas. Shortly before Quenemcs death the Osage Indians came to visit the Sac and Foxes. They were feasted and gathered in the council room 'The Calumet' The Pipe of Peace went the rounds and oratory was in order. Quenemo arose and made a short speech in regard to the significance of the "Calumet" and its ornimentation. The trimmings of it by some oversight had been made red, which Quenemo said was wrong— it meant war. Thus this old In- dians' last public utterance was that tended to draw down the blessings of the Great Spirit upon their Councils. At this time 1878 the confederate tribe of Sac and Foxes could not have numbered 700. In 1845 thev had numbered nearly 3.000 Death by diseases ,,,,.,-„, . , ,.„ . bour children grew up and are still left their families and viewed different ^ ^ , .. T^ rr, 1 u living: William Harrison Smith, of pans of tDe Kansas Territory John o -^u J T.u- 1 ^. •. u J J Michigan Valley, Osage county, born Smith and Ithiel tstreit had arranged j. -^ j. ., . L. . L. in Pennsylvania: Mary Smith, the Srst with young men to have their horses j i j , , . , , . ,, one born in Kansas, a maiden ladv and and wagons driven through fiom Penn- , ,„, ., , ^. home keeper for the father; frank, a sylvania. While waiting for things to , , 1 J • . J ^ • . J farmer, living two miles south of the become settled smith and Mreit joined , . •■ . ^ , , father, with a family of ten children, the hrst company and came out the , ^ . • . ,-. r,-. 1 "■ J anJ Lizzie, the baby, who ha* been Santa re 1 rail to the proponed metropo ., .. ,„ ^r ,.,._,, ~ 1 /-,- f, Mrs. M. r. Headington these many lis of the Southwest, "Couucil City," ^ , , , j. . . ,, , ^ years, and whose husband is well known which the American settlement Com- ,, ,. , ,. . ^ ^ . J . L n « tothe Burlingame public as e.xUounty pu'Jv had advertised in the East. As ., , ■, tt -, , ". . , ■ buperintenaent and U. b. rural mail Streit was one of the cnaio-meu m ,.j.ppigp laying off the first site, out by Peter g^, January, '55, Mr. Smith was able Kirbi's. the early arrivals found a ^^ ^^^^ ^i^ fa„,i,y o^t from Kansas blank prair.e wilderness. There were ^^^^^^^ stopping at George Bratton's for some fifteen or twenty men, women and ^ ^-^^ g^ ^^^j^ ^ ^,^i„j ^,.^j ^j^^^ o„ children who landed at the Swilzler gwitzler creek, southeast of Council Creek crossing, or near it, November city, which ho did nottry to hold later 13, 14 and 16. How many are alive of ^^ ^j^ services were so much in de- that company in other places I can not ^.^^^ ^^j^^^ ^^^ ^^j^^, ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ on the tell, but in Burlingame close inquiry ^^^^ constantly. Before he moved hia leadH me to believe that Mrs. Mary family out he made various trips. Tne Hoover Pratt and Joseph Bratton are fjiataoce, seventy-five or eighty mile^ the only ones. They were children j,y the Santa Fe Trail to Kansas City, when they came. Of those who came allowed them to makea round trip each in 1855 '56 there were a great many, ^^^j^ g^ ,^^,,^^1 lo^jq Smith, the John Smith's immediate company of new agent of Council Ciby, out for one. adults were: Ithiel Streit, George Brat- ^,^q ^j^ a good deal of hauling for ton and family, James Bothel, Samuel Geo Bratton. Ithiel Streit, his friend, Allison and family, Absolom Hoover had, in the meantime, looked the coun - try over and found much mora desirable go. So that every one helped in some claims, up on Soldier creek, about four way. The teain was gone about two miles west of the Council City settle- weeks. ment. So, Mr. Smith sajs that on The first year Mr Smith followed January 28, 1855, he went there, slaked teaming back and forth on the Trail to off hi'=iclaim,thenextoneabove Sii-eii'p; Kansas City Larly in April be and and this claim is yet bis borne. Streit, with two loads of provisions, He managed to get a log cabin built were caught in a big snow storm, on and they were living in it by March 6, the Trail at VeatcheH. getting home, '55. His claim is the southwest one- however, without any loss other than quarter, section 18, township 15, range extra time and much hardship 14, four miles west of Burlingame and Another time, about the end of his two miles from the Wabaunsee couriiy first day's drive towards Kansas Citv, line South of him lived Prank Smith he met a Mr. Fish, with an ox team, and father, Ami Smith, on Plum creek, overloaded with goods and his family, and who were also from Penusvi vania. who bargained with Smith for $10 to Biily Aikins lived north of him, and turn bank and carry bin family and three miles up Soldier creek, in the some baggage lo the Council Citv set- next county, lived the Mclntyre boys, tlement Ox teams at ihat time were O. H. Sheldon's claim a little later, not very plenty and cosi$75 00 to$80 00. was a mileand a half nortbeastof him, A man. howtver, was considered quite where the Santa Fe Trail crossed Sol- well off who owned such a team, for dier creek. Here is wLere he brought horses required much grain, were often his bride. O H. Sheldon rvas a promi- stolen and more often died uen-i man later on, representing both Mr, Smith says: "I got .Joseph Mc Osage and Wabaunsee counties as a Donald to come with his ox team in the State Senator, but he had to begin spring of 1855 and, with my team of with an ox team and make his living horses ahead, we broke oneaoreof sod along with the rest of the pioneers. Some of this we dug over with a bO'» He died in 1878 and planted to a garden with various When the first Border Ruffian raid seeds that we had brought from Penn- was made on Lawrence, Kansas, in No- sylvania Fields of old ground in corn vember, 185,5, there was some sort of thatseasrn were very scarce f knew a company organization at Council City of on If Fry iV McGee's at "110'" cross by which the men were to assist each ing and J, Frele's at Switzler cre< k. Free State settlement against the Mis- Weather was favorableand ever vtbing Bouri Ruffians. Lawrence sent out a growing nicely when along about the call for help and as may be learned by first of Jur.e I noticed toward the mid- the reader on previous pages of this die of the day millions of (ibjects gli«t work, the Council City company re- ening in the sunlie-ht They were '^o sponded. .John Smith was sick, but dense it was like lookinP' throueh a furnished the team for O H.Sheldon piece of smoked glass. These obj»?cts to carry the provisions and baggatre came near,?r and nearer until in a very for the company. Ami Smith was too short time grasshoppers were alight- old aiiO feeble, but Itbiel Streit got ing and helping themselves to our ear- him tostay with his folks that he might den. With broom, brush and slicks we "shoo'd" and beat them but it wai* cash or a ItiO acre land warrant, but of no use for a.s soon &» oce batcb wat? bought a warrant for $160 of G. W. Pad- gone another took its place, so thatour dock, of Lawrenc.i, paying him forty- garden was taken right oefore our eyes eight per caut. interest annually on the Not only our garden but all ihe gar- debt This warrant I used in entering dons around us and fields of corn, every my land, buteomeyears later I received green thing except the prairie grass, notice from the government that the A hour the third day they began to rise warrant wa^ a fraudulent one and I had up and fly away, and oh what desola- to raise and pay $200 at once. Having tion they luft behind. We planted and paid Mr, Paddock, I could not recover raised some things later ou. anything from him. 'Later in the season I hired Henry "The winter of 1856 and '57 was a very Smith to come and break five acres for trying period for us. I took sick in the me. The nexispring(1856). O H Shel- fall and was poorly all winter The don, with his ox team, put it in corn cabin was cold and my wife had to put and tended it for me. It was pretty' forth great exertions toget us through, dry and came up badly, but we had a Our horses died for want of grain and good crop of pumpkins By 1857 we care. I sold my wagon to O H. Shel- had t;M) acres to farm but my team was don for $75 00 on credit 1 borrowed dead and I was not able lo buy another, money of Mr. Aikens and bought two "Our log cabin. with a lean lo, wasour cows with bull calves by their side at home for seventeen years, [t was some $20.00 each. Thus I had a prospective years before I got a good floor in it. team of oxen, but the next winter one then it was wtiat was called a puncheon of the calves got killed I made ox floor, being oak slaves about four feet yokes, ox bows and cut cord wood for lonsr and six inches wide, shaved and others, any work that I could get and jointed to make a good tight floor, do to keep us alive. (C. R Green has a part of one of these "It was a ereat advantage having such old oak puncheons of .John Smith's in fine timber on Soldier Creek. No one his museum ) T had a claim of excel- knewanytbing aboutourcoal. Iffound lent land well timbered along Soldier in any of the wells or crossings out on (";rp<=-k and mv cabin was over on the the hillsi*ie, little thought was given to south side of theclaim, butlater on we its advantages as fuel. Everybody got a half section line road through burned wood So manv came here in from Burlingame westward ■some miles those early years that got down sick and on this on the north side of my with fevers and died or left to return place I built mv new house. My son- East that «pe could hardly organize any in law. M T Headina'ton, now owns a society in the coontry. When I left portion of my original claim. When I the East it was to make a home in the built m> frame house, in 1872. that I West. I never had any help from east- live in, I used all native frame material ern friends. We lived tV.rough the from my own timber. hard years some way. My wife died "The land surveys of 1857 58 obliged Nov. 7.1896, but my daughter Mary us to settle them with the government keeps house for me. at the rate of $1.25 per acre or a land "In 1858 theGermaos cameand opened warrant T did not naveeither the $200 up the town of Havana. Tbetownsite a mile square cornered to the north west of me. They built a lar^e mill of stone and other buildia^s on the Santa Pe Trail, were building until I860 when they stoppud and a few years later the whole business was sold for nonpay- ment of taxfi!^ The Havana school nou.se, No 8, now occupied the mIco, foui- aud one tialf milHH west of Burlin- game. Tbw leadintr men of this enter- UVifo. were P W lijid brink, Mr. Hul- seeurler, Auj^ur^t Meyer, Moran Beach, Mr Aierhold, Peter Polt, Mr. Sey- wester. Our neifrb boihood [^ known yet a« Havana " la concludiua Mr. John Smith's sketch of his early daya I feel that as an old Hettler he i? to be commended for the happy .social manner in the way that he has the la^it two or three years circulated in our gatherings in his ef- forts to make the old pioneers from widely separated settlements acquaint- ed and the meeting- satisfactory; peek- ing no office, yet be helped all. A man of firm convictions, he is ever on the side of temperance and good citizen- ship, and interested in seeing that the true facts of pioneer history here are presented in a correct manner. C. R. Green. Lyndon, Kansas, Nov. 20. 1906. BURLING A ME COLONY Material on hand uf the following pioneers; som complete, others lack ing some data, U'^f^•i•,' publicdi ion: H-nry D Shetiiird Absiiloiri ll(K)%'ef and d^u.'litpf. Mrr* Mary P,- a- 1 . James Wuvhel Abial T. Du'.t.on Wilis Levi'i..i^ lawyer Si IPS N Hills William H Lord. Pniliip C Schnyior Mrs L^vi Em pie Mrs. Isabella Ratnbo Mercer. Wiiliam Thompson, judge Alfred M. .larboe History of early-day teachern, Mr- Ida Perris, iho .lames R)ger«i family. Elizabeth Clousing Eden, the San'a F^ Trail, and other settlers arour.d tb.- "110" and further away C H. Green. Historian November, 1906 REV. ISAAC McCOY, wife and boy. Missionary to the Sac and Fox Indians, these 20 years or more. He is an Ottowa Indian while his wife,who was Mary Thorp, is a half breed Sauk Indian. school system is proliablc, but what I go by is tlie ortieial record, and I hope s(tmc day our county fathers will cause ail otticial list from the very tirst of all our county otlicersfrom 1 8o9,as substan- tiated by the county cleric's record, to be published, C. R CJreen. THE JOHN DREW FAMILY, AS CONNECTED WITH OSAGK COUNTY HISTORY. Mr. lohn i>rew was born in Lond(m, Knyrland, April IK, ITStS. and died at tlie residence of his daujjhter, Lizzie (Mrs AV I' Deminjf), in the city of Burlin- yama, Kansas, October l, 1897, about 9S years and 6 montiis old ' i is wife Sarah Pope, was also born in L(m- don in 1804 and died at their home, near Hurlingame, July lU 1874. Thus, in a brief way, reads a record of one of the oldest pioneers of Osage county. A familiar form to the citizens of the county, as yeneially some one of his boys tilled .some county ottice down to almost the date of his death. In the late yeaiis of his life he had remarkable stronu'th of mind and body for one of his age, and often went off on long trips or visits entirely alone; once in the eighties to the Exposition at New Orleans, and his letters to the news papers, full of descriptive matter, were interesting and welcome to the public Thus was his old a e made young again and full of honors, for his sons never disgraced the name in otlice nor did they ever retire from salaried posi- tions without the public having en- joyed such riches wi h them. When visiting at the home of his son, .loe Drew in Lyndon. I have seen him many a time taking his walk for exer- cise, with the granflsons around him, and in the household he was always surrounded the same wav. Sinaller than his sons in stature, his grandsons, in their teens.of ten outranked him, but. never in a world of useful information or admonition. Hon. .lames Rogers.historian of Osage county, in his C'enteiuiial history of 1876, closes his remarks on one of the pages about Hurlingame pioneers with the words that it was not time to write up the Drew history. 1 didn't think it would fall to me to furnish it thirty years later; but when a father and three sons, as p ominent as Wm. Y., •losiah R nd (Jeorge 1. Drew, all pa.ss away in such a few years and the sons and their families removed from the county,so that I hear of only one grand- son of that name now living here, then is it not time s me permanent record should be made of this pioneer family? The .sons named above have all favored me in their lifetime with plenty of in- formation about the early history here. Kspecially is this true of George J. Drew, whom I never met, but who, two j^ears before his death, from his Wash- ington, D. C. home, favored me with a number of letters .lohnDrew was married inLondon and two children. George I . and Sarah, we e bo n to them in that city; the daughter died In 18.H2Mr Drew, wife and son, George, came to New York and lived in various places in the East until he came to Rurlingame, May IH, 18.")r),with his two sons, William Y.,and losiahR. In the fall George brought the family. John Drew took a claim adjoining Hur- lingame, in Section 10 The family at ti)at time consisted of George .1., aged 25, William Y ,21,Josiah, l!i. Elizal)eth (Mrs W. V. Deming,) Ki, Naomi, 11, who was drowned July ."{, 18.">8; Cliarles P., 12, of Topeka, and Joseph S., 10, of Arizona Mr. Drew and his .sons became inter- ested in the city of Rurlingame the next year and when Schuyler & ( a iff got then- sawmill in operation Mr ' Drew was among the tirst to buy land ' and erect a good frame house. Tlie boys who were old enough secured home- stead claims in the vicinity, but made the home their headquarters I have very few particul rsof Mr JohnD ew's life during those early days He and his wif(^, two of the so s and one daughter were members of the Baptist church. Mr Drew Hod the office of justice of th peace and road oversee . William Y. Drew, in his interestins' -.ketch, very fully covered those early l:;ys, and is as follows: NARRATIVE BY W. Y. DREW. The write was born in New York :ity, March 7, 1834, so .chat April io. .855, when father, .foe and myself tarted fo'- Kansas I was past 21 years. Ve traveled by the river to Albany; to leveland by the Xev,' Yo k Central- Cincinnati by the Cleveland, Colum- •us ct incinnati iailroad,and by boat gain to St. L uis. where we joined a olony en oute to Kansas from Cin- innati and Pennsylvania ■ o Kansas ity we rode on the steamer Hartfo d, light draft boat of 3i feet. 'Ihe pilot as unable to run nights. Daniel ~ c- raw, our companion f cm Xew York, led of cholera on the boat. Vie were 'n days making the t-ip to Kansas ity, where we landed, but the boat ntinued on up the Kaw liver with le Manhattan colony. 'Iheboatafte - ards was burned nea- Pawnee or in ie vicinity of Fort Riley. We hired team at Kansas City and sta^ ted for mncil City, but Ijefore we reached lere we met I'billip Schuvler and re- med with him to Kansas City He dbeen out and located his claim and IS going Ka.st to close up his business d then make hi.s h,nru> ;,, Kansas Wy father and .loe arrived in Council City May IS, 1855, but I remained in the city, bought an ox team for our use, and did not reach home until later We located on the west one-half of ■southeast one-fourth Section 10, ;,5, i.|, eiglity acres. Abel Polly took the east eightyof the same quarter. Tlie oun- cil City folks tried todrive usou,claim- ing that we v.ere on their town site, but there were four of i;s pretty well armed and we sta^ ed there and "it was our home for several years. Phillip Schuyler had purchased George . rat- ton's rights and took the claim that is now a part of the city of Burlin^ame lie removed there in the winter of 1«55-'5H and started the sawmill in which S R Canitr was a partner in '5',: Father's hou.se was one of the first large buildings erected from the lum- ber of the mill. It was 24x30, one and a half story high, and I think it was the third frame house construclrd of native lumber. I had the ague nearly two years, end- ing wiih an attack of typhoid fever. There was a good deal of destitution. Our place of holding public meetings was the Council City house and as the big town .scheme of that company failed we were determined some other town should be built up on the Santa Fe Trail at the Switzler creek crrissing. Father was oneoftheBurlingameTown company. After tiie Brooks-Sunuier affair in Congress, IVIay, 185f5, Hon. An.son Burlingame, of Massachusetts, was out here in Kansas, perhaps as late as 1857, and gave us a rattling old Abolition speech; so, about April.1857. we held a meeting in Playford's board- ing house and named f)ur town after him, thus committing our settlement to Free State principles. Schuyler iS: Cannilf run the mill steadily and the ."wn began to grow. SamiiVl AllLsc-n \v of the liist storekeepers, on Polley place. The twoBolh- d a store, tlien others. I rt- thit our folks bought a st(jve days of a Methodist minister, urtli ,for wliieh they paid$40. to the war at the first call in steen of us decided to go in e started otT afoot for 'opeka, Lawrence, where we joined 1 Kansjis Infantry. his was or'Ji^ani/.atinn: the witli a ai,d Artillery ctmipany. We or three moiiths, with an un- ]\j: that it sliould be a three- i nient. I served five and one- lis. None of the sixteen died lirst term of service. At of V>-ilson*s Creek, our lirst n.'^agement, there' was n' t a ither rank, up or down, for nenibers, who was not either or sliifhtly wounded or wlio lave bullet holes through his except myself: not one. W en lent came home to reorganize, inained, I among the number. "i2. some forty or more of us, r auKl Burlingame. went- into KansasCavalry, Co. I. ( heir ave been given on preceding he officers of the company stain .Ioy,of GrasshopperFalls, 1). McAfee, of Topeka, and '. Y. Drew.) I served three il one month, coming home ?i<)ber 1, 1805, as First Lieut. rough the whole service with- ueli. Towards the last a great our command became otlicei-s ents made up of negroes or but my company asked me to ath them, h»th of .January, 1870, i went e as county clerk,serving three ling out in 1 ><"(!. the county kremov(>d from l>urlingame to Lyndon tour or liv'- months l)eIore 1 retired from ollice. and wliile 1 went t(» Lyndon. I did not remove my fan^ily there. I had some pretty rough times while in orlice. though I was elected the third term without opposition. At one time in the county seat tight, in order to get possession of importjint papers in the clerk's care, Osage City contestants rot out a writ of replevin and, with the sheriff, forcibly broke open the iron safe and thus took the papers. At anotiuM- time an armed force of several hundred from Lyndon and beyond, started for this place to take away the county records, which the people of this part of the county determined they should not do, even though blood be shed. Armed men pa- trolled Burlingame and watched every stranger who came int(» the towii. night or day, in some cases arrested them and held them prisonei-s for a day. Captain Edie, tlie county sheriff, and I went down to the belligerent forces, in camp on the Dragoon, and talked up a compromise by which another court decision was to be obtained, and which. eventually, gave the county seat to Lyndon, i uvlingame had been the county seat for twelve years and was a fair center at that time elf were the tellers. The tight was KansasCavalry, along with forty or fifty l).i\veen the Council City party and others from the vicinity of Biirlingame. tlK' settlers on Switzler creek. Mr. He was wounded Deceniher 7, 1W2, 1 l;iven was the Council City candidate, at Prairie Grove, Arkansas, though not ( Ml counting the tirst hallot the tellers seriously, .lune 20, lS(i4, he was pro- t'niind more ballots in tiieir hats than moted and made I'irst Lieutenant, ISth ti i.re were voter.s, and without open- V. S. colored troops. ^Yhen his war them, and on their own volition, serviceterminated. lean not tell. The -ed the ballots into the fire: a great 11th KansasCavalry did i ot return N\ M)d fire (m the health. As there home till September, "(i.",, and Lu-ut. siriued to be no wav to defeat Mr. Drew's regiment did service until Feb- ilaven in this caucus, the Switzler ruary 21, ISdd. (All this war record I (Mvc'k men gave a comnlimentary vote had to compile from b(.(.ks.) lie was to Mr. Amos I'ollv. At a meeting held appointed a clerk in the War Depart- in the evening of the same dav, at the ment at Washinirton, D. C.. March J>, home of Mr. Titus, on Switzler creek, 1880, from Osage county, which was his Dr. Toothman, who lived on Switzler, legal home until the day of his death. a mile north of Council Citv. wasnomi- He was married in that city October lb, nated. If T remember correctly, the 1884, to Miss Ella May Fraser. They District comprised the whole south- had one daughter who died in her west part of the tcrritorv. with two eighthyear. George . I. Drew died leb- senatorsand three representatives. As ruary 10, 1^05, of diabetes, and was the mail carrier stopped at the Titus buried in one of the beautiful ccme- hotel the names of the nominees were teries at Washington, 1). V. sent bv him to the other precincts, In 1878 aC^mnty Historical Society Dr Toothman's name being sent in- was organized at lUirlingame, with stead of Mr. Haven's, so that with a James Rogers president and (.eorge.). divided vote at home and none at the Drew secretary. A year or two before other places, Mr. Haven was defeated his death Mr. Drew forwarded to me and soon afterward went back Fast, eleven leaves, cut from his own mem- On the following 4th of .Tulv (185(1.) the oranda book, containing certain min- Le-islature met at Topeka. when Dr. utes and resolutions of various meet- Toothman refused to go and many of ings, d<,wn to March 2. 1880 which was the citizens gave him a piece of their about the date of George Drew s ap- minds. He soon after left and went to pointment to a position in ^^a^'•'l^- Wvandotte. I never heard of him ton, and as James Rogers died .luly i., afterwards " that same year (aged r»l years.) the so- ' George Drew to..k a claim some dis- ciety seemed to have ceased Jo work, tance out of P>U!-lingamc and sold it to Mr. Drew said they had an old trunk, somesettlerafter the survey was made, full of valuable manuscript pictures He was never a farmer any length of papers, hc.ks. etc.. and that they had time. During the earlv history of the been left in Absalom Hoovers care, county I think he filled the ollice of On New Year's day. li'.n. I visited the deputy He was a good scholar Hoover homestead and made diligent •ind nfain writer. 1 find his name men- inquiry for the p:u)ers by Mr. Dn w s iiuHKl m thccountv,.n.ceedingsottcn. directi.ms. but no o.u- knew nnytlung lie served his country in Co. 1. lHh about them. h The minutes of the last meeting men- tion Harrison Dubois, Peter Kirby, D. G. Griswold, M. Rambo. J. Bush, Lilly, E. Mercer, G. •!. Drew, and Jas. Rogers present, the meeting being held in Rogers' office, with Mr. Dubois as president and Drew secretary. A lec- ture course was to be arranged for the second Tuesday in each month, by Jas. Rooers. The society had then been running two years. A printed consti- tution accompanied these leaves and, before closing, it extends an invitation to the public to attend a meeting Sep- tember a, 1880, when Mj.Rodgers would give a continuation of his historical sketches and Mr. Mings one, of his fa- mous trip to Leavenworth in 1856, as well as other valuable papers. At one of the very first meetings work was laid out, as follows, and persons ap- pointed to do it: 1st. To procure photos and biograph ical sketches of the first twelve white persons born in Osage county— Mr .John Hoover and Miss E. Bratton. 2. Biographical sketch and photo of William Whistler, with an account of the Sac and Fox Indians, including photos and mementoes of that tribe - ?>Ir. J. Rc)gers. To procure photos of each of thecounty officers,with biographical sketches,and also of their wives, as follows: 3. GountyCommissioners— H. A. Bil- lings. 4. District Judges-J. Rogers. 5. Probate Judges— R .T.Playford. 0. County Clerks, Wm. Y. Drew. 7. District Clerks (of court)— J. M Chambers. 8. Sheriffs -Harrison Dubois. 9 County Attorneys— s. D. Wright, (later) -W. Johnson. 10. Recorders— Wra ChatlJeld(latcr) .1. Nelson. 11. Treasurers— C. C. Crumb 12. Co. Superintendents— P. Kirbj^ 13. Coroners- Dr. Jackson. 14 Surveyors— Charles Fox 15. Senators- Louis Finch. Ifi. Representatives -C. Rogers 17 Editors-J. Rastall To procure tiles of the following pa pers published in Osage county: '8. Lyndon Signal— HarrisonDubois 1!). Osage Ob.server-Peter Kirby. 20 Lyndon Times— Peter Kiiby 21 Shaft of Osage City -J. Rogers. 22 Free Pre.s.s— J. Rogers. 23. Osage Chronicle— J. R stall To procure photos and biograpliical sketches of our soldiers, as follows: 24. Co. i, Old Free State Guard of 1855— Geo. J. Drew. 25. Campaign and .soldiei-s of 1850— M. Rambo. 2(i.— The 2nd Kansa.s-R.T Playford 27. Co. I. nth I'lansas Cavalry —John Crumb. . 28. Soldiers of other commands— T Mitchell. 29. Military olljcers from other com- mands during the War of tiie Rebel- lion— J. li. Drew. 30. Our dead .soldiers— J. E Bush. 31. To procure a picture of the old Council House—.!. Rogers. Historical accounts of the various settlements in Osage county, with biog- raphy and photos of its early settlers i lid views of buildings: 32 Osage City— Charles Martin. 33. Burlingame— James Rogers. 34. A rvonia settlement— JolinReece. 35. Barclay settlement -H. K iMc- Coiniell 30, Olivet settlement-Dr. Sweezie. 37. Melvernsettlem't— AsherSmith, (later) Lem Warner 38. Quenemo— JohnC. Rankin. 39. Glass settlement— Dr Mathers. 40. Lyndon settlement-S. B. Tower. 41. General account of the sfttle- menl of the Sue and Fox Reserve- .1 udjre Blake. 42. Kidijeway settlem"t ~ Dr.Jaeks'n. 4:5. Carbondale settlement — A. P.. Sparaliawk. 41. Superior settlement- .Tn().Mint:^s (later) 11. T. I 'lack 4."). Scranton, Versailles, Richardson, Indiana City, Prairie (^ity— A. Baxter. 4(>. Switzlersettlem't -Mrs.P.Kirby. 47. Eureka sefmt-Absalom Hoover. 4S. Havana settlement-JohnSniith. 49. Prescott settlenvt— Dr Griswold After this business was transacted Mr. RofTors read, in conclusion, some ex! raels h\nn a history of the county. An annising conversation then took place, cansed by' a request that Jas Rofrers prepare a history of the Osa. Slieldon and Kerr were on the grounds ond were untiring in their efforts to resuscitate her. All tliought of a celebration was abandoned aiid the entire company was turned into a funeral procession whicli followed the grief-stricken children to the home of their parents, from whom they had departed but a short time be- fore with no thought of the dreadful caianniy which was so soon to fall upon them. * * CHARLES r. DRinV. Captain C. T. Drew, fourth son in the John Drew family, is well known to the I'Uilingamc people for the past twenty five years. lie did service in Co. I, nth Kansas Cavalry, as a corporal; was wounded in the engagement at Prairie Grove, December 7, 18(iL>, but so far as we could learn by the records, he saw tlie war through. Younger than many of the otliei- soldiers when lie came home, he retained much interest in militiiry matters, and for a number of years was captain of tlie militia com- pany thatBurlingame has always main- tained, and it was always a wolldrilled company, neat in appearance and ever on liand promptly. We presume the great number who went to the Spanish war from that section liad their early training under Captain Drew's direc- tion. Though Mr. Drew lives in To- peka he is deeply interested in the suc- cess of Co. B, Kan.sas National Guard- It was certainly an appropriate recog nition of Captain Drew's faithful serv- ices along these lines since the Rebel- lion that General W.S. Metcalf selected l)im as his lirst assistant in tlie United States Pensio.. Agency at Topeka. Charles P. Drew was married Sep- tember G, 1S(J8, to Miss Lucy A. Cable, who came to Kansas with her parents from Pennsylvania in 1«05. Five chil- dren were born to them; two are dead. Mrs. Nellie Spaulding lives at Kansas City. Elmer is engaged in the mercan- tile business at Overbrook. He married Miss Elizabeth Sliarpe, May Iti, 190(5. Mrs. Lizzie Shrader, whose liusband is a business partner of Elmer. Tliev have one son. * JOSEPH DREW. Joseph, the youngest of John Drew's family, seems to have struck out for hhnself in early life, and little is known of him. lie lives in Phoenix, Arizona; is married and their children number live. Not having any acquaintance with him, I will conclude my liistorv right here. While there have been many other Osage county pioneer families, with grown sons when they came here, none have furnished more soldiers to their country's call; none returned more good, law-abiding citizens to assist in building up Osage county than the John Drew family. And, when father, at the age of !)8J, and three .sons, (58 to To years of age, all pass away, so near together, it is time their history was written up,and I am sorry that a better pen than mine could not have dcmc it. C. R. Green. OSAGE COUNTY AFTER THE WA R— 18()(). During the Civil War that part of the Sac and Fo.x Indian Reservation, on the west in this county, known as the "Trust Lands," was thrown on the market and, owinj,^ to tbe disii-;ic- tions of war days, the attention of our prominent, honest American citizens was not on to the steahng-s of the "In- dian Ring" to the extent that it was lateronduringGrant'sadministration. 1 do not wish to discuss, at any length, the matter here. Many citizens of Kansas would gladly Have taken the lands from the Government at tii-st hands at $i.50 to §2.50 per acre, but they were busy lieading slavery out of Kansas. The result was that large bodies of the Trust Lands went int(. the hands of such men as Perry Fuller & Co., 35,000 acres: McManus & Co , o4,841 acres; Hugh MeCullough, 7,080 acres; R. S. Stevens & Co., 29,760 acres; 1 homas Carney 40,000 acres, and others whose names show on the assessment roll of Superior township in 1865- '66. These several speculators paid for their goods and had a right to them, no doubt,but they got them,in some cases, at a cash outlay as low as 25c. per acre and at once demanded a price of froin $4.00 to $6.00 and $8.00 per acre from our pioneer settlers, and though they had their patents by 1865, yet when the assessor of Superior townsliip, which embraced all the Sac and Fox Reserve for taxation purposes in 1865-'67, made up their ]-eturns, as may be seen on the tollowmg pages, and put these several gentlemen down, as enumerated above, they refused to pay taxes for 1865. I find in the CountyCommissioncrs'Rook the following record: Burlingame, Kans., Jan'y 9, 1867. Board authorizes tlie Co. l reasure- to receive tax of Mr. John McManus for the year 1865, at the valuation of «1.2o per acre. But the next day the Board of County Commissioners exon erates lands of Messrs. Mc Manus, Thos and"S.'pf?'^"^ ^ ^^^ ^'"'ler & Co., and others known as the "Sac Lands.'' (For the year 1865Isuppose.-C. R. (i.) Total amount exonerated, $1,184 .05. Two or three montlis later the Board allowed Marsh M. Murdock $246.75 for printing the delinquent tax list; and only about a year before this the Board allowed bills to the amount of $2!):}.71 for the survey and establisliment of a State road from Topeka to the Sac and Fox Agency. Thus did Osage county tax itself and in the end the pioneer settlers paid the tax CO improve and advertise the coun- try known as the Sac and Fox Reserve. So they were alert to organize this part into townships. The citizens of Bur- lingame had hard work to get the county seat established there and se- cure a little help outside of the county to erect a court house during those war years. I have heard Joe Drev/ tell that it Mas barely accomplished in time to give the volunteers a reception in it on their return at the close of the war; yet some of its rooms may have been in use a year. From the Book of County Board proceedings: "September 3, 1866: County Board, composed at that time of Wm. Lord, L. If. Elliott and John Perrill, author- ized Mr. Lord to buy three stoves and two dozen otHce chairs for the Court House: bill, $160.00, and October ], 186(), Marinaduke Rambo was allowed $150.00 for making desks, benches, ta- bles, etc., for Court House." Result of election November 6, 1866. from book of County Board proceed- ings: Samuel J. Crawford and J. L. Mc- Dowell, the two party candidates for Governor get respectively 272 and 4(i votes, a total vote of 318. Jim Rogers, for Senator, 213 votes; L. R. Adams^ Clerk of the District Court, 297 votes; James Stewart, County Attorney, 295; Thomas Playford, Probate Judge, 172; W. II. riders, Prol>ate Judge, 125; Su- peiiiitendent of Schools, Peter Kirby, A. 2i)5: Jesse E. Evans, to till vacancy in Lewis Allen. .lames Akins. oilice of Cou.itv Sm-veyoi-, previously W. F. Aderhold, .John Albach, lilled bv II. D. Preston, 2S0 voles: for W. -I. Andrews, D.cV.I.H. Alexander, County Bonds of r:2,n(!0 fo build O.unty Thomas A iknis, U.S. .\^Miew, .Tail, 173 for, 83 against. ^ .lohn Archibald. April27,18(i7, Board meet in;4- decided \'- the matter of allowinj,^ the people of 1^- •!■ IVyce, ^^^^''/'IV.".?' ' Osase county to vote on the Santa Fc L'^uisa Branet t, Kobe) t Baud, Ti bond proposition, SUO.ono. .Tune C. D. Bush, ^'-l"';!;:;, ""'"^' 15, 18(17, election was held, lin; for; 123 -Uine i.. i?each, N. M. Blan } , a-ainst, majority 73; total vote, 31!) •'; 'J; 1;"^''' --;. '^^^ This would make the white population ';• ;■ l^or and, ^- ^;/; '•^':' of Osaoe countv about Um. It N^as W.lham Bryant, Sa.ah K Bu.sh, more than that July 10, 1S(U). Peti- Alfred Baxter, . '. Be.Ty tions from several parties all over the M:ut rook, " ,. , , '^ ; ;. county induced the Board to divide the • • W- Brown, ' »' V f^, ;'^ ' ' county into six municipal townships. Lewis Behymer, ' •; • ^ J; "' The t?wo from Shawnee county, Bur Ilemy N. Bishop, > . lincvame and Ridjreway, seem to remain S. 1 . Iishop, J^/'V, ' . ""• the same, 0x12 miles each in size Su- B. 1 Bet^^er, V , A v ui..,- perior is 'cut oif in length to accom- Thomas Bell, . oseph l.s .Ide., modate Valley Brook, but made wider. R. V. Becke , M • • Beck .s. The southwest part of the county had A. II I . Bats> , . 1 . 1 • B. kh, for one year the name Swan Pviver; -lacob Blanden, . .1 • Bass, im Arvonia. The southeast part of C;aleb Beckes, an.es Irownlee, thecounty hasA.ency,abi,towr.hip, ^^];:^^ ; i ^;,,,,, 10x11 miles square, and A alley Brook »^- ^ • '7,^'^^;' ', tock in all south of Bid.^way to A.^cncy. eoi-e Bratton. . oseph A Btall, T will sive the names of settlers in C- !>• "«1^: ^^ / "^^ A^encv township, 1871, some 800 or -'ohn Bennm, M ( • aces, more, "in future history. I will ffive ''^'"^^^ ^l *'"'"'•• f "';;"-'- s'lT-^sii;"::"';:::: x : c:;i:;:: \:L \z2^ tor the years 18(„,- (.(,, usin« the ass< ss ^ ,^_ ^,,.^^.,^,_ ,,^ Christenden, "'■^^' ^■^'^^•'^- ^. Sarah S. Custard, .lohn ("ollins, COPY OF ASSESSMENT BOLL OF ifl-J^^^^^^-'^^^'" '-^'l; '';";;;'' ^'^'^ BITBLINGAMETOWN- T. S. Clelaud, (j ^ • ^'7' SHIP FOB 18.;.K Abralmm Cramer, S.y Clayton, F 11. Uaytoj), E. .1 (^urtis, Made by .1. A. Blanden. assessor. Norman < urtis, .lohn 1 omestoek, The iiames show who were identilied W. A. (^o/ine, B. F. ("handler, with Osa^ie County forty years a^,'o- .John Q Cowee. J. C. (\uune. Drawn from Countv Ilecords by V. B. William Crai-, S. B.( anni 1, T Kioc. <; A Co/ine. S. O. Crumb. Green, .Tune, lOOd: ^u ^\.y u/.mk. Osage County, N E ith and N, With ^•^e. 12, 15, Ki, 320 acres, worth $ao ■I- M. Chambers. •iosiah Drew, Sanh P t^,.^ Mr« p T^ isciianji. Drew, Mrs E.Densmore, Wm. Y. Drew, Bit T"^' J^Jin Dennison, Edwi"^^°^' George Daftin, Edward Dorris, Harrison Dubois, M t .Defenbaugh, Daniel Donavan' W^ham Dickson, James Dixon, ' EC. Dodge, Charles Dickenson CathenneDicke'sn Jonathan Dickson E. A Eaton, gamuel Earnest Wilham Eckhart, J. E Evens Frederic Erbdrink,LiviEmpie,' John Emett. r. h. Fairchilds, s. V. Fevor Jesse Fletcher, c. W. Fisl. ' W W, Fi.h, „. L. Zu, Ferry Bros, Ema,„,el Finn, fjy- O. B. Ficklin, ■rere^iah'Scs. ISiSr*' S A. Fairchild. Frank Gobel, Henry Gardner, p ^- G'-ii-dner, Drayton Gillett George Golden, William Golden Thomas Gillick, T. W. Gideon James Gilchrist, L. E. G.rsuck, AWHVu'l' ^^^^'-^^-^-^-Gar'dner, AJvia Gibbs, 11. jvi. Qjg^jj T. B. Gamble, d G Grisw^ld, I- Guise Samuel Heizer ttoh, tx Wm DTTnv r^r^o "'^"^'^^y Harrison, Wm.D,IIarns,658acresaboutthe"110'- Simon Hawk, m j, jj.j, P • ^- iruston, William J. Jiarvev EC. Harris, John Hooker Wilham Howard, Frederick Ho'uck George Hoover, G.Hanson, ' J'p R^?'"' ^ '' Hopkins, Divif] Rn ' ^hraham Hoover, Mt:\ Xr rf-,."oward,' A A 'TT ^ ' ''• G- C. Iieise, A A.Hederstrom,J. iJiTcdges, G.W. Hoover. R.M.Hoggatt, F W R,n ?; ^™'''''' Hevender. J^.W.Hulscutter. A. N.ITulburt Abam C. Hill. I E.P. IngersoU, J. H. Increrson Indiana City fSoc 4 i--/?^ .. ' worth $400.) ^ ■*' ^''' l-'^' •^-•' acres, J. 7ol"/°^'"'°"' ^^'-^O-Jarboe, -^osiah.iennings, H L. Jones, C. J. Johnson, Thomas Johnson Harrison Jones, John Johnson ' Peter Kirby, Fred J. Kaney Jeremiah Kellogg. John Xisler, R.E.]vn-kpatTick,0 A.Kimball, George Kinnear, Conrad Koch. William Levap, Andrew Lind, I. H Lescher, Jacob Langley. C.C.Linn, S.W.Leslie. M, Mrs.LC.M-Collom, William Martin McCoy & Walter, M. F. Marple — Mollohan, Jet xVJiHer, D. P Mitchell, August Myer, f'-'''llf' Edm Merkley J. S Matthews, j. r. Mead. b. A. Mccormick, .Joseph McC^leaster Martha McGee. Anna Mc(;e ' JohnMcMaster. D L, Marce, ThosT.McComas, John Mason, 1. B.Morgan, David McMaster. JP M^p';, <' M. Montgomerv, J- I.. McCabe, r. s McCalx>, Joseph Miles, Mc-uek Montgomery Bros.,John A. Meslei^, INVITATION TO SUBSCRIBE FOR THE SEVERAL VOLUMES "EARLY DAYS IN KANSAS" That I may be able to find market for my edition of 500 copies and know who to mail them to, I respectfully ask you to fill out this subscription order and mail to me. The copies asked for will be mailed to you as fast as they are ready. If you do not want the whole work, from the enclosed circulars you will be able doubtless to decide which volumes you will be most inter- ested in. Three volumes are about ready. Volume 1st will cost 75 cents bound in marble boards. See list of contents of Vol. 1st enclosed. "The Old Sauk Indian Quenemo." This is a chapter from the fore part of Vol. 1, "Early Days in Kan- sas." A true story. An octavo pamphlet 10 or 15 pages of print and a dozen Indian portraits. It gives the history as far as possible of a blanket Indian by name of "Quenemo," who was born about 1805 on the banks of the Huron river in an Indian village known to the early whites as "Pequatting," but a few years later as Milan, Erie Co., Ohio. He seems to have remained there with his Sauk father and Ottawa Indian mother until he was at least 15 or 18, when he started on the "Indian Trail" ahead of civilization, Mich., Wis., Minn., Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma claiming him by turns as a ward of the Nation through his whole lifetime of 75 years. Those constant imigrations to keep ahead of civilization with his tribe. At last the poor old Indian, full of years, poor and almost homeless lies down and dies, and is buried on the banks of Deer Creek, two miles south of the Sac and Fox Agency, Oklahoma. 25 years later the author travel- ing the road by thei'e observes that the farmer with his plow has leveled the Indians' graves, the trees, the thickets and hollows into one big cornfield. Back to Nature Quenemo's ashes had gone and this memorial the monu- ment to his memory. "CHILDREN OF THE FOREST." A blanket Indian then, but now with white man's dress and advantages of school with good large annuities we hardly know those of Indian blood in our midst who have adopted so completely our ways. What changes a century can make. Also in the Quenemo Indian pamphlet is given one of my Pioneer Narratives. That of Henry Hudson Wiggans who came to Kansas, a young married man, in Nov. 1855 and took a claim adjoining the Ottawa Reser- vation. Here he erected a blacksmith shop and the Indians soon found out that he was a master hand to repair guns. He gradually learned their lan- guage and in 1863 was appointed the Gov't blacksmith to the Sac and Foxes at Quenemo. The history of his Scotch-Irish Ancestry is so very interesting, dat- ing back to the Revolution, that I have given it because his grandmother, Mrs. Evans, whose daughter Sarah was Mr. Wiggan's mother, was an Irish refugee and yet Sarah was sent back to Ireland for her education and was one of the first teachers of Cincinnati. Senator Henry Clay was in the habit of visiting in the homes of these Scotch-Irish folks at Cincinnati and these women kept talking to him the necessity of better postal laws, espe- cially those of postage rates which were then $1 for a letter from Ireland. Senator Clay from that time, 1832, until his death gave heed to these things and finally a bill was passed — all of which is brought out in this Wiggan's narrative. Mr. H. H. Wiggan's portrait is given and no one will regret 25 cents for this interesting illustrated pamphlet. Dear Friend— The Narrative or History that was furnished me some years ago by you, or some member of your family, has finally been published, and agreeable to my promise that I give a copy of it to each, I now take pleasure in placing it in your hands as a gift. I am sorry that I cannot give you the volume wherein it is found, viz : ( ^ I trust that we have not made any mistake in writing up or print- ing your narrative, we have tried to give it in the best form we could and get your story truthfully set forth. I have always tried when taking down your narratives to get the names and births of your children, and when thus given I can thus make my work one of genealogical, as well as one of local historical, value. If such is not found here, then you did not give it. I am out over $500 cash and all my spare time for 10 years to get these several publications before the public, even in this, the most economical form of print, and before I commence giving away my books, even to the intimate frierds, justice demands that I reimburse myself, I enclose several samples that will give you some idea of the character and locality of each volume, as well as the price. I trust at your convenience you will honor me with an order. If you do not want the set, take at least the volume which has your Narrative in. In having these Narratives printed they have cost me from 50c to 60c per page, cash out. This does not include the half-tones which I have invested about $60 alone in. Printing and paper are 1-3 more now than 12 years ago, and with the postage bills to meet, makes historical work pretty expensive. So, Dear Friend, I solicit your patronage to help me out in a job that has,enabled you so far to enjoy the honor and pleasure of seeing in print the story of half a life-time of a Pioneer in Kan- sas and never been asked before to contribute a cent, and now enables you to get a bound book that will preserve for two or three generations a record of what you and yours did to make Kansas what it is to-day. Charles R. Green, Olathe, Kansas. lAY 2 2 1916 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 016 094 435 3 <