What a wonderful look at life in the mid-west in the 1800’s.  This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Nemaha County and its people.

 

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original book published in 1916.

 

History

Of

Nemaha County,

Kansas

 

By

Ralph Tennal

 

ILLUSTRATED

 

Standard Publishing Company

Lawrence, Kansas

 

800 pages on 1 CD

An essential resource for Genealogists

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

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Table of Contents

 

CHAPTER I. - GEOLOGY AND THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD.

CHAPTER II. - EARLY TIMES.

CHAPTER III. - FIRST SETTLEMENTS.

CHAPTER IV. - FOUNDING OF TOWNS.

CHAPTER V. - FIRST EVENTS AND INSTITUTIONS.

CHAPTER VI. - INDIAN HISTORY.

CHAPTER VII. - TRANSPORTATION.

CHAPTER VIII. - SENECA, THE COUNTY SEAT.

CHAPTER IX. - SENECA SHALE BRICK INDUSTRY.

CHAPTER X. - SABETH.

CHAPTER XI. - CORNING

CHAPTER XII. - BERN

CHAPTER XIII. - WETMORE

CHAPTER XIV. - CENTRALIA

CHAPTER XV. - OTHER TOWNS AND VILLAGES.

CHAPTER XVI. - ONEIDA

CHAPTER XVII. - NEMAHA IN THE BORDER WAR.

CHAPTER XVIII. - NEHAMA IN THE CIVIL WAR

CHAPTER XIX. - THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.

CHAPTER XX. - AGRICULTURE.

CHAPTER XXI. - AGRICULTURE, CONTINUED.

CHAPTER XXII. - NEWSPAPERS.

CHAPTER XXIII. - BENCH AND BAR.

CHAPTER XXIV. - THE BENCH AND BAR, CONTINUED.

CHAPTER XXIV. - COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND OFFICIAL ROSTER

CHAPTER XXVI. - BANKS AND BANKING.

CHAPTER XXVII. - THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.

CHAPTER XXVIII. - SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION.

CHAPTER XXIX. - LODGES AND SOCIETIES.

CHAPTER XXX. - MISCELLANEOUS.

CHAPTER XXXI. – NEMAHA’S SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF RENOWN.

CHAPTER XXXII. – THE CHURCH IN NEMAHA COUNTY.

CHAPTER XXXIII. - BIOGRAPHICAL

 

 

 

 

INDEX

 

Abbott, Adrianee, Adriance, Allen, Allison, Althouse, Anderson, Andrews, Anthony, Armstrong, Ashley, Austin, Ayers, Bailey, Ball, Baldwin, Baker, Barnes, Barrett, Bell, Bergmann, Beyreis, Bieri, Biles, Bird, Bonjour, Bostwick, Bottiger, Bouse, Briggs, Broadbent, Brock, Brokaw, Bronough, Brown, Brownlee, Buehler, Buening, Bumphrey, Burky, Buser, Butler, Butts, Butz, Calder, Calhoun, Campbell, Carlyle, Carroll, Casey, Chadwick, Clark, Clemens, Cole, Collins, Connet, Conrad, Conwell, Cooley, Cox, Crawford, Crowley, Cummings, Dam, Davis, Dennis, Dignan, Donahue, Donald, Draney, Driggs, Droge, Ehrsam, Eichenlaub, Eiclienmann, Emery, Engelken, Elsenbarth, Feldman, Firstenberger, Fisher, Fitzgerald, Fieisch, Ford, Foster, Fuller, Funk, Gabbert, Gallentine, Gaston, Geary, Geren, Gerkens, Geyer, Gillaspie, Goodrich, Gilmore, Gladtelter, Graham, Gress, Grigsby, Guild, Guise, Gurtler, Hamm, Hanni, Harpenau, Hart, Hazell, Hecht, Heinen, Heiniger, Hennigh, Henry, Hesseltine, Heuschele, Hibbard, Hilbert, Hitchner, Hittle, Hoffman, Hollister, Holsapple, Holston, Holthaus, Horth, Huber, Huls, Hulsing, Humphrey Hybskmann, lugalls, Jackson, Jonach, Jones, Johnson, Johnstone, Jorden, Karns, Kassens, Katz, Keck, Kelm, Kemper, Kennard, Kerl, Kerr, Ketter, Kimmel,  King, Kinyon, Kirk, Klose, Koelzer, Kohler, Kongs, Korber, Krapp, Krogmann, Law, League, Lehmann, Livingood, Lockard, Long, Lortscher, Lukert, Lynn, McCaffrey, McCliman, McClain, McCoy, McFall, McManis, McNeil, McNeill, McQuaid, Magill, Malone, Marshall, Martin, Mather, Mathews, Maxson, Meisner, Melcher, Miller, Millick, Mills, Minger, Mitchell, Montgomery, Mooney, Moore, Morrell, Mueller, Munsell, Murdock, Murphy, Myers, Neff, Neumayr, Newland, Newman, Nichols, Noble, Nolte, Nusbaum, Olberding, Parker, Partridge, Peret, Pfrang, Phillips, Plattner, Poison, Price, Pugh, Ralston, Reed, Reinhart, Rethmann, Rettele, Reynolds, Ridgway, Rilinger, Roberts, Ronnebaum, Root, Rosengarten, Roth, Rottinghaus, Sanford, Scanlan, Scheier, Schlaegel, Schmidt, Schneider, Schoonover, Scott, Scoville, Schrempp, Schumacher, Schuneman, Severin, Shaefer, Shaul, Sherrard, Shumaker, Simon, Skoch, Slocum, Smith, Smothers, Snyder, Sourk, Spiker, Spring, Stallbaumer, Starns, Steele, Stein, Steinmeir, Stevens, Stoldt, Strathmann, Stuke, Swart, Swartz, Talkington, Taylor, Tennal, Thiem, Thompson, Thornburrow, Tolliver, Tomlinson, Townsend, Trees, Tryon,  Trask, Turrentine, Ukele, VanVerth, Vernon, Wadleigh, Wait, Waller, Watkins, Weart, Weiss, Wells, Wempe, Wessel, Westover, White, Whittle, Wichman, Wickins, Wikoff, Wilcox, Williams, Williamson, Wilson, Winkler, Wittmer, Wittwer, Wolfley, Woodbury, Woodworth, Wurzbacher, Young, Zimmerman, Zug,