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Topic: Albion Township, Kansas


  
  The Probert Encyclopaedia - Places of the World (Aa-Am)
Albion is a township in Reno County Kansas, USA.
Albion is a township in Dickey County North Dakota, USA.
Albion is a township in Wright County Minnesota, USA.
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  Albion Township - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albion Township, Kansas, a township located in Barton County, Kansas
Albion Township, Kansas, a township located in Reno County, Kansas
Albion Township, North Dakota, a township located in Dickey County, North Dakota
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 Albion (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albion is a character in the poetry of William Blake.
Albion’s England is the title of a long historical poem on the history of England published in 1586 by William Warner.
Albion is the name of the sword carried by Robin Hood in the television series Robin of Sherwood, one of the Seven Swords of Weyland.
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 Free Surname Search - Kansas
Kansas Settlers Living in 1879: This is an index to 3,204 settlers.
Kansas Enlistments, 1861-1865 This is an index to the enlistment papers of Kansas Volunteer Regiments, 1861—1865, which are housed in the Kansas State Archives.
Index to Kansas 19th Cavalry Enlistments, 1868-1869 : This is an index to the enlistment papers of the 19th Kansas Cavalry, 1868-1869 (Indian Campaigns) which are in the state archives.
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 Albion, Kansas KS, township profile (Barton County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Kansas > All counties > Barton County > Albion
Albion is a township in Barton County, in the Great Bend metro area.
Median rent in Albion, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $375.
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 McDonough County, Illinois, Mound Township
This is considered one of the best townships in the county, and consists of beautiful, gently undulating prairie, in a good state of cultivation, there being only one quarter section of timber land on the west and another in the southeast corner.
The township is well watered and adapted to stock raising as well as the production of corn, oats, wheat, rye, clover, grass, etc. The soil is a dark loam, chocolate color, but when wet, very fl.
The first township election was held on April 7th, of that year, at which time Lloyd Thomas and William Jackson were elected justices of the peace, and Samuel H. McCandless was chosen to represent the township on the board of supervisors.
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 Republic County, Part 1
REPUBLIC County is the fifth from the east State line in the northern tier of counties; is bounded on the north by the State of Nebraska; on the east by Washington; south by Cloud, and west by Jewell County.
The soil of the upland is a friable, dark mold, fertile and porous, so that it is well adapted to wet or dry seasons; that of the bottom land is exceedingly rich, containing a little more fine sand, together with the usual deposits of bottoms.
The soil of the uplands is fertile, very friable and well adapted to all kinds of crops and for pasturage.
www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/republic/republic-co-p1.html   (1828 words)

  
 Albion, Kansas KS, township profile (Reno County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Kansas > All counties > Reno County > Albion
Albion is a township in Reno County, in the Hutchinson metro area.
Median rent in Albion, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $278.
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 T. B. Myers, Winfield, Kansas
Alexander appeared and protested against receiving the assessment rolls of Winfield Township from T. Myers as he had not returned his rolls as required by law, and also that he was a non-resident.
Accordingly, through the courtesy of the Southern Kansas railroad, a merely nominal rate was secured for transportation and Division Superintendent Messinger placed at the disposal of the excursionists nine cars, which on last Thursday morning were crowded with between four hundred and five hundred citizens of Wellington.
It was declared to be the sense of the counsel that the 9th avenue bridge be kept in repair by Vernon township and Winfield in proportion to the yearly assessed valuation of each.
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 History of Outagamie County - Part 15
Ploeger is a native of Outagamie county, born in Ellington township August 4, 1870, a son of Ferdinand and Fredericka (Hendricks) Ploeger.
Bunkelman came to Seymour township in 1881 and settled on a wild farm, which he improved, and there spent the remainder of his life in agricultural pursuits, his death occurring August 1, 1893, when fifty-eight years, eight months and twenty-one days old, while his widow survives him, she having been born in September, 1845.
JOHN B. JACQUOT, one of the well-known farmer citizens of Greenville township, was born on the farm which he now occupies in Outagamie county, Wisconsin, March 8, 1869, and is a son of John and Mary (Linton) Jacquot.
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 Barton County, Part 1
Prior to that time, the county had been but one municipal township, attached to Ellsworth County, but at the first meeting of the Commissioners, the county was divided into three civil townships, Lakin, Great Bend and Buffalo, and each township declared to be a Commissioner District.
As election for county and township officers, and for the permanent location of the county seat, was ordered to be held on the first day of July 1872, and the designated voting places were: For Great Bend Township, at the post office building in Great Bend.
The first church edifice in the county was a Catholic Church, erected in Lakin Township in the fall of 1877, and the next one was a Methodist at Great Bend, erected in the winter of 1877-78.
www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/barton/barton-co-p1.html   (3451 words)

  
 BIO SKETCHES TOWN of New Albion
CARROLL is a Democrat and was supervisor of New Albion in 1891 and 1892.
Jerome L. HIGBEE, son of Noah and Harriet (LUCE) HIGBEE, was born in New Albion on Feb. 16, 1839, and was raised a farmer.
In politics he is a Republican, and he held the office of supervisor of New Albion in 1878 and 1879, has served three terms as a member of the school board, and has been president of the village.
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 Petznick Photos
In 1909, Charles and Anna purchased land in Dodge Township in Union County, Iowa.
This is the 1930 Census record for Multnomah County, Portland Township, Oregon for Rose Petznick, and her family.
Left is a picture of Erna in front of a cabin she stayed at in Eastern Kentucky in the early 1940s.
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 February AVN
The new Bishopric for the Albion Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is Kay Powell, Bishop; Lamont Young, Counselor; Chad Clark, Counselor; and David Bell, Executive Secretary.
The Albion Brass Band marched to the cemetery and participated in the dedication of the monument to the memory of Brother E. Jordan.
Snodgrass and his wife Martha came to Albion and homesteaded in the lower end of the valley, but due to the frequent visits of the Indians they moved further up into the valley and took up another ranch which he still owned at the time of his death.
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 Barton County Kansas sections of the 1912 book, Kansas: a Cyclopedia of State History
Barton County, nearly in the geographical center of the state, is bounded on the north by Russell county, east by Ellsworth and Rice, south by Stafford and Pawnee, and west by Pawnee and Rush counties.
The southern half of Barton county lies in territory that was erected as Washington county by the act of 1855, while the northern portion includes part of the unorganized territory attached to the counties lying east of it.
The first settlements in Great Bend township were made by E. Dodge, who made a homestead entry on Jan.23, 1871, and D. Heizer, who entered land in May of the same year.
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 Jane Smiley: Jane's Bingo! Award for Most Informative Book of 2006 | The Huffington Post
Fischer's thesis, in Albion's Seed, is that the four major emigrations from England to the US came from four distinct regions and cultures in England, set sail at four different periods of English history, and settled in four different US regions.
What we have seen since, though, is the ascendancy of culture #4, the Borders/Appalachian culture of hot-blooded and violent populism that is xenophobic, religiously aggressive, fundamentalist, and sectarian, that is supicious of learning, antagonistic towards "elites", and antipathetic to women's autonomy.
For the New Englanders, it was the Virginians, and the Civil War constituted the pitting of those two antagonists, with the Virginians being defeated and in many ways routed by the New Englanders--perhaps the Civil War in the US is more akin to the earlier Civil War in England that we usually realize.
www.huffingtonpost.com /jane-smiley/janes-bingo-award-for-m_b_37415.html   (3556 words)

  
 Miscellaneous Calhoun County, MI, Obituaries
She was born Jan. 11, 1947 in Albion to Stacey C. and Doris M. (McCracken) Ashley.
Hepler was born April 22, 1920 in Albion Township to George and Marian (Cook) Ackley.
Foley was born Feb. 19, 1914 in Albion Township to C. Frank and Verne H. (Schaburg) Foley, and graduated Homer High School in 1932.
www.obitcentral.com /obitsearch/obits/mi/mi-calhoun2.htm   (4928 words)

  
 150YearsVol1
HOPKINS in 1860, was elected Supervisor of Somerset Township, which office he held for a period of ten years, with credit to himself and satisfaction to all concerned.
Deceased was born in the township of Bergen, Genesee county, New York, on January 9, 1817.
He settled on a farm in Somerset township, Hillsdale county, and up to 1884, when he moved to this village, his home was on the farm he originally settled upon.
www.jowest.net /Research/150YearsVol1.htm   (22957 words)

  
 Pennsylvania Highways:  US 6N
In 1958, the route was widened from PA 18 to the Conneaut Township line in the Borough of Albion.
Just like Kansas, this area became the target of tornadoes in the worst outbreak to hit Pennsylvania on the evening of May 31, 1985.
The Borough of Albion was especially hit hard with a twister that ranked an F4 on the Fujita Scale, just one step down from an F5 which is the most severe of all tornadoes.
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Early settlers who made history in Albion Township inearly days according to the 1884 atlas included J.A. Mitchell.J.A. Mitchell was on the school board of Maple Grove, district30, in 1895.Duane Davis' Family RecordObituary, Topeka Newspaper - "John Albert Mitchell, 75, diedMonday night at his home on Rural route 4.
She alsolooked in the Kansas City Sun for obituary for Malinda but couldnot find.Index to Marriage Book IV, Sept. 1873 - Dec 1877 - AlbertMitchell, 26 & Melinda A. Nicholson, 18, 1 Dec. 1873, pg.
Rath, after which the body was laid torest in the Washington cemetery at Republic, Kansas, beside hiswife and four childre.
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 Bliss, Hubbard, Barnes, Paige Obituaries
In Albion on June 28, 1923, she married William A. Geisen, who preceded her in death June 6, 1962.
She was a member and past president of the Albion Women's Club, and had served as president of the County Federation of Women's Clubs, the District Federation of Women's Clubs, and the Hospital Service League.
Bert Hubbard, aged 28 years, residing in Parma township on the M-17 highway east of Albion and a former resident of this city, died Monday night at 11:20 at the Jackson county tuberculosis hospital in Jackson, after a lingering illness.
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 Moulden Family
The remaining brothers and sisters are: Mason Faucett, of Taylor Township; Abraham Faucett, of Albion, Ill.; Mrs.
Two sons went before him, one dying when ten years old and the other died in infancy.He was born in Taylor Township, and lived there till 1876, when he moved to this home where he died.
When about seventeen years old he became a member of the Antioch Christian Church, in Taylor Township, and until the day of his home going he was an honor and credit to the congregation.
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 New Jersey Churchscape - book reviews
The author discusses not only what part of England (Albion) the colonists came from, but their socio-economic background, religion, family, occupation and social standing.
They were built in the areas covered by the Western Homestead Act of 1862, which included Montana and the Dakotas, western Nebraska and Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and the plains areas of eastern Washington and Oregon.
The first real settlers on these lands were farmers, who were given title to a 160 acre section of land, with the requirement that they build residences and farm the land for a period of five years.
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 MORROW COUNTY, OHIO 1880 HISTORY - GILEAD TOWNSHIP
Irwin served as Recorder of Richland Co., from 1839 to 1845; he was then appointed Clerk of Court, and held the office until 1852; he served as Clerk of the Court in Morrow Co., from 1854 to 1860, and from that time lived on the farm until his death, in August, 1865.
Kelly started a store and tan-yard, and made an effort to establish a town, which was called Jamestown, and of which he served as Postmaster; but time and more favorable locations have left nothing but memory of this future great city.
Merritt was raised on the farm, where he remained until he was about 1.8 years of age, when he came to Mt. Gilead and learned the cabinet makers' trade, which he followed for a number of years; he entered the business with Mr.
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 June
Margaret E. Bartz was born December 19, 1906 in Dayton Township, rural Chickasaw County, the daughter of Gottieb and Bertha (Gall) Bartz.
Samuel August Milton Bigalk was born April 30, 1909 in Albion Township, Howard County.
He married Margaret Applen in 1932 and started farming in Harmony Township, later buying land in Bristol Township and continued to farm until his retirement in 1972 when they moved to Harmony.
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 Historical Directory of Kansas Towns [A] | Kansas Community Network | www.kansastowns.us
Almena was incorporated as a city of the third class on April 10, 1893.
Two rail lines served Almena: the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway (the Rock Island route) with track laid through Norton County in 1887 located in south Almena; and in north Almena the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad.
Arkalon--Seward; C.R.I.P. 1888; bybassed by the Samson of the Cimarron project; named for Arkalon Tenny, father of postmaster; Arkansas City--Cowley; founded Jan. 1, 1870; 1880's gold rush but mining operations did not prove profitable; Aug. 1893 over 50,000 people swarmed into Arkansas City area when land in Cherokee Strip opened for homesteads.
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 THE ORPHAN TRAIN, Part 1
The boys’ surname was changed to Stone, and George subsequently became “Albion’s Little Drummer Boy” at age 13 in the Michigan Sharpshooters during the Civil War.
Elisha W. of Albion, Mich., joined the army at the breaking out of the War, and at its close returned here a commissioned officer, saved about $1,500, purchased a farm four miles from town, married Miss W., a niece of his “adopted” father.
He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in Company H of the 116th U.S. Colored Infantry where he served until his discharge in 1867.
www.albionmich.com /history/histor_notebook/040718.shtml   (870 words)

  
 The Hutchinson News, Hutchinson, Kan., | Regional News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Two area Kansas House of Representatives candidates who lost by razor-thin margins will seek recounts.
Two other tied township clerk races will be settled Wednesday morning in commission chambers, with the flip of the coin or some other selection method.
Tied for Albion Township clerk are Richard Stucky and Clinton Blue, and for Sylvia Township clerk, Kathy Pugh and Michael Murphy.
www.hutchnews.com /news/regional/stories/house111406.shtml   (556 words)

  
 Historical Directory of Kansas Towns [G] | Kansas Community Network | www.kansastowns.us
Historical Directory of Kansas Towns [G] Galena--Cherokee; began in 1877 when lead was discovered near Short Creek; Empire City declined was annexed to Galena in 1911.
Geneva--Allen; located in Geneva Township northeast of Iola; settled by colonists of Union Settlement Association from New York and Michigan; named after Geneva, New York.
The Kansas Heritage Server would like to thank mat (mthompso@fhsu.edu) for contributing this information.
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 Lesson Five - School Records
In 1843 the Methodist Church opened Wesleyan Seminary (later changed to Albion College) in Albion and during the 1850's taught basic reading, writing and arithmetic.
Occasionally two students would meet while at school and marry, with one or both never to return to their original home.
Haskell Institute was established in 1884 in Lawrence, Kansas.
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