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| | Anderson County, Part 1 |
 | | ANDERSON County is situated in the second tier of counties west from Missouri, fifty miles south from the Kansas River, and seventy miles north from the Indian Territory. |
 | | In the winter of 1854-1855 a number of Germans from St. Louis located south of Greeley, and made some improvements, but in the spring of 1855, they left the Territory never to return, and their claims were soon taken by other new settlers. |
 | | When Gov. Reeder, on November 8, 1854, appointed the first election, the territory, now Anderson County, was made a part of the Fifth District, and the election was ordered held at the house of Henry Sherman, near what is known as Dutch Henry's crossing, on the Pottawatomie, just across the line in Franklin County. |
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