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 Chautauqua County, Part 1
Chautauqua County, therefore, lies in the most southerly tier of counties in the State, the north line of the Indian Territory forming its southern boundary, while on the east lies the county of Montgomery, Elk on the north and Cowley County on the west.
The sentiment of the people of Chautauqua County upon the location of the county seat was put to the test in the general election of 1875, and by this mean all the disagreeable and expensive features of a county seat election were happily avoided.
The city of Sedan, the county seat of CH co, is situated near the geographical center of the county on the middle of Caney Creek, in Sedan Township.
www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/chautauqua/chautauqua-co-p1.html   (3906 words)

  
 Info and facts on 'Chautauqua County, Kansas'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Chautauqua County (standard abbreviation: CQ) is a county (A region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government) located in the state (The way something is with respect to its main attributes) of Kansas (A state in midwestern United States).
The largest city and county seat (The town or city that is the seat of government for a county) is Sedan (A car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors).
Chautauqua County was created by an act of the Kansas legislature on 1 June 1875 by the division of Howard County into Elk County (additional info and facts about Elk County) (the northern half) and Chautauqua County (the southern half).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chautauqua_county,_kansas.htm   (682 words)

  
 Chautauqua County, Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The largest city and county seat is Sedan.
As of the census² of 2000, there are 4,359 people, 1,796 households, and 1,235 families residing in the county.
None of the cities within the county are considered governmentally independent, and all figures for the townships include those of the cities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chautauqua_County,_Kansas   (516 words)

  
 Southeast Kansas Library System SEKLS genealogy bibliography: Kansas genealogy holdings, books.
AC 929.3781 C The Census of the Territory of Kansas: February, 1855; with index and map of the Kansas election districts in 1854.
The census of the territory of Kansas: February, 1855: with index and map of Kansas election districts in 1854.
SEK 978.19 P Portrait and biographical record of southeastern Kansas: containing biographical sketches of prominent...citizens of the countis, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States and the governors of the state of Kansas.
www.sekls.lib.ks.us /genser/ks1.html   (9463 words)

  
 memory2.htm
They, with their friends, worked indefatigably to have the law written upon the statute books of the State of Kansas, and when this purpose was accomplished they were close watchers to see that the law was not broken.
Of the men of Chautauqua County who lay claim to New England birth, one who has gained success in this section is H.L. Cox, of Cedar Vale, merchant and oil producer and one of this community's energetic and progressive citizens.
In that city, also, he was married, and after the birth of one son, came to Kansas, in the fall of 1870, and drove overland from Emporia, a distance of ninety miles, to his farm seven miles north of Cedar Vale, where he homesteaded 160 acres of land.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Estates/4913/memory2.htm.htm   (1645 words)

  
 History of North Idaho, Nez Perce County Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
David S. Williams was born in Clearmont County, Ohio, being the son of Alexander and Lydia A. (Smith) Williams, natives of Ohio.
The father was born in 1818, settled as a pioneer in Adams County, Illinois and died in 1898.
Williams was born in Brown county, Illinois, in 1855 and has one brother, John, in Colorado, and one sister, Jennie Thyre, at Bartlettsville, Indian Territory.
www.usroots.com /~idhistry/nezperce/williamsd.html   (467 words)

  
 Chautauqua County, New York Genealogical Records Information
The extreme western County, Chautauqua, has Pennsylvania on its south and part of the west lines; Lake Erie to the west and north; while Cattaraugus bounds it to the east.
Chautauqua County is known throughout the world as a result of its Chautauqua Institution.
Chautauqua's standing in industry must not be overlooked, nor the fact that two-thirds of her population are urban.
www.mynewyorkgenealogy.com /ny_county/ctq.htm   (1536 words)

  
 Chautauqua County, KS News
Cowley County's last grade in the Kansas KIDS COUNT Data Book was a C. The book tracks progress in the safety and health of Kansas children, county by county.
Chautauqua County deputies say strong winds in a thunderstorm downed power lines and street signs and damaged homes.
A well-known Chautauqua County businessman has been charged in the death of a 14-year-old boy.
www.topix.net /county/chautauqua-ks   (331 words)

  
 Chautauqua County, KS
Chautauqua County was founded in 1875 when Howard County was split in two after bitter county seat wars.  Early settlers benefited from the cattle trade from Oklahoma and Texas.  In 1904, oil was discovered and the area had a big "boomtown" era.
The Kansas State Historical Society also has more historical data for Chautauqua County online including a rich bibliography and lists of cemeteries, post offices, and newspapers.
The county fair and rodeo are held in Sedan in July.
skyways.lib.ks.us /counties/CQ   (503 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
One of the representative men of Chautauqua County, Kansas, is George Crook Dye, mayor of Niotaze and proprietor of a large mercantile business there, and a bank director, and also one of the leading agriculturists of the county, profitably operating 530 acres of fine land.
Enoch Dye, father of Mayor Dye, was born at Antioch, Ohio, in 1845, and died in October, 1909, at Niotaze, Kansas.
In 1895 he entered the Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan where he remained until 1897, when he put the instruction he had received to a practical test and continued as a farmer until 1901.
www.uh.edu /~jbutler/gean/georgecrook.html   (747 words)

  
 Contributions to the Field of Oil Exploration
This county on the Oklahoma border in the southeast area of Kansas was named from a bill introduced in the Kansas Legislature in 1875 by Edward Jaquins who was originally from Chautauqua County, NY.
This is the patent drawing of Sutton’s hoisting apparatus that was applied for in August of 1905 and approved April 16, 1907.
The second change was a patented invention for pulling the bottom cylinder or barrel from the well in order to replace worn cups on the valves.
www.kumc.edu /research/medicine/anatomy/sutton/contributons_to_oil_exploration.html   (469 words)

  
 Robert Lee Pennell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
ROBERT L. The young men who have made and are making a fine success in the business world of Nez Perces county are a prominent class of the population and as a distinguished individual of this number, we are constrained to mention the gentleman whose name heads this paragraph.
He is a native of Chautauqua County, Kansas, born on October 13, 1876, the son of Samuel W. and Almira (Jones) Pennell.
In politics, he is allied with the Democrats and is an active and potent factor in the labors of the party in his county.
homepage.mac.com /aith/family/ps01/ps01_446.html   (385 words)

  
 LFGA Line 10
Betty is an avid genealogy researcher, and is proud of all her ancestors, particularly those paternal ancestors who came over the Oregon Trail, and settled in the Mollala, Oregon area.
Emily Ann McCormick was born 6 Jan 1822 to Eli and Jane (Craig) McCormick in Cabell County, Virginia.
Some of their Kansas friends and family, including James' sister Jane Lay Skinner, had previously gone to Oregon.
www.geocities.com /lfgainc/ll10.html   (1073 words)

  
 Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Legislative History, 1920-1996
Later that year, the Kansas Wildlife Federation, the Kansas Recreation and Park Association, and the Kansas State Teachers Association all passed resolutions urging the creation of a park in Kansas.
Pottawatomie County was not among them, but Colvin made it clear that the committee was only considering areas in the eastern tallgrass region of the state.
Skubitz, whose district included the Kansas portion of the feasibility study, introduced the bill that became P.L. 91-462, which carried a $30,000 appropriation.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/tapr/tapr_3.htm   (740 words)

  
 James W. Springer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
James W. Springer, with his wife, Harriet A. Tefft, left Garnett, Kansas, early in the 1870's and went to Chautauqua County, Kansas.
While they lived in Chautauqua County, there was a cholera epidemic.
She had a rifle and managed to face them until they left, then all her courage collapsed and she was too weak to stand.
www.ku.edu /kansas/medicine/chosen/bch_springer2.html   (448 words)

  
 John Wesley Marlow family of Sedan, Chautauqua County, Kansas
He died 15 September 1948 Saint Mary's Hospital, Winfield, Kansas and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Sedan, Kansas beside his wife, Mary, my grandmother.
She was born 29 July 1872 in Douglas County, Illinois, and died 17 December 1947 in Saint Mary's Hospital, in Winfield, Kansas.
Jonesburg was a few miles South of Peru, Kansas, it was a small town with a store, post office and church at that time.
www.lyndonirwin.com /marlow4.htm   (435 words)

  
 Roy Beckemeyer's Odonata Page
This checklist is based largely on the work of Don Huggins of the Kansas Biological Survey and on the collections of that institution.
Updates for recent records are based on my collecting and museum specimen review activity as well as that of others who have submitted their records and/or voucher specimens.
Thanks to Ken Brunson and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks for Chickadee Checkoff funding for this publication.
www.windsofkansas.com /Bodonata/odonata.html   (1758 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Chautauqua County, Kan.
For convenient presentation of this material, the site includes a page for each of the more than 3,000 counties in the U.S., as well as for various U.S. and foreign territories and countries.
Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to counties is subject to error.
The intent is to locate places according to current county names and boundaries.
politicalgraveyard.com /geo/KS/CU.html   (526 words)

  
 Checklist of Kansas Odonata
Beckemeyer, R.J., 1998, "Some Kansas state and county Odonata records for 1998", Argia: The news journal of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas, 10(4):26.
Beckemeyer, R.J., 2000, "Some county Odonata records for Kansas and Nebraska for 1999 and 2000", Argia: The news journal of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas, 12(3):27-28.
No Kansas specimens were found by Huggins in the KU collection.
www.windsofkansas.com /Bodonata/ksodchklst.html   (2606 words)

  
 Mitch's Kansas Genealogy Bookstore
The descendants of Frederick and Caroline Palenske of Wabaunsee County, Kansas
History of Logan County, Kansas : from prairie pioneers to pioneers of progress
Pioneers and pilgrims : the Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde in Manitoba, Nebraska, and Kansas, 1874 to 1882
www.mitchvv.techweenies.com /books/genealogy/kansasbooks.html   (108 words)

  
 Chautauqua County Homes for Sale. Real Estate in Chautauqua County, Kansas
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Click on the Chautauqua cities that you are interested in or search all Real Estate in Chautauqua County:
So whether you are wondering what your home value is, looking for an agent to help you buy or sell your real estate, or just looking to browse properties in your area, it's all right here.
www.homes.com /Real_Estate/KS/County/CHAUTAUQUA   (258 words)

  
 Bee Creek Lake, Chautauqua County, Kansas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Kansas has many beautiful lakes and Bee Creek Lake is one of them.
Elk River, Kansas, Elk Falls, 17 miles away, class III, 1 miles long.
Pool Creek, Kansas, Butcher Falls, 19 miles away, class III, 1 miles long.
www.goingoutside.com /lake/103/1034742_Bee_Creek_Lake_Kansas.html   (490 words)

  
 Chautauqua County Schools Bibliography, Kansas State Historical Society
Chautauqua County Schools Bibliography, Kansas State Historical Society
State of Kansas vs. School District No. 3, Chautauqua County, Kansas.
Bulletin No. 2, Chautauqua County: A Study of Rural Schools.
www.kshs.org /research/collections/documents/bibliographies/schools/schoolcq.htm   (194 words)

  
 Descendants of Elijah Mayfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
At the age of 9, she with her parents, moved to Kansas where they resided until she was 23 years old at which time she was married, then removing to Indiana where her life has been spent.
She was converted and united with the M.E. Church South, in Kansas at the age of 11.
McDonald, late of the County of Neosho and State of Kansas, deceased, and says that the minor heir is a resident of said County of Neosho; that she is of the age of twelve (12); that she has property, rights and credits, that
homepages.rootsweb.com /~mayfield/elivirgdesc.htm   (8397 words)

  
 Chautauqua County - Kansas State Historical Society
A History of Cedar Vale, Kansas; One Hundred and Five Years.
Lure of the Wilderness: Elgin, Kansas, in Retrospect.
Pioneer-Progress Edition, Celebrating 72 Years of Progress in Chautauqua County.
www.kshs.org /research/collections/documents/bibliographies/counties/kscocq.htm   (132 words)

  
 Caney, Montgomery County and Peru, Chautauqua County, Kansas
Caney is a small town in southwestern Montgomery County, Kansas.
Caney is near Chautauqua County, Kansas and is also on the Oklahoma border.
Peru, Kansas is west of Caney, in Chautauqua County, Kansas.
www.lyndonirwin.com /caney.htm   (108 words)

  
 Chautauqua County Real Estate
These agents and brokers are able to help you find out more on Chautauqua County listings, Chautauqua County mortgages, Chautauqua County home loans for anyone looking to buy or sell a home in Chautauqua County.
Chautauqua County, Kansas Google Map (County and State map)
RealWide offers consumers information on homes for sale in Chautauqua County by working with local realtors that can provide access to Chautauqua listings and the MLS.
www.realwide.com /county-20019_Chautauqua-county-real-estate.html   (136 words)

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