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| | Excelsior Colony - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912 |
 | | At the time the colony was composed of about 200 families of Scotch mechanics and farmers who came to New York and there effected an organization. |
 | | The cheap lands in the west proved an attractive inducement for their settlement in Kansas, and at a meeting held in New York, at their hall, on Oct. 2, 1869, John F. McClimont, Hugh McGregor and Alex Whyte (or White), Jr., were appointed a locating committee and immediately entered upon their duties. |
 | | They must have spent the most of their time in Kansas, for inside of forty days they addressed a communication to Gov. Harvey, dated Topeka, Kan., Nov. 12, 1869, in which they said "We, the undersigned, have been appointed a committee for the purpose of selecting a location for the colony. |
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