Entries Containing All of the Phrases «brown county» AND «kansas»

By William Fischer, Jr., August 31, 2014

Everest 125th Anniversary Marker

RANKED BY RELEVANCE

1 ► Kansas, Brown County, Everest — Everest 125th Anniversary — May 1, 1882 —

125 years ago Everest was established when Edwin Sandison acquired a tract of land along the new Missouri Pacific Railroad right-of-way. The town was named after Col. Aaron S. Everest who projected the railroad extension connecting Atchison and . . . — — Map (db m77933) HM

2 ► Kansas, Brown County, Everest — Honnell - Means Honor Garden — A Family Whose Roots Run Deep in Everest Community Spirit —

Thomas Corwin Honnell 1840 - 1919 1840 - Born in Shelby County, Ohio 1857 - Teacher in Ohio Schools 1861 - Captain in the Union Army Injured at Chic[k]amauga Shook President Lincoln's Hand 1870 - Bought a 160 Acre Farm Two . . . — — Map (db m77905) HM

3 ► Kansas, Brown County, Everest — School Bell - 1886 —

[Title is text] — — Map (db m77902) HM

4 ► Kansas, Brown County, Everest — The Founders of Everest — 1882 - 1932 —

Erected in memory of the Founders of Everest — — Map (db m77894) HM

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5 ► Minnesota, Brown County, New Ulm — Father Valentine Sommereisen — Pioneer Missionary Priest —

Valentine Sommereisen was the first resident Catholic priest in three large areas of the American West: southwestern Minnesota, the Dakota Territory, and western Kansas. Born 28 May 1829 in Rouffach, Alsace, a German–speaking part of eastern . . . — — Map (db m74222) HM

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6 ► Wyoming, Converse County, Glenrock — Ada Magill —

Caleb and Nancy Magill with their six children were part of a wagon train traveling fro Brown County, Kansas, to Dallas, Oregon, in 1864. After leaving Fort Laramie their three-year-old daughter Ada was taken sick with dysentery. At Deer Creek . . . — — Map (db m92079) HM

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7 ► Kansas, Shawnee County, Topeka — Everest Methodist Church — 1880 —

The heritage of this church began as the Mount Zion Methodist Episcopal congregation organized in 1861 with meetings being held in the home of Thomas and Catherine Price in Brown County near the town of Everest. Following the Civil War there was . . . — — Map (db m65027) HM

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    Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.

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