CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
ORGANIZATION.
Named in Honor of Andrew P. Butler Early
Influence Indicated in Name One of the Original Thirty-three Counties
First and Later Boundaries First County Seat Township
Boundaries Organization of Townships Districts Topography
Products Herd Law Fences | Pages 33 - 40 |
CHAPTER II.
ARCHAEOLOGY.
Pre-Historic Red Man Coronado's Visit in 1541
Native Indian Tribes Indian Character Early Trails
Evidences of Pre-Historic Occupation of Butler County Indian Relics
Village and Camp Sites Indian Traditions Indian Implements
| Pages 41 - 46 |
CHAPTER III.
FIRST EVENTS.
First Settler Births Marriages
Postoffices Stores Schools Churches Court Records
and Procedure Official Acts Elections Assessment and First
Valuation Present Valuation | Pages 47 - 53 |
CHAPTER IV.
COUNTY SEAT AND COURT HOUSE.
First County Seat County Seat Elections
First Court House Bond Issue Defeated Citizens' Subscription
Further County Seat Contention Court House Enlarged New
Court House Location Building Cost Extinct
Towns | Pages 54 - 62 |
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CHAPTER V.
INDIAN HISTORY AND EARLY TIMES.
The Plains Dawn of Era Primitive Times
First Settlement Indian Perils and Scares Cherokees Come
Indian Trading Posts Camps Settlement Prior to 1870
Settlement in 1857 Drouth of 1860 Home Defense Company Organized
Butler County in the Civil War First Settler in El Dorado
Cholera Early Settlers Postoffice First Fourth of July
Celebration Homesteading | Pages 63 - 74 |
CHAPTER VI.
PERMANENT SETTLEMENT.
Real Settlement Pioneer Women Erection of
Saw Mills Pioneer Life Amusements Grasshopper Year
Devastation Reaction Brighter Hopes "Sleep, Old Pioneer"
AfterwardsPublic Enterprises Prosperity Now | Pages 75 - 85 |
CHAPTER VII.
TRANSPORTATION.
Highways in Early Days Freighting
Government Trains Mathewson Stage Coaches Experiences of
Stage Coach Days Stage Drivers Passing of the Stage Coach Days
Railroads First Railroad Bonds Voted Another Bond Election
Santa Fe Missouri Pacific Frisco Communication
Pioneer Mail Carrier Star Route Automobiles | Pages 86 - 94 |
CHAPTER VIII.
TOWNSHIPS, CITIES AND TOWNS.
Augusta Township Benton Township
Bloomington Township Bruno Township Chelsea Township Clay
Township Clifford Township Douglass Township | Pages 95 - 119 |
CHAPTER IX.
TOWNSHIPS, CITIES AND TOWNS.
(Continued.)
El Dorado Township City of El Dorado
Location Early Industries Name First Postoffice
First Hotel Railroads Walnut Valley Times El Dorado in 1870
From the Walnut Valley Times of March, 1881 El Dorado in 1916 |
Pages 120 - 152 |
CHAPTER X.
TOWNSHIPS, CITIES AND TOWNS.
(Continued.)
Fairmount Township Fairview Township
Glencoe Township Hickory Township Lincoln Township Little
Walnut Township Leon Logan Township | Pages 153 - 170 |
CHAPTER XI.
TOWNSHIPS, CITIES AND TOWNS.
(Continued.)
Milton Township Murdock Township Pleasant
Township Plum Grove Township Prospect Township | Pages 171 - 192 |
CHAPTER XII.
TOWNSHIPS. CITIES AND TOWNS.
(Continued.)
Richland Township Rock Creek Township
Rosalia Township Spring Township | Pages 193 - 214 |
CHAPTER XIII.
TOWNSHIPS, CITIES AND TOWNS.
(Continued.)
Sycamore Township Towanda Township Towanda
Union Township Walnut Township | Pages 215 - 235 |
CHAPTER XIV.
POLITICAL HISTORY.
Early Political Views Judicial Districts
First Election Character of Officers First Township Officers
All Independent Party First Conventions Political
PartiesFarmers' Alliance and Populism Free Silver Party Last
Election Senators Representatives County Commissioners
County Clerks County Treasurers County Attorneys
Sheriffs Clerks of the District Court Registrar of Deeds
Probate Judges Superintendents of Public Instruction County
Surveyors County Assessors County Health Officers | Pages 236 - 249 |
CHAPTER XV.
COURTS AND THE BAR.
Early Judicial Districts "No Man's Land"
County Lines in 1864 County Seat Changed Early Lawyers and Law
Suits First Deed Recorded First and Second Terms of Court
Horse Thieves Vigilance Committees Lynchings "Butler County
War" Criniinal and Civil Cases Attorneys | Pages 250 - 261 |
CHAPTER XVI.
MEDICAL PROFESSION.
Physicians of this Generation Qualifications
Experiences Pioneer Physicians Advance of the Science
Surgery Hospitals | Pages 262 - 263 |
CHAPTER XVII.
AGRICULTURE.
Agricultural Society First Fairs Kafir
Corn Carnival Changes in Methods Alfalfa Kafir
Increase of Crop Acreage Market Conditions Oats and Wheat
Progress "Kafir Corn County Farm | 264 - 270 |
CHAPTER XVIII.
LIVE STOCK INDUSTRY.
Early Day Horses Trotting Stock Some Fast
Ones Draft Horses Mules First Cattle Losses from
Severe Winters Cattle Raising as a Business Effect of Herd Law
First Cows Bleeders Finest Herd of Herefords in the
World | Pages 271 - 274 |
CHAPTER XIX.
HORTICULTURE.
Wild Fruits of Pioneer Times First Orchards
Plant Disease Insects Investment Butler County
Horticultural Society Successful Fruit Growers Orchards
Native Trees Native Flowers | Pages 275 - 280 |
CHAPTER XX.
OIL AND GAS.
Supply of Fuel Deep Test in 1879 Other
Tests First Company Organized to Drill for Oil Early Geologists.
Reports Discouraging Company Organized at Augusta First Gas
Discovered West of the Flint Hills Near Augusta Other Tests and
Discoveries Oil Discovered Marvelous Development | Pages 281 - 284 |
CHAPTER XXI.
BANKS AND BANKING.
Present Prosperous Conditions Number of Banks in
the County First Bank Second and Third Banks First National
Bank Exchange National Bank Fourth Bank in El Dorado Ed. C.
Ellet Officers and Capital Citizens State Bank Butler
County State Bank Exchange State Bank State Bank of Leon
Peoples State Bank. Latham Bank of Whitewater Peoples State Bank.
Whitewater Towanda State Bank Rose Hill State Bank Rosalia
State Bank Beaumont State Bank Character of Banks Bank
Commissioner | Pages 285 - 291 |
CHAPTER XXII.
TELEPHONE SYSTEM.
Mysterious Switchboard First Telephone Exchange
at El Dorado Butler County. Telephone and Electric Company Growth
of Business Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company Officers
Charles H. Parker | Pages 292 - 294 |
CHAPTER XXIII.
BUTLER COUNTY SCHOOLS.
First School Difficulties of Early Organization
Early Normal Institutes First Teachers Associations Course
of Study Provided First Commencement First School House in El
Dorado Barnes Law Schools Special Courses Barnes High
School League Rural School Contests Early Teachers El
Dorado High School Superintendents Central School Building Burned
Development of Schools | Pages 295 - 300 |
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE PIONEER CHURCH.
First Religious Services in Butler County A
Pioneer Meeting House Beecher's Sermons Delivered Here First
Sermon in Western Butler County Missionaries First Methodist
Minister All Denominations Represented Sunday Schools
Influence of Churches | Pages 301 - 303 |
CHAPTER XXV.
FRATERNAL ORDERS AND LODGES.
Masonic Lodges Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Modern Woodmen of America Grand Army of the Republic
Woman's Relief Corps Anti Horse Thief Association | Pages 304 - 313 |
CHAPTER XXVI.
WOMEN'S CLUBS.
Federated Clubs Beethoven Club, El Dorado
Shakespeare Club Woman's Mutual Benefit Club The Avon Club, El
Dorado Daughters of American Revolution The Outlook Club, Augusta
Twentieth Century Club, Douglass Mutual Helpers, Cassoday
E. M. B. Club, Towanda Every Wednesday Home Study Club | Pages 314 - 317 |
CHAPTER XXVII.
REMINISCENCES.
First Commercial Sign The Next Beer Story
A Booze Story Another One Just a Story Celebration
Some Things A Murder When Times Were Young, by Frances E. Mooney
In Society The Old Hotel Another Time | Pages 318 - 325 |
CHAPTER XXVIII.
REMINISCENCES, CONTINUED.
My Parents The "Quilting Bee" Crowd
Recollections of Plum Grove Back in the Sixties The Last Battle
"Vagrant Memories" | Pages 326 - 339 |
CHAPTER XXIX.
REMINISCENCES, CONTINUED.
My First Night in El Dorado Memories A
Hunting Party Dr. John Homer's Recollections Southeast Butler
Early Times A Story of the Days Long Gone Memories of
Pioneer Days | Pages 340 - 358 |
CHAPTER XXX.
REMINISCENCES, CONTINUED.
Experiences of a Lawyer.
Joe Everson Joe Everson and the Fool Boy
Gardner's Heroic Effort Tiger Bill An Intelligent Jury A
Defendant Who Lied The Colonel's Stratagem A Game of Pool
The Colonel and Dan Mistaken Identity | Pages 359 - 366 |
CONTENTS
CHAPTER XXXI.
REMINISCENCES, CONTINUED.
The Victory of Half a Century A Pioneer
Story of Early Days Pioneer Days A Pioneer of 1868
Recollections fo[sic] Jerry Conner | Pages 367 - 378 |
CHAPTER XXXII.
REMINISCENCES, CONTINUED.
Mead's Ranch Recollections of Early Times
An Indian Scare Early Schools in El Dorado A Tornado Wing
in the Seventies | Pages 379 - 392 |
CHAPTER XXXIII.
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