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Book Title: THE HISTORY OF ANDERSON COUNTY, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1876.

CHAPTER XXVI.

  Organization of Monroe Township—Settlements — Towns—Elections—Successive
Officers.

  MONROE TOWNSHIP is situated in the central and northern portions of the
county. Its boundaries were first established in October, 1857, containing an
area of forty-five square miles, and the first township officers were elected in
the spring of 1858. The North and South Pottowatomie creeks run across the
township, supplying it with plenty of water and timber. The territory north of
North Pottowatomie was cut off and included in Putnam township, which greatly
reduces the limits of Monroe. It contains some of the finest valley lands in the
county, and has some of the first settled farms in the county.

  The first white settler in the township was Patrick Tyler, in the spring of
1855, on the farm now occupied by Judge William Spriggs.

  A number of persons settled in the township in the year 1855, among whom were
C. E. Dewey, H. H. Williams, Darius Frankenberger, W. L. Frankenberger, M. M.
Minkler, Frank Winkley, John H. Rockers, Frederick Rockers, James McGue, Eli P>
Bawgus, Samuel Anderson, Wilson Anderson, John Anderson, John McDaniel, John
Rogers, Henry Alderman and Henry Feuerborn.

  This township was celebrated for its townsites. In the early part of 1856
Garnett was laid out. The history of its location and progress has been given in
another chapter in this volume, and will only receive a partial notice here. The
town of Canton was located and laid out in 1857, by B. Tyler, on section 23,
township 20, range 20. It was laid out as a rival to Garnett. Some improvements
were made on its site in 1858-9; but, when the question of the county seat was
settled in favor of Garnett, Canton was soon abandoned and left to the roaming
herds, but has since been reduced to fine farms by the husbandman. Such was the
fate of the once noted rendezvous of intemperance and wickedness.

  The town of Shannon was laid out in 1857, by Dr. Preston Bowen. It was named
in honor of Wilson Shannon, second Governor of Kansas Territory. Some
improvements were mad£ on the town-site in 1857-8; but when the county seat was
removed from Shannon to Garnett, in 1859, it went the way of all sublunary
things: and the public parks and squares are now part of the fine farm owned by
Dr. Bowen.

  Another town of some historical notoriety was laid out in 1858, by Dr. G. W.
Cooper, adjoining the townsite of Garnett on the south, named Mandovi, and
covered as much paper as any town in Kansas, and it took as much paper to make a
deed for one of its lots. While this town had no improvements as a town, it had
the finest lithographed map of any in Kansas, which was equivalent to one
hundred thousand dollars of buildings for selling purposes. In those days all
that was necessary to sell town lots was to stake out the townsite, get a fine
lithographic map, and go into the Eastern States with a fine historical sketch
of the excellent advantages of the future city, its proximity to large streams
and bodies of timber; beautiful valleys of rich soil surrounding it: and great
abundance of building stone, for a town of one hundred thousand inhabitants,
with positive assurance of a railroad, within a few months, through its limits,
These paper towns have failed to bring forth the future profit so beautifully
set forth by the oily tongues of the speculators in this species of property.

  In 1856 a* number of settlers came into Monroe township. Among the more
prominent of these are Alanson Simons, B. F. Simons, George Simons, Charles
Simons, Samuel McDaniel, Wm. J. Bayles, Thos. Bayles, Marion Fraker, James Y.
Campbell, Jacob Troy, W. A. Tipsword, Leon Phillips, F. L. Majors, W. Beddoes,
B. Tyler, John H. Pattie, Wm. Tull, G. W. Yandall and Wm. Puett.

  The following are the more prominent among the settlers of 1857: C. W. Fraker,
Isaac Hiner, D. D. Judy, W. L. Webster, J. L. Bockover, William Spriggs, Geo. S.
King, Wm. Smith, W. S. Smith, G. A. Cook, Jonathan Masterson, Thomas Lindsay, C.
B. Smith, J. N. Chambers, Nathaniel Cottle, D. D. Lampman, Harvey Springer and
J. M. Johnson.

  Of the settlers, of 1858 the following are the more prominent: D. W. Houston,
Charles Norris, Elias Norris, Wm. McLaughlin, John R. Slentz, E. E. Moore, John
Parker, Christian Bowman, Norman A. Porter, J, G. Smith, H. Tefft, John S.
Stowe, William Tefft and John Johnston.

  The prominent settlers of 1859 were James McLaughlin, Robert McLaughlin, C. P.
Alvey, S. J. Crawford, Hugh Quinn, J. Graham, Samuel Boyd, G. W. Iler and Wm.
Lampman.

TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS.

  1868, John McDaniel, chairman; Charles Hidden and William Puett; 1859, C. W.
Fraker, chairman; John H. Pattie and Wm. Smith.

TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES.

  1860-1, Clark B. Smith; 1863, G. W. Arrell. [There was a tie vote between C.
B. Smith and G. W. Arrell, which was decided by the board in favor of Arrell.]
1864-5, C. B. Smith; 1866, J. T. Lanter; 1867, J. L. Kercheval; 1868, John
Ricketts; 1869-70-1-2, L. M. Earnest; 1873-4-5-6, R. W. Gailey.

TOWNSHIP CLERKS.

  1858-9, C. E. Dewey; 1869-70-1-2-3, G. M. Everline; 1874, J. M. Craig; 1875-6,
George Patton.

TOWNSHIP TREASURERS.

  1858, Enoch Barker; 1859, Thomas Lindsay; 1868, M. B. Taylor;
1869-70-l-2-3-4-5-6, John Ricketts.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

  1858, Henry Feuerborn, M. G. Carr, B. D. Judy and Wm. J. Bayles; 1859, Wm. J.
Bayles, Charles Hidden, D. D. Judy and M. G. Carr; 1860-1, Isaac Hiner and
Harvey Springer; 1863, G. W. Iler and G. A. Cook; 1864, Joseph Williams, to fill
vacancy caused by the resignation of Iler; 1865, G. A. Cook and James
McLaughlin; 1867, G. A. Cook and Harvey Springer; 1869, G. A. Cook and J. W.
Rice, both of whom resigned in the fall of the same year. 1870, Milton Mills and
James Keber were elected to fill vacancies; 1871, Milton Mills and A. M. Thome;
1873, G. A. Cook and A. M. Thome; 1875, G. A. Cook and L.H. Gordon.



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THE HISTORY OF ANDERSON COUNTY,
FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1876.
BY
W. A. JOHNSON,
CHAIRMAN OF HISTORICAL COMMITTEE.

PUBLISHED BY KAUFFMAN & ILER, GARNETT PLAINDEALER,
1877.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1877, by
KAUFFMAN & ILER, In the office of the Librarian of Congress,Washington, D. C.


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