Barton County KS Archives History - Books .....Settlements - Lakin Township 1912 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com October 2, 2005, 2:08 am Book Title: Biographical History Of Barton County Lakin Township On May 20, 1871, there were six different exploring parties on the Walnut, near the site of old Fort Zarah. Among those were D. N. Heizer, M. W. Halsey, Dr. Prescott and Captain Guffin. Most of these outfits went into camp Saturday, a few having been in camp for several days. About September 20, 1871, a party of five from Atlanta, Rice County, came to look for claims in Lakin township, near where Ellinwood now stands. Considerable trouble was had in finding section corners, the settlers finally going to Fort Zarah reservation where they commenced running east, and continued as far as section 10, township 20, range 11 W. M. W. Halsey selected the first location, the southwest quarter of 32-19-11. Then followed locations by the following: Name— Date. Location Aaron Strong 10-6-71 28-19-12 Aaron Burlison 10-14-71 32-19-11 Andrew McKinney 1-15-72 28-19-11 Wm. N. Halsey 1-19-72 32-19-11 Lee M. Colline 3-15-72 4-20-11 Thos. Corbett 3-21-72 20-19-11 Albert C. Corbett Same A. Merrifield 3-30-72 26-19-12 John H. Duncan 4- 9-72 18-19-11 Moses D. Fletcher 4-20-72 25-19-11 Edwin Sew and James Saw 4-29-72 30-19-11 Benj. Halley 5-13-72 30-19-11 Eneas Pendergast -18-72 2-20-11 Geo. T. Gill 6- 3-72 14-19-11 Wm. W. Shannon 6- 5-72 26-19-11 Alex. Forsyth 7- 1-72 18-19-11 Jos. B. Howard 7- 72 34-19-12 Nelson Davis 7-16-72 4-20-11 Geo. Towers 8-26-72 26-19-12 John C. Smith 10-11-72 22-19-12 Austin B. Lynch 10- -72 26-19-11 David J. Whitten 11-15-72 24-19-12 Chas. Grant 2- 5-73 28-19-11 Grabil Landis 2-20-73 28-19-11 R. A. Avery 3-22-73 6-20-11 James Thompson 5- 1-73 10-19-11 Wm. H. Misner 5-10-73 14-19-12 Mahlon Ward 5-19-73 10-19-11 Geo. Bacon 5-23-73 24-19-11 Eniil Kwamp 5-23-73 5-19-11 Thomas Blair and Wm Blair 6-16-73 4-19-11 Royal Harkness 6-2S-73 34-19-11 Daniel Hodge 1- 2-73 34-19-11 Henry Strohmeyer 7-15-73 20-19-11 Sam S. Avery 7-32-73 34-19-12 Philander Reed 7- 5-73 8-19-11 Wallace C Bay 73 8-19-11 Stephen A. Shilling 9-25-73 28-19-11 Otto C Lebbin 11- 4-73 10-19-12 J E Robe 11- 5-73 14-19-11 O. M. Botson 11- 6-73 10-19-11 Wm. Joy 11-11-73 14-19-11 Mort. B. Fitts 11-15-73 22-19-12 Wilson E. Chalfent 11-30-73 26-19-11 Jas E Reaugh 11-26-73 8-20-11 David N. Howard 12- 4-73 22-19-12 Amos McDowell 12-19-73 14-19-11 John J. Maydole 1-17-74 22-19-12 W. L. Robbins 1-20-74 24-19-12 Robert Robe 1-22-74 22-19-12 John Salmon 3-26-74 26-19-12 Luman W. Storey 3- 4-74 4-19-11 Sam B. Hamon 3-14-74 12-19-12 Benj. H. Prescott 4-16-74 12-19-12 Jas B. Patrick 7-23-74 28-19-12 John F. Lewis 9- 9-74 2-10-12 Bernard B. Smyth 9- -74 28-19-12 Calvin A. Loomis 10-11-74 34-19-12 Thos M. Bailey 10-20-74 30-19-11 Lakin township now has a population of 633 and one or two exceptions has the largest population of any of the townships in the county. Very few of the old timers are left, most of them having died or moved away. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/barton/history/1912/biograph/settleme9gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ksfiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb