The Globe-republican., 1897-03-04

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j WHEN, HOW, AND WHY.
i ERE AND COUNTIES.
lnteresting Facts About Some Prom
! inent Names.
By C. JENNINGS, Cimarron, Kas.
Concluded from last zysek.)
The surname of the philosopher, Ben
jamin Franklin, honoTs Kansas county
President James A. Garfield WAS re.
membered in the naming of county in
the coyote district, which after passing
through all the trials incident to county
organization finally lost its identity on
account of its size, or rather want of size,
and became township of Finney county
JEFF Davis. secretary of war under
President Pierce, and later president OF
the Confedency, was honored by having
a county named after him by the frs,
Territorial legislature of Kansas. But
the name was abolished in 1891 and that
of John w. Geary, governor of Kansas
Territory in 1856, was substituted, u tar
dy act of justice on the part Of modern
| lawmakers.
Alfred Gray, secretary of the Board of
Agriculture, died January %, 1880, and
in the following year the county Of Gray
was named for him.
Horace Greeley not only has a county,
but also the towns of Horace and Tribune
to keep alive the memory of him and the
great paper he edited.
Greenwood, United States land COM
missioner under Presidents Pierce and
Buchanan, is the person from whom
Greenwood county derived its name.
Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the
treasury under Washington, is grateful
ly remembered among the founders of
the Republic and honored as many of
them are hOnOred.
Jackson, Jefferson, Lincoln and Wash.
ington are names so familiar that no ex-
PLANTATION as to them is necessary.
For one year Jackson county bore the
name of Calhoun, but the name was SO
suggestive of states rights and secession
the next legislature substituted that of
the man who put down CalhOuI's at
tempt at disunion.
James NJ. Harvey was governor when
Harvey county was c.eated by the legis-
lature February 9th, 1872.
Dudley Z. Haskell died while MEM
Der of congress, December 16, 1888.
Rev. Thomas johnson, a Methodist
Episcopal missionary to the Shawnee
Indians in johnson county, was presi-
dent of the council (senate) Of the first
Territorial legislature, 1855.
Samuel A. Kingman was chief justice
of the supreme court of Kansas
Lewis F. Linn was a distinguished
senator from Missouri. He was very
popular on account of the decidedly
American views he entertained on the
northwestern boundary question, and
had much to do with establishing the
authority of the United States over what
is now Washington and Oregon. This
man, for whom mountain in California
and counties in at least four states were
named, is now almost forgotten.
Thomas Morris was distinguished
United States senator from Ohio sixty
years ago.
Oliver P. Morton, VIM. H. Seward.
Edwin NJ. Stanton, Thadeus Stevens and
Chas Sumner are names too we'll known
from their connection with the momen-
tous events of the war period to require
comment in this article.
Silas Woodson, governor of Missouri
from 1873 to 1875, now an aged man, is
the name father of Woodson county.
The last class into which counties MAY
be nominally divided we have the names
of the soldier; and in the bestowa3 of
these Kansans have not only remembered
the skill of the successful commanders,
but also the valor of subaltern officer and
private soldier. Here is the roster
S. Grant, Phil Kearney
KILLED 1t Chantilly, 1862 James Lane
Dim Lane of Kansas), John A. Logan,
Nathaniel Lyon (killed at the battle Of
Wilson's Greek, in 1857 James B.
Mcpherson (killed before Atlanta, July
~, 1884, Francis Marion (hero of the
war; George G. Meade
victor at Gettysburg; John A. Rawlins.
secretary of war in Grants cabinet; Jesse
L. Reno, killed September IA, 1862, at
Samuel a. Rice, who fell at
the battle Of Jenkins Ferry, Ark, April
30, 1864; Benjamin Riley, builder Of