Happy 198th Birthday Cyrus K. Holliday
One of the most influential Kansans of the 19th century was a man named Cyrus K. Holliday and without him Kansas would not be what it is today.
The Kansas State Agricultural Society
Our country’s first department of agriculture started in 1855 when at a meeting of the first Kansas territorial legislature an agricultural committee was formed.
Happy 125th Birthday Dwight Frye
One of the most legendary character actors of the early 20th century was Dwight Iliff Frye known as the original Renfield in 1931 Dracula. He was born in Salina, KS on February 22, 1899, to
Happy 188th Birthday American Diarist Samuel J. Reader
Samuel J. Reader was a Kansas pioneer who was one of the first to settle in the now extinct town of Indianola, KS in 1855. He was born in Greenfield, now Coal Center, Pennsylvania on January
Carry A. Nation first uses a hatchet in bar raid
One of the most prolific prohibition activists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was Carry A. Nation who founded a local chapter of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union
The Lecompton Constitution gets adopted
There were four constitutions written in an attempt to gain statehood for Kansas. The second and most controversial of these constitutions was the
The Kansas/Nebraska Debate: Finding where Zebulon Pike visited the Pawnee
If you have ever traveled through the Kansas town of Republic, then you have no doubt seen the Pawnee Indian Museum and the white granite monument just outside the city.
Napoleon Boone, the first White child born in Kansas, turns 195 years old
The settlement of Daniel Morgan Boone was the first settlement in what is now Jefferson County and also the first in the state of Kansas. Daniel M. was the son of the legendary Kentucky pioneer
Moneka Women’s Rights Association and the Wyandotte Constitution
The women in a small rural farm town in Kansas territory wanted the same rights as men and were willing to fight for them. The town was established in 1857 by abolitionists and idealists and was given the name
