Butler County’s Eighty Years  ~  1855-1935

by Jessie Perry Stratford

A History of Butler County Biographical Sketches and Portraits with Foreword by Rolla A. Clymer

INDEX

Page 402

Adventurers and Indians  -  5

Agriculture - 115-116 

Allen, Susan B. Memorial Hospital - 167-169

American Red Cross  -  61-65

American Legion  - 65

American Legion Auxiliary - 66 

American Legion, Junior Auxiliary - 67 

American Legion, Sons of  - 67

American Revolution, Daughters of  - 60

American Revolution, Children of - 66

Archaeology - 8-10

Augusta 119

Banks 89-91  

Beaumont 131

Beginnings of Butler County - 10

Benton - 121

Blizzard - 44

Bloomer, Sadie, Mystery - 106

Brainerd - 131

Buffalo Hunt - 54

Butler County Bar - 75-76

Butler County Boundaries - 10

Butler County Officers - 68-73

Butler County early political events - 15

Butler County early settlers 11

Butler County first Events - 13

Butler County government and vigilance committees 14

Butler County Named for A.P. Butler - 10

Butler County population - 18

Butler County Today - 113-118

Carnegie Library 157

Cassoday - 121

City Hall at El Dorado 156

Civil War 15

Civil War, Butler County in - 58-59

Chamber of Commerce 160-161

Chelsea - 12  

Choteau, A. P. -  7

Churches  - 17

Clark, Capt. J. J. - 7

Clubs - 100-101

Conner, Jerry D. 8-12

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Conner’s Store 139

County officers  - 68-73

County seat contests - 135-137

County seat history 154-155

Courthouse - 16, 155

DeGraff - 123

Douglass - 122

Drought of 1860 - 23-25

Early settlers - 11-13

Elbing - 123

El Dorado - 135 et. sec.

El Dorado churches 157-160

El Dorado civic clubs 161-163

El Dorado Citizens of, 1900 - 164

El Dorado early business houses - 137

El Dorado early citizens - 142-146

El Dorado first girl born - 147

El Dorado founding - 135

El Dorado in 1870 - 142

El Dorado in 1884 - 147-151

El Dorado 1884 to 1900 - 151

El Dorado in 1935 - 154

El Dorado incorporated - 138

El Dorado meaning of - 135

El Dorado Mayors - 156

El Dorado platted - 137

El Dorado post office - 155

El Dorado wins county seat - 16

Factories - 114

Farm Bureau - 116-117

Fourth of July, early celebrations -  7, 142

Fraternal organizations - 102-104

French explorers - 6-7

Game, wild - 5, 47

Gordon - 131

Grand Army of Republic - 60

Grasshoppers - 17, 18, 36, 40, 48

Green, John Graham “Tuck” - 54

Harrison, Lord Alfred - 40

Haverhill - 131

Hazford Place - 132

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Hazlett, Robert H. Hereford herd - 132

Hildebrand, William - 11, driven from county  - 14, his claim on El Dorado townsite  - 137

Horse thieves - 14, 38

Hospital, Allen Memorial - 167-169

Hulburt-Mitchell Romance - 105-106

Incidents - 105-112

Indians  - 5-10, 15, their love of trees - 56-57

Kafir Corn Carnivals - 96-99

Keighley - 127

Koogler Oil Leases  - 93

Latham - 127

Leon - 124-126

Lodges - 102-104

Lost Towns - 112

Map of Butler County (In the late 1880’s)  - 4

Mapira, Knights of - 98

Martin, Bill J.

Martin, Henry, store - 138

Masonic Temple Portraits - 102

Mathewson, original Buffalo Bill - 140

McKinney, Clark W. Trial - 76

Mead, James R. at Towanda - 107

Medical profession - 84

Mennonites - 40

Morrison, Jessie, Trial - 76

Murdock Township Cemetery - 42

Newspapers  - 85-88

Oberst, Owen, Trial - 76

Oil gusher, El Dorado’s first  - 93

Oil Hill - 128

Oil History - 91-95

Oil, Peak production  - 93

Patriotic organizations - 60

Payne, David L., his ranch - 140

Physicians of Butler County - 84

Pike, Zebulon Montgomery 5-6

Pioneers of Plum Grove - 45

Plum Grove, how named - 44

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Politics of Butler County - 115

Potwin - 45, 129

Prairie fire, fatal  -  35

Quakers at Rose Hill - 50

Railroads, early history - 140-141

Railroads in 1935 - 142

Red Cross, illustration - 62

Refineries, today - 113

Refineries - 94-95

Representatives of Butler County - 68

Rosalia - 129

Rose Hill - 131

Roundabout Items - 110

Royal Family - 151-152

Recollections - 107-108-109;  111

Schools of Butler County - 79-84

Schools, Chelsea - 25

Schools, Clifford Township - 29

Schools El Dorado - 81-84

Schools First in county  - 25, 53

Schools Little Walnut Township - 55

Senators from Butler County  - 68

Society - 100-101

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial - 157-160

Sorghum mill at Douglass - 31

Spain, Mrs. Al C., Pitcher Collection - 165

Spanish-American War, Butler County in, - 59

Spanish explorers  - 6

Stage coaches - 140

Stevens, Rosalia - 46

Stock Raising - 114-115

Store, first in Butler County - 138

Teachers of early days - 146

Teachers of 1934-1935 - 79-84

Toad plague - 48

Tornado of 1871 - 37, 146

Towanda - 130

Towanda tornado - 106

Townships:

     Augusta - 19-20

     Benton - 21

     Bloomington - 21

     Bruno - 21

     Chelsea - 22

     Clay - 26

     Clifford - 26

     Douglass - 30

     El Dorado - 31

     Fairmount - 34

     Fairview - 35

     Glencoe - 36

     Hickory - 36

     Lincoln - 37

     Little Walnut - 38

     Logan - 39

     Milton - 40

     Murdock - 41

     Prospect - 42

     Pleasant - 43

     Plum Grove - 44

     Rosalia - 45

     Richland - 46

     Rock Creek - 52

     Spring - 53

     Sycamore - 53

     Towanda - 55

     Union - 56

     Walnut - 56

Township officers - 117-118

Transportation - 16-17

Transportation in 1935 - 113

Union Veterans, Daughters of - 66

Union Veterans, Sons of - 67

Vigilantes - 14, 37, 47

Whitewater - 130

Whitewater flood - 41

Women's Christian Temperance Union in 1885 - 147

Women’s Jury, First - 77

Women Pioneers - 147

Women’s Relief Corps - 60

World War, Butler County in, - 59


Note: The map of Butler County, on page four, was drawn in the late 1880s and the Rock Island railroad through Whitewater is not shown. Township boundary lines have not been changed. **** Hundreds of names appearing in the historical section of this book are not in the indices.

                 

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