NAME	YEAR(S)
Leland J. Webb	1871
J. N. Ritter	1872
T. P. Anderson	1873
J. H. Ludlow	1874-1875
C. A. Sanders	1876
George Hoyt	1877
W. C. Lykens	1878
S. O. McDowell	1879-1882
C. E. Middaugh	1883-1884
E. A. Crewson	1885-1886
R. M. Cheshire	1887-1888
O. S. Butler	1889-1892
John Wiswell	1893-1894
S. O. McDowell	1895-1896
John Wiswell	1897-1898
J. O. Houx	1899-1900
L. J. Slease	1901-1902
W. T. Forkner	1903-1904

The mayors of the city have been chosen with a view to getting the best possible public service; and the affairs of the city have usually been in conservative hands. The expenditures, which have necessarily become larger every year, as the city has grown andhas been compelled to look after larger interests, have been carefully gaurded. As a rule the best men are chosen as councilmen. Sometimes the importance of this matter has been overlooked; but there is a growing tendency to avoid the mistake of electing other than wel-informed, conservative men; for the people are watchful of such things, and they will not stand for the inefficiency of poorly informed officials.

Source: History of Cherokee County, Kansas and Representaative Citizens, Edited & Compiled by Nathaniel Tompson Allison, A. M., Columbus, Kansas, 1904, Page 141