Minneha Township Sedgwick County Kansas Genealogy Trails

Minneha

Minneha joins Wichita Township on the east, and is undoubtedly one of the very best townships in the county. Its settlement dates as far back as 1870, when W. D. Highly settled with his family upon Section 30, where he still is engaged in farming and stock raising. Con. Ludlum and William Baldwin were settlers of 1870 also. Among the settlers of 1871 were, R. T. Leach, J. Zody, P. S. Crum, David Fox, J. S. Shank and John Hass. The township was organized in October, 1871, one of the first organized in the county. With the exception of Wichita Township, it probably contains the best farm improvements of any other township in the county. Fine houses, barns, orchards and hedges abound throughout Minneha. It is watered by Gypsum Creek, Four-mile and Spring Creek, with numerous tributaries from a variety of springs. The soil is very productive, and all crops, field or garden, seldom fail of bringing the husbandman a full compensation for his labor. The St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad runs through the township, with a station inside its limits called Manchester. It has four good schoolhouses and three church organizations. Population, 469; valuation of property, $192,469. (William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, Sedgwick County, Part 2, Township Sketches)