Sherman Township Sedgwick County Kansas Genealogy Trails

Sherman

Sherman Township, named after the General, joins Union on the west, and is near the extreme northwestern line of the county. It was organized in 1877. The Germans are largely settled in the eastern part of it. All the crops are produced abundantly, and stock raising is being successfully prosecuted. It is watered by tributaries of the Cowskin and the "Big Slough," which is rich in fine bottom land. Magnolia is the postoffice, and Germania, a flourishing little village, is on the southeastern line of the township. It has three schoolhouses, a Presbyterian and Catholic Church organization. Population, 386; valuation of property, $139,098. (William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, Sedgwick County, Part 2, Township Sketches)