54 10 576 https://derbykshistory.com/files/original/f1ea2f4d05811307846891984ae08784.JPG 5e672734c7cb59fa7edba8ce34d50371 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Derby Superintendents Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. I. Brown Superintendent 1928 - 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Derby Historical Museum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Derby Historical Museum Derby Historical Museum Derby School District #6 Derby Superintendent J. I. Brown https://derbykshistory.com/files/original/cec9c137327b9e6dbb7134a9c242a037.JPG 1d0a54a21738c19fe2694dbfe77b63b5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Derby Superintendents Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. W. Swaney Superintendent 1923 - 1928 Teacher 1892 - 1909 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Derby Historical Museum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Derby Historical Museum Description An account of the resource <a href="https://derbykshistorymuseum.org/blog/f/jw-swaney-nearly-a-half-century-in-education">Click here to read a biography about J. W. Swaney</a> by the Derby Historical Society and Museum. Derby Historical Museum Derby School District #6 Derby Superintendent John Willis "J. W." Swaney teacher https://derbykshistory.com/files/original/302cd4e71026f87b03e91b57ea55dce5.JPG 34039002ef9f4a41fd60cd3abd3ce670 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Bess Jones Superintendent 1916 - 1919 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Derby Historical Museum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Derby Historical Museum Bess Jones Derby Historical Museum Derby School District #6 Derby Superintendent principal teacher https://derbykshistory.com/files/original/6e736ef5efbf85592e5037cc26927e75.JPG e4c405c232a0d4564871a5f7b858446e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Derby Superintendents Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S. Ray Braden Superintendent 1910 - 1911 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Derby Historical Museum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Derby Historical Museum Description An account of the resource The years on the picture are incorrect. Braden was superintendent 1910-1911. Derby Historical Museum Derby School District #6 Derby Superintendent S. Ray Braden https://derbykshistory.com/files/original/a2d0e0fe2e248428ff68611504cf1349.gif 7e52e867d79c46e740411c7fa259af1a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maps Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Plat map of El Paso, Kansas Description An account of the resource Digital image of the original plat map of El Paso, Kansas filed with the Sedgwick County Register of Deeds in July 1871 by J. Hout Minnich and John Hufbauer. All blocks 300 feet square. Baltimore & Georgie Avenues Main & Market Streets 100 ft wide. All other Streets 75th wide. All alleys 20 ft. wide. Lots 28 x 140 ft. fronting on Main & Market Streets except between Water & Buckner Streets and except opposite the square. Fronting on Avenues between the squares fronting on Water & Buckner Streets between Washington & Emma Streets. All other lots 25 x 140 ft. Scale 200 ft = 1 inch. I, John A. Sroufe Deputy County Surveyor for Sedgwick Co, Kansas, do certify that the accompanying plat is a correct survey of the Town of El Paso, To 29, Rang 1 E in Sec. 1 & 1 & 12. Jno A. Sroufe, Dept. Co Surveyor for Sedgwick Co. Kansas State of Kansas Sedgwick County On this 11th day of July A.D. 1871, before me a Notary Public in and for said County personally came J. Hout Minnick and John Hufbauer, known to me to be the owner of the town of El Paso and acknowledged the within to be an accurate map of the town of El Paso, Sedgwick County Kansas, particularily setting forth the streets & allies and all the avenues streets and alleys reserved for public use. And all lots mentioned by number are for sale. Witness our hands and seals this the day and year last above mentioned. J. Hout Minnick (seal) John Hufbauer (seal) Signed and sealed in my presence at Wichita Kansas this 11th day of July A.D. 1871. D. A. Bright Notary Public (seal) State of Kansas Sedgwick County This play filed to record July 11, 1871 and duly recorded in book of plats A, page 6 Jan 9th 1872. L. F. Buttles, Register by D.A. Bright Depty I, Joseph Bowman, Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of the plat of, or map of El Paso, that the original, of which above is a copy, is on file in my office and that I have the legal custody thereof. Witness my hand and the seal of my office this 11 day of Sept 1911. Joseph Bowman Register of Deeds Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sedgwick County, Kansas Register of Deeds Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Sedgwick County, Kansas Geographic Information Systems (https://www.sedgwickcounty.org/gis/) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Sedgwick County, Kansas Geographic Information Systems El Paso J. Hout Minnich John Hufbauer plat map https://derbykshistory.com/files/original/481128e13a3a00a948777fb2827ca14d.png 0b47c5ce5aede76bd9d4d4b629d8bc90 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Douglass Tribune (5/7/1909 - 9/29/1911) Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Wichita Farmers Win Siege of Dynamite Midland Valley Road Settles For Right-of-Way. Peace Declared After Strenuous Times---Farmers Take the Dynatime Mines Up---No Criminal Prosecutions. Wichita, Kan.---Harvey Pitman and James P. Somers, farmers, have capituated and their fight with the Midland Valley railway over a right of way through their farms near Derby came to a bloodless end. Pitman and Somers had their farms protected with dynamite mines and were patrolling them with guns in hand. Each farmer is to receive $4,000 from the railway company for damages. Pitman was awarded $2,775 and Somers $1,775 by a board of appraisers. By agreement Pitman and Somers are to remove all their mines and go ahead of the graders to insure that here are no explosives in the ground. Pitman said he would ride on a rake over every inch of the right-of-way. They planted over 100 charges of dynamite on their farms. J.W. McLoud, general attorney for the railroad, carrying a flag of truce, visited Pitman while graders and newspaper men looked on from a distance. The two men talked for six hours; Somers joined Pitman and the talk continued. It broke up with the men shaking hands. Pitman and Somers threw down their guns and came to Wichita and signed a peace compact. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wichita Farmers Win Siege of Dynamite Subject The topic of the resource Harvey Pitman and James Somers fight Midland Valley railway over land Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Douglass Tribune Douglass, KS Jul. 14, 1911 Page 5 Accessed at Newspapers.com Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public Domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Douglass Tribune Douglass Tribune dynamite farmer Harvey Pitman James P. Somers Midland Valley railway newspaper railroad https://derbykshistory.com/files/original/5711fc2fd0caa1c6abad9a329c327955.jpg 829d58199ca32bc056d7e2eac5b0c4cd https://derbykshistory.com/files/original/94ded5cf1cb892d6cad954a93b077084.jpg db5f87a2b95987ada375cb35b8b0660e https://derbykshistory.com/files/original/576d1b3777f24cf3ead22a61fcca86c6.jpg 1ba92d9af1a6035170e6ab693349e500 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Railroad crew in Derby circa 1920s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Tony Gonzalez (1) Richard Hogan donated the photo to the Derby Historical Museum (2 & 3) Inv. 96-010014 Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railroad Derby Derby Historical Museum railroad railroad depot Richard Hogan Santa Fe Railroad Tony Gonzalez train depot https://derbykshistory.com/files/original/9f1e6a65393c7916d4f003c4056927b4.jpg c759365ed2fb51258e68767ae43cf09e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Carlton Family circa 1876 Description An account of the resource Franklin S. and Lucinda Carlton came to Sedgwick County in December 1871 initially purchasing 400 acres along the Arkansas River and by 1888 his land totaled 1,000 acres. They built a house located on Oliver between 47th and 55th on the west side. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Debbie Avenell Subject The topic of the resource Back row (left to right): William, Charles, and John Carlton; front row (left to right): Mary S., Franklin S., and Lucinda (Blevins) Carlton. Carlton family Charles Monroe Carlton Debbie Avenell Franklin S. Carlton John R. Carlton Lucinda Blevins Carlton Mary S. Carlton Craig William S. Carlton https://derbykshistory.com/files/original/671f5d27740504bbc1b054688aa241ed.png 38c0e4cce74ad27d3e47635f5515aae6 https://derbykshistory.com/files/original/bc6e9a952350f646d773dfe0ced8cf09.png 2794636993358f9b949093ef5a5e2047 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wichita Daily Eagle (05/20/1884 - 03/27/1927) Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document “Carrie Nation Again” With Three Companions She Smashes Some Windows Carrie Nation, Mrs. Myra McHenry, Mrs. Lucy Wilhoite and Mrs. Lydia Mountz were arrested yesterday afternoon about 5 o’clock and taken to the city jail, where they are charged with the destruction of two large windows, the property of the Mahan Supply company. Armed with hatchet, axe, hammer and stones, the four women proceeded quietly down a back street to the office of the Mahan Supply company on Rock Island avenue. The company had received notice from the police station to be on their guard, and when Mrs. Nation and her assistants appeared there were four or five men standing before the doors to keep them from entering the building. When the leader found that she would not be permitted to enter the building she opened her satchel and took out two stones, which she threw, breaking the glass out of the large office window. Mrs. McHenry, who was armed with a hammer, made an attempt to break out another window but was frustrated in the attempt by one of the officers. A large crowd collected and a telephone message was sent to the police station for the patrol. Until the arrival of the officers, Mr. Mahan succeeded in holding Mrs. Nation so that she was unable to throw any more stones. Upon the arrival of the patrol the women were placed in the wagon and on the way to the station hundreds of people followed hooting and yelling and calling loudly the name of Carrie Nation. Arrived at the station the four prisoners were locked in a cell on the lower floor. Immediately after their confinement in the cell a short prayer service was held, the women knelling on the cement floor. At the conclusion of the prayer service a hymn was sung, after which they proceeded to investigate their surroundings. Mrs. Nation stepped quickly to the iron door and through the grating addressed an Eagle reporter who was standing just outside. “It seems to me this cell is rather damp. Can’t you get us a better one? I am getting very hoarse already from this dampness, and I know that there are better cells than this one in the building.” Upon being reminded that she was in the city prison instead of the county jail, Mrs. Nation said: “Oh, yes. I am mistaken. It was at the county jail where I stayed a month. This is my first trip to the city jail.” The cell in which the women were placed had been thoroughly cleaned out earlier in the day, and in one or two little places there was some water standing in the slight indentations in the floor. Failing to procure a different cell, Mrs. Nation opened her hand satchel and produced a dressing sacque with which she proceeded to mop the floor. “We could do nothing but what we did today,” she said. “God called us to do this work. There were nine cases on the court docket this morning, and we feel that we shall have too much to answer for if we sit quietly by and see such deadly work go on. The only way to accomplish our ends is to smash the hell keepers’ places. “What have they done with my hatchet?” she demanded suddenly, her eyes sparkling. “They have no right to that hatchet, and when I get out they must return it to me. I have work to do with it. I did not get to use my hatchet today. Oh, no. I did not have to. I used stones.” “That reminds me,” broke in Mrs. McHenry. “I had a hammer and it is one that I do not wish to lose. I cleaned out Derby with it, and upon the handle of it is, ‘Used by Myra McHenry when she cleaned out Derby.’ I hope they will take care of that hatchet because I want to keep it always.” It was suggested to Mrs. Nation that an entrance fee be charged and the crowd outside be allowed to come in and see her. When the reporter said this, Mrs. Nation turned and said: “Yes, I expect we could make money, but I’m not in the menagerie. I may be some day, but I am not on exhibition now. I would not do it even if there were people on the outside with $300 to pay as a fee of admission.” Mrs. Nation, Mrs. McHenry and Mrs. Wilhoit appeared to be excited and elated over their venture, but Mrs. Mountz say by herself in one corner of the room with an exceedingly thoughtful and, albeit, wistful look on her countenance. The frst three having had previous experience, did not seem to feel badly about being in jail, but on the contrary were very jolly and talkative. When it became known over the city that Mrs. Nation and her companions were locked up in the city jail, immense crowds gathered and it required the assistance of several policemen to clear the office of the police department. Charles Prince, a man about 36 years of age, asked if he could put up a bond for the women and he was told by the chief that any bond would not be accepted. He then went outside the office, where he is charged with having made some profane remarks about the policemen. He was arrested and locked in a cell on the lower floor. The four women are being detained at the station until warrants are issued for them in the city court, when they will be removed to the county jail. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carrie Nation Again Subject The topic of the resource Carrie Nation, Myra McHenry, Lucy Wilhoite, Lydia Mountz arrested for smashing windows at a liquor supply company. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wichita Daily Eagle Wichita, KS Oct. 1, 1904 Page 5 Accessed at Newspapers.com Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public Domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wichita Daily Eagle Carrie Nation Derby Lucy Wilhoite Lydia Mountz Myra McHenry newspaper Wichita Eagle https://derbykshistory.com/files/original/18155a89c49f14481b57be1dc011c02a.png b66dfb97a60a08418c86a6b14ecb6d0e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wichita Daily Eagle (05/20/1884 - 03/27/1927) Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document “Death of Old Settler.” R. A. Neely Was a Pioneer in Wichita. Another one of the early settlers of Wichita has joined the larger number who have passed to the beyond. R. A. Neely died at his home, 1431 North Market street at 7 a. m. yesterday. Notice of the funeral will be given later. R. A. Neely came to Wichita in the summer of 1870. He took a claim on the east side of Chisholm creek, south of the Black place, and proved it up. He afterwards sold the place and went to derby to engage in the grocery business with L. E. Vance. Neely & Vance did a large business with the first settlers in that section of the county. After Mr. Neely went to Derby, then called El Paso, he was elected to the office of county commissioner, which was the only office he ever held. His success as a merchant in these early days was limited because of his liberality. Many of the early settlers were not very well fixed in the wealth of this world’s goods, but they all had credit at R. A. Neely’s store. In the early seventies the business men of Derby were John Hufbauer, J. Haut Minnich, Albert Minnich, R. A. Neely, L. E. Vance, Dr. H. C. Tucker and George H. Litzenberg. Hufbauer, Neely, J. Haut Minnich and Dr. H. C. Tucker are dead. Albert Minnich is in Ohio and George H. Litzenberg lives in this city. L. E. Vance came to Wichita with a team in the early eighties, since which time he has never been heard from. In the early days when the merchants above named held forth in Derby it aspired to be the big city of the Arkansas valley. They have a rock bottom in the Arkansas river at that point in the early seventies the Derbyites used to worry the Wichita town builders by writing letters to the Eagle and claiming that all of the railroads that came into this valley would have to come to Derby to cross the river at the only rock bottom ford on that stream between the mountains and the gulf of Mexico. The people actually had faith in that rock ford and were surprised when the Santa Fe finally came and crossed the Arkansas where Mulvane is now located and at the widest place in the stream. They found out that the railroads did not care for rock fords and did not go an inch out of their way for the Arkansas river, but crossed it wherever they pleased. R. A. Neely finally, like many others, concluded that Derby, or El Paso, was not going to make the big city of the Arkansas valley and he sold his property there and moved back to Wichita and went into the nursery business. He was generous and made friends wherever he went and has many of them in this county and city who will regret to hear of his death. R. A. Neely was born in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1836. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn his loss—William Neely of the Johnston-Larimer Dry Goods company, Harry C. Neely, commercial traveler, and Mrs. Gene Ketzler. Mr. Neely came to this part of Kansas at the time when men who did not possess nerve of the necessary strength for a frontiersman remained in the east. He was here when such men as Ledford, Curley Marshall, Rowdy Joe and Red were characters of the town, and he was an eye witness to some blood curdling scenes in the early frontier town. He was never the man to take the life of a fellow man, but the men who did not value human life were all about him. He had associated with the worst men on the frontier but he never lost that goodness of heart which was a part of his nature. When R. A. Neely is laid to rest the soil of this valley will cover the remains of a man who never betrayed a friend or intentionally injured a neighbor. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Death of Old Settler - R. A. Neely Was a Pioneer In Wichita. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wichita Daily Eagle Wichita, KS Aug. 22, 1903 Page 6 Accessed at Newspapers.com Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public Domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wichita Daily Eagle Albert Minnich Arkansas River County Commissioner Dr. Henry Clay Tucker George Litzenberg grocery J. Hout Minnich John Hufbauer L. E. Vance Neely & Vance newspaper obituary R. A. Neely railroad Wichita Eagle