Edwin Shorey and his parents William and Alice (Rutledge) Shorey around 1924 on the Shorey farm at 55th St and Greenwich. The farm had been in the family since the early 1900s and Edwin’s wife Mabel sold it in 1984.
This is the envelope Ella Pittman's eighth grade diploma came in from County Superintendent R. M. Crum's office. She wrote all the names of the Derby graduates on the back of the envelope.
Graduates: Ruth Sawin, Orpha Brian, Ella Pittman, Agnes…
This is to Certify that Bessie Hopkins
Of District No. 6, Sedgwick County, Kansas, has completed the Course of Study covering the work of eight years in the Common Branches required by Law to be…
This Certifies That Ella Pittman has completed the Course of Study prescribed for the Common Schools of the State of Kansas and is therefore entitled to this
That Frank Simonsen of School District No. 6, Sedgwick County, Kansas, has completed the Course of Study covering the work of eight years in the Common Branches required by Law to be taught in…
On July 11, 1871, J. Hout Minnich and John Hufbauer filed a town plat for El Paso in Sedgwick County, Kansas. It established streets from Madison to Kay and from Water Street to Georgie Avenue, and business boomed.