What state was the man that Atchison County was named after from?
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Atchison County Historical Museum Atchison County Historical Society Museum is a museum dedicated to preserving the history of Atchison County, Kansas. Both the city of Atchison and Atchison County, Kansas are named after United States Senator and legendary "President for a day" David Rice Atchison.
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David Rice Atchison David Rice Atchison (August 11, 1807January 26, 1886) was a mid-19th century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri. He served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate for six years. Atchison served as a major general in the Missouri State Militia in 1838 during Missouri's Mormon War and as a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War under Major General Sterling Price in the Missouri Home Guard. He is best known for the questionable claim that for one day (March 4, 1849) he may have been Acting President of the United States. This belief, however, is dismissed by nearly all historians, scholars, and biographers.
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Samuel Sylvester Cobb Samuel S. Cobb, the youngest son of J.B. Cobb and Evaline Clingan, was born on December 12, 1865, in Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. In 1870, Cobb and his family traveled by train to Fort Scott, Kansas, where they loaded up and took a wagon to Tahlequah, Indian Territory, the Cherokee Nation's capital. After about ten months Cobb and his family left Tahlequah and settled southeast of the present day town of Wagoner. At this spot Cobb's father paid $1500 to a Cherokee for a two-room box house, a log barn and a few acres of fenced land. All the land was owned together by the Cherokees and anyone could farm as much they wanted as long as no one's rights were infringed upon. Cobb went to school at home until he was sixteen, then entered the Cherokee Male Seminary, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, for two years. In 1884 he became a student at the State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University) in Manhattan, Kansas and graduated after four years in 1889.
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Henry Strong (ATSF) Henry Strong was the seventh president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
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David William Hutchison David William Hutchison (May 21, 1908 – September 24, 1982) was a Major General in the United States Air Force.
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David L. Payne David Lewis Payne (December 30, 1836 – November 28, 1884) was an American soldier and pioneer. Payne is considered by some to be the "Father of Oklahoma" for his work in opening the state to settlement.
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Atchison Township, Clinton County, Missouri Atchison Township is an inactive township in Clinton County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
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Aldace F. Walker Aldace Freeman Walker (May 11, 1842 – April 12, 1901) was one of the original members of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) when the organization was founded in 1887. Walker soon became the thirteenth president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe).
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Westboro, Missouri Westboro is a city in Lincoln Township, Atchison County, Missouri, United States. The population was 141 at the 2010 census.
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Mount Pleasant, Kansas Mount Pleasant is a ghost town in Atchison County, in the U.S. state of Kansas.
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Ebenezer E. Mason Ebenezer Erskine Mason (August 28, 1829 June 18, 1910) (a/k/a/ "Ebon" or "Eben") was a farmer who also served as a local magistrate and one of Fairfax County, Virginia's two delegates to the Wheeling Convention in 1861 which created the Restored Government of Virginia and led to the creation of the state of West Virginia.
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William Albert Morgan William Albert Morgan (born Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, March 6, 1841; died Hutchinson, Kansas, March 24, 1917) was an Irish-American newspaper publisher, politician and prominent citizen of the state of Kansas.
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Barton County, Kansas Barton County (standard abbreviation: BT) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 27,674. Its county seat and most populous city is Great Bend. The county is named in honor of Clara Barton, responsible for the founding of the American Red Cross.
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Henderson King Yoakum Henderson King Yoakum (September 6, 1810 – November 30, 1856) was a Texas historian. He was born in Claiborne County, Tennessee, and graduated from West Point in 1832. Yoakum served in the Tennessee Senate from 1839 to 1845 and strongly advocated for the annexation of Texas. Yoakum served as the director of the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, beginning in 1849. In 1846, Yoakum authored a two-volume work entitled "History of Texas from Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846." An 1805-1819 map of Spanish Texas is found at the front of the text. Yoakum County, Texas, established in 1876, was named after him.
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Stephen Friel Nuckolls Stephen Friel Nuckolls (August 16, 1825 – February 14, 1879) was a Delegate from the Territory of Wyoming and co-founder of Nebraska City, Nebraska. Nuckolls County, Nebraska is named after him.
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Crockett County, Texas Crockett County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,719. The county seat is Ozona. The county was founded in 1875 and later organized in 1891. It is named in honor of Davy Crockett, the legendary frontiersman who died at the Battle of the Alamo.
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Arthur Capper Arthur Capper (July 14, 1865 – December 19, 1951) was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th Governor of Kansas (the first born in the state) from 1915 to 1919 and a United States Senator from 1919 to 1949.
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Harrison County, Missouri Harrison County is a county located in the northwest portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,957. Its county seat is Bethany. The county was organized February 14, 1845, and named for U.S. Representative Albert G. Harrison of Missouri.
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Washabaugh County, South Dakota Washabaugh County was a county in South Dakota. The county was named after Frank J. Washabaugh, a prominent South Dakota politician.
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George C. Magoun George C. Magoun (August 25, 1840 – December 20, 1893) was, in the late 1880s, the Chairman of the Board of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
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Eben Sumner Draper Eben (sometimes incorrectly Ebenezer) Sumner Draper (June 17, 1858 – April 9, 1914) was an American businessman and politician from Massachusetts. He was for many years a leading figure in what later became the Draper Corporation, the dominant manufacturer of cotton textile process machinery in the world during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He served as the 44th Governor of Massachusetts between 1909 and 1911.
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Dotham, Missouri Dotham is an unincorporated community in Atchison County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.