People in Rossville, Kansas, at the south end of Main Street after the 1903 flood use horses, buggies, or boats to move about town.
Building Sidewalks in 1910 on Main Street, Rossville, Kansas
Building sidewalks in Rossville, Kansas, are (left to right) Howard Marney, J.P. Marney, Wes Harder, and Roy Fisher.
People in Rossville, Kansas, saw hard times in 1928. There were more than 1,000 bushels of corn on the ground. Sold it for $0.12 a bushel to pay taxes. Sold hogs for $3.50 per hundred. The man in the picture is unidentified.
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U.G. Stewart is pictured in his band uniform holding his trombone. He organized a band that played concerts in the bandstand on Saturday nights during the summer months and at other functions when called upon. The bandstand was on the east side of Main Street just north of the railroad tracks.
Dr. Robert S. Gabbey was born May 4, 1833, in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, and married Annie Welton in 1854. He was appointed the Rossville, Kansas, government physician in 1861 and was the first justice of the peace appointed in 1867. He applied himself to more than politics and medicine, however. Before his death in 1900 he designed and received a patent on an airplane.
Annie (Welton) Gabbey, Rossville, Kansas
She was from Columbus, Ohio, before moving to Rossville, Kansas. She married Robert S. Gabbey in 1854.
Mrs. Emma Ellis was elected Rossville, Kansas, treasurer in 1889 on an all-woman ticket.
Mr. O. Leroy Sedgwick established the Pottawatomi Land Office in St. Marys in 1870, and four years later began publishing a newspaper. In August, 1878, he moved his land office to Rossville, where pasture land sold for $1.75 an acre and good crop land could be had for $3.00 to $5.00 per acre. The newspaper, The Kansas Valley Times, was moved to Rossville from St. Marys in February, 1879. It was published until his death in 1881, and in June of 1882 was sold to the Kansas Valley Publishing Company in Topeka.
Dr. Henry B. Miller was born in Rossville, Kansas, in January 1, 1881. He received his degree as Doctor of Medicine in 1908 from the University of Pennsylvania and after a year of interning in Philadelphia he returned to Rossville and worked with his father, Dr. Henry H. Miller, until his father's death in 1916. Dr. Henry B. Miller died September 8, 1957. In 1968, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Miller gave the doctors' building site for the Rossville Community Library in memory of his grandfather, Dr. H.H. Miller, and his uncle, Dr. Henry B. Miller.
Dr. Henry B. Miller and Shelley McClain, Rossville, Kansas
Dr. Henry B. Miller with Shelley McClain on his lap at his doctor's office in Rossville, Kansas. See RCL0052 for more information about Dr. Henry B. Miller.