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Mr. Cyrus W. Higginbotham was one of the earliest settlers of Shawnee County and Rossville township and one of the founders of Rossville, Kansas.

A group of people, mostly children, gathered in front the old Rossville Presbyterian Church in the winter of 1914. The old Presbyterian church was built around 1883. It was made of red bricks which were made at a brick kiln located at the east edge…

Mrs. C.C. McPherson was elected Rossville, Kansas, councilwoman in 1889 on an all-woman ticket.

Mr. William Cyrus Baylis was the first Rossville, Kansas, rural route mail carrier.

Bill Murray and his wife, Betty, purchased the Rossville Reporter in March of 1953, after the Navarres retired. The name was changed to The Shawnee County Reporter. The Murrays sold the paper in 1967 to the Pictorial Times, a Topeka paper. Their…

See RCL0051 for a picture of her husband, Mr. Leroy Sedgwick. They were two of the earliest Rossville, Kansas, settlers.

Dr. Henry Fuller Pratt treats patient Harry Jamieson in Rossville, Kansas. Dr. Henry Fuller Pratt was born in Kossuth, Ohio, December 8, 1861. He moved to Topeka, Kansas, when he was four. He married Jennie DeVinney in 1888. He practiced medicine in…

Joseph Calvin (J.C.) Bradley was born September 12, 1862, in Decatur, Indiana. He came to Rossville, Kansas, in 1882. He married Ida Magill of Silver Lake on November 24, 1886. He became the manager of the grain elevator, served as mayor, played in…

Dr. Clyde S. Smith was born November 8, 1881, in Edina, Missouri. He practiced medicine in Willard, Kansas, around 1905 to 1922, when he moved to Rossville, Kansas. He married Rose Humphrey in February 1906. He owned one of the first automobiles in…

The Opera House Pharmacy was owned and operated by G.P. Pierce. The first telephone switchboard was located there. Telephone service to the public did not get started in Rossville until August 1900, when Manager McMahan of the Alma Telephone Co.…