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Farm residence, rectangle with hall and parlor plan, rear ell wing, two stories, wood frame construction, rubble stone foundation, side gable roof. Front shed porch, wooden entrance door. Alterations-- modern siding, porch posts, triple windows,…

Commercial building in a row, rectangle with recessed central entrance, one story bays, brick masonry construction, flat roof and parapet. Recessed brick facade panel and and eave detailing, store front altered-modern metal entrance door, wood frame…

Main Street Sylvan Grove, KS (northwest corner of 1st & Main). Left to right: Drug Store, Behrhorst Bros. Hardware, Meat Market, and other businesses unknown. "Drug Store Corner Sylvan, Kans." written on image.
"Berhorst Bros. Hardware Sylvan…

The County Fair in Sylvan Grove, Kansas, was an opportunity to dress in your Sunday best. These ladies are posed in front of one of the many stands at the Fair.

The Dreamland Store which was located sixteen miles west of Stockton on old highway 24. According to information on the back of the picture, the store was started in 1929 by Elmer Dye of Logan. Shown in the picture are Joe and Violet Vielguth, who…

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…

FOREWORD
This collection of interesting stories are the recollections of an early day Rossville physician and the trip he and his family made to the Montana goldfields in 1864, These chapters were discovered by Mrs. Virginia Gentry while doing…

Dr. Henry H. Miller was born in Alliance, Ohio, on May 4, 1850. He set up his medical practice in Rossville, Kansas, in June of 1872. Until his death May 1, 1916, he devoted his life to medicine. He also was elected the first mayor of Rossville in…

Pictured left to right are Dr. Henry Fuller Pratt, Clare Miller, Esther Pratt Parr, and Mabel Binns Bruce. 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…