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Mr. LaVerne H. Spears was born on a farm near Wamego, Kansas, on September 20, 1906. He married Edna Vilven in 1927. They moved to Rossville, Kansas, in 1928. He was mayor from 1955-1965. He was elected to the Kansas State Legislature in 1964 and…

Edgar G. Griswold was born in Santa Rosa, California, on May 23, 1870. He moved to Rossville in 1902. He was a teacher and farmer as well as served as the Rossville, Kansas, mayor for six years. He died June 27, 1963, in Rossville.

She helped start the Home Demonstration Unit, later known as the Extension Homemakers Unit, for Rossville, Kansas.

This is a portrait of Grace Eversole in the fifth grade. Her adult portrait is RCL0078, which is reflected on the back of this picture from being stacked together.

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

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.

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

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…

Pictured left to right on the porch front are Beulah McIntyre, Grace White, Gwen Kramer, Mable Bruce, and Mildred McCollough.