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A New Centennial History of the State of Kansas
by Prof. Charles R. Tuttle
Interstate Book Company - 1876

  587-588

          BARBOUR COUNTY was named in honor of a very estimable free
       settler, who was killed in sheer wantonness by a proslavery
       picket, during the troubles in Douglas county in 1855, as he was
       returning home from Lawrence.  There are 1,134 square miles of
       territory in Barbour, but the population is very small indeed,
       being only 366 in 1875, of which all save seventeen were born
       in the United States.  There are thirty more males than females.
       The larger part of the population is engaged in agriculture.
       Medicine Lodge is the county seat, 198 miles from Topeka, in an
       air line southwest.  Only one per cent of the area is timbered,
       the rest being prairie.  About ten per cent is bottom land.  No
       coal has been found, but large beds of gypsum will become of
       great value, and they extend over one-fourth of the county.
       There are no railroads, but the cultivated area extends annually,
       the increase in 1874 being 1,411 acres.  The population suffered
       much from the locust plague, as there were 262 needing rations,
       and about the same number in want of clothes, when the state
       board of agriculture procured returns early in 1875 for the in-
       formation of the legislature.  The population prior to the locust
       invasion was over 600.  The county contains twelve organized school
       districts, and only one school house.  The vacant lands are mainly
       Osage trust lands, or belong to the government.  There are two saw
       mills, no banks, no newspaper, and only one church organization, the
       Roman Catholic.  The county was organized in 1873, or the name might
       not have been permitted.

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