City of Emporia

EMPORIA ONLINE

{Information about visiting the City of Emporia}

Emporia Public Library

110 E. 6^th Ave.

Emporia, KS 66801

(620) 342-6524

Winter Hours (Labor Day to Memorial Day):

Monday - Thursday 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Friday 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Saturday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sunday 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Summer Hours (Memorial Day to Labor Day):

Mon, Tue, Thurs, Fri 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Wednesday 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Saturday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sunday 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.

ITEMS OF INTEREST:

Index to newspaper obituaries compiled by Robert & Lois Hodge

NOTE: See on-line Emporia Gazette Obit index 1892 - 1989
Emporia Gazette Obit index 1990 - 1999

Indices to almost all early Lyon County newspapers compiled by Robert and Lois Hodge (Most indices of early newspapers contain all names in the newspaper of genealogical and historical value)

A very large Genealogy and Local History section in the Kansas Room area of the library.

Cemetery index done by Flint Hills Genealogical Society in 1986

Cemetery index done by DAR in 1940's

Atlas and Plat Books for:

Lyon county 1878, 1901, 1918

Linn County 1906

McPherson county 1903 and 1928

Marion county 1885, 1902,1921, and 1928

Marshall county 1904 and 1922

Meade county 1909

AVAILABLE ON MICROFILM:

Emporia and Lyon county newspapers 1859 - 2003

Most all area newspapers that Robert and Lois Hodge have indexed

Probate Court and Marriage Records 1856 - 1976

NOTE: See on-line Index available for marriages up through December 31, 1919

City Directories 1870 - 1970

Lyon county census for 1860, 1865, 1870, 1875, 1880, 1895, 1900, 1910, and 1920, 1930

NOTE: See on-line index for 1860 and 1870

Emporia State University, William Allen White Library

Reference and information

Emporia State University Campus

Emporia KS 66801

(620) 341-5207

Hours: Monday - Thursday 7:30 a.m. - 11 p.m.,

Friday 7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.,

Saturday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.,

Sunday 12 noon - 11 p.m.

AVAILABLE ON MICROFILM:

Newspapers: The Wichita Eagle, Topeka Capital, and Emporia Newspapers

ESU Archives

1220 C of E Drive

Emporia, KS 66801

(620) 341-5048, Archivist

Hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday - Friday

ITEMS OF INTEREST:

The William Allen White Collection, containing personal papers, photographs, literary manuscripts and some artifacts.

The Walter M. Andersen Collection, containing historical photographs of Emporia and greater Lyon County, KS, ca. 1880-2000, with an emphasis on local businesses and railroad history.

University Catalogs include lists of students, faculty, and staff, 1879-1923.

Campus Directories include names and Emporia addresses and telephone numbers of students, faculty, and staff, 1930-current.

Commencement programs include lists of graduates with course of study and type of degree or certification. The archives holdings include programs from 1882, 1889, 1890, 1894, 1897, 1899-1911, and 1914-current. Some programs from the 1920s did not list the graduates.
Alumni News Periodicals. The Alumni Office has published periodicals with news of alumni since 1905.

Alumni Lists and Directories. The Record of Certificates, Diplomas, and Degrees, 1865-1931 is a list of all graduates through 1931, with the 1931 address of the graduate when available. More recent directories were published in 1981, 1987, 1993, 1998, and 2002, which include the name and current address of living alumni and, when available, their employer.

College Yearbooks . Yearbooks are a particularly good source for photographs. The Archives yearbook holdings go back to 1898.

Campus Newspapers . Students and faculty have published newspapers under various titles since 1882. Archives has an incomplete name and subject card file index of the papers through 1988.

College Athletics Collection. This collection includes programs for athletic events, schedules, newspaper clippings and various photographs.

Photographs. Archives holdings include assorted photos of graduating classes, alumni, students, faculty, staff, Roosevelt High School, sororities, fraternities, and campus views.
Books. Our High School 1865-1970 is a history of Roosevelt High School. This history contains lists of faculty and graduates of the school. Student Soldiers of 1898, the story of Company H, 22nd Kansas Volunteer Infantry Regiment. This masters thesis includes a roster of the 22nd. Kansas State Normal Graduates 1867-1922 is a listing of all students who graduated from KSN.

Emporia newspaper indexes and death notices. Archives holdings include indexes of early Emporia newspapers prepared by Robert Hodge, along with Mr. Hodge's index of death notices appearing in The Emporia Gazette from 1892 through 2002.
Flint Hills Oral History Project. Interviews with 83 residents of the Flint Hills area were conducted and transcribed between 1972 and 1986. The interviewees can be searched by name in the online catalog of the William Allen White Library at ESU (http://whitelib.emporia.edu).

AVAILABLE ON MICROFILM:

Archives holdings include microfilm copies of Emporia newspapers going back to 1892.

Lyon County Court House

430 Commercial St.

Emporia, KS 66801

County Clerk (620) 341-3240 Open 8 - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday

Register of Deeds (620) 341-3240 Open 8 - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday

ITEMS OF INTEREST:

Old school records

Land records

County Treasurer (620) 341-3255 Open 8 - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday

District Court 5^th Judicial District (620) 342-4950, (620) 341-3281

Open 8 - 4 p.m. Monday - Friday

ITEMS OF INTEREST:

Estate/wills, civil cases, marriage records, naturalization records
NOTE: Online Marriage Index 1856-1919

Lyon County Historical Society Archives

225 E. 6^th Ave.

Emporia, KS 66801

(620) 340-6320 (Archive Phone)

Hours: Tuesday thru Friday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. except National Holidays

The Gilson Collection: Unique to the Museum Library/Archives is the Early County

History Collection in scrapbooks of news clippings that cover more than 100 years of births, deaths, marriages, honors, events and activities of Lyon county families. Available in Microfilm format. This extensive information base was originally started by Mrs. Lulu Gilson, wife of Franklin Gilson. She collected newspaper clippings concerned with Lyon County or Emporia, KS topics. Mrs. Gilson's historical archival efforts have survived and have been expanded to become "The Gilson Collection," a valuable resource for county historical data which includes the Early County History clippings. Portions of The Gilson Collection are available on microfilm (1900 - 1983). Clippings acquired since 1983 are bound in scrapbooks and will be transferred to microfilm.

Other ITEMS OF INTEREST:

The Family Heritage Collection and Index: This is a genealogical and family history resource for specific families in Lyon County. These materials are supplied to the Lyon County Historical Society Archives by families interested in sharing their history for archival and research purposes.

Birth and Death Records:1885 - 1911 records taken from original documents and archived on microfilm.
NOTE: Online index to Birth Records 1885 - 1892 located here.
Online index to Death Records 1885 -1891 located here.
Online index to Death Records 1892 - 1899 located here.

Oral histories taken from residents of Lyon County by Emporia State University

Graduate student interviewers. These materials are available as 7 inch reel

Audio tape or transcripts. The listing below represents a small sampling of the oral history base taken from Lyon County and Flint Hills residents. The topics vary according to interviewee and are valuable for gaining the personal histories and insights of various county residents.

Anderson, Kenneth R.: Interview of dining car steward, Santa Fe Railroad, Spring 1972.

Allen, DeLoren (Dell) Matthew: Interview of Professor of Agriculture, KSU. Feb. 1983.

Basgall, Virgil A.: Interview of Emporia City Manager, Oct. 23, 1980.

Bedner, Pat: Interview of director of the Lyon County Historical Museum. Dec. 5, 1979.

Bernard, Fred: Interview of a native of Dunlap, KS, Feb. 13, 1974.

Butcher, Walter W.: Interview of ESU history professor, April 25, 1974.

Cleveland, Janet: Interview of a former schoolteacher and Emporia Gazette employee, June 12, 1973.

Conkling, Katie: Interview of early woman aviator, July 31, 1984.

DeLong, John: Interview of former Kansas state trooper, March 26, 1980.

Lambert, Calvin: Interview of former city editor of the Emporia Gazette, Nov./Dec. 1972 and Feb. 22, 1973.

Moxley, Jerry: Interview of Flint Hills rancher, Dec. 11, 1972.

Rogler, Wayne: Interview of cattleman of Matfield Green, KS., Oct. 7, 1982.

Sullivan, Jay Harvey: Interview of former judge, Lyon County District Court, Jan. 22, 1974.

Trowbridge, Gerald F.: Interview of Vietnam veteran/Emporia resident, Nov. 12,1981.

Wilson, Tom: Interview with a Vietnam veteran about the post-Vietnam experience, Nov. 10, 1981.

Life and Culture of Mexicans in Emporia and Vicinity: Many Mexican nationals originally settled in Lyon County to work on the railroad. This resource includes not only the history and culture of multi-cultural peoples, but information on rail history of the area, as well.

Photographs: indexed by subject.

The Senator Preston Plumb Collection: This unique collection of materials concerns one of the members of the company that founded Emporia, Kansas. Senator Plumb was the only founding member that lived in Emporia.

Walt Mason Collection: Published works, photographs, and other materials concerning this nationally known poet.

Emporia High School Yearbooks; Various Lyon County elementary and high school yearbooks, as donated.

College of Emporia materials - yearbooks, a large collection of other materials.

Admire

City Clerk, Elden Kuhn

507 Wilbur

Admire, KS. 66830

620-528-3494

This is City Clerks home address and phone number. He does have a answering machine. He is in and out a lot, its best to reach him in the evening, or drop him a letter stating what you are looking for and enclose a stamped, self addressed envelope for his response.

ITEMS OF INTEREST:

Admire Cemetery records and Ivy Cemetery records.

Allen

Library District 1

PO Box 447

421 Main

Allen, KS 66833

Hours: Monday 10 a.m. - Noon & 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday thru Friday 9 a.m. - Noon
Wednesday 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Thursday 9:00 a.m. - Noon
Friday 9:00 a.m. - Noon
Saturday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

(620) 528-3451
Library Holdings: See their web site: http://www.satelephone.com/~library/