2020

Vol. 46 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Thomas W. Barber
  • Ruben A. Lopez
  • PLHS Senior Football 2019-2020
  • LHS Classes Honored: 1910,20,30,40,50,60,70
  • Military Heroes: Harold E Hudson
  • Obituaries: Irene L. Condley, Marlene E. Hackathorn, William L. Leslie

Vol. 46 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Closure During Covid
  • Former George L Glenn Home Burne
  • Three Dollar Bill
  • Kuhlman Home Nominated as National Historic Home
  • Ellen Duncan
  • Obituaries: Debra Davis, Dola Nelson, Larry H James, Carolyn S, Curran, Eldson L Mrstik

Vol. 46 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Lecompton as Territorial Capitol of Kansas
  • Presidents and Lecompton
  • Marvin "Buddy" Kellum and LHS teammates
  • Private Kirby Rogers, WWI
  • Thomas Lee Hardware Store
  • Photo: UB Church Photo 1911
  • Obituaries: Doris Weeks, Nelda L Hodson, James H Vestal, Jr., Howard Hildenbrand, Terry L Stilson

Vol. 46 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Lecompton's Role in Kansas Statehood
  • Tim Rues Honored
  • Albert G. Boone
  • Obituaries: Maynard G Person, Ruth M Corzette, Katherine Flood, Larry L Purdie

2019

Vol. 45 / No. 1 / Spring

  • William Sherrard and Gov. Geary
  • New Books that Recognize the Importance of Lecompton in US History
  • Obituaries: WULFKUHLE, Horst; NEIL, Dorothy "Dottie Jean (LaDuke); Packer, Paul W.; DULIN, Robert Otis, Jr.; HUDSON, Harold E. Eddie., Jr.

Vol. 45 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Update in Winter School
  • FDR's Secretary of War and Kansas's 25th Governor Address Lecompton Commencement in 1941
  • 2019 Territorial Day Programs
  • Lecompton High School Class of 1969
  • OBITUARIES: Spencer, Jeanette Mae (Hartman); ANDERSON, Peter Alden; Bahnmaier, John Keith; PERKINS, David Robert; PERKINS, Betty Jo (Wilson)

Vol. 45 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Lecompton's Eisenhower Connection
  • Lecompton's Quantrill's Raid Connection: Klaus and O'Neil families
  • Mrs. Gertrude Hoad remembers Quantrill's Raid
  • Lecompton High School Memories
  • Noe family Sequicentennial farm recognition
  • OBITUARIES: Stauffer, Carolyn J. (Foster); Harrison, Sondra Lee "Soni" (Wizer); PASLAY, Carl William.

Vol. 45 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Governor's Tourism Award
  • Impact of Quantrill's Raid on James O'Neill Family
  • OBITUARIES: Boydson, Zella Vesta "Sally" (Wilson); MORRIS, Robert "Bob" Howard
  • Bleeding Kansas Program Series 2020

2018

Vol. 44 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Mark Vincent Migliario Homestead
  • Lecompton Alumni Banquet 2018
  • Howard and Ellen Duncan
  • Don McAfee Barb Wire Display
  • Big Springs Businesses over the years
  • Obituaries: McAlexander, Lura Irene; Kasson, Karen Kay; Stauffer. Betty Joyce; Hildenbrand, Margie Rose; Confer-Jensen, Evelyn Mae

Vol. 44 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Lecompton Best Location for Kansas Capital in 1855
  • Robert Stevens, Attorney in Early Lecompton 1857
  • Vote on the English Bill in 1858
  • 2018 Lecompton High School Alumni Banquet
  • Obituaries: VAUSBINDER, Charles Herbert Jr.; SHAFFER, Edna Martha (Schaefer); STEVENS, Robert Croll Stevens; McCONNELL, Richard; WOOD, Hayden Keith

Vol. 44 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Lecompton blog by Beth Reiber
  • Obituaries: SIMMONS, Arloene M. "Arlie" (Dekat); HOWARD, Lenwood James; LESLIE, Betty L. (Webber); DUNNAWAY Ananora "Ann" (Shields); MATHEWS, George Herbert.
  • Fight over the Lecompton Constitution
  • Frank Leslie's Lecompton: National Obsession

Vol. 44 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Lecompton Almost Became the Site of the Kansas Penitentiary in 1858
  • Anti-Lecompton Mass Meeting 1858
  • Annexation of part of Nebraska into Kansas Territory
  • Lecompton High School class of 1968
  • Obituaries: RIST, Lottie Irene; COLTON, Darrel Francis; GREEN, Marilyn Mae (Bahnmaier-Etchison)

2017

Vol. 43 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Happy 135th Birthday to the Lane University Building
  • Marv Kellum Highlighted in Wichita Eagle
  • Letter from Coach Nelson
  • Obituaries: Elaine (Barr) Wilson, William Sayler, Virginia (Richards) Rainbolt, Marvin Maydew, Julia (Ice) Hill, Charles Wright

Vol. 43 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Lecompton Constitution is 160 Years Old
  • World War One Participants from Lecompton, Big Springs, Stull and Kanwaka
  • Spanish Influenza Pandemic during World War One
  • Clarence Smith, Beloved Teacher and World War One Veteran.
  • 1867 Earthquake
  • Vicki Leochner Retires
  • Historic LaDuke Farmhouse Rehabilitation
  • Obituaries: Earle Kasson, Richard Traxler, Thomas Rainbolt, Emil Heck, Jr.

Vol. 43 / No. 3 / Fall

  • World War One Exhibit
  • Grover Hoch-Wald Tuberculosis Ranch
  • Redemption City
  • Timeline of the Lecompton Constitution
  • 1919 Red Cross Pin
  • Obituaries: Dorothea Kline, Duane Wyatt, Sr., Elizabeth (Quigley) Heck, Willa (Kline) Grandstaff Norwood.

Vol. 43 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Mayors of Lecompton
  • Radical United Brethren Church
  • Lecompton Territorial Legislature Walnut Desk
  • Obituaries: Ed Turner, Norma (Cree) Walter, Lila (Baughman) Dionne, Larry Plumb, Marvin Hartman, Donald McAfee, Dorothy (Montgomery) Bower, Melvin Dark.

2016

Vol. 42 / No. 1 / Spring

  • George Vitus Noe Escorted Governor Charles Robinson to Camp Sackett in 1856
  • Hallowed Walls of Constitution Hall
  • Big Springs United Methodist Church,
  • Obituaries: Mason Brunton, Capt. Donald Fuston, Richard Werts, Calvin Kreipe, Dorothy (Checksfield) Smith.

Vol. 42 / No. 2 / Summer

  • The Poem that Saved Constitution Hall by Opal Goodrick
  • Volunteers Ruth Ice and Donna Koepp
  • Obituaries: Gilbert Bates, Harriet (Reisner) Harwood, Kathleen (McBride) Hall.

Vol. 42 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Reenactment of the Battle of Fort Titus
  • Obituaries: Robert Sulzen, Nancy (Morris) Howard.

Vol. 42 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Lecompton Wins a “Best Small Town in Kansas” award
  • Christmas in Lecompton Exhibit 2016
  • Kaw River
  • Lecompton Ads in 1858 Newspaper
  • Obituaries: Dennis Hetrick, Martin Long, Lola Jean (Oberhelman) Lyne, James “Bud” Banks, Georgiiiiiiia (Spencer), Wingfield, Anna Mae (Weeks) Hibner, Early L. Lewis, Helen (Hodson) Bates, Gerald Ice.

2015

Vol. 41 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Story behind the Slogan on the Lecompton Mug
  • Inventory Project at the Territorial Capital Museum
  • Obituaries: Helen (Connole) Horton, Edna (Horton) Walter, Dean “Smokey” Chiles, Wayne Stover, Dale Gregg, Mildred (Chiles) Lester, Jorg Stockinger, Norma Jean (Svoboda) Hamrick

Vol. 41 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Tim Rues Celebrates 20 Years in Lecompton
  • Oklahoma Travel Writer Visits Lecompton
  • Governor Walker’s Inaugural Address 1857
  • Lecompton Quilts
  • Territorial Day 1910
  • Obituaries: Howard Sanford, Maurice Wustefeld, Grace (Kellogg) Melton, Doris (Holloway) Sindt, Otto Spurny, M. D., G. Kathryn (Dennon) Spurny.

Vol. 41 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Queen Victoria, Russian Czar and Other World Leaders Read About Lecompton in Newspapers.
  • Victorian, Vintage, Themed Christmas Display
  • NFL Honors Buddy Kellum of Lecompton
  • 1941 Letter to Sehon family from Dana Bartlett, Lane University graduate.
  • Obituaries: Darlene (Carter) Steinman Paslay, Victorine (Barland) Vetter, Marquita “Mark” (Pickel) Christy.

2014

Vol. 40 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Professor Chen and KU Journalism Class promoting visibility for Lecompton
  • House Resolution Recognizes 155th Anniversary of House Rejection of Lecompton Constitution
  • One of a Kind Map Collection at Territorial Capital Museum
  • Obits: Virginia “Ginger” Marshall Rothwell, Alva John Pletcher, Edward Cook, Judith Ann Hoage, Corrine L Fleming Childs, Irene Elaine Kibbee Dark, Edna Florence Chiles

Vol. 40 / No. 2 / Summer

  • George Caleb Bingham’s “order No. 11” painting
  • Gieseman Map Collection
  • Women Mayors of Lecompton
  • Obituaries: Paul Garber, Carl Eugene Silvers, Lillian Ruth Stauffer, Bill Hodson, Allen K “AK” Winter, Anita Smith.

Vol. 40 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Famous Floor Brawl on the floor of the US House of Representatives
  • Proposed Annexation of Nebraska south of the Platte River
  • PLHS Baseball Enjoys Banner Season
  • Obituaries: Hazel (Glenn) Barger, Leatha Rose (Glenn) Cook, Helen (Banks) Crady, Larry Reace Stephens.

Vol. 40 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Professors of Ohio State visit Lecompton
  • History of Christmas Trees and Ornaments
  • Obituaries: Larry Sumner, Shirley (Holderman) Funk, Dianna (Nichols) Meier, Esther (Moss) Wulfkuhle, Pauline (O’Hara) Lasswell, Michael Adams, Covert “Red” Cranwell

2013

Vol. 39 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Historic Landmark Burns: Glenn Schoolhouse
  • 1892 Jail Dedication
  • New York Times article about Lecompton
  • Obits: Elizabeth Traxler Norris, Dorothy E Shaner, Leo Joseph Anderson, Larry L Gates, Bill Edward Garrett, Johnny “Buffalo” Trammel

Vol. 39 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Original Tombstone of Sheriff Samuel J Jones Comes to Lecompton
  • Obits: Betty Lou (Damm) Carothers, Glenn Kirk Henry, James Franklin Chiles, Winton Allen Winter, Ula (Bates) Armstrong, Mary Maxine Maust Fowler

Vol. 39 / No. 3 / Fall

  • City Jail and Sheriff Jones Tombstone Dedicated
  • Final Defeat of Lecompton Constitution
  • Obits: Marvin Eugene Grandstaff, Jean Curfman Cozad, Thomas Chester Skinner

Vol. 39 / No. 4 / Winter

  • John Calhoun Painting Donated
  • Pro and Anti Lecompton Rallies held throughout the United States, 1857 and 1858
  • Obits: Richard C. Walter, George Edward Yost, H Justine Curry.

2012

Vol. 38 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Jim Lane portrait donated
  • Gorrill Farmstead on Kansas Historic Place Register
  • A Remembrance of Lecompton and Lane University in the 1870s by Charles Wesley Smith, Lane University student from 1875 – 1879
  • Obits: Richard Harry Smith, George R Simmons, Bill Cree, Chester C Gibbens

Vol. 38 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Battle of Ft. Titus: 1st battle with casualties between free state and pro slavery men
  • Obits: Corwin Everett Sperry, Margaret Colman Wuflfkuhllle, Rev. Paul H Kapp, Margaret H Wizer

Vol. 38 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Current Events: Berry Plastics
  • Obits: Gladine Shirley Marshalick, Joseph Saylor Stauffer, William E Van Dyke, Dianna Marie Grandstaff

Vol. 38 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Lecompton Rural High School
  • Relocation and Restoration of the 1892 City Jail
  • Christmas at Lecompton 1876
  • Obits: Fred Shipman Winter, Martha “Joann” Cook, Delmar Joseph Barland, Herbert L Rogers, Alden E “Wally” Holderman

2011

Vol. 37 / No. 1 / Spring

  • The most infamous floor brawl in the history of the US House of Representatives 1958
  • Lecompton “Quiz”
  • The Governor’s Mansion in 1856
  • Obits: Raymond Schimmel, Norman Earl Redford, Henrietta Anderson, Elizabeth Josephine Brune, Bonnie Kathleen King, Irene A Anno, Alvin E Daniels

Vol. 37 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Gov. Brownback proclaims June 19-25 as Lecompton Territorial Days
  • Veterans’ Monument Dedication
  • Obits: Marjorie E Endsley

Vol. 37 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Lecompton Post Office Slated for Closure
  • Veterans’ Memorial Dedication
  • NYC Institute Selects Lecompton for Lincoln Exhibit
  • Obits: Winifred A Howley, Earl G Glenn, Larry Duane Sanford, Willis M Horton, Irma Maxine Dark

Vol. 37 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Lincoln Looks West to Kansas
  • Early Cemeteries Near Lecompton
  • 1859 Lecompton: The KT Town Most Likely to Succeed
  • Lawyers of Old Lecompton
  • Obits: Francis L “Sonny” Foley

2010

Vol. 36 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Lincoln, Lecompton, Leavenworth, New York.
  • Lincoln’s Cooper Union Speech, 1860
  • Lincoln’s Leavenworth Speech, 1859
  • Lecompton Census 1860
  • Lecompton High School Football Teams: 1959, 1965
  • Obits: Kathleen Lynn Finn, Ross E Wulfkuhle, Bernard Eugene Fordice, Walter Lester Stauffer, Katherine E Johanning, Gloria Mae Baugher Ward.

Vol. 36 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Dwight Eisenhower’s Parents
  • Bleeding Kansas Lecture Series
  • Obits: Carl John Peterson, Letha L Wulfkuhle, Robert A Carson, Martha Louise Robb, Helen Elizabeth Norwood, Fritz E McClanahan, Jeanne A Boucher

Vol. 36 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Eisenhower Wedding Re-Enactment
  • Could Buchanan have stopped the Civil War?
  • Alumni Photos
  • Obits: Virginia Tuttle, Richard Shellhorn, James McClanahan, Naomi Ruth Chiles

Vol. 36 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Territorial Governor Samuel Medary, Lincoln’s Lecompton Host?
  • Lecompton’s Veterans Monument
  • Obits: Dorothy Kramer, Harold “Zeke” Johanning, Hubert H Hall, Audrey Pearl Maust, Doris Belden, Thomas Amyx, Harold Wayne Chiles, Dorothy Orach.

2009

Vol. 35 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Publication of Cemeteries & Known Burials by Spencer and Middleton
  • James Eagle headstone in Big Springs Eastview Cemetery
  • Maple Grove Cemetery, St. Peter’s Cemetery, Stull Cemetery
  • 1942 Topeka Capital Reprint on moving the Lecompton Cemetery of 1854
  • Obits: Emmett A Casey, L Madalyn Scott, Louise L Glenn-Faulker, Everett M O’Conner.

Vol. 35 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Football Teams
  • John Brown’s Last Letter
  • Obits: Charles William Geelan, Marian Lorraine Hyatt, Therwin Glenn Griffith, Verne R Hall, Leland Frederick Hartman, Elizabeth “Betty” Day Jefferson, Elizabeth M Groh, Marcella G Anderson, Mary Louise French, Norbert Dale “Swede” Herschell, Jessie Marie Cassidy Branson, Margaret Alice Cole, Margery Ruth Plum, Robert W Golladay.

Vol. 35 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Lecompton’s Cemetery Book
  • Bald Eagle Rendezvous
  • Obits: Merle C Bartlett, Marian Irene Carr, Elaine B Daniels, LaVern McClanahan Conklin, Irene V Hoffsommer, Mary Lee Holzmeister

Vol. 35 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Abraham Lincoln Slept Here?
  • Obits: Leon F Condley, Bertie Lee Morris.

2008

Vol. 34 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Dorothy Shaner
  • One-Room Mound School
  • The Lecompton Quilt
  • Obits: Charles R Worley, Dorris Annie Norwood

Vol. 34 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Chester Arthur, US President 1881-1885, Visits Lecompton in 1857
  • Photos of HWY 40
  • Obits: Glendon Harris, Naomi H Nelson, Clarence E Daniels, Laura M Petrie, Susie B Reynolds Richardson, Emma Anna Toddhunter, Elmer Fred Smith,

Vol. 34 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Harvest Home Picnic, predecessor of Territorial Day celebration
  • Kansas Territorial Constitution Convention
  • Obits: Alice Clare Wright, C Robert Dennon, Bob J Wood, J Frank Spencer, Marie K Neill, Merton William Kent

Vol. 34 / No. 4 / Winter

  • How Kansas Inspired Lincoln
  • The Lecompton Constitution and the Lincoln Douglas Debate
  • Obits: Helen Josephine Hildenbrand, Hazel Ione Paslay, Osborne Webster

2007

Vol. 33 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Lecompton Constitution Back in Lecompton!
  • Lecompton Reenactors
  • Obits: Alice Lee Blake, Harriet “Betty” Johnson Wallace.

Vol. 33 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Lane University Sesquicentennial Display Features Col. Titus’ Sword
  • Artist Ellen Duncan
  • Constitution Hall: 8th Wonder of Kansas
  • Obits: Jerry Wagner Schmitt, Elizabeth R “Betty” Spencer, Danny Rothwell Brune, Nancy Marie Foster, Robert M Brooks, Faye S Robuck Ayers.

Vol. 33 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Constitution Hall
  • 24 Wonders of Kansas
  • Obits: Susie L McGiffert, R. M. Bob McGiffert, Clare J Colman, Mae Jean Graves, Edith Louise Norman Stevenson.

Vol. 33 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Constitution Hall 8th Wonder of Kansas
  • Bleeding Kansas Lecture Series 2008
  • The Lecompton Reenactors
  • Obits: S. Mae Holderman, Hortense “Tensie” Cassady Oldfather, John J Conard Sr., Aurelia Istas, Alvin “Pat” Istas.

2006

Vol. 32 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Lecompton’s War Hero Major Charles Hetrick
  • 2006 Bleeding Kansas Lecture Series
  • Obits: Paul Kendal Hoffsommer, Norma Jan Winburn, Wayne Edward Corbin, Wesley McFarland Norwood, Evelyn Chrystine Goodrich, Helen G Jeffries Wilt Kampschroeder, Leonard Lee Smith, Harry Buchheim, Alfre Yost,

Vol. 32 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Lecompton’s Sesquicentennial
  • Spencer Farm History
  • Ft. Titus Replica
  • Obits: William H Faust, Bessie Irene Harris, Arthur Max Steinman, Dr. Richard J Brown, George W Champney Sr.

Vol. 32 / No. 3 / Fall

  • The Churches of Big Springs
  • Constitution Hall Rededicated After 150 Years
  • Obits: Owen Bogner, Mildred Penny, Ruth June Reed, Robert R Steinmetz

Vol. 32 / No. 4 / Winter

2005

Vol. 31 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Camp Sackett threated by possible rock quarry
  • 1856 Frank Leslie reprint about Camp Sackett
  • Excerpts from Sara Robinson’s Book
  • Obits: Lucille Marjorie Morris, Teresa Anderson Griffin, Harold V Leslie, Dean Eldwin Wilson, Arthur E Newell, Helen Louise Henry, Robert G “Jerome” Holzmeister

Vol. 31 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Camp Sackett Saved
  • Helen Hildenbrand stories of old time Lecompton
  • Obits: Donald Owen Baughman, Irma Kellogg Adams Wallace, Arlene M Johnson, Betty Jean Rogers, Clarence David Boose, Donald D “Bud” Rake, Nadine Pearl Brooke

Vol. 31 / No. 3 / Fall

  • 150th Anniversary of Lecompton’s designation as Territorial Capital
  • Kansas Territorial Capitol Ground Breaking Speech by Gov. Shannon
  • Marie Paslay Neill Remembers
  • Obits: Betty Jean Shutts, Merle C Barytlet, Fern Wheatley, Maud H Spencer, Wilma Eva Shipers

Vol. 31 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Bald Eagle Rendezvous
  • Helen Norwood and Edyth Stevenson Histories
  • Obits: Bernard E Nordling, Robert Charles Kollin

2004

Vol. 30 / No. 1 / Spring

  • The Politics of 1854 and the Commemoration of 2004
  • Bleeding Kansas, Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era by Nicole Etcheson
  • Blanton’s Crossing and the Wakarusa War
  • Obits: Margaret Lucile Thompson, Oneta Helen Brown, Elizabeth Sanders, Anna Louise Hoffsommer, Francis Fredrick Kennedy, Neil H Higginbotham, Albert Preston Cole, Jack Collins

Vol. 30 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Travel Magazines Discover Lecompton’s Historic Attractions
  • Fresh Look at the Lecompton Historical Society’s Gieseman Map Collection
  • Obits: Alice Lee Lewis, LeVona “Jackie Grace” Morey, Phyllis Helene Martin, Mae M Norwood, Warene Gibbens, Glenn L Kappelman, Freda B Spencer

Vol. 30 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Absolum Winter, Early Lecompton Pioneer and his lineage
  • Charlene and A.K. Winter
  • Restoration of Democratic Headquarters
  • Obits: Janice R Roberts, Wilma Young, Charles Calvin Conklin, Carol L Scheve, Pearl Estella Wolfe.

Vol. 30 / No. 4 / Winter

  • School House Burns, reprint from Lecompton Sun 1919.
  • Old grade school remembered.
  • Bleeding Kansas Series 2005 Announced
  • Bald Eagle Rendezvous photos
  • Obits: Ronald R Robb, Harold L Crady, Ester Bahnmaier Matney, Robert Henry Walter.

2003

Vol. 29 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Radical United Brethren Church
  • Aristide Rodrigue, Lecompton’s First City Father and First Physician
  • Obits: Bera Jean Bylaska, Claudette Mary Oldham, Arthur LaDuke, Vivian G Clough, Louise Clark Shiffer, Betty Jean Woodman.

Vol. 29 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Douglas County County School District No. 24; AKA Dog Holler School and Greenwood Valley School
  • Obits: Philip Wizer, Albert E McRae, C W “Bud” Kellum, Richard L “Gus” Hildrenbrand, Joyce Leome Dexter.

Vol. 29 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Christmas Vespers
  • A Southerner’s Viewpoint of the Kansas Situation, 1856 – 1857, The Letters of Lt. Col. A.J. Hoole, Confederate States of America.
  • Tim Rues
  • Obits: Esther Grace Zart, H F “Fred” Middleton, Bruce Hoad, Robert L Wulfkuhle, Carl Thomas Kuker, John C Inloes, John Thomas Wesley Price, Donald K Matney, Ella Marie Souders, Mary M Powell, James Wilbur James Sr.

2002

Vol. 28 / No. 1 / Spring

  • William R Smith: Lecomptonite Makes Good
  • Historical War Map of 1862
  • Obits: Elizabeth Katie Dunn, George Edwin Person, Meta Clarkson, Robert William Gray, Billie Darlene Inloes, Marguerite Bowman, Annette Leach, Lavina R Hanna.

Vol. 28 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Lecompton History and Importance
  • Obits: Myrtle Evelyn Strhan, Marjorie J Daniels, Margaret Mitzi DiPietra, Myrtle E Stember.

Vol. 28 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Yarnold School District #40
  • Obits: A. Lowell Geelan, Dr. Jack Bronson, Opal Godfrey Matney Hall, Alice J Hoad, Donald Emery, Jr., George D Fowler.

Vol. 28 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Museum Annual Report
  • 1858 New York Times front page stories on Lecompton
  • Obits: Louis F Traxler, Earl Williams Hoage, Joseph Henry Hoage, A. Duane Robison, Erma M Kollin, Juanita B Strait, Geraldine M Harrell, Maybelle S “Duggie Hall, Doris H Matney.

2001

Vol. 27 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Lecompton Townlots
  • Kansas History
  • Obits: Norma R Nesmith Bee, Carolyn M Helmer, Howard N McKenzie, Gilbert Alfred Bates, Myron A Powell

Vol. 27 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Building the Lecompton Territorial Capital
  • Obits: Elmer E “Red” Goodrich, George Ellis Smith, Archie Dale Foree, Ruth Edith Harris, Neta Ione Wilson, Mildred Oneita Higginbotham, William S Wingfield, Ivan F Glenn, Charley A Paslay

Vol. 27 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Honest Story of the Lecompton Convention and Delegates
  • Korean War, 50th Anniversary Commemoration
  • Dr. John A read (1834 – 1918)
  • Obits: Harry William McCall, Agnes Rogers Keller, Olin K Petefish, Homer Wright McClanahan, Ruth O Gowing, Oscar Gowing, Maisie H George, Ruth H Rudin, Dorothy Vera Beatty, Irene Sperry, John H Vogel, Merle Stover, Glen Harvey Pierce

Vol. 27 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Visitors to Museum include all 50 states and 18 foreign countries
  • Kansas Supreme Court Justices tour Lecompton
  • Lecompton History and Growth
  • Obits: R Russell Allbaugh, H Leonard Williams, Bessie Schwanke, Helen J Cady, Darlene R Becker, Susan Cheryly Reynolds Everman.

2000

Vol. 26 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Big Springs Militia in Battle at Big Blue
  • Frank Spencer family
  • Obits: Roy Tarr, Nellie Glenn, Lewis A Goodrick, Margaret V Noe, Rev. Lybran Endsley, Eunice Mellinkoff, Elda Gregg Dietrich, Dale LeRoy Glenn.

Vol. 26 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Big Springs Livestock & Agricultural Fair
  • Obits: William Brass, Ruth Reid, Rosamond Barland, Margaret Jasperson.

Vol. 26 / No. 3 / Fall

  • McClanahan Log Cabin
  • Norwood Family History
  • Obits: Irene Elaine Gentry, Betty Lou Kennedy, William J Boydston, Dorothy E Kent.

Vol. 26 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Lecompton: Civil War Birthplace.
  • Troups Stationed at Lecompton During Territorial Period
  • Otto Durow

1999

Vol. 25 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Birthplace of the Civil War, Lecompton Kansas
  • Prelude to Civil War
  • Obits: Francis N Anderson, Henry E Brown, Roy R Harding, Henry W Carr, Wilma Berniece Tibbs, David E Hubbel, Ralph F Davis.

Vol. 25 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Barker School District #20.
  • Rev. Francis Barker. Missionary to the Shawnee Indians.
  • Obits: Thelma Hemme, Charley Harold Nichols, Russell Wilfred Milliken, Margery Day Hanson, James Albert Grant, Marie Confer, Roberta M Kent, Edwin Linquist Sr., Helen Chappell, Ida Mae Hall.

Vol. 25 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Surveyor General’s Office
  • Calhoun Candlebox
  • Charlie Torrey, Land Office Clerk, may have hastened outbreak of the Civil War.
  • McRae Family History
  • Obits: Mary McRae Rogers, Clifford Hartmen, James Glenn Butler, Sr., John Wm. Brodhag, Robert E Fisher, Byron L Jones, Dale E Babbitt, Betty Jean Sale, Sara Walter, Mary Alice Johanning.

Vol. 25 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Winter School District #70

1998

Vol. 24 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Deer Creek School District #48.
  • Obits: Jack Howard West, Tsuneo “Taj” Tajima, Darrell D Pearce, David William Paslay, Irene Sanford, Homer W Wulfkuhle, Agnes, Loysen, Charles E Grady, E Nadine Goodrich.

Vol. 24 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Lecompton Methodist Church
  • Obits: Helen C Spangler, Sybil M Schroyer, Edith Elizabeth LaDuke

Vol. 24 / No. 4 / Winter

  • The Democratic Headquarters by Tim Rues
  • Obits: Cecile M Roberts, Ethel Marie Hill

1997

Vol. 23 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Lewis – Crowder Lakeview Cemetary
  • Stony Lonesome – Crowder School
  • Obits: Mabel W Wendel, Sarah I. Engle, Robert Dale

Vol. 23 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Jones School District 73
  • Lecompton Coal Mine
  • Obits: Bessie May Cranwell, Elmira “Grace” Hatcher, Willis R Bowlin, Ella S Stanwix, R Warren Rhodes, Nellie Maude Brown, Faye Luella Glenn.

Vol. 23 / No. 3 / Fall

  • The Lonesome Cowboy, Roy Faulkner.
  • 1951 letter from Fred O Bartlett to George L McCarty
  • Obits: Helen J Humphrey, William A Anderson, Ralph F Hildenbrand, Marlin E Hohberg.

Vol. 23 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Lecompton Territorial Flag
  • Glenn School District #33
  • Obits: Ruth L Cole, Mary Eloise Magnuson, Elizabeth M Bradfield, George A Steele, Orlin M Milliken, Bruce Beresford.

1996

Vol. 22 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Ely Moore, Judge Rush Elmore and James Ewell Brown (Jeb) Stuart
  • Obits: Lydia Jane Long, Sophia Evans, Charles D Stough Jr., Philip E Hodson, Allvin E Wilson, Eugene Wolken, Walter H McClanahan, Vesta Bahnmaier Wymer, Charles J Sulzen, Martha Ruth Harshberger.

Vol. 22 / No. 2 / Summer

  • The Story of Lecompton by Ely Moore, Jr.
  • Obits: George F Gantz, Le Vona Carter, Dena F Heinz, Roberta M French, Jessie B Rake, Mary E Green, A Ruth McClanahan

Vol. 22 / No. 3 / Fall

  • The Lecompton Story by Ely Moore, Jr.
  • Obits: Geraldine “Jeri” Skinner, Minnie M McAfee, Maurine Foster, Vernon G Hayes, Virgel L Wilson.

Vol. 22 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Lecompton Interchange celebration
  • Constitution Hall history
  • Class of 1938
  • Obits: Margaret Bahnmaier Dark, John E Harrell.

1995

Vol. 21 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Starr Young: Rural School Near Lecompton
  • Obits: Phoebe Orlena Rogers, Clarence Transmeier, Zolla Jane Tietjens, Charles Floyd Anderson, Wilma Gibbens Williams.

Vol. 21 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Lecompton State Bank History
  • Klaus Family History
  • Obits: Lloyd M Talley, Frances “Peggy” Beryl Moore, Minnie Sutton, Rev. Charles E Scott, Stephen L Jewett, Daisy E Wingfield, Olivette Jane Wulfkuhle

Vol. 21 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Constitution Hall Dedicated – National Landmark and Kansas Historical Site
  • The Lecompton Constitution
  • Obits: Irene S Vogel, Margaret Ewing Robards, Duane D Chiles, Allie Elder Banks.

Vol. 21 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Lane University: The Rise and Fall of an antebellum College in Lecompton, Kansas by DeAnn Gerdes Steinle
  • Obits: Laverne Wilson.

1994

Vol. 20 / No. 1 / Spring

  • The Lecompton Post Office
  • David Thomas and Amanda Melvina Garrett Mitchell family
  • Obits: Vernon Douglas Spencer, Melvin C Maness, Stanly Eugene French, Dwight C Atkinson

Vol. 20 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Charles and Sara Robinson, First Governor of Kansas
  • Julia M Springer, Edwin Peter Hildenbrand, Fred LePort, Spangler, Alice Carr Clark, Grace Brasher, Wilma Scott Morris, Harry M “Bud” Dark

Vol. 20 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Victory Highway
  • Obits: Clyde Anno, Raymond Thomas Nichols, Amos G Geelan, Mary H Anderson, Grace Elizabeth Blake Hiebert, Helen M Gulley, Frank C Cozad, Ann Lasswell

Vol. 20 / No. 4 / Winter

  • The Rowena Hotel
  • Obits: Thurman S Pete Edmonds, Una Elizabeth Krieder, Inis Faye Liles, Waneta Jean Willits, Hazelle T Dyer.

1993

Vol. 19 / No. 1 / Spring

  • The Lecompton Perry Bridge
  • Excerpts from early day newspapers
  • Obits: Garner E Groh, Richard Ewing Hanson, Fay M Morris

Vol. 19 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Kanwaka Early History and Settlers
  • History of Kanwaka School
  • Obits: Esther Bigsby, Grace P Boose, Vivian Crady

Vol. 19 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Big Springs Kansas History
  • Obits: David V Noe, Benneson H Bisel, Corina F Vausbinder, Lee Winter Gress, JD McCall

Vol. 19 / No. 4 / Winter

  • The Santa Fe Railroad and Lecompton
  • Santa Fe Agent John Milliard Taylor
  • Obits: Pauline L Windell, Christeen F Wiksten, Margaret Hudson, Joe Deane Christy, Ralph William “Tony” St. Clair, Eugene Thomas Van Vranken

1992

Vol. 18 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Lecompton City Sidewalks
  • The Ed Harris Family
  • Obits: Elizabeth Bahnmaier, Lavina Bates Chegwyn, William H Penny, Ruth Thomas

Vol. 18 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Lecompton History prior to the Fire of 1916 by Faye Todhunter Glenn
  • David and Mary Martin, son George Martin
  • Obits: Cloyd Lee Dreyer, Cecil L Lasswell, Harold Glenn Jasperson

Vol. 18 / No. 3 / Fall

  • 1903 Flood at Lecompton
  • Obits: Phillip H Lewis, Jane E Shehi Barr, Clyde H Kampschroeder, Dr. Richard O Nelson, Mabel V Briggs, Joe Garcia, Dale T Bartlett, Geneva Minitier, Lawrence Heeb, Cloyd Lee Dreyer, Juanita E Guffey, Robert M Norwood.

Vol. 18 / No. 4 / Winter

  • The Lecompton High School
  • Obits: Helen Geraldine Collins, Vada M Fordice

1991

Vol. 17 / No. 1 / Spring

  • ‘Ameria in 1857, A Nation on the Brink” by Kenneth M Stampp
  • Kansas Territory: 1857
  • Morris Family History
  • Obits: Louis W Crady, Theodore J Hall, Laura T Endacott, Curtis Hill Sehon, Dorothy Florence Bennett, Raymond Hoffsommer

Vol. 17 / No. 2 / Summer

  • The Isaac Shirley Family
  • Lake View Kansas
  • Obits: Denzel Gibbens, Rachel M Larson, Ann L Alderman, Leona Brunkow, Thomas Lee Brooke, Frank Millard Taylor, Melvin D Confer

Vol. 17 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Colonel Samuel Walker
  • Obits: Forrest J Springer, Wilford Graham Chiles, Emma Evangeline Page, Fred L Cooper, Opal F Rake

Vol. 17 / No. 4 / Winter

  • History of Lecompton Churches
  • Obits: Hazel Bertschinger McClanahan, Denna L Shirar

1990

Vol. 16 / No. 1 / Spring

  • History of Stull Kansas
  • Obits: Joe Foley, Evelyn M Sheldon, J Russell Migliario, Barbara Michal, Elmer J Petesch, Dorothy L Kapp

Vol. 16 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Rising Sun, Kansas Territory, 1857
  • Obits: James G Clarke, Thelma L Baldwin, Dotty Traxler, Wilbur M Hildenbrand

Vol. 16 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Sheriff Samuel Jones
  • Obits: Anne Greene Keller, Garnet “Sonny” Dickson, John W McAlexander Jr

Vol. 16 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Constitution Hall History and Restoration
  • The Lecompton Union Newspaper 1856
  • Obits: Ronald E Jones, Mary Agnes Wolken, Katherine F Gardner, Oliver Harold Wingfield

1989

Vol. 15 / No. 1 / Spring

  • 1857 Tour of Kansas Territory by James. I. Hindman
  • Obits: Candace S. Sehon, Henry A Bubb, Inez Augusta Chiles, Hazel Ann Wingfield McLaughlin

Vol. 15 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Doll History and Collection
  • Obits: Kenneth Matney, Ruth Davidson, Dorothy May Foley, Christine J Kraft, Dolph Simons Sr.

Vol. 15 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Dwight Eisenhower’s Parents
  • High School Alumni as of 1924
  • Lecompton High School Seniors of 1932
  • Obits: Irene Hoffsommer, Dorothy A Baughmon

1988

Vol. 14 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Kansas Territorial Governors
  • Blue Lodges (Sons of the South) and Kansas Regulators
  • Obits: Ibba J Stauffer, Helen Sehon Pollom, Bernice Mitchell Wagner

Vol. 14 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Territorial Governors, Part II

Vol. 14 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Lecompton Lodge No. 13 A.F. & A.M.
  • Obits: George Ray Norwood, W. Jarvis Brink, Beverly Jo Virtue

Vol. 14 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Stanton Mansion
  • Obits: Dr. Ray Gieseman, Frederick R McClanahan, Madge H Rothberger

1987

Vol. 13 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Jakob Walter, Lecompton Descendants
  • 1st temperance meeting, 1856
  • Early Lecompton Churches
  • Obits: Herman Banks, Maurine F Roy, Romans C Dekat

Vol. 13 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Albert R Green : early settler
  • Rowena Hotel
  • Obits: Pearl L Faust, Rosa Liberty Hildenbrand, Mabel Glenn, Eula Clegg McCall, Dr. J. Darryl McCall Jr.

Vol. 13 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Elmore St
  • City Laws of 1895
  • Obits: Wilma A Fleming, Helen M Hoots, Ruby Grammer,William Chester Lewellen

Vol. 13 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Business owners in early Lecompton
  • Hill family, early settlers

1986

Vol. 12 / No. 1 / Spring

  • William Hoad story, Part II
  • Bob Steinmetz, Lecompton stories
  • Obits: Mary A Teegarden, Phillip L McClanahan, Ila B Webster

Vol. 12 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Hotels of Lecompton: 1855 – 1861
  • Obits: Alice O’Donnell, Harold M, Foree, Ross Cole, Myra S Keeler, Bertha Esther Rake

1985

Vol. 11 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Geary and the Governor’s Mansion
  • Obits: George Marvin Everett

Vol. 11 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Gov. Geary and William Sherrard
  • Glenn family history
  • Obits: Eldred G Day, Harriet V Lowe, Grace Dedrick

Vol. 11 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Henry Hiatt, Kansas Pioneer
  • Thomas Garcia, Sr., 1922
  • Obits: Howard R Harshberger, Jeanne Winter Brass

Vol. 11 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Recollections of a Kansas Town by William C Hoad
  • Obits: Mary N Lasswell, Earl M Goodrich, Virginia Lee Confer

1984

Vol. 10 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Churches of Big Springs Kansas 1856 – 1859
  • Obituaries: Louis E. Lasswell, Doren Glenn Herschell, Gladys V Holloway, Goldie F McCall

Vol. 10 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Lecompton Ferries and William R Simmons
  • Obits: Laura E Taylor, Lucy M Large

Vol. 10 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Chester A. Arthur’s Visit to Lecompton in 1857
  • Obits: Helen E Oberhelman, Louise Meierhoff, Walter Brown Stauffer

Vol. 10 / No. 4 / Winter

  • The Todhunter Family: Early Settlers
  • Obits: Calvin Junior Maust, Starr Glenn

1983

Vol. 9 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Slaves in Lecompton
  • Camp Sackett

Vol. 9 / No. 2 / Summer

  • July 4th celebrations of 1858, 1880, 1885. 1928
  • Alexander Glenn/Elizabeth Zinn wedding
  • 50th Anniversary of Mr./Mrs. Moses McCall
  • Glenn School District

Vol. 9 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Battle of Ft. Titus: Eye Witness Account

Vol. 9 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Letters of Col. Axalla John Hoole, South Carolina
  • Obituaries of Raymond Ice, Robert Crawford, Albert Leslie Shaner, Karl Kreider

1982

Vol. 8 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Inside View of LowerPrison Room at Lecompton 1850
  • Judge Samuel Dexter Lecompte
  • The Preacher who Married Ike’s Parents: E.B. Slade

Vol. 8 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Lane University’s Early History
  • James Henry Lane

Vol. 8 / No. 3 / Fall

  • David Eisenhower Dedicates Lane University
  • Solomon Weaver, Lane University’s First President

Vol. 8 / No. 2 / Winter

  • Christmas Remembrances 1888-1929
  • Edna Bahnmaier

1981

Vol. 7 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Living History of the US Cavalry
  • Ely Moore, early settler

Vol. 7 / No. 3 / Fall

  • History of Constitution Hall
  • William McDowell Nace

Vol. 7 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Battle of Ft. Titus
  • Col. Henry T. Titus

1980

Vol. 6 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Restoration Updates
  • McCarty family history

Vol. 6 / No. 2 / Spring

  • Site of first Kansas Governor’s mansion
  • Denver, Kansas Territory
  • Obit: Alexander W Glenn

Vol. 7 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Early Settler George Zinn 1854
  • 1857 Lecompton Constitution influences Lincoln’s 1860 election

1979

Vol. 5 / No. 1 & 2 / Spring & Summer

  • Lane University Restoration
  • Bessie Hundley’s Strawberry Bread recipe
  • German Visitors
  • Thomas and Hanora Anderson

Vol. 5 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Charter of Lane Univ. published in the Lecompton Sun in 1891

1978

Vol. 4 / No. 1 / Spring

  • Misc.

Vol. 4 / No. 2 / Summer

  • Larry Winn, Jr.

Vol. 4 / No. 3 / Fall

  • Misc.

Vol. 4 / No. 4 / Winter

  • Misc.

1977

Vol. 3 / No. 1 & 2 / June & May

  • Elmore Street photo
  • Building Updates

Vol. 3 / No. 3 / September

  • Restoration of Lane University 1976

Vol. 3 / No. 4 / Decemeber

  • Misc

1976

Vol. 2 / No. 1 / March

  • Lane University Restoration
  • Lane University Historical Facts
  • Early Lecompton History

Vol. 2 / No. 2 / June

  • Early Days in Lecompton by Fred Baetlett

Vol. 2 / No. 3 / September

  • Misc. current events

Vol. 2 / No. 4 / December

  • Lecompton Sun Articles from 1891 and 1892

1975

Vol. 1 / No. 3 / May

  • Progress on Lane Restoration Being Made
  • Early Abstract History

Vol. 1 / No. 4 / December

  • The McCall Family 1855

1974

Vol. 1 / No. 1 / May

  • Welcome to the first issue of “The Bald Eagle”
  • George Washington Brown: Early Settler

Vol. 1 / No. 2 / September

  • New Interest Being Shown in Lecompton and its History…
  • Old Constitution Hall
  • Our Early Settlers; Dr. Johiel Bonebrake