Francis Singer 1827-1895
March 25, 2024The Francis Singer Family One of the early settlers in Stohrville Township was the Francis Singer family in 1876. Francis Singer was born in Wittenburg, Germany in 1827 and emigrated to America in 1846. First settling in New Jersey where he met and married Victoria Stor in 1848, he was in business there for a time. Then he moved to Ohio and from there to Illinois and from there they came to Kansas, settling in Stohrville Township, Harper County. By pre-emption and purchase the Singers accumulated in their possession vast acres of farm lands of the best soil between Freeport…
Giles Wilkerson Joyner 1834-1894
The Joyner Family in Bluff City History Giles Wilkerson Joyner was one of the early settlers in the Stohrville Township area in 1880. He was born in North Carolina on Feb. 6, 1834 and migrated to Chapel Hill, Mo. where…
Pleasant Hill Veterans Memorial
Bluff City Depot
The Park and History in Times Past
An item that came into our possession of Centennial writers brings back some old Bluff City history of times past…written perhaps in the early 1930’s as follows: Bluff City Park Going Into Decay… Whole county should be aroused to present…
Truman L. Sturdevant 1877-1945
Memories of Truman L. Sturdevant (1877-1945) I was born in Binghamton, N.Y. on Sept. 25, 1877. Later that year my parents, George and Tenie Sturdevant, brother Herbert and I came west to near Lawrence, Kansas. In the fall of 1880 we…
James Glover 1839-1924
James Glover A Bluff City Centennial Family One of the early day leaders you might hear mentioned most often was James Glover and family. Among some of the credentials mentioned most often might be his work for the public schools,…
A Little History
