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Chase County, named after Salmon P. Chase, who was United States Senator from, and Governor of, Ohio, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was organized in 1859. It was south and west of the center of population of Kansas in 1875, and in 1880 this center had moved some distance west of it. The northern boundary of the county is 102 miles south of the Nebraska line; its eastern line, 96 miles from the State of Missouri; its southern boundary, 75 miles from the Indian Territory; and its western boundary, 285 miles from the State of Colorado. Between it and Missouri there are four counties; there are six organized counties on the line west of it. Its area is about 750 square miles._1.

Organized in 1859. County seat, Cottonwood Falls. Created out of portions of Wise and Butler counties, and named in honor of Salmon P. Chase, successively Governor of Ohio, United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court._2.

1. William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.

2. History of Kansas, Noble Prentis, (Winfield: E.P. Greer. 1899)

Biographies
File Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Harper, William H. 1858 -	2K	Mar 2007	Joy Fisher
Cemeteries
History - Directories
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Chase County Medical Directory 1920	2K	Feb 2009	Joy Fisher
Military Records
File Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Chase County, KS 1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll	9 kb	Dec 1997	Judy Lutt
Chase County, KS Civil War Veterans (known)	36 kb	Dec 1997	Judy Lutt
Obituaries
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Shutt, John February 8, 1913	2K	Aug 2007	Tricia Teiber
Photos of Tombstones
Prairie Grove Cemetery
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Berlin, Augustus & Mary Jane	Image 61K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Clements, Robert & Anna Mary	Image 60K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Cochran, F. P.	Image 61K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Cook, Elizabeth M.	Image 62K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Cottbehuet, Nellie Beth	Image 59K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Davis, Andrew J.	Image 61K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Doolittle, Dudley	Image 60K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Doolittle, May Coleman	Image 61K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Doolittle, Joseph Harmon	Image 61K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Foreman, A. P.	Image 60K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Foreman, Elizabeth A.	Image 61K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Foreman, William T.	Image 59K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Hildebrand, Charles E.	Image 61K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Hildebrand, Nora D.	Image 60K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Kaufman, Christian	Image 61K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Kaufman, Eliza K.	Image 61K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Kaufman, Mary	Image 61K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Kaufman, Sarah E.	Image 60K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Miller, Sylvester	Image 59K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Morton, Fred L. & Katie M.	Image 61K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Pitzer, Joseph	Image 60K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Sayre, Ernest E.	Image 64K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Sayre, Rosa Elizabeth	Image 63K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Smith, Robert & Emma	Image 60K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Talkington, Mary Reese	Image 60K	Sep 2007	Brenda
Whetherholt, Sarah E.	Image 60K	Sep 2007	Brenda

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