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Mrs. Grace Kerr was elected a Rossville, Kansas, councilwoman in 1889 on an all-woman ticket. She was the wife of Samuel Kerr who was elected a councilman in Rossville's first election in 1881.

Mrs. Lydia Zickefoose is pulling a wagon which is carrying a basket filled with something wrapped in a blanket. The picture was taken in Rossville, Kansas, on December 28, 1960.

Mr. O. Leroy Sedgwick established the Pottawatomi Land Office in St. Marys in 1870, and four years later began publishing a newspaper. In August, 1878, he moved his land office to Rossville, where pasture land sold for $1.75 an acre and good crop…

Paul Patell was one of the early settlers of Rossville, Kansas. In the 1880s he had a carpenter and wagon shop. He is pictured in RCL0030 cruising around Rossville in his boat after a flood.

Paul Stewart was the son of U.G. Stewart of Rossville, Kansas.

DIRECTS SUMMER THEATRE

PEGGY SULLIVAN, ROSSVILLE, is the director of the newly-formed Summer Theatre group which will open this Thursday in St. Marys. The Summer Theatre is a first for St. Marys and is sponsored by the Recreation…

Three unknown people sit in a canoe on Cross Creek in Rossville, Kansas.

Front side: Photograph of two children on postcard sent to Mr. Claudeen Dodge, Bennington, Kansas in care of Mr. Chester Quinn.

Back side: Transcription of message: July 24, 1913
(From Sis) Dear Brother I guess I told you not to write till you…

These are the "pioneer" settlers of Rossville, Kansas, ages 20 and older. Pictured left to right are: Dr. Robert S. Gabbey, C.W. Higginbotham, Tom Cox, Richard Binns, Bennett Swearingen, Josh Harding, Paul Patell, Greg Navarre, Clark McPherson,…

This portrait is of a baby who was born September 6, 1911. It is from the collection of Mabel Boyles, who was from Rossville, Kansas.