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Dr. Henry Fuller Pratt treats patient Harry Jamieson in Rossville, Kansas. Dr. Henry Fuller Pratt was born in Kossuth, Ohio, December 8, 1861. He moved to Topeka, Kansas, when he was four. He married Jennie DeVinney in 1888. He practiced medicine in…

Walter Startup, pictured on the left, was born May 6, 1891, died February 5, 1972, and was buried in the Silver Lake Cemetery. Della Startup, pictured on the right, was born September 7, 1884, and died April 14, 1957. They were Rossville, Kansas,…

See RCL0051 for a picture of her husband, Mr. Leroy Sedgwick. They were two of the earliest Rossville, Kansas, settlers.

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,…

Bill Murray and his wife, Betty, purchased the Rossville Reporter in March of 1953, after the Navarres retired. The name was changed to The Shawnee County Reporter. The Murrays sold the paper in 1967 to the Pictorial Times, a Topeka paper. Their…

Mr. William Cyrus Baylis was the first Rossville, Kansas, rural route mail carrier.

Mrs. C.C. McPherson was elected Rossville, Kansas, councilwoman in 1889 on an all-woman ticket.

HISTORY OF ST. STANISLAUS IN ROSSVILLE
(As written by Miss Frances DeGraff)

Shortly after the holidays in 1989, I came home from K.C. where I had been sewing. I heard that Catholic services were being held in Fritz's Hall, and Catechism Classes…

The Baptists in Rossville, Kansas, built a small church on Spruce Street and dedicated this church on February 29, 1880. For a few years after that the Baptist, Christian, Presbyterian, and Methodist shared this building—each having the use of it one…

A group of people, mostly children, gathered in front the old Rossville Presbyterian Church in the winter of 1914. The old Presbyterian church was built around 1883. It was made of red bricks which were made at a brick kiln located at the east edge…