He is the author of the book "Kansas Post Offices". There is no biographical information in the book except in 1961 when the book was published he was living in Liberal, KS. The book was published by the Kansas State Historical Society. You could try contacting them for more information. Good Luck, Ardie ~DITSY~ wrote: > > Ardie, who was the Robert W. Baughman you mentioned below? Did he live in > Norton? I have just found that name in the family. > > Ditsy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ardie & Greg Grimes <agrimes@inetnebr.com> > To: <KSNORTON-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 2:48 AM > Subject: [KSNORTON] Defunct Norton County towns - Gath and Hanback > > > The Gath post office was established 21 Feb 1902 with Elizabeth > > C. Campbell as postmistress. It was discontinued 14 Oct. 1903. > > > > Gath was name of an ancient Biblical city, supposedly the > > hometown of Goliath, one of the five royal cities of Philistine. > > There was also a town named Gath in Fleming County, Kentucky. > > Other than these little factoids, I know nothing about Gath. If > > anyone out there has any information, please let us know. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > Hanback was located near the Kansas Nebraska border in Aldine > > township on Dry Creek. Changes in township boundaries place this > > in the current Harrison township. > > > > The Hanback post office was established 04 March 1884 with the > > first postmaster, Devillo R. Blanding. The post office was > > formerly called Reagle. You can see the Reagle location at > > http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/graphics/maps/norton.jpg > > The Hanback post office was discontinued 31 Dec. 1892. > > > > Hanback was named for Lewis Hanback, a Civil War veteran, Topeka > > lawyer, served in the Kansas House, and served three terms as > > representative of the Sixth Kansas District. See > > http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/bioh/hanbacl2.html > > or > > http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/bioh/hanbacl.html > > > > The only other settler I find mention of in the Hanback area were > > Mr. & Mrs. John Case, who lived in Furnas County, NE near Hanback > > from 1873 to 1877, when they moved to Norton. The 1900 plat map > > has the following names in the immediate vicinity: James > > Montague, Sarah J. Montague, Sarah M. Stamey, Henry Hatfield, > > Mark Smith, G. W. Hubbard, J. H. Rising, S. E. Renner, J. T. > > Smith, Robert Taylor. > > > > Any additional information you may have about Hanback would be > > welcome. > > > > Kansas" by F. M. Lockard, Kansas Post Offices by Robert W. > > Baughman, and "Seventy Years in Norton County, Kansas" by D. N. > > Bowers.> Info from "The History of the Early Settlement of Norton County, > > > > > > > ==== KSNORTON Mailing List ==== > > Check the KS GenWeb Queries for Norton County, Kansas at > > http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/norton/queries.htm > > For more recent queries, be sure to click on "Use our new query system" at > the top of the page > > > > ============================== > > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > > ==== KSNORTON Mailing List ==== > Check the RootsWeb Queries bulletin board for Norton County, Kansas at > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ks/Norton > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/