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New York did not conduct a census in 1885 because its Governor David B. Hill refused to support the proposed census due to its extravagance and cost. [16] [17] Governor Hill objected to the idea of spending so much state money on a state census that was as extravagant as the 1880 U.S. Census. [16] [17]
1885 Kansas elections (1 P) This page was last edited on 26 January 2019, at 08:34 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Kiowa is a city in Barber County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 902. [ 4 ] It is located 1 mile north of the Kansas / Oklahoma state border.
1922 and 1927: legal battles Kansas against the Ku Klux Klan, resulting in their expulsion from the state. 1925: Flag of Kansas designed by Hazel Avery. [4] 1928: Charles Curtis of Topeka, first Native American to be elected as Vice-President of United States [5] 1927: flag officially adopted by the Kansas State Legislature.
November 25 – Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st vice president of the United States from March to November 1885 (born 1819) December 8 – William Henry Vanderbilt, entrepreneur (born 1821) December 21 – George S Patton, General (born 1885) December 13 – Benjamin Gratz Brown, politician (born 1826)
Donald C. Thompson (1885–1947) was an American war photographer, cinematographer, producer and director known primarily for his still and motion picture work during World War I. [1] Thompson repeatedly risked his life to capture the war on film, and then would return to the United States to share his experiences and images in public lectures ...
Finney County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Garden City. [2] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 38,470. The county was named for David Finney, the Lieutenant Governor of Kansas from 1881 and 1885. In 2020, 51.4 percent of the population in the county was Hispanic, one of ...
Hugoton, 1891. Settlers from McPherson, Kansas established a settlement in what was then west-central Seward County, Kansas in 1885. [4] [5] They originally named this settlement Hugo in honor of French writer Victor Hugo, but then changed its name to Hugoton to distinguish it from Hugo, Colorado.