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Frank Carlson, Kansas politician and former governor Boston Corbett was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. He lived south of Concordia. The following is a list of people from Cloud County, Kansas.
Keith Elmore "Pinky" Christensen (May 10, 1947 – February 17, 2023) was an American college and professional football player. Christensen played at offensive tackle at the University of Kansas where he was coached first by Jack Mitchell and later by Pepper Rodgers.
Concordia is a city in and the county seat of Cloud County, Kansas, United States. [1] It is located along the Republican River in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains in North Central Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 5,111. [4] [5] Concordia is home of the Cloud County Community College and the Nazareth ...
The Concordia Blade-Empire has a rich history of newspaper publication in the county. The paper today has its roots in two separate newspapers. (Several sources, including Janet Pease Emerey's book on the history of Concordia claim a third newspaper, The Republican, merged and/or was purchased by The Republican Valley Empire).
Roman Catholic bishops of Concordia (3 P) Pages in category "People from Concordia, Kansas" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
Adrian Township covers an area of 29.83 square miles (77.26 square kilometers); of this, 0.08 square miles (0.2 square kilometers) or 0.26 percent is water. The stream of Long Branch runs through this township.
Jim Lynch, 76, Hall of Fame football player (Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Kansas City Chiefs), Super Bowl champion (b. 1945) [84] July 22 Emilie Benes Brzezinski , 90, Swiss-born sculptor, widow of Zbigniew Brzezinski (b. 1932) [ 85 ]
Jamestown was founded in 1878, and was incorporated as a city in 1883. [4] It was named for either Senator James Pomeroy, [5] or James P. Pomeroy, a railroad official. [6] [7] [8] A post office was opened in Alva (an extinct town) in 1871, but it was moved to Jamestown in 1878. [9]