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The Bender family, more well known as the Bloody Benders, were a family of serial killers in Labette County, Kansas, United States, from May 1871 to December 1872. [1] The family supposedly consisted of John Bender, his wife Elvira (or Almira), their son John Jr. and their daughter Kate.
Sauer Castle is an Italianate architecture home at 935 Shawnee Road in Kansas City, Kansas, built from 1871 to 1873.It was designed by famed architect Asa Beebe Cross [1] as the residence of German immigrant and local business owner Anton Sauer.
This camp was used to house mainly German POWs from 1943 to 1945. It was the largest POW camp in Kansas. It held more than 4,000 prisoners, possibly 8,00 prisoners. This camp consisted of 300 buildings and it was staffed by 800 American soldiers. Among the first prisoners were German officers, forty-four of which were said to be Nazis.
1916: Kansas troops serve on the U.S.-Mexico border during the Mexican Revolution. 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]
This is an incomplete list of military and other armed confrontations that have occurred within the boundaries of the modern US State of Kansas since European contact. The region was part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1535–1679, New France from 1679–1803, and part of the United States of America 1803–present.
What Kansas Means to Me: Twentieth-Century Writers on the Sunflower State (University Press of Kansas, 1991) Cordier, Mary Hurlbut. Schoolwomen of the Prairies and Plains: Personal Narratives from Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, 1860S-1920s (1997) online; Missouri Pacific Railway Company. Facts about Kansas: a book for home-seekers and home-builders.
German-Americans were the largest ethnic contingent to fight for the Union in the American Civil War [citation needed]. More than 200,000 native-born Germans, along with another 250,000 1st-generation German-Americans, served in the Union Army, notably from New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio. Several thousand also fought for the Confederacy.
John (Jack) Vickers (1891-1940) was another Wichita oil mogul who got his start in the Butler oil fields. Founder of Vickers Petroleum, in 1920, he built a refinery in Potwin Kansas about 20 miles northeast of Wichita. In 1934, at 8500 E Central, he built one of the largest mansions (named Vickridge) seen in Kansas up to that time.