Butler County History
Earliest Settlers
"History of Kansas," Goodspeed, 1890
The first settlements in Butler County were as follows: Benton
Township, April 13, 1878, by J. P. J. Nelson; Bloomington Township, 1867, Samuel Rankin;
Bruno Township, May, 1869, V. Smith,
Chelsea Township, August, 1857, Bob DeRacken, G. T. Donaldson,
P. G. D. Morton, J. C. Lambdin, I. Scott, Martin Vaught, Dr. Lewellen, Charles Jefferson
and J. and L. Cole; Clifford Township,
1859, Mr. William Badley; El Dorado Township, May, 1857, William
Hildebrande; Fairmount Township, 1869, Holland Ferguson; Hickory Township, 1869, Mr. Myers;
Pleasant Township, spring of 1869,
Marion Franklin; Plum Grove Township, 1860, Joseph H. Adams;
Rock Creek Township, July, 1868, D. L. McCabe; Rosalia Township, July, 1869, Philip Karns;
Spring Township, April, 1866, Dave
(afterward county commissioner), and'H. W. Yates; Towanda Township, 1858, William Vann,
A. G. Davis, Chandler, Atwood, and
others; Union Township, April 2, 1870, A. S. McKee; Walnut Township, 1866, George Long.
William Hildebrande, who came in May,
1857, to El Dorado Township, was the first settler in Butler County.
In June, 1857, Samuel Stewart, of Lawrence, organized a colony to
settle in Butler County. July 9, 1857, Henry Martin, William Crimble, Jacob Carey, H. Bemis and
William Bemis, with their families,
settled near El Dorado. There were in this party ten other families.
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