Von RothenbergerLittle has been written concerning the history of colonies leaving Pennsylvania to settle federal homestead lands after the Civil War. Composed largely of Union veterans, these colonies scattered across several Western states and territories and made Pennsylvania one of the great emigration states of the period. One such colony left Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on April 10, 1871, and twenty-one days later founded the town of Osborne, Kansas. This book gathers together all known primary sources on the forty-five colonists, composed primarily of settlers from Berks and Lancaster Counties, who made the long journey from Pennsylvania to the unsettled colony. It provides a rare detailed look at a successful non-secular colony and also includes a primary source, The Minute Book, the colonyís official record of their actions in founding and establishing their town. One of the very few such documents of this kind that still exist in Kansas, it is the oldest legal document in Osborne County and is reproduced in verbatim from the handwritten original. The Minute Book is one of the very few known journals to have survived the early days of Kansas history. There is an additional section with relevant information and limited genealogies concerning each colony member. A very good sourcebook on a little-researched area of Pennsylvania history. Everyname index. 1998, 8˝x11, paper, 134 pp
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