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After her death, he married her sister Sarah Williams and they had four children (John, Janes, William Shirley Mathews, and Edward Martin) before her death in 1856. [5] He gained a reputation as a fair trader among the Osage (rare for white traders in the era) and was a strong advocate for slavery in the United States .
Oswego is located on the site of an Osage village called No tse Wa spe, which means "Heart Stays" or more loosely translated, "Quiet Heart." [4] Jesuit Missionaries from Osage Mission (now St. Paul, Kansas) who worked among the Osages called the village "Little Town," probably because the band of Osages who lived in the village were of the "Little Osage" division of the Osage People.
Mathews's Life and Death of an Oilman: The Career of E. W. Marland (1951) was his only biography; it explores the life of a multi-millionaire Oklahoma oilman and politician, who also served as governor of the state in the 1930s. [71] He created a social scandal by marrying his much younger adoptive daughter, Lydie Marland. [72]
History of Labette County, Kansas, and Representative Citizens Chicago: Biographical Publishing, 1901 [47] De la Garza, Phyllis. Death for Dinner: The Benders of (Old) Kansas. Talei Publishers, 2004. ISBN 978-0-9631772-9-2; Debczak, Michele. "The Kansas Land That Once Belonged to the Bloody Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family, Is Up ...
Carson Jay Robison was born in Oswego, Kansas, United States.His father was a champion fiddler; his mother played the piano and sang. Robison became a professional musician in the American Midwest at the age of 14, most notably as a backing musician for Victor Records's Wendell Hall on the early 1920s music hall circuit. [2]
A list of people who were born in, or strongly associated with, Oswego, Kansas Pages in category "People from Oswego, Kansas" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Following the resolution of his legal problems, Short traveled to Kansas where he married Hattie Buck (born October 5, 1863) in Oswego, Kansas, on March 15, 1887. [43] Harriet Beatrice Buck was born in Coles County, Illinois, on October 5, 1863. She was the fourth of eight children born between 1858 and 1878.
Labette County is a county located in Southeast Kansas.Its county seat is Oswego, [2] and its most populous city is Parsons.As of the 2020 census, the county population was 20,184. [1]