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Welcome to Atchison
County Kansas Genealogy Research
Atchison Kansas Commerical Street
1860
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Atchison County Kansas
ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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Use the box below to
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Atchison
County Data
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Brief
History from Kansas State Historical
Society:
Named for David Rice
Atchison (1807-1886), United States
senator from Missouri at the time of the
Kansas-Nebraska Act.
French explorers and
trappers were the first Europeans to
journey across what became Atchison
County.
Etienne de Bourgmont, military
commander of the French colony of
Louisiana, led the first recorded
expedition to the
region in the summer of 1724,
although others had probably visited
before him. The next recorded explorer was
Perin du Luc, who reached the area
in 1802-1803.
Perhaps the most famed explorers of
Atchison County were Lewis and Clark,
whose expedition travelled up the Missouri
River in the summer of 1804. On the
eventing of July 4th, the company
discovered a creek in the northeast corner
of the
county, naming it Independence Creek
in honor of the holiday.
Paschal Pensoneau (or Pensinau) was
the first settler to take up permanent
residence in the county, settling along
Stranger
Creek in 1839. Five years later he
opened a trading post and a farm.
When Kansas Territory was opened for
settlement in 1854, the townsite of
Atchison was founded by Senator Atchison
and
his friends, and dedicated on July
4, 1854. The town of Sumner, twelve miles
to the south, attempted to replace
Atchison as
the county seat in 1858, but the
proposal was soundly defeated.
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