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Welcome to Doniphan
County Kansas Genealogy Research
Troy KS circa 1920
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 Doniphan 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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Doniphan
County Data
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Brief
History:
Doniphan
County was organized on September 18, 1855,
as one of the 33 original counties organized
by the Territorial
Legislature. It was founded by Joel P.
Blair; E. B. Rogers; and A. Dunning, and
contains the cities of Troy, Highland, White
Cloud, Denton, Elwood, Wathena, Leona
and Severance. It was named for General
Alexander Doniphan, of Mexican War
fame. It is said that in the county
seat war between Troy and Wathena, the story
is told of a cannon that was stolen nightly
by
one town or the other, depending on
who had it in their possession, until
finally someone sunk it in the local creek.
It was also
told that the county records were
treated in the same manner.
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