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Bank of Derby
early 1900s
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Dr. H. C. Tucker built this building to house his drug store and the Bank of Derby. The Farmers and Merchants Bank was located in this building from 1907 - 1916.
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Evangelical
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Letterhead from H. C. Tucker
Apr. 18, 1892
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A receipt dated April 18, 1892 written on H. C. Tucker’s letterhead. Mrs. Philip Yergler paid the account in full.
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Madison Avenue United Methodist Church
Dr. Henry Clay Tucker
Evangelical Church
Madison Avenue United Methodist Church
Phillip Yergler
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Receipt from H. C. Tucker
Oct. 18, 1890
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A receipt for $11.50 paid by Mrs. Phillip Yergler to H. C. Tucker dated October 18, 1890.
$11.50
October 18 1890
Received of Mrs. Philip Yergler
Eleven 50/100 dollars
for Account of Oil & Paint Evangelical Parsonage
H. C. Tucker
Due 7.35 unpaid
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Dr. Henry Clay Tucker
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Madison Avenue United Methodist Church
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Wichita City Eagle (04/12/1872 - 11/26/1909)
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12/21/1872 (Wichita Weekly Eagle 12/26/1872 p2)
Correspondence of the Eagle.
Light Weights
El Paso, Sedgwick County, Kan.,
December 21, 1872.
Mr. Editor: I take the liberty of sending you an item for the Eagle.
Giants are not all dead yet, for we have them in and about El Paso. I will give you a few samples:
Name. Height. Weight.
Daniel Little……………………………............………… 6-7 245
Calvin Little………………………………………............ 6-6 220
J. B. Otto……………………………………...............…… 6-5 208
Thomas Harding………………………………........... 6-4 195
David Brownlee………………………………….......... 6-4 180
Isaac C. Costin…………………………………............. 6-4 180
George Litzenberg……………………………........... 6-3 150
Wm. Harding……………………………………............. 6-2 190
C. C. Rushing……………………………………............. 6-2 170
James Douglas…………………………………............ 6-2 185
Thomas Barnes………………………………….......... 6-2 185
Stephen Hatfield…………………………………....... 6-2 185
Jahew Hatfield…………………………………............. 6-1 170
And I could give you a company who measure six feet, or a little over. If any other community can beat this I will send you a few more names. The weight in all instances above is not exactly accurate, but approximates correctness.
Respectfully,
Dr. Tucker.
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Light Weights
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List of some tall men in El Paso
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Wichita City Eagle
Wichita, KS
Dec. 26, 1872
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C. C. Rushing
Calvin Little
Daniel Little
David Brownlee
Dr. Henry Clay Tucker
El Paso
George Litzenberg
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Isaac C. Costin
J. B. Otto
Jahew Hatfield
James Douglas
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Stephen Hatfield
Thomas Barnes
Thomas Harding
William Harding
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Wichita Weekly Beacon (04/03/1878 - 07/28/1880)
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Items from El Paso and Vicinity.
BY OUR ROCKFORDD NEWS GATHERER.
Mrs. Hiram Henderson died and was buried this week.
We learned from Dr. J. Berger, of Rockford, on Monday last, that Mr. Thos. Barnes is in a very low state. He is down with the erysipelas in his leg.
The general health of El Paso and Vicinity was never better than now.
By reason of good health, quinme is not a staple article, hence Dr. Tucker has a right to complain.
The sexton of the El Paso cemetery, Mr. Jno. Goodacre, on last Tuesday, took up the remains of Mrs. Romig, mother of Mrs. H. C. Tucker, and they were buried on the Doctor’s lot in the cemetery. They were in the very best state of preservation.
We understand Professor Mahin’s term of school, in El Paso, will end in four weeks, as the district has not money enough to continue the term.
We are compelled to give up the Professor, unless he concludes to remain with us and read and practice law, which is to be his future occupation we understand.
Wheat is still going to the market, and fat hogs by the hundreds, through this place daily, as we learn that prices are up.
If we are allowed to comment on the above, we will say that $3 per hundred for hogs, is no more than what a farmer should have, it being only a fair compensation, and in reality fat hogs always were worth $3 per hundred. But we believe the swine merchants have had a pool from headquarters down, the same as is the case in the wheat market.
Master Geo. W. Huffbauer will deliver the Centennial address at the closing exhibition of the school, and also, perhaps, at the Lyceum.
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Items from El Paso and Vicinity (Jan. 29, 1879)
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Wichita, KS
Jan. 29, 1879
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Wichita City Eagle (04/12/1872 - 11/26/1909)
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DIED.
Mrs. Mary Romig, wife of Jacob Romig, deceased, of Tuscarawas county, Ohio, died April 17, 1873, at the residence of Dr. H. C. Tucker, El Paso, Kansas.
She died of acute pneumonia, after an illness of but two days. The funeral rites were attended by a large assembly of friends, who deeply feel their loss. In her the Sabbath school cause loses a devoted friend and lifelong worker.
A traveler o’er life’s pilgrimage dreary,
Laysdown her rude staff like one that is weary,
To sweetly repose fovever.
Tuscarawas papers please copy.
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Death Notice of Mrs. Mary Romig
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Wichita, KS
May 1, 1873
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Wichita Daily Eagle (05/20/1884 - 03/27/1927)
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“Death of Old Settler.”
R. A. Neely Was a Pioneer in Wichita.
Another one of the early settlers of Wichita has joined the larger number who have passed to the beyond. R. A. Neely died at his home, 1431 North Market street at 7 a. m. yesterday. Notice of the funeral will be given later.
R. A. Neely came to Wichita in the summer of 1870. He took a claim on the east side of Chisholm creek, south of the Black place, and proved it up. He afterwards sold the place and went to derby to engage in the grocery business with L. E. Vance.
Neely & Vance did a large business with the first settlers in that section of the county. After Mr. Neely went to Derby, then called El Paso, he was elected to the office of county commissioner, which was the only office he ever held. His success as a merchant in these early days was limited because of his liberality. Many of the early settlers were not very well fixed in the wealth of this world’s goods, but they all had credit at R. A. Neely’s store.
In the early seventies the business men of Derby were John Hufbauer, J. Haut Minnich, Albert Minnich, R. A. Neely, L. E. Vance, Dr. H. C. Tucker and George H. Litzenberg. Hufbauer, Neely, J. Haut Minnich and Dr. H. C. Tucker are dead. Albert Minnich is in Ohio and George H. Litzenberg lives in this city. L. E. Vance came to Wichita with a team in the early eighties, since which time he has never been heard from.
In the early days when the merchants above named held forth in Derby it aspired to be the big city of the Arkansas valley. They have a rock bottom in the Arkansas river at that point in the early seventies the Derbyites used to worry the Wichita town builders by writing letters to the Eagle and claiming that all of the railroads that came into this valley would have to come to Derby to cross the river at the only rock bottom ford on that stream between the mountains and the gulf of Mexico. The people actually had faith in that rock ford and were surprised when the Santa Fe finally came and crossed the Arkansas where Mulvane is now located and at the widest place in the stream. They found out that the railroads did not care for rock fords and did not go an inch out of their way for the Arkansas river, but crossed it wherever they pleased.
R. A. Neely finally, like many others, concluded that Derby, or El Paso, was not going to make the big city of the Arkansas valley and he sold his property there and moved back to Wichita and went into the nursery business. He was generous and made friends wherever he went and has many of them in this county and city who will regret to hear of his death.
R. A. Neely was born in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1836. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn his loss—William Neely of the Johnston-Larimer Dry Goods company, Harry C. Neely, commercial traveler, and Mrs. Gene Ketzler.
Mr. Neely came to this part of Kansas at the time when men who did not possess nerve of the necessary strength for a frontiersman remained in the east. He was here when such men as Ledford, Curley Marshall, Rowdy Joe and Red were characters of the town, and he was an eye witness to some blood curdling scenes in the early frontier town. He was never the man to take the life of a fellow man, but the men who did not value human life were all about him. He had associated with the worst men on the frontier but he never lost that goodness of heart which was a part of his nature. When R. A. Neely is laid to rest the soil of this valley will cover the remains of a man who never betrayed a friend or intentionally injured a neighbor.
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Death of Old Settler - R. A. Neely Was a Pioneer In Wichita.
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Wichita, KS
Aug. 22, 1903
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Historic Landmarks
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Since most structures still standing today date back only a few decades, the planning of Derby’s sesquicentennial celebration in 2019 prompted discussions about how to best tell Derby’s story.
Landmark signs were determined to be the best way to commemorate Derby’s origin as a farming community of people who value family and faith (1869-1949) to its boomtown period (1950-1979) of building homes and schools, its suburban growth (1980-1999) with parks and a cutting-edge recreation commission, and finally to its coming of age as a regional center (2000-2019) with shopping and services to meet most community needs. Visiting the seven Derby Landmarks will provide a thorough education about Derby’s first 150 years.
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Arkansas River Crossing Landmark
Warren Riverview Park, 321 E. Market St.
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In 1871, Dr. Henry Clay Tucker arrived in this area from Ohio and began practicing medicine. With no bridge across the Arkansas River, he often swam across to tend to patients west of the river.
In 1873, an influx of people to El Paso, Kansas (renamed Derby in 1956) meant abridge was needed to replace the ferrying of people, wagons and cattle across the river. After W. J. Hobson secured long timbers for the pilings, the El Paso Bridge opened to the public. Even though the tolls established by county commissioners for this bridge may seem reasonable to us today (25 cents for a wagon with two horses, plus 10 cents for each additional horse or ox), many townspeople didn’t want to pay. They continued to ford the river north of the bridge at a rocky area that allowed a safe crossing. This “rocky ford” was commonly known and became the basis for the name Rockford Township.
Eventually, the bridge washed away, and in 1878 voters of Rockford Township approved $5,000 in bonds to build a new bridge. While several bridges have been built at this site since then, this site remains the original Arkansas River crossing for the first residents of Derby and areas south. In 2000, Sedgwick County built the current Purple Heart Bridge and named it in honor of the sacrifices made by our military heroes for our nation’s freedom.
In 2018, the City of Derby opened Warren Riverview Park, named to honor the legacy of Ray and Virginia Warren’s commitment to outdoor family activities and Boy Scouts, as well as their dedication to the Derby community since moving here in 1955. The park site previously served the city for decades with wastewater treatment and public works facilities
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Wichita City Eagle (04/12/1872 - 11/26/1909)
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Correspondence of the Eagle.
From El Paso
El Paso, Sedgwick, Co., Ks., Sept. 4, 1872.
Editor Eagle: Seeing a letter in last week's issue from our little neighbor across the water. Waco. I thought I would tell you something about us for the benefit of your many readers who may not know where and how we are situated. I will say that El Paso is in the southeast corner of the county, situated on the Arkansas river at the junction of the beautiful Spring creek. The town is laid out on the high prairie, overlooking the river and the vast bottom in which Waco is situated. There is one remarkable feature of our town, and that is the style of buildings up and in course of erection. They are of good size and substantial build. No little 10x12 cottonwood shanties. Mr. A. L. Minich of the firm Minich & Bro. lives in his two story brick residence on Baltimore Ave. Another residence of worthy mention is our gentlemanly postmaster's. Dr. H. C. Tucker has built a fine residence in the rear of his drug store and brought his family to town. Although there is not much sickness here he is kept pretty busy, as he has the reputation of being the best doctor in these parts. Our enterprising fellow-townsman, R. R. Costin, is building him a fine store and residence on the corner of Baltimore and Market and is fitting a hall up stairs to be used by the votaries of the light fantastic toe. There is also a rumor that the Masons will organize and use the hall for a lodge.
George Litzenberg, of the grocery firm Sharpnack & Litzenberg, is doing a flourishing business in the real estate line. He says he has farms on Spring creek to sell from $300 to $1,500. In fact anything a man may want in the "dirt line."
I will say here for the benefit of your castern readers that this is one of the finest tracts of land in Kansas - well watered and timbered; and we think the day is not far distant when we will have coal mines in operation, as we find indications of coals in every well dug here. e climate is mild and salubrius, winters short and so mild that stock runs and feeds on the prairie the year round. The soil is of the richest in the state, and is a black sandy loam, with just sand enough to make it pulverize well. No mud here the year round, and a man can work in his corn fields three hours after a heavy rain.
Our farmers all have their fall wheat in, and it is all up and looking fine. This is as good a wheat climate as any in the country, and the farmers are all putting in every bushel they can get hold of.
I have just returned from a trip through Cowley county and the four mile strip. Everything looks flourishing, and all the inhabitants are calling loudly for a railroad.
We have had two railroad survey,s but we don't hear the whistles as yet. That is all our town needs to make it a "city of the first class."
Our wide-awake saloon-keeper J. Griffey has just completed a fine livery and feed stable, size 22x36 feet, with a dance hall overhead, in which he gives a dance almost every week. Some of our Wichita neighbors could spend a pleasant evening at there "socials" - plenty to eat and drink, and good looking girls for partners.
Mr. McWilliams, one of our most extensive farmers, built him a house here and expects to live in it this winter.
J. H. Bernard has built a factory and is going to manufacture wagons and farm implements. He and our blacksmith are turning out some good work.
Our merchants are all doing a good business, and there are but two changes that I know of. Mr. Neely has purchased the interest of his partner, Mr. Vance, and has restocked his store, and is doing a big biz. George Mamson has traded the El Paso House and furniture for a farm, and his successor J. Q. Graham, is playing mine host for the benefit of the traveling public, and for the few poor mortals here who are not blessed with a "household angel." He dishes up as good hash as any hotel in the state, and says that as long as Kansas City, Leavenworth, Lawrence, Wichita and other places send out "drummers" that leave the wealth, he will continue to do so.
Judge L. E. Vance, the gentleman nominated on the liberal county ticket for probate judge, is a resident of our town, and is a gentleman fully qualified for the position, and although a "crow eater," will carry this and surrounding townships where he is well known.
"Farmer Doolittle," your farmer correspondent from this place, being a strong supporter of the "honest sage," feels so badly over the election returns from North Carolina, Maine and other places that he cries for "a lodge in some vast wilderness," where rumors of political success may never reach him more.
We are all please to see the improvement in your paper. Keep on, and you will make it one of the best county papers in the state. As soon as the mail arrives from Wichita the office is filled and the general cry is "give me my EAGLE." Through neglect of the department at Wichita we failed to receive this week's issue. They sent the Southwestern mail here instead of ours. More anon.
Pete
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Wichita, KS
Oct. 10, 1872
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Derby Mimeogram (10/01/1891 - 05/05/1892)
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Derby School House
erected 1886
A Brief History of the Public Schools of Derby, Kansas.
The first school meeting of District No. 6. was held at the house of John Hufbaur in El Paso at 2 p.m. April 6th 1872. At this meeting the district was organized, J. Hout Minnich elected, director; John Hufbaur, clerk; A. G. Burr, treasurer. At a meeting on the 4th of May 1872, the district voted to issue $1,500 in district bonds, for building a school house to be located in El Paso; a proposition to receive bids for building the house was advertised in the Wichita Vidette.
On the 5th of June the bids were considered by the board, and the contract awarded to R. R. Costin at $1129.00, the house to be located on George Avenue. It was occupied by the school in the fall of that year and until 1886 when it was sold to the Evangelical Church.
The first school of the district was taught by E. H. McClung for a term of three months commencing on the 11th of Sept. 1872 for which the teacher received $35.00 per month. Since then 23 teachers have guided the youth of the district with varied success. The highest wages paid was sixty and the lowest twenty dollars per month.
Seventeen different men have served on the board of directors, among which we see the names of A. G. Burr who served six terms; A. Minnich, five terms; H. C. Tucker, four terms.
The present house of which the above is a sketch, stands on a slight eminence at the east side of town, surrounded by a beautiful Blue grass lawn, upon which many young trees are growing. It was erected in 1886, at a cost of Twenty-five hundred Dollars. The present principal Mr. L. Lightfoot is in charge of the school the second time having taught here in 1888.
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Derby School House: A Brief History of the Public Schools of Derby, Kansas
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Derby School
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Derby Mimeogram
Derby, KS
Oct. 30, 1891
Page 8
Accessed at Newspapers.com
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Derby Mimeogram
A. G. Burr
A. Minnich
Albert Minnich
Derby Mimeogram
Derby School
Derby School District #6
Dr. Henry Clay Tucker
Evangelical Church
Georgie Avenue
history
J. Hout Minnich
John Hout Minnich
John Hufbauer
L. Lightfoot
newspaper
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