Raterman, John L., 559 Redmond, George W., 689 Remsburg, George J., 508 Remsburg, John E., 504 Reynolds, John A., 838 Robinson, Charles W., 650 Royer, Boyd, 814 Rudolph, Harrison W., 598 Ryan, William, 879 Sanders, Benjamin F., 568 Schaefer, George H. T., 554 Schapp, William, 622 Schiffbauer, Henry, 862 Scholz, George, 526 Scholz, John A., 517 Schrader, George, 729 Schurman, Arthur S., 816 Scoville, Orlando C., 389 Seaton, John, 376 Sharp, Harry L., 512 Sharpless, Ulysses B., 560 Shaw, Benjamin F., 679 Shelly, Edwin T., 843 Shortridge, Alfred, 589 Simmons, Oscar A., 800 Smith, Albert J., 618 Smith, W. H., 473 Smith, Wilson R., 427 Snyder, Mark D., 574 Speck, A. S., 640 Speer, Andrew, 710 Speer, D. Anna, 776 Speer, William F., 846 Stanley, Wilfull A., 497 Stever, Abram, 434 Stoddard, John, 748 Storch, George, 448 Stutz, Christian W., 499 Stutz, Gustave, 695 Stutz, John, 639 Sullivan, John E., 684 Sullivan, John Edward, 765 Sullivan, Roger P., 602 Sutter, Frank, 607 Sutter, Fred, 752 Sutter, William, 840 Symns, Andrew B., 365 Thomas, Robert M., 397 Thompson, George W., 664 Thompson, William H., 720 Tomlinson, B. F., 668 Treat, Thomas C., 458 Trimble, James M., 764 Trimble, Roy C., 492 Trompeter, Joseph, 421 Trueblood, Alva C., 405 Tucker, Thomas W., 742 Valentine, John C., 693 Vansell, Martin C., 873 Veatch, Nathan T., 733 Voelker, Conrad M., 562 Waggener, Balie P., 368 Wagner, Frank J., 827 Walker, Claudius D., 400 Walter, H. B., 803 Warren, William T., 849 Watowa, Frank J., 818 Watowa, Joseph H., 732 Weber, Peter, 594 Wehking, William, 828 Wertz, Frank P., 655 Wheeler, D. N., 514 White, George E., 663 Wilson, James E., 549 Wolf, August J., 826 Woodworth, Edwin S., 772 Woodford, Frank M., 723 Young, William, 794 [Illustration: TRANSPORTATION FIFTY YEARS AGO Overland Emigrant and Freight Train, Operated by Sprague & Digan, Leaving West Main Street, Atchison, Kan., April 1, 1866, en route to the Far West. ] History of Atchison County CHAPTER I. GEOLOGY. FOSSILS—EVIDENCES OF EARLY ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE—GEOLOGICAL AGES—ROCK FORMATION—GLACIER PERIOD—MINERALS. The oldest citizens of Atchison county are the animals and plants whose fossil remains now lie buried in the solid rocks. These denizens of long ago, by their lives, made it possible for later and better citizens to live and flourish in the happy and contented homes of her best citizens of the present day. Long before man ever saw Atchison county—long before man lived anywhere upon this earth, the seas swarmed with animal life and the dry lands supported a fauna and a flora substantially as great as those of the present time.