(To listen to the audio of this blog, use the purple play button.) Charles Collins: First Reno County Sheriff September 1, 2022 Sheriff Campbell, I’m sending you two photo files. Both are of Charles Collins who was the first sheriff of Reno County, KS. One is a scan from the original photo. The second is a restored image due to some photo damage. This photo of Collins took me 40 years to locate. Jody Johnson Buck, Kit Carson, Colorado, shared some family photos … [Read more...] about Charles Collins: First Reno County Sheriff
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Reno County: When Two Deaths Make a Marriage
(To listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.) · When Two Deaths Make a Marriage * It’s Wednesday evening, January 2, 1901, at the home of Mrs. Mary E. Ingram Wilson, 114 9th Avenue East, Hutchinson, Kansas. Shortly, Reverend Anderson Forbes (A. F.) Irwin will be performing a marriage between a widow and a widower. * Hutchinson has been a good move for me, Belle, and the children, thought Anderson, as he considered the past twelve years … [Read more...] about Reno County: When Two Deaths Make a Marriage
Sheriffs of Reno County: Henry Hartford
(To listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.) · Henry Hartford (1837-1919) Sheriff 1874-1876 Houston Whiteside, 81, sips his coffee and looks out the front window of the mayor’s Oxford Café, Hutchinson, Kansas. His wife, Julia Clementine Latimer, 59, is talking about being a judge for an upcoming radio contest. It’s Saturday, October 8, 1927. * Houston Whiteside watched as a police officer hung a green ticket on an automobile parked too long on … [Read more...] about Sheriffs of Reno County: Henry Hartford
Sheriffs of Reno County: Charles Collins
(To listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.) · Charles Collins (1845-1906) Sheriff 1872-1874 · It’s Friday, October 7, 1927. Houston Whiteside, retired attorney-at-law, resident of Hutchinson, Kansas, since May 1872, is celebrating his 81st birthday at the Masonic Hall. Judge Whiteside has been encouraged to recall the good ‘ole days. * Reno County Sheriff Fay Brown, 36, the newest member of the Masons, has known Houston Whiteside for over a … [Read more...] about Sheriffs of Reno County: Charles Collins
