History of Reno County, Kansas; its people, industries and institutions . e was taken atGarfield University at Wichita, Kansas, where he graduated with the degreeof Bachelor (jf Arts. He studied law with L. M. Fall and was admitted tothe bar in 1891. In 1899 he bought the Clih/^cr and changed the name ofthe paper to flic Independent, and continued to run it as a weekly ]:)aperuntil ic)03. when he Ijought the Daily Bee, consolidating it with the Inde-pendeni, and continuing it under tiie name of the Daily Independent. In1905 he sold this daily to the Gazette Company, and the comljined papersare
History of Reno County, Kansas; its people, industries and institutions . e was taken atGarfield University at Wichita, Kansas, where he graduated with the degreeof Bachelor (jf Arts. He studied law with L. M. Fall and was admitted tothe bar in 1891. In 1899 he bought the Clih/^cr and changed the name ofthe paper to flic Independent, and continued to run it as a weekly ]:)aperuntil ic)03. when he Ijought the Daily Bee, consolidating it with the Inde-pendeni, and continuing it under tiie name of the Daily Independent. In1905 he sold this daily to the Gazette Company, and the comljined papersare now published as The Daily Gazette. Mr. Ploughe was married to Eleanor h. Smith on March 5, 190J. is a native of Iowa and moved to Kingman county. Kansas, in was graduated from I>ewis Academy, at \\ichita, and later attended andwas graduated from Mary Thompson Hospital, Chicago, as a trained left this hospital and entered the service of the government as a nurse,during the Spanish-American War being stationed part of the time at Lex-. SIIKKIDAX ILUIGHE. RENO COUNTY, KANSAS. 753 ing-ton. Kentucky, in the jcliii (;il)l)> Hospital, where she did specialwork in typhoid fever. She was then transferred to Cienfuegos, Cuba,with General Bates i)i\ision, on the general field To Mr. andMrs. ?Plonghe have been i)orn fonr children. Margaret. Mildred, Mary andMatthew. Afr. IMouglie l)egan gathering material for this History of Reno Countyafter he sold his dailx- paper, and has gathered material for a number of otherbooks, which he expects to comi)lete soon—among them. A History of theSeventh Congressional District; another. Torty Forgotten Cities. astory of boom towns of western Kansas, out of which Father expected togtt rich, l)nt the tide of fortune turned the townsites into wheat fields; alsoanother book, The Land of the Buffalo Range, a history of the contestfor the supremacy of the Southwest—a story of the first visit of the
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