. Business directory and history of Wabaunsee County . three oxteams in Westport and brought the whole colony out, bag andbaggage. Mr. Metzer and Frank Schmidt each drove one ofthe teams. Mr. Thoes places the number of these people atabout thirty, while other accounts say there were seventy,mostly young men, and that Ernest Honeke was their is hardly possible that two companies came in this account which places the number at seventy says that thosewho came first laid out the grounds and prepared for the re-ception of those to follow, so it is possible that there wereseventy
. Business directory and history of Wabaunsee County . three oxteams in Westport and brought the whole colony out, bag andbaggage. Mr. Metzer and Frank Schmidt each drove one ofthe teams. Mr. Thoes places the number of these people atabout thirty, while other accounts say there were seventy,mostly young men, and that Ernest Honeke was their is hardly possible that two companies came in this account which places the number at seventy says that thosewho came first laid out the grounds and prepared for the re-ception of those to follow, so it is possible that there wereseventy in all, but only thirty in the first division. In a shorttime all the land within six or eighr miles of Alma had beentaken. The other division came on. The first comers, who hadexpected to sell out their claims to the later arrivals at a goodfigure, were disappointed. So the bubble burst and two-thirds - Commissioner=^ J. J. MAILS. The writer has lostthe notes on this man,but sees by the memoran-dum that he is the onlyman from Wabaunseewho signed 32 Wabaunsee County Directory and History of the settlers left. The towTi company went out of 1857 the settlement was reinforced by a large colony directfrom Germany. They formed a town company in St. Louis,chose Alma as a location and settled here. They also for-feited the right to the Townsite and it was pre-empted by Gott-leib Zwanziger, who had come in 1856. In 1858 improvementswere made. Two mills were erected on Mill Creek, but highAvater washed them away the same year they were erected. Thiswas the great flood year all over Wabaunsee County, but it was■especially destructive on Mill Creek, which during the highwater was half a mile wide and from ten to twenty feet indepth. Settlers were driven from their homes and much prop-erty was destroyed. Only one life was lost, that of , who was drowned while attempting to rescue FredSteinmeyer and wife from their housetop. But worse than theflood of 59 was t
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