Excerpt from A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of Crawford County, Kansas: By Home Authors By the act creating Crawford county the governor was empowered to appoint special commissioners to organize the county. Accordingly the following named persons were appointed: J. -v. Wallace, Lafayette Manlove and Henry Schoen; and F. M. Logen was appointed county clerk, who, not being present, was superseded by Lafayette Manlove. These persons met at the cabin of William Campbell, on Lightning creek, near Crawfordsville, on the 16th day of March, 1867. J. W. Wallace was chosen chairman, and the first order of business was dividing the county into townships, precincts and commissioners' districts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.