- We are indebted to Albert E. Martin and
John Edwards of the Research Department of the Kansas League of
Municipalities, for the following history record:
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- On August 28, 1878, a number of County
Clerk met at the office of J. Lee Knight, County Clerk of Shawnee
County, Kansas. They were in Topeka at the time attending the
Republican State Convention. M.P. Jolly, Dickinson County Clerk,
was chosen chairman and D.R. Emmons, Wyandotte County Clerk, was
election Secretary. A meeting was scheduled in Topeka on the first
Tuesday of September, 1878. Newspaper accounts do not indicate
that the meeting was held on that date.
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- On December 4, 1878, a meeting was held in
Topeka, and D.R. Emmons, Wyandotte County Clerk, called the meeting to
order. J.H. Brown, Bourbon County Clerk, was elected Chairman.
Twenty-one County Clerks were present at the meeting. A report was
read and adopted concerning the steps necessary in organizing a County
Clerks' Association, the report being submitted by a Committee appointed
at the meetings in 1878. J.W. Niehaus, Leavenworth County Clerk,
was election President, and it was decided that a special meeting would
be held at Topeka on the third Tuesday of January, 1879.
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- On January 22, 1879, an adjourned meeting
was held at Topeka. In the absence of the President, B.F. Diggs,
Douglas County Clerk, was elected Chairman. The meeting continued
through January 23rd, at which time it was adjourned to meet at Topeka
on call of the President, J.W. Niehaus.
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- On January 12, 1881, a meeting was held at
Topeka, continuing for two days. J.O. Young, Washington County
Clerk, was elected President. The Clerks' Association was
officially organized on this date.
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- Newspaper accounts of the meetings of the
intervening years have not been located, and it would seem that the
organization was possibly discontinued for at least part of this time.
At 4:00 pm, on Wednesday, January 19, 1887, the Association was
called to order again, with Donald N. Burge, Shawnee County Clerk,
acting as Chairman. The Association was reorganized during the
following two days. E.L. Warwick, Jackson County Clerk, presiding.
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