Marriage Notices From Kansas Territal Newspapers, 1854-1861

Compiled by ALBERTA PANTLE

INTRODUCTION

The following list of marriages is a continuation of the vital statistics gleaned from   the territorial 
newspaper collection of the Kansas State Historical Society.  Previously published was "Death Notices     
From Kansas Territorial Newspapers,1854-1861," which appeared in the August and November, 1950, issues 
of The Kansas Historical Quarterly.The same general principles  have been followed in this compilation 
as in the list of death notices. When a marriage was not performed in the community where the newspaper,
in which the notice appeared, was published, the place of marriage is listed if known. Not all announcements 
included the site of the ceremony.The files of the Historical Society's territorial newspapers are remarkably 
complete, however in some instances there are only scattered issues. This fact and negligence in reporting 
marriages to the newspapers necessarily cause this list to be incomplete,but it does bring together marriage 
records from all parts of territorial Kansas for the first time. The recording of marriages has been required 
of the counties of this state since the start of county government in 1855, and many of them have such 
records from their beginning.One notable exception is Douglas county where records were destroyed in the 
Quantrill raid of August 21, 1863. Since 1913 marriages have also been recorded in the division of vital 
statistics of the state board of health at Topeka.

I have used some abriviations to save space anything in the [] is the Newspaper and loaction.


Leavenworth, Daily Times = LDT                 Lawrence, Republican =LR
Lawrence, Herald of Freedom = LHF              Atchison, Squatter Sovereign =ASS 
Topeka, Kansas Tribune =TKT                    Leavenworth, Weekly Times =LWT
Lecompton, Kansas National Democrat =LKND      Atchison, Freedom's Champion =AFC
Atchison, Union =AU                            Elwood, Free Press =EFP
White Cloud, Kansas Chief =WCKC                Tecumseh, Kansas Settler =TKS
Osawatomie, Southern Kansas Herald =OSKH       Manhattan, Kansas Express,=MKE
Emporia, Kansas  New =EKN                      Prairie City, Freemen's Champion =PCFC
Topeka, Kansas State Record =TKSR              Burlington, Neosho Valley Register =BNVR
Wyandotte, Western Argus =WWA                  Quindaro, Chindowan =QC
Fort Scott, Democrat =FSD